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Position Statement 58: Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders
Mental Health America (MHA) opposes sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders. Such sentences are inconsistent with any of the purposes which ordinarily guide sentencing: deterrence, retribution, incapacitation or rehabilitation.
The United States is one of the few countries in the world that allows for sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole, one of two countries that currently have people incarcerated for crimes committed as juveniles, and the only country currently known to still sentence juveniles to life without parole.[1] There are currently at least 2,600 youthful offenders serving life without parole in U.S. prisons. Nationally, 59% of these individuals received their sentences for their first-ever criminal conviction.[2] 16% were between the ages of 13 and 15 when they committed their crimes, and 26% were sentenced under a felony murder charge where their offense did not involve carrying a weapon or pulling a trigger. [3]
Our society recognizes that juveniles differ from adults in their decision-making capacities as reflected in laws regarding voting, driving, access to alcoholic beverages, and consent to treatment. Developments in psychology and neuroscience support this distinction and have continued to demonstrate fundamental differences between juveniles and adults. Adolescents consistently score lower than adults in both "impulse control" and "suppression of aggression."[4] In evaluating decisions, adolescences are less likely than adults to evaluate both risks and benefits, to understand long-term consequences, and to examine alternative options.[5] Adolescents are also less "future oriented" than adults and have less of an "ability to see short and long term consequences" or to "take other people's perspectives into account."[6] These findings along with the ever-growing body of research confirms that compared to adults, juveniles are less able to exercise self control, less capable of avoiding risky behaviors by considering alternative actions, and less attentive to the consequences of impulsive actions.[7]
Biologically, adolescent brains are still developing, particularly in regions associated with higher-order functions including impulse control, planning ahead, and risk avoidance.[8] Because their brains are still developing, a juvenile's character and personality are not yet fully formed. Accordingly "[j]uveniles are more capable of change than are adults, and their actions are less likely to be evidence of 'irretrievably depraved character."[9] In both Roper and Graham, the Supreme Court recognized the potential for adolescents to be reformed and outgrow antisocial behavior as "individual identity becomes settled."[10] Research supports that the majority of juvenile offenders with antisocial risk factors will not be criminal adults.[11]
The U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child, ratified by 192 nations, explicitly prohibits the imposition of life without parole for crimes committed by juveniles. Such sentences also constitute a violation of additional international treaties, including:
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice
- United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
- United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment
- American Declaration of the Rights of Duties of Man
- Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
Over the past ten years, the Supreme Court has recognized that juveniles are inherently different from adults. First, in the Roper v. Simmons decision, the Court declared the juvenile death penalty to be unconstitutional. The Court's reasoning was based, in part, on society's evolving understanding of adolescent brain development and the increased potential for change and rehabilitation. Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy said, "It would be misguided to equate the failing of a minor with those of an adult, for a greater possibility exists that a minor's character deficiencies will be reformed." Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 125 S.Ct. 1183, 1195 (2005). Following Roper, the court held in Graham v. Florida that life without parole could not be used as a sentence for minors convicted of non-homicide offenses. Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy first noted that juvenile non-homicide defendants had "twice-diminished culpability" before concluding that "the Eight Amendment does not permit" the state to deny those defendants the "chance to later demonstrate that he is fit to rejoin society based solely on a nonhomicide crime that he committed while he was a child in the eyes of the law." Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 68, 79 (2010). Justice Kennedy further noted that the state must provide juvenile defendants "some meaningful opportunity for release." Graham, 560 U.S. at 75.
The court returned to the issue of juvenile life without parole in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012). In Miller, the court considered a challenge to mandatory sentences of juvenile life without parole for homicide offenses. The Miller court determined that mandatory sentences of life without parole were categorically unconstitutional as applied to juvenile defendants. Writing for the majority, Justice Kagan noted that mandatory life without parole for juveniles made "youth… irrelevant to imposition of that harshest prison sentence, such a scheme poses too great a risk of disproportionate punishment." Miller, 132 S. Ct. at 2469. The Miller court did not reach the question of whether life without parole could ever be used for juveniles, though Justice Kagan warned that "appropriate occasions…will be uncommon." Id.
Writing separately, Justice Breyer specifically addressed the question of felony murder, the charge for which one of the youths at issue in Miller had been convicted. Justice Breyer argued that "there is no basis for imposing a sentence of life without parole upon a juvenile who did not himself kill or intend to kill." Miller, 132 S. Ct. at 2477 (Breyer, J concurring).
Miller, in addition to not addressing whether the 8th Amendment categorically forbids juvenile life without parole, did not address whether the Miller rule applied retroactively to juvenile offenders already imprisoned. It also did not address "de facto" sentences of life without parole, such as 70 years without parole. States are currently in the process of responding to Miller's mandate forbidding mandatory juvenile life without parole. In Pennsylvania, the jurisdiction with the most juvenile offenders serving mandatory life without parole, the state supreme court announced that Miller did not apply retroactively. Commonwealth v. Cunningham, 81 A. 3d 1, 10 (2013). In California, on the other hand, the state supreme court found that all juvenile defendants sentenced to mandatory life without parole before Miller were entitled to petition for review of their sentence. People v. Caballero, 55 Cal. 4th 262, 291 (2012). The Caballero court also found that a sentence of 110 years to life was a de facto sentence of life without parole and the defendant was entitled to have his sentence revisited under Miller. Caballero, 55 Cal. 4th at 268.
A number of legislative responses to Miller have been introduced. After the Massachusetts Supreme Court stuck down all sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders, mandatory or not, in Diatchenko v. District Attorney for Suffolk District, 1 N.E.3d 270 (Mass 2013), the Massachusetts legislature offered a bill proposing juveniles convicted of murder serve at lease 35 years before being eligible for parole.[12] Illinois has proposed legislation that would trigger parole eligibility after 15 years for life sentences or sentences of more than 40 years for juvenile offenders.[13] Wyoming has enacted legislation that mandates an opportunity for parole for juveniles serving life sentences after 25 years.[14] Unfortunately, some states, including Florida, have advanced, but not yet passed, legislation that would delay any opportunity for parole until after 50 years has passed.[15] Indeed, as of April, 2014, only eleven states had brought their laws into compliance with Miller.[16]
Sentencing, including sentencing to imprisonment, has long been guided by four considerations: deterrence, retribution, incapacitation and rehabilitation. None of these purposes is served by sentencing juveniles to life without parole.
