US Still Executing Teens and Locking Kids Up for Life

The United States never misses an opportunity to castigate other countries for ?uncivilized? behavior, and certainly there is enough of that to go around almost anywhere you look in the world. But there?s plenty of it here in the U.S. too.

Just consider the case of Terry Williams.

Williams, a 47-year-old black man, has spent almost 30 years on Pennsylvania?s crowded death row while lawyers appealed his death penalty for two murders committed back when he was a 17 and 18-year old boy. Now he?s about to be killed by the state for those crimes.

At the time he was tried and convicted, although it was known to prosecutors that his two victims were adult men who had forcibly raped Williams when he was as young as 13, and that he had been a victim of sexual abuse since he was six, the jury was not informed about any of this. In recent years, a number of the 12 jurors who originally convicted him and sentenced the teenager to death have now said that had they known about the abuse he suffered ? particularly at the hands of the two men he later killed ? they would have decided the case differently, and certainly would not have voted for the death penalty. Even the wife of one of his victims has pleaded with the state to spare him.

Nevertheless, the state?s governor, Tom Corbett, a hard-on-crime Republican who, prior to being elected to the state?s top post, served as attorney general, making him the state?s top lawyer, had no hesitation in signing his death warrant earlier this month, with an Oct. 3 execution date.

The irony is that Pennsylvania has just gone through a huge ugly scandal involving the football program at its largest public university, Pennsylvania State University, where the defensive coach on the school?s nationally recognized football team, Jerry Sandusky, was found to have been raping dozens of young boys over a period of some 20 years, at least part of that time with the knowledge of the school?s athletic director and top school officials, who acted to cover up his crimes. Sandusky was tried and found guilty of multiple rapes, and could be sentenced to life in prison.

There are credible allegations that Corbett, as attorney general, ignored charges and evidence forwarded to his office that Sandusky was raping and molesting young boys at Penn State.

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 ruling, abolished execution for people convicted of murder who were 17 or younger at the time they committed their crime. At the time of that decision there were more than 70 people on the nation?s death rows who had committed their capital crimes while aged 16 or 17. Interestingly, the court majority cited ?international opinion? in partial explanation for its decision. Between 1990 and 2007, there were only seven countries that had executed someone under 18: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and China. By 2007, even those nations had put a halt to such executions.

Williams? case stands apart, because one of his two murders was perpetrated?after?he had turned 18. But the fact of his repeated abuse at the hands of both of his victims, plus his long history of sexual abuse as a child, complicates the picture, painting him clearly as a victim himself.

In most ?civilized? countries, this history of abuse would be a clear mitigating factor in determining the appropriate punishment for his crimes, and perhaps even his guilt or innocence.

Meanwhile, while no one will again be executed in the US for a murder committed under the age of 18, those who were facing death before the Supreme Court?s decision merely had their sentences converted to life in prison without possibility of parole, which many critics argue is perhaps worse than death, and which certainly is ?cruel and unusual,? particularly given modern neurological research showing that the brain and personality is still not even fully developed at the age of 18, or even 21.

In Pennsylvania alone ? a state where the concepts of mercy, compassion and understanding appear to be uniquely in short supply ?there are an astonishing 470 prisoners currently serving prison terms of life-without-chance-of-parole who committed their crimes as children. Nationwide, the figure is close to 2600. Some of these people committed their crimes when they were as young as 14. Many, we know, had suffered circumstances of neglect or abuse similar to what Terry Williams endured as a child, but had shoddy defense attorneys who failed to bring such evidence to the attention of the court and the jury, or had prosecutors who deliberately and illegally hid that evidence.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled in one such case ? that of a woman named Trina Garnett, who was convicted of setting a house fire at the age of 14 which killed two young boys ? that such permanent sentences were unconstitutional. Garnett, a low-IQ girl with diagnosed mental problems, was serving a life sentence and was 50 at the time that the court, in another 5-4 decision, granted her the right to a new sentencing hearing. All such prisoners sentenced to life in prison as children will now at least have a chance for a re-sentencing hearing.

It?s a small step towards civilized behavior in the nation that today has the highest percentage of its citizens behind bars of any country in the world.

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I just got some shocking news. His father -- age 81 -- is leaving his wife of 60 years! Mom is not entirely self-sufficient and seems dependent on him.Dad found himself a younger woman -- a "chick" of 70. He has announced that he still has sexual needs and wants to enjoy the rest of his life. My husband thinks it will be a short-term fling and he'll return to Mom, but she says she won't be taking him back. (Who knows how she'll feel later?)My problem is, no matter what happens between them, I'm having a hard time even considering forgiving him for his selfishness. ...

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How physicists can tilt the odds in roulette

If you want to beat the house at roulette, it helps to think like a physicist.

A simple model of the motion of a roulette wheel and ball, based on physics principles and confirmed by experiments on an actual wheel, has revealed two ways of overcoming the usual odds against roulette players.

The key, the modelers found, is knowing the precise location of the ball and the relative speeds of the ball and wheel when the croupier ? the casino worker in charge of the game ? sets the wheel in motion and releases the ball.

