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Monday, July 1, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg ?Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights [Pictures]
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had over 700 employees at pride. Here are some of our favorite photos of tech companies celebrating equal rights at Pride?Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SMTWn8Nh5dE/
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Bloody shows more about monster than gore
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Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan on "Dexter."
Summer is about to get really bloody! The return of "Dexter's" eighth and final season on June 30 means that viewers not only get their favorite blood-spatter analyst/vigilante serial killer back, they also get all the messes he helps investigate and of course, create.
"Dexter" leaves behind quite a few bloody murders each year, and its final season will no doubt have more of the same. But even as the Dark Passenger prepares to say goodbye, new creepy baddies -- including Hannibal Lecter -- have started stepping up to fill his bloody spot.
"Vampires and werewolves, those are always going to be cycling in and out. But then what is the scariest thing that is also a real possibility for people in their minds? The serial killer!" said Melanie McFarland, IMDb.com's TV editor. "The serial killer is a real life boogeyman."
And where there are murderers, whether they be supernatural or not, there will be blood. McFarland said that violence -- which tends to come with a bit of the red stuff -- in TV "has been upping the ante for a long time across the board," and not all of it is from killers such as Dexter.
"It's less about the blood than it is about the monster," she added.
Here are eight shows beyond "Dexter" -- both established and newer -- and their own monsters that leave viewers seeing red:
'Hannibal'
One of the new serial killers to come to the small screen is an oldie but goodie: Hannibal Lecter. This time he's played by Mads Mikkelsen in the new NBC drama, which premiered in April. Given the nature of Hannibal's many, many crimes -- not to mention the other murderers who make appearances -- it's no wonder the program might induce more than a few dry heaves. There are nearly decapitated heads (at the jaw, not neck!), women impaled on antlers, whole strips of skin ripped off from a living body, dismembered body parts and much more. As unappetizing as that sounds, the drama then tries to make viewers hungry by showing Hannibal cooking up some lavish meals that look nothing short of scrumptious -- until you remember his meat of choice.
'The Following'
Another new serial killer who reared his charming head this year was "The Following's" Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), an English professor and failed novelist who built a massive network of cult followers while imprisoned for the the murders of 14 female students. Carroll's crimes -- inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe -- were hardly romantic, and neither was the work of his devotees. The network of murderers left behind bodies with eyeballs removed, victims burned alive and even a basement full of tortured dogs.
'American Horror Story'
The warning is right in the FX drama's title: It's a "horror story," and horror stories are quite often scary and gory -- two things that are true of this program. The first season featured several murders along with bloody ghosts and a disfigured baby zombie thing. Season two offered up a tale in an insane asylum in the 1960s, where a Nazi doctor performed gruesome experiments on the residents, and also had a serial killer who seemed to take inspiration from "The Silence of the Lambs," killing women for their soft, supple skin. Oh, and he has a present day son who likes to follow in Daddy's bloody footsteps.
'Breaking Bad'
It's no surprise the drug trade would involve crime and blood. But the gore on "Breaking Bad" sometimes comes along with a science lesson too. Several bodies have been disposed of by using hydrofluoric acid to "melt" them, leaving bloody, gloopy messes in barrels, unaffected by the solution. (Except for that one time in the bathtub.) Beyond that, there's the gun violence, and who could forget the explosion that left Gus Fring with half a face?
'True Blood'
Blood and gore are just part of the landscape in Bon Temps. Vampires drink blood; they cry blood; and it leaks from their eyes and ears if they don't get a good day's rest. Heck, each time a vamp falls to the true death, there's a virtual explosion red, goopy remains. But even with all the bites, neck breaks and extreme violence the night crawlers are capable of, "True Blood's" werewolves are able to ramp up the gross-outs even more. It's bad enough when the weres go in for the kill in their canine form, but it's positively stomach churning when they revert to their human states to (respectfully) devour a dead member of the pack. At least the fairies give viewers a break -- at their most brutal, they're still just lobbing balls of light around.
'The Walking Dead'
Shows just don't get more violent than this AMC hit, wherein characters routinely machete, smash and crossbow their way through crowds of undead threats. But don't take our word -- or that of any violence-loathing watchdog group -- for it. A recent study conducted by Funeralwise.com revealed that the show racked up a higher body count than any other small screen offering last season with approximately 38 deaths -- per episode! Of course, the vast majority of those killed were technically already dead.
'Sons of Anarchy'
The scariest thing about the bloody violence on "Sons of Anarchy" is just how real it seems. There aren't any vampires or zombies here. The monsters that commit the savage acts on "Anarchy" are all too human. Bikers obsessed with backstabbing, betrayal and paybacks punish each other (and each other's loved ones and innocent bystanders) in savage-yet-mundane ways. Head shots and beatings account for much of the death toll, but the occasional act of extra brutality (like the revenge torching of Tig's daughter) adds a shocking, gut-wrenching twist.
'Game of Thrones'
Beheadings? Check. Disembowelings? Check. Consuming a freshly plucked horse heart? Unfortunately, check. When it comes to jaw-dropping scenes of death and destruction, "Game of Thrones" has it all. In fact, it has something more -- a gruesome bonus. In addition to the violence, it packs an emotional blow. Sure, seeing random warriors fall in battle might make some viewers wince. And seeing a baddie lose an appendage is tough stuff too. But none of that compares to seeing more than one beloved character come to a horrific, blood-spurting end -- at the same time.
Which TV show do you think is the goriest? Click on "Talk about it" below and share your thoughts!
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/dexter-hannibal-more-about-monster-all-blood-6C10442405
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Home price gains bring sellers off the sidelines
SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Robert and Emerald Oravec were itching to sell their condominium late last year to move closer to a favorite surfing spot, but they were stuck. They owed the bank $194,000 and figured the most they could get was $180,000.
