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Sunday, August 11, 2013
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Jasmine Russell Gives Stillman College Something to Cheer About
Jasmine Russell didn?t flip in the air when she found out that she was accepted into Florida Coastal Law School, but she could have.? The former cheerleader who graduated in May 2012 spent much of her time off the ground during her Stillman days.? Serving as the squad?s flyer meant that, when she wasn?t impressing the crowd with her amazing round off backhand spring back tucks and other gravity-defying maneuvers, she was the cheerleader that her teammates tossed extremely high in the air and caught in poses that never failed to dazzle spectators.
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Three years ago, Jasmine founded Tumble Your Way to the Top.?? Through the program, which provides tumbling and cheerleading lessons for kids at the Cooper Community Center in Alexander City, AL, Jasmine says she has been able to ?give back to the community? and ?give kids something positive to do.?
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?The Lord blessed me with cheer skills that I can share with others.? It?s nice to see the kids smile.? Cheer and tumbling can also help to boost a child?s self-esteem.? Sometimes shy kids don?t have an opportunity to participate in cheer at school.? My program gives them an opportunity to cheer and it also helps them to open up and meet new friends,? says Jasmine, who graduated with a B.A. in history in May 2012.
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Russell offers lessons for children between the ages of 4 and 12 each summer, which gives her an opportunity to remain in touch with students and hear about the impact that her program is having.? ?One young lady who tried out and didn?t make the squad at her middle school, came to my program to improve her skills.? The next year, she made the team at her school,? Jasmine recalls.
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While being a former cheerleader en route to law school might sound enviably glamorous, Russell has had her share of challenges. When she was in grammar school, she remembers how neighbors used to come to her home bringing food and sympathy. Her father had cancer and couldn?t work. The power was turned off in their home because he couldn?t afford to pay the utility bills. Doctors were convinced that he wouldn?t make it, but he is now a 13-year cancer survivor.
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Russell was again reminded of how fragile life can be when a powerful tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, flattening homes and businesses while she and many of her classmates sat downstairs in Roulhac Hall waiting for the storm to subside. Among the 51 individuals in Tuscaloosa whose deaths were attributed to the tornado was Stillman senior William Chase Stevens, a baseball player who was known to his friends as ?Will.?
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?It was really sad to learn that he had died.? He was a history major so he was in pretty much all of my classes. We had a memorial to remember his life.? He was a wonderful student.? He was very caring and willing to help anyone,? she recalls.
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?After the storm, Stillman students came together to help.?? We cleaned debris and helped serve lunch at a soup kitchen.? We also held clothing and food drives at Central High School for kids who had lost their homes.? It?s important for me to continue to give back by sharing my gifts and talents with others.?? Because of my own experiences?the way people helped us when my father was ill, it means a lot to me to give back to others. I could relate to kids whose homes had been destroyed by the tornado.?
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?My passion for service was also inspired by the various service projects hosted by my church, Greater Works Outreach Ministry, and this passion continued when I became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, whose mission is "Service To All Mankind.""
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Through law, Russell hopes to have an even greater impact on the lives of young people. ?I?m interested in criminal law or in juvenile law?something dealing with youth because I am able to connect with kids.? Through community service and through my tumbling program, I?m around kids often.? I would like to be the type of lawyer who is able to help them.? Just because a young person makes a mistake, that doesn?t mean that the mistake has to define who he or she will become as an adult. That?s one of the reasons I have always wanted to become a lawyer.? When I found out that I was accepted into law school, I was so excited.?
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This year, Russell has a record 41 children in her cheer and tumbling program. Her students are preparing to perform in a recital on August 4th, 3 p.m., at the Cooper Community Center in Alexander City.?
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?Each age will perform a cheer, a dance and various tumbling routines,? states Russell.? And while she admits that she is more nervous about beginning that notoriously difficult first year of law school than her students are about landing their backhand springs, Russell can rest assured that thousands of proud Stillmanites will be cheering her on.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
The Local Broker LLC Announces the Launch of Their Flagship Real Estate Website in Austin, Texas
Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB) August 08, 2013
The Local Broker LLC is proud to announce the launch of its first local real estate website in Austin, Texas, The Local Broker Austin.
With detailed descriptions and professional photography, the site brings Austin?s unique neighborhoods to life, offering a wealth of local listings that make the home shopping process simple and efficient. The Local Broker Austin site uses new IDX technologies and a customized WordPress platform to create a seamless and efficient real estate portal.
