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Making his first start since Dec. 30, veteran scored all 17 of his points in the second half and helped spark the Pacers' fourth-quarter comeback.
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Second-chance points:
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END RESULTThe Pacers are getting pretty good at making big comebacks.
They still need quite a bit of work on avoiding the need.
Trailing by 14 with 5½ minutes left, the Pacers rallied with a 17-5 run but could get no closer than the final margin, falling 112-110 to the visiting Bucks before 14,116 Thursday in Conseco Fieldhouse. Indiana eliminated a 23-point deficit Wednesday in Chicago but lost 120-110.
Earl Watson's tip-in with 31 seconds left cut it to 108-106 but the Bucks made four free throws on their final two possessions to close the door.
IMPACTThe Pacers lost their third in a row overall and seventh in eight games to fall to 19-38. They've dropped seven of nine at home, where they're 12-16. The Bucks have their first five-game winning streak since November 2007 and improved to 29-28 overall. They haven't been over .500 this late in a season since 2005-06, Andrew Bogut's rookie year.
KEY MOMENTSO'Brien started a small lineup with T.J. Ford and Earl Watson in the backcourt and Troy Murphy at center and it achieved the desired results early as the Pacers had excellent movement and aggression and led much of the first half. They were up 51-45 late in the second quarter when the Bucks got a spark from reserve Ersan Ilyasova, who scored eight points in a 16-3 run that gave the visitors a 61-54 lead.
The run extended to 24-6 early in the third quarter as the Bucks pushed their advantage to 69-57. It was 87-71 late in the third quarter when the Pacers started chipping away. Luther Head hit a 3-pointer and a jumper to open the fourth quarter, cutting the deficit to 89-82. The Bucks pushed it to 103-89 but the Pacers made three 3-pointers and converted a three-point play in a 14-3 run, closing to 106-103 on Murphy's 3-pointer with 2:08 left.
After Watson's tip cut it to 108-106, John Salmons pump-faked Rush off his feet, drove and drew a foul, making both free throws with 12.8 seconds remaining. The Pacers caught a potentially huge break when Luc Richard Mbah a Moute fouled Granger on a 3-point attempt with 10 seconds to go, but Granger left the first free throw short, making the other two but leaving the Pacers with a 110-108 deficit.
The Bucks got the ball into Brandon Jennings, who was quickly fouled and made both with 8.7 seconds left. Ford then rebounded Granger's missed 3-pointer in the corner and was fouled by Luke Ridnour, another 3-point opportunity with 1.5 seconds left. Ford made the first two then purposely missed the third but Ridnour emerged with the game-saving rebound.
BY THE NUMBERSSix Pacers scored in double figures, led by Granger's 21. He was 7-of-15 overall, 0-of-3 from the arc, adding five rebounds, two assists and a steal. Ford scored all 17 of his points in the second half, adding five assists, three rebounds, two steals and two blocks. Murphy scored 16 but pulled just three rebounds. Watson had 15 points, eight rebounds, five assists and two steals. Roy Hibbert hit 6-of-7 shots off the bench, scoring 12 points in 11 minutes, and Head scored 10. the Pacers shot 46 percent but and outscored the Bucks 35-20 from the line but were outrebounded 44-36.
Salmons scored 20 to lead the Bucks. Jennings had 18 points, seven assists and four rebounds. Ilyasova had 17 points and five rebounds; Bogut 15 points, 10 boards and two blocks; Ridnour 12 points and eight assists; Jerry Stackhouse 11 points and Carlos Delfino 10 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. The Bucks shot 49 percent.


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North Sea oil giant's turn to celebrate 200
Today Norway celebrates its bicentennial almost four years after Argentina — marking the 1814 Constitution (Europe's oldest constitution still in existence) which Norwegians see as the real birth of nation-building, according to Ambassador Janne Julsrud.
Not the only choice available for Norway's birthday — alternative dates could make the Scandinavian country seem both much older and even younger than Argentina. There was already a united Viking kingdom of Norway some time in the 10th century (with various overseas possessions, including parts of both British isles) but this eventually gave way to four centuries of union with Denmark — partly because of the ravages of the Black Death. The independence following the 1814 break with defeated Napoleonic ally Denmark also giving rise to the Constitution was short-lived — within a year the victorious allies had placed Norway under the Swedish instead of the Danish crown, a dynastic link which was not broken until 1905 (foreign policy was one of the few areas where Norway was not self-governing but a vast merchant shipping fleet required its own consuls, explains Julsrud).
And yet today is celebrated as Norway's national day, not 1905 or 1,000 years ago. And celebrated with unique fervour, adds Julsrud (also in North America where some six million are of Norwegian origin) — for small children it tends to be their first appearance in public, an unforgettable moment.
But enough of history lessons — the interview turned to Norway's present. And much of that present (and also potential ties with Argentina) can be summed up in just three letters — oil. Even more than 1905, the key date defining today's Norway was Christmas Eve of 1969 when North Sea oil was first struck.
The Herald asked the envoy about recent press reports that the end of the oil boom was threatening the prosperous welfare state, subjected to high cost and price pressures.
Nothing that Norwegians themselves have not been discussing for decades, replies Julsrud, well aware of the dangers of "Dutch disease" spreading up the North Sea (and also the sense of entitlement in the general population). Yet Norway's dependence on an oil which cannot last forever (although known reserves continue to climb with improved technology) is not as great as its image identification with it, Julsrud argues — not only do oil and gas account for no more than 20 percent of the economy but it has been argued that the spin-offs from massively educating women and upgrading them in the workforce outweigh the entire energy sector. Which does not stop them from averaging 1.92 children, she adds proudly — indeed she thought that the demographic problem which many other countries suffer more acutely was ultimately more serious.
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Before turning to ties with Argentina, there was just one non-oil question about Norway prompted by this month's European Parliament elections (even if Norway is famously not a European Union member although "joined at the hip") — is Norway part of Europe's general trend towards populism with the strength of its Progress Party founded by Karl Hagen? While to the right of any other Norwegian party, Progress was a multi-issue party which was not anti-immigration in contrast to the likes of France's National Front, Julsrud replies — its creed is basically small government.
How much interaction could be expected between Norway's Statoil and Argentina's newly nationalized YPF with the excitement over Vaca Muerta shale (even if Norway's strength was offshore rather than fracking)? Statoil was active in the United States so that fracking fell within its technical capacity, Julsrud answers — it was still early days for anything concrete but Statoil was reviewing its portfolio in a a globalized world and Argentina might well be a future priority.
