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Lipshaw: Don't Blame Faculty for Legal Education's Problems

The Legal Whiteboard:? Mild Epiphanies While Re-Reading The Reflective Practitioner, by Jeff Lipshaw (Suffolk):

I've started working on an essay for a symposium on the future of legal education ... I decided to re-read a work I have cited in the past, Donald A. Sch?n's The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action.?

All professions, in?Sch?n's view, demonstrate this tension between rigor (of research in technical disciplines) and relevance (of the application of knowledge to practice). ... The role of legal academy scholarship in practice falls somewhere in between the role of research in laporscopic surgical practice and the role of research in barbering practice. I will leave others to speculate on precisely where it falls. But in terms of how much pure or applied university-based research we actually need, I have a feeling our profession is closer to barbers than surgeons. ...??

Nevertheless, demonizing law professors in modal schools (the vast majority of which take seriously their obligation to train lawyers for non-academic careers) is like demonizing bankers or CEOs. It scratches an atavistic urge to attribute misfortunate to the gods. ... I don't particularly care for the U.S. tort system and its effect on product and medical costs, but attributing the crisis of legal education to current law professors because they get paid well or write theoretical "law and ..." articles is like attributing defensive medicine to the plaintiffs' medical malpractice bar because of the standard one-third contingent fee. People naturally do what they get measured on and paid well for. ?And it's perfectly legal to boot.

In short, blaming law faculty for responding precisely to the incentives the system creates is understandable but unreflective in its own way. Rather, the current problem is institutional and structural, as Brian Tamanaha, the late Larry Ribstein, Bill Henderson, and others have observed. Because of regulatory and accreditation restraints, almost all schools are similarly modal, so almost every law school, even well down in the lower rankings, consists of faculty with the same career drivers and motivations.

If one's school can't support and doesn't need a Department of Jurisprudence alongside the history, sociology, economics, and philosophy departments, maybe it shouldn't have one. Going that route would take some real cojones, and no doubt create more human candidates for status as gods or demons.

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EARTH: Better warnings for consequences of earthquakes

Public release date: 29-May-2012
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American Geological Institute

Alexandria, VA Global seismic hazard maps exist to help societies and decision-makers anticipate and prepare for earthquakes. These maps are supposed to depict the maximum level of ground shaking likely to be produced by an earthquake in a given area. In the past decade, however, ground motions and death tolls in areas struck by earthquakes have far exceeded these maps' projections. Thus, scientists are calling into question the standard methods used to estimate seismic risk, and accepted assumptions and calculations have come under fire.

Seismologists use two measurements to predict the potential danger from earthquakes: Seismic hazard and seismic risk. Seismic hazard is the likelihood an earthquake will occur in a specific region over a specific period and that ground shaking will exceed a specific strength. Seismic risk takes into account the harm or losses expected to result from the seismic hazard. Although scientists have specific ways to identify seismic hazard and seismic risk worldwide, the standard methods of classification are matters of vigorous debate. How can we better prepare ourselves for massive earthquakes to prevent damage and loss of life? Read the story at http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/better-warnings-consequences-earthquakes-bringing-seismic-hazard-and-risk-assessments-policy.

All shook up and ready to read more? Check out great stories in the June issue of EARTH Magazine, available now at http://www.earthmagazine.org/. Fill in the Middle Permian fossil gaps; travel to northeastern Australia's Atherton Tablelands; and find out if our arsenic supply is at risk, all in this month's issue of EARTH.

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Contact: Megan Sever
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American Geological Institute

Alexandria, VA Global seismic hazard maps exist to help societies and decision-makers anticipate and prepare for earthquakes. These maps are supposed to depict the maximum level of ground shaking likely to be produced by an earthquake in a given area. In the past decade, however, ground motions and death tolls in areas struck by earthquakes have far exceeded these maps' projections. Thus, scientists are calling into question the standard methods used to estimate seismic risk, and accepted assumptions and calculations have come under fire.

