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What makes public institutions legitimate? What gives them their authority? One view, put forward by the sociologist Edward Shils, is that they get their authority from upholding the values that society considers sacred. These need not be explicitly religious. Human rights, rationality, the care of children or ideas of national identity can all qualify as sacred in his sense, since all are protected by cultural and legal prohibitions, and all are celebrated with public rituals.
Framed in these terms, Tony Blair's appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry later this week, is part of an on-going sacred drama. The complexities of pluralist societies mean that there is never one single version of the sacred around which the whole of society coheres. But despite this complexity there are still defining moments in which something held sacred by a significant part of the population is threatened or polluted and the decision by the British government to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was, for many people in Britain, such a symbolic breach of the sacred.
Within the crowds marching against the war, the exact nature of the sacred under threat varied. For some, it was the bonds of the Ummah and the sense of the invasion as part of an ongoing assault on that sacred community. For some, it was the commitments underpinning anti-capitalist and anti-war activism. Perhaps for the majority, it was the sacredness of justice enshrined in the principles of international law, or a more diffuse sentiment of fairness and regard for life. Whilst the texture of the sacred for individual marchers varied, the marches nevertheless constituted a powerful public, ritual expression of solidarity. In the wake of such unprecedented ritual expressions of protest, the decision to invade became even more intensely experienced as a breach of the sacred commitments that had brought people out on to the streets.
The breach of the sacred always brings shame in its wake. Shame taints those who commissioned that breach – as happened to George W Bush, Tony Blair and the other political actors responsible for the war and who have been slowly removed from office. But as Jeffrey Alexander has observed, a breach of the sacred always seeps out from those immediately responsible, bringing in its wake a more general sense of pollution. Those British citizens who, in the face of the Iraq invasion, have felt a deep sense of shame at the actions of their political leaders will know the truth of this.
The breach of the sacred also demands some form of restitution. The various public inquiries into different aspects of the decision to invade Iraq have never simply been procedural exercises in the scrutiny of government. They – like the Watergate hearings – have also had a ritual significance, as spaces in which the failure of a key public institution to uphold sacred values is remembered and some form of restitution (whether punishment or symbolic shaming) acted out. As with previous inquiries, the Chilcot Inquiry will provide an opportunity to remember the events leading up to the Iraq invasion, and will revive memories of the sacred sentiments violated by that political decision. But it will not bring restitution. Such restitution would only begin to be possible by those responsible for those political decisions either recognising the tragic depth of their failure as public servants through full apology, or through their punishment and banishment from public life. But such apologies have never, on the whole, been forthcoming, and those responsible have sought to cling on to public office as long as public opinion would allow them.
David Cameron has said that we live in a broken society. One of the sad truths of this is how many of the political class – including those Conservative politicians like Cameron who gave their support to the invasion – fail to acknowledge that this fragmentation is caused partly by their own actions over Iraq. As Shils said, the legitimacy of public institutions rests on their ability to mediate values held sacred within society. Until there is some genuine restitution for the Iraq invasion, many British citizens will continue to experience a breach in their symbolic and moral identification with the structures of British government. David Cameron was astute enough to say that there needed to be a "cleansing" of the political system following the moral pollution of the MP's expenses scandal. But given that the political class in Britain (with some honourable exceptions) remains associated with the decision to go to war, such atonement over Iraq may have to wait – perhaps for another generation.


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MIAMI -- The Miami Heat continued their radical roster reshaping on Tuesday by signing journeyman forward Juwan Howard.
Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported it is a one-year deal for the veteran minimum of $1.4 million.
"This is a great addition for us," said Heat president Pat Riley. "We feel that Juwan's ability to play both the four and five spot will be complimentary to what we have put together. He also gives us incredible professionalism and is a perfect fit behind Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem."
The 37-year-old spent last season with Portland, where he averaged 6.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in 73 contests.
Since breaking into the league in 1994 as the fifth overall pick of Washington from the University of Michigan, Howard has racked up 14.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per contest in 1,116 NBA games with the Bullets/Wizards, Mavericks, Nuggets, Magic, Rockets, Bobcats and Trail Blazers.
Howard joins previous front-court additions Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Dexter Pittman, Bosh and LeBron James on the new Miami roster as the club looks to win their second NBA title in franchise history.


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Your CISO will soon need more clout
If consumers weren't skittish enough, Home Depot recently joined the rapidly lengthening list of big box retailers experiencing sometimes prolonged data breaches: Albertson's, Dairy Queen, The UPS Store, Sally Beauty, Target, Michael's, Neiman Marcus, P.F. Chang's and SuperValu.
More than a few Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) must be nervous. In fact, it may be forcing corporations who do not have a CISO to rethink that strategy. Often the CISO position is folded in with or serves under the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or even, if the CIO reports to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as is the case in some organizations, two layers under the seat of power. So, the person charged with security risk management may not have the authority to get things done.
With the recent spate of high profile data breaches, translating the message up the chain or even the perception that the CISO's job is not important enough to be a direct report may not cut it anymore. Shareholders and customers want answers.
Consumers also are flocking to convenient online sites, where they have few other choices than to use a credit or debit card.
Data breaches, whether prolonged or short lived, especially those that compromise customer information, are black eyes that eventually will force consumers to keep their credit and debit cards at home. Having the man or woman in charge of mitigating IT risk fairly far down the food chain doesn't look good, no matter whose ear he or she may have.
How Geeky Should a CISO Be?
Michael Daniel, the current White House cybersecurity coordinator, recently admitted to lacking technical know-how; i.e. he can't code and doesn't feel the need to learn to do so. Those who have the technical expertise and think it's important have lit up the Internet with their cries, making it clear that they do not approve.
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Facebook Applications Have Nagging Vulnerabilities
I am also the editor of the Neohapsis Labs blog. The following is reprinted with permission from
By Neohapsis Researchers Andy Hoernecke and Scott Behrens
This is the second post in our Social Networking series. (Read the first one here.)
As Facebook's application platform has become more popular, the composition of applications has evolved. While early applications seemed to focus on either social gaming or extending the capabilities of Facebook, now Facebook is being utilized as a platform by major companies to foster interaction with their customers in a variety forms such as sweepstakes, promotions, shopping, and more.
And why not? We've all heard the numbers: Facebook has 800 million active users, 50% of whom log on everyday. On average, more than 20 million Facebook applications are installed by users every day, while more than 7 million applications and websites remain integrated with Facebook. (1) Additionally, Facebook is seen as a treasure trove of valuable data accessible to anyone who can get enough "Likes" on their page or application.
As corporate investments in social applications have grown, Neohapsis Labs researchers have been requested to help clients assess these applications and help determine what type of risk exposure their release may pose. We took a sample of the applications we have assessed and pulled together some interesting trends. For context, most of these applications are very small in size (2-4 dynamic pages.) The functionality contained in these applications ranged from simple sweepstakes entry forms and contests with content submission (photos, essays, videos, etc.) to gaming and shopping applications.
From our sample, we found that on average the applications assessed had vulnerabilities in 2.5 vulnerability classes (e.g. Cross Site Scripting or SQL Injection,) and none of the applications were completely free of vulnerabilities. Given the attack surface of these applications is so small, this is a somewhat surprising statistic.
The most commonly identified findings in our sample group of applications included Cross-Site Scripting, Insufficient Transport Layer Protection, and Insecure File Upload vulnerabilities. Each of these vulnerabilities classes will be discussed below, along with how the social networking aspect of the applications affects their potential impact.
Facebook applications suffer the most from Cross-Site Scripting. This type of vulnerability was identified on 46% of the applications sampled. This is not surprising, since this age old problem still creeps up into many corporate and personal applications today. An application discovered to be vulnerable to XSS could be used to attempt browser based exploits or to steal session cookies (but only in the context of the application's domain.)
These types of applications are generally framed inline [inling framing, or iframing, is a common HTML technique for framing media content] on a Facebook page from the developer's own servers/domain. This alleviates some of the risk to the user's Facebook account since the JavaScript can't access Facebook's session cookies. And even if it could, Facebook does use HttpOnly flags to prevent JavaScript from accessing session cookies values. But, we have found that companies have a tendency to utilize the same domain name repeatedly for these applications since generally the real URL is never really visible to the end user. This means that if one application has a XSS vulnerability, it could present a risk to any other applications hosted at the same domain.
When third-party developers enter the picture all this becomes even more of a concern, since two clients' applications may be sharing the same domain and thus be in some ways reliant on the security of the other client's application.
The second most commonly identified vulnerability, affecting 37% of the sample, was Insufficient Transport Layer Protection While it is a common myth that conducting a man-in-the-middle attack against cleartext protocols is impossibly difficult, the truth is it's relatively simple. Tools such as Firesheep aid in this process, allowing an attacker to create custom JavaScript handlers to capture and replay the right session cookies. About an hour after downloading Firesheep and looking at examples, we wrote a custom handler for an application that was being assessed that only used SSL when submitting login information. On an unprotected WIFI network, as soon as the application sent any information over HTTP we had valid session cookies, which were easily replayed to compromise that victim's session.
Once again, the impact of this finding really depends on the functionality of the application, but the wide variety of applications on Facebook does provide a interesting and varied landscape for the attacker to choose from. We only flagged this vulnerability under specific circumstance where either the application cookies were somehow important (for example being used to identify a logged in session) or the application included functionality where sensitive data (such as PII or credit card data) was transmitted.
The third most commonly identified finding was Insecure File Upload. To us, this was surprising, since it's generally not considered to be one of the most commonly identified vulnerabilities across all web applications. Nevertheless 27% of our sample included this type of vulnerability. We attribute its identification rate to the prevalence of social applications that include some type of file upload functionality (to share an avatar, photo, document, movie, etc.)
We found that many of the applications we assessed have their file upload functionality implemented in an insecure way. Most of the applications did not check content type headers or even file extensions. Although none of the vulnerabilities discovered led to command injection flaws, almost every vulnerability exploited allowed the attacker to upload JavaScript, HTML or other potentially malicious files such as PDF and executables. Depending on the domain name affected by this vulnerability, this flaw would aid in the attacker's social engineering effort as the attacker now has malicious files on a trusted domain.
Our assessment also identified a wide range of other types of vulnerabilities. For example, we found several of these applications to be utilizing publicly available admin interfaces with guessable credentials. Furthermore, at least one of the admin interfaces was riddled with stored XSS vulnerabilities. Sever configurations were also a frequent problem with unnecessary exposed services and insecure configuration being repeatedly identified.
Finally, we also found that many of these web applications had some interesting issues that are generally unlikely to affect a standard web application. For example, social applications with a contest component may need to worry about the integrity of the contest. If it is possible for a malicious user to game the contest (for example by cheating at a social game and placing a fake high score) this could reflect badly on the application, the contest, and the sponsoring brand.
Even though development of applications integrated with Facebook and other social network sites in increasing, we've found companies still tend to handle these outside of their normal security processes. It is important to realize that these applications can present a risk and should be thoroughly examined just like traditional stand alone web applications.


