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You're from Ohio, correct, Jitway? If so, where-abouts? I'm in extremely south-central Michigan.
Nope Indiana and just south of the capital Indianapolis...I am in Beech Grove Indiana
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Ya meet up and post some pics. I wanna meet up with Mooney one day and have a Headbanging musical trip.
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Sure do I use Mame and ZSNES as well as Saturn emulator on my pc. Sometimes I play some gameboy as well. But for say genesis and commadore I use emulators on my Dreamcast. I actually own most of the consoles made and quite a few rom carts with them.
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GC is the reason that God created procrastination
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A tow truck driver unknowingly hauled away a car with a 7-year-old asleep inside before returning the vehicle minutes later and speeding away, police said.
The panicked parents of the missing boy watched the driver hurriedly unhook their car and take off as they met with authorities late Monday, according to a Dallas police report. A possible kidnapping investigation at the apartment complex had already begun.
Fidel Retana Jr., 23, was pulled over a short time later and arrested on child endangerment charges. But police said Tuesday they expect to drop the charges.
"It appeared that he did not intend to take the child," Dallas police Sgt. Brenda Nichols said.
David Traylor, Retana's attorney, said his client noticed the boy only when he stopped to ensure that the car was hooked up properly. The car had been parked in a fire lane while the boy's mother ran upstairs to her apartment.
Traylor said Retana left the second time in a hurry because he knew the parents were there and were probably angry.
"He tried to do everything he could to get the kid back quickly," Traylor said.
Authorities said the boy's mother was crying and vomiting outside when they arrived. The boy was still asleep when the car was returned.
"I hate the way towing people run the business," said Sergio Zuniga, the boy's father.
Moron didn't check inside the vehicle before he snatched it. Too eager to get that money. Well it sure was hard on the Mom but good thing the child slept through the whole thing.
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Bit of a update....
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., publisher of the popular "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, wanted more time to consider a $2 billion buyout by larger rival Electronic Arts Inc., and it wanted more money. On Friday, half its wish came true.
EA extended by nearly a month its tender offer for Take-Two but lowered the price it's offering for each share of the company to reflect restricted shares granted to its management a day earlier.
The offer, which would have expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT Friday, is now good through May 16. As of Thursday, about 6.4 million shares of Take-Two had been tendered, representing roughly 8 percent of Take-Two's outstanding shares.
It's been nearly two months since EA made public its bid to buy Take-Two, and close to five weeks since it took the offer directly to the company's shareholders.
Take-Two has been holding out, refusing to enter formal talks with EA or any other suitor until April 30, the day after "Grand Theft Auto IV" goes on sale.
EA said it extended the deadline to comply with a second request from the Federal Trade Commission for information about the proposed acquisition. It's the second extension, the first came after Take-Two moved back the date of its annual shareholder meeting by a week.
EA wants to buy Take-Two not just for the GTA franchise, which has sold more than 65 million copies so far, but also for the company's sports business and critically acclaimed titles such as "BioShock."
EA, which has long enjoyed its status as the world's largest game software publisher, will also face a worthy new rival later this year when French media conglomerate Vivendi combines its games unit with Activision Inc., the company behind the successful "Guitar Hero" series. That deal, which will give Vivendi a majority stake in a new company called Activision Blizzard, won European regulatory approval this week.
By adding Take-Two's 2K Sports line to its own label, EA would have a near monopoly on sports video games, and its sheer size and global marketing prowess mean it can boost sales of Take-Two's titles.
But EA doesn't necessarily need Take-Two.
"(This is evident) in their conviction in their existing offer, that they haven't raised the price," said Colin Sebastian, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets. "But they view it as a good opportunity. If EA thought this was a very necessary component in their growth plan, they would have been more aggressive."
By buying Take-Two, EA is trying to bulk up with more games to sell for the newest generation of gaming consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. The video game industry, which hit $18 billion U.S. retail sales last year according to the NPD Group, has shrugged off the economic slump and is growing so fast that by some measures it's outpacing the music industry.
EA has repeatedly said that timing was key for its offer — which was first made public Feb. 24 — because it wants to put its marketing muscle behind "Grand Theft Auto IV," which goes on sale April 29. Take-Two, however, has called the timing "opportunistic" and has refused to sit down with EA until the day after GTA IV goes on sale.