Local Broker Austin is the first of many Local Broker sites. Future cities already reserved by top local agents include Charlotte, Memphis and Nashville.
?Austin is our flagship city and I am proud to partner with Elizabeth Riley of Keller Williams Realty as we venture into this market,? said Ian Marshall, founder and president of the Local Broker. ?The online real estate market in Austin is one of the most competitive in the country. Our success in Austin against steep competition will be a great accomplishment.?
Based in Atlanta, The Local Broker is the brainchild of real estate veteran Ian Marshall, and the culmination of more than ten years of building and growing some of the country?s top local real estate websites. The Local Broker partners with top local real estate agents and brokers nationwide to create a state-of-the-art online presence.
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11007569.htm
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Time Warner-CBS blackout reaches eighth day, viewers to miss golf major
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - More than 3 million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas will be blocked from watching golf's Major Championship and other popular shows this weekend if the cable company fails to reach an agreement with CBS to end the week-long blackout.
Neither side showed signs of making any progress on ending the dispute as negotiations continued on Friday.
The top U.S. communications regulator said it is ready to act if CBS and Time Warner Cable do not follow through on negotiating to end the blackout of CBS programming in New York and Los Angeles over Time Warner's cable television service.
The blackout started last Friday when the two companies could not agree on fees that Time Warner Cable pays CBS to carry some local stations owned by the broadcaster in some of the largest U.S. TV markets.
"We will continue to urge all parties to stay and resolve in good faith this issue as soon as possible. However, I will affirm to you that I am ready to consider appropriate action if this dispute continues," said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn.
Clyburn, speaking at a press conference in Washington on Friday, also said she was "really distressed" and "disappointed" by the blackout" and was in touch with both companies.
Time Warner Cable said it agreed with the chairwoman's comments and hopes "CBS soon will come to a reasonable agreement with us that is fair to our customers and their viewers."
CBS said it declined to comment on the remarks.
The FCC probably will not be able end the fight, said David Wittenstein, a communications attorney at the firm Dow Lohnes who has handled similar negotiations between cable companies and broadcasters.
"The FCC has taken a position that it has very limited authority to step in and end an impasse. What the FCC can do as a practical matter is quite limited," he said.
He said the FCC could only get involved if one of the parties files a complaint that says one of the sides is not negotiating "in good faith." The FCC could step in if one side is refusing to meet or not providing good reasons for rejecting offers, for example.
On Thursday, online video streaming services like Netflix Inc and Amazon Inc became a new sticking point in the increasingly acrimonious talks.
(Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by David Gregorio and Richard Chang)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/time-warner-cbs-blackout-reaches-eighth-day-viewers-214212735.html
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Mass-Market Marathon
There was a time when I spurned mass-market paperbacks. They?re small and flimsy, unbefitting real literature. They?re cheap, and their disposability invites a certain unseriousness in the reader. Whenever I had the chance (and the funds), I replaced the mass-markets in my collection with hardcovers, or at least larger-sized trade paperbacks.
It?s funny how the things that once seemed like bugs now seem like features. Especially that wonderful disposability! If I?m just not that into a book, I want to be able to ditch it. I don?t want to feel beholden to a bad novel just because I spent $35 on the gorgeous hardcover, or because it?s so large and heavy that I couldn?t bring a backup book with me. At 38, with two kids and limited brainpower and scores of shelf-feet of unread books in my house, I am looking for books that I can cast aside without a care if it things don?t work out. On the beach this afternoon, this happens twice. Luckily, I?ve got backups.
I start with Fran Lebowitz?s Metropolitan Life, a terrific-looking orange-red-and-yellow paperback collection of essays by the garrulous New York fixture, who?s famously been not-writing her novel for 30-plus years. Published in 1978, Metropolitan Life collects short essays from Lebowitz?s stints at Mademoiselle and Interview, capturing her particular, fussy, neurotic, funny voice on just about everything?the weather, TV news, Soho, agents, deadlines, landlords, editors, the difficulty of writing, the difficulty of coming up with ideas for columns, digital clocks. That is to say, Fran Lebowitz?s writing seems narrowly tailored to a specific aficionado of the New York literary lifestyle, or maybe even more specifically tailored to Fran Lebowitz.
