Friday, July 26, 2013

First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia

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BY LIBARDO CARDONA, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia got its first legalized same-sex Union Wednesday when a judge sanctioned the partnership of two men who have been a couple for two decades. The newly legalized couple cheered the ceremony as a marriage, although experts cautioned that a high court ruling that deemed the Union legal did not make it the equivalent of marriage. "We are civilly married," Gonzalo Ruiz, 44, told The Associated Press just after ceremony with his partner, Carlos Hernando Rivera, 57. The ceremony follows Congress' failure in April to pass a law setting up a legal framework for civil unions. A 2011 order from the Constitutional Court had ordered legislators to pass a law granting marriage equality to gay couples by June 20, 2013, or else such couple would be allowed to join in civil unions before judges. A previous ruling by the high court had allowed same-sex couples in Colombia to enjoy since 2007 many of the benefits of marriage, including inheritance, pensions and health and death benefits. "They entered as bachelors and exited married," Marcela Sanchez, director of Colombia Diversa, an LGBT-rights group, said after about 100 guests celebrated the Union by throwing rice at the couple. However, former Constitutional Court president, Carlos Gaviria, said that while the contract that Judge Carmen Lucia Rodriguez sanctioned between Rivera and Ruiz is a kind of civil matrimony, it cannot lega ...

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Good Cop, Bad Cop: Comparing the Law of Police Interrogations in Canada and Japan

One interesting scrap of legal news that passed under the radar recently was a testy exchange involving Hideaki Ueda, Japan?s human rights envoy to the United Nations at a session of the UN torture committee in Geneva, Switzerland. The donnybrook arose when a fellow envoy called-out the Japanese criminal system for not mandating electronic recording or the presence of counsel at police interrogations. Mr. Ueda sprang to his nation?s defence, only to be met by the audience?s muffled laughter. In true diplomatic fashion, Japan?s emissary responded by telling his esteemed colleagues to ?shut up? not once, but twice.

At first glance, Japanese procedure regarding the recording of police interrogations shouldn?t be that shocking to Canadian lawyers. Like our Japanese friends, Canada doesn?t require that interviews be videotaped or that defence counsel be present.[1] That said, the Japanese context is somewhat different in that the police over there seem a little more fixated on scoring confessions than adhering to any pesky constitutional limits.

That the Japanese authorities refer to an accused?s confession as ?the King of Evidence? should give you some insight into how they roll. Japanese police have been in the spotlight over the past decade for reaching an altogether new standard in ?robust? interview methods that reportedly include physical abuse, sleep deprivation, threats, isolation and marathon sessions.[2] In fact, Amnesty International cites the Japanese justice system?s propensity for ?torture and ill-treatment? to procure confessions as an ongoing concern. In one 2007 case, a court in Saga prefecture acquitted a man who confessed to three murders following seventeen days of ten hour-plus grilling by the local constabulary. More recently, a hacker was apprehended and subsequently convicted of making threats over the internet, but not before police had managed to extract four separate confessions from four different individuals for the exact same crime. In an interesting twist, the real perpetrator cited their reason for making the threats as a way ?to expose the police and prosecutors? abomination.?

Comparatively speaking, Canada appears to be a veritable nanny state. In this country, the rule relating to the evidentiary admissibility of confessions is rooted in centuries of common law, and holds that any confession made by an accused to an authority figure outside the courtroom is inadmissible unless the prosecution can illustrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the confession was made voluntarily. This was reaffirmed most recently by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Oickle, which revisited the rule precisely because of growing judicial cognizance of aggressive interrogations and the false confessions they can engender.[3]

Japanese authorities however appear quite blas? about the whole phenomenon. In fact, they?re aided in their Bronson-esque investigative methods by a legal system that essentially puts suspects at their mercy. A suspect can be held for up to three days by police and prosecutors before he or she sees the inside of a court room. Moreover, police and prosecutors frequently work together to avail themselves of the daiyo kangoku, or ?substitute prison? procedure which permits a suspect to be detained for a further 23 days without charge. This extended period of incarceration must be approved and then renewed every 10 days by a judge ? something that happens 99.77% of the time according to official government statistics.[4] Contrast this with Canada?s ?soft on crime? approach which mandates that according to Section 503(1)(a) of the Canadian Criminal Code, an accused must be brought before a Justice of the Peace within 24 hours to determine if they will be released or remanded into custody.

The Japanese are also not too hot about having suspects talk to their lawyers. While Articles 34 and 37(2) of the Japanese Constitution purportedly enshrine the accused?s right to counsel, Article 39 of the Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure eviscerates this principle by permitting authorities to control the timing and duration of these consultations if it would ?interfere with the ongoing investigation?.[5] In contrast, the Supreme Court of Canada has been a little more protective of an accused's rights. In R. v. Suberu, the Court interpreted Section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: ?everyone has the right upon detention to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right?, to mean that a detained suspect is entitled to speak to a lawyer ?immediately? upon their detention and that the police have a duty to facilitate the process.[6]

So, how do these two legal systems stack-up? The stats are telling ? while the Japanese might be loose cannons, dammit, they get results. With a commendably efficient conviction rate of 99.7%, Japanese police and prosecutors make their Canadian brethren look like black sheep living in their parents? basement ? the latter checking-in with a paltry 64% success-rate as of 2011.

