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Thai police summon Facebook users over postings

BANGKOK -- Police in Thailand have accused four individuals, including a journalist, of causing panic via social media as the Thai capital prepares for possible political protests this week.

Technology Crime Suppression division chief Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Paoin said Monday that the four posted Facebook entries with false information that could lead to unrest in the country. If found guilty, they could face up to five years in prison and a fine worth 100,000 baht ($3,200).

Among those summoned are the political editor of public television channel TPBS and a local pro-government protest leader.

The postings mentioned a possibility of a military coup and urged the public to hoard food and water.

Anti-government rallies have started in Bangkok as lawmakers are scheduled to deliberate a controversial bill on Wednesday.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/05/3543530/thai-police-summon-facebook-users.html

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15 reasons why you're a feminist | Western Women Suck

If you?re reading this, and you?re a Man, and you are from the ?Western World, well, chances are ? you?re a feminist.

No, really. I was (am) a feminist. As much as I hate to admit it, my Russian Woman shows me up every day. And then I cringe in disgust as I realize that my entire life I?ve been endoctrinated as a feminist.

What exactly is a feminist?

Alana always asks me, ?How do you describe feminism?? and ?What is it exactly?? I decided to do a Google search and I came across this website that had 15 examples of how you may be a feminist and not even know it. The article is designed to show people, who have a negative view of feminism that they are actually feminists themselves.

Sadly, the article is dead on. I took the test and I had Alana take it as well and she beat me hands down. Yes, you read that correctly, my Russian Woman is less feminist than I am.

Down in the comments section where I found this test, one lady (Marielle Mondon) very succinctly explained what feminism is:

She says:

?Bottom line: if you support equality between men and women, you are a feminist.?

Recognize, she didn?t say ?If you support equal?rights?between Men and women, she said?equality.?This means, in her opinion, and in the opinion of all feminists,?MEN AND WOMEN ARE THE SAME.?And this is where feminism is wholly wrong ? men and women are quite different. By assuming Men and women to be the same, you do a disservice to both. And in time, it degrades the fabric of our society. Look around you ? divorce rate through the roof, the disintegration of the nuclear family, children raised by the state? I could go on and on.

Another woman writes that all ?Do you think you are a feminist? questionnaires should have only these questions:

Choose one.
A) I think of women as inferior to men.
B) I am a feminist.

I suggest that it should read:

Choose one.
A) I think of women as different than men.
B) I am a feminist.

I?ll post the questions here and I recommend that you take the test yourself and then keep your score before scrolling down to read Alana?s answers. You may be shocked to find that Eastern Women are less feminist than you are.

Here is the article and the ?Am I a feminist? test in its entirety (bold & italicized):

So, you?ve been wondering whether you should be claiming the F-word. Feminists are often stereotyped as hairy-pitted activists who hate men, love women too much, are physically incapable of humor and probably don?t wear bras. Katy Perry recently accepted the Billboard Woman of the Year award by announcing to the world, ?I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.?

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As Katy Perry demonstrates, feminism is often misunderstood. In fact, being a feminist simply means you are an advocate of the rights and equality of women. You don?t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

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Still not convinced? Well, here are 15 signs you might be a feminist.

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1) You are a supporter of rights and equality for men and women.

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2) You took a women?s studies course and it motivated you to make a difference.

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3) You thought this year?s Victoria?s Secret Fashion Show once again lacked diversity.

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4) You pay special attention to how gender roles are portrayed in the media.?

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5) You prefer to be recognized for your talents and not your looks. ?

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6) You are highly offended when you are given specific tasks based on your gender.

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7) You don?t see anything wrong with women who run their own households.

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8) You often wonder why men are still being paid more than women in the workforce.

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9) You are interested in advocacy and have strong opinions about issues that affect everyone.

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10) You?ve thought about taking self-defense classes in order to protect yourself.

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11) You believe patriarchy is an unjust system that is oppressive to women.

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12) The idea of getting married and having children in your 20s is not desirable.

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13) You enjoy movies with a strong female lead. For example, you prefer The Hunger Games over Twilight.

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14) During this year?s election, you were able to determine which politicians had no interest in protecting women?s reproductive rights.?

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15) Unlike Katy Perry, you wouldn?t be afraid to call yourself a feminist.?

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No matter who you are, if you believe in the strength of a woman, you?re soaking in feminism. You can call yourself whatever you want, but consider this: Any word that is feared has power. When a woman gives up her power, you have to question if she truly knows her worth.

Really, here is the difference between feminists and us traditional men: feminists believe that Men and women must compete. Read the last sentence, ?When a woman gives up her power?? The feminist assumes that a woman must compete ? why can?t a woman compliment a Man and he compliments her? Alana is always asking me, ?Why do American women want to compete with Men? It makes no sense to me.

Ok, have you written down your score? If you scored 0 ?yes? answers then you are not a feminist ? at all. If you scored 12/15 ?yes? answers, then I suggest you grow a pair and get over to Ukraine immediately.

