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Sofie Karasek spent her freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley the way most college kids do. She got used to roommates. She went to parties. She learned to wear shorts in winter—which, as a Boston transplant, she found "totally weird." And in February 2012 she signed up for a three-day retreat with a student political club, joining 34 other undergrads on a trip to San Diego.
At the retreat, Karasek, now 20, shared a cramped hotel room with a dozen other students. At around 3:30 a.m. that first night, she woke up to find the guy next to her had his hand down her pajamas.
She tried to get away but couldn't. "He was—I don't like describing it out loud, but it was awful, and it lasted a really long time," she says.
"I just lay there thinking, what do I do? There were 10 other people in the room with me, and they were all asleep. Was I really going to wake them up?" If she lay still, she thought, maybe he would stop. The next night, she slept in a different room to get away from him.
Another woman took her place.
In the weeks that followed, Karasek met other women who told her the guy had done the same to them. One was the woman who'd switched rooms with her that night at the retreat. Karasek decided she needed to do something.
On April 20 of that year, Karasek says, she and three other women walked into Berkeley's Center for Student Conduct to report that the same student had assaulted them. They told their stories to several administrators, including the school's Title IX officer, Denise Oldham. At the meeting with Oldham, who enforces women's rights to equal education under Title IX, Karasek says they were asked to write statements about the assaults. She assumed this was a formality and didn't submit hers for almost a month. One woman, she says, misunderstood and didn't write anything. Karasek says the school never followed up with that student. "She thought that telling her story out loud counted as informing the school," she says. Berkeley acknowledges that a verbal report is enough—but Karasek says the women don't know if that complaint was ever addressed. Berkeley says it can't comment on specific students' conduct cases and refused repeated requests to make Oldham available for interviews, saying "she's focusing all her attention on addressing the situation."
Karasek says Berkeley allowed her alleged assailant to go on a summer travel program, despite her warnings that several assaults happened during unsupervised trips. He also remained a member of the political club, although the president of that group, Anaïs LaVoie, had been meeting with administrators to get him kicked out. At one meeting, LaVoie says, a university staff member told her that they needed to "keep him close in case it happened again, so there would be a community of friends to support him in processing it and anyone else he assaulted." In another meeting, LaVoie says Oldham warned her that the school could be subject to legal retaliation if she forced him out of the club. "Basically, they didn't want to get sued," LaVoie says.
Karasek didn't hear anything from the school for months. Finally, eight months after she reported her assault, she received two three-sentence e-mails from Berkeley saying her case was resolved and the student was found "in violation of the code of conduct." He graduated in December 2012.
Karasek wasn't satisfied. In February of this year, she and 30 other current and former Berkeley students, some as old as 60, filed two complaints with the U.S. Department of Education charging that the school violated their Title IX rights by mishandling their cases and, in some instances, discouraging them from filing reports. The 70-page, 35,000-word document alleges negligence, botched investigations, and general incompetence, and includes incidents that date to the 1970s. It comes on the heels of a federal complaint Karasek and LaVoie filed with the Department of Education last May alleging violations of the Clery Act, a 1990 law that requires universities to publish a comprehensive list of crimes on campus. And it's one of at least 13 such complaints filed by women within the last year against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, the University of Akron, and the University of Southern California, among others. (These complaints are sealed to the public and the schools, but each college confirms the existence of a complaint.)
This approach is spreading, and it's already changing the way discipline occurs in the quiet, self-policed world of the college campus. It could also cost colleges hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, not to mention the price of additional administrative hiring and post-scandal public-relations cleanup.
The complaints, filed with the Department of Education, aren't written by lawyers—they're written by college students. Karasek is a member of End Rape on Campus (EROC), a coalition of six women who have filed several complaints, led by Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, who are 24 and 22 years old, respectively. "The complaints that we receive today from these students are better in terms of their understanding of the law than the ones that used to be filed by professional advocates," says Jim Moore, head of the agency's Clery review team.
The Department of Education has started imposing penalties to motivate schools to change. In 2008 it handed out a $357,000 fine—its biggest ever—to Eastern Michigan University for covering up the rape and murder of a young woman by another student in her dorm. Last year it fined Yale University $155,000 for failing to report four sexual assaults that occurred more than a decade ago. "Increasing our fines was a conscious decision," says Moore. "There is an intention to continue to do that."
In some cases, the scandals are spilling over into civil court. Lawyer Gloria Allred, representing women at Occidental College, settled with the school for an undisclosed sum; Occidental neither confirmed nor denied liability. She is also seeking damages for students at the University of Connecticut; the school has denied the suit's key allegations. Allred says she's negotiated settlements with "a number of other schools" without filing lawsuits.
In the four years before Clark and Pino began filing complaints in January 2013, the department's Office for Civil Rights received 120 Title IX complaints related to sexual violence but opened only 11 investigations, denying the rest. None of EROC's 13 cases have been denied. "I've never seen anything like this before," says Allred. "These Title IX complaints are a whole new legal frontier."
The most widely cited statistic, found in dozens of scientific studies and government reports from the Department of Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, says sexual assault—legal parlance for any unwanted, forced sexual contact, including its most violent version, rape—will happen to about 20 percent of women during college. It's hard to know how accurate that estimate is, because the crime is chronically underreported. There are 35,900 students at Berkeley, but for 2012, the most recent year for which the school has published crime data, the number of sexual assaults recorded was 31.
As with other violent crimes, sexual assault victims almost always know their attacker. In college, they're often students at the same school. There's the option of filing a police report—rape is generally classified as a felony—but schools must investigate and handle sexual assault cases themselves, whether or not criminal charges are filed. "It's very similar to the controversy of sexual assault in the military," says David Lisak, a clinical psychologist who works with rape victims. "You have a lot of young people together in a closed environment, under the supervision of one institution that's legally bound to take care of them. This is when things get messy."
Since the 1972 passage of the Title IX education amendment, gender discrimination has been outlawed at any school—public or private, elementary or graduate level—that receives federal funds. Title IX became famous for its impact on college sports. But in several cases, the Supreme Court has asserted that sexual harassment and assault are forms of discrimination and covered under the law. If female students can't feel as safe as their male peers, they're at a disadvantage. According to Title IX and the federal laws it inspired, if something happens in an environment where the school retains authority—on a field trip or in a dorm—and the school should reasonably know about it, the school is required to act even if the police are dealing with the matter.
