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He was issued with a notice to leave the area, but continued swearing and arguing, and was finally arrested.
Dyer, 33, of Petersmith Crescent, Ollerton, admitted being drunk and disorderly when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Friday.
He told the court: “I could barely remember the evening. It was after a work’s do.
He was fined £123 and ordered to pay a government surcharge of £30 and £85 costs.
Lamar Institute of Technology will resume its normal class schedule Monday, Sept. 29, at all locations, LIT President Dr. Paul Szuch said Monday.
Faculty and staff may report to campus on Sunday, Sept. 28, from noon to 5 p.m., to prepare for Monday classes, Szuch said.
Several LIT events have been postponed because of the impact of Hurricane Ike on the area. The LIT Foundation fundraiser, the Shootout at the LIT Corral at the One-in-One Hundred Club, originally set for Sept. 27, will be rescheduled. LIT’s community master plan forum, set for Sept. 23 and 24, also will be rescheduled at a later date.
LIT will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month during a free program 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 6, in the LIT Multi-Purpose Center. For more information, call (409) 880-2292.
Online seller of literally everything Amazon.com made history last week when the company made its first drone delivery to a customer. The order came from near Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and the customer received their order of a Fire TV streaming device and popcorn 13 minutes after placing the order online.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted a photo of the drone in flight and wrote "First ever #AmazonPrimeAir [the name of the company's drone delivery program] customer delivery is in the books," citing how quickly the delivery made it to the customer.
Amazon shared a video on their website of the delivery from beginning (getting packed up by a human), to getting loaded into the drone, after which the drone takes off and flies to the destination with the streaming device and popcorn in tow.
The video's narrator says that the program has just two customers for now, "and in the coming months we’ll offer participation to dozens of customers living within several miles of our U.K. facility, and then growing to hundreds more."
Bloomberg reports that the deliveries are restricted for the time being due to laws in the U.K. about where drones can fly and how often, but the delivery marks a new era for online shopping and speed of delivery to customers. The company will continue to test drones in the U.K., according to Bloomberg.
The emerging Glasgow-based firm has produced a masterplan for the £18 million development of West Ward Works, previously the DC Thomson print works on Guthrie Street, which in its heyday published five million books a year.
McGinlay Bell, which won an invited competition for the project last July, will transform the empty factory structures into a new indoor public square, a café/bar and restaurant, with open spaces for temporary exhibitions.
The printworks – which once produced comic annuals for The Beano, Oor Wullie and Beezer, has been lying empty since 2010 when it was closed by DC Thomson after more than 60 years of production.
It was revived in 2016 for the inaugural four-day Dundee Design Festival. Last year’s event attracted more than 7,000 visitors to workshops, exhibitions and talks.
Brian McGinlay, Director at McGinlay Bell, said the ambition at West Works was to animate the buildings with a mix of creative industry activities at a scale rare across the UK.
‘Our vision addresses the large-scale factory structures, the volumes and vast opens spaces of the dormant former industrial complex and sets out to sustain the scale, monumentality and spatial qualities of the site’, he said.
McGinlay added that the printworks regeneration was a scalable project with a 10-year plan and will offer the chance for creative practitioners and businesses to base themselves in Dundee.
The project is backed by the West Ward Works Trust, which has been set up to develop the building and explore possible uses for the space.
David Cook, former chief executive of Wasps Artists’ Studios, which spearheaded the transformation of the Briggait fish market in Glasgow into an arts centre, is the trust’s project director.
He said the project was inspired by other examples of industrial buildings re-purposed for cultural use around the world, such as the Matadero in Madrid or Denmark’s Godsbanen in Aarhus or the SWG3 studio warehouses in Glasgow.
McGinlay Bell was set up in 2015 by Brian McGinlay and Mark Bell, who worked together at NORD for nine years. Other schemes include a canalside housing development in Glasgow completed earlier this year and a refurbishment of the Glasgow Film Theatre.
If you were ever stuck on a deserted island, you’d likely die a torturous death by heat stroke or starvation. Yet for some reason, we love to consider the occasion, if only to list what facile entertainments would most distract us from our inevitable demise. Let this serve, then, as an endorsement I hope you never have to heed: If you are hours from death, lying on the hot sands of some unnamed island nation hundreds of miles from civilization, you could do much worse than sinking that time into Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS.
