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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Court lifts ban on Calif. gay marriages
The lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris presided at the wedding of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, of Berkeley, as hundreds of supporters looked on and cheered. The couple sued to overturn the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban along with Jeff Katami and Paul Zarrillo, of Burbank, who planned to marry Friday evening at Los Angeles City Hall.
"By joining the case against Proposition 8, they represented thousands of couples like themselves in their fight for marriage equality," Harris, who had asked the appeals court to act swiftly, said during Stier and Perry's brief ceremony. "Through the ups and downs, the struggles and the triumphs, they came out victorious."
Harris declared Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, "spouses for life," but during their vows, they took each other as "lawfully wedded wife." One of their twin sons served as ring-bearer.
Although the couple fought for the right to wed for years, their wedding came together in a flurry when a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a brief order Friday afternoon dissolving, "effective immediately," a stay it imposed on gay marriages while the lawsuit challenging the ban advanced through the courts.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban called the appeals court's swift action "outrageous."
"The resumption of same-sex marriage this day has been obtained by illegitimate means. If our opponents rejoice in achieving their goal in a dishonorable fashion, they should be ashamed," said Andy Pugno, general counsel for a coalition of religious conservative groups that sponsored Proposition 8.
"It remains to be seen whether the fight can go on, but either way, it is a disgraceful day for California," Pugno said.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that Proposition 8's sponsors lacked authority to defend the measure in court once Harris and Gov. Jerry Brown, both Democrats, refused to do so.
The decision lets stand a trial judge's declaration that the ban, approved by voters in November 2008, violates the civil rights of gay Californians and cannot be enforced.
Under Supreme Court rules, the losing side in a legal dispute has 25 days to ask the high court to rehear the case. The court said earlier this week that it would not finalize its ruling in the Proposition 8 case until after that time had elapsed.
It was not immediately clear whether the appeals court's action would be halted by the high court, but Gov. Jerry Brown directed California counties to start performing same-sex marriages immediately in the wake of it.
A memo from Brown's Department of Public Health said "same-sex marriage is again legal in California" and ordered county clerks to resume issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
Given that word did not come down from the appeals court until mid-afternoon, most counties were not prepared to stay open late to accommodate potential crowds. The clerks in a few counties announced that they would stay open a few hours later Friday.
A jubilant San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced that same-sex couples would be able to marry all weekend in his city, which is hosting its annual gay pride celebration this weekend.
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Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Paul Elias and Mihir Zaveri contributed to this story.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/appeals-court-lifts-hold-calif-gay-marriages-19528404
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UK man charged with defacing Constable painting
LONDON (AP) ? Police say a man has been charged with defacing a John Constable painting in Britain's National Gallery.
London police said 57-year-old Paul Douglas Manning would appear in court Saturday, charged with criminal damage.
He was arrested at the gallery Friday after reports of an attack on "The Hay Wain."
The group Fathers 4 Justice, which campaigns on behalf of fathers denied contact with their children, said Manning was a "desperate dad" who had stuck a picture of his son on the painting.
The gallery said there was no permanent damage to Constable's 1821 rural scene, one of Britain's most famous artworks.
Another Fathers 4 Justice member, Tim Haries, has been charged with spraying paint on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey earlier this month
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IVCC student starts online petition against Starved Rock area sand mine
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Ashley Williams, 22, a graphic arts student and a 2009 Ottawa Township High School graduate, decided to start her anti-sand mine crusade following work on a paper she wrote on the subject for an English composition class earlier this year.
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NCAA Moves Quickly To Change Women's Basketball Tournament
Acting quickly this week in Nashville, the site of the 2014 Final Four, the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament committee recommended revisions to the way its version of March Madness might look in the future.
Less than two weeks after suggestions were forwarded in a report by Val Ackerman, the new commissioner of the Big East, the committee decided to immediately allow institutions to host regional finals on home courts.
It will also establish a "Stakeholders' Summit" at the 2014 Women's Final Four to study other alterations.
"[The speed of change] all depends on where the changes need to be made," said Anucha Browne, vice president of the tournament championship committee. "There are things than can be implemented quickly and there are others which will require much more time and thought."
This summit, which is to include personnel from all corners of women's basketball, will consider the following changes beginning as soon as 2015.
?Shifting of weekend playing dates for the women's Final Four from Sunday-Tuesday to Friday-Sunday, with preliminary round game days aligned accordingly.
?Possible first- and second-round byes for as many as the top 32 seeds, so lower-seeded teams play in earlier rounds.
?Combining the women's Final Four with the Division II and Division III Women's Basketball Championships in Indianapolis in the Olympics year of 2016.
"There is great value in Val's recommendations and we spent a considerable amount of time during our meetings in discussion of the issues affecting the championship, while balancing decisions as to what is best for the student-athletes," said Carolayne Henry, chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee and senior associate commissioner at the Mountain West Conference. "Decisions reached by the committee this week are just the tip of the iceberg as we set a prioritization schedule for next best steps for the game and championship."
Regional hosting will allow UConn, for instance, to play on what is considered its home court beginning with the 2014 tournament. That means third- and fourth-round games ? the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight ? could be played at Gampel Pavilion or the XL Center.
However, an institution that decides to bid for a regional will not also be allowed to host a subregional in the same championship season.
The committee prefers that host institutions be limited to a regional in no more than two consecutive years.
