Teacher in hot water for Twitter account that includes topless pics and calls students 'jailbait’

Carly McKinney, a high school math teacher in Colorado, has been put on administrative leave, after a Twitter account she claims to have created had topless photos of herself on it and other tweets claiming she was high while grading papers. (Twitter)

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A 23-year-old high school math teacher in Colorado has been put on leave for allegedly posting topless photos of herself on Twitter and referring to students as "jailbait."

Carly McKinney, when contacted by local broadcaster 9News, admitted she created the now-deleted Twitter account CarlyCrunkBear (@crunk_bear) with a friend but claimed that it was meant to be satirical.

One post says, "Just got called Ms. McCutie. Points for being clever, however you are still jailbait," 9News reported.

Another post says, "Watching a drug bust go down in the parking lot. It's funny cuz I have weed in my car in the staff parking lot."

The first-year Overland High School teacher also apparently claimed to be stoned while grading papers.

The news station contacted McKinney Monday after a viewer alerted them to the questionable tweets, and the Twitter page was deleted minutes later, 9News reported.

McKinney claimed she didn't post the naked photos of herself and blamed an unidentified friend.

Moments after the broadcaster called her, the last Twitter post on the account was, "Local news station just called me...Tweeking out."

Officials with the Cherry Creek School District put McKinney on paid administrative leave while they continue their investigation, 9News reported Tuesday.

Students at the high school have made T-shirts in support of McKinney's reinstatement and people on Twitter have created the hashtag #FREECRUNKBEAR.

A school spokeswoman told the station that teachers are given social-media training and their rule of thumb is, "Don't put anything online that you wouldn't put on your classroom chalkboard."

Should teachers be more careful with what they share on social media?

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/30/teacher-in-hot-water-for-twitter-account-that-includes-topless-pics-and-calls-students-jailbait

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Reason Replay: What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You ...

Editor's Note: With discussion about immigration reform heating up - and renewed interest in this feature from our October 2008 issue across the web and on cable news shows (The Washington Post's Wonkblog and MSNBC's Rachel Madow name-checked it yesterday), Reason is happy to republish this quick, infuriating explanation of just how dysfunctional and punishing the legal immigration system is.

From our October [2008] issue, Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon show what it takes to legally immigrate to America. Click on the image below to see a larger version. Click again to expand it.

Read the whole issue here.

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Cops shoot dogs in front of Pennsylvania high school

By Hasani Gittens, News Editor, NBC News

A dog fight ended with a hail of bullets in a Philadelphia suburb, leaving residents shocked and looking for answers.

The incident started on Friday at around noon when a stray dog got into a pickup truck at a red light in Chester, Pa., and began fighting with another pooch, NBCPhiladelphia.com?reported.

Cops were called when the dogs couldn't be separated, and when they arrived, witnesses were stunned at the reaction. One officer shot at the dogs five times with a pistol, then another fired one blast from a shotgun.?

And this all went down right in front of Chester High School.

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Tehran Freeman, a dog owner himself who lives down the block from the shooting, captured the incident on video with his cell phone and was outraged at the handling of the situation.

"I don't care how bad they try to make Chester seem, this is not a war zone, you don't do things like that," he told NBCPhiladelphia.com.?

"I thought them as the police should be held to a higher standard and would have some type of procedure for breaking it up than actually pulling out your pistols in front of the high school."

Freeman told NBCNews.com that the bigger, more aggressive dog seemed to be a?pit bull?and had a leash, but the other smaller dog didn't. It was unclear who the owners were.

He said when he saw the police the "last thing that I thought would happen" is that they would open fire with their guns.

"It wasn't secure at all, I know bullets can?ricochet?and anything else -- you're trying to shoot two animals in the back of a metal vehicle, that bullet can go anywhere."

Chester police told NBCPhiladelphia.com that the incident was under investigation and at the time the animal control officer in the city was unavailable.?

Freeman added that some of the cops involved seemed as upset as anyone.?

"One of the officers actually looked very, very shaken up about it," he said.?

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Law Schools? Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut

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Applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation. ...

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PlayHaven Grabs Google Admob?s Mobile Cowboy Yim As COO

PlayHaven, the gaming service provider that helps studios monetize their players better, just grabbed Google Admob’s Charles Yim as COO. He’ll oversee the company’s international expansion, developer relations and business development. He had a similar role at Google where he managed the ad network’s key relationships with the biggest game developers like Rovio. He joined AdMob on the business development team before the company was acquired for $750 million by Google in 2010. (“Mobile cowboy” is a nickname he got at SXSW a few years ago for wearing cowboy hats and boots all the time.) PlayHaven is a company that’s had nine lives, I mean, pivots. It started as a gamer’s social network that transitioned into making communities for mobile games. Now it focuses on maximizing lifetime revenue from players for developers. It launched a product last year, that implemented an HTML5 layer inside games so developers could automatically swap in and out promotions based on a player’s history or demographics. A “whale” that spends a lot would be shown different adverts than a player who advances in a game without spending anything. That helped the company rack up 4,000 developers on its platform, close an $8 million round of funding in November and grow to about 60 employees. Yim had advised the company through this evolution. “I’ve known the CEO Andy Yang personally and watched the development of the company,” said Yim. “They’ve identified product-market fit, they’re ready to scale and I’ve to come help them out.” PlayHaven’s business has two prongs — an in-app advertising network that reaches about 100 million monthly uniques and a platform of revenue maximization tools. Those tools segment out users based on their spending habits, and help developers understand which ads or promotions to show them. “If you look at the tools in this industry today, it reflects the maturity of this ecosystem,” he said. “We no longer just slapping ads on top of games without much thought about what’s the best point in the game to show an ad, who are the appropriate users to show an ad to or not show an ad to.” They face dozens of competitors that overlap slightly (though not totally) with their mission. Big service providers like Flurry and Tapjoy help developers acquire users, but they’re not necessarily primarily focused on maximizing engagement or retention. Chartboost is another competitor that recently raised $19 million from Sequoia

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Ethics of talking shit about bad people and companies - ShoeMoney ...

If you have read my autobiography I give a ton of examples how I do what others are willing not to do.

I also talk about how I feel its my duty to share my experiences with companies that I feel are evil. ?Sometimes even criminal.

I call them out by name. ?You can see peoples names on the bottom right. ?As you read them you will notice that I don?t tell you if you should do business with them or not I simply share my experience with them.

Let me give you an example.

Rohail recently made a post titled How I lost 15,000 in a week. ? Its a post about how he got conned into working with this shitty company who managed a campaign for him and lost him a bunch of money. ?We have all been there so no shame in that. ?I was disappointed that Rohail did not give them name in the company.

