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Smith joined Mike Stoops' staff in February 2007 after a year at Rice and a long tenure at Kansas State. He began as the running backs coach in 2007 and moves to inside receivers this season.
He brings credentials as a coach in a high-profile program and playing experience to the Arizona equation, plus has familiarity with UA's leader through past working association with Stoops at Kansa State. The two worked under Bill Snyder for four seasons from 1995-98.
Smith's background in offensive backfield play makes him well suited for the move to the inside passing game in Arizona's spread offense. He'll take on UA senior playmaker Mike Thomas in new roles for each, as Thomas moves inside for 2008.
In his previous coaching stint, he helped Rice to a 7-6 record, advancing to its first bowl game in 45 seasons. He coached a 1,000-yard running back for the fifth consecutive year.
Career Highlights
Coached true freshman tailback Nic Grigsby to a 700-yard performance in seven starts in 2007, emerging from reserve to fulltime duty. UA's backs combined for 967 yards at 4.0 yards per tote.
Helped incorporate the RBs into UA's new offense in its first year, with backfield players contributing 63 receptions for three scores in the new system.
Coached Rice senior Quinton Smith to 1,096 yards in 2006, only the sixth Owls' RB in history to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark.
Helped develop six Kansas State running backs into National Football League players - Darren Sproles, Rock Cartwright, Joe Hall, Josh Scobey, Frank Murphy and David Allen.
Coached Darren Sproles to 4,979-yard career from 2001-04, with 24 games of more than 100 yards and a 6.1 average per carry. He posted a Kansas State-record 1,986 yards on 306 totes in 2003.
Coached each of the top career running backs in history at K-State - Sproles (4,979), Eric Hickson (2,537) and Mike Lawrence (2,265). Coached four successive KSU 1,000-yard rushers in Josh Scobey (2001) and Sproles (2002-04).
Led RBs to school-record 53 rushing touchdowns at Kansas State in 2002, and 254 total in nine years.
No. 2 career receiver at Kansas State. Four-year letterman and a career receiving total of 179 receptions for 2,547 yards as a Kansas State player, second-best catches total and third-best yardage total in league history at the time. Nine 100-yard games, including three above 170 to set standards on school single-game list. Led the Big Eight and was seventh nationally with 70 receptions for 816 yards as Kansas State sophomore receiver in 1989. Single-game record with 13 catches for 166 yards vs. Missouri. Had 46 catches for 796 yards as a junior and 55 for 768 yards as a senior.
Earned All-Big Eight honors as a receiver in 1989 and 1991. Third-team All-America honors as a senior receiver at K-State in 1991. Honorable mention All-America in 1989.
Played for Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL in 1992, started coaching career as student assistant in 1993 at K-State.
Smith's Coaching History 1995-96 Graduate Assistant Kansas State 1997 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 1998 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 1999 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2000 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2001 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2002 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2003 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2004 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2005 Running Backs Coach Kansas State 2006 Running Backs Coach Rice 2007 Running Backs Coach Arizona 2008 Inside Receivers Coach Arizona
Michael Smith in Bowl Games 1993 Copper Bowl Kansas State student asst. 1995 Holiday Bowl Kansas State GA 1996 '97 Cotton Bowl Kansas State GA 1997 Fiesta Bowl Kansas State coach 1998 Alamo Bowl Kansas State coach 1999 Holiday Bowl Kansas State coach 2000 '01 Cotton Bowl Kansas State coach 2001 Insight.com Kansas State coach 2002 Holiday Bowl Kansas State coach 2003 '04 Fiesta Bowl Kansas State coach 2006 New Orleans Bowl Rice coach
The Smith File Arizona Running Backs Coach Date of birth: Nov. 21, 1970 Hometown: New Orleans, La. High School: Jesuit High School, New Orleans College: Kansas State, 1995 Playing Experience: Receiver, Kansas State 1988-91 Recruiting Areas: Orange County, Kansas JCs, Nevada Family: Daughters Kylie and Kenzie


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Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason And Science
Here people are complaining about the lack of reason in this country. Religios brainwashing videos on kids etc. I dont know if people know if this orginization exists, but here is a place to donate to if we want to do something about it. promote education, seperation church and state, etc...
his in troductory video is gone, but you can find it on youtube.(at least part of it.) http://youtube.com/watch?v=bTbdvy5jIQw
All in all, spread the word. There is little chance he can be successfull, but we have to try.
So what's this, a move to eliminate religion?
for reason and science
With all due respect, and this has nothing to do with the current President, you will sooner see Washington's landmarks demolished and Muslim shrines built in their place than see religion abolished. It will never, ever happen no matter how big a following Atheism gets. Sorry, but they tried this in Russia and people still practiced religion, in secret, despite the threat of death if they were found out.
Facist effort to repress religious expression is not the same thing as increasing scientific literacy and critical thinking skills.
P.S. The fact that the Brits feel obligated to stage an intervention should be a huge wake up call to moderates in this country.
glad you agree!
Nancy, This in NOT about removing religeon. its about defending seperation of church and state, keep creationism out of science classes, prevent theocracy etc.
people can still be free to believe what they like. They just want to defend people's right to be different. so they cant force their religeon on other faiths or the non religous.
Based on what I've observed of Dawkins, I doubt that his intentions are to fortify a defense. I think he's probably trying to create a rallying point for atheists.
82% of Americans believe in God. Source
83% of Americans are scientifically illiterate. Source
I don't believe that's a coincidence. If more people were educated about the facts and viewed religion objectively, I think there'd be a lot more empty churches. Dawkins knows this too, but acknowledges that atheists (being "independent, free-thinkers" in his words) are difficult to organize. I think this is his attempt to turn that around.
Religion is delusion. Theistic beliefs are delusional beliefs.
People may have the right to hold such beliefs, but we don't have any moral responsibility to encourage them. And in fact, we have a moral responsibility to point out delusions wherever we find them. By encouraging reason, logic and critical thought worldwide, we would indirectly be decreasing the strangle-hold of delusional religion on the peoples of the world. But is that forcing religious folk to discard their beliefs? No. No use of force involved, physical, legal or otherwise. Furthermore holding a theistic belief is totally counter to logic, so frankly no amount of logic would EVER be able to remove that belief if the person in question didn't WANT it removed.
Those who fear the truth constantly wheel out the old fallacy that logic is EVIL because it FORCES people to discard their faith. But of course this is nonsense. Remember, we have a moral responsibility to speak the truth in all walks of life.
And we must choose: Try to make sense of the world and ourselves... or choose to believe in fairies, Santa Claus and gods.
