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Inside the Reporter's Notebook: Cyber bills abound; OFPP and reverse auctions; DoJ's API release
In this week's "Inside the Reporter's Notebook," the passage of five cybersecurity bills by Congress in the past week signals a long-coming and much needed change to how agencies defend their computer networks; an interesting bid protest decision flew under the radar that signals yet another challenge to FedBid, the reverse auction contractor and the Justice Department's first foray into the open data world with the launch of two APIs is noteworthy, but the underlying reason why DoJ could release the software code is really the story here.
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Public interest watchdogs discuss agency watchdogs
Project on Government Oversight general counsel Scott Amey and Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project join host Debra Roth to talk about the inspector general community and the challenges IGs face in identifying fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government.
November 21, 2014
Tags: Workforce , inspectors general , Inspector General Act of 1978 , CIGIE , Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 , POGO , Tom Devine , GAP , Debra Roth , Shaw Bransford and Roth , Fed Talk
Scott Amey, General Counsel, Project on Government Oversight
This month a wealth of data detailing stimulus and Hurricane Sandy spending disappeared from the website recovery.gov. The Recovery Accountability Transparency Board says it can't afford to renew its contract with Dun & Bradstreet for use of its Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS). Yet, businesses that receive federal funds are identified solely by DUNS. There is no alternative for where the government gets that data and Dun & Bradstreet controls how it is used. Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project On Government Oversight, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss the matter.
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS directorate withdraws controversial vendor checklist
The National Protection and Programs Directorate said it would not put a contractor communication guidance in place that would have required agency leaders to answer 15 questions before meeting with companies. Industry experts said the draft guidance would have had a chilling effect on agency-contractor communication.
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Federal pay statistics are easily manipulated, GAO reports
The Government Accountability Office looked at six studies about federal pay and found that the different approaches taken in each made their findings potentially problematic.
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Buying commercial in DoD: 15 years after acquisition reform
During the last Defense drawdown, Congress and the White House pushed the Pentagon to make smarter buying decisions in the hopes that it would save a lot of money. The idea was to have the military buy many products the same way businesses do. A decade and a half later, DoD now spends tens of billions of dollars a year under the commercialized models Congress set up. In a two-part, exclusive report, Federal News Radio examines the debate underway over how well it has worked out.
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The silver lining in the GSA scandal
Experts say all the focus on Capitol Hill and within agencies will lead to better management and give more respect to whistleblowers. Carolyn Lerner, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, said the attention on the misdeeds of the Public Buildings Service would bolster the need for stronger ethics and integrity.
Tags: management , GSA , OSC , Carolyn Lerner , Project on Government Oversight , Tom Schatz , Citizens Against Government Waste , Oversight , whistleblower protection , Jason Miller , Shakeup at GSA
Analysis: GSA's scandal pales in comparison to historical misdeeds
From Darleen Druyun to Jack Abramoff to wartime contracting, history shows the Public Buildings Service's lavish spending is small potatoes. Experts say the energy and time Congress has put into hearing on the GSA conference near Las Vegas could be better used to address bigger, most costly problems.
Tags: Shakeup at GSA , management , Oversight , GSA , Paul Posner , GAO , George Mason University , Project on Government Oversight , Tom Schatz , Citizens Against Government Waste , Congress , Jason Miller
Rep. Mica: IG report is 'just the tip of the iceberg' of problems at GSA
The chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said he will hold a hearing when Congress returns from recess on the scathing IG report and other shortcoming at GSA's Public Building Service. Scott Amey of POGO said the management failures at GSA show a systemic problem.
Tags: management , Oversight , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , John Mica , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Project on Government Oversight , waste, fraud and abuse , Jason Miller , Congress
Automatic suspension in contracting bill draws ire of industry
Disagreement persists over whether provisions in a new contracting bill will enhance oversight of overseas contracting during conflicts or create another bureaucratic layer that penalizes contractors.
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When 10 year-old Allie learns that her family will be moving from a two-family home to their very own house, she is hesitant until she finds out they will be living on a street with the magical name of Strawberry Hill. That changes everything! The new house though, is in Stamford, Conneticut, far from her current home in New Haven. Allie's father is lucky to find the new job in Stamford. Jobs are hard to get during The Great Depression.
But strawberries are not the only things Allie will have to look for in her new neighborhood. As Allie struggles to find a new "best friend" and adjust to all of the changes she faces, she takes readers on her journey to make Strawberry Hill feel like home.
