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NEWTOWN, Conn. - As this small Connecticut town mourned Saturday, teams of detectives continued to work at the school where 20 students were killed, going over "every crack and crevice of that facility," a state police spokesman said. Lt. J. Paul Vance said detectives already had recovered "very good evidence in this investigation" that will help determine how and why 20-year-old Adam Lanza attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School. A law enforcement source told the New Haven Register that Lanza got out of his vehicle in front of the school, shot out the glass next to the main entrance and then went inside the building. He began firing at staff members and students with a rifle and a pistol, and then proceeded to classrooms, where he continued shooting. On Saturday, authorities were preparing to release the names of those killed in the chilling massacre, in which Lanza killed his mother and 26 others before committing suicide inside a local elementary school. Friends and co-workers identified Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherloch as two of the victims, and news organizations were continuing to identify other victims. The shooting Friday began just after 9:30 a.m. at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, setting off a nightmarish scene in which students and teachers hid under desks and in closets before being escorted to safety and reunited with their families. "I heard gunshots; I was under a desk with three or four other people," said Luie Munguia, an 8-year-old third-grader. Brenda Lebinski finally walked away from an illuminated Treadwell Park just before 9:30 p.m. Friday night, her eyes red from crying. She said she was heading to her car that had been parked at Sandy Hook since the morning. As her daughter, Sofia Lebinksi, a third-grader at the school, followed closely behind to finally go home and go to bed, Lebinski said she is "going to count every blessing" that Sofia survived. "I'm going to hug her, I'm not going to let her go," Lebinksi said. "I'm going to try to help the families and help the community as much as I can." The death toll at Sandy Hook - 26 students and adults - made it the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, where 32 were killed. Police said the suspected shooter, Adam Lanza, killed himself at the school, and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at her nearby home, bringing the overall toll to 28. There were multiple reports that Lanza, who lived with his mother, woke up and shot her to death. Then, he took her car and drove to the school where she worked, and unleashed bullets in two classrooms. A custodian ran through the halls, warning of a gunman on the loose, and someone switched on the intercom, alerting people in the building to the attack - and perhaps saving many lives - by letting them hear the hysteria going on in the school office, a teacher said. Teachers locked their doors and ordered children to huddle in a corner or hide in closets as shots echoed through the building. Authorities gave few details on exactly how the attack unfolded, saying they are keeping some details "close to our chest" as they continue to investigate the crime scene. But police radio traffic indicated the shooting lasted only a few minutes. Vance said officers arrived instantaneously, immediately entered the school, breaking windows and searching it completely before finding Lanza dead. Later, three guns were found: a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols, inside the school, and a .223-caliber rifle in the back of a car. Vance said at a Saturday morning news conference that investigators were tracking the history of each of the three weapons recovered. A law enforcement official said Adam Lanza had a possible personality disorder. His older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned. The official said Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative, was not believed to have any involvement in the rampage and was not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. Ryan Lanza told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010. Peter Lanza, father of Adam and Ryan, was informed about the shooting Friday afternoon by a reporter who was waiting outside his home in nearby Stamford. Witnesses described a chaotic scene inside the school as the shooter opened fire, eventually killing 20 students between the ages of 5 and 10. One teacher was shot and survived, and police believe she will provide critical evidence for them. "I was in the art room and we heard gunshots so we had to close the door," said Venesa Bajiraliu, a 9-year-old fourth-grader. "But ... one of the doors didn't lock so we went in the art teacher's office. And she called her husband to call 911, and the police came and when they came we heard on the loudspeaker a scream, and then they came and we went with them,. And they said to close our eyes so I closed my eyes, and then when we went outside of the school we can open our eyes." Richard Wilson, 36, said he and his wife were home when they got the call there was a shooting at their son's school. Like many parents, they raced to the school, becoming part of a crime scene that quickly spread through the neighborhood. Sarah Walker Caron, a former New Haven Register reporter, said her young son, Will, was in the school at the time of the shooting. "I've never been more terrified in my life," she said. "My heart was pounding. I couldn't race fast enough (to the school)." "It's the most terrible moment of a parent's life - you have no idea," Richard Wilson said. Their son, Richie, 7, later said the shots sounded like "really loud pots were banging." A tearful President Barack Obama addressed the nation just after 3 p.m. on Friday. "I know there is not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that I do," said Obama, who paused several times during his remarks to compose himself and dab his eyes. "The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. "They had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own." He promised action to prevent such tragedies again but did not say how he would do it. Gov. Daniel Malloy spoke briefly at a press conference and said, "It's a tragic, tragic scene." Later in the day, the somber governor said "evil visited this community." Late Friday, police remained at the school, gathering evidence. Meanwhile, families affected by the shootings turned to each other and to faith community for comfort. Thousands gathered at church services to show support for the families who lost loved ones. At St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, people filled the pews, the front yard and nearly spilled out into the road. Children came carrying stuffed animals. Rachel Rockwell, a former Sandy Hook student, traveled back from college in Massachusetts to attend the vigil. "I wanted to come home, see my mom," she said. "I went to school there 15 years ago that could have been me." Inside the Newtown Methodist Church, residents gathered to pray and to grieve. The congregation sang: "Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side. Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain." The stifled tears of congregants were betrayed by quiet sniffs. Men and women discreetly dabbed tears from their eyes. When the clergyman asked congregants to offer prayers to those affected by the tragedy, the names of those whose lives were taken were uttered. The names of those who knew someone affected were spoken. And the name of Adam Lanza, the suspected shooter, who was no stranger to Newtown, was offered up for prayer as well.
