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The gunman who killed one and injured at least nine others at a high school graduation party in 2010 was sentenced to serve 40 years in prison for murder and assault.
The gunman who killed one and injured at least nine others at a high school graduation party in 2010 was sentenced to serve 40 years in prison for murder and assault.
Akeem Antwon Prewitt, 23, pleaded guilty to the murder of LaMarcus Branch and the assault of nine other guests at the party held on May 15, 2010.
Attempted murder charges, a drug possession charge and a charge of carrying a pistol without a permit were dropped as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, according to court documents.
He also pleaded guilty to the assault of a detention officer at the Tuscaloosa County Jail in 2011.
"It's been three years and three months since a very terrible tragedy occurred," said his attorney, Gar Blume, of Blume and Blume Attorneys at Law. "LaMarcus Branch was Akeem Prewitt's best friend. That's something he's had to live with this whole time."
Prewitt opened fire with a 9 mm handgun in a crowded room at the clubhouse at The Links of Tuscaloosa apartments just more than three years ago. Witnesses estimated that about 100 people were in the clubhouse early that Sunday morning.
"A brief moment of very poor judgment has placed him in a very precarious position," Blume said. "He's felt such remorse for so long. He's accepted responsibility and wants to move forward. Hopefully, LaMarcus' family and all of the other families that were impacted can also move forward."
The party had been advertised on Facebook by a Hillcrest High School senior. Uninvited guests were allowed inside when they showed up.
Prewitt was one of five people, including the young man who was killed, who attended the party together. One of the people in his group had been invited.
A fight broke out when Prewitt danced with a girl, investigators said at the time. The young crowd shouted allegiances to gangs and made gang signs with their hands during the fight that followed, they said.
Someone switched off the lights during the confrontation. Prewitt fired a gun in the dark, striking the eight young men and two young women. His friend
LaMarcus Branch, a 17-year-old Bryant High School student who went by the nickname "Blimp," was killed. Two of Prewitt's friends were also injured.
The most seriously injured victim was a 16-year-old girl who was shot in the face. The 28-year-old brother of the graduate who hosted the party was shot in the chest.
A trial in the case had been scheduled for Aug. 5. Forty-six witnesses, including party guests and law enforcement officers, had been subpoenaed and were expected to testify.
Prewitt entered the plea to murder, two counts of first-
degree assault, six counts of second-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault before Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Brad Almond on Friday. He was sentenced to 40 years for the murder charge, 10 years for each first-degree assault charge and one year for each of the remaining charges. The sentences will be served concurrently, and he will be eligible for parole in 15 years.
In July 2011, Prewitt was one of three jail inmates accused of trying to kill a detention officer who was serving them breakfast. One of the inmates and the targeted officer had been involved in a fight that had hospitalized two inmates and one guard the previous week.
According to court documents, Prewitt punched the guard, allowing his cell mate to exit the cell, grab the keys and free another inmate who attacked the guard with a sock filled with bars of soap. The men had planned to beat the guard unconscious, according to investigators, and kill him by throwing him over a rail the floor below.
In that case, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree escape. He pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, and will serve a 10-year sentence concurrent with the other sentences.
Prewitt will receive credit for the two years, two months and nine days he spent in the Tuscaloosa County Jail before entering the plea. He had not yet been transferred to a state prison as of Tuesday.
Reach Stephanie Taylor at email@example.com or 205-722-0210.


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January 22. 2013 10:11PM
Trinity boys build lead, then hold off Memorial's Crusaders
By JIM FENNELL
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - The first round in the battle royale between two of the top three teams in the city - and maybe the state - didn't disappoint.
Trinity and Memorial went toe-to-toe for 32 minutes Tuesday with the host Pioneers coming out with 65-54 win to keep their unbeaten record intact.
The Pioneers (8-0) led by as many as 13 points in the first half and were still up double-digits in the third quarter when the Crusaders (6-2) scratched their way back into the game, extending their defensive pressure and getting the game into a helter-skelter pace that worked in their favor.
A 10-3 run capped off by Tong Akot's putback made it 46-41 with 2:01 left in the quarter. The chase was on, but the Crusaders could never catch the Pioneers.
A 3-pointer by Kabongo Ngalakulondi (22 points) brought Memorial to within 56-52 with 2:50 left in the game, but Mabor Gabriel (14) answered with a bucket on the low post and a 3-pointer in the corner that made it 61-52 with 1:12.
The Pioneers were taking time off the clock when Gabriel got the ball in the corner with a wide open look in front of the Trinity bench. He couldn't resist, letting fly a shot that hit nothing but net and drew him a high-five from Trinity coach Dave Keefe.
"I was wide open," Gabriel said. "I kept my composure and hit the shot."
All five Trinity starters finished in double-figures, led by Carmen Giampetruzzi, who had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Keefe said he was proud of his team for keeping its cool when Memorial turned up its defensive pressure.
Omauru Kante added 14 for Memorial.
The Pioneers set the tone on the opening tip when Pat Keefe drove the lane to give them a lead they held throughout the game.
A lollipop runner in the lane by Brad Rhoades put Trinity up 16-6 and that was enough for Memorial coach Jack Quirk to call a timeout with 2:42 left in the quarter.
The Pioneers led 20-12 after one quarter and stretched it to 27-14 on a 3-pointer by Ryan Otis with 5:48 left in the second quarter. Trinity was 5-for-10 from long distance in the half and went into the break up 38-26. "We were not ready to go in the first six minutes of the game the way we should have been," Quirk said. "We played a lot better after that, but it was a struggle. They killed us on the offensive boards."
Trinity scored 21 points on offensive rebounds.
While this is the first look at two of the city's top teams, the third team in that cluster - Central - jumps into the fray on Feb. 1 when it plays Memorial.


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The 'Florida Community Colleges Oral History Collection' offers insight into the Florida Community College system of 28 public community colleges. The system was created in 1957 by the Florida Legislature, but its roots date from the late 1920s.
Interviews focus on Daytona Beach Community College and Palm Beach Community College and Santa Fe Community College (Gainesville, Alachua County). Interviewees include past community college presidents, a guidance counselor, faculty members, an administrator, etc.
The 'Florida Community Colleges Oral History Collection' is part of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is an affiliated program of the University of Florida's Department of History. Its collections include approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country. The transcribed interviews are available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and other interested groups. Researchers have used our oral history material for theses, dissertations, articles, and books.
Digitization of the collection has been funded in part by the generous donation of Caleb and Michele Grimes.