"Knowing the initial conditions allows you to beat the odds," said Michael Small, a statistician at the University of Western Australia in Perth, who carried out the study with Chi Kong Tse of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. "In some cases you can beat them quite significantly."

The simpler method the pair tested involves careful observation and recording of the initial conditions by an individual or team of players. In experiments on a roulette wheel in a laboratory, the method produced predicted earnings of almost 20 percent instead of the expected loss of about 2.7 percent for a European-style wheel. In U.S. casinos, the odds tilt further in the house's favor because the wheel contains one extra space.

The other approach, using a digital camera mounted above the wheel to obtain the same data, provided better predictions. But for gamblers it presents the obvious problem of how to conceal the equipment in a security-conscious casino.

Look for a slant
And yet another factor increased the chances of beating the house even further.

"A very slight slant in the roulette table, could ... substantially enhance returns," the two researchers reported in the journal Chaos.

Small and Tse used high-school calculus and physics ? specifically, the branch known as classical mechanics ? to develop their model. They wrote down equations to predict the path the ball would take once the croupier releases it.

"We extrapolate that prediction to the point where the ball hits one of the deflectors ? the raised bumps in the wheel's rim that are added to increase the random bouncing of the ball," Small explained. "Then we make a guess as to what portion of the wheel the ball is likely to land in."

The pair tested their model on a standard casino roulette wheel installed in Tse's laboratory. Small recorded on a computer the times at which the ball and a specific part of the roulette wheel passed a fixed point on the frame supporting the wheel.

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"You basically press a button when the ball passes a certain point and then use that timing to make a prediction," Small said.

Predicting the half of the wheel in which the ball would settle would allow a gambler to bet on a combination of numbers with some confidence.

In 22 trials, Small and Tse predicted the correct half 13 times. Overall that would have earned them 18 percent profit on a theoretical stake, they report.

"It is clear that in principle one should be able to make some predictions, given sufficient information," said Holger Dullin of the University of Sydney in Australia. "The paper by Small and Tse did a good analysis."

History of scientific roulette
The concept of using scientific understanding to beat the house isn?t new. In the late 1970s the "Eudaemons," a group of physics postgraduates, used theoretical insights and a rudimentary computer concealed in a shoe to win at roulette in Nevada in the 1970s. But since they didn?t publish their research, nobody outside their team knows the details of how they did it.

On the heels of this new research, however, J. Doyne Farmer, a group member who is now a professor of mathematics at Oxford, has written a report on the exploit that he plans to submit for publication.

"Small and Tse get some aspects of roulette prediction right," Farmer said. ?"I can?t say whether their system would work, but I'm sure it is not as good as ours."

Small and Tse extended their research by taking advantage of modern technology. They mounted a digital camera directly above their roulette wheel to obtain better measurements of the physical parameters. In 700 trials, they confirmed the validity of their model and identified certain numbers on the wheel in which the ball settled preferentially.

Strategies for both sides
The study suggests strategies for both sides of the roulette wheel.

"If you wish to beat the house, look for a wheel for which the ball drops only from one side of the rim ? that is, a crooked table," Small said. "Prediction becomes substantially simpler and more reliable."

However, Small warned that roulette "is a game of chance. Even if the odds are in your favor, there is still a probability of losing, and losing big. In the long run you would come out ahead but you may first need very deep pockets."

And Small also has some advice for casino owners.

"Train the croupiers to spin the ball when they release it, and make sure that the tables are level and the air conditioning is working," Small said, to allow for any influence of air resistance.

Small insists that his interest in gambling is purely theoretical. He has broken even in casinos by refusing to gamble there.

"On one occasion I lost $20 on cocktails," Small recalled. "And on another I gained $20, which I found on the floor."

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A former science editor of Newsweek, Peter Gwynne is a freelance science writer based on Cape Cod, Mass.

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Walgreen 4Q profit falls 55 pct, tops forecasts

Walgreen Co.'s fiscal fourth quarter net income tumbled 55 percent compared to a year ago when the drugstore operator recorded a big business sale gain.

Its adjusted earnings still trumped Wall Street expectations. But shares of the nation's largest drugstore chain fell almost 2 percent in premarket trading Friday.

The Deerfield, Ill., company's stock price had climbed more than 17 percent in the quarter.

Walgreen said Friday that it absorbed a bigger inventory-related charge in this year's quarter and another charge due to a multi-billion dollar investment in European health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots. Walgreen also took another sales hit from a split with pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co. that shifted customers away from its stores.

Overall, Walgreen earned $353 million, or 39 per share, in this year's quarter. That compares to $792 million, or 87 cents per share, a year ago.

Excluding one-time items like the charges, Walgreen earned 63 cents per share. That topped analyst expectations of 55 cents per share, according to FactSet.

Revenue fell 5 percent to $17.1 billion from $18 billion a year ago.

Walgreen runs 7,930 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam, or more than its main competitors CVS Caremark Corp. and Rite Aid Corp.

