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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Day 2 set in hearing on alleged Sandusky cover-up
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Lawyers will regroup for a second day of testimony in a hearing for three former Penn State officials ensnared in the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, a day after a star witness testified that legendary head coach Joe Paterno had been critical of how the university handled it.
Tuesday's hearing in a Harrisburg courtroom is expected to be short, with just two witnesses.
The judge, William Wenner, must decide whether prosecutors showed enough evidence against the ex-school officials to test the charges in a full trial. The charges, including perjury, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of children, stem from allegations that former Penn State president Graham Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley failed to tell police about an allegation against Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, and then tried to hide what they knew.
In Monday's hearing, the star witness, Mike McQueary testified in a courtroom for the third time since Sandusky's November 2011 arrest that top school officials knew that he had seen Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker room shower.
But the former Penn State assistant coach and quarterback also delivered some unexpected testimony ? that the late Hall of Fame coach Paterno had told him over the years that university administrators "screwed up" in how they responded to McQueary's allegation against Sandusky.
Pressed by defense lawyers about his discussions of the subject, McQueary brought up a specific exchange at football practice in the hours before Paterno's firing on Nov. 9, 2011 ? four days after Sandusky's arrest.
He recalled the head coach saying the school would come down hard on McQueary and try to make him a scapegoat. Paterno also advised McQueary not to trust the administration or then-university counsel Cynthia Baldwin, the former assistant testified.
Make sure to get your own lawyer, he said Paterno told him.
Lawyers for Spanier, Schultz and Curley say the men are innocent. Paterno died in January 2012. He has never been charged.
The core of McQueary's testimony is that he saw Sandusky and a boy engaged in a sex act in the locker room shower in 2001 and within days reported it to Paterno, Curley and Schultz.
However, Curley and Schultz have said McQueary never reported that the encounter was sexual in nature, while Spanier has said Curley and Schultz never told him about any sort of sex abuse. They said they believed that Sandusky and the boy were engaged in nothing more than horseplay.
Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of sexually abusing 10 boys. He maintains his innocence.
Much of the testimony Monday revolved around prosecutors trying to show that Penn State officials should have known to report Sandusky to police in 2001 after police investigated complaints in 1998 that he had been showering with boys in university locker rooms.
Lawyers for the defendants tried to show they never tried to hide evidence, destroyed evidence or asked school employees to lie.
McQueary last year sued the university, claiming defamation and misrepresentation and seeking millions of dollars in damages. His contract with the school wasn't renewed after the 2011 season.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/day-2-set-hearing-alleged-sandusky-cover-062756984.html
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Water clears path for nanoribbon development
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Rice University researchers create sub-10-nanometer graphene nanoribbon patterns
HOUSTON (July 30, 2013) New research at Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometers wide.
And it's unlikely that many of the other labs currently trying to harness the potential of graphene, a single-atom sheet of carbon, for microelectronics would have come up with the technique the Rice researchers found while they were looking for something else.
The discovery by lead author Vera Abramova and co-author Alexander Slesarev, both graduate students in the lab of Rice chemist James Tour, appears online this month in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
A bit of water adsorbed from the atmosphere was found to act as a mask in a process that begins with the creation of patterns via lithography and ends with very long, very thin graphene nanoribbons. The ribbons form wherever water gathers at the wedge between the raised pattern and the graphene surface.
The water formation is called a meniscus; it is created when the surface tension of a liquid causes it to curve. In the Rice process, the meniscus mask protects a tiny ribbon of graphene from being etched away when the pattern is removed.
Tour said any method to form long wires only a few nanometers wide should catch the interest of microelectronics manufacturers as they approach the limits of their ability to miniaturize circuitry. "They can never take advantage of the smallest nanoscale devices if they can't address them with a nanoscale wire," he said. "Right now, manufacturers can make small features, or make big features and put them where they want them. But to have both has been difficult. To be able to pattern a line this thin right where you want it is a big deal because it permits you to take advantage of the smallness in size of nanoscale devices."
Tour said water's tendency to adhere to surfaces is often annoying, but in this case it's essential to the process. "There are big machines that are used in electronics research that are often heated to hundreds of degrees under ultrahigh vacuum to drive off all the water that adheres to the inside surfaces," he said. "Otherwise there's always going to be a layer of water. In our experiments, water accumulates at the edge of the structure and protects the graphene from the reactive ion etching (RIE). So in our case, that residual water is the key to success.
"Nobody's ever thought of this before, and it's nothing we thought of," Tour said. "This was fortuitous."
Abramova and Slesarev had set out to fabricate nanoribbons by inverting a method developed by another Rice lab to make narrow gaps in materials. The original method utilized the ability of some metals to form a native oxide layer that expands and shields material just on the edge of the metal mask. The new method worked, but not as expected.
