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While in Detroit writing a human interest story about a child killed in a drive-by shooting, investigative reporter Alamanda Tyler is ordered by her boss at Reveal Magazine to "drop the piece on the black kid" to cover the story that has ignited a media firestorm. A serial killer is brutally murdering wealthy white citizens.
Tyler's controversial interview with a prostitute abused by the second victim hours before his death attracts the attention of the killer. Infatuated with the stunning reporter, he sends her emails from an untraceable account explaining his motives for the slaying.
As her life spins out of control, professionally and personally, Tyler risks all to end the carnage at the hands of the monster who has proclaimed, "I kill rich people."
In the year 2030, the United States of America bears little resemblance to the nation envisioned by its Founding Fathers. The federal government has been virtually privatized away, Christianity declared the official state religion and the Constitutional right to bear arms rescinded. While attempting to isolate the reasons for America's drift to the far right on the political spectrum, University of Michigan graduate student Joshua Freeman stumbles upon the existence of an ominous presence. Determined to expose those he believes are ruling the nation from the shadows, Freeman embarks on a dangerous journey. Will he survive long enough to warn the American people their democracy has been stolen from them? And if even if he does, will anyone believe him?
Sex, laughs and dash of fantasy
Alice is convinced the secret to happiness is finding a virile incredibly handsome man like the ones in romance novels. Complicating her search is the emotional baggage she carries from a less than perfect relationship with her father, growing up in the shadow of a nearly perfect older sister and the wise cracking gargoyle who is her best friend and trusted adviser.
Over the years, all of her politically conservative lovers disappoint, but the gargoyle is always there to help her pick up the pieces. Do politics matter when it comes to love? Tag along with Alice and her friend the gargoyle to find out. It's sure to be a fun ride.


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Stocks edge up after US jobs grow at healthy clip
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening higher after the government said employers hired at a good clip for the fourth month in a row.
Employers added 217,000 jobs in May, in line with what economists expected. The unemployment rate stayed put at 6.3 percent.
Hertz slumped 10 percent after the company said it needed to redo its financial results for the past three years because of accounting errors.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,944 in early trading Friday. The index reached another all-time high the day before.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 42 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,879. The Nasdaq composite increased 10 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,307.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged down to 2.57 percent.

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Jellyfish taking over oceans, experts warn
By Karla Cripps, CNN • Updated 7th November 2013
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It's a beautiful afternoon on the beach.
The sun is shining, you're rolling in the waves, showing off the toned torso you worked on at the gym all winter.
Suddenly a sharp, burning sensation hits your skin.
You've just been stung by a jellyfish.
If experts' warnings are true, swimmers around the world can expect to experience these unwanted love taps in greater numbers than ever before.
Jellyfish expert Lisa-Ann Gershwin tells CNN's Patricia Wu why the world's jellyfish population is getting out of hand.
"Jellyfish and tourism are not happy bedfellows," says Dr. Lisa-Ann Gershwin, author of the recently published book, "
Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
Gershwin says popular beach resorts around the world are seeing huge increases in jellyfish "bloom" activity, a result of overfishing and changing water temperatures.
"The French and Spanish Rivieras, Chesapeake Bay, the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii ... some of the numbers are staggering," says the American scientist who's now based in Australia.
"In Hawaii there have been times that 800 or 1,000 people have been stung in a day. In Spain or Florida, it's not uncommon in recent years for a half a million people to be stung during an outbreak. These numbers are simply astonishing."
Despite being smaller than a pinky nail, the irukandji jellyfish is one of the world's most toxic animals.
courtesy Mike Leahy
At the beginning of October, a large amount of jellyfish inhabiting a cooling-water intake at a Swedish nuclear plant caused operators to
manually shut down production
at its largest reactor.
Jellyfish prompt nuclear shutdown
In Ireland, a jellyfish bloom reportedly killed thousands of farmed salmon, according to
the Irish Times
This past summer, southern Europe experienced one of its worst jellyfish infestations ever. Experts there have been reporting a
steady increase
in the number of jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea for years.
According to a report titled "Review of Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea," written by Fernando Borea for the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and the United Nations, scientists are catching up to what travelers in the Med have been experiencing for years.
"In the last decade ... the media are reporting on an increasingly high number of gelatinous plankton blooms," reads the report. "The reason for these reports is that thousands of tourists are stung, fisheries are harmed and even impaired by jellyfish."
Although noting that significant jellyfish blooms "have been known since ancient times and are part of the normal functioning of the oceans," the report cites global warming and global overfishing (which removes jellyfish predators) as causes for exploding jellyfish populations in recent years.
The situation in the Mediterranean was dire enough to prompt Britain's foreign office to issue a warning to its citizens vacationing along Europe's southern coast to watch out for jellyfish.
A diver attaches a sensor to a large Nomura's jellyfish off the coast of Komatsu in northern Japan. Large schools of these giant jellyfish, which have bodies ranging one to 1.5 meters in diameter, drift into Japanese waters in autumn and damage coastal fisheries.
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The world's deadliest jellyfish
There are more than 2,000 species of jellyfish swimming through the world's waters.
Most stings are completely harmless. Some will leave you in excruciating pain.
Then there are the killers.
Many of the world's deadliest jellyfish are box jellyfish, which refers to the species' cube-shaped meduae.
