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Murder of Joe Campos Torres
Joe Campos Torres (December 20, 1953 - May 5, 1977) was a 23-year-old Vietnam Veteran who was beaten by several Houston police officers and subsequently died. His death sparked protests and the outcome of the trial was met with rioting.
Torres had been arrested at a Houston bar for disorderly conduct. Six police officers took Torres to a spot called "The Hole" next to Buffalo Bayou and beat him.[1]
The officers then took Torres to the city jail, who refused to process him due to his injuries. They were ordered to take him to Ben Taub General Hospital, but instead of doing so, the officers brought him back to the banks of Buffalo Bayou and pushed him into the water. Torres's body was found two days later.
Trial and aftermath[edit]
Officers Terry Denson and Steven Orlando were tried on state murder charges. They were convicted of negligent homicide and received one year of probation and a $1 fine.[2] Denson, Orlando and Officer Joseph Janish were later convicted of federal civil rights violations in 1978, and served nine months in prison.
Those sentences sparked riots in Moody Park in Houston's Near Northside neighborhood, on the 1st anniversary of his death.[3][4]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Nation: End of the Rope". Time Magazine. Apr 17, 1978. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ Williams, Jack (May 8, 2008). "Echos of Moody Park: 30 years later". KUHF-FM NPR. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ Remembering the Moody Park riot
- ^ CBS Evening News for Monday, May 08, 1978
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Today and tomorrow at the Attack Athletics facility on the West Side of Chicago near the United Center, the 2010 NBA Draft Combine will take place. Nearly all of the top prospects (53, to be exact) hoping to be selected in the 2010 NBA Draft, whether it's in the first or second round, will interview with teams, participate in basketball drills, undergo athletic and medical testing, and much more. No competitive games, though. In any case, the combine will give every team in the NBA a chance to start getting a first-hand look at the prospects, given that they'll watch the workouts and, as has been mentioned before, interview them to get to know more about a player's personality. For two days, the prospects will also be available to the media throughout the late morning and early afternoon.
In today's media session, I was able to speak with John Wall amongst the media, as well as talk with Dominique Jones one-on-one, James Anderson, Xavier Henry, Luke Babbitt, Jarvis Varnado one-on-one, Travis Booker one-on-one, and Solomon Alabi one-on-one.
Part II contains my questions for Varnado, Booker, Alabi, and Wall.
Jarvis Varnado
I know that the whole draft experience can be exciting for prospects but tense, too. How's everything going for you?
It's going real well. I've been getting good training out in Los Angeles, so it's been going good.
What are you trying to improve on as the draft looms closer?
The offensive end of the court. I'm known as a defensive player, so I'm just trying to improve on the offensive end and knock down 15-footers.
You were well-known as a shot blocker and rebounder in college. Do you think those skills will translate for you to the NBA?
Oh yeah, there's a lot of players in the NBA that can score but there's quite a few that can play defense so whatever team drafts me, I'm just going to come in there and bring energy and the defensive presence that I have.
What do you think is something that's overlooked about you that people should know more about?
I think I can knock down the 15-footer real well. I didn't show it in college because I was doing what the coach asked me to, so I think I can shoot it real well.
What goes into blocking a shot?
Just timing, instincts … I try to be the second guy off the floor and use my long arms and be quick. My leaping ability allows me to do that.
Do you think you'll be able to block as many shots in the NBA as you did in college?
Oh yeah. I got a lot of shots blocked off the weak-side. If one of the guards get beat, they know I got their back so I'm looking forward to that, as well as get some [blocks] from other people.
Is there a guy that you try to model your game after?
I say a Marcus Camby. He's a great defensive player. He's able to knock down his jumpshot.
Trevor Booker
How's the combine experience working out for you?
In Chicago? It's been a great experience, so far. The interviews went well last night. I had a pretty good workout today.
What did you do specifically in the workouts?
We shot a lot of jumpshots, we did running drills, one dribble pull-ups, and they would play some one-on-one.
I know there's a lot of players that decided not to do the basketball drills. Why is that?
It's probably not their decision. Their agent probably told them not to do it. So I'm pretty sure that if it was up to them, they wouldn't mind doing it but I think some players … some agents say they're a lottery pick, maybe they don't want them getting hurt or something like that.
What would be the benefit for the players that do everything in the combine?
