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We asked alsybub to show his work and he provided the following photo and description. "To open the casing you can literally just pull the back off. There's 5x Torx screws underneath, to open it. No warranty stickers or anything.
"It's the four wires at the top right. With standard 3.5mm stereo wiring you solder, from left to right, Red, Ground, Green, Ground. The ground is shared by both connections (ie 3.5mm uses three wires 1x Red, 1x Green, 1x Ground) so I split it and covered them with heat shrink.
"There is no loss in quality or volume," he says. "It's perfect." Moreover, "You could easily exchange this with a 2.5mm socket and use any 360 headset."
Update: Another reader, David. N., did the same thing and provided this step-by-step on Instructables.com.
If you hate using the disposable-quality chat headset included with the Xbox One, and have a soldering gun and a sense of adventure, maybe give it a shot? If you ruin it, you can always use the microphone on the Kinect sensor for chat audio while you wait for third-party support.
Even if this mod is basic soldering 101 stuff, I'm impressed by alsybub's determination and unwillingness to take no for an answer. And if this swap is so easily made, I think it fairly asks Microsoft what consumer benefit is created by the Xbox One's different standard for audio devices.
Police are appealing for information after a large amount of jewellery was stolen from a Worksop home.
The burglary happened at a home in Lincoln Street, Manton, between noon and 1.30pm last Tuesday, January 8.
Numerous jewellery items, including rings, necklaces, and bracelets were stolen (as pictured).
DEARBORN — A few days before the fifth annual “March for Justice” took place in Dearborn, the Ashura Project released a video promoting its organized procession with the question, Why do we march?
The video powerfully displayed scenes of injustices around the world that call for action and revealed the reasons. They march for Black lives, for Muslims in Myanmar, against hate, for Palestine, for Yemen, for Bahrain, for Syria and against ISIS.
They march in the paths of their Prophet Mohammad and his Ahlulbayt (family) — for justice.
On Sunday, Oct. 1, they reiterated their stance during the procession through signs as well as banners they held front and center against these injustices. They also carried Arabic green, red, yellow and black flags, which displayed mourning over and admiration toward Imam Hussein (the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson) and his family, starting at the Fordson High School parking lot and all the way to Ford Woods Park.
Two groups of young men, one wearing green and the other red, as well as Muslim Boy Scouts in beige, performed “latmiyat” during the march and at the destination. This usually involves swaying the arms and striking the chest at regular intervals to express mourning during a “latmiya”— an elegy mourning the tragedy of the imam and his family.
A group of young women and a group of children dressed in green and red scarves and headbands also recited the different “latmiyas” they had memorized over the years, while tapping one hand lightly on their chests.
Along the way, people from nearby neighborhoods offered marchers water and all types of food, ranging from meat, cheese and zaatar pies to a variety of sweets and fruits, in memory of Hussein and his family.
At the destination, Sheikh Ibrahim Yassine of the Islamic Center of America spoke out against oppression and asked the marchers to pray for the oppressed and sick around the world.
“We say it with Imam Hussein to all oppressors around the world, ‘Death with dignity is better than a life of humiliation,'” he said in Arabic.
Kassem Elsaghir, 19, another annual participant, said this march allows Muslims to keep Hussein’s legacy alive by walking in his path for humanity.
“It shows the world the true message of Islam,” he said.
This article makes me cry.
Their client: BuzzFeed, the news organization that first published the dossier on U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, which is now being sued over its explosive allegations.
The investigation, being conducted by FTI Consulting, is running in parallel to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in Kremlin-directed efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. With the special counsel probe under wraps, the BuzzFeed court case could represent the first public airing of an investigation into the veracity of some of the dossier’s claims.
FTI is a Washington-based business advisory firm that specializes in areas ranging from corporate litigation to forensic accounting, and it is a frequent post-government landing pad for FBI officials.
The ramifications of FTI’s dossier investigation could be game-changing for Mueller’s probe, because it “would establish outside veracity of dossier allegations,” a source familiar with the work told Foreign Policy. Yet news of FTI’s involvement, including the critical role of a former top FBI official, would also be controversial because the dossier itself is “a political football,” the source said.