"There are several species of big box jellyfish that have caused many deaths -- these include chironex fleckeri in Australia, chironex quadrigatus in Japan and related species in Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia," says associate professor Jamie Seymour, a venom biologist at Australia's James Cook University.
Also known as the sea wasp and the northern Australian box jellyfish, the chironex fleckeri is possibly the worlds most venomous animal.
Its tentacles can reach lengths of up to three meters long, while its bell is about the size of a human head. It can be found throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.
A close cousin and fellow contender for the "world's most venomous" cup is the Irukandji, which is the size of a thimble.
Good luck scanning the waters for that one before you leap in.
"How toxic they are is just phenomenally frightening and equally fascinating," says Gershwin.
"Just the lightest brush -- you don't even feel it -- and then, whammo, you're in more pain than you ever could have imagined, and you are struggling to breathe and you can't move your limbs and you can't stop vomiting and your blood pressure just keeps going up and up.
"It is really surprising how many places they occur around the world -- places you would never expect: Hawaii, Caribbean, Florida, Wales, New Caledonia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India ... as well as Australia."
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"More and more, places around the world that are suffering from jellyfish problems with tourists are developing prediction systems so that tourists can know when it is safe," says Gershwin.
The irony, she says, is that tourists who avoid an area because of the known risk may alter their plans to hit a "safe" beach whose officials are merely less up front about the jellyfish situation, putting themselves more at risk.
A common misconception is that places such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are free of dangerous jellyfish.
"Jellyfish occur in all marine waters from pole to pole and at all depths," says Gershwin. "The life threatening ones are found from about 40 degrees north to 40 degrees south latitude.
A sign warns against swimming in the sea due to the presence of deadly box jellyfish in Darwin, Australia. A 'Vinegar Station' offers a temporary remedy for those who have been stung.
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"Australia is upfront about its jellyfish dangers, and also assertive in safety management, whereas other places have them, but may understand less about them or, in some cases, just don't want to say. I think tourists need to be very aware of local hazards and not expect to necessarily be provided with information."
What to do when you're stung
Thanks to that infamous "Friends" episode that aired in 1997, millions of people think it's smart to treat a jellyfish sting with urine.
In reality, peeing on a jellyfish sting isn't a good idea.
A report in the
Scientific American
says urine can actually aggravate the jellyfish's stingers into releasing more venom.
Meanwhile, there's debate over what actually works on a jellyfish sting.
Many doctors say it all depends on whether the sting occurs place in tropical or nontropical waters.
If stung in tropical waters, one should rinse the area with vinegar to deactivate any nematocysts -- the parts of the stinger -- that are still hanging on.
"A freshwater rinse will have the opposite effect," says the Scientific American report. "Any change to the balance of solutes, such as the concentration of salts inside and outside of the cnidocyte [a venomous cell], sets off stinging."
In North America,
doctors recommend
using hot water and topical pain killers on a sting.
Can we turn this around?
Gershwin says the explosion in jellyfish populations is a visible indicator that life in the oceans is out of balance.
"If we somehow managed to eradicate all jellyfish, then something else -- some other weedy thing -- would find a perfect situation," she says. "So the reason we should care is because they act as a flashing red light."
She says there's no one single factor to blame for the rise in jellyfish populations, but rather places blame on a combination of overfishing, warming water, low oxygen and pollution.
By fishing out jellyfish predators and competitors, humans are creating perfect conditions for jellyfish to multiply.
"Sadly, I am one of a growing chorus of people who believe that, yes, it is too late to turn things around," says Gershwin. "So many species are in such low numbers, and habitats are so badly damaged, that restoring them to their original splendor is simply no longer possible.
"I believe that our only option now is to decide how much we value what we currently have, and to decide what we are willing to do to maintain it -- or at least slow down its disappearance. But honestly, can you really see all 7 billion of us agreeing on that?"
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For many Wisconsin residents, the biggest summer story coming from Milwaukee was the drug-related suspension of baseball hero Ryan Braun. Drawing less statewide attention was an increase in shootings, and Milwaukee leaders were ready to ask state government to help pay for overtime for police to stem the gun-related violence. Much of the violence seemed to be located in areas with large minority populations.
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(CNN) – New York ended 2012 with a historic low murder rate – 414 killings in all. It's the lowest the figure has been since police started keeping track in 1963.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg gives much of the credit to a combination of police tactics and some of the toughest gun laws in the country.
However, there is much more going on than stringent policing.
[3:02] "If you stake out a piece of territory like SOS has, basically a two square mile grid, we can suppress shootings here. We can lower the number of shootings here and the outreach team here has done that," said Alan James, program manager at Save Our Streets Crown Heights, a community based project fighting gun violence in one Brooklyn neighborhood.
Over the past few years shootings in Crown Heights have dropped 40% thanks in part to the case workers at SOS Crown Heights.
[3:22] "They actually are making direct contact with the small number of people in the neighborhood who actually do the shootings. Only a small number of people have a huge impact with this kind of behavior," said James.
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If there were no criminals we wouldn't have any need for criminal lawyers... whether they be in NYC or Flagstaff, AZ. Thanks for sharing this information. I appreciate it.
Translation: "Whites have returned to black neighborhoods and now the murder rate is a record low"
The criminals moved to Chicago. I knew it.
The reason according to the mayor was tough gun laws. This is nonsense. The mayor is a cartoon.
Why is Mayor Bloomberg lying to New Yorkers? Why is Mayor Bloomberg wasting billions of dollars?
Why are New Yorkers OK with this?