People just see how hard we go and our skills. A lot of people that go through the drills, they're probably not going to the lottery or anything like that but some maybe are going in the lottery. It can improve your stock.
What teams have you worked out for?
Just the Bucks.
What do you think is something overlooked about you?
I can move to the outside some. I played four years in the post but I slowly expanded my game to the outside and I showed some of that today.
What position do you think you are in the NBA?
Somewhere in between a three and a four. I'm not really sure. It probably depends on what team, so I'm really not sure right now.
What type of play-style in the NBA do you think you'd strive in?
In college, we had an up-tempo team. We liked to press and we liked to get the ball out and run, but I think I'd have success in any offense.
Solomon Alabi
In terms of your skill-set, is there anything that you feel you do that people don't know enough about and they should?
I'm a good shot blocker. I love to block shots. I think I'm pretty good on offense, too. A lot of people didn't know about it but I can shoot the ball … mid-range shots. I've been working on that to show the people what I can do.
How's your low post game been progressing?
I try to get better every year. I never stop working on that. I still work on my low post game, my turnaround jumpshot, and my moves.
Could you explain what you do to set yourself up to block a shot? What are some techniques you use?
The main technique I use is that I try to make eye contact. If I make eye contact, I can tell if the guy really is … sometimes they'll make a pump-fake, so if I try to look at his eyes, I can tell if he's going to attack the basket. Sometimes if he's not really looking to attack the basket, you can tell that. That's one of the main techniques I use to block shots.
You went to Montverde Academy in high school in Orlando. Have you been in contact with Luc Richard Mbah a Moute?
Yeah, I've talked to him. I've talked to him a lot of times before we made the decision to declare for the draft and besides that, I've hung out with him when he comes back to visit.
Has Mbah a Moute given you advice on the draft process?
He advised me that I need to keep working hard. There will be a lot of people that come and talk to me, so I just got to be careful who I listen to and have to choose who I'm going to listen to and stuff like that. If I'm going to decide if I'm going, if I think it's good, I should declare. If I don't think it's not good enough, I shouldn't go. But whatever decision I'm going to make, I should decide on it. I shouldn't be 50/50. Just go with the flow and whatever I think is best for me.
What was the college life for you at Florida State, given that you're from Nigeria?
It was fun, man. I had tons of fun. There were a lot of people that loved me out there. I had good teammates. They were fun to play with. We had great team chemistry. The coaches were great. I thought, to be honest with you, they did a good job with me out there. I think they've helped me a lot with my game. Coach [Stan] Jones, coach [Andy] Enfield, coach [Leonard] Hamilton, they did a really good job with me. I really had fun playing in college and they loved me out there.
How important do you think the interview process is?
I mean, it's important because playing in the next level, it's a huge, huge step. The organization … they want to make sure they get the best guy. That's why the interview is good because you have to ask questions and get to know someone better. By knowing someone better, you make sure you get the best guy you want to play with your team so that's why I think the interview process is very good.
What's the craziest question they asked you?
Crazy question? *laughs*
I don't think there was any crazy question. They asked me most stuff that I think is funny because I know I've been telling stories about me being from Africa, from Nigeria, and it's just a joke. They thought I was a hunter or something, and I've killed a lamb before. I don't know how they found out, but they asked me that and I told them that's funny.
John Wall
With the NBA being such a perimeter-oriented league, how will you try to take advantage of that with your skill-set?
It's key. You see guys like Rondo and Derrick Rose. They're using their speed and their ability. It's kind of hard for teams to run zone and help-side so much because you have three seconds [in the lane]. Things like I've said, you work on your game to get better and you got to be able to knock down the mid-range shot. Teams are going to change up their defense but it's basically just sit back and just watch your film, just picking away parts, that way you can find your open shooters and people on your team.
How did John Calipari help you develop as a player?
He helped me a whole lot. You see the things that Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans were doing to get ready for the league, that's what he did for me. Maturing as a player and showing me different things that I can get better at.
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"Take care, darlin," is how Sam Byrd sends off many of his customers as they leave Byrd Service Station.
Byrd Service station began in 1960 after Sam saw potential in a closed station on U.S. Highway 61.
At that time, the area of Cleveland was considered out in the country.
"I was in the insurance business and I passed by here one day and the station was closed. It was a relatively new station because it was built in 1954. It was good lookin' and was considered small but everything else was small back in those days.
"I thought that might be a good place to hold up a service station and maybe make some extra money," Sam said.