(edit) Btw, great choice for a thread, Kipper. (/edit)
If you can stomach 20+ of opposing viewpoints (that's not a dig), then you might find this illuminating. If nothing else, it might help you to understand some of the arguments that you encounter here.
Either way, what Spider is saying is not that he wants to force people to not have religious beliefs, but that he wants people convinced they don't need religious beliefs. There's a big difference.
I can understand, and even agree with, that there are many sections of religion that are very much in conflict with the world. For example homosexuality, do we kill all those who are gay? Then what, do we put to death those who murdered those people? Stem cell research, do we not allow that because of religion? For me both of those are wrong. And aside from that there are things, maybe worse things, that we do that threaten the sancity of our souls, and I admit to being guilty of this myself. Watching the video there's something else I have to say about modorate religion that I think was left out: modorate religion goes against what is said in scripture, in that everything that it says in there, to put to death all the nonbelievers, is how believers should be. However I think the question has to be asked whether or not there is action taken against religion and not only do we not allow freedom of speech by doing so we reap the bloody whirlwind that would come from taking action against people who have a right to religion, especially from those who are fundamentalist violent cases, or do we allow religion and work against the extreme cases who would commit acts such as bombing abortion clinics, hijacking planes and flying them into buildings, because their religion says that is what they have to do in order to be true believers? What percentage of religious folk would even contemplate such an act? What percentage have the common sense to be modorate?
Yes, moderates get it wrong. From a fundamentalist point of view, they aren't following the scriptures so they aren't really Believers. From a liberal point of view, they provide a sheild for fundamentalists, plus they don't follow the scriptures so they are kinda like pesky hypocrites. There needs to be a frank discussion about the nature of faith and the presense of moderates makes this kind of dialog very difficult.
Moderates feel that it's ok to pick and choose which tenets to live by. Fundies scoff at their willingness to cherry-pick and liberals are frustrated by their ability to completely miss the point of the debate (Harris does touch on this in the clip).
You seem to be stuck on this concept of "action". No one is advocating that we start burning Christians at the stake (at least I don't think that's the case). No is saying that we need to rally and drive them out of the country. What most "activists" (I use the term loosely) do try to inspire is a sense of urgency about the issue (the one that most moderates seem oblivious too).
Yes, people have a Constitutional right to freedom of religion. No one is debating that. The people need to be educated about the facts, maybe spend a little bit of time visiting a place that we like to call "reality", and give up their strangle-hold on Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God (aka The Flying Spaghetti Monster).
You might not think that this is a big deal, but then again, I think it's important to point out that you appear to be one of those moderate people that we keep talking about.;)
It's a belief for people to hold onto, as opposed to something like 'The world is small, nasty, complicated and everyone dies alone'. I'm not sure about the common sense of people who follow religion, but it gives them some hope, something to build their dreams around.
As for taking action against religion, I've seen it happen, and I'd wager you have as well. Back in Soviet Russia they outlawed religion, tried to anyway, and more recently we have seen the intolerance of Islam, and sorry to bring this up but Muslim extremists have spoken of their intolerance for other religion. I'm sure Christianity, Jusism, ect do so as well but we've seen it in their voice and we've seen it in their acts, and there are those who believe it is their right to persecute those who follow religion, to take away their beliefs.
I really feel as though you're still missing the point. The crisis that you're not recognizing is that the majority vote sits firmly with a bunch of people that base their beliefs off of what they think their shared imaginary friend wants. Go back to the Sam Harris video and listen to the part where he talks about the refrigerator-sized diamond in his back yard. Bush has the ability to kick-off a nuclear war any time he wants and believes that an invisible man in the sky talks to him. Doesn't this scare you even a little bit?
People can have dreams, hope, purpose, etc without religion. Religion isn't the sole source of these things and several profound arguments can be made for why religion is a terrible source.
Your continued use of the Russia strawman is not moving the dialog forward. Several people have pointed out several times that the objective is not to implement a fascist regime that has no tolerance for other people's beliefs. Bush has cornered that market anyway :D
So please, please, please leave this train of though alone. Nancy = 7, Strawman = 0. I promise.
Okay, it's left alone. In terms of Bush saying that he's gone to war because God told him to, well sorry but that's a retarded thing for him to say. Maybe he did, I dunno, but this indicates maybe some type of religious fanaticism or at the very least outright stupidity in using his religion to justify going to war. I mean ****'s sake isn't that what we condemn Islam of, going to war because of their religious beliefs? Whether or not he scares me, excuse the digression here, one thing I will always remember was the idea was brought up immediately after September 11 to nuke Afghanistan, or whoever orchastrated the attack. I'm not sure if it was Bush himself who shot the idea down but he could have and he didn't. Just the same his continued support for waging war on Iraq, wanting to go to war with Iran, not doing anything about North Korea, I will say this: in the 2004 elections John Kerry lost the elections. Bush didn't win it, Kerry lost it. In my opinion on the heels of Iraq Bush shouldn't have won it but he did, God help the world, and perhaps the Democrats can make something of the situation now that they're in power, they haven't pulled the troops out and part of me is glad they didn't leave the Iraqis to die, and whoever they do put in (after Bush I'm hoping for Barack Obama) I think we will be glad to have them over Bush.
Getting back to the video, I forgot to mention about the use of condoms being a consider a sin. What? Well I supposed it says you're not allowed to have sex outside of marriage, and that presents another problem in that all these young unprepared couples are marrying as soon as they're allowed to so they can have sex. In either case it's an issue that needs to be addressed. But getting around, finally, to you asking about the refrigerator-sized diamond, a large part of religion does have to do with faith. But I think there's a lot more to it than simply saying that they believe it.
What is your familiarity with Evangelical Christianity? Are you aware that Evangelical Christians believe that once Israel is returned to the Jews, Christ will return for Judgment Day? Considering that a majority of the policy makers in the Capital are Evangelical Christians, what impact do you think this has on little things like foreign policy, environmental issues, etc?
Are you starting to see why some people are very, very concerned about the amount of religiosity in the air?
This one is just slightly off-topic, but interesting nonetheless:
Mommie Dearest
Another way to look at it are all the families in Africa that are spreading AIDS within their families because they aren't using condoms (the WHO's recommended method for preventing transmission). Sex without condoms equals babies. Mommy with AIDS usually equals baby with AIDS. And since is culturally acceptable for husbands to have mistresses, a lot of other people outside the nuclear family are also at risk.
That's just Africa. We won't talk about India, Asia, or Latin America.
