Why America's 'hacker generation' can thrive as teachers

Many teachers aren?t feeling much love this Teacher Appreciation Day. But I still believe it is possible to be a good teacher in America ? and worth the effort to try. The shift toward data-driven instruction and innovation creates an environment where the 'hacker generation' can thrive.

By Lindsay Wells / May 7, 2013

Florida's Gov. Rick Scott speaks to students and teachers at Wynnebrook Elementary School in West Palm Beach, Fla., May 6 as part of a tour to promote the legislature's passage of a $1 billion increase in education spending. Op-ed contributor and science teacher Lindsay Wells says 'if we all encourage smart, idealistic youth to give teaching a try (and get properly trained), our country is bound to see more positive results.'

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Today marks Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States, but it?s fair to say many teachers ? veterans and newcomers alike ? aren?t feeling much appreciation lately.

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Nearly half of all teachers leave the profession within the first five years. Recently, two veteran teachers ? Gerald Conti in New York and Randy Turner in Missouri ??have decided to call it quits with recent public resignations on Facebook and in the Huffington Post. Their high-profile statements speak to their frustration and disillusionment with teaching.

Both of their resignations contain numerous unfortunate truths about the challenges facing today?s public school teachers. I have been teaching high school science for five years and I, too, have experienced the stress and devaluation they describe so poignantly. Despite this, I still believe it is possible to be a good teacher in America ? and worth the effort to try. What?s more, the shift toward data-driven instruction and innovation is creating an environment where the ?hacker generation? can thrive.

To understand why American public education is in such a state of turmoil, one need only consider how much the end goal of education has shifted since the late 1800s when our current system was put into place. We are no longer preparing just a tiny percentage of students for college and high-skill careers and expecting the rest to be ready for industrial, low-skill jobs.

Tony Wagner reports in his book, ?The Global Achievement Gap,? that employers are dissatisfied with many recent graduates? lack of critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills, in addition to their inability to think in the kinds of creative and innovative ways the current economy requires. The initial design of American schools and teaching methods has largely become obsolete, and as a result, everyone is casting about for solutions.

This is exactly why I feel that I got into the profession just as it?s starting to get interesting. While negative attitudes toward teachers don?t make it easy for us to have our voices heard, it is critical for teachers to continue to elbow their way into the debate about how to redesign public education in this country.?

Ideally, the US education system?s top priority would be to foster wonder, creativity, inquisitiveness, and love of learning in every child. Teachers would be empowered to use curriculum that showed students the relevance and real-world applications of what they?re learning. Schools would recognize many ways of being intelligent, and would reward students for pooling their intellectual resources, and for thinking outside the box.

Standards (and assessments of students? progress toward meeting them) would require that students engage in the practices of professionals in their discipline, rather than memorization of facts and ideas removed from any context. (An encouraging move in this direction is the Next Generation Science Standards.)

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Spain, Italy team up to demand crisis relief

MADRID (AP) ? The premiers of Spain and Italy teamed up Monday to push the eurozone to focus more on spurring economic growth instead of just reducing debt ? a move they hope will reduce high youth unemployment and speed up a banking reform effort aimed at stabilizing Europe's financial system.

After meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Italian Premier Enrico Letta warned that inaction could prompt rising anti-Europe sentiment among voters across the continent, resulting in political punishment for leaders who support the 17 nations that use the euro currency.

Letta warned that the European Union risks driving its supporters away if it fails to offer a "positive" view of economic and political integration and is only the bearer of bad financial news that has now lasted years.

Europe must focus on getting more young people into the workforce and alleviating the financial hardships ordinary people are facing, he said. In particular, Letta warned, if an upcoming June EU summit ends with another "bureaucratic, routine, formal" result, the 2014 elections for the European Parliament could see a rise in victory for anti-European parties.

"We risk having a European Parliament that will be the most anti-European Parliament ever," he said. "We have to do something to avoid that."

Rajoy defended tax hikes and numerous other measures he invoked last year to reduce Spain's deficit and comply with eurozone demands to shore up Spain's shaky finances and save its banking system from collapse. But he agreed with Letta that more must be done by the eurozone to cut youth unemployment and free up frozen credit in many countries for small and medium-sized businesses.

"National reforms should be accompanied by European Union reforms," he said. "We must all do our unavoidable homework in our countries, but the EU must do more."

A campaign of sharp spending cuts and tax increases has reduced deficits, but it has also pushed the eurozone into a deep recession. Financially weaker countries like Italy and Spain are not expected to recover before next year and the unemployment is at record highs, particularly among the young, where the jobless rate is 57 percent for Spaniards under age 25 and 38 percent in Italy.

Critics of austerity measures say that governments should pursue efforts to stimulate the economy, even if it includes more spending, to pull their nations out of downward economic spirals.

Since coming to office eight days ago, Letta has been on a whirlwind tour of Europe to meet with other top leaders and lay out his desire to ease the economic impact of austerity measures.

Ahead of his meeting with Rajoy, Letta called Spain an "ally to make Europe the continent that places more attention on growth and social discomfort."