Owen Mahoney, EA's senior vice president of corporate development, said any further delays, whether caused by regulatory requirements or Take-Two's management, could affect the "value and certainty of the offer."
EA's bid for Take-Two is still valued at about $2 billion. The company said it adjusted the per-share price to $25.74 from $26 to reflect additional shares of restricted stock granted to Take-Two's management. On Thursday, Take-Two shareholders granted ZelnickMedia, the company's management, 1.5 million shares of restricted stock.
Redwood City, Calif.-based EA strongly objected to the stock grant to ZelnickMedia and said it did not reflect the views of shareholders.
That's because Take-Two only allowed shareholders of record as of Feb. 19 to vote at the meeting. That was five days before EA's offer went public, and analysts estimate that more than half of Take-Two's shares have changed hands since.
Chairman Strauss Zelnick said the vote signaled a vote of confidence in Take-Two's management.
"Take-Two's board of directors has maintained from the beginning, and continues to believe, that EA's proposal vastly undervalues our company," he said. "It undervalued the company at $26 per share, and it certainly undervalues Take-Two at $25.74."
Shares of New York-based Take-Two climbed 13 cents to close at $25.98 in afternoon trading. EA's shares rose 55 cents to close at $52.01.
Hell why not give it another month...damn. Either stick to your words or let it die.
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Bit of a update on this....
Texas polygamist sect is accused of indoctrinating girls. Girls in the west Texas polygamous sect enter into underage marriages without resistance because they are ruthlessly indoctrinated from birth to believe disobedience will lead to their damnation, experts for the state testified Friday at a custody hearing for 416 youngsters.
The renegade Mormon sect's belief system "is abusive. The culture is very authoritarian," said Dr. Bruce Perry, a psychiatrist and an authority on children in cults.
But under questioning from defense lawyers who lined up in the courtroom aisles to have a turn at each witness, the state's experts acknowledged that the sect mothers are loving parents and that there were no signs of abuse among younger girls and any of the boys.
The testimony came on Day 2 of an extraordinary mass hearing over an attempt by the state of Texas to strip the parents of custody and place the children in foster homes away from the compound inhabited by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
A witness for the parents who was presented by defense lawyers as an expert on the FLDS disputed the state's contention that a bed in the retreat's gleaming white temple was never used to consummate the marriages of underage girls to much older men.
Instead, W. John Walsh testified, it is used for naps during the sect's long worship services.
"There is no sexual activity in the temple," Walsh said.
The children were seized this month in a raid on the desert compound because of evidence of physical and sexual abuse, including the forcing of underage girls into marriage and childbearing.
Texas District Judge Barbara Walther boiled it down this way: "The issue before the court is: Can I give them back?"
Attorneys for the children and the parents appeared to be trying to show in cross-examination that their children were fine and that the state was trying to tear families apart on the mere possibility that the girls might be abused when they reach puberty several years from now.
Only a few of the children are teenage girls. Roughly a third are younger than 4 and more than two dozen are teenage boys. But about 20 women or more gave birth when they were minors, some as young as 13, authorities say.
The judge controlled the hundreds of lawyers with a steelier hand Friday than she did the day before.
Under cross-examination, state child-welfare investigator Angie Voss conceded there have been no allegations of abuse against babies, prepubescent girls or any boys.
But her agency, Child Protective Services, contends that the teachings of the FLDS — to marry shortly after puberty, have as many children as possible and obey their fathers or their prophet, imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs — amount to abuse.
"This is a population of women who appear to have a problem making a decision on their own," Voss said.
In response, the FLDS women, dressed in long, pioneer-style dresses with their hair swept up in braids, groaned in chorus with their dark-suited attorneys.
Walsh disputed that young girls have no say in who they marry.
"Basically, they're into match-making," he said of the sect, adding that girls who have refused matches have not been expelled.
"I believe the girls are given a real choice. Girls have successfully said, 'No, this is not a good match for me,' and they remained in good standing," he said.
Perry testified that the girls he interviewed said they freely chose to marry young. But he said those choices were based on lessons drilled into them from birth.
"Obedience is a very important element of their belief system," he said. "Compliance is being godly; it's part of their honoring God."
Perry acknowledged that many of the adults at the ranch are loving parents and that the boys seemed emotionally healthy when he played with them. When asked whether the belief system really endangered the older boys or young children, Perry said, "I have lost sleep over that question."
