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Ocala woman, 80, loses $200,000 in sweepstakes scam
Deputies: Woman sent checks to Honduras, Panama City
An 80-year-old Ocala woman lost more than $200,000 in a sweepstakes scam.
The Ocala Star-Banner reports the woman began receiving phone calls in 2012 telling her she had won thousands in a sweepstakes. But the callers told her she had to pay taxes on the earnings before she could collect the prize.
The woman, who requested that her name not be used, says she's received nothing in return.
Marion County Sheriff's Detective T. J. Watts noted in a report that the woman sent an $88,000 check to Honduras, $20,000 to Panama City and varying amounts to individuals in Jamaica -- all through Moneygram and Western Union.
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Epic Vid
Wayyyyyyyy too much money
Good vid.
Didnt think the athletes did much tho but all the contraptions were good. Also those cars were cool.
rhys millens bit was super epic
Millens and Maddisons parts were best. Cool vid over all, they must sell a lot of this stuff somewhere in the world.
Millens and Maddisons parts were best. Cool vid over all, they must sell a lot of this stuff somewhere in the world.
That's what I've though about Red Bull for ages.
I rarely ever see anyone drinking the stuff. On the very rare occasion I'd have one of those types of drinks, it wouldn't be Red Bull - that s*** stinks :/
I rarely ever see anyone drinking the stuff
Lol Redbull Vodka? Go to Thailand or many places and see how much is consumed.
What energy drinks are there? Monster, Red bull, rockstar, V, mother and im sure plenty more. Red bull is massive with the alcohol community, they pretty much have that locked down IMO. Also, they have a sugar free version which i think has been around for longer and is popular with all the young chicks trying to stay skinny. I think V might be more popular in Aus cause is it Aussie?
I remember a dude @ work said he watched a doco on the red bull air race IIRC. They basically invented a sport as a marketing promo and it has made them a mint.
steaming pile of crap compared to DC & Monsters stuff...


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From Re^4: how to unpack a C struct with length array preceding data array (emphases added):
I do agree with ig though, you should avoid [ig's] solution if possible, it's hard to read, and it would be difficult to expand it for a string of three parts or more.
In the spirit of ig's ingenious reply and of Anonymonk's excellent explication, here's a version that unpacks four data items in a single unpack statement (the initial s4 is optional if you don't care about all the length info):
As you can see, this is pretty orthogonal and easily generalized to any number of data items. (I can post the code to generate the unpack template for any array 'type' and any number of data items on my scratch pad if anyone's interested.) It also involves a lot of shuttling back and forth to pick up and use the various unpack elements, and this has the odor of wasted motion. One can also see how such a template could grow rather unwieldy if one were dealing with 400 or 4000 data items rather than just four.
All the admonitions remain in force: this is a trick you should only try at home, never in any public, much less any occupational, venue.
I suspect that a much more concise version of this exists. Ideally, I would like to wind up with a template looking something like
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., AND CAMBRIDGE, UK - July 6, 2004 - Atheros Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets, and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, announced today that Atheros has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ processor and the ARM946E-S™ processor. The ARM946E-S microprocessor core's flexible memory system enables hardware to be tailored to an embedded application to improve the overall efficiency of a chip set and the Jazelle® technology-enabled ARM926EJ-S microprocessor core accelerates the speed of Java applications.
Wireless networking is expected to be the basis for many applications such as voice communications, home audio/visual entertainment, and other networking areas where the ARM® processor performance, flexibility, and industry-leading support will assist Atheros in achieving rapid time-to-market. Atheros will take advantage of licensing the world's most popular 32-bit architecture in its next-generation systems where 802.11 wireless technologies will play an important role.
"With the 802.11 wireless sector expected to continue growing rapidly over the next few years, it is the strength of our technology that will help us capitalize on this opportunity," said Colin Macnab, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Atheros Communications. "ARM microprocessor cores offer us a strong and highly competitive road map to enable Atheros to maintain our market-leading position."
ARM has a proven architecture supported by a wide range of integration tools and extensive history of successfully working with chip vendors to accelerate designs and products to market. ARM leads the 32-bit CPU market, and Atheros will work to leverage this leadership into existing and new 801.11 technology-based applications.
"The 802.11 wireless market is one of many high-growth sectors that we are targeting," said Mike Inglis, EVP Marketing, ARM. "We are offering OEMs in this sector a commitment to help meet the increasing need for reduced cost and size, and power-efficient products. This partnership with Atheros will enable them to deliver industry-leading products to the wireless networking market and we look forward to developing our relationship further."
The ARM 926EJ-S macrocell features a 32-bit RISC CPU with ARM Jazelle Java bytecode acceleration embedded within the core. The ARM946E-S core includes an ARM9E-S™ CPU with flexible instruction caches, data caches and TCM (tightly coupled memory) interfaces. The size of these caches is reconfigurable, as are the memories of the instruction and data TCM, which means that hardware can be tailored to an embedded application. Both cores implement the ARMv5TEJ instruction set, which includes 16-bit fixed point DSP instructions to enhance the performance of many signal processing algorithms.