Here are Alana?s answers. I wrote them into my iPhone between laughs. Seriously, I was laughing so hard as she gave me her answers; I haven?t laughed so hard in months. Her answers were MUCH MORE non-feminist than my answers and it really makes me re-think how I view the relationship between Men and women.

1) You are a supporter of rights and equality for men and women.

Alana: No

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2) You took a women?s studies course and it motivated you to make a difference.

Alana: Seriously?

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3) You thought this year?s Victoria?s Secret Fashion Show once again lacked diversity. Alana: They are selling underwear, my friends from Japan buy underwear that European women wear, not Japanese women. It is a commercial project, they try to sell underwear, it should be no surprise that they select the women that sell the most product.?

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4) You pay special attention to how gender roles are portrayed in the media.

Alan: This is ridiculous? Are you kidding?

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5) You prefer to be recognized for your talents and not your looks.

Alana: Why, I?m a woman ? I know I?m smart, for what reason I will show everyone? I can show my legs, what is the problem?

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6) You are highly offended when you are given specific tasks based on your gender.

Alan: What does this mean? I don?t understand.

Scott: It means, you get mad when you are expected to do Woman duties like cooking and cleaning while men do traditional male duties like cutting the grass.

Alana: Cutting trees is harder than washing the dishes, what is the problem?

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7) You don?t see anything wrong with women who run their own households.

Alana: (Sarcastic look) ?I think these women are alone.?

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8) You often wonder why men are still being paid more than women in the workforce.

Alana: No, this is the main role of men, to pay women?s bills. Dear, it would be strange if I paid your bills.

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9) You are interested in advocacy and have strong opinions about issues that affect everyone.

Alana: I believe that your main goal in life is to look after your husband, secondly, to look after your children, third, to care for your parents and then to worry about global issues. What?s the point to care about global warning if you don?t have a husband?

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10) You?ve thought about taking self-defense classes in order to protect yourself.

Alana: For what point? Physically I am not so strong ? I should use my logic & intelligence to avoid situations.

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11) You believe patriarchy is an unjust system that is oppressive to women.

Alana: No, if every country believed in this system, we would have such a strong social system ? it is the only system in which you can avoid anarchy

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12) The idea of getting married and having children in your 20s is not desirable.

Alana: Technically no, because most women are silly. ?Getting married before 30 is OK and getting married after 30 is OK. But getting a sperm donor because you waited until 40 and have no man is stupid & selfish. These women don?t want a child, they want a toy; it is very selfish.

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13) You enjoy movies with a strong female lead. For example, you prefer The Hunger Games over Twilight.

Alana: Seriously? Who watched that movie?

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14) During this year?s election, you were able to determine which politicians had no interest in protecting women?s reproductive rights.?

Alana: I believe that women?s reproductive rights is not Man?s business.

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15) Unlike Katy Perry, you wouldn?t be afraid to call yourself a feminist.?

Alana: I can?t? believe that women believe in this, for me its strange

Well, there it is, it seems that my Russian Woman is only 1/15th feminist (she answered ?yes? to question #14). How about you? How did you score? I?d love to hear some feedback in the comments on how you fared in this feminist test. I?ll share how I answered later in a follow up comment.

If you answered ?yes? to more questions than ?no,? then I suggest that you re-examine your own views on Male/Female relationships.

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University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free

Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-profit academic publishing industry, the University of California Senate approved open access standards for research on all 10 campuses.

The policy is major win for those who want to see academic research made public, rather than behind the pricy paywalls of big publishers. Last year, Harvard Library penned a memo urging the university?s 2,100 faculty to boycott for-profit academic research databases and instead submit articles to lower-cost open access journals.

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Supreme Court Orders the Release of Thousands of California Inmates

August 2, 2013 Updated Aug 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM PDT

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to let California delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding.

In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates ? nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners ? by the end of the year to improve to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.

Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, strongly dissented with the high court's 6-3 one-sentence order Friday, predicting a wave of murders and rapes in the streets of California. Justice Samuel Alito also disagreed but didn't join Scalia's dissent.

Brown also blasted the decision Friday, saying, "California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes, about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana."

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Last April, near the end
of the year I spent observing their classroom for a book I'm writing
about school choice in Washington, D.C., I watched the third graders of
Bancroft Elementary School run off their lunch on the playground before a
final afternoon of preparation for the city's high-stakes standardized
exam, the DC-CAS.

Their teacher, Rebecca Lebowitz, sat next to me. I asked her what it felt like to teach in a system that placed such high stakes on a single test.

"I think the emphasis we place on this test is out of proportion," she said as her students began lining up to head back inside. "But I also think as long as the teachers aren't overly nervous, the kids won't be, either. We're playing the game so they can be players in the game."

I was reminded of Ms. Lebowitz's observations yesterday, when the District of Columbia's parallel school systems - its centralized district of neighborhood schools, and its decentralized network of charter schools - issued parallel press releases in which each side touted its own respective rise in DC-CAS scores.