Still, he acknowledged that Italy cannot return to its old ways of accumulating debt. Italy's debt is the second-highest in the eurozone after Greece, at 127 percent of annual GDP.

Letta did not specify how his government would create growth without adding to debt. Italy has the third-largest economy in the eurozone, and Spain's is the fourth.

Letta's government has so far frozen a tax on first homes, scrapping a June payment while ministers consider alternative policies. The EU has warned Letta's government that if it cancels the tax entirely, it would have to find 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in new revenue elsewhere.

New economic figures released Monday underscored the heavy task awaiting Letta and his ministers.

The national statistics agency forecast that Italy's economy will shrink 1.4 percent this year as household spending and corporate investments both decline, before rising a slight 0.7 percent in 2014. By comparison, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ? a global watchdog ? forecasts a 1.5 percent contraction this year and 0.5 percent growth in 2014.

The head of Italy's market regulator noted that Italians had reduced their savings over the last 20 years from 22 percent of disposable income to 8 percent. That is eroding potential investments to spur growth and reduce youth unemployment.

"Austerity without hope can become a detonator of a generational crisis," Consob President Giuseppe Vega told an annual meeting at Milan's Stock Exchange.

In the debate over austerity, the two main forces arguing in favor of continued debt reduction have been Germany and the European Central Bank.

On Monday, ECB President Mario Draghi repeated that without sustainable public debts, a country cannot enjoy economic growth. He admitted that austerity's short-term impact on economic growth can be a problem. But he said that could be addressed in part by choosing the right mix of austerity policies.

"To mitigate the inevitable recessionary effects of fiscal consolidation, the composition of such measures must favor the reduction of current public spending and of taxes," Mario Draghi said in a speech in Rome, noting that taxes are relatively high across Europe.

Many governments have both cut spending and raised taxes.

Draghi also insisted that governments should continue to pursue structural reforms, such as making the labor market more flexible.

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Barry reported from Milan, Italy. Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield contributed from Rome.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spain-italy-team-demand-crisis-relief-193025264.html

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Panna, A Video-Based Cooking ?Magazine? For iOS, Raises $1.35 Million

Panna, a video cooking magazine iOS application which connects users to celebrity chefs, has raised $1.35 million in a round of funding led by Anthem Ventures. Others participating include Lerer Ventures, Crosslink Ventures, Maveron, Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital, RSL Venture Partners, Launchpad LA, David Tisch’s BoxGroup, and angels?Rick J. Caruso, Ken Siskind, Jay Livingston, Dan Rose, Aaron Schiff and David Levy. Unlike many cooking apps out there on the App Store today, Panna’s creator, David Ellner, is not your typical tech entrepreneur, but rather comes from the entertainment industry, where he spent 25 years, including time spent serving as President of Digital and Business Development for 19 Entertainment, the producer of TV series like American Idol. With this background, he comes at the (yes, very crowded) cooking and recipe space thinking more about things like how to use high-def videos and quality production values to connect celeb chefs and at-home cooks similar to the way that television does today, rather than trying to break new ground through technological leaps. If anything, Panna’s mere existence is demonstrative of the fact that there’s interest in bringing TV-like content to our mobile devices, and if the Hollywood studios won’t do it for us, then someone else will. And on a related note, Panna is a Kickstarter success story – it got its start on the crowdfunding site where hundreds of home cooks donated to get it off the ground. The entertainment industry is experimenting more and more with this method of launching their projects these days, most recently with the funding of Zach Braff’s indie film “Wish I Was Here,” and “Veronica Mars” creator’s Rob Thomas’ desire to turn the show into a feature film. The app itself is more than a recipe finder, and is styled as a “magazine,” released bi-monthly, each digital copy containing 13 seasonal video recipes from master chefs who demonstrate their cooking techniques, similar to the way they would on television. Recipe demos can be paused, fast-forwarded through, rewound, or downloaded for offline access. Written versions are also available to help users prepare for their shopping trips. To date, Panna has worked with celebrity chefs like Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto); Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill and Top Chef Masters Winner); Sean Brock (Husk, McCrady?s); Melissa Clark (NY Times food writer and recipe developer); Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirscheimer (Canal House Cooking); Anita Lo (Annisa and Top Chef Masters); Seamus Mullen

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Woman who ran secret prison bypassed as top spy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job.

The officer, who remains undercover, was a finalist for the job and would have become the first female chief of clandestine operations.

As one of the last remaining senior CIA officers who held leadership roles in the agency's interrogation and detention program, however, she was a politically risky pick.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, has criticized the interrogation program and personally urged CIA Director John Brennan not to promote the woman, according to a former senior intelligence briefed on the call.

Through a spokesman, Feinstein said she "conveyed my views to Mr. Brennan."

CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said the assertion that the officer was passed over because of her involvement in the interrogation program was "absolutely not true."

More than a decade after it last used waterboarding, the CIA is still hounded by the legacy of tactics that America once considered torture. Brennan's ties to the interrogation program delayed for years his nomination to lead the CIA and Feinstein wants the agency to declassify a 6,000-page report on the interrogation program.