Two of Ackerman's most innovative proposals ? allowing Top 16 tournament seeds to host first- and second-round games and melding four four-team regionals into two eight-team events ? have been temporarily tabled, pending more study.
"I know [the NCAA] want more upsets," said South Florida coach Jose Fernandez, the past president of the Big East women's basketball coaches and an NCAA liaison. "If they want more upsets, how to do they think they are going to happen if you play on the home court of a top 16-seeded team? But if you are looking for an attendance boost [home court] will help."
The bid process for hosting first- and second-round and regional rounds for the 2014 and 2015 championship begins July 15. The NCAA is expected to announce sites in early September.
UConn, which hosted first- and second-round games last season, said it would bid for for any future tournament games if permitted by NCAA policy.
The committee will explore a variety of championship format options going forward for the 64 participants. That could include lower-seeded teams potentially meeting in the first two rounds, with the top 32 seeds earning byes.
That would mean the 33rd seed plays the 64th in a first-round game, and so forth down the line. The committee was undecided about where those games would be played, but it said to be strongly in favor of campus sites with the higher seed hosting.
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Feds sue ex-NJ governor Corzine over MF Global failure
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Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine testifies before a House Financial Services Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the collapse of MF Global, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in this December 15, 2011 file photo.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine for failure to supervise at the defunct firm.
In a statement, the regulator said it seeks to ban the former governor of New Jersey from working in the futures industry for his alleged role in the firm's bankruptcy 18 months ago.
The suit also targets the former treasurer of the company, Edith O'Brien, and alleges that MF Global misused funds prior to its collapse. The CFTC is asking for a $100 million penalty against the company.
MF Global collapsed in October 2011 under the weight of aggressive bets on sovereign debt, thin capital and questionable disclosures to investors. Customers were left reeling after it was revealed that more than $1 billion of their money could not be found.
Corzine is charged with violating his legal obligations to diligently supervise. O'Brien is charged with aiding and abetting the firm's misuse of customer funds.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Singapore to Indonesia: Stop sending us your smog.
Air pollution in Singapore?rose to unhealthy levels this week because of illegal forest clearing in Indonesia,?prompting?Singapore?to urge Indonesia to do something to end the haze.
A masked man walks as the sun sets among buildings covered with haze at the Singapore Central Business District Thursday, June 20, 2013. Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically.
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EnlargeCloudy skies in Jakarta were no match for the breathtaking haze that hit Singapore?on Thursday?as air-pollution levels rose to record highs and sparked a war of words between diplomats in both countries over who should shoulder the blame.
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Companies have asked employees to work from home, the military has stopped training outdoors, and pictures of Singapore's iconic Marine Bay Sands towers barely visible through the haze have been splashed across social media platforms?and newspapers.
Despite the international blame game, the immediate cause was clear enough: fires used to clear land in Sumatra for farming and palm oil plantations. A local meteorological agency reported nearly 150 hotspots alone in Riau Province, itself a hotspot for mining, logging, and palm oil production.
Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace released a statement saying that the fires illustrated how Indonesia?s government policies aimed at reducing deforestation had failed?since half of them were in areas off-limits to land clearing.
Each year slash and burn practices in Indonesia shroud neighboring Singapore and Malaysia in thick haze. As deforestation has accelerated in recent years, it has worsened.
On Thursday,?Singapore sent a delegation from its environmental agency to Jakarta to call for immediate action.?Singapore?s environment minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, issued an angry statement?on his Facebook page saying no country or corporation ?has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans? health and well-being.??
But Indonesia shot back its own statement: Singapore should stop ?behaving like a child,? said Indonesia?s?Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Agung Laksono, who oversees fire response.
Mr. Balakrishnan had asked the Indonesian government to name and shame the companies involved in the illegal burning. But Indonesia?s forestry ministry launched back, saying?Singapore and Malaysia shared the responsibility for putting pressure on the resource extraction industry since many of companies were based in their countries.
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Firefighters keep guard over mountain enclave
DEL NORTE, Colo. (AP) ? Fire crews with tankers and hoses at the ready stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people.
"It's like gasoline up there," said Cindy Shank, a former firefighter and executive director of the southwest Colorado chapter of the Red Cross, which set up a shelter at Del Norte's high school for residents and visitors of South Fork, a summer retreat of cabins, RV parks and mostly part-time homes.
"I've never seen a fire do this before," Shank said of the blaze, which was being fueled by hot, windy weather and miles and miles of strands of trees killed by a beetle infestation. "It's really extreme, extreme fire behavior. It has split into two pieces. There are two heads to the fire."
A black smoky sky, broken up only by an orange glow over the outlines of the San Juan mountains, was all that was visible from the nearby town of Del Norte, where evacuees were given an update Friday evening by fire officials.
"It will be a couple of days before South Fork is out of danger," Jim Jaminet, a fire management officer for the Rio Grande National Forest, told evacuees.
Although he tried to reassure the residents that their homes and cabins would be saved ? "Every type of structure protection is in place," Jaminet said ? he noted that the wind- and dead tree-fueled blaze was unpredictable.
"Every afternoon these things are getting legs and getting up and walking around," he said of the fires.
Dozens of fire crews were positioned around neighborhoods in the town, working to remove propane tanks and wood piles that could help ignite homes.
