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ARLINGTON -- The Rangers are expecting pitcher Nick Tepesch to make his next start on Thursday despite having to leave his last start with a contusion on his right arm.
Tepesch, after facing just seven batters and throwing just 21 pitches, had to leave Saturday's game in the second inning after getting hit by Jesus Montero's line drive just above the wrist. The line drive drew blood, but did not do any structural damage and Tepesch was feeling good when he arrived at the Ballpark in Arlington on Sunday morning.
"It's kind of sore, but not too bad," Tepesch said after getting treatment. "I figured it would be a little more sore this morning, but I kept a compression on it. It feels pretty good other than being a little stiff."
This is not the first time Tepesch has had to deal with the effects of getting hit by a line drive. He got smacked near the right elbow by a line drive in college while pitching for the University of Missouri.
"I had to come out after the first inning, but I still made my next start," Tepesch said.
Tepesch played catch on Sunday. A bigger test will come on Monday when he's scheduled to have his normal between-starts throwing session in the bullpen. But the Rangers aren't expecting anything to keep him from pitching on Thursday.
"Right now he's still in there," manager Ron Washington said.


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LITTLE ROCK — On paper, Rep. Matthew Shepherd has proposed five amendments to the Arkansas Constitution.
In reality, the Republican from El Dorado has specific details about of one of the proposals, while the other four House Joint Resolutions are generic "shell" bills that Shepherd acknowledged he filed just to keep his options open.
"Obviously the filing … is driven by the deadline," Shepherd said.
Many of the 37 proposed constitutional amendments filed by last week's Wednesday deadline were shell bills, with substantive details to be added later. Some will receive strong consideration, others may not get a mention.
Among them are proposals to drop elections for state Supreme Court justices and name members of the state's highest court by appointment, and to elect members of the powerful and autonomous state Highway Commission and Game and Fish Commission. Members of each panel are currently appointed.
Others call for changes to tort reform and term limits, as well as dedicating tax revenue from the sale of automobile-related items to the state Highway and Transportation Department for road improvements.
The Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs and its House counterpart will review each of the proposals filed in the House and Senate, then will meet jointly to decide on recommendations to the respective chambers.
Sen. Eddie Joe Williams, R-Cabot, chairman of the Senate committee, and Rep. Andrea Lea, R-Russellville, chairman of the House panel, both said last week they would like to begin hearings on the proposals early next month.
The Legislature can refer up to three proposed constitutional amendments to voters in the 2014 general election. Lawmakers also can refer a fourth proposed amendment related to salaries to the ballot. No salary amendment was proposed this session.
Eighteen were filed in the Senate and 19 in the House.
One of Shepherd's proposals, HJR 1005, would amend the state constitution to make the nine seats on the state Supreme Court appointed, rather than elected, positions.
"It provides, essentially, for the merit selection system for Supreme Court justices," Shepherd said, adding he "thought it was something we needed to put forth with the idea being that we needed to look at ways to hopefully insulate our court system from the increasing costs of judicial campaigns in which judges can't talk about the issues but as we've seen over time these campaigns are becoming more and more expensive. I think it is also worth discussing in terms of preserving the independence of the judiciary."
His four other proposals — HJR 1011, 1012,1013 and 1014 — are shell bills, two of which could deal with judicial elections, if needed, and two could address tort reform, if needed.
"Two of them have two different names … we're trying to give us some flexibility," he said.
Two other lawmakers filed specific tort reform measures intended to address the state Supreme Court ruling last year that struck a provision of the 2003 tort reform law that specified who could be considered an expert in medical malpractice cases.
SJR 2 by Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, R-Little Rock, would require that expert witnesses in a medical malpractice lawsuit be trained in the same or similar discipline as the person on trial or have similar education and experience, and that attorneys file a "certificate of good faith" stating that they have a medical expert ready to testify that medical malpractice occurred.
SJR 6 by Williams would return to the Legislature the authority to set the rules of pleading, practice and procedure for all courts in the state.
"It takes things back over into the (Legislature) which is where it presided for the last 115, 120 years" until Amendment 80 was passed in 2000, he said.
Rep. Duncan Baird, R-Lowell, co-chairman of the Joint Budget Committee, has proposed adding a rainy day fund to the state constitution. Baird said there are a number of ways a state can contribute to such a fund, including with general revenue or adding a percentage of the annual end-of-the-year surplus.
Brandon Sharp, the state budget administrator, said there is already a rainy day fund in the state statutes, but no money has been contributed to it. Also, the governor has a rainy day component as part of his discretionary fund. At the beginning of the current fiscal year, that fund had about $20.5 million and about $9.3 million has been released. The proposed 2013-2014 budget includes adding $10 million to the governor's rainy day fund.
Rep. Jim Dotson, R-Bentonville, filed three proposals he admits he has no specific plans for yet.
"There's not really a specific thought behind any of the ones that I filed right now," Dotson said, adding he and other lawmakers decided to filed proposals with broad topics so they could possibly be available later this session.
The three he has filed are:
— HJR 1016, titled the Arkansas Public Prayer Amendment. Dotson said the shell bill was filed in case someone wants to pursue legislation similar to the prayer amendment that Missouri voters approved last year. That amendment stressed the rights of citizens to express their religious beliefs and the rights of children to pray and acknowledge God in schools. It also stated that children could be exempt from classroom activities that violate their religious beliefs.
— HJR 1017, which says it concerns extraordinary sessions of the General Assembly.
— HJR 1018, which says it concerns the application of Arkansas Law and United States law.
"They're just some general ideas," he said. "They're basically a place holder for a category."
Rep. Dan Douglas, R-Bentonville, filed HJR 1008, which would transfer sales tax revenue on new and used vehicles, tires, batteries and automobile parts and services from the general fund to a New Highway Trust Fund.
Other proposed constitutional amendments filed include:
—HJR 1002 by Rep. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith, a term-limits proposal which would allow state legislators to serve up to a total of 14 years. Currently, House members are limited to six years and senators eight years.
— HJR 1003 by Lea which would amend the constitution to provide for election of members to the Arkansas Highway Commission and appointment of the state highway director by the governor. Under Amendment 42, the governor appoints members to 10-year terms on the commission, and the commission hires the director of the highway department.
— HJR 1004 by Rep. Jeremy Gillam, R-Judsonia, which would set new term limits for members of the Legislature. The proposal is in shell form and has no specifics.
— HJR 1006 by Douglas, which would allow counties to vote to abolish the office of constable.
— HJR 1007 by Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, which would determine the manner of publishing notices required by various sections of the state constitution.
— HJR 1009 Rep. Warwick Sabin, D-Little Rock, an ethics reform measure that also would extend term limits. Sen. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, filed an identical proposal in the Senate, SJR 18. Woods also filed SJR 17, which would create a panel to consider pay raises for legislators and constitutional officers.
— SJR 3 by Sen. David Burnett, D-Osceola, which would require members of the state Game and Fish Commission and the state Highway Commission be elected rather than appointed by the governor.
— SJR 4 by Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, known as the Taxpayer Protection Amendment. It would raise the requirement for the Legislature to increase the state sales tax from the current 51 percent to a three-fourths vote in both the House and Senate.
