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A law school professor of mine once suggested a stock answer to the inevitable question posed by potential clients who believe their rights have been violated:? ?Can they do that??

?Well,? the stock answer goes, ?did they do it?? If they did, then we know they can.?

That simply reality becomes relevant when assessing the Lions? options for dealing with a roster that has generated six ? six! ? arrests this offseason, with defensive back Aaron Berry (pictured) the most recent defendant.? Teams that choose not to get tough with players who get in trouble hide behind the CBA, claiming that there?s nothing that teams can do and that they must defer to the league on off-field conduct.

Technically, that?s right.? (With one exception, to be mentioned below.)? As a practical matter, it?s a cop out.

Teams ?can? take a wide variety of steps to punish a player, CBA be damned.? The most convenient device is the catch-all ?conduct detrimental to the team.?? While the player could challenge any fines or suspensions, claiming that the team is skirting the substance-abuse and/or personal-conduct policies, such efforts could serve only to make the situation worse for the player.? It also would create the distinct impression that the player isn?t accepting responsibility for his actions, which may not go over well with the fans.

For the team, it sends a strong message that bad behavior won?t be tolerated.

There?s precedent for team?s disregarding league policies when players allegedly disregard the law.? In 2008, the Steelers benched receiver Santonio Holmes with pay for a marijuana arrest.? In 2010, the Colts suspended punter Pat McAfee for one game without pay after an alcohol incident.? Neither action was authorized by the CBA; neither player fought his punishment.

Last year, the Vikings initially suspended cornerback Chris Cook for conduct detrimental to the team after an arrest for domestic violence, which clearly falls within the scope of the personal-conduct policy.? Then, the Vikings gave Cook the Keyshawn treatment, paying the 2010 second-round pick not to play for the balance of the season (and in turn nearly tearing the locker-room apart).? Cook didn?t fight it, though he easily could have.

So the Lions ?can? fine or suspend, with or without pay, any of the players who have gotten arrested, if the Lions want to.? To date, they don?t.

The Lions also ?can? without consequence engage in one specific form of discipline after a player gets in trouble away from the field.? Paragraph 9 of the Standard Player Contract provides that, ?if Player has engaged in personal conduct reasonably judged by Club to adversely affect or reflect on Club, Club may terminate this contract.?

Though it may not be wise to start cutting talented players, the Lions eventually may decide to make an example out of one or more of their less-skilled problem children.

Regardless, if/when the Lions or any other team claim they can?t take action against players who get in trouble off the field, the reality is that, indeed, they can.

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Arizona police face questions after court ruling

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ? Arizona's police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement. Instead, the justices' decision to uphold the state's "show me your papers" statute has left them with more questions than answers.

How long must officers wait for federal authorities to respond when they encounter someone illegal, especially given President Barack Obama's new policy to only deport dangerous criminals and repeat offenders? If they release a person too soon, are they exposing themselves to a lawsuit from residents who accuse them of failing to enforce the law?

How do they avoid being sued for racial profiling? Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he anticipated no change in how he does his job but that comes from someone who was accused of racially profiling Latinos in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department.

"We're going to get sued if we do. We're going to get sued if we don't. That's a terrible position to put law enforcement officers in," said Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose territory covers much of southern Arizona and who has long argued against his state's requirement that local law enforcement be forced to ask about the legal status of anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

The justices on Monday unanimously approved the Arizona law's most-discussed provision requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. But it struck down provisions allowing local police to arrest people for federal immigration violations. They also warned against detaining people for any prolonged period merely for not having proper immigration papers.

The decision left police chiefs and sheriffs grappling with questions ranging from what justifies reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally to how long officers must wait when federal authorities are slow to respond to a question on someone's immigration status.

"It's uncharted territory," said Tony Estrada, sheriff of Santa Cruz County on the state's southern border with Mexico. "It's going to be challenging. It's a complicated issue, and it's not going to be solved by this particular decision."

Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor estimates the statute will result in 50,000 additional calls a year to federal immigration authorities in his city alone. That includes 36,000 arrests a year for suspects who are not booked into jail, typically for offenses like disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting, vandalism and driving more than 25 mph over the speed limit.

Those suspects, who would normally be released with a citation, must be booked into custody if immigration authorities "don't answer the phone, they never call us back after we talk to them or whatever," Villasenor said.

An estimated 14,000 inquiries a year will be for people encountered on street patrol who are not arrested, Villasenor said. They may raise suspicion for their manner of dress, language or other characteristics outlined in guidelines issues to law enforcement agencies statewide.

"I'm not sure (the federal government is) set up to accommodate that workload right now. I hope I'm wrong," said Villasenor, who joined Dupnik and other law enforcement in voicing opposition to the 2010 law in a filing to the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security acknowledged concern about a flood of inquiries but signaled it would only deport people who meet its enforcement priorities. Those priorities are repeat immigration violators, people who pose a public safety or national security threat and recent border crossers.

