Rising NFL star paralyzed by hit

Oakland Raiders free safety Jack Tatum levels New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley with a helmet-to-helmet hit in a preseason game, leaving Stingley paralyzed for life. Despite the sport's hard hits and reputation for roughness, this was the first and only time a player was permanently paralyzed as a result of an injury sustained in a National Football League game.

Stingley, a wide receiver out of Purdue, was chosen by the Patriots in the first round of the 1973 draft. He showed rapid improvement in his first few NFL seasons and was thought to be one of the league's rising stars. In 1977, he had enjoyed the best year of his career, racking up 39 catches for 657 yards and five touchdowns. Tatum, known as a hard-hitting defensive back, had starred at Ohio State and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 1971 draft. Nicknamed "the assassin" at Ohio State for his vicious hits, Tatum had knocked Baltimore Colts star tight end John Mackey unconscious in his NFL debut. In Super Bowl XI, Tatum hit Minnesota Viking Sammy Knight so hard that Knight's helmet flew off?the move is often referred to as one of the hardest hits in Super bowl history.

The hit that Tatum would be best remembered for in his 10-year, three-time Pro Bowl career, though, came on August 12, 1978, during a pre-season game at the Oakland Coliseum. Stingley ran a shallow post pattern down the right hash mark toward the middle of the field to collect a pass from Patriot quarterback Steve Grogan. Tatum met him at full speed, hitting Stingley with his helmet and forearm and sending him to the ground with alarming force. The hit did not violate any NFL rules and no flag was thrown on the play, but Stingley's neck was broken between the fourth and fifth vertebrae, rendering the 26-year-old a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down. The tragic injury sent a shockwave through the NFL and its massive audience of fans.

Raiders head coach John Madden visited Stingley in the hospital every day after the injury, made him an honorary member of his team and instructed the Raiders to treat him as such. When Tatum went to see Stingley in the hospital, however, Stingley's family would not allow him into the room. They weren't alone in being angry with Tatum for what seemed like a lack of remorse about the hit. Tatum explained his position this way: "...you can't get emotional about it. You don't like to see any player get hurt, but football is a contact sport and that's a real dangerous pattern. We don't even run it in practice. But I had to do what I had to do. It was my job, and he was doing his job."

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In the aftermath of Stingley's injury, the NFL was criticized for its violent nature. Partially in response to this event, the NFL worked to revise its rules to protect receivers on the field with tighter refereeing and stricter play calling. In addition, helmet-to-helmet hits were eventually ruled illegal anywhere on the field. Friends of Stingley also worked to secure better benefits for disabled NFL players.

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Darryl Stingley died on April 5, 2007, as a result of complications from his injury. Stingley and Tatum never reconciled.

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Westminster's aviation security business gets further endorsement ...

's () aviation division continues to do well - as it has been named a strategic partner for security to the trade association for the world's airlines.

WASS (Westminster Aviation Security Services) has been approved as the partner to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

The body represents 84% of total air traffic and aims to increase awareness of the benefits that aviation brings to national and global economies.

Westminster chief executive Peter Fowler said: "I am delighted to be able to announce this latest development with our aviation security division which continues to go from strength to strength.

"Our Strategic Partnership with IATA will provide us with a platform to build, as well as strengthen, relationships with key industry stakeholders and provide us with a unique insight into airlines' priorities whilst being recognised as working together with IATA in serving the air transport industry."

The latest development follows the announcement on August 1, that WASS, part of the firm's managed services division - had been chosen as a finalist in the international achievement category in the Security Excellence Awards 2013.

The award recognises a UK company that has realised an outstanding achievement or improvement in international sales or exports, or has been instrumental in a significant security application or project outside the UK.

And in July, the group announced that an independent audit of its operations at a West African airport showed Westminster had ?dramatically improved? the security of the airport ? so much so in fact that it is now considered on a similar level to those in Europe ? a view also expressed by a major European airline.

Ringing endorsements such as these will help Westminster win more contracts and boost sales in the future, it added.

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Research shows negative effects of half-siblings

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Adolescents who have half-siblings with a different father are more likely to have used drugs and had sex by age 15 than those who have only full siblings, according to new research.

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Public sector hit hard as Canada loses jobs in July

By Louise Egan

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Record job losses in the public sector and scarce opportunities for young people led to unexpected weakness in the Canadian labor market in July, hinting at a sluggish economic start to the third quarter.

Canada lost a net 39,400 jobs during the month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.2 percent from 7.1 percent in June, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

Market players surveyed by Reuters had forecast the creation of 10,000 new jobs in July, and no change in the jobless rate.