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A Multitude of Hands: My new essay for National Geographic
In the May issue of National Geographic, I contemplate the hand. Human hands are unique and versatile–and yet we are far from the only animals with them. By looking at the variety of hands in nature, we can see some of the most striking evidence of how evolution tinkers in all sorts of unexpected way. Check it out.
The print version is accompanied by lovely sketches of a wide range of hands. If you read the story online, you can see an animation of the human hand. And if you have the National Geographic iPad app, you can see videos of other hands, from frogs to aye-ayes.
[Image: White -handed gibbon by Ingo Arndt, on Arkive.]
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Wow. I got to your blog through one of those very bizarre links the internet facilitates so well – an email from Marina Orlova, well-known personality behind "hot for words" on the word 'hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism', which led me to your blog entry on long words, from where I got to this article where you reveal you're the writer of the fascinating article I read in Nat. Geog. Just two days ago! I loved the article, as an evolutionary biology enthusiast I love that such diverse mammals have something so fundamental in common, I also loved the photography, absolutely gorgeous.
So thank you internt, it's not often I unintentionally get to thank a writer whose work I enjoy.
Hi, do you have a link to the National Geographc Ipad app? Ive serached for it but have not found it. and I love the article


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The 90th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has been postponed by the race organizers because of concerns over the wildfire raging in the Colorado Springs, CO area. Originally scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 8th, PPIHC organizers have pushed back the race to later this summer, and while no alternate date has been given yet, one is expected in two weeks' time.
"We have been informed by the U.S. Forest Service that conditions are so extreme, along with the inability to forecast the future of the fire, and with access to Pikes Peak in jeopardy that the agency can't permit the event to go as scheduled, "said Tom Osborne, Chairman of the Board of the PPIHC and President & CEO of the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation.


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Earlier this week Lyle & Scott got in touch with Brandish to give us a sneak peak at the A/W collection. We love the preppy knits combined with a street-savvy urbanite style.
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The Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries has made two significant changes to its Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP).
Starting with the 2012-13 hunting season, the enrollment fees will be dropped, and a series of regional meetings will be conducted by WFF biologists to collect the data gathered by participating hunting clubs.
The WFF's goal is to enroll 400 to 500 hunting clubs scattered evenly across the state in order to collect enough data to help it better understand and manage the state's deer population. During the 2011-12 hunting season, only 104 participating hunting clubs were enrolled in the program.
Hunting clubs in all parts of the state with 500 acres or more are especially encouraged to enroll in the program. Clubs in the northern part of the state with less than 500 acres that are interested in participating in the DMP are encouraged to contact their district office to discuss enrolling in the program.
According to WFF Wildlife Section Assistant Chief Ray Metzler, participation in the DMP is a win-win situation for both the hunting clubs and the WFF.
"Hunting clubs and deer managers will receive free professional technical assistance from a WFF wildlife biologist regarding habitat management, harvest recommendations, breeding chronology, population dynamics, and other facets of white-tailed deer management," he said. "The WFF will receive much needed age-specific harvest data from hunting clubs throughout the state."
The DMP was started in 1983 with 10 hunting clubs. Participation quickly grew to approximately 2,200 hunting clubs and included more than 12 percent of the state's land area. Enrollment in the program declined significantly over the past decade as a result of the liberalization of the statewide antlerless deer hunting seasons. The decline in participation resulted in less age-specific data available to WFF biologists to use in assessing the health and condition of Alabama's white-tailed deer population.
"By lowering the barriers to DMP participation we hope to ensure the long-term health of the state's deer herd," said Chris Cook, WFF Deer Project Study Leader. "Alabama's hunters are vital to that effort."
DMP participants are required to obtain sex, weight, lactation rates, antler measurements, and other data for all deer harvested during the hunting season. Hunting clubs interested in partnering with the WFF to assess and better manage local deer populations can enroll in the program by contacting their district office. WFF District Wildlife Office contact information is listed below and can also be found online at outdooralabama.com.
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Montgomery Headquarters: (334) 242-3469
District I: Counties: Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Walker, and Winston. (256) 353-2634
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District III: Counties: Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Shelby, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa. (205) 339-5716
District IV: Counties: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, and Russell. (334) 347-9467
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November 1, 1984
To: All Managers and Supervisors San José
State University
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Procedures for Review Concerning Personnel Actions
In accordance with Executive Order 446, the following procedure shall be utilized by an employee of San José State University who is a member of the Public Employees Retirement System or the State Teachers Retirement System and who is not represented by an exclusive representative under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act who requests reconsideration of personnel actions concerning promotion, retention, evaluation, assignment, reassignment, and hours of work. It is the policy of San José State University to encourage discussion and seek resolution of such requests.
This procedure provides for two stages of review, except for individuals reporting directly to the President. Each review consists of a meeting between the employee and an administrator designated by the President. All meetings and responses herein should be provided in a timely fashion.
The first stage of review shall be initiated within 30 calendar days of the decision giving rise to the request by a written request from the employee to his or her immediate supervisor seeking to arrange an appointment. The supervisor and employee shall meet to discuss the matter.
Should the matter remain unresolved, the employee may, within 15 calen?dar days after the first meeting, request reconsideration at a second stage of review by the President or designee. Such a request shall be made in writing and describe the nature of the reconsideration request and the results of the first stage meeting. The President or designee and the employee shall meet to discuss the request. The decision of the President or designee shall be final and binding.
Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds, Vice Chancellor Caesar Naples, Associate General Counsel Bruce M. Richardson


