Jim Traub: Until Reagan, Republicans tended to be kind of standpatters in foreign policy. Let’s say between the era of Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan, Democrats were more activist, they were more internationalists. It was the Democrats after all who built the great postwar institutions, the UN, the Bretton Woods Institutions and so forth. So, I guess, you would say that more of this stuff took place under Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson, FDR, to some extent Kennedy than under Republicans. But since Reagan, if anything, that I would say that has reversed itself and the Republicans have been the party of foreign policy romanticism, a democratic idealism and this whole idea of democracy promotions has been stronger or let’s say a more single-minded focus under Reagan and under the current George Bush probably than it was among the Democratic presidents.
Reagan signaled a new activism in promoting democracy among Republicans, James Traub reflects.


Margaret Thatcher's coat from this 'tank' photo, taken Sept. 17, 1986, is up for auction.
LONDON — The Victoria & Albert Museum has turned down the chance to display late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's clothes, saying they only collect "fashionable dress," instead the clothes will be auctioned by Christie's in December.
The V&A Museum, which has displayed fashions from David Bowie and Alexander McQueen in blockbuster exhibitions in recent years, said Monday it had been offered some of Thatcher's items but had "politely declined."
“The V&A politely declined the offer of Baroness Thatcher’s clothes, feeling that these records of Britain’s political history were best suited to another collection which would focus on their intrinsic social historical value.
Auction house Christie's posted the prices and details of items to be sold Dec. 15. Her midnight blue velvet wedding dress from 1951 is estimated to fetch between £10,000-£15,000 ($15,375-$23,063).
The "Tank" raincoat and headscarf by Aquascutum that she wore during a visit to British Forces near Fallingbostel, Germany, in 1986 could fetch up to £20,000.
MARGARET THATCHER IN GERMANY, 1986.
One of her power suits is expected to get £2,000-£3,000.
This suit was worn in parliament when Thatcher was serving as prime minister, circa 1989-90.
As the UK's first (and only) female prime minister, Thatcher was aware of the media scrutiny of her image and cultivated a distinct sense of style. Her look was defined by twin sets, suits, pearls and unchanging hair.
The term "handbagging" became used by her ministers to describe a dressing-down by Thatcher. One of her distinctive ones, a black bag she carried on a visit to the U.S. in 1985, fetched £25,000 at auction in 2011.


In The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, acclaimed investigative journalist and poet Eliza Griswold treads the geographical and ideological middle ground where the world’s largest faiths meet. But as Griswold reports, many places along the latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator are less a middle ground than a battlefield, where global political forces and trends are pushing Muslims and Christians towards increasingly extreme versions of their faiths.
Citing esteemed scholars, local journalists, religious leaders, and members of militant religious organizations in six countries lying astride the tenth parallel, Griswold grapples with the local and global politics of the collision of Christianity and Islam. But she also explores the many factors that continue to raise the stakes of the collision higher and higher—the war on terror and American foreign policy vis-à-vis the Muslim world, climate change and resource conflicts, to name a couple of these elements.
It follows that in such places, religion may be the only guiding principle, the only social, moral, even legal code to abide by. Somalia, for example, has been a “failed state” since 1991; this is a place where the presence of the state and accompanying service provision is virtually nonexistent. Griswold shows how the story of the rise of al-Shabaab—an Islamist militia currently wreaking havoc with horrific efficacy across Somalia and now outside its borders (the group claimed responsibility for last month’s bombings in Kampala, Uganda)—is both local and global in nature. Proxy wars of various scopes and varieties are no doubt a trend in the countries Griswold profiles, but her in-depth examination of each context avoids generalization and oversimplification.
Perhaps the phenomenon of seeking “direct experience of God” is one way people transcend their everyday circumstances in place where life is not merely difficult, but is instead a daily struggle for survival. It would be inaccurate to generalize, but Griswold shows this to be the case in Mogadishu, and I’ve seen it for myself in Sudan. I currently live south of the country’s “front line,” contested area, Abyei which Griswold profiles through the story a local southern Sudanese chief who knew the fate that awaited him and his people when she was interviewing him in the spring of 2008. In May of that year, chief Nyol Paduot and his people were forced to flee for their lives when northern Sudanese troops razed the nearby town of Abyei.
The part of Sudan I am in right now is the site of yet another proxy war, different from the one in Somalia, but with reminiscent undertones. In Somalia, the Shabaab do the bidding of the broader Al Qaeda network and are supported by this global movement. In Abyei, Sudan, the on again, off again local warring parties—Arab, nomadic cattleherders and sedentary black Christians and atheists—are, as Griswold writes, “pawns of their respective governments,” former warring parties themselves who are uneasy partners in an internationally-brokered peace agreement signed in 2005.
While it would be easy to draw negative conclusions from this book about the ways in which Islam and Christianity are currently interacting around the globe, it would be impossible not to have faith about the future of the world’s interlocking religions after Griswold’s profiles of individuals of different faiths who are “shouldering all things together,” “bear[ing] witness to the coexistence” of religions, as believers have done for centuries.
Maggie Fick is a freelance journalist based in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan. She reports on southern Sudan for the Associated Press, among other news organizations. Prior to working on and in Sudan, Maggie lived in Niger as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar studying gender roles in Tuareg society.


Geraldine Buck MacGregor, 84, passed away early Sunday morning (Oct. 30, 2011) at the Livingston County Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Mt. Morris.
She was born in Dansville on Feb. 3, 1927, a daughter of the late Clarence and Marjoretta (Huff) Buck.
Gerry was a member of the Dansville United Methodist Church and Daniel Goho Post No. 87 of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. She was retired from Eastman Kodak in Rochester.
She is survived by her sister, Frances Demyan of Auburn; a brother, Charles C. Buck of Rochester; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
Friends may call from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday at the Hindle Funeral Home, Inc., 271 Main St., in Dansville, where services will be held at the completion of calling hours. Interment will be in Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville. An American Legion Auxiliary prayer service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers please make memorial contributions to the Dansville United Methodist Church, 3 Chestnut Ave., Dansville, N.Y. 14437.


The first Nokia phone to pack the Symbian ^3 software, the N8 is a beautiful camera and video device. But what’s the user interface like? We had a glimpse of an N8 prototype and played around with it ourselves. Symbian ^3 has some slick features like the album scrolling and they’ve made it more customisable, but there are a couple of hangovers from the clunky old user interface that I’m not so keen on.
The Nokia N8 with Symbian ^3 will be out in the UK from September, price TBC.
Idiot with a tattoo showing menus on a phone. Pathetic.
Interesting vid but why didn’t you focus it? Such a shame.


