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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The OED has push bicycle and push cycle as well as push bike, which they label as 'informal.' Myself, I've only heard push bike, but push bicycle is around on the web, as well as push tricycle and push unicycle. The OED does not have push iron, but the web holds a small number of examples, some of them in lists of Wigan dialect words. Wigan, it should be noted, is nowhere near Kent.
Of course, BrE has another push-vehicle, the push-chair, known in AmE as a stroller. Related is the pram, short for perambulator, known in AmE as a baby carriage.
29 comments:
- barnoid said...
Another strange term I've noticed used mainly by rail companies is "cycles". As in "Cycles are not allowed on this or any other train". I don't know why they don't just say bicycles, unless they are trying to include tricycles and unicycles (quadcycles? quincycles??) as well.
- 21 September, 2006 01:18
- lynneguist said...
Well, I suppose they do want to include unicycles and tricycles too, although it's much less likely that commuters would bring them on the train.
Both bike and cycle are well-known and -used clippings of bicycle in AmE, and I remember when I was a child wondering why we had the both of them. Bike can be used to mean bicycle or motorbike, but to me, cycle isn't a clipping of motorcycle, just bicycle, though I note that cycletrader.com exists for the sale of motorcycles and related motori{s/z}ed transport, not bicycles.
- 21 September, 2006 08:57
Surely nobody has prams or push-chairs any more? Any self-respecting mother has a baby buggy, which to my untrained eye looks like simply a push-chair with bigger wheels (and, sometimes, one fewer of them) and the inability to fold it up when you get on the bus.
- 21 September, 2006 10:02
I don't think they do want to include unicycles and tricycles too, it sounds like they want to exclude them. (Sorry, couldn't resist it.)
Presumably, it is not UK rail companies who say "Cycles are not allowed...etc", as I think they have always made a virtue of the fact that cycles are allowed, free of charge: see, for example, GNER's advice on cycles.
- 21 September, 2006 10:30
I agree that bike can mean bicycle or motorbike, but a cycle is just a bicycle.
However, if the bike is ridden by a biker it is a motorbike; if the same person also rides a non-motori{s/z}ed bike, s/he is then a cyclist.
- 21 September, 2006 10:48
- lynneguist said...
It is UK rail (AmE: railway) companies that say cycles are not allowed. For instance, Southern trains allow only folding cycles at peak times. And yes, they say cycles. This followed the replacement of the old trains with the swish new ones--the old ones had a carriage (AmE: car) for cycles, etc. and the new ones have space for about two bicycles next to the disabled toilet (AmE: restroom).
Of course, I meant that the rail(way) companies include unicycles and tricycles in the meaning of cycle, rather than including them on their trains, but you knew that Strawman...
- 21 September, 2006 11:06
- lynneguist said...
Back to Simon's comments. I've noticed that the Swedes (perhaps other continentals too?) are really into prams--they have really nice ones where the top comes off to be a travel cot (AmE: crib). Not so in the UK, indeed.
Baby buggy has come in for things like the Bugaboo, but even those who sell them still call them pushchairs.
- 21 September, 2006 11:12
I have to point out that Europeans have Railways, but Americans have Railroads. All in the spirit of things, you understand!
- 21 September, 2006 12:24
- lynneguist said...
I am losing it...(my American intuition, that is).
I knew rail company sounded off, so was looking for what it should be. I think my block is related to the fact that in the US there's a state monopoly on passenger rail (at least so far as those of us from non-commuter train areas are concerned) and so one would just say Amtrak. Railroad company doesn't sound right at all. Perhaps I should just stick with train.
I always suspect that when someone logs on as 'anonymous' to correct me, it must be someone I know. A colleague? I'm tempted to disallow anonymous comments--would that make me right more often? :)
- 21 September, 2006 12:53
'Buggy' isn't a new word, it was there way before those massive three-wheeler things; it's been around at least since I was pushed around in one in the early 80s (and probably some way before, I imagine).
- 21 September, 2006 19:56
- lynneguist said...
The OED has baby buggy as American, but their examples are pretty old (1890-1934).
- 21 September, 2006 23:29
- Karen said...
Ahem, that collapsible 4 wheeled vehicle one pushes ones' child around in is known as a "stroller" in AmE.
In my grandmother's day it was a large wobbly contraption that was called a "baby carriage".
Sorry but I've never heard a human refer to a bicycle as a cycle.
I have never heard an American refer to a motorcycle as a motorbike. On the other hand, biker only refers to riders of motorcycles and only those who ride bicycles are referred to as cyclists. That's clear, right?
- 22 September, 2006 16:11
- lynneguist said...
Karen, you seem to be agreeing with me--so I'm not sure about the 'ahem'. (or were you disagreeing with the OED? They have proof!)Stroller=push-chair and pram=baby carriage. And no, people don't use them much anymore in the US/UK, as Simon and I discuss above. Some people do use pram more generally to include push-chairs. I was certainly pushed around in a baby carriage in the 1960s, but there are other terms, like buggy that may have been more common in other parts of the country.
Motorbike is in the AHD as referring to any light motorcycle, and that's how I've heard it used in the US, and used it myself. Better Half claims that it's used more generally in the UK, but I'm not sure I'd trust him on that (since he's not too interested in motori{s/z}ed vehicles of any sort). But I put it in bold in the entry even though it's not technically a dialectal word because I do think you hear it more here than in the US.
I think biker can sometimes refer to bicyclists, though it usually refers to motorcyclists (in leather!). For instance, there are lots of instances on the web of mountain biker.
- 22 September, 2006 18:35
- lynneguist said...
...but then again there are reasons to feel that mountain biker does not contain biker. I.e. it contains mountain bike plus -er, rather than mountain + bike-r.
- 22 September, 2006 18:37
- KathyF said...
I think a lot of motorcycles are referred to as "Harleys".
- 23 September, 2006 16:28
- Hoss said...
Ms. Guist, great blog.
Out West (US), motorbike would be heard occasionally associated with off-road riding and even less commonly with street riding. In regards to off-road riding, dirt bike would be a better choice.
As far as strollers/buggies, it always kills me when my Mississippian wife calls the shopping/grocery cart at the store a 'buggy.'
- 24 September, 2006 03:32
- lynneguist said...
While/Whilst in the UK it would be a shopping trolley.
Welcome to the conversation, Hoss.
- 24 September, 2006 17:11
- KathyF said...
On the day I saw this I had my first ever sighting of the word pushbike, on the very last page of "Attention All Shipping, A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast" which you really must read.
- 25 September, 2006 17:34
- dearieme said...
"pushbike" seems to me to belong to my father's generation. Dad was born in 1910.
- 28 September, 2006 19:58
Now for the somewhat peripheral Australian perspective. A 'bike' is anything with 2 wheels, motorised or not. A 'cycle' I have never heard in reference to a vehicle, but certainly 'to cycle' is to operate specifically a bicycle. A 'motorbike' is (legally) any motorised 2-wheeler (a crash taught me this), but folk classification sees it as any two-wheeled motorised vehicle in which some part of the motorbike separates the legs. If no such separation occurs, you have a 'motor-scooter'. A 'Harley' is only ever a Harley, to suggest otherwise is akin to blasphemy. A 'low-rider', or sometimes 'cruiser' is a class of motorbike of which a Harley is a member. A 'Chopper' may be any low-rider that has been customised (raised handlebars, etc.).
- 29 September, 2006 05:31
I recall the term "pedal cycle" from some Australian licensing authority - local police? - that referred only to "treadlies" 8-)
- 30 September, 2006 05:01
By the way, I'm here via Lanuage Hat who mentioned you the other day. I have spent the last several hours in your archives voraciously devouring the linguistic repartee. You are now on my daily 'check list' with LH, Frizzylogic and Wikipedia. Thank you.
For those interested entho[logic][graphic]ly; born Scotland (Dundee, or nearby) 1947, arrived Aust. 1952. Dialect? Aust. I guess, but I lengthen my 'a' just for effect 8-)
- 30 September, 2006 05:09
- lynneguist said...
Welcome, Murray! Thanks for the kind words...
- 30 September, 2006 09:10
- Doug Sundseth said...
"The OED has baby buggy as American, but their examples are pretty old (1890-1934)."
