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Friday, December 30, 2011
New York Times sends email to millions by mistake (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions.
The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper -- it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million people on an email marketing list.
The debacle lit up social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, sparking concerns that hackers might have broken into the newspaper's computer network to send out spam.
A spokeswoman for the newspaper blamed human error, saying hackers were not involved and security was not at fault.
"An email was sent earlier today from The New York Times in error. This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times," the paper said in a statement.
The email offered a 50 percent reduced rate for 16 weeks on home delivery.
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(Reporting By Paul Thomasch in New York and Jim Finkle in Boston; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Phil Berlowitz)
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Ford Reports F-150 Ecoboost V-6 Truck Sales Hit 100,000 Mark
It seems as though Ford?s EcoBoost engines have not only boosted fuel-efficiency, but also sales, as the automaker is reporting that 100,000 full-size pickups with the V-6 EcoBoost engine have been sold this year. The efficient, powerful twin-turbo V-6 was one of the highlights that helped the F-150 win our 2012 Truck of the Year.
This may not come as a surprise to some, since Ford?s first-quarter sales provided a pretty accurate forecast for this milestone. The first pickups with the Ecoboost went on sale in late February, and shortly after in April, it had already accounted for 35 percent of F-150 sales, with Ford predicting incoming orders would track even higher at 40 percent. Fast forward to October, and the automaker upped its sales forecast to a 45 percent take rate, with the 75,000 units sold through September being a good indication.
The 3.5-liter Ecoboost V-6 is rated at 365 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque, returning five more horsepower and 40 more lb-ft of torque than the equivalent 5.0-liter V-8 engine. The truck is also offered with conventional naturally-aspirated 3.7-liter V-6 as the base engine, but the high demand continues to center around the more powerful EcoBoost. ?Keeping the momentum, Ford is aggressively rolling out other versions of the EcoBoost formula across its passenger cars and SUV lineup in both four and six-cylinder (and even three-cylinder) versions.
The 100,000 sales mark for the EcoBoost is significant, since the automaker had not seen V-6 pickups sell in such high numbers since 1985.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Activists: Syrian troops kill more protesters (AP)
BEIRUT ? Arab League monitors gathered accounts about the Syrian government's crackdown on dissent in the central city of Homs Wednesday as fresh violence flared just dozens of miles away. Activists said troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least six.
Though President Bashar Assad's regime has made concessions to the observers, including the release of nearly 800 prisoners, the military was pressing ahead with a campaign to put down mostly peaceful protests.
In the two days since the Arab monitors arrived, activists said troops have killed at least 39 people, including the six shot in the central city of Hama on Wednesday. The continued bloodshed ? and comments by an Arab League official praising Syria's cooperation ? have fueled concerns by the Syrian opposition that the Arab mission is a farce and a distraction from the ongoing killings.
The opposition suspects Assad is only trying to buy time and forestall more international sanctions and condemnation.
"This mission has absolutely no mandate, no authority, no teeth," said Ausama Monajed, a member of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group. "The regime does not feel obliged to even bring down the number of casualties a day."
The 60 monitors ? the first Syria has allowed in during the nine-month uprising ? are supposed to be ensuring the regime is complying with terms of a plan to end a crackdown the U.N. says has killed more than 5,000 people since March.
The plan, which Syria agreed to on Dec. 19, demands that the regime remove its security forces and heavy weapons from cities, start talks with the opposition and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country. It also calls for the release of all political prisoners.
On Wednesday, the government released 755 prisoners following a report by Human Rights Watch accusing authorities of hiding hundreds of detainees from the monitors. It was the second concession in two days.
The army on Monday pulled some of its troops back from the central city of Homs after bombarding it for days and killing scores of people. Monitors who were allowed into the city were met by tens of thousands of protesters who called for Assad's execution.
Images obtained by The Associated Press from the city in the days leading up to the monitors' visit show army defectors inside a bombed-out building, firing machine guns through gaping holes in a wall.
In another, a huge crowd fills the street for a nighttime rally behind a giant banner of the uprising's revolutionary flag. A row of women wear the flags and a large sign overhead reads: "All the doors are closed except your door, God."
There are also photos of wounded civilians lying on a floor in pools of blood, and being treated with crude medical equipment. Another shows an alleyway with blood smeared on a wall and pooled on the ground.
At a Dec. 21 protest, a banner reads: "To the Arab League: Your initiative cannot protect us from death." Young girls with headbands that read "Leave!" and sashes calling for the "execution of Bashar" protest under banners with "Freedom and Dignity."
The images show the intensity of the opposition against Assad's regime, which brought on the offensive against Homs that began on Friday and lasted until monitors arrived Tuesday to start their one-month mission with a visit to the city.
