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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Oil tycoon's 21-year-old grandson dies
Thomas Boone Pickens IV, the 21-year-old grandson of the Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, died Tuesday after being rushed to a Texas hospital, a family spokesman said.
Jay Rosser, vice president of public affairs for BP Capital and a spokesman for the Pickens family, confirmed the death to ABCNews.com.
"Ty's loss at such a young age is an unspeakable family tragedy for the entire Pickens family and his many friends," Rosser's prepared statement said. "We mourn his passing and respectfully request that the family be allowed to grieve in private in this time of sorrow."
Police in Fort Worth, Texas, responded to a call of a deceased person a few miles from the campus of Texas Christian University, where Pickens IV was a junior, at mid-morning Tuesday, ABC affiliate WFAA reported. Pickens was rushed to the hospital at that point by a friend, neighbors at the apartment complex where police arrived told WFAA.
The medical examiner has yet to announce cause of death.
Texas Christian University released a statement acknowledging Pickens' death on Tuesday.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of this member of our community, and our hearts and thoughts are with Ty's family at this time," TCU Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Kathy Cavins-Tull said.
Cavins-Tull said that staff members will be available if students need to speak with someone about the news.
T. Boone Pickens founded Mesa Petroleum in 1956, and made a fortune throughout the 1980s in oil drilling and with high-profile deal making. He now chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management, and is listed as the 360 th richest person in America by Forbes magazine.
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Lindsay Lohan appears in court, trial delayed
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Lindsay Lohan briefly appeared in court Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year and left with a new attorney, new trial date and new judge.
Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner shook her head when she saw Lohan seated with her attorney, just months after the judge had warned the "Liz and Dick" star to grow up and stay out of trouble.
The actress was required to attend the pretrial hearing involving three misdemeanor counts filed after a car crash last summer. Lohan has pleaded not guilty to lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing officers from performing their duties.
Sautner previously sent her to jail, placed her under house arrest and forced her to perform morgue cleanup duty in another case.
Sautner warned Lohan on Wednesday that she could face jail time for a possible probation violation, even if she is acquitted of the counts filed after her sports car crashed into a dump truck.
Lohan was on probation at the time of the wreck and could be sentenced to 245 days in jail if a judge determines her actions in the crash were a violation of her sentence in a theft case.
Sautner, however, won't be handling Lohan's upcoming case. The judge said she is retiring before the next court hearing on March 1. Lohan will not be required to attend that hearing.
Lohan's new trial date is March 18.
Lohan was accompanied to court by her new attorney, Mark Heller, who said he wanted to get the case resolved as quickly as possible.
The judge quipped that it would only solve her legal trouble "on this coast" ? a reference to her two arrests in New York since being released from supervised probation in Los Angeles in March. No charges have been filed in those cases.
Heller, a New York attorney, was granted permission to handle Lohan's California cases. He said he was meeting with prosecutors to determine how to proceed.
Sautner gave him more time by delaying the trial but said, "This is not the most complex case we've ever seen."
Lohan appeared in court in a black dress. She spoke only briefly to confirm that she was switching attorneys and no longer wanted her longtime lawyer, Shawn Holley, to represent her.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lindsay-lohan-appears-court-trial-delayed-172454214.html
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Google Maps and TiVo integration on Nintendo Wii U delayed beyond January
Nintendo's Wii U was supposed to get TVii when the console launched back in late November. That did not happen. Then, when it did launch in late December, two key features were missing: TiVo and Netflix. Despite insistence that the former would arrive in January 2013, Nintendo tells us that both are delayed beyond January to an unknown point in "early 2013." The company specifically notes that said integration is planned for the United States.
Google Maps and Street View, custom-tailored for the Wii U's tablet-like GamePad, were also given a January 2013 launch window when we first heard back in early December that they were headed to the Wii U. As it turns out, those are also delayed, albeit to a more precise "first quarter of 2013." This news comes on the heels of below expectation Wii U console sales, and word of not one, but two console updates coming later this year aimed at optimizing the hardware -- an issue we struggled with during our review of the console last year.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Author Q&A: Jennifer Dornbush,? ? Write On Online
?My father was the county Medical Examiner and kept his office in our home, ? she says. ?Besides a few nightmares and therapy sessions, my childhood has also given me some very uncanny experiences for my storytelling. To round out my death investigation knowledge, I went back to school and completed over 360 hours of CSI training.?
Dornbush has published more than 100 articles, and has written short films and documentaries, a children?s book, and a dozen film and TV scripts.
What inspired you to first start writing?
I?ve been writing since before I could actually write, so I guess you could say it was a gift that was given to me rather than something that inspired me. I?m grateful every day for this gift and my prayer is that I will continue to be a good steward of it.
Why did you write Forensic Speak?
