It was a stellar night for hip hop's star couple, Beyonce and Jay-Z, at the 2012 BET Awards on Sunday. Held in Los Angeles, the annual awards show honored the husband-and-wife team, as well as their pal (and collaborator) Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and a slate of other performers.
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URBANA Although 40 percent of children are now born to unmarried couples, law and public policy have failed to adapt to this fundamental change in American family life, said Elizabeth H. Pleck, author of Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution.
"Despite growing social acceptance, couples who live together without marrying have beenand continue to betreated as second-class citizens, subject to discriminatory laws in a culture that promotes marriage as the foundation of family life and children's well-being," said Pleck, a University of Illinois professor emeritus of history and human development and family studies.
Pleck has a gift for bringing social history to life, and the book is rife with the stories of persons who were targeted, shunned, and persecuted for their unconventional living arrangements.
Not Just Roommates contains enlightening news accounts and personal stories that seem incredible today, but they occurred against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and as part of the backlash against the sexual revolution.
Many of the original laws against cohabitation were designed to keep interracial couples from living together, she said. "In the 1960s, welfare recipients were required to sign a chastity pledge indicating that they would not allow male callers into their home, and social workers conducted midnight raids to learn if there was a man living in the house so they could deduct his salary from the woman's welfare checks."
In that era, newspaper advertisements across the United States frequently advertised rental housing to married couples only, and even today it is not against the law to discriminate against cohabitors in housing. College students were expelled and public officials were forced to resign when their living arrangements were discovered, she said.
According to Pleck, the social issue of our time is legal marriage for gay coupleswho are fighting for the right to marry as opposed to cohabitors who are seeking the right not to have to marry. Nevertheless, the gay liberation movement has been the greatest engine providing legal benefits for unmarried straight couples who are living together, she said.
"Although gay people are organizing for themselves, they sometimes broaden their constituencies in such a way that it benefits cohabitors as well," she noted.
Americans have a unique way of dealing with this issue, compared with other developed countries that have moved toward figuring out what can be best be done for children given the new realities of how people are living, she said.
"In the U.S., efforts to normalize cohabitation in law and policy have obviously encountered staunch opposition from champions of the traditional family," she said.
One trend that has caused attitudes to shift among even the most hardened opponents of cohabitation has been a rise in this practice among the elderly. "Somehow it's different when Grandma moves in with her gentleman friend because she doesn't want to give up her Social Security survivor benefits," she said.
North Dakota lawmakers were swayed by just those sentiments when they overturned a state law against cohabitation in 2004.
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Public release date: 2-Jul-2012 Share ] Contact: Phyllis Picklesimer
p-pickle@illinois.edu
217-244-2827
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
URBANA Although 40 percent of children are now born to unmarried couples, law and public policy have failed to adapt to this fundamental change in American family life, said Elizabeth H. Pleck, author of Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution.
"Despite growing social acceptance, couples who live together without marrying have beenand continue to betreated as second-class citizens, subject to discriminatory laws in a culture that promotes marriage as the foundation of family life and children's well-being," said Pleck, a University of Illinois professor emeritus of history and human development and family studies.
Pleck has a gift for bringing social history to life, and the book is rife with the stories of persons who were targeted, shunned, and persecuted for their unconventional living arrangements.
Not Just Roommates contains enlightening news accounts and personal stories that seem incredible today, but they occurred against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and as part of the backlash against the sexual revolution.
Many of the original laws against cohabitation were designed to keep interracial couples from living together, she said. "In the 1960s, welfare recipients were required to sign a chastity pledge indicating that they would not allow male callers into their home, and social workers conducted midnight raids to learn if there was a man living in the house so they could deduct his salary from the woman's welfare checks."
In that era, newspaper advertisements across the United States frequently advertised rental housing to married couples only, and even today it is not against the law to discriminate against cohabitors in housing. College students were expelled and public officials were forced to resign when their living arrangements were discovered, she said.
According to Pleck, the social issue of our time is legal marriage for gay coupleswho are fighting for the right to marry as opposed to cohabitors who are seeking the right not to have to marry. Nevertheless, the gay liberation movement has been the greatest engine providing legal benefits for unmarried straight couples who are living together, she said.
"Although gay people are organizing for themselves, they sometimes broaden their constituencies in such a way that it benefits cohabitors as well," she noted.
Americans have a unique way of dealing with this issue, compared with other developed countries that have moved toward figuring out what can be best be done for children given the new realities of how people are living, she said.
"In the U.S., efforts to normalize cohabitation in law and policy have obviously encountered staunch opposition from champions of the traditional family," she said.
One trend that has caused attitudes to shift among even the most hardened opponents of cohabitation has been a rise in this practice among the elderly. "Somehow it's different when Grandma moves in with her gentleman friend because she doesn't want to give up her Social Security survivor benefits," she said.