Under questioning, Perry also conceded the children would suffer if placed in traditional foster care.
"If these children are kept in the custody of the state, there would have to be exceptional and innovative programmatic elements for these children and their families," he said. "The traditional foster care system would be destructive for these children."
At that, dozens of FLDS parents applauded.
Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, said courts have generally held that a parent's belief system cannot, in itself, justify a child's removal. He said, for example, that a parent might teach his child that smoking marijuana is acceptable, but only when he helps the child buy pot does he cross the line.
"The general view of the legal system is until there is an imminent risk of harm or actual harm, you can't" take the children, Volokh said.
The raid was prompted by a call from someone identifying herself as a 16-year-old girl with the sect. She claimed her husband, a 50-year-old member of the sect, beat and raped her. Investigators have yet to identify her among the children seized.
Jeffs is in prison for being an accomplice to rape. He was convicted in Utah last year of forcing a 14-year-old into marrying an older man.
Walsh testified that the renegade Mormon sect did not promote underage marriages until imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs took over as the sect's "prophet."
"He encourages marriage," Walsh said. "In some ways, he's indifferent to their age."
So they teach them at a early age that to disobey a elder will lead to damnation or hell in other words. Hmmm I find this very sad indeed. This perverted adults just teach the child and more or less brainwash any right to choice right out of their minds. All who partook in this should be hung.
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Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago, homes in Cincinnati and nerves across the region but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
Dozens of aftershocks followed, one with a magnitude of 4.6.
The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such distant cities as Milwaukee, Des Moines, Iowa, and Atlanta, nearly 400 miles to the southeast.
"I just saw my house just shake. Golly," said Mike Morrow, of Mount Carmel, Ill., 15 miles southeast of the epicenter, his eyes widening during an aftershock that hit as he was interviewed by a reporter.
Morrow's two-story apartment building was evacuated because of loose and falling bricks. The initial quake woke the 30-year-old and startled his pit bull.
"He was about as scared as I was," Morrow said. "We both just froze."
Midwesterners, most unaccustomed to earthquakes powerful enough to loosen bricks and crack foundations, traded stories as the day began.
"It shook our house where it woke me up," said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."
Janet Clem, 37, of Mount Carmel, opened her front door after hearing "a heckuva rumble then a loud kaboom," and found her front porch collapsed. "I'm terrified, I'm not going to lie to you," she said. "I've never experienced anything like that and I don't want to experience it again."
Bonnie Lucas, a morning co-host at WHO-AM in Des Moines, said she was sitting in her office when she felt her chair move. She grabbed her desk, and then heard the ceiling panels start to creak. The shaking lasted about 5 seconds, she said.
The quake is believed to have involved the Wabash fault, a northern extension of the New Madrid fault about six miles north of Mount Carmel, Ill., said United States Geological Survey geophysicist Randy Baldwin.
The last earthquake in the region to approach the severity of Friday's temblor was a 5.0 magnitude quake that shook a nearby area in 2002.
"This is a fairly large quake for this region," Baldwin said. "They might occur every few years."
It was initially reported as a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, but the USGS later revised its estimate to 5.2.
In Cincinnati, Irvetta McMurtry said she felt the rattling for up to 20 seconds.
"All of a sudden, I was awakened by this rumbling shaking," said McMurtry, 43. "My bed is an older wood frame bed, so the bed started to creak and shake, and it was almost like somebody was taking my mattress and moving it back and forth."
In Louisville, Ky., the quake caused some bricks to fall off a building near downtown. Television video showed them strewn in the street.
Crews inspected bridges, airports and power plants throughout the Midwest, finding no big problems. Spans across the Mississippi, Wabash and Ohio rivers were inspected for cracks, missing bolts and buckling.
Early homeowner damage claims received by State Farm, the largest provider of earthquake coverage in the area, were mostly for cracks in drywall and foundations, said spokeswoman Missy Lundberg.
The strongest earthquake on record with an epicenter in Illinois occurred in 1968, when a 5.3-magnitude temblor was recorded about 75 miles southeast of St. Louis, according the USGS. The damage was minor but widespread and there were no serious injuries.
In 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid fault produced a series of earthquakes estimated at magnitude 7.0 or greater said to be felt as far away as Boston. They were centered in the Missouri town of New Madrid (pronounced MAD'-rid), 140 miles southeast of St. Louis.
