Chiefs OC says Alex Smith is NFL's best QB

Updated: August 1, 2013, 11:23 AM ET

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The Kansas City Chiefs paid a steep price to acquire Alex Smith this offseason, but according to offensive coordinator Doug Pederson, Kansas City got a steal. Pederson considers the quarterback the best in the NFL.

"Ultimately, every team has to have a quarterback," Pederson told The Kansas City Star. "I think we have the best in the league."

That's high praise considering some of the star quarterbacks in the NFL. Smith finished seventh in Total QBR, ESPN's quarterback rating system, last season (70.1). Peyton Manning (84.1) finished first, followed by Tom Brady (77.1), Colin Kaepernick (76.8), who replaced Smith in San Francisco, Matt Ryan (74.5), Aaron Rodgers (72.5) and Robert Griffin III?(71.4).

"There are a lot of great ones, but over time, Alex has proven he can get it done," Pederson told the newspaper. "He's a sharp guy, he brings a wealth of knowledge, he's experienced, he's a proven winner the last couple of years, and he needs a team to embrace him."

The Chiefs traded a second-round pick in April's draft and a conditional selection in next year's draft that could be high as a second-rounder to the San Francisco 49ers to get Smith to be their starting quarterback.

Smith had become the hottest trade commodity in the league after flourishing two years ago, when he led the 49ers to the NFC Championship Game. The former No. 1 overall pick started nine games last season but was sidelined by a head injury midway through the year.

That opened the door for Kaepernick, who sprinted right through it. Kaepernick played so well that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh made him the starter the rest of the season, forcing Smith to watch from the sidelin as the team played in the Super Bowl.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Source: http://espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp13/story/_/id/9527876/alex-smith-kansas-city-chiefs-best-qb-doug-pederson-says

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Motorola Is Selling Its Moto X Superphone With Dick Jokes

The Moto X leaves a terrific first impression. It's well-built, it's fast, it comes in a variety of trims. On the one hand, it exudes the kind of class that you'd expect from mature, seasoned companies like Google and Motorola. On the other hand, dick jokes.

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Eclectic group to enter Pro Football Hall of Fame

CANTON, Ohio (AP) ? While his six other classmates for this weekend's enshrinement sported blue golf shirts given them by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Cris Carter was dressed in suit and tie.

He might never take them off.

"Man, I am in the Hall of Fame. I am wearing a suit every day," Carter said Friday as the 50th anniversary festivities for the hall began.

Carter will join Jonathan Ogden, Larry Allen, Bill Parcells, Warren Sapp, Dave Robinson and Curley Culp as the newest inductees on Saturday night. He was, by far, the most emotional during a news conference Friday as festivities began for the 50th anniversary celebration of the hall.

The only member of the Class of 2013 who didn't win an NFL title, Carter used a handkerchief to wipe away the tears when asked about his career and the fact it took six tries to get elected.

"Minnesota fans didn't judge me when a lot of bad things were being said about me," Carter said, frequently pausing to regain his composure. "They always cheered for Cris. The only thing I really wish is we could've won that championship for those people. What they did for my life, every day I went out there, I played for those people."

Carter was exiled from Philadelphia in 1989 after off-field problems, including drug and alcohol issues. The first one to call him and offer a job was Parcells.

Carter ever told his agent he wanted to go to the Giants, but he wound up with the Vikings, who had a stronger need for a wide receiver. All Carter did the rest of his 16-season career was wind up second at his retirement in 2002 behind Jerry Rice for all-time receptions and touchdowns. He's fourth in those categories now.

As he mentioned, though, he doesn't have that championship. For the other six, those Super Bowl rings will have a blinding shine to them Saturday night.

Parcells was a winner of two NFL titles as a coach and master of the franchise turnaround. Ogden, one of the premier offensive tackles of his time, grabbed a Super Bowl ring in 2000. Larry Allen, a 1995 champion with Dallas, was the rare equal of Ogden on the offensive line in their era.

Sapp, an outstanding defensive tackle with a personality as big as any football stadium, won the 2002 championship in Tampa Bay. Robinson, a major cog in Green Bay's championship machine under Vince Lombardi, won the first two Super Bowls. Culp, one of the original pass-rushing demons at defensive tackle, got his ring with the 1969 Chiefs.

Quite a group, and a record 121 hall members are expected to attend the ceremonies.

"It's somewhat overwhelming," said Ogden, the Baltimore Ravens' first-ever draft choice and the first team member elected to the hall. "You look around and there's Joe Greene and Joe Namath ? heck, they are all there, you can't stop naming names."

Ogden, Allen and Sapp have the distinction of making the hall in their first year of eligibility. It's all the more impressive considering all three were linemen.

Allen became the anchor of the Cowboys' blocking unit for a dozen seasons, then finished his career with two years in San Francisco. He made six All-Pro teams and 11 Pro Bowls, playing guard and tackle.

"It's great, great company to be in," said Allen, who Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones believes "would have been a Hall of Famer at guard or tackle, and either side. He was special like that."

Adds Curtis Martin, the Jets and Patriots running back who was inducted last year: "If there were two guys I would have wanted to run behind, it would be Larry and Jonathan."

Sapp, whose induction speech might be the most anticipated because he's liable to say anything, was a cornerstone of Tampa Bay's powerful defense that was the key to winning the Buccaneers' only title after decades of futility.

"We took a place where they said careers came to die to a place that's become a destination," Sapp said, noting the Tampa 2 scheme is now played by defenses everywhere.

As for his speech, Sapp said he has "been trying to imagine how everything will feel and still haven't gotten it. My anticipation is nowhere near complete."

Like Sapp in Tampa, Parcells also was heavily involved in making popular ? and successful ? a specific alignment. The 3-4 defense came to life under Parcells with the New York Giants, and he led them to the 1986 and 1990 championships.

Parcells, who also took the Patriots, Jets and Cowboys from the bottom to near the top of the NFL as head coach, says it was his duty to provide a prosperous environment.

"You give the players a chance to succeed to the best of their ability," he said. "That's your job as a coach, your responsibility."

