NEW YORK (AP) ? The chief aide to embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner went on an expletive-laced tirade about a former campaign intern in an interview with a political news website.
Barbara Morgan later apologized for using vulgar language to describe former intern Olivia Nuzzi. She said she believed her interview with Talking Points Memo was off the record.
Talking Points says Morgan launched into her attack on Nuzzi for writing an unflattering article for the Daily News about her experience working on Weiner's campaign.
Nuzzi wrote that Weiner often called interns "Monica," a reference to former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and that many people worked on the campaign to get close to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin. Abedin is an ex-aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Professor Leo Leiderman will become the next governor of the Bank of Israel (Photo: Bloomberg)
Professor Leo Leiderman, the chief economist at Israel?s Bank Hapoalim, will become the next governor of the Bank of Israel.
The appointment by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid was revealed today.
Prof Leiderman, who will replace outgoing governor Stanley Fischer, has been the chief economic adviser at Bank Hapoalim for over a decade.
Jacob Frenkel, 70, the chair of JP Morgan Chase, was expected to take up the position but withdrew his candidacy following shoplifting allegations.
Argentina-born Prof Leiderman,61, made aliyah when he was 17.
He has a PhD from Chicago University, is a former managing director of emerging markets at Deutsche Bank and was an executive board member and research department director at the Bank of Israel.
I'm using Android Studio and I've never imported or referenced any external libraries before.
The library I'm trying to reference is this: https://code.google.com/p/afiledialog/
I went to File - Project Structure - Modules and added a new Module pointing to this project library. After that I have no idea how to get it to work in my app, and when following the basic info on the main page it asks me to add this to my manifest file:
However when I do that it reports that it cant find the package FileChooserActivity.
All help is appreciated.
EDIT: Here are the main errors:
Gradle: package ar.com.daidalos.afiledialog does not exist Gradle: cannot find symbol class FileChooserDialog Gradle: cannot find symbol class FileChooserDialog
Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. A new study has found that online tools, access to experimental data and other services provided through "cyberinfrastructure" are helping to accelerate progress in earthquake engineering and science.
The research is affiliated with the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), based at Purdue University. NEES includes 14 laboratories for earthquake engineering and tsunami research, tied together with cyberinfrastructure to provide information technology for the network.
The cyberinfrastructure includes a centrally maintained, Web-based science gateway called NEEShub, which houses experimental results and makes them available for reuse by researchers, practitioners and educational communities.
"It's a one-stop shopping site for the earthquake-engineering community to access really valuable intellectual contributions as well as experimental data generated from projects at the NEES sites," said Thomas Hacker, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue and co-leader of information technology for NEES. "The NEES cyberinfrastructure provides critical information technology services in support of earthquake engineering research and helps to accelerate science and engineering progress in a substantial way."
Findings from a recent study about cyberinfrastructure's impact on the field were detailed in a paper published in a special issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering, which coincides with a NEES Quake Summit 2013 on Aug. 7-8 in Reno. The paper was authored by Hacker; Rudolf Eigenmann, a professor in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Ellen Rathje, a professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.
A major element of the NEES cyberinfrastructure is a "project warehouse" that provides a place for researchers to upload project data, documents, papers and dissertations containing important experimental knowledge for the NEES community to access.
"A key factor in our efforts is the very strong involvement of experts in earthquake engineering and civil engineering in every aspect of our IT," Hacker said. "The software we develop and services we provide are driven by user requirements prioritized by the community. This is an example of a large-scale cyberinfrastructure project that is really working to address big-data needs and developing technologies and solutions that work today. It's a good example of how cyberinfrastructure can help knit together distributed communities or researchers into something greater than the sum of its parts."
The effort requires two key aspects: technological elements and sociological elements.
"The technological elements include high-speed networks, laptops, servers and software," he said. "The sociology includes the software-development process, the way we gather and prioritize user requirements and needs and our work with user communities. To be successful, a cyberinfrastructure effort needs to address both the technology and social elements, which has been our approach."
The project warehouse and NEEShub collects "metadata," or descriptive information about research needed to ensure that the information can be accessed in the future.
"Say you have an experiment with sensors over a structure to collect data like voltages over time or force displacements over time," Eigenmann said. "What's important for context is not only the data collected, but from which sensor, when the experiment was conducted, where the sensor was placed on the structure. When someone comes along later to reuse the information they need the metadata."
The resources are curated, meaning the data are organized in a fashion that ensures they haven't been modified and are valid for reference in the future.
"We take extra steps to ensure the long-term integrity of the data," Hacker said.
NEEShub contains more than 1.6 million project files stored in more than 398,000 project directories and has been shown to have at least 65,000 users over the past year. Other metrics information is available at http://nees.org/usage.
"We are seeing continued growth in the number of users," Rathje said. "We are helping to facilitate and enable the discovery process. We have earthquake engineering experts and civil engineering experts closely involved with every aspect of our IT and cyberinfrastructure, and we are constantly getting feedback and prototyping."
