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Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam has reinterpreted the traditional pocket watch with its chain and clasp in a modern way. In this watch concept, it has an IP black case and clasp and an interchangeable band. The attachment of the band and the hinge of the clasp are integrated with its button into one cylinder at the watch's side.
The time reading works with a derived version of an analog watch display. Red LEDs show the hours, blue ones show the minutes. The LEDs are aligned in a circle and form a circle segment which always starts at the 12 hour position. The end shows the analog watch positions of hours or minutes.
Every time blue and red lights overlap, the LEDs light up in their mix color. This makes the display look confusing but interesting. To avoid dark LEDs as much as possible, the circle segments are at least as long as a half circle, never shorter. So if you think 15 are shown by a quarter circle, that is not correct. They are shown by a 3/4 circle going the opposite direction. The end of this circle segment still points at the 15 minutes position. The conclusion: you need a little concentration to decode the display. That is the price for the interesting look it has. There are two LED circles. The outer one is for the time, the inner one is for the date. There is a chrome ring with indicators between the LED rings to ease up reading.
When you press the clasp button, an animation plays when the watch is half opened. After some time the LEDs go off, but they do it anyway when you close the clasp.
If you like a modern and unusual reinterpretation of a pocket watch, this could be something for you.


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It should have been billed as a water ride, not a bus ride.
Going Public paid to take the No. 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express bus Friday afternoon at the State/Lake station to ride to Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue. As riders boarded the bus, the driver warned that the air conditioning was malfunctioning.
How bad could it be?
What was supposed to be a 10-minute bus ride turned into a sweat lodge that, unfortunately, wasn't an out-of-body experience.
Some riders fanned themselves while others tried to open bus windows, all of which were shut. Some couldn't stand the heat after a few stops and pulled the cord to wait for another bus while others, determined to make it to their destinations as quickly as possible, pressed water against their foreheads.
It was sticky. It was sweaty. It was smelly.
Pity the fool who thought she could keep cool on a CTA bus or train car without air conditioning.
The CTA said it works to keep its cool. Though it has heard gripes about buses and trains without air conditioning this year, the agency could not say how many complaints it has received.
Buses are programmed to maintain a temperature of 72 degrees during the summer. Riders who notice malfunctioning air conditioning are encouraged to tell the bus driver or the train operator with the call button located in each car.
On the rails, the CTA will perform special track inspections when the temperature exceeds 95 degrees before noon, or when the daily high temperature exceeds 85 degrees with sunny skies for three consecutive days or more.
Depending on rail conditions, the CTA will deploy "water trains," which run between in-service trains and spray water on the tracks to cool the rails to prevent them from bending or shifting in the heat. The CTA said it hasn't needed to deploy a water train this year, though it did so last summer.
The CTA said it was mechanical problems, not heat, that lead to stalled trains that caused delays on the Red Line on Saturday, the Blue Line on Friday and the Brown Line on Thursday.
A weekly dispatch from a CTA station of note
This week: Conservatory-Central Park Drive Green Line
Typically the stairs are the ugliest feature of a CTA station. Sometimes they're rusty, sometimes they're steep. Riders may look at a stairwell and think, ugh, I have to climb that? Not so at this East Garfield Park stop. Mosaic tiles cover the outside of the steps from a station adoption program, according to chicago-l.org, a CTA history site.
Next up: Harold Washington Library/State-Van Buren in the Loop


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Champions Online Free-to-Play Weekend Celebrates 'Nemesis Confrontation' Event
"We asked ourselves," said executive producer Bill Roper, "what if your Nemesis could band together with your buddy's Nemesis to take you on? Epic."
According to the release, the player-crafted Nemeses "are trying to create a rift into another dimension in a plot to take over the Champions Universe." To save the universe, players will also have to fight "a host of dangerous alien gladiators and prison guards."
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STOCKTON - Mayor Anthony Silva is pushing ahead with a campaign pledge to ask voters later this year to raise the city's sales tax by half a cent to hire more police.
STOCKTON - Mayor Anthony Silva is pushing ahead with a campaign pledge to ask voters later this year to raise the city's sales tax by half a cent to hire more police.
While he's gaining support from unlikely corners of the community, Silva is receiving push back from key players at City Hall, such as Councilwoman Kathy Miller, who contends that Stockton is still too early into bankruptcy.
She called Silva's plan "half-baked."
Yet, Silva contends that it would be folly to wait: California is rebounding, and Stockton can't be left behind. Silva draws a direct link between public safety and Stockton's lagging home values.
"The road to recovery starts with people feeling safe," Silva said. "I feel adamantly. Now is the time."
Silva first unveiled his tax plan in his campaign against then-Mayor Ann Johnston, and he hinted at it again in comments following his swearing in last month.
Under the plan, Silva will lead a voter initiative, first gathering 10,000 signatures to put it on the ballot in June or November. The special tax would require two-thirds voter approval, as opposed to a general tax, which would require a simple majority and go into the city's general fund.
To gain support and ensure that the tax money goes strictly to fighting crime, Silva said the measure will be sharply crafted to direct the money only to hire police officers and support the criminal justice system.
Stockton's sales tax now is 8.25 percent. A half-cent hike would raise it to 8.75, generating an estimated $15 million to $18 million annually, Silva said.
Today, Stockton has about 330 police officers. Silva wants to boost that up to 500, enabling patrol officers to blanket the city and enforce a zero-tolerance policy to crime, whether large or small.
In three deficit years leading up to Stockton's Chapter 9 filing in 2012, the city cut its police force by a quarter, and in each of the past two years the number of murders has spiked to historic levels.
"We've seen the results of the reduction of police officers," Silva said. "We've seen the damage."
Silva said he is rallying a coalition of supporters in the business community for the tax that would likely sunset in eight years.
Miller applauded the community members rallying around Silva in a desire to help. Yet, the mayor's proposal is ill-advised, she said, because Stockton is in the middle of negotiating cuts with its creditors.
Stockton has yet to win a fight over the city's eligibility to seek Chapter 9 protection, which is required before the city can write a plan of adjustment, which will likely make creditors take cents on the dollar for their investments, she said.
Proposing a tax increase at this stage would send mixed messages to creditors, who stand to lose millions, Miller said.
"It says that we're going to stiff you in bankruptcy," she said. "We're going to make an end-run."
City leaders also need more input from the community about its priorities in its far-reaching recovery plan before affixing its cost. Silva's plan puts the cart before the horse, she said.
The discussion of recovery priorities began only Friday, when the city's Marshall Plan steering committee rolled out what its members see as the "DNA map" of Stockton's violent crime.
Stockton can't put a dollar figure on its recovery plan, which is still being formed, said Miller, who called proposing a tax hike self-serving.
"To be talking about it now is an exercise in ego," she said, calling Silva's proposal "extremely premature."
Another obstacle for Silva is Measure W, a one-quarter-cent sales tax that Stockton voters approved in 2004 and is still on the books. In the fiscal year ending in 2012, the city collected nearly $4 million to pay 21 police officers.
Measure W failed to boost the city's police force as its authors at the time sold it. Stockton today has fewer police officers than when it was approved.
Silva said he vows to write his proposed half-cent sales tax so it increases the overall police force, and the new city revenue won't displace money from the general fund.
Silva responded to critics, saying he hears directly from crime victims who want to know what he's doing to make Stockton safer.
"I'm sick of it," he said. "I want more cops. I'm not waiting a year."
His initiative is winning support from unlikely places.
Dave Renison, president of the San Joaquin Taxpayer's Association, said his organization would "likely" support a measure requiring two-thirds in voter support. He qualified his support.
It is contingent on the tax measure being approved by the bankruptcy judge and dedicated only for hiring new police officers. Silva said he could deliver both.
"Stockton's economic development and our quality of life are linked to our need to reduce violent crime," Renison said.
Tony Stevens also supports Silva's proposal. Stevens serves as a reserve police officer and founded the fledgling Stockton Police Foundation, a fundraising organization to support the police department.
Stevens, owner of Elk Grove Buick Pontiac GMC, said his colleagues selling cars in Stockton won't fear a tax hike driving consumers out of town because sales tax on cars is set by the buyer's zip code, not place of sale.
His rationale for supporting a tax hike is simple. He wants to break a "barricade mentality" residents feel, now confining themselves inside their homes in fear of becoming crime victims.
"We can't let our wives go to the store at night," he said. "In my opinion, there is a correlation between crime and business. I think any businessman will tell you the same thing."
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I think it is, as you suggest, to distinguish the singular ablative of the 1st declension from the singular nominative (sometimes a thorny interpretive problem). I highly doubt that it was ever used to mark stress, since stress in Latin is not arbitrary but rather dependent on regular rules. As long as you know the quantity of a word's vowels, you can determine its accent.
I think that 16th and 17th century authorities should be listened to
not so much in classical times, but as it was, or was recommended to be, spoken in their own day.
NOTE.--The Romans sometimes marked vowel length by a stroke above the letter (called an apex), as ^ ; and sometimes the vowel was doubled to indicate length
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I think this stuff may be quite novel so I'm preparing a paper on it and I can email you the paper for your comments when it's ready (if you would like that). It worries me, of course, that I'm very wrong and exposing my considerable ignorance, or else I'm right but it's all a commonplace. I promise to post some examples asap (certainly within 24 hours), but what I'm doing immediately is gathering evidence from sources and devising a method for its analysis.


