Shuttle inches toward retirement home at LA museum

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? At every turn of Endeavour's stop-and-go commute through urban streets, a constellation of spectators trailed along as the space shuttle ploddingly nosed past stores, schools, churches and front yards.

Having escaped out of Earth's atmosphere two dozen times, Endeavour's slow-speed trek Saturday to its retirement center took it through the working-class streets of southern Los Angeles.

In an instant, the shuttle crossings became part of history.

"This is great for the city as a whole. It makes us proud," said Dean Martinez, a project director for a nonprofit who began waiting before dawn to get a glimpse of Endeavour.

Along the 12-mile course, thousands marveled at the engineering. Some rooted for Endeavour when it appeared it might clip a light post.

Others wondered if it could just hurry up to its destination as its planned hour of arrival came and went with the end nowhere in sight.

Endeavour had been scheduled to inch into the California Science Center early Saturday evening to begin its years as a museum piece, but delay after delay pushed the expected arrival time past 1 a.m. Sunday, perhaps hours later.

Agencies scrambled to make new plans. Because it was spending far more hours in darkness than expected, a pair of city fire trucks with generators and huge halogen lights were brought in to accompany it.

Subway and light rail lines further extended their special operating hours well into the night, with some running 24 hours.

The second day of the move started off promising, with Endeavour beginning the day 1? hours ahead of schedule and ending it at least six hours behind.

There was no major single reason for the slowdown ? it was the accumulation of small problems involving maneuvering and maintenance.

They included a small tree on the narrowest section of the move that planners hadn't thought needed removal but ended up bringing the procession to a stop. As crews tried to find ways to tilt and twist the shuttle past the tree, they came close to deciding to cut it down before Endeavor squeezed through. Another slip-up came when it appeared the shuttle was going to hit a light post, and crews again began plans to remove it as the ship slid through.

The crowd had its problems too. Despite temperatures in the mid-70s, more than two dozen people were treated for heat-related injuries after a long day in the sun, according to fire officials.

But incredibly, given the size of the crowd, police reported no arrests.

Unlike other high-profile events like the Academy Awards or the Rose Parade, the procession was centered in some of the area's most economically downtrodden and troubled places. The shuttle passed several gritty areas and shuttered businesses, and rolled down many streets that were aflame two decades earlier during the 1992 riots brought on by the Rodney King beating.

"Having a shuttle come through this area of high poverty, it can only be a good thing" for the community," said Damian Pipkins, a volunteer at Eso Won Books.

Endeavour hit the pavement before dawn Friday, trundling out of the Los Angeles International Airport on a remote-controlled 160-wheel carrier past diamond-shaped "Shuttle Xing" signs. When it reached a freeway overpass that night, it was towed by a truck.

The shuttle made a late-morning pit stop Saturday at the Forum ? former home of the Los Angeles Lakers ? where it was greeted in the arena's parking lot by a throng of cheering spectators. It was late to its second public celebration that included a dance performance choreographed by Debbie Allen.

For most of the way, Endeavour straddled wide boulevards ? Manchester, Crenshaw, Martin Luther King Jr. The one exception was when the shuttle ambled through a slightly curved residential street lined with apartment buildings on both sides ? a spot that caused some delay.

As it wound through South Los Angeles, residents welcomed its presence. Before the move, some lamented over the loss of shade as trees were chopped down to provide clearance.

Others thought it was a decent trade.

"If you have to go through a little bit of pain to have something nice for the community, then it's worth it," said Pamela Tucker, who lives a block away from Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles.

When Endeavour rolls down King Boulevard, special attention will be paid to the pine trees planted in honor of the slain civil rights leader.

Endeavour may have circled the globe nearly 4,700 times, but its roots are grounded in California. Its main engines were fabricated in the San Fernando Valley. The heat tiles were invented in Silicon Valley. Its "fly-by-wire" technology was developed in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.

It's no longer shiny and sleek, like when it first rolled off the assembly line in the Mojave Desert in 1991 to replace the lost Challenger. As it cruised block-by-block, it's hard to miss what 123 million miles in space and two dozen re-entries can do to the exterior.

Shuffling Endeavour through city streets was a laborious undertaking ? nearly a year in the making. It could not be taken apart without damaging the delicate tiles. Airlifting it was out of the question. So was driving on freeways since it was too massive to fit through underpasses.