The deterrent value of life without parole has yet to be demonstrated. It is particularly unlikely to deter adolescents from crime, as they tend to live in the present, think of themselves as invincible, and have difficulty contemplating the long-term consequences of their behavior. Indeed, research has shown that the threat of adult criminal sanctions has no measurable effect on juvenile crime.[17]
Retribution is predicated on matching the harshness of the punishment to seriousness of the offense. The seriousness of the offense is measured not only by the acts done by the defendant and the harm caused by those acts, but also by the mental state of the defendant. We know that juveniles commonly do not have the maturity to understand the consequences of their acts. Thus, they ordinarily do not harbor the same intentions as adults even when they are performing the same acts and causing the same very bad consequences, including death. Furthermore, "[l]ife without parole is an especially harsh punishment for a juvenile," who "will on average serve more years and a greater percentage of his life in prison than an adult offender."[18] As a result of the extended time in prison, youth sentenced to life in prison have a life expectancy of 50.6 years, 20 years less than the average expectancy of a African-American male.[19] Because of the shortened life expectancy of juveniles in prison, any sentence that ensures imprisonment past age 50 can be considered a de facto life sentence because for all meaningful purposes the individual will likely spend the rest of their life in prison. Retributive considerations do not support life without parole.
Nor are the goals of incapacitation and rehabilitation served by life sentences. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roper v. Simmons, it is far more likely that a juvenile can be rehabilitated than an adult. This rehabilitation is likely possible due to the fact that adolescents' brains continue to develop into late adolescence. During this time there are significant changes in brain structure and function, particularly in the executive functions of judgment, decision-making, weighing of risk and reward, and inhibition of impulses.[20] Incapacitation serves no legitimate purpose once a defendant has been rehabilitated and no longer poses a threat to society. Because imprisonment is expensive, imprisonment beyond the point at which a defendant has been rehabilitated wastes scarce government resources without any public purpose.
Call to Action
MHA encourages its affiliates and allies to work to repeal laws in those states which permit a sentence of life without parole, to ensure that Miller is applied retroactively, and to prevent states from attempting to avoid Miller by imposing de facto sentences of life without parole.
In order to ensure juveniles have a "meaningful opportunity to obtain release,"[21] MHA advocates a policy of periodic review of juveniles sentenced to life without parole. This review should apply retroactively to all juveniles currently sentenced to life without parole, as well as to juveniles who are serving de facto life sentences that would ensure their imprisonment past the age of 50.[22] Juveniles should have a review of their sentence no later than age 30, by which time their brains and personality would be fully developed. This would allow for sentences of 10-15 years prior to a review, but would ensure that review is completed at a time when the individual was fully developed. Such a review is more likely to be an accurate representation of the individuals' culpability and level of rehabilitation.
Mental health advocates, professionals and other service providers should work to ensure that juveniles are provided with appropriate services while incarcerated to identify and ameliorate those problems which may have led to the crime and which need to be addressed before release will be safe and appropriate. Mental health advocates should also work to insure that are appropriate services available in the community for those juvenile offenders who are released.
Effective Period
The Mental Health America Board of Directors approved this policy on June 14, 2014. It will be reviewed as required by the Public Policy Committee
Expiration: December 31, 2019
[1] See Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 80 (2010).
[2] Amnesty International: Human Rights Watch. "The Rest of Their Lives: Life Without the Possibility of Parole for Child Offenders in the United States" (2005).
[3] Id.
[4] Elizabeth Cauffman & Laurence Steinberg, "(Im)maturity of Judgment in Adolescence," 18 Behav. Sci. & L. 18: 741-754 & tbl. 4 (2000).
[5] Bonnie Halpern-Felsher & Elizabeth Cauffman, "Costs and Benefits of a Decision: Decision-Making Competence in Adolescents and Adults," J. Applied Developmental Psychol. 22:257, 265, 268 (2001).
[6] Cauffinan & Steinberg, op. cit., at 746, 748.
[7] See Brief for the American Psychological Association American Psychiatric Association, and National Association of Social Workers as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners at 3-4, Miller v. Alabama, Nos. 10-9646, 10-9647 (U.S. Jan. 17, 2012) available at WL 174239 [hereinafter Miller Brief in Support of Petitioners]
[8] Id. at 4.
[9] Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 67, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 2026 (2010)
[10] Roper, 543 U.S. at 570.
[11] Miller Brief in Support of Petitioners, supra note 7 at 22.
[12] Milton J. Valencia, "Bill seeks at least 35 years for young killers", The Boston Globe (January 24, 2014).
[13] HB 4650, 98th General Assembly, (Ill. 2014).
[14] HB 0023, 62nd Legislature (Wy. 2013).
[15] Kelly Orians, "One Year Later: State Level Response and Implementation of Miller v. Alabama", Youth Law News XXXII, (National Center for Youth Law July-September 2013), accessible online at http://www.youthlaw.org/publications/yln/2013/jul_sep_2013/one_year_later_state_level_response_and_i... (last visited Feb. 8, 2014).
[16] "States Are Spotty in Following High Lead on Juvenile Sentencing." National Public Radio (4/17/14) http://www.npr.org/2014/04/17/304186877/states-are-spotty-in-following-high-court-lead-on-juvenile-sentencing
[17] Miller Brief in Support of Petitioners, supra note 7 at 34.
[18] Graham, supra note 9 at 2028.
[19] Michigan Life Expectancy Data for Youth Serving Natural Life Sentences, ACLU of Michigan Juvenile Life Without Parole Initiative, available at http://fairsentencingofyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Michigan-Life-Expectancy-Data-Youth-Serv....
[20] Miller Brief in Support of Petitioners, supra note 7 at 25-26.
[21] Graham at 2030.
[22] See Michigan Life Expectancy Data for Youth Serving Natural Life sentences, supra note 18 (the average life expectancy of youths sentenced to life in prison was 50.6).


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I want you to know that eating disorders are not easy. Or glamorous.
There is nothing sexy about eating disorders. You will never have the right curves. The weight will never be lost from the correct areas. The number on the scale will never be low enough. You will never be beautiful enough. Or skinny enough. Or model-esque enough. Or glamorous enough. And that's the way eating disorders work. It's never enough.
It doesn't happen the way movies or books describe it. There is no active thought one day, "I think I'm going to be anorexic." Committing to an eating disorder is hard—recovering from one is even harder. You don't get to just decide to stop. You don't get to just decide to sit down for a normal meal one day and defeat your disorder. It's not even as easy as going to a therapist. There is nothing easy about eating disorders, whether it be falling into one or recovering from one.
