Swing-state Democrats swing to equality - Seattle Gay News

Six senators embrace same-sex marriage as Supreme Court hearings begin

by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer

Six Democratic U.S. senators from swing states announced their support for marriage equality this week, in the hours before U.S. Supreme Court hearings began on Prop 8 and DOMA.

Claire McCaskill of Missouri led off the parade on March 25, posting a statement on her Tumblr page.

'I have come to the conclusion that our government should not limit the right to marry based on who you love,' McCaskill wrote.

'While churches should never be required to conduct marriages outside of their religious beliefs, neither should the government tell people who they have a right to marry. My views on this subject have changed over time, but as many of my Gay and Lesbian friends, colleagues, and staff embrace long-term committed relationships, I find myself unable to look them in the eye without honestly confronting this uncomfortable inequality. Supporting marriage equality for Gay and Lesbian couples is simply the right thing to do for our country, a country founded on the principles of liberty and equality.

'Good people disagree with me. On the other hand, my children have a hard time understanding why this is even controversial. I think history will agree with my children.'

'EVOLVING' VIEWS
McCaskill was followed in short order by Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Mark Begich of Alaska.

'I support marriage equality because it is the fair and right thing to do,' Warner wrote on his Facebook page.

'Like many Virginians and Americans, my views on Gay marriage have evolved, and this is the inevitable extension of my efforts to promote equality and opportunity for everyone. I was proud to be the first Virginia governor to extend anti-discrimination protections to LGBT state workers. In 2010, I supported an end to the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, and earlier this month I signed an amicus brief urging the repeal of DOMA. I believe we should continue working to expand equal rights and opportunities for all Americans.'

'I believe that same-sex couples should be able to marry and should have the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities as any other married couple,' Begich said in a statement also issued March 25.

'Government should keep out of individuals' personal lives - if someone wants to marry someone they love, they should be able to. Alaskans are fed up with government intrusion into our private lives, our daily business, and in the way we manage our resources and economy.'

In a statement to ABC News, West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller also endorsed equality. Rockefeller was the only one of the six who was in Congress when DOMA passed in 1996, and at the time he voted for it.

GENERATIONAL SHIFT
'Like so many of my generation, my views on allowing Gay couples to marry have been challenged in recent years by a new, more open generation,' Rockefeller said.

'Churches and ministers should never have to perform marriages that violate their religious beliefs, but the government shouldn't discriminate against people who want to marry just because of their gender. Younger people in West Virginia and even my own children have grown up in a much more equal society, and they rightly push us to question old assumptions - to think deeply about what it means for all Americans to be created equal. This has been a process for me, but at this point I think it's clear that DOMA is discriminatory. I'm against discrimination in all its forms, and I think we can move forward in our progress toward true equality by repealing DOMA.'

Sen. Jon Tester of Montana joined the crowd on March 26.

'Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families,' Tester said on Facebook. 'How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.'

'A COMPLEX ISSUE'
North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan checked in the next day.

'Marriage equality is a complex issue with strong feelings on both sides, and I have a great deal of respect for varying opinions on the issue,' she posted on Facebook.

'After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry. This wasn't a decision I came to overnight, like my Republican colleague Rob Portman expressed recently on his own viewpoint. Last year, I opposed [anti-Gay] Amendment One because I was concerned about the negative consequences it could have on North Carolina families and our economy. The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.'

While the senators added to the political momentum building up for a reversal of DOMA by abandoning their previous skepticism about marriage rights for Gay and Lesbian couples, not all of them will have to deal with immediate political consequences. McCaskill and Tester won re-election last year and will not face voters again until 2018, and Rockefeller has already announced that his current term will be his last. But Warner, Begich, and Hagan, who were elected in 2008, will be up for re-election next year.

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Kenyatta won Kenya's presidency fairly: Supreme Court

By Edmund Blair and Humphrey Malalo

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Supreme Court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential election victory on Saturday and his defeated rival quickly accepted the ruling, dousing fears of a repeat of the tribal bloodletting that blighted the country's last vote.

The decision cleared the way for Kenya's richest man to take the top job in east Africa's biggest economy, but left foreign powers with the headache of dealing with a leader charged with crimes against humanity at The Hague.

After the judgment, police fired shots in the air and teargas at hundreds of stone-throwing youths in the western city of Kisumu, a stronghold of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga, who had challenged Kenyatta's win. Protesters looted shops and burned tires in the street.

But shortly after, Odinga made a nationally-televised statement, accepting the court's unanimous decision.

"The court has now spoken," Odinga told a news conference. "I wish the president-elect, honorable Uhuru Kenyatta, and his team well."

Kenya's outgoing president had called for calm ahead of the judgment which came five years after another ballot dispute triggered violence that left more than 1,200 dead.

"It is the decision of the court that the third and fourth respondents were validly elected," Chief Justice Willy Mutunga said in court, referring to Kenyatta and his running mate for deputy president, William Ruto.

He said the court had done its duty at a historic moment. "It is now for the Kenyan people, their leaders, civil society, the private sector and the media to discharge (their duty), to ensure that the unity, peace, sovereignty and prosperity of the nation is preserved," he added.

After a week of hearings, the six judges of the court had unanimously decided the March 4 vote was conducted in a free, fair and credible manner in line with the constitution, he said.

RALLIES BANNED

Peaceful voting in this year's vote, and the fact the dispute was played out by lawyers not machete-wielding gangs, has already helped repair Kenya's image as a safe haven for investors and tourists.

Paramilitary police, some on horseback, formed a security cordon around the court before the ruling. Police chief David Kimaiyo has repeatedly said he would not allow public rallies.

