Wednesday, July 31, 2013

BringMeThat.com now delivers in Pennsylvania Because You're Fat ...

BringMeThat.com is less than a year old and already it?s on solid food and it is offering delivery not just to the big mean cities, but the suburbs and the Alabama part of Pennsylvania as well:

While national companies such as Seamless and GrubHub offer this type of service in Philadelphia, they don?t offer it in places like State College and Erie. BringMeThat has said it wants to drive traffic to local restaurants in all size areas.

Co-founder Jason Liang was raised in a suburb of Cleveland, and like us in the northern sprawls that spilled out of Philadelphia, it was ?hard to find out who actually will deliver to your address. I felt this was a problem not only for me, but for anyone who doesn?t live in a big city? A quick search by city shows that of BringMeThat?s 1999 restaurants in PA, 344 and 175 are in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh respectively. That means that means 1480 of them are scattered about the state and while we admit that eclectic food delivery was a gold starred item on our, ?Why do you live in the city RGPCL?* and iron clad evidence in support of our ?indignant elitism of city living?s urbane comforts? argument, as a suburban kid at heart, we can?t help but have slightly warmer cockles at the very idea of this idea.

Go ahead and tool around the site. Our quick look has anecdotally revealed that it seems slightly more user friendly and perhaps even a bit less costly than Seemless?s page. And yeah maybe as a Philadelphian we will no longer have 24 hour samosa delivery to hold over your suburban head, but today, while walking our dog we rebuffed a sparsely tooth gentleman seeking coins of ours. As we parted he thanked me for ?nothing? and then insisted in a forceful tone that we ?Enjoy your next meal.? You can?t get affability like that in the burbs, now can you?

*Rory Gilmore Pro/Con List

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GOP: IRS targeted conservatives more than liberals

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status were more closely scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service than their progressive counterparts, according to a report Tuesday by House Republican investigators.

Tea party and other conservative groups were, on average, asked three times as many questions as progressive groups, said the report by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee. Conservative groups were less likely to be approved for tax-exempt status and more likely to have their applications delayed, the report said.

The IRS has been under siege since May when agency officials acknowledged that agents working in a Cincinnati office had improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. The IRS has since released documents suggesting that progressive groups may have been targeted, too.

Democrats in Congress have highlighted the possibility that liberal groups were also abused to counter charges by some Republicans that that the targeting was politically motivated.

Congressional investigations have so far shown that IRS supervisors in Washington ? including lawyers in the chief counsel's office ? oversaw the processing of tea party applications. But there has been no evidence that anyone outside the IRS directed the targeting or that agents were politically motivated.

"The facts are very clear ? not only were conservative groups targeted by the IRS, but they received much higher scrutiny than progressives," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

"However, this is just the tip of the iceberg," Camp said. "We have received less than 3 percent of the documents responsive to the investigation. So, Congress will continue to investigate how the targeting began, why it was allowed to continue for so long and what the IRS is doing to resolve this. Americans deserve to know the full truth."

The IRS said in a statement that 70 agency lawyers are working full-time to review documents for congressional inquiries.

"The IRS is aggressively responding to the numerous data requests we've received from Congress," IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge said. "We are doing everything we can to fully cooperate with the committees, and we strongly disagree with any suggestions to the contrary."

Ways and Means staff, which has the authority to review confidential taxpayer information, analyzed 111 applications that were given extra scrutiny by IRS agents ? 104 contained "conservative," ''tea party," ''patriot" or "9-12" in their names. Seven included the words "progressive" or "progress."

While processing the applications, IRS agents asked the progressive groups an average of 4.7 questions and eventually approved all seven applications ? though some groups complained about lengthy delays.

The conservative groups were asked an average of 14.9 questions and, as of May 31, only 48 applications had been approved. The other 56 applications were either pending or withdrawn. None was denied.

During the 2010 and 2012 elections, IRS agents singled out groups that had "tea party," ''patriots," and "9-12" in their applications, according to a May report by IRS inspector general J. Russell George. George's report determined that these groups received extra, sometimes burdensome scrutiny that delayed their applications for more than a year.

George's report did not mention progressive groups. He told a congressional committee this month that, despite a yearlong inquiry, the IRS just recently provided him documents suggesting that progressive groups may have been targeted.

The IRS was screening the groups' applications because agents were trying to determine their level of political activity. IRS regulations say tax-exempt social welfare organizations may engage in some political activity, but the activity may not be their primary mission. It is up to the IRS to make that determination.

"The inspector general just testified that his audit was based on an incomplete set of documents that was missing key information about progressive groups, and now House Republicans are making the same mistake," said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House oversight committee. "Rather than conducting a responsible investigation to determine all of the facts, Republicans are desperate to continue making completely unsubstantiated accusations of political motivation."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-irs-targeted-conservatives-more-liberals-200339385.html

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Military judge convicts Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks case, but acquits him on most serious charge

Trials & Litigation

Developing: A soldier in the U.S. Army accused of providing some 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, in what has been described as the largest such release ever, was convicted Tuesday by a military judge on most, but not all, charges.

Army Private First Class Manning, 25, was found guilty of espionage and theft but acquitted on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum life prison term, according to the Associated Press and the Guardian.

CNN and Reuters articles provide additional details about the case.

Col. Denise Lind presided over Manning's court-martial at Fort Meade, Md.

See also:

ABAJournal.com: "Prosecutor calls Manning a traitor at WikiLeaks case closing; defense says he was young and naive"

The New Yorker: "Waiting for the Manning Verdict"

New York Times (reg. req.): "Manning Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy'"

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Aquatic playground can turn water tanks into fish schools

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Raising fish in tanks that contain hiding places and other obstacles can make the fish both smarter and improve their chances of survival when they are released into the wild, according to scientists.

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Palestinian leader in Cairo for show of support

CAIRO (AP) ? Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has met with Egypt's interim president in Cairo in a show of support for the government that took over after Mohammed Morsi's ouster.

The visit on Monday comes as Egyptian authorities are investigating the role of Abbas' rival Palestinian group Hamas in a 2011 prison break that freed Morsi and several other members of the Muslim Brotherhood who had been detained under the previous regime.

Egyptian prosecutors are investigating Morsi on charges of murder and conspiring with Hamas in connection with the jailbreak, which left 14 inmates dead amid the chaos during the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Authorities have imposed the toughest border restrictions on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in years, sealing smuggling tunnels, blocking most passenger traffic since Morsi's July 3 fall.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-leader-cairo-show-support-153616020.html

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A guide to the 2013 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

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Secretary of State John Kerry (center-left) hosts a dinner with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (right 2nd from end) and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat (3rd) in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the Department of State Monday.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

For the first time in almost three years, Israelis and Palestinians are meeting face to face for peace talks. Foreign policy analysts say a comprehensive deal will be extremely difficult to achieve, but there is room for agreement on some issues.