Karasek didn't like the way her case was "resolved." But she didn't know she could do anything about it—until she read an article about Clark and Pino. In January 2013, Clark and Pino had filed Title IX complaints against their school, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, alleging mishandling of their own assault cases. They have spent the past year helping others do the same.
Clark, tall and blue-eyed, says that as a UNC freshman in 2007, she told the school she'd been raped by someone she couldn't identify. Clark knew UNC couldn't do anything about her attacker, but when she asked for help, she says a staff member likened rape to a football game and asked her, "You're the quarterback and you're in charge, is there anything that you would have done differently?" (UNC says it can't comment on individual cases.) Pino, who's shorter, more solemn, and so fast-talking that she can be hard to understand, had heard what happened to Clark. When she was frustrated by the university's reaction to her rape in 2012, she contacted her.
"Initially we were just going to write an article together about how the school still needed to change," says Clark, "but then we started doing the research, and we realized this wasn't just UNC." They reached out to sexual assault activists at other colleges, eventually connecting with Dana Bolger, an Amherst College student, and Alexandra Brodsky, one of 16 Yale students who, with the help of lawyers, filed a Title IX complaint against the university in 2011. (According to the Department of Education, Yale has worked with it to revise its policies; the investigation was closed in 2012.) Brodsky and Bolger now run a website called Know Your IX that provides legal explanations and help for students who feel they've been wronged by their schools. There's also a private Facebook group where college students who've been raped or assaulted can meet one another and ask for advice. Today the group has almost 900 members from more than 50 schools.
Clark and Pino didn't have the money for a lawyer, so they decided to write a complaint themselves. At the time, Clark was working as an administrator at the University of Oregon, while Pino was enrolled at UNC. They did everything over Facebook, Gmail, and Skype. They learned legal terms by downloading Supreme Court oral arguments and listening to them on their iPods. "We played them in the shower, in our cars," says Clark. "I'd be walking around campus with my earphones in, but instead of music it was, like, legal podcasts."
In January 2013, Clark and Pino filed their Title IX and Clery complaints against UNC along with two other students. They were joined by Melinda Manning, UNC's former assistant dean of students, who says the administration pressured her to lower the number of sexual assaults she reported in her Clery crime statistics. "The university kept asking me to recount them," she says. "So I recounted them and submitted them. The numbers should've been higher than what the school ultimately reported." According to UNC, in a meeting with the university's board of trustees a week after the complaint was filed, Vice Chancellor and General Counsel Leslie Strohm said Manning's allegations were "false, they are untrue, and they are just plain wrong." The school now says it admires the women's bravery but can't comment on specifics of the Department of Education's open investigations. When asked about Manning's accusations, UNC's Title IX compliance coordinator, Howie Kallem, says, "I can't speak to what happened before." (Peter Grauer, the chairman of Bloomberg LP, which owns Bloomberg Businessweek, is a trustee at UNC.)
After Pino and Clark went public with their stories, women at other schools asked them for help, often through LinkedIn and Twitter. Karasek found Clark on Facebook. Allred came calling. There were many tearful Skype sessions with women who'd never told their stories before. "I sort of had a breakdown that spring," Clark says. "There was this flood of people who'd had these horrible experiences, and it was really overwhelming. It just wouldn't stop."
Pino and Clark helped some of the women file complaints at schools including Occidental, USC, and Dartmouth. In June, Clark left her job at the University of Oregon, Pino took a semester off from UNC, and they moved to Los Angeles where they launched EROC as an official 501(c)3. They slept on couches and floors. At one point, they lived in a tent. They worked out of a frozen yogurt shop. The intensity of the experience strengthened their bond. They finish each other's sentences—and meals—and hold the kind of shortened conversations where half of everything goes unsaid because they've talked about it a thousand times before. "We even have matching tattoos," says Clark. They got them—the Roman numeral IX—the day they filed their UNC complaint.
This new wave of complaints is so successful because of the increased oversight by the Department of Education and because of the penalties the agency is issuing to spur widespread change across campuses. "It's very much like what happened with the mortgage oversight agencies," says Moore of the Clery review team. Gina Smith, a former sex crimes prosecutor in Philadelphia's Office of the District Attorney who now works as a sexual assault policy consultant, likens it to the greater regulation in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals. "Higher education is facing a new compliance environment reminiscent of the one public companies faced with the onset of Sarbanes-Oxley," she says, referring to the 2002 law that increased penalties for fraudulent corporate accounting.
For a long time, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights—the regulatory body that oversees Title IX—issued broad requirements about sexual harassment but rarely mentioned rape or assault. "By 2005 the OCR started hearing things from schools like, 'Well, rape isn't sexual harassment, so it's not part of the law,' " says Kallem, a policy writer for the federal office before he was hired by UNC in the wake of Pino and Clark's complaints to fill the newly created position of Title IX compliance coordinator. "It was true; we never said rape." They had established policies for how to handle harassment, but not assault.
So in April 2011 the civil rights office sent letters to colleges outlining a proper response. Schools had to investigate all allegations thoroughly, allow both sides to present evidence, accommodate students' requests to change classes or dorms, and conclude everything in 60 days.
Colleges were shocked. Until then, many had been handling rape cases as quietly as possible. UNC had allowed its student honor court to decide its sexual assault cases. A former Berkeley student says that at her 2009 hearing the accused student was allowed to present witnesses and hire a lawyer, and she was not. Russlynn Ali, the former head of the civil rights office who wrote the letter informing schools of their duties, estimates that about 40 schools voluntarily changed their policies immediately after the guidelines were released. The almost 5,000 additional colleges covered under Title IX weren't enthusiastic.
"It's stunning how vitriolic the pushback was," says Ali. She received death threats from men's rights groups, who claimed that Title IX's "preponderance of the evidence" standard—finding that something was more likely true than not—meant that men could now be falsely accused of rape and kicked out if a school took their accusers' word over theirs. (Reliable statistics on false rape charges are hard to come by, but psychologist Lisak puts it somewhere from 2 percent to 8 percent.) "That's not how it worked at all," says Ali. " 'Preponderance of evidence' is the standard for all civil rights cases. We weren't creating a new standard of proof; we were just reminding folks of how Title IX operates."
This spring, EROC is filing a batch of new complaints. There's one against the University of Akron, where a recent graduate named Julia Dixon—whose rapist pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in criminal court, for which he spent two days in jail—alleged that her school's sexual assault policy had been copied almost verbatim from another school's. As a result, it listed services her college didn't offer. In an e-mail, Akron spokeswoman Eileen Korey acknowledged the similarities, saying "the attorneys for Ohio's public universities work collaboratively on issues of common importance." The misleading references have been removed. Clark also is advising a freshman at an upstate New York college who says she was sexually assaulted by a group of football players.