Seismologists use two measurements to predict the potential danger from earthquakes: Seismic hazard and seismic risk. Seismic hazard is the likelihood an earthquake will occur in a specific region over a specific period and that ground shaking will exceed a specific strength. Seismic risk takes into account the harm or losses expected to result from the seismic hazard. Although scientists have specific ways to identify seismic hazard and seismic risk worldwide, the standard methods of classification are matters of vigorous debate. How can we better prepare ourselves for massive earthquakes to prevent damage and loss of life? Read the story at http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/better-warnings-consequences-earthquakes-bringing-seismic-hazard-and-risk-assessments-policy.

All shook up and ready to read more? Check out great stories in the June issue of EARTH Magazine, available now at http://www.earthmagazine.org/. Fill in the Middle Permian fossil gaps; travel to northeastern Australia's Atherton Tablelands; and find out if our arsenic supply is at risk, all in this month's issue of EARTH.

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Keep up to date with the latest happenings in Earth, energy and environment news with EARTH magazine online at http://www.earthmagazine.org/. Published by the American Geosciences Institute, EARTH is your source for the science behind the headlines.

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Lyme disease tick study stirs dispute | Health and Fitness

Hundreds of Baltimore-area families have volunteered for a government study to spray their suburban yards with pesticide, which researchers hope can protect them from Lyme disease but that environmentalists warn is unsafe.

The goal, federal and state health officials say, is to find a new way to prevent the widespread illness, which is spread by tick bites and can cause fever, headaches and fatigue ? and, if untreated, may even affect joints, nerves and the heart.

Half of the 185 families who?ve signed up this year in Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties are having the edges of their yards sprayed with bifenthrin, a chemical pesticide commonly applied around homes to fight ticks, fleas and mosquitoes. The others, without knowing it, are getting their property sprayed with water so officials can judge the effectiveness of the treatment.

?The question is, does it actually prevent a common, sometimes severe disease ? and second, what?s the lowest dose you can do?? said Dr. Clifford S. Mitchell, assistant director for environmental health and food protection in the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Environmental activists, though, contend that the study itself is putting the families at risk. Adults and children alike are being exposed to a pesticide that is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a possible carcinogen, critics say, and that is being studied by the EPA for possible harm to reproductive and immune systems, among other things.

?It?s improper to be conducting a human experiment like this,? said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, a national group based in Washington. He and other activists contend federal and state health officials have not adequately informed volunteers about all the potential health risks.

The study, now in its second year, was underwritten by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pesticide also is being tested on yards in Connecticut and New York. Last year, 440 other Maryland families participated.

Lyme disease, so named because it was first reported in Lyme, Conn., is a bacterial illness transmitted when people are bitten by blacklegged ticks, more commonly known as deer ticks. It has become a major health concern in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where a burgeoning population of deer have helped spread the disease beyond forests into suburbia.

There were 30,000 cases reported in 2010, according to the CDC, with the vast majority in those two regions. Maryland had 1,600 cases that year, well below the peak of more than 2,500 cases reported in 2007. But health officials believe that doctors often miss or don?t report cases, and the actual number could be 10 times higher.

Many people living in the most affected states already have resorted to spraying their yards with pesticides to get rid of ticks, said Katherine Feldman, the state public health veterinarian. A survey in Connecticut found that 29 percent of homeowners contacted already pay a pest-control company to treat their properties, she said.

Health officials said it appears that a significant number of people do get bitten by infected ticks around their homes, not just when they go hiking through tall grass or a forest.

There?s also evidence, they say, that the number of ticks in a yard can be reduced significantly by applying bifenthrin, a synthetic chemical similar to the natural insecticides produced by flowers like chrysanthemums.

?We know that pesticides are extraordinarily effective against ticks,? Mitchell said. ?We don?t know if they result in a decrease in human disease.?

Feldman, the state health veterinarian, said volunteers were recruited for the study by mailing fliers to residents in ZIP codes that have had a high incidence of Lyme disease.

The fliers sought single-family households with at least two people who were willing to have a ?single, no-cost, commonly used pesticide application? to their yard and answer ?short surveys? about ticks and their yards. For their trouble last year, they were offered $40 gift cards to a local grocery store, paid for by the CDC, according to the state veterinarian. The reward for this year?s recruits has been scaled back to $25 gift cards.