The company announced in June that it planned to branch out overseas with the Alliance Boots investment. That amounted to $4 billion in cash and more than 83 million shares for a 45 percent ownership stake in the Swiss company, which runs the largest drugstore chain in the United Kingdom. Walgreen took a 9-cents-per-share charge in the quarter from that deal.

The company also recorded a "last-in-first-out" inventory charge of 10 cents per share in this year's quarter compared to 4 cents per share last year.

LIFO is a method of accounting for inventory that assumes a company sells its newest inventory first. The company takes a credit or charge each quarter according to the anticipated inflation rate for the year.

Last year's quarter also included an after-tax gain of 30 cents per share, due to the pharmacy benefits management business sale.

Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, run prescription drug plans for employers, insurers and other clients.

Walgreen and St. Louis-based Express Scripts, the nation's largest PBM, had stopped doing business last year after months of talks failed to produce a new contract, and Walgreen's sales have dropped for several months because of this. The companies have since agreed to a new contract, but it didn't start until Sept. 15, or after the fiscal fourth quarter ended.

Walgreen rivals CVS Caremark and Rite Aid have both claimed new customers due to this stand-off, and Walgreen said it took a hit of about 6 cents per share in the quarter due to the dispute.

For the full fiscal year, Walgreen earned $2.13 billion, or $2.42 per share, on $71.63 billion in revenue.

Walgreen shares fell 72 cents, or 2 percent, to $35.88 in premarket trading.

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HostGee Launches Virtual Server Hosting with IIS 8 for Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Dallas, TX, September 28, 2012 --( PR.com )-- Microsoft officially released the highly anticipated Windows Server 2012. The newly released server operating system offers a number of features that can be utilized to benefit developers,...

Dallas, TX, September 28, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Microsoft officially released the highly anticipated Windows Server 2012. The newly released server operating system offers a number of features that can be utilized to benefit developers, resellers and businesses. On the heels of this release, Hostgee has announced the launch of its VPS Hosting product line of Windows Server 2012, deployed on its existing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2-based platform.

?Our customers are always looking for the latest and greatest solutions for their Virtual Dedicated Server,? said Arif Noor Salah, CMO at HostGee. ?By offeringWindows Server 2012-based solutions so soon after the release date, we hope to give our customers a head start against their competition, so they can take advantage of all the improvements available in the platform.?

Included in Windows Server 2012 are a number of key features that web hosting customers will find useful, including support for ASP.NET 4.5, the latest .NET Framework, IIS CPU throttling, Application Initialization which can improve time to first byte, Dynamic IP Restrictions to help prevent DoS attacks and FTP Logon attempt restriction to help prevent brute force attacks, as well as WebSocket Protocol for real-time client/server communications. Other key features include enhanced support for open standards, improved Remote Desktop and VDI, and powerful new self-service feature that extend more control to users when accessing from the Cloud.

?We have always had a great appreciation for the products that Microsoft Offers,? said Suleiman Al Obaidy, Director of Business Development, ?As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we feel it is our duty to keep in touch with new developments at Microsoft and to launch those products and services that will work well for our customers. And by participating in the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows Server 2012, we were able to get our Windows Server 2012-based solution ready and launch a competitive solution right out of the gate.?

?Microsoft is thrilled to be working with companies like HostGee,? said Peter Doulas, Business Group Lead for the Server and Tools Division within Microsoft Canada. ?There has been a lot of enthusiasm for the recent release of Windows Server 2012, largely in part to a myriad of new features that make for a richer user experience, smarter cloud computing capabilities, intuitive automation and more. In collaborating with companies like HostGee, customers can tap into the resources and technology to help transform their business.?

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Roseanne Barr on why she?s running for president: Americans ?don?t dig? our corrupt government

By Jonathan Terbush
Saturday, September 29, 2012 18:58 EDT

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Actress Roseannae Barr explained in an interview Friday with Current TV?s Cenk Uygur?that she?s still pursuing a low-profile presidential campaign because the government and both parties are bought and paid for by corporate interests, and that average Americans, ?don?t dig that.?

Saying that her biggest issue was, ?peace in the world,? Barr, who is running on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket,?attacked the political status quo a, ?duopolistic fundraising machine of the prison/military industrial complex.? In particular, she slammed the privatization of civic institutions and questioned the ?use of prison labor to boost the economy, claiming that 90% of house paint is manufactured by inmates.

?We?re exporting war, and we?re also using prison labor as our manufacturing base,? Barr said.

?They?re talking about privatizing prisons and stuff like that, well, you know I?m the legalization candidate because a lot of the people who are going to jail to make this paint are teenage working class kids and a lot of them are people of color,? she said. ?I just don?t think thats? the kind of country we want.?

Yet those problems persist because, she said, candidates from both parties are beholden to the wealthy donors who finance their campaigns, and not to the American people.

?Nobody in our country is really behind any of this, privatizing prisons and schools or any of this other stuff you get when the highest office and all of your government is for sale to the highest bidder,? she said. ?We don?t dig that.?

