موسى: العسكرى سيحدد اختصاصات واسماء المجلس الاستشارى المدنى خلال الايام القادمة. Deputies, Movers Refuse To Evict 103-Year-Old Georgia Woman : The Two-Way. Hide captionVita Lee, 103, lives in northwest Atlanta. screenshot/WSBTV Vita Lee, 103, lives in northwest Atlanta. Vita Lee has lived in her Northwest Atlanta home for 53 years. But after a second mortgage was taken out on her home, she faced foreclosure and police planned to evict her yesterday. But as Atlanta's WSB-TV reports, once Fulton County sheriff's deputies and the movers looked at the 103-year-old Lee, they declined to move forward with the eviction. WSBTV reports: "I saw the sheriffs, who came to put them out, take off and leave. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the second mortgage is held by Deutsche Bank. Jeffrey Rosen: Interpreting The Constitution In The Digital Era. GPS monitors can track your every movement. Brain scans can now see lies forming in your brain.
And advancements in genetic engineering may soon allow parents to engineer what their children will look and be like. These new technologies are "challenging our Constitutional categories in really dramatic ways," says George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen. "And what's so striking is that none of the existing amendments give clear answers to the most basic questions we're having today. " On Wednesday's Fresh Air, Rosen, the co-editor of the new book Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change, details how technological changes that were unimaginable at the time of the Founding Fathers are challenging our notions of things like personal vs. private space, freedom of speech and our own individual autonomy.
GPS Monitoring Rosen points to United States v. In that instance, Brandeis wrote the dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. The Constitution In The Year 2025. Tell us about your drug use - legal and otherwise | Society. In the US overdose deaths from prescription drugs are nearing epidemic levels. More people die from overusing prescription drugs than from heroin. Photograph: Alamy It is fashionable and illicit drugs which tend to attract notoriety and media headlines and dominate public debate: cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and more recently, mephedrone and synthetic cannabis. But a largely under-reported drug story, in the US and other developed nations, is that the drugs most likely to top overdose statistics (and currently causing the greatest ripples in public health circles) are in fact prescribed medications such as opioid pain-killers and sleeping tablets.
Prescription medicine abuse is rife, perhaps even at epidemic levels. As the US physician David Kloth wrote recently: "Prescription drugs now surpass motor vehicle accidents as the No 1 cause of accidental death in almost half the states in this country. This is where this year's MixMag/Guardian online Drug Survey comes in. Mystery bird: Field sparrow, Spizella pusilla | @GrrlScientist | Science. Field sparrow, Spizella pusilla, Wilson, A., 1810 (protonym, Fringilla pusilla), also known by a number of other names including bush sparrow, field bunting, field chipping sparrow, and the wood sparrow, photographed at Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Eagle Lake, Texas (USA).
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 23 November 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400I encourage you to purchase images from the photographers who freely share their beautiful work with us. Question: This North American mystery bird is sitting in such a way as to make it extremely challenging to identify. So here's a hint: this species was recently split from its sister (sub)species, which was then elevated to full species status. (That newly-recognised species is now considered endangered.)
Field sparrows, particularly immature birds, can be confused with a number of other sparrows, particularly with two congeners. Occupy Orlando. Herman Cain reassessing and reevaluating and not making much sense. We're going to miss you in more ways than you can count, Herman (Jonathan Ernst, Larry Downing, Downing, Jason Reed, Reed / Reuters) 9-9-9 made more sense then this gibberish: Asked by ABC News after a rally in a hotel ballroom outside of Cincinnati if he will drop out of the GOP race, Cain replied, “We are reassessing.”
As he moved along the rope line greeting supporters, Cain elaborated little on his answer. “We are reassessing as we speak,” he said. “Reassessment means reevaluation.” Okay, so reassessing means reevaluating, but that's not the question. It's damaging enough that Cain refuses to address allegations by Ginger White that she and he carried on an affair for 13 years. 10:25 AM PT: Now he says he'll stay in: “They want you to believe that with enough character assignation on me, I will drop out!” As long somebody's willing to buy what he's got to sell, he's got no reason to actually quit. Occupy Voter Registration. Zhounder. How Does Facebook Compare to the World's Biggest IPOs? ‘Bear’ Offers Lesson in Self-Understanding. Printer-friendly version This semester at Roger Williams University I asked my freshmen interdisciplinary students to reflect upon three important questions: Who am I?
What can I know? What should I do? Of course, these questions are ones elementary school children ought to think about as well. To get at that lesson, I use Frank Tashlin’s The Bear That Wasn’t. The Bear That Wasn’t centers around an unsuspecting bear that awakens from hibernation to discover a factory has been built over his cave. The bear has a major fight on his hands asserting his identity. Through this tale, students consider a profound question: Is each one of us who we think we are or are we defined by what other people say about us? After a discussion about unique qualities, I ask each student to draw an identity chart. Each chart delineates the experiences that make up the individuality of each person in the class.
Franks is a professor in Rhode Island. Occupy L.A.: 292 arrested in camp shutdown. Los Angeles police said 292 people were arrested early Wednesday morning when they closed down the Occupy L.A. encampment. A total of 290 people were arrested for failure to disperse. One person was arrested for interfering with an officer and another was arrested for battery on an officer.