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How to register with your university or college GP, plus advice on vaccinations, contraception and the Disabled Students' Allowance.
It's important to look after your health when moving away from home for the first time. This includes registering with a new GP and finding your local sexual health service.
Here are our five health tips for new students.
If, like most students, you spend more weeks of the year at your college address than your family's address, you need to register with a GP near your college as soon as possible.
That way you can receive emergency care if you need it, and access health services quickly and easily while you're at college.
This is especially important if you have an ongoing health condition, particularly one that needs medication, such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
You can choose to register with any local GP. The health centre attached to your college or university is likely to be the most convenient, and the doctors working there will be experienced in the health needs of students.
Find your local GP surgery.
Many college health centres have good links with specialists, such as psychiatrists, sports physicians, psychotherapists, counsellors and physiotherapists.
Having trouble getting an appointment? You can also always ask your local pharmacist for medical advice and support.
They may not be at the pharmacy counter when you go in, so ask the person at the counter (who may not be qualified to give medical advice) if you can speak to the pharmacist.
If you become unwell or need other medical treatment when you're at home or not staying near your university GP, you can contact your nearest practice to ask for treatment.
You can receive emergency treatment for 14 days. After that you will have to register as a temporary resident or permanent patient.
Find out how to register as a temporary resident with a GP.
You can also visit an NHS walk-in centre or minor injuries unit. These can provide treatment for minor injuries or illnesses such as cuts, bruises and rashes.
However, they are not designed for treating long-term conditions or immediately life-threatening problems. You don't need to be registered and you don't need an appointment.
Dental problems can't be dealt with by doctors, so make sure you register with a local dentist.
Not all treatment is free, even under the NHS. You may be able to apply for help with health costs, including prescriptions and dental care.
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Students are now routinely offered a vaccination to prevent meningitis W disease.
The Men ACWY vaccine protects against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia: meningococcal (Men) A, C, W and Y diseases. It replaces the separate Men C vaccine.
All 17- and 18-year-olds in school year 13 and first-time university students up to the age of 25 are eligible as part of the NHS vaccination programme.
GP practices will automatically send letters inviting 17-and 18-year-olds in school year 13 to have the Men ACWY vaccine.
But if you're a student going away to university or college for the first time, contact the GP you're registered with to ask for the Men ACWY vaccine, ideally before the start of the academic year.
This is because you'll be at particularly high risk in the first weeks of term, when you're likely to come into contact with many new people of a similar age.
Universities and colleges also advise students to be immunised against mumps before starting their studies.
The MMR vaccine (for mumps, measles and rubella) is part of the routine NHS childhood immunisation schedule. This means most young people who've grown up in England will have had two doses of it in childhood.
If you're not sure you've had two doses of the MMR vaccination, ask your GP for a catch-up vaccination.
Get an annual flu vaccination if you have asthma and take inhaled steroids. You should also get a flu vaccination if you have a serious long-term condition such as kidney disease.
Even if you don't plan to be sexually active while you're a student, it's good to be prepared.
Contraception and condoms are free to both men and women from any GP – it doesn't have to be your own – or family planning clinic.
Find your local sexual health service.
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes, so you'll greatly increase your chances of avoiding your GP's waiting room by taking care of yourself in the first place.
Student life may not be renowned for early nights and healthy eating, but getting enough sleep and eating well will mean you have a better chance of staying healthy.
You'll feel more energetic and be better equipped to cope with studying and exams.
Remember to:
Eating well doesn't have to cost a lot and is often cheaper than takeaways. Taking the time to cook simple meals instead of eating out or buying ready meals is also healthier.
Buy a student cookbook for affordable healthy recipe ideas. You might also want to try downloading the free One You Easy Meals app.
Read more about healthy eating on a budget.
As a higher education student living in England, you can apply for a Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) if you have a:
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I don't want anything clinging to me, and my 'heavy breathing' is a problem, too.
Whenever the conversation topic turns to winter around these parts – which is quite often, considering the parts in which we live – I can often be heard saying something like, "As long as it's going to be cold outside, we might as well have some snow."
Phrases similar to that one have been uttered by people numbering far beyond yours truly over the past couple winters, as a lack of moisture and resulting drought have lots of people, even snow-haters, longing for some significant moisture, no matter what form it takes. My dad's in a major panic, and for good reason; if we don't get some significant snow during the winter that remains or get some major spring rains that continue into the summer, it's not out of the question to think that a person of reasonable height might just be able to walk all the way across Maple Bay, where my parents live. It's already a safe bet that, after we're forced to construct one and maybe even two more 10-foot sections of dock so we're able to get the boat and jet ski off their lifts next summer, we will have a dock that's Guinness-worthy. The book of records, not the delightful adult beverage. Or maybe it'll end up being both. After all, with the addition of last year's 10-foot section, we're flirting with 400 feet.
Funny...all this talk of water in the dead of winter, the one time of the year that I typically find myself obsessed not with snow or frigid temperatures but with the dry air that we can always count on accompanying the arrival of winter in the great white north.
Maybe I'm more charged up than ever – get it...charged? – on the topic this year because of the casual, around-the-house "pajama" pants my wife bought me a while back. I think I've tried to wear them three times, and each time I've ventured back to the bedroom to rip them off and put on something else within a half-hour. I simply can't handle how they cling to my legs as they're overwhelmed by static electricity. If I take them off in the dark, it's like a Fourth of July fireworks show. And all the little spark shockers make noise, too. If Independence Day was observed in the dead of winter, Generous Jerry would probably be far less accommodating.
Or maybe it's what the dry air does to my sleep patterns. Or, more accurately, my wife's sleep patterns. It's my snoring, you see. My gracious wife is so kind she calls it my "heavy breathing," but I get it. When the air is so dry that my nostrils are collapsing on each other with every breath and my mouth subsequently drops open when I drift off to sleep, noisy emanations are inevitably going to commence within a minute or so.
We have a household humidifier attached to our furnace, but it's literally a joke to possess one of those if the place you call home experiences winter almost half the year. It's off all spring, summer and fall because our house's indoor humidity is agreeable. If you don't want condensation all over your windows during the winter, when it gets really cold you pretty much have to turn off.
I checked the "wireless indoor/outdoor weather station" on our living room wall the other day, after I'd pet one of the cats and set off a human/feline blitzkrieg and the indoor humidity was 16 percent. I proceeded to disintegrate into a dusty pile of bone chunks.
We had a humidifier in our bedroom during the winter in recent years, until the disgusting state of its filter had me convinced we were cutting years off our lives by simply breathing the air, and I tossed it.
My wife came home with a filter-less model the other day, and it turns out that it shoots warm steam into the air. It even makes a soothing percolating sound that could probably send even the most extreme insomniac off to dreamland in mere minutes.
The steam, the sound, the heat...it all has me simultaneously feeling slightly comforted yet more than somewhat freaked out. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the fact the device is more than just your typical humidifier makes me feel like I'm in a nursing home or something, or hospitalized. As I lay there, I keep waiting for that nurse from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" to storm in, tie me down, and inject me with a tranquilizer against my will so I'll submit to my next electroshock treatment.
But, apparently, I've only sawed logs – I mean, breathed heavily – a couple times since we filled it with water and plugged it in, at least not to the degree where my wife files a restraining order. That's worth enduring an electroshock nightmare every now and then, I suppose.


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Its called Perry and Getzlaf.SKYO wrote:Yeah some players just seem to do well only in a certain city/team, don't know what psychological thing it is, maybe it's the colour of the jersey, the stadium, the weather.?
Cause in LA Penner wasn't all that great, he goes back to the Ducks and all of a sudden he has found his comfort zone once again.
Too lazy to look up other players who have done the same in the NHL (Do well with one team, horrible with another, go back to former team and perform well again) it does happen!
You couldn't find more alpha males than these two.


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DHS Singles Out "Pregnant Women" As Likely Terrorists
DHS Singles Out "Pregnant Women" As Likely Terrorists
Follows on from call to watch out for "blonde haired, blue eyed, western-looking" Al-Qaeda members
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has embarked on its latest bold move to eliminate terrorists from our midst and keep America safe, by advising law enforcement officials about a deadly new threat – pregnant women.
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reminding law-enforcement officials of the increased use of female suicide bombers worldwide, and warning that women terrorists might hide explosives in devices "that mimic the look of a pregnant woman," reports NBC News.
"The unclassified DHS threat assessment, released Monday and obtained by NBC News, shows photographs of "pregnancy prosthetics," hollowed-out devices that could hold explosive devices. The report says "female suicide bombers have used devices that make them appear pregnant to hide explosive devices."
Despite this burst of rampant fearmongering, the report admits that, "DHS and the FBI have no specific, credible intelligence indicating that terrorist organizations intend to utilize female suicide bombers against targets in the Homeland."
Even before this announcement, little Hitler thug airport security guards had been enjoying the opportunity to manhandle naked pregnant women ever since 9/11.
In one harrowing case, the wife of film producer Nicholas Monahan was forced to expose herself and have screeners touch her breasts in full public view at Portland International Airport. Upon seeing his wife crying her eyes out, Monahan complained and was subsequently arrested and thrown in the airport jail. Monahan likened his experience to something out of The Gulag Archipelago. The trauma of the experience contributed to his wife having to have a caesarean section.
Targeting pregnant women as terror suspects is just the latest chapter of this virulent breed of mindlessness. Regular readers will recall last month's baseless claim that Al-Qaeda had recruited 1,500 white Britons to carry out attacks in the UK.
Fox News quickly seized upon the comment, made by a single MI5 spook, to imply that the new breed of Al-Qaeda are white Caucasian westerners with blonde hair, blue eyes, and no criminal record. You probably have a few neighbors that fit that description.
This followed a December 2003 nationwide FBI alert to police which stated that people traveling with almanacs and maps should be viewed as potential terrorists and searched at checkpoints. Now you can add pregnant women to people who own maps and those with blonde hair and blue eyes as Osama's deadly new acolytes.
Of course, the intention and consequences of this are twofold. If there really were any Al-Qaeda terrorists running around planning to blow stuff up then the DHS is too concerned with mothers pushing baby strollers and lost tourists to give a damn.
Secondly, this inculcates the paranoia that anyone and everyone is a potential suicide bomber and fosters a stasi-like mentality where people are zealous to report on anything they perceive as suspicious activity.
The fact that Americans are more likely to be killed by peanuts, accident causing deer or lightning strikes than die in a terror attack also necessitates the creation of a boogey man who could be waiting around every corner.
All of which beefs a police state that is solely reliant on keeping the fearmongering alive by providing an ample supply of comic book villains and if they are not to be found, average everyday people like you and me, in order to justify swinging around the mammoth apparatus of anti-terror to target innocent citizens.