Parcells mentioned his coaching tree, which includes the likes of Tom Coughlin, Bill Belichick and Sean Payton ? all Super Bowl-winning coaches planning to be on hand Saturday ? as among his proudest achievements. He promised to bring that up during his induction speech.

Robinson and Culp were voted in as senior members. Considering their pedigrees, it's stunning it took so long for them to make it; Robinson retired in 1974, Culp in 1981.

"That bust means an awful lot," Robinson said. "That bust will last forever."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eclectic-group-enter-pro-football-hall-fame-181002736.html

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TLC goes balls-out with '132 Lb Scrotum' special

By Tim Kenneally

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - TLC will air quite the ballsy special next month.

The network that gave the world "Best Funeral Ever" announced on Wednesday that will air the one-hour special "The Man With the 132 Lb Scrotum' on August 19 at 9 p.m.

The documentary will document the life of 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Wesley Warren Jr., who suffers from the thankfully rare medical condition scrotal lymphedema.

"Due to the large size of his scrotum, Wes has difficulty with simple tasks like walking, preparing meals and even going to the restroom," TLC said in a release announcing the schedule.

The special will also track Warren's attempts to "find appropriate medical care and raise money for the surgery he desperately needs."

"The Man With the 132 Lb Scrotum" is produced by Firecracker Films and distributed by Zodiak Rights for TLC.

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No death penalty for Snowden if convicted, US says

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Striving to get Edward Snowden back to America, U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government the U.S. has no plans to seek the death penalty for the former National Security Agency systems analyst.

In a letter dated Tuesday, the attorney general said the criminal charges Snowden now faces in this country do not carry the death penalty and the U.S. will not seek his execution even if he is charged with additional serious crimes.

Holder's letter followed news reports that Snowden, who leaked details of top secret U.S. surveillance programs, has filed papers seeking temporary asylum in Russia on grounds that if he were returned to the United States he would be tortured and would face the death penalty.

Snowden has been charged with three offenses in the U.S., including espionage, and could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

The attorney general's letter was sent to Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov, the Russian minister of justice.

Holder's letter is part of a campaign by the U.S. government to get Snowden back. When Snowden arrived at Moscow's international airport a month ago, he was believed to be planning simply to transfer to a flight to Cuba and then to Venezuela to seek asylum. But the U.S. canceled his passport, stranding him. Besides applying for temporary asylum in Russia, he has said he'd like to visit the countries that offered him permanent asylum ? Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

Some Russian politicians, including parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin, have said Snowden should be granted asylum to protect him from the death penalty. If Snowden were to go to a country that opposes the death penalty, providing assurances that the U.S. won't seek it could remove at least one obstacle to his return to America.

"I can report that the United States is prepared to provide to the Russian government the following assurances regarding the treatment Mr. Snowden would face upon return to the United States," Holder wrote. "First, the United States would not seek the death penalty for Mr. Snowden should he return to the United States." In addition, "Mr. Snowden will not be tortured. Torture is unlawful in the United States."

Bruce Fein, a lawyer representing Edward Snowden's father, criticized Holder.

"Today the attorney general stated ? apparently thinking he was being conciliatory ? that if Edward Snowden were returned to the United States we wouldn't kill him or torture him. Those are concessions only in the mind of someone who's very biased," said Fein.

He said an impartial prosecutor would have said that Snowden is entitled to a presumption of innocence and that he would guarantee Snowden a fair trial by ensuring it was held in a venue that wasn't populated by NSA contractors.

The attorney general said that if Snowden returned to the U.S. he would promptly be brought before a civilian court and would receive "all the protections that United States law provides."

Holder also said that "we understand from press reports and prior conversations between our governments that Mr. Snowden believes that he is unable to travel out of Russia and must therefore take steps to legalize his status. That is not accurate; he is able to travel."

Despite the revocation of Snowden's passport on June 22, he remains a U.S. citizen and is eligible for a limited validity passport good for direct return to the United States, said the attorney general.

Snowden, who is believed to have been staying at the Moscow airport transit zone since June 23, applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week.

A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said Russia has not budged from its refusal to extradite Snowden. Said Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that "Russia has never extradited anyone and never will." There is no U.S.-Russia extradition treaty.

Peskov also said that Putin is not involved in reviewing Snowden's application or in discussions with the U.S. of his future with the U.S., though the Russian Security Service, the FSB, had been in touch with the FBI.

Snowden has not overtly threatened to release more damaging documents, though a journalist with whom he has been working, Glenn Greenwald, has said that blueprints detailing how the NSA operates would be made public if something should happen to Snowden.

Putin has said that if Snowden releases any more of the materials, Russia will not grant him temporary asylum.

There's little chance Snowden will be able to use what information he has as a bargaining chip to negotiate his prosecution or extradition.

The government must take the position: "We don't negotiate with extortionists," said Michael Chertoff, the former head of the Justice Department's criminal division and former secretary of homeland security. Chertoff said he can't recall a case in which the U.S. government has caved under this type of threat.

U.S. officials have said what Snowden already has released will harm national security, though it's too early to tell what damage has been done. The U.S. intelligence community has a good idea of what other documents he has.

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AP reporter Eileen Sullivan in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/no-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147.html

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Schumaker's HR off Arroyo helps Dodgers beat Reds

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Skip Schumaker's first career home run at Dodger Stadium couldn't have come at a more opportune time, especially now that he's playing for the home team.

Schumaker hit a tiebreaking two-run shot off longtime NL West rival Bronson Arroyo while filling in for the ailing Carl Crawford, Hyun-Jin Ryu gave up two hits over seven innings and retired his last 13 batters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-1 Saturday night.

"I grew up in L.A. going to Dodger games, so I've always thought about hitting a home run in Dodger Stadium ? and actually doing it is pretty incredible," Schumaker said. "It's kind of a surreal feeling. I get lucky every now and then. Every 200 at-bats or so, I run into one."

Ryu (9-3) had nine strikeouts, all in a span of 13 batters. The first came against Joey Votto, who took a called third strike after Chris Heisey hit his first triple of the season with two out in the third. Cincinnati's run came on a homer by Jay Bruce in the second.

The Dodgers increased their NL West lead to 1 1/2 games over Arizona.

Ryu faced South Korean countryman Shin-Soo Choo for the first time in the major leagues. The Reds' center fielder walked, grounded out to first base and struck out.