So now at the next Affiliate Summit when I (or others) talk to Rohail about an experience I had where a company cost me a lot of money. ?Then he reveals that it was this company that he wrote about. ?How shitty is he going to feel that if he would have shared his experience he could have saved a lot of his friends money?

I can?t tell you the amount of people that have thanked me for sharing my experiences with companies.

I understand some people think its bad karma to do so or the possible legal ramifications are just not worth it. ?And I am not going to lie I have had legal ramifications. ?But since everything I wrote was 100% fact then not much they can do. ?And the LAST thing one of these companies want (IMO) is to have public documents stating all of these facts.

Anyway again I don?t mean to pick on Rohail. ?He is a good guy. Its just the latest example I came across.

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Is McDonald's Actually Getting Healthier Or Does ... - Business Insider

McDonald's has announced the creation of 2,500 new British jobs. Over the last five years, in fact, the company increased its UK workforce by 20,000 ? a rise of over 20%. Many of these McJobbers will be workers on benefits or "Wobs", of course, and they'll still be miserably underpaid on seven or eight quid an hour while, last year, the company's chief executive James Skinner took home almost $9m.

But whatever its reputation among those of us who care about working conditions, public health, the environment and the quality of the food we eat, McDonald's is still doing extraordinarily well. Every day, 68 million people visit one of its restaurants. If you'd bought its stock in 2004, when Morgan Spurlock released Supersize Me and some people predicted the eventual death of the giant, you'd have tripled your money by now.

The McDonald's PR campaign of the mid-noughties has undeniably been a success. But did the chain actually improve, or were its changes merely cosmetic? In the UK, at least, I would argue McDonald's felt genuinely compelled to act on some of the concerns people had raised about it. It introduced more salads and fresh fruit to its menus, it began to use only free-range eggs and organic milk, it made its revolting coffee Rainforest Alliance and it began to recycle much more than it had before. People argued, with some reason, that the lettuce leaves were just fig leaves: that healthy-ish food in a burger joint was only a "vehicle to sell more burgers and fries", as one anti-junk food campaigner put it to the New York Times.

In part, she was probably right. But Jamie Oliver was right as well: it's now possible to eat a relatively healthy meal in McDonald's. (This is if you define "healthy" as merely "not high in fat and sugar": a narrow definition, but the most important in the debate on obesity.) This is an undeniable improvement on the situation 10 years ago. Many people thought that putting calorie counts on menus would look stupid or nannying, but those numbers turned out to make it much easier for people to make better choices about the food they buy. Middle class as I am, I use them in Pret sometimes. Anyone could guess that a ham and cheese toastie is going to be more calorific than a tuna salad, but few would necessarily have realised the toastie has well over three times as many calories as the tuna.

While it's clear that McDonald's continues to make it easy to eat very badly for very little money, I'm not convinced it's reasonable to blame it alone for the obesity crisis. Blind though it perhaps is of me, I still marvel that it can raise, kill and butcher a cow, make a bun and cheese with all those weird chemicals, lurid colours and sugar, van everything round the country or the planet, pay the rents on the restaurants, hand its staff their abysmal wages or million-dollar bonuses, market itself ferociously, and still sell a cheeseburger for 99p.

I'm no convert to McDonald's. Its pay remains a disgrace; its core product deeply unhealthy (a "Big Tasty with Bacon", large fries and medium chocolate milkshake has 1,780 calories) and it retains a pathological hostility to trade unions. I was as revolted as anyone at its presence in those monolithically ugly premises in the Olympic park. But under pressure from campaigners it has been forced to improve a little in the last few years. The correct response is not applause, it should be to intensify that pressure.

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'First Time' May Influence Sexual Satisfaction for Life | Psych Central ...

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 29, 2013

New research suggests a person?s first sexual experience can set the tone for the rest of one?s sexual life.

Matthew Shaffer, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Tennessee, and C. Veronica Smith, Ph.D., an assistant psychology professor at the University of Mississippi, devised the research project to study the effects of losing one?s virginity.

The study is published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy and is the first to look at whether the circumstances of losing one?s virginity have lasting consequences.

?The loss of virginity is often viewed as an important milestone in human development, signifying a transition to adulthood,? said Shaffer.

?However, it has not been studied in this capacity. We wanted to see the influence it may have related to emotional and physical development.?

The researchers examined how first-time sexual satisfaction impacts long-term sexual function as well as how first-time physical and emotional responses affect long-term sexual experiences.

They found that positive first-time experiences were predictive of physical and emotional satisfaction. Specifically, those who felt loved and respected by their partner found later encounters more emotionally satisfying.

The researchers asked 331 young men and women about how they lost their virginity. The anonymous participants ranked the experience according to emotions related to anxiety, contentment and regret.

Survey responders also answered questions about their sex life using scales measuring sense of control, satisfaction and well-being. Finally, the participants filled out a diary for two weeks describing each sexual experience.

A series of analyses revealed those who were most emotionally and physically satisfied the first time found their sex lives the most fulfilling. Those who reported higher levels of anxiety and negativity with the first time reported lower overall sexual functioning.

?While this study doesn?t prove that a better first time makes for a better sex life in general, a person?s experience of losing their virginity may set the pattern for years to come,? said Shaffer.

Shaffer suggests that a first-time sexual experience may create a general pattern of thought and behavior that guides sexual experiences and understanding of information concerning sexuality.

Source: University of Tennessee

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Nauert PhD, R. (2013). ?First Time? May Influence Sexual Satisfaction for Life. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 30, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/29/first-time-may-influence-sexual-satisfaction-for-life/50954.html

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EU backs consortium in billion-euro program to hasten graphene development

If you're anxious for all this talk about graphene to materialize into products that can be tucked away in your shoulder bag, you're certainly not alone. A consortium dubbed the Graphene Flagship, which includes heavyweights such as Nokia and the University of Cambridge, has been selected by the European Union to participate in a program that'll endow it with 1 billion euros over 10 years to make that happen. The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors. During the first 30 months of the program, 126 academic and industrial research groups spread throughout 17 European countries will be coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology and have their collective pockets filled with an initial 54 million euro budget to kick things off. It's a long haul, but here's hoping Espoo's Morph concept inches a little closer to reality.

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Before career change, test drive a new profession

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Michelle V. Rafter , NBC News contributor

Some people quit whatever they?re doing to plunge headfirst into a new career.