One of the biggest and most all-encompassing complaints has been the one at Berkeley. Two of the 31 students and former students who signed on had filed a similar complaint against the school in 1979 for not firing a male professor who wrote a negative letter of recommendation for a female student who refused to sleep with him. "We went to administration, and initially they just laughed at us," says Ruth Milkman, a sociology professor at the City University of New York who was part of the original 1979 complaint. "Sofie's experience seems very similar to what we went through. Only this time, a policy now exists to stop it." Says Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes: "We recognize that we need to get better. We're trying really hard."
The Department of Education can take years to complete an investigation, so the ultimate impact of EROC's complaints remains to be seen. Schools found guilty of Clery violations can expect $100,000 fines, in addition to the amount they spend changing internal policies. In the wake of the complaint against it, UNC says it has spent more than $600,000 on an expanded Title IX team and the services of Smith. She was also hired at Occidental and Swarthmore, which sometimes puts her at odds with the advocacy group. "In light of Title IX, schools are challenged to do more than the criminal justice system would do," she says. "Colleges don't usually handle a large number of sexual violence investigations, but I think that's changing as students become more comfortable coming forward." She's part of a market of consultants and policy experts that's cropped up; universities are willing to pay high prices for someone to tell them what to do. After Karasek's Clery complaint last May, Berkeley created two positions for sexual assault advisers. The university is in the middle of a policy overhaul and "is working on a number of other things and dialoguing with students," Holmes says.
On the February morning before Karasek filed her Title IX complaint, she and five other victims held a press conference on Berkeley's campus. Local news outlets and a handful of students attended. Before it started, the women, in Berkeley sweatshirts, reviewed their statements and drew protest signs for Clark and others to hold.
"Why is this so awkward?" asked Meghan Warner, a 20-year-old sophomore.
"I feel like we're in the Sexual Assault Breakfast Club," joked Aryle Butler, also 20.
The women laughed nervously, hugged each other, then took their seats and gave detailed accounts of their assaults. They told of rapes at drunken frat parties, in dorm rooms, and during a summer program affiliated with the school. One student said her rapist pleaded guilty in criminal court but was merely suspended from campus. Berkeley says that since 2008, its Center for Student Conduct has received only 10 allegations of rape and that all parties found responsible have been "removed from the university." Since 2011, Berkeley says it has suspended six people for lesser assault violations.
Later that evening, Clark walked with Karasek to her apartment to file the complaint. Karasek lives in the Cloyne Court Hotel, a 100-year-old dorm populated by Berkeley students that's known as the largest housing co-op in America. The women grabbed their laptops from Karasek's clothing-strewn room and walked through hallways painted with psychedelic murals to a study room. For the next three hours they worked on the complaint. They cross-checked names and dates and did last-minute fact-checking on Wikipedia.
They discussed what to have for dinner ("more pizza?"). They checked Facebook. When they finished their work, they composed an e-mail to the Department of Education.
"Wait, wait!" cried Clark before they hit the send button. "We have to take a picture!" She had screen grabs of every Skype session she'd had with women as they filed their complaints; tonight was a rare chance to do one in person. The girls posed for a selfie. Then Karasek took a breath and hit "send."


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It's almost ready for the fall term to begin at area colleges and universities, and officials are making sure the dorms are ready, setting up schedules, and, many are making plans to deal with any students who may have been exposed to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Texas colleges educate students from around the world, including from nations like Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, which are at the heart of the latest Ebola outbreak which has killed nearly a thousand people in Africa.
The state's medical schools also include med students who may have spent their summer working with victims of Ebola.
Dr. Joseph McCormick, Regional Dean of the U.T. School of Public Health in Brownsville and the Vice President for South Texas Programs for the U.T. Health Science Center in San Antonio, told Newsradio 1200 WOAI those precautions begin by identifying students who may be carrying Ebola.
He says anybody who has been in West Africa or has been in contact with any Ebola patients there are asked to report to the school if they have been in that situation within the last 21 days, which is the standard incubation period for Ebola.
"In the event that a student, say, who has traveled in the last 21 days in an area of West Africa, or if they have been in contact with anyone who is ill," he said.
Dr. McCormick says those students should be monitored for symptoms. He says if any potential symptoms of Ebola are seen, from joint or muscle aches to a fever of 100 degrees or higher, the student should not report to work or to class, and should instead by quarantined.
"Get them into an isolation situation within the hospital," he said. "It doesn't have to be anything that special, but it does have to be an isolation unit."
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The 10th Hour 08.27.11: Top Star Wars Games
Welcome to a one-day late edition of the 10th Hour. Blame Hurricane Irene for my tardiness. Power and internet have been both inconsistent since Irene hit us on Monday and everything has been extra annoying because of it. Thankfully, outside of floods and power outages, nothing truly bad happened in my area. But that also means I have had a lot less time to plan what I wanted to write about and I ended up digging one of the ideas from the "ideas for when I don't have much time to write" pile. In this case, an entire column dedicated to Star Wars games. It was either, that or a "10 TV series that deserve the video game treatment" column, but then I realized….do we even have 10 series worth turning into video games? So Star Wars it is! Let's leave the other idea for next week when I have more time to dig around.
10. Star Wars: Episode I Racer: It's Star Wars meets Wipeout in this futuristic racer. Racing the pods from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (the best part about that movie), you travel at insane speeds in this futuristic chariot hoping to win the race and avoid crashing into obstacles. At the time of release I felt like this game was the fastest racing title I had ever played, even faster than Extreme G. It also became one of my favorite N64 games of all time. The game was given a sequel in Star Wars Racer Revenge, but I felt the original was better on every aspect. This is one series I wouldn't mind to see revisited in the near future. Even non-Star Wars fans had fun with this little gem.
9.Super Star Wars series: The entire SNES series are remembered as all-time classics and some of the best movie-based games of all time. They are also remembered for their insane difficulty and some changes to the movie's story in order to accommodate new gameplay challenges. That's why they are so low in my book: I could never beat them. As a matter of fact, most people who love the games have never beaten them either. The games combined hardcore action-platforming with some side challenges like driving vehicles. If you think games are too easy nowadays, grab these classics and prepare for some (fun) torture sessions.