There were consequences. Several hundred Inglewood residents suffered hours-long outages when power lines were temporarily snipped. Some businesses lost customers because of street and sidewalk closures.

Such a move is not cheap. The cross-town transport was estimated at $10 million, to be paid for by the science center and private donations.

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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shuttle-inches-toward-retirement-home-la-museum-195002257.html

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Sarah Palin's email leads to Alaska high court ruling

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska state employees can use private email accounts for public business but the messages must be preserved under public-records laws, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a case stemming from ex-Governor Sarah Palin's communications practices.

Palin is out of office but the ruling could affect her successor, Governor Sean Parnell, who is involved in his own controversy over public records. Critics have accused Parnell and his aides of using text messages rather than official emails to keep communications out of public view.

Electronic messages about state business are no different from paper communications under the Alaska Public Records Act, the Alaska Supreme Court said in its unanimous 16-page written decision that largely upheld a lower court ruling.

All paper or electronic messages regarding state business must be preserved and made available for public review, in accordance with state law, "and that duty cannot be extinguished by a public official's unreviewable decision simply not to preserve them," the court said.

A spokeswoman for Parnell said that his administration viewed the court's ruling as "favorable."

"Text messages are, by their nature, transitory, so they wouldn't be appropriate for preservation or constitute public records," Parnell's press secretary, Sharon Leighow, told Reuters in an emailed statement.

Friday's decision resulted from a lawsuit filed in 2008 by Andree McLeod, an Anchorage activist who criticized Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president that year, for using private Yahoo accounts to communicate state business.

She and others contended that Palin used private accounts to evade state public-records rules. McLeod also argued that no state business should be conducted on private email accounts.

Open-records requests filed by McLeod and several journalists resulted in release of thousands of pages of Palin emails during her term as governor, many of them from her private accounts. The emails were released in 2011 and earlier this year, long after Palin resigned her post in 2009.

Friday's ruling, though it partially affirmed the lower-court ruling protecting the use of private emails, is a victory for McLeod, her attorney said.

"The Alaska Supreme Court's decision this morning demonstrates the importance of what citizen activists such as Andree McLeod can accomplish to advance the interests of all Alaskans in ensuring that all state employees, from the governor on down, conduct official state business in a manner that at all times and through all means of communication serves the public interest," attorney Don Mitchell said in a statement.

An August 27 opinion by the state legislature's legal adviser concluded that text messages are subject to state public records laws. Parnell's spokeswoman said at the time that the governor disagrees and considers text messages to be "transitory in nature" and difficult to preserve.

A representative for Palin could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Carol Bishopric)

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Orleans Parish voters to decide Nov. 6 how at-large City Council ...

When Orleans Parish voters decide Nov. 6 whether to amend the City Charter to change the way at-large members of the City Council are elected, they will write the final chapter in a strange political saga. If the amendment passes, the two at-large seats would be voted on independently starting?in 2014.

When the proposal was first offered this spring, it sharply divided council members and helped to bring council business to a virtual halt for more than a month. Yet by the time the council voted unanimously in June to submit the charter amendment to voters, the controversy had seemingly evaporated, and since then the issue has been virtually invisible.

Under the current system, in effect since the 1950s, candidates for both at-large, or citywide,?seats run in the same field, with voters allowed to cast ballots for any two. The top two finishers are elected, provided they each get more than 25 percent of the total votes cast. If two candidates do not get 25 percent, a runoff for one or both seats is held.

The proposed change would have the at-large members elected?separately, though at the same time, with all candidates having to declare which seat they are seeking when they qualify. The winners would need to get more than 50 percent of the votes for that seat in a primary or runoff.

The proposal to call an election on the amendment first came before the council May 3, when it failed on a 3-3 tie vote, with three members saying they wanted to study the matter further and hold more public hearings on it before?making up their minds. That result helped spark a walkout by the council's two black members, who did not show up for another meeting until June 7, when they reintroduced virtually the same measure. It then passed June 28 with virtually no discussion.

The debate had begun in early April?when Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell and interim Councilman Eric Granderson introduced an ordinance to call an election on the proposal. Hedge-Morrell and Granderson, both of whom are black,?said the change would ensure that the winners get a majority of the votes cast, which they said is a basic principle of democracy, and the proposal was quickly endorsed by a long list of?elected officials, most of them black.

