Notre Dame football: Kelly mining more California gold

Brian Kelly had more work to do in southern California after beating USC on Saturday night. So Notre Dame's head coach stayed in The Golden State through the weekend and found himself in a high school gym on Monday night. Mission Viejo senior Max Redfield, one of Notre Dame?s top remaining targets in the 2013 class, scored 20 points with Kelly and wide receivers coach Mike Denbrock in attendance of his second basketball game of the season.

Redfield said he didn?t get to talk with the coaches too much, because he was busy preparing for and playing in a 91-33 win over North Torrance. But Kelly and Denbrock did visit with Redfield?s mother, stepdad and younger brother before the game.

?My mom said that she liked them both a lot and could tell that they?re really genuine and nice guys,? Redfield said.

?They reiterated all the things that I?d be getting if I went there and how I?d be involved with the team and where I fit in. My parents were pretty impressed.?

Redfield officially visited Notre Dame in October for the Stanford game with a verbal commitment to USC, and has since rescinded his commitment and turned his attention to the Irish, Washington and Oregon.

The 6-foot-3, 195-pound prospect visited Washington on Nov. 9 and has yet to set a visit to Oregon.

Since Redfield visited South Bend the Irish have all but secured a spot in the BCS National Championship with an undefeated regular season capped by a victory over the school Redfield was initially committed to. Redfield said the winning has helped Notre Dame a little and he still considers them at the top of his list.
?If I had a number one,? Redfield said, ?it would be Notre Dame.?

Redfield ranks as a four-star prospect with most recruiting services slating him as a top five safety and a top 50 player overall.

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13 Sports Rules In Need Of Immediate Change

Midwest Sports Fans:

You?ve probably seen and heard plenty about the play by now:

Houston?s Justin Forsett ran for an 81-yard touchdown, despite it being clear that his knee and elbow had touched down during the play. Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz then threw a challenge flag, only NFL rules stipulate that all scoring plays get challenged anyway.

So, since Schwartz threw the flag and essentially created a duplicitous request for a review, everything is cool, right?

Read the whole story at Midwest Sports Fans

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To get the best look at a person's face, look just below the eyes

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. However, to get a real idea of what a person is up to, according to UC Santa Barbara researchers Miguel Eckstein and Matt Peterson, the best place to check is right below the eyes. Their findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"It's pretty fast, it's effortless ?? we're not really aware of what we're doing," said Miguel Eckstein, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. Using an eye tracker and more than 100 photos of faces and participants, Eckstein and graduate research assistant Peterson followed the gaze of the experiment's participants to determine where they look in the first crucial moment of identifying a person's identity, gender, and emotional state.

"For the majority of people, the first place we look at is somewhere in the middle, just below the eyes," Eckstein said. One possible reason could be that we are trained from youth to look there, because it's polite in some cultures. Or, because it allows us to figure out where the person's attention is focused.

However, Peterson and Eckstein hypothesize that, despite the ever-so-brief ?? 250 millisecond ?? glance, the relatively featureless point of focus, and the fact that we're usually unaware that we're doing it, the brain is actually using sophisticated computations to plan an eye movement that ensures the highest accuracy in tasks that are evolutionarily important in determining flight, fight, or love at first sight.

"When you look at a scene, or at a person's face, you're not just using information right in front of you," said Peterson. The place where one's glance is aimed is the place that corresponds to the highest resolution in the eye ?? the fovea, a slight depression in the retina at the back of the eye ?? while regions surrounding the foveal area ?? the periphery ?? allow access to less spatial detail.

However, according to Peterson, at a conversational distance, faces tend to span a larger area of the visual field. There is information to be gleaned, not just from the face's eyes, but also from features like the nose or the mouth. But when participants were directed to try to determine the identity, gender, and emotion of people in the photos by looking elsewhere ?? the forehead, the mouth, for instance ?? they did not perform as well as they would have by looking close to the eyes.

Using a sophisticated algorithm, which mimics the varying spatial detail of human processing across the visual field and integrates all information to make decisions, allowed Peterson and Eckstein to predict what would be the best place within the faces to look for each of these perceptual tasks. They found that these predicted places varied moderately across tasks, and closely corresponded to where humans actually do look.

At least for the three important tasks investigated ?? identity, emotion, and gender ?? below the eyes is the optimal place to look, say the scientists, because it allows one to read information from as many features of the face as possible.

"What the visual system is adept at doing is taking all those pieces of information from your face and combining them in a statistical manner to make a judgment about whatever task you're doing," said Eckstein. The area around the eyes contains minute bits of important information, which require the high resolution processing close to the fovea, whereas features like the mouth are larger and can be read without a direct gaze.

The study shows that the ability to learn optimal rapid eye movement for evolutionarily important perceptual tasks is inherent in humans; however, say the scientists, it is not necessarily consistent behavior for everybody. Eckstein's lab is currently involved in studying a small subset of people who do not look just below the eyes to identify a person. Other researchers have shown that East Asians, for instance, tend look lower on the face when identifying a person's face.

The research by Peterson and Eckstein has resulted in sophisticated new algorithms to model optimal gaze patterns when looking at faces. The algorithms could potentially be used to provide insight into conditions like schizophrenia and autism, which are associated with uncommon gaze patterns, or prosopagnosia ?? an inability to recognize someone by his or her face.

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Chicago offers to pause school closings after 2013 cuts

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday he wants a five-year moratorium on closing public schools after anticipated cuts in 2013, but the teachers union called his gesture a "sleight of hand."

