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Sunday 4 August 2013

Stocks rise after tepid jobs news

Stocks rose Friday?despite the US adding fewer jobs than forecast in July, curbing optimism that the economy is poised to pick up strength in the second half of the year. Stocks gradually recovered throughout the day and major indexes ended slightly higher.?

By Steve Rothwell,?AP Markets Writer / August 2, 2013

Specialists Joseph Dreyer, left, and Donald Civitanova work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Tepid jobs news barely dented an advance in stocks Friday.

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A tepid jobs report Friday barely dented a summer rally on the?stock?market.

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The Standard & Poor's 500 index ended the week 1 percent higher after breaking through 1,700 points for the first time Thursday. The index has risen for five of the last six weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent and is on a streak of six weekly gains.

On Friday, indexes dropped in early trading after the U.S. added fewer jobs than forecast in July, curbing optimism that the economy is poised to pick up strength in the second half of the year. The market gradually recovered throughout the day and major indexes ended slightly higher. The gains were enough to set all-time highs for the Dow and S&P.

The government reported that 162,000 jobs were created last month, pushing the unemployment rate down to a 4?-year low of 7.4 percent. The number of jobs added was the lowest since March and below the 183,000 economists polled by FactSet were expecting.

Brad Sorensen, Charles Schwab's director of market and sector research, said the jobs report was "moderately disappointing."

"That tepid growth we've seen, (the economy) not being able to reach escape velocity, continues to be the story," Sorenson said.

Investors have been watching economic reports closely and trying to anticipate when the Federal Reserve will start easing back on its economic stimulus. The central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds every month to keep long-term interest rates low and encourage borrowing.

While the jobs report wasn't encouraging, it did make it more likely that the Fed would take its time cutting back on stimulus, said Doug Lockwood of Hefty Wealth Partners. The stimulus from the central bank has been an important factor powering a four-year bull run in?stocks.

"As long as there's this concept that the Fed may still need to be involved and stimulate, that's good for both the bond and the?stock?market," said Lockwood. "You're seeing the trampoline effect; the market drops and then comes back up."

The S&P 500 ended Friday up 2.80 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,709.67. The index is up 5 percent since the start of July. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 30.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,658.36.

Seven of the 10 industry sectors that make up the S&P 500 gained, led by consumer discretionary?stocks. Of the three groups that fell, energy?stocks?dropped the most.

Investors were also assessing company earnings.

Chevron fell after it became the latest big energy company to disappoint investors with lower earnings. Chevron's profit fell 26 percent to $5.4 billion due to lower oil prices and maintenance work at refineries. The?stock?fell $1.49, or 1.2 percent, to $124.95.

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Monday 29 July 2013

UN rights expert says Syria is in 'free fall'

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The head of the U.N. commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria says the country is in "free fall" and has become a battlefield where civilians are the main victims of "acts of terror" from indiscriminate shelling to rape and sectarian killing.

Paulo Pinheiro told the U.N. General Assembly Monday that "massacres and other unlawful killings are perpetrated with impunity" ? most by pro-government forces and some by anti-government armed groups.

He demanded that the government stop using imprecise weapons such as unguided missiles on civilian areas, and said both sides must stop laying siege to cities and towns, cutting off vital supplies of food, water, medicine and electricity.

Pinheiro said the international community must demand a diplomatic solution to the 2 1/2-year conflict that has killed over 100,000 people.

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Pushing microscopy beyond standard limits

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Engineers have devised a method to convert a relatively inexpensive conventional microscope into a billion-pixel imaging system that significantly outperforms the best available standard microscope. Such a system could greatly improve the efficiency of digital pathology, in which specialists need to review large numbers of tissue samples. By making it possible to produce robust microscopes at low cost, the approach also has the potential to bring high-performance microscopy capabilities to medical clinics in developing countries.

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How supercomputers solve giant problems

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China's Tianhe-2 is currently the world's fastest supercomputer, reaching 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

Today's supercomputers are marvels of computational power, and they are being used to tackle some of the world's biggest scientific problems.

Current models are tens of thousands of times faster than the average desktop computer. They achieve these lightning-fast speeds via parallel processing, in which many computer processors perform computations simultaneously. Supercomputers are used for everything from forecasting weather to modeling the human brain.

What sets supercomputers apart is the size and difficulty of the tasks they can tackle and solve, said Jack Wells, director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

[9 Super-Cool Uses for Supercomputers]

"Supercomputers can do supersize problems," Wells said.

Supercomputers are often built from the same components as regular computers, but they're integrated so they can work together, Wells told LiveScience.

The first supercomputers were developed in the 1960s, designed by electrical engineer Seymour Cray of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1964, the company released the CDC 6600, often considered to be the world's first supercomputer. Cray later formed his own company, which made the Cray-1 in 1976 and Cray-2 in 1985.