At present, if all voters cast both at-large votes they are allowed, the requirement for 25 percent of the total votes in fact means the winners would have the support of 50 percent of the voters. But many voters -- sometimes more than a third?of them?-- choose to vote for only one at-large candidate, with the result that candidates can be elected by a minority of those taking part in the election.

Although the proposed change?would seem to have?no obvious racial implications, the issue became so controversial because many supporters think the change could help increase African-American representation on the council, which since 2007 has had a majority of white members, even though about 60 percent of New Orleans residents are black. Both current at-large members are white.

Many black leaders say they think white candidates sometimes have manipulated the system by encouraging their supporters, openly or tacitly, to vote for a single at-large candidate. That practice, known as "single shooting," in effect increases the value of each vote cast for a single candidate.

However, there is no real evidence that electing the two at-large members independently would increase the likelihood black candidates would be elected. In fact, the two current white at-large members?first won their seats by defeating an African-American?opponent in one-on-one?runoffs.

Even if the proposal passes, the current two-term limit for at-large members would remain in effect, meaning that a candidate could not serve two terms in one seat and then run for the other one.

The Bureau of Governmental Research, a nonpartisan watchdog organization, has taken no position on the proposal, saying that both options "have significant advantages and disadvantages." It says the current method "gives voters the greatest choice," since they can vote for any two at-large candidates they like, and that having to run for a specific seat could "encourage more political maneuvering by candidates" as they decide which seat to seek.

BGR notes that the proposed change would require both at-large winners to get at least 50 percent of the vote, which many people believe is a basic tenet of representative democracy. However, it points out, many U.S. presidents have been elected with less than 50 percent of the popular vote, and some states do not require runoffs?in elections, meaning that governors, legislators and other office holders also can be elected without getting a majority of the total vote.

Locally, BGR notes, Slidell, Mandeville and Covington have single-field elections for their two at-large council members, like the current system in New Orleans, while Jefferson Parish and Kenner hold separate elections for two at-large seats, like the proposed charter change. St. Bernard, St. Charles and St. John the Baptist parishes divide their two at-large seats geographically, with candidates having to run for the seat representing the part of the parish where they live.

Source: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/orleans_parish_voters_to_decid.html

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Raw Macaroons | Raw Maca Balls | Healthy Blender Recipes

It is DAY 12 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we are celebrating our Breville Sous Chef? Food Processor Giveaway with the GORGEOUS and multi-talented?Julie Morris from SuperFood Cuisine. If this lovely lady doesn't make you hop into live foods nothing will! I first came in contact with Julie after reading Brendan Brazier's FABULOUS book, THRIVE FOODS, where Julie contributed many of the delicious vegan recipes. It was a glorious discovery that made me a Julie Morris devotee :)

Julie Morris is a Los Angeles-based natural food chef, recipe developer, writer, blogger, and advocate for whole, plant-based foods and superfoods for optimal health. She has a penchant for creating remarkable, nutrient-dense, health-boosting vegan recipes with unique and balanced flavour profiles. Julie has worked in the natural food industry for close to a decade. She is the wonderful presenter of the?Navitas Naturals TV Video Series,?and the host of her own web-based cooking show,?Superfoods With Jules, featuring simple, healthy and delicious recipes.

Julie is also the author of the sensational vegan cookbook,?SUPERFOOD CUISINE: Cooking with Nature?s Most Amazing Foods, where she?shows readers in spectacular fashion how to incorporate "superfoods" in a variety of fun and tasty ways to increase energy levels and longevity. This book explains the philosophy behind "Super Foods", demystifies how to use them, and inspires creativity with over 100 plant-based, delicious, easy dishes that include:?Carrot & Yacon Root Soup, Quinoa With Secret Pesto & Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Sacha Inchi Buckeyes, No Bake Brownies, and these delicious Raw Vegan Maca Macaroons.?

In the book, there is also a handy guide to over 30 Top Superfoods highlighting nutritional benefits, flavor profiles and recommended uses; a?convenient "New Superfood Pantry" list of what you need and where to find these special foods;?Natural Cooking Techniques and Product Sources; a nifty "Superfood Substitution Cheat Sheet"; and stunning full colour photography.