What a crock
Violent crime nationwide is at its lowest level in 50 years.
The crime rate has gone down here for the same reason idiots have been crowing about how much healthier New Yorkers are these days -in 1990 the average rent in Manhattan for a one bedroom apartment was $800 and in 2012 it was $3418. Poor people can't afford to live here any more and rich people can afford better food, heath care, gyms etc and are much, much better at robbing people and getting away with it. That's it. Period.
Because all of NY is Manhattan right?
That means all the nice people are still murdering 400+ a year. White collar crooks make the streets safer, but more people end up on the streets and the cycle returns.
The average income in NYC (all buroughs and adjusted for inflation)–has *not* risen significantly. The wealth inequality–usually a leading indicator of a high crime rate–has actually grown (as it has everywhere). So the lower homicide rate is actually quite curious, particularly when you consider that it's the lowest *number* ever recorded–and New York's population has never been higher.
You can check out the data on average income in NY by using the graphs in the NY Times' "Average Salaries in New York City" post from about a year ago, and adjusting those number with an inflation calculator, FYI. Best quick method I found. But it's also a trueism that wages have been stagnant for everyone but the wealthy for almost 30 years.
Violent crime has been falling since the ban on leaded gasoline, nation, no, worldwide. Lead in young bodies and minds is not good.
Big soda cup size ban = lower sugar consumption in the population = lower death and crime rate in the city
Yes and Chicago has even more stringent gun laws and has a much higher crime rate. Mayor Moonberg should stick to the facts and leave opinions to those with a brain
Psst, here is a hint. LEAVE THAT RAT HOLE INFESTED CITY. I did so I don't care about NYC crime because i was so fed up with weak politicians and lack of any care of keeping the city clean and graffiti clean. NYC is a lot cleaner than it used to be but if you ever watch the warriors and the filthy subway system that wasn't a prop that's exactly what the subway systems and surrounding blighted neighborhoods used to look like. Leave that rat race and go to the country, you will be glad you did.
So, the crime rate plummets after you move out – – were you that busy while you lived there? 🙂
We're glad you did too.
damn it Obama is doing good things for this country and making us look like we are caring individuals instead of a rowdy buch of hillbillies with guns. how will we ever get our bad boy image back, even the GOP is giving up. I'm going to find a rock and crawl back under it again until the sun goes down.
hellllllllo dummy. Murder rates are down all over the country with LESS gun control than we've had in ages. Since the 'assault weapon' ban, crime is DOWN. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your political hackery.
And where is your "facts" on this?
a lot has to do with the fact that in nyc many murders are listed as another crime or not reported at all,missing persons ,unsolved cases etc
And you get these facts from... where exactly besides your imagination?
The entire United States as a whole posted the lowest murder rate since 1963. Why single out NYC?
Its because all the ricans and haitians had to move back to thier open sewers. They would have to mug thirty people a day just to pay rent .
It is worst news to NRA!
Why? It proves their point. More guns equals less crime. SInce the assault weapon ban expired crime is wayyyy down.
Crime actually started to go down when Chief Ward under Dinkins took the Police Union to court to force them to get out of their vehicles and walk beats like the olde days and also to live in the city instead of always being strangers who live in NJ or the burbs. I remember their argument was that it was too dangerous for their men to work the Streets and not just the Avenues in their cars. The kids in NYC grew up watching their family members either die, be hospitalized or incarcerated because of crack. If you want to see violence try and sell some crack to a teenager today in Harlem or Brooklyn. It did not take grown-ups or policemen to make them feel that way. Just life. They no longer stop and frisk like Rudy had them do and the people have come to trust the policemen and the policemen no longer look at every minority like they are pieces of trash, but that is the general trend across the land. The lines of hatred and bigotry are being erased. Thank God!
They don't stop and frisk like they used to? Stop and frisks are higher than ever...for better or for worse.
the only reply with any validity is this one. How can you say what precipitates a reduction in violence if you don't know the history of the community you speak of? The work of the Dinkins administration coupled with the works of groups like Love Yourself, Stop the Violence and the Respect Yourself Organization helped get this murder rate down years ago. Decades even.
Here we go. I knew Bloomberg would give credit to the drop in crime in the city as a part of strict gun laws and his hatred of firearms. That man must have a calluses from patting himself on the back so much. Chicago has strict gun laws but still has a very high murder rate. The big difference in both cities is the presence of police officers in high crime areas and better trained gang units.
Right here we go. We knew brain dead fools that are not in favor of stricter gun control laws would claim that these policies have nothing to do with the drop in murders in NYC..............................like you just did..
chooch: "We knew brain dead fools that are not in favor of stricter gun control laws would claim that these policies have nothing to do with the drop in murders in NYC..............................like you just did.."
We knew brain dead fools who want gun control would claim that a single instance of lowered - not low - crime would be proof positive that gun control works. Why? Because post hoc fallacies and illogical data sampling are your forte.
Except it's not a "single instance"... look at Australia. Look at almost anywhere in Europe. Or even California, which has stricter gun laws and less gun violence. The proof is everywhere. And it doesn't mean we want to take your guns. It just means we want some reasonable restrictions on them.
LOL at Jack. Way to mention california! You do realize that in Cali, like just about everywhere else...as legal gun ownership increases, violent crime decreases. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/california-gun-sales-up-gun-violence-down/. The fact is the urban areas with the tightest gun control laws, have the worse crime. PERIOD.
