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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 | VOL. 118 NO. 14 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com
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By AUNDREA HORSLEYTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall University Campus Christian Center served its first Lunch For a Buck Tuesday from noon to 1:30 p.m. Students and faculty who purchased a meal received a sandwich, a bag of chips, a cookie and a drink for $1.
The CCC formed a commit-tee of one person from each of the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Episcopalian denominations within the cen-ter. Each committee member reached out to local churches for help with the event. A church from each denomina-tion is scheduled to provide food of its choice on its sched-uled event date.
Jean McClelland, a commit-tee member, said she likes the chance to connect with the stu-dents who come to the CCC for lunch.
“It is enjoyable to be able to interact with the students and give the churches an opportu-nity to invite them to take part in their activities,” McClelland said. “It is a way for the church to get to know the students and connect with them.”
Tuesday’s Lunch For a Buck was provided by members from the First Presbyterian Church.
Patty Anderson, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, helped serve food during the event.
“It’s always nostalgic for me to be at the Campus Christian Center because I was married here almost 51 years ago,” An-derson said. “It is just enjoyable to be here and get to interact with the students. It is also important for the students to realize that the Christian com-munity cares about them as students.”
Travie Ross, office man-ager at the Campus Christian Center, has worked with the center since 2011. She said the purpose is to both feed the stu-dents and allow local churches to contact students they might normally not be able to contact.
“The event is communal,” Ross said. “Several denomina-tions come together for one purpose.”
The Campus Christian Center will continue to have the Lunch For a Buck event every other Tuesday for the semester.
Aundrea Horsley can be contacted at [email protected].
By ANTHONY DAVISTHE PARTHENON
Popular websites are demonstrating what saying goodbye to net neutrality could mean for the average Internet user by displaying an infinitely spin-ning loading symbol to illustrate what surfing the web might be like without net neutrality.
Popular tech companies such as
Reddit, Etsy, Meetup and Imgur will team up Wednesday to show Internet users how they will be affected if net neutrality is taken away in what they are calling Go Slow Day.
According to Fight for the Future, an open Internet advocacy group, popular websites will not actually run slower on Go Slow Day, however, they will dis-play decorative messages that explain the importance of net neutrality.
Preston McNair, a freshman com-puter forensics major, described what net neutrality means to him.
“The Internet should be accessible to everybody, despite your economic status,” McNair said. “Whether you’re a student or how avid you are with the Internet, it just makes sense to make it all equal. No organizations or com-panies like Comcast own the Internet, so why should companies attempt to manage it and create their own struc-ture around it?”
Net neutrality, according to many websites, is threatened by Internet service providers that wish to charge more for services with greater band-width, such as Netflix and YouTube.
According to battleforthenet.com, this would allow big service providers to move certain websites into the slow lane — literally slowing down Inter-net service for popular websites like Netflix.
So what is at stake if net neutrality is taken away? According to the FCC, The Open Internet laws adopted in 2010 allow the Internet to be free, publicly available and free flowing, so all infor-mation is accessible at the same speed, regardless of how much is paid. Free Internet also makes it possible for any-one with access to easily communicate, create, participate, do business and rev-olutionize the Internet as people have since its inception.
Among the enemies of net neutrality are Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, according to battleforth-enet.com. Though Comcast is listed as one of the enemies, the company states otherwise.
“A free and open internet stimulates competition, promotes innovation, fos-ters job creation and drives business,” according to the Comcast website. “Comcast is the only Internet service
provider in America bound by full net neutrality rules, ensuring an open Inter-net and protecting customers.”
Jody Perry, executive director of technology services at Marshall Uni-versity, expressed his thoughts on the Comcast quote. He said actions speak louder than words and people should investigate how much money Com-cast has spent on FCC lobbying.
Go Slow Day lasts from midnight to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
Anthony Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
By HANNAH SAYRETHE PARTHENON
Students of Marshall University and members of the Huntington community will honor those who died in the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Students will gather at the Rec Cen-ter Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to prepare to walk to Spring Hill Cemetery for the Patriot Day national service and remembrance ceremony. Participants will walk to the cemetery at 6 p.m.
American flags will be distributed and participants will carry them to the resting place of Huntington native and Marshall Medical School graduate Dr. Paul W. Ambrose, who died aboard American Airlines Flight 77, and in honor of the others who died and the families they left behind.
Cody Jones, Student Government Association diversity and veterans liai-son, said he is privileged to be chosen to coordinate this event for Marshall.
“This march will unite people from many different paths of life to stand and walk together as brothers and sisters in honor of those who perished because of the acts of ha-tred that comprised Sept. 11,” Jones said.