Given that Japan strove to fashion itself as a western-style liberal democracy in the decades following World War Two, the authorities? prevailing tactics and attitudes are particularly perplexing. For example, Chapter Three of the Japanese Constitution offers broad protections to the criminally accused that bear striking resemblance to those enshrined in the U.S. constitution, and so would be recognizable to any Canadian who has watched an episode of Law and Order. The similarity is unsurprising: the Japanese document was drafted with heavy American involvement following Tokyo?s defeat in World War Two. Specifically, Articles 36 and 38 of the Japanese Constitution explicitly prohibit the use of torture by police as well as self-incrimination and compelled confessions.[7]

So how did the islands that gave us Hello Kitty and astonishingly jovial Blue Jays? shortstop Munenori Kawasaki also manage to create a criminal justice system that?s presumptively modeled on an episode of The Shield? The answer has something to do with the difference between legal codification and legal culture. In 1890 Japan introduced a constitution that provided for the rule of law through representative government, separation of powers and the protection of civil liberties. One important, nagging carve-out however, was that the Emperor retained absolute power over the country. While the Emperor is only a figurehead these days, police and prosecutors have since done their best to take up his mantle as ?heavenly sovereign? when it comes to assigning guilt. The result is that Japan?s Thin Blue Line apparently sees its Constitution not so much as a set of codified, unalienable rights, as an inconvenient guideline that hinders them from putting no-good punks behind bars.[8]

In fact, some of the policy rationales used to justify business-as-usual in Japan would strike Canadian observers as bizarre inversions of how a justice system should work. While Japan?s law talks about a presumption of innocence, observers have noted a de facto onus on defendants to prove their innocence at trial. [9] Moreover, there is no requirement that authorities reveal exculpatory evidence, increasing the risk of false convictions. [10] When the debate over recording of police interrogations erupted in the early 2000s, police justified their opposition on the grounds that suspects would be less likely to confess. Too true.

And historically-speaking, Japanese society hasn?t seemed to mind the state?s general aversion to protecting their constitutional rights. The theories explaining this cognitive dissonance are broad and varied, ranging from Japan?s history as a civil law system, to its cultural tendency towards deference to authority, to its general attitudes towards crime and punishment, to straight-up bureaucratic and judicial inertia.[11]

But, before we Canadians get too smug about the splendour of our own criminal justice regime, it should be noted that Canadian police aren?t exactly paragons of virtue when it comes to making suspects talk. Cops in Canada have repeatedly been taken to task by judges for their aggressive use of interview methods such as the ?Reid technique?, which have been found in some cases to produce false confessions. In the Reid scenario, an interviewing officer will subject the accused to lengthy questioning, repeated interruptions and constant assertions of guilt in the hope of garnering an admission of guilt. In R. v. Chapple, an Alberta court was scathing in its appraisal of the Calgary police service?s methods when it ruled that a defendant?s confession was inadmissible as evidence on the grounds that the Reid technique had been employed in an oppressive way:

I denounce the use of this technique in the strongest terms possible and find that its use can lead to overwhelmingly oppressive situations that can render false confessions and cause innocent people to be wrongfully imprisoned. In this case, the police were convinced of the accused's guilt even though there was medical evidence available that was consistent with the accused's version of events. They pushed ahead with the interview with one goal in mind: a confession.

Moreover, before one criticizes the underlying assumptions and mores of Japanese legal philosophy, it also bears mentioning that Japan is home to far lower per capita incarceration and recidivism rates than most developed nations. The moral of the story is that while helpful, recording interrogations is by no means a cure-all for police excess. Instead, what?s required is broad, societal commitment to the presumption of innocence and a transparent justice system ? and it?s here where Japan has traditionally been M.I.A.

All of which brings us back to the travails of the hapless Mr. Ueda. While the use of video recording has expanded in police and prosecutorial interrogations over the past decade, practical problems remain evident. Electronic documenting of police interrogations in Japan began in 2006, and this year it was proudly proclaimed that 97% of interviews relating to ?major? crimes were taped. In absolute numbers however, this amounted to a mere 67 cases in a nation of approximately 130 million people. Prosecutors have also jumped on the VHS bandwagon, though a majority of prosecutorial examinations still aren?t taped. As of June 2013, recordings are only mandated for certain serious offences, and even then, police and prosecutors have the final say on what portions of their interviews actually get recorded.

But times in Japan may well be a-changin?. The Japanese Federation of Bar Associations has been outspoken in its efforts to reform the law, and there is increasing public outcry over highly-publicized examples of police and prosecutorial misconduct. [12] The authorities appear to be listening. In 2009 Japan instituted the jury-style ?Saibanin? system for serious crimes in an effort to make legal proceedings more transparent.[13] This shift marked the first time in the postwar era that Japanese citizens had a participatory role in court proceedings. [14] More recently, the widespread shock expressed in the Japanese media following Mr. Ueda?s outburst in Geneva suggests that popular attitudes towards suspects? rights may be evolving. With this development comes the realization that the sun might indeed be setting on a truly badass era in the history of Japanese policing.