Join us on Thursday, June 26th at 6:30 in the evening to discuss Strawberry Hill and enjoy some snacks.
In Saffy's Angel readers meet the four Casson children. Their mother, Eve, a fine-arts painter, has named all the children after paint colors. Cadmium, called Caddy, is the eldest; then comes Saffron, known as Saffy; Indigo, the only boy; and Rose, the youngest. When Saffy discovers quite by accident that she has been adopted, she is deeply upset, though the others assure her it makes no difference at all. Saffy is the daughter of Eve's twin sister, who lived in Siena, Italy and died in a car crash. Grandad brought Saffy, as a very small child, back from Siena.
At Grandad's death, he leaves something to each of the children. To Saffy, it is "her angel," although no one knows its identity. How Saffy discovers what her angel is, with the help of an energetic new friend, lies at the heart of this enchanting story. Unforgettable characters come alive in often deeply humourous and always absorbing events to make a book to be treasured for a long time.
Join us on Thursday, May 8th at 6:30 to discuss this delightful book and enjoy some snacks.
Pauline, Petrova, and Posy are orphans determined to help out their new family by joining the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it is going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with work papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she would rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream.
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Twelve-year-old Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school to work as doffers in the mill. But Grace is left-handed. Replacing full bobbins with empty ones is a right-handed job, and every mistake Grace makes costs her family precious pennies.
Grace knows that Arthur is hatching a desperate plan to get himself out of the mill. She begs him to wait. Something will come along to change their lives.
That something turns out to be Lewis Hine, a reformer with a camera, who finds his way into the mill so that he can take pictures of kids like Grace and Arthur next to the enormous spinning frames that beat out the rhythm of their twelve-hour days. Boldly, Grace becomes Hine's secret ally.
Elizabeth Winthrop gives un an unforgettable character in Grace, who is so full of fierce energy, humor, and integrity that the reader never gives up hoping she will make a better life for herself.
Join us on Thursday, March 6th at 6:30 to discuss this excellent book and enjoy some snacks.
Every year in February, Alice Rice travels from Wisconsin to Sanibel Island, Florida with her parents.
Returning to the beach cottage---a cottage named Scallop---where she has always celebrated her birthday is a special occasion for Alice.
Who will see the first dolphin this time? The first pelican? What will have changed? What will have stayed the same? And will this be the year she finally finds a junonia shell?
Alice's friends are returning, too. And she is certain her parents have the best party planned for her. Alice can't wait. If Alice is lucky, everything will be absolutely perfect. Will Alice be lucky this year?
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Is it illegal for a police officer to have two people use same breathalyzer straw while pulled over?
I was driving with a couple of friends an got pulled over because someone called in and said we were speeding. However we were not speeding anywhere around the where the cop pulled us over at so they had no probable cause to pull us over. They believed we were under the influence, so they gave me and two of my friends a field sobriety test and made us blow into the breathalyzer but made me and my friend blow into the same straw without changing them out or collaborating it. We all failed and I was charged with DWI and my friends were charged with MIPs. That is unsanitary and inaccurate.
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I was falsely accused of dui. the officer refuse to give me breathalyzer upon arrival at the station. of
I did field sobriety test passed He handcuffed meeting place me in the front of the vehicle Then had me blow in the vehicles machine it spit numbers out but he never showed them to me then claims I refused I have 3 prior DWI that is all the prosecuting attorney has what are my odds with a jury trial
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I was falsely accused of dui. the officer refuse to give me a breathalyzer. his report said I refused which is a lie because of
I have 3 prior DUI's That is all they have yes I am still being charged. the lawyer I am using now started off saying it was no big deal it would cost 3000-3500. I have given him9000since our initial meeting.he os demanding another 6000 Are threatening to withdraw
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Me and my boyfriend were in a car accident, and I got hurt. I refused to press charges, but now the state has charged him with felony assault. I talked to the assistant handling my case, and she said the most I could do is write a letter and try to get the charges dropped, and make it clear that I will not cooperate. My only question is what exactly to say in the letter to hopefully make it effective.
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In an interview with MLW Radio, The Ultimate Warrior talked about fighting Vince McMahon ins court and spending over a million dollars in the process. Here are a few quotes from Warrior.
"It went on for almost five years and it was about to start trial. It was a Friday. Vince and Linda were there with their counsel, Jerry McDevitt, and I was there with my counsel. It had gone on for five years. There were 30,000 documents. There were 30 or 40 depositions that had been taken in all different places all over the country. There were 900 exhibits. It was incredible. I was already into it for a million dollars in paid legal fees."