The dossier, which was funded by those connected with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, has been the subject of ongoing controversy; while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven. Trump and his allies have repeatedly attacked those involved in the dossier, as well as top FBI officials, as being involved in a partisan witch hunt.
Ferrante, a former top FBI official who previously served as director for cyber incident response at the U.S. National Security Council during the Barack Obama administration, is now at FTI Consulting, where he is leading the effort.
Ferrante joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005, and he was assigned to the bureau’s New York field office, where he worked on cyber threats to national security. In 2006, he was selected as a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, a group of experts who deploy globally to respond to critical cyber incidents.
As a top FBI cybersecurity official tasked to the White House, Ferrante was in charge of coordinating the U.S. government response to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, among other responsibilities. Prior to joining the NSC in 2015, Ferrante was chief of staff for the FBI’s cyber division at headquarters under then-Director James Comey. Ferrante, still working for the FBI but at the White House, stayed in his position as director for cyber incident response at the NSC through the Trump administration, until April 2017, when he left to join FTI.
At FTI, Ferrante launched what’s now been a months-long stealth effort chasing down documents and conducting interviews on the ground in various countries around the world. His team directed BuzzFeed lawyers to subpoena specific data and testimony from dozens of agencies or companies across the country and assembled a cyber ops war room to analyze that data, according to sources familiar with the work.
BuzzFeed is being sued for libel by Russian technology executive Aleksej Gubarev, who argues that the news organization was reckless in publishing a series of memos written by former British spy Christopher Steele. Those memos — part of a so-called dossier of information about Trump — include unverified claims that servers belonging to a company owned by Gubarev were used to hack the Democratic Party’s computer systems during the 2016 campaign.
BuzzFeed’s outside attorneys initially hired FTI to verify aspects of the dossier specifically pertaining to the Gubarev lawsuit, but its scope has since expanded. “If it’s fact, it’s not libel, that’s the idea,” one source told FP.
Evan Fray-Witzer, a lawyer for Gubarev, who has strongly denied those claims, mocked BuzzFeed’s efforts.
BuzzFeed’s legal woes don’t end with the Gubarev lawsuit. In January, Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who is also mentioned in the dossier, sued BuzzFeed in connection with their publication of the document.
It’s unclear if anyone from FTI will provide testimony before the Florida court presiding over a libel lawsuit against the media outlet. The names of testifying expert witnesses are expected to be disclosed later this week, and there is a hearing currently scheduled for Thursday in Washington, D.C.
“We can’t comment on the specific legal tools used to defend BuzzFeed’s First Amendment rights in this case,” BuzzFeed spokesman Matt Mittenthal told FP.
FTI and Ferrante declined to speak on the record.
The FBI referred FP’s request for comment to the special counsel’s office. Peter Carr, spokesman for the special counsel’s office, declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.
This Is Not a ToyYet another child with a gun in school is making news. Only this time, it's not a social outcast being bullied in high school, it's a pre-K student dropping a loaded 0.22-caliber handgun during music time. The Florida school is not releasing the name of the parents who allowed their pre-schooler to get his hands on the weapon, since one person involved is a minor. But it could be any parent in America. Or at least, any parent who thinks it's a good idea to have guns in the house where you also have children.
Isn't it time to stop defending people's rights to stockpile and carry firearms, and start using common sense? A pre-kindergarten student had access to a handgun. That is NOT okay.
I realize nothing, not even the murder of six innocent people in Tucson, Arizona, will get some people to admit some type of control of firearms in our country must be enforced. Again, people will be saying it's the irresponsible parent or the mentally ill gunman that is to blame. And while that's true, if you remove that whole easy access to guns, and this idea that we should all be carrying them around in our truck or our purse -- perhaps we wouldn't have six people dead in 14 seconds, and a pre-K student dropping a loaded gun inside a crowded classroom.
Ask yourself if you would have wanted that little boy in your own child's circle time. When it's so easy for a pre-schooler to get his hands on a loaded weapon, something is wrong in our country. If you hunt, keep your rifles locked up when you're not out in the woods. Otherwise, what's the point? You realize, don't you, that the easier you make it for the average person to get a gun, the easier it is for an irresponsible citizen to get a gun. One that could wind up aimed at your own child.
