Apple showed its HDMI mirroring product with little fanfare yesterday but more than one commenter has us thinking that this might be an interesting gaming option. Obviously Angry birds mirrored onto an HDTV won’t change the world, but perhaps playing some of the more hard core games over a wire might be something special. Think Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : 9 to 5 Mac Discovery Date : 03/03/2011 01:25 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Danica Mendivil, Brandon Davies’ Girlfriend: BYU Basketball Player’s Significant Other Revealed The girlfriend of Brandon Davies , the BYU forward who was kicked off the team for having pre-martial sex, has been revealed. According to RadarOnline, Davies’ girlfriend is Danica Mendivil, a freshman on the volleyball team at Arizona State University. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) Sports-Tells: BYU Basketball Player Brandon Davies Suspended for Premarital Sex With His Girlfriend Brigham Young University (BYU), student Brandon Davies was suspended from the Cougars basketball team for one year because he broke the schools “Honor Code” by having sex with his girlfriend. ****Blankstare*** (BYU) made the decision to kick standout center Brandon Davies off the basketball team because he violated the school’s honor code provision that prohibits premarital sex. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) BYU Basketball Player Suspended for Premarital Sex BYU center Brandon Davies was suspended from the Cougars’ nationally ranked team for the remainder of the season because he violated the school’s honor code provision that prohibits premarital sex..Cougars coach Dave Rose addressed Davies’ dismissal for the first time, saying, “I think it was a surprise to everyone.”.Asked whether he believes Davies will play basketball for BYU again, Rose said, “yeah, I do.” ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) Tribune: BYU hoops star suspended for premarital sex Brigham Young University has suspended star basketball player Brandon Davies from its nationally ranked team for violating the school honor code that prohibits premarital sex, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. BYU officials publicly have said only that Davies violated the school’s honor code and that his actions were not criminal in nature. The suspension applies for the rest of the basketball season. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) BYU Player Suspended: What did Brandon Davies Do? Brigham Young University’s No. 3 ranked basketball team suffered a major setback after forward Brandon Davie s’ honor code violation got him dismissed from the team for the remainder of the season. There is no indication that Davies was arrested, and BYU officials confirmed Wednesday that Davies wasn’t involved in a criminal incident, ESPN reports. So what did Brandon Davies do? School officials aren’t saying, but it is worth noting that BYU has one of the strictest, if not the strictest honor codes in the country. “The code forbids premarital sex, the use of alcohol and illegal drugs, and cheating on schoolwork.” Students are expected to live a chaste and virtuous life, attend church regularly, as well as abstaining from tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse. Thus, Brandon Davies’ honor code violation remains a mystery. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) Star Mormon basketball player suspended from BYU team for having sex with girlfriend * 6ft 9in Brandon Davies violated BYU’s honour code * Team ranked third in the country before his suspension * BYU lost to unranked team in first game without him A star college basketball player at one of the country’s most respected teams has been suspended for having sex with his girlfriend. Brandon Davies, a 6ft 9in centre for Mormon college Brigham Young University (BYU), violated the school’s honour code banning sex before marriage. The college, in Provo, Utah, obliges students to live a ‘chaste and virtuous life’. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) Should BYU really suspend a basketball player for having sex? Sophomore center Brandon Davies was booted off the team for sleeping with his girlfriend, which violates the conservative school’s exacting honor code On Wednesday, Utah’s Brigham Young University announced that it would suspend starting center Brandon Davies from the school’s basketball team for having premarital sex with his girlfriend. BYU, which is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is known for its strictness. It also forbids coffee, smoking, and dishonesty of any kind. Still, the news came as a shock to college basketball fans, since the 6-foot-9-inch Davies had been an integral part of BYU’s dominant Cougars, who are among the nation’s top teams. Davies himself has expressed remorse for his actions, but did the school go too far? ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) BYU player suspended for having sex PROVO, Utah, March 3 (UPI) — A star Brigham Young University basketball player has been suspended for the rest of the season for having premarital sex, the Utah school confirmed. Brandon Davies, 19, was suspended from the Cougars’ nationally-ranked team for the remainder of the season and apologized to his teammates for violating the school’s honor code, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) College basketball star suspended for allegedly having premarital sex Brigham Young University has suspended a star basketball player for violating the school’s strict code of honour by allegedly having premarital sex with his girlfriend. The Utah-based school, owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , said in a statement that BYU Cougars’ centre Brandon Davies will not play with the team for the remainder of the 2010-11 season due to a “violation” of the university’s honour code. “Some decisions regarding Davies’ future on the basketball team and at the university are yet to be determined,” said the statement. ( Read BYU Basketball Player Suspended more… ) byu honor code, byu, brandon davies girlfriend, brandon davies, byu davies Courtesy : The Huffington Post , Twana Tells , Terez Owens , USA Today , Find Law , Daily Mail , The Week , UPI , The Star
