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Mindy Spearman

Associate Professor, Elementary Area Coordinator

Office: 409-D Tillman Hall
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Educational Background

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction
The University of Texas at Austin 2006

M.A. Classics
The University of Texas at Austin 1999

B.A. Classics and History
Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) 1997

Dr. Spearman is interested in social studies education, the historical foundations of education, sustainability education and the creative arts.

She currently serves as Coordinator of Elementary Education. Dr. Spearman is a Past-President of the Organization of Educational Historians and is counselor for the local Mu Upsilon chapter of the Education Honor Society, Kappa Delta Pi.

Courses Taught

Action Research ED 860
Ancient Civilizations ED 738
American Educational History ED F 872
Curriculum Theory and Development EDEL 760/EDSEC 765
Multiculturalism in Education ED 405
Narrative and Historical Research (Advanced Qualitative) ED 973
Principles of American Education EDF 301
Qualitative Research ED 879
Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School EDEL 487

Research Interests

* American Educational History, especially the history of in-service education, including teachers' institutes, reading circles and state educational periodicals.

* Understanding artifacts and objects in elementary classrooms, archaeology education, the intersections of art and social studies

* Teaching about social issues--especially environmental issues and sustainablity

* Historical research methods, including archival research, educational biography, oral history and public history.

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medical reserve corpsJessica Miles serves as the coordinator for the Medical Reserve Corps.

Almost 400 Medina County residents are registered and trained volunteers in the Medical Reserve Corps, even though many don’t have a medical background.

Jessica Miles is the emergency preparedness planner for the Medina County Board of Health and also serves as the coordinator the Medina County Medical Reserve Corps unit.

“MRC originated after the tragic events of September 11, 2001,” she said. “A volume of people showed up to help but it was chaotic, so, sadly, many had to be turned away.

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The Medina County unit was established in 2006. Volunteers have helped in many non-emergency functions such as handing out fliers, greeting clients and promoting the new clinic in Lodi.

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Engineers rappel down Washington Monument to check for earthquake damage

McClatchy-Tribune News Service By McClatchy-Tribune News Service The Plain Dealer
on September 28, 2011 at 9:08 PM, updated September 29, 2011 at 4:39 AM

WASHINGTON -- Dangling by a rope more than 500 feet above ground, Dave Megerle settled his rock-climbing shoes into the white wall and went to work looking for cracks in the world's tallest all-stone structure. He's been scaling facades for more than 25 years, though none quite like the Washington Monument.

Megerle is one of five engineers who rappelled down the Washington Monument's four marble sides Wednesday to inspect damage caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the East Coast and closed the landmark on Aug. 23.

Climbers will take four more days to slowly photograph and video-record every marble block so the images can be compared to monument photos taken during its $10 million renovation in 1999. National Park Service rangers said they won't know until mid-October when repairs can be made and the monument reopened.

This is the first close look engineers have had of the obelisk's exterior cracks, which make the monument's interior vulnerable to water damage despite efforts to plug cracks from within. Just the day before a thunderstorm splashed more water into the monument.

After hauling 600 pounds of equipment up a broken elevator still functioning safely at its slowest speed, Megerle popped out into the mist through a south-side hatch on the 555-foot monument's tip. He spent three hours lassoing rainbow-colored nylon slings around the top, which anchored ropes to attachments inside the monument windows.

Supervising Megerle and the other climbers -- Dan Gach, Emma Cardini, Erik Sohn and Katie Francis -- from within the monument via radio was National Park Service Ranger Brandon Latham, who is taking a break from Denali National Park's rescue team. Gordy Kito, a National Mall Park Service ranger who also used to work on the Denali rescue team, said coordinating the scaling of the Washington Monument's smooth marble walls is simple compared to what Latham is used to doing.

"He's not only climbed and rappelled down desert [rock] towers, but he's strung rope between towers sometimes a thousand meters across," Kito said. Latham has also led several successful rescue missions for climbers on 20,320-foot Mount McKinley.

The climbing engineers are members of the "Difficult Access Team" for Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., an engineering company based in Northbrook, Ill. The group has scaled other landmarks such as the Sears Tower, Tribune Tower, Alcatraz Penitentiary and the New York Public Library.

Widely shared images of Megerle working for three hours on anchors Tuesday brought more sightseers to the monument Wednesday. Dan Truckenbrod, a Navy commander at the Pentagon, broke from work to jog around the monument.

"I came to see the crazies [climbers], you know, take pictures, say I was here," Truckenbrod said."'"

Tourists squinting up at the sun-soaked obelisk considered the rare sight a welcome consolation prize during the landmark's closure, Pam O'Hare and her husband, Bob, of Ackley, Iowa, among them.

Pam O'Hare said, "To get pictures this unique to put on our screensaver at home is not something everyone gets to do -- especially not out in Iowa!"

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colt-mccoy.jpgColt McCoy reporter Steve Doerschuk isn't kidding when he gives 11 reasons why the Cleveland Browns could be better in the second half of the season.

Before you laugh, he actually gives us 11 good reasons.

Here are just a few.

2, A murmur from Pat Shurmur. The offense has been depressingly quiet, arguably not playing to McCoy’s strengths. Shurmur needs to stop performing like a first-year head coach and start acting like a third-year NFL coordinator.

6, A Joshua Cribbs homecoming. Cribbs hasn’t been to the house as a return man since Dec. 20, 2009. He has been sitting on an NFL-record eight kickoff returns for touchdowns since then.

8, A big second half from Greg Little. The rookie might have what it takes to be a No. 1 wideout, Tom Heckert says. Time to make the general manager look smart.

11, Momentum. The schedule maker has handed a struggling team consecutive home games against the Rams (1-7) and Jaguars (2-6). With wins, the Browns are no longer an ugly outfit on a 1-4 skid. They are .500.

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Ball State defeats Northern Illinois, 61-47, in second round of MAC Women's Tournament

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Ball State women's basketball team shot 38.1 percent from the field but still won with points to spare Wednesday afternoon. Defense and rebounding are the reasons.

Ball State held Northern Illinois to 35.8-percent shooting and grabbed 15 more rebounds in posting a 61-47 victory in the second round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament at The Q. Fifth-seeded Ball State (16-15) advances to play No. 4 Buffalo (17-12) on Thursday afternoon. Northern Illinois (11-19) went 0-3 against Ball State this season.

The Cardinals never trailed en route to their fifth straight victory.

"Five in a row -- that's awesome,'' Ball State point guard Brandy Woody said. "The timing is absolutely perfect for that."

Ball State coach Brady Sallee said: "I've been talking to (the players) for a while: 'Let's be playing our best when it matters.'''

The Cardinals hounded the Huskies into 19-of-53 from the field and out-rebounded them, 39-24.

"You saw a pretty tough basketball team sitting down and defending, understanding what we need to do to win games,'' Sallee said. "The last month, our team really has been locked in defensively.''

Brittany Carter's two 3-pointers gave Ball State a 37-25 advantage early in the second half. Woody's three-point play made it 40-25 with 16:20 remaining.

