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By Sofia Perpetua, Writer
A University of Oregon film student felt compelled to respond to some of the issues surrounding the Steubenville rape case -- and has 1.3 million views on YouTube.
Samantha Stendal, 19, directed ?A Needed Response? and addressed to ?the Stuebenville rapists ? or any rapists out there,? in order to show the world how real mean treat women.
"It is horrifying to me that some people can say that people deserve rape when they are passed out," said Stendal to the NY Daily News.
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Samantha Stendal is a sophomore at the University of Oregon.
In Stendal?s 26-second long video, a woman (Kelsey Jones) pretends to be passed out and a man (Justin Gotchall) gets her some water and places a pillow under her head. Then he faces the camera and says ?real men treat women with respect.?
"I was studying for my finals and on the side I was reading about the Steubenville rape case. I grew very frustrated with the media," Stendal told NBC News Tuesday. "That's when I came up with the idea for this video."
Gotchall, who is a philosophy major, added, "After we saw the media coverage of the Steubenville rape cases we just had to do this."
"I think this video is powerful in its simplicity," Desertra87 posted as a comment on YouTube. After only being up only four days, the video already has more than 4,000 comments and over a million views.
Last week, Steubenville High School football players Trent Mays and Ma?lik Richmond were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at a raucous house party in the small Ohio town.
The story had already made headlines because of the issues surrounding the case like social media harassment, and teenage partying one wild. But media coverage following the convictions generated even more controversy and angered many when some reporters seemed to focus on the loss of the two football players? bright future -- and not on the victim?s trauma.
"What really upsets me is what the news is going to, what the internet is going to ? which is asking what the victim could have done differently," Stendal told KVAL 13 News in Eugene, Ore. "I'm upset that in our culture that is one of the first questions asked."
Stendal, a sophomore, added, "the message I hope that people can get from this video is that we need to treat one another with respect.?No matter what gender, we should be listening to each other and making sure there is consent."
Stendal, now on her Spring break, is currently applying for video internships.
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The City of Auburn and community organizations have coordinated a variety of events and performances throughout April to highlight the legacy and ongoing achievement of Auburn-area poets in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Dick Brugger, Auburn's poet laureate, and his daughter, Jessie Brugger, award-winning filmmaker (New York International Film Festival award for best short animated video), kick off the month-long lineup with A Poetry Animation Evening. The Bruggers share their talents through presentation and discussion at 7 p.m. April 4 at the Auburn Avenue Theater.
Moderated by Marjorie Rommell of the Northwest Renaissance Poets, the hour-long program will showcase several of Jessie's animated films, Dick's poetry and the projects created together in which the two art forms intersect.
The City of Auburn sponsors the free program.
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is celebrated in April, when schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers and poets throughout the United States band together to honor poetry and its vital place in American culture.
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COMMUNITY POETRY PROGRAMS
??Maple Valley Creative Arts Center
Maple Valley Black Diamond Road SE, 7 p.m. March 29.
Celebrate the release of Malorie Spreen's first book. Free.?nightowlpoetry.wordpress.com
? Striped Water Poets
Station Bistro, Sound Transit Plaza, 110 2nd St., No. 125, April 1, 7 p.m.
Poetry at Station Bistro: Open mic and special guests. April is the one-year anniversary of SWP's with the Bistro; lineup of six featured poets to celebrate. Sponsored by the Auburn Arts Commission, King County 4Culture, Striped Water Poets, NorthWest Renaissance, and The Station Bistro. www.auburnstationbistro.com
? Poetry Critique Circle
Auburn City Hall, 25 W. Main St., Tuesdays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 7-9 p.m.
? A Poetry Animation Evening
Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave., April 4, 7 p.m.
Dick Brugger, Auburn's poet laureate and his daughter Jessie Brugger, award-winning filmmaker, perform. Free. Presented by the City of Auburn. jessiebrugger.net
? Northwest Renaissance Poetry
Wesley Homes, 32049 109th Place SE, April 6, 2 p.m.
Poetry reading by Marjorie Rommel and Lisa Schmitz
? Canterbury House
502 29th St. SE, Auburn, 10:30 a.m., April 10.
More featured readers from Striped Water Poets. Free.
? King County Library System/Friends of Algona-Pacific Library
255 Ellingson Road, April 25, 3:30 p.m. Teens are invited to express themselves by creating an iron-on poetry T-shirt to keep. Limit to the first 10.?Register at www.kcls.org or 253-833-3554.