Brain dead? Tight gun control works? I am sorry but you seem to be the one who suffers from brain death. Connecticut had the forth toughest gun laws in the state. Even a partial ban on assault weapons. Didn't work too well did it? The assault weapons ban was introduced in 1994. After 5 years, it still didn't stop two snot-nosed kids in Columbine from getting assault weapons and killing a bunch of people. The United Kingdom passed laws making it a crime to have any firearm above a .22 single shot rifle or a 12 gauge single shot rifle after the massacre of children in Scotland in 1996. In Cumbria, England in 2010 a man went on a murder spree with a single shot bolt action .22 rifle and a single shot 12 gauge shot gun and murdered 13 before killing himself. Didn't really work too well. You can be like Bloomberg if you wish. The man thinks banning sugary drinks in stores will stop the rise of fat people in our country. I just don't look at inanimate objects and blame them for the problems of human beings. I choose to look at the humans themselves or the society around them for the problems that plague them.
And in the first 7 days of this year NYC has had 4 or 5 murders.
Starting off with a real kick.
Let's see. 52 weeks times 5 = 260 murders a year. MUCH better than 414 last year.
Don't expect these bozo's to know how to count... or to accept facts at all for that matter. They see what they want to see.
These are the reasons:
1. better police procedures developed under Guiliani
2. crack is no longer pervasive
3. people are less likely to accept crime as they were in the 70s- people call the cops now when sh*t goes down
4. many slums of the 70s and 80s have been gentrified and are filled will wealthy young hipsters sipping lattes instead of 40s
The fact that in Bed-Stuy you can find some white bearded hipster sipping a starbucks definitely contributes to the drop in crime. Fact is a lot of high crime areas are now prized real-estate.
Someone already said it but massive increases in abortions, contraceptives (teen pregnancy is way down), and better social safety nets have lead to a drop in murder and violent crime nationwide.
Abortions are about the same rate in all urban areas. The difference is NY has A LOT of cops enforcing quality of life crimes which lead to bigger things. There are lots of abortions in Camden and Compton, but they still have crime issues
It's amazing what excessive sugar drinks can do to a population.
Ever since big soda drinks was banned in NY, the crime rate is falling drastically down.
Sorry to say all but the number one reason for lower crime rates of any kind is due to abortion and not gun laws or police work. Don't believe me look it up. Best explanation of this comes from Freakanomics.
That's been bunked many times over. If it was the case why hasn't the crime rate in other cities decreased too? Plus the rate dropped dramatically after new enforcement was put into place. If it was because of abortion it would have steadily decreased.
One of the constant assumptions about New Yorkers was that a crime could happen in front of them and "Nobody Saw Nothin'!" was the response because people were more afraid of the criminals who lived close by, had friends, might get out on bail or acquitted altogether. Making sure a criminal knows that someone will witness his/her acts and isn't too afraid to testify is a far greater deterrent than Mayor Bloomberg's delusion that criminals care about laws. Making sure the laws against violent crime don't go unenforced because witnesses are afraid is the deterrent.
Sure thing, Stricter gun control laws have nothing to do with the decrease of murders in NYC.. BTW have you paid your dues to the NRA this month?
Crime has gone down nationwide and violent (murder, rape, etc.) have ALL gone down nationwide for the fifth straight year. So I would take this information about why NY crime is down with a grain of salt. NY is lucky/blessed that violent crime has gone down but it's not due to their police tactis and gun laws. It's a nationwide trend according to the FBI. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/june/crimes_061112/crimes_061112
@Truth/Facts Steve Kastenbaum here, the reporter who put together this story. True, but crime has dropped here at a much greater rate than in just about every other major city in the US. Many policy makers are looking for the answers as to why it happened.
Ever wonder if NYC's ever exploding cost of living has something to do with it? Tough to afford an apartment when the cost is as high as NYC's. Also when most criminals do not have any way to generate credit, (hard to substantiate income w/out legal earnings), they cannot get approved for an apartment. There are many factors which have led to NYC's greater than national average drop in crime, Cost of living, which is also present throughout the North East, draconian/ anti american policing (Frisk w/out probably cause), which while effective is as freedom limiting as it gets.
So the next time someone wants to single out guns comparre and contrast NYC with two other cest pools, Chicago + DC, both have more onerus laws and much higher gun violence rates per capita.
From that link, the murder rate in the Northeast decreased the most at -6.1%.
The rest of the regions:
Midwest: + 0.6%
South: -2.4%
West: -0.1%
Since you seem to know so much.. or want others to think you do, If the tactics being employed and stricter gun control laws play no factor in the decrease in murders in NYC, why not tell us what are the factors instead of posting a link to "trends"? You must know what the factors are if you can boldly claim police tactics and stricter control laws are not factors.
Could it be stop-and-frisk? I think it's great that crime has gone down in the boroughs, but isn't there a way to do it without racial profiling? It's a libertarians nightmare.
"Small number of people" == gangs. Deport the gang members or lock 'em up. Now we only have to worry about the crazies with the guns.
What happened to let the police do it? Run away?
Wait...you're saying it's not anti-gun laws? Gasp...
No kidding. Bunch of morons.


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Aggies clinch fourth straight MACWILLIAMSPORT (PA) – Freshman quarterback Aaron Wilmer scored on an eight-yard touchdown run with just 13 seconds remaining to lift No. 9 Delaware Valley College to a 28-21 triumph at regionally-ranked Lycoming College and at least a share of its fourth consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) championship.
