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2007 Chevy Silverado - Cloak & Dagger
This Silverado is Hiding Something Lethal
Everything in the truck world is a contest. It's always about the lowest, loudest, fastest, tallest, tucking the biggest wheels, or clearing the biggest tires. But, what happens when you just build a truck that you want instead of one that everyone else wants you to? Do you still 'bag it, lift it, shave it, or paint it a hundred crazy colors? If you're Julio Trevino, you simply build a red truck with a clean interior and some power under the hood. A static drop and billet wheels are about as exciting as it gets. Well, maybe it's not quite that simple.
The real story is a bit deeper. Julio is a member of the Ground Zero truck club in Texas, and the truck's suspension was done at Drops 'R' Us. Both of those names are well known in these pages and should serve as a warning that there's a bit more than meets the eye with this '07 Chevy Silverado. Drops 'R' Us likes to get serious with static lowering parts and this truck is no different. The front suspension consists of drop spindles, lowering coils, and lowered control arms. Even more parts are under the bed with the drop having a flip kit, blocks, hangers, and shackles. The parts add up to a mind bottling (you know, it traps your mind in a bottle) 10-inch front and 15-inch rear drop from stock. QA1 shocks at all corners keep the Texas highways from knocking the low Silverado off trajectory. Looking like they shouldn't be able to roll are 24x9 and super-wide 24x15 Intro Visa II wheels barley wrapped in Pirelli rubberbands. You'll find Pirelli 285/30R24 and huge 405/25R24 sizes if you look close enough.
Julio ditched the anemic factory engine for something that provides more entertainment value. Sitting between the framerails is now is a 6.2L LS3 that charges a much heavier beat. Chago's Car Care gave the engine a thorough going-over and felt a little coaxing would bring some additional ponies to gallop. A Comp Cam bumpstick was slipped in the block along with thicker pushrods and double valvesprings to handle the larger lift. Eight 47-pound injectors allow enough fuel to reach the cylinders to help satisfy the craving of the 150hp shot of nitrous. Engine modifications end with an underdrive pulley and custom speed density tune. Pacesetter headers aim used fuel and air molecules out an SLP Loudmouth exhaust system. Behind the LS3 mill is a 4L65E beefed up with a Transgo shift kit and a 3,200-stall converter by Noe's Transmission. An Eaton posi and 3.90 gears can spin the Pirelli tires into destruction at will.
Casual observers would never know anything was changed on the Silverado's body but the keen eye can tell the truth. Chevrolet's entire HD nose from a new '11 was swapped onto the standard cab ½-ton. Even the rear bumper was taken from an HD. What hides it all and keeps it sedate in appearance is the in-your-face Victory Red laid down by Joe Mendoza at Pistoleros Paint and Design. The right amount of factory trim was left black to properly complement the swooping black graphic applied down the sides of Julio's ride. A skeleton appears to be crawling from the piercing darkness at the rear of the graphic. Inside the bed, the wheel tubs and notch cover were coated in spray-on bedliner tinted to match the red hue given the truck. Dual nitrous bottles and an aluminum fuel cell lend onlookers a hint at what's lurking under the hood.
Inside the standard cab, things are still just as subtle but also over the top. The top half of the dash and door panels have been completely smoothed and painted almond color along with the rear wall trim, which has a couple of MB Quart speakers 'glassed into it. To accommodate the large 17-inch in-dash screen, the factory stereo was tossed and the HVAC controls were relocated. An Eclipse head unit is now the keeper of the music from the one-off center console. Three JL Audio amplifiers and four 10-inch JL Audio W3 subwoofers round out the sound design installed by Tiny's Shop. Black carpet covers the floor while Peanut Butter leather and Almond suede cover the seats, handiwork by Arjonas upholstery. A custom-made billet steering wheel from Dima Wheels replaces the tough-to-customize stock unit.
Julio bought the truck brand new and, of course, did not plan on heavily modifying the truck. Life has a funny way of swinging the pendulum on some of our decisions and this decision took Julio 21/2 years to not plan on doing. We're sure the backing of his Ground Zero club members had a hand in his decision to just go all in. It took a crew to get it done and Julio could not have made this possible without friends at Drops 'R' Us, Noe's Transmission, Pistoleros Paint and Design, Arjonas Upholstery, Da Shop, and Dima Wheels. We can only hope his next truck doesn't take nearly as long to build. If he builds trucks like this without a plan, we can't wait to see what happens when he really wants to get down.


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Julie Bowen: Brood of Boys Is the 'Best Adventure'
For Julie Bowen, raising three sons is "the best adventure" - even if she's the sole woman at home! "It's all boys at my house," the Modern Family star told PEOPLE Mosm & Babies at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards in New York on Monday.
For Julie Bowen, raising three sons is "the best adventure" — even if she's the sole woman at home!
"It's all boys at my house," the Modern Family star told Moms & Babies at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards in New York on Monday.
"It's a lot of trucks, cars and balls. There's no princesses or lipstick or shiny shoes. But it's okay, I love them anyhow."
In fact, her sons — Oliver, 3, and fraternal twins Gus and John, who just turned 1 — are so active that the twins' first words were sports-related.
"Both of them, their first word was 'ball.' It was really ball!" says Bowen.
But being the only female may take some adjusting to for the actress, 41, who is the middle of three sisters.
"I grew up in a family of all girls so this is karmatic justice for torturing my father for so long," she laughs. "Now I'm the only female in the house of four males. This is just a taste of what he had to suffer for a long time."
Raising three children with her husband, real estate investor Scott Phillips, and working on Modern Family has been a real juggling act for Bowen.
"I struggle just like anybody else," says the actress, who's the first to admit that she's no supermom. "I'm lucky enough to have help and with three kids under three, there's never enough help. I don't know how the other moms do it."
As far as personalities go, "Gus is very extroverted, friendly and needy," Bowen explains. "John is very independent and he's way cooler about things. Oliver is understanding and the loving big brother."
"Anything relaxed or nice about them is from their dad," she adds. "Anything uptight is from me!"
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Barry Alvarez to get paid extra for coaching Rose Bowl
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Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for returning to the sidelines to coach Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
If Wisconsin wins the New Year's Day game against Stanford, Alvarez will get a $50,000 bonus.
The executive committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Tuesday agreed to the terms following the surprise departure last week of head football coach Bret Bielema to coach at the University of Arkansas.
"We weighed the factors involved, including the unique circumstances that developed less than a month before the game, the challenges of the job, the marketplace and his strength as a coach and concluded that this is a reasonable arrangement," said Brent Smith, president of the UW System Board of Regents.
Alvarez currently works as UW's athletic director but was head coach from 1990 through 2005, a time when he won three Rose Bowl titles.
Money to pay for Alvarez's return to coach the game on New Year's Day comes out of Bielema's $1 million contract buy-out to be paid by Arkansas.


