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PALO ALTO, California (AP), Jul 16 - Toyota Motor Corp. and electric vehicle upstart Tesla Motors Inc. will work together to develop an electric version of Toyota's RAV4 small crossover vehicle, with plans to begin selling it in the U.S. in 2012, the companies announced Friday.Tesla already is working on the electric power system for the RAV4, which looks like a small sport utility vehicle but is based on a car frame. The electric car maker has built one prototype for testing and plans to deliver a fleet of them for Toyota to evaluate sometime this year.The companies announced a partnership in May to develop and build electric cars at a recently closed auto factory in the San Francisco Bay area.Tesla, which in June began selling shares to the public, says it hopes to drive down the cost of electric vehicles so they become within reach of mainstream buyers. Toyota has said it is investing $50 million in Tesla, with the electric car company buying the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory, known as Nummi, in Fremont, California, where the Tesla Model S electric sedan will be built.Tesla now sells only one vehicle, a two-seater electric sports car costing $109,000. It plans to sell the Model S in 2012 for $49,900, including federal tax credits. It's designed to travel up to 300 miles (480 kilometers) on a three- to five-hour charge.The Nummi plant, established in 1984 as a joint venture between General Motors Co. and Toyota, employed 4,700 workers. GM made the Pontiac Vibe there but withdrew from the alliance last year after filing for bankruptcy protection. Toyota made the Corolla sedan and Tacoma pickup at the plant but said that without GM, it could not sustain the factory.


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The promised demo for DmC Devil May Cry will cut into Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next Tuesday, November 20, publisher Capcom announced today. The campaign slice will pack two missions: one boss fight and one plain old kill-lots-of-men segment.
Several weapon upgrades and difficulty modes will be available for your playing pleasure, Capcom says, with the hard "Son of Sparda" mode unlocked by completing the demo. It should be enough for you to play around for a while and get a feel for it, then.
Ninja Theory's revamp of the series is coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on January 15, 2013. The outsourced PC edition is due to follow shortly after.


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The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea will offer visitors free guided gallery tours through the center's current special exhibit, "The Threads That Bind: Textile Works by Kentucky Artisans," on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
This exhibit showcases the work of 21 Kentucky artisans who create a wide range of work including clothing, jewelry, wall art, sculpture, quilts and more. Works on display are composed of fabric, fiber and/or thread, with significant use of thread or other fiber strands to weave, embellish, construct, shape, quilt or otherwise create the design.
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This is less about the vigilantism of the Crowd, and more about the utter stupidity of [some] criminal/deviants.
Stupid criminals shoot video of their crimes. Incredibly fucking stupid criminals put the video on youtube.
Those stories are nothing more than a return to anarchy and lawlessness dressed up as something noble by the article.
Vigilantism is the backlash against lawlessness; in this case the lack of a justice system capable of convicting and punishing sadistic animal abusers has been corrected by a band of on-line judge/jury/executioners. To say that it's the height of civility is a stretch, but 'lawless' it certainly is not either.
Tell that to the black and Jewish victims of lynching in the south. Yes, in many cases vigilantism can be a form of law enforcement. The problem though is that when a group of citizens answers to no one the potential for abuse and stepping beyond law enforcement is definitely there.
You set up a beautiful straw man argument and knocked it down...
But harrassment and social ostracism are in no way equivalent to a lynching.
Not even death threats and bricks through the window rise to that level.
You have a point in there, but your hyperbole saps it of any meaning.
Yes, in the two cases cited it seems to have worked out in the interest of justice, but they could just as easily have found somebody that wasn't guilty.
So give us an equal number of counter examples. It can't be that hard.
Or even better, find some non-anecdotal statistics that supports your otherwise overhyped assertion.
I've only heard of a handful of cases where crowd-sourced jus
The government isn't going to waste time and money going after these people and thus far it sure seems like these are some fuckers who really deserve whatever the government can do to them. People who participate in hunting these people are just filling a void.
It sounds like nothing illegal was done by those participating in the hunt, at least nothing obvious. It's not like they are hunting the person down in order to physically assault them, they just all want to express their opinion at the same time to t
Is it really a lynch mob if the noose is nothing more than information?
Unfortunately, it only takes one nutjob to turn a peaceful demonstration into a 'dangerous mob'.
The internet-justice connection is also about making information easily accessible to the public. And sometimes the public know what the police don't.
Ted Kaczynsky was identified by his brother somewhat due to his reversed (though also correct) use of the phrase 'you can't eat your cake and have it too.' [wikipedia.org] I imagine many aspects of a crime could be identified through that kind of esoteric data, if only the right people saw it.
At least have the decenecy to tag the above link NSFW.
You must be new to the internet. You also must not watch much porn. Turn in your geek card.
There's nothing NSFW about the home page at redtube.com. You see a bunch of giant text asking you to consent to entering an adult site, with 2 buttons you can click on. What exactly is NSFW about that? If you saw that text, still clicked the "Enter" button, and then got offended when you saw porn, you don't really have a lot to bitch about. If the mere presence of a page warning that you're about to enter an adult site is itself considered NSFW where you work, then I'm going to go out on a limb and say
Just in case someone here...by some freak chance...doesn't know that RedTube is basically YouTube for Porn, don't clicky the linky if you're at work...y.
Unless you happen to work in the porn industry
Also, the internet forgets in about a week.
Forgets what?
Why are all these words on my computer?
I'd rather not live in a society in which 51% can arbitrarily sentence the other 49% to death.
This is just an extension of Internet flaming into RL. People who feel passionately about something, and think they have a decent chance of remaining anonymous, have a strong incentive to screw up someone's life.
Consider a few months back when someone posted the RL address of a spam king and people promptly flooded his house with tons of mail-order catalogs and magazines. (But most slashdotters seemed to approve of that...)
Justice involves a non-biased judge and written laws. Mobs aren't about justice, e
I'd rather not live in a society that thinks impaling a kitten through the eye socket with high heels until the kitten dies is considered a good thing. Fortunately, I don't and neither do most people.
And our goals are not mutually exclusive. It's possible to recognize that killing kittens is wrong, but that that widespread vigilantism greater wrong.
Neither do I. That's why I carefully studied all of the evidence available and have identified "the humeister" as the culprit. No, don't ask to see the evidence I used, it's all secret. But you can trust me, as I am held to the highest standards of professional conduct required for "some anonymous person on the Internet". Look, I have a video camera so you know I'm telling the truth. Be sure to round up all of your friends and storm "the humeister"s home tonight at sunset. Remember to bring plenty of torches and pitchforks.
Would you really rather live in a world where everybody listens to people like me?
All this crap about phear the mob rule! Tiranity of the majority etc is just rhetoric elitist bullshit!
You think vigilantes are dangerous because they respond to no one? Bullshit, Vigilantes answer to society, and in the case of very large mobs like the internet, the mob *is* society. What makes you think the police is better? Because they answer to no one?
How do you call a government that doesn't listen to the "mob"? A dictatorship.
Besides the "mob" has become much more sophisticated than before,
Deep down I've always had a sneaking suspicion that has always been the real goal of political parties.
Same problem with any Vigilante justice.
Except Batman.
Considering how biased large groups of people can be and the fact that their belif becomes so entrenched into who they are and with no checks in place, innocent people will get killed.
You see then in Homeopathy, Anti-Vaccines, Acupuncture and a mess of other belief systems.
Maybe, if the sick fuck wasn't so stupid as to RECORD it and put it on fucking YOUTUBE.
Sick and Stupid. Calls for darwination.
By forcing an innocent person to kill a kitten?
Seriously, these morons RECORDED themselves killing kittens. Its not like there is a big mystery over who actually did it.
I have no problem with this, no one got hurt, and making someone lose their job for doing something disgusting is perfectly fine with me. Its not like they were lynched or anything serious.
Okay, you go to a fast food restaurant, and you see an employee wander out back and beat up a bum. Would it be wrong for me to go talk to his manager a
The author of the article doesn't get it
Fortunately, human flesh search engines don't end the lives of their victims, like the witch-hunts or lynching of the past.
No, they just make it impossible to ever live a normal life ever again. They ruin your career and alienate your friends and family. They force you to live through humiliation and shaming every day, often for weeks or months at a time.
All based on a single, often easily fabricated, piece of evidence. That isn't justice, it's just a mob being a mob and harrassing other people for the fun of it.
