Warm Bodies PlayStation 4 groundhog day bank of america online banking Alois Bell Donna Savattere deer antler spray
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Sony Poised to Fire Next Shot in Next-Gen Console Wars
Sony issued an invite Thursday to an event on Feb. 20 that could give gamers their first glimpse at the PlayStation 4, the company's next-generation console to go head-to-head against Nintendo's Wii U and whatever Microsoft unveils later this year. Sony had previously hinted that it would provide PS4 details in advance of this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles in June.
The nanomechanical signature of breast cancer
Source: http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=28804.php
super bowl coin toss madonna super bowl halftime kelly clarkson super bowl giants super bowl 2012 half time show halftime show 2012 kelly clarkson super bowl 2012
Friday, February 1, 2013
Prostitution allegation, use of donor plane dog Sen. Menendez
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sen. Robert Menendez's office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two of three trips Menendez took on the donor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010.
There was no public disclosure.
"The senator paid for the two trips out of his personal account and no reporting requirements apply," said Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright.
Details of Menendez's trips emerged as his office said unsubstantiated allegations that the senator engaged in sex with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are false.
The FBI searched the West Palm Beach, Fla., office of the donor ? eye doctor Salomon Melgen ? on Tuesday night and early Wednesday, but it was unclear if the raid was related to Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.
A third trip by Menendez aboard Melgen's plane ? a campaign fundraising journey to the donor's residence in the Dominican Republic ? took place in May 2010. That trip was reported to the Federal Election Commission, said Enright. That trip, for fundraising from the community of Americans in the area, went to the Dominican Republic and to Puerto Rico, said Menendez's office.
Menendez categorized the other two trips as personal. The first was from Aug. 6-9, 2010, a round trip from South Florida to the Dominican Republic. The second personal trip was from Sept. 3-6, 2010, from New Jersey to the Dominican Republic and back.
Menendez could have invoked what is known as a "friendship exemption" regarding the two personal trips, which would have required the senator to report the travel to the Senate Ethics Committee as a gift. Instead, Menendez chose to reimburse the full cost of the two trips.
The Daily Caller, a conservative website, reported shortly before the November election that Menendez traveled on Melgen's private plane to the Dominican Republic to engage in sex with prostitutes.
Menendez's office said the accusations of engaging with prostitutes "are manufactured by a politically motivated right-wing blog and are false."
At FBI headquarters in Washington, spokesman Jason Pack said the bureau "cannot comment on the existence or status of an investigation." Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler also declined to comment.
On Tuesday, Menendez became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, succeeding Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
Records filed in Palm Beach County show an Internal Revenue Service lien against Melgen of more than $11.1 million for unpaid taxes from 2006-09. Prior liens for taxes from 1998 to 2002 were subsequently withdrawn, records show.
Earlier Wednesday, Menendez's office said Melgen has been a friend and political supporter of the senator for many years and said the three trips Menendez took have been "paid for and reported appropriately." Menendez's office later changed the statement's wording to specify that the trips had been "paid for or reported appropriately" to correct the impression that all three trips had been publicly reported.
The Daily Caller began publishing stories about Menendez and Melgen on Nov. 1, when it reported that two women from the Dominican Republic said Menendez paid them for sex earlier in 2012. Prostitution is legal in the Caribbean nation.
Melgen is involved in numerous businesses, all sharing the same address in West Palm Beach, according to records filed with the Department of State in Florida.
Late Tuesday and early Wednesday, FBI agents were seen inside the West Palm Beach building, walking its halls and standing beside shelves full of files.
Melgen is listed as having an ownership interest in DRM Med Assist, which Federal Aviation Administration records show is the owner of a CL-600 Challenger plane. Flight records for the aircraft were not immediately available.
Melgen, a registered Democrat, has made $193,350 in political contributions since 1998, including $14,200 to Menendez, according to Federal Election Commission records. Menendez was chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which raises money for Democratic Senate candidates, from 2009-11.
Menendez, a lawyer, is a former mayor of Union City, N.J., and also served in the New Jersey state General Assembly and the New Jersey state Senate. He is divorced and has two children.
Melgen, 58, is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he earned his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henr?quez Ure?a in 1978. He has lived in the U.S. since at least 1980, holding an internship, residency and fellowship at hospitals in Connecticut, Missouri and Massachusetts, according to records filed with the Florida Department of Health.