As glamorous as it sounds to chuck everything for a new passion, it?s not practical. You need money to bankroll going back to school, start a business or make ends meet while working an entry-level job to switch a completely different profession. What if you decide that other industry isn?t for you? Back to square one.?Instead, employment experts suggest taking a career change for a test spin before committing to it 100 percent.

There are different ways to try before you buy. Volunteer or work pro bono to see if something?s the right fit. Work on a startup after hours until you?re earning enough to make it a full-time gig. Get the training and connections you need to start over by going back to school part?time.

?Trying something out first is important before investing in a whole new education,? says Paula Gregorowicz, a Philadelphia career coach who counsels small and women-owned businesses.

Here are the stories of three people who inched their way into a career change:

Back to (fashion) school
In her former job as a business consultant, Yasha Stelzner dressed for success. In the one she?s working toward, she aspires to help the fashion designers who create what she wears.

Stelzner, 38, already had an undergraduate degree and MBA when she went back to school to land a fashion-industry job. It was the quickest way to figure out which aspect of the business to focus on, and to get internships and connections that could lead to a job, Stelzner says. ?Not working in the industry, you?re just isolated from it,? she says. ?You don?t know who to talk to, the resources, it?s really hard. You could probably do it, but this just makes it easier, to embed yourself into the community.?

The San Francisco resident started attending classes at the city?s Academy of Art University in early 2011 while working part time in her old job. After taking a clothing construction course, she realized she could blend her business background and passion for fashion in a job as a product developer. People in those behind-the-scenes positions turn a designer?s sketches into patterns, fabrics and notions for a factory to produce the garments at a desired price.

School led to the industry connections and internships Stelzner hoped for. She?ll finish her masters of fine arts at the end of 2013, but already has picked up a few clients. She anticipates her first job will pay about what she was previously making, with the potential to make even more.

Her advice for going back to school for a career change: ?Don?t worry so much about the grade but what you need to learn, and keep your focus on that.?

A five-year transition
Moonlighting in a new job while working in an old one is one way to ease into a transition, but it can years.

Tony Magee?s journey from salesman to microbrewery owner took five years. Today, the 52-year-old is well-known in beer circles as the owner of Marin County, Calif.-based Lagunitas Brewing Co., which makes tasty brews like Dogtown Pale Ale and Cappuccino Stout. Before that, Magee was a sales rep for a Bay Area commercial printing company, and before that, a musician.

The beer bug bit after Magee got a homebrew kit for Christmas, tried it and was so enthralled, he decided to start a brewery. But even after some early successes, he didn?t quit his day job. ?I would get up at 3 a.m. and by 3:45 I was sitting in front of a Mac at Kinko?s working on labels and pamphlets,? he says. ?I?d go to the brewery until 9 when my printing customers started showing up, and then I?d start that job.?

A long span from one career to another can take a toll. While Magee worked two jobs, the 100-hour work weeks almost ended his marriage. After a few years, his wife joined him at the brewery, which helped. Now she runs the company?s plant, logistics and hiring. ?The life that it represents helped keep us together, and that?s a good thing,? he says.

Two decades after he started, Lagunitas has grown to 200 employees and sells beer in 38 states. Magee is getting ready to open a second brewery in Chicago to expand even more.

To people contemplating a career change, Magee suggests working hard and having faith in yourself that things will be OK. ?Every lesson you learned in life will apply to everything else,? he says.

Doing the homework
You won?t know for sure what a new career is like until you research it.?

Anne Fleming routinely did research and product development as the senior marketing director for a Pittsburgh decorative lighting company, so before deciding to jump to a new career as a small-business owner, she spent two years investigating it.?

Fleming?s experience buying a car got her interested in creating a website where women could share their own stories about purchasing an?auto, reviews that?other women could then?use to become better negotiators. As part of her research, Fleming wrote a marketing plan, got help from the University of Pittsburgh?s small-business development center, hired a marketing firm and in 2008 launched the website, Women-Drivers.com.

She worked on the site in her spare time until 2009, when the lighting company was acquired and laid off 31 of 36 employees, including her. Fleming used her severance, along with money from selling her house, to focus full time on the site.

From 2009 to 2011, Fleming built up the business by doing more research: using data from visitors to the site to write reports on women and cars, which led to more exposure inside the industry.

For the past year, Fleming has again worked two jobs, splitting her days between the website -- which she says is doing well enough to no longer need her 24/7, seven days a week --?and working as the marketing director for a local emergency-alert system franchise.

Besides doing research, those contemplating a career switch should line up a team of supporters, she says. ?Have advisers who aren?t your BFF or your family. They?re objective stakeholders and they?re there for you and will give you feedback whether you like it or not,? she says.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/ready-career-change-test-drive-new-profession-1C8145730

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Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth's Relationship ? Their Love Is ...

Miley Cyrus ? you say in your new interview with ?Cosmopolitan? that you?re so happy ?I?m married.? It?s so refreshing to read the words of a star who?s honest about her romantic relationship and is willing to share her feelings with her fans.

Miley Cyrus ? I bet there are a lot of fans thrilled for you right now ? you just told the world that, ?I?m happy I?m married? in your new interview in?Cosmopolitan?s?March 2013 issue.

You were speaking out in an interview for the magazine and you certainly look super on the cover of the issue with your new short, punky hair while going braless in a white?Roberto Cavalli?pantsuit.

Thanks For Being Open, Miley!

But what?s even more impressive than your toned and fit figure is your openness about your deep and enduring feelings and commitment for ?hubby,??Liam Hemsworth, 23, as you refer to him in the article.

You talk about how you?re so happy that you?re not dating anymore and that you still can?t believe how gorgeous your man is.

?I?ll literally look at him and be like, ?You are so hot, dear god!?, you said. ? The other day, I turned on the pool heater and it was steaming, and he walked outside and took off his clothes and jumped in the pool. I was like, ?I?m gonna faint ? the hottest guy of my life is in a steaming pool,?? you gushed.

Why Miley Doesn?t want A Big, Extravagant Wedding

Gushing is refreshing. After all, how many celebrities talk openly about their love lives? Instead, most are quick to say that they?never discuss their personal lives. And they respond to any ?intrusive? questions with horror.

Miley, that is one of the key reasons that your fans love you. A big part of ?being Miley? is being open, unlike so many other celebrities, and really letting the world know how you feel. It makes you lovable and inspirational.

By first speaking out about your love and commitment for to Liam in an interview in Marie Claire?s Sept 2012 issue, when you were just 19 and engaged, you were endorsing the values of monogamy and commitment.

Yes, you were young at 19 to make a commitment to marriage ? but some people do meet their true love at an early age and look forward to a life together.