Northern Illinois refused to fold, scoring five straight to cut the deficit to 42-34.

With Ball State ahead, 44-39, guard Shelbie Justice sank a runner and was fouled as the shot clock expired. Justice made the free throw, giving the Cardinals a much-needed scoreboard and confidence boost.

"A big play, no question,'' Sallee said. "It wasn't necessarily pretty, but Shelbie got it. When we need those types of plays, Shelbie is there for us.''

Ball State led, 31-23, at the half.

Woody's layup made it 11-0 with 16:03 left. Northern Illinois did not score until guard Danny Pulliam made a layup with 15:43 remaining.

The Huskies, behind strong work from forward Natecia Augusta, righted themselves and pulled within 14-12 midway through the half. Ball State scored the next six.

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A Dynamic Arrangement

Kristen Hampshire

"What is there in life if you can't express yourself?" asks Pieter Bouterse.
His method of expression is Dutch flower arranging, a type of living sculpture. "The design elements in European arrangements reflect the way people interact with each other on a day-to-day basis," he says.

Bouterse's designs don't mimic Martha Stewart's pom-pom arrangements or typical supermarket-florist "triangles." Flowers are far more complex to Bouterse, a Dutch craftsman and owner of Pieter Bouterse Studios in Cleveland.

Think conversation and interest - dimension that draws you in to study an arrangement, not just a "look at me!" punctuation mark.

Full-bodied Dutch flower sculptures - and Bouterse uses this term intentionally ? offer depth. "Flowers [in Europe] are the focal point of a setting, where here flowers are an accent placed on a table," he says. "Here, people think of flowers on happy occasions like weddings or when we need to make a profound statement when we don't know what to say, like at funerals. In Europe, we always think of flowers."

In fact, Europeans spend an average of more than $100 each year on flowers, while Americans fork over a measly $32 annually, usually on standard-issue arrangements found in grocery stores.
So what would a proper Dutch flower sculpture look like in nature? Consider a tree peony in bloom with 60 to 70 blossoms that are perfectly accented and balanced, Bouterse explains.

To achieve this look, Bouterse first considers a color theme and then aims for arrangements that incorporate an assortment of textures and varieties. For a home with black and silver accents, he might elect chartreuse chrysanthemums, which look like little coat buttons. "Used in amassment, they look like a miniature lawn," he compares.

Bouterse combines textures and creates a pattern of color in his sculptures. He suggests picking an accent flower first, not a shape. "The flowers tell you what they want you to do with them," he says.

He might choose a chartreuse flower with a bit of burgundy or white. An amaranth seed-podlike variety picks up the white and adds a chenille texture. Jade roses, tight-budded and green, add interest with more texture. White garden roses top off the combination with dimension and fragrance.

"There you have four different flowers, but they are all in the same vein," Bouterse explains. "The colors reappear in each other, so you end up with a multitextured design that takes on motion."
Sounds easy if you have a green thumb or a knack for design. The rest of us can rely on a few hints Bouterse provides as a guide to creating your own Dutch flower sculptures at home. "Everyone can be a floral designer," he promises. The best part: Bouterse's suggestions require little or no experience, and class starts in your own back yard:

Tools of the trade. Purchase a pair of good clippers. Bouterse suggests Felcos, which are widely used by gardening professionals and come with a replaceable blade. Next, get a knife. The blade size should not exceed 3 inches; you'll want to make sure it locks so you can cut through tough stems without the knife closing up.

Play in the yard. Clip some branches and grasses, and study nature while you're at it. "Look at how nature does it," Bouterse says. "Notice how every bloom gets the right amount of light and space." Then, take these homegrown samples indoors and play with them by arranging them in a vase. "This sounds elementary, but flower arranging is a path of trial and error," Bouterse says.
Meet your florist. Don't rely on grocery stores for top-notch flowers. Get to know a neighborhood florist whom you trust.

Start small. Choose two bunches of flowers with complementary color and texture. If you purchase individual stems, buy five of one variety and five of another.

Spread your creativity. Lay out flowers on the kitchen counter, flower sides facing you. (If you look at the stems, you won't know which colors and textures work well together.) Build layers, placing one flower on top of another.

Gather and cut. Place stems in one hand and begin composing your bouquet. Pull some flowers up to create height; push some down for depth. Once you have a pleasing arrangement, snip stems so they are even on the bottom, cutting off at least 2 inches to remove any air bubbles.
Assemble and enjoy. Once stems are cut, punch them into chicken wire or floral foam. Do this quickly, pushing stems into a medium within 3 seconds of cutting off the ends. This is important so stems do not seal themselves off and prevent water uptake. Place your creation in a vase with water and voilà.

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Monday, June 19, 2006

U-G-L-Y and Still Looking for an Alibi

2 Tribe losses (Friday and Sunday) and 36 holes of golf later, it's time to return to the North Coast - tail firmly planted between my legs.

Having never watched a Tribe game at an opponents' park, I don't know if anyone ever could have felt more embarrassed watching their home team go softly into the night.

The Brewers' sweep of the Tribe has re-energized the Brewers' season and their fans (both Saturday and Sunday were sell-outs), while the Indians half-hearted attempts at scoring runners, their DREADFUL lineups, and the bullpen implosions (note the plural) left me lighter in the wallet (after GIVING odds that Wickman would close out the 9th on Saturday to my father-in-law, I went double or nothing for Sunday) and looking for a break.

So, I'll be on a plane back to Cleveland soon - and getting rid of our tickets to tonight's game. Not because I can't go, because I don't know if I can take anymore after this weekend.

At least I got to witness the Tribe's equivalent of Little Big Horn first hand.

Normally I would say that there's nowhere to go but up, but I'm going to need see SOMETHING before I think that this team has the ability to go up.

More on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from the weekend forthcoming. I have to pack my suitcase. I'll see if my pride can come back with me or if I left it on the shores of Lake Michigan this weekend.

Cy Slapnicka said...

Can anyone else see him having to check his carry-on and losing it, Gaylord Focker style?

Rockdawg said...

How about Sugay admitting he took HGH for a "human growth defficiency". I think that his record of "Most pulled hammy's and groin pulls over a three year period" should have an asterisk.

Cy Slapnicka said...

Apparently the web domain is still available. How great would it be if a beat reporter asked the Tribe brass if they are going to have to put up that website in an interview?

They better finally bring up Sowers...and when they do, Shapiro better pray to the god of skinny punk kids that he gets shelled so he doesn't look like an idiot. If he starts rattling off some wins, I'm going to bananas.

If they don't dump him before his next start, can someone find his address to I can mail him an HGH kit and tip off the feds?

Pat Tabler said...

Almost a Gaylord Focker moment, but 6 hours in the Milwaukee airport qualifies as a disastrous end to a disastrous trip.

I believe that in Kevin Smith's "Dogma", the Milwaukee airport was purgatory.

That classification is not too far off.

Nothing like walking into Hopkins (at 11:30PM, rather than 5:30PM) and seeing that the Cubs (THE CUBS!?!) are up 12-4 in the 9th.

