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Jovan Belcher had access to many NFL support programs
During his four years with the Chiefs, linebacker Jovan Belcher, along with his teammates, attended dozens of NFL-sponsored meetings devoted to personal issues outside of football.
The sessions included handling personal and family relationships, depression, finances, drug and alcohol use, proper use of firearms and where to find help and counsel for anything that might be bothering them.
Unfortunately, the programs offered by the NFL and the NFL Players Association, not to mention individual counseling sessions with the Chiefs after the team became aware of problems, failed to connect with a troubled player such as Belcher. On Saturday, Belcher killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at home and then shot himself to death outside the Chiefs' practice facility.
"Men in general, we don't talk about our feelings or things we're dealing with," said former Chiefs fullback Tony Richardson, a former NFLPA executive board member. "Especially for athletes, we want to be big, strong and think we have everything under control. Then this situation happens, and you don't have everything under control, and you make a terrible decision that not only ends your life, but ends the life of the mother of your child."
Before athletes even reach the NFL, the league presents services and programs to players at the East-West Shrine and Senior Bowl all-star games. That's followed by another presentation at the NFL Scouting Combine, where background checks are made on players and interventions may follow for players with troubled pasts.
At the end of the summer, before training camp begins, the league holds an intense three-day Rookie Symposium in Cleveland for all draft picks.
"You're now a new player, and we talk about issues from relationship management, to social media, expectations of yourself, being a professional and what counseling services are available," said former NFL cornerback Troy Vincent, the league's vice president of player engagement.
"We get into relationship conflict resolution real hot subjects. Let's talk about how we resolve conflict without physical confrontation. Where do you go for assistance? Where do you go for counseling?"
The veterans are not ignored. During each team's off-season program, when rosters are at the maximum 80 players, an NFL security team arrives with local, state, and in some cases, federal officials to talk about laws and specifically have a question-and-answer session about guns, Vincent said.
Kansas City police revealed Tuesday that two handguns were used in the killings: one gun at the home and another at the stadium parking lot.
"The NFLPA advocates for responsible gun ownership," said former Chiefs defensive back Jason Belser, senior director of player services and development for the NFLPA. "We advocate for men being the role models in their families. We advocate for men being professional, taking responsibility.
"I know where Kansas City is right now and the grieving they're going through now but let's not tie every football player to a violent act with a gun."
Once the regular season begins, and the 53-man roster is established, the league holds a mandatory professional development and life skills session for players and coaches.
Running simultaneously is Rookie Success Program, a 12-week mandatory session that must be concluded by week 13 of the season.
"We talk about healthy relationships, where you get into domestic violence, potential depression, anxiety and unhealthy relationships," Vincent said. "We deal with leadership and workplace conduct, decision-making, traffic education, stress management, time management, social media, money management, substance abuse."
Both the league and the players association have emergency hotlines for players in need of help. And most every NFL team has a player development department that helps players develop life skills. Katie Douglas is in her third year as the Chiefs' director of development and replaced Lamonte Winston, who spent 14 years in the position and is now director of player engagement with the Oakland Raiders.
Belser also said four former players — Don Davis, Tom Carter, Martin Bayless and Lester Archambeau — serve as player advocates and "communicate, disseminate information on various programs the league and we have, and the resources we have to address the life issues that players have."
Davis, a former Olathe South and University of Kansas linebacker, and Brian Waters, a former Chiefs Pro Bowl guard and member of the NFLPA executive board, arrived in Kansas City on Saturday and helped counsel players dealing in their grieving the deaths of Belcher and Perkins.
"Waters came because he is a player who cares," said Belser, a graduate of Raytown South and son of former Chief Ceasar Belser. "He has a relationship with numerous players on that team, but he was there as a former teammate and a Kansas City Chief for life."
There's another group of lifetime Chiefs wanting to lend a hand to today's players.
The Chiefs Ambassadors, a group of former players, was heavily involved in helping players with off-field issues. Chiefs Hall of Famers Bobby Bell and Ed Budde would visit practice and the locker room, offer advice and share experiences from their playing days.
The Ambassadors became a model for alumni groups around the NFL.
"We have something we can offer players, not just in tragedy situations, but in everyday life transition (after playing), off-the-field opportunities, or just another ear to sit down and talk with and not judge them," said former Chiefs wide receiver Danan Hughes. "I think that's invaluable."
So does Troy Vincent.
"We've learned from experts studying the military they've told us over and over, your peers, your former players are your greatest asset," said Vincent, who added NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been talking to teams about retired player involvement.
"Right now, we need everybody. They are tremendous assets in the community."
But it's still a question whether any former player could have prevented this tragedy.
"There are some realities that we have," Vincent said. "They are no different than the greater society. We just need the guys to engage. We can't emphasize it enough: Make the call. It's OK. You're not alone. The systems are in place."


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After Ahlam's unmissable appearances in Arab Idol, she is still the talk of the town. If it's not her expensive taste in dresses it's her extravagant taste in footballers.
Ahlam graced the premier season of Arab Idol, adorned in gaudy, costly clothes and accessories to dazzle sore eyes. She also contributed added value to the show with perhaps ill-judged words to die for, but after the show ran its first season course, she is still making waves with talk of buying much-coveted football star Messi.
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She is remembered mostly for the dress she wore in the final episode that stirred quite a fuss and a half. The 'stunning' dresse's value was estimated at $1.5. On the back of those ostentatious spending habits, one of Manchester United's fans asked the Emirati singer to sell her private jet and buy Barcelona's hot prize footballer, Lionel Messi.
Khalid Al Khaldi, who introduced himself as a Manchester lover wrote on Ahlam's personal account on Twitter: "Why don't you sell your private jet and buy a professional player to join Manchester United".
She can have it all if she likes!