You can also find AMAZING healthy plant-based recipes on Julie's website. Some of my favourites are: the Chocolate Goodness Smoothie, Creamy Hemp Hummus, Chilled Cream of Beet Soup, Goldenberrry Glazed Acorn Squash with Pecans, Spaghetti Squash with Gourmet Herb Marinara, Fresh Fettucini Puttanesca, Japanese Pumpkin Pie, and?Lemon Coconut Breakfast Bars. YUMMO! What I love about Julie's recipes is that they use simple fresh ingredients, are SO easy, and all taste DELICIOUS!?

The Raw Vegan Maca Macarooons she is sharing today are a glorious example of her simple, yet delectable creations. Julie says of this recipe, "Cookies with benefits ? now that?s a way to live! Easy to make and deliciously full of natural ingredients, the combination of maca and brazil nuts tastes almost like peanut butter ? with a coconutty embrace of course. The results are quite irresistible." I couldn't agree more. The flavour of these cookies is incredible. SO easy and SOOOO good. NOT to be missed!?

Julie also shares valuable information on her blog, such as: How To Increase Your Greens, Tips on Juicing, Foods To Combat Allergies, Organic Cleansing, Hemp History, and so much more. Be sure to check out her cooking videos: No Bake Brownies, Acai-Berry Jam, Indigo Granita Dessert, Creamy Hemp Hummus and Asian Carrot Avocado Salad, and more.?

Trust me, check out the extraordinary Julie Morris, and I dare you not to fall in love with her!
Julie, thankyou for graciously sharing your fabulous recipe and participating in this event.?
You are AMAZING....

Reprinted with permission from Superfood Kitchen ? 2012 by Julie Morris, Sterling Epicure, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Photography by Julie Morris

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EU detractors slam Nobel Peace Prize decision

LONDON (AP) ? While some Europeans swelled with pride after the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, howls of derision erupted from the continent's large band of skeptics.

To many in the 27-nation bloc, the EU is an unwieldy and unloved agglomeration overseen by a top-heavy bureaucracy devoted to creating arcane regulations about everything from cheese to fishing quotas. Set up with noble goals after the devastation of World War II, the EU now appears to critics as impotent amid a debt crisis that has widened north-south divisions, threatened the euro currency and plunged several members, from Greece to Ireland to Spain, into economic turmoil.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

The vocal anti-EU politicians known as euroskeptics burst into a chorus of disdain.

"First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant," tweeted Daniel Hannan, a euroskeptic European lawmaker ? yes, such things exist ? from Britain's Conservative Party.

Nigel Farage, head of the U.K. Independence Party ? which wants Britain to withdraw from the union ? called the peace prize "an absolute disgrace."

"Haven't they had their eyes open?" he said, arguing that Europe was facing "increasing violence and division," with mass protests from Madrid to Athens over tax hikes and job cuts and growing resentment of Germany, the union's rich and powerful economic anchor.

And Dutch populist lawmaker Geert Wilders scoffed: "Nobel prize for the EU. At a time (when) Brussels and all of Europe is collapsing in misery. What next?"

THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING

Britain, which has been an EU member since the 1970s but likes to keep an English Channel-wide distance between itself and the union, gave a muted reaction. Prime Minister David Cameron's office had no comment ? a safe policy for the leader of a Conservative Party deeply divided between pro- and -anti-EU camps.

The Foreign Office noted, tersely, that the award "recognizes the EU's historic role in promoting peace and reconciliation in Europe, particularly through its enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. The EU must always strive to preserve and strengthen those achievements."

Conservative lawmaker and former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind, whose party is deeply divided on Britain's role in the EU, probably spoke for many Britons when he called the decision slightly eccentric.

"If they want to give the prize for preserving the peace in Europe, they should divide it between NATO and the EU," he said. "Until the end of the Cold War, it was NATO more than anyone else that kept the peace."

Others praised the union's role in reuniting post-Communist Europe but pointed out its greatest failure ? the inability to halt the bloody Balkan wars that raged just outside the EU's borders during the 1990s.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

Some Europeans wondered whether all of the EU's 500 million residents could claim a share of the glory ? and the $1.2 million prize money.