As for why she?s opposing Obama, Barr said her candidacy would push him in the right direction on some issues where they had disagreements.

?If I were in OBama?s positon, I would do some different things,? she said. ?And so I?m kind of running so that I can offer Obama other ideas,? she said.

Barr sought the Green Party nomination earlier this year, though the party instead picked Jill Stein to represent them in November.

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Pentagon seeks competition for sustainment of Lockheed F-35

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday moved toward opening the long-term operations and maintenance of its most expensive weapons program, the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to competition from other companies.

The move is the latest action by the Pentagon to drive down the cost of the new single-engine, single-seat warplane, whose operations and maintenance costs are currently projected to reach a staggering $1.11 trillion over the coming decades.

Last week, top Pentagon and Air Force officials publicly slammed Lockheed's performance on the new radar-evading jet, whose development and production alone are slated to cost $396 billion. The officials said they were looking at ways to introduce more competition to the program.

Lockheed and the Pentagon remain locked in protracted and tense negotiations about a fifth order of F-35 production jets - talks that have been under way for over nine months.

On Friday, the Defense Department invited companies to participate in a two-day public forum on November 14-15 on possible opportunities to compete for work managing the supply chain of the new fighter jet and providing support equipment, simulators for training and a computer-based logistics system.

It said the "industry day" was aimed at identifying "potential business sources with the resources, capabilities, and experience to successfully deliver a wide range of hardware and infrastructure services in support of F-35 ... sustainment."

In a notice published on a federal website, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said it would use information from participating companies and other market research "to refine its acquisition strategy and to evaluate alternatives that will deliver the best value, long-term F-35 sustainment solution."

"This supports the broader F-35 JPO goals of increased affordability, transparency, predictability, and accountability for sustainment costs and performance," it said in the notice posted on www.fedbizopps.gov.

Current estimates for the total cost of operating and maintaining the new warplane over the next 50 years are over $1 trillion, including inflation and projected fuel costs, although officials have said they expect to lower that cost dramatically.

Lockheed said it was the prime contractor for sustainment of the new jets at the moment, and aimed to keep that role. The company said its executives would attend the Pentagon's industry day but it remained confident that it offered the best solution for sustaining all three variants of the F-35.

Tom Burbage, executive vice president at Lockheed, said the United States and the eight countries helping to fund the new plane's development - Britain, Canada, Australia, Italy, Turkey, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands - had signed on to an agreement under which Lockheed would provide "performance-based logistics" for the new fighter plane.

"At the moment we are the prime contractor for sustainment and it's our intent to stay in that role," Burbage told Reuters, noting that Lockheed was taking care of logistics for the plane at a Florida training base, and was working to set up operational bases in California, Nevada and Arizona.

The company was also working with international partners to identify ways for their local industries to get involved in long-term sustainment of the new fighter jet, Burbage said.

"At the moment, we're heads down working sustainment very hard every day," Burbage said.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Google gives users an easy out, adds YouTube to Takeout data transfer tool

Breaking up with a web-based ecosystem is hard to do, especially when you have several gigabytes of data invested in a specific platform. However, things just got a whole lot easier for disgruntled vloggers. Google recently added YouTube to its Takeout data migration service, which now gives users the ability to pull all of their uploaded videos from the company's servers in a single stroke. This groovy tool should definitely come in handy when you're busy shopping around your latest foreign film to different movie studios. In addition to being extremely easy to use, the service will also send an email letting you know that your download has finished. Simply set it and forget it!

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Mauritius' Lux Resorts pretax hurt by financing costs

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius hotels group Lux Island Resorts posted a drop in pretax profit for the year ended June to 14.26 million rupees from 45.95 million a year before, reflecting higher finance costs, it said on Friday.

The luxury hotel group, which has properties in the Maldives and Reunion islands as well as on the Indian Ocean island itself, said occupancy rates rose by 1 percentage point to 72 percent.

Revenue increased to 3.71 billion rupees from 3.10 billion and earnings per share climbed to 0.24 rupees from 0.07, the company said in a statement.

"With regard to the current low season, we are experiencing negative growth, however management has contained costs and maximised efficiencies and we expect earnings ... to approximate that of last year," Lux said in a statement.

The results were issued after the market closed. Shares of the firm had closed the session unchanged at 15 rupees.

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Speaking Out about Public Speaking | The Two River Times

By Nancy Wade

Most high school students would recognize the plea of ?Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,? as those immortal words from Shakespeare?s tragedy Julius Caesar. When the character of Marc Antony speaks out, he uses the power of rhetoric that so distinguished educated leaders of that era. So connected were the idea of discourse in a public forum to the idea of public advocacy and justice in the courts, that the Latin word forum ultimately gave rise to the term forensics, which today can mean both evidence used in courtrooms and,?alternately, a variety of public-speaking genres.

Today?s students no longer need to travel to the stone steps of a public forum to make their voices heard. Technology now allows them to make public statements from the confines of their own bedrooms. And with tools such as Skype, iChat, videoconferencing and YouTube, students are delivering their messages to increasingly larger audiences than ever before.