These groups only really pursue people who do one of two things - 1) try to make information that is free unfree (the antithesis of the internet), and 2) do things so abhorrant that they rouse the majority to action against them.
Sex offenders have it too rough in my opinion. Take this article about a bridge in FL. All the sex offenders live there because of all the various zoning restrictions forced them to live there. The article even discusses one woman about to move under the bridge:
and before anyway says we should just kill sex offenders or mutilate their body parts, remember two things
1) there are plenty of innocent people convicted of
I'm sure Grace Wang [nytimes.com] would agree with you.
In brief, Grace Wang [npr.org] was an international student at Duke and dared to try an initiate a discussion between the pro-Tibet and pro-Chinese sides of a protest. After being attacked on forums such as mitbbs.com "Online Vigilantes" decided to bring these attacks to the real world by posting her personal information (her student visa application) and providing maps to her parents' house (which was defaced, causing her parents to go into hiding).
Defending kittens are one thing, but as with "think of the children", it rarely stops there.
it is not a good thing.
I'm sure Grace Wang [nytimes.com] would agree with you.
Thank you for posting this. This is a perfect example of how Chinese groupthink works.
I don't have a link, but I remember reading an article where an angry ex-wife put some false allegations about her ex-husband online (this was also in China) and the guy ended up being constantly harassed until the government stepped in and protected him and put the ex-wife in jail for lying. I've heard of similar stories happening with "online justice" in South Korea where people just believe whatever horrible thing someone says online about another person.
What really bothers me about China is that many young people there seem to have this patriotic fervor that's based in nothing more than believing what the government tells them. I would be shocked if someone asked Chinese students why they are so angry about Taiwanese independence or Tibetan independence (or even autonomy) and that had anything to say beyond "They are now and always have been part of China". I've been to Taiwan and except for a few crazy pro-independence nut jobs, most people there just want to be left alone by China and nothing more than that. They don't wish any ill on China, they just want to be left alone. It seems to me that the Chinese government actually likes to encourage this irrational "Everything we say and do is right" attitude. It makes the population easier to control when they are incapable of independent thought.
Finally I read the original article and I found some aspects troubling. First of all, some people figured out where the kitten killing in China occurred by recognizing things in the video. No problem them. But then it says that someone recognized the shoes the girl wore and knew they were ordered online. OK, maybe these shoes are only available online and someone knew that. Fine. But then it says that they figured out who ordered them and went after her. Hmm... serious lack of privacy here. So it's not the government asking the business to see who did this but just an angry mob and the company apparently gave them the info. What? Was there only one woman who ordered the shoes? So how on earth from this paltry information did they figure out who did it? I don't know. It sounds kind of fishy to me but if true, I guess it says a lot about China that all you have to do is get an angry mob and businesses will give out all your personal info to them.
See, this is why you can't trust free speech and open information. One minute it's saving kittens, and then next minute it's BITING YOU IN THE ASS! I can has truth plz? kthnxbye!
Always nice to see the Chinese circumventing the Great Firewall. There is no way you'll get good information if all you get is government information.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with bypassing the gfw, it's entirely domestic. Chinese people actually consider it patriotic to track down miscreants this way. The phenomenon is known as the 'human flesh search engine' and they are scarily good at posting a person's full info. Then, the serious creeps start working on you - calling your boss, your mother, the principal of your old high school. Of course, charlatans can be exposed this way, too. One essa
Maybe the internet can catch this guy [google.com]. I hope so, and am glad he doesn't live here.
The crowd makes a mistake and some random dude gets beaten down for something his lookalike neighbour did.
Do a news.google.com search for: vilgilante mistake
So what's the difference between the crowd making a mistale and the police making a mistake?
DNA Testing Clears Virginia Man Of 1984 Rape [northcountrygazette.org]
Chicago man sues Chicago, police over wrongful conviction [chicagotribune.com]
Milwaukee DA Drops Charge In 1995 Murder Case [wcco.com]
Tests prove innocence of 23-year prisoner in Texas [google.com]
New arson analysis may free convicted murderer [kxxv.com]
Texas Enacts 'Innocence Committee' Over Excessive Wrongful Convictions [salem-news.com]
Right, rules of evidence, jury trials, right to appeal, right to have legal representation, none of these make any difference.
The question isn't "which system never screws up". There's no such system. The question is which system screws up the least. I think that a system that relies on some random idiot saying, "Hey, that must be the guy!" isn't even close to the top of that list.
It's not even which system screws up the least - it's which system has built in procedures for error correction (which mostly) work, and built in procedures for appeals (which mostly work). The system that relies on some random idiot saying, "Hey, that must be the guy!" lacks both of these key features.
Nobody with any sense won't admit our current justice problems, but you'd have to be seriously biased or ignorant to fail the realize the vast difference between the two systems or to ask questions l
So what's the difference between the crowd making a mistale and the police making a mistake?
The police and the rest of the criminal justice system are bound by rules designed to at least attempt to "get it right". The crowd is not. The crowd will make more serious mistakes more frequently than the criminal justice system.
The crowd will make more serious mistakes more frequently than the criminal justice system.
And sometimes it isn't necessarily by mistake. How many times have people been targeted for mob action, not because of wrongdoing, but because of opportunity:
Of course, whoever starts this won't say the actual reason. They can just say, "Hey, look, there's [fill-in-the-blank]! Get him!"
So what's the difference between the crowd making a mistale and the police making a mistake?
Right of appeal.
Actually, the victim here wasn't all that random. He was an Indian immigrant. Funny how racial minorities tend to be victims of "mistaken identity" more than the rest of us. Which leads us to a completely different reason [google.com] to despise vigilante "justice".
That's one specific problem, but the GLOBAL problem with vigilante justice is it has no defined endpoint.
If the vigilante response exceeds what is considered "fair", and it usually does, the instinctive reaction by the accused is to retaliate. It's not a criminal mind type thing, it's human nature. If I call you names and you punch me in the balls, I will knock you with a baseball bat, and you will shoot me in the ass, and I will burn down your house with your family trapped inside, etc etc etc... the rag
Except online vigilantes go after the softest of soft targets.
And why cats? Sounds like the Chinese version of btards.
And why cats?
Quite. The Chinese eat cats. [msn.com]
I offer this:
Look at history, and political science and take a hard look at why republics functioned beter then pure democracy. The Internet runs the same risk.
Take heed and good luck, crowd sourcing has a hidden downside people are forgetting.
Which is worse, the internet developing an emergent technology based sentience (e.g. skynet) or the internet developing an emergent crowed based sentience like in these examples?
Personally I'm not sure which would scare me more.
More like the new mob. It's fine if you fit in, if you agree with whatever "the internet" agrees on. It's utter hell if you don't.
"The internet" is not much better than the average religious nutjobs picketing abortion clinics. They just picket different targets. Sure, today it's kitten killers and the Co$. But how long 'til the next groupthink target is a group you belong to? Will it take a lot to jump from hunting down criminals to hunting down people that dare to be different, that refuse to fit in, that did nothing really wrong but made someone feel "uneasy" thinking of what he does?
And I'm not even talking about sexual fetishes that make me (and probably a few other people) cringe.
It's a small step from vigilantism to harassment. From fighting a crime that the justice system ignores to beating people you just don't simply like.
"Internet vigilantes", the kinds who do care about issues like cults and animal abuse, seem little more than pawns for the sociopathic trolls who enjoy nothing more than exerting power over their peers, particularly in ways that elevate their in-group status and justify their innate desire to inflict suffering on those peers.
"Cult like mentality" is an apt description.
Many people will SAY anything. I've seen people on
The problem for me is that there is a very small minority of people who can be triggered to act by the incitement of others. These people will reach out and HURT people with little or no factual support. Unless stopped, people like this exert an evil influence all out of proportion to their otherwise insignificant place in society. Nazis did that kind of stuff in the 1930s and it really chilled the behavior of other law-abiding Germans. A real turd-Kultur was created there. That kind of history ought best not be repeated.
If people alter their behavior because they are afraid of being tormented by Internet-spawned wrongful "meat world" attacks, then they are not free. Balancing protection from such acts with the right to freely interact on the internet is a serious legal and moral challenge.
Hmmm... do you have a link? I've seen all sorts of violence advocated on
Spammers on the other hand must die horribly.
Sounds like he just watched The Terminator...
'The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.'
From the movie..