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(Updates from 10:35 a.m. ET with closing information.) NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Here's what Jim Cramer had to say on CNBC's "Squawk On The Street" Wednesday: Cramer said Netspend ( NTSP) is one stock investors should be paying attention to today. Likewise with PVH ( PVH) because the apparel maker has been receiving analyst upgrades. Investors paid a lot of attention to NTSP, sending it up 28.5% Wednesday. PVH fell 2.3%. Cramer was also bullish on Terex ( TEX), a stock he said keeps bouncing back, and Celgene ( CELG), the drug maker with the right drugs and a hot stock. TEX fell 6.9% while CELG was flat. The love continued for LinkedIn ( LNKD) amid reports the company's market may be bigger than once believed. Cramer's only negative was GPS giant Garmin ( GRMN), which continues to struggle as consumers replace auto-based GPS systems with their smartphones. LNKD ended the day down 1.7% while GRMN dropped 9.4% Wednesday. To sign up for Jim Cramer's free Booyah! newsletter, with all of his latest articles and videos, please click here. -- Written by Scott Rutt in Washington. To email Scott about this article, click here: Scott Rutt Follow Scott on Twitter @ScottRutt or get updates on Facebook, ScottRuttDC


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From the silver screen debut of The Hunger Games to One Direction mania, 2012 was truly an unforgettable year. We sat at the edge of our seats to find out who "A" was on Pretty Little Liars and gasped during the last installment of the Twilight Saga. Taylor Swift put our diary to words with her album Red and we met and (fell madly in love with) a group of British boys named Harry, Zayn, Louis, Niall and Liam.
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There will be no more games in the Darksiders series, the game's lead designer has seemingly confirmed, after the IP and its developer Vigil Games failed to be sold during THQ's assets sale last week.
Responding to a tweet from Rovio's creative director Patrick Liu, who tweeted "No more Darksiders! :( Whyyyyy Crytek...", Darksiders' lead designer Haydn Dalton said:
"Tis true Pat...sometimes good things come to an end. That's why you've gotta enjoy them while you can."
Dalton played a key role in the development of both Darksiders 1 & 2, serving as lead designer on Vigil's action-adventure.
Back in July, Dalton suggested to VideoGamer.com that the future of the series relied on Darksiders 2's success. However, the game failed to meet THQ's expectations, selling just 247,000 units during its opening month in the US.
Some members of Darksiders' development team were picked up by Crytek in the days following THQ's assets auction, prompting speculation that a third Darksiders title could be developed at Crytek's new Austin studio.
However, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli later stated that Darksiders 3 "doesn't fit with [the company's] strategy" and that he "didn't want to continue with Darksiders III".
Vigil had been rumoured to be developing a first-person shooter prior to THQ's collapse.
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Apology? He's got to be kidding.
It should be obvious: I'm for labor, against the bosses. Also against the scabs.
Tonight, though, it's about the bosses. The contract is settled, the real referees get to go back to work, and all is right with the world.
So right, in fact, that Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner and professional POS, is being quoted as apologizing to the fans. In fact, that's the headline on the ESPN web page: "Roger Goodell apologizes to fans." Here's what he said:
"Obviously, when you go through something like this, it is painful for everybody," Goodell said. "Most importantly, it is painful for our fans. We are sorry to have to put our fans through that, but it is something that in the short term you sometimes have to do to make sure you get the right kind of deal for the long term and make sure you continue to grow the game."
Wait, what?
"It is something . . . you sometimes have to do to make sure you get the right kind of deal."
In other words, he keeps insisting that he and the owners were right.
That's not an apology.
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As you may have heard, the Israel Defense Force has declassified maps showing their assessment of the locations of Hezbollah bunkers, weapons facilities and surveillance posts in the village of El-Khiam, north of the Israeli border. Having just recently been looking at that village–from the southern side of the border–I was particularly interested to see this. Judith Levy's analysis of the IDF's decision to release these maps right now seems to me exactly right:
The impending publication of the UN tribunal's indictments of Hezbollah members for the assassination of Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri will make things very uncomfortable for Nasrallah and, by extension, for Iran, which has set up Hezbollah as its local proxy. The best way for Hezbollah to deflect both Lebanese and international attention away from its guilt in the Hariri killing is to provoke Israel. From Hezbollah's point of view, an ideal result would be carnage in Lebanese villages wreaked by the IDF. Who's going to quibble about UN indictments when Israel is killing Lebanese civilians?
That strategy will only work if people fail to realize just what they've done in El-Khiam. Now, the IDF released these maps to the Washington Post, and the Post puts it thus: "Israeli intelligence asserts that Hezbollah has built hundreds of bunkers and filled them with Syrian-made weapons, all since 2006, the last time Israel attacked the Shiite militia."
That makes the whole business sound like some spooky, dubious, debatable intelligence-jitsu. It's not, really. I was standing there looking at that village. You can see it pretty well with the naked eye. You'd need only a pair of binoculars to come up with this assessment, and you can see that plainly from the video I shot.


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Australia Says Planes Now Searching In New Area For Signs Of Malaysian Airliner
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Officials overseeing the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 say the effort to date has not been a waste of time, but they are shifting the focus nearly 700 miles to the northeast.