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I've also fallen for the trap of '20 days of Wow'.
Time to tackle the first one: Favourite class and why?
I'd constantly screamed Druid on this one. When I started to play this game 6 years ago, I was looking for a shape shifter and I just loved the explanation for druids. Now back then I had the choice between a nightelf or a Tauren. Six years ago I didn't like the cows that much (how things have changed!) and I made my first nightelf (female) druid. I guess I do fit a stereotype.
I just wanted to shapeshift all the time. I wasn't that excited about the bearform, but I adored the kitty one. Every time I switched servers I would make a new nightelf druid. I did get frustrated with the class after many years. I didn't know what I wanted to do with it. Healing, caster, feral dps and I've even tried tanking, though that ended early with all the aggressive pugs nowadays.
I do still love druid, but I felt it was time to try out something new. In the last years I've tried all of them and I soon settled for a mage. I liked the high dps and all the little tricks. It amused me for at least a year. Again, I got bored.
However, I've recently rolled an orc Shaman and I'm loving it. She's quite fierce (in my eyes) and I thought enhancement would be interesting. It's so different playing that. I guess my love for shamans has also grown after reading Rise of the Horde and the story about Thrall. I'm a huge sucker for lore. So for now I am going to say that shaman is my new favourite class, but druids will always have an important place in my heart.
My husband has told me that I'd probably love warlocks even more, so when Cata hits us I'll be making a goblin warlock and see if they can move shamans of the first place!

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'Godzilla' review: Smashing success - but lacks humanity
Godzilla is excellent at wrecking stuff - but film doesn't make us care much
Action. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston. Directed by Gareth Edwards. (PG-13. 123 minutes.)
"Godzilla," that tail-swinging menace from the deep, is back, along with a pair of friends, in a movie that comes in two distinct waves. The first wave is all people; the second wave, longer, is all monsters - and also people looking up at monsters and running down the block screaming.
They're screaming in Japan, then in Honolulu and then in Las Vegas. And just as you're thinking about the Golden Gate Bridge, the monsters are tearing through San Francisco, too, swinging tails and crushing buildings. After all, why go to the beach to stomp around, when every metropolis has a downtown just waiting to get destroyed?
We'll leave it to the psychiatrists to figure out why our most popular entertainments in recent years depict the toppling and smashing of our landmarks. Is this a healthy outlet for fear or some mass neurosis that's so widespread; no one calls it what it is? In either case, what's particularly weird about "Godzilla" is that for long stretches, all it shows is destruction. We get the obligatory context, followed by monster fights - just stuff getting smashed and knocked down.
Perhaps in five years, action movies will stop pretending and just dispense with context altogether. They'll simply fade in on a couple of monsters fighting and show them banging into things for two hours. When we get to that point, "Godzilla" will be hailed as a significant step in that direction.
Yet for the first 45 minutes, "Godzilla" promises to be something better than that. Bryan Cranston plays a scientist in Japan, working in a nuclear plant, and like all fun characters at the beginning of a monster movie, he notices something on his computer ... something very wrong. There's a pattern of some kind, and it doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to. All we need to see is Cranston, bugging out, growling and showing his lower teeth, and we know things are really, really bad.