That Terminator is out there.
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with.
It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear
and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
So... someday you could be judged by an internet mob from halfway around the world, who have not bothered to even look at the evidence (or RTFA, as we'd say here).
At that point, justice will truly become like politics.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Cheyenne_Cherry [encycloped...matica.com]
Anonymous hates people, but loves cats (as evidenced by Caturday and the entire "lolcats" phenomena). Their most recent target is the evil Cheyenne Cherry, who put a kitten in an oven and roasted it alive. Anonymous went through a lot of effort to get as much info as possible, but jumped the gun at first. The NY Daily News reported a 75-yo retiree with a similar name had her phone number posted, and the result? "They're all saying, 'You'll burn in hell,' 'Who the hell do you think you are?'" Bernadette Cherry, 72, said of the 75 calls from cat lovers."
My fucking god! Every time I turn around, there comes to my attention yet another sick thing I couldn't possibly have imagined on my own. "Kitten Killing Videos"?? Holy crap!! And no, nobody needs to list "things sicker than kitten killing videos" and definitely do not post links. To this day, I have not watched two girls and a cup. It was the Daniel Pearlman video that convinced me that if I am warned that I shouldn't see a video, I should probably heed the warning. It cured my "morbid sense of curiosity" forever. (Movie violence be damned, but for all my "kill the spammers" rants, I doubt I could actually stomach actually being the executioner... handing down the sentence is one thing, but actually killing another person? Probably more than I can handle.)
Someone clever could turn this into a Two Minute Hate, craft videos of crimes not really committed, wars not really fought, and enemies who don't exist. Congratulations, you can now harness the raw power of a hateful, vindictive crowd.
"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroyâ" everything. "
Wasn't this predicted years ago by Bruce Sterling in Makeki Neko [tqft.net]? Use of the 'net to commit "death by a thousand paper cuts", or harassment by many, many small acts, each of which individually wouldn't be considered unlawful, but in aggregate become overwhelming? I'm not sure whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, but it almost certainly is going to happen.
or harassment by many, many small acts, each of which individually wouldn't be considered unlawful, but in aggregate become overwhelming?
And also become illegal. At least where I live, law recognizes that the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.
A common mistake made by people in cases of copyright and harassment.
(Standard IANAL disclaimer)
'The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.'
I call BS. The Internet is a gaping global case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Show it a cute LOLCAT image, or a video of someone getting hit in the balls, and totally forgets about flavor-of-the-month investigation project.
Richard Kimble: I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE!!
4chan.org/b/: I DON'T CARE!.....Ooo look guys, new cam-whore! lulz, she's ugly.
The "cannot be stopped" part of the summary is complete nonsense. All you need to do to stop the internet is show it something shiny. Public opinion and passion is notoriously fickle.
If there are a thousand crimes committed, the police will make a real effort to investigate all of them, allocating their resources reasonably according to the severity of the crime and the likelyhood of a successful investigation. They will work on an investigation for days, weeks, months or years as required.
The internet "angry mob", on the other hand, will only investigate the single most exciting, dramatic, attention-getting crime. They will devote 100% of their effort to finding a scapegoat for that crime, until they get bored or something more exciting comes along.
A smart police force can and will use the power of the masses (think "Amber alert"), but it is still in control of the investigation.
...they would do the same to their government, and make it pay, instead of only complaining in blogs. ^^
I guess it must be the imagination that many millions of people could not fight some thousands of people, because they would be protected by an army of those very same millions of people.
No, I will not finish that meme.
"The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever."
And it's incredibly stupid and totally uninformed, just like every other lynch mob since long before the kristallnacht and the witch-hunt.
What could possibly go wrong...?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.


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The Association of Science and Technology Centers
I spent October 13-19 in Baltimore at the annual conference of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC). A few years ago a colleague suggested that I attend this conference and present a talk on our Citizen Sky planetarium show. That never happened due to timing and cost issues. But this year we had both the time and funding to attend.
I was there for three main reasons. First, there was a session on citizen science led by some leaders in the field. The AAVSO is one of the oldest and most successful citizen science projects, but we have a very low profile in the citizen science field - one that is rapidly exploding thanks to large scale projects like BOINC and Zooniverse. Most citizen science projects present results at meetings of their scientific domain (ornithologists present at ornithology conferences, astronomers at astronomy conferences, etc.). So this is one of the few opportunities for crosstalk and to share ideas. The second reason was a day of sessions on 3D film development, which we are getting into thanks to our new grant. The third reason were the sessions on general science center development and management. They had many sessions on private fundraising (such as planned giving), federal science education grants and leadership of small science centers with budgets <$1 million. The AAVSO has a major presence at the astronomy meetings, but these are topics not discussed there. So we wanted to investigate this organization and see if they had anything to offer us in terms of new ideas.
Overall, I came away with more notes and ideas than I normally do at a meeting. These conferences are far more about networking than anything else, and this one did not disappoint. But it's an expensive meeting to attend (it shows in how well organized it is) so I don't know if we'll be able to make it every year. But I think we should have a presense every 2-3 years at least. At the next one I hope to present on various projects of the AAVSO and fly our flag proudly.


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(NYC, New York) LSVT Global, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the LSVT LOUD Companion, a technological innovation designed to improve the communicative impairments associated with Parkinson disease and other neurological disorders. Through the LSVT LOUD Companion, clients interact with dynamic software as they move through the well established and highly efficacious LSVT LOUD therapy protocol. This FDA cleared medical device guides and tracks a client's speech performance and allows for direct long-term client use outside of the clinical setting. It significantly expands clinician impact resulting in time and cost savings.
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The Country Club of North Carolina - Dogwood Course
Pinehurst, N.C. • August 8 - 11
PINEHURST, N.C. — Chesson Hadley, 18, of Raleigh, N.C., opened the first round of the Golf Pride Junior Classic firing a 4-under-par 68 to lead the Boys Division at the Country Club of North Carolina's Dogwood Course. In the Girls Division, Corrine Carr, 16, of Pinehurst and Rachel Uremovich, 14, of Hilton Head, S.C., each shot even-par 72 on the round to tie for the top spot after 18 holes.
The Golf Pride Junior Classic is a 54-hole event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association at the Country Club of North Carolina. The event features 99 players from 17 states as well as Peru, and includes 39 players from North Carolina.
The latter half of the first round of the Golf Pride Junior Classic was delayed for two and a half hours while storms moved into the area. Seven tee times were suspended to wait for better playing conditions before finishing their rounds.
Starting the day with a birdie on No. 1, Hadley would card five more birdies on the round, including three of the four Par-3 holes.
"I had a couple tap-in birdies," Hadley said. "I just played the par-threes really well."
Hadley hit 15 greens-in-regulation and nine fairways during the first round to lead the Boys Division by two strokes going into Wednesday's second round.
Two strokes behind Hadley and in second place after the first round are Brent Blaum of Miami, Fla., Hunter Hamrick of Montgomery, Ala., and Alan Lee of Lima, Peru, each with scores of 2-under-par 70. Tied for fifth with scores of 1-under-par 71 are Josh Griffin of Wilson, N.C., and Brian Kim of Yorba Linda, Calif.
Carr, who lives just blocks from the first tee, proved there is no place like home after missing only one fairway during her first round on her way to even-par. Two birdies and two bogeys, along with 14 greens-in-regulation, added up to her spot on the top.
"I played pretty solid golf today," Carr said. "I'm going to try to do the same thing tomorrow."
Carr has previously only finished as high as fourth place, both at the 2004 AJGA Richmond Junior and the 2004 Lockton Kansas City Junior.
Uremovich, who gained entry into the Golf Pride Junior Classic when she medaled in Sunday's qualifier, also sits at the top of the leader board for the first time at an AJGA event after shooting even-par during her first round.
Uremovich shot 1-under-par 35 on the front nine, and carded four birdies on the round.
"I want to keep the momentum going," Uremovich said. "My goal is to shoot 72 or lower."
One stroke behind Carr and Uremovich after the first round is Megan O'Donnell of Houston, with a score of 1-over-par 73 for third place.
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In the spirit of Halloween coming next week PHPMaster.com has posted some spooky scary PHP code in their latest post from the editor of the site, Timothy Boronczyk.