These early supercomputers had only a few processors, but by the 1990s, the United States and Japan were making ones with thousands of processors. Fujitsu's Numerical Wind Tunnel became the fastest supercomputer in 1994 with 166 processors, followed by the Hitachi SR2201, in 1996, with more than 2,000 processors. The Intel Paragon edged into the lead in 1993. As of June 2013, China's Tianhe-2 was the world's fastest supercomputer.

Supercomputer performance is measured in "flops," short for floating-point operations per second. Today's machines can achieve speeds in petaflops ? quadrillions of flops.

The TOP500 is a ranking of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. China?s Tianhe-2 achieves 33.86 petaflops, while the Cray Titan reaches 17.59 petaflops, and IBM's Sequoia ranks third at 17.17 petaflops.

Solving supersize problems
Researchers have harnessed the number-crunching power of supercomputers to work on complex problems in fields ranging from astrophysics to neuroscience.

These computational behemoths have been used to answer questions about the creation of the universe during the Big Bang. Researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) simulated how the first galaxies formed, and scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., simulated the birth of stars. Using computers like IBM's Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicists have probed the mysteries of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 25 percent of the mass of the universe.

[101 Astronomy Images That Will Blow Your Mind]

Weather forecasting is another area that relies heavily on supercomputing. For example, forecasters used the TACC supercomputer Ranger to determine the path of Hurricane Ike in 2008, improving the five-day hurricane forecast by 15 percent. Climate scientists use supercomputers to model global climate change, a challenging task involving hundreds of variables.

Testing nuclear weapons has been banned in the United States since 1992, but supercomputer simulations ensure that the nation's nukes remain safe and functional. IBM's Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is designed to replace testing of nuclear explosions with improved simulations.

Increasingly, neuroscientists have turned their attention to the daunting task of modeling the human brain. The Blue Brain project at the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, led by Henry Markram, aims to create a complete, virtual human brain. The project scientists are using an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate the molecular structures of real mammalian brains. In 2006, Blue Brain successfully simulated a complete column of neurons in the rat brain.

Sharing the load
The quintessential supercomputer typically consists of large datacenters filled with many machines that are physically linked together. But distributed computing could also be considered a form of supercomputing; it consists of many individual computers connected by a network (such as the Internet) that devote some portion of their processing power to a large problem.

A well-known example is the SETI@home (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home) project, in which millions of people run a program on their computers that looks for signs of intelligent life in radio signals. Another is "Folding at home," a project to predict the 3D structure of proteins ? the biological workhorses that perform vital tasks in our bodies ? from the sequence of molecular chains from which they're made.

In the future, supercomputers will edge toward "exascale" capabilities ? about 50 times faster than current systems, Wells said. This will require greater energy, so energy efficiency will likely become an important goal of future systems. Another trend will be integrating large amounts of data for applications like discovering new materials and biotechnologies, Wells said.

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Police fire teargas at violent protests in Sidi Bouzid

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police fired teargas late on Saturday to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the country's revolution and hometown of slain opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, witnesses said.

Angry demonstrators, who came out to protest Thursday's assassination of Brahmi, threw rocks at police, said local resident Mahdi al-Horshani.

"Hundreds of protesters lit tires on fire to block roads and they threw rocks at the police," he told Reuters by telephone. "There is a lot of anger and frustration at the situation."

(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Angelina Jolie speaks out against rape in war

TOKYO (AP) ? Movie star and director Angelina Jolie urged a Japanese audience Monday to join her fight to stop sexual violence in war zones.

Jolie said she hoped "In the Land of Blood and Honey," her first film as writer and director, would inspire viewers to think about rape in war.

In April, the Group of Eight leaders agreed to work to end rape and sexual violence in conflict and the United Nations Security Council adopted text urging sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence during armed conflict.

"This is just a beginning," she said. "Our aim must be to shatter impunity, so that rape can no longer be used as a weapon of war anywhere in the world as it was in Bosnia, and as it is today from Congo to Syria."

Jolie, who serves as special envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was speaking at a special screening event Monday at the U.N. University in Tokyo, as part of her campaign launched with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Jolie said she hoped her film would inspire the Japanese viewers to think further about the problem and take action, just as the campaign had taken her across the globe.

"When I started down the road, making this film, I thought only of telling a story and doing my best to try to give a voice to survivors," she said. "But today I am here not only as a director, but as a campaigner, and a part of a global effort that is growing every day."

Japan is no stranger to sexual violence at war. The country still has problems fully coming to terms with what its militarist government did to hundreds of thousands of Asian women before and during World War II ? by forcing many of them to become "comfort women" and provide sex to Japanese soldiers. The issue remains a major diplomatic problem between Japan and South Korea. Jolie did not comment on the "comfort women" issue.