"We first suspected there was some kind of shadowing," Abramova said. But other metals that didn't expand as much, if at all, showed no difference, nor did varying the depth of the pattern. "I was basically looking for anything that would change something."
It took two years to develop and test the meniscus theory, during which the researchers also confirmed its potential to create sub-10-nanometer wires from other kinds of materials, including platinum. They also constructed field-effect transistors to check the electronic properties of graphene nanoribbons.
To be sure that water does indeed account for the ribbons, they tried eliminating its effect by first drying the patterns by heating them under vacuum, and then by displacing the water with acetone to eliminate the meniscus. In both cases, no graphene nanoribbons were created.
The researchers are working to better control the nanoribbons' width, and they hope to refine the nanoribbons' edges, which help dictate their electronic properties.
"With this study, we figured out you don't need expensive tools to get these narrow features," Tour said. "You can use the standard tools a fab line already has to make features that are smaller than 10 nanometers."
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Graphene Program supported the research.
Read the abstract at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn403057t
This news release can be found online at http://news.rice.edu/2013/07/29/water-clears-path-for-nanoribbon-development-2/
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
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Tour Group at Rice: http://www.jmtour.com
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Rice University researchers discovered a meniscus-mask technique to make sub-10-nanometer ribbons of graphene. From left, graduate students Alexander Slesarev and Vera Abramova and Professor James Tour. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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A fine line of conductive graphene sits atop a boron nitride substrate in this electron microscope image. The ribbon was created via a new technique discovered by researchers at Rice University. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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A thin line of graphene connects two electrodes in a test field-effect transistor built at Rice University. The graphene nanoribbons was created with a new process that depends on a meniscus mask a few molecules of water thick. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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A thin line of platinum sits atop a substrate. The metal nanowire was created with a new meniscus mask process discovered at Rice University. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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A graphene nanowire turns a corner. The nanowire was created via a process invented at Rice University in which a water layer only a few molecules thick acts as a mask. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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Rice University researchers create sub-10-nanometer graphene nanoribbon patterns
HOUSTON (July 30, 2013) New research at Rice University shows how water makes it practical to form long graphene nanoribbons less than 10 nanometers wide.
And it's unlikely that many of the other labs currently trying to harness the potential of graphene, a single-atom sheet of carbon, for microelectronics would have come up with the technique the Rice researchers found while they were looking for something else.
The discovery by lead author Vera Abramova and co-author Alexander Slesarev, both graduate students in the lab of Rice chemist James Tour, appears online this month in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
A bit of water adsorbed from the atmosphere was found to act as a mask in a process that begins with the creation of patterns via lithography and ends with very long, very thin graphene nanoribbons. The ribbons form wherever water gathers at the wedge between the raised pattern and the graphene surface.
The water formation is called a meniscus; it is created when the surface tension of a liquid causes it to curve. In the Rice process, the meniscus mask protects a tiny ribbon of graphene from being etched away when the pattern is removed.
Tour said any method to form long wires only a few nanometers wide should catch the interest of microelectronics manufacturers as they approach the limits of their ability to miniaturize circuitry. "They can never take advantage of the smallest nanoscale devices if they can't address them with a nanoscale wire," he said. "Right now, manufacturers can make small features, or make big features and put them where they want them. But to have both has been difficult. To be able to pattern a line this thin right where you want it is a big deal because it permits you to take advantage of the smallness in size of nanoscale devices."
Tour said water's tendency to adhere to surfaces is often annoying, but in this case it's essential to the process. "There are big machines that are used in electronics research that are often heated to hundreds of degrees under ultrahigh vacuum to drive off all the water that adheres to the inside surfaces," he said. "Otherwise there's always going to be a layer of water. In our experiments, water accumulates at the edge of the structure and protects the graphene from the reactive ion etching (RIE). So in our case, that residual water is the key to success.
"Nobody's ever thought of this before, and it's nothing we thought of," Tour said. "This was fortuitous."
Abramova and Slesarev had set out to fabricate nanoribbons by inverting a method developed by another Rice lab to make narrow gaps in materials. The original method utilized the ability of some metals to form a native oxide layer that expands and shields material just on the edge of the metal mask. The new method worked, but not as expected.
"We first suspected there was some kind of shadowing," Abramova said. But other metals that didn't expand as much, if at all, showed no difference, nor did varying the depth of the pattern. "I was basically looking for anything that would change something."
It took two years to develop and test the meniscus theory, during which the researchers also confirmed its potential to create sub-10-nanometer wires from other kinds of materials, including platinum. They also constructed field-effect transistors to check the electronic properties of graphene nanoribbons.
