Friday, November 30, 2012

Army researchers seek secure quantum communications | Defense ...

By Army News Service on Friday, November 30th, 2012

Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are pioneering data teleportation ? for the real world.

When the USS Enterprise, from the hit television and movie series ?Star Trek,? beamed individuals to and from the ship, the ship?s transporters were moving matter.

While fictional technology may stir the imagination, science fiction is more of an inspiration than reality. It often provides a spark of scientific inspiration that can lead to discoveries once considered unimaginable.

Today, Army scientists hope to send information from one location to another without the data being transmitted through the intervening space.

To reach this goal, Ronald E. Meyers leads a project that includes fellow physicist Patricia J. Lee and their teams that are collaborating with the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland at College Park. The groups have a 27-kilometer fiber optic connection between their laboratories.

?We use photons that go through the fiber in order to entangle the atoms at two different locations,? Meyers said.

A photon is an elementary particle and a basic building block of the universe. The team sends photons from one end of the fiber to the other. Once photons are entangled, they mysteriously respond to each other.

?The idea of entanglement is that when one photon is manipulated, the other photon will respond at a distance through a process that Einstein highlighted,? Meyers said. ?What we?re going to do is to entangle the distant atoms using these photons. Once they?re entangled, then you do not need the fiber in between. You manipulate atoms here and atoms at another location will respond instantly with nothing in between.?

This effect is known as quantum teleportation using atoms and photons.

?You can communicate between these locations without information appearing to go through the intervening space,? Meyers said. ?It?s mind-boggling.?

For the U.S. Army, a secure quantum communications network is a technology investment worth making. Meyers said physicists around the world are pursuing quantum teleportation research.

?One day we will have communication over worldwide distances with quantum repeaters as mediators at nodes in between,? Meyers said. ?We?ll be able to teleport information globally. What we?ll have is tamper-resistant security.?

Cyber-security is a major concern for military and civilian sectors.

?This is important,? he said. ?The greatest potential that a quantum communications network holds for the Army is secure communications.?

As quantum computing takes hold in the coming decades, the potential for hacking exponentially increases.

?Quantum computers will be able to easily decrypt communications that are currently secure,? Meyers said. ?We?re talking decryption in seconds instead of years. That?s one reason why it?s vital for us to explore quantum encryption.?

Quantum research is building momentum, according to Lee.

?There are a lot of people worldwide who work on this type of research, and we are just a part of the community trying to make the next step a reality,? Lee said. ?Our contribution is trying to set this up in a real-life. It?s very exciting.?

News reports of quantum research advances are growing.

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics went to physicist David Wineland for his quantum research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

?We would hope to have the quantum atomic memory fully going within the next year,? Meyers said. ?There?s a lot of progress on it.?

The team is also striving to develop quantum repeaters.

?We can perform photon teleportation sooner, but having teleportation with quantum memory adding the atoms is really the key to massive changes in the U.S. communications system,? Meyers said. ?We think that teleportation with atoms and photons is an important goal for the United States and we want to get it out of the laboratory and show that it?s possible over long distances.?

Consider a future battlefield with a Soldier, an unmanned aerial vehicle, a command and control element and access to a satellite.

?If you put entangled atoms at each of these locations and they?re moving around, then you can teleport data between the Soldier and the satellite ? you can teleport to UAVs ? you can teleport to command and control headquarters,? Meyers said. ?We think it?s going to be the future for military communications. Now the strategic impact ? it?s possible to get information out of your location without others getting it. This is a whole new technology will one day be common.?

Meyers and Lee agree that quantum data teleportation will become a dominant technology.

?There are several important applications for quantum information,? Lee said. ?For our project here, one of our goals is to build a quantum sensor. Cold atoms can be used to sense acceleration and rotation and they can make very sensitive inertial navigation systems to guide the Soldier or vehicles. That?s a really important application if we can actually develop that technology.

?It?s also going to be very important for Soldiers on the battlefield to have secure communication and computational power that will offer capabilities exceeding anything that we have access to right now,? Lee said.

Like a perpetual jigsaw puzzle, Lee said their research continues to evolve.

?There will be many ways to use this tool. A lot of them we don?t even know about ? they haven?t been thought of,? she said. ?New things will come up and that?s how research, technology and science evolve.?

Meyers said the Army continues to fund quantum research in academia and other research institutions.

?The fundamental physics is there,? Meyers said. ?We have to learn enough of the physics and some of the engineering to implement it and to demonstrate that it can be done. I think this is an evolutionary process that will cause a huge shift in communications.