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FRISCO — The long-running love-hate soap opera between Breckenridge and Vail Resorts took a nasty turn this week, as town officials vowed to forge ahead with putting an admissions (lift-ticket) tax on the November ballot, while the resort company questioned the town's legal authority to do so.
At issue, according to Breckenridge, is an urgent need to address parking and transit issues — something the town should have started addressing 15 years ago. Based on community input, town officials say, the best path forward is to build a parking structure on F-Lot and to boost transit options.
To do that, the town wants to establish a new revenue stream by taxing lift tickets and other for-profit attractions. But Breckenridge and Vail Resorts have apparently failed to find common ground. In a press release, Mayor John Warner said ongoing negotiations have failed, leaving the town no option but to pursue voter approval for a new tax in the fall. Continue reading "Breck, Vail Resorts squabble over parking"


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Fort Hood Shooter Found Guilty, May Face Death Penalty
Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan was found guilty of premeditated murder in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting spree against unarmed soldiers that killed 13 and wounded more than 30 others. He now faces the death penalty. Judy Woodruff speaks with Karen Brooks who has been covering the court martial for Reuters.
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I've been using the geany editor recently and I was shocked to find that it has decent source browsing capabilities (that work with haskell even!). You can find where something is defined and find other usages of things. It's a bit crude, but gets the job done well enough.

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On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Martin Drautzburg <email@example.com> wrote:

 Hello all,

 I need your advice about how to browse code which was written by someone else
 (Paul Hudak's Euterpea, to be precise, apx. 10000 LOC). I had set some hopes
 on leksah, and it indeed shows me the interfaces, but I have not yet
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 I ran haddock over the sources, and again I could not see more that just
 signatures.

 I would be very happy with something like a Smalltalk browser. Something that
 would let me zoom down to the source code, but with "search" and hyperlink
 capabilities ("senders" and "implementers" in Smalltalk).

 Anyways, how do you guys do it, i.e. how to you dive into non-trivial foreign
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Like most people, Jonathan Massey thought he knew where Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as president.
"It was a historic event. I thought the exact spot had been documented a long time ago, just like the swearing-in itself had been documented," Massey said.
But it had not.
Everyone, of course, knew that Johnson had taken the oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat parked on the east ramp at Dallas Love Field. The event took place on Nov. 22, 1963 — 48 years ago today — two hours after President John F. Kennedy had been fatally shot in Dealey Plaza.
Only four other presidents have taken the oath of office outside of Washington (George Washington, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge).
The setting for Johnson's oath-taking, a crowded airplane cabin, was surely the most unusual of them all.
But when from time to time over the past five decades someone floated the idea of marking the occasion, no one could say with precision where it had taken place.
Massey, the principal architect for Corgan Associates on the current reconfiguration of the Love Field terminal, first heard the question posed at a June 20, 2010, meeting at the airport administrative offices.
Among those present were representatives of the airport, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the LBJ presidential library — in short, the people most likely to know.
The question had occurred a few weeks earlier to state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, who represents neighborhoods near Love Field. Branch, who had been reading William Manchester's Death of a President, was waiting to board a plane for Austin in the East Terminal.
Much of the terminal, he knew, was going to be torn down as Love Field underwent a major reconstruction. He requested the meeting to figure out how to preserve, or at least commemorate, the sites at Love Field associated with the assassination of one president and the swearing-in of another.
"I wanted to know: Was there anything there worth preserving? Could we place a medallion in the runway or create some sort of imprint of the plane on the tarmac?" he said.
Those answers were easy. Federal Aviation Administration rules would prevent a raised marker on the runway, and airport officials feared that a plaque flush with the surface would undermine the structural integrity of the concrete.
But, even if a physical marker was out of the question, the challenge of solving a historical problem stayed on the table.
"I was surprised we didn't know the answer," Massey said. "I think everyone in the room was surprised."
When Massey volunteered to find the answer, one of the things he knew for sure was where the swearing-in did not occur — the plane was not at the same place it had been on the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, when JFK and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrived to a joyous reception.
In fact, after the presidential motorcade departed for downtown Dallas, the plane had been moved twice — once to a hangar to be cleaned and refueled, then back to a gate a bit south of the arrival site.
There were scores of photojournalists in Dallas that day, and they in turn took hundreds of pictures of Air Force One. But none of them, so far as is known, photographed the plane from an angle or a distance that would allow future researchers to fix its position.
Still, as was discovered only decades later, such a photograph did exist.
An FAA employee named Noel Cook had taken his 35 mm camera to work that day. Confined to his office, he couldn't join the crowd near the plane, but he said in an interview before he died in 2005 that he had crawled out onto the roof of the terminal and taken photos of the presidential plane at both Kennedy's morning arrival and Johnson's afternoon departure.
In the 1990s, he offered to donate the resulting color slides to The Sixth Floor Museum.
"He kept apologizing over and over, saying, 'I know they're not very good,'" recalled Gary Mack, the museum's curator. "And I kept assuring him that all pictures were important; you don't know what researchers in the future will be interested in."
When Branch raised his question, Mack remembered the slides deep in The Sixth Floor's files. He brought them to the Love Field meeting and showed them to Massey — and to Karen Kavanagh, a consultant who helped in the research.
The photographs proved to be a key clue.
"I crawled all over the roof with my camera and tripod, holding up the photo to get things to match up with the way things are now," Massey recalled.
The task was complicated by the fact that the view outside Massey's office had changed dramatically since 1963. There had been two major construction projects in that area of Love Field, one in the 1970s and another in the early 1990s, when a central utility plant was built that partly blocked the sight line to where the presidential plane had been parked.
But Massey noticed that a few things had remained in place over the decades — some drainage pipes on the roof, a small weather observation shed just beyond the building and a hangar on the other side of the airport.
Using those landmarks as a guide, he took new photographs. When he matched them up with Cook's, he was able to determine the north-south position of Air Force One.
He then had to determine its distance from where Cook had been standing. Using high school algebra and the office computer, he solved the question of where the plane was. But where was Johnson?
Again, people knew generally that LBJ had taken the oath of office in the press and staff area near the front of the presidential plane. But, like the position of the plane at the airport, no one had fixed the spot.
The Boeing 707 that served Kennedy as Air Force One is now parked at a museum on an Air Force base in Ohio. It had been reconfigured after the assassination, but the museum staff told Mack that a floor plan from the Kennedy era still existed.
Mack obtained it and passed it on to Massey.
Johnson's position within the two sides of the plane was easy enough to determine. He was standing on the starboard side of a narrow aisle in the center of the cabin; there wasn't much room for him to be anywhere else.
His position along the length of the plane was more difficult to determine.
Using photographs of the swearing-in, Massey counted the rows of observers between Johnson and a bulkhead visible in the background. The architect then assigned 18 inches to each row, fixed the president's position within the plane and — from there — its relation to the surface of the tarmac underneath.
After months of on-and-off detective work, Massey finally had his answer: At the moment he took the presidential oath of office, Johnson was standing at 96 degrees, 50 minutes, 49.85 seconds of west longitude; 32 degrees, 50 minutes, 42.22 seconds of north latitude.
More or less.
In the end, fixing the position required a degree of guesswork. Some Love Field officials say they are confident the coordinates are accurate to within inches. Massey is more modest.
"I'd say, at most, it could be off by a few feet," he said.
But because of the current Love Field construction, the area where the spot is will look very different when the project is completed in spring 2013.
When the new terminal is open, the swearing-in spot will be in the middle of an active taxiway behind the eastern arm of a set of departure gates.
Because a marker on the taxiway has been ruled out, officials have designed a notch in the corner of the new terminal where visitors can view the swearing-in area.
The exact design of that viewing area is still pending.
"We don't know yet what we're going to do with the information," Massey said. "But it was a matter of satisfying a basic curiosity.
"As much as anything else, we wanted to know where it was."