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The Studio Years by Gerald Mast
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The System came up along the slow evolution of cinema as an art. In 1916 Adolph Zukor( Famous Players-Lasky company) assumed control over Paramount distributing company. In 1924 Marcus Loew set up MGM studio with Louis B.Mayer as head of Production. By 1925 the Warner Brothers Company,the Columbia Pictures Corporation,Universal Pictures and the Fox company had been set up.
Like the production of Ford motor cars out of Detroit the heads of the Production planned an entertainment factory from which a large number of goods(films) of consistent and dependent quality were to roll out without any snarl. Like any factory, guiding principle of a studio was division of labor, by which each department contributed to the whole. Writers, actors,technicians and mechanics were all part of it. Studio publicity was another that pitched the finished product to the public. Time saving devices were more welcome than inspiration a human quality that made writers or stars at time excel themselves from their usual. There was a front office that planned the year's production,managed all the budgets and kept the assembly line smoothly running.
Introduction of sound system meant a bigger financial out lay that only big studios could afford. Conversely it made the studio more rigorous with their production costs. The informality of early silent films was gone and in the complicated technically savvy world of dream factory nothing was left to chance or human tantrums. The stars emoted come what may according to detailed shooting scripts that went dead against the intent of the author and script writers who still nursed certain literary integrity. Their principles and feelings had been bought by the studio when they signed the carefully worded contracts prepared by their lawyers. The studios had also battery of legal firms that helped them to control the production all along the line.
From 1930 to 1945 the Studio system reigned supreme.
When films found their feet among masses the need was to produce more while the demand was very strong. With the crash of 1929 and lives of men growing desperate, films as an escape from everyday circumstances were real. Those who produced them knew they had to account for every cent they spent. They knew the commercial need for large quantities could only be justified when these were of good quality and technically competent and also were entertaining. After the World War II the studio system died when television came into vogue. It brought entertainment right into homes of Everyman. There was no more need for such quantity as the studio system planned for a year.
The Hollywood Studio system was uneven. Take two giants as MGM and Paramount studios. In the former Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg had much more control than the other . Paramount was a studio of directors and writers-Ernest Lubitsch, Joseph von Sternberg,Cecil B. DeMille and Billy Wilder. This also had such names as WC Fields and Mae West. MGM was the studio of stars- Greta Garbo Jean Harlow Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. MGM inherited the Marx brothers and made their zany chaotic routine fit with their intricate production numbers and trite plot and the result was lacklustre. Similarly Buster Keaton was flattened out when MGM took control. In the 1930s the MGM policy seemed wiser of the two. Audiences treated MGM films as the most impressive and artistic of their day and Paramount's chaotic individuality ran the studio into severe financial difficulties and imposed restructuring of the studio in 1935 . Paramount lost in the process WC Fields Marx Brothers to name a few. Today the MGM films look flat and dead besides the exuberant vitality of Paramount's.
The studios also differed in the genres they handled. RKO was remarkable for the smooth comedies with Cary Grant,and both the adventure films and comedies directed by Howard Hawks.Warner Brothers was most remarkable for its gangster,musicals and biographies. 20th Century Fox excelled in historical and adventure films directed by John Ford,Tyrone Power,Henryhathaway,Henry King. Universal excelled in the horror films-Frankenstein,Dracula,WolfMan, and the comedies of WC Fields.
Most directors were staff directors-competent,proficient and unimaginative technicians who took every script the received ,shot it and then passed the footage along to the editing department for shaping into its final form. There were exceptions to these those who were to individualistic that they like great stars could do films for other studios other than the ones thy had signed their contract. Walt Disney and Charley Chaplin worked for themselves. Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir and Clair made films for the studios and were imported from abroad. Maurice Stiller, Orson Welles( destroyed by the studio) couldn't work within the system. Then there are directors like Lubitsch, von Sternberg, Hawks,Ford,and Capra who were products of the system and could work within it. In order to do their own Ford and Hawks had to make a number of mediocre films. These great directors avoided the Hollywood clichés and infused so much life about them to give the cliches a fresh cast and color.
Ernest Lubitsch for example could avoid formulas of what to say and how to say it. He even enjoyed playing with them. Central Lubitsch subject was sex, something that the studio system accepted as a necessary evil. In 1933 the formal code was to eliminate sex from the movies. In the studio years a woman was pure or fallen and a gentleman either faithful or a rake. Lubitsch could show that even faithful husbands have their rakish streak and women were not statues but women with powerful drives of their own. In an era of plaster-cast idealism of American male his cynicism was not as grotesque or bitter as of Erich von Stroheim.
On the whole studio system helped great many directors hone their skills and learn the craft. It was a liberating experience for them to make some good films if not the films that we treat as classic films. Mervyn LeRoy din't direct a film as The Graduate of Mike Nichols. LeRoy made more films between 1930 and 1933 than Mike Nichols will make in a lifetime.
About the system there are two opposite critical opinions. The system created a very clear tension between art and commerce. Art defies mass production and assembly lines.The system bred popular entertainment, a myth as people who lapped up everything that flashed in front of their eyes. They were in awe of the stars, the glamor and the glossy perfection of a system that made the problems of life go away at least for a short while. The system played upon the wishes and dreams of the masses : the poetic justice worked too well and the crime paid in the end. Optimism of the good despite of every bad thing that visited them and reward of suffering the greed of crooked bankers, politicians gave them a false sense of American idealism as distinct from the way things worked in Europe. In a sense the system played too safe to displease public opinion and the powerful lobbies.(in the way the Motion Picture industry handled the Hollywood Ten during the Red Scare of 1947 one cannot miss fear of commerce than morals among the studio heads. They created a blacklist of their own.) The system stoked the gullibility of the masses and made them participants of a communal experience and a religious affirmation of the society. Such optimism which we see now by hindsight was based on misplaced naivete. Most films produced under the system are more interesting sociologically than aesthetically. The system ironed out what it considered as too individualistic and no wonder MGM could not stomach WC Fields who, ripped up the sentimental cliches of propriety,Protestant ethics, or Marx Brothers who ridiculed high finance, higher education democracies and everything that the studio bosses held in mortal awe.


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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a plea deal on heroin and gun charges for a former Illinois judge at the center of a courthouse drug scandal involving another judge's cocaine death.
Calling the proposed 18-month prison sentence for Michael Cook "not sufficient," U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade said he would support a punishment that's fair to Cook but also "fair to the public in terms of reassuring them the judiciary is in fine shape and the judiciary is in good hands and one that continues to warrant their respect."
Cook, 43, pleaded guilty in November to a misdemeanor heroin-possession charge and a felony count of having firearms while being a user of controlled substances. Cook, who stepped down as a St. Clair County judge last May after he was charged, has admitted to being a drug addict in the past.
McDade didn't indicate how much prison time he would like to see Cook receive beyond the 18 months, but said "just because Mr. Cook was a judge doesn't mean I throw the book at him."
The judge gave Cook's lead defense attorney, Bill Lucco, three weeks to work out another deal with federal prosecutors after Lucco declined to go through with the sentencing. The next hearing in the case was scheduled for March 28.
Cook, who did not speak during Wednesday's hearing, remains free on bond. He retains the right to withdraw his guilty plea and seek a jury trial if McDade denies any future plea deal.
