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Chromecast Features Coming to Google TV
Chromecast looks to be the first step in Google's new invasion into the living room. Google TV has yet to become a real household name, with only a few vendors producing set-top boxes and LG currently remaining as the only HDTV provider. However, more are supposedly on the way in both form factors, but for now, the company's new assault starts with Chromecast.
"Partners are continuing to launch new Google TV-enabled HDTVs and boxes," the company said. "As we announced at I/O, we are working with partners to bring the latest experience of Android and Chrome to devices later this year. We believe there is ample room for both products to exist and succeed."
There's supposedly a Nexus-style set-top box in the works with more robust features, and is likely part of Google's rejuvenated streaming TV efforts. There's a good chance it will have Chromecast support, allowing users to pump videos, music, pictures and other files to their HDTV on the fly. This set top box will also allow users to install apps thanks to full access to Google Play, including Netflix, Crackle, Amazon Instant Video, Pandora and so on. Naturally, only specific apps will work on Google TV.
Google's Warren Rehman, who is part of the Google TV team, confirmed on Wednesday that the Google TV platform will indeed incorporate Chromecast features. Thus, Google's assault on the living room will start with the $35 Chromecast device; extend to the pricier, more feature-rich Google TV set-top boxes with Google itself serving as one of the ODMs; and HDTVs with Google TV as the OS -- all with Chromium capabilities. We're betting Chromecast itself may somehow support Google's streaming TV service using an app and the Chrome browser so that Google covers all three sets of customers.
However, when the rumored set-top box and the next-generation of the Google TV devices will be released is currently unknown, but both Rehman and Android/Chrome boss Sundar Pichai indicate that a wave of new products is slowly approaching. These products, along with some of the existing solutions on the market, may likely incorporate Android 4.3 "Jelly Bean" instead of Android 4.2.2 as LG indicated during Google I/O.
That said, something could be brewing in October to deflect whatever Apple, Amazon and Microsoft plans to release in that time frame. There's a good chance Google's supposed Android gaming console will also hit the scene to combat rivals like Gamestick and M.O.J.O.


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Python, Lua and BeanShell: Google's New Android Scripting
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) is under Apache 2.0 licensing and should soon have Ruby and JavaScript support.
Linux mavens would be pleased with ASE. It provides them access to many Android APIS without needing the complete development framework for full-fledged Android applications. The ASE will initially support the three languages Python, Lua and BeanShell. Ruby and JavaScript will be next.
The scripts allow the likes of starting activities, making phone calls, sending text messages and scanning barcodes. They support the text-to-speech capabilities of the Android OS. Moreover, BeanShell can talk directly with the Android Java API.
The ASE is currently in alpha. Further details, useful examples and downloads are on the Android-Scripting webpage.
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Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
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Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
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The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
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Linux has evolved from "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
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Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
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Big Car Family, Birdbrain Family, Gold Family, and Sports Family
What are the nicknames of the 4 families that live in the Baron houses?
taking food away from legal people
According to the Government, third children would cause harm by...
When Luke told Mr. Talbot, "Stop Jen? That's like trying to stop the sun," he meant that Jen was...
Some governments are not fair to their people
Which of the following best describes the main theme of Among the Hidden?
The Garner's taxes were increased because of the new houses.
Why did Mother go to work at the factory?
Character vs. Society
The Government vs. Luke/Shadow Children is an example of what type of conflict?
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Queens of the Stone Age rocks out on new album ' ... Like Clockwork'
Queens of the Stone Age, " ... Like Clockwork" ***
How many major contemporary rock bands are we down to in America? A couple dozen, maybe? That's the desert-dry landscape that Queens of the Stone Age returns to with " ... Like Clockwork," and fortunately it does everything a good rock record should -- wringing new blood from classic forms and sounding absolutely sexy and a little scary while doing it.
Six years after their last album, "Era Vulgaris," Queens' " ... Like Clockwork" calls in a lot of friendly favors (cameos come from Trent Reznor, occasional drum-throne lord Dave Grohl and a very unexpected Elton John, among others). But this show is all frontman Joshua Homme's. Singles like "My God is the Sun" and "If I Had a Tail" have sunburned psychedelia and raw muscle to spare. They're some of the catchiest tunes in his catalog, and are all the more venomous for it.
Homme is one of the few singers and lyricists today who knows that rock 'n' roll is built on a mix of menace and dark humor, and almost every track on " ... Like Clockwork" has a moment that makes you want to drive to Joshua Tree, pound some beers and start fires in the shape of pentagrams. Some cuts like "I Sat by the Ocean" and "The Vampyre of Time and Memory" have glimmers of hazy, Big Star '70s prettiness. But then a drop-tuned guitar bend creeps back in, Grohl's drums beat a death march and one of SoCal's best bands announces it isn't going anywhere.
-- August Brown, Los Angeles Times
Eleanor Friedberger, "Personal Record" **1/2
Best known for her work as half of the sibling duo the Fiery Furnaces, singer and songwriter Eleanor Friedberger has been a rock outlier since her band burst out of the same '00s New York scene as the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Over the following decade they poured forth ridiculous amounts of music that melded brother Matthew Friedberger's encyclopedic knowledge of music with Eleanor's gentle, wavering voice and way with a curious lyric.
On her second solo album, Friedberger strikes further afield of her brother's impatient prog-rock tendencies, offering a dozen reasonably focused, verse-chorus-verse art-rock songs that draw on guitar-based '70s rock -- as seen through a spider-cracked windshield.