Now, it?s impressive in this new?Cosmo interview that you stress that it?s your relationship that?s paramount to you, NOT having a big wedding.

?I feel the bigger the wedding, the more it becomes a target for people to ruin? I don?t know why anyone thinks I?m going to have this huge, extravagant wedding. That is?so?not what I am,? you told the magazine.

Is Miley Already Hitched?

Of course the question is ? have you already had a legal wedding or do you just consider Liam to be your husband emotionally already ?

You?ve already posted photos of yourself and Liam wearing what appear to be wedding bands on Twitter. So did you two have a quiet, private family wedding over the Christmas holiday?

Hmm! Well, whether legally married or not, you definitely consider yourself married and you have no interest in dating around like many other young women.

In the Sept. 2012 issue of?Marie Clare?you said that ?life is too short not to be with the person you want to be with,? and that is so insightful and true.

It?s impressive that someone so young has such a mature and loving view of life.

Why Miley Is So Mature About Making A Committment To marriage

Miley also gave insight to?Marie Clare?about what makes her relationship with Liam work so well. ?You don?t put each other down,? she said, and she explained that neither wants to have a film role or another project undermine their future together.

?You want to make sure you are making the best decisions for the people you love? it?s not worth making someone you love unhappy over a [creative choice].?

That?s a lot of openness that Miley chose to share with her fans ? I?m sure in the hopes of helping them with their own relationships.

Now at 20, she says she?s ?married ?and thrilled about it. It?s a ringing endorsement for those who have a hard time making a commitment to the institution.

So thank you Miley, for sharing your news and your feelings with your fans instead of shutting the door of privacy. I?m sure there is a lot that you?ve kept private but it?s terrific of you, as a big star, to let the world know that romance still exists!

Watch: Miley Cyrus Admits She?s Married To Liam Hemsworth

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Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/01/29/miley-cyrus-liam-hemsworth-love-relationship-marriage-interview/

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Toyota No. 1 again with nearly 9.75M sales in 2012

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2012 file photo, a couple walk by Lexus models displayed at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo. Now it's official: Toyota is once again the world's top automaker. Toyota released its tally for global vehicle sales for last year Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 at a record 9.748 million vehicles ? a bigger number than the estimate it gave last month of about 9.7 million vehicles. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2012 file photo, a couple walk by Lexus models displayed at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo. Now it's official: Toyota is once again the world's top automaker. Toyota released its tally for global vehicle sales for last year Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 at a record 9.748 million vehicles ? a bigger number than the estimate it gave last month of about 9.7 million vehicles. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

In this Dec. 27, 2012 photo, a man walks out from a Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Now it's official: Toyota is once again the world's top automaker. Toyota Motor Corp. released its tally for global vehicle sales for last year Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 at a record 9.748 million vehicles ? a bigger number than the estimate it gave last month of about 9.7 million vehicles. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

TOKYO (AP) ? It's official: Toyota is once again the world's top automaker.

Toyota Motor Corp. released its tally for global vehicle sales for last year Monday at a record 9.748 million vehicles ? more than last month's estimate of about 9.7 million vehicles.

It was already clear Toyota had dethroned General Motors Co. as the Detroit-based automaker fell short, selling 9.29 million vehicles.

GM had been the top-selling automaker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008.

GM retook the sales crown in 2011, when Toyota's production was hurt by the quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

The latest results show Toyota's powerful comeback.

Global vehicle sales for the maker of the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury model surged nearly 23 percent from the previous year. Overseas sales jumped 19 percent, while sales in Japan, where the economy has been troubled, recovered a whopping 35 percent.

Volkswagen AG of Germany, the world's No. 3 automaker, sold a record 9.1 million vehicles around the world.

All three automakers play down the significance of the sales ranking and say they are focused on making attractive products.

"Rather than going after numbers, we hope to make fine products, one by one, to keep out customers satisfied. The numbers are just a result of our policy. And our policy will continue unchanged," said Toyota spokeswoman Shino Yamada.

Still, the recovery for Toyota is impressive. Like other Japanese automakers, Toyota's production was devastated by the March 2011 disasters, which disrupted supplies of crucial components. Flooding in Thailand, where Toyota has factories, also hurt car production.

Before that, it struggled against a crisis of massive recalls in the U.S. over defective floor mats, gas pedals and brakes, involving millions of vehicles, some recalled over and over, that hurt its reputation for quality.

Toyota officials have vowed to scrutinize quality, and have held back product development to minimize recalls.

From the middle of last year, it was hit by another kind of problem ? a widespread boycott of Japanese products, including Toyota cars, in China over a territorial dispute.

But sales growth in other parts of the world, including the U.S. and Asian nations such as Indonesia and India, was more than enough to offset such losses.

Toyota is planning to sell 9.91 million vehicles globally in 2013, putting it back on track toward its earlier goal of 10 million vehicles ? a target that it had made a special effort to play down after its recall crisis.

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We agree wholeheartedly with the opinions expressed by Peter King in his latest Monday Morning Quarterback and elsewhere regarding the merit (or more accurately lack thereof) of former Raiders receiver Tim Brown?s non-allegation allegation that former Raiders coach Bill Callahan ?sabotaged? a 10-year-old Super Bowl.? But some questions remain as the latest Super Bowl week commences.

First, will 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh be asked about the situation at one of his many media availabilities this week?? Harbaugh, who was a first-year offensive assistant with the Raiders in 2002, wasn?t asked about it on Sunday night when the team arrived.? And given the extent to which the story has faded in recent days, he may not be asked about it at all.

Second, did the Raiders? game plan change two days before the game?? Brown?s ludicrous opinion of sabotage comes from his belief, as a factual matter, that Callahan changed the game plan.? So did he?? There has been no definitive answer provided to that question.

Third, did the Raiders fail to change audibles and line calls?? It has been presumed for nearly a decade that the Raiders didn?t account for the fact that former Oakland coach Jon Gruden knew the code words that would be used at the line of scrimmage on offense.? But Peter King?s dismantling of the sabotage theory in the latest Monday Morning Quarterback extends to the notion that the Bucs knew what the Raiders were planning to do.? The game broadcast, however, contained strong evidence to the contrary.

Tampa Bay safety John Lynch wore a microphone, and he plainly can be heard telling former Bucs defensive backs coach Mike Tomlin after the Raiders fell behind 20-3 late in the first half, ?Mike, every play they?ve run, we ran in practice.? It?s unreal.?

Said Tomlin, ?I know.?

Whatever the reason, the Buccaneers? dominance was enough, we?re told, to prompt Raiders receiver Jerry Rice to rip the microphone he was wearing during the game from his pads and flush it down a toilet at halftime.