Ahlam responded to Khalid's outlandish suggestion, leaving no doubts about her wealth status, saying: "Why sell the jet; I'll keep it and I will buy the professional player". Indeed, why go without?
The conversation continued between the Emirati singer and Khalid who volunteered his wish list while he was about it: "Great of you, I want Messi and Thiago Silva to play in Manchester United".
Your thoughts on Emirati controversial singer buying Messi? Completely ridiculous, or a viable prospect?

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When Tim Cook announced earlier this week during an Apple earnings call that his company had achieved 94 percent of the education tablet market and earned more than a billion dollars in revenue for the first time in its education business, the news rightly sent the blogosphere into overdrive. "I mean, that's sort of unheard of. I've never seen a market share that high before," said Cook in the call. "So we feel like we're doing really well here and feel great to be making a contribution to education."
CNET headlined its coverage: "Apple CEO: We've locked up 94% of education tablet market." VentureBeat declared, "Apple's record quarter in education: iPad has 94% of tablet market." "Apple's education sales breached $1B for first time ever in Q3, iPad share at 94%," shouted Apple Insider.
Technically speaking, the actual count was closer to 93.6 percent, according to an Apple spokesman. But what's lesser reported is where that estimate came from to begin with: research by IDC. THE Journal recently caught up with IDC Research Director of Tablets Tom Mainelli to find out what's going on in the education space regarding tablet adoption. The following is an edited version of that discussion.
According to Mainelli, in the second quarter of 2013 Apple shipped nearly a million tablets into the U.S. K-12 market. That represented 93.5 percent of all tablets shipped into K-12. By the end of the year IDC expects the total number of tablets shipped into K-12 to reach 3.5 million units.
THE Journal: What does 94 percent of the education tablet market mean?
Tom Mainelli: To be clear, that's a United States number, not a worldwide number. Apple has built on the success they have traditionally had in education. And right now, frankly, nobody's all that competitive with them when it comes to tablets. In fact, the thing I keep hearing is that Apple is competing more with Google and Chromebooks than they are with other tablets at this point.
Just as Apple really jump-started in the tablet market with the iPad in 2010 and enjoyed a long lead while everybody else played catch-up, they're kind of doing the same thing in education right now.
One thing of note is that other vendors have certainly caught on to the fact that Apple is building quite a big lead in education. So we have seen traditional PC vendors start to get very serious about tablets in education, like Dell. We've seen Samsung start to train their focus on getting more tablets into education. One of the things that Samsung has done is try to get Android more accepted into the enterprise by adding a lot of security to Android. So they think that might give them an opportunity in education. Then Microsoft, particularly with Surface, has really started to gear up its efforts.
Amazon is getting serious about education as well. Obviously they've got deep ties to publishers, and they've got a [print] school book business. But what we have seen them do with the Kindle e-reader and now the Kindle Fire is put more features into the tablet that would make it [not only] more commercial-friendly, but student-friendly. The original versions were little more than glorified e-readers. But now they're adding [support for virtual private networks] and email and word processing and other things you would need to have on a tablet.
And they're aggressively growing the app ecosystem. So the Kindle Fire runs a forked version of Android. They are finding that developers oftentimes are more interested in developing for the Kindle Fire than the wider Android world, because if you happen to be an Amazon customer and you buy a Kindle fire, then you're probably pretty comfortable spending money with Amazon, including apps.
Does 94 percent translate to an important number overall in the scheme of computing devices being used in education?
There are two things going on. Tablets are certainly sexier right now than PCs. School systems are maybe finding it easier to get the money necessary to make these purchases, whether it's coming from traditional sources or parents. The other thing is, I do think the interface on a tablet lends itself to a more interactive experience than the typical touch pad and keyboard notebook.
And I think we're at the very beginning of what educators and app developers and the hardware guys are going to be able to do in terms of making these devices more than just a glorified typewriter.
Now, the problem is, if you just buy 100 iPads and throw them into a school, they're no better than a notebook. You've got to have the money and planning to have the right apps, to know how to use the apps. You've got to have teachers that are interested in exploring what they can do with a tablet.
How big is the education segment compared to other segments?
Right now, we are not breaking out any other markets. We have detailed breakouts on PC markets. On tablets all we have is consumer vs. commercial. Education is actually a subset of commercial. And we've done that, to be honest, because we've been getting a lot of requests for it.
The U.S. market is very different from most of the markets overseas. In the U.S. Apple has really been dominant. In a lot of regions overseas, they're actually doing these giant deals where, for lack of a better word, the tablet — a $100 Android tablet — is "thrown in."
So that market share doesn't encompass any BYOD.
No. In fact, the BYOD would by and large be encompassed within the consumer numbers. One thing we know from all our surveys is that well over half of tablet owners carry their own tablet into the office. A good percentage of them use it for work in some way, shape, or form — email or doing Web browsing.
Does the education number cover just K-12 or also higher ed?
We do have higher ed, but frankly, the higher ed numbers are pretty low, because most tablets being used in higher ed were actually purchased by the student and carried in. I think that may evolve over time, but that's been the trend so far.
What impact does the 640,000 iPads that Los Angeles Unified is putting in place have on Apple's positioning in the education market? Is it going to be positive or negative?
Up until some of the recent stories started coming out, it was all positive. It was such a big deal and such a big number. It gets back to what I said earlier. It's one thing to have a great idea and to spend the money on the hardware. But if you don't know what you're doing in terms of implementation and securing the devices and making sure the devices are being used for the purposes they were being purchased, that's a problem. That's always been the problem with education and technology. Big ideas that aren't always well implemented or thought through. It's easy to raise money to buy the tablets. It's harder to pay the IT guy who's got to keep the Wi-Fi up and running and the devices up to date.