Several from the team of 12 stayed in Homs overnight and they continued to work there Wednesday. There was no word on whether other teams went to different cities.
According to officials and activists, the monitors went to several districts of Homs, including trouble spots in Baba Amr, Bab Sbaa and Inshaat.
Amateur video posted on the Internet showed the head of the team, Sudanese Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, walking in Baba Amr and stopping to talk to people. In one video, he is seen talking to a man who accuses the regime of killing his 64-year-old brother, a former official of Assad's ruling Baath party, and his wife, and then blaming it on armed gangs.
"Your excellency, they are killing influential people to draw a violent reaction from people," he tells al-Dabi.
Some amateur video showed the orange-jacketed observers in a white car, surrounded by people shouting for Assad's downfall and apparently objecting to the presence of a Syrian military escort in the car with them.
Other video showed the monitors visiting women and children who purportedly lost family members in recent violence. There were no reports of firing on protesters in Homs during the observers visit on Wednesday. Troops did open fire on the crowds on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the monitors are expected to visit Hama, Idlib and Daraa ? all centers of the uprising.
In Hama, several thousand protesters were trying to reach the city's main Assi square to stage a sit-in amid a heavy security presence when troops opened fire with bullets and tear gas to disperse them, activists said.
Hama-based activist Saleh Abu Kamel said he had the names of six people who were killed and many others wounded. The number could not be immediately confirmed. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees confirmed the protests and the shooting, giving conflicting casualty figures.
Violence erupted in several other parts of Syria, including the ambush killings of four soldiers by a group of military defectors, activists said.
Despite the ongoing crackdown, an Arab League official said cooperation by Syrian authorities with the monitors was "reassuring."
"The Syrian side is facilitating everything," Adnan Issa al-Khudeir told reporters in Cairo. He said the 60 observers who arrived in Syria Monday were divided into five groups to visit five locations: Homs, Aleppo, Idlib, Daraa and Hama.
Monajed, the SNC official, said the remarks were "unfortunate."
"They reflect the irresponsible behavior and attitude toward the massacres and atrocities committed by Assad's forces in the country," he said.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Report: Phishing attack targets Apple customers
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Iraqi al Qaeda group says behind Baghdad bombings (Reuters)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) ? Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a slew of bombings that killed at least 71 people in Baghdad last week, a group that monitors online communication among insurgents said Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber and multiple roadside bombs hit Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite areas on December 22 in the first attacks on the capital since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on December 18.
In a sign of growing tensions within the government itself, Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and asked parliament to fire Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq.
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked insurgents, had claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement posted on Islamist websites Monday.
ISI said it had carried out the attacks in support of Sunni prisoners. "The operations were distributed between targeting security headquarters, military patrols...and eliminating the heads of unbelief from amongst the security, military and administration leaders of the Green Zone (Iraqi) government," it was quoted by SITE as saying.
In Thursday's single biggest attack, at least 18 people were killed when an attacker driving an ambulance detonated the vehicle near a government criminal investigation office in Baghdad's central Karrada district.
Hashemi has been formally charged with running death squads targeting Iraqi government and security officials. He has denied all charges which he says were "fabricated."
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped since the peak of sectarian fighting in 2006-07 but bombings and killings still occur almost daily.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has been weakened by deaths of leaders but there are fears the group will try to regroup and strengthen its presence following the withdrawal of U.S. troops almost nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
(Reporting by Serena Chaudhry)
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
John Legend engaged to model Chrissy Teigen
Matthew McConaughey wasn't the only star who popped the question this Christmas!PHOTOS: More celebs who got engaged this year
"Ordinary People" soul singer John Legend, 32, and supermodel Chrissy Teigen, 26, "got engaged over the holidays while vacationing in the Maldives," Legend's rep tells Us Weekly. The couple began dating in 2007.
"He went to Jared," Teigen joked on Twitter Tuesday.
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Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award winner, will ring in 2012 with a performance at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms Casino Resort on New Year's Eve.PHOTOS: Best celebrity weddings of 2011
Teigen is best known for her work as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and her two-year gig on "Deal or No Deal."
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Brazil to involve Chevron in oil spill lawsuit
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While Chevron has claimed it acted quickly to contain the massive oil spill which occurred off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has said the company is responsible for breaching its environmental licence by responding slowly and lacking the correct equipment to tackle the disaster.
Chevron has already been fined $28 million by the Brazilian environmental watchdog for causing the spill.
All drilling operations of Chevron and its contractors have been suspended in the country.