When they put their San Diego home up for sale a few months later, they fielded five offers within two weeks. It sold for $260,000 in May, allowing them to invest profits in a new home that's more than twice the size on a large lot and 40 minutes closer to the surfing beach.
"We're stoked," said Robert, 50, a facilities engineer at Solar Turbines Inc., a maker of gas turbines that has employed him for the last 22 years. "It was better to be patient and wait it out."
Soaring prices are leaving fewer homeowners owing more money than their properties are worth, bringing them off the sidelines of the nation's surging housing market and offering relief to buyers who are frustrated by bidding wars. As more homes are put up for sale, price increases are expected to moderate.
Mark Fleming, chief economist at real estate data provider CoreLogic Inc., calls it "a virtuous circle."
"The fact that house prices have increased so dramatically ... has unlocked a lot of that pent-up supply," said Fleming, whose firm found that markets with the largest percentage of "underwater" or "upside down" mortgages often have the lowest supply of homes for sale.
From January to March, 19.8 percent of the nation's mortgaged homes were underwater, down from 23.7 percent a year earlier and 25 percent during the same period of 2011, according to CoreLogic. Gains spread across the country, though regions that rose high and crashed hard remained saddled with homeowners who bought near the peak.
Nevada had a nation-high 45.4 percent of mortgages underwater, followed by Florida at 38.1 percent, Michigan at 32 percent and Arizona at 31.4 percent. Montana had a nation-low 5.6 percent.
Among major metropolitan areas, Tampa Bay had a nation-high 41.1 percent of mortgaged homes underwater, followed by Miami at 40.7 percent. Dallas had a nation-low 8.3 percent.
San Diego, at 19.5 percent, was slightly better than the national rate and California's 21.3 percent. The region's median home sale price hit $406,500 in May, up 21.3 percent from a year earlier amid brisk sales, according to DataQuick.
Housing inventories remain unusually low. There was a 5.2-month supply of existing, single-family homes for sale in May, compared to 6.4 months a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. California had only a 2.6-month supply, compared to 3.6 months a year earlier and well below the six months that is considered a balanced market.
San Diego broker Colleen Cotter began knocking on doors this year after scouring property records to find homeowners who didn't owe money. If someone answers, she makes an all-cash bid on behalf of investors who don't even visit.
Nearly one of three homes sold in Southern California is paid for in cash, putting borrowers at a disadvantage. Some buyers write sellers about how they would cherish a home, hoping to spark a personal connection.
Josh Martin, 26, discovered homes he and wife considered buying had changed hands less than a year earlier at much lower prices. The first-time homebuyers lost nine bids since August? many to cash buyers ? until finally landing a home in May for $250,000 in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista.
"It was very stressful because the prices just kept going up," said Martin, who recently left the Marine Corps. "Our lease was about to end and we didn't want to sign another year."
Economists expect many homeowners will continue to resist selling because they think they can profit more by waiting.
Nancy Randazzo, a 38-year-old public school teacher who owes about $240,000 on an Anaheim condominium that she bought for $335,000 in 2005, figures she might be able to sell for what she owes but wants to rent to Disneyland tourists. One potential snag is that she and her fiancee would need to find a place to buy.
"Prices are going up so fast that I don't know if I can," she said.
The huge price increases produced an unexpected retirement gift for Larry and Diane Plaster, who were resigned in January to selling their San Diego home for less than they owed the bank, known as a short sale. They owed $352,000 but accepted an offer for $290,000.
Their bank rejected the deal four months later, leading the couple to put the home up for sale again. On the second attempt, they took an all-cash offer of $380,000, yielding a windfall of $6,500 after broker fees and closing costs. The Plasters, who live on Social Security income, fulfilled a dream of moving to a geodesic dome they built in Janesville, 130 miles north of Lake Tahoe.
The former Catholic social service workers were so angry when Chase rejected the short sale that they closed their account after more than 40 years.
"Now I guess I should send them a thank-you note," said Diane, 66.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-price-gains-bring-sellers-off-sidelines-140703042.html
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Washington area religion events
Saturday, 7 p.m.: U.S. Army Brass Quintet performs ?God Bless America,? ?Songs of the Soldier,? ?Grand Old Flag? and other favorites. U.S. Army Band (?Pershing?s Own?) will perform the third movement of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. Free. 7 p.m. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Washington D.C. Temple Visitors? Center, 9900 Stoneybrook Dr., Kensington. Free. 301-588-0650.
Saturday, 8 p.m.: ?Cathedral, Court & Countryside,? an early music festival. Performances by Arco Voce, Armonia Nova, BHB, Ensemble Gaudior, Illuminaire, Modern Musick, the Suspicious Cheese Lords and the Vivaldi Project. Everyone gets a door prize. St. Mark?s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, Third and A streets SE. $40; students, $20. 202-543-0053 or www.stmarks.net.
Sunday, 10 a.m.: The annual ?Blessing of the Dogs,? will be held. Take your leashed dog. Front steps of National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Cir. NW. Free. 202-232-0323.
Sunday, 10:10 a.m.: Cathedral Dean Gary Hall leads a discussion, ?Connecting Mission to Vision.? Questions and suggestions from the congregation are welcome. Washington National Cathedral, South Transept, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. Free. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org.
Sunday, 11 a.m.: The Rev. Peter Storey, a prominent South African Methodist, will preach on the topic, ?Journeying Together to Healing.? Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-347-9620 or www.mvpumc.org.
Sunday, 11 a.m.-noon: An art show reception. Show includes photography, monotypes, multimedia works, pastels, oils and acrylics. Works by seasoned artists and beginners. River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Rd., Bethesda. Free. 301-229-0400 or www.rruuc.org.
Sunday, 11 a.m.: Service of song. Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 North Capitol St. NE. Free-will offering. 202-723-5330.