To be sure that water does indeed account for the ribbons, they tried eliminating its effect by first drying the patterns by heating them under vacuum, and then by displacing the water with acetone to eliminate the meniscus. In both cases, no graphene nanoribbons were created.
The researchers are working to better control the nanoribbons' width, and they hope to refine the nanoribbons' edges, which help dictate their electronic properties.
"With this study, we figured out you don't need expensive tools to get these narrow features," Tour said. "You can use the standard tools a fab line already has to make features that are smaller than 10 nanometers."
###
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Graphene Program supported the research.
Read the abstract at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn403057t
This news release can be found online at http://news.rice.edu/2013/07/29/water-clears-path-for-nanoribbon-development-2/
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
Related Materials:
Tour Group at Rice: http://www.jmtour.com
Images for download:
http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0729_WATER-1-web.jpg
Rice University researchers discovered a meniscus-mask technique to make sub-10-nanometer ribbons of graphene. From left, graduate students Alexander Slesarev and Vera Abramova and Professor James Tour. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0729_WATER-2-web.jpg
A fine line of conductive graphene sits atop a boron nitride substrate in this electron microscope image. The ribbon was created via a new technique discovered by researchers at Rice University. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0729_WATER-3-web.jpg
A thin line of graphene connects two electrodes in a test field-effect transistor built at Rice University. The graphene nanoribbons was created with a new process that depends on a meniscus mask a few molecules of water thick. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0729_WATER-4-web.jpg
A thin line of platinum sits atop a substrate. The metal nanowire was created with a new meniscus mask process discovered at Rice University. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0729_WATER-5-web.jpg
A graphene nanowire turns a corner. The nanowire was created via a process invented at Rice University in which a water layer only a few molecules thick acts as a mask. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
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Obama, Clinton meet for lunch, sparking 2016 buzz
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Now Analyzing More Than 15 Billion Actions A Month, Mixpanel Launches A Big Marketing Campaign And A Conference About Analytics
Andreessen Horowitz-backed analytics startup Mixpanel has been growing quickly over the last year, adding new customers and rapidly expanding the amount of data it tracks. Now it's looking to grab more customers and help them better understand their users, with a big marketing push in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and the launch of a conference about data-driven decision making.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lZs8_BeQK14/
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Pinterest Adds Support For ?Do Not Track? As It Begins To Personalize Its Service For Users
Pinterest announced today that it will add support for Do Not Track, the web browser mechanism that allows users to opt-out of having their personal data and activity collected by websites and third parties. It's not the first social media company to make this move - Twitter, for example, announced last year that it would also support the Do Not Track technology.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DJ_nuIM5Xcg/
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Hands-on training teaches new PSYOP soldiers the importance of military information support operations [Image 2 of 4]
Spc. Caleb Quezada, 312th Psychological Operations Company, writes down notes as his team leader talks with a role-player during training dealing with face-to-face interaction with a local populace during battle assembly, in Marlboro, Md., June 9.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
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George H.W. Bush shaves head in support of kid with cancer
In today's news that will make you go, "Awww," George H.W. Bush recently showed his support for a child with cancer in a way that is just inspiring.
The 41st President of the United States shaved his head completely in solidarity with 2-year-old Patrick, the son of a member of his security detail. Patrick is battling cancer and lost his hair during treatment for his leukemia. Bush, as well as a whole group of his Secret Service detail, shaved their heads to show their support.
Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted?the incredible pictures on Wednesday (July 24), and no matter how you feel politically about the former POTUS, you have to admit this is amazing.
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Video: The case against SAC Capital
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Official Droid Ultra specs
Verizon's official announcement was a little light on the Droid Ultra specifications, but they've posted an official set and we want to make sure you get to have a look at them. We've been scouring everything Verizon and Motorola have to say about the new Droids, and we have to say -- a lot of people are going to like these phones.
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TV documentary tells story of juror who scuppered massive drugs trial using Facebook
TV documentary tells story of juror who scuppered massive drugs trial using Facebook
6:08pm Tuesday 23rd July 2013 in News 
By Miranda Newey, Reporter
A DEFENDANT who avoided jail after responding to a message sent by a juror has appeared on a television documentary about the pitfalls of social media.
Joanne Fraill, a juror, was jailed for eight months after contacting defendant Jamie Sewart, from Deane.
Fraill sent messages to the defendant on Facebook after she and fellow jurors cleared Sewart of drug offences.
Ms Sewart exchanged several messages with Fraill but informed her solicitor the following day. Despite Ms Sewart being acquitted other defendants were still on trial and it was feared the trial, which had already collapsed three times would fall through again. Don?t Blame Facebook was shown on Monday night on Channel 4 and featured Ms Sewart and her partner, Gary Knox, formerly from Farnworth, who was also on trial. The programme featured people who had got in trouble unexpectedly from comments made via social media. Ms Sewart said: ?I didn?t even know why I was answering back. I think it was because she was being so nice.?