"I'm sure Choo was on his mind," catcher A.J. Ellis said. "I mean, it's a big deal. Choo is one of his best friends and one of his baseball idols. So with him facing him in America in an atmosphere like this, and also playing in front of a huge TV audience back in Korea, it's pretty neat to know you're a part of that. It was really cool to see those guys match up. You could hear the crowd on every pitch and every swing."

Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his 14th save.

Crawford, who singled his first three times up in the Dodgers' 2-1 victory Friday night and then made a brief visit to an emergency room on Saturday to get checked on for a high temperature and fever, was held out of the lineup. Manager Don Mattingly replaced him with Schumaker, who came in with more plate appearances (53) and hits (18) against Reds starter Bronson Arroyo than anyone else on Los Angeles' roster.

"It's a good feeling when you have a situation like today where Carl wasn't able to play and Skip can step in and be a more than capable guy," Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "He's a great veteran who battles every at-bat. That's what this team is built upon ? experience on the bench, experience on the field. And hopefully we'll take that all the way through."

Schumaker came through in the fifth, driving Arroyo's 1-0 pitch to center field for his second home run of the season and a 3-1 Dodgers lead after a leadoff single by Mark Ellis.

"If you look at the numbers, it says I have some hits off him. But a lot of those were bloop hits, lucky hits, and not too many were squared up," said Schumaker, who also doubled in the seventh inning and scored the Dodgers' fourth run on a two-out single by Gonzalez.

It was the 300th home run given up Arroyo (9-8), including a career-high and major league-worst 46 in 2011. The 14-year veteran right-hander was charged with three runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings, after going 4-0 with a 2.30 ERA in his previous six starts against Los Angeles. He was coming off a complete-game 11-0 victory at San Francisco on Monday.

The Dodgers got a run in the first on a two-out double by Hanley Ramirez after Yasiel Puig walked, advanced on a flyout and stole third without a throw. But the Reds tied it in the second when Bruce drove Ryu's 2-0 pitch into the right field pavilion for his 22nd home run. Since the start of the 2010 season, Bruce leads all left-handed batters with 42 homer against lefty pitchers ? including eight this season.

"I think it's helped him being around Joey Votto, and seeing how Joey hits lefties," manager Dusty Baker said. "Most guys, I think, have trouble with lefties because they don't see them (enough). I mean, it's hard enough to find a right-handed batting practice pitcher that can throw strikes ? and it's almost impossible to find a lefty to do it. But we've got two of them ? Mark Berry and Ronnie Ortegon. And we always travel with one, so I think that helps a lot.

"That's something that Barry Bonds always did in San Francisco," added Baker, who watched Bonds homer 125 times against lefties during the 10 seasons he managed baseball's career home run leader. "We always had a left-hander throwing to Barry in batting practice. So I took a page out of Barry's book, and I'd like to give Barry credit for that."

Bruce, the Reds' right fielder, also threw out Puig at first base in the fifth after the overaggressive rookie made a wide turn on his single toward the line. The play immediately followed Schumaker's homer. It was the hustle by catcher Devin Mesoraco that made it possible, because he ran up the line and took the throw.

In Thursday night's series opener, Puig made a similar wide turn around first on a single to center and ended up at third base after Choo threw the ball past first baseman Votto and the ball ended up in the stands for a two-base error.

NOTES: Ryu is 5-1 with a 1.83 ERA in 10 home starts. The Dodgers have won each of his last six outings, including three no-decisions. ... Arroyo has given up a franchise-record 238 home runs since joining the Reds in a March 2006 trade from Boston for Wily Mo Pena. ... Reds RHP Jonathan Broxton, on the disabled list since June 15 with an elbow strain, threw 20 pitches during early batting practice. Baker was noncommittal when asked about the best-case scenario for the former Dodger closer's return. ... Los Angeles pitching coach Rick Honeycutt rejoined the club after missing four games because of the death of his mother-in-law. ... Votto's consecutive game on-base streak ended at 38 after he went 0 for 3. That left Ramirez with the longest active streak in the majors at 35.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/schumakers-hr-off-arroyo-helps-dodgers-beat-reds-040517965.html

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Trends in biometric verification technology ~ TricksMode

