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The Facts about Male Discrimination
Precious little discussion happens around issues that affect men, this is especially true in "gender" (aka women's) studies courses in college. For the few men who already know about these issues, this will be an excellent page to link to in order to debunk the idea that men have it so good compared to women. And for those, who are open-minded (no feminists, that is not you), but don't know the issues then this list will hopefully be a wake up call for you to, in the words of Men's Rights advocates, "take the red pill."
Rape Laws and Policies
The April 4th "Dear Colleague" letter issued by the OCR to all colleges that receive federal funding, reduces the standard of proof required to convict a male student of rape all the way down to "preponderance of evidence" (anything above 50%) and "strongly discourages" male students being given the right to question their accuser. The directive also requires all universities to allow alleged victims of rape to appeal the results of college disciplinary hearings, subjecting the accused to "double jeopardy" (which isn't allowed in US courts).
http://www.thefire.org/frequently-asked-questions-ocrs-april-4-dear-colleague-guidance-letter/
Click to see victims of this policy
U.S. Military, Washington State and the District of Columbia put the burden on the accused to show consent.
http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/09/us-military-dc-and-washington-state-now.html
Federal Rule of Evidence 413 allows rape defendants' prior sexual assault misconduct to be admitted as evidence in federal rape trials. This infringes on defendants' constitutional equal protection and due process rights. Rule 413 departs from long-standing legal tradition prohibiting admissions of a defendants' uncharged misconduct evidence to prove criminal propensities. This makes it so men who are accused of rape, are afforded less protections than any other crime.
http://law-journals-books.vlex.com/vid/federal-rule-evidence-dangerous-frontier-53568721
http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/culr/2012/11/28/repeal-rule-413-of-the-federal-rules-of-evidence/
Military charges more men with bogus rape claims to show that it takes sexual assault seriously.
http://www.islandpacket.com/2011/11/29/1879908/military-rape-charges-lead-to.html
Rape Shield Law – prevents the alleged victim of a sexual assault from having her past sexual behavior an issue in court. Cathy Young, writing for reason magazine, highlights the problems of such a law.
– In 1998, Jovanovic was convicted of attacking Barnard College student Jamie Rzucek (whose name has been disclosed by some media outlets after the case was dismissed) and was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison. Rzucek claimed that Jovanovic held her captive in his apartment for 20 hours and subjected her to torture and sexual abuse. The defense argued that there was no torture — Rzucek's claim that Jovanovic forcibly sodomized her was disputed by medical evidence, and the jury returned a not-guilty verdict on the counts pertaining to this act — and that the bondage was consensual.
This argument was crippled by Judge William Wetzel's decision to exclude portions of the e-mail correspondence between Jovanovic and Rzucek in which she discussed her adventures in sadomasochism, including her sadomasochistic relationship with another man. The messages, the judge held, were inadmissible under New York State's rape shield law because they had to do with the accuser's sexual conduct.
In late 1999, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, by a 3-to-1 vote, set aside the conviction on the grounds that Judge Wetzel had applied the rape shield law improperly and left the jury with a "distorted view of the evidence." The case was sent down for retrial, but Rzucek proved reluctant to testify a second time, and prosecutors eventually sought a dismissal "in the interests of justice." Jovanovic's vindication came at a high price: as much as $500,000 in legal fees, not to mention 20 months spent in state penitentiaries.
– In Wisconsin in 1993, 18-year-old Charles Steadman was convicted of raping his 22-year-old foster sister Jessica in a he said/she said case in which physical evidence of force was absent and the defendant claimed that the sex was consensual. What the jury didn't know was that when Jessica filed the complaint, she herself was facing criminal charges of having sex with minors. (She eventually received probation with mandatory psychiatric treatment.) Clearly, this gave her a reason to lie — particularly since she had had sexual relations with Steadman when he was underage. She might have thought that being a victim would improve her legal situation as a defendant, or she might have worried that if her encounter with Steadman became known, she would get in more trouble with the law. None of these possible motives could be introduced at Steadman's trial, since Jessica's legal problems were related to her past sexual activities and hence inadmissible.
http://reason.com/archives/2002/02/01/excluded-evidence
False Rape:
The infamous Eugene Kanin study found a 41% false rape figure in a small metropolitan community. A follow up study, found 50% of rape allegations in college to be false. Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.
http://falserapearchives.blogspot.com/2009/06/archives-of-sexual-behavior-feb-1994.html
http://www.archive.org/details/FalseRapeAllegations
US Air force study confirms 60% of rapes to be false, a full 27% of the allegations were confirmed to be false because the woman admitted to making them up.
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_4.htm
The above link comes from a Forensic website, not a biased feminist one, and concludes the following:
Empirical evidence does not support the widespread belief that women are extremely unlikely to make false accusations of male sexual misconduct. Rather the research on accusations of rape, sexual harassment, incest, and child sexual abuse indicates that false accusations have become a serious problem. The motivations involved in making a false report are widely varied and include confusion, outside influence from therapists and others, habitual lying, advantages in custody disputes, financial gain, and the political ideology of radical feminism.
From report:
The McDowell recruited independent reviewers who were given 25 criteria derived from the profiles of the women who openly admitted making a false allegation. If all three reviewers agreed that the rape allegation was false, it was then listed by that description. The result: 60% of the accusations were identified as false. McDowell also took his study outside the military by examining police files from a major Midwestern and a southwestern city. He found that the finding of 60% held
Also here is a Q and A with Mcdowell:
In an interview in the June 1985 issue of Chicago Lawyer, McDowell told Rob Warden, the editor. Q: How was the model developed? A: It is based on a study of 1,218 cases that were initially investigated as rapes. Of those, 460 were proven rapes, 212 were disproved allegations, and 546 cases remain unresolved.
Q: What were your criteria for classifying a rape accusation as disproved? A: There was just one criterion. In each case, the victim ultimately admitted that the allegation was a hoax.
Q: All 212 of those cases are now admitted to have been false allegations? A: Yes. That's the reason that we have a leftover category of 546 cases. My personal opinion, based on the evidence, is that many of those also are false allegations. But they are not admitted hoaxes, and we have not classified them as disproved. We have been extremely conservative in classifying an allegation as false for purposes of the study.
Q: What were your criteria for classifying an allegation as proved? Are these all convictions? A: They're not all convictions. Some are, but the remainder is cases in which the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence supports the allegation so strongly that there really is no other logical conclusion.
Q: Then your standard for classifying an allegation is false? A: Definitely. If there was a margin for error, if there was any area in which we gave the benefit of any doubt, it was in favor of a rape."
http://www.falserape.net/falserapeafa.htm
Colorado's Craig Silverman – a rape prosecutor – said the following about false reports:
"During my time as a prosecutor who made case filing decisions, I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department. It was remarkable and surprising to me. You would have to see it to believe it. Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes that there is. A command officer in the Denver police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45 percent."
http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=573
"Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained, the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing. Specifically, FBI officials report that out of roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases since 1989, about 2,000 tests have been inconclusive, about 2,000 tests have excluded the primary suspect, and about 6,000 have "matched" or included the primary suspect."
The authors continued, "These percentages have remained constant for 7 years, and the National Institute of Justice's informal survey of private laboratories reveals a strikingly similar 26 percent exclusion rate."
"If the foregoing results can be extrapolated, then the rate of false reports is roughly between 20 (if DNA excludes an accused) to 40 percent (if inconclusive DNA is added). The relatively low estimate of 25 to 26 percent is probably accurate, especially since it is supported by other sources."
In addition the SAVE survey reveals false accusations (of all kinds) to be a real problem.
"A full 11% of respondents reported that they themselves had been falsely accused of some type of intimate partner or child abuse, and that they had been to some extent or another sanctioned for behavior that they never engaged in."
Over eight of ten (81%) who said that they knew someone falsely accused answered that the falsely accused party was male. Nearly seven in ten (69.9%) of those falsely accusing were female. These results indicate very strongly that false accusations and their aftermath loom very large in the landscape of men's lives. And while there are falsely accused females out there, the issue is one that can be fairly identified as generally an act of aggression against men
Here are the results:
Have you ever heard of anyone falsely accused of abuse? Yes – 51.6% No – 48.4%
Has anyone you know ever been falsely accused of abuse? Yes – 15.5% No – 84.5%
Was this person falsely accused of child abuse?* Yes – 74.0% No – 26.0%
Was this person falsely accused of domestic violence?* Yes – 28.9% No – 71.1%
Was this person falsely accused of sexual abuse?* Yes – 48.5% No – 51.5%
Was this person falsely accused in the last year? Yes – 17.7% N0 – 82.3%
Was the falsely accused person a male? Yes – 81.0% No – 19.0%
Was the accuser a female? Yes – 69.9% No – 30.1%
Was the accusation made as part of a child custody dispute? Yes – 25.8% No – 74.2%
Have you been falsely accused? Yes – 11.0% No – 89.0%
http://www.saveservices.org/falsely-accused/survey/
The Innocence project reveals false accusations of rape to be the most common form of false imprisonment.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
Rape allegations, that are proven to be false, account for 17% of all allegations in the military. Note that the majority of rape cases fall into a "grey" area, where the could be true or false, so the 17% number is likely higher.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/12/false-reports-outpace-sex-assaults-in-the-military/
Click to see some examples of what false rape allegations can do
Boy Crisis
Boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed with "ADHD" as girls.
Boys represent 70% of the D and F students.
11th-grade boys now write at the same level as 8th-grade girls.
Boys commit suicide at 4 times the rate girls do.
Today, women outnumber men on 57% of campuses and enjoy a 3:2 ratio overall. By 2020, men's enrollment is projected as low as 41.4%, down from 57.7% in 1970.
Boys are five times more likely to end up in Juvenile detention.
Boys are far more likely to be victims of a violent crime.
http://collegestats.org/articles/2012/08/9-signs-we-have-a-boy-crisis/
Despite these statistics, it is girls who still receive all of the gender specific goodies. Female only scholarships, White House Council for Women and Girls, Title IX grant program for women in STEM, and the Women's Educational Equity Act are the known Federal level programs for women and girls in school.
Sentencing Disparity
Average sentences for same crime under similar circumstances (robbed someone with a gun, knife, etc):
Female – 18.51 months
Male – 51.52 months
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~mustard/sentencing.pdf
In Britain, Judges are now ordered to "show more mercy" on female criminals when deciding what sentence they should be given.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311004/Judges-ordered-mercy-women-criminals-deciding-sentences.html