Jolie's award-winning 2011 film about the war in Bosnia hits Japanese theaters on Aug. 10. The fictional tale of a romance between a Bosnian Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman, set during the Balkan war in the 1990s, won the Producer's Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award.

Associated Press writer Emily Wang contributed to this report.

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In Need of Supernatural Males!!

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Stella never wanted this to happen, for someone to know. Not only does that person know, they hunt her kind. "Why can't I be normal?!" She cried staring at reflection in the mirror. Although, Her white/ blue hair and her crystal blue eyes were probably what gave her away. If only that guy didn't hunt her, he would have never known what to look for. Grabbing a box to stuff her childhood crap in. Stella hasn't had to pack up and move for over 50 years. "I just had to be a nymph..." She mumbled as she drove down the street in her black SUV. *On the run again... Glad to be back* What happens when she gets to Burns and settles down. Making friends maybe even a boyfriend. Or will she fall for the hunter thats chasing her?

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Worst Investment Ever? Man Spent $100K On Beanie Babies For Kids? College Fund

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Add this to the annals of bad investments.

The short documentary Bankrupt By Beanies?by Chris Robinson Jr. details his father?s overzealous collecting of Beanie Babies, which became wildly and inexplicably popular in the 1990s. At the time, some Beanie Babies were reselling for many times their value, in some cases getting up into the thousands of dollars. Robinson?s father, seeing a money-making opportunity, began collecting them in the hopes of saving for his five children?s college education. He spent $100,000 on the dolls.

His goal was to have five collections, one for each of his kids. To do that, he enlisted his wife and children, the neighbors, and anyone else who was willing to stand in line and buy as many of the toys as he could get his hands on. His wife says in the video, ?We never sold them, we just bought them. We missed that boat.?

Now Robinson has somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 Beanie Babies. Maybe they?ll be worth something in the future? Just get a college savings account folks. The full documentary is after the jump and you can read a Q&A with the filmmaker at Dazed Digital.

[via Dazed Digital, h/t Consumerist]

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Sunday 28 July 2013

Twitter comes under fire for what critics say is a lack of response to rape threats

A freelance journalist in the UK who campaigned to have women included on British banknotes has criticized Twitter for not making it easier to report abuse, after she was subjected to a barrage of violent comments, including rape threats. Caroline Criado-Perez said Twitter?s existing method for handling such abuse ? an online form ? was not enough, and her supporters have started a petition aimed at getting the service to add a ?report abuse? button on every tweet, and are also organizing a Twitter boycott.

Criado-Perez told the BBC and other outlets that she received about 50 abusive tweets an hour for 12 hours following the announcement that author Jane Austen would be appearing on British notes, and that she appeared to have ?stumbled into a nest of men who co-ordinate attacks on women.? She said she reported the abuse to police and also tried to contact Mark Luckie, Twitter?s manager of journalism and news, but said that Luckie did not respond, and then locked his account to make his tweets private.

In a comment to the Independent newspaper, Criado-Perez said: ?There has been a deafening silence from Twitter. The accounts of the men who said those things are still active. There needs to be a massive culture shift at Twitter.? The freelance writer and co-founder of The Women?s Room said that the reaction to her complaint from Twitter?s spokesman in the UK, Tony Wang ? who told her to report the abuse using the online form ? wasn?t helpful, since each attack would have to be reported individually.

Criado-Perez?s complaints have gotten support from some prominent Twitter users in Britain, including MP Stella Creasy ? who said she was ?furious? at Twitter?s lack of response, and then wrote a piece for The Guardian in which said that Twitter?s inadequate action over such threats ?is itself an abuse.? Criado-Perez also got support from fellow journalist Caitlin Moran, who began asking her followers to support a boycott of Twitter to draw attention to the issue.

Another supporter started a petition at Change.org asking Twitter to add a ?report abuse? button, and as of Saturday afternoon ET the petition had 16,000 signatures. The petition says that abuse on Twitter is too common and frequently goes ignored, and that Twitter needs to recognize that ?its current reporting system is below required standards,? and that its terms and conditions should be reviewed as they apply to abusive behavior.

In response to the incident, a Twitter spokesman said in an emailed statement that the network?s iPhone app has the kind of ?report abuse? button the petition is calling for, and that this feature is being rolled out soon across the rest of the company?s apps.

?We encourage users to report an account for violation of the Twitter rules by using one of our report forms. The ability to report individual Tweets for abuse is currently available on Twitter for iPhone, and we plan to bring this functionality to other platforms, including Android and the web.?

In a somewhat ironic twist, Mark Luckie ? who runs Twitter?s journalism and news unit ? said he locked his account and made it private because he received abusive tweets about the Criado-Perez case (Kathy Gill, a digital-media teacher at the University of Washington, has Storified some of the back-and-forth over the case here, including Luckie?s explanation).

