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I used to think Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a metaphor about growing up. It's now becoming increasingly clear to me that it's (also) about something else:
WILLOW: I get it now. The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the power. ('Two To Go')
BUFFY: It's about power. Who's got it... who knows how to use it. ('Lessons')
THE FIRST: You still don't get it. It's not about right. It's not about wrong. It's about power. ('Lessons')
AMY: This isn't about hate. It's about power. ('The Killer In Me')
When the show repeats a message so often, I think it may be trying to tell us something. :-) This essay is a look at the theme of power throughout its run. In particular, it shows how season 8 fits into the overall picture but gives us a new angle on it. I also hope to demonstrate how the villains of 'The Long Way Home' fit within this scheme, and how they hold up a disturbing mirror to our heroes...
For many viewers, 'power' codes as something negative. Authority must be opposed or avoided. Some people even claim that the emphasis on power in the show's later seasons is evidence of its growing fascist tendencies (!). The fake-out at the end of 'The Long Way Home', where Buffy sees that General Voll is older, male and military and therefore immediately leaps to the conclusion that he's opposed to her because he's a representative of the Patriarchy, is an amusing comment on this view. However, General Voll quickly disabuses her of that notion. The show's views on power are more nuanced than that, and change as the show develops and our characters grow up.
Early on, when Buffy and her friends are still children, authority is an outside force: it represents the grown-up world that she is not yet part of. Sometimes this authority is, if not an actual enemy, still presented as an opponent: Principal Snyder in her mundane life, the Watchers' Council on the supernatural side. Even the more benevolent authority figures like Giles or her mother are often misguided and foolish; like the heroes of any children's story, Buffy and Co must find ways to subvert or manipulate their parents in order to save the world.
As the Scoobies recognise their own power – symbolic of their coming of age - it's seen as the way they can now challenge the power of others and be themselves. It's still an anti-authority message. In case of Buffy, that's generally presented as being a good thing, although not without consequences; it's part of the growing up metaphor.
BUFFY: No review. No interrogation, no questions you know I can't answer, no hoops, no jumps...and no interruptions. See, I've had a lot of people talking at me, last few days. People just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I finally figured out why. Power. I have it. They don't. This bothers them. ('Checkpoint')
Y'know, on the screen that's a really strong scene; but reading the words written down, it comes across as just a little teenage. "I'm powerful now, you can't make me!" That impression, of course, is even stronger once we turn to Willow. By season 6, she's all grown up and has started calling Giles by his first name, just to emphasise that they're (at least) equals now in her mind, and she doesn't have to listen to his boring words about caution and responsibility any more.
By season 7, the emphasis has shifted again. Willow's learned a little humility and maturity. As for Buffy, she's not just defying authority; she's trying to become the authority herself, to be a leader. Perhaps because she hasn't had very good role models all her life, she's not very good at it. She cuts herself off emotionally, tries to be ruthless. All this is still giving the impression that power isn't a particularly good thing to have: it's just necessary to defeat the First. Buffy is bullying Willow into using her magic and bullying Spike into becoming a killer again because she has to, not because she thinks it's right.
All that seems to be reversed by the outcome of 'Chosen'. The new message is that power isn't wrong in itself, it's how it's used. Sharing power, enabling others, freeing other people to reach their own true Potential – these are noble actions.
Or are they? Plenty of people have objected to the apparent lack of consent involved in Willow's spell in Chosen. Fanfic where someone becomes a Slayer and accidentally misuses her unexpected strength to kill someone is a perennial favourite; and a few people mutter darkly about rape metaphors. Now, there's an argument to be made that Willow's spell would only affect those able to bear its burden ("Every girl who can stand up, will stand up"). Contrariwise, if becoming a Slayer is a metaphor for a child attaining adulthood, then a lack of choice is appropriate: try as you might, nobody can stay a child forever. It's not attaining maturity, but what you do next, which is the moral issue.
Even so, Buffy and Willow's action in 'Chosen' is reminiscent of Buffy's actions in 'Get It Done' – they are forcing people to 'act their age' for their own good. And that's morally problematic, and seems to be the issue that season 8 wants to address.
As 'The Long Way Home' opens, we see clearly that Buffy has grown into her leadership role. (This is a good example of how the comics show us things instead of just telling us them, incidentally.) We watch Buffy lead her troops into battle, supervise a training session, interact with them. We see how they talk about her when she's not there. She's comfortable with them; knows their names, jokes with them, borrows their lip gloss. More importantly she understands their strengths and weaknesses, recognises the importance of good morale, and thinks about the best ways to maintain it ("Their first victims. Gotta get 'em past it."). However, she's not pally with them, the way Xander tries to be: she's the authority figure in their lives, and keeps a little distance from them. Both Giles and Xander present her in her absence as the role model, the one who's ultimately in charge.
In other words, Buffy has accepted her power, and is willing to use it. She's grown up. Her strength isn't used to challenge authority, but to be the authority, and use her powers for good.
Except that not everyone sees it like that.
GENERAL VOLL: God help us, if you win then you'll decide the world still isn't the way you want it and the demon in you will say just one thing: 'Slay!'
The danger here is not so much that those in authority will misuse their power. We know Buffy, we know how honourable and self-controlled she is even if the General doesn't. The real threat is that they'll use it in 'our own best interests', without actually asking us if that's OK. By trying to help us, they'll deprotagonise us, reduce us to children ourselves. Make the decisions and deal with the darkness so we don't have to.