The third-largest school district in the United States, which was hit with a strike by public school teachers in September, was already facing a financial crisis that was made worse by granting pay rises to teachers.

The school district forecasts a $1 billion deficit next year and is widely expected to try to balance its budget in part by closing public schools.

Enrollment in Chicago Public Schools has fallen nearly 20 percent in the last decade, mainly because of population declines in poor neighborhoods. The district said it can accommodate 500,000 students, but only about 400,000 are enrolled.

Some 140 schools are half-empty, according to the district. The union said 86 Chicago public schools have closed in the past decade, but the district could not confirm that number.

Urban school districts around the country are grappling with the issue declining enrollment, including in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., according to a study last year on school closings by the Pew Charitable Trust.

The first Chicago teachers strike in 25 years drew national attention to the city's dispute over education reforms such as teacher evaluations. The teachers were given a pay rise as part of the strike settlement.

Chicago teachers and some parents have complained that the school district has ignored their concerns.

The offer of a five-year moratorium was seen as an attempt by Emanuel, who has championed education reform and has repeatedly clashed with the teachers union, to provide some stability to Chicago schools after closings in the coming year.

"Mayor Emanuel recognizes that for many years CPS (Chicago Public Schools) has made too many piecemeal decisions around school actions, which has caused unnecessary disruptions to students, parents and schools across the city," said Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who was appointed by Emanuel after the strike ended to head the district.

Byrd-Bennett spoke to a business group on Monday at the City Club of Chicago.

The district faces a December 1 deadline to issue a proposed list of schools to be closed, although Byrd-Bennett has asked the Illinois legislature for a four-month delay until March 31.

The Chicago Tribune has reported that school district officials are considering closing up to 120 schools next year, or about 17 percent of the total. The district has established a commission to study the issue.

Byrd-Bennett told reporters on Monday that the district does not have a number under consideration.

At the heart of the dispute over school closings is the expansion of charter schools, which are publicly funded, but mostly non unionized. The number of charter schools has risen even as neighborhood public schools are closed.

"Today's announcement is nothing more than a sleight of hand," the Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement. "How can the district cry 'under-utilization' as a justification for school closings while it simultaneously approves the opening of new charter campuses?"

The teachers union has complained that charter schools undermine public education and force more community schools to close. The academic performance record of charter schools compared with community schools is mixed, according to national studies.

Chicago now has 103 charter or "contract" schools, some run by philanthropists, which account for 12 percent of students. There are plans by supporters for 60 more charter schools over the next five years, according to the district and the union.

The union said 88 percent of students affected by Chicago school closings or other actions in the past decade were African-American and most closed schools have been in poor neighborhoods.

(Editing by Greg McCune, Matthew Lewis and Andre Grenon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-offers-pause-school-closings-2013-cuts-001835184.html

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Euro zone, IMF to seek Greece deal, debt write-off main problem

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund will seek to unfreeze the second bailout package for Greece on Monday, but they first need to agree if some of the official loans to Athens might eventually be forgiven to cut Greek debt.

Euro zone ministers and their deputies have held numerous meetings and conference calls over the last two weeks to decide how Greek debt, seen at almost 190 percent of GDP next year, could be cut to a more sustainable 120 percent in 8-10 years.

Without agreement on how to reduce the debt, euro zone ministers and the IMF do not want to resume payments of loan tranches to Athens -- even though Greece has met all the conditions -- because they have no guarantee on whether the need for emergency financing will ever end.

The key question is: Can Greek debt become sustainable without the euro zone writing off some of the loans to Athens?

So far, the options for debt reduction under consideration include reducing interest on already extended bilateral loans to Greece from the current 150 basis points above financing costs.

How much lower is not yet decided -- France and Italy would like to reduce the rate to 30 basis points (bps), while Germany and some other countries insist on a 90 bps margin.

Another option, which could cut Greek debt by almost 17 percent of GDP, is to defer interest payments on loans to Greece from the EFSF, a temporary bailout fund, by 10 years.

The European Central Bank could forego profits on its Greek bond portfolio, bought at a deep discount, cutting the debt pile by a further 4.6 percent by 2020, a document prepared for the ministers' talks last week showed.

Not all euro zone central banks are prepared to forego their profits, however, the German Bundesbank among them.

Greece could also buy back its privately-held bonds on the market at a deep discount, with gains from the operation depending on the scope and price.

But the preparatory document from last week said that the 120 percent target could not be reached in 2020, only two years later, unless the ministers accept losses on their loans to Athens, provide additional financing or force private creditors into selling Greek debt at a discount.

The latest analysis for the ministers showed the debt could come down to 125 percent of GDP in 2020, one euro zone official with insight into the talks said.

FORGIVING OFFICIAL LOANS?

To cut the debt more boldly, the IMF wants the euro zone to forgive Greece some of the official loans, in what is called Official Sector Involvement (OSI) in EU jargon.

This is an idea that several countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Slovakia, firmly reject.

On Monday, the biggest battle is likely to be over just that.

"OSI is at the core of the problems with reaching a deal," one euro zone official with insight into the talks said.

German central bank governor Jens Weidmann has suggested that Greece could "earn" a reduction in debt it owes to euro zone governments in a few years if it diligently implements all the agreed reforms. The European Commission backs that view.

German paper Welt am Sonntag said on Sunday that euro zone ministers were considering a write-down of official loans for Greece from 2015, but gave no sources and a euro zone official said such an option was never seriously discussed.