?Remember, we put a man on the moon with very primitive computers and we developed an atomic bomb without a computer,? Meyers said. ?The fact is we?re going to have these very powerful quantum computers with a lot of intelligence. They?ll be able to work over long distances without being intercepted. It?s going to change the world.?

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Central States Anthropological Society meeting! - Biological ...


April 4-6, 2013

Crowne Plaza Hotel,? St. Louis, Missouri

?CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract deadline December 7th!!!

The Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2013. Faculty, students, independent scholars, and practitioners are encouraged to submit abstracts for papers, posters, organized sessions, workshops and roundtables in all four fields of anthropology, as well as applied. The annual CSAS conference is student-friendly and features a paper competition for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also offers an opportunity for anthropologists from throughout the central states, from institutions large and small, to meet, talk, and network. The 2013 conference will be hosted by the?University of Missouri, St. Louis? Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Languages, and most of the events will be held in the?Crowne Plaza Hotel, located in downtown St. Louis.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Working with Website Developers in Perth | EzinePR

Many companies today rely on their internet sites to generate more clients. Due to this trend, the cyberspace is becoming among the most significant advertising and marketing platforms. The significant switch to internet marketing is dependent heavily on the use of internet sites. Having a website, however, isn?t the end of the story. There?s a high level of competition in the online world; website owners ought to understand how to remain on top. The good thing is reliable web solutions are now available to improve online success among businesses. Website developers in Perth, for instance, offer solutions to help businesses remain reasonably competitive.

What is Website Development?

Website development refers to the different efforts carried out to create excellent websites. Web developers adhere to a dedicated growth cycle in completing the process. It has various stages, usually beginning with identification of the needs of the clients and the target market. Developers must come up with an internet site that will suit the needs and preferences of consumers. They do this utilising their knowledge on programming, various software, and codes just like HTML.

Website development is a continuous process, especially these days when businesses online demand constant alteration. Constant modification makes the websites up-to-date with the shifting needs of the market and trend on cyberspace.

How does it differ from Website Design?

The primary difference between website development and design lies in their objectives. Website developers work to create web sites using different codes and designing interactive elements of an internet site. It involves links with other sites, contact forms, as well as other pop-up features. Designers, on the other hand, are responsible for the visual appeal of the website. They are experienced in the use of graphics and site layout.

A lot of people find these procedures confusing since many companies include them in similar packages. In addition, web developers should also be aware of basics of design, and the web designers the development process.

What makes a good Web Developer?

Other than the essential expertise on websites and the Word Wide Web, website developers should capably work together with the client. They ought to understand the requirements of the business and help determine the goals and the right target market.

These matters are important with regards to the choice of domain for your internet site. The domain is one of the most crucial factors in website development. It is because it plays an important role in traffic generation and in ranking in major search engines like Google. That?s why an effective web developer also needs to understand how Search Engine Optimization works.

Take the time to look for a web developer to work on your business site. You might choose to employ a freelance developer, but employing a web solutions business is ideal in so many cases. Lots of providers of web services give great deal of solutions besides website development and design. Some likewise include SEO services and app development. Employing a firm with different offers allows you to consider other options and bring good results to your business.

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Source: http://ezinepr.com/technology/working-with-website-developers-in-perth/

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Talent and Social Business: Book Review: #Socialized by ...


I received a copy of Mark Fidelman's book, Socialized a couple of weeks ago to review. I have "known" Mark via Twitter where we've had many conversations over the last couple of years. I've avidly followed his column on Forbes, where he's profiled a lot of executives and organizations who are driving change within their companies to leverage social technologies to drive a cultural transformation - as businesses move away from primarily a "command and control" era to "driven by community" leveraging the power of their fans, advocates, influencers and employees.

Mark starts off the book saying that this "social age" is the fifth age of business - after the industrial age, the broadcast age, the management and telecommunication age and the information age.

As each business age changed, some companies could adapt and thrive, and a lot of others actually couldn't and died along the way. Mark's belief is that if organizations want to survive they cannot wish away the reality and if they do so, they are doomed. Some like IBM have made the transition from various ages with nimbleness even with their size, and they are leading the charge in the social era too.

He quotes Andy McAfee, MIT?s principal research scientist for digital business, ?analog companies eventually are going to get swept aside by digital companies. It?s my firmest belief about the future of business.?