Which is to say, those looking for singalong joy and simple conceits have some work to do here. Friedberger's work is often heavy with odd phrasings, curious images and jagged lyrics. "Other Boys," for example, features a line about a spider in a stairwell who "demonstrates acoustics to ne'er-do-wells." "Staring at the Sun" opens with the stage-setting line, "In the back of the tax / you turned off the TV / and read me a book on the phone." These words are accompanied by guitar / bass / drum-heavy structures that roam easily through samba, soft-rock and '70s canyon rock, combining to create a record that feels wonderfully askew, making "Personal Record" a challenge worth taking.
-- Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times
LeAnn Rimes, "Spitfire" ****
LeAnn Rimes has appeared in tabloid headlines more often than the record charts the last few years. But don't fault her music: Her last three albums have featured the best work of her career and the new "Spitfire" tops them all.
The onetime child star always had a powerful voice. She often picked good material, too. But it never gelled into a consistent creative direction.
"Spitfire" finds Rimes emerging as a mature artist whose songwriting ability is catching up with her vocal talent. Ballads like "What Have I Done" and "Borrowed" convey deeply felt, difficult emotions. She also has developed into an effective pop-rocker: On "Gasoline and Matches," she bites into a raw, bluesy groove, while the exposed nerves of the modern rocker "You've Ruined Me" burn with the fire of truth.
Rimes displays a newfound subtlety in her strong voice on several songs. She effectively uses phrasing and shifts in tone to express complex feelings that sound like they come from real experience.
It's too soon to say Rimes has finally found a direction that can carry her back to the top of the charts. But "Spitfire" does show she's found her adult voice -- as a songwriter as well as a singer.
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The 52-year-old grandmother, who is clearly still mourning the loss of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, struggled to maintain her composure throughout the morning.
Her voice cracking, Cindy testified about the foul smell in Casey's white Pontiac Sunfire. "I said it smelled like something died in the car," she testified, before tearfully recounting how she took Caylee's doll out of the car and wiped it with a Clorox wipe.
"Casey's purse was on the front seat and Caylee's baby doll, her favorite doll was in the car seat like it was sitting where Caylee would have sat," Cindy said. "Caylee's doll smelled like the car so I took it out ... I sat the doll down and I went and got a Clorox wipe and I wiped the face and hands. The body was soft and so it smelled pretty bad ... I sprayed Febreze all through the car thinking that might help the odor ... I used pretty much a whole can of Febreze."
Cindy also testified that she overheard daughter Casey telling her brother that Caylee had been missing for 31 days. "I lost it," she testified. "I just went into the room and yelled at Casey, 'What do you mean she's been gone? Why didn't you tell us?' "
Courtroom in Tears During 911 TapeBut the drama was just beginning. The prosecution played the infamous 911 tape from July 2008, in which Cindy is heard telling the dispatcher: "There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there has been a dead body in the damn car."
As she listened to the recording, Cindy began shaking and sobbing, and doubled over. When it was done, she asked the judge for a five-minute break.
The recording also sent shock waves through the hushed courtroom. Several onlookers in the balcony wiped their eyes with tissues. Riveted jurors read the transcript of the call as it played, periodically looking up to watch the distraught grandmother weeping. Several of them looked over at Casey Anthony, who sat emotionless by her attorneys.


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im having problems downloading the map packs for MW3. when i click confirm download it says "this account is not permitted to download content with this rating" but on my family settings everything is unlocked. i dont know what to do . HELP PLEASE
Do you happen to have a child account? If so you will need to have the parent account promote you to an adult account in order to download Mature-rated content. Here are the steps that need to be taken to do this: support.xbox.com/.../online-safety. Or, if you are over 18 you can create a new adult gamertag and download the content there. Please let me know if this helps.
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Greetings, aGIRL707! Thank you for bring this question to us. You mentioned that your family settings are all unlocked. However, if you are a secondary account on your family plan and your settings are set to "custom" you may have problems downloading content. Can you please try setting your account to "adult" and see if the problem persists? Keep me posted. I'm here if you have any further questions.
where do i set it as adult again?
Go ahead and open up this page: support.xbox.com/.../online-safety. Under "Change online safety and privacy settings" you'll see an image which shows the interface that allows you to toggle between Adult, Teen, Child, and Custom settings. Just follow the steps listed there and make sure that Adult is selected. Hope this helps!
i set it to adult and it didnt help. i still cant download it
so i made a new profile and it is letting me download it! now that i have the map packs i will be able to use them on my real account right?
Hey Girl! When you went to that site to set your account safety to "Adult", were you logged in to your account, or the Primary Account of the Family Plan? Also, is your account a child account by itself (usually under 18 years old)?Regarding you purchase of those map packs, any account should be able to use them on that same console, but the purchasing account will need to be logged in to LIVE if you want to use it on another console. Let us know about the questions above and we'll make sure we get everything squared away for you. Thanks!
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Hay I can't change my gamer tag I just payed for a new year of gold and it wo t let me download the maps so what do I do tells me the same thing
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This is so annoying, I've tried everything. I changed my account into an adult account from the parent controll but still nothing. I should be able to play M rated games I'm 17 years old.
Age off majority Is 18 not 17
You cannot turn and child account into and adult till your accoint turns 18
Parental settins only affect purchases not demos
Your wrong about that ngocphi i tried downloading Hitman Blood Money demo and guess what i tried everything and it didn't work.
