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Date Sent: 2012-09-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, September 27, 2012 AM edition |
Rent-to-own computers secretly recorded users having sex: FTC
No sign China banks eyeing Europe's: Deutsche Bank -- Syrian rebels bomb security building in Damascus -- 'HabCam' Opens Unique Window on Seafloor Life -- Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare brain dead: suit --
Islamist group warns of new cyber attacks on US banks -- Google offers
virtual dives in world’s coral reefs -- Missouri pot activists may sue
after Springfield re-criminalizes marijuana -- Postal Service Prepares
for Second Default in Two Months -- Egyptian Newspaper Responds To Anti-Islamic Cartoons With These Cartoons Of Their Own -- Why A Bar Owner Yelling At The Cops Is The Defining Image Of Spain's
New Crisis -- Self-Driving Cars Get Green Light in California -- Mighty
Mouse Holds Secret for Regrowing Skin -- Son's DNA Shows Up in Mom's Brain -- Next Big Mars Goal: Bringing Samples Home From the Red Planet -- The
Brand New Dark Energy Camera Will Utterly Change Our Understanding Of
The Universe -- Japanese Team Claims Discovery of Elusive Element 113,
and May Get to Name It -- Self-Regulating Tires Inflate While Rolling -- The Pokemon Plot: How One Cartoon Inspired the Army to Dream Up a Seizure Gun -- AT&T Trials Text-Message Translation -- NurdRage: Making your own Chemical Compounds -- EPA Sued Over Illegal Experimentation on Human Subjects
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News Link • Surveillance
Rent-to-own computers secretly recorded users having sex: FTC
09-26-2012
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Rawstory
Several rent-to-own computer companies illegal used software on their computers to secretly record their customers having sex. DesignerWare created the software to help companies track and recover rented computers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
No sign China banks eyeing Europe's: Deutsche Bank
09-26-2012
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Reuters
Deutsche Bank Chief Financial Officer Stefan Krause said he saw no signs that large Chinese banks are on the prowl to buy European lenders. Asked at a business conference whether Chinese banks were knocking on the door
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Syrian rebels bomb security building in Damascus
09-26-2012
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Reuters
Syrian insurgents detonated bombs at a building occupied by pro-government militias in Damascus and France called for U.N. protection of rebel-held areas to help end Syria's bloodshed and rights abuses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Geography
'HabCam' Opens Unique Window on Seafloor Life
09-26-2012
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LiveScience
The oceans are getting the red-carpet treatment with a new project from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: HabCam, an optical imaging endeavor that provides researchers with a one-of-a-kind glimpse of the seafloor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare brain dead: suit
09-26-2012
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AFP
The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested " and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Islamist group warns of new cyber attacks on US banks
09-26-2012
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AFP
An Islamist group on Tuesday said it will carry out new cyber attacks on US banking targets, according to SITE Intelligence Group, following similar attacks last week in response to an anti-Islam film.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google offers virtual dives in world’s coral reefs
09-26-2012
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AFP
Google has begun letting users of its online mapping service take virtual scuba dives to explore precious living reefs being surveyed by scientists. The first underwater panoramic images were added to Google Maps with the help of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Missouri pot activists may sue after Springfield re-criminalizes marijuana
09-26-2012
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Rawstory
Drug reform activists are looking to sue or trigger recall elections after officials in voted to re-criminalize marijuana, just a month after the same city council passed a citizen-driven initiative that would keep pot offenders out of jail.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Postal Service Prepares for Second Default in Two Months
09-26-2012
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The U.S. Postal Service will default this week on a $5.6 billion congressionally mandated obligation to pre-fund retiree health benefits, marking the second time in two months the cash-strapped agency has done this.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libyan president: Benghazi attack was a ‘preplanned act of terrorism’
09-26-2012
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The Ticket
Libyan President Magarief said the controversial film that mocked Islam's Prophet Muhammad and ignited protests throughout the Muslim world had "nothing to do" with the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'I'm bored!'"Research on attention sheds light on the unengaged mind
09-26-2012
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byAssociation for Psychological Science
Although boredom is often seen as a trivial and temporary discomfort that can be alleviated by a simple change in circumstances, it can also be a chronic and pervasive stressor that can have significant consequences for health and well-being.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Dioxin causes disease and reproductive problems across generations
09-26-2012
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byWashington State University
Since the 1960s, when the defoliant Agent Orange was widely used in Vietnam, military, industry and environmental groups have debated the toxicity of its main ingredient, the chemical dioxin, and how it should be regulated.