The irony of this development is that, as the opportunities for students to voice their ideas have escalated dramatically during the 21st century, public speaking programs in many schools have diminished drastically.

The ancient Romans and Greeks understood that public speaking was a powerful communication tool for effective leadership, motivation, influence and persuasion. At the highest points in these venerated civilizations, the finest education available included the study of rhetoric, which meant the composing and delivery of speeches. In fact, the Roman scholar Cicero refined the concept even further, espousing that a good public speaker required more than knowledge of his topic; he needed ethos, wit and the ability to keep his audience entertained.

Throughout the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, public speaking, known as oratory, remained an integral part of a liberal arts education. After a decline in the 17th and 18th centuries, there was renewed interest in the art of public discourse during the 19th century. This revival made the art of oratory an increasingly important part of the curriculum in schools in the late 1800s. As a result, oratorical competitions became de rigueur in colleges, high schools and elementary schools across the land as educational institutions celebrated and promoted the forensics arts.

The value placed on oratory was evidenced at institutions of higher learning across our nation. Princeton University held numerous speech competitions, especially ones associated with patriotic events such as Washington?s birthday or other historic remembrances. At Harvard, oratory was a required and popular part of the curriculum for many years. One?s education was simply considered incomplete without it. The popularity of oratorical contests was noted in the New York Evening Post in February 1895 when an article on the subject stated that at the University of Indiana, ?oratory was more popular than sports.?

The 20th century emphasis on science and technology created an American culture that became less willing to finance programs in public speaking, and the word ?oratory? became part of our past, an old-fashioned term for a truly lost art. While many schools today no longer fund oratory as a curriculum area, a good number of schools continue to validate those critical?public speaking skills through extracurricular activities.

Forensics programs in some schools, for example, foster the growth of public speaking skills through interscholastic competitions. With the challenging budgets facing most schools today, these types of activities, if they exist at all, tend to be relegated to our high schools, leaving most elementary school students without formal training in public speaking until they reach the upper grades.

Teachers in elementary and middle school often work hard to include public-speaking opportunities for students in their classrooms, but the classical emphasis on oratory as an integral part of the educational process has ?become a thing of the past in most elementary schools.

The incongruity of this fact is obvious when we observe how many elementary and middle school students are expressing their opinions, thoughts and feelings on the Internet. ?With so many new digital platforms at their fingertips, students now have the power to have their voices heard around the world, and many educators will, hopefully, re-examine priorities regarding curriculum in the 21st century.

Students today more than ever before in history need the rhetorical skills that were once held in such high esteem in the classroom. Those 19th-century theories of elocution taught critical rhetorical skills that allowed students to form arguments and defend them, delivery skills like articulation and pacing, non-verbal communication skills like use of hands, eyes, and facial expressions, and, most of all, the ability to?connect with one?s audience through ethos.

We have given our students the tools needed to talk to others around the world through technology. Creating a curriculum for ?digital? oratory would now help students develop the forensics skills they need to use these new platforms to their best ability.

If Shakespeare were writing Julius Caesar today, he might very well have said, ?Friends, Romans, citizens of the world, lend me your ears.? Students in the 21st century are part of the global classroom and teaching them how to express their thoughts effectively through public speaking programs is now, more than ever before, part of our charge as their mentors.

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British Psychological Society - Job Seekers Website

Vacancy Details
Title:	Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Educational Psychology
Employer:	Massey University
Description:	School of Education Albany The College of Education is seeking to appoint a lecturer/senior lecturer in Educational Psychology/School Psychology at Massey University?s Albany Campus. This is a pivotal role in the postgraduate programme in Educational Psychology (School Psychology). The role includes research, doctoral and masters supervision, teaching and service. Applicants must show that they have an appropriate research platform and will continue to develop a sustained record of highly quality published research. Candidates must demonstrate that they have the ability to provide quality teaching and supervision experiences for students. The candidate must have an earned doctorate in educational psychology/school psychology, a credential as a licensed psychologist working with children and families. You will work as part of a team committed to research-based professional education and the building of professional links with external stakeholders. Closing date: 13 November 2012 Reference number: A296-12SF For further information and to apply online, visit: http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz
Working Hours:	Full-time
Salary:	[not specified]
Location:	Overseas
Closing Date:	13/Nov/2012
Address Details
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Further Details
Contact Name:	School of Education Albany
Website Address:	http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz

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EKNL ? Motoring 18% higher showing ... - Penny Stocks Investing

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Facebook stops asking you to snitch on your friends

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Helen A.S. Popkin

Earlier this week, the Internet had a mini meltdown over false reports that Facebook may?ve posted users' old?private messages.

Though it was swiftly deemed untrue,?even the French government demanded answers on this non-scandal. All of that overshadowed the real news, a creepy misstep of which the world?s largest social network really?is guilty: asking Facebook users to identify friends who may be using fake names on the site.

?Help Us Make Facebook Better,? read a survey prompt that kicked up a comparatively minor amount of ire when it made the rounds on Twitter. ?Is this your friend?s real name?? the survey went on, showing a photo of one of the recipient?s Facebook friends and multiple choice answers, ?Yes,? ?No,? ?I don?t know this person,? and ?I don?t want to answer.?