"The Supreme Court's decision raises the possibility of a significant increase in the number of inquiries, referrals and status verification inquiries from Arizona state authorities that will impact DHS's immigration enforcement operations," the department said Monday in a note to field offices.

Arpaio, the controversial Phoenix lawman known for his anti-immigration raids, said he was concerned whether federal agents will decline to pick up some illegal immigrants who are stopped by his deputies.

"I have my suspicions," he said.

Arpaio asked a federal judge earlier this month to dismiss a lawsuit that claims his office discriminated against Latinos in the sheriff's trademark immigration patrols and had a culture of disregard for basic constitutional rights.

Hours after Monday's ruling, the Department of Homeland Security canceled agreements with seven Arizona police departments that deputized officers to arrest people on immigration violations while on street patrol.

Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia declined to detail how the statute will play out but anticipates it won't be much of a departure from what officers already do.

"It's much too early to try to speculate on these issues of law," he said.

If federal agents decline to pick up immigrants, the state doesn't have any way to force federal authorities to pick them up and will likely have to let them go unless they're suspected of committing a crime that would require them to be brought to jail, said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor who specializes in immigration law.

In that sense, the law is symbolic, Spiro said. The questioning requirement "is useful to the extent that it allows states to give notice of hostilities to undocumented immigrants," Spiro said. "It allows for a formal expression of the state's hostilities toward undocumented immigrants."

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the decision a victory for all Americans, but said she expected lawsuits to challenge the implementation of the law.

"It's certainly not the end of our journey," she said.

Responding to criticism that the law would lead to racial profiling, Brewer said that any officer who violates a person's civil rights will be held accountable. Even while upholding the provision, the justices said the status check could be challenged.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement that the Supreme Court's ruling will make her agency's work more challenging, but she was pleased that the court ruled state laws can't dictate the federal government's immigration enforcement priorities.

Immigration rights groups said they were surprised and disappointed by the court's decision, and planned to ask the lower courts to block the law.

"The opinion invites the challenges that we are bringing. It's going to cause racial profiling. It will cause prolonged detentions," said Linton Joaquin of the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups pushing a separate challenge to the law.

Arizona passed the law in 2010, with lawmakers arguing that that federal government wasn't adequately preventing illegal immigration. The Obama administration sued to block it, saying that enforcing immigration laws was a federal responsibility.

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Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud, Terry Tang and Felicia Fonseca in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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China Earthquake: Moderate Temblor Kills 4, Injures At Least 100 (VIDEO)

BEIJING (AP) ? A moderate earthquake toppled houses in a mountainous part of southwestern China, killing four people and injuring at least 100, state media said.

Sunday's magnitude-5.7 quake was centered near the border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces where many of the Yi ethnic minority live, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. It said the casualties occurred in Yunnan's Ninglang county and Sichuan's Yanyuan county, where many houses collapsed.

Rescue officials were sending tents, quilts and clothes to the affected area, it said.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.5.

A magnitude-5.8 quake in Yunnan in March last year killed 25 people and damaged thousands of homes. The area is about 2,340 kilometers (1,450 miles) southwest of Beijing.

China's worst earthquake in recent years struck Sichuan province in May 2008 and registered magnitude 7.9. It left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing.

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Three dimensional Video Credit card
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Processor
Because your Processor is the coronary heart of the computer, this is apparent. Similar to most points, you do not need the fastest Processor around, but when you will want genuine gaming computer, you will want something from or even around 3 ghz (or even 3000+ for you AMD fanatics).
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Memory
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It is not only the total amount that means something though, additionally they come in various speeds. DDR2 is the fastest, least expensive memory space you may get right now. If you have SDRam, you?ll probably desire to upgrade your mother board and also Processor so you can possess more quickly memory space. It?s type of extreme, but your video games will most likely end up being slow if the devices are that old. Typical DDR is good enough with regard to game playing, it just doesn?t have the particular throughput which DDR2 will.
Motherboards
The current fastest motherboards possess more quickly Entrance Aspect Tour bus. The leading Aspect Tour bus (or even FSB) is actually the particular freeway which runs from the Processor for the Ram, the bigger the freeway, the more visitors it may handle simultaneously, creating information more quickly. Another thing to be cautious about is what types of hard disks this supports. If you would like SATA or even SCSI hard disks, either the mother board needs to support them, or you have to purchase a great growth credit card to be able to connect them into. You will also need a mother board which props up fastest computer memory space you may get, that is currently DDR2.
Hard disk drives
Hard disk velocity might not appear important, but it can be one of numerous bottle necks that your computer runs into when not properly with the rest of your computer. If you purchase regular IDE hard disks, you will want a minimum of 7200 revoltions per minute (revoltions per minute Equals shifts for each minute, the more shifts the particular more quickly the particular generate).
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Alright, therefore computer instances aren?t which essential for velocity, but when you want your gaming computer to appear slick too, you?ll need a good coloured circumstance. Your friends will probably be jealous, and you?ll finally have the ability to take a look at computer and also laugh, because it looks therefore amazing.