This is horrible cuz its like I can't download any thing
Greetings, everyone. I just wanted to jump in here and confirm that the legal adult age varies by country and region. dudewas78249 and Mission 55, can you please both make new threads for us? We'd be more than happy to help you there. Thank you!
I have my email set to age 20. I'm actually 17 but I don't understand why it isn't letting me download games with M rating or RP rating. I'm aloud to download these types of games. I have all settings to adult and allowed everything yet I still can't download some content. I've tried to remove the parental permission because I never really needed it but I some how had to put it at the beginning when I first got my xbox. When I try removing it I always getting a message saying, "Uh Oh... that shouldn't have happened." I don't understand what is going on and I wish for some advise on what to do.


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Larry Kudlow's stunning pattern and where it leads
February 3, 2010 - Mike Maneval
Wednesday's post by supply-sider Larry Kudlow at his blog for National Review's Web site is simply stunning.
The post ends with Kudlow's statement, "Interestingly, stocks rallied Tuesday by over 100 points, as they did on Monday. The stock market may be betting on the Scott Brown scenario," revisiting an outlandish claim from before Brown's election that the Massachusetts Republican's election would boost Wall Street's vitality. Back in reality, Brown's election was immediately followed by the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 5 percent over three days, as the Web site truthout.org details.
Right before Kudlow tries to attribute the stock market's performance on good days to his new favorite politician while ignoring the bad days altogether, he suggests the Republicans would set "a real pro-growth agenda" if they extended the Bush tax cuts - you know, the tax rates under which our unemployment rate has hit double-digits.
One could almost discern a pattern here: All good things which follow passage of a policy Kudlow supports are the result of the policy. All bad things that follow passage ... well, best just to ignore those things entirely. It's a pattern that leads not to effective governance, but to blind ideological rigidity.
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Kelly Clarkson & Fiancé Brandon Blackstock Attend Inaugural Ball
The singer – who is engaged to Nashville-based talent manager Brandon Blackstock – attended the inaugural ball with her fiancé on Monday.
Sharing her political partying experience with her 2.6 million followers, Clarkson, 30, chronicled her evening on Twitter.
"My dress barely fit in the car for tonight's festivities. I feel like Cinderella! Thank you Oscar De La Renta!" she Tweeted, revealing a photo of herself wearing a floral patterned gown.
Then it was time to pose for photos with Blackstock. "Me and Brandon in our 'fancy' attire :) Fun night!" she later Tweeted.
Though Clarkson assured followers she was having a ball, she credited the First Lady with getting the festivities going.
"Just partied at the White House ....I kid you not, Michelle Obama stood up and got the party started ....seriously cool First Lady :)," she Tweeted.


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The U.S. Congress rescinded language in Pentagon orders that allowed military chaplains to mention Jesus in official prayers. Controversy over including similar language in the Defense Authorization Act, a critical spending bill, dogged attempts to pull the bill out of a Senate-House conference committee before Congress recessed for midterm elections.
The conferees ultimately decided to strike the language and order the Pentagon to rescind its earlier instructions. Mikey Weinstein, a former U.S. Air Force officer who led the battle to remove the language, applauded the decision. "We welcome the opportunity Congress has afforded to discuss the appropriate role of religion and chaplains in the military," Weinstein, who is Jewish, said last week in a statement issued by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which he founded. "The passage of this bill will be a victory for those of us who have been fighting so assiduously to protect both the rights of the men and women in our armed forces and the United States Constitution."
Austrian extremists gain in elections
Two far-right parties with a history of anti-Jewish rhetoric made gains in Austrian elections. National elections held over the weekend saw a 50 percent rise since 2002 elections in the percentage of votes for the Freedom Party and the Alliance for Austria's Future. Members of both parties have expressed antipathy toward Israel and are known for their campaigns against Muslims living in Austria.
The left-leaning Social Democrats won the election with nearly 36 percent of the vote, followed by the center-right People's Party with 34 percent. The Freedom Party came in third with 11 percent, and the Alliance for Austria's Future, run by right-wing extremist Jorg Haider, received 4 percent of the vote. The Social Democrats and People's Party are expected to form a governing coalition.
Federal legislation Includes grant for Federation model elderly care program
A Jewish federation model to facilitate care for the elderly in their home communities will be included in federal grant legislation. The United Jewish Communities, the umbrella body for North American federations, launched the "Aging in Place" initiative in 2002, helping 40 communities in 25 states obtain federal dollars for naturally occurring retirement communities. The model was featured in a U.S. Senate hearing this year to consider re-authorization of the Older Americans Act. As a result, a federal grant program for the retirement communities is included in language agreed to by House-Senate conferees.
Swiss stage pro-Israel rally
Approximately 3,000 demonstrators held a pro-Israel rally in the Swiss capital. Saturday's rally in Bern called for the Swiss government to support Israel's right to exist and show solidarity with the Jewish state's fight against terrorism. Twenty organizations signed a resolution urging the government to refuse negotiations with terrorist groups that reject the existence of the Israeli state.
British House of Lords member faces probe by party over Israel lobby remarks
A member of Britain's House of Lords will be investigated by her party for comments about the "pro-Israel lobby." Liberal Democrat Party members have announced that Baroness Jenny Tonge's position in the party will be reviewed in response to her public remarks.
In a speech that recently aired on BBC Radio, Tonge said, "The pro-Israeli lobby has got its [financial] grips on the Western world. I think they've probably got a certain grip on our party."