Veronika Carella, who lives in western Howard County, was among those invited to participate last year. She said she was appalled because her two children, now in college, have been registered for years on the state?s list of chemically sensitive people. Though their 3.5-acre yard has woods and five resident deer ? and her elderly mother contracted Lyme disease, most likely elsewhere ? Carella said she believes the disease can be prevented without resorting to pesticide use.

Carella and others contend that prospective volunteers weren?t informed clearly enough about the potential long-term health risks from being exposed to the pesticide.

?When you get a prescription, you?re told all the things that can happen to you, including perhaps dying,? said Ruth Berlin, executive director of the Maryland Pesticide Network, a coalition opposed to pesticide use. She said the basic message given to prospective volunteers was that the pesticide is safe, which she disputes.

An EPA analysis of bifenthrin notes that there were nearly 1,300 incidents involving the pesticide from 2002 to 2009, and that while most were of ?low severity,? it appeared that even low amounts of the chemical can cause skin and respiratory irritation and dizziness.

Article source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-gr-lyme-pesticide-study-20120528,0,3889741.story

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Facebook's stock falls below $30 for first time

In this May 16, 2012 photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time. That's down 20 percent since its stock began trading publicly on May 18, following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

In this May 16, 2012 photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time. That's down 20 percent since its stock began trading publicly on May 18, following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month.

The stock fell $2.40, or nearly 8 percent, to $29.40 in midday trading on Tuesday. That's down 23 percent since its public stock debut. It went as low as $29.23 earlier in the day.

Facebook Inc. began trading publicly on May 18 following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history.

The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, was supposed to offer proof that social media is a viable business and more than a passing fad.

Facebook's initial public offering of stock priced at $38 and raised $16 billion for Facebook and some of its early investors. It had valued the company at $104 billion ? more than Amazon.com Inc., at $98 billion, at the time.

But the stock's public debut was marred by technical glitches at the Nasdaq Stock Market that delayed trading.

And the company, along with the investment banks that led the IPO, is the subject of at least two shareholder lawsuits. They allege that analysts at the large underwriting investment banks cut their second-quarter and full-year forecasts for Facebook just before the IPO and told only a handful of clients. Morgan Stanley has declined to comment. Facebook calls the lawsuits "without merit."

With the latest drop, Facebook's value is about $80 billion.

Associated Press

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Syria 'massacre' raises pressure for international response

Syrian artillery attack that apparently killed more than 90 people, including many children, brought French condemnation, while the UK said it would call for urgent UN Security Council meeting.

By Joseph Logan,?Reuters / May 26, 2012

A Syrian artillery barrage killed more than 90 people, including dozens of children, in the worst violence since the start of a UN peace plan to staunch the flow of blood from Syria's uprising, activists said on Saturday.

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The bodies of children were shown in footage posted to YouTube purporting to show the victims of the shelling in the central town of Houla on Friday. The sound of wailing filled the room.

The reports of the carnage, which could not be confirmed independently, underlined how far Syria is from any negotiated path out of the 14-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius condemned the violence as a "massacre," and said he wanted to arrange a meeting in Paris of the Friends of Syria, a group that brings together Western and Arab countries keen to remove Mr. Assad.

Syrian state television aired some of the footage disseminated by activists, calling the bodies victims of a massacre committed by "terrorist" gangs.

A British-based opposition group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said residents of Houla were fleeing in fear of more shelling.

It said one person was killed in the northern town of Saraqeb when security forces opened fire on a protest against the killing. Activists distributed footage appearing to show similar protests in Aleppo, the largest city in the north.

FAMILIES KILLED

A member of the fragmented exile group that says it speaks for Syria's political opposition said Assad's forces had killed "entire families" in Houla in addition to the shelling.

"The Syrian National Council (SNC) urges the UN Security Council to call for an emergency meeting ... and to determine the responsibility of the United Nations in the face of such mass killings," SNC spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani said.