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Pa. gov: 2-year Sandusky investigation necessary

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Prosecutors needed about two years between the first report of child sexual abuse involving Jerry Sandusky and the filing of charges because authorities needed to build an "ironclad case" against him, Gov. Tom Corbett said Monday.

Corbett, then the state attorney general, oversaw the start of the Sandusky investigation after the former Penn State assistant coach was barred from a high school in 2009 when a mother complained about Sandusky. Charges were filed last November.

"I think it surprises some people, the length of time it took," Corbett said. "But having been an assistant DA, an assistant U.S. attorney and handling cases like this, I understood that you have to do a complete investigation and get as many witnesses as you possibly can."

Corbett said the wisdom of the investigation's deliberate pace was evident in the jury's decisive verdict on Friday ? convicting Sandusky on all but three counts.

"I think the jury demonstrated with their convictions on 45 of 48 counts that it was an ironclad case," Corbett told CBS' "This Morning."

While defending the slower pace of the investigation, Corbett also defended the speed with which Sandusky's case went from grand jury presentment to trial ? seven months. Defense attorney Joe Amendola has said he and fellow attorney Karl Rominger didn't have enough time to prepare their defense and even asked to withdraw from the case because they weren't prepared.

"I'm not surprised that they would say that," Corbett said.

"Obviously it will be the subject of an appeal at some point in time. ... But in this case the jury had the opportunity to hear the compelling testimony of these now young men who were young boys who suffered at the hands of this pedophile."

The current state attorney general, Linda Kelly, told NBC's "Today" show that all parties involved knew the judge intended to move quickly. She said prosecutors supported that decision because Sandusky was on house arrest while awaiting trial.

"We were anxious just to bring the case to a conclusion and move to have his bond revoked and taken into custody," Kelly said.

Sandusky, 68, remains behind bars in the Centre County Correctional Facility, where he's been held since late Friday. It could be months before he's sentenced, and his own attorneys say he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

Kelly said Sandusky's sentence will be up to the judge, but she believes the severity of the charges merits a harsh punishment.

"Our prosecution team will ask the judge to fashion a sentence that reflects the horrific acts Mr. Sandusky committed, that takes into account the number of victims that are involved here and the fact that he really does represent a clear and present danger to the community," Kelly said.

Sandusky's conviction is only just the start of possibly years of legal proceedings over the case. Besides appeals, there remains an active investigation into Sandusky by the state attorney general's office as well as a federal investigation.

Corbett said Penn State trustees are still awaiting the results of an internal investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh into the school's handling of the Sandusky case.

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Tripazon review: If you have found this article then I will assume that you are looking for more information on Tripazon and your looking at different reviews. Maybe you are making a decision as to whether the company has what you are really looking for in a network marketing business opportunity.

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Scholars Respond to Regnerus Study ? Family Scholars

A group of eighteen social scientists, including?FamilyScholars blogger?Brad Wilcox,?released a statement today defending Mark Regnerus?s peer-reviewed published research on the New Family Structures Study. You can find the full statement?here.

A Social Scientific Response to the Regnerus Controversy

Same-sex marriage is one of the most contentious and vexing issues now facing our nation. It is perhaps in part for that reason that the new study on same-sex parenting by University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus, which finds that young-adult children of parents who have had same-sex relationships are more likely to suffer from a range of emotional and social problems,[1] has been subject to such sustained and sensational criticism from dozens of media outlets, from the Huffington Post to the New Yorker to the New Republic. These outlets have alleged, respectively, that his research is ?anti-gay,? ?breathtakingly sloppy,? and ?gets everything wrong.?

Although Regnerus?s article in Social Science Research is not without its limitations, as social scientists, we think much of the public criticism Regnerus has received is unwarranted for three reasons.

First, there are limitations with prior research on this subject that have seldom been discussed by the media. The vast majority of studies published before 2012 on this subject have relied upon small, nonrepresentative samples that do not represent children in typical gay and lesbian families in the United States. [2] By contrast, Regnerus relies on a large, random, and representative sample of more than 200 children raised by parents who have had same-sex relationships, comparing them to a random sample of more than 2,000 children raised in heterosexual families, to reach his conclusions. This is why sociology professor Paul Amato, chair of the Family section of the American Sociological Association and president of the National Council on Family Relations, wrote that the Regnerus study was ?better situated than virtually all previous studies to detect differences between these [different family] groups in the population.?[3] We are disappointed that many media outlets have not done their due diligence in investigating the scientific validity of prior studies, and acknowledging the superiority of Regnerus?s sample to most previous research.