She then asked Fraill a question about a remaining charge, which the jury was still deliberating on.
She said: ?I was charged with contempt of court. After serving 14 months on remand all I could think was ?oh my God?. It was one place I never wanted to go back to again.?
Ms Sewart contacted her solicitor following the exchange of messages and called her partner, Mr Knox.
Mr Knox said: ?I spoke to Jamie and she was screaming down the phone. She said we might go back on trial again. I was shocked and I felt sick. The prosecution was trying to get us back on trial to say we have knobbled the jury.?
Ms Sewart was given a two-month sentence, sus-pended for two years, after being found guilty of contempt.
Fraill admitted the offence and was jailed.
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Pentagon: U.S. military intervention in Syria could cost $1b a month
This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Photo by AP
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. Photo by AP
The Pentagon has provided Congress with the first list of detailed options for military intervention in Syria, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The scenarios were presented in a letter by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, and enumerate that strikes on Syrian military targets will costs billions of dollars.
As reported in the New York Times, Dempsey wrote that "long-range strikes on the Syrian government?s military targets would require 'hundreds of aircraft, ships, submarines and other enablers'? and cost 'in the billions.'?
This is the first time that the Pentagon has explicitly laid out the challenges facing the U.S. in its efforts at intervening in the two-year long Syrian civil war. They reflect General Dempsey's acknowledgement that Syrian President Bashar Assad is not necessarily going to be ousted anytime soon.
The options include "efforts to train, advise and assist the opposition; conduct limited missile strikes; set up a no-fly zone; establish buffer zones, most likely across the borders with Turkey or Jordan; and take control of Mr. Assad?s chemical weapons stockpile."
In Dempsey's letter, he enumerates that training and assisting opposition forces alone could cost up to $500 million a year. An offensive that includes limited long-range strikes could cost billions of dollars over time, and the enforcement of a no-fly zone, that require "shooting down government warplanes and destroying airfields and hangars" could reach $1 billion a month.
"All of these options would likely further the narrow military objective of helping the opposition and placing more pressure on the regime,? General Dempsey wrote in his letter. But he added: ?Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.?
A decision to use force ?is no less than an act of war,? General Dempsey wrote, warning that ?we could inadvertently empower extremists or unleash the very chemical weapons we seek to control.?
Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.537476
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Former LSU, NFL wide receiver enjoys giving back
Published: Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:27 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:27 a.m.
Skyler Green is a happy guy.
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Former LSU football player Skyler Green was in Thibodaux recently for the Pro Football Combine camp.
Benjamin Oliver Hicks/StaffGreen, who was born in Houma and is a former LSU Tigers football player and had stints with several professional teams, was in Thibodaux recently for the Pro Football Combine camp, and he was having a very good time.
"I'm always in a good mood doing stuff like this," Green said of counseling and coaching youngsters at the camp. "I remember being in this situation back in the day, going to football camps and trying to get people to recognize that I was a football player. This is a great opportunity to give back."
Green, 28, has a wealth of experience to draw upon. The L.W. Higgins graduate went on to play for LSU, where he was named 2005 SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and picked up all-American honors from ESPN and Sports Illustrated.
Green's biggest moment as a Tiger came in 2003 when he made a diving catch with less than 2 minutes to go to beat Georgia, a game that sent LSU to the SEC Championship game and eventually the national championship.
Green was also a member of the previous year's "Bluegrass Miracle" team, when Devery Henderson caught a "Hail Mary" to beat Kentucky as Wildcat fans were storming the field, thinking they had beaten the Tigers.
Green wasn't on the field for the play, but made it to the post-catch celebration. He barely made it out.
"I ended up on the bottom of the pile," he said laughing. "I couldn't breathe for about 2 minutes."
Green was drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys, the beginning of a professional career that, despite a few impressive performances, never really took off.
"When I got into the league, I never really found a spot," he said. "Coach (Bill) Parcells kept switching me back and forth from running back to receiver, running back to receiver. My weight kept fluctuating, and I kind of got lost in the numbers. It didn't really work out in Dallas. They cut me three times, but kept bringing me back and I ended up on the practice squad."
A similar situation played out in Cincinnati, where Green made the roster but ended up being cut and re-signed to the practice squad.
From the Bengals, Green moved to the hometown Saints, where again he was cut and signed to the practice squad. He did make it onto the roster for the last two games of the 2008 season, where he returned kickoffs for a 33 yard average.
Green said playing for the Saints was a special thrill.