Forensic Speak started out as a project for an independent study course I designed in order to earn my certificate at the Forensic Science Academy. To pass the academy, I needed a prerequisite course and when that course was cancelled after the first week of class, I convinced the director of the program to allow me to write a handbook for crime writers instead. I was the only writer in the class and I wanted to tailor something specific to my educational goals. The director loved the idea, so off I went. Later, my writing group encouraged me to publish it. But I was so busy at the time that I dismissed it.
What was your process for writing it? Getting it published?
After I finished the academy a writer friend sent me a YouTube video to Michael Wiese Publishing. In the video Ken Lee announced that MWP was seeking material. My friend encouraged me to send in a query. The book was far from ready, but I thought, why not? On a lunch break one day, I wrote a query and sent it off. In less than an hour later Ken contacted me to say MWP was interested. However ? it took us a year from to get the pitch right and figure out what the book would be. So I didn?t actually sign the book contract until a year after I sent the query. From there it took me another year to write the book. This month will mark exactly three years since I entered the Forensic Science Academy and had the idea to write the book.
Having such an intense upbringing around foresics science, how did you decide what to include and what to discard?
My upbringing dealt primarily with death investigation, not so much criminology, DNA, ballistics, and fingerprinting. I wanted to round out my knowledge of crime investigation so I attended the Forensic Science Academy here in Los Angeles. When I was telling my writer friends about my experiences in the academy, they said that they wished they could go through it. I thought, well, why not put the academy in book form for those who aren?t able to take the academy? That inspired me to create a book built on the forensic foundation we were taught in the academy. Forensic science is vast and growing! My book is a smorgasboard. You get a sample of everything. You can pick and choose what you need. And if you want more of one thing, I?ve provided resources that will bring you to a larger meal.
What?s your favorite part of writing Forensic Speak? The greatest challenge?
Favorite part: Research and interviewing experts. Greatest challenge: Deciding what details to keep in or leave out. I?m an academic at heart so I tend to want more and more information. But I realize that can bog down the message.
What are the three biggest mistakes new writers make when writing in the crime genre?
1. Not spending the time, energy, or research to get the forensic facts right.
2. Thinking that what they see on TV or in movies is correct procedure.
3. Writing crime scenes that come off at cliche, plastic, or static (in action and dialogue!).
You also have a children?s book ? talk about different ends of the spectrum. In what ways was that writing/publishing process different?
I view my children?s book as a fun way to give something of value to the next generation. The book is my hobby, not my profession, so this takes away a lot of the pressure of marketing and selling. The message of the book is joy: what happens when we lose it? How do we get it back? I do book readings and when I see the children?s engaging with the story that means so much more to me than the couple bucks I get from a sale.
Additional advice for crime writers?
- Read and watch crime fiction.
- Figure out what brand of crime fiction best suits you.
- Keep a journal or file of interesting cases you want to explore in your writing.
- Create interesting, dynamic antagonists. Give them a story, a life, a emotional motivation.
Advice for non-fiction writers?
Write about your hobbies and interests to benefits others. Find your niche and explore ten ways you can share what you know with others.
For example? I took the concept behind Forensic Speak and created a monthly newsletter that features a forensic fun fact, a forensic link of the month, a forensic term of the month and a crime writer?s Q&A of the month. Then, I created a series of seminars: Writing the Killer Procedural, 10 Essential Steps in Death Investigation, How to Choose a Crime Show That?s Write For You?
You get the picture? be creative and do what inspires you.
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you first started writing?
How long things take!!! I wish I had started out with more patience. I still get impatient and anxious at time. I want things to happen sooner, faster, better! I?m hard on myself, but I guess that?s human nature and my stubborn work ethic. Thank goodness for coffee, yoga, and my wiener dogs.
Source: http://writeononline.com/2013/01/29/author-qa-jennifer-dornbush-forensic-speak/
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Syrian rebels storm regime complex, free prisoners
In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Smoke rises from heavy shelling in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Smoke rises from heavy shelling in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, A Free Syrian Army soldier flashes the victory sign, as damages caused by barrels fired from warplanes and rocket launchers is seen at background in Hama, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels stormed a government intelligence complex in the oil-rich east of the country on Tuesday, freeing at least 11 people held in a prison at the facility, activists said.
After five days of heavy clashes around the intelligence compound in the city of Deir el-Zour, rebels finally overran the complex early Tuesday following intense fighting overnight, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Opposition figures were reportedly being held at the jail on the complex's grounds, but it was not immediately clear whether those freed Tuesday are fighters or activists.
Government forces responded to the rebel advance by unleashing a series of airstrikes on the compound, trying to push the opposition fighters from the facility.
Deir el-Zour has been the scene of heavy fighting since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. The province, which goes by the same name as the city, is located along Syria's border with Iraq and includes several oil installations that the rebels have repeatedly targeted.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last month that government forces are shelling and bombing Deir el-Zour almost daily. It said tens of thousands of Syrians, many of them wounded, remain trapped in the city.
Also Tuesday, regime warplanes also carried several airstrikes on rebel positions in restive towns and villages around Damascus, including eastern Ghouta and Yalda, and hit other suburbs with artillery, the Observatory said. The group relies on the reports from activists on the ground.
