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This group will be starting in Briggsdale, Colorado (I just couldn't help it...) -- directly east of Fort Collins on 14.

Places of interest:
- Briggsdale Elementary School
- Briggsdale Undivided Highschool
- Briggsdale Market
- US Post Office
- Pawnee Sportsman Center (quite a distance from Briggsdale)

Environment:
Briggsdale is largely rural, with few places of interest.
The climate is dry, with dirt roads and rough vegetation.
A majority of Briggsdale is open and flat, with only the center of the city sporting buildings and homes.
There was a population of approximately 586 people.
With no nearby hospitals, many individuals bunked down in their homes to try and escape the reaches of the infection.

~*Do not frown, you never know who is falling in love with your smile*~

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The games kids no longer play

Experts say the more creatively children play, the less lucrative it is for toy makers. They advocate returning to the games kids no longer play.

Once upon a time, a typical gift for a child was a set of blocks. Plain old blocks with no batteries or screens, no electronic voice asking to be friends, no game of Angry Birds somehow embedded in their cubic walls.

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No longer.

As anyone who braved toy stores this past holiday season knows, the bulk of gear for children these days is far more technologically decked out, with everything from flashing lights to 3-D computer screens to disembodied voices. And this, say child development experts, is turning into a massive problem.

High-stimuli toys, even many of those advertised as "educational" or "interactive," actually serve to diminish children's creativity, many experts say. Instead of using their minds to imagine how to use a toy ? how to build a castle with blocks, say ? they simply push a button or watch a flashing light. The toy is doing the work, which is the reverse of what researchers say is ideal.

"The best toy is 90 percent child and 10 percent toy," says Susan Linn, a Harvard University psychiatry instructor and cofounder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. "The [perfect] toy's meaning and its use changes at the child's behest."

At the same time, a large percentage of children's toys are based on media characters ? Transformers, for instance, were top sellers this past holiday season. The problem with this, says Diane Levin, an education professor at Wheelock College in Boston, is that when a child plays with a toy that already has a character description, the play tends to be limited; the child doesn't invent the figure's personality or actions because those characteristics are already determined.

"Play material is very important," Ms. Levin says. "When they have something that is just something they saw on TV, they will use it the same way. They will imitate."

And of course, there is the issue of screen time. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 8-to-18-year-olds now spend 7.5 hours a day in front of one or more screens. This, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, is too much. It recommends no screen time for children 2 years old and younger, and no more than two hours a day for older ones.

But some top-selling toys this past season ? including infant toys ? were screen-based. (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment named a tablet computer for babies the worst toy of the year; a similar device was in the Toys "R" Us Top 15 Christmas gifts for 2011.)

Many of these screen toys advertise themselves as educational, tapping into parents' desire to help children get ahead in a technologically focused world. In a December Monitor TIPP poll, for instance, two- thirds of Americans agreed with the statement "the earlier a child can use technology, the better off he or she will be." Yet numerous studies have found no educational benefit ? and possibly some harm ? in early screen time.

It comes down, child advocates say, to money.

"One of the reasons that creative play has been diminishing in the United States is that it's not lucrative," Dr. Linn says. "Companies make less money when children play creatively. Children who play creatively need less stuff, and they can use the same thing over and over again ? mud, water, blocks, dolls that don't do anything."

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Ruling that faults FBI is upheld in Bulger case (AP)

BOSTON ? A federal appeals court has upheld multimillion-dollar judgments that found the government liable for the deaths of three people allegedly murdered by James "Whitey" Bulger.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld awards Friday that ranged from $350,000 to $1.3 million for the families of Debra Davis, Deborah Hussey and Louis Litif.

The court affirms a trial judge's decision that the FBI showed "wildly reckless behavior" in using Bulger and his associate, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, as informants and shielding them from prosecution.

Steve Davis, the brother of Debra Davis, tells The Boston Globe (http://bo.st/zzfKdP) that the appeals court's decision shows his sister mattered.

Bulger was arrested last year after 16 years on the run. He awaits trial on accusations of participating in 19 murders.

