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Staff sitting outside rooms every morning from early talking at the top of their voices, not caring in the least for the sleeping guests. Night 2 - extremely drunk staff male member barged into our room and tried to get into bed with me, then with my mate in his bed! Found him sleeping on the couch in the lounge in the morning! Bathrooms dirty, same wrappers on floor from arrival to departure.
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Lansing State Journal. July 7.
Low college readiness cause for grave concern
It is past time for Michigan's citizens and policy makers to acknowledge the crisis looming in the state's future: the state's public schools are failing to educate the next generation of Michiganders.
An abundance of poorly educated workers won't attract employers, potentially hindering job opportunities even for the better educated who choose to live here. It's time to make K-12 education a top priority.
As much as the machinery of government (the Legislature, the State Department of Education) continues to work on improvements, results are lagging. Test results released Monday continue an alarming trend. While many districts saw at least slight improvements in some numbers over last year, overall lackluster results point to a serious situation needing more attention and action.
Statewide on the Michigan Merit Exam, 40 percent of 11th graders were not proficient in reading. Nearly 50 percent were not proficient in writing. And a stunning 70 percent were not proficient in math or science — two subjects that anchor STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the four disciplines that are critical in the knowledge economy and thus essential for future economic prosperity.
A decade ago the Cherry Commission was charged with creating strategies to double the number of college graduates in Michigan. Yet statewide, 82 percent of some 100,000 eleventh graders who took the ACT exam as part of the Michigan Merit Exam were not considered ready for college work. Indeed, a Detroit Free Press review of Monday's data release showed some 200 Michigan schools (including both traditional schools and charter schools) had no students considered college ready by the standards of the ACT exam. Not one.
In Greater Lansing, the story is equally bleak. The school district with the best results, Okemos, still had only half of its students considered college ready based on composite ACT results (a number that was good enough to make top 10 in the state). And in the Lansing School District, 63 percent were not college ready based on English scores and more than 90 percent were not considered ready for college math.
Michigan citizens, state Board of Education members, the Department of Education, the governor, the Legislature, business and civic leaders — All need to make K-12 student achievement a higher priority. Pulling Michigan out of the recession won't mean much if the state fails to educate a competent work force for the future.
The Alpena News. July 9.
President overstepping and Congress doesn't care
Congress would not go along with President Barack Obama's plan to close down coal-fired power plants and drive electricity prices up. So Obama is acting on his own to do so.
U.S. senators would not confirm the three union sympathizers Obama wanted on the National Labor Relations Board. So Obama, in a move the Supreme Court just ruled illegal, did so on his own through sham "recess appointments."
Congress could not have acted quickly enough, Obama claims, on freeing five top terrorist leaders in exchange for a U.S. serviceman who deserted his comrades in Afghanistan. So Obama went ahead and freed them on his own.
Though it was operating on his blueprint, Congress passed a national health care containing some politically inconvenient rules. So Obama changed them, though they are the law of the land.
Now Obama says that because Congress has not acted on immigration reform, he will do so — on his own.
Plainly, Obama has no regard whatsoever for separation of powers, which is at the heart of our system of government — or for the Constitution. Evidently, many members of Congress have no problem with that.
The Detroit News. July 7.
Cut federal strings on beach testing
Michigan is enjoying the rare satisfaction of telling the federal government to keep its money and the strings that go with it in refusing to bow to new rules on the testing of water quality at beaches.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants states to adopt tougher pollution standards that Michigan and other states fear will lead to the unnecessary closing of many beaches. Beaches in Michigan, Florida and other places are tourist magnets, and an integral part of the economy.
Closing them when there's no real threat to public safety is a heavy burden for those states to bear. So Michigan isn't bowing, even though not meeting the new standards will cost it more than $260,000 next year in federal dollars that pay for beach testing.
The Department of Environmental Quality is asking the EPA to ease off the regulations. But given the track record of the agency, that's a slim hope. So the state has budgeted its own dollars to pay for the tests, and that's probably best in the long run.
Washington rarely provides an outright gift for state or local governments to use as they see fit. As in the case of the beach tests, the trade-off for accepting federal dollars is often accepting the imposition of rigid federal rules.
But most often states and local governments are better equipped than the federal government to to decide policies affecting their regions and citizens.
For decades, Michigan has used a standard — one the EPA previously approved — of 235 E.coli bacteria colony forming units per 100 millimeters of water per sample. The EPA wants to lower that to 190 units.
The result will be three to seven times more beach closings, Michigan officials predict.
Fortunately, unlike federal highway and education funds, which are vital to Michigan's budget, the amount of money involved is small enough that the state can thumb its nose at this EPA demand.
Adopting the EPA beach testing standard could make Michigan's beaches less safe. The state currently uses three samples per site to guard against a single tainted sample from skewing results. The EPA calls for just one sample. And environmental experts in Michigan say current standards are tight enough to protect swimmers.
Changing the way water quality near beaches is tested would require approval of the Legislature.
That's not likely. So Michigan is cutting the federal strings. Next year's state budget includes $500,000 to speed the development of better testing technology.
It's not often a state can push back like that against a federal agency. But it's a satisfying feeling, and an important lesson in the risks of getting too attached to the federal money line.
The Holland Sentinel. July 6.
Proposal 1 is a good deal for everyone in Michigan
Proposal 1 on the Aug. 5 primary ballot is a rare accomplishment for Michigan. If it's approved by voters, it will kill an anti-competitive business tax without increasing taxes for other Michiganians, while ensuring local governments and school districts don't suffer any revenue losses. We strongly urge a "yes" vote.