To make a long story short, I will simply tell you that the only background information you need to know about me is the fact that starting from 4th grade, my life was filled with a mess of dramatic (to an elementary schooler) friendships that chipped away at my self-worth until I was left with nothing. Friends that decided when, how, and if I could be their friend. Friends that decided I just wasn't smart enough, cool enough, pretty enough, or skinny enough. As my self-worth was reduced to nothing, the flames of self-hate grew until they consumed my entire being. As a perfectionist and control freak of my own life, I was completely not okay with being a failure. As I entered high school, I became increasingly "emo" and depressed. On the outside, I was cheerful and perky, but on the inside, I brooded and pondered on how to be better. My sophomore year in high school, as I struggled to be perfect in something, to be the best in something, to be in control of something, I realized that while I couldn't control my looks, or my intelligence, or my cool points…I could control what I ate. And so the downward spiral began. It started off with eating less on weekends, then less for dinner, then less for lunch. By the middle of my junior year, I was eating half a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, half a bowl of rice with a few veggies for dinner, and nothing on the weekends. I also played basketball at my church on Sundays and relished in the lightheaded feeling I got when I played too hard with no food in my stomach. It meant I was working hard—it meant I was succeeding.
Falling into anorexia was hard and messy. Days I "failed" at starving myself were the messiest. I didn't even realize I had anorexia until my freshman year in college, because it didn't begin as an intentional eating disorder. It didn't start off as an "I'm too fat" thought, but rather, an obsessive, "I need to do this better" thought. It was a way for me to exert some sort of control over a life that I thought was spiraling away from me. It was a way for me to be good at something, to fix a fault that others had pointed out in me. All my life, I thought eating disorders only "afflicted" people who thought they were fat. The movies and textbooks in health class only warned us of dangerous thoughts about weight. I thought I was safe, because while I thought about my weight, it wasn't the reason I wanted to eat less. There is no way I had an eating disorder.
But I did. And I never told anyone about it beyond my friend, Melissa. She alone knew of my struggles with identity and self-hate. In the middle of my junior year, she approached me with a care package. Among many other things, a yellow rubber duck was included. On the bottom of that yellow duck, she had written, "quack! You are fearfully & wonderfully made! [A verse from Psalm 139] I love you." The duck was a reminder of something her mom told her once that she had passed on to me. She told me, "Be like a duck. The way water rolls off of ducks' feathers…let others' thoughts, opinions, and words roll off of you." And that marked the beginning of my road to recovery.
My senior year, I struggled to "fix" it myself, alternating between hating myself for failing at anorexia, hating myself for falling into it in the first place, and hating myself for failing at fixing myself! The temptation to starve myself continued to plague me. Unlike most people who will eat when they're hungry, I had to forcefully remind myself to eat. My body no longer registered what hunger was. When I entered UT as a freshman in the fall of 2008, the freedom of college ended up being too much for me and before I even knew what was happening, I was keeping a food diary again and skipping meals. I was no longer at home, so there were no family meal times or school lunch times, and because my body still wasn't realizing hunger, meal times were often forgotten. And I felt bad, too. Because Melissa was right—I was fearfully and wonderfully made. God knit me together carefully and lovingly in my mother's womb. He created me purposefully and perfectly imperfect. Who was I to say that He had made a mistake on me? With each food entry logged and each meal missed, my guilt ate away at me. I felt like I was spiting the God who had sent His only Son to die for me—ME, His imperfect child.
Easter Day rolled around and the pastor of my church in Austin, Austin Stone Community Church, gave a sermon about bringing sin to light. At the end of the sermon, he showed a video called "Cardboard Stories." Stories of healing and recovery. Stories of people who had been redeemed by bringing their brokenness to light! That afternoon, I told my family about my anorexia for the first time. Then I told some mentor figures. Then I told my closest girl friends. The ugly sin of my self-hate was slowly being brought to light. And darkness cannot exist in light. But was that it? No, no it wasn't. It wasn't a magical off button. It was an uphill battle, but slowly, ever so slowly, I began to heal.
I was supposed to be the perfect church girl who never messed up, but the truth was, I was so damaged. Almost to a point where I thought I could never be "fixed." I was ashamed of who I was. But the beauty of the Gospel is that there is no shame in being broken. God reached out to us in our brokenness. Romans 5:8 says, "but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus was fully aware of our imperfections and He died for us anyway. Actually, that's why He died for us. And it's with this knowledge that I can even talk about my own anorexia. I don't need to be ashamed of the experiences I've had. Christian or not, there is no shame in being messed up. People of this world, please stop judging us. It is hard enough to get help for something…we do not need your judging eyes, too. You have messed up, too.
There is nothing simple or glamorous about eating disorders. There's only a lot of pain and suffering and tears and self-hate. But there is hope. There is always, always, always hope.
[Note: I don't write this with the intention of saying that merely telling your friends is enough. Eating disorders are serious business—get some help.]

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This weekend's food and wine pairing at the Frick Winery was a smashing success! We served a record 1,200 guests, and had a lot of fun doing it. I'm still catching up on a massive email backup and have some deadlines at About.com to meet, but I hope to do some video recipes of the items soon. For now you have to settle for a quick photo (click to enlarge) and description. By the way, special thanks to Bill, Dallas and the entire Frick family, as well as our incredible kitchen crew; Al, Peggy (this year's MVP), Julie, Merv, and my beautiful and talented wife Michele!
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Next came a mini-meatball sandwich. Olive oil and spicy tomato sauce were spread on some herbed focaccia, which was topped with a slice of meatball, Parmesan, and fresh mozzarella. A little garlic oil and Italian parsley finished this delicious bite. It was paired with a Merlot, and Frick's new Red/Red, which is a Cabernet/Syrah blend.
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I will hopefully be caught up soon, and back with new videos and other assorted foodie fun. I hope you enjoy the photos and descriptions, and maybe even order some wine from the Frick winery. Cheers!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Wonderful Wine-Soaked Weekend with Food and Friends at Frick
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5 comments:
Great Report and welcome back!! We DO want those recipes.
- April 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- Steffen said...
Awesome.. looks delicious!
- April 29, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- Damiano said...
I agree with the first comments... let's have some new video recipes!
- April 30, 2008 at 3:46 AM
- Frank said...
I had the good fortune of attending the Passport weekend and sampled food and wine from 23 different wineries; no mean feat, as you might imagine.
The food and wine pairing at Frick was unquestionably the most successful. Every combination demonstrated the capabilities of Bill Frick's wines, causing me to buy some. Great job.
- May 2, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- Chef John said...