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News » Too sick to go to school?Last updated 8:24 AM on 23 June 2014
Sometimes it's hard to know if your child is really coming down with something or just suffering a bout of Mondayitis.
For safety's sake, if your child seems unwell you should always keep them home from school and seek medical advice.
However, if they miraculously recover by 11:00am, ready to race around the backyard, keeping them in bed all day may send the message that staying home isn't nearly as much fun as going to school.
The School A to Z website's Too Sick For School? chart will help answer your questions about common childhood illness and how long sick kids need to miss school.
Find more parent tips on the School A to Z website.
PLEASE NOTE: This information has been supplied by NSW Health and is not intended to replace a visit to your doctor if anyone in your family is unwell.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giant coffee table books, iPod Shuffles, signed letters from directors, even "Lincoln" turkey roasting pans. That's just some of the largesse doled out by the studios to voters for awards presented earlier this season — each with the potential to influence the outcome of Hollywood's most important awards, Sunday night's Oscars.
Such gifts are strictly forbidden by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But for studios, the stakes are high, and they've been creative in working around the rules to give their movies the best spotlight possible. A best picture win can boost a film's commercial appeal and solidify relations with big-name actors and directors.
This year, top Oscar contenders "Argo" from Warner Bros. and "Lincoln" from Disney pitted two deep-pocketed rivals against each other in what some say was an unprecedented level of Oscar campaigning. There was even some targeted sniping about the films' bending of historical facts.
Part of what's behind the seemingly unrestrained lobbying is that this year, an unusually large number of best picture nominees are also doing well at the box office, giving the studios dry powder for their campaigns.
Six of the nine contenders for the top Oscar have reaped $100 million or more in ticket sales domestically, and collectively they've earned $309 million since the nominations Jan. 10, according to Hollywood.com. This record-setting "Oscar bump" dwarfs the $111 million the nine best picture nominees made between the nominations and the awards ceremony last year. It also trumps the season that 2009's megahit "Avatar" was in the running, when 10 nominees brought in $204 million in bump.
That means there's plenty of reason for studios to keep spending — even to the extent of papering the walls of the popular Beverly Hills restaurant Kate Mantilini with campaign posters, which conveniently tower over diners just a block from the motion picture academy itself.
"I have never seen such an assault in terms of stuff being sent to us," said Pete Hammond, a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, which hosts the Critics Choice Awards, and a columnist for the Hollywood blog Deadline.com.
Hammond is one of several voters for the earlier awards where wins translate into momentum for Oscar hopefuls. They say their mailboxes were swamped with swag this year — all of it an attempt to reach the 5,800 academy members who vote on the Oscars, albeit through indirect means.
From the campaign of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," members of the broadcast critics group say they received no less than four coffee table books, an intricately framed DVD for review purposes and even a hand-signed letter from Spielberg himself, thanking them for recognizing the film with so many nominations. Some awards voters also received "Lincoln" turkey roasting pans, according to an industry insider who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The broadcast critics also received an iPod Shuffle, which retails for $49, containing the soundtrack to Universal Pictures' "Les Miserables," which is up for music and sound mixing awards.
Several voters said this level of giveaway was unusual, but then again, in recent times, well-funded major studios haven't been that involved.
In the last two years, the movie industry's top honor went to The Weinstein Co.'s "The Artist" and "The King's Speech." Previous to that, 2009's winner was "The Hurt Locker," whose backer Summit Entertainment was just starting to get its "Twilight" mojo and was yet to be flush with cash.
Before that it was Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" and before that "No Country for Old Men" by Paramount Vantage — both smaller arms of major studios that have smaller marketing budgets than their larger siblings.
This year, the majors are back in the game in a big way. In addition to Warner's "Argo" and Disney's "Lincoln," Sony Pictures is behind "Zero Dark Thirty," 20th Century Fox is backing "Life of Pi" and Universal is the force behind "Les Miserables."
While The Weinstein Co.'s "Silver Linings Playbook" is earning boffo business above $100 million in ticket sales following co-chairman Harvey Weinstein's familiar script of making the most of awards season, it appears that this year, the majors have studied up.
"Nobody ever did it besides Harvey, and now everybody's done it this year," said David Poland of MovieCityNews.com, which means more intense campaigning because there's more money to spend.
One look at the release pattern of "Zero Dark Thirty" and it's clear that Sony didn't want to repeat what happened to "The Hurt Locker," another Kathryn Bigelow-directed war film that despite its best picture win, made just $19 million in theaters worldwide. Part of the problem with "Hurt" was that it came out in June and was all but gone from theaters by the time the Oscar nominations rolled around.
Instead, "ZDT" showed in just a handful of theaters in December to qualify for the 2012 Oscars, but burst onto 3,000 theaters the day after the nominations in January, capturing the top spot at the box office that weekend.
"We designed our release campaign to take advantage of key dates in the awards season," said Sony Pictures spokesman Steve Elzer. "With approximately $90 million in box office to date, the film has been a huge critical and commercial success and no matter how we do at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday, we couldn't be more pleased with the film's performance."
Starting small and then going wide after the nominations is the "Playbook" that The Weinstein Co. has followed for years, although company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein denies the pattern.
"There is no playbook, there is no campaigning," Weinstein said. "I have always said the most important thing is to get people to see the films and everything else is mostly fluff."
Even films at the tail end of their box-office run are pumping up the volume. "Argo," which came out in October, was heavily advertised by Warner Bros. ahead of the DVD release this Tuesday. The studio began selling digital downloads two weeks ahead of that. Fox followed a similar strategy for "Life of Pi."
"Because these films are so strong, all the companies are buying (ads)," said Michael Parker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, whose film "Amour" is also up for best picture.
Critic Anne Thompson of Indiewire said this year's extravagance is due to the fact that big studios have high hopes for their films. Amid her swag pile are "Wreck-It Ralph" plastic fists, a toy bow and arrow from "Brave," and a printed page of the John Williams score from "Lincoln."
"The factors here are a) the studios involved and b) big hit movies that had extra money," she said. "And the fact you have a close race between two big studio movies. They have reason to believe they have a chance to win."