Fourth, given that King believes Brown?s assertion is ?utterly preposterous? and that King is one of the voters for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, will this mess keep Brown out for another year?? The voters will swear that they don?t consider anything other than what happens on the field, in accordance with the Hall of Fame?s bylaws.? But as we explained in our one-time-and-one-time-only PFT season preview magazine (which apparently made a cameo appearance several months ago in an episode of Mike & Molly on CBS), the human beings who cast the votes are influenced by the things that tend to influence the decisions made by human beings.

If it?s a close call between Brown and someone else as a given voter makes the excruciating descent from 15 modern-era finalists to up to five modern-era enshrinees, Brown?s assertions could be viewed, consciously or otherwise, as reflecting the kind of disrespect for and misunderstanding of the game that could be the factor pushing that person one way or the other.

There would be no hard proof of it, and none of the voters will risk their vote by proclaiming publicly that they sabotaged Brown?s candidacy in part because of his claim of sabotage.? But it definitely could, in a close case, be a factor ? and we?d never know that it was.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/28/poll-61-percent-of-players-disapprove-of-goodells-performance/related/

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EUPRIO 2013 all set for June take-off at the University of Kent

Venues are all booked, the keynote speakers are in place and it?s all systems go for take-off for EUPRIO?s 2013 conference at the University of Kent in the UK.

The annual conference provides EUPRIO members with a stimulating opportunity to discuss best practice, hear about new trends and do some serious networking.

This year it takes place from 27-30 June at the University of Kent?s lovely Canterbury campus, set in woodland with wonderful views overlooking the historic cathedral city, with delegates staying in en-suite bedrooms on campus.

It will be the first time in ten years that EUPRIO has held its annual conference in Great Britain, following the highly successful and warmly remembered Durham conference of 2003.

UK?s European University

EUPRIO?s UK Steering Committee member Christopher Coe said: ?I am particularly pleased that our host will be the University of Kent. Not only is this institution situated in one of the most attractive parts of the country, but it brands itself as the UK?s European University, which makes it a fitting venue for a conference which will explore some of the challenges facing universities in Europe.?

The main keynote address will be given by Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive of the UK?s Quality Assurance Agency. The second keynote slot will feature a fascinating panel discussion involving university student representatives from across Europe on the student ?experience?, chaired by a leading UK higher education journalist.

As always, the programme will feature the best in current higher education public relations thinking and practice through workshops and master classes. The theme this year will focus on how universities can encourage students, staff and alumni to become positive commentators on behalf of their institutions and higher education in general.

With higher education changing across Europe, traditional models of state funding are under threat and students in some parts of the continent now see themselves as customers. Social media presents an easy opportunity for students, staff and alumni to publish comment ? which can be positive or negative ? on their university for the world to read.

We are all publishers

EUPRIO?s President Denis Ancion said: ?We live in an age where we are all publishers. Small issues can become global ones in very short periods.Communication is no longer sending out your message. It is all about a constant, transparent and open dialogue.

?But are communication professionals able to convince their management that transition is needed and that there is no longer any difference between internal and external communication? And are we, the communication professionals able to smoothly change our own departments to take up the new role which modern society is now asking for. To change ourselves could be the biggest challenge.?

Meet these challenges

The Kent conference will explore how European university communications professionals can meet these challenges. Key expert speakers from across Europe will be presenting their view on the best way forward, and the conference will focus on the three vital elements of the communications matrix: students; staff and alumni.

?Kent promises to be one of the most important EUPRIO conferences ever,? said Denis.

Martin Herrema, the UK?s deputy Steering Committee member based at the University of Kent, said the full conference programme and booking details ? including a member conference registration fee that will be inclusive of accommodation ? will be published at the end of February, when the booking website will also go live.

See more about our 2013 venue: http://www.kent.ac.uk/locations/canterbury/

About Nic Mitchell

NIC MITCHELL founded De la Cour Communications to help European universities appeal to English-speaking students. A journalist before moving into public and media relations, he is a strong advocate of European student mobility and provides marketing intelligence, media support and English-language copy writing & editing services to European higher education clients. Nic was a member of EUPRIO?s Steering Committee from 2001 to 2011 and now blogs and writes for the EUPRIO website. A fuller profile can be found at www.linkedin.com/in/nicmitchell or via his website: http://delacourcommunications.com. To get in touch - email nic.euprioUK@gmail.com or phone 00447582166727

Source: http://euprio.eu/2013/01/28/euprio-2013-all-set-for-june-take-off-at-the-university-of-kent/

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Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories

Monday, January 28, 2013

The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory.

UC Berkeley neuroscientists have found that the slow brain waves generated during the deep, restorative sleep we typically experience in youth play a key role in transporting memories from the hippocampus ? which provides short-term storage for memories ? to the prefrontal cortex's longer term "hard drive."

However, in older adults, memories may be getting stuck in the hippocampus due to the poor quality of deep 'slow wave' sleep, and are then overwritten by new memories, the findings suggest.

"What we have discovered is a dysfunctional pathway that helps explain the relationship between brain deterioration, sleep disruption and memory loss as we get older ? and with that, a potentially new treatment avenue," said UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study to be published this Sunday, Jan. 27, in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The findings shed new light on some of the forgetfulness common to the elderly that includes difficulty remembering people's names.

"When we are young, we have deep sleep that helps the brain store and retain new facts and information," Walker said. "But as we get older, the quality of our sleep deteriorates and prevents those memories from being saved by the brain at night."

Healthy adults typically spend one-quarter of the night in deep, non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Slow waves are generated by the brain's middle frontal lobe. Deterioration of this frontal region of the brain in elderly people is linked to their failure to generate deep sleep, the study found.

The discovery that slow waves in the frontal brain help strengthen memories paves the way for therapeutic treatments for memory loss in the elderly, such as transcranial direct current stimulation or pharmaceutical remedies. For example, in an earlier study, neuroscientists in Germany successfully used electrical stimulation of the brain in young adults to enhance deep sleep and doubled their overnight memory.

UC Berkeley researchers will be conducting a similar sleep-enhancing study in older adults to see if it will improve their overnight memory. "Can you jumpstart slow wave sleep and help people remember their lives and memories better? It's an exciting possibility," said Bryce Mander, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of this latest study.

For the UC Berkeley study, Mander and fellow researchers tested the memory of 18 healthy young adults (mostly in their 20s) and 15 healthy older adults (mostly in their 70s) after a full night's sleep. Before going to bed, participants learned and were tested on 120 word sets that taxed their memories.