North Dakota lawmakers were swayed by just those sentiments when they overturned a state law against cohabitation in 2004.
###
To order a copy of Not Just Roommates from University of Chicago Press, visit http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo13040525.html . Paper and e-book editions are $27.50.
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By BRETT MARTEL
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 1:45 a.m. ET July 1, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma is suing the NFL in federal court, claiming Commissioner Roger Goodell failed to make a timely appeal ruling regarding Vilma's season-long suspension in connection with the league's bounty investigation.
The lawsuit filed Saturday night in U.S. District Court in New Orleans also asks for a temporary restraining order to allow Vilma to continue working if Goodell upholds the suspension.
The suit contends Goodell has undermined "the integrity of the NFL and the Commissioner's office" by handing down punishments to Vilma and others based on evidence that is either flawed or cannot be substantiated.
It is the second lawsuit Vilma has filed in the matter. The first, filed in May and also in federal court in New Orleans, seeks unspecified damages from Goodell for defamation of character.
In his latest filing, Vilma claims that the NFL's collective bargaining agreement required Goodell to rule as soon as was practical following a June 18 appeal hearing. Because players, in protest, declined to present new evidence or argue their case in the hearing, Goodell should have been able to rule by June 25, the first business day after the record was closed in the matter, the lawsuit argues.
It was not clear if the NFL had seen the suit. Messages left with two league spokesmen Saturday night were not immediately returned.
In his latest attack of the NFL's handling of the bounty probe, Vilma contends punished players have only been able to see less than 1 percent of the 18,000 documents the league said it has compiled. His suit also claims that the few key pieces of evidence the league shared are flawed, including printed reproductions of handwritten notes.
"The NFL's alteration of other documents evidences that the NFL cannot substantiate the suspension, and undermines the integrity of the process," Vilma's lawsuit states.
The lawsuit seeks to discredit a key piece of evidence outlining bounty pledges from before the NFC championship game against Minnesota in January 2010, and also takes aim at fired assistant coach Mike Cerullo, who, according to Vilma, produced the document for the league.
Cerullo had a vendetta against the Saints after his firing following the 2009 season, and resented that the Super Bowl ring he received had been made with imitation (cubic zirconia) diamonds, the lawsuit contends.
The lawsuit claims Cerullo created the document "well after the 2009 NFC Championship game and in an effort to gain revenge against the Saints."
The suit further contends that a "close associate" of Cerullo has confirmed that Cerullo retracted his previous claims about the bounty program "in a communication directly with Goodell that occurred in April 2012."
The lawsuit notes that Goodell has not shared notes from interviews with Cerullo. Goodell also did not produce Cerullo as a witness at the appeal hearing or acknowledge Cerullo's retraction.
However, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello has denied that key witnesses in the bounty probe have retracted statements.
Aiello also has said the NFL has not issued any gag orders. Vilma's latest lawsuit, however, claims the NFL has ordered suspended former Saints defensive coordinator Greg Williams not to speak with suspended Saints players, coaches or officials as a condition for his reinstatement.
The NFL has said that Williams, who is suspended indefinitely, organized a bounty system that offered cash for hits that injured opponents, and which ran during his three seasons as defensive coordinator in New Orleans from 2009-11.
A close friend and associate of Williams, who was present for at least one discussion Williams had with Goodell, contends Williams never acknowledged the existence of a bounty program, Vilma's lawsuit said.
Williams' associate also contends that Williams has no information corroborating NFL findings that Vilma offered a $10,000 bounty for knocking quarterbacks Kurt Warner or Brett Favre out of 2009-10 playoff games.
The same associate confirmed that Goodell ordered Williams not to speak about the bounty matter with other punished individuals, the lawsuit said.
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Shrew Soft VPN Client (Free) is a freely available IPSEC client for Windows and Linux machines used to connect to a Virtual Private Network. Organizations are increasingly offering employees remote VPN access to protect their network, data, and applications from outside threats. However, many of the vendor client offerings can be expensive and difficult to install. The Shrew Soft VPN client takes the complexity out of the equation and makes establishing the VPN connection as simple as possible for the end-user.
Shrew Soft's VPN software is a true VPN client in that it connects to an existing VPN server, whether that's from the big giants such as Cisco or Juniper, or from smaller players such as Cisco's Linksys. If you already have a VPN server, then you should definitely consider Shrew Soft. If you don't have a VPN server handy?either as a stand-alone product or as a feature on a firewall or a router?you would be better served looking at one of the all-in-one VPN software such as our Editors' Choices Logmein Hamachi and Comodo Unite. With these products, you can create a VPN connection between individual endpoints and have secure connection on the fly.