Interestingly, Mark makes a point that would make most HR and senior business leaders sit up: The old "control and command" structure demotivates employees. While customers are more loyal to socially engaged businesses.

In the rest of the book, Mark lays out the process of change and operations needed to transform a business - from people to vision to assessing the gaps, to getting the organization to rally around a common purpose.

What I liked was the reference to "internal/enterprise social networks" as a "digital village" by Mark, including customers and partners. On HR's role he says "Human Resources should focus more on developing internal communities within the digital village (via the social platform). HR?s role will be to ensure that the platform?s user experience, aesthetics, and collaborative elements support the HR mission of employee recruiting, satisfaction, and retainment. If analytics and sentiment about employee discontent are trending, HR can take meaningful steps to stop the trend or learn from it."

Socialized! How the Most Successful Businesses Harness the Power of Social (Bibliomotion, November 2012), is available 11/15 at US bookstores as well as at all major online retailers.? You can get your FREE copy of Socialized!, when you register for BusinessNext Social, the world?s premier social business conference by November 21st.

Source: http://www.gautamblogs.com/2012/11/book-review-socialized-by-markfidelman.html

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Friday, November 16, 2012

NCAA Women's Basketball: Houston 74 vs. Alabama 83

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    Thursday, November 15, 2012

    With 50M Users In Tow, OpenDNS Looks To Bring Enterprise ...

    Bring up the topic of ?enterprise security platforms? around polite company, and you may be quickly shown the door. The subject can be boring, but the truth is that enterprise security writ large are critical, ideally making the Web a safer place for both businesses and consumers by policing malware, botnets, phishing and other malicious software.

    Of course, today businesses big and small are moving to the cloud, adopting services like Dropbox, Box and Google Apps in droves. In turn, employees are increasingly going mobile, both in where they work and how they work, as they now carry multiple phones, view documents on their iPads, and collaborate on projects hosted on these services outside of the office. Yet, while workforces (enterprise included) are increasingly remote, mobile and nomadic, security services haven?t adapted to this change in user behavior. When employees go out on the road, for example, their network?s security doesn?t follow them.

    So, today, OpenDNS is attempting to pick up the slack with the launch of a new product called Umbrella, which allows companies to extend their service and content browsing policies to employees while they?re on the go. In turn, Umbrella allows administrators to protect employees whether they?re using their own device or one given to them by their employer, along with giving them increased visibility into roaming devices, regardless of they connect ? cellular network, WiFi, and so on.

    Umbrella also gives administrators access to a management console through which they can limit user browsing based on location and time of day, enabling employees to access Facebook after normal working hours or from home, for example, but not during office hours. The management services comes with 57 different content filters, allowing them to create customized lists of blacklisted sites, while leveraging its DNS services to block access to sites flagged with botnet activity or malware.

    Typically, mobile workers can be vulnerable to attacks and snooping when connecting via WiFi networks outside of the office, which often lack encryption capabilities, so Umbrella offers a VPN service that encrypts their activity regardless of how (or where) they connect. The other advantage, Ulevitch says, is that Umbrella lives completely in the cloud and thus doesn?t require on-premise hardware; instead, it offers clients for Mac, PC and iOS (with Android in the works), directing traffic from employee devices onto a secure, clean network.

    In all, while the effects of consumerization, mobility and BYOD have made the enterprise a little bit less boring, it?s now easy to see why they?ve wreaked havoc on IT departments. Each group within an organization (marketing, sales, biz dev, etc.) is now free to sign up for any network, product or management tool that best suits the tasks at hand. The CIO no longer has the same control over purchasing, product and security decisions. The power has shifted to the end-user; now employees are increasingly calling the shots.

    As a result, support staffs have to throw their old best practices out the window, managing security, network latency, up-time, analytics, identity, logins, etc. across a variety of services and platforms. Naturally, security tends to suffer as a result. So, while this flexibility is great for the end-user, it means fragmentation and increased data vulnerability for businesses and IT.

    It was these holes in the market and the growing need to give administrators a faster, more secure way to manage their networks, that led David Ulevitch to found OpenDNS in 2005. Initially, the company focused on developing a lightweight DNS service that aimed to provide consumers with speedier and more reliable internet access, along with improved security and network visibility.

    As John wrote last year, what made OpenDNS unique compared to the competition was that it offered free DNS controls alongside parental and organizational filtering (i.e. giving parents control over what their kids have access to on their home network, etc.), while in turn providing an alternative way for consumers to protect themselves from having their search terms hijacked by ISPs ? and flexible pricing.

