Red Lion's football pride runs deep

Past players and coaches stand behind the Lions' effort to win a historic District 3 Class AAAA title Saturday night.

York, PA - In its proud football history, Red Lion has never seen a game quite like this one.

It has seen teams like this one. Teams more dominant than this one. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Red Lion program produced some of the most successful squads York and Adams counties have ever seen.

But a game like this? Not quite.

"This thing they're in now is totally foreign to me," said former longtime Lions coach Don Dyke, who led the school to three-straight unbeaten seasons in the 1970s. "This is a whole different animal, I mean the playoffs."

When eighth-seeded Red Lion (10-3) steps onto the turf at Hersheypark Stadium tonight at 6 for its District 3 Class AAAA final with seventh-seeded Cumberland Valley (11-2), it will pen a new chapter in the long narrative of Lions football.

It will be Red Lion's first district championship game appearance since the playoffs were created in 1982.

With a win, Red Lion would become the YAIAA's first quad-A district football champion.

More than that, this Lions team could further cement a place in its program's own rich legacy, a tradition that dates back to the overpowering Red Lion teams of the mid-1960s.

"I just think it's great," said Sam Neff, a two-way standout on those 1960s squads. "I think this team wasn't expected to do quite as well as they did. To go to the district finals is something."

Neff, a former quarterback and defensive back, was an integral part of the Red Lion teams that won a staggering 37 straight games -- a streak that stretched from 1963 to 1967.

Red Lion piled up points those years. During the 1965 season, the Lions finished 10-0 and outscored opponents by a combined 439-60.

"We had great guys," said Ron Fitzkee Sr., 81, who coached those teams. "The one thing that I remember is the total involvement and interest and support from our entire Red Lion area community. I think that they were really a big part of our ability to succeed.

"We filled that stadium week in and week out."

And not just Red Lion's Horn Field, either. Neff, who went on to play football at Maryland, recalled how Lions fans followed their team all over the county.

"I remember that we had a preseason scrimmage (one year)," said Neff, 60, who now teaches at Red Lion. "And the coach I don't think wanted a lot of people to go there. So he kept it a secret.

"By the time we left that Friday morning, there were about 30 cars behind the bus following us."

A few years later, under Dyke's watch, Red Lion cobbled together a similar three-season unbeaten stretch, encompassing the 1972, 1973 and 1974 campaigns. Those teams produced some of most talent the school has ever seen; most notably Scott Fitzkee, Ron's son and a three-sport star, who went on to play football at Penn State.

"They were just an unbelievable group of kids," the 70-year-old Dyke said. "They just enjoyed each other's company."

But there were no district or state playoffs then. And so those teams never got a chance to test themselves beyond the league.

Not the case this year.

After struggling to replicate the successes of the 60s and 70s -- Red Lion hadn't won a district playoff game before this season -- the Lions have positioned themselves to make history, both for their program and for the YAIAA.

The community seems to have taken notice, too. On a typical gameday, Lions coach Pat Conrad said he gets between 10 and 20 text messages, mostly from past players.

"Just the sense from a lot of community members," Conrad said. "They're excited about where we are and where the program is in general."

Conrad was a first-year assistant at Red Lion in 1998 for one of the school's last notable teams. That squad finished 9-2 and lost in the District 3 semifinal to none other than Cumberland Valley.

Tonight, the Lions could produce perhaps the program's proudest moment to date. Many of Red Lion's past standouts, including Neff, Dyke and Ron Fitzkee, plan to be in attendance.

Already, they insist, Red Lion's run has been one its players won't soon forget.

"I still see (former teammates) today," Neff said. "Guys that didn't go to college and play football, but they talk about how special that time was.

"I think for this team, that's what they're going to remember. They're going to remember they went to the district finals, and maybe even won it. Who knows?"
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Fully-owned NBCUniversal boosts Comcast 2Q results

In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, photo, a Comcast logo is seen on a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

In this Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, photo, a Comcast logo is seen on a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The decision by Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, to buy General Electric out of the NBCUniversal business looks like a smart one, as the media conglomerate posted strong results for the second quarter.