European Central Bank executive board member Joerg Asmussen told the German Bild paper on Sunday that a write-down on Greek debt should not be part of the deal, echoing repeated statements from German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble who said it would be illegal.

"It will be touch-and-go if we get a deal on Greece on Monday," a senior euro zone official said. "Euro zone countries have made concessions worth a lot of money already, so it is difficult to see how this can move even further."

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Sunday evening that euro zone ministers made big progress to reach a common position during at a conference call on Saturday in preparation for their talks with the IMF on Monday.

"I will go with a firm determination, with a mandate from the president and prime minister, to reach a conclusion," Moscovici said. "We are very close to a solution."

Moscovici mentioned the reduction of interest on bilateral loans, foregoing ECB profits on Greek bonds and the debt buy-back as the options that would need to be applied for a deal as well as additional financing for Athens to keep it funded until 2016, rather than only until 2014.

(Additional reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris and Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin; Editing by Alex Richardson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/euro-zone-imf-seek-greece-deal-debt-write-055911326--business.html

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Nitrogram Raises $1M To Mine The Growing Instagram Eco-System For Businesses

The social media analytics space continues to grow, and and we've seen the likes of Statigram do cool things but with a B2C orientation. Olapic and Chute are putting customer photos and social media on clients' sets. Now a startup called Teleportd has used its experience with social, location-based photos to come up with a B2B play - perhaps going a slightly more lucrative route, as many other B2C startups have. Its Nitrogram product attempts to make sense of Instagram photos for brands. The company is also announcing a fund-raising of $1million from European VC Connect Ventures and U.S.-based Betaworks.

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Features from the Home Decor and Organizing Link Party - Organize ...

Thank you to everyone who linked up and came over to check out all the awesome projects.
I know it?s been a busy week for a lot of you.
I hope you?ve enjoyed your time with friends and family.
I?ve been having a wonderful time with my family but it also means I haven?t been around much lately.
I wanted to stop by and pick out 10 projects I didn?t want you to miss from this week.
Here is the link to the party in case you didn?t have a chance to check it out yet.

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Reindeer Food by A Typical English Home

Repurposed Santa Treat Box by Organized 31

Pirate Party by I?m Feelin? Crafty

Magnetic Message Board by Things That Are Pretty

Bankers Chair Redo by Batchelors Way

DIY Bean Bag Chairs by Just Between Friends

Command Center by Achieving Creative Order

Bathroom Organization by A Bowl Full of Lemons

Organized Linen Closets by Inspire to Organize

The next Home Decor and Organizing Link Party starts Tuesday evening.
Hope to see you there!

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Animals Are Literally Being Dissolved Alive Because of Acid in the Ocean

The next time you're having a bit of a bad day, consider this: in a part of the Southern Ocean, sea snails are literally dissolving day by day, thanks to the increasingly high amounts of man-made acidification. Being a little late to that meeting beats being dissolved alive, eh? More »

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What is Normal Sexual Curiosity as Kids Grow Up???? | Musings by ...

My son was 3 and bath time meant time with 40 floating toys, lots of bubbles and his snorkeling mask.? It also meant I could make dinner 15 feet away in relative peace.? It was an evening ritual that worked for both of us.? One night he yelled from the tub, ?Mommy! Mommy! Come quick, I need to show you something!?? As I ran tub-side, he sat up and with eyes bright behind his orange diving mask, he pointed down at his penis.? ?Look how big my penis got when I was diving with my toys!? It?s huge!? Is it going to always be this big?!?? I loved his enthusiasm for life and once again I wished I could capture that sense of discovery and adventure in each small moment.? ?No, sweetie.? Sometimes when your penis gets rubbed it gets larger.? Pretty soon it will go back to how it usually is.?? Wanting him to someday be able to appreciate the miracle of his body I added, ?Isn?t it wonderful that God gave you a penis that can change size sometimes??

I often have the pleasure of training parents and youth pastors about the sexual development of children and how to raise sexually, spiritually and relationally healthy kids. ?This is something all parents want ? however most didn?t?experience?a good example of this growing up and now as parents or youth workers feel completely lost in knowing how to coach and love a child through their sexual development.

Recently I had the opportunity to listen to a fishbowl conversation of 6 adolescents discussing what they most wanted the adults in their life to understand about growing up in today?s world. ?Over and over they said, ?Please just talk to us. ?Listen to us. Tell us about your life ? how you learned and struggled through growing up ? how you learned from your mistakes. ?Tell us your stories. Help us know we are not alone and that you understand how hard this must be for us.?

Subsequent to this fish bowl discussion was one with a group of 6 youth workers and parents of teens. ?Together they had a conversation about what it is like attempting to guide and parent adolescents. ?Their resounding message was, ?It is terrifying, frightening, overwhelming. We don?t know what to say, we don?t have the answers and we feel totally lost.?

The beautiful thing the adults could hear from the wisdom of the youth was they didn?t have to have the answers ? they just needed to listen with compassion and offer the youth their own stories of growing up. ?They just wanted the adults to open up the?conversation?and be there with an open and loving heart. No answers needed ? just honesty, transparency and love.

So it is in this spirit of loving and guiding kids as they grow ? that I offer this guideline of normative childhood sexual development based on research and observational data.