Statoil's current importance for YPF is perhaps more as a model — it is interesting that its state ownership extends to 51 percent of shares, exactly the percentage which YPF chose to expropriate from Repsol. Statoil is a well-run company, says Julsrud, with a strong accent on ethics and transparency — it has to be because the people who own it want to know what is going on.
Otherwise relations with Argentina are "very close" — especially in all the multilateral areas and in human rights which Norway would like to see globally present and not just in the developed world. And, of course, the cultural ties are excellent with such a culturally outstanding country as Argentina. Many Norwegian students come to Buenos Aires (a free education is offered in the other direction but Norway is expensive) and these student networks are more lasting than the political. But while there is research co-operation in areas like nutrition, health and anthropology, Julsrud would like it to focus where it could really make a difference — giving Argentina a momentum similar to Norway where research constantly pushes back technological frontiers.


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Sunday, January 17, 1999 Published at 10:54 GMT
Chemical cages
The MoS2 cage (sulphur atoms not shown)
US scientists think they have produced what may be among the first "inorganic fullerenes". This would mark another step forward in what has become one of the most fashionable areas of chemistry.
Fullerenes - carbon molecules of a certain size that have assembled themselves into cage-like structures - were first discovered in 1985. C60 is the most famous example - 60 carbon atoms linked together in 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons and looking rather like a soccer ball.
These "buckyballs", as they are called, have unique properties and applications are envisaged in everything from superconductors to superlubricants. Fullerenes have opened up a whole new field for study.
The search is also on for non-carbon, or inoragnic, materials that will perform the same trick. And whilst some labs have managed to produce cages from substances like boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), their structures have not displayed the specific sizes and geometries shown in the carbon fullerenes.
Closed-cage octahedra
But now researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, look to be making progress towards the first true inorganic fullerenes.
"We think that the octahedron is the preferred geometry of MoS2 and we formed them in two sizes with the larger size having three MoS2 layers and the smaller size having two MoS2 layers," NREL researcher Dr Mike Heben told BBC News Online. "They are approximately 30 to 40 angstroms in cross-section.
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The desire of MoS2 to make cages of preferred sizes and of a preferred shape suggests the structures may display fullerene-type properties.
If this is correct, and it can be shown for other inorganic materials as well, scientists could greatly extend the range of applications for fullerenes.
"We want to make bulk quantities of this octahedron. We want to make enough of them so that we can begin to probe their interesting properties," Dr Heben said. "We think they may be useful in photocatalysis, perhaps in electricity generation some day, magnetic memory and in lubricants."
The NREL team includes Philip A. Parilla, Anne C. Dillon, Kim M. Jones, Gerald Riker, Douglas L. Schulz, David S. Ginley and Michael J. Heben.
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Transfers: Taarabt and Alnwick head to Spurs
Tottenham manager Martin Jol has moved to freshen up his squad by bringing in young Sunderland goalkeeper Ben Alnwick and promising teenage midfielder Adel Taarabt from Lens.
Alnwick signed for £900,000 - although the fee could rise to £1.3million depending on appearances - with Spurs keeper Marton Fulop making his loan spell at the Stadium of Light permanent in a separate £500,000 deal.
'We are very pleased to bring another young and talented prospect to the club,' said Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli.
'Ben may only be 20 years old but he has significant international and Premiership experience.
'Ben showed great motivation and desire to join us and I know he is excited to be part of our future.'
The 17-year-old Taarabt, who has represented France at junior levels, will move to White Hart Lane on loan after his registration is sent from the French Football Federation.
'Adel is recognised as one of the best talents in Europe for his age group and as a club we're especially pleased that we beat several leading Premiership clubs to his signature,' Comolli told the club's website.
'He will be a healthy addition to the squad and is a continuation of our policy of attracting the best young talent as we constantly seek to improve the quality of the team both now and for the future.'
Wigan have opened talks with West Brom with a view to re-signing striker Nathan Ellington, according to the player's agent.
The 25-year-old played for the Latics between 2002 and 2005, scoring 67 goals in 145 games.
He moved to West Brom for £3million and it is reported that the same fee could bring him back to the JJB Stadium.
Ellington's agent Tony Finnigan told BBC Sport Online: 'Wigan have been in talks with West Brom and are interested in taking things further.'
Sunderland, meanwhile, have also signed Luton midfielder Carlos Edwards in a £1.4million deal, which could rise by £100,000 depending on appearances.
Edwards joined the Hatters in 2005 from Wrexham and played 74 times, scoring eight goals.
The 28-year-old also performed impressively for Trinidad and Tobago at last summer's World Cup.
Former Newcastle and Sunderland defender Robbie Elliott has made his emergency loan move to Leeds permanent.
The 33-year-old initially signed a short-term loan deal and made his debut for the Yorkshire club in the 2-1 New Year's Day victory over Coventry.
Leeds have also signed defender Matt Heath on a short-term contract.
Heath, 25, joined Leeds on loan from Coventry in November, although they have terminated the loan deal of striker Geoff Horsfield.
The 33-year-old was supposed to be with the Elland Road club until the end of the month, but manager Dennis Wise has allowed him to return to Sheffield United ahead of schedule.
Fulham goalkeeper Tony Warner and Middlesbrough defender Ugo Ehiogu have also returned to their parent clubs after their deals expired, while former Leeds captain Paul Butler, who had been on loan at MK Dons, has reached an agreement to terminate his deal at Elland Road, leaving him free to join another club on a permanent basis.
Former West Ham goalkeeper David Forde has signed for Cardiff from Eircom League club Derry City.
The Galway-born 26-year-old actually completed a successful medical and agreed personal terms with the Bluebirds in December but was forced to wait until the opening of the transfer window for the move to take effect.


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Harry and Ginny left the house at 9:30. Harry was glad that she was coming with him, although he thought she must get a bit bored, waiting around for him all day. She insisted however, that it was no trouble, and that she wanted to go around Diagon Alley anyway. They took the underground, as neither of them had yet passed their apparition tests, and arrived at the visitors entrance to the ministry at around 10 oclock. The old phonebox looked the same as ever, and the pair shared a knowing smile when they saw it, both remembering the last time they had been there. Then Harry remembered why. He had accepted Sirius death. However at times Harrys grief and guilt over how he had died crept up on him, and surprised him into feeling their pain. He turned away from Ginny for a second, turning back when he had re-assembled his features into a face which he felt comfortable with her seeing.
Good luck. I love you. Youll be brilliant. She said it with such certainty that he smiled a little, kissed her, and then stepped into the phonebox. He dialed 62442 , and waved to her nervously as the booth whisked him away. She stood there for a minute, smiling to herself, after he had gone, and then headed off in the direction of Diagon Alley.