I wanted to love this book. Fran Lebowitz was the first famous person I ever interviewed, and she stayed on the phone with me for 45 minutes, giving me fantastic quote after fantastic quote for a short piece about New York bookstores. I have never experienced a more delightful interview in my career. (One of the things that is so great about Fran Lebowitz is that she will give a quote to anyone, even a journalist who has no idea what he is doing.) So I liked her, and I like the New York literary lifestyle, and I love the very idea that this collection of essays about, basically, being a louche Upper East writer, was published in mass-market?because it sold! According to the gold embossed badge on its cover, this sucker spent ?five months on the New York Times bestseller list?!
And there are one-liners in this book that I LLOL at. (On a phone call from a Hollywood agent: ?He was audibly tan.?) But by the sixth or seventh essay I?ve already figured out the Lebowitz template: a couple of paragraphs of throat-clearing, establishing at length that she?s going to write about the thing that she?s writing about; a couple of paragraphs of jokes, ranging from solid to very funny; a couple more paragraphs of less-good jokes; a weak kicker. The openers drive me totally crazy. Here?s how she gets into an essay about children:
That is for serious 203 words! I don?t mean to play editor here, but that could easily have been cut to six: ?Here are some jokes about children.? For that is what the piece is: a list of the pros and cons of children, in the voice of Fran Lebowitz. Some of the jokes are great! (?Con: Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. One can only assume that this has something to do with not smoking enough.?) Some are lame. ("Pro: Not a single member of the under-age set has yet to propose the world chairchild.") And every essay starts with that long, long wind-up. I give up on page 108, when a piece about manicures begins: ?During a recent luncheon with a practicing member of the leisure class the subject of fingernail care chanced (as it so often does) to come up.? Good grief. I put Fran back in my beach bag and go for a swim.
After a nap I pull out my backup book, a funny little collection of short stories by Steve Allen, the TV host and professional bon vivant. It?s called 14 for Tonight, and it contains, the back-cover copy informs me,
Fourteen stories?
some hilarious,
some frankly sexy,
some grim and macabre?but
all establishing Steve Allen,
in one giant step,
in the first
rank of
American writers.
Now as you may be aware Steve Allen did not, in the end, make it into the first rank of American writers. Though apparently he wrote 54 books, he?s remembered as the father of the modern talk show, and as a great panelist on What?s My Line, but not so much as (despite what an unattributed blurb on the book?s front cover suggests) ?a modern O. Henry.? That?s because the stories are really terrible. The worst is ?The Interview,? in which a reporter interviewing a famous person is insufferable. No, wait, the worst is ??I Hope I?m Not Intruding,?? in which a famous person eating dinner is interrupted by an insufferable fan. No wait! The worst is ?The Public Hating,? which is meant to be a horrifying tale of modern society?s dark, vindictive underbelly, but is just silly and obvious?a put-upon scold?s version of ?The Lottery.? As it happens, I have a second backup book in my bag, and it?s by the actual Shirley Jackson, so I toss 14 for Tonight aside and pick up Hangsaman instead. So long, Steve Allen. Thanks for costing 35 cents.
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Salamdander Discovers Oil at G4/50-5 Well off Thailand
Salamander Energy plc announced that the G4/50-5 exploration well has discovered oil in the Surin prospect in the central portion of the Western sub-basin, Block G4/50, Gulf of Thailand.
Oil was discovered in good quality Miocene fluvial sandstones in the primary N40 target zone over the interval 5,003 to 5,030 feet (1,525 to 1,533 meters) TVDSS (True Vertical Depth SubSea). Wire-line logs and pressure data confirmed the presence of approximately 26 feet (8 meters) of oil pay. Oil samples recovered from the zone indicate a 31 degree API oil and mapping of the Surin fault block indicates between 49 and 66 feet (15 and 20 meters) of column height above the location of the well penetration. Further evaluation is required to determine the potential resource volume encountered in the Surin discovery. The well has been plugged and abandoned as an oil discovery.
James Menzies, chief executive of Salamander, commented:
?The discovery of oil in the Surin fault block, a 16 miles (25 kilometers) step out from the Bualuang field, has proven the access to an oil charge in the Western Central sub-basin, which had been identified as a key risk pre-drill.? Resource estimates for Surin are being assessed but this is clearly a positive step in de-risking the neighbouring prospects and in understanding the local petroleum system.?