After capturing several major army bases and government outposts, the rebels control large swathes of land in northeastern Syria. Assad's troops, however, continue to hold a tight grip on the capital after nearly two years of conflict.
The areas on the capital's doorstep have been rebel strongholds since early on in the revolt. In recent months, the rebels have used them as a base from which they have been trying to push into central Damascus, the seat of Assad's power.
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Israel using deadly force on unarmed protesters, watchdog says
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel is breaking its own rules of engagement by using deadly force to disperse unarmed Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli rights group B'Tselem reported on Monday.
Israeli forces have killed 56 people since 2005 in clashes with rock-throwing Palestinians, said B'Tselem, which accused the military of having "extensively and systematically violated" rules barring deadly retaliation for non-lethal assault.
"The Israeli military's standing orders explicitly state that live ammunition may not be fired at stone-throwers," it said.
In the past two weeks, Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians in unrest that Israeli officials said may foreshadow a third Palestinian uprising. Peace talks have been frozen since 2010 and Palestinian anger is running high against expanding Jewish settlement in the West Bank, captured along with East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights in a 1967 war.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) said the B'Tselem report "presents a biased narrative, relying primarily on incidents that are either old or still under investigation by the Military Police."
"The IDF does everything in its power to ensure that the use of riot dispersal means is done in accordance with the rules of engagement," the IDF said in a written response sent to Reuters.
Of the Palestinian fatalities since 2005, six were killed by rubber-coated metal bullets and two by teargas canisters, both supposedly non-lethal weapons which were fired directly at protesters, B'Tselem said.
"In practice, members of the security forces make almost routine use of these weapons in unlawful, dangerous ways, and the relevant Israeli authorities do too little to prevent the recurrence of this conduct," the report said.
The other 48 protesters killed where hit by live ammunition, according to the group.
The protests come as sanctions imposed by Israel after Palestinians won de facto statehood recognition at the United Nations have crippled the Palestinian government in the West Bank and deepened economic malaise.
Faced with the threat of a general strike by the government workers union, top Palestinian officials have encouraged protesters to direct their anger against Israel instead.
(Edited by Jason Webb)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-using-deadly-force-unarmed-protesters-watchdog-says-040725080.html
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Japan raises growth forecast as yen slides
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he gives his policy speech during an opening session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Abe whose government faces stiff challenges in reviving the economy and managing an escalating dispute with China over an island chain in the East China Sea said "Let us have strong determination to regain a powerful economy." Abe also said, "We will take every measure to promote and manage and we will give our best efforts to guard the remote islands at the borders." (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he gives his policy speech during an opening session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Abe whose government faces stiff challenges in reviving the economy and managing an escalating dispute with China over an island chain in the East China Sea said "Let us have strong determination to regain a powerful economy." Abe also said, "We will take every measure to promote and manage and we will give our best efforts to guard the remote islands at the borders." (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his policy speech during an opening session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Abe whose government faces stiff challenges in reviving the economy and managing an escalating dispute with China over an island chain in the East China Sea said "Le us have strong determination to regain a powerful economy." Abe also said, "We will take every measure to promote and manage and we will give our best efforts to guard the remote islands at the borders." (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, a woman walks by an electric stock index display of a securities firm in Tokyo as Japan's Nikkei 225 soared 2.5 percent to 10,875.16, recouping all of Thursday's losses and more as the yen slipped against the dollar. Anticipating a boost from stimulus spending and a weakening yen, Japan's government on Monday, Jan. 28, raised its growth forecast, predicting the economy will emerge from recession and expand 2.5 percent in the coming fiscal year. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
TOKYO (AP) ? Anticipating a boost from stimulus spending and a weakening yen, Japan's government on Monday raised its growth forecast, predicting the economy will emerge from recession and expand 2.5 percent in the coming fiscal year.
The yen has dropped more than 10 percent in recent months, reaching its lowest level since July 2010. Share prices have surged in anticipation that higher stimulus spending will boost economic activity, and that the weaker yen will aid exporters.
The Cabinet office's earlier estimate for growth in the fiscal year that starts April was 1.7 percent. It expects inflation-adjusted growth of 1.0 percent in the current fiscal year.
The consumer price index is forecast to rise 0.5 percent, less than the inflation target of 2 percent announced by the central bank and the government last week after lobbying by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Abe took office a month ago and has made his top priorities reviving the economy and ending a prolonged spell of deflation ? falling prices that can dampen investment and growth.
The revised forecasts assume the yen will average 87.8 yen per U.S. dollar in fiscal 2013, compared with 81.9 yen per dollar for this fiscal year.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index topped 11,000 for the first time since April 2010 early Monday before falling back to close 0.9 percent lower at 10,824.30.
The yen was trading at 90.68 to the dollar late Monday, after briefly hitting 91.06.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
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China carries out anti-missile test
BEIJING (Reuters) - China tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air after an initial test in 2010, state media said on Sunday, in a move that will unnerve its neighbors.