With the win, Delaware Valley improved to 9-0 overall and 7-0 in conference action. It also became just the fifth team in MAC history to win four or more conference titles in a row, joining Widener University (6 from 1997 to 1982), Franklin & Marshall College 4 from 1971 to 1974) and a pair of Lycoming College eras (4 from 1989 to 1992 and 4 from 1996 to 1999).
And it sets up a winner-take-all contest for the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III playoffs as the Aggies will host regionally-ranked Widener (8-1, 6-1) next Saturday, November 12 (1:00 p.m.). The Pride upset Delaware Valley on the last play of the game last season and took the Keystone Cup (handed out annually to the winner of the Delaware Valley-Widener game) back to Chester. Much more is at stake next week as the Aggies want to avoid leaving their NCAA hopes up to the committee that selects the six at-large berths.
Wilmer helped give Delaware Valley a 21-14 lead with 5:56 remaining as he hit Lewis Vincent for a 50-yard touchdown pass. Lycoming's (7-2, 5-2 MAC) ensuing possession began at its own 32 and the Warriors needed just 10 plays to move the ball all the way down to the Aggie three-yard line. Craig Needhammer netted two yards on first down and quarterback Zach Klinger snuck it in from there with 1:01 remaining. Zach Czap hit the all-important extra-point to make it 21-21.
A low kickoff was caught in the air by upback Chad Wisniewski and he returned it eight yards to the Delaware Valley 46-yard line with 58 seconds to go. Wilmer hit Rodney Blango for 16 yards and out of bounds at the Warrior 38. Following a near interception, Wilmer kept the ball for a run but did not gain a yard as the Aggies called timeout with 41 ticks on the clock.
On third down, Wilmer found Blango over the middle for 15 yards and he then hit Vincent down the right sideline for another 15 yards down to the eight-yard line. Wilmer then called his own number and went up the middle, stretching for the final yard into the end zone with 13 seconds to go. Sobchak made it 28-21 with his fourth extra-point of the game.
Lycoming tried three laterals on the ensuing kickoff, but Delaware Valley's Chris Vega was there to grab the final one – technically, a fumble recovery - as the final seconds ticked off the clock and the Aggie sideline rushed on the field to celebrate the MAC championship
Delaware Valley opened the scoring with a nine-play, 93-yard drive on its opening possession. Wilmer connected for throws of 45 yards to Chris Ruizand 18 yards to fullback Tom Devlin on the drive, and capped it on a third-and-10 as his fade pass into the left corner of the end zone was grabbed by Vincent for the 16-yard touchdown.. Sobchak booted the extra-point to complete the nine-play, 93-yard drive and a 7-0 advantage with 7:09 left in the opening quarter.
The Warriors responded off the ensuing kickoff by going 64 yards on eight plays. The final 16 yards came on a Zach Klinger bullet to Warren Oliver in the end zone. Zack Czap's boot tied the game at 7-7 with 3:52 to go in the first.
The game then took on the defensive feel that was expected. Delaware Valley was stopped and Lycoming took over on its own 17-yard line following a punt. The Aggies then forced the Warriors back thanks to a sack by Jim DiLisio and, after a punt, took over on the Warriors 38-yard line. However, Delaware Valley lost one yard over three plays and its punt was fair caught at the 15.
The Aggies forced the first turnover of the game as Vega, getting his first start at cornerback, intercepted a Klinger pass at the Delaware Valley 43-yard line. A pair of third-down conversions on passes from Wilmer kept the drive going. They then faced a fourth-and-one from the 21 when Kyle Schuberthgot the carry and went untouched into the end zone. It was a 10-play, 57-yard drive and Sobchak's point-after gave Delaware Valley a 14-7 advantage with 5:49 left in the first half.
Late in the half, the Aggies had a golden opportunity as Dwayne Shaw forced a fumble and Ken Fowlkes recovered at the Warrior 43. However, Delaware Valley turned the ball over on downs and the half ended with the Aggies on top by seven.
Delaware Valley received the opening kick of the second half, but, on the first play from scrimmage, a Wilmer pass bounced out of the receiver's hands and Lycoming's Ray Bierbach dove and intercepted it at midfield. The Warriors' Matt Atkinson rushed for a pair of first downs out of the wildcat formation, the last moving the ball to the Aggie 11. However, the next play saw Klinger throw a pass into the end zone and Vega picked it off to end the threat.
Later in the third, Delaware Valley started possessions at the Lycoming 33 and 44-yard lines, but could not put any points on the board to extend its lead. The second drive stalled at the 27 and Lycoming quickly moved into Aggie territory and eventually reached the two-yard line for a second-and-goal. On the next play, safety Ryan McCullough broke through and stuffed tailback Parker Showers for a five-yard loss. An offsides penalty moved the ball to the three and Klinger hit Atkinson over the middle for the touchdown. Czap added the extra-point for a 14-14 ballgame with 11:34 remaining in regulation.
Delaware Valley began its next drive on its own 13-yard line. Twice the Aggies faced third-and-long and both times Wilmer hit Blango for big plays to move the sticks. Later in the drive, Bierbach made another diving interception, this one at the Lycoming 27-yard line. The Aggie defense held to force a punt and the offense took over at midfield with 6:48 on the clock.