Sunday, 2 p.m.: Cathedral docents lead an in-depth tour for ages 10 and older to view windows and carvings that recall the American Civil War and its influence on the nation. Washington National Cathedral, West End Docent Station, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. Free. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org.
Sunday, 7 p.m.: Luzerner antorei, a 55-voice youth choir from Switzerland, performs European sacred music from the Renaissance to the present. Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, 1400 Quincy St. NE. Free. 202-526-6800, Ext. 374, or www.myfranciscan.com.
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New Jersey's Christie vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
(Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday, in an apparent reversal of position for the presumed 2016 Republican presidential hopeful.
Christie's office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement.
Among the bills he vetoed was a Medicaid expansion under the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law known as Obamacare.
Republicans have repeatedly tried to overturn the law since regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 election, making its repeal a centerpiece of their political opposition to the Democratic president.
While that has failed because Democrats still hold a majority in the Senate, many states led by Republicans have attempted to undermine the law by refusing to expand Medicaid, a program created by the federal government and administered by the states to pay for medical services for the poor.
Under Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal government is offering to pay states 100 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid for three years beginning in 2014, declining to 90 percent in subsequent years.
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obama's healthcare overhaul but allowed states to opt out of a provision expanding the Medicaid program.
Christie, a critic of Obamacare, said in February he would accept federal money to expand Medicaid in New Jersey because if he did not the money would go to other states.
The governor's press office did not immediately respond to requests to explain his apparent change.
Earlier this month, researchers said 14 Republican-led states that oppose expanding Medicaid under would leave 3.6 million of their poorest adult residents uninsured, at a cost of $9.4 billion per year by 2017.
The findings, published in the journal Health Affairs on June 3, did not include New Jersey among those 14 states.
Christie has emerged as a leading voice in the Republican Party and is seen as serious contender for the 2016 Republican nomination, should he decide to run. He is running for re-election as governor this year.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jerseys-christie-vetoes-medicaid-expansion-bill-234624492.html
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Editor's Letter: More than a point release
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
This week is Microsoft's time to shine. Its Build conference, typically held later in the year, kicked off on Wednesday and along with it came a lot more about Windows 8.1 -- which we thought we already knew plenty about, honestly. But there was more to learn, including a new milestone for the Windows Store: 100,000 apps. Well, almost 100,000 apps. Steve Ballmer said the store was "approaching" that number and has racked up "hundreds of millions" of downloads. A bit of a far cry from Apple's 50 billion, but hey, it's early days yet.
More interesting to me is the inclusion of native 3D-printing support in Windows 8.1. Good 'ol 2D printers were certainly common before the traditional driver came into standard practice, but that market didn't really take off until they effectively became plug and play. One could say it's perhaps a bit early for that kind of native support to be needed in Windows for a 3D printer, but better too soon than too late.
Filed under: Misc
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Dead island that inspired Skyfall comes to Google Street View (video)
It goes by the name of Hashima, or Gunkanjima ("Battleship Island"), or even "The Dead Island", since it inspired the water-locked cyberterrorist HQ in Skyfall. As you can see for yourself, courtesy of the new Google Street View (and official "making of" video) embedded after the break, it's a very a real place off the coast of Japan's Nagasaki Peninsula, and it's even lonelier than its fictional counterpart in the Bond film (which wasn't actually filmed there). There are no tourist offices or giant Oedipus Complexes, as far as we can see, just long stretches of overgrown roads and collapsing apartment blocks that once housed 5,000 people, before they abandoned the island in 1974 following the demise of its coal industry. It took a Google employee two hours to map the place and preserve its crumbling visage for posterity using a special backpack, but don't be surprised if you want to leave it after just a few minutes.
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Source: Google's Japanese Blog
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Utah state senator proposes to longtime partner
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? An openly gay Utah state senator didn't just give a speech at a party celebrating two Supreme Court victories for gay rights ? he took to the stage to propose to his longtime boyfriend.
Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis popped the question to partner Stephen Justesen Wednesday at a rainbow flag-draped rally at Salt Lake City's Club Sound. The two met 26 years ago.
"Stephen, after all these years, will you marry me?" Dabakis said over the whoops of an approving crowd.
Dabakis, who took office earlier this year, is an art dealer and founding chair of the Utah Pride Center. In 2011, he became the first openly gay person to lead a state party in Utah.
Just hours after the high court on Wednesday struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage between a man and a woman, and cleared the way for same-sex unions in California, Dabakis stepped on stage at the celebration.
He opened by saying the gay marriage issue was "very deeply, deeply personal" for him, and introduced the crowd to "a wonderful man" he met nearly three decades ago.
That's when Dabakis pulled out a ring he said he'd purchased that day and put it on Justensen's finger.
Justesen told the crowd Dabakis had given him a different ring years ago that he still wears, but "this is super fantastic to have another one."
Dabakis told The Salt Lake Tribune the proposal was a spur-of-the-moment decision and a wedding date hasn't been set.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/utah-state-senator-proposes-longtime-partner-171219451.html
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Zach Braff to star in 'Bullets Over Broadway'
NEW YORK (AP) ? Zach Braff will make his Broadway debut next year in a musical adaptation of Woody Allen's crime caper "Bullets Over Broadway." The only person who might be more excited than Braff is his dad.
"If my father loved two things most, it was Woody Allen movies and Broadway musicals," Braff said by phone from Los Angeles. "When I called my father, I said, 'Are you sitting down?'"
Written by Allen and Douglas McGrath, the story follows a struggling young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama. Braff will play the hero, portrayed by John Cusack in the 1994 film.
"It's thrilling," Braff says. "I keep waking up expecting it to be a dream."
Five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the show, which will start performances in March 2014 at the St. James Theatre. The show will feature a full orchestra playing music of the 1920s.
The musical sees Braff return to his acting roots: He played Allen's son in one scene when he was 18 in the film "Manhattan Murder Mystery" before going to Northwestern University to study film.