The talks opened with a dinner Monday night in Washington and get underway in earnest on Tuesday. They?re expected to last nine months. Here?s what you need to know about the latest peace process.

Why now?
Plans for the talks fell into place after Israel agreed to release about 100 of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners who are in Israeli jails.

Many of them have been behind bars for two decades, convicted of attacks against Israel before the Israeli-Palestinian talks of 1993. They are to be released in stages over several months, depending on progress in the talks.

What are the odds that something will get done?
Much better for the earlier rounds of the talks than the later. In Washington, the two sides will start with the basics of future meetings ? the where and how. But there were signs Monday that the two sides don?t even agree on which topics should be addressed when.

Later talks, to be held in the Middle East, will deal with the real questions.

Among them: What would the borders of a Palestinian state be? How might Jerusalem be divided? What happens to the millions of people who are descended from Palestinians that were driven from their homes when Israel was created, and who want to return?

Any breakthrough will depend not just on compromise but on mutual trust, said Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars who has advised U.S. presidents of both parties on the conflict.

And the level of trust today? ?I wouldn?t say it?s subzero, but it?s not great,? he said.

Are they close to a deal on anything?
If the two sides find common ground, it might be on the borders of a future Palestinian state or a security arrangement, some analysts say. The gaps on those two matters are still wide, but it?s conceivable that they could be closed.

For example: The Palestinians want the West Bank, where an estimated 360,000 Israeli settlers live. Most of them could be annexed into Israel with small changes to the map, in exchange for equal land that Israel would give to the Palestinians.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a hawk on the border issue, partly because it could put Palestinians within rocket range of key Israeli targets.

?He may surprise us,? said Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, part of the Brookings Institution. ?We should hope he does.?

On the Jerusalem and refugee questions, the politics back home for both sides are extremely tough, and there?s little or no leeway, Miller said. As for how far apart they are on those issues, ?Think about the Grand Canyon,? he said.

How is this playing in Israel and among Palestinians?
Polls have shown that sizable majorities of Israelis and Palestinians want a so-called two-state solution. As you might expect, though, the politics are dicey in both cases.

The Israeli cabinet voted 13-7 to release the prisoners, but Netanyahu faces opposition within his own conservative party, Likud, and from further to the right. He may have room to maneuver by shunning the far right and seeking cooperation to his left, Sachs said.

Meanwhile, Palestinian protesters clashed with police over the weekend in the West Bank. One of the chants recited by protesters held that the Palestinian cause ?will never be resolved except by the rifle.?

What is the American role?

Charles Dharapak / AP

Secretary of State John Kerry with Martin Indyk, special envoy for the talks.

It took an intense effort by Secretary of State John Kerry to get the Israelis and Palestinians to the table. He said Monday that he was seeking ?reasonable compromises? in the talks but was under no illusions about the challenge.

?If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago,? he said.

Experts on the conflict say that President Barack Obama will probably have to get more deeply involved to achieve a comprehensive deal, and they say he?ll only do it if he believes Kerry?s team has gotten them close enough.

Who?s going to be at the table?
For the Palestinians, their chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, and an aide to President Mahmoud Abbas, Mohammed Shtayyeh.

For the Israelis, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and an adviser, Yitzhak Molcho.

The United States will be represented by Martin Indyk, a two-time American ambassador to Israel who now leads the foreign policy program at Brookings.

On Monday, Kerry named Indyk special envoy to the region, a title giving him broad responsibility as the administration?s point man. That will include a seat at the bargaining table ? though if he spends too much time there, it could be a bad sign.

Presidents name special envoys regularly. Most Americans learned Paul Bremer?s name when President George W. Bush named him special envoy to Iraq in 2003. The late Richard Holbrooke was special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he pressed President Hamid Karzai to clean up his government.

Indyk was a student in Israel during the Yom Kippur war of 1973. He said the challenge was humbling, but not impossible.

?It?s been my conviction for 40 years,? he told reporters, ?that peace is possible.?

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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'The Wolverine' claws way to top of box office

This publicity photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine in a scene from the film, "The Wolverine." (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Ben Rothstein)

This publicity photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine in a scene from the film, "The Wolverine." (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Ben Rothstein)

This publicity image released by 20th Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman in a scene from "The Wolverine." (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Ben Rothstein)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? "The Wolverine" slashed monsters and minions to debut atop the weekend box office.

The Fox film featuring Hugh Jackman's sixth turn as the claw-wielding superhero opened with $55 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Last weekend's top movie, Warner Bros.' low-budget horror "The Conjuring," slipped to second place, adding another $22.1 million to its take, while "Despicable Me 2" was in third with $16 million. The Universal animated sequel, with its cast of cute, yellow minions, has made more than $600 million worldwide since it came out four weeks ago.

"The Wolverine," which is set in Japan and features an international cast, earned another $86.1 million overseas. The film's opening-week take surpassed the $120 million it cost to make, said Chris Aronson, Fox's head of domestic distribution.

"It's a huge opening for the clawed one," he said. "It played equally well from Maine to Maui."

Another Fox film, the animated snail-racing tale "Turbo," was in fourth place with $13.3 million. Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups 2" followed with $11.5 million.

Woody Allen's latest, "Blue Jasmine," enjoyed a stellar opening of its own, though on a much smaller scale. Starring Cate Blanchett, the film opened in just six theaters but still collected $612,767.

"It's one of the biggest opening per-theater averages ever for a non-animated film," said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Ticket sales this weekend were up almost 30 percent over the same weekend last summer, he said.

"It was a good weekend to be a moviegoer because the choices just got a lot more interesting," Dergarabedian said, noting a mix that includes animated, independent and big-budget action offerings.

"Fruitvale Station," the Sundance winner already generating Oscar buzz, opened across the country and edged its way into the top 10, contributing to a summer box office that is up more than 10 percent over last year.

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

1. "The Wolverine," $55 million ($86.1 international).

2. "The Conjuring," $22.1 million.

3. "Despicable Me 2," $16 million.

4. "Turbo," $13.3 million.

5. "Grown Ups 2," $11.5 million.

6. "Red 2," $9.4 million.

7. "Pacific Rim," $7.5 million.

8. "The Heat," $6.85 million.

9. "R.I.P.D.," $5.85 million.

10. "Fruitvale Station," $4.65 million.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

Associated Press

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Stocks decline as a busy week for markets begins

NEW YORK (AP) ? A blistering July rally on the stock market appears to be fading.

Stocks edged lower Monday as investors waited for a series of major economic reports due out this week. A string of big-name merger deals wasn't enough to push indexes higher.

On Wednesday the government will report its first estimate of U.S. economic growth for the second quarter, and on Friday it will publish its monthly jobs survey.