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A collaborative team of Department of Energy (DOE) researchers at the Universities of Michigan and Oklahoma examined carbon decomposition by soil fungi and bacteria at experimental forest sites in Michigan. GeoChip 4.0, a DNA microarray containing probes for thousands of functional genes, was used to measure expression of genes involved in degradation of complex carbon compounds in soil samples from sites exposed to elevated nitrogen input for the past 18 years. Compared to nearby control plots, sites with elevated nitrogen showed significant decreases in the diversity and overall expression levels of fungal and actinobacterial genes involved in deconstruction of cellulose, lignin, and other plant compounds. This finding correlates with a long-term observation of decreased carbon decomposition rates in soils at the nitrogen-elevated sites and points toward the specific mechanism underlying this shift.
Sarah D. Eisenlord
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology program and DOE's Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program
Eisenlord, S.D., et al. "Microbial mechanisms mediating increased soil C storage under elevated atmospheric N deposition." Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79, 1191–1199 (2013). [DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03156-12].
The Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.


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This Date In Royals History – October 24, 1985
The Cardinals had one shot to end the 1985 World Series on the east side of the show-me state, otherwise to paraphrase Horace Greeley, it would be "Go west, young men" and the series would return to the Royals home turf. Westward ho…
On Thursday, October 24 the Royals just wanted to stay alive in Game Five of the series when they sent left-hander Danny Jackson to the mound and just as he had in the fifth game of the ALCS he was brilliant (Same pitcher; nearly same result). Lonnie Smith and Willie Wilson both singled to start the game. George Brett advanced Smith with fly ball out and Frank White drove him in with a ground ball. The Royals got the jump early.
But the Cardinals came right back in the bottom of the inning with a run on back-to-back two out doubles from Tommy Herr and Jack Clark to tie the game. It was the Cardinals first and last run of the contest. The Royals put three runs on the board in the second, highlighted by a two-out, two run triple off the bat of Willie Wilson and Danny Jackson did the rest.
The Royals won 6-1 with Jackson again going the distance with a complete game five-hitter and the long planned downtown parade in St. Louis instead turned into a parade back up I-70 for Game Six.
Just A Bit More: This game provided one of the most remembered visual images of the entire series when George Brett went sliding into the Royals Dugout for a foul pop in the seventh inning. He was not able to make the play, but as Dick Howser said, Royals hitting coach Lee May made the 'catch of the night' when he cushioned Brett's trajectory into the dugout. Though cushioned is perhaps not the right word, as George explained:
"I didn't know who it was at the time, but I knew someone had caught me as if I was a bowling ball."
When he was asked why he would make such a risky play with his team up 4-1; a play which could have taken him out of the game or the World Series itself. George had two thoughts:
"First of all, we're not the George Brett Royals. We're the Kansas City Royals. People try to portray us as a one-man team, but we're not. We're a 25-man team…Secondly, I play hard. I want to win."
Sure enough. That's our George.
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A complex gearbox system has a left and a right main drive gear. Because of an outdated controller, every six months or so one of these gears gets overloaded and strips out. It takes three hours to change the gear, but only 25 minutes to pull and replace the gearbox. Downtime runs about $400,000 an hour in revenue. You are fairly sure that a more responsive controller would keep the left and right side loads balanced, thus preventing the damage. But the production superintendent won't sign off on that or a spare assembly.
To solve this problem, what should you do?
This is a twist on our usual quiz concept. In this case, you're troubleshooting the organization rather than the equipment. If you lobby for a replacement controller, you weaken your credibility by also arguing for a post-incident solution. So focus on the preventive. Be more than fairly sure about that controller. The drive gear overload happens only once every six months, so measuring the unbalances is problematic. Because of the failures, you can assume these occur.
You need the controller to limit output whenever the delta between the two output channels is greater than some number. Find out from the gearbox manufacturer what that number is. If the controller can't sense and control that variable, you'll need to replace it with one that can. This is the technical basis for your case for a replacement controller; cost basis is controller cost versus downtime cost.
Finally, do a complete control loop tuning so your repair does what it's intended to do. Leave nothing to chance.


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Scholtz, who will be a junior next season, traveled to Turkey for Futures events, and teamed up with Rebel alum Tucker Vorster, also an outstanding doubles player, to capture two titles in three weeks. Their most recent title came Friday in Instanbul, where the South African duo defeated the No. 2 seeded team of Alexander Krasnorutskiy and Anton Manegin from Russia 7-6(1), 6-4. Scholtz and Vorster also won the doubles in Konya, Turkey.
One of just nine players to earn All-America honors in both singles and doubles, Scholtz also reached the final of the singles in Instanbul, where he lost a close match Saturday to the No. 2 seed.
After joining Scholtz as two of only six players to finish the 2013 season top 20 in singles and top 10 in doubles, Lutjen got his pro career off to a good start in Mexico, teaming up with fellow countryman and Southern Cal sophomore Yannick Hanfmann to capture the doubles title a week ago in Quintana Roo. They beat the No. 1 seed in the semifinals and the No. 2 seed in the final. The win marked Lutjen's first pro doubles title.
Following their wins, Lutjen is back in Germany to continue his pro career, while Scholtz heads back to the Motherland for a well-deserved break, before returning to Oxford in the fall.


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Friday, June 1, 2012
Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal
Story by Benjamin F. Kuo
Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong, who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services.
What is MergeLocal?
Michael Wong: If you're familiar with Foursquare, what we're doing is a check-in based service, which allows a user to check into their favorite places, and earn points, which they can redeem for cash through PayPal. It helps local businesses, events, and brands to promote themselves, based on the location of their users. If you look at a typical user, they have 120 to 200 friends on Facebook, 100 to 150 friends on Twitter, so a business can pay a user a specific amount to promote their businesses with each of their check-ins.
What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company?
Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. We had gone our ways, and after we left UpSellit and were golfing, we decided that instead of being part of a lifestyle business we wanted to start our own, and help local businesses market themselves.
There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site?
Michael Wong: The big reason is really cash. We want to be able to reward people with monetary value, rather than badges. In terms of the big thing for businesses going after the local market, we're giving away 20 points for every single business in the system, so there isn't a chicken and egg problem. We now have around 500,000 businesses, and 1 million by the end of the week, where people can check in and get points. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Since we started our free site last week, we've organically grown faster than we ever thought we would. On average, not including our internal friends, every user who joins the site is inviting four new friends, and we haven't done any marketing except a press release. We're seeing all of that growth from friend invites, with at least one of those four joining so far.
Can you talk about how your company is funded?
Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket. We will be opening up a a round of funding soon, as soon as we have some metrics and have been live in the market, and hope to raise some money and capital in the next thirty days.
You mention you're part of StartEngine. What's the best part of the accelerator experience for you?