Authorities said the 47-square-mile fire was a few miles southwest of town Friday night and had been advancing at a rate of about a mile an hour.
Meantime, a third fire sparked to the West, raising concerns it would move toward the town of Creede, which has about 300 residents.
And to the east, in south-central Colorado, nine structures and four outbuildings have been lost in a wildfire in Huerfano County that forced the evacuation of about two dozen residents and more than 170 Boy Scouts since it started Wednesday, fire officials said.
South Fork a popular spot for hiking and camping. The fictional Griswold family camped in South Fork in 1983's "National Lampoon's Vacation." The famous scene where a dog urinates on a picnic basket was filmed at South Fork's Riverbend Resort, called "Kamp Komfort" in the movie.
South Fork's mayor, Kenneth Brooke, sent his children and grandchildren to a safe location and stayed behind, helping several dozen area fire responders prepare for hosing down structures.
Brooke said authorities are allowing him to stay in South Fork until the blaze crests a nearby mountain. Until then, the mayor was taking phone calls from nervous neighbors and telling them the town's grim forecast.
"I just tell them it doesn't look good," Brooke told The Associated Press by phone Friday. "I tell them the truth, that the fire is coming. I just tell them to keep themselves safe, evacuate as need be and don't come back.
Late June to August is usually peak season for South Fork, when tourists or part-time residents multiply the town's population.
Harold Josefy, his wife and their 13-year-old granddaughter left the Fun Valley RV park after officers knocked on doors Friday morning. "They told us we had to get out now," he said.
But Terri Allahdadi and her motor coach were staying in South Fork for now. "It's like a ghost town," Allahdadi said by telephone Friday night. "We are not having trouble breathing. I know they need to evacuate people, but I don't feel threatened at all."
South Fork native Denny Fleming, 55, said he, his wife and his dad were the only residents he knew who stayed behind. His family runs South Fork's only gas station. They were keeping it open so firefighters would have fuel, coffee and ice, he said. The family's Rainbow Grocery was closed though.
"We're usually very, very busy right now," Fleming said.
Since most of the residents are part-time, most evacuees said they were less concerned about personal possessions than lifestyle.
"There's just lots of memories," Sue McCraw of Stillwater, Okla., said of she and her husband, Dean's rustic cabin 11 miles from South Fork.
"It's an antique," Dean McCraw said. "But it has character."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/firefighters-keep-guard-over-mountain-enclave-081948910.html
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
PFT: RGIII changing directions without complications
APCoaches always will be tempted to take risks when the reward is winning.? Successful coaches find themselves having far greater license to do it.
For Patriots coach Bill Belichick, three Super Bowl wins in four years and the ongoing presence of one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history have empowered him to take chances.? After all, Belichick isn?t and for the foreseeable future won?t be on the hot seat.
And if he?d ever get fired by the Patriots, someone else would be willing to hire him immediately.
Hints of a greater willingness to embrace risk came in 2007, with the drafting of safety Brandon Meriweather in round one, and the trade that brought receiver Randy Moss to New England from Oakland.? Meriweather kicked an opponent in the head during an on-field fight at the University of Miami, and Moss?s tombstone will (or at least should) read, ?I played when I wanted to play.?
The habit accelerated in 2010, with the two-tight-end dice-roll on Rob Gronkowski (round two; back problems) and Aaron Hernandez (round four; failed drug tests).? Both looked great through their first two seasons.
In 2011, Belichick took risk-taking to a higher level, using a third-round pick on much-maligned quarterback Ryan Mallett and then, after the lockout, sending mid-round picks to the Redskins and Bengals, respectively, for defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth and receiver Chad Ochocinco.? That same year, the Pats spent a fifth-round pick on Marcus Cannon, an offensive lineman who was diagnosed with cancer in the weeks preceding the draft.
In 2012, a seventh-round flier was taken on cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, who was charged with assaulting a police officer only days before the draft.? During the 2012 season, Belichick traded for cornerback Aqib Talib, a former first-rounder who had more than a few off-field predicaments in Tampa.
Then came the unexpected (but in hindsight brilliant) waiver claim on tight end Jake Ballard (ACL) and, most recently, a trade for running back LeGarrette Blount and the decision to bring Tebowmania to town.
It?s not that Belichick is harboring reputed bad guys.? Instead, he?s generally buying low ? whether due to injures, health problems, off-field issues, or perceived distractions from a nationwide army of fanatics and the overly zealous media horde trying to serve them.
In some cases, Belichick?s willingness to take risks has worked.? In other cases, it hasn?t.? For some players, it worked initially but then went the other way.
Regardless, Belichick has opted to take risks because he?s far more focused on cementing a legacy than keeping his job.? While it has yet to deliver a fourth Super Bowl win, there?s no reason to change, because he won?t be on the hot seat any time soon, if ever.
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Archery programs gain popularity in schools ? Artesia News
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) ? Mississippi?s fastest growing sport doesn?t involve running or tackling or a ball.
Whether interest begins with 4-H programs or the movie ?The Hunger Games,? students are asking for archery in schools and trying out for the accuracy-driven sport.
With the growing popularity comes growing talent and three Northeast Mississippi schools ? each with archery programs only about two years old ? brought home state championships this year. Saltillo won the 5A championship, Hatley the 2A crown and Myrtle the 1A title.