The British case is just the latest example of the clash between laws and ethical standards as they relate to abusive or ?hate? speech and Twitter?s stated commitment to be the ?free-speech wing of the free-speech party.? In one recent incident in France, the company was criticized for not taking action against users who posted homophobic and anti-Semitic comments ? both of which are against the law in France ? and was eventually sued, and had to turn over some of the data about users who were involved.

Post and thumbnail images courtesy of Shutterstock / Aaron Amot

Source: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/27/twitter-comes-under-fire-for-what-critics-say-is-a-lack-of-response-to-rape-threats/

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Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 88

MIAMI (AP) ? Retired Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5? years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday.

Day, one of the nation's most highly decorated servicemen since Gen. Douglas MacArthur and later a tireless advocate for veterans' rights, died Saturday surrounded by family at his home in Shalimar, after a long illness, Doris Day said.

"He would have died in my arms if I could have picked him up," she said.

Day received the Medal of Honor for escaping his captors for 10 days after the aircraft he was piloting was shot down over North Vietnam. In all, he earned more than 70 medals during service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

He was an enlisted Marine serving in the Pacific during World War II and an Air Force pilot in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

In Vietnam, he was McCain's cellmate at one camp known as the Plantation and later in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, where he was often the highest-ranking captive. During his imprisonment, the once-muscular, 5-foot-9 Day was hung by his arms for days, tearing them from their sockets. He was freed in 1973 ? a skeletal figure of the once dashing fighter pilot. His hands and arms never functioned properly again.

"As awful as it sounds, no one could say we did not do well. (Being a POW) was a major issue in my life and one that I am extremely proud of. I was just living day to day," he said in a 2008 interview with The Associated Press. "One really bad cold and I would have been dead."

In a statement Sunday, McCain called Day a great patriot and said he owed his life to the man. "He was the bravest man I ever knew, and his fierce resistance and resolute leadership set the example for us in prison of how to return home with honor," McCain said.

Born Feb. 24, 1925, in Sioux City, Iowa, where the airport is named for him, Day joined the Marines in 1942 while still in high school. He returned home, graduated law school and passed the bar exam in 1949. He entered the Iowa National Guard in 1950 and attended flight school. He was called to active duty in the Air Force the next year and did two tours as a bomber pilot in the Korean war.

In Vietnam, Day was shot down over North Vietnam on Aug. 26, 1967. He bailed out, but the landing broke his knee and his right arm and left him temporarily blinded in one eye.

In the spring of 1968, Day's North Vietnamese captors opened his cell door and brought in McCain, who was wearing a full body cast and was nearly dead. McCain had been in isolation for seven weeks and could not wash or feed himself, Day wrote in "Return With Honor," his 1989 autobiography.

"We were the first Americans he had talked to. ... We were delighted to have him, and he was more than elated to see us," Day wrote. They helped nurse McCain.

After the war and his release, Day retired to the Florida Panhandle in 1977 and practiced law, becoming a crusader for veterans' health care benefits. He took his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 lawsuit that alleged the government reneged on its promise to provide free lifetime health care to hundreds of thousands of Korean and World War II veterans.

The high court declined to hear an appeal of the case brought on behalf of two Panhandle retirees, but the legal action was credited with prompting Congress to pass legislation in 2000 expanding the military's TRICARE health insurance program to include veterans over age 65 who had served at least 20 years or were medically retired.

In his later years, Day also took on Iraq war cases. For example, he represented Army Maj. John Nelson, a medical officer who was wounded when a bomb exploded at a mess hall in Mosul in 2004. Nelson suffered short-term memory loss and spoke with permanent stutter. The Army initially said his injuries merited a 40 percent disability rating. Day, however, persuaded an evaluation board to award full benefits.

"People would stop us in the airports and all over, and we had no idea who they were, and they would say, 'Thank you, you saved my husband's life,' or, 'You saved my wife's life,'" Doris Day said. The couple celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in May.

Day was active in McCain's failed 2000 and 2008 Republican presidential bids and in 2004 campaigned against fellow Vietnam veteran John Kerry. Day called Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, a turncoat who lied to Congress in 1971 about alleged war atrocities.

"I draw a direct comparison to General Benedict Arnold of the Revolutionary War to Lt. John Kerry," Day said in 2004. "Both went off to war, fought, and then turned against their country."

Day's political activism again caused controversy in 2010 when he supported Gov. Charlie Crist in his failed Senate bid. Day called Crist's primary opponent Marco Rubio "a Hispanic who can run his mouth." He referred to President Barack Obama as "the black one."

Day retired from the Air Force at the rank of colonel, never attaining his general's star. He said he believed he wasn't promoted further because he "told it like it was."