Unfair sentencing doesn't just pertain to men, but for boys as well.
"Judge bashes Probation Department for gender bias in favor of leniency for girls"
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-01/news/27082827_1_gender-bias-probation-officers-probation-department
In North Carolina (and probably other states), it turns out that assaulting a female is a class A1 misdemeanor only if the attacker is "a male person at least 18 years of age"; every other type of assault when it comes to gender, is generally a class 2 misdemeanor. This can translate into a substantial difference in sentencing.
http://volokh.com/2011/10/05/north-carolina-crime-of-assault-on-a-female/
Click to see examples of Female Sentencing Discount
Death Penalty almost exclusively targets men
Actual execution of female offenders is rare, with only 571 documented instances as of 12/31/2011, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 2.9% of the total of confirmed executions in the US since 1608. Only twelve female offenders have been executed since 1976.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/women-and-death-penalty#facts
Women make up only 2.9% of those executed since 1976, but they commit 10% of all murder in the US.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expandhomicidemain
SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
In addition; "the most comprehensive review of the scholarly domestic violence research literature ever conducted concludes, among other things, that women perpetrate physical and emotional abuse, and engage in control behaviors, at comparable rates to men."
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10741752.htm?PID=4003003
Domestic Violence Hotlines/Shelters (tax dollar funded), refuse to help or accept male victims of DV.
What happens when men call Domestic Violence shelters for help:
Of the abused men who called domestic violence hotlines, 64% were told that they "only helped women." In 32% of the cases, the abused men were referred to batterers' programs. Another 25% were given a phone number to call that turned out to be a batterers' program. A little over a quarter of them were given a reference to a local program that helped.
Overall, only 8% of the men who called hotlines classified them as "very helpful," whereas 69% found them to be "not at all helpful."
Sixteen percent said the people at the hot line "dismissed or made fun of them." One abused man said:
They laughed at me and told me I must have done something to deserve it if it happened at all.
Another said:
They asked how much I weighed and how much she weighed and then hung up on me…I was told by this agency that I was full of BS.
Twelve percent of the hotlines accused the man of being the batterer or responsible for the abuse. One abused man said:
They told me women don't commit domestic violence — it must have been my fault.
They accused me of trying to hide my "abuse" of her by claiming to be a victim, and they said that I was nothing more than a wimp.
Of the men who sought help by contacting local domestic violence programs, only 10% found them to be "very helpful," whereas 65% found them to be "not at all helpful." One abused man said:
They just laughed and hung up the phone.
They didn't really listen to what I said. They assumed that all abusers are men and said that I must accept that I was the abuser. They ridiculed me for not leaving my wife, ignoring the issues about what I would need to do to protect my six children and care for them.
https://nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/3977-researcher-what-hap-3977
Mandatory arrest policy
Thanks to the Violence Against Women Act, states are encouraged to enact "mandatory arrest" policies when it comes to domestic violence. This means that when someone calls the police alleging partner abuse, an arrest has to be made, even if the allegation looks to be false. Mandatory arrest policies completely ignore a Constitutional right known as "Probable Cause."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/why-would-anyone-oppose-the-violence-against-women-act/273103/
Arrest the male
Thanks to "predominant aggressor" (aka arrest the male no matter what) policies, men who call the police on their violent wife are often the ones arrested, or threatened by police with arrest.
According to a study by George and Yarwood (2004), police have threatened 47% of male victims of intimate partner violence with arrest. George and Yarwood also found that the police ignored 35% of male victims and 21% were actually arrested instead of the female perpetrators
http://www.sascv.org/ijcjs/pdfs/carolettaijcjs2010vol5iss1.pdf
Another Study by Linda Kelly found that when abused men call the police to report domestic violence committed against them they are three times more likely to be arrested than the wife that is abusing them.
http://www.law.fsu.edu/Journals/lawreview/downloads/304/kelly.pdf
A good example of this is the case of Pro Fooballer Warren Moon. Moon was arrested after he tried to restrain his wife from assaulting him after she threw a candlestick at this head and kneed him in the groin. Police came, arrested moon and he was charged with domestic violence but only acquitted after his wife confessed that she was the violent one. Women's groups were not happy and wanted Moon to be charged.
Women receive custody of the children in about 84% of custody cases
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p60-225.pdf
Paternity Fraud
Paternity fraud is rampant in the US. In as many as 30% of cases, fathers are being forced to pay child support for children who are not theirs.
http://www.wnd.com/2006/02/34861/
Click for examples of men being forced to pay CS for non-biological children
Boys Forced to Pay Child Support to their Rapist
In at least 3 states (California, Kansas and Tennessee), courts force boys to pay child support to their statutory rapists. In at least two other states, state officials attempt to get boy statutory rape victims to pay child support to their rapists.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberthirtysix.htm
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/legally-obscene/
Click to see examples of boys being forced to pay CS to their rapists
False Restraining Orders
Restraining orders are usually as simple to get as filling out a form correctly.
In 2005, Santa Fe District Judge Daniel Sanchez issued a temporary restraining order against David Letterman because, in her words:
Colleen Nestler alleged in her request for the order filed Dec. 15 that the Late Show host had forced her to go bankrupt and caused her "mental cruelty" and "sleep deprivation" since first sending her secret messages in May 1994. Nestler asked the court to require Letterman to keep a distance of at least three yards and to "release me from his mental harassment and hammering."
She received this restraining order based on no proof of her ridiculous allegations.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1144343,00.html
Temporary restraining orders are issued by judges without the respondent having legal representation, being allowed to present opposing evidence, or even being aware of the allegation. Thanks to state laws that have been lobbied to redefine "domestic violence" broadly, restraining orders are extremely easy to obtain.
Judges also rarely require proof of abuse, and the statutes invoke a "preponderance of evidence" standard (the same standard forced onto colleges in rape cases). In most states a temporary restraining order is followed by a full hearing 10-14 days later; at that time, a final determination is reached.
In practice restraining orders trample on Civil Rights of the defendants.
The accuser may have had weeks to prepare for the case, and is probably receiving free legal help. In contrast, the respondent has only a few days to find a lawyer and develop a legal strategy.
The respondent has limited access to evidence in the home that he may need to prove his innocence.
If the respondent has no money for legal defense then they may be forced to undertake more difficult pro se defense.
One attorney noted that "the mere allegation of domestic violence…may shift the burden of proof on the defendant."
Take this court transcript from a hearing in which the respondent's attorney requested the temporary restraining order to be removed:
Attorney to his respondent-client: "Can you please state your name and your address for the record?"
Judge: "I don't believe I need to hear any evidence from your client. I'm going to deny your request to vacate the restraining order."
http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/correct-the-violence-against-women-act-now
Concerns about the misuse and unconstitutionality of Restraining Orders have been voiced in legal circles for years.
Elaine Epstein, former Massachusetts Bar Association, admitted "Everyone knows that restraining orders and orders to vacate are granted to virtually all who apply…In many cases, allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage."
In Connecticut, attorney, Arnold Rutkin said that many judges view TOs as a "rubber-stamping exercise" and that subsequent hearings "are usually a sham."
In Missouri, a survey of attorneys and judges found many complaints of disregard for due process and noted that allegations of domestic violence were widely used as a "litigation strategy."
In Illinois, an article in the state legal journal described legal allegations of abuse as "part of the gamesmanship of divorce."
In California, the State Bar admits it is concerned that protective orders are "almost routinely issued by the court in family law proceedings even when there is relatively meager evidence and usually without notice to the restrained person…it is troubling that they appear to be sought more and more frequently for retaliation and litigation purposes."
In Washington State a TO reads:
"IT IS THEREFORE OREDERED THAT…The respondent is directed to appear and show cause why this temporary order should not be made effective for one year or more and why the court should not order the relief requested by the petitioner or other relief which may include electronic monitoring, payment of costs, and treatment.
Temporary restraining orders have been called "the gamesmanship of divorce." One account to how damaging a false TO can be: "In ten days, the hypothetical husband has gone from having a normal life with a wife, children and home to being a social pariah, homeless, poor, and alone, trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare."
The following is a case account by a grandmother of the victim of a false TO of how a woman can abuse the system in her favor to get the father out of THEIR children's lives.
In November 2002 Mrs. Soucie's daughter-in-law decided to leave the family home, and opted to take along her nine-month-old grandson for good measure. "With the slow process of the court system, my grandson was concealed for 3 months. We missed his first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, first New Years, and his first birthday," Mrs. Soucie sadly writes.
Finally the father, who works in law enforcement, was granted formal visitation rights. That's when the nightmare began.
Somehow the mother got irate because dad and grandma wanted to see junior from time to time. And someone told her that under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, causing a woman to feel even "emotional distress" is considered a form of abuse.
"In October 2003, my son and myself were placed under an Order of Protection. We did nothing to break the law, we did not harass, stalk, intimidate, or try to annoy. Our only purpose was to pick up the child and deliver him back at the appointed time."
Apparently the mother told the judge she found dad and grandma picking up the child to be "distressing."
The mother has learned the system and uses it to her advantage," laments the disillusioned grandmother.
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0810roberts.html
Box 1 – indicates there was no allegation of physical abuse. Instead, the wife accused her husband of "harassment" and "interference with personal liberty."
Box 5 – on the basis of those allegations, the female shall receive custody of the children.
Box 7 – Orders that the children be removed from their father and allowed to see him only every other weekend until 6pm on Sunday.
50% – the number of restraining orders that are given without so much as an allegation of physical abuse
70% – the estimated number of restraining orders that are false based on several studies by state.
http://www.saveservices.org/camp/faam-2011/false-accusations-of-domestic-violence-by-the-numbers/
Of 302 men who experienced domestic violence by their wives, 38.7% reported that she filed a restraining order against him under false pretenses.
Click to see examples of False Restraining Orders
Title IX crushing Men's sports programs