8.Star Wars: Rouge Squadron/Battle for Naboo: These two N64 titles are awfully similar, but Battle for Naboo takes place during the Episode I timeline of course, while Rogue Squadron takes place during the original trilogy. Both titles are 3rd-person shooters in which you control a variety of vehicles from the Star Wars lore (such as the iconic X-Wing, Y-Wing, etc.) and complete mission objectives. The biggest difference from other Star Wars space shooters is that these two were more action-focused arcade-style titles instead of the in-depth simulations that were common at the time. This decision opened the games to a more varied audience instead of the limited "niche" market of games like X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. The result is a couple of classic titles that have a large fanbase.
7.Lego Star Wars series: The series that started the Lego-video games craze, Lego Star Wars is just plain fun. With 4 entries, one based on the first three episodes, one based on the original trilogy, one that collected all six movies into one game and one based on the Clone Wars cartoon series, someway; somehow, they have managed to remain fun even when the gameplay is fundamentally the same. You proceed through story based levels to get studs, unlock new characters and replay those levels to access previously inaccessible areas with your new characters. Although the difficulty is on the easy side of things, it is one of the few "kids" games that adults can enjoy and I believe the series is responsible for launching the Lego moniker into video games successfully. So thank this series for Lego Harry Potter, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones and whatever else they decide to make in the future.
6. Star Wars Battlefront series Although I liked the first one better, there is no denying that the sequel also introduced some cool stuff (like the space levels). Basically, Battlefront is a copy of EA's Battlefield series but with Star Wars characters and the ability to play in 3rd-Person. You could shoot your blaster, then get into a land vehicle (like an AT-ST) and terrorize foes, then get on an X-Wing and take to the skies. Levels are based on all six movies, meaning that you could have battles between the Empire and the Rebels in one go and then take the field as the Galactic Republic vs the CIS. Other neutral factions (like Wookies) would show up in some levels to add spice to things. There was also a class system in place similar to Battlefield that gave you options for standard soldiers, heavy troopers and snipers among others. Although the game was never as popular as Battlefield, fans (myself included) still hold high hopes for a third entry with all of modern technology behind it.
5. X-Wing vs TIE Fighter: A part of the X-Wing series that also included X-Wing Alliance, Star Wars: X-Wing vs TIE Fighter is considered the best game in the series. The games are known for being a "hardcore simulation" of what controlling these legendary spacecraft would be. That means not only shooting stuff out of space, but also managing such things as the effective use of weapons and managing power resources and wingmen effectively. Missions were also larger in scale than most other Star Wars shooters and included not only combat scenarios, but also escort, reconnaissance and inspection missions. Like Battlefront, this series has a devoted fanbase that is patiently waiting for a return to the series.
4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: Now, I love the KOTOR series. But I found the sequel to be inferior to the original. Maybe it is because gameplay mechanics were largely the same? Or maybe because the big plot twist can be spotted from a mile away and I predicted what would happen hours before it did. Whatever the reason, there is no denying this was a fantastic game using the same combat style and narrative heavy gameplay that drew in Star Wars fans from all over the globe and made characters like Kreia and HK-47 into icons. Yes, I know HK was in the first game too. I have played dozens of RPG's in my life and both KOTOR titles rank near the top of the pile. But the first was better than the second. You will see further up the list….
3. Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rouge Squadron II: The game that is tied with Smash Bros. and Wind Waker as my favorite Gamecube games of all time, Rouge Squadron II did everything the N64 predecessors did….just better. Better graphics, better sound, better missions. Everything was better! Did I mention you could unlock a ton of stuff, including two levels in which you get to play as the Millennium Falcon? I also enjoyed the larger variety of enemies, especially ground troops since that area was pretty barebones in the other games. I also found it to be a much better game than its sequel, Rouge Squadron III: Rebel Strike, since it doesn't have that game's horrible on-foot missions. I know X-Wing vs TIE Fighter fans will be pissed, but I consider this game to be the "benchmark" Star Wars space shooter.
2. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast: This first and third-person game follows the continuing adventures of one Kyle Katarn in one of the best Star Wars series of all time. I find Jedi Outcast to be the one with the best plot and gameplay elements. Sure, wielding a lightsaber and using Force Powers has been done before and after, but it is the combination of these elements with the well-devised plot that allows this game to succeed where many others have failed. I still believe Tavion and Desann are some of the best non-movie characters added to the Star Wars lore and Kyle Katarn is no slouch either. It is hard to talk about this game without spoilers, but suffice it to say that is has an outstanding story and solid gameplay to back it up.
1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Can anything else be #1? This was my introduction to the formula BioWare has made famous: story driven RPG's with plenty of branching conversations and decisions that truly affect the story. I still get a kick out of being evil and annoying my goody-two-shoes partners and HK-47 is as funny the 1,000th time as he was the very first. Besides, it has a ton of memorable moments and a story that is not as easy to predict as the sequel. I still get goose bumps during the first Rancor fight. If you like RPG's, if you like Star Wars or preferably, if you like both, then this is a must play game. Sure, games like Mass Effect have improved virtually everything that BioWare tried here, but Mass Effect isn't Star Wars.
Once again, thank you for reading and commenting on my article. I will see you next week on another edition of the 10th Hour. Hasta la Vista!


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Hi, I'm getting 'lang.contextmenu.options' is null or not an object error in IE7. I'm using CKEditor.
The problem is strange, I don't get above error when I hit the page first time, but if I click it second time then I get this error. Repro steps are below
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- Click Create Project - notice there is no script error in IE bottom left cornor
- Now click Create Project again - now you will see the error.
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I have just checked this issue in your site and didn't get any errors. Aside from not getting any errors when I clicked on Rich Text Editor it did not showed up – not sure if this is intended.
Even if there were error you have said click Create Project then Create Project – when exactly was CKEditor called here? Furthermore does this problem occur outside of your application? Were you able for example reproduce it in demo (http://ckeditor.com/demo) or nightly build (http://nightly.ckeditor.com/)?
Another thing is that it may have something to do with custom settings you have used for IE7.
I'm closing this issue as in my opinion it is not connected with CKEditor but with your application. If you are able to provide reduced test case file(s) showing this problem but without your webapp logic (In JavaScript CKEditor on CKEditor for PHP) I will reopen this ticket.
