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Sacked Velvet Revolver singer and My First Nazi Gollum dollset life model Scott Weiland is going to jail.
In what’ll cap off a particularly rubbish opening third of 2008 for him, Scott Weiland has been sentenced to eight days in jail for crashing his car drunk in Los Angeles last November - a charge that he can add to another DUI from 2003, some drug offences from the 1990s and a domestic violence charge from 2001.
Still, eight days in jail isn’t that bad - it’s lucky that the judge didn’t take Scott Weiland’s music into consideration when reaching the sentence, otherwise he’d have been given life. In solitary confinement. On a dung heap. Up a farty dragon’s bottom. On the moon.
These are uncertain times for Scott Weiland. His wife has burnt all his clothes, his Velvet Revolver bandmates have sacked him for being a weirdo and his entire future rests on a Stone Temple Pilots reunion - something that ranks slightly below ’smashing your kneecaps in with a rusty golf club’ on the List Of Things You’d Happily Spend Your Money On.
What Scott Weiland needs is a constant - some routine in his life that’ll straighten out his priorities for a while. And if Scott Weiland’s constant could be located in a giant building full of little tiny rooms, and angry men with suspect hygiene inside those little rooms, then that be even better.
Which is great, because Scott Weiland is going to jail. True, we didn’t ask that his constant smells like it was painted with a million gallons of stale elephant urine, but that’s just a lucky bonus.
After crashing his car dunk in November, Scott Weiland has been sentenced to eight whole days in jail, as People reports:
Former Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland was sentenced Monday to eight days in jail for a second DUI conviction following a Nov 11 arrest. Weiland, who was not present at the Van Nuys, Calif. court, was represented by an attorney who entered a no contest plea on the singer’s behalf. He was also ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol education class and pay nearly $2,000 in fines.

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immediately fuse that with found footage.
Layering the live projection with the raw footage on screen, the video duo uses a mixer to key in, fade, burn out and otherwise affect the video, partly as eye candy and partly as an illustrated exchange of ideas.
It’s an ethic borrowed from DJ land, which benefits from stock and gathered footage, plus the wide swath of reference that the Internet brings. While DJs find audible beats, Watson and Elie are looking for a kind of visual rhythm.
At Lila you’ll see classic Bollywood films, stills from the movie Baraka, footage of Horra’s mother wrapping a sari and anything from their bank.
When not working at their respective day jobs (high school art educator and graphic designer), Elie and Watson bounce around the city, filming the bridges to Quebec from a moving car, or documenting the goings-on of an hour at the graffiti wall at the old Technical High School to use in their projections.
You would have seen work by the University of Ottawa grads at the National Gallery Artsparks event, at Tungda Browne shows (Elie is the band’s guitarist) or through Artengine events such as the Public Art Conspiracy in 2005, which saw images projected onto the exterior walls of York Street in the ByWard Market.
For their clubbier events, they have to react on a dime to the room’s sound and mood. Crowd connection is a huge motivator. Asked how they know that they’ve hit their stride, Watson and Elie wax wild about real-time interpretations and “resonance.”
Horra calls it live art: “You can bring the present moment into your footage — so you get that feeling. You know what you’re seeing is what is happening right now.” Filmed, projected, transmuted and translated, your club experience will be part Truman Show and part tricked-out surveillance, making it strangely compelling and just a bit trippy. VCR’t plays at the multi-media art event Lila, taking place tomorrow and

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On the back of the final trailer, Rockstar have announced yet another surprise relating to its upcoming blockbuster, Grand Theft Auto IV . Upon the game’s release on April 29th, the Social Club is a website that will help the game’s likely expansive community congregate with all things GTA related. Players will be able to register any time after April 15th, with either an Xbox Live Gamertag or Playstation Network ID. However, it is currently unknown whether or not the feature is exclusive to Gold subscribers of Xbox Live, or everyone.
So what do you get what you join the Social Club? The list of features are as follows:
LCPD Police Blotter : A virtual map and tracker of single-player criminal activity logged in Liberty City from all the players that are connected online. Get an idea of which areas are the most dangerous.
The Story Gang: This is a single-player leaderboard that recognizes players who complete Niko Bellic’s main story arc. The leaderboard ranks players according to the total amount of playing time it’s taken to complete the story, as well as a historical rank by who has completed it first. Members of this club will receive special online goodies and merit badges marking all of their in-game accomplishments.
The 100% Club: Watch to see who will be the first to complete 100% of the game. The first ten people to be identified on the Social Club as reaching 100% will be sent a commemorative ‘key to the city’ to mark their accomplishment. Once a few more reach the milestone, the 100% Club will then carry a historical leaderboard showing rankings of who has completed 100% of a game in the shortest span of playing hours.
The Hall of Fame: This area will dynamically recognize those singularly elite players who have reached the top of the hill on various statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards display of special in-game landmarks and successes in Social Club competitions.