Wilmer and Blango teamed again for a long pass, but Blango was ruled to have stepped out of bounds and returned to the field to make the catch. The loss of down brought a third-and-10 and Wilmer went for the long ball to Vincent. Vincent caught it at the 15-yard line, broke away from a tackler and went into the end zone for a 50-yard score. Sobchak's extra-point made it 21-14 with 5:56 remaining.
Lycoming tied it from there but left 61 seconds left on the clock. That was plenty of time for Wilmer's heroics and the thrilling victory.
Wilmer completed 17 of 34 passes for 263 yards and two touchdowns and rushed 11 times for 23 yards and the game-winning score. Blango caught seven passes for 89 yards while Vincent finished with three catches for 81 yards and two trips to the end zone. Schuberth netted 73 yards and a score on 14 carries. Defensively, Fowlkes, McCullough and Terrance Osborne had 10 tackles apiece. Vega added two tackles to his two interceptions and fumble recovery.
Klinger finished 15-for-28 for 123 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. Atkinson rushed for 90 yards on 11 carries and caught five passes for an additional 35 yards and a touchdown. Chris Kish notched a game-high 11 tackles.


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"I started messing around with the Echoplex, the delay that was available at the time," May recalls. "I turned up the regeneration until it was giving me multiple repeats. I discovered you could do a lot with this—you could set up rhythms and play against them, or you could play a line and then play a harmony to it. But I decided that the delay [times] I wanted weren't available on the Echoplex. So I modified it and made a new rail, which meant I could slide the head along and make the delay any length I wanted, because the physical distance between the two heads is what gave you the delay. Eventually, I had two home-adapted Echoplexes. And I discovered that if you put each echo through its own amp, you wouldn't have any nasty interference between the two signals. Each amp would be like a full-blown, sustaining, overdriven guitar which didn't have anything to do with the other one.
"So, 'Brighton Rock' was the first time that got onto a record. I'd already been trying it live on stage in the middle of 'Son and Daughter' [from Queen's self-titled '73 debut album], when Queen first toured with Mott the Hoople. It was rather crude at first. But I certainly had a lot of fun with it."


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The year 2009 was a pivotal one in the history of Pakistan. Violent events were shaking Pakistani society at its roots and occurring with increasing frequency in ever more numerous settings. A consequence of both internal and foreign circumstances, the nuclear weapons-owning country found itself struggling to cope with forces that it set in train as well as those imposed from afar. The ongoing fight against Islamic militants—notably al-Qaeda, Taliban, and Punjabi extremists—escalated, especially along the border with Afghanistan and the adjacent regions where Taliban strongholds were located: the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). (See Map.) An interested observer would thus need a historical perspective to understand Pakistan's long and thus far failed attempts to achieve a modicum of stability.
By the start of the 21st century, Pakistan had never known true security, which many thought might account for its long tryst with military dictatorships and the resulting stunting of its political process. Established as a predominantly Muslim but supposedly secular state in the wake of the United Kingdom's retreat from empire, Pakistan, like India, was the consequence of an outstanding South Asian personality. Mohammed Ali Jinnah shared the spotlight with Mohandas K. Gandhi in the days leading up to the partition of British India in August 1947, but unlike the Mahatma, who chose not to participate in the political process following British dispensation, Jinnah assumed the role as Pakistan's first head of state, and it was around him that the government took form. Gandhi's assassination soon after the transfer of power therefore did not have the impact on India's governance as Jinnah's death hardly a year after Pakistan's independence. Jinnah left a power vacuum that could not be filled. Moreover, his vision of a progressive state could not be institutionalized, and the country drifted from its intended objective to a series of arbitrary maneuvers that eventually opened the way for the Pakistan army to dominate the political scene.
From the moment of independence, Pakistan found itself locked in a violent contest with India. Immediately following the transfer of power, India and Pakistan went to war over the northern Kashmir territory, and their conflict set the scene for a bitter relationship in the decades that followed. The two countries waged war again in 1965 and most significantly in 1971. Although the latter struggle was largely played out in Pakistan's Bengal province, it could not be kept from spilling over into Kashmir. Moreover, the loss of East Bengal (East Pakistan [now Bangladesh]), as a consequence of New Delhi's intervention in the Pakistan civil war, ended the original Pakistan. Humiliated by the success of Indian arms, the Pakistan army fell back on a substitute strategy that emphasized avoiding direct conflict with its larger, more powerful neighbour but nevertheless aimed at sustaining the struggle for Kashmir through clandestine means. The Pakistan army's role in raising, equipping, and deploying jihadists for operations in Kashmir brought an end to the country's pre-civil war secular objectives. Moreover, Islamist organizations, practicing obscurantist versions of religious expression and marginalized in the original Pakistan, came to assume mainstream roles in the army and throughout the country.
Still another dimension of Pakistan's security dilemma was its ties to the United States. Pakistan's membership in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in 1954 and the Baghdad Pact in 1955 (subsequently the Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] in 1958) brought the country American military assistance, ostensibly to defend the region against communist forces but in actuality to balance the threat posed by India. Moreover, although the Soviet Union proved difficult to woo, Pakistan saw no contradiction in establishing relations with Communist China. Just as Pakistan straddled both sides in the Cold War, however, its American ally also practiced inconsistencies, most notably during the 1965 war with India, when the U.S. refused to support Pakistan. More significant, however, was Pakistan's role as a frontline state when the Soviet Union invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in 1979, and Washington, after some hesitation, judged Pakistan a proxy in its contest with Moscow. Washington's decision to abandon the region following the Soviet army's withdrawal in 1989, however, left the Pakistanis to shape their future free of U.S. interference. The consequence of this was the Pakistan army's determination not only to sustain the struggle for Kashmir but also to establish a sphere of influence over Afghanistan.