"I think [Vince] was surprised as time went on. In those kinds of things, Vince has the money to throw at them all day long. He doesn't really sit and think about the consequence. He just doesn't. It was different for me because I was so close to it and it just kept dragging on and on. Vince is stubborn. Both Linda and others in their depositions under oath said the problem between me and Vince was that we were so much alike."
"At the end of the day, after all the fighting and everything, I respect Vince more than anybody else. The writing is on the wall while you're there. All the guys that are bitter about where they ended up in their lives, that wasn't Vince's responsibility. Vince's loyalty was to his company, himself and his family. He wasn't going to let anybody stand in the way and even though outsiders can see some of the things he did as vicious, I happen to admire that."
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said the case reported at a farm in the southwestern county of Gochang, about 300km from Seoul, was of the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain.
A cull of 21,000 birds at the farm has been completed and authorities are widening the cull to a 3km radius of the site but there are no indications of a wider spread of the outbreak, a ministry official said on Saturday.
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Wave the baton too slowly and the orchestra arrayed on the screen plays the William Tell Overture at a crawl. Wave it too fast and the music gallops away.
But would-be Leonard Bernsteins who wave the remote control correctly as they try out UBS Virtual Maestro can experience a small part of what it's like to be a conductor.
"There's an educational component to it. But it's also a lot of fun. We think it's sort of like the orchestra version of Guitar Hero, the video game," said Peter Dillon, who handles corporate sponsorships in the United States for Swiss banking giant UBS.
Two UBS Virtual Maestro exhibits have been appearing in concert-hall lobbies across the country since November as part of a project created by UBS, which often sponsors classical music events and organizations, to increase interest in classical music. Organizers hope to take the project to Europe in the summer.
To create the displays, UBS recorded the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, which it sponsors, playing three classical music selections. In addition to Rossini's William Tell Overture, there are short selections from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
A team of programmers led by Teresa Nakra, an assistant professor of music at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, created software that speeds or slows the replay of the orchestra according to the movement of a remote from Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console — whose games simulate driving, real-world sports play and other movement.
The traveling displays include a tall, freestanding wall with a 42-inch plasma screen where the orchestra's image plays. A speaker atop the wall projects the audio toward a music stand where the player "conducts."
A similar game called "You're the Conductor," also created by Nakra's non-profit Immersion Music Inc., opened in a permanent exhibit at the Children's Museum of Boston in 2003. There, players try their hand at conducting the Boston Pops.
The games are intended to mimic the feel of conducting a real orchestra, Nakra said.
"That's the way classical music creates a sense of emotion. In the ebb and flow of the beat there's a real flow of emotion," she said.
Nakra, who plays the violin and conducts, said the challenging part of making the games was ensuring the pitch didn't change as the video slowed or sped up.
The experience the conductor games offer is less complex than that of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, in which players using simplified versions of instruments play popular songs to earn points.
And it's much less complex than being a real conductor, who interprets musical selections, practices with the orchestra, cues each section of the ensemble to play and guides the performance in other ways.
In fact, a real conductor might get frustrated with UBS Virtual Maestro, said Chris Ault, an assistant professor of interactive multimedia at The College of New Jersey who helped design the program.
"Doing what you would do in front of the kiosk probably wouldn't get you far in front of a real orchestra," Ault said.
Indeed, achieving anything like the "flow of emotion" Nakra described was difficult during a break in a recent evening performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center.
"You're not doing it right! You need to raise it higher! What kind of orchestra did you ever conduct?" 77-year-old Marie Wiley Ross, of Livermore, Calif., told a would-be conductor she stopped to watch — and advise.


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Objective: Prelude: The Portrait Artist and Part 1, The Frontiersman: Chapters 1-8 The author sets up the beginning of George Washington's rise to power by introducing a little of his background. The objective of this lesson is to learn more about George Washington as a man before becoming a Revolutionary War hero and President of the United States.
1) Class Discussion: Lead the class in a discussion about George Washington. What did the students know about George Washington before reading this book? What do they know about George Washington now? Why was George Washington destined for greatness? What were Washington's character traits that would make him a great man? Do the students think Washington was a great visionary, leader, or both?
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Alagoa Morris sped toward Ikarama as soon as he got word of the fire. He took a taxi from Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria's Bayelsa State, to the Imbiama Junction, where he rented a motor bike and raced down the narrow roads to Ikarama. From miles away, he saw a column of smoke towering above the small rural community.