The spill happened at a well in the Frade oil project, 370 kilometres off the Brazilian coast where billions of barrels of oil are amassed in deep water.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Asus sued by toy robot maker for naming its tablet Transformer Prime (Yahoo! News)
Hasbro believes the new tablet's name is too close to Transformer Optimus Prime's
To be reminded of robots whenever the?Asus Transformer tablets are mentioned is inevitable. After all, Hasbro's line of Transformers toy bots has enjoyed tremendous popularity in recent years, thanks to Michael Bay's film trilogy. The toy company thinks that the newest Asus tablet, the?Transformer Prime, sounds a bit too much like one of its most popular robots, though. So, it decided to file a lawsuit against the computer maker in Los Angeles federal court.
We didn't hear anything from Hasbro when the first Transformer tablet was released, but it seems Asus crossed the line this time by naming its new device too close to?Optimus Prime. "Hasbro continues to aggressively protect its brands and products and the specific actions we are taking today against Asus underscores yet again Hasbro's willingness to pursue companies who misappropriate our intellectual property for their own financial gain," the company wrote in an email to?Paidcontent.
Hasbro's litigation would've usually been invalid based on current trademark law, since?tablets and toy robots do not fall under the same category. The toy company asserts, however, that the Transformers brand is expanding, and it has to protect names associated with its products. Hasbro is currently seeking damages as well as a temporary injunction on the Transformer Prime, which has just?started shipping from a few retailers this December 19.
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Former Union Leader Admits Theft of Union Funds
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BUFFALO, NY?United States Attorney William J Hochul, Jr announced today that former union leader Ellis Woods, 61, of Clarence, NY ., pleaded guilty to wire fraud before United States District Judge Richard J Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.Assistant United States Attorney Russell T Ippolito, Jr, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant devised a scheme to defraud the Buffalo Educational Support Team (?BEST?). BEST is a union representing more than 900 teacher?s aides and assistants in the Buffalo school district. While working as the elected President of BEST, Woods was provided a union issued credit card.
Between November 18, 2008, and February 7, 2011, Woods used the union credit card to pay for personal expenses, including gambling expenses that he incurred at local area casinos. In total, Woods stole $44,987.70 in union funds.
?Union members contribute hard earned money to benefit the union as a whole, not to line the pockets of union leaders,? said United States Attorney Hochul. ?Our office will not tolerate such behavior and will vigorously prosecute officials in any organization who seek to take advantage of members.?
The plea is the result of an investigation by the United States Department of Labor and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Christopher M Piehota.
Sentencing is scheduled for April, 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM in Buffalo, NY. before Judge Arcara.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Mega Man X blasts onto iOS, Reploids still struggling with free will
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Report: Nintendo 3DS Sales In Japan To Pass The 4 Million Mark Earlier Than Expected
It's a common platitude in the gaming industry: it's the killer titles that make or break a video game system. One case in point is Nintendo whose 3DS sales in Japan, one of the biggest video game markets in the world, are expected to cross the four million mark two months earlier than expected. Just two weeks ago, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said this will happen "in February next year", but Japanese business daily The Nikkei is now reporting that cumulative domestic sales of the 3DS will reach four million before year-end. The newspaper is referring to stats from Tokyo-based market research company Enterbrain, which says Nintendo managed to sell a weekly record of 390,000 systems between December 12-18 (and 380,000 units between December 5 and 11).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/O3U6pahWS4c/
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Steve Jobs - "Billion Dollar Hippy" BBC Documentary
Posted by Tom Foremski - December 20, 2011
The BBC's documentary "Billion Dollar Hippy" about Steve Jobs has some great content even for those that already know a lot about Steve Jobs.
One very interesting point is made by Larry Tesler, a former Xerox PARC researcher. Apple has often been accused of stealing ideas from Xerox PARC but Mr Tesler points out (around 19.40 minutes) that PARC did not invent the mouse or graphical user interface, that they had been around for more than 15 years.
There's a lot of yelling in the Steve Jobs story. "Billion Dollar Uptight Hippy" might be a better title.
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China urges others to help keep North Korea stable (Reuters)
SEOUL (Reuters) ? China, which may have received advanced notice of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, has moved swiftly to call on the United States and other countries to help maintain stability in the reclusive state, officials and news reports said.
North Korea is in mourning since it announced Kim's demise on Monday, two days after the 69-year-old iron ruler died of a heart attack, plunging the region into uncertainty over its stability and who had control over its nuclear weapons program.
The official KCNA news agency said at least five million people -- one-fifth of the population of the impoverished state -- had paid condolences at statues and portraits of the leader and his father, North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung.
"These places turned into a veritable sea of mourners who bitterly wept, looking up to portraits of smiling Kim Jong-il," it said.