Second, Regnerus has been chided for comparing young adults from gay and lesbian families that experienced high levels of family instability to young adults from stable heterosexual married families. This is not an ideal comparison. (Indeed, Regnerus himself acknowledges this point in his article, and calls for additional research on a representative sample of planned gay and lesbian families; such families may be more stable but are very difficult to locate in the population at large.[4]) But what his critics fail to appreciate is that Regnerus chose his categories on the basis of young adults? characterizations of their own families growing up, and the young adults whose parents had same-sex romantic relationships also happened to have high levels of instability in their families of origin. This instability may well be an artifact of the social stigma and marginalization that often faced gay and lesbian couples during the time (extending back to the 1970s, in some cases) that many of these young adults came of age. It is also worth noting that Regnerus?s findings related to instability are consistent with recent studies of gay and lesbian couples in countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden, which find similarly high patterns of instability among same-sex couples.[5] Even Judith Stacey, a prominent critic of Regnerus?s study, elsewhere acknowledges that studies suggest that lesbian ?relationships may prove less durable? than heterosexual marriages.[6] Thus, Regnerus should not be faulted for drawing a random, representative sample of young-adult children of parents who have had same-sex romantic relationships and also happened to have experienced high levels of family instability growing up.

Third, another study[7] published this month in the Journal of Marriage and Family comes to conclusions that parallel those of Regnerus?s study. This study finds that ?children in same-sex parent families scored lower than their peers in married, 2-biological parent households? on two academic outcomes, and that these differences can be attributed to higher levels of family instability in same-sex families, compared to intact, biological married families. This study was also based on a large, nationally representative, and random survey of school-age children; moreover, the same-sex parents in this study lived together. The parallels between the findings in this study and Regnerus?s study strongly call into question the New Republic?s claim that the Regnerus study ?gets everything wrong.?

To be clear: We do not think that these new studies settle the nation?s ongoing debate about gay parenting, same-sex marriage, and the welfare of children. In fact, research on same-sex parenting based on nationally representative samples is still in its infancy. But we think that the Regnerus study, which is one of the first to rely on a large, random, and representative sample of children from parents who have experienced same-sex relationships, has helped to inform the ongoing scholarly and public conversation about same-sex families in America. Indeed, it is possible to interpret Regnerus?s findings as evidence for the need for legalized gay marriage, in order to support the social stability of such relationships. As social scientists, our hope is that more such studies will be forthcoming shortly, and that future journalistic coverage of such studies, and this contentious topic, will be more civil, thorough, and thoughtful than has been the coverage of the new study by Professor Mark Regnerus.

Byron Johnson, Baylor University
Douglas Allen, Simon Fraser University
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University
John Bartkowski, University of Texas at San Antonio
David Eggebeen, Penn State University
Michael Emerson, Rice University
Ana Cecilia Fieler, University of Pennsylvania
Alan Hawkins, Brigham Young University
William Jeynes, California State University at Long Beach
Loren Marks, Louisiana State University
Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen Robinson, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame
Rodney Stark, Baylor University
James Stoner, Louisiana State University
Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
Bradley Wright, University of Connecticut

Note: Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.

[1] Mark Regnerus. 2012. ?How Different Are the Adult Children of Parents Who Have Same-Sex Relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study.? Social Science Research 41:4 (Forthcoming).
[2] Loren Marks. 2012. ?Same-sex Parenting and Children?s Outcomes: A Closer Examination of the American Psychological Association?s Brief on Lesbian and Gay Parenting.? Social Science Research 41:4? (Forthcoming).
[3] Paul Amato. 2012. ?The Well-being of Children with Gay and Lesbian Parents.? Social Science Research 41:4 (Forthcoming).
[4] Regnerus. 2012. P. 766.
[5] Gunnar Andersson et al. 2006. ?The Demographics of Same-Sex Marriages in Norway and Sweden.? Demography 43: 79-98; Matthijs Kalmijn et al. 2007. ?Income Dynamics in Couples and the Dissolution of Marriage and Cohabitation.? Demography 44: 159-179.
[6] Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey. 2010. ?How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?? Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 3-22.
[7] Daniel Potter. 2012. ?Same-Sex Parent Families and Children?s Academic Achievement.? Journal of Marriage and Family 74: 556-571.

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UAE cultural chasm may benefit Islamists

DUBAI (Reuters) - The show had everything Madonna's fans could have wished for: erotic dancing, provocative outfits, a giant cross, bare-chested monks and a Hebrew prayer.

But for many Muslim Emiratis, the Queen of Pop's first performance in the Gulf region earlier this month was just too much.