In his 26 years as pope, John Paul II gave new shape to the papacy, Richard R. Gaillardetz reflected shortly after his death. With his beatification, it's worth looking back on his papal legacy to see whether Pope Benedict XVI has followed in John Paul II’s footsteps or found his own way.
Habemus papam. We have a pope. The election of Pope Benedict XVI marks the conclusion of one of the most significant transitional moments in Roman Catholicism, rivaled only, perhaps, by the convocation of an ecumenical council.
Speculation about the identity of the new pope has given way to questions regarding his agenda for the church. The identity of the new pope suggests a papacy that will continue the overall thrust of his predecessor. Still, there are many possible new directions in which Benedict could lead our church.
But another important question is worth considering: Will this pope follow his predecessor in reshaping the institution of the papacy itself?
In 26 years Pope John Paul II transformed the institution of the papacy in many ways. It is worth considering which aspects of that re-made papacy are likely to continue with the new pope and which will not.
The first Polish pope in history was never reluctant to thrust himself in the midst of world events, whether it was lecturing dictators or taking unpopular stands against both Iraq wars. Will this papal activism be an enduring feature in the exercise of the papacy?
It was a role particularly suited to a Polish pope who had experienced the horrors of World War II and suffered directly under a communist regime, a fact that might suggest John Paul’s global activism was unique to him and may not be continued by future popes. Pope Benedict XVI, for example, is a much more reserved and even shy public figure, not likely to be comfortable as a regular “player” on the world stage.
Still, the time when popes were considered exclusively religious leaders providing only for the spiritual needs of their flock is gone. The papacy has become a powerful voice in the world with unique moral credibility. Future popes are going to be unlikely to yield that influence entirely.
It is possible, for example, that Pope Benedict will feel compelled in the months and years ahead to take a public role in responding to the threat of modern terrorism, particularly because of its complex link to religion. Terrorism has been for decades a tragic reality for many in the world, but the terrorist acts of Sept. 11, 2001 gave global terrorism a much higher profile. Unfortunately this new profile took place during the waning years of John Paul II’s pontificate, when his declining health made it difficult for him to offer the robust response that was typical of his earlier leadership. His successor may well feel the need to speak out strongly on this issue.
When Catholics think of papal authority, they are likely to think of the formal authority that Catholic doctrine and canon law grant to the bishop of Rome. They might have in mind the exercise of papal infallibility, the pope’s authority to canonize saints, and other canonical prerogatives, such as the authority to appoint bishops. In the last pontificate, however, we witnessed an exercise of a different kind of papal authority.
Perhaps more than any other in history, the pontificate of John Paul II will be etched in memory as a string of compelling media images. One of the most enduring will be the image of the pope kissing the ground upon his first visit to a country. Many will recall photos of the pope praying with his would-be assassin, or another of the pope praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
John Paul II also made unprecedented use of modern transportation, traveling throughout the world, publicly affirming the unique gifts of the church in each country, challenging it to further fidelity to the gospel where necessary and, where Christians suffered from injustice, bringing that injustice to world attention. He often visited with local leaders and representatives of other churches and religious traditions as well.
The many instances in which John Paul asked forgiveness for past wrongs done in the name of the church were also filled with symbolic import and were unique to his papacy. Luigi Accattoli, in his book When a Pope Asks Forgiveness (Alba House), listed more than 90 instances when the pope asked forgiveness for sins committed by Christians past and present.
None of these papal actions were exercises of formal papal authority except in the sense that the pope was acting as head of the church. They were, instead, effective exercises of a moral authority made in symbolic gesture. The effectiveness of such gestures has been magnified dramatically in this age of modern media, giving them more potential for communicating basic gospel imperatives than any carefully worded encyclical, whose readership may number in the mere thousands.
Do these symbolic papal actions offer possibilities for the future of the papacy? Yes and no. To be sure, this kind of ministry would have been impossible a mere century ago, but its success depends not only on modern transportation and global communication technologies but also on the character of the pope. John Paul II was, after all, an actor earlier in his life, and his intuitive sense of the dramatic gesture is not something that can be formalized. There is not much evidence, for example, that Pope Benedict shares this dramatic intuition.
Although future popes will certainly recognize the value of getting out of the Vatican to visit their people, it is not at all clear that they will feel compelled to keep up the dizzying travel itinerary of the last pope. Pope Benedict almost certainly will not, nor is it clear that future popes would have the ability to make effective use of such symbolic actions.
The pope is the universal pastor of the church and, as such, possesses ordinary, immediate, and universal jurisdiction over the whole church; in other words the pope can directly intervene in a diocese if he thinks it necessary. But how is this authority to be exercised?
What is often called papal primacy has changed significantly over the centuries. In the first four centuries of Christianity the authority of the bishop of Rome functioned more as a court of final appeal. By the Middle Ages a number of factors contributed to the strengthening of papal authority, with the pope being modeled in many ways after the emperor. By the 19th century the papacy resembled an absolute monarchy.
The modern papacy can exercise papal primacy or governance in two basic ways. The first might be called “confirmatory” papal authority, insofar as the pope “confirms” his brothers—the bishops—in their ministry as pastors of local churches. The pope can support the ministry of the bishops through the convocation of episcopal synods, papal visitations, and ad limina visits, in which each bishop visits Rome every five years to report on the affairs of his diocese.
The various congregations, councils, and tribunals in the Roman curia can also support the bishops by providing church resources that assist local bishops in dealing with pressing pastoral questions. Usually this confirmatory authority does not involve any direct intervention by the pope or his curia in the affairs of local churches.
But papal primacy can also take the form of a more direct intervention in the affairs of local churches. This exercise of papal authority occurs when the bishop of Rome, either directly or through curial offices, intervenes in church affairs at the diocesan level or at the national or regional level (through bishops’ conferences), because the local structures of leadership have been deemed incapable of addressing a pressing pastoral or doctrinal matter or out of a concern for the unity of faith and communion.
What is the proper balance between these two forms of papal governance? One view would suggest that popes should normally exercise a confirmatory ministry in which they focus on supporting the bishops in their ministry. In this view more direct intervention ought to be the exception rather than the rule.
This often appeals to the principle in Catholic social teaching called subsidiarity, which holds that the authority with direct responsibility for a local community must have primary responsibility for decisions made regarding that community. Only when pressing issues appear insoluble at the local level or threaten the faith and unity of the universal church should one expect the intervention of higher authority.
Many commentators on the Second Vatican Council believe the council was trying to apply this principle by affirming the authority of local bishops and granting deliberative authority to regional episcopal conferences concerning certain liturgical matters, for example.
During the last pontificate, however, many leaders in the Vatican and the pope himself took a dim view of this principle. They did not believe that subsidiarity had a theological foundation and consequently there was a certain re-centralization of authority in the Vatican and away from the bishops’ conferences and local churches. Many in the Vatican felt that a strong and more centralized exercise of papal authority over the local churches was necessary to keep the church united in an increasingly fragmented world.
One of the most important questions regarding the future of the papacy concerns which view of the exercise of papal authority is most appropriate for the church today. Will Pope Benedict and future popes follow the example of John Paul II and stress internal church unity, consolidating authority in the Roman curia? Or will they see the principle of subsidiarity as more necessary than ever? At first glance, it would seem likely that Pope Benedict would opt for a strongly centralized church authority stressing church unity. After all, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which for more than two decades was led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was not reluctant to intervene in local church affairs.
We would be wise, however, not to read too much from this. Even as prefect of the CDF, Ratzinger admitted, in principle, the possibility of a certain de-centralization of church authority. He has also called for a reduction of church bureaucracy that could conceivably allow for more church initiative at the local level.
Moreover, we must remember that it was Ratzinger who first articulated the principle, later employed by Pope John Paul II, that “in regard to papal primacy, Rome must demand from the Orthodox churches nothing more than what was established and practiced during the first millennium.” This was a clear overture to the Orthodox. It is a principle that held out the possibility of a much more modest exercise of papal primacy and an openness to the principle of synodality (a principle that assumes that vital church decisions are to be made within designated bodies or gatherings of bishops) so dear to the Orthodox tradition.
Pope John Paul II added ecumenical leadership to the already demanding papal job description. His many travels brought him into frequent contact with leaders of other Christian churches, and he often welcomed them at the Vatican. His repeated overtures to Eastern Orthodoxy in particular bore only limited fruit, but they reflected his conviction that the papacy must be proactive in the cause of ecumenism.
And in his remarkable 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint John Paul offered an unprecedented invitation to other Christian leaders to enter into dialogue with him regarding how the papacy, within the limits of received doctrine, might be refashioned to become a ministry of unity for all Christian churches.
Pope John Paul II took his role as an agent for constructive interreligious dialogue equally seriously. He was the first pope to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the first to visit the chief rabbi at the synagogue in Rome, and the first to visit a Muslim mosque. He conducted interreligious prayers for peace in Assisi in 1986, 1993, and 2002. At the same time his profound respect for other religious traditions did not dampen his zeal for the church’s evangelizing mission in the world.
Will this new feature of the Petrine ministry continue? It is impossible to know for sure, but it seems unlikely that future popes would turn their backs on this new development.
Although many commentators have given Pope John Paul II high marks for his many overtures to Christian leaders and those of other world religions, many also note that, particularly in Christian ecumenism, Vatican leadership showed little willingness to compromise regarding the substance of ecumenical dialogue, the Joint Statement on Justification signed with the Lutheran World Federation being the notable exception. The hard-won accomplishments of various ecumenical dialogues often were met with Vatican criticism for not having articulated doctrinal and theological consensus in accord with traditional Catholic formulations.
It remains to be seen whether the future ecumenical ministry of the papacy will focus on bold public gestures or whether it will also include movements toward new, genuinely ecumenical reformulations of Catholic belief.
Under the pontificate of Pope Benedict, there is good reason to think the church’s commitment to ecumenism will not abate. Still, although he is an accomplished theologian, Pope Benedict is also a cautious one, consequently he may not be inclined to allow bold reformulations of the received Catholic faith of the kind that might be necessary to rekindle ecumenical dialogue.
One of the important ministries of the bishop of Rome is to preach the gospel and preserve the integrity of the Catholic faith. But the last century and a half in particular has seen the transformation of this role. Early popes only rarely weighed in on theological and doctrinal matters, but by the time of the pontificate of John Paul II the pope had become, in effect, the chief theologian of the church.
For example, when Catholics today consider the role of the pope as teacher, they think of popes writing papal encyclicals. Yet the papal encyclical itself is a modern development, first employed in the 18th century by Pope Benedict XIV. It was not until the late 19th century, in the pontificate of Leo XIII, that this modern development in the exercise of the pope’s teaching office took fuller shape. Pope Leo began to write longer encyclicals than those of his predecessors, offering extended theological treatments on important topics.
This development reached its height with John Paul II. If one compares the written output of John Paul II to that of his predecessors in terms of total pages of text (rather than total number of encyclicals), no pope has written more in the genre of the encyclical than he did.
This raises yet another question about the future of the papacy. John Paul II possessed an extraordinary intellect and a zealous conviction about the need to preserve the integrity of the faith in the face of dangerous contemporary intellectual currents. Will future popes feel compelled to continue the tradition of offering extended theological treatises in their magisterial documents? Is this the best way to exercise the pope’s teaching authority?
Some would say yes, arguing that contemporary tendencies toward relativism and challenges to the very notion of objective truth demand a papacy capable of offering authoritative responses to these intellectual currents.
If Pope John Paul II was a creative if somewhat idiosyncratic philosopher, Pope Benedict XVI is a trained and accomplished theologian. He has an extensive publishing record as a scholar and curial official. Consequently there is very little reason to believe that he will not continue in the tradition of Pope John Paul II as an active teacher of the church. We can probably expect our new pope to continue the modern trend toward producing lengthy intellectual treatises on vital church topics.
But will this emphasis on producing a large body of papal documents become a permanent feature of the papacy of the 21st century? Many observers believe that the emergence of a healthy pluralism in contemporary theology—a pluralism encouraged by Vatican II—is curtailed when popes offer extended philosophical or theological treatises that give the impression that their intellectual perspective (as distinct from their doctrinal teaching) is the only one permitted.
It is conceivable that future conclaves may decide that the church needs not a prolific pope but a pastoral one. Such a pope might be willing to limit his teaching authority to that traditionally attributed to the successor of Peter, namely, the modest but forceful preservation of the apostolic faith. A pastoral pope such as this would not leave behind the intellectual legacy of a John Paul II but might decide to leave the work of theological exploration to the theological community.
To a certain extent, every pope refashions the papacy—within the limits of received doctrine—in his own image. Few, however, have left such a substantial mark as Pope John Paul II. His was arguably the most influential pontificate of the 20th century. But the papacy is a dynamic and changing institution in the church. We will have to wait and see how Pope Benedict XVI and his successors will choose to fashion a new papacy for the 21st century.
This article appeared in the June 2005 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine (Vol. 70, No. 6, pages 10-15).


