| The Surfing Heritage Foundation Unveils its Collection
Think of King Tut's Tomb plus the Baseball Hall of Fame plus the Library of the Alexandrian Greeks, and you will have the Surfing Heritage Foundation archive.
Like the Alexandrian Greeks -- who attempted to store all the written knowledge of man under one roof -- the Surfing Heritage Foundation is attempting to store a complete archive of surfing history in one place. Like King Tut's tomb, which managed to stay hidden and unraided for centuries, the Surfing Heritage Foundation hides its treasures in an innocuous, easy-to-overlook building in the deserty backlands of San Clemente.
Stored carefully and lovingly in a brand-new, 8,000-square-foot building is an epic collection of surfboards, which begins with Greg Noll's recreation of a Hawaiian olo, then a lot of hardwood boards from Duke to Pacific System Homes to Kivlin and Quigg.
Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iTunes 7.6 (Updated)
Note that as with movie sales, movie rentals are presently only available in the U.S. iTunes Store. The first time you rent a movie from the iTunes Store, you will be prompted with a new set of iTunes Store Terms and Conditions which you must accept before proceeding with your transaction: After indicating your agreement to these new terms and conditions by checking the box and selecting "Continue" you are rather oddly advised to retry your purchase, rather than simply continuing with the transaction in progress: After clicking "Done" you will be returned to the initial store page, and can retry your purchase again from there. When renting a movie, the movie will download as per normal, but will be placed in a new category in iTunes under "Rented Movies." This category will only appear in iTunes when you have rented movie content in your library.
Concert for a cause
Information tables: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Logan Town Centre; Logan Valley Mall; Sam's Club; and Starbucks in Juniata. -- Benefit Concert (ages 14 to 20): 7 to 11 p.m., Bishop Guilfoyle High School. Refreshments will be served. Andrew Slack, founder of the Harry Potter Alliance, and the Sudanese Lost Boys, John Yak and Gabriel Akec, will speak. -- Admission $8; $4 with purchase of Save Darfur T-shirt. -- Barnes & Noble is donating percentage of sales with voucher Friday through Monday to Hollidaysburg National Junior Honor Society and Darfur refugees. Request a voucher by e-mail at savedarfur centralpa@yahoo.com. A donation of $3 buys protection for a woman for one year; $15 buys a solar cooker; and $36 buys a backpack filled with school supplies and personal care items. -- For more information on how to help, visit ww.savedarfur.org.
FBI training expands Millis police chief's skills, network
Back at work after attending an elite FBI training for 11 weeks, Police Chief Peter McGowan is already tapping into an expanded Rolodex filled with contacts from the program when he has an issue with a case. "If I have a question or a problem, I've got 300 more people I can seek out," he said, indicating he has already done so. "The people I met and the connections I made are priceless. There's no way to duplicate that." McGowan attended the FBI's National Academy Program in Quantico, Va., graduating in mid-December with 301 law enforcement officers from across the country, four branches of the American armed services, four federal agencies, and 25 countries. Pursuing a long-held career goal, he had applied three years earlier and then waited to be selected.
Too Cool for School?
That's why Times columnist and Dummy Mummy Janice Turner, in an article last week entitled 'Xbox is crack for kids', can gleefully write: "I refuse to buy [my children] portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s. These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains." That's why "psychology specialist" (huh?) and author, Cooper Lawrence, can go on Fox News to spout misinformation and psycho-babble on the sexual content of Xbox 360 adventure Mass Effect (watch the full, mesmerising exchange here. Lawrence later confessed to the New York Times that she "misspoke" and, having actually seen the game, admitted "I've seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit." That's why the Daily Telegraph can reheat a hatchet job on Rockstar's Bully (now back to its original title for the 360 and Wii SKUs, after Rockstar buckled first time around and renamed it Canis Canem Edit).
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