A brief report by the official Xinhua news agency said the military carried out a "land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory".
"The test has reached the pre-set goal," the report quoted an unnamed Defence Ministry official as saying. "The test is defensive in nature and targets no other country."
It did not specify whether any missile or object had been destroyed in the test.
"Although no other detailed information about the test was released from the military authorities, weapon system experts said such a test could build shield for China's air defenses by intercepting incoming warheads such as ballistic missiles in space," the report added.
People's Liberation Army officials and documents in recent years have said developing anti-missile technology is one focus of defense spending, which has grown by double-digits over many years.
The latest flexing of China's maturing military hardware comes as Beijing is involved in increasingly bitter territorial disputes in the East China Sea with Japan and in the South China Sea with several Southeast Asian nations.
Beijing says its military spending is for defensive purposes and the modernization of outdated forces.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-carries-anti-missile-test-173932609.html
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'2-D' electronic devices, may be possible: Fine patterns made with single-atom-thick graphene and boron nitride
Jan. 27, 2013 ? Rice University scientists have taken an important step toward the creation of two-dimensional electronics with a process to make patterns in atom-thick layers that combine a conductor and an insulator.
The materials at play -- graphene and hexagonal boron nitride -- have been merged into sheets and built into a variety of patterns at nanoscale dimensions.
Rice introduced a technique to stitch the identically structured materials together nearly three years ago. Since then, the idea has received a lot of attention from researchers interested in the prospect of building 2-D, atomic-layer circuits, said Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan. He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology. In particular, Ajayan noted that Cornell University scientists reported an advance late last year on the art of making atomic-layer heterostructures through sequential growth schemes.
This week's contribution by Rice offers manufacturers the possibility of shrinking electronic devices into even smaller packages. While Rice's technical capabilities limited features to a resolution of about 100 nanometers, the only real limits are those defined by modern lithographic techniques, according to the researchers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.)
"It should be possible to make fully functional devices with circuits 30, even 20 nanometers wide, all in two dimensions," said Rice researcher Jun Lou, a co-author of the new paper. That would make circuits on about the same scale as in current semiconductor fabrication, he said.
Graphene has been touted as a wonder material since its discovery in the last decade. Even at one atom thick, the hexagonal array of carbon atoms has proven its potential as a fascinating electronic material. But to build a working device, conductors alone will not do. Graphene-based electronics require similar, compatible 2-D materials for other components, and researchers have found hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) works nicely as an insulator.
H-BN looks like graphene, with the same chicken-wire atomic array. The earlier work at Rice showed that merging graphene and h-BN via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) created sheets with pools of the two that afforded some control of the material's electronic properties. Ajayan said at the time that the creation offered "a great playground for materials scientists."
He has since concluded that the area of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene "has grown significantly and will play out as one of the key exciting materials in the near future."
His prediction bears fruit in the new work, in which finely detailed patterns of graphene are laced into gaps created in sheets of h-BN. Combs, bars, concentric rings and even microscopic Rice Owls were laid down through a lithographic process. The interface between elements, seen clearly in scanning transmission electron microscope images taken at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, shows a razor-sharp transition from graphene to h-BN along a subnanometer line.
"This is not a simple quilt," Lou said. "It's very precisely engineered. We can control the domain sizes and the domain shapes, both of which are necessary to make electronic devices."
The new technique also began with CVD. Lead author Zheng Liu, a Rice research scientist, and his colleagues first laid down a sheet of h-BN. Laser-cut photoresistant masks were placed over the h-BN, and exposed material was etched away with argon gas. (A focused ion beam system was later used to create even finer patterns, down to 100-nanometer resolution, without masks.) After the masks were washed away, graphene was grown via CVD in the open spaces, where it bonded edge-to-edge with the h-BN. The hybrid layer could then be picked up and placed on any substrate.
While there's much work ahead to characterize the atomic bonds where graphene and h-BN domains meet and to analyze potential defects along the boundaries, Liu's electrical measurements proved the components' qualities remain intact.
"One important thing Zheng showed is that even by doing all kinds of growth, then etching, then regrowth, the intrinsic properties of these two materials are not affected," Lou said. "Insulators stay insulators; they're not doped by the carbon. And the graphene still looks very good. That's important, because we want to be sure what we're growing is exactly what we want."
Liu said the next step is to place a third element, a semiconductor, into the 2-D fabric. "We're trying very hard to integrate this into the platform," he said. "If we can do that, we can build truly integrated in-plane devices." That would give new options to manufacturers toying with the idea of flexible electronics, he said.
"The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the general process," Lou added. "It's robust, it's repeatable and it creates materials with very nice properties and with dimensions that are at the limit of what is possible."
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Former CIA agent gets 30 months for leaking operative's name - U.S. ...
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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, left, and defense attorney John Hundley, leave federal court in Alexandria, Va., in January 2012.