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Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
The 21-year-old is the seventh permanent signing made by Forest since the Al Hasawi family's takeover of the npower Championship club, in addition to the loan signings of Daniel Ayala and Sam Hutchinson.
Lansbury has spent loan spells with Norwich and West Ham in the last two seasons, helping both win promotion to the Barclays Premier League.
The England Under-21 international has been unable to break into Arsene Wenger's midfield at the Emirates Stadium and has now opted for a permanent switch away.
Forest chairman Omar Al Hasawi told the club's official website: "Henri joins us as a young player with a rich pedigree and fits the bill perfectly as the kind of talented player that our manager Sean O'Driscoll is intent on bringing into the club."


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We pose several questions to Oliver Greenfield, Convener for the Green Economy Coalition.
- What are the benefits of investing in Natural Capital and a Green Economy?
- What role do you think that Business has is incorporating Natural Capital into their operations?
- How does Business fit into the greater Green Economy framework?
- What is the role of policy and policy makers in enabling the uptake of a Green Economy?
- What is the Green Economy Coalition's future work plan for 2013-2016?
The Green Economy Coalition is a unique global alliance tackling an urgent agenda. It is made up of different constituencies (labour, environment, development, UN, business). Despite their differences they have come together because they recognise that the current economic order is failing these constituencies – from global workers, poor and marginalised groups and local communities, businesses for the long term, and the rich diversity of life on our planet. Members have proved they can work together, advance the debate and influence the corridors of power. The GRC works to create prosperity for all within planetary limits. IUCN was one of the coalition's founding partners.
What are the benefits of investing in Natural Capital and a Green Economy?
In the words of the international trade unions – "there are no jobs on a dead planet." Governments, citizens, and businesses around the world are starting to recognise that the natural world is the foundation of society's prosperity. From cleaner cities for people, to reliable supplies of resources for business, to more stable, prosperous economies, the benefits of green economy are increasingly being quantified. .
• Goods and services that forests and freshwater systems, to coral reefs and soils provide can represent close to 90% of the GDP of the poor *
• Investing 2% of GDP in green economy could create up to 9.6 million new jobs per year +.
However, the benefits go beyond numeric quantification. We believe civilisation is defined by how we look after each other and the natural world we share with all life.
What role do you think that Business has is incorporating Natural Capital into their operations?
In 2011 PUMA, a world leading sports-wear company, produced a set of environmental profit and loss accounts focused on greenhouse gas emissions, water use, land conversion, air pollution and waste throughout the company's operations and supply chains. The accounts revealed environmental impacts costing a staggering EUR 145 million. The finding has prompted a new strategic direction for the company. "The unprecedented PUMA Environmental Profit and Loss Account has been indispensable for us to realise the immense value of nature's services that are currently being taken for granted but without which companies could not sustain themselves."Jochen Zeitz. Executive Chairman of PUMA.
The key point is that environmental goods and services are starting to be priced and any company does not adapt now will be faced with a life threatening bill.
On a more positive point – we see advanced companies understanding that helping to care for natural assets can be a cost effective way to secure the continued provision of resources. This is most evident within food and beverage companies who rely on freshwater. There are few better purification plants than a healthy forest.
How does Business fit into the greater Green Economy framework?
Business needs to be actively reducing environmental impact but also seeking to make a net positive improvement to the natural assets we all rely on. We see that they need to help persuade governments that progressive green economy policies will help reduce their risks, and ensure the right long term confidence for their sustainability investments.
What is the role of policy and policy makers in enabling the uptake of a Green Economy?
Policy makers have many tools they can apply from improving economic measurement to include social and environmental metrics, reforming the finance sector so it is dissuaded from casino banking and is capable of investing in green sectors, reform tax from labour to resource use, subsidy reforms, using public procurement to drive green sector innovation to name just a few. However most important is for them to show the leadership and signal that Green Economy is their national development ambition.
What is the Green Economy Coalition's future work plan for 2013-2016?
The Green economy coalition's work to 2015 is to champion ecological limits, inclusivity and equity in green economic policies and activities. We intend to influence the agendas of 'economic power': G20, World Economic Forum, business leaders and SME's. We will grow and maintain our position as the clearest, most influential civil society voice on green economy. We shall do this by working at national, regional and global levels, sharing learning, facilitating dialogue, and influencing collectively on key critical transition policies. We welcome new partners on this important work and thank IUCN for its continued involvement.
Thank you.
* UNEP, Why a Green Economy matters for the Least Developed Countries, 2011
+UNEP, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, 2012
To learn more about the GEC contact Oliver Greenfield at firstname.lastname@example.com
Oliver Greenfield, Convenor, Green Economy Coalition. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively. Prior to this role Oliver spent 7 years leading WWF-UK's Sustainable Business and Economics work, where he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes: One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before WWF, Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service.


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I know that the first exhibition game doesn't mean much to the starters because, as Tribune football columnist Matt Bowen writes, that first game is about basics. Yes. Well. Fine.
But not for me. I don't care about footwork. I want fireworks. I mean, who's going to be talking about Nick Roach's hip turn in Lovie Smith's base Tampa-2 coverage?
Here's the deal: The post-partum Jay Cutler to the post-Miami Brandon Marshall is about as basic as it gets for these post-Jerry Angelo/post-Jurassic Age Bears.
Their reunion was the story of the offseason. The Bears got a federal court to rule that bringing in a big, game-breaking receiver would not violate NFL policy.
Same goes for drafting one. I don't know who'll be throwing to Alshon Jeffery in the exhibition opener against Denver on Thursday night, but I'm guessing it will be everyone he plays with.
This is the kind of offense all the big-boy NFL teams run, so let's get a load of it right now. If this sounds like I'm a sucker for pretty, shiny things, then fine. I am. Tough noogies. No apologies for that.
Look, the Bears have never had a quarterback like Cutler. The Bears have never had a receiver like Marshall. Here they are, together again for the first time with the Bears. I'm watching that. Bowen can watch a guy's pad level.
Here are some other things I'm looking for in Bears-Broncos:
--No injuries.
--Brian Urlacher. I know he won't play. I'm not sure he'll be on the sideline or even in the state. I'd like some word on what's wrong and where he is. Bueller? Bueller?
--Stephen Paea. If he doesn't get his name called, then the Bears have a problem at defensive tackle. Actually, they already have a problem at defensive tackle until Henry Melton shows he can sack the quarterback in more than a couple games a season. Smith talked up Melton last season, but Paea is the player they traded up to draft last year. He's coming off an injury and would appear to have the best shot at making the biggest impact on a defensive scheme that starts right there.
--No. 1 draft choice Shea McClellin doing something. Other than get swallowed up by Denver's line, I mean. I don't know if he'll be able to take down Peyton Manning, but at least get close enough to ask for his autograph, kid.
--Brandon Hardin. If this is a new season, the Bears have a new safety they drafted. Hardin didn't play last season because of a broken shoulder. Angelo might've been fired, but his mind-numbing policy of drafting pre-injured players lives on.
--A backup quarterback who isn't Caleb Hanie. Let the Broncos enjoy that delusion.
--The fake NFL officials. The referee from the Hall of Fame Game who messed up the coin toss was released by the Lingerie Football League in the middle of last season, according to Fox Sports. The Lingerie Football League, do you hear me? The fake officials could be dangerous to player safety in their awfulness. We'll know exactly how bad they are if they don't call holding on J'Marcus Webb.
--Oh yeah, Webb. I forgot. How could I forget? He won the left tackle job by default. Hang loose, Jay.
--Gabe Carimi. Last year's top draft choice got injured the way Bears tackles do after getting drafted in the first round. He said his knee is sound enough. Hope so. That goes double for Cutler, I'm sure. How scary is it that the Bears have the best quarterback and most talented receiver in franchise history, and nobody trusts the tackles?
--Michael Bush. He's big, tough and talented. He's the short-yardage hammer that Matt Forte isn't. Blow up somebody.
--Kahlil Bell. Wait, I think he fumbled already.
--Have I mentioned Cutler-to-Marshall? Just making sure.


