PITTSBURGH (CN) - An English professor says she suffered "permanent hearing loss, nausea, pain and disorientation" when Pittsburgh police used a Long Range Acoustic Device, developed to fight terrorists, on a peaceful demonstration against the IMF, in which she was not participating, but merely watching.
Karen Piper sued Pittsburgh and its police force for negligence, civil rights and constitutional claims, in Federal Court.
"During the G-20 Summit Meeting held in Pittsburgh in September 2009, City of Pittsburgh Police used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) against civilians on or about the streets of Pittsburgh," the complaint states. "The LRAD, a distance hailing and crowd control device, was developed in response to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, and was originally intended to be used by American warships to warn incoming vessels approaching without permission. Among other things, it emits harmful, pain-inducing sounds over long distances. The LRAD is a military-style weapon, and it was used for the first time in the United States when the Pittsburgh Police directed it on civilians in September 2009. Plaintiff Karen L. Piper, a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was an innocent bystander on September 24, 2009, who suffered permanent hearing loss, nausea, pain and disorientation wh [...]
FC Internazionale Milano must "get up and fight", said new coach Claudio Ranieri in his first press conference before the matches against Bologna FC and PFC CSKA Moskva.
Claudio Ranieri asked FC Internazionale Milano to "get up and fight" during his first media conference after being appointed to replace Gian Piero Gasperini as Nerazzurri coach.
In essence, the law creates a parents' union, which advocates say will provide powerful and needed counterweight to teachers' unions and district bureaucracies....
[W]ith opponents and skeptics arguing that parents lack the expertise to make important policy decisions better left to career educators, the Compton case is a prime example of how challenging it can be to create change.
"We've been waiting for this for a very long time," said Gregoria Gonzalez... "We are very tired of being told if we want to help we simply should stand outside watching recess or making something for a bake sale."
The Boston Business Journal continues to cover the controversy over the competing Massachusetts alimony bills, and in Friday's article by Lisa van der Pool, Dueling alimony bills raise hackles in legal circles, the focus was on the question of whether Senator Cynthia Creem, chair of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, has a "conflict of interest" on account of her sponsorship of the alimony reform Source - Massachusetts Divorce & Family Law Blog
Quietly, with as little fanfare as possible, the US is trying to confront the twin challenges of terrorism and piracy in and around the Horn of Africa.
Amongst other means, the Americans are increasing using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), known as drones.
It is a controversial policy - the CIA is most worried by Somalia and Yemen, so it is no coincidence they are coming under the most surveillance from the air.
Those nations are also experiencing a rising number of unpopular missile strikes by armed MQ-9 Reaper drones, successor to the earlier Predators.
Crippling al-Qaeda Counter-terrorism officials say that in failed or failing states, the drones are a precision-guided weapon to target al-Qaeda operatives, where the host country will not allow the US to put forces on the ground. They point to Pakistan's Tribal Territories, which border Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama's administration has ordered a massive increase in drone strikes.
These have resulted in the crippling of much of al-Qaeda's fugitive leadership, but also in large numbers of civilian casualties.
All eyes will be on Seppo Eichkorn on Saturday as takes charge of Schalke in their German Bundesliga match against Freiburg.
Eichkorn is one of two interim coaches taking to the bench this weekend, after Schalke were rocked by the resignation on health grounds of coach Ralf Rangnick.
And the Schalke caretaker will be hoping to enjoy the same positive start as Rodolfo Cardoso had on Friday night, when he led Hamburg to a 2-1 win over Stuttgart.
Cardoso is currently temporarily in charge of Hamburg after their poor start to the season - they claimed just one point from six matches before Friday night - saw them sack Michael Oenning on Monday.
A day after the passing of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, The Telegraph has reprinted a 1995 interview with the former cricket captain, who also did a stint as editor of Sporstsworld, the now-defunct magazine from the Ananda Bazaar Patrika group that owns The Telegraph.
The interviewer is Salma Khurshid, the current Union law minister, whose wife Louise Fernandes used to be a correspondent for Sunday magazine, also of the ABP group.
Salman: Tell me about other things in life… something about the media world.
Tiger: Really, they deserve the biggest kick up their arse. They do the most damage.