?Your response is anonymous and won?t affect your friend?s account,? Facebook assured on the poll question, which Facebook representive?Fred Wolens reiterated to NBCNews.com.?

Though Facebook does have a real name policy, Wolens said this particular poll was one of many anonymous surveys Facebook uses to tweak its algorithms. He provided the following company statement:?

This was a limited survey we have already concluded. We are always looking to gauge how people use Facebook and represent themselves to better design our product and systems. We analysed these surveys only using aggregate data and responses had zero impact on any user's account.

According to Wolens, the survey was received by a small amount of users. Exactly how small, he wouldn?t say. News of it?spread when?Twitter user @chapeaudefee tweeted a screenshot and the comment, ?Facebook wants to know if your friends? names are real. Are you going to be the snitch??

Outraged? Probably. You know how you love to be outraged at Facebook. Shocked? Not so much.?

The Internet is currently so unperturbed by this latest turn, YouTube has yet to produce a single ?Hitler reacts to Facebook asking you to snitch on your friends? video ? though a long history of totalitarian regimes asking its citizens to turn on their neighbors is not lost on those who are offended by the poll, despite its reassurances.

?The whole idea of snitching is highly dodgy,? writes privacy blogger Paul Bernal.??It?s creepy ? and it helps build at atmosphere of distrust, breaking down the very things that make social networks good,? he continues. ?The social relationships that are the heart of Facebook are meant to do ?good? things ??not be a route by which bad things are spread.?

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Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about privacy?and then asks you to join her on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.?Because that's how she rolls.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-stops-asking-you-snitch-your-friends-1B6103332

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Can you recommend a good online course for web design and SEO?

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Antivirus Software: Losing the Race to Malware | Founders ...

If you?re a diligent computer user, you make sure to keep your antivirus software current. It?s the only way to safeguard your computer from viruses and malware, right? According to a recent story by MIT?s Technology Review, no.

Antivirus Software: Unreliable?

The story says that the antivirus software we have all counted on to shield our information is no longer as effective as it used to be. Increasingly more sophisticated viruses are being developed daily that cannot be discovered by current antivirus software. This can be very concerning as many of us use the Internet every single day.

Burned by Flame

The Technology Review story focuses on Flame, probably the most complicated instances of malware ever discovered. According to the story, Flame has been copying documents and making recordings of audio, keystrokes, network traffic and Skype calls and taking screenshots of all this activity from the computers it has infected. What?s the worst part? Flame has been doing this for around two years, according to the Technology Review story. And throughout this time, not a single bit of security software discovered this particularly clever bit of malware.

An Industry Under Siege

Wouldn?t it be nice if Flame was the only malware that could get by antivirus software? Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are quite a few that are more than difficult to detect and as soon as antivirus software gets upgraded, malware is developed that challenges it even more. This does not mean it?s not necassary to take all measures available to protect your computer, like keeping your antivirus software up to date. You should just be aware that there are viruses out there that may break through. Hopefully the antivirus industry will ultimately catch up with the development of viruses and malware.

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Source: http://blog.founderstech.com/2012/antivirus-software-losing-the-race-to-malware/

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Extra GPs triple Superclinic staff | Northern Rivers Health | Fitness ...

New psychologist at the Grafton GP Superclinic Belinda Cooper with practice manager Nathan Riseley.

Adam Hourigan

GRAFTON'S GP Superclinic has tripled its staff since opening its doors just 11 months ago.

When the clinic started it could only provide GP services and had just eight staff, whereas today it employs 25 people and provides patients with physio, counselling, occupational therapy, speech pathology and tele hook-ups to specialists out of the area.

The clinic welcomed its newest addition yesterday, psychologist Belinda Cooper, who moved to the Valley from Darwin and is originally from England.

One of the areas Ms Cooper is most passionate about working in is counselling for carers.

"Carers remove a large burden from the State system and too often their needs are simply forgotten," said Ms Cooper.

Practice manager Nathan Riseley said he was happy with the way the clinic was progressing.

"We have over 3000 active patients on the books and we have managed to bulk bill 81.6% of them since opening," he said.

The clinic will expand its opening hours to 8am-8pm early next year and has just been accredited to help train the next generation of doctors.

Source: http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2012/09/26/extra-gps-triple-staff-at-superclinic-grafton/

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South Africa's Malema to face corruption hearing

POLOKWANE, South Africa (Reuters) - ANC rebel Julius Malema, South African President Jacob Zuma's most prominent critic and an advocate of mining nationalization, appears in court on Wednesday on corruption charges that his supporters say are politically motivated.

Police said they would close roads for the hearing on Wednesday around the courthouse in Polokwane, the provincial capital of Malema's native Limpopo, 350 km (220 miles) north of Johannesburg, for one of the biggest trials since the end of apartheid in 1994.

"No lawlessness will be tolerated and those who break the law will be arrested immediately," police said in a statement issued before Malema's supporters began a night vigil on Tuesday.