The decision is based on a new analysis of radar data that suggests the plane flew faster than thought and used up more fuel, which would have cut the distance it could have traveled before going down in the Indian Ocean.
The search area remains large: about 123,000 square miles. It's also closer to western Australia — and therefore easier for search crews to reach — and does not have the same harsh weather conditions as the old search location.
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PORT LAVACA, Texas, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A bigger reward is now being offered for information in the investigation into a series of fatal sheep mutilations in Port Lavaca, Texas, officials said.
The Humane Society of the United States has increased its reward in the case from $2,500 to $5,000 in the killings, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Since the start of July, 21 of Wayne and Karen Daggs' Barbado sheep have been found dead. The most recent killing happened in early October.
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Josiah McElheny explores the limits of memory, knowledge, and history in his elegant glass works. As he explains: "I don't really believe in history. And I think that, at some level, that's one subject of some of my work—the fact that history is mutable, which is essentially denying history." Through his handcrafted glass objects, which he displays in groups and in combination with mirrors, photographs, and text, McElheny evokes our continual striving to construct a coherent understanding of the past and the stories we tell in the process. In McElheny's work, the infinite reflectivity of glass becomes a metaphor for the act of reflection—on ideas, memories, and history—itself. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006.
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A judge on Friday sentenced a mentally ill New Smyrna Beach man who killed his father to 30 years in prison after concluding his freedom would pose a threat to society and there was nowhere else for the man described as a "ticking time bomb."
Marcus White was found guilty by a jury in March of manslaughter in the killing of his adoptive father, Douglas White, in 2011, in the family's camper west of New Smyrna Beach at 950 Alligator Ranch Road.
Circuit Judge Leah Case sentenced Marcus White, 23, after noting arguments from prosecutor J. Ryan Will that there was no institution in the state that would accept the violent, mentally ill man other than a prison. White has autism, post traumatic stress disorder, mild mental retardation and fetal-alcohol syndrome among other problems, according to testimony.
"There's no place that this court can send Marcus to ensure his safety or everybody else's safety," Case said. "That is a travesty in and of itself. I know the state and the defense were both looking for some place, a secured facility for Marcus given that Marcus has this mental health disorder that affects his ability to control himself."
Marcus White was aggressive and had trouble controlling his impulses. Those impulses took a deadly turn on June 7, 2011, when he took his sleeping father's .40-caliber Glock which he was not supposed to handle. Marcus White stood two feet away and shot Douglas White in the center of his back, Will said during the trial. The bullet bore a hole through one of Douglas White's lungs, and his heart and shattered upon hitting his spine. Marcus White at first said he took the gun for protection because he thought an intruder was breaking into the trailer but his finger slipped and the gun fired, hitting his father.
But two days later White told a psychiatric nurse on June 9: "I want to change my story. There was no one there. I killed my dad on purpose."
Marcus White, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and sitting next to his attorney, read a statement before sentencing. The loose leaf paper shook in his hands as he read in a thick, halting voice.
"The reason that I should not get prison time is that the death of my father was an accident, not on purpose and I forget to take my medication," Marcus White said.
He said that what White's brothers and sisters were saying about him during the sentencing hearing, that he had been impulsive and dangerous to other children as he grew up and would grow angry at simply being told he could not have a soda, was not true.
"In fact, I'm a very nice person, nice sweet gentle person to everyone that I meet," Marcus White said.
White added that he had been in jail and that he missed his dog and his adoptive mother, Mary White. He added he also missed taking care of the animals on the farm.
"Me and my dad got along with each other and also me and my dad did not get into fights at all," Marcus said.
But prosecutor Will said Marcus White could not be trusted to live outside an institution, could not take care of himself and could not temper his own rage and aggression. Marcus White knew that guns were deadly, Will said.
"Marcus White told people that he shot his dad on purpose," Will said.
Assistant Public Defender Matt Phillips said that Marcus White's mental problems justified giving him a lighter sentence and that prison was not the proper setting Phillips said Marcus White said that the shooting was an accident.
"I don't think that a prison camp is a good place for him to be," Phillips said.
Marcus White was emotionally unstable and did not socially interact well with others, did not pick up on social cues and had a lack of empathy for others, said Dr. Richard Greer, a clinical or treating psychiatrist at Halifax Health Medical Center. If he became frustrated, he was more likely to act out aggressively or sexually aggressively.
Greer said the drugs he prescribed were not controlling White's impulsivity and aggression.
Will asked Greer about whether it was accurate to describe White as a time bomb as Greer once did.
"Yes, it's just the degree to which the bomb goes off when he is frustrated," Greer said. "There may be times when his frustration leads him to punching a hole in the wall and there may be times when his frustration leads him to something more drastic them that."
Mentally ill New Smyrna man gets 30 years for killing father
A judge on Friday sentenced a mentally ill New Smyrna Beach man who killed his father to 30 years in prison after concluding his freedom would pose a threat to society and there was nowhere else for the man described as a "ticking time bomb."


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ann McElroy, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, will receive the Society for Applied Anthropology's 2012 Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award in recognition of "long term and truly distinguished service to the Society."