So I think long-term it will probably be a net positive. But it's just like anything else. There's always going to be speed bumps. And that's is such a big deal. Nothing is going to fly under the radar on that one.
What are the risks education faces when one company dominates the market so forcefully?
You always want competition, and not just for the endpoint, the hardware itself. But you want the app developers that are creating educational apps to have options, that they're not restricted to one platform.
We talk a lot about the rapid growth of Android both in smartphones and tablets. The shipment numbers are there, which means developers are interested. And yet, there are many more iPad applications than there are Android tablet applications.
That just reflects the fact that when you buy a high-end piece of hardware, like the iPad, you are probably willing to spend good money on apps to run on it. When you buy a $99 tablet, you're probably not going to spend a lot of money on apps. Choice is good, but the business will only evolve if there are sustainable margins and everybody sort of wins in the end — most importantly, the students.
If you were a school tech leader, which devices would you make sure to have on that evaluation list?
Certainly, the iPad would be front and center. I would be exploring my options with Android. So the frontrunners there would be Samsung and possibly Lenovo. And then the Kindle Fire is sort of its own flavor of Android.
Then there's Windows. One thing that most IT folks are comfortable with — and I think this includes education IT folks — is supporting Windows. Today Windows tablets have been sort of a tough sell. They've been too expensive, with an operating system that's sort of a mix between notebook and tablet. But new versions of Windows, new processors, and new hardware are going to make Windows a lot more interesting in the fourth quarter of this year and in the next year when schools actually start buying.
There's a lot more options out there today than there were even six months ago.
Another thing worth mentioning. A lot of schools embraced netbooks a few years ago. Netbooks have, for the most part, gone away now. A lot of schools look at Chromebooks and Google Docs as the replacement for netbooks — and oh, by the way, you don't have to pay for Office. That's one thing I've heard over and over: It's less about who Apple is competing with in terms of tablets. It's, do we buy iPads or do we buy Chromebooks?
Do you have any sense of what's driving schools or districts one way or the other?
The touch interface has got a lot of promise, and there is a lot of cool stuff you can do with it. At the end of the day, kids are still going to need to input data. A Chromebook is interesting because it's got that keyboard. If you buy that iPad, you end up spending an extra $50 to $100 to add a keyboard to that device. It's the same with the Surface.
Like anything, it's probably better to not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Younger kids are probably better served by a tablet. Older kids who need to write reports may be better served by a device with a keyboard.
And you can't underestimate the cost savings when you don't have to pay for Office. Even presuming that Microsoft gives schools a good deal, it's just a recurring cost, and Google will give it to you for free. It's limited in some ways, but it gets better every day.
One other thing that's worth noting: Apple has made iWork, [Apple's suite of applications], free. I don't know whether anybody in education actually uses iWork.
What should readers keep in mind when companies make statements about market share such as Apple just did?
It's always good to consider the source. I happen to think our data is good.
The double-edged sword for Apple — and we've seen this happen in their [overall worldwide] tablet share — is that they went from 75 percent of the market to 30 percent of the market. When you have such a dominant position, there's really only way for you to go. Can they hold onto 94 percent of the market when Dell, Microsoft, Google, and everybody else is gunning for them? It's going to be hard.
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I really loved Ta-Nehesi Coates' assessment of people who don't understand or believe in identity politics fumbling them this season:
The Palin pick was the most crassest, most bigoted decision that I've seen in national electoral politics, in my--admittedly short--lifetime. There can be no doubt that they picked Palin strictly as a stick to drum up the victimhood narrative--small town, hunters, big families and most importantly, women. Had Barack Obama picked Hillary Clinton, there simply is no way they would have picked Sarah Palin. To the McCain camp, Palin isn't important as a politician, or even as a person. Her moose-hunting, her sprawling fam, her hockey momdom, her impending grandmother status are a symbol of some vague, possibly endangered American thing, one last chance to yell from the rafters "We wuz robbed."What McCain has done to Sarah Palin is what Rush Limbaugh thinks actually keeps Affirmative Action and the National Organization for Women in business. It doesn't make any sense, but conservatives think identity politics are just a nonsensical racket, so they can be aped to divert its spoils towards conservatives. Republicans are going to have to remain very committed to bigotry to not learn the lesson in what identity politics actually are that this debacle offers them.
When Palin was first picked, I thought to myself that if I were her, I wouldn't have accepted the invitation, because I would fail my own ambitions, but also my ideological allies througout the country. And not just them - a bad President can make life miserable for everyone, not just his supporters. God knows George Bush has shown us this.
Ambition is a good quality in the capable. Ambition is reckless in the incompetent.
It would be pretty cool to walk into an operating room and perform a lifesaving maneuver on a dying patient instead of watching the actual surgeon sneeze into his patient's chest cavity. But I know I would only hurt someone if I tried, so it would be monstrous of me to try.
In the Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama does a good job of telling how running for office constitutes a public service. I admire the personal sacrifices he has made so that his political career could be possible. If he didn't think that America needed the changes he's going to make, he'd have continued getting comfortably rich as a lawyer.
I sympathize with Sarah Palin's desire for power and respect, but I don't admire it. She is the archetype of the kind of politician John McCain is trying to cast himself as different than. With running mates like these, John McCain will never lose an election to win a war.