Kenyatta comfortably beat Odinga in votes won, but only narrowly avoided a run-off by edging above the 50 percent threshold.

Western donors are watching the fate of a regional trade partner and a country they see as vital to stability in a volatile area. They had also said before the victory was confirmed that a Kenyatta win would complicate relations.

He is facing charges at the International Criminal Court of crimes against humanity, accused of helping incite the violence after the 2007 vote. Kenyatta denies the charges and has promised to cooperate with the court to clear his name.

Western nations have a policy of having only "essential contacts" with indictees of the court. They say that will not affect dealings with the Kenyan government as a whole, but will worry the issue could drive a long-time ally of the West closer to emerging powers such as China.

David Cameron, prime minister of former colonial power Britain, wrote to Kenyatta to congratulate him and encouraged Kenyans to accept the decision of the court.

Neighboring African states have also been keeping a careful eye on proceedings after they were hit by the knock-on effects when vital trade routes through Kenya were shut down five years ago.

(Additional reporting by Joseph Akwiri in Mombasa, Hezron Ochiel in Kisumu and James Macharia in Nairobi; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Outrage, sadness as Americans barred from adopting Russian children

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Sonia greets her new parents, Kristina and Rich England.

By Jim Maceda, Correspondent, NBC News

BRYANSK, Russia --?Kristi and Rich England of Marshall, Minn., shook with nerves and joy on their fourth and last trip to an orphanage in Bryansk, in?rural Russia. ?

They were finally taking Sonia, a partially blind and hyperactive 3-year-old, home with them.?The tearful Feb. 12 meeting, punctuated by Sonia?s screams of ?mama? and ?dada,? was all the more emotional because the Englands knew that they were the last lucky couple to leave Russia with an adopted child.?

?So many other families have seen their children and have loved their children and can?t bring them home,? said Kristi England, 34, a family doctor. ?It?s so unfair in so many ways.?

Those already undergoing the costly process of adopting a child from Russia found out Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law barring any future adoptions, canceling the ones in progress. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

The process wasn?t easy ? the Englands endured multiple background checks and spent at least $50,000 to ensure that Sonia, now called Sophia, could go home with them.

But the ban signed into law on Dec. 28 barring all U.S. adoptions ? which numbered more than 60,000 over the past two decades ? has marooned hundreds of families in the middle of adopting, and stranded thousands of children in orphanages throughout Russia.??

"We should do all we can so that orphaned children find a family in our country, in Russia," President Vladimir Putin said in defense of the ban.

Fueling the outrage in Russia over the fate of children adopted by Americans, Russian media reported earlier this week that Alexander Abnosov, 18, showed up in the Volga River port town of Cheboksary saying his adoptive family had mistreated him. He had left Russia five years earlier, having been adopted by a family outside Philadelphia, but said he fled after suffering from verbal abuse by his adoptive mother. ?

"She would make any small problem big and always try to find a reason to shout at you," he told Russia?s state-owned Channel 1.

While UNICEF estimates there are about 740,000 children not in parental custody in Russia, only about 18,000 Russians are on the waiting list to adopt.?

But while Putin denies any direct connection, Kremlin-watchers say the ban is really about geopolitics and not about protecting kids.

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Russian child psychologist Valentina Rakova Valentina (left) stands with Kristina and Richard England and newly adopted Sonia in an orphanage in Bryansk, rural Russia.

They say it was retaliation by Moscow for an American law banning any Russian human rights violators from U.S. soil, enacted after the suspicious death in prison of Sergey Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer working for Heritage Fund, an American private equity firm.?

Russian media didn't hesitate to bolster the official line. ?

Despite the negative reports, child psychologist Valentina Rakova, who has worked in the Bryansk orphanage for 30 years, says the ban is terrible for children.?

?Here in Russia we have many examples of bad parents -- even worse than these American cases -- where kids are just tossed out,? she said as she coiffed Sonia, who requires special medical attention.

?A child like Sonia, no Russian would accept her,? Rakova said. ?Before the ban, orphans were offered to Russian families but no one took them in.??

Rakova's experience confirms the U.N.'s statistics. As far as she has seen, Americans are far more likely to adopt children who are ill or suffer from a disability.

Becky Preece, a housewife from Nampa, Idaho, is one such American. ?

She was finally able to take home 4-year-old Gabe, who has Down syndrome, in February, after years of filling out paperwork and a court battle. ?

Preece, who like the Englands beat the ban by days but was then delayed by red tape, said she saw a complete disconnect between the horrors of Russia?s adoption ban and the kindness and hospitality of the Russians themselves.?

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Becky Preece from Nampa, Idaho, adopted 4-year-old Gabe just days before the ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans went into force.

?It?s not a matter of the people,? she said while walking with the little boy in the thick Moscow snow.

?It?s politically charged and it?s something that is hard for us to understand because it?s so different from the experience that we?ve had here.?

Preece said she was excited to get Gabe into school back home, and watch him bond with his new brother who also has Down syndrome.?

?They need the infrastructure, they need the kind of support that we get at home for our children,? she said.?

But for the hundreds of American families who missed the cut and are now unable to bring their adoptive children home, the future could mean months -- even years -- of waiting and praying that the two superpower rivals find common ground before more of society?s most vulnerable pay the price.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Jim Maceda is a London-based correspondent who has covered the Soviet Union and Russia since the 1980s.?

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Scientists propose revolutionary laser system to produce the next LHC

Mar. 28, 2013 ? An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system, inspired by the telecommunications technology, to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICAN) sets out a new laser system composed of massive arrays of thousands of fibre lasers, for both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton therapy and nuclear transmutation.

