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The right to education, one of the rights noted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been violated by the Iranian government for years. Shortly after the 1997 revolution, the group that had taken over the government decided to filter the dissident professors and students out of universities. This effort continues to today, thirty years later. The intensity of this effort has risen and fallen during different periods. Presently, the students banned from education are known as the "starred students," many of whom are serving heavy sentences in prisons for protesting their ban on education.
The first step, the Cultural Revolution
Before the revolution, universities were a place for energetic, idealist youth whose goal was to build a free and advanced society. These students had an effective role in the success of the revolution. After the revolution, different viewpoints had their own assemblies at universities. The idea, that universities must be run by academics and not someone designated by the government, was pursued. Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first dean of Tehran University after the revolution, founded a council consisting of the professors, students and staff at the university, to make sure all the positions at the university were elected by the students. (1) The new leaders had lost their grip on the universities. They made a new plan to control higher education: the Cultural Revolution.
The Cultural Revolution started with the stated goals of "Islamization" of the universities and cleansing the universities from "westernized" students and professors. Concerning this issue, Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Republic at the time, said: "Our universities are dependent. Our universities are colonial. Our universities train westernized people. Too many of the professors are westernized and they give our youth a westernized upbringing." (2) Many students, along with nearly 8,000 professors, almost half the professors in Iran, were expelled from the universities. A system for the political-ideological selection of the students and professors was developed. In addition to the scientific criteria, the compatibility between the ideology of the people and the government was considered necessary for being accepted into a university. (3)
Stars on the shoulders of the students
When the universities were shut down under the banner of the Cultural Revolution, there was no longer a different voice than the government's one. Since the 1980s many people have lost the right to education. There was no news coverage on this issue. Baha'is were not allowed to enter universities at all. If a Baha'i citizen was not identified at the beginning, he would receive a finalized order and would be expelled during his education, when eventually discovered. Many of those, whose relatives and friends had been imprisoned or executed for support or membership in anti-regime groups, were among those who did not have the right to education. For the masters' and doctorate levels also, there was a very strict ideological-religious selection procedure. Sometimes people had to respond to questions about the speech given on the most recent Friday Prayer service; sometimes you had to respond to questions from the "Resaleh" (guides of Shari'a law) and finally even if you responded to all these questions, sometimes you needed referrals from your local IRGC office or local cleric; and then maybe you would be accepted into a masters' or doctorate program. However, in the 1990s and after the election of Mohammad Khatami in May of 1997, the conditions relaxed. Even though, the laws and regulations about general qualifications remained and were not revised, the authorities and university deans acted in a more reconciliatory fashion and were not as strict as before. There were still those whose right to education was violated, but the number was smaller.
This period was temporary and short. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took power, control over the universities tightened once again. They claimed that they had come to "really Islamize" the universities, and they wanted to renew the plan that had failed at the beginning of the revolutionary government. The first time the annual university entrance exam was held under Ahmadinejad's administration, a new phenomenon occurred. When the MS/MA results were announced in 2006, a star had been printed in front of a number of names. Some applicants had one, some had two and some had three stars in front of their names. Finally, it was figured out that these were not lucky stars for students. They were demonic stars that banned people from education. Those with three stars were immediately banned from education. Those with two stars had to go to the security office of the "Evaluation and High Education Office" and sign pledges that they would no longer engage in any political activity or they would not be admitted. Those with one star were luckier and it was enough for them to sign a pledge with the security office of the university; but this was just the beginning.
Disciplinary Committees, the second arm
The stars were not the whole story. Disciplinary Committees had started to ban students from continuing their education. The Disciplinary Committee is an organization at Iranian universities to deal with violations of the students. During this period, any kind of opposition political activity ended in immediately being summoned to the Disciplinary Committees and the punishment would be a suspension of one term, two terms or even longer from education. Many were banned from education, just for publishing student journals, participating in student associations or gatherings and expressing their opinions. In many cases, they were even physically banned from entering the university. Seyed Sadroddin Shari'ati, the dean of Allameh Tabatabaei University and Alireza Raha'i the dean of Amir Kabir Industrial University, were at the forefront of these actions and in some cases even asked the officials to arrest and detain students. This is how the right to education in Iran turned into a privilege. The privilege of education was only for those who were close and supported the officials. In order to study at universities, especially in the higher levels, you had to prove your allegiance to the ruling regime or at least never express any criticism.