? Poetry workshop with Michael Brouwer
Warren Building, Veterans Memorial Park, April 27, 1-4 pm
Find the power in your poetry.?To register ($15 advance/$20 at door) contact marjorie.rommel@gmail.com or 253-939-0571. matthewbrouwerpoet.com
? Poetry Performance: KUOW Personality Elizabeth Austen
Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave., April 30, 7 p.m. Free.?elizabethausten.wordpress.com
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ALSO: Every Tuesday, 7 p.m., Auburn City Hall, 25 W. Main St. Striped Water Poets, a poetry critique circle. Free.
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A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the news conference of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed stood by its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the news conference of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed stood by its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Trader Kenneth Polcari works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street as the European island nation of Cyprus seeks alternatives to a bailout plan its legislature overwhelmingly rejected the day before. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the news conference of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed stood by its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? After two days of worrying about Europe, the stock market got a boost from the Federal Reserve Wednesday.
The Fed said the U.S. economy has strengthened but still needs support from the central bank.
The Dow Jones industrial average touched an all-time high after the Fed said it plans to continue buying bonds and keep interest rates low, at least until unemployment eases. The blue-chip index eased off its peak but still ended 55 points higher for the day.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke also said that the financial crisis in the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus posed no major risk to the U.S.
The Dow was up 44 points shortly before the Fed announcement at 2 p.m. It rose as much as 91 points shortly after the Fed released its policy statement, touching an all-time high of 14,546 at 2:25 p.m.
"We are seeing improvement," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference. "One thing we would need is to see this is not temporary improvement."
The Fed plans to keep buying $85 billion in bonds a month indefinitely to keep long-term borrowing costs down and spur investment. It also said it would keep short-term interest rates low, at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent.
Unemployment fell last month to 7.7 percent, the lowest in four years. The Fed doesn't expect the rate to reach its target until 2015.
Investor attention returned to Europe earlier this week after several months' respite.
The reason is Cyprus. The nation is negotiating with international lenders, seeking support for its ailing financial system. Without a bailout deal, Cyprus' banks could collapse, devastating the country's economy and potentially forcing it to exit the euro currency group. That could roil global financial markets.
Stocks fell Monday on concerns about Cyprus. Stock markets were little changed Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the Dow closed up 55.91 points, or 0.4 percent, to 14,511.73. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10.37 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,558.71. The Nasdaq composite index rose 25.09, or 0.8 percent, to 3,254.19.
The Dow is up 10.7 percent for the year. From March 1 through March 14, the index had a 10-day winning streak ? its longest since 1996. The streak boosted the Dow by 484 points, to 14,539.
The S&P 500, meanwhile, is just six points below its all-time high of 1,565, reached in October 2007. It is up 9.3 percent so far this year.
Nine of the 10 industries in the S&P index rose Wednesday, led by consumer discretionary and consumer staple companies.
General Mills rose $1.19, or 2.6 percent, to $47.61 after its fiscal third-quarter profit rose 2 percent. The food company, whose brands include Cheerios and Betty Crocker, is benefiting from recent acquisitions.
Williams-Sonoma's stock soared after the home goods retailer said its fourth-quarter net income jumped 9 percent and beat expectations. The stock was up $4.64, or 10.3 percent, to $49.85.
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Daniel Wagner can be reached at www.twitter.com/wagnerreports .
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VR headsets have been around for decades, but they've always been bulky and expensive. The Oculus Rift, which made waves at this year's CES, could finally bring the technology into the mainstream.
By Jeff Ward-Bailey,?Contributor / March 19, 2013
The Oculus Rift, which made waves at this year's CES, could finally bring the technology into the mainstream.
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EnlargeVirtual reality might have been a concept ahead of its time -- VR headsets promised immersive gaming experiences in the 1990s, but bulky headsets and relatively primitive graphics kept them from being widely adopted. The technology has come a long way in 20 years, though, and now a company called Oculus is trying to put us inside games in a way that no screen can.?
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The Oculus Rift, one of the most talked-about products at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, looks like a plastic rectangle attached to a pair of ski goggles. (In fact, the original Rift prototype was literally a pair of goggles with LCD screens integrated.) But when the company approached crowd-funding site Kickstarter with a $250,000 funding request, it raised almost ten times that amount -- and attracted the attention of some big names in the gaming industry.