Title IX, once a gender equality law, has now morphed into a gender quota law that demands 'proportionality' when it comes to sports programs in college. Technically Title IX has three prongs of compliance, but the "safe harbor" prong has always been proportionality and it guarantees colleges will not be gone after by the OCR or the many whiny women's groups. Because of these facts, the US commission on civil rights finally decided to weigh in and recommend Title IX be reformed to stem what it called the "unnecessary reduction of men's athletic opportunities."
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-04-01-title-ix_N.htm?csp=obinsite
Click to see Title IX ruining Men's sports
Scholarship Discrimination
In sports where the gender compete, girls are awarded far more scholarships than boys are: 20,206 vs 32,656. Because of this, in every 'gender symmetric' sport (the one exception being gymnastics), boys face much more difficult odds of being able to earn a scholarship than girls do.
http://collegesportscouncil.org/newsroom/display_releases.cfm?id=28
http://www.collegesportscouncil.org/20090715.pdf
Hate Crime Discrimination
The DOJ will only investigate bullying cases if the victim is considered protected under the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. In other words, white males are the only group to be excluded from having their case investigated by the DOJ.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/18/doj-white-male-bullying-victims-tough-luck/
War Dead – 99.9% male deaths
http://thewall-usa.com/information.asp
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
92% of workplace deaths are male.
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0009.pdf
Men are almost 80% of suicide victims.
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/victims/qa02702.asp?qaDate=2009
Men are overwhelmingly more likely to be victims of homicide
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2221
Male Rape
"In 2011-12, an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission to the facility, if less than 12 months."
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri1112.pdf
62% of the homeless in the US are male.
http://humanneeds.vcu.edu/Page.aspx?nav=29&scope=0&source=13
Men have zero reproductive rights
Girls are protected under law from circumcision, boys are not (his body, not his choice).
Selective service is required only of men, and participation is tied directly to voting rights. Women have no such demand, associated with voting rights or otherwise.
25 thoughts on "Facts"
William Belle
I visited this web site "A Voice For Men". I read "About" to understand who Paul Elam is and where he's coming from. I watched his video "The Myth of Women's Oppression". I read the article on jury duty in a rape trial. I learned what the term mangina means. This man has put in a lot of time and effort to describe his views, to support them and to disseminate them. Paul is an intelligent man and a good writer.
However, it is obvious to me that Paul is a troubled man and he is having a difficult time in this modern age. In the same way some people blame the Jews for the ills of the world, Paul seems to be blaming women for the ills of men.
I don't need to debate Paul. I won't try to convince him otherwise. I will only conclude with this picture which is worth more than a thousand words:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101100809,00.html
Woman-hater, there's an unexpected insult (sarcasm).
That's a horrible picture William, but why are the lives of foreign women more important than the lives of American men. Why should American men risk their lives in war to save the foreign women? If I refuse to give up my life to save a woman, does that make me a woman hater?
William,
This is a typical diversion tactic to get people away from the topic at hand. Your attempt may work on the few who will click your little link to see what you're talking about and then will probably forget the original article that they were going to talk about.
The problem with this is that you're a cog in the enemy machine. Do you think you're helping yourself or your fellow sex by working as a cog in the enemy machine? The fact of the matter is that it's up to men to lead the way; just by the nature of how we think and how we've traditionally acted in history. (Unless, of course, you will become a female apologist and imply that women have had centuries of cruel treatment? Joan of Arc was really a man? Oh, I know, Ganghis Khan, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff, they were all female. You're right.)
It was perfectly correct for a Soviet Union poster to be in this article. It's not a secret that Communism set out to destroy the very fundamentals of tradition life. (We have to understand that the Marxist/Communist logic stems heavily from a religious viewpoint of a certain logic that is detrimental to most people as it's a heavy act of subterfuge against us all. I will refrain from naming them so openly as this will result in another *ism to be uttered by the fantastically brainwashed.) This meant the destruction of the nuclear family, the destruction of traditional sex roles, the destruction of religion and the destruction of finance and employment. I also say "sex" because saying "gender" would mean that I somehow have a choice as to which sex I identify with. My sex is male and it will always remain so.
Furthermore, the sufferings of women in other cultures that are essentially alien to ours is not our concern. The cultures of other nations and people's have different standards and different ways of life. Why care? I certainly don't. I'm concerned with my culture, my heritage, and how my traditional point of view is attacked daily while I watch the men and women of my age become drones to a system that only benefits a small-numbered few.
Besides, it's okay when it's our soldiers who are doing a large part of the maiming and killing in a country that never even so much as threw a rock at us, right?
I'm concerned only with the woman who are in my country. As all of you know, Russian woman are highly sought after for their very womanly way of thinking – but let me tell you something – the Communist indoctrination of the "liberation of women" is in full swing here and you're just in the beginning of what's already been an epidemic here for decades. For instance, it's common here for the man to be unreliable, drunk on vodka very often while the woman is the breadwinner of the home. Is that not a full reversal of the sex roles or what? Not without consequence as the male genes have suffered huge setbacks in the recent years from the two World Lies (World War I and II) where we were conscripted to fight for an ideology that wasn't our own.
The point of the matter is that men are, and have statistically always been with little exception, the great leaders and providers for our women who we have largely always felt to be the most pure and Angelic forms of human life. We are so enamored with them that we have gifted and dedicated many buildings, structures, movies, art, literature and music in their memory and name.
How's that for woman-hating?
I am French, I discovered your articles on the Spearhead. I appreciate your work.
FWIW I think you're somewhat wrong about the connection between Marxism and feminism. Feminism has generally been a middle class liberal movement and has been criticised as such by some Marxist women. Alexandra Kollontai made the argument that feminists fighting against existing (early 20th century) marriage would lead to the end of private property of the middle class. However she was generally critical of feminism, and as far as I can tell, saw this as an unintended consequence of women who she generally saw as members of a self-interested oppressive class ("For what reason, then, should the woman worker seek a union with the bourgeois feminists? Who, in actual fact, would stand to gain in the event of such an alliance? Certainly not the woman worker.") This isn't to ignore Marxist feminists entirely. They exist. However I don't think that they were ones getting laws passed.
Excellent Points. Men and Women are different, and that's wonderful! Let's enjoy and celebrate our differences, just as societies have done for countless generations.
This new experiment in feminism that also emasculates and denigrates men is already causing tremendous damage to society.
We need more voices like yours who celebrate and respect men, and fight for their rights.
Redpill
Marxist Consumerism is exactly what it is. This subversive system is nothing but a sham used to dumb down the masses under the guise of "Liberty and Justice For All". Crap like this is what makes me sick to my stomach, and to know that that the dumbed down sheep of the Western World give in this crap makes me want to puke my guts out. These "liberated feministas who cry oppression" are nothing but pawns used to engineer their slavery and eventually their own destruction. A real women knows that she doesn't need feminism to validate who she is as a female, and in reality is more liberated just by knowing whats going in the world around her and what feminism is really about. The collective subjugation of men as a whole through deception, and the brainwashing of females into believing something that isn't true especially in the western world. This misandric cancer has to be stopped, and I too believe it by real men like us having to go our own ways and freeing ourselves from commitment with women or vulnerability to them, which is necessary for our survival and freedom as men. And I am more than happy to have women join the program and learn the truth, so that we as a a collective people can continue to fight for freedom. Maybe this also help heal the rift and improve relationships between men and women. And one thing I do know is that America and many other western nations will fall under their own weight, the way Rome fell thousands of years ago under political corruption and tyranny. Also the future of the next generations after ours will hopefully be those of freedoms and opportunities and the responsibilities that come with them.
@ William. The fact that you post such a picture and expect a certain reaction is exactly the problem. Go ahead and post pictures of males with missing hands because they were caught steeling bread to feed their families, post pictures of thousands of dead male soldiers, post pictures of men in prison for crimes never committed, post pictures of a male who hanged himself because of the mental torture of having society tear his children away from him just because the relationship between husband a wife is no more. I know why you don't post those pictures – because there is no reaction from anyone to be had – such images have become ineffective on just about anyone. This is one facet of the problem William. I am a male and I am not fucking disposable. My son is a male, and he is not fucking disposable. You are right in saying that some people are having trouble adjusting to the "modern age" – fucking right, and I am one of them.
@ Steve
AlRietto
http://bellsouthpwp2.net/a/r/arietti/vawa_1.html
If only we could enlighten the people of the illegitimacy and unconstitutionality of VAWA, then its fall will be inevitable!!!
The VAWA immigration loop-hole:
The formula is simple: Pretend you're in love with someone, get them to marry you, then, a few months later start making unsupported accusations of abuse. The accusations will stick, even if completely unsupported by facts. In no time they're on the path to permanent residency and with plenty of help from US taxpayers. As you can see from the many stories in this forum, the innocent US spouse often pays a heavy price in terms of psychological distress, legal bills, damage to reputation, and in many cases even a criminal record.
Why is what these women do so wrong, appalling and nauseating? When I say "these women" I mean each and every woman who is involved in these organizations, in formulating and supporting VAWA, in instructing women on how to make these false accusations and on how to manipulate and abuse an innocent American citizen, the police, the courts, the American support system and the American immigration system, and of course the women who deliberately plan on prostituting themselves and deceiving an American citizen in order to deceitfully make him sign the marriage so that they can falsely accuse him and file a VAWA self-petition.
There is a distinct difference between wrong and right, and just because something is not punishable by law (the false accusations of domestic violence with the intention of fabricating evidence for a VAWA self-petition and abuse the American support system) does not make it right. Specifically, making false accusations of domestic violence in order to fabricate evidence for a VAWA self-petition is one of the most despicable acts a human being can do.
…So to clarify:
To want to help an immigrant woman who is in difficulties is right
To offer an immigrant woman my house when she has no other place to stay is right
To help an immigrant woman with food, transport, money, medical issues, surgeries… is right
To agree to marry an immigrant woman after living together with her for 3 whole years is right
To plan on doing whatever it takes, including lying, deceiving and prostituting herself in order to get an American citizen to sign a marriage is wrong