The students protest
However, student activists did not remain silent about this. Since 2006, the biggest coalition of dissident students, the "Office for Strengthening Unity," has protested repeatedly on this issue. Statements, gatherings and interviews of the student activists show that they are not planning to retreat from their demand to a right to education. In 2008, a group of students who were banned from education founded the "Council to Defend the Right to Study." Within a year, this council had won a lot of credibility among the students. The right to education turned into a basic slogan of the student movement and the "starred students" became the symbol of academic oppression. When the presidential campaigns of 2009 began, Mehdi Karrubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the two reformist candidates, announced that a solution to the students' problems was on their agenda. (4) This occurred even though Ahmadinejad denied the existence of "starred students." In response, the "starred students" gathered in front of the oldest and largest university in Iran, the Tehran University, holding signs and chanting "Ahmadinejad is lying." The morning after the infamous election of 2009, many of the students who were banned from studying, were arrested and imprisoned. They were sent to prison instead of to university, so that no one would hear their voices.
A look at the legal base of the issue
According to the second article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "Race, color, gender, language, religion, political or any other viewpoint" cannot and should not be the basis for any kind of discrimination. Article 26 also reads that "high education must be equally available to everybody, so that each individual can use that based on his talents." However, for many years, in addition to the scientific criteria, ideological and political criteria have been effective on the process of the students' acceptance to the universities. According to a statement from the "Evaluation Organization" which is responsible for holding the annual university entrance exams, "the belief in Islam or another religion stated in the constitution of the Islamic Republic, commitment to the practical orders of Islam (performing the duties and refraining from the taboos), refraining from animosity (not criticism) against the Islamic Republic regime" are some of the general conditions for entering a university. (5)
In Iran, members of the Baha'i minority are prohibited from attending any university in the country, solely as a result of their religious belief. Many others are stopped from continuing their education in masters' and doctorate levels based on their political ideology or opposition to the regime. In addition to these regulations, in recent years, a policy of limiting the number of female students at university has been implemented. This gender-based policy is aimed at decreasing the female student population and effectively reduces the chances of women to be accepted to universities.
There is no exact count of the number of people who have been banned from studying at universities. Many of these people do not have the ability to take their problem to the media for numerous reasons. Despite all this, last year the Human Rights Commission of the Office for Strengthening Unity sent a report to Ahmad Shahid, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. In that report, more than 2,000 instances of violations on the rights of students between March 2009 and August 2011 were mentioned. Based on that report, more than 400 people had been banned from continuing their education those two and a half years. The report partly reads: "All this is for a peaceful and legal follow up on the demands… the demands are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its extensions are considered the basic rights of each individual. The Islamic Republic, as a signatory member, is responsible to carry them out." (6) A second report revealed 35 new cases of students being banned from education or being expelled from universities between September 2011 and May 2012. (7)
Some students are still imprisoned for their promoting their basic human right. Zia Nabavi and Majid Dorri, members of the Council to Defend the Right to Education are spending their 10 year and six year sentences in prison in exile. Zia Nabavi is being held under very difficult conditions in Karoon prison in Ahvaz, and Majid Dorri is in Behbahan prison. They have served nearly four years of their prison terms. Navid Khanjani, a young Baha'I, is in prison as well and serving a heavy sentence of 12 years of imprisonment. All these people have one single demand, which is, for them to be allowed to return to their classes at universities. Prisons are not a place for students.
1. The Farsi Wikipedia page of Mohammad Maleki: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C
2. http://www.radiofarda.com/content/o2_revolution/389137.html
3. http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86
4. Mehdi Karrubi's campaign ad about the "starred students": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-Q_gyPkw0
5. http://sanjesh.org/FullStory.aspx?gid=2&id=637
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2012/01/120123_l21_student_universitu_rights_shahid.shtml
7. http://www.daneshjoonews.com/node/7525


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Bag-men lobbyists paid off two allegedly corrupt mayors in an FBI sting. Another mayor was charged with working a clandestine consulting gig and misspending campaign money.
There were arrests for elections, tax and securities fraud. Crooked cops got busted. A city government acted like a crime racket.
And an elusive character in the investigation of a congressman who fled back and forth to Nicaragua.
From Homestead to Hialeah and beyond, 2013 was the year of Dirty Dade an orgy of public-corruption news about indictments, informants, wiretaps and sleaze that confirmed some of the worst suspicions about some public servants who think the public should serve them.
Sleazy Sweetwater
Ground zero for Miami-Dade sleaze: Sweetwater.
A small city wedged in the northeast corner of Southwest Eighth Street and Floridas Turnpike, Sweetwaters claim to fame is that it was founded by Russian circus midgets 72 years ago.
