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The lawyers for Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking and securities firm, have been dealing with a lawsuit filed against them by Overstock.com. After Overstock.com filed a motion to disclose certain internal documents of Goldman Sachs, the lawyers for the firm filed an opposition which accidentally made many of their internal documents, such as emails within the company, public record. Among the many issues that were brought to light due to the disclosure of the documents was ?naked short selling.? The speculation throughout Wall Street was that naked short selling was nothing more than a myth, but in fact Goldman Sachs has been participating in this act of high finance counterfeiting for years.

The act of naked short selling is where the investment firm who is hired to purchase stocks (such as Goldman Sachs) does not actually locate or purchase the stocks. By doing so, Goldman Sachs was creating an artificial stock supply. Goldman Sachs was avoiding spending time searching for the stocks and also avoiding paying fees to borrow the stocks. The illegal acts committed by Goldman Sachs have been brought to light only months after the former Goldman Sachs? Executive, Greg Smith resigned and publicly released that the firm took advantage of their clients.

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Effective, Ongoing Public Relations | Business 2 Community

Good public relations (PR) is a carefully planned, sustained effort to establish a corporate identity, maintain credibility and promote communication between an organization and its public. In other words, it?s keeping your name and good deeds out in front of the public.

Many people think press release when thinking about PR. Press releases are good and do have their place, but one of the major functions of PR is media relations. This is maintenance of an ongoing relationship with the media. Developing an ongoing relationship with media in your industry will encourage a reporter to get in touch via phone or e-mail with the spokesperson for your company, when stories are written about your industry. It includes being mentioned and quoted in stories related to your industry, placing stories exclusively about your company and obtaining speaking engagements for appropriate people within the organization. Third party endorsement by the media sells integrity, quality and extraordinary service like no advertisement can.

Public relations is an ongoing, proactive process and hard work. It means getting the word of the positive, newsworthy item that happens at your business to the media so that they, in turn, will tell the story to their audiences ? your potential customers. When this happens successfully, the end result is publicity.

Good publicity is any news that is of potential interest to the people in your community or industry. People make news. Employee promotions and awards make news. Events make news ? business opening, special promotions, anniversary celebrations, participation in or sponsorship of a community event. Innovations are news ? a new product, a new service.

The more your customers read, see and hear about your company?s accomplishments, achievements and activities, the greater the awareness of you and your business in the local community and industry, and a better image will result.

Awareness and a good image are what can set your company ahead of its competitors.

When someone makes a claim, you typically say, ?How do you know?? The reply you most likely will hear is ?I read it? not I heard it in a commercial. PR has the power to persuade the public.

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Jennifer is an award-winning communicator and brand strategist. She is president of Concentre Communications, Inc. Drawing on 25 years of broad international communications and marketing experience, Jennifer leads the firm?s client engagement teams and provides senior-level strategic counsel and brand marketing expertise. Her broad background gives her a unique strategic? View?full?profile

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BP to resume operations in Libya

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Holton Selected as Head Women's Soccer Coach/Assistant Sports ...

WPI Director of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics Dana L. Harmon announced today the hiring of Corey Holton as the Head Women?s Soccer Coach. Holton becomes the first full-time coach in the 17-year history of women?s soccer at the university and will have additional responsibilities including teaching physical education classes and serving as an assistant sports information director. Holton arrives at WPI after three record-breaking seasons as head coach of Concordia (TX).?Learn more?

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NuForce compresses a rechargeable speaker, USB DAC and headphone amp into a $119 Cube

For better or worse, your options are plentiful when it comes to palm-sized speakers aimed at improving the audio of your gizmos. While many simply tout Bluetooth or USB connectivity, NuForce is hoping to shake things up a bit with its new Cube. This micro-speaker isn't wireless, but it's got the unique ability to also function as a headphone amp and USB DAC -- all in a footprint of 38.5 x 58.5 x 60.0mm (2.30 x 2.30 x 2.36 inches). Aside from giving you multiple ways to add more kick to your tunes, the Cube packs a rechargeable battery that'll last for up to eight hours. Sadly, however, it doesn't appear like you'll be able to daisy chain units together for a tiny stereo rig. On brighter notes, you'll have a choice of silver, red, blue or black, and an iPod Nano adapter is available to make it pretty much the smallest dock we've seen. It'll cost you a spendy $119 to get the Cube within your ears' vicinity, and you'll find more details in the press release below

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Sn0wbreeze se actualiza para hacer jailbreak untethered de iOS 5.1.1 al iPad 1

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H8Sn0w?ha actualizado?Sn0wbreeze?para poder hacer jailbreak untethered de iOS 5.1.1?al iPad de primera generaci?n?(no funciona en iPad 2 o nuevo iPad).

No funciona en los nuevos dispositivos?porque Sn0wbreeze necesita un exploit de hardware y poner tu iPhone en DFU, cosa que no se puede hacer ahora mismo con los dispositivos A5 o A5x.

Con Sn0wbreeze podr?s?crear un custom firmware que no modifica la baseband?y que lleva el jailbreak hecho. La herramienta perfecta para los usuarios con gevey SIM, baseband del iPad o Baseband liberable, es decir, que est? pensado m?s para el iPhone. Si tienes un iPad y quieres hacer jailbreak te recomendamos usar Absinthe.