Continue reading …CIA World Factbook : A Surprisingly Good Source of Information The democratic revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and quite possibly Algeria, Jordan and Yemen could possibly be the biggest world-changing events of our burgeoning 21st century. For those wishing to learn more, the United States Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) publishes online The World Factbook which is an excellent source of information on almost every country in the world. Case in point: Check out Egypt and expand the People tab; you’ll indeed see how young the average Egyptian really is. It’s no wonder they’re adept at using Facebook and Twitter to organize peaceful protests to demand a democratic government: Courtesy : BulletproofCourier
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Continue reading …Another day and another poll comes out in support of unions and against the arrogant and dangerous new breed of Republican Governor’s like Scott Walker who want to strip away collective bargaining. And it’s in the WSJ: Americans strongly oppose efforts to strip unionized government workers of their rights to collectively bargain, even as they want public employees to contribute more money to their retirement and health-care benefits, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows. Eliminating collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers over health care, pensions or other benefits would be either “mostly unacceptable” or “totally unacceptable,” 62% of those surveyed said. Only 33% support such limits. The results don’t bode well for Wisconsin’s newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker , who is locked in a standoff with statehouse Democrats and unionized state workers over these rights. Many of the Republicans gearing up to take on President Barack Obama in 2012 have seized on the budget battle in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state, as evidence the country wants to dramatically scale back government spending. And how does the Tea Party feel about all of this? More than seven in 10 tea party backers feared GOP lawmakers wouldn’t go far enough in cutting spending. But more than half of all respondents fear Republicans will go too far. Among those most fearing spending cuts are younger voters, independents, seniors and suburban women, all of them usually key swing voters in national elections who potentially could turn against the GOP. “It may be hard to understand why someone would try to jump off a cliff” to solve the debt crisis, Mr. McInturff said of his fellow Republicans, “unless you understand that they are being chased by a tiger, and that tiger is the tea party.” Ouch. This story resonates, and it doesn’t put the GOP in a good light. Greg Sargent is tallying up the polls and four polls all show solid support for public workers and comes to the right conclusion. Indeed, the verdict is clear: Americans support public employees in this standoff. Whether that will impact the outcome of the fight, of course, remains to be seen. But the bigger story here — one that will ripple far beyond what happens in Wisconsin — is that public employees are not proving the easy scapegoat many predicted they would be, and when faced with the question of whether their fundamental union rights should be taken away, Americans have stepped up and answered with a firm No.
Continue reading …Another day and another poll comes out in support of unions and against the arrogant and dangerous new breed of Republican Governor’s like Scott Walker who want to strip away collective bargaining. And it’s in the WSJ: Americans strongly oppose efforts to strip unionized government workers of their rights to collectively bargain, even as they want public employees to contribute more money to their retirement and health-care benefits, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows. Eliminating collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers over health care, pensions or other benefits would be either “mostly unacceptable” or “totally unacceptable,” 62% of those surveyed said. Only 33% support such limits. The results don’t bode well for Wisconsin’s newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker , who is locked in a standoff with statehouse Democrats and unionized state workers over these rights. Many of the Republicans gearing up to take on President Barack Obama in 2012 have seized on the budget battle in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state, as evidence the country wants to dramatically scale back government spending. And how does the Tea Party feel about all of this? More than seven in 10 tea party backers feared GOP lawmakers wouldn’t go far enough in cutting spending. But more than half of all respondents fear Republicans will go too far. Among those most fearing spending cuts are younger voters, independents, seniors and suburban women, all of them usually key swing voters in national elections who potentially could turn against the GOP. “It may be hard to understand why someone would try to jump off a cliff” to solve the debt crisis, Mr. McInturff said of his fellow Republicans, “unless you understand that they are being chased by a tiger, and that tiger is the tea party.” Ouch. This story resonates, and it doesn’t put the GOP in a good light. Greg Sargent is tallying up the polls and four polls all show solid support for public workers and comes to the right conclusion. Indeed, the verdict is clear: Americans support public employees in this standoff. Whether that will impact the outcome of the fight, of course, remains to be seen. But the bigger story here — one that will ripple far beyond what happens in Wisconsin — is that public employees are not proving the easy scapegoat many predicted they would be, and when faced with the question of whether their fundamental union rights should be taken away, Americans have stepped up and answered with a firm No.