But by the 1980s, Sweetwater gained a reputation as a corruption capital. Cops were investigated for beating up citizens. One officer went on a murder-robbery spree. And four city commissioners and the mayor were found guilty in a federal extortion scheme.
This year, Mayor Manny Maroño upheld the citys sad tradition when he was indicted in an FBI grant-fraud sting.
Federal agents and the press then set about untangling the web of corruption in Sweetwater.
Theres a towing company, linked to Maroño, that financially preyed on some citizens and led to the questionable seizure of a Porsche Panamera.
Investigators are trying to track down missing police evidence including cash and have uncovered a secret evidence room that dirty cops might have used as a gift store for loved ones. Three officers are under investigation for police brutality and doctoring investigative records.
Even a police horse a handsome black Percheron named Maverick bought by city taxpayers made a corruption cameo. Maverick mysteriously ended up at the Homestead ranch of a former Sweetwater police lieutenant.
It was a like a criminal enterprise, Deborah Centeno, a twice-failed candidate for city commission, said.
Maroños mother, City Commissioner Isolina Maroño, showed off a mobsters mouth when she threatened an El Nuevo Herald reporter who helped expose her sons shenanigans.
Theres a saying in Cuba, Isolina Maroño said. You either off the press or pay off the press.
FBI stings
Sweetwaters spate of bad press began in August when Maroño and Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi were both busted by the FBI, which had undercover agents pose as scummy Chicago businessmen with a phony company called Sunshine Universal.
In return for kickbacks, the mayors allegedly lied about Sunshine performing economic development work (it produced none) in a brief telephone survey. The mayors thought they were talking to a federal-grant administrator at AmeriCorps, but it was actually an undercover FBI agent.
You answered questions knowing that you're f---ing lying, but you gotta be able to have that charisma, to be able to pull it off, to bulls--t, Maroño, boasting of his intellectual prowess, told the undercover agents.
The mayors were identified by an informant, lobbyist Michael Kesti, who led the FBI to two lobbyists tied to the elected officials: Richard Candia and Jorge Forte.
The indictments portray Pizzi as the cagier of the two mayors. Insisting the deal was legitimate, Pizzi has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges tied to $6,750 of illicit payments.
Maroño took more cash with Forte, $60,000, and tried to recruit other mayors into the scam. Before pleading guilty in October, he unsuccessfully tried to convert his $300,000 city pension into a private retirement account.
[Maroño]s not gonna be shy, shy to ask for s--t, Candia told an FBI agent in September 2011 during the scheme. I mean, there will be no end.
Securities fraud
A month before his indictment, Pizzi made an appearance in an unrelated fraud case but as the lawyer for a defendant, Michael Boudreaux, the former budget director for the City of Miami.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Boudreaux and the city with civil securities fraud for allegedly misrepresenting city finances to bond investors.
Boudreaux was accused of orchestrating financial transfers to mask mounting deficits and falsely inflate reserves reported in the citys 2007 and 2008 financial statements, the SEC said.
Miami cannot continue to play shell games with its finances, Eric I. Bustillo, director of the SECs Miami regional office, said in a statement.
The SEC also charged the city with violating an existing 2003 cease-and-desist order based on similar misconduct. It marked the first time the SEC charged a municipality that was already under an existing cease-and-desist order.
The SEC is also investigating the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County for the financing of the new Miami Marlins baseball park.
Separately, the SEC charged the city of South Miami for fraudulently failing to disclose problems with the tax-exempt status of bond deals. South Miami agreed to settle the charges and hire an independent consultant to oversee some future bond deals.
But in the City of Miami, officials are still fighting the SEC, as is Boudreaux.
He was an employee who did his job and did absolutely nothing wrong, Pizzi said of his client, Boudreaux, at the time.
Miami cops get stung
Miamis police were also under federal scrutiny.
As many as 10 officers lost their jobs or were charged in the wake of an illegal protection racket for a Liberty City gambling joint called the Players Choice Barber Shop. The illegal police protection was organized by Officer Nathaniel Dauphin, who agreed to flip and inform on fellow officers.
With the FBI listening in, Dauphin enticed Officer Harold James into taking $800 in payoffs to provide protection for a fraudulent Liberty City check-cashing store that was actually an FBI front. James was sentenced in April to 15 months in prison.
Another crooked cop, Malinsky Bazile, stole the identities of Floridians he looked up in a law enforcement database. Bazile, who filed $140,000 worth of false tax returns, was convicted in October.
It marked the first time a South Florida law enforcement officer was found guilty of identity theft and tax-refund fraud.