Despite the differences between the laws of our two great nations, Japanese cops have clearly taken at least one cue from the Canadian experience. Foremost, they appear to have directly cribbed the Mounties? old adage ?we always get our man? though, in true Japanese style, they?ve adapted it to suit their own sensibilities: while the RCMP sees the motto as more of a loose aspirational goal, Japanese cops mean it. I mean, they really mean it.

Mark Donald is a member of the Ontario bar.?


[1] R. v. Sinclair, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 310, 77 C.R. (6th) 203 at paras. 2, 33-42, 46. See also The Path to Justice: Preventing Wrongful Convictions, Public Prosecution Service of Canada (2011), chapter 6: False Confessions, online: http://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/pub/ptj-spj/ch6.html. For a more in-depth discussion of Canadian law pertaining to police interrogations and suspects? rights, see Lisa Dufraimont, The Interrogation Trilogy and the Protections for Interrogated Suspects in Canadian Law, (2011), S.C.L.R. (2d) at 309.

[2] Arne F. Soldwedel, Testing Japan?s Convictions: The Lay Judge System and the Rights of Criminal Defendants, 41 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1417 at 1433 [Soldwedel].

[3] R. v. Oickle, [2000] 2 S.C.R. 3, 147 C.C.C. (3d) 321 at para. 32.

[5] Soldwedel, Supra note 2 at 1435.

[6] R. v. Suberu, 2009 SCC 33 at para. 42.

[7] Soldwedel, Supra note 2 at 1432.

[8] Soldwedel, Supra note 4 at 1428.

[10] Ito, Supra note 10 at 380-381.

[11] Soldwedel, Supra note 5 at 1427-30. See also Ito, Supra note 18.

[12] Ito, Supra note 10 at 384-385.

[13] Soldwedel, Supra note 4 at 1420.

[14] Ito, Supra note 10 at 370.

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The Followers Of A New WittyCuisiner's Twitter Account Enjoy Its Food Fact Tweets

(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 23, 2013 ) Denver, Colorado -- The newly established company WittyCuisiner, Inc. located in the suburb of Denver Colorado recently opened its very first Twitter account. The company has posted one tweet daily and so far there are twenty posts as of July 20. There are several followers already and the number has been increasing steadily since it opened.

According to Wikipedia, "Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet".

The spokesperson at the company, Evelyn Stewart, explains, "Twitter is a wonderful way to connect with the customers. If we have an unhappy customers, there is a good chance that we'd hear them on Twitter. This is certainly going to help the company to help those customers. We constantly search the tweets that mention our company or brand."

Stewart further continues, "Just like other social media such as Facebook. Twitter is great place to market our measuring spoons to more consumers. We believe that using social media for marketing is so much better than television or radio ads."

WittyCuisiner tweets food facts to engage and connect with its followers. One of the tweet simply says, "Yellow or green?" which is followed by the link to a company's Facebook post. The post shows a picture of spotted bananas with a question, "Do you like spotted bananas or green ones?" followed by the fact, "Spotted ones are much sweeter with a sugar content of 20% or more compared with only 3% in green ones."

The spokesperson added, "People don't like to be sold on especially on social media, which is a place for the sharing the interesting information. Our primary focus is on providing lots of good contents as well as a few occasional promotions."

About WittyCuisiner, Inc.

WittyCuisiner, Inc is a company which is devoted to providing premium quality cooking and kitchen tools such as stainless steel measuring spoons. One of its missions is to create fun yet functional tools which make cooking and baking experience more enjoyable for anyone at any age.

Source: http://emailwire.com/release/129014-The-Followers-Of-A-New-WittyCuisiners-Twitter-Account-Enjoy-Its-Food-Fact-Tweets.html

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Brazil police: Francis security 'positive' rating

A crowd of faithful cheer as Pope Francis rides in his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A crowd of faithful cheer as Pope Francis rides in his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as he make his way into central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed around during the drive from the airport to an official opening ceremony in the center of the city. (AP Photo)

In this photo released by Prefeitura do Rio, Pope Francis waves to people from his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. Pope Francis returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. (AP Photo/Raphael Lima, Prefeitura do Rio)

A young monk takes pictures as he waits for the arrival of Pope Francis in front of the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. Pope Francis returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

(AP) ? Even though Pope Francis' motorcade ended up stalled on a traffic-choked street and swarmed by thousands of faithful, Brazilian officials said Tuesday they evaluated security for the pontiff's arrival in Rio as "positive."

The frenzied crowd surrounded the motorcade Monday afternoon as people reached inside to touch Francis, snap photos with their phones or hand him babies to kiss ? scenes that alarmed some onlookers, although the pope himself seemed overjoyed with the raucous welcome and kept his car window down. Francis later moved through the masses in an open-air vehicle.

Early Tuesday, Brazilian security forces blamed each other for the lapse, and no one took responsibility for the traffic fiasco, which began when the driver of the pope's car made a wrong turn.

Later though, federal police, who are in charge of most of Francis' security, took an upbeat tone.

The agency said a meeting was held with officials from a federal agency overseeing megaevents that Brazil is hosting over the next few years, the highway police who played a role in the motorcade's planning and the Rio mayor's office to evaluate the security provided.

"The evaluation was positive, since there was no incident involving the pope or with any of the faithful," an emailed note read.