With this as the theme, the choice of villains for 'The Long Way Home' suddenly makes sense. After all, Amy Madison probably doesn't think of herself as evil - certainly she never used to. She was once Willow's friend, and in many ways stands as Willow's dark shadow. Faced with similar choices, Willow looked where the path would take her and chose - at the very last minute, granted - to turn away. Amy closed her eyes and jumped straight in. In Willow's words, Amy is "As self-involved as your mom was." She only thinks about herself, and sees other people as playthings for her amusement. She's always used her power for selfish ends. Consider her past:
In 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' she's using mind control or illusion spells on a teacher to get out of doing her homework. She helps Xander, but not willingly - he blackmails her into it; and of course her spell involves playing with people's minds and turning them into helpless love-puppets. Arguably, it's more harmful, if less of an intimate betrayal, than what Willow did to Tara in 'All The Way' and 'Tabula Rasa'.
In 'Gingerbread', when she, Willow and Buffy are being burned at the stake, she uses her magic in an attempt to escape. You'll note that she makes no effort to save the other two: she changes into a rat and makes her own getaway, abandoning them to burn. It's possibly karmic justice that she then ends up stuck as a rat for the next three years.
In 'Smashed', the newly de-ratted Amy can't be bothered to go see her father (who, remember, hasn't seen his daughter in three years). She thinks that would be boring. Instead she manipulates a reluctant Willow to go out clubbing with her. And then, almost her first action is to use a mind control spell on an unwilling victim to make her sexually interested in her companion. Hey, isn't that almost exactly the thing Warren did to Katrina in 'Dead Things'? Maybe Amy and Warren have something in common after all... After which, Amy goes on a rampage of using her magic to transform and manipulate other people, just for fun, and Willow follows her example readily enough.
In 'Wrecked', Amy continues to lead Willow down the path to perdition. Her final appearance in season 6 is in 'Doublemeat Palace', and although it's a short scene it's a significant one for our theme.
AMY: So this is it, huh? This is gonna be your life from now on? But you're never gonna do it again.
Ever. You're never gonna feel how it made you feel... Hey, Will. It's your birthday... It's a gift. It's magic and it didn't come from you. It came from me. Completely legal. Enjoy.
Here we have Amy meddling with other people's lives again, messing them up... and expecting them to be grateful. Mind you, I'm honestly unclear whether she really believes that she's doing Willow a favour, or if she's being deliberately malicious. Maybe both at once. She wants to shake Willow up - and is probably resentful of her turning away from her after the events of 'Wrecked' - but perhaps also feels that Willow would be a lot happier if she forgot this "giving up magic" stuff.
Now compare that to the Slayer Empowerment spell at the end of 'Chosen'. Just like Amy in 'Doublemeat Palace', Willow is giving an overwhelming dose of power to a bunch of other girls, without asking them first or explaining what will happen. Of course, we can argue that Willow had totally different motives; and I think it makes a big difference that the first concern she and Buffy had after the closing of the Hellmouth was to find the people affected by the spell and help them come to terms with it. Even so, to an outsider looking in the similarities between the two are damning. They're both playing with other people's lives without their consent, for an objective they see as a good thing and therefore worth the cost.
Season 8 has another good example of this: Amy's 'rescue' of Warren. (Warren himself being a good example of a character who's completely self-absorbed, incidentally. Although by the end of his season 6 arc he's started seeing himself as playing on the Evil team, hanging around in demon bars and so on, he didn't start out that way. He was just using his powers - technological rather than magical - to serve his own self-indulgent whims without caring too much about the people (and robots) he violated doing so. Just like Amy, in other words.)
It's clear that Warren himself is grateful for his 'rescue', and sees it as nothing but a good thing:
WARREN: If Amy hadn't been watching you, she would never have started watching me. Watching over me. [...] This is the girl.
A more objective observer might speculate that being reduced to a hideous, dripping, shambling monstrosity that horrifies anyone who casts eyes on him is not altogether of the good. As I've observed before, Warren's rambling, disjointed speech patterns also suggest that he's either insane, in constant pain, or maybe both. Amy stepped in and 'saved' him - not necessarily, at this stage, because she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him, but because she knew it would mess with Willow's mind. She may even believe that she was doing Warren a favour - or she may be just using him. We don't know yet. Either way, to an outside observer the implication is interesting. Amy saved Warren's life (sort of) when he was about to be incinerated by an evil witch. That makes her a hero, surely? Just like Buffy...
But she's not the only example of someone interfering in someone else's life "for their own good". Nope. We've got Ethan. He's rummaging around in Buffy's brain, prying into her deepest secrets and hidden sexual fantasies, and she feels violated and nauseous at the thought of it. But he's not doing it to hurt her; he's not even doing it for his own self-gratification, although I won't deny that his motives are ultimately selfish. Like Spike in 'Becoming' whom he so resembles here, he's willing to ally with Buffy to beat the bad guys because doing so will be of direct benefit to him. Even so, it can't be denied that he's acting as a force for good in this episode. Nor can it be denied that in doing so, he's still acting in Buffy's best interests without her consent or approval. Just like Buffy is acting in humanity's best interests without our consent or approval...
On a side-issue, if Amy is Willow's dark shadow, Ethan is Giles's. Both pairs come from a similar background, have similar powers and abilities, and were faced by the same temptations; but while Willow and Giles chose one path, Amy and Ethan were self-absorbed and selfish enough to choose the other. Of course, the question is, are such choices irrevocable? (Well, Ethan's is now, since it's difficult to seek redemption with a bullet through your head). The answer seems to be no they're not (except in Ethan's case, of course)... after all, Buffy had a dark shadow of her own, someone who was to her what Amy was to Willow and Ethan to Giles… but she's now back on the good team and getting her very own multi-issue comic arc in three months' time. (I was tempted to continue the analogy with Xander and Warren, but despite their shared geekdom they're not really parallel. If Xander has a dark shadow at all, it's Andrew - who's not particularly dark or shadowy, more of a mirror reflecting whatever's next to him).
In conclusion, Buffy is no longer fighting against authority; she is authority. That's not a bad thing; without the power to change the world, goodwill and the best intentions are useless. The problem is, do we have a moral right to affect other people's lives without their consent? Even if we honestly believe we're acting in their own best interests?