I've certainly heard them called that in the US, though not so much recently. I'll note that "rubber baby-buggy bumpers" has about 23.7 kGhits (quoted search), so it's not completely deprecated.
- 02 October, 2006 22:10
Is it just me or does "Push Bikes Only" invite the response "what's wrong with riding them?"
- 03 January, 2007 15:06
That's exactly what I thought, electric dragon. I would have thought that meant you should not be riding your bike, you should get off it and walk alongside it. As in a pedestrian area, perhaps.
- 13 March, 2007 21:06
When I saw a posting from an American on an Internet mailing list, referring to an exhibition at which "strollers were not permitted", my first thought was that visitors were obliged to walk through it quickly!
Kate (UK)
- 29 May, 2009 15:47
- Albert Herring said...
A few years late here, but as you've just linked back to it: from a UK club cyclist born and bred's perspective, "pushbike" was always taken as pejorative. I've never heard or seen "pushiron", but "iron" to refer to a bike was fairly common in the 60s and 70s (as far back as I go) but less so now: "I rode the club 10 [-mile time trial] on my track iron this week".
A related American/British distinction is that traditionally "road bike" in the UK specifically meant a fully fledged road racing machine, by contrast with a track bike (proto-fixie) or tourer, while in the USA it seems mainly to be contrastive with mountain bike, and thus includes tourers and anything with narrow|skinny ty|ires.
British and American cycling jargon developed very separately until the last 30 years, with many differences in names of parts and so on; much of this has been eroded since, in particular, the introduction of mountain bikes and the dominance of Japanese manufacturers who supply parts with American English documentation. Usages like "seatpost", "cleats", "clinchers" are all still a bit alien to me (but have steadily replaced seat pins/pillars, shoeplates and HPs/high pressures, despite my misgivings).
The UK traffic laws (and other regulations) refer to "pedal cycles" passim, specifically not bicycles mainly because there is a small but dedicated tradition of trike riders hereabouts. Unicycles don't really count, though, and the continental four-wheel multi-rider seaside pedal car that I know as "a cuistax" (which is probably a Belgicism in French) aren't often seen here either.
One other American (pretty obsolete, I assume) usage that comes across as odd is the use of "cyclist" to mean "motorcyclist" - the working title for The Wild One was "The Cyclists' Raid".
- 16 October, 2010 01:24
- Steve Dunham said...
The USA certainly has railways. Here in Virginia, one of the two big freight rail companies is the Norfolk Southern Railway (one of the biggest in the country). The timetables of the various U.S. railroads (the more common term) used to be compiled in the Official Railway Guide. I belong to the Virginia Association of Railway Patrons (a nonprofit volunteer advocacy group), and our local commuter trains are called Virginia Railway Express, a name (with a logo) borrowed from the erstwhile Railway Express Agency, a company that shipped packages by rail and delivered them locally by truck. And "biker" can mean one who bicycles or one who motorcycles, though the former is a more recent (say, the last 20 years) usage.
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0. phoneArena 24 Sep 2012, 21:39 posted on
A report says that Nokia is going to be taking HTC to court claiming that the latter's two Windows Phone 8 handsets that have been introduced, copy the look and design of the Finnish based firm's own pair of recently introduced Windows Phone 8 handsets...
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1. Waffleny (Posts: 11; Member since: 28 Feb 2012)
I think this is quite silly. Of course all windows phones are going to look very similar. We shouldn't be fighting our allies over it though. I hope nothing comes of this because I look forward to seeing both handsets become successful
13. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Well... That escalated quickly!
That said, there were so many comments about the HTC 8X being Lumia-esque and the 8S being Sony-esque, I'm not surprised. All are appealing designs, and the 8X in blue, especially in the press shots showing that curved pillow-like edge (one of the most common descriptions of the N9 and Lumia 800 at launch) I find very appealing, but after my experiences with the T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Desire Z) and HTC Sensation, I wouldn't again put my own money towards one, when that money could instead ho to the superior Nokia. Imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, but I don't see the 8X very Lumia-esque, less so than the apple ipod little. Hence, I'm not sure it's worthwhile for Nokia to pursue it, IF indeed the rumors are true, especially as the zWP8 OEMs should be reasonably supportive of others who are promoting the platform.
15. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
its really silly! but nokia wanted to differenciate itself by its colorful lumias! and we all know that HTC's phones are all black and white!
so i guess nokia just want to protect its design! and besides they are granted by these dress code of its lumia!
93. aoikemono27 (Posts: 177; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
Wow that's even worse than Apple! Colors cannot be patented. That is silliness to the highest degree! And HTC has used other colors before, like red and plum.
22. OptimusOne (Posts: 694; Member since: 22 May 2012)
really? nokia? i thought you would never pull the apple card
24. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
well playing safe is good in business! and besides, they somehow have a reason to sue them coz these new HTC really looks like a lumia!
but if i were HTC, i should go to the design of oneX! its really good looking! and dont ressemble to a lumia! but same polycarebonate body!
57. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
not to mention, HTC make Windows Mobile/Phones before nokia! so by the looks of it HTC is bored by its own design and copy nokia's joyful colors and design!
94. aoikemono27 (Posts: 177; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
Copy colors? REALLY???
And the 8X actually has a california blue. The Lumia 920 doesn't have any blue variant at all.
64. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3757; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
I'm still bugged Nokia had to do this! I know it's business and stuff but...this is sad!!
69. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
you cant blame nokia. they put everything on the line for WP. they need every chance to be back on top...im also bugged.but its just bad timing because they are in a critical state now.
95. aoikemono27 (Posts: 177; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
So they are gonna sue their way back on top? That's the tactic of a small-time troll, or if they feel threatened. If they were so confident in what they created, why are they suing? HTC has never been a big seller of Windows Phones and the design of the 8X is clearly based off of the One X. You cannot patent colors, or round square fronts with generic Windows buttons that every manufacturer must adhere to.
102. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
did they start suing already? don't assume yet that they will sue.
82. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
of course they would. now they say "YOU CAN'T COPY OUR COLORS". Color phones aren't PATENTED
114. buggerrer (Posts: 306; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
Nokia is not the company you used to know, 2011 was the year the real Nokia faded.
35. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
War of the ankle-biters. Nokia and HTC should be focused on driving sales. Otherwise they run the risk of dominating a universe of nothing. Apple and Sammy didn't start their fight until the market value of the segment they play in was north of $10 billion/year. The WP7/8 universe is worth what, $10 million/year at present?
62. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
Still disappointed
HTC should have slapped wp8 on a HTC One X body .
8X and 8S is not as good as the rumourd elation though
63. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)
I thought Nokia was better than this. They better not sue anyone for this, or I may change my mind about wanting a Lumia...
76. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
What else we can expect from an android troll? Other than support copycats and thiefs? You guys are so used to it,that it doesnt matter.
96. aoikemono27 (Posts: 177; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
Oh wow now I've seen everything. A Nokia fanboy attacking an alleged Android troll. Wasn't Apple suppose to be the universal enemy? You guys have to combine forces ya know!
103. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
I dont like the new iPhone 5 as it doesnt offer anything really new. It is just enchanced ip4. Atleast I respect Apple for its own design and some innovations. I own the new iPad and love it. No I dont hate Apple.
HTC & Samsung are nothing but cheap copycats. old sammy even admits it. Android itself is "a stolen product".
2. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
This definitely wouldn't help Microsoft but Nokia does have the right to protect their designs. I can tell the difference between the two but there is a resemblance
32. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 12979; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Microsoft makes more money off licensing their patents for Android than they do off their own Windows phone line. Nokia shouldn't really be concerned with HTC selling more since both more than likely will not be big sellers anyway.
Both are wasting money with silly lawsuit that they could be spending trying to advertise Windows Phone 8 and getting their phones to sell.
41. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4186; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
But you always say if they copy they should be punished. But now it's okay? That's mighty hippocrytical.
43. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 12979; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I didn't say it was ok.
66. matrix_neo (Posts: 334; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
Maybe but your comments obviously it was.
67. matrix_neo (Posts: 334; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
It is not Samsung this time.
97. aoikemono27 (Posts: 177; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
This is the internet. Hypocrisy is like the milk from a mother's teet!
And you spelled hypocritical wrong! /spelling troll
51. mobileharan (Posts: 18; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
But both phones launched almost at the same time .. So how can this be a copy !!!