As Harry stepped into the atrium, he was astounded to see the changes which it had undergone during Kingsleys time in office since the last time he had been there. The huge statue, demonstrating pureblood superiority, was gone. In its place was a fountain. However, it was not like the Fountain of magical Brethren that had been there in Fudges time. It was huge, and seemed to be made out of a dark silver metal, one which did not sparkle excessively, yet drew the eye immediately. The statue in the centre of the fountain was a human figure. It stood tall, and was holding a wand high above its head, pointing to the air. As harry moved around the statue, he saw that it had no face. Just the vague suggestion of a nose and brow on one side. A plaque below it read,
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. This statue commemorates the many who stood united, and showed nothing but strength, yet died, for a greater future.
Harry turned away from the statue when someone called his name. It was a tall young man, his limbs long and thin, with a clipped mop of brown hair and thick rectangular glasses. He hurried towards Harry, saying, Mr. Potter! Im afraid youre late. Come with me please, and well start your testing straight away. Harry was whisked away with the man, who carried on talking as they waked towards the elevator and through various corridors. Were very glad to have you here, Mr. Potter. Im Emmery Redwood, by the way. Newly appointed head of the Auror Office - now that Mr. Shacklebolt is the Minister, I mean. Redwood waffled on until they reached a large oak door. Here we are, he said with a smile.
Redwood pushed open the door. They stepped into a large, white room. Six other men we standing inside, apparently waiting for them. Redwood asked them all to sit down on an array of brightly coloured chairs, and took one for himself. He started outlining what would be happening in the day, and Harry zoned in and out of what he was saying, half of his mind occupied with working out what the other men in the room were like.
Redwood first asked everyone to split up into pairs and duel. Because there were seven people trying out for the course, Redwood duelled with each of them in turn as well. Harry was first paired with a rather short man of about 20. His face looked as if all of his features were too high up, making him appear like a childs drawing. They had been instructed to use only minor spells, as Redwood wanted to gauge their speed and accuracy, rather than the spells they knew.
Harry was pleased to find himself more than equal to the mans hexes, which he managed to block and counter easily. When Redwood stepped in for his turn at duelling him, however, Harry struggled a great deal more. He may not have looked it, but Redwood was incredibly fast, and had great reflexes. Harry never got hit, however he found himself working hard in order to keep his ground. When they finished, Redwood winked at him. Nicely done, Mr. Potter. Not many wizards your age could do that. Harry grinned, then turned away to wipe the sweat off his forehead.
They next moved on to dark magic knowledge. Redwood asked them each questions on how to best defend themselves in different situations with dark wizards. He turned to Harry. So, Mr. Potter. A dark wizard is approaching you, and has with him seven inferi. What do you do?
Harry thought for a second, remembering what Dumbledore had done the night he died, protecting harry with a ring of fire. Well sir, He said rather cautiously. Id use incendio. Inferi are creatures of the dark, and they fear light and heat. The fire that the spell would cause would make them retreat, so that I could duel the wizard without any distraction. Redwood beamed, and moved onto the next person.
They next practised disguises. Harry tried to remember what Hermione had done to Ron the previous year, and managed to give himself a pretty thick beard, and turn his hair grey. He didnt dare do anything more though. He didnt want to accidentally hex his own nose off like poor Eloise Midgen.
The only thing left to do was strength of mind testing. They were asked to try to repel the imperius curse, and then to close their minds to legilimency. Harry was confident at his ability to ward off the imperius curse, he had done it in his fourth year at Hogwarts, however he had never been adept at occlumency, and was worried that he might let himself down. Ok then, Mr. Potter! Your turn! Redwood had become more and more enthusiastic as the day had progressed, and seemed to really enjoy working out each wizards abilities. If youre ready? Harry nodded. Right then! On the count of three. One, two, three, imperio!
Harry felt his mind enter a calm and serene state. It was so relaxing, so peaceful. Through the trance, he heard a kind voice in his ear. Shoot out red sparks. Just raise your wand, and give me some red sparks. this seemed a good enough idea to Harry, so he reached into his pocket to get his wand. He held it out, and then thought, why am I shooting out sparks? It seems awfully stupid The voice in his head answered him. Because I want you to. Do it. Harry put his wand back in his pocket. No thanks. The voice in his head chuckled, and with a supreme effort, Harry pulled his mind out of the dream, and opened his eyes to a very pleased looking Redwood. Well done Potter! Now, are you ready to try some occlumency? Harrys mouth went rather dry. Snape had never really been a very good teacher, and he had accepted long ago that occlumency was not something at which he was at all skilled. He nodded, though.
Again, Redwood counted down from three. Harry thought of nothing but clearing his mind. He tried to revert back to that calm which he had felt under the imperius curse, that serenity and lack of thought. As Harry heard the word, legilimens, he tried to concentrate only on the darkness inside his head. Not what he saw, nothing. But he knew it hadnt worked. Flashes of memories kept rushing through his mind: Walking around the lake with Ginny, playing wizards chess with Ron, lying on the ground of the Forbidden Forest, Narcissa Malfoys hair sweeping over him. The images kept flying at him, and he scrunched up his eyes in concentration. No. he told himself. No. Stop. Harry tried to find the part of his mind that wasnt his own. It was a niggling little chip in the back of his brain. He concentrated all his effort into pushing it out. The images grew paler. He pushed against it still harder, until the memories that he saw were little more than a shadow. He opened his eyes. The entire room was staring at him. Redwood was panting, and gave Harry a huge grin.
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Charlie Crist, the lifelong Republican who could be the Democrats' best hope at taking back the Governor's Mansion in 2014, told activists in Tampa Saturday night that his old party has changed to the point that he's far more comfortable as a big-tent Democrat. Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/c6rxgp9
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Hi people could someone please answer some of my questions for me please! They also may help others:
I have followed Assassda's guide "the ultimate system menu 4.0 guide" on gbatemp and my wii has got bootmii on boot2 , homebrew channel & preloader.
My wii is a pal 4.0E menu and neogamma 6 works great, lots of other homebrew apps works great too and play wii dvd game bu's.
Although i'd like too, I'm a bit worried about installing CIOSCORP as im not sure if its region specific (i have PAL 4.0E)
1. Is CIOSCORP Region specific
2. Is there a few different versions of CIOSCORP, could i install an old version through google searching or would this be problematic. Would i need the latest version?
3. Do you think that CIOSCORP installation maybe problematic to update in the future as it messes with original nintendo ios's?
4. Does gamecube launcher mess with any official ios?
5. If i dont install CIOSCORP, will it be ok for someone to accidently click on the game through the Wii menu 'disc loader', is there a possibilty of a semi-brick?