Experts said that with the much higher population in the Midwest, another major quake along the New Madrid fault zone could destroy buildings, bridges, roads and other infrastructure, disrupt communications and isolate areas.
The first one I was just getting up from my nights sleep to have pictures coming off the wall. My wife was freaking out but I knew what it was. It was kinda of scary but did not last long. Still it was big enough to rattle the windows and shake things off my walls and shelves. The second I was at a customers house and it was nothing like the first. Nothing though like the one I experienced in Arizona over 20 years ago. That one moved me right across the floor. Think it was a 7.3 one then.
Well everyone is sure talking about it and it is all the big news here. Since we rarely get one.
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As you may or may not know I come from other emulation forums such as emuforums (Ngemu) General Emulation, Emutalk, the VBA-M forums other forums around the web. Without further wait I present myself Xtreme2damax.
Note: One picture was edited with paint.net, if you want to get net lingo technical *Shooped*. Then my finger was censored in another.
Nice pics..looks like a younger me with shorter hair. Love the look though. Devil Horns...rock on.
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Strep throat is nothing to mess with it this is truly what you have. If so you need to rest and get some antibiotics. I have had it as well as my kids and it is nasty and can cause pneumonia which is and can be deadly. So take it easy young one and get your rest and go see a doctor and get them meds.
Also good look on the new job.
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I know it is fake. I still want one...look at all the pretty lights.
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That is so flocking sweet looking. Jitway Drools!
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An update and more on same story sort of.
Comcast wants 'bill of rights' for file-sharers and ISPs
Comcast Corp., under federal investigation for interfering with the traffic of its Internet subscribers, said Tuesday it wants to develop a "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for file sharing.
The announcement expands on Comcast's new policy toward file-sharing: It said last month that rather than singling out such traffic and blocking some of it, the company will move toward a system that treats all types the same.
File sharing is mainly used to illegally swap copyright works like movies, but it's also emerging as a cheap way to distribute legal video. One of the companies in this business, Pando Networks Inc., is joining Comcast and supporting the "Bill of Rights."
The document would codify "best practices" for Internet providers to deal with file-sharing traffic, which can place substantial loads on the networks of cable companies. It would also clarify what controls consumers should have over peer-to-peer (or P2P) file-sharing applications on their computers. Some of these applications are often designed to run in the background, and give the user little insight into what they're doing or how much resources they're using.
"By having this framework in place, we will help P2P companies, ISPs and content owners find common ground to support consumers who want to use P2P applications to deliver legal content," said Tony Werner, Comcast's chief technology officer.
Comcast has already said that it is working with another maker of file-sharing software, BitTorrent Inc., to figure out how ISPs and P2P companies can coexist peacefully.
Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas said Tuesday's announcement is "another example of how we can work with the industry to solve these issues rather than getting the government involved." Regulation won't be able to keep up with the pace of change in the technology, he said.
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating complaints from consumer groups about Comcast's treatment of file-sharing traffic, and the commission chairman has said he's "pleased" that the company is moving to end its practice of stifling file-sharing.
Also Tuesday, Comcast said it would conduct tests with Pando's software on its network to figure out how to best deal with P2P traffic. Verizon Communications Inc. recently said that by sharing information with Pando, the companies simultaneously sped up file-sharing downloads for Verizon subscribers and reduced the strain on its network. However, file-sharing traffic places different burdens on Comcast and other cable ISPs, where neighbors share data capacity on the local cable lines.
Pando's software differs from the freewheeling, anonymous file-sharing networks that pirates use. It focuses on enabling transfers of large e-mail attachments, like home videos, between friends and family, and on delivering large video files from major media companies like TV networks.
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Mandriva updates its Linux distribution for spring. Mandriva quietly launched Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, the latest Mandriva Linux distribution featuring a number of updates since its last distribution release.
"The release has some really nice new features, and looks to be pretty solid and stable," said Mandriva Community Manager Adam Williamson wrote in his blog. "We're really happy with it."
Although its fanfare has recently been drowned out by up-and-coming distributions such as Ubuntu Linux from Canonical, Mandriva still remains a popular operating system, especially with new users. The latest verswion has been in the works for more than six months by Mandriva developers and the open source community, and features several new features aimed at making it easier for users to interact with the operating system.
KDE 3 version 3.5.9 is included to closely mimic the GUI of Microsoft Windows, enabling newcomers to open source to try Linux in a somewhat familiar environment. The support team also made it easier for users to sync their Windows Mobile, Nokia, and BlackBerry devices.