In those first 45 minutes, "Godzilla" has everything a monster movie needs. There's the one man who knows the truth. There's a monster of legendary proportions. And there are painful and dramatic encounters between human beings. It's pretty clear that nobody broke the news to Cranston that "Godzilla" was slated to be a throwaway summer movie. He's red-faced, terrified, anguished, enraged - he plays every scene like it's the last season of "Breaking Bad."
But this is a summer movie, despite whatever the calendar might tell you, and so the focus must switch to younger characters. So we get Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Cranston's son, a lieutenant specializing in disarming bombs, and Elizabeth Olsen as his wife.
Unfortunately, nobody bothered to write either of them a personality, probably on the assumption that it doesn't take much charm to run full out while stealing the occasional backward glance. In fact, that's when individuality is needed most. It's too vague to ask an audience to care about the fate of humanity, but every "Godzilla" movie must have at least two people you absolutely, positively do not want to see get stepped on.
This has no one. Taylor-Johnson's idea of playing a military guy is to have a stone face, and all Olsen gets to do is fret. Perhaps director Gareth Edwards concentrated too much on the action to worry about the performances. In any case, for at least 75 minutes of the movie, there's not a single moment of human peril that's made vivid or consequential. It's all just spectacle, whether it's people or buildings getting destroyed.
For some, spectacle will be enough. The visuals are impressive - these days, they usually are. In addition to Godzilla, there are two flying monsters, a male and a female, who thrive on radiation and can't wait to mate. Las Vegas' faux Eiffel Tower is knocked over like it's a toy, and the Golden Gate Bridge is mauled. In one scene, we get a shot of Honolulu from what remains of a high-rise, and the devastation looks like Warsaw at the end of World War II.
The movie's big visual showpiece is a monster battle taking place in downtown San Francisco. It's just monsters breaking things in a powdery haze of pulverized plaster, and, to its credit, the scene really does look as if it's actually happening. Still, without any human participation of any importance, it's hard to get worked up about any of it - and that's even if you happen to be watching the movie in downtown San Francisco.
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One of the founders of the Washington-based Syrian Support Group (SSG), which raises funds for the Free Syrian Army, says the West's refusal to support the rebels is driving Syrians into the arms of radical jihadists. Dr. Maher Nana, an American-Syrian doctor who travels in and out of Syria to work with rebel leaders is one of several people Clarissa Ward speaks to in Syria about the war for a 60 Minutes report to be broadcast Sun., Oct. 14at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Raising donations from Syrian-Americans, the SSG has a special license from the Department of the Treasury to send money to rebels who can use it to buy weapons, communication equipment or other supplies for the fight against Bashar al-Assad's government. The group, which reports regularly to the State Department on its work inside Syria, aims to identify upstanding commanders who agree to protect human rights. Dr. Nana travels to Syria frequently, he says, to check on their activities and to "make sure they are standing for their values."
But he warns that, because the rebel commanders he backs are not getting the weapons and funding that they need, they are losing ground to jihadists - some with ties to al Qaeda - who are pouring into the fight. Nana, a moderate, says the rise of these groups is the direct result of the West's failure to come to the aid of the Syrian rebels. "When you fight for your life, you ask for help," he tells Ward. "And when good people don't help you, you're going to ask for help from anybody else."
Ward spoke with the leader of one of the jihadi groups, Ahmed al-Abaid who commands several hundred Muslim fundamentalist fighters based in Northern Syria. In an interview with Ward, he said the free Syria he is fighting for will be ruled under Sharia law but denied reports that, under his command, self-appointed Sharia judges were sentencing prisoners to death. Ward gathered evidence, however, and confronted him in a second interview with a propaganda video showing his brigade executing captured Syrian government soldiers. He was startled by the video but defended the verdict. "No, I was not aware. This is the first time that I see this," he said, but when Ward reminded him that his men were clearly responsible for the execution all he could say was "I really don't know, what can I say. I can no[t] speak," he tells Ward.
Ward and her team witnessed firsthand the suffering of the people of Aleppo, who live under constant bombardment from tanks and jets. She met opposition activist and teacher Salah Hawa in the charred remains of the home he was born and raised in. When government troops came through his neighborhood, they targeted his home and those of other known leaders of the opposition, and burnt it to the ground. "They burnt it in a way not to allow anyone to live here anymore... [Government soldiers] want to kill us. Either we accept Bashar al-Assad to be our president or we have to be killed," he says. "These soldiers wrote on every single wall in our city, 'Either you accept Bashar al-Assad, or we burn the whole country," Hawa tells Ward.