Salman: And they are absolutely irresponsible. Don't you see something in this, apart from the fact that there is a big problem of accountability in the media and every time we've tried, or anyone has tried, to make a system by which the media can be made accountable, they've cried, they've cried themselves hoarse, and we haven't succeeded. People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Tiger: But they're also well patronised. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were patronised by the politicians.
Salman: Yes that is true. But the media is going to change. There is a new kind of media. I often tell the small-time newspaper people that you keep publishing your 5,000 copies defaming people, but there's an electronic media coming that sees facts a little more clearly because it shows them on the screen. You object as much as you like, but the day of the electronic media has come.
I recently decided to propose to my girlfriend, Faigy. I knew I wanted to do something meaningful and —yes—a little over the top, so I decided to put my software engineering skills to work to create the ultimate romantic scavenger hunt. On the road to "The Big Question," I wanted Faigy to visit places around New York City that were filled with memories of our relationship. My plan was to construct a map of the route and get my girlfriend from one destination to the next, all with the element of surprise. Google Maps gave me the tools I needed to make the magic happen.
I used My Maps to plan out the route—from the Trader Joe's we shop at on the Upper West Side, to Magnolia Bakery where we spent part of our first date, to Hudson Bar [...]
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Orissa legislator Jagabandhu Majhi of the ruling Biju Janata Dal ( BJD) and his personal security officer were Saturday shot dead by unidentified men in the state's Maoist-hit Nabrangpur district, police said.Jagabandhu Majhi, an MLA from Umerkote in Orissa, has been shot dead by supposed Maoists.
Majhi belonged to the ruling Biju Janata Dal. He was assisting a public gathering beside Rajghar.
His personal security officer was also killed. Majhi was distributing plots to landless farmers.
The Umarkot legislator was attending a public function at Gona village in the district, over 500 km from here.
"Three people came on motorcycles and opened fire at the legislator," District Superintendent of Police Nitin Sekhar said.
Highroad boss Bob Stapleton has done more than most to rid the sport he loves of doping Few teams took such far-reaching steps to stamp out doping when it first became apparent that the practice was going to kill cycling as did HTC-Highroad. In fact, despite the still-persistent druggy image of the sport, Bob Stapleton's team has been nothing less than an example of how things needed to be done Source - Cyclopunk
Turkish Vessels Embark On Gas Mission In Challenge To Cyprus -- Deutsche Welle
Turkey has sent ships into the Mediterranean on a gas exploration mission in direct response to Cypriot offshore drilling in the region. Turkey says Cyprus should have waited for a settlement on reunification first.
Turkey sent a vessel into the eastern Mediterranean in search of gas stores on Friday, days after it warned Cyprus not to go ahead with its own gas exploration activities in Israeli waters.
Turkey contests a Cypriot-Israeli accord signed last year to create an exclusive economic zone in the waters between them.
Brazil wontheir fifthFIFA U-20 WorldCuptitleonSaturday againstPortugal inafive-goalthriller thatwasdecidedin overtime, while MexicosawoffFrancein third place.
Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, is to be investigated by police over allegations that he allowed his wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding points on his behalf.
Essex police have assigned an officer to investigate the claims that would almost certainly result in the end of Mr Huhne's ministerial career and a jail sentence if proven.
The suggestion that the former Liberal Democrat leadership contender persuaded someone else to accept his speeding points, so he could avoid a driving ban, was first raised publicly by his estranged wife Vicky Pryce last week.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the person alleged to have taken the points is Miss Pryce herself.
From time to time we invite guests to post about items of interest and are thrilled to have Brian May join us to talk about friend and bandmate Freddie Mercury. Our doodle celebrating Freddie's birthday can be seen around the world on September 5 and, out of respect for Labor Day, in the U.S. on September 6. A guitarist and songwriter, Brian May is a founding member of Queen and wrote many of the band's hits, including "We Will Rock You," "The Show Must Go On" and "I Want It All." Brian is also a respected solo artist and one of the founders of Freddie for a Day (www.freddieforaday.com), an organization helping to fight HIV/AIDS globally. - Ed.
I was first introduced to Freddie Mercury—a paradoxically shy yet flamboyant young man—at the side of the stage at one of our early gigs as the group "SMILE." He told me he was excited by how we played, he had some ideas—and he could sing! I'm not sure we took him very seriously, but he did have the air of someone who knew he was right. He was a frail but energised dandy, with seemingly impossible dreams and a wicked twinkle in his eye. A while later we had the opportunity to actually see him sing ... and it was scary! He was wild and untutored, but massively charismatic. Soon, he began his evolution into a world-class vocal talent, right in front of our eyes.