Or does that make us as bad as the people we're fighting?


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Beer is a delightful fishing village and is a joy to visit – with a backdrop of soaring white cliffs, it is situated in a lovely sheltered bay with a pebbled beach, and there is much sailing and fishing activity to enjoy watching.
For those of you are wondering, the name Beer is derived from an old English name meaning a small wood. Although beer was never produced in the village, the local vineyards owned by the monks of Sherborne Abbey produced wine.
The quaint main street has a pretty natural stream running alongside, leading past many fascinating shops, pubs and restaurants ideal to browse around at your leisure.
Beer has many claims to fame, including its history of fishing and boating, and both visitors and locals still enjoy watching the local fishermen landing their catches.
If you admire the beautiful cliffs, you will realise why Beer has been famous since Roman times for supplying fine white limestone, which has been used in buildings throughout the country from Exeter Cathedral to Windsor Castle and the Tower of London.
To enjoy the fishing tradition of the village, there are angling trips available throughout the season, or you can enjoy freshly caught fish either for sale or at one of the local restaurants or pubs.
There are lots of shops and galleries, including the Marine House, featuring perfect souvenirs such as the famous Beer pottery.
The Sailing Club is long established, and the highlight of their year is Beer Regatta Week, this year from August 6 to 12, with races, competitions, and lots of fun events including barrel rolling down Fore Street. Throughout the year you can watch the boats in the bay, including those from Beer Luggers Club who still use an old traditional rig.
Another special event is Rattenbury Day on August 27, when there are lots of fun and festivities celebrating the life of Beer native Jack Rattenbury, one of Devons most notorious smugglers.
Also established as an annual event is the Beer Rhythm & Blues festival, which has a superb atmosphere and features performances at venues throughout the area in October.
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Special events are held throughout the year, such as the Peco Loco Week from July 11 to 16. For information on all Pecoramas events call (01297) 21542.
Branscombe is not only one of the most picturesque villages in the area, it is reputed to be the longest village in the country. Its name is derived from its position at the foot of two branching valleys or combes, and it is situated amongst lovely fields and woodlands.
There is much to photograph, including a thatched smithy which dates from Norman times, and Great Seaside Farm dating back to the 14th century, situated on the road leading from the village square to the beach.
The 12th century Church of St Winifred is definitely worth visiting, with its large central Norman tower and knave, fragments of a medieval wall painting, and a rare example of a three-decker 18th century pulpit.
From the village you can drive to the beach, which has ample car parking, a thatched licensed restaurant and a super beach where the children can enjoy exploring the rock pools. If you have more energy you can walk along the coastal paths, offering spectacular views.
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Spin Your Thesis! 2010 campaign begins
The first session of the 'Spin Your Thesis!' campaign organised by ESA's Education Office has been completed successfully at the European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.
During the week of 14-18 June, two teams, made up of university students from Switzerland, Germany and Italy, were able to conduct their hypergravity experiments on the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) of the Life and Physical Sciences (LPS) facility at ESTEC.
After the selection of four proposals by a review panel last February, the teams set to work to build their experiment racks. During their preparations, the students were advised by LPS engineers and by mentors from the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA), who shared their expertise in gravity-related research.
The first to use the LDC was a team of students from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their experiment, entitled Voltage Clamp Studies on Living Cells under Hypergravity, was designed to investigate the membrane properties of living cells under varying levels of gravity. By studying which transport mechanisms are affected by gravitational changes, it is hoped that effective countermeasures may be developed against muscle atrophy during prolonged exposure to microgravity.
As soon as they arrived on 14 June, the students eagerly prepared their rack so that they were able to conduct the first tests later in the same day. Over the next two days they were able to complete a series of 30-minute runs at 1.8 times the Earth's gravity (g), followed by an opportunity to run some extra rounds at higher gravity levels.
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Ouakam is a fishing vilage, about 6 km from the airport and 11 from Dakar the capital. It's a wave in front of the fishing village and a mosque. People are very friendly and happy given that the average income is about $1USD per day. It's really mystical wave.
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessDon't know
Wave qualityWorld Class
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencyDon't know
DirectionRight and left
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerFast, Powerful
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good swell directionNorth, West, SouthWest, South, SouthEast, NorthEast
Good wind directionNorth, East, NorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
Best tide positionLow and mid tide
Best tide movementRising and falling tides
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdFew surfers
- Urchins
- Rocks
You will lucky if you catch a wave because you need a big swell to get waves. Many people go to Senegal and only see the waves in their dreams because it's as all surfers say: "You should have be here yesterday"
The atmosphere is very mistical because as you can see on the picture you are inside a cliff around a small typical West African fishing village. So it's completely different than most other waves. You also have the mosque right in front of you, one of the biggest in the country and with this line up when the swell turns the cliff which is just friont of you, it's just magic.
It's just the best spot in West Africa, very fast and long very, not very deep with a little island of rocks and urchins just front of your take off, that's why I saw very good surfers come on holiday and not stay much in the peak because the rocks remind you all the time that they are at home !!!
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By Anonymous , 02-12-2008
why? - Well..I thought I'd check the comments to read some nice info on which swells work best here, where's good to stay etc but instead all there is is pure racial divides and hatred written by various so called surfers. I just don't understand surf attitude anymore? I just watched a video about senegal and thought it seemed like a different and interesting place to catch some fun waves as well as have a cultural african experience..you guys obviously missed the point to why we surf! I've surfed my whole life and am now rollin on 36 but recently surfing has become uncool and dominated by guys with bad attitudes like you lot...why?? I now get dropped in on every session and even at my local local I've surfed my whole life..I ask the young guys why and they say "that's the way we roll!"...Poor senegalese surfers having to put up with the same shit I do from guys who think they're more important than the locals...you should all be ashamed...the more I surf now the more I think about giving up because the people involved in the sport are the worst type with the most selfish attitude and I paddle out to be surrounded by these assholes...why?? I just hope the people in Senegal can forgive you lot and continue to smile and share their waves with the open hearted traveller...please forgive these idiots who wrote before me. Surfing is about fun, sharing and being stoked for others around you....please please can we share the love a little more!!