At the heart of the matter is the personal property tax, an inaccurately named levy that has been assessed on the physical assets of Michigan businesses since 1893. Only one other state in the Great Lakes region imposes such a tax, and Indiana does so at a much lower rate than Michigan. The tax discourages capital investment and puts Michigan at a competitive disadvantage against neighboring states when it comes to retaining and recruiting businesses, especially manufacturers that use expensive machinery. Besides the sales tax they pay when purchasing something, businesses in Michigan must also pay the personal property tax, year after year, no matter how old the equipment is.
While the personal property tax has long been unpopular, attempts in the past to repeal it failed for one important reason — the tax is an important part of local government budgets, especially in industry-rich communities such as the Holland-Zeeland area. In the city of Holland, for instance, the personal property tax generates more than $2 million a year, about a quarter of the city's tax revenue. Understandably, Michigan cities and townships resisted repeal unless they were reimbursed for their lost income.
But after years of stalemate, something unusual happened — a compromise that united the business community and local governments. Legislators came up with a series of tax changes that allows the phase-out of the personal property tax for manufacturers and small businesses while fully compensating local governments for the lost revenue. (Utilities and non-manufacturing businesses with physical assets of more than $80,000 will continue to pay the tax.) It's the tax reallocation part of the deal that requires voter approval, and that's what's in Proposal 1. (That won't be clear from the ballot summary, which is particularly dense and unilluminating.) The formula shifts revenue from expiring business tax credits and a portion of the state use tax to local governments; in addition, manufacturers will pay an "essential services" tax that's a fraction of the personal property tax they pay now. No other taxes are increased.
Proposal 1 may sound like a technical, inside-government issue, but it's important to everyone in Michigan. It is a rare and gratifying example of legislators addressing a real problem and working together to fix it. The proposal enjoys the support of virtually every business group and local government association in the state and faces no organized opposition. Proposal 1 will make Michigan a more attractive place to do business while preserving important local government services. It deserves our support.


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First, a stunning landmark is reached. From the New York Times:
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.
While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades.
After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada — substantially behind in 2000 — now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.
On of the key mechanisms of the collapse of the middle class from Mother Jones:
How Taxpayers Subsidize the Multi-Million Dollar Salaries of Restaurant CEOs
- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz raked in $236 million in taxpayer-subsidized compensation over the past two years.
As the fight to raise the minimum wage has gained momentum, the restaurant industry has emerged as the biggest opponent. This is no surprise, since the industry claims the highest percentage of low-wage workers—60 percent—of any other business sector. Front-line fast-food workers earn so little money that about half of them rely on some form of public assistance, to the tune of about $7 billion a year. That hidden subsidy has helped boost restaurant industry profits to record highs. In 2013, the industry reaped $660 billion in profits, and it in turn channeled millions into backing efforts to block local governments from raising pay for low-wage workers and to keep the minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour (exactly where it's been for the past 22 years). But public assistance programs aren't the only way taxpayers subsidize the restaurant industry.
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies finds that the public has been contributing to excessive CEO compensation as well, helping to widen the gap between the lowest-paid workers and their bosses. Thanks to a loophole in the tax code, corporations are allowed to deduct unlimited amounts of money from their tax bills for executive compensation, so long as it comes in the form of stock options or "performance pay." The loophole was the inadvertent result of an attempt by Congress to rein in CEO compensation by limiting the tax deduction for executive pay to $1 million a year. That law exempted pay that came in the form of stock options or performance pay. This loophole has proven lucrative for CEOs of all stripes, but it is particularly egregious in an industry that pays its workers so little that it is already heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
More from UC Berkeley's Robert Reich:
Raising Taxes on Corporations that Pay Their CEOs Royally and Treat Their Workers Like Serfs
Until the 1980s, corporate CEOs were paid, on average, 30 times what their typical worker was paid. Since then, CEO pay has skyrocketed to 280 times the pay of a typical worker; in big companies, to 354 times.
Meanwhile, over the same thirty-year time span the median American worker has seen no pay increase at all, adjusted for inflation. Even though the pay of male workers continues to outpace that of females, the typical male worker between the ages of 25 and 44 peaked in 1973 and has been dropping ever since. Since 2000, wages of the median male worker across all age brackets has dropped 10 percent, after inflation.
This growing divergence between CEO pay and that of the typical American worker isn't just wildly unfair. It's also bad for the economy. It means most workers these days lack the purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing — contributing to the slowest recovery on record. Meanwhile, CEOs and other top executives use their fortunes to fuel speculative booms followed by busts.
Renting wombs to fertilized eggs from abroad via Quartz:
Wealthy Chinese are turning to American surrogates to birth their children
The familiar image of international surrogacy until now has mainly involved Americans and Europeans crossing the world to find women to birth their children. Now, wealthy Chinese couples are seeking surrogates in the US. The practice—a new version of Chinese "birth tourism"—offers a solution to rising infertility in China, a way around Chinese population controls, and even the added bonus of US citizenship for babies born in the States.
For years, pregnant Chinese women have come to the US, mainly to the West Coast, to give birth to baby US citizens who can, at the age of 21, sponsor their parents for green cards. In a new wrinkle, some are instead paying American women to carry their children—a way of getting citizenship as well as dealing with the fact that more Chinese couples are facing trouble having children. (Other surrogacy destinations for wealthy Chinese include Thailand, India, and Ukraine, but the US is still the favorite.)