These pronouncements of victory beg an essential question, and it's one I think we have yet to sufficiently answer: When it comes to evaluating the overall health of a school - whether you're a prospective parent or a state agency - which data is most relevant, and why?

Since the start of the century, federal policy in America has provided a clear answer: what matters most are a child's scores on standardized exams in reading and math. Since then, schools and states have adjusted their schedules and priorities accordingly, resulting in a modern landscape of public education in which many children experience daily deep dives into the intricacies of numbers and letters - and barely skim the surface of everything else.

The ongoing willingness of policymakers - and, by extension, the general public - to judge schools based on this single metric of success is one of the more surreal features of modern American school reform. By comparison, much of the private sector has moved away from using net income as a company's sole benchmark, and many businesses have adopted a "balanced scorecard" approach that features both financial and non-financial metrics, and both inputs and outcomes. In doing so, these businesses have rightly heeded the 1976 warnings of social psychologist Donald Campbell, who said:

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

This insight, which has come to be known as "Campbell's Law," does not mean measurement has no place in organizational improvement. It does mean, however, that if policymakers are serious about evaluating whether or not schools are successful, they need to go a lot deeper than reading and math scores. As the Fordham Institute's Kathleen Porter-Magee puts it, "If we value learning in other areas, we need to measure it. And that doesn't mean simply adding testing hours but rather being more deliberate and creative about the assessments we administer and the content they measure."

What, then, should we measure, and how? And what role should standardized tests continue to have in our efforts to transform American public education?

On the second question, I defer to Harvard's Daniel Koretz. For years, Koretz has been researching the effects of high-stakes testing programs on how teachers teach - and students learn. In 2008, he published the book Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, to share his insights. "Careful testing can give us tremendously valuable information about student achievement that we would otherwise lack," he says. The question is how well we understand what standardized tests can, and cannot, tell us about American schools. "There is no optimal design," he asserts. "Rather, designing a testing program is an exercise in trade-offs and compromise - and a judgment about which compromise is best.

"Critics who ignore the impact of social factors on test scores miss the point," Koretz argues. "The reason to acknowledge their influence is not to let anyone off the hook but to get the right answer.

Certainly, low scores are a sign that something is amiss . . .. But the low scores themselves don't tell why achievement is low and are usually insufficient to tell us where instruction is good or bad, just as a fever by itself is insufficient to reveal what illness a child has. Disappointing scores can mask good instruction, and high scores can hide problems that need to be addressed."

More than sixty years ago - 1951, to be precise - the University of Iowa's E.F. Lindquist argued for similar caution. Like Koretz, Lindquist was a researcher on core issues of educational assessment; unlike Koretz, he was arguably the person most responsible for fostering the development and use of standardized tests in the United States, having helped design not just several of Iowa's state assessments, but also the ACT, GED, and National Merit Scholarship test. He and his colleagues even invented the first optical scanner for scoring tests - an innovation with Cotton Gin-like implications for the exponential spread of standardized testing in the decades that followed.

Lindquist was, in other words, about as far from "anti-testing" as you could be. Yet he also understood a fundamental principle about assessment, and about teaching and learning itself. "The only perfectly valid measure of the attainment of an educational objective," he wrote, "would be one based on direct observation of the natural behavior of individuals."

Lindquist's point relates back to the first question - what else should we measure, and how? And on that topic I defer to veteran educator Ron Berger, who says "to build a new culture, a new ethic, you need a focal point - a vision - to guide the direction for reform. The particular spark I try to share as a catalyst is a passion for beautiful student work and developing conditions that can make this work possible.

"I have a hard time thinking about a quick fix for education," Berger explains in his book An Ethic of Excellence, "because I don't think education is broken. Some schools are very good; some are not. Those that are good have an ethic, a culture, which supports and compels students to try and to succeed. Those schools that are not need a lot more than new tests and new mandates. They need to build a new culture and a new ethic."

To build a new ethic at a school - whether it's a new charter school or an aging neighborhood school - one must begin somewhere. And Berger believes high-quality student work (as opposed to high-rising student scores) is the logical place to start. "Work of excellence is transformational," he writes. "Once a student sees that he or she is capable of excellence, that student is never quite the same. We can't first build the students' self-esteem and then focus on their work. It is through their own work that their self-esteem will grow. If schools assumed they were going to be assessed by the quality of student behavior and work evident in the hallways and classrooms - rather than on test scores - the enormous energy poured into test preparation would be directed instead toward improving student work, understanding, and behavior. And so instead of working to build clever test-takers, schools would feel compelled to spend time building thoughtful students and good citizens."

In sum, having a debate about whether data is good or bad misses the larger point; what matters is which data schools are using, and to what end. Even John Dewey, the founder of the Chicago Lab School and the man who is generally considered to be the father of progressive education, believed data was an essential tool adults should use to make informed decisions that would support the development of the children in their charge. But when Dewey spoke about "data," he understood it less as a proxy for a single skill, and more as a reflection of its original Latin meaning: "Something given."