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Sources in Rabbinic literature identify the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship as one of considerable complexity and stress. Having been both a daughter-in-law, and more recently a mother-in-law, I would like to offer both camps a perspective on this peculiar tension.
A young bride enters her marriage starry-eyed, romantic, fully expecting to be the exclusive "woman" in her husband's life. Generally, she is young and a relative newcomer to her husband's world. Consequently, she is unsure of herself and insecure.
The young wife wants to please, to meet her husband's needs, forge a lasting bond, and build a good life together. She finds herself, however, at a great disadvantage. She discovers that she is competing with a woman who has, for better or for worse, nurtured, molded, and shaped her husband's life since his birth. In addition, when it comes to a perception of women, for the young groom his mother has been his role model.
The home of his upbringing, created by his mother, is the blueprint of his expectations. Implicit or explicit, there is in the marital discourse, the unverbalized statement of "my mother did it this way."
This may apply to the state of housekeeping, meals, personal appearance, raising of children, etc. The expectation to adjust to things done differently is terribly threatening, no matter what the young wife's intentions.
Under the best of circumstances, for a newlywed, the mother in-law is a cloud hanging over her head.
Meanwhile, the young wife needs the constant reassurance that however differently she may do things that she is, nonetheless, worthy, competent, appreciated, and valued.
Under the best of circumstances, for a newlywed, the mother in-law is a cloud hanging over her head, comprising a pre-existing standard by which she is invariably judged, and to which she frequently believes she cannot measure up. These formidable insecurities drive the conflict into a cycle of accelerating tension, testing both the spousal and the in-law bonds.
On the other side of the fence, the mother-in-law has her own set of issues. She has birthed and raised this now-married young man. She has seen him through the normal day-to-day passages of life nurturing, agonizing, giving, and caring as only a mother does. While she has known all along that someday he would leave home, get married, and create a life of his own, she is not always prepared, emotionally, to let go.
Hers has been an enormous investment and adjusting to the new reality may take some time. Even us "normal" mothers, who want nothing more than to see our children happily married and accounted for, will still get a little pang when we see our sons walk off into the sunset with this new woman, his wife, at his side.
Of course, part of us is delighted, even ecstatic, and we certainly pray for their everlasting bliss. Nonetheless, there is that occasional twinge.
Daughters-in-law are on the ascent, young and strong; mothers-in-law are aging and on the descent.
Admittedly, some of the uneasiness may be traced to the fact that our daughters-in-law are on the ascent -- young, beautiful, and strong -- while we, in contrast, are on the descent (even if we don't want to admit it). Age is beginning to take its toll, and our strength is on the wane. We don't look and feel quite as vital as we use to, and just when we most need affirmation, love, and caring, our children are busy and preoccupied with their own wives and lives.
These are the natural and at times even subconscious insecurities affecting the mother-in-law.
All of my sons are special, including Efraim who has been a unique treasure since the day he was born. In nursery school his teacher warned me that on a given day if I don't find him there when I come to pick him up, it would be because she had whisked him off and claimed him as her own.
Efraim left home to go to school out of town at the tender age of 10 -- first to New York, then to Switzerland, then to Israel. He never complained. Everything was always perfect by him. When he would bid me farewell after a visit home, his eyes would well up with tears as he turned away to hurry off.
God blessed him with a wonderful wife, and ever since, when he visits and subsequently takes leave of me, his eyes no longer well up with tears. Thank God. Yet a tiny little voice inside of me protests to the tune of "so, if you have a wife does that make your mother chopped liver?"
As daughters-in-law, we need support. We need to find our own way escorted by encouragement and validation that yes, while we might make mistakes enroute that nonetheless we are okay.
Early married years are full of learning experiences, part of the "becoming" process. We don't have to be replicas of our mother-in-law. We are entitled to our own unique style. At the same time, it doesn't hurt for a daughter-in-law to have an open mind, to be willing to observe and learn from someone who has a track record, who has lived, experienced, and tested life more than she has.
Ideally, if the context allows for it, a closeness should be fostered by seeking advice and insight from the more seasoned traveler. This exercise can be a mutually satisfying and beneficial vehicle. The daughter-in-law will gain knowledge and information, and the mother-in-law will feel respected and valued.
Clarice, an intelligent, hard working and devoted mother shared her frustration with me. Her son had been married for a number of years and her daughter-in-law, Esther, wanted no part of her. When Esther joined the family, Clarice was eager for her to be everything that she had envisioned as a mate for her son. In her zeal, she encouraged her son to take Esther to Torah classes to upgrade her spirituality. Needless to say, Esther did not appreciate her meddling. As the relationship began to suffer, Clarice turned to me for counsel.