Lucco and the region's top federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Steve Wigginton, met privately after court was adjourned and declined to talk to reporters afterward.
McDade had said in an order last month that Cook deserved a longer sentence, citing Cook's prolonged drug use and his case's sullying of public confidence in the legal system.
The firearms charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and the heroin charge by no more than a year of confinement.
In pleading guilty, Cook agreed to forfeit to the government a cache of firearms that included pistols, shotguns and rifles.
Cook became an associate circuit judge in 2007 and a circuit judge in 2010. His legal troubles surfaced after his friend Joe Christ, a former longtime St. Clair County prosecutor and newly sworn-in associate judge, died of a cocaine overdose last March while staying with Cook at the Cook family's western Illinois hunting cabin.
Cook has not been charged in the death of Christ, a 49-year-old father of six.
Questions about Cook's drug use have led to overturned convictions in two murder trials in which Cook was the judge. They occurred between Christ's death and the time in which Cook was charged with the heroin and firearms counts. Prosecutors in those cases contended the convictions were the result of "overwhelming" evidence and that both defendants failed to cite specific examples of how Cook allegedly botched their trials.


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Anyone know what game the final scenes of this episode came from? The ones with the army/navy dudes, the space ship etc. It looks pretty cool.
BUZZZZZZZZZ! You fail! Read the rest of this thread then GTFO!
Last I checked they release a new console that forces you to buy it for new games every couple years.
I run a computer from over a decade ago and can still play fallout 3... It's not arbitrary like consoles, where it simply won't allow you to run it on previous consoles.... Just cus.
I think it's been well-established that PC > Consoles.
We just needed Jim to add some reinforcement.
Thank god for Jim.
My PS3 is just a portable gaming machine. Sometimes its easier just to grab that and hook it upto a friends TV for a night of gaming than hauling my PC and finding a TV that'll support it (my monitor is a TV, too big to take to a friends). However I agree that in general its getting rediculasly favourable towards the PC
lol, captua = just dance
Mods are more than graphical updates.
The best mods either add to a game in amazing ways (and yes, this can be graphically) or utilize the game's engine or assets to tell their own story.
I can name dozens of amazing mods that really add to a game or are small games on themselves. It's the biggest reason I'm a PC gamer: that wonderful, creative, passionate group of modders who keep making new and interesting things.
You honestly think that the AMD Radeon HD 6320 and 6530D are valid gaming graphics cards? Maybe if you use photoshop for gaming.
Have to agree with jim on this. It's got to the point that I havent switched on the 360 for months coz I'm flashed with shitty adverts before I can start a game. Just on the main blade the biggest panel is for rolling ads, the panel for he game is a small little thing dumped on the left hand side, it's even out numbered by ads.
Compatibility issues and lack of controller support really only become an issue with older games that were built for older hardware. Like Morrowind (or the original Thief for me)in your example. Even still, there are pretty easy ways to get them working. For instance you could use this site http://morrowindoverhaul.rpgitalia.net/ download the mod package and it's nearly idiot proof. It will give you a fully functioning Morrowind game as well as stunning graphics for it.... Seriously it almost looks as good as Skyrim and it's 10 years older.
Also if you use steam, that pretty much idiot-proofs almost everything.
I have no idea where to find a $200 computer that can do that, if you do please tell me.
If anything, it would be stupid with computers. To be fair, I should have specified I was looking for laptops, not desktops. So, it was probably a fair bit more expensive, plus it would be more difficult for me to customize.
Scrumpmonkey, the computer you linked to still cost over $1000. I bought my PS3, with two games for $300. I could buy a PS3 and just about every game I'd want on it for less than that computer. No matter what the difference is, it's still significantly more economical to buy a PS3. Just out of curiosity, why did you bold "warranty"?
It's not really a drawback for PC's either, any electronic product can shit the bed and become a paperweight. Hell a brand new car can have a blown motor the first day you have it off the lot. A new house can have faulty wiring and burn down the first week you live there. saying thats a PC only thing because it happened to you is like saying every black guy is a thief because you were mugged by one. neither is true and to lay claim that it is is wrong itself.
As for the upgrades you were doing I think that was probably 1 of 2 things. you were in enthusiast mode where good enough to run it wasnt good enough for you and just had to have the best or you were buying outdated hardware. Either way it's not a PC gaming problem but the player.
I could run skyrim on my laptop that's a year or so old and cost $500. It got a bit laggy when I overloaded it with mods but it was still playable.
I recently bought a gaming PC that cost me about $1100 and it can play almost every game on high. I could have spent half as much and still gotten a competant rig that could play most modern games on modest settings.
That would be the live action trailer for Halo 4. Otherwise known as Microsoft showing off how much money it has...
OT: This has probably been brought up already, but: with a console, I know, without a doubt, that the game will run on it (with the minor exception of sometimes requiring a specific accessory). With a PC, there is always the risk that the specs for the game are just too high. I don't like having to upgrade my computer for EVERY new game that comes out!
I honestly, honestly, have not had a "Your blahdiblah is not supported" problem in 10+ years, ever since XP came out. It might have something to do that I only got into massive PC gaming a few years ago and I use http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx
But then take into account the $10 price difference on most games for the PC. The fact that you can get some really good cheap indie games. And the Online is free and you pay more for the Console over time than for the PC. If something breaks on the PC you also only have to replace that part. WHile if something breaks on the console you either have to get a new one or just stop using it if its out of warrenty.
Only on the hardware are consoles cheaper. But after you buy a 200 dollar console and several games through the years you will easily pay 50% more with a console than on a PC with steam sales.
PC tech doesn't advance so quickly right now that you have to update your hardware every few months... The gaming rig I have right now I expect to last me at least 3-5 years and still be able to play most new gameswith decent settings, and when the time comes to upgrade I can just replace the graphics card or some other part with new ones and it would be similar to buying into a new console generation and for a similar (or smaller) pricetag.
Jim Sterling, may I present you with your "Luckiest Motherfalcon on Earth" award, because you have apparently never had a situation where your PC wasn't recognizing that your monitor existed, your motherboard had gone wrong and was corrupting your other devices without you knowing it, or a game you paid full price to pay simply wasn't compatible with one or more of your devices and, of course, NO REFUNDS.
Yeah, the PS3's patching/install speeds have become (deservedly so) the butt of a million internet memes, but after spending $250 on parts to fix my PC, I'm having a hard time meeting you halfway on this. The points you bring up are, as always, good ones, but to sit there and pretend that all PCs function as they should to a greater percentage of consoles is just plain disingenuous. This doesn't have to be a binary decision, we don't live in some weirdass, dystopic civilization where we MUST choose sides, the "conflict" between PC and console is 100% manufactured, and this time we have only ourselves to blame.
Fact: Current-generation graphics cards (256 bit) for PCs still cost a shit-ton just by themselves. Sorry, but I'm not spending $250-$600 on one component. Custom PCs are great, yea. The cost to build them, not so much.
Didn't much care for this episode, Jim.......
A couple of points:
1) The PS3 is the only console that isn't convenient. With my 360, I can pop in a game and be playing within seconds.
2) Consoles (at least in my experience) are far more reliable. No dicking around with settings. VERY few crashes. Will always run the game.