Michal Cizek, AFP | Russia’s Sergey Ustiugov, Alexey Chervotkin, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov celebrate their second place after the 4x7.5 km Relay Classic - Free event, FIS Cross-Country World Cup, on January 24, 2016, in Nove Mesto na Morave.
Russia’s cross country gold medallist Alexander Legkov and compatriot Evgeniy Belov were banned from the Olympics for life on Wednesday over doping at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.
The two athletes were the first Russians to be sanctioned for anti-doping rule violations following an IOC investigation into allegations of widespread doping among Russians and sample tampering by lab and security officials to give them the edge.
Legkov won gold in the 50km and a silver medal in the 4x10km relay event. The IOC said all of Russia’s 4x10km team would be disqualified given Legkov’s violation.
Belov, who competed in the men’s skiathlon 15+15km mass start event and the 15km classic country skiing event, did not medal at the Sochi Games.
Legkov could not be immediately reached by Reuters for a comment.
It said more decisions would follow in the coming days as the disciplinary commission led by IOC member Denis Oswald completes its investigation into Russian competitors in Sochi.
Russia’s cross country skiing federation said it was preparing an appeal.
The IOC is re-testing all Russian athletes’ samples from the 2014 Games following revelations by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Moscow’s discredited anti-doping laboratory, of a scheme to cover up home competitors’ positive samples.
The Sochi scandal is part of a wider doping affair in Russia that has led to the suspension of the country’s anti-doping agency and an international ban for track and field athletes.
The IOC has set up two commissions to investigate Sochi.
The one led by Oswald is in charge of looking into alleged doping violations by individual Russian athletes.
The second investigation is chaired by former Switzerland President Samuel Schmid and is looking into allegations of institutionalised doping in Russia.
Calls from some athletes and anti-doping agencies for a blanket ban of Russians in Pyeongchang have been growing louder in recent weeks.
Russian track and field athletes were banned from the Rio de Janeiro summer Games following the doping affair.


Just as marketing executives spend time and money improving page rank in search engines, so do cyber criminals. In fact, on many occasions, legitimate sites have been compromised and malware inserted to trap unsuspecting visitors. With so many people seeking out the best online deals, canny criminals have undoubtedly set up their traps.
Tip: Be wary of sites that claim to have trawled the web in order to compile a list of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. While some may be genuine, proceed with caution.


A 59-year old woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon after a domestic violence incident involving a man with whom she lived at Spring Valley Mobile Home Park, Athens-Clarke County police said.
The 49-year-old victim said the incident began early in the morning when the woman called in sick to work even though she was not ill and began drinking alcohol, according to police.
After she began arguing for no apparent reason, she reportedly broke the man’s coffee mug and some dishes by throwing them to the floor, police said.
The woman allegedly then threw a cast iron griddle that struck the side of the man’s forehead that created a gash that bled heavily, police said.
The woman said she noticed that the man was bleeding, but did not think much of it because he often falls, according to police.
The woman admitted to breaking the dishes and mug, which had a total value of $400, police said.
She was arrested and charged with family violence battery and criminal trespass/damage to property, police said.
Anyone who is in an abusive relationship can seek advice and services by calling Project Safe’s 24-hour hotline at (706) 543-3331 or by visiting www.project-safe.org.


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The mayor on Thursday, April 9, 2015, announced a campaign to encourage Angelenos to save more water. The campaign features an anthropomorphic blue water drop.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday rolled out a new public engagement campaign touting several incentives to help the city reduce its water use during the state's on-going drought.
The "Save the Drop LA" campaign, featuring an anthropomorphic water drop, aims to encourage Los Angeles residents to cut back their own water use so the city can meet its goal, set last year by the mayor, of reducing water use 20 percent by the end of 2016.
State regulators on Tuesday proposed mandatory cutbacks for all cities and towns in California. If approved, the new rules would require L.A. to cut its water use by 20 percent 10 months earlier than Garcetti's goal, though the state is using an earlier baseline for comparison. The city wants to lower that target, claiming it should get credit for previous water savings.
How much water are we using inside our homes?


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VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds football team has been battling through some of the most trying times in its program’s storied history, but the big news coming out of the Point Grey campus late last week seems to virtually assure a bright and prosperous future for the blue and gold.
Running back Terrell Davis, the former superstar high school running back from Victoria’s Mt. Douglas Secondary who spent the past two seasons on the depth chart with the Arizona State Sun Devils, told The Province over the weekend that he is transferring schools and will join the Thunderbirds for the team’s upcoming 2014 Canada West season. He will have four years of eligibility remaining.
All of UBC’s varsity sports programs are currently undergoing review with the aim of trimming a number of teams in the future, and although football was one of the sports prominently mentioned as being on the chopping block in the late fall, Davis says he has received enough assurance that he is very comfortable in making his decision.
UBC’s Sports Targeting Review is soon set to announce its first wave of surviving programs, and insiders suggest that even if football is not on that initial list, that enough groundwork has taken place behind the scenes to insure its longevity.
So in a lot of ways, the announcement of Davis is the unofficial way of making things official, and what a way to make a statement.
Davis who prior to his redshirt season in Tempe, AZ., rushed for 123 yards and two scores in the team’s fall scrimmage, was touted as one of that program’s players to watch this past season. But after playing on special teams in the Sun Devils’ season opener in September, he never saw the field again.
Now, with his 4.5-second speed over 40 yards, and a frame which is about 20 pounds more muscular than when he finished high school, there isn’t too much debate about what direction Davis is headed at UBC.
Punishing between the tackles, elusive and explosive in the open field, and like his younger brother, Grade 12 Mt. Douglas star Marcus, blessed with soft hands, Davis should be a schematic dream on Olson’s chalkboard.
Through his three seasons of senior varsity high school football, during which time he led the Rams to two B.C. Subway Bowl titles, Davis rushed and caught for a combined 3,847 yards and scored 48 touchdowns.
In the fall, he joins an absolutely loaded stable at running back for the ‘Birds, led by returning fourth-year star Brandon Deschamps, who finished second in Canada West rushing this past season with 1,007 yards and six TDs in seven games.
“It has been kind of exciting, getting my offensive mind working over the last little while, on how to utilize all of the things that (Davis and Deschamps) bring to the table,” said Olson.


Matt Hinshaw/The Daily Courier<br>Prescott’s Skylor Clinton was a hard runner to catch Friday night at Bill Shepard Field, where he rushed for 172 yards all in the first half.
Originally Published: September 13, 2014 12:17 a.m.
PRESCOTT, Arizona - The Prescott football team has been on a rollercoaster the first three games of the season.
In the season opener, the Badgers zoomed to the summit by manhandling Lakeside Blue Ridge, 55-7, the defending Division 4 state champion's first home loss in eight years. A week later, Prescott dipped to the bottom after a 54-7 setback to Division 3 powerhouse Goodyear Desert Edge. Friday night, the Badgers (2-1) whooshed to the top again after a 56-3 rout of winless Buckeye Youngker (0-3).
Prescott coach Cody Collett is tired of the ups and downs. He wants his team to get off the ride.
"I can't emphasize enough how important consistency is for us," he said. "That doesn't start on Friday nights. It grows day in and day out, rep in and rep out. We have to establish it everywhere on the team."
Senior running back Skylor Clinton has been consistently outstanding. On the first play of the game, he sprinted 69 yards along the left sideline for a touchdown. In the second quarter, he made the game a blowout with scoring runs of 20 and 38 yards and an 87-yard kickoff return for a TD.
"Our linemen really opened the holes for all of us," said Clinton, who was hardly touched on all four of his touchdowns. Junior running back Justin Castro raced 55 yards for a score in the second period when the Badgers scored 28 unanswered points to take a 46-3 lead at halftime.
"They've [Clinton and Castro] developed into a two-headed monster for us," Collett said.
Clinton gained all of his 172 rushing yards in the first half on just 12 carries, some of them out of the wildcat formation when the ball is snapped directly to the running back instead of the quarterback. Castro finished with 93 yards on eight rushes.
"I'm an Arizona State guy," Collett laughed, "so I like to call that formation something other than wildcat [University of Arizona's nickname]. It's a big part of our offense."
In three starts, Clinton has rushed for 470 yards (156.7 average per game). He is averaging 13.1 yards per carry and has scored nine touchdowns. Castro has 220 yards on the ground with an 8.7 average per rush.
Collett had high praise for the Badgers' special teams, which produced 12 points against the Roughriders. In the opening quarter, Elijah Smith, a 6-foot 5-inch senior, blocked his second punt this season, and teammate Zane Galpin scooped it up and raced 26 yards to give the Badgers an 18-0 cushion.
"That was the fourth blocked punt of Elijah's career," Collett said. "We work really hard on it. He ran to a spot rather than to the ball. That's what we teach. He has a real knack for blocking kicks."
Prescott's defense stifled the visitors, who ended up with 0 yards net rushing and 90 yards passing. The Badgers sacked Roughrider quarterback Henry Smalls three times and picked off a pair of interceptions by Austin Mengarelli and Ivan Teskey.
The Badger reserves played most of the second half, adding 10 points on a 64-yard scamper by Marco DiMaria and Daniel Habecker's 26-yard field goal, his second of the game.
The Badgers will open their Section 4 season at home next Friday against Flagstaff, which handed Prescott a heartbreaking 2-point loss last season.
"They are very sound fundamentally," Collett said. "I was very impressed by their schemes. It will be a big challenge for us."
And, Collett hopes, a less topsy-turvy ride for the Badgers.