Coaches Mark Davidson of Saltillo, Jennifer Taylor of Hatley and Keith Speck of Myrtle each give credit to students who were committed and gave their best in a stressful environment.
?I?m told archery is the fastest-growing sport in the state, if not in the nation,? said Davidson, who has been shooting competitively for more than 25 years.
Though some aspects of school shooting competitions are different from the traditional long bow and re-curve bow that he has used, shooters must use the same skills of shooting without a sight and using the fingers without an aid.
?Our program was in its second year,? Davidson said. ?We were able to win the state championship for the division and also the overall state championship back-to-back in our first two years because the kids were dedicated, put in their time and worked hard.?
Saltillo went on to compete in the nationals in Louisville, Ky., in May, where they came in 21st out of almost 10,000 shooters.
?We didn?t shoot to our potential there,? Davidson said. ?I think the big match pressure kind of got the best of them.?
Saltillo?s top scorer at the state competition was Landon Jones, with Caitlin Rigby joining him as a team leader. Rigby, 17, will be a senior in the fall and was Saltillo?s top female scorer. Her interest in archery started with 4-H.
?I?ve always been interested in sports and still shoot with 4-H too,? Rigby said. ?After I shoot it gets me excited to see most of my arrows in the yellow. It makes me so happy. The most advice I could give someone else is to take your time, not rush and have fun.?
Each school program has about 40 students overall, and the top 26 are able to attend state competition, 24 shooting and two alternates.
?What excites me about archery is that it?s a sport where girls can compete with guys,? said Hatley?s Taylor, a longtime bow hunter. ?It gets people who are not involved in other sports. They may think they?re not athletic enough for some other sport, but in this one all they have to have is accuracy.?
Two of Hatley?s team members graduated in May, but 24 will be returning. After tryouts for seventh- through 12th-graders, 40 students made the team.
Hatley?s top shooter, Braeden Eldridge, graduated in May.
?I got into archery because it was something new,? he said. ?I?d played baseball and tried other things, but when I tried this it stuck. The first year everybody was really young. I?ve always been around hunting, shotguns and been in the outdoors, but nobody else on the team shot bows or hunted. The next year they really stepped up, and when I shot bad they stepped in.?
Eldridge sees his archery career ending with high school as he moves on to college and hopes later the Marine Corps.
Myrtle, too, is fortunate to be bringing back all of its team except one graduate. Speck, a bow-hunter for more than 20 years, was tapped to start up the program just more than two years ago.
?There usually isn?t a lot of money for schools to start new programs, but we got two grants so the school was out very minimal cost to start it up,? he said.
Factors also mentioned by the other coaches ? that it?s a coed sport and that people who may not consider themselves to be athletic can represent their school in a sport ? also appeal to Speck.
The competition builds the student?s confidence, but the final outcome ?boils down to who is hot on that particular day,? Speck said. ?We were very fortunate the past two years to shoot our best score at the state tournament.?
Sixteen-year-old Kelsey Whitten, who will be a senior, has been his top shooter the past two years.
?I like archery because it?s something different,? Whitten said. ?I used to play softball a lot, then tried archery out and really liked it. I practice in my yard out back, make a target and do it until my arm starts hurting. I can?t really get tired of it.?
Whitten says that attitude of wanting to keep practicing and getting better is something she got from Speck.
?I probably wouldn?t be where I am now if the coach didn?t push us,? Whitten said. ?If we would miss practice or something, he?d impress on us how important it was, so I probably wouldn?t have achieved anything without him.?
Soon, though, archery shooters around Northeast Mississippi won?t need to fix a practice place in their own yards like Whitten does.
Bryan Ellis expects to open Mudcreek Archery, an indoor archery center in late June.
?There?s no other archery facility like it around here,? Ellis said. ?We were driving to Michie, Tenn., an hour and 15 minutes, and they only have a small range for one or two people to shoot. It?s nothing like what we?ve got.?
Mudcreek includes moving targets, pop-up targets, the computer simulation game, Techno Hunt, and more. With assistance from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, they also will have the same equipment and targets schools use.?
?They have been very helpful to me, providing me with data about the number of shooting licenses they issue and other advice,? Ellis said. ?We?re self-titling it as ?Mississippi?s most advanced indoor archery range.? We?re going to hold non-school-affiliated tournaments that kids can enter so they have a place to go to shoot after school.?
Some youths also are introduced to archery through 4-H programs of the Mississippi State University Extension Service, with Alcorn County 4-H agent Tammy Parker as the district shooting sports coordinator.
?We have about 140 youths from 23 counties in the archery program,? Parker said. ?It has increased over the past several years. Alcorn County has 10 kids, but the only holdback is adult volunteers who will agree to go through the certification training. We could probably have 50 kids if we had enough adult volunteers to work with them.?
Archery in Mississippi Schools is a program supported by the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Foundation, coordinating the implementation of archery programs in public and private schools.
?This is a continuation of the ongoing effort by the Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to attract Mississippi youth into the out-of-doors and to support Mississippi schools in their effort to improve the physical condition of the youth and to provide youth with a pastime that they can utilize throughout their lives,? the Mississippi Archery In Schools website says.
Program coordinator Waldo Cleland resides in Columbia, and conducts training programs for school archery coaches as well as volunteer coaches.
Davidson retired from Saltillo at the close of school, but is excited about the new shooting facility where he?ll be able to keep using his skills.