Before his trial, Bazile and Dauphin set up yet another police officer, Vital Frederick, who participated in ID-theft grift involving 52 people and also accepted $1,400 in cash for protecting the phony check-cashing store.
Fredericks defense: hes gay and Bazile and Dauphin basically threatened to out him if he didnt commit the crimes. Frederick was convicted just days after Bazile. The two await sentencing. Dauphins sentence was reduced to three years probation and 90 days home confinement.
Separately, in July, the U.S. Justice Department issued a report finding that the 1,100-officer Miami Police Department engaged in an unconstitutional pattern or practice of excessive use of force after Justice examined 33 police shootings from 2008 to 2011.
More cop controversies
In February, former Opa-locka Capt. Arthur Balom was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for tipping off and protecting the Back Blues Gang, and for distributing cocaine, Ecstasy and oxycodone.
Then, in July, former Opa-locka Sgt. German Bosque nicknamed Floridas dirtiest cop was arrested for falsely imprisoning a man who complained that the officer punched him in the face after the man refused to hand over his 14-month-old child to the childs mother in 2011.
It was Bosques third arrest. He had been fired six times before but somehow stayed in law enforcement, and has survived at least 40 internal-affairs investigations 16 of which concerned excessive use of force, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.
Bosque said hes innocent and has been unfairly targeted in a witch hunt.
In nearby Miami Gardens, the owner of a quick-mart sued the police in a November federal civil-rights complaint that alleges the officers unnecessarily shoved, intimidated and arrested patrons and a worker.
Miami Gardens denies the charges. But the questionable police activity was all captured on surveillance video. Weeks later, Miami Gardens Police Chief Matthew Boyd resigned.
In Homestead, Mayor Steve Bateman was charged by the Miami-Dade state attorneys office with engineering a secret, $125-an-hour consulting job with Community Health of South Florida.
Community Health hired the city mayor to cut through red tape at Miami-Dade County Hall. But higher-ups in Miami-Dade said they had no idea Bateman worked for the company.
He comes to me as the mayor of Homestead. He doesnt come to me as a lobbyist from Homestead, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told prosecutors.
Records showed Bateman overbilled Community Health for that meeting, charging eight hours for the meeting with Gimenez that lasted only an hour.
Bateman pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of receiving unlawful compensation and three misdemeanors for violating the countys ethics code. Batemans late August arrest came three weeks after the federal busts of Pizzi and Maroño.
After Bateman got out of jail, he promptly hit the campaign trail to seek reelection. He lost.
Weeks later in November, the state attorneys office filed seven new misdemeanor counts against Bateman for allegedly misspending campaign contributions in late 2011.
Whoop-de-doo! Bateman, again professing his innocence, said. I am allowed to spend campaign money to buy my campaign workers lunch. Its all very innocent.
Hialeahs shadow banking
In Hialeah, Julio Robaina, the former mayor and a former candidate for county mayor, was indicted in May in federal court on charges of tax evasion and lying to federal agents. His wife was charged, too.
The Robainas deny wrongdoing. Trial is scheduled for May.
The U.S. attorneys office hopped on Robainas trail amid an investigation into Hialeahs shadow banking industry. While mayor, Robaina allegedly made $1 million worth of usurious and clandestine loans to friends and constituents, including a Ponzi schemer.
Months later, in August, Robainas uncle Sergio El Tío Robaina was convicted in an election-fraud scandal that marred the 2012 mayoral race and primaries.
El Tío pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of possessing multiple absentee ballots and illegally filling out the ballots of two others. El Tío was known as a Hialeah boletero (balloteer or ballot broker) who helped round up absentee ballots on behalf of candidates or causes.
In October, another Hialeah ballot broker, Deisy Cabrera, struck a plea deal with prosecutors. She accepted probation for, in her words, merely helping elderly voters cast their ballots in the 2012 mayoral race and area primaries.
Ms. Cabrera truly was the lamb led to the slaughter by the political wolves that wished to distract the media from the true corruption that continues to exist, said her lawyer, Robin Pimentel.
Scandal hits congressmans pal
As old-school block-walking boleteros disappear, a new breed of fraudsters began using computers to handle absentee ballots requesting them on behalf of unsuspecting voters.
In late October, Jeffrey Garcia received a 90-day jail sentence for masterminding a plot to electronically request the absentee ballots of unwitting voters in the 2012 Democratic primary on behalf of his client, current U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia. No votes appear to have been stolen or unlawfully cast.
Rep. Garcia said he had no knowledge of the crime and promptly fired Jeffrey Garcia, who is of no relation and was his chief of staff.