To help quantify the impact on research, projects are ranked by how many times they are downloaded. One project alone has had 3.3 million files downloaded.
"We have a curation dashboard for each project, which gives the curation status of the information so that users know whether it's ready to be cited and used," Hacker said.
The site also has a DOI, or digital object identifier, for each project.
"It's like a permanent identifier that goes with the data set," he said. "It gives you a permanent link to the data."
NEES researchers will continue to study the impact of cyberinfrastructure on engineering and scientific progress.
"The use and adoption of cybeinfrastructure by a community is a process," Hacker said. "At the beginning of the process we can measure the number of visitors and people accessing information. The ultimate impact of the cyberinfrastructure will be reflected in outcomes such as the number of publications that have benefited from using the cyberinfrastructure. It takes several years to follow that process and we are in the middle of that right now, but evidence points to a significant impact."
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Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Sources: Thomas Hacker, 765-494-4465, tjhacker@purdue.edu
Rudolf Eigenmann, 765-494-1741, eigenman@purdue.edu
Ellen Rathje, 512-232-3683, e.rathje@mail.utexas.edu
Related website:
NEES: http://www.nees.org
PHOTO CAPTION:
Santiago Pujol, at far left, a Purdue associate professor of civil engineering, surveys a private residence damaged in a Haiti earthquake. The building was among 170 surveyed by civil engineers studying the effects of the January 2010 earthquake. Such photos and research-related information regarding earthquakes are part of a database maintained and serviced by the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), based at Purdue. (Purdue University photo/Kari T. Nasi)
A publication-quality image is available at https://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/2013/hacker-cyberinfrastructure.jpg
ABSTRACT
Advancing Earthquake Engineering Research through Cyberinfrastructure
Thomas Hacker 1; Rudolf Eigenmann 2; and Ellen Rathje, M.ASCE 3 Network Earthquake Engineering Simulation Hub:
1 Associate Professor, Computer and Information Technology, National
Science Foundation George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, Purdue University (corresponding author). E-mail: tjhacker@purdue.edu
2 Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NEES
3 Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, NEES, Univ. of Texas, Austin
This paper describes the cyberinfrastructure (CI) of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and examines the evidence that this infrastructure is facilitating earthquake engineering research. Among the key features of the CI are the NEES Project Warehouse (PW), which is a data repository for earthquake engineering, an environment that supports the use of tools for web-based data analysis and simulation, and tools that support research collaboration. The value that such CI offers to the user community is discussed. The CI also gathers a myriad of usage statistics, some of which are presented in this paper. Among them are the number of users, pageviews, recorded NEES projects, and other stored resources. This information demonstrates that the CI is used significantly and increasingly so. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000712. 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. A new study has found that online tools, access to experimental data and other services provided through "cyberinfrastructure" are helping to accelerate progress in earthquake engineering and science.
The research is affiliated with the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), based at Purdue University. NEES includes 14 laboratories for earthquake engineering and tsunami research, tied together with cyberinfrastructure to provide information technology for the network.
The cyberinfrastructure includes a centrally maintained, Web-based science gateway called NEEShub, which houses experimental results and makes them available for reuse by researchers, practitioners and educational communities.
"It's a one-stop shopping site for the earthquake-engineering community to access really valuable intellectual contributions as well as experimental data generated from projects at the NEES sites," said Thomas Hacker, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue and co-leader of information technology for NEES. "The NEES cyberinfrastructure provides critical information technology services in support of earthquake engineering research and helps to accelerate science and engineering progress in a substantial way."
Findings from a recent study about cyberinfrastructure's impact on the field were detailed in a paper published in a special issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering, which coincides with a NEES Quake Summit 2013 on Aug. 7-8 in Reno. The paper was authored by Hacker; Rudolf Eigenmann, a professor in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Ellen Rathje, a professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.
A major element of the NEES cyberinfrastructure is a "project warehouse" that provides a place for researchers to upload project data, documents, papers and dissertations containing important experimental knowledge for the NEES community to access.
"A key factor in our efforts is the very strong involvement of experts in earthquake engineering and civil engineering in every aspect of our IT," Hacker said. "The software we develop and services we provide are driven by user requirements prioritized by the community. This is an example of a large-scale cyberinfrastructure project that is really working to address big-data needs and developing technologies and solutions that work today. It's a good example of how cyberinfrastructure can help knit together distributed communities or researchers into something greater than the sum of its parts."
The effort requires two key aspects: technological elements and sociological elements.
"The technological elements include high-speed networks, laptops, servers and software," he said. "The sociology includes the software-development process, the way we gather and prioritize user requirements and needs and our work with user communities. To be successful, a cyberinfrastructure effort needs to address both the technology and social elements, which has been our approach."
The project warehouse and NEEShub collects "metadata," or descriptive information about research needed to ensure that the information can be accessed in the future.