To act, pretend to love him, to lie and say that she wants to be his wife, to abuse his time and manipulate his emotions is wrong
To instigate violence, to provoke, to destroy his home and reputation is wrong
To lie to the police, to make false police reports, to try to get the innocent American citizen arrested in an attempt to fabricate evidence for a VAWA self-petition is wrong
To contact a VAWA shelter and to lie in order for the VAWA shelter to help her fabricate more evidence for the VAWA self-petition it wrong
To lie on a petition for a Temporary Protective Order and to sign a false TPO petition is wrong.
To lie to the TPO office at the court-house in order for them to help her get the TPO is wrong
To go in front of the judge, to swear to say the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and then to commit perjury and falsely accuse the very same person who helped her out of love and compassion is wrong
To commit perjury in the TPO hearing when her "husband" is present is wrong.
To abuse the American support system by pretending to be a domestic violence victim is wrong
To break in to and burglarize the house of the very same person who helped her out of love and compassion is wrong
To formulate a law that creates an incentive for immigrant women to prostitute themselves, to lie, deceive and do whatever it takes so that an American citizen would agree to marry them is wrong
To formulate a law that creates an incentive for women to falsely accuse their "husbands" is wrong
To instruct women on how to falsely accuse their "husbands" is wrong
To help and instruct women on how to fabricate evidence for a VAWA self-petition is wrong
To instruct women on how to abuse the American support system is wrong
… I can go on and on…
I don't think I could have been any clearer with the lists above.
Have you noticed how long the "wrongs" list is?
Martha, the Mexican immigrant women that I was helping out of my good heart and naivety – did all that.
There are a number of factors that these psychopathic immigrants use to carry out their diabolic plan:
1. Men have a natural tendency to care for and help women (in distress) and some women have that tendency towards men (co-dependency). The immigrant poses (acts) as a victim and manipulate the American citizen to help her.
2. Most men (and women) have a firm belief – it is in their self-concept, belief system or internal map of the world – that when a woman (man) offers "love" is must be true love. Offering love for interest (in this case – immigration) is not a part of their internal dictionary. In the past when a woman (man) loved them, they expressed their love in words and actions, and if they didn't love them, they either walked away or stayed as friends. Nobody ever pretended to love them!
3. Because if the above – men (and women) will devote and commit themselves to helping the immigrant and the idea that the immigrant may one day turn on them and falsely accuse them (and thus betray them) or simply leave after getting what they want – the Green-Card – is inconceivable. A "human-being" that expresses so much love and acts as the perfect wife (or husband) would never do that, right?… wrong!
4. The Radical Misandristic Feminist movement, which are thriving on very, very sick doctrines that are both anti-social and anti-family. According to their doctrines all men are naturally violent and abusive and all women are victims of men. Men "deserve" to be (falsely) accused of violence (and abuse) and women deserve to be helped based merely on their claim of abuse. Thus: Men are always perpetrators (even when the woman is) and women are always victims. Women have the right to falsely accuse men and men don't have the right to defend themselves and there are no repercussion to false accusations made by a woman.
5. The Radical Misandristic Feminist movement was successful in passing a very sick law (VAWA) where the definition of abuse essentially makes every expression or action a man takes toward the woman "abuse" or "domestic violence". At this point it doesn't matter what the real circumstance are: A woman claims abuse – she is right. A woman goes to a VAWA shelter – she is right and she must be accepted. An immigrant woman wants immigration based on claims of abuse – she is right. The truth does not matter anymore.
6. The above creates the possibility for any woman to be highly abusive towards men and to use and exploit men (for money, housing, medical care, schools for her children… and immigrations) and when the man realizes he is being used and wants to terminate the "relationship" (which is technically not even a relationship but an abusive interaction) she can simply claim abuse and gain from her false accusations while the man – who has already been abused – must suffer even more from ruined reputation, legal fees, a difficult divorce and in some cases arrests, jail time, criminal record and loss of employment.
Immigration laws were changed in the past to include a temporary Green-Card and a second interview two years down the line. Unfortunately VAWA creates the immigration loop-hole described above which makes these changes futile.
I expect immigration laws to be changed again and that immigration marriage fraud will become even more difficult. The time for the second interview may be lengthened beyond the term of two years which would make it a lot less attractive for immigrants to enter into sham marriages.
In addition, the immigration loop-hole created by VAWA must be closed!
Left is the ubiquitous destruction of our society that VAWA and the Radical Misandristic Feminist movement impose on all of us. Today an American Citizen cannot marry or enter a relationship with a woman without considering that in the future his live can be destroyed by false accusations of violence, abuse or rape.
The basis for creating a family is thus being destroyed by the Radical Misandristic Feminist movement and their doctrines.
As the family is the basis of society – our society is being destroyed!
In my case for example the judge dismissed her false accusations after a few seconds. The judge didn't bother with the witnesses (and I had a witness who would have proven that she was lying) because it was so obvious that she was lying.
Nevertheless, the VAWA shelter knows what to do: They fabricate police reports by calling 911 and saying that the American citizen is following the immigrant woman around (stalking), that he is trying to hurt her and that she is afraid of him.
To prove that she is afraid of him they move her to another state – far away from where the American citizen lives – from the east coast to the west coast… and they claim that they do that for her protection.
They get people, friends of the immigrant woman to sign false affidavits describing imaginary violent incidents involving the American citizen, well knowing that no-one will ever be able to prove that those are false.
All the above is used as supporting evidence for the VAWA self-petition.
Are you at all aware of the degree of manipulation and corruption happening here? Do you see how appalling it is that a government funded organization (the VAWA shelter) defrauds other government bodies (USCIS, the police, the courts) and an entire support system that now, funded by the tax payer, provides a multitude of support services to the immigrant woman and her children based on the sole fact that she has been to a VAWA shelter???.. and as you know she got there in the first place by falsely accusing the American citizen.
Huh.. long as I've been reading this site and this is the first time I've read the "about" page.
I also tend to disagree with the Marxist angle. I'm somewhat aware of feminism's origins in Marxist circles but, applying Occam's razor, I think it more likely that the base motivations for what made feminist dogma attractive for many women also made communism appealing.
While it may appear that since I disagree with the premise of a communist conspiracy I also disagree with the argument you've built upon it, but I actually couldn't agree more.
Feminism is supported by the State, and not out of altruistic or populist sentiments. The State wants power. This is a universal truth. No organization or person in power does not seek to extend their reach.
Communism is just an ideology. The powers that be use ideologies to control the people and consolidate power. Communism's power is on the wane. Communist leaders, like all power mad world leaders, recognized the value of destroying the family to seizing complete control of the people and tried to do so (hence the poster,) but communism lacked the power to destroy the family.
Certainly if feminism were a Marxist strategy it would be brilliant social engineering, but I can't attribute such original thought or evil genius to Marxists generally, though they undoubtedly played some marginal role. The formation of feminism is something I admit to not fully understanding but the zeitgeist of the movement and its primary raison d'être I feel certain was nothing more complicated or profound than the simple hatred of men.
Feminism is but another ideology, though a far more effective and dangerous one. Feminism has proven it has the power to destroy the family and has become a favored tool of the State.
I also disagree that it is too late to defeat feminism. I am new to the MRM and I recognize that such makes me particularly vulnerable to unfounded optimism and naiveté, but you should also recognize that your long experience makes you susceptible to cynicism.
The world is smaller than it's ever been. We are so highly connected that, given the grossly fallacious basis that feminism is founded upon, it's inevitable that feminists in their ever-expanding power grab will go to far, and opposition to it will reach a critical mass and spread like wildfire. All it takes is a tear in the veil of lies for each person to get a stray thread they can follow to dismantle the whole thing. I envision that feminism's fall will be fast and brutal. Men as an identity group is a sleeping giant and a Pandora's box.
If feminism fails the powers that be will seek a new ideology to subjugate and control the masses.
Actually the next ideology is not so new. If I may, I think I already know the next chapter in this story.
If you look with the right eyes you will see that this ideology has already laid the groundwork to go farther than feminism ever could.
Where feminism fails the State will continue to build their totalitarian control in the name of the "best interest of the child."
Take a look at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the small body in Geneva who can make binding interpretations of it.
@ Carlos
Actually I agree with everything you have said here. I didn't mean to imply that western gender feminism was a direct product of communist conspiracy, but that ideologically the two are nearly inseparable.
Marx would be smiling.
Likewise, Marx would no doubt be pleased with the general destruction of parental rights. Feminists undermined parental authority by attacking fathers. Women will soon find that in undermining fathers and families feminists have undermined parents altogether. The direction of family law is not just to replace the husband with the State but to, eventually, replace both parents with the State — as, in the words of Hillary Clinton, "it takes a village to raise a child." As a woman can now separate father and children with no more than an unfounded accusation so can a bureaucrat, immune from liability, separate BOTH parents from their children based on supposition, smoke and mirrors.
Marx advocated central planning by "experts" for the economy and, in doing so, eliminated the autonomous sources of power that the market provides as, among other things, a check against the power of the State.
Family law is increasingly advocating central planning by "experts" on children.
As "domestic violence" and "rape" have been the wedge issues to incentivize and rationalize the separation of husband and wife, so "child abuse" and children's rights will be the wedge to separate parent and child.
Unlike fallacious feminist logic, arguing the best interest of the child can make for a very compelling case. Protecting children is deeply programmed in both sexes; socially, culturally and biologically. But, the best interest of the child couldn't be more subjective, and once something, anything, is effectively defined as a children's rights issue it becomes a sacred cow in a way that even rape can never achieve.
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Q: Looking for a way to dynamically add more lists to the bottom of jQuery Mobile listview I am looking for a way to add more lists to the bottom of my listview after scrolling down. For instance, I have a return of 20 items initially. I was going to use a pagination and just return as many as come back from my query, BUT I'd rather return 15-20 then at the end of scrolling either automatically add more to this list or have a button saying "view more". I'm new with jQuery Mobile and wondering if anyone has seen this sort of thing implemented. This is also being used in Phonegap. If so can you point me in the right direction? Much thanks in advance!