While many details about the program have become public, much is still shrouded in secrecy, making it impossible to evaluate its successes. Harsh interrogations led to some information, but also generated a lot of false information. And whether any of it could have been done without waterboarding, sleep deprivation and forcing people into small boxes is unknowable.

The officer briefly ran a secret CIA prison where accused terrorists Abu Zubayada and Abd al-Nashiri were waterboarded in 2002, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials. She was also a senior manager in the Counterterrorism Center helping run operations in the war on terror.

She also served as chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez and helped carry out his order that the CIA destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

Instead of picking the female officer, Brennan turned instead to the head of the CIA's Latin American Division, a former station chief in Pakistan who former officials said once ran the covert action that helped remove Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic from power. That program is regarded inside the CIA as a blueprint for running a successful peaceful covert action.

The former officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the CIA's operations publicly.

The name of the new head of the clandestine service is widely known in intelligence, diplomatic and journalistic circles, as is the name of the woman who was passed over. Both have declared their CIA affiliations with foreign governments around the world. The CIA, however, maintains that the names should not be made public because they are technically undercover.

Former acting CIA director John McLaughlin, who was part of the panel that helped select the next clandestine service leader, said the interrogation program "did not come up" in their discussions.

"The people moving into senior positions are extraordinarily accomplished and will do exception jobs," he said.

Women constitute nearly half of the agency's workforce but only about 30 percent of what is known as the Senior Intelligence Service. The CIA had determined that for every one woman achieving her SIS rank last year, four men got theirs.

"If the 2012 outcome were to be repeated in the coming years, such a trend would lead to diminishing representation of women at the senior ranks," according to a declassified CIA report.

In announcing his new clandestine chief, Brennan also promoted women to be his chief of staff and the agency's executive director.

"Women will hold fully half of the positions on his current leadership team," the agency said in a news release.

It is unclear what the female officer who was passed over will do next. She ran the CIA stations in London and New York.

"The officer chosen is a wonderful choice, and the woman not chosen was an equally wonderful choice," said former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who worked with both. "And I would hope that the agency can continue to make use of both of them in prominent leadership positions."

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HTML 5: Changing The Way You Utilize the Web - EACMAG - Eacsoft

Home ? > ? Web Design ? > ? HTML 5: Changing The Way You Utilize the Web By XiaoMin Su on May 6, 2013

Description: HTML 5 is like the lighter, sprightlier sister of HTML4. Is HTML5 really worthy of the hype? Read this post to know more about HTML 5 and how it changes the way we utilize the net.

Move over, HTML 4, the next evolution of HTML is here. HTML 5 is set to redefine how we use the internet. You might?ve heard about HTML5 from the liked of Google or Apple but what is it exactly, what do these changes mean and most importantly, why should you care?

What is HTML 5?

HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language is essentially the building blocks of all websites on the internet. In 1999, HTML 4.01 was released for the first time and it changed how people access the internet. Over the years, HTML 4 has been dissected, poked and prodded by the industry?s major players. HTML4 has been augmented beyond its initial scope to deliver better user experience but at a cost. Devices running HTML 4 are slow, bloated and worse, drains battery so fast, that Apple withdrew support from it altogether despite leaving all iPhones and iPads unable to fully render media-heavy websites.

The internet has changed significantly since 1999 and now, more than ever, we need an easier, more efficient coding process to handle the demands of the modern web.

HTML 5 is the latest iteration of HTML 4. It is described as an easier, more logical coding process based on pre-set standards. It was released in 2011 and despite poor browser support in its early days, major browsers like Safari, Chrome and Firefox are now supporting HTML5, helping the new coding process gain traction online. With a set of new features and streamlined functionality, HTML 5 is able to render processor intensive add-ons for a wide range of uses without the usual drawbacks you get from HTML 4.

HTML5: Changing The Way We Use The Web

Is HTML 5 just a hype or does it really redefine how we use the internet today? HTML5 is created specifically to improve user experience. Below are some of the most notable functionalities you can expect from HTML 5.

• Offline Storage Capabilities: Unlike HTML 4, the latest iteration of HTML offers more space to store one-time data as well as app databases like emails. With HTML 5, you don?t need to install plugins in order to get storage capabilities like these.

• Superior Video and Audio Streaming Support: Once HTML 5 is fully utilized by all websites, including those that depend on Flash, like YouTube or Pandora, users can stream videos and audio clips with timed playback and other cool features using HTML 5. Again, there?s no need to install any plugins to stream videos or audios because streaming support is native to HTML 5.
• Better Control For Data Validation: HTML 5 also features smarter forms so search boxes, text inputs and other type-here fields work better for more efficient data validation. This makes for an easier interaction between page elements, sending through email, etc.
• Geotagging: These days, location-aware devices are all the rage. HTML 5 fully utilizes Geolocation features, making it easier for users to tag social networking site updates with location-based data. For example, HTML 5 can detect your location and use the information to tag your Twitter or Facebook updates.
• Efficient Content Pushing: While Flash is not entirely on the outs, HTML5 is becoming more and more popular particularly for marketers who want to push content on various platforms. HTML 5 also helps improve user experience with app-like interactivity and more cost-effective digital production.