By Kari Huus, Staff Writer, NBC News
A former CIA agent was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday for revealing the identity of CIA operative involved in the agency?s harsh handling of alleged terrorists.
John Kiriakou, 48, who?was among the first government officials to confirm the CIA?s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation measures, had been accused of disclosing classified information to reporters and lying about the source of other information he published in a book.
But Kiriakou pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by leaking?the identity of an agent to a reporter.?
The sentencing in federal court in Alexandria, Va., was the result of?a plea deal between defense and prosecutors. Kiriakou's defense team failed to persuade the judge that his release of information was the act of a whistle blower concerned about practices used in the war on terrorism in the name of the United States.
"I think 30 months is way too light," said U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria, Va. She went on to describe the damage that Kiriakou had caused the agency and the agent whose cover was made public, according to The New York Times' account.
"This is not a case of a whistleblower," Brinkema said.?"This is a case of a man who betrayed a solemn trust."
Many of the details of Kiriakou?s alleged disclosures were kept under wraps by the Justice Department in its original criminal filing,?the Washington Post??reported. But the complaint suggested that he provided information that was the basis for stories by the Times and other news organizations in 2008 and 2009 about sensitive post-9/11 CIA operations, it said.
The information included the capture and interrogation, including waterboarding, of key suspects, including Abu Zubaida and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Information and photographs supplied to journalists by Kiriakou ultimately came into play in the defense of these high-value detainees, the Justice Department said.
Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004.
After a 2007 interview with ABC News,?during which Kiriakou provided a description of the waterboarding?of Abu Zubaida, he was frequently sought out by the media for interviews.
He went on to publish his memoir, "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror," in 2010.
Prosecutors accused Kiriakou of using media attention to get consulting work and sell copies of his book, the?Post reported.?
The FBI arrested him on?Jan. 23, 2012, and he pleaded guilty to a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
Kiriakou did not speak at Friday?s proceedings. However, Kiriakou?s lawyer, Robert Trout, said his client did not intend to harm the United States or "cause injury to anyone."
"He was concerned about certain practices that were employed in the war against terror," Trout said.
Since 2009, the Obama administration has charged five other current or former government officials with leaking classified information, the Times reported.
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Tax breaks, benefits available for military families :: The Valley News
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Issue 04, Volume 17.
Personnel, and their families, in the armed forces face financial challenges, both while in service and after discharge. Fortunately, service members needn?t go it alone: Many tax benefits, social services, and financial assistance programs are available to help.
Special tax benefits for active duty personnel include:
? If you move because of a permanent change of station, you may be able to deduct unreimbursed moving expenses.
? If you serve in a combat zone for any part of a month, any military pay you received during that month is not considered taxable income.
? You can also include nontaxable combat pay as "earned income" when claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit for low- to moderate-income earners.
? Deadlines for filing tax returns, paying taxes, filing refund claims and taking other actions with the IRS are automatically extended for qualifying military members.
? Joint tax returns generally must be signed by both spouses. But, when one spouse is unavailable due to military duty, you may use a power of attorney to file a joint return.
? If you?re an armed forces reserves member, you can deduct unreimbursed travel expenses for travel more than 100 miles from home to perform reserve duties.
? As you transition to civilian life, you may be able to deduct certain job-hunting costs.
? Most military installations offer free tax-filing and preparation assistance during and/or after tax filing season.
? The IRS?s Armed Forces? Tax Guide provides a summary of many important military-related tax topics (www.irs.gov).
A few suggestions and precautions for military families facing financial challenges:
? Each base command offers free financial specialists to discuss personal finances and help with budgeting; many banks and credit unions also offer these services.
? Each military branch has a Advertisement
[ La-Z-Boy ] relief society and many grant emergency loans. Turn to them first before taking out a payday loan.
? Check-cashing outlets, pawn shops and other lenders are prohibited from charging more than 36 percent interest to military families for payday loans.
? If you do go off-base for financial assistance, you?re responsible for disclosing your military status in order to receive military rates.
? Before signing loan documents, make sure you fully understand all conditions (annual percentage rate, monthly payment amount, fees, penalties, etc.) Don?t hesitate to take the paperwork home to think it over or consult with a financial advisor.
? Avoid pawn shop loans that use your car?s title as collateral. Besides paying a very high rate, missing a payment could cost you ownership of your car.
Many governmental and private organizations provide financial information aimed at the special needs of the military, including:
? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?s Office of Servicemember Affairs
(www.consumerfinance.gov/servicemembers) features a variety of financial planning tools.
? Military OneSource (www.militaryonesource.mil) helps service members and families juggle such concerns as money management, spouse employment, education, parenting, childcare, relocation and deployment.
? SaveAndInvest.org, a financial education program created by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to improve military members? saving and investing knowledge (www.saveandinvest.org/MilitaryCenter).
? The GI Bill provides a broad range of education benefits for veterans (www.gibill.va.gov).
? The government provides an intensive, three-day Transition Assistance Program for separating or retiring service members and spouses to ease reentry into the civilian workplace
(www.taonline.com/TAPOffice).