As digital scanning and observation technologies improve and refine in tandem with increasingly powerful data recognition algorithms, the formerly nascent science of biometric identification is becoming something that holds a lot of promise for the near future and beyond.
Already the biometric technology is appearing in our identification documents, personal computing machines and is becoming increasingly common in many security and policing related areas. Soon we?re going to see biometrics hold an even more important role in all of these areas while it expands into completely new territories.
That said, let?s first take a deeper look at what exactly biometrics means before going into some of the details behind its emerging trends.
An Overview of Biometrics
Biometrics is not, strictly speaking, a highly modern science. Although many of us associate the word itself with high tech gadgets and eye scanners, by definition, biometrics is simply the process of sorting distinct individual physical traits in people and using them to identify a specific person amongst others. Thus, biometrics also includes fingerprint analysis, which has been in use by police for nearly 200 years and even further back before that by civilizations dating back to the Babylonians.
However, if we take this basic definition as explained above and join it with modern analysis technology, we get a far more diverse range of modern biometric techniques that can and do analyze highly individual specific qualities such as: fingerprints, body heat signatures, eyes (retinas or irises), walking gait, facial characteristics, vein patterns in the arms, voice sound prints and, of course, DNA.
The range of human body characteristics that can be biometrically indexed is expanding daily, although some such as fingerprints, eye features and DNA signatures are far more commonly utilized than other more exotic biometric measurement parameters. Now let?s get down to the latest in biometric trends!
Trends in Personal Computing
Personal computing is an area where the science behind biometrics has made only really limited inroads. Laptops and home PCs are now being made (and have been on the market for several years now) that can grant access only after their registered owner passes their finger through a small scanning device. However, beyond this, additional development really hasn?t gone very far.
One part of the problem lies in the fact that the most easy to use biometrics technologies for personal computing devices, which involve fingerprint recognition and eye or face scans, simply aren?t reliable enough under the tough, dynamic conditions that most users would be working with them under. This problem has been made even worse by the proliferation of tablets and smart phones as consumer substitutes to the far more stationary PC or laptop. Both of these are going to be used on noisy streets, in the rain and under dirty conditions ?all of which can lead to some serious problems with effective biometric workability. To GIVE just one example of what we?re describing: early efforts by companies like Nokia to create fingerprint scanning capacity on the screens of their touch phones became seriously screwy any time an owner touched the screen if it was wet or if that persons finders were dirty.
So far, we?re still seeing stagnant development in personal device biometrics, but the near future is looking interesting as both screen and mobile device camera technology becomes sharper. News stories such as Apple Computer?s fairly recent purchase of Biometric technology company Authentec for just under $400 million dollars are indicating some serious interest in better bio security on the part of major tech product players.
Trends In Police Forensics
In the area of Police forensics, biometrics has made a major splash. While police have been using fingerprint records to track convicted felons since at least the early 19^th century, modern police agencies have taken this old process and dramatically modernized it through heavy digitization of both fingerprint scanning and fingerprint record keeping. This has made the prints of potential criminals more widely accessible to cops worldwide.
But things don?t stop there: Biometrics is quickly becoming a police officer?s best friend and many police organizations now also use DNA and even eye scanning technology as another method of identifying potential suspects and keeping them registered for future evidence accumulation.
Even immigration police and military organizations are getting in on the biometric tech trend by deploying hand held iris scanning machines to their personnel in situations where either undocumented illegal immigrants or captured, undocumented rebel soldiers are rounded up and need to be quickly ID?d for future reference.
Next Generation ID Documents
Finally we come to the most obvious area of massive, and?widespread biometric technology deployment ?civilian population identification. Governments always like to keep track of their citizens in ways that keep certain people from easily stealing and assuming someone else?s identity or from simply slipping through the cracks and being hard to ID.
This is where biometrics comes in and in numerous countries it?s being used for both cross border traveler security and for general identification of an entire citizen population.
An example of the former can be found in the joint U.S/Canada NEXUS program, which offers special speeded up border crossing procedures to American or Canadian citizens who opt for a biometric ID tracker in their passports after they have been vetted as having clean personal records.
With the latter biometric ID use, involving general in-country populations, we have an enormous example in the Indian Government?s UID (Universal Identification) program, which is aimed at creating a fully encoded biometric ID card for every single one of India?s 1.2 billion citizens. When completed in the next few years, this will be the single largest application of biometric technology in the World.
As you can see, biometrics is here to stay. The technology behind it still needs some tweaking and existing identification procedures are still too well entrenched to disappear any time soon but the long term trends are clearly showing that the future of ID is in this powerful and secure system of identifying people.

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This week's Burlington Union: July 18, 2013 edition

This week's edition of the Burlington Union is available tommorow,? Thursday, July 18, There's plenty of content to read and consider, including:

Well, Burlington Union readers, you are in for a treat this week. The feature article is about a historical home in Burlington, built in 1732, known as the John Winn House (a/k/a The Hens and Chickens Tavern), which is privately owned by Tim and Tricia Lynch. Many thanks to the Lynch family for their warm hospitality and interesting tour of the house. Many of the original features remain and they have taken such good care of the property. During our interview, a neighbor and his son were visiting, and Tim Lynch's Mom Ruth stopped in, and the atmosphere is cozy and warm, and this house just has a really good vibe.

Andrew Cardinale catches us up on the latest selectmen's meeting and as promised, Part II on our Alzheimer's series-which is about a presentation given by Dr. Robert Stern, Boston University professor of neurology and overseer of all clinical research conducted at BU's Alzheimer's Center. He gave a talk audience members are probably still thinking about, titled, "Alzheimer's: A time for hope."

-We also offer you terrific Public Safety, Perspectives columns by Burlington residents Rich Caplan, Peter Copppola, and Judy Wasserman), Education, Health, Calendar, Beacon Hill Roll Call, and Your News, and the next installment of our local dining options series that focuses on interesting ethic cuisines and so much more. And if you're looking for events happening in Burlington this weekend and over the next few weeks, definitely check out the "Around Town" section on Page A2.

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Is peak oil dead? - headlines

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Peak Oil is dead! Long live Peak Oil!
Noah Smith, Noahpinion
One of my favorite websites, The Oil Drum, is shutting down, and I am mad! Everyone is attributing the shutdown to the death of the "Peak Oil" meme, which in turn is attributed to fracking. The first is probably true; Peak Oil mania is over. But the second is false. Fracking has not killed Peak Oil. It just hasn't fit the narratives that many of the Peak Oilers spun.

The thesis of Peak Oil is simple: Global oil production will soon peak and begin to decline. But there were two possible stories that the Peak Oilers told about how this would happen:

"Good Peak Oil": In this case, we find something that's better than oil, and switch to that, just like we once transitioned away from whale oil. In this case, oil prices and production would both fall.

"Bad Peak Oil": In this case, we don't find something better than oil, and as oil becomes more scarce, the price would go up, while oil production and overall economic activity both contracted.

What we got was neither of these. Or more accurately, we got a little bit of both, coupled with something else that doesn't fit with either story.
(15 July 2013)

No Peak Oil Really Is Dead
Karl Smith, Forbes
... This is where the science gets ?cluttery.? None of this, so far,says anything about the vast kerogen cycle in general or what one might do to tap into it. It is only about these little pockets. Some Peak Oil enthusiast will acknowledge this by saying ?only the tiniest fraction of petroleum can be profitably extracted? Not to be too glib here but one?s response has to be ?how do you know, have you tried?? Because the answer is no, they haven?t tried. No one until recently tried. Because, why would you. We had not yet exhausted the over 100 year-old insight that a lot of this stuff gets trapped in little pockets. Not only that, but people were getting absurdly rich just by being the first one to find a new pocket. It was like a 100 year long gold rush.

To wit, the core of the Peak Oil hypothesis could be summed up as: sometime in the not so distant future we need to put some effort into finding new oil extraction techniques.
(17 July 2013)

Has Peak Oil Been Vindicated Or Debunked?
Matthew Yglesias, Slate
I will admit that I've always found the "Peak Oil" debate to be a little bit confusing, especially because both the words "peak" and "oil" turn out to have some ambiguity to them. But recently a couple of my favorite bloggers were debating the implications of the "unconventional oil" boom for the debate, with Karl Smith proclaiming peak oil dead while Noah Smith says it lives on. My approach would be to try to skip past some of these definitional issues and look at prices.