It was the first quarter in which Philadelphia-based Comcast owned all of NBCUniversal, the parent of the NBC broadcast network and Universal Studios. Comcast bought control of NBCUniversal in 2011, with an agreement to buy the remaining GE stake over time. It sped up the schedule this year, buying out GE on March 28 for $16.7 billion.

NBCUniversal's results are more volatile than Comcast's slow-and-steady cable business. In the second quarter, it posted a 9 percent increase in revenue to $6 billion, well above analyst estimates at $5.75 billion, as polled by FactSet. Results were driven by the release of "Fast & Furious 6" and "Despicable Me 2" in theaters, and by ad sales for top-rated broadcast TV show "The Voice."

Coupled with continued strong performance in the Comcast cable business, NBCUniversal helped push overall results beyond Wall Street expectations.

Comcast earned $1.73 billion, or 73 cents per share, in the April to June period. That's up from $1.35 billion, or 50 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.

Overall revenue rose 7 percent to $16.3 billion from $15.2 billion.

Analysts had expected earnings of 63 cents per share on revenue of $16 billion.

Comcast shares rose $1.51, or 3.5 percent, to $44.22 in premarket trading.

Subscriber trends in the cable business were the best in five years for the seasonally weak second quarter. Cable companies routinely lose subscribers every quarter to satellite and phone-company TV services, but Comcast has been slowing down its losses, and saw a net of only 159,000 subscribers depart in the quarter.

On the broadband side, it added a net 187,000 subscribers in the quarter, the highest figure since 2008. Other Internet service providers are seeing drastically slowing recruitment, since most homes already have broadband.

Comcast is already the country's biggest Internet service provider, with nearly 20 million accounts

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Associated Press

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Social Media: Australia lagging behind | The Sauce | Bringing you ...

Posted on 30 July 2013. Tags: Australia

Australian organisations are lagging behind their international competitors on harnessing social media. According to a new report, many have banned it in their workplace due to inappropriate use and many wrongly perceive it as purely a branding tool.

Only a quarter of Australian companies are using social media for human resources and people management, and only half use it for work. The new report was produced by Deloitte pair Peter Williams and Jess Corbett.

The majority of employers restrict use of social media, 38?per cent ban staff from using it for personal use and one- third say they had been affected by employees inappropriately using social media.

The report was based on results of a survey by the Australian Human Resources Institute of 502 human resources practitioners working across a range of industries.

?Australian businesses are nearly four years behind the US and Britain in using social software,? Williams and Corbett argue in?Rethinking social media, adding employers are failing to grasp how social media can be used to help staff react to ?exceptional events?, which cannot be scripted but can absorb up to 70?per cent of workers? time. It can also be used to boost recruitment and staff engagement, they argue.

The report states those organisations that did have a social media policy or strategy (46?per cent) had largely focused it on employer branding, not organisational performance.

This reflects a poor understanding of the many other uses of social media, the authors say. There are some exceptions. LG Electronics, which has 82,000 staff globally, estimates the regular users of its internal social software save three hours a week finding faster answers to ?business exceptions?, the report finds. Westfield Australia is successfully using yammer to manage events that come out of the blue.

Telstra is also using an online platform ? CrowdSupport ? to crowdsource solutions to customer problems where their call centre staff do not yet have a script. And Williams tells The Australian Financial Review?that South Australia?s Department of Premier and Cabinet is an ?early adopter?, using social media to help prepare parliamentary briefings.