"When I returned from prison, there was a huge amount of the Air Force leadership that were not combat-oriented. They were quasi-political managers," he said.

It said it was his tendency for tough talk that kept him out of politics.

"I probably could have been more tempered in some of my remarks but when they asked, I told them," he said.

He and McCain remained close since they first shared that 9 foot by 15 foot cell, and years later he advised the younger Navy man against running for the U.S. Senate.

"When he first said he was going into politics, I said politics is compromise and John had almost zero ability to compromise," Day said.

He said he told McCain politics was like prostitution.

"You have to do a whole bunch of things and then there is a paycheck," he said.

But Day said his friend later changed his mind by becoming a reformer in Congress.

Campaigning for McCain in his 2008 presidential bid, Day drew comparisons between the lessons of Vietnam and the dangers of an early pullout from Iraq.

"They cut off funding to the South Vietnamese Army and we ended up being defeated, and that's really very relevant to what's happening right now," Day said.

Day worked throughout his life, accepting an appointment to head the 35-employee Okaloosa County Public Defender's Office in 2009 at the age of 83 after the Panhandle circuit's newly elected public defender asked him to take the job as a personal favor.

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Nelson-Gabriel reported from Pensacola, Fla.

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South Florida Nigerians aim to build museum, cultural center

On a barren piece of land in Miami Gardens enclosed by a chain link fence, South Florida?s Nigerian community envision a cultural anchor, an African museum that will showcase the richness of their homeland and continent.

The goal is to build an institution that will debunk misconceptions and educate visitors about Africa but also to leave a permanent mark in South Florida.

?Since we are here, we might as well bloom where we are planted,? said Joseph Obadeyi, chairman of the Nigerian American Foundation. ?We are trying to leave some type of legacy for our kids, something we can point to in the future and say, ?Yes, we were here.???

The Nigerian American Foundation, a nonprofit group, led the effort to lease the Miami-Dade County-owned parcel at Northwest 207th Street and 32nd Avenue. The foundation expects to spend $5 million to $6 million to build the center. Under the lease, it will pay $1 to the county per year.

The museum?s success will depend on effective fundraising and planning to meet the lease requirement to have the museum built by 2018. Otherwise the land reverts to the county.

A cultural institution is a sign that a group has made inroads in a community, organizers say.

?It?s taken some time for people to know that there is a Nigerian community down here. But I think people are starting to know who we are,? Obadeyi said. ?Because of our coming together we were able to speak with one voice.?

That meant putting aside ethnic differences to lobby county hall for the land. In Nigeria, there are more than 200 ethnic groups with their own languages and customs. That rich diversity is reflected on a smaller scale among the more than 1,000 Nigerians in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

?People see the value in what we?re doing,? said Miami Gardens councilman Erhabor Ighodaro, a member of the foundation. ?It?s presently surprising that Africanness is not a fad, people are still conscious today. Just like other communities have been able to erect monuments to symbolize their groups, why not the African community??

South Florida?s Nigerian community does not have a home base similar to what Haitians have in Little Haiti and Cubans in Little Havana.

In the late 1970s and ?80s, hundreds of young Nigerians called the Opa-locka and Miami Gardens areas home while they attended Florida Memorial University. At the time, there was talk of renaming an area of Opa-locka Little Lagos, after a populous city in Nigeria, but the idea fizzled and the students dispersed to other communities after graduation.

?There would have been a Little Lagos, but one thing about we Nigerians, once we start to move up, we move,? Obadeyi said.

Nonetheless, there is a central hub just outside of Opa-locka that draws about 100 Nigerian families together each week: Christ Apostolic Church Miami.

The mostly Nigerian parishioners are excited about the proposed museum that will hold African artifacts and artwork. The museum is also slated to have a lecture hall and performing arts center.

On a recent Sunday, the congregation robustly clapped and danced during a service where the women wore traditional, colorful head pieces called geles and the men dressed in flowing agbadas with intricate embroidery.

?When you say Haitian American, they know Haitian American. When it comes to the Nigerian community, they?re not really exposed like the rest of the communities,? said Deaconess Fola Adeleke of Christ Apostolic. ?The rest of the black, the Spanish people are recognized, and we want to be recognized as well.?

And so planning for the museum moves ahead.

?What I would like to see is a real traditional museum of Africans and of those in the diaspora,? High Priest Osemwegie Ebohon said at a recent town hall meeting. ?The building should incorporate designs from palaces and homes of nobility in Africa, not just a regular building.?

Ebohon, a spiritual herbalist who lives in Nigeria, is the founder of Ebohon Cultural Centre, a private museum in Benin City that has loaned artifacts to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale.

During his Miami visit, Ebohon said the African museum will be a historic marker that connects the past and present.

?A museum is a building where you put artifacts telling the history and origins of a people,? he said. ?It?s like a preservation house for their history.?