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Fog light mod not the hack
So, I did a boat load of research and figured out how to properly get the fogs to go on with parking lights and off with high beams. I searched the threads and found nothing like this. On my 05 ST the switch wire (pin 1(86)) on the relay for the fogs goes to the low beam relay. Which only allows the fogs to go on with the lows. This wire(green with red stripe) needs to be cut from low beam relay and have a female blade crimp connector installed. Now find the high beam relay and remove it, there are 5 pins on this relay with pin #4(87A) empty. This terminal is hot when the high beams are off and off when highs are on. You need to push the female blade connector into this slot. There is a lock tab in there that needs to be pushed out of the way to get the connector all the way in. keep pressure on connector and re-seat the relay.
To do all this you need to remove the battery so you can unmount the fuse/relay box that is under the hood. Separate the 2 halves of the box to expose the bottom side of the relays and the wiring. there is very little room to do this and you may want a 2nd pair of hands. If you have experience with automotive wiring it should take less than an hour.
** This is not a job for someone with little to no experience in automotive wiring.**
If anybody wants to do this and needs pics I can try to take some. But with the limited area to work in not sure how good they will be. It is a mess of wires in there.
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NAIAS 2013: Day 2 Photo Gallery – A Closer Look at the Audi Stand
by George Achorn on 16 January 2013 in Events News
The 2013 North American International Auto Show is a wrap… well… at least the media days are. The event itself will now open to the public, though we've packed up, returned to our offices and are now sorting through all we've brought home. A report written from the Audi perspective will come tomorrow, but for now we've got even more photos from the show floor and have completed their upload to our photo gallery.
Day 2 at an auto show usually means a little more perspective. The crazy schedule of media events is dialed back, while companies like Audi who presented on day 1 are able to fill the space used for the presentation and its audience with a few more display cars. The crowd is just a bit more thin and we're able to pull out the long lens and get some beauty shots.
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David Drew spends Monday to Friday working in IT, but come Sunday morning, he can always be found volunteering at the RSPCA in Yagoona.
Volunteers like David however, are few and far between.
A recent study shows only four out of ten Australians volunteered in a three month period, which led to the establishment of the Do Something Near You website.
The charity group DoSomething! is calling on Australians to start the New Year by putting others first. The organisation is asking Australians to make it their new year's resolution to volunteer more in the coming year.
"At this time of year, we often talk about doing something for others, but once the New Year gets underway, many of us go back into our old habits and don't do anything to help out in our local community," said DoSomething! founder Jon Dee.
To make it easier for Australians to volunteer, DoSomething! have established a volunteering website that is localised to every single community in Australia.
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Green Bean Ragout with Tomatoes and Mint
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- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 medium red onions, finely chopped
- 3 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 1/2 pounds green beans
- 1 1/4 cups drained oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 2 plum tomatoes, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups water
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup finely shredded mint leaves
- Pinch of sugar
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
How to make this recipe
In a soup pot, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the onions and cook over moderately high heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the green beans and stir to coat with the oil. Stir in the sun-dried tomatoes, plum tomatoes and water and bring to a boil. Season with salt and pepper, cover and simmer until the beans are tender, about 15 minutes. Add the mint and sugar and cook for 1 minute, then stir in the vinegar. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Some Americans who were born and raised during the Great Depression, have passed from this life although many still remain with us. Many famous books, movies and television shows have covered stories from that generation and many of them continue to fascinate the current generations living today (e.g. The Great DepressionThe Walton's reruns from the 1970s). It was an era before the popularity of television itself and people lived simpler lives and enjoyed the basic pleasures of life such as children playing in the outdoors and families enjoying each other's company without the popular electronic distractions we are surrounded by today.
People of The Depression Era also experienced many struggles and challenges in life that are not experienced on the same scale by Americans today. Stories of getting by in the face of adversities during The Great Depression and of the bond between family and friends are inspiring and they often demonstrate the triumph of the human spirit and the power of human love. The stories that will be related within this audiobook include those very attributes and many also simply include the nostalgic memories of an era gone by, through the eyes of the late Glenn Thomas Doyle, as compiled and presented as a collection of short stories, in their original form and language, by his niece, Janice F. Lowrance.
It is my sincere hope that I have done justice to the formatting of these wonderful and inspiring related stories from some of the "Good Old Days" of the American experience. -Janice F. Lowrance
Childhood During the Great Depression
A Southern Boy's Preteen Years
From Working at Home to Defending My Country
My Life After Military Discharge
The Most Important Message in Life
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As I watched the ad riddled DD telecast of the opening ceremony, I pondered at what the moment could have been but wasn't. It could have been a big fillip to Indian nationalism within the country and a rise in India's stature outside of it. But all I could think of was "The emperor has no clothes".
Which is exactly why the CWG games are a success. Because our news channels have done a splendid job in creating a prolonged and collective sense of disgust and disappointment by sustained, sensational coverage. An NYT piece picks up this sentiment: "The litany of problems plaguing the games — collapsed footbridges, filthy dorms, cartoonish corruption — have not only made headlines around the world. They have left Indians to wonder why a country so promising in so many regards is incapable of organizing a signature event when the eyes of the world are focused on it."
I won't dwell more on that because it's just another predictable government failure. What's more interesting is that the media has found it so profitable to make our government a global spectacle. As that article calls it, "India's hyperactive media have gleefully documented the infighting". While we've always had good media freedom, the fact that there's now a large, elite audience lapping up sustained government bashing is encouraging. The last time I felt that the media had such a big impact on our thinking was the Bombay terror attacks.
For an extreme counter example, contrast how China's govt. handled criticism during the Beijing Olympics. From an '08 editorial in NYT: "China has jailed critics, denied visas and threatened news organizations that negative coverage could jeopardize their chance to cover the Games.". And this after China had reportedly displaced 1.5 million people for the games!
While it's true that the more ghastly aspects of the CWG haven't made it to prime time, the middle class in Delhi should have suffered enough that it's possible that the city is forever finished as a venue for international sporting extravaganzas. A new generation of Indians has absorbed the idea - the hard way - that events like these are not a bed of roses. Our future governments will be extremely wary of taking on such endeavours because the media could slaughter them. What's not to like? :)
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Hehe..what to do. People look forward to anything to make them proud of India. But at least we're learning!


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From Ellis Island to Shooting Hoops
By Peter Ephross
It's true that major league baseball has seen a renaissance of Jewish players during the past few years, but the historic American Jewish sport is surely basketball.
It makes sense if you think about it: Easy to play on the concrete surfaces that are ubiquitous in urban areas, basketball was the sport most accessible to the sons of the immigrants who had flocked to the United States between 1880 and 1920.