Salon finds brown noses:
Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords
- Forget inequality! Judging by the White House and the media, the real answer is sucking up to the wealthiest
Inequality is a burning topic among economists, especially since the release of Thomas Piketty's recent book on the subject. Many are questioning whether this is a temporary period of runaway inequality, or whether we are on the verge of an irreversible collapse into extremes of wealth and poverty. (What would we call it? The Oligopolypse? Plutogeddon?)
But numbers alone don't tell the full story. Culture, too, is adapting to this unequal world. We idealize the wealthy today in ways that would have been unthinkable decades ago.
With the children of today's baby boomers scheduled to inherit $30 trillion in the next several decades, politicians and the press are hard at work flattering plutocrats of all ages by portraying them as paragons of wisdom.
Another assault on the potential middle class from the New York Times:
Student Loans Can Suddenly Come Due When Co-Signers Die, a Report Finds
For students who borrow on the private market to pay for school, the death of a parent can come with an unexpected, added blow, a federal watchdog warns. Even borrowers who have good payment records can face sudden demands for full, early repayment of those loans, and can be forced into default.
Most people who take out loans to pay for school have minimal income or credit history, so if they borrow from banks or other private lenders, they need co-signers — usually parents or other relatives. Borrowing from the federal government, the largest source of student loans, rarely requires a co-signer.
The problem, described in a report released Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arises from a little-noticed provision in private loan contracts: If the co-signer dies or files for bankruptcy, the loan holder can demand complete repayment, even if the borrower's record is spotless. If the loan is not repaid, it is declared to be in default, doing damage to a borrower's credit record that can take years to repair.
And a warning to labor from the London Daily Mail:
The future of factories? Swarm of super-fast robotic 'ANTS' powered by magnets can independently climb walls and even build
- The army of robo-ants can move at around 13.7 inches (35cm) a second
- This is equivalent to a human running at just under the speed of sound
- Each ant can be individually controlled using magnets on a circuit board
- Swarm has already built a tower 30cm (11.8 inches) high from carbon rods
Business Insider sounds the alarm:
DAVID EINHORN: 'We Are Witnessing Our Second Tech Bubble In 15 Years'
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn, who runs Greenlight Capital, says we're seeing another tech bubble, CNBC reported, citing his fund's quarterly investor letter.
"Now there is a clear consensus that we are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years. What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it," Einhorn wrote in the letter (PDF) posted online by @Levered_Hawkeye.
Clicking away your rights from the Christian Science Monitor:
General Mills drops arbitration clause, but such contracts are 'pervasive'
Consumer advocates warn that clicking 'I agree' to online contracts can crimp buyers' legal rights, if a contract requires arbitration and nixes class-action lawsuits. The practice is spreading, though General Mills encountered a backlash.
When consumers click "I agree" to online contracts, two things can happen: They may give up their right to pursue a class action lawsuit if something goes wrong, and they can seek damages only through arbitration, an out-of-court legal process that many experts say weighs against the harmed consumer.
From the Los Angeles Times. Another landmark:
Supreme Court upholds Michigan ban on affirmative action
The Supreme Court upheld Michigan's ban on the use of racial affirmative action in its state universities Tuesday, ruling that voters are entitled to decide the issue.
The 6-2 decision clears away constitutional challenges to the state bans on affirmative action, which began in California in 1996.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, speaking for the majority, said the democratic process can decide such issues. "This case is not about how the debate about racial preferences should be resolved," he said. "It is about who may resolve it. There is no authority in the Constitution of the United States or in this court's precedents for the judiciary to set aside Michigan laws that commit this policy determination to the voters."
Kochs go Latino, via Reuters:
Conservative Koch-backed group uses soft touch in recruiting U.S. Hispanics
The conservative advocacy groups backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are known mostly for spending millions of dollars to pelt Democratic candidates with negative television ads.
But this year, one Koch-backed group is using a softer touch to try to win over part of the nation's booming Hispanic population, which has overwhelmingly backed Democrats in recent elections. The group, known as The Libre Initiative, is sponsoring English classes, driver's license workshops and other social programs to try to build relationships with Hispanic voters in cities from Arizona to Florida – even as the group targets Democratic lawmakers with hard-edged TV ads.
Taking a cue from liberal groups that have been active in Hispanic neighborhoods for decades, Libre says it aims to use these events to build support for small-government ideas in communities that typically support big-government ideals.
From NPR, a reminder from Mother Nature:
California's Drought Ripples Through Businesses, Then To Schools
Nearly half of the country's fruits, nuts and vegetables come from California, a state that is drying up. , the entire state is considered "abnormally dry," and two-thirds of California is in "extreme" to "exceptional" drought conditions.
Earlier this year, many farmers in California found out that they would get no irrigation water from state or federal water projects. Recent rains have helped a little. On Friday, government officials said there was enough water to give a little more to some of the region's farmers — 5 percent of the annual allocation, instead of the nothing they were getting.
Economists say it's too early to accurately predict the drought's effect on jobs, but it's likely as many as 20,000 will be lost.
That might not sound like a lot, but many of those workers are already living paycheck to paycheck in communities that depend on that work.