?It?s exciting that the new archery complex will be very friendly to the school competition style of shooting, with the kind of bows and targets schools use,? he said. ?Any area student who wants to get in practice outside of school will have a place to go.?
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Information from: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, http://djournal.com
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Friday, June 21, 2013
So Here's the Batman Theme Song Sung by Actual Bats
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News in Brief: Satellite captures Earth's greenery
Orbiting camera detects reflected light to determine extent of vegetation
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Web edition: June 21, 2013
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A new instrument onboard the NASA?NOAA Suomi satellite has been capturing exquisitely detailed views of seasonal and environmental shifts in plant cover. Light sensors on the satellite identify vegetation by detecting differences in reflected amounts of visible light, which plants absorb for photosynthesis, and near-infrared light, which plants don?t absorb. Subtle changes in greenness can give advance warning of drought or fire conditions. Meteorologists can also use data on vegetation dynamics to improve weather prediction.
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The Millions : Under All This Noise: On Reclusion, Writing, and ...
I recently made the mistake of confessing a fantasy to a friend. I told him I dreamed of being a reclusive writer. Tame, I know, given the whole point of a fantasy is to go whole hog. Yet isn?t there something incredibly seductive about those mysterious figures who hide away? We imagine them toiling away in a remote mountain cabin or a Manhattan apartment and only rarely, and with much fanfare, releasing dispatches through an intricate web of agents and lawyers, dispatches that allow an anxiously waiting reading public to make sense of the chaos that has become our world. A guru who bursts forth every seven or 14 years like a cicada.
Hermit,?Thoreau wrote.?I wonder what the world is doing now.
My friend cut to the chase. ?You?re not famous enough to be reclusive,? he said. ?Actually, you?re not famous at all. Maybe you?ll get some traction after you?re dead??
Apart from the obvious ? i.e., there?s always death and the possibility of posthumous resurrection ? my wise friend might also be right that a person might need a certain amount of celebrity in order to be?known for having disappeared. And to my discredit, deep down, I admit this is pretty attractive. I want to retreat from the world and think and write in solitude. At the same time I wouldn?t mind a few readers knowing I?m out here being all mysterious.
Orner? Wait, didn?t he kick for the Vikings?
No, no I?m talking about the writer, you know the dude that vanished?
A genuine recluse, of course, wouldn?t give a damn.
Lately, I?ve wondered if this odd fantasy is rooted in my uneasy relationship with how connected we all are with each other these days. No long ago I was at a Literary Festival (so much for being reclusive) and I attended a panel discussion about the future of the book as the book. The prognosis, I learned, is inconclusive. Might have a few actual physical books in the future, might not. Only one thing didn?t seem in doubt at all, and that is the future of the writer of these inconclusive books. This future, we were told, is directly tied to having a personal online presence. A writer, one panelist declared, who doesn?t personally?reach out to readers via social media is DOA.
This was alarming for several reasons. One is that I?ve tried it. I?m never quite sure what to say. I?ve shared things my friends are doing. ?Teddy Finkel just got back from the trip of a lifetime in Banff!? I?ve also posted a few things I?m up to as well. But each time I?ve done so, there?s this dread. The impulse ? now an industry ? to spread good news about oneself far and wide has become soul-crushing. It makes me want to retreat into the garage (where the Wifi can?t find me) with my outmoded books and unfinished manuscripts. Maybe I?m just not that good at being myself.?I?ve come to see social media as a skill like anything else. Some are talented at it; others, less so.??I?m a mediocre interior decorator also. Nor can I cook, change the oil, or dance.
And yet if I don?t I?m DOA?
There is, though, a larger issue at stake. For me, the whole point of fiction has always been to forget about me. To paraphrase Eudora Welty, the most elemental aspect of the art of fiction is the challenge of seeing the world through another person?s eyes. I spend much of my life trying to live up to Welty?s gauntlet. There is something about the increased demand that fiction writers speak as themselves that feels like a violation of what I used to hold so sacred, the tenet that it is not about me but about the characters I create. I?ve always considered inventing people and introducing them into an already crowded, indifferent world to be an act of faith. The only faith I?ve got. It?s my way of saying that I love this planet and its people in spite of everything we do every day to kill it ? and each other.
Obviously, social media itself isn?t the trouble. The crux, as I see it, is that lately the substance of what we create is often considered almost incidental to the way that we writers, personally, market our?product.?We now must sell our books like we sell ourselves. During the panel discussion on the future of the book, for instance, what goes inside the books in question received passing, almost grudging mention. It isn?t the first time I?ve noticed this trend. Just yesterday I read a piece about pricing in self-published e-books. Apparently $3.99 is the sweet spot? Sweet spot? Am I a dinosaur to wonder what this $3.99-dollar book is actually about?
And yet, paradoxically, I find that this almost fanatical focus on sales over content might provide the alternate route of escape. No need to flee to the cabin in the Bitteroot just yet, as appealing as this sounds.?Maybe I can live out my reclusive dream by hiding in plain sight, by choosing not to engage personally on-line, to declare myself, on my own terms, DOA.
Don?t do it, the experts cry.?Besides being a recluse has been out since Cormac McCarthy went on Oprah. Forget it, you want to be read, you got to sell baby sell.
But do we? Really? When for so many of us out here have a hard enough time inventing lives that aren?t our own?