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Remi Garde says he is trying to stay strong and inspire his Aston Villa players to pull off a remarkable escape from relegation.
The Villans lost for the 20th time in the Premier League this campaign at the weekend, leaving them marooned at the foot of the table, nine points from safety with games fast running out.
Despite their attempts to avoid relegation now looking forlorn, Garde says he will not let his players stop fighting and hopes to find the right words to motivate them in the face of an increasingly desperate situation.
"I love football. I hate defeats. Five defeats in a row – I am not sure I have experienced that before in my whole career," he told Villa's website.
"I am relying on myself to be strong and find the right words for the players.
"When I see that Tottenham game, I feel that the players hear what I say. We will now go to Swansea and try to win."


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Paris attacks: France and rugby will bounce back from atrocities, vows former Ulster star Wannenburg
Oyonnax's former Ulster back-rower Pedrie Wannenburg has vowed that France will return to normality as quickly as possible following last Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris.
After all Champions Cup games scheduled in France, including Ulster's trip to Oyonnax, were postponed over the weekend as part of three days of mourning called for by President Hollande, the 34-year-old former Springbok feels it's important to minimise the disruption craved by the perpetrators of the atrocities.
"It is quite shocking," said the man who is in his fourth season across the Channel having left Ulster for Castres following the Heineken Cup final defeat of 2012.
"We watched it yesterday in the news. The second time in ten months for Paris (after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January), it's obviously terribly sad for all of France but especially for Paris.
"For people and for rugby it's important that we keep going. That we show that these people can't stop us," the South African added.
"People died so let's make sure we think of them rather than the game of rugby for a while, people's lives has been changed forever, but soon we'll be back and show terrorists that we go on."
While backing the EPCR'S decision to call off his side's contest against his former employers, Wannenburg admitted that it was especially disappointing to see a game he had eagerly anticipated since the summer's pool draw fall by the wayside.
"It was obviously frustrating. I had been really looking forward to playing against Ulster and to going to see the guys afterwards," the back-rower said.
"We'll play again, as well as going back to Belfast, so we'll do it again."
Read more:
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While Ulster's players were on the team bus outside their hotel when the news of the postponement was relayed, Oyonnax's squad had already made their way to the Stade Charles Mathon when the decision came an hour and a half before kick-off, instead holding an impromptu training session.
"It was only when we arrived at the stadium that we realised the game might not be played," said Wannenburg.
"Everyone was strapped up and ready to play but we were told just as we were going to warm-up.
"It's not nice, now we just have to find time to get the game in."
Stephane Glas, the Oyonnax backs coach who was due to take charge of the team after Olivier Azam had been sacked on Thursday, said: " A few of our players were a bit affected by what had happened so it was probably the right decision.
"A few other teams won't play but some will so it makes the pool a bit unbalanced; that is the main problem from a rugby point of view.
"The teams that played will have no problems with their schedule.
"We may end up having to play a league game on a Wednesday and against Ulster at the weekend.
"There will be a lot of organisation to get through as there a lot of teams to now sort out. We'll see.
"We still trained as we wanted to do something. We'll have the day off on Monday."
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Pat Sajak, host of the popular show "Wheel of Fortune," turned to Twitter on Monday to take a jab at the National Security Agency (NSA) and community organizing progressives.
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Sajak, also a contributor to National Review Online, has reportedly donated thousands of dollars to help elect Republicans to public office.
Last year, the popular game show host cracked a joke aimed at President Obama during "Wheel of Fortune."
After a contestant successfully guessed the phrase, "A thriving business," Sajak jokingly asked, "did you build that?"
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The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated settlements in two cases against companies that vastly overstated to consumers the risk and profit potential investment value of federally-issued Federal Communications Commission (FCC) paging licenses, among other misrepresentations. The settlements are with defendants Rick Havil and Charles Bayne, who jointly ran USA Channel Systems, Inc. and Two-Way Systems, Inc. as a single business enterprise. The settlements impose a $50,000 judgment against the two corporate defendants, a $50,000 judgment against defendant Bayne, and a $65,000 judgment against defendant Havil. The settlements also require Havil and Bayne each to post $250,000 performance bonds to protect consumers before they engage in telemarketing activities in the future.
The settlements follow charges filed in January 1996 against these two companies and 83 others for fraudulently telemarketing FCC paging licenses and other types of high-tech investments. The crackdown, called Project Roadblock, was launched by the FTC and state securities regulators. The FTC commenced this action by filing a complaint against USA Channel Systems, Inc., and Charles Bayne. In February 1996, the FTC amended the complaint to add Two-Way Systems, Inc. and Rick Havil.
Today's settlements resolve FTC charges that the defendants telemarketed FCC paging licenses application services based on false promises that the licenses, once obtained from the FCC, could easily be sold or leased at a substantial profit. The FTC alleged that the defendants' representations were false because FCC regulations made the secondary market for selling or leasing such licenses virtually non-existent. Moreover, the FTC alleged, the defendants falsely represented that they were constructing a vast paging system and would be interested in making favorable offers to buy or lease the paging licenses that their customers obtained. The settlements would prohibit the defendants from making a variety of false claims in the future, including specifically:
- the number of FCC licensees that an entity or individual can acquire directly from the FCC for use in a geographic area;
- the likelihood that an entity or individual will lease, buy, or otherwise acquire licenses issued by the FCC;
- the likelihood that a consumer will realize income or profit by leasing, selling, or otherwise transferring licenses issued by the FCC
- the risk or profit potential of an investment in FCC paging licenses;
- the FCC's fees or requirements to acquire or utilize licenses it issues or the amount of a consumer's payment for FCC license application services that will be used to pay for application and engineering fees;
- the amount of a consumer's investment that will be used to pay for building and operating a telecommunications business, or the likelihood that a consumer will not need to pay additional money to build and operate a telecommunications business;
- the extent to which any entity or individual has taken steps to build a telecommunication system that would use a consumer's paging licenses;
- the risk, liquidity, or value of any telemarketed product or service; and
- any other fact material to a consumer's decision to buy any telemarketed product or service.
The settlement would also prohibit the defendants from failing to disclose relevant FCC regulations on licenses or from operating a telemarketing business without fully complying with all applicable federal and state registration and bond requirements.
In addition, the settlement with defendant Havil would require him to post a $250,000 performance bond before engaging or assisting others in telemarketing. The order would also require Havil to pay a $65,000 judgment over a two-year period.
The settlement with defendant Bayne would require him to post a $250,000 performance bond before engaging or assisting others in telemarketing. This order would allow Bayne to telemarket some communications products, such as pagers, without first posting a performance bond. The order would also impose a $50,000 judgment against USA Channel Systems and Two-Way Systems, and require Bayne to pay a $50,000 judgment over a one-year period. The funds from the all of the judgments will be used for consumer redress if practicable.
Both settlements give the FTC the right to reopen the orders in the event the defendants misrepresented their financial condition. Finally, the settlements include various reporting requirements necessary to assist the FTC in monitoring the defendants' compliance.
The Commission vote to approve these settlements for filing in court was 5-0. They were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, on Nov. 25.
NOTE: These agreements are for settlement purposes only and do not constitute admissions by the defendants of law violations. Settlements have the force of law when signed by the judge.
Copies of the settlements, as well as other documents associated with these cases and with Project Roadblock, are available from the FTC's Public Reference Branch, Room 130, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 202-326-2222; TTY for the hearing impaired 1-866-653-4261. To find out the latest FTC news as it is announced, call the FTC's NewsPhone recording at 202-326-2710. FTC news releases and other materials also are available on the Internet at the FTC's World Wide Web Site at: http://www.ftc.gov
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(FTC Matter No. X960017)
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MINNEAPOLIS - Sen. Larry Craig filed court papers Monday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting, arguing that he entered the plea under stress caused by media inquiries into his sexuality.
Craig, an Idaho Republican, pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct following his June arrest in a sting operation in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis airport. A police report alleged that Craig had solicited sex from a male officer at the airport, which the senator has denied.
In a "state of intense anxiety" following his arrest, Craig "felt compelled to grasp the lifeline offered to him by the police officer" and pleaded guilty to the disorderly conduct charge in hopes the matter would not be made public, said the court papers filed in Hennepin County District Court.
The filing said Craig panicked and accepted the plea rather than seeking the advice of an attorney. As a result, Craig's guilty plea was not "knowingly and understandingly made," and the evidence against him insufficient to support the plea, the papers said.
Craig's attorney, William Martin, cited pressure from Craig's hometown newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, which spent months investigating whether Craig engaged in homosexual encounters.
Statesman executive editor Vicki Gowler defended the paper's investigation Monday, saying it was done with "great care." She said its length was "due in large part to difficulties we encountered getting information from the senator."
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7:45 p.m.:Despite afternoon and evening conditions remaining favorable for additional shower/storm activity, little has materialized. Right now only extremely spotty and very light showers remain over parts of the area, and we don't seem to be in line for much more in the short term. Because of this, the National Weather Service has canceled much of the flood watch for the area, with places like Loudoun and Fauquier counties still included, mainly due to earlier rains.
3:45 p.m.: The periodic downpours expected so far today have mainly concentrated well southwest of the metro region. As a result, outside an isolated shower or two, it's been an OK day, with mostly cloudy skies and temps climbing into the low 70s. Some scattered showers and storms are possible through this evening, and a few of them could be severe.
Through Tonight: Some showers and thunderstorms should develop in the muggy late afternoon and evening air - but the activity looks to be intermittent and may not affect everyone. Favored areas to see storms are south, west, and southwest of D.C (i.e generally west of I-95, with more isolated activity east). As the storms track toward the northwest, lookout for torrential rain and dangerous lightning where they occur, and possibly some strong winds and even small hail. Rain amounts may average around 0.25-0.5", but with large variability. Some spots could exceed 1", where others get very little. Temperature slowly fall through the 60s.
Monitor severe warnings issued by the National Weather Service and radar on our Severe Weather Tracking Station below. Also, comment below with conditions where you are.
Tomorrow (Wednesday): Like today, skies are mostly cloudy and intermittent showers and storms likely develop. We may well see more rainfall than today, given closer proximity of the upper level disturbance. The heaviest, most concentrated rain is probably in the afternoon or evening. Heavy rainfall amounts of over 1" are possible in some areas, whereas other areas may see very little rain. It's humid, with highs in the low 70s.
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Walter Reed Pollen update:The last 24 hour count is incomplete due to heavy rain showers. Mold spores remain HIGH at 18,937.41 spores/cubic meter of air. Tree pollen is MODERATE at 67.73 gr/cubic meter, grass pollen is HIGH 17.89 gr/cubic meter and weed pollen is LOW at 0.64 gr/cubic meter of air.
Central Va. rain: Heavy rain and flash flooding have occurred over portions of central Virginia. Charlottesville, Va. has received 2.86" in the last 24 hours. Many reports of flooded highways have come out of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Albermarle, Culpeper, Orange, Madison, and Greene counties.


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Drawing Conclusions
Visual art can transmit meaning and tell stories. Exploring the multi-valence of narrative in contemporary art, Drawing Conclusions features works on paper by artists such as Larry Day, Marcel Dzama, Faith Ringgold, and Kara Walker—and includes several new acquisitions to the RISD Museum's collection of prints, drawings, and photographs.
Support for Drawing Conclusions is provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Visual art—like storytelling—communicates meaning, but rarely does an artwork hold a single meaning. A great pleasure of art is that each viewer brings her or his own experience to a work, often revealing many ways to interpret it.
Drawn from the Museum's collection of works on paper, this exhibition explores the multivalence of narrative in contemporary art. It presents a diverse collection of works that tell stories, blending the public and personal, the real and fictional. Whether serving as a stage for surreal dreaming or a site to ponder history and identity, each artwork draws on an expanded understanding of narrative and the forms it can take. We invite viewers to draw their own conclusions.
The exhibition was organized with the help of Emilia Mickevicius, PhD candidate at Brown University, and Jagdeep Raina, MFA candidate at RISD, both assistants in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.