Via the National Drought Monitor, the current state of affairs in California, ranging from lightest [abnormally dry] to darkest [exceptional drought]:
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Increase in electricity consumption worldwide is triggering a parallel rise in electricity generation and transmission capacity. Against this backdrop, power generation and transmission companies across the globe, both state-owned and private firms, are stepping up their electricity and transmission levels in order to meet surging energy demand. To meet growing electricity demand, most nations are looking beyond traditional power sources and focusing on generation and transmitting electricity from alternative energy resources. While most markets are expected to see the development of new traditional power plants powered by fossil fuels, few markets, particularly developed markets such as the United States and Europe are expected to see planned expansions in their existing power generation capacity and development of new renewable power generation facilities. This steady growth in power generation and transmission activity worldwide will help drive strong investments in electricity generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, including FACTS. Capable of even integrating electricity generated from renewable power projects to the main grid, FACTS is expected to emerge as the biggest beneficiary of growing government focus on and support for renewable energy projects such as wind power, and solar.
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Last spring, a Thornton Road resident ran afoul of town regulations when he wanted to keep a few chickens on his 1-acre property. The town's livestock ordinance requires 2 acres, so Fritz Brown's chickens had to go.
Then, last summer, Health Officer Richard Canuel ordered Julio Otero-Rivera to not only remove all livestock, but also to cease and desist all slaughtering, processing, cooking and selling of animals on his Beacon Street property. Otero-Rivera's 2-acre property was large enough for the livestock, but he did not have the proper facilities for a meat-processing operation, Canuel determined. Others living in the compact residential neighborhood had complained about the odors coming from the property.
Now, a Wiley Hill Road family must find bigger quarters for their horse after zoning officials told them their property wasn't big enough to pasture it there. Jay Barrett had sought a zoning variance to keep the horse on his 1.6-acre lot, but his request was denied as the livestock ordinance requires homeowners to have 2 acres or more of land to keep animals like horses and chickens.
These three cases suggest some confusion about the proper place of animals in Londonderry and the nature of the town itself. Bluntly, does Londonderry wish to retain some of its rural, farming nature or is destined to move full speed ahead into cookie-cutter suburbia?
A review of Londonderry's livestock ordinances would be in order, as would public input on the matter. Running a slaughterhouse and meat processing operation in a residential neighborhood seems a bit too much. Keeping a horse on 1.6 acres doesn't seem that out of the ordinary. And banning a few chickens from anything less than 2 acres seems extreme. A half-dozen chickens pecking around a side yard was once a common sight in New England.
While the details of such ordinances are best hashed out with public input and expert guidance, the broader issue here is the battle over Londonderry's soul.
It's said that houses are the last crop a farm ever grows. We've seen the truth of that across New England as 100-year-old farms are carved up for new subdivisions.
That changes a town's character pretty quickly and can sharply divide its people. There are those for whom the smell of manure is akin to pollution, while for others it's a welcome sign of spring.
Odors are often the root of the conflict when those who wish to keep livestock bump up against zoning regulations. That's the case with the Barrett family's horse. Apparently, some neighbors have complained about the smell, according to Zoning Board member Neil Dunn. When the size of the property does not meet regulations, board members have little choice but to order the animals out.
"I don't want to see him lose his horse," Canuel said. "But I have the citizens of the town to be concerned about as well."
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The mobile app 'Girls Around Me' crosses the line from desperate and creepy to downright invasive and scary. Merging Facebook
and Foursquare information with Google Maps and real-time GPS location data, it elevates the social practice of ladies checking in with their posse to potential stalker level. As reported by The Daily Mail, "It tells you where nearby women are, and allows you to see their full name, photos, and send them messages."
**"As of today, "Girls Around Me" was pulled from Foursquare's API access and Apple's iTunes by the developer.**
Brought to you by the Russian company SMS Services O.o.o., also behind budget tool CoinKeeper and shopping app Grocery Mate, this application–already on the market for several months–was called out on Friday by John Brownlee of Cult of Mac, who describes it as "a wake-up call about Facebook privacy."
I pressed the button … Girls Around Me went into radar mode, and after just a few seconds, the map around us was filled with pictures of girls who were in the neighborhood.
(…) I tapped on Zoe. Girls Around Me quickly loaded up a fullscreen render of her Facebook profile picture. The app then told me where Zoe had last been seen (The Independent) and when (15 minutes ago).
A big green button at the bottom reading "Photos & Messaging" just begged to be tapped, and when I did, I was whisked away to Zoe's Facebook profile.
(…) I now know her full name. I can see at a glance that she's single, that she is 24, that she went to Stoneham High School and Bunker Hill Community College, that she likes to travel, that her favorite book is Gone With The Wind and her favorite musician is Tori Amos, and that she's a liberal.
I can see the names of her family and friends. I can see her birthday.
Do the women know? Nah. "The girls have no idea they're being scanned or that their publicly available Facebook and Foursquare data is being loaded into some dude's phone app, says Violet Blue on Pulp Tech. "The women also don't know that the user sees their photos layered over their current location (if they have checked in recently)." They do not have the ability to opt-in – or opt-out.
What is being marketed as a digital hookup opportunity is to many a violation. Stalker victim Ginger Lee, most famously known for her Twitter relationship with the disgraced former NY Rep. Anthony Weiner, was shocked. "This kind app is what stalkers ask for in their holiday wish lists," she says. "As someone who has been targeted and physically followed by someone on a continual basis, seeing a company selling/making an app that essentially does all the work for them is disturbing. Not everyone will use it in s malicious way, but the potential that it can–and probably will–be used as a tool to potentially aid a stalker makes it not only irresponsible but dangerous to have the app available."