I hate seeing Palin validate the impostor syndrome, but I can't look at the election of a possible president as an exercise in shoring up self-esteem Sometimes it feels like you can't do anything right because you can't. This year I had the weird experience ofing a long episode of depression lead up to the revelation that things were really wrong with me. It was my demons' fantasy, and probably made my therapist feel kind of stupid. I'm disappointed I got sick, but not disappointed in myself for it. Judith Warner writes:
You don't have to be perennially pretty in pink — and ditsy and cutesy and kinda maybe stupid — to have an inner Elle Woods. Many women do. I think of Elle every time I dress up my insecurities in a nice suit. So many of us today — balancing work and family, treading water financially — feel as if we're in over our heads, getting by on appearances while quaking inside in anticipation of utter failure. Chick lit — think of Bridget Jones, always fumbling, never quite who she should be — and in particular the newer subgenre of mom lit are filled with this kind of sentiment.You don't have to be female to suffer from Impostor Syndrome either — I learned the phrase only recently from a male friend, who puts a darned good face forward. But I think that women today — and perhaps in particular those who once thought they could not only do it all but do it perfectly, with virtuosity — are unique in the extent to which they bond over their sense of imposture


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I have my own email server and CALDav server, when I try to set them up with Firefox OS I get errors, I cannot find a way to install my own CA and the OS will not let me use a self signed cert
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I would assume that you tried the manual setup for the email application. We are constantly working on making it better. If you could provide more info so a bug can be filed on behalf for you.
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I am also trying to manually add my Dovecot IMAP server and I'm getting an error [bad security]. In my server logs I see the following:
Aug 24 20:23:04 XXXXX dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31698 Aug 24 20:23:04 XXXXXX dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=my.ip.add.ress, lip=yo.ur.ip.ad, TLS: SSL_read() failed: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca
I know the IMAP is configured correctly because I use Thunderbird with it every day ;)
Is the error due to bad password or to self-signed IMAP cert or ???
Hi codebear, "unknown ca" definitely sounds like a problem with the certificate not being signed by a trusted root (or with the chain of certificates up to a trusted root). However, I don't know the answer as to how or whether it's possible to add new root certificates to your device so you can trust a self-signed certificate.
How about adding an option to allow self signed certificates??
You can install a root certificate using this script http://www.pending.io/add-cacert-root-certificate-to-firefox-os/ I tried it and I was able to setup an email account successfully.
There is also a bug filed for this feature https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919807


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Weather too dry for harvesting?
Historic drought in the southern Plains has meant that a place like Amarillo has had just 3.61 inches of rain all year long...simply an incredible statistic for a place that normally gets over seventeen inches of rain in that period.
We are not going to double the rainfall seen in Amarillo so far this year with the late week rain event...but we may get close! Weather maps remain consistent in forecasting an exceptionally good rain event for the bulk of the hard-red winter wheat belt. I would expect that most of that area located west of Interstate 35 is going to see at least a half inch of rain over the next five days (most of it for Friday through Sunday).
However, a lot of the area is going to see one to two inches and there will likely be a strip in eastern parts of the Texas panhandle, parts of western Oklahoma, and parts of western Kansas that see rains of over two inches and locally over three inches by the time we get to next Monday morning.
I would expect that there is a lot of winter wheat planting that is going on in the Plains this week in anticipation of this rain, as it will be enough rain to get newly planted crops germinated and emerged. It is not the start of an overall change in the pattern though, as it looks like below normal rainfall will return after this weekend. Some of the rain from that system will eventually work into parts of the western Corn Belt, but one probably has to get into far western Iowa and points westward to see rain amounts that are heavy enough to truly stop the harvest.
Fueled by warm, dry conditions, farmers like Kelley Kokemiller in Boone County, Iowa, are making some major strides this week with soybean harvest. Jeff Caldwell stopped by Kokemiller's field Tuesday, October 4, to check on his progress. Thus far, he says he's seeing yields ranging from 52 to 69 bushels/acre.
Completely dry weather is forecast for the eastern Corn Belt (east of the Mississippi River) for at least the next five days. There will be some rains around in the 6-10 day time frame in the Midwest but only Ohio looks to see anything real significant.
This is probably the rare year when things are actually "too dry" for harvesting in the Midwest, as soybeans in some areas are being combined at under 10 percent moisture (which means more sickle-shatter when they are being cut, and also means a loss of some yield due to less water-weight in the beans) and there are also reports of tinder-dry corn and soybean fields catching on fire (with those fires spreading very rapidly).
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Faculty profile: Norma Velazquez Ulloa
July 15, 2013
The following Q&A is part of a series created by the college dean's office to introduce new faculty. Get to know Assistant Professor of Biology Norma Velazquez Ulloa, who joins the faculty this fall, in the interview below.
Education: Ph.D. 2009, University of California at San Diego; B.S. 2002, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Research and Teaching Interests: Molecular and genetic mechanisms of nicotine and alcohol; neurobiology of behavior in the common fruit fly.
What most excites you about joining the L&C community?
I look forward to interacting with L&C students in class, in my lab, and around campus. I'm also excited about working with my colleagues in the biology department and getting to know people all across Lewis & Clark College.
Describe the current trajectory of your scholarly research.
I am interested in how drugs of addiction modulate behavior. During my postdoctoral work, I characterized several effects of long-term nicotine exposure on the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. I found similarities between the effects of nicotine in flies and the effects of nicotine in other model organisms as well as in humans. In the future, I plan to use the genetic and molecular tools available for Drosophila research to identify new genes, cellular and molecular mechanisms for drug-induced behaviors.
What kind of hobbies or special activities do you enjoy outside of work?
I like learning new things. My latest projects have included ceramics classes and cheese making at home. I also love reading and going to the movies. In addition, I enjoy listening to music, going to concerts on occasion, and playing music. Travelling is another hobby of mine—I enjoy both urban and nature travels. I am always looking forward to learning about other cultures through travel, music, food, books, movies, and interaction with people from all over the world.
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I wanted to be a scientist and work at a university. But along the way I toyed with the idea of following several different paths, including becoming an astronomer, a physicist, a photographer, a musician, or a writer. Once I settled on biology, I also explored several options—including marine biology, ecology, plant physiology, and echinoderm taxonomy—before I finally chose to specialize in neurobiology, and most recently on the genetics of behavior.