A: This is example might help out:
http://jsfiddle.net/dhavaln/nVLZA/
// load test data initially
for (i=0; i < 20; i++) {
    $("#list").append($("

" + i + "

z

"));
}
$("#list").listview('refresh');

// load new data when reached at bottom
$('#footer').waypoint(function(a, b) {
    $("#list").append($("

" + i+++"

z

"));
    $("#list").listview('refresh');
    $('#footer').waypoint({
        offset: '100%'
    });
}, {
    offset: '100%'
});

A: Instead of automatically loading more list-items, I suggest placing a button users can tap to load more (but that's just my suggestion).
//setup an interval so we can throttle the `scroll` event handler since there will be tons of `scroll` events fired
var timer    = setInterval(function () {
        scrollOK = true;
    }, 100),//run this every tenth of a second
    scrollOK = true;//setup flag to check if it's OK to run the event handler
$(window).bind('scroll', function () {

    //check if it's OK to run code
    if (scrollOK) {

        //set flag so the interval has to reset it to run this event handler again
        scrollOK = false;

        //check if the user has scrolled within 100px of the bottom of the page
        if ($(this).scrollTop() + $(this).height() >= ($(document).height() - 100)) {
            //now load more list-items because the user is within 100px of the bottom of the page
        }
    }
});

Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/knuTW/
Update
It's a bit easier to just load a button that the user can tap, then when it's tapped, load more rows and then re-append the load-more button to the end of the list:
var $loadMore = $('ul').children('.load-more');
$loadMore.bind('click', function () {
    var out = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        out.push('
' + (count++) + '
');
    }
    $('ul').append(out.join('')).append($loadMore).listview('refresh');
});

Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/knuTW/2/

A: There are a few articles describing methods for "forever scroll" and "infinite scroll" which is what it sounds like you're asking about.
The idea behind them is to load asynchronously more data when the user scrolls down to a predetermined number of items from the bottom.
There is a known issue with that method though, in that it makes a liar out of the scroll bar itself.
http://www.infinite-scroll.com/infinite-scroll-jquery-plugin/
http://masonry.desandro.com/demos/infinite-scroll.html
http://designbeep.com/2011/08/12/12-jquery-infinite-scrollingscroll-read-plugins-for-content-navigation/
http://www.jquery4u.com/tutorials/jquery-infinite-scrolling-demos/

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Western disturbance to bring rainfall, snow in north India
Barring north India, other parts of the country will witness warm weather
By Akshay Deoras
Last Updated: Friday 29 January 2016
A western disturbance approaching India will bring fresh bout of rainfall and snowfall in the northern part of the country.
This is good news for tourists visiting Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh where a thick blanket of snow will greet them.
However, due to possibility of landslides the Jammu-Srinagar highway can witness disruptions from January 28 to 30. Besides, some high-altitude villages in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh may be cut-off due to heavy snowfall.
The interesting thing this year is that parts of central and eastern India (where rainfall chances are generally slim during winter) have received normal to excess rainfall.
This was the result of an upper air trough around mid January which brought rainfall in these parts. Jharkhand and the eastern region of Madhya Pradesh have already received heavy rainfall.
Snowfall, rains in north
The effect of the western disturbance will be felt in northern India from Thursday onwards. Cloud cover is expected in western Jammu and Kashmir, the western part of Punjab and Chandigarh. Light rainfall is expected in parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
The minimum temperature is likely to rise by a couple of degrees in these areas due to cloud cover.
On Friday, the impact of the western disturbance will be the maximum. Rainfall is expected in Jammu. Moderate to heavy snowfall is expected in the Kashmir Valley (Gulmarg, Sonamarg and other hill stations). Srinagar is likely to receive both rainfall and snowfall. Snowfall is also expected in Kargil and Ladakh.
The higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh will also get moderate to heavy snowfall on Friday. This includes places like Manali, Keylong and areas in Lahaul and Spiti valley.
Like Srinagar, a mixture of rains and snowfall is expected in Shimla too. High altitude places in Uttarakhand will receive light snowfall.
Coming to the plains, rainfall is expected in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and other adjacent areas.
As a result of cloud cover, rainfall and snowfall, maximum temperatures will plunge in parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and remain below normal.
Rainfall and snow will continue on Saturday in the early hours, but from the afternoon, the effect of the western disturbance will wane.
As per current weather models, it looks like the western disturbance will fail to bring any rainfall in Delhi and adjacent areas. But with increase in the moisture level, foggy conditions may be expected between January 29 and January 31.
Barring north India, other parts of the country will witness warm weather. During the weekend, an anti-cyclone (a high pressure region) in the lower levels of the troposphere will move over western India.
This will cause warm conditions in Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka (coastal areas), particularly between January 28 and February 1.
Awaiting showers
The wait for widespread rainfall and snowfall in north India is on as dry weather continues to affect agriculture and tourism.
In the National Capital Region, proper "natural cleansing" of air could not take place due to poor rainfall.
Haryana, Chandigarh and New Delhi have not received any rainfall this year. Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand have received scanty rainfall (60 to 99 per cent below normal) till now.
Going by data, the rainfall scenario is poor in certain places after the withdrawal of last year's summer monsoon.
Between October 1, 2015 and January 27, 2016, New Delhi has received just 1.6 mm rainfall. This is just 5 per cent of normal rainfall when considered over a three-month period.
Rainfall Snow cover Western Disturbances Environment India
Rainfall pattern changing in India
El Nino and La Nina weather events set to increase: report
Hudhud causes heavy rains across Chhattisgarh
Movements of western disturbance and associated cloud convection
Prediction of western disturbances and associated weather over Western Himalayas