"Playing for the Saints was really something special," he said. "Playing for your home team, there's really nothing better than that. I played in front of people who had been following my career since high school. It kind of made you hold your head up high."
After a stint with the Edmonton Eskimos, Green wound up the Arena League, playing for another hometown team, the New Orleans Voodoo. In his first game, he scored five touchdowns.
"The field is 50 yards shorter," he said. "I'm kind of a quick acceleration guy, and that helped me create separation. Being in motion all the time helped me a lot. I got used to that in Canada, being that those guys are in motion all the time. In Canada, everybody who's not on the ball can be in motion. But being in the Arena League was fun. I got knocked over the wall a couple of times, so I feel like my body has a couple of badges. But it was fun."
Green is currently a free agent and is seeking a new agent after his long-time agent, Albert Elias, died in December.
"This camp was my agent's camp," he said. "So I'm looking for new representation, someone who can get me one more shot in the league before it's too late."
At 28, Green says he's been thinking about life after football. He currently works as a personal trainer, and says coaching is a definite possibility.
"I'm probably going to be a coach one day," he said. "I'm not sure if I want to start at the college level or the high school level. I've had a lot of high school coaches wanting me to come coach for them, but I told them there's a lot of time left. I want to be sure that I'm done playing so I can devote myself fully to the job and give 100 percent to those guys."
Source: http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20130722/sports/130729913
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Monday, July 22, 2013
From the Editor's Desk: Perhaps the hyphen is the source of evil?
So much for a slow summer, eh? We've got two events on the books next week, the Moto X dropping the week after, and we're starting to plan for IFA in Berlin the first week of September. So let's keep things short this week, shall we?
- So Jay-Z is now Jay Z. Will losing the hyphen sap his power?
- I was sad to see Rolling Stone hop on the "ZOMG THE JAY Z APP IS EVIL" bandwagon. "IT NEEDS FULL NETWORK ACCESS." Yes, Rolling Stone. It needs full network access. Because it connects to the Internet. Just like your app. Rolling Stone was hardly the only offender here, though.
- More interesting is that the "Magna Carta Holy Grail" app has since been quietly pulled from Google Play. It's possible that was in the works from the start, but I doubt it.
- What's the consensus on the album? I'm not enough of a hip-hop fan to intelligently weigh in, though I have listened to the record a couple times.
- The more I think about it, the more any sort of Nexus Q successor or whatever Google's living-room play is must include Amazon Instant Video. Otherwise I'll be sending my screaming toddler to Mountain View to rain fire and brimstone and more whining and crying than one father can stand. Girl's gotta have her Dora.
- I'm curious to see how much not having optical image stabilization will affect how much I like/use the HTC One Mini. NFC, Snapdragon 400 and a 720p display I'll probably be OK with.
- Work continues on the official Android Central App. I think for the next release we'll play with Google's staged rollouts, just to see what it's like on the back end.
- Interesting note: A little less than a week after we pushed out v1.3 (to the beta group first, and to everyone a couple days later), nearly 80 percent have updated. To the 689 people who are still on the very first version we published, we considerately ask, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
- Holy crap.
- Only one mistaken Tweet on Sunday after Phil Mickelson won the British Open. Hell of a round from Lefty. (Yes, I'm in his camp.) I didn't get to watch it live, though, as I took advantage of the one hour it didn't rain this weekend to mow the lawn. Listened to it on the Sirius XM app, though, and I dare say the commentators there made it pretty damn fun.
- I'm at home this week with family obligations (wish @snickinson a speedy continued recovery from a kitchen mishap, if you'd like), but we'll still be in full effect at Tuesday's Verizon event in New York City, and Wednesday's "Breakfast with Sundar" in San Francisco, where we should get a look at the new Nexus 7 and Android 4.3.
And with that, let's get to work.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
FTC penalizes world's largest debt collector
By Fred Williams
The world's largest debt collection company will pay a $3.2 million penalty -- the largest civil penalty levied against a third-party debt collector -- for calling consumers repeatedly and ignoring their denials of owing the debts, the Federal Trade Commission announced July 9.
Expert Global Solutions, the corporate successor of NCO Group, and its debt collection units also agreed to halt their harassing tactics, the consumer protection agency said.
A complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department said the companies called consumers multiple times a day, ignored demands to stop calling and failed to verify debts after consumers denied owning them.
The companies also contacted people at work and called other people about the debt, outside the bounds of collection law, the government charged. The companies neither admitted nor denied the accusations.
"If this is the largest [penalty] it should send a message to the rest of the industry," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at U.S. PIRG, a policy advocate for consumer rights.