I advised her that though what she wanted was laudable, she had overstepped her bounds. Esther undoubtedly felt diminished in her husband's eyes when his mother constantly pushed for her to become what she was not. I urged Clarice to meet with Esther, apologize for being out of line and assure her that she loved her, thought highly of her and wanted a relationship with her that would be free of unsolicited advice.
It's difficult at times for a mother-in-law to see things done differently than she is accustomed to.
It's difficult at times for a mother-in-law to see things done differently than she is accustomed to. She has to stop short of making a value judgment. Different need not mean inferior or unacceptable. Rather one has to adjust one's view and perspective to include the "different strokes for different folks" approach.
Unsolicited advice, criticism, cynical or caustic comments are deadly to a relationship, regardless of how "well meaning" they may be. Meaning well is no defense. The saying that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is most apt in these situations because "hell" is the best description for the arguments generated by insensitive remarks and observations.
Furthermore, it's very important for a mother-in-law to have her own life so as not to live vicariously through her children. As a rule, mothers-in-law should come when invited and make "drop in" occasions scarce. We have to let go. After all, it was meant to be this way. The Torah advises, "A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave onto his wife," and so it has to be.
One last cautionary note.
Our children watch very carefully and observe our every move. Our behavior and attitudes inform their lives. In our roles both as mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, we are modeling. Our children are taking careful mental notes. It should give us pause to make our interactions -- the thoughts, words, and deeds -- that comprise this relationship well considered.
Rabbi Israel of Salant taught that the loudest sound in the universe is that of a person breaking an attribute of personality, modifying baser inclinations in deference to more appropriate responses.
The area of in-law relationships is undoubtedly one of the most challenging of all. But commensurate with its difficulty is the sense of victory when the better part of us prevails, and we behave not as we would like to but as we know we should.


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We are officially a week into summer, and with it, an important juncture in the 2012 season has arrived for Major League Soccer clubs.
Today marks the opening of the North American 'secondary' transfer window, which allows MLS clubs to move or acquire players - either under contract or not - to and from other leagues and countries in world soccer until Friday, July 27.
Following the close of the 'secondary' transfer window on July 27, only players that are out of contract during and after this summer window period will be eligible to join an MLS club before the end of this season from other leagues and countries. The same applies to out-of-contract players that leave MLS to play in another league or country.
The 'secondary' transfer window follows the North American 'primary' transfer window, which allowed MLS clubs to make player transactions between January 21 and April 15 of this year.
Player trades within MLS, however, will be allowed to take place until the league's Roster Freeze Deadline on Saturday, September 15, at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET).
Several players were lined up to formally join MLS clubs in this secondary window, including Vancouver Whitecaps FC's newest Designated Player Barry Robson (pictured).
The Scotland international was ineligible to play for the Blue and White until today, having been under contract to Middlesbrough FC until the conclusion of the 2011-12 English League Championship season, which ended outside both North American transfer windows, at the end of April.
The North American transfer windows differ in timeline to other parts of the soccer world. In Europe, their primary window occurs during their off-season (July 1 to August 31), while their secondary (mid-season) window takes place during the month of January (January 1 to 31).
"While this is our secondary window, this time of year is the primary window in other parts of the world," said Greg Anderson, Whitecaps FC director of professional teams, to whitecapsfc.com.
"As a result, many players are out of contract and that usually means the bigger names will make moves to MLS now, rather than at the start of our season.
"The challenge for MLS teams is to find the salary cap space and the international roster spot in their squads that have already been assembled."
As MLS clubs work diligently to find additions that can improve their squads for the second half of the season, the anticipation of new faces arriving in the league will naturally lead to speculation by the media and supporters alike over the next four-and-a-half weeks.
Whitecaps FC have already made moves in their roster, heading into this secondary window. New Zealand international Michael Boxall has moved on after a season-and-a-half in Vancouver, while youngster Caleb Clarke is on trial in Europe with FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt, with a view to a loan move to the German third-tier club.
Stay logged on to whitecapsfc.com for all the latest news from Martin Rennie's squad during this secondary transfer window.


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By: John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Almost 2,200 bidders have applied for about almost $28 billion in broadband stimulus grant and loan money, or almost seven times the $4 billion currently available for broadband deployment and adoption.