SGA asks those who are attending the event to wear green in honor of Dr. Ambrose.
Hannah Sayre can be contacted at [email protected].
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Annual remembrance walk to honor
victims of 9/11 tragedy
The Healing Field, a memorial and tribute to the 3,000 people who died Sept. 11, the 75 members of the 1970 Marshall plane crash and veterans of the armed forces features 2,600 American flags in Spring Hill Cemetery
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Marshall Health has en-hanced the educational and patient experience by opening a new community pharmacy at the Marshall University Medi-cal Center.
Marshall Health has opened a community pharmacy in col-laboration with the Marshall University School of Pharmacy, the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Cabell Hunting-ton Hospital.
Kathryn Thornton, first year medical student at Marshall, said she thinks it’s wonderful how the addition of the phar-macy could affect the medical landscape at Cabell Huntington Hospital.
“It removes a disconnect be-tween the pharmacy and the physicians prescribing medica-tion and creates the potential for a relationship that exists in few other settings,” Thornton said.
Beth Hammers, executive
MU Health opens community pharmacydirector of Marshall Health, said the new pharmacy would benefit the community, pa-tients, employees and students of the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy.
“Marshall is continuing its commitment to our patients and our community by pro-viding high quality pharmacy services at this new facility,” Hammers said in a press re-lease. “Our on-site pharmacy is a tremendous asset for our patients and employees and will enhance the educational experience for our students at the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine.”
The pharmacy is a new op-tion for patients and the public to have access to a full range of prescription medication ser-vices, including personalized pharmacist services, limited over-the-counter medications, diabetic supplies and medi-cal supplies. Plans for the future include delivering dis-charge medications to Cabell
Huntington Hospital in-pa-tients before they leave the hospital.
Dr. Kevin W. Yingling, dean of the School of Pharmacy, de-scribed the new facility as a key milestone in the growth of the health sciences programs at Marshall. Yingling also said the impact of medication ther-apy management delivered by pharmacists in practice set-tings have proven valuable for improving patient’s safety and clinical outcomes.
“I can’t stress enough the im-portance of this new venture,” Yingling said in a Marshall Health press release. “It allows better collaboration among physicians, pharmacists and other health care providers, which in turn provides inter-disciplinary education that is absolutely crucial in today’s health care arena.
Working as a team with our colleagues at the School of Medicine and Marshall Health enhances the experiences for
By ZACH WRIGHTTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall Univer-sity Student Resource Center will begin its annual semester work-shops next week to help students adjust and manage their college lives.
Sept. 18, the Student Resource Center will have a time manage-ment workshop. The time management work-shop will occur on the first floor of the Memo-rial Student Center from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Michelle Barbour, the career services counselor in the SRC, provided information about the time manage-ment workshop.
“The time manage-ment workshop provides students with general information about the university, the study abroad program, the tu-toring service and the Campus Card Office,” Barbour said.
On the same day, the Student Resource Center will conduct Commuter
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By BRIANNA PAXTONTHE PARTHENON
If someone is having a seizure, what do you do? Marshall University Rec Cen-ter’s American Red Cross CPR/AED and First Aid cer-tification programs teach individuals with a duty to respond to emergencies how to deal with that situation and more.
The CPR/AED (Cardiopul-monary Resuscitation and Automatic External Defibril-lator) classes are offered from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday, from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Oct. 5, and from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Oct. 19. The classes are open to
the university and public.Dan Belcher, the Rec’s facility-
operations coordinator, said each program is beneficial.
“The CPR/AED class teaches people how to respond to breathing emergencies, respi-ratory emergencies and cardiac emergencies,” Belcher said.
“The first aid class teaches people basic first aid,” Belcher said. “If someone is having a seizure, what do you do? If someone has a sprained ankle, broken bone, any type of muscle or bone joint injury or they are bleeding.”
First aid classes are offered from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 7 and Oct. 13.
Many Rec Center staff mem-bers are Red Cross certified instructors.
Jason Fisher, lifeguard at the Rec, is certified through the American Red Cross. He said he thinks a safety certification is important for anyone to have.
“An accident can happen at any time,” Fisher said. “The more people certified, the better chance someone who actually went through the accident can get help and get the correct thing that needs to be done. The more people certified the more help you can get.”
The goal is to create a learning environment in a practical set-ting that will enhance learning
and provide the Marshall com-munity with opportunities to learn about aquatics and elevate the quality of the Aquatic Center programs and events, according to the Rec’s website.