"Say you have an experiment with sensors over a structure to collect data like voltages over time or force displacements over time," Eigenmann said. "What's important for context is not only the data collected, but from which sensor, when the experiment was conducted, where the sensor was placed on the structure. When someone comes along later to reuse the information they need the metadata."
The resources are curated, meaning the data are organized in a fashion that ensures they haven't been modified and are valid for reference in the future.
"We take extra steps to ensure the long-term integrity of the data," Hacker said.
NEEShub contains more than 1.6 million project files stored in more than 398,000 project directories and has been shown to have at least 65,000 users over the past year. Other metrics information is available at http://nees.org/usage.
"We are seeing continued growth in the number of users," Rathje said. "We are helping to facilitate and enable the discovery process. We have earthquake engineering experts and civil engineering experts closely involved with every aspect of our IT and cyberinfrastructure, and we are constantly getting feedback and prototyping."
To help quantify the impact on research, projects are ranked by how many times they are downloaded. One project alone has had 3.3 million files downloaded.
"We have a curation dashboard for each project, which gives the curation status of the information so that users know whether it's ready to be cited and used," Hacker said.
The site also has a DOI, or digital object identifier, for each project.
"It's like a permanent identifier that goes with the data set," he said. "It gives you a permanent link to the data."
NEES researchers will continue to study the impact of cyberinfrastructure on engineering and scientific progress.
"The use and adoption of cybeinfrastructure by a community is a process," Hacker said. "At the beginning of the process we can measure the number of visitors and people accessing information. The ultimate impact of the cyberinfrastructure will be reflected in outcomes such as the number of publications that have benefited from using the cyberinfrastructure. It takes several years to follow that process and we are in the middle of that right now, but evidence points to a significant impact."
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Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Sources: Thomas Hacker, 765-494-4465, tjhacker@purdue.edu
Rudolf Eigenmann, 765-494-1741, eigenman@purdue.edu
Ellen Rathje, 512-232-3683, e.rathje@mail.utexas.edu
Related website:
NEES: http://www.nees.org
PHOTO CAPTION:
Santiago Pujol, at far left, a Purdue associate professor of civil engineering, surveys a private residence damaged in a Haiti earthquake. The building was among 170 surveyed by civil engineers studying the effects of the January 2010 earthquake. Such photos and research-related information regarding earthquakes are part of a database maintained and serviced by the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), based at Purdue. (Purdue University photo/Kari T. Nasi)
A publication-quality image is available at https://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/2013/hacker-cyberinfrastructure.jpg
ABSTRACT
Advancing Earthquake Engineering Research through Cyberinfrastructure
Thomas Hacker 1; Rudolf Eigenmann 2; and Ellen Rathje, M.ASCE 3 Network Earthquake Engineering Simulation Hub:
1 Associate Professor, Computer and Information Technology, National
Science Foundation George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, Purdue University (corresponding author). E-mail: tjhacker@purdue.edu
2 Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NEES
3 Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, NEES, Univ. of Texas, Austin
This paper describes the cyberinfrastructure (CI) of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and examines the evidence that this infrastructure is facilitating earthquake engineering research. Among the key features of the CI are the NEES Project Warehouse (PW), which is a data repository for earthquake engineering, an environment that supports the use of tools for web-based data analysis and simulation, and tools that support research collaboration. The value that such CI offers to the user community is discussed. The CI also gathers a myriad of usage statistics, some of which are presented in this paper. Among them are the number of users, pageviews, recorded NEES projects, and other stored resources. This information demonstrates that the CI is used significantly and increasingly so. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000712. 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Sunday was another listless effort from a struggling Rangers squad. Here?s a roundup of our coverage from the day:
Time to panic? After Rangers blanked again, Washington holds nearly hour-long team meeting The Rangers? scoreless streak reach 21 innings during a 6-0 loss Sunday. And even Ron Washington, who?s normally apt to brush slumps off as part of baseball, held his team for a 45-minute closed-door meeting after the game.
Grant: After a lost weekend in Cleveland, listless Rangers find themselves in a bind There?s no such thing as do-or-die in July, but the Rangers are treading dangerously close to that territory now, with a long stretch of AL West foes set for the next few weeks.
Ron Washington: ?I?m not upset with my team; I?m upset with how they played? The Rangers? manager said he thought his team looked like they were ?sleep walking? through Sunday?s finale in Cleveland. But not surprisingly, he?s still backing his players.
Horn: For Rangers? Garza, immense talent ? and fiery demeanor ? were evident from the start Barry Horn has a profile of new pitcher Matt Garza, from his early days in California to his run through MLB with Tampa and Chicago. It also touches on Garza?s fiery attitude on the mound, which once culminated in a shouting match with his catcher at the ballpark a few years ago.
Report: Rangers could consider trading Joe Nathan An interesting rumor that popped up last night has the Rangers considering a trade of Joe Nathan for offensive help. It might seem like an odd move at first, but with the Rangers boasting a deep bullpen and Nathan potentially able to hit free agency this off-season, he could be one of the team?s better trade chips.