Break out the candy corn and apple cider; it's that time of year again! The rest of the world may not celebrate Halloween as hog wild as in America, but I thought it'd be fun to share some scary PHP stuff to mark the holiday. This is a fun article, sharing with you some scary (but logical) behavior found in PHP itself, and spooky (and possibly quite illogical) ways in which some have twisted PHP to do their bidding. Think of this as my treat to you, a little bit of geek "mind-candy" – because why should all the trick-or-treaters have all goodies?
The code examples include "The Haunted Array", "The Phantom Database Connection" and "An API Worthy of Dr. Frankenstein". Enjoy! (and maybe share some of your own too)


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Startup Proximal Data's flagship AutoCache product tackles I/O bottlenecks in virtual environments by putting technology inside the hypervisor, thereby reducing the amount of flash storage customers need to buy.
Founded in 2011, San Diego-based Proximal Data was founded by former EMC executives and landed $2 million in Series B funding in April from Divergent Ventures and existing investor Avalon Ventures. The startup has some major channel partnerships with companies like Harwood International and TriAxis Storage Solutions.


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Hollywood stars and teenagers aren't the only ones obsessed with social media. Drug cartel leaders and gang members are getting in on the action, too.
Claudia Ochoa Felix, a Kim Kardashian look-alike, supposedly leads Los Antrax, a murder gang used by the Sinaloa cartel – in heels. Felix, 27, held a press conference Thursday, denying a relationship with the large and powerful Sinaloa cartel. But, photos on her social media counts show her toting a pink AK-47 or M16, all while sporting designer clothing and false eyelashes. At the press conference, she stated she was not the woman depicted in some of the photos.
Felix took down the Twitter page two weeks ago, but has since started a Facebook page to "aclarar esas dudas que andan en el aire," or '"clear the doubts walking in the air," she states on the page. Her Facebook photos show Felix with Gucci purses, tight dresses, and pool-side with her three children.
She claims she is not "La Emperatriz de los Antrax," or boss lady of the gang, but rather a loving mom. She also claims she is not romantically involved with the imprisoned Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, or "El Chino Antrax." It is rumored Felix took over the gang when Gamboa entered prison for trafficking methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana, according to The Daily Beast. "El Chino Antrax" was arrested a few months before Sinaloa drug leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested.
Felix's three children are supposedly fathered by Sinaloa cartel lieutenant "El Chavo Felix." The two parted ways, and Felix moved on to date cartel figure Dorian Trinidad Leon after he escaped from prison in 2011, according to The Daily Beast. Their relationship ended when Leon died in a car crash. After Felix recovered from injuries, she was seen with "El Chino Anthrax."
"El Chino Antrax" and Serafin Zambada, son of a Sinaloa cartel boss, also engage in selfie action. "El Chino Antrax" posted photos of his workouts, guns and yachts on his social media pages, which may have led to his capture. He blurs his face, but is recognizable by a large silver ring, featuring a Los Antrax death's head, on the fourth finger on his right hand. Zambada posts photos of Bentleys, Range Rovers, pet lions and cheetahs, ATVs, gold and silver guns, and (of course) money.
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Hugh Pickens writes writes: "A new startup is revolutionizing the way financial service companies meet the needs of an estimated 2.7 billion people worldwide with a mobile phone but no access to formal financial services by developing sophisticated modeling software that can look at usage data from consumers' mobile phones and make predictions about credit risk. "There's a vast market of consumers in countries like Brazil, China, India, and the Phillipines who want access to financial services like credit cards, loans, or insurance," says Jonathan Hakim, chief executive of Cignifi. "But while they may have jobs, and some have bank accounts, there really is no credit history for them." The way you use your phone is a proxy for your lifestyle say the developers. "We're looking at things like the length of calls, the time of day, and the location you make them from. Also things like whether you top up [a pre-paid SIM card] regularly. We want to see how stable the patterns are. When you look at that, you can create these behavioral clusters that give you information about users' appetite for new [financial] products, and their ability to repay a debt." Currently operating in Brazil, Cignifi doesn't plan to deploy the technology in the US. in the near-term. "The business opportunity is so much bigger in Brazil, India, China, and Mexico, where you have around half a billion people in those four markets alone who have a mobile phone but no banking relationship,""


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People are often thrilled by the fact that I try to keep track of their interests and inclinations. I avidly file away tidbits I learn while listening to them talk, but I'm not yet used to asking people for more details or engaging in small talk. I'm starting to think that there's more to small talk than just passing time, though. I guess asking about all of these things makes good business sense.
Patrick G. of http://www.zill.net replied to my post on keeping in touch with people with this excellent tip:
re: your post on keeping track of people and their interests - did you ever hear of the "Mackay 66" ? A guy here in the US wrote a book about selling, and he requires his saleman to keep a "66" on each customer - 66 things you should know about them. See http://www.mackay.com/howhelp/Mac66.html - at least 1 thru 57 is useful for friends too.
I wonder what other lists are out there...
彼はコンピュータに詳しい。 He is familiar with computer.
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On our way back from Infoweapons (and on the prowl for non-fried places to eat), Paolo and I spotted a brightly-lit cafe with Japanese characters sprayed on its windows. We stood there for a moment, deciphering the inscription: 喫茶と軽食. Tea house and snacks. Coffee and snacks. Something like that.
Then we saw the bookshelves overflowing with manga.
We went in and stared at the manga collection for a moment. I amused myself by trying to translate the sign posted above the bookshelf. The English caption mentioned Japanese people who want to converse with Cebuanos. Being neither Japanese nor Cebuano, I wondered if they'd let me come and practice Japanese anyway. A look at the clientele--old Japanese businessmen, pretty Filipinas--and at the high prices posted, and Paolo and I looked at each other and laughed. It might be like one of those snack bars I saw in Shinjuku...
Hmm. Maybe we can have a cup of hot chocolate / coffee and read as much as we want. Maybe Wednesday. Hehehe...
私は妹に新しいコンピューターを使わせてやった。 I let my sister use my new computer.
Babe's airing on HBO right now. It reminds me of this Windows 3.11 game about herding sheep. The strange thing is that I can't quite remember playing the game. I mean, I remember playing it, but I'm not sure if I really remember playing it.
There goes my sanity, I guess... Does anyone else remember this game?
I miss Maxwell's Demon, too. And Jezzball. Whee.
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Man, those fun bags are just tryin' to jump outta that dress!!!!
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Ok now that's REALLY nitpicking.
Can't help stupidity.
Originally Posted by palmetto defender
You bother to look at his stats LAST YEAR?
Next we'll hear, "Hey, Jim Brown only averaged 5.0 for his career."
He's a BUM.
Pats got Blount (better) for a 5th.
Last year he averaged 5.4 per carry, on a team that averaged 4.3 yards per carry overall - meaning he was more than a yard per carry better than his team overall. So I'm not sure what the complaint is
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how could I forget this gem?!
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how could I forget this gem?!
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I hope he lands somewhere he will get a real shot to compete. I'm not saying he will win a job but the staff really railroaded him.
==ESPN groupthink believes that Tim Tebow should either move to the tight end position or be relegated to the CFL. In reality, Tebow is a solid starting quarterback. He makes things happen on the football field (but not in practice, duh, Jets), inspires teammates and just wins football games. After all, leading a mediocre Denver team to the playoffs (after Kyle Orton's horrific start with the same squad) and compiling 400 yards of offense against Dick LeBeau's defense in a postseason victory is no fluke. Tebow still has room for growth. A coach with a great imagination could run a highly successful offense with the former Gator. The problem with Tebow has very little to do with what he does on the field. The media creates such a distraction with him that it can hurt the team. Tebow needs to go to a small-market organization to avoid that. The Jaguars make all the sense in the world, as Tebow would be a colossal upgrade over either Blaine Gabbert or Chad Henne.
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Maine. I'm with you on that....eight wins is feasible because so many teams are having changes....the jets changes have all been for the better....lets see the draft and come august we will really see how this team looks.....it amazes me how many posters here are already assuming that the jets cannot win even 6 games.
1. Received an extension
2. Been able to assemble his own staff without having to get Idzik to sign off on all the hirings
3. Have some say in the Revis soap opera
Let's be clear, we still have the same garbage at QB that we have had the last 4 years. Plus, I am getting a kick out of everyone saying that the changes we making are for the better. Really?
Greene for Goodson. Greene has 2 1000 yard seasons and Goodson has been a change of pace back and been bounced around the league as this is his third team. I like the move, but let's not get crazy about it. Chris Johnson he is not.