My familiarity with Evangelical Christians is, what? It details the story of God creating the world, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Abraham being led to believe in God (by proving his faith by sacrificing his son, no less), Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt, then being presented the Ten Commandments and carrying them in the Ark as they search for their land. Stories such as the battle of Jericho and David and Goliath would be in there somewhere, I think Jericho is right after Moses, and God casts judgement on the wicked. That's about as far as the Jewish believe I think. Then there's Jesus' life, death and resurrection, his apotles teaching his word and new churches being formed, then finally Revelations, it being God returning and the end of the world. Grim, but it's meant to be a good thing in terms of us being reborn to live with Christ. That basically covers the story of the Bible, aside from that there's problems within the church ranging from decrying Da Vinci Code to the very real problem of pedophiles in the church. The Roman Catholics have all the money and...excuse me here, they flaunt it. There may be other bits and pieces but that's a broad idea of my knowledge. With the idea of the Evangelical Christians believing that if the Jews return to their home Christ will return, I remember hearing that. There was something called Seven Signs of Christ's return that said that, the great Jewish pilgrimage. Does that mean all the Jews will just up and return to Israel? Given the turmoil there I can't see why they would, but given this idea I can understand the fear some would have. But if they are fearful of such an event in religion are they themselves buying into it? And do we limit the spread of religion hoping no one thinks of it or encourage it saying 'if you do this the world will end'?
By the way, the other signs I can remember is the reunification of superpowers, or the reunification of East and West Europe, which we are seeing. The creation of the ultimate weapon, the nuclear bomb. The antichrist, Hitler was the one they portrayed as being a likely canidate but some may, and probably have, argue that Bush would be a better canidate especially given the evidence of using technology to sway followers. I personally don't think so. The war to end all wars, the War on Terror is not it, this would be World War Three, or if you think we're in it already World War Four and we would be fighting China's one millions troops and the war will only end by armageddon scale weather conditions, read Day After Tomorrow type stuff. The last sign of copurse is Armageddon. Pretty scary stuff if you take it wholeheartedly.
With Iraq and the War on Terror, really put a lid on the religious angle. For me it's offensive to the religion whether you're Bush using God to wage war on all these countries or a terrorist saying you'll kill all these infidels in a terrorist act for Allah. Just go with the most basic and honest reason: that these people are killers and have to be stopped.
Hmmm, well this is going to sound silly, but going by my experiance with those who follow religion I would equate the experiance to something like a Jedi would feel when they feel the Force. I know, silly, but I'm thinking it's similar, especially given how it appears to be a religion. Mira puts it that it fills a hole, that in the Force, in religion, she feels that she no longer has to keep searching the galaxy for something and never finding it. Perhaps a better explanation would be...have you seen the new Spiderman trailer? It has Peter finding his father's real killer, and with a thirst for revenge something takes over his body, giving him enhanced powers. It feels good, apparently. I'd say because he has the power to get revenge. A dark emotion to feel, to be sure, but that type of feeling, one that hopefully you've rarely had a need to feel but something that's probably more familiar to you. As silly as it sounds I think that's the type of feeling people who believe in and follow religion have.
There is no doubt that most people need a sense of purpose. Similarly, there is no doubt that humans have spiritual lives. The fact remains that religion is completely unnecessary for either of these. The goosebumpy thing I get when watching a sunrise or watching my children sleep has nothing to do with God. The fact that a lot of people attribute that to Him doesn't mean that's really where it comes from. The sooner we can all recognize that our purpose comes from within, the better off our species will be.
I would argue that religion can give people a new found purpose in life. An example would be someone who had been retrenched, tries and tries to find work but no one's interested, and despite the best efforts of family and friends they fall into depression. Or someone who has been in hospital for a long time, same thing. Religion can be used to give them the strength to move on.
I agree that this does happen, but it's essentially a false sense of purpose. In the examples that you're providing, religion is nothing more than a placebo. God isn't really there, so where is this strength coming from? It's coming from within themselves.
Since you like analogies, think back to the Disney movie Dumbo. Dumbo believed that he needed the magic feather to fly, but the reality was he could fly all along. You would probably argue, "well if people want to believe in the magic feather, who are they hurting?". Of course, I would have to point out that this question has already been answered for you several times.
Attributing our purpose to God robs us of our power to find our own meaning.
By the same token, where does our responsibility for others end? Do we tell them to quit smoking because it's bad for their health? They should diet and exercise? That the film and television they watch is not the right mix of what they need for balenced viewing?
This is a red herring, Nancy.
Oh? How so?
Red herring
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- 1 large onion, chopped
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Maya Moore proved too much to handle, as she scored 40 points to lead the Minnesota Lynx to a 84-75 win over the Tulsa Shock, Saturday night at the BOK Center. With her performance against the Shock, Moore broke the record for most 30-plus point games in a season with 11, breaking the record set by Diana Taurasi of Phoenix in 2008.
"I am really happy for her," said Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve. "She has now established a new record in our league for the number of 30-plus point games in a season. I just love how focused she is. She is not running around trying to get 40 points, she is not running around just taking bad shots. She plays within our flow and shares the ball. She is just really special at this point. She is one of the most special athletes that this league has ever seen."
Tulsa got off to a slow start in the game and trailed 16-10 after one quarter. However, the Shock played better in the second quarter, and with more intensity. Minnesota led 33-32 at halftime.
"We put in a good battle tonight against a team that is a candidate to win it all," said Shock head coach Fred Williams. "We played this team pretty tough, we came at them strong, and Maya Moore when she gets hot, she's hot."
Tulsa was led by Odyssey Sims with 25 points. Glory Johnson scored 17 and Skylar Diggins added 15.
Along with Johnson's 17 points, she grabbed 10 rebounds. It was her sixteenth double-double of the season. She is one away from tying the record for most double-doubles in a season by a Shock player, held by Cheryl Ford who set the record in 2006.
"We played really hard but Maya is a tough guard," said Johnson. "She is good at what she does, whether she's driving to the basket or shooting the jumper. She defiantly helped them win that game."
The game got a bit scrappy in the second half and a pair of technical fouls were called against Minnesota's Janel Carville. Her second one came with just 24-seconds remaining.
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"Silly season" in NASCAR is nothing new, but it seems to get more and more complicated each year, with drivers announcing their intentions well before the previous season is over. Here's a look at some of the major moves in NASCAR's Sprint cup Series for the 2014 season.