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Windows application compatibility
Before we get into benchmarks, I think it's important to cover what Parallels can and cannot do since it's not able to do everything as well as Boot Camp, which has no limitations on 3-D acceleration since it has official ATI drivers. The first thing to clear up is that Parallels is not for 3-D gamingnot even close. Many 3-D programs are able to run but there is no direct hardware acceleration. I ran Milkshape, a low polygon 3-D app, and opened up one of the models from a map I made for Quake3:
That's already much better than Virtual PC, which wouldn't launch that program, no matter what software GL hacks you tried. But that's where the good news ends for 3-D in Parallels. It is not fast and when the 3-D view was made larger, rotating the model slowed down to 4 FPS. Considering that the model above contains around 200 triangles, that's not good. That probably translates into a 3Dmark score of about -30000. Basic interaction in the wireframe windows is fine, but if you're looking to run Autocad or something involving larger 3-D projects in Windows, you're going to want to do it in Boot Camp.
CPU-bound, sprite-based games like Cubis or Ricochet played fine in Parallels but anything requiring hardware accelerated 3-D is not going to perform. Knowing that, it's fair to say that Windows Vista will not be blazing and I doubt you will be able to enable the advanced Direct-X 9 Aero features within Parallels and if you could, you wouldn't want to because the speed would be pretty bad. At least with the 3-D hardware support in the current version. Hopefully better 3-D gaming support is coming but I'm not holding my breath since Boot Camp works really well already for gaming.
For people looking to do less demanding work within Parallels, you shouldn't be disappointed. I didn't see any programs that wouldn't install, including the Office 2007 beta that was just released:
That font always makes me cry
And the other main need for Windowsvideo files with some proprietary codec that neither VLC nor Mplayer can manage to showworked fine as well. While there is no support for hardware acceleration, the fast CPU performance of Parallels means that video files pose no problem. Grab the latest codec for WMP and you're set:
Virtual Borat is number one funny
Sure, it's too bad that if you want to play Half-Life 2: Episode 1, you'll need to reboot, but Parallels doesn't pretend to be a gaming platform. For most needs it should satisfy and for CPU-bound operations and overall zippiness, it's very good. For specifics on speed, you'll need to see the benchmarks section.
Linux In Parallels
Whether you're a tech support person or just want to play with the latest popular Linux release, you may be hoping to get it going in Parallels since it is by far the easiest way to get it running on an Intel Mac. While I didn't do a lot of application testing in either distro, I installed SUSE 10 without a hitch and got Ubuntu 6.06 home version working nicely (the server version has known problems for some reason).
That's me just chillin' on a branch in SUSE 10
Running XP in one VM while Ubuntu Linux's screensaver wows moms with its sausage-like text
CPU speed in the menu bar. It only felt
like 380GHz but maybe that's just me.
A great feature of Parallels that will benefit anyone who just wants to test out a Linux install is the Connect image option which lets you use a disk image on your Mac's hard drive as a virtual CD. You no longer need to waste a CD just to test out MonstroLinux9000 for bragging rights.
Linux support seemed good overall and I was particularly impressed that the built-in mic was recognized and recorded fine with no extra work. I did notice one weird thing about how the CPU speed was displayed.
It's hard to say where the problem is herewhether it's with Ubuntu or with Parallelsbut XP shows the CPU info correctly:
Well correctly in that the speed is right. But dual core systems are seen as single processor machines by all the client OSes:
The Windows XP Task Manager is tooootally ignoring my other core
I'm not really happy about that, but if you use more than one client OS at a time, then it makes sense. Parallels opens a new instance of itself for each new VM:
Parallels keeps Windows and Linux from duking it out by letting them each have a core. Play nice boys
In Liteswitch X
(where's the UB, guys?)
If you ran two OSes that both had full access to both cores, you probably wouldn't have much left for OS X and all three OSes would probably lag under load. Still, for those looking to just get as much out of a Windows installation, this limitation is probably a sell for Boot Camp. In the end, it depends on your needs, but it would be good if there was an option to use both cores or just one for each VM.


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Friday, November 2, 2012 . . . The Disney/ABC Television Group's "Day of Giving" continues to grow, with ABC Family, SOAPnet, Radio Disney, "General Hospital," "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and the Disney Stores set to join previously announced network and syndicated programming spanning News, Daytime, Primetime and Late-Night this Monday, November 5, 2012. The "Day of Giving" will encourage the tens of millions of viewers and customers engaged throughout the day to help those impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
In commenting on the additional participants to the day-long response, Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, said: "The response to Monday's 'Day of Giving' has been nothing short of amazing, and I'm thrilled that ABC Family, SOAPnet, Radio Disney, 'General Hospital,' 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and the Disney Stores across the nation have joined the cause. We are going to do everything possible to encourage our viewers and customers to help those who are dealing with Sandy's devastation."
ABC Family and SOAPnet will engage their audiences throughout Monday with "Day of Giving" PSAs on air and on their websites, and through social media outreach.
Radio Disney will integrate "Day of Giving" messaging into their programming on Monday and air audience appropriate PSAs throughout the day on air and on the Radio Disney Facebook page.
Several stars of "General Hospital" have recorded specific "Day of Giving" PSA spots that will air in the show and throughout network programming on Monday, encouraging viewers to get engaged and take part.
"Who Want To Be A Millionaire" will integrate "Day of Giving" messaging and PSA call-outs into Monday's program.
Disney Store and DisneyStore.com will support the national "Day of Giving" by reaching millions of Guests through in-store PSAs, social marketing efforts, as well as email and DisneyStore.com home page presence providing Guests with information on how to make a donation.
Previously Announced Participation:
"Good Morning America" will start the "Day of Giving" by dedicating the entire 8:00 a.m. hour to raising money for Sandy relief efforts. ABC News anchors, reporters and employees will band together to encourage people to donate to the American Red Cross.
The torch will pass to "LIVE with Kelly and Michael," where the show will integrate "Day of Giving" messaging into their highly anticipated Halloween episode (which was moved due to the impact of the storm).
The ladies of "The View" will discuss the "Day of Giving" and encourage their audience to donate to the American Red Cross relief efforts, and "The Chew" will do the same.
"Katie," which dedicated the entire hour on Wednesday, October 31 to Hurricane Sandy, will take up the mantle of the "Day of Giving" and engage viewers in these relief efforts as well.
The ABC Owned Stations and local ABC affiliates will integrate "Day of Giving" messaging into their local news throughout the day, calling on their local communities to help those impacted by the storm.
"World News with Diane Sawyer" will participate with messaging around "Day of Giving" and the continuing impact of the storm.
"Dancing with the Stars" is planning to personalize sections of the live show Monday night with "Day of Giving" messaging.
"Nightline" will devote time to the "Day of Giving" and the impact of Hurricane Sandy, and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," which has been airing from Brooklyn all this week and encouraging viewers to give to the Red Cross to help rebuild the impacted areas, will end the "Day of Giving" on Monday with special messaging and calls to action for Kimmel's viewers.
This unprecedented response joins The Walt Disney Company's existing relief and rebuilding efforts announced yesterday by Robert A. Iger, chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company, which include the recently announced $2 million cash commitment to those severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy. One million dollars will be donated to the American Red Cross for immediate, critical assistance, and another $1 million will be designated for organizations working on rebuilding efforts. In addition, employee eligible donations to organizations involved in disaster relief will be matched, dollar for dollar, by Disney Employee Matching Gifts: A Program of The Walt Disney Company Foundation.
ESPN will be running public service announcements to engage their viewers in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts throughout its programming, including coverage of The New York City Marathon and Monday Night Football.