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Bernie Madoff: Patron Saint Of Greed
If Madoff's victims want to know what happened to the lost millions, possibly billions, of their money, they should stand behind President Obama's enforcement of hidden American assets in offshore bank accounts.
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"He's a disgrace to the Jewish race and deserves to go to hell."-- One of Madoff's victims (2009)
Convicted Wall Street conman Bernie Madoff got his just punishment as the judge sentenced the graying 71-year-old thief to 150 years in prison.
He took his licking like the weasel he is. He stared straight ahead and showed no emotion. When U.S. District Judge Denny Chin lowered the boom on Madoff, he muttered a lame apology while clapping and whoops of approval cheered the sentencing.
Madoff's lawyers pleaded to the judge for a lenient slap on the hand of 12 years, but the countless letters from the swindler's victims told a sordid tale of a heartless man stealing from the sick, aging elderly, trusting friends, and even robbing from charities.
That sentence would have been equal to a brother robbing two liquor stores. It is estimated that Madoff's Ponzi scheme cost his victims more than $13 billion and that doesn't tally the millions stolen from feeder funds.
When Madoff turned around in the courtroom and offered a hollow apology, his victims moaned and grimaced at the sardonic smirk which accompanied his words. "There is nothing I can do that will make anyone feel better for the pain and suffering I caused them, but I will live with this pain, with this torment, for the rest of my life," he said. "I apologize to my victims. I will turn and face you, I am sorry."
When his wife, Ruthie, eventually said her words to put some distance between her and her slimy hubby, the dishonored Jewish community did not buy it. As one of Madoff's victims countered, she knew how extravagant their life style was. Another said Ruthie had daily knowledge of Bernie's Ponzi scheme.
"I am embarrassed and ashamed," Ruthie said. "Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years."
Shrewdly, Madoff tried to play the race card. He said the system was stacked against him because he was Jewish. But neither the Gentiles nor the Jews were conned by his allegation of racism. In fact, Madoff's greed played right out to the end when he shipped at least $1 million of personal heirlooms to his brother and his sons, Mark and Andy during Hanukkah, a solemn Jewish holiday, to keep the feds from confiscating them. What a heel!
One recalls the Oliver Stone movie, "Wall Street," when young trader Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen asks the veteran money manager Gordon Gekko: "How much is enough?" Gekko, portrayed by Michael Douglas, replies: "It's not a question of enough, pal." And that is the philosophy of greed in this age of excess. You can never make enough money or amass enough financial power at this current time.
Upon his sentencing of Madoff, the judge recalled one letter of an investor who later died of a heart attack and the big time grafter came to the man's funeral, put his arm around the widow, and said: "Your money is safe." The widow then invested more money with Madoff, and now she is penniless.
No one will say this, but American capitalism is founded on greed, selfishness, arrogance, and malice for the little guy. Greed begat slavery. Greed begat the Great Depression. Greed begat deregulation. Greed begat the S&L crisis. Greed begat the sinister acts of Drexel Burnham's Mike Milken, Bernard Ebbers and Scott Sullivan of MCI WorldCom, Kenneth Lay of Enron, and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco International . Greed is the cause of our current economic downturn.
How much is enough? Bigger mansions, fancier cars, prettier females, more jewelry, and larger yachts. Greed has a big future. An ABC News exclusive showed how scientists have teamed with several large corporations to target the human brain to control buying and impulsive behavior. Or as the Federation of Scientists put it: "...to manipulate human beings by alerting their psychological processes, controlling their behavior without the knowledge of the victims." Frightening, to say the least.
"Greed is one of the seven deadly sins," author Tom Wolfe said "If you feel you are a master of the universe, then a lot of the rules just don't apply."
Not true. If Madoff's victims want to know what happened to the lost millions, possibly billions, of their money, they should stand behind President Obama's enforcement of hidden American assets in offshore bank accounts. The U.S. Treasury estimates tax revenue would total about $100 billion yearly from those havens. That's where Madoff and the other scoundrels have stashed their loot.
Wonder why the GOP and Wall Street gets upset when the president mentions the offshore assets issue. And Bernie L. Madoff, federal inmate no. 61727-057, ain't talking about nothing. But this master of the universe is sorry, very very sorry, that he got caught.
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For Wal-Mart, Sears, Tough Questions in Bangladesh Fire
Wal-Mart WMT 0.35% says it followed its play book when it yanked its business from a Bangladesh garment factory after the retailer's inspectors found problems. But the chain's clothing was still being produced there when the factory went up in flames last weekend, leaving at least 112 workers dead.
The retailing giant's experience in Bangladesh underscores the difficulties Western companies face in policing far-flung factories, and highlights gaps critics say make these efforts ineffective. Even when companies find problems at plants, they say, the issues often aren't revealed to the public or to government officials.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s in-house Faded Glory brand clothing was among the more than a dozen Western brands found by activist groups that scoured the factory's charred remains for labels following the fire. Three managers at the factory were detained by Bangladesh authorities Wednesday on suspicion that they had blocked doors before the fire, preventing many workers from escaping.
The world's largest retailer said it had revoked the factory's authorization to make its products months before the fire, but declined to elaborate. It would not name the supplier it said was responsible for giving its business to Tazreen Fashions Ltd., a modern factory set up in 2007 near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
The parent of the Tazreen Fashions factory, Tuba Group, and its owner, Delwar Hossain, haven't publicly discussed the fire and couldn't be reached for comment.
Mahbub Rahman, who says he is a marketing manager for Tazreen, said in an interview Thursday that his company got the business from another Bangladeshi factory that could not meet its Christmas orders from a Wal-Mart supplier.