... We can see the impact of the unconventional oil, which has created this anomalous gap between the WTI price and the Brent price. It's a big gap. This is nothing to sneer at. Not only is it causing an economic boom in North Dakota and select portions of Texas, but it plausibly explains some of why America's overall economic performance has been so much better than Europe's. But even so, America's oil boom hasn't pushed U.S. oil prices back down to mid-aughts levels and it certainly hasn't pushed U.S. oil prices back down to 1990s levels. The good old days of genuinely abundant liquid fuel really do appear to be behind us.
(18 July 2013)

Is Peak Oil Dead or Just Postponed?
Keith Kloor, Discover
Several months ago, I wondered if the media?s fascination with peak oil, which crested in the mid-2000s, had ended. A big concern of many in the energy/sustainability nexus had found expression in popular culture

... Personally, I found much value in the high-level discussions on natural resources and energy that were a staple of The Oil Drum, even if the overall slant was one I disagreed with. So I?m sorry to see the site close down. Others are chortling and seeing its demise as further proof of peak oil?s demise.
But what if the peak oil eulogies are premature?
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(18 July 2013)

Peak oil, not climate change worries most Britons: Kemp
John Kemp, Reuters
Most people in Britain want to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, but due more to fears of shortages and rising prices than to fears about climate change, according to a poll developed by researchers at Cardiff University and funded by the UK Energy Research Centre.
(18 July 2013)

5 Companies That Brought Down Peak Oil
Matt DiLallo, Motley Fool
Peak Oil is dead -- or at least the website dedicated to educating the world on the theory is, as the popular Oil Drum website will cease publishing new content at end of the month. The theory just doesn't seem to have much relevance these days, when North America is in the midst of a massive energy production boom. While we are a long way from celebrating Energy Independence Day, we've at least pushed back the date when Peak Oil will again become a major topic of conversation. With that as context, let's look at five of the companies that have made Peak Oil no longer relevant.
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Connors Wins $50,000 Grant to Promote Financial Literacy ...

July 17, 2013

Connors State College has received a $50,000 grant to enhance the financial literacy of its students with the aim of increasing graduation and student loan repayment rates.

USA Funds, a nonprofit organization that helps American families benefit from postsecondary education, is providing the funds to the college under its endowment for student success. The endowment supports funding and in-kind services to colleges and universities to help them promote the success of their students. Jennifer Watkins, CSC Financial Aid Director and staff members have been working with USA Funds Consultant Bonnie Weaver to develop a student loan default prevention plan and carry on outreach to its student loan borrowers to counsel them as they pay back their loans.

?The USA Funds grant gives Connors the opportunity to actively prepare more students to enroll and succeed in college-level courses, while also educating them on financial responsibility,? said Dr. Tim Faltyn, CSC President. ?We?re excited about the opportunity to better educate our students on their financial responsibilities and student loan debt management.?

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CSC will use the grant funds to provide financial literacy information to students and former students when they initially request a student loan, as they prepare to graduate, or if they encounter problems paying back their student loans. The college will use members of its President?s Leadership Class to serve as trained peer mentors, delivering personal finance information to their classmates.

In addition, the grant will fund training of CSC Financial Aid staff to better assist students with the repayment of their loans, as well as an analysis of the characteristics of former students who fail to repay their loans. The analysis will help the staff tailor programs to prevent student loan defaults.

?Helping our students more effectively manage their time and money prepares them for the repayment of the loans that helped pay for their education and increases their prospects for completing their academic programs,? said Watkins. ?Financial problems are among the leading reasons why students drop out and fail to earn their degrees.?

The activities were recommended in a default prevention plan that Watkins and the financial aid staff completed In February. The college also conducts a program of regular contact with former students to assist those having trouble paying off their student loans. CSC also plans to implement an online personal finance curriculum, dealing with budgeting, saving and spending, goal setting and achievement, and managing credit.

For more information on USA Funds, visit www.usafunds.org.

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China's iPhone workers still chasing dreams

ZHENGZHOU, China: The hottest nightclub in this factory town is a neon-encrusted dive down the road from the industrial park where iPhones are made 24 hours a day. Tucked behind an open construction site, Through the Summer, as the nightspot is known, had it all on a recent Saturday night - plastic whistles, fruit plates, a toddler with a mohawk, counterfeit light sabres, unconscious factory workers and a bawdy comedian who imbibed beer through his nose.

Liang Yulong, 19, who tests iPhone motherboards at the Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park, arrived at the club with a single goal in mind: to obliterate his dreary daytime reality on the spring-loaded dance floor. "Dancing lets me vent my anger and stress," he said, cigarette in hand. "When I'm here, I forget everything else."

Workers live in rows of brick dormitories that house up to eight workers in rooms filled with metal bunk beds, a combination shower-toilet, and not much else.?

The nocturnal menagerie, illuminated by powerful strobe lights, reveals a little-explored aspect of the global supply chain, the off-hour escapes that give the masses of workers the motivation to return to the assembly line.

The hands that make the world's electronics belong almost entirely to young people with dreams of their own, and a lifetime of contented industrial drudgery is not among them. Their precious time off is a rare chance to enjoy the present as they strive for a better future.

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"Everyone gets psyched for the weekend," said Bai Sihai, 24, as he navigated open potholes on the way back to his dorm after work one afternoon. His plan? A video-game binge session at an internet cafe followed by a long-distance phone call to his girlfriend.

The captains of industry are beginning to see the merits of off-hours leisure. In recent years, a wave of riots and suicides at China's massive factories have highlighted the abuses that workers often endure. This spring, three employees jumped to their deaths at plants owned by Foxconn, the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant that produces electronics for Apple, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies. In May, a worker committed suicide at a Samsung plant in the southern province of Guangdong, where labour organisations had documented a string of violations like forced overtime and underage workers.