Now, six months later, Oculus is preparing to ship 10,000 developer headsets to its Kickstarter supporters, and we?re seeing the very first signs of Rift-compatible gaming. Team Fortress 2, the popular first-person shooter from Valve, will be getting a ?VR Mode? update in a few weeks, and id Software has talked about giving Doom 4 a similar treatment. The Oculus Rift isn?t ready for consumers yet, but it?s headed in that direction. It helps that the headset will cost only a few hundred dollars -- since most of its components are the same ones found inside tablets and smart phones.
What does using the Oculus Rift feel like? Tech journalists who have been lucky enough to try a prototype headset describe a disorientingly realistic experience.
?The initial feeling of being instantly teleported is jarring,? writes Engadget?s Ben Gilbert. ?You can turn your head to turn in-game, and you can freely aim all over the generous field of view without altering said field of view.? Over at The Verge, Sean Hollister writes: ?With the 3D visuals, the wide field of view, and the motion tracking that shows you whatever your head points at, it feels like you?re truly in another world... only you?re looking at that world through a mesh helmet. The reality is that you?re seeing the actual rows of pixels, but your brain fills in some of the blanks.?
Compared with the complicated VR setups of yesteryear, the Oculus Rift is pretty simple: a single cable connects the goggles to a control box that accepts power and video. The headset itself can be adjusted to the shape of the user?s head, and even takes near- and far-sightedness into account.
In spite of these advances, Oculus still faces an uphill battle before VR headsets become commonplace. Convincing game companies to make compatible software is one hurdle; helping would-be users adjust to a new method of input is another (keep in mind that the Rift only responds to the user?s head movements; controlling of a video game character?s body is handled by a traditional controller). But the company hopes that its open-source ethic will enable those who are interested to help push the technology forward. And few would dispute that the headset, even in its infancy, is proof of the viability of a new approach to gaming.
Readers, what do you think about the Oculus Rift? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
For more tech news, follow Jeff on?Twitter:?@jeffwardbailey.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Every community in America has its share of parks. However, park amenities in certain communities can be lacking, which can be detrimental to the health of potential patrons. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that while more parks exist in lower-income neighborhoods, they tend to be less attractive than parks in upper- and middle-class neighborhoods, which have more amenities and are more visually pleasing.
"Parks are important for physical activity and socialization among community members," said Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, assistant professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism at MU. "However, our research suggests that resources are not always distributed equitably."
In the study, which was completed in Kansas City, Mo., the research team found that lower-income areas had more parks, but fewer amenities such as playgrounds. Parks in high-minority areas had more basketball courts and fewer trails while middle-class areas had more aesthetic features such as water features or decorative landscaping. Wilhelm Stanis completed the study with Katherine Vaughan from Kansas State University and Andrew Kaczynski, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.
The researchers also examined the proportion of parks with adjacent sidewalks and found that low- and high-income areas had a higher proportion of parks with adjacent sidewalks compared to medium-income areas.
"Sidewalks are an important predictor of how much exercise the local population engages in and how safely and easily patrons can access resources in the neighborhood," Kaczynski said. "The absence of such amenities around parks should not be ignored."
According to previous research, sidewalks in lower income areas tend to be more uneven and often have obstructions making them difficult to access. Quality concerns and fewer aesthetic features can lead to poorer perceptions and actual problems related to park attractiveness and safety, which can deter park visitation and use, Wilhelm Stanis said.
"Previous studies show that certain features, such as playgrounds and trails, are important for physical activity," she said. "We do believe that more research is needed to examine how disparities in park environments are associated with activity levels and health outcomes."
The study reviewed 219 parks in four counties, covering 313 square miles in the Kansas City, Mo. region. Following the study, Wilhelm-Stanis said that the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department have added playgrounds and trails to numerous parks through the region, including those in low income neighborhoods. The study was published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, a journal of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Every community in America has its share of parks. However, park amenities in certain communities can be lacking, which can be detrimental to the health of potential patrons. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that while more parks exist in lower-income neighborhoods, they tend to be less attractive than parks in upper- and middle-class neighborhoods, which have more amenities and are more visually pleasing.
"Parks are important for physical activity and socialization among community members," said Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, assistant professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism at MU. "However, our research suggests that resources are not always distributed equitably."
In the study, which was completed in Kansas City, Mo., the research team found that lower-income areas had more parks, but fewer amenities such as playgrounds. Parks in high-minority areas had more basketball courts and fewer trails while middle-class areas had more aesthetic features such as water features or decorative landscaping. Wilhelm Stanis completed the study with Katherine Vaughan from Kansas State University and Andrew Kaczynski, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.