It was March 1, 2009, and Morris, a project officer for Friends of the Earth Nigeria, had received an urgent message that a fire had broken out at the site of a major oil spill. The spilled crude, which had streamed from a Shell Petroleum pipeline into the nearby Oya and Obrun lakes, had been sitting for months. When Morris arrived in Ikarama, he found that the site he had been pressing Shell to clean up was in flames. "The fire gutted all the plants and trees around the two lakes and was burning even on top of the water," he recalled.
Since June 2008 Morris has documented nine spills from Shell facilities in Ikarama. The spills have contaminated the town's main source of water, sickening children and killing many of the fish the local fishermen rely on. The March 1 blaze, said the Rev. FearGod Kologa, a pastor and respected community elder, destroyed plantains, cassava and cocoa yams on his property.
Ikarama is consumed by finger-pointing. Shell Petroleum, the Nigeria-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, blames the spills on sabotage by community members, an explanation that has been confirmed in several cases by formal investigations. Morris and Ikarama residents accuse Shell of ordering its contractors to set the spills ablaze instead of conducting real cleanups. "They tell contractors to come and burn the area," said a longtime Shell contractor in Ikarama, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job. "Every time there is an oil spill in Ikarama, whether sabotage or no sabotage, the contractor normally sets fire on the oil."
The damage in Ikarama is part of a swath of environmental devastation surrounding the operations of Shell and other multinational oil companies throughout the Niger Delta, the oil-rich southern region of Nigeria. Brushing aside regulation by a government that depends on oil extraction for 80 percent of its revenues, the oil majors act with impunity as they employ methods long since abandoned in the developed world. In turn, the government, a majority stakeholder in many joint-venture agreements with energy firms, fails to enforce the law as it spirits vast oil profits out of the Delta. Local communities, mired in poverty and pollution, have increasingly resorted to crime and militancy characterized by destructive attacks on oil facilities. The result has been the wholesale contamination of a region that is home to some 31 million people, most of whom depend on the natural environment for their livelihoods.
In recent years, the toxic combination of poverty, pollution, corruption and the federal capture of oil revenues has spawned a violent rebellion led by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). Last summer MEND's attacks on the oil industry crippled production and threatened to bring the Nigerian economy to its knees. In August, the shaken government launched an amnesty program for rebels and opened negotiations on the militants' demands, which included a greater share of oil proceeds for the Delta. The amnesty led to several breakthroughs: in October the government proposed to grant a 10 percent stake in oil revenues to Delta communities, MEND declared an indefinite cease-fire and Nigerian Defense Minister Godwin Abbe told reporters that more than 15,000 rebels had registered to demobilize and turned in their weapons.
The effects of the amnesty have raised hopes of a peaceful solution to the region's longtime woes. But looming behind the advances remains the daunting challenge of translating these gains into a new way of doing business in the Delta. The same cast of characters from the region's half-century-old drama of contamination and violence--Shell and transnational oil firms, Nigeria's corruption-plagued government and the Delta's aggrieved and impoverished communities--must learn how to play new roles. The prospects of a lasting settlement will rest largely on whether the companies that dominate the region's economy and its environment can adopt a sustainable approach, and whether the government will compel them to do so.
The oil companies' environmental abuses were first dragged into the international spotlight nearly two decades ago by the charismatic writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa's nonviolent campaign against Shell's practices in his homeland, the Delta region of Ogoni, earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. But his advocacy led him on a tragic collision course with Nigeria's military dictatorship; Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned on trumped-up murder charges and executed in 1995. In his final statement before he was hanged, the defiant environmentalist declared that Shell would one day stand trial. "The ecological war that the Company has waged in the Delta will be called to question sooner than later and the crimes of that war be duly punished," he wrote.
Soon after, Saro-Wiwa's family and the survivors of the eight other activists who were executed with him filed suit against Shell in the United States, charging the company with complicity in the killings. According to Jennie Green, the plaintiffs' lawyer, evidence included records showing that Shell Petroleum had paid and equipped the Nigerian army units that brutalized the Ogoni community, and testimony that its managing director offered to intercede against the execution if Saro-Wiwa withdrew his charges of environmental abuse--a deal Saro-Wiwa rejected. On June 8, 2009, after almost fourteen years of legal wrangling, Shell paid a $15.5 million settlement. The case, which relied on the 1789 Alien Tort Claims Act, set a legal precedent in establishing liability across international borders and was hailed as a triumph in enforcing corporate accountability for human rights abuses.