After two days of online outrage, Foursquare shut off 'Girls Around Me' API access. Foursquare spokesperson Laura Covington released a statement: "This is a violation of our API policy, so we've reached out to the developer and shut off their API access." On Hacker News, "We prohibit using our API in any manner that is threatening, invasive of another's privacy, or otherwise inappropriate."
The developer, iFree Innovastions, defended its product this evening, saying it is "unethical to pick a scapegoat to talk about the privacy concerns. We see this wave of negative as a serious misunderstanding of the apps' goals, purpose, abilities and restrictions." That being "geo-social exploration of popular venues easy and visual." This despite the name of the app, "Girls Around Me," and the fact that its promos show women in provocative poses, notes WSJ's Digits blog. Here is a statement, in part:
We are absolutely convinced that it is good and important to educate the users to take care of their privacy and what they share publicly. But we believe it is unethical to pick a scapegoat to talk about the privacy concerns. We see this wave of negative as a serious misunderstanding of the apps' goals, purpose, abilities and restrictions. Girls Around Me does not provide any data that is unavailable to user when he uses his or her social network account, nor does it reveal any data that users did not share with others. The app was intended for facilitating discovering of great public venues nearby. The app was designed to make it easier for a user to step out of door and hang out in the city, find people with common interests and new places to go to.
We have removed the application from the iTunes Store, because the users get repetitive error message, and we feel that until we find a solution and be able to provide full service, we should restrain from acquiring new users. We shall put our best effort to support the apps existing users and address their concerns.
"It's a terrible idea to use this to meet women," writes Violet Blue. "Not simply from an ethical standpoint: no sane girl is going to warm up to a strange man that approaches her knowing way too much about her in the first place."
"People always ask me why I don't use Facebook or Foursquare, and things like this are the reason why," says Ginger Lee. "I only want people to know where I am when I decide to tell them."
This is big deal about nothing. Stalking is following one person not finding out who is around you that you know or might like to know. They do this in Japan already and no one is freaking about about it. But here is fear based America the media always blows everything out of proportion.
People already check in on Facebook, 4square etc…
All things can be used or misused. See if a girl you would like to meet is around you is not stalking. Guys go to bars and clubs, and coffee and tea places to meet women some will hit several in a row in a night out. All this is doing is saving them time by seeing if their is someone there that they might actually like to meet.
If a woman/person has privacy and security concerns they should not be checking in anywhere they go or posting their entire life on Facebook like they do.
Of course this is NOT stalking, and the author knows it. It's simple, offensive click bait to put "STALKER APP" in your headline.
The outrage is that developers' time was wasted, and that they're being made scapegoats for morons' own actions. Gee, these users BROADCAST their presence at a PUBLIC venue on a PUBLIC channel… and somebody took note. So now they regret it and are pissing and moaning? This is like having sex, deciding they regret it, and then crying "rape!"
And these infants are getting just what they wanted: Absolved of all responsibility for their own actions. PATHETIC.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, I'm going to agree with the other comments here and say that this doesn't seem nearly as creepy as most of the news stories are trying to make it out to be.
When someone chooses to _publicly_ check-in, they are actively choosing to make their location available to everyone. It's not that these would-be victims forgot to read the fine print in and adjust their privacy settings; they are voluntarily sharing their location with the world in an ongoing manner.
All this app seems to do is aggregate data that is already available to everyone. Sure, the name "Girls Around Me" is bound to raise some eyebrows, but the actual functionality seems pretty similar to the "Nearby" feature that is already built in to the Google Plus app.
This is totally stalker-y.
Personally I've never understood the appeal of something like 4Square that lets people know where you are when. But the difference here is by linking to your FB account, it gives someone a lot of information about a woman if they do want to stalk her.
I think the real solution is that regardless of apps that get developed, people need to be much more careful with their Facebook profiles. It's not hard to make your basic information private so that only friends can see it. I imagine that someone using Girls Around Me would not be able to find information about someone who had made her profile private.


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If you like Andes Mints or Mint Choc. Chip Ice Cream ~ You'll love these! In fact, Andes Mints makes their own mint baking chips - which I used and highly recommend (found next to the toffee bits and M&M's in your grocery store). I don't think you need 2c of them though - somewhere between 1 to 1 1/2 cup should be fine (start w/ one cup and add more to taste and texture). However, I did use the full two cups and found these cookies extremely minty *which doesn't make them bad...I'll just cut back next time. However, when I pulled them out of the oven, these cookies had a uncooked (whitish/green tint) look to them. I was worried...who would eat these? They don't even look cooked. Then I got an idea I used on another cookie - I melted some chocolate almond bark (just a couple sqaures of it) and with my spoon, lightly drizzled chocolate criss-crossing over the top. Not only did they look fabulous but tasted great. Any true choc. mint lover can appreciate these cookies. Even my boyfriend who isn't so fond of chocolate mint had his share over the holidays. I'll make these again and again...using my changes or additions. Thanks a ton Clare!
These are so good--and healthier without the butter! Instead of mint chocolate chips (which I couldn't find), I used regular choc. chips with a few drops of McCormick's Mint Extract. mmmmmmmmm! My coworkers love these!
I've made this recipe for cookie exchanges for years. I prefer making the recipe with butter instead of oil, and I roll the dough into balls and coat them lightly with sugar before baking. The resulting cookie is delicious, and goes really well with a cup of coffee.