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Friday, July 26, 2013
CU Buffs football team loses three players to transfer
Gerald Thomas (Karl Gehring, Denver Post file)
CULVER CITY, Calif. ? Wide receiver Gerald Thomas, tight end Vincent Hobbs and defensive end John Stuart will not return to the University of Colorado football roster, the school announced Friday.
Thomas finished fifth on the team last year in receptions with 18 for an average of 14.3 yards per game. He will transfer to Sam Houston State, an FCS school.
Stuart and Hobbs will transfer closer to their homes ? Hobbs due to family reasons and Stuart for personal reasons.
John Henderson: 303-954-1299, jhenderson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/johnhendersondp
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Space-time is not the same for everyone
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by quantum gravity has been studied for years. Recent analyses suggest a surprising conclusion: not all elementary particles are subject to the same space-time.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/kNilZaFNogk/130709115344.htm
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Photos: Woolly mammoth, 39,000 years old to be exhibited in Japan
Posted Jul 09, 2013
ByA 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth, named Yuka, from the Siberian permafrost arrived at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 9, 2013. The frozen woolly mammoth will be exhibited from July 13 until September 16.
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A 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is seen upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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Members of Japan customs inspect a 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth Yuka from Siberian permafrost upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 9, 2013. The frozen woolly mammoth will be exhibited from July 13 until September 16. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
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A foot of the 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is pictured upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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A 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is unveiled for the media at an exhibition in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 9, 2013. The frozen woolly mammoth will be exhibited from July 13 until September 16. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
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A worker looks at a 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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A 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is carried by workers upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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The snout of a 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is pictured upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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A 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is unveiled for the media at an exhibition in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 9, 2013. The frozen woolly mammoth will be exhibited from July 13 until September 16. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
Source: http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/07/09/photos-wolly-mammoth-yuka-siberia-tokyo/
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Alzheimer's Disease & Cancer: Each May Lower Risk of the Other
Alzheimer's disease and cancer are both diseases of aging, but interestingly, having one of these conditions lowers the risk of developing the other, a new study from Italy suggests.
In the study, people with Alzheimer's disease were 43 percent less likely to develop cancer, and people with cancer were 35 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, compared with the general population.
The findings agree with those of earlier studies, which also showed a lower risk of cancer for people with Alzheimer's disease, and vice versa. The new study is the largest to explore the relationship between these two diseases, study researcher Dr. Massimo Musicco, of the National Research Council of Italy in Milan, said in a statement.
The study found an association, and cannot prove that the either disease is responsible for causing a ?reduced risk of developing the other.
However, it's possible that these two diseases result from opposite biological mechanisms, which in turn, lowers the risk of the second disease in a person who already has the first, the researchers said. The researchers noted that Alzheimer's disease results from the death of brain cells, while cancer results from uncontrolled cellular growth, and resistance to cell death.?
If future studies confirm the findings, "This knowledge may help in gaining a better understanding of and developing new treatments for both diseases," Catherine Roe, of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and Dr. Maria Behrens, of the Hospital Cl?nico Universidad de Chile, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study.
The study analyzed information from more than 204,000 people ages 60 and older in Italy, who were followed for six years.
During the study, 21,451 people in the study were diagnosed with cancer and 2,832 were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Those numbers include the 161 people who were diagnosed with both diseases. But the researchers expected that 246 people with cancer would have developed Alzheimer's disease, and 281 people with Alzheimer's disease would have developed cancer, based on the prevalence of both diseases among people of the same age and gender as the study participants.
So in both cases, the risk of the second disease was reduced.
The researchers found the same result among people who died during the study and those who lived, meaning that early death among people who acquired one disease and died could not explain the phenomenon. [Top 10 Leading Causes of Death]
What's more, people who eventually developed Alzheimer's disease had a lower risk of cancer both before and after their Alzheimer's diagnosis, and people with cancer had a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease both before and after their cancer diagnosis. This means that the diagnosis of the first disease did not appear to interfere with the diagnosis of the second disease, the researchers said.
The study did not take into account lifestyle factors, such as smoking, physical activity and diet, which may influence the risk of these diseases.
The study and editorial are published today (July 10) in the journal Neurology.
Follow Rachael Rettner @RachaelRettner. Follow LiveScience @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.
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OT at Tax Dept., up 506 percent this year, got some attention
The state Department of Taxation and Finance officials continued to be reluctant to fully discuss the problems with paper tax return processing but began to tell a little more after being confronted with overtime data collected from the Office of the State Comptroller by the Times Union. The department said filers still waiting should get refunds by early August. Some have been waiting since February.