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Q: Why am I only getting one row from SQLite query? I'm trying to get the entire column of a SQlite database, but I am only getting one row. What is wrong with my query?
String CREATE_LOGIN_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_LOGIN + "("
                + KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY," + KEY_NAME + " TEXT,"
                + KEY_EMAIL + " TEXT UNIQUE," + KEY_GROUP + " TEXT," +
                KEY_UID + " TEXT," + KEY_CREATED_AT + " TEXT" + ")";

public ArrayList<String> getGroupNames() {
        ArrayList<String> groupNames = new ArrayList<>();

        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        String selectQuery = "SELECT " + KEY_GROUP + " FROM " + TABLE_LOGIN;

        Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
        System.out.println("The cursor had this many rows: " + cursor.getCount());

        if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount() != 0) {
            System.out.println("Putting all group names into arraylist");
            cursor.moveToFirst();

            while(!cursor.isAfterLast()) {
                System.out.println(cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_GROUP));
                groupNames.add(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(KEY_GROUP)));
                cursor.moveToNext();

            }
        }
        System.out.println(groupNames);
        return groupNames;
    }

A: You are looping on Cursor rows but cursor.getString(i) returns the value of ith columns of current cursor position
replace cursor.getString(i) with
cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(YOUR_COLUMN_NAME))


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            <version>${hibernate.entitymanager.version}</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
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            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
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Simple advice on the UK's best mattresses and beds
5 cheap memory foam mattresses - 2020 and 2021
Memory foam mattresses are a good alternative to a traditional sprung mattress if you want a good level of consistent support. They offer more of a 'hugging' feeling than you'd get from a bouncy sprung mattress and can feel a bit warmer than other types of mattress (although lots of memory foam mattresses have various cooling techniques to overcome this).
Posh memory foam mattresses like Tempur can cost more than my car, but there's a good choice of cheap memory foam mattresses too. Cheap memory foam mattresses tend to have a relatively thin layer of memory foam on top, with other types of foam underneath.
If you can stretch the budget, take a look at our guide to the best memory foam mattresses.
We've picked out five of the best cheap memory foam mattresses by looking at specification, value for money, awards and customer reviews. Prices are for a double mattress and are correct at the time of typing:
1. Silentnight 3 Zone Memory Foam Mattress - £199 - soft/medium firmness
If you asked 100 people to name a mattress brand on Family Fortunes...it would be a very dull episode.
However, a good number of them would probably say Silentnight, which has a good choice of memory foam mattresses, as well as everything else sleep related.
Their 3 Zone Memory Foam mattress has won awards and was scoring a very solid 4.1/5 after more than 5000 customer reviews. It isn't the thickest mattress in the world at 18cm (most mid-priced and expensive memory foam mattresses are about 20-27cm deep) but it should do the job if you're aren't too heavy.
Overall, the Silentnight brand was scoring a very respectable 4.2/5 on TrustPilot the last time we checked in January 2021.
There's also a 7 Zone version which is a couple of centimetres thicker and is a little bit more expensive.
Silentnight's 3 Zone mattress has won awards and comes from the biggest UK mattress brand
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2. Inofia Gel Memory Foam Mattress - £265 - medium firmness
Inofia is unlikely to be a mattress brand you are familiar with, but they tend to be much cheaper than mattresses with similar specifications. Reviews on Amazon are usually very positive too, with this particular model averaging 4.4/5 from 400+ reviews at the time of writing.
It's 22cm thick, which is only a couple of centimetres less than mattresses costing twice the price. More impressive is that it comes with a 10 year guarantee and the blurb says you can "Try the Inofia mattress at home for 100 nights. If it's really not for you, we'll pick it up for free and give you a full refund. No risk, no worries." It's always worth checking the small print with such things, of course.
Lots of foam mattresses offer a risk free trial (e.g. Nectar, Emma, Ergoflex) but most of these cost more like £500. The Inofia Gel Memory Foam Mattress is one of those mattresses which arrives squashed up in a box and then expands over a few hours when you pop it open. It's not clear from the description how thick the top layer of memory foam is. This does vary between mattresses so it would be useful to have a more detailed specification.
You need to put up with some slightly iffy English, such as "not only you care about your sleep, Inofia cares it too", but the price tag is certainly appealing.
Inofia aren't a household name, but several of their mattresses get great customer reviews
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3. Simply Sealy Memory Mattress - £279 - Firm Tension
Sealy is owned by the same company as Silentnight, but it's usually seen as a slightly posher option.
The Simply Sealy Memory Mattress is more expensive than the Silentnight 3 Zone but it's a fair bit thicker at 22cm deep (rather than 18cm). It's also a firmer mattress. With those two things combined, it is more suited for a heavier than average person, or for someone who is roughly average weight but who sleeps on their back (generally, side sleepers need softer mattresses than back sleepers to get the right amount of support on their spines).
One downside is that the layer of memory foam on the top of this one is only 2cm, whilst the rest of it is other types of foam. It comes with a 5 year guarantee and was scoring nearly 9/10 from about 300 reviews when we checked.
Overall, Sealy as a brand was scoring 3.2/5 on TrustPilot at the time of writing.
Sealy is the 'biggest bed brand in the world' and they offer this budget memory foam mattress
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4. House by John Lewis Memory Foam Mattress - £159 - Medium/firm Tension
The specification for this John Lewis & Partners memory foam mattress isn't as spectacular as some on this list, but you may take some comfort in buying from a brand which regularly wins customer service awards rather than taking a punt on a brand you've never heard of. 'House by John Lewis' is the budget range from the posh retailer, which you had probably figured out already.
It's only 15cm deep (the thinnest of our five mattresses featured on this guide) including a fairly thin 2cm memory foam layer but it's made in the UK and it's medium/firm so will suit most people of an average build or slightly heavier. It might make for a cheap memory foam mattress for a guest bedroom.
Reviews were averaging a very impressive 4.5/5 when we checked.
Did I mention it's from John Lewis?
It's a thin mattress...but it's from a brand you've heard of
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5. Amazon Basics Memory Foam Mattress - £181
This Amazon Basics brand mattress has a very similar specification as the Silentnight 3 Zone Memory Foam mattress (see #1 in this list).
It's the same depth (18cm) and is a similar firmness, with both of them being described as 'medium-soft'. It's worth noting that mattress brands don't have an industry-wide agreed definition of what 'soft' or 'firm' actually means, but it's still a useful guide.
A softer mattress like this one is more suited to lighter people and to people who sleep on their side. If you're very heavy then you will probably sink into a softer mattress too much and won't end up in a good position for sleeping.
As with the Silentnight 3 Zone, it's got a fairly thin layer of memory foam on top of other types of foam. We're getting into a very boring area now, but according to the descriptions, the Amazon Basics memory foam mattress has 2.5cm of memory foam whilst the Silentnight 3 Zone has 3cm of memory foam (Ed: are we really arguing over half a centimetre?!).
If you're really stretched, you can actually downgrade to a 15cm deep mattress to save a bit of money. I would go for the 18cm version if you can afford it, as that's still pretty thin compared to a lot of mattresses. The exception is if you're looking for a bunk bed mattress, as they need to be quite thin to be safe to use on the top bunk.
It's still quite early days for customer reviews for this one, but they're currently averaging about 4/5.
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Home Month: January 2023
The Proton X70 MC was launched in June last year, with the biggest change to the popular SUV being the adoption of a 1.5 litre turbocharged three-cylinder engine to replace the previous 1.8 litre turbo four-pot.
The direct-injected TGDi mill powers four out of five available variants, but if you still want the larger-capacity motor, it can be found on the most expensive version of the X70 MC, the 1.8 Premium.
With 177 PS and 255 Nm of torque on tap, the 1.5 litre TGDi engine makes 7 PS and 45 PS less than the 1.8 litre powerplant. However, peak torque arrives sooner with the downsized engine at 1,500 rpm compared to 1.750 rpm with the 1.8 litre unit, which is also 43 kg heavier.
A seven-speed wet dual-clutch transmission – introduced on the locally-assembled (CKD) model back in 2020 – is standard across the range and you can get
Electrification may be the hot new fashion, but not every brand is rushing into it. Take the two national automakers, Proton and Perodua. Both have said that their entry into the game won't come so soon, and this was reiterated in an auto sector investor note issued recently by RHB Investment Bank.
In it, the investment bank indicated that Proton is expected to launch its first electric vehicle (EV) in 2027, while Perodua is set to unveil its first hybrid EV in 2024. No surprise with the first, which repeats what has already been stated by Proton, that it is planning to produce and launch its own EV by 2027.
The Perodua mention isn't exactly a revelation either, at least not with regards to the particular format that will be adopted – the company has said from as far back as 2019 that its first steps into the new frontier
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The Ford Mustang Mach-E has made its way to Malaysia, but the all-electric SUV hasn't arrived through official channels. The units you see here are parallel imports, brought in by vehicle importer G-Mart Corporation.
Three units are available, all UK-specification Premium AWD extended range versions. Identically kitted, the dual-motor Mustang Mach-E examples are all priced at RM450,000 each, with G-Mart stating that they come with a five-year warranty.
Specification-wise, the Premium AWD features a 98.7 kWh battery (installed capacity, with usable capacity rated at around 91 kW), which provides it with up to 549 km of travel range (WLTP). This is marginally less than the nearly 600 km of range available on the single-motor ER Premium RWD variant.
The AWD's motor setup offers 346 hp (351 PS, or 258 kW) and 580 Nm in terms of output numbers, with performance figures including a 0-100 sprint time of 5.8 seconds and
Reductions in toll rates for the Besraya and LEKAS expressways will take effect from 12:01am, January 1, 2023, public works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi has announced, according to Bernama.
The reduction is by as much as 15 sen for Class 1 vehicles passing through the Loke Yew and Mines toll plazas (North and South) on the Besraya expressway, the report wrote. Meanwhile, the toll rate for Class 1 vehicles on the LEKAS expressway has been reduced from 0.1811 sen per km to 0.1666 sen per km for the closed toll system, while the toll rate at the open toll system for the Ampangan toll plaza remains unchanged.
This means that the new toll rates effective from midnight tonight will be RM1.85 for Class 1 vehicles at any Besraya expressway toll plaza, while motorists using the LEKAS expressway will be charged RM7.80 in each direction.
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The Caucus | D.N.C. Spokesman's Former Group Didn't Disclose Donors Either
D.N.C. Spokesman's Former Group Didn't Disclose Donors Either
By Michael D. Shear
October 15, 2010 2:19 pm October 15, 2010 2:19 pm
Brad Woodhouse, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, is the latest ally of President Obama to go after the dangers of undisclosed money in the political process.
In a letter sent yesterday to editorial board members at news organizations across the country, Mr. Woodhouse excoriated the collection and use of the money in the current elections.
"Anonymous special interests and unnamed corporations are pouring tens of millions of dollars into electoral politics this fall, money that has the potential to tip the scales in close races across the country," Mr. Woodhouse wrote in the letter. He lamented the "pernicious effects of secret, special interest money."
But just a couple of years back, Mr. Woodhouse was the president of a political organization that took donations without disclosing the identities of the donors.
Mr. Woodhouse was president of Americans United for Change, a liberal group that says its mission has been to challenge "the far-right conservative voices and ideas that for too long have been mistaken for mainstream American values."
Americans United for Change is organized under the same section of the Internal Revenue code that covers Crossroads GPS, one of the newly formed conservative organizations that have been pumping money into Republican races this fall.
"Rather than focus on jobs and the economy and real issues that voters care about, the White House and D.N.C continue to push a phony issue flacked by a cadre of brazen hypocrites," said Jonathan Collegio, communications director for American Crossroads, which does disclose donors but, like Crossroads GPS, was also set up by Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie.
Mr. Woodhouse said the comparison was unfair. He said Americans United for Change did not run the same kind of political advertising that Crossroads GPS and the other conservative groups were financing.
"We didn't do any advertising that mentioned or attacked candidates like the kind Karl Rove is running during the election — so we didn't do the type of ads that we are highlighting here," Mr. Woodhouse said Friday.
The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was the target of a similar accusation this week. The Daily Caller reported that Mr. Gibbs was the spokesman for a group that ran ads in 2003 against the Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean without disclosing their donors.
However, that group, called Americans for Jobs, Health Care & Progressive Values, was organized under a different part of the tax code that does require quarterly reporting of donors.
3:41 p.m. | Updated The Daily Caller piece said the group Mr. Gibbs worked for disclosed quarterly, but also noted that Dean had criticized the group for not disclosing even as the ads were running.
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Man killed in in Caldwell County shootout once was NASCAR driver
John Settlemyre, 67, who died in the shootout with Caldwell County (N.C.) sheriff's deputies, was a former race car driver with some notable achievements to his name.
Settlemyre was a five-time winner of Late Model Sportsman races at Hickory Motor Speedway, from 1977-81. In 1982, that race series became NASCAR's Nationwide Series, and Settlemyre won the Winston 200 at Hickory; he ran just six Nationwide races that year (five at Hickory) but had four top-10 finishes.
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Austin Dillon can set a NASCAR record at Michigan
What do Sam Ard, Trevor Bayne, Austin Dillon, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Michael Waltrip have in common?
All six drivers have won three consecutive poles in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, a record in the series.
Only one of them, however, has an opportunity to break the six-way tie with a fourth consecutive pole this Saturday for the Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Michigan International Speedway.
Dillon, who is fourth in the standings behind leader Regan Smith, arrives in Michigan with a streak of three consecutive poles (Charlotte, Dover, Iowa). Unfortunately, the strong starts have not resulted in trips to Victory Lane. He did although turn his pole at Iowa last Sunday into a runner-up finish.
His three poles in 2013 already match Dillon's career high from a year ago. His first pole in the series came last year at Michigan. He went on to finish the race fifth. Dillon was able to capitalize on his other two poles last season by posting a win in both races at Kentucky.
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Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative Enters Its Second Year!
We are happy to announce that the Words at Play Vocabulary Inititative is entering its second year! This PNC-funded program is a fun, family-focused series of programs in the North Philadelphia neighborhoods surrounding our Widener and Cecil B. Moore neighborhood libraries. Children from birth to age five and their parents gather at the libraries or community sites for stories, songs, and activities. We know that parents are a child's first teacher, so our mission is to provide parents with the tools to help increase their child's vocabulary.
The Free Library of Phialdelphia is partnered with the Philadelphia Zoo, The Franklin Institute, Kimmel Center, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, so our programs are full of great books, live animals, science experiments, and lots of catchy songs. Families leave each event with free books and tips for extending their child's vocabulary at home.
Upcoming Words at Play events include a Family Fun Trip to The Franklin Institute, Play Parties at the Widener Library in February, and Block Parties this spring and fall.
If you live in North Philly, we hope to see you soon at a Words at Play event!
Words at Play is all about family fun!
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Congratulations to second year pianist Susanna Braun, winner of the 2018 International Piano Competition for Young Musicians.
Held every two years in Enschede, The Netherlands, the competition is open to pianists from all over the world and is split into two groups depending on age. Susanna, who studies with Helen Krizos, picked up the top prize of $4000 after winning Group B, for pianists aged 16 to 20.