More than 20 of her peers in the House of Lords wrote a letter to the Times condemning Tonge's comments, stating, "Baroness Tonge evoked a classic anti-Jewish conspiracy theory," and that her language "as a member of the House of Lords, was irresponsible and inappropriate.''
In early 2004, she was fired from her position as Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on international development for saying she could understand why a Palestinian would become a suicide bomber and also that she would consider becoming one were she a Palestinian.
Remains of Czech Jewish graveyard found
Evidence of a medieval Jewish cemetery was discovered in the Czech Republic. Researchers from a preservationist organization in the city of Pilsen say they found documents in the city archive revealing details of what they believe was one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Czech lands in the 14th century.
The cemetery's existence was already known, said archaeologist Radek Siroky of the West Bohemian Institute for Heritage Conservation and Documentation, but the new documents reveal more specifics about its location.
He said that only excavations, approved by religious authorities, could provide more details about the cemetery's size and the nature of the Jewish community there.
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New Jersey State Sen. Diane Allen (R., Burlington) said Wednesday that she planned to introduce legislation soon that would make it easier to fire educators who bully their students.
"My hope is that we can get it through very quickly," said Allen, a prime sponsor of the state's existing anti-bullying law.
The legislation Allen said she was drafting was inspired by the recent case of the Cherry Hill father who captured Horace Mann Elementary School staff making hostile and inappropriate statements through a recording device he put in his autistic son's pocket. The father, Stuart Chaifetz, an animal-rights activist and former school board candidate, made a video that contained portions of the audio recording and posted it last week on YouTube. The video went viral, getting nearly 4.4 million hits and much media attention.


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Mississippi rock blasting puts river in ship shape
ST. LOUIS -- Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping industry's fears that the treacherous channel could close to traffic, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Saturday.
Using excavators and explosives, corps-hired contractors added 2 vital feet of depth to the channel near Thebes, Ill., about 130 miles south of St. Louis, the corps said. That phase, which began in December, addressed the most pressing threat to mariners. Additional rock removal is expected nearby, the corps said.
"The river rock removal contractors executed their work quickly and efficiently in the primary areas of concern," said Maj. Gen. John Peabody, commander of the corps' Mississippi Valley division.


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Brett's Biography
Brett lives in New Mexico and desperately wishes he had a better story about why he lost most of his teeth by age 42. The truth is that smoking cigarettes played a large part in ruining Brett's natural smile. His mother was dentist, so he had good dental care as a child and saw a dentist regularly as an adult. However, Brett smoked about a pack a day, starting in high school.
By his mid-30s, Brett had gum disease—a danger for all smokers. Because of his gum disease, the tissues and bones holding Brett's teeth in place were breaking down. During each visit, his dentist asked, "Are you still smoking?"
Around age 40, Brett started losing teeth. Two years later, he learned that 16 more teeth needed to come out, including all of his front teeth—both top and bottom. After surgery, while his mouth and gums were still healing, Brett continued to smoke. "There I would be, standing outside having a cigarette. I was still completely addicted and in denial, even after I lost a bunch of teeth," he said.
It took awhile to learn how to talk correctly with partial dentures—and talking was Brett's business as a radio personality. "It's almost like having a really big wad of gum in your mouth, except it's hard. And it's plastic. And it's not supposed to be there."
Brett has now been smokefree for 4 years. After trying to quit smoking several times, he finally did it with the help of nicotine patches. He now knows that he can't smoke even one puff, or else he could relapse. "Life is so much better without smoking," Brett says. "You're not constantly thinking about your next cigarette."
Brett started smoking at age 16 to impress a girl who worked as a waitress at a late-night diner. He continued to smoke for about 30 years. "I still remember smoking, but not the name of that waitress!" he said.
Since his surgery, it's been hard for Brett to accept the way he looks, with only 12 real teeth left. Brett puts his false teeth in first thing in the morning—and he takes them out in the dark, just before going to bed. He doesn't want his wife to see the empty spaces in his mouth where he used to have teeth.
Brett hopes that sharing his story will convince smokers to quit as soon as possible. "My wake-up call was losing most of my teeth," he says.
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Seattle is a city known for its rain, but on Wednesday its residents are bracing for what is forecast to be the worst snowstorm in 25 years.
The city is expected to get an entire year's worth of winter in only one day. Snow has been falling since the weekend, accumulating enough to cause traffic problems.
The city is now on high alert for a full-scale disaster. Schools are closed, and the mayor is asking residents to stay off the roads.
"This does have potential to shut things down for even beyond one day, maybe even two days," said Paul Deanno, meteorologist for Seattle's KOKO4 television station.
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It does have some disadvantages, sure. It has range limitations (but not that much, it has fantastic range for a shotgun), the reload is a bit slow(although, again it is one of the best for shotguns. Only the SLY might be a tad faster), and enemies can pick it up and use it's overpowered-ness against you (this is also true of other high level guns though, and hardly balances things out when you get it at every spawn and enemies have to look for it and leave themselves vulnerable when they stop to grab it).
If they had made it semi-automatic only, fire rate of a pistol, it would still be great but just not so cheap. That's my opinion.
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Pistol semi-auto is 5/sec I think, full auto is 12/sec for Masterton. Instead of spraying across the screen, at least you'd have to aim.
But you may be right. I always switch to semi-automatic when I grab someone's Masterton.