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/27/3521444/south-florida-nigerians-aim-to.html

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Manager of defunct hedge fund pleads guilty to fraud

By Terry Baynes

(Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager pleaded guilty on Friday to defrauding investors in a $12.6 million scheme, more than five years after the fund collapsed under the weight of failed real estate loans.

Lloyd Barriger, who operated Gaffken & Barriger, a Monticello, New York-based investment fund, pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to charges of securities fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors accused Barriger of bilking more than 70 investors from July 2006 to March 2008 by soliciting millions of dollars for a fund he falsely presented as a safe and liquid investment. He continued to promise investors an 8 percent return, even as the fund defaulted on a $20 million line of credit and held an increasingly delinquent portfolio, according to an indictment filed in February.

"Once again, belief in hedge funds by hopeful investors proved to be sadly misplaced," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "In this case, the perpetrator was not in a sleek Manhattan building but rather in Sullivan County."

Barriger's lawyer, federal defender Mark Gombiner, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Barriger, 57, of Damascus, Pennsylvania, faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, who is overseeing the case, scheduled a sentencing hearing for November 15.

In addition to a prison term, federal prosecutors will seek at least $12.6 million in forfeited assets, representing the proceeds of the charged crimes, the indictment said.

The case is USA v. Barriger, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 11-416.

(Reporting By Terry Baynes in New York; Editing by Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/manager-defunct-hedge-fund-pleads-guilty-fraud-002525003.html

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Ideas ricochet like bullets through Lucien Smith's 'Scrap Metal ...

Lucien Smith was 10 years old when the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado in 1999. He?d barely finished art school when James Holmes opened fire in a theater in Aurora, Colo., and Adam Lanza went on his rampage in Newtown, Conn.

Gun violence is the daily diet of Smith?s generation ? born in the years of the Gulf War and reaching maturity as American troops moved into Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks ? and it?s one of the most hotly debated issues of our time.

Some see guns as nothing but deadly. For others, including participants in the semiannual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in West Point, Ky., guns are also a source of fun.

Remnants of the event are on view in Smith?s exhibit, ?Scrap Metal,? at Bill Brady/KC.

Months ago, when Smith asked Brady to retrieve some of the objects used for target practice at Knob Creek, the artist envisioned the shot-up vehicles and propane tanks as art ? readymades in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp.

Yet when Duchamp introduced a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool as art a century ago, he professed little interest in the aesthetics of these everyday items.

Smith?s ?readymades,? in contrast, with their varied colors and patinas ? at first glance the propane tanks could be easily mistaken for ceramic vessels ? are notable for both their formal beauty and their visceral charge.

The power of Smith?s sculptures stems from their balance of contradictions. They were ?created? in a spirit of fun, but it is difficult not to equate their riddled carcasses with human bodies.

Ideas ricochet like bullets through this show. Displayed with the shot-up propane tanks and a rusted Chevy pickup, Smith?s ink-jet print of an old MasterCard ad with the text, ?It?s a bit like saying please with a gun in your hand,? speaks to a corporate-culture comfort level with guns that is now unthinkable in the aftermath of Newtown and the Trayvon Martin shootings.

American gun culture could not be further removed from the refinement of Japanese sumi-e ink painting, a gap Smith seems to bridge with his use of camouflage patterns to contain the sumi-inspired brushwork of his large paintings in the Brady show. Their splattered drops of black paint set up a formal resonance with the sculptures, echoing the random patterns of the bullet holes.

The paint splatters also bear similarities to the dots of watery foam in Japanese master Hokusai?s woodblock print ?Great Wave Off Kanagawa,? which Smith has cited as an inspiration. The Hokusai influence can also be seen in the wavelike rhythms animating Smith?s swaths of paint, applied with a broom.

Two of the large paintings are titled for Bible verses. Taken from the books of Ecclesiastes and Isaiah, their underlying themes of death and afterlife further bind the paintings to the violent array in the room. As surrogates for guns and religion, the objects and the paintings represent a potent American mix.

Art history sits firmly but lightly on Smith?s shoulders ? Andy Warhol made camouflage paintings; drips and splatters are part of the heritage of abstract expressionism ? and in ?Scrap Metal? he continues his penchant for mixing art historical references with the vernacular.

The manipulated guitars he recently showed at the Half Gallery in New York included one titled for Mark Rothko, whose floating lozenges also come to mind when viewing the shot-up washing machine doors at Brady titled ?Spin Cycle.? Smith admires sumi-ink painting but comes to the discipline not with a brush but a broom.

Smith?s work has been billed as ?a chronicle of exploration as he negotiates with existence? and a reminder that ?an artist?s trajectory is a sensory reflection of individual experience.?