text: Review : Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter updated 02:20 am EDT, Fri March 16, 2012 by MacNN Staff Seagate expands GoFlex modular interfaces with Thunderbolt adapter MacNN Rating: Product Manufacturer: Seagate Price: $100 The Good Faster than FireWire 800Much faster than USB 2.0Cheapest route to external Thunderbolt driveAcceptable priceBus powered for portabilityCompatible with all SATA 2.5" HDDs The Bad Not significantly faster than FireWire 800One Thunderbolt port, no daisy-chainingStill must buy Thunderbolt cableNot as fast as dual-HDD RAID setups (but admittedly cheaper) Seagate has continued to expand its GoFlex hard drive system, which features interchangeable interfaces for interoperability between various connection types. The company's latest adapters enable users to upgrade their existing GoFlex drives with a Thunderbolt interface to take advantage of fast transfer speeds on Apple's latest Macs and a number of upcoming Windows machines. In our full review, we'll take a closer look at the Thunderbolt adapter for GoFlex portable drives. Design Seagate's GoFlex drives are protected by enclosures, however a SATA connector is built into the housing rather than a USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt connection. This allows users to swap the interface adapter, which plugs directly into the SATA port. The Thunderbolt adapter joins existing adapters for USB 2.0/3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA. The existing connectors are only as thick and wide as the bottom of the portable GoFlex drive, however the Thunderbolt adapter wraps around the back of the drive and adds approximately 13mm to the overall thickness. We would have preferred the smaller size, though the larger package is not exceedingly voluminous. The use of a standard SATA male connector on the dock side perfectly fits Seagate's GoFlex portable drives, though it also plugs directly into a standard 2.5-inch notebook drive that has been removed from a computer or housing. This may seem like an illogical and sloppy move, but it may be the only current way for someone to upgrade their non-Seagate 2.5-inch disk drive or create a makeshift external Thunderbolt SSD for several hundred dollars less than solutions offered by Elgato and LaCie. We caution, however, that we did not have a chance to connect the GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter to a third-party 2.5-inch SSD to test the transfer speeds or discover any incompatibility issues (this may also void the adapter warranty). Despite its larger size, the new adapter only integrates a single Thunderbolt port. This is the same configuration that we observed on the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD, as both drives aim for portability. The LaCie Thunderbolt drives and Seagate's Thunderbolt adapter for desktop drives both provide several Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining, however both products also require an external power supply that eliminates their portability. Performance We tested the Thunderbolt adapter with Seagate's GoFlex Turbo 500GB portable hard drive, which is the 7200rpm edition that is claimed to be slightly faster than the standard GoFlex portable drives. The adapter was attached to a late-2011 15-inch MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Lion, connected directly to the notebook and also tested when daisy chained to a Thunderbolt display. Using QuickBench 4.0 to run benchmark tests, we were able to reach read speeds of approximately 100MB/s and write speeds above 90MB/s. The performance was only marginally better than what we've experienced with FireWire 800 drives, bringing approximately 25-percent faster read/write speeds, though the Thunderbolt adapter clearly outperforms USB 2.0 by a factor of three. Final thoughts The tests demonstrate that Thunderbolt is decidedly faster than USB 2.0 and FireWire 800, but the Thunderbolt interface itself is clearly capable of much faster speeds than a single disk drive is capable of supporting. For users who just upgraded to a Thunderbolt-equipped computer from a FireWire 400 or USB 2.0 device, purchasing Seagate's Thunderbolt adapter is an obvious upgrade. For users who already have a FireWire 800 drive and a computer with a FireWire 800 port, the decision is not quite as obvious. Only SSDs and multiple-disk HDD configurations have shown the ability to truly leap from FireWire 800 transfer rates. We recently tested the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD, which achieved 270MB/s transfer speeds but retails for $700, while LaCie's 240GB Thunderbolt SSD is claimed to write at up to 480MB/s and read at up to 245MB/s--for $900. Despite the modest performance advantage over FireWire 800, the Seagate's new adapter is the cheapest way to upgrade an external hard drive to take advantage of the Thunderbolt interface. The adapter retails for $100, while Seagate's 500GB GoFlex Turbo drive retails for $140 and the 750GB variant jumps to $170. The GoFlex system is even more advantageous in cross-platform environments where a user may want to use one backup disk for both a Windows and Mac computer. The Turbo drives already come with a USB 3.0 interface, which likely achieves comparable HDD transfer rates on many of the latest Windows devices. In comparison to the 100MB/s Seagate Thunderbolt system, which totals $270 for 750GB in total storage, LaCie's 1TB 5400rpm Little Big Disk is claimed to sustain 150MB/s read/write speeds for $380, while the 1TB 7200rpm Little Big Disk is claimed to jump to 180MB/s for $450. The LaCie drives are able to achieve faster rates by organizing two disk drives in a RAID 0 array. Overall, we view the Thunderbolt adapter as a logical addition to the GoFlex modular system. We are still curious to discover if the hardware is compatible with a standard 2.5-inch SSD, however, such as OWC's Mercury Electra drives.