In utero and at birth

• Prior to birth males can have erections
• The capacity for sexual response is present at birth for both genders
• At birth girl?s vaginas are capable of lubrication

??Toddlers

• Rhythmic manipulation associated with masturbation begins at age 2 1/2 to 3 years and is considered natural sexual expression ? bring comfort and calm
• Gender identity (maleness, femaleness) is typically formed by age 2
• Little boys and girls can experience orgasm from masturbation although boys will not ejaculate until puberty
• They want to learn the names of all body parts
• There is increased curiosity of adult gendered social behaviors

Three to Seven

• Preschool kids are interested in everything ? including sexuality
• The like to urinate in all kinds of positions and places
• They are often very affectionate ? love hugging
• Lots of curiosity?and kissing other adults and children
• May imitate adult social sexual behavior
• Very common to play ?doctor? and ?look see?
• They understand ?living together? as family and may talk about ?getting married? when they are older
• Normal sexual experimentation is spontaneous, silly, and light-hearted, and although may be embarrassing, it is uncommon to involve anger, shame, fear, or anxiety.

Eight to Twelve

• Puberty !!!
• Girls: breast buds and pubic hair (>10); periods 10 ? 13
• Boys: further development of penis and testicles(>11); voice changes; pubic hair
• May become more modest even with same sex parent
• Masturbation increases and interest in internet pornography often begins.
• Lots of questions about intercourse, petting, oral sex, and anal sex, homosexuality, rape and incest ? but may be more shy to ask.? Requires more casual and stealth approaches.? This is a key time to discuss sexuality and reproduction in more detail.
• Same gender play and exploration common
• In the company of same sex friends, masturbating together or looking at or caressing each other?s genitals is common among pre-adolescent boys and girls.
• Some group ?dating?. Interest in social media increases as can secrecy. Be aware and open. Be willing to set boundaries for their protection and to teach them how to manage social media and the increasing complexity in relationships at school.
• Increased desire to attend events, parties and may develop public ?crushes? or ?go out?, but this is mostly a social occurrence

Adolescence (13-19)

• Between 5% to 10% of adolescent males and 6% of females report sexual experiences with someone of the same gender, usually another adolescent.
• Developmental tasks include:
  • Resolving conflict of identity and role confusion.
  • Establishing gender identity of manhood or womanhood, or conflict about gender roles.
  • Developing a sense of stable self.
  • Managing physical and emotional intimacy in relationships
    • Girls need additional guidance on the development of purpose/power/voice
    • Boys need additional guidance?on the development of their emotional intelligence and relational skills
    • More physiological changes ? growth in genitals and breasts, facial and pubic hair.
    • Increased desire to relate to romantic partner sexually.
    • Research on the hook-up culture suggests it can lead to disillusionment in romantic partnership and lasting love

America, Religion & Sex ? average age of initial intercourse based on religious affiliation:

• No religion=16.4
• Fundamentalist protestant=16.9
• Other protestant=16.9
• Catholic=17.7
• Other religion=18.8
• There is no way to predict how a particular teenager will act sexually. Most adolescents explore relationships with one another, fall in and out of love, and participate in sexual intercourse before the age of 20.
• Adolescents report less sexual communication growing up than parents thought they did.
• Adolescents who have parents that are open to talk and listen about sexual issues describe being closer to their parents overall.

?20 something

• Young adults typically experience the greatest number of different partners in their 20s.
• During this period the risk for contracting STDs is highest, and the need to practice safe sex paramount.
• There is increased desire for intimacy however the current cultural pace of life leaves limited time for relationship complexity.
• Young adults are tending to marry later in urban areas ? 28 males; 26 females.

Tina Schermer Sellers is a recognized scholar in the integration of spirituality into a multitude of areas represented in family and career life. As a behavioral scientist, licensed family therapist, medical family therapist, and certified sex therapist, she specializes in helping to craft relationships, organizations and lives that flourish. In the area of sexuality, Tina has spent a career helping people discover what culture has failed to teach them about their bodies, their hearts, their capacity for intimacy and their erotic potential. This entry was posted in God, parenting, Relationships, Sex, sexual health, sexuality and tagged body, children, culture, intention, personal responsibility, sex and Christianity, sex in America, Tina Schermer Sellers. Bookmark the permalink.

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Brash boxer 'Macho' Camacho dies in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Hector "Macho" Camacho was a brash fighter with a mean jab and an aggressive style, launching himself furiously against some of the biggest names in boxing. And his bad-boy persona was not entirely an act, with a history of legal scrapes that began in his teens and continued throughout his life.

The man who once starred at the pinnacle of boxing, winning several world titles, died Saturday back in the Puerto Rican town of Bayamon where he was born, ambushed in a parking lot in a car where packets of cocaine were found.

Camacho, 50, left behind a reputation for flamboyance ? leading fans in cheers of "It's Macho time!" before fights ? and for fearsome skills as one of the top fighters of his generation.

"He excited boxing fans around the world with his inimitable style," promoter Don King told The Associated Press.

Camacho fought professionally for three decades, from his humble debut against David Brown at New York's Felt Forum in 1980 to an equally forgettable swansong against Saul Duran in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2010.

In between, he fought some of the biggest stars spanning two eras, including Sugar Ray Leonard, Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya and Roberto Duran.

"Hector was a fighter who brought a lot of excitement to boxing," said Ed Brophy, executive director of International the Boxing Hall of Fame. "He was a good champion. Roberto Duran is kind of in a class of his own, but Hector surely was an exciting fighter that gave his all to the sport."