These programs are a two-year certification, offered at a discounted price for members — CPR/AED for $65 and First Aid for $25. Certification for non-members is $90 for CPR/AED and $30 for First Aid.
Interested parties can register for the classes at the Welcome Desk or on the Rec Center’s website.
Brianna Paxton can be contacted at [email protected].
Red Cross certification indispensable, Rec staff says
Student body president Duncan Waugaman (left) prepares for the quoits tournament alongside President Pro-Tempore Justyn Cox on Buskirk Field Tuesday.
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Student body president among registered participants for quoits tournament
all our students.”Dr. Joseph I. Shapiro, dean of
the School of Medicine, said the opening of the new pharmacy represents progress for Mar-shall Health in the changing health care arena.
“The collaborative effort among our university counter-parts and our hospital partner is indicative of the relation-ships that must exist as we move forward in the health care arena,” Shapiro said. “These partnerships allow us to be more patient, focused and de-liver high-quality care for the region.”
Brian Gallagher, R.Ph., JD, di-rector of pharmacy services, and Ben Kelly, R.Ph., the man-aging pharmacist, head the Marshall Pharmacy, which is located at the front entrance of the Marshall University Medi-cal Center. It is open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Anthony Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
Connection, a workshop focused on commuters.
“There will also be prizes, food, and activi-ties,” Barbour said.
Throughout the se-mester, the SRC will be conducting various workshops in campus residence halls.
These workshops will focus on things such as test taking skills, networking on cam-pus, leadership skills, resume working, time management and career development.
The SRC will sup-port and enhance the academic, professional and personal goals of Marshall students by providing opportuni-ties for students to meet with appropriate per-sonnel who can evaluate and help resolve such challenges.
The advisers at the SRC are always on hand to inform students about upcoming events and workshops.
Zach Wright can be contacted at wright283@marshall.
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The Thundering Herd foot-ball team will square off against Ohio Saturday, and if it wants a different result against the Bobcats than the past three years, the turnover battle will be the key.
The 58th Battle for the Bell sees a Herd team loaded with talent and high expectations as it meets an Ohio team that is still trying to find its way early in the season. Despite a 20-3 loss at Kentucky, Marshall head coach Doc Holliday said he be-lieves the Bobcats are a team to keep an eye on.
“Ohio University is a team that’s been to five straight bowls,” Holliday said. “Coach (Frank) Solich has done a tre-mendous job of coaching those guys.”
That same team that went to five straight bowl games has also beaten the Herd the last three years. What was the com-mon theme in those three Herd losses? Turnovers.
In the last three games against Ohio, the Herd had a total of 13 turnovers. Yes, you read that correctly.
Two of those three losses were decided by three points.
The difference between win-ning and losing those types of games comes down to turn-overs, especially against the Bobcats. Ohio is 41-9 under
head coach Frank Solich when they win the turnover battle.
If you talk to Holliday, though, he’ll tell you the team isn’t looking back at those last three losses.
“We haven’t really talked a whole lot about the last three years,” Holliday said. “We talk about what we’ve go to do now.”
In Ohio’s first two games of 2014, the Bobcats have turned the ball over five times. Four turnovers came in the 17-14 last-second win against Kent State. Holliday said in his press conference on Tuesday that turnovers are the Bobcats’ big-gest problem so far this season.
Even with the turnover struggles, Holliday noted that it takes a good football team to overcome four turnovers and win a football game.
So how does Holliday plan on making sure the last three games don’t happen again Sat-urday?
“They’ve been the better team the last three years,” Hol-liday said. “We got to make sure on Saturday, for us to have a chance, we got to be a heck of a football team in all three phases. If we do that, we have a shot.”
And you can bet that includes taking care of the football.
Shannon Stowers can be contacted at [email protected].
COLUMN: Turnover battle key against Ohio
By WILL VANCEVIA WOWK
Marshall University head coach Doc Holliday knows a thing or two about good coaching. Prior to becoming the Thundering Herd’s head coach, Holliday made stops at Florida, NC State and West Virginia, winning the 2006 national cham-pionship at Florida as an associate head coach to legend Urban Meyers.
Holliday knows a good coach when he sees one, and he certainly sees one in the Herd’s next opponent, head coach Frank Solich of the Ohio Bobcats.
“He’s done just a tremendous job,” Holliday said of Solich during a press conference Tuesday. “Anyone who’s followed Ohio U over the years
knows no one has had the success there he’s had.”
Solich became nationally known as the head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1998 to 2003. The Cornhuskers won the 1999 Fiesta Bowl and won at least nine games in five of So-lich’s six seasons, including 2003 when he was fired.