Last year I played Super Mario Maker on Wii U for dozens of hours. After an initial burst of stage creation I found myself playing more often than making. On the console version, there is an ever-replenishing reservoir of user-created levels; players can give levels stars and feedback, the accumulation of which help single out courses that the software then suggests. You can also search by User or Friend, and eventually a fairly robust companion site launched allowing players to fine-tune their search even more and then save these courses for future play. Log in with your Nintendo Network ID and the queue even syncs up with the game itself. Voila: Dozens of levels await your next boot-up. For thirsty platformer fans, the original Super Mario Maker is a veritable firehose of Mario.
The 3DS game narrows that hose considerably. You don’t get the ocean of content from players like you. Instead you get a curated array of stages already built in the Wii U game, selected for your portable gaming pleasure. Even with a cork in the geyser, there are more levels in this game than you could ever play. But if playing a scattershot collection of stages from an international cadre of amateur designers does not fill you with confidence, the veterans at Nintendo have made sure to buttress their fans’ random enthusiasms with a more streamlined sequence of levels from the pros.
This new mode is called Super Mario Challenge. You play a series of four level worlds, ostensibly attempting to save Princess Peach once more. But the real point is to get to the flagpole while fulfilling some additional requirement. I’d call them boiled-down versions of Achievements or Trophies but they’re not linked to some platform-wide score. They’re more like pointed suggestions, or “challenges” in the game’s parlance, and in this player’s experience had a surprisingly robust impact on how I played each stage.
One early challenge tasks you with completing the stage without pressing Left on the D-pad. At first the requirement seems feeble, obvious even: “How hard could that be?” the veteran Mario player’s brain wonders, considering a lifetime of charging to the right, a thumb unremittingly jammed on the run button. Then you begin racing toward the goal. A simple Koopa Troopa saunters across a floating platform of bricks. You jump but realize your trajectory is too shallow; the turtle’s steady pace and your descending body are seconds from collision. You readjust mid-air, tapping Left on the D-pad, and you fall safely to the ground. There is no siren noise, no giant cartoon X that flashes on the screen letting you know you’ve failed the optional challenge. Finish the course and you simply won’t earn the Medal Icon for that course.
But if you’re playing the level with this extraneous goal in mind, just as you tap Left you understand what you’ve done, and the impulse is to stop immediately and start over, at which point in time you realize how many thousands or millions of times you readjust, tapping left to sway Mario’s momentum one block’s length this way or that, and the prospect of moving only to the right suddenly looms large as not the easy target you presumed but some unnatural action against which the body wills itself to fight. You try again and die, over and again, not because of some obstacle the game has put in your way but a mere suggestion the developer has planted in your own mind, one you can choose to follow or not.
This simplest of motivations is oddly intoxicating; you’ve never really played a Mario level like this, with playground rules forcing your hand. The simple text caption—”defeat ten enemies using the Raccoon Tail,” or “finish the stage with exactly 265 seconds remaining,” or “keep the D-pad pressed to the right the entire time”—shines with the same siren call of that lonely coin, worth nil but enthralling enough to drag you away from safe and solid ground and suggest, through sparkle alone, that it might be a good idea to leap across that gaping chasm for the mere chance at its acquisition. More times than not, you fall and die in the attempt. More times than not, you return to that same chasm and leap again, now pushed by the previous failure, the collection of that single coin some imaginary rite of passage.
Previous Super Mario games have often included hard-to-reach coins or other symbols in the physical landscape of each level to procure as reasons to go back in. Here, though, the carrot isn’t another shiny bauble to find tucked away behind fake furniture, but instead an ever-changing instruction to follow. The inclusion of these arbitrary medals is the best new feature of Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS. Without them, you have one hundred fun new courses to complete. With them, your playthrough is imbued with a self-propelled smattering of mental dares.
The two pop up everywhere. The bird, a self-proclaimed master level designer, speaks only in coo’s; his dialogue, parenthetically translated into English, is pretty aggressive for a rock dove with a Mario emblem attached to its chest. New to the 3DS game is a series of lessons, hosted by Yamamura, that help teach you to make better, more interesting 2D Mario levels. The chatter that follows each completed Challenge world is similarly tuned to help you think more carefully about what makes a good level and how to make use of the newly acquired items. But there’s also plenty of daft back-and-forth for pure funsies—the two’s combative chiding reminds me of another 3DS game’s talkative anthropomorphic host: Rusty Slugger from Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball. Nintendo are quietly becoming the go-to source for morose wit where you least expect it.