It?s vital that our military understand the benefits available to them ? as well as the financial pitfalls to which they may be vulnerable.
Jason Alderman directs Visa?s financial education programs.
Source: http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/69023/
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Early Childhood Education Director | Jewish Jobs
Job Description
Overview:
As one of the oldest congregations in Chicago, Temple Sholom is a vibrant and spiritual Reform Jewish community. We strive to educate and inspire children, youth and adults to participate actively in worship, Torah study and Jewish life experience, and to put Reform Jewish religious and ethical principles into action.? We seek to enrich the lives of our members, contribute to the continuance and vitality of the Jewish people, and work in pursuit of Tikkun Olam ? to help ?repair the world.?
Job Description:
The ideal candidate will provide leadership and direction for the Gan Shalom Early Childhood Education Center and for all early childhood programming at the Temple.? The Director will be responsible for:
- Administration of the Gan Shalom Early Childhood Education Center to ensure a safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate environment for families with children 2-5 years of age.
- Oversight of all areas of all areas of operations including:
- License regulation determined by the State of Illinois
- NAEYC accreditation standards
- Enrollment goals and marketing materials
- Parent, Temple and community relations
- Staff supervision and development? and faculty oversight
- Developmentally appropriate secular and religious education
- Budget/profit and loss management
The Director is also a member of the senior staff of the Temple and will be involved in all aspects of family engagement programming at the synagogue.
Qualification/Requirements
- Masters degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or related field strongly preferred
- Five-plus years in a supervisory role in a similar position.
- Director qualified by both IL licensing and NAEYC standards.
- Demonstrated experience in program planning and implementation, staff recruitment supervision and training.
- Knowledge of Jewish life, traditions and culture and the ability to impart this knowledge appropriately in an early childhood setting.
- Understanding of the Reggio Emilia philosophy.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, ?organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Fiscal management skills.
- Computer literate, including familiarity with social media.
We offer a salary commensurate with experience, skills and abilities and full benefit package.
This is a 12 month position with a varied workweek, including some responsibilities on Shabbat and Jewish Holidays.
How to Apply
Please submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae to ECEsearch@sholomchicago.org
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Source: http://www.jewishjobster.com/jobs/early-childhood-education-director/
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Banning Cats in New Zealand is Not the Solution: I Have a Better ...
New Zealand wants to ban cats, or at least a group there, led by environmentalist Gareth Morgan. I've been to New Zealand, and I understand that the native wildlife - particularly bird life - greatly have no defense against feral cats, or owned cats allowed outdoors (which are most owned cats there). Making matters more threatening to avian live, many native New Zealand birds are flightless.
Morgan wants to ban future cat ownership, allowing current owned cats to be 'grandfathered,' but not more cats when the current cats die.
The local SPCA is no better, their executive director Bob Kerridge says "I believe in nature doing it's thing." That's not quite true since domestic cats aren't indigenous to New Zealand.
What's wrong with these people?
Indeed, there are a lot of cats in New Zealand.?A 2011 survey by the New Zealand Companion Animal Council found that 48 percent of households in New Zealand owned at least one cat, a significantly higher rate than in other developed nations. The survey put the total cat population at 1.4 million. This means cats are valued in this country, people love them, and clearly choose to share their lives with them - for all their many benefits.
As I said, I understand the problem. It's real. I realize the real threat to native wildlife. The solution, though, is easy:
1) Keep pet cats indoors: Currently most cats in New Zealand are indoor/outdoor. Kept inside only, they obviously are no longer a threat to wildlife, an annoyance to neighbors (also a problem), and the cats are safer as well.
2) Initiate agression trap, nueter and return to deal with feral cats: Volunteers set traps to capture feral cats. Once caught, the cats are given an overall quick health once over. Any cats suffering ill health may be put out of misery. Kittens small enough do go to the SPCA to be adopted. While the vast majority of cats are spay/neutered, and in America vaccinated for rabies (rabies in not an issue in New Zealand).
There is?unnecessary?hate being perpetuated in this ridiculous?campaign? Morgan called on his countrymen ay to make their current cat their last in order to save the nation's unique bird species. He set up a website, called Cats To Go, depicting a tiny kitten with red devil's horns. The opening line: "That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer." Yes, cats are predators - but take the actions I describe above, and the problem will be solved over time. And immediately, there will be impact. Yes, sometimes answers are that simple. I can't understand why the Kiwi's aren't seeing that.