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Guests who visit participating MOOYAH locations across the country from April 30 to May 27 and show 'how they MOOYAH' will be given a free scratch card (no purchase necessary) for the chance to win MOOYAH gift cards, food, drinks and more; every card is worth something.
"'HowDoYa MOOYAH' showcases the many ways our guests are in control of their burger experience," says Alexis Barnett, director of marketing for MOOYAH. "We recognize everyone enjoys MOOYAH in many different ways, so by celebrating our guests' power of choice, we stay true to our mission."
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It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Ivan Vargas of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, a real-life superhero. He'll soon soar into Beaumont and wants Southeast Texans to come out to the show to learn how they too can become superheroes and to watch the fearless feats of circus performers who astound and amaze Children of All Ages in the newest Greatest Show on Earth, Super Circus Heroes.
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It would be inappropriate in a correspondence course format to explore
the use of cardio-active remedies in practice. As dramatically effective as they are, the key to safe and successful usage is skilled diagnosis and interpretation. Without this skill (unteachable in this format) these plants are potentially extremely poisonous. The non-cardioactive approach described here will prove effective in a number of situations:
Cardio-actives will be the core for the treatment of such problems butare best prescribed by skilled diagnosticians who can follow
the changes brought about in the heart & its functioning.
Cardiac Tonics will aid any allopathically prescribed cardiacglycosides.
Peripheral Vaso-dilators may be indicated and will help generalized circulation in the face of the heart disease.
Hypotensives are often appropriate because of associated hypertension.
Diuretics ease the water retention problems. Cardio-actives diuretics
are often used. Replacement of flushed out potassium is essential.
Nervines will ease the stress component, either causal or a result of the heart disease.
System support
As this all too common malady is usually a result of degenerative processes, it may be accompanied by any of the plethora of conditions that may manifest the aging process. Tonic support is called for the CV and respiratory systems,
but beyond that the specifics will depend upon the individual concerned.
Specific Remedies
As the primary cardio-actives are often out of the range of what can be safely used by the herbalist can do in practice, we shall not used Lily of the Valley or its equivalents in this suggested prescription. Our aim is to either strengthen the heart muscle or support the work of all opathically prescribed cardiac glycosides.
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General Motors is the biggest of the Big Three, the ponderous American auto makers who have traditionally dominated the North American market.
GM's bankruptcy has given greater impetus to this downsizing, calling for closing another 14 factories and 2,400 dealerships, eliminating 29,000 jobs, and canceling nearly $80 billion in debt.[1] But GM's survival cannot be assured by cost cuts and capital infusion forever. GM hopes that a few new hit products will raise profits, and is refocusing on crossover-utility vehicles (CUVs) and sedans. Product reviews have been positive so far. Still, it will be challenging for GM's new models to capture attention when all of the Big 3 are using the same strategy and introducing their own new lineups.
In addition to its primary business targeting individual consumers, GM also sells commercially and in fleets, including stripped-down models to rental car companies. Recent reductions in the latter have succeeded in somewhat bolstering GM's profit per car sold.
GM's cars are sold under a number of different brands and marque. As grouped by primary region of distribution:
Whereas GM management traditionally believed that selling cars under a large number of brands and marques helped increase market share, this thinking has been undermined by recent experience. Despite the billions of dollars of development costs for each new vehicle, new designs under brands such as Buick, Saab, Pontiac, or Saturn rarely attract buyers from other car producers. The best example of this is the Saturn marque, which has been unprofitable for every year of its 20 year existence. Along similar lines, GM offers many low volume models; as more than 25 of GM's 60 models sell less than 3,000 vehicles per month.[2] These models are usually unprofitable due to high production and engineering costs per vehicle resulting from the small volume of production. Nevertheless, GM continues building many of these unpopular cars because GM dealers still profit from them, and their discontinuation would put further strain on GM's already struggling sales network.[3]
More substantially GM continues to reduce production of trucks by closing several factories and offer a number of redesigned smaller cars such as the Malibu, Aveo (the Aveo has a 1.4 liter engine which is the smallest GM has ever sold in the US),[4] and Cruze.[5] Similarly, GM has recently entered the CUV or cross-over market. These are vehicles which though appearing quite similar to trucks, are built like cars (i.e. tighter suspension, lower to the ground), allowing them to handle like a car. This is more attractive to consumers who use their vehicles to commute frequently. Also, and perhaps more importantly, CUV's are much more fuel efficient than regular SUVs. These smaller vehicles offered by GM have been well received by both auto-critics and consumers, nevertheless competition remains fierce as all major automakers seek to downsize their fleets with innovative new products. Also, a massive readjustment of product offerings is not cheap, developing new cars is notoriously expensive as is discontinuing outdated models.
Combined with recent media attention to environmental problems, the consistently high price of gasoline has pushed many consumers toward fuel efficient cars.Unlike, Toyota Motor (TM), Honda Motor Company (HMC), and Volkswagen (VLKAY), GM is far behind in fuel efficient technology, suggesting that the new bill will increase GM's productions costs as the firm plays catch-up. At the same time, GM may have been wise in putting off investments in alternative fuel cars, thereby allowing other companies to bear the expense of determining which technologies were in fact feasible.
GM has a somewhat tarnished image in fuel efficiency, with its recent electric car controversy and its extensive line of fuel-guzzling SUVs and trucks. However, recent investment in flex-fuel technology and CUVs may pay off for GM as it starts to market a new product lineup to restart profitability and replace tired models. GM hopes to successfully reinvent itself to ride the wave of fuel efficiency.
While GM's overseas industry had traditionally been considered a spot of hope, due to GM Europe's consistent profitability and the company's leading position in the burgeoning Chinese auto market. About 65% of GM's sales are outside the United States.[6] GM's sales continue to grow rapidly in eastern Europe, but more slowly in Western Europe due to the economic slowdown there. GM is slightly stronger in Latin America and Australia, and its acquisition of South Korean automaker Daewoo puts it in a strong position for all of Asia, where the well-established automaker also manufactures and designs for export.
GM's greatest overseas hope is China, where it leads all automakers in sales and is poised to take advantage of a booming automobile market.The Rise of China's Middle Class and trends of increasing luxury consumption combine to promise a lucrative stronghold for GM in China, where brands like Buick are well-regarded and in high demand. GM is also pursuing joint ventures and export manufacturing possibilities in China.
GM's operations in India, where it has an annual production capacity of 215,000 cars per year, are slated for expansion despite the company's problems in North America. Currently, the company operates two manufacturing facilities in Gujarat, India. GM India funds its expansion through money accrued from the Indian operations, which remain profitable. GM India projects sales growth of around 10%, even as the total India car market is supposed to increase only 2%.[7]
Emerging markets provide a good opportunity to continue producing "legacy" products from Europe and the United States and thereby stretch additional revenue from vehicles now obsolete in wealthier markets.
Following rescue bailouts of $52 billion and C$4 billion from the United States and Canada, respectively, GM became a puppet company to government interests. With government officials such as pay tsar Kenneth Feinberg slashing executive compensation, for the first time in GM history, the company became essentially run as a state-owned enterprise (SOE). This resulted into an unprecedented change in GM's corporate governance structure. But unlike conventional state-owned enterprises, GM was controlled by capitalist countries, not socialist developing countries with a centralized dictatorship. As such, the complex nature of GM's true ownership and incentives became blurred.
In addition, Ed Whitacre was appointed CEO by the Obama administration. It is only natural that after investing over $53 billion in GM, the government wants a CEO who will defend its interests.[8] Thus, the advantage of having Whitacre, a seasoned executive who during his time at Southwestern Bell dealt extensively with the government (regulatory changes of the telecoms), is that the US government will be able to once again swiftly implement its decisions and make sure that the company is running in the direction that the US Government sees fit. In times of considerable systemic risk and a difficult corporate environment, it helps to be able to implement decisions quickly, in a semi-dictatorial manner. Nonetheless, this comes at the expense of corporate democracy.
Financing the acquisition of new vehicles through loans or leasing is ubiquitous throughout the world auto market, but especially in GM's most important market: the United States, where 90% of car purchases involve loans or leasing (compared to about 2/3 in Europe).[9] This is especially true for GM, which has used financing incentives such as interest-free loans, rebates, and 'employee pricing' to stave off falling car sales. Such incentives were made possible by low interest rates and a frothy real estate market allowed individuals to easily use a home equity part loan to pay for an automobile- nearly 30% of California car buyers borrowed against the value of their home to purchase a new car. As credit has become scarce and real estate values have collapsed, GM has become less able to offset falling sales with easy money.
For GM leasing is the least profitable form of financing as the company often has to offer incentives to the leasee and again when selling the vehicle after the lease.[10] As GM tries to reign in incentive spending, it has stopped financing leases altogether in Canada and plans to reduce leasing by 50% in the US.[11]
Due to GM's global presence and diversity of products, the company competes in one way or another with every mass auto producer. As explained above, GM's non-U.S. operations are managed with considerable independence from Detroit, often developing their own cars, funding investment from in country profits, and negotiating for subsidies or bailouts with host country governments.
Yet the biggest threat is still from foreign companies. The influx of foreign cars into the US market has had huge ramifications for the Big Three. The UAW's old method of keeping the Big Three in check, by demanding steep concessions whenever a clear leader seemed to emerge, worked both to placate workers and to maintain balance in the US auto industry. However, foreign companies now account for more than half of the US auto market. Now, UAW demands do no more than put Big Three companies at a direct and pronounced disadvantage.
Foreign companies like Toyota and Nissan are poised to dominate the mainstream, small- to medium-sized car market with their flexibility, cheaper prices, and (in Toyota's case), early investments in fuel efficiency. Cars like the highly successful Toyota Prius are a big challenge for GM's own Saturn hybrids. GM will also have to fight these newcomers in what remains of its highly lucrative gasoline-based SUV/trucks sector.