But what makes his work meaningful is the way it channels the broader culture; in this case, bringing us face to face with what guns do, regardless of motivation, and with the gun violence that is entrenched in American culture.

It?s on the news and threaded through our history, books and films. Smith?s blasted pickup truck, for instance, harks to the bullet-ridden Ford V8 driven by Bonnie and Clyde, whose story inspired a film that opened the door for a new era of graphic violence in American movies. Their ?death car? is now enshrined in the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, D.C.

Smith?s title for the pickup ? ?The Sound of the Engine Still Running and for the Last Time They Locked Eyes, Together Again in the End? ? invites the viewer to invent a narrative. But the truck?s appearance ensures that the narrative will feature a quintessentially American ending: death by guns.

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/26/4367438/art-review-ideas-ricochet-like.html

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Saturday 27 July 2013

A Century-Old Roman Palazzo Grows a Faceted Glass-and-Steel Parasite

We?ve talked about top-down demolition?where building are deconstructed one floor at a time, ending at the ground?before. But a newly-completed building in Rome, by Italian studio Fuksas, puts a twist on the concept: The old building?s facade was perfectly preserved.

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Kodak ScanMate i940 Scanner for Macintosh Computers

Kodak recently launched its ScanMate i940 Scanner for Macintosh Computers, the OS X counterpart to the Windows-based Kodak ScanMate i940 Scanner, an Editors' Choice. It's a welcome addition, as Mac-specific scanners are not easy to find. In our testing, although it was well short of its rated speed when under AC power, it was nonetheless fast for a portable scanner, and it lost little time when I switched to scanning to searchable PDF from image PDF. Although it's primarily a portable scanner, its 20-page automatic document feeder (ADF) and duplex scanning capability make it useful for light desktop use as well.

At 3.1 by 11.4 by 4.2 inches (HWD) and 2.9 pounds, it is large and heavy for a portable scanner. It has a 20-page automatic document feeder (ADF), and supports duplex (2-sided) scanning. It can scan both business cards and thick plastic cards in addition to paper documents up to 8.5 by 60 inches.

As befitting its dual nature as a desktop and portable scanner, you can power the i940 for Macintosh either from an AC adapter or from your computer's power over a USB cable. (You can add a second USB cable for additional power.) Once it's plugged in, to start the scanner you just open the lid; you'll see a blue LED-lit number to identify the current scan profile. There are also two arrow keys: an up arrow for cycling through the profiles, and a right arrow, the scan button, which is illuminated in green when you're ready to scan. After 15 minutes of inactivity, the scanner will go into power saver mode, and the lights will go out. To turn the scanner off, you simply close the cover.

Software
I tested the i940 for Macintosh on a 13-inch MacBook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion. Apart from OS compatibility, what differentiates a Mac scanner from a Windows model is the included software. The Mac version comes with NewSoft Presto! PageManager 9 for document management and NewSoft Presto! BizCard Xpress for business card management, plus a Twain driver.

In contrast, the Windows-only i940 includes the Kodak SmartTouch scan utility and NewSoft Presto! BizCard 6 plus Twain, WIA, and ISIS drivers?which let you scan from Windows programs that include a scan command?but no document management program. Both PageManager 9 and the SmartTouch scan utility have built-in optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities.

In PageManager you can adjust the settings for the scan button profiles, which include Scan to PageManager; Scan to BizCard Xpress; Scan to Folder; Scan to Mail; Copy to Print; Scan to OCR; Scan to PDF; Scan to Google Docs; and Scan to Evernote. Output formats include TIFF, JPEG, RTF, BMP, PDF, and searchable PDF. I launched the scans from the scan button icon on the program's top menu.

Performance
When using the scanner under AC power, I timed it at 12 pages per minute (ppm) in scanning and saving a 10-page document to image PDF in black-and-white at the default 200 ppi using PageManager. Although well short of its rated 20ppm speed, that's still a very good speed for a portable scanner. Switching to duplex (two-sided) scanning, I timed it in scanning a 10-page document to image PDF at 11 ppm/22 ipm.

In scanning and saving the 10-page simplex document to searchable PDF, I clocked it at 1 minute 5 seconds, a little slower than scanning to image PDF but still a strong score in that many scanners lose a lot of time in the OCR phase.

I also tried scanning to image PDF solely under USB power (a second supplied USB cable plugs into the scanner's power jack); in my testing it slowed to 7 ppm for simplex and 7 ppm/14 ipm for duplex scanning, which is still faster than most portable scanners, and it nearly matches Kodak's rated speed for USB-powered scanning (8 ppm).

OCR
Using the OCR function in PageManager to scan to RTF format was a disappointment. There was at least one error in all fonts (including the standard Times New Roman and Ariel) even at the largest sizes, and it also had trouble in formatting the scanned pages. This is in line with what we've seen with other (Windows-based) scanners that used the OCR function in PageManager.