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'American Pie' singer fined for speeding in Maine
In this Juy 3, 2012 file photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Don McLean performs at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. McLean has been fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a school zone in Maine and has paid the levy. He had contested the charge in September, saying school zone warning lights weren't flashing. He had requested a trial. Police said during a 40-minute proceeding in Rockland District Court on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, the warning lights were flashing. Judge Patricia Worth found McLean had been speeding in a school zone in Rockport. But she lowered what would be a $515 fine if uncontested to $400. McLean immediately paid up. McLean lives in nearby Camden, along Maine's coast. (Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Darrin Bush)
In this Juy 3, 2012 file photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Don McLean performs at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. McLean has been fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a school zone in Maine and has paid the levy. He had contested the charge in September, saying school zone warning lights weren't flashing. He had requested a trial. Police said during a 40-minute proceeding in Rockland District Court on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, the warning lights were flashing. Judge Patricia Worth found McLean had been speeding in a school zone in Rockport. But she lowered what would be a $515 fine if uncontested to $400. McLean immediately paid up. McLean lives in nearby Camden, along Maine's coast. (Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Darrin Bush)
ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) ? "American Pie" singer Don McLean has been fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a Maine school zone and has paid the levy.
McLean contested the charge in September, saying school zone warning lights weren't flashing. Police said in Rockland District Court on Thursday they were flashing.
The Bangor Daily News reports police say McLean was driving 43 mph when the limit was 15.
A judge found McLean was speeding in the Rockport school zone but lowered what would be a $515 fine if uncontested to $400.
McLean immediately paid up.
McLean lives in nearby Camden, along Maine's coast. He burst into popularity in 1971 with his hit "American Pie," about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959 ? The Day the Music Died.
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Jobless claims drop to five-year low
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to its lowest since the early days of the 2007-09 recession, a hopeful sign for the sluggish labor market.?
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 330,000, the lowest level since January 2008, the Labor Department said on Thursday.?
Claims have now fallen for two straight weeks, suggesting that if employers are concerned tax hikes enacted this year will affect consumer demand, this is not leading to more layoffs.?
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected claims to rise to 355,000 last week.?
Economists have cautioned about reading too deeply into this month's figures, as claims tend to be volatile around this time of the year. This is because of large swings in the model used by the department to iron out seasonal fluctuations.?
A measure of labor market trends nonetheless pointed to an improvement in the labor market's health. The four-week moving average for new claims fell 8,250 to 351,750, the lowest since March 2008.?
A Labor Department analyst said claims data were estimated for three states last week, but there was nothing unusual in the state level data.?
Claims are now at roughly the same level they were in much of 2006 and 2007. Claims started trending higher around December 2007, the month that the country's recession began.?
However, while employers have pulled back on layoffs, they have only added jobs to the economy at a lackluster pace.?
Employers adding 155,000 new positions in December and the unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 percent.?
Job gains averaged 153,000 jobs per month in 2012, little changed from 2011. The sluggish labor market and subdued inflation pressures appear likely to keep the Federal Reserve on its ultra easy monetary policy course.?
The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid dropped 71,000 to 3.16 million in the week ended January 12.?
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/jobless-claims-drop-five-year-low-1C8086504
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
How to find your niche | Webdesigner Depot
Are you trying to grow your freelance web development or design business? Do you want to spend more time designing websites and less time trying to figure out what the client really wants and needs?
By finding the right web design niche, you can increase productivity and revenue and make your freelance business more profitable.
Web design is a competitive industry, but there are excellent opportunities for those with clear goals. A Google search on ?freelance web developer United States? yielded over 51 million results, yet the US Department of Labor?s Occupational Outlook Handbook reports that IT jobs for web developers, information security analysts and computer network architects are expected to grow by 22% between 2010 and 2020. According to the website, ?Employment of web developers is expected to grow as e-commerce continues to grow. Online purchasing is expected to continue to grow faster than the overall retail industry. As retail firms expand their online offerings, demand for web developers will increase?.
While the study focuses on jobs within IT businesses, the potential for freelance work is also clear. Freelancers just need to learn how to market and run their business. One way to improve your freelance business is to specialize in one or two niches. Choose a profitable niche and you?ll reap the rewards.
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Advantages of niche working
Instead of generalizing in many areas, niche web designers can focus their time and energy on narrower areas. You could become an expert on the needs and challenges of one group of clients very quickly, instead of learning little bits about many different businesses, regions or website styles.
Focus on trends in one or two industries
Focusing on a niche market will help you better serve clients in that particular industry. Your productivity and efficiency will improve as well because you won?t be spending as much time figuring out the needs of varied clients. Instead, you?ll work with a smaller group of clients with similar requirements.?
Time to develop specialized services
With a narrowed focus, you?ll be better equipped to meet your clients? web design needs. You?ll be more familiar with new developments and common concerns affecting your target market. By being able to discuss the latest techniques of teeth whitening with dentists or by presenting the evolving demands of tech-savvy real estate customers to realtors, you?ll show prospective clients that you can meet the particular challenges of their businesses.
Narrow your focus to researching and developing new products and services for your niche clients. Ask yourself, ?What product or service could I create that fills a particular need for this target market??
Establish yourself as an expert
Establishing your reputation as an expert in one area of web design or development is easier than establishing yourself as an overall expert in design because there is just too much competition. Clients will have confidence in you if they know that you are a specialist rather than a generalist and that you are familiar with their unique concerns.