Most importantly for Asus EeePC users, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring now works "flawlessly" with users no longer forced to make adjustments to the environment. For example, wireless networking and native resolution caused some Eee owners headaches.
The included Elisa multimedia center is a drag-and-drop capable feature that lets users store their photos, music, and videos.
Also included with the spring release is a new parental control tool that flags improper Web content before letting children see it. Parents can manually block certain Web sites and create time charts that limits the amount of time children have access.
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is available immediately for download for no cost to users http://www.mandriva.com/en/download
Now while this uses KDE and I know a lot of you prefer Gnome I found this update to Mandriva very nice and easy to use. Really good for first timers who want to explore with Linux. I have used this version of Linux in the past and got to say they have finally worked a lot of the bugs out of it. Though I prefer Ubuntu and Redhat I do like this one as well. I am running it now on a spare machine.
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In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game said on Monday.
"Saints of Los Angeles," the first single from the group's upcoming album, will be available for download for 99 cents on Tuesday via Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live Marketplace and on Thursday via Sony Corp's PlayStation store, said Viacom Inc's MTV Games.
In "Rock Band," gamers play along to songs with controllers shaped like a guitar, drum set, or microphone. The game is sold for about $170 for consoles such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It competes with the similarly popular "Guitar Hero" series, made by Activision Inc.
Their success has underscored the potential of video games as a new source of revenue for a music industry grappling with falling CD sales.
"Rock Band" went on sale last November and now has more than 80 tracks available for download in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game. MTV Games said players have bought more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band. Tunes range from classics by the likes of the Who and the Rolling Stones to more-contemporary fare from the Killers and Fall Out Boy.
Details of Motley Crue's album are expected to be announced during a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday.
The hard-living metal band, which rose to prominence during the glam-metal era in the late-1980s, is famed for such tunes as "Dr. Feelgood" and "Shout at the Devil."
This is really good news. Hopefully more bands get into this practice. I really like playing this game over Guitar Heroes. A lot more fun getting 3 others to come over and play it with you and compete online.
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Comcast and Pando Networks, a maker of peer-to-peer software, have kicked off a drive to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" to help settle the conflicts between broadband providers and some P2P users.
The two companies will collaborate with ISPs (Internet service providers), P2P companies, content providers and others to seek consensus on the roles of consumers and service providers, they said on Tuesday.
The move comes a few weeks after cable operator Comcast said it would work with P2P software company BitTorrent on network management. Comcast had come under fire for throttling back some BitTorrent traffic being exchanged by its customers. As part of the March 27 deal, the companies said they would get the broader Internet community involved.
P2P software lets individual users exchange files over the Internet without relying on a central server. Exchanging large files such as music and video can consume a large amount of network capacity. Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., acknowledged managing its network load by targeting particular protocols such as the ones used by BitTorrent. The service provider has since said it will stop doing so.
The controversy has become a flashpoint in the argument over what the government should do to enforce network neutrality. On Tuesday, the FCC invited Comcast and Pando to participate in a public hearing the agency will hold at Stanford University on Thursday.
The "Bill of Rights" Comcast and Pando are calling for would define what choices and controls P2P users should have and what practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks, the companies said.
Comcast and Pando will also test technology from Pando, called Pando Network Aware, on Comcast's network. Pando Network Aware can capture and analyze the data flow associated with downloading files with Pando's P2P software, they said. The test will measure the impact on bandwidth consumption on the network, as well as speed and other factors. Pando will conduct similar tests on DSL (digital subscriber line), fiber and wireless networks. The company says it can reduce network congestion and speed up content delivery by routing P2P traffic more effectively. Information from the tests will help Comcast move to a protocol-agnostic network management scheme, they said.
Also Thursday, the Distributed Computing Industry Association called on other concerned parties to get involved in crafting the P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. The group includes Pando, BitTorrent, Cisco Systems, AT&T, and other vendors, service providers and content providers.
After reading this I really don't know what to make of it. I have used Pando in the past and it is not a bad P2P software, not great but not bad either. But working with a ISP is another thing. Hopefully they will not get together and create more rules and a software that truely inhibits the user.
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well i really think these sucks for the girls prostituting themselves, even though its their culture or freedom of choice their to young to know what they want.