Both reports will give investors a better idea about the strength of the economy and what's next for the Federal Reserve's stimulus program. Investors will hear from the Fed on Wednesday after the central bank winds up a two-day policy meeting. The Fed's stimulus has been a major factor supporting a four-year rally in stocks.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 6.32 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,685.33.

Seven of the 10 sectors in the index fell. The declines were led by energy companies and banks.

The benchmark index is still up 4.9 percent in July, and the S&P 500 is on track to have its best month since January. The index jumped this month, climbing to an all-time high July 22, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke assured investors that the Fed wouldn't cut its stimulus before the economy was ready. The central bank is buying $85 billion a month to help keep interest rates low and encourage borrowing and hiring.

Stocks may struggle to add to their gains, given that expectations for the economy remain modest, said Scott Wren, a senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors.

The U.S. economy is forecast to have grown just 0.5 percent in the second quarter, according to data provider FactSet. That would be slower than the 1.8 percent annual rate the economy expanded at in the first three months of the year.

"I don't think you're going to see the market sustain much higher levels than this," said Wren. "All this data is going to show that we are slowly improving, but it's a slow process and there's not much to get excited about."

A trio of corporate deals caught investors' attention Monday but failed to ignite the broader market.

Saks jumped after Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay, the parent company of Lord & Taylor, agreed to buy the luxury store operator for $2.4 billion, or $16 a share. Saks rose 64 cents, or 4.2 percent, to $15.95.

Interpublic Group, a big advertising company, gained after Omnicom Group, another big advertiser, agreed to combine with France's Publicis Groupe to create the world's largest advertising company. Interpublic rose 74 cents, or 4.7 percent, to $16.61.

The stock closed higher even after Interpublic CEO Michael Roth said that he saw no need for a major merger to keep the company moving forward.

Omnicom jumped in early trading, climbing as high as $70.50, but ended the day down 45 cents, or 0.6 percent, at $64.75.

Perrigo also featured in the mergers and acquisitions news. The drugmaker agreed to buy Ireland's Elan for $8.6 billion. Perrigo fell $9.06, or 6.7 percent, to $125.17.

The deals should be positive for the stock market in the long run, and should be followed by more merger activity, said Dan Veru, chief investment officer at Palisade Capital Management. Companies are sitting on record cash balances and borrowing costs, though rising, are still close to record lows.

"Companies are struggling to grow organically," said Veru. "So, how do they grow? They grow by buying other businesses."

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 36.86 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,521.97. The Nasdaq composite dropped 14.02 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,599.14.

Investors will also be focusing on corporate earnings this week.

Just over half of the companies in the S&P 500 index have reported earnings for the second quarter. Analysts are currently forecasting earnings growth of 4 percent for the April-through-June period, according to S&P Capital IQ. That's the slowest rate of growth in three quarters.

In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.59 percent from 2.56 percent Friday. The note's yield, which moves inversely to its price, has climbed almost 1 percentage point since the start of May, when it hit its low point of the year, 1.63 percent.

Higher government bond rates push up mortgage rates, which could threaten the housing recovery.

The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes dipped in June from a six-year high in May, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. The slight decline suggests higher mortgage rates may be starting to slow sales.

Should rates rise too quickly the Fed will likely keep up with its stimulus for longer, said Colleen Supran, a principle at Bingham, Osborn and Scarborough, a wealth management firm.

"We really need the housing market to stay on track to keep economic growth on track," said Supran.

In commodities trading, crude oil fell 15 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $104.55 a barrel. Gold climbed $6.90, or 0.5 percent, to $1,328.70 an ounce.

The dollar gained against the euro, but fell against the Japanese yen.

Among other stocks making big moves:

? CF Industries rose $21.30, or 12 percent, to $202.30 after reports that Third Point, the hedge fund of the activist investor Daniel Loeb, had bought a stake in the company. Loeb disclosed the purchase in a quarterly letter to investors.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-decline-busy-week-markets-begins-165401524.html

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?Martha?s Motel? Auxilliary at Dartmouth College? A missive from the past: ?Records Reveal Possible Voter Fraud?

From the files of CNHT ? the organization that has been laboring in the vineyard of Voter Fraud for decades as it has been toiling on behalf of local taxpayer organizations all of over the State of NH.??? For those that say that there is no voter fraud, here is a report from Dartmouth back in 2003 leading to the conclusion that political operatives have indeed been driving truckloads of ?mobile domiciled? students through the large loopholes in NH Election Law. Voter Fraud did not start with the embarrassment of our Election officials by the Project Veritas crew ? they only shined a large flashlight on it.

Once again I posit it ? have both Democrat and Republican Elites colluded to sweep this under the rug when running the Secretary of State or Attorney General to protect NH?s status of the First In The Nation Primary State?? Rule #1 in politics ? get the bad news out quickly and Rule #2 ? fix it.? Rule #1 has been avoided and certainly the Dems have been trying to keep Rule #2 from being implemented. While we have been concentrating on those that have not complied with the intent of ?domicile? law here in NH, here is another perspective.

Below ? emphasis mine.

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Records Reveal Possible Voter Fraud

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

by Michael Ellis

After the 2000 election, close to two hundred students at Marquette University in Wisconsin admitted to voting multiple times in a survey by the campus newspaper. In St. Louis, Missouri, there are more people registered to vote in the city than there are residents, by a margin of thousands. On college campuses, the danger of illegal voting is real, given that students living on campus can easily claim and show proof of two residences. With the absence of a national database of voters, fraud can cross state lines, as out-of-state students register and vote by absentee in their home states and in person in their adopted states, with no one the wiser. Committing such a crime in New Hampshire would be relatively easy to do, given the state?s policy of allowing new voters to register on the day of the election, instead of in advance as is customary elsewhere. While nothing so egregious as voting several times has yet been uncovered at Dartmouth, voter fraud of a less severe nature may have occurred in the past year?s elections.

For New Hampshire, not only was a seat in the evenly-divided U.S. Senate at stake, but also the state?s governorship, and both seats in the U.S. House. With Senate control potentially hinging on the outcome here, both national parties flooded the Granite State with television and radio ads. Opinion polls leading up to Election Day showed the candidates essentially tied. After the polls closed, however, and the votes were counted, any semblance of closeness in the race disappeared. Sununu beat Shaheen by over 20,000 votes and Republicans swept every major statewide race. Hanover remains an anomaly in the statewide Republican trend. This past election, 4,364 votes were cast in the Town of Hanover, with 3,171 going to Jeanne Shaheen and 1,140 to John Sununu. This result came as no surprise; Hanover has gone solidly Democratic for years, and routinely is carried by Democratic candidates by a three to one margin. The explanation is doubtlessly the liberal influence of the College. If one were to judge by the sheer number of vocal Shaheen supporters found on campus preceding the election, it is quite easy to see how she carried Dartmouth by such a large margin. They stationed themselves throughout campus?in Collis, the Hopkins Center, and Thayer Dining Hall ? urging students to vote with the implicit understanding that they would cast their ballots for Shaheen. Vans driven by Shaheen volunteers and adorned with Shaheen signs transported voters to polling stations. Upon arriving there, students were exposed to another barrage of Shaheen campaign workers, and Shaheen signs adorned every feasible space.