And after all this time, I’ve barely mentioned the “Mario Maker”-ness of a title all about making Mario’s. The ease and utility of the provided tools remain from the Wii U game, as do the clever transformations that occur when you “shake” an object with the stylus. For a more in-depth look at the charm and difficulty of making Mario, I point you to our games editor’s review from last September. The song largely remains the same. But in some ways, this 3DS version is a direct response to two points he, and others, made last fall.
“Making Mario is tough,” our editor writes, “and the game itself doesn’t go out of its way to make it easier.” Cue this version’s twenty-step Lessons Mode with sample courses and explanatory notes.
And the other big problem? Nobody knew quite what they were doing just yet. The Wii U’s early collection of user-made levels were a mish-mash of Auto-Scrolling Rube Goldberg Machines and makeshift theme songs using the in-game Note Block item to peck out crude melodies. By the time Nintendo collated this 3DS game, they had a year’s worth of work from the most inspired creators. Perhaps what many see as a lacking feature (the inability to download new user’s levels or upload your own) is in fact a measure of quality control.
If you’ve messed about on the Wii U game and simply need to make 2D Mario Levels on the bus or in your bathroom, the 3DS version fits the bill. Otherwise, you’ve seen most of this circus before. If, however, you have never participated in the glory that is mucking about in an interactive toolkit for one of gaming’s most revered franchises, Super Mario Maker on 3DS becomes something like an essential backpack, or deserted island, companion. Long may you run.
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS was developed and published by Nintendo. It’s available for the 3DS.
Minister of National Security, Peter Bunting has announced that a branch of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) will be opened in Montego Bay within one month.
The office will be located in Bogue.
The decision to open a FLA office in Montego Bay resulted from concerns raised by citizens of western parishes regarding the dangerous task of having to travel to Kingston with their licensed firearms to have them re-certified.
Minister Bunting was speaking on Thursday (September 20) at a meeting with the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry held at its’ office in Overton Plaza.
The meeting, which was requested by the Chamber of Commerce following an upsurge in violent crimes, provided an opportunity for members of the Chamber and other concerned citizens to have meaningful discussion regarding national security issues in Montego Bay.
He said further that Jamaica’s extraordinarily high levels of crime have meant that today the economy is at best one third or at worst one tenth the size it would otherwise be if crime levels were not as high.
Outlining the approach being taken to address this problem the minister said the policy response will be implemented through a two-pronged approach - a control track and a prevention track.
The Minister urged the Chamber and other well-thinking Jamaicans, including the church to support the Ministry of National Security and the JCF in whatever way they can. “The church can be a part of it, just make it clear that scamming is robbery; it is robbery just as if you had held up somebody at gun-point or knife-point”, he said.
He also urged persons to embrace a culture change that is not as accepting of criminal activity. “One paradigm shift that we can make that won’t cost a huge amount of money is culture change and that is really going to take leadership” he said.
Prior to meeting with the Chamber of Commerce, Minister Bunting, Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington, other members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and a team from the Ministry of National Security toured sections of St. James including Granville, Maroon Town and Cambridge.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on all five talk shows yesterday morning and demonstrated a particularly senatorial skill: the art of the filibuster.
Asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos whether she would withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq during a first term as president, Clinton (D-N.Y.) gave a simple answer: She did not know.
But she used more than 225 words to say so. "You know, I'm not going to get into hypotheticals and make pledges, because I don't know what I'm going to inherit, George. I don't know and neither do any of us know what will be the situation in the region. How much more aggressive will Iran have become?" Clinton said. "What will be happening in the Middle East? How much more of an influence will the chaos in Iraq have in terms of what's going on in the greater region? Will we have pushed al-Qaeda in Iraq out of their strongholds with our new partnership with some of the tribal sheiks or will they have regrouped and retrenched?"
She continued: "I don't know, and I think it's not appropriate to be speculating. I can tell you my general principles and my goal. I want to end the war in Iraq. I want to do so carefully, responsibly, with the withdrawal of our troops, also, with the withdrawal of a lot of our civilian employees, the contractors who are there, and the Iraqis who have sided with us.
"We have a huge humanitarian refugee crisis on our hands. We have millions of Iraqis who have been displaced, some internally, some into other countries. The problems we're going to face because of the failed policies and the poor decision-making of this administration are rather extraordinary and difficult, and I don't want to speculate about how we're going to be approaching it until I actually have the facts in my hand and the authority to be able to make some decisions."
Clinton did two hours of interviews by remote from a furnished barn in her back yard in Chappaqua, N.Y., part of an aggressive media blitz in the week after she offered up her plan for universal health-care coverage. Her campaign expressed pride that she had driven the news agenda, forcing even President Bush to talk about health insurance.