Bangladesh has become the world's second-largest clothing exporter, thanks in part to some of the lowest labor costs anywhere: The government sets the minimum wage for entry-level garment workers there at less than $37 a month. By contrast, minimum wages in the leading export nation, China, vary but some provinces have raised them to more than $200, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Fire safety has been a repeated problem at Bangladeshi garment factories, where more than 500 workers have died in fires since 2006, according to estimates compiled by labor groups.
Most large retail chains say they use outside monitors to inspect factories at least once a year and cancel orders if they repeatedly discover problems. The monitors inspect factories retailers have directly contracted to make their goods, as well as factories used by their suppliers.
Photos: Bangladesh Factory Fire
But critics, primarily labor-rights organizations opposed to what they say are sweatshop working conditions, say the monitors insulate the retailers from direct responsibility, because retailers rarely disclose when they find factories to be substandard, often choosing to quietly exit them instead. The groups also argue that by constantly shifting work to factories with slightly lower costs, retailers provide no incentive for factory owners to spend additional on improvements such as fire-safety measures that drive up their expenses.
"They cannot just clean their hands and say they didn't know," said Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, an activist group. "It doesn't make any sense, unless they are totally irresponsible about their codes of conduct or their inspection practices."
Third-party factory auditors, who report findings of substandard conditions back to Western companies, said it was unfair to blame them for failing to stop fires in Bangladesh. Asim Kumar Mondal, a Bangladesh-based manager with German auditor Tüv Süd, said assessors visit factories and make recommendations but have no power to ensure owners comply.
Tüv Süd didn't conduct audits of Tazreen Fashions' factory and doesn't currently work on behalf of Wal-Mart in Bangladesh, Mr. Mondal said.
Wal-Mart's system of inspecting factories grades them on a color scheme ranging from green to red. It said most of the audits are done by outside firms, though Wal-Mart has an internal team that conducts surprise audits and checks factories with known problems. Factories with repeated bad grades can be banned from doing business with the company.
Wal-Mart said it is the responsibility of the suppliers to use factories approved by the company, and warns suppliers in an extensive manual that they can be banned from doing business with the retailer if they fail to do so.
The retailer, which works with 100,000 suppliers, said it required them last year to stop using 155 factories; roughly a third were in Bangladesh, and were banned because of concerns about fire safety.
The website of the Tazreen factory's parent company, Tuba Group, contains what appears to be a 2011 inspection letter from Wal-Mart, warning that the factory was in danger of losing orders. Wal-Mart would not confirm the authenticity of the letter.
The company also declined to comment on whether it had notified the Bangladesh government about potential fire safety issues at the factory. Spokesman Kevin Gardner said Wal-Mart has "extensively engaged with the Bangladeshi government and trade organizations in Bangladesh to address fire safety."
Sears Holdings Corp. also said it didn't know its clothing was being made at the Tazreen factory and said it had fired what it said was the supplier responsible, International Intimates Inc. The New York-based supplier didn't respond to requests for comment.
"Our merchandise was being produced at that factory without our approval," Sears said.
After 29 workers died during a fire at a Bangladeshi factory called That's It Sportswear two years ago, PVH Corp. , the maker of Izod and Calvin Klein clothing, agreed to a comprehensive fire-safety program with activists that includes releasing inspection results to the public.
Gap Inc., whose clothes had also been made at the site of the 2010 fire, said it plans to conduct its own fire-safety-specific audits of Bangladesh suppliers starting in January and will disclose the results to the Bangladesh government as well as to a United Nations agency.
"The primary thing is to have fire-safety inspections done by someone with expertise that will look beyond an auditor," said Bobbi Silten, Gap's senior vice president of global responsibility. The retailer will make a total amount of up to $20 million in capital available to factories for safety improvements, she said.
—Dana Mattioli, Tripti Lahiri and Ann Zimmerman contributed to this article.
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Gap Inc. will make up to $20 million in capital available across its factory base for safety improvements. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the retailer will lend up to $20 million per manufacturer to help factories make improvements.
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Irene Hofsetter gave Storm of Swords, the third book in George R. R. Martin's epic "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, an 8.
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Antonio Margarito, the former world welterweight who was famously suspended after plaster was found in his gloves, has called time on his boxing career.
Margarito becomes the third top-ranked fighter to retire this week, following Shane Mosley and Winky Wright in hanging up his gloves.
"After much thought and extended conversations with my family and team, we have all agreed that the time to hang up my gloves and begin a new chapter in life has arrived," the 34-year-old said.
"I always told my family and team that I would walk away from boxing when I felt I could no longer compete at the level I believed I needed to be in order to be successful.
"Although the passion and drive are still there, I have to accept that my time to walk away has arrived."
Margarito held the WBO welterweight world title for five years and also lifted the IBF and WBA belts during his 18-year career, ending Miguel Cotto's undefeated record in 2009 with an 11th-round stoppage to claim the WBA crown.
But before the Mexican's next fight, against Mosley, plaster was discovered in his hand wraps and after a re-wrapping Margarito was stopped in the ninth round.
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taccomc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
domain is homeworkshq.com the mobile app is called homeworks
We need a company logo that will be used on our website as well as the mobile phone app. I would like to see versions of logo both with and without the HQ added as the app itself will not include the hq but we could not get the domain homeworks.com The color patterns and design are wide open, we have no preconceived design ideas or color combinations, let your imagination run wild but it should be professional and modern.
The site and mobile app will be the future of how homeowners find service providers to work on their home. The business model is a cross between angieslist.com (unlike that site which has expanded into doctor referrals,etc, we are only focused on services related to the home: plumbers, contractors, landscapers, real estate agents, housecleaners, etc) zillow.com, and yelp.