The industry has responded with carrots and sticks to save both the lives of their workers and their own corporate reputations. Under pressure, Foxconn has raised wages and cut overtime hours. At the Shanghai plant run by Quanta, which makes hardware for companies including Apple, Toshiba and Asus, workers can pay for yoga and taekwondo classes.

After the latest suicides at the Zhengzhou plant, the company instituted "silent mode", which banned all talk about non-work tasks on the factory floor. Although Foxconn later announced it had rescinded the policy after a public outcry, workers say it remains in effect.

In the high-tech Olympus of Silicon Valley, employees in ergonomically luxuriant offices can get subsidised massages and haircuts, scale rock-climbing walls, play foosball, meditate and do Pilates - all in the name of promoting creative innovation.

The work environment is considerably more bare-bones here. Unlike Apple's modernistic new campus in Cupertino, California, which will be surrounded by apricot trees, the Zhengzhou factory has all the charm of a penal colony. Employees, who must wear matching uniforms, say supervisors routinely curse and yell. In the residential compounds, rows of brick dormitories house up to eight workers in rooms filled with metal bunk beds, a combination shower-toilet, and not much else.

Perhaps that is why the world beyond the factory gates resembles a gigantic street fair. As dusk fell one night recently in Zhengzhou, Mandarin pop music blared from hair salons and couples strolled past stalls selling pirated DVDs, sliced watermelon and roses covered in silver glitter. A flatbed truck piled high with oversize stuffed animals drew a mob of young women like sharks to blood. "I want the green teddy bear," cooed a teenage girl to her boyfriend, who dutifully handed over 10 renminbi, or $1.80.

Down the block, a construction site played host to a parade of distractions, including a tattoo parlour set up in the back of a van; those arcade games with the metal claw that featured a pack of cigarettes as the big prize; and a beer garden of sorts, where hordes of young factory workers chugged watery beer and chain-smoked over plates of sliced pig knuckles.

At some point, a troupe of dolled-up singers was supposed to take the nearby stage, though Luo Haojie, 20, and his friends were finding ample amusement in their shot glasses. In May, Luo quit his factory job making iPhone 5 parts, which earned him about $300 a month, including overtime. "Our supervisors are vicious," and the cafeteria food is terrible, he said, to a round of applause from his drinking buddies.

Eventually he will need to find another job, but for now he is content to bask in the joys of youth, which means meeting girls and getting drunk with his former co-workers. "I'm here for my bros," he said. "Without them I'd be miserable."

Summer is the low season in China's factory towns, so many workers get a day off on weekends, sometimes even two. There are numerous colourful characters on hand to keep them entertained. One evening, a band of itinerant performers dressed like Buddhist monks had set up shop across from a KFC-inspired eatery confusingly named Donut. Garbed in silken yellow robes, the "celebrity acrobatic snake-training talent team" worked the crowd of bored onlookers by whipping balloons and hawking blessed ornaments for rearview-mirrors. A monk with an earring blew fireballs.

"The circus that came around a few months ago was better," said Li Yu, 19. "They had real lions and tigers."

Those looking for more athletic diversions can usually be found at the local roller rink.

In the glow of swirling rainbow lights one Saturday, Zhou Pengzheng, 20, another iPhone 5 motherboard tester, narrowly avoided several neophytes as he spun to a halt on a pair of $160 in-line skates, which cost him roughly a third of his monthly salary. "It feels like I'm flying," he said, before zooming once more into the throng of careening limbs.

In-line and roller skating has developed something of a cult following among the Foxconn strivers. A half-dozen teams with names like Rainbow, F-2 and Shadow gather for weekly group skating sessions across the city.

Fang Xuema, 17, learned to skate not long after coming to work at Foxconn last spring and soon joined team Shadow, which has around 100 members. The rink has since become her second home. A high school dropout, she quit the factory in May, because her age prohibited her from working lucrative overtime hours. "I used to come to the rink twice a week, but now I'm here every night," said Fang, in a black miniskirt and matching nail polish.

At 11 pm, the street performers had vanished and the love hotels were getting busy. After a long day of making iPhones, Wang Puyan, 20, and his girlfriend were heading towards a rented studio apartment off-campus, since factory dormitories are separated by gender.

A romantic adventure was not in the cards, however. "We see each other every day," he said. "Why would we go on a date?"

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Go Truck Capital Offers New Lease Financing Options for Dealers ...

Jul 16, 2013

Go Truck Capital Offers New Lease Financing Options for Dealers Selling Commercial Vehicles

Tustin, CA ? (SBWIRE) ? 07/15/2013 ? TUSTIN, CA ? Commercial truck dealers who are looking to offer financing to their customers can expect easy options that are suitable for any size loan through Go Truck Capital. The financing firm now offers leasing options, which allows dealers more solutions for their customers. By offering semi-truck leasing and commercial truck leasing, customers will be able to procure the use of new equipment or used equipment through a low monthly payment. There are many options for the length of the leasing term and the lease can be designed to guarantee ownership of the equipment.

Go Truck Capital provides financing programs that are compatible to any dealer?s requirements. This allows dealers to expand their customer base because they can now sell to customers who are not usually able to afford the equipment in an outright purchase or who might have trouble qualifying with a traditional lender. Customers may also increase their orders with the dealers because they can afford more through commercial truck financing. Go Truck Capital works closely with commercial truck dealers and their sales associates to understand their products and sales process.

The company works with all types of customers looking for commercial truck loans with low or high credit scores. This means they can help dealers sell their truck and trailer equipment to start-up businesses by providing truck financing to all of its customers by servicing the full credit spectrum.

Go Truck Capital offers a quick financing process to its customers looking for commercial truck leasing. Once the application is completed, a credit decision is made within 24 hours. After that, the customer completes some simple and easy documentation. Once the documentation process is received, customers acquiring a commercial truck loan or commercial truck lease can expect funding in one business day. This makes Go Truck Capital a convenient choice for dealers nationwide and their customers.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters Celebrity Big Sky Golf Tournament

Big Brothers Big Sisters Celebrity Big Sky Golf Tournament
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Big Brothers Big Sisters - Big Sky Branch is pleased to announce the 12th annual celebrity golf tournament which will take place July 14th - 15th at Big Sky Resort. Early registration for teams is now open and sponsorship spots are still available.