Puedes descargar la??ltima versi?n de Sn0wbreeze aqu?.

M?s informaci?n -?Ya disponible Absinthe 2.0.1

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Bobcats part ways with Silas, begin search for new coach

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The worst team in NBA history will have a new coach next season.

The Charlotte Bobcats have decided not to renew coach Paul Silas' contract after the team finished 7-59 this season for the worst winning percentage in league history (.106).

"We have been talking internally about what is best for us going forward," Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins said at a news conference Monday. "The record kind of speaks for itself. When you look at the youthfulness of this roster ... we just all felt collectively that the change was something we wanted to do at this time."

The 68-year-old Silas, who told The Associated Press late in the season he wanted to "see things through" and coach one more year, said Monday he found out earlier in the day he would not be brought back.

Silas said he was not surprised by the decision.

"I'm ok with that," he said. "I have had a very successful career coaching and playing and it's time to move on."

Silas said he was promised a job in the organization by team owner Michael Jordan and said he's retiring from coaching.

It's unclear who'll replace Silas, who leaves with a 32-88 record at Charlotte. Higgins said a search for his replacement will begin immediately.

"We do not have a timetable. We will start as soon as this presser is over," he said. "I just don't want to say there is a time frame. We plan on interviewing quite a few people. We want to find the right guy."

Higgins said Silas' son, Stephen Silas - who served as an assistant under his father and led the team in several games - will be interviewed for the job, but added finding someone with heading coaching experience "is important."

"We want someone who wants to win," Higgins said. "That's the main quality. We will have quite a few candidates. I would say there are quite a few people who come into mind."

Finding someone who might be interested in taking over the last-place Bobcats might not be easy. They're light on talent and experience and it could be a long way from competing for a playoff spot.

Bobcats general manager Rich Cho is aware this job might not be for everyone.

"Those are the type of coaches we don't want to bring in," Cho said. "I want somebody that will relish the opportunity and look at it as a challenge. It's really easy to go to a winning team and take that opportunity. But I want somebody in here that's going to look at this as a great opportunity and a challenge and a chance to build something from the ground up."

Silas was in a difficult situation heading into the season with a young and inexperienced team, plus a shortened offseason that limited practice time. Injuries to top players like Corey Maggette, D.J. Augustin and Gerald Henderson did not help.

"I respect Paul to the utmost," Higgins said. "He wanted to be successful but it was an unfortunate thing that it didn't happen."

Late in the season, Silas was involved in an altercation with forward Tyrus Thomas, shoving him in the locker room following a loss. The two had gotten into an argument and had to be separated.

But Higgins said that didn't factor into the decision to part ways with Silas.

Players tried to rally to his defense after the season to save his job, but to no avail.

"I think Paul did the best he could with the guys he had on the floor," Maggette said Friday. "We went through a year where night after night guys were going down with injuries and you're shooting under 30 percent from the field. You just can't win any games that way. That's tough. So hopefully they give him an opportunity to show what type of a coach he is and what he can bring to the table here."

But in the end it was hard for the Bobcats to justify keeping him.

They were last in the league in scoring and shooting percentage and lost 22 games by 20 or more points.

Silas said he's unsure what role he'll have with the Bobcats moving forward, but hopes to have some input on personnel decisions.

The Bobcats are guaranteed one of the top four picks in the NBA draft and could have the No. 1 pick overall and a shot at Kentucky's Anthony Davis. They're also expected to be extremely aggressive in free agency, trying to build with some young talent.

"I really know this team and I think I understand this team better than anyone because I've had them for a whole year," Silas said. "So I hope I can be a part of making some decisions as to who we bring in here... All I want to do is see this team be successful. The people in Charlotte deserve it."

Silas entered the season with a career coaching mark of 380-429 and a 13-16 mark in the playoffs in 11 seasons as an NBA coach. He previously coached the San Diego Clippers, Charlotte Hornets, New Orleans Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers.

As for Silas' assistant coaches, their contracts expire on June 30. No decision has been made as to their future.

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White House Petitioned to Make Research Free to Access

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From Nature magazine

More than 17,000 people have signed an online petition urging US President Barack Obama to require all scientific journal articles resulting from US taxpayer-funded research to be made freely available online. The signatures, obtained within a week of the petition's launch after an active social media campaign, put it over two-thirds of the way towards the threshold that will require an official response from the White House.

It comes as the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ? one of the largest biomedical institutions in the United States ? becomes the latest institution to require its researchers to make their articles freely available in an open-access repository. However, they can opt out if it brings them into conflict with publishers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and various Harvard University schools are among those with similar policies in place.

The petition, on the White House website, was launched by Access2Research, a group of four open-access advocates who were frustrated by the lack of progress on the issue and so are trying a new tack. The petition urges the president to ?act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research?.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is the only US government agency that requires researchers to deposit their articles in the agency's PubMed Central online archive within 12 months of publication, a policy that followed a bill passed by Congress in 2007. It is estimated that about 90,000 papers are deposited each year, with half a million people accessing the database of 2.4 million papers each day.
Getting the ball rolling

?We know the NIH policy works to provide public access and there have been no data presented that it hurts publishers? revenues, so we are asking for that policy to be extended,? says John Wilbanks, a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the four people spearheading the petition.