"If you would have asked me a couple months ago 'What are your dreams as an actor?' I would have said, 'I'd love to do a Broadway musical one day and I'd love to work with Woody Allen again.' When I got the call from Woody and Susan Stroman, my head sort of exploded."
The rest of the cast will be made up of Vincent Pastore ("The Sopranos"), Betsy Wolfe ("The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), Lenny Wolpe ("The Drowsy Chaperone") and Helene Yorke ("Grease").
Braff grew up in northern New Jersey and caught the performing bug from his father, a lawyer who did community theater for fun. Though he's never done musical theater professionally, Braff often sang as the daydreaming Dr. John "J.D." Dorian on "Scrubs" and he won a Grammy Award for best compilation soundtrack for "Garden State." He says he's already started working with a vocal coach.
After "Scrubs," Braff filmed the dark indie "High Cost of Living" and acted in the off-Broadway play "Trust" and had a part in Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful."
Braff also penned a play of his own, "All New People," his first piece of original writing since the 2004 film "Garden State," his sweet ode to disillusionment starring himself and Natalie Portman. "All New People" had a run off-Broadway in 2011 and was later mounted in London, with Braff starring.
Braff this spring turned to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to raise $2 million in three days to fund his film, "Wish I Was Here" a follow-up to "Garden State." He says he'll work on the film for the rest of the year before hitting Broadway, and he hopes "Wish I Was Here," which he co-wrote with his brother Adam, will be due out in the fall of 2014.
In the meantime, he has a date with Broadway. It's something his father might be interested in, too. "I said to Woody, 'He'll be there more than you.' I said, 'I might need a cot for my father between the matinees and the evening show.'"
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Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zach-braff-star-bullets-over-broadway-191006674.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Prince Jackson tears up recalling dad's death
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June 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM ET
Michael Jackson's 16-year-old son's bloodshot eyes welled up with tears Wednesday when he told a Los Angeles jury that when his father died in a hospital emergency room four years ago, the singer's personal physician simply turned to Jackson's three children and said, "Sorry, kids, Dad's dead."
Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince, was the first member of the Jackson family to take the stand in the Los Angeles Superior Court wrongful death and negligence suit that his grandmother filed against concert promoter AEG Live. At the time of his death, Jackson, 50, was in the middle of rehearsals for his "This is It" comeback tour in London. The lawsuit alleges that AEG was responsible for hiring Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, as Jackson's doctor.
Jackson's eldest son remained composed as he spoke of the special relationship he and his siblings had with their father and described in detail the confusing days before the King of Pop died, and the impact of his death on the lives of his children.
"It will never be the same," said the teen who lives with his grandmother, a cousin, and siblings in Calabasas, Calif. He talked about how challenging life has been for his 15-year-old sister, Paris, who is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after a suicide attempt on June 5. He said his 11-year-old brother, Prince Michael Jackson, known as Blanket, "is so young he doesn't realize what he lost" and that he and Paris no longer celebrate their birthdays.
"She was hit the hardest," he said. "She was my dad's princess. She is definitely dealing with it in her own way."
In telling stories about his life, Prince made himself sound like any other teenager. He just completed his sophomore year of private high school, and is currently taking a U.S. history class in summer school. He is an honor student, has played football and basketball, and takes martial arts. He also loves to build robots and volunteers reading books to sick children.
He can't sing and he can't play an instrument, he noted, and added that his father suggested he could become an actor. But he never knew how famous his father was until he was gone.
"We always listened to his music but we didn't know he was famous," Prince said. His father made the children wear protective masks when they were out so they wouldn't be recognized.
"When I was little, the masks were annoying," he said. "It was hot and the feathers were always in my face but now that I'm older, I understand why he did it."
Prince Jackson only saw his father perform live once. He said his dad was "very excited about the concert because we would get to see him perform." But his father wished he had more time to rehearse, and after phone calls with "AEG people," usually chief executive officer Randy Phillips, "Prince said his dad would be in tears saying, 'They're gonna kill me. They're gonna kill me."
The teen recalled that while preparing for the 2009 tour, his father would sometimes come down the stairs and be "freezing cold" and "not strong enough." Jackson looked "malnourished," his son said.
On the day of his father's death, Prince Jackson testified that the family chef screamed at him that Murray wanted him upstairs. No employees, except for Murray, were allowed upstairs.
"My dad was hanging halfway off the bed and his eyes were rolling back in his head," he testified. "Murray was doing CPR. My sister was screaming the whole time saying she wants her daddy. I was waiting at the bottom of the stairs crying." When they got to the hospital, he told his sister, "Angels were watching over us," and tried to remain optimistic, but then Murray delivered the news that their father had suffered a heart attack.
The teen testified that he sometimes gave money to "Dr. Conrad" as instructed by his father because Murray would not take payments from Jackson himself and AEG would not pay him. "He didn't always take the cash and if he did, he only took a portion."
"He was supposed to make my dad healthy," he said.
Prince Jackson testified that the siblings are doing the best they can without their father, and that he missses him "a lot every day."
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/michael-jacksons-son-tears-court-he-recalls-dads-death-6C10452622
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avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus (for Android)
If you've been saving yourself for the free Android security suite that does just about everything, then friend, have I got a deal for you. avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus (free, Google Play) is from the familiar name in free PC and Mac antivirus, and packed with a huge array of powerful tools and fine-grained controls. These benefits outweigh its cluttered interface and lockscreen issues to take the Editors' Choice for free Android security apps.It stands next to Bitdefender?Mobile Security and Antivirus, our Editors' Choice for paid subscription Android security apps.
Anti-Malware
In truth, anti-malware is not where the Android security begins and ends. It's very unlikely that you'll encounter malicious software on your phone, but it is generally foremost on the minds of consumers.