Disney/ABC Television Group has already developed and implemented a deep portfolio of assets to generate awareness and support for the victims of Hurricane Sandy which have been shared across all of the DATG platforms. American Red Cross PSAs have been running on ABC owned stations and affiliates throughout the country since Tuesday. From "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to "The View," "The Chew," "Good Morning America" and "Katie," calls to action have been incorporated into programming, letting millions of viewers know how they can help. In addition, American Red Cross online banner ads have been on abc.com and abcnews.com.; Disney Channel and Radio Disney are running audience-appropriate American Red Cross PSAs; and last night the "CMA Awards" opened with a dedication to those affected by Hurricane Sandy, and included information on how our ABC audience could contribute.


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NM. Just talked to a police officer and he said they have local police that will be able to handle that. I am going to call them first.
I do not have the unix admin skill that many of the regulars on this forum do but I have tried alot Linux Variations and 3 of the main BSD's. The all have their strengths and weaknesses. There are ways to watch a flash video in a BSD but not with the convience of a browser plugin. For me choosing an OS to install boils down to 3 factors:
1)Hardware - I have a small, low powered Asus C3 Terminator that uses
the Via SATA driver. In OpenBSD it only supports 1 drive - I had a SATA hard drive and a SATA DVD drive. NetBSD only supported the chipset as RAID. It works fine in FreeBSD 7 but gives an interupt storm in FreeBSD 8
No issues with linux kernel > 2.6.26
2)What I want to do - If I want to surf the internet and watch flash videos from a browser plugin securely in my opinion your best option is linux and if you have want 64 bit processing, a linux with 32bit libs since the 64bit Flashplugin for linux has a security flaw that has not been fixed. If I want a secure home ftp server, web server OpenBSD is a good choice. The availability of software packages also plays a factor in what you want to do. FreeBSD by far and away has the most packages, the largest community and the most rapid development.
3) A somewhat hard to quantify factor is how well the BSD is working. I recently tried to set up a NetBSD xfce4 desktop on wireless. The NetBSD wiki (with the wireless instructions) went down months ago and the maintainers that set up a new wiki decided to "audit" the wiki content. They must be very busy because the new wiki is still devoid of any content and new users attemping to configure a new NetBSD install have to rely on cache'd web pages. Additionally, the binaries at the NetBSD nyftp site generate a host of errors at install and the NetBSD guide has not even updated the fact that the pkgsrc ftp site moved from California to New York although you can find it in somewhere in the mailing lists. My sense is they support too much with too few developers
So I would recommend starting with a description of your hardware and what you want to do with it.
It's doubtful that this is someone attacking your system, but we don't know for sure, even so, it's a common occurrence for automated attempts to happen daily.
Make sure you configure your system software properly, and use the built in firewall, pf.
Calling your local authorities was highly premature, and in the case of a successful remote exploitation, there is very little they can do if the attack is taking place from another country.
The potential exploit mentioned by shep is utilizing the shared memory functionality of Xorg to exploit the Linux kernel when X is running with elevated (root) privileges.
This new vulnerability, while partly an X bug, is currently only a concern when using the Linux kernel.. it will not have any effect on OpenBSD and this is also partly because of the security features enabled by default, an adaptation will not be easy.
It is also described as a local privilege escalation, not a remote attack vector.
@shep, it would be nice if in the future you would avoid scaring the heck out of new users.
Sorry, I was not trying to scare the H out of new users.
The xorg exploit would not affect an OpenBSD system but I am not sure what would happen with Linux based Opera and fedora-base in OpenBSD as the OP indicated.
I am not aware is anyone has looked at whether fedora-base, and Linux Opera are at risk but why chance it particulary when OpenBSD runs so well all by itself?
The vulnerability is possible because of a Linux kernel bug, they used a separate vulnerability in X to exploit the kernel vulnerability.
When you run Linux software on OpenBSD there is no Linux kernel involved, OpenBSD simply emulates the system calls and approximates their behaviour.
For example, if hypothetically you managed to run an X server compiled for Linux under an OpenBSD kernel (..which is NOT possible), the available exploit would only crash the X server and that is all.
It is possible that a program other than X could trigger this kernel vulnerability, X was just a demonstration.. as until KMS (..kernel mode setting) is widely implemented X has to run a lot of code in userland as root.
If you're going to run Linux software on OpenBSD, don't run it as root anyway, that's just asking for trouble.
I see you guys went off topic here. I know for a fact my computer is being attacked by a stalker. I don't have a degree in computers or the relevent experience like you guys. i switched to openbsd to avoid the problem and it has worked to some extent.
How do i know i am getting hacked?
Every flavor of linux/unix i try crashes. My windows crashes. It never used to happen. i have checked the hard drive for error and the memory. i have dos attacks on my router from hundreds of ips. I have had all my email accounts hacked and passwords changed. I have the strictest firewall settings on all OSs. I have 30+ charector passwords. i have a wireless router with a strict firewall running wpa2 with 30+ random keys (numbers, upper, lower case, symbols). I keep up with patches and updates on all systems. I even have sudo disabled. I have to SU to wheel user then su to root to make changes. i have someone who posts to most forums i am in with taunts like, "i am going to start attacking your contacts now." i am pretty sure i am getting stalked. Why? i don't know. I don't have confidential data or any admin access to anything useful. It's probably some loser who knows i don't know much and they decided to make themselves feel powerful by attacking me. Sociopaths are everywhere. some are serial killers others are low level hackers who now they can't mess with people like you guys, who actually know something, so they target people who don't know anything.
So can someone help me? how do i trace an attack? i have googled it to death, but nothing i can understand comes up.
This week a new problem came up without making any changes. Now when i try to increase the backlight on my laptop, the backlight turns off completely. this happens in openbsd only.
You're sounding paranoid, even delusional.. instead of jumping to the conclusion of a mass conspiracy.. consider the possibility of faulty hardware, or if you're receiving a lot of unsolicited network traffic (..99% of this is automated, not targeted) then ask your ISP to assist you, or even better.. just ignore it!
You can not be physically injured by a individual or group of invidious DoSing your home IP, unless you leave some gaping whole open that we're unaware of.. there is unlikely to be anyone who has remote access to your system.
Of course, nobody here can be certain that you aren't being targeted.. but it would take a considerable amount of time, effort (..and technical know-how) to even do what you're suggesting.
It sounds like someone has scared you into believing this, FUD, take the time to do some research about these subjects.. avoid such forums and/or antagonizing people.. and abandon the web identities that may be tracked back to you, if possible.
You need to be confident, determined, and unwavering.. just keep doing the things that are important to you.
I hope that helps, but really, I'm not qualified to be counselling you.
Still, upon review, you have already strayed once before. Your initial inquiry was on "error 1" before digressing into concerns over being hacked. Please, stay on one subject. If you want to discuss something else, start a new thread.
Our goal to to faciliate searching as lots of people search these threads. One way to make this simple is to limit threads to a single subject.
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Turn off your computer, go outside, take a deep breath. It's really not that bad out there.
Best of luck to you.
First off, how do you know you're being attacked (other than some jerk talking trash on the internet)? What hard evidence do you have?
The first step would be to verify what type of traffic you have running on your network. You can do this by running tcpdump in *capture* mode (-w on an OpenBSD box...requires read priv on /dev/bpf* (by default rw for root only)), then analyze the traffic later (-r on an OpenBSD box).