Regional councillor: "there's a sheriff in town"
My wife gave herself a special present when she retired at Christmas – even though she's not eligible for the pension until later this year – in order to study full-time.
While that's a shock to our cashflow, it helps, given the appallingly low rates even good early childhood educators earn, that we're used to getting by on the smell of an oily rag. And I suppose I can afford to lose some weight.
Still, it's bucking the trend, as more seniors are continuing to participate in the labour force until well past 65. The 25 per cent doing so now will grow to 30 per cent within 10 years, as the population continues to age.
But as much as we've (mostly) enjoyed various tiddlers romping about our home for 15 years, we found ourselves sighing in relief that those days are over. Now all we have to worry about is the onslaught of grandchildren.
Part of that relief is this "not getting any younger" business taking its toll. I take my hat off to the hardy folk still doing regular work well into their 70s or even 80s, although the labour market is increasingly distorted by them doing so.
But while there may be an argument for "stepping aside" to let younger people take up their positions, an ageing population is a natural trend.
And it's not the "baby boomers" driving this demographic change; it's good health care reducing the death rate while the birth rate is also falling.
Statistics show the only segment of citizenry growing strongly is the over-65s. Every other band is more-or-less static.
Because we're living longer, in the 20 years between 2016 and 2036 the number of seniors will grow from 711,000 to 1,258,000, an increase of 77 per cent. Within that, numbers of over 80s will increase by 130 per cent and over-95s by 150 per cent.
Moreover the projected average lifespan of children born in 2014 is 90 years for boys and 93 for girls. So it's not a "boom then bust" scenario; the age-posts have shifted significantly, and society must adjust to this long-life reality.
One of those adjustments is around what it means to retire; in particular, the choices people have for continued enjoyment of life coupled with adequate provision of care, when needed.
Currently there is a dearth of choice for folk who reach the stage (voluntarily or otherwise) of deciding they need the security of a "common interest" set-up for their remaining years.
The corporate retirement village business has boomed to the point it often appears the only option. There are at least 17 corporate retirement villages in Hawke's Bay, with four more being built.
Sure, they have all the facilities you might need, and some people are perfectly happy spending their life savings for a "right to occupy" a unit in one, but frankly I can think of few worse fates than winding up in a corporate box with neighbours I don't know from Adam and a fee schedule that constantly drains my bank account on the pretext of obtaining "security" before I die.
Many still-productive folk are opting for the lifestyle block retirement – a surge in such sales in CHB is driven by them – but on a one-family basis that choice is health-limited.
We need better options. One movement providing some is so-called "intentional co-housing", where a group looks to create their own mini-village.
What that requires is for our councils to acknowledge the realities of a retired but still able population and support multiple dwellings on rural land for retirement purposes.
That's a district plan "tweak" we could all benefit from.


Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) still assigns dynamic addresses for IPv4 networks, but two newer protocols – SLAAC and DHCPv6 – are vying to do the job for IPv6.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is the standard way network administrators assign IP addresses in IPv4 networks, but eventually organizations will have to pick between two protocols created specifically for IPv6 as the use of this newer IP protocol grows.
DHCP, which dates back to 1993, is an automated way to assign IPv4 addresses, but when IPv6 was designed, it was provided with an auto-configuration feature dubbed SLAAC that could eventually make DHCP irrelevant. To complicate matters, a new DHCP – DHCPv6 – that performs the same function as SLAAC was independently created for IPv6.
Deciding between SLAAC and DHCPv6 isn’t something admins will have to do anytime soon, since the uptake of IPv6 has been slow, but it is on the horizon.
DHCP is widely used within enterprise networks today to quickly, automatically and efficiently provide leased or temporary IP addresses to end users, rather than fixed or static ones. When leases expire, the IP addresses go back into a pool of assignable addresses to be leased again.
It also automatically configures other network information, like DNS, the domain name system that matches the website names that people type into a search box with the actual IP address of the site. It can also provide related configuration information like subnet mask and default gateway.
Essentially, DHCP configures a network host so that it can communicate fully on the IP network.
DHCP eliminates problems that might occur if IP addresses are assigned manually, such as configuration errors or two devices getting the same address. Without DHCP, network admins would have to manually track down unused addresses and un-assign them in order to get them back into the pool of available addresses. With DHCP, that happens automatically when the lease expires.
Now that everyone has multiple mobile devices, DHCP has become even more necessary. Manually assigning IP addresses in an environment in which employees were constantly moving from one network to another would be impractical.
DHCP’s ability to dynamically assign IP addresses for fixed lengths of time also provides for an efficient allocation of available IP addresses. This has become particularly important as companies try to stretch their existing inventory of IPv4 addresses.
From a management perspective, DHCP allows network managers to control which devices and which people can get an IP address and which can’t. And it provides visibility into IP address usage in the event that an audit or report is requested.
Of course, not all devices should be configured through DHCP. For example, you don’t want network printers to be getting new IP addresses all the time, forcing end users to update their printer settings, so in that case a static address is preferable.
The only downside is that the requisite DHCP server constitutes a single point of failure, since if the server goes down, nobody can access the Internet.
DHCP works with the same type of handshake model familiar to network administrators.
A DHCP client device that wants to access the Internet sends a broadcast packet called DHCP DISCOVER to the DHCP server on the LAN segment.
The DHCP server receives the DISCOVER packet and responds with a DHCP OFFER packet, offering IP addressing information.
If the client receives the DHCP OFFER packets from multiple DHCP servers, the first OFFER packet is accepted. The client then responds by broadcasting a DHCP REQUEST packet, asking for network parameters from the DHCP server.
The DHCP server then approves the lease with a DHCP ACK packet, which includes the lease duration and other configuration information.
IPv6 was intentionally designed to allow stateless IP address autoconfiguration (SLAAC). When stateless autoconfiguration is deployed, the host essentially grabs its own IP address with no need for an additional protocol like DHCP.
With SLAAC, the IPv6 network listens for a Router Advertisement (RA) from the host and then assigns a 64-bit prefix. The last 64 bits of the address are derived in a process in which the host device essentially self-determines its address.
Both use a client/server model and both use the concept of leasing IP addresses. Both use the same four-message exchange between client and server. With DHCP for IPv4 networks, the messages are DISCOVER/OFFER/REQUEST/ACKNOWLEDGE and with DHCPv6 it’s SOLICIT/ADVERTISE/REQUEST/REPLY. Both protocols provide DHCP options to the end node to provide additional information.
The differences are that DHCPv6 uses Unique Identifiers, while DHCP uses MAC addresses to identify the client. DHCP messages are transmitted over IPv4 packets and DHCPv6 is transmitted over IPv6 packets. DHCPv6 uses Router Advertisement (RA) and IPv6 multicast messages and DHCP uses broadcast IPv4 messages on the LAN. DHCP for IPv4 can provide the default gateway IP address to the client, whereas DHCPv6 does not have this option.
When the IETF came up with IPv6 in anticipation of the world running out of IPv4 addresses, it may have envisioned a smooth transition. But, as we know, adoption of IPv6 has been extremely slow.
World IPv6 Day occurred back in 2011 and today only 25% of all Internet-connected networks advertise IPv6 connectivity. According to Google, 49 countries deliver more than 5% of their traffic over IPv6 and another 24 countries have IPv6 traffic exceeding 15%. According to Alexa, of the top 1,000 Websites only 28% are working with IPv6. That’s up from 23% in 2017, but it means that the vast majority of organizations are still on IPv4.
To further complicate matters, the original SLAAC protocol didn’t include automatic DNS, which meant network managers would have needed SLAAC for IP addresses on top of DHCPv6 for DNS services. Requiring both protocols made no sense and the IETF eventually rectified that situation.
Then there are the all-too-familiar turf battles and religious wars. For example, Android refuses to support DHCPv6, and until the Windows 10 Creator Update, Microsoft didn’t support SLAAC.
So, what’s an enterprise network manager to do?
Well, if you’re running IPv4, then there is no issue; stick with DHCP. But be aware that you’re going to have to move to IPv6 eventually.
If you’re running a dual-stack environment, with both IPv4 and IPv6, then it probably makes sense to use DHCP and DHCPv6. This gives you the most consistency and control over your environment.
If you have moved to an all-IPv6 network and you have no restrictions on who can join the network, then SLAAC is the best option.
Another way of looking at it is that SLAAC is a more lightweight protocol. It allows hosts to join the network on their own, but it doesn’t provide the management layer and auditing capabilities that DHCPv6 offers.