The publicity surrounding the lawsuit, and the emergence of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, have imposed greater caution on Shell and Nigeria's military. In 2000 Shell signed the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, a set of guidelines for corporate conduct jointly developed by multinational extractive companies and leading human rights groups. Communities affected by military violence are increasingly seeking redress in court, filing claims such as the $668 million suit against the government by members of the Delta's Gbaramatu Kingdom following a brutal military raid last May.
Yet even as accountability for human rights has improved, the oil companies' environmental practices have often slipped under the radar. Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of Friends of the Earth Nigeria, says that the environment of the Delta, the cause that Saro-Wiwa gave his life to defend, has deteriorated dramatically in the years since the activist's execution. "When Ken Saro-Wiwa campaigned against the degradation of the Ogoni environment, he couldn't have imagined what would have happened after that," says Bassey. "The Ogoni environment was degraded, but what we have now is more massive than that."


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A scientist who claimed to have injected monkey embryonic stem cells into the eyes of rats to improve their vision accepts the penalty for research misconduct.
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Remarkable findings of ingested plant miRNA in animal liver and blood draw speculation about the study's validity.
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A new technique to derive DNA information from non-DNA sources, such as RNA, threatens the anonymity of genetic database donors.
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Scientists test which mutations underlie metabolic diseases that may benefit from changes in diet.
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At least 10 people were injured on Friday in a bomb attack outside a restaurant in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, hours after seven people were killed by a suicide bomber near a strategic air force complex in Punjab province.
Witnesses said the blast occurred soon after a man parked a car outside the restaurant in Hayatabad area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The man, who had long hair, fled immediately after parking the car.
The injured were taken to nearby hospitals and the condition of one of them was described as serious, reports said.
They said the restaurant targeted in the attack belonged to the son of a senior leader of the Awami National Party, which is in power in NWFP and is part of the ruling coalition at the centre.
The walls and windows of the restaurant were blown up by the blast. Police fired in the air after the explosion to disperse people and launched a search for the attacker.
Earlier this morning, seven persons, including two security personnel, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a check post outside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at Kamra in Punjab province.
Pakistan has witnessed a wave of deadly bombings and suicide attacks over the past two weeks that has been blamed on the Taliban. Most of the attacks have targeted security facilities, including the army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi near here.
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Darren's love of technology started in primary school with a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong (still functioning) and a Commodore VIC 20 computer (not still functioning). In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continued through a number of university courses and crappy jobs until 2008, when his interests found a home at Gizmag.
Plastic and fuel that grows on trees
Biofuels continue to steal the spotlight when it comes to the search for a renewable, environmentally friendly replacement for crude oil. While that's understandable when considering the transport industry, but crude oil is also used in the production of conventional plastics and chemical products such as fertilizers and solvents. Now chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can not only be used to produce fuel, but also plastics, polyester and industrial chemicals cheaply and efficiently. Read More
Biofuel versus bioelectricity, and the winner is…
Running vehicles on biofuels such as ethanol reduces CO2 emissions and offers a way to lessen the world's reliance on oil. While this sounds great from an environmental perspective, the energy required to produce the biofuel and the land clearing for crops that can result means biofuels aren't necessarily the environmentally friendly solution they initially appear to be. Recognizing this, researchers have analyzed the best way to maximize the "miles per acre" from biomass and discovered that the far more efficient option is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol. Another tick for the electric car. Read More
Acer extends line of Aspire One netbooks
It seems too many netbooks are never enough, with Acer extending its line to include two new models - the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire One AO751h and the 10.1-inch Acer Aspire One AOD250. The 11.6-inch unit boasts an HD screen and full-sized keyboard, while the 10.1-inch model is thinner and lighter than its predecessor. Read More
KDDI mobile pico projector