Michael Wong: The best part are the connections. We've gone through this before in startup companies and pushing things forward. We have been part of two different startups, working together, as first employees. The big thing for us has been those connections to investors and mentors. For example, Chris Louvion, the CTO of Citygrid, is one of our advisors, and Greg Kim of Savings.com is also an advisor. They've ben invaluable, and given us the right feedback and sent us down the right path. The feedback, mentors, and connections are amazing.
What's the worst part of an accelerator?
Michael Wong: The worse part is lack of sleep. Other than that, I don't really see a downside for a company that is trying to raise money, if they are close to product. From the companies around us and others we've seen, the one thing I'd always tell them, is that it's easy to not focus on the product, and just focus on earning an investment, but you have to do both. You have to get the product out, because it's very important to show traction if you want to get any cash from investors.
How are you signing up local businesses, and how do you think that will scale?
Michael Wong: That's a really good question. What we've done so far, is we've built out our own CRM, and we've applied one person so far--Rusty, our President--to calling and onboarding businesses based on our freemium model. All of the businesses we've called have expressed the need for a mobile web site, particularly as many of them have Flash websites which are not compatible with mobile phones. We've put together a process for putting together a mobile site which is no-touch for us, where they can add their information, choose different styles to put up, and connect with their website. As we've built this relationship with them, we let them see the mobile and social metrics, and make it so that they're able to create a campaign. We've proven the model using our CRM, and that we can scale that to identify early adopters on the business side.
We actually know a lot about this, since we started in 2010 as a QR-code based, loyalty program. We pushed on that for nine month, trying to create a locally based QR code business. We signed up 150 businesses, but we found that retention was low, with only about fifty to sixty percent of businesses a month. Trying to scale that was impossible. That's why we pivoted into this market, and learned a lot in onboarding local businesses, and how to leverage a phone-based sales force to grow. It was actually an article by William Hsu at Muckerlab which caused us to pivot. He put out a blog article and spreadsheet which outlined if you were going to be able to scale your sales team, or if something was not scalable. Based on his number, we decided to pivot.


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You already know that tea can improve your skin and help keep you fit and trim, but did you know that it also does amazing things for your health? Put down those saucer cups and get chugging- tea is officially awesome for your health. Tea House is a haven for tea lovers and below is the list of Teahouses here in Los Angeles, California.
Green Tea House
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Favorite Place
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Rose Tree Cottage
Hojas Tea House and Cafe
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Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
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Topic: iRedMail upgrade: so what?
I'm a bit confused about iRedMail upgrade to 0.5...
I update/upgrade my CentOS 5.3 with regularity. Does iRedMail upgrades come through your repository?
I have this doubt as I got:
$ sudo postconf -n mail_version
mail_version = 0.4-stable
After a search into the forum I arrived here: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/Upgrade_040_050
Should I modify those files by hand as described?
Since I use iRedMail with MySQL and RoundCube I suppose I can jump this http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/ … nd_special and all LDAP related fixes from http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/ … p;_Notify.
Thanks in advance... I know it seems I'm asking for a dummy guide, but I cannot allow myself to stop my mailserver since it serves a holding company... :-)


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The latest delightfully weird episode of FX's "Wilfred" involved some hilarious dogisms, and a few things you'd never see a real dog do.
But isn't that what makes "Wilfed" so wonderful?
My favorite dogism of the episode, which was titled "Fear," was when Ryan's (Elijah Wood) neighbor, Spencer (Ethan Suplee), had Wilfred (Jason Gann) chasing after a laser pointer for half the show. I've done this with my cats, and they nailed it.
Now, to the fantasy dog moves, which I loved just as much. I think I will let Jason Gann talk about Wilfred's prowess at pole dancing in a strip club:
"If I didn't see my own face on it, I wouldn't think I did it," Gann told me. "I couldn't get a stunt person to do that, but I injured myself doing it, my arm, but it was worth it. It looked real, and it was."
Gann, who co-created the original Aussie series and this American adaptation, got poledancing lessons from "a couple of real live strippers."
It wasn't easy either, he said, because the "paws" of his suit did not allow him to grip the pole easily.
"I had to take the hands off and attach them kind of on the top of my hands and have rubber bands around attaching them to my fingers," he explained. "And then they painted my hands black and, I think in the edit they just sort of tweaked it."
Although he said that the shot they used was "perfect," Gann was awfully modest about the whole affair.
"Out of all the takes, that was, I'm sure, the only one that was perfect like that. It still blows me away watching it," he said, laughing throughout the discussion on this topic. "The way I just slowly slide around, you know, as I'm going down. And then the finish, it's just really cool.
"Occasionally I crack myself up, and that was one of the times."
"Wilfred" airs at 9 p.m. Thursdays on FX.


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If you've been socially aware for any of the Christmases of the past 30 years, you may well have encountered Raymond Briggs's televisual treat The Snowman. Accompanied by the dulcet tones of a young Aled Jones, The Snowman, for a lot of us, is a Christmas rite of passage.
Styling his way on to the small screen this Christmas Eve, Briggs's iconic snowman is back and he's not alone. The sequel, based on the characters of Raymond Briggs, The Snowman and the Snowdog is showing at 8pm on 24 December 2012 on Channel 4. And in true 2012 style, there's an app for that.
The Snowman and the Snowdog
Format Android/iPhone/iPad Price free Where Google Play, iTunes
The Snowman and the Snowdog game sees you take flight with the characters, looking to collect various items as you pass through the levels of the game, before making your flight to the North Pole.
There was once a time when we'd dismiss a spin-off game out of hand, but the familiar smile of the Snowman and his companions instantly appealed to us. This may be a simple game designed to promote the airing of the programme on the TV, but we're willing to overlook that.
The premise of the game is simple. You fly through various parts of the country, tapping the screen to collect things as you go. The only real decision you have to make is whether you stick with a level or head off somewhere else. There isn't much to challenge you, but that's not the point - this is really a game for children.
Realising as much, we put The Snowman and the Snowdog into the hands of Miss Pocket-lint (6-years-old, just), who happily whiled away half an hour collecting snowflakes, ice creams and puzzle pieces while flying through the levels.
There's a list of achievements, so you can see what there is left to collect, but cleverly the puzzle pieces go forward to make up scenes from the forthcoming programme, so there is something of a hook to get you anticipating the programme.
The simplicity and cuteness of the game is perfectly pitched for children; those familiar with the earlier show's animation will enjoy this effortlessly cute distraction.
For adults there's the great nostalgic feel, perfect for slipping into your favourite comfy chair to escape from the stresses of Christmas for 10 minutes, perhaps while sipping some of that special Christmas sherry.