The results of this study are published today in Nature Photonics.

Lasers can provide, in a very short time measured in femtoseconds, bursts of energy of great power counted in petawatts or a thousand times the power of all the power plants in the world.

Compact accelerators are also of great societal importance for applied tasks in medicine, such as a unique way to democratise proton therapy for cancer treatment, or the environment where it offers the prospect to reduce the lifetime of dangerous nuclear waste by, in some cases, from 100 thousand years to tens of years or even less.

However, there are two major hurdles that prevent the high-intensity laser from becoming a viable and widely used technology in the future. First, a high-intensity laser often only operates at a rate of one laser pulse per second, when for practical applications it would need to operate tens of thousands of times per second. The second is ultra-intense lasers are notorious for being very inefficient, producing output powers that are a fraction of a percent of the input power. As practical applications would require output powers in the range of tens of kilowatts to megawatts, it is economically not feasible to produce this power with such a poor efficiency.

To bridge this technology divide, the ICAN consortium, an EU-funded project initiated and coordinated by the ?cole polytechnique and composed of the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre, Jena and CERN, as well as 12 other prestigious laboratories around the world, aims to harness the efficiency, controllability, and high average power capability of fibre lasers to produce high energy, high repetition rate pulse sources.

The aim is to replace the conventional single monolithic rod amplifier that typically equips lasers with a network of fibre amplifiers and telecommunication components.

G?rard Mourou of ?cole polytechnique who leads the consortium says: "One important application demonstrated today has been the possibility to accelerate particles to high energy over very short distances measured in centimetres rather than kilometres as it is the case today with conventional technology. This feature is of paramount importance when we know that today high energy physics is limited by the prohibitive size of accelerators, of the size of tens of kilometres, and cost billions of euros. Reducing the size and cost by a large amount is of critical importance for the future of high energy physics."

Dr Bill Brocklesby from the ORC adds: "A typical CAN laser for high-energy physics may use thousands of fibres, each carrying a small amount of laser energy. It offers the advantage of relying on well tested telecommunication elements, such as fibre lasers and other components. The fibre laser offers an excellent efficiency due to laser diode pumping. It also provides a much larger surface cooling area and therefore makes possible high repetition rate operation.

"The most stringent difficulty is to phase the lasers within a fraction of a wavelength. This difficulty seemed insurmountable but a major roadblock has in fact been solved: preliminary proof of concept suggests that thousands of fibres can be controlled to provide a laser output powerful enough to accelerate electrons to energies of several GeV at 10 kHz repetition rate -- an improvement of at least ten thousand times over today's state of the art lasers."

Such a combined fibre-laser system should provide the necessary power and efficiency that could make economical the production of a large flux of relativistic protons over millimetre lengths as opposed to a few hundred metres..

One important societal application of such a source is to transmute the waste products of nuclear reactors, which at present have half-lives of hundreds of thousands of years, into materials with much shorter lives, on the scale of tens of years, thus transforming dramatically the problem of nuclear waste management. CAN technology could also find important applications in areas of medicine, such as proton therapy, where reliability and robustness of fibre technology could be decisive features.

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Groupon's New Accounting Methods - Business Insider

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Anthony Catanach Jr., an associate professor at the Villanova University School of Business, is a longtime critic of Groupon, and he just renewed his attacks on the daily deal giant.

In August 2011, he predicted on his blog, Grumpy Old Accountants, that the SEC would probe Groupon's numbers ? and it came to pass, seven months later.

This time around, Catanach calls into question a grab-bag of accounting items in Groupon's annual report. He says:

• Groupon is no good at estimating the value of companies it buys.
• Groupon's estimate of the amount of intangible "goodwill" on its balance sheet is ripe for a writedown.
• Groupon's estimate of its deferred tax assets is shaky.
• Groupon uses a non-GAAP accounting method that's "a curious metric that inflates operating performance."

In his post, Catanach says, "Heads up SEC?you too E&Y!"

(We emailed Groupon for comment and we'll update this post if we hear back.)

The backdrop here is that Groupon is struggling to reorient its business away from a dependence on daily email deals toward selling goods directly, and by generally providing a marketing infrastructure for local businesses.

It also recently fired its CEO, Andrew Mason.

Here are a couple of highlights from Catanach's deep-dive into Groupon's numbers:

Remember how the grumpies complained last August about Groupon?s ?unusual? gain on an e-commerce transaction that created second quarter profitability (see Groupon: Still Accounting Challenged)?? This was a gain driven solely by the Company?s own estimates of fair value, the reasonableness of which we questioned at the time.? Well, guess what?? We were right again!? In the fourth quarter (literally at the eleventh hour), the Company revised its value estimate of its F-tuan investment downward by almost 40 percent resulting in a write-down of $50.6 million (2012 10-K, page 84). This turnabout almost completely reverses the pre-tax $56 million gain that Groupon reported in the second quarter of 2012.

... ?In fact, cracks are beginning to appear in the goodwill numbers.? International segment revenue actually declined 15.9 percent in the final quarter of 2012 (2012 10-K, page 38) raising questions about reported international goodwill amounts.

... despite the declines in gross profit percentage, income from operations has turned positive for the first time primarily due to reduced marketing expenses. The dramatic reversals in marketing and selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses may reflect the Company?s changing business model, but given Groupon?s past reporting issues, one wonders if some of this expense volatility is due to the aforementioned decision to reclassify financial statement items.? Just a thought.

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Snag a copy of ?Windows 8 Security (Free eBook offer expires on 4/4)?