So it's instructive that test scores have gone up in the District of Columbia - and it tells us little about the overall health of our city's schools. We talk about test scores because we're still not sure how to talk about - and measure - anything else. We pronounce victory because it's how we, as Rebecca Lebowitz put it, play the game of modern school reform. And until we develop the collective capacity Ron Berger speaks about - of elevating and evaluating high-quality, challenging, relevant, engaging, experiential student work - teachers like Rebecca Lebowitz will keep doubling down on reading and math, and the rest of us will keep wondering why the change we seek continues to elude our collective grasp.

Source: http://theprincipal.blogspot.com/2013/08/games-people-play-in-modern-school.html

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Moto X, a Retina iPad mini, and 'Avatar': 90 Seconds on The Verge

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George Zimmerman armed during recent Texas traffic stop

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DALLAS ? George Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, had a legal handgun in his truck's glove box when a Texas police officer pulled him over for speeding near Dallas last Sunday, authorities say.... ...

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Wisconsin Athletic Club Opens Facility with Froedtert Health

In late 2013, Wisconsin Athletic Club (WAC) will open a state-of-the-art fitness and sports medicine facility in Menomonee Falls, Wis., in partnership with Froedtert Health, a regional health care organization.

?When released from sports medicine programs, oftentimes people are referred to clubs,? commented Chez Misko, the COO of Wisconsin Athletic Club. ?It?s a good idea to partner with the health care community.?

WAC has worked in some capacity with Froedtert Health since April 1999. In the past, WAC has partnered with Froedtert to offer specialized programs, including a 12-week cancer rehabilitation program, pre-op preparation and post-op rehabilitation programs.

The new facility will be split between the Wisconsin Athletic Club, which will occupy a one-story, 47,500-square-foot portion, and Froedtert Health, which will lease the 42,500 square feet of remaining space that spans two stories.

WAC?s section of the facility will feature a functional training studio, three group exercise studios, state-of-the-art fitness areas and upscale locker rooms. The aquatics center will include two indoor pools, a whirlpool and an outdoor lap pool.

Froedtert Health?s section will be committed to a wide variety of sports medicine and orthopedic services.

Misko is excited about the new facility, which broke ground in February of 2013, and believes the partnership will better position WAC in the local community. ?We?re looking to really tie into the community and really work with them on what their challenges are,? he said. ?When people are hurt, they?ll go to Froedtert Health, and when they?re healthier, they can come to us.?

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By Rachel Zabonick

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RECREATION CALENDAR | The Sports Desk

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Aug. 3: Dahlgren Heritage 50K Rail Trail run, 6:30 a.m. in King George. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

Aug. 3?4: Couples championship golf tournament at Fawn Lake Country Club with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Formats: scramble, alternate shot, fourball, stroke play. Cost: $75 per couple. Appropriate golf fees apply. Entry deadline is Aug. 2. Information: 540/972-8658.entered 7/23/13

Aug. 16: Brooke Point boys basketball golf tournament, 2 p.m. at the Gauntlet. Cost: $75 per player. Register at golfgauntlet.com or contact Jimmy Spicer at 540-455-5425 or spicerje@staffordschools.net

Aug. 17?18, 24?25: Washington Invitational youth soccer tournaments, FASA Complex at Routes 2 and 17 in Spotsylvania. Girls tournament Aug. 17?18, boys Aug. 24?25. Information: fasasoccer.org.

Aug. 18: Hartwood 10-miler, 7:15 a.m. at Curtis Park in Stafford. Cost: $25 for FARC members, $35 for other ($40 after Aug. 3). Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

Aug. 24: Summer Time Slam adult softball tournament. Cost: $200 for guaranteed three games. Information: Robby at 540/903-3930.

Aug. 29: J. Brian?s SPCA benefit golf tournament, 1 p.m. at Fredericksburg Country Club. Cost: $100 per person, $400 per team. Proceeds benefit Fredericksburg SPCA. Information: Bob Hyland: (Rhyland2@verizon.net), Karen Hyland (khyland1014@gmail.com) or Jack Hyland (jack@jbrianstaproom.com).

Sept. 6: The Rev. Douglas T. Pinkard Scholarship Golf Tournament, 8 a.m. at Lee?s Hill Golf Club. Cost: $80 per person ($85 after Aug. 9). Proceeds go toward college scholarships for Spotsylvania County students. Info: Vanessa Childs at 410/549-7776 or e-mail vechilds1@verizon.net or Malesia Pinkard Washington at 710-9223 or e-mail malesiawashington@yahoo.com.tc 6/20/13

Sept. 14: Ladysmith Village 5K, 3 p.m. at Ladysmith Village in Ruther Glen. Cost: $25 for 5K, $10 for kids 1K (add $5 after Aug. 23). Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

Sept. 15: Race for Grace 5K, 8:30 a.m. at Patriot Park in Spotsylvania. Cost: $25 ($30 after Aug. 31, $35 on race day). Other events: fireman chase, rookie run and XF 1-miler. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

Sept. 21: Baron ?Deuce? Braswell 5K run against teen violence, 8:30 a.m. at Courtland High School. Cost: $15 for students, $22 for adults. $10 for mile fun fun. Information: runfarc.com.