"A definite disappointment," said David Tulk, chief macro strategist at TD Securities. "We sort of expected this as a continued hangover from the plus-95 (95,000 jobs) we saw in the month of May."

But analysts generally took the report with a grain of salt given the volatility of Canada's employment numbers, which are based on a household survey subject to a large margin of error.

The monthly jobs figures have whipsawed this year, peaking at 95,000 net new jobs in May after a loss of 54,500 in March.

The more reliable six-month trend showed average monthly jobs growth of 11,000 from February to July, still less than half the average gain in the previous six-month period, according to Statscan figures. Employment grew 1.2 percent in the year to July.

The trend is consistent with mild economic growth.

"You clearly want to see this decline partially reversed in August to make clear that we're not seeing a sharp deterioration in labor markets," said Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada.

Almost all the jobs lost in July were in services, particularly in the healthcare and social assistance sectors in the province of Quebec. Public sector employment fell by 74,000 positions.

Employment among young people fell by a sharp 46,000 and the jobless rate was almost twice the national average at 13.9 percent. Summer employment for high school-aged students hit its lowest level since 1977.

Both full-time and part-time jobs disappeared, declining by 18,300 and 21,200, respectively.

On the bright side, 31,400 Canadians found private-sector jobs in July, and 13,500 joined the hard-hit manufacturing sector. The number of hours worked also edged up by 0.3 percent in the month, a possible boost to economic growth.

The Canadian dollar weakened to C$1.0352 against the U.S. dollar immediately after the release of the data but then rebounded a bit. At 10:15 a.m. (1015 ET) it was at C$1.0312 to the U.S. dollar, or 96.97 U.S. cents, compared with C$1.0324, or 96.86 U.S. cents, at Thursday's North American session close.

The report did little to change expectations that the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate at the current 1 percent until late 2014.

"The Bank of Canada has already articulated that ... they plan to hold policy as is for quite some time and our expectation is that they are going to continue to do so," said Dov Zigler, economist at Scotiabank.

The Bank of Canada expects second-quarter annualized growth of just 1 percent but sees it bouncing back in the third quarter to a 3.8 percent gain.

Slowing wage inflation was another sign the bank may be in no rush to tighten monetary policy. Wage growth for permanent employees, closely tracked by the bank, slowed to 1.3 percent year-on-year in July from 2 percent in June.

(Additional reporting by Alex Paterson, Alastair Sharp, Allison Martell; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Lisa Von Ahn and Peter Galloway)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/canada-economy-loses-39-400-jobs-july-123040966.html

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35 Percent Of Friends See Your Facebook Posts - Business Insider

Each user post on Facebook is seen by an average?35% of the user's friends, according to a?comprehensive recent study led by?Stanford University researcher Michael Bernstein, who collaborated with three Facebook data scientists. ?

Facebook?changed?the algorithm determining what posts show up in your News Feed this week. So amid all the new attention paid to the algorithm, called EdgeRank, it's worth looking at how much it filters what you see.?

This study has the best data out there on that.?

The?changes Facebook made affect everyone, so although the Stanford study predates the changes, it's likely the average number of people who see user posts will remain the same.?

According to the study, posts that do not receive likes or comments tend to be seen by less friends: an average 28.9% of a user's network.?

Over the course of one month, Facebook users in the study had at least one of their posts seen by an average of?61% of their friends.?

This study whipped up some controversy a few weeks ago when a Facebook critic pointed out that the social network is not transparent about the relatively small proportion of friends who see your posts.?

But interestingly, the researchers found Facebook users actually underestimated the audience size for their posts. When asked about a specific post in the past, a sample of users surveyed directly said they believed an average of 60 friends had seen it, when the real average was 99.?

There were 220,000 Facebook users followed in the one-month study, with an average of 266 friends. All their posts in June 2012 were collected, but?analyzed in the aggregate to maintain privacy.?To determine whether a post was?actually seen?the researchers observed internal Facebook log data to see that the post had been in the viewable area of the friend's News Feed for at least 900 milliseconds.?

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In our view, these are the most important takeaways from the?study, published in April:?

1. The actual audiences for user posts on Facebook are larger than anyone might assume them to be.?
2. A post's visibility is positively correlated with comments and likes on the post.?
3. A small core of followers seem to be responsible for the lion's share of activity around user posts: 95% of the users in the one month study had less than 40 friends who liked their posts and 18 who commented.?

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California governor to seek to block San Francisco rail strike

By Laila Kearney and Jim Christie

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's governor said on Friday he would seek a court order for a two-month cooling off period to avert a threatened San Francisco-area rail strike, unless a deal could be quickly reached to prevent a walkout that could cripple the rush-hour commute as early as Monday.