The Young Democrats? effort?while futile statewide?did succeed in bringing close to 900 Dartmouth undergraduates to the polls. Once inside the station, students faced long lines to vote. Christopher Galiardo 0 recalled waiting ?for between forty-five minutes and an hour? and some students remember waiting for as long as two hours. The wait was a result of the higher than expected turnout and the presence of large numbers of new voters. Most students took advantage of New Hampshire?s same-day registration law when they reached the polls, causing back-ups as they filled out forms and proved their residency. Alexander Kallis ?06, explained that presenting a Dartmouth ID card was sufficient proof of Hanover residence. Many Democratic students were outraged by the presence of Republican election lawyers at the poll site, challenging the residency of students and requiring them to sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury that they were indeed residents of the Town of Hanover, and, in doing so, renouncing residency in their ?home? states. Even the effort to ensure that everyone voting was a New Hampshire resident with a valid street address was not enough to prevent several instances of apparent voter fraud.

Imagine that ? forcing students to follow the law caused ?outrage?.? Can we see a repeat of that in 2014? In 2016?? And of, btw, if our current Secretary of State or Attorney General refuse to properly and fairly execute the law, can we please replace them?

The New Hampshire state law governing the eligibility of voters, Section 654: 1, declares that ?every inhabitant of the state, having a fixed and permanent established domicile, being a citizen of the United States, of the age ? shall have a right at any meeting or election, to vote in the town ? in which he is domiciled.? It sounds simple enough; only those who live in the Town of Hanover, are at least 18 years old, and are US. citizens are permitted to vote. From merely running the names of all those who voted through the Dartmouth Information Directory it is apparent that illegal, or, at the very least, suspect activity did indeed take place in the past election.

The most stunning case is that of Eric G. Bussey ?01. Bussey registered on Election Day in 2000, at which time he lived in New Hampshire Hall and was eligible to vote. Now, however, his DID entry, which was updated in October 2002, lists his residence as ?35 French Farm Road, Norwich, Vermont.? By taking advantage of his past residency in New Hampshire, it appears that Eric was able to vote in Hanover despite the fact that he is ?domiciled? in Vermont, a violation of New Hampshire election law. Since it seems that Bussey voted while ineligible to do so, he would also appear to have perjured himself. Perjury, as defined by Section 641 of the New Hampshire criminal code, can be prosecuted as either a misdemeanor or a Class B felony, subject to punishment of up to seven years in jail. Calls to Bussey?s home in Vermont to seek a comment from him went unanswered, as his phone was disconnected.

While Eric Bussey is the most appalling instance of potential voting fraud that took place, several other individuals also seemed to have presented less than compelling grounds for eligibility. Robert S. Cushman, who appears to be unaffiliated with the College, and Miguel M. Licona ?03, both listed their permanent addresses as the ?Ledyard Canoe Club.? Calls to the Ledyard Canoe Club to seek confirmation of their residence were not answered. Attempts to contact Licona at his home phone number were equally unsuccessful. Even if these two individuals do, for some bizarre reason, live at the Canoe Club, it is surely not a year-round residence, as the Club is closed in the winter.

Also striking is the case of Kathleen Catapano ?99, a graduate student in the Environmental Studies Program, who listed her residence as ?6182 Steele Hall.? Steele is a chemistry building that contains classrooms, labs, and offices, but absolutely no residences. Calls to Catapano?s residence were also unanswered. She should not have been permitted to vote by giving a home address that does not exist.

Perhaps more bizarre are the addresses listed by Lisa E. Danzig, Stephen A. Noel, and William M. Robb, of the Tuck Business School, and Robert A. Cushman III ?03, and Matthew J. Slaine ?06. Their home addresses are simply marked as ?X? on the official spreadsheet of those who voted in the election. Sallie Johnson, the Town Clerk of Hanover, explained these discrepancies as the product of the day?s long lines. Instead of giving a street address as requested, these individuals may have given a mailing address that did not function as a street address, such as a Hinman or P.O. Box number. While these individuals should have been prevented from voting, Johnson noted that ?a few did? slip through?.

After election day, election supervisors were to contact these individuals to determine their actual street address, and if it was an address outside of Hanover, their names would be purged from the voter rolls. Even so, they still cast ballots without offering proof of residency. It is quite possible that one or more of those five individuals residing at ?X? were not eligible to vote in Hanover. The only one of the five reached for comment, Robert A. Cushman, recalled that he indeed wrote his home address of 15 Downing Road, not a Hinman Box, on the voter registration card and is has no idea why his address was listed as ?X?.

While these ten voters, some of whom may have voted legally, were not enough to sway the election results, their actions may well be illegal nonetheless. A situation in which the race between Shaheen and Sununu was closer, and decided not by 20,000 voted but by a mere 20, can be easily imagined. Considering the Florida election debacle in 2000 or this past year?s Senate race in South Dakota, decided by a mere 527 votes, every vote must not only be counted, but also scrutinized for legality.

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Graft high interest hit investments in India FICCI chief

Bombay News.Net Sunday 28th July, 2013

"The lacklustre investments and slowing industrial growth are already showing the impact on employment situation. Job generation is one of the biggest concerns for the country, given the addition of 10-12 million new workers every year to the workforce," Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) president Naina Lal Kidwai, told IANS.

Kidwai said that she along with other industry leaders would raise these issues during their meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday.

"Meeting with the prime minister will largely be centred on handling the external situation and slowing industrial growth. The foremost issue that we need to highlight is need to kickstart the investment cycle," she said.

Kidwai, also the country head in India of London-headquartered HSBC, said high interest rates and corruption were the major reasons for the slowdown in investments.

She said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) should take into account the sluggishness in industrial growth while deciding on policy rates. The central bank is scheduled to announce a monetary policy review Tuesday.

"Any increase in interest rates at this juncture will be a major blow to the industry and overall growth," she said.

Leading industrialists and representatives of business chambers, including Kidwai, are scheduled to meet Manmohan Singh at his official 7, Race Course Road residence Monday to discuss the issues affecting the country's economy.

Referring to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, Kidwai said investments in new projects during the quarter ended June 30, 2013, was just one-third of what was recorded in the same quarter last year.

Total investments in new projects in India slumped to Rs.77,463.4 crore in April-June quarter as compared to Rs.222,659.8 crore recorded during the corresponding quarter of last year, according to data compiled by Mumbai-based think-tank CMIE.

"It has become extremely important to trigger domestic investments," she said.

Kidwai said the government must provide a conducive business environment in order to revive investments and growth.