Sam contacted the owners and rented the station with his brother who helped him get the station up and running.
Byrd Service Station now remains Cleveland's only full-service station. At the time of its birth there were 22 full-service stations and then as times changed, all other stations became self-serve.
"At that time there wasn't such a thing as self-service in 1960 but then people were going to self-service. It was hard to make it in a full-service station but we remained the same, fought it out and have never made any changes. We're doing the same thing today that we did in 1960," said Sam.
As a full-service station customers can pull up to the pumps and have their cars filled with gas without ever having to leave their vehicle. The station staff will also check the vehicle's fluids, tires and wash windshields.
While Byrd Service Station has customers of all shapes and sizes, there are also loyal customers of over 50 years.
"We have lots of elderly women that don't know how to pump gas. My wife has never pumped gas," Sam said.
"We do have a lot of customers that have been with us for several years — customers up to 50 years," Jeff Byrd, Sam's son, added.
Sam was also in the insurance business and stayed there for 50 years. Once his son Jeff graduated from Delta State University in 1997 and began to work full-time at the service station.
Jeff was no stranger to working at the service station and remembers spending his summers there once he turned 10.
"I didn't quite understand because all of my friends were off playing ball. Dad let me do that but he made sure I was up here at least half the week.
"I look back on it now and I appreciate it a whole lot. It gives you a work ethic and seeing Dad work as hard as he's worked, it makes me feel like the hours I've put in are pretty slim.
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Bob Moser was there that day in Greensboro 36 years ago, a boy riding on his daddy's shoulders while President Richard Nixon and Republican senatorial nominee Jesse Helms were publicly honing the Southern Strategy that would capture the South for the Republican Party and frustrate southern Democrats for a generation. Nixon and Helms were whipping up fervor for law and order and traditional values and inciting the crowd against long hairs, liberals, criminals – anyone who could be demonized into an "us versus them" formula that would marginalize Democrats and elect Republicans.
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Shortly after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 first proposed by President John Kennedy, the story goes, he turned to an aide and observed, "We just lost the South for a generation."
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You'd see them walking down Fayetteville Street from the Supreme Court building to the cafeteria at Hudson-Belk in the 1970s. She was Susie Sharp, the diminutive chief justice with the steely blue eyes. He was William Bobbitt, the former chief justice from Charlotte, a widower and her longtime companion.
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"Just about everybody from the conservative point of view had absented themselves," he says, "and the Kinsey people were winning with lousy data."
Then he plunged into the Lincoln gay-rights controversy. "Appalled" at people's ignorance of homosexuality, he founded his institute on sexuality in 1982. It was a tough go. "People are very interested in sex when it comes to opening a magazine," he says, "but it's difficult to get funding for reasonable research."
Nevertheless, he became immersed in the subject. And he insists his fascination had nothing to do with his own sexual experiences, even the molestations. "That was not a motivation," he says. "Neither event influenced any of my research interests." In fact, says Cameron, he doesn't think he was particularly traumatized by either molestation. "I can't remember that they had any long-term effect."
He was influenced, however, by his religious beliefs: He acknowledges that it is fair to consider him part of the religious right. And fundamentalist Christians are trained to believe that homosexuality is an abomination.
All researchers bring preconceptions and values to their work, he says. His own notions, he adds, were strengthened by his research. Much of that wound up in Psychological Reports, a journal that includes a pastiche of studies--some valuable, some not--that are not subjected to so-called peer review. At the time Cameron first started paying for the right to have his studies published in the journal, they appeared alongside other social scientists' research on such subjects as the effects of electric shocks on goldfish (they didn't appear to like it) and the correlation between waterbed use and sexual satisfaction (some participants in that experiment got seasick).
A citation is a citation, however, and Cameron began to build a long list of published studies in that and other journals. His research was confirming what he says he already had a "hunch" about.
"The practice of having sex with one's own sex changes a person," he contends, although the mechanics of such a transformation still aren't completely clear to him. "It turns them into a less desirable, less productive, maybe even more malevolent person."
The emergence of AIDS in the Eighties brought fears of homosexuality to the fore, and Cameron gathered details on diseases and sexual practices such as fisting and rimming from such sources as studies of prisoners and people who frequented health clinics. When critics blast him for drawing conclusions about the sexual practices of all gay people from the populations he has studied, Cameron calmly defends his research as "falling within the parameters" of other scientists' work.