Slauson and Moore for Colon. Granted we MIGHT get a guard in this draft. That said, we are now "upgrading" from two serviceable players who stayed healthy their entire careers for Colon and an unproven rookie? This will be an upgrade only if we go guard in the first round.
We haven't done anything with the TE position yet. I really hated Keeler's position so I won't argue this one.
That is just the offense.
Now let's try to replace Pouha, both OLB, and both safeties. Not to mention DL depth.
I think people are overrating our potential draft. We will be lucky to get more than 2 LEGITIMATE starters from this draft. Add one if we get TB's first this year. We can't expect an entire rookie class to come in, stay healthy, play well, and thus challenge for a playoff berth. Specifically if we don't have the QB to make everyone better.
Playoffs or GONE.
Can't miss the playoffs for three consecutive seasons and keep your job.
I think anything short of a winning record (9-7) he will be gone.
Would love to have him as the Jets DC if that happens, I know that is a far cry from being realistic but..... anything is possible in Jet's land.
If he's gone...who's a better candidate to replace him?
Everybody who is paying attention, knows unless Rex pulls off a miracle, he is getting fired at the end of the 2013 season. Idzik was not part of the organization when Rex was hired. Rex was kept around for 1more season because Idzik had salary cap issues and roster issues that demanded his immediate attention. Spearheading a coaching search would have detracted from that. Plus, Rex has 2 year left on his deal. It's acceptable to owners to eat a year of the contract. Sometimes, unless it's been a disaster, 2 years is too much.
There is no answer to this question, too many variables.
The new GM of da Bears fired Lovie after winning 10 games, so it looks like Rex needs 11 wins to survive
Would like to see Rex stay but somebody's got to answer for Sonny (I mean Sanchez)
It is totally unreasonable for anyone to think that Rex needs a winning season to keep his job. I know i am not a jet fan but this roster right now or even after hitting on 1/2 of your picks is not going to be a very good Roster.
Is Revis going to be on the team?
Is Holmes going to be effective the year after lLz Franc.
There is still no nfl safety on the roster., Kerley is the only proven receiver.
Can Goodson be a full time back?
If Rex wins 7 games with this roster and keeps his mouth shut he will be here in 2014
Otherwise Rex Ryan is a loudmouth idiot who is clearly over his head and underachieving with amazing talent.
Mike Fatf*cksa told me so.
A win against the Pats would help a lot. If they get swept again and aren't truly competitive for a playoff spot, pretty tough for an owner to sit back and just accept that his talent stinks but is "up and coming" and his HC is doing an amazing job while still failing in the "what have you done for me now" league.
If the Jets are a "rebuilding team," then they are essentially a "new, trying to be up and coming team," which is usually associated with a new head coach. That new head coach gets the time to develop his players and if it ultimately fails, he's gone, too.
I can't think of any team comparable to the Jets' model of going from a good team, dropping all the way down to a "new team," and letting a HC ride this whole thing out with a multi-year hall pass based on his previous experience. If anyone has a comp team, I'm curious?
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I'd say 8-8 but it all depends on how he finishes the season. The last two years we dropped our last three in a row. (2011 went from 8-5 to 8-8 and 2012 went from 6-7 to 6-10). If we end the season like that again I think he's gone. If we are 5-8 and end up 8-8 that might be the best chance Rex has to save his job.
Woody or any owner would have a hard time selling tickets to fans if they keep a coach who falls apart in December three years in a row.
Something else to remember. Last year we went 6-10 with a cake walk schedule. Arizona, Jacksonville, and St. Louis were pretty easy teams to beat. Miami and Buffalo were mediocre. The only decent team we beat was the Colts. We could have very easily been a 4-12 team last season.
If they're competitive, play solid defense, and develop a new Idzik identity of competition at all positions. Then most importantly, avoid any major embarrassing controversy he's going to get another year. I think you guys are wrong about who he needs to impress though. Rex had Woody's ear, and I could see his personality dwarfing Tanny, and besides Tanny really wanted Rex to like him. Finally in with the cool kids. Idzik is in charge now. Rex is not going to circumvent him. Without knowing him, Idzik seems much more persuasive. He commands respect, and inspires confidence. Even Rex seems to look to him for approval. Could mean great things for the team, and for Rex' development as a HC...Could mean the end of his development as a HC as well.


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Gabe Baltazar, one of the world's premier jazz musicians, will perform live at UH Mānoa on Friday, October 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mānoa Gardens. Baltazar is October's guest performer for Mānoa Jazz, a monthly event held on the last Friday of the month and is sponsored by the Campus Center Board. The general public is invited to attend.
Baltazar, a McKinley High School graduate, was honored as the "Kupuna of Jazz" at the 8th annual Hawai'i International Jazz Festival. He is a veteran of the Los Angeles studio scene who first achieved notice as a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Baltazar moved to the mainland from Hawai'i in the mid-1950s where he recorded with Paul Togawa. He gained recognition for his years with Kenton during which he recorded a few rewarding solos, and has also worked with Terry Gibs, Gil Fuller, and Oliver Nelson.
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North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae's three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday.
The official China News Service said Choe delivered the handwritten letter from Kim to Xi at an afternoon meeting at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing. It gave no details about the letter's contents.
North Korea is willing to work with all sides to "appropriately resolve the relevant questions through the six-party talks and other forms," Choe was quoted as saying by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. He said Pyongyang was "willing to take active measures in this regard."
Choe offered no details on how North Korea planned to resume talks. North Korea walked away from the six-party nuclear disarmament talks in 2009 over disagreements on how to verify steps the North was meant to take to end its nuclear programs. Foreign observers often claim that North Korea has a history of raising tensions in an attempt to push its adversaries to negotiations meant to win aid.
Since its third nuclear test, in February, North Korea has repeatedly said that any future diplomatic talks would have to recognize it as a nuclear power. That's at odds with the basis of the six-party talks and puts Pyongyang at loggerheads with Washington, which says it won't accept North Korea as an atomic power and demands that talks be based on past commitments by the North to abandon its nuclear programs.
Still, Choe's remarks seem to indicate an easing of tensions between North Korea and its communist neighbor.
John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul who specializes in China and North Korea, said the fact that Kim's envoy "is being quoted as saying that North Korea is open to China's suggestions already is a strong signal of kiss and make up."
"This trip is moving things back to a regular strategic dialogue," he said.
China has been under intense pressure from Washington to push North Korea into lowering tensions and resuming dialogue.
Xi reaffirmed longstanding ties between the communist neighbors, and urged all sides to "keep cool and exercise restraint."


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jurasic1968 wrote:I am sorry if this subject was discussed before, but are any major differences in the 70's betweeen Vegas and Tahoe engagements? Some said that Elvis was more relaxed in Tahoe even he didn't like the high altitude. He had a bigger salary in Tahoe and I think that's all. I wonder the Colonel why he booked Elvis in Tahoe for 4 years (1971, 1973, 1974 and 1976)? Las Vegas wasn't enough?
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The Dolphins have already converted a Wildcat package play into a touchdown today.
They have tried the package three times with the last one resulting in a 53 yard touchdown pass from quarterback Chad Pennington to running back Patrick Cobbs.
On the play, Ronnie Brown took the snap from center, handed the ball to Ricky Williams, who flipped the ball to Pennington, who then threw the TD pass to a wide open Cobbs.
The Texans have moved the ball well, outgaining the Dolphins, but two interceptions have stopped drives. Andre' Goodman and Akin Ayodele have those interceptions.
The Texans drove on their third drive of the day to score on a 27-yard field goal by Kris Brown.
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Love shopping with your Shih-tzu… dining out with the Dachshund… or enjoy Happy Hour with your Husky? Then head to Santana Row where most shops and restaurants happily welcome four-legged friends. Take "paws" to enjoy a relaxing moment on The Row's traditional French benches that occupy the gorgeously landscaped grounds. Click here for the full list of restaurants and retailers that embrace "Paws On The Row."
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The licenses of logotypes are different animals from licenses of source code and of tool icons used in open source applications. At least some open sourced applications and projects have logotype licenses that are not licensed under a free (libre) license.
License of light bulb logotype for FreeMind
The light bulb logotype provided by Frank Appel has the following license.