“If you go back to how he got let go at Nebraska with the record he had, it was just sad,” Holliday said. “Just sad what that was all about.”
Nebraska’s trash became Ohio’s treasure when Solich was hired in 2005. Two games into his 10th season coaching the Bobcats, Solich is 67-51 and the Bobcats have won three Mid-American Conference East Division titles and played in six
bowl games, five in the past five years including the 2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against the Herd.
“Anybody who’s been to five straight bowls is going to have good players,” Holliday said of Sol-ich’s Ohio squads. “They’re a good team and they play well together. That’s why he’s won there be-cause he’s able to do those things.”
Solich’s recruiting prowess has not escaped Holliday’s notice either. A combination of home-grown talent from Ohio and old connections allows Solich to gather the talent needed for success.
“Coach Solich and that staff have done a good job finding good players,” Holliday said. “They have players from Oklahoma, players from
Nebraska, they go all over the country to get good football players. If you work at recruiting, you’re going to find a lot of good players, and they’ve done that.”
Ohio is 1-1 so far on the season, beating MAC rival Kent State and losing to SEC foe Kentucky. The Bobcats are expected to compete for another division championship and bowl appearance, and coach Holliday belives a big part of that is coach Solich.
“He’s done a tremendous job wherever he’s been and he’s one of the most well respected coaches in America and that’s not going to change,” Holliday said. “I’ve got great respect for what he’s done and what he’s done for that pro-gram is amazing.”
Holliday heaps praise on Ohio’s Solich
Conference USA East Div.
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The Thundering Herd take the field prior to facing off against Rhode Island Sept.6.
Rakeem Cato (12) surveys the Ohio Bobcat defense Sept. 14, 2013 at Peden Stadium.
Marshall and Ohio square off for the Battle of the Bell Sept. 14, 2013 at Peden Stadium.
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THE MIAMI HERALD (MCT)Congress begins an abbrevi-
ated session this week following the August recess, so let’s be-gin with the good news, since there’s so little of it from Capitol Hill these days: The threat of yet another government shutdown, mercifully, appears to be off the table for now.
Some Republicans had talked of a possible shutdown at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Most of that had to do with the president potentially going overboard on immigration and using his executive authority to halt deportations. Republicans would be so furious, some said, that they would retaliate by re-fusing to fund the government.
Speaker John Boehner shot down that idea, however, say-ing the House will take up a stop-gap funding bill in this month that keeps the federal government open until early December. No, members won’t approve an actual budget for the entire fiscal year, as re-sponsible lawmakers used to do — that would be asking too much from this Congress — but at this point a public weary of congressional theatrics will probably settle for this piece-meal approach.
And, for good measure, the threat made earlier this sum-mer by some fringe members to impeach the president is also not happening. “We have no plans to impeach the presi-dent,” Mr. Boehner conceded last month. It almost makes the speaker and the members of his caucus sound like the voice of reason.
Actually, the stop-gap fund-ing measure for fiscal year 2015 is the only “must pass” piece of legislation facing Con-gress in the relatively few days they’ll be meeting before the pre-election recess (to be fol-lowed by the year-end holiday recess after a probable lame-duck session). But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing useful
they can do if they overcome their customary gridlock.
The most important, for regions that thrive on interna-tional trade, is reauthorization of the agency that funds im-ports and exports. The loans and loan guarantees made by the Export-Import Bank to for-eign customers of American exporters are vital to the na-tional economy — especially to global gateways like Miami and South Florida.
Critics call it corporate wel-fare, but bank figures show that 90 percent of its transac-tions benefit small businesses. The agency backed $7 billion of export sales in Florida in fis-cal 2013, including $1.5 billion in South Florida. And the bank earns money for taxpayers: Last year, it reduced the deficit by $1 billion from the fees and interest it received.
This should be a no-brainer. If Congress wants to tinker with the agency’s rules and guidelines, they can debate changes, but eliminating the bank altogether would amount to legislative malpractice.
Keeping the bank alive is one of the priorities, the most urgent, we believe, on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s agenda.
Among the others is an in-crease in the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Repub-lican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, meanwhile, has said his caucus will push for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, among other projects. Supporters say it would boost the economy and enhance en-ergy independence.
Neither the minimum wage nor the pipeline appears to have a chance, however. Once upon a time, they were the type of issues that Republicans and Democrats could negotiate and bring to fruition. But in today’s hyper-partisan atmosphere, merely agreeing to keep the government open seems, sadly, like a major victory.