"After Madonna, what next? The UAE's reputation has been sullied, the people's feelings were ignored and the call to respect our values were taken lightly," wrote Twitter user Rashed Alshamsi, one comment in a rare public outpouring of criticism against the authorities for allowing the performance.

The campaign reflected growing anxiety among both conservative and liberal Emiratis that their local traditions and Islamic values are at risk as the Arab state rapidly expands, thanks largely to expatriate labor.

Less than 10 percent of the country's estimated eight million people are Emirati.

"There is a large degree of apprehension among Emiratis that we are a minority, that Arabic is not the main spoken language, and that there is a rise in foreigners and problems like alcohol and prostitution," said Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, a UAE-based political commentator.

The protests that have swept four Arab heads of state from office and strengthened the Islamist movement throughout the Middle East have not been seen in the UAE, thanks in part to its cradle-to-grave welfare system.

But the authorities remain concerned that the rise of Islamists to power elsewhere could embolden its own Islamists' movement, and show little tolerance of dissent.

Authorities have arrested at least 10 Islamists in the past two months, including a ruling family member who is being held at the ruler's palace in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, in an apparent clampdown on dissidents.

Islamists in the UAE say they share similar ideology with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but have no direct links with the group, seen as a mentor for all Islamist groups in the region.

Emirati sources say the UAE will not allow religion to be exploited to sow discord. Analysts said that some of the issues advocated by Islamists may appeal to conservative Emiratis, even if many do not agree with their ideology, however.

"Islamists are populists, they appeal to people in the UAE (because) they talk about the importance of Arabic as the main language, the traditions of the UAE, about the rise in numbers of expats," said Qassemi.

CULTURAL CHASM

The economic boom in Abu Dhabi and Dubai has made UAE citizens some of the world's wealthiest with an annual income per capita of $48,000, but it has also brought what some see as unwelcome Western influence.

The cultural divide in the UAE between the native Muslim population and expatriates, mostly non-Arabs, is conspicuous on the streets.

While Emirati women cover themselves from head to toe with a headscarf and abaya, a traditional formless black gown, their expatriate counterparts walk around in shorts or mini-skirts, and public beaches are full of tourists sunbathing in bikinis.

Islam bans alcohol for Muslims. But in the UAE, non-Muslims with an official license can legally buy alcohol from certain shops, and beach bars and the infamous all-you-can-drink brunches heave with revelers every weekend.

"Islamists are conservative, they don't agree with most of what is happening with Abu Dhabi and Dubai when it comes to the lifestyle of people and the changes in the culture and identity," said Ahmed Mansoor, a liberal blogger and one of five activists jailed last year for criticizing the authorities.

"The circumstances in the UAE may have served the Islamists and their popular demands."

Islamists in the UAE say all they want is more civil rights and greater power for the Federal National Council, a quasi-parliamentary body that advises the government but has no legislative authority.

The government has sought to address people's worries. It has encouraged population growth, enforced curbs on unskilled workers and pushed ahead with "Emiratisation", a policy where local firms are required to hire a set percentage of nationals.

Shopping malls in Dubai now have signs encouraging foreigners to dress modestly, and public displays of affection, such as kissing, risk being punished under the country's decency laws.

In 2010, a British couple were sentenced to a month in jail and fined in Dubai for kissing on the mouth in a restaurant.

Last week, a member of the Federal National Council said that dress code and behavior have become such an issue for Emiratis in the UAE that a federal law might become necessary.

"We are not asking residents or tourists to veil their faces or hair but we are asking them to comply with our norms and traditions," FNC member Hamad Ahmad al-Rahoomi told Reuters.

A Twitter campaign "UAEDressCode" launched last month by two Emirati women against skimpy clothes has prompted wider public discussion of the issue.

"Whatever your views, the campaign message remains valid: expatriates should respect the UAE's cultural values when in public spaces," wrote columnist Mishaal al-Gergawi in the Gulf News daily.

GROWING CONSERVATISM, ISLAMIC SENTIMENTS

Through social media, the UAE's Islamists have become more vocal than ever and some diplomats and analysts say the UAE is worried that Islamists could use these social grievances as a platform to gain popularity among ordinary Emiratis.

"The UAE is a devoutly Muslim society," said an Emirati source close to the government. "Islam is a fundamental part of our culture and daily life. But we will not permit it to be misused to promote division and discord."

The UAE last year revoked the citizenship of seven Islamists it described as posing a threat to national security.

The Islamists arrested in the past two months are mainly from the more conservative northern emirates such as Sharjah, the only emirate that completely bans alcohol, or Ras al-Khaimah, home to one of the September 11 hijackers and one of the other emirates that has benefited less from the oil wealth.

Many are members of al-Islah (Reform) Islamist group, which some members say has several thousand followers though officials estimate the number in the hundreds.

"It is a dangerous situation and people have been talking about it for years, and we have raised it as well," said Muhammed al-Siddiq, an Islah member and one of the seven stripped of their citizenship, referring to the large number of expatriates in the UAE.