The site will be a freemium model, it will not be paid for customers to use it like angieslist.com . We want our site and mobile app to be a portal for anyone who needs a plumber, house cleaner, or finding the best real estate agent based on actual sold homes in their neighborhood. Our business model is different as unlike zillow.com it is only based on actual sold homes, it will not show current homes for sale, or current homes for rent. In a few clicks you can see who has the top market share in any neighborhood for home service providers and reviews by the home owner for work completed. No more randomly choosing roofers based on the biggest yellow page ad or someone who spammed the craigslist ads, see actual reviews by your neighbors and get multiple bids from service providers with a few clicks based on your criteria.
I would assume the design would have some resemblance of an outline of a house or roof, or something similar but not necessary, I am open to any great design or creative font for the Homeworks logo. Again I would like to see 2 versions one with and without the HQ extension ( hq which stands for headquarters, we want our site to be portal for anyone needing to choose a home service provider)
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Ryder Todd Smith necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
P3 Solutions Group
P3 Solutions Group (P3SG) is a partnership among local government experts to focus on the needs of local governments to build and develop projects that require unique financing or capital structuring. The concept of public private partnerships are well explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public…artnership
P3SG combines the expertise of a large scale construction company with a strong financial partner and a strong local government finance firm to deliver on projects.
The firm is lightweight and agile because it combines only the best of each of the required elements in a partnership structure. It is a professional services firm.
P3SG is focused on state and local governments (counties, cities, water districts, sanitation districts, etc.) in California, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon. Within those type of organizations are executive administrators or directors of finance who have the greatest interest an capital project financing options and large scale construction projects.
This is an existing market that has been around since the 1980's.
For an example of a similar business pursuing this market, see: http://www.pthreedevelopment.com/
Marketing efforts will consist of printed materials, conferences, website and one on one relationship building.
Image needs to look good in both black and white and in color.
If the Logo can integrate seamlessly with "Solutions Group" by being a play on P3, that would be better.
The imagery should convey stability, durability and cooperation to achieve a shared objective.
The image will be used both on the web as well as printed materials and in a large format booth
Our preference is to stick with blue tones of some form when in color.
Our URL will be http://www.p3solutionsgroups.com
All fonts, if used, will be san-serif
Stylized text for the name "P3 Solutions Group" should be a part of the overall strategy and presentation and preferably with a font that is either common and relatively inexpensive to acquire.
I am looking for a PSD or high resolution TIFF file as the output. EPS works, too.
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By Waldo on Wednesday, June 05, 2019I've owned a number of hatchbacks over the years and the new Mazda 3 has been the most comfortable with the smoothest ride quality. I really enjoy the new sleek styling of the vehicle as it gives it a more sporty appearance. I moved to this vehicle as the engine has been used for awhile now and seemed good as far as reliability. I've owned vehicles with more torque at the lower end of the rev range so you have to get used to how to take advantage of the performance that the new 3 provides. The interior is spot on and the seats are some of the best I've sat in within this segment. The infotainment is a bit quirky at first but you get used to it fairly quickly. The safety equipment of great in the new 3 and work well. I know many worry about the new C-pillar design of the hatch but I have had no issues with it.
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By Chuck on Thursday, July 18, 2019i was waiting patiently for the 2019 Mazda3 and I was not disappointed. its definitely up market from all the other compacts. Base price was higher but with Mazda incentives was actually the lowest to lease. Several big reasons why I picked this car, upscale interior, safety standard options like auto braking and lane assist, 6 speed auto vs. CVT with all the others, ( I hate CVT), and finally, the best looking compact out there by a mile.


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Brian Banks' dream of playing in an NFL game came true Thursday night when walked into the huddle with his Atlanta Falcons teammates in the fourth quarter of a pre-season game -- the high-point of Banks' football career after it was derailed by a false rape accusation.
Video: Brian Banks Plays in First NFL Game | Watch: Accuser's Hidden-Camera Confession
Banks, a highly recruited star at Long Beach Poly High School more than a decade ago before a classmate accused of him rape, entered the game against Cincinnati at linebacker with about eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Georgia Dome crowd and other players cheered as Banks entered the game. He finished with two tackles in the Falcons' 34-10 loss.
"It was definitely a good feeling. It was one of those things where, coming from where you're coming from, just to have people support you chasing a dream," Banks said. "These guys have been working on this all their life. From Pop Warner to high school to college, this is what they've been doing. For them to accept me, and let me be a part of it, and just get out here and play and show what I can do is more than I can ask for."
A post on Banks' twitter account before the game read, "Game Day. Never thought this day would come. And if it all ended here tonight... Mom, I did it."
"It was awesome," said Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud. "I'm really happy for him. He gets to come out and live his dream. He plays with a lot of energy.
"Going through that and being able to live your dream -- you're going to have all the energy in the world."
Banks had verbally committed to play for coach Pete Carroll at USC in 2002, but ended up spending five years in prison for a rape and kidnapping he did not commit. Banks also spent five years on probation and had to register as a sex offender because of the accusations, which the classmate later recanted.
By the time Banks was exonerated in 2012, he was 26 and Carroll had become the head coach of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. He offered Banks the opportunity to participate in the team's mini-camp, but Banks eventually landed with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the now-defunct UFL.
He signed with the Falcons, last year's NFC South champions, during the 2013 off-season. The Falcons have three more pre-season games before the team must cut its roster down to 53 players.
Banks maintained his innocence after he was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate in a school stairwell when he was 16 years old, but accepted a plea deal on the advice of his lawyer. Banks said the attorney told him he would face 41 years to life in prison if he did not accept the deal.
Banks' journey to Thursday's NFL debut was made possible by a hidden-camera confession from his accuser, who sent Banks a Facebook friend request after his release from prison. The accuser told Banks she wanted to "let bygones be bygones."
Banks called a private investigator, who elicited the confession from the accuser. Banks was cleared of the charge in May 2012.