3) Exclusives. I quite like Halo and the MANY other games that are only available on console. You may not care, but I sure as hell do.
4) Price. And before someone jumps on this with the classic "I CAN RUN CRYSIS AT HIGH AND I ONLY SPENT 300 DOLLARS SO YOU'RE WRONG" statement that ALWAYS seems to come up, let me explain. One personal issue I have is that I need my computer to be very portable. Thus, whenever I upgrade my PC, I always get a laptop, which not only is difficult to use for gaming, but also VERY hard to find a decent one that is under 1100 dollars.
5) This may be a very personal reason to like consoles more, but I really don't care for Steam and other digital distribution. I admit, it does have some AMAZING deals, but I will never stop enjoying having a physical disk with a case and an instruction manual. Furthermore, I have never seen Steam be very reliable. It frequently refuses to start offline, preventing me from playing any games when I don't have an internet connection.
I play games on my Xbox over my computer any day. I know this isn't true for everyone. I know that objectively, PCs are probably better overall. And I know that despite this being purely experience and opinion, I'm still going to get flak and corrections for it.
Also people seems to forget that a Gaming PC is, well, a PC. You get all that shit a PC does too. You have a machine you can edit photos and movies on, write email, waste hours of your life on Twitter/YouTube/Reddit/4Chan/Facebook. Consoles can do some of that now too of course... Just really, really badly.
(Seriously, a gibbon with down syndrome could have coded the 360 YouTube client better.)
They can run Skyrim though. Plus i never said they were great. Also i am still under the $1200 mark... should i post a top of the line graphics card? Or a few cheap ones that wont blink at skyrim?
Still his 2 weeks nothing under $1200 is bullshit and a complete exageration.
I don't argue anymore. I love my console, simple. If I could game on a PC then I would but I just can't be bothered. Xbox 360 has my favourite exclusives and I love RPGs which i prefer on consoles. Probably the main reason is the fact that no one I know plays PC, all my friends are on 360. I knew one person who converted to PC. He stopped talking to everyone and I never saw him since. PCs are better though, just can't be bothered or end up leaving my friends.
> 360, doesn't crash.
I have a 360. It's a crash happy pile of crap you lying fanboy scum!
I was going to say a positive to consoles was price, but a PC can easily be updated and can last longer of course that cost money. However, since use games are being hunted down. PC games are often time cheaper longer at Digital Distrubtion. I'd guess we have to do the math really.
As publishers make all game shit or an ass rape. and as TVs have become big computer monitors. Might as well get a wireless mouse, wireless keyboard and a wireless PC controller then get a tv tray for mouse and keyboard and set up you computer in the living room and never pay for cable or satellite cause basically any decent tv show will be on blue ray.
Well that's my plan when I get my first place.
Love how he went from talking about muscles and fitness, to a shot from the Crysis intro, where it flies through Nomad's muscular man-boobs.
Not entirely true. Graphics effect our ability to be drawn into a world and immersed. Also, I'd tie more detailed level designs in with superior graphic technology. So as a wannabe game developer, I'd say yes, graphics do matter to most players (except maybe blind ones).
Also your generalization of PC gamers is almost as bad as the "dirty peasant console gamer" stereotype. I don't know when people decided that you either have to have a good game or good graphics, today not having both is just laziness and an un-willingness to move forward with the gigantic leaps in hardware power (looking at you Valve).
It really does come down to taste. A lot of people just want to hook up a dedicated gaming appliance to their tv in the same way they might a dvd/blu-ray player. That's exactly what consoles are for. They are more convenient. And that massively long updating thing is specific to the playstation 3 (it's probably why my PS3 is gathering dust). It takes around 1-2 minutes for an xbox game to update.
Personally, as much as I love gaming on my PC, I mostly prefer to sit on my couch playing on my 360 which is hooked up to my 54" wall-mounted-plasma TV. I'd love to hook my PC up to it, but there's simply not enough room for anything as big as a computer tower around the TV, so that's sat underneath a desk hooked up to a 26" monitor. I thought about getting a smaller PC but there's simply nothing around that's both small enough and not hugely overpriced to warrant a purchase, plus that's extra hassle when all I want to do is play the games I love. I'm more of a part-time PC gamer because of it, as I really do not enjoy being sat at a desk playing video games when I spend most of my working day doing the very same thing (sans the gaming obviously). I just don't find it fun or comfortable, so at present consoles are just more convenient for me.
Yes PCs are better, but that doesn't mean I can afford a good one.
what this guy said. I expect my computer to last at least 4 years before I switch out the graphics card for a newer one or buy a twin to my current and run sli.
Thats why you wait until the new model comes out, then buy the old one that stores are trying to get rid of on huge sales.
That's why I say that the only console worth buying is a Nintendo console. They are trying to get away from the PC, not to embrace it. I'm mainly a PC game, but I own every Nintendo console.
But I couldn't do that with Nintendo games I really want to play. I couldn't play Monster Hunter Tri, or Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Red Steal 2... all great games that I would have missed if I didn't have a Wii. But there is only one game I missed that I really want to play. Little Big Planet. But buying a PS just for that would be stupid.
P.S. I know some of the games I listed aren't Nintendo games, but they are Wii exclusives.
In certain cases, the demos for PSN games are simply chopped down versions of the full game. In essence, you download the full game but it only lets you play a small part. I like that version since, if I want to unlock the full one, its just a few simple button presses. But the drawback is, as you said, you need an update before you can even try the demo.
Just ones that meet the minimum system requirements. One of those doesn't even have a 2ghz processor. I don't even think you'll get it to run on an E-450(1.65GHz). That processor is intended for cubicle work. Having it do much of anything outside of Office will kill it. Both of them also for some stupid reason have miss matched RAM so you're not even getting duel channel benefits. How about go to the Gaming PC section of New Egg and look them up their. You'll find some a for about 500$ but 2 years ago I'd probably tack on another 500 and to get a PC that would play Skyrim from 2 years ago would bell well into the 1200+ range.
But that basically highlights the problem. What you can get for cheep to play game that were made just recently will have to be replaced in a year or two with another 500$ machine. PC gaming is expensive if you go on the cheep unless you are yourself a tech capable of upgrading piece by piece. Even then you're going to end up buying 50 to 100 bucks worth in RAM and 100 to 200 for a graphics card every 2 - 3 years.
As for cars and houses, those come with warranties that protect you when that sort of thing happen and, yes, consoles can crap out leaving you out in the cold. But the price tag of a console is 250 bucks right now. They usually top out when they are new at 500 bucks. At least when I was PC gaming, if you wanted to play the latest games, you were gonna need to drop at least 700. I dropped that and put an average of 250 every year just to keep it up to date to play the new games, I was only going for the bare minimum. My console could have crapped out every year I and cost me as much just to keep the PC up to date in the same time frame minus the big splurge at the beginning.
The big point here is I don't have the money to pop 250 into a computer every year before playing the games. That's about my budget FOR the games now that I've got bills. As for saying it was a user fault more then the PC, yes, that's technically true. Even then, I didn't have the time to be building and rebuilding a PC so I left it to a friend who didn't charge and he ultimately made the mistake that screwed the whole thing but you don't need to worry about things going wrong when you upgrade a console because you don't have to upgrade it.