Islamabad, which continued to perceive New Delhi as its number one enemy, sought to bolster Pakistan's defenses by developing more significant capabilities along the Pakistan/Afghanistan frontier. Thus any attempt by the multiethnic and tribal Afghans to rebuild their country following the Soviet retreat was sabotaged by Pakistani military maneuvers. Moreover, the sustained chaos in Afghanistan allowed Pakistan to introduce a third force into the region, a still more virile jihadist array that became known as the Taliban.
The Taliban, much of it composed of young Afghan refugees who had been educated at madrasahs (Islamic religious schools) in Pakistan's Pashtun border region, was organized and expanded under the direction of Pakistan's sub rosa Inter Services Intelligence directorate (ISI). With the aid of substantial Pakistani resources in men and weapons, the Taliban gained control over most of Afghanistan. After seizing Kabul in 1996, the Taliban declared Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate guided by ultraconservative Islamic law; Islamabad quickly recognized the new order. Pakistan appeared to have achieved its most immediate national security objective, and most important, it seemed to gain control over the Pashtun peoples domiciled on both sides of their shared border with Afghanistan. Pakistan's security, however, proved short-lived. The success of the austere Islamists and the formation of a chaste Islamic state in Central Asia drew the attention of Muslims from other parts of the world, among them Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. The latter, bent on forcing American influence from Islamic countries, saw in the resurrected Afghan emirate a base of operations ideally suited to press al-Qaeda's worldwide strategy.
The terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, were quickly traced to Afghanistan, where bin Laden and the Taliban emir had entered into cooperative and intimate association. Washington's decision to destroy the al-Qaeda/Taliban combination, however, could not be implemented without logistic support from the military government in Pakistan. Islamabad's strategy—its quest for security—therefore again ended in failure when the U.S.-promoted "war on terrorism" enveloped the very region that Pakistan had endeavoured to bring under its influence.
The first decade of the 21st century found Pakistan immersed in protracted and indecisive conflict not only on all its frontiers but also throughout the country. Pakistan achieved nuclear weapons status in 1998 but weapons of mass destruction are of little value in multidimensional struggle. Meanwhile, the loss of East Pakistan in 1971 had done nothing to improve relations between Pakistan's remaining ethnic groups. Internal conflict remained intense and unyielding in Balochistan, while the Pashtuns of the NWFP and adjoining FATA formed the bulk of the by-now rebellious Taliban. Moreover, the dominant role played by the Punjabis in Pakistani life and government remained a continuing source of enmity in Sind province as well as among the Mohajir community of Karachi. Successive failures at deeper national integration, coupled with ineffective and corrupt government and repeated military coups, left the attentive public disenchanted and prompted the vast semiliterate and undereducated population to seek salvation in spiritual experience mentored by opponents to anything resembling cosmopolitan culture.
Pakistan's economy—like its political and social institutions—was in shambles. Unable to cope with multiple domestic needs Pakistan became ever more dependent on external assistance, notably from the United States, but foreign aid does little to address a dilemma within. Moreover, American aid intertwined with Islamabad's support for the "war on terrorism." With many people fearful that the U.S. dependency diminished Pakistan's sovereignty, new strains emerged in Pakistani-American relations. No less significant, in the wake of the terrorist assault in late 2008 on Mumbai (Bombay), which was mounted from Pakistan, the stage appeared to be set for still another more deadly conflict with India. Nuclear deterrence, let alone mutually assured destruction, had limited value as policy in South Asia. Furthermore, the Kashmir dispute remained as intractable as it was in those first years following independence, and the government in Kabul resolutely opposed Islamabad's interference in Afghan affairs. Indeed, Kabul seemed to view New Delhi as an important ally in thwarting Pakistani military ambitions.
Finally the Pakistan army's direct or indirect association with terrorist organizations exposed its long-term agenda. That agenda, centred on perceived hostile forces in India and Afghanistan, reinforced the need to preserve if not enhance relations with Islamic extremists calculated to remain influential long after American forces withdraw from the region. Trapped in circumstances largely of their own making, the guardians of Pakistan's security continued to view India as their mortal enemy and thus appeared determined to perpetuate their country's deepening insecurity.


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Thousands of Israeli troops with tanks and armored vehicles are poised on Gaza's borders ready to move in if Israel believes there is no chance for a cease-fire in its conflict with Hamas.
The Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, told reporters Monday at a briefing at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC that Israel would like to avoid a ground invasion, but war planning is complete and they are ready to move in if necessary.
But Israel, which continued to press its air offensive against Gaza militants for a sixth day on Monday, is said to be well aware that a ground invasion would carry broad risks.
Israel learned that from its 2008 war in Gaza when it lost the support of the international community. Air force and ground troops then poured on superior firepower, hitting numerous civilian targets in an effort to wipe out militants and their infrastructure. Nearly 1,300 people were killed.
A United Nations investigation concluded that the Israeli military committed war crimes during that conflict, which created a major diplomatic problem for Israel.
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Carrying the memory of that experience and a parliamentary election just two months away, the Israeli government is mindful of potential international and domestic consequences of a ground invasion, those watching the situation closely said.