Freddie was fully focused, never allowing anything or anyone to get in the way of his vision for the future. He was truly a free spirit. There are not many of these in the world. To achieve this, you have to be, like Freddie, fearless—unafraid of upsetting anyone's apple cart.
Some people imagine Freddie as the fiery, difficult diva who required everyone around him to compromise. No. In our world, as four artists attempting to paint on the same canvas, Freddie was always the one who could find the compromise—the way to pull [...]
A decommissioned Nasa satellite, the biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years, has crash-landed but the precise location is not yet known, the US space agency said early Saturday.
Nasa has repeatedly said there is only a "very remote" risk to the public from the 26 fragments of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) which were expected to survive the fiery re-entry into the atmosphere.
The satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23pm Friday and 1:09am Saturday (0323-0509 GMT Saturday), but the precise re-entry time and location "are not yet known with certainty," NASA said.
"The satellite was passing eastward over Canada and Africa as well as vast portions of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans during that period," it said in its latest update.
On its Twitter feed, Nasa said, "If debris fell on land (and that's still a BIG if), Canada is most likely area."
The two dozen parts of the UARS that may have survived re-entry could weigh anything from two to 350 pounds (1-158 kilograms), the space agency said, and the debris field is expected to span 500 miles (800 kilometers).
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James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and creator of advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. He died of Streptococcus pyogenes on May 16, 1990.
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Henson, who was born in Mississippi, and educated at University of Maryland, College Park, was one of the most widely known puppeteers in history.[1] He created Sam and Friends as a freshman in College Park. After suffering struggles with programs that he created, he eventually was selected to participate in Sesame Street. During this time, he also participated in the comedy series Saturday Night Live. The success of Sesame Street spawned The Muppet Show, which featured Muppets created by Henson. He also co-created with Michael Jacobs the television show Dinosaurs during his final years. In 1992, he posthumously received the Courage of Consci [...]
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Dene Nation To Participate In Ottawa Protests Against Keystone XL Pipeline
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YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories -- The Dene Nation is supporting a day of civil disobedience and protests in Ottawa next week as part of its ongoing opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus will be there to participate in the protests and to make sure the views of Dene are represented.
On Monday, hundreds of people will flood Parliament Hill to demand a future free of the destructive Alberta tar sands. Many of them will enter the Parliament building and risk arrest by staging a sit-in in protest of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that, if built, will carry tar sands crude to refineries in the southern United States.
After David Ben Gurion rejected the United Nations partition plan and simply declared Israel to be in existence, Harry Truman, goaded by Chaim Weizmann, recognized the new state. However, as Truman's own letter shows, he did not recognize Israel as a "Jewish" state, because to do so would violate the First Amendment prohibition on respecting one institution of religion over any other. So, to clarify an oft quoted claim, the United States officially recognizes the state of Israel, but does not recognize it as a Jewish state. This means the Palestinians or indeed any non-Jewish residents of Israel are recognized as having equal status under United States law.
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Liverpool are set to renew their interest in Newcastle left back Jose Enrique especially after it emerged that they were no longer the favorites to land Gael Clichy from Arsenal, after the Frenchman opted for Manchester City. Over the last 6 months, Enrique has been on the Liverpool management's sights, and they will now focus their efforts on landing him. The player has only one year on his contract, and could opt to see out the term, and leave on a free on the next transfer. He has also refused to sign a new deal that would keep him at the club, and manager Alan Pardew has been forced to come to terms with the fact that there is no way he is remaining at the club. With the kind of talent and the interest already being shown in the player, he is thought to be valued by his team at £10 million, of which the suitors will have to come up with in the event that they are to prize him away
Dinamo Zagreb's Jerko Leko has revealed that his tackle on Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo was an accident.
The Portuguese winger was angered by Leko's tackle on him during Real Madrid's 1-0 victory over Dinamo in their UEFA Champions League clash.
However, the Croatian has denied purposely trying to hurt the 26-year-old.