It added that the swarming and halting of the motorcade "occurred for a number of reasons, in particular the options of the Vatican itself, concerning the visibility and contact with the pilgrims, expressed by the pope himself. The reduced speed of the motorcade and the vehicle's open window are facts revealing the profile of this pontiff and the encouragement given to the faithful to approach."

Federal police didn't respond to requests for more explanations on how the breakdown in security happened.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is in Brazil and said that in watching the motorcade scene, "I was one of those alarmed myself." He said he was concerned about the pontiff's security.

"I love him and I don't want another conclave. We just finished one so we don't need him to be hurt at all," Dolan said. "So they might need to up the security a bit. But the people of Brazil, the people of Latin America, tend to be enthusiastic by nature, they're just so dynamic in their faith."

Experts said that allowing the pope's car to be swarmed was a grave mistake, but they agreed that the desires of Francis to be out among the public made it difficult to ensure his security.

Paulo Storani, a Rio-based security consultant who spent nearly 30 years on the city's police force and was a captain in an elite unit used to clear out slums, said the events seen Monday had to be analyzed in two ways.

"From the point of view of a head of state, and the pope is a head of state, it's unacceptable what happened. The proximity people had with him was a huge risk, even for his image," Storani said. "On the other hand, in the case of a head of a church and having a charismatic figure like this pope, the situation is different because he wants to be close to the people."

"The police intelligence units have to do a lot more work to detect potential threats to the pope's security and there needs to be a bigger presence of plainclothes officers in the middle of the masses to ensure his security," Storani added.

Ignacio Cano, a researcher at the Violence Analysis Center at Rio de Janeiro State University, said that despite the problems with the motorcade, it's the style and message that Francis wants to get across that is the source of woes for officials.

"It is a difficult situation because authorities want the pope to surround himself with protection, something that goes against the message he wants to impart which is one of simplicity, openness and approximation," Cano said. "In light of this message, isolating him from contact with the people makes no sense at all."

Authorities in Brazil had said about 10,000 police officers and more than 14,000 soldiers would take part in the overall papal security plan, but on Monday virtually no uniformed officers were seen along the motorcade route.

There were few barricades set up along the route and thousands of faithful easily made their way onto streets that were meant to be sealed off from the public. In some places along the route, people could be seen forming "human chains" to keep the crowds at bay.

For a nation that will host the 2014 World Cup and a city that will host the 2016 Olympics, it was a blow for the globe to see television images of the pontiff's car being mobbed and stuck in traffic. The scene comes a month after violent, nationwide protests broke out during the high-profile Confederations Cup soccer tournament, when the nation was also in the global spotlight, unrest that continued Monday outside the government palace where Francis met with top Brazilian leaders.

The papal spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, made clear that despite the mobs, Francis wouldn't change his decision to use an open-air vehicle and specifically planned to use the open car for the very events expected to draw the largest crowds: a speech on Copacabana beach Thursday, a Way of the Cross procession Friday, and a weekend vigil and Mass in a rural part of Rio.

Lombardi said the pontiff deliberately chose to use the same car he uses in St. Peter's Square, and not the bulletproof popemobile, to be closer to people and interact with them. But that square is a closed and controlled, with Vatican and Italian police ringing the square, the faithful being fenced into pens, and bodyguards trailing the car at all times.

Yet how Vatican and Brazilian authorities decide to organize his security going forward is ultimately not the pope's responsibility, Lombardi said.

"Obviously he desires to have a possibly very direct contact with the people. This is clear, and not a militarization of the situation," said the spokesman. "But the concrete solutions are not chosen by him."

On Wednesday, Francis travels to the town of Aparecida in Sao Paulo state, where the governor said 1,800 police will provide security for the pope.

He's traveling to the town to venerate the Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron saint. About 200,000 faithful are expected to pack into the normally sleepy hamlet where Francis is scheduled to drive about a half mile (1 kilometer) in an open-air vehicle after he lands.

Francis is visiting his home continent for the first time since becoming pontiff, with his visit coinciding with the church's World Youth Day, an event held every three years to bring young Catholics together in an effort to inject new energy in the church.

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Associated Press writers Marco Sibaja and Vivian Sequera in Rio de Janeiro and Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.

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Study: Parents are funding less of their kids' college tuition

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES -- Nobody but bankers was happy when interest rates on college loans doubled to 6.8 percent this month. But Wednesday, the Senate may vote on a plan to roll them back. College costs have been soaring, and a study out Tuesday shows that parents are not picking much of the tab as they used to. In 2010, they funded 36 percent; now it's more like 27 percent.

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Jessica Phan will be a freshman at the University of California, Irvine. Her grades and need got her a state grant that will cover more than 90 percent of the $15,000 tuition.

Jessica Phan will be attending the University of California, Irvine. She acknowledge that cost was a factor in terms of searching for colleges.

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Asked how much of a factor was cost in searching for colleges, Phan replied: "It was the biggest factor, actually. I was actually going to apply to a bunch of private schools, but I didn't apply to any because my mom could not afford them anymore."

The survey released Tuesday showed 67 percent of students eliminated schools during their college search because of cost -- up from 58 percent in 2008. Parents used to pay the biggest share of their children's tuition bill. Now grants and scholarships cover 30 percent of college costs, while parents fund 27 percent. Loans cover 18 percent.