If Jason Johnson makes one more start, I'll reconsider my thoughts on Shapiro and the whole lot of them.

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Indians designate Jason Johnson for assignment

June 20, 2006

CLEVELAND (AP) -Jason Johnson, one of the bigger disappointments for the Cleveland Indians, was designated for assignment Tuesday by the club.

Cleveland, currently closer to last place than first in the AL Central, also optioned right-hander Jeremy Guthrie to Triple-A Buffalo, recalled right-hander Edward Mujica from the Bisons and purchased the contract of utility man Joe Inglett.

The Indians' patience with Johnson finally ran out following the club's 12-8 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Monday. The right-hander, signed as a free agent in the offseason, allowed six runs - three earned - and six hits in five innings to drop to 3-8.

But more troubling was the three-run homer he gave up to a .203-hitting Henry Blanco in the fourth inning, which came just after the Indians had tied it 3-3 on Travis Hafner's two-run homer in the third.

Afterward, manager Eric Wedge hinted at Johnson's demotion.

"It's important for our starting pitchers to keep us in the game and give us a chance to win," he said.

Since opening the season 2-0, Johnson is 1-8 with a 7.38 ERA in his last 10 starts. Cleveland is 4-10 in his outings. The team has 10 days to trade or release him.

The Indians entered Tuesday's game having lost four straight and 11 of 13. They trail the Detroit Tigers by 15 games, which matches their biggest deficit in 2005 when they rallied but couldn't catch the Chicago White Sox.

Johnson signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with a club option for 2007 in December. The Indians were hoping he and free agent right-hander Paul Byrd could offset the loss of Kevin Millwood, who signed with Texas.

But while Byrd (5-5 in 14 starts) has been serviceable, Johnson has been serving homers regularly. The shots by Jacques Jones and Blanco in Tuesday's loss were the ninth and 10th long balls surrendered by the 32-year-old in 77 innings.

The 22-year-old Mujica has not allowed a run in 38 2-3 innings (24 appearances) at Double-A Akron and Buffalo this season. The Venezuelan went 1-0 with eight saves for the Aeros, and since joining the Bisons, he is 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 12 outings.

Inglett, 27, has spent most of the season at Buffalo, where he has batted .299 with one homer and 13 RBIs while playing second base, shortstop, left field and center for the Bisons.

Guthrie made seven relief appearances with Cleveland.

The Associated Press News Service

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Cy Slapnicka said...

Its funny, the news doesn't even make me happy. It would have a few starts ago, but not now. If it didn't happen now, I would have half expected them to pick up his option for 2007.

I would love to hear management's response as to what they accomplished by showing so much patience with JJ.

Btw, some great comments posted on Lets Go Tribe during the game yesterday. This is my favorite regarding johnson..."he eats up the long as you don't mind giving up a bunch of runs every inning!"

Cy Slapnicka said...

So about 2 weeks ago Shapiro was saying that the he didn't believe the young arms would be an improvement over our current staff. And then following today's roster changes he issued this beauty: "This is about trying to be better for now and the future," said Shapiro. "We had a pitcher at Triple-A who we felt could fit that criteria."

Is it just me or did absolutely NOTHING change? Well, besides Mark's feelings and our loss total. JJ is just as bad today as he was when Shapiro indicated he didn't think there was an improvement on the farm. And the opposite is true for Sowers.

Mark's latest batch of Kool-Aid tastes like he got the water from the Cuyahoga.


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According to SEC filings and reports, the sale valued the company at $8 per share, a 58 percent premium over its $5.07 close on Thursday.

A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated the deal happened Thursday.

CNET reported Friday morning that an AuthenTec spokesman confirmed the deal but offered no additional details.

AuthenTec, a spinoff from Harris Corp., started 14 years ago, as a developer of fingerprint-scanning technology for personal computers, cell phones and other devices.

The company employs 230 people, about 75 of them in the Melbourne headquarters, 100 Rialto Place in Melbourne. Larry Ciaccia, who had previous stints at Harris Corp., Intersil Corp. and Conexant Systems Inc., was named AuthenTec's president and chief executive officer in September 2010.

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More dead dolphins wash up on Central Florida beaches

936 strandings reported since July on US east coast

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Dead bottlenose dolphins are continuing to wash up along beaches in Central Florida.

Since Sunday, officials say the Georgia Aquarium's Conservation Field Station has picked up three dead dolphins along Flagler County beaches.

Capt. Tammy Marris of Volusia Beach Safety and Ocean Rescue says a 3-foot dolphin was found in Wilbur-by-the-Sea on Monday. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that in November at least seven dolphins were recovered on Volusia County beaches and another four on beaches in nearby Flagler.

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say morbillivirus is likely causing the deaths. A team of researchers is investigating.

The average number of strandings between New York and Florida between July 1 and Dec. 1 is 113. This year, 936 strandings have been reported.

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The first results from the BBC climate change experiment have been published in Nature Geoscience. The experiment was the first multi-thousand member ensemble of climate simulations using a complex climate model, and answers some of the uncertainties that previous forecasts over-looked. Results suggest that global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is as equally likely as a rise of 1.4 degrees (relative to the 1961 to 1990 average). Simulations that matched observed temperature changes over the last 50 years were used to produce the figures.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, results suggest that the world is very likely to cross the ‘2 degrees barrier’ at some point this century, and that those planning for the impacts of climate change need to consider the possibility of warming of up to 3 degrees (above the 1961 to 1990 average) by 2050, even on a mid-range emission scenario. This is a faster rate of warming than most other models predict.

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10-25-2005, 04:56 PM
I am fascinated with these stories. All but the wee mans tools and dropa stones. They sound more like childrens toys and pie plates.

Something in Genesis caught my attention the other day. I never noticed it before. Is it possible that two types of MEN(wo) were created?

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Or is genesis 2:7 a flash back to the sixth day.

And perhaps one type lived to be 900 and the other only 72 in reply to another thread.

Or maybe I should translate it this way: God created man in his own imagination and then later he formed them for real.

I am sorry Thumper, I forget how this was related to your topic.

As for ancient civilizations, I don't understand why people would think them to be less advanced-technologically speaking maybe but Spiritually more advanced. Isn't it more logical to think they were smarter, healthier, stronger, wiser and started rotting as the eras passed by.
Once able to command lightning from the sky now resorting to a fake mechanical way of manipulating weather because we have withdrawn so far from the Spirit and the powers given by him.


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I just have. Vagueness does not convict the killer.

The best evidence for the conspiracy version is the uniformity of the so called 'nanothermite' particles gathered at ground zero. But even that is vague because we haven't ruled out other sources of these particles. That's in the lap of the debunkers. They haven't come up with anything so far as I know. So I'll give you that much.

It's a shame all these conspiracy conversations take place in so many disparate websites - keeping track of who's round it is a bugger. As far as I know the above particle debate may have been debunked already.
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[torquedev] [patch] bind to ip on multihomed pbs_servers

Adrian Knoth adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de
Tue Feb 12 09:13:05 MST 2008

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:58:31PM -0800, Garrick Staples wrote:

> > I'd say let it go into a regularly synced branch torque-ipv6.
> Agreed.  If you really want to do this, we'll branch trunk (again) get you
> write access.