3. AeroPrime (Posts: 175; Member since: 21 Feb 2011)
Actually most of my friends said that 8X looks like 820 but didn't think it will become a lawsuit.
4. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
this is awesome
6. Yummy (Posts: 117; Member since: 28 Mar 2012)
More conflict. Tsk tsk tsk... Pass the popcorn.
7. whencatsruletheworld (Posts: 16; Member since: 05 Sep 2012)
What makes WP8 so special is the fact that both the hardware and software matches. Yes, agree with Waffleny (comment 1). This lawsuit is going to be silly. Its like Apple and Samsung all over again. Nokia also have to think that not all WP8 consumers are looking at Nokia. Some may want better speakers and sound. They might look at HTC 8X with Beats Audio instead.
Also, Microsoft is really depending on their OEMs to make sure that Windows Phone 8 is a success. I highly think that WP8 have lots of potential. But now, these companies are fighting over similar looking phones. Im an Android user thats already getting ready to move to WP8 family. But if choices restrict myself, then i have to stay with Android.
And all these bashing tweets by Nokia is getting too childish. Compete by promoting your product. Not by bashing competition.
8. gwhyte01 (Posts: 44; Member since: 09 Jul 2008)
This started as a rumor, and here its a fact. And the source is wmpoweruser.
9. traccer055 (Posts: 11; Member since: 04 Sep 2009)
the 8X looks like it is inline with the one series.
11. wendygarett (unregistered)
Hey nokia!!!
Why don't you seek ban on ipod nano!!!
which the design is more 'rectangular' than 8x lol
14. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Agreed. It's a blatant copy.
20. wendygarett (unregistered)
you know what? bannes the HTC product may help increase nokia sales but not windows phone as whole...
Because most HTC user ( android fan) who want to switch to windows phone they will definitely pick back the HTC...
No wp for HTC?? oh well... JELLYBEAN FTW!!!
18. Hallucinator (Posts: 357; Member since: 24 May 2010)
Because the iPod nano is not a phone.
26. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
i was about to say that! but i think deep... before, when the lumia and N9 arrive, some people think that its a phone version of the iPod nano!
but these new nano really ressemble to the lumia phones!
but i dont think nokia will sue them coz its not a phone!
12. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
Divide and conquer .......nice one
16. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Stupid crap. ... good most of these j3rks aren't making TV.
17. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
Just what wp need, a f**king NokApple! WP is struggling and here it is. Make it even worse. Lets infight while Apple garnish more money. And Android continues to dominate. Stupid Nokia!!!
25. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Nokia copying apple in suing over "LOOK" so now Apple should sue Nokia for copying :)
47. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
Sue Nokia for suing, Because Apple patent suing. Lolzz
19. Jimstar (Posts: 259; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
mmm I don't really think HTC deliberately copied Nokia...but it is kinda hard to not go there. I mean HTC's previous WP designs looked like nothing like the 8X and 8S, I mean going from the Titan II to the 8X? Thats a pretty stark change.At the same time, the design itself seems, to me at least, too basic to be original even to Nokia.
And two weeks really isn't enough time to design the outer shell of a device like this because they'd still have to repackage the internals to get everything to work properly. Maybe if Nokia feels like their design could be copied so easily they should've come up with a more intricate design in the firstplace.
21. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
hey nokia, here's an idea
why don't you try releasing some phones first
like, maybe on verizon?
before you start whining about problems
also, didn't htc say that they worked closely with microsoft and that they had design restrictions put in place by microsoft?
shouldn't microsoft sort of step in here and mediate?
especially since they worked closely with nokia via elop to design the nokia phones
...and work closely with htc to design their phones
it kind of would be like if apple sued samsung for the sg after helping them design it
23. Samsomesh (Posts: 195; Member since: 11 Jun 2012)
Actually 8x looks similar to lumia.!! Agreed.!
38. ngo2dd (Posts: 896; Member since: 08 Jul 2011)
No look at any hands on and you will see it look nothing a like.
27. phil2n (Posts: 487; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
nokia will not sue HTC instead they will warn it..
did you remember nokia warned samsung bec. of IP..
Nokia is not Idevil
28. Glim12808 (Posts: 394; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
Of course this is still just unconfirmed rumor at this point but if it's accurate, then it's a sad day for Windows Phone 8:-(
29. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Doesn't Microsoft require similar design cues on all of its handsets?
Granted, the multiple color bit is pretty similar, but whatever. Nokia is just sounding like a wounded, desperate animal here.
49. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
I don't believe so, Samsung has always made its WP handsets look different from what HTC and Nokia offered. And HTC's WP devices last year differentiated themselves from Nokia and Samsung as well, I don't know what happened this year.
They both have that uni-body polycarbonate design, and both are in a variety of colors as well. It seems as though HTC is at fault here, they went from their classic metal/plastic designs with only black and white colors from last year, and now suddenly they're using the sort of colorful polycarbonate uni-body design that the Lumia 900 was known for.
It would have been alright if HTC used more curves, like One X style, but they used the kind of blocky design that the Lumia 900 had.
91. ngo2dd (Posts: 896; Member since: 08 Jul 2011)
the only think the same is the they both have different color. HTC been making uni-body design way before the Lumia 900 came out. The HTC legand, Evo design 4g and the Rmyne has a uni-body design.
99. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
I know very well HTC had uni-body designs. But they always had curves, and the Lumia 900 was more blocky. That's why I said, if they were to use more curves, like the One X, then it would be alright. But instead they used the same blocky uni-body design as the Lumia instead of their trademark rounded metal/polycarbonate uni-body construction.
31. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Dear oh dear, fighting within the eco system? Interesting :)
Seems WP and its OEMs will just self implode.
33. infernal88 (Posts: 113; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
APPLE!! , now look what u have done !
34. TheRetroReplay (Posts: 254; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
Are phone manufacturers so stupid that they can't figure out that there's only one way to make a rectangle?
"Nokia is said to feel strongly that the front face of the HTC 8X looks like the front of the Nokia Lumia 820" - It's Windows 8 you morons it's only going to look one way.
39. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1545; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
wow this is bad. I donot think HTC went out o copy the Nokia 820 or 920. I think HTC may have been influenced by The Nokia designs but an out right copy of them is something they did not want. if HTC proves that they had this design before the Nokia 820 was announced to the press then Nokia's case wont hold up in court and Nokia will loose this case buy Nokia's Lawyers will get richer..
42. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
eh, i hate to see it but Nokia might have a case here. i would have to look twice in public to distinguish between someone using a 8X or a Lumia 820.
53. nbringer (Posts: 180; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
There are many phones that look the same not just these two...


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quote: Ah, but the Devonian event wasn't due to species extinction, but rather a simple decrease in the rate of speciation, stretching over several million years.
quote: though this is not true for the Permian event, in which both species count and biomass decreased
quote: Low origination contributed more than high extinction to the marked loss of diversity in the late Frasnian
quote: Then you'll be pleased to know that the US actually has a higher level of forestation today than it did in the year 1900. Today, more of the US is covered in trees than was 100 years ago.
quote: Historically, atmospheric oxygen has never varied substantially
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She was 'doing his biography', little did she know, it was not only cash paying, but pentagonorrhea was a bonus
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So after reading all of this information about copyrighting, I'm now living in fear that my digital story is violating all sorts of copyright laws and I'm going to get hauled off to the pokey. Excellent.
Just based on my own experience with this digital story, I am getting the impression that copyright laws are getting more and more difficult to enforce as we move into an increasingly online environment. I think the new standard is that if you are using something for your own use, as long as you don't sell it or show it widely, you'll be ok. Policing the internet is notoriously difficulty and I think a different paradigm will be needed to contend with the porous boundaries that we are now confronted with in this regard.
It has always been a difficult balance to strike, wanting to uphold the rights of the artist (or inventor, in another context) and wanting the public to have maximum enjoyment and use. Plus, like it or not, the internet is a game changer in this area. People from all over the world have access to content they otherwise wouldn't and are using it in increasingly creative ways.
My DST contains a clip from a movie, and I'm hoping that none of you are going to turn me in. Otherwise I don't expect that the copyright police have the resources to check out everyone who borrows something from a movie, surely they will be looking after bigger violators than us. Hopefully. I am looking forward to the discussion in class because I think this is a particularly interesting topic for a new media class, and I think copyright law is going to end up evolving in some really different ways.