On a rooftop parking lot in Coral Gables, Fla., with temperatures in the low 50s, a crowd of all ages shimmied and shook, sweated and smiled as DJ Francis played an eclectic mix of dance music.
But this wasn't just another wild South Florida party. It was a special Zumba class for charity, led in January by the creator of the global craze, Alberto "Beto" Perez.
The charismatic Colombian in cargo pants — who has become a rock star in the fitness world — climbed onto the roof of a Chevy minivan that doubled as a stage. He demonstrated salsa steps, the merengue march and many other Latin-inspired dance moves — all while also cuing the drummer and bongo player.
For an hour, 75 of his adoring fans — and even the minivan — moved to the beat.
"Everybody loves it; everybody has fun," Perez said while posing for pictures with his Zumba faithful, some having traveled from as far as Canada.
Two days later, Perez flew to New York to appear on the morning television show "Live! with Kelly."
"You must be so rich by now," host Kelly Ripa gushed to Perez, 41.
Perez's Zumba classes, with the motto "Ditch the Workout, Join the Party," were strictly a South Florida phenomenon 10 years ago.
Today, Zumba Fitness has become the world's largest branded fitness program, with about 12 million people taking Zumba classes weekly at 110,000 locations in at least 125 countries, said company spokeswoman Allison Robins.
The private company won't reveal information about its finances, but Zumba Fitness' empire appears to be flourishing. It is doing so on the strength of a growing army of certified instructors who spread the Zumba gospel to such distant outposts as Iceland, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and even Afghanistan — at the Kabul Community Center.
Zumba instructor Liz Ramirez, a U.S. Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in an email that she teaches classes in the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy compound that was attacked in September.
"In an environment like this, Zumba has been my lifeline," Ramirez said. "It provides me with a creative outlet … a needed balance to the challenges and demands of the workplace. The music is upbeat and the environment is supportive."
And you don't have to be in a war zone to need a stress reliever.
Florida Keys attorney Dorothy Harden discovered Zumba classes a few months ago and is hooked.
"It feels like exercise because you are sweating, but it's so much fun you forget you're exercising," she said. "You get your inner-dance on. And now I can fit into my clothes from college."
Many fitness crazes have come and gone: barefoot running, hula hooping, Nordic tracks and strip aerobics, once a favorite of Carmen Electra. Staying power is tough in the ever-evolving fitness industry.
John Figarelli, founder of the National Fitness Hall of Fame Museum and author of "The History of Fitness: Fads, Gimmicks and Gadgets," said: "I think the owners of Zumba did a great job of getting it going from a business standpoint."
Zumba Fitness does not charge gyms to carry its classes. Instead, it trains instructors and gives them the license and use of the trademark if they join the Zumba Instructor Network.
"We're helping the instructors to become entrepreneurs and make a living out of it," said company co-founder Alberto Aghion, a Florida International University alum who last year entered the school's Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
It's a sound strategy, said Figarelli, whose book covers 100 years of working out, from 1900 to 2000.
"Most group exercise instructors will just go with the next popular class. But if Zumba is your business, instructors will stay with that."
Ensuring instructors are successful has become the company's main mission.
"We have three people who all they do is call up gyms all day and try to find instructors employment," said company co-founder Alberto Perlman.
The company has made Zumba instructors easy to find, with a worldwide listing that includes all of their network instructors' classes regularly updated on the company's website.
Instructors also receive new music and choreography about every two months. The music department now creates music just for Zumba classes, with original songs that include "Zumbalicious," "Que Te Mueve" and "Caipirinha," which was a No. 1 song in Israel.
Zumba Fitness makes its money on its instructors' academy, instructors' courses, a monthly fee for instructors in the network and on all of its branded merchandise.
The company has built its own line of hip, colorful clothing and footwear, workout DVDs, two video games, original music and a lifestyle magazine, Z-Life.
The first Zumba Fitness video game came out in 2010 and was a big success, selling more than 4 million copies — and outperforming Harry Potter's new video game. "One headline said, 'Harry Potter and magic can't vanquish Zumba,'" Perlman said.
International music stars Pitbull and Wyclef Jean have seen the value of the Zumba loyalists and their love of music. Both performed at Zumba's national convention last year in Orlando, Fla., where 7,000 instructors from around the world congregated.
This was not the business model when Zumba Fitness was founded in 2001 in Aventura, Fla., by the "three Albertos" — creator Perez and boyhood friends Perlman and Aghion, both entrepreneurs in their mid-20s and natives of Colombia.
The trio's original plan was simple: produce VHS workout tapes of Perez's popular South Florida classes to sell around the country on infomercials.
The biggest problem for Zumba these days is counterfeiting, piracy and protecting its trademark.
"We are spending seven figures on fighting this," Perlman said. "Counterfeiting is crazy. We see illegal instructors all the time."
Clark writes for the Miami Herald/McClatchy.


Will The Wave soon vanish from Nationals Park?
If you've gone to a sporting event at any point in your life, chances are you've either participated in, or looked on in disapproval at, The Wave.
The rhythmic stand-up, sit-down, arm-raising cheer has been an off-and-on presence at many baseball stadiums since the early 1980s, and Nationals Park has been no exception.
But now, a group of Nationals fans has had enough, and they're circulating an mock online petition to stop the wave at the Navy Yard ballpark.
As with most petitions, it has picked up steam with the help of a handful of fans on Twitter (#KillTheWave, if you're interested). But the blog Nats101 has been ground zero for the marshaling effort. Nats101 Editor in Chief Frank Lattuca has written that the aim of the movement is education, not punishment.
"No one wants anyone put in jail, or thrown out of Nationals Park (or at least, not really) for doing/starting the wave," Lattuca wrote on the blog earlier this week. "We frankly don’t have the time or energy to try and convince the Nationals or anyone else to put some official stop to it ... The hope (at least our hope) is that if enough people 'get it' and don’t want to do the wave, the wave won’t happen on the park [on] its own."
Anti-wave partisans have at least one backer in a Nats uniform. Reliever Ryan Mattheus went on the record late in the 2012 season, calling The Wave, "the worst thing in sports." Mattheus' staff mates have not been quite as strident in their criticism. However, the movement endures.
"I’m not a fan of banning forms of expression," Lattuca wrote, "but I do think that not all forms of expression need to be, well, um, expressed?"


The story has continued with the pair of mating wild swans who call Mill Creek on the Chelsea/Revere line their home.
The male swan, Gus, arrived at the Creek nearly two years ago, and neighbors on the Chelsea and Revere side befriended the swan (or maybe it was the swan that befriended them).
In any case, Chelsea resident Patricia Buckley has taken to observing and feeding the swans for quite some time.
She and others were very surprised last fall when Gus left his cushy home for about two weeks, only to return with a female.
Soon the pair had mated and, since late May, the female has kept a tidy nest of swan eggs just yards away from the parking lot at the Cronin Skating Rink.
Those eggs hatched earlier this month, with two of the five eggs becoming viable new swans – as shown here.
Sad to say, though, it appears that water rats killed one of the baby swans, and the other appears to have drown. Rats also destroyed the remaining three swan eggs.


Mya was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa with a degree in Telecommunications and Film with a minor in Psychology. There she interned for two years at the local station in Tuscaloosa WVUA-23 where she learned to edit stories, report, shoot video, and produce.
Becoming a reporter has been a dream of Mya’s since the 4th grade. She’s always loved news and began watching her favorite reporters very early. Mya is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
When she’s not working on stories she enjoys anything involving good food, spending time with her family, friends, loved ones, and her sweet Maltipoo named Marley.
Eddie Clayton is claiming self-defense after shooting and killing Robert Lockhart at a family gathering during the summer of 2017.
A community organization based in metro-Atlanta traveled down to the Chattahoochee Valley to help honor a man tragically killed in an accident involving a dump truck.
33-year-old Curtis Williams pleaded not guilty to the murder of Stanford Jones, who was found shot to death in his living room last summer.
Thursday marks the third and final day of the Best Mortar Competition at Fort Benning, making today their last chance to put the pedal to the metal with live fires.


The networking veteran and Akamai Technologies team up to provide Web content-delivery services and technology to their mutual customers.
Novell and Akamai Technologies are teaming up to provide Web content-delivery services and technology to their mutual customers, the companies said Monday.
As part of the agreement, the networking veteran will combine Akamai's Akamaizer Web content-delivery software with its Novell Internet Caching System (ICS) and Novell Content Exchange technology.
Novell also plans to offer Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services to its customers for the delivery of multimedia content, while Akamai will offer the combined products and services to its customers as well, the companies said in a joint statement.
Novell has been struggling of late. The Provo, Utah-based software company recently said it will slash about 900 jobs, cutting its work force by about 16 percent. The company, which has suffered from three quarters of lackluster sales, also said it will take a fourth-quarter restructuring charge of up to $50 million.
In an effort to regain momentum, Novell last month launched its first-ever nationwide television ad campaign, which touts the company's ability to give customers "The Power to Change."
In another attempt to find new sources of revenue, Novell has made moves in the burgeoning Linux marketplace. Just last month, the company signed a deal with Red Hat, a leading seller of Linux software packages, which will use Novell's NDS eDirectory and DirXML software for its Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network is a secure Internet service for managing networks of Red Hat Linux systems.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai provides services and technology for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media and applications.