- All the images are copyright (C) 2005 by Frank Appel (Foundax.com). The right is granted to distribute the icons and the splash screen as part of free mind mapping software FreeMind, either in their original form, or converted to other image format than the original PNG.
See the patch with the light bulb logotype.
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Love is no joke. Not on Valentine's Day. Not in Macomb County.
When we at The Macomb Daily went for a spin on traditional Valentine's Day contests with a "No way, V-day" contest that asked readers to submit humorous anti-Cupid day essays or videos … we were shot down. And not by a heart-shaped arrow.
None of our readers submitted anything anti-Valentine's Day. We did get entries, but they all lauded the holiday and the romance of Feb. 14.
"I only wish my late husband was still here so I could once again express my love to him," wrote Patricia Crump of Eastpointe.
On Facebook, Pam Chamberlain wrote, "Valentine's Day is fun. Doesn't matter if you have a 'sweetheart' or not. Give a Valentine to kid."
Doris Zarzycki of Clinton Township sent us a poem that included this, "I'm taking the chance; I'm sending you a Valentine, to make you aware that someone really likes you."
There are no winners to announce for The Macomb Daily's "No way V-Day" contest. Instead, we'll show our love to someone who likes The Macomb Daily Facebook page through, Sunday giving that winner a dinner-for-one prize at Ardmore Café and Banquet Facility in St. Clair Shores.
We're taking J. Geils' "Love Stinks" off our playlist. Or at least dubbing in new words, provided by Patricia Crump: "Your No way V-Day contest idea stinks."
In Macomb County, love isn't a trifling notion. Not on Feb. 14, at least.


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"You can shove the constitution up your ass," one post read on the anonymous messaging app YikYak, a virtual bulletin board to which users can post unfiltered messages. The service is especially popular as a mobile app for smartphones.
Said another: "The assholes in BSG are the kids with no friends."
The attacks — fueled by misconceptions that the election sought to change the allocation process for student activity fees, something BSG had already revised in 2013 — quickly turned personal. Several postings threatened BSG President Loren Jablon '15 and other student leaders with sexual violence. Online comments continued for three days, visible to anyone at Bucknell using YikYak.
"It was 24 hours of nonstop cyberbullying," says Jablon, a finance major from Hewlett, N.Y. "It created a really negative culture on campus, and it shed a lot of light on the community, or lack thereof, at Bucknell."
In Lewisburg and at universities across the country, students, faculty members and administrators alike are being forced to consider the internet's role in sowing fear, incivility and hatred on campus — much of it via instant messaging, chat rooms and public forums that guarantee user anonymity.
Students at Boston College, Wake Forest and Clemson, among other institutions, report that YikYak has been used maliciously. The Atlanta-based company enjoys its widest popularity in the Southeast, according to reports.
Most institutions have incorporated cyberbullying into their codes of conduct, but cyberspace-cloaked perpetrators can be notoriously difficult to identify, officials say. Susan Lantz, dean of students at Bucknell, says the University, while rightly concerned, could not take any disciplinary action regarding the threats against Jablon — for lack of evidence.
Tensions have simmered this year between BSG and some student groups, particularly the Greek community, but determining messenger identities has come down to speculation.
That's something the Bucknell administration has been careful to avoid, resisting embarking on a witch hunt and refusing to castigate apps for fear a heavy hand would backfire and draw unwanted attention to the programs. Neither does the University want to restrict free speech. Instead, Lantz is urging students to report harassment to Bucknell's Title IX coordinator and "to think before you post."
"We've been talking with our student leaders and encouraging them to delete the apps and to encourage their members to do so," adds Lantz, herself a victim of online harassment. "We found that a lot of other institutions have done the same thing, working with students to have them — from a peer education point of view — talk about appropriate and inappropriate behavior."
The administration plans to revisit the University's student handbook this summer, making adjustments not limited to cyberbullying. That means all students, not just incoming first-year students, will be mailed the updated document before the new term starts in August.
"We're working to make sure that our policies are clear and that we include as much information about cyberbullying as we do about alcohol and sexual misconduct," Lantz says, noting that violations can result in probation, suspension or expulsion as well as several additional restorative educational sanctions. "We need to make sure that our policies in this area are clear. This behavior is inappropriate."
First-year students will be encouraged to attend a session on proper social media mores as part of the University's First-Year Integration Series, events that help young adults smoothly transition into campus life. They'll be required to attend a meeting called Community Expectations, at which they'll be introduced to the Pledge of Student Responsibility.
Recent graduate Austin Kevitch '14 has taken civility to heart. Alarmed by the coarseness that he saw on the internet, the management major from Philadelphia created Brighten, a veritable anti-YikYak. The free app became available in December on iTunes. About 1,000 people have signed up.
Brighten is billed as "the first anonymous social network based on positivity." Users are required to develop visible profiles, which Kevitch says is a hedge against bad behavior.
"I'm sure YikYak's creators are good people, and they're just trying to create something fun, but it's irresponsible," Kevitch says. "They didn't do anything to prevent cyberbullying. I've seen the damage that YikYak can do firsthand, because it's used at Bucknell. With Brighten, we're hoping that you can make your friend laugh or smile."
In a joint statement, YikYak CEO Tyler Droll and Chief Operating Officer Brooks Buffington said their app, released last November, was designed to "give everyone on campus a voice. We felt as though a few select people held the campus voice and not everyone had a chance to be heard. We wanted to give the shy guy in your biology class the opportunity to be the funniest person on campus."
The program is "location-based" and shows all posts within a 1 1/2-mile radius of a user. While YikYak erects a "geo-fence" that prevents children at primary and secondary schools from accessing the service, the founders rely on user discretion in other settings: "We recognize that with any social app or network, there is a likelihood for misuse from a small group of users," but "we are also finding that … each community begins to self-regulate itself in a positive way."
At many colleges, including Bucknell, that clearly hasn't been the case. Lantz says students, mostly women, complained about being targeted by YikYak users starting in March. Many of them were deeply troubled by their experiences, she says. It's what University President John Bravman calls "the downside of ubiquitous, unmediated and instantaneous access."
Students are urged to report concerns to the University's Department of Public Safety and the Title IX coordinator. Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Victims also can discuss their concerns at the campus counseling center.
While research shows that cyberbullying is most harmful to girls between the ages of 10 and 15, no age or gender is immune from its consequences, according to psychologists.
"There's really nothing much worse than social ostracism," says Professor of Psychology Kim Daubman. "Research does show that the pain of being ostracized has the same neurological signature as physical pain."
Daubman's expertise includes deindividuation, a phenomenon in which humans lose sight of their internal values when they feel anonymous. Anonymity makes it easier for people to feel less inhibited by social conventions or customs, she says. It's a trend that troubles Daubman.
"We need to be able to understand each other and to be able to empathize with each other's pain and suffering," she says. "All of that is necessary for society to function well. The more that we can remove ourselves from that, the less likely we are to develop the empathy, compassion and good social skills needed to function in society. We're already seeing that happen."
A liberal arts setting, with its tightly woven community and commitment to parse out important issues with thoughtfulness and circumspection, could be just the milieu to take on cyberbullying, Daubman says.
"Even though our students are spending a fair amount of time online," she notes, "they're also spending a lot of time face-to-face in the classroom, working together in groups, in residence halls and in fraternities and sororities. That works against these tendencies happening in the more virtual world."
Little research has been done on the extent of and the impact of cyberbullying in higher education, although studies show that one in five youths has been cyberbullied by the time they reach adulthood; one in six admits to cyberbullying, according to Professor of Psychology Chris Boyatzis, who specializes in child development.
Cyberbullying-related suicides, like the 2010 death of a Rutgers University student who was despondent after his roommate used a webcam to show him kissing another man, still "are a very small percentage relative to the total number of kids who commit suicide," Boyatzis says.
Much of society has become desensitized to cyberbullying, to the point that offenders can't adequately discern their own behavior, Boyatzis says. "A substantial portion of kids who commit cyberbullying did not necessarily mean it as nastily as it was received," he adds.
Lantz, meanwhile, has found her own way to avoid incivility. She says, "I've decided not to Google myself."
Andrew Faught is a freelance writer living in central California. He has written widely on issues and ideas of higher education.
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The VFW Post 1914 baseball team finished the season 7-8 and a review of the hitting and pitching statistics go a long way to explaining why this was around a .500 team.
The VFW Post 1914 baseball team finished the season 7-8 and a review of the hitting and pitching statistics go a long way to explaining why this was around a .500 team.