"India has a very low rank as far as ease of doing business is concerned. For instance, transfer pricing today is one of the most contentious tax issue in our country with 70 percent of the world's transfer pricing litigation emanating from India," she said.

Kidwai said corruption was having an adverse impact on India's investment image and it was having detrimental impact on the economy.

According to a joint study conducted by FICCI and Ernst and Young, 83 percent of industry people feel that the recent spate of scams will negatively impact foreign direct investment inflows into the country.

FDI inflows in India slumped by 38 percent to $22.4 billion in 2012-13 as compared to $35.1 billion recorded in the previous year, despite the much-touted reform measures in the areas like retail and aviation, as per the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) data.

Kidwai said the recent macro-economic data indicates that the Indian economy was in a "very difficult situation".

India's economic growth slumped to a decade's low of five percent in the financial year ended March 31, and the country's current account deficit hit a record high of 4.8 percent.

Indian rupee also hit a record low of 61.21 against the dollar earlier this month.

Kidwai said the current account deficit was likely to remain above four percent in the current financial year.

"This is a very difficult situation. It is important that we think of ways to economise our imports, especially for commodities like oil, coal, electronics and capital goods. In addition, exports would also have to be made more competitive," she said.

(Gyanendra Kumar Keshri can be reached at gyanendra.k@ians.in)

Source: http://www.bombaynews.net/index.php/sid/216076432/scat/701ee96610c884a6

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

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Woman wins $18.6 million for two-year battle over credit report

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal jury in Oregon has awarded $18.6 million to a woman who spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report.

Julie Miller of Marion County was awarded $18.4 million in punitive damages and $180,000 in compensatory damages, though Friday's award against one of the nation's major credit bureaus is likely to be appealed, The Oregonian reported.

The jury was told she contacted Equifax eight times between 2009 and 2011 in an effort to correct inaccuracies, including erroneous accounts and collection attempts, as well as a wrong Social Security number and birthday. Her lawsuit alleged the Atlanta-based company failed to correct the mistakes.

"There was damage to her reputation, a breach of her privacy and the lost opportunity to seek credit," said Justin Baxter, a Portland attorney who worked on the case with his father and law partner, Michael Baxter. "She has a brother who is disabled and who can't get credit on his own, and she wasn't able to help him."

Tim Klein, an Equifax spokesman, declined to comment on specifics of the case, saying he didn't have any details about the decision from the Oregon Federal District Court.

Miller discovered the problem when she was denied credit by a bank in early December 2009. She alerted Equifax and filled out multiple forms faxed by the credit agency seeking updated information. She had found similar mistakes in her reports with other credit bureaus, Baxter said, but those companies corrected their errors.

A Federal Trade Commission study earlier this year of 1,001 consumers who reviewed 2,968 of their credit reports found 21 percent contained errors. The survey found that 5 percent of the errors represented issues that would lead consumers to be denied credit.

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Twin blasts outside Shi'ite mosques in Pakistan, 15 dead

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two explosions targeting Shi'ite mosques in Pakistan's tribal area on the Afghan border killed at least 15 people on Friday, a doctor and witnesses said.

The first explosion took place just meters away from a Shi'ite mosque near a busy market in Parachinar, capital of the tribal Kurram area. It was followed closely by a second blast, outside another mosque in the town.

Sabir Hussain, a doctor at the Agency Headquarters Hospital, said 15 dead bodies and 45 people with serious wounds had been brought to his hospital.

Taliban-linked insurgents are a main source of instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan, but sectarian violence by Sunni militants, who see Shi'ites as heretics, has also been growing.

Parachinar has a significant Shi'ite population, who have previously been attacked by hardline Sunni militant groups.

(Reporting by Javed Hussain; Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twin-blasts-outside-shiite-mosques-pakistan-15-dead-142854968.html

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Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013 ? Data Center ...






Over 17,000 people from 77 countries took on Anaheim, California this week as the SIGGRAPH, a?premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques celebrated its 40th anniversary. Numerous announcements, celebrations, exhibits and eye-popping demonstrations filled the event floor throughout the week. As a part of the accompanying Computer Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2013 hosted Production Sessions, where elite computer graphic experts and creative geniuses explained their process and techniques for creating compelling content.

Some highlights from the week included:

Pixar?celebrated?the 25th anniversary of its RenderMan software, which has been used in 19 of the last 21 Academy Award-winners for Visual Effects. fxguide has an?exclusive?on Pixar?s RenderMan and the software?s co-founder Ed Catmull.?This year, Pixar?s ?Monsters University? and ?The Blue Umbrella? are showcasing new levels of photorealism, including major advancements in lighting that are directly attributable to technological breakthroughs in RenderMan?s system for creating physically-based global illumination. Last month Pixar?announced?the release of RenderMan Pro Server 18, a?major version upgrade that presents core enhancements in lighting workflows.

NVIDIA (NVDA) unveiled its new flagship GPU ? the Quadro K6000. Delivering?five-times higher compute performance and nearly double the graphics capability of its predecessor, the K6000 GPU?enables leading organizations such as Pixar, Nissan, Apache Corporation and WSI, Professional Division of The Weather Company and Innovation Engine of The Weather Channel, to tackle visualization and analysis workloads of unprecedented size and scope. The K6000 features 12GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 graphics memory, 2,880 streaming multiprocessor cores and supports four simultaneous displays, up to 4k resolution with DisplayPort 1.2.

??The Kepler features are key to our next generation of real-time lighting and geometry handling. We were thrilled to get an early look at the K6000,? said Guido Quaroni, Pixar vice president of Software R&D.?The added memory and other features allow our artists to see much more of the final scene in a real-time, interactive form, and allow many more artistic iterations.?

Fusion-io (FIO) showcased a complete studio solution for visual effects acceleration. Its conference?demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. ??Fusion-io products were a fundamental, core component of our pipeline for ?Star Trek Into Darkness,?? said Adam Watkins, Pixomondo Digital Effects Supervisor. ?If you have a facility equipped with Fusion-io with the ioFX for workstations or ioDrive in the server, you get an overall productivity gain that increases efficiency of the equipment you already have. Those cost savings and increased bandwidth help you take on more work to be more competitive in the visual effects market.?

AMD showcased?visual computing experiences it powered for Adobe, Autodesk, Christie, Dell and Optis. The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world.??At the AMD booth, artists will have the chance to check out Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max 3D animation and visual effects software running on workstations powered by AMD FirePro graphics,? said Rob Hoffmann, senior product marketing manager, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. ?The powerful combination of AMD hardware and Autodesk software can help increase productivity and creativity to complete tasks faster and give artists more time to try new ideas.?

Intel (INTC) was at SIGGRAPH highlighting high-fidelity ray-tracing from the upcoming 2.0 release of the Embree open source project, as well as giving a?demonstration of Autodesk Opticore Professional Studio running on Xeon Phi co-processors.