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Report: GameStop no longer accepting PS2 trade-ins as of June 1

Now that the PS2's started taking steps toward retirement with Sony ceasing its production in Japan, it seems GameStop doesn't plan to keep the console under its roof for much longer. According to a leaked in-store display posted to Reddit by eGORapTure, the gaming retailer will no longer accept the 12-year old system for trade-ins as of June 1st. Our friends at Joystiq contacted multiple stores to confirm the news and many said the policy is indeed set to go into effect. Unsurprisingly, PS2-related accessories and titles will also be refused for trade-ins once the date rolls around. We've reached out to GameStop's corporate representatives for comment and will let you know what we hear back. For now, you can find more info at the via and source links. Well, they gotta make room for those PS4 boxes -- however they end up looking -- right?

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Climate change, not human activity, led to megafauna extinction

May 6, 2013 ? Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded.

The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, and points the finger instead at climate change.

An international team led by the University of New South Wales, and including researchers at the University of Queensland, the University of New England, and the University of Washington, carried out the study. It is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"The interpretation that humans drove the extinction rests on assumptions that increasingly have been shown to be incorrect. Humans may have played some role in the loss of those species that were still surviving when people arrived about 45,000 to 50,000 years ago -- but this also needs to be demonstrated," said Associate Professor Stephen Wroe, from UNSW, the lead author of the study.

"There has never been any direct evidence of humans preying on extinct megafauna in Sahul, or even of a tool-kit that was appropriate for big-game hunting," he said.

About 90 giant animal species once inhabited the continent of Sahul, which included mainland Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania.

"These leviathans included the largest marsupial that ever lived -- the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon - and short-faced kangaroos so big we can't even be sure they could hop. Preying on them were goannas the size of large saltwater crocodiles with toxic saliva and bizarre but deadly marsupial lions with flick-blades on their thumbs and bolt cutters for teeth," said Associate Professor Wroe.

The review concludes there is only firm evidence for about 8 to 14 megafauna species still existing when Aboriginal people arrived. About 50 species, for example, are absent from the fossil record of the past 130,000 years.

Recent studies of Antarctic ice cores, ancient lake levels in central Australia, and other environmental indicators also suggest Sahul -- which was at times characterised by a vast desert -- experienced an increasingly arid and erratic climate during the past 450,000 years.

Arguments that humans were to blame have also focused on the traditional Aboriginal practice of burning the landscape. But recent research suggests that the fire history of the continent was more closely linked to climate than human activity, and increases in burning occurred long before people arrived.

"It is now increasingly clear that the disappearance of the megafauna of Sahul took place over tens, if not hundreds, of millennia under the influence of inexorable, albeit erratic, climatic deterioration," said Associate Professor Wroe.

Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

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Bangladesh building-collapse toll tops 600

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim recovery work continued in one of the worst industrial accidents ever.

Police said Sunday night that the death toll had reached 622. Well over 200 bodies have been recovered since Wednesday, when authorities said only 149 people had been listed as missing. The stench of decomposing bodies remains amid the broken concrete of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, and it is anyone's guess how many victims remain to be recovered.

The April 24 disaster is likely the worst garment-factory accident ever, and there have been few industrial accidents of any kind with a higher death toll. It surpassed long-ago garment-industry disasters such as New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 workers in 1911, and more recent tragedies such as a 2012 fire that killed about 260 people in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh that same year that killed 112.

An architect whose firm designed the building said Sunday that it had not been designed to handle heavy industrial equipment, let alone the three floors that were later illegally added. The equipment used by the five garment factories that occupied Rana Plaza included huge generators that were turned on shortly before the building crumbled.

Masood Reza, an architect with Vastukalpa Consultants, said the building was designed in 2004 as a shopping mall and not for any industrial purpose.

"We designed the building to have three stories for shops and another two for offices. I don't know how the additional floors were added and how factories were allowed on the top floors," Reza said.

"Don't ask me anything else. This is now a sensitive issue," Reza said before hanging up.

Government officials say substandard building materials, combined with the vibration of the heavy machines used by the factories, led to the collapse.

The building developed cracks a day before the collapse and the owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, called engineer Abdur Razzak Khan to inspect it. Khan appeared on television that night and said he told Rana the building should be evacuated.

Police also issued an evacuation order, but witnesses say that hours before the collapse, Rana told people that the building was safe and garment factory managers told their workers to go inside.

Rana has been arrested is expected to be charged with negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work, crimes punishable by a maximum of seven years in jail. Authorities have not said if more serious crimes will be added.

Khan was arrested as well. Police said he worked as a consultant to Rana when the three illegal floors were added.

The government promised to make the garment industry safer after the November garment factory fire that killed 112 people, saying it would inspect factories for safety and pull the licenses of those that failed. That plan has yet to be implemented.

Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry supplies retailers around the world and accounts for about 80 percent of the impoverished country's exports. The collapse has raised strong doubts about retailers' claims that they could ensure worker safety through self-regulation.