It's not that parents are suddenly cheap -- it's that college tuition has outpaced inflation by 27 percent in the past five years. Tuition and room and board at a private four-year college averages just under $40,000.

"Each year it goes higher and higher," said Phan, "and it's hard because I know my family income isn't increasing at the same rate that college tuition is increasing. I was very careful to make sure that I didn't ask my parents for too much."

Phan plans to live with an aunt close to campus, saving $10,000 in room and board.

"If I didn't have the scholarships or grants," she said, "I would definitely be struggling with debt until I was 40. It's just too much."

While her first year is all but paid for, she has to keep her grades so she can keep her grant.

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Map and chart: Jobs in Nevada's counties; health care, senior care a billion dollar Washoe County business

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Actress Amanda Bynes placed under psychiatric care in California

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Troubled actress Amanda Bynes has been taken to a hospital for involuntary psychiatric care after the former teen star was involved in a disturbance in Southern California, authorities said on Tuesday. ...

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

New Nexus 7 Leak Spills Almost All the Details

New Nexus 7 Leak Spills Almost All the Details

We didn't get any new hardware back at Google I/O, but we've heard plenty about a new Nexus 7 on course to be announced sometime this month. Time is running out, but now Engadget has gotten some leaked details that seem to confirm most everything we've heard so far.

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/new-nexus-7-leaks-spills-almost-all-the-details-838134346

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Florida mosque leaders called authorities on teen who talked of violence, jihad


Ah, if only every church would turn in lawbreakers in their midst.

It would appear one mosque did just that. One of it's members talked to others of committing acts of violence, ultimately he was turned in.

Not moved around. Not glossed over. Not ignored. But turned in.

Kudos to them for doing the right thing as opposed to ignoring a problem. I certainly hope this would serve as an inspiration to all religions that this sort of nonsense, the in house forgiveness, is the wrong route, and I certainly hope this would send a bit of notice to those who single out Islam as being inherently violent that there are plenty of decent, law abiding folks within Islam.

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A 19-year-old accused of traveling to the Middle East to train with terrorists raised the suspicions of people at a Florida mosque when he started talking to other teens about violence.

Parvez Ahmed, the board secretary at the Islamic Center in Jacksonville, said Friday that Shelton Bell talked to other kids about jihad and the civil war in Syria. The other kids' parents became concerned.

Ahmed says mosque leaders consulted their attorney and then notified law enforcement because they were concerned about Bell's statements.

A federal grand jury indicted Bell, on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. He is being held at the county jail in Jacksonville on unrelated state charges.

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Trio arrested in front of church; 'True Religion' heroin found

Police arrested three people in front of Sacred Heart Church Thursday after allegedly finding 350 bags of "True Religion" heroin in the trunk of their car.

Rafael Cruz, 34, of undetermined address; Alfred Smart, 28, of 81 Elmwood Ave., Bridgeport. and Ariane Rey, 34, of 4 Crescent St., Ansonia, were arrested shortly after an 8:45 p.m. traffic stop led to a search of their car on suspicion of drugs, Police Sgt. Chris Broem said. All face multiple multiple charges involving narcotics and conspiracy. Cruz and Smart are also charged with sale of narcotics.

The heroin has a street value of $7,000, police said. It was wrapped as though it had just been picked up that night, Broem said; Cruz told officers the three had been in the Bronx, N.Y., earlier that day. Broem said he is concerned about the presence of heroin in Stamford.

"They were on the streets of Stamford, that's not good," he said.

Broem, who came to the scene in support of Lt. Christopher Baker, who made the stop, said Smart, the driver, was stopped for a traffic violation.

Police then determined the Ford Focus he was driving had no insurance. Smart also had difficulty answering questions, Broem said and Cruz was nervous.

Five units had been sent out Thursday night to find and stop drivers under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Broem said.

A police dog brought to the scene indicated there were drugs in the vehicle, he said. When officers popped open the trunk, they found 350 bags of heroin labeled "True Religion," Broem said. He said that label is usually reserved for high-quality heroin.

Smart and Cruz both were each held on $75,000 bond. Rey was released on a written promise to appear in court.

Source: http://www.greenwichtime.com/policereports/article/Trio-arrested-in-front-of-church-True-Religion-4676162.php

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Google Play Music All Access extends to New Zealand and Australia


Google Play Music All Access extends to New Zealand and Australia

When Google Music received the huge improvement of All Access unlimited streaming of music to take on Pandora and Spotify, many were sad to hear it was only for the US. Google?s just pushed Music All Access and Google Play Books to multiple new regions and countries and figured a quick shout out was in order.

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Google Play Music All Access is the biggest news here, as it?s no longer a US exclusive. While big markets are still waiting for it, as I?m sure Google?s hard at work dealing with record labels, All Access can now be enjoyed in New Zealand and Australia. Down under can enjoy some classic tunes Google style.

According to a Google Support Page we can expect more regions in the future, but sadly have nothing to announce. Google Music is my new go-to music option, and I?ve since uninstalled Rdio and Spotify so the few new areas should be happy to give it a try. Too bad the discounted trial ended in June, and now you?ll be charged $9.99 per month for unlimited music.