The general fear of AIDS helped propel Cameron's career. A version of the anti-gay-rights video The Gay Agenda featured his statistics as background to images of demented killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Some fundamentalist Christian activists at least express sympathy for those with AIDS by paying lip service to the concept of "hating the sin but loving the sinner." Cameron will have no truck with it.
"Demonize the virus and forget about the carrier? Can't do that," he says. "The real issue is not HIV, per se. It's homosexuality. If a person is a thief and spends time thieving, eventually he thinks of himself as a thief. A much larger proportion of women who are bisexual or lesbian admit to cheating on their income tax or thieving."
Homosexuality makes a person sleazy, according to Cameron. Asked whether it's possible that some people are sleazy before getting into homosexuality, he replies, "Could be. But what you do is what you become."
His explanation of this involves a detailed look at oral sex. Not surprisingly, he starts off with an aside on unsanitary behavior.
"Just imagine a girl, a beautiful girl, regurgitating, and then she wants to give you a blowjob," says Cameron. "Practically no man would be interested." It would be disgusting, he adds, but there's still a big difference between heterosexual blowjobs and homosexual blowjobs.
"There are groups of young men who get $50 for a blowjob, just being the passive partner," he says. "And a substantial proportion of kids eventually get converted." He pauses to note, "Of course, if they hadn't ever gotten into it, they'd be trying to plow girls, and they would be leaving a string of unwanted pregnancies."
But teen pregnancies don't pose the life-changing threat that homosexuality does, he says. "Most men would be unable to be stimulated by a man--their penises would shrink," he says. "I've talked to some of these boys. They pretend to be fellated by a woman. At some point, though, they stop thinking about Playboy and start thinking, 'This guy's got good technique,' and they become changed.
"It's just like eating habits. I don't think anyone is born loving to eat snails. But you eat enough of them, you begin to like it."
In Cameron's view, that's why monogamous homosexual relationships are even more harmful than homosexual promiscuity: A strong commitment to homosexuality leads people into deviant behavior and risk-taking in other parts of their lives. The closer a person's relationship with his homosexuality, Cameron believes, the worse off he or she is. And Cameron says he's determined to prove it.


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A college interest letter, also known as a letter of intent or personal statement, is required by many graduate and professional programs as part of the admissions process. Writing an effective letter involves researching information about the program you wish to attend, as well as reflecting on your own background, accomplishments and future goals. Each educational institution has its own format for the letter of intent that must be followed closely. Here are general guidelines for writing a college interest letter.
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How £200bn investment needed to guarantee the UK's electricity and gas security, and greenhouse emissions reductions, breaks down:
Here are the options outlined by Ofgem, as explained by Ed Crooks:
Option A
Targeted reforms including a floor under the price of carbon emissions permits, and allowing gas and electricity prices to rise more sharply when supplies are tight. There could also be more incentives for customers to use less electricity at peak times. That would encourage investment in low-carbon technologies and in reserve capacity that will be used only occasionally, but might not be a strong enough guarantee for investors. Support for the carbon price is also a blunt instrument that helps all low-carbon generation indiscriminately, rather than targeting support where it is most needed.
Option BStronger obligations on energy companies to create back-up supply, such as spare generation capacity and gas reserves, that would be needed only in a crisis.
Those obligations could be backed by a new centralised renewable electricity market, mainly for wind power, which would help manage variable generation.
Heavier obligations on suppliers risk deterring investment and keeping entrants out of the industry, damaging competition.
The centralised renewable power market has been used very successfully in Spain but still may not provide the certainty that investors will want.
Option CContracts for generators to supply set quantities of renewable electricity, decided by the government. Companies would bid in tenders for these contracts, based on the additional revenue they would need to be paid to make the investment.
This would resemble Option B, in putting greater obligations on suppliers and creating a new renewable electricity market, but would offer greater certainty to investors in wind and other renewables, by paying a set premium above the value of the electricity that they sell.
However, they would still be exposed to electricity price risk.
Option DContracts for all new generation capacity and other infrastructure such as gas storage. Companies would bid in tenders to invest in a particular technology such as wind power and would be paid a set income on that investment, which could be linked to the electricity price.
This could create strong incentives to invest in reserve capacity and low-carbon energy, at the cost of creating a highly centralised system. A central planner would have to come to regular assessments of the amount of investment needed, and would run the risk of forecast errors that could be costly for consumers. It could also squeeze out innovation.