Congress has returned, but don’t expect much action
As the lights dimmed, guests at Apple’s Product Launch Tuesday took their seats, and a promotional video danced across the screen. The sentence “You never doubted we would change things” floated in silence.
With the reveal of each new Apple product comes praise and criticism. And eventually — as was the case with the iPhone 5 and 5s, with the iPad and even with the iPad mini — most people find themselves devoted to whatever technol-ogy the super brand debuts. Screens get bigger, selfie quality improves and prices (typically) increase.
But the real concern should not be how big the screen will be, how much a new phone costs or what makes an Apple Watch a unique, or even necessary, prod-uct. Apple should instead be focusing on
ensuring the recently compromised pri-vacy of its users.
Numerous lists of ways to keep in-formation or media safe on iCloud have popped up on the Internet since the breach, advising users to delete compro-mising or private images from devices, to make iCloud passwords more secure or to enable a two-step verification process to sign in, or to disable iCloud and Find My iPhone altogether. But how smart should we have to be to keep our private content to ourselves?
The company said in a statement that Apple’s core computer system was not hacked, but acknowledged the frequency of personal attacks.
“Certain celebrity accounts were com-promised by a very targeted attack on
user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet,” Apple said.
Realistically, as prominent public fig-ures, the 100 hacked users — Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, etc. — would not have used easily stolen passwords that reference their grand-parents or their pets. Though this may not be the case in all 100 situations, the ease with which the hacker or hackers ac-cessed their information should elicit a cause of concern for Apple.
Rather than explaining how much eas-ier it will be to take a good selfie, Apple should have taken this opportunity to ad-dress security issues and to make user privacy its priority.
Forget the perfected selfie, I want more privacy, please
By LANE FILLERNEWSDAY (MCT)
These days it just isn’t real until we can see it online. Now that video of Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice savagely punching his then-fiancee, now his wife, in an elevator earlier this year has surfaced on-line, he has been let go by his team and suspended indefinitely by the National Football League.
And we are going to have to endure a lot of debate about trivial nonsense while the most important issue gets little play.
We’ll get to hear about whether the team did the right thing. For itself? For its image? For its fans? And even for the victim, Janay Rice.
We’ll get to hear about whether the NFL did the right thing, with its initial two-game suspension, or the current one. And the talk will be about whether the league is hypocritical, or only cared about the violence once the video disgusted enough people, or didn’t have a strong
enough reaction until it realized how very angry women and men who op-pose violence against women were.
All of this will be debated ad infinitum on talk ra-dio and sports television. But what won’t get nearly enough attention is the only important thing here:
Stop beating women. Stop accepting men who beat women. Stop teaching young men it’s OK to beat women. Make every con-versation about this a real conversation, not about marketing or products but about ending violence against women by abusive men.
That’s what the NFL should be talking about, what ESPN should be talk-ing about, what the Ravens should be talking about and what everyone involved should be talking about.
Everything else is trivial in comparison.
Lane Filler is a member of the Newsday editorial board. His email address is [email protected].
Let’s talk about the real Ray Rice issue
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By JAMES E. CAUSEYMILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL (MCT)
There are few things more disturbing than seeing a man viciously strike a woman.
Ray Rice was suspended by the National Football League indefinitely within hours of TMZ.com posting video of the running back throw-ing a vicious left hook to his then-fiancée in an elevator at an Atlantic City, N.J., hotel in February.
It was the first time the public had seen the entire video in which Rice struck Janay Palmer so hard that he knocked her out. After the punch, Rice dragged her unconscious body out of the elevator like she was garbage.
The Baltimore Ravens were right to terminate Rice’s contract on Monday, and the NFL’s indefinite suspension was also appropriate, but the league could have stopped this circus months ago by bringing the hammer down early on.
Rice could have killed his now wife. The fact that he is not behind bars is crimi-nal. This is an embarrassing day for the league, which up
until today had only imposed a two-game suspension on the three-time Pro Bowler.
When I was a child, one of my cousins was beaten repeatedly by her husband when he was drunk. He wasn’t a football player. He wasn’t rich. And when he wasn’t drunk, he was a really nice guy. But when he had Schlitz Malt Liquor in his sys-tem, he was a violent drunk, and everyone knew it.
He used his wife as a punching bag. I witnessed some of the fights, if you can call them that. Sometimes my cousin fought back, but that only made things worse. Sometimes, she ran to her room and tried to lock the door before he would bust in. I remember even trying to protect her from him.
No matter how many times he said he would never strike her again, his promise always could be broken by a six-pack. Most of my relatives stepped in, but it was hard because she continued to stay.