The proposed extension would see open-access polices cover all 12 federal-science agencies, including the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture. The petition does not stipulate a time period within which articles should be deposited or a particular repository, to give agencies flexibility, Wilbanks says.

The agencies together receive about US$60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

Assuming the petition tops 25,000 signatures before 19 June, there must be an official response from the administration. ?It at least puts the issue in front of the president's staff for consideration. The response could be as weak as a simple acknowledgement, or as strong as a policy statement or directive?, such as an executive order telling agencies to expand the NIH policy, Joseph adds.

The timing of the petition is no accident. A bipartisan bill ? the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) 2012 ? that advocates extending the NIH policy to other federal agencies, and shortening the time frame in which papers must be deposited from 12 months to 6, is making its way through Congress. The White House is also currently reviewing its open-access policies.

?We want the White House to state its position because it could get the ball rolling with agencies, and we want FRPAA because it is much harder to overturn,? says Joseph.

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Florida Basketball Recruiting: Damontre Harris Commits To Gators ?

Posted on 26 May 2012

Former South Carolina center Damontre Harris has committed to join Billy Donovan and the Gators, according to ESPN's Dave Telep. Harris will not be eligible to play until 2013-14 because of transfer rules. Harris chose Florida over Kansas.
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Report: Facebook in talks to buy browser-maker Opera

A new report indicates that Facebook, fresh off its initial public offering, is in talks to acquire Web browser maker Opera Software.

Tech blog Pocket-lint, citing unnamed "trusted sources," reported that the social media giant is looking to buy Oslo, Norway-based Opera to expand into the browser space. In doing so, Facebook would be facing competition from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple ? and even Yahoo, which just this week launched its own Axis browser.

A spokeswoman for Facebook declined to comment about the rumor when contacted by PCMag on Friday. Opera also declined to comment.

"As a standard policy Opera does not respond to market rumors and we have no comment to the rumor addressed in the question," the company said in a statement.

However, The Next Web reported that a "source close to Opera" claims the browser maker is currently in the midst of a hiring freeze, and its management is talking to potential buyers. The company's leadership is reportedly considering becoming part of a larger privately held or public company, instead of trying to keep growing the business on its own.

Opera, which makes browsers for desktops, tablets, and smartphones, is currently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company says that about 270 million people use its browsers every month.

Facebook, meanwhile, last month bought the photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion. The social network also recently picked up the developers of the Lightbox Android photo app, along with 750 patents from IBM.

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Redemption ROM for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus [ROM review]

Editor's note: This time around we've got a ROM review for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus from long time Android Central member JKK Photography. I know you'll enjoy it, and from the looks of things if you're the proud owner of a LTE GNex, you just might want to give it a try.  Settle in and have a read after the break. And be sure to tell JKK Photography thanks for the review!

If you're interested in writing a ROM review of your own (the best reviews come from the folks who use them daily!) give us a shout, we'd love to talk to you!

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Japan: Fukushima nuclear pool not unstable

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Goshi Hosono, Japan's environment minister, shows reporters the fuel rod pool at Fukushima's No. 4 reactor on Saturday.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Amid concerns of a new disaster should a quake destroy the pool cooling off radioactive nuclear fuel rods at Fukushima's Reactor No. 4, Japan on Saturday arranged a tour for journalists and declared the situation manageable -- but also very long term.

"I don't think the situation is unstable," said Goshi Hosono, Japan's environment minister and the man in charge of the cleanup. He was speaking to reporters after his first tour of the twisted and partly destroyed building that houses the reactor.

Hosono said he expected workers to begin removing fuel from the reactor's storage pool next year.

Work began last month to raise what amounts to a giant tent over the building to keep radioactive dust from scattering during the transport of the fuel rods, which now are under just a tarp at the top of the building.

Senator Ron Wyden was the first U.S. Senator to get a look inside Japan's Fukushima nuclear energy plant. Wyden discusses what he saw inside the plant and whether or not imported food from Japan is safe to eat.

Hosono said his biggest concern was ensuring Japan could secure the labor and talent to finish the decommissioning of the Fukushima reactors over the coming decades.?

"This may take 30 or even 40 years to complete and extremely difficult work is still ahead of us," he said.

Tokyo Electric Power, the utility that operates the Fukushima Daiichi plant, says its analysis shows the No. 4 reactor building would hold up in a strong earthquake even after being badly damaged by a hydrogen explosion when three nearby reactors suffered meltdowns in March 2011.

Japanese safety regulators on Friday ordered Tepco to recheck its findings after measurements showed the west wall of the reactor building was buckling out by about 1.2 inches.

Some experts believe the fuel in the pool is now too weak to generate much radioactivity, but others are still worried.

"The No. 4 reactor is visibly damaged and in a fragile state, down to the floor that holds the spent fuel pool," Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at Kyoto University?s Research Reactor Institute, told the New York Times. "Any radioactive release could be huge and go directly into the environment."?

Hosono said the government accepted Tepco's estimate that the No. 4 reactor could withstand an earthquake measuring a "strong 6" on the Japanese scale.

