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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Gray Appointed as Senior VP for Finance and Business | GantDaily ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]UNIVERSITY PARK - David J. Gray has been named senior vice president for Finance and Business at Penn State effective Feb. 6, 2012, subject to approval by.
Magic: Howard saga could go 'to end of the season'
Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith answers questions from members of the media at NBA basketball training camp in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith answers questions from members of the media at NBA basketball training camp in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard speaks with reporters at NBA basketball training camp in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard jokes around while posing for a photo during the team's NBA basketball media day, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ? Magic general manager Otis Smith says the team's goal remains to keep Dwight Howard in a Magic uniform as long as they possibly can and that the trade talks "could go to the end of the season."
Smith would not say Wednesday whether trade talks for the center are off, but did say there was no deal in place. Smith says "right now we still have him in a Magic uniform, and that's where we expect him to be until that changes."
Howard confirmed over the weekend that he had requested a trade to New Jersey, Dallas or the Los Angeles Lakers. The 26-year-old center has publicly softened his stance, saying he would be amenable to remaining in Orlando.
Howard says the process has been a "roller coaster."
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West bashed for likening Dems efforts to Goebbels' (AP)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ? A Florida Republican congressman who likened Democrats' opinion shaping to the efforts of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels defended his comment Friday as criticism mounted.
U.S. Rep. Allen West, a freshman, made the Nazi reference Thursday when asked about Congress' approval ratings and the blame that the public has apparently assigned to Republicans.
"If Joseph Goebbels was around, he'd be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine," West said, according to Politico, the Arlington, Va.-based news organization that first reported the comments.
Goebbels was Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister.
West represents a South Florida district that has an influential Jewish constituency and a sizeable population of Holocaust survivors. He told reporters, in his remarks at the Capitol, that he was comparing Democrats to Nazi propaganda, not the Nazis themselves, but that did little to quell controversy.
"Congressman West needs to immediately apologize for insulting the memories of the millions who lost their lives during the Holocaust," said Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Comparing political differences today to the worst Nazi propagandist diminishes what happened to millions of Jewish families during the Second World War. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time that Congressman West has made this type of hateful remark that makes a mockery of what millions of Jewish families suffered."
West, one of two new black Republicans to join the 112th Congress this year, is a tea party favorite who has repeatedly drawn attention for off-the-cuff comments. He defended his latest remarks, saying through a spokeswoman that twisting his comments was "a perfect example" of what he was talking about.
"Congressman West was referring to the `lies, deception and manipulation' coming from the Democrat propaganda machine and comparing that to the same misinformation coming from Goebbels during World War II," spokeswoman Angela Sachitano said.
Invoking Goebbels has gotten numerous public figures in hot water.
Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, likened Republican arguments against the health overhaul law to those of Goebbels. California Gov. Jerry Brown, while running for office last year, caused a stir when he compared the advertising ability of his billionaire opponent to Goebbels. And a Brazilian foreign minister drew rebukes in 2008 for saying rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of Goebbels' tactics.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Ohio Senate sets aside "heartbeat" abortion bill (Reuters)
COLUMBUS (Reuters) ? The Ohio Senate on Wednesday suspended discussion of a controversial bill that would have banned abortions after the first fetal heartbeat was detected.
The measure, known as House Bill 125, has already passed the Ohio House. If it became law, it would be the toughest restriction on abortions in the nation.
The American Civil Liberties Union said on December 6 it would sue if Ohio state lawmakers pass either that bill or another that would not allow Ohioans to buy coverage for abortion from new healthcare exchanges set up as part of the federal health care reform plan. Both, ACLU said, are unconstitutional.
Fear of expensive legal battles over the law may have prompted a wave of amendments by Senate backers to the bill. But the wording of the bill has split anti-abortion backers.
"Supporters of the bill delivered more than 20 amendments on Wednesday, asking us to make changes after months of deliberation in both the House and Senate," Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus, a Republican, said in a statement.