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New Technology Proven to Reduce Motorcycle Helmet Rotational Acceleration by More Than 50% During a Motorcycle Accident
UPDATE: Read our review of the Lazer Rider helmet with Superskin!
Here's a question for you old-timers: Can you name the the very first motorcycle helmet reviewed on webBikeWorld.com?
Here's a hint: webBikeWorld went online in 2000, and the review was published in the Spring of 2001.
Here's another hint: the helmet was made by the world's longest-established motorcycle helmet manufacturers.
Give up? It was the Lazer Century (review), my very first "flip-up" motorcycle helmet.
If you remembered that, you get a webBikeWorld Gold Star award!
Lazer Helmets (Belgium) was new to the U.S. motorcycle helmet market in 1999 and one of the very first (lots of 'firsts' here) motorcycle helmet manufacturers with an online presence that also featured online purchasing!
Don't forget, that was 10 years ago, and the Internet was a much different place...
A few years after that, Lazer Helmets were marketed and sold by AGV in the U.S., but the brand never became as popular in North America as it was in Europe.
Lazer is now independent again, and they're going through a sort of re-emergence in their 90th year anniversary with a very interesting new technology called SuperSkin.
The helmets will be available for sale some time in March 2009 in both "Jet" and full-face styles.
We're always anxious to learn about new technologies with the potential to make motorcycling safer.
So I will be meeting the CEO of Lazer Helmets at the upcoming 2009 Powersports Dealer Expo in Indianapolis next week to learn more and to take possession of a brand-new Lazer SuperSkin helmet.
It will then be put it through the standard webBikeWorld motorcycle helmet evaluation and review.
In the meantime, Lazer sent us some information on this exciting new technology, which I've edited, along with some interesting graphics.
If you have any questions about Lazer SuperSkin, be sure to send them to me at my email address in the Comments section below before February 14 and I'll get them answered.
The concept of SuperSkin is simple Think about one of the ways in which your skin protects you -- it moves and slides over your body to provide some "give" when you bump into things.
Sometimes the friction is greater than the protection offered by the skin, resulting in a bruise or abrasion. But think about what might happen if your skin didn't provide any "give" -- just like the surface of a traditional motorcycle helmet.
The SuperSkin helmet uses this same natural strategy by covering a motorcycle helmet with a "skin" that provides a sort of lubricity, which then allows the helmet to slide, rather than catch.
According to tests, SuperSkin can reduce the rotational acceleration of the motorcycle helmet by 60% (Edit: Changed from 50%), resulting in a reduction in the risk of intra-cerebral shearing by 67.5%.
What does this mean for motorcyclists? As you can see in the Lazer SuperSkin video included at the end of this article, a motorcycle helmet equipped with SuperSkin rotates less when it glances off a surface.
The SuperSkin basically gives up its life for the motorcycle rider by "lubricating" the surface of the helmet and lowering what we call "stiction" -- the resistance to movement forces, like in the seals on a motorcycle front fork.
Lazer says that SuperSkin protects the head and brain significantly better than traditional helmets in these types of impacts by reducing the forces ultimately transmitted to the head and brain.
Alexander de Vos van Steenwijk, the CEO of Lazer, told us that this is "based on the broadly accepted medical diagnosis that diffuse axonal injury is caused by rotational impact".
He said "Rotational impact causes 'torque' inside the brain. Diffuse axonal injury is one of the most devastating lesions our brain can suffer, in all medical literature it is explained as such".
Lazer Helmets has completed many tests to prove this theory.
he decrease of the rotational impact was tested and certified by Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the UK, and is demonstrated in the video of the falling helmets, where the tangential force is reduced by 60%.
Also, research conducted by Prof. Willinger at L'Institut de Mécanique des Fluides et des Solides (IMFS) in Strasbourg, France, demonstrated the effect of this decrease in rotational impact on the probability of suffering diffuse axonal injury.
Professor Willinger's mathematical modeling, on which he and his team are leading experts, estimates that this probability is decreased by 67.5%.
Other tests at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in association with the CNRS, the French National Scientific Research Centre, were conducted in what is said to be a detailed scientific study of the ability of the SuperSkin to prevent brain injury in accidents.
Lazer said that the tests prove that on head impact, a Lazer SuperSkin helmet reduces the risk of intra-cerebral shearing by 67.5%.
Following is an edited version of the Lazer Helmets SuperSkin press release:
The skull, which is the best-designed casing for providing the brain with protection, is itself naturally protected by the scalp.
SuperSkin is a layer on the outside of the helmet, which acts exactly like the scalp does in the human head; by sliding on the shell it limits rotation.
Rotation of the head causes severe and untreatable damage to the brain from the very first milliseconds following a blow and the scalp reduces the effect of the impact by sliding over the skull.
It is precisely this infinitesimal time lapse of 15 milliseconds that is so critical, it is what scientists call "rotational injury". The Lazer SuperSkin helmet was invented and designed precisely to counteract this in the most effective manner.
It is important to note that in 67% of all cases the head is affected in a motorcycle accident and, according to the European COST 327 helmet study concerning motorcyclist safety, "rotational acceleration was identified as a principal cause of head injury".
In order to understand how this phenomenon occurs, you should be aware that the brain is not fixed to the inside of the skull and the brain linings but that it floats, immersed in cerebrospinal fluid.
In fact, the skull and the brain can be compared to a hollow globe that encloses a gelatinous sphere, the brain matter, which floats within the bony walls in a whole network of membranes and elastic cables (blood vessels, tissues etc).
Any impact causes instantaneous pivoting of the head, to a greater or lesser degree. Of course, the brain mass follows the rotational movement of the skull, but with a slight time delay.
Kinetic energy results in the brain undergoing a rotational to-and-fro movement inside the skull.
And as described previously, this happens within the first 15 milliseconds following the impact. Clearly the violence of this rotational movement within the skull can instantaneously cause the tearing of blood vessels and nerve fibers inside the brain.
This phenomenon, called "intracranial shearing" by doctors, is the cause of serious and inoperable injuries leading to serious disabilities (coma, paralysis and various other disorders) and all too often, death.
This is why, in conjunction with the work carried out on this subject by Dr. Ken Philips of Philips Helmets Limited, the makers of LAZER helmets have decided to invest their effort and capital in the development of a new technology.
It is called PHPS: Philips Head Protection System, that makes it possible to considerably limit the pathological and neurological consequences of rotational injury on the brain considerably.
Actually, as we can see later, a helmet fitted with the SuperSkin membrane reduces intra-cerebral shearing by 67.5%, by reducing the mechanical effects of rotational acceleration by more than 50%.
This exceptional outcome is the result of long research and meticulous design and development.
Even if your helmet is as shiny and lacquered as a piece of Chinese furniture, and even if you can imagine that in the event of a fall it will slide like a bowling ball, in fact matters are much more complex.
This is what has been proved by work carried out by the biomechanics team at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in association with the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research).
Also, tests for official approval have been carried out by the independent Transport Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom.
Impact tests on the standard anvil were conducted (the inclined impact test, part of the ECE 22.05 standard) with a LAZER Rider standard model.
And comparing the results of these with results of the same tests carried out on a LAZER Rider SuperSkin, video recordings clearly show that the rotational effect is greatly reduced with the model equipped with the SuperSkin membrane.
The elasticity of the covering combined with the lubrication of the LAZER SuperSkin helmet provides a quantitative reduction of up to 60% of the tangential force.
Diagrams demonstrate that the maximum rotational speed experienced is four times greater with the standard helmet than with the SuperSkin.
These experiments have clearly indicated that the synthetic membrane reduces the rotational acceleration by two-thirds, clearly demonstrating the potential effect of this unique solution on the risks of brain damage.
This major technological advance, LAZER SuperSkin, becomes the pioneer of a new generation of advanced helmets whose qualities in terms of passive safety will soon be indispensable to all users of two-wheeled vehicles, drivers and passengers alike.
It would have been impossible for LAZER to devise a truly innovative helmet without basing this work on the results of the various studies carried out by specialists using more highly specialized research tools than those traditionally used.
Today, more advanced instruments are available to biomechanics researchers.
These are computerized mathematical or digital models, making it possible to evaluate with greater precision what is happening to the head in terms of pressure and intra-cerebral shearing in the event of an impact.
Due to this type of highly specialized equipment and at the request of LAZER, researchers at the Institute of Mechanics of Fluids and Solids at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg conducted tests.
This was done under the direction of Professor Rémy Willinger and the researchers have been able to define the performance of the LAZER SuperSkin by comparing it with a standard helmet without a protective membrane.