Opposition activists said Syrian forces had opened fire with artillery on Friday after skirmishing with insurgents in Houla, a cluster of villages north of the city of Homs, itself battered by shelling.

Although Annan's six-week old ceasefire plan has failed to stop the violence, the United Nations is nearing full deployment of a 300-strong unarmed observer force meant to monitor a truce.

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How Facebook Security Guards Your Info [Security]

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A holiday rental property for your next holiday?

What is the perfect holiday for you? Waking up early to book a poolside chair and have breakfast before they stop serving at 10am? Being rushed up and down a tour bus and following an umbrella like a sheep? Having to put up with generic buffet meals and putting up with fellow travellers who do not fail to annoy you.? Being woken up in the middle of the might by someone leaving the hostel to catch the early train? Stuck in a tiny cookie cutter hotel room on a business trip or with your entire family?

It is no wonder many of us need a holiday after our holidays!

There are many reasons why many travellers choose to travel in the same way as how the first travellers went about when Thomas Cook first introduced packaged holidays to the world back in 1841. The lack of knowledge, inspiration and direct interactions between the different travel suppliers made it difficult for travelling according to how each individual wanted to.

With technology bridging these gaps, it is still bewildering that many are still choosing mass travel similar to that in the 19th century.

Travel in the 21st century is not just about price, but also about choice and convenience. One might think that a packaged tour or a hotel stay is the most convenient. How wrong can they be. Convenience is not about having to follow the tight schedules and fixed itinerary of the tour group, or restricting oneself to the check in/out times, breakfast times and designed for the masses feel of the hotel. ?Travel is about enjoying your time off, enjoying it your way.

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Morgan Stanley, others make $100 million profit on Facebook trades: WSJ

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The woman on a US Airways flight who claimed that a device had been surgically implanted in her body will be returned to France. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.

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Fight in Ukraine's parliament over language bill

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Chris Brown Tells Team Breezy to Stop Death Threats; John Legend Defends Chrissy Teigen

Chris Brown is looking to quiet the fervor set off by a legion of Twitter fans irate at Chrissy Teigen's criticism of his Billboards Music Awards performance.

He wants them to cool it with the threats on the model's life at least.

If you missed it, Chrissy Teigen received death threats from depraved, online losers after she took a jab at Brown. Tuesday, Chris urged them to stop.

"Team Breezy! Lets stop sending death threats!" Brown wrote. "I know y'all bout that life but it's the wrong message! Ur turning haters into victims!"

Y'all bout that life? Threatening people's lives with perverse Tweets? Is this guy a pro wrestling villain? And why is she a quote-unquote "hater"?

Way to send a positive message, Breezy. Perhaps more incredibly, all she did was take a relatively minor shot at Chris Brown's lip-synching.

This resulted in hundreds of Twitter death threats.

Chrissy, who is engaged to John Legend, responded, "Reallllly makes me sad that 99% of the most disturbing comments come from young girls."

"Boy you are an angry girl," she replied to one choice post. "Are you getting paid to act stupid and ignorant? You are doing it like it's your f--king job."

"I said things about EVERYONE who performed. negative and positive. interesting that only one 'team' is rabid," Teigen responded to another "fan."

"This is less about chris and more about the insanity that spews out of the rabid mouthes of team breezy. done. there will be no more said."

"@robevans656 saw you deleted it. not a good look, eh?" She wrote to one who said, "I don't beat women, but you are one bitch I will make an exception for."

The Victoria's Secret model, who was also told she needs a bullet to the brain, or to be raped, has John Legend in her corner at least.

Her fiance wrote: "Personally, I don't think @chrissyteigen's existence is pointless. Nor anyone else who dares criticize a performance."

"Every artist has to be ok with the fact that some people won't like their work. All critics aren't 'haters,'" he continued, aiming that last bit at Brown.

"And don't ever tell me to put my 'bitch on a leash'. She's a grown woman with her own mind and her own opinions and this is not 1950."

Amen.

[Photos: WENN.com]

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Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: From Record to Reality - Gleaning Your ...