"I immediately put my leg in, but I could see nothing. I went straight for the ball and I did not mean to hurt Ronaldo," said Leko to Jutarnji List.
"Ronaldo believes it was a pre-conceited tackle, but I think he is an extraordinary player, if a little arrogant. As for the tackle, it was unfortunate."
May Roosevelt will be playing at The Old Blue Last, Great Eastern Street, London on Tuesday the 9th of February, as part of the VICE Magazine & The Red Bull Music Academy Knees Up.
Cloud computing is secure, simple, keeps you productive and saves you money. But the cloud can also save energy. A recent report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Verdantix estimates that cloud computing has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by millions of metric tons. And Jonathan Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford who has led several studies on data center energy use, has written that for many enterprises, the cloud "is significantly more energy efficient than using in-house data centers."
Because we're committed to sustainability, we sharpened our pencils and looked at our own services to see how they stack up against the alternatives.
We compared Gmail to the traditional enterprise email solutions it's replaced for more than 4 million businesses. The results were clear: switching to Gmail can be almost 80 times more energy efficient (PDF) than running in-house email. This is because cloud-based services are typically housed in highly efficient data centers that operate [...]
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When I opened my eyes I was lying in some rusty old place. Lata's story: She sees a crack in the door and is trying to escape. Three or four gundas are gambling and drinking. Lata is trying to escape when a part of her saree gets stuck. While she is still trying to untangle her saree one of the gundas shout the lady escaped. Another gunda says if she ran away then go get her. As soon as she gets her saree untangled a gunda comes and says you were trying to escape? He is pulling her hair. He says you want to escape? Will you escape? Lata says please let me go. The gundas start messing around with her. Back to present. Lata is telling this whole story to everyone in the room. Back to the past: the gundas says he will save you. Look look. Lata sees Vimal. She says Vimal very faintly. Back to the present. Everyone is shocked. The police is writing everything down. Lata says I had asked for his help. Past: Lata says Vimal ji please save me. Please. Back to present: Lata says but Vimal ji stayed quiet and did not move. Shelly is not feeling well. Lata says those gundas wanted to rip me apart maa. The past is shown and the gundas are trying to make Lata drink alcohol and stuff. Lata is pleading for help from Vimal ji. Back to present: Karan says there is some misunderstanding somewhere. Didi please think again carefully. Lata says no Karan. This is the truth. I have seen it with my own eyes. Abha says Vimal bhaiya? Why would Vimal bhaiya do such a thing? Lata says Abha I don't know what relation, if any, Vimal ji had with those gundas. Lata says suddenly there was a police siren there. As soon as they heard it the gundas and Vimal ji ran away. And I also took the opportunity to run off. Maybe they wanted to scare me…Mami says only scare you? Meaning…The doctor walks in. The doctor says her reports have come. Abha asks what do the reports say Dr? The Dr says the reports have come, but you all please be strong. It has been confirmed [...]
Cheddar Gorge Stage Map: click here Stage Profile: click here More Stage Guides: click here In our ever-ongoing attempts to enlighten the general public to the wonder that is professional cycling, we've been singing the praises of the Tour of Britain down the pub. One common reaction - other than "blimey, are you still banging on about that?" - is "isn't that a bit boring? I mean, we haven't Source - Cyclopunk
GREEN FLAG LANCER Air Force Senior Airman Jonathon Hartman marshals in a B-1B Lancer aircraft during Green Flag-West 11-10 on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Sept. 20, 2011. Hartmand is a crew chief assigned to the 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Green Flag-West is a joint Air Force-Army unscripted battle exercise designed to train participants for complex air defense scenarios while supporting high-intensity ground operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brett Clashman
Real Madrid against Real Zaragoza craze of time because it could make six goals, let alone the achievement is equipped with Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid La Liga Their campaign started in convincing fashion with a thumping 6-0 victory over Real Zaragoza.
Ronaldo, WHO won the European Golden Shoe last season after netting 40 times in La Liga, netted in the 24th, 71st and 87th minutes to complete yet another treble for Real. Marcelo, Xabi Alonso and Kaka also got on the scoresheet.