· Stewart-Haas Racing – Ryan Newman is out, Kevin Harvick (No. 4) and Kurt Busch (No. 41) are in.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: Fireside Gel Fuel Bottles Units: About 23,400 bottles Distributor: Evergreen Enterprises, Richmond, Va. Manufacturer: 2 Burn Inc., of Milwaukee Hazard: The pourable gel fuel can ignite unexpectedly and splatter onto people and objects nearby when it is poured into a firepot that is still burning. This hazard can occur if the consumer does not see the flame or is not aware that the firepot is still ignited. Gel fuel that splatters and ignites can pose fire and burn risks to consumers that can be fatal. Incidents/Injuries: Evergreen Enterprises is not aware of any reports of incidents involving Fireside Gel Fuel. Description: This recall involves pourable gel fuels packaged in 30-ounce plastic bottles and sold with or without citronella oil. The words "Fireside," "Gel Fuel," "Evergreen" and "Flag & Garden" are on the container labels. The bottles were sold by the case in quantities of 12. The gel fuel is poured into a stainless steel or ceramic cup in the center of ceramic or glass firepots or other decorative lighting devices and ignited. The following products are being recalled: Name of product Size Model Number UPC Fireside Gel Fuel 30-ounce (case of 12) 5G001 746851581199 Fireside Gel Fuel-Citronella 30-ounce (case of 12) 5G002 746851581205 Sold at: Independent Retailers from December 2010 through September 2011 for between $9.99 and $11.99 Manufactured in: United States Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the pourable gel fuel and return the gel fuel to the company for a full refund. Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Evergreen Enterprises toll-free at (877) 558-1511 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the company's website at www.myevergreen.com Fireside Gel Fuel Fireside Gel Fuel-Citronella
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The New England Revolution begins this year's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup campaign in mid-June when the team enters the bracket in the fourth round with the rest of the U.S.-based MLS teams.
The 2014 U.S. Open Cup, the 101st edition of the tournament, features a record 80 teams. The Open Cup has crowned a champion for 100 consecutive years dating back to 1914.
This year's Open Cup winner will earn $250,000 and win the Dewar Challenge Trophy, one of the oldest nationally contested trophies in American team sports. The runner-up will take home $60,000, and the team that advances the furthest from each lower division will earn a $15,000 cash prize.
The Revolution will face the winner of the N.Y. Greek American Atlas (USASA) versus Richmond Kickers (USL PRO) third-round match, which will be played on Wednesday, May 28, in Richmond. Should N.Y. Greek American Atlas prevail, the Revolution would host the United States Adult Soccer Association club at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, June 11. Should the Kickers defeat N.Y. Greek American Atlas, the Revolution will travel to Richmond for their match against the USL PRO club on Wednesday, June 18.
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Choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time of a young woman's life--unless your overprotective father isn't quite ready to let you go. Melanie is eagerly looking forward to her first big step towards independence when she plans a "girls only" road trip to check out prospective universities. But, when her overbearing police chief father insists on escorting her instead, she soon finds her dream trip has turned into a hilarious nightmare adventure full of comical misfortune and turmoil.
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Ray L. Roberts, 89 of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away Sunday, June 15, 2014 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, Kansas.
Ray was born June 14, 1925 in Camp, Oklahoma, the son of Norman Leroy and Francis Louisa Randolph Roberts. He attended numerous rural schools one of which was North Victory. He and his family moved to Hooker in 1938 where he attended the 8th Grade and High School graduating with the class of 1944. Due to WWII, his brother Dale walked to receive his diploma with the class of 1945. During the war, he served in the US Navy attached to the G7 Hospital Corp in the South Pacific Admiralty Islands. Ray served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946.
Upon his honorable discharge, he returned to Hooker and then went on to college at Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tennessee where he graduated at the top of his class with honors. After graduation he married his high school sweetheart Frances Jean Mahnken on December 13, 1949 in Old Hickory Tennessee. They then returned to make Hooker their home.
In 1949, Ray and his brother Dale founded Roberts Brothers Funeral Home in Hooker. They also served the area with ambulance service for thirty-five year. Ray sold his interest to his brother in 1980 and then became the Public Relations Manager of Tri-County Electric in which after 10 years he retired.
Ray was a member of the Church of Christ in Hooker and was a deacon; he was past president of the Hooker Lions Club; was a licensed pilot and helped form the local barbershop chapter in the area. He was the baritone of the Blue Notes Quartet and the Hap Hazards Quartet in which they entertained around the local area for years.
Preceding him in death were his parents, two brothers, Dee Roberts and Dale Roberts along with his granddaughter, Haley Ann Roberts: a brother-in-law, Jim Witt and sister-in-law, Helen Roberts.
Survivors include his wife Fran of the home; two sons, Gane Roberts and his wife Kris of Gunter, Texas and Kyle Roberts and his wife Terri of Hooker, Oklahoma; one daughter, Tylee Pointer and her husband Richie of North Richland Hills, Texas; two sisters Wanda Gantt of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Nelda Witt of Flagler, Colorado; six grandchildren, Chase Windsor, Anne Roberts, Andy Roberts, Sarah Roberts, Chad Windsor and Katie Roberts.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at the Church of Christ in Hooker, Oklahoma with Monty Daffern officiating. Interment will be in the Hooker Cemetery directed by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home in Hooker, Oklahoma.
Memorials are suggested to the Hooker Library or the Oklahoma Library for the Blind and may be left at Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, Oklahoma 73945.
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The Ibanez DT100E Daytripper Travel Acoustic Guitar packs big-time tone and volume into a portable package.
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Hey Denver! It's time to vote for a new Mayor! At BikeDenver, we believe that bicycling is part of the identity of the City of Denver and we wanted to find out how our mayoral candidates viewed issues and priorities related to bicycling. We encourage, you, the reader, to research candidate positions on a wide spectrum of issues and we hope that these specific responses will help you in that process.
In early April, 2011, BikeDenver sent this bicycle specific questionaire to all the candidates on Denver's mayoral ballot. At press time, we are reporting all the responses we received:
1. According to the Denver Regional Air Quality Council: Emissions from mobile sources (cars, trucks, etc) make up the largest segment of air pollution in the Denver metropolitan region.
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Joël's passion for coffee goes back many years. He started out roasting coffee in a pot on a tiny cookstove in his tiny apartment. What started on the stovetop continued with a small popcorn machine (which, incidentally, caught fire!) Next step was the BBQ (which also caught fire…), before finally trying his hand with a domestic countertop coffee roaster. This really got the ball rolling – this had potential!
Meanwhile, Louis was on the other side of the globe, in New Zealand, doing his thing. Louis took advantage of the time abroad to start a small IT business. Learning the ropes, you might say. Enough to catch the entrepreneurship bug, and to want more.
Back in Canada, Joël was by then roasting on an Ambex roaster in the garage. Five kg per batch was more coffee than even Joël could drink, so the coffee business was born! Friends and family all raved about Joël's coffee. He really had a knack for roasting delicious beans. Why not move to a larger scale? SURE! Those who knew and loved the coffee at home also went to work, so why not sell to small businesses as well, he thought? Done deal. A booth at Cumberland Farmer's Market and in regional events was also a huge hit and was the big step towards opening the Café.