His son Kim Jong-un, thought to be in his 20s, has been anointed the successor but it is likely power rests with a coterie of senior officials, including his aunt and uncle.
The younger Kim, along with top army and government officials, paid respects on Tuesday to his father, whose body was placed in a glass topped bier surrounded by the red "Kimjongilia" flowers named after him, television footage showed.
A leading South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday that China, isolated North Korea's only major ally, learned of Kim's death soon after it occurred on Saturday.
JoongAng Ilbo quoted an unidentified source in Beijing as saying the Chinese ambassador to North Korea had obtained intelligence of Kim's death and reported it to the capital on December 17, the day Kim died of an apparent heart attack while on a train.
"North Korea informed China of Kim's death through diplomatic channels on the following day," the source was quoted as saying.
Top South Korean intelligence and military officials have come under criticism for failing to learn of Kim's death before the official announcement by Pyongyang.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak left on a state visit for Japan some hours after Kim's death, indicating that neither Seoul nor Tokyo -- nor Washington -- had any inkling of his death.
China has given no official comment or even hints suggesting it was told of Kim's death before the public announcement. But in the past, Beijing has had advance notice from North Korea of major events, diplomats say. In 2006, North Korea told China 20 minutes or more beforehand that it would test its first nuclear device, they said.
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Beijing has moved swiftly to exhort the United States, Japan and South Korea to help keep North Korea stable.
"Preserving the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula is in the common interests of all sides," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba late on Tuesday, according to a report from China's Xinhua news agency.
"China is willing to work with Japan to continue making efforts to together protect the peace and stability of the peninsula and the region," said Yang.
The Chinese foreign minister has already made similar pleas in phone calls to South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan and to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
It underscores China's desire to avoid ructions over North Korea after the death of Kim, whose successor-son is untested and largely unknown.
With its own leadership transition approaching, Beijing would be loath to allow any form of instability on its borders and the prospect of hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding across the Yalu River.
"China's foremost priority will therefore be to ensure that North Korea's new leader, whoever that may be, will be able to rally and unify the country together," said Sarah McDowall, an analyst at IHS Jane's.
In the Chinese city of Dandong, on the bank of the Yalu River border between the two nations, mourners who appeared to be North Koreans filed through a makeshift mourning centre.
Women in their 20s and 30s wept, wailed and prostrated themselves in front of wreaths of white and yellow chrysanthemums. Some men clasped their hands in front of them and bowed deeply.
In Washington, officials said the United States has signaled to North Korea's new leaders it hopes for progress on resuming talks on curbing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and has pushed ahead with discussions on resuming food aid despite the death of Kim.
"Given the mourning period, frankly we don't think we'll be able to have much more clarity and resolve these issues before the new year. But obviously we stand ready to keep working on this," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Nuland said the contact occurred on Monday through what is known as "the New York channel" -- North Korea's mission to the United Nations -- but she was unable to say whether it involved any political discussion of the ramifications of Kim's death.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Quinn in WASHINGTON,Seoul and Beijing bureaus; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Hungary tech firm immortalizes Steve Jobs in bronze (Reuters)
BUDAPEST (Reuters) ? A Hungarian software company unveiled what it said was the world's first bronze statue of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs Wednesday, calling him one of the greatest personalities of the modern age.
Jobs died on October 5 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.
The bronze work by sculptor Erno Toth stands in the Budapest campus of architectural software maker Graphisoft.
"He was one of the greatest (personalities) in our era, that's what we wanted to express with this sculpture here," Graphisoft Chairman Gabor Bojar told Reuters.
Bojar said Jobs gave cash and computers to Graphisoft, helping it to become a global leader in architecture software from humble roots as a tiny firm in the 1980s in then-communist Hungary.
"In some ways, Apple was a religion," Bojar said at the unveiling ceremony, comparing the experts from Cupertino-based Apple who helped educate Graphisoft's engineers to evangelists.
Steve Jobs represented a technological revolution which can be compared only to the discovery of writing, Bojar said.
"We have felt his spirit every day and now it is embodied," he said. "We hope that we can deserve with our entrepreneurial culture in Hungary what this sculpture expresses as a message."
(Reporting by Sandor Peto, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Monday, December 19, 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
McQueary: I told Penn St. officials about abuse (AP)
HARRISBURG, Pa. ? A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molesting a boy and that he fully conveyed what he had seen to two Penn State administrators.
Mike McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter in a Penn State locker room, said he believes that Sandusky was attacking the child with his hands around the boy's waist but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse.
McQueary took the stand Friday morning in a Pennsylvania courtroom during a preliminary hearing for Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, two university officials who are accused of lying to a grand jury about what McQueary told them. The hearing was expected to last most of the day.