    Fast forward to today, and OpenDNS is now playing in far more crowded space, competing with (in some cases nominally, in some directly) security and speed optimizers and, after launching its enterprise product in 2009, security bigs like Symantec, McAfee, Barracuda Networks, Blue Coat, Websense, etc.

    These companies have long owned the vast majority of the $20 billion-plus enterprise security market, dominating press coverage and brand recognition among consumers. However, as Ulevitch sees it, their marketshare has been dwindling over the last few years, due in part to their focus on on-premise hardware and slow adoption of cloud-and-mobile-first strategies. Case in point: Many of the biggest security players still don?t offer support for Google Apps in their enterprise security products.

    As a result, companies CloudFlare and OpenDNS have been slowly eating away at their incumbents? share of the market. For a company that has found significant adoption over its seven-year history, OpenDNS has still managed to remain under the radar. This in spite of the fact that the company is now being used by 50 million people and sees 40 billion DNS requests every day.

    OpenDNS currently has 7,000 paying businesses using its security solutions and ?tens of thousands? of schools (some of whom pay, some of whom don?t), and while the company won?t disclose specific financial data, Ulevitch says that revenues from its enterprise business have more than doubled year-over-year since 2009 and the company is on track to pass $100M in annual revenue in the next two to three years. OpenDNS has raised less than $9 million since 2005, yet has grown to over just under 100 employees, supported by the company?s 90+ percent lifetime renewal rate.

    Of course, that?s all well and good. The enterprise security market has produced a number of big businesses, particularly that have companies grown fat on long-term corporate or government contracts and the like. However, this can often lead to a strategy that focuses more on maintaining rather than innovating.

    But, by focusing on developing lightweight, flexible software that doesn?t come with the traditionally high prices of enterprise security services (or require on-premise hardware) and by adapting to meet the demands of a nomadic workforce, Ulevitch thinks that OpenDNS can pick up where the incumbents have left off.


    OpenDNS is the world?s largest, fastest-growing DNS service provider. Through innovative uses of the DNS, the company is able to provide free parental controls (porn filtering), phishing protection, and other advanced services for consumers and network administrators alike. In October 2009, OpenDNS began offering an Enterprise service, which includes malware protection, delegated administration and block page bypass, in addition reliable DNS and Web content filtering. OpenDNS was founded in November, 2005 by DNS expert and entrepreneur David Ulevitch. The company was originally...

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    Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/with-50m-users-in-tow-opendns-looks-to-bring-enterprise-security-into-the-mobile-era/

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    Friday, November 9, 2012

    Burns family own: Small Retail Business Insurance


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    Thursday, November 8, 2012

    Sandvine : Sandvine Global Report: Internet Data Usage Up 120 ...

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    Netflix continues to dominate North American fixed networks with 33 percent bandwidth share

    Waterloo, ON; November 7, 2012 ?Sandvine, (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today released its Internet traffic trends report, entitled ?Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H2012 ?, based on data from a selection of Sandvine?s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

    Major findings from Sandvine?s Global Internet Phenomena Report include:

    Global data usage

    • Mobile networks: The world leader of mobile data consumption is Asia with a mean monthly usage of 659 MB, up 10% in the last six months
    • Fixed networks: Mean monthly data usage has increased by 120% from 23GB to 51GB in the past year on North American fixed line networks [51GB is equivalent to 81 hours of video]

    ?There is only one digital network being built today and that is the Internet,? said Dave Caputo, CEO, Sandvine.? ?With a 120% growth rate there is no doubt that more communications service providers will be launching application-based pricing plans that provide cost certainty and a consistent quality of experience for high-demand applications. Understanding the application make-up of a network is a critical first step in launching new services.?

    Video streaming?

    • In Europe, YouTube represents more than 20% of peak period downstream traffic on mobile networks?
    • Netflix dominates North American fixed networks accounting for 33% of peak period downstream traffic?
    • Other video services on North American fixed networks include Amazon (1.8% of peak period downstream traffic), Hulu (1.4%) and HBO Go (0.5%)

    ?Audio and video streaming account for 65% of all downstream traffic from 9pm-12am and half of that is Netflix traffic [on North America fixed networks].?? Prioritizing real-time applications like live audio and video is critical to maintaining a high quality of experience.? Sandvine?s video quality metrics, including display and transport quality, will be key to understanding the impact of major events like the 2014 World Cup which will likely be the most streamed event in Internet history,? said Mr. Caputo.