It is a message that NCO or its units have received before.? In 2012, NCO Financial Systems entered a $950,000 settlement with 19 states over collecting amounts that consumers did not owe. NCO Financial Systems entered a $300,000 settlement with the state of Pennsylvania in 2006 after being accused of using false and deceptive collection practices. In 2004, the FTC announced that NCO Group paid $1.5 million to settle charges it provided faulty information to credit bureaus about consumers' payments.
The latest complaint names Expert Global Solutions and units NCO Financial Systems, ALW Sourcing LLC and Transworld Systems Inc., which also does business as North Shore Agency Inc.
Officers and attorneys for Expert Global Solutions and NCO were unavailable. Expert Global Solutions, based in Plano, Texas, describes itself as the holding company for NCO on the corporate website.
Expert Global Systems and its units are the world's largest debt collection company, according to an FTC news release, with 32,000 workers and revenue of more than $1.2 billion in 2011. The company has offices in Canada, Barbados, India, the Philippines and Panama, as well as the U.S.
The company is also the target of the most complaints about debt collection that the FTC receives, spokeswoman Betsy Lordan said in an email response to questions. The proposed settlement faces approval by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Court action is expected within about three weeks, Lordan said.
Website InsideARM.com reported that NCO provided? a statement describing the action as a "legacy issue" dating back to 2008. The company said it has already addressed the FTC's concerns, according to the statement quoted by the website.
Under the proposed order, the companies are restricted from leaving voice mail messages unless the answering machine identifies the person by name as the debtor. They must also be able to substantiate claims that a consumer owes a debt before dunning them. If a consumer denies a debt, the companies must verify the debt or drop collection attempts and not sell or transfer the account.
"Consumers should pay their debts ... (and) collectors should follow the law," Mierzwinski said.
The companies must also keep recordings of 75 percent of all debt collection calls, settlement papers state, and submit signed reports about their compliance with the settlement, under penalty of perjury.
Debt collection attracts the most complaints of industries the FTC regulates, with 125,136 complaints filed in 2012, according to a federal report. "Third-party" collectors that work on behalf of banks and other creditors were the target of 102,783 of the complaints, down 13.4 percent from the previous year.
"Complaints were down in 2012 for the first time in 10 years, so maybe something is working," said Robert Hobbs, deputy director of the National Consumer Law Center.
Dealing with debt
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Your rights when dealing with a debt collector are spelled
out by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
, which sets out a process for disputing debts and
seeking compensation for unfair or abusive tactics.
See related: FTC: Debt buyers go hunting with skimpy information
Published: July 9, 2013
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Google Maps for Android update rolling out, brings new design and features
Google is rolling out the Google Maps update for Android devices, one of the Google services that was given a new look, but also new features, and which was demoed at this year?s Google I/O edition.
The company overhauled both its desktop and mobile versions of Google Maps, and now the mobile experience will be available to users that have a device running Android 4.0.3 or later.
In addition to a new design for Android handsets and tablets, the update will bring you ?enhanced navigation including live traffic updates, incident reports and dynamic rerouting? and improve the way you explore local ?places to eat, drink, shop, play and sleep.? The screenshots below will give you a quick taste of what Google Maps will feel like on your tablet and/or smartphone once you get the new update:
As Android Police explains, the update may not be available to download on all devices just yet, but the publications offers links to software-specific APKs.
In the Google Play Store, Google says that the update will be ?gradually rolling out to Android 4.0.3+ users over the next few weeks,? so in case you didn?t manually install the APK suitable for your device, you?ll may have to wait a while to get it.
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Gator grabs teen by the head at Florida park
A 17-year-old boy was bitten in the head by an alligator on Monday afternoon, according to Florida fire rescue officials.
Andrew Hudson's bite isn't life threatening, but he walked away with quite a story.
The bite happened in the Little Big Econ Forest when Hudson was swimming in the Little Econ River with friends.
He said the 9- to 10-foot alligator came up behind him and he didn't see it. He swam as hard as he could to get away.
"It just came up behind me. I didn't see one all day in there and then it just came up behind me and I felt it and I started freaking out and swam as fast as I could," said Hudson.
His friends called for help as he out swam the gator. He got away and wrapped his shorts around his head to stop the bleeding.
Read more: http://bit.ly/16mFJF1
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52437978/ns/local_news-fort_myers_fl/
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
You Can Explore Harry Potter's Diagon Alley on Street View Now
Die-hard Harry Potter fans, you're in luck: you can now explore Diagon Alley on Street View.