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Nature of Things Lecture featuring
Louise Leakey
Koobi Fora Research Project, Kenya
Location: The Rio Tinto Center, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City
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The question of human origins touches the deepest roots of our curiosity. Over six decades and three generations, the Leakey family has been piecing together the puzzle of our earliest history in Africa. Join Louise Leakey, the youngest of the Leakey fossil hunters, for an exploration of the human journey over the past four million years.
Dr. Leakey will describe several pivotal discoveries that shape our understanding of our complex family tree, including three new fossils announced by her team in 2012 indicating two additional species of our genus –Homo – lived alongside our direct ancestors almost two million years ago. Looking ahead, she will examine the questions paleoanthropologists still hope to answer and how new technology might assist them in finding answers more quickly.
Louise Leakey continues the Leakey family legacy in the field of paleoanthropology through ongoing research in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya. She co-directs the Koobi Fora Research Project with her mother, Dr. Meave Leakey. Her research focuses on the period between 2 and 1.5 million years ago when the hominid fossil record shows considerable diversity in species and morphology. As an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Stony Brook in New York, Dr. Leakey is helping to develop a major center for human origins research that will include field programs for students. Dr. Leakey is a Ph.D. graduate of London University, where her research focused on the influence of climate change 3.5 to 1.5 million years ago in the fossil deposits of the Turkana Basin.
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- Due to the KCPW 88.3 FM live radio broadcast, the event will begin sharply at 7:00 p.m. Those not admitted to the event by 7:00 pm will need to leave the building, whether they have a reservation or not.
- The Museum will close to the public at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 21. Museum patrons, with or without Nature of Things lecture reservations, will not be able to wait for the evening event inside the building. Everyone will be asked to leave the building so that set-up can occur.
- Dr. Leakey's presentation, Secrets in the Sands: Revelations into how we became human, will be broadcast live on KCPW 88.3 FM.


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Iñárritu Comedy Birdman Adds Edward Norton
He joins Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis.
Birdman, the impressively starry film
about Cash Money Records CEO Bryan "Birdman" Williams about Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis all being in a movie together, has brought Edward Norton aboard. He'll play a bigheaded actor toplining a theatrical production based on a famous superhero role Keaton's movie star character pioneered. The dark comedy will come from Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Biutiful).