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Don't know 'bout Goldeneye's specific hipfire versus ADS metagame and such, but in the shooters I know of one does not simply spray 'n pray at every given encounter. If ADSing with a buckshot shotty decreases spread, then slowin' down one's fire to semi-auto, conserving ammo and gettin' easier one-shot kills should logically be the most effective strategy as Tamps claims (for players who ain't right-shit)... unless of course ya turn a corner and someone's got a barrel in your face. Everyone thinks shotguns are fantastic hipfire weapons, but in games where pellet spread notably decreases via aiming, that sentiment is far from the truth.
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Vladimir Putin took the oath of office for a third term as Russia's president on Monday, saying he considers "service to the fatherland and our nation to be the meaning of my life."
Putin has ruled Russia since 2000, first as president and then during the past four years as prime minister. The new, now six-year term will keep him in power until 2018 with the option of running for a fourth term.
Despite unprecedented security measures in the center of Moscow, several thousand opposition activists tried to protest along the route Putin's motorcade took to the Kremlin and were met by helmeted riot police. Dozens of demonstrators have been detained.
Putin's inauguration in a brief Kremlin ceremony came a day after an opposition protest drew more than 20,000 people, fewer than the mass demonstrations in the months that preceded his March election but still a sign that the anger over Putin's return to the Kremlin has not faded.
Sunday's protest turned violent when some demonstrators tried to march toward the Kremlin. Riot police beat back the crowds with batons and detained more than 400 people.
The use of force after the winter's peaceful rallies indicate that Putin may take a harder line toward the protestors now that he is once again president.
Nevertheless, after taking the oath of office with his hand on a red copy of Russia's constitution, Putin stated his commitment to democracy.
"We want to live and we will live in a democratic country that will offer opportunities and freedom for everyone's life and labor," he said in a grand Kremlin hall before 3,000 invited guests.
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Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., blames political correctness for the 2009 shooting rampage at the Fort Hood, Texas Army post that left 13 people dead.
The lawmaker noted that suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan was open about his radical Islamic views before the shooting, but his army supervisors didn't take action for fear of appearing intolerant. Jury selection in the murder trial has started. Hasan is expected to tell potential jurors he's being forced to wear a military uniform, which he believes represents "an enemy of Islam." Hasan told the court he spends hours reading the Koran in his cell every day.
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New Dallas City Attorney Warren M.S. Ernst will make $217,000 annually under the terms of a contract approved by the City Council this morning.
The contract is for a two-year term, as set out by the City Charter, with council members able to re-appoint Ernst for additional terms as they see fit.
The City Council last week voted 12-3 for Ernst, 59, who had been serving as interim city attorney. The two other finalists were Angela K. Washington, who was also a finalist in 1999, and Russell F. Coleman, general counsel for Belo Corp.
"I'm humbled by this honor," Ernst said after he was sworn in by City Secretary Rosa Rios. "I affirm and swear that I will devote myself to give you the best possible legal advice in helping you to fulfill your goal of improving the quality of life of all of our residents. Thank you so much."
A City Council committee will evaluate Ernst every year and he can receive salary increases based on those performance reviews.
Ernst, a veteran of the office, had been making $154,083 a year in his prior position as chief of the general counsel division, according to city records.
His predecessor, Tom Perkins, was making $258,343 at the time of his retirement last month. His starting salary when was hired as city attorney in 2005 was $203,000, including $4,000 in deferred compensation, according to city records.
The city attorney is one of only four employees who are hired by and report directly to the City Council.
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Bernanke Says Fed Must Monitor Inflation 'Extremely Closely'
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said policy makers must watch inflation "extremely closely" for evidence that rising commodity costs are having more than a temporary impact on consumer prices.
"So long as inflation expectations remain stable and well anchored" and the rise in commodity prices slows, as he's forecasting, then "the increase in inflation will be transitory," Bernanke said yesterday in response to audience questions after a speech in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
"We have to monitor inflation and inflation expectations extremely closely because if my assumptions prove not to be correct, then we would certainly have to respond to that and ensure that we maintain price stability," he said.
The dollar rose against the euro and yen after the comments, which are similar to both Bernanke's congressional testimony and the statement from the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee last month. He told lawmakers March 1 that Fed officials "continue to monitor these developments closely and are prepared to respond as necessary," while the FOMC said on March 15 that it "will pay close attention to the evolution of inflation and inflation expectations."
The dollar rose to 84.36 yen at 10:11 a.m. in Tokyo from 84.06 yesterday after earlier touching 84.49. Against the euro, the dollar strengthened to $1.4199 from $1.4221.
Responding to another question yesterday about housing, Bernanke said that the Fed expects a "very high rate" of foreclosures this year, which harms home prices and construction and creates a drag on the recovery, which he said is "not as strong as we would like it to be."
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The Commerce Department reported last week that the Fed's preferred price gauge, the personal consumption expenditures index, excluding food and energy, increased 0.9 percent in February from a year earlier. Including all items, prices rose 1.6 percent, compared with a 1.2 percent 12-month increase through January.
Fed officials aim for annual inflation in the long run of 1.6 percent to 2 percent.
Bernanke, in his response yesterday, acknowledged gains in prices of commodities including metals, grains and energy. The national average price of gasoline rose to $3.55 on March 15 from $3.07 on January 1. Gasoline rose further after the Fed's meeting to $3.66 on Apr. 3.
The FOMC, led by Bernanke, said after its last meeting that the economy is on a "firmer footing" and affirmed plans to buy $600 billion of Treasuries through June. Bernanke hasn't said what he favors as the next move for monetary policy after that.