In both categories there were both good and not so good stats. Combine them and you get middling won, lost results.
Coach Steve Witcraft said Post 1914, "Played well in every game but two."
Over the course of the season Coach Witcraft said several times that St. James VFW was not a good hitting team. That's reflected in the team's batting average of .227.
Several VFW starters had good summers at the plate. Tyler Witcraft led the team with a .368 batting average and a .888 OPS (on base plus slugging).
Branson Peterson hit .313 and Brady Halvorson hit .297.
Pitching tells a similar story. The team had an elevated ERA of 4.72, but there were some solid individual performances.
David Bradley had a great summer. In five games he had a team leading 1.50 ERA. He had a 3-0 WL record with a save. He topped the team in innings pitched with 23.33 and struck out 20 compared to just 12 walks.
Peterson, Witcraft and Dylan Wolle were the other pitches who tossed most of the remaining innings for VFW.
Peterson showed some promise as a power pitcher striking out 19 in 20 innings, but he walked 13 and hit two more, which contributed to ERA of 5.95
Witcraft also threw with some velocity. He struck out 14 and walked six. His WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings) was the lowest on the team at 1.38. Bradley's WHIP was 1.41 and the team's WHIP was 1.94. Witcraft's ERA was a respectable 3.50.
Wolle had the second most wins on the team with two. Control was an issue as he struck out nine but walked 18 and hit two batters.
Coach Witcraft said VFW had some good baseball players. There is some upside to what these players can do in future years.


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From this morning's Miami Herald in a story about three University of Miami players being taken in the 1st round:
Alonso, who is 6-2 and 215 pounds, is hitting .370 with an Atlantic Coast Conference-leading 21 home runs.
He said he was overcome with emotion when he heard the news with his family at a T.G.I. Friday's across the street from campus in Coral Gables.
''A lot of cheering. I don't even know what happened. I was crying,'' said Alonso, who was drafted by the Twins in the 15th round out of Coral Gables High in 2005.
``I was very, very happy. The Reds are a great organization and they have great players. I can't wait to meet Adam Dunn and [Ken] Griffey [Jr].''
Alonso conceded he was waiting to see if the Marlins would take him No. 6 overall. When they didn't, he moved forward -- and was chosen with the next pick.
''If the Marlins didn't get me, it was game on after that with anybody,'' he said. 'As soon as the magic Marlins passed up on me, I said, `All right, let's see what happens with the next pick.' And there it was.''
Was it a disappointment the Marlins passed him?
''Uhhh. I don't know,'' he said. ``It was interesting, interesting. No comment. Now, obviously, I'm more of a fan for the Reds.''
Alonso was especially low key in UM's dugout after emoting earlier with his family. He said his priority was the UM postseason.
''This is a little more important right now,'' he said. ``I have to take care of these guys and see what happens after that. You play the game to win a championship and get to the major league level. It's amazing. It's a blessing.''


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Nine Boston schools are slated to lose space for art, computer, and science instruction next fall, as school officials plan for an influx of 1,200 students.
The nine schools are among 27 elementary schools, K-8 schools, and early childhood centers that are being tapped so far to accommodate the enrollment spike, mostly in the lower grades, according to a report that will be presented to the School Committee Wednesday night.
In all, 34 rooms in those buildings will be converted into additional classrooms.
In cases where an art, computer, or science room will be taken away, school officials said the teacher of that particular specialty will put their supplies and materials on a cart and travel to students' homeroom classrooms.
"The important thing is for parents to know the programs will continue," said Lee McGuire, a School Department spokesman. "The art teacher they love will be there in the fall."
School officials raised alarms in January that the enrollment spike could eliminate many specialty classrooms, after they asked every principal of a school that serves students in primary grades to identify at least one room to house an extra class of students, even if it meant sacrificing space for art, music, science, or other subjects.
School officials said this week that they were able to minimize the impact on specialty rooms because several schools had classrooms that were not being fully utilized or were being used for other purposes.
They will also gain nine additional rooms next fall when they begin to house the Joseph Lee School and Lee Academy in Dorchester in separate buildings.
But some parents worry that teachers will not be able to offer the same caliber of program on a cart that they can in a classroom, and those parents wonder how carts can be wheeled around many of the city's decades-old buildings that have multiple floors and no elevators. "How do you get carts up and down stairs? It doesn't make sense," said Kenny Jervis, a parent at Roger Clap Innovation School in Dorchester, where a combined art and science room is scheduled to be replaced next fall with a preschool class. "And where are they going to store these carts?" Jervis said. "There's no storage space."
The Clap School Parent Council sent a letter to the School Department last month, registering its objection to taking away the art/science room.
In the letter, they said space was already running tight, pointing out that teachers have to tutor students or do other activities in hallways and stairwells.
Besides the Clap, art rooms are slated to be lost at the Kilmer School in West Roxbury and the Tynan in South Boston; a computer lab at Higginson-Lewis School in Roxbury; and science rooms at the Jackson-Mann in Allston, the Mozart in Roslindale, the Winship in Brighton, and the Adams and the Guild, both in East Boston.
The number of schools losing specialty classrooms could grow in coming months.
The School Department is halfway through identifying about 75 additional classrooms that might be needed next year to accommodate the largest enrollment city schools are expected to have in eight years.
More than 58,000 students are expected next year, a 2 percent increase over current enrollment.
About half the increase is due to more toddlers being diagnosed with disabilities. Under state and federal law, these students can enter public schools as soon as they turn 3.
Parents at a recent Kilmer School Parent Council meeting appeared receptive to adding a kindergarten classroom that would educate both regular education students and those with disabilities, Martha Echan, the council's cochairwoman, said in an e-mail.
"One theme that was recurring during conversations about this topic is that we are really happy to be in a high-
performing school in Boston and if we can give more students that opportunity, then we should do our best to make it work," said Echan, adding that the Kilmer is planning to increase arts programming this fall, even if it means going into homerooms.
McGuire said school officials are examining whether other space can be optimized at the Clap so the art/science room can be saved, but at this point they "don't want to overpromise anything."
Gene Gorman, a parent representative to the Clap's governing board, expressed optimism that a solution will be found.
"Compromises are reached all the time," Gorman said. "This is just about being more creative in how you use the space."James Vaznis can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"A convent of witches" sounds like a scurrilous bit of Reformation propaganda. But the etymological picture is actually kinda complex. "Convent" and "coven" both come from Latin conventum – "a coming together." Originally, the spelling of "conventum" was mediated by Old French, and when the word first appears in Middle English in the early 13th C, it's in the form of "covent." And one of meanings of "covent" was a group of twelve religious – or 13, if the company included the group's religious leader. This meaning obviously informed "coven," a variant which first appears around 1500 and seems at first to be used in pretty much the same way as the original. But things get more complicated around 1550, when a strong classicizing impulse in English led to the spread of "convent" – a spelling based on the Latin etymon – to refer to the religious establishment. The presence of two fairly different forms seems to have allowed "coven" to develop along its own path, and by the mid 17th C it's being used specifically for a group of witches – often 12 of them.
Today, "convent of witches" looks pretty darn strange. It may flunk the etymological rule, but I'm pretty sure most of the people below don't know the relevant word history here. This is very rare; I've given you all the hits that look authentic:
do you think any white person is offended at masks that show white ugly witches with warts on their crooked noses (I used to actually own such a mask as a kid)? I mean look at Beavis 'n Butthead, if they were of any other race, the show would have been cancelled and the producer fined for "racism" a long time ago.
I don't care how the white people depict themselves. If a white person or a convent of witches finds it offensive, they have every right to voice their opinion.
http://forums.yellowworld.org/archive/i … -2152.html
Our leadership is on cruse control and some of the Stewards
are like a convent of witches or a pack of uncontrollable wolves on the
The family of Gypsy's is actually a little known but highly skilled convent of witches.
http://roleplay.shizuyue.net/profiles/a … aggia.html
The name's worth an extra star, though. Alchemy, intoxication, lead into gold, mercuric oxide, evolution from witchcraft to modern chemistry, all that stuff. The cinnamon colored band in the window, though? Was hoping for a convent of witches but instead someone did the glass with a magic marker.
[From a review of a drinking establishment called "Cinnabar." The use of "convent" may be a knowing one here; I couldn't tell.]