The researchers also examined the proportion of parks with adjacent sidewalks and found that low- and high-income areas had a higher proportion of parks with adjacent sidewalks compared to medium-income areas.
"Sidewalks are an important predictor of how much exercise the local population engages in and how safely and easily patrons can access resources in the neighborhood," Kaczynski said. "The absence of such amenities around parks should not be ignored."
According to previous research, sidewalks in lower income areas tend to be more uneven and often have obstructions making them difficult to access. Quality concerns and fewer aesthetic features can lead to poorer perceptions and actual problems related to park attractiveness and safety, which can deter park visitation and use, Wilhelm Stanis said.
"Previous studies show that certain features, such as playgrounds and trails, are important for physical activity," she said. "We do believe that more research is needed to examine how disparities in park environments are associated with activity levels and health outcomes."
The study reviewed 219 parks in four counties, covering 313 square miles in the Kansas City, Mo. region. Following the study, Wilhelm-Stanis said that the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department have added playgrounds and trails to numerous parks through the region, including those in low income neighborhoods. The study was published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, a journal of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
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A news report suggests that authority for the US drone program could shift from the CIA to the Pentagon. Critics hope that would open it to more oversight from Congress and citizens.
By Anna Mulrine,?Staff writer / March 20, 2013
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The hope among critics is that this change would allow greater oversight by Congress ? and, by extension, the American public ? of America?s targeted killing program.
That could be true, experts say. Congress is generally more successful in bringing the Pentagon to heel through budget threats than is the CIA. Moreover, the Pentagon is subject to citizen Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.?
But elements within the Pentagon are just as secretive ? if not more so ? than the CIA, meaning critics might not get the degree of openness they might want.
?Whether transparency increases really depends on who at the DoD [Department of Defense] the program goes to,? says Jennifer Rowland, program associate with the National Security Studies program at the New America Foundation.
Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, a longtime member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is pushing for the drone program to change addresses.
?Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an Air Force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that?s a job for the Department of Defense,? he said on FOX News recently.
?What we really need to do is take this whole program out of the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency and put it into the Department of Defense, where you have adequate oversight, you have committee oversight, you have all the things that are built in as our oversight of the Department of Defense.?
But some analysts question whether the move to the Pentagon would truly increase oversight.
?That shift in-and-of-itself does not necessarily create more transparency,? says Benjamin Friedman, a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think thank.
In his article for the Daily Beast that broke the news of the reported shift Wednesday, Daniel Klaidman points out that the Pentagon may choose to place responsibility for the drone program with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which is responsible for the Navy?s SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, and other equally secretive US military strike forces.
JSOC may be less willing to share information about these strikes than is the CIA. And while the CIA is obligated to report certain actions it takes ? including targeted killings ? to Congress, JSOC is not.
?JSOC really has different rules than the rest of the Pentagon,? says Ms. Rowland of the New America Foundation.
That said, it is far easier for American citizens to compel the Pentagon to share data through FOIAs, Rowland points out. ?The DoD may not be legally bound to provide certain data to Congress, but they are legally bound to provide it to the American public.?
And should the program shift to the Pentagon, the congressional committees that oversee it could have more points of leverage. In particular, the armed services committee controls the purse strings for the DoD.
This means that the House and Senate Armed Services Committees could strong-arm the Pentagon to share information. The intelligence committees, by contrast, could compel the CIA to do relatively little, Friedman argues.
?In the end, where these formal powers reside may be less important than the fact that the armed services committee authorizers make budget decisions, so they have more pull to get what they want,? says Mr. Friedman of CATO.
Most vital is that this potential move could spark a deeper conversation among lawmakers and the American public about secretive programs that warrant far more oversight than they have been getting, analysts say.
?To me, the main thing is less whether the drone program is run by the CIA or JSOC, but rather whether Congress is asserting its power to contain and check the executive branch when it comes strikes overseas,? Friedman says.
?Rand Paul said it pretty well in his 13-hour filibuster: ?We shouldn?t be asking the president for memos on drone strikes, we should be giving him memos,? ? referring to congressional demands for a legal justification of the Obama administration?s targeted killing program.
The ?murky? process for managing the program, Friedman adds, has proven ?woefully insufficient and has been abused massively by the executive branch to do what they want to as long as they say the magic word ?terrorism.? ?