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The End of Neuro-Nonsense

Medical MRI Image Showing Brain and Skull

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Brain-bashing, once an idle pastime of the science commentariat, went mainstream in June. At the beginning of the month, Slate contributor Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld published Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, a well-informed attack on the extravagances of ?neurocentrist? thought. We?re living in dangerous era, they warn in the book?s introduction. ?Na?ve media, slick neuroentrepreneurs, and even an occasional overzealous neuroscientist exaggerate the capacity of scans to reveal the contents of our minds, exalt brain physiology as inherently the most valuable level of explanation for understanding behavior, and rush to apply underdeveloped, if dazzling, science for commercial and forensic use.? In the United Kingdom, the neuro-gadfly Raymond Tallis?whose own attack on popular brain science, Aping Mankind, came out in 2011?added to the early-summer beat-down, complaining in the Observer that ?studies that locate irreducibly social phenomena ? in the function or dysfunction of bits of our brains are conceptually misconceived.?

By mid-June, these sharp rebukes made their way into the mind of David Brooks, a long-time dabbler in neural data who proposed not long ago that ?brain science helps fill the hole left by the atrophy of theology and philosophy.? Brooks read Brainwashed and became a convert to its cause: ?From personal experience, I can tell you that you get captivated by [neuroscience] and sometimes go off to extremes,? he wrote in a recent column with the headline ?Beyond the Brain.? Then he gave the following advice: ?The next time somebody tells you what a brain scan says, be a little skeptical. The brain is not the mind.?

His final point, that the brain is not the mind?and therefore maybe not so relevant to daily life?has provoked a fierce response in recent weeks. The fact that certain studies of the brain have been overhyped or poorly done has little bearing on the value of the field, say scientists whose work has been maligned. Nor does it in any way imply a central flaw in the project to understand the mind by looking at the brain. Satel and Lilienfeld agree: The principles of neuroscience can be applied to every form of subjective experience, they argue in Brainwashed, and even fMRI brain scans?the brightly colored icons of the neuro-priesthood they so abhor?have a useful role to play in biomedicine.

But in the ruckus of this back-and-forth, and the backlash to a backlash, I think the neuro-critics missed something important: The ?time of mindless neuroscience,? as Satel and Lilienfeld describe it, is already over. In the past few years, the brain has lost its influence; fMRI hucksters are on the run. I don?t mean to say that neuroscientists have given up?their field of study is as vibrant as it?s ever been, and it still exerts a massive influence on research funding. (President Obama recently announced a $100 million project to map the brain?s connections.) But as a cultural force?one capable of duping journalists and making money for ?slick neuroentrepreneurs??the brain is almost cooked.

I?ll even name the year when the public turned its back on neuro-hype: The woo commenced its quick decline in 2008. That was its inflection point, its production peak, the moment when pictures of the brain were tapped for all the easy headlines, strip-mined for credulous investors, and otherwise sucked dry of whatever dopey data they could provide. Five years ago the pop-neuroscience project began to wither.

Such things are hard to measure, of course, but I think there?s circumstantial backup for my claim. In Brainwashed, for example, many of the key examples of mindless neuroscience come from 2008 (or before). Chapter 1, on the fallibility of brain imaging, starts with an article from ?08 by Jeffrey Goldberg, for which he traveled to Los Angeles to find out how his cortex might respond to pictures of Jimmy Carter and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It?s a useful study in the practice and promotion of witless pseudoneuroscience, but at the time, Goldberg?s case was not unique: That election season saw a rush of like-minded (and like-mindless) political neuro-coverage. Brain-based marketing firms placed their spurious analyses of presidential candidates and potential voters in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and many other outlets; the neuropundits were running wild. But a lot has changed since then. Four years later, during the 2012 election, these sorts of stories were nowhere to be seen. At some point in Obama?s first White House term, interest in these political brain scans evaporated.

Chapter 2 of Brainwashed begins with another scene from 2008?the publication of the best-selling pop-neuroscience book, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy. Satel and Lilienfeld describe its author, Martin Lindstrom, as a leading member of ?an upstart generation of Mad Men known as neuromarketers.? But attempts to revolutionize the field of market research through the use of brain-imaging techniques haven?t gained much traction in the past 10 years. Though the marketing giant Nielsen purchased one of the neuromarketing startups in 2011, the industry at large has been (rightfully) suspicious of the concept. In January 2012 the industry-funded Advertising Research Foundation released a careful and quite critical assessment of the field. ?What our investigation made very, very clear,? an ARF executive told me, ?is that there is a gap between the science and the application and marketing.?