Gleaning Your Family's Story of Service

by Marie Rundquist

May 2012

At Memorial Day events and backyard barbecues, we cherish the memories of our beloved men and women in uniform, share their treasured photographs, and display their medals of honor, but what do we really know of their stories? ?As time passes, and wartime memories fade, an ancestor's military registration record, limited to the most basic of vital information, may be the only evidence of his service to his country. ?While genealogists highlight marriages, births, and family lines in their research, military service is often incidental -- a footnote annotation in a charted family tree. ?When I initially researched my own family history, I found elaborate details related to my ancestors' marriages, births, and deaths, but noted only a cursory mention of their military careers. ?

At a recent memorial service for my husband's paternal uncle, we had the opportunity to witness the presentation of an American flag by an Honor Guard, a stunning tribute to my husband's ?Uncle Ed? and his service to his country. ?At Ed's viewing, there were many stories shared about his love of family, his devotion to his real-estate career, his ability to organize community events, and put people at ease, but little was said about his military service. ?As he was laid to rest, and an American flag, folded into the shape of a three-cornered hat, was presented by the Honor Guard to surviving family, all in attendance were at once reminded that Ed had enlisted in the the military during World War II, and were deeply moved.

Ed's World War II enlistment record offers an abbreviated view of a high school graduate with machine-shop training, a single man with dependents, who were his immediate family. Challenged to complete Ed's story of service, I searched the 1930 Federal Census records and discovered that Ed was, in fact, the youngest in a family of eight, that his mother and father were originally from Poland. ?I examined the census reports of adjacent households in Trenton, New Jersey's sixth ward, observed numbers of Czechoslovakian and Polish surnames in close proximity, and concluded that Ed lived in a tightly-knit, Eastern European immigrant community. ?I browsed the recently published 1940 Federal Census and unearthed the roots of Ed's (and my husband's) deeply ingrained work-ethic, for according to the enumerator, Ed's three elder brothers all contributed to the household, and each held a job ? as, respectively, a night-club musician, a factory-worker, and my father-in-law was, at the time of the1940 Federal Census, an apprentice linoleum layer for a department store. ?According to the census taker, Polish was the language most commonly spoken at home in Ed's neighborhood.. ?

A 1941 parish directory was shared at Ed's memorial service, its pages lined with the photographs of young men in uniform, their faces full of hope, eyes bright and shining. ?Leafing through the directory, I was reminded that while most view senior year as a launching point for college and careers, for a high school graduating class in the early 1940s, senior year was a weigh-station on a long and perilous journey ? one that for many would end on foreign shores. ?From a published obituary, I learned that Ed was an Air Force veteran of World War II, who served in the Asiatic Pacific campaign. ?After returning home, Ed approached life with boundless optimism ?-- that he, as a survivor of World War II, ?had the opportunity to marry, buy a home, build a career, educate his children, and be of help to ?his family and friends ranked highest among his concerns. A lover of music and song, and a devoted family man, Ed didn't ?sweat the small stuff.? ?Quibbling over trivial and insignificant events of the day simply didn't factor into Ed's priorities ? nor did quibbling factor into his brother's priorities, as I recall, and certainly my husband is not a quibbler..

By extending my research beyond a single military registration record, to include the 1930 and 1940 Federal Census, newspaper articles, and other published sources, I gained insight into a family's shared traits, uncovered the greater reality that upheld ?Uncle Ed's? military enlistment record, and, in honor of Memorial Day, advanced one enlisted man's story of service from footnote to front-and-center.

Marie Rundquist is a DNA project manager, collaborative research community moderator, president of an information systems consulting firm and author of Revisiting Anne Marie: How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine ?American? Heritage and Cajun by Any Other Name Recovering the Lost History of a Family and a People. For more information visit: http://dna-genealogy-history.com

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Dimension Data completes the vision with a truly comprehensive ...