Option E
A central energy buyer. The most radical change suggested by Ofgem, this would completely replace the existing energy market structure, creating a new body that could buy all the electricity generated in the UK and sell it on to customers and suppliers. It could favour particular generation types such as wind or nuclear power in its purchasing. This system could provide great certainty to investors, making investment in energy infrastructure extremely low risk. But the problems and risks of excessive centralisation would be even greater. It would undo two decades of liberalisation under both Conservative and Labour governments.


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The Backstretch Blog: Storybook Endings
So here we are, about to close the book on another NASCAR season. And all I can say is wow. Think about it, we started with a driver smashing into a jet dryer on the track at the Daytona 500 and last week we had a driver running through the garage in a full on sprint. Quite a year.
So now this weekend, we will crown the 2012 Sprint Cup Series Champion. It looks like it Brad Keselowski's to lose, he comes into the final race at Homestead with a 20 point lead in the standings.
"You know if you go out there and run well, at least from my position, that it all takes care of itself," said Keselowski said. "With maybe the exception of the last lap or two, I've got a pretty good idea of where I'm at on the racetrack, or I should, and that stuff works its way out if we're in a good position."
A good position for sure, of course it would be better if it was anyone other than Jimmie Johnson 20 points back. He is the best in the business now, and he has come to Homestead in contention many times before, as the hunted and the hunter.
"I've learned is that regardless of how experienced anyone is in this championship battle, at some point the magnitude of it hits you," said Johnson "At some point, he may be very comfortable and calm now, it may not happen until he's in the car, but at some point that magnitude hits, and I've lived through it five times. That's a turning moment, and we'll see how he responds."
Johnson also the monster mentalist. Here's the thing about Homestead, it's not a great race for either driver. Keselowski does not have a single top 10 at the Florida track and an average finish of 20th. Johnson is a little better, with an average finish of 13th and has a seven times finished in the top 10, four in the top 5.
"Well, I've been going for the championship all my life, and specifically this particular one for the last nine races," said Keselowski. "So Homestead pays the same amount of points as Chicago did and the same amount of points that Martinsville did when Jimmie won. It's the same, and there's no reason to change that approach, and that's why I feel that way."
As for who might actually win this race, Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle have history on their side. Each has three wins at Homestead. Other active drivers with wins at this track, Carl Edwards (2), Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch, Bobby Labonte and Matt Kenseth.


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What we did last summer is we took out the underground storage tanks at Jefferson, and we determined we had a little seepage from the ground, Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) director of buildings and grounds Bill OLaughlin explained. There was very little. Well be receiving the full report in a couple of weeks.
According to OLaughlin, the surveys are handed out to residents, usually within 500 feet of the seepage, which is a state requirement for a petroleum spill. It had to be reported, WAPS superintendent Scott Hannon said of the leak, reiterating OLaughlins statement. I dont think it is anything to worry about, but it had to be reported. [Peer Engineering] sends out a letter to homeowners within 500 feet that says to report if anyone notices a smell or anything unusual.
Matt Erickson, an environmental professional at Peer Engineering based in Eden Prairie, did not directly work on the project that involved the leak from the Jefferson petroleum tank, but he did speak on general terms of fuel oil tank leaks. I wouldnt be too concerned, he said when asked if Jefferson students and faculty, as well as nearby homeowners, should be afraid of the petroleum leak. But Erickson, who also explained that underground oil fuel tanks are usually used as backup to a schools boiler system, made sure to note that petroleum is a hazardous material, especially when a lot of it leaks. Its flammable, of course it is [hazardous]. If it leaks and gets into ground water, its hazardous.
Fortunately for Jefferson students, faculty and nearby residents, OLaughlin said that they were not anticipating any seepage of petroleum into the ground.
Erickson said he did not "necessarily" believe the age of the building had much to do with the leak. Its generally the type of soil and moisture content, and what kind of oxidation rate is going on, he explained. A lot of newer tanks going in will have more updated material to make [a leak] less likely, but it really goes down to the soil chemistry.