Last year the president of one neuromarketing firm told me that the business concept hadn?t really taken off. ?It?s a tough sell,? he said. ?I think that people are still reluctant to try it.? Another CEO mentioned that his company had abandoned the term neuromarketing altogether and rebranded its services as consumer neuroscience. Since the publication of Buyology, Lindstrom and his colleagues simply haven?t had much impact.

As for neuro-best-sellers, those too have been on the wane since 2008. I went through the archives of the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover books going back to 2001 and counted up the number of entries that included a mention of the word brain in either the title or the description. Eighty entries met my criteria, including those for Buyology, David Eagleman?s Incognito, Daniel Amen?s Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and Jill Bolte Taylor?s My Stroke of Insight. The results are shown below.

The neuro-self-help genre may be in winter, too. Jonah Lehrer, the reigning master of that category (and author of the Frontal Cortex blog) published his first two books, Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, in 2007 and 2009. In the years since then, he has more or less renounced the brain. ?I write here about many scientific studies, but these are not studies of temporary chemistry or cortical folds,? he declared in the proposal for his newest work, on the science of love (which sold to Simon & Schuster in early June in spite of his professional disgrace). ?It?s not enough to simply describe the hormones of Romeo, or the fMRI results of Juliet. These scientific results are interesting, but mostly because of what they cannot explain, of all the reality they leave out.?

2008 may also have been the high point for critical neuroscience blogging. The excellent Neuroskeptic wrote his first posts that autumn, in the darkest moments of the neurobabble epidemic. Another sharp-eyed blogger, the Neurocritic, started up in 2006?and as of several weeks ago, he?s built a brand-new persona ?designed to counter gratuitous anti-neuroscience sentiment.? He calls this one the Neurocomplimenter. Meanwhile, my favorite neuroscience watchdog?the James S. McDonnell Foundation?s Neuro-Journalism Mill, dedicated to ?separating the wheat from the chaff in neurojournalism reporting??saw fit to shut its doors in October 2009.

If I?m right that ?peak neuro? has already come and gone, then the recent rash of brain science-bashing may be beside the point. Other, trendy modes of explanation have already started to emerge, with a brand-new set of jargon phrases?epigenetics, anyone??that carry out their own dangerous seductions.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/neuroscience_hype_is_brain_science_still_trendy.html

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More than 1,000 detainees escape Libyan prison near Benghazi, officials say

By Esam Mohamed, Associated Press

More than 1,000 detainees escaped from a prison near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in a massive jailbreak Saturday, officials said, as protesters stormed political party offices in Libya's main cities.

It wasn't immediately clear if the jailbreak at the Koyfiya prison came as part of the demonstrations. Protesters had massed across the country angry over the killing of an activist critical of the country's Muslim Brotherhood group.

Gunmen outside of the prison fired into the air as inmates inside began setting fires, suggesting the jailbreak was preplanned, a Benghazi-based security official said. Those who escaped either face or were convicted of serious charges, a security official at Koyfiya prison said.

The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.

Special forces later arrested 18 of the escapees, while some returned on their own, said Mohammed Hejazi, a government security official in Benghazi. Three inmates were wounded in the jailbreak and were taken to a local hospital, he said.

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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks during a media conference Tripoli, Libya, 27 July 2013. The briefing focused on latest situation in Benghazi, after the assassination of an anti-Islamist rights activist in the eastern city of Benghazi.

There also was confusion initially about how many prisoners broke out, with numbers of escapees ranging as high as 1,200.

Benghazi's security situation is among the most precarious in post-revolution Libya. Last year, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in the city.