Windows 8 Security [affiliate link] is an eBook that will help you make the most of the enhanced security features that have been added to the new Windows 8 operating system. Some topics covered are?Dynamic Access Control, BranchCache, DirectAccess, BitLocker, Virtualization, Social Media, SmartScreen and WindowsToGo. There are a few hoops to jump through to [...]

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How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?

Thursday, March 28, 2013

The proliferation of sensor-studded cellphones could lead to a wealth of data with socially useful applications ? in urban planning, epidemiology, operations research and emergency preparedness, among other things. Of course, before being released to researchers, the data would have to be stripped of identifying information. But how hard could it be to protect the identity of one unnamed cellphone user in a data set of hundreds of thousands or even millions?

According to a paper appearing this week in Scientific Reports, harder than you might think. Researchers at MIT and the Universit? Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, analyzed data on 1.5 million cellphone users in a small European country over a span of 15 months and found that just four points of reference, with fairly low spatial and temporal resolution, was enough to uniquely identify 95 percent of them.

In other words, to extract the complete location information for a single person from an "anonymized" data set of more than a million people, all you would need to do is place him or her within a couple of hundred yards of a cellphone transmitter, sometime over the course of an hour, four times in one year. A few Twitter posts would probably provide all the information you needed, if they contained specific information about the person's whereabouts.

The first author on the paper is Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, a graduate student in the research group of Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Science Sandy Pentland. He's joined by C?sar Hidalgo, an assistant professor of media arts and science; Vincent Blondel, a visiting professor at MIT and a professor of applied mathematics at Universit? Catholique; and Michel Verleysen, a professor of electrical engineering at Universit? Catholique.

Focusing the debate

Hidalgo's group specializes in applying the tools of statistical physics to a wide range of subjects, from communications networks to genetics to economics. In this case, he and de Montjoye were able to use those tools to uncover a simple mathematical relationship between the resolution of spatiotemporal data and the likelihood of identifying a member of a data set.

According to their formula, the probability of identifying someone goes down if the resolution of the measurements decreases, but less than you might think. Reporting the time of each measurement as imprecisely as sometime within a 15-hour span, or location as imprecisely as somewhere amid 15 adjacent cell towers, would still enable the unique identification of half the people in the sample data set.

But while its initial application may be discouraging, de Montjoye and Hidalgo hope that their formula will provide a way for researchers and policy analysts to reason more rigorously about the privacy safeguards that need to be put in place when they're working with aggregated location data.

"Both C?sar and I deeply believe that we all have a lot to gain from this data being used," de Montjoye says. "This formula is something that could be useful to help the debate and decide, OK, how do we balance things out, and how do we make it a fair deal for everyone to use this data?"

Everybody's different

In the data set that the researchers analyzed, the location of a cellphone was inferred solely from that of the cell tower it was connected to, and the time of the connection was given as falling within a one-hour interval. Each cellphone had a unique, randomly generated identifying number, so that its movement could be traced over time. But there was no information connecting that number to the phone's owner.

The researchers randomly selected a representative sampling from the set of 1.5 million cellphone traces and, for each trace, began choosing points at random. For 95 percent of the traces, just four randomly selected points was enough to distinguish them from all other traces in the database. In the worst (or, from another perspective, best) case, 11 measurements were necessary.

The researchers suspect that similar relationships might hold for other types of data. "I would not be surprised if a similar result ? maybe requiring more points ? would, for example, extend to web browsing," Hidalgo says. "The space of potential combinations is really large. When a person is, in some sense, being expressed in a space in which the total number of combinations is huge, the probability that two people would have the same exact trajectory ? whether it's walking or browsing ? is almost nil."

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Sarah Chalke: My Son Had Kawasaki Disease

"You present with all these symptoms, you get a lot of repeated misdiagnoses, you keep getting sent home [by doctors]," Chalke, 36, tells TVLine.

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Preview of Frontline Commando: D-Day

We swung by the Glu offices while prepping for GDC 2013 today to check out their next Frontline Commando game, due to launch this Thursday on Google Play. You'll find a lot of the same third-person, duck-and-cover action that the franchise is known for, along with a few new elements that really sets it apart.

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Three Men Arrested For Attempting To Cut Undersea Internet Cable In Egypt

Egyptian authorities arrested three men off the coast of Alexandria for attempting to sever an undersea Internet cable. The SEA-ME-WE 4 main line was part of a cable network that spanned the Mediterranean and connects Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe and has 39 landing points, including Alexandria. Seacom, a cable operator, said that the attacks reduced network speed in Egypt. The line belonged to Telecom Egypt. “The armed forces foiled an attempt and arrested three divers while they were cutting a submarine cable,” said an Egyptian spokesperson. Lines off of the coast of Egypt have been cut multiple times, most notably in 2008 when three lines were ostensibly cut by ship anchors. “SEACOM can confirm that at 06:20 GMT 27 March, the SMW4 cable system suffered a cable cut off the coast of Egypt. Earlier this morning, SEACOM had restored all services on both SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems,” read an announcement on Seacom’s news page. Egyptian authorities are interrogating the men, who remain unnamed.

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Anti-rape video in response to Steubenville trial coverage goes viral

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By Sofia Perpetua, Writer

A University of Oregon film student felt compelled to respond to some of the issues surrounding the Steubenville rape case -- and has 1.3 million views on YouTube.

Samantha Stendal, 19, directed ?A Needed Response? and addressed to ?the Stuebenville rapists ? or any rapists out there,? in order to show the world how real mean treat women.

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"It is horrifying to me that some people can say that people deserve rape when they are passed out," said Stendal to the NY Daily News.

Samantha Stendal

Samantha Stendal is a sophomore at the University of Oregon.