"If you went to Dubai now, you can hardly find an Emirati citizen," Siddiq told Reuters in Sharjah before being detained again by the authorities in April.

"We say if you found one, then you have to shake his hand and say hello, how are you? Because Emirati citizens have become a minority."

(Additional reporting by Raissa Kasolowsky; Editing by Sami Aboudi, Richard Woods and Sonya Hepinstall)

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In this Monday, June 18, 2012 photo Trey Fortes, right, speaks with Jason Monteiro, of Hudson, Mass., left, during a job fair in Boston. The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to indicate hiring will pick up. Weekly applications for unemployment aid declined by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. That?s down from an upwardly revised 389,000. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In this Monday, June 18, 2012 photo Trey Fortes, right, speaks with Jason Monteiro, of Hudson, Mass., left, during a job fair in Boston. The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to indicate hiring will pick up. Weekly applications for unemployment aid declined by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. That?s down from an upwardly revised 389,000. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In this Monday, June 18, 2012, photo, Annette Loritz, of Benediction University, foreground right, speaks with a attendee about job opportunities, and continuing education during a career fair in Oak Brook, Ill. The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to indicate hiring will pick up. Weekly applications for unemployment aid declined by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. That?s down from an upwardly revised 389,000. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to signal a better month of hiring in June.

Weekly applications for unemployment aid declined by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. That's down from an upwardly revised 389,000.

A more telling sign of the trend in unemployment benefit applications is the four-week average, which smooths week-to-week fluctuations. That rose for by 3,500 to 386,250, the highest level since December.

"After a fairly substantial period of constantly lower jobless claims, a new, more unwelcome trend higher has taken hold," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at BTIG LLC, in an email. "A meaningful pickup in monthly job additions looks unlikely."

Applications are a measure of the pace of layoffs. They have been edging up in recent weeks after falling steadily over the fall and winter. In the past six weeks, applications have increased nearly 5 percent. When applications fall below 375,000, it generally suggests hiring is strong enough to reduce the unemployment rate.

Hiring slowed sharply in April and May, raising concerns about the strength of the recovery. Employers have added an average of only 73,000 jobs per month in April and May. That's much lower than the average of 226,000 added in the first three months of this year.

The number of people receiving unemployment benefits fell slightly. A total of 5.8 million people received benefits in the week ended June 2, the latest data available. That's about 1,000 fewer than the previous week.

The Federal Reserve acknowledged the sluggish hiring on Wednesday when it said it will extend a program intended to drive down long-term U.S. interest rates. The goal of the program is to encourage more borrowing and spending, which boosts growth and could lead to more job creation.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed was prepared to take further steps, particularly if hiring doesn't pick up soon.

The Fed also sharply cut its forecast for growth this year. At best, it says the economy will grow no more than 2.4 percent for the year. And the Fed warned that growth could be as low as 1.9 percent ? matching the dismal first-quarter annual pace.

The unemployment rate won't fall much further from its current level of 8.2 percent, the Fed said. At best, it forecasts that it will drop to 8.0 percent.

Faster job creation is crucial in order to accelerate growth. More jobs mean more income for consumers, which may lead to higher spending. Consumer spending fuels about 70 percent of the economy.

But several recent economic reports have pointed to sluggish growth. Employers posted sharply fewer job openings in April compared to the previous month, the government said Tuesday.

With job growth weak, consumers have pulled back on spending. Retail sales have fallen for the past two months, although part of the weakness was due to a sharp decline in gas prices.

Businesses are also less confident about the economy's health. They are placing fewer orders at factories, which has slowed manufacturing output. A measure of companies' investment spending has dropped for two straight months.

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"Kill Pandora - Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes" This is what you'll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that's the first to give you personalized mobile battery life-saving recommendations. Carat quietly takes measurements from you device, does some math, combines is with other people's anonymized data, and sends back tips on if you should update your OS, kill or restart apps, and how many more minutes of tablet or phone fiddling you'll gain. As battery tech to is expected to improve slowly, some say increasing life just 5% a year, and as we get faster processors, more powerful apps, and brighter screens, everyone could use a Carat in their pocket.

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Tapping the Riches of Space

Is there really wealth among the stars? Can we tap raw materials in space for exploration and profit? That far-off-sounding question is starting to get some serious attention. Earlier this year, Seattle-based startup Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI), announced that its group of tech and entertainment investors was backing a serious, decade-long campaign to extract precious metals and other resources from asteroids. In early June, The Wall Street Journal discussed which terrestrial minerals might run short in this century, and whether we could profitably find new supplies in space.

This concept spurred extensive discussion at AIAA?s Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) in Washington, D.C., last month, where I joined an expert panel to take a look at the prospects for practical use of space resources, ranging from asteroid mining to extracting rocket fuel from ice at the Moon?s poles.