McQueary's story is central to the case against Curley and Schultz. They testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw. The officials, and Penn State coach Joe Paterno, have been criticized for never telling police about the 2002 allegation. Prosecutors say Sandusky continued to abuse boys for six more years.
McQueary said he had stopped by a campus football locker room to drop off a pair of sneakers in the spring of 2002 when he happened upon Sandusky and the boy in a shower.
He said Sandusky was behind the boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old, with his hands wrapped around the boy's waist. He said the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.
McQueary said he has never described what he saw as anal rape or anal intercourse and couldn't see Sandusky's genitals, but that "it was very clear that it looked like there was intercourse going on."
Under cross examination by an attorney for Curley, McQueary reiterated that he had not seen Sandusky penetrating or fondling the boy but was nearly certain he knew an assault happened in part because the two were standing so close and Sandusky's arms were wrapped around the youth.
He said he peeked into the shower several times and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated. He said he didn't say anything, but "I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them."
McQueary said he reported what he saw to Paterno but never went to police.
He said he did not give Paterno explicit details of what he believed he'd seen, saying he wouldn't have used terms like sodomy or anal intercourse out of respect for the longtime coach.
He said Paterno told him he'd "done the right thing" by reporting what he saw. The head coach appeared shocked and saddened and slumped back in his chair, McQueary said.
Paterno told McQueary he would talk to others about what he'd reported.
Nine or 10 days later, McQueary said he met with Curley and Shultz and told them he'd seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in the shower after hearing skin on skin slapping sounds.
"I told them that I saw Jerry in the showers with a young boy and that what I had seen was extremely sexual and over the lines and it was wrong," McQueary said. "I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on."
McQueary said he was left with the impression both men took his report seriously. When asked why he didn't go to police, he referenced Shultz's position as a vice president at the university who had overseen the campus police
"I thought I was talking to the head of the police, to be frank with you," he said. "In my mind it was like speaking to a (district attorney). It was someone who police reported to and would know what to do with it."
Under cross-examination, McQueary said he considered what he saw a crime but didn't call police because "it was delicate in nature."
"I tried to use my best judgment," he said. "I was sure the act was over." He said he never tried to find the boy.
Curley and Schultz are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to properly report what McQueary allegedly told them.
Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary's statements.
District Judge William C. Wenner was hearing testimony Friday to help him decide whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against the pair to send their cases to trial.
Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 12 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn't do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school's longtime president, Graham Spanier.
Curley, 57, Penn State's athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
FACT CHECK: Gingrich off on his budget history
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Newt Gingrich overlooked a couple of years of red ink when he asserted Thursday night that he balanced the budget for four years as House speaker. And in claiming sole credit for the achievement, he glossed over the fact that budgets are not a one-man show: There was a Democratic president in town, too.
In the last debate before the leadoff Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Gingrich persisted in repeating a claim he has made often in the campaign, sometimes more accurately than others. Here and there, other candidates, too, reprised misstatements or partial truths from the string of debates and from the stump. Mitt Romney once again declared he has spent his life in the private sector, ignoring his years as governor and political candidate.
A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts:
GINGRICH: "I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt ? pretty conservative."
THE FACTS: In the 1996 and 1997 budget years, the first two years he served as speaker of the House of Representatives, the government actually ran deficits. In 1998 and 1999, the government ran surpluses. Two more years of surpluses followed, but Gingrich was gone from politics by then and had nothing to do with them.
Moreover, the national debt went up during the four years Gingrich was speaker. In January 1995, when he became speaker, the gross national debt was $4.8 trillion. When he left four years later, it was $5.6 trillion, an increase of $800 billion.
To be sure, Gingrich did not single-handedly deepen America's debt, just as he didn't balance any budgets on his own. He was a driving force, along with Democratic President Bill Clinton and figures in both houses of Congress, in the economic setbacks and advancements of that time.
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ROMNEY: "I spent my life, my career, in the private sector."
THE FACTS: This is true ? except for four years as Massachusetts governor, recent years running for president in the 2008 and 2012 elections, a few years running the Olympics and the time he put into his failed run for a Senate seat in 1994.
In essence, Romney has devoted himself to political endeavors since his successful run for governor in 2002, and has been pursuing the presidency for five years.
A month after his term as governor ended in 2007, he announced his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. After John McCain defeated him for the nomination, Romney devoted himself to building a political network, helping Republican candidates raise money, and writing a book that set the stage for his second run for president.
Indeed, Romney, who made his fortune as founder of the investment firm Bain Capital, has not held a private-sector job with a regular paycheck for more than a decade.