The magnitude 9 quake last March that triggered a tsunami and overran Fukushima's backup power systems was measured at 7 on the Japanese scale.

Some environmental critics charge the No. 4 reactor presents a particular risk of a knock-on disaster if a subsequent earthquake were to topple it or puncture its fuel storage pool and allow the 65 feet of water now covering and cooling 1,535 uranium fuel assemblies to drain away.

Such an accident, they say, could release far more radiation than the leaks of radioactive water Tepco has battled since improvising a system for cooling reactor cores last year.

Hosono climbed a narrow and dark staircase built with scaffolding to take reporters to the top of the No. 4 building where the fuel pool has been covered with a tarp.

Tepco has taken steps to shore up support for the pool, which measures ?30 feet by 60 feet across, by adding a cement column underneath.

Officials from the utility demonstrated how they were using water in the pool as a kind of level to confirm the building was not tipping. They also showed a grid of floats holding up the tarp they said could support a person if a worker fell in.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Why I Quit the Catholic Church

They say you can?t be neutral on a moving train, and if recent developments on the American political scene have demonstrated anything, it?s that the Catholic Church is a train headed in a pretty distressing direction: away from equality and social justice, and set on a collision course with the wall of separation between church and state.

As if the child abuse scandals from the last several decades and the complicity and cover-ups that seemed to reach to the highest levels of the Church weren?t enough, now there?s the crackdown on American nuns who, in their commitment to social justice and helping the poor, have been accused by U.S. priests and bishops of straying too far from sanctioned Church doctrine and not spending enough time denouncing feminists and gays. It?s also clear that pressure from Catholic religious leaders plays a large role in the Republicans? ?war on women? and some of the recent bills proposed to restrict access to birth control and health care for women, all in the name of religious freedom. For those of us who have been keeping an uneasy eye on the socially conservative, theologically strict and consistently anti-feminist Pope Benedict XVI since his appointment seven years ago, this most recent response of the Catholic Church really comes as no surprise.

And so it?s no real surprise that there?s push-back from atheists, secularists and humanists who?ve about had it with an antiquated, patriarchal hierarchy trying to actively interfere with the democratic processes of government. The anger and disgust is clear in a recent, full-page ad run in the Washington Post by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, asking ?liberal? and ?nominal? Catholics to quit the Church once and for all:

It?s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on? [...] The Church that hasn?t persuaded you to shun contraception now wants to use the force of secular law to deny birth control to non-Catholics. You?re better than your church, so why stay? Why put up with an institution that discriminates against half of humanity?

The language of the FFRF ad is harsh, and in many ways it over-reaches when it turns from criticisms of the Church as an institution to mockery of religious belief in general. In an editorial response, E.J. Dionne writes that he is not planning on quitting the Catholic Church any time soon, and he dismisses many of the ad?s arguments as just the ?usual criticism? that liberal Catholics face, saying:

Catholic liberals get used to these kinds of things. Secularists, who never liked Catholicism in the first place, want us to leave the church, but so do Catholic conservatives who want the church all to themselves.

I?m sorry to inform the FFRF that I am declining its invitation to quit. They may not see the Gospel as a liberating document, but I do, and I can?t ignore the good done in the name of Christ by the sisters, priests, brothers and lay people who have devoted their lives to the poor and the marginalized.

Like the FFRF ad, Dionne makes no distinction between the Church as an institution and Catholicism as a religion, and his commitment to the latter means that he?s a part of the former, come hell, high water, or anti-feminist disciplinary crackdown on the very sisters and lay people whom he credits for inspiring his Catholic faith.

But Dionne?s response weakens when he tries to tackle the most interesting challenge presented in the ad, the belief that liberals, by remaining part of the Catholic Church, can help change the Church from within:

If you think you can change the church from within ? get it to lighten up on birth control, gay rights, marriage equality, embryonic stem-cell research ? you?re deluding yourself. By remaining a ?good Catholic,? you are doing ?bad? to women?s rights. You are an enabler. And it?s got to stop.

With more than a little snark, Dionne calls out the ad for its overuse of unnecessary quotation marks and off-handedly dismisses the accusation of being an enabler almost as if he doesn?t know what enabling looks like (like, say, dismissing criticisms of destructive behavior on superficial grounds such as grammar or tone). Yet for all his disagreement, Dionne doesn?t offer a single practical way in which liberal Catholics can successfully challenge, from within, the extreme conservative direction that today?s Church is heading.

Dionne?s best attempt is to recall the somewhat-feminist leanings of Pope John XXIII, who wrote in a 1963 papal encyclical that ?far from being content with a purely passive role or allowing themselves to be regarded as a kind of instrument, [women] are demanding both in domestic and in public life the rights and duties which belong to them as human persons.? Yet in that same encyclical, Pope John XXIII wrote that while a man ?has the inherent right not only to be given the opportunity to work, but also to be allowed the exercise of personal initiative in the work he does? ? ?women must be accorded such conditions of work as are consistent with their needs and responsibilities as wives and mothers.? Hardly the ringing endorsement of gender equality and self-determination for women that Dionne might lead us to believe.