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Motorola has made a big comeback thanks to Google's
Android operating system. The latest offering from Motorola is heading to the
Verizon network very soon and it is an impressive device.
The smartphone is the Motorola
Droid X2 and it will be available online starting tomorrow. It
will land in stores to purchase on May 26. The smartphone will cost $199.99
with a new 2-year agreement and the purchase of a compatible data plan. The X2
has a bunch of very nice features.
It will be the first dual-core 1GHz smartphone to
operate on the Verizon network. It also has a 4.3-inch qHD screen that is covered
by Gorilla Glass. The X2 will be powered by Android 2.2 at launch and will
later get an update to Android 2.3. The phone has an 8-megapixel rear camera
and can record HD video.
Other features include a mirror mode for sharing
photos and other content on a big screen TV. The device supports enterprise security
policies and has support for all the Google services expected of an Android
smartphone. The Droid X2 can also act as a mobile hotspot for sharing the 3G
connection with up to five other devices.
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quote: For the DX2 to be Froyo is totally unacceptable.
quote: Does it really matter if it ships with 2.3 or 2.2?
quote: Every single phone/phone maker has to recompile their own version of the Android software. That is the reason why almost none of Androids phones even run 2.3. This is the drawback with an "open" standard like Android.
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Yes, I know possible playoff match-up....so, quiet about that
The last of regular season games has been played. They have been in the same conference since 81-82 as well as prior to the 70's when the Hawks were in the West of Smythe division.
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NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man was charged Wednesday in the theft of an estimated $3,000 in metal parts from a Highland Avenue automotive garage.
Romond M. Lamar, 29, of Cleveland Avenue, was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny and third-degree criminal trespassing.
The owner of an automotive garage in the 3200 block of Highland Avenue told police that someone had been taking car parts from a fenced-in area, including multiple car doors and a rear tailgate, during the past two months.
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I realized the other day as Ivy asked me to lift her up because she was "too tired of walking" from the car to the house that she really is getting too big for me to carry even on my hip. Babywearing really has drifted far off into the distance.
She's of course never ever too big to hold, however.
I'm too tired of everything. I was hoping as we settled into the school year and fall that I'd catch up from the summer of yes and awesome things, but, I have yet to find any sort of appearance of balance. So I've been walking around half-awake all sideways trying to show up for whatever it is I need to show up for.
I'm so frustrated with myself because I don't see a reprieve anywhere in the near future (which is all my own doing) and you see, I'm already on empty. I'm malnourished spiritually, physically, and artistically. I find myself wanting dumb stuff that's not me, making stupid mistakes, letting people down, and caring about things that have no weight or worth or real estate in my mind or heart at all. And the setbacks just sift right on top of what I was trying to dig out of all this sand that is my life right now.
Not that there is some dark black cloud hanging over my head, because there are so many good and beautiful things happening right now all around me and probably you yet I've swindled away all my energy to love it like it should be loved.
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LATEST UPDATE as of 12:53 p.m.: The employer of school bus drivers in Charleston and Dorchester 2 plans to resume negotiations with drivers on Monday, and it doesn't expect to release further updates until then.
Durham School Services released a statement saying they are looking "forward to furthering the progress made thus far at the bargaining table."
Teamsters Local 509, the union representing drivers in Charleston and Dorchester 2, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying it planned to participate in those talks.
Dorchester 2 school officials have said they were told by Durham that "as long as the negotiations are continuing there would be no strike."
The union representing Charleston and Dorchester 2 school bus drivers wrapped up negotiations Thursday on a positive note, and it appears a strike today is very unlikely.
Teamsters Local 509, which represents drivers in Beaufort, Charleston and Dorchester 2, released a statement saying that it has "made progress at the bargaining table" and that it would resume negotiations with its employer on Monday.
A top Durham School Services official has said a strike while negotiations are ongoing would be "highly unusual."
The union and Durham have been trying to reach an agreement on a new employment contract since July, and three intense days of negotiations took place this week.
Bus drivers' pay has been the major sticking point, although drivers also have concerns with the maintenance and safety of buses.
Although a deal hasn't been reached, officials have said continued negotations are a good sign.
Charleston and Dorchester 2 school officials had not been notified of a planned strike today, and buses were scheduled to run their regular routes.
How a strike could affect schools, children, parents
The Post and Courier requested information from Charleston County school officials to look at how a potential strike could affect different schools. Charter schools were not included in the school-by-school analysis because of apparent errors in the provided figures. Similar information from Dorchester 2 was requested but was not available.
Which area of Charleston County has the highest percentage of bus riders?
District 1 (McClellanville) 83.8 percent
District 23 (Hollywood) 76.4 percent
District 9 (Johns Island) 69.3 percent
District 4 (North Charleston) 62.2 percent
District 2 (Mount Pleasant) 58.6 percent
District 10 (West Ashley) 58 percent
District 3 (James island) 37.8 percent
District 20 (downtown) 35.6 percent
What do school bus drivers make typically?
The South Carolina Department of Education doesn't have a district-by-district compilation of bus drivers' salaries. Information for the wages of Dorchester 2 school bus drivers was not available, and Veolia, which employs drivers for the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority, would not release details of its pay scale. The following are the hourly average rates for part-time bus drivers in South Carolina school districts, unless otherwise noted.
Beaufort (enrolls 19,995 students): $14.65 per hour
Berkeley (enrolls 30,085 students): $13.50 to $14*
Charleston (enrolls 44,126 students): $14.40
Richland 2 (Columbia - enrolls 25,964 students): $14.24
Greenville (enrolls 72,000 students): $15.17 per hour is the maximum wage paid to its drivers with nine or more years of experience*
National average: $14.58 per hour for a starting driver**
*Drivers are full-time
**Figures provided by schoolbusfleet.com
Top 10 schools with the highest percentages of bus riders
Baptist Hill High 89.8 percent
St. John's High 89.1 percent
Stall High 87.8 percent
Garrett Academy of Technology 85.5 percent
North Charleston High 84.6 percent
Lincoln High 84.6 percent
St. James-Santee Elementary 83.4 percent
Northwoods Middle 83.3 percent
CE Williams Middle 81.2 percent
Cario Middle 79.6 percent
Top 10 schools with the most students who ride the bus
Wando High 2,522
West Ashley High 1,418
Cario Middle 1,075
Stall High 911
Pinckney Elementary 795
School of the Arts 786
Northwoods Middle 721
Garrett Academy of Technology 562
Laurel Hill Primary 550
C.E. Williams Middle 528
Top 10 schools with the lowest percentages of bus riders
Mount Pleasant Academy 10.3%
Harbor View Elementary 18.1%
Midland Park Primary 19.7%
Stiles Point Elementary 23.3%
Mitchell Elementary 26%
A.C. Corcoran Elementary 26.5%
Murray La-Saine Elementary 26.8%
Hursey Elementary 30.1%
Ashley River Creative Arts Elem. 33.9%
Sanders-Clyde School 36%
Students who ride the bus in Charleston County: 56%
Low-income students in Charleston County: 51.5%
School bus riders in Charleston County who are low income: 59.1%


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A person who can not always be spotted as homosexual right away. An individual, who like a rainbow which can be hazy at times, is none the less clearly a homosexual. This coincides with the rainbow being the indentifying mark of the homosexual community. Sometimes hazy, sometimes clear, but always gay.
Frank you have been acting gay lately, are you a rainbow smuggler?
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- Some public inconvenience, but minimal or no property damage likely.
- Closure of secondary roads. Transfer to higher elevation may be necessary to save property. Some evacuations may be required.
- Extensive inundation and property damage. Usually characterized by the evacuation of people and livestock and the closure of primary and secondary roads
- The highest observed River stage or discharge at a given site during the period of record keeping.
Categorical Flood Forecast Verification System - Cumulative River Forecast Center Verification Statistics
4th Quarter (Jul - Sep) FY2002
Average Lead Time
A categorical lead time is the number of hours from the time of forecast issuance to the time of the forecast hit. A lead time is only computed when, (1) the ordinate's forecast and observation are in the same category, and (2) the previous ordinate's observation was lower than the current category. This restricts lead time calculations to instances where the stage is rising, and crossing categories.