Ultimately there's no culmination to the game and you basically do the same thing across the five different levels offered, but this is a free promotional game and we enjoyed it anyway.
Perhaps the only thing we don't like is that at one point you fly past an in-game billboard advert for The Snowman and the Snowdog on Channel 4. Sure, the aim of the game is to get people watching, put it does pop the bubble a little.
A quick game for youngsters or lovers of The Snowman, it won't change the world, but it's super cute, and might buy you enough time to finish making those stuffing balls.
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WHEN TIM McCARTHY MOVED INTO HIS plush new office at Security Link in Oak Brook, Ill., four months ago, he brought mementos from his Secret Service days. On one shelf is a card from George Bush; on another, a photo of Jimmy Carter. But his most treasured keepsake is a framed letter from Ronald Reagan. "There will always be the special gratitude I feel for your extraordinary heroism on that one cold day in March," the President wrote. "It is a gratitude words could never convey."
It is a gratitude shared by millions who witnessed McCarthy's valor on March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley Jr. opened fire in front of the Washington Hilton. McCarthy leaped in front of the President and was hit in the abdomen by a .22 slug. "I helped save a man's life, which was what I was being paid to do," says McCarthy, 44. "Could I do it again? I don't know."
Fortunately, McCarthy doesn't need to ponder that question. Since retiring in October from his $100,000 plus-a-year job as special agent in charge of the Chicago division to become a corporate vice president for Security Link (which designs electronic security systems for homes and businesses), he has stopped wearing a gun. Does he miss the excitement? "No, I don't think I miss it," says McCarthy. "A lot of it was difficult and stressful, but I miss the people I worked with."
As it happened, McCarthy was on duty only by chance on that fateful March day. He had lost a coin toss with a colleague to see who would fill a last-minute request for an extra agent to protect Reagan at an AFL-CIO luncheon. As the event ended around 2 p.m., McCarthy was opening the door of Reagan's limousine when someone in the crowd began shooting. "I thought, 'Oh s—t!' You think it could never happen when you're working," he remembers.
Hinckley fired a .22-caliber revolver six times within two seconds: The first to be struck were presidential press secretary James Brady, who suffered permanent brain damage, and Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty, who later retired on disability. Next hit was McCarthy, who was wounded in the abdomen and instantly slumped to the ground. Finally, Reagan was struck in the chest by a bullet that ricocheted off the limousine.
After McCarthy's wife, Carol, now 42, learned of the shooting on TV, another agent drove her from home in Montclair, Va., where she lived with Tim and the first two of their three children—Jeanne, now 16, and Jeff, now 14—to George Washington University Hospital in Washington. "He had no radio, so we had no news the entire 40-minute trip," says Carol, a part-time hospital secretary. "That was probably good, since news reports were back and forth about everyone's condition."
Carol also remembers the First Lady's compassion on the day of the shooting. "After I had spoken with the doctors, I was ushered into the chapel where Mrs. Reagan was praying," she recalls. "She threw her arms around me and hugged me and told me how sorry she was."
The 6'2″, 220-lb. McCarthy recuperated at home for three months and received nearly 50,000 get-well notes, including one from Hinckley's parents. Before long, he says, "I started feeling antsy. It was always just a matter of when I would go back to work—not if."
McCarthy learned his sense of duty early on from his father, Norman, a sergeant with the Chicago police, and his mother, Elizabeth, a housewife. Along with his four sisters, McCarthy attended strict Catholic schools. At the University of Illinois he studied finance and played football before graduating and joining the Secret Service in 1972. ("What interested me most was that they did this thing called protection," he says.) In 1979 he was transferred to Washington from Chicago to work for Carter and stayed on to cover Reagan. "He didn't even know who I was," says McCarthy.
Now friends, the Reagans and McCarthys write and call several times a year. When McCarthy's daughter Jeanne developed a case of osteomyelitis, a bone-marrow infection, Nancy Reagan sent a stuffed bear and flowers. Later, when McCarthy had knee surgery after suffering an injury in a parish basketball game, Nancy called to see how he was doing.
These days, McCarthy says he can view the shooting in perspective. "Really, I don't dwell on it," he says. In fact he has been so busy that he missed last year's thriller In the Line of Fire., which features a Secret Service agent played by Clint Eastwood in a life-and-dealh situation like McCarthy's own 13 years ago. Still he receives dozens of requests each month to speak about the incident, and he leaves his Orland Park, Ill., home to fulfill as many as he can. "You get thrust into history," he says, "and you can't be prepared for it. You just hope you don't let your head get so big it doesn't fit on your pillow anymore."
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President Bill Clinton Named Honorary Chairman of USA Bid Committee To Host FIFA World Cup In 2018 or 2022
NEW YORK (May 17, 2010) – President William Jefferson Clinton has accepted the invitation to join the USA Bid Committee in its efforts to bring the FIFA World Cup™ to the United States in 2018 or 2022 and was named today the Honorary Chairman of the USA Bid.
In his role, President Clinton will be involved in promoting the USA bid's cause in the months leading to the final decision in December.
"Few heads of state, if any, have played as important a role in positively affecting social change in their years after office as President Bill Clinton," said Sunil Gulati, Chairman of the USA Bid Committee and President of U.S. Soccer. "The work of his William J. Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative has played a crucial role in consolidating relief efforts and improving agency efficiency around some of the world's worst natural disasters of the last decade. The goals and principles of his cause-based work mirrors those of FIFA and those outlined in the U.S. Bid to bring the World Cup back to the United States. We are honored by his commitment to our cause."
President Clinton's new role with the USA Bid Committee was announced today at a news conference at the FC Harlem soccer facility. The announcement took place on the field following a soccer clinic hosted by New York Red Bulls players Juan Pablo Angel, Chris Albright and Seth Stammler for students that use the facility.
Since leaving office, President Clinton has dedicated himself to philanthropy and continued public service through the William J. Clinton Foundation, which is focused on finding practical and measurable solutions to address pressing challenges at home and abroad. In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has helped lead recovery efforts for several global natural disasters including the 2007 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
"In my travels around the world – from the dirt fields of Lusaka, Zambia, to playgrounds in schools across America – I've seen the transformative power soccer has to bring people together and transform lives on and off the field," President Clinton said. "I continue to be impressed with FIFA's work to promote the game as an agent for positive social change, and I'm proud to represent the United States in our bid to bring the World Cup tournament back to American soil, allowing us to inspire action and cooperation on an even greater scale."
President Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 to turn ideas into action and help our world move beyond the current state of globalization to a more integrated global community of shared benefits, responsibilities, and values. By gathering world leaders from a variety of backgrounds, CGI creates a unique opportunity to channel the capacities of individuals and organizations to realize change. To fulfill the action-oriented mission of CGI, all members devise practical solutions to global issues through the development of specific and measurable Commitments to Action.
Since its inception, CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 100 current and former heads of state, 14 Nobel Peace Prize winners, hundreds of leading global CEOs, major philanthropists and foundation heads, directors of the most effective non-governmental organizations, and prominent members of the media. These CGI members have made nearly 1,700 commitments valued at $57 billion, which have already improved more than 200 million lives in 150 countries.
Elected President of the United States in 1992, and again in 1996, President Clinton's core values of building community, creating opportunity, and demanding responsibility resulted in unprecedented progress for America, including moving the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs; low levels of unemployment, poverty and crime; and the highest homeownership and college enrollment rates in history.
President Clinton previously served as the Governor of Arkansas, chairman of the National Governors' Association and Attorney General of Arkansas. As former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, he is one of the original architects and leading advocates of the Third Way movement.
The announcement regarding President Clinton comes just days after the United States and each competing bid submitted its official bid book to FIFA in a formal ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on May 14, 2010. All candidates had to have their bid applications submitted to FIFA by that day. FIFA's 24 member Executive Committee will study the bids, conduct site visits and name the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments on December 2, 2010, completing a 21-month bid and review process.
The United States, Australia, England and Russia have formally declared their desire to host the FIFA World Cup™ in 2018 or 2022. Netherlands-Belgium and Portugal-Spain have each submitted joint bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, while Japan, Qatar and South Korea have only applied as candidates to host the tournament in 2022. Indonesia withdrew its bid in March 2010, while Mexico withdrew its bid in September 2009. Following the Mexico announcement, CONCACAF issued a public endorsement for the United States bid in November that pledged the full support of soccer's governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean.
President Clinton will serve as Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the USA Bid Committee that features Wasserman Media Group Chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman, Counselor to President Clinton Douglas Band, AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke, former world champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ESPN EVP for Content John Skipper, Washington Post CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth, Walt Disney Company President and CEO Robert Iger, comedian and Seattle Sounders FC part-owner Drew Carey, MLS founding investor Philip Anschutz, Univision CEO Joe Uva, New England Revolution and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, U.S. Soccer Foundation President Ed Foster-Simeon, University of Miami President Donna Shalala, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. National Team icons Landon Donovan and Mia Hamm, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
In October 2009, the USA Bid Committee released an independent study that estimates a conservative domestic economic impact of five billion dollars if the United States is chosen to host the FIFA World Cup™ in 2018 or 2022. The findings indicate that the total economic impact projected for any one host city ranges from approximately $400 million to $600 million at today's dollar value.
Founded in 1913, U.S. Soccer has helped chart the course for soccer in the USA for more than 95 years as the governing body of the sport. In this time, the Federation's mission statement has been simple and clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a pre-eminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels. To that end, the sport's growth in the past two decades has been nothing short of remarkable as U.S. Soccer's National Teams have continually succeeded on the world stage while also growing the game here in the United States with the support of its members. For more information, visit ussoccer.com.
The USA Bid Committee is a non-profit organization created to prepare a successful application to host the FIFA World Cup™ in 2018 or 2022 on behalf of the United States Soccer Federation. The USA Bid Committee Executive Director is David Downs. The Bid Committee will submit its comprehensive bid to FIFA by May 2010, with FIFA's 24 member Executive Committee making a decision in December 2010. Members of the USA Bid Committee in alphabetical order include Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy owner Philip Anschutz, Counselor to President Clinton Douglas Band, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, comedian and Seattle Sounders FC part-owner Drew Carey, former Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman (Asia) Carlos Cordeiro, former world champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, U.S. Men's National Team player Landon Donovan, U.S. Soccer CEO and General Secretary Dan Flynn, U.S. Soccer Foundation President Ed Foster-Simeon, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, U.S. Soccer President and USA Bid Committee Chairman Sunil Gulati, U.S. Women's National Team former player Mia Hamm, Walt Disney Company President and CEO Robert Iger, former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, New England Revolution and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee, AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, University of Miami President Donna Shalala, ESPN Executive Vice President for Content John Skipper, Univision CEO Joe Uva, Wasserman Media Group Chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman, and Washington Post CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. For more information, visit goUSAbid.com.


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USN-2596-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
5 May 2015
linux vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Software Description
- linux - Linux kernel
A race condition between chown() and execve() was discovered in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a setuid-user-binary to gain administrative privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-generic - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-generic-pae - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-highbank - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-omap - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-powerpc-smp - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-powerpc64-smp - 3.2.0-83.120
- linux-image-3.2.0-83-virtual - 3.2.0-83.120
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.


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Margarito's Eye Heals; Cotto Rematch Looms for Dec. 3rd
By German (June 14, 2011) Doghouse Boxing (Photo © German Villasenor)
For the last few weeks prior to the announcement of plans to stage the December 3
rematch between Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto, if one were to do a keyword search on the internet using "Margarito" and "retirement," more likely than not, there would be a series of "reports" and articles available including the phrase "detached retina" in them- all of them referring to a surgery Antonio Margarito went through a couple of weeks ago. Something which, again, many observers, bloggers and theorists have Margarito all but near retired due to the injury.
How this came about- and who started it- is anyone's guess. It could simply be that someone wrote somewhere that "maybe the surgery has to do with a detached retina" or something along those lines, with the next person perhaps cutting out the "maybe" part. Then the "detached retina" part comes in as a matter of fact, with yet another adding the "retirement" part. It's a
snowball effect of misinformation, if you will.
"I don't know where people got that it was a detached retina," Margarito would say, while at the BlueWater Resort on Memorial Day weekend as a co-promoter to the Showdown Promotions fight card. Margarito's manager, Sergio Diaz Jr. is a co-owner of Showdown and worked in conjunction with Margarito's Tornado Promotions, featuring KO artist Hanzel Martinez (Margarito's brother-in-law) in a co-featured fight to the John Molina vs. Alejandro Rodriguez main event.
"The surgery went well; all they did was work on a cataract, which had been developing and not getting any better, so it was time to take care of it," said Margarito.
That would be the case, as Margarito began wearing glasses, similar to reading glasses sold at pharmacies a couple of years ago. Since the Manny Pacquiao fight last November in which Margarito suffered a broken orbital bone early on, Margarito has been wearing sunglasses- and still does, as the eye is still healing.