    P2P File sharing

    • BitTorrent continues to decline in application-share, accounting for 16% of total traffic in Europe and is slightly smaller in North America, accounting for 12%??
    • In Asia-Pacific, where there are fewer paid over-the-top video services available, BitTorrent accounts for 36% of total traffic

    ?Real-Time Entertainment continues to soar.? Since 2009 on-demand entertainment consumed more bandwidth than ?experience later? bulk transfers and we project that trend to continue through 2015 when BitTorrent will shrink to less than 10% of total traffic,? said Mr. Caputo.

    Sandvine?s Global Internet Phenomena Report is available at www.sandvine.com

    GLOBAL INTERNET PHENOMENA REPORT METHODOLOGY

    Sandvine?s Global Internet Phenomena Reports are based on a representative cross-section of Sandvine?s data from a selection of Sandvine?s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.? Data is gathered over a one-month period and is completely subscriber-anonymous.? No identifiable information of any kind, including IP addresses are collected during the study.? Sandvine?s network equipment analyzes data from an application utilization level and is not content aware.

    ABOUT SANDVINE

    Sandvine?s network policy control solutions focus on protecting and improving the quality of experience on the Internet. Our award-winning network policy control equipment and software helps fixed and wireless and mobile operators better understand network traffic, manage network congestion, create new services and revenues, mitigate traffic that is malicious or undesirable to subscribers, deliver QoS-prioritized multimedia services and increase subscriber satisfaction. With over 200 service provider customers in over 85 countries, serving hundreds of millions of broadband and mobile data subscribers, Sandvine is enhancing the Internet experience worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.sandvine.com.

    MEDIA CONTACT
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    Sandvine
    +1 519 880 2400 ext. 3605
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    Egypt bans online porn, causing split in society ? RT

    Egypt has officially banned sexually explicit websites, three years after the country?s administrative court denounced pornographic content as ?venomous and vile.?

    ?The country?s Prosecutor General has ordered government ministries to block porn from the web, after ultraconservative Salafis launched a campaign called "Pure Net" to prohibit pornography online, according to an anonymous government official, AP reports.

    The move by Prosecutor General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud has caused a split in Egyptian society. Conservatives welcomed the order as the first step towards an Islamic Egypt, while liberals denounced the move as a government crackdown on freedom of expression.

    Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan described the decision as ?a first step towards establishing a society based on ethics,? in a statement to Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news site.

    The Salafist Nour Party also welcomed the decision, adding that the ban would not impact personal and public freedoms. ?Egyptian society is conservative by nature and rejects these websites,? Mohamed Nour, the party?s spokesman, asserted.

    One politician called the move ?a first step towards applying Islamic Law in Egypt,? MP Ali Wanis was quoted by news website ahramonline as saying.

    Others in Egypt, especially from liberal circles, were quick to criticize the ban.

    ?Those who are preoccupied with banning websites (which they will not be able to block for technical reasons) should be more concerned about the drafting of Egypt's new constitution,? Ayman El-Sayad, a liberal journalist and advisor to President Mohamed Morsi, tweeted.

    The high costs associated with the blocking of thousands of websites have prevented the three-year-old ban ruling from being fully implemented.

    In 2009, under the Hosni Mubarak government, a Cairo court ruled that ?freedom of expression and public rights should be restricted by maintaining the fundamentals of religion, morality and patriotism,? condemning graphic websites and ruling to ban them.

    A scheme of how the ban would be implemented has not yet been provided to the public.

    Source: http://rt.com/news/egypt-pornography-society-ban-204/

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    Wednesday, November 7, 2012

    Evidence points to police manipulation in SAfrica

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South African police may have altered the scene and planted weapons after they shot dead 34 striking miners near Lonmin's Marikana mines in August, according to photographic evidence presented at a commission of inquiry into the killings.

    Photographs taken by police at night show more weapons by the dead bodies than there were in photographs taken immediately after the violence on Aug. 16. Thousands of miners had gathered at hills in Marikana about 94 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of Johannesburg where 34 miners were shot dead by police and 78 wounded in the worst state violence since the end of apartheid in 1994.

    South Africa is conducting a commission of inquiry to look into the parties responsible for 46 deaths, including two policemen, during nearly six weeks of strikes at the Lonmin Marikana mines.

    Video evidence shown Monday also indicated that some of the slain miners may have been handcuffed.