The award, which will be presented during the 2012 Annual Meeting of the SfAA in Baltimore, Md., March 28-31, was established to honor the memory and career of Sol Tax, PhD, an internationally renowned University of Chicago anthropologist who organized anthropology as a global discipline and helped establish the field of "action anthropology," an approach in which researchers work to help solve social problems.
McElroy joined the UB faculty in 1971 as a specialist in psychological anthropology and arctic ethnology. Her research expanded to the emerging field of medical anthropology, and in 1979 she co-authored "Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective," now in its fifth edition.
With her fellow UB faculty members, McElroy developed a series of applied research and training programs, including Research Careers in Anthropology, an MS/PhD track in anthropology and social epidemiology, and an MA concentration in applied medical anthropology.
These programs have offered students opportunities for applied research on migrant farm worker health in Western New York, services for refugees and immigrants in inner city neighborhoods, the community integration of persons with traumatic brain injury, alternative childbirth management options, and study of gaps and needs in services to Niagara County families affected by trauma, grief and loss.
McElroy also served on the faculty advisory committee that helped established the Center for Disability Studies at UB, which now offers an interdisciplinary master's degree, and she is preparing for publication the text "Disability and Diversity: Anthropological Approaches to Impairment and Disability."
Her additional activities in applied anthropology include research on educational change in rural Iran, clinical training in geriatrics in southern Germany, participatory action research among farm labor activists in northern California and several years as consultant to childbirth reformers and midwifery advocates in Western New York.
McElroy's longitudinal research in Inuit communities includes work with elders in four Baffin Island communities, where she recorded their memories and narratives of encounters with missionaries, traders, teachers and other agents of change as children and youth in the 1920s and 1930s. This research is published in "Nunavut Generations: Change and Continuity in Baffin Island Inuit Communities" (Waveland Press Inc., 2008).
A member of the Society for Applied Anthropology since 1976 and a Sustaining Fellow since 2001, McElroy coordinated a health network as part of the SfAA Committee on Regional and Special Interest Groups and Affiliations, chaired the national organizing meeting of the Resource Group in Health and Anthropology, and co-organized and co-chaired the Health and Anthropology Network symposium, "Knowledge Utilization in the Health Policy Process." This symposium led to the publication of "Making Our Research Useful: Case Studies in the Utilization of Anthropological Knowledge" (1989).
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I felt this tri was the best organized EVER….and I know behind the scenes might not have seem that way…but for a parent and kids perspective, we were so pleased with how well the course was marked, how the volunteers came together etc… it was awesome!
I know the registration was rough for you all… but all the volunteers just stepped in and assisted everyone getting registered… it was awesome… they found the right packet for Morrigan and everything… your team fixed it fast!!!!
WE DID NOT have any troubles… you all made it EASY and all were on time!!!!!! WAY TO GO!!!!!!
I just love you guys and look forward to the next race. We are soooo glad you are doing this for all of us!
AND….the kids love their bracelets!!! Thank you for having them there today!!! I know you TRIED to get them to us so many times.
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This was our first kid's triathlon experience and we thought the event was set-up and executed very well. Our son had a GREAT time and we will definitely do as many of the remaining events in the series as possible. Thank you so much for setting up such a positive activity for the kids!
"We had a lot of fun this weekend at the triathlon. Megan was very proud of herself that she completed a triathlon and I do not know if you saw her but she crossed the finish line before me since her strength is running and it is not mine!!! Believe me I tried to keep up with her, she has a lot of energy and I have a few years on her!! I know she had a great time."
"Again we had a GREAT time and it was well organized. Everyone was very helpful and friendly. Thanks again for letting Megan participate. It was a good experience for her and maybe this will be something she participates in for years to come. This is a great experience for kids and for a great cause."
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"Thanks again for offering this event! It was very well run and all inquiries with questions were promptly answered! Keegan loved it so much that he wanted to sign up for the remaining three in the series, plus the one at the JCC! He came home last night and was practicing his transition from the swim so he could get dressed faster!"
"Thanks for a great Sunday morning! It was great and the kids had a blast!Loved how you stayed true to your time schedule, there wasn't a big delay before awards, the way you recognized everyone at the awards, and just your spirit of inclusion."
"You guys put on a great race and we will be back!!! Loved the characters, Graham Rahal and the water folks. For a first-time race in this series, you did a superb job! Can't wait to see how the idea of serving other kids develops!
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"My two daughters really enjoyed the triathlon–which was their first. The only criticism I have is regarding my 10 year old (Claire). Since this was her first, she may have misunderstood something, but she was unclear on where the appropriate running course was at times. I overheard other people making similar comments–not sure if there would be a clearer way to do it next time? Other than that ( and of course the confusion due to my misunderstanding of the age-up policy and her not receiving the medal at the awards ceremony) everything was fun!"
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Lucey crowned in 'Beautiful Bulldog' event
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Lucey, an 18-month old pooch from Waukee, Iowa, has beaten out 49 drooling competitors to take this year's "Beautiful Bulldog" pageant.
Monday's tongue-in-cheek event is designed to kick off the weeklong Drake Relays, an internationally-renowned track and field event in Des Moines.