In Stendal?s 26-second long video, a woman (Kelsey Jones) pretends to be passed out and a man (Justin Gotchall) gets her some water and places a pillow under her head. Then he faces the camera and says ?real men treat women with respect.?

"I was studying for my finals and on the side I was reading about the Steubenville rape case. I grew very frustrated with the media," Stendal told NBC News Tuesday. "That's when I came up with the idea for this video."

Gotchall, who is a philosophy major, added, "After we saw the media coverage of the Steubenville rape cases we just had to do this."

"I think this video is powerful in its simplicity," Desertra87 posted as a comment on YouTube. After only being up only four days, the video already has more than 4,000 comments and over a million views.

Last week, Steubenville High School football players Trent Mays and Ma?lik Richmond were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at a raucous house party in the small Ohio town.

The story had already made headlines because of the issues surrounding the case like social media harassment, and teenage partying one wild. But media coverage following the convictions generated even more controversy and angered many when some reporters seemed to focus on the loss of the two football players? bright future -- and not on the victim?s trauma.

"What really upsets me is what the news is going to, what the internet is going to ? which is asking what the victim could have done differently," Stendal told KVAL 13 News in Eugene, Ore. "I'm upset that in our culture that is one of the first questions asked."

Stendal, a sophomore, added, "the message I hope that people can get from this video is that we need to treat one another with respect.?No matter what gender, we should be listening to each other and making sure there is consent."

Stendal, now on her Spring break, is currently applying for video internships.

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Google Play Movies & TV adds in-content 'Info Card' search

Update brings Google Play Moves & TV to India as well!

Google has just updated its Play Movies & TV app to include what it calls "Info Card" search, giving you information about the movie you're watching when you pause. Similar to what Amazon offers on its Kindle Fire tablets, Info Cards give you contextual information about the movie when you pause it, listing the actors in the scene, related movies and the soundtrack playing at the time. The cards are of course in the new "Google Now" card style, overlaid on the movie along the right side and look like what you'd get if you performed a Google search on the actor from a device.

Info Cards are available for only certain movies -- and certainly a limited selection -- that have an Info Cards "badge" on them, so be on the lookout next time you're renting or buying something from Google Play. Also included in this update is Play Movies & TV content for India, which is again a huge deal.

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Committee on Publication Ethics launches ethical guidelines for peer reviewers

Public release date: 25-Mar-2013
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Scholarly journals need to ensure that their peer reviewers act constructively, respect confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interests, according to new guidelines launched by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers set out the basic principles and standards that all reviewers should follow during the peer review process.

"Peer review plays an important role in ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record" stresses Dr Irene Hames, who coordinated the guidelines for COPE.

"The process depends to a large extent on trust and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically. Peer reviewers play a central and critical part in that process.

"However, despite the fact that there are now an estimated 1.8 million articles published every year in about 28,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals, reviewers too often come to the role without any guidance and many may be unaware of their ethical obligations.

"We hope that the new guidelines will provide much-needed guidance for researchers, be a reference for journals and editors when briefing their reviewers and act as an educational resource for institutions when they are training their students and researchers."

COPE's membership comprises leading international publishers, who are responsible for more than 7,600 of the world's top scholarly journals, including Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Palgrave Macmillan, Wolters Kluwer and the New England Journal of Medicine.

They represent a wide range of academic fields in 80 countries, including medicine, life sciences, economics, psychology, chemistry, engineering, maths, education, environmental sciences, arts, humanities, law, geography and astronomy.

The support that COPE provides for editors and publishers includes:

• An eLearning programme, covering subjects such as fabrication, authorship and plagiarism
• A Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Publishers
• Guidelines on a wide range of ethical issues, such as retraction of articles, ethical editing and handling authorship disputes
• Flowcharts in various languages on how to handle problems such as fabricated data, disputed authorship and undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Discussion documents on plagiarism and responding to whistle blowers. Further documents on subjects such as data sharing are planned
• Regular international forums and seminars, including events in the UK, USA, Australia and Brazil.

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To view the new guidelines, please visit the COPE website at: http://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical_guidelines_for_peer_reviewers_0.pdf

Notes to Editors

COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics, is a registered charity that was established in 1997 by a small group of medical journal editors in the UK and now has more than 7,600 members worldwide, from all disciplines. Membership is open to editors of academic journals and others interested in publication ethics. Many of the world's largest international publishers have signed up their journals as COPE members.

COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics, in particular how to handle research and publication misconduct. It also provides a forum for members to discuss individual cases, funds research on publication ethics, publishes a quarterly newsletter and organises annual seminars. COPE members are expected to follow the Code of Conduct and the organisation has also developed Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Publishers. http://publicationethics.org

The quoted figure on the number of articles published in scholarly journals each year comes from: The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, M Ware and M Mabe November 2012. http://www.stm-assoc.org/2012_12_11_STM_Report_2012.pdf

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Committee on Publication Ethics

Scholarly journals need to ensure that their peer reviewers act constructively, respect confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interests, according to new guidelines launched by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers set out the basic principles and standards that all reviewers should follow during the peer review process.

"Peer review plays an important role in ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record" stresses Dr Irene Hames, who coordinated the guidelines for COPE.

"The process depends to a large extent on trust and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically. Peer reviewers play a central and critical part in that process.

"However, despite the fact that there are now an estimated 1.8 million articles published every year in about 28,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals, reviewers too often come to the role without any guidance and many may be unaware of their ethical obligations.

"We hope that the new guidelines will provide much-needed guidance for researchers, be a reference for journals and editors when briefing their reviewers and act as an educational resource for institutions when they are training their students and researchers."