Once you have a baseline, you can research the traffic types and see what services are causing said traffic. You may find a nefarious program (rootkit or somesuch), but chances are good you'll find out that the traffic is legit.
Thanks guys. I will use tcpdump when i get home. i will read up on the pf firewall. i think i am about to switch my router to static from dhcp. The pf firewall seems harder to understand, but i will see if i can make sense of it. Thanks to all the people who responded.
Ok. i just an nmap. these are ports i have open:
all tcp:
13 - daytime
25 - smtp
37 - time
113 - auth
587 - submission
6000 - x11
I only use this as a workstation. Which can i close. I don't need server services. i just browse the web. Can I close all of them? Are these open by default? I am running kde and firefox.
I still have to go through tcpdump. I think i will look at the rst packets. Does that seem right?
port 13 is ntp, right? Why do i need 37?
No, port 13 and 37 are older simple time protocols.. these are offered by the inetd(8) daemon and are enabled by default, there is no harm leaving them running.
How did you carry out this scan? if you're behind NAT these services will not be exposed publicly.. and by default, ports 25/587 (..smtp/sendmail) are bound only to localhost for logging and are not exposed over the network at all.
Port 6000 is for networked X connections, the default pf.conf blocks all non-localhost connections to this port (..actually, a range).. typically people use SSH now to do remote X as the protocol offers no encryption.
If you're receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic (..DoS) it will probably be ICMP packets, these are pretty much harmless to any modern OS, once upon a time legacy OS's had a very hard time dealing with specially crafted packets.. really though this is not a security risk anymore only a nuisance, and it happens all the time to everybody with a persistent connection to the Internet.
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Driver convicted of killing receives short driving ban and 300 hours community service
Driver convicted of killing receives short driving ban and 300 hours community service
Tim Andrew was cycling along the A1035 near Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, when he was hit by a lorry driven by David Grogan, at around 0640 in the morning of the 14th October, 2010.
Grogan was convicted of causing death by careless driving, but the judge, despite declaring the case 'serious', only sentenced him to community punishment, with a 12 month jail sentence suspended (ie, not served unless another crime is committed), 18 month driving ban, 8 penalty points and a community punishment.
Most outrageously, the Judge declared in the case that Mr Andrew's light was 'dim', and apparently weighed this up against the facts that Mr Grogan was over the speed limit and driving with an obscured windscreen. The implicit assumption was that Mr Andrew was somehow at fault, despite being legally equipped (he was also wearing a high visibility jacket, which is not required by law), even though Grogan was breaking the law in two different ways.
For the most serious cases of 'causing death by careless driving', the sentencing range given in the guidance is between 36 weeks and 3 years custody. Put simply, the judge in this case utterly failed to follow the sentencing guidelines of immediate custody. For some offences unduly lenient sentences can be challenged, but causing death by careless driving is not one of those.
CTC has been raising concerns about the workings of the 'causing death by careless driving' offence for some time. This offence was created by the Road Safety Act 2006, but only came into force in 2008. Since then the number of cases of 'causing death by dangerous driving' has fallen by 30%. There are now more cases of 'causing death by careless driving' than by the equivalent charge for 'dangerous'.
The effect of this change has been that there has been an immediate fall in the proportion of those who are convicted of killing through bad driving being sentenced to immediate custody. By comparison there has been no change in the proportion of offenders convicted of other offences, such as violence or sexual offences. It is only amongst motoring offences that we are seeing a creeping leniency in sentencing emerging - as demonstrated in the graph below.
Tim Andrew's case is a good example of what is happening more widely: a gradual diminishment of the punishment given to poor, lethal driving behaviour, through a combination of incorrect charging ('causing death by careless driving') and lenient sentencing by judges. CTC's Stop Smidsy campaign is gathering evidence from cases like these to show how the legal system is letting bad drivers off the hook and contributing to a deterioration in road user behaviour.


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With a little help from a talented friend, I have managed to do some photoshoots lately. Summer's finally here and with that my motivation to be more active in blogging has grown immediately. We've done some really good work and I'm happy I can share the results with you. More of those to come soon!
I've been quite occupied with work for the last year or so. It hasn't been easy, though I hope after so many tiring months full of dissapointment, I'll finally find something that brings me joy and enough money to pay the bills in London without having to save on everything.
Anyway, speaking of joy, the photos below seem like a perfect first step into summer. Taken on an English beach in a sunny (but extremely cold) April day, they bring some thoughts of this childish kind of happiness, when nothing else matters but the fact of being on the beach, carefully stepping into freezing water and drawing hearts on a sand.
I bought this dress years ago on H&M sale for less than 10 pounds and never actually wore it before. It seemed a bit too dressy to wear it outside, although it might still be doable with some leather or denim jacket.
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You do realize that not all Halo fans are raging dickholes right Bob?
What you're picture did to me was show me WRPG's have a variety in story telling, setting, and gameplay while JRPG's are pretty much the opposite.
He clearly does not realize that.
Damn you sir! I got curious as to what Videogame Overthinker was, so I went there... 14 videos 12 Youtube comments and 4 hours later I realised that i actually intended to watch this and then the winner of the Escapist Filmfestval!
Lol I guess I can kind of see that but thats not what I meant to sound like haha.
I'll be honest. I kind of like Halo. Maybe it's the fact that I thought the first one was particularly pertinent because of an aside in the accompanying literature that the Covenant were religious fanatics intent on our annihilation (I'm in America. This was November of 2001.).
The story has gotten ridiculous at this point, but I liked the first story. Alien religious fanatics who use weapons of mass destruction to destroy infidels in the region of a religious artifact? Okay, I'll play that. It was just the right combination of ultranationalism/xenophobia and fantastical detachment for me at the time.
Also, the canon actually includes multiple female Spartans, and Halo: Reach is actually going have at least one playable female Spartan character for the campaign.
That being said, I can understand how someone could dislike the franchise. Master Chief is an unapologetic hyper-masculine badass, and the story doesn't do a whole lot to try to explain itself unless you're just curious enough about how the characters got into the situation they're in to seek out that information.
But I'm going to introduce a different fps defense than that to which you may be accustomed. How about Condemned: Criminal Origins? It's not really a "shooter", but what are your thoughts?
Of course he does, but those fans have enough self-distance to realize that the type of fan he was talking about exist in abundance.
It's funny, I really liked Animatrix, but hated the Batman animations (the one about the bullet shield was alright, but it was mostly just crappy). I doubt I'd like any of these, and to be honest, I'm pretty sure that if I'd end up seeing Homecoming I'd sigh and mumble to myself that no way in hell have I ever seen this exact sequence in an anime before.
It's funny actually. Japanese writers often try to explore deep emotions in popular media like comics, games and animations to a larger extent than their western counterparts. Unfortunately they're mostly very bad at writing, but get undue credit by the people starved for that sort of thing (myself included). I mean, come on: there are people who consider Kojima the best writer in the industry!
I'd like to see more collaborations like these though. Perhaps we'll eventually get an original project where the writing is well-balanced on all fronts. Who knows?
Don't just name-drop and hope for a response: Argue your point, dude :(
Wow! I've never been able to get into Halo, but Bob I think you may have sold me on this. Well I'll at least have to give this a rent sometime.