NASA has an ongoing interest in what?s called in-situ resource utilization, or ISRU. Jerry Sanders from NASA?s Johnson Space Center said that the agency has developed a robot processor that can break down lunar soils and extract oxygen for use in life support and as a rocket propellant. Sanders says that it doesn?t take a huge refinery to do this. A device the size of a lawnmower, processing just 4 cups of soil per minute, will produce 10 metric tons of oxygen annually. NASA has already put a prototype of the oxygen processor through its paces in Hawaii.

For Mars exploration, NASA is field-testing extraction schemes for oxygen, water, and methane. The primary objective is to manufacture the tons of propellant needed for getting off Mars and making the return trip to Earth. That could reduce the amount of fuel a spacecraft would have to carry from Earth?a major driver of the cost of any round-trip mission.

Of course, there are other huge challenges involved in mining the moon or Mars. Among them: pinpointing the locations of lunar water deposits and deploying long-lasting, reliable, and autonomous machines that function in frigid temperatures (minus 238? C in permanently shadowed craters harboring lunar ice deposits) or in very-low-gravity environments (as on near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs).

Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin told the GLEX panel that the quickest way to start extracting space resources might be to start where we?ve already been: the moon. The moon is the nearest "near-Earth object," he said, sprinkled with nickel, iron, and platinum-group metals from billions of years of asteroid impact. Oxygen could be extracted from the lunar regolith (the moon?s outer layer of pulverized soil and rocks), or perhaps more easily from newly identified water ice deposits near the lunar poles. The oxygen produced could support an astronaut outpost or serve as rocket propellant for boosting materials off the moon.

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Griffin and Harvard astronomer Martin Elvis say that any planned use of space resources must pass a stringent economic test: Can those materials be harvested for less than it takes to ship them from Earth? As launch costs drop below the usual $10,000 per pound (as private rocket companies like SpaceX claim), extraction plants on the moon or nearby asteroids might be too expensive an investment. Financiers will also look at the profit horizon for space mining: If it?s too distant compared with terrestrial investments, investors will put their capital in less risky, near-term ventures.

The cost of prospecting spacecraft has to come down too. Elvis envisions swarms of cheap, small probes to confirm the presence of water and other resources. Multiple, low-cost asteroid prospectors will be less vulnerable to occasional failures than the expensive planetary probes NASA produces today.

Planetary Resources president and chief engineer Chris Lewicki says that his company plans to exploit asteroid resources using a series of small, increasingly capable spacecraft. Taking advantage along the way of NASA?s discoveries at the moon and NEAs, "we?ll try things, gain experience, and eventually succeed," Lewicki said. PRI?s strategy is to continually return value in its space activities, culminating in delivering space-derived products like water and metals to markets in Earth?Moon space.

Elvis says that a commercial?NASA partnership?investing as little as $18 billion over 10 years?could produce enough water and construction materials in space to allow NASA to reduce substantially the cost of supplying future astronaut expeditions. Another payoff: mining water, nickel, and iron from a near-Earth asteroid would leave behind a dust of cobalt, platinum-group metals, and semiconductor elements such as gallium, germanium, selenium, and tellurium. Platinum, with a price hovering at around $1450 an ounce, might be a space-mined byproduct worth returning to Earth.

Griffin also supports NASA?commercial collaboration. Success in using space resources, he says, can only come if government-run space agencies tap the talents and skills of industry, including expertise in mining technology, mountaineering (for anchoring to low-gravity asteroids), and the financial sector. To lower the capital barriers to entry, NASA and its partners should take on some of the initial costs and risks of space-resource demonstrations, Griffin says, then turn the activity over to private firms.

That kind of spark could boost would-be space miners over a big obstacle: At the moment, there?s no market for space resources. It?s a big catch-22: NASA hasn?t incorporated space-resource use into its plans for the moon or asteroids because the technology is viewed as immature. But without firm plans to use space resources, the agency has little incentive to fund technology development and field tests.

Risk

Today, the chief enemy for any ambitious technology venture, Griffin says, is our society?s aversion to risk. Failure is part of any untried, high-payoff program. But the practice of firing someone or canceling an effort after a failure or two is the surest way to demoralize our best engineers and create lengthy, underperforming, and unaffordable programs. Risk aversion may be one big reason NASA?s exploration managers haven?t invested seriously in space resources.

We?re not going to be able to reach beyond the International Space Station and sustain human explorers on the moon or Mars unless we start "living off the land" in space. If we can?t shoulder the risk of developing off-planet energy, water, and structural materials, high costs will forever chain us to Earth. The risks of tapping space resources are real, but the payoff is huge?nothing less than an economic boom between Earth and moon, and the means to put robot and astronaut explorers to work unraveling the mysteries of our solar system.