Bangladesh is popular as a source of clothing largely because of its cheap labor. The minimum wage for a garment worker is $38 a month, after being nearly doubled this year following violent protests by workers. According to the World Bank, the per capita income in Bangladesh was about $64 a month in 2011.

The European Union has said it could restrict Bangladesh's access to its crucial market if it fails to ensure that basic labor standards are enforced.

"We are going to make it very clear to the Bangladeshi government that they have to take immediate action with a precise timeline," EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht told Sky News. Otherwise, he said, the EU will conduct an investigation that could lead to trade restrictions.

"Not because we want to hurt Bangladesh, but because what is happening is simply not acceptable," he said. "From a humane point of view, we cannot afford that and we have to do something about it."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-building-collapse-toll-tops-600-122007215.html

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Lindsay Lohan Adderall: About to Be Confiscated?

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Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson announces he will seek GOP nomination for governor (Star Tribune)

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Gunpoint Sticks Stealth Gaming's Finger In The Light Socket - Kotaku

Tom Francis, by day a writer at PC Gamer, is by night the main man behind Gunpoint, an upcoming stealth game for the PC which I've been playing for the last few days (and looking forward to for the last few months).

Gunpoint is, like last year's Mark of the Ninja, less of a blockbuster adventure and more of a sneaky sandbox, with the potential for multiple replays to get that "perfect" run. Stripped to a 2D vantage point, the game isn't just about crawling around on walls avoiding cameras and guards.

Instead, you're given the power to rewire the buildings each mission takes place in. If anything in the building draws electricity - be it a lightswitch, light fitting, door, trapdoor, security camera or access panel - its purpose and end function can be modified by the player. Lightswitches can become door keys. Security cameras become a means to activate booby traps.

This turns your sneaking into something of a puzzle game, as you're not only watching guard patrols and making sure you're out of sight, but that you're constantly checking the building to see how you can best make use of the technology available.

And you have to use it. Combat in Gunpoint is limited; you can pounce on lightly-armed guards and knock them out, but if you're spotted at all, you'll be fired upon, and one shot will kill you.

Which sounds rough, but in a neat touch the game is constantly saving your progress, to the point where upon death you can reload from one second ago, four seconds, six seconds, etc. It's a fantastic way to keep the game tough, but also encourage experimentation without forcing you to backtrack and repeat stuff.

I've played my way through a few of the missions in a preview build for the game, and have loved it. The art style keeps things nice and clean, and the noir detective soundtrack is great. I can't wait to try out the finished version, which shouldn't be too far off, especially since it looks like it'll be shipping with a full mission editing suite. It'll be awesome seeing what people can come up with once they get their heads around the rewiring systems.

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Israel says Google's 'Palestine' page harms peace hopes

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official accused Google on Monday of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name "Palestine" under the banner of its search page for the Palestinian territories. (www.google.ps)

Palestinians hailed Google's move as a virtual victory on the long path to the state they seek in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, which Israel seized in the 1967 war.

With bilateral negotiations stalled for 2-1/2 years over Jewish settlement building, the Palestinians have campaigned for foreign recognition of statehood, and were upgraded to "non-member state" at the United Nations in November.

Following the U.N. lead, Google's Palestinian homepage and other products previously labelled "Palestinian Territories" were changed on May 1 to read "Palestine".

"I think that the Google decision from the last few days is very, very problematic," said Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"When a company like Google comes along and supports this line, it actually pushes peace further away, pushes away negotiations, and creates among the Palestinian leadership the illusion that in this manner they can achieve the result," he told Israel's Army Radio.

"Without direct negotiation with us, nothing will happen."

A Google spokesman in Israel referred Reuters to a statement from last week in which it said: "We are following the lead of the U.N. ... and other international organizations."

Israel was furious at the U.N. upgrade last November, which was opposed by the United States but passed by an overwhelming majority, and reacted by withholding Palestinian government funds and announcing more settlement building.

An adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the move as a "victory for Palestine and a step toward its liberation".

Google had "put Palestine on the Internet map, making it a geographical reality", the adviser, Sabri Saidam, told the official news agency WAFA, adding that the Palestinians had invited Google's cartographers to come and gather more data for their online maps.

Google Maps currently shows little or no detail for major Palestinian towns such as Nablus and Ramallah, while many Jewish West Bank settlements have streets and parks clearly labelled.

Saidam said Israeli opposition to Google's new rubric was rooted in fear that "the recognition will destroy Israel's concept of 'Judea and Samaria'" - the biblical names that the Jewish state uses for the West Bank.

(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-says-googles-palestine-page-harms-peace-hopes-110627574.html

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93-year-old U.S. deportee arrested as alleged Auschwitz death camp

BERLIN (AP) ? A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

Hans Lipschis was taken into custody after authorities concluded there was "compelling evidence" he was involved in crimes at Auschwitz while there from 1941 to 1945, prosecutor Claudia Krauth said.

Lipschis has acknowledged being assigned to an SS guard unit at Auschwitz but maintains he only served as a cook and was not involved in any war crimes.