Sadly, she even blamed herself. One beating in par-ticular left her in the hospital
I hope Ray Rice never plays in NFL again
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Apple CEO Tim Cook de-buted Apple’s first new product category Tuesday since the in-troduction of the iPad tablet computer, showing off a new smartwatch along with two iPhones and a mobile-pay-ments offering built in to the new devices.
Apple’s smartwatch — called simply the Apple Watch — has a new user interface, with Cook declaring, “What we didn’t do was take the iPhone and shrink the user interface and strap it on your wrist.”
It will come in three different basic forms: Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and Apple Edition, with the last one available in 18-karat gold; Apple Watch will be a standard offering, while the Sport edition will be sturdier. The wearable computer will be highly customizable, with different sizes for the watch face and bands of different colors as well as leather and metal, with a starting base price of $350. The device will go on sale in early 2015.
Users will interact with the Apple Watch through a dial on the side, using it to scroll up and down and zoom in, or through its touchscreen, which is made of synthetic sapphire Apple has been manufacturing in Arizona. The device will have access to Apple’s voice-detection tech-nology Siri, allowing users to guide through interactions with voice commands, and a series of gestures can help control basic functions as well.
The watch — which must be used in tandem with an iPhone 5 or later — can record users’ vitals, with sensors detecting bodily actions such as pulse rate, and record them with HealthKit, Apple software in-troduced earlier this year at the Worldwide Developers Confer-ence. More functionality will quickly be on the way: Outside developers received access to build apps for the watch through new software called WatchKit.
With its customizable form and different possible tasks, the Apple Watch can be a differ-ent device for different users’ needs, Cook said, calling it “the most personal device Apple has ever created.”
“I use mine to control the Apple TV, another team member uses his as a remote for his iPhone camera,” the CEO divulged.
Apple introduced two new iPhones that will function with its smartwatch — a larger iPhone than before, the iPhone 6 Plus, along with the iPhone 6, which Cook described as
“the best phones you have ever seen.” The iPhone 6 Plus will be 5.5 inches diagonal, a size in between a smartphone and tablet that has proved espe-cially popular in Asia.
“Today, we are launching the biggest advancement in the his-tory of iPhones,” Cook said.
One of the iPhone 6 smart-phones’ big advances is Apple Pay, a mobile-payments offering that utilizes near-field communications to get rid of credit cards’ “outdated and vulnerable magnetic stripe,” as Cook described them. Instead of using physical cards, Apple’s iPhone will connect to users’ payment options, while not storing credit card numbers or security codes.
Apple software leader Eddy Cue stressed the security and privacy of Apple’s payments option, which will link with American Express, Visa and Mastercard.
“Apple doesn’t know what you bought, where you bought it, or how much you paid for it,” Cue said.
The service will work with 220,000 contactless machines in place at retailers, along with Apple partners such as McDon-ald’s, Walgreens and Disney.
The iPhone 6 screen will
measure 4.7 inches diagonally, the same as the iPhone 5S, but the iPhone 6 Plus will have a 5.5-inch screen, with both receiving Apple’s “Ret-ina” high-resolution display. The larger form factor will give the iPhone 6 Plus a larger battery and therefore longer battery life: Apple said that the iPhone 6 will have about 14 hours of talk time, in line with the previous it-eration, while the iPhone 6 Plus will have 24 hours of talk time.
Both phones will be offered in black, gray and gold. The smaller iPhone 6 will have a price tag starting at $199 with subsidies from wireless car-riers, ranging up to $399 for a phone with 128 GB of memory; the iPhone 6 Plus will range from $299 to $499 with a two-year contract. Apple will begin selling the phones on Sept. 19 in the United States and eight other countries, and wants to roll out sales to more than 100 countries by the end of the year.
The two new iPhones will
arrive with Apple’s newest mo-bile operating system, iOS 8, which will roll out on Sept. 17, marketing guru Phil Schiller announced. Apple previously showed off the new features of iOS 8 at its Worldwide Develop-ers Conference.
The biggest disappointment for Apple fans who didn’t re-ceive an event invitation was the company’s live stream of the event, which malfunctioned from the very beginning and never delivered a consistent view of Apple’s event. Those fortunate enough to establish a solid connection to the live stream by the end of the two-hour-long event were treated to a performance from leg-endary rock band U2, which announced its new album will be released immediately for free on iTunes.
Apple debuts smartwatch, two new iPhones and mobile payments
ABOVE: Apple CEO Tim Cook illustrates how the Apple smartwatch can be used to make purchases by just holding it up to a terminal during a presentation at the Flint Center Tuesday in Cupertino, California.RIGHT: A new Apple smartwatch is demonstrated at the Flint Center Tuesday in Cupertino, California.