By anonymous , 19-01-2005
- Don't be sorry, local's should get used to the travelling surfers, they don't mind crowding our hospitals or accepting the tourist $$ I've travelled the world surfing and never had agro from anyone, some people are just bitter and will complain about anything!!!
By anonymous , 18-01-2005
respect - tonton, firstly sorry about your mate alex, but you and mr we made some fair points. you goto different places in the world and different people are causing problems their, in sri lanka its the isrealis, in indo its the brazilians back home in oz its........well us.still you have to take people as individuals.
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Three former executives conspired to hide a powerhouse law firm's snowballing financial problems from auditors and even their own partners as it headed toward collapse in the nation's biggest law firm bankruptcy, prosecutors said Thursday.
Dewey & LeBouef LLP ex-chairman Steven Davis, former chief executive Stephen DiCarmine and former chief financial officer Joel Sanders oversaw years of accounting tricks and lies, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said as he unveiled fraud and other charges against them.
The former execs say they did nothing but strive — legally — to save a struggling firm from the vise of the 2008 financial meltdown.
"The actions taken by Steven Davis when he was chairman of Dewey & LeBoeuf were taken in good faith, in an effort to make the firm a success," his lawyer, Elkan Abramowitz, said in a statement.
Davis, 60; DiCarmine, 57; and Sanders, 55, were released on $2 million bond each after pleading not guilty to fraud and other charges. All attorneys themselves, the three were brought into court in handcuffs.
The now-shuttered firm traced its roots to the early 1900s and later counted former Manhattan DA, New York governor and Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey among its partners. At its height, it employed nearly 3,000 people around the world. Its 2012 implosion rocked the legal community, put thousands of employees out of work and left creditors trying to recover hundreds of millions of dollars owed them.
Two venerable New York corporate law firms, Dewey Ballantine LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, joined to create Dewey & LeBouef in 2007. The new firm boasted such clients as The Walt Disney Co. and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, but its prospects quickly soured with the economy.
By the end of 2008, the firm was more than $100 million in debt and unable to meet cash-reserve requirements set by its banks, Vance said. So Dewey's leaders began doctoring records and devising accounting shenanigans to make expenses seem lower and revenue higher, said Vance's office and the FBI, which aided the investigation.
"This is not a simple case of aggressive accounting, bad business judgment or poor management," but of "blatant accounting fraud and deceit," Vance said.
Many tactics involved accounting arcana, but some were as simple as asking clients for backdated checks to count the income in a prior year, the authorities said.
The men sent emails alternately expressing trepidation and celebrating their guile, according to a Manhattan indictment and a federal Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed Thursday. The SEC got involved because Dewey sold bonds in 2010 to finance its debt.
The SEC said Sanders, for instance, wrote to a then-colleague in early December 2008: "I don't want to cook the books anymore." But when DiCarmine came up with an accounting maneuver a few weeks later, Sanders gushed: "That's why we get the extra 10 or 20 percent bonus. Tell (your wife), stick with me! We'll buy a ski house next," the indictment says.
Months later, the indictment says, Sanders wrote to another, unidentified employee: "Can you find another clueless auditor for next year?"
DiCarmine's lawyer, Austin Campriello, said the indictment "spins some inartful emails into crimes." He and Sanders' lawyer, Edward Little, said authorities misunderstood law firm accounting.
"Despite what the district attorney's office apparently believes, the public does not need a scapegoat every time a financial disaster is reported in the media," Little said.
Seven ex-Dewey employees have pleaded guilty, and their cases were sealed, Vance said. Former Dewey client relations manager Zachary Warren, 29, pleaded not guilty Thursday to conspiracy and other charges; prosecutors said he helped figure out the accounting schemes. His lawyer, Steven Hyman, said Warren did nothing wrong at Dewey, his first post-college job.
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Coraline is the story of a young girl, who having recently moved, is bored with her new apartment building the Pink Palace. One night she discovers a door that leads to a twisted, alternate version of our world that seems fantastic at first, but that harbors a dark side.
NECA has captured the unique look of the fabulous puppets that were used in the creation of this extraordinary film and this news exclusive captures one of the many outfits Coraline wears in the movie.
Coraline comes packaged in a small, compact box identical to the regular series releases. The overall color is a striped pink on all sides and is complimented by a black insert on the inside of the box. The back has images of the other figures in the series and a short bio on the film. The back also features imagery to suggest torn fabric, patterns, sewing, and of course, buttons.
Coralie features essentially a slender rubber body over a wire armature that allows for bendable poseability in her midsection, arms, and legs. Her hands and feet are fully moveable as well due to their peg-based assembly. Her head is mounted on a ball-joint allowing for full rotation. The head sculpt itself captures the unique look of the film, with Coralines wavy hair being cast in a translucent blue color. The face has been made a separate piece that provides an interesting feature to the figure. If you remove the face, the eyes are mounted so that they may be arranged in different positions, allowing for more display options and different expressions. The face itself features a sideways, slight inquisitive look about it with the nose turned to the left and the mouth pulled far to the left as well.
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If you were a fan of the film, you will definitely want to complete your set of Coraline memorabilia with this fourth and final release in the series. While originally available at SDCC09, you can find Coraline at NECA's Amazon Store for the same $20 retail price.
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Cubs educate Castillo with examples of greatness
MESA, Ariz. -- Mickey Cochrane was the latest addition to the gallery near Cubs catcher Welington Castillo's locker.
Every day, Cubs coach Mike Borzello hands Castillo a picture of a Hall of Fame catcher with his stats on the other side of the paper. The "Wall of Fame" includes Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Gary Carter and now Cochrane.