It may say too much about me that I take my life not only from Eudora Welty, but also from the beautifully goofy movie?Say Anything. I?m a child of the 80s, what can I say? You remember Lloyd Dobler??I don?t want to sell?anything, buy?anything, or process?anything?as a career. I don?t want to sell?anything?bought or processed, or buy?anything?sold or processed?
I take solace in the example of writers who, in spite of all trends, have gone another direction. On my desk, right now, I have a book of poetry by a man named Herbert Morris. Aside from his six books, the fact that he attended Brooklyn College,?and the date of his birth (1928) and death (2001), almost nothing, as far as I can tell, is publicly known about him. The man clearly wanted it this way.
On the jacket of?What Was Lost, his last book, published in 2000, there is no author photo, no biographical information, and no acknowledgements. Richard Howard deepens the mystery with a quote: ?Always the dark stranger at Poetry?s feast of lights, Herbert Morris has returned to the haunt the banquet with these fifteen notional ekphrases, surely the most generous creations American culture has produced since Morris?s own?Little Voices of the Pears.?
It took me three dictionaries to track it the word ekphrases. A gorgeous word, it means a concentrated description of an object, often artwork. Apt as it applies to Morris whose poems are all about paying attention ? truly seeing.
I may have found my recluse, minus any fame, in this dark stranger. I only have his poems, not his personality, but they are exactly what I need. For me it takes great concentration to read?What Was Lost, and thus, I slow way, way down as I follow the tangled, meandering thoughts of his intensely lonely characters. Morris may be a poet, but he is also, to my mind, among the most hypnotic fiction writers in contemporary literature.?I fall into a Morris poem the way I do into a Sebald novel. It is a whole immersion into the intensity of a moment.
Morris writes of other people, sometimes well-known people, such as Henry James or James Joyce, in moments of profound isolation. One utterly breathtaking poem ?History, Weather, Loss, the Children, Georgia? is about a photograph taken of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as they sit in a car before a group of schoolchildren. The photo was snapped just before the children began to serenade the president. The poem begins slowly, exquisitely, as Morris constructs the scene through the smallest of details about the children. They?ve been rehearsing all week for this occasion. Their mouths are poised, frozen forever in little O?s. Even the threads of their clothes receive attention. As does the hand printed banner, Welcome Mister President. Only toward the very last lines does the poem zero in on Franklin and Eleanor themselves. These two icons may be long dead, as is this haunted moment in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1938. And yet, and this is where the poem aches, Franklin and Eleanor are not historical props but rather two vulnerable human beings sitting together ? apart ? in the back of an open car. The poem delicately, yet vehemently, chastises Franklin for ?his wholly crucial failure? to do something pretty simple and that?s touch his wife.
or once, once, whisper to her
intimacies any man might well whisper
on the brink of the heartbreak of the Thirties
(the voiceless poised to sing, air strangled, sultry,
the music teacher?s cue not yet quite given?
I imagine Morris, whoever he was, staring at this photograph so long and with such absorption that Frankin and Eleanor began to sweat in the humid air. And still Franklin?s fingers don?t reach for her.?The poem mourns the loss of so many things, including this touch that never happened.
Ultimately this is not only what I crave as a writer, but as a reader of fiction. I want living, breathing, flawed?characters?on the page. Now more than ever I want to know about private failures not publically shared triumphs. Herbert Morris gives us the miracle of other people in their intimate, unguarded moments.
He may not have trumpeted himself when he was alive. He kept himself apart, and the details of his own life out of the equation.?Perhaps as a consequence he may not have sold many books, but even so he found his way to my desk. I dug him out of the free bin outside Dog Ear Books in San Francisco. How can I express my gratitude to a man who never sought it, who only wanted me to know his creations, not their creator??And think about it, how many others might be out there, somewhere, under all this noise, telling us things we need to hear?
Photo courtesy of the author.
Source: http://www.themillions.com/2013/06/under-all-this-noise-on-reclusion-writing-and-social-media.html
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Apps of the Week: Bandsintown Concerts, Google Translate, Runtastic Pedometer and more!
Another diverse set of picks to give a try this week - see if some are right for you
It's hard to believe we're already half way through June, but that means we have another edition of our weekly app picks for your enjoyment. Every week the Android Central writers take a few moments to show off an app that they're using on their own device regularly, and we group them up to show off each Saturday. They aren't always the newest or flashiest apps out there, but they always serve a purpose for us that other apps just haven't.
Hang around with us after the break and see how this list stacks up against the rest -- you may just come away with a few new apps to try out for yourself.
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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/PEa5e5I6_EA/story01.htm
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Beyonce, video game company settle NYC lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) ? Beyonce has settled a New York City lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her.
Court records show the case was closed Friday after the Grammy Award-winning singer and Gate Five LLC agreed to drop it.
A lawyer for Gate Five says the terms are confidential. A lawyer for Beyonce hasn't returned a call seeking comment.
Gate Five had said Beyonce made a lucrative deal for a game called "Starpower: Beyonce," then demanded a new agreement and abandoned the project. The company says it lost its nearly $7 million investment and 70 people lost their jobs.
Beyonce's lawyers had said she was within her rights to get out of the deal because Gate Five didn't have needed financing.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/beyonce-video-game-company-settle-nyc-lawsuit-001954722.html
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In Trayvon Martin case, history's ghosts linger
Focus on the details, and the cases seem very different. One was killed by virulent white racists, the other by a part-Hispanic neighborhood watchman who insists he faced a vicious attack. One was weighted down and dumped in a river; in the other case, police were called by the shooter himself.