Lucey's owner, Tiffany Torstenson of nearby Waukee, Iowa, is a surgeon at the Mercy Katzmann Breast Center. Torstenson said she often takes Lucey to work.
She says Lucey's demeanor around doctors and patients helped convinced her human family that she'd make a perfect therapy dog.
Lucey was certainly a hit with the crowd at Drake's Knapp Center, besting a pair of boys named Lord Nelson and Zuul to capture top honors.


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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan meet on Friday to make another attempt to defuse hostilities after their countries split and restart cross-border oil flows to throw their beleaguered economies a lifeline.
Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir and South Sudan's Salva Kiir have both signaled possible concessions at the talks in Addis Ababa to end a stalemate over how to set up a demilitarized buffer zone after the countries came close to war in April.
They signed agreements at a meeting in the Ethiopian capital in September to resume oil exports and secure the volatile border, but sharing deep mistrust after fighting one of Africa's longest civil wars, neither country has implemented the deals.
Both countries badly need the oil exports, for which Juba has to pay Khartoum millions of dollars. But analysts say they also need the confrontation with the other side to shore up domestic legitimacy and divert attention from their crumbling economies and widespread corruption.
The African Union, backed by Western powers, urged them to hold Friday's talks to try again to reach a deal.
Sudan's state news agency SUNA said late on Thursday Bashir would meet Kiir to discuss "speeding up" implementing the September deals. Kiir said in a speech on New Year's Eve the South was ready to withdraw its troops.
But diplomats remain skeptical of a quick breakthrough because both countries have a history of signing and then not implementing the agreements.
Since April's flare up, the worst violence since South Sudan seceded in 2011 after a 2005 peace deal ending the civil war, they have pulled back their armies from the almost 2,000 km (1,200 miles) border, much of which is disputed.
Both sides say such a buffer zone is necessary before oil from the landlocked South can flow through Sudanese territory. Juba shut down its entire output of 350,000 barrels a year ago after failing to agree on an export fee.
They agreed in September not just to set up the buffer zone and restart oil exports but also to open the border for trade and start a monetary cooperation - none of which saw the light of day.
South Sudan's oil minister, Stephen Dhieu Dau, said on Wednesday it would delay resuming oil exports until at least mid-March even if Juba solves all security conflicts with Sudan at the summit - the such first forecast since November.
South Sudan accused Sudan on Thursday of launching air strikes on the southern side of their border on Wednesday, wounding several civilians. Sudan's armed forces were not immediately available for comment but have regularly denied southern accusations of attacks in the past.
In turn, Sudan accuses South Sudan of supporting rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) in two border states. Juba denies the accusation and says Sudan is backing militias on its territory.
The enmity remains deep and diplomats say both sides tend see such summits, the latest in a series of bilateral talks, more as a way of focusing on the other's weaknesses, rather than primarily as a way to solve their conflicts.
In Sudan, some officials think, diplomats say, Kiir has made a grave mistake by shutting down the oil production, depriving state coffers of 98 percent of revenues, with some saying South Sudan's leadership might soon run out of money.
In Juba, many officials believe that Bashir's government might collapse due to popular dissent over spiraling inflation and cracks inside his ruling circles. The government said in November it had uncovered a plot attempt against Bashir.
Faced with such mutual mistrust, the African Union will try at the summit to get some sort of border security agreement under way to help restart the oil flows.
Once that happens, the hope among diplomats is that both have an incentive to keep talking and sort out their remaining conflicts such as the final status of Abyei and other disputed border regions.
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Unlike many sci-fi or horror films that require huge leaps of faith or suspensions of disbelief, perhaps the only thing that "Red Lights," the new film from Rodrigo Cortes ("Buried"), asks of the audience is that they presuppose "The X-Files" never existed. Mulder and Scully famously made skepticism cool as they toured around the world investigating paranormal events.
"Motel" is a new thriller about a hit man brought to a secluded motel in the delta bayou who finds he must battle his peers for survival. Sounds like the worst vacation in the world? Am I right? And what's the deal with airplane food! Anyway John Cusack, Robert De Niro and Crispin Glover have all been added to the cast so maybe it wouldn't be such a bad trip after all. Well unless that Glover guy goes in the pool. He's so pale. It'll frighten the children.
I don't know why I just assumed that the "Total Recall" remake was going to be rated R but it looks like the scamps over at the MPAA have dropped the bomb that it will in fact be slapped with a PG-13 tag. This pretty much ruins the hopes I had of seeing an updated version of the 3 boobed hooker. Thanks guys, thanks for ruining our nation's birthday.
Entrepreneur Marc Siwak is working on plans that would bring a live action zombie based theme park called "Z World" to the Detroit area.The plan would take over 200 acres of abandoned housing and factories and turn them into an overnight adventure where people can live in their very own zombie outbreak. I don't want to spoil anything but I'm pretty sure if you want to run for your life in Detroit you can pretty much do that for free now pretty easily.
It's the day after the 4th of July so it's really slow and truth be told right now I'm pretty caught up with video footage of Lita Ford singing "If I Close My Eyes Forever" at a recent concert so I'm just going to tell you that Jena Malone has apparently landed the role of Johanna Mason in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". I know what you're wondering and the answer is yes, Lita sings the Ozzy part and yes she goes right into "Kiss Me Deadly".