Camacho's family moved to New York when he was young and he grew up in Spanish Harlem, which at the time was rife with crime. Camacho landed in jail as a teenager before turning to boxing, which for many kids in his neighborhood provided an outlet for their aggression.

"This is something I've done all my life, you know?" Camacho told The Associated Press after a workout in 2010. "A couple years back, when I was doing it, I was still enjoying it. The competition, to see myself perform. I know I'm at the age that some people can't do this no more."

Former featherweight champion Juan Laporte, a friend since childhood, described Camacho as "like a little brother who was always getting into trouble," but otherwise combined a friendly nature with a powerful jab.

"He's a good human being, a good hearted person," Laporte said as he waited with other friends and members of the boxer's family outside the hospital in San Juan after the shooting. "A lot of people think of him as a cocky person but that was his motto ... Inside he was just a kid looking for something."

Laporte lamented that Camacho never found a mentor to guide him outside the boxing ring.

"The people around him didn't have the guts or strength to lead him in the right direction," Laporte said. "There was no one strong enough to put a hand on his shoulder and tell him how to do it."

George Lozada, a longtime friend from New York who flew to Puerto Rico on Saturday, recalled that just hours after he was released from prison after serving a murder sentence, he received a call from Camacho, who was waiting outside his apartment in a black Porsche.

"He said, 'Come down, I'm taking you shopping,'" Lozada said, wiping away tears.

"Because of him, man, I got what I got today," he said, pointing to pictures on his smartphone of his 6-year-old daughter. "Because of Hector, I stopped the drug scene ... He's helped so many people."

Drug, alcohol and other problems trailed Camacho himself after the prime of his boxing career. He was sentenced in 2007 to seven years in prison for the burglary of a computer store in Mississippi. While arresting him on the burglary charge in January 2005, police also found the drug ecstasy.

A judge eventually suspended all but one year of the sentence and gave Camacho probation. He wound up serving two weeks in jail, though, after violating that probation.

Camacho's former wife, Amy, obtained a restraining order against him in 1998, alleging he threatened her and one of their children. The couple, who had two children at the time, later divorced.

He divided his time between Puerto Rico and Florida in recent years, appearing on Spanish-language television as well as on a reality show called "Es Macho Time!" on YouTube.

Inside the boxing ring, Camacho flourished. He won three Golden Gloves titles as an amateur, and after turning pro, he quickly became a contender with an all-action style reminiscent of other Puerto Rican fighters.

Long promoted by Don King, Camacho won his first world title by beating Rafael Limon in a super-featherweight bout in Puerto Rico on Aug. 7, 1983. He moved up in weight two years later to capture a lightweight title by defeating Jose Luis Ramirez, and successfully defended the belt against fellow countryman Edwin Rosario.

The Rosario fight, in which the victorious Camacho still took a savage beating, persuaded him to scale back his ultra-aggressive style in favor of a more cerebral, defensive approach.

The change in style was a big reason that Camacho, at the time 38-0, lost a close split decision to Greg Haugen at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in 1991.

Camacho won the rematch to set up his signature fight against Mexico's Julio Cesar Chavez, this time at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Camacho was roundly criticized for his lack of action, and the Mexican champion won a lopsided unanimous decision to retain the lightweight title.

"Even though people say I beat him easily, it wasn't that way," Chavez told Mexico's ESPN-Radio Formula this week. "He was a very fast fighter, he faced everything and it was very hard for me."

"He revolutionized boxing, Chavez said. "It's a shame he got mixed up in so many problems."

After that loss, Camacho became the name opponent for other rising contenders, rather than the headliner fighting for his own glory.

He lost a unanimous decision to another young Puerto Rican fighter, Trinidad, and was soundly defeated by De La Hoya. In 1997, Camacho ended Leonard's final comeback with a fifth-round knockout. It was Camacho's last big victory even though he boxed for another decade.

The fighter's last title bout came in 1997 against welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, who won by unanimous decision. Camacho's last fight was his defeat by Saul Duran in May 2010. He had a career record of 79-6-3.

Doctors pronounced Camacho dead on Saturday after he was removed from life support at his family's direction. He never regained consciousness after at least at least one gunman crept up to the car in a darkened parking lot and opened fire.

No arrests and have been made, and authorities have not revealed many details beyond the facts that police found cocaine in the car and that the boxer and his friend, who was killed at the scene, had no idea the attack was coming. "Apparently, this was a surprise," said Alex Diaz, a police spokesman.

Survivors include his mother; three sisters, Raquel, Estrella and Ester; a brother, Felix; and four sons, Hector Jr., Taylor, Christian and Justin.

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Nexus 4 shown working on Canadian LTE through simple carrier menu code (video)

Want LTE on your new Nexus 4? Well, you might have to move to another country. Unless it's some elaborate post-Thanksgiving hoax from our Canadian neighbors, several Telus customers have demonstrated that the LTE chip hiding inside the Nexus 4 does work, and have connected to some data speeds resembling a 4G connection. This was enabled through the test menu, accessed by dialing *#*4636#*#*.

Tapping on the preferred network type option, you can select either LTE on its own, or a mix of LTE, GSM and CDMA. According to the videos, the Google phone then taps into your carrier's LTE network if Band 4 is available, and you're good to go. We've so far been unable to replicate it in the UK, which doesn't use the same LTE Band 4 (AWS 2100 / 1700MHz) of Canadian carriers Bell, Rogers and Telus. We have also tested this with AT&T's LTE, but had no luck there either -- we tried it in a Band 17 area, not a Band 4 area (which is less common). This is, however, great news for T-Mobile customers as this is precisely the type of LTE they'll be getting very soon. But for now, there's two working videos already doing the rounds from Canada and we've included them both below.