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It's not often that we see those services present on the Apple TV get tweaked, but today Hulu announced its Plus offering has been on the receiving end of a major design overhaul. Clearly taking a cue from Cupertino's own iTunes app on the tiny media box, the Hulu Plus redesign makes perfect use of a top navigation bar, which, as pictured above, lists familiar entries like TV, Movies, Kids, Latino, Queue and Search -- a nice visual (and useful) change when compared to what we've been become accustomed to since the app first arrived on the "hobby" platform. According to Hulu, the redesign was driven by the idea to bring quick access to what subscribers are trying to watch, as well as the thought of delivering an easier discovery experience which aims to help with finding new shows and making it easier to watch recent episodes of those that are already preferred. Apple TV owners running the latest firmware can play with the fresh UI now -- of course, that's for those who are already shelling out the required $8 monthly fee for Hulu's premium ware.
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Winter may be coming, but so is George R. R. Martin. The author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series on which HBO's popular show "Game of Thrones" is based will cameo in the series' third season, Deadline reports.
"You will see him," executive producer David Benioff told the website, though he wouldn't offer specifics.?
The author had a cameo in the series' pilot, but it ended up "on the cutting room floor" when "90 percent of the pilot was re-shot," said another show executive producer, D.B. Weiss. The producers and some show cast appeared with Martin during an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences panel at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood Tuesday night.
Martin will be far from the only writer to appear in his own creation; "Dexter" author Jeff Lindsay appeared as a police officer in the show's third season, and Tony Kushner cameoed as a rabbi in the HBO miniseries adaptation of his "Angels in America" play, just for starters.
Back at the panel, despite the producers keeping tight lips, at least one tease did leak: "There'll be a few people on the throne before (the show) is over," said Martin.
But the audience groaned when Benioff said no order for a fourth season had been made by HBO yet.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Don't look for testing of the anthrax vaccine to begin in children any time soon.
Controversy arose last year as experts debated whether such studies should be done to learn how to treat children in case of a bioterror attack.
But a presidential commission says the government would have to take multiple steps ? including more safety research in young adults ? before it would be ethical to consider tests in children.
"The safety of our children is paramount, and we have to get this precisely right," said Dr. Amy Gutmann, who chairs the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which released its report Tuesday.
More than a decade after the anthrax attacks, the government has a multibillion-dollar stockpile of drugs and vaccines to fight an array of threats. There's no information on whether those so-called countermeasures would work in children like they're expected to help their parents, or even what dose to use. Yet if a large attack were to occur, children undoubtedly would receive those untested products.
Worried about how to handle an emergency, a government advisory group recommended studying the anthrax vaccine in children if independent ethics experts agreed it could be done appropriately. The Obama administration put that question to the panel.
Tuesday's answer: Children don't gain any benefit from pre-attack research with the anthrax vaccine or other countermeasures. So the panel said such studies would be ethical only if they presented no more than minimal risk to participants ? like the risk from a routine medical check-up. Determining that would require, among other things, more testing in adults, the panel added. Something that proved safe in 18-year-olds, for example, might be a candidate to study next in 16- and 17-year-olds.
However, the government should plan now for how it would study children who receive those treatments in the event of an attack, the panel said.
The Health and Human Services Department, which requested the advice, said it would review the findings.
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Well, this took long enough, don'tcha think? Ever since the original Jawbone Up fitness tracker came out, we've been saying it needs an Android app so you can use it with more than just an iDevice. Heck, even when the redesigned second-gen version went on sale last year, it was still for iOS only. Finally, though, that Android app is here, and it's ready to download in the Google Play store.
Like the iOS version it's free, and can be used to log daily meals, as well as view pretty charts illustrating your various sleep and activity patterns. You'll also notice some strong similarities in the UI, though the iOS version has a few features the Android software doesn't have yet, such as the ability to share things on Twitter and Facebook. The band, too, is the same as ever, which means you can use it with a mix of iOS and Android devices, if you so choose. Finally, there's one last (very big) group of people who will be getting to try the Up for the first time: the wristband is now for sale in Europe, with Asia, Australia and the Middle East to follow next month.
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Mindy McCready and her boyfriend were executed by drug dealers, and then made to look like suicide victims.
This scenario has been proposed by crime analysts after the 37-year-old country singer?s dead body was found lying on her Arkansas home?s front porch next to her shot-dead dog on February 17.
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The musician know for the popular song ?Guys Do It All the Time? and being on reality TV show ?Celebrity Rehab? died only a month after she found her boyfriend David Wilson shot dead on the same spot.
