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State Police pulled Sweeney over for driving 59 mph in a 40-mph zone April 5 on Route 9 in Clifton Park. Sweeney, 55, refused to perform field sobriety tests or take a Breathalyzer test. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI charges in 2007.
Sweeney, a Republican, was elected to Congress in 1998 and served three terms. He lost to now-Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, in 2006. Just before the election, news emerged that State Police had been at his house in December 2005 to answer a domestic violence call placed by his then second wife. His life since has been scandal-ridden and includes a messy divorce from his second wife, the DWI arrest in 2007, allegations he skipped out on cab fare after a ride home from a strip club in 2008 and an ongoing FBI investigation into his ties to a lobbying firm when he was in Congress.

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Second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia advanced to the semifinals of the Delray Beach (Fla.) International Tennis Championship, overpowering seventh-seeded James Blake in the third set for a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 victory. The 6-foot-10 Karlovic served 23 aces.
GYMNASTICS
International gymnastics officials say China should be stripped of its bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics because one member of the squad has been found to be underage. Dong Fangxiao was 14 during the Sydney Games, the International Gymnastics Federation announced Friday. Gymnasts must be 16 during the Olympic year to compete.
JURISPRUDENCE
Former NBA All-Star
Alvin Robertson faces sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking charges alleging he was among seven people who kidnapped a 14-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution and made to dance at a strip club. Robertson, who also starred at the University of Arkansas, was taken into custody Friday in Bentonville, Ark.

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People were much less inclined to imitate “virtual others.”
“To some extent there is a mental meld that occurs — people seeing themselves in the avatar and taking a part of the avatar away with them,” Fox said. “It creates an instant bond that taps into something unconscious.”
Technology can be used to create virtual behavior models for people, according to the researcher, who worried about how this will play out as videogames increasingly let people personalize on-screen characters.
“If all it takes is five minutes of exposure in an immersive virtual world to one character, we really have to ask ourselves about exposures and interactions in videogames like ‘Grand Theft Auto’,” Fox said.
The videogame features scantily clad women and players get options to beat, rob, or kill prostitutes.

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People were much less inclined to imitate “virtual others.”
“To some extent there is a mental meld that occurs — people seeing themselves in the avatar and taking a part of the avatar away with them,” Fox said. “It creates an instant bond that taps into something unconscious.”
Technology can be used to create virtual behavior models for people, according to the researcher, who worried about how this will play out as videogames increasingly let people personalize on-screen characters.
“If all it takes is five minutes of exposure in an immersive virtual world to one character, we really have to ask ourselves about exposures and interactions in videogames like ‘Grand Theft Auto’,” Fox said.
The videogame features scantily clad women and players get options to beat, rob, or kill prostitutes.

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People were much less inclined to imitate “virtual others.”
“To some extent there is a mental meld that occurs — people seeing themselves in the avatar and taking a part of the avatar away with them,” Fox said. “It creates an instant bond that taps into something unconscious.”
Technology can be used to create virtual behavior models for people, according to the researcher, who worried about how this will play out as videogames increasingly let people personalize on-screen characters.
“If all it takes is five minutes of exposure in an immersive virtual world to one character, we really have to ask ourselves about exposures and interactions in videogames like ‘Grand Theft Auto’,” Fox said.
The videogame features scantily clad women and players get options to beat, rob, or kill prostitutes.

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Still, the bottom line is that Apple has got the full control of the app store and what they say goes. While many people might protest the obvious bias on app retention and removal policies, at the end of the day, people will not be abandoning their iPhones simply because they will not be able to jiggle a pair with it. Market wise, Apple has nothing to worry about.
For application developers however, this is where the lines get blurry. Obviously, there are some pretty obvious sell-out applications that just border on the plain obscene in order to make a profit. Not really the kind of thing you would want to see, but it is there. On the other hand, there are honest to goodness apps that simply want to give users some fun.
If Playboy had an AR application that lets you check out various strip clubs and their rates, would Apple ban it?

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Coast Lines Feb. 25, 2010
Posted: 02/25/2010 01:30:55 AM PST
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Mexican consulate in town tonight
A representative from the Mexican consulate’s office in San Jose will be in Santa Cruz tonight to answer questions from the public about passports, legalization of documents and power of attorney.
The event, hosted by Costanoa High School, begins at 6 p.m. at 840 N. Branciforte Ave.
SANTA CRUZ
Positive loiterers’ will hang out in lower Ocean Street area
Santa Cruz Neighbors and Take Back Santa Cruz will host another “positive loitering” event Friday, this time at Ocean and Barson streets, a prostitution-plagued corner on the thoroughfare from Highway 17 to the beach area.
The “positive loitering” events began in December and have been billed by organizers as a way to build a stronger community by standing in peace in crime-ridden areas of the city. Earlier events targeted areas where violence had occurred.

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Sophia Takal weren’t so lucky. They traveled from New York with their film, “Gabi on the Roof in July,” and expected a warmer reception.
“We thought it was supposed to be sunny in San Jose!” said Takal, who also stars in the movie, which has its world premiere Friday night.
Sorry, Sophia. We get 300 days of sunshine a year on average, but this wasn’t one of them.
I had a chance to chat with San Jose State grad Jeremy Inman, whose movie, “Super Hero Party Clown,” has a test screening Sunday night. His cast — including Shelby Barnes, Randy Blair and Zach Sutherland — was there, too. And I had a nice talk with actress Anna Easteden, who said she’s having a fabulous time. In the comedy “The House of Branching Love,”
she plays a prostitute, “But she’s got a good heart,” Easteden quickly pointed out. Don’t they all?

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Filmmakers Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal weren’t so lucky. They traveled from New York with their film, “Gabi on the Roof in July,” and expected a warmer reception.
“We thought it was supposed to be sunny in San Jose!” said Takal, who also stars in the movie, which has its world premiere Friday night.
Sorry, Sophia. We get 300 days of sunshine a year on average, but this wasn’t one of them.
I had a chance to chat with San Jose State grad Jeremy Inman, whose movie, “Super Hero Party Clown,” has a test screening Sunday night. His cast — including Shelby Barnes, Randy Blair and Zach Sutherland — was there, too. And I had a nice talk with actress Anna Easteden, who said she’s having a fabulous time. In the comedy “The House of Branching Love,”
she plays a prostitute, “But she’s got a good heart,” Easteden quickly pointed out. Don’t they all?

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Of course, I personally don’t want a media landscape that’s entirely dumbed down to what I think is safe for my four-year-old daughter to watch. I’m an adult. I want to be able to guide my kid’s viewing, while being able to watch, listen to, and read adult material.
Let’s start with audiobooks. Perhaps Steve Jobs believes that out of sight is out of mind. Still, the promotion for Penthouse’s Bend, Lick, Insert, Send with its “mind-bending erotic audio stories” is pretty explicit. Never mind the tag lines for Confessions of a Porn star, Sapphic Seduction, or Dark Desires. There are parts of the promotional copy I can’t even quote here–and they’re all available freely through iTunes.
Dipping into the TV section, have you watched Showtime’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl? I have–after my daughter has gone to bed, thank you very much. It’s a hilarious, well-written sitcom/drama where Billie Piper spends quite a bit of time replaced by a stark naked body double.

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