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The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate close to zero since December 2008 and last month reiterated it would remain there for an "extended period."
Even so, some policy makers who have broken with Bernanke before are discussing the need to tighten credit. Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, who dissented twice from decisions to lower borrowing costs in 2008, said April 1 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that an increase in growth or inflation expectations may "suggest that it is time to begin taking our foot off the accelerator and start heading for the exit ramp."
While Bernanke's "remarks echoed the vigilance on inflation expectations that was present in the last meeting statement, it was certainly less hawkish" than recent comments from some regional Fed presidents, Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, said in a research note.
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Bernanke wasn't asked about and didn't discuss interest rates. New York Fed President William Dudley, the FOMC's vice chairman, said April 1 that faster-than-expected payroll growth in March shouldn't alter the central bank's bond-buying program to prop up the recovery. "I don't see any reason to pull back from that yet," Dudley said to reporters after a speech in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Dudley also said that "provided commodity prices level off around current levels, the effect on inflation should be transitory. But we will need to ensure that commodity-price pressures do not cause inflation expectations to become unmoored."
Bernanke's prepared remarks focused on regulation of clearinghouses for financial trading. Bernanke said the U.S. should subject such institutions to "strong" risk-management oversight to minimize the chance they'll require emergency government aid.
Fed officials are "nervous" about inflation, including food and energy prices, said Jason Schenker, an economist who attended Bernanke's speech.
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Jackson Helms went to church with his family. Right after the opening prayer inside Elevation's sanctuary, mom Kelly Helms says he voiced his own kind of "Amen."
"We were very abruptly escorted out," says Helms. She says a church volunteer took her and Jackson to an overflow area to wait out the rest of the service.
"I don't think I ever felt like that before in my whole life. It was not a good feeling," says Helms.
Helms tried to turn the situation into a way to help others. She claims she emailed the pastor with an offer to start a ministry for special needs children. It was rejected.
Elevation employees say the church focuses on worship, not ministries. And in a statement, a church spokeswoman said "it is our goal at elevation to offer a distraction-free environment for all our guests. We look forward to resolving any misunderstanding that has occurred."
However, the pastor has since contacted a group that connects people with developmental challenges to community resources and requested special needs training for his staff.
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Trustees for the Amarillo Independent School District appeared supportive Friday of asking voters to OK a higher property tax rate.
After weeks of study, trustees will meet at noon July 22 to consider calling an election, possibly for Sept. 23, that would ask voters to increase the portion of the tax rate that goes toward school operations.
State law dictates that the maximum rate trustees can levy next year without voter approval is $1.13 per $100 of taxable property. But the current tax rate for the Amarillo school district is $1.17 per $100. Trustees are considering keeping the rate at $1.17, which would require voter approval to raise the portion of the tax rate for operations from $1.04 per $100 to $1.08. Officials say that would be offset by a 4 cent drop per $100 on the portion of the rate that goes toward debt.
"Allow us to trade 4 cents that has traditionally been paid on bonded indebtedness and begin to pay that on maintenance and operations," school board President Linda Pitner said.
District officials say the $1.17 rate is necessary to maintain district programs, pay for inflationary costs and provide annual cost-of-living raises of 3 percent for employees. Without additional revenue - and because the state has put the district on a fixed income - the board will have to consider cutting programs that the community has come to expect, Pitner said.
"The reality is the way school districts receive revenue is through taxes," Pitner said.
Because the debt rate is falling, a voter-approved tax increase for operations would not raise the overall property tax rate, board member Jim Austin said.
"This seems like a reasonable thing for us to do for our district," Austin said.
Trustees have to consider not only next year, but five years from now, Austin said. Projections show double-digit deficits growing over the next several years, and the district is not counting on any more revenue from the state.
Amarillo ISD's budget for 2008-09 comes close to $200 million, and all but 16 percent of that goes to personnel. Without any more revenue, the only option is to cut the budget, and the only place to cut is in the payroll, Austin said.
"That means those teachers would go the next three years without a pay increase," Austin said. "If we don't have this tax increase, then the teachers are not going to have that increase. We will be stymied in our ability to be competitive in hiring teachers and retaining teachers."
For board member Anette Carlisle, the issue speaks directly to the future of the school district.
"The Legislature's put us in a bind and frozen us at the 2005-06 revenue level with no increases for cost-of-living raises, with no increases for inflation," Carlisle said. "We have to go back to the voter to set the tax rate at an appropriate level."
Board members want to make wise decisions that are in the best interest of the public and the students, said trustee Jack Thompson, who is in a quandry over calling a tax rate election.
"I haven't made up my mind yet," Thompson said. "I'm struggling with this. It's very difficult for people to make ends meet nowadays."
And the current school finance system has frozen per-student revenue for districts statewide, Pitner said. Per-student revenue was set in 2005-06 and the level varies widely among school districts. The per-student revenue was set at $4,624 for Amarillo ISD, but the state average is $5,075 per student.
Though revenue gained through increased property values results in state revenue falling by an equal amount, additional revenue generated by an increased tax rate will go directly to Amarillo ISD, said Holly Shelton, spokeswoman for the district.
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A powerful gas main explosion rocked a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Tuesday night, killing one utility worker and injuring five others. Three people remain in critical condition.
The blast occurred as Philadelphia Gas Works crews were repairing a rupture in a 12-inch gas main.
Authorities evacuated residents in the neighborhood about 30 minutes before the explosion happened.
The blast sent a large fireball of debris more than 50 feet into the air and ignited two homes and a truck.