State investigators got onto the case after a Miami Herald story detailed the suspicious ballot-request patterns. They raided three locations tied to the congressmans spokesman, Giancarlo Sopo, and his 2012 campaign manager, John Estes.
The Miami Herald also learned that a consultant told the FBI that Jeffrey Garcia played a secret role propping up a phony Tea Party candidate named Rolando Roly Arrojo, who ran in 2010 against Democrat Joe Garcia and Republican David Rivera.
Arrojo spent mystery money he never disclosed as much as $30,000 to attack Rivera in mailers, essentially on behalf of Joe Garcia, who said he was unaware of Arrojos ties to Jeffrey Garcia. Rivera won the race anyway and became a congressman.
The Rivera-Alliegro imbroglio
The scheme a ringer who spends mystery money and acts like a proxy for another candidate repeated itself two years later. It also involved the same candidates: David Rivera, who was then a congressman, and challenger Joe Garcia.
The candidate taking the illegal money in late 2012: political nobody Justin Lamar Sternad. He spent at least $81,486 in unreported cash and checks to attack Garcia in the Democratic primary.
Sternad pleaded guilty March 15 and apologized in a written statement read outside the court house by his lawyer, Enrique Rick Yabor.
I was taken advantage of and used by others, Sternads statement said.
Sternad, whos to be sentenced March 28, has told the feds that he suspected Rivera was behind the illegal money, much of which was handled by Sternads de facto campaign manager, Ana Alliegro, a pal of Riveras.
Though a self-described Republican bad girl, Alliegro hitched herself to the Democratic Sternads campaign to help undermine her friends rival in at least one illegally paid-for mailer.
The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald first drew attention to the apparently illegal activity. The feds jumped on the case. And Alliegro skipped town before an FBI interview.
Alliegro moved to Granada, Nicaragua, and opened up a hair salon. She was frequently visited by Rivera, who tried to cover his tracks by entering the country from Costa Rica, The Herald learned.
Both have denied wrongdoing. Neither has been charged.
Separately, Riveras finances were also the subject of a now-stalled IRS investigation launched amid revelations of a secret $500,000 dog-track payment. Rivera also faces state ethics charges into his campaign activity as a state representative.
This fall, Alliegro briefly returned to Miami, spoke with the feds, but then left again for Nicaragua, according to her Facebook account, where she wrote: I guess it took a bit for me to realize my world was full of horrible people.
And too many, unfortunately, hold positions of public trust in Dirty Dade.

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Both the number of unemployed persons, 7.7 million, and the unemployment rate, 5.2 percent, declined in January 2005.
From December 2004 to January 2005, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.7 percent), whites (4.4 percent), and Hispanics or Latinos (6.1 percent) edged down, while the rates for adult women (4.6 percent), teenagers (16.3 percent), and blacks or African Americans (10.6 percent) showed little change.
The number of long-term unemployed—those unemployed 27 weeks and over—was about unchanged over the month. This group accounted for 20.9 percent of the unemployed.
These data are from the Current Population Survey and are seasonally adjusted. For more information, see "The Employment Situation: January 2005" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 05-178.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Unemployment rate decreases in January 2005 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2005/feb/wk1/art01.htm (visited September 21, 2014).
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IBM declared in a new corporate policy that it was establishing new IT standards and redefining its ties with the International Standards Organization (ISO). If developing countries want to develop their own standards, IBM is willing to support them. Ramifications are clear regarding the turbulent debate around acceptance of Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) data format.more »
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Pollsters, pundits, economists, taxonomists, hackers, trackers, analysts, and panelists have all suggested that maybe the economy isn't doing so well. No one is really sure how long it will last, but many of us have the feeling we've seen this before. Just when you think you've figured it all out, the business cycle swings around again.more »
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42 U.S. Code § 3618 - Authorization of appropriations
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Sometimes a movie comes along and it's universally panned by critics. Each review seems like it's trying to outdo the rest in its effort to describe how awful the experience is. It feels like a bandwagon of hate and sometimes I find myself disagreeing completely. This is not one of those times. Movie 43 is really, really bad. It's one thing to be a comedy... Read More


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Kate Upton couldn't go to the prom with Jake Davidson . . . the Los Angeles high school kid who made a video inviting her. So ANOTHER "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit model stepped up and took her place. Her name is Nina Agdal. She's 21, she's Danish . . . and she's HOT.
Amanda Bynes was arrested last night after she threw a bong out the window of her 36th-floor New York City apartment. Police were called after Amanda was seen smoking pot in the lobby of her building. Cops arrested her for possession of marijuana, tampering with evidence and reckless endangerment, and took her to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. She's expected to appear in court this morning.