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Staving off a protest that became as violent as it was quickly subdued, Pakistani police fired off live rounds and shot tear gas into a crowd of more than 1,000 students Thursday as protesters attempted to demonstrate in front of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. Furious over the Innocence of Muslims film thathas sparked blowback across the globe, protesters burned U.S. flags and hurled objects at riot police amid fires and clouds of tear gas in Pakistan's capital.
According to India's NDTV, the protesters were headed toward Islamabad's diplomatic enclave where the U.S. Embassy is located until they were thwarted by police, who set up a barrier of truck containers to block access to the embassy. "I was ordered by my boss to disperse the crowd and that is why I had to open live fire but the aim was nearby trees and not the demonstrators," Zaman Khan, a police officer, told Dawn newspaper. Russia Today has a video of protesters attempting to penetrate the barrier and brandishing black Islamic flags
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An Effingham County judge denied a motion Monday to reduce bond for a rural Effingham man accused of shooting another man in the buttocks earlier this month.
Judge Ericka Sanders cited the serious nature of the charges against Byron R. Mesnard, 20, in making her decision after a bond reduction hearing Monday in Circuit Court.
"Considering the serious nature of this offense, I am unwilling to reduce bond at this time," Sanders said. "A dangerous weapon was repeatedly fired in the direction of an individual."
Mesnard had been held in Effingham County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond since turning himself in last week on charges of aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm. He is accused of shooting Shane Gephart, 23, outside his home early on the morning of Sept. 30.
Effingham County State's Attorney Ed Deters said during Monday's hearing that Gephart has returned to work after being hospitalized for gunshot wounds to the buttocks. Deters added Gephart did not want to see the bond reduced.
Deters said the only reason bond reduction is even an issue stems from Mesnard's own injuries. The defendant accidentally shot himself in the chin and told Sanders Monday that he will face surgery to remove a bullet behind his left eye.
"Were it not for the medical condition of the defendant, this would be a no-brainer," Deters said. "We object (to bond reduction), but I understand the defendant's medical issues and leave the decision to the court."
Defense attorney Scott Ealy asked for recognizance bond or bond "of a nominal nature."
Ealy argued that Mesnard had established a record of compliance in the case by surrendering to authorities immediately after probable cause was found last week.
Alan Harris, the defendant's grandfather, testified that he and other family members would make sure Mesnard complied with all bond conditions.
"Why do you have that confidence?" Ealy said.
"He's a good kid," replied Harris, who then burst into tears on the witness stand.
"I think he'll do whatever you want him to do," Harris later added.
Harris, a semi-retired barber and longtime Effingham city commissioner, said he removed all firearms from Mesnard's home.
Harris said he and his family could come up with about $2,000 cash to bail out his grandson. Anything beyond that, he said, would require arrangements to be made that might include taking out a mortgage on his downtown Effingham barber shop.
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Jail officials said that Mesnard did indeed post the $50,000 cash required for his release soon after the hearing.
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Panache Quartet in Concert With Opener Don Woodcock & Friends
(August 2, 2014, 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm) Panache Quartet (www.panachequartet.com) are Cape Breton fiddler Andrea Beaton, Franco-American fiddler Donna Hebert, American Old-Time fiddler Jane Rothfield, and Quebecois fiddler Veronique Plasse. Don Woodcock and friends open. Tickets $20/$10. (Edwards Opera House, 161 Main Street,Edwards,NY) - Website
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MILAN (AP) — Italian oil and gas company Eni says fourth quarter profits were more or less flat as a recovery of production in Libya was offset by higher taxes and lower investment profits.
Eni says Friday its net profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31 was €1.52 billion ($2 billion) against €1.54 billion a year earlier.
Eni says 2012 was a record year for exploration with discovered resources of 3.64 billion barrels of oil equivalent, or six times annual production. Progress was made in Mozambique, West Africa, Indonesia and the Barents Sea.
Oil and natural gas production for the year was 1.7 million barrels a day, up 7 percent from 2011.
Full year earnings rose 3 percent at €7.1 billion.
Eni is also raising the dividend to €1.08 a share from €1.04.
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It happened around 1:30 this morning at the Poop Deck bar located at 60th & Grover.
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The victim was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
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Rick Perry's six-foot frame seemed to slump in his chair during Tuesday's Republican presidential primary debate, at a time when he should have been rising to the challenge.
The Texas governor sorely needed to notch a solid debate performance to arrest his freefall in the polls and reclaim his status as the biggest threat to the Republican to beat, Mitt Romney. He didn't, reviving questions about his readiness for the national stage and raising new ones about his ability to sustain an initial, $17 million fundraising blitz.
(PICTURES: 8 GOP Presidential Hopefuls Debate in N.H.)
Unlike previous debates, the eight Republican candidates on the stage in Hanover, N.H. were seated around a table instead of standing behind podiums. Perry fidgeted in his chair. He gave rambling responses, let Romney get off without a serious blow, and was caught on camera wincing in response to his rivals.
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While Perry hoped to make the debate a referendum on one of Romney's biggest liabilities – the similar requirements in the health insurance law he signed as governor of Massachusetts and the federal law President Obama's enacted – there was far more discussion of the catchy "9-9-9'' economic plan offered by his surging rival, Herman Cain.