As they slept, an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine measured their brain wave activity. The next morning, they were tested again on the word pairs, but this time while undergoing functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

In older adults, the results showed a clear link between the degree of brain deterioration in the middle frontal lobe and the severity of impaired "slow wave activity" during sleep. On average, the quality of their deep sleep was 75 percent lower than that of the younger participants, and their memory of the word pairs the next day was 55 percent worse.

Meanwhile, in younger adults, brain scans showed that deep sleep had efficiently helped to shift their memories from the short-term storage of the hippocampus to the long-term storage of the prefrontal cortex.

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Observe the new tax withholding tables - Business Management Daily

During the first week of January, the IRS released updated tax withholding tables for 2013 based on the income tax changes in the new law. (IRS Notice 1036) New withholding tables also reflect the end of the payroll tax holiday for Social Security tax.

Alert: Employers should start using the revised withholding tables right away, but in any event no later than Feb. 15, 2013.

For any Social Security tax that is under-withheld before that date, make the appropriate adjustments as soon as possible, but no later than March 31, 2013.

Tip: For more details, visit the IRS website.

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This Week In Small Business: 1,000 New Bankers - NYTimes.com

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A weekly roundup of small-business developments.

What?s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

The Big Story: Four More Years

At his inauguration, President Obama delivers a rallying cry for active government. Rick Newman says the president has given a gift to the stock market. This blogger believes that the speech made things a lot more certain for small businesses. Here?s the whole speech in just three minutes. These are 22 of the most fabulous Beyonc? moments from the inauguration (and one that?s not-so-fabulous). The president?s daughters seemed to enjoy the day, too.

Finance: Bank of America Hires 1,000 Bankers

Investment professionals are anticipating an influx of income and growth-hungry mom-and-pop ?retail? investors. Bank of America reached its goal of hiring 1,000 small-business bankers and extended nearly $8.7 billion in new credit to small businesses in 2012. Companies are keeping stockpiles of foreign cash in the United States. Erik Sherman says you should be wary of any Web site that claims to enable crowdfunded public offerings.

The Economy: $1 Trillion In Profits

General Electric?s earnings rise and overall corporate profits are now projected to be $1 trillion this year. But how good can things be if Google?s co-founder is still taking the subway? Weekly jobless claims dropped to a five-year low. The architecture billings index went up for the fifth straight month, and truck tonnage jumped 2.8 percent in December. Existing home sales shrank, but Bill McBride says it?s a solid report. Manufacturing activity contracts again in Richmond and in Kansas City (pdf). Blockbuster plans to close 300 stores. A quarterly survey finds that small-business confidence continues to hold steady but a Chamber of Commerce survey finds 53 percent of small businesses have not hired in the past year and 64 percent plan to keep the same number of employees in 2013. The International Monetary Fund thinks the United States economy is slowing down.

Tweet of the Week

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The Budget: Cats!

The House votes to extend the debt ceiling to May 19. Larry Summers says the government should worry less about deficits and more about unemployment. Jeff Miller tells us how to spot pop economists. A New Zealand economist wants to eradicate the country?s cats.

On The Road: Dreamliner Nightmares

Boeing?s unions blame the 787 Dreamliner woes on outsourcing. Southwest Airlines introduces a $40 fee. Capital One introduces a LinkedIn group for business travelers. Chicago?s hotel occupancy rate is back to pre-recession levels. A former road warrior delivers tips on cutting business travel expenses (and this road warrior almost becomes a former road warrior).

Your Employees: As Happy As Google

Yahoo is trying to lure back some former employees (suggestion: hire these awesome people instead). A marketing and advertising firm embraces quirkiness and manages to increase its growth. This is how to let employees know they?re appreciated and how to make your office as happy as Google?s. Emmanuel Banks explains how to make your Mac work space more productive. Here are a few tips for your employees to be more productive when working from home. Cash appears to be leaking out of 401(k) plans at an alarming rate. An 11-year-old girl shatters climbing records.

Managing: Losing Your Passion?

Brian Lee explains why you should never give up on becoming an entrepreneur, and Brad Farris has some thoughts on what business owners should do when they lose their passion. Ken Gaebler believes that investing in public relations boosts a company?s chances of getting acquired: ?P.R. works because you?re not saying, ?I?m great?; instead, it?s a respected outsider saying, ?They are great,? which is much more convincing.? Here?s how to achieve business success based on the Martha Rules. A bunch of high-profile entrepreneurs reveal what?s in the refrigerator.

Start-Ups: Why M.B.A.?s Fail

When looking for people to join your start-up?s board of directors, Mahendra Ramsinghani says not to let laziness and bias trump diversity. These three start-ups are trying to help you sleep. A new venture will mine asteroids. John Greathouse says there are five reasons M.B.A.?s fail at start-up. Steve Woodruff recommends five books for business starters. This is how one start-up spends its money.

Social Media: Bait and Switch

The clients of this social media consultant can?t even log on to Facebook, and here are 26 tips for getting started with social media marketing. Deb Donston-Miller suggests five ways social media makes business-to-business sense. This is how Threadless, Home Depot, and Amex managed to get groups of fans talking. Twitter experiences technical problems and releases a video sharing app. Here?s how to track the most popular Twitter hashtags. Google plans improvements to its image searching, and Facebook?s first intern is leading a small-business revolution. Nothing makes Derek Johnson angrier than seeing a text-message marketing campaign pull the old bait-and-switch on consumers. These are the five biggest misconceptions about using Instagram for business (but be careful: restaurants are cracking down on Instagrammers). And for some reason, the Library of Congress is archiving America?s tweets. Owen gets on SportsCenter.

Marketing: After the Sale

Here?s why you need to make content marketing a priority, and Heidi Cohen suggests nine content-marketing tactics. A webinar will discuss the seven marketing habits of today?s highly successful small and midsize businesses. Here are four tricks to attract new clients with your business cards. J. David Green explains how technology on the trade show floor can help your sales team work smarter and sell more. Ken Sundheim explains how search engine optimization almost killed his business. Charlotte Varela asks if you are helping your customers after they buy from you.

Retail: ?Show-Rooming?

Target can teach you the benefits of introducing brands online instead of in stores. ?Show-rooming? shoppers have been a good thing for eBay. Yelp is adding health inspection grades to its site. A bear uses a washing machine. A new marketplace helps retailers find spaces offering short-term leases. This week retailers can start charging their customers for credit card fees. The Panera Bread Foundation opens a new community cafe with no cash registers or prices.