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|The Odax (SS-484) slides down the launching ways at Electric Boat, 10 April 1945.
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|Commemorative postal cover marking the Odax (SS-484) launching at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Kittery, ME., 10 April 1945.
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|The crew of the Conger (SS-477) aboard for Navy Day, 1945. The Odax (SS-484) is moored alongside.
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|The Odax (SS-484) underway 12 March 1950 after her GUPPY conversion. Note the very small "sail" structure; only a single periscope was retained and no suitable snorkel was available when she was converted.
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|Odax (SS-484) surfaced and underway with the initial Guppy I configuration, without a snorkel, circa 1947-51, place unknown.
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|Odax (SS-484) underway with the initial Guppy I configuration, without a snorkel, circa 1947-51, place unknown.
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|Odax (SS-484) cuts a wide swath through the sea, with the initial Guppy I configuration, without a snorkel, circa 1947-51.
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|Key West Fla 1954: Inboard Sea Poacher (SS-406), outboard Odax (SS-484), two in middle known only to God.
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|Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) with Amberjack (SS-522) and Odax (SS-484) along side, December 1966, Charleston, SC. The photo was taken from the cruiser destroyer pier looking north.
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8th Annual Chinese Restaurant Awards wrap another outstanding year. The Awards Ceremony, held at the River Rock Show Theatre, and recognizing the winners of the Critics' Choice Signature Dish Awards, Social Media Choice Awards and Diners' Choice Awards, was the culmination of a year-long process of defining and celebrating the 'Best in Chinese Cuisine' in Metro Vancouver.
East Meets West, An Epicurean Feast : Paris x Vancouver
January 29 & 30, 2016
In celebration of the 8th Annual Chinese Restaurant Awards, Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver and Market by Jean-Georges presented East Meets West, an epicurean feast prepared in collaboration between four gastronomic giants.
Flying in for two nights only, from the prestigious Michelin-starred restaurants at Shangri-La Hotel, Paris, are award-winning chefs Christophe Moret and Samuel Lee Sum. Representing the West Coast is homegrown talent Chef Ken Nakano from Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver, and internationally acclaimed Master Pastry Chef Thomas Haas. These four master chefs came together to prepare a seven-course menu that expresses each chef's distinctive food philosophy, while presenting the best of French, Cantonese, and West Coast cuisine. Delicately paired with some of France's most prestigious wines and champagne, this East-meets-West dinner is culinary art at its finest. Learn more / Media Inquiries | View Event Photos
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Together with five award winning Chinese chefs, Chinese Restaurant Awards supported Tapestry Foundation for Health Care's fundraising efforts for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital again in 2016. The five chefs presented an exclusive Chinese culinary tasting for the 800 guests at the reception. Participating chefs were Tony Luk – Culinary Director of The Jade Seafood Restaurant, Tony Zhang – Dim Sum Head Chef of The Jade Seafood Restaurant, Keong Wong – Dim Sum Head Chef of Peninsula Seafood Restaurant, Yu Kam Tong – Dim Sum Head Chef of Yue Delicacy Restaurant, Markx Wu – Executive Chef of Maji Restaurant. View Event Photos
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A cosmetics heiress who is Europe's richest woman asked a Paris court to block a news website's use of recordings that sparked a political scandal and led police to seek to question a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.
Liliane Bettencourt is an heiress to the L'Oreal fortune. The company has a manufacturing plant in Clark.
Bettencourt's right to privacy trumps the freedom of the press claimed by the website, Mediapart, her lawyer told the Paris appeals court. A lower court was wrong to allow the recordings of conversations she had with friends and advisers to be used because of their news value, he said. The right to privacy "is fundamental in French law," Bettencourt's lawyer Thierry Marembert said in court. "These conversations were of a personal nature," including several with another of her lawyers.
The recordings, made by Bettencourt's former butler provided a window into the life of Europe's richest woman and sparked a political storm over alleged campaign finance law violations, tax evasion and influence peddling touching both Sarkozy and Labor Minister Eric Woerth. Bettencourt is also seeking to block the magazine Le Point from publishing excerpts of the recordings.
Mediapart contends "that the information had a legitimate purpose," said Jean-Pierre Mignard, a lawyer for the news site. Mediapart restricted its use of the tapes to issues of concern to French citizens, putting their use outside the protection of private life, he said.
Bettencourt's Only Child
The tapes, made between May 2009 and May 2010, were turned over to Bettencourt's only child, who gave them to police. They appeared on Mediapart in June, just before a trial over the daughter's claims her mother was manipulated into giving away $1.28 billion in gifts to a photographer friend.
"All France is talking about nothing but this," said Renaud Le Gunehec, a lawyer for Le Point. The affair has provoked debate over issues like judicial reform, tax laws, and campaign finance, he said, validating the use of the recordings.
Bettencourt is joined in her suit by Patrice de Maistre, general director of Thethys, the company set up by the Bettencourt family to manage their nearly 31 percent stake in L'Oreal, the cosmetics company founded by her father.
Dissemination of excerpts in which de Maistre asked Bettencourt to buy him a boat led to him "being condemned by public opinion," said the financial advisor's lawyer, Pascal Wilhelm, adding that using just snippets of the conversations was "intellectually dishonest" and "not journalism."
Bettencourt and de Maistre asked the appeals court to order the removal of the transcripts, audio files and related stories as well as damages.