I'm not sure if this (alone) would change anything. Matti already has
his own repository (git, not subversion).

It's probably one or two days of work to re-integrate the patch into a
current branch. And then? Falling behind, again?

He definitively needs support, has to negotiate how changes should be
done, hints why things are implemented the way they are (instead of
chasing the rationale through the code, which is time consuming)

>From my point of view (absolutely unimportant, I'm external to the whole
project), it could be better to bring it right to the trunk. This avoids
multiple branches with all the conflicts, synchronization problems
a.s.o. In addition, it forces every developer to work for the new
(global) goal: clean, modern communication code.

Nobody could write pbs_net_t anymore. That's an important question: is
there consensus for such a leap, do other feel the same that things
really need to be changed? It's your community decision ;)

As mentioned earlier, I'd prefer a broken trunk for some weeks to the
mess of parallel branches.

Just my $0.02

mail: adi at thur.de  	http://adi.thur.de	PGP/GPG: key via keyserver

Nur wer die Arbeit kennt, weiß was ich meide

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Faith Hill will co-host My Night at the Grammys on Friday (Nov. 30) on CBS. She will be joined by Melissa Etheridge and Alicia Keys. The two-hour special, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards, will also feature Alan Jackson sharing his memories of the show. Other artists appearing include Christina Aguilera, Billie Joe Armstrong, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion, Elton John, Ricky Martin and Usher.


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Amid anxiety, search continues for missing Malaysia flight

A possible relative cries at the Beijing Airport after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.
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A possible relative cries at the Beijing Airport after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Almost a full day after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished from the radar en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, officials and aviation experts are at a loss to explain the aircraft's fate.

A six-country search off the Vietnamese coast for the missing Boeing 777-200ER, the 227 passengers and 12 crew on-board yielded nothing so far aside from sighting of an oil slick, which officials in the Malaysian capital confirmed on Sunday.

(Read more: Oil slick hints Malaysian jet may have crashed at sea)

IBM, Freescale Semiconductor employees on flight

Late Saturday, details of individuals on the flight began to emerge, including several tech sector professionals. Freescale Semiconductor said in a statement that 20 of its employees were confirmed passengers. Twelve are from Malaysia and eight are from China.

Meanwhile, a North Texan is one of three Americans aboard the Malaysian jetliner. The family of the missing IBM employee told NBC 5 they received word from the American Embassy that he was on the plane.

Boeing to provide technical assistance

Boeing earlier said it has assembled a technical assistance team to help in the investigations, the aircraft manufacturer said via Twitter.

The search for the missing passenger jet will go on "round the clock," Royal Malaysian Air Force Operations & Exercise Director Brigadier General Affendi Buang told reporters on Saturday.

Still, no wreckage from MH370 has yet been recovered, and the probable cause of the aircraft's disappearance is far from being determined. It's "too early to make any conclusive remarks," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday, and authorities are "investigating all possibilities."

Terror concerns

Rumors of the plane landing safely in China—later found to be erroneous—and rumors of a hijack or terrorist bombing have only compounded the agony of families and relatives of the passengers on MH370. Reuters reported at least two people on board may have been carrying stolen passports.

(Read more at NBCNews.com: Stolen passports trigger terror concerns)

"Families are struggling for answers and no one can give them any," wrote Stephen Forshaw, former vice-president of Public Affairs at Singapore Airlines (SIA) said in an entry on his Facebook page on Saturday. "It could be a long time before the answers are all found."

Forshaw added: "We have to prepare for the worst possible news, hope and pray for survivors, support those whose loved ones are affected, and above all, be patient and put our faith in those who have the most difficult and grim task of finding and investigating this tragedy."

Under a barrage of unrelenting questions about the likely scenarios—including terrorism—that may have caused air traffic controllers to lose contact with the flight, a visibly emotional Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya urged the media not to jump to conclusions. "We seem to be living by speculation now," he said at a late-evening press conference on Saturday. "We are not ruling out anything."

Aviation experts contacted by CNBC were perplexed about the likely cause and were reluctant to speculate. "At the moment, its a mystery," Andrew Herdman, director general of Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) in Kuala Lumpur. There are "almost no clues on what happened. It's an extremely unusual event."

No weather issues in Southeast Asia

The 11-year-old Boeing, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent engines, took off at 12:40 a.m. (1640 GMT Friday) from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was apparently flying in good weather conditions when it went missing without a distress call, Reuters reported.

There are no significant weather conditions in the area, "pretty much clear skies" from Kuala Lampur all the way up to Vietnam and Southeast Asia, according to Michael Palmer, meteorologist on duty at The Weather Channel.

The association's Herdman said the absence of any signal from the flight's Emergency Location Transmitter was "curious" as the device would emit a signal triggered automatically in the event of an accident which would be picked up by aircraft in the vicinity or by air traffic controllers. "It's an issue if it didn't go off."

The arrival board shows Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 delayed at the Beijing Capital International Airport on March 8, 2014.
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The arrival board shows Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 delayed at the Beijing Capital International Airport on March 8, 2014.

The flight last had contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu, Malaysia Airlines chief executive said in a statement. The airline said people from 14 nationalities were among the 227 passengers, including at least 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians and four French.

"It's very difficult to speculate but the fact that communication was shut off suddenly points to some catastrophic event," Herdman said. "You'd get some warning" in the event of a mechanical failure, he explained.

Memories of 2009 Air France flight

Ominously, some observers are drawing parallels with an Air France flight that crashed into the South Atlantic on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board. It vanished for hours and wreckage was found only two days later.

"In the case of Air France 447 in 2009, it took over a year to find the plane, and it was in ocean over 5 km deep,"wrote Forshaw in his Facebook post. "I'm sure this won't be as complex but I make the point that our natural desire to know what happened maybe hard to fulfill," the former Singapore Airlines chief spokesman said.

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Trading the Yen's Next Move

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

After months of heading straight south, the yen has had a rather significant bounce this week, thanks to investors seeking shelter from the political turmoil in Italy. But if you think investment pros are about to turn uniformly bullish on the Japanese currency, think again.

"The safe haven trade seems to be a bit back on," says Kathy Lien, a managing director at BK Asset Management. "But in terms of the story about why the yen has weakened so much, I don't think that's over yet."

In fact, Lien argues that the current level of the dollar-yen currency pair is almost a "fire sale".

The Bank of Japan still has some easing moves ahead, Lien says, probably in April. And more immediately, she says, "I think that when we get the BOJ nomination, which can come tonight, tomorrow, that we're going to see a knee-jerk rally in dollar-yen, followed by a stronger move once the new governor comes out and reaffirms that he's going to take aggressive action."

Lien doesn't expect the yen's bounce earlier in the week to recur, she told CNBC's Simon Hobbs.