Our country has the highest rate of gun deaths of any other large country, and some of the most lax gun laws in the world. It's time for our national obsession with twisting the second amendment to mean everyone should own automatic weapons to end. And with it, the tragedy of the thousands of gun deaths in America each year.
GlenOak High School American Sign Language teacher Stacy Jackson has seven children and is a fan of a popular boy band.
What subject(s) do you teach (grade level)? I currently teach American sign language I and II, grades 9-12.
What is the best part of your job? The best part of my job is sharing one of my greatest passions, my respect and admiration of the deaf community and their language and when my students tell me how they were able to use ASL outside of class in our community.
What is the most challenging part of your job? The most challenging part of my job is keeping up with the day-to-day demands of teaching. With almost 200 students, there is always a lot to do.
Is teaching kids the same today as when you first started? This is only my second year teaching high school level, I also currently teach at Stark State College and am in my 10th year there as an adjunct. The use of technology by the students and teachers has definitely been the biggest change since I first started teaching.
My students would be surprised to know ... I am a total fan girl when it comes to "New Kids on the Block."
If you weren’t a teacher, you’d be doing what? I would be home with my daughter who has Down syndrome (Maleah) and taking her to all of her therapy and doctor appointments and loving every minute of it! In addition to teaching high school and college, I also am on the Launch Team to open a GiGi’s Playhouse, a nonprofit Down syndrome achievement center, in Canton. So I would be attending more meetings and luncheons towards that effort.
Chris has taken on her new position head on and has really stepped up to be a coaching leader in the building. She has had a tremendous start to the school year and deserves a ton of credit for how smoothly the beginning of the year has run here at Parkway. She is really going to help our teachers and, in turn, help our students.
Marilyn was given a standing ovation by her students at the beginning of this school year for her achievement of 30 years of service to Alliance City Schools. Ms. Kirksey's dedication to the Alliance community coupled with her patient demeanor with non-traditional youth have been a winning combination at Alliance Digital Academy.
Courtney Schrader is best described by the word dedication. She is an exemplar for organization, planning, and executing a plan; her students love her and there is no higher compliment than that.
Ms. Davidson's love of music and her students is evident in the enthusiasm her students show for participation in the band. She is welcoming and encouraging to students of all musical abilities.
Mrs. Gina Monger develops both student potential and 'thinking like a scientist' in her science classes. Building positive student relationships, a keen ability to scaffold curriculum and make learning meaningful, a strategic purpose to daily learning (mixed with a great sense of humor) and a valuable teacher leader makes Mrs. Monger a worthy candidate.
Mrs. Miller goes over and beyond to help the students at Canton South High School prepare for testing and ultimately life after graduation. This summer she spent time in Kansas City working with leaders in Project Lead the Way to rewrite the course curriculum and assessments for the bio-med program used across the nation and also with representatives at the Ohio Department of Education developing ways to assist Career Tech (CTE) and general education students prepare for end of course exams and CTE assessments.
Kevin Powell wears many hats at Central Catholic, as a teacher of Latin and computer science courses, he has been instrumental in the success most Central graduates experience given that Latin is a foundational language that helps users understand the root of countless vocabulary terms and that strong tech skills have become crucial for the workplace. Mr. Powell also serves as our technology supervisor; he gave up most of his summer to help implement Central’s new one-to-one Chromebook program.
Jamie is a social justice pioneer who believe all students can learn. She has been doing inclusion for many years. She co-plans with her entire team to ensure that all students have access to grade-level or above curriculum. Fairless is fortunate to have her on our team.
No task is too great or too small for Laura. She is always willing to go above and beyond on behalf of students. She is an asset to the entire staff and is often a go-to person for her expertise.
Mrs. Kunkel's pride and passion for the Culinary arts and pour Bears Den restaurant is reflected in her students daily. Mrs. Kunkel takes time to get to know her students as individuals, organize them into a high functioning team and then operate one of the best restaurants in Jackson Township, all student-run.
Mrs. Tobin is a positive leader with students, staff and our building in Project Based Learning and Blended Learning instructional strategies. She advises our Student Council, is an advocate for community service projects within our district, and is a proponent of effective uses of our innovative classroom areas.