Krauth said, however, that a judge upheld her office's request for an arrest warrant after concluding there was enough evidence to hold him before charges on accessory to murder are brought. Bringing formal charges, a process similar to a U.S. grand jury indictment, would take another two months, she said.

In the meantime, Krauth said a doctor has confirmed Lipschis' health remains good enough for him to be kept in detention.

Lipschis does not currently have an attorney, and a public defender has not yet been appointed, she said.

Lipschis was deported from the U.S. in 1983 for lying about his Nazi past when he immigrated to Chicago in the 1950s after the war.

With no evidence linking him to specific war crimes, however, it was impossible under previous German law to bring charges against him in Germany.

But the case is now being pursued on the same legal theory used to prosecute former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died last year while appealing his 2011 conviction in Germany for accessory to murder on the grounds that he served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp.

Under the new line of thinking, even without proof of participation in a specific crime, a person who served at a death camp can be charged with accessory to murder because the camp's sole function was to kill people.

Even though the Demjanjuk conviction is not considered legally binding because he died before his appeals were exhausted, the special German prosecutors' office that deals with Nazi crimes has said that about 50 other people in the same category are being investigated.

Efraim Zuroff, the chief Nazi hunter with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called the arrest of Lipschis ? who is No. 4 on his current list of "most wanted Nazi war criminals" ? a good start.

"This is a very positive step, we welcome the arrest," he said in a telephone interview from Israel. "I hope this will only be the first of many arrests, trials and convictions of death camp guards."

In an interview last month with Die Welt newspaper at his home in southwestern Germany, Lipschis said he spent his entire time as a cook and had witnessed none of the atrocities. He did say, however, that he "heard about" what was going on.

About 1.5 million people, primarily Jews, were killed at the Auschwitz camp complex between 1940 and 1945.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-auschwitz-death-camp-guard-arrested-160900390.html

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Iran condemns Israeli airstrike in Syria

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman is condemning an Israeli airstrike in Syria on a shipment of Iranian-made missiles, but gives no other hints of a possible stronger response from Tehran or its allies.

Ramin Mehmanparast is quoted Sunday by the semiofficial Fars news agency as denouncing the attack on the missiles, which were believed en route to Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. It's the first Iranian comments since Israel launched a first round of airstrikes on Friday, then another round on Sunday.

Mehmanparast urges countries in the region to remain united against Israel, but gives no other suggestions of possible further action in response.

The attack signals a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's more than 2-year-old civil war between rebels and the forces of President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally.

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Uncle arranging Boston bomb suspect's burial rites

Ruslan Tsarni, right, uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prepares to speak with reporters in front of the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., as funeral director and owner Peter Stefan, left, stands nearby, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ruslan Tsarni, right, uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prepares to speak with reporters in front of the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., as funeral director and owner Peter Stefan, left, stands nearby, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ruslan Tsarni, left, uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, departs the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., as funeral director and owner Peter Stefan, right, walks him to his car, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Herbert Robbins, of Worcester, Mass., right, joins with other demonstrators as they display placards and chant slogans on the street outside the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, May 5, 2013. Peter Stefan, owner and director of the funeral home, has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Law enforcement officials place a barricade at an entrance to the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., Sunday, May 5, 2013. Funeral director Peter Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. Men at left are unidentified. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, gestures as he enters the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., Sunday, May 5, 2013. Funeral director Peter Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. Men at left are unidentified. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) ? The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev arrived in Massachusetts on Sunday to arrange for his burial, saying he understands that "no one wants to associate their names with such evil events."

Ruslan Tsarni, of Montgomery Village, Md., and three of his friends met with the Worcester funeral home director and prepared to wash and shroud Tsarnaev's body according to Muslim tradition. The 26-year-old died after a gun battle with police on April 19.

Funeral director Peter Stefan said he hasn't been able to find a cemetery in Massachusetts willing to take the body. He said he plans to ask the city of Cambridge, where Tsarnaev lived, to provide a burial plot, and if Cambridge turns him down, he will seek help from state officials.

Tsarni told reporters that he is arranging for Tsarnaev's burial because religion and tradition call for his nephew to be buried. He would like him buried in Massachusetts because he's lived in the state for the last decade, he said.

"I'm dealing with logistics. A dead person must be buried," he said.

He said he was grateful to Stefan for agreeing to arrange the burial and to his friends for accompanying him to Massachusetts to aid with the funeral.

"These are my friends who feel for me ... as I do understand no one wants to associate their names with such evil events," he said.

Tsarnaev, who had appeared in surveillance photos wearing a black cap and was identified as Suspect No. 1, died days after the April 15 bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was captured.

Stefan said he has received calls from people criticizing him and calling him "un-American" for being willing to handle Tamerlan Tsarnaev's funeral.

"We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No," he said. "We are burying a dead body. That's what we do."

A half dozen protesters gathered outside the funeral home Sunday holding signs and American flags and chanting "USA!" One sign read: "Do not bury him on U.S. soil." Several people drove by the funeral home earlier Sunday and yelled, including one man who shouted, "Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden!"