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In June, Michael Vick was candid about his feelings regarded the splitting of first team-repetitions with Nick Foles. He said it was difficult and later told CSNPhilly.com that he preferred for Chip Kelly to name a starting quarterback by training camp.
Vick has since backed away from those comments and understandably so, since Kelly has made it quite clear that he wants to see the competition stretch through camp, into the preseason and possibly right up until the season opener.
But with Vick, Foles and the rest of the quarterbacks reporting to the NovaCare Complex today for the start of camp, along with all the rookies, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman was asked if Vick was ready for something he's never quite had to endure in the NFL.
"Every conversation I've had, and anyone in this building had with Michael about competition, he's all for it," Roseman said. "He wants the best players to play and he's not shying away from competition in any aspect. He knew that when we signed him. He knew there was going to be competition at every spot, and he said nothing other than he wants to compete."
And yet, Vick said what he said in June, after some believed Foles outperformed him during spring workouts -- albeit in shorts and without pads.
"I didn't get into all that," Roseman said. "Any conversations that we've had with those players has been extremely positive about competition, about camp, about being in here and being in the best shape competing."
But what if Vick were to lose out to Foles or possibly rookie Matt Barkley? Is there a scenario in which the 33-year-old Vick would remain on the roster if he wasn't the starter?
"Well, we haven't gotten to who the starters will be at any position," Roseman said. "But when we signed Michael it was with every intention that he was going to be on this team. He's a very talented guy, and he's really eager to show what he's capable of."
Vick signed a one-year contract in February worth as much as $10 million. He received a $3.5 million bonus and will earn a total of $7 million if he makes the 53-man roster. The rest can be earned in incentives.
The Eagles could save themselves $3.5 million by releasing or in the unlikely event by trading Vick if he was to lose out to Foles or Barkley. But Kelly is likely to need a viable backup option even if Barkley progresses. That being said, Vick would likely want an opportunity to start elsewhere and could try to force his release.
There is still plenty of time before the Eagles would have to make a decision. And, of course, this is still the very strong chance that Vick wins the job outright.
Foles looked confident in the spring, though. Reporters saw only a small sample of practices and the offense and defense were basic. Barkley ran mostly with the third team and doesn't have the arm strength of either veteran. But Roseman said the rookie can't be ruled out of the competition.
"We try to keep an open mind about everyone on our roster," Roseman said. "You have to be open to surprises. You can't just watch the tape looking for certain guys because you may miss something. I think you have to be aware of how everyone is playing, not just the guys that are perceived to be in the competition."
Roseman was asked about what he saw from Barkley in the tape from the spring.
"He gets the ball out quickly. He's a distributor. He's like a really good point guard in basketball," Roseman said. "He knows where to go with the football, he makes good decisions, and then he's going to continue to grow and get better."
The competition begins tomorrow and then in earnest on Friday when the full squad reports.
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Hyphens are easy...and confusing. I'll try to cover the basic rules, but after that, you have to do your homework--use your dictionary.
Part of the reason for the confusion is that English is always changing; a compound word that began its "career" as two words, may progress to a hyphenated word, and finally evolve into a solid word.
We sleep in bedrooms. Bedroom has arrived at its final destination: a single, solid, compound word.
But we still have dining rooms. (Two words.)
A decision may be far-reaching, but a forecaster is farseeing.
Check the dictionary if you are unsure, but many compound words are "made for the occasion," such as the word I used in my "Wow" story. Dust-crusted. It will not be in the dictionary. My spell check is telling me the hyphenated form is correct, but the solid word is not.
The stylebook of one publisher says, "If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad."
There is a logic, however, so I'll highlight that, mention the pitfalls, and then you're on your own.
1. Compound numerals are written with a hyphen: thirty-one, sixty-eight.
2. Fractions are written with a hyphen IF they are being used as an adjective:
The marmalade was one-half sugar and one-quarter oranges.
BUT..... One half of the marmalade was sugar.
3. Compounds with self are written with a hyphen: self-centred, self-conscious.
Exceptions = selfless, selfhood, selfsame.
4. Expressions of family relationship use hyphens: great-grandmother, step-mother, great-uncle.
5. MOST compounds beginning with the prefix ex, pre, and pro use a hyphen: pro-life, pre-Columbian, ex-husband.
6. Compounds using prepositional words use hyphens: mother-in-law, one-on-one, heart-to-heart.
7. Compound modifiers for nouns use hyphens: well-cooked potatoes, five-year-old child, midnight-blue dress.
BUT... only when the modifiers come directly before the noun. If they don't, the form changes.
The steak was well done. However.... She enjoyed her well-done steak.
8. Use a hyphen in a "coined" or "occasional" compound, a "made-for-the-occasion" compound: wind-fuzzed, smoke-laden
She gave him a what-do-you-think-you're-doing look.
9. Hyphens are used in compounds that name the same person in two different capacities: author-illustrator, pastor-counsellor, butcher-chef
10. A hyphen is used to avoid clumsy spelling: bull-like (not bulllike) semi-independent (not semiindependent) pre-empt (not preempt).
11. The hyphen is used at the end of a line to indicate the division of a word. Remember how to properly divide syllables!
Proper: con-tin-ued, in-di-cate
Improper: wo-rd, comp-ound
A funny about this... I was reading a book a couple years ago about the Inuit in northern Canada. The line said something like this with the division splitting the word and hyphenated as I've written it:
Nanook used the snowk-
nife to slice the snow into blocks.
I read that probably twenty times, trying to figure out what in the world was a snowk... or snowknife. Improper division... it should read snow-knife.
Hyphen Pitfalls.
Be careful when using the prefix "ex."
The banquet honoured ex-Social Credit Premier Bill Van der Zaam.
Is Bill no longer Social Credit? (political party in Canada)
Correct: The banquet honoured the former Social Credit Premier Bill Van der Zaam.
I met his cousin, an old sewing machine collector.
Is the cousin old? Or does she collect old sewing machines?
Correct: I met his cousin, an old-sewing-machine enthusiast.
Use a hyphen to avoid confusion.
Marie recovered the old wing chair. (The appropriate word is re-cover.)
They enjoyed the recreation of the Battle at Little Big Horn. (The appropriate word is re-creation.)
Another word to watch for is re-claim vs. reclaim.
Credit to "Correct Writing," Second Edition, DC Heath and Co., Lexington, Massachusetts, 1980.


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Herman Cain may have picked a powerful enemy in New Hampshire on Thursday, skipping a scheduled interview with the Union Leader newspaper during a brief visit to the state.
The cancellation came just days after Cain struggled mightily with a question about Libya during a videotaped interview with reporters and editors from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Many Republicans in the first-in-the-nation primary state, who expect multiple face-to-face interactions with the presidential candidates, were already unhappy that Cain has been spending considerable time in other states without early primaries.
Cain was attempting to make good today on a number of fronts. He started...


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Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman defeated three fellow Republicans in the Aug. 12 primary to replace outgoing 6th District Congressman Tom Tancredo. In Jefferson County returns, Coffman bested businessman Wil Armstrong by roughly 10 percentage points.
In overall final results, Coffman tallied 40.1 percent of the vote, compared to 32.8 percent for Armstrong, a business leader and son of former Sen. Bill Armstrong. Highlands Ranch state Sen. Ted Harvey was in third place with 15.3 percent, and Centennial state Sen. Steve Ward had 11.8 percent.
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Partisan fight awaits Gorsuch nomination
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch probably won't take place for another six weeks, according to a spokesman from the Senate Judiciary Committee, charged with vetting the nomination. Yet the partisan battle began almost as soon as Gorsuch, who currently serves as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit in Denver, was announced Tuesday night.
"Judge Gorsuch is going to be a superb appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court," Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., told WPMI-TV, echoing many of his Republican colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
But Maine Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree told WGME-TV that his past rulings "Raises some concerns for me about issues like marriage equality, Roe v. Wade," echoing many House and Senate Democrats.
In March 2016, former President Barack Obama announced Judge Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy left after Associate Justice Antonin Scalia had died the month prior. Garland's nomination languished, with Senate Republican leadership refusing to hold hearings and consider that nomination. Some Democrats and Republicans are pointing to Garland's treatment as a prediction of how Democrats could behave for Gorsuch's confirmation process.
"I advocated last year, when Merrick Garland was nominated, that they have hearings," Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., told WSTM-TV. "It was a mistake not to have the hearing, because it's given the Democrats an argument to try and thwart this pick."
But some Supreme Court experts believe the hyper-partisanship when it comes to the Supreme Court nomination process is bigger than one slighted nominee.
"This confirmation process at all levels – not just the Supreme Court level – has just been ratcheting up to more confrontational," said Russell Wheeler, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "which is a reflection of our polarized politics."
Some Senate Democrats have advocated for a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority to confirm Gorsuch.
"I believe there must be a 60-vote threshold, as there has been for all the recent Supreme Court nominees, including all of President Obama's nominees," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told CNN the day after Gorsuch was announced as Trump's nominee.
President Trump already issued this warning to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should the Senate not reach the 60-vote threshold: "If we end up with that gridlock I would say, if you can, Mitch, go nuclear."
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has cautioned his fellow Senate Democrats not to rush to opposition in retaliation of Garland's treatment, "If Republicans did something and now Democrats are going to do something, two wrongs don't make a right."
Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Tom Garrett of Virginia points out this factor as the Gorsuch confirmation process continues, "Elections have consequences. Mr. Trump won the election and this is his nominee."