Mrs. Adkins has created an environment where all students feel comfortable and enjoy learning. Her lessons are creative and hands-on for students to explore. Mrs. Adkins does an excellent job implementing technology while keeping a healthy balance of traditional teaching methods. We are very blessed to have Mrs. Adkins at Louisville Elementary.
Mrs. Heather is a great asset to our team. She has a positive energy and is always willing to collaborate on projects. She is always willing to support our school with fun and challenging lessons, staff games, and supervision support. Mrs. Heather is a tremendous support to her colleagues and has worked with students in other classrooms, outside of her content area, to work on their individual goals and is consistently planning ahead for our staff. She is selfless and Marlboro is blessed to have her.
Mrs. Angie Hattery is in her 26th year of teaching and still as energetic and engaging as ever with her students. Mrs. Hattery brings science alive for her students with a special combination of her personality, enthusiasm and exciting activities and the best part of Mrs. Hattery is her willingness to continue to develop and grow as an educator. As a Marlington alumni, Mrs. Hattery is now in her 39th year as a Duke and we are grateful to have her at MMS.
Linda Wuske is a very dedicated art teacher at Whittier Elementary in Massillon. She develops thought-provoking art lessons for her students to gain understanding of line, shape and color. She creates very hands on projects for her students and displays student work throughout our building. Linda is in charge of our social committee and plans many activities for staff. She also tutors students during our tiger times and oversees our breakfast program each morning. Linda enjoys spending quality time with her husband Craig and children Connor, Rachel and Bryan.
Mr. Delong is a veteran teacher who embraced a new curriculum and program at Massillon Junior High School. Mr. Delong welcomed the challenge of Career Technical Education Exercise Science class where students learn about nutrition, wellness and proper foundation skills to lead a healthy lifestyle. Mr. Delong teaches proper technique and students are authentically engaged in hands-on learning. Students enjoy his exercise science class where they can combine learning to active movement. Mr. Delong strengthens the mind and body.
Robin Porter is a teacher who reaches out to our entire staff with support and assistance. She also mentors our new teachers with great competence and care. Robins positive influence has an impact on parents, teachers and staff.
Miss Hood is a leader on her team and with the math department. Her passion for her curriculum and students is displayed on a daily basis. Miss Hood continually strives to represent the needs of her students and colleagues.
Pam creates an environment where no student is afraid to tackle the challenge of math. Her patience, positive attitude,and high energy keep students motivated and engaged. Many of her students go on to compete in the middle school math tournament.
Alicia wear many hats at Northwest High. She was instrumental in helping to create our "Show-Up" movement at the high school to help students better themselves and to create a great environment. Her passion, sense of humor and the initiatives she takes have made her a great role model for staff and students.
Mrs. Tingler works hard to incorporated many avenues to learning in her classroom through projects, technology, and teamwork. Mrs. Tingler's classroom is organized and structured, yet empathetic and compassionate. When students leave her classroom, they know they are loved, held to high expectations and supported. Thank you for your passion for teaching the students at ECEL.
Alex incorporates an exciting curriculum in his foundations of art, ceramics, drawing and painting and middle school courses at East Canton Middle/High School. Along with having a dynamic presence in the classroom. Mr. Loy also spends time mentoring students through coaching athletic teams at East Canton. Mr. Loy coaches cross country and track at East Canton. Mr. Loy has been selected by the Ohio House of Representatives to have our student artwork displayed in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and Arts. The student art will be on display through 2019.
Miss Street dedicates countless hours to our students and school. She is at numerous after school events to support our students. She builds positive relationships and is always looking for ways to serve and improve the lives of our families. She is an asset to our school community.
Mr. Keoshian is one of the most creative and dedicated teachers in the education profession. His ability to create engaging, individualized lessons combined with his amazing aptitude to create positive student relationships is a formula success. Mr. K constantly goes above and beyond his daily duties often giving up his lunch to reteach small groups of students to advance their knowledge.
Stephanie is a positive advocate for all of Sandy Valley's students. She teaches Language Arts 11, yearbook and contemporary novels, and she is a leader on SV's Social Justice teacher team.