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Traffic backs up in Washington State after truck spills dead animal parts onto I-5

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Trooper Guy Gill, who took this picture and posted it to Twitter, says the truck driver stopped quickly to avoid slow-moving traffic in front of him as he was passing Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. ? The Washington State Patrol says a rendering truck that spilled dead animal parts across two lanes of northbound Interstate 5 created an 11-kilometre traffic backup Thursday evening.

Trooper Guy Gill says the truck driver stopped quickly to avoid slow-moving traffic in front of him as he was passing Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

What Gill delicately described as ?the cargo? spilled over the sides of the open container.

A front-end loader was brought in to clean up and the lanes reopened shortly before 9 p.m. Gill says the driver was cited for failure to secure his load.

In a photo post on Twitter, Gill said, ?I know this doesn?t look good but trust me, it smells even worse!?

The trooper says the same thing happened in the same area in late June when a rendering truck braked quickly and its load ?just sloshed over.?

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Gov. Bobby Jindal's top coastal official also raises questions about Halliburton plea deal in Gulf oil spill

Gov. Bobby Jindal's top coastal restoration official Thursday raised questions about the $200,000 fine proposed for oil-field giant Halliburton Energy Services, just hours after U.S. Sen. John McCain said the "paltry" fine wouldn't deter destruction of evidence, which is the offense Halliburton is expected to admit in court next month.

Garret Graves, chairman of Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, urged a federal judge to "take a hard look" at a plea deal between Halliburton and the Justice Department that would impose the $200,000 fine and three years of probation. Under the deal, Halliburton would plead guilty to a single misdemeanor count of computer fraud involving employees erasing results of computer model tests after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

"While it is clear that BP should be the primary focus of this trial, the fine here raises some questions," Graves said in an e-mail message referring to the Halliburton plea agreement.

McCain's criticism came in a letter Thursday asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to justify the proposed fine. The senator also asked Holder to explain whether Halliburton's plea deal would prevent prosecuting company officials, "including managers," for "ordering the destruction of key evidence."

"It is important for the American people to know how effectively the terms of such plea agreements hold accountable those who affirmatively attempted to undermine the investigation into this massive disaster," McCain wrote.

A Justice Department spokesperson assigned to the case wasn't immediately available to answer questions Thursday, the department said. Marc Mukasey, an attorney with the New York firm of Bracewell and Giuliany who is representing Halliburton, declined to comment.

Halliburton is scheduled to formally enter its guilty plea at a Sept. 19 court hearing in New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo will decide whether to approve the proposed punishment or to reject the plea deal.

McCain, the ranking Republican in the Senate's Permanent Committee on Investigations, said in his letter to Holder that he is concerned about the size of the fine. "I worry that such paltry fines fail to discourage defendants from destroying evidence," the senator wrote. "If the fines do not adequately deter companies, they may begin routinely destroying unfavorable evidence as an acceptable cost of doing business."

The Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and led to the massive oil spill that "devastated our treasured shores," McCain said.

Also last week, Halliburton announced a pledge to donate $55 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, which would not be contingent on whether Milazzo accepts the plea deal. Both Graves and McCain also raised questions about the announced donation.

Graves said previous plea agreements with BP and Transocean explicitly committed payments to the NFWF to benefit the Gulf of Mexico's natural resources. Halliburton's plea agreement does not address the $55 million donation.

"With BP and the other responsible parties' continuing to deny their liability here, restoration funds like these play a more important role in the Gulf. Others should not profit for our loss in the Gulf," Graves said in reference to the Halliburton donation.

McCain's letter asked Holder if the Justice Department leaned on Halliburton to make the donation, and if so, why the department thought a donation to the NFWF was the best avenue to help Gulf Coast areas hurt by the spill.

Halliburton was BP's cementing contractor on the Macondo well. But U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier last year ruled that BP's contract protected Halliburton and the energy service firm is exempt from paying most of the pollution claims resulting from the spill. Halliburton last year set aside $300 million as a loss contingency related to the civil trial.

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One in three U. S. youths report being victims of dating violence

[unable to retrieve full-text content]About one in three American youths age 14-20 say they?ve been of victims of dating violence and almost one in three acknowledge they?ve committed violence toward a date, according to new study.

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Today: Japan?s Minister for Internal Affairs & Communications to Arrive In Sri Lanka

Colombo, 28 July, (Asiantribune.com):

Japan?s Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Yoshitaka Shindo, will be arriving in Sri Lanka today - on Sunday 28th July 2013 as a follow-up to the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Tokyo in March and the visit of Deputy Prime Minister of Japan and Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Finance, Mr. Taro Aso in May this year.

During his visit Mr. Shindo will call on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss bilateral relations with a view to further strengthening the long-standing ties between the two countries.