"[Borzello] says, 'Just look at the numbers and how many years he's played, what he hit for his whole life, MVP,'" Castillo said Sunday. "I do a little bit of homework and know who they are. There's a lot of guys and I don't know who they are."
The education is to help Castillo, 26, who is entering his second season as the Cubs' full-time catcher. Last year, he batted .274 and set career highs in games (113), home runs (eight), and RBIs (32).
This spring should be easier. Castillo has a better feel for the staff, knows what pitching coach Chris Bosio wants, and how to handle the rigors of a long season. And he knows the Cubs are underdogs in the National League Central.
"I want to play, I want to go out and play and have fun," Castillo said. "What can we do? No names -- we've got no names. I think we're going to do good. There's a lot of young people, young guys who want to do everything to win. I can see it in their eyes -- 'I'm ready, I'm hungry.' Like, 'Throw me in the jungle, I'm going to get out of there.' I can't wait for the games."
He'll have to wait until Thursday, when the team christens new Cubs Park in west Mesa with a game against the D-backs. Castillo has been slowed a little this spring because of some soreness in his groin. He had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus in September and worked on conditioning, not catching, this winter.
"I didn't do anything as a catcher this offseason," Castillo said. "I started doing everything right away hard [in camp] and I'm just a little tight. They told me, 'We need you for the whole season, so take it easy.'"
The good news is that his knee is fine, and there's no soreness or pain.
"[The soreness is from] a lot of squats and stuff like that," Castillo said. "I feel good. I feel hungry to play. Every day I ask, 'When are the games going to start?'"
Two other catchers in Cubs camp, George Kottaras and John Baker, joined Castillo's wall on Sunday. At least he has seen them play.
"I never saw those other guys play," he said of Berra and Cochrane. "They're really good catchers."
The Cubs feel the same about Castillo.


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Visitors to the MIT website last night were greeted with a message from Anonymous about Aaron Swartz, calling the government's prosecution of the late open access activist a "grotesque miscarriage of justice."
It was run-of-the-mill website vandalism rather than a serious attack impacting MIT's back-end security. CNET caught a screenshot of the defacement while it was still online:
The "YourAnonNews" Twitter account reported "#MIT Owned by #Anonymous," and used Pastebin to provide the full text of the message that was temporarily on the MIT website. "Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for—freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it—enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing—an ideal that we should all support," the message stated.
Ars' Timothy B. Lee also used the phrase "grotesque miscarriage of justice" to describe the government prosecution of Swartz in an article on Saturday.
In its message on the MIT site, Anonymous also called for the "reform of computer crime laws and the overzealous prosecutors who use them," and a "reform of copyright and intellectual property law."
Swartz, 26, committed suicide Friday. He had been indicted for logging into MIT's network to gain access to the JSTOR database and download millions of academic journal articles. MIT announced yesterday that it will investigate its own involvement in the process that led to his legal battle. "It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy," MIT President Rafael Reif wrote.
Anonymous also claimed it will target the Department of Justice. The DOJ's website was reportedly offline for a little while Sunday night, but is back up.


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Foreclosure filings hit a two-year high in Southwest Florida in 2012, dovetailing with a trend that has catapulted the state to No. 1 in the nation for home defaults for the first time since the U.S. housing markets began imploding six years ago.
While market activity throughout 2012 suggests the region is likely well past the peak of the foreclosure crisis that has dragged down prices and stymied recovery, analysts say distressed properties will remain a key concern in 2013 as lenders work through case backlogs.
"Foreclosures are not going anywhere any time soon," said Drew Peterson, a foreclosure specialist with the Re/Max Alliance Group in Sarasota. "We are among the slowest states for processing foreclosures, a main reason why foreclosure numbers will be high for the foreseeable future."
That lender backlog has swelled court filings throughout Florida, even as new cases have spiked in the region, pushing up the percentage of homes where mortgages are delinquent.
A total of 14,033 foreclosure filings were made in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties last year, a 22.3 percent increase from 2011, according to real estate research firm RealtyTrac Inc. At least some of that activity stems from a federal settlement with lenders that, in turn, spurred the refiling of some cases that had been dismissed.
Foreclosure filings declined in December, to 1,268 in the three-county region. That was down 27.6 percent from the same month a year ago.
But by year end, 2.8 percent of the region's housing units -- one in every 36 -- had been involved in some step in the foreclosure process.
Florida ended 2012 with more than 377,000 open foreclosure cases, said Deerfield Beach real estate analyst Jack McCabe. Another 500,000 homeowners, meanwhile, have not made payments on their mortgages for at least 90 days but have yet to receive a foreclosure notice.
"The banks are now motivated to process and conclude these foreclosures and transactions," McCabe said. "That is why I expect activity is going to pick up quite a bit in 2013 and 2014."
"Our real estate market is not going to get healthy and back to normal until these distressed properties are dealt with," he said.
Some large lenders, forced into government settlements over foreclosure abuses, are helping homeowners avoid foreclosure through mortgage modifications, principal reductions or short sales.
But an estimated 40 percent of Florida homeowners with mortgages remain underwater -- owing more on their house than it is worth -- and many are expected to choose to walk away from their debt and become renters.
"They can't really put them up for sale," McCabe said. "Most people don't want to pay money to sell their home."
On the plus side, an improving economy, dwindling unemployment rates and increasing home values have helped some Southwest Florida residents keep their homes, said Peterson, the Re/Max foreclosure specialist.
The tightening supply and the rising prices of rentals have swayed some homeowners to strive to pay their mortgages rather than default, he said.
'Judicial foreclosures'
Across Florida, there were 279,230 foreclosure filings -- default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions -- last year, a 53 percent increase from 2011 but 42 percent below the 2010 level.