The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, and authorities have said his brother ran him over in a chaotic getaway attempt. Stefan said Sunday that the family won't request that an independent medical examiner perform a second autopsy, but representatives from the family's legal team might photograph Tsarnaev's body before it's washed.

Tsarni has denounced the acts his nephews are accused of committing and has said they brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity. The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents. Both parents returned to Dagestan last year.

Tsarni said Sunday that he hopes to eventually see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in a prison hospital and faces a potential death sentence if convicted of the terrorism plot.

"This is another person left all to himself," he said.

Also on Sunday, the FBI conducted a court-authorized search in Cambridge as part of its ongoing investigation into the bombings, said Jason Pack, a supervisory special agent in the FBI's press office. He declined to elaborate further.

Associated Press

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Physics teacher adopts Google Glass, gives students a glance at CERN (video)

When Google asked what we'd do if we had Glass, it was no doubt hoping we'd produce some world-changing ideas. We now know at least a few exist, courtesy of physics teacher Andrew Vanden Heuvel. He's long been hoping to use the wearable tech for remote teaching and one-on-one sessions, and the Glass Explorer program has given him the chance to do just that. His first stop? None other than CERN. Courtesy of a trip for Google's new Explorer Story video series, Vanden Heuvel is the first person to teach a science course while inside the Large Hadron Collider tunnel, streaming his perspective to students thousands of miles away. While we don't know if other Explorer Stories will be quite as inspiring, we'll admit to being slightly jealous -- where was Glass when we were kids?

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Web Intruders Put Family Ties to the Test | Stuff.co.nz

They're a voracious bunch are the Brobyns. The family can easily chew through 150 gigabytes of internet data a month.

The Christchurch family's downloading, streaming and surfing is far above the average for a New Zealand household.

According to the Commerce Commission's latest report into the country's telecommunications market released this week, the average household used 19GB of data per month in the year to June. That's almost double what we were using a year earlier.

Paul Brobyn said the family normally used about 30 to 50GB of data, but online gaming, Skpye calls and streaming Premier Football League matches could push usage up to the maximum 150GB given as part of their monthly home telecommunications plan.

Between Paul, his wife, Tasha, and children Rebecca, 15, and Mya, 10, the family had access to three smartphones, two laptops, a desktop computer, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, an iPod and a tablet computer.

For the adults, all the technology and data available helped them stay entertained and in touch with family, but also meant they could be kept busy by work emails coming to their smartphones at all hours.

For the kids, the internet meant entertainment and socialising, but there were strict rules in place.

"Rebecca will pretty much have her phone attached to her hip, you don't know who's calling her," Tasha said.

"I have her password though and I will check it occasionally and she's not allowed to friend anyone she hasn't met in person. It's just one of these situations where you just hope your children are making good choices."

Mya was not allowed an email or Facebook account until she turned 12, but loved using the internet to watch old episodes of her favourite television shows, like Glee, and playing "virtual world" games like Club Penguin.

The family makes a conscious effort to switch off from the digital world and reconnect through old-fashioned activities like playing board games together.

"You don't actually have to pick up a phone and call someone, so I wonder if that's going to be a loss of skills for these guys, but I won't know until they get older," Tasha said.

"I think I struggle with it a little bit to be honest - it encourages a lot of disjointedness."

Ilam's Duffy family chewed through 50GB of data within 20 days thanks to hours of web surfing, video streaming, online games and conversations through smartphone applications like Viber and Snapchat.

When The Press visited, 16-year-old Aidan was busy clearing up the dinner dishes, but 13-year-old Tegan and 15-year-old Ben were continuously tapping away at their smartphones while their parents watched the New Zealand version of X-Factor on television.

Within the household were two laptops, a desktop computer, an iPad, two iPods, an Xbox and five smartphones.

Mum Toni said the adults of the house use the internet only for checking email and the odd online errand like internet banking, but for the kids, social networking websites like Facebook were a huge part of their lives

"They won't answer the telephone because there's no need, their friends will be online or they will text them," she said.

"Social networking has become such a big thing, even the gaming . . . "

Aidan said he used the internet mostly for accessing Facebook and playing Xbox games, often playing with and against other gamers through cyberspace.

Younger siblings Tegan and Ben also accessed the internet every day, using their smartphones to keep on top of their friends' Facebook updates. They carried the phones with them constantly and always had them switched on.

Ben suggested getting more data would solve the problem of running out too quickly.

"They get more than enough as it is," dad Owen replied quickly.

University of Otago communications lecturer Erika Pearson said every new development in communications technology affected the things families did and the ways they interacted with each other in the home.

"With every kind of new change... there's always a little bit of ?oh, won't somebody think of the children, oh, this is very scary'.

"Certainly it changes how people experience living with other people, but whether it's a good or bad thing I think it's very much a personal experience," she said.

"For some people this helps them to pursue personal interests that they then bring back and they can talk about with their family and it produces new conversation and they get closer that way; for other people they find it very isolating."

Social networking was the latest development to change the ways families communicated with each other, including those still living under the same roof.