Given a day to look at this material below obtained by the Times Union from the Office of the State Comptroller after an official request and reported in the paper on July 4, the department released a statement just at deadline on July 3. They were sent this data the afternoon of July 2 and asked to comment:
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January ? June 2012:
$325,504
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$1,973,382
57,698 hours
This statement came forth from spokesman Geoffrey Gloak, in which he continued to talk about the entire universe of person income tax returns, including the electronically filed ones, where the big problems have not been identified as a result of a new contract with the New York State Industries for the Disabled and their for-profit partner SourceHOV:
?The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance today issued an update on refunds for the 2012 income tax season.
Thus far, 5.95 million refunds have been issued this year representing $5.3 billion ? a dollar-for-dollar increase of 3% over last year at this time.
Overall, more than 96 percent of all refunds have been issued, and the remaining refunds are being delivered daily.
By law, refunds that are issued after May 30 for timely-filed returns include interest payments. Interest is paid only on that part of the refund resulting from over-withholding.
As a result of a new contractor for processing income tax returns, refunds for some taxpayers who submitted paper returns have been delayed.
To prioritize delivery of refunds, the Tax Department is assisting the vendor to both speed processing and provide quality assurance. Recovery of the Department?s costs associated with this effort ? including staff over time and interest payments ? is provided for in the contract, and will not come at additional taxpayer expense.
Outstanding returns filed by April 15 will be filled by early August.
E-filing Increases
This year, nearly 90% of taxpayers filed their returns electronically ? up from 87% last year and only 58% just five years ago.E-filing is the safest and fastest way to file a return and receive a refund, and it saves taxpayer dollars. Since 2008, New Yorkers have saved more than $250 million in processing costs as a result of e-filing.
For more information
Taxpayers can check the status of their refunds at www.tax.ny.gov or call 518-457-5181 to talk with a Department representative.?
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Video: 5 Dead in Oil Train Derailment
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Turkey condemns Cairo shooting, calls it "massacre"
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu condemned the Cairo shooting in which at least 42 people died on Monday, describing the incident as a "massacre" and calling for the start of a normalization process.
Islamist protesters angered by president Mohamed Mursi's overthrow said the killings occurred when they were fired on outside Republican Guard headquarters. The military blamed the bloodshed on a "terrorist group" that tried to storm the compound and said at least one soldier was killed and 40 hurt.
"I strongly condemn the massacre that took place in Egypt at morning prayer in the name of the fundamental human values which we have been advocating," Davutoglu said on Twitter.
He called for the start of a political normalization process that respects the national will of Egyptians.
Turkey's government has Islamist roots like Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood. Davutoglu last week denounced the Egyptian army's removal of Mursi after days of mass unrest against his rule "a military coup" and said this was "unacceptable".
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-condemns-cairo-shooting-calls-massacre-091023588.html
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Human skull in clay pot found in canal near golf course
MARGATE?
? After finding a human skull and trinkets in a clay pot in a canal near the Oriole Executive Golf Course Monday morning, police launched a homicide investigation.
But such discoveries are not uncommon in South Florida and are often linked to ritualistic Afro-Caribbean religions.
The Margate skull was sent to the Broward County medical examiner for further examination, Lt. Andy Zettek, a spokesman for the Margate Police Department, said.
Uncertain whether the skull was acquired for "religious ritualistic purposes," detectives are ? for now ? handling the incident as a homicide investigation, Zettek said.
The race, gender and age of the skull are unknown, he said.
"We found it, it's human, and that's about all we know until the medical examiner, or someone in authority, can make a determination," Zettek said.
The skull was discovered about 11:30 a.m. near the ninth hole of the golf course at 8000 Margate Blvd., Zettek said.
The discovery generated a good bit of chatter on an otherwise slow day at the golf course and adjoining restaurant, bartender Jennifer Gallaudet said.
"As you can imagine, everybody that's here is definitely shocked," she said.
Divers from Sullivan Electric and Pump made the discovery in about 10- to 15-feet of water while working on an irrigation line, Zettek said.
The clay pot ? about the size of a one- or two-gallon jug ? broke apart when the diver brought it to shore, Zettek said.
As for the trinkets, Zettek declined to elaborate.
"They're dirty, obviously, with a lot of soil and mud," he said. "They have to be cleaned up to determine what exactly they are."