Former Chicago cop-turned-Hollywood private investigator Paul Huebl told Globe magazine recently that he believes they were both murdered by a shooter hired by vindictive drug pushers.
?Presuming that both deaths were suicides might be letting a cold-blooded killer run free,? said Huebl.
?I hope authorities are properly investigating it.?
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Huebl is the same private investigator who claimed to have security video that proves drug dealers entered Whitney Houston?s hotel room to murder her, which he submitted to the FBI in December, according to the Daily Mail.
He stated that he is disturbed by the strange ?coincidence? that both McCready and Wilson would die from gunshot wounds on the same porch.
He insists Wilson did not kill himself and was murdered in-order to scare McCready with a warning to pay her drug debts.
He is also questioning the police department?s conclusions since neither of them left suicide notes, which are very common in suicides.
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?Mindy told everyone she didn?t know what happened to David,? said Huebl. ?She said she heard a gunshot, ran out of the house and found him dying. But was she holding back about what really happened to protect herself and her sons??
After Wilson?s death, McCready?s family friend Dan Hanks, a private detective, said the singer said that Wilson ?was trying to tell me something? during his final breaths on January 13.
?McCready told me, ?David was grabbing me and trying to talk. Of course he couldn?t talk at that point. Half his brain was on the floor.? Hanks said.
At the time of his death, McCready?s representative said he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, but there was no mention of a suicide note.
Then, on January 29, she said ?I don?t know.? when asked by Dateline TV reporter Andrea Channing asked if Wilson was murdered.
Talk about Wilson being murdered seemed to send McCready into an emotional breakdown and she entered a mental health and substance abuse treatment facility Feb. 6. Her sons were placed in foster care.
However, she left the rehab facility only 18 hours after entering. She apparently passed test indicating alcohol and drug use.
Fewer than two weeks after Wilson?s death, police officers found her shot dead on her bloody porch after they were alerted by neighbors.
?Mindy had a drug problem ? and that would put her in the path of ruthless dealers demanding payment,? said Huebl after noting that she hung around a drug-using group of people.
She began her spiral into substance abuse after her career began to fail following her double-platinum debut album Ten Thousand Angels. Later she was arrested several times and served time in prison.
Wilson was reportedly helping McCready remain sober. His dead could be linked to her drug use, said Huebl.
?Even though David was due to inherit money a few weeks after his death, drug dealers don?t take IOUs,? he said.
The P.I. theorized that Wilson might have been murdered to send a message to McCready.
?It?s possible that the killer simply rang the doorbell and, when Wilson answered, gunned him down before fleeing,? he said.
Then, it was time for McCready to pay herdrug debt with her life, Huebl suggested.
?The assassin likely crept up on the house from the lake,? he said. ?But he didn?t bank on the dog being there and it snarled at him when it came into view.
?The killer shot the dog and when McCready raced out to see what was happening, he shot her dead, too.
?He quickly staged to scene to make it look like suicide before fleeing.
?In this case, every effort should be made to learn what happened to one of America?s favorite country singers whose death was just the latest tragedy in her life.?
McCready wrote about a happier future before her shocking death, despite the loss of her ?soulmate? Wilson.
On January 18, she wrote on Twitter that she was working on writing an autobiography and would post chapters on her website.
?I haven?t had a hit in almost a decade,? she wrote in diary form. ?I?ve been beaten, sued, robbed, arrested, jailed and evicted. But I?m still here.
?With a handful of people I trust, a revived determination, and both middle fingers up in the air, I?m ready. I?ve been here before. I?m a fighter.
?I have a record deal, a reality TV show in the making?and a new clarity to accompany my devilish and ferocious work ethic.
?I?m down, but I?ll never be out.?
Several psychologists told the publication that these words are not of someone who is suicidal.
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Source: http://www.conspirazzi.com/mindy-mccready-was-murdered-private-investigator-claims/
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Douglas Adams: If he'd ever written a hitchhiker's guide to parenting, it would have the words ?don't panic? written in large friendly letters on the cover. Douglas Adams is one mom's hero ? and a hero to her four boys, too.
By Lisa Suhay,?Guest Blogger / March 11, 2013
Douglas Adams, the author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. Pictured here: A scene from the 2005 movie ? made from the book ? starring Martin Freeman and Mos Def.