I honestly thought Odd one out was the best. It was funny, and had that anime feel I was looking for. Homecoming certainly was the most "Emotional" but I didn't like the characters or think they were interesting. The main SPARTAN of that one didn't have any organic feel whatsoever, but maybe she wasn't supposed too. Her movements were robotic, swift, and overall pointless which i suppose made the teddy bear dangling from her belt, shifting in the wind all the different against her blue metal robotness. The package I thought was the worst. It completely milked the Halo 1 opening dialog *Hint*No thanks to your driving yes. They did some other one's that i couldn't remember, because i thought that entire episode was so terrible. The duel, before I saw any of the other ones really made the movie for me. After the extremely boring "Origins" That was pretty dang awesome with sort of a whole Samurai vs. Ninja thing. I must say that had some pretty dang awesome energy sword duels.
I feel like I got my face singed just watching this. I mean DAMN, that's some spite.
When considering the Halo mythos it's pretty important to realize - it's almost like a separate issue from the game itself. Halo has a very well constructed universe, and the fact that the games revolve around you being a supersoldier who can casually punch an alien to death is really not a reflection on the quality of the mythos Bungie built behind it. Watch the Arbiter cutscenes from Halo 2 and tell me that's not some elegant presentation at work. The unsettling militarism is gone, replaced with a portrait of religious zealotry that comes across as more an ironic cautionary tale than gun-wanking attempts at acting badass because we know that it's ultimately misguided.
The fact is that Halo's singleplayer, while still not exactly what I'd call highbrow anything, is an entirely different game from its multiplayer. Singleplayer is a story about a lame protagonist in a lovingly crafted universe. The multiplayer is a pit full of twitchy twelve year olds calling each other naughty words. A lot of games are like that. I went into Modern Warfare 2 expecting a landslide of the impossible claiming to be ultra-realism and chest-thumping American jingoism, and actually found the single-player campaign, unlike its multiplayer population, dropped attempts to recreate warfare as something fun and instead provided you with a sort of entertaining James Bond/Tom Clancy-hybrid action movie, and little quips on the loading screens were bereft of fanatical USA nationalism and instead filled with words of caution about the horrors of war and absurdity of conflict, as if to prevent the multiplayer crowd from getting brainwashed into joining the army by their skill with an tiny analog stick, lest they imagine it carry over to an actual firearm.
So, yeah. I think the writers of Halo are a cut above most of their readers, so to speak.
I think Bob misunderstands Halo's fanbase. There are the macho FPS heads and they probably are a majority but anyone who genuinely enjoys the story and has read the books would not have seen homecoming as the outraging shock Bob seems to think we should feel. The only one i truly disliked as a Halo fan was The duel because it gives the Elites japanese architecture for some strange reason and also gives the Elites chins... which they dont have.
I still dont get why you hate halo with such a burning undieing passion.
Wasn't interested before and am not interested now.
Of course that's hardly surprising, given that I've got only a vague interest in both Halo and animu. I mean, both can be fun at times, but the combination doesn't strike me as something even remotely worth watching.
It's almost certain you have no idea what any of those titles but Final Fantasy 5 are. None of their stories are remotely alike, same with the gameplay.
It's interesting what you said about the western and Japanese character archetypes. I'm doing a project for a research class where I'm trying to find out why Manga is becoming more popular than American comics.
One of the theories is that manga manages to target a younger Audience. The most popular American comics have characters who have been around since the beginning of the 20th century and have aged, relatively. The Lion's share of American comics, and games for that matter, star characters in their 20's or thirties. Not too much of a problem considering that most of the target audience is that age group.
Japanese comics and games, by comparison, have younger, less weathered characters. I can't tell you how many times I'm read the synopsis for a game or manga and the phrase "ordinary high school student" pops up.
The thing is that more people are able to relate to these young, inexperience characters more than the older ones. As such, they focus more on them.
what do you think of THIS
I'll hazard a guess that they all involve guys using swords, guys using magic, and a fantasy/medieval setting. And at least three of them use a turn-based combat system.
You let me down, there, Bob.
You were remarking about the competing aesthetic styles of Japan and the West, and characterized the latter as boasting macho one-trick ponies, which is simply bullshit, and you know it.
This aesthetic war generally stems from the comic book industry, and not from game design. The Western style is inspired by characters from classics like The Watchmen, Spiderman, Batman, Superman, X-Men, Cpt. America, Iron Man, and a legion of interesting, original creations with great stories and differing visual tendencies. Lumping all of that into a category of "interchangeable manly heroes in manly suits and manly guns" does them as great an injustice as characterizing anime-inspired characters as emo girly-men.
While you bash the Xbox Live fanboys, you constantly wave the flag of anime fanboyism, which is really no better.
As far as the gaming industry is concerned, yes, popular games of late are filled with the sad stereotype you mentioned, but you throw out the great protagonists/characters of Half-Life, Bioshock, GTA 4, Fallout 3, Starcraft, and the ever ovetly macho, self-parodying Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Redneck Rampage. I didn't even mention the great works of Bioware, Double Fine, and Lucas Arts.
So now you are taking the position that all turn based systems and fantasy settings are the same? Are you shitting me?
The Halo universe is amazing, the books truly show who the real heroes of the franchise are, normal humans who are just trying to do one thing, to survive. It is clear in the novels that the real hero is Sgt. Johnson, undeniably. That is why Bungie bought themselves back from MS, and they themselves stated that the way Halo was going was not what they intended, heck Halo was not even an FPS but actually was being developed into an RTS. I suggest you play Halo 3 ODST, the single player story, coupled with O'Donnell's amazing soundtrack makes for a true Halo experience, no spartans, just a bunch of normal guys trying to survive what seems to be an unstoppable genocide.This is the essense of the universe that Bungie wants to convey in their games, and with them having free reign on the new upcoming Reach installation, i have high hopes for another great story, even if the gameplay will seem as stale as it did in Halo 1. I am not a fan of the Halo games, but i am a hardcore fan of the novels and the overall universe that Bungie so well defined.
honestly, those pictures dont help you prove your point, the JRPG pictures all share the same common themes, seriously. Guy with sword, other guys behind them, hot girl that does magic. While on the WRPG side, you have not a single common theme, atleast that i cannot see. WRPGS are more varied if we go by your picture, sir. Neither one is better than the other, and storytelling in WRPGs are sometimes horrible, but at the same time the story telling in JRGs are just cheeky, mainly because what is humorous to a japanese gamer is stupid to an american gamer. So, stop arguing about this crap, your no better than the PS3>360/PS3<360 idiots.
I honestly don't want anybody making movies based on any of those franchises. Why take something that's already as near to perfect as it can get (except for Bioshock, not perfect, but still better than Halo by far) and shit all over it in the name of creative license?
Let's compare the variation between the JRPGs to the variation between the variation between the WRPGs, shall we?
We've got Morrowind, Deus Ex, KotOR, and Fallout 2. One is set in a fantasy setting, one is set in a modern-world setting, one is a sci-fi setting, and one is a post-apocalypse setting. That's four radically different kinds of games.