"Take a look at the euro now, it is not falling as much as you would think," she says. "The safe haven bid trade will play a role in dollar-yen, but i think that the longer term story is still going to be a weaker yen."

Lien says her firm has orders in to buy the yen. She recommends entering the trade at 91.25 with a stop at 90.00 and a target at 94.50, below the "key pivotal level" at 95.00.

Tune In: CNBC's "Money in Motion Currency Trading" airs on Fridays at 5:30pm and repeats on Saturdays at 7pm.

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From Hero to Zero: Why Loose Monetary Policy Holds Back Growth

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Cometh the hour, cometh the appropriate policy response. In the first quarter of 2009 the Western world looked into the abyss of deflation and depression and was pulled back from it by its central banks. Zero, or near-zero, interest rates together with "asset purchases" or the even fancier-named "quantitative easing" (money printing to you and me) were just the tonic to rescue economies that had crashed on the back of banks failing and real-estate bubbles bursting.

And since then…plus ca change….Let's leave QE for this week, I've written enough about it, the circle of money it represents and how we need to start unwinding it, however slowly, now. What is even more of a concern is the continuing zero interest rate policy. On current expectations central banks will not be raising rates until 2015 (Federal Reserve), 2016 (Bank of England) or even later (ECB). That is many years after the onset of recession. We know the reasons why the central banks wish to do this, here is why it is now the wrong policy.

In the retail space people are happy to run with variable rate mortgages because they expect rates to stay low for some time. In the corporate space long-term capital projects are put off partly because of uncertainty and partly because of worries about economic stagnation, but also because the low rate environment means there isn't the urgency to fix long-term financing, one can fund at low rates in the short term for many years to come, right?

The paradox of the low rate environment is that after a time it actually holds back economic activity. There isn't the need or urgency to fix medium or long-term financing because the sub-conscious expects rates to stay low for…well, forever.

Technical proof of this is easily determined from even a casual glance at the Treasury, Gilt or Bund yield curve. We noted the negative interest rate on the German Schatz issue last week, what about 10-year Gilt yields at 1.73 percent? The term premium, an orthodox and logical expectation that longer-dated bond yields should carry a higher rate, has all but disappeared. Why would any rational investor accept a 10-year interest rate of 1.73 percent when today's inflation rate has a big-figure 2 or 3 percent on it? (The simple answer is "because everyone else does, and one has to put one's money somewhere…").

The worst aspect (yes, I mean worst) is the frothy equity markets, with equity indices on both sides of the Atlantic reaching highs last seen before the bank crash but based on...what exactly? The housing overhang remains, unemployment is a serious, serious concern and productivity is struggling under the weight of Asia-Pacific competition. And this is to completely ignore public sector deficits and Eurozone worries.

But we know the answer to that one: an ocean of cheap liquidity. Banks are now surplus of cash and simply cycling it back to the central bank. Zero interest rates are fuelling the equity boom. Another house of cards being built.

What would happen if we started raising rates? Looking beyond the first day, it should become evident to everyone that this is a sign of strength, economies are now ready to start walking without the central bank crutch. Individuals and corporates will start arranging longer-term financing deals, and the correction in equity markets will present a better picture of value – which should resume its upward trajectory.

Loose monetary policy has done its job. It is now holding back investment decisions, it risks being permanently wired into investors' collective psyche and the paradox is that it no longer has a positive impact on economic activity. And it's not as if the central banks would suddenly raise rates by 100 basis points. A 25bps rise in one quarter is the most one can expect. How difficult would that be to absorb?

Five years after the onset of recession and the effect of interest rates at 0 is becoming analogous to an import tariff or a government subsidy to a failing industrial company. It is skewing the investment decision and misallocating resources. Time to start raising rates.

Professor Moorad Choudhry is at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University and author of The Principles of Banking (John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2012).


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CNBC Survey: Shoppers Proscrastinating

Procrastination nation." That's how Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman described the state of the holiday shopping, based on the latest CNBC Holiday Central survey.

Details of the second edition of the survey were unveiled on the program today. The CNBC survey shows some 55% of those polled have yet to do the bulk of their holiday shopping. Another 36% have done little or none.

Plans for overall spending have dropped to an average $735 from $764 in late November, when the first Holiday Central Survey was taken.

There's plenty more to learn from the survey and all the results are right here on cnbc.com.
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Apple Becoming Like Microsoft? Fears Grow After Miss

With Apple revealing quarterly earnings that missed forecasts, some analysts have told CNBC that they have concerns for the technology firm's future.

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"My feeling is that we are seeing the real consequences of not having Steve Jobs around anymore. He was a visionary and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with Apple," Peter Bo Kiaer, senior equity analyst at Saxo Bank told CNBC Friday, adding that he was worried that the management at the company was becoming just like any other.

"The launch of the maps just recently shows that they're not really up to being in the same camp as Apple has been before, and it's going to be looking too much like Microsoft," he said.

Apple released a new mapping system on Sept. 19, as part of its new operating system iOS. However, users quickly slammed the app, claiming its maps were inaccurate. Analysts have also been left underwhelmed with the new iPad mini, which will go on sale on Nov. 2, after it was given a price tag that was higher than expected.

(Read More: Apple's Smaller iPad Risks Cannibalization: Strategist)

The tech giant announced fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday showing a 27 percent rise in revenue and a 24 percent increase in earnings, with the earnings number missing estimates and iPad sales falling short of forecasts.

(Read More: Apple Posts Rare Earnings Miss; Outlook Disappoints)

"People tend to think the app store and music is really an important part of Apple, but it's 90 percent hardware and any hardware company will at some stage encounter margin pressure and that's what we're seeing," Bo Kiaer said. "You see the prices on iPad for example, it's declining because there's a huge competition going on in that space and they're not able to keep up the margins. And they put in new screens, new and better batteries, whatever, and you just ask Nokia how that feels to put in better and better components at a declining price — that hurts."

Bo Kaier's fear that Apple could be becoming more like Microsoft comes after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signaled last month that his company is trying to become more like Apple.

Also on Tuesday, Ballmer published his annual letter to shareholders, which highlighted a shift towards hardware and online services, mimicking changes made by Apple.

(Read More: Microsoft CEO Sees Company Becoming More Like Apple)

Bob Parker, senior advisor at Credit Suisse, believes the technology sector is dangerously close to reaching a saturation point after a year of continuous hardware and software releases.

Analyzing Apple's results, he underlined two key themes that he feels the firm needs to address.

"The first theme is actually the cost and the hit to profitability of rolling out new products and that's clearly been an issue with Apple's results," he told CNBC Friday. "I think the second theme is actually the rising costs of production and in their statement Apple said they have got to address their production costs and they've got to address widening (of their profit) margin which clearly they regard the margin as unsatisfactory."