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Q: Vertically Center in Twitter Bootstrap I'm using Bootstrap in order to create a notification-like drop down when the user mouseovers the bell icon (font-awesome). The menu is created alright, each element inside the menu is indicated by a red chevron sign. I'm not able to center the chevron vertically and align the text to the right of the chevron to start from the same place (there's some margin at the beginning of each line). I cant vertically center the chevron with a fixed value because the length of the string inside the container can be different and the position of the chevron should be determined dynamically.
Basically, I'm creating a jQuery element
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and the chevron is inserted with the content.
JSfiddle here.
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CSS
#notif{
    background-color: white;
    color: black;
}

.notification-content{
    text-align: left;
    padding: 10px;
    padding-right: 25px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
    transition: 0.4s ease;
}

.notification-content:hover{
    color: #48B0F7;
}

.notification-toggle1 {
    top: 75px;
    padding: 0;
    z-index: 9999;
    left: 100px;
    width: 250px;
}

/*    > sign of the notification*/
.notification-content >.ion-chevron-right:before {
    color: red;
/*   display:inline-block;*/
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height: 50%;
    width: 50px;
    height: 20px;
}

.notification-content>span{
    position: relative;
    left: 15px;
}

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  $(".notifications_wrap").find("a").mouseover(function(){
        $(".notification-content").remove();
        var random_i=randomNumOfNotifs();
        for(var i=0;i<random_i;i++){
            var randromString = stringGen(randomLength());
            var notification = $("
"+randromString+"
");
            $("#notif").append(notification);
        }

        $("#notif").animate({height:"show"},500);
    });

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    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;