Democratic Governor Jerry Brown's move came as managers for the rail system, dubbed BART, and its unions were still tens of millions of dollars apart on contract terms despite several months of negotiations.

"I urge all parties to think of the public and resolve this matter without delay, but if there's no resolution by Sunday, I will seek a 60-day cooling-off period," Brown said in a statement.

Brown temporarily blocked a strike last week to avert what would have been the second walkout this summer. A strike on Monday would cause rush-hour traffic chaos in the state's second-largest metropolitan area.

BART's management said on Wednesday it could take two months to reach a contract, while unions said they could settle by Sunday. A negotiator for one of BART's unions has said a strike notice on Friday remained an option.

"In the event that negotiations fail, we may issue a 48-hour notice," Josie Mooney of SEIU 1021 said in a statement on Thursday. The sides had yet to emerge from talks on Friday.

Brown said that a panel he appointed to investigate the labor dispute had determined that a strike would cause "significant harm to the public's health, safety and welfare."

Brown said if the two sides fail to resolve their dispute over the weekend, he would seek an order on Sunday morning from the San Francisco Superior Court to block a strike.

If granted, the order would keep about 2,600 BART employees on the job and keep the trains that carry 400,000 riders a day running for at least 60 days.

BART's unions shut the system down last month for four and a half days, forcing passengers to work from home, drive, carpool or crowd onto a limited number of buses and ferries for prolonged, frustrating commutes.

"It's simply not possible to replace BART should another strike occur," BART General Manager Grace Crunican said.

BART management have said they offered workers a 9 percent pay raise over four years. The unions said they want raises of 5 percent per year over three years and that additional pay increases would be needed to offset higher benefit contributions workers are being asked to take on.

BIGGER SHARE OF BENEFIT EXPENSES

BART managers also want employees to pay 5 percent of their pay toward pensions, to which workers currently do not contribute. The move by BART is in line with trends across the nation, with public-sector employees being required to pay more toward pension and other benefits.

Unions said they were $56 million apart from management on contract terms over three years; BART management pegged the gap over the same period at $62 million.

BART management says the average employee gets an annual salary of $79,500 plus $50,800 in benefits, and it is concerned the cost of benefits will continue to climb after increasing by nearly 200 percent in 10 years.

"We're trying to play catch-up," BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said.

Union representatives peg salaries of BART workers at $64,000 on average, saying that management's figures included higher salaries for managers.

"We are not ashamed to be bargaining to defend a middle-class wage and benefit package," union attorney Vincent Harrington said.

Rating agencies are looking past the dispute. Moody's Investors Service's analyst Eric Hoffmann said BART finances can withstand a strike of moderate length. Moody's rates the district's general obligation debt Aaa.

Standard & Poor's rates the district's general obligation bonds AAA with a stable outlook. Although BART would lose fare revenue during a strike, funds for paying general obligation and revenue bond debt would not be directly affected, S&P analyst Alda Mostofi said.

BART has about $411 million in outstanding general obligation bonds backed by a property tax and approximately $742 million in outstanding debt backed by sales taxes and fares.

BART, which has an annual budget of $1.5 billion, gets about $215 million a year from sales-tax revenue, which more than covers its $53 million annual debt service on its revenue bonds.

Fitch Ratings has an AA rating on the district's most recent sales tax revenue bonds and rates its general obligation bonds AA-plus. "We describe (the district) as having a solid financial profile," said Fitch analyst Matt Reilly.

(Writing by Jim Christie; Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-seek-block-san-francisco-rail-strike-002156327.html

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Secret Garden Party 2013 Review - Skiddle.com

From lake stages to fireworks to pig racing, Katie Grange reviews the bonkersness of Secret Garden Party

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?Roll uuup, roll uuup for the mystery tour/ The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you awaaay/Hoping to take you awaaay?? To quote The Beatles is a brave move, but these famous lyrics seem to encapsulate what Secret Garden Party is all about. From the minute you walk through the gates it is clear that the aim is to take you on a journey.

From the stunning lake stage accessed only by boat, to the hidden forest wonderlands, random acts of debauchery, or art installations; every minute detail of the festival is well thought-out and integral to the Garden magic. Hedonism, patriotism, wonderfulness and weirdness; Secret Garden Party has it all.

This year?s theme was Superstition, and it is one of the only UK festivals where the fancy dress is as important as the programming. From day one people donned cat ears, feather headdresses and LOTS of glitter. The crowd is a blend of twenty-something hipsters, old school hippies and music loving families, and they all get involved in the dress-up? bar one or two naturists.

The Colo-Silly-Um, as you might guess from the name, is where you find much of the debauchery, from blindfolded boxing to naked mud wrestling, and even a game involving poppers. Move to dance-off stage and you have beatboxers and chicken dancers, or people who read your bums in the Clairvoyance tent and remember to dodge the pigs racing for their life. Only at Secret Garden.