As David Vyorst makes clear in his comprehensive and entertaining documentary, The First Basket, those sons took to the game with fervor. Interview after interview with former players and coaches makes clear that basketball, not religious observance, was what mattered to this Americanizing generation.
"My father was busy trying to make a living. My mother was busy taking care of the household. And we were busy in the streets, and in the schoolyard, playing basketball and growing up," Ralph Kaplowitz says in the film. Kaplowitz lived in the Bronx and later played two years for the New York Knicks.
Kaplowitz wasn't alone in making a religion out of basketball: The Jewish kids who learned the game in the rough-and-tumble New York City neighborhoods of Brooklyn's Brownsville and Williamsburg, on Manhattan's Lower East Side and the Bronx's Grand Concourse, later stocked the top collegiate teams and the early professional ranks.
Indeed, the film's name stems from the fact that in 1946, a Jewish player, Ossie Schectman, scored the first basket in the Basketball Association of America, the precursor to today's National Basketball Association.
Considering the paucity of Jewish players in today's NBA (there's currently one, the Los Angeles Lakers' Jordan Farmar), it's astonishing to remember that several members of Schechtman's 1946-1947 Knicks team were Jewish, as were players on other teams. Some still affectionately refer to the game that they and top coaches such as Red Sarachek and Red Auerbach developed - emphasizing teamwork, crisp passing, and defense - as "Jew ball."
This style of play originated earlier in the 20th century, when Jewish players competed on both the amateur and semiprofessional levels. Teams were sponsored by settlement houses that wanted to Americanize immigrants, and by labor unions and Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring branches.
Players on the most famous of these teams, the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, or SPHAs, wore Hebrew letters and Stars of David on their uniforms. What's more, after many SPHAs games, the court was turned into a dance floor where young Jews could socialize and look for husbands and wives. Some of the figures mentioned in The First Basket -- Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes and current NBA Commissioner David Stern, both of whom were interviewed in the film -- are well known.
Others are less familiar to casual fans. Barney Sedran, for instance, was an early 20th-century player who, at 5 feet 4 inches, is believed to be the shortest player in the Basketball Hall of Fame. During his heyday in the 1910s and '20s, Sedran played in as many as three games a day, often for different teams.
The Jewish connection to basketball isn't entirely rosy. The First Basket points out that the roots of the 1950s-era college basketball scandals rest in the Catskills summer resorts. The cooks apparently were the first to fix the games with college players, who were there for summer jobs and a bit of basketball.


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Vestas Wind Systems announced it was eliminating 110 jobs at its two wind-blade manufacturing plants in Windsor and Brighton, where remaining employees who had been working reduced hours will return to a 40-hour work week, but no job cuts are planned at the company's other two factories in Colorado.
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Callie Nguyen named a 2007 UMKC Honor Award recipientThe University of Missouri-Kansas City Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management has named Callie Nguyen a 2007 Honor Award recipient, one of only 10 such graduating seniors to be commended for both her academic achievements and participation in programs outside the classroom. Nguyen will be congratulated for her accomplishments at a reception May 4.
UMKC established the honor award program in 1975 to recognize graduating seniors who excelled in academic achievement, involvement in university program and service to the campus and surrounding community. Involvements include student government, clubs and organizations, debate, athletics, visual and performing arts and community service.
Nguyen, an Excelsior Springs, Mo., native, is a graduate of Excelsior Springs High School. At UMKC, she has pursued a duel major in chemistry and environmental studies. Her involvements have included participation in the College Democrats, Geology Club, Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society, the Environmental Studies Student Association and the Pre-Medical Society.
Nguyen and her fellow recipients will be honored at a reception and breakfast from 8 to 9:30 a.m. May 4 in room 106 of the University Center, 5000 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.
UMKC is one of four University of Missouri campuses. It is a public university serving more than 14,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UMKC engages with the community and economy based on a three-part mission: visual and performing arts, health and life sciences, and urban affairs.
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Glasses is a generic term these days, sometimes referring to ceramic mugs or plastic cups. So take heart, language pedants: these glasses are made of GLASS! Now you can rest easy and go back to punctuation patrol. Godspeed. Godspeed.
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I was recently at a conference for technology solution providers, put on by an industry association. There I was sitting at a roundtable near the front. To my left and right were executives of managed service providers (MSPs), internet service providers (ISPs) and others, but the real action was directly across the table, frothing at the mouth. It wasn't a rabid dog, it wasn't a sports fanatic describing a huge loss — it was a Microsoft sales rep.
After listening to the backlash from the executives, the rep finally reached his boiling point, when the question was asked, "When are we going to be able to start billing our clients directly for Office 365?" His eyes glared back at us, his face turned red in anger, and with a firm voice, he blurted, "never, it will never happen." Emphasis on the never was hard to mistake.
While there was not any actual foam (although I think there was some spittle), it was pretty tense. I have been to a lot of conferences, and Microsoft reps are continually getting their egos bruised and bashed by solution providers. I think they must rotate them out often, I imagine so they can attend counseling of some sort.
A couple days later I was talking to one solution provider. He told me of a song that described how he felt. The song: Pay The Devil by Van Morrison…
One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's gain can be another man's loss
I'm travelling down the lonely highway
'Cos a rolling stone don't gather no moss
Once I thought I could live the kind of life I wanted
But the wayward wind made me restless and a fool of me
'Cos I thought I could settle for the nine to five life
Well I guess it just was never meant to be
Now people talk and they speculate about what other people would do
But they can't put themselves within my shoes
It used to be my life, now it's become my story
I'm heading down this highway with those blues
Many solution providers are feeling huge pressure and "blues" as they try to adjust to a changing landscape, one in which they might not have as much control. Market shares for solution providers are continually shrinking. A big part of that shrinking share is the ever-growing list of companies going direct to consumers and businesses, often through cloud models. The "Channel Only" mantra is not being heard too much anymore.
Last week a silent applause rattled the world when tuCLoud's CEO, Guise Bule, voiced his displeasure over Microsoft's desktop virtualization licensing terms. In April, tuCloud. through a new company called Desktops On Demand, will launch a service in the United States that lets customers access a hosted Windows 7 virtual desktop as well as Office applications from PCs and mobile devices. The desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), priced at $10 per user monthly, is similar to the one that OnLive launched in January.
Both OnLive and tuCloud are clearly violating Microsoft's licensing terms. Bule gave a virtual middle finger to Microsoft saying, "OnLive is blatantly flouting the rules and Microsoft does nothing. Unless we do fight, we won't have a business. Microsoft could file a billion dollar lawsuit against us tomorrow. We're ready for a fight."