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MICHELE BACHMANN: "We have an IAEA report that just recently came out that said literally Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that (a nuclear) weapon."
RON PAUL: "There is no U.N. report that said that. It's totally wrong, what you just said."
Bachmann: "It's the IAEA report."
THE FACTS: As Paul said, the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency does not state that Iran is within months of having nuclear arms. The U.N. agency report does suggest that Iran conducted secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear weapons but did not put a time frame on when Iran might succeed in building a bomb, and it made no final conclusion on Tehran's intent.
Bachmann also erred by arguing that Iran has "stated they will use it (a nuclear weapon) against the United States."
Iran vehemently rejects that it is developing a nuclear bomb, let alone that it plans to drop one on the U.S.
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ROMNEY: "I'm firmly in support of people not being discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation. At the same time, I oppose same-sex marriage. That's been my position from the beginning."
THE FACTS: In large measure, Romney has been consistent in those two positions, despite accusations of flip-flopping on gay rights.
He walked a fine line back in his failed 1994 Senate campaign, vowing to fight for equality but stopping short of endorsing gay marriage. That's the same line he walked Thursday night.
He has changed, though, on whether gay marriage should be addressed at the state or federal level. He has favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage at least since the beginning of his 2008 presidential bid, when he was the only major Republican candidate to do so. In 1994, he had said the matter should be decided by individual states. That was before the idea of a constitutional ban had gained traction in politics.
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BACHMANN: "After the debates that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
THE FACTS: False.
For the second debate in a row, Gingrich complained that Bachmann wasn't getting her facts straight, this time when she went after him for the big money he made from Freddie Mac. In her own defense, Bachmann cited ratings from PolitiFact, a fact-checking organization that ranks statements on a scale from true to false, with the worst offender being "Pants on Fire" false.
PolitiFact rated two Bachmann statements from last week's debate. One, claiming Gingrich once believed in an individual health care mandate, was ranked mostly true. The other, that Romney introduced "socialized medicine" in his state, was judged "Pants on Fire" false.
Indeed, Bachmann has the worst record of accuracy in the Republican field, as rated by that organization and traced by others. Fully 73 percent of her statements checked by PolitiFact were judged mostly false or worse. Gingrich was wrong the next most often, 59 percent of the time.
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples, Bradley Klapper, Douglass K. Daniel and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Lizard plays smartphone games better than many humans (Yahoo! News)
We've already seen?fish wielding tools and?ravens socializing, and now we're seeing another hint to the inevitable world domination by animals. This?bearded dragon has mastered the video game?Ant Crusher on its owner's cellphone.
Sure, the game seems perfectly tailored to the lizard, which subsists on a diet of?leafy greens and supplemental insects.?But the spooky part comes when the bearded dragon?looks up expectantly at its owner, waiting for him to restart the game. It's like it knows what's going on and it's just waiting to beat its own high score.
We can't help but sympathize with the little guy, as it's probably pretty disappointing to nab ant after ant only to be left with an empty mouth. Still, he seems to be enjoying himself all the same.
This article was written my Michael Gray and originally appeared on Tecca
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White House says no veto of defense bill (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat that President Barack Obama would veto a defense bill over provisions on how to handle suspected terrorists as Congress raced to finish the legislation.
Press secretary Jay Carney said last-minute changes that Obama and his national security team sought produced legislation that "does not challenge the president's ability to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the American people."
Based on the modifications, "the president's senior advisers will not recommend a veto," the White House said.
The statement came just moments after the House wrapped up debate on the $662 billion bill that would authorize money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and national security programs in the Energy Department in the budget year that began Oct. 1.
The House was expected to vote for the measure later Wednesday. The Senate planned to wrap up the bill in the evening and send it to Obama.
The White House had threatened a veto over the detainee provisions. Specifically, the bill would require that the military take custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and who is involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States. There is an exemption for U.S. citizens.
House and Senate negotiators announced late Monday that they had modified that provision. They added language that says nothing in the bill will affect "existing criminal enforcement and national security authorities of the FBI or any other domestic law enforcement agency" with regard to a captured suspect, "regardless of whether such ... person is held in military custody."
The bill also says the president can waive the provision based on national security.
"While we remain concerned about the uncertainty that this law will create for our counterterrorism professionals, the most recent changes give the president additional discretion in determining how the law will be implemented, consistent with our values and the rule of law, which are at the heart of our country's strength," Carney said.
Uncertainty was a major concern of FBI Director Robert Mueller who expressed serious reservations about the detainee provisions.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller said a coordinated effort by the military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement has weakened al-Qaida and captured or killed many of its leaders, including Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. He suggested that the divisive provision in the bipartisan defense bill would deny that flexibility and prove impractical.