    National police commissioner Riah Phiyega said that the commission has launched an investigation into the discrepancies. She said she was presented with evidence that may have suggested one of the crime scenes had been tampered with nearly two weeks ago.

    Human rights lawyer George Bizos said the evidence presented at the inquiry clearly indicates an attempt was made to alter the scene.

    "The evidence clearly showed there is at least a strong prima facie case that there has been an attempt to defeat the ends of justice," he said. Bizos, who is representing the Legal Resources Centre and Bench Marks Foundation during the inquiry, called on senior police officers in charge of the scene to present evidence.

    Crime scene expert Capt. Apollo Mohlaki, who took the night photographs, was questioned during the inquiry Monday. He admitted his photographs showed more weapons around the bodies than those taken earlier, according to the South Africa Press Association. In one set of photos, a man's mangled dead body lies alone in the daylight, and in a picture taken by electric light after dark, there is a panga (machete) placed under the man's hand.

    Mohlaki said he saw the weapon under the man's arm in the photograph he took, but when looking at the day photograph of the same body he said of the weapon: "It is not appearing, I don't see it."

    Dali Mpofu, the attorney for the Lonmin miners, entered a video as evidence that showed miners that seemed to be handcuffed. When asked if he saw if any of the dead miners' hands had been bound, Mohlaki said he had not.

    "If I am looking at the video there is a person, handcuffed possibly, but on the day I did not observe that," Mohlaki said.

    The representative for the police, Ishmael Semenya, had suggested the week before that the integrity of the crime scene could have been compromised by the presence of paramedics, according to SAPA.

    "We will hear evidence that paramedics asked that weapons be removed so they could do their work," said Semenya.

    The inquiry began last month and is expected to continue for four months, investigating the roles played by police, miners, unions and Lonmin in the August deaths.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/evidence-points-police-manipulation-safrica-102610362.html

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    Court rules opposition activist's arrest legal ? RT

    Close-circuit television showing the Moscow City Court proceedings in relation to the complaint about the arrest of Leonid Razvozzhayev (RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov)

    The Moscow City Court has upheld the arrest of a leftist opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev who is accused of plotting to organize anti-Kremlin riots.

    The court rejected on Wednesday an appeal by Razvozzhayev?s lawyers who asked to cancel a district court decision and release their client from custody. Attorneys plan to continue fighting and appeal the ruling.

    The opposition activist, who is also an aide of Fair Russia?s MP Ilya Ponomaryov, said the case against him is a ?political provocation?. He denied all the accusations and asked the court not to consider his earlier confession claiming he was ?tortured? and forced to admit guilt.

    The criminal case against Razvozzhayev and several other opposition activists, including Left Front coordinator Sergey Udaltsov and his aide Konstantin Lebedev, was opened following a controversial documentary ?Anatomy of Protest-2? aired on Russian NTV channel early in October. It showed what the film-producers claimed to be footage of the opposition members? meeting with Georgian officials where they planned to stage mass protests in Moscow and other cities.

    On October 22, Russia?s Investigative Committee said that Razvozzhayev turned himself in to investigators in Moscow and confessed to plotting riots with foreign backing. A day later, official charges were brought against him.

    However, the suspect and his allies say he was kidnapped in Kiev where he was applying for refugee status at the UN refugee agency UNHCR. They claim he was delivered to Moscow by Russian special services and even tortured.

    The Investigative Committee launched a probe into the matter and later rejected claims that Razvozzhayev was tortured or beaten.

    ?When he arrived at the pre-trial detention center Razvozzhayev was examined and no bodily injuries were registered. He has not requested medical assistance,? committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said, cited RIA Novosti.

    The Basmanny District Court ordered Razvozzhayev?s detention for two months.

    Another suspect in the case?? Konstantin Lebedev also remains in custody.On Wednesday, the activist withdrew his arrest appeal as he ?doesn?t believe in the court?s fairness,? his lawyer Violetta Volkova told the RAPSI news agency.

    Meanwhile, Udaltsov, opposition leader and active participant in post-election protest rallies has been questioned and released with travel restrictions.

    The activists may each face up to 10 years behind bars if found guilty.

    Source: http://rt.com/politics/razvozzhayev-court-arrest-opposition-154/

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    How Gay Marriage Finally Won at the Polls

    Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry

    Photograph by David Shankbone.