Shaun Struckman | Global Solutions Director, Visual Communications | Dimension Data

It?s all about visual communications. The market is buzzing with articles, blogs, analyst reports and vendor marketing on the subject. Video stole the show at the recent Enterprise Connect Conference in Orlando, Fl., previously known as VoiceCon, which might need to change its name yet again to VideoCon. I expect the upcoming InfoComm show in Las Vegas, NV. will be similar. Video is being combined with instant messaging clients, web conferencing portals, and IP Phones, as vendors such as Cisco are evolving the space known as Collaboration. Organisations can now provide their employees a wide range of video solutions from the desktop to fully immersive Telepresence. And that is not all, streaming video is more popular than ever and much easier to use. Executives can create video blogs for their employees and share them across the organisation with very little effort. With all the chatter around visual communications, it is apparent executives and IT personnel want to know more.

But where to start? The vendor? Vendors are likely to be biased in their advice. How about the audio/video company that installed the dusty AV controller and microphones in the boardroom? They probably do not have the underlying IP skills required for the next gen video solutions available today, and very likely do not understand the bigger picture of collaboration in the enterprise. The niche resellers have their place, but enterprises need is a single integrator that understands the entire architecture.

As a veteran IT professional, you know the value of a comprehensive plan which begins with a business value roadmap and ends with an architected solution integrated into your business processes. You also understand the importance of user acceptance and adoption to maximise the return on your investment. Your experience has taught you to find a trusted integrator with feet on the street in the countries where you have offices. You know better than to hire a company that subcontracts everything and employs temporary workers to install your systems. You might also value having a safe pair of hands to look after your newly purchased and installed investment; ideally industry experts whose only task is to look after your equipment, 24x7x365. Your employees, your end users, will be calling for help, and you would likely prefer to work on strategies for the upcoming year instead of answering how-to questions and scheduling video conferences.

Enter Dimension Data.

Dimension Data provides visual communications solutions across the entire solution continuum: Plan, Build, Support, Manage, Improve, Innovate. Start with a consulting engagement from one of our industry experts, who will uncover how your organisation communicates and collaborates and how to take it to the next level. Solution Architects with cross-industry expertise can design integration with Microsoft Applications or ensure the virtualisation blade server environment is architected properly, or design the underlying network to accommodate the new increase in bandwidth and Quality of Service requirements. Dimension Data?s global footprint is unmatched in the visual communications industry with over 550 video related certifications across 34 countries. Dimension Data has captured what it learned from deploying over 2 million endpoints and created an industry leading Visual Communications Deployment Methodology, ensuring your deployment goes smoothly and consistently around the globe. Dimension Data also provides an end user focused managed video solution for supporting not only the equipment but the end users as well. Our concierge services include scheduling assistance, live video helpdesk operators and always available assistance when your end users need it.

But don?t just take our word for it. Industry analyst have called us leaders, video equipment vendors have given us awards and our global enterprise clients continue to rate us high in satisfaction surveys. The message is clear, Dimension Data completes the visual communications vision. For more information visit the visual communications page on our website.

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Greece hands Olympic flame over to Britain

High priestess Ino Menegaki lights the torch with the Olympic Flame, during a handover ceremony for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

High priestess Ino Menegaki lights the torch with the Olympic Flame, during a handover ceremony for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

High priestess Ino Menegaki raises the torch with the Olympic Flame, during a handover ceremony for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Former England football captain David Beckham, left, and London Mayor Boris Johnson attend a handover for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Britain's Princess Anne, right, takes the torch with the Olympic flame from President of the Greek Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos during a ceremony at Panathinean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Former England football captain David Beckham, right, and London Mayor Boris Johnson attend a handover for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? The Olympic torch was passed to London ? witnessed, appropriately, by hundreds of Greeks huddled under umbrellas.

Seeking some relief from the country's economic and political woes, Greeks sat on the stone steps of the ancient stadium in Athens on Thursday to watch the ceremonial handover of the Olympic flame to the organizers of the 2012 London Olympics.

They cheered the Greek national anthem. They cheered 88 schoolchildren belting out "God save the Queen. They went nuts when U.K. soccer star David Beckham was announced.

But they really roared when they saw the fire.