Melgen has been licensed to practice in Florida since 1986 and purchased the West Palm Beach plot of land where he built his main office in 1991. Over the years, Melgen has become regarded as a top ophthalmologist, speaking at conferences and even operating on then-Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1997. The governor later appointed Melgen to a state panel on HMOs.
Calls to Melgen's offices Wednesday were forwarded to an answering service where receptionists told callers to try back Thursday. Calls to Melgen's home in North Palm Beach, which is appraised at $2.1 million, went unanswered.
On the website for his medical practice, Melgen writes: "I am always asked what sets me apart from most other doctors, and I would have to say that I do not consider myself to be a 'cookbook' physician. My patients are my number one priority, and when I am looking to treat a diagnosis I try to look at all the data at hand and extrapolate the best treatment instead of solely adhering to what the current 'standard' of treatment may be."
___
Associated Press writers Matt Sedensky in West Palm Beach, Fla., Curt Anderson in Miami and Jack Gillum and Larry Margasak in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/menendez-says-reimbursed-donor-2-jaunts-081746547--politics.html
Big Bird Adam Greenberg Fall Leaves Jim Lehrer 666 Park Avenue Kara Alongi
Amazon scores Downton Abbey as a subscription streaming exclusive from June 18th
Anyone who's planning to catch up on Downton Abbey on their preferred service may want to plan a viewing marathon very soon: Amazon has struck a deal to become the exclusive home of the period drama on subscription-based streaming video platforms. Starting June 18th, only those Amazon Prime Instant Video members will have access to the third season and beyond on a commercial service without paying per show. The terms don't stop there -- seasons one and two will be pulled from other services later on in the year. While we're sure Kindle Fire owners will be happy, the move won't thrill those who want more of a choice as to how they keep up on their pseudo-historical intrigue.
Filed under: Internet, HD, Amazon
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/T1i16b-Ej9U/
roger federer Olga Korbut Usain Bolt 2012 Olympics Katie Ledecky Aaron Ross Sikh temple lollapalooza
SADTU Political Education Blog: History, Culture and Schooling
Ancient classroom at Sumer History, Culture and Schooling Professor Michael Cole?s long essay ?Cross?Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Developmental Consequences of Education? has been divided for the CU?s purposes into three parts. It begins by asking fundamental questions about the place of schooling in society, the nature of education, and whether schooling and education are ever, or could ever be, the same thing. Mike Cole undertakes to ?venture into a brief synopsis of historical variations in the ways that adults organize the lives of the young so that they acquire knowledge and skills deemed essential to communal life.?
Early in the essay, Cole writes: ?It was widely assumed [?in the 19th century?] that cross?cultural comparisons were simultaneously cross?historical. So-called primitive societies were taken as evidence about early stages of history for all human groups.?
This is a reference to the views, not so much of anthropologists (who were always divided), as of Hegel, Marx and Engels and their successors, the communists of today, who have an explicit, scientific, philosophical and historical theory of development, which is always human development.
Note that the first line of the Communist Manifesto, after the preamble, is: ?The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,? to which Frederick Engels, in the 1888 edition, added: ?That is, all written history.? Engels proceeds to refer to his work ?The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.?
This view of development is not actually ?19th century? but is at base simply humanist, and as such, it is as old as recorded history, as much as reactionary, anti-humanist ideas have always and up to the present time, been part of the same history.
Cole mentions some of the more recent anti-humanist ideologies such as the ?post-modernism? that attacks all (what they call) ?master narratives? (also, elsewhere, referred to as ?grand narratives?). Cole claims to be prepared to be inconclusive about this, but we in our course will not be content to leave the matter like that.
For one reason, theories of ?diversity? are not easily distinguished from theories of racialism. For that reason alone, in South Africa, the option for humanism is not in doubt from the point of view of the liberation movement.
This brings us close to the heart of the question of education: Whether it has a moral content or not? And whether it can be revolutionary, or not?
We will proceed, during this part 3 of our course, after reading Cole, to touch on Hegel, and on the way in which a conscious morality can be conceived of as integral to the theory of human development, and consequently, of education, and therefore, of schooling.
Cole?s reservations do not prevent him from making a firm distinction between the pre-historic societies wherein education is indistinguishable from life in general, and what he refers to as the ?sea change? of civilization, starting in the Middle East, when schooling becomes a separate institution, and very clearly an instrument of class-division that elevates the ruling class, while subordinating the exploited classes.