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DIM is currently used to treat Recurring Respiratory Papillomatosis caused by the Human Papilloma Virus and is in Phase III clinical trials for Cervical Dysplasia at 2mg/kg of body weight. Cervical Dysplasia is a precancerous condition also caused by the Human Papilloma Virus. Until recently, DIM's biological mode of action for these conditions was not clearly understood, until scientists discovered that DIM is a potent modulator of the innate immune response system, which then placed DIM's anti-viral activity against the Human Papilloma Virus in perspective.
As a result of this discovery, DIM is currently sold as an immune enhancing supplement (www.ActivaMune.com) and it is under investigation as a therapeutic for viral and bacterial infections (including HIV, HPV, Hepatitis, Influenza, the Pandemic Flu and antibiotic resistant bacteria), immune deficiency conditions and multiple forms of cancer. DIM's primary immune modulatory mode of action is the stimulation of Interferon-Gamma receptor transcription as well as the production of Interferon-Gamma. DIM has also been shown to synergize with Interferon-Gamma in the potentiation of the MHC-I Complex.
Its multitude of favorable biological activities such as immune modulation, apoptosis and suppression of inflammation (NFkB) are among the reasons why the National Cancer Institute has begun clinical studies of DIM for multiple forms of cancer.
Another significant discovery that has recently been made about DIM that has fueled international interest in this unique phytochemical is its synergy with the number one cancer drug worldwide (Taxol) in the promotion of apoptosis. This discovery has paved the way for the investigation of DIM as an adjuvant therapeutic to Taxol to reduce patient resistance to this important drug. (Taxol is another plant-derived chemical that was discovered in and extracted from the Pacific Yew Tree.)
UC Berkeley faculty members Dr. Leonard Bjeldanes, Professor and former Chairman of the Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology Department, and Dr. Gary Firestone, Director of the NIH Cancer Biology Program and Professor of the Molecular and Cell Biology Department, have focused on DIM research at Berkeley for over two decades and have elucidated many of its principal molecular mechanisms of action.
In addition to elucidating DIM's molecular mechanisms of action, Dr. Bjeldanes and Dr. Firestone conducted a human clinical trial of DIM and demonstrated that it increases the 2-hydroxylation of estrogen metabolites, a study that received a lot of media attention as oncologists believe that this activity helps to reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer. Abstracts of two papers on this subject are provided below.
Pilot study: effect of 3,3'diindolylmethane supplements on urinary hormone metabolites in postmenopausal women with a history of early-stage breast cancer. Journal of Nutrition and Cancer. 2004;50(2):161-7. Dalessandri KM, Firestone GL, Fitch MD, Bradlow HL, Bjeldanes LF Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-3200, USA.
Dietary indoles, present in Brassica plants such as cabbage, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts, have been shown to provide potential protection against hormone-dependent cancers. 3,3'-Diindolylmethane (DIM) is under study as one of the main protective indole metabolites. Postmenopausal women aged 50-70 yr from Marin County, California, with a history of early-stage breast cancer, were screened for interest and eligibility in this pilot study on the effect of DIM supplements on urinary hormone metabolites. The treatment group received daily DIM (108 mg DIM/day) supplements for 30 days, and the control group received a placebo capsule daily for 30 days. Urinary metabolite analysis included 2-hydroxyestrone (2-OHE1), 16-alpha hydroxyestrone (16alpha-OHE1), DIM, estrone (El), estradiol(E2), estriol (E3), 6beta-hydroxycortisol (6beta-OHC), and cortisol in the first morning urine sample before intervention and 31 days after intervention. Nineteen women completed the study,for a total of 10 in the treatment group and 9 in the placebo group. DIM-treated subjects, relative to placebo, showed a significant increase in levels of 2-OHE1 (P=0. 020), DIM (P =0. 045), and cortisol (P = 0.039), and an increase of 47% in the 2-OHE1/16alpha-OHE1 ratio from 1.46 to 2.14 (P=0.059). In this pilot study, DIM increased the 2-hydroxylation of estrogen urinary metabolites.
Estrogen metabolism and risk of breast cancer: a prospective study of the 2:16alpha-hydroxyestrone ratio in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Epidemiology. 2000 Nov;11(6):635-40. Muti P, Bradlow HL, Micheli A, Krogh V, Freudenheim JL, Schunemann HJ, Stanulla M, Yang J, Sepkovic DW, Trevisan M, Berrino F. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Epidemiology Division of the National Cancer Intitute (Istituto Nazionale Tumori), Milan, Italy, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Medical School of Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Experimental and clinical evidence suggests that 16alpha-hydroxylated estrogen metabolites, biologically strong estrogens, are associated with breast cancer risk, while 2-hydroxylated metabolites, with lower estrogenic activity, are weakly related to this disease. This study analyzes the association of breast cancer risk with estrogen metabolism, expressed as the ratio of 2-hydroxyestrone to 16alpha-hydroxyestrone, in a prospective nested case-control study. Between 1987 and 1992, 10,786 women (ages 35-69 years) were recruited to a prospective study on breast cancer in Italy, the "Hormones and Diet in the Etiology of Breast Cancer" (ORDET) study. Women with a history of cancer and women on hormone therapy were excluded at baseline. At recruitment, overnight urine was collected from all participants and stored at -80 degrees C. After an average of 5.5 years of follow-up, 144 breast cancer cases and four matched controls for each case were identified among the participants of the cohort. Among premenopausal women, a higher ratio of 2-hydroxyestrone to 16alpha-hydroxyestrone at baseline was associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer: women in the highest quintile of the ratio had an adjusted odds ratio (OR) for breast cancer of 0.58 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.25-1.34]. The corresponding adjusted OR in postmenopausal women was 1.29 (95% CI = 0.53-3.10). Results of this prospective study support the hypothesis that the estrogen metabolism pathway favoring 2-hydroxylation over 16alpha-hydroxylation is associated with a reduced risk of invasive breast cancer risk in premenopausal women.
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Robert Keith Woodall killed 16-year-old Sarah Hansen in Greenville, Ky. He raped her, slit her throat and dragged her off to drown in a nearby lake.
Now, nearly 17 years after a crime for which he pled guilty, Woodall is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will help spare his life. Other fates, too, could turn on how the court handles a convicted man's silence.
On Wednesday, with Woodall far away on Kentucky's death row, justices wrangled over an important legal question that his case presents. Defense attorneys say the initial trial judge acted improperly by not instructing the jurors deciding on Woodall's sentence that they should not consider his refusal to testify on his own behalf during the sentencing hearing.
"They're going to hold his failure to testify against him," attorney Laurence E. Komp told the court Wednesday. "That's the natural inclination of what jurors do."
If Woodall wins, it could mean judges would be required, at a defendant's request, to instruct jurors to disregard the defendant's silence during sentencing. Attorneys call this a "no-adverse-inference" instruction, similar to what is already required during the guilt phase of a trial. But from a court with a generally conservative majority, a Woodall victory seems unlikely.
"You have an incredibly heinous crime," noted Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., a former federal prosecutor.
Alito's fellow conservative, Justice Antonin Scalia, added his own doubts that jurors weighing Woodall's fate would have been swayed toward mercy even had the trial judge given the instructions the defense attorney wanted.
"They knew all the horrific details of the crime. They had heard all your mitigating evidence, and you think what tipped the balance…is this failure to give the no-adverse-influence instruction?" Scalia asked Komp. "Really?"
The Supreme Court, moreover, could conservatively dispose of Woodall's appeal without deciding the big questions surrounding mandatory jury instructions. Instead, justices could brush off Woodall using a law Congress passed to curtail prisoner lawsuits and legal petitions. That 1996 law limits federal courts from overturning state court decisions unless the state court ruling was contrary to "clearly established" legal requirements.
In Woodall's case, the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the death sentence after concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court has not directly addressed certain questions concerning juror instructions during sentencing. Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., noted Wednesday that the questions raised were "a subject of fair-minded disagreement," while Justice Anthony Kennedy called the issue "unsettled."
"There was no clearly established law in this case," Kentucky's assistant attorney general, Susan R. Lenz, agreed.
Attorneys for both sides sometimes struggled for traction during the hour-long oral argument. Komp, of Manchester, Mo., was appointed by the court to represent Woodall.
Woodall is five feet, four inches tall and weighs about 215 pounds, according to Kentucky prison records. His IQ has been measured to be in the mid-70s, and he was described in court records as "educably mentally retarded." He is incarcerated on death row at Kentucky State Penitentiary, one of 33 inmates in the state awaiting execution.
Woodall was 22 years old on Jan. 25, 1997, and had previously served prison time on sexual abuse charges, when he abducted Hansen from a Minit Mart parking lot in Greenville. He drove her to Luzerne Lake, where he raped the high school honor student and slit her throat with a box-cutter knife. He pled guilty after being confronted with substantial DNA and other evidence linking him to the crime.
During the six-day penalty phase, Woodall's trial attorney presented testimony concerning the convicted killer's impoverished and abusive upbringing. He also asked the judge to advise jurors that the fact that Woodall did not testify should not put him in a bad light. The trial judge refused, saying that he knew of no case law precluding the jury from "considering the defendant's lack of remorse or explanation of the crime or anything else once guilt has been adjudged."
A lower federal appeals court concluded that the trial judge's action violated Woodall's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Fourteen states, including Texas, Idaho and South Carolina, offered support for Kentucky's bid to reverse the appellate court's ruling. From the other side, Los Angeles County Public Defender Ronald Brown filed a competing brief urging the Supreme Court to declare that judges must give jurors a "no adverse inference" instruction if defendants requests one.
"Jurors are naturally inclined to draw adverse inferences from the defendant's silence," Brown stated in an amicus brief.
As is his custom, Justice Clarence Thomas was the only court member not to speak or ask questions during the oral argument. A decision is expected by the end of June.