I so agree mtrx at this age girls as well as boys are just children and have no idea what life is about. It is so sad that this culture is like this.
Btw welcome to the site and good to have ya around. Feel free to post freely and have a look around. Your opinion here does matter.
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CHICAGO - A message scrawled in a university bathroom — "Be prepared to die on 4/14" — left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
After the precautions were taken at St. Xavier University on the city's southwest side, Malcolm X College evacuated students and canceled daytime classes Monday after a similar threat was found in a bathroom at the campus west of downtown. And Michigan's Oakland University was closed Monday because of threatening graffiti mentioning April 14.
The closures, two days before the anniversary of the Virginia Tech killings and two months after the deadly rampage at Northern Illinois University, illustrate the challenge such threats pose to school administrators, who have to decide just how seriously to take them.
"I can see why they're doing it for the safety of the kids. But I see it as over the top," said Lynn Ruggiero, whose daughter is a freshman at one of the high schools that shares a campus with Xavier and closed Monday.
Ruggiero said she figures whoever wrote the threat "is getting a certain satisfaction" from putting thousands of Chicago students out of class. Still, she knows school officials have a hard time pleasing everyone.
"If they hadn't closed, people would have said, 'How come you didn't?'"
St. Xavier and Malcolm X are located about 15 miles apart, and despite the fact that the threats had similar wording, there was no indication they were related, Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. The graffiti at St. Xavier was widely publicized over the weekend, and also contained in updates the college placed on its Web site.
While St. Xavier decided Friday to close until further notice, classes at Malcolm X resumed late Monday afternoon after bomb-sniffing dogs swept the campus.
Oakland University, an 18,000-student state school about 20 miles north of Detroit, planned to resume classes Tuesday. The graffiti that prompted its shutdown also made a reference to "4/14" but didn't specify a type or time of an attack, university spokesman Ted Montgomery said.
School administrators' decisions about handling threats can be made easier by having a plan in place should a crisis arise, said Larry Consalvos, senior vice president at iXP Corp., a security consulting firm which works with universities on campus safety. Knowing how they'll deal with the chain of command, first responders, communication and alarm systems is vital, Consalvos said, and allows administrators to decide when to monitor a situation and when to shut down a campus.
"I don't think you can be cavalier about the seriousness of any threat," Consalvos said.
In the Chicago area, two elementary schools and two high schools near St. Xavier decided to cancel classes Monday after a Saturday morning meeting between school officials and city police.
The fact that the threat mentioned a certain date helped administrators at Evergreen Park Southwest Elementary decide to shut down, district superintendent Craig Fiegel said. Other schools in the district — located in the village of Evergreen Park, next to Chicago — canceled outdoor recess and PE classes Monday.
Fiegel called such violent graffiti "the new bomb threat," remembering a time in the 1960s when bomb threats were regularly used to close down institutions. And he said he worries that the closures could encourage other people who get a kick out of causing chaos.
"At what point is it serious and at what point do you have to go on with it?" Fiegel said.
Edelena Lee was one of a number of students arriving for class Monday afternoon at Malcolm X who had not heard of the threat, or that the school had been locked down. Despite disappointment that she may have wasted a trip to campus, she had no problem with the decision to close the school, particularly so soon after a gunman opened fire and killed five students and himself in February at NIU, about 65 miles west of Chicago.
"I think people have issues nowadays," said Lee, 30. "You can never be too cautious."
I hope they find those resposible for writing the threats and expel their ass. Do they really think this is funny and a joke.
Man we never had it like this at school. I feel sad for this generation and what it has come to. It is about time the leaders of this world wake their flocking asses up and smell what is cookin. The youth is the future leaders of the world and they need our support and help.
How can you learn if you are too scared to think about learning but that you might die. I know how they feel. Cause war is the same way not knowing when or how you might get it and just trying to survive.
Todays youth should not have to worry about this. Especially while they attend school. Man this pisses me off to no end.
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Not to get into a agrument with anyone here. But I still say remove the battery which you did and now it won't even boot. At least before you removed the battery it did boot, just did not function properly. Also a Pc will not boot without a keyboard in place most the time. So you could have fried your ports on your MB. I still say you just need to get another MB and don't try to power that SATA to USB converter that caused it till you make sure it works.
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Is your pc working now? There are tools to check ports, and most of them free
My PC was booting fine, before I removed the Bios battery. But now it awaits input and doesn't boot to Vista. But even, if it would boot to vista, I have no input, so I can't start tools, which check my ports.