"I've just won the Nobel Peace Prize? How exciting," tweeted CNN's British talk show host Piers Morgan.

"As a member of the EU, I am delighted to accept the Nobel Peace Prize," joked British playwright Dan Rebellato on Twitter. "I shall keep it in the spare room, in case people want to look at it."

BBC business correspondent Robert Peston wondered whether everyone in the EU would get a share of the prize money, which works out to about a quarter of a cent per person.

"What will you spend yours on?" he asked followers on Twitter.

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-detractors-slam-nobel-peace-prize-decision-140022133.html

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Meteorite delivers Martian secrets to University of Alberta researcher

Friday, October 12, 2012

A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated. University of Alberta researcher Chris Herd helped in the study of the Tissint meteorite, in which traces of Mars' unique atmosphere are trapped.

"Our team matched traces of gases found inside the Tissint meteorite with samples of Mars' atmosphere collected in 1976 by Viking, NASA's Mars lander mission," said Herd.

Herd explained that 600 million years ago the meteorite started out as a fairly typical volcanic rock on the surface of Mars when it was launched off the planet by the impact of an asteroid.

"At the instant of that impact with Mars, a shock wave shot through the rock," said Herd. "Cracks and fissures within the rock were sealed instantly by the heat, trapping components of Mars' atmosphere inside, and forming black, glassy spots."

The team estimates that for a period between 700,000 and one million years the rock floated through outer space until July, 2011 when it streaked through Earth's atmosphere landing in Morocco.

This is only the fifth time a Martian meteorite landing was witnessed. Herd says the fact that it was picked up just a few months after landing and was not subjected to weathering or contamination on this planet is the key reason why this meteorite is so important.

The Martian weathering involved water, which means water was present on the surface of Mars within the past few hundred million years. But Herd says this meteorite sample does not carry any evidence the water supported any life forms.

"Because the Martian rock was subject to such intense heat any water borne microbial life forms that may have existed deep within cracks of the rock would have been destroyed," said Herd.

Curiosity, NASA's current Mars Rover mission is moving around the Red Planet searching for more information on the history of Mars.

The team's study makes a return mission to Mars that will bring rocks back to Earth all the more crucial, "Martian rocks delivered to Earth by a space craft would provide the best opportunity to see if life was ever clinging to the surface of Mars."

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Published online Oct.11 in the journal Science.

University of Alberta: http://www.ualberta.ca

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Smart tips to expand your online business - WorldNgayon ...

Now-a-days, expansion of a business requires exertion and capital. The chief goal of an online business is to attract the clients. Most internet users spend only a half second visiting a site. So in this precised time limit, the web page should attract the user to sign in and close the deal.? Customers get attracted to the home page of a website only when there are compelling offers.

Here are few tips to expand your online business

  • A perfect plan results in growth of a successful online business so plan ahead and strive for triumph. Set short term and long term goals and achieve the targets. Also, plan for the upcoming sources of takings. One must choose the right time for expanding any business.
  • Offering discounts on the prices is a technique to attract the customers.
  • Upsurge your web manifestation by yourself or by hiring professional broadcasting interventions.
  • Provide customer service online. When a customer visits the website, customer support can be more appealing to gain the customer?s gratitude as client upkeep is the life blood to any organization.
  • Come up with better collateral and customize banner ads which grab the attention of professionals. Use catchphrases, this adds a new look to your web page too.
  • Make use of social networking like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and create a fan page. As the no. of likes increases, so will the yield.? This helps you to connect with many people. It is the right place to bring together your contractors, patrons and contenders. Consecutively, you have to check, share the product info and collect their thoughts too to develop the business.
  • Launch videos and books related to the services you offer. This not only promotes your commerce but also gets you know the suggestions and feedback of the products.
  • Always, scrutinize your competitors to know their ideologies and thus, you can implement different tenders to beat the contention.
  • Every time you launch new products or ideas, keep in touch with regulars and update them. This bonds up the relation between the vendors and shoppers and generates sales boost up.
  • Opt for Payday loans if you run short of money. These are the simple and best short term loans offered without any credit check. The money can be funded back after you receive the next pay cheque.
  • Broaden your horizons when the market for your product descends. Diversification is the only solution to pursue even if the sales are down.
  • In the web for best optimization results, employ HTML tags. At times, the rank of your website is decided based on emphasizing these tags.