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I found a nice little article on MAC address filtering for WAPs on Techrepublic . You have to register to see the full article, but it's free and well worth it! Tech Republic is a great community to belong to. The link is here to get to the site, and I have posted a good portion of the article below:
An open door to intruders
The problem comes when an intruder wants to gain access to your network and has decided to sniff your wireless network traffic. Sitting in your parking lot or some other easily accessible location, an intruder armed with the right hardware and software can easily sniff your wireless network and capture all packets sent to and from your access points. The captured data packets contain all the information the intruder needs to make a connection to your wireless LAN. This information includes the following:
Authorized MAC addresses
IP addresses
IP subnets
Wireless LAN SSIDs
The intruder can easily configure a wireless device with a captured IP address and subnet in the devices TCP/IP Properties window. Configuring captured SSIDs varies from one type of NIC to another, but its done from within the configuration software provided with the NICagain, a very easy configuration to make.


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Ph: 603-569-1212
The Wright Museum is a one-of-a-kind non-profit institution dedicated to teaching present and future generations about the significant and lasting impact the years 1939-1945 had on the United States and the world.
There are three distinct buildings: the Home Front and theater, the two-story educational building or Visitor's Center and the military building which houses memorabilia from all branches of service from WWII including a large collection of military vehicles from this era. It is air-conditioned, wheelchair accessible and the parking lots have ample space for tour buses. The museum can be booked for special presentations. Allow between one and two hours to tour the museum and still have time to peruse the gift shop.
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The Power of Youth
I have always been involved with politics. I just didn't know to call it politics.
As a teenager, I helped run the youth program at the homeless shelter in my town and worked with organizations that served new immigrants. When I turned 18, I wasn't a voter. I didn't think voting made any difference, and I didn't consider myself "political." It wasn't until I turned 22 that I realized everything is connected to politics.
When I was 20, I moved to southern Spain. There, I experienced the first-hand effects of decisions made by my country's politicians. One example was my friend who was displaced from his homeland, Nigeria. He immigrated to Spain because Chevron, an American corporation, moved into Nigeria and changed the entire face of his country both politically and economically. He asked me why I, as an American, allowed this.
In that moment, I realized that I helped cause his dislocation because I had no interest in American policies and took no action. I realized I could work my whole life trying to change the world, but if I didn't address issues through the political process, I would never win.
So I tried working on the national political scene. I spent six months in a U.S. senator's office but ended up leaving frustrated and disillusioned by the political process. Instead of making improvements, we seemed to be stepping backwards; things were changing too slowly. That's when I got involved with the League of Young Voters.
The League is a national youth organization that is building a base of young people who are voting and pushing politicians to do the right thing. >>
Minrose Straussman
"What frustrates me the most is an overall sense of mediocrity being OK. Everybody should expect and want more for themselves than 'just enough.' This is my life, and I don't want anybody else to have control over my life and my peers. Somebody has to step up to the plate. If not me, then who?"
Minrose is a high school senior and an intern for the League in Pennsylvania. She continues to be active in advocating public school education reform in Pittsburgh.
Ana Jimenez
"If you don't like the way things are, you gotta change it, or else it's just gonna stay the same. And don't think you can't change it ... never deny yourself the power that you have."
Ana is the regional director of the League in San Francisco. She hopes to help create affordable housing and a safer environment for youth in the city.
Jayme Montgomery-Baker
"Be in charge of your own destiny. Inaction is action. Decisions and choices are being made on your behalf regardless [of whether] you participate. [From] streetlights to streets to trash to schools ... All of those are political decisions that take place at city hall and downtown. It's your responsibility to be active. Say something!"
Jayme is the state director of the League in Wisconsin. She is passionate about fostering a better relationship between older and younger people and is looking forward to the birth of her baby in November.
Interviews by Rachel Lau.
>> One of our biggest accomplishments is a ballot initiative called "Opportunity Maine."
The League chapter in the state of Maine recently led a successful grassroots campaign collecting 73,000 signatures to support a bill that would alleviate student debt and boost local economy. Because of all the support we rallied, by the time we walked into the state capitol, the legislature and governor were already prepared to sign the bill! Today, students can erase up to $32,000 in loans if they work in Maine after college.
For me, this victory was an amazing moment. People from other states started calling us, saying they were experiencing the same issues and wanting take the same initiatives. This was a huge realization for me: We, as young people, have the power to make the changes we want to see. We don't need a president to solve our issues. We can accomplish so much just by understanding the process and how things work.
Young people in America have every reason in the world to take action. Street violence, which disproportionately affects youth and youth of color, isn't getting the attention needed. If we don't move boldly to address issues of climate change and green jobs, it is our generation that will bear the burden. Rising costs of education are making college unaffordable, even for the privileged! We must live in a country where those with the desire to get an education, can.
I believe educators everywhere hold a significant role in the lives of youth and need to help them realize their power as a young person and as a voter. They can do this by demystifying the political process with a few simple steps:
1. Educate students about basic voting information and help them realize their rights, values and issues that affect them.
2. Have registration cards on hand in your classroom for students who are eligible and parents and teachers who need to register to vote!
3. Set up mock elections in the classrooms. It doesn't need to be for a person. Students can hold an election to elect classroom mascots or decide on the date of your field trip.
4. Prepare lessons to educate students about who politicians are and to emphasize that politicians are just like us!
My message to young people everywhere is that we must all take a stand, speak out, and help make our world a more fair place! You do not have to wait until you are 18 to make a difference. Voting is just one part of being involved! Some of the best canvassers in our organization are under 18. They are very effective in increasing voter turnout because they tell people, "I can't go out and vote for myself, but I have come to you to ask you to vote to help make positive changes in our community."
You can still lead your friends to make changes within your schools and communities. Together, you can start petitions, talk to elected officials, and attend rallies, hearings, and meetings.
We have been ignored, but we have the power to change that. It is now time for us to stand up for our rights and make the world reflect on our values. We have the power to change this country. All we have to do is speak up, speak out, and vote!
Heather is the development director for the League of Y oung Voters.
To learn more about the League and how to get your community involved, please visit: .


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Simon Segars, CEO said, "Tim has been, and continues to be an excellent CFO. He has played a major role in the ARM management team for the last 12 years and it has been a pleasure to work alongside him. I am pleased that he will remain in the company for the next twelve months so that we can identify his successor and ensure a seamless handover."
As part of our normal succession planning process, search consultants will be appointed shortly and the announcement of Tim's successor will be made in due course.
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About ARM
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Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies. Learn more and join the conversation at http://community.arm.com.