Tara Piercy might be a first-year teacher, but she teaches with the heart of a veteran, given her ability to find different ways to help her students understand the material and to implement technology effectively so that they can realize success in the classroom. In addition to the positive results she is encouraging in the classroom, she has also made a positive connection with Aquinas students outside of the classroom because she has volunteered to advise a number of different student organizations which is giving her a reputation of being truly committed to Aquinas.
Did NSA leaks help al Qaeda?
Obama administration officials and congressional lawmakers over the past two weeks have condemned Edward Snowden for admittedly leaking classified information on national security surveillance programs.
Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke of "changes we can already see being made by the folks who wish to do us harm, and our allies harm."
He added the disclosures of surveillance programs may also "make it harder to track bad guys trying to harm U.S. citizens in the United States."
A potential al Qaeda plot targeting Belgium was thwarted in part by e-mail information provided by U.S. Internet providers, according to Belgian court documents and Western counterterrorism officials.
The case, which came to light in 2008, shows how U.S. intelligence capabilities can aid in disrupting plots.
On Tuesday, American counterterrorism officials revealed that more than 50 plots have been thwarted since September 11, 2001, using National Security Agency surveillance programs. Many of those plots were overseas.
The officials, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, revealed only four of those plots and promised to provide details on the others to Congress in a classified setting. The Belgium plot, though not confirmed to be one of the 50 that relied on the recently revealed secretive NSA program to monitor online messages, appears to fit the bill.
A purported new issue of an English-language al Qaeda magazine linked to the Boston terrorist attacks was posted on an al Qaeda web forum earlier this week, but its content beyond its cover page was scrambled, suggesting the possibility the forum was hacked by Western intelligence agencies.
The magazine, produced by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate - al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which regularly includes how-to instructions for followers to carry out terrorist attacks in the West - has received significant scrutiny in recent weeks.
Investigators believe that Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev accessed Inspire magazine, and the material had instructions on bomb-making, a law enforcement official told CNN earlier this month.
According to analysts, the explosive devices the Boston bombers built had striking similarities to a bomb recipe in the first issue of the magazine - "How to build a bomb in your Mom's kitchen" - that has been downloaded by militants in multiple Islamist terrorist plots on both sides of the Atlantic.
Anwar al-Awlaki was regarded by the United States as one of the biggest threats to homeland security.
He was born and raised in the United States, and killed by the United States. And now from beyond the grave he inspires a new generation of would-be terrorists to attack the United States.
Militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki continues to speak through sermons posted online, and U.S. officials are investigating whether his words may have influenced Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
A U.S. government official told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday that "the preachings of Anwar al-Awlaki were likely to have been among the videos they watched." A U.S. government source had previously told CNN that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had claimed the brothers had no connection to overseas Islamist terrorist groups and were radicalized through the Internet.
Al-Awlaki lived in Colorado, California and Virginia before leaving the United States in 2002. At one point he met two of the men who would be among the 9/11 hijackers, an encounter later investigated by the FBI. There is no evidence that al-Awlaki knew of their plans.
The trial of three Birmingham men convicted Thursday of plotting to launch a "catastrophic" suicide bombing attack in the United Kingdom revealed that al Qaeda has developed a new strategy to target the West.
The new strategy involves a teacher-training approach in which a select few Western operatives are taught bombmaking and other aspects of terrorist tradecraft in the tribal areas of Pakistan and are then instructed to return back to the West to "spread the knowledge" to a larger body of Islamist extremists keen on launching attacks.
The new approach is a response to the growing toll of drone strikes which have made travel to the tribal areas increasingly perilous for Western recruits and significantly diminished al Qaeda's ability to orchestrate terrorist plots from the region.
The trial revealed that terrorist groups in Pakistan are actively dissuading Western militants from making the trip.
Two of those convicted Thursday - Irfan Naseer and Irfan Khalid - received 40 days of terrorist training in the tribal areas of Pakistan in the spring of 2011, mostly inside houses in the valleys of Waziristan.
The suicide bombing in Ankara Friday is a reminder to counterterrorism agencies that it's not just jihadist groups who threaten Western governments and their interests overseas. Pockets of the extreme left and extreme right still consider political violence legitimate - among them the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party in Turkey.
Turkish authorities have blamed the U.S. Embassy attack on the group, better known as DHKP-C, and are in the process of identifying the bomber.