If you've got the money to buy the top of the line equipment and have a professional install every time you upgrade, sure a PC's better but who really has that kind of money?
Can't be bothered to sift through 6 pages of bile on my break. Sorry
PCs are better in every meaningful way. I can play any console-ish game on my PC, but you will never be able to play complex games like WoW, Arma, Unreal Tournament or any respectable RTS on a console.
Not to mention I can hook up my PC with a TV and a gamepad whenever I feel like if I want the console experience.
And what about the price? If you cannot into google, it's your own fault. Even if you do spend more on a PC, you will save more in the long run because of ridiculously low prices on games.
Let's not even start talking about mods, emulation and backwards compatibility.
if you're playing at 720 or 1080 it will run circles around the Xbox 360, and since most games are a port of console titles(which are made to run on six year old hardware) this should give you everything you will need for the next two or three years(at which time new consoles come out).
I'm a die-hard pc user, but this post makes sense.
Stick with your friends + games you like.
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Justin Bieber Poses Shirtless on Never Say Never Yacht [PHOTOS]
Yo, Beliebers! If those pics of Justin Bieber and Austin Mahone working in the studio last week got you excited and worked up into a tizzy, we've got something even better to brighten your day.
The Biebs posed shirtless, showing off his tattoo sleeve, while hanging out and lounging on a yacht named -- natch! -- "Never Say Never." He was in Florida yesterday (April 9), when he decided to share his fun in the sun shots with his fans. Lucky us! Remember, Florida is the site of his arrest in January, but that hasn't stopped him from continuing to spend time in the Sunshine State.
Word is he is in Florida working with an artist named Madison Beer.


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FRIEDRICH EBERT (German) (1871 – 1925)
Ebert was the first President of Germany's Weimar Republic, so called after the constitution adopted by the National Assembly of 1919 at Weimar, which lasted until the advent of Hitler in 1933. Trained as a saddler, Ebert succeeded Bebel as leader of the social Democrats in 1913. After the outbreak of the WWI he was instrumental in obtaining socialist support for the Kaiser's government. He strongly opposed social revolution and the proclamation of the Republic, but on November 10, 1918 he was elected Co-chairman of the Council of People's Representatives by the worker's and soldier's councils. On that day he also concluded the famous alliance with the High Command to preserve law and order and to fight Bolshevism. This alliance became the Weimar Republic's cornerstone. In January 1919 he was elected president of Germany which he remained until 1925. The worker's and soldier's councils were defeated and all extremists coups drowned in blood.
In 1923 executive power was transferred by Ebert to the War Minister to cope with growing extremism on the Left and Right, vast currency inflation, French occupation of the Ruhr and separation in South and West. That the Weimar Republic survived was largely due to his merit while vitriolic attacks from the Right were his reward.


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June 21, 2005
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Bernie Ecclestone tried in
vain to get the 14 teams to race last Sunday at Indy. Was he, the
Speedway and the fans a victim of a conspiracy?
There has been a lot written over the last several
days about the Indy Fiasco, but I have a slightly different opinion on what Indy
was all about. It will be interesting to see what the FIA will do to the
seven teams on Thursday, who have the ultimate responsibility for not running, and
to Michelin, who at the least are suspected of lying, and certainly of aiding and
abetting the teams who did not run.
I think the last minute addition of a chicane would have been insane and was
really just a diversion for the media to focus on. CanAm did exactly that at
Charlotte Motor Speedway when it was the 5-liter CanAm Series. They had suspension
problems, and if memory serves me correctly, tire problems, too, with the banking
(sound familiar?).
The hay bale chicane they used in the backstretch
at the last minute was a disaster and again if memory serves, was virtually
non-existent at race end. They had a "Chief Steward in Charge of the Chicane"
(Watts Hill) at the chicane and in touch with the Chief Steward at the time to try
to make it work, he did his best but it didn't.
I am surprised that F1's Chief Steward, Charlie Whiting, didn't tell the teams,
"You race or else," with the 'or else' the threat of loss of all season points,
and fines per car up to the maximum fine limit ($500,000?) each. I strongly doubt
he has that authority, but it would have been a good strategic move and perhaps
have gotten teams to break ranks and put on a show for the spectators.
Nowhere have I seen it mentioned, but my inquisitive mind tells me there is more
behind this than tires. Most of the seven teams, partially or totally owned by
auto manufacturers, have been posturing against the FIA and Bernie for well over a
year, threatening to run their own series when the present Concorde agreement ends
after 2007. And today AutoRacing1.com got wind that Minardi might be
bought by BMW, bring them into the GPWC fold. Minardi's team boss, Paul
Stoddart, has been very outspoken against Max Mosley, who supports Bernie
Ecclestone and the current F1 regime.
That this group seriously damaged Max Mosley, the FIA, and Bernie Ecclestone last
Sunday, does not go unnoticed by me. And it is not just a coincidence in my
honest opinion. But like the "oval cartel," such a cabal would be devilishly hard
to prove. As of this (Tuesday) morning there has not been one peep out of any of
the seven teams, complaining that Michelin did not supply tires adequate to do the
job, especially after Michelin had been warned in writing by the FIA on June 1st.
Just the opposite, Frank Williams was quoted just
today "The teams were desperate to race and put on a good show," says the
Englishman, "Racing in North America is of fundamental importance to Formula One's
commercial health." The BMW WilliamsF1 Team also supported the decision of all
Michelin-supplied racing teams to waive the chance of scoring World Championship
points. Williams declared, "We wanted at least to entertain the fans and we were
prepared to let go of the points and give them all to Ferrari. I cannot stress
enough how disappointed we were." He went on to place the blame squarely on
Max Mosley.
Again, another diversion to make it sound good?
An issue has been raised about whether the diamond grinding the Speedway
did to the asphalt caused the Michelin tire failures. The Speedway
of course says no. Michelin did not have problems at Indy in
previous years. Why now all of a sudden and why were we only told about
a few problems with the tires throughout the weekend. Was it just
a coincidence that only the two Toyotas had real issues and could that
have been caused by chassis setup or too low tire pressures? Was
it not said that Michelin advised the teams what to do for the tires to
be safe after the Schumacher accident, i.e. use proper air pressures.
Then that was silenced.
During the course of the weekend, bulletins were issued stating how the
FIA had measured, weighed and otherwise examined competing cars and
found them in compliance with its rules. The tire problems experienced
were limited to one team, Toyota. Up and down pit road, it was widely
discussed that not only did Toyota, but other teams as well, ignore tire
manufacturer's inflation-pressure recommendations. It was made known by
Michelin that the problem experienced by Ricardo Zonta Friday was due to
under-inflation of their tires, and it can be presumed Ralf Schumacher's
Friday crash was for the same reason. No other Michelin-shod cars had
any trouble that I heard of.
Why then were there no complaints from the teams about Michelin? None of the Michelin
teams came out and made a fuss about blaming Michelin for what happened. And
how come nobody broke ranks? It is said that several teams had no tire problems as
monitored during practice, yet they also refused to race. Why? What was so
powerful as to keep them all off the track?