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Even Evangelical Teens Do It
A 19-year-old virgin walks into a bar. He's got his lucky cross in his pocket and his best jersey on. Please God, he says to himself, let this be the night. He spies a girl sitting at a table—blonde, wholesome-looking, just his type. He sidles up closer to the girl, who is chatting with some friends. Over the din, he can make out snippets of her conversation: at Bible study the other night … Pastor Ted says … saving it for marriage. Discouraged, he walks away in search of a more promising target.
Did he make the correct decision? Or did he make a hasty judgment and miss a chance for a possible love connection? The answer to such a question can be found in Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers by Mark Regnerus, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. The book is a serious work of sociology based on several comprehensive surveys of young adults, coupled with in-depth interviews. But it could also double as a guide for teenage boys on the prowl (who's easier, a Catholic girl or a Jew?) or for parents of teenage girls worrying about what will happen if their daughters keep skipping church.
Regnerus goes to some length to justify his unusual pairing of subjects. Most researchers of youth behavior tend to ignore the influence of religion, he argues, and instead focus on other factors—parental input, peer pressure, race, or socioeconomic status. But sex is one area where religion has a strong impact, at least on attitudes. When academics do consider religion, they tend to make lazy assumptions that religious communities are inherently conservative, universally condemn sex, and encourage abstinence. Regnerus complicates the picture by examining the varying attitudes of different religious communities. And while sex surveys are notoriously unreliable, his great innovation is to compare conservative attitudes with actual practices.
Which brings us back to Romeo at the bar. It turns out that the answer is: He has indeed made a hasty judgment, and a common one. The girl he had his eye on is speaking the modern idiom of evangelese, and Regnerus' most surprising findings are about her type, who make up about one-third of all teenagers, but who dominate the culture's notions about religion and sex. Teenagers who identify as "evangelical" or "born again" are highly likely to sound like the girl at the bar; 80 percent think sex should be saved for marriage. But thinking is not the same as doing. Evangelical teens are actually more likely to have lost their virginity than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. They tend to lose their virginity at a slightly younger age—16.3, compared with 16.7 for the other two faiths. And they are much more likely to have had three or more sexual partners by age 17: Regnerus reports that 13.7 percent of evangelicals have, compared with 8.9 percent for mainline Protestants.
How is that possible? What happened to all those happy, young Christian couples from the '90s swearing that True Love Waits? Partly, the problem lies in the definition of evangelical. Because of the explosion of megachurches, vast numbers of people who don't identify with mainstream denominations now call themselves evangelical. The demographic includes more teenagers of a lower socioeconomic class, who are more likely to have had sex at a younger age. It also includes African-American Protestant teenagers, who are vastly more likely to be sexually active.
But partly the problem lies in the temptation-rich life of an average American teenager. The fate of the True Love Waits movement, which began with the Southern Baptist Convention in the '90s, is a perfect example. Teenagers who signed the abstinence pledge belong to a subgroup of highly motivated virgins. But even they succumb. Follow-up surveys show that at best, pledges delayed premarital sex by 18 months—a success by statistical standards but a disaster for Southern Baptist pastors.
Evangelical teens today are much less sheltered than their parents were; they watch the same TV and listen to the same music as everyone else, which causes a "cultural collision," according to Regnerus. "Be in the world, but not of it," is the standard Christian formula for how to engage with mainstream culture. But in a world hypersaturated with information, this is difficult for tech-savvy teenagers to pull off. There are no specific instructions in the Bible on how to avoid a Beyoncé video or Scarlett Johansson's lips calling to you from YouTube, not to mention the ubiquitous porn sites. For evangelicals, sex is a "symbolic boundary" marking a good Christian from a bad one, but in reality, the kids are always "sneaking across enemy lines," Regnerus argues.
The results play out in the usual 19th-century way. When evangelical parents say they talk to their kids about sex, they mean the morals, not the mechanics. In a quiz on pregnancy and health risks associated with sex, evangelicals scored very low. Evangelical teens don't accept themselves as people who will have sex until they've already had it. As a result, abstinence pledgers are considerably less likely than nonpledgers to use birth control the first time they have sex. "It just sort of happened," one girl told the researchers, in what could be a motto for this generation of evangelical teens.
Regnerus' ultimate conclusion is not all that surprising. What really matters is not which religion teenagers identify with but how strongly they identify. After controlling for all factors (family satisfaction, popularity, income), religion matters much less than religiosity. Among the mass of typically promiscuous teenagers in the book, one group stands out: the 16 percent of American teens who describe religion as "extremely important" in their lives. When these guys pledge, they mean it. One study found that the pledge works better if not everyone in school takes it. The ideal conditions are a group of pledgers who form a self-conscious minority that perceives itself as special, even embattled.
I recently spent a year among some evangelical teenagers who belong to this elite minority, and I can attest to the inhuman discipline they exert over their hormones. They can spend all evening sitting on the couch holding hands and nothing more. They can date for a year, be alone numerous times in a car or at the movies, and still stick to what's known in the Christian youth literature as "side hugs," to avoid excessive touching. Muslims have it easy compared to them. At least in Saudi Arabia the women are all covered up, so there's nothing to be tempted by. But among this elite corps of evangelicals, the women are breezing around in what one girl I know called "shockingly slutty conservative outfits" while the men hold their tongues. (No, they don't hold anything else. Masturbation is strongly discouraged in the literature because it promotes selfish, lustful behavior.)
So, where does that leave our Romeo, still scanning the bar for a date? If he wanted to stick with the wholesome blonde, he would have to introduce himself and ask the relevant follow-up, namely, how often do you see Pastor Ted, or do you go to Bible study every week? If he ruled her out, here are some general guidelines: Definitely out of the question is an Asian-American who attends church weekly—84 percent of them are virgins. A Mormon is a long shot. They are unlikely to have sex and if they do, they don't tend to repeat the experience. A Catholic or a mainline Protestant teenager is a much better bet than a Jew (around 30 percent of the first two groups have had sex, compared with 17.6 percent for Jews). But a Jew could net a higher reward: Jews are more likely to say sex is pleasurable and more likely to have experienced oral sex.
Romeo's best bet confirms the conventional wisdom. From out of the millions of shy, guilt-ridden teenagers, there emerges this 17-year-old from Florida who calls herself nonreligious: "I don't see why sex is such a sacred thing to so many people," she told the researchers. " 'It's just pleasure, it's physical pleasure, and that's what it is,' said Carol, who estimates she's had 10 or 11 sexual partners."
Romeo, that's a sure thing.