But even if it were, his attempt to challenge the conservative Church from within consists of little more than ?wishing? that Catholic bishops were more familiar with Pope John XXIII and ?wondering? if the bishops realize how their anti-feminist stance strengthens the Church?s adversaries. Neither of these seem to be very effective or practical ? let alone very compassionate towards women who have more at stake than whether or not Catholicism beats secularism in a popularity contest. Dionne himself acknowledges that these are by no means new criticisms of the Church, but fails to wonder why such criticisms are on-going if the liberal challenge from within were really all that effective. All the more discouraging is that American women religious, who might be the best example of liberal Catholics challenging the Church from within its own ranks, are getting a very real taste of how Church leadership responds when that internal challenge becomes too effective and wide-spread.

In the end, Dionne never actually addresses what is perhaps the most important point of the FFRF ad. Much of the Church?s political power derives from the sheer number of Catholics who count themselves members of the Church even when Church leaders do not really represent their views at all. In fact, representing the views of lay Catholics isn?t even in the job description. The Catholic Church is not, and never has been, a representative democracy.

Politicians looking to score votes and gain support see one massive block of well-financed power consolidated in the hands of a few conservative male leaders who dictate religious doctrine and ethics for millions. They form political alliances and propose religiously conservative legislation with that view of the Church in mind?. and they do so because, for the most part, it works.

One example of why it works is the Manhattan Declaration. Sponsored by conservative Christian leaders back in 2009, it was intended to ?rejuvenate the political alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelicals that dominated the religious debate during the administration of President George W. Bush? and to call President Obama?s attention to the ?formidable force? that this conservative religious alliance has in pushing for anti-women and anti-gay legislation. As of today, the Manhattan Declaration has more 525,000 signatures.

A similar petition proposed by liberal Christians to counter the Manhattan Declaration and to affirm support for equal rights for all, regardless of gender or sexual orientation?. sputtered to a pathetic halt with less than 3,000 signatures.

This is too often what Catholic liberal resistance looks like. Trying to stay neutral on a moving train.

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Though my own journey away from the Catholic Church culminated in a definitive break more than eight years ago, when it became known that a close family friend had suffered from on-going sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a trusted Catholic priest, my journey began much earlier than that. My devotion to the ideals of Christ ? peace, social justice, care for the poor and the marginalized, the law of love ? led me in search of a deeper spiritual authenticity that, according to the standards of today?s Catholic Church, had led me far astray from sanctioned Church doctrine long before I ceased to call myself Catholic.

In many ways, the Catholic Church abandoned me years before I finally woke up to the fact and left of my own accord. For years, I struggled with the feeling of being a solitary Catholic liberal crying out in the wilderness. Like Dionne, I felt beleaguered by atheists and secularists on the one side of me, criticizing Catholicism for being a monolithic monstrosity of backwards-looking conservative patriarchy, while on the other side of me were many of my fellow Catholics striving to make the Church exactly that. I braced myself against the notion of being an example of everything that a Catholic could be ? open-minded, intelligent, and feminist while still being devoted to the basic teachings of the Church.

But eventually, the cognitive dissonance and the sense of betrayal were too much to bear. Unlike Dionne, I am a woman ? and for that reason alone, no matter how devoted I remained to the church, I would never be welcomed into the halls of power. The efficacy of my ?challenge from within? was inherently and irrevocably restricted. And though I valued loyalty and honored the traditions of my family deeply, I also came to realize that one of the Catholic Church?s most basic teachings ? the teaching on which the whole damn structure hangs ? is that hierarchy and inequality are divinely sanctioned.

I didn?t leave the Church because I no longer believed in Christ, or the sacred mystery of love, or the importance of religious community, or the valuable insights from Catholic theologians, saints and mystics in the past. I left because I no longer believed in the Church as a just or ethical socio-political institution. As my brilliant stepdaughter recently pointed out, ?You don?t give any one leader a lot of power just because he seems like a good guy, because you never know whether or not the next one who comes along is also going to be good.? We didn?t reject monarchy in favor of democracy because all kings were bad; we rejected it because the political institution of kingship was itself an opportunity for abuse and injustice.

The same theology of hierarchy and patriarchy that buttresses the current institution is also the reason why Dionne is not, despite what he apparently imagines, participating in a democratic and representative religious community in which liberals and conservatives vie for influence. Dionne might appeal to the slightly more liberal views of previous Popes, but the fact is, as a lay Catholic he has no part in the process of choosing who the next infallible leader of his religion will be. The Catholic Church is not an institution steered by consensus. Conservative Catholic leaders are in power: they?re laying the tracks and they?re at the wheel. Liberal Catholics are little more than passengers on this train and they will, as American nuns are now discovering, one day face the angry countenance of the conductor demanding to see their tickets.

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This was a difficult piece to write. Many of my closest friends, not to mention family members, are Catholics, and I hold great sympathy for those who have remained members of the Church despite the scandals and abuses over the years. They possess a degree of devotion and loyalty that is admirable.

My hope is that their devotion is not misplaced. That they do not make an idol of the institution. That they have the wisdom to see the difference between Catholicism as a faith, and the Church as a socio-political construct, and that they do not compromise the one for the sake of up-holding the other. My hope is that they follow the example of their sisters and women religious, rather than the examples of their priests and bishops. And to be honest, I hope that, in doing so, they will dismantle and remake the Church as we know it.