Louis was back home by then, and since Joël was overbooked, started helping out. Festivals and events, markets and parties – Joël's coffee was becoming well known!
The discussion came up on a very cold winter day, when Joël and Louis had to roast a gazillion pounds of coffee in that very cold, unheated garage: "We need to open a roastery." And what is the best way to showcase our freshly roasted coffee? A café.
Then we both blinked (and worked really hard) and here we are today! Joël's Coffee shop opened in June 2011 and we are still growing.
Our goal is to roast, and prepare, the best coffee in Eastern Ontario. There are a lot of components to a great cup of coffee: quality beans, careful roasting, the knowledge to put it all together, and a sprinkling of ethics to top it off. We buy top quality coffee beans, organic and fairly traded, and directly traded where possible. We use a custom-built San Franciscan SF-25 roaster by Coffee PER, in our opinion the best roaster on the market, and manage consistent roast profiles through the use of a proprietary roast logging software.
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CLEVELAND — LeBron James finally got some help from his teammates, then took matters into his own hands when it mattered most.
His team down one after the third period and having blown a 22-point lead, James scored or assisted on Cleveland's first 29 points of the fourth quarter as the Cavaliers defeated the Orlando Magic 112-102 Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
"It's a big game for us,†James said. "You never want to disappoint the home crowd by not coming out and playing as hard as you can. It's win or go home.â€
James finished with 37 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists for his fourth career playoff triple-double, but more importantly he helped the Cavaliers live another day.
Cleveland, which is attempting to become the ninth team in 183 series to rally from a 3-1 deficit, is within 3-2 heading into Game 6 Saturday night at Orlando's Amway Arena.
"We don't want to see Ernie (Johnson), Charles (Barkley) and Kenny (Smith) put on those fishing hats,†James said of the TNT crew that does that each time a team is eliminated from the playoffs.
"We've got to play the same way (in Game 6) that we played today,†James added. "We've got to play gritty. We've got to get the ball up court and play fast. We've got to try to do everything in our will to take that game away from them and bring it back here (for Game 7 on Monday).â€
James did everything necessary to get the Cavaliers to Game 6, putting up 17 points, four rebounds and four assists in the crucial fourth period. His four assists led to 12 points — a pair of 3-pointers by Daniel Gibson, another by Mo Williams and a three-point play by Anderson Varejao.
As good as James was — he's averaging 41.2 points in the series — he got a lot of help from his teammates.
Williams, who was 24-of-71 from the field overall and 6-of-27 from beyond the arc coming in, finished with 24 points on 7-of-14 shooting, including 6-of-9 on 3-pointers.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 16 points, Delonte West had 13 and Gibson finished with 11 off the bench, including 3-of-4 shooting from beyond the arc.
"That's what we got all year from our complementary players,†James said.
The leader, meanwhile, continued to lead. James drew Dwight Howard's fifth personal midway through the fourth quarter on what turned into a three-point play, then drove and drew Howard's sixth foul on another three-point play with 2:22 to go.
"If he gets in the paint, it's automatically a foul,†Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said after watching James go 15-of-19 at the line.
The Cavaliers were also much better defensively, getting to Orlando's shooters a lot quicker, which resulted in the Magic going 8-of-25 on 3-pointers. Orlando was shooting 42.9 percent from long range coming in (42-of-98).
Hedo Turkoglu led the Magic with 29 points, while Howard had 24 points and 10 rebounds. Rashard Lewis finished with 15 points and eight boards and Mickael Pietrus had 13 points off the bench.
Up 22 late in the first period and seemingly headed for a blowout win, the Cavaliers suddenly crumbled like stale bread.
Orlando went on an amazing 52-22 run — more remarkable still, it did so in just 16:07 — to take a 64-56 lead with 9:40 to go in the third period. The Magic outscored Cleveland 11-1 to end the first half and 9-0 to start the second, and it got those 20 points in 4:08.
Just when it looked like the Cavaliers were totally done, they came right back with a 12-3 run of their own. Both teams struggled to score the rest of the third period, which ended with Orlando in front 79-78.
With a star-laden crowd in attendance — Jay-Z, CC Sabathia, Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Ben Roethlisberger, Shaun Rogers and Brady Quinn were among those on hand — the Cavaliers stormed out of the gate, just like they did in Games 1 and 2 at The Q, when they led by 16 and 23 points, respectively, in the first half.
Cleveland made 10 of its first 11 shots — the one miss was a Varejao drive that James tipped in — in jumping to a 26-8 lead with 6:20 still to play in the first period. Williams made four straight shots in the first 4:38 of the game, including three 3-pointers, and had 17 points at halftime.
The Cavaliers also changed their defensive assignments, taking James off point guard Rafer Alston and putting him on Courtney Lee, with Williams playing his counterpart at the point.
Everything was going perfectly for the Cavaliers, whose lead eventually grew to 34-12 on a Wally Szczerbiak 21-footer from the corner with 1:59 left in the first quarter.
Everything fell apart just as quickly, and by the time the half ended, Orlando was down just one.
After Szczerbiak's shot, the Magic went on a 14-1 run to quickly pull within nine, then cut the deficit to six on a Turkoglu three with 5:02 left in the half. The Cavaliers pushed their lead back to 11 and were still up 10 with 2:08 left in the half, but Orlando closed on an 11-1 run that was capped by a Lewis 3-pointer with 0.7 on the clock, leaving Cleveland up 56-55 at intermission.
Orlando, which was 6-of-18 from the field and 4-of-9 from the line in the first period, outscored the Cavaliers 37-21 in the second quarter, when the Magic went 14-of-25 from the field.
Orlando actually would have led at intermission, but it went just 11-of-22 at the line and had Pietrus on the floor for only seven minutes due to foul trouble.
The Cavaliers, who moved the ball crisply in the first quarter and made open shots, were 14-of-21 from the field in that period. However, they started holding the ball and standing around in the second, when they went 6-of-16 from the floor and committed five turnovers.


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Clockwork Angels: A review
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Few novels in recent months have crossed my desk for review and been snatched up with as much enthusiasm as Clockwork Angels, a collaboration between legendary Canadian rock band Rush and prolific SF author Kevin J. Anderson. While novelisation's of rock albums are few and far between – giving this project a certain fascination right off the bat – my enthusiasm was guaranteed for the reason that Anderson's novel and the exquisite illustrations by graphic artist Hugh Syme take the lyrics and broad narrative of Rush's latest album as their inspiration, forging a beautifully illustrated work of fiction that draws on many of the philosophical, humanitarian and libertarian ideas that lyricist Neil Peart has been working with and evolving through the band's music over some four decades.