COPE's membership comprises leading international publishers, who are responsible for more than 7,600 of the world's top scholarly journals, including Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Palgrave Macmillan, Wolters Kluwer and the New England Journal of Medicine.

They represent a wide range of academic fields in 80 countries, including medicine, life sciences, economics, psychology, chemistry, engineering, maths, education, environmental sciences, arts, humanities, law, geography and astronomy.

The support that COPE provides for editors and publishers includes:

• An eLearning programme, covering subjects such as fabrication, authorship and plagiarism
• A Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Publishers
• Guidelines on a wide range of ethical issues, such as retraction of articles, ethical editing and handling authorship disputes
• Flowcharts in various languages on how to handle problems such as fabricated data, disputed authorship and undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Discussion documents on plagiarism and responding to whistle blowers. Further documents on subjects such as data sharing are planned
• Regular international forums and seminars, including events in the UK, USA, Australia and Brazil.

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To view the new guidelines, please visit the COPE website at: http://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical_guidelines_for_peer_reviewers_0.pdf

Notes to Editors

COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics, is a registered charity that was established in 1997 by a small group of medical journal editors in the UK and now has more than 7,600 members worldwide, from all disciplines. Membership is open to editors of academic journals and others interested in publication ethics. Many of the world's largest international publishers have signed up their journals as COPE members.

COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics, in particular how to handle research and publication misconduct. It also provides a forum for members to discuss individual cases, funds research on publication ethics, publishes a quarterly newsletter and organises annual seminars. COPE members are expected to follow the Code of Conduct and the organisation has also developed Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Publishers. http://publicationethics.org

The quoted figure on the number of articles published in scholarly journals each year comes from: The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, M Ware and M Mabe November 2012. http://www.stm-assoc.org/2012_12_11_STM_Report_2012.pdf

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TNT Express mail company to cut 4,000 jobs

AMSTERDAM (AP) ? TNT Express NV, the Dutch-based package delivery company, says it will restructure operations, taking ?150 million ($195 million) in charges and cutting 4,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, by the end of 2015.

The news comes after a proposed ?5.2 billion takeover by United Parcel Services Inc. was blocked by European regulators in January because the combined company would be too dominant in European express mail. At Friday's close, TNT's market capitalization had slumped to ?3.25 billion.

TNT said Monday it will dispose of its Brazilian and Chinese operations.

In 2012 the company posted a net loss of ?83 million on revenues of ?7.33 billion. Former Chief Executive Marie-Christine Lombard departed before the takeover process was complete and CFO Bernard Bot is acting as interim CEO.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tnt-express-mail-company-cut-4-000-jobs-092552136--finance.html

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Obama Administration Pushes For Assault Weapons Ban Vote, But Says No National Gun Registry Needed

The Obama Administration says despite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to exclude the assault weapons ban from comprehensive gun control for lack of votes, the President still supports it and urges the Senate to vote publicly on the proposal to eliminate "military-style weapons" from American streets as an amendment.

Speaking in today's White House Briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said "it will be a question for all 100 members of the Senate to ask themselves about whether or not they think that voting for and supporting an assault weapons ban would actually do something to reduce gun violence in communities all across the country. So, we're - - going to have that - we're going to have that debate."

Related: Reid Pulls Assault Weapons Ban from Gun Legislation

Earnest also made clear that despite NRA fears, the President does not support a National Registry of legal gun owners.

"That is not something that the president has supported", said Earnest. He said the White House has no intention of taking away guns from law-abiding citizens. "What we want to make sure is that we're keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, but without interfering with the ability of law-abiding citizens to get their guns that they would like to buy."

The President does support background checks, but asked if those could be carried out without a national list of all those owning weapons in the United States, Earnest said, "He's not seeking a registry."

Over the weekend Republican strategist Karl Rove insinuated otherwise on ABC's This Week. Rove told George Stephanopoulos "if there's one thing that scares a lot of people who believe in the Second Amendment, is the federal government keeping a national registry of gun sales, and gun purchasers, and gun owners."

Related: Karl Rove on 'This Week '

The Senate is expected to debate and vote on extending background checks to gun dealers and private sales when it returns from Easter recess. The NRA opposes the measure with Wayne LaPierre saying on NBC's Meet the Press, "It slows down the law abiding and does nothing to anybody else".

Still the White House indicated today it not only wants the Senate to vote on "universal background checks," it wants members of the Senate and House to vote publicly on the now-dead assault weapons Ban.

Related: Bloomberg, NRA Brace for Showdown on Guns

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Expert Colored Glasses | ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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One of the great qualities of humans is that we can burn for something. From mainstream to the most obscure topics, we can become interested in anything. We spend time with these topics, we learn about them, and after a while, out interests shape us.

It influences what we notice, what we talk about, and how we see the world.

A photographer looks at the pictures around him differently, a designer notices, e.g.,? kerning problems, someone who is interested in organization spots ways to improve the processes around him.

And in itself, this is what interest and expertise is for ? we have a cult of the amateur, but when things are really important, we need experts. No matter whether professional or enthusiast, but we need someone with knowledge and skills.

However, this can become a problem when people drag conversations to the area they have expertise. The original issue is not discussed in whole, but reduced to this area of expertise or left altogether.

Instead of talking about the architecture of a room it it all about the photos, instead of talking about the text, it is all about the typesetting, instead of questioning whether to do something in the first place it is all about improving the processes.

And I think this can impede the overall goal. First, it can make us sound like a broken record, like we always go on about the same subject and make everything about it (we might see the relation to our special area of expertise, other might find it unimportant and far-fetched). Second and even more damaging, it elevates part of the whole ? and this part is influenced by our prior interests/expertise, not by the importance of the part. It might be irrelevant in the greater whole.