About John Rath

John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.

Source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/26/siggraph-2013/

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Christie, Paul highlight GOP debate over security

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A rift over national security is developing in the early stages of the Republican Party's next presidential campaign, pitting libertarians who question government overreach against defenders of a more hawkish approach on national security formed after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

During a forum Thursday night in Aspen, Colo., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pointed to a "strain of libertarianism" coursing through both parties as a "very dangerous thought" more than a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks. Christie was asked whether he was referring to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate who has been at the forefront of the party's libertarian wing.

"You can name any number of people and he's one of them," said Christie, noting his state suffered the second-most casualties in the hijacked airliner attacks on New York and Washington, which killed nearly 3,000 people. "These esoteric, intellectual debates ? I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won't, because that's a much tougher conversation to have."

Paul responded Friday on Twitter, saying Christie "worries about the dangers of freedom. I worry about the danger of losing that freedom. Spying without warrants is unconstitutional."

For Republicans, the national security debate offers a window into an evolving party that nearly a decade ago re-elected President George W. Bush, in part, on the basis of his administration's hard-line response to the terror attacks and use of tools provided by the USA Patriot Act, which gave the administration the powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. It also serves notice that whoever hopes to claim the GOP nomination in 2016 may need to fuse factions within the party on national security.

The exchange followed a fight this week in Congress over the National Security Agency's collection of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records, where libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats sought to undo the NSA program that they contend is an affront to civil liberties. The House narrowly defeated the attempt to restrict the surveillance, with some Republicans questioning whether their adversaries had forgotten the lessons of 2001.

The House vote came in the weeks after former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked classified documents that exposed the government's secret surveillance activities. And it followed Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster in March over President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA, a fight that focused attention on the president's use of aerial drones to kill suspected terrorists and concerns the unmanned aircraft could be used in the United States to target suspects who are American citizens.

Doug Stafford, a top adviser to Paul, said in a statement that if Christie "believes the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans is 'esoteric,' he either needs a new dictionary, or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent years."

Republicans have said the libertarian strain within their party has been galvanized by what they call a large, more intrusive government under Obama, pointing to the health care overhaul, probes by the IRS into political groups and the Snowden affair. Yet the internal debate in the months after Obama's re-election underscores a party figuring out a new approach to foreign policy as long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to a close and many Americans express hesitation about future foreign entanglements.

Republican consultants based in early presidential voting states said there is an undeniable growing wave of libertarianism within the GOP that has already begun to reshape the political debate as candidates begin to jockey for position three years before the next presidential contest.

South Carolina-based Republican operative Hogan Gidley said there are risks ? both for candidates like Christie who criticize the libertarian movement and for candidates like Paul who embrace it. "You can't ignore the libertarian movement. And if you do, you do it at your own peril," said Gidley, a senior aide on Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential campaign.

But he said some libertarian policies ? particularly those that would aggressively scale back spending on defense and foreign policy ? could scare away voters, as was the case of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, the senator's father, who placed fourth in South Carolina's last presidential primary.

Yet Rand Paul's libertarian approach remains popular among influential Republican activists. Former New Hampshire GOP chairman Jack Kimball, who is active in the party's 'liberty movement,' said Christie "went overboard on this. He's got to tone this down. A lot of people in this country are upset with the breadth and scope of what the NSA is doing."

Christie, who is running for re-election this year and considered a formidable potential 2016 candidate, made his comments at an event sponsored by the Aspen Institute that also featured Republican governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Mike Pence of Indiana, all of whom have been discussed as potential White House aspirants.

Asked whether the party had become more libertarian, Jindal said it was a "good thing" and in part, a reaction to Obama's policies. "You've got a lot of voters ... who are saying, 'I'm tired of the government telling me how to live my life.'" Walker spoke of the need to make fewer Americans dependent upon government services like unemployment benefits and Medicaid.

But Christie, who was appointed by Bush as U.S. attorney in New Jersey one day before the 2001 attacks, warned that the public would not look kindly upon lawmakers who seek to undercut national security efforts if another terror attack struck American soil.

"The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people who were having this intellectual debate and wondering whether" they knew that their first job was to defend the homeland, he said.

How Republicans deal with the debate could shape the party's future after losing the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections.

"It's a mistake to try to drive anybody out when you're losing," said Sal Russo, chief strategist for the Tea Party Express. "I think you need to tolerate those different viewpoints."

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Peoples reported from Boston.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/christie-paul-highlight-gop-debate-over-security-193205422.html

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Asian shares edge higher, stronger yen hurts Nikkei

By Dominic Lau

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo shares fell sharply on Friday as the yen rose to a two-week high versus the dollar, with investors turning cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week.

A Wall Street Journal report that the Fed may debate changing its forward guidance to help ram home its message that it will keep interest rates low for a long time to come put the dollar on the back foot overnight. But most economists and traders expect the Fed could start tapering in September.

The dollar eased 0.2 percent against a basket of major currencies, not far from a five-week low touched on Thursday.

Against the yen, it was down 0.1 percent at 99.12 yen. The euro was steady at $1.32755 after gaining 0.6 percent overnight on the back of positive economic reports from the euro zone.

The firmer yen weighed on Tokyo's Nikkei share average, which sagged 2.1 percent.

Data showed Japan's core consumer prices turned positive and rose 0.4 percent last month from a year earlier, marking the fastest pace of increase in nearly five years, suggesting the government's efforts to erase years of deflation was showing early success.

"The rise in the CPI is mainly due to the weaker yen, which is raising import costs, so it's too early to be overly optimistic. But we can say that 'Abenomics' is very much in play," said Nobuhiko Kuramochi, strategist and economist at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo.

Asian shares as measured by MSCI Asia-Pacific ex-Japan index inched 0.2 percent higher, but held below its 50 percent retracement of its slide from a 22-month high on May 9 to June 26, when it hit an 11-month low.

Seoul shares <.ks11> were steady, while Samsung Electronics Co Ltd added 0.1 percent after it said April-June operating profit increased 47.5 percent from a year ago to 9.53 trillion won, in line with its estimate.

Overnight, a gauge of planned U.S. business spending on capital goods rose in June, while new claims for jobless benefits edged higher last week but remained within a range that suggests the labour market's recovery is on track.

U.S. corporate earnings have been mixed in the latest quarter. With 47 percent of the S&P 500 companies having reported earnings so far, about 68 percent have topped profit forecasts, above the historical average of 63 percent. About 56 percent have reported better-than-expected revenue, a rate that is below the historical average.

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In the commodity markets, Brent crude prices held steady below $108 a barrel after gaining 0.4 percent overnight on the back of the weaker dollar.

Gold was steady after a 0.9 percent rise in the previous session, also boosted by a weaker dollar.