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Are Toshiba Satellite Laptops worth buying or not??

by satycorn / November 23, 2012 8:34 AM PST

Hi everyone,
I am in a desperate need of a laptop right now because I don't have a computer at the moment and I have a dozen of school-work to complete before holidays. So I was looking for something used and affordable (I can't pay more than $85), not one of those "beasts" that are made for gaming, etc. I want it for surfing the net, having decent stats and running relatively fast, also it would be great if it could support Windows 7 if I did a maximum upgrade to it.
However, I was aiming at the Toshiba Satellite, since they are cheap on eBay, but a friend of mine really put me off by saying that those are the most defective laptops, he knows a lot of people that have had problems with them, etc etc. Is it true? I want to get one of the A or M series. I've found great deals.
Could someone please clarify things up for me? Have you had any experience with these laptops, are they any durable and good or not?
Please let me know, I'd be very grateful.

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85 bucks for a laptop on Ebay is going to be something used and unknown condition not matter what make. Since it's used, the idea of durability and good is sadly not expected.

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Everything I've seen or experienced with Toshiba laptops has been excellent. I currently have an 11 month old Toshiba Satellite L755 which I bought to replace a 4 year old Satellite laptop that I gave to my son. Both continue to work flawlessly, my current one runs Windows 7 64 bit, the older one has Vista 32 bit. All the reviews I've say Toshiba has one of the best repair records around.
I do agree with Bob that anything you buy for $85 is not likely to serve you well, I don't care who makes it. You could buy an Asus Eee PC new for just over $200, if you could manage to come up with that much. They make good stuff too.

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Apple's next iteration of its mobile operating system is all about upgrading what's under the hood.

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Apple on Monday unveiled the next iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 8, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The software is available in beta for developers starting today, and for the public for free this fall.

Last year's bold visual overhaul with iOS 7 was a stark departure for the iPhone maker's core philosophy of tweak and refine. In key ways, Apple both returned to its tried-and-true approach of incremental changes while managing to make iOS 8 a remarkably more substantive upgrade than what we've become accustomed to in the years prior to iOS 7. The focus this time around is not on visuals, but functionality.

With iOS 8, Apple is bringing a laundry list of features that many have desired for years. Most importantly, the new software tackles long-standing issues with iOS' notification system, its tie-ins with Apple's desktop OS X software and device and file management software iCloud, and its native SMS client Messages, while still managing to extend Apple's reach into the health and home automation space with a suite of new "Kit" apps and developer tools.

In doing so, Apple is going to great lengths to nullify the influence of competing third-party apps by bolstering the reach of its native features.

What's new in iOS 8

Notifications are now interactive. For instance, users listening to music can now swipe down on a text message that pops up as drop-down notification and access the keyboard, replying directly from within iOS' Notification Center without having to leave the app you're currently in.

With iCloud Drive, Apple is attempting to create a device-agnostic way for users to store files similar to Google's Drive offering and software maker Dropbox. Now, Apple is looping in iOS more than ever before. iOS 8 will bring a Finder-like file repository to all devices, allowing users to access iCloud Drive files. All photos and videos also sync automatically with your iCloud account -- similar to Dropbox's recently released Carousel app -- and the upgraded Photos app allows editing across all devices.

Combined with its next desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite, Apple's cross-platform communication is now more seamless. Features like Handoff will let users start text messages and emails on their iOS devices and see the drafts immediately transition to desktop. This will also work on iPad with productivity apps like the iWork suite.

Thanks to Handoff, which lets Macs and iOS devices know when they're near one another, the file-sharing feature AirDrop is no longer restricted to Mac-to-Mac and iOS-to-iOS file-sharing, and inter-device file-sharing will let you avoid emailing or texting yourself photos.

Apple also is purposefully cracking the veneer of its closed-garden philosophy. Users can now install third-party keyboards, and TouchID fingerprint scanning -- which accounts for 83 percent of purchases in Apple's App Store -- will now work with third-party apps. Additionally, widgets from independent developers will be available for download from the App Store and will function within the Notification Center.

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Apple has powered up its Spotlight search functionality, as well as its Siri virtual assistant. Spotlight now gives you a wider contextual range for your query that goes beyond the files on your device to include yet-be-downloaded music and video content from iTunes, and film showtimes at nearby theaters and other Maps information.

And in a direct challenge to Google's powerful hands-free features for its virtual assistant, Google Now, Siri in iOS 8 will be addressable with a voice command -- "Hey, Siri." The software also has been beefed up in the general voice-recognition department for reliability, will now tag songs you're hearing in the background using the popular Shazam app, and can access smart home features using Apple's new HomeKit developer platform.

Some of the biggest additions with iOS 8, however, are Apple's Messages app. Software head Craig Federighi said onstage that Messages is the most used app on iOS. It's clearly an imperative focus for Apple, as iMessage increasingly must contend with the rise of message app upstarts like WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook, and the slew of international rivals, like KakaoTalk, WeChat, and Line, that are chipping away at Apple's grip on SMS.

To that end, Messages now contains a feature called QuickType, which is a predictive keyboard software enhancement that will learn how you talk with different people to allow for quicker auto-correct and fill-out suggestions.

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Beyond QuickType, the SMS tweaks include the capability to leave or mute specific message threads like group messages with a single button, as well as share location to users within the thread on top of audio and video using a single swipe. Sending audio -- in a dose of Apple's behind-the-scenes design -- can be done automatically by lifting the phone to your ear, with the file being sent on its way when you lower the device again.

Additionally, all media shared in a text thread is now grouped together in a single attachments section of the chat, and multiple files can be sent at once.

In a move many will interpret as an advance against the explosive growth of messaging platform Snapchat, messages sent via iOS' Messages app can become ephemeral -- self-destructing after a given time limit users can designate.

Rounding out the rather exhaustive feature list is HealthKit and HomeKit. HealthKit is an iOS 8 app for fitness tracking that takes full advantage of the iPhone 5S' M7 motion processor, allowing for much of the basic metric collection users get out of a wristband like the Fitbit Flex and Jawbone Up.

HomeKit, on the other hand, is not an app, but rather a development platform for smart device makers to loop the iPhone and iPad into controlling things like garage doors, smart locks, lighting, and temperature. Initial partners include thermostat-maker Honeywall and smart lock-maker August, though there's no word on whether or not Apple will be extending that to include former iPod chief Tony Fadell's company Nest, which is now owned by Google.

'The biggest iOS release ever'

Where iOS 8 fits in within Apple's quickly changing corporate narrative -- one that now includes buying established brand leaders in markets like high-end headphones -- will be the subject of much debate. As the linchpin of its mobile app dominance and the single most important selling point for iDevices, iOS' evolution is something Apple handles with utmost care.

After all, iOS 8 marks the second major release under the guidance of head designer Jony Ive and Federighi. Apple CEO Tim Cook fired the prior iOS chief, Scott Forstall, in October 2012 in part for refusing to take responsibility for Apple's Maps fiasco. Ive spearheaded the complete redesign of iOS 7, the first major overhaul since Apple introduced the software with the first iPhone in 2007.

iOS 7 featured different typography and color schemes from previous versions of the operating system, as well as a flatter design concept. iOS 7 also added useful features like automatic updates to make everyday use easier, AirDrop, and iTunes Radio, as well as a new control center that gives quick access to most-used features. The iOS 7.1 update in March incorporated CarPlay -- a way for the iPhone (5 and newer) to power a touchscreen on a new car's dashboard -- and other bug fixes and tweaks.