Six decades and myriad details separate the deaths of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin, two black teenagers felled by violence. Yet in the way America reacted to Martin's death ? and the issues that echoed afterward ? his case has created a national racial conversation in the much same manner as the saga of Till, infamously murdered in 1955 for flirting with a white woman.
Plenty of people do not see the Martin case as about race at all. But for others who study America's racial past and present, each killing is a defining moment for its era - a fraught microcosm of what we are, and what we are trying to become.
"Trayvon Martin is today's race case," says Christopher Darden, a prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, another defining American moment. "I don't know that anybody can really sit there and objectively look at the evidence. It arrives with so many different kinds of emotions."
Just as the Till saga remains a searing archetype of the brutal segregation that gave rise to the civil rights movement, the Martin case captures the ambiguous meanings of race in America at a time when both the president and the lowest segments of society are black.
Emmett Till showed what needed to be done in 1955. Now, Trayvon Martin reveals to us the racial landscape of 2013.
"Trayvon Martin certainly is the Emmett Till of the hoodie generation," says Michael Skolnik, a board member of The Trayvon Martin Foundation and president of GlobalGrind.com.
"This case represents so much for our country," Skolnik says. "It represents issues of race, issues of police priorities for different communities. It represents the status of young black men in America."
On a February night in 2012, Martin was returning to his father's house from the store, unarmed, his hoodie up in a light rain. George Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman, saw the 17-year-old and called police to report a "suspicious" person "up to no good." Minutes later, a bullet from Zimmerman's gun was in Martin's chest.
Did Zimmerman think Martin was suspicious because he was black, or was he justly guarding his neighborhood? Did Martin attack Zimmerman? If Zimmerman acted based on race, is that manifestly unjust or just common sense?
Such questions, and the lineage of American historical events behind them, have turned Martin's story into one that far transcends the facts of the case.
"I've been doing work around police brutality and racial hate crimes for over 20 years, but I've never seen one resonate with so many people like the Trayvon Martin situation," says Kevin Powell, president of the advocacy group BK Nation and editor of "The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life."
"He became this symbolic figure for how much has not changed in America in spite of a black man being in the White House," Powell says.
To some, the Martin-Zimmerman case is about media distortion when it comes to race. Some view it through the prism of whether Florida's "stand-your-ground" law is legitimate.
And for others, the case symbolizes that black people see racism when there is no evidence of it.
"I reject the idea that this happened specifically because of color," says Mychal Massie, a columnist and former chairman of the black conservatives leadership group Project 21.
"I'm not saying that Martin deserved to be shot," Massie says. "I'm also not saying he was a paragon of virtue. Indications are he was not singled out because he was black. He was singled out because he was there, Zimmerman was doing his job as a neighborhood watchperson, and he saw a stranger."
Massie strenuously objects to any comparison between Till and Martin. Till, Massie says, died in "a different time."
There certainly is no comparison between the killers, or the circumstances surrounding their actions: Two white men abducted the 14-year-old Till, pistol-whipped and shot him, then dumped him in a river with a weight barb-wired around his neck. Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is from Peru, identifies himself as Hispanic. He says he fired in self-defense because he was being viciously beaten by Martin.
Yet Martin, like Till, died at a pivotal moment in U.S. racial history.
The Brown v. Board of Education case desegregating American schools had just begun the march toward equal rights, but Till's death signaled that the hardest battles had yet to be fought. Likewise, Martin died when a black man was leading the country for the first time.
But Raynard Jackson, a black conservative commentator, says the fact of a black president didn't stop a black kid minding his own business from being considered a criminal.
"It was based on a mindset of prejudice and superiority: 'Who are you to walk in my neighborhood?'" Jackson asserts.
Reams of scientific evidence and real-life experiences suggest such profiling is widespread, and millions of people can feel its truth in their bones. But in the case of George Zimmerman, who exhibited no previous racist behavior of record, it's still nothing but an assumption and almost impossible to prove.
That's another defining feature of today's racial challenges: They're much more subtle than in 1955, and thus often harder to discuss or quantify.
Darden's own judgment tells him that race was a factor in Zimmerman placing Martin under suspicion: "It had to be. Race is a factor, a point of fact that people consider when they evaluate someone."
For Massie, the significance of the Martin case is simple: Black males commit a disproportionate percentage of crimes. "What it shows," he says, "is the continued predilection for misbehavior by so many young urban people, regardless of color."
"The tragedy of Trayvon Martin is that, if as many of us believe he initiated this assault, he paid the ultimate price for a bad decision," Massie says.
Trayvon Martin: victim or aggressor? George Zimmerman: racist or neighborhood protector? As with America in the Emmett Till era, much of today's race problem rests on the fact that America can't reach even a semblance of consensus on the problem.
"I think white America has one way of viewing race, because of their experiences, and American people of color have a very different perspective, because of their experiences," says Powell, the activist.
"If we are to truly have one America, then we've got to talk and listen to each other," he says, "and to understand that Trayvon Martin murder is an American tragedy, not a black tragedy."