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News Link • Egypt
Egyptian Newspaper Responds To Anti-Islamic Cartoons With These Cartoons Of Their Own
09-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Al-Watan, a daily newspaper in Egypt, has responded to cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in a French magazine Charlie Hebdo with offensive cartoons of their own.
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News Link • Activism
Why A Bar Owner Yelling At The Cops Is The Defining Image Of Spain's New Crisis
09-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
There's an incredible moment from the intense videos of Spanish protests, where a bar owner is standing in his door, yelling out into the streets, while a mass of nervous patrons stand behind him, wondering what's about to happen.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Why Spanking High-School Students Is Dangerous
09-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
In a seemingly counterintuitive move, a Texas school district has changed its policies to allow opposite-gender faculty to paddle students after a controversy regarding two high-school girls being paddled by a male vice principal.
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News Link • Transportation
Self-Driving Cars Get Green Light in California
09-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, TechNewsDaily Staff
Google's self-driving cars have finally received official recognition under a newly minted California law. Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. signed the bill that officially approves testing regulations and safety standards for the driverless cars on California's
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mighty Mouse Holds Secret for Regrowing Skin
09-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Charles Choi
A mouse that escapes predators by shedding patches of its skin may shed light on regeneration and could lead to research that one day helps people heal from wounds and disease, scientists say.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
...The Brand New Dark Energy Camera Will Utterly Change Our Understanding Of The Universe
09-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
The first instrument ever built specifically to help astronomers study the effects of dark energy is now ready to document the history of the cosmos.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Japanese Team Claims Discovery of Elusive Element 113, and May Get to Name It
09-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
The claim needs to be verified by chemical authorities, but the team says it's the strongest evidence yet for the highly unstable element.
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News Link • Internet
Internet Explorer 10 Tops New ‘Robohornet’ Speed Test
09-26-2012
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http://www.webmonkey.com, By Scott Gilbertson
Robohornet is a new set of browser benchmarks that attempts to measure how browsers do with not just JavaScript, but HTML rendering, CSS animations, DOM manipulation and JavaScript.
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News Link • Inventions
Self-Regulating Tires Inflate While Rolling
09-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Alexander George
Since 2011, Goodyear has been working on self-regulating tires, and next year the company will begin testing its new self-inflating technology on commercial vehicles.
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News Link • Climate Change
Record Arctic Snow Loss May Be Prolonging North American Drought
09-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
Melting Arctic snow isn’t as dramatic as melting sea ice, but the snow may be vanishing just as rapidly, with potentially profound consequences for weather in the United States.
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News Link • Military
The Pokemon Plot: How One Cartoon Inspired the Army to Dream Up a Seizure Gun
09-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
In 1998, a secret Army intelligence analysis suggested a new way to take out enemies: blast them with electromagnetic energy until their brains overload and they start to convulse. Amazingly, it was an idea inspired by a Pokemon episode.
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News Link • General Opinion
Ten Office Items that Will Be Relics by 2017
09-26-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Jessica Leber
A LinkedIn survey of 7,000 office workers asks what technologies and tools are slated for the dust bin
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News Link • Communications
AT&T Trials Text-Message Translation
09-26-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
Phone users can sign up to have incoming messages automatically translated from one language to another. Real-time voice translation could follow.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
NurdRage - Making your own Chemical Compounds
09-26-2012
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www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
A channel run by science nerds for science nerds. We demonstrate science experiments for all levels, from kitchen chemistry to advanced synthesis.
We make most of our chemicals or buy them from Alfa Aesar.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
EPA Sued Over Illegal Experimentation on Human Subjects
09-26-2012
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InfoWars
A complaint against the EPA stating it “failed to comply with laws controlling human experimentation” in studies that were apparently testing the effect of “fine particles” on unaware human subjects who were already ill.
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