While the jury is still out on how far this will go and if Bule's company will even be real, it does echo the frustration that is emanating from solution providers and end-users. As of Mar. 27 until 29, the 2012 Microsoft Hosting Summit is taking place. Rumors say that Microsoft drastically cut down the number of invitees, and that a big announcement of some sorts is possibly coming.
I definitely don't think Microsoft is the devil. If it were not for Microsoft, the entire technology industry and livelihood would not be what it is. But lately they sure have a funny way of thanking their resellers. Microsoft is definetly not alone in the direct to consumer strategy, however.
Is there a silver lining? Yes, there are always opportunities. There are always ways of repackaging and selling products and services. Now is the time for solution providers to strategize and plan. Now is the time for businesses to think about who they really want to be buying from.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Deciding between 2.5L and 4.0L
Ok so most people say get the 4.0L. In fact, everyone i've talked to has said get the 4.0L. Is the 2.5L just wayyyy underpowered or something? I'm probably going to do around town stuff mostly and some off roading, hopefully some rock crawling stuff, nothing insane but decent, once I put a lift and upgrade the necessities on the jeep. Just wanted some input on why the 4.0L is so much more important.
Also, i'm looking at a 2.5L w/ 90k in good condition for $5k and a 4.0L w/ 120k for $6500. Is it worth the price increase and miles increase to get the bigger engine? Will i just hate myself on the interstate trying to drive the 2.5L??
Thanks for the input guys!
If the two you are looking at are in similar condition, then the 4.0L would be a better deal. I bought a clean and rust free 2.5L because I intend to install a V8....so for me it was silly to spend the extra money on a 4.0L just to yank its heart out.
4.0 no question
I had a '93 with the 2.5. I actually liked it... initially. Around town, it was great. Highways? Not so much. Tackling any hills in the mountains I would have to be in 3rd to even maintain 50 mph. Having trucks blow past you while you struggle to maintain 15 mph below the speed limit is no fun. And sad. I hadn't even done any mods or a lift to the '93. I now have a a 4.0 and can't fathom going back to the 2.5.
I finally pulled the trigger back in March after always wanting a jeep.. Wish I had found this forum sooner.. Anyway, I ran across a 97 2.5 auto with hardtop that was still basically stock. Great condition and looked like it has never to been off road much.. First thing I did was throw some 31s on it and even though it was fine around town, it was a dog on the interstate. I could get up to 80, but would take awhile. Top speed is not the problem, I could cruise around 65-70 with a nice ride. It was getting on the interstate that was a problem or going up steep inclines where you notice being under powered. I even notice on backroads when pulling out somewhere with a slight incline, you better make sure no one is coming. Plenty of times I would pull out thinking had enough time, only to find someone right on my a$$. You do have to alter driving style with a 2.5..This is with a auto, 5 speed might be a little better..
Not wanting to offend anyone, but spend your money on a 4.0... Some will say you can regear after adding larger tires to get back some performance, but that is goin to set you back $1500.00 or so, which is basically the cost difference of a 2.5 an 4.0..
I did find this forum soon enough, before I started adding a bunch of stuff to try and get more power from my 2.5.. Also I did what everyone else said, save your money on Mods that dont really help the 2.5 and sell your 2.5 and find a 4.0.. Between the money I got out of mine and the $2000 or so I saved by not regearing and adding a bunch of bolt on mods that still leave you with a 2.5, I should be able to find a nice 4.0.
I do miss my 2.5, but as soon as I find me a 4.0 I will will not think twice about making the switch.
4.0....or v8
Key word was interstate. Go 4.0 if she rides highway miles. 35's? Recommend 4.0! I like a strong (iron) 2.5, but if you run highway then really consider 4.0.
4.0L Without question!!!
For a strictly trail machine, the 2.5L is adequate and in most ways equal to the 4.0L. On the highway, the 2.5L is constantly struggling to stay up with traffic... especially if you install larger tires and don't regear the axles. If it's a daily driver that will see much highway or freeway time, I wouldn't even consider the 2.5L. Not to mention that because the 2.5L has to be driven so much more aggressively on the highway that few see better mpg with it than they would the 4.0L that doesn't have to be driven aggressively to keep up.
I got an '01 with a 2.5L, 5 speed, 4:11's riding on 31's .... I have no problems on interstate rolling 75mph, it is a little slower than a car but it's a Jeep, if I wanted something fast I'd have gotten a Corvette ... I wanted to go anywhere anytime. 143k miles and still running great.
Thanks for the input everyone! Sounds like a 6 is really the way to go since i still do a fair bit of highway driving. Now to find one with sub-100k miles...
the 2.5 besides being underpowered will not last 1/3 as long as the 4.0....that motor is almost bullit proof.....I have 120K on mine and runs just as strong as when I bought it and doesn't burn any oil. A friend of mine has over 400k on his. Although I do get a little piston slap because the skirts aren't long enouhg....but only lasts until they warm up. I went to 4.56 gears with my 35's and she is quick. This is my daily driver and I get 15mpg to work and back.
I've got a 98 with 125k on her with a 2.5 and she gets it down the interstate with no problems and with the 4.11's in the back she'll crawl out of anything in 4L without lookin twice.
Nah 2.5s are good to sell someone who has a blown one but that's it.
My '97 is a 2.5 rolling on 31's. It hasn't got much pick-up, but I can keep up with highway traffic without having to work the engine any harder than any other car or truck out there. Off-road, it performs as you'd expect from a Jeep. The toughest thing I've gone through are muddy trails and deep ruts. It's my daily driver, so I don't have it lifted or heavily modified.
Now, the 4.0 is an I-6, which is the most efficient design possible for maximizing your torque output. In fact, all Class A trucks have I-6 engines because no other design can beat it. Do you need a 4.0 Jeep on the highway? Not by itself, no. But if you're planning on pulling a boat, rock-crawling or mud bogging regularly, the 4.0 will be the better choice.
I would go with rt he 4.0, trust me you will need it.
I Have a lil' old 2.5. Ive taken it down the highway. Was is a race car? No. Did it get me where I was going? Yes. Most of my driving doesn't get over 40mph so for me the 2.5 works fine.
i just went threw the decision process and passed on a 98 2.5 se no options half doors that was actually in slightly better overall condition but opted for a 99 4.0 sport with dual tops and full doors sound bar tilt cruise newer bfg tires and it was less money.