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EnlargeMy kids and I are over the moon about today?s Goodle Doodle of Douglas Adams who I feel has influenced the lives of my sons nearly as much as I have. Also, by naming his only daughter?Polly Jane Rocket Adams, he gave me license to name one of my sons Avery Danger Suhay, for that and many other parenting lessons I celebrate Mr. Adams today.
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Adams not only wrote some of my very favorite books, creating characters who made me laugh and gave me stock lines I have passed on to my boys, but if looked at in a certain light ? perhaps using a?chartreuse?bulb ? he?s the definitive guide to parenting.
If Adams had ever written a guide to being a parent it would have the words ?DON?T PANIC? written in large friendly letters on the cover.
Inside would be Adams? words, intended for wit, but surprisingly accurate to the parenting situation.
?Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so,??according to Adams. If that?s not a teenager I?m a paranoid android.
By the way, as a mom who drives kids everywhere, I am often moved to repeat the stock phrase of Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchiker?s Guide to the Galaxy, ?Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't.?
As Mom?s Taxi service, I follow the Adams' maxium, ?I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.? This is also true of choosing to be an at-home mom because as a parent our plans are often zapped by the laser of life as we follow the parenting path to some really cool places.?
When anyone suggests that my choice of working from home and being with the kids isn?t a job or of value I quote Adams saying, ?To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.?
He accurately described every parenting plan I have ever read in a book and tried to emulate in my home by saying, ?A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.?
Adams also, unintentionally, described what it?s like to tell a teenager to do a chore, ?For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.?
Some parents may resort to trying to feed away a problem with a child?with a treat or mistakenly think that the act of having everyone at the table for dinner automatically makes it ?family time.? I?ve learned that family meals require some serious effort in order for there to be actual conversation beyond the sound of ?Nom, nom, nom? with four sons. Adams tells us, "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.?
When we lived aboard our sailboat I fell into the habit of reading Adams books aloud as entertainment and that hasn?t stopped.??As a result, my son Zoltan, 19, informed me he intends to take sky diving lessons, and when I incoherently burbled my terror at him he coolly responded, ?Mom, don?t worry. All I need to do is?throw myself at the ground and miss.? That came from the Adams quote ?Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.??
Ian, 17, is brilliant but has terrible grades because nothing is ever turned in on time. His stock answer comes from Adams as well, and it?s my own fault for repeating it aloud so often, ?I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.?
Avery Danger Suhay (whom I dearly hope will someday adopt the pen name A. Danger Suhay) often writes ?DON?T PANIC? in large friendly letters on the white board on the kitchen when I look as stressed as Arthur Dent with a Vogon fleet overhead.
Quin, 9, with Asperger? Syndrome is a kid who can repeat things he?s read and heard verbatim. So when things get loopy ? and particularly after a tornado warning here, which we get more than you?d expect for Norfolk, Va ? he, too, quotes Adams: ?We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.?
Adams gave me the most valuable, lasting and essential parenting tool, humor. Using that, we have built a love of reading, laughing and flights of fancy into our family.?
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In short: Mars has two kinds of snow, and one isn't like Earthly snow at all.
Most of the snow that reaches the ground and accumulates on Mars is not made of frozen water, but of frozen carbon dioxide. It's a purer version of the "dry ice" that you might use to fog up a punch bowl at a Halloween party. And when it comes to frozen CO2, you can forget the beautifully varied, six-sided, H20 crystal snowflakes that fall from our skies. Instead, the carbon dioxide solidifying in Mars' thin atmosphere likely forms cubic pellets with the corners lopped off and replaced by triangles, called cuboctahedrons.
Furthermore, the Red Planet's white stuff is probably small compared to our everyday terrestrial snowflakes. Carbon-dioxide snow is microscopic, and the second variety, the rare water-ice snow on arid Mars, is similar to the "diamond dust" in our polar regions.
In northern Martian climes carbon-dioxide snow is a mere 8 to 22 microns in diameter. Molecules falling on the southern highlands, meanwhile, range from 4 to 13 microns. It's microscopic in both cases, and about the breadth of a human red blood cell. "The particles are so small they wouldn't be like flurries," says Kerri Cahoy, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and co-author of a recent paper on Mars snow. "The snow would really be like a very thin fog that you'd see."
Alas, for future colonist children, snowball fights on Mars don't look like a realistic option. Superfine, frozen carbon dioxide powder mixed with a bit of water-ice packs poorly. "It would be next to impossible to make a snowball," says Daniel Cziczo, an atmospheric chemist at MIT. "Just like on Earth when the temperature gets too cold?below zero degrees Fahrenheit?you don't get the sticky snow that has some liquid water in it that you need to make snowballs. They'd be so powdery they'd fall right apart."