And like I said the reason it won't boot and waits for input is because the CMOS is gone. It doesn't know where to find anything. Like for one where the hard drive is with the OS on it. Try and see if there is a flash for your bios on a website that makes the bios on it. You might be able to get the CMOS back that way. Booting up through a floopy with the flash on there.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, unveiled plans on Monday to film its gun sales in the United States and create a computerized log of purchases in a bid to stop guns falling into the wrong hands.
Wal-Mart, which is the largest seller of firearms in the United States, agreed a 10-point code, which also includes rigid inventory controls, with a bipartisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns led by New York's Michael Bloomberg.
The retailer said it will develop a first-of-its-kind computerized crime gun trace log that will flag purchases by customers who have previously bought guns later recovered in crimes.
"Wal-Mart currently uses a strong point of sale system," said J.P. Suarez, senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Wal-Mart. "This code is a way for us to fine-tune the things we're already doing and further strengthen our standards. We hope other retailers will join us."
The Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership is designed to strengthen the points in the gun purchasing system that criminals have exploited in the past, Wal-Mart and the Mayors Against Illegal Guns said.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 46 percent of its criminal gun trafficking investigations involved cases in which someone who is not legally allowed to purchase a firearm does so through the use of a proxy, known as a straw buyer.
Ok this might stop a couple guns sales but really do they think this is going to really curb gun violence? Give me a break it starts with education of guns and of respect for life in general. I give props for Wal-Mart and their efforts but I don't really see much happening from this.
Criminals will always find a way to buy and get guns. Don't take them away from the everyday gun owner.\
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Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention.
A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, where the highway is being widened to four lanes, traffic slows down for roadworks. But the workmen who lounge by their bulldozers have their eyes on something else - a cluster of makeshift shelters where girls, several under 18 and at least two younger than 15, can be seen strolling or sitting, in view of the dusty carriageway.
Tonight, one girl in particular is attracting attention as she sits on a stool by a fire so that she can be seen by passing vehicles. Her heavily made-up, striking face and beautiful pink sari make her look as if she were on her way to a party. But the truth is different. Suli, 14, is a virgin and a bidding war is being held for the right to be the first to sleep with her.
The collection of shelters where she lives houses 59 families, all members of the Bedia tribe, which has a long tradition of caste-based prostitution. Girls born here become prostitutes in a rite of passage into "adulthood" as routine as marriage is to the rest of Indian society.
The "first time" is a valued commodity for which the middle-class businessmen who pass this way are prepared to pay a premium.
The normal rate is 100 rupees (£1.30) but a virgin is sold to the highest bidder for anything over 20,000 rupees. If she is very pretty, the community would hope to get up to 40,000 rupees. For this, the man can have access to the girl for as long as he likes - several hours, days, or even weeks. When he tires of her, there is a celebration. Because it is considered unlucky for a girl to keep the money from her first time, it is spent instead on an extravagant party. Jewellery is bought for her and for her relatives, goats are slaughtered and alcohol runs freely. There is dancing, and offerings are made to the gods.
Once a girl has lost her virginity she cannot marry. The choice has been made and the community celebrates it - this is her non-wedding night.
Suli said she was happy to enter the trade. "I chose it," she said, though she admitted being "a little" frightened. "I do not know how it is going to be. I know other girls who are in the trade but I have not asked them how it is."
She claimed it did not matter what the man looked like. "I will go with whoever pays the highest price," she said, before running off as her mother called her for supper.
Nita, a virgin in the hut next door, has four sisters, all prostitutes. She wears jeans and a skimpy top, and giggles a lot. One sister boasts that as Nita is particularly pretty, they hope to get 40,000 rupees (£600). "We have been offered 25,000, but it is not enough."
Nita is only 13 but has opted to follow her sisters into the trade. It is her own "choice", because, she giggled, "I won't have to do any housework."
But in avoiding making chapatis, Nita has signed up to a life in which she will deal with 20 to 30 clients per day, until she reaches her forties. After that, when she is no longer considered desirable, she will depend on any children she may have for support.
Two of her sisters, Ritu, 35, and Manju, 25, have built one of the few stone houses in their village, for which they paid the equivalent of £14,600, and are proud of their success. "There was a lot of poverty, we had nothing to eat," said Manju. "What you see now has come with hard work." They support 50 family members - 35 children and 15 adults.