When we look at the JRPGs, we see four guys with swords, right there on the box. Now, we're not saying they're all just the same stereotypical fantasy setting, they all have their own quirks - technology is bumped a couple hundred years forward or back, the nature of magic is explained differently, etc. They all attach their own nuances to the form, but that's just what it is: a form. All these games are about guys with swords and magic fighting monsters. And if I don't want that, I have nowhere to go. In the genre of WRPGs, if I get sick of swords and magic and monsters, I can switch to something else. If I find turn-based combat too slow and abstract, I can switch to something like Morrowind or Mass Effect, and then switch back if that starts to feel frantic and simplistic. That's the issue with JRPGs - they're the same thing being reiterated in a whole bunch of slightly-different iterations.
Not all fantasy setting or turn based combat systems are the same. Not all potatoes are the same, either, but I don't just eat only potatoes.
But there are real-time JRPGs, and sci-fi JRPGs. Tales is a good example of the former, Chrono Trigger of the latter. In fact, Final Fantasy goes off into scifi fairly often.
Edit: Xenosaga and Phantasy Star probably fit sci-fi better than Chrono Trigger, but I'm not really a fan of either one.
Edit 2: Also Shin Megami Tensei games are often in modern settings, but feature mythological story and gameplay elements.
Wow, I almost feel this could be worth buying... so I guess that;s a "good job, Bob!" from me.
Okay, okay. Setting wise, JRPGs have a little variety. I still feel all their genres bleed into each other a bit much - a lovably hapless (or angsty and brooding) young male protagonist and his spunky female sidekick gather a rabble of similarly-aged individuals to combat a looming evil, using large medieval weapons or things that strongly resemble medieval weapons - and if you want variety in gameplay, WRPGs are much more accommodating. While they have differences, no two JRPGs are as different as Baldur's Gate is from Fallout 3.
I agree with you about Halo, disagree with you about Japan, and strongly disagree with your Western game stereotype. Mostly because a lot of Japanese games these days tend to show the same anime stock characters. There are exceptions to this, just like everything else of course. Also, the term "Western game" is far too broad to effectively stereotype. Just sayin'.
I'd say Star Ocean 3 is about as well removed from Fire Emblem as Balder's Gate is from Fallout 3.
And your comments on the plots and settings make it seem quite likely that you haven't PLAYED many JRPGs.
I'm not a Halo fan (Played one FPS, you've played them all) but Homecoming seems really interesting. Like, what Halo should have been.
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Ok, I laughed, but I also felt really bad because I know guys like that. Not EXACTLY like that, mind you, but really close to it. And that is a huge reason why I hate the FPS culture.
Ugg just another "let's jerk off Japan" Moviebob rant.
Ok. So being a generalizing person such as Movie Bob apparently is those four are essentially late teens/early twenties people who's world is slowly dying/about to be conquered by a long lost thought to be defeated enemy, said people must assemble team, be imbued with some sort of weapon/soul/knowledge in order to save world from complete and utter destruction.
In a nut shell. Granted there is more to the stories than that, but I'm giving them just about as much chance as Movie Bob gave Halo. Just being fair here.
I'm watching the opening credits. Verdict: I'm already in love <3
Playing a game and finding the plot bland is not the same as taking a number of games and arbitrarily slapping some cliches on them without playing them.
Moviebob's treatment of Halo is also not relevant to what you and I were talking about.
B-b-b-but STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl?!
Fallout, System Shock, Bioshock, TF2, Portal, Deus Ex ect have already mentioned but that's just considering a FPS's cultural and artistic merit. There are plenty of other shooters that are still fun and exciting even if they aren't the cultural or narrative equivilent of The Godfather. Gears of War, Halo, they're still fun and exciting like a dumb action movie.
Oh and actually, I think most people associate Japanese game characters with the kind of stupid androgenous spikey haired angsty anime RPG characters you get in Final Fantasy and every other kind of JRPG. That's their problem.
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BOSTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidates Charlie Baker and Mark Fisher met in their first debate Wednesday with less than four weeks to go until the primary.
Baker, the 2010 party nominee and the favorite to win the nomination this year, critiqued Gov. Deval Patrick's administration for its handling of medical marijuana licensing and the state's health insurance exchange, said a Republican is needed to balance the overwhelming Democrat majority on Beacon Hill and offered ideas for boosting economies of areas outside Metro Boston and lowering the cost of higher education.
Fisher, a metal manufacturer and political newcomer who made it onto the primary ballot after suing his own party, carried a consistent message of a hands-off government that would rid itself of special interest tax breaks, eliminate and lower other taxes, and oversee a health insurance market that looks more like the auto insurance market, with lower premiums and payouts only for major treatments.
Though the two have attended a forum during the campaign, the one-hour program moderated by Bob Oakes at WBUR was their first time going head-to-head in a debate, according to a campaign official. Though the two had differing perspectives on many issues it wasn't until his final statement that Fisher criticized Baker directly, critiquing him for his more tempered stance in his current campaign.
"Four years ago Charlie got it right, saying Massachusetts is a mess. But when he ran again this time he's come out and said Massachusetts is just fine. We haven't gone from being a mess to being fine. We've gone from being a mess to being worse," Fisher said.
Baker steered clear of Fisher in his close, saying voters are ready for "balance on Beacon Hill."
Fisher continued his needling of the frontrunner after the debate, telling reporters he was mistaken for calling Baker "Democrat lite" in the past when he is actually "Democrat-strong."
"It's a standard practice because they feel like Massachusetts is owned by the Democrats that you have to run sort of like a Democrat. You can't run as a Republican, certainly not as a Republican, to win. I have the opposite approach: I say the Democrats own the state; that means they own all the problems. What a great time to run as a Republican and win," Fisher told reporters.
Estimating 225,000 to 240,000 voters – in a state of 6.6 million people – will cast ballots in the Republican primary, Fisher noted the far and away favorite, former U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, lost his primary race this year to an underdog who mounted an ideological campaign.
"We can do that here," the Shrewsbury Republican said. Fisher said, "I turn out that Tea Party base, I win."
Asked if he was a conservative, Baker told reporters he has his own ideology.
"I consider myself a Baker Republican and I think a Baker Republican on some issues would be considered conservative and on others a moderate," the Swampscott Republican said.
Baker said a Baker Republican is "hardheaded" and "big-hearted" and "knows how to get stuff done in public service," and said his biggest difference with Fisher is their levels of experience.
"I think the biggest difference is probably just experience and leading and running big organizations and creating teams and getting stuff done, whether it's the private sector or the public sector," said Baker, who said he fully expects to win the primary and general election.
While Baker said his conversations with people in the recovery community and elsewhere have convinced him to oppose the notion of legalizing recreational marijuana, Fisher said he is open to the idea and wants to see how those policies work in Washington and Colorado.
"Let's see how things play out there," Fisher said.
Baker said the state's licensing of medical marijuana dispensaries since voters legalized the drug's medical use in 2012 has been "a disaster from start to finish," and said he supports bringing in more ideas from the medical community, such as strict dosing. Baker said, "If I have the ability to reboot it I absolutely will."
Fisher said medical marijuana use is "an issue between the doctor and the patient," and said the licensing process was yet another example of "government incompetence."
Baker said he would sign the comprehensive gun bill that Patrick signed Wednesday, while Fisher, a former gun owner, said he would not.
"I'm actually glad that we finally dealt with what I consider to be three of the major issues that we all face," said Baker, referring to increased attention on gun trafficking, enhanced penalties for gun crimes and more cooperation with a federal background check database. "And the fact that you have the gun safety people and the gun owners folks for the most part reasonably content with this legislation, I think is a good thing and I would sign it."