Thus, by maintaining low monetary methods and applying the listed guidelines helps procure the growth of prolific online business.

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Security, Social Networks, and Education | Get Your Geek On!

computerWith today?s teachers and students joining social networks it?s not hard for either the teacher or the students to be caught up in the moment and forget that even though joining is education related, you are at the mercy of the social network not your school when it comes to your security on the site.? They have the say so.? They make the rules, they cause the problems when private information is leaked.? They also cause the problems of pictures that were meant to stay on your profile to be distributed to the masses on the Internet.? Yes you can take every precaution there is available to you on the social network.? But that is no guarantee it will stay private.?

Humans can be a silly species

You see? Humans are a peculiar bunch of individuals.? They tend to forget the past very easily when things go wrong, and information is leaked all over the Internet.?? They have this idea that they are invincible.? ?No! that wont happen to me, that will never happen to me.??? But the crazy thing is it?s probably already happen to them, they just ignored it, or put it in the back of their mind.?? Has it happened to you?? Yes it has.? When Facebook had their not so little glitch hundreds or thousands of members that had their profiles private were open to the public for the whole world to see.? The crazy thing that happen next was instead of people leaving in droves, they chose to stay, and Facebook got a spike in new memberships.

Before you go saying that the glitch was just a minor incident.? Just remember there has been many of these glitches.? You can see one here, and here there is this one, plus this one.? CBS said it best when they published an article on this very topic.? They listed several ways your profile can be at risk on Facebook.

? Your information is being shared with third parties

? Privacy settings revert to a less safe default mode after each redesign

? Facebook ads may contain malware

? Your real friends unknowingly make you vulnerable

? Scammers are creating fake profiles

Meanwhile back at home people are totally ignorant to what just happen to them .? But the fact is the risks on Facebook have happened time and time again.

Woe Education

Here comes educators signing up in droves followed by their students signing up in droves too.? It?s a cool thing to sign up at Facebook.? Yes I know the lure in doing this.? Everyone wants to be popular.? Everyone including the pet has an account on Facebook.? Babies have accounts too.? The last baby I saw on Facebook the parents were downright stupid.? If I could of reached through my monitor and slapped them I would of.? Why you ask?? Because the idiots put their child?s full name on the profile.? Plus the address, and the parents (full) names.? Why is this so bad?? Identity theft.? The thief has all the information they need thanks to the kids parents.? Of course this wont affect the parents ever not until baby grows up and hits the streets on their own, and finds out someone has been using their name and address for seventeen or eighteen years.? Now grown baby can?t get a College loan.

Anyways?enough of Facebook lets get back to education

Below is an infograph on posting in social networks.? It?s not just Facebook.? You need to be one step ahead of all of them.? Look at this and understand it.? If you have a problem look it up online.? I could post the nitty gritty here, but your better off looking this stuff up yourself because it will help you to retain it for later reference.?? Click on the picture to get a larger view.? Teachers you need to be aware of this.? Students you need to learn now that not everyone has your best interest at heart.? I don?t mean your teacher I mean the Internet in general.? The whole Internet is nothing but a money making machine for many.? Some will get rich regardless of whom they step on, or expose their private personal information and keep calling it a glitch when in fact it?s not.? They don?t care you are just a needle in a hay stack.? Facebook could lose hundreds of thousands of members next week, and it would not faze them.? They have over a billion members.

The truth is?

You need only to post as little as possible private information.? Use an old address, don?t be posting your wage earnings, don?t be flashy with what you own.? No full names.? Do not tag photos. No school names,? Leave those maps alone if you post often to those someone could eventually figure out where you live.? If you must use the maps use a time delay.? Like post after you have left, or have gotten home.? Not every time you go out. Use no maiden names.? Don?t upload your official signature.?? Try not to post pictures that have expensive valuables in the background.? No mascots, bus numbers, phone numbers, home address. Lets do our best to keep our students, and teachers safe on social networks.

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BET's Hip Hop Awards Recap, Featuring Winners and 2012 Cypher ...