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Average Categorical Errors
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Number Of Events
The number of events during the quarter for each flood category.
False Alarm Ratio (FAR)
The number of missed categorical flood forecasts divided by the total number of categorical flood forecasts issued.
FAR = (False Alarms / (False Alarms + Hits) ) {0.00 is best}
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Probability of Detection (POD)
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The ski hotel's comfortable chalet-style lounge is the perfect place to unwind after a day on the Morzine ski slopes. Relax with a cup of tea while your children enjoy the playroom. Enjoy a cocktail from the bar and watch the snow settling on the ski slopes outside. Stay snug and warm by the open fire.
With the hotel's location right by the ski slopes you can watch the ski instructors' torchlight descent from the comfort of the bar, and enjoy a drink without having to leave the warmth of the hotel!
All 48 rooms in this Morzine ski hotel have been renovated and individually styled with local wood and fabrics.
The rooms are comfortable and cozy, exactly what you need during your Morzine ski holiday. All rooms have TVs with British channels, so you can spend a quiet evening snuggled up in front of the TV!
Hotel La Bergerie is the kind of place you'll want to stay. Maybe it's the satisfyingly Alpine façade, the angular wooden roof, or the snow-capped peaks behind it. In winter, the central fireplace and cozy bar fit for après-ski; in summer, the swimming pool and terrace designed for unwinding after an afternoon climb. If you have little ones in tow, there are charming French amenities for them, too — a table d'hôte where children dine separately from their parents, and family-style suites with kitchenettes where you can make your own coffee and sandwiches for hiking and skiing excursions. Guest rooms are comfortable and spacious, with views of the surrounding landscape, but they're true to the place — this isn't Paris, after all — decked out in blond wood and traditional printed fabrics with a few tech-forward amenities like flat-screen TVs and Wi-Fi access. Winning style points isn't the goal: you've come here to get away, to enjoy the mountains, to see a small slice of Alpine culture. La Bergerie is located in the center of the village, so guests can walk everywhere there is to go. There aren't too many places to go, and that's part of the charm.


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The biotechnology industry is both patent-dependent and increasingly global, yet, there is no such thing as a "global patent." Instead, patents are national rights, granted and enforced according to the laws of a particular country. These laws vary, both with respect to procedure and substance.
The result? Considerable confusion, time, and expense for patent applicants and a growing demand for change, both from within the biotechnology industry and from other sectors also burdened by the complexity of the national system.
In 2009, Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, created an online stir by publicly calling for the creation of a "world patent." Gutierrez' world patent would "be derived from a single patent application, examined and prosecuted by a single examining authority, and litigated before a single judicial body."
Could a truly global patent system ever come to pass? And if it did, would it solve the problems of the current system? Or, is there another alternative—something short of a world patent—that might still satisfy the needs of biotechnology companies and others struggling with the current system?
In fact, while patents are territorial, there are already global aspects to the current system. Most were established under international treaties in response to past frustrations not unlike Gutierrez'. The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property—the world's first intellectual property treaty—arose from practical necessity. In 1873, the Austria-Hungarian Empire invited other countries to Vienna for an exhibition of inventions. Attendance was light, in part because foreign exhibitors believed their inventions would not receive legal protection.
This led to a series of events culminating in the Paris Convention, which provided inventors who were nationals of one member country the right to national treatment in other member countries, as well as a right of priority (i.e., the right to have a filing date in the home country recognized as a filing date in another member country). Today, more than 170 countries are members of the Paris Convention.
Decades later, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) was born from the recognition that incredible efficiencies remained for those interested in pursuing multinational patent rights. The PCT's principal objective was to provide a simple and inexpensive way to initiate the patent process globally—by filing a single initial patent application. The PCT also provided for a preliminary search and examination of the application.
The World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Patent Law Treaty (PLT)—concluded in 2000—harmonizes certain additional procedures, reducing or eliminating formalities and the potential loss of rights among its members.
But procedural improvements can only help so much. No patent can issue directly from a PCT application. Instead, the PCT really works to delay the inevitable, while hopefully providing more information to the applicant about likely prospects before entering the costly national phase, where the applicant still becomes subject to the laws of the particular nation.
There have been some successes in substantive patent harmonization under the current national system. Substantive harmonization would provide, in theory, for a similar course of prosecution (and outcome) on a global basis. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), concluded in 1996, established the requirement that member countries provide patent protection for any type of invention, as well as a uniform patent term (20 years from the earliest filing date). Yet, TRIPS leaves some of the most important substantive decisions up to the member countries.
Overall, substantive patent harmonization has been slow going. The WIPO is almost a decade into efforts to spearhead substantive patent law harmonization through the proposed Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT). The debate remains focused on what substantive issue should be considered and in what order of priority. Developing nations generally oppose substantive harmonization out of concern that it may negatively impact public health by limiting access to medicines.
In theory, the more radical proposal put forth by Microsoft's Gutierrez would fully streamline procedural and substantive issues by adopting a single set of rules, administered by a single granting and enforcement body.
But how would it be implemented and at what cost? A system of this type would result in a loss of sovereign authority, which has been a roadblock to substantive harmonization. There are examples in which nations have ceded control to international tribunals in the past, most notably the International Criminal Court (ICC), which carries out prosecutions for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Apart from the divergent subject matter, however, even the ICC defers to a member nation with jurisdiction and the ability to properly prosecute the case.
While the buzz surrounding a global patent system continues, the more likely result is the continued push for substantive patent harmonization. As the SPLT slowly moves forward, the practical problem of the massive patent backlog is prompting some national patent offices to work more closely together on patient examination.
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) was created in the form of a series of bilateral agreements that permit member patent offices to take advantage of work sharing. When at least one claim has been found allowable in the office where the application was first filed, accelerated examination of corresponding claims can be requested in a second office.
The U.S. currently has PPH agreements with Europe, Japan, and several other countries. Collectively, efforts of this type are producing a more harmonized and efficient system with a solid base of support that, while less radical than a truly global system, will ultimately benefit patent applicants.
Rebecca Kaufman ([email protected]) is a partner, and Rich Miller([email protected]) is an associate in King & Spalding's Intellectual Property Group.
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quote: Wind power sure isnt perfect, but personally I find strip mining, oil spills or coal plants spewing pollution into the air much more of an eyesore.
quote: Wind turbines do have a detrimental effect on birds, but its nothing compared to the amount of bird deaths resulting from pets, cars, aircraft, building collisions, pollution, and habitat loss due to mining and logging.
quote: There is no magic bullet, but business as usual isn't the answer either.
quote: Nuclear power is the most viable electricity generating option we have.
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Marylyn's are true indiviuals. There really are no two alike. Loving life and laughter and excelling at all things to do with relationships. Marylyns are not Marilyns. They are dark and mysterious with eyes that draw you in.
One Marylyn will laugh at you. Another Marylyn will laugh with you. But both Marylyn's will love you.
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a really honest girl who tries their best to love others. she gets frusterated sometimes when people can't accept her love, but she just keeps on lovinnnnng because thats what mary lyns do.
mary lyn is so nice. she always has her arms wide open for a great big hug.
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WAILUKU - A Kihei man is facing manslaughter and robbery charges, following the death Friday morning of a Longs Drug Store manager who was injured while trying to stop a shoplifter Sunday morning at the Kihei store.
Bail was increased to $50,000 for Peter Schmidt, 29, after a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon in Wailuku District Court. He is charged with manslaughter and first-degree robbery.
Deputy Prosecutor Kenton Werk said 61-year-old Jamie Hozaki died of the injuries inflicted by Schmidt when he was fleeing the store in a car.
Hozaki, who was general manager of the Longs Drug Store in Kihei, wasn't scheduled to work Sunday but had come into the store to handle payroll duties when the shoplifting occurred at about 5:30 a.m., employee Tracie Smith testified Friday.
She said that she was at the only open cash register in front of the store exit when she saw Hozaki walking behind a man carrying a 30-pack of beer.
"I looked him in the eye, looked at the beer," Smith said. "When he realized I knew he was taking the beer without paying for it, he panicked and ran out the door. My manager had put his cup of coffee down and went running."
In court, Smith identified the shoplifter as Schmidt, who put his head down on a table during most of the preliminary hearing Friday.