[Thanks Kaung]

Update: There was a typo in the code required to activate the test menu. We've updated with the correct key combination.

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office east bank crime report, Nov. 23 ...

This information reflects initial calls for service reported by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for the east bank of Jefferson Parish. Locations are approximate due to automated location methods and address inconsistencies, the Sheriff's Office says. Burglar alarm calls are excluded.
18th Street and Edenborn Avenue - Nov. 22, 12:09 a.m., disturbing the peace.
3900 block of Airline Drive - Nov. 22, 12:33 a.m., suspicious person.
4400 block of Airline Drive - Nov. 22, 2:12 p.m., suspicious person.
6200 block of Airline Drive - Nov. 22, 9:58 p.m., disturbing the peace.
Andover Street and South Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 22, 4:43 p.m., suspicious person.
4200 block of Blk Belvedere Street - Nov. 22, 2:20 a.m., vehicle burglary.
5600 block of Blk Citrus Boulevard - Nov. 22, 12:51 a.m., criminal damage.
2700 block of Blk Longwood Drive - Nov. 22, 11:36 p.m., disturbing the peace.
300 block of Blk North Dilton Street - Nov. 22, 1:07 a.m., suspicious person.
1300 block of Bonnabel Boulevard - Nov. 22, 10:28 a.m., battery.
3000 block of Carrollton Way Drive - Nov. 22, 11:02 a.m., auto theft.
3400 block of North Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 22, 11:37 a.m., vehicle wreck.
3400 block of North Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 22, 11:41 a.m., vehicle wreck.
North Causeway Boulevard and West Napoleon Avenue - Nov. 22, 6:16 p.m., vehicle wreck.
2100 block of Clearview Parkway - Nov. 22, 1:39 p.m., theft.
Clearview Parkway and Interstate 10 - Nov. 22, 12:09 a.m., suspicious person.
Clearview Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 12:04 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Clearview Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 9:45 p.m., suspicious person.
Dilton Street and Russell Street - Nov. 22, 4:03 a.m., robbery.
2400 block of Division Street - Nov. 22, 10:36 p.m., battery.
3000 block of Downs Boulevard - Nov. 22, 12:10 p.m., vehicle burglary.
Elizabeth Avenue and Flagler Street - Nov. 22, 4:01 p.m., suspicious person.
900 block of Elmeer Avenue - Nov. 22, 7:22 p.m., vehicle wreck.
1200 block of Elmwood Park Boulevard - Nov. 22, 8:02 p.m., suspicious person.
3300 block of West Esplanade Avenue South - Nov. 22, 8:28 p.m., drug law violation.
2300 block of Giuffrias Avenue - Nov. 22, 9:00 p.m., suspicious person.
Haring Road and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 8:19 a.m., vehicle wreck.
4200 block of Hessmer Avenue - Nov. 22, 1:55 p.m., suspicious person.
4200 block of Hessmer Avenue - Nov. 22, 2:23 p.m., residence burglary.
Howard Avenue and Macon Street - Nov. 22, 1:58 p.m., disturbing the peace.
3100 block of Independence Street - Nov. 22, 10:20 p.m., battery.
3100 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road East - Nov. 22, 8:19 p.m., theft.
3900 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road West - Nov. 22, 9:41 p.m., suspicious person.
4700 block of South Interstate 10 Service Road West - Nov. 22, 10:14 p.m., disturbing the peace.
South Interstate 10 Service Road West and Pasadena Avenue - Nov. 22, 5:06 p.m., suspicious person.
Ithaca Street and Cleveland Place - Nov. 22, 9:17 a.m., suspicious person.
1100 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 7:53 p.m., robbery.
3800 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 5:12 a.m., business burglary.
3800 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 9:28 a.m., business burglary.
5300 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 10:51 a.m., battery.
8800 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 10:13 a.m., vehicle burglary.
8800 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 22, 10:13 a.m., vehicle burglary.
Jefferson Highway and Rio Vista Avenue - Nov. 22, 8:10 p.m., suspicious person.
Jefferson Highway and South Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 22, 4:32 p.m., suspicious person.
Jefferson Highway and South Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 22, 6:06 p.m., theft.
300 block of North Lester Avenue - Nov. 22, 3:53 p.m., suspicious person.
Massachusetts Avenue and West Napoleon Avenue - Nov. 22, 6:52 p.m., vehicle wreck.
2100 block of Metairie Court - Nov. 22, 3:18 p.m., suspicious person.
2000 block of Metairie Road - Nov. 22, 2:26 a.m., business burglary.
Mississippi Avenue and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 2:48 a.m., assault.
West Napoleon Avenue and Clearview Parkway - Nov. 22, 10:00 a.m., battery.
1000 block of Neyrey Drive - Nov. 22, 11:55 p.m., disturbing the peace.
West Oakridge Pk and Metairie Road - Nov. 22, 8:54 p.m., suspicious person.
200 block of Pine Street - Nov. 22, 9:42 a.m., residence burglary.
Power Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 8:32 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Richmond Drive and Weston Street - Nov. 22, 1:06 p.m., suspicious person.
400 block of Shrewsbury Court - Nov. 22, 12:02 a.m., disturbing the peace.
800 block of Shrewsbury Road - Nov. 22, 11:01 a.m., criminal damage.
4500 block of Tabony Street - Nov. 22, 12:41 a.m., battery.
Transcontinental Drive and West Metairie Avenue - Nov. 22, 5:27 a.m., suspicious person.
3700 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 22, 2:33 p.m., disturbing the peace.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and David Drive - Nov. 22, 8:32 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Interstate 10 - Nov. 22, 2:42 p.m., suspicious person.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Jurgens Street - Nov. 22, 10:05 p.m., suspicious person.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Severn Avenue - Nov. 22, 8:24 p.m., disturbing the peace.
1000 block of West William David Parkway - Nov. 22, 10:29 p.m., theft.

Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/11/jefferson_parish_sheriffs_offi_1164.html

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Nokia has recently made efforts to distinguish its smartphones with advanced photographic capabilities, introducing the PureView 808 with a 41MP rear camera. Now, Nokia's long-time head of imaging and photography Damian Dinning, who has been with the company since 2004, is confirmed to be departing as of November 30. Dinning was also said to have had a key role in Windows Phone imaging software.

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Why Dividend Investors Should Never Touch Principal

By Dividend Growth Investor:I recently read an article from Forbes about generating income in retirement. While I disagree with the portfolio constructed by the editorial staff, what grabbed my attention was the following quote from Lord Greystoke in the movie "Tarzan":
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let the good times roll...: THE Baby Shower

Writing about this baby shower will not do it justice. I almost didn't write about it because I've been content to just relive it over and over in my head. Words will not convey how truly amazing it was.

But here goes.

My friend Lindsay asked if she could throw a baby shower for me a few months ago. Of course I said yes. And thanks to pregnancy brain, I actually forgot about it until Lindsay handed me a keepsake invitation at church. The week leading up to the shower I started feeling bad that my mom and sister were not going to be able to attend. And then I had a fleeting thought: What if my mom and sister actually showed up at this shower to surprise me?! I actually played the scene over and over in my head while I tried to fall asleep one night. I would turn and see them walk in, scream, run and hug them, and then immediately start crying. And that's pretty much what happened.

After thinking about how amazing it would be if they did surprise me, I convinced myself that it would be nearly impossible for them to come to Brooklyn for my baby shower. My grandmother had recently fallen and broken her leg so my mom was at the hospital and then nursing home all day, every day. And my sister works full-time and can't just take days off. So I put the thought out of my head.

The day of the baby shower Lindsay picked me up (which I thought was a little suspicious since she was hosting the baby shower, but I figured she had people helping her set up) and we headed to the church. We walked in and passed the gym, which was set up for what looked like a luncheon. We headed to the Relief Society room where some friends had already gathered. I chatted for a few minutes and then the festivities began.

As Lindsay welcomed people to the baby shower, she said she thought she heard a few more people coming down the hall and poked her head out of the door to see. Lo and behold, my mother and sister walked in right behind her. And it unfolded just as I had imagined it would: screaming, hugging, crying. It was almost as if all the difficulties of this pregnancy came spilling out into my mom's arms, like I was saying, "It's been so hard. I know it will be worth it, but it's really been so hard."

What I didn't anticipate was this overwhelming feeling of just wanting my mom to take me home with her right then and there. Not to my apartment, but to her house in Virginia. As fun as this baby shower was going to be, I wanted nothing more than to just go home with her. I'm almost 28 years old and I turned into that little girl whose mom surprises her at school to eat lunch together, and then cries and begs her mommy to take her home with her instead of leaving her at school. Except she'd be leaving me in Brooklyn. To have a baby.

Once I got over the initial shock of having my mom and sister in the same room, I thought Lindsay would continue the baby shower and we'd all have a grand ol' time.

Then my sister stepped behind me, introduced herself and started explaining the first baby shower game. I still hadn't caught on that my mom and sister were the ones who had actually planned the baby shower. They weren't just there for the baby shower. They had brought the baby shower with them from Virginia!

I kid you not, they literally transported all of the decorations, games, gifts for winners of the games, gifts for me, and food for 30+ people from Virginia to Brooklyn. I still can't believe it. Well, actually I can because if anyone knows my mom, it's totally something she would do.

We played a few games, opened amazing gifts, and then ate a delicious lunch of barbecue sandwiches, coleslaw, cinnamon apples, and of course, cake. (Ukrop's cake at that! They know me too well.)

After everyone left we cleaned everything up and headed to my apartment to surprise Blake and Evan. That's right. Evan didn't even know about it!
My mom and sister were leaving the next day so Blake made the most of his time with Grandma and Aunt Tori. And to be honest, if it hadn't been ward conference, I would've stayed home from church to hang out with them. I was still at the church when they called and told me they were leaving and could swing by and pick me up so I wouldn't have to take the bus home. It took every ounce of strength not to tell them to come get me and just take me with them. Evan could pack our bags and we'd be on our way to a Virginia vacation. I'd figure out the whole having a baby thing later.

Alas, I let them go knowing they'd return in a few short weeks when baby #2 arrived.

Like I said, my words won't do it justice. There's no way I can convey just how amazing it was. I don't even know if the people at the baby shower really understood how amazing it was. But being able to celebrate the impending arrival of this baby with friends AND my mom and sister was just what I needed to make it to the end.