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To All Players,
Trench Wars Staff is excited to get your constructive thoughts, responses, and feedback to regarding the potential implementation of a new public arena, a project that will hopefully have positive zone-wide effects. At your convenience, please take the time to read through the proposed changes and comment on any and all of the issues, problems, and benefits that you see coming from this plan. Please know that while this initial idea and a lot of the substance of it comes from me, it has been run through upper staff and they are interested in the community response to this idea.
For the public arena in SSCU Trench Wars, we have truly hit a point of stagnation. Furthermore, we have hit a point of stagnation in the zone itself. The addition of dueling into the public arena has brought a new, diverse angle to the arena, keeping competitive players in the arena and not dispersing the dwindling population to multiple sub-arenas, which may further an appearance of low population, low activity, and low interest. Unfortunately, our population has hit a point of rock bottom and now, we are forced to explore the possibility of integrating further sub-arenas into the public arena in order to keep population together and hopefully foster the inclusion of new or pub-focused players into the more competitive aspects of the zone.
Similar to the addition of dueling into the public arena, we are proposing the inclusion of a ?go base game and basing mini-game that can be played in the public arena, but outside of the normal pub map. It has been too long that ?go base and TWBD have been virtually dead. We simply cannot support ?go base being a separate arena with the population in its current state. It is true that ?go base does run sometimes, but its only during peak populations and the games are often sporadic.
This full size, normal basing game will be a virtual replica of a regular ?go base game, with teams ranging from 6 to 8, and a 10 minute time-race. 5v5, which is allowed in the current ?go base, could either be included in the normal base game, or the mini-base style game, it would be something the community would have to discuss. My feeling is that 5v5 is too small and too few of people to maintain interest and activity.
The basing mini-game will be a mini version of a ?go base game, with teams ranging from 3 to 5. There will need to be a new miniature map developed for this, as the classic base map is too large for a mini-game. This could also be a 10 minute time race, though we could also explore lowering the time to five minutes, or even making it a point race of some sort, which would be a welcome change from the usual.
The public arena needs to be transformed to be THE only place to be, outside of playing TWD or other leagues. There is little to no reason not to also clone the javduel and wbduel maps and place them in the public arena as well. We can also include a 2v2 option for javduel and wbduel, so that when population is low, there is still a chance to get 4 players together for a quick match.
This will give us the highest participation. It will LOOK like Trench Wars is thriving, because it will be. Imagine having a pub game going on where LTs are being hunted because of their high kill streaks, while at the same time, a few competitive javs have a 3v3 javduel going on in the javduel map, which is also placed into a spot in the public arena. Population increases as the day goes on and we see a mini base game start in the new mini-base map. A few warbirds come online and start a 3v3 wbduel in the public arena. This will LOOK and FEEL like a zone that is alive, thriving, and competitive. THIS is what we want new players to see when they login to the zone. THIS is what we need players from the Steam launches to see, so that we can adequately hook these new players and assimilate them as habitual players.
There are times when the public arena has nearly 60 people in it in the middle of a weekday. Largely, people are in spectator mode. Call it what you will -- competitive veterans are not interested in playing pub, people are AFK, people are bored, etc. Whatever the reason, the bottom line is that we have people online, but they arent playing. Theres only so long that people can sit idle in pub before being moved to the AFK arena, so we know they are around and at their computer, but they arent playing.
Therefore, bringing in more sub-games as part of the public arena will assist in getting those players out of spec and into the game. Furthermore, it will introduce new players or habitual pub-only players to a different, more competitive aspect of the zone, which will hopefully translate to higher participation levels in TWD, TWDT, and TWL.
The bottom line is that we have a true divide between two cultures in this zone: the pub and the competitive. There is not enough being done to bridge the gap. When the population was 600 players on any given day, both cultures could survive and thrive on their own. With our current population, we must bridge the gap and find ways to integrate both cultures into one.
If all goes well and according to plan, we can end this constant struggle of players being in spec, not interested, not playing, and logging off because of the lack of activity. We are far too dispersed right now. We have 3 players trying to make elim work, while theres 5 players trying to fight to get a sixth to start javduel, while pub has uneven teams due to players getting frustrated and leaving. ?go base is not even played much at all anymore, and when it does, pub suffers at a historic rate, simply because of the lack of people in the arena.
We need the public arena to be the zone. At this point, with our population, scattering ourselves over several arenas and none of them being particularly successful is only adding to the death of this zone, and the dead of this game. League games (TWD, TWDT, TWL) should be the ONLY reason that someone should be outside of public arena, except for events, of course. The public arena should be the one-stop arena for non-competitive traditional pubbing, LTing, competitive basing and mini-basing, wbduel. Javduel, and dueling. The wide-array of options will re-invigorate players and GET THEM OUT OF SPEC, AND INTO THE GAME.
Here are some of the key limitations and barriers that we see to this system being successful. We are sure that there are more problems and issues that we havent yet forseen, and are asking for your help on identifying those problems. Also, please give your thoughts and ideas on how we can work through these already identified limitations in order to make this work properrly.
1. Bot Coding: this is going to be a tremendous undertaking for the bot developers. It will take a lot of time, effort, and energy to implement a program like this. Furthermore, bug fixes will take time and we will need the cooperation and understanding of the community in order to get it right.
2. Arena Messages: this is an interesting issue. As it is now, the public arena has a lot going on in green arena messages, what with the pub system running the pub-basing, dueling, in addition to other sporadic messages. So how do we integrate three or four other sub-games into the pub arena without making it a huge overload and extremely confusing? The most obvious idea Ive come up with is to tag each message at the beginning in order to identify which sub-game the message is pertaining to. It would look like this: [DUEL] too fresh challenges anyone to Javelin duel for 50000. [BASE] Freq 1 defeats Freq 0, 10:00 - 8:15. It could still become quite a bit, even with the tags. Another idea to help supplement this would be to add commands to allow players to ignore messages from certain sub-games that they are not interested in, including the pub-basing spam for those of you who never play it and dont care about it.
3. Mapping: dropping current base, wbduel, javduel maps inside the existing pub arena is not a tough thing to do, but if mini-basing should come to fruition, we will need a map created for it. Not a huge deal, but Id be lying if I said I had any sort of ability to create a map.
As stated before, we have not fully vetted all the possible issues with this system. We are hoping to hear feedback from all of you in order to fully determine the feasibility and probability of success of a program such as this.
This is a fairly drastic change to the zone as we know it. All of the games that youre used to seeing and being able to play will still be available, but will be integrated into the public arena. Think of it just as the current duel situation is in pub, but we will be adding base, mini-base, wbduel, and javduel. This should foster more activity in pub and these sub-games and the hope is that we can assimilate more new and/or pub-only players into these more competitive aspects of the zone so that we can help our leagues flourish and grow, rather than flounder.
This is not a simple undertaking. It will require a great deal of bot coding, map making, and support from staff and players to make this get off the ground and work properly. It will take a ton of man hours for the bot coding alone, but our programmers are willing to undertake such a project in order to help the zone if there is enough public interest in giving this a real chance.
Finally, dont be afraid of change. If you have serious issues with this idea, we would love to hear them. Dont simply oppose it because its different than what we are currently doing. What we have and what we are doing right now isnt working, and I think we can all agree on that. Lets discuss and have an open dialogue about this proposal and determine if this is a direction the zone should go in order to halt the stagnation and setbacks that we are currently facing.


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Dec 04, 2013. Version 1.1.0 update is released and available for download.
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A landmark settlement concluding long-standing San Joaquin River litigation has been approved by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence K. Karlton. During a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in Sacramento recently, Karlton granted the motion for approval and called the settlement, which details a host of historic San Joaquin River restoration and water management activities as well as third party protections and needed federal legislation, "a remarkable success."
On Sept. 13, the Friant Water Users Authority and its member districts joined the Natural Resources Defense Council and its fellow plaintiffs, and the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce in announcing they had filed an agreement settling litigation initiated by the NRDC coalition in 1988. In recent years, the litigation had focused on San Joaquin River and salmon fishery restoration issues between Friant Dam and the Merced River. Judge Karlton's actions today are a major step toward restoring and maintaining healthy salmon populations in the San Joaquin River and water supply assurances to all of the Friant Division long-term water contractors along the southern San Joaquin Valley's East Side.
"It was quite clear the case should be settled," Judge Karlton said. The court's order accepts the settlement fully and orders all obligations set forth in the stipulation of settlement be performed.
Judge Karlton characterized objections made by two downstream third parties as objections to compliance with the law and made clear he did not agree with those arguments. He also stated, "My hat is off to all the lawyers that you could settle this case."
"The judge has done his job," said Friant Water Users Authority Chairman Kole M. Upton. "Now it is time for Congress to do its job and approve the legislation needed to give the Interior Department and Bureau of Reclamation the authorization needed to move ahead with the primary goals of settlement — restoration and water management. And it is time for all of us do our job in implementing this settlement in the interests of our southern San Joaquin Valley constituents."
Ronald D. Jacobsma, Friant Water Users Authority Consulting General Manager, said Judge Karton's approval "is one of the final critical steps needed for implementation. We believe Congress will understand that this is a fully approved settlement that now needs congressional action to provide authorization and funding to support the implementation process." The legislation will be put before Congress for action in November following agreement Sept. 27 on legislative provisions that will further protect downstream third parties and address most of their concerns.
Two third-party groups declined to support the revised legislation. They include landowners opposing restoration of a 22-mile reach of old San Joaquin River channel northeast of Los Banos (known as Reach 4B) that has not carried flows since about 1958 and the Lower San Joaquin Levee District, which opposed use of the East Side Bypass flood channel for fish flows. Only the levee district opposed the approval of the settlement.
Jacobsma noted that the state of California has pledged to provide funding, support and other resources as part of its strong support for the settlement. Possible funding vehicles include Propositions 84 and 1-E on the Nov. 7 ballot.
The settlement resolves the dispute over operation of Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River northeast of Fresno and resolves longstanding legal claims brought by a coalition of conservation and fishing groups led by NRDC. It provides for substantial river channel improvements and sufficient water flow to sustain a salmon fishery upstream from the confluence of the Merced River tributary while providing water supply certainty to Friant Division water contractors.
In the 1800s, Central California's San Joaquin River supported large salmon populations, including the southernmost Chinook salmon population in North America. Since then, water diversions for agricultural development in the San Joaquin Valley, including Friant Dam and other projects, have resulted in the drying up of the San Joaquin River between Friant and the mouth of the Merced River.
Approximately 60 miles of the river have been dried up in most years, eliminating salmon above the river's confluence with the Merced River. Friant Dam became fully operational in the late 1940s. Under the settlement, a series of projects will be undertaken to improve the river channel in order to restore and maintain healthy salmon populations. Flow restoration is to be coordinated with these channel improvements, with spring and fall run Chinook salmon populations reintroduced in approximately six years. At the same time, the Settlement limits water supply impacts to Friant Division long-term water contractors by providing for new water management measures that are to be undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Interior Department agency that administers the Central Valley Project.
The Settling Parties believe that commitments under the agreement and the cooperative approach toward restoration provide an historic opportunity to restore the San Joaquin River in a manner broadly acceptable to water contractors who have been operating under a cloud of uncertainty regarding their water supply due to pending litigation for the past 18 years.


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The House of Delegates met at the usual hour.
Prayer by Rev. S. R. Brockunier.
A communication from the Senate announced that the Senate had receded from their amendment to the House bill No. 3, to authorize the issue of bank notes of less denomination than five dollars. Also, that the Senate had passed Senate bill No. 1; entitled an act staying the collection of certain debts until the 1st day of January, 1863; and Senate bill No. 2, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first section of chapter 150 of the Code.
The bill No. 1 was read a first and second time.
FONTAIN SMITH offered a substitute, which was ordered to be laid on the table and printed.
Bill No. 2 was read and referred to the Committee on Courts of Justice.
A message from the Senate reported that that body concurs with the House in their resolution to proceed on Tuesday next to the election of Brigadier General.
Mr. HOOTON from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported back the report committed to them, which was read and laid on the table.
A message from the Senate announced the passage of House bill No. 8, without amendment.
Mr. WILSON offered the following as a substitute for the resolution offered by him at an early stage of the session, authorizing the Treasurer to demand certain amounts of money from the Federal Government.
Resolved, by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, or such other person as the Governor may appoint, by letter of authority under the lesser seal of the Commonwealth, be authorized and directed, to demand and receive at the Treasury of the United States, so much of the net proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands as shall have accrued and become payable to this Commonwealth, under the terms and provisions of the act of the Congress of the United States entitled, "an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands and to grant pre- emption rights;" approved 4th day of September, 1841.
The resolution was laid on the table and ordered to be printed, and made the order of the day for to- morrow at ten o'clock.
Mr. SMITH presented the credentials of Greenbury Slack, from the county of Kanawha, which were referred to the appropriate Committee.
Bills on their first reading were taken up.
House bill No. 10, to regulate (by diminishing) the salaries of the Cashier and other officers of the branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia, at Weston, was taken up and read a second time.
Mr. ARNOLD advocated the passage of the bill.
Messrs. Hooton, West and Logan opposed it.
Mr. HOOTON moved to indefinitely postpone.
The Chair said the question was only on the engrossment.
The question was taken and the bill ordered to its engrossment.
Engrossed bills were taken up.
The House bill altering the compensation of public printer and printer to the Senate was read a third time and passed.
The Clerk read a despatch from Grafton, announcing that Gen. Garnett had been killed the day before, (Sunday,) in regular battle.
Mr. PORTER was appointed to notify the Senate of the passage of the bill.
Mr. LOGAN presented a memorial from the School Commissioners of the City of Wheeling, asking for a division of the city into four, instead of six districts.
Mr. LOGAN moved its reference to a special committee. Adopted.
Committee - Messrs. Logan, Ruffner, Zinn, Farnsworth, Wetzel, Porter and Miner.
The House then adjourned.
In the Senate, Mr. Stewart reported a bill from the Committee on Courts of Justice and General Laws, re-arranging the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Judicial Circuits in the 9th and 10th Judicial Districts.
House bill No. 8, amending 33d section of chapter 44 of the code, was passed.
House bill No. 6, prescribing the duties and fixing the compensation of the clerks of the Senate and House, was read a second time and ordered to its third reading; also, House bill No. 7, abolishing the present Board of Public Works.
House bill No. 3, authorizing the issue of small notes, was passed, with an amendment providing that the circulation of them shall not exceed ten per cent on the capital of the banks issuing them, and that the aggregate circulation allowed by law shall not be exceeded.
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Just because the show's over, doesn't mean we're off the hook for stories about The Bachelor. The tabloid-ready combination of Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson are still deemed interesting enough to produce news. Please don't blame me if you're sick of them! Blame their publicists.
First up is the rumor that Courtney might be pregnant. This isn't new, there were reports floating around that she was pregnant about a month ago. An insider says, "Courtney has been hinting to people that work on the show that she's pregnant!" They go on with some specific hints, "She's been emotional and complaining of an upset stomach a lot. Whenever anyone offers her a drink she refuses, which isn't like her at all!"
No alcohol and feeling sick sounds a bit pregnant to me. The source says Ben is also acting differently, and that his friends say he's "freaking out about something." They're at least self-aware enough to know that they should not have a kid together, especially since they broke up just a few months ago. "Ben and Courtney have already had so many issues, they're really not sure if they're even going to stay together. It would really be a terrible time to be having a child."
Even if a child is not in the cards, Ben and Courtney do seem to be giving their relationship a genuine shot. US Magazine reports Courtney was spotted moving in to Ben's apartment in San Francisco, which he naturally shares with two roommates. Apparently, they do plan on getting their own place. A friend of the couple says, "They want to get settled in as soon as possible."
Courtney's even been walking Ben's dog around the neighborhood and the couple was seen watching college football together a few weekends ago, looking "like an old married couple." Courtney has since stated that she has yet to move in with Ben.
The duo also took a vacation to Puerto Vallarta last week to, maybe, do some skinny dipping and reignite their romance. Who is paying for this? ABC? Someone is awfully invested in keeping these two together, no? Anyway, in Puerto Vallarta onlookers reported to Life & Style that "When they kissed, it seemed forced." and "For an engaged couple, they weren't so lovey-dovey." The onlooker added, "Ben seemed a bit distracted on the trip."
An insider says this may be the last try the couple gets to repair their relationship: "This was a make-or-break vacation for them. They wanted to spend time together and see whether this whole thing can work."
Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson on vacation in Mexico!