Continue reading …‘On Faith’ Trumpets Theological ‘Strange Bedfellows’ Defending Planned Parenthood Federal Funding
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Defending their “Shared commitment to women and children,” on the Washington Post/Newsweek's “On Faith” site, the Revs. Richard Cizik and Debra Haffner joined forces today support federal tax monies flowing to Planned Parenthood. Cizik, you may recall, is a bit of a media favorite because he hails from a generally theologically conservative tradition but has been moving leftward politically over the past few years. Haffner is liberal theologically and politically, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and the former president of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a group that lobbies to end federal funding of abstinence-until-marriage sex ed programs . As we've noted, the On Faith feature often skews liberal in theology and politics, and the Cizik/Haffner tag-team fits hand-in-glove with the leftward tack of the site. Here's the duo's argument against defunding Planned Parenthood (emphases mine): Although we hold differing moral values about abortion , we share a commitment that because life is sacred, it should never be created carelessly or unintentionally. That is why we both support the Title X family planning program, which helps avert nearly one million pregnancies in the United States annually. That is why we have a shared belief in international family planning programs, because we know that maternal mortality around the world could be reduced by more than 70 percent by improved access to reproductive health services. We support domestic and international family planning because we know it reduces neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality, including deaths attributable to unsafe abortions–and it helps build strong families and lives.
Continue reading …‘On Faith’ Trumpets Theological ‘Strange Bedfellows’ Defending Planned Parenthood Federal Funding
March 3, 2011 No CommentDefending their “Shared commitment to women and children,” on the Washington Post/Newsweek's “On Faith” site, the Revs. Richard Cizik and Debra Haffner joined forces today support federal tax monies flowing to Planned Parenthood. Cizik, you may recall, is a bit of a media favorite because he hails from a generally theologically conservative tradition but has been moving leftward politically over the past few years. Haffner is liberal theologically and politically, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and the former president of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a group that lobbies to end federal funding of abstinence-until-marriage sex ed programs . As we've noted, the On Faith feature often skews liberal in theology and politics, and the Cizik/Haffner tag-team fits hand-in-glove with the leftward tack of the site. Here's the duo's argument against defunding Planned Parenthood (emphases mine): Although we hold differing moral values about abortion , we share a commitment that because life is sacred, it should never be created carelessly or unintentionally. That is why we both support the Title X family planning program, which helps avert nearly one million pregnancies in the United States annually. That is why we have a shared belief in international family planning programs, because we know that maternal mortality around the world could be reduced by more than 70 percent by improved access to reproductive health services. We support domestic and international family planning because we know it reduces neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality, including deaths attributable to unsafe abortions–and it helps build strong families and lives.
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It’s tough to get solid numbers out of Sony for hardware sales, usually they’re cloaked behind a vague “shipped” figure, but at GDC this week the company gave us one rather impressive number: 41 million. That’s the number of PS3 consoles the company says it has sold worldwide, and over 80 percent are sucking down data from ye olde internet. Confirming the moneymaking trend we heard about last month , in 2010 the PlayStation store saw a 60 percent boost in traffic and a 70 percent boost in revenue from a total of 70 million PSN accounts. Let’s see… 70 million PSN user accounts, 41 million PS3 consoles, 80 percent of which are online — that means almost everyone has one account for gaming and a second for griefing. Sounds about right. Sony celebrates PS3 success at GDC, 41 million sold worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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