There were also reports that Jarno Trulli's car didn't have enough fuel to go three laps in the race. That meant they knew they would not race
even before qualifying on Saturday and decided to get some PR by running
virtually empty and taking the pole. How could they have been so
Also, I think Bernie has wanted to go back to a single tire make for a while
anyway. Notice, too, that most of the breakaway GPWC teams are Michelin
shod...perhaps Bernie got wind that the French tire maker was going to become the
official tire supplier to GPWC. Say au revoir to Mr. Bibendum after this
year if our sources are correct that the FIA will kick Michelin out of F1 after
this year. Perhaps Bernie's side sticking a dagger into the GPWC by way of
Is it a coincidence that the FIA announced radical rules changes for 2008
effectively copying Champ Car on many things. The GPWC is dead set against
going to such extremes. You don't see them proposing rules anywhere near
what the FIA proposed. The press release by the FIA probably galled Ron
Dennis who spent a small fortune on his lavish technology center for the sole
purpose of building state-of-the-art race cars.
And last, who were the Stewards of the Meet at this event, and what is their
experience? By the Code, the Stewards have an awful lot to say about the running
of the race, and yet there hasn't been a whisper about them, so far. Wonder what
they were doing while all this was playing out?
The bottom line is that I believe what was at play
at Indy last Sunday goes far deeper than most of you realize, that the safety
issue card was played for all its worth. And in the chess match between the
current regime and the GPWC, the race fans and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
became the pawns.
Just as I feel the France family used Tony George
as a pawn to help divide and conquer CART and open wheel racing in the USA, so too
might Mr. George have been an unknowing victim in the war between Max, Bernie and
the breakaway GPWC.
A conspiracy or just my wild imagination? You
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text: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #11: Small Is Beautiful 22 22+00:00 September 22+00:00 2018 · by almeidadepaulo · in Lens-Artists Challenge. · For this week's Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Amy choose "Small Is Beautiful for the theme".This picture (small pieces of artesanal artwork) was taken at the village of Monsaraz. Small is beautiful Share this:TweetLike this:Like Loading... Related


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Yu Qiyi had a promising career in a government investment company when he disappeared on his way home from a business trip March 1. Thirty-eight days later, the bespectacled, boyish-looking engineer died after turning up in a hospital emaciated, with bruises on his arms and thighs, dark welts on his buttocks and scrapes on his feet and shins.
In between, Yu was held by investigators from China's ruling Communist Party in secret detention frequently used but not regulated by law. Since his death last week, he's become a rallying point for reformers who want to do away with a system that is prone to abuse but that Chinese leaders depend on to keep members in line.
Photos of Yu's body have ricocheted around the Internet, prompting thousands of comments from ordinary Chinese citizens on popular Twitter-like microblogs, as well as from journalist in the state media.
"If power is not locked in the cage of institutions, everyone will find it hard to feel secure. From ordinary citizens to leading cadres, everyone could become a victim," reporter Chen Yuming of the official Xinhua News Agency posted on the agency's account last week.
Yu's family says the injuries are proof that he was beaten, starved and otherwise tortured by investigators in the eastern city of Wenzhou where he lived.
"He was thin like a beggar," said Wu Qian, his ex-wife with whom he still lived, describing seeing Yu on April 9 in a local hospital. "He was lying there so pitifully. ... Anywhere that we could see, there were injuries on his body."
Wu said in an interview that the hospital's medical records cited drowning as a potential cause of death. A terse official statement carried by state media said Yu had an unspecified accident while being held by the party's local inspectors and that he died in the hospital after rescue attempts failed. It said an investigation was underway.
Wenzhou police referred calls to the office of local party investigators, where phones rang unanswered this week. Lines were constantly busy at the city's propaganda office. The hospital where Yu was sent declined comment.
Yu's case is drawing attention to a feared tool of communist rule: the detention of party members by internal investigators.
Those being investigated are ordered to appear at a designated time and a designated place for questioning, yielding the euphemism by which these investigations are widely known: `'shuanggui," a term that roughly translates to "dual designation."
In practice, it's a system in which suspects are whisked away into a shadowy detention. It operates beyond the law, with people held for weeks and months at a time with no regard for the normal, if often ignored, legal protections Chinese citizens are supposed to be entitled to.
The state-run Global Times newspaper said targets of investigations are "asked to confess to wrongdoings."
"Shuanggui faces no constraints and that makes it easier for torture to be used to obtain confessions," said Shen Liangqing, a former prosecutor who has become a government critic and has investigated the detention system.
Interrogators say: "'We will beat you to death, take your corpse down the mountain and say you committed suicide by jumping,'" Shen said. "That's how they threaten them."
Defenders of the system say party investigators need unchecked power to prevent officials suspected of malfeasance from using their influence to block such inquiries. By keeping them in solitary confinement, the argument goes, officials are unable contact others who might be implicated or police or judges they might have influence over.
And it has been used against powerful officials, most recently Bo Xilai, a high-ranking politician brought down in spectacular style last year following his wife's involvement in the murder of a British businessman. The former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, who now faces charges of taking bribes and abusing his power, also was under the party's investigative detention system.
Yu was wanted for questioning for possible corruption in a land deal when he was picked up by investigators.
Run by the party's Discipline Inspection Commission, the investigations have time limits of up to six months and usually take place in hotels or guesthouses, according to a 2010 book on arbitrary detention in China by legal scholar Flora Sapio.
Detainees are guarded even when they use the toilet, Sapio writes, and are subject to sleep deprivation and beatings.
Because the targets and interrogators are party members and are bound by the party's disciplinary code, the process is girded in silence, its details mostly kept out of public view. When the probe is concluded, investigators sometimes turn the suspect along with selected evidence to prosecutors for what is often a perfunctory prosecution with guilt a foregone conclusion.
No figures are made public on the number of people put through the party's detention system annually. Shen said the number of corruption cases the party investigates - about 150,000 cases last year - provides some indication, though the detentions are likely to be far higher since each case usually involves multiple suspects.
The attention that Yu's case has brought comes at an inconvenient time for the party. There is growing pressure from legal reformers and the public to do away with another form of punishment with flimsy legal underpinnings: a system that allows police to jail people in labor camps for up to four years without a court trial or judicial review.
Because recently installed President Xi Jinping came to power pledging to root out widespread corruption, the shuanggui detentions may be used even more frequently, not less - setting back legal reforms.
"The use of shuanggui delivers not justice, but selective and vindictive prosecutions often based on torture, and will do little to straighten out China's rotten officialdom," Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang said.
Before he died, Yu, a party member since 1998, had been a rising figure in the Wenzhou Industry Investment Group, a state-owned company that according to its website invests in energy and other industries and manages 4.6 billion yuan ($750 million) in assets. Yu had been appointed by provincial leaders for a temporary assignment at the Cabinet agency in Beijing that oversees China's biggest state-owned companies.
He was arriving back from the capital on March 1 but instead of being picked up as usual by his ex-wife, Wu, who was waiting in the car outside, he made a hurried phone call before being whisked away by investigators. It was the last time she heard his voice.
In the days that followed, Wu learned from one of Yu's colleagues that Yu was being investigated by the Discipline Inspection Commission - though she was never formally notified. Through other sources, she learned Yu was suspected of wrongdoing because he served as a middleman in a land deal that eventually fell through.