Human skulls found across South Florida often are traced to ritualistic Afro-Caribbean religions such as Santeria, Palo Mayombe or Voodoo.
Most recently, two women traveling to Baltimore from Cuba were detained at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in April when pots containing what appeared to be human skulls were found in their carry-on baggage.
The women said they bought the terra cotta pots at a religious shop in Cuba and were told the artifacts would "ward off evil spirits," authorities said.
The remains were sent to a laboratory at the University of Florida for further investigation.
And last year, when a human skull and artifacts were found in a clay pot in a lake in Hollywood, a forensic anthropologist concluded that it had been used for the Paolo Mayombe faith.
There was no sign of trauma to that skull, and investigators did not suspect foul play.
Margate police divers continue to search the canal near the golf course for additional remains or evidence, Zettek said.
Investigators urge anyone with information about the skull to call Detective Julio Fernandez at 954-972-7111.
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Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-margate-skull-20130708,0,5212772.story?track=rss
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Wood used by freed slaves stolen from SC church
WALTERBORO, S.C. --?
Wood that was used by freed slaves to build a schoolhouse in Clarendon County more than 130 years ago has been stolen.
The pine boards had been salvaged from the Saint James the Greater Catholic Mission after the congregation spent a decade trying to raise enough money to renovate the schoolhouse, church pastor Father Jeffrey Kendall told The Post and Courier of Charleston (http://bit.ly/12dcQgA).
Irish plantation owners founded the church in 1833, but slaves and their descendants became the lifeblood, especially after a fire destroyed it in 1856. Members couldn't immediately rebuild, but prayed together and kept meeting all the way through the Civil War before deciding to build the schoolhouse in the 1870s, Kendall said.
"The freed slaves who built that school house, their sweat and their blood is in that wood. The members of the church are descendants of those slaves," Kendall said. "It has such tremendous meaning for us. That is why it's so heartbreaking for us."
The wood was inside a trailer that was stolen from the church on June 29. Colleton County deputies haven't found the wood or the person who stole the trailer.
"I'm pretty angry. Either they don't know the value of the wood and dumped it somewhere or they know the value of the wood and they're going to try to use it themselves," Kendall said.
Church members planned to use the special wood to make a new alter, podium and baptismal font in the restored building, the pastor said.
Church member Geraldine Jenkins hopes the wood is still out there and will make it back to the church she joined 35 years ago after marrying into the family who kept it going for more than a century.
"They stole a part of our life. They didn't destroy it," she said. "We've come too far to be destroyed. But they took a part of our heritage away and we would truly like to have it back."
Source: http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/07/07/2805848/wood-used-by-freed-slaves-stolen.html
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Prince Andrew becomes first UK royal on Twitter
LONDON (AP) ? Twitter is now a bit more royal.
Britain's Prince Andrew has joined the micro-blogging service as @TheDukeOfYork.
Within hours of opening the account Monday, Andrew had more than 10,000 followers ? but also had received several abusive comments.
The son of Queen Elizabeth II has served as a navy helicopter pilot and a British business ambassador, and is following charities, arts organizations and the Hunstanton Golf Club on Twitter.
So far he is was not following his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who tweets as @SarahTheDuchess.
The British monarchy has two official Twitter accounts, but Andrew is the first family member to tweet in a personal capacity, signing messages he has written AY.
Asked about abusive tweets Andrew had received, a palace spokesman said the duke is a champion of free speech.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/prince-andrew-becomes-first-uk-royal-twitter-160444973.html
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Take a peek at your email metadata ... before the feds do
Technology 
2 hours ago
Immersion
This demo shows the email connections that an imaginary person, Lex Luthor, has made over six years
If this NSA data-snooping thing has you wondering about how much can be learned from your email metadata, there's an easy ? and safe ? way to find out.
A new public Web application from the MIT Media Lab picks up metadata from your Gmail emails and displays an easily readable map of your digital connections, just enter your Gmail details.
I sent my own first Gmail email a few weeks into my first semester at college. Since then, I've made and lost friends, foes and beaus ? and no one knows this better than my inbox.
Last Friday I handed over the contents of my personal account, tens of thousands of emails, to the trio running Immersion at the MIT Media Lab. In under 10 minutes my email history was digested and sent back to me as a web of wobbling dots of assorted colors and shapes that instantly showed me who was important to me and my mailbox.