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Griffith parents unhappy with Facebook lawsuit
By Teresa Auch Schultz firstname.lastname@example.com April 26, 2012 4:20PM
Tim Tinsley (left) listens as his ex-wife Regina Webb reads the Facebook conversation between several students about others at school, including their 8th-grade daughter, in Griffith, Ind. Thursday April 26, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media
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Two Griffith parents aren't laughing about a claim made by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana that three Griffith Middle School girls were just joking when they posted on Facebook about wanting to kill some of their classmates.
Regina Webb and her ex-husband, Tim Tinsley, say the postings, which got the girls expelled from school for the rest of the semester, were serious and disturbing.
"Reading the transcript, I don't understand how somebody could do that," Webb said. "Is that something you sit around and joke about?"
The ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond on behalf of the three girls, claiming Griffith Middle School had violated their rights to free speech by expelling them for what they wrote on Facebook. The lawsuit described the comments, which took place through various public postings made by the girls on Facebook in January, as just teenage banter as shown by the girls using emoticons and nothing that a reasonable person could take seriously.
A copy of the postings provided by Webb shows that the girls talked about how they wanted to kill ugly people then went on to list specific students, including Webb and Tinsley's child, and even a teacher who they would like to kill. One emoticon, ":D," was used once.
One girl wrote about how she wanted to create a hit list and another post talked about wanting to kill at least 20 people.
"I wanna light someone on fire," one post said.
The girls discussed the best ways to kill someone, including using a box cutter and keeping it free of fingerprints by wrapping a towel around the handle. Another suggested placing a body in a tub full of acid to destroy any evidence.
When one girl said she had gasoline, another said she had a match and that they should go kill someone now.
A friend of Webb's daughter told her about the posting, and when her daughter came home from school upset, she reluctantly told her mother about the postings, Webb said.
After seeing what the posts said, she and Tinsley took the issue to the school, which suspended the students for 10 days then eventually expelled them.
"I don't how the ACLU can back these girls," Tinsley said.
Tinsley said he was happy with how the school handled the situation and added that the school had even had a workshop on cyberbullying for students at the beginning of the year. The middle school's handbook, which parents must sign off on, includes a section on cyberbullying.
The Griffith Police Department got involved through its school resource officer and created an official report. Detective Lt. Matt Argadine said he believes a discussion was held with the Lake County prosecutor's office about the case, although nothing official was turned over. Tinsley said an attorney with the prosecutor's office told him they declined to press charges because there was no law banning cyberbullying. A representative with the prosecutor's office could not be reached.
Tinsley said he didn't see how this was different than any other crime that happens online.
Webb said if the law needs to be changed so prosecutors can go after this, then that needs to happen. "Something needs to be changed," she said.
Their daughter has already missed a few days from school because of the comments, and even her younger sister has had to miss a day because of it. Tinsley said he's keeping his daughter away from technology for the rest of the year and she's afraid to go to school.
"No child should have to stay home," Webb said. "No child should have to go to another school to feel safe."


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My son's killer is the devil. He's never shown any remorse
Dad's despair at Boxing Day murder that shocked Britain
NEARLY one year after their beloved son was executed by a smirking stranger, Subhash and Yogita Bidve want just one thing — for the murderer to acknowledge their agony.
Grieving dad Subhash says: "If God really exists He should give him some sense. He needs to understand the pain he subjects on others.


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text: | Dáil Éireann - Volume 541 - 03 October, 2001 Written Answers. - Work Permits. Mr. Perry Mr. Perry 185. Mr. Perry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the application for work permits by persons (details supplied) will be approved; the reason for the delays; if she will ensure that these applications are immediately processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21825/01] Ms Harney Ms Harney Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ms Harney): It is the policy of my Department to process applications for work permits strictly in the order in which they are received. The processing time for work permit applications has risen this year due to the unprecedented number of applications that continue to be received in the Department. The number of applications has increased from an average of 350 applications per week last year to over 1,000 per week. Increases in staff resources and overtime have facilitated the issue of over 26,800 work permits in the first eight months of this year compared to 18,000 for the full year in 2000. The Department is continuing to examine options for significantly reducing the processing time for the issue of work permits. With reference to the list of applications, details supplied, in respect of various employers received by the work permits section in the Department, I am informed that some of these permits were issued last month. Assuming that the remaining applications are completed correctly and are otherwise in order, they should take approximately eight weeks to process from date of receipt. Dáil Éireann 541 Written Answers. Work Permits. Questions 20011003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||


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The sun was slinking toward the mountains as I arrived at Fish Springs, once a ranch owned by a legendary codger, John Thomas. A sign out on the salt flats read, IF IN NEED OF TOW, LIGHT FIRE. Back in the day, folks would bog down, put a match to a pile of brush, and out Thomas would come with his draft horses. He'd size them up, quote a price—a dollar a foot was the norm—and if they didn't like his rate, he'd keep raising it until they agreed. Today Fish Springs is a National Wildlife Refuge, overseen by ranger Jay Banta, the Utah director of the current Lincoln Highway Association. Jay took me to a pristine section of the 1913 road. "The Pony Express is so romanticized, but all it proved was that mail couldn't profitably be moved overland," he said. "The Lincoln Highway kicked off the whole concept of automobile touring."