Ever see that show on MTV "My Super Sweet 16"? Well if you have then you've probably also had the urge to get in your car, dive to these spoiled pricks home and end them. Well got bless Bobcat Goldthwait because he made a movie called "God Bless America" with just such a plot. What's better is said film has been picked up by Magnolia pictures and will be finding it's way to VOD in the near future. Yes, I watch a lot of crap on cable.
Rodrigo Cortés made everyone giddy last year when he put Ryan Reynolds in a box for 90 minutes and just let him talk. Well his follow up to that is "Red Lights" staring Robert De Niro as a famous psychic who returns to the spotlight after 30 years of being off the radar. Then he gets put in a box for an hour and we just bask in all his glory. Probably not. Check out the new trailer and see if I'm a giant liar. I love you.
If you were a big fan of the vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows" as a kid then I'm willing to bet you spent a lot of time along in your room talking to your privates. But now Tim Burton is making a movie about the tv show and it stars Johnny Depp so people will love it and you and your genitals can go out into the world with pride. Here, look at these new photos from the set. Everyone looks so pale. Pasty is going to be the new tan. I'm going to be famous!
A ridiculous amount of clips from "Machete" have found their way online and they're pretty much what you would expect. Lots of blood, lots of strippers and some serious bad acting. I mean all three of those things in the best way possible.


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The story in "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" picks up nine months after the events in the film. Cover for No. 1 by Dan Dos Santos. The fourth issue in the series is due for release April 30. And, yes, Mal and Inara are together. (Dark Horse)Link
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" No. 2 is due out Wednesday. This variant cover is by series artist Rebekah Isaacs. (Dark Horse)Link
A look at Georges Jeanty's art in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8" No. 33, from 2010. (Dark Horse)Link
Before the "Dark Horse: Whedonversity" panel got started, there was an impromptu singalong among fans in line. A man with a guitar and a female singer performed the theme song from "Firefly," and then fellow Browncoats joined in the singing of "The Hero of Canton," the mistaken celebration of the man they call Jayne.
Fans' fervor for the short-lived Joss Whedon sci-fi western series, its follow-up "Serenity" film and the "Avengers" director's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV show endures, and in the pages of official canonical further seasons in Dark Horse comics, the characters' adventures continue.
Zack Whedon, who is writing the six-issue "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind," which is set nine months after the events of the 2005 film, that series' artist Georges Jeanty and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10" writer Christos Gage talked with the crowded room, mostly answering fan questions about their current series, "shipping" and more in a panel moderated by Nerdist's Brian Walton. (And Dark Horse's Aub Driver announced that an original graphic novel starring the "Buffy" vampire Spike, written by James Marsters, will come out July 16.)
"Season 10" is Buffy's third season in comics, and in preparing for it Gage noticed something about the vampire slayer and her gang: "The core scoobies haven't really been together for a full season since Season 6 of the show … so it was really exciting that we're going to be bringing them all back together now."
But things aren't quite the same. The characters are no longer in high school, and Buffy's older Watcher, Giles, is now stuck in the body of his 12-year-old self (Joss Whedon's suggestion, Gage pointed out).
The writer added that Nicholas Brendon, who played Buffy's clever geeky pal Xander on the show and is co-writing a few issues with him, offers more than insight into his old character. In addition to the actor's perspective on how when, say, a character might repeat a word, he's also contributed major plot elements — and insisted that Giles have the sort of "raging" unexpected and embarrassing problems adolescent boys have.
"We're having a lot of fun with all of that," Gage said to laughs.
Jeanty, who penciled much of two seasons of "Buffy" before starting work on the new "Serenity" miniseries, said of drawing Xander, "He can be very neurotic and very jumpy, and he speaks with his hands a lot and things like that, so I tried to incorporate that in the artwork. Obviously, I'm working with just a static image, but within that, I try to illustrate how that character was in their TV persona."
"Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" is three issues in, with three to go, and where Buffy Summers' team is back together, Mal Reynolds' is divided.
"Part of the 'Serenity' idea was to break them apart and bring them back together," Zack Whedon said, "and to have some of those fractures occur off-screen … and to have the readers playing catch-up a little bit, but then to have the events of the comics break them apart and watch them struggle to come back together."
As for further "Serenity" comics, Whedon said he hoped another writer would pick it up after him, and that the closing issue of "Leaves on the Wind" will "tee a lot of things up" for possible future stories.
Before turning things over to the audience Q&A, Walton asked the panelists about fans who have their own strong ideas about what becomes of characters after shows end.
"The biggest disappointment is that Spike and Angel aren't gay lovers," Jeanty said of the "Buffy" vampires, citing fan fiction, to laughs.
Gage said he didn't know what "shipping" — fervent fan belief that characters should be in a romantic relationship — was until he started writing the "Buffy" spinoff "Angel & Faith." "And then I got to explain it to Nicky Brendon, who didn't know what shipping was. And even better, I got to explain to him that there's an entire Xander-Spike shipping action going on."