The trial over Bettencourt's daughter's claims was postponed indefinitely to investigate the recordings on July 1. That same day the lower court in Paris ruled it would allow the recordings' use, saying removing them "would restrain journalists' ability to effectively fulfill their mission in an excessive and unjustified way."
Sarkozy's cabinet yesterday approved the Nanterre prosecutor's request to question Woerth.
Woerth's wife, Florence, was questioned yesterday by police about her former work for de Maistre in counseling Bettencourt on financial matters.
She quit last month after the tapes exposed her position to scrutiny for a possible conflict of interest, because of her husband's former post overseeing tax policy.
An investigation was opened yesterday into slander claims by Woerth over media reports alleging he improperly used his position to aid his wife, said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor in Nanterre, the Paris suburb where most of the related inquiries are being conducted.


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The Montreal Canadiens' 2014-15 season is approaching. Opening night against the Toronto Maple Leafs is just five weeks away.
It seems like a good time to start making predictions about the upcoming year.
One question that's always on the mind of hockey fans before a season begins is who will lead the team in statistical categories.
The Habs have been led offensively by two young stars over the past couple of seasons, and that will likely happen again. The penalty-minutes leader also seems obvious for 2014-15, while plus/minus is much harder to forecast.
Here are some predictions for the Montreal Canadiens' statistical leaders in 2014-15.
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2012 Marks Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith's 20th Year as a Vater Artist! The following advert featuring Chad and his endorsment of his custom Funk Blaster Vater drumsticks has just been published and will appear in music magazines worldwide.
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They had an early reputation among players as making great sticks. I checked out their sticks on my own, got used to them, and then began what would become a now twenty-year relationship with the company. Their quality control is great, the sticks always feel good, and each pair is consistent as BLEEEEEEP!
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There are some films we've screened for this series that are undiscovered treasures, and some that are award winners in serious need of a second opinion. But the ones that actually seem ripest for being revisited are the so-called cultural benchmarks - movies that defined or embodied a specific time or place but whose longevity is largely dependent on one's personal or perhaps generational connection to the story or characters.
This week's selection is The Player, a decided comeback for director Robert Altman that provided audiences with a particularly unflattering and yet seemingly accurate portrait of Hollywood in the early 1990s. The question is, is its Tinseltown tale still relevant (much less entertaining) today?p>
The Facts: Released in 1992 by Fine Line Features, The Player was extremely well-received by critics, winning multiple awards at the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, the Writer's Guild of America, and at Cannes, where it won Best Actor for star Tim Robbins and Best Director for Altman. The film grossed approximately $28 million dollars, which made the film a sizable hit for Altman, and currently enjoys a 98 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Still Works: The thing I was quite frankly most afraid of was that this film would not seem resonant in the way that it did in 1992, but I was glad to discover that it's just as ruthless, incisive and accurate as if it were made today. Michael Tolkin's screenplay (based on his own novel) manages to perfectly balance a real murder-mystery story and a scathing indictment of Hollywood politics, and Altman's cacophonic direction of the actors and overlapping set pieces seems only to augment that world's sense of inverted values, miscommunications and power plays.
Tim Robbins seems almost a little young to be such a bigwig, but he offers the right kind of intelligence, cunning, and self-aggrandizement to play Griffin Mill as a guy who seems capable of actually committing a murder, decimating the dreams of prospective filmmakers, and yet retains our sympathies. Greta Scacchi is wonderful as the obtuse free-spirit who finds herself charmed by Mill and his authority, despite an early admission that "life is too short" to watch movies.
Finally, the way the screws tighten on Mill throughout the film really, really work well, juggling his own fearful culpability, his romance with June, and his tenuous future at the studio, and scarcely need all of the Hollywood verisimilitude. But as the cherry on top of this glorious layer cake of commentary and entertainment, it's those layers that really make the film not just a great portrait of moviemaking at that particular time, but one of the definitive depictions of Hollywood on film.
What Doesn't Work: Although its politics and its general observations about the filmmaking industry seem timeless, or at least still completely relevant, the representative icons of that time period no longer resound quite as strongly. Although Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis remain icons, they are no longer the go-to movie stars for every project. That doesn't make the film outdated, however, particularly since even a casual follower of Hollywood politics will recognize those names as stand-ins for virtually any generation's biggest box office draws, its most in-demand actors and actresses.
Meanwhile, Thomas Newman's score sometimes works but more often feels like a bouncy, discombobulated assembly of percussion that fails to consistently evoke the dramatic tone of certain scenes. That said, this score precedes Newman's American Beauty-suburban dystopia period, when he acquiesced to repeating himself time and again with music that offered only one tone (or maybe a one-dimensional one), so it stands out as a collection of music that sometimes accomplishes its designated task - as when the final scene crescendoes with a perfect, Hollywood sweep of strings - even though it's unconventional or less Wagnerian than one might prefer.
What's The Verdict:The Player isn't just a great movie, it's essential viewing for any and all cinephiles, aspiring critics, and especially aspiring filmmakers. Much like Wall Street became emblematic - even heroic - to the people whom it meant to critique, this is a movie that shows only the worst of Hollywood, at least in terms of emphasizing the business in show business, and yet there's something strangely appealing about it, even attractive. It's worth noting that Warner Brothers' newly-minted Blu-ray offers a really unexceptional transfer of the film (at least by high-definition standards), but as a whole the new release only reminds critics and cinephiles that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and as awful as it may be, we can't turn our eyes away, and ultimately want to see success, vindication, and yes, even glory.


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