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Prostate cancer does not develop overnight. It can take years of cells dividing before a normal cell becomes a cancerous cell. The cell first undergoes very small changes in which it becomes slightly abnormal or atypical, as seen under a microscope. It may also begin to divide, grow more quickly, and develop some abnormal characteristics (dysplasia). Then, over the years the cells and glandular structures continue to change, become more abnormal-looking, and finally cancerous.
Cancer cells are initially confined within the prostate ducts and glands (in situ cancer), but with time the cells develop the ability to invade out of the ducts and into the blood and lymphatic system (an invasive cancer).
Unfortunately, it is not possible to detect one or a few abnormal cancer cells. At present, technology is only capable of detecting a small lump or mass of cancer cells that may have been growing slowly for several years. By the time a cancer can be detected as a lump, it contains roughly one billion cells.
By far the most common type of prostate cancer is that which originates within the tiny glands of the prostate itself. This type of glandular cancer is called an adenocarcinoma. Many cases are detected by a careful digital rectal examination of the gland during a routine medical examination.
As with all other types of cancer, an adenocarcinoma starts as a single mutant cell that grows and multiplies to involve increasing amounts of the prostate. If left untreated, the cancer cells will eventually go through the capsule of the gland and find their way into lymph nodes, bones, or other tissues. This may occur early on in the growth of this cancer, or it may take many years to occur. Sometimes, cancer cells may escape from the prostate into blood or lymph vessels even before the tumour has become large enough to penetrate outside the capsule. The behaviour or personality of any particular prostatic adenocarcinoma is locked up in the genetic code of its mutant cells.
How common is prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer has become the most common cancer affecting North American men, accounting for about 24% of all newly diagnosed cancers and 4141 deaths in Canada in 2015.
The increased incidence during the past 2 decades is due to several factors. First, men are now living longer so they are at risk of getting prostate cancer, or any other disease, over a longer period of time. Second, because physicians now have a better understanding of prostate cancer they are performing more rectal examinations and are using diagnostic tools such as PSA and transrectal ultrasound more often to detect the cancer early.
Therefore, part of the apparent increase in prostate cancer is due to the fact that it is simply being diagnosed more often instead of going undetected. However, there are likely other, as yet undefined, reasons contributing to the increasing number of cases.


Atlas Air Flight 3591 black box.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is suspecting pilot error in the Atlas Air Flight 3591, which crashed on February 23 in Texas, killing all three on board.
The plane was carrying US Postal Service and Amazon cargo.
Several pilots told Business Insider that the pilot's actions that the NTSB reported happening were unusual.
Inspectors with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) suspect that pilot error — not aircraft malfunctions — led to the deadly Atlas Air crash on February 23, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. All three people on board died in the crash.
The NTSB said on March 5 that the Boeing 767-300 cargo jet entered some turbulence shortly before the plane's crash landing. Then, the engines increased to maximum thrust, after which the airplane pitch turned slightly up. That "startled the cockpit crew," The Journal reported, citing several sources familiar with the details.
The crew then tried to push the nose of the plane down. At a 49-degree angle, this caused an unusually steep descent, The Journal reported.
The NTSB said the plane accelerated to 495 mph as it dropped. The crew pulled the plane up to a 20-degree angle. Ultimately, in the last 18 seconds of the plane's descent, the crew lost control of the plane, the NTSB said.
The plane then nosedived into a muddy bay some 30 miles southeast of Houston George Bush International Airport.
An NTSB spokesman told The Associated Press that the agency is still investigating why the plane underwent a sharp change in pitch.
Pilots told Business Insider that the actions taken during the flight were "perplexing" and not akin to typical flight maneuvers.
"I can't imagine," a pilot and former aviation-safety officer in the US military told Business Insider. "It sounds so off to me — totally counter to my instincts and training. I'd kick the autopilot and auto throttles off pretty darn fast."
"Obviously, going 49 degrees nose down is beyond a radical move," Todd Curtis, a former Boeing safety engineer who runs AirSafe.com, told The Associated Press. "That's not something an airplane should be doing, especially at that altitude."
Robert Sumwalt, the NTSB's chairman, predicted it would take more than a year of work to determine the cause of the crash, Flying magazine reported.
"This seems to be very much a mystery," Sumwalt said, according to the magazine. "But the NTSB has 52 years of experience solving such mysteries, and I'm confident we will get to the bottom of this."
Atlas Air pilots Capt. Ricky Blakely and First Officer Conrad Jules Aska, as well as Mesa Airlines Capt. Sean Archuleta, who was riding in the jump seat, died in the crash.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been affected," Bill Flynn, Atlas Air's CEO, said in a statement on February 24. "This is a sad time for all of us. Our team continues to work closely with the NTSB, the FAA and local authorities on the ground in Houston. We would like to commend the efforts of all of the first responders. We sincerely appreciate their efforts and support in the investigation."


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Kevin Durand Talks Dark Was the Night and The Strain!


Ever since Predator used its iconic heat vision to hunt down its enemies, we’ve been waiting for the technology to become more accessible. Now that same type of thermal imaging, previously left only to expensive technical equipment, has finally made its way to your mobile phone. Seek Thermal is small camera you attach to your Android or iOS phone to view temperatures around you.
The camera displays an image that looks something like night vision, but it’s detecting heat and can do so whether its day or night. There’s no doubt the capability is extremely cool (pun intended), but is it necessary? At $200, it should probably have an intended task at time of purchase—rather than just being a new toy.
The camera is a small phone accessory which, on newer iOS devices, can be positioned forwards or backwards because the Lightning connector works both ways. On Android devices, MicroUSB means it only fits one direction, and if you have one of the few specific Android phones you’ll need another adaptor to make the camera face away from you.
Out of the box, it snapped onto the bottom of my iPhone and—after downloading the app—I was immediately able to look at the different temperatures around my living room.
There’s a very audible clicking noise that comes from the thermal camera. It’s so prominent that I did a quick search on the company’s website to see if they mention the noise. The good news is that the clicking is normal though still slightly annoying—the sound is the camera continually re-calibrating itself.
Once you know the device isn’t broken, the noise is less worrying and quickly fades from consciousness. The only issue is that your chances are slim if you had hoped on sneaking up on people in the dark.
Considering one of the only ways to use your phone for thermal imaging is either FLIR or Seek, the latter is definitely the least obtrusive way. I haven’t tested FLIR, but Seek put up some pretty great results from a tiny device.
As a nice bonus, the camera also comes with a small hardshell case which is ideal for traveling. Having it protected in a small case means I would be more likely to throw it in a bag or bring it along, just in case.
The accompanying Seek app is a required part of the experience. There’s no surprise here, most the time hardware accessories need specific first-party apps to work. Also not surprising is that like most other companies focused on a hardware product, the app—or software side—isn’t very good.
Bottom line, the app is fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong or broken with it, which is no small feat in and of itself, but it’s just not anything special. For one, it’s not optimized for the new iPhone 6 yet, but hopefully that will change soon. More importantly, the app just leaves a lot to be desired in terms of design.
The first time you open the app a navigation overlay pops up letting you know what all the buttons do. It means well, but the thermal imaging experience is so foreign that the tutorial either gets ignored or doesn’t make sense until the user has played with it.
Fortunately, the app isn’t very complicated. On the main screen you can either take a picture of what you’re seeing or you can record a video of it. Clicking on the icon in the lower right hand corner gives a few other modes to monitor your surroundings. There’s one for spot temperature, high/low differential, and threshold, where you can specify above, equal to, or below certain temperatures.
The spot temperature gives you a readout for the average around whatever the camera is pointed at. The high/low mode provides two temperatures on screen where it is the highest and lowest. The threshold mode allows for more control over what you can see and the ability to dial in custom monitoring.
Throughout all modes and the entire app, the user can also choose different color palettes. None of the choices are obvious better than the others and mostly depend on personal preference and the viewing circumstance.
Viewing the different color choices, I began searching for an option that provided the most clarity, which highlighted one of the biggest possible issues with Seek. Thermal imaging can give off the impression of night vision, but it’s clearly not. If there aren’t items around of fairly distinct temperatures, you only see fuzzy smears of what’s in front of you—which can be disappointing, though not incorrect.
Also, keep in mind that the device does use a good amount of power from your phone so aimlessly walking around looking at heat, might not be the best use case.
Seek gives some examples of why you might want need to see heat. One is security, being able to see a person’s body heat in the dark. Another reason is for energy, to see where heat is escaping a room or house. There’s also some DIY reasons like clogged pipes. These examples probably aren’t regular enough uses to justify the price. There are lots of uses for thermal imaging, I just couldn’t come up with many.
It was neat to see that my TV cabinet was giving off lots of heat, even though the TV wasn’t being used. Seeing that the modem and router were warm while the Apple TV stayed cool was interesting, though again not necessary.
This useful superpower, like the Predator had, has its drawbacks. Which doesn’t take anything away from Seek, it just means that you should have a heat related matter you plan on using Seek to assist with.
Seek is an awesome tool. It worked as advertised—though I couldn’t figure out how to see the studs in the wall like is mentioned. The only concern is that the device definitely needs a specific use, even just one, for the person buying it to get their money’s worth.
Chalk accessible thermal imagining up to living in the future. It’s a wonderful piece of technology anyone can now own, the question still remains: Do you really need to see temperatures around you? If the answer is yes, you now have a pretty good option.