Because if they don?t, the Catholic Church will die, because it deserves to die. And a great tradition will be lost.

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Here's How Much Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Wedding Dress Cost (FB)

The New York Times has a big profile of Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's new bride, and long time girlfriend.

It's well worth a read, if you're looking for something to do this weekend.

If you just want the highlights, here you go:

• Her wedding dress cost $4,700 and it was from a boutique dress maker Claire Pettibone. Pettibone said of the dress, "It?s not our top seller ... But it?s respectable.? A third party bought the dress for Chan.

• Green Day?s Billie Joe Armstrong played at their wedding.

• Chan is 27, and just graduated from University of California, San Francisco, and she wants to be a pediatrician.

• She doesn't talk to the media, and prefers to be private.

• Here friends are in the tech scene. The Times reports "In Palo Alto, Ms. Chan is close to a handful of friends, including Jessica Vascellaro, a Wall Street Journal reporter, and her fianc?, Sam Lessin, a Facebook product manager; Jessica and Aaron Sittig, senior Facebook employees (Mr. Zuckerberg was best man at their Palm Springs, Calif., wedding); and Brittany Morin, who is married to Dave Morin, an early Facebook employee who left to become a founder of Path, a photo-sharing site."

• She was Valedictorian at her high school.

• She and Zuckerberg broke up for a little while when Zuckerberg moved out to California to start Facebook. When they got back together, she negotiated some terms of the relationship: He had to spend 100 minutes of private time with her per week, they had to take vacations out of the country for two weeks at a time each year, and he had to consider getting married to her.

• Zuckerberg was hesitant about getting married because he thought it would hurt Facebook's youthful image, says the NYT.

• Chan isn't keen on spending Zuckerberg's money. One time she was shopping with his sister and saw a pair of $600 shoes she liked. She didn't buy them. Zuckerberg's sister said, You can afford them. She said, "It's not my money" to spend.

There's more details at the New York Times >

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eCommerce Web Project Manager - Luxury Retailer - London - Perm

A luxury retailer based in Central London is hiring an eCommerce Web Project Manager on a permanent basis.

We are looking for a highly motivated eCommerce Web Project Manager with at least 3 - 5 years experience of eCommerce website management and small to medium sized digital project management experience.

As the eCommerce Web Project Manager you will have a strong understanding of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery and Flash, user experience design and content management systems.

The eCommerce Web Project Manager will manage the day-to-day operational running of this luxury retailer?s website and other digital platforms where the luxury retailer has a presence. You will support your line manager in the development, management ad delivery of the luxury retailer?s digital projects.

Salary: ?40,000 ? ?50,000 per annum
Contact: Scott Honey-Jones ? Real Staffing Group

Please apply now.

(Real Staffing Group acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business)

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Small business advertising, Marketing, Facebook Fan Pages ...

Small Business Online Marketing and Advertising

Until recently, online advertising and advertising was a thing that the big companies did. Local small business didn?t see a need for internet advertising, but the times have changed. But now searches for local businesses or Local firms have replaced the white and the yellow pages. Quite simply put, if your local firm cannot be found online, you will not grow, and there is a good chance that you will not survive.

The intent of this article is to present some of the alternatives on hand to Local Corporation and small businesses for promotion or campaigning online on the internet. This article will address sections on; video infomercials, classified ad posting, setting up a Google Places account, producing a website and optimizing it for page one result on a SERP, and harnessing the power of the Social Networks.

List and Back page Postings

Free and paid classified ads posting can be very lucrative if done right or a total waste of time and money if not accomplished in a marketing friendly way. The two most popular free classified ad sites are Craig?s List and Back page. Both of these sites will allow text and graphic advertisings. Unluckily most people who own local small businesses do not comprehend the html web language essential to fabricate image ads, so the majority of the advertisings are monotonous black and white text ads. What is more important concerning these ads is that often the search engines unearth them and bring them to page one for precise product or service searches. Instead of carefully reading these text ads the potentially paying customer says to heck with it and goes to the next SERP result devoid of ever finding out what you were advertising; a tragedy! If the text does get their attention, there is often no link to a website or expedient and direct process of achieving more information. This means that these ads are not likely to convert into sales. Those possible prospects at once leave without even finding out what was there. There is no doubt that these free classified ad internet sites generate very good traffic. It is crucial that the small business or the local business owner learn how to write these ads so that they grab the reader?s attention, and which have a strong call to action to cause the reader to convert.

The Power of Video

Did you know that YouTube is a very dominant advertising venue? Video watching is a passion for many. Marketing by video can be a very fruitful means of driving traffic to your small business. Even if YouTube is the largest and most popular video site, it is by far not the only video posting site, there are scores of them; and video can be hosted on your own sit or any other hosting site. Video posting sites are powerful, as you can construct a video infomercial in minutes and straight away have it distributing your special message 24/7. The dominant video tools and posting options today equal or exceed the power of high impact television advertisings. It is even better if you can use a technique of faux List or Back page clickable ads to bring the reader off of your colorful Advertisement to a web page that plays your video totally independent of YouTube. Bringing readers to your site rather than YouTube or some other video site is preferable because the competing local businesses are now absent, and you have complete control of 100% of the content on the webpage. These handsome, eye catching, converting clickable ads can be obtained from professions for about $500, and they can be used over and over again on multiple sites. Don?t have a site to host the video, don?t worry these same professionals are able and happy to host the video and your other marketing material for about $25 per month.