"We don't need stricter gun laws here in Massachusetts," Fisher said. Fisher and Baker both said they supported the removal of a licensing requirement for pepper spray.
Baker said he does not own a gun, saying, "Never needed to."
"If you want a good neighbor, find yourself a law-abiding gun owner because they have to be squeaky clean," said Fisher, noting background check requirements. Fisher said he no longer owns a gun, saying, "I built my own shotgun. I owned it; I shot it; I sold it in a private sale."
Both candidates had different outlooks on the role of the state's chief executive in the family feud within the ownership of Market Basket that has resulted in picket lines and empty shelves while the future of the supermarket chain remains unclear.
"There's clearly a failure of leadership going on here," said Baker, who noted "generally speaking governments aren't supposed to get in the knitting of family-run business" and said his approach would be to quietly reach out to both sides encouraging them to find agreement.
"I'm very impressed with the employees. I don't think that they would necessarily call themselves Tea Party members, but it's the spirit of the Tea Party that is going up against the establishment, either of a private business or a political party, or the government," said Fisher. He said, "With regards to government involvement, this is a free market issue."
Fisher said the effect of supply and demand ensures supermarket jobs would be available somewhere nearby even if Market Basket folds. "It's a free market issue and it will be wonderful to see this play out and serve as a great example for how it plays out without government involvement," said Fisher, who said he would "absolutely not" get involved in the disagreement if he was governor.
Baker sounded notes of concern.
"There's an old line about when the elephants dance, it's the ants who get crushed," Baker said. He said, "That organization has been doing nothing but growing for the better part of the past decade. This is the classic example of what you want out of an American business…and this feud is blowing the whole thing to pieces."
Fisher said he would allow industries and municipalities to prosper with less owed in taxes and fewer regulations, and while letting them fend for themselves.
"I want to make a rising tide that floats all boats," Fisher said when asked what he would do to help immigrants find jobs. He said, "People who are in these boats that are afloat on the rising tide at some point have to raise the anchor, set the sail and take helm. I'm not going to cater to individuals, specific industries or to regions."
Citing initiatives in the Lowell area and in the Fields Corner neighborhood of Dorchester, Baker said ensuring public safety can be a first step toward fostering a friendly business climate as can mutually beneficial partnerships and drawing on the talents of people in an area.
"I think we ought to have a tax-free zone policy in many of our gateway cities," said Baker, saying the corporate tax could be lowered in certain areas to encourage growth. He said the state could play a role in readying sites for developments, cutting the time needed to be spent by investors on a "messy" permitting process.
While Fisher said he would "absolutely not" support tax credits for specific industries, Baker said there is a role for credits, such as a research and development tax break, and said stability in tax policy is important for the business community.
"Once you've established a tax policy you probably ought to maintain it for some period of time. I think the worst thing you can do with tax policy is to constantly rewrite it and rearrange it because of the message to all businesses is you basically can't be depended upon," said Baker. He said, "The film tax credit's been capped, which I think is a good idea."
"We don't do fad funding of those fad industries, like Evergreen Solar or Cape Wind or the movie industry," said Fisher. Fisher said he opposes tax credits, and said the state should repeal what he described as a little known tax on inventory after one year.
"What it's doing is keeping big distribution centers from coming to Massachusetts and taking advantage of our central location in New England," Fisher said. Fisher also wants to cut regulations and cut the corporate tax rate to boost the economy.
Baker, the former chief of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, had a far different outlook on state health care policy than Fisher, who favors a far diminished role for health insurance.
"I think health care should be sort of like auto insurance," said Fisher, who said if only catastrophic claims were covered and other care was paid out of pocket, the way gas and oil changes are for a car, health insurance premiums would be "more affordable."
Baker said the state's health exchange had worked fine until the state tried to incorporate the requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act.
"For the life of me I can't understand why the Patrick administration and the Health Connector broke a system that was working here," said Baker, who said the temporary Medicaid coverage and repairs to website codes could eventually add up to a $500 million price tag, and suggested Patrick could have avoided it by seeking a waiver from the federal government, which used the Bay State system as a model for the controversial law.
The two Republican candidates also disagreed on a pending agreement between Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, and Partners HealthCare, allowing the health giant to acquire South Shore Hospital and Hallmark Health System but placing conditions on its future growth.
Baker said the agreement is "so complicated I'm not sure it's enforceable," and said it would allow Partners to continue growing more expensive than its competitors and said he would prefer Partners be required to provide price transparency on its medical procedures.
"Part of the free market is acquisitions and purchases," said Fisher, who blamed the state's high health costs on the 2006 health reform law he called "Romneycare."
Though Baker said he would have taken a different approach to casino gaming in Massachusetts he differed with Fisher, who said he would vote to repeal the 2011 gaming law on this fall's ballot.
"I always thought the best answer on the whole casino thing was to get the state of Connecticut to write Massachusetts a check for $300 or $400 million every year not to build a casino," Baker said. Baker said he would have preferred having only one casino – while the law allows for up to three – and said he would not vote to repeal. Baker said MGM's planned casino in Springfield will redevelop an area damaged by a tornado.
Fisher said casinos are the wrong approach.
"I don't think we'd even be considering casinos if Massachusetts had been business friendly… Let's get people into good paying jobs and not going into casinos and having to lose their money," said Fisher. Asked what he would say to Penn National Gaming, which is building a slots parlor at Plainridge Racecourse, Fisher said, "They better put some money into the vote no on the ballot question then. They're taking a risk."
Baker said he would "want to have a conversation" with Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby, who has recused himself from the Metro Boston casino selection, and Fisher said he would seek his resignation.
Fisher and Baker agreed that there should be more charter schools, and Fisher said students should be offered vouchers to attend private schools.
Both also said they were critical of the Common Core curriculum, a collaboration between states on student standards, with Fisher saying he would "absolutely" back out of it if elected.
"I'm the only person in Massachusetts who testified against going with Common Core in 2010 at the hearing before the Board of Education," said Baker, a former member of the education board. He said he had concerns that the curriculum was not yet developed and Massachusetts is already a leader in student standards.
"Teachers teach best. They know the needs of their children," Fisher said. He said, "The state does have a role to play, certainly not the federal government, but the state has a role to play, but certainly not by imposing unfunded mandates and things like that."
On reining in the cost of higher education, Baker said the state should offer students the chance to complete college in three years, incorporate more online education, and seek guidance from Northeastern University on how to build a similar co-op program for students in the workplace within public higher education. He said, "We're not going to get there by trying to buy our way out."
Citing the alleged misuses of school funding at Westfield State University, Fisher said the state should look into how higher education money is being spent and said federal subsidies have contributed to the inflating cost.
"If the government wasn't subsidizing student education to the level that it is, I don't think the costs would have risen as much as they have," Fisher said.
Responding to a question about corruption within the probation department, which led to the conviction of three former probation officials for rigging hiring, Fisher said the solution is term limits, while Baker said reforms and a bipartisan government would provide the answer.
"I do think this is a classic example of one-party government," said Baker, who said with only Democrats in charge "you don't have somebody pushing people from the other direction and forcing them to be accountable."
Baker said the state should publicize not only the jobs available, but who won them, their qualifications and any recommendations they may have received. He said the inspector general should regularly review hiring decisions in state agencies.