Trade rumors don?t faze Joe Nathan For his part, Nathan brushed the rumors aside, saying ?As far as I?m concerned, I?m battling with this team all the way.?
Cleveland police, report refute Tanner Scheppers memory of Thursday attack Scheppers missed two games after he said he was sucker punched outside a Cleveland restaurant. But now the police report seems to refute Scheppers? claim, and the Rangers are now investigating the matter.
Ron Washington could give slumping Mitch Moreland time off against Angels With Moreland now 0 for his last 20 at the plate, don?t expect to see him all that much this week against LAA.
Minor league report: How 10 of Rangers? best prospects fared this week Finally, we?ve got another roundup of the Rangers? top 10 prospects, and after last week?s trade, two new players find themselves on the list.
Japan has claimed the East Asian Cup for the first time with a 2-1 win for the men's team over hosts South Korea.
At the Jamsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul, Yoichiro Kakitani grabbed a brace for the champions, including the vital clincher in injury time, which gave Japan seven points at the end of the tournament, two ahead of China.
Earlier on Sunday, China had defeated Australia 4-3 but had to wait for the final tournament game to know whether they had won overall.
South Korea and China have each won two East Asian Cups, while Japan has been the runner-up three times.
South Korea, without a goal in their two previous matches, appeared intent on ending the drought from the onset, but they dominated the ball to no avail in the opening 20 minutes.
Japan then surprised South Korea with Kakitani's breakaway goal in the 24th. Toshihiro Aoyama delivered a looping pass from his own zone to send Kakitani in alone on the South Korean goalkeeper Jung Sung-Ryong and the Cerezo Osaka striker rolled it in to give his side the lead.
Japan's advantage, however, lasted only eight minutes. Yun Il-Lok, after an accomplished give-and-go with Lee Seung-Gi, struck the ball into the top right corner, out of 'keeper Shusaku Nishikawa's reach.
Neither team mounted much pressure until Kakitani finally broke the tie.
The 23-year-old forward found himself at the right place at the right time, as he banged home a rebound after Jung made a stop on Genki Haraguchi.
The match began under some tension from the stands.
South Korean fans jeered at the start of the Japanese national anthem and later hung a gigantic banner that read, "There is no future for people who have forgotten their past", aimed at Japan's reluctance to acknowledge its militaristic past. From the Japanese cheering section, fans waved the military flag of the Rising Sun. Both were taken down.
Earlier on Sunday, China poured in three second-half goals and held off a last-minute Australian charge for the narrow victory.
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry an injured man to a field hospital following clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters have held a weeks-long sit-in, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Morsi supporters, setting off clashes that lasted for hours and left tens of people dead. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry an injured man to a field hospital following clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters have held a weeks-long sit-in, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Morsi supporters, setting off clashes that lasted for hours and left tens of people dead. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
CAIRO (AP) ? Clashes erupted early Saturday in Cairo between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 38 protesters.
Here are some key events from more than two years of turmoil and transition in Egypt:
Jan. 25-Feb. 11, 2011 ? Egyptians stage nationwide demonstrations against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Hundreds of protesters are killed as Mubarak and his allies try to crush the uprising.
Feb. 11 ? Mubarak steps down and turns power over to the military. The military dissolves parliament and suspends the constitution, meeting two key demands of protesters.
Nov. 28, 2011-Feb 15, 2012 ? Egypt holds multistage, weekslong parliamentary elections. In the lawmaking lower house, the Muslim Brotherhood wins nearly half the seats, and ultraconservative Salafis take another quarter. The remainder goes to liberal, independent and secular politicians. In the largely powerless upper house, Islamists take nearly 90 percent of the seats.
May 23-24, 2012 ? The first round of voting in presidential elections has a field of 13 candidates. Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under Mubarak, emerge as the top two finishers, to face each other in a runoff.
June 14 ? The Supreme Constitutional Court orders the dissolving of the lower house of parliament.
June 16-17 ? Egyptians vote in the presidential runoff between Morsi and Shafiq. Morsi wins with 51.7 percent of the vote.
June 30 ? Morsi takes his oath of office.
Nov. 19 ? Members of liberal parties and representatives of Egypt's churches withdraw from the 100-member assembly writing the constitution, protesting attempts by Islamists to impose their will.
Nov. 22 ? Morsi unilaterally decrees greater powers for himself, giving his decisions immunity from judicial review and barring the courts from dissolving the constituent assembly and the upper house of parliament. The move sparks days of protests.
Nov. 30 ?Islamists in the constituent assembly rush to complete the draft of the constitution. Morsi sets a Dec. 15 date for a referendum.
Dec. 4 ? More than 100,000 protesters march on the presidential palace, demanding the cancellation of the referendum and the writing of a new constitution. The next day, Islamists attack an anti-Morsi sit-in, sparking street battles that leave at least 10 dead.