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Client benefits
Why would a company want to work with a specialist rather than a generalist?
If your web design business was going through an income tax audit, would you rather have the assistance of a general accounting firm or one that specializes in taxes for web designers? A generalist could do the job, but a specialist has more detailed knowledge of your situation.
Having a niche designer means potentially less work for the customer. The client will have fewer revisions to make due to incorrect information or terminology used by the designer in the mockup. They will benefit from your industry-specific services and your knowledge of the language and issues of their business.
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Choose an interesting, profitable niche
Find a profitable niche based on your interests, experience and abilities. While you will need to generate enough income to support yourself, money isn?t everything. Don?t work exclusively with one group if you know you will be bored by the work. Either avoid it completely, or include one or two other niches that you?re passionate about or find enjoyable.
Industry niches
Focusing on a single industry or field is one of the simplest ways to specialize. You could quickly get tagged with an awesome nickname??the wedding planner web design guy,? ?the personal injury lawyer web design gal??which you could incorporate into your marketing and SEO strategies.
Organizations and groups
Creating websites for organizations and groups will quickly generate word-of-mouth referrals and help build your niche business. Sports leagues, service groups, business organizations, religious groups and non-profit or fundraising organizations are examples of groups that need websites. However, think carefully about the financial opportunities before deciding to work with a particular group. Some organizations, such as business-networking services, are more profitable than others?although volunteering your services for a charity website is a worthwhile endeavour and a good way to showcase your skills and add to your portfolio.
Regional and local web development
Despite the global scale of the Internet, some customers prefer dealing with local businesses and having face-to-face meetings. Discover local business opportunities by looking around your area to see how many organizations need websites.
Businesses are finding a web presence to be increasingly important in attracting customers. Depending on the population and activities in your area, you might be able to concentrate on web design services in your city, region or state. You could fill a niche by focusing on just one industry in your region.
Website style
Do you enjoy creating e-commerce sites, or do you prefer setting up informational websites? Maybe you only want to work with WordPress. Promoting yourself as a web designer who provides very particular website styles to a range of businesses is another way to find a niche.
Renos, upgrades and speciality services
In the construction world, there are renovation businesses that will fix problems that the initial contractors left behind. Web developers and designers could do the same thing. Find a niche in web design renovations or upgrades, perhaps for a certain industry, region or type of service. For example, you could upgrade websites to be mobile-friendly or to better engage users.
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Still can?t think of a niche?
Turn to the media. Look at the headlines in the business section of the newspaper or on a news website. Which businesses are expanding and getting funding these days? Also, look at your previous clients. Which ones did you really enjoy working with, and which ones are busy and growing?
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Niche-picking pitfalls
As you consider different areas to focus on, avoid niches that are too small, that you don?t like, or that don?t pay.
Choosing a niche that is too small could result in an unsustainable business. While you might be passionate about creating websites for fans of 17th-century German literature, you?ll likely earn more by making websites for clients with bigger marketing budgets. Traditional fields such as medicine, law, accounting, dentistry, financial services and healthcare all might be lucrative niches for freelance web designers. But before committing yourself, make sure you are willing to invest time and energy in learning about that particular subject and figuring out whether you?ll enjoy interacting with the people who you?ll be working with and for.?
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To niche or not to niche
Not all freelance web designers are sold on the idea of working in a niche. In fact, you might cringe at the thought of turning away clients who don?t fit in your niche. But remember: while large web development firms have the resources to profitably serve a wide variety of clients, a freelancer doesn?t.?
If you?re still on the fence, see how many hours you spend gathering information and preparing work for your clients. If you charge by the project, figure out how much money you would save if you already had this information from previous projects. For example, if you have to spend four hours researching, at $75 an hour, that?s $300 in lost revenue, because you could have spent those four hours working on other projects.
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Have you selected a niche to work within? Do you prefer to act as a Jack-of-all-trades? Let us know in the comments.
Featured image/thumbnail, swiss army knife image via Shutterstock.
Source: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/01/how-to-find-your-niche/
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Te'o tells Couric he briefly lied about girlfriend
NEW YORK (AP) ? Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist, while maintaining that he had no part in creating the hoax.
Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te'o said he believed that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua had died of cancer and didn't lie about it until December.
"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's syndicated talk show. A segment of the interview with Te'o and his parents was broadcast Wednesday on "Good Morning America."
The Heisman Trophy runner-up said he only learned of the hoax when he received a phone call in December from a woman saying she was Kekua.
"Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?" Te'o said.
An Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 10.
Te'o's father defended his son when Couric pointed out that many people don't believe the Irish star, suspecting he used the situation for personal gain.
"People can speculate about what they think he is. I've known him 21 years of his life. And he's not a liar. He's a kid," Brian Te'o said with tears in his eyes.
On Tuesday, the woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O'Meara told NBC's "Today" show that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake woman called Lennay Kekua.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/teo-tells-couric-briefly-lied-girlfriend-124641409--spt.html
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