During a charity auction last night at the Cannes Film Festival, someone paid $1.5 million for the privilege of traveling into SPACE with Leonardo DiCaprio. They'll be passengers on one of those Virgin Galactic flights. One seat normally costs $200,000, and there's already a waiting list. The first flight is expected to launch around Christmas.
RadarOnline.com says Lindsay Lohan tried to invite her DRUG DEALER to visit her at Betty Ford. A source says Lindsay asked the clinic for permission to invite him, but they turned her down.
Forbes.com has named Barack and Michelle Obama the World's Most Powerful Couple. Also making the list are Jay-Z and Beyonce, Brad and Angelina and Ellen and Portia.
The "Hangover" and "Fast & Furious" sequels are up against the animated movie "Epic" this weekend.
For the upcoming "Machete" sequel "Machete Kills", Charlie Sheen is going back to his Latin roots. He's being billed under his birth name, Carlos Estevez. Charlie is playing the president of the United States in the movie.
Lifetime has a new TV movie called "Anna Nicole" premiering on June 29th. It features some recognize names, including Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen, Cary Elwes and Adam Goldberg.


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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Spain increased 0.5 percent in June to 107.2 (2004 = 100), following a 0.4 percent increase in May, and a 0.1 percent increase in April.
At the same time, The Conference Board Coincident Economic Index® (CEI) for Spain, a measure of current economic activity, fell 0.1 percent in June to 94.5 (2004 = 100), following a 0.2 percent increase in May, and a 0.1 percent increase in April.
The LEI for Spain increased for the fourth consecutive month in June, and as a result, its six-month growth rate has improved. Meanwhile, despite a small dip in June, the CEI is up moderately for the year and its six-month growth rate continues to accelerate. Taken together, the recent behavior of the composite indexes suggests that the current modest economic recovery should continue in the second half of this year.
About The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Spain
The composite economic indexes are the key elements in an analytic system designed to signal peaks and troughs in the business cycle. The leading and coincident economic indexes are essentially composite averages of several individual leading or coincident indicators. They are constructed to summarize and reveal common turning point patterns in economic data in a clearer and more convincing manner than any individual component – primarily because they smooth out some of the volatility of individual components.
The six components of The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for Spain include:
Capital Equipment Component of Industrial Production Contribution to Euro M2 Stock Price Index Long term Government Bond Yield Order Books Survey Job Vacancies
For more information including full press release and technical notes: http://www.conference-board.org/data/bcicountry.cfm?cid=9
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The Conference Board is an independent business membership and research association working in the public interest. Our mission is unique: To provide the world's leading organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve society. The Conference Board is a non-advocacy, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States. www.conference-board.org.
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Summary Table of Composite Indexes
Dec to Jun
Leading Economic Index (LEI)
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Coincident Economic Index (CEI)
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Indexes equal 100 in 2004
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) -- The U.S. Senate is still considering a proposal to extend Unemployment benefits another three months. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin supports the extension, but is worried there may not be enough votes to pass it. "There are some strong concerns that we may not have enough Republican support to pass this emergency measure, and that gives me great concern because I know how desperately needed it is."
Baldwin says the package being debated would extend benefits three months. She says Senator Dean Heller, a conservative Republican from Nevada, was willing to go three months but no further, and Baldwin says that's why we're debating just a three month proposal. Baldwin believes the Unemployment extension needs to be longer. "I frankly think that this is probably going to be needed for a longer period of time, depending on the state and part of the country, and how bad unemployment is, but we know that there are three job seekers for every job opening."
Baldwin's Republican counterparts and a handful of Democrats are wondering where the money is going to come from to pay for the extension. Most Republicans want to see budget cuts to pay for the extension. Democratic Representative Ron Kind of Wisconsin suggests using money now allocated to farm program subsidies that currently go to large corporate and foreign agricultural interests. Senator Baldwin says this needs to be passed without arguing about how it gets paid for. "Most of the time, there have not been, you know, other cuts made to pay for it, and that's because it is regarded as an emergency. It does need to happen with some speed, and the debate over the pay for it tends to slow this down and create a lot of pain and suffering."
The Senate vote late Wednesday failed to pass the Unemployment extension, as Republicans insisted on cutting budget items to offset the cost. The matter may come back up in the Senate again this week.
Our interview with Senator Tammy Baldwin can be heard on our website, here. She discusses Unemployment, the Farm Bill, and a proposal to raise the minimum wage.


