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MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006
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The American Cancer society sold luminaries in honor of those who battled cancer. At 10 p.m. the names of those whom the luminarias were purchased for were read aloud during a touching memorial. The luminarias were then lit one by one in a circle of light displayed brightly from Memorial Stadium.
The American Cancer society made the event lively by playing music from radio station 92.9
while people walked on the track, played football, played Frisbee or danced the night away.
The event showed how many young lives cancer had come in contact with such as Bill Bourgeois. The Mound, Minn., junior, said his best friend's sister recently was diagnosed with cancer after her 19th birthday and he wanted a more direct way to help support the fight against cancer.
"It's better than just donating money because everyone is out here having a good time with all the
Joey Regan, Chicago, junior, said a friend had mentioned the event to him earlier this year so he decided to come out and support a good cause.
events and everyone gets involved to help out," Bourgeois said.
Schroeder said the participation in Lawrence was "awesome" and she was excited about the turnout on a Friday Night.
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"It's a big deal people are really passionate about finding a cure," Schroeder said.
TECHNOLOGY
Gamers spend big bucks
BY MATT SLAGLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rather than reach for the television remote control when she wants to be entertained, Karalyn Valente goes online to play "EverQuest," "Ultima Online" and other video games — a gaming habit shared by millions in the United States.
Valente, a 29-year-old graphic artist from York, Pa., said she devotes about 30 hours a week in vast online worlds and spent more than $1,500 on games last year.
year.
"I watch less and less TV. I turn it on and the shows are just idiotic," Valente said. "When I play the games, I actually look through the character's eyes. I actually become the character."
According to a new AP-AOL Games poll, 40 percent of American adults play games on a computer or a console. Men, younger adults and minorities were most likely to play those games.
Among those who describe themselves as gamers, 45 percent play over the Internet. And more than a third of online gamers spent more than $200 last year on gaming, compared with nearly a quarter of those who don't play games online.
Online gamers also spent more time playing those games.
Forty-two percent of online gamers said they spent at least four hours playing games during an average week, compared with 26 percent of those who don't play online. About one in six online gamers play more than 10 hours a week.
The survey results come as Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. prepare to push their new consoles this week at the Electronic Entertainment
Expo in Los Angeles. All three are hoping to make broad online features such as multiplayer games, video conferencing and downloadable content a core element of the game.
Only 11 percent spent more than $500 last year. Online gamers are more likely to have spent more than $500 last year compared with gamers who don't play online. Six in 10 hardcore gamers — those who play three or more hours per week — spent $200 or less on games last year.
"Once you start they get quite intricate. You're looking at four to five hours a night."
Cameron Wright Investment manager and gamer
the video game experience.
Casual games like board or card games were the most popular, followed by strategy games, action sports, adventure, firstperson shooters and simulations, the poll found. Casual strategy and role-playing games were most popular among online gamers.
And that game playing can be expensive.
Cameron Wright's gaming cost more than $4,500 last year, most of that on upgrades to two of his four PCs.
More than a fourth of gamers say they spent nothing on that hobby last year and slightly more, 31 percent, spent $100 or less.
Although Wright usually spends about two hours a week on gaming, he said he sometimes makes extra time for adulthimated military strategy games like "Command
and Conquer," which he plays online with friends.
"Once you start, they get quite intricate," said Wright, a 44-year-old investment manager from Indianapolis. "You're looking at four to five hours a night."
Of those who play online games, nearly one in five said they had formed ongoing friendships or relationships with fellow gamers they did not know before, the poll found.
Valente said she met her roommate and her boyfriend in online games and regularly uses special computer software called TeamSpeak to talk with teammates and friends.
MIDDLE EAST
Protests leave 26 injured
Israeli police squatters clash in West Bank
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officers stormed inside after sawing through a barricaded metal door. Some in the crowd outside tried to force their way
HEBRON, West Bank Baton-wielding Israeli police cajoled and dragged dozens of Jewish squatters out of a three-story, Palestinian-owned home Sunday, demonstrating the new government's resolve to confront extremist settlers.
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Nineteen officers and seven settlers were reported injured during a clash outside as protesters tried to keep police from entering the building in a scene reminiscent of violence during last summer's forced evacuation of all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.
Hours before the Hebron eviction began, police and settlers clashed when officers cleared away a crowd of protesters outside the home. The squatters threw balloons and light bulbs filled with paint from the roof. Police said settlers inside also threw stones, bottles and firebombs.
In another sign of his tough approach, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet's first session that he also will crack down on wildcat settler outposts in the West Bank that have drawn international criticism.
Olmer wants to withdraw from most of the West Bank and draw Israel's borders by 2010, a program that infuriates settlers, many of whom view the whole territory as a Jewish biblical birthright.
The plan also has angered Palestinian leaders because Olmert said he will proceed even without a peace deal, pursuing a course similar to the unilateral Gaza withdrawal initiated by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
A Jewish woman struggles with Israeli riot police as she is arrested during the evacuation of settlers from a Palestinian building in the West Bank town of Hebron on Sunday. Israeli police Sunday evacuated dozens of Jewish squatters who took over a Palestinian home in the West Bank city of Hebron, in an important first test for Israel's new government and its plans to uproot tens of thousands of settlers.
Kevin Fraver/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
in, too, but officers pulled the struggling protesters away, sometimes slapping them to calm their thrashing.
Police appealed to the squatters — some with toddlers and babies — to leave peacefully, and some agreed. But others had to be hauled out, including one woman whose infant bawled as officers carried them out.
The operation took about two hours, and three families and 27 young sympathizers were removed, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. He said 17 settlers were arrested.
Discarded water bottles, ice
cream wrappers and half-eaten sandwiches overflowed from cardboard boxes in the damp, stone alley in front of the emptied building, which is not far from the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the garage to Jews and
a shrine holy to Jews and Muslims.
Authorities said about 700 police, supported by 1,000 soldiers, took part in the operation to enforce a court order that the squatters be removed.
Palestinians claiming to own the building went to court seeking their eviction, but Israel's Supreme Court ruled that key documents were forged.
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