Until now, only the linear acceleration was taken into consideration in helmet design, whereas it is now indisputable that rotational acceleration is particularly dangerous to the head and must be a feature of all future design.
Currently, a standard helmet is composed of a layer of shock-absorbing material of a thickness of about 30 mm.
The effectiveness of the protection relies in this case on the deformation and dispersal of the energy of the helmet.
This traditional concept of a helmet, essentially based on protection from linear acceleration, now has to be enhanced by the results of the biomechanics studies that highlight the tangential impact component.
Dr. Ken Philips is a British doctor who has spent several years working on improving helmet safety, which was initiated after a discussion with his son, a journalist specializing in the motorcycle press.
Dr. Phillips considered that the best helmet had already been invented by nature -- the scalp.
He postulated that the skin on the skull played an all-important role in the event of an impact and was able to demonstrate that the same effect was achieved by putting a lubricated membrane on a helmet.
This pioneer has dedicated a total of fifteen years of his life to saving ours. Over the years, he has developed his head protection concept, called the Philips Head Protection System, or PHPS.
By joining forces with this project, the LAZER immediately became aware of the tremendous added benefits that the SuperSkin solution could provide for its customers in terms of safety.
So LAZER now has the exclusive use of this concept adapted to motorcycle helmets.
For his part, Dr Philips envisages extending the application of his discovery to helmets for cyclists and to riding helmets and other forms of protective headwear.
From the outside, it is impossible to tell the difference between a standard LAZER helmet and its SuperSkin version.
The principle is to coat the helmet of the LAZER range (Full-face and Urban Jet) with a synthetic membrane and its lubricant, which can be colored without any problem and without any loss of its intrinsic qualities.
This means that the SuperSkin helmet keeps its LAZER look, with the advantage of its flattering design that contributes to the success of the brand.
But although nothing is evident to the eye, it is easy to tell the difference by the feel.
When the surface of the helmet is stretched with the fingers, the membrane lengthens slightly, evidence of the suppleness of this innovative and life-saving covering.
At the root of the work carried out by the Louis Pasteur University and the French National Scientific Research Centre is the in-depth statistical study on motorcycle accidents and their injuries.
This was motivated by the European study COST 327 (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research).
A total of 253 accidents involving motorcyclists, the vast majority of whom were wearing helmets, were analyzed within the framework of the COST 327 project, "Motorcyclist's Helmets".
The results show that rapid rotational motion was responsible for over 60% of all head injuries. This statement of fact has brought to light the urgent necessity for improvement to the protective capacities of helmets.
The first conclusion of the COST 327 report is as follows: "in order to reduce the number and gravity of these injuries, it is necessary in the first instance to reduce the rotational impact".
What Happens During an Impact to the Head?
In order to give a detailed analysis of what takes place when the head receives an impact, a real motorcycle accident with head injury was digitally simulated.
The first time it included the rotational acceleration experienced and the second, without the rotational forces.
By doing this, researchers were able to calculate the shear stress inside the brain.
The comparison of the results of the two tests made it possible to assess the damaging effect of the rotational element of the head in intra-cerebral shearing.
Digital models also made it possible to show that a very brief, hard impact (such as a hammer blow) causes fractures to the skull, whereas a longer –lasting impulse tends instead to cause neurological lesions.
The three most common lesions are:
Digital simulations have shown a 67.5% reduction in the risk of intra-cerebral shearing. This significant result represents a key advance in terms of safety.
LAZER Helmets - Since 1919
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the very first helmets worn by automobile, aviation and motorcycle pioneers were made only from leather.
So it is not surprising to learn that the family business that was to become the LAZER Company was, at the outset, a modest leather workshop, founded by Roger Lacroix.
This craftsman could never have imagined that in 2009 his business would be celebrating its ninetieth year.
After the Second World War, Lacroix changed its name, became the CROSS company and started marketing rigid leather helmets. In 1980 CROSS created LAZER, which from then on became the brand name under which all the company's products were marketed.
In spite of its great age, the company's high-tech name demonstrates its determination to remain one of the front runners in innovation and progress - a policy that remains unchanged.
The company now has the a large Research and Development department, with all the mechanical and informational means available for developing, modifying and testing all the components of a helmet.
As a direct consequence for the consumer, the quality and safety criteria for LAZER helmets are often higher than the European standards in force as well as other official standards across the world.
LAZER is present in 49 companies via a network of 6000 dealers. Thanks to these retailers, in 2008 the company sold over half a million helmets.
By commercializing the new SuperSkin technology, the forerunner of the next generation of helmets, the world's longest-established helmet manufacturer has brilliantly demonstrated that after almost one hundred years, the venerable LAZER Company is younger and more dynamic than ever.
The Rider SuperSkin is in production now and in March a full-face version will follow shortly thereafter.
Read our review of the Lazer Rider helmet with Superskin!
For More Information, contact Lazer Helmets
Editor's Note: UPDATE: I met with Andrew de Vos van Steenwijk at the 2009 Powersports Dealer Expo during the weekend of February 13-16 to discuss the new Lazer Superskin helmet and answer your questions. More detailed responses are available in the Lazer SuperSkin FAQ page on their website.
From "J.E.": "I beg to question the testing procedure used by Lazer SuperSkin Helmets in the video. It appears that the helmet is hanging "loose" in the test, as in no resistance to rotation.
In the real world, there is a lot of resistance to rotation provided by both the skeleton and musculature. My uneducated guess that if this resistance were applied to the testing procedure, the rotational difference would be miniscule.
You simply cannot compare a freely rotating helmet to a helmet attached to a skull that is attached to a neck that is attached to a spine and on and on."
Editor's Reply: The helmet is not "hanging loose". It is on a standard headform used for motorcycle helmet testing. Also, notice that the same headform is used for the "normal", non-SuperSkin helmet and it clearly shows the difference in rotation.
From "J.Y.": "So how much and where can you buy them??"
Editor's Reply: March 2009 availability. Pricing TBD.
From "M.S.": "Does the SuperSkin make a helmet any more or less fragile to drops and bumps? If my buddy accidentally knocks mine off my ride while goofing off, should I expect that it has been damaged and needs replacement?"
Editor's Reply: Not based on anything I can see. The Superskin helmet should be handled the same as a standard helmet. The Superskin is very tough. Damage concerns should be identical to any other helmet.
From "K.D.": "Interesting concept. Could you make sure the face shield is "anti fog" as well."
Editor's Reply: Won't know the answer to that one until the helmet is released for sale.
From "S.F.": "Looks intriguing and makes logical sense as demonstrated. I'm curious about the additional weight of the lubricated membrane as well as the construction of the core helmet. Have they cost reduced the other components to pay for this new technology?
Editor's Reply: The helmet does feel slightly heavier, but the Superskin layer appears to be only about 1 mm thick, so I don't think it adds much. I'll have to wait until we can put it on the scale, and then we won't have a non-Superskin equivalent to compare it to. But any weight it adds seems negligible.
The rest of the helmet appears to be high quality, and no other components were changed from a "normal" helmet. The size large open face "Jet" style helmet I tried on in size large felt like it had a neutral to round shape and was very comfortable.
From "D.H.": "Living in Arizona I'm all too aware that extreme temperatures can effect my riding experience. How will extreme hot/cold temperatures effect the performance of Lazer SuperSkin?
We easily reach ambient temps of 120 degrees on the road here in Phoenix area during the summer and ride into 30 degree temps in the cool mornings in winter."
Editor's Reply: No difference from standard helmets.
From "J": "Interesting concept. Does this mean we'll have to use Nivea to clean the helmet instead of Plexus?"
Editor's Reply: No, but I heard you have to shave it once a week... ;-)
From "G.K.": "I'm curious to know if this technology can be applied to existing helmets, or can it be applied only during the helmet's original production."
Editor's Reply: It could be applied to other helmets but needs a special manufacturing technique. For now, it will be featured on Lazer Superskin helmets only.
From "M.K.": "How would the skin hold up against debris flung up at high speeds while riding on the highway, such as a rock. Will it cut the Superskin?"
Editor's Reply: See response above. No difference from any normal helmet shell.
From "P.F.": "In your review and on their website, the reduction in rotation is listed as 67.5% from university lab testing. However, if you listen to the good doctor himself speak on the video, he says 60%.
It appears that he mouthed 67.5% or something else, but the audio cuts out briefly after he says the word "sixty."
So, is the reduction in rotation 67.5% or 60%?"
Editor's Reply: Claimed 67.5%.