The Sunshine State registered the nation's highest foreclosure rate last year, with 3.11 percent of its housing units, or one in every 32, subject to some level of foreclosure filing.
Last year "was the year of the judicial foreclosure, with foreclosure activity increasing from 2011 in 20 of the 26 states that primarily use the judicial process," said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.
Blomquist said that Florida posted the nation's highest state foreclosure rate "for the first time since the housing crisis began." While the nation may be "comfortably past" the apex of foreclosures, Blomquist said states like Florida could see a spike in 2013.
"We expect to see continued increases in judicial foreclosure states near the beginning of the year as lenders finish catching up with the backlogs," he said.
Florida accounts for the largest share of foreclosure inventory of any state, with 305,766 properties either in some stage of foreclosure or already bank-owned, by RealtyTrac's measure. That is 20 percent of the U.S. total.
The average time to foreclose in Florida was 853 days, the third-longest period in the nation.
Sarasota County recorded 6,405 foreclosure filings last year, up 42 percent from 2011, while Manatee County had 4,654 filings, up nearly 17 percent for the year. Charlotte County had 2,974 filings, flat with 2011, RealtyTrac data showed.
But the levels of filings in all three counties were well below their peak levels from 2008 to 2010.
In December, Sarasota had 660 filings, down 30.5 percent from November but up 7.5 percent from a year before. Manatee had 275, down 45 percent for the month and 59 percent for the year. Charlotte had 333, up 35 percent for the month but down nearly 28 percent from the same month in 2011.
Early-stage foreclosures, known as "lis pendens," totaled 421 across the region during December, down 29 percent from November and 40 percent from December 2011.
Florida tops on home defaults
Foreclosure filings hit a two-year high in Southwest Florida in 2012, dovetailing with a trend that has catapulted the state to No. 1 in the nation for home defaults for the first time since the U.S. housing markets began imploding six years ago.


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The E8 state of bosons is a 2+1d gapped phase of matter which has no topological entanglement entropy but has protected chiral edge states in the absence of any symmetry. This peculiar state is interesting in part because it sits at the boundary between short- and long-range entangled phases of matter. When the system is translation invariant and for special choices of parameters, the edge states form the chiral half of a 1+1d conformal field theory - an E8 level 1 Wess-Zumino-Witten model. However, in general the velocities of different edge channels are different and the system does not have conformal symmetry. We show that by considering the most general microscopic Hamiltonian, in particular by relaxing the constraint of translation invariance and adding disorder, conformal symmetry remerges in the low energy limit. The disordered fixed point has all velocities equal and is the E8 level 1 WZW model. Hence a highly entangled and highly symmetric system emerges, but only when the microscopic Hamiltonian is completely asymmetric.


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Alex Rodriguez won't be the only big baseball name making its World Series debut Wednesday night.
When the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies take the field for the first game of the World Series, Major League Baseball will also introduce its popular At Bat mobile application for Android phones.
Previously only available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, the application can be downloaded from MLB.com's mobile site but not the Android Marketplace, since the league is still testing the app in advance of next season. For that reason, the Android version will be free.
At Bat for Android delivers live scoreboards, box scores, and pitch-by-pitch or play-by-play updates, along with updated video highlight reels. The big difference between the free beta Android version the full paid version now for iPhone is that there's no option for live streaming video. There will, however, be live streaming audio for the remainder of the baseball postseason.
MLB says for now it's testing the waters, and it doesn't mean there will definitely be an Android app for next season.
"We were intrigued by the adoption of Android and the recent announcements by carriers releasing devices in the coming weeks and months, and we wanted to take this opportunity during World Series" to test it out, said Adam Ritter, vice president of wireless at MLB Advanced Media. "The beta Android app will give us the feedback we need from a product and technical perspective to see what's possible for next season."
It's been a big day for Android, Google's free Linux-based mobile operating system, and MLB's embrace of the OS shows its technology savvy. While iPhone and iPod Touch sales have exploded, Android is also gaining momentum, as seen with Wednesday's high-profile launch of the Motorola Droid series. There are at least 10 Android phones available now or within the next week, and at least 10 more rumored models on the way for the holidays or next year.
MLB At Bat 2009 and MLB At Bat Lite (the free version) is currently on 1.2 million devices, according to MLB.
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Avicii vs Nicky Romero have crashed into the Number One spot in the singles chart - but the song behind the latest internet dance craze looks set to be snapping at their heels next week.
The Swedish/Dutch house duo's new entry I Could Be The One topped the chart, but Baauer's Harlem Shake, which is being tipped as the new Gangnam Style, was the week's big mover, going from 22 in midweek to number 3 on Sunday, according to the Official Chart Company.
The song has clocked up millions of listens on YouTube through thousands of "meme" parody videos.
The numerous home-made Harlem Shake parodies by fans are a nod to a New York dance style of the 1980s, and feature unassuming subjects in their bedrooms, lounges and offices bursting into movement when the heavy bassline of Brooklyn-producer Baauer's track kicks in.
Between the two is last week's number one, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop.
Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company, said: "Harlem Shake's arrival at number three underlines just how quickly this track has turned into a bone fide phenomenon.
"At the start of the week, it wasn't even selling enough to make the Top 20 - but it is now one of the UK's most popular tracks."
Swedish DJ Avicii, real name Tim Bergling, and Dutchman Romero, real name Nick Rotteveel, lent a distinctly European feel to the top of the music charts on Sunday.
Their biggest ever hit topped the singles list while the soundtrack from French Revolution-based Hollywood blockbuster Les Miserables - based on the Victor Hugo novel - retained its grip on the top of the album charts.
It kept Oxford rockers Foals off the top of the chart, although their latest album Holy Fire is their highest charting work so far, beating 2008's Antidotes (number three) and 2010's Total Life Forever (number eight).