Her trip through the Sunday gantlet was designed to solidify the impression that Clinton is strong, indomitable and all but inevitable as the Democratic nominee and next president.
Clinton showed her lighter side, laughing uproariously when asked by Fox News's Chris Wallace why she and her husband have such a "hyperpartisan view of politics."
"Well, Chris, if you had walked even a day in our shoes over the last 15 years, I'm sure you'd understand," Clinton said. Her answer drew swift condemnation from the Republican National Committee, which issued a statement saying that "apparently Hillary Clinton believes the serious issues facing our nation are a laughing matter."
Clinton drew other questions -- about her former donor Norman Hsu, and about remarks her surrogate, former governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa, made about Republican front-runner Rudolph W. Giuliani's three marriages. Clinton distanced herself from Vilsack's comments.
"We are not running a campaign that goes down that road," she said.
Above all, though, in a morning of appearances that yielded virtually no news, Clinton illustrated her ability to talk. And talk. And talk.
"Well, Tim, I'm proud that we tried in '93 and '94," Clinton said, asked by NBC's Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" about her earlier attempts on health care. "We were trying to do the right thing. Obviously, we made a lot of mistakes. But I am proud that we set a goal of trying to provide health care to every American. And I didn't quit. . . . I was very involved in passing the [State] Children's Health Insurance Program and getting vaccines for kids to be immunized and making sure that the drugs that they took were appropriately tested for children. . . . So this has remained a passion of mine. But I've also learned a lot of lessons."
She continued, as if delivering her health-care speech for a second time: "This is not government-run health care; it does not create any new bureaucracy. In fact, it is very clear in saying that if you are satisfied with the health care you have, then you keep it. . . . But if you're one of the 47 million Americans without health insurance, or one of the many millions that have health insurance except when it comes time to get the care that your doctor says you need, and the insurance company refuses payment, then you are going to have access to the same health choices menu that members of Congress do. I proposed that back in '93, '94, and ran into a firestorm of opposition from the Congress. But I think a lot has changed in the last 14 years. A consensus has developed about what we need to do to try to reach quality, affordable health care."
She went on, uninterrupted: "So among the many choices that will now be available to Americans, similar to what are available to members of Congress, we will have a public plan option for people who wish to choose that. If it is outside the reach of people -- because remember, Medicaid will still take care of the very poor, we will still have the Children's Health Insurance Program for children. But if it is out of the reach of affordability, we're going to have health-care tax credits for individuals, and we're going to try to provide some health-care tax credits as well to small businesses."
She continued for several more minutes, saying, among other things, that a consensus had developed, that the automobile industry is now in favor of a health-care overhaul and that her plan "builds on what works in America, but takes aim at what doesn't and comes up with some very common-sense ways of trying to fix our problems."
Comedienne says she has no plans to follow in Seth MacFarlane's footsteps and chaperone Hollywood's Biggest Night.
Tina Fey filming on location for "Admission" on July 2, 2012 in Princeton, New Jersey.
Tina Fey is taking herself out of the running.
Despite her highly praised turn cohosting the Golden Globe Awards this year with pal Amy Poehler, the funnylady has no plans to emcee the 2014 Oscars despite William Shatner's shout-out during the opening sketch of Sunday's ceremony.
Of course, viewers of Hollywood's Biggest Night will remember the Star Trek star visiting host Seth MacFarlane "from the future" to explain why the "Family Guy" guru's stint fared so badly relative to past Oscar hosts and begging to know, "Why couldn't they get Tina and Amy to host?"
Now in an interview with the Huffington Post, the 42-year-old Fey said that while "it's an honor to be 'Shatnered,'" she has no plans to take the TV legend up on his suggestion and reteam with the "Parks and Recreation" star for the Academy Awards.
"I just feel like that gig is so hard," she told the site. "Especially for, like, a woman--the amount of months that would be spent trying on dresses alone...no way."
All humor aside, when asked whether that answer was definitive and there was even the slightest chance, the "SNL" alum pretty much quashed the idea.
"I wish I could tell you there was," she added.
With her critically acclaimed TV comedy "30 Rock" now in syndication glory, Fey is concentrating her sights these days on features including "Admission," an Ivy League university-set comedy costarring Paul Rudd unspooling on March 22 and the highly anticipated sequel "The Muppets...Again!," which just started lensing in London.
She also plans to join forces again with her "Date Night" hubby Steve Carell for the flick "Mail Order Groom," principal photography for which gets underway this summer.