When AV-Test rated avast! in June 2013, they found that the software detected 100% of the 2,545 samples the company used. Even better, AV-Test reports that it had no false-positive detections. This is a marked improvement over the previous test, which rated avast! slightly lower and with only half the sample size.
PC Mag relies on third-party testing labs for information about the accuracy of Android security app malware scans.
In my testing, I noticed that the accuracy came at a price. avast! took 66.06 seconds to scan just the apps on my Samsung Galaxy S III , and a whopping 132.2 seconds to scan apps and files. This is on par with TrustGo Antivirus and Mobile Security, but far longer than TrendMicro Mobile Security & Antivirus. Bitdefender?uses ultra-speedy cloud scanning that completes a scan in just over 10 seconds. Though the scans are long, avast! plays nice with other apps. With a scan running in the background along with 12 other apps, I didn't see any stuttering while playing Minecraft.
Also, though the scan is slower, it can be performed at any time and checks every file on your device. Bitdefender's cloud-based approach only focuses on executable files, and needs an internet connection to scan. Their approach is to only focus on the files that could be a threat, and is far more targeted than avast!'s brute-force approach. That said, avast! is well-positioned to guard against new threats that use novel attack vectors we've yet to imagine. It's also good for the kind of user who roots their device and side-loads everything.
avast! will also keep an ever-vigilant eye on your device, warning you as soon as it detects something it doesn't like. This includes during a malware scan; the app triggers an alert as soon as it detects something, and you can uninstall the offending app and pick up the scan where you left off.
Though many security apps can scan all the files on your device, avast! goes one step further with the File Shield. When active, File Shield will scan every file when used, either read from or written to. It's cool, but totally overkill and turned off by default as it eats into battery life.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/SFwNZ7FVUZE/0,2817,2421101,00.asp
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Kerry pledges US help for India's massive higher ed needs
US Secretary of State John Kerry signed eight memoranda of understanding on education with his Indian counterparts.
At right, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to Minister of Human Resources Development Pallam Raju, while attending the India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue in New Delhi, India on Tuesday, June 25.
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EnlargeOn a visit to India, US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed today for greater bilateral cooperation on higher education, stating that his host's education system is facing "gigantic challenges."
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With the world's advanced economies facing a graying workforce, India will head into the next decade with a median age of 29 and two-thirds of its people of working age. That's a huge potential boon for India ? but only if those workers are educated. Currently, only 18 percent of its youth get any higher education.?
Addressing the third round of the Singh-Obama Knowledge Initiative in Delhi, Secretary Kerry announced eight institutional partnerships and pledged to help with skill development of Indian youth. "We need to make sure that next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs have the skills and training," he said.
India had set itself a goal of?building 1,000 universities and 50,000 colleges in this decade, something the Monitor devoted a cover story?last year to exploring. Given the enormity of that task in a short time frame, the country is also looking for quicker, less traditional means of spreading post-secondary education including online education and community colleges. For the latter, India is looking to the US as a model, with plans of establishing 200 large American-style community colleges.
"The quality of higher education in India is a matter of concern and cooperation with the United States can help with that. We seek to increase our higher education enrollment ratio to 30 percent by 2020 and skill development will be a key part of it," says Ashok Thakur, secretary of higher education in the Indian government.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Obama had announced their joint Initiative in November 2009, pledging $5 million each for higher education cooperation through projects that will work on educational reform, foster economic growth, generate shared knowledge to address global challenges, and develop junior faculty at Indian and American institutions of higher learning.?
The eight memoranda of understanding signed between the two countries today included the Harvard-India Nutrition Initiative between Harvard School of Public Health and St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore; between Aligarh Muslim University and Ohio State University, and between Assam Agricultural University and Washington State University.
Next month, new Indian rules will go into effect that open the door to US universities opening campuses in India. The offer is only open to the most prestigious nonprofit institutions, which will diminish the impact of the ruling.?
In the area of online education, India is laying a high-bandwidth network of fiber optic cables between the nation's top universities. Officials here are looking to the US for ideas on how to deliver high-quality lessons online. A memorandum of understanding signed today between the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will bring to India the edX online course platform founded by MIT along with Harvard University. edX offers free university-level courses worldwide.?
The United States is also encouraging its students to study in India's elite educational institutions. There are currently 5,000 American students in Indian Universities, and the number is expected to triple in the next five years. Yet that number is a fraction of those heading to more mature and internationally recognized institutions in Europe.
"Ultimately India has to focus on institution building and giving its students the best teachers,"??says Prof. Yash Pal, who chaired a 2009 commission that advised structural changes in India's higher education system. "There's only so much that outsiders can help."
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Police dog killed, officer shot in Indiana standoff
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News
A K-9 officer was shot and killed in Sellersburg, Indiana at the start of a nine-hour police standoff with a man who fled from and shot at?officers trying to serve him with a warrant on Monday, police said.
Sellersburg police officers approached a man with a warrant and he ran away and then fired several shots, said Sellersburg Police Trooper Brock McCooe. The shots?hit a police dog and a deputy.
The human officer was shot in the leg and was in stable condition at a nearby hospital, but the K-9 officer was fatally wounded, said McCooe.
According to NBC affiliate Wave 3 News, the dog's name was Kilo, and he had assisted with numerous drug busts.
The suspect ran into a house? that was empty at the time and barricaded himself inside, officials said.
Judy Frazier lives three houses away from where the suspect holed up, and said she had not been able to leave her own home for most of the afternoon and evening.
?The SWAT teams are on roofs they?re in yards, they?re everywhere,? she said while the standoff continued.
McCooe said the suspect finally responded to commands through a loudspeaker a little after 9:30 p.m. ?He just walked out and gave up,? he said.
In a statement following the suspect?s surrender, Sellersburg Police Chief Russ Whelan said the man came out of a closet and then emerged out of the backdoor wearing a torn up t-shirt and his boxer shorts. He was unarmed and not injured even though Whelan said police had thrown about 40 tear gas canisters into the house.