    Four years ago, LGBT advocates were devastated by the voter approval of Proposition 8 in California, which reversed a state court ruling allowing same-sex marriage. In that fight, the political consultant Frank Schubert, who led the anti-gay forces there and in the four states that voted on marriage this week, created a deadly ad campaign that played on lingering fears that gay equality threatens kids. In his advertisement, a schoolgirl returns home and cheerfully announces what she learned in school?that a prince can marry a prince, and she can marry a princess! In 2009, Schubert used the identical playbook to win a ballot measure in Maine invalidating the legislature?s decision to let gays wed.

    Just three years later, the people of Maine did an about face, and along with Maryland voted Tuesday to let gay couples marry. (We?ll update about Washington and Minnesota when results are in.) Until this election, every state that had held a popular vote on the question?32 in a row?had rejected same-sex marriage. Maine and Maryland not only ended the losing streak but may have turned the war, depriving defenders of straight-only marriage of their latest talking point: that the people don?t want gays to marry. (And let?s not forget that Wisconsin elected Tammy Baldwin, the nation?s first openly gay senator!)

    How same-sex marriage ballot initiatives turned around is all about the long game. The gay rights movement succeeded using one of the most sophisticated issue campaign operations ever deployed?and by making it stick with old-fashioned commitment, hard work, and face-to-face conversations.

    After the losses in Maine in 2009 and California a year earlier, LGBT advocates knew they needed to craft an effective response to Schubert?s false message that gay equality harms kids. Enter Freedom To Marry. The umbrella group was founded in 2003 by the civil rights lawyer Evan Wolfson, who has consistently preached about winning hearts and minds in between elections rather than in the frenzied lead-up to them. While gay groups had spent millions of dollars on public opinion research before and after the Prop 8 loss in California, no one had ever stopped to pull it all together.

    Within weeks of the Maine loss, Freedom To Marry helped assemble a coalition of state-based gay groups, polling experts and academic researchers to centralize and share information so that each campaign didn?t have to start from scratch for each new battle.

    What came out of this tightly coordinated effort was the key to dismantling the anti-gay myths of the last 40 years. For decades, gay advocates had framed their arguments in terms of equal rights and government benefits, often using rhetoric that was confrontational (?We?re here, we?re queer, get used to it?) and demanding (?We deserve equal rights now!?). Third Way, a centrist think tank working in the coalition with Freedom To Marry, began to unpack exactly how straight people reacted to such tactics. The group found that when straight people were asked what marriage meant to them, they spoke of love, commitment and responsibility. But when asked why they thought gay people wanted to marry, they cited rights and benefits. Tapping into anti-gay stereotypes, they suggested gay people wanted marriage for selfish reasons while they themselves wanted to express love and commitment.

    The gay rights coalition?s response was the ?Why Marriage Matters? campaign. Its message was ?love, commitment, family,? with no mention of rights or benefits. On the surface, it looks like any garden-variety public education campaign, a little vague, a little sappy. But this message was the result of several years and millions of dollars of research. It signaled a sea change in the way gay advocates pled their case. This was a way to invite straight people to empathize with gay people, to reassure the majority that gay people wanted the same things that they did, and to shift focus from minority rights to points of commonality. The year Why Marriage Matters rolled out, 2011, was also the year that a slew of polls first showed majority national support for same-sex marriage.

    Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=ea781be14b77f5aaa8e9199e9f611146

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    a painted fall tablescape (fall table ideas) | the handmade home

    Hello lovely friends! We hope everyone is enjoying this fall season? We really can?t believe it?s already November, but we?re ready to enjoy the holidays with family and friends. Our greatest drama ever pergola is well under way, and we hope to stop, catch our breath + enjoy the weather on our new back porch redo very soon! We?re a little overdue for slowing down. And s?mores. I really need some s?mores? digression.

    Today, I thought we?d cover one of my favorite subjects. With the age of our children, it isn?t really practical so I don?t get to do it very often? but every now and again it?s oh so fun.

    Every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mom broke out the starched table cloth. We each had our own special pieces we used, with little bunnies on them. If your family was anything like ours, it was one of the few times we ate in the dining room all year. And we would wait patiently while she slaved away in the kitchen. I was always in charge of setting the table. There?s just something kind of reserved and magical about the table at the holidays. I look forward to creating the same traditions for our own children. At the drop of a hat they get a special table and a parade.

    This year?s theme for our holidaisical hoorah : a painted fall tablescape.