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CAMDEN -- A Camden County Superior Court jury awarded a Pennsauken Township man $2.25 million earlier this month after his car was struck by a tractor trailer on Interstate 295 in 2012.
Mark and Phyllis Davis were driving southbound on the interstate in their Chevrolet Lumina on June 8, 2012 when the crash occurred in the West Deptford area. A tractor trailer driven by Arsenio Gavilanez for Samuel Coraluzzo Company was attempting to reach Exit 19 when it struck the car, according to Alfred Falcione, Mark Davis' attorney.
The car was forced onto the right guardrail and then veered to the left guardrail. Mark Davis, now 55, received neck and back injuries -- requiring surgery for his neck. He eventually had to stop working. He was previously employed as a truck driver.
The lawsuit was against the Samuel Caroluzzo Company, which hired Gavilanez as a driver. The trial started on Aug. 1 in Camden County Superior Court and the jury awarded its $2.25 million verdict on Aug. 4.
"I think the jury clearly understood the type of severe injuries that (Mark Davis) sustained in this accident," Falcione said. "I think it is a fair and just verdict for the injuries that he has and the fact that he can't work as a truck driver for the rest of his life."
A spokesman for Samuel Caroluzzo Company declined to comment on the verdict when reached by phone Friday afternoon. The company transports petroleum products and has offices in Vineland, Paulsboro and Bridgeport. According to Falcione, Gavilanez was transporting an empty taker -- having just dropped off jet fuel in Atlantic City prior to the crash.
Gavilanez was originally issued a summons for illegal lane change but was ultimately charged with unsafe driving, Falcione said.
Phyllis Davis was also in the car during the crash but has settled with the transportation company prior to a trial for an undisclosed settlement, Falcione said.
According to research firm IDC, the worldwide enterprise storage market expanded by 13.7 percent year over year to just under $13.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017. Other research firms believe the growth rate will accelerate in the near term. Research and Markets, for instance, predicts that one fast-growing segment of the overall enterprise storage market, cloud storage, will expand to become a $92.5 billion market by 2022.
That savvy lawyer Mickey Haller is back in Michael Connelly's "The Fifth Witness.” It seems even defense attorneys are feeling the recession's pinch, but Mickey uncovers a goldmine in the foreclosure market.
That savvy lawyer Mickey Haller is back in Michael Connelly's "The Fifth Witness.” It seems even defense attorneys are feeling the recession's pinch, but Mickey uncovers a goldmine in the foreclosure market. His first client is teacher Lisa Trammell, who needs his help to stop Westland National Bank from taking her home. When Mitchell Bondurant, who is Westland's mortgage officer, is found murdered, Lisa becomes the prime suspect -- and Mickey finds himself heading back to criminal court to defend her.
Readers now have an opportunity to learn more about two of America's finest modern writers. Gail Godwin, author of such notable novels as "A Mother and Two Daughters" and "The Good Husband," opens up her journals covering 1963 to 1969 -- the defining years in her career -- in "The Making of a Writer.” Kenneth Slawenski explores the life and career of the late, reclusive J. D. Salinger. He reveals the long-term effect Salinger's experiences in World War II had on him and how the furor surrounding the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye" pushed him into seclusion.
Even though Washington is working diligently to fix our health care system, major changes are not going to happen overnight. In the meantime, statistics show that someone declares bankruptcy ever 30 seconds in this country due to a serious health issue. "You Can't Afford to be Sick" Andrew Weil warns in his new book. He covers the current state of health care, where our health care system should be and what you can do to enjoy "optimum health and health care" now.
By all accounts, David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" is not for the faint of heart. It is a veritable explosion of a novel, set sometime in the future, which loosely follows the residents at Ennet House, a half-way house in Boston, and the neighboring Enfield Tennis Academy, whose members practice on an adjacent tennis court, as they all try to prevent the fatally entertaining film, called "Infinite Jest," from falling into the hands of an evil government entity. Tons of footnotes, plenty of laugh-out loud moments, and thought-provoking questions about the role of entertainment in our society await you.
State Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Colorado) has been asked to resign following a Denver Post report detailing two arrests for domestic violence that happened more than a decade ago.
KUSA — The Democratic leaders of Colorado’s State House of Representatives issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they have asked a fellow lawmaker to resign in wake of a Denver Post report that detailed his two previous arrests for domestic violence.
State Rep. Jovan Melton of Aurora, who is the Democratic majority whip of the Colorado House, issued an apology following the arrests, which happened in 1999 and 2008 (the latter case was dismissed, according to the Denver Post report).

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