Copper prices added 0.1 percent to above $7,000 a tonne after slipping 0.6 percent on Thursday to snap a five-day winning run on concerns that a slowing Chinese economy may dent demand from the world's top consumer.

(Additional reporting by Ian Chua in SYDNEY and Ayai Tomisawa in TOKYO; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-shares-edge-higher-stronger-yen-hurts-nikkei-013031847.html

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Toyota on trial in California

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Toyota has been forced to undertake a number of major recalls in the past few years.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Jury selection began Monday for a case in which the family of a deceased California woman claims the 2009 crash that killed her resulted from her Toyota Camry's sudden and uncontrollable acceleration.

In a complaint filed in California Superior Court, the family of driver Noriko Uno says that as she was driving her car in Upland, Ca., it unexpectedly accelerated to more than 100 miles per hour despite her depressing the brake pedal, and eventually struck a telephone pole.

The Uno family's lawsuit is just one of dozens filed against Toyota (TM) in state and federal courts seeking damages over the alleged unintended acceleration of its vehicles. The trial, expected to take about two months, will provide an early test of the strength of claims against the Japanese manufacturer.

Toyota says there was "no defect in Mrs. Uno's vehicle," and that it was "equipped with a state-of-the-art braking system." The firm says claims about its vehicles' unintended acceleration are "wholly unsubstantiated."

"We believe the allegations being made against the company ... to be without merit, and we look forward to the opportunity to contest each of them vigorously," Toyota says on its website.

The controversy has already proved costly for Toyota. The company announced in December it would take a charge of more than $1 billion to settle claims from drivers who say their vehicles lost value as a result of the alleged acceleration problems.

Toyota said at the time that it settled simply to bring an end to the litigation, and denied all wrongdoing.

Toyota was forced to recall over eight million vehicles in 2009 and 2010 due to gas-pedal-related issues.

Of that total, 5.8 million were flagged over the potential for their accelerator pedals to become stuck in floor mats. Some 4.5 million were recalled because of the potential for their gas pedals, after wear, to become sticky.

More than two million vehicles were subject to both recalls.

Uno's 2006 Camry was not subject to these recalls, though her family's suit claims her model was also defective, and that Toyota failed to include a brake override system to guard against sudden and unexpected acceleration.

CNN's Maribel Aber and Polina Fishof contributed reporting. To top of page

First Published: July 22, 2013: 6:42 PM ET

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PolitiFact: Are Jay Z and Justin Timberlake joining Florida boycott?

Did you hear?

Dozens of the world?s hottest musical acts are joining music legend Stevie Wonder in protest of Florida?s "stand your ground" law after the George Zimmerman trial, according to social networks and the blogosphere.

Memes zooming through social media name two dozen artists that have canceled their tour dates in the Sunshine State indefinitely "UNTIL THE LAW IN FLORIDA IS ABOLISHED!" The list is populated with world-famous acts such as Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Rihanna, Rod Stewart, Patti LaBelle, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Usher, will.i.am, R. Kelly, Trey Songz, Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Ciara, Kelly Rowland and other groups.

Timberlake is singled out for nixing the kickoff of his tour in Miami because he refused "TO ENTERTAIN A STATE WHO?S GOVERNMENT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO SHOOT-N-KILL UN-ARMED TEENAGERS!"

The PSA first caught PolitiFact Florida?s eye when it was shared in Instagram. Then the list got more attention when versions of it trickled into mainstream coverage.

We are skeptical of chain emails and the like that are typed in ALL CAPS, contain misspellings and do not disclose their sources. The meme we?ve seen (which touts the misspelled names of RIHANA and ALISHIA KEYS as signing on) is a triple whammy.

We decided to investigate whether dozens of high-profile acts are really joining Wonder and boycotting Florida. Our synopsis: Just because it?s in the news does not make it true.

Adding names to Stevie Wonder's boycott

Talk of Florida boycotts started July 14, the day after Zimmerman?s "not guilty" verdict in the death of Trayvon Martin. Wonder announced then in Quebec City that he will never again perform in Florida until the 2005 "stand your ground" law is abolished.

He took it a step further: "As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world." (More than 20 other states have similar "stand your ground" laws.)

Several musical artists and celebrities reacted to the verdict with anger and disbelief. Many gave musical tributes to Martin, including Beyonc?, Young Jeezy, Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, Patti LaBelle, Bruce Springsteen, and Wyclef Jean.

But none of the artists on the Instagram list -- even those who have spoken out against the verdict -- publicly announced they are joining Wonder?s boycott. We checked social media accounts, websites and news reports and found no declarations of support for the boycott from the people on the list.

Still, it wasn?t long before the story crossed over into news coverage. American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan cited "sources close to Stevie Wonder camp" for her July 22 report that claimed a similar slate of artists are joining him in support of changing "stand your ground." Some have already called off concerts, she wrote.

Her AURN report was picked up by congressional newspaper The Hill and the Huffington Post on July 22, read and shared by thousands. The next day, even more newspapers picked it up but tried to add a little more caution (including the Tampa Bay Times).

Ryan?s list contained two groups that were not on the Instagram roundup: Eddie Levert, lead singer of the R&B group The O?Jays, and gospel duo Mary Mary

"We love our fans but we MUST do something!!" Mary Mary wrote on Facebook. "We understand a No from us isn?t as big as a No from Stevie Wonder but if all our voices join together we can REALLY change things!"

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/23/3517023/politifact-are-jay-z-and-justin.html

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Ultra-rare decay confirmed in LHC

Scientists have confirmed one of the rarest phenomena of decay in particle physics, found about three times in every billion collisions at the LHCb.

They observed a particle called a Bs meson decaying into two muons for the first time.

The way it unfolds casts doubt on versions of the theory of physics known as Supersymmetry (Susy).

It was hoped Susy could explain gaps in the Standard Model, which is the theory of how the Universe works.

The vast LHC machine, housed in a circular tunnel that runs for 27km beneath the French-Swiss border, smashes beams of protons together at close to light speeds.

Detectors positioned at key points around the underground "ring" are then used to scour the wreckage of these collisions for signs of new particles and physical phenomena.

The theory Susy proposes that each particle has a heavier version of itself which could explain the ever mysterious dark matter, believed to make up a quarter of our Universe.

Needle in a haystack

However, the rate of decay found was predicted by the Standard Model, even though it's still seen as an incomplete description of nature. It is not yet able to explain gravity, or indeed the dark matter and dark energy which together make up 95% of the Universe.

The findings were announced at the EPS conference in Stockholm and had the 5-sigma level of significance required to reach the level of a formal discovery.

This builds on a previous announcement of the findings which had lesser statistical significance as the team had not yet analysed all the data.

The observations at LHCb and CMS were so rare that Bs mesons only decayed into two muons about three times in every billion collisions.