}
.notification-content>span{
    display:table-cell;
}

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What's hot: Superb QWERTY keyboard, solid build, excellent voice quality and LTE 4G.
What's not: Flimsy back battery door, display isn't as impressive as the rest of the phone.
The Motorola Droid 4 is Verizon's latest QWERTY Android slider. We've always had a soft spot for the Droid line with its good performance, impressive build and good QWERTY keyboard. The fourth Droid has the best keyboard yet, and it's our favorite keyboard among all smartphones. It's roomy, tactile and has superb backlighting. It's a texter's dream. The keyboard has a 5 row layout with a dedicated number row, arrow quadrant and a generously large space bar. The only thing missing are dedicated Android shortcut keys.
The phone is no slouch in other areas, and it has the same specs as other recent Motorola high end Android phones on Verizon Wireless. You get a 1.2GHz dual core TI processor with a gig of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage. There's a front video chat camera and a rear 8 megapixel camera capable of shooting 1080p video. The phone has WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, a GPS that works with Google Maps and VZ Navigator, and a special treat: 4G LTE. While the Droid 3 was a world phone with 3G, this is the first QWERTY Moto Droid with LTE 4G, and it's hard not to love Verizon's 4G speeds.
The display is less enticing: it's a 4" qHD 960 x 540 pixel LCD of just average quality but above average brightness. If you've seen the Droid Bionic's display, you've all but seen the Droid 4's, which is simply a brighter version. It's reasonably sharp and clear but it has just average color saturation and contrast. It's viewable outdoors thanks to the super bright panel. We can understand why Moto didn't go with 720p (1280 x 720) resolution given the small (by today's big phone standards) display and more affordable $199 with contract price point.
Above: the Motorola Droid 4 and Droid RAZR MAXX.
The Droid 4 runs Android OS 2.3.6 Gingerbread, and Verizon promises an upgrade to OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That leaves the Samsung Galaxy Nexus as your only choice if you're dying to have ICS now. It comes with the usual Motorola software like MotoPrint, MotoActive, MotoCast and social networking software that integrates with Gallery. Business apps include GoToMeeting and the full version of QuickOffice (read, write and edit MS Office docs). Verizon's usual boatload of bundled software is here too: their data counter widget, VZ Navigator, Verizon Video (a pay-for streaming video service), V Cast Tones, VideoSurf, Slacker, Slingbox, MOG Music, Let's Golf 2, Madden NFL 12 (demo), Blockbuster and Amazon Kindle. Honestly, we wouldn't mind if Verizon cut back on the number of apps, since one can download the non-Verizon apps from the Market for free. The phone has the full suite of Google Android apps including the Google Search widget.
The sliding keyboard necessitates a thicker design, and the Droid 4 is nearly twice as thick as the keyboard-less Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX. At a half inch, it's still slim for a QWERTY slider, and its dimensions are more manageable since it has a 4" display (height and width are less than the Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX). The 6.3 ounce Droid 4 has similar lines to the RAZR family, but somehow still manages to look a little dull.
The slider is stiff in a reassuring way, but the battery door is flimsy plastic, unlike the higher end metal and soft touch materials used on older Droid smartphones. Since the microSD card slot is located under the battery door, you'll probably have to fiddle with that delicate door frequently, and one of our cover's tabs already broke off. I honestly can't believe Moto put that nasty back on this otherwise extremely well made phone.
It's not easy to avoid removing that back: we often resorted to a card reader for microSD card file transfer because the phone works with MotoCast software rather than mounting as a mass storage device. MotoCast has some cool features like remote access to your Windows or Mac OS computer's files over the network (USB works too), but you must install the software on each computer you want to use with the Droid 4. And the software down-converts higher quality video before transferring it to the phone, which isn't desirable given the Droid 4's ability to play 1080p content via HDMI.
The headphone jack is up top when held in portrait mode with the keyboard closed, but that translates to the lower left corner when held in landscape mode to watch video or use the keyboard. Your hand and the headphone cord will likely fight. The power button is up top and there are mics at the top and bottom. The micro USB and Micro HDMI ports are on the left side and the small volume controls are on the right. The Droid 4 works with Motorola's latest Lapdock models, the 10.1" $249 Lapdock 100 and the 14" $349 Lapdock 500 Pro. These turn the phone into a notebook of sorts. The Lapdock is a notebook shell with a display, keyboard, trackpad, stereo speakers, SD card slot, Ethernet port, VGA port and USB ports. The phone provides the brains.
Like most Motorola smartphones on Verizon, the Droid 4 has excellent incoming and outgoing voice quality. Voice is clear, easy to understand and noise reduction works well to reduce background noise without distorting voice. The earpiece volume is average and the speakerphone is good but not awe-inspiring like the original Droid.
The phone has EV-DO Rev. A 3G and 4G LTE. It comes with the usual Mobile Hotspot feature so you can use the phone as a wireless high speed modem for a tablet, notebook or other WiFi device in need of an Internet connection. On our first day with the Droid 4, data speeds on Verizon's large 4G LTE network were lower than expected and were slower than the other Verizon phones on our desk, despite a stable signal. The next day things looked better, and we saw 10Mbps down and 3Mbps up with a 2 bar signal and 15Mbps down/5Mbps up with a 4 bar signal.
We didn't experience 3G-4G waffling where the phone bounces between the two networks when the 4G signal is poor, and the Droid 4 pulls in a stronger LTE signal than our Droid RAZR MAXX running on the same chipset. In fact, it's on par with the generally better Qualcomm chipset based Android LTE phones on Verizon, the HTC Rezound and LG Spectrum.
The Droid 4 is a capable performer thanks to its 1.2GHz dual core TI OMAP CPU. That's fairly state of the art (we've yet to see a shipping quad core Android smartphone), and it's the same CPU used in the Droid RAZR phones and the Galaxy Nexus. The phone feels responsive and apps run fluidly. 3D games play smoothly, as does locally stored 1080p MPEG4 content and streaming video (watch our video review to see these in action). Motorola doesn't mess much with the Android UI, so there's no heavy software overlay to slow things down. The Droid 4 does well on benchmarks, and we found it every bit as fast as other recent higher end Verizon Wireless Android smartphones.
The Droid 4 has a gig of RAM like all Lapdock-compatible Moto phones and 16 gigs of internal storage that's divided between application storage (2.7 gigs) and file storage (almost 8 gigs). There's a microSD card slot under the battery door, but no card is included.
Verizon and Motorola claim an impressive 12.5 hours of 3G talk time, and we managed 11 hours. The beefy 1785 mAh battery has excellent stamina on Verizon's 3G network, and decent battery life on 4G. It lasted 6.1 hours on LTE, which isn't bad at all among Verizon's 4G phones, though not impressive compared to 3G runtimes. It won't outlast the mighty Droid RAZR MAXX with its immense 3,300 mAh battery, but the RAZR phones lack that lovely hardware keyboard. Oddly, you can look at the battery underneath the back door, but it's labelled as not user accessible. A not very sticky label covers it, and we peeled it back to see what looks like a fairly standard Lithium Ion battery with a computer-guts style connector rather than the usual phone battery connector.
If you're in need of a high quality QWERTY Android smartphone, the fourth, but probably not final entry in the Droid line is a strong choice. The Droid 4 is a solid evolution of the original Droid line, with LTE 4G, a fast dual core modern CPU, excellent voice quality and the best keyboard in the business. It's not super-stylin', but it's reasonably slim at 0.5" and has excellent build quality other than the cheesy battery door that's already falling apart on our unit. Reception is stable and beats the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX, while staying on par with the HTC Rezound and LG Spectrum.
Price: $199 with 2 year contract, $549 without contract.
The Droid 4 and Droid RAZR MAXX.
Display: 4" capacitive LCD. Resolution: qHD 960 x 540, supports both portrait and landscape modes via accelerometer, has an ambient light sensor and proximity sensor.
Battery: 1875 mAh Lithium Ion rechargeable. Battery is not user replaceable. Claimed talk time: up to 12.5 hours.
Performance: 1.2GHz TI OMAP dual core CPU with 1 gig of RAM and graphics acceleration. 16 gigs internal storage.
Size: 5.0 x 2.8 x 0.5 inches. Weight: 6.31 ounces.
Phone: CDMA dual band digital with EV-DO Rev. A 3G and 4G LTE.
Camera: 1.3MP front video chat camera and 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash. Can shoot 1080p video.
Networking: Integrated WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.
Software: Android OS 2.3.6 Gingerbread, upgradeable to Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Expansion: 1 SDHC microSD card slot, no card included.


The Young Leadership Council (YLC) is a volunteer/fundraising network of young career professionals from finance, marketing, education, law, real estate, and a host of other fields.
YLC members network with each other and the Harbor Board of Directors, organize small-scale fundraisers, brainstorm creative ways to promote Boys & Girls Harbor, volunteer in the classrooms, and mentor Harbor students.
If you want to be part of a movement to improve education, advance social justice, and make a difference in the life of a child, then you should consider joining YLC.
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John William Oliver (n. 23 de abril de 1977), conocido como John Oliver, es un comediante, presentador de televisión y actor británico nacionalizado estadounidense. Se le reconoce por ser el presentador de Last Week Tonight with John Oliver y por su trabajo en The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, por el que ganó un Emmy en el 2009. Además, es el co-presentador del podcast satírico The Bugle.

Ha trabajado sobre todo con Andy Zaltzman, cuyo trabajo incluye cientos de horas de pódcast de carácter satírico y transmisiones de radio, que incluye las series Political Animal, The Department, y The Bugle.

Vida y carrera

Primeros años y educación

Oliver nació en Erdington, un suburbio de Birmingham, y educado en Bedford en el Mark Rutherford School. Es el hijo de Carole, una profesora de música, y Jim Oliver, director de escuela y trabajador social, ambos originales de Liverpool. Su tío era compositor Stephen Oliver, y su tatarabuelo era William Boyd Carpenter, Obispo de Ripon y capellán de la corte de la Reina Victoria. A finales de los 90, Oliver era miembro de Footlights, un grupo cómico dirigido por estudiantes de la Universidad de Cambridge, con contemporáneos incluyendo a David Mitchell y Richard Ayoade. En 1997, era el vicepresidente del grupo. En 1998, se graduó del Christ's College, donde se especializó en inglés.

Vida personal
Oliver vive en Nueva York con su esposa Kate Norley, una veterana de la Guerra de Irak que sirvió como médico del Ejército de los Estados Unidos. Oliver dijo que se conocieron en la Convención Nacional Republicana de 2008; él estaba haciendo un segmento para The Daily Show y Norley estaba haciendo campaña con Vets for Freedom. Ella y otros veteranos escondieron a Oliver, al resto de correspondientes, y al operador de cámara de la seguridad. Se casaron en octubre de 2011. HBO anunció que el 12 de noviembre de 2015 la pareja había tenido un hijo llamado Hudson, sin especificar la fecha de su nacimiento.

Filmografía

Películas

Televisión

Premios y nominaciones

Trabajos publicados
 Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (Grand Central Publishing, 2010) ISBN 978-0-446-57922-3

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