Author Ray Bradbury, best know for his iconic science fiction and fantasy novels The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes and especially Fahrenheit 451, has died at the age of 91 after a lengthy illness. Throughout his long writing career, Bradbury produced hundreds of short stories, nearly fifty books, numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays and screenplays.
Dan Simmons' latest novel, Flashback (July 2011), is "[a] provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible," proving "why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers." So says the publicist anyway. Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers, but sadly Flashback doesn't prove that. And yes, Flashback is a provocative novel, but it doesn't provoke because the dystopian future Simmons describes is "scarily possible", but because it expresses a political bias that renders much of this novel little more than propaganda for the Right side of politics.
The Orion Publishing Group has announced that the third edition of the essential science fiction reference work, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, will be released online in 2012 and will be completely free. This is a gigantic work (overwhelming in a good way) and will undoubtedly be a fascinating reference point to explore online. If you want to know more about science fiction, there's enough information in the original volumes to keep you intrigued for a millennia. This is great news for science fiction scholars and fans alike.
While we usually restrict ourselves to articles on science fiction and fantasy films, books and TV, I can't pass up this opportunity to reveal details of Apple's "latest creation" just announced by Steve Jobs. I woke up amazingly early in Australia to watch Steve Job's presentation and give you the news first.
Ursula K. Le Guin, a science fiction and fantasy writer most famous for her Earthsea trilogy, The left hand of darkness and The dispossessed, is taking on Google's right to scan and sell millions of books online after the search engine giant reached an agreement with the US Authors Guild. According to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, Ursula Le Guin has submitted a petition to a US judge signed by 365 other writers opposing the legal settlement. The petition asks the judge to exempt the US from a revised legal settlement reached between Google and US authors and publishers.
If you're a fan of the science fiction writer John Wyndham, most famous for his novel The Day of the Triffids, and believe that there's nothing more to enjoy, you may well be mistaken (or perhaps not?). More than 41 years after his death, Penguin has published a new John Wyndham novel called Plan for Chaos. According to the Irish Times, Liverpool University Press, holders of the Wyndham archive, published Plan to Chaos last year as a specialist book with a high price tag but has now released it to mainstream booksellers. Wyndham wrote Plan for Chaos in 1951, just before he wrote his walking plant masterpiece, The Day of the Triffids.
Death has been kind to the everlasting memory of Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), one of the most influential and perhaps also one of the most eccentric authors of the twentieth century. Since his untimely death at the age of 53 there's been nothing short of an explosion of interest in the man and his work and as each year passes, his remarkable influence on other writers, in cinema and mainstream culture becomes more apparent. Such posthumous success and wide-reaching influence is unprecedented for any previous writer of science fiction and it's further evidence that Death has a genius for irony: only in the afterlife has Phil Dick enjoyed the wide success he deserved and craved throughout his life!
First published in 1988, the biography Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been revised and refreshed to cover the feature film (unfortunately not as successful as fans hoped), Adams' untimely death in 2001, and the publication of the sixth novel by Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing. It also covers the 30th anniversary of the novel that kick-started Adams' rise to stardom, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hitchhiker's was 30 years old in October 2009.
Science fiction authors have long been outcasts from the literary world, in some cases critics using the worst examples of the genre as ammunition against it. Unfortunately though, at times even science fiction authors themselves can turn on their own kind: "Science fiction is rockets, chemicals and talking squids in outer space," mocked Margaret Atwood (The Guardian, 28 January 2009), one of her many attempts to convince people that she is not a science fiction author, even though one of her most famous novels, A Handmaid's Tale, is exactly that.
There's a better than average chance that you're asking yourself two questions right now: who the hell is Chris Beckett and what is the Edge Hill Short Story Prize? Until we received the press release announcing Chris' win, I must confess I'd not heard of the author or the competition. So now you're probably asking a third question: why announce this win at all?
The 68th World Science Fiction Convention (Aussiecon 4) will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 2 to 6 September 2010. The acclaimed US science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, most famous for his Mars novels, will be the Guest of Honour. Kim Stanley Robinson won a Nebula Award for Red Mars in 1993 and Hugo Awards for Green Mars in 1994 and Blue Mars in 1997.
If there's a god watching over the universe in which James Murdoch wrote Gray Apocalypse, his debut novel of men in black and alien conspiracy, I suspect that god looks a lot like author Matthew Reilly (Ice Station, Area 7, Temple). I have to say it's only a suspicion as I've only ever managed to get through a couple of paragraphs of Reilly's popular potboilers. Reilly is an amiable author with no illusions about the literary merit of his fiction and a confidence born of hard won success to care less about such trivial considerations as literary merit. But in the end it's a matter of taste and conspiracy theories, alien or otherwise, simply ain't mine.
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More successfully than any other novel I've read recently, Bernard Beckett's Genesis epitomises the investigative ideal of science fiction. By any standards it's a short novel and at 150 pages is perhaps more truly a novella, but in a genre given to overinflated, ponderous tomes screaming out for an editor wielding a samurai sword, there's a refreshing efficiency to Beckett's writing. Nothing is superfluous, nothing wasted.
On balance it's difficult not to recommend Nick Harkaway's debut novel, The Gone-Away World, as its one significant flaw is outweighed by its many virtues. Here is a novel bursting with originality and deserving of praise for its ambitious scope. Harkaway writes with an obvious delight in the English language and the courage and mastery to bend the written word to his will. Unafraid to take risks, the risks pay off more often than not.
Earlier this year we chatted with Philip K. Dick's fifth wife, Tessa, about the forthcoming biopic of her husband. Starring Paul Giamatti in the role of Phil Dick and with a screenplay by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), The Owl in Daylight promises to interweave an account of Dick's life with elements of his fiction. By all accounts the movie will focus on events in the 1970s, in particular Dick's infamous visionary experiences of March 1974 when he claimed to have been contacted by an extraterrestrial force called VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) via a beam of pink light.
Just when you thought it was safe to visit your local bookstore, a sixth book from Douglas Adam's The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is being released. Titled "And another thing…" the new book will be published by Penguin in October 2009.
I've just finished reading William Gibson's latest novel Spook Country, a fragmented, leisurely paced, ultimately unsatisfying intelligence thriller about a group of disparate characters searching for a mysterious cargo container from Iraq. While it does feature present day virtual reality technology and GPS, there's not an ounce of real science fiction in it - no matter what William Gibson would have you believe.
Robert Charles Wilson's Darwinia is as near perfect as fiction comes. It's literary, intelligent and entertaining in equal measure. Rarely does a writer get it this right. Wilson's characters are complex and believable, the prose is frequently beautiful, and he has an eye for original imagery wrapped up in an exquisitely apt turn of phrase: consider how the urbane but amoral Timothy Crane slides into the ranks of Washington's elite "like a gilded suppository".