That is according to a National Telecommunications & Information Administration summary of the bids, which were due to agency last week.
The bidders committed another $10.5 billion of their own money in matching funds, meaning over $38 billion in proposed projects.
More than 320 applications sought almost $2.5 billion for broadband awareness, training, access and support, while another 360 applications for a total of $1.9 billion for computer centers to expand access.
The rest sought funding for infrastructure projects for unserved and underserved areas, with requests to both NTIA and the Ag Department's Rural Utilities Service.
NTIA will announce the winners, starting in November. This is the first of three planned bidding rounds for the $7.2 billion in funds for broadband earmarked in the economic stimulus package.
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This is a grassy, delicious Sauvignon Blanc, almost more similar to a New Zealand style wine than a "traditional" Napa Sauv Blanc. Good fruit on the start and great acid on the finish, this is an excellent warm-weather sipper.
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U-verse debuts Monday in Madison
By: Judy Newman, Wisconsin State Journal
Madison will join the U-verse universe Monday.
AT&T's U-verse TV offering is now available here, with digital programming that travels over your phone line.
The system, meant to compete with Madison's only cable company, Charter Communications, as well as with satellite TV companies, "will personalize the way (people) watch TV (in a way) that you will not see other providers offer," said Shelley Goodman, AT&T general manager for Wisconsin and Illinois.
U-verse has several package options with anywhere from 60 to 320 channels. Prices range from $44 a month for 60 channels, TV only, to $154 a month for 320 channels plus the highest-speed Internet service available.
So far, U-verse has 46 high-definition channels, available on some of the packages at no extra charge.
U-verse carries the Big 10 Network — as satellite TV has and Charter recently added — but talks are still in progress to get public interest and local government channels on board.
Some of the non-traditional features of the new service include:
• You can use a computer outside your home, or an AT&T wireless phone, to schedule the system to record programs.
• Up to four programs can be recorded at the same time.
• More than one TV can be watching the same recorded program at the same time, but each viewer controls the recording separately. For instance, one viewer can stop the program to get a snack while another viewer in a different room keeps watching.
• Up to 200 photos can be stored on the system using Flickr.
• You can receive customized weather reports, stock updates and sports scores, including fantasy sports teams.
The DVR, or digital video recorder, is a "game changer in the industry," Goodman said.
U-verse is making its debut today in parts of the Madison area, to as far south as Janesville and Beloit. It's been offered in the Milwaukee area for more than a year and a half, and launched in parts of Green Bay and the Fox River Valley this summer.
But it won't be available throughout the Madison vicinity, especially at the outset. Blaming concerns over competition, AT&T won't say how much of this region or which locations are hooked up, or how long it will take to cover a wider locale.
"We want to get the service to as many customers as possible, as quickly as possible," was all Goodman would say.
Critics have predicted AT&T will "cherry-pick" the wealthier neighborhoods. But AT&T spokesman Chris Bauer said, "That's just simply not true. In our 22-state footprint, we are rolling out (the service) to as many low-income customers as high-income."
To find out if U-verse is available from your home or business, you can go online to AT&T's Web site, www.att.com/uverse, and test your address, or you can watch for the company's advertising campaign, which is expected to include mailings to your home and door-to-door sales.
Some areas that won't be covered are Middleton, Sun Prairie, and a small portion of Madison's Far West Side; the company wants to focus on current customers, those areas have few if any AT&T customers.
U-verse uses Internet protocol technology. That means the programming is carried over the Internet.
Fiber optic cable brings the digitized programs to refrigerator-sized utility cabinets being installed around the area. From those cabinets, the signal travels across copper wire into your home, the same copper wire originally installed to provide simple, voice telephone service. It also is used now for DSL (digital subscriber line) high-speed Internet service.
To receive U-verse, customers have to live within 5,000 feet of a utility cabinet, and each cabinet can serve 200 to 300 customers.
Subscribers to U-verse get a device the size of a hardcover book, called a residential gateway, which takes the signal and routes it to each television's set-top box. U-verse provides the first set-top box for free; each additional one is $5 a month.
Within a household, several people can be watching live or recorded programs on TV while others are, for example, downloading songs or surfing the Internet, without affecting the speed or the picture, AT&T's Bauer said. "The quality should be the same. You should not notice the difference," he said.
Barry Orton, UW-Madison telecommunications expert, said he is not so sure. Cable TV uses coaxial cable that's thicker and more complex than copper wire, and in homes subscribing to cable TV with cable-modem high-speed Internet, the signal is diluted when more activity is going on, using more bandwidth. That slows transmission speed, Orton said.