For the same reasons, however, sledding, skiing, or snowboarding on Mars could be X Games?level gnarly. "I think it would be quite good for sledding on Mars when there's snow on the surface," says Jim Whiteway, a professor of space engineering at York University. "It would be quite slippery compared to what we have on Earth."
So how do scientists know all this?
You might be surprised to learn that the first definitive detection of carbon-dioxide snow falling on Mars came in a study published last September. A spectrometer aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter made infrared light observations in 2006 and 2007 that revealed carbon-dioxide ice crystal clouds extending to the ground over Mars' south pole in the frigid dark of winter. "We needed an infrared camera, like night vision, to see the clouds," says lead author Paul Hayne, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In the snowiest parts of the polar regions, it snows pretty much all winter."
On Mars?which has four seasons like Earth because of a similar tilt of its planetary axis?winter lasts for about six Earth months because the Martian year is nearly twice as long. Yet the snow accumulation over this time is not as much as you might expect?perhaps a foot or two.
Hayne says that snowfall contributes about one-fifth of the material to the seasonal ice cap of carbon dioxide in the south. In the north as well as the south, these seasonal caps grow to more than six feet in height on top of the permanent, year-round caps composed of water-ice. (To give you a sense of scale, the north pole's permanent ice cap spans some 600 miles across, about three times as big as the south's cap.)
This carbon dioxide frost, along with its snowy precipitation, can occur when local temperatures plunge below minus 193 degrees F. Amazingly, about a quarter of the entire Red Planet's atmosphere gets alternately dumped on the poles each cold season. "That's a thing that's so strange about all this?we're not talking about a minor component of the atmosphere," Hayne says. "It's almost the equivalent of [atmospheric] nitrogen on Earth freezing out."
As with the CO2 snow, the first detection of more-familiar water-ice snow on Mars happened recently. In 2008, near the north pole, the Phoenix lander's LIDAR instrument shot a green laser beam up into the atmosphere to measure the backscattering of light from airborne particles. The instrument sensed the gentle falling of water-ice crystals from cirrus-like clouds several miles up that form at night as winter approaches.
Phoenix did not record snow alighting on the ground in daylight. Whiteway says that after the sun rose, any deposited water-ice snow would not last long, sublimating within hours back into water vapor. -Before vanishing, though, it might look rather nice. "There would've been a frosting on the ground," says Whiteway, lead author of a Science paper describing the findings. "You would notice the odd crystal and sparkle here and there, like in the early autumn."
The Martian winter's chill killed the Phoenix lander before it ever got to see carbon-dioxide snow or frost forming. Our insights into the shape of carbon-dioxide snow relate back?albeit indirectly?to the landers Viking 1 and 2 that touched down on Mars in the summer of 1976. Paul Doherty, now a senior staff scientist at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, wondered if the Viking cameras would detect halos around the sun in the Martian sky like those on Earth?called sun dogs or parhelia?caused by floating ice crystals. To gauge where and how Martian sun dogs might form, Doherty went to look up Martian snow crystal shapes in the literature?except there wasn't any. "I couldn't find any information on that, so decided I'd better do what a scientist does and run an experiment," Doherty says.
With an engineer colleague named Clarence Bennett, Doherty built a "Mars chamber" about the size of a breadbox. Inside it, he simulated Mars' low atmospheric pressure?less than 1 percent of Earth's?and winter temperature conditions. Gauzy fibers around a nitrogen-cooled pipe served as the nucleating agents for carbon dioxide to glom on to and grow into crystals. The resulting snowflakes that precipitated to the chamber floor, when photographed under magnification, turned out to have a cuboctahedral shape. Based on this, Doherty calculated where Martian sun dogs should appear, though a search of Viking as well as subsequent lander and rovers' photos of the sky hasn't yielded halos?yet. "On Mars, we've looked a lot already and haven't seen any halos, so they must be rarer [than on Earth]," Doherty says.
Beyond preparing a slope report for would-be interplanetary skiers, there is a point to all of the science work regarding Martian snow. For example, determining the impact of snow on Mars' energy budget?how cloud and surface particles reflect and absorb energy from the sun?will be an integral part of better modeling Mars' climate. "Understanding that whole process helps us understand how Mars works," says Cahoy, "and what it might have looked like earlier in its history and in the future."
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