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Jesse Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press. He is reachable at http://www.twitter.com/jessewashington or jwashington@ap.org.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trayvon-martin-case-historys-ghosts-linger-132940436.html
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Use an Acorn Cap to Whistle for Help if You Get Lost in the Woods
When out in the woods alone, or if you get separated from a group, it helps to have an acorn cap available. If you need to call for help (or just attention), redditor prater77 explains a simple technique you can use to create a very loud whistle.
An acorn cap makes an extremely loud whistle when used properly. If you are looking at your two thumbs, place them together. Separate the tips of the thumbs to make a V. Hold the acorn cap in your hands with the top rim of it crossing the V you made with your thumbs. Put your top lip on your thumb nails and the bottom lip below the thumb knuckles. Blow. Adjust your hold until you get a high pitched, very loud whistle. When fishing at night on rocky piers, I carry a few acorn caps in my pockets and fishing bag just in case I slip, fall, and get hurt.
For a picture-based tutorial, check out WikiHow.
If lost in the woods, don't shout for help. Look for an acorn cap. | Reddit
Photo by Dirt Time.
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South Africa's path to marriage equality
I can't say, of course, how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the same-sex marriage cases before it. But I can talk about how South African courts grappled with the issue in 2005, after a case was brought by a lesbian couple who had been denied the right to marry. As a justice on the Constitutional Court at the time, I was asked to write the judgment in that case, which led to South Africa's becoming the fifth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
The case before the court involved Mari? Fourie and Cecelia Bonthuys, two Pretoria women who had lived as a couple for 10 years and wanted to get married. The local state marriage officer said that although he would be willing to officiate, the law prevented him from doing so. South Africa's Marriage Act required the recitation of a vow that included the specific terms "husband" and "wife," and because Fourie and Bonthuys were both women, he could not perform the ceremony.
They went to court to challenge the decision, and at around the same time, a gay rights advocacy group brought a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the marriage vow. The court consolidated the two cases so they could be heard together.
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The issue was sharply contested. South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, but marriage between two people of the same sex wasn't specifically addressed. And the common law at the time defined marriage as "a union of one man with one woman, to the exclusion, while it lasts, of all others."
By the time we took up the matter, it was clear that the "M-word" aroused fierce passions on both sides of the debate. On the day the case was heard by the Constitutional Court, South Africa's equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, the gallery was packed with people on both sides as well as journalists from all over the world.
Counsel representing religious groups acknowledged that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to legal protection for their unions. But marriage, they argued, was an intrinsically heterosexual institution created by religious bodies to legitimize procreation. Accordingly, there was nothing unfair in denying same-sex couples access to it, provided the law protected same-sex relationships adequately in other ways.
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Counsel on the other side argued that common law and the Marriage Act were unfairly discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional.
This was one of those cases where the manner of explaining a decision and the adoption of an appropriate remedy turned out to be as important as the actual technical reasoning employed. A crucial dimension was the role that the legislature should play in providing an appropriate remedy. We debated the issues in at least five workshops before coming to agreement on the final text. Finally, in all but one respect, we were able to achieve unanimity.
At the heart of the ruling was the court's basic belief that respect for the dignity of all human beings lay at the heart of our quest for equality. As the judgment put it: "Indeed, rights by their nature will atrophy if they are frozen. As the conditions of humanity alter and as ideas of justice and equity evolve, so do concepts of rights take on new texture and meaning?. What was regarded by the law as just yesterday is condemned as unjust today."
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The justices agreed that denying same-sex couples the status, rights and responsibilities that the marriage law granted to heterosexual couples represented a profound violation of their dignity and right to equality. The court noted that the unfair discrimination came not from gay men and lesbian women being expressly targeted for exclusion but from their being made invisible, as if their love, intimacy and acceptance of mutual responsibility were not worthy of the same kind of public legal recognition available to male-female couples. We concluded that the situation could not be remedied by applying the notorious doctrine of "separate but equal," with its connotations of unworthiness.
Finally, the judgment dealt extensively with the relationship between the sacred and the secular. It acknowledged the meaning that religion has for millions of people in our society, and emphasized that it was inappropriate to regard opponents of same-sex marriages as bigots. Rather, South Africa's Constitution called for coexistence between the sacred and the secular. The same text that barred using religious beliefs as a means of denying the fundamental rights of others protected members of faith communities from being compelled to celebrate relationships that went against their deeply held beliefs.
The one point of dissent among the justices concerned how the remedy for this unconstitutionality should be crafted. One justice held that the court should simply mandate the use of gender-neutral words in the marriage vow, which would mean same-sex couples could begin marrying immediately. The remaining 10 justices, however, felt that it was the role of the legislature to enact statutory changes that would permit same-sex marriages. Ultimately, we gave Parliament one year to adopt the necessary legislation, with the caveat that if it failed to do so, the words "or spouse" would be automatically be read into the law.
Just days before the allotted year had elapsed, Parliament adopted a new law in response to the court order that made it legal for same-sex couples to marry.
Two weeks later, I entered the parking area of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, looking for promised directions, and found a sign with an arrow: "To Amy and Jean's marriage." It seemed so simple, so obviously right that a couple who loved each other could marry in this most family oriented of places. Today, such unions are commonplace in South Africa. Indeed, many South Africans are proud that our country helped lead the way in allowing people the fundamental right to be who they are.
Albie Sachs was appointed by Nelson Mandela to be a justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 1994. He retired in 2009.
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