(ANALYSIS: GOP Hopefuls: Economic Crisis Not Wall Street's Fault)
When Perry finally had a chance to put Romney on the spot, the ex-Massachusetts governor delivered a strong counterpunch that took the sting out of the loaded question about his health care record. Turning the table, Romney said he was "proud'' that he took on a major problem. He noted that his home state has the lowest number of uninsured kids in the nation, while Texas has the highest.
In a debate devoted to the economy, Perry offered few specifics about what he would do to improve American prosperity beyond promising to capitalize on the nation's "treasure trove'' of energy resources. "What we need to be focused on in this country today is not whether or not we are going to have this policy or that policy,'' he said in a debate that was supposed to be focused on, well, economic policy. "Mitt's had six years to be working on a plan,'' he said in a dig at Romney's long-running campaign for the White House. "I've been in this for about eight weeks.''
Asked how he would reduce mounting poverty in the nation, Perry laid the problem at President Obama's feet.
"The reason we have that many people living in poverty is because we have a president of the United States who is a job killer,'' Perry said. "You have a president who doesn't understand how to create wealth… This president, I will suggest to you, is the biggest deterrent to getting this country back on track.''
Perry didn't catch any breaks from the debate's questioners, either. Asked about a solar energy company that went bust after receiving half a billion dollars in Obama stimulus money, Perry had barely responded before he had to field a follow-up about the shortcomings of a similar loan problem in Texas.
Perry may have finally hit his stride in his closing remarks when he talked about his own hard-scrabble upbringing and described commiserating with an unemployed rig operator in the Gulf of Mexico. "They're begging for someone to make America, America again,'' he said.
One of the hallmarks of the 2012 Republican primary so far has been that debates matter. The beginning of the end of Tim Pawlenty's campaign came when he balked at confronting Romney on stage in June. Michele Bachmann's profile rose and fell on the strength -- and weakness -- of her early performances. Perry lost his front-runner's perch after a string of shaky debate appearances last month.
He didn't commit any major gaffes on Tuesday, but his uneven delivery won't help him make the case to the Republican voters that he would be the strongest challenger to President Obama.
Tuesday's debate was unlikely to have drawn as large an audience as previous matchups since it was shown on the Bloomberg TV, not a major cable or broadcast network. It was also sponsored by The Washington Post and streamed live on the newspaper's website.
The debate was the first since New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that they would not run in 2012, injecting some certainty into one of the most volatile GOP primaries in decades. Christie unexpectedly endorsed Romney shortly before the debate, giving him a major boost of confidence he seemed to wear on stage.
As he has in previous debates, Romney continued to position himself for the general election, talking about the "good Democrats and good Republicans who love this country first'' and emphasizing the plight of the middle class.
In a cutting remark that belittled both Perry for not detailing a sweeping economic plan and Cain for offering a tax reform slogan, Romney said, "Simple answers are always very helpful but oftentimes inadequate, in my view. To get this economy going we're going to have to deal with more than tax policy and energy policy, even though those are part of my plan."
Cain, the Atlanta corporate executive who only weeks ago was barely registering in the polls, was seated between Romney and Perry to reflect his recent surge. While he displayed the bluntness and sense of humor that are becoming his trademarks, he also exposed himself as a political neophyte with his reluctance to identify his "well-recognized'' economic advisers.
If voters were looking for unconventional or bipartisan solutions in the first 2012 debate focused on the economy, they were likely to be disappointed. The candidates mostly delivered the standard talking points of the Republican Party, demanding less spending, lower taxes, fewer regulations, and smaller government.
"I think it's a terrible idea to cut defense,'' Romney said. "I think it's a terrible idea to raise taxes."
Asked whether Wall Street executives should have gone to jail for their role in the economic meltdown in 2008, Michele Bachmann refused to blame anyone other than Washington. "You can trace it right back to the federal government,'' she said.
Government-bashing in the 2012 race has become predictable as an awkward joke or two from Jon Huntsman.
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Full- and part-time faculty will receive workshop training in Differentiated Instruction (DI), an approach used in K-12 education. These workshops will be conducted by a national expert in the field, but content-area applications of DI will be facilitated by 8 faculty leaders who have received intensive training in DI. The evaluation plan focuses on the effectiveness of these interventions to:
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Pros: Remembers the settings while disconnecting the module from the power (except time), What lets to power up/down by disconnecting power supply. Can be put to Stand-By mode and awaken from it without remote control what lets in the future to turn on/off by remote control
Cons: Doesn't have the connection for RTC (Real Time Clock) back up battery (although it is mentioned in user manual) so the clock need to be readjusted after power disconnection. If the alarm was deactivated, it is reactivated again every time when the module is awaken from Stand-By mode. On the front panel the button "Vol+" is placed at the left side from the "Vol-" button; also the "Prev" button is placed at the right side from the "Next" button what causes to some confusions.
Other: The module can be put to and awaken from the Stand-By mode without remote control by long pressing on "Mode" button on the front panel. The clock and alarm can be adjusted in standby mode. "Mode" button in Stand-By mode turns on and off clock adjustment while "Play/Pause" button turns on/off alarm adjustment. The alarm can be activated and deactivated by long pressing on "Play/Pause" button in Stand-By mode, by while awaking it reactivates again. If the alarm is activated, at the time set in the alarm the module will be turned on. The power voltage shouldn't exceed 4.2 volts otherwise the module in the Aux/SD/USB module will noise and won't accept the commands from remote control.