If you're looking to share some of the video or photos stored on your mobile phone with an audience, then the KDDI pico projector could be just the thing for you. Designed to work with the new KDDI iida G9 mobile phone and the upcoming iidda range, the Toshiba manufactured handset uses DLP display technology. It can project a 480x320 image of between six and 63 inches onto a flat surface or wall up to 8.2 feet (2.5m) away. Read More
USB turntables provide an easy way to digitize your collection of vinyl. Usually, it requires a PC. However, a new range of USB turntables from Akai includes a model that lets you record from vinyl, directly to a USB hard drive – without the need of a PC. Read More
"Concept" and "bra" aren't two words you'd typically expect to go together too often. After all, a bra is the epitome of simplicity. As Seinfeld's George Costanza once remarked, "Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?" Well, Japanese lingerie maker Triumph International has complicated the humble undergarment with its concept "Konkatsu bra" – a bra that is designed to help Japanese women search for husbands by proudly declaring they're on the hunt. Read More
Online movie stores aren't exactly a dying breed, but now European owners of Samsung phones, laptops and PCs have a movie store to call their own with the launch of Samsung Movies. Powered by European digital movie retailer Acetrax, the new store will allow users to download the latest Hollywood releases and TV shows for viewing on compatible Samsung devices. Read More
A new implantable device that monitors a tumor for weeks, or months, could offer a simpler, less intrusive alternative to taking biopsies, which are traditionally used to diagnose the presence of cancer – and one that potentially offers a greater chance of successful treatment. Read More
Looks like the Key Ingredient Corporation is looking to be to recipes what Apple is to music. Instead of iTunes, it has the keyingredient.com website that lets people either share recipes publicly or store them privately and, instead of an iPod, it has the Demy – a digital recipe reader – with 7-inch touchscreen and "kitchen safe" casing – that syncs with your online Key Ingredient account. Read More
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Energetic soul makes a return to the scene with O'Neal McKnight's new single, Check Your Coat. In a style which can best be described as a mix of Michael Jackson, Prince, and Usher, McKnight sings about a girl who he has his eye on and wants to get on the dance floor. The classic-sounding production should help make this a sure-shot hit in the clubs and maybe even assist McKnight with a major label deal. Record contract or not, Check Your Coat brings some artsy, wholesome, feel good music into an industry filled with a vast amount of explicit substance.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is spending a few days in China, but that doesn't mean he's putting out feelers for a possible launch of the social network there — he swears. Twitter told the Wall Street Journal that Costolo is there to "learn more about Chinese culture and the country's thriving technology sector," with a packed itinerary filled with university tours and government meetings.
Twitter reiterated that it has "no plans to change anything about our service in order to enter the market" where it has been blocked since 2009. The tightly controlled country restricts what people can access online, and social networks have to comply with the Chinese government's demands. Twitter said it has no plans to do that.
So, why is Costolo there? The Journal guesses:
Instead of trying to get Twitter into China, Mr. Costolo may simply be seeking to understand the world's largest and most isolated internet market. Though many products on China's internet remain copies of products coming out in the U.S., intense local competition and specific demands of local users are slowly leading Chinese companies to push in directions not anticipated by Silicon Valley. [Wall Street Journal]
China is usually ahead of the curve when forecasting technology trends, with a Tinder-like dating service dominating the market long before the app launched in America. Read the rest of the story at the Journal. Jordan Valinsky
It's not clear if Friday's referendum to allow same-sex marriage in traditionally Catholic Ireland will pass, but the fact that it might signals a pretty rapid turnaround for a country that only decriminalized homosexuality in 1993. If the Irish approve the gay-marriage proposal, the Republic of Ireland will be the first country to do so by popular vote. The polls suggest the measure has a good chance of passing, though it's unclear if conservative sections of rural Ireland will turn out in large numbers to defeat the referendum.
The Catholic bishops of Ireland are opposed to the measure, but some parish priests publicly support it, as do some conservative political parties. "In many ways, Ireland hasn't changed because the Irish people have always been tolerant, decent, and compassionate," Sen. David Norris, 70, told The New York Times. "But you've still got to say that it's extraordinary to have once been considered a criminal and now I might be able to marry — if anyone would have me, that is!"
In majority protestant Northern Ireland, the government has voted down three recent proposals to join the rest of the United Kingdom in allowing same-sex marriage. Peter Weber
If you shut off the TV or switched from CBS after David Letterman's final sign-off Wednesday night, you missed Late Late Show host James Corden's car trip with Justin Bieber. Don't worry, they posted it to YouTube. It's billed as "carpool karaoke" — which, not to quibble too much, is wrong both because the music has the original vocal tracks and only one of the dudes is going to work (Corden) — but the singing to the radio is the least interesting part, anyway.