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There are so many things we love about you, PEOPLE StyleWatch readers. You're hilarious on Facebook, have great style and you always manage to surprise us.
For instance, when we checked today's Top 10 Most Loved Looks, we were stunned to see Jessica Biel occupying the number-one spot. In a week with stars like Emily Blunt, Gabrielle Union and Eva Longoria turning it out in personal-best gowns, your favorite look is a perfectly adorable — yet hardly groundbreaking — ensemble of an Oscar de la Renta sweater and J Brand jeans.
Don't get us wrong: Biel looks beautiful. But she also looks like we do when we need to change our outfit and get somewhere in 20 minutes (though perhaps with better hair).
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Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd (NYSE:STP) gained 17.49% or $0.39 and showed an upward moving trend.
The third quarter financial results published by the company reported the total net revenues of $809.8 million which is 2.5% lower than in the second quarter of $830.7 million and 8.0% higher as compared to the same period of the past year. In the outlook for the fourth quarter STP expects a decline of 20% in shipments and gross margin between 9% and 11%.
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Around the world, researchers are working in a variety of disciplines. But if no one hears about the work, it's a lost opportunity to promote the research – and your institution.
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Here are some ideas, whether you're an editor assigning a research story to a writer or a PR professional arranging media interviews:
1) Provide an overview. No one wants to fly blind, so take time to walk a researcher through the storytelling process. (This is especially important if he or she has never been down this road before.) Describe the main message and goals of the story. Where will the article appear? How long is the story? Who is the target audience? Is a photo shoot required? Will they (or won't they) be given an opportunity to review the story before it is published? Knowing this information in advance can help anyone – not just researchers – to feel more comfortable during an interview. And a better interview leads to a better research story. And a better research story leads to, well, lots of other good things!
2) Pick the top three messages. I learned this tactic years ago when I worked in media relations. And it has served me well ever since. The bottom line: encourage researchers to focus on three key points that they want to get across during an interview. Of course, the conversation may turn to other topics, but it can be helpful for a researcher to have a few points in the proverbial back pocket.
3) Lead with the impact. One of the key points should cover the impact of the research. In fact, I wrote about this concept in a previous post. It's important that researchers explain the problem that they are trying to address or solve. This information provides much-needed context. For example, what's so important about this research? Why does it matter?
4) Think "simplifying" not "dumbing down." I don't believe you have to water down research to communicate with a lay audience. It is vital, however, for researchers to know the needs of audiences. For instance, in order to grasp the research, do they need to know every jargon-filled detail or are broad strokes sufficient? It's a little like trying to explain a research project to Uncle Joe during the holidays: keep it simple. Explain to researchers that the goal is to cultivate understanding, not to help Uncle Joe get a PhD in, say, aerospace engineering.
5) Be prepared for (lots of) questions. I recently met with a science writer from a major news agency, and given the complexity of her stories, I expected her to have a solid background in science. Not so, she said. "I just ask a lot of questions." I can relate to that. During an interview with a researcher, I ask questions until the cows come home. Or at least until I understand the research and feel confident in my ability to explain it to others. Simply put, let researchers know that answering many (many!) questions is part of the journey of getting the story right, and they need to pack patience for the trip.
6) Go public. Encourage researchers to connect with lay audiences on their own. e.g., by participating in public lectures and panel discussions, by joining Twitter and cultivating a following, and by writing a research blog. These activities enable researchers to practise communicating with lay audiences – and see first-hand what piques their interest.
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Lolo Jones is a big name -- though in track and field -- so considering that the U.S. isn't as prominent in the Winter Olympics as in the Summer Games, who can fault the USOC for trying -- if that is what they did -- to increase the exposure of their bobsled team by naming her to the team? Quite a few, apparently, and that prompted the USOC to defend its decision on Thursday night, CBS Sports reported.
Bobsled and Skeleton Federation CEO Darrin Steele defended the decision.
We followed the procedure and I'll stand by that decision all day long. It was a really close call. The numbers were close. There's no question about it. That always makes it more difficult. The trending was going toward Lolo and she's a great athlete and at the end of the day that's who we think is a better brakeman for the Games.
I haven't heard anyone making the argument about Lolo not being a better athlete right now, a better brakeman for the team. I don't think I've come across that one time. I've heard a lot about history and all that's nice. But who's going to provide the best results for the U.S. team in Sochi? That's the bottom line. And I'll have that debate with anyone who wants to have it.
Steele said that he hasn't heard anyone argue about Jones, but he didn't speak to Katie Eberling, who Jones beat out for a spot on the team. She believes there was an agenda to get the big name on the team.
I feel this year there was a certain agenda. It's no fault of my teammates. There's been a lot of inconsistencies and that makes you wonder what's going on. It's not right.
Eberling will be in Sochi as an alternate.
Veteran brakeman Curt Tomasevicz was also against the Jones pick.
It's hard for me to name one or two athletes that would completely agree with that decision.
He added,
We're returning gold medalists and not getting much PR because all the bobsled attention is on Lolo. It brings a lot of attention to the sport which can be a good thing, but I'm not just sure who is benefiting from that attention.
Sportswriter Selena Roberts was very clear in her opinion: The decision was based on a need to replaced Lindsey Vonn, who is no longer going to the Games:
Now it's clear: This is the two-straw love affair that NBC needed after losing Lindsey Vonn. Lolo is the replacement star, the sex appeal sub for the injured ski queen, a hot storyline to ride down bobsled's serpentine track. NBC's convenience is another's conspiracy.
NBC denied the accusation.
This isn't the first controversy for Jones in her bobsledding career. In June of last year she was criticized when she posted a Vine video mocking the stipend she received from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.
Jones may see this as her last chance at a gold medal. She failed twice to win at the Summer Games, including once when she was the favorite to win.


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Facebook Messenger alarmism is distracting from real Internet privacy issues
1 Comment · Posted by Lance Cottrell in Facebook, Mobile, Online Privacy, Stupidity
The Internet is on fire with outrage right now about the security warnings in the Facebook Messenger app. The furor is based on the viral spread of a post on the Huffington Post back in December of last year. The issue has come to the fore because Facebook is taking the messaging capability out of the main Facebook app, so users will have to install the Messenger app if they want to continue to use the capability.
The particular problem is with the warnings presented to users when they install the app on Android. Many articles are describing this as the "terms of service" but the warning are the standard text displayed by Android based on the specific permissions the app is requesting.
Here are the warnings as listed in that original the Huffington Post article:
- Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity
- Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation.
- Allows the app to send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation.
- Allows the app to record audio with microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.
- Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
- Allows the app to read you phone's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge.
- Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals.
- Allows the app to read personal profile information stored on your device, such as your name and contact information. This means the app can identify you and may send your profile information to others.
- Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.
- Allows the app to get a list of accounts known by the phone. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.
This strikes me as more an inditement of the over broad requests for permissions by apps in Android than any particular evil intent on Facebook's part. Obviously many of these things would be very bad indeed, if Facebook actually did them. After significant searching I have not seen any suggestion at all that Facebook is or is likely to do any of these things without your knowledge.
Many articles are ranting about the possibility that Facebook might turn on your camera or microphone without warning and capture embarrassing sounds or images. Doing so would be disastrous for Facebook, so it seems very unlikely.
After reviewing the actual Facebook privacy policies and terms of service in the Messenger app, I don't see any sign that these actions would be permitted but of course Facebook does have the right to change the policies, basically at will.
Don't take from this that I am a Facebook apologist. Anyone looking back through this blog will see many cases where I have criticized them and their actions (here, here, here, here for example). There are major problems with the amount of data Facebook collects, how they collect it from almost everywhere on the Internet (not just their website or apps), and their privacy policies. I have turned off location tracking for the Messenger app on my iPhone because I don't want Facebook tracking that.
However….. Facebook is not going to start turning on your camera at night to take naked pictures of you! There is a lot about privacy on the Internet to worry about, lets stay focused on the real stuff rather than these fantasies.
The Privacy Blog Podcast – Ep. 21:
No comments · Posted by Lance Cottrell in Anonymity, apple, Canada, Censorship, iOS, Iran, Iraq, legal, Mobile, Podcast, Uncategorized
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In episode 21 of our podcast for July, I talk about:
- A decision giving Canadians more rights to Anonymity
- Iraq's recent blocking of social media and more
- Iran's outright criminalization of social media
- A court decision requiring warrants to access cell tower location data
- Another court stating that irrelevant seized data needs to be deleted after searches
- A massive failure of data anonymization in New York City
- A court requiring a defendant to decrypt his files so they can be searched
- The Supreme Court ruling protecting cellphones from warrantless search.
- Phone tracking streetlights in Chicago
- And a small change for iPhones bringing big privacy benefits
Supreme Court requires warrent for cell phone searches
No comments · Posted by Lance Cottrell in cellular, legal
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant before searching suspect's cellphone. Before this, cellphones were treated just like anything else a suspect might carry, including wallet, keys, address book, or various other "pocket litter".
Police are generally allowed to search suspects for weapons and to prevent the distraction of evidence. Because of the massive amount of storage on a modern smartphone, and its direct connection into so many other stores of data and communications, the court felt that the contents of these devices was qualitatively different and deserving of greater protection.
It is important to remember that the police can still take the phone, and that they can then get a warrant to search it if there is probable cause. They are simply prevented from searching it without the warrant, possibly in the hope (but not expectation) of finding evidence.
This decision may lay the groundwork for according similar protections to cloud stored data, which once would have been kept in the home in hard copy. Law enforcement officials claim that technology is making life easier for criminals and harder for law enforcement. I find that hard to believe and have not seen any really good studies of the matter. If you have, please let me know!
It strikes me that the routine preservation of emails and other communications, along with the massive use of server logged communications from text messages to social media, actually makes things much easier for law enforcement on the whole.
The fact that the decision was unanimous suggests that we may be entering a period of re-evaluating outdated precedents from the pre-internet era.
Some key quotes from the decision:
- Regarding treating phones like other pocket litter – "That is like saying a ride on horseback is materially indistinguishable from a flight to the moon,"
- On the impact on law enforcement – "Privacy comes at a cost."
- "Cell phones differ in both a quantitative and a qualita- tive sense from other objects that might be kept on an arrestee's person. The term "cell phone" is itself mislead- ing shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicom- puters that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone. They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, librar- ies, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers."
- "The scope of the privacy interests at stake is further com- plicated by the fact that the data viewed on many modern cell phones may in fact be stored on a remote server. Thus, a search may extend well beyond papers and effects in the physical proximity of an ar- restee, a concern that the United States recognizes but cannot defini- tively foreclose."
- "Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cellphone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple—get a warrant,"
Some Excellent Articles for further reading:
With cellphone search ruling, Supreme Court draws a stark line between digital and physical searches – The Washington Post
Police Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone, Supreme Court Says | Re/code
Supreme Court: Police Need Warrants to Search Cellphone Data – WSJ
Note: In the picture above, the policeman is actually just using his own cellphone.
Lance Cottrell is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Anonymizer. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
The Privacy Blog Podcast – Ep. 16: Leaking mobile apps, surveillance, TorMail, UK censorship, and SHA-1
No comments · Posted by Lance Cottrell in Censorship, Mobile, Podcast, Surveillance
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In episode 16 of the Privacy Blog Podcast for January, Twenty Fourteen I talk about:
Biological Advanced Persistent Threats
The Apps on your mobile devices that may be enabling surveillance
Why you may soon know more about how much information your service providers are revealing to the government
The total compromise of the TorMail anonymous email service
How the British government is using pornography as a trojan horse for Internet Censorship.
And finally why continued use of a deprecated cryptographic signature algorithm could undermine the security of the Web
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Advice from the USG on securing yourself from surveillance
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Russia's Surveillance State | World Policy Institute
In March of 2013 the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the US State Department issued a travel advisory for Americans planning to attend the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
As I blogged before, this is expected to be one of the most aggressively surveilled events ever.
The advice for cyber protection in the advisory is interesting:
Consider traveling with "clean" electronic devices—if you do not need the device, do not take it. Otherwise, essential devices should have all personal identifying information and sensitive files removed or "sanitized." Devices with wireless connection capabilities should have the Wi-Fi turned off at all times. Do not check business or personal electronic devices with your luggage at the airport. … Do not connect to local ISPs at cafes, coffee shops, hotels, airports, or other local venues. … Change all your passwords before and after your trip. … Be sure to remove the battery from your Smartphone when not in use. Technology is commercially available that can geo-track your location and activate the microphone on your phone. Assume any electronic device you take can be exploited. … If you must utilize a phone during travel consider using a "burn phone" that uses a SIM card purchased locally with cash. Sanitize sensitive conversations as necessary.
Obviously this is not just good advice for attending the Olympics, but would also apply to China, or any other situation where it is important to protect your electronic information.
The ability to conduct sophisticated surveillance and cyber attack is widespread. If you are engaged in business that is a likely target of economic espionage, then you should be following these kinds of practices any time you travel anywhere, and perhaps even at home.
Lance Cottrell is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Anonymizer. Follow me on Facebook and Google+.
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