This charitable event will commence with a cocktail party at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 14th at Big Sky Resort in the Talus Room of the Summit Hotel. The event is open to the public by invitation. Guests will enjoy passed hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, and live music by Emmy Award winning songwriter Jim Salestrom. During the evening, guests can bid on silent and live auction items. The live auction will begin at 8:30 p.m. Auction items include an autographed painting by famed American West artist Tom Gilleon, a family "Pajamas and Pancakes" photography session from Tori Pintar, an accomplished Big Sky local, a four night stay for eight people at a luxurious Big Sky home in the Meadow, and a vacation package from Boyne Resorts. All proceeds from the event will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters - Big Sky Branch

The celebrity golf tournament will begin at 11 a.m. on July 15th at the Big Sky Resort Golf Course with a shotgun start. Players are invited to arrive at 9 a.m. for registration and to receive their team gift. Lunch will be provided and the day will conclude with an awards ceremony and reception at the Bunker Bar & Grill. Confirmed celebrities include Eric Dickerson, LeRoy Irvin, Travis Dorsch, Robert Stevenson, and Rex Kern, who have all played for the NFL, Chris Kirkpatrick, a founding member of the pop music group 'N Sync, Greg Smith, a former player in the NHL, Paul Goodloe, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, Emily Milberger, University of Montana's women's golf coach, Jim Salestrom and Tom Gilleon. The cost to participate in the tournament is $1,350 per team of four, or $350 for individuals. Space is still available for those who are interested in participating. To register, call 406-587-1216 or visit www.bbbs-gc.org.

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Galaxy S3 Auto Mute Solutions

Several people have been asking about the possible causes and the solutions of the Galaxy S3 auto mute problem.

According to one sender in The Droid Guy Mailbag, this has been happening on her Galaxy S3 a lot whenever she is talking to someone. She recounted that she can hear the person on the other line but that same person can?t hear her. She added that she tried pressing the Mute key, in case it was only accidentally pressed, but it gets the phone to Mute mode instead, which confirms that she is not just accidentally touching it.

Possible Causes of the Galaxy S3 Auto Mute Problem

The problem could possibly be linked to the following:

1. The proximity sensors of the Galaxy S3 are blocked by protective casing.

2. Configuration in the Settings.

3. Apps interfering with the call.

4. Major glitch.

Galaxy S3 Auto Mute Solutions

Here are the solutions that can be applied based on the causes mentioned above:

1. If the screen is covered by a protective film, make sure that it is not blocking the proximity sensors of the Galaxy S3. Cut off the part where it blocks the sensors. According to the Just Answer forum, the proximity sensors are the two black dots located on the left of the front-facing camera.

2. If there is no protective casing blocking the sensors, try to configure the Auto Screen Off settings of the Galaxy S3. Here?s how to do it based again on Just Answer?s tip:

1. Press Home button.
2. Select the Phone icon.
3. Press the Menu button.
4. Go to Call Settings.
5. See to it that the Auto Screen Off option is checked.

3. A Phandroid moderator suggests turning off the Driving Mode using the following steps:

1. From the Home screen, go to Apps.
2. Enter Settings.
3. Select Language and Input.
4. Proceed to Text-to-Speech Output.
5. On the General tab, look for the Driving Mode option and switch it to off.

4. Other contributors in Phandroid speculate that the AVG app causes it. So try to disable it for the meantime to test whether it is the culprit. Another way to determine whether third party apps are causing the issue is by entering Safe Mode. Just disable or uninstall the apps that are possibly causing the trouble.

5. If any of these fail to work, backup all the important data of the Galaxy S3 and perform a Factory Reset.

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Sound waves levitate and mix floating drops of liquid

Streams of sound are now all you need to make objects dance in the air and combine. A levitation device is the first to use high-frequency sound waves to bring together floating particles and liquid droplets. In principle, the technique could even levitate a person or animal ? although it's not strong enough yet.

For now, such hands-free control could be used to study chemical reactions in extreme environments, to move hazardous materials and to simulate the low-gravity environment of space. At 24 kilohertz, the waves are too high-pitched to be audible to humans ? but can be heard by some animals, including cats, bats and mice.

Other levitation methods use magnets or electrical fields, making mag-lev trains ? and even levitating frogs ? possible. But in these cases, the levitated objects must have particular magnetic or electrical properties.

Acoustic levitation imposes no such constraints. It can, in principle, float anything, says Dimos Poulikakos of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Levitation node

A sound wave is a pressure wave that produces a force and so has the potential to counteract gravity. To float things using sound, you need to ensure the force remains constant in a particular point in space.

This has been done previously, by using speakers or other resonators to fire pressure waves upwards and bounce them off a reflector. The original waves and their reflections then combine to create a standing wave, with a series of stationary "nodes" that stay put even as the wave oscillates.

If the standing wave has the right frequency, the force at these nodes exactly cancels gravity ? and anything trapped there hovers in place.

Poulikakos and his colleagues wanted to go one step further and move and combine suspended objects. They built a system of computer-controlled resonators that creates a standing wave and that can vary its shape. As the wave shape changes, the nodes gradually move, carrying any trapped objects along with them (see graphic).

Coffee maker

The team used this system to make two objects react. In one instance they started with a particle of sodium suspended by one resonator, and a droplet of water suspended by another ? and brought them together to produce a burst of energetic fizzing (see video). In another they used the system to collide a granule of instant coffee with a droplet of water.

"For the first time, you can move matter in a very controllable yet contactless manner," says Poulikakos. For now, the system can only levitate things that are as dense or less dense than water. (Sodium and coffee granules are less dense than water, which is why they float).

The system could be used to safely manipulate hazardous materials or to simulate microgravity experiments at a much lower cost. "From now on you don't have to go to space to do this, you can do it in your kitchen," says Poulikakos.

It might also be helpful for studying chemical reactions in new ways, such as seeing how liquids react when they are below their freezing points. This wouldn't work inside a container, because the cold surface would instantly cause a solid to form ? but as long as a liquid doesn't come into contact with a surface, it's possible to keep it fluid even at very low temperatures.