Smith said Schmidt was in the driver's seat of a white Ford sedan when Hozaki opened the driver's door. Hozaki had his hands on top of the door, Smith said, while she stood near Hozaki toward the inside of the open car door.
She said Hozaki twice asked Schmidt to return the beer, saying, "Give me the beer. Give me the beer back."
"Then, all of a sudden, the gentleman just hit the accelerator and reversed and my manger went flying off onto the pavement of the parking lot," Smith said.
She also fell to the ground and saw "headlights beaming right at me."
"I thought, 'My God, is he going to run us over?' " Smith said. "I was looking down at Jamie. He was out."
She said Schmidt kept the car in reverse and "gunned it out of the parking lot."
When Deputy Public Defender Greg Ball asked if Hozaki was trying to grab the steering wheel or take the key out of the ignition, Smith said no.
"There was no physical confrontation," she said. "He never touched him, never went into the car."
Before what happened outside, Schmidt had tried to sneak the beer out of a cooler after he had been told multiple times in the store that he couldn't buy beer until after 6 a.m., under state law, said Bradley Pittman, another Longs employee who was working that morning.
Pittman testified that he followed Hozaki as Schmidt ran out the door with the beer. Pittman said he saw the Ford Focus reverse into Hozaki and Smith, who were hit by the car door and pushed four to five feet. "It sounded like they were definitely hurt," Pittman said.
He said he tried to open the car's passenger door, but it was locked.
Pittman said he got the license plate number of the car.
He said he didn't get a good look at the shoplifter's face but identified Schmidt in court based on tattoos of large stars by his elbows.
Police reported arresting Schmidt on Monday morning in Kihei.
According to a court document, Detective Jeffrey Mahoney questioned Schmidt, who at first denied involvement in what happened. Schmidt later admitted he drove a white Ford Focus to the Longs store, was told by employees he couldn't buy the beer until after 6 a.m. and took the beer anyway and ran out of the store without paying, the document says.
Schmidt also told the detective that a man and woman came up to his car after he got in and "that the male was grabbing at him; that he became frightened and reversed his vehicle out of the parking stall; that he knew someone must have been knocked over by his open car door; that he did not go back and check on the male because he was too frightened," according to the document.
Hozaki was admitted into Maui Memorial Medical Center on Sunday with a severe brain injury and was pronounced dead at 7:50 a.m. Friday, the document says.
Judge Adrianne Heely ruled there was sufficient evidence to support the charges against Schmidt and increased his bail at Werk's request.
Schmidt is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 10 in 2nd Circuit Court.
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TAMPA, Fla. This didnt look like her son. As Orma Swearinger stood on the sideline in the gym, she noticed something she rarely saw before or since from D.J. She noticed fear.
D.J. was about 8 years old, and his basketball team, coached by Orma, was playing a talented opponent that ran over D.J.s squad.
Orma prided herself on being tough on her players, especially her son, who she had groomed from birth to embrace an assertive demeanor. So on the car ride home, she told him, You were playing scared. She kept telling him that. He kept denying it, saying he wasnt scared of anybody. But he vividly remembered her words.
I think it was an insult to me, telling me that I was scared, he said. That was just something that drove me in sports for the rest of my life, not to play scared at all.
Swearinger is now the boldest personality on South Carolinas football team, a free safety who plays while wearing gold teeth, delivers ferocious hits and isnt shy about hugging and kissing his parents and younger sister in public after games.
A third-year starter with six interceptions and 14 pass breakups in his career, Swearinger exited in typically brash fashion this season, which ends Tuesday against Michigan in the Outback Bowl. He celebrated a touchdown by throwing the ball into the stands. He flexed over an opponent after knocking him down. He gave passionate speeches before games.
His career concludes Tuesday, when USC will try to finish 31-9 over the past three seasons, compared to 35-33 in the previous five. USCs sudden rise to national prominence reflects Swearingers fearless approach. So do the words tattooed on his left forearm. WARRIOR runs down the front. On the back, a warriors creed: The heart of a warrior. I am never defeated. The mere thought of my opponent defeating me, they have already defeated themselves.
Born a warrior
Orma named her first child Dayarlo Jamal because she wanted a unique name, like her own.
You want to give them a name that suits who they are and is kind of prophetic, she said.
The second part of his first name, Arlo, means warrior, she said. Jamal means handsome. Orma has always called D.J. my handsome warrior.
By the time he was 6, his father taught him football in the backyard. A plastic trash can doubled as a tackling dummy. Robert Swearinger worked the third shift at Greenwood Fabricating & Plating. Hed get off at 7 a.m., sleep a few hours and wake to find D.J. waiting for him, ready to practice football.
He never minded getting hit. He played with neighborhood kids five years older than him, tackle football with no pads, and popped back up when they pounded him.
He gained a lot of respect from the older guys, said his childhood friend, Mike Coats. A lot of guys, they didnt want to take that hit.
Though Robert played high school football, Swearinger is every bit his mothers son. Orma grew up in tiny Johnston, where she and her two sisters played basketball against their six brothers and other boys. No matter how hard the girls got knocked down, they had to stay in the game.
We learned to take it, Orma said. We learned to be very physical, very aggressive.
At Benedict College, she was a 5-9 slashing wing player who yearned to compete against bigger women in the post, where I felt at home, she said. When she coached Swearingers youth basketball teams, she made sure he addressed her as Coach and not Mom, because I didnt see where being his mom on the court was going to help him.
While Swearinger attended Greenwood High, Orma took two years of karate lessons. Swearinger was too busy to participate, but Orma knew he could gain insight from her instructor, Master Darnell Leak, a former Marine. He talked to Swearinger about reading an opponents mannerisms and sensing his vulnerabilities. Leak spoke with Swearinger before his games and gave him the warriors creed that is now tattooed on his arm.
Swearinger prepared for Greenwood games with unbending intensity. On Thursdays, teammates studied video at his house. On Fridays, he always sat in a quiet area of the locker room, listened to music on headphones and rarely spoke.
Before one big game during Swearingers senior year, teammate Kelcy Quarles, now a USC defensive tackle, approached Swearinger and said another player was goofing off across the room. Swearinger got up and told the kid to calm down. A few minutes later, Quarles told Swearinger the kid hadnt stopped. Swearinger again asked him to chill out. The kid told Swearinger, You cant talk to me. Swearinger slapped him in the face.
I didnt hear nothing from him, so I guess that helped him focus, Swearinger said.
Eating at USC
Much of the time, Swearinger is silly. Greenwood teammates giggled at his impressions of coach Shell Dula, and how Swearinger angled his eyeglasses just like Dula did. Everybody in Greenwood has called him Swag for years. Since ninth grade, he has worn sunglasses in the locker room before games. This summer, he treated himself to a white pair of Gucci shades, because I said I was going to buy something that was worth my season.
He proudly embraces his personality and the people who laid the foundation for it. Every morning when he wakes up, he kisses both wrists, where his grandparents names are tattooed. He brought a calmer version of Swag to USC, but chirped so much in practice as a sophomore that teammates Corey Addison and Martay Mattox told him, Ah, shut up, Jungle Boy.
That nickname sounded cool to Swearinger. Tarzan was always his favorite cartoon character. As Swearinger prepares for games, he likes using metaphors that would work in the wilderness.
Im always talking about how if you dont hunt, you dont eat, he said. Thats one thing I always said: You put me in the jungle, Ill come back obese, because Im going to eat real good. I use the field as a jungle, and on that field, I always say I hunt quarterbacks, I hunt running backs and I hunt wide receivers.
This season, he called himself Two Spoons, because he wanted to eat (succeed) more on the field. He sometimes celebrated plays by mimicking a person eating with a spoon in each hand. Before games, he asked linebacker Shaq Wilson, Wheres my other spoon, bro?
Swearinger said he is never nervous before games, and that stems from more than just his self-assuredness. More than once, a text message arrived at 2:30 a.m. on Lorenzo Wards cell phone. It was from Swearinger, who had just noticed something while analyzing video.
D.J. is probably the one player that Ive coached in my coaching career that loves football more than he loves anything, the defensive coordinator said.
Swearingers voice is among the loudest and most respected in USCs locker room. He addressed the team before the Oct. 6 home game against Georgia and delivered an impromptu emotional speech.