8. Can i now delete all the installation files i.e cios36_rev10-install, CMDVDX35, WAD MANAGERS
& leave preloader and
everything from the apps folder that i need like neogamma and usb loader?
9. Lastly, how do i go about installing DVDX without semi-bricking as geexbox and mplayer ce wont play original movie DVDs or divx. Do i have to follow the 3 steps on bootmii (i.e downgrade iso35,patchmii install DVDX) or can i just run step 3 = install DVDx. The problem i have is that no guide i have found tells you how to just install dvdx as i have the others already!!
Thanks in advance people!
Last edited by melodical; 07-12-2009 at 06:38 AM. Reason: updated
Anyone worth their weight would tell you to not use CIOSCORP. It's garbage.
I don't have softmii, hackmii, bootmii, brickmii, or any of that garbage installed on my Wii, and every game I have come across has worked just fine, it's just not needed. What exactly are the benifits, isn't the goal of hacking to play backups, which can be done without CIOSCORP or any of the above. Have you been to softmii.org, the site is gone, they bricked too many Wii's and called it quits.
Do you feel the same about preloader 0.29?
As a semi-newb it seems to me like a Godsend!!
Stomp, do you have any protection and/or backups of your NAND and do games constantly hassle you to update via game. How do you disable your wii from 'auto updates'???
From experience and research i can say this:
-Allows you to play backups straight from disc channel
-If wii is bricked(Semi) You can insert an autobooting universal unbricking disc and fix up your wii
-Fixes the 002 Error on backups since installer includes cIOS38, cIOS53 and cIOS55
-There is no official cIOSCorp uninstaller at this time
-No cIOSCorp Uninstaller means the only way to remove is to overwrite it with the original wads through Wad Manager. If the wads being installed are bad or corrupted, this can result in a full brick
Hopes this helps.
Last edited by ShadowSonic2; 07-19-2009 at 08:40 AM. Reason: Forgot something
You're manually messing with EVERY cios. It's near impossible to remove and can interfere with other stuff in the future.
Ya it works. But you're turning your Wii into a house of cards. All, for most people, so you can launch from the disc channel. Because everyone spends soo much time looking at their system menus.
As for the protection + kids thing. Physically remove all discs and use a USB loader. You can even go in and uninstall the HBC and just install it later if needed. The kids would be left with only a disc channel and no discs and USB Loading.
Last edited by Ossot; 07-19-2009 at 08:46 AM.
I have used softmii many,many times. I like it easy to just put the disc in and see it in the disc channel, not all games work from disc channel but thats why you get a backuploader just incase.
softmii.org is now at gamingexposed.com


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Financial scandals keep piling up for the Vatican's money-men
Just a month ago Pope Francis said the Church "must go forward... with a heart of poverty, not a heart of investment or of a businessman".
St Peter, he noted, "did not have a bank account". As we learnt a few weeks later, though, the senior Vatican official Monsignor Nunzio "Don 500" Scarano certainly did – at least two of them, which, prosecutors say, he used to smuggle €20m (£17.3m) into Italy from Switzerland, and to launder money used to buy a €1.7m luxury flat in Salerno.
Don 500 – so named because of his tendency to dish money around in the form of €500 notes, the criminal's favourite denomination – can't be dismissed as an isolated case. Two years ago there was the affair of Evaristo "Don Bancomat" Biasini, an official working for the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, who was accused of shady financial dealings in the construction sector.
Most damaging for the Vatican is the role that its own bank, the IOR (Institute for Religious Works), may have played in these affairs. In the case of Mgr Scarano, investigators are in no doubt he used his two IOR accounts like overseas slush funds. Records show that on one occasion last year Mgr Scarano withdrew €560,000 from an IOR account in a single transaction. He is currently in the Regina Coeli prison, awaiting trial. On Friday the Vatican announced it had frozen his assets and warned that other people may be caught up in the investigation.
Aware of the IOR's scandal-struck reputation, Pope Francis hired a new president for the institution, Baron Ernst von Freyberg, in May. The German industrialist immediately made himself a hostage to fortune, however, by declaring that the IOR was a "well-managed and clean financial institution" whose reputation was paying the price for past scandals.
Last week finance police and magistrates, led by Giuseppe Pignatone, released a report on their 30-month investigation into the IOR. The document said that high demand for recycling cash, together with the lack of checks and controls by the IOR and the Italian financial institutions it had dealings with, made the Vatican's bank a money-laundering hot spot. The two men in charge of the IOR's daily operations, the bank director Paolo Cipriani and his deputy, Massimo Tulli, immediately quit after six years in their jobs.
Within hours Baron von Freyberg released a new statement: "It is clear today that we need new leadership to increase the pace of this transformation process." Pope Francis appeared to share this view, appointing a five-person commission to examine how the Vatican's finances are run. But those hoping for a truly independent assessment must have been disappointed by the line-up.
Instead of a breath of fresh air, there are only Vatican insiders. The most detached of the five appears to be Mary Glendon, 74, a former US ambassador to the Holy See who heads the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences. But like the other five commission members she has an IOR bank account.
Another commission member is Mgr Peter Wells, 50, a high-ranking figure in the church's governing body, the Curia, who, like Ms Glendon, has personal connections to fellow American Carl Anderson. Mr Anderson is a member of the IOR's board of directors and head of the wealthy Knights of Columbus, which has been described as the "Catholic masons".
Vatican-watchers say this doesn't mean that Pope Francis is averse to cleaning out the stables – or doing something even more radical. "I think Francis's natural inclination is to shut the damn thing down," said Robert Mickens, the veteran Vatican correspondent of The Tablet. But like other experts he believes Pope Francis will be feeling the full force of vested interests in the Holy City.
Some at the Vatican will be quick to remind Pope Francis that the IOR gives the Holy See tens of millions of euros a year that help it pay the electricity bills and overseas trips – and keep it in the black. The Italian press has speculated that the notion of closing the IOR may have produced the threat of fresh Vatileaks-style disclosures from those who want to maintain the status quo.
An idea of who these people might be is emerging from Mgr "Don 500" Scarano himself. Under interrogation by Rome magistrates, and apparently intent on securing house arrest in his 700-square-metre apartment lined with art by Giorgio de Chirico and Marc Chagall, rather than time in a jail cell, Mgr Scarano is shedding a light on the murky workings of the other key financial institution in the Vatican, Apsa (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See), which administers the Holy City's finances – and whose key figures benefit from IOR accounts.