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with two broken ribs, a black eye and patches of her hair yanked out. I made her prom-ise me from her hospital bed to leave him. She told me she would, but she continued to stay.
I was done after that. I was scared that eventually he would kill her. Fortunately, he didn’t. Instead, he left her on his own and remarried.
I’ve seen some people com-ment online that if Palmer could forgive Rice, the public should as well. She married Rice about a month after he knocked her out cold.
Now he is suspended from the league, and although I know we are a country of second chances, from my ex-perience with my cousin, I believe most abusers eventu-ally will abuse again.
The league does not need anyone like Rice represent-ing it.
As for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, he has some explaining to do.
He said the full video of the elevator incident was not made available to him or any-one in his office until Monday. If that’s the case, why would the NFL give Rice a two-game suspension without all the evidence?
Lifetime bans may not be lifetime, and Rice is only 27 — still in his prime for a football player. But when he threw that punch at Palmer, he es-sentially threw his career away. Let’s just hope he gets the help he needs before he acts without thinking again.
James E. Causey writes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Readers may send him email at [email protected].
By MAURA DOLANLOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)
A federal appeals court ap-peared inclined Monday to rule against same-sex mar-riage bans in Western states.
During two hours of argu-ments, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked a lawyer defending bans in Idaho and Nevada tough questions and greeted his responses with skepticism.
Monte Stewart, the lawyer who asked the court to up-hold the marriage bans, said opposite-sex marriage sends an important social message that children benefit when reared by both their biologi-cal father and mother.
But Judge Marsha S. Berzon, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, suggested govern-ments may promote social messages in other ways, such as billboards. She said his de-fense of the marriage bans amounted to a message that gay unions are “second-rate families.”
“You are sending a message that they are less desirable families,” Berzon said. “That is what you are doing.”
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, noted that people who are attracted to their own gender “also have the right to live their lives as human beings.”
The 9th Circuit is consid-ering a ruling from Idaho that overturned Idaho’s mar-riage ban and a district court judge’s decision in Nevada that upheld that state’s pro-hibition against same-sex nuptials.
The panel also heard brief arguments on whether to remove from the law books a 2012 Hawaii district court ruling against same-sex marriage.
Hawaii lawmakers later approved same-sex mar-riage, and supporters want the adverse decision re-moved or vacated so that it cannot be cited in other cases.
Judge Ronald M. Gould, a Clinton appointee, also participated in Monday’s hearing by video from Se-attle, where he is based, but asked few questions.
A ruling could come at any time.
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Harvest Moon lights up the skyBY ANTHONY DAVISTHE PARTHENON
The Harvest Moon lit up the cool air last night as it does every few years.
Though the bright, occasionally pumpkin-col-ored moon is typically associated with October, this year it showed up early in September.
According to NASA, the Harvest Moon ap-pears September or October roughly every four years. It seems bigger to the human eye because of the illusion the horizon and air create as the moon moves into the sky. The same elements that cause this illusion also give the Harvest Moon, and other phases of the Moon throughout the year, its bright red appearance as it ascends above the horizon.
Dr. Jon Saken, a professor of astronomy of the physics department, explained how this illusion works.
“For the same reason that the sun becomes more red as it nears the horizon, the moon be-comes red as well,” Saken said. “This is because there is more dust in the air that traps most of the light, except for the light on the red side of the spectrum.”
Not only was last night a Harvest Moon, it was also a Super Moon—and not the first to light up the sky this year. There were actually three Super Moons this year. The largest of the three occurred in August.
Saken said a Super Moon is when the moon appears bigger to the human eye because it is actually closer. The moon travels in an ellipse around the earth, rather than a perfect circle. It
travels along a more egg-shaped path, occa-sionally bringing it closer to Earth.
Dr. Saken said in recent years, Super Moons have been very popular and more people are paying attention to them, but he said they’ve al-ways been there.
“If you could put a Super Moon and normal Moon beside each other you’ll notice that the Super Moon isn’t that much bigger than the nor-mal moon, but when we see a Super Moon in the sky there is a deeper psychology that changes the way that our mind perceives the moon and makes it seem bigger.”
Some people would agree with Saken that the larger size of the moon isn’t even noticeable. Da-vid Oye, sophomore chemistry major, said that he had never even noticed whether the moon was larger in the sky during a Harvest or Super Moon.
According to NASA, the Harvest Moon received its moniker because it rises above the horizon only a little later each evening during the full moon phase. Typically, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each night. This gives farmers extra light and more time to harvest their crops. On the other hand, many people believe that the Harvest Moon is called so because it remains in the sky longer than the typical full moon, which is now known to be a myth.