With iOS 8, we're getting what Apple considers to be "the biggest iOS release ever." Take that with a grain of salt of course -- it's hard not to notice how often Cook likes to pepper Apple events with the word "amazing." But this rather sizable functionality overhaul illustrates that the Cupertino, Calif., company is still capable of going the extra mile and completely reimagining what smartphone users need and want in a holistic and simplified approach.

To that end, Apple is giving us enough of the kinds of pleasant surprises we hunger for to tide us over until its bread-and-butter hardware debuts.

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As lawsuits appear and hearings are set, President Bush and allies go on the offensive over the domestic surveillance program.

WASHINGTON--President Bush and his closest allies are stepping up their defense of a domestic surveillance program in the face of congressional criticism, multiple lawsuits and a Senate hearing planned for next month.

In a continuation of a full-court press that began a day earlier, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday told students at Georgetown University that a wartime president has the lawful authority to eavesdrop on Americans' telephone calls and e-mail messages without court approval.

"The terrorist surveillance program is both necessary and lawful," Gonzales said. "Accordingly, the president has done with this lawful authority the only responsible thing: use it."

Gonzales' defense of the program, which uses the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of conversations, comes as scrutiny of the traditionally publicity-shy agency is growing.

Rep. John Conyers, a top Democrat from Michigan, on Friday asked (click here for PDF) companies including Google, Yahoo, EarthLink, Verizon Communications and T-Mobile whether they have given the government access to their networks when not authorized by a court order. And Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, has scheduled a Judiciary committee hearing for Feb. 6. Specter has indicated he believes the surveillance program to be illegal.

Bush himself defended the program during a speech at Kansas State University on Monday. "Federal courts have consistently ruled that a president has authority under the Constitution to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance against our enemies," he said. "Predecessors of mine have used that same constitutional authority."

Michael Hayden, a former NSA director who is now a top intelligence official, went even further. In a speech in Washington on Monday (click here for PDF), Hayden said that "had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al-Qaida operatives in the United States, and we would have identified them as such."

Attorney General Gonzales echoed that argument, saying the threat of al-Qaida was real and reminded the audience that a videotape from Osama bin Laden surfaced last week. He emphasized that press accounts describing the program's scope have been, with little exception, "misinformed, confusing or wrong." But he refused to reveal further details about the program, saying it remains "highly classified."

At one point during Gonzales' speech to about 100 students, dozens stood up and turned their backs to the attorney general.

If nowhere else, the authorization for the exercise of presidential powers can be found in a congressional resolution passed just days after Sept. 11, Gonzales said. That measure, known as the "Authorization for Use of Military Force," allows the president to "use all necessary and appropriate force" against suspected terrorists and their allies.

That argument may soon be tested in court. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last week claiming that the NSA program violates both the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and a federal law saying that a court order is generally necessary to spy on Americans. The group is asking for a preliminary injunction that would halt the surveillance program.

A separate lawsuit (click here for PDF) was filed last week by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. That suit asks a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to force the Bush administration to release information about the NSA spying program.

EPIC had filed a Freedom of Information Act request, but the Justice Department said it could not comply with it by the legal deadline. The request asks for an audit of the NSA's domestic surveillance activities, legal opinions created by Bush administration attorneys justifying the program, and what kind of guidance or "checklist" is used to determine who to monitor.

The Bush administration is out of line in its reading of the law, said David Cole, a Georgetown law professor specializing in constitutional law who spoke on a four-member panel discussion that took place after Gonzales' speech.

"It's a crime to conduct electronic surveillance without authorization in two places in the statute," Cole said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). He said that under FISA, the president may conduct wiretapping without a warrant for 15 days after the declaration of war but must seek authorization for activities continuing beyond that period.

Given that context, "how can it be that authorization to use military force somehow gives him four years of unchecked power?" Cole asked.

He also rejected the administration's claims that the Supreme Court's decision in the detainee case offered justification for its wiretapping actions. A court likely would not have drawn the same conclusion had there been a law such as FISA that set a 15-day limit for detaining American citizens suspected of being enemy combatants, he said.

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DARPA wants to build 100Gbps wireless military network

The Defense Department agency is soliciting input on a wireless communications backbone that would provide high-speed streaming for air-to-ground and ground-to-ground links over long distances.

Defense researchers are looking to update the wireless platform currently used for military communications to deliver 100Gbps connections.

While fiber-optic cables provide the long-haul backbone for most data and voice communications networks without issue, radio signals often face electronic interference and degradation over long distances, resulting in reduced communications efficiency to soldiers in the field.

The current Common Data Link, the U.S. military's secure communications protocol created in 1991, operates at data rates of up to 274Mbps. To boost that speed, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is inviting input on creation of a new wireless communications platform that would match the weight and power of the current CDL.

DARPA has announced that a "proposer's day" will be held next month to brief participants on the 100G program, which aims "to design, build, and test a communications link with fiber-optic-equivalent capacity, long reach, and high availability in airborne-to-airborne and airborne-to-ground configurations that can serve as a deployable data backbone in a military communications network."

The goal is to utilize airborne assets to provide high-capacity data streaming over 100 kilometers for air-to ground links and 200km for air-to-air links, the agency said today.

"Providing fiber-optic-equivalent capacity on a radio frequency carrier will require spectrally efficient use of available RF spectrum," Dick Ridgway, DARPA program manager, said in a statement. "100G plans to demonstrate how high-order modulation and spatial multiplexing can be synergistically combined to achieve 100 Gigabits per second with the size, weight and power needed for a deployable system. We believe that to achieve the program's goals requires the convergence of telecommunications system providers and the defense communications tech base."

DARPA said one of the central challenges to the platform will be weather. The 100G backbone must provide tactically relevant throughput and link ranges through clouds, rain, and fog.

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Keep your Facebook profile private

Limit the amount of personal information you present to friends, friends of friends, and non-friends alike.

Earlier this month, an 82-year-old man in Auburn, Calif., was scammed out of $5,200 because his Facebook profile was too forthcoming. The first thing I did after reading his tale of woe on the Auburn Journal site was to examine my own Facebook profile from a stranger's perspective.

I didn't like what I saw.

What I saw was too much, so the second thing I did was edit my Facebook profile to remove some personal information and further restrict access to it. Unfortunately, the process took longer than I expected.

A Facebook privacy makeover begins by hovering the cursor over Settings and choosing Account Settings. The Settings tab shows your name, contact e-mail address, and other basic information. The Networks, Notifications, Mobile, Language, and Payments tabs are self-explanatory, although I unchecked several of the Notifications options that were selected by default.

The real work begins when you rework Facebook's privacy settings. Hover the cursor over Settings and choose Privacy Settings to open the service's Privacy Overview. Your privacy options are presented in four categories: Profile, Search, News Feed and Wall, and Applications. You can also add someone to your Block List by entering his or her name in the text box near the bottom of the page and clicking Block.