[facebook url="https://www.facebook.com/WhatWouldDanielDo/videos/423872714403966/" /] The family of Daniel Barden, who was seven years old when he was shot and killed exactly three years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School, honored his memory when they posted an emotional video this morning.
Daniel’s father, Mark Barden, along with Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan in the attack that killed 26 people, are founders and managing directors of Sandy Hook Promise, an activist group they formed with other parents in the aftermath of the 2012 tragedy in which 26 people were killed.
Mark visits schools to discuss violence prevention, and always carries a photo of Daniel.
The website shares a touching anecdote about a child with special needs in Daniel’s class who he went out of his way to speak with. “I know she can’t talk, but I know she can hear me,” Daniel said.
The next year, they were placed in the same class.


Engage an attorney to assist in drafting your agreement.
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4 Can a Joint Owner Mortgage a Property Without Consent of the Other Owner?
Joint ownership agreements allow prospective owners to articulate exactly how they intend to collaboratively purchase and maintain their property. A well-executed joint ownership agreement can serve to guide owners over their years of property ownership or make prospective property owners realize that they are not prepared to own property with another person.
A co-ownership agreement can set the conditions for the purchase of a piece of property. Because the purchase will be made by multiple people, it is a good idea to determine the parties that will be responsible for the mortgage and when those parties will begin to seek financing. The parties seeking financing can use the timeline to ensure that their credit is in good enough condition to qualify them for a loan. Establishing a timeline for purchasing property also informs members to the agreement of when they need to find a real estate agent to assist with locating the prospective property.
Your co-ownership agreement must articulate who the co-owners are and how they will hold title to the property. Joint owners may hold the property as "tenants in common" or as "joint tenants." Tenants in common own the property severally and each owner may dispose of the property as she wishes. Joint tenants each own an undivided share of the property and frequently enjoy a right of survivorship. Owners holding property as joint tenants with a right of survivorship automatically absorb the undivided interest of a co-owner when she dies.
The purchase price is only the first in a long list of costs associated with property ownership. An ownership agreement may set out who is responsible for recurring costs such as property taxes, association fees and utilities, and when they are to be paid. The agreement may also specify the parties responsible for general maintenance and emergency repairs. If the agreement is detailed enough, then it may also provide direction for what to do if one of the parties fails to live up to their contractual obligations.
If all goes well with the purchase of your property it will, over time, accrue equity. Do not neglect to include a provision in your co-ownership agreement detailing when, if ever, equity should be taken out of your property and how it will be allocated. If your co-ownership agreement allows for a cash-out refinance or a second mortgage, then it is imperative that the agreement also name the owners who are permitted to further encumber the property. Should your agreement call for the sale of the property rather than a refinance, then it should state when and how the property may be disposed of.
Evans, Jerome. "Joint Ownership Property Agreements." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/joint-ownership-property-agreements-80966.html. 02 December 2018.
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Decorah, Ia. – President Obama defended his compromises with Republicans and delivered a tongue lashing Monday to politicians who try to roadblock every move from his administration for the sake of making political hay.
“You know what? You guys didn’t send us there to be thinking about our jobs. You sent us there to be thinking about your jobs,” Obama said to a town hall meeting of about 600 people while standing in front of a red barn at Seed Savers Exchange, a nonprofit group that preserves heirloom plants.
Monday marked the first of three days Obama will spend in the Midwest. He’ll also stop in Peosta today and make several stops in his home state of Illinois on Wednesday.
The tour is focusing on how to help the middle class and accelerate job growth, typical topics for presidential trips. Obama Monday advocated for renewal of a 2 percent cut in payroll tax for workers and for an extension of unemployment benefits, which both expire Dec. 31.
But his opponents called the tour a taxpayer-funded campaign trip.
Republicans launched a tour of their own Monday called “Obama’s debt-end tour.” It includes web ads, videos and text messages to residents of the states he is visiting to remind people of what Republicans say are Obama’s economic failures.
“We’re not going to stand idly by while this president perpetrates this fraud of a bus tour while using taxpayer dollars to spin his failure to put America back to work,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Monday.
Obama faces challenging economic headwinds that range from the first-ever downgrade in the nation’s credit rating from Standard & Poor’s to 500-point or more market swings last week to concerns that the global market’s volatility signals another downturn like the one that began in 2008, before he took office.
Obama’s staff points to steps the administration has taken to improve the economy.
Last week, for example, the Federal House Administration began seeking input from investors about an idea to convert into rental units some of the 248,000 foreclosed homes that have government-controlled mortgages through companies like Fannie Mae. Empty homes contribute to depressed housing prices, and occupancy could help stabilize neighborhoods, federal officials said.
At the town hall meeting, Obama defended the compromises he’s made, which some members of his own party have faulted. A supporter, Emily Neal, 38, of Decorah told him that his negotiating tactics seemed to have cut away at his supporters’ trust by compromising key principles. One example: He yielded on his push to end tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
Obama responded that he temporarily compromised with Republicans to allow the tax breaks for wealthy families to continue because the agreement simultaneously allowed the nation to keep tax breaks for the middle class and extend unemployment benefits. Not keeping the other tax breaks would have further devastated the economy, he said.
“I know it’s frustrating, because the other side is unreasonable and you don’t want to reward unreasonableness,” Obama said. “I get that, but sometimes you’ve got to make choices in order to do what’s best for the country at that particular moment.” Obama’s approval rating in Iowa is at 49 percent, according to a Gallup Survey released Aug. 8. Iowa is important to Obama’s re-election because it’s been a swing state in recent presidential elections. Nationally, his approval is at 39 percent, the lowest since he took office, according another Gallup Survey released Sunday.
“He knows that this is a state that he must carry if he is to win his second term,” said Matt Strawn, Republican Party of Iowa chairman. “So make no mistake this visit has everything to do with politics and very little to do with policy.” Congress suffers from poor poll ratings, too. A CNN poll released earlier this month showed that just 14 percent of respondents approve of the way Congress is handling its job.
In Iowa Monday, Obama did what he’s done in recent days: Attempt to redirect voter angst from himself to Republicans in Congress. He has reminded Americans that the United States nearly defaulted on some of its $14.3 trillion of debt earlier this month because of political gridlock. Standard & Poor’s cited that intense bickering as a key factor in the nation’s credit rating downgrade.
Obama has a difficult argument because he’s battling something called “counterfactuals,” a term to describe what would have happened otherwise, said Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the designers of the president’s health reform law.
Critics bash Obama about the economy, but those arguments fail to factor what would have happened if such things as stimulus spending or bank bailouts had not occurred, Gruber said. The auto industry, which is on its way back from near disaster, is a prime example, he said.
“Many people are saying the stimulus failed because the economy is in the tank,” Gruber said. “What president Obama needs to do is say basically what all mainstream economist believe, which is the economy would have been way more in the tank had he not done stimulus.” Obama appears vulnerable partly because of the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate. The rate was 7.8 percent when he took office in January of 2009. Other than Ronald Reagan, no president since World War II has won re-election with unemployment above 6 percent.
Fred Abraham, head of the economics department at the University of Northern Iowa, cautioned that many factors influence both the economy and re-election campaigns.
Economic downturns take a good decade to play out, he said. The blame or the glory for the economy isn’t appropriate for any president, he said.


President Trump's tariffs are introducing a new, wildly unpredictable issue into the midterm elections, thanks to their heavy impact on states with critical Senate races as well as their likely role in House races across the country.
Why it matters: This puts GOP candidates in a weird position: Speaking out against trade policy that's hurting their state or district could turn off voters who would view that as criticizing Trump. But Democrats aren't exactly free traders, and they're not piling on the president's tariffs the way they attack his other policies.
The big picture: Politically speaking, "If the Chinese blink and back down, it's a victory for Trump and a plus for Republicans," said Chris Wilson, a GOP pollster who worked on Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 campaign. "But the risk if we get into a prolonged trade war is there will be local and potentially national impacts."
What they're saying: Republican Senate candidates trying to defeat Democrats in red states that Trump won aren't going to jump at the opportunity to undermine their support of the president, despite the party's traditional free-trade ideology.
In North Dakota — one of the GOP's best pickup opportunities this cycle — Rep. Kevin Cramer has issued carefully worded statements on Trump's tariffs, emphasizing the need to protect farmers while stopping short of criticizing the president. He also accused Democrats of stoking "hysteria" over the tariffs.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, the Democrat who holds the seat now, has said the tariffs would cause a "devastating blow" to the state's agriculture sector and accused Cramer of belittling his constituents.
A similar dynamic has played out in the race for Tennessee's open Senate seat, where Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn has called the tariffs "part of a negotiation and a process," while former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen has criticized the tariffs in a TV ad.
The other side: Democrats, however, aren't all universally opposed to the tariffs. Some have always been skeptical of free trade and support the tariffs, while others say they wish Trump had executed them better.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, the caucus's campaign chair, said each member will act based on how their state is impacted. "The bottom line here is each member’s job is to defend the interests of the people in their states," he said.
"I support the president’s tariffs. I wish that they would be done better," said Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who said he's been concerned about trade policy long before Trump became president.
Others are more skeptical. “It’s already taking us down a road that’s going to have some real negative impact, particularly on agriculture and construction," said Sen. John Tester of Montana. "If I thought there was an end game here that he could actually achieve, I’d be a little less concerned."
It's not just Senate races that could be affected by the tariffs. One GOP operative said that in House seats in the Midwest, where the tariffs are starting to hit soybeans and dairy farmers, "it could be a real issue."
The operative said it could be a problem in places like Iowa's third district and Minnesota's first, which are both rated as toss-up districts by the Cook Political Report.