Getting a look at his eye, one can barely detect anything wrong with it and there are no scars apparent either. "There are no scars. When they operated on the broken bone, they went on the inside of the eyelid to fix the bone," said the former three-time welterweight world champion.
Having gone through the broken socket surgery prompted Margarito to might as well correct the cataract issue as well.
Francisco "Pancho" Espinoza, who co-manages Margarito along Sergio Diaz, would expand on the matter.
"I'm surprised that people were or are saying that Tony's career is over because of something that he didn't have (referring to the "detached retina"). All he had was a cataract, which we decided to treat with Tony. Everything went good with the surgery and he is healing well.
Diaz added that Margarito should be healing well but was cautious and will wait for the final green light from the doctor to say anything else on the cataract surgery matter.
Just this past week, Margarito went back to the Moran Eye Institute in Utah, where the surgery was performed, for a check-up. He is still healing well and is expected to continue with his career.
The Miguel Cotto Rematch…
Looming in the air is a long-awaited rematch against three-division world champion Miguel Cotto, who suffered his first loss to Margarito back in 2008, via stoppage in 11 heats of action.
Bob Arum has been quoted recently saying "Miguel Cotto against Antonio Margarito and it will probably be on Dec 3. Antonio Margarito's eye is 100 percent" in recent internet reports. Cotto, following the Margarito vs. Mosley pre-fight ordeal, spoke out and pointed out a reddish substance on Margarito's wrapped fists which appeared on
The Ring
magazine (after Cotto lost to the "Tijuana Tornado") that would raise suspicions again and have been lingering ever since.
What many failed to notice or pay attention to is that in the very same issue of
The Ring
magazine (as well as many others), there are two other fighters on different pages from different fights posing in the same manner as the Margarito picture in question, with the same type and look of red on their still-wrapped fists after their respective fights.
When the question was asked to different trainers at gyms around town, the same answer came forth regarding what that red substance could be by looking at the available photos.
Red paint bleeding through from the red painted gloves would be the answer, being that some of the newer gloves tend to bleed red dye unto the wrappings after being soaked in sweat and taking a pounding during fights.
Whatever the case, Cotto has at least inspired Margarito to prove his victory over the Puerto Rican was on the up and up.
A few more weeks should give the answer as to what will really come to light.
If everything falls into place, look for the fight to go Madison Square Garden's way on December 3
A second and still interesting backup plan would be Kermit Cintron (who is now promoted by Top Rank as well) facing Margarito for a third time, as Cintron has also been vocal regarding his two KO losses against Margarito.
As for Margarito, who has been staying in shape while awaiting clearance, he is itching to storm back and settle matters once and for all.
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Now Hiring! — 'Terror Behind the Screen' Haunted House Needs Workers!
It's almost Halloween and that means Townsquare Media is hiring workers for our haunted house, "Terror Behind the Screen!" We need set builders, set designers, prop masters, make up artists, actors, security personnel, and more.
If you'd like to send a resume direct it to firstname.lastname@example.com. However, we will mostly be hiring based on positive interviews. We welcome anyone interested to join us for a job fair here at the studios at 2621 W. A Street in Pasco on Aug. 28 at 6 p.m.
If you can't make it, you may send a message to the email above requesting a one-on-one interview, but we will hire from the job fair first and pursue other candidates second.
This is part-time work that will begin early September and end shortly after Halloween.


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Buzzer Beaters: Blackouts, Diplomats and the New S.I. Swimsuit Cover Girl
Today's top sports stories: the cause of the Super Bowl blackout, King Felix's deal on hold, this year's Sports Illustrated cover girl and more.
Apparently it was a failing electronic device that led to that whole blackout thing at the Super Bowl. Even better: this particular device was specifically designed to prevent blackouts. [Fox Sports]
Yesterday we all thought that Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners had agreed on a $175 million dollar seven-year contract. Today, though, the Mariners are saying that there actually is no such deal. [MLB]
Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo was lost for the season with a torn ACL, but it turns out he might be back a bit sooner than expected. It was first thought he had a full tear, but it may be just a partial tear. [L.A. Times]
The Pebble Beach National Pro-Am kicked off this week, and one of the biggest names there is former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice also became one of the first women admitted as a member of Augusta National. The woman likes her golf. [N.Y. Times]
Care to find out who's on the cover of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? Hint: it's the same woman as last year. [GuySpeed]


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Three Days Grace Video Trailer Builds Suspense for New Album 'Transit of Venus'
Three Days Grace have done a solid job building the suspense about their next album, 'Transit of Venus.' The front page of their website recently re-launched, borrowing a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, who explains, "A black round spot – and that is all; Such a speck our earth would be if he who looks upon the stars through the red atmosphere of Mars could see our little creeping ball."
What does it mean? Well, we've got a few more clues thanks to a new trailer for the band's upcoming disc. In it, a television announcer reveals to the audience, "Something historic has begun," and with that you get the opening moments of a new trailer hyping Three Days Grace's next album.
What follows is a mass gathering of people attempting to look at the sky through different devices as they prepare for a unique sighting, and additional news reports around the world promoting the 'Transit of Venus.' Another announcer vows, "It is science in its most perfect form." And finally another voice reveals, "This event will be visible across all of North America. Do not stare at the sun."
Wondering what this has to do with Three Days Grace? Up until midway through the clip there's nary a mention of the band, but as a fiery rock flies across the universe, all of a sudden the hard-hitting guitar licks of the band come in to soundtrack the clip.
'Transit of Venus' is the title of the new album from the group and an Oct. 12 release date flashes briefly on the screen signifying their return. One final announcer chimes in with yet another ominous revelation. "Ninety-five percent of [the universe's mysteries] can be explained away by Venus," she states. "But what about the other five percent, everybody? We're believers." I guess the mystery continues.
In the meanwhile, the band has a handful of summer dates on the horizon to begin the build toward their next record.
Watch Three Days Grace's 'Transit of Venus' Trailer


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JBF needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
baby bananas
We are looking to launch a toddler swimsuit - originally motivated by the banana hammock (you read that right). Our Keynote attempts at drafting a logo failed, so we are turning to the experts.
Parents with 'trendy toddlers'
We are looking for a logo that incorporates a banana, but no baby. Realize the name is conflicting, but would prefer the tone isn't "BABY", but more trendy tot.
LEANING TOWARDS A SIMPLE "baby bananas" (lowercase), with a simple banana mark.
Since the logo will be appearing in a small space, simplicity and compactness are key elements.
As you can see from the drafts, this is a fun gig, not a serious corporate mark.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.