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Last officer in Katrina shootings heading to trial (AP)

NEW ORLEANS ? Twenty New Orleans police officers have been charged in a series of probes by the Justice Department's civil rights division since 2010. A retired sergeant who was assigned to investigate deadly police shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina will be the last of those officers to get his day in court.

A trial is scheduled to start Monday for Gerard Dugue, who is charged with participating in a cover-up to make it appear police were justified in shooting six unarmed people, killing two, on the Danziger Bridge less than a week after the 2005 storm.

A judge ordered separate trials for Dugue and five other current or former officers who were convicted in August of civil rights violations stemming from the bridge shootings.

"He is completely and totally innocent," said Dugue's attorney, Claude Kelly. "He has said that from day one, and that will be proven in court."

The hurricane, which struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Aug. 29, 2005, drove a wall of water into the coast. Levees broke and flooded roughly 80 percent of New Orleans, plunging the city into chaos and subjecting police to harsh, dangerous conditions.

The storm also cast a spotlight on a troubled police department that has been plagued by corruption for decades. In Katrina's aftermath, federal authorities launched a new push to clean up the police force. The criminal probes were only part of the effort. The Justice Department also embarked on a top-to-bottom review of the department that produced a scathing report on its practices.

Dugue isn't charged in the shooting. He wasn't on the bridge the morning of Sept. 4, 2005, when police shot and killed 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, a mentally disabled man. Dugue didn't get involved in the case until several weeks later, when the department assigned him to help another sergeant investigate.

A jury convicted retired Sgt. Arthur Kaufman of participating in a cover-up that included a planted gun, phony witnesses and falsified reports.

Unlike Dugue, Kaufman was on the bridge in the aftermath of the shootings. Former Lt. Michael Lohman, who was the ranking officer on the scene, initially assigned Kaufman to lead the investigation.

Kaufman told the FBI he found a revolver in a grassy area beside the bridge a day after the shootings. Prosecutors, however, said Kaufman retrieved the gun from his home several weeks later and turned it in as evidence, claiming it was thrown off the bridge by Ronald Madison's brother Lance.

Kaufman and Dugue interviewed officers who fired their guns on the bridge. They allegedly co-authored a report that included statements they knew to be false. An indictment claims the two investigators told the officers to "make sure they had their stories straight" before they gave taped statements.

Kaufman's attorney, Stephen London, argued during last year's trial that Dugue was responsible for the contents of the department's official report on the shootings.

Dugue allegedly lied to a federal agent when he said he didn't question the truthfulness of the officers' statements or doubt their actions were justified.

"In fact," the indictment says, "he had many `red flags' and `question marks' about the officers' stories, but he reported the questionable information as fact and relied upon it without qualification."

Dugue received a separate trial after prosecutors argued that statements he made during his FBI interview could incriminate the other defendants.

The jury in last year's trial heard five weeks of testimony by roughly 60 witnesses. Dugue's trial is expected to last two to three weeks.

Five other former officers pleaded guilty to participating in a cover-up of the bridge shootings and are serving prison terms.

Dugue's trial may not be the last for an officer charged in the Justice Department probes. A judge ordered a new trial for former Lt. Travis McCabe, who was convicted in December 2010 of helping cover up the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover after Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Lance Africk ruled McCabe deserves a second trial because newly discovered evidence ? a different copy of the report that McCabe is accused of doctoring ? surfaced after his convictions. Prosecutors are appealing that decision.

Jurors also convicted a former officer, David Warren, of fatally shooting Glover outside a strip mall and convicted another officer, Gregory McRae, of burning Glover's body in a car. Two others were acquitted in the case.

Two other investigations resulted in charges against officers: In April 2011, a jury convicted two officers of charges stemming from the fatal beating of a 48-year-old handyman in July 2005. And in December 2011, a jury convicted one officer and acquitted another of lying about a deadly shooting outside the city's convention center after Katrina.

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TCTV Debate: What SOPA & PIPA 2.0 Should Look Like

On Friday The House withdrew the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from being put to a vote and the Senate postponed voting on its version of the bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). As the debate continues over the best way to shield copyrighted material from being pirated, we invited David Sohn, General Counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology and?Viacom's General Counsel, Michael Fricklas to discuss language that should be included in any future SOPA/PIPA bills.