"The statute lacks clarity with regard to what happens at the time of arrest. It lacks clarity with regard to what happens if we had a case in Lackawanna, New York, and an arrest has to be made there and there's no military within several hundred miles," Mueller said. "What happens if we have ... a case that we're investigating on three individuals, two of whom are American citizens and would not go to military custody and the third is not an American citizen and could go to military custody?"
The legislation also would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention.
The escalating fight over whether to treat suspects as prisoners of war or criminals has divided Democrats and Republicans, the Pentagon and Congress.
The administration insists that the military, law enforcement and intelligence officials need flexibility in the campaign against terrorism. Obama points to his administration's successes in killing bin Laden and radical Islamic cleric al-Awlaki. Republicans counter that their efforts are necessary to respond to an evolving, post-Sept. 11 threat, and that Obama has failed to produce a consistent policy on handling terror suspects.
In a reflection of the uncertainty, House members offered differing interpretations of the military custody and indefinite detention provisions and what would happen if the bill became law.
"The provisions do not extend new authority to detain U.S. citizens," House Armed Services Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., said during debate.
But Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the bill would turn "the military into a domestic police force."
Highlighting a period of austerity and a winding down of decade-old conflicts, the bill is $27 billion less than Obama requested and $43 billion less than Congress gave the Pentagon.
Frustrated with delays and cost overruns with the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft program, lawmakers planned to require the contractor, Lockheed Martin, to cover the expense for any extra costs on the next batch and future purchases of the aircraft. The Pentagon envisions buying 2,443 planes for the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy, but the price could make it the most expensive program in military history ? $1 trillion.
The legislation freezes $700 million for Pakistan until the defense secretary provides Congress a report on how Islamabad is countering the threat of improvised explosive devices.
It would impose tough new penalties on Iran, targeting foreign financial institutions that do business with the country's central bank. The president could waive those penalties if he notifies Congress that it's in the interest of national security.
The bill begins a reduction in defense spending, a reality the Pentagon hasn't faced in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks. Pentagon spending has nearly doubled in that period, but the deficit-reduction plan that Obama and congressional Republicans backed this summer sets the Defense Department on a budget-cutting course.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and several other GOP defense hawks pledged to return to Washington next month with a plan to avoid automatic across-the-board cuts to defense required in 2013. The failure of the deficit supercommittee last month means $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years, with half from defense.
Defense hawks said the 10 percent cut would hollow out the Pentagon and devastate U.S. military readiness.
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Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
AIDS group seeks LA vote on condoms in porn films (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Voters in Los Angeles, home to the U.S. porn industry, could soon be asked to decide whether condoms should be required in adult films to reduce sexually transmitted diseases.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said on Monday it submitted far more than the required number of signatures on a petition for a public ballot that could go before voters in June 2012.
If the signatures are officially certified and a vote is held, Los Angeles residents would be asked whether adult film producers must require the use of condoms on porn sets as a condition for getting movie permits.
Most major porn companies shoot films without condoms, and some argue that using latex prophylactics would take away from the fantasy appeal of their product. The multibillion dollar U.S. industry is largely based in Los Angeles, and producers say they might leave if new laws make condom use unavoidable.
California officials argue that a vote is not necessary because the porn industry is already covered by workplace rules protecting employees from blood-borne pathogens. They say condoms are required in cases where adult film performers could be exposed to infection.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has issued over $125,000 in fines against porn producers in the past five years for various violations, but some of those citations are on appeal, according to figures from the agency.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation counters that city officials and the area's public health agency have been slow to crack down on the porn industry.
"We're confident about our ability to win an initiative in an election," said Michael Weinstein, the foundation's president. "We say, why continue to frustrate ourselves trying to get the politicians to stand up and do something when the people seem to be ahead of them."
Former porn star Derrick Burts, 25, who said he was infected with HIV on a porn shoot in 2010, claimed some performers would like to wear condoms but will not go against the wishes of their producers.
"In this industry, you fight for every dollar you can make, because when you get into this industry, it's hard to get out and make a normal living because your face is everywhere as someone who's done porn," Burts said.
A representative for adult industry group the Free Speech Coalition did not return a phone call or e-mail seeking comment, and a representative from the city's film permitting agency could not be reached for comment.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Bob Tourtellotte)
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
2010 Washington 3rd U.S. House Race: Peculiar Contest for Democratic Stronghold Seat (ContributorNetwork)
Washington's 3rd U.S House District race is being closely watched by both major political parties as Democrat Denny Heck and Republican Jaime Herrera compete for a seat left open by the departure of a longtime incumbent. When Democratic congressman Brian Baird announced he was stepping down after six terms in office, the Republicans set their sights on overtaking a seat held by Democrats for all but two terms during the last 50 years.