An arrest warrant was issued last week for the former ANC Youth League leader, with local media saying he was facing charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering in the awarding of government contracts in Limpopo.

The hearing on Wednesday is expected to last only a few minutes with prosecutors reading out the charges against him. The court is then likely to release him on bail.

Hundreds of Malema's young supporters sang songs during the raucous vigil at Nirvana Civic Centre in Polokwane including one entitled: "It's time to fire Zuma".

They said Malema is being persecuted for calling into question Zuma's leadership before an ANC vote in December where Zuma is seeking re-election as president of the party that dominates South African politics.

"The laying of these charges demonstrates that the bid for President Zuma's new term as ANC leader has entered a new phase," Klaas Mabumda, spokesman for the Limpopo ANC Youth League which still backs Malema, told Reuters.

Malema was expelled by the ruling African National Congress in April for causing rifts in the party, but has kept up his anti-Zuma tirades, saying the polygamist president should be removed since he pays more attention to his personal life than to running Africa's biggest economy.

His supporters see him as an eventual leader of the ANC but at 31 he is too young to replace Zuma at the head of the party that has governed South Africa for nearly two decades.

The Youth League's new leaders, who still back Malema, dismissed the charges as a politically motivated gambit to silence Zuma's most vocal critic.

"State institutions must never be used to settle political scores because that will plunge the country into a banana republic and confirms our view that we are becoming a police state," they said in a statement.

The ANC establishment has condemned Malema as an opportunist but has remained mostly silent on the court case.

ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTER

Malema stormed back from the political wilderness in August, blaming Zuma's administration for the police killing of 34 strikers at a platinum mine - the deadliest security incident since the end of white-minority rule.

One of South Africa's best political speakers and known by his nickname "Juju', Malema rose from poverty with populist calls to seize white-owned farmland and for a government takeover of crucial sectors of Africa's largest economy.

Calling himself an "economic freedom fighter", he has revived a call for nationalization of the mines, an option shunned so far by the government because it would bankrupt the country. However, the debate unnerves investors as the industry accounts for 6 percent of national economic output.

With a penchant for expensive cars, Swiss watches and champagne parties, Malema has been under investigation by the police's elite Hawks detective division for alleged corruption relating to government contracts in Limpopo.

Malema has also been given a bill for nearly $2 million for unpaid taxes, the South African Revenue Service said at the weekend. (Editing by Giles Elgood and David Stamp)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africas-malema-face-corruption-hearing-194256449.html

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NY a busy battleground of competitive House races

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? New York state's congressional elections are testing the staying power of Republicans who rode a tea party wave to a House majority two years ago ? as well as the resilience of Democrats striving to regain control.

Democrats are targeting four of the five Republicans who took New York congressional seats away from them in 2010. Two more of the most contested House races in New York are in heavily Republican districts where Democrats won special elections.

Included in the mix are three rematches of contests decided by paper-thin margins last election, making New York a busy House battleground for both parties.

The big money involved in the contests reveals the GOP's intent on preserving its foothold in the heavily Democratic state. The National Republican Congressional Committee said it had reserved $5.25 million for TV time in New York, more than half to defend three freshmen. The rest is going to three districts held by Democrats, including the Buffalo area seat won by Kathy Hochul in a special election upset last year.

Democratic spending indicates President Barack Obama's party is equally committed to gaining influence as part of the party's drive to add 25 seats and reclaim the House majority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said it has spent or reserved $1.02 million for TV time in two New York races.

Hochul made national headlines by pioneering the strategy of casting the race as a referendum on the GOP plan to transform Medicare, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, now the party's vice presidential candidate.

It's not clear whether that strategy will work against Hochul's new Republican challenger, Chris Collins. In a recent interview, the former Erie County executive refused to give an opinion on the plan.

"I'm someone who looks forward and not backward," Collins said. "And the Ryan budget is in the past."

That may be wishful thinking, but there's no doubt that New York ? like California and Illinois ? is critical to the battle for control of the House. While Democratic leaders express optimism about their chances, analysts generally forecast Republicans holding onto a slimmer majority.

New York lost two of its 29 seats in the House to redistricting for the 2010 Census population changes. Despite the GOP election gains in 2010, Democrats still overwhelmingly dominate ? 21-8 ? the state's House delegation.

The battle in Hochul's district, which stretches between the Buffalo and Rochester suburbs, is one of the nation's most closely watched House races. A Siena College poll last month showed a statistical dead heat.

Collins has spent most of his adult life as a businessman. He ran the county with a sharp eye on the bottom line, alienating some lawmakers, and has promoted a waste-cutting managerial philosophy during public appearances.

Hochul also is well-known locally as the former Erie County clerk. While Republicans have a 40 percent to 32 percent enrollment edge in the district, Hochul has shown she can pull support from across the aisle.

"Being a Democrat in the most Republican district in the state, I actually can just ignore party labels and be laser focused on what's best for the district," Hochul said.