HONOLULU (AP)  Hundreds of swimmers who were competing in a race off Oahu had to be pulled from the ocean by rescue crews.
Kaia Hedlund, director of the 47th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim, said some swimmers couldn”t handle the strong current after the first buoy, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported (http://bit.ly/2cbWJwY ). At least 455 of the 700 people registered for Monday”s event completed the race, she said.
Those who struggled with the strong current during the 2.4-mile race were picked up and taken to shore via boat or jet ski by lifeguards, fire crews and volunteers.
Event organizers said about 200 swimmers received assistance, while Shayne Enright with the Honolulu Emergency Services Department said the number was more than 300.
There were reports of injuries during the race, including a woman who was treated by paramedics and hospitalized in serious condition after she suffered an injury on the reef. A 15-year-old swimmer was taken to the hospital by her father after she suffered an asthma attack.
The race committee had prepared for the event by hiring water patrol crews. More than 90 kayakers, paddlers and surfers were also on hand to help those too tired to make it to shore on their own.
In 2003, rescuers pulled 361 swimmers from the race because of strong currents possibly related to the passage of Hurricane Jimena near the Big Island.


The White House says US President Barack Obama is deeply concerned about a North Korean court sentencing two American journalists to 12 years in a prison camp.
Inside the camps, prisoners are forced to do hard labour and to survive on meagre rations.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested 12 weeks ago while producing a documentary on refugees fleeing the Stalinist state for Current TV, a Californian station co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore.
Taken to Pyongyang they were put on trial for illegally entering the closed Stalinist state and for unspecified hostile acts.
A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama was deeply concerned by the sentences handed out to Ms Lee and Ms Ling, adding the United States is using all possible channels to secure their release.
Pyongyang says the women illegally set foot on North Korean territory but supporters of the journalists say they were on the Chinese side of the border, and that has been backed up by their cameraman, who managed to escape.
He has backed their story that North Korean border guards arrested the pair on the Chinese side of the border.
They were detained along the Tumen River, which marks part of the border between China and North Korea.
The sentences are certain to heighten tension between the US and North Korea, which are running high after the communist regime conducted a nuclear test last month.


Summit Daily/Mark FoxXcel says it needs a new substation in the Silverthorne area, similar to this one in Frisco being worked on during a power outage last winter.
SILVERTHORNE – Xcel Energy has identified a new site for a proposed electric-power substation in the Silverthorne area. The utility says it needs the proposed facility, dubbed the Ptarmigan Substation, to meet future electricity demands and to prevent power outages in the area.
The proposed site is located on the east side of Highway 9 about a mile-and-a-half north of the Blue River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Xcel is no longer considering two previously proposed sites, at Angler Mountain Ranch and the Daley Ranch, citing issues with grading and technology requirements that would have made either site too costly, according to Xcel’s Larry Claxton.
Xcel’s Dillon and Summit substations now serve customers in the Frisco, Silverthorne, Dillon and Keystone areas. The company says electrical load growth in these areas has been steady, and it projects 2 to 3 percent annual growth in the future. Also, distribution lines serving the Silverthorne area are more than 4 miles long, contributing to a greater-than-average number of power outages there.
Xcel projects the Dillon and Summit substations will “reach capacity to reliably serve the Silverthorne area” by fall 2012, according to a public notice it issued Thursday.
“Thus, it is important to have a new electric distribution substation approved, constructed and operational within this time,” Claxton wrote in the notice.
The company will hold a public open house Aug. 12 to provide more information on the proposed project and to answer questions.
“Public input is very important to our process, so please plan to attend the upcoming open house and share this notification with others,” Claxton wrote.
Previously proposed sites for the Ptarmigan Substation drew opposition last year from some Silverthorne-area residents, calling themselves the Lower Blue Citizens Alliance, who became concerned with impacts to views, property values and the environment.
SDN reporter Julie Sutor can be reached at (970) 668-4630 or jsutor@summitdaily.com.


Is the S4 Mini a knockout?
-Yeah, I've had some miss ends with my smartphone. I've dropped it a few times when I go to the gym. -Bad things have happened to my smartphones, dropped it in the water, dropped it on the ground, the cement, you know, I've had it fly out of my pocket while I'm running. -I was running in the treadmill and I like to listen to my music while I run, so when I was moving my arms, the phone fell off and it just hit the floor and then the phone started messing [unk]. -So, if you notice I have an older Samsung phone and honestly it would be really nice to see, you know, what the newer models have and you know, in terms of durability. -So, there you have it, some true stories about fitness disasters, so I decided in that spirit that me, and the S4 Mini get a little workout today. Now, I know you've all seen this scenario, nice little workout on the treadmill, phone precariously placed, running playlist going and then, oh no, uh-oh-- that can't be good. Although, actually it seems totally fine so far. Okay, no problem. I gotta say I'm not surprised 'cause I personally have done this with my phone, I don't know, 10 to 100 times and it's been okay so far, but let's take it up a notch. Okay, am I done yet? I don't think there's nearly enough water on here. Okay, I'm just saying to add some more. It seems to be doing fine. Who wants to know if I intended to pan left to right? I'm just gonna make sure it's all the way dry on the inside, but a little water spill? Probably wanna replace your Klean Kanteen because the lid leaks all the time, but the phone is totally fine. Uh-oh-- oh, the phone is fine. Maybe we should do another step. -I think one more. -I think so too. Ooh, that seemed terrible. I guess it looks possible that I have a little more curve than I have before, but look at this thing. -It's pretty impressive. -I know. This phone is like disappointingly awesome. Look at that. No problem. Okay, well, there's only one thing to do now since we are at a kickboxing gym. All right, this phone is proving a lot tougher than I expected so we're getting a little extreme. I'm not saying that this is something that could happen in real life, I just need to know. Ready. -I'm ready. -Okay. -It's getting straight. -Nothing? -No. -I haven't even made the app go yet. -That was a good one. -Oh. -Oh. -It's okay. -I got cocky. I got cocky. -Spread the legs a little bit. Spread the legs a little bit wider, there you go. All right, now look at your apps. -Okay, so clearly I have done zero damage to that phone with my pink gloves. So, I'm gonna turn it over to our pro, Benton. All right, I'm counting on you Benton. I want you to kill this phone. Not me, just the phone. Okay, I'll be back here. Oh yeah, keep going-- next. Oh, get it. The phone hates you. The phone is selling your sneakers to the other side. Yeah-- anything? -Nothing. -One more. -Oh, are we gonna have to move to the feet? Seriously, the phone is fine. -The phone is completely fine. -It felt like an earthquake back there. Okay, it turned the camera off, but the phone is fine. Okay, that-- you know what? We're going nuclear. -One more try. -Time for the feet. -Okay. I'm ready. -I want three good kicks and if that phone doesn't die, it's the best. Okay. Oh, come on, it was on the back swing. All right, last one. -Last one. -Come on. I would not want to be the phone. Okay, let's see how it's doing. Oh, you did it. -Did I really? -Oh, yeah. -Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. -I like him getting into the spirit. He's like, "Finally." -I'm trying to break that thing all day. -I know. -All right. -Okay, so that apparently is what it takes. This phone is definitely cracked. Let's see if I can get it all to tape here. It's still coming on, don't get me wrong, but we definitely have cracked the screen a lot. Oh, it's making a little-- it's making like sad little noises but the screen no longer comes on. All right, now we know that the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini can take just about everything except for the Benton kick which no one can take ever. It's almost still a pass.


Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investors who claim they were harmed by conflicts of interest related to collateralized debt obligation transactions won permission to pursue their lawsuit as a group.
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday granted class-action status to the shareholders, saying they met legal requirements, with numerous members and claims typical of the group.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Goldman Sachs in April 2010, alleging fraud tied to CDOs that contributed to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The investment bank created and sold CDOs linked to subprime mortgages in early 2007, as the U.S. housing market faltered, without disclosing that hedge fund Paulson & Co. helped pick the underlying securities and bet against one of the vehicles, known as Abacus, the SEC claimed.
Goldman Sachs’s shares dropped about 13 percent after the lawsuit was filed. The firm paid $550 million to settle with the SEC.
Michael DuVally, a spokesman for New York-based Goldman Sachs, had no immediate comment on Thursday’s ruling.
The class certified by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty includes investors who bought stock from Feb. 5, 2007 to June 10, 2010, and were harmed.