?Now the work starts as far as processing the scene and collecting the evidence and building our case,? said Whelan.
Authorities on Monday night had not yet released the name of the captured man.
The wounded officer, Chris Proctor, is a member of the Clark County SWAT team, who were early to the scene to assist Sellersburg police. Clark County Sheriff Daniel Rodden said Proctor will have surgery on his knee on Tuesday morning but is ?in good spirits.?
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Monday, June 17, 2013
An aquarium without the mess
When I was a little kid, we had a large fish tank. My memories of it only include a plastic diver guy accessory that moved up and down and a baby shark. I don’t think it was an actual shark, I think it just looked like one. Over the years I tried having my own [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/06/16/an-aquarium-without-the-mess/
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Accused Bank Robber Seeks Exculpatory Evidence From NSA Trove
Via Kevin Drum comes a story of something that was pretty much bound to happen in the wake of disclosures that the National Security Agency has been trolling and collecting the "telephony metadata" of American citizens for years. The lawyer for a man named Terrance Brown, the alleged ringleader of a Brinks job plot, is asking the NSA to provide Brown's phone records for the purposes of his defense. It feels like what happens at the nexus of a lawyer grasping at straws and current events providing him with a suddenly advantageous soapbox. It's also kind of hilarious. Here's the Los Angeles Times' Matt Pearce:
Since the end of May, Terrance Brown has been on trial on suspicion of masterminding a Brinks armored-truck robbery in Florida that left a man dead in October 2010.About a week into the trial, the Guardian newspaper published a top-secret order showing the U.S. government forced wireless provider Verizon to hand over phone records and metadata on millions of customers daily. Official acknowledgment of a broader program shortly followed.
That's when Brown's attorney, cognizant of the fact that phone data was being deployed to make the case against his client, had himself an idea:
Investigators weren't able to find all of the relevant data for Brown's phones, because his carrier apparently didn't keep records covering the entire span of the crimes.On Sunday, after federal officials acknowledged the NSA trove, Brown's attorney, Marshall Dore Louis, filed a midtrial motion asking the NSA to turn over Brown's phone records.
"The records are material and favorable to Mr. Brown's defense," Louis wrote, adding that the request was "not intended as a general fishing expedition."
So now, the Justice Department has to get involved, and respond to this request. Pearce gets George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, giving great quip: "This falls into the category of 'you have to be careful of what you ask for ... The government asked for complete storage of data for all citizens, and they got it. Now they're in possession of a unique resource of information."
Turley reckons "that the government is going to be very aggressive in snuffing out this request." Still, there could be some fun days ahead. As Drum observes: "[I]t would certainly be an intriguing case for the Supreme Court to decide, wouldn't it?"
READ THE WHOLE THING:
NSA surveillance disclosure could affect court cases [Los Angeles Times]
Bank Robbery Suspect Wants NSA Phone Records to Prove His Innocence [Mother Jones]
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Bruins' Horton set to play in Game 2 at Blackhawks
FILE - In this March 16, 2013, file photo, Boston Bruins' Nathan Horton skates the puck during the first period of a NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals in Boston. Horton will play in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night, three days after he left the series opener with an injury. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)
FILE - In this March 16, 2013, file photo, Boston Bruins' Nathan Horton skates the puck during the first period of a NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals in Boston. Horton will play in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night, three days after he left the series opener with an injury. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)
CHICAGO (AP) ? Boston Bruins forward Nathan Horton will play in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night, three days after he left the series opener with an injury.
Horton practiced with the team Friday and participated in Boston's morning skate on Saturday.
"He feels really good," coach Claude Julien said. "He looked really good out there, the last two days. There's absolutely no reason he shouldn't play tonight."
Horton left with an unspecified upper body injury while Boston was on a power play during the first overtime of Chicago's 4-3 victory in Game 1. Horton skates with David Krejci and Milan Lucic on a formidable line that really hurt the Blackhawks on Wednesday night.
"I feel good," Horton said. "I'm ready."
Horton made a great pass to set up the first of Lucic's two goals in the series opener. The 28-year-old wing has seven goals and 11 assists in the playoffs.
He said he's not worried about being targeted by the Blackhawks.
"It's the playoffs," he said. "Everyone plays physical. Everyone plays strong."
Forward Jaromir Jagr did not participate in Boston's morning skate, but Julien said the 41-year-old veteran is fine.
"He's 100 percent. He's 41," Julien said with a grin.
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The new consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony (Update)
Microsoft and Sony offered new details this week on the game consoles they will start selling before the holiday shopping season. The Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 will join Nintendo's Wii U, which came out last year, in vying for shoppers' attention and dollars at a time many people are turning to phones and tablets for gaming.
Each machine has a set of features designed to draw gamers away from rival consoles. There's one thing all three have in common, though: They are about more than gaming and include entertainment services such as television, movies and music.
With the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles wrapping up, here's a closer look at the three systems, including details on pricing and specific games.
Wii U (Nintendo)
In November, the Japanese gaming company launched the Wii U, the follow-up to its popular Wii. That made Wii U the only new console out for last year's holiday season. The console features a tablet-like controller with a touch screen, called the GamePad, which can be used to control games on the TV set or to play games separately, as you would on a regular tablet computer. It also allows someone with a GamePad to have a different experience with a game than someone playing it at the same time with a regular Wii controller.
The GamePad also serves as a fancy remote controller to navigate a TV-watching feature called TVii. The service groups your favorite shows and sports teams together, whether it's on live TV or an Internet video service such as Hulu Plus. And it offers water-cooler moments you can chat about on social media.
Unlike the Wii, the Wii U features high-definition graphics. In doing so, Nintendo's system catches up to the years-old Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony.
Sales of the Wii U have been disappointing, with 3.5 million sold as of March 31, the end of Nintendo's fiscal year. Nintendo Co. had originally expected to sell 5.5 million units and later lowered the forecast to 4 million, but it still fell short.