Anyone I'd written to more three times appeared as a single dot, connected to anyone else I'd cc'd in a conversation. The better I'd kept in touch with someone, the larger they appeared on my page.
The color-coded communities were easily spotted: friends at work, college buddies, high school mates. I dragged the "Time" slider around to see how the bubbles swelled and shrank over the years.
"Email is always presented to users in the same way regardless of what service (you're) using," Deepak Jagdish, one of the co-creators of the Immersion told NBC News. "There's so much more of the data that they don't get to see about their email."
Immersion went live to the public on June 30, and has had more than 70,000 visitors so far, said Jagdish, who, along with fellow grad student Daniel Smilkov at Cesar Hidalgo's Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab, built the analytical tool. Once you've securely entered your Gmail details and had a look at your contact map, Immersion gives you the option of deleting your information and logging out, or letting Immersion keep your compressed email metadata and user profile. That data is not shared outside the research group.
Rather than looking at the body of the email or the subject line, the tool maps the senders and recipients of the email, and the time that it was sent. You've probably heard details like those referred to frequently in recent weeks regarding the NSA's controversial data-gathering approach.
Jagdish describes metadata as "bits of information that you don't pay attention to." He believes Immersion can reveal aspects of your behavior and relationships that you may not have noticed before.
For example, Jagish explains, one early tester of the tool isolated a previously unknown characteristic of his relationship with his girlfriend. When this tester looked at a map of his contacts, Jagdish said, he was surprised to find how often his girlfriend involved his mother in their conversations.
Jagdish's own response invoked nostalgia, he said. "It showed me that regardless of the ups and downs I've gone through in my life there's been this core group of people that have been with me no matter what."
The tool could be used for more than a walk down memory lane. The team has been asked about developing the tool for corporate use, Jagdish said. One company expressed interest in using Immersion to map the connections of employees who are leaving, so that their replacements can identify their most important connections.
The Immersion project grew out of an idea Cesar Hidalgo, leader of the Macro Connections group at the Media Lab, had developed for a more "visual" inbox that broke away from the time-organized layout of most email services like Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. In a blog post published Sunday, Hidalgo wrote that Immersion helped him see how frequently he'd been traveling over the last year. He says he is resolved now to spend more time on campus so he can better connect with his students.
The Macro Connections group is no stranger to metadata. Earlier this year, a separate group working with Hidalgo showed how people could be identified from anonymized cell phone records using GPS data.
Nidhi Subbaraman writes about technology and science. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Google+.
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Solar Impulse plane ends American odyssey with fears, tears and cheers
Cosmic Log 
11 hours ago
Solar Impulse
Solar Impulse chairman Bertrand Piccard flashes a thumbs-up sign as he greets pilot Andre Borschberg after the plane's landing Saturday night at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The two men are wearing yellow scarves to pay tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince."
The Swiss-built Solar Impulse airplane ended its two-month-long, solar-powered trip across America with a nail-biter of a flight from Washington to New York on Saturday.
"Maybe if I didn't have 10 cameras pointed at me, I would cry," Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, one of the pilots for the coast-to-coast journey, said just before the 11:09 p.m. ET landing at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The extra drama came from the discovery in the trip's final hours that the ultra-light airplane had suffered an 8-foot-long (2.5-meter-long) tear in the fabric on the lower side of the left wing. Andre Borschberg, who was filling the pilot's seat for the Washington-to-New York segment of the "Across America" journey, noticed a balance issue with the wings on Saturday afternoon ? and pictures taken by a helicopter flying nearby confirmed the damage.
Neither Borschberg nor the plane were thought to be in danger; nevertheless, the Solar Impulse team did everything it could to reduce the risk. That meant considering all the options for ending the flight, including the possibility of bailing out over the Atlantic. It meant passing up a Statue of Liberty photo op and working out a deal with air traffic controllers to land the plane three hours earlier than originally planned. And it meant changing the landing procedure.
Borschberg brought the airplane in low and slow, without air braking, to reduce the stress on the wing. The spindly craft seemed to float to a stop on the runway ? prompting cheers at JFK as well as at Solar Impulse's mission control center in Switzerland. Moments later, a stepladder was set up so that Piccard could greet Borschberg in the cockpit. And despite what he said, Piccard could be seen wiping at his eyes after the two men hugged.
"It was supposed to be the shortest and easiest leg," Piccard said later. "It was the most difficult one."