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Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
The Mozilla Foundation, maker of the Firefox open source browser, has agreed that Firefox will support the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) standard, which will enable DRM extensions to control copy-protected video used by vendors such as Netflix. Mozilla has teamed with Adobe to create what they call the Content Decryption Module (CDM), a DRM-based sandbox for playing copy-protected video. The CDM will carry a proprietary software license. Because Firefox is open source, CDM will not ship with the download version of the tool but will be installed as an extension with the user's permission if it is needed to play a video.
Although the decision to support DRM has caused a fire storm within the open source community, Mozilla says its greater fear was that the lack of support for streaming proprietary video was forcing users to adopt other browsers. Understandably, the Free Software Foundation has stated its strong opposition to the decision. According to FSF executive director John Sullivan, "The Free Software Foundation is deeply disappointed in Mozilla's announcement. The decision compromises important principles in order to alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser market share. It allies Mozilla with a company hostile to the free software movement and to Mozilla's fundamental ideals."
Since Firefox is open source code, anyone can modify the code base to remove a features and release a new version. The FSF expects that a new non-EME fork of the Firefox code will appear soon. Of course, the Debian project has already forked the Firefox code to produce the all-free Iceweasel browser, which will undoubtedly refrain from integrating the new DRM components.
Issue 168/2014
Tag Cloud
Fedora Developer Announces New Partition Manager
New tool will look like GParted but support a wider range of storage technologies.
Mozilla Releases a New Firefox
New public key pinning feature will help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
Tool Predicts Which Websites Will be Compromised
Carnegie Mellon researchers say 3 million pages could fall down the phishing hole in the next year.
SSH Key Management Guidelines
The US government rolls new best-practice rules for protecting SSH.
Knoppix 7.4 Released
Klaus Knopper announces the latest version of his iconic Live Linux system.
PHP Attack Puts WordPress and Drupal at Risk
All websites that use these popular CMS tools could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks if users don't install the updates.
Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.


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Stonington — American flags peeked out from storefronts along the streets of the borough Sunday as a stream of 19th-century American military officers and musical groups made their way to the green in front of the library.
The Battle of Stonington bicentennial parade drew thousands of onlookers, eager to celebrate local history and reminisce about the history of the parade itself.
"Not too many places are like this anymore," said Anne Larkin, of Long Island. Larkin said she was visiting town that weekend to see her sister and the parade.
A few blocks away, 10th-generation Stonington resident Rieta Babcock Palmer Park, 68, led the front of the parade, wearing the same bejeweled Athenian-looking helmet her grandmother Rieta Babcock Palmer did at age 38 in the centennial parade.
Deeper in the parade lineup, grand marshal Anna North Coit road in a minivan. Coit, age 106, saw the centennial parade at age 6.
The Battle of Stonington was not a strategically important moment in the War of 1812, according to local author James Tertius deKay, author of "The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines and Rockets in the War of 1812." Still, the small group of villagers' ability to repel British Navy forces during four days in August 1814 was psychologically significant at the time, deKay has said. The piece of history continues to stoke local pride.
The parade wound past Cannon Square, which holds the two large cannons used in the battle, before parade participants and viewers bled onto the green.
Two members of Sailing Masters of 1812 Fife and Drum Corps, Bob Miorelli, of Glastonbury, and Mark Chiarmonte, of Clinton, stood on the edge of the green with their fifes tucked into their boots as the parade slowed to a halt. Both donned U.S. Navy garb from the period of the war. Chiarmonte had removed his woolen jacket and draped it over his arm, while Miorelli remained fully costumed, shrugging off the sunny mid-August heat.
"What a great day for a parade," remarked Miorelli, commenting on the historic significance of the commemorated battle.
As the drumming, humming and rhythmic marching tapered off, organizers introduced a series of politicians and others who spoke about the significance of the battle. Gov. Dannel Malloy, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Joe Courtney, Sen. Chris Murphy and borough Warden Jeffrey Callahan were among those who spoke.
"They were outgunned, but they were not out-spirited or outmanned," Blumenthal said of the villagers who defeated the British Navy 200 years ago.
Malloy referred to Stonington as "a special place here in Connecticut."
"It is an American holiday. It is an American Gothic picture that I see before me," he said to the crowd.
Stonington Historical Society President Henry "Rob" Palmer said he was "thrilled" with the parade. The event served as the capstone of a weekend of celebration, for which the society even ordered special neckties. Callahan wore a stylish bowtie with the phrase "Battle of Stonington" stitched into its pattern.
Palmer, who co-chaired the parade and is the brother of Park, estimated that roughly 3,000 people came out to watch the parade of 350 to 450 participants.