He will also pay courtesy calls on his counterpart Keheliya Rambukwella, Minister of Mass Media and Information and Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development.

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Does anyone still use Twitter #Music? Why the Web and iOS app are quickly fading into obscurity

It?s been a little over three months since Twitter #Music was launched on the Web and iOS. The release signalled Twitter?s desire to broaden its influence on the Web. To be more. To leverage the ever-increasing number of tweets to disrupt the status-quo.

Yet for all its hype, Twitter #Music has been a disappointment. The mobile app sits patiently in a folder on my iPhone, gathering virtual dust and a sense of increasing irrelevancy. I have no desire to open it. Perhaps that?ll change with a future update, but for now it remains rather useless.

It?s not just me either. I?ve asked friends and family what their go-to app is for listening to music on the move. Spotify, Rdio and the default iOS Music app rank high. Twitter #Music does not.

Admittedly, that?s a small group of people to poll. But a quick inspection of the top free music apps in the App Store tells a similar story. Alongside the apps I just mentioned are Deezer, Soundcloud and Shazam, as well as a bunch of emerging services such as Bloom.fm filling out the top 20.

Twitter #Music isn?t featured. Nor is it in the top 50. Top 100? Nope. Top 200? Nope. At the time of writing, the app sits ranked 285. Ouch.

So why is no-one using it?

The purpose of the Twitter #Music app is three-fold; help listeners discover new music; act as an overlay for playing said music; incentivize the music industry ? particularly artists and labels ? to continue engaging with their fans on Twitter.

To help users find a bunch of brilliant new records, the app offers five charts with rather ambiguous names such as ?Emerging?, ?Unearthed? and ?Hunted?. They all sound inviting, but I couldn?t tell you what the difference is between any of the three.

Tapping one reveals a very compact grid filled with tiny square display pictures. Each of them represents an artist and they?re ranked in accordance with their popularity. The interface is pretty terrible though and at times completely bewildering. The various images are the size of my fingernail and reveal next to nothing about the artist or the sort of music they play. Twitter has also chosen to show their Twitter handle by default ? rather than the artist?s name ? which only adds to the confusion.

Selecting a specific artist then reveals a jarring profile page that tries to blend both their Twitter account and more of these tiny cuboid images. It?s the same story in the app?s ?Suggested? and ?#NowPlaying? sections. Everything feels unrefined and lacks consistent aesthetics.

Too many alternatives that are just better

Discovering new music should be a visually stunning and frictionless experience. Soundwave, Bloom.fm and even the ?Discover? tab in Spotify do a much better job of this than Twitter #Music by keeping their respective interfaces refreshingly simple and uncluttered. Twitter?s mobile app just feels messy in comparison.

Twitter #Music would also be a novel proposition if it offered its own digital storefront or an on-demand streaming service. But it doesn?t do that either. Tracks are either 30-second previews from iTunes with direct store links ? another bid to get music labels and artists on side ? or only supported with an active Spotify or Rdio subscription.

It begs the question though: why would a Spotify or Rdio subscriber leave their dedicated mobile app for this? There?s no way to create custom playlists, queue tracks or access premium features offered by these more robust and expansive services. The idea, presumably, is to reinforce Twitter #Music?s discovery options by giving users the ability to listen to new tracks in their entirety.

Twitter #Music lacks a defining feature or hook to keep users engaged. It?s an odd blend of ideas that never seem to mesh or offer a significant value proposition to the listener. There?s some potential here though and plenty of time for Twitter to turn it around ? but no wonder it?s performing so poorly in the App Store at the moment.

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Microbial who-done-it for biofuels

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have developed a promising technique for identifying microbial enzymes that can effectively deconstruct biomass into fuel sugars under refinery processing conditions.

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Big changes to Florida Blue to be discussed in Miami

Insurance regulators will discuss a major change proposed in how Florida Blue is organized on Thursday at a hearing in Miami.

As previously reported by the Jacksonville Business Journal, the Jacksonville-based health insurer asked the Office of Insurance Regulation to become a policyholder-owned, nonprofit mutual insurance holding company. That would allow it to purchase other nonprofit organizations and insurers in Florida.

The hearing will start at 5:30 in room 1261 on the Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.

Florida Blue has stated that this change won?t impact its health provider network or the care it offers its members. It covers 1.3 million lives in the state that are regulated by OIR.

Click here for more information on the hearing.

Brian Bandell covers banking, finance, health care and education. Get the latest banking industry news here.

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Motorola Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx for Verizon hands-on (video)

Like clockwork, Motorola and Verizon have refreshed their joint Droid lineup, and we're here to check out all three devices. The two more premium handsets, the Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx, are the most promising of the bunch for advanced users, replacing last year's Droid RAZR HD and RAZR Maxx HD and offering the requisite 4G LTE connectivity. Both of those smartphones were at the top of their game in 2012, and that trend appears to continue here -- the Ultra and Maxx are very similar, with the latter boosting the battery capacity, enabling power users to make it through a full day.