Bail was set at $5,000 for those who allegedly failed to disperse, and a spokesman for the protesters said most of them were prepared to make bail. Overnight, more than 1,400 police swooped in to clear out the encampment on the lawn surrounding City Hall. Occupy L.A.: Photos | Videos | 360° photos | Live webcam Police arrived in force and within minutes had encircled the park. Most protesters chose to leave on their own, but others remained behind. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa toured the park early Wednesday and praised Police Chief Charlie Beck and his officers. "I said that here in L.A. we'd chart a different path, and we did," Villaraigosa said. Lopez: Put Occupy L.A. on the road -- Richard Winton. Freezing singularities in water drops. Gavin Newsom: "Thx 4 your time. RT @Comme. Bunker. Occupy LA - Los Angeles Protester is arrested and thrown to the ground by LAPD on 11-29-2011. Occupy LA - Los Angeles Protester is arrested and thrown to the ground by LAPD on 11-29-2011.
List of United States defense contractors. The Top 100 Contractors Report on the Federal Procurement Data System lists the top one hundred defense contractors by sales to the United States military. ('DoD 9700' worksheet).[1] The Department of Defense announces contracts valued at $6.5 million or more each business day at 5 pm.[2] All defense contractors maintain CAGE (Commercial and Government Entity) Codes, and are profiled in the Central Contractor Registry.[3] List of United States defense contractors: See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Links of 2002 and earlier: Commercial site: Armed Forces International private business of military suppliers and contractors.
The Internet of Experiences: Pandemic Viral Images from Occupy LA and UC Davis. Syria Crackdown Condemned By Activists, Rights Groups. NEW YORK -- As the death toll in Syria's bloody government crackdown rises to more than 3,500 since mass protests began last March, the international community is ratcheting up pressure to end the violence and hold President Bashar al-Assad's regime accountable.
This week, two groups released reports blasting human rights violations carried out by Syrian security forces. On Monday, the U.N. released a scathing report detailing "crimes against humanity" committed by Syrian troops since March, when the government crackdown began. Among the harrowing details, the report includes mention of the killing of at least 256 children -- some of whom were sexually tortured -- and accounts that troops were ordered to "shoot to kill" to quell anti-government demonstrations.
The report found torture "rampant" in several detention facilities. Testimonies were received from several men who stated they had been anally raped with batons and that they had witnessed the rape of boys. 2 εκατομμύρια απεργοί στην Αγγλία (βίντεο) | Εδώ Πολυτεχνείο. Occupy Wall Street Movement. Spotify opens up to add-on apps from third parties. 30 November 2011Last updated at 18:46 Spotify's co-founder, Daniel Ek, unveiled the details at a press event in New York The internet music service Spotify is opening itself up to third party apps. Developers will be able to write programs to add functionality to the music player, such as the ability to see lyrics or buy concert tickets from artists being listened to. Co-founder Daniel Ek said he believed the move would be "game-changing for music" adding that many subscribers had requested the feature.
Facebook has found success using a similar model. Spotify teamed up with the social network earlier this year, allowing its users to reveal which songs they were listening to via its partner's website. Spotify's decision poses a further challenge to Apple. Mr Ek believes the introduction of apps will only attract more people to his firm's service. "We are truly launching integrated apps inside Spotify from the best and the brightest," he said. "The possibilities are truly endless," he said. Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings. 30 November 2011Last updated at 16:58 The book's author had previously told e-book publishers to "go to hell" The science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 has been published as an e-book despite its author's dislike of the format.
Ray Bradbury previously claimed electronic books "smell like burned fuel". Mr Bradbury's agent said the rights for the author's book had been close to expiring and the publisher had insisted the new contract include e-book rights. Experts said the news reflected the growing importance of e-formats. Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953, describes a dystopian future in which the US has outlawed reading and firemen burn books. It has sold more than 10 million copies since publication. 'Too many machines' As late as last year, Mr Bradbury remained firmly opposed to the idea of his book appearing as a digital title. "I said to Yahoo: 'Prick up your ears and go to hell.'" He also complained about the spread of modern technology. "We have too many cellphones. 'A good thing' Welcome | Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter. Solar Power Is Coming to 120,000 Military Housing Units - Environment. The Solyndra scandal was a political football, but it also created real tangles for other solar companies.
More than one withdrew from the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, which had backed the failed company. At least one company, though, has bounced back. SolarCity, a leading solar leasing company, announced today that, even without the government’s backing, it had been able to secure private financing for SolarStrong, a project which aims to power as many as 120,000 military housing units. SolarCity had been trying since 2010 to get the government to guarantee a loan, and in September, the Department of Energy gave the company a conditional commitment for a loan of $344 million. “We just ran out of time,” says Aaron Gillmore, vice president of development at SolarCity. But the year the company had spent putting together a loan application paid off. This ending is happier than one in which the government underwrites SolarCity’s loans. Photo via (cc) Flickr user U.S.
112th Congress (2011-2012. Egypt: Food for a Revolution. Shift in the oil trade. Kai Ryssdal: American presidents as far back as Richard Nixon, I think, have talked about weaning this country off foreign oil. Or, at the very least, cutting how much we import from less-than-friendly places. Well lookee here: This year the U.S. of A is on track to become a net petroleum exporter for the first time since the days of Harry Truman. From the Marketplce Sustainability Desk, Scott Tong reports. Scott Tong: Here it is. We're net exporters of what you call petroleum products. But we still import millions of barrels of crude oil every day. So what are petroleum products? David Goldwyn: Has produced a lot of byproducts which we don't need. These are hydrocarbons like ethane, to make chemicals or the raw stuff for diesel. Energy economist Philip Verleger says that means: Philip Verleger: We won't be importing Nigerian crude.
"Will be," someday. In Washington, I'm Scott Tong for Marketplace. NWS Hanford.