I scanned a stack of business cards to Presto! BizCard Xpress, which did a passable job of reading and sorting the data. Although nearly all the cards had spelling errors (and in some cases items were mis-sorted), it's still a good bit better than keying in the data yourself.

As the Kodak ScanMate i940 Scanner for Macintosh Computers is the first scanner we've tested using Mac hardware and software, we can't do any "Apples to Apples" comparisons to other scanners we've tested. I can say that although its performance didn't match its Windows counterpart, it was still very respectable for a portable scanner, and it is well worth a look by Mac users in search of a scanning solution.

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Your Top Plays for Today: AP's Sports Guide

--A-ROD AND YANKEES FEUD AGAIN AS RELATIONSHIP DETERIORATES FURTHER

The deteriorating relationship between the New York Yankees and injured star Alex Rodriguez lurches again in dispute over his comeback from injury.

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--USAIN BOLT SAYS HE'S CLEAN AMID JAMAICA DOPING CASES

As his fellow Jamaican track stars face doping charges, sprinter Usain Bolt insists he's running clean.

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--NOW TENNIS IN EYE OF DOPING STORM AS TROICKI IS BANNED

The recent slew of doping cases in world sport spread to tennis on Thursday as Serbia's Viktor Troicki is banned for 18 months for refusing blood tests.

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--ONE YEAR AFTER OLYMPICS, LONDON STADIUM GETS EXPENSIVE NEW ROOF

Just a year after the end of the London Olympics, the main stadium is getting an expensive, larger new roof.

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--RED BULL AUDITIONS THE SUB-PLOT AT F1 HUNGARIAN GP

Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen and Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo will be under scrutiny at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix as they vie for the vacant 2014 drive at Red Bull.

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George Zimmerman "Got Away With Murder" of Trayvon Martin, Juror Says

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Police: Warrant seeks wife of bounty hunter 'Dog'

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) ? Police in Colorado say an arrest warrant has been issued for the wife of TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman after she was accused of verbally harassing a teenager.

Attorneys for Beth Chapman say she did nothing wrong.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Thursday (http://tinyurl.com/lvftfyw ) that police in Monument, north of Colorado Springs, couldn't reach Chapman to issue a summons, so they obtained the warrant.

Chapman's Colorado attorney, Gary Lozow, says she will cooperate with police and expects to be exonerated.

Police Lt. Steve Burk says the alleged harassment took place July 10 at a lake. He declined to provide details.

The Chapmans appear on the CMT show "Dog and Beth: On the Hunt." They own a home in Castle Rock.

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Friday 26 July 2013

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Barefeet In The Kitchen: Family Camping Trip 2013

My family got together a couple weekends ago for our Annual Family Camping Trip to Woods Canyon Lake. With 5 brothers, 2 sisters and all the spouses, nieces and nephews included in that group, a camping trip is the perfect way to all get together each summer. The kids run all over the campsite, building forts and playing games; while the grown-ups play board games, chat, laugh and enjoy the cooler weather as much as possible. The men spent their mornings fishing and my brother in law was awesome enough to send me some pics of my man. (Thanks, Jason!)

We were a smaller group than usual, but 24 people is still a crowd. Same as in past years, in lieu of preparing a breakfast or dinner for the entire group, I was responsible for bringing along plenty of desserts to share at night. I baked the week before the trip and took the family's favorite Monster Cookies, Brownies, and a few new treats that I'll be sharing recipes for over the next couple weeks.

We played in the water at Canyon Creek on our last afternoon and it was our favorite day of our trip. The kids splashed their hearts out and the adults enjoyed the chance to cool down. Of course, after we all cooled down, it started to rain and then proceeded to turn into a downpour complete with rivers through our tents. We wound up packing our gear and heading out that night instead of in the morning.

We spent a week at our cabin immediately following the camping trip. My husband hardly took a break all week as he was installing new windows and working on some other projects around the property. Our little home away from home has been in progress for over two years now and I love that it is coming together so beautifully. The sky was gorgeous the entire week we were there and I found myself clicking pictures of it almost every time we went for a walk.

I just realized I've never shared any cabin pictures here on the blog. If I get ambitious, I may dig out some before and after pictures one of these days. Let's just say, the place used to be a scary sight! I miss my cute kitchen already. However, as much fun as it is to get away, it is even nicer to be home again!

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Thursday 25 July 2013

Nokia 1020 Review: At Last a Terrific Camera in a Great Phone

The Nokia 1020 represents something fairly remarkable: the nearly flawless melding of a smartphone and a camera. The assumption up until now was that while such a mash-up wasn't strictly impossible, it would surely require a laundry list of unpleasant compromises. Instead, what we've got is an entirely new kind of gadget. One that, most remarkably of all, works as advertised.