Because the Wii U is already available, Nintendo focused on games at E3 this week. It showed off new titles in its popular franchises, including the racing game "Mario Kart 8," along with "Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze" and a rendition of "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker."
Price: Starts at $300, but some retailers have offered it below that.
PlayStation 4 (Sony)
Sony shared some details about the PlayStation 4 in February, but it didn't show what the console would look like. That changed at E3, when the Japanese electronics giant showed off the slick new game machine along with new games and a price tag that undercuts Microsoft's Xbox One by $100.
Sony said the PS4 would essentially be a "supercharged PC," much like the Xbox. That's a big departure from the old and idiosyncratic PlayStation design and should make it easier for developers to create games. But the adoption of PC chips also means that the new console won't be able to play games created for any of the three previous PlayStations. Players will have to stream older games over the Internet.
Other new features revolve around social networking and remote access. With one button, you can broadcast video of your game play so friends elsewhere can watch. You can also run a game on the PS4 to stream over the Internet to Sony's mobile gaming device, the PlayStation Vita, which debuted last year.
The PlayStation online network will have access to Sony's video and music services, as well as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon?as long as you have subscriptions to those services. You'll also be able to access Facebook.
Sony said this week that it would not try to restrict sales of used games and that the PS4 would not require a persistent online connection. Microsoft has been criticized by gamers for being vague on whether Xbox One owners will be able to play used games. The company essentially leaves the decision to video game publishers, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said.
The PS4 will have a Blu-ray disc drive for movies, just like the PS3. The console will go on sale this holiday season, though Sony has not given an exact date. Analysts expect that it will likely be before Black Friday, the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on the day after Thanksgiving.
Price: $399.
Xbox One (Microsoft)
Microsoft's new console seeks to deliver the Holy Grail of home entertainment?an all-in-one device that lets you watch television, play movies, listen to music and browse the Internet as well as play video games.
The Xbox One lets you use voice commands to switch between watching TV and playing "Call of Duty," or ask "What's on HBO" to view a TV channel guide. Simply connect your cable or satellite set-top box to the game machine with an HDMI cable.
A new version of Microsoft's camera-based Kinect controller offers better motion and voice detection than the one currently available. Unlike the Xbox 360, the Xbox One will require Kinect, which will come with the package.
The company said the Xbox One will have to be connected to the Internet at least once every 24 hours and ideally would always be online. During its E3 presentation, Microsoft showed off games such as "Ryse: Son of Rome," ''Killer Instinct" and "Titanfall." ''Titanfall" is the first game from Respawn Entertainment, which was founded by the creators of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."
Although Nintendo's Wii was the most popular of the three at first, the Xbox 360 has outsold its rivals in recent years largely because of its robust online service, Xbox Live, which allows people to play games with others online for as much as $60 a year with annual plans. Activision Blizzard Inc.'s "Call of Duty," has been a driving force behind Xbox Live, and Microsoft said players will be able to download new content for upcoming titles in the series on the Xbox One before any other system.
The new console will also add the ability to play Blu-ray discs, matching what Sony has in its older PlayStation 3. What it won't play are games for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft said the system will launch in time for the holidays.
Price: $499.
Explore further: Sony PlayStation 4 expected at NY event Wednesday (Update)
Source: http://phys.org/news/2013-06-consoles-microsoft-nintendo-sony.html
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Businesses await relief as Japan OKs reform plan
TOKYO (AP) ? As new orders for his hydraulic cylinders pile in, factory owner Kazushi Nomura says he is hopeful Japan's economy may be headed for a solid recovery.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's grand plans for getting Japan's growth back on track after two decades of stagnation, endorsed by his Cabinet on Friday, depend on convincing businessmen like Nomura to invest in that recovery.
Nomura's Nambu Co. makes cylinders used mainly to make auto engines and roll steel sheets. He's expanded into Thailand and China, where auto sales have boomed in recent years, and is considering setting up factories in India and Mexico. In Japan, he says, he hasn't bought new equipment in five years.
"The growth is all in overseas markets. The consumer base is shrinking here as society ages," said Nomura, 74, during a recent visit to his factory, a collection of tiny buildings crammed inside part of a city block in Tokyo's Ota Ward, a fading industrial district whose small workshops and factories are steadily giving way to apartments.
Abe's Cabinet approved a blueprint for reforms Friday meant to improve Japan's competitiveness and shore up long-term growth in the world's third-largest economy as its population ages and shrinks.
"At last the time for action has come. Without action there can be no growth," Abe said in a video message released Friday after the Cabinet meeting.
Abe has claimed early progress in countering the stagnation that has hobbled growth for more than 20 years through an onslaught of monetary and fiscal stimulus, after the economy grew 4.1 percent in January-March. But economists say deeper, more far-reaching changes are needed to ensure the economy keeps growing.
At a weekend meeting of the Group of Eight industrial countries, Abe plans to explain his growth strategy to fellow leaders and perhaps seek to calm the wild gyrations that have rocked financial markets over the past few weeks.
Share prices soared beginning in late 2012 as the Japanese yen weakened in anticipation of aggressive monetary easing, which has raised corporate profits in yen terms and made Japan's exports relatively cheaper in overseas markets.
So far, the benchmark Nikkei stock index has lost about 20 percent of the 70 percent it had gained since late last year. On Friday, buoyed by an overnight rally on Wall Street, the Nikkei gained 1.9 percent.
The monetary easing by the Bank of Japan and heavy government spending are meant to flood the economy with fresh cash and thus push up prices and end a long spate of deflation that has discouraged companies from investing or hiring workers.
But many question Abe's ability to deliver a sustained economic recovery and push through with sweeping reforms intended to boost productivity and help Japanese companies compete against nimbler foreign rivals.