"The flame belongs to the world," London Olympic chairman Sebastian Coe said. "The arrival of the flame in the host nation is a clarion call to the athletes and young people in more than 200 nations and territories preparing to gather for the London 2012 Games."

There were jokes about the pouring rain ? more London than Athens surely ? with London Mayor Boris Johnson joshing that everyone would just have to get used to it. But the clouds actually pushed back for a few short minutes, giving the robed dancers, the drummers and the decorative Greek guards a chance to parade around, pompom shoes bouncing.

The flame was passed. No soaked cauldron.

"Once the flame is lit, for all intents and purposes, the Games start," Coe told reporters.

The flame was lit last week at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, and has been making its way around Greece in a relay. Despite a political crisis, a financial debacle and the unusual weather, Greeks were heartened by their eternal link to the Olympics.

"I am Greek and I am proud to be Greek," said Konstantina Giannpoulos, 27, a drenched physical education teacher who clutched a plastic blue-and-white Greek flag. "I want to honor my country."

Beckham headlined the U.K. dignitaries attending the twilight ceremony and there was a hearty guffaw among Britons as he was introduced ? incorrectly ? as "Sir David." He is not a knight.

Princess Anne, a former British Olympic equestrian, took possession of the fire.

"The eyes of the world are swiveling to London," Johnson said with delight.

The handover also marked a poignant moment for Greece as well. Greeks like to point out that the Olympics ? while terrific ? were not the only enduring concept they dreamed up.

Dominique Molin, a 52-year-old former French teacher who ventured out to see Princess Anne tour a center where horses are used to help disabled children, noted that Europe absorbed many ideas championed by the ancient Greeks ? like democracy ? to say nothing of honoring its art and culture.

And even despite their economic hardships, the majority of Greeks in a recent poll say they want to stay in the 17-nation eurozone.

"We belong to Europe," Molin said. "We want to be part of it."

She thought the torch relay helped the country's battered image.

"It shows that there are things still working here," she said.

The flame will fly Friday ? with its own seat and security agent ? on British Airways Flight 2012, an Airbus painted gold at the nose. Shielded in a miner's lantern, the flame will first land at a naval air station in Cornwall, before the Royal Navy flies it to Land's End, the furthest point west in England.

Once in Britain, the Olympic torch heads off Saturday a 70-day relay ? an Anglophile's dream tour that ventures through hill and dale to embrace everything from cool Britannia to Stonehenge. The journey ends at London's Olympic Stadium for the July 27 opening ceremony.

Some 8,000 torchbearers will carry the fire, mostly local people who have worked to better their communities. Olympic organizers hope that by giving the torch to community heroes, they will bring the spirit of the games to a country not necessarily willing to receive it.

The London Olympics has cost 9.3 billion pounds ($14.6 billion) ? a large sum for a country grappling with economic austerity ? and some in Britain worry about what happens when the games end Aug. 12. The future of the massive Olympic stadium, in particular, remains in doubt.

Coe acknowledges there are still many tasks to conquer and questions to resolve. He says the choice of the final torchbearer hasn't even been discussed yet.

But there is one person you can cross off that list. Coe, a former gold medalist, says it won't be him.

Associated Press

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Trayvon Martin Surveillance Video: 7-Eleven Cameras Show Teen Just Before Shooting

Surveillance video of some of Florida teen Trayvon Martin's final moments before being fatally shot by George Zimmerman have just surfaced online.

In his infamous hoodie, Martin can be seen in a video released by 7-Eleven, where he purchased Skittles and an iced tea before walking home Feb. 26.

He was shot by Zimmerman after an altercation on his way back to the home of his father's fiancé, where he was staying, triggering a media firestorm.

Trayvon Martin Surveillance Video Footage at 7-Eleven

The video below doesn't change anything about the controversial case, as the shooting - which Zimmerman claims was self-defense - is obviously not shown.

Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder but remains free on bail. Martin's family yesterday criticized a series of leaks in the case.

Without video of the altercation itself, it remains to be seen who instigated what, and if the charge against the assailant will stand up in court.

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