Early takeoff, late landing
The "Across America" odyssey began on May 3 with a flight from Moffett Field, near San Francisco, to Phoenix, and continued with hops to Dallas-Fort Worth, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Washington. Piccard and Borschberg, co-founders of the Solar Impulse venture, traded turns piloting the single-seat plane. For most of those flights, the plane had to leave early and wait until late to land, so as to reduce the potential for disrupting commercial air traffic.
Solar Impulse
A tear in the fabric on the underside of the Solar Impulse airplane's wing forced a slightly early end to the final flight of its two-month-long "Across America" odyssey.
Saturday's trip began with a 4:46 a.m. ET takeoff from Washington's Dulles International Airport. The solar-powered plane's top speed is around 45 mph (72 kilometers per hour), but even at that speed, there were plenty of hours to spare for the 228-mile (336-kilometer) trip.
While Borschberg flew in circles off the coast of New Jersey, waiting for clearance to land, he participated in media interviews and a video hangout with such luminaries as James Cameron, the famed film director and ocean explorer; and Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Before the wing's damage came to light, Borschberg also had time to reflect on the meaning of Solar Impulse's odyssey: Swiss corporate backers have put up ?90 million ($115 million) over the past decade for the project, which is aimed at demonstrating technologies ranging from solar-power generation and storage to ultra-light composite materials.
Ultra-light, and powered by light
Solar Impulse weighs as much as an automobile, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Scooter-type electric motors drive the single-seat plane's propellers. All of the power comes from almost 12,000 solar cells installed on its wings and horizontal stabilizer. Excess electricity is stored in 800 pounds' (363 kilograms') worth of batteries, so the plane can theoretically fly day and night.
"We have an airplane which has almost unlimited endurance," Borschberg told NBC News. "This airplane could have flown directly from California to New York, so it?s fully sustainable in terms of energy. The limiting factor is the pilot."
Piccard is already in the record books for the first-ever nonstop balloon flight around the world in 1999 (which he flew along with Brian Jones). He and Borschberg have been flying the Solar Impulse prototype in Europe and Africa over the past couple of years, but with the end of the "Across America" trip, this particular prototype will be retired. A more advanced solar-powered plane is being built for an even more ambitious series of flights around the world in 2015.
Clean tech on the ground
Piccard has said that solar-powered planes could conceivably go commercial within five years or so, but Borschberg emphasized the potential applications for clean-energy technologies on the ground.
"All the partners who are involved with this project developed technologies not for the aviation world, but for their own customers," Borschberg told NBC News. "The customers are maybe homebuilding, maybe the automobile industry, maybe appliances. That?s what they are looking for, and that?s what?s slowly taking place. So if part of the legacy could be to show a way how to increase the efficiency of what we do and reduce the energy consumption but keeping the same quality of life, that would be a wonderful achievement for the project."
Cameron, who is as proud of his ocean adventures as he is of his blockbuster films "Titanic" and "Avatar," paid tribute to Borschberg and Piccard during Saturday's Google+ Hangout.
"What Solar Impulse stands for is renewable energy ? not just electric aircraft, but use of solar power in general, and this is something that?s going to be fundamental and critical to the survival of the human race," Cameron said. "You've got people that are standing for something, committing themselves, putting their personal asses on the line to make a point for the betterment of human civilization, and I greatly applaud that."
The consciousness-raising is due to continue after Saturday night's landing: Borschberg and Piccard will participate in a NASDAQ opening-bell ceremony and are to meet with U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon on Tuesday.
More about the Solar Impulse odyssey:
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the NBC News Science Facebook page, following@b0yle on Twitter and adding +Alan Boyle to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Dos minutos de nosalgia gamer y grandes recuerdos
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Los graficos no hacen los videojuegos, antes era la originalidad y diversi?n lo que los marcaba.
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#3 por Ziggs6 jul 2013, 22:47
Joder que recuerdos con Spyro, Crash y Sir Daniel Fortesque (Medievil)
6 jul 2013, 22:49
La intro de PS casi me hace llorar, qu? recuerdos.
Que el logo de SONY al encender la Play durara tanto rato como en este v?deo, era mala se?al... ese juego no lo le?a muy bien.
Se echa en falta el Metal Gear Solid.
Source: http://www.notengotele.com/clasicos/dos-minutos-de-nosalgia-gamer-y-grandes-recuerdos
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