In an energetic top-two primary race, Democrat Heck came out on top with 5,000 more votes than Herrera, and outperformed Herrera in her home county. Although the Democrat claimed the most votes, more votes were cast for Republicans than Democrats overall in the six-way race, 54 percent to 42 percent. And now recent polls indicate that Herrera has taken the lead in this race.
Candidate:
Jaime Herrera
Party: Republican
Political experience: In 2007, Herrera was appointed to a vacant seat in the legislature and was re-elected in the subsequent election, according to her website. From 2005 to 2007, she worked as a legislative assistant to the Washington 5th Congressional District representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers. After graduating from college, she held temporary positions in the state senate, worked on the George W. Bush campaign and then obtained a job in the White House Office of Political Affairs before taking the job with Rodgers.
Professional experience: Herrera career experience is all political, according to her campaign biography. Herrera earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Washington.
Key issues: Herrera has designated jobs the No. 1 issue in her campaign, citing the district's high unemployment. Her proposal to create jobs is to balance the budget and cut taxes, letting businesses succeed or fail on their own without government involvement.
Herrera opposes the national health care plan enacted by Congress. Her plan for making health care affordable would include small-business pools, portability features and tort reform.
On national security, Herrera opposes the closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility and civilian trials for terrorists. She would support providing resources for a "robust" military and veteran care.
Endorsements: Among her organizational endorsements are the National Rifle Association, National Federation of Independent Business, Washington Association of Realtors and Washington Credit Union League.
Chances of winning the race: According to Real Clear Politics, Washington's 3rd congressional district is leaning Republican. A Survey USA poll taken for KING TV from Sept. 12 to 14 shows her up nine percentage points over her opponent. Herrera's lead declined by two points compared to a similar poll conducted three weeks earlier in the wake of the primary. Cook Political Report and CQ Politics consider this contest a toss-up and too close to call.
Candidate: Denny Heck
Party: Democrat
Political experience: Denny Heck's political experience includes serving as chief of staff to Gov. Booth Gardner from 1989 to 1993. Heck served five terms in the state house of representatives, beginning in 1976 where he served as majority leader and co-chaired the Education Committee.
Professional experience: In 1993, Denny founded state public affairs station TVW where he worked until retiring in 2003. He was host of Inside Olympia. He co-founded Intrepid Learning Solutions, a worker-training company and is a co-owner of Bruin Development.
He received his bachelor's degree from Evergreen State College.
Key issues: Wall St. reform, green jobs and health care reform are priorities in the Heck platform.
To reform Wall St., Heck advocates re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act, limiting banks to a traditional banking role and requiring the trade of derivatives to take place on public exchanges.
Heck wants to see targeted green-energy investments, renewable energy development and creation of a Smart Grid.
He contends that the national health care reform bill is imperfect and a work in progress but a step in the right direction. To bring down health costs, Heck advocates policies to attract greater numbers of doctors to work as primary care physicians and strengthening comparative effectiveness research throughout the health care industry.
Endorsements: Heck got the endorsements of Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood.
Chances of winning the race: The Cook Political Report and CQ Politics are both calling this race a toss-up, while Real Clear Politics would hand it over to the Republicans. The only voter surveys in this race, conducted for KING TV, give his opponent a nine-point advantage. But Heck is running in a Democratic stronghold, beat his opponent in the primary, and won the nod of his opponent's home county in the primary, all signs he could come out the victor in this unusual contest.
Key Differences between Jaime Herrera and Denny Heck
On jobs creation, the difference between Herrera and Heck is the difference between laissez-faire and targeted investment.
The candidates are polar opposites on health care with Hererra opposing the national health care reform bill and Heck supporting it and wanting to expand upon it.
Hererra has staked out a "go get 'em" approach to fighting terrorism and advocates increased military spending, while Heck did not address national security as a primary issue in his campaign.
Heck advocates green investments while Herrera has not made that an issue in her campaign.
2008 results: Democrat Brian Baird defeated Republican Michael Delavar 64 percent to 36 percent.
Demographics: Washington's 3rd District is home to 662,111 people, whose median age is 35.8. The population is 69.3 percent white, 6.5 percent black and 3.5 percent Asian. 30.8 percent of the population identifies as Latino, regardless of race. More than one-fifth of the population is foreign-born. 39.6 percent of the district's residents speak a language other than English at home. Only 22.7 percent of the population has a bachelor's or higher degree, compared to a 27.4 percent national average. Of the subset of the population over 16 years of age, 64.9 percent were in the labor force during the survey period.
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