Dec. 15, Dec. 22 ? In the two-round referendum, Egyptians approve the constitution, with 63.8 percent voting in favor. Turnout is low.
Jan. 25, 2013 ? Hundreds of thousands hold protests against Morsi on the 2-year anniversary of the start of the revolt against Mubarak, and clashes erupt in many places.
Feb.-March 2013 ? Protests rage in Port Said and other cities for weeks, with dozens more dying in clashes.
April 7 ? A Muslim mob attacks the main cathedral of the Coptic Orthodox Church as Christians hold a funeral and protest there over four Christians killed in sectarian violence the day before. Pope Tawadros II publicly blames Morsi for failing to protect the building.
June 23 ? A mob beats to death four Egyptian Shiites in a village on the outskirts of Cairo.
June 30 ? Millions of Egyptians demonstrate, calling for Morsi to step down. Eight people are killed in clashes outside the Muslim Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters.
July 1 ? Huge demonstrations continue, and Egypt's powerful military gives the president and the opposition 48 hours to resolve their disputes, or it will impose its own solution.
July 2 ? Military officials disclose main details of the army's plan if no agreement is reached: replacing Morsi with an interim administration, canceling the Islamist-based constitution and calling elections in a year. Morsi delivers a late-night speech in which he pledges to defend his legitimacy and vows not to step down.
July 3 ? Egypt's military chief announces that Morsi has been deposed, to be replaced by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court until new presidential elections. No time frame is given. Muslim Brotherhood leaders are arrested.
July 4 ? Supreme Constitutional Court Chief Justice Adly Mansour is sworn in as Egypt's interim president.
July 5 ? Mansour dissolves the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament as Morsi's supporters stage mass protests demanding his return. Clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi groups in Cairo and Alexandria, and violence elsewhere leave at least 36 dead. A Brotherhood strongman, deputy head Khairat el-Shater, is arrested.
July 8 ? Egyptian soldiers open fire on Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in front of a military base in Cairo, killing more than 50. Each side blames the other for starting the clash. The Brotherhood calls for an uprising against the military. Mansour puts forward a time line for amending the constitution and electing a new president and parliament by mid-February. The Brotherhood refuses to participate in the process.
July 9 ? Mansour appoints economist Hazem el-Beblawi as prime minister and opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president. A military announcement backs up the appointments.
July 26 ? Millions pour into the streets of Egypt in rival demonstrations after a call by the country's military chief for protesters to give him a mandate to stop "potential terrorism" by supporters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Five people are killed in clashes. Prosecutors announce Morsi is under investigation for a host of allegations including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
July 27 ?Clashes in the early morning hours between security forces and Morsi supporters kill at least 38 protesters in Cairo.
AAA??Jul. 28, 2013?9:22 PM ET Rescuers say 37 dead in Italy bus plunge By FRANCES D'EMILIOBy FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press??
A bus lies on its side after plunging off a highway near Avellino, southern Italy, eraly Monday, July 29, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
A bus lies on its side after plunging off a highway near Avellino, southern Italy, eraly Monday, July 29, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - Covered bodies lie by the road following a bus crash near Avellino, southern Italy, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - Rescuers stand by covered bodies following a bus crash near Avellino, southern Italy, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - Rescuers stand by covered bodies following a bus crash near Avellino, southern Italy, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
Firefighters work on the site of a bus crash near Avellino, southern Italy, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
ROME (AP) ? A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers.
Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, had warned of slowed traffic ahead along a stretch of the A116 autostrada, a major highway crossing southern Italy, before the crash occurred, said highway police and officials, speaking on state radio early Monday. They said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle.
Hours after the crash, firefighters said that they had extracted 37 bodies ? most of the dead were found inside the mangled bus, which lay on its side , while a few of the victims were pulled out from underneath the wreckage, state radio and the Italian news agency ANSA reported..
The radio report said 11 people were hospitalized with injuries, two of them in very critical condition. It was not immediately known if there were other survivors or any missing.
Rescuers wielding electric saws cut through the twisted metal to better probe the interior of the bus, stopping occasionally in silence to listen for any cries for help, even as the bodies were put into coffins to be taken to a morgue.
Reports said as many as 49 people had been aboard the bus when it ripped through a guardrail after slamming into several cars, then plunged some 30 meters (100 feet) off the highway and into a ravine near a wooded area. In its plunge, the bus tore away whole sections of concrete barriers as well as guardrail. The concrete lay in large chunks in a clearing in a wooded area where the bus landed.
State radio quoted Avellino police as saying the bus driver was among the dead.
Occupants of cars which were hit by the bus stood on the highway near their vehicles. One car's rear was completely crumpled, while another was smashed on its side. It was not immediately known if anyone in those cars had been injured.
The highway links western and eastern Italy across the south.