The next day, I passed through the remote community of Callao, Utah, where Kearney's Ranch hotel still sits by the side of the road like an empty ghost. I then crossed over Schellbourne Pass to the Steptoe Valley, hitting asphalt again on U.S. 93 in Nevada. Forty miles south, in Ely, I picked up Highway 50, which roadside signage touts as THE LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA. Every few minutes another car or truck passed. After the solitude of the Pony Express Trail, it felt like Mardi Gras. From time to time I thought I could spy traces of the old highway: a dirt track winding through the hills around me.
Small towns along the way testified to the cyclical nature of Nevada's mineral wealth. In Eureka, I knocked on the door of the Jackson House Hotel, an 1880 brick edifice that stands alongside the grand Eureka Opera House. Too late: it had closed two weeks before. "Not enough business," said the proprietor of the restaurant across the street, "since the mines laid off a thousand people last December." (It turns out the hotel closes during the winter, but opens again come spring.) In the threadbare mountain town of Austin, 70 miles up the road, I peeked into the splendidly creaky International Café, a former hotel shipped in its entirety from Virginia City, Nevada, in 1863. Two of the three mirrors over the ornate bar are original; the third was shattered long ago by a bullet that had passed through the skull of a patron.
If jobs were scarce, enthusiasm for the Lincoln Highway was not. At the hamlet of Middlegate I chatted with Russ and Fredda Stevenson, owners of the Middlegate Station honky-tonk, who invited me to drive the mile-long stretch of original Lincoln Highway on their property. As I crossed the California border and passed through the mountain town of Truckee, I remembered something that Jay Banta had told me: "Someday I'm going to drive the whole highway in a Model A," he said, "meeting nuts like me along the way."
After three days in the desert, I thought the forests of the Sierra Nevada were paradise. The first drivers must have felt the same. When they crossed into California, the hard part of their journey was behind them. It was just a couple of hundred miles to the highway's end in San Francisco, all of it well paved. One traveler who rode the Lincoln Highway in 1919 noted appreciatively, "Entire route down grade over bitumen surfaced concrete roads lined with palm trees, through peach, orange, and olive ranches and vineyards." (Californians have always loved their asphalt.) The old road is not just remembered here, it's celebrated—you can still find streets called Lincoln Way or Lincoln Highway. In Auburn, a historic mining city in the Sierra foothills, Lincoln Highway markers are posted along the route at almost every intersection.
Descending into the Central Valley, I was sucked into the maw of the California superhighway system and propelled southward like a jet. Blinkered by concrete walls on either side, I was making good time but had no idea where I was or whether I was passing through farmland or desert. Then I hit bumper-to-bumper traffic and within an hour, I was fighting my way over the Bay Bridge at rush hour. By the time I reached a friend's house downtown, I was exhausted.
The next morning I drove from the Castro to Lincoln Park,near the Golden Gate Bridge. The official end point lay near the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a fine-arts museum. A marker once stood in front of the museum, near where a blue-tiled fountain sputters today. I assumed that it had long since vanished, but then I saw it off to the side, near a bus stop overlooking a golf course: WESTERN TERMINUS, LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
What I felt must have been a hundredth of the bittersweet emotions those words no doubt brought to adventurers who endured mud, rain, breakdowns, and weeks on the road to read them (my journey took only four days). Looking around at the people strolling about, I couldn't imagine that many ever noticed the tiny obelisk, let alone understood its significance. And if they did, I doubted they knew the vastness it demarcated, the toil and patience it implied. I stayed for a few minutes, gazing out over the golf course. Then I got back in the car and drove away.
JEFF WISE is a contributing editor for Travel + Leisure.