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Facebook's Privacy Settings are listed in four categories along with a tool for adding names to your Block List. Facebook

Click Profile to view your personal and contact information. Your options in each category are everyone, people in your networks and friends, friends of friends, only friends, and a Customize dialog box, which provides a bit more granularity to your options. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page once you've finished making your selections.

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The custom options in the Facebook privacy settings let you limit access to your personal info. Facebook

I reset each privacy option to Only Friends, with the exception of the Basic Info category, which is viewable by everyone. To see your profile as your friends do, enter the name of a friend in the text box at the top of this page. (You can view and edit the entries in your Basic Info by clicking Info on your profile page and choosing Edit Information.)

You might be surprised by the amount of information about you that Facebook's search function makes available. To change Facebook's search settings, click Search on the Privacy Overview page. The default option under Search Visibility is Everyone, but you can change this to Friends of Friends, Only Friends, or a custom setting for people in your networks.

I chose to show in search results only a link to send me a message. I also unchecked the option at the bottom of the screen to create a public search listing for me to submit to Web search engines. When you're done, click Save Changes.

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Uncheck options on the Facebook Search Privacy page to restrict your personal information shown in search results. Facebook

The default selections in Facebook's privacy settings for News Feed and Wall are similarly too open for my liking. It wasn't so much the options under Actions within Facebook, although I did uncheck several of these. The settings under Facebook Ads were a bigger concern to me.

There are two options on this page: "Allow ads on platform pages to show my information to" and "Show my social actions in Facebook Ads to." You can choose either "Only my friends" or "No one." Opting for the latter choice was a no-brainer for me.

More unpleasant surprises awaited on the Applications Privacy page. What your friends do affects how far afield your personal information travels. You can read about it under the Overview tab, which concludes by promising that Facebook won't sell your personal information and that "(y)our contact information is not exposed by the Facebook Platform."

I'm sure the Facebook Platform offers some real benefits, but until I have a better understanding of those benefits and their potential risks to my privacy, I'm opting out. To do so, choose "Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API." Take that a step further by selecting the other two options on this page, which block friends from viewing memberships in Facebook Connect sites and prevent Beacon sites from posting stories to your profile.

These days, I spend more time in Facebook than any other Web service except Gmail, and Facebook is gaining fast on that top spot. Of course, the bad guys are spending a lot more time there, too. Minimize your chances of catching their eye by lowering your profile.

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Pottermore Web site opens for all wizards and Muggles

The interactive online site devoted to Harry Potter is now officially open for business, inviting people to explore the store's various haunts.

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET

Pottermore has finally opened its gates, allowing Harry Potter fans to enter the previously forbidden and potentially forboding Web site.

Initially available for just a select number of users, the site is now inviting anyone to register to gain access. The process may be slow, however. A Pottermore insider blog explained that it plans to activate a steady stream of registrations but said that people may not get access right away

Potter fans can currently find both e-books and audiobooks of all seven books in the series.

But full access to the site will offer more, including interactive tours of locations mentioned in the books and the virtual tools needed to practice your magical arts.

To gain access, you'll first need to conjure up the site's registration page. You'll need to reveal various details about yourself, including your birth date, your country, your name and e-mail address, a password, and check marks next to all the Harry Potter books you've read and films you've seen.

Your name is then added to a list of magical folk, joining Harry himself, best friends Ron and Hermione, and even arch-nemesis Draco Malfoy. The site then provides a username for you to select from a small list. An e-mail then confirms your registration and promises full access once your account has been verified.

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One step closer to Pottermore. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET

Once you've officially passed through the gates, you'll be sorted into one of the four Hogwarts houses and be chosen by your wand. The site is also promising exclusive writing from author J.K. Rowling and new features over the coming weeks and months.

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Reasons to like Baidu--but whose reasons are they?

Whoever wrote the comment, its laundry list of reasons users and especially advertisers might like Baidu is informative.

I was all ready to highlight what seemed like a very insightful comment on this blog by a co-founder of the advertising company CultureFish Media on the merits of Baidu, China's leading search engine. But then I remembered Rick at CNET Asia had asked readers for reasons to love Baidu. Lo and behold, the same comment appeared there under the name of a different CultureFish exec (and prominent blogger).

This wouldn't bother me at all, except that the comment includes personal reflection, such as this passage that appears verbatim in both posts: "Maybe I will get more bullish on Google when they get around to assigning someone to answer my phone calls or when their operator tells me that their marketing department does not have a phone number." A quick Google search didn't turn up any more copies of the same comment, but what's the deal guys?

The comment first appeared under Lonnie B. Hodge's name on Rick's Little Red Blog. Hodge is CEO of CultureFish and The Professor at Onemanbandwidth, a long-running China media blog. There, Hodge has criticized an article that painted Baidu inaccurately as an "upstart" engine and may have been inaccurate in its portrayal of Baidu's music search. (Mea culpa: By reporting on articles with similar material, I may have perpetuated inaccurate numbers, if they are indeed inaccurate.)

On Sinobyte the comment appeared under the name of David DeGeest, one of Hodge's coworkers. The comment was different only in that it fixed a few typos and was prefaced with a good rebuke of a xenophobic comment that had appeared above and managed to misspell "develop" while saying "men from the east" aren't that smart.

Whoever wrote the comment, its laundry list of reasons users and especially advertisers might like Baidu is informative. I just wish credit had been given to whoever was the original author. (Also there's a "next week" below that doesn't work on the second posting since it was more than a week after the first.) Here's the list:

  1. They now devote more than 10% of revenue to R&D.
  2. They are innovating at a terrific rate: They have instant messaging in the works, the Answer service similar to Naver/Yahoo, a developing financial section similar to Google, some new social media acquisitions coming that will modernize them and likely steal a load of Tencent's traffic.
  3. They have advertising solutions that can be tailored--as opposed to Google cookie-cutter stuff- for any biz.
  4. They have a 30% no-count rate for click-throughs on ads (Google is 10%) to fight click fraud.
  5. They have opened their API to new analytics companies (they will formally announce a partnership with Omniture next week)..
  6. Their bulletin board system just surpassed the 200,000,000 post mark.
  7. They dominate mp3 download searches and are leveraging that into BRANDED deals with music companies and artists. IF you took away ALL their mp3 searches that everyone ******* about, you'd only take less than 8% of their market share...
  8. They are not the Yuppie stuffed shirts running Google. I have access to decision makers at Baidu and don't have to wade through layers of people who think they are too important deal with me....
  9. They are open to new ideas: our company now has a strategic partnership with PRNewswire and are co-investigating a tool with Baidu that will change the face of online news releases....

After all, I find this to be a pretty persuasive list, though I won't likely switch to Baidu anytime soon, while they're still censoring large portions of search results, even though I realize that's not a top concern of many Chinese users. I had e-mailed CultureFish's public address hoping to get in touch with DeGeest to clarify some information before I discovered the repetition, by the way. I'd still be curious to find out about some sources, especially for the music downloading issue that I've written about.

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