"This is not a Democrat or Republican problem. This is a problem with career politicians being in office being influenced by lobbyists and other influencers, and I think the answer's simple: it's term limits," said Fisher.
Republicans Baker, Fisher meet in first debate of primary race for governor
BOSTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidates Charlie Baker and Mark Fisher met in their first debate Wednesday with less than four weeks to go until the primary.


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-- 1.2 Million Unique Viewers P2+ Tuned-In to the FIREFLY 10th Anniversary Special --
-- The Night Was the Network's Most-Watched Sunday Ever among P25-54 --
(Silver Spring, Md.) - FIREFLY: BROWNCOATS UNITE-Science Channel's long-awaited 10th anniversary celebration of the cult hit series FIREFLY-earned stellar ratings on Sunday night at 10PM/ET, and was the network's most-watched Sunday night ever among P25-54. FIREFLY: BROWNCOATS UNITE garnered 1.2 million unique viewers across the evening and was the network's second-highest-rated telecast of 2012 among P25-54 and M25-54. The special delivered a 0.7HH rating and a 0.5 rating among P25-54. .
The excitement for FIREFLY: BROWNCOATS UNITE also was seen on Twitter with the network's "Flock to Unlock" campaign, where fans had a chance to unlock deleted scenes and cutting room floor footage from the special. On Sunday, Firefly ranked tenth in Twitter TV Ratings in Cable (according to SocialGuide) with more than 25,000 tweets generating 26 million impressions.
The FIREFLY grassroots movement began this past July, when Science Channel's reunion panel became the most-buzzed about television event at San Diego Comic-Con. This was followed up by Nathan Fillion's surprise appearance at New York Comic-Con this past October, which accompanied a sneak preview of footage from the special.
On air, Science Channel's FIREFLY extravaganza began Sunday morning with an all-day marathon of the series. That evening, at 8PM ET/PT, the final two episodes were enhanced and presented as FIREFLY: SPECIAL EDITION where executive story editor Jose Molina gave fans unique insight into the inner workings of the series by revealing FIREFLY facts and behind-the-scenes info. FIREFLY: BROWNCOATS UNITE premiered at 10PM ET/PT.
FIREFLY: BROWNCOATS UNITE is produced by Science Channel. Debbie Myers is general manager and executive vice president of Science Channel. Bernadette McDaid is vice president of production and Kaitlin McIntyre is producer for Science Channel. Jose Molina is executive story editor for the FIREFLY: SPECIAL EDITION enhanced episodes.
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Science Channel, a division of Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), is home for the thought provocateur, the individual who is unafraid to ask the killer questions of "how" and "why not." The network is a playground for those with audacious intellects and features programming willing to go beyond imagination to explore the unknown. Guided by curiosity, Science Channel looks for innovation in mysterious new worlds as well as in its own backyard. Science Channel and the Science Channel HD simulcast reach more than 74 million U.S. households. The network also features high-traffic online and social media destinations, including ScienceChannel.com, facebook.com/Science Channel and twitter.com/Science Channel.
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It should have been the happiest day of their lives. Instead, the 2005 wedding of Ashraf al-Khaled and his bride became a nightmare when a suicide bomber killed 27 members of their party in Amman, Jordan.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, al-Khaled vowed to break the silence in the Muslim community on a taboo subject, embarking on a mission to reveal the true cost of terrorism. Oscar(R)-nominated this year in the category of Best Documentary Short, KILLING IN THE NAME chronicles al-Khaled's quest when it debuts WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14 (8:00-8:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO2.
Other HBO2 playdates: Sept. 16 (1:30 p.m.), 18 (9:00 a.m.), 25 (5:25 a.m.) and 30 (5:30 p.m., 5:15 a.m.)
In the five years following al-Khaled's wedding-day tragedy, approximately 88,000 people were killed by terrorists, with Muslims the majority of casualties. KILLING IN THE NAME follows al-Khaled as he tries to understand the factors that foster terrorism within the Muslim world, and start a dialogue with even the most hardened radicals. In addition to al-Khaled's wedding, the film focuses on two other attacks: the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, and the 2005 explosion in Hilla, Iraq, which killed 130.
Zaid, an Al Qaeda recruiter tied to the wedding massacre, would not meet with al-Khaled but agreed to be interviewed on camera, saying the hotel where the wedding took place was targeted because Jews and "crusaders" would be nearby. Asked about Muslims dying at the hands of an Al Qaeda terrorist claiming to kill in the name of Islam, he replies that al-Khaled should not base his picture of all mujahedeen based on this "one mistake he has experienced." He also says he would need just a month to instill his beliefs in someone to the point where they would want to kill themselves to carry out jihad.
In Feb. 2005, one of Zaid's recruits, Ra'ed Al-Banna, blew himself up in a crowded square in Hilla, Iraq, killing approximately 130 others, including 100 Muslims. "It was a great killing, and until now, from what I've learned, it's the greatest operation carried out by one person alone," Zaid says. Al-Banna's father, Mansour, who invites al-Khaled into his home to be interviewed, never saw his son as political or radicalized, and is conflicted about the death of his son, believing both that he was forced to commit his crime and that he is a martyr.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, al-Khaled meets Nasir Abbas, a one-time jihadist who testified against the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah, the largest Islamic militant organization in Southeast Asia and a vital partner of Al Qaeda. Since becoming a vocal critic of the violent modern jihad philosophy, Abbas has met with hundreds of convicted terrorists.
In Bali, al-Khaled enlists a widow from the 2002 attack to travel with him to a madrassa in Java, where students are taught that the Bali bombers were heroes. The students argue that the widow's loss of a husband is small in comparison to those who have lost much more in the name of Islam. Although al-Khaled quotes the Koran to explain that terrorists cannot commandeer the "name of Islam," the students remain steadfast in their principles.
Since his trip to Bali, al-Khaled has honed his classroom skills, waging his own war on terrorism by speaking to young Muslim students. In one discussion, students admit killing only causes more killing. But he won't stop until there is an end to the violence.
In addition to receiving an Oscar(R) nomination, KILLING IN THE NAME was named Best Documentary at the 2010 L.A. Shorts Fest.
Director Jed Rothstein's other HBO credits include "Pandemic: Facing AIDS," "Coma" and "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech." He received a 2002 Emmy(R) for research for "Kids Behind Bars."
KILLING IN THE NAME is supported by the Global Survivors Network, which Ashraf al-Khaled co-founded along with Carie Lemack. GSN supports survivors of terrorism from around the world and helps them share their stories in an effort to prevent future acts of violent terrorism.
KILLING IN THE NAME is directed by Jed Rothstein; producers, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy and Jed Rothstein; co-producer, Jessica Van Garsse; editor, Kate Taverna; director of photography, Tom Hurwitz; executive producer, Carie Lemack.


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Brides and Beauty Through the Ages
Brides and Beauty Through the Ages
Weddings have been around at least as long as humans have been able to write about them, and in almost every culture, brides are the focus of their own traditions and rituals. But through history, the way brides have prepared and beautified themselves has changed drastically. Some traditions have survived for thousands of years and still make up a big part of our ceremonies, while others now seem truly bizarre (just check out the story on ancient Sparta). From mehendi to boqtas, see how being a beautiful bride has changed over the last three millenia.