So far, consumer prices have not yet stopped falling. Costs for imported energy and other goods, meanwhile, have surged thanks to a weakening in the value of the Japanese yen ? a trend that Nomura says has hurt rather than helped businesses like his own whose overseas dealings are not dollar-based.
According to figures from McKinsey & Co., Japanese companies are holding some 187 trillion yen (nearly $2 trillion) in cash and equivalents, or 5.7 times the average annual capital investment of all Japanese corporations.
Abe's reforms include a plan to cut taxes for companies that restructure or that invest in factories or equipment, aiming to halt a decline in such spending and meet a target for 70 trillion yen ($737 billion) in annual capital investment over the next three years.
Other priorities include subsidies to encourage more hiring, setting up "special zones" to promote deregulation and globalization of businesses, services and education and promotion of online drug sales.
Few of the reforms endorsed Friday are new. Most were proposed by previous governments but were quashed by powerful vested interests or simply were left undone thanks to the chaos that has dominated Japanese politics for the past decade.
Various government ministries are already feuding over the proposed investment tax cuts and online drug sales.
Most reforms will be on hold until after an election in July for the upper house of parliament, when Abe's Liberal Democratic Party expects to win a mandate that would enable him to pursue a wider agenda that includes revising the constitution.
Among the toughest decisions will be on whether to push ahead with promised sales tax hikes needed to help reduce Japan's huge public debt and dismantling protections for inefficient industries as part of market opening commitments under a regional trade arrangement called Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Others, such as an appeal to get more women into the workforce by improving access to childcare, will require support from private industries that so far have appeared reluctant to change.
Small companies like Nambu pride themselves on hiring female workers, but say that even if they do have fresh business coming in, Abe's proposal for allowing up to three years maternity leave is out of the question.
Down the road at a metalworking factory, Material Inc., workers were busy polishing and inspecting, even by microscope, various shiny and intriguingly shaped parts used in aircraft and the defense industry.
"Japanese products have high quality but it's not just high quality. Our customers are very severe with us because they are operating in a very harsh environment," said Yuji Otsuka, a factory manager.
His boss, Junichi Hosogai, is leading an effort by factories in Ota district to develop a made-in-Japan bobsled for the country's Olympics team ? hoping to help revitalize the area's small industries through innovation.
Hosogai, a lively man about half Nomura's age, says that while he's hopeful about Abenomics, "Up to now, the economy has not really budged. I expect it will go forward."
Companies like Material pride themselves on their technology, quality and speed of delivery ? some orders are received and completed within five or six hours, he said. But because they are beholden to big manufacturers like Toyota and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, they have little say over pricing.
Asked how long he can hold on if his costs remain high and demand weak, Hosogai said, "We couldn't last a year like this."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/businesses-await-relief-japan-oks-reform-plan-103651243.html
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Become a Part of Our ?Pets of Lyndale? Project at Open Streets ...
Do you live Uptown? Do you have a pet? Do you plan to head to Open Streets MPLS on Sunday June 23rd and hang out? Then we urge you to bring your pet and visit us at Zeus Jones. (Only if your pet is comfortable and safe going outside, of course!)
We will have local photographer Leslie Plesser on hand to snap free portraits of anyone who shows up with their pet. All the portraits will become part of a website called Pets of Lyndale, which will showcase the many lovely people and pets that we get to see strolling around our neighborhood on a daily basis.
We at Zeus are major pet-lovers. You may have seen our staff profile of Waffles, who is one of the many dogs who work with us here at Zeus Jones. A lot of our work here is pet-focused, as many of us are working with Purina every day.
We?re also big fans of Open Streets, which brings people out and about on Lyndale Ave. as well as 3 other major Minneapolis roads in the next several months. That?s why we recently worked with them on a new identity and website. Check it out!
So join us on June 23rd ? and bring your pet!
-Becky
All photos are by Leslie Plesser.
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Source: http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2013/become-a-part-of-our-pets-of-lyndale-project-at-open-streets/
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Director of Programmes' English Language Scholarships, BPP ...
BPP University College?s School of Foundation?and English Language Studies is offering scholarships to improve applicants? English Language capability before they can progress onto their chosen BPP degree. International students are eligible for this scholarship. Three scholarships are offered for the Pre-Sessional English Language, Study and Communications Skills fees. English proficiency test is required. Students must have strong academic ability.?
About Scholarship:?This scholarship is aimed at attracting high quality international students to BPP?s programmes and is open to international students who need to improve their English Language capability before they can progress onto their chosen BPP degree.?
Study:?Pre-sessional English Language, study and communications skills
Course Level:?Pre-Sessional program
Scholarship by:?BPP University College?s School of Foundation and?English Language Studies
Location:?UK?
Eligibility:?If you wish to apply for a BPP degree but need to improve your IELTS or equivalent English language score by 0.5 IELTS for the relevant BPP degree, you are eligible to apply if you meet the criteria set out below. You must be able to demonstrate: -you have strong academic ability (please provide a school reference to support this and/or an official transcript of your most recent exam results); -you need to increase your IELTS or equivalent score by 0.5 to start the relevant BPP degree; commitment to your chosen career.?
Scholarship Open for:?International students can apply?
Number of awards:?3
Value:?There are three scholarships of ?1,000 each available towards the Pre-Sessional English Language, Study and Communications Skills fees on each of the three start dates of September 2013; January 2014 and May 2014.?
Notification:?Winners will usually be notified that they have won a Scholarship by email, telephone or post within 21 days of the Closing Date.?
Apply:?By post
Deadline:?The closing date for applications is 1st August 2013 (for September 2013 start), 1st December 2013 (for January 2014 start) and 1st March 2013 (for May 2013 start).?
Further Information:?http://www.bpp.com/university-college/l/university-college-scholarships?p#SchoolofFoundationandEnglishLanguageStudiesDeanScholarships
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