Like its predecessors, the Ultra and Droid Maxx (pictured above) sport Kevlar bodies, both of which look sleek and feel sturdy. The Ultra we saw has a glossy red finish, which Motorola helpfully suggested is "a lot like a sports car." The Maxx, on the other hand, has a soft-touch black finish. At any rate, we prefer the Maxx's look; as we've said about Samsung's Galaxy lineup, a glossy, plasticky finish tends to look cheaper. Both phones feature a 10-megapixel camera with a f/2.4 lens; we'll have to wait for our review units to test the shooter's mettle.

What the Ultra's design does have going for it, though, is an extra-thin profile. At 7.18mm, it's already being touted as the "thinnest 4G LTE smartphone available." At 4.94 ounces, it feels very light, and though it sports the Droid family's usual boxy form factor, the edges are gently curved to make for a nice fit in the hand. It packs a 5-inch, 720p Super AMOLED display, which, while not quite as pixel-dense as the Mini's 4.3-inch TFT panel, offers crisp images, vibrant colors and wider-than-average viewing angles. The Ultra is priced at $199, 100 bucks higher than the Mini and 100 lower than the Maxx.

Gallery: Motorola Droid Ultra hands-on

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FBI: Woman kidnapped from San Diego, held as sex slave

By Megan Tevrizian and Christina London, NBCSanDiego.com

A 19-year-old man is accused of kidnapping a woman in San Diego, taking her across the country and keeping her as a sex slave.

Brandon Todd is being held on a federal kidnapping charge, after he was taken into police custody July 10.

His capture came after his alleged victim escaped by faking an asthma attack in May and calling police, according to an FBI affidavit.

The ordeal started in April at the Greyhound bus terminal downtown, according to the FBI. The criminal complaint said a 26-year-old woman, who was traveling from San Diego to Florida, met Todd and was coerced into sharing a hotel room with him.

In an affidavit, an FBI agent said Todd threatened to harm the woman and her family if she didn?t comply. He allegedly showed her weapons, told her he had gang connections and destroyed her phone so she couldn?t be tracked.

After two days in the hotel, Todd took the woman cross-country to Naples, N.Y., according to investigators.

According to the FBI, Todd kept her against her will at his grandparents? house, where he repeatedly raped her.

The victim said she was held captive for more than two weeks.

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Some SIM cards can be hacked 'in about two minutes' with a pair of text messages

Every GSM phone needs a SIM card, and you'd think such a ubiquitous standard would be immune to any hijack attempts. Evidently not, as Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs -- who found a hole in GSM call encryption several years ago -- has uncovered a flaw that allows some SIM cards to be hacked with only a couple of text messages. By cloaking an SMS so it appears to have come from a carrier, Nohl said that in around a quarter of cases, he receives an error message back containing the necessary info to work out the SIM's digital key. With that knowledge, another text can be sent that opens it up so one can listen in on calls, send messages, make mobile purchases and steal all manner of data.

Apparently, this can all be done "in about two minutes, using a simple personal computer," but only affects SIMs running the older data encryption standard (DES). Cards with the newer Triple DES aren't affected; also, the other three quarters of SIMs with DES Nohl probed recognized his initial message as a fraud. There's no firm figure on how many SIMs are at risk, but Nohl estimates the number at up to 750 million. The GSM Association has been given some details of the exploit, which have been forwarded to carriers and SIM manufacturers that use DES. Nohl plans to spill the beans at the upcoming Black Hat meeting. If you're listening, fine folks at the NSA, tickets are still available.

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DataQuick: Q2 California Foreclosure Starts up from Q1, Down 52.9% from Q2 2012

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From DataQuick: California Foreclosure Starts Up From First Quarter While up from the first quarter, the number of California homeowners entering the foreclosure process was at its second-lowest level in seven years last quarter, largely the result of a steep rise in home values, a real estate information service reported. Lenders filed 25,747 Notices of Default (NoDs) during the April-to-June period. That was up 38.7 percent from 18,568 for the previous quarter, and down 52.9 percent from 54,615 for second-quarter 2012, according to San Diego-based DataQuick. The 18,568 NoDs filed in the first quarter of this year marked the lowest quarterly total since fourth-quarter 2005, when 15,337 NoDs were recorded. In addition to less distress in the housing market pipeline, this year's remarkably low first-quarter number mainly reflected policy and regulatory changes. NoD filings plummeted early this year as a package of new state foreclosure laws - the "Homeowner Bill of Rights" - took effect on January 1. In California and other states in recent years foreclosure activity has sometimes plunged temporarily after a new law kicks in and the industry takes time to adjust. Setting aside this year's first quarter, last quarter's NoD tally was the lowest since second-quarter 2006, when 20,909 NoDs were recorded. California NoDs peaked in first-quarter 2009 at 135,431. DataQuick's NoD statistics go back to 1992. "At this point in the cycle, it ...