Early reports said the passengers had spent the day in Puglia, an area near the Adriatic on the east coast famed for religious shrines. But on Monday, a state radio reporter at the scene said authorities told him that the bus had been bringing the passengers home after an outing to a thermal spa area near Benevento, a town not far from Avellino. Others at the scene said the passengers might have visited a town near Benevento that was the early home of Padre Pio, a late mystic monk highly popular among Catholics in Italy.
Passengers came from small towns near Naples, and relatives streamed to the crash site.
The bus dove off the highway near the town of Monteforte Irpino in Irpinia, a largely agricultural area about 40 miles (60 kilometers) inland from Naples and about 250 kilometers (160 miles) south of Rome.
A reporter for Naples daily Il Mattino, Giuseppe Crimaldi, told Sky TG24 TV from the scene that some witnesses told him the bus had been going at a "normal" speed on the downhill stretch of the highway when it suddenly veered and started hitting cars. He said some witnesses thought they heard a noise as if the bus had blown a tire.
A local prosecutor arrived at the crash scene to begin an investigation into the cause of the crash.
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Photographer Salvatore Laporta contributed to this report.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? It got a little awkward during NBC's "Parenthood" panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour when Craig T. Nelson was asked about whether he regrets making recent comments about the network not supporting the show.
Last March, Nelson was quoted as saying NBC was "out of it" and didn't do enough to promote the series.
On Saturday Nelson said, "You get associated with a show that you love and a show that you believe in and a cast that's just extraordinary and you get frustrated with the fact that it doesn't seem to be honored the way that you feel it should be... I've been doing like 18 years of series television and I haven't been associated with a show...this wonderful."
Nelson went on to say he was "proud" of speaking out.
Executive Producer Jason Katims countered the comments saying, "The fact that we're sitting here on a panel going into a fifth season is indicative of the passion the network does feel for the show."
At this point Monica Potter mouthed "I'm so uncomfortable!"
Earlier, chairman of NBC Entertainment Robert Greenblatt, called "Parenthood" one of its "great, quality shows" and expressed frustration that the show doesn't get more acclaim.
"It doesn't get the Emmy nominations. It doesn't get the accolades. It's one of the best shows on television, and I wish it had more of that acclaim."
The network has picked up "Parenthood" for 22 episodes for its fifth season. The last time it had a full order was the show's second season. It will air on Thursdays with "The Michael J. Fox Show" and "Sean Saves the World" starring Sean Hayes.
"Parenthood" follows a large family living in the San Francisco area with all of its ups-and-downs. It also stars Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard and Erika Christensen.
It premieres Sept. 26 at 10p.m. EDT.
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Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A southwest Ohio lawmaker that authorities say misled investors and used their money for personal gain has entered a not guilty plea.
State Rep. Pete Beck is free on a $50,000 bond, with a Hamilton County Common Pleas court hearing scheduled Aug. 12. The certified public accountant from Mason waived a scheduled arraignment appearance Friday.
The 60-year-old Republican was indicted last week on charges including theft, securities fraud, making misrepresentations and selling securities in an insolvent company without full disclosure.
Beck has denied allegations against him as "scandalous" through his attorneys. He also has brushed away calls for his resignation.
The bulls piled into NRG Energy yesterday, looking for the power producer to test recent multi-year highs.
OptionMonster's tracking systems detected heavy buying as nearly 18,000 December 29 calls traded yesterday, led by prints of 10,000 and 4,000 that went for $1.30. These are definitely new positions, as open interest in the strike was just 442 contracts before the trades crossed our scanners.
NRG rose 0.36 percent to $27.53 yesterday, ahead of the company's second-quarter results on Aug. 9. The stock has pulled back since peaking at $29.19 on July 19?its highest price since September 2009?but is still up some 20 percent since the start of this year.
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Fast Money trader Jon Najarian takes a look at unusual activity in Phillips 66, Marathon Oil, and Murphy Oil. Also, the traders weigh in with the trade on Expedia and Priceline.
Yesterday's long calls, which lock in the price where traders can buy the stock, are looking for NRG to rally back above that $29 level by mid-December. But if it stays below that strike price, the calls could expire worthless.
Our systems also found upside action in the December 28 and 30 calls yesterday. Total option volume in the name topped 26,500 in the session, nearly 10 times its daily average, with overall calls outnumbering puts by 23 to 1.
?By CNBC Contributor Pete Najarian
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Pete Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, regular co-host of CNBC's "Fast Money" and co-founder of OptionMonster.com. Najarian owns NRG calls.
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The bulls piled into NRG Energy yesterday, looking for the power producer to test recent multi-year highs.
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Florida HC Will Muschamp Blames Urban Meyer For Alleged Recruiting Violations For two years, Will Muschamp has avoided directly addressing the elephant in the room. What better place to drastically switch course and make a statement than the circus that is SEC Media Days?
After years of saying what?s politically correct in addressing the mess he was left by former Gators and current Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, Muschamp let loose when responding to Meyer twice turning in Florida assistant coaches to the NCAA for alleged recruiting violations.