As for the accuser, she was ordered to pay a $2.6 million judgement in the case for making a false claim and court-related costs. The judgement recoups a settlement paid to the accuser by the Long Beach Unified School District after she filed a lawsuit.
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The Cadence socks. A very bold and sporty look. For tough women who get the job done.
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Romantic Rhine With 2 Nights In Lucerne, 2 Nights In Paris & 2 Nights In London (Northbound)
You'll start your European vacation tour with a visit to gorgeous Lucerne, Switzerland. With services provided by Monograms®, you'll have a Local Host® to arrange your sightseeing, free-time recommendations, and any other assistance you need during your 2-night stay in Lucerne. Enjoy a guided walking tour including the Lion Monument, Old Town, Chapel Bridge, the Water Tower, Jesuit Church, and a special highlight excursion to Mount Pilatus. From the German Black Forest of fairytales to the historic canals of Amsterdam, disappear in the magic of this Rhine River cruise with Author Diana Gabaldon. This cruise delivers you to the heart of Europe to explore all the towns and cities along the Rhine River while enjoying panoramic views and spectacular, castle-lined backdrops days and night. Board your Suite Ship and home-away-from-home in Basel, Switzerland before heading to the foot of Kaiserstuhl Mountain (on the French-German border) to find your gateway to Germany's Black Forest. From there, set sail for Strasbourg, France with its ancient murals and astronomical clock, not to mention quaint shops, delightful bistros and waterfront promenade. The journey continues through Germany with a visit to the ruins of Heidelberg's castle, the charming wine town of Rüdesheim and, of course, an awe-inspiring pass through the dramatic Rhine Gorge – the most beautiful stretch of the Rhine where dozens of ancient castles tower over the river from cliffs that seem to touch the sky. The last stop in Germany is in the gothic city of Cologne. End this cruise with an exclamation point in the picturesque, canal city of Amsterdam with its world-famous museums and tilting, gabled homes that date back to the "Golden Age. Transfer by high-speed train to Paris to start your Monograms vacation package with 2 nights in "The City of Lights". Enjoy sightseeing with an expert guide, drive past the Latin Quarter, Les Invalides, Place de la Concorde, Eiffel Tower, and Arc de Triomphe and join a Seine river cruise. You'll enjoy a guided sightseeing in England's most famous destination, as well as free time to really get to know the city. Sightseeing includes Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Your Monograms vacation package includes the expert assistance of your Local Host® in both Paris and London. Your Romantic Rhine River cruise with stays in Lucerne, Paris, and London provides the perfect combination for a guided European vacation of a lifetime.
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An Upper Arlington-based Pelotonia team that has drawn members from throughout Ohio and beyond and set fundraising records for cancer research, will host a kick-off event June 1 to gear up for this year's ride.
An Upper Arlington-based Pelotonia team that has drawn members from throughout Ohio and beyond and set fundraising records for cancer research, will host a kickoff event June 1 to gear up for this year's ride.
Stefanie's Team of Hope will hold its fourth annual Kick-Off Celebration from 6-10 p.m. June 1 at the Amelita Mirolo Barn at Sunny 95 Park, 4395 Carriage Hill Lane, Upper Arlington.
It will feature everything from music and drinks to presentations by Pelotonia Chief Executive Officer Tom Lennox and Chris Spielman, an Ohio State Buckeye football legend and husband of the late Stefanie Spielman, a cancer crusader.
More importantly to event organizers, the Kick-Off Celebration will serve as another event to raise awareness about cancer research and to energize guests to ride in or support this year's Pelotonia, a charity bicycle ride held in August to raise money for cancer research.
"We hold this event to kick off the season, get everybody revved up, say what our goals are and to talk about our successes," said Shannon Peterson, an Upper Arlington resident and captain of Stefanie's Team of Hope. "It's just a great opportunity to raise awareness about our team.
"In recent years, we've had a lot of success in recruiting new members."
Stefanie's Team of Hope was established in 2010 by Peterson in honor of her friend, Stefanie Spielman, who died in November 2009 at the age of 42 following her fifth bout with breast cancer.
Peterson said she was inspired by Spielman to take up the fight against cancer; to date, Stefanie's Team of Hope has been the top grassroots fundraising Peloton, bringing in more than $822,000 for cancer research over the past three years.
This year, the team is looking to build on its 145 members and have another record year on its way to surpassing the $1-million fundraising mark.
"This year, I would project us to have at least 200 members," Peterson said. "With 200 riders, we will raise, at a minimum, $500,000.
"We're going to beat cancer by growing our team," she said. "The more riders we have, the more money we're going to raise. That's how we're going to beat cancer."
The Kick-Off Celebration is free to attend and open to anyone. Attendees will learn more about Stefanie's Team of Hope and will have opportunities to sign up to join the team or to contribute to the fight against cancer.
Presentations will be given by Lennox, Chris Spielman and Nancy Rapport, a cancer survivor and Stefanie's Team of Hope member.
There also will be a bike giveaway and opportunities to purchase signed copies of Chris Spielman's book, That's Why I'm Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story, which chronicles Stefanie's battle with cancer and how she inspired her husband and others to continue her fight.
While the event is not primarily a fundraiser, it helps bolster the ranks of Stefanie's Team of Hope, Peterson said.
That's important, she said, because the team is determined to remain the frontrunner in the Pelotonia.
"We're the No. 1 grassroots fundraising Peloton and there's no way we're giving up that title," said Peterson, who last month received the Stefanie's Champion of Hope award from the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. "The harder we work, the more money we raise and we're going to motivate others to do the same.
"It's just a great way to honor Stefanie and the others who've battled cancer."
Additional information about the Stefanie's Team of Hope Kick-Off Celebration is available by contacting Peterson at email@example.com.