A bit east, near Syracuse, Democrats hope Dan Maffei can win back the seat he lost to Republican Ann Marie Buerkle by just 648 votes in 2010. Buerkle, the only New York representative to score a perfect 100 on last year's American Conservative Union legislator rankings, is running in a newly drawn district with nearly even numbers of Republicans and Democrats.

The DCCC said it has spent or reserved $361,616 in TV ad time for the race, a fraction of the $1.19 million reserved by the National Republican Congressional Committee.

It's one of two New York seats both committees are pumping money into for TV. In eastern New York, the NRCC has reserved $1.32 million for freshman Rep. Chris Gibson, who is being challenged by Democrat Julian Schreibman. The DCCC has spent or reserved $681,481 for TV ads there.

"The tea party wave of 2010 has receded and left New York's House Republicans high and dry with no cover to hide their toxic voting records and no way to defend their votes to end Medicare to pay for tax breaks for millionaires," said Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., chairman of the DCCC.

Nathaniel Sillin, a spokesman for the NRCC, characterized Israel's claims as "ridiculous" and noted the GOP is aggressively pursuing opportunities in the state.

"Republicans continue to be on offense in New York because Democrats are running on more of the same failed tax-and-spend economic policies that have stifled economic recovery," Sillin said.

Two other races provide second chances to Republican challengers who just fell short in 2010.

In northern New York, Democratic Rep. Bill Owens is defending his seat again against Republican businessman Matt Doheny, who narrowly lost in 2010 when a third Conservative Party candidate took thousands of votes. This time, Doheny has both the Conservative and Republican lines on the ballot. In New York, a candidate can accept the nomination of more than one party and reap all votes combined.

On eastern Long Island, Republican businessman Randy Altschuler is trying unseat five-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Timothy Bishop. Altschuler came within 593 votes of defeating Bishop two years ago and this time, he has the third-party Independence Party line, which was worth 7,370 votes for Bishop when he had the line in 2010.

"Super" PACs on both sides are spending money on the race, including the Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS, which started an ad critical of Bishop on cable TV last week. The ad focuses on Bishop's role helping get a fireworks permit for a Hamptons bar mitzvah at the request of a businessman who was later solicited by the campaign and donated $5,000. Bishop has said he did nothing wrong in helping a constituent.

The NRCC is spending TV money on both rematches.

In Staten Island, Republican freshman and former FBI agent Michael Grimm is dealing with a potentially much larger issue as he faces a challenge from Democrat Mark Murphy.

The FBI is probing money donated to Grimm's 2010 campaign by followers of an Israeli rabbi. Agents last month arrested an Israeli businessman with links to the adult entertainment industry who had helped Grimm raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from the rabbi's followers in New York.

Some donors have said they broke campaign finance law by donating more money than allowed, or by funneling donations from foreigners who aren't legally allowed to give to U.S. candidates.

Grimm repeatedly has denied knowledge of any improper donations or any other illegal activity.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ny-busy-battleground-competitive-house-races-063421538--election.html

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Do only geeks run internet business marketing? | Tongshu Articles

Do only geeks run internet business marketing?

Author (thirtygrandamonth42). Submitted on Mon, 24 Sep 2012

Do only geeks run internet business marketing ? or can anyone make money this way? How much technical expertise do you need to have a best internet business?

The good news is that you need very little technical knowledge in order to make money very successfully running a business on the internet. Obviously you need to have the basic computer skills. But then you can go to the experts who will help you get started. Don?t try and take short cuts with your website: it will pay handsomely to go to a website expert to get your site well designed and user-friendly. After all, people surfing the web tend to be impatient: they want the sites they visit to be easy to use, they want quick responses to their clicks, and they want everything on the site to work properly. Nothing puts a potential client off an online business like a link that does not do what it is meant to do.

You can also get the experts to give you guidance about optimizing your site for the search engines to find easily. After all, if you want to make money with your internet business, the search engines have to bring it up quickly, as one of the first sites on the page when your potential clients make an enquiry. If your site only appears on page 23 of a Google or Bing search, your customers won?t even be aware that your business exists.

These days the most amazing things are sold and bought via best internet businesses, and new kinds of businesses are also arising simply because the internet is there and giving us the convenience of doing business in new ways. So, even if your previous skills and interests are very far removed from computers and the internet, you can still make money from an online business. You can get ideas for businesses by going online and researching the types of such businesses that exist. Or you can just sit and daydream about the tasks you are familiar with and the things that interest you and thinking ?No, wouldn?t it be nice if?? You never know: you might just find a niche market in which you could operate. Before you know it you could be making money from your own internet business.

After all, it is much nicer to be your own boss and benefit fully from the money that you make than to work for somebody else and have to accept the salary that he gives you. Your internet business marketing can allow you to work in a field you find interesting and stimulating and at the same time earn you money. When you need some technical help there are plenty of geeks out there who will happily help and advise you: many of them are running their own best internet businesses in order to earn money, so look upon your plea for assistance as a great opportunity for them. There is no need to feel embarrassed about asking them to fix a problem for you: they are only too please to do so.

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