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Murphy-Brown Employees Help to Green the Muscadine Festival
North Carolina may have cultivated its first grape back in 1524, but Murphy-Brown employees brought a new reason to celebrate at the annual North Carolina Muscadine Festival this year.
A group of 10 volunteers put out recycle barrels to collect empty glass bottles during the Festival, totaling 1 ton glass bottles collected.
The volunteers were thanked by the festival organizers for helping them "go green." Their efforts helped clean up the festival grounds and most of the waste was able to be recycled.


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AntiVirus Software: A computer software program that detects and responds to viruses and worms, blocking access to infected files and performing frequent updates.
Browser: A computer software program that is used to view and interact with Internet material on the World Wide Web. Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer are two of the most popular browsers.
Dumpster Diving: Thieves rummage through trash looking for bills or other paper that includes your personal information.
Encryption: A process in which data is scrambled before it is transferred so that it cannot be read by unauthorized parties.
Enhanced Security Login: Provides security at login, no matter what computer you sign in from, using additional end user authentication that helps to protect against online fraud.
Firewall: A gateway supported by hardware or software that limits access between computer networks. Firewalls can protect your home computer from hackers and your family from web sites that may contain offensive material.
Hacker: A person who tries to gain unauthorized access to a computer system. Hackers are known to modify computer programs and security systems that protect home and office computers.
Keystroke Capture: A spyware program or device that records what users type on their computer. Also referred to as Keystroke Logger.
Malware: Also known as 'malicious software', malware is designed to harm, attack or take unauthorized control over a computer system. See Virus, Trojan and Worm.
Opt-In: Permission granted to a business or organization to use your email address for promotional or marketing purposes, or to rent your email address to another organization.
Opt-Out: The opposite of Opt-In, where you do not grant permission for a business or organization to use your email address for promotional or marketing purposes, or to rent your email address to another organization.
Patch: A new software release created to update a computer software program. Updates may include security, performance, or usability enhancements.
Pharming: This takes place when users type in a valid URL (website address) and you are illegally redirected to a website that is not legitimate in order to capture personal information through the internet such as credit card numbers, credit union account information, Social Security number and other sensitive information.
Phishing: The process of seeking to obtain personal information illegally through email or pop-up messages in order to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, credit union account information, Social Security number, passwords, or other sensitive information.
Pop-Up Ads: A form of web advertising that appears as a "pop-up" on a computer screen, they are intended to increase web traffic or capture email addresses. However, sometimes popup ads are designed with malicious intent like when they appear as a request for personal information from a financial institution.
Privacy Policy: A standard policy included on most corporate websites that explains how personal information collected about visitors to a company's site is handled.
Service Pack: A software program that updates, fixes and/or enhances a software program found on your computer, typically delivered in the form of a single, installable package.
Skimming: When an unauthorized second copy of a credit or debit card is taken by an employee at a store by using a storage device that copies the details held within the card's magnetic strip.
Spam: Unsolicited bulk electronic "junk" messages sent to huge numbers of people via email, instant messaging, Usenet newsgroups, and more.
Spoofing: A form of phishing, a way for cyber criminals to send emails that look legitimate, but are not, to falsely represent a legitimate company or organization. The false email from phishing will include a phony link to what closely resembles a legitimate website address. Once the website is accessed, the victim is asked to provide personal information which is then forwarded to criminals.
Spyware: Loaded onto your computer unbeknownst to you, spyware is a type of program that watches what users do and forwards information to hackers over the Internet.
Trojan Horse: A malicious program that is disguised or embedded within legitimate software program that, when activated, unwittingly allows hackers to gain unauthorized access to the computer.
Virus: A self-replicating computer program, loaded on to your computer without your knowledge, that spreads by making copies of itself and clogging up your computer's memory.
Worm: Similar to a computer virus, a worm attaches itself to, and becomes part of, another executable program. Able to self-propagate, worms generally harm the network and consume bandwidth.


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World Maker Faire New York 2013
InMoov Lives! 3D printed humanoid animatronic bot
InMoov is an Open Source 3D printable animatronic robot. It was designed by Gael Langevin, but this build is by Chuck Fletcher. This particular InMoov will display eye tracking, Kinect and Leap Motion control.
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Chuck Fletcher
Co-creator of Mologogo (the first GPS social network) and Emerging Technology fanatic. Founder of MadSci Labs.