I told them to visualize being in a place of peace with their families, he said, recalling the moment. Now think about your enemy or somebody coming in and taking your loved ones belongings, coming in your house, taking your little sisters toys, coming in your house, taking your moms clothes. I said, Well, this is what Georgia is trying to do. Georgia is the enemy, trying to come take whats ours.
Sometimes, his expressions of aggression approach behavioral boundaries, even in a confrontational sport like football.
Like many players, he loves talking on the field. During this years Clemson game, he kept predicting a big hit and telling the Tigers, Im gonna catch one of yall. In the fourth quarter he hammered tailback Andre Ellington in a clean but vicious collision. He leaned over Ellington, shouted an explicit word that equated Ellington to a woman and flexed his arms downward.
What am I doing? Swearinger thought as he flexed. A penalty flag flew. While Swearinger walked away, he admonished himself and kept telling himself, aloud, Thats stupid.
Swearinger drew no other penalties that game, but he did not remain silent. Late in USCs 27-17 win, he thought about the analysts who said during the week that Clemsons offense was too talented for USC. Just remember the talkers, he told USCs defenders during the game.
With the win in hand, Swearinger said he walked near Clemsons sideline and yelled at the Tigers, Yall a bunch of talkers. Yall will never beat us. Swearinger said he used profanity toward the sideline, but never directed his words at any specific player or coach.
But the Tigers perceived the comments as aimed at coach Dabo Swinney, who told his players they would be kicked off the team if they ever spoke like that to an opposing coach, according to TigerIllustrated.com. Some Clemson fans ripped Swearinger on message boards. Others wrote that the Tigers could use some of his edgy attitude.
I took all the talkers as a personal insult to me, insult to my defense, insult to my coach, insult to the state, Swearinger said earlier this month, as he prepared to channel his emotions one more time in the bowl game.
Regardless of what he does after Tuesday, in the NFL or elsewhere, his college career intense and silly moments alike will remain an important part of this era of USC football. And no one will soon forget him as he is now, forever bold.


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COLUMBIANA - The city school district won more people over this time around, but it still wasn't enough.
On Tuesday, Columbiana voters defeated the $4 million bond issue being sought for South Side Middle School.
Victory for the bond issue was just shy of 129 votes - a significantly smaller margin than the first time around last August when voters defeated the additional property tax by a large majority.
The 1.237-mill bond would have generated the $4 million in tax revenue over 29 years for refurbishments at the middle school.
Of the 1,629 votes cast in Columbiana and Mahoning counties, 750 approved the tax and 879 opposed, according to complete but unofficial results.
The school district spans both counties.
District Superintendent Don Mook and bond committee co-chairs Dani Clancy and Richard Hura were encouraged by the amount of people who supported the bond this time around, but are concerned for the future in the face of its failure.
"Our group is disappointed," Mook said of bond supporters, and specifically the committee chairs. "We did a tremendous job getting out information. We were out there, available. We worked very hard getting information out. It's unfortunate because the board and myself and the administration have to determine what to do next."
A majority of the tax revenue was already targeted for replacing the outdated leaky roof over the building on Columbiana-Waterford Road.
The building, which houses roughly 300 students in grades 5-8, was constructed in the 1960s.
Now that the bond has been rejected the district will need to spend operational money fixing the roof at one time or in phases, Mook said.
"I know the board is highly considering not closing the building but spending general fund dollars to fix the roof," he said.
The building was already targeted for demolition by the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission - a project that would have cost significantly more than the repairs, according to Mook.
He added that spending general fund money means an operational levy will most likely be needed in the future.
Clancy said the bond's defeat is a "shame" and a "sad day for our community, our schools and our children."
"The board of education is now going to have to look and make some hard decisions based on this outcome because people just weren't willing to invest such a little bit of money into our kids' future," she said.
Taxpayers were looking at an increase of $18.83 a year on a $50,000 home and $37.67 a year on a $100,000 home.
While Mook and Clancy stressed the bond issue would obviously benefit the students, it wasn't just about them, however.
Repairing the middle school has a direct result on the area's property values, they said.
"I think people don't realize that when schools fail, the community fails ... I think that people move to Columbiana because you can get a beautiful home at a reasonable price and your taxes are lower as opposed to other areas. I think that's always a hard point to overcome. I don't think people are looking at the bigger picture," Clancy said.
Mook said taxpayers who voted against the bond issue are sending the message they "really don't care what happens" in the local schools.
"We're going to do everything we possibly can to maintain the progress we can for our kids. As long as I'm superintendent of Columbiana schools we are going to put our best foot forward for our kids every day. What I can't promise is we're going to have top notch schools. That's up to them, up to the voters," he said.
Hura's only comment Tuesday evening was that he wished to thank those who supported the bond.
"There was a vast number of people who voted yes and that shows they have pride in our community and our schools. I want to thank them," he said.


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WVB, XC Teams Earn NCAA Public Recognition Awards
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State University's women's volleyball and cross country programs were honored Wednesday by the NCAA for earning exemplary marks in the latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR).
Both programs received public recognition awards for their commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes.
The awards are based on multi-year APR scores and go to teams whose scores rank in the top 10 percent within their respective sports. This year's scores are based on the APR from the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years.
"I am very proud of the efforts made by our women's volleyball and cross country student-athletes to excel in the classroom and graduate from Ball State in a timely manner," Ball State director of intercollegiate athletics Bill Scholl said. "I must also commend the coaches in both programs and our Student-Athlete Support Services department as it truly was a team effort that led to these great results."
The Mid-American Conference had a total of 21 programs recognized Wednesday, but only three league schools had more than Ball State's two awards. The Cardinals had multiple teams honored for the first time in five years.
The Ball State cross country team has now earned the award two years in a row and a total of three times in the seven years of the public recognition program. This is the second time the women's volleyball team has been honored.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. It accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.Multi-year APR scores for all Division I teams will be announced June 11.


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on September 10, 2012 - 6:00 AM
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She built a matchless platform to highlight Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's first and largest blunder - his choice of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a social services organization of women religious, led a 2,700-mile, seven-state Nuns on the Bus tour to denounce Ryan's 2013 budget bill as "immoral" and "unpatriotic."
She told a wildly cheering convention audience, "In order to cut taxes for the very wealthy, the Romney-Ryan budget would make it even tougher for hard-working Americans?to feed their families. Paul Ryan says this budget is in keeping with the values of our shared faith [Ryan is also Catholic]. I simply disagree."
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Campbell said, "stated the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test, because it would harm families living in poverty."
"We stand with our bishops," she declared, bringing delegates to their feet with a roar. There may have been a touch of irony in that outpouring of delegates, many of whom are strongly pro-choice and favor gay marriage, which are opposed by the Catholic Church.
The bishops themselves had a larger agenda touching on the Obama administration, which Campbell did not discuss, and which went unmentioned until Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York pleaded for renewed respect for "religious liberty" when he offered a prayer closing the convention.
Dolan, who heads the USCCB, ardently opposes an Obama administration rule that forces church-related charities, schools, hospitals and colleges to purchase health insurance that covers birth control and abortifacients. Dolan led dozens of bishops in a teach-in opposing this mandate. Campbell's tour, ending July 2, coincided with the bishops' "Fortnight for Freedom" campaign against the Obama regulation.
Neither campaign mentioned the other's core issue. It is true that a subcommittee of the USCCB sent a pointed letter on conference stationery in April strongly condemning the Ryan budget that passed the Republican-controlled House for failing to meet moral criteria. But Dolan and the "Fortnight" bishops said precious little about the GOP's "preferential option" for the wealthy over the summer. That's my play on Pope John Paul II's 1991 plea that a "preferential option for the poor" guide Catholic behavior.
For her part, Campbell and her group, along with nuns in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, are under Vatican scrutiny, according to Religious News Service, for possible doctrinal differences with Catholic teaching - Campbell, in particular, for her alleged "silence" on abortion.
Campbell and Dolan - two faces of Christianity, of religious life. Social missionaries on one side and those who make and attempt to enforce social rules and control property on the other. The fault line has been there for centuries. Now, it has become ideological and partisan.
For this snippet of eternity, the Romney-Ryan and Obama-Biden forces can claim that one face or other of God is on their side. But the president has the more politically powerful wedge issues, including women's reproductive freedom and economic equality in this very tight election.