[Edit: It wasn't till I stepped into the shower that I realized I'd neglected the obvious: "witches' convent." A number of the hits for the latter are from works of fiction about witches that live together in convents, but there seem to be at least 2-3 authentic ones. But I'll let you Google them yourselves—I'm on my way up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire.]
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Nice post—this issue of etymologies and whether they count against an eggcorn is a complex one, but I think you are right that in this case nobody knows they are the same, and this is very unlikely to be a survival. It's eggcornish enough for me.
I liked "cruse control" in the context, too—limits on what you're allowed to take away from the cauldron in your pocket jug?
(Enjoying Breffkisshire at the moment—)
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Skip to comments.For attacking NRA, David Gregorys reward is Obama interview
Posted on 12/30/2012 8:14:15 AM PST by marktwain
It has been said that no good deed goes unpunished. The converse appears to be true as well, at least if youre liberal.
Dylan Byers writes at Politico that David Gregory, who was originally reported by NBC to be heading out on vacation instead of hosting his weekly Sunday news program "Meet the Press," will indeed be at his anchor desk tomorrow. Not only that, but he has been granted an exclusive interview with none other than President Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Is he going to brandish a normal capacity magazine?
"Mr. President, let's begin with a tough question: Is there a square inch of your bony, black ass that my media colleagues and I have not kissed?"
Let every gun owner buy a high capacity magazine and if caught just say "It's for demonstration purposes only" or maybe write on the side "not for use, demonstration only".
Heavenly Father, why are you blessing the evil and afflicting the good?
I guess second place would be getting two interviews with that POS.
I for one don't even wish to be on the same planet with him, never mind with him looking back at me over a desk. I despise that creature and what he has done to this country.
I have prayed that same prayer thousands of times, and I have to confess, I don't get it. God was willing to save Sodom & Gomorah for only 10 righteous souls, and yet we had millions of evangelical & fundamental Christians praying for different results, mainly to throw 0bama out of office. Instead 0bama wins (granted, there was cheating although I wish God had thwarted that as well) and even more so, the Repubs got slaughtered for the most part, in federal & state elections. And now the most evil vile socialist bastards like commie pig-in-chief 0bama are rewarded with power & prosperity and pretty much a near dictatorship. I really don't understand it.
Birds of a feather...
In the end days, God will withdraw His Protection and Spirit and the faithful will live on faith alone. The closer that time gets, the more violence and evil will prevail. God is tiring of lukewarm Christians and the showdown will sift the wheat from the chaff with lives on the line.
Gregory gets to kiss "The Won's" feet. Isn't that sweet.
Anyone else would be looking at a year and a thousand dollar fine for waving that tin box around in DC.
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HAMPTON TWP — Owen Nearhoof was kicking himself.
The pass from the Mars quarterback fell into the hands of Hampton defensive back Jon Floss in the end zone at the end of the first half, quashing a golden opportunity for the Planets to build on their 7-3 lead.
"Any time you make a mistake, it's tough," Nearhoof said. "You feel so bad, like you let the team down."
But Nearhoof shrugged off the miscue and the Mars coaching staff showed confidence in the senior quarterback to call a pass play on the second play of the Planets' opening drive of the third quarter.
That pass, a perfectly thrown ball into the waiting hands of Garrett Ashbaugh on a dead run, resulted in a 50-yard touchdown and a 10-point lead sent Mars on its way to a 25-10 win over Hampton and the Greater Allegheny Conference title Friday night.
"When the team and the coaches have all the confidence in the world in you, when they call on you to make a big play, it's awesome," Nearhoof said.
The awesome feeling translated to the postgame celebration on the Fridley Field turf. A 21-0 loss to Knoch two weeks ago put the section title in jeopardy and a loss to the Talbots could have spelled doom for Mars, potentially dropping it from the top spot to fourth in the section.
But Mars (8-1, 7-1) responded to the challenge.
So did Nearhoof.
"You have to have some tIt doesn't hurt to have a 6-foot-1, 225-pound battering ram of a running back in Josh Schultheis.
The Mars sophomore rushed for 172 yards on 34 bullish runs and scored two touchdowns.
His first from 2 yards out capped a nine-play, 72-yard drive that put the Planets ahead 7-0 early in the second quarter.
Hampton (7-2, 6-2), though, had a chance to even the score with a first-and-goal at the 1 on the ensuing drive, but the shotgun snap to running back Frank Bello in the wildcat formation soared over his head. By the time he flopped on the football, it was a 14-yard loss.
The Talbots had to settle for a 25-yard field goal from Jon Nigro.
Schultheis carried the ball 20 times for 92 yards in the second half. His 3-yard score midway through the fourth quarter gave the Planets a 19-10 lead.
Schultheis got big chunks of his yardage on a play that is called 38 toss.
With 1 minute left in the game, Mars decided to unleash a trick play set up by the 38 toss. Schultheis took the pitch, pulled up and threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Ashbaugh to put the game most decidedly away.
The focus now turns to the WPIAL playoffs. As a section champion, Mars is assured a home game and will probably receive a high seed.


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Marmion senior running back-linebacker Sean Campbell is eager to increase his role from last fall, when he described himself as a "key reserve." As the Cadets await kickoff of the 2014 football season next month, Campbell knows coach Dan Thorpe and Co. will rely on him to be a leader, a prospect he doesn't shy away from. Speaking with Kane County Chronicle sports reporter Kevin Druley for the latest installment of the Weekend Chit-chat, Campbell sizes up Marmion's spring routine and his outlook for the fall. Here's an edited transcript:
What do you take away from 7-on-7s knowing that you're not hitting, it's not live, but it's something?
What I take away is that in 7-on-7s, it's not about winning, necessarily. It's about getting the timing down. Getting the routes done. Getting everything done correctly. And by then, when you get to the season, it should pay off. Because that's what ultimately matters. It doesn't matter if you're just throwing deep balls every single time. It's more about getting the timing down for the correct routes and displaying that in the season. So, that's what I feel.
How much does the camaraderie start to build at this time of year?
Yeah, the camaraderie begins Day 1 [of] lifting. We usually go two weeks of lifting, two weeks of camp. Two weeks of lifting, two weeks of camp. And then we're off. I felt like it began to build probably sophomore year, because freshman year we get to know each other. But this summer has been great for camaraderie and building friendships even stronger. Being around on the football field helps. Running around together.
Describe your role last year.
Last year, I was the second-string, first one to go in if anyone got hurt in the secondary. And then I was on all the special teams. Saw a couple reps in the beginning of the season, but once all our injuries got back, I was more of a key reserve, I guess. … I was on the special teams all year, though. Made a lot of tackles on that.
How have things been looking at quarterback?
Well, our senior is Rusty Joyce, and then the junior is Johnny Tate. Johnny's bigger … but he's only played two years at quarterback. And then Rusty's played his whole life, so I think he has the advantage on the reading, like, making the right reads. But Johnny, he's getting to it. They throw about the same ball, about the same strength and accuracy.
Are you looking to compete in sports beyond high school?
Maybe. I'm just going to see how this year goes and then play it by ear. I was looking to go to a big college, like Michigan State, and just not play and play intramurals and stuff. But I'll see how this year goes and I'll see if I want to continue playing football. But if I do, I'd look at something like a Butler or a D-III school.
Do you squeeze vacation into the summer schedule?
Yeah. I just went on vacation with some of my friends from the team down to Florida. And then I went on a mission trip at the beginning of the summer, so that was a week long … [to] West Virginia.
Have you always said 'Like the soup' to verify your last name?
Like the soup or just, "Camp" and then "bell."


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Ex-Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has said he will "never" play live with the band again.
Wyman, who played with the Rolling Stones between 1962 until 1993, joined the band onstage for their 50th anniversary gigs at London's O2 Arena in November 2012, but in April he said that he would not be interested in rejoining the group on a permanent basis because he has "better things to do."
Now, in an interview with the Huffington Post, Wyman has ruled out the possibility of performing with the Stones ever again. "The nice thing was that my kids saw me on stage with the Stones," he said. "They'd asked me the December before, and I had to jam with them for three days. I was under the impression I was going to get really involved, but when it came to it, they only wanted me to do two songs, which was very disappointing."
Wyman added: "I've always maintained that you can't go back to things, and they can never be the same... It doesn't work. It was a one-off. Five minutes. OK, never again. No regrets, we're still great friends."
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