With so much going on it can be easy to forget that SGP is still a music festival at heart. Shying away from the big headliners in favour of credible artists, breaking acts or underground musicians, a quick glance at the line-up would leave you feeling unimpressed, yet that would be missing the point. This festival is just as much about stumbling upon genres you?ve never heard of, as it is discovering new acts or reliving old ones.

An example was the feel-good sounds of group General Roots, who made us get our skank on to sun soaked reggae beats. Their high energy performance and personal nature created a great atmosphere and succeeded in getting everyone moving ? a perfect soundtrack to a sunny Friday afternoon.

On the main stage The Strypes, a young four piece rhythm and blues band, blasted out their classic rock n roll sound that was reminiscent of a 60?s Dr Feelgood. Django Django, who brought their psychedelic rock to the Garden, played their first ever main stage headline set to a roaring crowd, their perfect blend of guitars, synths and visuals creating an infectious vitality.

2ManyDJs and Faithless took the tempo to new levels on Saturday night with hits such as ?E talking?, from the former?s group Soulwax, and the latter?s festival staple ?Insomnia? making crowds erupt with fervour. Slot a 30 minute firework display in between these two and you have yourself the start of a pretty special evening.

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The festival is well-known for their fireworks, and this accompanied with the lighting of the Lake Stage this is by far one of the highlights of the weekend. There are not many events that you can congregate 80% of the audience in one space at once but this is exactly what makes it so extraordinary. It?s the shared passion and bond of 15,000 people in between the ?oohs? and the ?aahs? of the stunning pyrotechnics and cheesy tunes.

Another highlight of the weekend was the discovery of secret gigs and, like Glastonbury, many artists turn up just for the sheer love of the festival. We caught an outstanding set from 2manydjs and Jarvis Cocker in the Black Cat, a gem of a find and a climax to the weekend. The duo weaved in electronic stompers from the likes of Hercules & Love Affair and The Chemical Brothers with 80?s classics such as The Human League and the blistering seventies rock of Ram Jam?s ?Black Betty?, whilst the ever-so-smooth Jarvis crooned over the top.

This unlikely collaboration was exactly the feel-good set we needed and was made even more special by the intimate setting it was in. Other surprise gigs over the weekend included a DJ Set from Chase & Status, as well as not one but two back-to-back sets from Disclosure, Skream and Artwork. A bass and garage-lovers dream, the packed set was lively and every drop was met with sheer delight from the crowd.

However the best performance without a doubt was a short but sweet set from London Grammar on Sunday Night. The gorgeous band has become a new favourite after this exquisite set, with tracks such as ?Metal and Dust? and ?Wasting My Young Years? soaked in an aura of purple and green illuminated trees, quite literally taking our breath away.

As well as the live performance SGP also puts on a great dance program with stages such as The Drop, Temple of Boom and Pogoda providing the beats and taking the festivities into the small hours. One stage which we spent most of our sunrise shifts in was the appropriately-named Labyrinth. A hidden woodland passage filled with scenes from Alice in Wonderland made the find even more special, as we coasted our way through pianos, hanging mirrors, hidden doorways and a meeting with the Mad Hatter himself.

Once at the end we danced to sets from the likes of Eats Everything, Futureboogie and No Artificial Colours, taking in the summary house vibes under a canopy of lit-up trees. Our only criticism would be that the sound was way too quiet with no bass at all. In fact it?s the one downside of the festival as a whole, the sound was just too quiet after hours and sadly ruined some of the sets. Acts such as Public Service Broadcasting were hardly audible.

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Other dance acts enjoyed over the weekend included Jamie Jones, Damian Lazarus and Matthew Johnson, who rocked the packed Sunday afternoon Pagoda stage with a tougher-than-average set. There wasn?t a Hot Natured tune in sight and instead we were delighted to hear classics such as ?Downpipe? from Mark Night & D.Ramirez Vs. Underworld.

Regina Spektor finished off a beautiful Sunday night and as we sat on the hill listening to the lovely Samson, we reflected on 4 days of utter exhilaration. Granted, the music programming could have been better. But where it falls behind in in big headliners and sound levels it more than makes up for in hedonism and brilliance.

The crowd is great, the fancy dress is fun, the food is delightful (the toilets not-so-much), the activities are bonkers and setting spectacular. Never before have we laughed, cried, cheered, booed, created or experienced as much as we had at this festival; and we can guarantee that you won?t either.

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Originally published: 6th Aug 2013

Source: http://www.skiddle.com/news/all/Secret-Garden-Party-2013-Review-/18286/

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