For me, this issue came up when I was browsing opinion blogs ? where people share their view on the world and related everything around them to issues they feel strongly about. But I also notice it in my blog, although I am a bit lucky that the topic I am writing about is very broad (I hope). After all, I?m not interested in writing a blog with a constrained focus on specific work methods. I discuss these too (see for example the postings about different tools or scientific work or writing in general). But I also like to look at the whole picture ? and step back from time to time and do some far-off or even off-topic postings.

But the risk is always there.

As good as it is to have interest/expertise in a subject and use this expertise to the fullest, it is also important to be cognizant of one?s expertise and see when it takes us for a ride. If our environment does not stop us, we should notice when we have to stop, take a step back, and look at the ways our interests/expertise influences us ? and what it makes us and others miss.

Source: http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2013/03/expert-colored-glasses/

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Scientists use DNA to quickly unravel relationship between plants and insects

Mar. 25, 2013 ? Studying the relationship between plants and the insects that feed on them is an arduous task, as it must be done through direct observation. It can take years for a researcher to fully understand the diets of a community of herbivorous insects in a tropical rain forest. Now, five Smithsonian scientists are paving a fast track using the DNA found inside the insects' stomachs, potentially turning years of research into months. This method will help scientists understand the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions more efficiently.

Their findings are published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Plants and insects comprise about 50 percent of all known species on Earth, forming the critical foundation of biodiversity in most terrestrial ecosystems. This study focused on 20 species of rolled leaf beetles in Costa Rica and 33 species of flowering plants in the order Zingiberales that the beetles eat and lay eggs on almost exclusively.

Using specialized DNA extraction methods the scientists obtained a mix of DNA both from the actual insect and from the insect's stomach contents. They used DNA markers specific to animals to obtain DNA barcodes for each insect species and markers specific to plants to identify the plant species in each insect's diet.

"What makes this study unique is that we developed DNA extraction techniques and full DNA barcode libraries that allowed us to identify host plants to the species level," said Carlos Garc?a-Robledo, a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian and lead author of the study. "Another unique feature of this study is that we invested several years in the field identifying the diets of insect herbivores using direct observations. This baseline data allowed us for the first time to test the accuracy of DNA barcodes to identify insect diets."

Matched against the data gathered from prior direct observation, the information derived from this DNA stomach-content study was nearly identical, yet had taken only fraction of the time and effort.

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Bba college and mba college in india

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The students are made to develop leadership skills and have an up- to- date knowledge about the latest happenings and developments. The students in the BBA course are prepared to deal with the international standards of the industry and to have better knowledge about the co- related subjects of the BBA course. BBA degree makes a student valid for jobs in various organizations. The experienced gained by the students in the job after BBA, helps them in qualifying for MBA courses in prestigious MBA colleges of India.

The increasing number of bba colleges in India adheres to the fact that management is a key domain to pursue as course. These colleges prepare their students to understand the system of business functionality that needs very different and sometime obsolete strategies to succeed. Every business needs and adopts new strategies to get more profit leaving its competitors exasperated.
Contrary to the common belief that such BBA colleges in India are either not certified or are dubious, institutes that have foreign affiliations can actually add value to the curriculum they offer. Some of the benefits of enrolling in such institutes include.

Since the concept of bachelor in business administration was not very prevalent in the past years, many colleges were not found in early days which imparted the BBA courses. But, as the concept of studying business administration from the very beginning has set in strongly, one can find a large number of BBA colleges spread across different parts of the country. The BBA colleges mainly focus on the field of Business Communication, Marketing Personnel, Human Resource Management and so on. Students are usually taken in of the basis of their 12th board exams; but some institutions may have separate entrance examinations of their own.

BBA, which is also acknowledged as Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) or Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) by a number of universities in India, is the ideal means of advancement to shape up one of the most rigorous and remunerative careers in management. Acquiring a degree from the top BBA colleges in India would allow a graduate to be employed as a management trainee in a prestigious corporate house. This aids him/her in achieving valuable experience and proficiency over the years, so as to make him/her qualified for administration roles in any business organization in the time to come.

BBA also a bachelor degree regarding the affinity in numbers but it is also having some other aspects in business and management. BBA is a professional degree while the B.Com is a general although having same aspects. It is also a 3 years bachelor degree for the higher secondary pass outs. Generally all management colleges offering the BBA degree and the basic requirement is 50% marks in HSC. The career opportunities of BBA are offering a vast field including financial services, economics, accounting, sales, marketing and human resource. You can start a career in any of these given above. Each one will give you a salary range of 15,000 to 25,000 as a prospective professional. The course content is the half way for MBA and so that you are going to get a brief picture about that high esteem course.

MBA is successor of BBA. Having BBA degree will result in having sound foundation in management field especially for those who desire to pursue a MBA degree. Today Bangalore is favorite option for many management aspirants. The city is safe having pleasant ambiance. BBA is 3 year graduation degree and MBA is 2 year management degree course.

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Everything You Need To Know About Home Improvement

Home improvement is a great way to save money in this day and age. It's a buyer's market and it can be hard to sell your house at its valued price.Rather than having to deal with the market, why not just upgrade where you live now? This article has tips on how you breathe new life into your old house.

If you have the energy and creative mindset to try new things, try your hand at building a set of bedroom furniture. This can be quite challenging, but if you put in the time and effort, you can make a beautiful piece that you can be proud of for many years.