If your Business is not on Page one of a SERP you loose

This is one of the most powerful tools available to local business proprietors, but not the only one by far. This process involves the selection and securing of a marketable URL or domain, developing a page or mini site and optimizing it to be found for specific search terms on the internet. If this is done properly, every time a person searches for your merchandise or service, your business appears on the first page of Google as an ?Organic Ad? and when people click on that search ad they land on your website. Please be reminded, that you can optimize your internet site for a few as one keyword string. Lots of local firms start the SERP optimization process, SEO, with one or two keywords and finance more keyword phrases as they can from the resulting increased cash flow.

Google Places is Powerful

Perhaps the first thing that a Local Business proprietor should do is to set up their Google places account. Google Places is the new name for Google Maps. Google has strict rules on how to set up your Google Places account and how to optimize it, so you are well advised to seek out a professional to help you with this significant task. In certain cases, these Google Places listings actually drive the Organic listings to page two. When your Google places comes up on page one it is a direct line to your local business, including your business name photos of your choice, your business phone number, the street address, website, email address, store or office hours, video infomercials, product descriptions, and much more.

Social Networking Yields Local Business Revenue

SEO today, Social Media tomorrow! Savvy businesses advertise their Face book and Twitter links to attract more loyal customers. Social media is the new WEB 2.0, and it is going to overtake all other advertising venues on the internet. Small business and local business owners who know how to set up and maintain a dynamic Face book profile can benefit from exponential growth. Social media marketing is extremely important and very powerful small business and Local business marketing venues, so much so that they require a dedicated article. Stay tuned!

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Organized Crime Exploits China?s Growing Links to Latin America

In April 2012, authorities in the prosperous and generally peaceful Caribbean nation of Belize intercepted a shipment of precursor chemicals sent from China and apparently bound for representatives of the Mexican cartel ?Los Zetas.?? The shipment?sufficient to produce an estimated $10 billion in methamphetamines?highlights growing criminal ties between China and Latin America that have accompanied, but, to date, have lagged behind the exponential growth of trade and investment between the two regions (7 Belize News, April 11).

The limited amount of publicly available evidence suggests that criminal activity spanning the two regions is concentrated in five current or emerging domains: (1) extortion of Chinese communities in Latin America by groups with ties to China; (2) trafficking in persons from China, through Latin America, to ultimately smuggle Chinese into the United States or Canada; (3) trafficking in narcotics and precursor chemicals; (4) trafficking in contraband goods; and (5) money laundering.

The Jamestown Foundation: Organized Crime Exploits China?s Growing Links to Latin America

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Romney has tighter state path as Obama takes aim (The Arizona Republic)

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President Zuma still studying Cele report

Lusanda Bill
26 May 2012

Calls for President Jacob Zuma to fire suspended police commissioner Bheki Cele are increasing. A leaked report indicates that a board of inquiry found that Cele was not fit to hold the office and should be removed.
The inquiry dealt with allegations of misconduct relating to two leases for new police headquarters in Pretoria and Durban, which Cele signed with businessman Roux Shabangu.
President spokesperson Mac Maharaj says President Zuma is busy studying the report.

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Productive,Useful Methods To Use LinkedIn, In Your Business

May 26 2012

by Joseph ? Business, Customer Service, Internet, LinkedIn, Marketing, Social Networking

Social networking sites continue to be widely spread & used worldwide today and more people are signing up every day. Facebook continues to be on top of the list while LinkedIn remains popular among business professionals.

LinkedIn is a relatively closed social network ? closed in that you have to be somewhat active to get the most out of the network. While it is possible to see someone?s online resume without being logged in, LinkedIn is most useful when you see his or her connections and references.

LinkedIn in short is a network for business opportunities. On LinkedIn, people don?t chat about music or what they did at weekends, but instead people focus on opportunities and how the network can help you, to get them a winning formula. Here are few productive & useful methods to use LinkedIn, in your business:

Advertise for free on LinkedIn:

Anybody can advertise on LinkedIn, but it there is cost price for it. But there are few ways to do it for free.

*One way of doing it for free is of course your status update,

*Another way is to post it into your groups,

*Also by becoming member in more new groups, you can add your posts.

These work good only in the theory method, but the trouble is that most people see those updates as adverts and tend to ignore them.

So, one of the creative way is to use a SlideShare or Google presentation where you can put your presentation on,& then integrate this on your LinkedIn profile and share it with your network. This will actually get clicks and if it?s done well it could go viral.

Categorize Connections to send Group Emails:

Another much underutilized feature of LinkedIn is the ability to tag people. That means you can categorize your connections according to company, position, location, where you met or whatever you choose.

Then during some sales calls, you can tag everyone you speak to. Then when your next sales session comes up you?ll have an instant shortlist and you are able to send a group email to everyone in that category to get it out quickly.