    I?ve decided to move the party to our kitchen this year, as I never really dress up that table. And I think it?s a wasted shame. So I layered aquas and greens with punches of deeper fall-esque hues. We combined various china patterns, with a hodgepodge of finishes? we were pleased with the fun feeling this table gave off!

    From an old hobnail vase and candles with slices of wood, to jars with jute and Staffordshire, this painted fall tablescape is layered with new and old, but basically made of things we already had. I threw on some new fabric and we had a fresh look. We even used a few of our leftover metallic fairytale pumpkins for an added touch. Centerpieces composed of feathers, twigs and flowers make for textural interest on our table, and we topped every plate off with these handmade feathers? they can easily double as place settings. Stay tuned: We have a little tutorial on that coming up tomorrow.

    So today I thought I?d discuss a few of our fave tips to follow when it comes to creating a fun tablescape.

    First things first: I use two main guidelines when it comes to creating, but these are fine tuned towards the table sector of life:

    ? Lose the Proper -?Just like the rest of ?the rules? I?ve broken in my home, being a tried and true southerner, I tend to hold fast to the ?rules? for setting a table. While those are all fine and dandy and I?m sure one day I?ll use them when I feel like it, don?t let it paralyze your creative juices when it comes to setting your table for the holidays. I realized I was angsting way too much over the third fork from the left and the third glass to the right. I don?t really own any fine silver, and ?proper? is for the cast of Downton Abbey circa 1895?

    If you want to put your silverware in a bundle with cool fabric, do it. If you want to bring in twigs from your yard for an interesting centerpiece, go for it. I?m done with stressing. Life is short.?My home is fun and so the table will be, also.

    ? Cheat Like the Dickens Wherever You Can.?Mix your every day plates with fine china. The plain with the patterned. The jars with the antiques and crystal. Make it go the distance. Cut corners in a stylish way. Think beyond the ?expected? when it comes to furnishings for your table. Creating a table can be expensive. For special occassions, I order fabric and play with it. I make sure it can be washed, but I don?t sew it. I just fold it and throw it on. (See: table runner + main table covering) Why? Because I may want it later for pillows, and I wont? be wasting perfectly good fabric for a few shenanigans on a table design. Yes, the extra effort put into stitching is awesome for that extra polished touch, and sweet and whatevs. So I use an iron to ?fake? the seams. I like to switch it out often and in addition to what doctors like to call a little bit of a fabric hoarding problem, I have three small kids. It is what it is.

    On Fabrics: For this table, I started with a basic linen (I?ve had it for a while-via fabric.com) mixed with this for the runner?and this for the napkins?(now sold out from my original source)?mixed with a turquoise broadcloth I scored at our local fabric store. The pillows you see are Thomas Paul?(I?ve had those for a while) + Premier Prints?(both now sold out from their original sources). The napkins were some I?ve held on to since we were married, layered wth fabric scraps, ribbon and jute. {Don?t ever purchase anything online without checking out a coupon code ? retailmenot.com is always a great source.}

    And finally, a few good principles of design: I treat my tables (the principles of art and design applied)?like my spaces:

    1. Layer -?From fabrics, florals and accessories? Treat a fine fall table like a stylin? fall outfit. Build and plan from the main piece you choose and work around it as your springboard. If you need to mix in a few twigs with the flowers, then go for it. Think through carrying out various textures, accessories and touches of color. Which brings me to?

    2. Contrast -?Remember these two points of reference to create interest: A. Colors: Cool with warm, light with dark + B. Materials: Think jute with crystal, every day with fine china. Play around with these two simple concepts in your head, and you just can?t go wrong with keeping it fresh.

    3. Symmetry + Varying Heights ? Apply this to everything on your table.?Think of your table as a level plane, and a standing challenge to see what you can do with it to mix it up a little. Varying heights of plates and place settings, glass placement, vases, and everything in between.?Think of your centerpiece as the crowning touch to your tablescape. Whether you decide on symmetry or odd numbers, keep it fresh and interesting with a combination of flowers, and other elements from the outdoors.

    I?m ready to tackle the holiday season with some fun ideas! What are some of your best tips for a stellar table? The most important part of all: The guests. What are some of your favorite around-the-table traditions with your loved ones during the holidays? What do you enjoy the most? I?m looking to ressurect some of that bunny china with my own kids.

    Stay tuned-I?ll be back tomorrow with that painted feather tutorial. Have an inspired day, everyone!


    Source: http://www.thehandmadehome.net/2012/11/a-painted-fall-tablescape-fall-table-ideas/

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