Features
Shrew Soft's VPN client is capable of working with VPN servers from several major commercial vendors, including Cisco, Zyxel, and Juniper Networks. The software's website has instructions on configuring the software to work with Adtran NetVanta, Check Point NGx, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS, Cisco PIX, DrayTek, Fortigate, Fritz!Box, Juniper SSG (with and without certificates), Lancom, Linksys, NetASQ, Netgear, Sidewinder 6.x, Sidewinder 7.x, Sonicwall, and ZyXEL Zywall. There are instructions on the Juniper Networks knowledgebase on configuring the client to work with SRX Services Gateway and ScreenOS firewalls, as well. It can handle Cisco VPN connections that rely on pre-shared keys or certificates (IPSec) or with AnyConnect (SSL VPN).
The client supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, several Linux distributions, and OpenBSD. For organizations with a heterogeneous network, Shrew Soft's software allows them to standardize on one VPN client, regardless of the operating systems running.?
The fact that Macs aren't supported is disappointing. Considering the increasing numbers of Macs in the workplace, having a single client for all platforms would make the software a much stronger competitor.
Some advanced features are supported, including Split Tunneling, Split DNS, Nat Traversal, IKE Fragmentation, Packet Pre Fragmentation, Dead Peer Detection, Hybrid XAuth and automatic client configuration.
Support
The Shrew Soft Website offers a thorough wiki with detailed setup instructions and screenshots on how to configure products from specific vendors. There are how-tos for open source gateways including OpenSWAN, StrongSWAN, m0n0wal, and pfSense.
One thing I like about Shrew Soft is the fact that it supports multiple VPN servers. In a scenario where a user needs to connect to multiple networks, and if they don't have the same type of server, that user would normally have to install client software for each connection. That can easily get messy and difficult, if the tools wind up conflicting with each other. With Shrew Soft, everything is configured easily under one tool, making it easy to switch back and forth.
Installation and Setup
Getting started is a breeze, as the user downloads the desired version for the operating system directly from the website. No registration required. After downloading and installing the software, users can launch Shrew Soft VPN Access Manager.
If the IT department has a Cisco .pcf VPN configuration file already available, the process is even easier. All the user has to do is save the .pcf file somewhere on the local computer, and then go to the VPN Access Manager's File menu to import the file. Once the file has been imported, an icon with the file name will appear on the screen. Click on it once and hit connect to establish a VPN tunnel.
If the .pcf file has an encrypted password, some versions of Shrew Soft VPN may not be able to access that information. You will then need to obtain the required information from the IT department and replace the encrypted password.
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London Welsh will be allowed to play in the Aviva Premiership next season
LONDON WELSH will, after all, be allowed to play in the Aviva Premiership next season after successfully appealing the initial decision by the RFU to reject their application.
The Championship winners, who will play their home games in Oxford?s Kassam Stadium, eventually persuaded an appeals panel they did satisfy ground eligibility criteria. London Welsh beat Cornish Pirates in the Championship play-off final but it was deemed that their Old Deer Park ground did not meet Premiership requirements.
It means Dean Richards will make his return to rugby after a three-year ban following the Bloodgate saga in the second tier of English rugby, with his new club Newcastle relegated from the Premiership.
Source: http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/329872/London-Welsh-win-promotion/
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Back in?1989, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie after he penned "The Satanic Verses" ? a book the Ayatollah declared blasphemous against Islam.
Despite the call for Rushdie's assassination, all these years later the writer?is still alive ...?and tweeting to his heart's content.
Now, a group of students from the?government-sponsored?Islamic Association of Students are giving new life to?the?Rushdie death threat ? albeit?through?a computer?game.
The group?is in the midst of working on a game with?the catchy title of "The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of His Verdict," reports?The Guardian.?The game was revealed at the International Computer Games Expo taking place in Tehran this week.?
Mohammad-Taqi Fakhrian of the student association told Iran's Mehr news agency that, "We felt we should find a way to introduce our third and fourth generation to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and its importance," reports?Guardian writer?Saeed Kamali Dehghan.?
Details about the game are few,?and no one has said exactly how it will teach players about the fatwa, but?the student association reported that "initial phases of production" have been completed, according to The Guardian.
"The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie" is certainly part of a growing number of games being made in the Middle East and from a Middle-Eastern perspective.
As Reuters recently reported, the Arab world has one of the fastest growing communities of online gamers. And developers from the region are increasingly producing games that tell their stories.
Iran's Army recently released its first video game?called "Battle in the Gulf of Aden."?And?Saudi developers?are in the midst of working on "Unearthed:?The Trail of Ibn Battuta" (which game site Kotaku?calls an "Uncharted" knockoff). Check out the trailer here:
Winda Benedetti writes about video?games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you?follow her?on Google+. Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.?
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