One name keeps coming up: that of Paolo Mennini, who heads the division of Apsa that looks after the patrimony of the Holy See. He has been called the Pope's merchant banker. Investigators are particularly interested in cash flows totalling €230m that occurred between 2009 and 2011 from Apsa accounts to London banks. As Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper noted, these probes have extra piquancy given that in this period Apsa declared income of only €22m and paid just €3m in tax.A look at the history and connections of the Mennini family produces a list of facts and incidents that would have Dan Brown wringing his hands in envy. Paolo Mennini's brother Antonio, who has served as the Vatican's ambassador to Britain since December 2010, was the priest sent to hear the final confession of the kidnapped prime minister Aldo Moro before his execution by the Red Brigades in 1978. Vatican influence has ensured he's never had to testify at state hearings concerning Moro's abduction and murder. More pertinent perhaps, is the career of their father. Luigi Mennini, who died in 1997, was managing director of the IOR in the period following the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, in which the IOR was the major shareholder. This was the scandal that involved the killing of "God's Banker" Roberto Calvi in London, and the suspicion that the IOR was linked to the mafia and money-laundering.
On 31 May this year, shortly after his appointment, IOR president von Freyberg announced on Vatican Radio that he had a dream: "My dream is that our reputation is such that people don't think of us any more, when they think about the Vatican, but that they listen to what the Pope says."
But so it appears, did one of his recent predecessors, the respected financier Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who was removed for his trouble. Officially, Mr Gotti Tedeschi was himself investigated in 2010 regarding a money-laundering scandal and later stepped down after a no-confidence vote by the bank's directors.
But Mr Gotti Tedeschi didn't go quietly. He insisted he got the boot because he'd ruffled too many feathers in his attempts to clean up the IOR by introducing greater transparency and targeting non-religious holders of IOR bank accounts. His claims were backed by last week's report by magistrates and finance police.
With this in mind, Pope Francis might have second thoughts regarding the advice he is now seeking. One of the voices critical of Mr Gotti Tedeschi was the IOR board director, Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus, whose influence could now be felt on the special committee Pope Francis has convened.
If he is serious about tackling financial sleaze, Pope Francis may be better off listening to his instincts – and take an axe rather than a broom to his tainted bank. As Mr Mickens noted: "After all, what's to stop priests and nuns using ordinary bank accounts like the rest of us?"
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For an institution whose main role is looking after the money of priests and nuns, the IOR has had a remarkable number of scandals in its 71-year history.
The most notorious concerned the collapse in 1982 of the Banco Ambrosiano, in which the IOR was a major shareholder. The Vatican paid around £150m to compensate Ambrosiano's account holders – without admitting any wrongdoing. The then head of the bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was indicted but claimed diplomatic immunity as a high-ranking Vatican official. But events became much murkier when Ambrosiano's chairman, Roberto Calvi, known as God's Banker, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982. Calvi's death was eventually classed as murder, following two inquests and an independent investigation. Prosecutors said he was killed for stealing mob money.
Many of the scandals have involved "papal gentlemen" – Italian businessmen, industrialists and aristocrats who assist at papal ceremonies and so are entitled to IOR accounts. Francesco La Motta, formerly high up in the secret service, has been a papal gentleman since 2007. He was arrested last month and accused of illegally transferring €10m of state funds out of Italy. Another, Angelo Balducci, was arrested in 2010 on corruption charges linked to building contracts.
Last July EU inspectors said the Vatican bank had failed on seven counts to clean up its act. The report said the IOR had made progress, but it would remain outside the "white list" of countries that abide by global norms on combating money laundering, financing terrorism and tax evasion. The report "strongly recommended" the bank be "independently supervised by a prudential supervisor in the near future".
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Expanding the global market
While 95 percent of New Zealand's imports are duty free and the average weighted tariff is just 0.7 percent, a bilateral trade agreement would remove non-tariff barriers that hinder U.S. exports. The largest economic gains from negotiating a free trade agreement would come from removing barriers on agricultural goods. Each side has something to give: for the United States this would include reducing barriers on dairy products, and for New Zealand it would include relaxing sanitary and phytosanitary standards on US agricultural products. Reducing agricultural barriers in the New Zealand market would greatly benefit U.S. farmers, who currently export one out of every three acres grown.
The Bush administration should do its part to spur these negotiations by liberalizing the agriculture market and reducing market-distorting subsidies. By doing so, President Bush would not only benefit the economies of the United States and New Zealand from increased trade, but it would also help further his reputation as being a strong supporter of free trade.
Beyond agriculture, many other American industries will benefit from a trade agreement with New Zealand. The U.S.-New Zealand Council estimates that U.S. merchandise exports to New Zealand would increase by about 25 percent.
Even more important than the economic benefits to the U.S. economy would be the momentum that negotiating a free trade agreement with New Zealand would generate. Because New Zealand maintains low trade barriers, is open to foreign investment, has secure property rights, and low levels of regulation, New Zealand qualifies for membership in the GFTA, a vehicle to promote free trade among countries that maintain similar institutions. In addition to New Zealand and the United States, 11 other countries qualify for GFTA membership including Australia, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. Currently, the United States does not maintain a free trade agreement with any of these countries. If the United States and New Zealand negotiated a free trade agreement, then this could lay the ground work for negotiating other trade agreements with the other countries that qualify for membership within the GFTA or could be used as a model agreement to jump-start GFTA negotiations among all of the qualifying members.
Aside from furthering the goals of free trade through the GFTA, a free trade agreement could also create some momentum in APEC, a regional trade agreement with 21 countries, of which the United States and New Zealand are founding members. APEC members have attempted different strategies at jump-starting negotiations in order to achieve its goal of "free and open trade and investment in the Asia Pacific by 2010", but none of its strategies has been successful. A U.S.-New Zealand free trade agreement could help jump-start these negotiations as some of the key members of APEC move forward with pursuing the goal of free trade.
To increase the chances that a U.S.- New Zealand free trade agreement happens, Congress should give President Bush Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). With TPA, President Bush would have the authority to negotiate a trade agreement and then submit the agreement to Congress for a straight up-and-down vote. A U.S.-New Zealand free trade agreement could be achieved without Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), if both governments agree to undertake the required negotiations. Undoubtedly, however, a U.S.-New Zealand free trade agreement could be negotiated much more rapidly if Congress gives President Bush TPA.
As The Wall Street Journal recently noted, "The loudest proponents for free trade the U.S. and the leaders of the European Union -have refused to open their markets to New Zealand's best products." American protectionism has not escaped the attention of the world. Clearly, the crumbling credibility of U.S. commitment to trade needs to be addressed. With only 3 out of the 131 trade and investment agreements in the world, the United States needs to keep its commitment to free trade by liberalizing its market and by seeking bilateral trade agreements to expand opportunities for American producers. Negotiating a trade agreement with New Zealand will start this process and build on a longstanding friendship.
Sara J.