The same colleague called Wu in the early hours of April 9 telling her that Yu was in the hospital severely ill and doctors were trying to save him. Wu rushed there to find him unconscious and battered, with blood coming out of his ears and nose.
"How did you become like this?" Wu asked, shaking the unconscious man as she pleaded with a doctor: "You must save him. What happened to him?"
The family has consulted friends in the police and they believe the bruises paint a picture of the torture inflicted on him: The discoloration and abnormal swelling of his feet are consistent with that of someone made to stand for long periods on blocks of ice; the bruises on his ribcage and back and severe bleeding point to beatings that likely caused internal organ damage; his dramatic weight loss a sign that he was deprived of food.
The family has hired two prominent rights lawyers to push authorities to fully investigate the case. They want the investigation taken away from the city prosecutor's office and moved to a higher level agency.
Yu's ex-wife said she hoped that his death would not be in vain.
"I want to restore the truth and find justice for him," she said. "I hope he might be able to stir debate about the current system. ... Because for everyone else, they might suffer the same fate as him some day."
Follow Gillian Wong on Twitter at twitter.com/gillianwong
Associated Press researcher Flora Ji contributed to this report.


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Patti Maguire Armstrong presents the conversion story of a man who realized that "God must still have a plan for me that he has allowed me to live. I am so thankful for all he has done and I hope to spend the rest of my life serving him. To some, it might seem my life was over when I was sent to prison, but through Christ, it has only just begun."


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by Janet Gilmore
This coming weekend is your last chance to see Stagecrafters' production of "Tartuffe" at 8130 Germantown Ave. If you go, you'll see what looks like a gorgeous company of 17th century-looking French men and women. Backstage, however (where I work as a costumer), the troupe disrobes to reveal a very diverse group of people.
For instance, actor Kyle Paul Dandridge (Damis) bears a tattoo on the side of his torso, "Strength through Pain." During rehearsals he practices his lines with fierce concentration, then sings a funny song, then drops to do a few sets of push-ups while singing, followed by practicing sword-play. His intensity impresses everyone.
Kyle says, "I knew I wanted to act from age of seven." When not acting, Kyle coaches boys' varsity track and field at Chestnut Hill Academy, probably out-running, out-jumping and out-throwing the kids he coaches.
In a much quieter way, Chris Sarnowski (M. Loyal) sits in the green room through most of the performance, wearing headphones, following the script and shushing everyone backstage. Away from the theater, he is a computer programmer at the University of Pennsylvania, supporting medical research. He also has an M.A. in Mathematics with a strong interest in philosophy. Chris is one of several people at Stagecrafters who do many jobs, the kind of thing you see in small circuses where the ticket-taker appears on a trapeze later, then runs back and sells popcorn. In "Tartuffe," Chris doesn't appear until the last few minutes, but he adds charm and drama to the plot.
Two actresses are (or were) high school students. Jane Schumacher (Mariane) just graduated from Moorestown High School. "I have lots of practice playing ditzes," she says, batting her big blue eyes. She's played the roles of two silly young girls, one southern American and now one French, for Stagecrafters. Her inspiration to become an actress occurred "when I took one look at the costume the Queen of Hearts got to wear and said, 'I want to wear that.'"
In her quest, Jane became a trained singer and dancer. She is tall, pretty, extremely professional and very serious about her acting, so it's a shock to hear her on her cell phone talking teenage-speak to her friends. In the fall, Jane will attend the Mason Gross School of Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She says someone once told her, "Don't act unless you can't live without it." Luckily for us, Jane can't live without it.
The actor who plays Tartuffe, Chris Lepore, has lots of experience but has never played a villain before. "I have three kids; my oldest, Steven, is 14, and I have seven-year-old boy-girl twins (Zoey and Hayden). They were the chief beneficiaries of the funny voices I like to do. I definitely feel I worked out some of my 'acting itch' by acting out with them. Granted, toddlers are not as satisfying an audience as a full house of adults, but then again, sometimes they're the most satisfying audience imaginable."
Jim Broyles (Valere) has come the farthest geographically to become part of the cast; he's from Oklahoma, and his nickname in college was "Quick Jim Two-Step." This year he's been lucky enough to do two Stagecrafters shows in a single season.
When you see the white-haired matron Mme. Pernelle on-stage, defending that evil noodnik, Tartuffe, you would never guess that she's the pretty blonde actress, Susan Mattson. Her white wig, make-up and demeanor are a perfect disguise.
Like many actors, she has two day jobs — Office Manager at Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation and a substitute Spanish teacher at Agnes Irwin School. She LOVES her role as Madame Pernelle.
Ira Block (Police Officer) made himself memorable to the backstage crew by frequently bringing along his golden retriever named Bear. Dogs are not usually welcome in a theater, but Bear is a certified Therapy Dog and a weekly visitor/worker at Abington Hospital. Besides, that dog has the most beautiful eyelashes in the animal kingdom. We love Bear and feel lucky we got to meet him.
Ira also practices law. Although he's always had an interest in acting, "Tartuffe" is his first role. When asked about the terror factor for someone who's never acted before, he said, "Just high enough immediately before every performance to remind me that this is my first acting performance."
Kathleen Mulhearn (Dorine) has had the acting bug forever. "Ever since I can remember, I and my brothers would put on shows for our parents at home. It is the only thing I've ever wanted to do." Kathleen also works as an Associate Project Director at an advertising agency called G2.
Her pet peeve is people who are not involved in theater not taking the work seriously. Many people say to her, "Oh that must be fun" when they learn she is an actor. "And they are most impressed with how we memorize all those lines (which is really the most elementary part of the work). Of course it is fun, but it is also hard work. Live theater is an important asset in this age of technology where everything is fast-paced and impersonal. It keeps a sense of humanity in our world, creates community and can transform lives."
The other high school student in the show is Claire Adams (Flipote). There is a scene in the play where the wicked Mme. Pernelle slaps Flipote and calls her a slut. The entire backstage crew winces. Claire, just 16, is one of the sweetest sweetie-pies in pie-land. "Tartuffe" opened two days after her last final exam in Mandarin at Central High, so she tried out and got the role.
What's it like for a modern teenager to wear a 17th century dress? "I actually enjoy wearing period dresses (and I'd probably enjoy wearing period guys' clothes, too). Apart from the tightness and lace, I feel pretty and elegant. Though I wear pants and a t-shirt on a daily basis, the little girl in me adores wearing costumes from another country or time period."
For more information about "Tartuffe," call 215-247-8881.


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In a case that began as a dispute over a movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Supreme Court appears poised to wipe away limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions. Right in time for next year's congressional elections.
The justices return to the bench Wednesday — nearly a month early — to consider whether to overrule two earlier decisions that restrict how and when corporations and unions can take part in federal campaigns. Laws that impose similar limits in 24 states also are threatened.
The court first heard arguments in March in "Citizens United v. FEC, 08-205" -- the case of whether "Hillary: The Movie," a scathingly critical look at Clinton's presidential ambitions -- could be regulated as a campaign ad. The emphasis has shifted away from the 90-minute film.
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Now the justices could decide whether corporations and unions should be treated differently from individuals when it comes to campaign spending. Restrictions on corporations have been around for more than 100 years; limits on unions date from the 1940s.