The reasons to watch are Justin Bieber's impressive Rubik's Cube skills and the conversation — specifically, Bieber's reaction when Corden laid out a fairly elaborate fantasy involving a woman, a bed, some Bieber tunes, and a cutout of Bieber's silhouette on the bathroom door. Lesser pop stars might have jumped out of the car; Bieber agreed to swap clothes. You can watch below. —Peter Weber
Among the trove of documents and book titles newly declassified and released from the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011 was a letter bin Laden wrote to one of his wives in Iran around December 2010. In the three-page letter he discusses routine domestic issues, like his wife's dental work, and says he was thinking about leaving for another hideout.
"I have been living for years in the company of some of the brothers from the area, and they are getting exhausted — security wise — from me staying with them and what results from that," he wrote. "Sadly, I came to realize that they have reached a level of exhaustion that they are shutting down, and they asked to leave us all." He had been with the hosts for so long, he added, "I think that I have to leave them," though it would take a few months "to arrange another place where you, Hamza, and his wife can join us."
As The New York Times notes, "it is impossible to know how any change in location by bin Laden might have altered the ability of American intelligence agencies to accurately track him to his secret compound." If he had escaped before the May raid, he might still be alive.
Whether or not you're a Deadhead, you'll want to check out Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann's madcap and highly entertaining story that he told on Conan about the time the Dead played a Hugh Hefner TV show on CBS, Playboy After Dark. As the band was setting up, Kreutzmann told Conan O'Brien, he started to hear crazy things from the TV crew, about cameras out of focus and mics not on. After looking around, "I had this strange suspicion," he said, and he finally figured out that famed LSD maker Owsley Stanley had dosed the 150-cup crew coffee pot. The entire crew was tripping on acid. "It wasn't illegal in 1967," Kreutzmann said when Conan suggested that must be some kind of crime.
Kreutzmann, who has a new memoir out, also discussed how Jerry Garcia came up with the name for The Grateful Dead, how everybody hated it, and geeked out on Dungeons & Dragons with Patton Oswald. Watch below. —Peter Weber
Sgt. Craig Harrison, a retired British army soldier, killed two Taliban fighters more than 1.5 miles away in 2009, making him one of the most accurate known snipers in the world. But his decades as a sniper have left a deep mental scar, and he has "flashbacks all the time" of "the people that I've killed," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire in an interview, his back turned to the camera. Harrison said he is on a lot of medication, has trouble sleeping, and is suffering from PTSD related to being shot in the helmet and being injured in an anti-tank mine explosion.
"Anyone who says they don't feel anything for the people they've killed are not telling the truth," he told Derbyshire. And that's doubly true for snipers, who see their victims up close. "You see them spit on the floor, you see them talking," he said. "You own their life, basically. You're their god for that split second, and then you take them out." Watch below. —Peter Weber
The ubiquitous Pyrex measuring cup in your kitchen made its debut in 1925, but the first Pyrex dish hit the market 10 years earlier, after a Corning scientist brought home a sawed-off industrial-glass jar to his wife, who baked a sponge cake in it. At least that's Corning's story, and they're sticking to it at a Pyrex centennial celebration at the Corning Museum of Glass, starting June 6. Pyrex is still around — and still "hot," as Associated Press reporter Michael Hill notes in the video below — but Corning hasn't made the iconic heat-resistant glass since it sold its consumer products division in 1998; it's now made by World Kitchen, based in Rosemont, Illinois. For more Pyrex facts, watch below or read AP's fact sheet. —Peter Weber
The two kids with the lowest GPAs in the Oneonta High Class of 1989 know the word "prerogative," thanks to Bobby Brown, so you know Jimmy Fallon and Dwayne Johnson did their homework — or, more likely, remember 1989 pretty well (also, let's be honest, 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure). The conceit of this bit from Thursday's Tonight Show is that high schools sometimes let the low-achievers give commencement addresses, too, and that they would make horrible predictions from the future. Such as: "Don't get caught up in fads that won't last, like 'computers,'" says Johnson's character, Logan Duffy. The kicker is the '80s-style "this is what happened to..." wrap-up before the closing credits. Watch and bask in the nostalgia below. —Peter Weber


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I'm readying a WP theme I've created and now I'm building the live preview. My theme has video support, but I have no idea where to find TF acceptable video assets which I can put in the preview. I plan to be upload them to the live preview for display in the theme's pages.
Does anyone have any suggestions where to find good .mp4 and .m4v assets? Or do I just convert the .flv ones found in the asset library?
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The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) is at loggerheads with the Board of Investments (BOI) over the proposed revenue-sharing scheme for the mining industry.
In an interview, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said a draft bill on revenue sharing prepared by the BOI, which is under the Department of Trade and Industry, would lower the government's take.