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Community and business leaders in Fakenham have pledged to look to the future following the weekend fire that destroyed an iconic building in the heart of the town.
A total of 27 households and businesses were affected by the blaze which wrecked the Original Factory Shop building in Upper Market on Sunday.
Of those, three flats were also destroyed in the fire, while four businesses are still unable to trade because of safety fears as the shop building remains unsafe.
But traders and council officials say they are concentrating on getting the town back on its feet.
A meeting of business people, town and district councillors, which North Norfolk Council officials described as "very positive" was held in the town on Wednesday.
And, in a statement posted on its website the day after the blaze, Steve Hall and Keith Osborn, directors of the Fakenham Area Business Community (FABCOM), said: "We believe the people and businesses of Fakenham together comprise a strong community and will bounce back from this setback stronger than ever.
"Fabcom are ready to help in that process in any way that we are able."
The town's regular Thursday market will be held in the Bridge Street car park for the foreseeable future.
And traders who bank with HSBC, which is currently closed because of its proximity to the fire site, will be able to use the town's Barclays branch temporarily.
The district council is also working with the Fakenham town council in a bid to find alternative premises for businesses who are currently unable to trade in their own branches.
At the height of the emergency, local Red Cross volunteers were called in to help residents who were forced to leave their homes.
Emergency response team leader Richard Fish said: "We were able to offer practical items such as phone chargers, so those affected could keep in touch with friends and family, hygiene packs so they could freshen up, as well as clean clothes for those who ran from their homes with nothing."
North Norfolk District Council leader Tom Fitzpatrick added: "At times like this everyone has to pull together, and the council is always very grateful it can call on the Red Cross volunteers to support our response to emergencies."
Investigations into the cause of the fire are continuing, though fire service chiefs say they cannot go onto the site because of the risk that the building may collapse.
A spokesman said yesterday: "The fire has so badly affected the structure of the building that it has been deemed unsafe to enter by the district council's building engineers, so that means the investigation will focus on eyewitness accounts, visual material like photographs and other sources like media coverage."
The last fire crews only left the site at 7pm on Tuesday, more than 54 hours after the blaze was first reported and officials say the investigation is likely to take some time to complete.