The LHCb team announced: "Finding particle decays this rare makes hunting for a needle in a haystack seem easy."

This is due to the hundreds of millions of collisions the LHC produced every second, with each one producing hundreds of new particles that leave electrical signals in the giant detectors.

Quantum loop

Val Gibson, leader of the Cambridge particle physics group and member of the LHCb experiment, told BBC News that it was the rarest decay they have observed so far.

"The reason it's so rare is the fact that it doesn't decay easily into the final quark particles we know about. It has to go through a loop process, like a quantum loop. It's not a straight road but it has to go round a roundabout before it can get to the final state particles.

"Because it's got this roundabout in it, it means that other heavy supersymmetric particles [could potentially] enter the roundabout and make a big difference to the decay rate," Prof Gibson added.

But the quarks did not have heavy particles blocking the decay.

Shy physics

"There was no observation of Supersymmetry, you would have to fine-tune the theory to explain the measurements found," Prof Gibson explained.

"The Supersymmetry theorists have not given up, however it is becoming harder and harder for them to explain these findings.

"Measurements of this very rare decay significantly squeeze the places new physics can hide. The UK LHCb team are now looking forward to the LHC returning at even higher energy and to an upgrade to the experiment so that we can investigate why new physics is so shy."

Tara Shears from the University of Liverpool also works with the LHCb, but was not involved with this particular discovery. She said: "Supersymmetry is starting to look less likely to be a good description of the universe."

"The catch is that Supersymmetry is quite a loosely defined theoretical model which means it has many uncertainties in it. It's impossible to rule it out altogether.

"This result has has really put the squeeze on the possibilities of the different ways Supersymmetry could be possible," she told BBC News

The Standard Model

? The Standard Model is the simplest set of ingredients - elementary particles - needed to make up the world we see in the heavens and in the laboratory

? Quarks combine together to make, for example, the proton and neutron - which make up the nuclei of atoms today - though more exotic combinations were around in the Universe's early days

? Leptons come in charged and uncharged versions; electrons - the most familiar charged lepton - together with quarks make up all the matter we can see; the uncharged leptons are neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter

? The "force carriers" are particles whose movements are observed as familiar forces such as those behind electricity and light (electromagnetism) and radioactive decay (the weak nuclear force)

? The Higgs boson came about because although the Standard Model holds together neatly, nothing requires the particles to have mass; for a fuller theory, the Higgs - or something else - must fill in that gap

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23431797#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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PROtique? Announces Affordable Small Business and Home ...

Newmarket, Ontario - Home based beauty care professionals seeking small business insurance in Toronto or elsewhere in Canada have found a new partner for success with PROtique?. The company has just announced that low cost, affordable policies are available for businesses, including but not limited to hair salons, spas, hairdressers, and electrologist clinics. These policies are fully customizable to the individual needs of the client, which are the primary consideration of the policy. PROtique? is more than happy to work with business owners regardless of their unique circumstances in order to provide necessary coverage to limit personal liability.

Home based business insurance allows for owners to effectively protect the brand and assets of businesses which they've worked hard to build over the years. It also provides a way of managing risk more effectively, where the entrepreneur can focus their attention on more productive areas like running the day-to-day operations instead of worrying about possible pitfalls causing financial ruin. A specific policy, for example, can insure assets against theft or damage due to weather. Having a safety net in place will not only allow for an owner to sleep better at night but will prevent them from incurring a financial loss that may otherwise be too much to withstand.

PROtique? has the knowledge required to create the perfect individual policy geared towards home-based beauty care businesses. The reason they're so proficient at writing such policies is because that is all they do. PROtique? is a specialized insurance firm -- the only one like it in Canada -- that offers policies exclusively to beauty care professionals. They've studied the market and know exactly what is required to produce a policy that offers the greatest amount of protection at an affordable price. So regardless if the business is as startup or an established spa with a list of repeat customers, PROtique? has individualized plans at costs that everyone can afford.

The best news is that because each policy is customizable, gaps in coverage that are often found in standard policies can be greatly reduced or eliminated altogether. Business owners can rest assured knowing that the professionals at PROtique? have their back when things get rough. When situations arise where insurance coverage is required in order to cover a loss or injury, it is imperative to know that business owners can trust the insurance company to act in their best interests. PROtique? has the expertise, track record, and ability to offer substantial coverage to guard against the challenges that beauty care businesses face.

Beauty care professionals can contact PROtique? to learn more about low cost policies available for their business.

Media Contact:

Chris Ingoe

PROtique Insurance

1251 Gorham Street, Unit 11

Newmarket ON L3Y 8Y6

Phone : 905-853-1992 | 1-888-577-3210

Email: protique@krsinsurance.ca

Website: www.protique.ca

Source: http://www.briefingwire.com/pr/protique-announces-affordable-small-business-and-home-based-business-insurance

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GMail Send as not working properly to Microsoft Outlook users

I'm using gmail to send emails on email A on behalf of my other gmail account, email B.

I have tried checking and unchecking the alias feature, and regardless when I open the email in microsoft outlook, it knows that I am sending from email A instead of email B.

Is there a way to make this not happen? My original email is embarrassing, but I have everything bought on the playstore on it, and my googleplus profile etc.

Source: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/47024/gmail-send-as-not-working-properly-to-microsoft-outlook-users

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Energy industry, conservationists floating ?habitat exchange? plan for prairie chicken population

Courtesy of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism

A new proposal aims to create a free-market solution that would focus on prairie chicken habitat conservation while at the same time still allowing oil and gas activity to continue.?

As oil and gas drilling and wind-farm construction activity continue to increase throughout the Midwest, concerns about the effects on grassland birds also are growing.

In this case, the concern lies with the lesser prairie chicken, a native bird that is about the size of a football and whose habitat spans portions of five states, including Kansas.

The fear is that the bird?s habitat is shrinking and will continue to get smaller as oil and gas operators continue to purse drilling activity under grasslands where the birds like to nest. There are also concerns about the effects the presence of wind farms have on the habitat of the prairie chicken. The federal government is considering classifying the prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered species. However, a new proposal aims to create a free-market solution that would focus on habitat conservation while at the same time still allowing oil and gas activity to continue.

The plan, quietly in the works for several months, would basically create a ?habitat exchange? where ranchers would get credits for habitat-conservation efforts, such as letting land revert to grassland, that could in turn be sold to oil and gas companies wanting to drill in other areas.

The plan, further detailed in this Wall Street Journal report, would require oil and gas companies to buy those credits at auctions whenever they wanted to drill new wells or build roads.

So far, the plan has the support of some of the country?s largest oil and gas companies, like Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHP), according to the Wall Street Journal report.

The habitat exchange plan would have to be approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Josh Heck covers health care, legal services, professional services and education.

Source: http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/wichita_blog/~3/HNchL_RwF10/energy-industry-conservationists.html

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