Maine voters repealed their state's gay marriage law yesterday. BOSTON GLOBE - PORTLAND, Maine - Maine voters overturned the state's same-sex marriage law yesterday, delivering a potentially crushing blow to gay-rights advocates after a year when their cause seemed to be gaining momentum with legislative and legal victories in four states.The "people's veto'' came six months after Maine's law was Source - Massachusetts Divorce & Family Law Blog
Romelu Lukaku has vowed to do everything possible to force his way into Chelsea's Champions League squad in January after finding himself omitted for the group stages.
Summer signing Lukaku was sacrificed when Andre Villas-Boas selected his pool of players for the Blues' Group E campaign due to UEFA's restrictions on imported stars.
But after running himself into the ground in last night's Carling Cup penalty shoot-out victory over Fulham - his full debut for his boyhood idols - the 18-year-old was determined to change Villas-Boas' mind.
"It is up to me to play well in and then hopefully get in the next squad when it is named in January," former Anderlecht star Lukaku said.
Unbelievable as it may sound, residents of the town of Mudhol in North Karnataka observed a bandh (shutdown) on Tuesday, September 20, to protest “blackmail journalism” and the growing number of imposters masquerading as journalists to extort money.
According to a report in the Kannada daily Praja Vani, the bandh in the town of 100,000 residents was a “complete success”.
Shops and business establishments downed their shutters for a few hours, and vehicles were off the roads.
The protestors included politicians, farmers, even journalists, and a host of other organisations. They marched to the tahsildar‘s office and presented a memorandum.
One protestor slammed weekly newspapers for bringing a bad name to the entire profession, and another targetted the misuse of the right to information (RTI) Act to ferret out information that was later used for extortion.
Mudhol town is famous for its country-bred hounds used for hunting.
Following are the top Australian MBA schools as ranked in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) BOSS magazine's survey: Melbourne Business School (MBS) - The MBA program is ranked No. 1 in Australia in the 2009 AFR BOSS magazine survey of Australian MBA programs. In addition, the MBS full-time MBA program is ranked No. 1 in Asia Pacific in the Economist Intelligence Unit's Which MBA? 2010 annual
We've worked hard to reduce the amount of energy our services use. In fact, to provide you with Google products for a month—not just search, but Google+, Gmail, YouTube and everything else we have to offer—our servers use less energy per user than a light left on for three hours. And, because we've been a carbon-neutral company since 2007, even that small amount of energy is offset completely, so the carbon footprint of your life on Google is zero.
We've learned a lot in the process of reducing our environmental impact, so we've added a new section called "The Big Picture" to our Google Green site with numbers on our annual energy use and carbon footprint.
We started the process of getting to zero by making sure our operations use as little energy as possible. For the last decade, energy use has been an obsession. We've designed and built some of the most efficient servers and data centers in the world—using half the electricity of a typical data center. Our newest facility in Hamina, Finland, opening this weekend, uses a unique seawater cooling system that requires very little electricity.
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FEATURE FILM: Watch trailer: Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.Director: Ari Palos Stars: Curtis Acosta and Jose Gonzalez Genre Feature Documentary Studio Dos Vatos Productions
TUCSON -- Precious Knowledge interweaves the transformative stories of seniors in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School. Inequalities in education continue to affect people of color. The ticking time bomb story of our time is that fewer than six in 10 Latino adults in the United States have a high school diploma. These alarming dropout rates will continue to have a serious impact on our nation. Our documentary goes further, however, by illustrating forms of critical pedagogy that can empower Latino youth and other youth of color and change this state of affairs. Precious Knowledge will illustrate to a nationwide audience a Mexican American Studies program that inspires 82% of its students to enroll in college. The themes of Precious Knowledge are embedded in the journey of each student as they: self reflect, seek out precious knowledge, begin to act, and ultimately transform, while nurturing positive images of Latino identity and embracing the dignity of all cultures and histories. Description Music Composed by: Naim Amor, http://www.facebook.com/amor.naim Edited by: Jacob Bricca Awards Audience Favorite and Special Jury Award, San Diego Latino Film Festival, 2011 Honorable Mention in the Best Documentary Category, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2011 Starring Curtis Acosta, Jose Gonzales, Crystal Terriquez, Pricila Skilla, M [...]
PITTSBURGH (CN) - An English professor says she suffered "permanent hearing loss, nausea, pain and disorientation" when Pittsburgh police used a Long Range Acoustic Device, developed to fight terrorists, on a peaceful demonstration against the IMF, in which she was not participating, but merely watching.