?We appreciate our friends from Ohio educating us on NCAA rules,? Meyer said in a parlor room before addressing the main ballroom at Media Days. ?They certainly know a thing or two about it.?
Ohio State was unbeaten last year in Meyer?s first season after he left Florida in 2010 but was on NCAA probation and couldn?t play for the Big Ten or national championship.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, attends the Reuters Global Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 18.
The mysterious "Hyperloop" form of transit proposed by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk will soon be unveiled. "A cross between a Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table," as he described it, the Hyperloop concept will make its debut on Aug. 12.
Don't expect a working device, though: he'll be publishing the "alpha design" by the 12th, according to his Twitter account, and "critical feedback for improvements would be much appreciated." So it's not exactly a done deal.
In fact, except for its purported speed, not much is known about the system, which Musk began discussing circumstantially about a year ago. He has shut down several theories, such as a magnetically levitated train that moves through a vacuum tube, and a massive spinning metal ring that could carry cars along.
The closest guess, as Musk put it, came from another Twitter user, John Gardi. He suggested a long tube full of fast-moving air (around 600 mph, or 1,000 kilometers per hour), in which passengers would speed along in "pods" that would be magnetically decelerated at stations.
If the Hyperloop is anything at all like that, it will require massive investment and construction. And while Musk is no stranger to large-scale endeavors, he has said that he doesn't expect to make the Hyperloop himself. Instead, he wants to put the design out there as an open source project, and perhaps collaborate with a likely partner (presumably, one with even greater resources than the industrialist himself).
Whatever the case, he says we'll know more by Aug. 12.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
Country music star Randy Travis’ medical condition is stabilized after he suffered a stroke while being treated for a heart problem. The 54-year-old singer is still on a ventilator but is showing improvement, according to the press conference with his doctors and his fiance, Mary Davis, today. Dr. Gary Erwin of The Heart Hospital Baylor ...
A year ago, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was favored to win the American Century Championship, a celebrity golf tournament held at Lake Tahoe and broadcast by NBC. ?This year, Romo is guaranteed to finish behind perennial long shot Charles Barkley.
Romo isn?t listed among the various pro athletes and others who?ll make the trek to Tahoe in a press release issued by the organizers of the event. ?With the Cowboys playing in the annual Hall of Fame game, Romo and his teammates will be opening training camp this weekend in Oxnard, California.
If the Cowboys weren?t opening camp, it would be interesting to see if Romo would have played, given his new perception-is-reality approach to football. ?In past years, it seemed like he spent too much time golfing and not enough time focusing on his full-time job. ?Now that he has received a big-money deal and a mandate from owner Jerry Jones to be more like Peyton Manning, Romo has put the golf bag away.
This year, the favorite is five-time winner Dan Quinn, at 7-2.
Other notables are John Smoltz (5-1), John Elway (10-1), Jerry Rice (30-1), Ray Allen (40-1), Steph Curry, Chipper Jones, and Aaron Rodgers (50-1 each), Alex Smith, Dan Quail, and Michael Phelps (100-1 each), Steve Spurrier (200-1), and Shane Battier, Ray Romano, and Urban Meyer (300-1 each).
(Regardless of where Meyer finishes, it won?t be his fault.)
Meanwhile, Barkley once again has been installed as a 500-1 underdog. ?And I continue to look for someone who will loan me $500 billion to bet against him.
UPDATE 2:09 p.m. ET: ?A prior version of this item omitted reference to the fact that the Cowboys are opening training camp. ?Our friends Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram?and Ed Werder of ESPN independently supplied the reminder, without calling us idiots for not connecting the dots. ?We appreciate both gestures equally.
A woman in China is reported to have been killed by an electric shock discharged from her iPhone 5 whilst the device was charging.
Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from Xinjiang, northwestern China, was killed by an electric shock over the weekend. Her older sister took to Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo, purporting that the fatal charge was delivered when Ma answered her phone as the device was charging.
According to her sister, the device had been purchased in December and was under warranty. The device has since been handed over to the authorities as part of the investigation into her death.
In a statement following the news, Apple said:
We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family? We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter.
Whilst incidents such as this are incredibly rare, experts have noted that there is a risk to using electrical devices whilst being charged. The news pushed the hashtag ?iPhone 5? into Twitter?s top ten worldwide trends.
The summer heat means your plants are in need of more water than the usual.? I made this watering can from a yogurt jug or you can use a milk or juice jug.
I love how it turned out, the colors are so fun on the abstract flowers.? I made it this big because I wanted lots of water in it but my boys can?t hold it when it?s full. So for little ones don?t fill it up.
My son was the first to try it and you can kind of see his excited face side expression in the picture above.
Supplies:
Recycled bottle
acrylic paint
varnish or transparent spray paint
thumb tack
Sharpie
1. Draw your design with a Sharpie and then paint it in.
2. Once the paint is dry add a varnish or transparent spray paint to give it a protective layer so the paint doesn?t come right off.