If you don't care for your lawn properly or you don't get it professionally maintained, consider installing a low-maintenance yard. This usually will consist of a few rock beds that have hardy plants that don't need a lot of water. This will save time and money.

You can find hinges online or at most hardware stores. Just take apart and simply attach every side to the frame and the door.

Check out any home improvement company that you plan to hire. Try to work with a company that has a good reputation.

Home improvements can be a great way to have fun when you do it yourself. Have an even better experience by thinking positively and enjoying the repairs as you do them.

You need to think about more than cost when you are checking out contractor quotes. You need to weigh many factors, including time frames, warranties, and the frequency that they will be working. You should balance the cost with the effects on you.

Individual solar lights come in an abundance of styles and are cheap, but they really are just for decoration.

You might not be able to use the kitchen equipment.

The best thing to do is work on your project when less people are in the home. You don't want to put all that added stress when you're already working hard already.

Make purchasing safety products a true priority before taking on the list of supplies you need for your next home improvement task. Safety equipment should include safety glasses, heavy duty gloves and steel-toed boots are just the beginning.

You can make your home safer and safer by replacing the knob on your door. This kind of project generally takes up minimal time. You will need a screwdriver. You can purchase replacement knobs at the local home improvement or hardware store.

Adding in a new sink can really change the appearance of your kitchen. This will instantly improve the look to your kitchen. You can get new sinks in many colors, colorful new sink.

Spackle and paint holes made by paintings. Spackle is readily available at your local home improvement store. You will probably only need a small bit. Use a bobby pin to spackle over the smallest holes. This will allow you to get rid of holes very quickly.

When replacing a lock in your home, you can opt to replace the entire assembly, or just the cylinder. The cylinder represents the part of the lock responsible for activating the lock. If you've lost your key and want to change the lock for safety purposes, a cylinder replacement is a simple one.

A very quick walk around the perimeter of your house is going to reveal tiny jobs you can do easily. Identifying specific air leaks is one such example. Once leaks are detected, insulate them and you can save money.

You can reduce your homeowner's insurance by installing some quality smoke alarms and checking them regularly. This effect is greater with older homes because the insurance companies know that more recent homes are more fire-resistant. Smoke alarms are essential safety equipment; they could save money and your life one day.

A cheap way to make your home's appearance cheaply is to plant trees. Landscaping can help to make the most of your home's value. The tree you grow make great shade feature. You can also reduce 40% of cooling costs with a tree in the right place.

The information from this article can help teach you how to transform your house into a home. Home improvement projects do not have to be overwhelming or expensive.

Source: http://sandersforsale.blogspot.com/2013/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-home.html

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Natural And Botanical Skin Care Solutions And Products - Good For ...

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If maybe you are curious about natural and organic skincare and if it is in fact all that much better to use - don't forget that traditional skin care product companies have been providing you with solutions and products consisting of hundreds of dangerous chemical substances without your knowledge. It's time to change that , and let you dicover how you can easily alter your basic beauty regime to ensure that it's good not just only for your skin, but even for you! Even with anti-aging claims, some skin care products in fact could make us age sooner, because of the chemical mix included in them. Some of these un-natural products and solutions cause health problems, and even make us look even more fatigued and worn-out. Something is quite wrong with this! The skin care products we apply to our face and body ought to do the exact opposite thing.

Every organic and botanical skin care product line is created without the use of any harmful chemical substances. They are comprised, instead, of all natural botanicals, a good number of which have healing as well as natural elements. Some, you can actually even try eating, in order to improve your natural immunity or even combat inflammatory action inside the entire body. Lycopene, which comes from tomatoes, for instance is certainly effective for greatly reducing or eliminating dark spots or marks. Natural and organic coconut oil has also been proven to reduce Alzheimer's disease as well as other psychological problems. Lavender oil could help you sleep peacefully and get rid of soreness in your skin. Cucumbers are quite useful in minimizing swelling. Natural skin care products and solutions which are comprised of such natural elements are much more helpful compared with those packed with substances which you cannot even pronounce.

Natural skin care generally also smells awesome, rather than chemical, because of its use of plants, flowers and herbs like chamomile, vanilla, bergamot, ginger herb, aloe vera, together with lavender. If you purchase natural and organic skin care products you not only smooth your skin, but additionally you allow the body to absorb mind-blowing aromas which are basically aromatherapy for all 5 sensory faculties. Imagine breathing in ylang ylang, an ancient Chinese all natural herb often considered as an aphrodisiac, while wiping away facial lines and worn-out pores and skin across your eyes, forehead and cheeks. Before you apply your lip gloss, what about using naturally derived chili peppers to achieve a pouty and sexy look look, while at the same time improving your natural metabolism. Organic and natural skincare provides extra health benefits apart from just making you look beautiful.

From lotions to oils, body butters, to eye concentrates, you could find all natural skin care products made out of coconut oil and shea butter, mango butter and olive oil, not from propylparabens, polyethylene glycol and methylparabens - chemical substances that could actually produce skin breakouts and even disturb the body's natural hormones. Some of that stuff is found in oven cleansers, for goodness sake! What person would want to apply that on their body?

In case you are having doubts about purchasing all natural skin care, due to the fact that frequently these types of products are a bit more costly (but not all of the time) - then think of your long term wellness. You would not want to cover your body in chemically derived smells or petroleum- based products and solutions, which commonly contribute to cancer at their very worst, and also skin rashes at their best. You can instead indulge in nature's various organic solutions that will help clear up blemishes, calm inflamed skin, clear away lines and wrinkles, clear up scars, and even make you appear 10 years younger and more lively. All Natural skincare products are, without question, worth the money spent as you're certainly worth more than any lab rat

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