AT&T says it has 781,000 U-verse subscribers in 15 states and is on target to reach 1 million by the end of the year.
Worldwide, Internet protocol television is expected to reach 19.6 million subscribers, or 1.1 percent of all households in 2008, according to the Gartner global research firm.
Will U-verse win over Madison's cable and satellite customers? Will it result in price wars with cable or satellite companies?
"Our hope, of course, is that the pie grows instead of just taking a slice from Charter," said Brad Clark, manager of Madison City Channel. He said he expects public interest channels to be available on U-verse by the end of the year.
"It will be interesting to see how it plays out and if it results in lower rates. I'll believe it when I see it," Clark said.
Tim Vowell, director of government relations for Charter in Wisconsin, says Charter is ready for the U-verse attack.
"We certainly feel that we're very well positioned to compete effectively against AT&T just as we compete against all other providers," Vowell said.
Charter offers packages online ranging from $49.99 a month, cable TV only, with more than 100 digital channels, to $129.97 a month for cable, Internet and phone service.
"We're confident that our lists of products and services are competitive. We strive to continue to provide excellent customer service and we think that will make the difference in the marketplace," Vowell said.
Orton said heavy sports viewers already have switched to satellite but he thinks U-verse will make a dent in Charter's domination.
"The beach already has softened for them. Now they're going to land the troops. I think the cable industry will find itself in retreat pretty quickly," Orton said.


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Building a Corrado "RS"
The Corrado RS is a Volkswagen Corrado VR6 fettled with to the Nth degree. If something could be improved on, it was. If it was unnecessary to the overall goal of creating a focused, undistracted driving experience, it was tossed. Nothing was taken for granted - long-term drive-ability, durability, and reliability were ensured.
Taken on its own merits, the Corrado RS will stack up against some of the best factory and after-market cars, modified with a similar thought process in mind. It borrows heavily from the spirit of such great cars as any Porsche RS variant, the Renault Megane R26.R, the Mk1 Audi TT Quattro Sport, and the BMW M3 CSL. It asks and answers the question: If VW themselves built a limited-production Sports Coupe, of the highest order, how would it look and what would it be?
Welcome to the Corrado RS. It's only short-coming might be its driver.
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DC Isuzu Lounge: Hotshots of business world's complete mobile home-office
Hotshots of business world's complete mobile home-office
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For those seriously upwardly mobile, there are very few sets of wheels that can provide an off the shelf solution for their long distance travel needs. Obviously, a luxury car is an option, but the limitations of the cabin really hinder the ability to actually get some work done on the road.
DC Isuzu Lounge
That's why you see so many film stars and businesspersons going in for customised luxury buses and when it comes to customisation, the final word is Dilip Chhabria, whose Pune based firm, DC Design, has been churning out some really outstanding personalised buses for the past few years.
But while a large Volvo or Mercedes-Benz might be right up a big movie star's alley, it certainly is a little impractical and let's not forget, pompous, for a businessperson.
DC-fashioned central lounge
So to meet this demand, which has been steadily climbing in recent years, DC Design now offers the Isuzu Lounge. True to the firm's well-established 'Lounge' concept, this new bus based on the Isuzu IS12TE chassis features a typically DC-fashioned central lounge.
This area comes replete with four captain's chairs around a central table, acting like a conference room of sorts, as well as a sofa to seat a few additional persons.
Equipped with fully functioning bathroom
But to make the Isuzu Lounge a true road warrior, it also features a separate bedroom with a 6.5' x 4' bed, a full wardrobe as well as a complete entertainment system featuring a 32" LED 3D TV. And that's not all. The bus comes equipped with a fully functioning bathroom which not only has a toilet, but a shower as well.
The advantages the DC Isuzu Lounge offers are manifold. First of all, the relatively short 8.5m long chassis allows access to places a massive Volvo simply would not fit in.
Home-office away from home
The relative low buying cost of Rs 14 lakh for the chassis is another benefit. And when you consider the significantly improved comfort afforded by the optional air suspension kit, the Isuzu Lounge is a winning combination.
Such luxury doesn't come cheap though, as the whole modification of the bus can cost upwards of Rs 45 lakh, depending on what options you choose. But for those who can afford it, it truly is a home-office away from home.