Then according to Google multiple countries should now be seeing Google Play Books in their market on devices and the web. According to what we?re hearing Books are now in places like Romania, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece and even Hungary. Oh and we almost forgot Poland and Finland both have access now too. Hopefully Google Music reaches more locations soon, and we?ll report once we learn anything else.

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Personal Loans and Just How it Can Make or Snap You | Banking ...

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Seven-Person Pool Alley-Oop Dunk: Best Sports Highlight Ever!

We've added plenty of alley-oop dunks to our THG Sports section, but this one would give even LeBron James and teammates a run for their money.

It involves seven guys, a swimming pool, a slide, a trampoline and a rapid-fire series of passes culminating in an epic finishing, tomahawk dunk.

How many tries do you think it took them to execute this? And were any injuries sustained in the process? We may never know for sure.

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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/07/seven-person-pool-alley-oop-dunk-best-sports-vine-ever/

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Rave universe shows galactic imprint of quasar light

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Is this a satellite shot of a country at night, lit up by glittering cities? Or perhaps a collection of raving microbes, pulsing to a neon rhythm? Nope, it's a 600-billion-billion-kilometre-wide chunk of the universe ? or at least a simulation of it.

Astronomers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) are attempting to map galaxies and hydrogen gas clouds in the universe by looking for the light of super-bright quasars, luminous objects that are thought to be powered by black holes devouring matter. Galaxies and gas clouds leave an imprint on this quasar light as it passes through them, which can be used to deduce their positions.

To make sense of these imprints, the BOSS team create simulations of quasar light passing though cosmos-spanning gas clouds and compare them with the real thing. The picture above shows a simulation of a cube of the universe 65 million light years across. The red blobs are clusters of galaxies, while the blue filaments show regions of low-density filled with clouds of gas.

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NY judge blocks Sept. 11 claims against airlines

FILE- In this June 20, 2003 file photo, Larry Silverstein, president of Silverstein Properties and lease holder on the World Trade Center, discusses the rebuilding of the trade center during the 23rd annual BulidingsNY Show in New York. Silverstein is among the World Trade Center owners seeking additional money from aviation defendants to rebuild the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks. At the conclusion of a non-jury trial beginning Monday, July 15, 2013, a judge plans to decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE- In this June 20, 2003 file photo, Larry Silverstein, president of Silverstein Properties and lease holder on the World Trade Center, discusses the rebuilding of the trade center during the 23rd annual BulidingsNY Show in New York. Silverstein is among the World Trade Center owners seeking additional money from aviation defendants to rebuild the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks. At the conclusion of a non-jury trial beginning Monday, July 15, 2013, a judge plans to decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE- In this September 11, 2001 file photo, smoke billows from World Trade Center Tower 1 and flames explode from Tower 2 as it is struck by American Airlines Flight 175, when terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the buildings. A trial commencing in New York on Monday, July 15, 2013 will decide whether World Trade Center owners can seek additional damages from several airlines and other aviation defendants (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong) MANDATORY CREDIT

FILE- In this September 11, 2001 file photo, smoke pours off World Trade Center Tower 1 as flames explode from Tower 2 as it is struck by American Airlines Flight 175, after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the buildings. A trial commencing in New York on Monday, July 15, 2013 will decide whether World Trade Center owners can seek additional damages from several airlines and other aviation defendants (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong) MANDATORY CREDIT

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, American Airlines Flight 175 closes in on World Trade Center Tower 2 in New York, just before impact. On Monday, July 15, 2013, a lawsuit commences in New York City that will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages for their liability in the attacks. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor, File

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, American Airlines Flight 175 closes in on World Trade Center Tower 2 in New York, just before impact. On Monday, July 15, 2013, a lawsuit commences in New York City that will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages for their liability in the attacks. (AP Photo/William Kratzke)

(AP) ? The owners of the World Trade Center can't demand billions of dollars more in insurance money for the destruction caused by the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge decided Thursday.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled after hearing testimony by economic experts for the trade center owners and for the airlines linked to the planes that were hijacked in the attacks. The non-jury trial was held to decide whether the owners could collect more than the nearly $5 billion they've already received toward reconstruction.

In ruling against developer Larry Silverstein and World Trade Center Properties, the judge cited state laws that bar "windfalls and double recovery on the same loss."

The judge said that though he was ruling against the trade center owners, they deserved credit for spearheading the recovery effort at the 16-acre lower Manhattan site.

"You were dealt a very severe blow," the judge said of the attack, which turned the trade center into an inferno and destroyed the twin towers. Since then, the developer's workers have labored to "create beauty out the ashes of the destruction," he added.

A spokesman for Silverstein Properties said the developer was "deeply disappointed" by the ruling and would appeal but remains committed to the ongoing construction projects on the site.

"We will not rest until we have exhausted every option to assure that the aviation industry's insurers pay their fair share toward the complete rebuilding of the World Trade Center," said the spokesman, Bud Perrone.

During the four-day proceeding, Silverstein's attorneys had insisted that the aviation companies owed at least $3.5 billion for letting hijackers board planes that destroyed three skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001: the prominent twin towers and 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building that caught fire after debris from one of the jet crashes pierced its facade and collapsed hours later.