And just how there are no words to describe this incredible day, there are no words to express my gratitude to the people involved in making this baby shower a success. Lindsay, who I now know can keep the secret of all secrets was instrumental in helping my mom and sister pull this whole thing off. And Yeenor, who found out about the surprise the night before when she saw my mom and sister setting up at the church, was so kind and helpful to my mom and sister.

My dad and brother were also a big help. My dad, the ultimate boy scout, rigged up a system for them to transport all the food and other things they needed for this trip. And my brother Jordan was kind enough to let them leave for a few days while he managed things at home.

And of course, my mom and sister. I will never ever forget how loved I felt when I saw them walk in the door. I would've known how much they love me even if they hadn't done all of this elaborate planning and scheming to throw me a baby shower. But it was just another testament of the incredible family of which I am blessed to be a part.

photo cred: Emily Johnson (because I didn't think to bring my own camera...)

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Today's Politics: Coalition of Transformation vs. Coalition of Restoration

This long march of a presidential election, after all its expense and duration, proved far more memorable for what it said about the country than what it revealed about the two men vying to lead it.

Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney ran a particularly inspiring campaign. Each delivered a dud of a convention speech. (Quick: Can you remember a single thing either one said?)

Except for one golden night in Denver, Romney was gaffe-prone, distant, and, as it turned out, possessed of insular, elitist views that radiated contempt for just about anyone who didn?t vote for him. Obama offered a forthright defense of activist government in principle; yet, in practice, he presented an agenda with few, and mostly modest, specifics.

In each case, the candidate?s own performance lagged behind the effort that sprouted around him. Romney?s actual campaign apparatus sputtered (failing to match both Obama?s early ad assault and the closing kick of his turnout operation). But the independent-expenditure campaign that coalesced on his behalf was breathtaking in its scale (if not its results). Obama benefited from a digital-age marvel of a campaign that hit its marks with stunning efficiency--in the negative-ad barrage that stamped Romney?s image as an indifferent plutocrat and in the precisely targeted voter-mobilization system that overwhelmed the GOP efforts. Campaign strategists will profitably study that juggernaut for years.

And yet, what historians are likely to most remember about this campaign is what it revealed about the evolving nature of the country itself and how the parties are positioning themselves against those dynamics. Above all, this was a year when it became clear that, in a time of hurtling change, the two parties now represent a Coalition of Transformation and a Coalition of Restoration.

In terms of shaping the Democrats? long-term trajectory, by far the most important decisions Obama made this year were to dive into the powerful cultural and demographic currents transforming the American landscape. Previously, many party leaders have qualified (or entirely withheld) their support from causes such as gay marriage or legalizing undocumented immigrants, for fear of alienating culturally conservative whites. Obama this year embraced both without qualification; then, for good measure, he accepted a collision with the GOP and the Catholic Church (over the availability of free contraception under health care reform) that crystallized contrasting attitudes about the role of women. Obama, beginning an overdue rebalancing in federal spending, even shifted resources from seniors to the much more racially diverse working-age population by funding health coverage for the uninsured partly through savings in Medicare.

Romney, in his sulfurous postelection remarks, interpreted Obama?s moves as providing voters ?gifts? to buy their support. But these decisions represented nothing more malevolent or unusual than a party responding to the needs of its emerging constituencies.

Obama?s choices undoubtedly contributed to his historically weak showing among older- and blue-collar whites. Yet, with those voters stampeding toward the GOP, Obama won reelection behind a much more ideologically unified coalition than Democrats usually assemble; according to exit polls, four-fifths of his voters, for instance, said they supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Notably, in the exit polls, most Hispanics and African-Americans also said they supported gay marriage. All this means that, compared to even President Clinton?s era, the Democrats are now operating with a largely coherent Coalition of Transformation that will allow (and even pressure) them to align more unreservedly with the big cultural and demographic forces remaking America.

For better or worse, this election more clearly stamped the Republicans as a Coalition of Restoration, overwhelmingly dependent on the votes of whites unsettled by those changes. After Obama?s victory, conservative grandees such as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O?Reilly portrayed the election as something like the Alamo, with true Americans overrun by hordes of benefit-grubbing minorities and young people. ?We are outnumbered,? Limbaugh despaired. Romney capped this keening last week with his postelection diatribe to donors about Obama?s ?gifts?--possibly the bitterest screed from a loser since Richard Nixon declared, ?You won?t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore? after he lost California?s 1962 governor?s race.

Romney?s remarks weren?t just sour grapes; they reflect a widespread fear among the Right that a heavily nonwhite class of ?takers? will vote itself ever-expanding benefits at the expense of mostly white ?makers.? Romney earlier expressed that conviction in his broadside against the ?47 percent,? and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan has made similar arguments for years. Yuval Levin (identified this week by David Brooks as one of the Right?s ?two or three most influential young writers?) recently described Democrats as ?an incoherent amalgam of interest groups ? vying for benefits ? at the expense of other Americans.?

These comments reveal a profound sense of demographic retreat on the Right that makes explicit the sub rosa implications of the tea party?s 2010 cry to ?take back our country.? To the extent that longing means restoring the political dominance of married, churchgoing white families, the most important message of 2012 is that those days are gone. As if with a cannon burst, this election announced the arrival of a reconfigured America. Led by Romney, many in the GOP have responded by raging against it. It?s just a guess, but responding to the needs of this emerging Next America might prove a more profitable long-term strategy.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/todays-politics-coalition-transformation-vs-coalition-restoration-060008398--politics.html

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