When Whedon said he didn't know what it was, Gage explained and mentioned the Buffy-Spike advocates (Spuffies) and Buffy-Angel stalwarts (Bangels), comparing the passions to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
Speaking of shipping, a fan thanked Whedon for finally bringing together Mal and Inara (to much applause), who had a tempestuous flirtation on the show.
"I was a little tired of the will-they-or-won't-they," Whedon said. "I was like, 'They will, and they have, and now you get to watch it."
In the "Season 10" series, Xander is in a relationship with Buffy's sort-of-it's-complicated sister, Dawn. She's been a divisive character among fans since her late introduction on the show (one fan asked Gage if he would reveal that she'd been a demon all along). "I root for them as a couple," Gage said. "That doesn't mean I'm not going to do terrible things to them as a couple." And Jeanty told the anti-Dawn crowd to "give her a chance," as she's matured over the comic seasons.
Responding to a fan request for swearing in Chinese — a staple of "Firefly" — in "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind," Whedon said, "When it's spoken in the show, it works. But on the page, to me, it just felt like an interruption in the dialogue."
Also, answering a question about fan criticisms, he said that some not-so-positive reactions to the previous "Firefly"-universe comics project he did, the 2010 graphic novel "The Shepherd's Tale," about actor Ron Glass' character, resonated, and were part of the reason he wanted to do "Leaves on the Wind" — "to give the fans something substantial … that would be satisfying to them."
Despite those earlier reviews, Whedon was in for an unexpected compliment at the panel: One audience member asked how it feels to be the Whedon brother with the best-looking hair.
"Joss was obviously disqualified from the competition," Whedon joked. "Jed would take issue with that. But thank you very much. It feels real good."
Talking about the pressures of continuing such beloved screen creations as comics, Gage, who also does work on Spider-titles at Marvel, said, "If I write a bad Spider-Man story, I'm not going to ruin Spider-Man. Spider-Man's been around for 50 years. Batman's been around for 75 years. But if I write a bad Buffy or Angel story that's in canon, I really feel like I'll be doing something very bad. It's not going to ruin the character or the story lines, but there's less of it and it means a lot. I know what it means to people. I know what it means to me. So I work very hard to try and get it right."
— Blake Hennon | @BlakeHennon | @LATHeroComplex
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Any Star Wars
Any Matrix
I would much rather play torchwood than who! can i be jack!! regenerating immortal charactor? thats gunna b hard to gm
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I didn't read the whole thread, so please excuse any duplicates.
I would love to play Gurps as the movies:
Evil Dead 2
Any Star Wars
Any Matrix
GURPS Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
GURPS Forbidden Kingdom (Kurosawa or otherwise)
GURPS (Insert any Tony Jaa/Jackie Chan/Chun Yow Fat movie here)
GURPS Kagemusha
Then again I have always had a soft spot for movies originating from asian cultures.
Peace & Love
"I drank what?" Socrates
One of the most underated animated forays since....(big suprise here).....WIZARDS!!!!!
"THEY KILLED FRITZ....THOSE MISERABLE LITTLE....A-ahem.....(but I digress)"
Peace & Light (...& Ralph Bakshi)
"I drank what?" Socrates
GURPS Flash Gordon?
(Hadda be said)
Peace & Light (...& FLASH, AHHH-AHHHHHHHHH....HE'LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!!!)
"I drank what?" Socrates
GURPS: Atomic Horror comes pretty close, especially if you mix it with some GURPS: Lensman.
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GURPS Jay & Silent Bob?
Peace & Light (...& 4:20 Dude)
"I drank what?" Socrates
Similiar to GURPS Millenium Actress:
GURPS Ronald Reagan-senile President reminisces about his life, confusing it with movies he's been in. I lived through the real thing--and, no, it was not just a rumor.
And now for some genuine franchises that would work well as GURPS settings:
GURPS Codominium
This is a Hard Science Fiction background based on the future history begun by Jerry Pournelle. It begins with a pragmatic alliance between the USA and the Soviet Union, effectively forming a world government that lasts for about a century. It falls apart, but not before human colonies are established in dozens of other star systems. Most of the stories are military adventures, but Larry Niven added the Moties, one of the most fascinating alien races ever created, other authors, including S.M.Stirling made the Saurons into one of the best "improved" human races.
GURPS Draka
S.M. Stirling created a super-race of his own, a remarkably attractive and frightening one, and an elaborate alternate history--and alternate world travel. No cat girls so far, but it does have man-eating baboons with assault rifles.
GURPS Worlds of Harry Turtledove
The prolific Mr. Turtledove has churned out an eight-book series about The Race (invaders from Tau Ceti who look like chameleons); not one but two South-wins-the-Civil-War sagas; a two-book Japan takes Hawaii story; a series of stories where Muhammad became a Christian and the Byzantine Empire survives; a series of four (so far) cross-time travel adventures, and a novel (with Richard Dreyfuss) of a world where the American and the French Revolutions never happened--and more.
