Bing. Analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like fifth-graders. By Sara Ganim, CNNPublished Tuesday, January 7, 2014 3:00 p.m. ET To get an idea of reading levels of athletes at universities, CNN consulted several experts in different fields, and then submitted open records requests for SAT and ACT entrance exam scores. CNN chose only public universities where open records laws apply.
In cases where those scores were not available, we then asked for results of adult reading placement tests, used by some -- but not all -- universities after an athlete is admitted. CNN sought records from nearly 40 public universities, and got data back from 21. [x] CLOSE Alabama says it does not keep records, or track in any way, entrance exam scores or results of reading evaluations for athletes. Arizona State denied our request for scores based on privacy laws. The university also said it uses an "individual review"program as part of their admissions process, but would not say how many students were accepted through that program, again, because of privacy concerns.
Kentucky’s Case of the Missing Bourbon. This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: October 19, 2013 An earlier version of this article misstated Sean Brock’s affiliation with Husk Restaurants in Nashville and Charleston, S.C. He is a part owner, not the sole owner. Luke Sharrett for The New York Times After aging in barrels like these, Pappy Van Winkle bourbon is placed into bottles. Building a Champion: 1920 akron Pros | It’s time to dig deep into the archives to talk about the first National Football League (NFL) champion.
In fact, the 1920 Akron Pros were champions before the NFL was called the NFL. In 1920, the American Professional Football Association was formed and started play. Currently, fourteen teams are included in the league standings, but it is unclear as to how many were official members of the Association. Different from today’s game, the champion was not determined on the field, but during a vote at a league meeting.
Championship games did not start until 1932. Also, there were no set schedules. To discuss the Akron Pros, we must first travel back to the century’s first decade. George Watson “Peggy” Parratt was a three-time All-Ohio football player for Case Western University. Parratt joined the Akron Indians in 1912 and immediately changed their name to Parratt’s Indians, but the little known Elyria Athletics took the championship. Akron’s roster was decimated in the offseason. Chicago Tribune.
Chicago is the first city featured in our series that takes a look at the top U.S. real estate markets from a new angle. How were the cities chosen? Using three criteria: the size of the buyer population, the number of homeowners and the average number of days houses are on the market. Millennials Are Making Their Move Buoyed by an increase in Chicago’s Millennial population (20-to-34-year-olds) and a trend towards “re-urbanization”, the housing market in the city’s downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods is rebounding.
Innovative businesses such as Motorola Mobility (recently sold by Google Inc. to Lenovo Group Ltd), and Gogo Inc. are moving downtown from the suburbs, bringing with them suburbanites looking for a shorter commute. An estimated 21,000 Millennials will move to the city by 2019, with most finding homes close to downtown to avoid long commutes in traffic and to enjoy the conveniences of the urban neighborhoods. Photo by Fotolia.com. Dunning–Kruger effect. Cognitive bias about one's own skill The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills.
In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, participants may take a quiz and estimate their performance afterward, which is then compared to their actual results. The initial study was published by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. It focused on logical reasoning, grammar, and social skills. There are disagreements about what causes the Dunning–Kruger effect. Definition[edit] David Dunning Explanations[edit] The #socialmedia Daily. Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation. You can use Google Chrome as a free voice recognition software to write longer emails and documents without even installing anything on your Windows or Mac computer.
Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App. Unlike the regular Chrome web apps that are nothing but fancy bookmarks, the Dictation App for Chrome will run entirely on your computer. Getting started with Dictation in simple. Say “new sentence” to begin a new sentence. If you make a mistake, or if Chrome makes an error while recognizing your speech, simple click the incorrect word and edit it inline. Dictation 2.0 – What’s New The first release of Dictation happened in August 2012 and much has changed since then. The new version of Dictation App does sport a few extra features.
Also, you can now export your transcriptions to Dropbox and Google Drive from Dictation itself. 13 Hacks to Improve Your Google Search. Even the king of all search engines can be throttled up with a few simple tricks. From finding flights to discovering new music, here are 13 ways to hack Google. Ever since the Internet's dozens of Web crawlers (AltaVista, anyone?) Were whittled down to a single alpha engine, pinpointing your online destination has been a relative breeze. But it turns out even Google can be juiced up with a few simple tricks. We were inspired by a thread on Quora sharing tips to make searches work better. They’re simple and infinitely useful. Type in “set timer for” followed by a number of minutes, or a specific hour you’d like an alert, and Google will graciously comply with an obnoxious beeping once the moment has arrived. Sometimes a memory lapse leaves you searching for the right word.
To encompass a wider definition than you’re currently searching for, add a “~” in front of the word, and Google will pull up results from similar terms as well. Just like Siri, Google responds well to questions. How to remain secure against NSA surveillance | Bruce Schneier | World news. Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.
For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. I wasn't part of today's story – it was in process well before I showed up – but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting. At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping secure against such an adversary. The primary way the NSA eavesdrops on internet communications is in the network. That's where their capabilities best scale. They have invested in enormous programs to automatically collect and analyze network traffic. The NSA collects much more metadata about internet traffic: who is talking to whom, when, how much, and by what mode of communication.
D.J. Fluker should have been paid by Alabama. D.J. Fluker celebrates after Alabama’s win in the 2012 SEC Championship. (Photo: Daniel Shirey-USA TODAY Sports) A Yahoo! Sports investigation alleged Wednesday that five SEC football players, including former Alabama and current San Diego Chargers rookie offensive lineman D.J. The report says that a series of transactions that included cash payments, money for hotel stays for Fluker’s family and furniture were found, including an invoice that appeared to total $33,755 in expenditures. While those numbers and Fluker’s involvement remain alleged, here are some more certain numbers.
In the 2011-12 fiscal year, Alabama football made $82 million in revenue and $45.1 million in profit. In 2005, after losing their New Orleans home in Hurricane Katrina, Fluker, his mother and three siblings were living in their car, trying to survive on a $25 Wal-Mart gas card and loose change, according to this powerful feature from the San Diego Union-Tribune last month. D.J. Revisiting the Ban on Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs : Harvard Health Policy Review. With HIV infection rates persisting at high levels in the United States, it’s time we faced the facts. Science and policy are disconnected. In the United States, the sharing of contaminated needles during injection drug use accounts for 7-14% of new HIV infections each year.1 Syringe exchange programs, which facilitate the trade of used syringes for free, sterile replacements, have been shown to substantially reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission through needle sharing.2 But in 2011, only two years after a landmark decision to allow federal funding for syringe exchange programs, the ban was renewed as the process of a political compromise on a general spending bill.
Just as they did decades ago when the original ban was instated, public health officials continue to denounce the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs as a policy that is counter to what science tells us is a sensible and cost-effective public health strategy. References: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Middle-Aged Men, Too, Can Blame Estrogen for That Waistline.