Connect with People in Groups:

Another aspect in LinkedIn is a worst kept secret on LinkedIn is that Groups normally allow you contact and connect with anyone direct on LinkedIn. Sometimes you can find a perfect prospect but you have no way of contacting them, in such case, what you can do is see what groups they are a member of and join those. From there you can either invite the person to your network direct or you can look them up in the group and send a message.

Note:? The users can able to turn this off, it?s enabled by default but if someone gets spammed they are likely to opt out of these contact settings.

Integrate Twitter and LinkedIn:

If you want to integrate Twitter and LinkedIn, with your tweets, or with your company tweets, you might get this is done through an application called Tweets. It?s fairly straightforward to install but the important thing here are the settings.

You could have seen users with more than ten updates on LinkedIn per day, these updates typically come from Twitter and probably do more harm to your brand than anything else.

So the setting you want to use is to only share tweets on LinkedIn when you use the hash tag (#) inside Twitter. This will allows you to selectively share on LinkedIn as opposed to blanket bombing your network with conversational updates.

Be Creditability:

Increase your credit. When you?re trying to market yourself as an expert, or develop credibility in your field, it looks good for your product to have a strong presence in a network such as LinkedIn, with lots of connections. Also if you answer questions with the knowledge of an expert in the answers section, it could even better.

Aim:

Whatever your aim in business, be it as a freelancer, as a potential employee, as a writer, as a business man it?s only smart to develop your own personal brand. Think, what do people think of when they hear your name?

A strong presence on LinkedIn only reinforces the branding you?re doing elsewhere. And while you?re at it, be sure to link to your website from your profile.

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Sport and Recreation ? Hunting As Out Door Activity Alternative

The range of choice for any outdoor activity has become wider each day. A journey to the woods as example can be taken by several way. If you want to enjoy the basic type, mountain hiking will be the choice around. By taking this activity you will have better chance to take the fresh mountain air in a calm way. If you prefer a more advanced journey; taking a horse ride, various off road based vehicle such as jeep, ATV, motor bike, and any downhill or uphill bike riding will be on the list.? Since these activities used a certain kind of transportation means, there will be different kind of experience for each of it. Another outdoor activity that you can choose is fishing and hunting. In general, both fishing and hunting is not always a possible thing to do. Any rare specimen of fish and animals as example has set the limitation on any possible fishing and hunting. Violating the law that regulates the limitation is not a wise decision.

Apart from any limitation related with hunting activity, the need to have a hunt is high. If you want to have this activity safe, searching for any information an available legal hunting activity will help you out from any possible trouble. One of the best legal hunting activities around is the south dakota pheasant hunts. By joining the activity, you will not only have a chance to shooting around like the real hunter but also enjoying a real hunting trip.

The hunting trip usually starts after the breakfast. For you who unfamiliar with shooting a moving target, a round of sporting clays will help you out to practice your accuracy for a while. Technically, the hunter usually set into two teams. The first hunter group is consisting of up to 12 walkers. The second hunter group is consisting up to 6 blockers. In this hunting trip there will be three guides that will ensure the hunting will work safely. By understanding that the hunting trip done in group, this activity is suitable for corporate pheasant hunts.

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Invasive species underwater: Deep sea animals stowaway on submarines and reach new territory

ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) ? Marine scientists studying life around deep-sea vents have discovered that some hardy species can survive the extreme change in pressure that occurs when a research submersible rises to the surface. The team's findings, published in Conservation Biology, reveal how a species can be inadvertently carried by submersibles to new areas, with potentially damaging effects on marine ecosystems.

After using the manned submersible Alvin to collect samples of species from the Juan de Fuca Ridge under the northeastern Pacific Ocean, the team discovered 38 deep-sea limpets (Lepetodrilus gordensis) among their sample. Intriguingly this species is believed to occur only in the vents of the Gorda Ridge, which are 635 km south of the dive site.

"The big question was, how did they get over 600 kilometers from their habitat?" said Dr. Janet Voight, from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. "We discovered that the individuals must have been transported from the Gorda Ridge by our submersible. Even though we clean the submersibles after sampling we had assumed that the extreme pressure change would kill any species which are missed."

The introduction of new species to an ecosystem by humans, often inadvertently, is a big challenge to conservation. How a new species will react to new surroundings, and the effect it can have, is unpredictable. Increases in deep-sea drilling and submersible activity can increase the probability of introductions, but until now hydrothermal vents have been considered too extreme and too isolated to be a source of introduced species.

In coastal environments one of the biggest threats posed by invasive species to native species is disease, as newly introduced pathogens and parasites can cause mass mortality. Diseases that may exist in the extreme environments created by hydrothermal vents have not been well studied.

"We've discovered that it is possible to accidently introduce a species, and any potential diseases it may carry, from a deep-sea vent to a new location," concluded Voight. "This has implications for the future exploration of hydrothermal vents as it reveals the potential risk of human driven change to the ecosystem."

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1. Janet R. Voight, Raymond W. Lee, Abigail J. Reft, Amanda E. Bates. Scientific Gear as a Vector for Non-Native Species at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents. Conservation Biology, 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01864.x

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