GURPS Flashman
George MacDonald Fraser took the bully of Tom Brown's School Days through the rest of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth in a series of cracking good tales about a congenital coward who keeps finding himself in the stickiest situations of his time, including the First Afghan War (where Britain managed to lose an entire army), the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Custer's Last Stand. At last, a background where you can explore the full dimensions of Fast Talk! Obviously will need character write-ups for Geronimo, Cu Xi the Dowager Empress, Emperor Franz Jozef ("his ambition seemed to be to infect as many women as possible with venereal diseases"), Mad Queen Ranilova of Madagascar, Mad Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia, Curly Bill Brocius and Otto von Bismarck.
Note that I have chosen series of books and short stories, not movies or TV series. Just about every one you'd really be interested in has or has had an official RPG out by now.
The Outlaw Josie Wales is one of my favorite movies, but I've never been tempted to GURPS-ize it. I've read the novel it was based on (Gone to Texas, by Forrest Carter) and for the benefit of the earlier poster, Carter wrote a second Wales book where he meets Geronimo. I've seen the two bundled together in a single trade paperback. Carter also wrote The Education of Little Tree--and, back in the Fifties and Sixties, under his real name, Asa Carter, some of the fieriest tracts against the end of Jim Crow in the South.


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text: June 19, 2013 at 11:42 AM Why the Mariners are taking so long with Dustin Ackley Posted by Geoff Baker Dustin Ackley is honing his outfield skills at Class AAA Tacoma and will be key to the next phase of the Mariners attempting to salvage their 2013 season. Photo Credit: AP Dustin Ackley keeps on hitting down in Class AAA Tacoma. The Mariners keep not hitting at the major league level — scrounging up three runs over 10 innings for a win last night, though it took two home runs and an extra frame to reach that meager total. So, why no Ackley? Well, the Mariners keep saying they want to make sure his hitting is "real" but by the time they figure that out, this season could be pretty much over for all intents and purposes. With jobs now on the line in the front office and coaching ranks, there's probably a limit to just how large a sample size the M's higher-ups can really afford to have with Ackley since none of these numbers and samples will offer any type of guarantee when it comes to his hitting in the majors. So, no, that hitting being "real" isn't the big reason he's still down there. But his ability to play center field consistently is one of the reasons and looking at the team now, it's probably the biggest reason he hasn't been called up yet. Mariners manager Eric Wedge finally seemed to admit as much yesterday when I asked him about it pregame. "I want him to have a little bit more time in the outfield in general," Wedge said. "Whether it be left field or center field. Either way for me I think it works good. The reps in center field would just be a concern right now. I want to make sure he can do that." And that makes a little more sense given the context of where this team now sits. Because the Mariners aren't liable to gain a whole lot more certainly with Ackley at the plate simply by waiting another few days or even a week to bring him back up. But several more days of reps in center could make a difference. Especially given what the team needs to do next. The Mariners need Ackley to be able to play center because they need a backup at the position to spell Franklin Gutierrez at least a couple of days per week. And realistically, once Gutierrez comes off the 60-day DL — he's eligible as of Saturday and I'd expect the team to move rather quick — there still has to be a backup plan, for a variety of reasons. First, nobody really knows how long Gutierrez will stay healthy. The Mariners have tried to insist before that they knew and had reasonable expectations for his good heath. They were wrong — for whatever reason, be it bad luck, injury-prone tendancies, slow recovery, whatever. They just don't know for certain and haven't guessed right yet. So, if he goes down, there has to be a backup plan. Right now, center field is manned by Michael Saunders and Endy Chavez. It's doubtful both will still be here once Gutierrez and Ackley arrive. More Comments | More in outfield | Topics: Dustin Ackley, endy chavez, franklin gutierrez


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Criminals eye region to sell pseudo drugs
ORGANISED criminals have their eyes on vulnerable regional areas in Queensland to market drugs such as synthetic cannabis, the Crime and Misconduct Commission has revealed.
The CMC has released its intelligence report, Illicit Drugs Markets in Queensland, which shows the disturbing trend in these pseudo drugs.
The report states that were Queensland to follow state and international trends, it could expect to see organised crime groups increase their presence in the drug analogue market.
The drug analogue market has grown more over the past few years than its traditional counterparts, including ecstasy and heroin.
Crime Assistant Commissioner Kathleen Florian said drug selling was limited in non-traditional areas such as regional towns, but warned organised crime could spread in these areas to meet synthetic drugs demands.
Ms Florian said one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding drug analogues was they were safe and legal.
"The truth is that there is little understanding of exactly what's in these drugs and full extent of associated harms," she said.
She highlighted the fact synthetic cannabis was not a natural product but a chemical sprayed on herbal material.


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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Supernatural" stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki say the TV series they started nine years ago remains just as fun today as it did at the beginning.
"We still get excited about it," Ackles told journalists Friday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
"I remember getting the last script of season nine, I got all giddy about it. I was excited to see what happens in season 10. As long as there's still that fulfillment ... we will keep going."
Padelecki added, "I think we know the show enough and our characters enough that if there's an end coming I think we'll all see it."
"Supernatural" follows Ackles and Padalecki as brothers who battle the supernatural.
The CW network remains committed to the idea of a spin-off even though the network passed on the pilot for "Supernatural: Bloodlines."
President Mark Pedowitz said that show, "creatively did not quite get to where we wanted it to go" but he's open to trying again.
"I think it's a great franchise that has a lot of legs to it."