"Whatever we submit to the President and the Congress should be better than the existing scheme," he added.
The BOI's proposed mining revenue-sharing arrangement gives the government 10 percent of gross production value or 50 percent of gross income, whichever is higher.
In an Aug. 1 letter to Nestor P. Arcansalin, director of the BOI's resource-based industries department, MGB director Leo L. Jasareno said the share was lower than the existing tax payments of mining contractors.
The MGB added that based on the BOI draft, the government's take would even be lower than its existing share considering that the draft bill included all taxes and royalties but excluded real property tax.
"We are instead proposing to keep the present tax regime, but less the incentives plus 5 percent of the gross sale as royalty payment, applicable to both mineral and nonmineral reservation areas," Jasareno wrote.
According to the MGB, the government take based on the current scheme is 14.4 percent of mining revenue. Under MGB's proposal, the government's share would be 18.2 percent of the gross value while under the BOI draft, it would be lower at 10 percent.
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Kathleen Kendrick of Aquinnah has joined the real estate company Homes on Martha's Vineyard as a sales associate, owners Susan Cahoon and Tjark Aldeborgh announced.
Ms. Kendrick brings a diverse background from several professional careers in special education, mass marketing, and residential interior design, according to a press release. A part-time Aquinnah resident for 26 years, her focus is up-Island real estate sales and vacation rentals in Chilmark, Aquinnah, and West Tisbury.
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Celebrities Jealous Of Other Celebrities
Jay-Z once said that males shouldn't be jealous it's a female trait. Well, men and women exhibit jealousy equally if you ask us. Everyone from us regular people to the celebrities out in the world experiences the pitfalls of jealousy. It's nasty and never good. To illustrate this, we named some celebrities who seem to be jealous of others. What happened?
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Crestron Takes Room Scheduling Touch Screens To A Beautiful New Level
(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 16 April 2014 Release date- 15042014 - Crestron has infused the beauty, style, and ease-of-use of its TSW line of touch screens into the new TSS-752 room scheduling touch screen.
Now shipping, the TSS-752 features a brilliant 7-inch widescreen capacitive color display, bright color beacons that indicate room availability from afar, and a touch screen-centric interface with at-a-glance meeting and scheduling information. As with Crestron TSW touch screens, Smart Graphics delivers a dynamic, gesture-driven user experience with advanced, customizable room scheduling capabilities. A simple swipe of the new scrolling calendar ribbon conveniently reveals the room's entire schedule for the day.
'The TSS-752 represents a leap forward in room scheduling touch screens, both aesthetically and functionally,' said Glen Marianko, Technology Manager. 'It's sleek, stylish, and simpler to use than our previous models. It delivers groundbreaking capabilities such as the responsive, intuitive scheduling interface, highlighted by the time-saving scrolling calendar ribbon. Now, you can view meeting details and reserve a room on the spot without having to flip through screen after screen.' No more wandering the hallways The TSS-752 features new side-mounted, multi-colored LEDs that act as beacons to provide clear indication of a room's status. The touch screen sits just far enough from the wall to let you clearly see the LEDs from down the corridor. The TSS-752 eliminates the time-wasting, productivity-draining practice of wandering the hallways searching for an available room to hold your meeting.
Enterprise-wide integration Now, it's easy to find and reserve any room on the network. The TSS-752 uses Crestron Fusion software to enable seamless integration with popular scheduling applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, IBM Notes, CollegeNET R25, and Google Calendar.
Crestron Fusion supports the use of room occupancy sensors to detect when no one has shown up for a scheduled meeting. In such an event, the current reservation can be cancelled automatically to make the room available to others. If a meeting ends earlier than scheduled, a touch of the 'End Now' button makes the room available to others immediately.
New advanced room scheduling capabilities The 'Find' room function lets you quickly locate an available space nearby. End or extend a reservation with one button touch, and reserve extra setup time ahead of the actual scheduled event. Scheduling panels also display broadcast messages sent from Crestron Fusion for emergencies or notices, such as an upcoming fire drill.
Simple, versatile mounting The TSS-752 can be installed in places other touch screens can't: on a wall over a standard 2-gang electrical box, or mounted to virtually any flat surface - even glass, granite, or marble. An optional Mullion Kit (shipping soon) allows the TSS-752 to mount and route its cabling to any hollow, vertical support, or door jamb. A single Ethernet cable with PoE technology delivers operating power to the TSS-752 right through the LAN wiring.
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