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Wrong turn nets Unarmed Ohio man a bullet in the Chest by Police Officer...SMH
Reports:Ohio Daily Journal
A man who says he had his hands in the air and was unarmed when a Cleveland police officer shot him in the chest over a traffic violation last year has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, saying the officer's actions were "extreme and outrageous" and that department leaders have fostered an atmosphere ripe for constitutional violations.
Greg Love, 29, of the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, and two others involved in the June shooting filed the suit in federal court on Feb. 13. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and names the city, police Chief Calvin Williams, and the officer who shot Love, Vincent Montague Jr.
Spokeswomen for the city and police department declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. Montague's listed phone number does not accept messages.
In court records and an interview with The Associated Press this week, Love said he experiences emotional and physical pain as a result of the shooting, becomes nervous when he sees a police officer and struggles to sleep at night.
"It's an eerie feeling, to know you could have lost your life to a gunshot by a police officer," Love said. "These are the people I'm supposed to call when I need help."
Montague returned to full duty this month after he was suspended for three days for putting himself "in a position of imminent danger" for reaching into Love's vehicle during the traffic stop, according to a police department document provided by the city.
City and police spokeswomen declined to reveal the results of a use-of-force investigation into the shooting and a public records request for a copy of the investigation had not been processed by Sunday. A prosecutor who reviewed the case declined to press criminal charges, city spokeswoman Maureen Harper said.
After his suspension, Montague was assigned to non-sensitive work without public interaction for 45 days before being assigned to transitional duty in the sex crimes unit between September and Feb. 6.
Love was driving with a friend in downtown Cleveland's popular warehouse district around 2 a.m. June 23 when he came to one of the city's busiest intersections, filled with packed bars and restaurants. A concert had just let out and the streets were filled with pedestrians and cars.
A confused Love made an illegal right turn from the center lane onto a closed street that he thought was open, prompting Officer Montague to step in front of Love's car, according to the lawsuit.
Love said that Montague ignored his questions about how to proceed while glaring at him for nearly two minutes, so Love backed up and continued on a different street.
That's when Montague drew his weapon, Love alleges, prompting him and his friend to put their arms up. Love said that Montague then reached into his car to try to turn it off but couldn't find the key.
The lawsuit alleges that Montague then pointed the gun at Love and fired. The bullet hit Love in the chest and lodged into his right arm.
"He literally lost his mind," Love said. "He shot me in the chest and I was doing absolutely nothing wrong."
Another officer responding to Montague's call of "shots fired" forced Love out of his car and put him in handcuffs until paramedics arrived and ordered him freed to be taken to a hospital.
Love was charged four months after the shooting. He pleaded guilty to making an illegal turn. A charge of eluding police was dropped.
Love's lawsuit comes as the Cleveland police department is under federal investigation for allegedly using excessive force in a fatal November 2012 shooting in which 13 officers fired 137 shots on two unarmed people who led them on a 5-mile chase. The driver, 43-year-old Timothy Russell, was shot 23 times. His passenger, 30-year-old Malissa Williams, was shot 24 times, with one officer standing on the hood of their car, firing into the passenger compartment. Both were killed.
Critics called the shooting a racially motivated execution, while the police union said the officers used force to confront a driver using his vehicle as a potentially deadly weapon.
An investigation by the Ohio attorney general blamed police leadership and communications failures.
"This attitude of 'it's us versus the community,' that's going on in Cleveland is a huge problem," said Love's attorney, Nicholas DiCello. "This is deep-seated and when we see stuff like this happen, you understand why members of the community just have no faith or trust in our police."
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26 December 2012
Russ Niles
Gulfstream ended the year with a brace of accomplishments for its G650 program that set the stage for a busy 2013 in terms of deliveries. The company delivered its first G650 to a U.S. customer last week. "The first delivery of an aircraft is always an auspicious occasion and this one is especially so. This delivery represents the beginning of a new era in aircraft design and manufacturing in terms of quality, capabilities, reliability, parts availability and maintenance activities," said Gulfstream President Larry Flynn. "We're thrilled to see the first G650 leave our hangar for a customer's. Soon the G650 will be a common sight at airports around the world." The company also closed out the year with a couple of important certifications.
As the first revenue G650 was winging its way home, the FAA granted a production certificate to the Savannah plant for the new jet. Almost simultaneously, EASA certified the G650, meaning deliveries to the 27 member countries can begin immediately. "This is quite an achievement for Gulfstream," said Flynn. The FAA certified it in September. Certifications in other countries are expected to follow quickly.
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