Nobody put it better than Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, which Romney wants to deep-six. Her mother, Texas Gov. Ann Richards, gave a stem-winder at the 1988 Democratic convention, raising class envy against Republican candidate George H.W. Bush who was born, she said, "with a silver foot in his mouth."
The Democrats' wedge issues were not enough then. Will this year's wardrobe of class, ethnic and women's issues save Obama?
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The 6 Most Uplifting Facts About the Human Race
If you want to break down mathematically how fast the Internet destroys our faith in humanity, I recommend the Schindler System: one rickroll destroys 0.4 Schindlers' worth of faith in the human race; getting Goatsed takes out 2.5 Schindlers; browsing Reddit kills three or four an hour. Rarely does it take more than a day or two for one to lose all trust in their fellow man.
But if people are so damn terrible, why does the world suck so much less today? Violence is at a historic low worldwide. It's easy to focus on outliers like Ted Bundy, Bashar al-Assad, and Mark Wahlberg, but they don't represent all of humankind. The great mass of us aren't just "not actively killing people"; we're genetically programmed to be super nice.
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Except for Marky Mark, who blinded a Vietnamese man because racism.
#6. Selfless Behavior Is a Drug
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Helping other people even when it doesn't help you is pretty much the definition of "good person," but that sort of behavior doesn't come naturally. We're born as greedy little milk-sucking sociopaths, with no thought to anything but our next hit of sweet, sweet MomBoob. All the good qualities in humans have to be taught and carefully nurtured.
Here's the reality: Selflessness is a drug, and the best people on Earth are hardcore addicts.
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Above: the milk of human kindness.
Back in the mid-2000s, scientists from the National Institutes of Health embarked on an epic journey to figure out which part of the brain was responsible for generosity, hoping to find and eat enough of those brain parts to finally become the most generous, a Voltron of generosity (science rules). The study went how you'd expect: Subjects were hooked up to fMRIs and handed a list of charities. They then had to choose whether to donate or hoard their money and receive a reward at the end of the study.
Rather than creating some sort of uncontrollable Lawnmower Man of altruism, the experiment revealed a shocking secret: Donating to a charity lights up the same chunk of the brain that makes us crave food and sex. Generosity is "neurologically similar" to a line of cocaine. We're happy when we do good things, and that makes us want to keep doing good things. (Can you imagine how good those people would have felt if they'd donated cocaine to the charity of their faces?) The super nice guy who always bends over backward to make his friends happy is caught in the same feedback loop as the dude sucking dicks for blow behind the 7-Eleven.
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Jim seemed well-adjusted until his friends found him covered in vomit and wrapped around a Salvation Army donation bin.
#5. Thinking About Science Makes You a Better Person
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You might not think of science as an inherently moral pursuit, particularly if you've watched a Terminator movie or read Wernher von Braun's autobiography lately. But emphasis on science's ability to murder us all is a relatively recent thing. Traditionally, the act of scientific research is associated with austere, dignified British men like Charles Darwin.
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Dignity is spelled "b-e-a-r-d."
Researchers have recently discovered just how deep this connection between science and morality goes. They primed one group of students with words like "microscope" and "fulcrum" to jump-start their brains in science mode, which is apparently a thing you can do. Next, they brought in detailed stories of date rape for the test subjects to read and quizzed them on their reactions. This revealed two critical things:
1. A shocking number of rape fantasies involve microscopes.
2. People primed with sciencey words had a stronger negative reaction to date rape.
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"Thank you for teaching me right from wrong, microscope."
Does this mean ending the college rape epidemic is as simple as increasing the density of Bunsen burners? Probably. But scientists went ahead and conducted further tests, checking altruistic actions over the course of a month and giving subjects the opportunity to split an amount of real money with some anonymous person. Every test had the same conclusion: People thinking about science acted more morally.
So there you go: Science makes people less awful. If you want your kid to grow up right, buy him a biology textbook and a pint of mercury. He will, sure, get his ass kicked pretty hard for a while, but eventually he'll be a saint.
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Or a mad scientist. It really depends on how much of that mercury he drinks.
#4. Babies Aren't Just Milk-Sucking Sociopaths
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I was totally out of line when I made that claim earlier, and I'd like to apologize to every baby in the audience. We tend to think of infants and toddlers as too young to really know much about right and wrong. It's the only time in life when utter, overwhelming selfishness is totally acceptable. We call them the "terrible twos" for a reason: Toddlers are complete bastards.
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Look at those eyes, so full of wonder and unbridled cruelty.
Now, I've been saying for years that infant children need to be held accountable for their actions. More sentences to kid prison would cut down on our planet's "crying babies on airplanes" epidemic. And science agrees with me, kinda. Babies do know right from wrong. A study has found altruistic behavior in children as young as 18 months.
The test for this one was kind of genius. Experimenters would do something like drop a clothespin or fuck up at book stacking while children watched nearby. Once it was clear the experimenter had erred, almost every child would move to help. If it looked like the experimenter fucked up on purpose, though, the babies didn't act, because if you're going to dick around like that, they aren't about to waste their precious pooping and burping time to fix your goddamn messes.
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What, are they made of poops and burps? Yes, but still.
For a variety of confusing reasons, scientists carried out this same battery of experiments on a group of young captive-raised chimpanzees. The results were almost identical, suggesting that altruism has deep evolutionary roots ... and that science can be pretty adorable when it isn't giving lab rats syphilis.


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Entertainment News UK has announced via Twitter: "Ashleigh & Pudsey, Catherine Tyldesley, Paula Lane join Paul O'Grady and Rupert Grint at tomorrow's British Animal Honours 2013"
The British Animal Honours 2013 will continue its filming and can be seen on ITV on April 18. These awards are given to Britain's most entertaining, inspirational and lovable animals by people who support them and are dedicated to their well-being.
Knowing how much Rupert loves animals, make sure you tune in (or catch a video online) of his appearance and all the animal appreciation.
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on November 2, 2012 - 11:20 PM
As the race in the 62nd State Senate District rumbled down the home stretch, incumbent Sen. George D. Maziarz accused his opponent, Amy Hope Witryol, of favoring the removal of the Robert Moses Parkway outside the City of Niagara Falls. Witryol said that is not her position.
In a candidate forum Tuesday night in the Niagara Falls Public Library, Maziarz, R-Newfane, said redirecting traffic south of Findlay Drive onto Main and Whirlpool streets would be a boon to downtown development.
He said the rest of the parkway north to Youngstown should be improved, saying it is important to the economies of Lewiston and Youngstown and helps bring visitors to Old Fort Niagara. Maziarz claimed that "Witryol's supporters" back removal of the entire parkway.
"My opponent supports a plan that would put thousands of cars in residential streets in the Deveaux neighborhood," Maziarz said, claiming that such traffic would go past Maple Avenue School.
During the forum, Witryol, a Lewiston Democrat, charged that Maziarz had told an audience at the Lewiston Senior Center that he would keep the entire parkway intact. She has expressed her support for the Niagara Falls Comprehensive Plan of 2009, which calls only for studying all options for the area north of Findlay Drive.
After the forum, The Buffalo News asked Witryol if she supports removal of the parkway north of Findlay Drive. She replied, "Unless there is a compelling public safety, economic or environmental reason, not at this time."
As for the fort, Witryol said, "Visitorship to Old Fort Niagara does not depend on any particular road.
Maziarz issued a statement Thursday saying, "The full closure of this parkway would significantly hurt those businesses in Lewiston, Youngstown and Porter, whose major clientele comes from those who travel to their communities using the Robert Moses Parkway. Any support for full closure of the Robert Moses Parkway is an action supporting the closure of all the small businesses in upper western Niagara County and Old Fort Niagara."
Robocalls to homes in the affected area pounded home the message.
In an email to The News, Witryol said Maziarz "fabricated a position for me, adding trademark demagoguery by choosing a school route. ... Let him try to assert that everyone who voted for the [comprehensive] plan wanted to go to the city line, insisting all traffic go through Deveaux past a school, forever. Yet another fairy tale invented to distract from Maziarz having the worst property tax record of any state senator in the entire United States, after 18 years in office.
"My position would be guided by the public consensus on the options presented by competent professionals based on public input," she added. "I won't prejudge what the public wants. As a state senator, I'll be advocating for the public's position."
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