Tom Jones is a veteran NASA astronaut, planetary scientist, and co-author of Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System.

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BEIJING (AP) ? A Foxconn Technology Group employee jumped to his death Wednesday from a company-rented apartment building in southwest China's Sichuan province, local police said.

At least a dozen Foxconn employees have jumped to their deaths or tried to do so since 2010, casting spotlight on the world's largest contract maker of electronics. The Taiwan-based company has been besieged with reports of poor working and living conditions for its workers at factories and dorms. The company installed nets in 2010 to prevent such deaths after the spate of suicides.

A public security bureau in Chengdu city announced the death Wednesday on the Sina Weibo microblogging site. The post identifies the employee only by the surname Xie and says the cause remains under investigation.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the man was 23.

In February, Foxconn ? which employs about 1 million workers at its massive plants in China ? said it had raised wages by up to 25 percent and that it was taking measures to limit workers' total work hours.

The plants that turn out iPhones, iPads, Xbox video game consoles, Dell and Hewlett-Packard computers, are run with military-like discipline.

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2008 file photo, jazz musician Bobby Sanabria arrives at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. A year after the Grammy Awards cut 31 categories, sparking protests and a lawsuit by Latin jazz musicians, the music organization has made more changes by adding three awards, including the reinstatement of best Latin jazz album. Sanabria had been the loudest opponent of the academy's decision last year to reduce its categories and fold some genres into larger fields. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2008 file photo, jazz musician Bobby Sanabria arrives at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. A year after the Grammy Awards cut 31 categories, sparking protests and a lawsuit by Latin jazz musicians, the music organization has made more changes by adding three awards, including the reinstatement of best Latin jazz album. Sanabria had been the loudest opponent of the academy's decision last year to reduce its categories and fold some genres into larger fields. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A year after the Grammy Awards cut 31 categories, sparking protests and a lawsuit by Latin jazz musicians, the music organization has made more changes by adding three awards, including the reinstatement of best Latin jazz album.

The Recording Academy announced Friday in a statement to The Associated Press that the upcoming Grammys will feature 81 categories. It reduced the number from 109 to 78 last year.

New entries include awards for best urban contemporary album ? to honor R&B albums that may include elements of pop and rock ? and best classical compendium to highlight albums "involving a mixture of classical subgenres."

The Academy shook up the music industry when it announced in April 2011 that it would downsize its categories to make the awards more competitive. That meant eliminating categories by sex, so men and women compete in the same vocal categories.

But it also eliminated other niche fields and created broader ones.

Some artists protested the change and others ? including Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon and Bill Cosby ? complained. The group that filed a lawsuit, which was dismissed in April, was led by Bobby Sanabria, the Grammy-nominated Latin jazz musician who accused the Academy of not following the proper procedures to implement the changes. Part of the class-action lawsuit called for the reinstatement of the best Latin jazz album award.

That award was consolidated, making Latin jazz musicians compete against a larger group of artists in the best jazz instrumental category at the 54th Grammys, which were held in February.

"Every year we want to look at these objectively and make a good musical decision and not be influenced by politics and pressure," Neil Portnow, the president and CEO of the Recording Academy, said in an interview. "I will say it's incredibly unfortunate that a very small group chose to voice their discontent with a lawsuit that had no basis."

He continued: "Not only is it distracting from a time standpoint, but it costs a great deal of money to have to defend something that we knew was completely defensible."

The new decisions were made at the Academy's annual Board of Trustees meeting last month.

Roger Maldonado, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Sanabria and others, said he was elated at the reinstatement of the Latin jazz category.

"I want to thank the academy for having the maturity to make the decision despite a yearlong fight," he said. While Maldonado had filed notice of appeal for the lawsuit, he expected the legal battle would now end.

"We didn't sue for money, we sued for reinstatement of the award. That has happened I see no reason for continuing the lawsuit," he said. "Instead my clients can stop worrying about this and instead focus on preparing and recording music for consideration of the Latin jazz award."

Other changes include splitting up the best Latin pop, rock or urban album honor into two awards, now known as best Latin pop album and best Latin rock, urban or alternative album. However, the best Banda or Norteno album and best regional Mexican or Tejan album have been combined into one award: best regional Mexican music album.

Portnow says a number of proposals were filed, noting that "the volume was definitely up" this year compared to past ones.

"I don't hold anything against the Latin jazz community for the passion that they have for their music," he said. "The (Latin jazz) community put a good proposal together this year, and we see the results of that."

Maldonado said he hoped that the academy would reconsider the reinstatement at other categories at some point as well. But he called the decisions a victory for his clients.

"For them, it's vindication not of the lawsuit but of their belief in the music, which is wonderful," he said.

The 55th Grammy Awards will air on CBS on Feb. 10.

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AP Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody contributed to this report.

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