If you missed last night?s BET Hip Hop Awards, you missed a good and bad show. While there were performances that stood out and artist that respectfully represented the music industry, there were some unfortunate activities that didn?t need to take place. Ironically, Kanye West, appeared on his best behavior as he received the lion?s share of trophies at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards. In addition to a recap of winners and losers of BET?s 2012 Hip Hop Awards we have also included BET?s 2012 cypher video featuring Snoop Dogg. You can watch this highlight of the evening at the end of this article.

The rapper, who led the charge with 17 nominations, was honored in categories including Best Hip Hop Style and Producer of the Year at the ceremony, which aired in the U.S. on Tuesday.

His hit collaboration with Jay-Z, N**gas in Paris, was named Track of the Year as well as Best Club Banger, while the stars were crowned the Best Live Performers and their Watch The Throne album was voted CD of the Year.

Other big winners included Kendrick Lamar (Lyricist of the Year), 2 Chainz (Rookie of the Year), and Jay-Z (Hustler of the Year).

The prize giving, which was hosted by comedian Mike Epps, was taped in Atlanta, Georgia on Sept. 29 and featured performances by Sean ?Diddy? Combs, Missy Elliott and 50 Cent.

The BET Hip-Hop Awards 2012 cypher video featuring West Coast rap stars Snoop Dogg (aka ?Snoop Lion?), Kendrick Lamar, and Xzibit, among others, may have stolen the recent awards show freestyle sessions. However, there?s some serious competition from several other segments shown on the night.

Other?Hip-Hop cyphers?from the latest installment of BET?s awards show included the Ruff Ryders, a ?Man With the Iron Fists? session with RZA DJing, and another with T.I., B.o.B, and Grand Hustle all freestyling. However, there?s a standout performance?that arrives via the West Coast, thanks to strong verses from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, and newcomer Kendrick Lamar.

Also joining the West Coast crew were E40, DJ Quik, Kurupt, and YG, as the rappers all sit or stand around a table featuring a high stakes dominos game. The West Coast Cypher video features an addition over 5:30 in length, it?s clear that most of the rappers hold their weight up, with Kurupt probably getting the lowest score on the rounds. Then again, it?s tough to follow a top-notch verse from longtime rap star Xzibit, who still has it despite his?movie?appearances and ?Pimp My Ride? hosting gigs. to the beat which is made by Quick slapping the table and hitting his ring down to add some more kick. Lasting

Kendrick Lamar also proves why he?s one of the best rising stars in?the game?today, delivering a fast paced and hard-hitting verse which finishes with talk of how ?Snoop passed the torch to burn other rappers with.? E40 and Snoop show why they?re all-time legends from the West as well, with Snoop Lion saved for the last freestyle of the session as the beat changes up just enough to emphasize the rap star from Long Beach during his delivery.

Overall, this may rank as the top hip-hop cypher of the BET awards show. If one were to add some other West Coast stars, then Game, Too Short, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube would be surefire additions for most hip hop fans. However, it?s clear that not everyone can be pleased. Still this cypher surely stole the show compared to the several others with honorable mention going to the likes of Talib Kweli and Childish Gambino for standout verses during their sessions.

Here are the list of winners for this year?s BET Hip-Hop Awards:

Reese?s Perfect Combo: G.O.O.D Music, ?Mercy?
Hip-Hop Video Director of the Year: Hype Williams
Track of the Year: ?Ni?as in Paris,? Jay-Z and Kanye West
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse: 2 Chainz, ?Mercy?
Rookie of the Year: 2 Chainz
Producer of the Year: Kanye West
People?s Champ?Award: ?Otis,? Jay-Z and Kanye West
MVP of the Year: Rick Ross
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style): Kanye West
Lyricist of the Year: Kendrick Lamar
Impact Track: ?Daughters,? Nas
Hustler of the Year: Jay-Z
CD of the Year: Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West
Best Mixtape: Dreamchasers 2, Meek Mill
Best Live Performer: Jay-Z and Kanye West
Best Hip-Hop Video: ?H.Y.F.R,? Drake featuring Lil Wayne
Best Club Banger: ?Ni?as in Paris,? Jay-Z and Kanye West
DJ of the Year: DJ Khaled
Best Hip-Hop Online Site: World Star Hip Hop

Source: http://guardianlv.com/2012/10/bets-hip-hop-awards-recap-featuring-winners-and-2012-cypher-video-with-snoop-dogg/

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