Floating people

There is no intrinsic cap to the size of an object that this device can levitate. So it should be possible to float a person, as humans are only slightly denser than water. "I see no problem with that," says Poulikakos.

However, the larger the object, the bigger the amplitude of the sound waves required, so it might be a bumpy and dangerous ride: if a person slipped outside their node, they could take a pummelling because a large amplitude would mean a large upward or downward force. "Whether a human being could survive the acoustic forces, I'm not 100 per cent sure," says Poulikakos.

Bruce Drinkwater of the University of Bristol, UK, is impressed: "They've got some particular beautiful results," he says. He is excited by the potential for using the system to transport delicate objects, such as fragile electronics or biological cells.

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Rallies, marches follow Zimmerman verdict

Demonstrators converge on Union Square, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in New York, during a protest against the acquittal of neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee, Washington, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into the early morning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Demonstrators converge on Union Square, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in New York, during a protest against the acquittal of neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee, Washington, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into the early morning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Nichole Mitchell wipes away tears during the sermon at a youth service at the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford, Fla., Sunday, July 14, 2013. Many in the congregation wore shirts in support of Trayvon Martin following the acquittal oif George Zimmerman, who had been charged in the 2012 shooting death of Martin.(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Demonstrators march in Union Square Sunday, July 14, 2013, in New York, during a protest against the acquittal of member George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Tabatha Holley, 19, of Dawson, Ga., chants as demonstrators march in protest as a police cruiser follows at right the day after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Demonstrators converge on Union Square in New York Sunday, July 14, 2013 during a protest against the acquittal of neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested in Florida, Milwaukee, Washington, Atlanta and other cities overnight and into the early morning Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Thousands of demonstrators from across the country ? chanting, praying and even fighting tears ? protested a jury's decision to clear neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager while the Justice Department considered whether to file criminal civil rights charges.

Rallies on Sunday were largely peaceful as demonstrators voiced their support for 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's family and decried Zimmerman's not guilty verdict as a miscarriage of justice. Police in Los Angeles said they arrested several people early Monday after about 80 protesters gathered in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard and an unlawful assembly was declared. The New York Police Department said it arrested at least a dozen people on disorderly conduct charges during a rally in Times Square.

The NAACP and protesters called for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, who was acquitted Saturday in Martin's February 2012 shooting death.

The Justice Department said it is looking into the case to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case. The department opened an investigation into Martin's death last year but stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.

The evidence generated during the federal probe is still being evaluated by the criminal section of the Justice Department's civil rights division, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida, along with evidence and testimony from the state trial, the Justice Department said.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama and religious and civil rights leaders urged calm in hopes of ensuring peaceful demonstrations following a case that became an emotional flash point.

Sunday's demonstrations, held in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, attracted anywhere from a few dozen people to a more than a thousand.

At a march and rally in downtown Chicago attended by about 200 people, some said the verdict was symbolic of lingering racism in the United States. Seventy-three-year-old Maya Miller said the case reminded her of the 1955 slaying of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was murdered by a group of white men while visiting Mississippi. Till's killing galvanized the civil rights movement.

"Fifty-eight years and nothing's changed," Miller said, pausing to join a chant for "Justice for Trayvon, not one more."

In New York City, more than a thousand people marched into Times Square on Sunday night, zigzagging through Manhattan's streets to avoid police lines. Sign-carrying marchers thronged the busy intersection, chanting "Justice for! Trayvon Martin!" as they made their way from Union Square, blocking traffic for more than an hour before moving on.

In San Francisco and Los Angeles, where an earlier protest was dispersed with beanbag rounds, police closed streets as protesters marched Sunday to condemn Zimmerman's acquittal.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti urged protesters to "practice peace" after the rock- and bottle-throwing incident. Later, more than 100 officers in riot gear converged on the crowd and ordered people to disperse. Police said they made seven arrests throughout the day, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Rand Powdrill, 41, of San Leandro, Calif., said he came to the San Francisco march with about 400 others to "protest the execution of an innocent black teenager."

"If our voices can't be heard, then this is just going to keep going on," he said.

Earlier, at Manhattan's Middle Collegiate Church, many congregants wore hooded sweatshirts ? similar to the one Martin was wearing the night he was shot ? in a show of solidarity. Hoodie-clad Jessica Nacinovich said she could only feel disappointment and sadness over the verdict.

"I'm sure jurors did what they felt was right in accordance with the law but maybe the law is wrong, maybe society is wrong; there's a lot that needs fixing," she said.

At a youth service in Sanford, Fla., where the trial was held, teens wearing shirts displaying Martin's picture wiped away tears during a sermon at the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church.

Protesters also gathered in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., along with a host of other cities.

In Miami, more than 200 people gathered for a vigil. "You can't justify murder," read one poster. Another read "Don't worry about more riots. Worry about more Zimmermans."

Carol Reitner, 76, of Miami, said she heard about the vigil through an announcement at her church Sunday morning. "I was really devastated. It's really hard to believe that someone can take the life of someone else and walk out of court free," she said.

In Philadelphia, about 700 protesters marched from LOVE Park to the Liberty Bell, alternating between chanting Trayvon Martin's name and "No justice, no peace!"

"We hope this will begin a movement to end discrimination against young black men," said Johnathan Cooper, one of the protest's organizers. "And also to empower black people and get them involved in the system."

In Atlanta, a crowd of about 75 protesters chanted and carried signs near Centennial Olympic Park.

"I came out today because a great deal of injustice has been done and I'm very disappointed at our justice system; I'm just disappointed in America," said Tabatha Holley, 19, of Atlanta.

Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, urged peace in the wake of the verdict. Jackson said the legal system "failed justice," but violence isn't the answer.

But not all the protesters heeded those calls immediately after the verdict.

In Oakland, Calif., during protests that began late Saturday night, some angry demonstrators broke windows, burned U.S. flags and started street fires. Some marchers also vandalized a police squad car and used spray paint to scrawl anti-police graffiti on roads and Alameda County's Davidson courthouse.

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Associated Press reporters Suzette Laboy in Miami, Terence Chea in San Francisco, Keith Collins in Philadelphia, Pete Yost and Eric Tucker in Washington and Luisa Leme contributed to this report.

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