"Higher Palestinian casualties could lead to an erosion of international support for Israel's right to defend itself from the Hamas rocket attacks," according to Haim Malka, a senior fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu is hesitant for a ground operation because of the political liability and the risks that such an operation carries for Israel," Malka said.
Palestinian health officials said 104 people have died and another 860 have been wounded in Gaza since Israel began its offensive in response to what it characterized as incessant rocket attacks by militants. Israeli officials say three people have died and 68 have been wounded in Israel as the result of rocket fire from Gaza.
Public opinion polls in Israel also appeared reluctant to deeper military involvement.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Israelis expressed strong backing for the ongoing military air operation, but were hesitant to add a ground offensive. The paper reported on Monday that 85% of Israelis believed in starting the military operation.
When asked how the government should proceed, 45% of the survey respondents favored continuing air strikes while 25% recommended a ground offensive. Some 22% said Israel should seek a cease fire.
The intention of the air assault is to weaken or destroy the capability of Hamas to launch rockets into Israel, according to an Israeli official.
Militants in Gaza have fired nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel since the conflict began, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday. Israel has targeted more than 1,300 sites in its bombing campaign, according to the IDF.
U.S. sends warships near Israel in case of evacuation needed
Ambassador Oren said at the current rate of activity military action could last 45 days to 100 days. He said Hamas has 10,000 to 11,000 rockets left, but would not say how many Israel has destroyed, though Israel has fired just over 1,100.
When asked by reporters what Israel wanted from Hamas Oren said, "Guarantees against the return to the status quo."
Negotiations in Egypt to try to halt to the fighting have yet to yield a breakthrough. There was a 50-50 chance the mission would be expanded to a ground invasion, one government official told Israel's Haaretz newspaper.
In an interview on Israeli television, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Monday no option had been ruled out, but at this stage "everything depends on the action of Hamas."
Former Israeli General Dan Harel said Israel is running out of targets that are away from population centers while Hamas leaders and other targeted individuals have now gone underground or are in mosques or among the civilian population.
"These are targets Israel will not strike because it is morally wrong," Harel said.
If that is indeed Israel's position, it also lessens the chance of a ground invasion that would no doubt target the locations of Hamas leaders and weapons in sensitive areas.
"The most likely scenario is that there is a cease-fire, hopefully brokered by the United States and Egypt, and then we all go back to exactly where we were before," says Reza Aslan, author of "No God but God," which looks at how the Arab Spring movement will ultimately play out.
"In a couple years, we start this process all over again. At a certain point, Israel is going to have to recognize that Hamas, whether it likes it or not, is the actual government in Gaza. And it's going to have to figure out a long-term solution to maintaining a viable ceasefire and that might include actually easing the blockade against Gaza," he told CNN on Monday.
According to Haaretz, Netanyhau, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman were updated on Monday by an Israel emissary who had just returned from a talk with Egyptian general intelligence officials.
"The deliberations centered on the demands made by Hamas and on the Egyptian proposals for compromise," according to the newspaper, quoting an Israeli official.
However, Malka said Hamas could make a ground decision easy for Israel if it were to launch a "large wave of longer range rockets that hit the Tel Aviv area or a shorter range rocket that hits and causes a high number of civilian casualties."
The Palestinian territory has been under a crippling economic embargo since Hamas, a militant fundamentalist Islamic organization, took political control from the Palestinian Authority in a 2007 election.
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It's time for the CHRISTIAN West to reassess it's pro-Israel position, as well as its involvement in a conflict in this sandpit that has no strategic value. Particularly, we need to take a hard look at Israel's poor treatment of Christians in the region:
It's time to pull the plug on aid to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and leave these people to their own devices.
We should put a microchip in all the arabs to keep a track of them. The great land of Israel is ONLY for the JEWS.


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Kenny Rogers Announces Dates for 30th Annual Christmas and Hits Tour
When you've been doing something as long as Kenny Rogers has been making music, the milestones are bound to pile up — and sure enough, this holiday season will mark an auspicious anniversary for the country legend.
When Rogers embarks on his annual Christmas and Hits tour this November 25, it'll mark his 30th straight year of heading out on the road to bring holiday cheer to fans. Billy Dean will join Rogers for the 17-date run, which concludes December 23.
"Thirty years is a long time to do anything, but a Christmas show seems to get easier every year, especially when I get a chance to work with friends like Billy Dean," Rogers said. "He always brings a great energy and beautiful music to the event."
As the tour's name promises, Rogers will deliver Christmas songs, as well as some of his biggest hits, including 'The Gambler' and 'Lady.' This year, Rogers will also be inviting children's choirs from each city to join him on stage during part of the program. Tickets are on sale now at KennyRogers.com.
2011 Kenny Rogers Christmas and Hits Tour Dates:
11/25 – Columbus, OH
11/26 – Kalamazoo, MI
11/27 – Milwaukee, WI
12/2 – Catoosa, OK
12/3 – Bossier City, LA
12/7 – Fayetteville, AR
12/8 – Lake Charles, LA
12/9 – Lake Charles, LA
12/10 – Choctaw, MS
12/14 – Bowling Green, OH
12/16 – Easton, PA
12/17 – Mashantucket, CT
12/19 – New Brunswick, NJ
12/20 – Verona, NY
12/21 – Buffalo, NY
12/22 – Schenectady, NY
12/23 – Westbury, NY