Attorney Roger Podesta, speaking for companies including United Airlines Inc., US Airways Inc., American Airlines Inc. and its parent company, AMR Corp., had argued that making aviation companies pay would amount to double compensation.

He said an $8.5 billion total recovery would be more than two and a half times the fair value of the buildings that fell.

But attorney Richard Williamson, representing World Trade Center Properties, said damages from the attacks had totaled at least $7.2 billion.

The trade center owners say it has cost more than $7 billion to replace the twin towers and more than $1 billion to replace the third trade center building that fell.

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EU angers Israel with settlement decision - Wed, 17 Jul 2013 PST

July 17, 2013 in Nation/World

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JERUSALEM ? Israel?s prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian?territories.

The new guidelines will block EU cooperation grants for Israeli entities that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future?state.

The EU decision amounts to a diplomatic condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in these territories and, in effect, endorses the Palestinian position that a future border should be based along the 1967?lines.

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JERUSALEM ? Israel?s prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian?territories.

The new guidelines will block EU cooperation grants for Israeli entities that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future?state.

The EU decision amounts to a diplomatic condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in these territories and, in effect, endorses the Palestinian position that a future border should be based along the 1967?lines.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent the day meeting with senior Cabinet ministers to discuss the funding?cut.

?We will not accept any external edicts about our borders,? Netanyahu said. He said any decision about his nation?s land could only be resolved through direct negotiations with the?Palestinians.

Netanyahu said that the Europeans should deal with what he called ?slightly more urgent? matters in the region, including the civil war in Syria and the Iranian nuclear?program.

To obtain EU funding from 2014 on, Israeli projects will be required to sign a clause stipulating they operate within the country?s pre-1967 borders and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan?Heights.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Design in Technology Education: The Gamification Revolution I ...

Selections from Wikipedia?(emphasis added):
  • Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context to engage users and solve problems.
  • Gamification techniques strive to leverage people's natural desires for competition, achievement, status, self-expression, altruism, and closure.
  • A core gamification strategy is rewards for players who accomplish desired tasks. Types of rewards include points,?achievement badges or levels,?the filling of a progress bar,?and providing the user with virtual currency.
  • Competition is another element of games that can be used in gamification. Making the rewards for accomplishing tasks visible to other players or providing leader boards are ways of encouraging players to compete.
  • Another approach to gamification is to make existing tasks feel more like games.?Some techniques used in this approach include adding meaningful choice, onboarding with a tutorial, increasing challenge,?and adding narrative.

Now you're all experts on some of the main ideas behind gamification. Thanks, Wikipedia.

How Gamification Can Revolutionize School

  1. The Holy Grail of education is student engagement. It goes under multiple names, such as intrinsic motivation or a desire to learn, but whatever we call it, we want students to be actively pursuing their own learning. We want them interested in the subject matter. According to the very definition that Wikipedia provides, gamification can create that.
  2. Secondary to the Holy Grail (we could call it the Ark of the Covenant if we want to stick to religious/Indiana Jones references) is accurate measurement of student learning. This is the backend of education, where the teachers administrators, and Arne's lurk. Frankly, the current practice of doling out letter grades and standardized test scores is perhaps slightly better than rubbish. Gamification can do that, too.

If you believe me so far, then we're agreed: gamification can revolutionize school. If you need more convincing, read on.


Engagement: Experience Points (XP)

Most teachers probably already use points as a measurement of student learning, but there's a key difference: so far it's used as a measure of performance. Within a gamification framework, points become a measure of progress.

In school, with every assignment and quiz, you get points as a part of a fraction. Such grades are basically telling you how you didn't measure up in your attempt. In gamification, points are points and simply add up.

In the school of the future, XP can be earned beyond just academic settings. Students will earn XP by participating in extracurriculars, by being good citizens, by showing up to class on time, and so on. Grade-wide and class-wide leaderboards would privately inform students where they stand, and quietly motivate them to earn more points.

Engagement+Assessment: Level Up

As a student amasses XP both in general as well as in specific classes and units, she then levels up in the corresponding category. It's a big motivation boost to see your level increase, and it's also a way for staff to get a rough gauge of how students are progressing. Leveling up could also come with a coin bonus.

Engagement+Assessment: Achievements

Achievements, in this school, would be awarded specifically for behaviors. In essence, they'd be a sort of replacement for the citizenship grade, but purely positive reinforcement. For example, if you show up to class on time, five days straight, there's an achievement for that. Zero missing assignments at the start of the month, helpful comments in every active discussion board, helping other students complete their assignments, and so on.

Achievements would also come with coin or XP bonuses so they're not completely fruitless.

Engagement: Currency (Coins)

To add yet another layer of motivation, we'll add coins to the mix. Students can spend their coins either at the school store to buy apparel and memorabilia, or they can spend it in class on hall passes, treats, or special privileges.

Engagement: Random Bonuses

You've already seen how leveling up and achievements can earn you coins and/or XP, but the system could be set up to give out random bonuses. For example, you go to the volleyball game and scan your card (or check in via smart phone), and the system randomly selects five students to receive a coin or XP bonus. These random bonuses could be linked to attending other school events, being on time to first period, checking out a book from the library, and so on. It would be huge for increasing student participation in whatever you wanted.