LONDON (AP) ? Britain's gay marriage bill has cleared its last major hurdle, passing through the House of Lords and prompting celebrations from campaigners outside Parliament.
Supporters of the bill in Parliament's upper house wore pink carnations Monday as the Lords agreed to send it back to the House of Commons, where lawmakers will review government amendments before it becomes law.
That is expected to go without a hitch, as the House of Commons earlier passed the bill 390 to 148.
The bill will enable gay couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies in England and Wales, though the Church of England, which is divided on the issue, is barred from offering same-sex ceremonies.
Currently, same-sex couples can form civil partnerships, which carry similar rights and responsibilities to marriage.
Source: community.spiceworks.com --- Sunday, July 14, 2013 COA Validation. This is a Microsoft service run by Microsoft. COA Validation Is Windows 7 Professional Operating System transfer to any PC/Laptop. If you have a pre-existing COA on a old computer Microsoft can revalidate the COA:ID giving you a new OS/ Operating System . This works with any versions of Windows or MAC . IE, Windows 7 home premium win vista Windows XP AND EVEN Windows starter . It will even work for MAC OS, COAs! . Before you can use this option you must have a pre-existing COA on the PC/MAC you are using or on a old PC/MAC working or not the COA is still a License and can be transferred . Please Note: Microsoft can not Validate fake or counterfeit COA,s all COA,s must be original authentic . You can check that you have a genuine COA visit our website. Your COA:ID is on your COA:License label It is a 14 digit Number: like this example (00000-000-000-000) normally below the barcode. Your COA:ID will be sent to Microsoft for verification. once verified you will be notified by email and sent a link to pay for your new product Key . As your whiting for Validation then is the time to download you OS/ Operating System . Download SHOULD TAKE ABOUT 2-3 Hours depending on your broadband speed. Fiber optic broadband about 30 minutes. When you get your Key activate Windows and that is you DUNE. ...
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said Europe's second-largest economy was recovering and tried to fight deepening pessimism in an interview on Sunday, two days after ratings agency Fitch stripped the country of its last top-notch credit rating.
He urged the French to be more positive, highlighting a slight rebound in industrial output data, a bump in consumer spending and an improved forecast from France's central bank for growth in the second quarter.
"We must not succumb to self-criticism," Hollande told France 2 TV in a 30-minute live Bastille Day interview in the garden of the Elysee presidential palace.
"For years we have been the most pessimistic country in Europe, in the world even. There are countries at war that are more optimistic than we are."
Commentators have underscored the mismatch between France's economic reality and the pessimism of its people, such as in a New York Times op-ed this week titled "France's Glorious Malaise".
"The recovery is here... The second half (of 2013) will be better than the first," Hollande said.
Nevertheless, France's gross domestic product has been flat and unemployment is at a 14-year high, weighing on Hollande's approval rating despite his efforts to fix the economy with tax credits for businesses and subsidized jobs.
Adding to France's woes, Fitch cut the country's credit rating to AA-plus on Friday from its top AAA rating, citing concerns about its budget deficits, high joblessness and weak economic output.
Economists polled by Reuters on July 4-9 expected job losses to continue and the economy to shrink by 0.3 percent in 2013. That is below a government forecast for 0.1 percent growth this year.
URGES CABINET UNITY
Following the derailing of a train on Friday that killed six people, Hollande pledged to increase investment in non-high-speed train lines.
He also used the interview to try to put an end to a raucous debate over whether to lift a ban on exploring for shale gas in France, saying there would be no such exploration while he is in office.
He also brushed aside recommendations from his own Socialist Party on an upcoming reform of the pension system. It advised hiking contribution rates rather than lengthening the duration of contributions - which is his preferred policy.
"I've never hidden my position," he said, referring to the option of lengthening contribution rates beyond 41.5 years currently. "Everyone is going to have to make an effort."
Two weeks after firing his energy minister for criticizing the budget, Hollande warned his cabinet to show unity or risk failure, reiterating that spending would not rise in 2014, although he did not rule out tax rises.
He also played down his rock-bottom approval ratings - a poll in June showed just 26 percent of those interviewed were satisfied with his performance.
"I'm not looking to be popular. My duty is higher than that," he said.
(Reporting by Astrid Wendlandt, Nicholas Vinocur and Sophie Louet)
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Spinster weirdo in Seattle. My interests include politics, feminism, bicycles, crafting, crochet, rats, bad movies, good TV, and my cute kitty. I am poor and on disability and I whine about both of those things quite frequently. Sometimes I make goofy doodles. You may e-mail me at bedbugsbite22 at gmail.com. Or Say Hello.
Country music star Randy Travis’ medical condition is stabilized after he suffered a stroke while being treated for a heart problem. The 54-year-old singer is still on a ventilator but is showing improvement, according to the press conference with his doctors and his fiance, Mary Davis, today. Dr. Gary Erwin of The Heart Hospital Baylor ...