Fitzgerald is a Trade Policy Analyst in the Center for
International Trade and Economics, and Aaron Schavey is a
former policy analyst in the Center for International Trade
and Economics at The Heritage Foundation.


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William Anthony Raber, 27, of Tamarac is facing video voyeurism and child pornography charges after a woman who was renting a room from him discovered naked videos of herself when she borrowed his computer, authorities said. The victim's mother spoke about her daughter's reaction when she found out she was being recorded.
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Leyland wants Boesch to stay aggressive
Leyland wants Boesch to stay aggressive
In his case, that's an aggressive hitter who can pound out a key single as well as a home run but will also swing a lot.
"When he hits it, something happens," Leyland said. "That's why I like him."
Boesch does not get cheated at the plate, no doubt. Entering Thursday's series finale against the Yankees, he had taken just 13 percent of the total strikes thrown to him, according to research on baseball-reference.com. However, he had swung and missed at just 16 percent. He fouled off 37 percent and put 35 percent into play.
The challenge of Boesch's first start against a left-handed starting pitcher didn't change that at all. He swung at each of the first two pitches he saw from CC Sabathia in the second inning, ripping a line-drive double on the second. After Miguel Cabrera homered in the fourth inning, Boesch took a first-pitch ball, fouled off back-to-back pitches, then pounced on a slider over the plate and pulled it just over the fence in the right-field corner for a home run.
"I don't try to do too much against lefties," Boesch said afterwards. "Just try to hit it on the sweet spot and see what happens. They've still got to make good pitches. They still have to hit their spots. It doesn't change much for me, honestly."
Boesch took one called strike out of the 11 pitches he saw for the day. It was the first pitch in the sixth inning after Cabrera doubled in two runs, and fell into an 0-2 hole before swinging and missing on a 2-2 pitch.
Another impressive example came Wednesday afternoon, when he pull an offspeed pitch from Javier Vazquez foul deep into the right-field stands. Instead of second-guessing himself and gearing up for a fastball or trying to overcompensate and being late, he went at a similar pitch and hit a simple ground-ball single through the right side for a base hit and an insurance run.
"He swings," Leyland said. "Like I've said, I'd really much rather have him swing at a bad one than take two good ones. I don't want anybody messing with him, telling him to be patient, get better pitches. Swing the bat. That's what he does.
"I think he's got a pretty good eye. He'll chase one once in a while, but so do veterans. I'd rather have him do that than start taking fastballs and making the pitcher work. That's not for him. That's for somebody else."
That doesn't mean he doesn't have a plan up there.
"I think being aggressive is great, as long as you're in the strike zone," Boesch said. "You can't be too aggressive in the strike zone, in my opinion. There's no point in taking strikes, for me. You start chasing balls, you start going out of the zone, and that's when being aggressive is a problem. That's not aggressive. That's just flailing, or not having a plan.
"I have a plan every time I walk up there. That's what allows me to be aggressive, because I have an idea what I'm trying to do. It's pretty simple: Get a good pitch to hit, and try to put a good swing on it."


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The Royals are in need of fresh faces, with life in the Premier League testing them to the full.
McDermott's men are only a point away from clambering out of the drop zone, but appreciate that an injection of experience and talent in January would aid their cause considerably.
A number of high-profile figures have been linked with moves to the Madejski Stadium, with it suggested that Reading are prepared to spend big in pursuit of top-flight survival.
McDermott, though, has sought to distance himself from the endless rounds of rumours, with the Royals boss conceding that he remains in the market for bargains.
"We will not be doing 5million deals - the club has never done that," he said.
"It's the team unity that's helped me over the last three years.
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Balloons and butterflies will fill the air early Tuesday evening at the future site of a memorial to be built in memory of Caylee Marie Anthony.
Caylee, whose remains were found in a wooded area near her family's home in Orlando in December 2008 would have turned six years old on Tuesday. Although she is gone, a nonprofit charity hopes to keep her memory alive.
Bring Kids home, which refers to itself as a public charity for missing and abused children, is holding the public event to reveal their plans for the memorial.
According to a report in the SunSentinel, the balloon and butterfly launching event will be held near the woods on Suburban Drive in east Orange County where Caylee's remains were found.
Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, was acquitted of a murder charge last month in her daughter's death. Her defense team claimed the toddler drowned in the family's pool in June 2008. Caylee was two years old when she was reported missing.
The event is scheduled to begin at 6 pm. Bring Kids Home is asking the public to bring helium filled latex balloons to be released.


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Multiplayer madness
GBA requirement
No deep story
Single player will get
boring for some
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is the first Final
Fantasy game to be on a Nintendo console since back on
the Super Nintendo days. It's quite a departure from
what the normal Final Fantasy games are like, but is it any good?
The story for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is about a deadly mist called
miasma and it covers the entire land. Every town and
city has huge crystals that protect the city from the
deadly mist but every year the power of the crystal
fades away and needs to be re-energized. Now this is
where you come in. You are a person (which you name)
picked by your people in your town (which you name) to
retrieve three myrrh drops which will restore the
crystal for another years time. There you have it the
basic premise for the story. While there isn't much
story in this game (which seems like going back to the
FF:1 days) the game is incredibly addicting in other
ways which will keep you playing.
Now this game is a hack and slash role playing game.
There are many hack and slash games out there but this
one has very many different ideas and they work. What
seems simple at first actually does have some
complexity to it. I'll explain.
The game starts you off with naming your own town and
being able to name and pick your characters. You can
pick from up to four different races. They are
Clavats, which specialize in defense, Lilties, which are
good at offense , the Yukes, who use magic, and the
Selkies, who are very agile. Now what else is a nice
feature is that the game lets you pick male or female
and then for each race and gender there are different
looking costumes. You also then pick what family
trademark you'd like to have from blacksmith to
alchemist which effects what your family can do for
you when you come back to town. So the customization
is quite nice. Once the player(s) name and pick
there character, the game starts. You are then
presented with a map screen with a little caravan
wagon on the map and you can begin your journey. You
move your wagon across the map and then pick and
choose which way you want to go but not all ways are
accessible in the first year.