Engagement+Assessment: Badges

This is probably where the biggest switch would happen: badges would replace letter grades. Whereas achievements measure citizenship, badges measure academics and learning. Better than letter grades, badges don't measure performance in an entire class. Like XP, they don't measure performance at all, but rather progress.

If you're a slow learner, you're not given an F because you only completed one unit; you're given a badge to demonstrate the fact that you completed that unit, and currently you're working on the next unit. You're not forced to move with the rest of the class.

Better still, these badges and units are organized into trees. By completing one unit and earning the badge, you unlock two more, and you can choose your own path. In the end, most students will have completed a lot of the same units, but in very different orders, and for very different purposes.

When you turn 18, you apply to colleges not with a grade transcript and a test score, but with a collection of badges that demonstrates exactly what you've accomplished so far. No more packets to complete for graduation. You just have to pick up where you left off and earn the badges just like everyone else.

Engagement+Assessment: Teachers

No matter how awesome the gamified system is, it still comes down to teachers who create equally engaging work and who do their best to help students along the path. Gamification can work here, too. Attend meetings? XP. Consistently take roll at the beginning of class and report it? Achievements. Complete professional development? Level up.

Students and their parents can be in on giving XP to teachers, too. If a parent emails a teacher and the teacher responds in a timely and helpful manner, the parent can click something that says, "Yes, Mr. Spano responded quickly." At the end of a class or rotation, students could take surveys to evaluate their teachers, which turns into XP and coins. Teachers wouldn't be motivated by fear, but by positive reinforcement.

Now all I can do is hope, expect, and wait. (In Spanish, they're the same thing. Esperar.)

Source: http://designinteched.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-gamification-revolution-i-hope-for.html

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Pope set to wash sins via Twitter

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    HUDSON, Wisconsin - A US court has sentenced to life without parole a 35-year-old Wisconsin father convicted of killing his three young daughters to take revenge on his estranged ex-wife. Aaron Schaffhausen had confessed he killed 11-year-old Amara, 8-year-old Sophie and 5-year-old Cecilia at their River Falls home in July 2012. Even as he had argued that he had a mental defect that kept ...

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    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    SAN FRANCISO, California - The top California court has refused to ban marriage of same-sex couple. The court on Monday denied a request by backers of an emergency order that would have required the state to keep enforcing Proposition 8 while they pursue a last-ditch legal effort to preserve it. But the court still planned to consider whether the governor and attorney general correctly ...

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    Barcelona News.Net - Wednesday 17th July, 2013

    On this World Youth Day event which will take place in Rio De Janerio, Catholics need not necessarily be present in flesh and blood to seek forgiveness, as Pope Francis would be offering an easier means of absolution via Twitter. According to Washington Times, for the first time the Pope will be extending his forgiveness to those who even watch the event unfold via television, radio or through ...

  • Keep borders open for Syrian refugees says UNHCR

    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres has urged the countries against restricting cross-border access for Syrian refugees. "I reiterate my call to all states, in the region and further afield, to keep borders open and receive all Syrians who seek protection," reported Xinhua citing Guterres telling a meeting of the UN Security Council Tuesday via video link ...

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    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

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    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    16 July 2013 150 Despite challenging economic times and complex emergencies affecting children in nearly 80 countries, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) boosted its innovation last year to create programmes and partnerships to reach those most vulnerable, the agency today said launching its annual report. With the approaching 2015 deadline to reach the eight anti-poverty targets ...

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    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    16 July 2013 150 The deputy head of the United Nations today highlighted the power of technology to empower women and girls, especially to protect them from violence, and create a safer world for all vulnerable groups. "Technology has enormous power to highlight and record human rights violations and to raise awareness so that we change mindsets and deal with violence at its roots," Deputy ...

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    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

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  • Seven killed in Iraq attacks

    Barcelona News.Net - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded Tuesday in separate militant attacks in Iraq'a capital city, police said. Two soldiers and four gunmen were killed in Sunni-dominated Salahudin province after a fierce clash erupted when gunmen attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baiji city, some 220 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a provincial source. In a separate incident, a civilian ...

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    Broadband company signs contracts for its new Eagle Ford shale network

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    ERF Wireless has lined up several contracts with oil-and-gas operators in the Eagle Ford Shale to utilize the company's wireless broadband network.

    Broadband provider ERF Wireless Inc. has signed multi-year contracts with oil and gas clients eager to transport data over its newly completed wireless network serving the Eagle Ford Shale.

    League City, Texas-based ERF?s Energy Broadband subsidiary says it will generate $1 million in revenue in the first year of its contracts to provide fixed-site wireless and broadband services to clients working the petroleum play.

    Energy Broadband?s network provides data transport for hundreds of well sites, commercial field offices and storage facilities located throughout the Eagle Ford, which spans 14 counties south of San Antonio, officials say.

    ?These fixed-site contracts all utilize (our) recently completed South Texas wireless network resources,? ERF Chief Operating Officer Tim Maxson said in a written statement. ?This extensive wireless network is also currently providing wireless services to a significant number of active drilling rigs using our mobile broadband trailer nomadic service solution.?

    Sanford Nowlin covers energy/utilities, transportation/aviation and manufacturing.

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