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Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music.
★ BEACH HOUSE (Wednesday) This male-female Baltimore duo plays gorgeously languid songs highlighted by eerie organ lines and the amorous alto of Victoria Legrand. With Papercuts and Luke Temple. At 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, boweryballroom.com; sold out. (Ben Sisario)
BLACK GUAYABA (Monday) The surprise winner of this year’s Latin rock Grammy, this Puerto Rican band is perfectly proficient at the kind of Jane’s-Addiction-meets-1980s-power-ballad style that all too often dilutes rock en Español into something rootless and bland. At 8 p.m., S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940, sobs.com; free with reservation. (Sisario)
★ THE BOREDOMS (Sunday) It would be impossible for the Boredoms to top their last New York show, “77Boadrum,” a ceremony of 77 guest drummers (held on 7/7/07) that all but bashed open a portal to some other, noisy dimension. But these great Japanese experimentalist-pranksters have never been caught without something under their collective sleeve, and for this show at the cavernous Terminal 5 they will be performing “in the round.” That could mean anything, which is why it must be seen. With Soft Circle and Black Pus. At 8 p.m., 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, (212) 260-4700, terminal5nyc.com; $25. (Sisario)
JUNIOR brOWN (Saturday and Monday) Junior Brown’s doublenecked “guit-steel” allows him to play biting electric guitar leads in one verse and suave steel guitar in the next. In most of his music he’s a country traditionalist, true to honky-tonk tempos and the deadpan baritone style of Ernest Tubb. Saturday at 11:30 p.m., Joe’s Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $25. Monday at 8:30 p.m., Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201) 653-1703, maxwellsnj.com; $20. (Jon Pareles)

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1. “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle (Plume) (NF-P)
2. “Change of Heart” by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H)
3. “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) (F-P)
4. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
5. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) (F-H)
6. “Horton Hears A Who!” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
7. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P)
8. “The Appeal” by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H)
9. “Eat This Not That!” by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale) (NF-H)
10. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words) (NF-H)
11. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-P)
12. “Remember Me?” by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press) (F-H)
13. “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment” by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library) (NF-P)
14. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
15. “I Heard That Song Before” by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket) (F-P)
16. “Atonement” by Ian McEwan (Anchor) (F-H)
17. “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) (NF-P)
18. “The Audacity of Hope:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press) (NF-P)
19. “Losing It:And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time” by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press) (NF-H)
20. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-H)
21. “The Friday Night Knitting Club” by Kate Jacobs (Berkley) (F-P)
22. “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)
23. “Bratfest At Tiffanys” by Lisi Harrison (Poppy) (F-P)
24. “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett (NAL Trade) (F-P)

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Alli Banning’s second-grade class logs online to www.freerice.com to practice vocabulary. For every correct answer, the United Nations World Food Program donates 20 grains of rice.
Families will be invited to school to play a math activity or game. This is an annual event, but this year there will be new games to play. An estimation station will give students a chance to estimate the correct number of candies in different sized jars. The closest estimate will win the jar and the candy. Students will also register for a drawing for packaged math games. There will be two games given away per grade-level.
Fourth-grade students have been busy learning to write nonfiction. After two weeks of exposure to many nonfiction selections, students chose topics. They then learned how to research their topics and take notes. After note-taking, the fourth-graders wrote their first drafts, revised them and produced published pieces of nonfiction writing.
The kindergartners in Angie Tribolet’s class are doing an author study unit on Jan Brett. They have been reading many of her stories and learning how to draw her characters. They visited her Web site and found many fun games and interesting facts about Jan Brett. They voted on their favorite Jan Brett story and it was “Hedgie’s Surprise.” The kindergartners have also been learning about dental health. They learned what to do to keep their teeth clean and healthy.
On Feb. 13, the fifth-graders went on a field trip to the State Historical Building to see a performance entitled the “Voices of the Civil War.” Afterwards the students participated in workshops focusing on different aspects of the Civil War era.
Metro Waste Management in conjunction with Des Moines Water Works came to the school and did a presentation for the second-graders on littering, recycling and how we can help take care of our water system.

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In a move to calm growing concerns about the slumping economy, President George W. Bush assumed an optimistic stance as he addressed members of the Economic Club of New York in Midtown Friday morning.
“The economy is obviously going through a tough time,” said Bush, on a day that saw a stock market drop of 200 points and the near-collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns.
Bush said this is not the first time the nation has faced an economic slowdown during his time in the White House, adding he’s certain the economy will recover in time as it has in the past.
“The interesting thing, every time this economy has bounced back better and stronger than before,” Bush said. “So I’m coming to you as an optimistic fella. I’ve seen what happens when America deals with difficulty. I believe that we’re a resilient economy and I believe that the ingenuity and resolve of the American people is what helps us deal with these issues, and it’s gonna happen again.”
The president used his address, carried live on NY1 and other news stations, to tout the benefits of tax relief, his economic stimulus package, and steps the Federal Reserve is taking to encourage economic growth.

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