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Cons: FM-radio has a lack of bass. (mp3-player and line-in has good enough sound quality) Built-in connectors are not useful, so I had removed them and soldered the wires directly to the board. Buttons are too tight. I'd prefer more soft buttons. Clock is reset if the device is powered off. So I have to create some kind of battery backup to keep the clock working continuously. And one small wishes: a bigger display. My mother has to come close to see the time :(
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I have put this inside some cheap old radio, and now I have a full MP3 player with FM radio for ten bucks !
The front is a sticker, so you can work without it, and when having all in place, screws included, you put the front. It looks as it was always there, like a professional contruction!
Cons: Had to remove the included amplifiers, because even not using them they started to smoke!!
Maybe I connected something wrong, but after removing them, everything was ok, and the line output still produced nice and cripsy sound!
Other: Perfect for a car (maybe sku.90371 that's smaller) or a jeep or a boat.
I think it's even perfect for a bike !!
This one has a screen (show track number, function, clock, and alarm that I never figured out how it works!), FM radio and AUX IN.
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Other: It's a very practical gadget, you can upgrade your old cassette car radio, build an alarm clock or a cheap micro-"hifi" on your own, etc... Too bad you don't get a proper english manual for it, because i have a feeling that many useful functions remain hidden even if you try pressing buttons randomly.
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Cons: No ID3/file name display (files display as numbers). No shuffle play (despite what specs imply, see "Other thoughts"). Manual is fully in Chinese (but specs posted below are helpful!). No cables or plugs included (you get *exactly* what the pictures say).
Other: Great value for money, does what it says. Good sound quality and basic functionality. Easy to connect if you know what you're doing.
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Bobbie Mae Kowalik, 86, of Nederland passed away on January 11, 2013 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas. She was born on June 22, 1926 in Leesville, Louisiana to Robert Parker and Fannie Merrell. Bobbie was an executive secretary for Texaco Refinery.
A gathering of family and friends will be held at Melancon's Funeral Home from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on January 14, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, with Rev. Mark Gibson officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches.
Bobbie is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ernest Eugene Kowalik; and sister, Aline Sheppard. She is survived by her daughter, Kathy Kowalik of Nederland and son, Gene Kowalik of San Antonio.
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Roots-rock party band Esquela will play its annual Thanksgiving Reunion Show at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Andes Hotel, at 110 Main St. in Andes.
This will be the group's last public performance before heading to the studio to record a new album with New York City producer Eric "Roscoe" Ambel.
Ambel has produced and recorded with artists such as Ryan Adams, Robert Randolph, Steve Wynn, Marshall Crenshaw, Laura Cantrell, Mojo Nixon and The Bottle Rockets. In 2000, he became the lead guitarist for Steve Earle's touring and recording band, The Dukes. Ambel also co-founded Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, The Del-Lords and The Yayhoos.
Esquela features regional performers Rebecca Frame on vocals, Brian Shafer on guitar, front-man/writer John "Chico" Finn and Todd Russell on drums and vocals. The band will perform as a six-piece group at Saturday's show, with Matt Woodin joining in on guitar and mandolin and Ira McIntosh on guitar and vocals.
Esquela was co-founded by Keith Christopher, who co-writers the majority of the band's material, although he is rarely able to perform with the band because of international obligations with his other band, Homemade Sin.
In addition to Esquela, Christopher has written for Ray Charles, Chris Knight, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Billy Joe Shaver and many others.
Saturday's performance is free and open to the public for those 21 years old and older.


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Despite eight out-going seniors on the 2012-13 version of his Lady Roos, Weatherford girls soccer coach Tyler Kernan has reason to feel relatively positive about next season.
Looking deeper into the roster the loss of the Lady Roo seniors is offset by the plethora of underclassmen who will be returning to the pitch for the 2013-14 campaign.
There will also be formidable quality interspersed with the quantity of the younger players moving into their second, or third year of varsity experience.
An evident illustration is Cooper Mullins, entering her junior after being named the District 3-5A Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore. Five more underclassmen were named to the all-district squad, led by four seniors providing an example of leadership for the coming years.
The seniors left another stellar legacy, with all eight accomplishing the enviable achievement of earning spots on the All-State Academic rolls.
District 3-5A Girls Soccer
Weatherford All-District Roster
Offensive Player of the Year
Cooper Mullins (So.)
Midfield Player of the Year
Erin Hailey - (Sr.)
First Team
Madison Mullins (Sr.) — Midfield
Kristin Kelley (So.) — Midfield
Shelby Givler (Jr.) — Utility
Second Team
Rachel Masters (Sr.) — Defense
Connor Mackenzie (Fr.) - Forward
Honorable Mention
Autumn Gieger (Sr.)
Carli Pisano (So.)
Hannah Way (So.)
Academic All-District
Cooper Mullins (So.)
Mesa Mendenhall (So.)
Autumn White (So.)
Madison Galloway (Jr.)
Taytum Boyd (So.)
Stephanie Guilbault (Jr.)
Shelby Givler (Jr.)
Carli Pisano (So.)
Hannah Way (So.)
Kristin Kelley (So.)
Connor Mackenzie (Fr.)
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Caleigh Chane
Erin Hailey
Rachel Masters
Autumn Gieger
Emily Rich
Camille Carey
Ashley Waller
Madison Mullins
Sports Editor's note: Athletic and academic honors awarded to the 2012-13 Weatherford Lady Roos soccer team were inadvertantly overlooked for publication when rosters were released. The Democrat regrets the oversight.


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