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Gob, foot, insert
That is all...
Except to say her son is a cheating bastard and when caught didnt have the balls just to own up.
The mother of an autistic 11-year-old boy who went on US TV to lambast Microsoft for labelling her son an Xbox Live cheat has admitted she made a mistake, after Microsoft released evidence for the lad's actions. The company insisted Julias Jackson's achievements were fraudulently obtained, Seattle-based US TV channel Q13 Fox …
That is all...
Except to say her son is a cheating bastard and when caught didnt have the balls just to own up.
forgot to add: replace the autism" with little cheating badly behaved bastard".
Ha Ha!
..talk about "rewarding positive behaviour"...
Personally I'd slap a public "I'm a cheating barsteward" on his account for all eternity.
Accounts are free and they only offered him a month gold service, which comes free with some games, so no biggie.
MS are only using it as bait so they can continue getting subs from him.
Pwn3D parents bitching about something they don't understand.
Meanwhile, she failed to unlock the STFU achievement.
The kid cheated, he almost certainly didn't mean to cheat and probably didn't even realise he was. Why would someone offer to unlock these levels for him if it wasn't allowed?
Microsoft have given him a free month, sounds like it's all good. Although I'm guessing the mother is going to have a hard time explaining all this to the kid.
And also put an "I am a troll" status on all those commentards on the earlier article who were lambasting Microsoft.
just downvoted 'em all. Friday lunchtime after all
I would hesitate to claim any kid of 11 (autistic or otherwise) would appreciate the consequences of having someone else modify their account.
No doubt this whole story got quite a bit bigger than mom anticipated, so I think it's a nice gesture by Microsoft. A decent thing to do, the more so since they didn't have to.
I thought Halo 3 was a 15 rated game anyway? So what's an 11 year old doing being allowed to play this?
Now you've had your pants pulled down, yeah. Of course you would.
Couldn't they give him a few free achievements to get him started? I'd suggest:
Your Mom's a Moron
I didn't think I would EVER say this: Nice one Microsoft!
Kids, eh ?
I bet she'd like to put that one behind her... but I'm wondering if it was the mention of autism that gained the cheater a free month on XBL. That's a reward, isn't it - and not a punishment which you kinda might think was more deserved ?
Microsoft... They didn't need to make such a (frankly worthless) gesture. Now it seems like they've done it simply coz the kid was autistic. Pull your pants up Microsoft, no need for that.... You caught him, you've got the evidence. Let the moany-mom eat her humble-pie in public. Job done, case closed.
That's a reward, isn't it - and not a punishment which you kinda might think was more deserved ?
Maybe - maybe not. The kid was a kid; he let someone else access his account to unlock achievements that he was stuck on - a little bit like when my brother asked me to get him past level 4 on Sonic when we were kids (the difference there, of course, being that Sonic was on a Megadrive, there was none of this internetty thing and getting him past the bit he was stuck on didn't affect anything else anywhere - no shiny bonus items, no gamezor bragging rights).
So the kid in the article was a bit of an idiot; maybe he lied about things to try and stay out of trouble ... that's what kids do. With luck he's learnt his lesson but he's got a new gamer tag, presumably that's a new "account" - so he's going to have to unlock ALL of his previous achievements again. If Steam lost records of all of my achievements (including some bloody tricky ones in TF2) and related content (achievement items in TF2 for instance) - would I be happy with a £10 Steam voucher ... hmmmm.
So his punishment for giving access to his account to someone else, who then cheated the achievements in, was to loose his account and all achievements. The kids got enough problems with being autistic and having an overly-protective, gobshite of a mother - a month's XBL doesn't cost MS much, it wouldn't even appear as a blip on their marketing budget, and it'll generate goodwill amongst most people hearing about it and presumably help keep the kid locked into the XboX and XBL. Sounds like a sound investment to me.
If it were steam he would be well Screwed
just reward the cheats and the liars why dont they.
The punishment was not getting his achievements back. I imagine he considers this punishment. To be honest this is something Microsoft are quite good at - Xbox Live.
I'm sure his mother feels pretty foolish as well. I don't think giving him a fresh account (with no achievements) is much "reward". I think Microsoft have done the right thing here; removing all your achievements is an effective punishment.
Dear Mrs Jackson,
Re your son,
Microsoft online gaming department
And they all lived happily ever after.
I dont know whether to be surprised, angry or simply astonished that a software house has or needs such a position.
I just keep getting this mental image of Judge Dredd...........
what the guy that does this job actually "does".
It's clearly not working....I guess he just justified his pay for the entire year with this one issue.
He cheated, plain and simple, and was found out. And by the sounds of it his mother already knew that he cheated, but was possibly trying to milk it for all it was worth by going public and claiming mistreatment by Microsoft.
They proved he cheated, and his punishment? Being rewarded with a free month!!
An 11 year old kid cheated on a game, I'm sure we've all done worse, being autistic he may not have learned any lesson, MS gave a free month away (a minescule amount but prevents any criticism of them), and Mom gets back to letting the Cert 18 XBox babysitter look after her child, it's all pretty sad really.
Though Microsoft didn't HAVE to do anything I feel that they have acted fairly - kid gets a slapped wrist and told not to do it again and given a leg-up to get him started playing honestly, hopefully kid learns his lesson, mum learns that kid is just like other kids.
Next story please.
So the mother stood up on national US TV and Lambasted a company for picking on her son, all the while knowing what she said was false and that her son did indeed cheat.
Now that she has been caught out and Microsoft have diplomatically, and professionally informed her what they know and how much they know about their products and systems, she would like to disappear.
I think global humiliation is in order, Newspapers, blogs, tweets, facebook, TV. All laughing and pointing their finger at her.
Then she can disappear.
/not a fanboi
//dont have an xbox or ps3
///dont do online gaming
////really hate cheats and liars.
Do we actually know she knew her son had cheated? I think you're jumping to conclusions here.
I do question why her son is playing games that are meant for people much older than him...
But she's not alone there. I'm sure she already feels pretty foolish.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that the person labelled a cheat was actually, well, cheating.
I wonder if all the people having hysterics about how horrid Microsoft are on the other article about this will be able to see how foolish they've made themselves look. As has the mother who knew her son was cheating but played on her cheating son's disability for sympathy - way to stay classy there.
Surely, only of interest to OCD folk anyway.
Whats the harm. I mean really, what is the harm.
You'd think this was crime of the bloody century judging by some of the quotes here
Making false accusations on national TV that her son received unfair treatment from Microsoft.
Also, perhaps it is unwise to allow an autistic child to avoid all real world social interaction and retreat into a virtual world of violent games.
Are you a doctor? Do you have experience with autistic children?
Comments on the reg get more suited to the daily mail everyday!
To be fair to the comment you are responding to, the same should actually be said for ALL children, regardless of any disorder or disability.
I was referring to the commenters jumping out of their prams declaring the boy to be a cheat.
The actions of his whiny mom are a seperate matter.
Your statement regarding autism is a strange one. Really not sure where you get things like that from.
where you're siding with kid and slating Microsoft. Anything to say now?
People formed an opinion based on available information.
Now there is new information any rational adult would reconsider their opinion, you however, imply this makes them stupid?
'Cos "andy gibson" has never been wrong about anything in his life probably?!
I only read the original article, after this one to see all the fuss was about, you were spot on. You make a decision based on what you perceive, then as needed you admit you made a mistake, change your opinion and we all move on having learned something.
Oh no! You make a mistake and the internet never forgets and you are branded a stupid dick-head for the rest of your life, unable to ever move on or forget.
I love this brave new world, information at the speed of light, consequences that last a lifetime...
people formed a biased opinion based on hearing one side of the story.
>> You'd think this was crime of the bloody century judging by some of the quotes here
I think the issue is more that the gobshite mother very publicly played the "he can't be cheating because he is autistic and you're just picking on him" card knowing full well that her son was indeed a cheating little s**t.
If she'd just said "yes, he cheated, sorry", or even "he did do that but i didn't realise it classified as cheating" then nobody would have batted an eye-lid.
Good for MS for trying to work with the autistic kid. Bad on the mom for knowingly going public to further the lie. Mom should have to do community service for slandering MS (which in and of itself is a notable accomplishment with the bar being so low and all).
... seriously I don't think any of you really understand the fact that this young lad has Autism Syndrome. As such this means they are over trusting of pretty much anybody, are very easily led and generally have an incredibly difficult time comunicating with other people. They are also generally extremely shy, especially under pressure.
So before people start saying he didn't have the balls to own up to it, maybe you should try and understand the condition of which he is suffering, then see if you views change.
I'm not condoning what he did as right, but i think the rage on here should probably be directed at the loudmouth mother instead of the mentally challenged individual.
... and shut up.
(My advice to bystanders criticising :
- 11 year old autistic kids having computer game problems
- mothers of autistic kids having computer game problems
- in this case, and in this case only, Microsoft )
Now I'll take my own advice.
Hands up everyone who did *not* see this coming. Anybody? I didn't think so.
Autistic or not, nobody likes a cheater.
"Director of Police and Enforcement at Microsoft"??
Ha ha! "Freeze mutha! You have been illegally using Office for making church newsletters! You is looking at 20-to-10 in the pen mutha!"
Actually it's more likely to be something similar to the Reno911 level of competence!
The impact of an autistic spectrum disorder can manifest itself in many ways.
Many children can be very trusting. Too trusting.
Losing something like a gamerscore could be a majorly traumatic incident. This doesn't excuse the mother's behaviour, but could explain it.
There is nothing to say that microsoft provided this evidence until the mother over-reacted in such a way. If her experience matches the ones I've had when trying to communicate with almost every big company she may have felt she had no choice.
Far too many people diving in to be judgemental. It's a Friday afternoon as well. When did everyone end up so bitter ?
"Autistic or not, nobody likes a cheater."
And we have a winner. Autism can result in cognitive impairment. He may not be aware that he was cheating.
No doubt you similarly criticize blind people for their poor eyesight.
However delightfully proclaiming your ignorance of common neurological disorders when presumably you have the ability to find out is nobody's fault but your own.
He gave his account to somebody else to get him past a bit he was stuck on, and that person cheated. Stupid, but he probably wasn't expecting them to cheat to do it.
My experience of autistic people, in general, is that they tend to be honest... compulsively so in a lot of cases. They also tend to expect everybody else they interact with to be just as honest!
Freaking read the article people, then work on your comprehension.
The mom didn't lie on TV. A lie is intentionally saying something that you believe to be false, whereas she believed that what she said was true. The fact that she turned out to be wrong is completely immaterial. Yes, she knew her son gave his key to somebody, but she didn't know that what the other kid was going to do was actually cheating. Yes, she was naive, but as far as she knew she was telling the truth when sticking up for her son.
Her son gave his key to a friend who was going to unlock some achievements for him. The article doesn't say that he knew the friend was going to cheat in order to do it. Being autistic it's extremely more than likely that the kid seriously didn't comprehend that what he was doing was wrong and was crushed when he saw what Microsoft did. That automatically triggers mom's Protective Mode.
Yes, they were both wrong, they both reacted perfectly normally when accused, and when shown the proof they realized the truth, accepted it, and apologized. That makes them good people.
I'm glad MS persisted; they clearly knew they were in the right. Autism, or any other condition, does not trump truth. Good on ya MS!
Autistic or not why was a child of 11 playing a game rated above his age? Surely that makes a mockery of the age rating system, so therefore M$ are encouraging underage gaming, which leads to the little scrotes cheating online.