"People use these tools as an extension of sort of leaving notes on the kitchen bench... saying can you pick up some milk or can you drive Tommy to his sports practice or whatever it is. It's the same behaviours, they're just using the tool to streamline the things that we already do in different ways."

Being able to do more online did not change a key part of growing up though, she said.

"Kids still want to hang out with each other, they still want to talk and if they have to use technology to facilitate that in amongst all their other commitments then that's a good thing."

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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$1 million for smart energy solutions

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Funding from Natural Resources Canada bolsters innovation in building technology

Montreal, May 3, 2013 In a climate as prone to extremes as Canada's, buildings are often inefficient to heat, light and cool. Fortunately, innovative solutions are being explored through the NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Network (SNEBRN), a nationwide university initiative headquartered at Concordia, which has just received $1 million in new funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

"Through the ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative, our Government is investing in innovative clean energy technologies that create jobs, generate new economic opportunities and protect the environment," said the Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources. "This program demonstrates our tangible support for energy projects that drive energy innovation."

The funding will help the network conduct further research and testing of progressive technologies, and to explore how to more efficiently integrate these technologies into buildings. The research has two principle aims: "proof of concept" studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of new technologies, and validation studies that show how these technologies can be integrated in the built environment.

"Concordia is ideally positioned to play a strong role in the nationwide research effort to invent and refine the smart energy solutions of tomorrow," says Alan Shepard, President of Concordia University. "This new grant from NRCan builds on the solar energy expertise established through the Solar Buildings Research Network, which was headquartered at Concordia from 2005-2010."

Created in December 2011 with major funding from the Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC), SNEBRN brings together 29 Canadian researchers from 15 universities to develop the smart net-zero energy homes and commercial buildings of the future. The goal is to invent and implement technologies that make it possible for buildings to generate as much energy as they consume (net-zero), or even to produce more energy than they consume.

Under the directorship of Andreas Athienitis, a professor in Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, SNEBRN is ensuring that engineers obtain the skills they need to become part of Canada's clean energy workforce. "We are now in a period of transformation of buildings, from energy-consuming systems to net energy producers," says Athienitis. "This is helping take our society toward a more sustainable future."

One of the new technologies Athienitis has helped to pioneer is building-integrated photovoltaic thermal systems (BIPV/T). A BIPV/T system produces both electrical and thermal energy. This combination makes it a better energy generator than a standalone photovoltaic system, which converts just solar energy into electricity. A BIPV/T currently helps power and heat Concordia's John Molson School of Business.

"I am delighted that this new funding from NRCan will allow us to help engineers become part of the clean energy workforce that Canada urgently needs," says Athienitis.

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Funding from Natural Resources Canada bolsters innovation in building technology

Montreal, May 3, 2013 In a climate as prone to extremes as Canada's, buildings are often inefficient to heat, light and cool. Fortunately, innovative solutions are being explored through the NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Network (SNEBRN), a nationwide university initiative headquartered at Concordia, which has just received $1 million in new funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

"Through the ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative, our Government is investing in innovative clean energy technologies that create jobs, generate new economic opportunities and protect the environment," said the Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources. "This program demonstrates our tangible support for energy projects that drive energy innovation."

The funding will help the network conduct further research and testing of progressive technologies, and to explore how to more efficiently integrate these technologies into buildings. The research has two principle aims: "proof of concept" studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of new technologies, and validation studies that show how these technologies can be integrated in the built environment.

"Concordia is ideally positioned to play a strong role in the nationwide research effort to invent and refine the smart energy solutions of tomorrow," says Alan Shepard, President of Concordia University. "This new grant from NRCan builds on the solar energy expertise established through the Solar Buildings Research Network, which was headquartered at Concordia from 2005-2010."

Created in December 2011 with major funding from the Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC), SNEBRN brings together 29 Canadian researchers from 15 universities to develop the smart net-zero energy homes and commercial buildings of the future. The goal is to invent and implement technologies that make it possible for buildings to generate as much energy as they consume (net-zero), or even to produce more energy than they consume.

Under the directorship of Andreas Athienitis, a professor in Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, SNEBRN is ensuring that engineers obtain the skills they need to become part of Canada's clean energy workforce. "We are now in a period of transformation of buildings, from energy-consuming systems to net energy producers," says Athienitis. "This is helping take our society toward a more sustainable future."

One of the new technologies Athienitis has helped to pioneer is building-integrated photovoltaic thermal systems (BIPV/T). A BIPV/T system produces both electrical and thermal energy. This combination makes it a better energy generator than a standalone photovoltaic system, which converts just solar energy into electricity. A BIPV/T currently helps power and heat Concordia's John Molson School of Business.

"I am delighted that this new funding from NRCan will allow us to help engineers become part of the clean energy workforce that Canada urgently needs," says Athienitis.

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Related Links:

Natural Resources Canada: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/home

NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Network (SNEBRN) http://www.solarbuildings.ca/index.php/en/

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science: http://www.encs.concordia.ca/

Media contact:

Cla Desjardins
Senior Advisor, External Communications
Concordia University

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