The Harvest Moon only appears every several years. The last one was in 2009 and the next will be in 2017.
Anthony Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
BY SUSAN KING LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)
Director Mel Brooks spent a lot of money on white hand-kerchiefs while making his 1974 tour de farce, “Young Frankenstein.”
“I gave everybody in the crew a white handkerchief,” said the 88-year-old comedy legend during a recent phone interview. “I said, ‘When you feel like laughing, put this in your mouth.’ Every once in a while, I’d turn around and see a sea of white handkerchiefs, and I said, ‘I got a hit.’”
Young Frankenstein” was more than a hit. It is a comic masterpiece.
Shot in glorious black-and-white, the comedy managed to be both a spoof and a lov-ing homage to the Universal horror films — 1931’s “Fran-kenstein” and 1935’s “The Bride of Frankenstein,” both directed by James Whale, and 1939’s “Son of Frankenstein,” directed by Rowland V. Lee — that starred Boris Karloff as the monster.
Brooks co-wrote the Oscar-nominated script with the film’s star, Gene Wilder, who had starred in Brooks’ 1967 classic “The Producers” and 1974’s “Blazing Saddles.”
Wilder played the arrogant Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, who had so distanced himself from his family that he insisted his last name be pronounced “Frankensteen.” But when the good doctor visits the old family castle in Europe, it isn’t long before he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle).
Brooks, who has won Em-mys, a Grammy, an Oscar and Tonys, put his hand and footprints in the famed TCL Chinese Theatre forecourt Monday morning as part of the film’s 40th-anniversary celebration.
And on Tuesday, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertain-ment released a new Blu-ray version of the film.
It was Wilder who came up with the idea for “Young Frankenstein.” One day dur-ing production on “Blazing Saddles,” Brooks saw Wilder sitting in a corner with a legal pad “scribbling something in his cowboy outfit,” said Brooks.
“I said, ‘What are you doing?’ He said, ‘I have an idea for a movie. It’s about the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, and he wants nothing to do with the family, but sooner or later he will get sucked into the family insanity.’”
After filming ended that day on “Blazing Saddles,” the two worked until 2 a.m. on ideas for “Young Frankenstein.”
“We were very excited about were we could go, the possi-bilities, what was au courant we could make fun of,” he said. “We both knew we had to sa-lute (novelist) Mary Shelley as well as James Whale. We had respect for the book and the movie.”
The film was originally set to be made at Columbia. But the studio executives nixed the idea of him shooting it in black-and-white like the origi-nal films. “I said then the deal is broken,” noted Brooks.
“Young Frankenstein” quickly found a new home at Fox after the film’s pro-ducer Michael Gruskoff gave the script to his friend Alan Ladd Jr., who had just taken over the reins of the studio. Dale Hennesy designed the sets that honored art director Charles D. Hall’s original de-signs for “Frankenstein” and “Bride of Frankenstein.” Ger-ald Hirschfeld supplied the atmospheric black-and-white cinematography.
“I had a real problem,” said
Brooks. “I didn’t want it to be just funny or silly. I wanted Mary Shelley’s basic feelings captured and the ... haunting beautiful quality that James Whale got with Boris Karloff. My movies are not about jokes. They are about behavior, and behavior can be very funny.”
Brooks and Wilder had a disagreement over one of the movie’s many iconic moments — Frederick and the monster decked out in top hat and tails performing “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”
Wilder, related Brooks, “wanted to do ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ to show the prowess of the talent of the monster. I said no, no, no, we can’t do that. It will make it silly.”
But Brooks gave in because Wilder “never stopped annoy-ing me,” he said, laughing. “We shot it, put it in the picture, and we loved it.”
When he screened the rough cut of “Young Frankenstein” to a small audience on the Fox lot, he warned them that at nearly 2½ hours long, the movie “would be a total failure,” but added that if they came back in a month, it would be “a brilliant, funny, remarkable success.”
During that month in the ed-iting bay, “I did my homework,” said Brooks, who realized that there was too much comedy in the film. He cut the weaker comic moments and “spaced out when I wanted the audi-ence to breathe out and relax. I got the rhythm of the movie right.”
“‘Young Frankenstein,’” he said, is “by far the best movie I ever made. Not the funniest — ‘Blazing Saddles’ was the funniest, and hot on its heels would be ‘The Producers.’ But as a writer-director, it is by far my finest.”
‘Young Frankenstein’ has new life on 40th anniversary
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