Yes, the game is played in years. Every year you are
out to collect three myrrh droplets to fill your
chalice with. Once you do this, thus ends the year and
you begin a new year. One of the unique gameplay
ideas is that you must stay near your chalice in this
protective radius that keeps the deadly mist away. If
you step out of it while traveling you take damage. In
single player a mog helps carry it for you most of the
time but in multi-player someone always has to carry
it so teamwork is a must. Now while playing the
dungeons you'll find magic orbs that fall from enemies
or you find in chests and they have abilities which
are either cure, fire, blizzard, thunder, clear, and
life. Now anyone can use magic and you can cast as
much as you want but you must find the orbs first. In
single player, depending on what you have, you can fuse
spells together to make the stronger versions of
spells you already have or new spells like gravity and
holy. In multi-player its a bit of a different story
- you have to team up with your friends and cast magic
together as a team. Intense stuff. So you go from
dungeon to dungeon and are trying to get to the end
and collect the drop. Standing in your way are various
enemies and at the end a giant boss. The bosses are
always very large and very deadly. They do take some
strategy and not just mindless button smashing, so good
luck. When beating bosses you also get a letter every
time from your parents saying how they miss you or
something else and it really adds to the atmosphere of
the game. You can then pick how to reply back to them
and send Gil or items back to them. The reason for
that is to make your family happy and if you do you'll
get discounts on stuff they do for you and get better
stuff from them. The point of Gil in the game is for
buying various items and upgrading your weapons but
first you must find the weapon plans or buy them and
then have all the material and Gil required for the
blacksmith to make them. The same goes with armor. It
appears each race has there own type of weapons and
armor but there are some that are for anyone. It's fun
trying to find the certain items that you need to
build your stuff and while some are very hard to come
by it very satisfying when you find that missing item.
Now you could just run through the game since don't
earn any form of experience from fighting creatures.
Yes, that's right you don't earn any form of experience
while fighting... but as you fight enemies and unlock
treasure chests you find these items called artifacts.
Now artifacts can do anything from giving you a new
slot command (which is good to have to fuse spells) to
a added heart or a strength +3 or magic +2. Now while
you find these items their effects take place
immediately and through the rest of the dungeon but
there is a catch. Once you beat the dungeon your only
allowed to take one with you permanently for the rest
of the game so choose wisely. So as you beat each
place you get an artifact and you can keep replaying
the levels to get more artifacts thus making your
character stronger.
When the year changes, new dungeons open up and
the miasma streams change. The miasma streams are all
over the world and in order to pass them you need to
have your chalice with that miasma streams element.
Certain dungeons have the ability to change the
element of the chalice from wind, fire, earth, water
and depending on what the stream calls for, that's what
you need to break through the barrier. It's as simple
as walking over to the place on the map and selecting
the element change.
The main story of the game can be beaten by year
five if played right. The nice thing is that you can
go back to previous levels and go through them again
and they will be harder and usually yield better
items. So, while the game can end at year five you can
just keep skipping the last level and keep making you
character stronger and stronger. A nice addition
Phew... so all this talk about the game play - what about
the graphics? Well, there is a word for graphics like
these - breathtaking. The graphics in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles are
marvelous and really bring you into the game. The
effect that you get from crossing a miasma stream is a
awesome site and the water is wonderful too. The
graphics just shine. You will want to see every
different themed level. They range from a forest,
caves, to a beautiful marsh and volcano and that's just
a few of the places. The game really has so many
graphical touches to it. The magical attacks have
nice effects added to them and the game just reeks of
beauty. The enemies are detailed and some of them are
quite large and the boss battles are always amazing to
look at. Also, the character designs and animation and
everything just go so well together they pull you
deeper into this world square enix have made. High
quality stuff.
Now the soundtrack to this game still have a Final Fantasy feel
to it, but what's interesting is it uses all old style
instruments. Nothing heavy heard but the sounds of drum
beats and whistling tunes and what even sounds like
kazoos at times. The music is really good and matches
with the style of the game and the world it's in. The
sound effects of your sword slashing or the water
flowing in a river near by all come off very nice.
This company definitely knows the meaning of high
production values.
The controls are spot on and are easy for anyone to
pick up and play. You use the d-pad to walk around or
control stick if playing single player. A button is
your attack button and if you hold it you can charge
up a attack or spell and B is used to pick items up.
The L and R triggers switch between your spells and
defend or whatever you have equipped to your command
slots. That's pretty much it. Easy stuff.
I've played single player and multiplayer for
many hours and I must say there both awesome fun. They
both have there pluses and minuses. When playing
single player you're doing everything on your own but
you can fuse spells together and you don't have to
worry about who gets what artifacts. You have pretty
much control on everything but your all by yourself.
In multiplayer you each use your GameBoy Advance and
use this to look at letters and items and whatnot. Now
while in dungeons you can go into your menu and while
your teammates move your character will follow. Also,
you each have a different screen on your GBA for your
radar. Someone will have a map, another will have
the treasure locations, someone will have the
monster locations and someone will get the monster
descriptions and this changes from section to section
in levels so you have to communicate with your team.
One interesting thing is you have to compete with
everyone for the artifacts. At the beginning of each
level you have on your GBA a goal and whoever performs
this goal better, whether it be take damage or don't
cast magic, gets first dibs on what they want at the
end of the level and then who did next best gets next and
so on and so forth. So it gets competitive but at the
same time you cant beat having 2-4 people playing with
you and talking, laughing , screaming and enjoying the
game (and in personal experience when overcoming a
really tough boss there is nothing better then
screaming for victory and slapping your friends hands
when you overcome it).
Now, there has to be some minor complaints and with
any game there is. First off - the fact that you have to
have a GameBoy Advance for multiplayer purposes is a
bummer to a lot of people and while I find it not a
problem, a lot of people do. If they had made it so
that you didn't need the GBAs I feel more people would
get the game. Also, in single player some might find it
too repetitive and boring since there really isn't much
of a story. Other then these few minor things I think
the game is a blast and anyone should at least try it.
It might not be the deepest or biggest Final Fantasy game ever,
but its a different take on the Final Fantasy game series. Final
Fantasy has finally entered the word of hack and slash
and they did a awesome job with it.
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RHP Justin Hancock (4-1, 1.72 ERA) is nothing if not streaky.
A ninth-round draft pick out of Lincoln Trails College in 2011, Hancock blanked Dayton on four hits over six innings on Monday in a 14-4 TinCaps victory.
In his last two starts, Hancock has worked 13 innings without allowing a run.
In early May, he had a three-game stretch where he allowed just one run on 13 hits over 19 innings.
He didn't walk a batter and struckout 12 in those three games.
Around the farm:
Triple-A Tucson (34-30): Fresno 10, T-PADRES 1 - RHP Brandon Kloess (2-1, 4.01 ERA) was charged with seven runs - six earned - on 10 hits over four innings. RHP Wilfredo Boscan gave up three runs - two earned - on six hits in 3 2/3 innnigs. LF Brandon Allen (.260) and CF Jaff Decker (.240) had two hits.