Around The Country: Sparking Entrepreneurs

A flexible work company plans to add more than 20 locations in the Los Angeles area in 2013. The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars offers $1 million to ?spark? entrepreneurs. A new tech rap video promotes entrepreneurship. Small businesses are big in Montana. Startup Weekend is coming to Evansville, Ind.

Around The World: 3D Clothes

Spanish banks are facing big challenges. Coca-Cola pledges $100,000 for projects by young people. In the United Kingdom, the prime minister wants a global crackdown on corporate tax cheats, a record-breaking number of Britons are now at work, and Prince Harry abandons an interview for ice cream. A Dell executive says small businesses should consider exporting to Brazil. In Paris, 3D printed clothing hits Fashion Week, and a Dutch architecture firm plans to print a house. This is the world?s poorest president.

Red Tape: Five Legal Myths

A new e-guide from Microsoft demystifies the process of pursuing contracts with the government and other large enterprises. Pete Wise lists five legal myths small-business owners should avoid, including: ?I don?t need a lawyer.? Entrepreneurs plan a road trip to talk up immigration reform. Women entrepreneurs will have greater access to federal contracts. Bill Murphy Jr. lists four ways women in combat will change business. Michael Keating discusses the opportunities in the government market.

Technology: Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

Microsoft considers taking a big stake in a Dell buyout. Chris Luo says big data and software as a service will become relevant for small businesses in 2013. Ashton Kutcher will appear at MacWorld as Steve Jobs (which may help him get an invite to one of these dinners). Apple takes a beating on Wall Street. Paul Greenberg announces the best customer relations management applications for 2013. Liquids bounce off this clothing material. Robert LeCount gives advice for picking the right technology for your business. A yearlong competition challenges the best technology minds to develop solutions that address issues in health care, education and sustainability. Brother introduces a contest aimed at small businesses.

The Week?s Bests

Freshdesk?s marketing and communications manager, Sairam Krishnan, explains how his company finds and keeps customer service representatives: ?Test their culture fit. Every company has a slightly different way of doing business. At Freshdesk, we frown upon bureaucracy and hierarchy. We put our customer service candidates in situations where they have to interact with a few senior employees of the company. These interactions, usually spontaneous and casual, help the team evaluate the candidate?s personality and fit with our customer service-centered culture.?

Megan Totka shares tips for building a socially conscious business: ?Set an example. While it is great to encourage employees to volunteer, and even provide incentives, the best way to get everyone in your company fired up for service is by getting out there and participating yourself. Do more than simply embrace the idea of service; make the service happen.?

This Week?s Question: Do you consider your business socially conscious?

Gene Marks owns the Marks Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., consulting firm that helps clients with customer relationship management. You can follow him on Twitter.

Source: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/this-week-in-small-business-1000-new-bankers/

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Are We to Believe Samir Khan's Communications Were Used as a ...

You should read both the AP and OregonLive accounts of yesterday?s Mohamed Osman Mohamud trial for their description of the problems surrounding the FBI?s account of its early investigations of the teenager (not to mention its choice, when Mohamud?s drinking suggested he was abandoning his radicalism, they nudged him back into extreme views).

But for now I?d like to look at the account FBI Agent Issac DeLong gave of how they first started tracking Mohamud. From the AP.

DeLong?s testimony also revealed that FBI agents in the Charlotte, N.C., office tracking now-deceased al-Qaida operative Samir Khan were the first to identify Mohamud as a potential threat because of communication between the two.

The FBI was tracking Khan ? who was killed in a drone strike with then-al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki ? when they came across Mohamud?s emails to him in early 2009. They tracked down Mohamud?s IP address to a Portland suburb and identified him. When he cropped up on the bureau?s radar again, DeLong said he was able to rely on that information to identify Mohamud.

DeLong also said that a team of FBI agents followed Mohamud during his freshman year of college, monitoring his phone calls, text messages and emails, along with video and photo surveillance.

And from OregonLive:

Agents in Charlotte, N.C., picked up on Mohamud?s name in early 2009 while intercepting email traffic of then-U.S. based al-Qaida propagandist Samir Khan.

That August, FBI Special Agent Isaac DeLong was assigned to interview Mohamud?s father, Osman Barre, who feared Muslim extremists were radicalizing his son. Barre had read about Somali youths from Minnesota who were heading overseas to fight, and he worried his own son was trying to fly to Yemen to fight against the West, DeLong testified.

Barre agreed to speak to Mohamud and try to make sure he wouldn?t fly overseas. He took his son?s passport and reported back to the FBI that they had a chat.

?His father said that his son was not hiding anything,? DeLong said, ?and there was nothing to worry about.?

But Barre followed up by forwarding to the FBI an email link he had received, DeLong said. It concerned a school in Yemen that his son hoped to attend. The correspondence contained the email address truthbespoken@gmail.com, which Mohamud had created in the United Kingdom, DeLong said.

The agent combed through the FBI?s storehouses of electronic data, finding that the address had been tied to the investigation of Samir Khan. He would learn that Mohamud had traded more than 100 emails with Khan beginning in February 2009 and that Mohamud had written articles for Khan under a pen name while a student at Beaverton?s Westview High School.

There are things that still don?t make sense about this narrative. At least from these accounts, it?s unclear whether the Charlotte discovery led to the Portland investigation, or whether the preliminary investigation out of Charlotte just served to make Mohamud?s father?s concerns more alarming.

And note this account still doesn?t jive with Hesham Abu Zubaydah?s claim that he had been told to track Mohamud at his mosque as early as 2008 (though we?re close enough in timeline that it?s possible they had Hesham track Mohamud after the Khan discovery, but before the formal investigation).

Moreover, note that the FBI delayed the Khan admissions until after the US had killed him, and turned over details of DeLong?s communications just weeks before the trial. The government tried to hide all of this earlier part of the narrative for a long time.

Mostly, though, I?m interested in how the FBI?s treatment of emails to Khan in early 2009 compared with its treatment of emails to Anwar al-Awlaki in that same period and earlier. From the Webster report, we know the FBI wasn?t prioritizing Awlaki emails in this period.

In fact, potentially radicalized people communicating with Awlaki were only incidentally tracked until after the [Nidal Hasan] attack(s) in 2009; the wiretap on Awlaki was not considered primarily a source of leads.

The report explains that when the Nidal Hasan emails were first intercepted the wiretap (which appears to have started on March 16, 2008) occasionally served as a ?trip wire? identifying persons of potential interest. (Remember that bracketed comments are substitutions for redactions provided in the report itself.)