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Cloud-focused Application Performance Management (APM) vendor AppDynamics has released its eponymously named Lite for .NET "production-ready" performance monitoring tool for .NET developers.
After culturing a Java developer community of 70,000 users, the firm has now turned to the .NET platform with what is promised to be the same functionality in terms of application business transaction monitoring. The tool's trending and alerting functions work to provide code-level diagnostics on application issues such as slow SQL, stalls, errors, and slow response times.
Founder and CEO of AppDynamics Jyoti Bansal takes the competition head on and says that programmers need "more than simple system monitoring tools like Perfmon" — AppDynamics Lite is, "a free production monitoring tool solution that provides insight deep into the application layer," he added.
AppDynamics Lite is installed directly on an instance of Microsoft IIS Web Server to drill down into slow requests and gain a high-level overview of how an application performs over time.


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and from tomorrow we enter the last 37 days before the new cycle commences.
February 11 through March 19 constitutes 37 days (or 38 in a leap year; the next one of which will be 2004, the Centennial of Liber Legis). These days may be used as a time of silence and asceticism following the annual cycle, as the earth lies dormant and the Dark Cycle's energies build and accumulate for their rushing-forth in spring; or they may be equated to the 37 letters of the phrase Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. (If the latter approach is used, in a leap year, the final day, March 19, should be the day to which nothing is assigned.) The eve before the Vernal Equinox is dedicated to a reading of "The Prologue of the Unborn."


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First Look: Casey's Pizza Truck in San Francisco
Back in May, we caught up with Casey Crynes as he lugged his modified Weber grill around San Francisco to cook up some very solid pizzas. These days, Crynes has upgraded from that little Weber to a 1900-pound oven. Thankfully, he has a set of pretty sweet wheels to tote that thing around—as of late September, Crynes has been operating San Francisco's first mobile pizza truck. Of course, Slice got onto the scene as quickly as possible to check things out.
Crynes had his Casey's Pizza truck built from an old Navy uniform van. The spiffy grey ride houses a Marsal MB 60 oven, similar to the rig you'll find inside Pizzeria Delfina—certainly a pretty good operation to emulate when it comes to pizza. Crynes reports that the oven burns close to 700 degrees, more than hot enough to turn out his target artisanal New York-style pizzas.
When we paid Casey's Pizza a visit for a Monday lunch at Truck Stop, a light rain fell over the three food trucks crammed into a narrow alley off Mission Street in the SOMA. Several slices sat ready-made in the display, but we opted for whole pies, choosing a Margherita and a Funghi. (That day's menu also included a pie with Zoe's pepperoni and another topped with arugula.) It took about ten minutes for Crynes and crew to fill our order, with the Funghi arriving a few minutes earlier than the Margherita, meaning it spent some extra time in the box.
I had very nice things to say about Crynes' crust last time out, but I may like it even better coming out of the new oven (and that's despite a few minutes spent in the box as we looked for a dry place to eat). The end-crust leans crisp, but still with good chew and enough tenderness inside. Most importantly, with a just-right helping of salt, it tastes really good. Except, the Casey's Pizza crew does still seem to be struggling to dial the char-o-meter to the right setting.
The bottom of our Funghi pizza came out nicely spotted with char.
But our Margherita, even though it arrived a bit paler on top, had crossed over into blackened territory underneath.
Thankfully, all that carbon underneath the Margherita didn't prove too distracting, and we thoroughly enjoyed the the toppings. Crynes makes a nice sauce of raw tomatoes, well-balanced between tangy and sweet. He covers this with a quality mixture of fresh and aged mozzarella. Even slightly disheveled after sliding around in its box while we scrambled out of the rain, this Margherita made for a pretty stellar mouthful.
We missed the sauce on our Funghi, but loved the meaty flavor of the mushrooms, which had been cut into hefty quarters. Crynes and crew finish this pie with a scattering of red pepper flakes that gave it just a little bit of burn.
At the current time, all the pies served at the Casey's Pizza truck require you to pull $15 out of your wallet (it's $4 for a slice). With quite a few of Crynes' current pop-up locations situated on the edges of San Francisco's Financial District, I suppose we can let the market decide if that's the right price-point. I'll admit that, during my visit, after braving lousy weather and a search for seating, the price gave me momentary pause.
But on a purely gustatory basis, I really like what Crynes and his crew are turning out at this early stage in their four-wheeled existence. Even with one pie slightly over-charred underneath, it was hard to miss that really enjoyable crust or the spot-on flavor combination on the Margherita. I certainly hope that Crynes gets to put many miles on his new wheels—not to mention his new oven.
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Loyola at a Glance Faculty/Staff Newsletter
Conference challenges students to make positive changes
February 18, 2011
The Office of Co-Curricular Programs at Loyola University New Orleans presents the Student Leader Initiative conference, Saturday, Feb. 19, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The conference is free and open to all Loyola students. Lunch will be provided. Registration is limited to 150 students. The keynote speaker will be Alison Donohue, New York project manager for the Jesuit Collaborative's Contemplative Leaders in Action program.
The Student Leader Initiative is a one-day leadership conference that brings together students from Loyola to develop practical leadership skills, learn about social issues affecting their local and global communities, and begin to make positive change on campus. This year's theme is "Today's Actions, Tomorrow's Change," which will challenge students to "leadSTRONG" and to remember that the choices and actions they take today create the change we want to see tomorrow.
SLI will offer more than 15 leadership workshops presented by faculty, staff and students, including: "Organizing Activism: How to be an Agent of Social Change;" "Discovering the Art of Inclusive Language;" "Protect Your Webutation: Being Aware of Your Presence on Social Media Outlets" and many others. Presenters include Kurt Bindewald, director of University Ministry; Craig Beebe, director of Residential Life; Laura Murphy, assistant professor of English; Heather Roundtree, director of Co-Curricular Programs; and members of the Student Government Association.