Double-A San Antonio (34-28): MISSIONS 10, Corpus Christi 4 - RHP Matt Wisler (3-2, 3.94 ERA) worked the first five innings, allowing a run on four hits to pick up the win. He was backed by a 16-hit attack. DH Yeison Asencio (.438) led the way with three hits, including a pair of doubles. RF Rico Noel (.260), 1B Johan Limonta (.299) and SS Jeudy Valdez (.248) all had two hits. Noel doubled, scored twice and drove in two. Limonta drove in three with his second home run of the season.
High-A Lake Elsinore (24-40): STORM 9, Rancho Cucamonga 5 - C Austin Hedges (.271), a second-round draft pick in 2001, had his biggest game of the season, driving in four runs with a pair of doubles. CF Travis Jankowski (.280), 2B B.J. Guinn (.205) and SS Jace Peterson (.284) all had two hits. Guinn tripled and scored three times. Peterson had a triple drove in one and scored twice. LHP Bradon Alger (2-7, 5.51) worked three scoreless innings in relief to pick up the win.
Low-A Fort Wayne (39-23): TINCAPS 14, Dayton 4 - 2B Diego Goris (.280) had four hits, including a pair of doubles, and scored four times. 3B Chris Burke (.415) and LF Corey Adamson (.280) both had three hits and scored twice with Adamson also driving in a pair. LF Alberth Martinez (.267) had a pair of hits, including a triple, drove in one and scored twice. RHP Joe Church (6.10 ERA) allowed four runs on five hits over the last thtree innings, but earned his first save of the season.


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BOUNCE 3 Year Anniversary featuring Big Freedia, DJ Jubilee
10th Ward Buck, Rusty Lazer
Republic NOLA
828 S. Peters Street
New Orleans, LA, 70130
This event is 18 and over
Big Freedia (pronounced "Free-da") is the undisputed "Queen Diva" of Bounce Music, and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout her home town of New Orleans.
Bounce Music is an original urban music rising up from the intimate and fun-loving nature of the New Orleans housing projects which dominate the city's street culture, and Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce reserved for self-proclaimed "Sissies" (a locally used name for biological men with varied and ambiguous sexual identities) that has risen to prominence in recent years and features explicitly gay and cross-dressing musicians and themes. Big Freedia, like other "Sissy" artists, has achieved mainstream success with several New Orleans hit singles such as "Gin in My System" and "Azz Everywhere!" from her albums "An Ha, Oh Yeah" (1999) and "Queen Diva" (2003). Freedia began her musical career almost 15 years ago at the Walter L. Cohen High School in New Orleans, where she was enlisted as choir director from her Sophomore to Senior years. She sees her performance as a Bounce artist as an extension of this work, often interacting in a call and response/teacher and student, fashion with her audiences.
DJ Jubilee is a leader of the New Orleans bounce movement and stands for all things New Orleans. From call and response jams like "Get It Ready" and "Back That Thang Up" to his newest hit "GitOnDaFlur", DJ Jubilee is the indisputable king of bounce.
Born Jerome Temple and long-time Special Education teacher at a local high school, Jubilee was discovered by area producers Earl J. Mackie and Henry F. Holden while performing at a school dance. He soon signed to their Take Fo' Records label. DJ Jubilee's debut cassette, Stop Pause, appeared in 1995, followed later that same year by the full-length DJ Jubilee & Cartoon Drew. After returning in 1996 with 20 Years in the Jets, he issued Take It to the St. Thomas two years later.
Rusty Lazer
Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans that specializes in the street music of his adopted home town and has been touring with BIG FREEDIA the past several years. Following in the tradition of the second line parades and block parties that make New Orleans famous, Rusty Lazer spins songs from the three hundred year old repertoire of street music this decadent city has to offer. In a single set, dancers are likely to hear the hypnotic beat of the Mardi Gras Indians, Hot Jazz from the early 20th century, Twists from the 50's, Soul and R&B from the 1960's and 70's, Brass Band jams stretching across all of these eras and even the modern block party sounds of Hip Hop and Bounce Music along with mash-ups of all of the above created by Rusty Lazer himself.
$10 ($8 with college ID)
Tickets Available at the Door
Upcoming Events
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Tue, November 28
Sat, December 9
Fri, December 29
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1Navigate to the Clean Master website. Type http://www.cmcm.com/en-us/clean-master-for-pc/ in your browser's navigation bar and press ↵ Enter to open the page.
2Select 'Free Download' button to start the download. It will open a page in new tab and then start the download.
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- 'Video and audio junk: The app scans the media buffers to save space. It check all your media applications like iTunes, VLC, QuickTime, Windows MediaPlayer, etc.
- Web cache: As you surf across the webpages, some HTML webpages and images are stored in your PC to reduce the bandwidth usage but this occupies a significant amount of the PC storage.[1]
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Little House was huge. Half-pint was adored. Perhaps it's a "thanks for the memories" vote. Add her fan base to Maks, and the result is never being in the dance-off. :D Now, we will have to wait and see how they fare tonight. DI has them listed as the only couple safe.
"I was told a couple of times this season and past seasons – I'm not going to say who or when – but I was told that, 'Listen, you've got to relax. You have a participant. You don't have a winner. You don't have someone that's going to go far,'
And we wonder about the scoring?
I was told a couple of times this season and past seasons Im not going to say who or when but I was told that, 'Listen, youve got to relax. You have a participant. You dont have a winner. You dont have someone thats going to go far,'
I am not buying this and I call BS. Its his way of handling his poor behavior
If I ever had any doubt of this show being fixed, even in season 12 when they had to toss Ralph Macchio out the door and hand Mark/Chelsea 3rd place because they couldn't do it on their own, this season confirmed it for me that there really is no fairness and it's not completely as black and white as they want to make it. I don't know if it's in their contracts or if the show just decides in advance who they think will make for better or prettier TV. Quite honestly, the two they settled on are the most boring this entire season. No matter how crazy they make the audience and judges go for them. If it looked like William and/Katherine were going to be out before the finals, I wouldn't be surprised for something else to be put in place to keep them in.
I have a feeling, years from now, when DWTS, AI, The Voice, etc., are off the air, and people are looking to cash in, we'll be getting some juicy behind the scenes details about how things really were rigged or heavily influenced to ensure outcomes.
I just noticed on IMDB that it is Melissa's birthday today. Happy Birthday wishes go out to her!
As far a changing the format of the show with the dance-off goes my guess is that the producers had that little gem in their back pockets all along if the scores got too tightly bunched. That happened this year because the judges scored the first dance on the first show too high and had to score all the other dances relative to that one. I don't think the judges were too keen on having to do that either, but they set themselves up for it. If you think the producers wanted to get rid of someone they could have put the lowest scorer in the dance off. It didn't happen - further proof to me that no conspiracy exists.