From this base Cole proceeds, in our second division of his essay, to ?Consequences of Schooling in Post?Colonial Societies?. We will take this as the next item of this week?s part of the course. Suffice it to note at this point that Professor Cole, based at the University of California in San Diego, appears compelled to discuss education as a whole in terms of the problems of Imperialism, in what he refers to as ?Post?Colonial Societies?.And indeed the problems of Imperialism and of education cannot be separated from the general human struggle for freedom.
Source: http://sadtu-pol-ed.blogspot.com/2013/01/history-culture-and-schooling.html
SEC Championship Game 2012 kansas city chiefs Javon Belcher express kindle fire Jenny Johnson olivier martinez
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis score unlikely hit
FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, left, and his producer Ryan Lewis at Irving Plaza in New York. The rapper Macklemore thinks there's a simple reason his hit "Thrift Shop" appears to be going viral: It dares to be different. The Seattle-based duo has sold 2.3 million copies so far _ a million in the last month alone _ and sales continue to grow week to week. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, left, and his producer Ryan Lewis at Irving Plaza in New York. The rapper Macklemore thinks there's a simple reason his hit "Thrift Shop" appears to be going viral: It dares to be different. The Seattle-based duo has sold 2.3 million copies so far _ a million in the last month alone _ and sales continue to grow week to week. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, left, and his producer Ryan Lewis at Irving Plaza in New York. The rapper Macklemore thinks there's a simple reason his hit "Thrift Shop" appears to be going viral: It dares to be different. The Seattle-based duo has sold 2.3 million copies so far _ a million in the last month alone _ and sales continue to grow week to week. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? The rapper Macklemore thinks there's a simple reason the hit "Thrift Shop" appears to be going viral: It dares to be different.
"There's a certain sound that has kind of flooded the mainstream airwaves as far as hip-hop music," he said a few hours after taping a performance on "Late Show with David Letterman" on Thursday night with producing partner Ryan Lewis. "The beat doesn't sound anything like that, the lyrics are kind of completely polar opposite from what you hear from most commercial rap records and it's got a hook that's very catchy. So I think that you combine those three things and it equates to an original sounding song that's refreshing to the audience that hears it."
Listeners have responded with rare enthusiasm to the song about "poppin' tags" to develop your own unique sense of swag. "Thrift Shop" sits atop the Billboard Hot 100 radio airplay chart, the Nielsen SoundScan Digital Songs chart and is the No. 1 song on Spotify for two consecutive weeks. Only one other song, Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven," has reached the top of those lists simultaneously.
The Seattle-based duo has sold 2.3 million copies so far ? a million in the last month alone ? and sales continue to grow week to week. Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, said he and Lewis thought the song might appeal to a "niche demographic" and didn't envision it becoming a single. The song's sense of humor is key, but Haggerty says there's also a deeper message about individuality and modern culture's obsession with expensive fashion.
"The more expensive the better is kind of the American way and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better," Haggerty said. "And I don't necessarily think that's the case. If it's a $600 sweatshirt that's fresh, that's fantastic if it looks great. But to me to just pay a ridiculous amount of money for something just because of the logo isn't creative and it's just unfortunate that people equate spending money to style."
___
Online:
http://macklemore.com
___
Follow AP Music Writer Chris Talbott: http://twitter.com/Chris_Talbott.
Associated Pressthe jerk lake havasu halo 4 jewel san francisco earthquake san francisco earthquake terminator salvation
Eating champ 'El Wingador' indicted on drug charge
WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) ? A five-time wing-eating champion known as "El Wingador" has been indicted in New Jersey on cocaine distribution charges.
William Simmons is charged with four counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and one count of manufacturing or distribution of more than a half ounce of cocaine in June.
The South Jersey Times (http://bit.ly/XpPsaf ) reports the 51-year-old Woodbury Heights resident is also charged with six counts of manufacturing or distribution of more than a half ounce and less than five ounces of the drug and two counts of manufacturing less than half an ounce.
"El Wingador" last won Philadelphia's Wing Bowl in 2005 when he gnawed through 162 chicken wings. Wing Bowl was started as a way for Philadelphia sports fans to blow off steam before the Super Bowl.
___
Information from: South Jersey Times (Woodbury, N.J.), http://nj.com/southjerseytimes
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eating-champ-el-wingador-indicted-drug-charge-134017245.html
gordon hayward gas prices rising stars challenge star trek 2 kathy ireland brooke mueller all star weekend
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)