Obviously, this is a Street Viewed version of the Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour, which is found in Hertfordshire, UK?not London like in the books. But that's OK: you can still explore all those weird old shops, like Slug & Jiggers apothecary and Flourish and Blotts bookshop. If that's your thing. [Google via CNET]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/you-can-explore-harry-potters-diagon-alley-on-street-v-676446825
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Real Estate Weekly - 7/5/13 | Maryland Daily Record
Beazer Homes acquires 220 home sites in Laurel
Atlanta-based Beazer Homes USA, one of the nation?s top 10 home builders, announced it has acquired 220 home sites in Laurel and plans to build a new community called Wincopia Farms, consisting of single-family homes priced to start in the upper $600,000s, and two-car garage townhomes starting in the mid-$500,000s. According to Beazer, there will be 49 townhomes with 2,000-plus square feet, and 171 single family homes, of which 88 will be 2,500-3,500 square feet and 83 will be 4,000 square feet. Sales are expected to begin in early 2014 with the first settlements in the fall of that year. Fraser Forbes Real Estate Services of McLean, Va., brokered the sale of the land.
General Dynamics IT leases more space in Towson
Cushman & Wakefield announced that General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. signed a lease extension and expansion totaling 146,345 square feet at 1 W. Pennsylvania Ave. in Towson. The company, formerly known as VIPs, is the anchor tenant of the 10-story office tower at Towson Commons, which is currently undergoing significant renovations to its retail space, including the addition of a 48,000-square-foot full-service fitness facility to be operated by L.A. Fitness. GDIT expanded by approximately 25,000 square feet of space. The total office building is 232,000 square feet, and currently has 27,000 square feet available for lease on several floors, according to C&W. C&W?s David Baird and Tim Jackson represented the landlord, Towson Commons HH LLC. The tenant was represented by Steve Masterman of CBRE.
Sellmore Industries acquired by Wis. firm
ABC Supply Co., of Beloit, Wis., one of the largest wholesale distributors of building supplies in the United States, announced that it has acquired the distribution assets of Sellmore Industries, of Halethorpe. Sellmore is a distributor of steep-slope roofing, siding and windows, with locations in Halethorpe, Hagerstown, Philadelphia and Buffalo, N.Y. David Luck, ABC Supply?s CEO, said the acquisition ?will expand and strengthen ABC Supply?s existing presence in these markets.? Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Sellmore Industries? vinyl window manufacturing operation in Buffalo was not part of the acquisition, and will continue functioning as a separate entity. ABC Supply will sell and promote its products.
Beazer?s Maryland Division receives ENERGY STAR Award
The Maryland Division of Beazer Homes USA Inc. announced that it has received a 2013 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Award in recognition of the division?s energy-efficient construction practices. Every home built by Beazer is ?ENERGY STAR Certified,? providing its homeowners with significant cost savings in the form of lower utility bills. To achieve this certification, each Beazer home is inspected, tested and verified by an independent energy rater to confirm its design and construction meets or exceeds the strict requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Red Robin Burgers to open in Gambrills
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc., of Greenwood Village, Colo., said it will open a new restaurant at the Waugh Chapel Shopping Center in Gambrills on July 15. To mark the occasion, Red Robin will donate all proceeds from sales of its Freckled Lemonade ? a blend of strawberries and Minute Maid lemonade ? during the week of July 15 to July 21 to Alex?s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding cures for kids with cancer. The Waugh Chapel location will be Red Robin?s 11th in the Baltimore area. Nationwide there are 475 Red Robin locations across the United States and Canada.
COPT says leasing outpaces forecast
Corporate Office Properties Trust, of Columbia, said it executed leases for over 1 million square feet of space during the second quarter of 2013. Of the total, nearly 600,000 square feet were new leases, including over 460,000 square feet of new leases for properties under construction before or during the second quarter. As a result, the company?s construction pipeline, which was 62 percent pre-leased at March 31, 2013, was 74 percent leased on June 30, 2013. Roger A. Waesche Jr., COPT?s president and CEO, said ?development leasing [is] outpacing our forecast for the year.? COPT is an office real estate investment trust primarily serving U.S. government agencies and defense contractors.
Principals to build school?s playground
Elementary and middle-school principals from around the country will take some time from a national conference in Baltimore next week to build a playground at the John Ruhrah Elementary/Middle School in Greektown. About 100 K-8 principals are expected to take part in the community service event on July 10. The school has 672 pre-K through 8th-grade students, and a diverse student body. Eighty-eight percent of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches, 46 percent are English-language learners, and 53 percent are Hispanic. The principals are attending the National Association of Elementary School Principals? Best Practices for Better Schools annual conference at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Thayer Lodging buys San Francisco hotel
Host Hotels & Resorts, of Bethesda, a real estate investment trust focused on luxury and upscale hotels, announced the sale of the 336-room Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco for approximately $161 million. The buyer is an investment vehicle sponsored by Thayer Lodging Group, of Annapolis, a real estate venture capital company that specializes in hotels and the hospitality industry. Host said it will use the proceeds to fund future acquisitions and for general corporate purposes. Gregory J. Larson, Host?s chief financial officer, said the hotel sold at an ?attractive price.? He noted, ?This brings our total dispositions since the beginning of last year to over $600 million.?