Elsewhere in India, the birth of a boy is celebrated with dowries paid by the bride's family, one of the reasons given for the high abortion rate for female foetuses. But in the villages around Bharatpur there is a shortage of girls to marry, and the custom is for the boy's family to pay the girl's family a large lump sum before the wedding can take place.
Possibly because the money comes from prostitution, and because any granddaughters will be destined for the trade, the sums are high.
Ritu and Manju paid for four of their five brothers to marry, and now support their sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
They earn between 1,000 and 1,500 rupees a day. It was more before the government knocked down their shelters to make room for the highway.
"We need a shelter by the road," they said. "Tell the government to build us somewhere we can work. We used to have 25 or 30 clients a day, now the average is 10 or 15." They said they were able to keep their rates up because they could provide a nice room and running water for their clients, who are mostly married businessmen from Agra.
The prevalence of caste-based prostitution in certain tribes in the region - the Bawaria, Nuts, Bedias, Kanjars and Sansis - came to light after a raid on a brothel in Delhi. Now an attempt is being made to break the cycle by which the girls of each generation enter the trade.
Dr KK Mukerjee, a social work professor at the University of Delhi, who was commissioned by the government to research the scope of prostitution, has founded a group, known as GNK. Supported by Plan International, a child-centred community development agency, the organisation has set up a hostel to look after prostitutes' children.
Many of the women said they did not wish their daughters to follow them into the trade. Ritu and Manju each have a daughter, whose fathers were clients. "My daughter will get educated, and not enter this profession," said Ritu. "I have seen what it is like. I don't want it for her."
A young boy at the hostel told proudly how he had persuaded his grandmother not to push his aunt into prostitution. "My grandmother said that she would kill herself if my aunt did not go into the trade and earn money," he said. "But I persuaded her, and my aunt got married."
This is so sad. The things that go on that most people don't even realize. The things that people have to do to survive and what they will do. This happens in a lot more places then you imagine.
The stupid part to me is the first time she don't even get to keep the money but has to spend it on a big party to celebrate it and then can't even marry later.
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If you can't find a site here you got a problem
Also has a lot of Bleach eps on it.
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Have you been Rick Rolled yet?
If you have, you join the ranks of as many as 9 million people who have been hit by this Internet phenomenon, in which unsuspecting Web surfers get tricked into watching one-hit-wonder Rick Astley's one hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up."
New York Mets' Fans were surprised when Rick Astley's 1980's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" was played as one of the nominees for the team's theme song.
The average Rick Rolling victim is duped by a friend (or enemy, depending on your aversion to catchy 80s tunes) who sends him or her a link to the song under the guise of something relevant — the latest Lindsay Lohan video, or General Petreaus' recent testimony. What comes up instead is a link to the Astley video, spandex-wearing backup dancers included.
The latest target? The New York Mets.
Internet Gag Hits a Homerun
When the Mets decided to pick a new theme song to be played during the 8th inning of their games, the team's marketing department decided to let fans vote for their favorite tune.
And while choices included classics like Jon Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," it was Astley's song that racked in the most votes.
Millions, in fact.
"Rick Astley's song was voted No. 1," said Jay Horowitz, a spokesperson for the Mets. "There were over five million votes for the song."
Nobody is quite sure who started the Rick Rolling trend, but the movement grew after April Fool's Day, when YouTube.com disguised links on their homepage to direct viewers to the video.
In the vote for a Mets theme song, YouTube, along with sites like Fark.com and Digg.com, drew attention to fans who then flooded the Mets' Web sites with votes.
Even so, Horowitz advises fans not to get too excited that the corny tune from the 80s will be the team's new song. The final decision will be made not only on the number of votes but also on audience reaction when the contenders are played at the team's first few home games.
"If you're betting, I wouldn't bet on Astley," said Horowitz, who added that he found Rick Rolling to be "very funny … The song wasn't well received, people booed."
This is funny as hell. What a laugh bet the players and management are not to happy about this.
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The Ultimate Warrior Returns to the Wrestling Ring!
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GC ya do know the original Warrior did die and was replaced by his brother? Yes it is true. Back in the beginning of his days he died from a blood clot I believe. Still even his brother is one of my all time favorite wrestlers next to Savage and the number 1 wrestler of all time The Undertaker.