The 2.5 just flat disapointed me on the test drives so i knew I would never be happy with it.
When I decided to buy my first Jeep I shopped for a four cylinder manual.
I wanted the best mileage I could get from a Jeep Wrangler and I heard to many nightmare stories about 13/15 MPG with the six.
The more I read threads like this Im glad I found a 2.4 six speed .
Now when I have to change the timing belt I might be sorry.
I have a 89 2.5L TBI 5/spd with 33x12.50x15 tires. If you are not going to do anything but stock, go with the 6 cylinder.I wish I had found this forum before I bought.To get up a long not to steep incline I have to baet the tar out of my little baby in third gear to maintain 40 mph+.Now my options are regearing and the costs are not in MY budget anytime soon.Do yourself a favor and just get the six, you will be much happier.Oh by the way gas mileage SUCKS when you have to drive anything hard, to maintain highway speed.
I am yet to hear anyone say they wish they had gotten the 2.5L when they have the 4.0L, but hear a lot the other way around.
If you're going to get a 4 cylinder get the good one, the 2.4 from 2003 to 2006, very good engine. And if you're going to be picky about it get the good transmission - the 5 speed from 2003 to 2004. Six speeds is gear clutter on both the 2.4 and 4.0.
If given the choice, it's hardly a debate -- 4.0 all the way.
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Former Indiana standout Noah Vonleh is likely to be drafted in the top five of Thursday's NBA Draft. Vonleh is writing a diary for NBA.com. Read his latest entry below.
A week from today, I will actually be an NBA player. Wow. This is a lifelong dream of mine and it's almost impossible to describe what it feels like now that it is about to come true.
The draft preparation process has been exciting, exhausting, interesting, challenging and inspiring. My favorite part has been the different team workouts and having a chance to compete against some of the guys I played against in college. Luckily, there have not been any surprises along the way. I have been watching the NBA Draft Combine for years and I talked to some guys that have gone through this before, so I have pretty much known what to expect.
Now, I just have to finish up a few more workouts and head back to Boston for a few days where I hit another major milestone - getting my license! Then I'll be back in New York, getting ready for NBA Draft week. I have a lot of family coming in, I think there will be over 30 people! I have been talking to my family members almost every single day through the process, and I am really excited for them to be here to see my dream come true. My cousin Jeremy was the one who got me started playing basketball, so it will be really special to have him there too.
At the top of my to-do list for the next week is perfecting my draft suit. I do not want to be the guy everyone is talking about for the next few years because my style was off when I shook the commissioner's hand. There is a lot of pressure here, but I have a great stylist and few ideas so I'm confident I won't end up on the worst dressed list.
It's hard to think about life after I get off that stage at Barclay's Center, when I officially belong to an NBA team and can start working towards earning my spot on a roster. I'll probably take a quick trip home to see my friends for a little bit, but I am really looking forward to meeting with my new team and getting ready for Summer League.
I am excited, a little nervous, and don't know what to expect, but for now I am just trying to soak everything in and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime moment.
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PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – Mercer junior attackman Zack Ward netted five goals, including the game winner with 13 seconds left to lead the men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 win over St. Joseph's at Finnesey Field on Wednesday afternoon. The win was the program's first road triumph and moved the team to 2-2 on the year.
Through just four games, Mercer head coach Kyle Hannan has already lifted his team to a program single-season record win total. St. Joseph's suffered its first home loss of the year and fell to 3-3.
"It was a great game," Hannan said. "It was back and forth, and our guys executed well down the stretch to come away with the win."
With 38 seconds left in the third quarter, freshman attackman Chris Baxa assisted Ward on an even-strength goal to trim Mercer's deficit to 8-7 entering the final period. Ward dialed up another score at the 9:48 juncture of the fourth to tie the game briefly, but St. Joseph's reclaimed the lead just 40 seconds later.
After Ward scored an equalizer with 7:54 in the fourth quarter, the teams went into the final minute of regulation tied at 9-9. Hannan called a timeout with 38 seconds left, dialing up a play to free Ward in the offensive sector.
The strategy worked, and Ward netted the go-ahead score with just 13 seconds to play. Sophomore midfielder Justin Evans won the ensuing faceoff and registered a ground ball to secure the win.
"At the end, we ran a play that we've worked on a lot prior to this game, but we actually didn't have it on our play sheet," Hannan said. "They mixed up their defenses so much that we went with a different look, and the guys executed and finished the play."
St. Joseph's entered the game with the nation's best scoring defense in the country, allowing just 6.4 goals per game. The Bears out-shot the Hawks 23-18 and dominated inside the center circle, winning 17 out of a possible 23 face-offs.
Freshman goalkeeper Mike Nugent made nine saves on the day to pick up his second win of the season.
Mercer continues its Northeast swing when it travels to Staten Island to take on Wagner on March 9. Game time is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Wagner College Stadium.


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McDonald's Transforms the Happy Meal Into An Engrossing Content Experience
The fast food king is giving children an engaging window into VR environments
McDonald's is running a pilot in Sweden of Happy Goggles, the company's new virtual reality headset which can be folded from a Happy Meal box. With the launch of this campaign and the functional design of this project, the 'golden arch' is lowering the threshold so that everyone can afford to experience the virtual.
By re-folding the box, customers can create a pair of virtual reality goggles. The idea came about, quite simply, by folding the usual Happy Meal box in a new way. The result, with the addition of a pair of lenses, turned into the VR Happy Goggles.
This is a test designed to modernize the company's product offering for children. It aims to provide a digital experience in addition to the physical toys usually found in the box. The rationale is that as new generations grow up in a world where smartphones and tablets are a part of daily life, the usual Happy Meal toys just won't pass muster.
Also, Happy Goggles will allow the chain to reach customers through experiences that focus on play and learning. Happy Googles can be considered a content play as McD's looks toward getting a bigger slice of mindshare. The gaming can also be good for brand engagement. The company is launching a VR skiing game endorsed by the Swedish National Ski Team called Slope Stars, a 360° ski experience that allows the user to open the doors to a world of fantasy, fun and how to stay safe while hitting the slopes.
The limited edition Happy Goggles will made be available at select restaurants in Sweden from March 5 to March 12.
While the Swedish McD's is the first chain to to turn a greasy box into VR goggles, we've seen others toying with it (i.e. Coca-Cola's VR packaging). It's an interesting campaign and one that's sure to be loved by digital natives all over the world.
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