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Romney and Gingrich refuse to move dueling events (AP)

GREENVILLE, S.C. ? Rival presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are set to appear at the same breakfast restaurant at the same time on the day of the South Carolina primary.

Both campaigns said Friday they will not change schedules that, by coincidence, have the dueling candidates visiting Tommy's Country Ham House in Greenville at 10:45 a.m. EST.

Romney and Gingrich are locked in a nasty, neck-and-neck fight to win the first-in-the-South primary. They have criticized each other repeatedly on the debate stage, in TV ads, on the radio, in mail and in telephone calls.

Gingrich has surged ahead in recent days, eating into Romney's lead in polls and threatening what had appeared to be a swift march to the nomination.

Romney campaign spokesman Rick Gorka called the scheduling a "pure coincidence and we are not changing our schedule."

Gingrich campaign spokesman Nathan Naidu said Gingrich's schedule came out first and that Gingrich is "more than happy to treat Gov. Romney to ham at our event."

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Associated Press writer Shannon McCaffrey in Charleston, S.C., contributed to this report.

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Viral video spoofs the, er, stuff New Yorkers say (AP)

NEW YORK ? Hip young New Yorkers hate waiting for the subway. They wouldn't be caught dead near tourist sites and couldn't care less if a celebrity walked by. They're snobby about what they read, even snobbier about what they eat, stick to their own borough, and call the most minuscule bedrooms "huge."

And there's something else: Some don't take kindly to being reduced to a cultural stereotype.

That's what Eliot and Ilana Glazer, brother-sister bloggers, comics and native New Yorkers, have discovered since their video, "Stuff New Yorkers Say" (no, the word isn't really "Stuff") has gone viral in the last couple days. Turns out, one of the things New Yorkers like to say is: "We don't say THAT!"

But there's been lots of positive feedback, too, and all the attention has stunned the Glazers, who posted the video on Wednesday night, hoping for some buzz but not expecting well over a million YouTube views (about 1.3 million as of late Friday).

"It's really bonkers," Eliot Glazer, 28, said in a telephone interview.

The video, inspired by a current Internet meme on what all sorts of groups of people say, is simple enough. In it, the Glazers and friends converse the way young New Yorkers would (or wouldn't, depending on whom you ask.) There are a few distinct themes.

Impatience: "Where is the train? Where is the TRAIN?" (There have been comments posted that while people in New York think this, they don't actually stand on the platform saying it.)

Exclusivity: "Nobody knows about this place."

Culinary exclusivity: "All I had today was a bagel." Or "Ah, Momofuku!" a reference to the group of restaurants headed by hip young chef David Chang.

Culinary snobbery: "Ah, Magnolia!" a reference to the cupcakes made famous by "Sex and the City" ? followed by a sour face, because the cupcakes aren't very hip.

Celebrity fatigue: "Sarah Jessica Parker! Oh, who cares."

Disdain for tourists: "Who goes to the Statue of Liberty?" "Who goes to the Empire State Building?" "Move! Move!" (walking down the street behind slowpokes.) "I hate tourists!"

That last theme, Glazer explains, is not to be taken literally. "New Yorkers are actually very kind to tourists," he says.

Another thing people are taking too literally, according to Glazer: The derisive comments about boroughs other than Manhattan, as in "I don't go to Queens," and "I don't do Brooklyn."

In fact, Glazer was born in Queens, grew up on Long Island, and now lives in Brooklyn, as does his sister ? a writer and comic whose Web series, "Broad City," is in development for the FX network.

Especially funny, Glazer says, is unwarranted speculation online that the Glazers aren't even from New York. But he says he doesn't read comments on YouTube: "It's just a pool of negativity."

"This is satire," he says. "We intended it to be a satire of what it means to be young and semi-spoiled in New York."

The video was shot and edited in about two weeks. "I was worried we were past the expiration date of the meme," Glazer says. He and his sister posted it to their Facebook accounts, and "within two hours it was insane ? the comments, the sharing," he says. "It was mind-blowing how quickly it took off."

What's clear from the video is that its creators love the city, despite its hardships.

Love-hate relationship with New York:

"I love it here.

"I hate it here.

"I love it here."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120120/ap_en_ot/us_stuff_new_yorkers_say

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