Deep corporate and labor pockets and the potential for corruption "amply justify treating corporate and union expenditures differently from those by individuals and ideological nonprofit groups," argued Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and other sponsors of a major campaign finance law who don't want any significant change to the restrictions.
But former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who six years ago defended the campaign finance provision he now is challenging, said the limits are strangling corporate and union freedom to speak out.
"Why is it easier to dance naked, burn a flag or wear a T-shirt profanely opposing the draft," Olson said at a Federalist Society event in July, "than it is to advocate the election or defeat of a president? That cannot be right."
But federal courts said the movie looked and sounded like a long campaign ad, and therefore should be regulated like one.
Wednesday's unusual session — the court only rarely orders a case to be reargued — will be the first to include the newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor. In August, the 55-year-old New Yorker became the court's first Hispanic and third female justice ever.


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Did you expect anything else?
Did you expect San Diego State to put away Boise State in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament Wednesday night when it led by 11 points in the first half or 13 midway through the second, or when star Broncos star guard Derrick Marks missed his first 12 shots and didn't score for the first 27-plus minutes?
Did you expect a game between these teams to be anything but a down-to-the-wire, peek-through-your-hands thriller?
But give the Aztecs this much: They teetered on the edge of the precipice, lost their balance a few times, wavered and wobbled, looked into the abyss below ... and never fell off. Their 73-67 win against Boise State at the Thomas & Mack Center puts them Friday's 6 p.m. semifinals against top-seeded New Mexico and almost certainly into the NCAA Tournament the following week.
You can exhale now.
The team that couldn't win the close ones all season won the close one when it mattered most.
"Just like football," SDSU students who made the trip chanted from the Thomas & Mack rafters as the final seconds ticked away, referring to the Aztecs' upset in Boise last fall to claim a share of the Mountain West title.
And not like Saturday. The Aztecs lost 69-65 at Boise, the fourth time in the last five meetings between the teams that it has been a one-possession game in the final minute.
This was more of the same. "A little bit of a carbon copy," SDSU coach Steve Fisher said.
The Aztecs blew a 13-point lead in a mere 3:20 thanks to a flurry of turnovers (they finished with 19) and suddenly found themselves needing to, as Fisher has said over and over this season, "make a play" in crunch time.
It came, of all people, from freshman Winston Shepard.
He had been having a nightmarish game, with five turnovers and four missed free throws and that glazed look regularly seen across the face of freshmen in big games. A less patient, less seasoned, less savvy coach would have unceremoniously yanked him long ago.
But Fisher didn't, partly because four decades of experience told him not to and partly because Shepard also had seven rebound and three blocks. And partly because he didn't have much choice, with his bigs in foul trouble and Boise State making the radical decision to play five guards.
So there was Shepard in the left corner, with the Aztecs up 61-57 inside a minute to go and the shot clock running down and Jamaal Franklin trying to create something out of nothing. Franklin (19 points, eight rebounds, four assists) drove, was stopped, rose up and found Shepard cutting behind his defender along the baseline.
The freshman muscled up a shot, scored was fouled and made the free throw for a 64-57 lead with 58 seconds left.
It was his only basket in 30 minutes of action.
"I think everyone thought Jamaal was going to shoot," SDSU associate head coach Brian Dutcher said.
The Aztecs (22-9) are now 11-2 at the Mountain West tournament over the past five years, and if they beat New Mexico it will be their fifth straight trip to the championship game. Senior Chase Tapley won at Thomas & Mack for the 10th time in his career, counting the conference tournament and regular-season games against UNLV.
"We knew we were playing a team that's really, really good," Boise State coach Leon Rice said. "They were dialed in. They played terrific defense. Got us a little flustered."
Especially Marks, who had 27 points Saturday and made one did-he-just-do-that shot after another down the stretch.
The Aztecs tweaked their defense from Saturday's game and switched all the perimeter screens and dribble hand-offs. They pressured the ball on the perimeter more. They helped less off the shooters.
They also installed a package to double-team Marks. Didn't need it. Instead they were content to let him keep shooting, and he was 0 of 12 with no points until he made a pair of free throws with 12:09 to go.
The Aztecs went to the other end and Tapley (17 points, six rebounds, four steals) made his third 3-pointer in 4½ minutes to give them their largest lead at 49-36. All was well, right?
Wrong. Marks was just getting heated up, it turned out. A 14-0 run later, including two deep 3s by Marks, and the Broncos had their first lead at 50-49 with 8:28 remaining.
"I knew eventually I would just make one," said Marks, who finished with 14 points on 4-of-22 shooting.
The Broncos regularly play one post and four guards. Rice took to another level, replacing a big with 6-foot-4 Thomas Bropleh midway through the second half and rolling the dice with five guards.
"It's funny to say we went small ball because we started small ball," Rice said. "We just went smaller ball."
The Aztecs countered with 6-7 JJ O'Brien and four guards. When O'Brien fouled out with 2:52 left and a two-point lead, they shrugged and went with five perimeter players as well.
"It was five guards against five guards – it was like rec ball out there," Dutcher said. "You spend all year playing with at least one big in there, and now you have to figure it out with five guards, figure out who knows what positions and what plays we can run."
In the end, the Aztecs figured it out better. They took 18 fewer shots than Boise State and surrendered 12 offensive rebounds and coughed up those 19 turnovers. But they got to the line 31 times and made 25 (80.6 percent), and Xavier Thames had another big game with 18 points, six rebounds and five assists.
Instead, it's Boise State that will spend the rest of the week sweating out their NCAA Tournament fate as the 10-person selection committee assembles in Indianapolis, wondering if a 9-7 record in the nation's top-rated conference and a RPI hovering around 40 is enough for an at-large berth.
Fisher thinks it is.
"This league is so good, if Boise doesn't get in the tournament I'm going to demand a revote," he said. "They're that good … I'll repeat myself. Boise better be in the NCAA Tournament or it's disgraceful, in my opinion."
The streak of victories while leading with five minutes to go lives on. The Aztecs led 55-50 Wednesday and extended the streak to 91 straight … This is SDSU's sixth straight year in the semifinals, the longest active streak in the conference. New Mexico and UNLV have each reached four straight semis … Franklin went 2 of 3 behind the arc, making him 12 of 21 on 3s over his career in the Mountain West tournament … Only SDSU's PR staff could dig this one up: The Aztecs are 21-6 in their last 27 games played on a Wednesday.


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As mentioned earlier today, Amar'e Stoudemire will be back whenever he gets back. There is no time table for his return. I don't expect to see him start appearing on the waiver wire, although in shallow leagues there's no reason to have him on your roster.
Anthony Davis – He underwent an MRI that showed a "stress reaction" in his left ankle. A stress reaction is also what his fantasy owners have. He will be sidelined for about two weeks.
Ricky Rubio – He will be seeing the doctor that performed his knee surgery for a status check, and after that, we should know when he will return. He may be back soon.
Kawhi Leonard – He will not return during the Spurs' road trip. He may be back by December 1st.
Dirk Nowitzksi – He told the newspapers that he expects to return to action in two weeks, and by action I mean practice and workouts.
Andrew Bogut – The big man Andrew that doesn't bowl says he will be back on December 1st. In fact, he is set to return to practice today.