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Surgeon recommends off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting be abandoned

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Cardiothoracic surgeons have found that off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery has failed to show any significant improvement in short-term morbidity or mortality as compared to the traditional on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

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Lawmakers In Small Business Caucus Plan Statewide Meetings ...

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State Sen. Carlin Yoder owns the Danceworks Academy in Middlebury. He's the co-chair of a new caucus to represent small business interests.

Lawmakers in the Indiana General Assembly have formed a small business caucus they say will help connect with the state?s small business owners on a more personal level.

State Senator Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, is the owner of a small business, the Danceworks Academy, in Middlebury. He is also the co-chair of the newly-formed Small Business Caucus in the General Assembly. He says he helped start the caucus because he thought lawmakers take for granted that small businesses would be well-represented in the Statehouse, considering many legislators are small business owners themselves.

?But I think sometimes they don?t have the power of the Statehouse lobbyists or other interests that can influence legislation,? Yoder says. ?I think this legitimizes some of their issues that they may not have been able to approach beforehand.?

Anderson Democratic Representative Terri Austin, another co-chair, says the caucus will hold more than a dozen meetings in communities around the state in the coming weeks to reach out to small business owners.

?To send a message that they matter, that we?re interested in what they have to say and we want to learn what we can do collectively, as a body, to better support them,? Austin says. ?And the best way to do that was to go to their communities.?

Austin says one of the issues the caucus is already working on is potential changes to the unemployment tax.

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Company to inspect Texas coaster where woman fell

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ? A German roller coaster maker is sending officials to a North Texas amusement park to inspect a ride after a woman fell to her death.

Tobias Lindnar, a project manager for Gerstlauer Amusement Rides in Munsterhausen, Germany, told The Dallas Morning News that the company will investigate what led to Friday's fatal accident at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington.

Witnesses said the woman expressed concern about the Texas Giant roller coaster's safety bar not completely engaging as the ride was starting. The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.

"I'm sure there's no safety bar that is broken," Lindnar told the newspaper by phone Saturday night from Germany.

Lindnar said Gerstlauer has never had problems with car safety bars on any of the roughly 50 roller coasters it's built around the world over the past 30 years.

"We will be on site and we will see what has happened," he said.

Park spokeswoman Sharon Parker confirmed in a statement Saturday that the victim died while riding the 14-story Texas Giant, but wouldn't give specifics about what happened. Arlington Police Sgt. Christopher Cook told The Associated Press on Saturday that police believe the woman fell from the ride and that there appeared to have been no foul play.

Arlington police have referred information about the woman's identity to the medical examiner's office in Tarrant County, which hadn't disclosed her name as of Sunday night and didn't respond to phone messages left by the AP.

Lindnar wouldn't address the hydraulic bar's operation or whether park employees should be able to determine if a person's body is too close to the front of the train car to prevent the bar from being effective.

"At this time I don't want to speak about the technicals," he said. "It's not so easy. It's some special equipment."

But he said once the ride began, there was no chance of opening the safety bar.

"We are committed to determining the cause of this tragic accident and will utilize every resource throughout this process," Parker said in her statement. "It would be a disservice to the family to speculate regarding what transpired."

Police, fire and emergency medical services responded to the park around 6:45 p.m. Friday after calls about a woman who fell from a car while riding a roller coaster. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Texas Department of Insurance spokesman Jerry Hagins told the AP on Sunday that Six Flags was in compliance with state regulations requiring amusement ride operators to have $1 million liability insurance on each ride and provide proof of an annual safety inspection by a certified engineer.

Six Flags received a state-issued sticker, like an auto inspection sticker, for the Texas Giant in February. Hagins said the ride now will remain closed until it's inspected again and certified to be safe.

"It's the ride owner's responsibility to keep it closed, to fix it, then prove to us that it's safe to start back up again," he said. "If for some reason they can't figure it out, no safety inspector is going to sign off on it."

Because no foul play is suspected, police are not involved in the investigation, officials said.

The ride first opened in 1990 as an all-wooden coaster and underwent a $10 million renovation to install steel-hybrid rails and reopened in 2011. It can carry up to 24 people.

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AT&T announces new 300MB and 2GB Mobile Share data tiers

New data plan options go live online July 26, in-store starting today

In an attempt to get more people moved over to its "Mobile Share" data plans, AT&T is filling out the bottom end of its offerings with two new data tiers. Slotting in at $20 and $50 per month, new 300MB and 2GB tiers fit in along the previous 1GB and 4GB options to give customers more choices when selecting data plans.

These plans are directed at accounts with smart phones -- unlike the data-only plans -- and include unlimited talk and text, but of course require an additional fee per device to connect to the account. The fee starts now at $50 per smart phone added when at the 300MB data tier, and goes down in $5 increments until you hit $30 per smart phone at 10GB and above.

It makes the 300MB shared tier a pretty poor value, and will likely only work to push customers up towards the 1GB and 2GB tier if there are any more than 2 phones on the account. The new tiers go live starting July 26th, but AT&T's website indicates that you can call or go into an AT&T retail store if you would like them a few days sooner.

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