The Aulaqi [investigation] [redacted] also served as an occasional ?trip wire? for identifying [redacted] persons of potential interest [redacted]. When SD-Agent or SD-Analyst identified such a person, their typical first step was to search DWS-EDMS [their database of intercepts] and other FBI databases for additional information [redacted]. If the [redacted] [person] was a U.S. Person or located in the U.S., SD-Agent might set a lead to the relevant FBI Field Office. If the information was believed valuable to the greater intelligence community and met one of the FBI?s intelligence-collection requirements, SD-Analyst would disseminate it outside the FBI in an IIR.

[snip]

On December 17, 2008, Nidal Hasan tripped the wire. (40-41)

But all of the ?trip wire? leads that came from this wiretap up to this point were set as ?Routine Discretionary Action? leads. (44) That?s how Hasan?s initial emails were also treated.

Now it?s possible that Mohamud?s emails were treated in the same way: the FBI went through the effort of identifying his IP, but once they had identified him they dropped the investigation. Though it doesn?t make sense that Mohamud?s writings for Khan would merit a big alarm later if they didn?t when they were written.

In other words, to the degree that the FBI?s story about Mohamud?s communication with Khan doesn?t make sense, it suggests the possibility that Khan?s communications were used a Tripwire in a way that Awlakis, during the same period, were not.

Source: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/24/are-we-to-believe-samir-khans-communications-were-used-as-a-tripwire-but-awlakis-werent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-we-to-believe-samir-khans-communications-were-used-as-a-tripwire-but-awlakis-werent

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Shooting Challenge: Wood

It's a natural miracle, and each piece is a masterful, abstract piece of art. It's wood. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, we're celebrating it. More »

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Kim Dotcom and Mega: Legal FAQs ? Brodies TechBlog

You?re probably familiar with Kim Dotcom, the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur?who currently resides in New Zealand, and is being pursued by the US Department of Justice regarding?accusations of a ?Megaupload? business empire built on rampant?infringement of US copyright laws and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.?

Much of what is currently being written about Mr Dotcom simply churns trite facts without actually offering much in the way of explanation.? I thought a blog which answered some of the main?questions would be helpful.

How does the US have?jurisdiction over Megaupload?
Why would Megaupload?Limited, with its registered office in Hong Kong, be subject to US copyright laws and to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?? The answer is that Megaupload?deliberately carried out business in the US and with US residents.? The site leased?more than 1,000 servers in North America (525 were at Carpathia?Hosting, which received $13 million from Megaupload).? ?

Wired provides?great analysis?here, but the general principal is that individuals and companies can?t gain the benefits of doing business in a jurisdiction without complying with its laws and being subject to its enforcement efforts ? assuming that the jurisdiction can gets its hands on you in ?terrifying real life?. Which brings us to extradition!

Will Dotcom be extradited?
Under New Zealand?s Extradition Act, any request for extradition from New Zealand must relate to an ?extraditable offence? which is defined as an offence that:

• Carries a maximum penalty of not less than one year?s imprisonment in the requesting country; and
• Involves conduct that would be regarded as criminal had it occurred in New Zealand, and would have carried a similar penalty

Unfortunately for Kim Dotcom, breach of copyright is just as?illegal in New Zealand as it is in the US.?

Part 3 of the Extradition Act also provides a mechanism by which the requirements to provide evidence establishing a prima facie case in support of the extradition request can be replaced by the simpler ?record of the case? procedure. This mechanism?is available?to?select countries, including the US.? (A guide to New Zealand extradition prepared by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade can be read here.)

Nevertheless the US is struggling to extradite Dotcom and is also struggling to make its case against Megaupload and the ?conspirators? (Dotcom and various associates).? Dotcom actually received an apology from the Prime Minister of New Zealand for illegal surveillance.? A helpful timeline of the various legal twists and turns can be read here.

What?s the new service that he?s offering?
Kim Dotcom has launched a new service, Mega,?which he says is distinct from Megaupload, and which he also?insists is legal.

Mega?is offering?all users 50GB of free cloud storage, making it a potentially compelling competitor to the likes of Dropbox (2GB free) and SkyDrive (7GB free) ? if you?re not worried about the service getting shut down like its predecessor.

Mega offers client-side encryption, meaning that (arguably) even Mega doesn?t know what is on the files that clients upload.? The only way?a client?file can be decrypted?is if the client makes?both the encrypted file and?also the?private encryption key publicly available.? This would presumably breach acceptable use of Mega, and Mega also?has in place a?take down process similar to what other content sharing websites (such as YouTube) offer, and which?is required under US law in order for the website operator to qualify for ?safe harbor? protection from copyright infringement claims.

Of course, the predecessor site Megaupload had a take down process as well, so this leads us to the next obvious question.

Is Mega legal?
Dotcom still insists that Megaupload?was legal, despite the US Department of Justice?s claims that Megaupload?s overall operating model was geared towards criminal intent, because:

• the vast majority of users did not have any significant long term private storage capability;
• continued storage was dependent upon regular downloads of files occurring;
• files that were infrequently accessed were usually rapidly removed, whereas popular downloaded files were retained;
• only a small portion of users paid for storage subscriptions, meaning that the business was dependent on advertising revenue, and displaying adverts to downloaders;
• an incentive programme was adopted encouraging the upload of ?popular? files in return for payments to successful uploaders; and
• (potentially most damning of all) there was a comprehensive take down?process?in use for?child pornography and terrorist propaganda, but this same take down process?was?not deployed to remove infringing content.

Initial impressions?would suggest that Mega does not share these strategies.? Certainly Dotcom would have to be incredibly foolish to not apply the take down? process this time around.? In fact, it?s perhaps?a credit to Dotcom?s slick advertising/media persona,?and Mega?s attractive user interface, that initial bloggers?thought?Mega would??dismantle copyright forever?.

As Jonathan Bailey succinctly puts it (in by far the best analysis of Mega which I have read):

where Megaupload provided incentives and tools that encouraged users to upload (often illegal) files for mass download, Mega? does not and in fact has a structure and service that puts barriers up against mass downloading of files, legal or otherwise.

What is certain is that we can expect plenty of fun and games over the next few months.?

When Mega launched this week as ?The Privacy Company? their claims of super-security were bound to come under the highest levels of scrutiny (some cloud providers definitely perform better than? others in the security stakes ? see my colleague Leigh?s analysis).? Yesterday the story was that Mega?s encryption was substandard, today the story?(which is emerging as?I write) appears to be some form of encryption prize ? Kim Dotcom himself has just Tweeted:

We welcome the ongoing #Mega security debate & will offer a cash prize encryption challenge soon. Let?s see what you got ;-)

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

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Source: http://techblog.brodies.com/2013/01/25/kim-dotcom-and-mega-legal-faqs/

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