Marriott to expand mobile check-in
Marriott Hotels, the signature brand of Bethesda-based Marriott International Inc., announced plans to begin mobile check-in at all of its 325 Marriott-brand hotels later this summer. Now launched at 31 Marriott-brand hotels, this will represent the broadest mobile offering of its kind in the U.S. and Canada, according to the company. The mobile check-in feature is part of the free Marriott mobile app available in the Apple iTunes Store and Google Play. Future innovations currently being tested at Marriott?s ?mobile incubator? hotels include checkout and guest service requests. As the brand grows internationally, Marriott also plans to expand mobile guest services outside the U.S. and Canada.
Chesapeake Hospitality portfolio grows
Chesapeake Hospitality, of Greenbelt, an independent hotel management company, announced that it has taken over management of the Hilton Garden Inn Fort Myers in Fort Myers, Fla., just as the hotel is embarking on a $3 million renovation project. Updates will include all 126 guestrooms and the hotel?s lobby. Chesapeake now has 24 properties in its management portfolio, up from 11 in 2011. The company6 manages properties under the Hilton, Starwood and InterContinental Hotel Group brands.
Allegany Co. broadband overhaul funded
The Allegany County Board of Commissioners received a $300,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to improve and upgrade digital communication infrastructure through the AllCoNet Backbone Microwave Link Upgrade. In addition to the grant, the project will be locally funded at a level of $300,000, bringing the total funding to $600,000. The AllCoNet Network currently provides broadband service to numerous public entities including schools, 911 call centers, local first responders, as well as more than 40 businesses and a large residential market. The ARC grant was announced by U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both Maryland Democrats.
Forrester completes D.C. museum rehab
Forrester Construction Co., of Rockville, announced it has completed an $18 million renovation of the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of Natural History. Part of a comprehensive multi-phase restoration of the museum?s aging infrastructure, the 30-month, 36,000-square-foot project included construction of new exhibit spaces and renovation of the education, library, office, lab and child care areas. The project has won numerous Washington Building Congress craftsmanship awards. Public areas will open in July.
Carroll Co. to pick up stormwater fee
(AP) Carroll County will use county funding to contribute to a state-mandated stormwater remediation effort instead of implementing a fee for individual residents and businesses. The county Board of Commissioners decided Thursday to transfer money set aside for stormwater projects to a new ?Watershed Protection and Restoration Fund.? The county has budgeted $20 million for such projects over the next six years. State lawmakers required 10 jurisdictions, including Carroll County, to establish a remediation fee for impervious surfaces by Monday, July 1, with money collected used for Chesapeake Bay cleanup. The Carroll County Times reported that Carroll is the only jurisdiction that has chosen not to implement a fee.
LEASES?
Cassidy Turley announced The Resource Group Counseling and Education Center Inc. leased 1,551 square feet of office space at 1615 York Road in Towson. The Resource Group provides research-based psychotherapeutic interventions to help people improve the quality of their lives. The main office is located at 7801 York Road in Towson. The new office will provide intensive outpatient and early intervention services to those recovering from substance abuse. The Resource Group was represented in the transaction by Andrew McIlvaine of Cassidy Turley. The landlord is Mid Atlantic Properties.
Source: http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/07/05/real-estate-weekly-7513/
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Hostess To Starting Freezing Some Twinkies Before Shipping Them
Hostess will begin freezing some of its Twinkies before shipping them when it re-releases the highly-anticipated pastries this month, the company confirmed to The Huffington Post on Friday.
In an emailed statement, Hostess spokeswoman Hannah Arnold said that the decision was made after a small percentage of the company?s retail customers explicitly requested frozen versions of the treat, which will allow companies to ?date the product for freshness,? while providing ?flexibility in filling their shelves.?
Any retail customer will still be able to request non-frozen Twinkies, and the company maintains freezing Twinkies will have ?no impact on the quality or taste? of the product.
?Any suggestion that Hostess is changing the integrity of the iconic snack cakes consumers have loved is completely untrue,? Arnold wrote. ?The new ownership is absolutely committed to baking top quality snack cakes and, in fact, is making major investments to ensure that Hostess products are as good, if not even better, than before.?
Sources told the New York Post, which first reported the news, that they feared the new freezing process could threaten the product?s integrity and future popularity.
Hostess filed for bankruptcy in early 2012, after which investment firm Metropoulos & Co. swooped in to buy Twinkies and other Hostess snacks in 2013.
Last month it was announced that Twinkies would be back on shelves by July 15.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/hostess-freezing-twinkies_n_3552162.html
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