"These eleventh hour revisions only serve to create more uncertainty about a very contentious issue. We've now heard hours of testimony that indicate a sharp disagreement within the pro-life community over the direction of this bill, and I believe our members need additional time to weigh the arguments. Therefore, I have asked the committee chairman to suspend hearings on the bill," Niehaus said.
"Our majority caucus is staunchly pro-life, and we will take every responsible step to advance the protection of unborn children," he added. "But we cannot move forward on a bill that has so far created more confusion than consensus."
Ohio Right to Life has not backed the heartbeat bill because they say the current makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court is not favorable to abortion opponents. This stand has caused divisions within the state's anti-abortion community.
Stephanie Krider, legislative affairs director at Ohio Right to Life, had testified to a state senate committee that the Court might actually use the heartbeat law to reaffirm Roe v. Wade and eliminate other restrictions on abortion.
"Let's not let emotion blind us from reality and let's make sure that we do not, unintentionally, do more harm than good," Krider said.
(Reporting by Jo Ingles. Editing by Peter Bohan)
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Yoho Bike Hotel: a hotel for the two-tired
The world's biggest bike manufacturer runs a hotel with bike-friendly hallways and elevators, and staff who do repairs and tune-ups.
? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.
Skip to next paragraphGiant, the world?s biggest bike manufacturer, has built a one-of-a-kind beach resort for cyclists.
Taiwan-based Giant operates the 68-room Yoho Bike Hotel, which opened in February 2009, to promote leisure cycling. For at least $166 a night, Yoho guests can pedal through the corridors and ride their wheels into extra-wide elevators and guest rooms with elevated storage racks. Hotel staff members do repairs and cleanups. Travel industry authorities say they know of no other hotel in the world with such extensive services just for bike-riding guests.
Taiwan?s bike industry grew 20 percent last year to $1.5 billion. Cycling increased in Taiwan on pace with the 2008 global oil price surge.
Giant hopes the resort will help keep its sales at current levels of about 5.5 million units a year.
?This is mainly to promote bike riding in Taiwan,? says Chen Jung-chiang, a division chief in the firm?s head sales office.
Guests without bikes can rent them starting at $6 per hour. Two-lane back roads outside the resort lure cyclists.
?There are quite a few roads, and they?re challenging because of the strong winds,? recalls Huang Wei-lun, a Taipei insurance worker who spent three nights at Yoho last year for a bike race. ?If you need any service, the [hotel] will help you fix the bike or wash it up.?
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Make Siri Change Your iPhone 4S Settings, Read Battery Level [Ios Downloads]
What's interesting is the way that the developer set up these features. Instead of going to a third-party server to enable it, he can just use a framework to keep these commands local to your phone, which is a plus for privacy reasons. You'll have to jailbreak your phone, just like with all other Cydia tweaks, but if you've already done it, this is a pretty cool addition.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Space Burial: Virginia could subsidize your galactic resting place (Yahoo! News)
The state of Virginia has an economic stimulus plan of galactic proportion
Commercial spaceflight is poised to rocket civilians to the stars for the first time in history, but?space tourism apparently isn't just limited to the living. A new bill proposed in the state of Virginia wants to help residents pay for a burial among the stars. The bill, sponsored by Virginia delegate Terry Kilgore, would offer up to $8,000 in tax breaks for Virginians planning to shoot their cremated remains into space. Oddly enough, the legislation was conceived as part of a state stimulus plan, and intends to generate revenue for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. If passed, starry-eyed Virginia residents could receive a $2,500 deduction each year for space burials launching from MARS.
While being put to rest out in space is strikingly futuristic, it isn't a new idea entirely: On a flight on April 21, 1997, the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were launched into orbit along with the ashes of LSD advocate Timothy Leary and two other space-minded individuals.
Private companies have seized on the trend, and offer to whisk what remains of your loved ones into Earth's orbit, lunar orbit, or even deep space ? for a price. A company known as?Celestis will launch a sealed capsule of ashes into the final frontier, starting at $2,995. If you'd like to venture even further in the afterlife, the company's Voyager package will ferry your remains beyond the gravitational pull of our Earth and moon for a cool $12,500, beginning in 2014.
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