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New pledge Congress should take
Our nation's Legislature is utterly paralyzed, deadlocked over issues big and small as the United States tumbles closer to a dangerous fiscal cliff. In the meantime, many members of Congress have blithely signed pledges that they would not — under any circumstances – vote for a compromise that involved raising taxes or otherwise rankle power brokers within their parties.
Some Republicans in Congress have openly blocked any bill that might be interpreted as a legislative success for President Barack Obama, in hopes of denying him reelection; while some Democrats have worked feverishly to halt the Republican leadership from bragging rights on trimming the budget or other key initiatives.
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It's time for American citizens to demand a new pledge from all members of Congress: No matter which candidate is elected president, all members of Congress — regardless of party affiliation — should be required to promise that they'll work in good faith with the chief executive for the good of the county, rather than squandering the country's future to feather their own political nests.
If they refuse to take that pledge, they should be sent packing immediately.
For too long, we've allowed individual legislators' and political parties' self-interested agendas to trump the nation's common good. Legislative stalemate and failed cooperative efforts have become the new normal. It's time to put our collective foot down, as citizens who have the last word in this democracy.
It's not as if we don't have a paper trail of promises a mile long, by which we can hold legislators on both sides accountable. They've been professing, in effusive terms, their desire to work cooperatively with their opponents.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a rising GOP star, spoke with conviction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., as he declared: "We are demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down, and work together to take action on the big things facing America." Republican Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, the first female governor of that state and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, similarly insisted: "It is the responsibility of both parties to offer up real solutions. …"
Former President Bill Clinton, waxing eloquent at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, made the same assertion for the Democrats. Having endured political warfare during his own presidency, he proclaimed: "What works in the real world is cooperation. … Democracy does not have to be a blood sport. It can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest."
The two dominant political parties trot out every four years, bragging about their ability to work cooperatively with the other side, and their desire to end the senseless dysfunction in Washington. Yet the moment the election is over, they begin sharpening their knives and plotting how to gut the other party's chances of success, even if it sends the country into a ditch.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on all of us.
We do not yet know which candidate will be elected to the presidency. It's a neck-and-neck race; each side has a 50-50 chance of prevailing. There's no better time to require members of Congress to take a new pledge to support the successful candidate, whoever that might be. Such an act of faith in our system would be a great way to start with a clean slate.


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Many carnivorous plants have special glands that secrete enzymes powerful enough to penetrate the hard exoskeleton of insects so they can absorb nutrients from inside their prey. But the purple pitcher plant, which lives in bogs and infertile sandy soils in much of North America, enlists other organisms to digest its food. It is home to an intricate food web of mosquito larvae, midges, protozoans, and bacteria, many of which can survive only in this unique habitat. The animals shred the prey that fall into the pitcher, and the smaller organisms feed on the debris. Finally, the pitcher plant absorbs the nutrients released by the feeding frenzy. "Having the animals creates a processing chain that speeds up all the reactions," says Nicholas Gotelli of the University of Vermont. "And then the plant dumps oxygen back into the pitcher for the insects. It's a tight feedback loop."
Pitcher plants grow by the thousands in the bogs at the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts. One late spring day Aaron Ellison took me on a tour, stopping from time to time to watch patiently as I pulled a sinking leg out of the muck. "You haven't had a real bog experience till you're up to your crotch in it," said Ellison, a senior ecologist at the forest. Little orange flags fluttered across the bogs. Each one marked a pitcher plant impressed into the service of science. In the distance a student was feeding flies to the flagged plants. The researchers raise these insects on food spiked with unusual forms of carbon and nitrogen so they can later harvest the pitcher plants and measure how much of each element from the flies has been absorbed into the plants. Because pitcher plants grow slowly (they can live for decades), the experiments can take years to yield results.
Ellison and Gotelli are trying to figure out what evolutionary forces pushed these plants toward a taste for meat. Carnivorous plants clearly benefit from eating animals; when the scientists feed pitcher plants extra bugs, the plants get bigger. But the benefits of eating flesh are not the ones you might expect. Carnivorous animals like ourselves use the carbon in protein and the fat in meat to build muscles and store energy. Carnivorous plants instead draw nitrogen, phosphorus, and other critical nutrients from their prey in order to build light-harvesting enzymes. Eating animals, in other words, lets carnivorous plants do what all plants do: grow by grabbing energy directly from the sun.
Alas, they do a lousy job of it. Carnivorous plants turn out to be very inefficient at converting sunlight into tissue. That's because they have to use a lot of energy to make the equipment they need to catch animals—the enzymes, the pumps, the sticky tentacles, and so on. A pitcher or a flytrap cannot carry out much photosynthesis because, unlike plants with ordinary leaves, they do not have flat solar panels that can grab lots of sunlight. Ellison and Gotelli suspect that only under special conditions do the benefits of carnivory outweigh the costs. The poor soil of bogs, for example, offers little nitrogen and phosphorus, so carnivorous plants enjoy an advantage there over plants that obtain these nutrients by more conventional means. Bogs are also flooded with sunshine, so even an inefficient carnivorous plant can carry out enough photosynthesis to survive. "They're stuck, and they're making the best of it," says Ellison.