Meanwhile Saturday, hundreds gathered in the capital Tripoli after dawn prayers, denouncing the Friday shooting death of Abdul-Salam Al-Musmari. They set fire to tires in the street and demanded the dissolution of Islamist parties.

The two incidents highlighted Libya's precarious security situation and the challenges the North African country faces as it tries to restore security nearly two years after the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

In Tripoli, protesters appeared to be inspired by events in neighboring Egypt, where millions took to the streets Friday to answer a call from the army chief, who said he wanted a mandate to stop "potential terrorism" by supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood.

"We don't want the Brotherhood, we want the army and the police," Libyan protesters chanted, repeating a slogan also used in Egypt. Libya's nascent security forces are struggling to control the country's militias, most of whom have roots in the rebel groups that overthrew Gadhafi in 2011.

Al-Musmari, who used to publicly criticize the Brotherhood, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Benghazi.

Some protesters stormed the headquarters of a Brotherhood-affiliated political party and another Islamist-allied party in the capital, destroying furniture. Witnesses say a Brotherhood party office was also stormed in Benghazi.

Protesters angry with the Libya's weak central government also targeted the liberal National Forces Alliance (NFA), ransacking its headquarters. The party came on top in Libya's first free parliamentary elections last year.

Security forces in Libya have been unable to impose their authority on the country since Gadhafi's ouster. Militias, many made up of former rebels who fought in the civil war that toppled Gadhafi, have grown in the strength and in many areas rival the security forces in their firepower and reach. The armed forces also rely on militias for help securing the country in some cases.

On Saturday, a colonel was killed by gunmen in Benghazi. Another three security members were killed a day earlier when gunmen opened fire on them.

Security members are frequently targets in the country.

In a press conference Saturday, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said that an investigation was launched into the circumstances around al-Musmari's slaying. He said a foreign criminal investigation team will join Libyan investigators in Tripoli and Benghazi on Monday. He did not offer further details.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch urged the Libyan government to "conduct a prompt and thorough investigation" of al-Musmari's death, believed to be the first targeted killing of a political activist.

"Libya's fragile transition is at stake if political killings go unpunished," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "This makes investigating al-Musmari's murder all the more urgent."

Libya's top religious figure, Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadeq al-Ghariani, warned his countrymen earlier in the week against copying Egypt and bringing down the Libyan government. Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was ousted by the military on July 3 after millions took to the streets demanding his removal.

Al-Ghariani's warning was posted Wednesday on his official website against unspecified parties "trying to create crises in electricity and gas, and those taking advantage of tribal loyalties to the ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi." Long hours of blackouts and the severe shortage of fuel contributed to Morsi's unpopularity.

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Steve Ballmer Admits Microsoft?s iPad-Killer Is A Flop

The man, the myth, the sweaty legend: Steve Ballmer

It?s been no secret that Microsoft?s would-be iPad-killer has been a complete disappointment, but now its ever-optimistic CEO, Steve Ballmer, is admitting to employees that the Surface is a flop.

Ballmer held a ?rally the troops? event on Microsoft campus yesterday where they go over the company?s quarterly earnings and boost morale, but according to people at the event, Ballmer also dived into how disappointing it has been trying to make Surface a success.

The Verge reports that Ballmer told the group they ?built a few more devices than we could sell.? Later he also admitted that Windows 8 hasn?t been adopted as fast as he hoped and that Microsoft isn?t selling as many Windows devices as he wants either.

Microsoft has tried everything it can to sell the Surface, from a huge media campaign full of anti-iPad ads, to steep discounts on the hardware, but nothing has worked to convince consumers to choose the Surface over and iPad, or even the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD.

The future isn?t terribly bleak in Ballmdog?s eyes though. Despite the $900 million bath Microsoft took last quarter from Surface sales, he says they?re working super hard to convince Instagram to make an app for Windows Phone, and they?re already making plans for the next-generation Surface that might include the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor.

Via: The Verge

Source: Neowin

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