He said that the town had hosted a smattering of parades to honor the battle since the centennial parade, but had not planned a parade in the last 30 to 40 years.
"We know it's the most important event in our town's history," he said of the battle.
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Lillard showed us all during the Las Vegas summer league games that he is among the most talented point guards to enter the league in the past five seasons. He is even more polished than Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook, when they first arrived in the NBA, yet more explosive than most any other of the previous rookie point guards that we have seen.
If he gets the green light to make plays, like John Wall, Westbrook, Rose and Kyrie Irving, then undoubtedly we'll see a great number of stellar scoring and passing nights from Lillard. Next to a post presence like LaMarcus Aldridge and veterans like Nicolas Batum and Wes Matthews, Lillard will be able to generate offense through his teammates more than most rookies will be given the chance to. This means his chances at scoring more efficiently are strong. He has the potential to average 16 points and six assists per game with a steal or so thrown in there, too. And though he's not the shooter Irving is, with the weapons around him Lillard can get enough open looks from deep to possibly average better than 35 percent.
@dame_lillard is ROY, he will be the creator on the floor and can score when needed. Pick n' Roll with @aldridge_12 will be crazy! #NBAPicks
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@dame_lillard is ROY, he will be the creator on the floor and can score when needed. Pick n' Roll with @aldridge_12 will be crazy! #NBAPicks
@nbaonespn #NBAPicks Damien Lillard..he's explosive & in position to make an immediate impact for my Blazers; played extremely well in Vegas
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@nbaonespn #NBAPicks Damien Lillard..he's explosive & in position to make an immediate impact for my Blazers; played extremely well in Vegas
#NBApicks Damian Lillard in Portland would be my pick for ROY. Starting day 1 as floor general. Easy job with Aldridge & Batum to dish too.
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#NBApicks Damian Lillard in Portland would be my pick for ROY. Starting day 1 as floor general. Easy job with Aldridge & Batum to dish too.
"That's what I had for a few years and I got to a point where I was shooting so well on a milk crate that when I got onto the real court, it was like Heaven." - Damian Lillard
Hey DHawes22; great Blog. I am becoming more of a Lizard fan all the time.Remember you told me Lillard could probably pass more then he was credited for and Marshall could shoot better then given credit for.If you remember I wanted Drummand at 6 and Marshall at 11. I think the FO made a much wiser draft and I am getting special vibes about the team this year with Lillard running the show. It should be very exciting.There is something wrong with the subscribe to comment part of the Blazer blogs so sometimes comments gets lost now.
Thank you for bringing that bug to our attention HG! As for Lillard...I haven't thought so highly of a young player since Roy. If you remember, Roy led us to victory, on the road, in Seattle during the 2006-07 season opener with clutch basket after clutch basket. If we see clutch performances early on from Dame..watch out!
I hope he have a healthy career, famous career for the PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A BLAZERS
I have a strange good feeling about DLill and our team. I hope I am right.
I'm with you Hg! I am really excited about the team this year...in my opinion, Lillard will have a great rookie year and I think we have one of the most underrated benches in the league. Like the new GM and the new coaching staff. Lillard will make our vets much better and we're deep
I'm not so sure I agree that our bench is underrated. I don't believe any bench rotation player will have played more than two seasons coming into this year's (assuming Ronnie Price is the 3rd string point guard and JJ Hickson could start his fair share of games). While I like the potential of our bench players, mainly Elliot Williams and Meyers Leonard (again, assuming he's coming off the bench), I think our bench could see a lot of growing pains this year. I would say that our Starting Five is underrated though. Really liking how the core is starting to take shape.
I think Elliot will challenge Wes for the starters job. I like LaMarcus as the starter captain and Wes as the bench captain. Wes, Leonard, Hickson, Barton and Smith or Price could be a great bench unit. I think Freeland will start at the 5.
IMO, Wes should be the starter, unless U are in the camp of starting the best player. Wesley is a rhythm player that does better as the game goes on. but isn't an instant spark as EWill is. EWill can start or come off the bench equally good whereas Matthew is best at starting.With the plan of uptempo, should come the plan of fresh legs, so again IMO, it really shouldn't matter who starts, unless the coach runs two complete different units. But I am sure he will stagger the unit coming in so every player will be used to playing with all the other players. Depth to me is having quality players that work hard, not necessarily older players that can just hold the lead but hasn't much left in the tank. So a bench without experience can give you depth if they go out and hit it hard.
I'm with you riverman. I think eventually, we will see Elliot take over the starter's job from Wes and Wes will be our 6th man off the bench providing outside shooting, energy, and defense.
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