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Sabin: Why conditions are right for Cowboys WR Dez Bryant to finally shine
Off-the-field guidelines, better conditioning can help often-troubled wideout
IRVING — Dez Bryant's advisor David Wells made a telling statement when he explained why the Cowboys receiver embraced a series of strict guidelines recently implemented to keep the young wideout in line.
"He wanted to make sure to the Dallas Cowboys fans that he's going to do everything he can do to make sure he's out there every day, not only practicing as hard as he can but also on game day, producing the product the Dallas Cowboys want," Wells said last month on KESN-FM (103.3).
Hard evidence gathered during his first two NFL seasons shows that Bryant, back at practice after a short bout with knee tendinitis, hasn't always done that.
For every acrobatic catch he has made and breathtaking move he has used to beat defenders, there are just as many examples of disappointing performances.
As he enters his third season in the NFL, Bryant has yet to prove he is a dependable receiver, let alone the superstar many expected him to become when he was drafted in 2010.
Up until now, Bryant's stat lines from one game to the next have resembled the splattered paint on a Jackson Pollock canvas; they're all over the place.
He's proven he can make a major impact, as he did during his rookie campaign, when he caught two touchdown passes and scored on a punt return in a shootout loss to the New York Giants.
But he has also shown he can disappear, as he did last season when he failed to make at least one reception in the second halves of four games.
For those aware of his athletic ability, it's hard to fathom how Bryant can quickly rise and fall without warning.
"He can make any play," fellow receiver Kevin Ogletree said. "He can run any route. He can catch any ball. I can't think of one thing that he lacks. Dez's athletic ability is his springboard."
But a case can be made that Bryant has relied far too much on his greatest strength. When he was a rookie, there were questions about whether he had truly mastered the playbook and was committed to learning the technical aspects of route-running at the pro level. Last season, Bryant's flagging output late in games was attributed to poor endurance.
"And I think that had to do with his conditioning," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.
Jones, like every one of Bryant's supervisors, recognizes the wideout for what he is: an unfinished product in the development stages.
In the past, Cowboys receivers coach Jimmy Robinson has termed Bryant "a work in progress." It's an apt description for a player who has shown flashes of greatness but has been unable to sustain productivity over the course of his career. In the 27 games he has played since becoming a Cowboy, he has accumulated 100 or more receiving yards just once.
"I wasn't aware of that stat," Robinson said.
But it's indicative of the struggles he's experienced and the ones the Cowboys hope he can overcome. After watching him excel in the team's off-season program, Robinson concluded that Bryant is more mature and committed to bettering himself. Head coach Jason Garrett developed a similar impression as he observed Bryant in training camp.
"He came back really determined to improve as a player," Garrett said. "I think he's understanding more and more of the shape he needs to be in to play. I think he's understanding how to manage his energy better. … He's just going about it the right way. He's more consistent with how he approaches practice, and that's carried to the competitive situations that we've been in. "
Now, he has to show he can be a dependable option throughout the course of the regular season, which begins this week with a showdown against the New York Giants.
"The proof is going to come when the bullets are flying," Robinson said, "and it's for real, starting Wednesday night."
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Since entering the league in 2010, Dez Bryant has produced only one 100-yard game. His top performances in terms of yards:
Nov. 14, 2010
Cowboys 33
at NY Giants 20
Oct. 23, 2011
at Cowboys 34
St. Louis 7
Dec. 4, 2011
at Arizona 19
Cowboys 13 (OT)
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Wadena 'will have hockey' this winter
Wadena-Deer Creek boys' hockey coach Dan Savoie returned from a trip to Finland to find his team's hockey facility destroyed by a June 17 tornado.
Tuesday morning, June 29, Savoie had a group of volunteers helping him sift through the debris of the Wadena Area Community Center for any useful equipment the tornado did not carry away.
The question of whether or not the Wolverines will have a hockey program this year has been decided in Savoie's mind.
"We're going to pick up the pieces like everyone else," Savoie said. "If we have to play outside, we have to play outside."
Detroit Lakes and Alexandria have been among the schools offering the Wolverines ice time. Savoie is well known in Detroit Lakes having played for the Lakers.
"We've got the ability to make artificial ice and if we have the ability to do that we have the ability to play hockey," Savoie said. "The Zamboni is OK, the compressor at first glance is OK, even the floor is OK."
Savoie has been contacted by every coach in the section offering their assistance. Hockey practice begins in November. The girls' hockey season begins in mid-November. The boys' season begins in late November.
Wadena-Deer Creek activities director Norm Gallant has already seen a need for greater flexibility by his coaches and Savoie in on board with that idea.
"If we have to play more games on the road then so be it," Savoie said.
Savoie's assistant coach, Pat Boline, has been the president of the Wadena Hockey Association since February. Like Savoie, Boline intends to have a hockey program in town this winter - most likely at the present site.
"We will have a season and we will skate there," Boline said.
The hockey arena was part of the community center which is owned by the city of Wadena. The Wadena Hockey Association is a tenant of the facility.
Boline indicated that a temporary structure may be erected but it is still too early to make any judgment on that question.
There are 120 kids ages 4-18 in the hockey association.
"There is no doubt that Wadena will have hockey, it's just when we will have a rink," Boline said.


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Cruise loops into Mortals role?
Tom Cruise is apparently being sought to star in We Mortals Are.
Director Doug Liman is said to want the Mission: Impossible star for the lead in the big-budget sci-fi war film, an adaptation of a novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and was previously known as All You Need Is Kill.
"The studios are interested in him," a producer told The Hollywood Reporter.
Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling had also been considered for the starring role as a soldier in a futuristic war, who finds himself living the last day before his death on an endless loop.
Tom is certainly keeping himself busy. As well as collaborating with Brad Bird on Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and taking a comic, musical role in Rock Of Ages, he is also working on Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot, and is expected to take on a sci-fi movie once titled Oblivion with Joseph Kosinski.
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Collection of Bone Marrow Aspirate From Volunteer Donors
This study has been completed.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: September 16, 2005
Last Update Posted: August 6, 2012
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute on Aging (NIA) )
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The purpose of this study is to collect bone marrow cells for research purposes.
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|Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Collection of Bone Marrow Aspirate From Volunteer Donors for In Vitro Hematopoietic Research
Further study details as provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute on Aging (NIA) ):
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Detailed Description:
Bone marrow aspirates Whole blood
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|July 2002
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|August 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
This study is designed to provide bone marrow cells for other research studies. The research is being done because there are ongoing experiments in a number of National Institute on Aging (NIA) laboratories that require access to normal human bone marrow aspirate for their studies of the immune system. These studies are done to understand how blood cells are formed and how they function. Samples will be used to study problems such as the immune system in bone marrow failure and related conditions. Cells will be used in laboratory research and may be banked for future laboratory studies
Information from the National Library of Medicine
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Healthy males and females 18 years and older
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- Healthy volunteers age 18 and over
Exclusion Criteria:
- Significant abnormalities on health history questionnaire or in the results of blood tests
- Pregnant or nursing mother
- Participation in another research study within the past six weeks that is felt by the Principal Investigator to be incompatible with this study
- Severe infection in the past two months
- Immune disorder, or use of any medication that can alter immune system function
- A medical or mental health finding showing inability to go through the procedure
- Body mass index (BMI) greater than 29%
- Chronic back pain, sciatica, or a compression fracture of the spine
- Positive test results for viral infections: Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV (AIDS)
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00183066
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00183066
|United States, Maryland
|NIA Clinical Research Unit located at Harbor Hospital
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21225
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National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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|Dan L. Longo, MD
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Cashman J, Clark-Lewis I, Eaves A, Eaves C. Stromal-derived factor 1 inhibits the cycling of very primitive human hematopoietic cells in vitro and in NOD/SCID mice. Blood. 2002 Feb 1;99(3):792-9.
Exley MA, Tahir SM, Cheng O, Shaulov A, Joyce R, Avigan D, Sackstein R, Balk SP. A major fraction of human bone marrow lymphocytes are Th2-like CD1d-reactive T cells that can suppress mixed lymphocyte responses. J Immunol. 2001 Nov 15;167(10):5531-4.
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Jack Stern, MD, PhD, Neurosurgeon and Spinal Specialist, discusses the challenges in using an artificial lumbar disc.
Artificial lumbar disc insertion to stabilize L3-4 and L4-5 is possible using a transabdominal lateral approach and carries significantly less complications than a retroperitoneal approach.
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Miller Deal Approved
Tucson, AZ - The state Board of Regents has approved a five-year contract for new Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller that will pay him $1.6 million annually.
The board, which oversees the state's three public universities, unanimously approved the deal at its meeting in Flagstaff on Thursday.
Miller was 120-47 in five seasons at Xavier before taking the Arizona job in April.
The Arizona Daily Star reported on its Web site that Miller's contract calls for a $900,000 base salary with an additional $700,000 for peripheral duties through 2014. On top of that, he'll receive $400,000 from outside sources each year.
The agreement also has a clause that essentially guarantees Miller a job for seven years.
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Lacy got WAY tanner!Originally Posted by KrazeeKy07;3376873;
Oddly, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. But, it's just the first night.
Lacy got WAY tanner!Originally Posted by KrazeeKy07;3376873;
Oddly, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. But, it's just the first night.
Hi everyone! I thought Steve-O did surprisingly well! I was impressed.
I too have heard of Jackass, but never seen it or SteveO. I actually thought he was pretty good. I liked the choreography, he did it seriously, and his extensions were good. I liked the slightly weird edge of the whole thing.
Belinda Carlisle was really disappointing. She was leaden, and leaning heavily on poor Jonathan. I expected a lot more.
LT has talent, and he has rhythm and can move his hips. He just needs to amp up the intensity.
I missed Lil Kim, but I would expect her to be excellent.
And to take advantage of making people watch most of the show first. JMO.Originally Posted by athomeinfrisco;3376903;
The Bachelor/Bachelorette series is a soap opera with unskilled actors, bad writing, and beautiful locations...it even edits the real moon!
Antonio Banderas light anyone?
Ooooohh, this next guy is hot!!
Krom, I don't know for sure. Probably. They are into the whole segway polo thing.
I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.
Candice Bergen, on finding her dog, Lois, a terrier/basset hound mix
Cheryl Burke, another hottie.
NICE i am probably the only female who has not seen the Sex and the City movie - but i am off to buy it now - lol
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. -Babe Ruth
I know right from wrong... wrong is the fun one
WOAH! Gilles is my new fav! he was way impressive!
I loved it!
Keep your feet on the ground, when your heads in the clouds!