Monday, 30 April 2012
The "Party of No" Makes a Comeback
After a period in which the phrase “party of No” seemed to have fallen out of favor, the Obama campaign is again hammering away at the GOP as the “party of No” with sudden new frequency. The new Obama campaign video released today hits this theme hard. And in a speech today, Obama himself again laced into GOP obstructionism at length.But it’s worth noting that Obama’s “party of No” message has been tweaked, and is being used in service of a new goal. Before it was all about painting the GOP as unwilling to help...
Ali Drummand For The Harmony
The Harmony has a new Ali Drummand part for the collaboration with Stuart Kolvakovic.
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Sunday, 29 April 2012
1 Simple Trick to Get Over Your Fears and Achieve Your Goals
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Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Are Your Personal Ambitions Too Large for Our Time?
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Check Out Nicki Minaj?s Crazy Video For Starships (VIDEO)
Check Out Nicki Minaj’s Crazy Video For Starships (VIDEO)
Nicki Minaj’s song “Starships” has been out for awhile now but she has finally released the official video for the track. The odd video begins [...]
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Nick Moore In China
Canadian Nick Moore gets a handful of good tricks in China. I especially like the wallride 50-50 and his ender.
Paramount Confirms That The ?Top Gun? Sequel Is On The Way
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Who Owns the Responsibility for Learning?
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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Japan always seems to produce sick skaters like Hisashi Nakamura. Maybe it's all the weird skate spots.
Brett McCormick Suffers Serious Injuries in WSBK Race 2 at Assen
Canadian rider Brett McCormick has suffered serious injuries to his face and spine in a crash during the second World Superbike race at Assen on Sunday. After examination at the medical center, McCormick was removed to the nearby hospital in the city of Assen, before being moved to a larger hospital in Groningen to stabilize his injuries. The Canadian appears to have escaped damage to his spinal cord in the crash, according to his team.
Below is the press release from the team, courtesy of TwoWheelsBlog.com:
The Effenbert Liberty Racing Team announces that Brett McCormick, following the disastrous crash in race two this afternoon in Assen, after the control in the circuit medical center, has suffered the trauma of the cervical spine, facial trauma with a hematoma to the eye sockets as well as a fracture of the fifth finger of his right hand, and he was sent to Assen hospital for further evaluation.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012
What to Consider When You Decide to Put Your Car Up for Sale
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Monday, 23 April 2012
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Chuck Colson's Road to Redemption
As one of the key figures in the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, Chuck Colson served seven months of a one-to-three-year prison sentence for his role in the cover-up. Then he spent the rest of his life heading a prison fellowship program based on his newfound Christian activism. Colson died on Saturday at 80 years old; he had suffered a brain hemorrhage earlier this month.As news spreads of Colson’s death, his family can rest assured that his advocacy for prison reform will take equal billing with, though never entirely erase, his past as a...
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
Get Ready for the Tax Wars
Get ready for the tax wars.President Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich, setting a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on millionaires (the so-called Buffett Rule, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who says it's unfair that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary).Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, wants to lower taxes on the rich. He supports the House Republicans' plan to cut the highest tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, thereby reducing the taxes of millionaires by an average of at least $150,000 a year.
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With Backing of Donors and Facebook, Don't Expect a Big CISPA Fight
Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy, wrote in a blog post last week that the company has "no intention" of sharing "sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity," explaining why the company is supporting CISPA but did not support SOPA, which would have required such sharing.
The question for privacy advocates is whether or not Facebook can be trusted.
"A company's promise that it will not abuse its authority to disclose user information is not legal protection for the public," said Evelyn Castillo-Bach, the founder of the private social networks Umenow.com and Collegiate Nation. "Facebook in particular is not well positioned to make any promises regarding its role in protecting privacy. Let's not forget that this is the same company with a long history of playing fast and loose with people's privacy settings, including allowing third-party apps and games to extract personal information and photos without consent."
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 is a bigger, badder version of the Stop Online Piracy Act that was defeated earlier this year. One of the biggest differences this time around, however, is that some of the big tech companies that threatened to go dark if SOPA moved forward are jumping to support CISPA.
Privacy Advocates Want Clearer Rules
On Monday, ReadWriteWeb's Dan Rowinski wrote about everything you need to know about CISPA, but for our purposes, the biggest difference is that the tech companies would voluntarily share information with the government. The government also promises to warn tech companies about pending cyber attacks, which is the obvious incentive for companies like Facebook to support it.
"Facebook's main gripe with SOPA - that it stifled innovation and openness on the internet and forced companies like itself to provide the government with more access to private data of users - is apparently not an issue with CISPA," said Kate Brodock, Executive Director of Digital & Social Media at Syracuse University. "With no requirements to share data with the government, they are able to suggest that they will maintain their standards of safeguarding and protecting private data."
The problem is that the language of the bill is vague and leaves lots of issues unresolved or ill-defined. Castillo-Bach says she believes smaller social networks and social networks that put a premium on user privacy - such as the ones she runs - may be particularly vulnerable under certain interpretations of CISPA.
"CISPA would erode existing legal protections and leave the door wide open for the government to obligate companies to hand over sensitive personal information without a subpoena or warrant, with no rights accorded to the individual to sue the company for wrongfully targeting them for interception, and no right to know that one has been intercepted," she said. "This would undermine, if not altogether destroy, the ability of new startups with privacy-focused brands to exist or compete with the giant social networks, or other tech companies - that are ad-based, use tracking as a core feature of their business model, and don't have a strong commitment to genuine privacy protection, anonymity or total control of one's personal data and communication."
Don't Brace For the Big Fight
The anti-SOPA backlash was so strong that the bill, and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, were withdrawn in January. But with big tech - and big money - supporting CISPA, the opposition has more of a grassroots feel to it.
Sopatrack, which monitored contributions and positions of lawmakers on SOPA and PIPA, has been reconfigured to track CISPA positions and related campaign contributions. A new feature also tracks the percentage of time individual lawmakers vote "with the money."
According to Sopatrack, groups supporting CISPA have donated $31.6 million to lawmakers, as opposed to $2.4 million from groups opposing CISPA. On average, Congress votes "with the money" 73% of the time.
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
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Joe Gavin for Spitfire
Joe Gavin's clip for Spitfire is damn near perfect in my book. Good music, rough/unseen spots, no park footage, and five panel hats, clean tricks. Take note people.
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Friday, 20 April 2012
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Nicky Hayden To Continue Testing At Mugello This Week
Nicky Hayden is to spend Wednesday and Thursday testing the Ducati GP12 at Mugello. The American is to make up for the time he lost over the winter, after injuring himself first at Valencia, and then riding indoor flat track at home in Kentucky. Those injuries limited Hayden's time working on the set up of his GP12 at the Sepang tests, and so the American is to spend the next two days concentrating on making up for lost time.
The real test work will be done by Ducati's official test rider Franco "Iron Frank" Battaini. The Italian veteran is evaluating new parts for the GP12, and once he has given them the seal of approval, they will be passed to Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi for further evaluation, before being used at a race weekend.
Below is the official press release from Ducati: