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Activision has just released a brand new Behind-the-Scenes trailer for Black Ops 2. This trailer features the theme music composer ?Trent Reznor?, and co-writer ?David S. Goyer? discussing the development of Black Ops 2.
To create a game like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Treyarch assembled some of the greatest talents in the world. David S. Goyer (co-writer of The Dark Knight Rises), Trent Reznor (Academy Award-winning composer of The Social Network), join Studio Head, Mark Lamia and the game?s Director, Dave Anthony, to discuss the relationship between movies, music and games, as well as the creative process behind Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Behind the scenes of Black Ops II with?NFL superstar Dwight Freeney?!
Wanna see what it?s like inside Treyarch? Let a Super Bowl champion take you there! G4 sent unabashed Call of Duty fan Dwight Freeney to Treyarch (again) to investigate the current status of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and here?s what he found:
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Activision and EA are each set to unleash brand new gameplay trailers for both Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Medal of Honor: Warfighter this Saturday, May 19th, during the UEFA Champions League Final.
CVG uncovered this image revealing the impending release of another Black Ops II trailer this Saturday.
It?s unclear, however, what exactly will be unveiled in this trailer. Could we see more of the same? Maybe some multiplayer or zombie footage? Though highly unlikely, we can always hope.As for Medal of Honor, AskMen have a sneak peak of the brand new Warfighter gameplay trailer which you can check out here. It seems to similar footage found in the first gameplay trailer, but hopefully we?ll see something new this Saturday.
What are you hoping to see in the Black Ops II and Warfighter trailers this Saturday?
Now that the big reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops II is complete, I got a chance to talk with Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia about horses, failing missions, branching storylines, and Vahn's secret past. We even tackled that fan-favorite "what engine is this game using" question. We talk for a good 40 minutes, so it's worth hearing. And it's a thrill to be able to post this show due to the nasty tech problems we endured, but Kat and Hugh do appear as well, to discuss MW3 PC DLC, Bond villains, MW3 PS3 DLC, Jack Black, MW3 360 DLC, The Avengers, Prototype 2 DLC, Skylanders updates, Family Guy, and a Spidey preorder perk that Hugh actually likes. Plus, a monster truck rally breaks out at a dance concert.
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Treyarch?s Black Ops II marks the series? first move into the future, but it also raises questions about the ongoing relationship between Activision and Infinity Ward. Over two years ago, details regarding the lawsuit began to appear publicly. One such detail stated that Call of Duty titles set after Vietnam would be exclusive to Infinity Ward. We recently obtained some court documents (which you can see below), and it appears that this clause was indeed included in Infinity Ward?s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
As you can see in the MOU excerpt above, Infinity Ward had the rights to all Call of Duty games set in ?modern day (post-Vietnam), the near future, or distant future.? With Black Ops II?s 2025 setting, it?s clear that Treyarch went with the near future setting anyway.
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The next Call of Duty, highly likely to be Black Ops 2 from Treyarch, will debut on Tuesday, May 1, Activision's confirmed.
That's according to the redesigned CallofDuty.com, which promises a "world reveal" during the North American basketball playoffs on TV channel TNT.
Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has previously said of this year's Call of Duty: "This year we expect to further expand our presence with the launch of an all-new epic first-person shooter title under the Call of Duty brand. From what we've seen to date, the game already looks fantastic and will bring meaningful innovations to the franchise."
It's looking more and more like this year's Call of Duty is going to be a sequel to 2010's Black Ops.
A retail source forwarded the following image from a poster received today.
It's been widely speculated that this year's Call of Duty game will be a sequel to Black Ops, which was developed by Treyarch.
Also, the framing narrative for 2010's Black Ops was a debriefing where elements of a massive secret conspiracy were revealed so the text on the poster could be referencing that.
Also, the date on the poster is most likely a reveal date and not a release date. Call of Duty games typically come out later in the year to take advantage of the busy holiday shopping season.
In February, a French video games site found themselves banned?and then unbanned?from Activision events after reporting that a Black Ops sequel would arrive in 2012 after an Amazon leak earlier this year. That overreaction led many to think that the information in the leak was right on the money.
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The capsules appear so enticing, filled with the promise of thrills, joy, human enlightenment. So what exactly is inside? The dark truth behind today's drug du jour, molly.
The mystery powder in the clear capsule cost $10, a dead giveaway it wasn't the substance the dope peddler was claiming it was. Nobody sells the real deal for that price. Examining it under the light, one could see yellowish rice-shaped crystals shifting around inside the half-filled capsule. It didn't even look like the genuine article.
"How many do you want?" asked Fernando, a stubby drug dealer with chubby hamster cheeks and a neatly trimmed goatee.
"Just one. Are you sure this is real?"
"Don't worry, this shit is fire," he said.
On a drug-fogged night in late August, I found myself surrounded by a young crowd at a party in South Beach. While New Order's "Blue Monday" played in the background, I was trying to ignore the loud conversation going on around me so I could focus on my mission: the hunt for the magic molecule called molly—the supposedly purer, allegedly more potent crystalline form of a drug that used to be called ecstasy (or MDMA). Just as methamphetamine was nicknamed "tina" to appeal to a more upmarket crowd, molly is simply ecstasy rebranded with a cute girl's name, the better to sell it to a new generation. Contrary to what many users believe, molly is not a new drug (night crawlers were snorting powdered MDMA as far back as the early 1980s), and the form the drug takes (pills, powder, capsules) has little bearing on its purity, as I was about to find out.
Not that I intended to consume the product. The last time I took what I was told was pure MDMA, the active ingredient in molly, it turned out to be methamphetamine, and I spent an uncomfortable New Year's Eve grinding my teeth and twitching like Captain Jack Sparrow. What I intended to do was gather samples and test them with an over-the-counter drug-screening kit to see what was really being sold as molly in the pills-and-powder circus that is Miami Beach's club scene.
The chance to analyze the unknown substance came a few hours later, at an afterparty at a friend's apartment in a high-rise on Washington Avenue. "Hey, guys, wanna see something cool?" said my wife, Lera. "I got Fernando's molly and I'm going to test it right now to see what's in it. He said this shit is fire."
Lera pulled out a silver packet containing a multidrug screening test, a plastic panel the size of a credit card that is commonly used to test urine samples for illegal chemicals but has been repurposed by drug connoisseurs to test the contents of molly. The best way to gauge what's in a drug, of course, is to mail it to a professional laboratory for a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis and then wait for the results. But some of the chemicals turning up in molly these days are so exotic, even the most state-of-the-art facility can fail to detect all of them. At least with a portable screening kit you can find out straightaway if the drug you've bought contains any MDMA (though not the amount or its purity). You can also test for other common drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and oxycodone.
Lera walked into the kitchen, where she opened the molly capsule and poured the crystals onto a plate. We could tell by its odor, like that of contaminated water, that this wasn't MDMA. Pure molly is generally odorless or smells of aniseed, the result of the sassafras oil used to make the product. Judging by the distinctive stench emanating from the powder, it was most likely some form of synthetic cathinone, the family of chemicals that includes mephedrone and methylone, which are better known to the general public as bath salts.
Lera put about half the contents of the capsule into a coffee cup, poured in water and waited for the crystals to dissolve as her friends looked over her shoulder. She then tore open the silver package and placed the drug-testing kit in the solution. About a minute later, two pink lines appeared on the cocaine section of the panel, then two lines for marijuana and two lines for opiates. It was negative for all three. A single unmistakable line started to appear under methamphetamine, followed by another distinct line under MDMA.
"That's what I thought," said Lera. "You see, it came out positive for methamphetamine and MDMA, which is what bath salts will come out as on these tests."
We concluded the substance was probably mostly synthetic cathinones. Dimitri, who had deejayed the party a few hours earlier, offered his verdict: "We took a bunch of Fernando's mollies the other day and they didn't have any effect on us. It's not like it used to be back in the day. I can't believe he's selling us this shit."
Over the past two years molly has become the drug of choice for a new generation. Why molly now? Why all the fuss about a drug that under different names has been a dance club staple for three decades?
There's certainly no shortage of references to the drug on the electronic dance music scene. One of the most popular dance hits of the past year is Miami-based DJ Cedric Gervais's "Molly," which features the robotic voice of a woman blankly intoning, "Hi, I am looking for Molly. Do you know where I can find Molly? She makes my life happier. More exciting. She makes me want to dance." From Kanye West to Trinidad James to Rick Ross, molly is portrayed as the happening drug for the hip-hop crowd. Ross had to apologize for his seeming advocacy of molly as a date-rape drug in the song "U.O.E.N.O": "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it./I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it." (The controversy surrounding the lyric was enough for Reebok to cancel an endorsement deal worth millions with the hip-hop impresario.)
Molly has become so mainstream that even a pop tart like Miley Cyrus feels comfortable singing about "dancing with molly" on her song "We Can't Stop," though the drug references were bleeped out during her performance at the Video Music Awards. And what would a pop trend be without a guest appearance by the queen of pop? Madonna jumped on the molly bandwagon last year when she named her 12th studio album MDNA and asked the crowd at 2012's Ultra Music Festival in Miami, "How many people in this crowd have seen molly?" In the wake of the performance, progressive house music DJ Deadmau5 publicly criticized the aging diva for glamorizing drug use.
The molly phenomenon is also a marketing gimmick—drug dealers rebranding a product that had gotten a bad reputation because it was so heavily cut with other substances. According to the hype, molly is for the cool kids, the discerning consumers who don't mind paying a premium to ensure quality, whereas ecstasy pills are for "e-tards," the dance-floor proletariat who turned MDMA from a hippie tool for inner exploration into another excuse to get trashed on a Saturday night.
Fancying themselves smart drug users who pride themselves on knowing where to get the real stuff, many molly consumers seem blissfully unaware that drug dealers routinely substitute synthetic cathinones (bath salts) for MDMA, not only because they're easier to procure but also because they're a lot cheaper. A gram of mephedrone or methylone, both cathinones, wholesales for the equivalent of about $3 or $4 and can be bought online from factories in China that churn it out by the metric ton. A gram of pure molly can retail for as much as $120, which reflects not just the demand for this sought-after chemical but also the difficulty of procuring the precursor ingredients—most commonly safrole and PMK—that manufacturers need to make the drug.
According to the Miami Police Department, methylone and mephedrone, along with another synthetic cathinone called 4-MEC, account for the vast bulk of the molly seized by narcotics cops in the area. A DEA spokesperson told me that in the first six months of 2013, the DEA's Miami field office seized 106 consignments of molly, which contained 43 different substances, 19 of them so obscure even government chemists couldn't identify them. So much for purity.
"Molly is absolutely a marketing gimmick," says Missi Wooldridge, a spokesperson for DanceSafe, the harm-reduction organization that tries to educate young consumers about the risks of disco poly-pharmacy. "I think the average molly consumer has no idea what they're putting into their bodies. The drug scene is so saturated with research chemicals that people not only cut their pills and powders with them but will also often sell straight-up research chemicals as molly. People think they're getting real MDMA."
Or maybe there's something more profound underpinning this molly craze, something to do with the drug's much vaunted ability to break down social barriers when taken in communal settings.
"This generation has grown up with crystal meth as a chemical bête noire, whereas MDMA is seen as basically benign," says Mike Power, author of Drugs 2.0, a compelling account of how the internet has revolutionized the global drug trade. "Molly has become hugely popular right now because it is in many ways the perfect drug for the times. We've never been so networked yet so disconnected. The overwhelming rush of an MDMA experience is as close as many of us will ever come to connecting with another person."
The story of MDMA began unremarkably in 1912 when a little-known German chemist named Anton Köllisch first synthesized the substance while working to produce a blood-clotting agent for the pharmaceutical giant Merck. He was trying to get around a patent for a similar drug owned by Merck's archrival, Bayer, when he stumbled upon MDMA, which was initially called methylsafrylamin. Four years later, he went to his grave with no idea that what he had discovered would affect generations of beat-crazy kids to come. The formula for MDMA, a precursor to a potentially lifesaving medicine that never got made, lay buried in the archives at Merck's Darmstadt headquarters for decades, until the U.S. military briefly experimented with MDMA in the 1950s as a possible truth serum.
The first time MDMA turned up on law enforcement's radar was in 1970, when Chicago police confiscated a batch of pills that contained the then unknown chemical. By 1976 the chemist Alexander Shulgin had resynthesized the drug and dosed himself at the suggestion of a former student who had tipped him off about its potential psychoactive effect on humans. Shulgin introduced MDMA to a psychologist friend named Leo Zeff, who in turn introduced it to other psychologists, who in the next few years prescribed about half a million doses. They called it adam, as in being "reborn anew," because that's how it made patients feel. Psychologists and psychotherapists reported remarkable improvements in the emotional well-being of their patients who had taken the drug. It did for them in a few hours what a year's worth of conventional therapy couldn't. Some mental health professionals claimed MDMA was particularly useful for couples going through marital problems.
The first mass-scale production of MDMA for recreational use in the United States came courtesy of the so-called Boston Group, a small contingent of chemists who were tenured professors at MIT and Harvard and who were colleagues of LSD guru Timothy Leary. The Boston Group decided they wanted to conduct a social experiment. First at Studio 54, then later at the legendary Paradise Garage, handpicked distributors in the New York area sold the drug as a healthier alternative to cocaine. Then they reported back to the Boston Group about the positive effects the drug was having on the dance floor. One of those distributors was David. Sitting in his Miami Beach apartment today, David is in his early 70s and still deejays, though he makes his real living running a small real estate company. Age hasn't dulled his vivid memories of the life-changing effects the first wave of recreational ecstasy use had on clubgoers at the time.
"What happened was that these professors up in Boston, who had been using it for therapy for a long time, decided it would be a good idea for the world if MDMA became a social drug instead of cocaine and heroin and all the other bad drugs," remembers David. "It was a relatively small circle of people on the club scene who were doing ecstasy back then, mainly artistic types. A lot of people wouldn't try it because they were scared of it. They didn't want to let their walls down, especially the straight boys, because the rumor was out that taking ecstasy would turn you gay."
But those straight boys who tried the Boston Group's product in the 1980s—myself included—were amazed at the drug's wondrous therapy. MDMA works by flooding the brain with serotonin (which modulates mood and intensifies perception) and dopa-mine (which speeds up metabolism and creates exhilaration), a combination that lights up the senses like a Christmas tree. It wasn't long before the Boston Group began hearing from users who told them ecstasy had saved their lives. "They saw that it was really great for people and relationships," says David. "After a while, people were telling them, 'Thank you so much, because I was doing all this cocaine and I was getting addicted. Once the ecstasy came along, I could do that and feel great and I wasn't craving the next day.'"
I stopped doing MDMA in 1990 around the same time the Boston Group closed shop. "Somebody drove out the chemists making ecstasy," says David. "They told me that some very dangerous people were threatening them. They had two days to get out of the country. They didn't use the word mafia, but that's the impression I got. They packed their bags and all moved to Belgium." Not coincidently, over the next decade Belgium became a major center for ecstasy production.
A number of factors had informed my decision to quit MDMA. First was the encroachment of thuggish drug dealers with organized-crime connections who weren't shy about robbing and kidnapping rival dealers to secure their market share. I dubbed these people "ecstasy bandits" when I wrote about them for Details magazine in 1998. A thug who controlled the ecstasy trade at one of New York's biggest nightclubs in the 1990s is now a respectable businessman who enjoys a round of golf at his local country club. Today he is genuinely regretful about his past behavior.
He recently told me, "When I started dealing, it was hard pills. I haven't done powdered MDMA. They were yellow and had these dark specks around them. They smelled and tasted horrible but were very powerful. Then these white capsules were introduced. They were gigantic. They were an inch long. And the big complaint was that you were doped out and you didn't know what the fuck you were doing. And then you got speedy and were up for eight hours with the jitters. I was seeing the decline in the purity. You could see the effect on the dance floor. People weren't in the zone anymore. The mood got a lot darker. That was around 1993. By that time I was already planning on getting out of the game."
Heavily adulterated ecstasy tablets, often containing little or no MDMA, swamped nightclubs and raves in the 1990s. Particularly bad was the appearance of a dangerous stimulant called PMA that was sometimes substituted for MDMA in the tablets. The drug site Erowid estimates that 20 people died as a direct result of these tainted pills from 2000 to 2001.
But it was more than declining purity that soured me and other early adopters on MDMA. Even when I could get hold of the real deal, an increasingly rare commodity, the drug wasn't having the same effect anymore. The initial flood of positive feelings had faded. The law of diminishing returns that affects everybody who does ecstasy for any period of time kicked in.
MDMA advocate Rick Doblin, whose organization, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has spearheaded a quarter-century-long campaign to rehabilitate MDMA as a valuable therapeutic tool, says this is a common experience.
"There's a buildup factor with MDMA," says Doblin. "If people do it a lot over a long period of time, they stop feeling the effect. They don't get high. It's as if the molecule has a built-in protection mechanism for the user. That's why you rarely see people getting addicted to this drug like you do with cocaine and methamphetamine."
Howard is a Miami-based doctor, bodybuilder and dealer of the latest exotic research chemicals. He pulled up to my apartment in his vintage Chevy. He'd come to test some molly. After Fernando's drugs turned out to be rubbish, I managed to secure another capsule, this one red and costing 20 bucks. The word on the street was this was the bomb. Experienced drug users swore it was among the best MDMA they'd ever taken.
"Yeah, right," Howard said, rolling his eyeballs. "When I sell people mephedrone for the first time, I tell them it's not MDMA. It's an analog, and if they don't like it, they can have their money back. And they still come back the next day and say, 'That's the best molly I ever had.' Most people can't tell the difference."
Howard examined the sample. He said, "You bought this in Miami Beach? I haven't seen real MDMA in Miami in years. It could be sugar in a capsule." He emptied the contents of the capsule onto a dinner plate. It sure didn't look like sugar. The jagged crystals—like shards of broken glass—were immediately familiar, though the slightly off-white powder surrounding the crystals could have been anything.
"That looks like crystal meth," I said.
"It could be," Howard responded. "But bath salts come in crystals too, though they're differently shaped." He pulled a bag of mephedrone out of his trouser pocket to make a visual comparison.
For the second molly test, Howard was using a 12-panel drug-screening kit that detects twice as many substances as the kit my wife used to test the first sample, including barbiturates and the former animal anesthetic PCP. Howard put about half the contents of the capsule into a cup of water and then dunked the panel. We waited for the test kit to absorb the solution.
"I expect it to be positive for methamphetamine based on the way it looks," he said, "and maybe have a little MDMA in it. Sometimes they put 10 percent of MDMA in to fool people into thinking it's molly. Remember, methamphetamine is cheaper than MDMA."
A minute passed and Howard looked at the test. "Yep, it's exactly what I thought," he said. "So it's negative for opiates, cocaine, PCP, barbiturates and oxycodone. Some people throw some opiates in to mellow out the mix. This is positive for methamphetamine and MDMA."
The overwhelming bulk of the capsule, Howard concluded, was clearly meth.
"You won't believe what they put in molly," he said. "Sometimes pain pills, blood pressure pills, caffeine, aspirin, all in a big capsule."
My wife and I continued the hunt for pure molly. It was becoming obvious we would have to venture beyond south Florida. While there is some domestic molly production, most of the MDMA consumed in the United States comes from drug gangs in Canada. The amount of MDMA seized at the Canadian border increased ninefold from 2003 to 2007.
We decided New York would be a better choice. One of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in America was about to take place in the city. Tens of thousands of fans, many of them hungry for molly, were set to descend on Randall's Island for a three-day concert called Electric Zoo, featuring some of the best-known DJs in the world. If we couldn't find pure molly there, we weren't going to find it anywhere.
By 11 in the morning on Saturday, August 31, the second day of Electric Zoo, the crowds were already lining up to get into the stadium, a dumpy venue on a lump of land in the middle of the polluted East River. Security was tight. Bags were checked not once but twice. Altoids tins and cigarette packets drew extra scrutiny. IDs were scanned to make sure they weren't forgeries. The pat-downs were practically indecent.
As the crowd waited patiently to get into the concert, staffers handed out pamphlets with the following warning: "Electric Zoo strongly advocates against the use of drugs. Avoiding drug use is the only way to completely avoid drug-related risks. You don't need drugs anyway when world-class music is swirling all around you."
There was a reason for all the paranoia. The previous night, 23-year-old Jeffrey Russ had collapsed at Electric Zoo. He later died at Harlem Hospital Center. The cause of death had yet to be established, but police suspected Russ had taken what he believed to be molly. The victim, a beefy guy who had recently graduated from Syracuse University, traveled to the festival with his fraternity brothers and fell ill as the last sets of the day wrapped up. Russ's death was the first fatality that weekend. But it wouldn't be the last.
As the day progressed, the signs of drug use increased. Glow sticks and drug wrappers littered the field. Three friends who appeared to be in their early 20s sat down at a picnic table. One with pasty skin and a blond goatee briefly scanned his surroundings before taking from his backpack a ziplock bag that contained capsules filled with white powder. He took a capsule out, split it and poured the contents into his water bottle. He shook the bottle vigorously and took a sip. He winced and gagged. "This tastes like ass," he said. "But I'll be tripping in no time."
Nearby, close to the entrance to the show, a young Asian man was lying facedown on the grass, humping the ground. He turned his head to one side and vomited. By this point Electric Zoo's staffers were spraying the crowd with water hoses. Overheating is a major risk factor for molly users.
Around 8:45 in the evening, tragedy struck again. Olivia Rotondo, a 20-year-old University of New Hampshire student, fell ill and was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital Center, where she died shortly after arriving. According to the New York Post, the young woman told a medic before she collapsed that she had taken six hits of molly. Just hours before her death, Rotondo reportedly tweeted, "The amount of traveling I've done today is unreal. Just get me to the damn zoo."
Citing "serious health risks" to concertgoers, the organizers and the city decided to cancel the final day of Electric Zoo. The event's Facebook page was flooded with angry customers complaining about the cancellation. Typical was this comment: "Honestly, I do not even feel for the people who died. This is fucking stupid. I paid so much money to go to this fucking festival. Just cuz a couple people are fucking dumb you ruin it for 10s of thousands! Fuck you Zoo!"
Eleven days later, the medical examiner released the toxicology report. Russ died after taking the synthetic cathinone methylone combined with MDMA. Surprisingly, Rotondo died after consuming pure MDMA. Hyperthermia played a role in both deaths. Cathinones and MDMA cause the body's temperature to rise and can lead to organ failure, as was the case here.
Unlike raves in the past, large-scale festivals such as Electric Zoo, Ultra Music Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival refuse to allow organizations such as Dance-Safe to test molly on-site because organizers fear they will be accused of condoning drug use. Maybe if they had, Jeffrey Russ would be alive today.
As it turned out, the drug dealer we'd arranged to purchase molly from didn't show up at Electric Zoo, because he couldn't get hold of his supply in time. We caught up with him the next evening. The guy has been dealing in New York since the days of the notorious Limelight nightclub and had a good reputation for selling quality product. He assured my wife this was some of the best molly money could buy.
We were hopeful we'd finally found the genuine article. But the contents of this capsule were shocking. It tested positive for cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and some form of opiate. That's three stimulants piled on top of one another with what was probably an oxycodone chaser. If that's what is in molly in New York, no wonder kids are dropping dead.
A friend consumed that molly and reported back the next day: "Well, it worked. Just not in the way molly is supposed to work. There was some molly there, but it felt like tripping on heroin."
Despite the two fatalities at Electric Zoo, the big electronic music festival will probably go on next year. Mayor Michael Bloomberg strongly defended the organizers and said they had done everything in their power to protect the concertgoers. At this festival and others, the search for real molly will continue unabated. People will always hunt for that high and take chances to find it. As Drugs 2.0 author Mike Power says, "Unity, euphoria and sex will never go out of style."
The names of the drug dealers and most of the users in this story have been changed to protect their identities.
This article was originally published in the November 2013 issue of Playboy. Check out more from the issue at playboy.com/magazine.
Photos by Satoshi (Opening image); AP Images (Ross); Getty Images (Studio 54); Jeff Vesel/Marin Independent Journal (MDMA pills); Facebook (Rotondo)


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This time of year, most fourth-year New College students spend their nights and much of their days feverishly working on their thesis projects, the culmination of their academic careers.
But every Tuesday night you'll find Matt Klinkel in front of a classroom in North Sarasota, teaching English as a second language. Matt has a gift for languages – he's near-fluent in both Chinese and Spanish, proficient in French and has a smattering of three Eastern European languages – and shares that talent in the Sarasota community.
Last year, he volunteered with the Sarasota County Literacy Council, which teaches adults how to read. Sometimes the group pairs volunteers with someone born and raised here, but who dropped out of school.
Other times – and more and more in Florida – they work with people learning English as a second language. Matt was paired with a pastor from Venezuela. "Not only did I teach him, but he invited me to his church and I got to meet his wife and family. It was a great experience," he said.
So at the start of his fourth year – with the thesis project in language acquisition looming – he worked with the literacy council to have its volunteer certification classes taught on the New College campus. Thirty-three students took the class, and about 20 worked as literacy teachers this year.
Matt worked with Sarasota's Children First center, which as part of its Head Start program offers a class in English for parents seeking to learn the language.
He and fellow student Yadira Lopez spend 90 minutes on Tuesdays nights, teaching them practical English – from basic vocabulary to skills like resume writing and conversational essentials, like how to interview for a job and how to speak with a teacher about their children. Matt loves teaching, but just as much enjoys being part of his students' lives.
They often discuss their struggles with visas, their efforts to attain citizenship, their work, their families. "It's been really rewarding for me to get to know them," he said.
Matt and Yadira make a good team: He's skilled in breaking down and explaining grammar and usage, and Yadira, a native Spanish speaker of Cuban ancestry, knows the complexities of grasping and using a second language. "It's almost like going back home, in a way," she says.
Jack Baker, manager of Children First, said the adult learners have been delighted with the two students. "It's their down-to-earth and personable approach," he said. "They are hugely accessible — and they really speak the language."
The students have made good progress this year, but that's almost not the point, Matt notes. Many Spanish-speaking adults are afraid of speaking English in public. The class gives them a place to practice the language in public, with support, and builds their confidence to continue it at home and in their daily life. "They'll be able to improve more outside of class," he said.
Their last class with the group comes two days before graduation: "That worked out perfectly," Matt said. He's already been admitted to graduate programs in language acquisition and speech-language pathology, but plans to teach English in China next year, possibly on a Fulbright scholarship, before pursuing further studies.
Yadira will study abroad in the fall, but hopes to pick up the literacy program when she returns. Baker said he will be glad to have her and other New College students back: "We know that volunteers like Matt and Yadira bring a higher level of service to our families."


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When you meet a triple-amputee riding up Boulder Canyon two hours into your first day of Ride The Rockies, your on-bike challenges feel smaller.
Tim Brown, the 30-year-old former Marine, is pushing himself across Ride The Rockies' six-day, 471-mile route with his left arm and his right shoulder. Regarding the Boulder Canyon climb, "Hills are actually my strong point," Brown said. "I'm so light weight."
(Joe Murphy, The Denver Post)
His steed is a custom bike that took nine months to put together. Brown, who lives in Rockville, Maryland, started bicycling February 2012. Brown was injured ("blown up," he said) on his third deployment in Afghanistan, in February 2011.
He picked up bicycling as a means of exercise. Swimming wasn't an option, he said.
"It's tough, but it's a great way to deal with stress," Brown said. That's not to mention the physical benefits: "You get in shape, and chicks like you more when you're in shape."
He's with two other riders on this trip, all Ride The Rockies first-timers.
Fast forward to day three, a ride looping to the west of Steamboat Springs. It's the shortest day yet of the ride at 54 miles and 3,831′ of elevation gain.
Here are photos from today's seven-hour ride.
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Following the publication of our recent research into the behaviour of gold both intraday and overnight, Benzinga Radio very kindly gave us the opportunity to discuss this phenomena via an exclusive interview with Sam Kirtley, which we hope that you find both interesting and informative.
Sam Kirtley first presented the short intraday / long overnight gold trade that has yielded astounding returns since 2001 in two articles: one posted in August 2010 and the other earlier this month . We spoke with him to get further insight on the trade and the new fund that SK Options Trading has in the works.
In 2010 you first presented the idea of an overnight gold fund, citing your calculations that a $100 million hedge fund, starting in 2001 and going long gold on the PM to AM fix and short on the AM to PM fix, would be worth 2.6 billion dollars today. Talk to us about how you discovered this trade and what you have found out.
To listen to this interview please click here.
A partial transcript of the interview follows below:
Sam Kirtley: The idea was spawned by a fair bit of noise about possible manipulation (and if not manipulation than at least discrepancies) in the way that gold trades in London and then in Asia. We sort of took these discrepancies to the next step; obviously as a trading operation we're always looking to profit from things like this, so we looked at how we could design a trading strategy to profit on the back of it.
Given the pattern in which gold trades, large corrections tend to be concentrated within the London period between 10:30 and 3pm when those AM-PM fixes are made. During the Asia session and later in the US session, gold quite often tends to tick up. There were various hypotheses around that, but we were mainly concerned with how it is playing out in a practical sense.
You have a different perspective as you are in the Asia market region - the PM to AM fix, as opposed to your readers who are in the AM to PM fix.
Sam Kirtley: Absolutely. Most of our client base is in the US. I suppose it does give you a different perspective, being out here in New Zealand; the 24-hour trading environment is imposed on you because things are happening through the middle of the night in the US which you have to be aware of. And so you start to take note of how patterns change from various sectors when gold is traded in various areas of the world.
There's an organization called GATA that has been putting forward for a long time that there is a bit of subtle manipulation going on. I'm not sure if we fully got along with it but there have been cases that have been settled - one by Moore Capital last year on "banging the close," which involves accumulating a position during the day and dumping it at the end of the day in order to manipulate a fix. Moore Capital had to settle that for $25 million, so that's evidence that there is some manipulation. [But] as I said, we are more concerned with the practical implications.
How has this trade changed as the gold trading environment has evolved over the last year?
Sam Kirtley: What really has startled us - and we were astounded by the returns in August 2010 - is that not only has the discrepancy increased, but it's arguably increasing. As you mentioned a $100 million fund starting in 2001 doing the strategy would be worth 2.6 billion [2010]. Well if that fund had continued on for the last year and a half or so, it would now be worth $5.2 billion. So that's an increase of 143% in just over a year, which is quite startling really.
Initially, we thought if you are somebody trading gold at home and you don't want to hold a position overnight and you've just been long gold during the day in the UK, you would have lost money over 10 years. How could that be possible in an asset that has gone up 500%? That was when the alarm bells started ringing - the trigger for the investigation.
In terms of the rate of return, the annualized rate was about 37% a year from 2001. Now, the annualized rate is about 43%, which is quite an increase from just an extra year and a half of data. We would have thought if anything, [the rate] would dissipate as gold becomes more actively traded and the trading is increasing in the Asian regions with the Shanghai exchange, but apparently not - apparently the discrepancy continues to persist and persist more vigorously.
If you zoom in on the chart and look at that period over the summer where gold really rocketed upward, did that drive a lot of those increasing returns?
Sam Kirtley: If you look at the first six months of 2011, our short-intraday long-overnight index slightly outperformed gold. During the rally that we had from July through August it kept paced with gold - it matched it in terms of returns. But the stellar point of the strategy is when gold had that vicious correction, this is when the fund really started to take off. Indexing from 100 at the beginning of 2011, we were up to 140 when gold was picking up. But when gold dropped back to being up about 20% on the year, the long overnight gold index was up something like 70% year-to-date. So when gold corrected, investors using this strategy would have sheltered and actually profited quite handsomely from it.
[This is] because you are short gold during a period - the middle of the London session and the first part of the New York trading session - when a lot of the damage was done. That, to us, is something that stands out as a really good part of the strategy: it not only works when gold is flying high but when it corrects severely as well.
You would think something like this would be mitigated through arbitrage quickly, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Sam Kirtley: I'm not sure why it hasn't happened. I think part of it is because gold is still a relatively tiny market in terms of the financial market as a whole, so maybe people aren't looking at it as much. And these returns are fantastic, but we most point out they are not including expenses - obviously you are going to have to cross a spread each day. But even crossing a spread each day, it's still an increase of 1700% since 2001. As I said, it's not something that works in theory but not in practice. Even if you put the practicalities in, it's still quite startling.
I wouldn't say it's a substitute for investors that might be long gold for various reasons. It's a compliment to a trading strategy. Even if one doesn't have any interest in gold as an investment, it could be an added traded strategy or something to chuck into a portfolio to add some alpha and a bit of diversity.
Are you thinking about setting up a fund to trade this strategy?
Sam Kirtley: Yes. We've had a great amount of interest in the fund. Initially, we were looking at going the hedge fund route, but there's been such a significant interest from the retail side that we are probably going to go with another vehicle.
How would you achieve exposure in the fund?
Sam Kirtley: Two ways we are looking at going about it. One is the simple, obvious route of switching the fund's exposure by futures twice a day, trying to target wherever gold happens to fix.
The other is setting up a tailored swap agreement with a major financial institution which would give us long exposure during the overnight session and short exposure during the day.
With the swap agreement, you have the sort of counterparty risk that might deter people from investing in the fund, especially if a lot of the people interested in the gold space are perhaps concerned about the financial well being of the system and might not want to take that on.
Have you looked for this trade in other assets?
Sam Kirtley: We did a bit of an investigation into silver, which had reasonable results - but not as convincing as gold. I think the key when you are looking at these asset classes is that you need something that is the same wherever it is traded.
So, the commodity space is something that comes up as an obvious target. When you look at some other commodity products, like oil, one has to bear in mind that there is more than one type of oil, depending on where it is traded in the world.
Gold is exactly the same wherever it is traded. So, that is the standout candidate. We are looking at back testing this strategy going back to the late 1970s to see how it performs in a bear market as well.
Do you have any thoughts as to why this opportunity might be present?
Sam Kirtley: I don't think there is anything as clear cut as what happened in April with Moore Capital. One bit of interest was late last year when the Swiss National Bank pegged the franc to the euro at a 1.20 managed float. We were quite startled because just before the announcement, there was a $50 smash in the gold markets.
Five minutes later, there was the announcement that the SNB was going to peg. We were a bit perplexed because you had a take down of $50 in the gold market just 5 minutes prior to what we would consider a bullish announcement for gold.
If the Swiss franc, which had been a very safe haven, was now pegged to the euro at 1.20, you just eliminated one potential safe havens - the US dollar, yen, and gold - but we got the takedown.
We're trying not to get hung up on the hypotheses that have been put forward and just focusing on refining this as a trading strategy. We could speculate all day on the reasons for it, but I don't think we are going to find a really definitive explanation.
We would like to thank the team at Benzinga Radio for giving us the opportunity to discuss our research with them and hope that it has been of some use to you, the reader, in terms of formulating your own investment strategy.
Regarding www.skoptionstrading.com. We are off to a good start with our three positions showing profits of 62%, 26% and 2% yesterday, moving higher today to show profits of 67%, 30% and 6% respectively. These are only paper profits as we have yet to close these trades, but they heading in the right direction.
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One more post before I start drinking Super Colon Blow
This will be my only post in a couple days probably, as tomorrow I get to undergo my first-ever colonoscopy (insert your snide joke here).
As part of this wonderful procedure, I get to swig approximately 412 glasses of a turbo laxative called Colite which is supposed to…well, never mind.
If anybody wants to know what this procedure is like – you know, the actual thing where they…well, never mind – then let's have a vote. All in favor of having me detail what this is like, say aye. Those opposed say no.
I can't eat anything for the next 36 hours, which is why I think I set a personal record for most calories consumed last night (actually, I don't think I'll ever outdo my teenage years, which included eating two large, supreme pizzas in one sitting once).
I'm a little young for this procedure, but astute readers of this blog might remember when I got a little sick during the first round of the playoffs and needed to go to a clinic in Minnesota for some care. Well, they recommended I get this done, and so here goes.
They say you usually get knocked out for this, and so I'm definitely going to insist that's the case here.
Anyway, I'm going to retreat into the bowels of my bookcase until then and try to read anything that can take my mind off this. (Sorry, had to get one joke in).
Until then, a couple of hockey things:
– The NHL schedule will be released next Thursday, the 17th. A lot of you have asked.
– There is still no word about Joe Sakic. Believe me, I've been trying to get the scoop on what he'll do, but even people very close to him say they don't know what he's decided yet.
– I wouldn't be shocked to see Nikolai Khabibulin become an Av at some point. No, probably not before the season. But come trade deadline time – if Huet is playing well in Chicago and Peter Budaj isn't here – I think it will be an easy call that the Avs would be among the highest bidders for his services.
OK, well take care kids. And for all those who are snickering at me having to get this thing done: your time is coming too, pal.


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I think Leni's vase is English (Stourbridge, for want of a more precise attribution). The "odd" thing to me is that the feet are really nice but the rigaree and the "Continental" style of flat, sliced-off rim seem to be slightly out of keeping. As a pure guess, I'd suggest Boulton & Mills.
Enough similarity to assume same maker ? I would say yes but have limited experience of this period and style.How are they identified by 1st Glass ?
So what happened to the neck? :? How about this for a theory: The neck was originally like the ones in the 1st Glass pictures, and it was cut off to remove some sort of damage! :shock: Does this seem a likely explanation to anybody else? Leni
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The formal practice of what is now commonly referred to as "public relations" dates to the early 20th century. In the relatively brief period leading up to today, public relations has been defined in many different ways, the definition often evolving alongside public relations' changing roles and technological advances.
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Stopped here this afternoon on a whim. Quaint tasting room on Silverado trail. It was unsually quiet in the wine country around noon and we had the undivided attention of the pourer who was also the wine maker, Jim McMahon. He was a really nice guy and talked at length about the wines and his style of winemaking. If Jim's style of winemaking is where the current trend in Napa is headed, it bodes well for the valley and serious wine lovers everywhere. They are restrained yet approachable, extremely food friendly yet had ample fruit to show their Rutherford origin (the Pinot Noir was sourced from the Sonoma Coast and the Chardonnay I believe is from Carneros)
The 2010 Pinot Noir was floral, delicate on the nose but had heft on the palate, forest floor, strawberries
2011 Chardonnay was citrusy, light on the oak and just the right touch of butteriness
2008 Cabernet Franc- herbal, spice, red fruits. It was my favorite wine and extremely food friendly
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon-black currant, cherry, earthy wine.
2008 Rutherford Red was a blend of Cab Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Malbec-their flagship wine. The bottle has newly opened and it could have easily benefitted with some air. Opened up very nicely in the glass.
2009 Simpatico is a Cabernet Franc and a Cabernet Sauvignon blend- a very approachable and easy drinking red.
I was quite impressed by this place and will certainly stop again the next time I am on the Silverado Trail.


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There are only two ways to watch the original Top Gear in America: Download it illegally or wait about 17 years for it to air on BBC America.
Here's a tidbit for those of you that don't like to download things: Top Gear will start airing Season 19 on BBC America on February 4th.
That sounds ambitious. Hope it isn't rubbish.
Jeremy, James, and Richard return to the BBC on Sunday, January 27th, so the delay from UK to USA will be just one week. Compared to years past, this is almost a simultaneous release.
Get ready for season 19 of our second favorite motoring show (you know what our favorite is) by finding out what's in each episode and checking out the latest trailer.
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Displacement: 45 cubic inches (750cc)
Brakes: Expanding shoe front and rear
Transmission: 4-speed shaft drive
Owner: Bill Doyle
When the U.S. War Department asked American motorcycle manufacturers to come up with military machines for World War II, Harley and Indian answered the call.
At first, both companies produced models with V-twin engines derived from their existing streetbike lines. But the War Department also asked for experimental designs to use for desert fighting in North Africa.
Harley opted to copy the design of BMW's R71—which was being used by the German Army in that hostile environment—building a flat-twin boxer motor.
Indian took a slightly different route, creating the Model 841. The motor is a 750cc V-twin, which makes it sound like an American-style powerplant, except that the cylinders are turned sideways and set at 90 degrees. It's an engine configuration that we now associate with Moto Guzzi—but Indian built it first.
The 841 also came with several other new features, including shaft drive, a foot shift, hand clutch, hydraulic girder spring fork, rubber-mounted handlebars, a sprung rear hub and 8-inch drum brakes, all of which made it onto postwar Chiefs.
E. Paul duPont, who controlled Indian, had so much faith in the 841 design that he got one for his own use. He rode it around the country, stopping to show dealers and friends, and had grand plans for turning the military 841 into a civilian tourer.
But none of that was to be.
Although Indian built more than 1,000 examples of the bike and put it through extensive testing in the desert of California, the military never adopted the machine for wartime use. The same was true of Harley's BMW-like XA. Instead, the primary motorcycle used by American forces was the 750cc V-twin Harley WLA, augmented by Indian's 500cc V-twin 741 and the 750cc 640B, basically a military version of the Sport Scout.
By the end of the war, even those motorcycles were being phased out as the army turned to Jeeps.
This rare 841, owned by Billy Doyle of Waterford, Michigan, was previously on display in the AMA's Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum in Pickerington, Ohio.


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"Nanotechnology," observes Colin Quinn at the start of his whip-smart Broadway solo show, "can stop a global plague. But we still need guards at the zoo."
As the Wednesday night audience at the Broadway Playhouse was first trying to follow that remark, then slowly registering its truth, and finally chuckling over the delicious absurdity of the disconnect, Quinn was already articulating the thesis of his "Long Story Short."
You can't change human nature. Or, as he puts in another way, "if you can't share a hospital room, how are you going to share the Middle East?"
Years ago as the Weekend Update anchor on the less frenetic "Saturday Night Live," Quinn revealed a rather prescient talent for taking some major global event, or state of geopolitical affairs, and boiling it down to its essence through some unlikely but brilliantly revealing metaphor. With the help of his longtime pal, and now director, Jerry Seinfeld, Quinn has extended that gift into an entire show (a Broadway hit last season and also seen on HBO) that attempts to tell the history of the world in about 80 minutes. Current events have provided Quinn with helpful bookends. He starts his monologue with ancient Greece, the Golden Age of philosophy, drama and human sophistication, and ends with broke Greece trying to catch a bailout ride from someone, anyone, and wondering how on earth it all went so terribly wrong. In just 2,500 years.
It is a cautionary tale, Quinn suggests, for America, the "food court of the fallen empires," which he suggests is starting to look a little bit too much like that famous mug shot of Nick Nolte's haggard face.
If you despair of dumb TV and stand-up comedy — defendings of cavemen and the like — and typically look across the Atlantic to the likes of Eddie Izzard or Ricky Gervais for your preferred humor, then the Brooklyn-born Quinn will surely satisfy. He doesn't free-associate and improvise like Izzard nor outrage or tear down like Gervais. He doesn't pause for laughs or even fully articulate what he's saying in his thick Brooklyn accent — which has the fascinating effect of creating rolling responses as different people figure out different elements of different things at different times. But his apparent lack of comfort works. And when you combine the erudition and incision of this material with Seinfeld's carefully structured and fast-paced staging, you get a very stimulating show that proves once again that when you refuse to pander or dumb things down, a whole lot of smart folks come out of the woodwork. (Why is it only solo artists and writers seem to ever get the power to follow through with that?)
Quinn has stuff on Marx and Engels: Given that Marxism is about equality and that the pair worked on the theory together, isn't there a bit of an issue with the name? And he wonders whether the complete inability of the world's economic leaders to predict the recent economic meltdown had anything to do with their propensity to hold their economic forums in Davos, Switzerland, a Platonic spot that metastasizes into the delegates' reality. "Hold it in Haiti once in a while," he suggests.
Along with an observation that the difference between a fascist dictatorship and a mature democracy means merely a choice of two potential leaders instead of one, that Davos line is Quinn at his best. Long after you've finished enjoying the joke, the essential truth of the deconstruction still noodles around in your brain. It feels like the jester has assailed the one thing that the lords and ladies missed and, ever since only Shakespeare's Fool could tell the whole truth to his King, that has been a pleasure to behold in the theater. Quinn surely isn't the first comic to use this kind of structure, but it's hard to think of another who has nailed such a succession of self-evident geopolitical absurdities with such consistency of logic and freshness of image.
To some extent, the sauntering through the detritus of superpower history is a good excuse to indulge in some ethnic humor at the expense of angry Arabs, snotty British, femme French, creepily dull Canadians, crime-loving Italians. But while the roots of that mockery are always familiar — Quinn does a delicious take on Caesar as proto-Mafiosa, suggests that the British empire was built purely on the power of contempt and uses the rapidity of service in Chinese restaurants as an indicator of the rapid rise of that soon-to-be-great nation — the jokes still land remarkably well, probably because they are not just rooted in sedentary stereotype, but rather in the truth that great human civilizations always collapse. Sooner or later.
In Quinn's hugely enjoyable geographic historiography, an ideal fit for the Broadway Playhouse, there's always a 3 a.m. bar fight somewhere. An overextended, hubristic superpower is always tottering around on its last legs, realizing all too late that the last six really big drinks were not necessarily the best idea, even as a third-world country ("like someone's little sister who grew up and got hot") might be ready first to catch their eye and then poke it out with a stick.
When: Through Sept. 10
Where: The Broadway Playhouse, 175 E. Chestnut St.
Tickets: $40-$65 at 800-775-2000 and broadwayinchicago.com


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Steve Dawson has been compared to T-Bone Burnett and Ry Cooder. Other comparisons might include Leo Kottke, Kelly Joe Phelps, Norman Blake or the late John Fahey.
But it makes more sense to acknowledge the former Vancouver-based, now Nashville-based, musical renaissance man as one of North America's best roots artists, bridging inspired songwriting, mastery of multiple stringed instruments and creative production.
Dawson wrote Rattlesnake Cage during the latter half of 2013, squeezed in between touring and working on albums for other artists. Self-produced, the 11 instrumental tracks were recorded at his Henhouse Studio.
Sitting alone in front of a vintage tube microphone, salvaged from a Detroit church, and armed with six- and 12-string acoustic, slide and National steel guitars, he produced music that transcends time and place, with nary an overdub or enhanced effect.
This is acoustic guitar music as pure and as intimate as it gets.


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Artist Julianna Furlong Williams of Spencerport died August 4, 2011 following a long illness.
A graduate of RIT and Tufts University, Williams taught painting and drawing for many years at SUNY Brockport and Monroe Community College. Following her retirement, she spent most of her time creating layered paintings that were repositories of both public and private history.
In 2010, Williams and her husband, Lawrence "Judd" Williams, were two of the six artists invited by the Memorial Art Gallery to participate in the 4th Rochester Biennial. For that show, she contributed a series of 20 works on paper, all evoking the reality of death carried by such invisible agents as cancer, AIDS and biological weapons. The inspiration, as she wrote in her artist statement, was an uncle's ledger from 1918, the year of a devastating influenza pandemic.


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Celtic progressed in the Scottish Cup after a 1-0 fourth-round replay win at Arbroath
Celtic will travel to Raith in the Scottish Cup fifth round after winning 1-0 at Arbroath in their fourth-round replay.
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Adam Matthews' first goal for Celtic proved just enough to send Neil Lennon's team through but their replay win also owed much to a controversial disallowed goal by Steven Doris.
Matthews fired a wonderful strike from 20 yards in the 19th minute but Celtic subsequently failed to take control at Gayfield.
And they were grateful for a 66th-minute decision by referee Craig Charleston, who presumably ruled out Doris's close-range finish for an earlier infringement on Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster, but a foul did not appear obvious.
Forster himself averted extra-time when he saved a one-on-one with Connor Birse as Celtic edged through to set up a trip to Raith Rovers.
Georgios Samaras got the first effort on target with a header from Lassad's cross but it was straight at home goalkeeper Scott Morrison.
Arbroath were the architects of their own downfall though when Matthews won the ball off left-back Colin Hamilton following a pass from Paul Sheerin. The Wales international burst away but still had plenty to do, and lashed a powerful strike that flew over Morrison's outstretched hands and into the far top corner.
Celtic appeared to take their foot off the gas in an attacking sense and Arbroath were able to push play away from their penalty box but some decent attacks all broke down on the edge of the Celtic box, and they failed to trouble Forster from several set-pieces.
The hosts had the first sniff of goal of the second half when Sheerin's free-kick caused problems but Stuart Malcolm was penalised for a high challenge on Forster, and harshly booked for going for a ball that was there to be won.
Paul Currie and Brown fired wide at either end and Celtic were soon stretched again before Emilio Izaguirre headed away under pressure following Sheerin's cross. Sheerin soon caused more problems with the corner that led to the contentious decision to chalk off a goal.
The Arbroath player-manager delivered the ball right into the heart of the goalmouth and Forster could not collect. Hamilton won the high ball and headed down towards goal with Doris forcing the ball home on the line.
But Charleston, who was standing on the edge of the box, signalled for a free-kick.
Kayal came close at the other end and Forster saved from Lee Sibanda. But there was another major escape when Birse won the ball in the middle of the Celtic half and took a return pass from Doris that sent him clean through.
But the substitute was quickly closed down by Forster, who got just enough of his diving body in the way of the shot to divert it wide.
Lennon was growing increasingly frustrated with his side's slack passing and Forster was soon scrambling again as Currie fired just wide from long-range.
And the visitors were grateful again for the sound of Charleston's whistle at the end of three minutes of injury-time.


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Follow these tips and suggestions this Fourth of July for an exciting holiday!
Having a get together with friends and family is always fun, and properly planning for it will make it even more enjoyable for you and your guests! Here are some tips to get the most out of planning for your party.
- Create a budget and stick to it! Budgets may seem like a drag, so to keep costs low think of how many people you're inviting, how crazy your decorations will be, and if your guests should bring a side and beverage.
- Pick a theme for your party! Come on, you can do better than just red, white, and blue napkins! See these party ideas on our Pinterest board to spark your creativity.
- Plan the meal in advance. This will help you keep on budget and give you time to figure out how much food you need to buy so you don't run out or have too much.
- For common entrees like burgers and hot dogs, the average adult eats a third of a pound burger and a hot dog while kids generally eat one hot-dog.
- For other references on meal planning for a party see these tips from AllRecipes.
- Having lots of people over? Consider buying pre-pattied hamburgers.
- Do your guests have any allergies?
Have A Game Plan:
The game plan is like your master schedule. If you master your game plan your party won't be as stressful, and you can have a great time enjoying the fourth with all your guests!
- When do invitations go out?
- When is your big grocery field trip?
- When are decorations put up?
- What will be on your music playlist for the party?
- Having out of town guests? Get their rooms prepped
- What time do you need to start grilling?
- When are your guests arriving?
- What games and activities will be done first?
- Unfortunately, the party will have to end at some point – when is that?
- Think about your clean up schedule – who in your family is in charge of which area?
If You're Attending A Party:
We don't blame you for not hosting a party – it's a lot of work, but remember these things when attending:
- Don't forget to bring the host a gift! Show the host how much you appreciate them for putting the party together.
- If you're supposed to bring food, ask what other people are bringing so there aren't 5 chips and dips.
- We suggest taking a homemade dish – it gives you a chance to show off your cooking skills!
- Ask how many guests are attending the party so you make the perfect amount of your secret family recipe.
If You're Watching Fireworks:
- Scout out the best parking spot a few days before the fireworks.
- Don't forget to pack blankets and chairs!
- You can never bring too many snacks.
No matter what your plans are this July Fourth, make sure to include it in your planner and have a game plan. Have a fantastic and safe holiday!


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Boehner's fixation: Benghazi
House Speaker John Boehner has avoided taking firm positions on almost every major policy issue this year.
Guns — talk to the Judiciary Committee. Immigration — let the Senate lead the way. Budget — Paul Ryan's over there.
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But Boehner's become obsessed with Benghazi.
With Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) as the public face and the speaker's office as the muscle, House Republicans are turning turn the story of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Libya that left four Americans dead from a mesh of confusing details into a defining political fight with President Barack Obama.
( Also on POLITICO: McCain calls Benghazi 'a cover-up')
Republicans who have found themselves on the wrong side of public opinion on nearly every issue this year — from tightening gun laws, to same-sex marriage to raising taxes on wealthy earners — have, through their highly publicized investigation, embarrassed the Obama administration.
The night before last week's high-profile Benghazi hearing, Boehner and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Issa discussed strategy for 30 minutes in the speaker's office. For the hearing, Issa gave committee members assignments and directed them to stick to pre-approved lanes to avoid confusion or duplicative questioning, several lawmakers said.
( Also on POLITICO: Pickering, Issa face off on Benghazi)
Issa plans more hearings, and committee sources say subpoenas and additional depositions are more likely.
Starting last fall, Boehner has run a Capitol-wide campaign to keep turf-conscious committee chairs informed, at the same time using his sway to press the Obama administration to comply with congressional investigators trying to untangle what happened.
The speaker has privately strategized with high-profile GOP senators like John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and held briefings for top committee figures like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).
Boehner has told leadership colleagues when they're focusing on the terrorist attack, they're fighting on their political ground.
"This is all Boehner," said one senior Republican aide of the focus on Benghazi. "He's obsessed with it. He brings it up all the time." The sentiment was echoed with conversations throughout leadership, and the dynamic is acknowledged by his own aides.
( PHOTOS: 10 slams on Obama and Benghazi)
For Boehner and GOP leaders, specifically, it has also become an effective way help them win valuable points with a right wing that has distrusted — and at times embarrassed — the leadership.
Of course, Boehner hasn't quieted all of his Republican critics in Washington. GOP leadership has resisted calls for a select committee to look into the attack. Behind the scenes, leaders have also been hesitant to approve the use of subpoenas for top White House and State Department officials.
The focus on Benghazi also won't quiet the do-nothing House talk either. With the immigration bill starting to move through the Senate and decisions to be made on the debt ceiling and budget, there's other work to be done.


text: Hi! My presentation and demonstration for the ThunderBird Amateur Radio Club (W7TBC) last night was a success. This was the radio club that allowed me to use their special callsign W7W during their hamfest in January, and the club invited me to do a presentation and demonstration at this month's meeting. It was a good presentation with various questions, then the AO-51 demonstration during the pass at 0334-0348 UTC, followed by more questions after the pass. In my presentation, I had put in a mention that the club members could attempt to listen to the AO-51 pass while I was doing the demonstration. Several did exactly that. A few with HTs and long antennas (duckies or telescoping whips), along with one member who went to his car and used his mobile station, were able to follow along with their own radios. Other than having an extended question-and-answer session after the pass, I finished my presentation in time to go outside. Several members helped me take my equipment outside and set it up. For the demonstration, I used an Icom IC-2720H mobile radio at 15W (two contacts toward the end of the pass were made at 5W, to show that lower power could work) into an Arrow Antennas handheld 2m/70cm Yagi. Power was from a 12V/20Ah gel-cell battery, and the radio is OK with the battery (4.5A draw when transmitting at 15W on 2m, and about 2.5A draw for 5W TX on 2m). I had a small folding table I put the radio on, and connected three items to one of the IC-2720H's speaker jacks (external speaker for the crowd to listen on, an earphone for me to hear with, and my small Sony digital audio recorder). My location, on the campus of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale (west-side suburb of Phoenix), was in grid DM33vo. Within a couple of minutes, Don KD6IRE in northern California was calling me and was the first contact I made with my audience watching and listening. Then Manuel XE2BHL called from Tijuana, followed by my only contact from eastern North America - George WA5KBH in Louisiana. I proceeded to make 6 more contacts after that with stations in California, Washington state, Alberta, British Columbia, and - at the end of the pass - Craig KL4E from Alaska showed up for the 9th and final contact of my demonstration. The club members were impressed with the fact they could hear the satellite with their own equipment. It was a high pass (67 degrees maximum elevation for us), which helped with that, but still an impressive sight. They were also impressed with how well the satellite sounded as it was going out of range at the end of the pass. Along with the contacts, we heard two other stations that I was not able to make contact with - N6ADR in California, WA7SDI in Oregon. I tried not to monopolize the pass, especially with George WA5KBH trying to work some of the western stations on this late (for him) pass. Lots of people need to be thanked for the successes last night. First, Gould WA4SXM - one of the AO-51 command stations - for ensuring the satellite would be in the normal FM repeater configuration last night. The ThunderBird Amateur Radio Club, for inviting me to do this - in particular Bob K7UNL (president) and Roger W9NCQ (treasurer - he invited me to do this event), plus the other members whose names escape me that helped me haul stuff to and from my car for the demo. And the 9 stations in the USA, Canada, and Mexico who made contacts with me (Don KD6IRE, John KD6PAG, James KE7KQA, Craig KL4E, Ron VE6RVT, John VE7CBZ, George WA5KBH, Bob WA7HYD, and Manuel XE2BHL). Being able to make contacts with stations spread out in western North America - plus WA5KBH in Louisiana - helped show that the satellite's footprint covers a large area. If anyone wishes to see the slideshow I presented before the on-air demonstration, along with copies of flyers I have distributed at the meeting last night plus the recent Phoenix-area hamfests, I have all of them on my web page in PDF format. Follow the link on the home page, and get them there. My web pages are on free web space at Geocities, so there are bandwidth limits enforced. If anyone has problems in downloading those files, please e-mail me directly and I will send them to you. I can also provide an MP3 with the audio from this pass, for anyone that is interested in hearing what we heard last night (MP3 won't be posted on a web page, but available via e-mail). Thanks again, and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Phoenix, Arizona USA http://www.wd9ewk.net/