Donohue is a featured speaker at the 2010 National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference and serves as part of a team offering Ignatian formation workshops for the Board of Trustees of the New York area Jesuit high schools. Previously, she was the managing editor at Crossroad Publishing and the first female chaplain at Regis High School in New York City. During her summers, she has studied Islam in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship for teachers; traveled to Nairobi to establish a partnership between Regis and St. Al's, a high school for AIDS orphans in Kibera; interviewed victims of the genocide in Bosnia, and worked with the founder of the Anti-Human Trafficking Desk of the South African Bishops' Conference. Donohue spent six years in Residential Life at Fordham University, earning a bachelor's degree in English and master's degrees in both English literature and theology. She is currently completing her Master of Divinity degree at Yale University.
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Hal Jordan's destiny unfolds in figure form...
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To coincide with the release of the full-length animated film Green Lantern: First Flight, Mattel has created a 3-pack of characters that factor in to the Hal Jordan/Green Lantern origin storyline. Each of the three characters, which includes Hal Jordan, Sinestro, and Abin Sur, are done in the Justice League Unlimited animated style and fit in nicely with the ongoing action figure line.
While not the most visually dynamic of Mattels exclusive offerings this year, The Green Lantern 3-pk gives fans of GL a very cool alternative to the plain old JLU packaging. The three figures are suspended and mounted in the center of a clear three-dimensional lantern. The backer card gives the lantern it color, as well as, providing the handle of the lantern in place of the typical J-hook. The back of the package gives a brief synopsis of Green Lanterns origin and shows pics of the characters in JLU animated form. The last surprising detail and a big plus for loose and carded fans alike is a collector-friendly bubble that can be opened without breaking any tape or seals, giving you the ability to remove the figures for display and replace them if you change your mind.
Capturing the look of the Justice League Animated Series and action figure line, the three figures are all very stocky and feature limited articulation and poseabiltiy. Each figure has five points of articulation including the arms, legs, and neck. One of the highlights of the set in the ability to remove the figures heads and interchange them, which allows fans to place Hal Jordans head on a Green Lantern-garbed body. This allowed Mattel to give fans a Hal Jordan Green Lantern, despite not be able to release him the way he was previously done as a promotional piece.
Abin Sur and Sinestro share the exact same body and limbs, while Hal has the same body, but includes new sculpted arms and legs and a soft PVC jacket. Each character also features the sharp, chiseled features synonymous with the style of the series. While a problem that has manifested itself throughout the history the line, the characters have issues with the legs and have to be positioned specific ways to get them to stand. The inclusion of display stands would have helped with this problem.
While the paint apps on these figures are fairly simple and have no additional shading or texture, they still have a fair share of flaws. The paint bleeds in many of the places where the colors change, such as at the neckline, the top of the gloves, and the hands and waist of Hal. Abin Sur and Sinestro are painted almost identical except for the two different styled Lantern costumes with and without green shoulders. Despite the flaws, the facial features were painted perfectly and the Lantern logos and the zipper and Ferris Aircraft logo on Hals suit are all applied flawlessly.
Despite the slight paint issues, the set is a fantastic gift from Mattel to fans of the Green Lantern. The unique packaging and swappable head feature make this set more than worth the $20 price tag. Amazingly, fans can still order this SDCC09 Exclusive from Mattels online store,
For more images of the Green Lantern Origins, visit the gallery HERE.
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Country: Austria
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Past Olympic experience: Won gold in giant slalom and slalom at Turin. Finished third and fourth in the same two events at Salt Lake City in 2002, when he also captured bronze in the combined.
Career highlights: Won the World Cup overall title in the 2005-06 season and was second in 2004-05, 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Quote: "Skiing is No. 1 in Austria and people expect an Austrian to be on top of the podium."
Country: U.S.
Age: 24
Past Olympic experience: Won the gold medal in the combined at Turin.
Career highlights: Topped the World Cup giant slalom standings in the 2007-08 season, when he also finished fifth in the overall standings.
Quote: "When I started racing, I definitely wasn't the best guy on the team. There were always a couple of guys ahead of me and I'd go to races and get spanked pretty badly sometimes. But that gave me the motivation to keep plugging away at it and to compete at the highest level."
Country: Switzerland
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Career highlights: An early-season sensation on the World Cup tour, the youngster won the giant slalom in December on the world championship course at Val D'Isere, two weeks after coming out of the 65th start spot to finish second in a downhill at Lake Louise. He was ninth in the giant slalom at Whistler last season.
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Country: Canada
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Past Olympic experience: Was 17th in the combined at Turin, 22nd in the Super G and 27th in the downhill.
Career highlights: Won his first World Cup at Lake Louise in the Super G in December 2006. Finished 10th in the giant slalom standings last season after finishing fourth at La Villa-Alta Badia, Italy, and fifth on the Olympic course at Whistler.
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Protesting too much
In your issue of March 25, you print an article by Lisa Provence setting forth the "harassment" of Steven Turner by the Charlottesville Police Department in their attempt to obtain a DNA sample [News, "Fishing trip: 'Harassment' charges in rapist search"].
In the same issue, you publish Turner's attempt to rationalize his refusal to provide such a DNA sample [Essay, "Profile surprise: how I made the CPD's hit list"].
As Shakespeare said, he "doth protest too much," methinks.
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Protesters in Pakistan Seize State TV
Antigovernment protesters on Monday briefly occupied the headquarters of the country's state television, causing its broadcast to go blank, in a further escalation of the political crisis that is threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Getty Images
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Plymouth RNLI Shop
Buy RNLI gifts and souvenirs from our Plymouth Shop and help save lives at sea.
Due to the developing coronavirus situation and in order to protect our customers, staff and volunteers, this shop is now CLOSED until further notice.
We hope to re-open soon but in the meantime, we would appreciate your continued support by visiting our online shop at shop.RNLI.org.
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