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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Deko: These iPhone Wallpapers Didn't Come From a Gallery
Chrome is listening: Google adds Web Speech API to Chrome browser
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Justice Thomas breaks nearly 7 years of silence
Jim Young / Reuters file
Justice Clarence Thomas, shown in a 2009 picture, on Monday spoke to a lawyer presenting a case during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Carlo Dellaverson, Producer, NBC News
Justice Clarence Thomas broke nearly seven years of silence during oral arguments on the Supreme Court on Monday.
The last time the famously reserved Thomas spoke up, George W. Bush was president, the iPhone was nothing but an internet rumor, and the U.S. economy seemingly had nowhere to go but up. But just before noon on Monday, Thomas uttered what appeared to be a lawyer joke.
During arguments in the Sixth Amendment case Boyer v. Louisiana, the justices were discussing the qualifications of the plaintiff?s counsel when Justice Antonin Scalia asked the assistant district attorney of Louisiana whether another lawyer was a Yale Law School graduate. He then spoke of a different lawyer in the case who graduated from Harvard Law.
?Son of a gun!,? Scalia, a Harvard Law graduate himself, remarked.
According to the official court transcript, Thomas then cut in.
But because there was so much laughter in the court, the transcriber was only able to note part of Thomas? remarks:
?JUSTICE THOMAS: Well ? he did not ? (Laughter.)?
The assistant DA replied: ?I would refute that, Justice Thomas.?
Justice Sonia Sotomayor followed up with her tongue planted firmly in cheek, requesting the lawyer to ?define constitutionally adequate counsel.?
?Is it anybody who?s graduated from Harvard and Yale?? she asked to more laughter.
People present in court understood Justice Thomas? brief remark to be a joke at the Yale alumni?s expense, according to the New York Times.
Justice Thomas is a graduate of Yale Law and has, in the past, criticized the school for its affirmative action policy. However, he has more recently been supportive of his alma mater, speaking there on at least two separate occasions since 2011.
The last time Justice Thomas asked a question during oral arguments was on Feb. 22, 2006 in Holmes v. South Carolina, a due process case in which the high court unanimously reversed a state supreme court?s decision that refused to let a convicted murderer introduce new evidence that claimed to prove a third party was guilty of a crime.?
Justice Thomas had said in the past that he simply did not like oral arguments and that is why he rarely asked questions.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Join the fun with Winter intramurals : ASInside
Get ready for some healthy competition!
Sign-ups for winter quarter?s intramural men?s, women?s and co-rec leagues has begun. Come by the Campus Recreation office in the Bronco Student Center to
register a team or sign up as a free agent by Jan. 23.
This winter Campus Recreation is offering basketball, volleyball, softball and hantis. It?s $20 for all you can play, so feel free to try as much as you can handle.
Clubs and Greek organizations, this is could be your time to shine! It?s common for organizations to form a team and play their way to tournament games, for good reason. It can be so much fun!
Whether on the field or on the court, your teammates might show talents you didn?t even know they had and playing together may prove to be a great bonding experience.
If intramural sports won?t fit in your busy schedule, you may be interested to know there will be a rock climbing day on Feb. 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops tournament on Feb. 22.
For more information, contact Shelbi Long, coordinator of recreation for Campus Recreation. Email her at srlong@csupomona.edu or call (909) 869 2343.
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Critics complain Sandy aid tied to other projects
By ANDREW MIGA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON ? Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a ?not-so-fast? campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week.
Their complaint is that lots of the money that lawmakers are considering will actually go toward recovery efforts for past disasters and other projects unrelated to the late-October storm.
A Senate-passed version from the end of the last Congress included $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires.
The objections have led senior House Republicans to assemble their own $17 billion proposal, that when combined with already approved money for flood insurance claims, is less than half what President Barack Obama sought and the Senate passed in December
That $17 billion package will be brought to the floor by the House Appropriations Committee, and Northeast lawmakers will have a chance to add $33.7 billion more.
House Speaker John Boehner intends to let the House vote on both measures. He?s responding both to conservatives who are opposed to more deficit spending, and to Govs. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Chris Christie, R-N.J., who are irate that the House hasn?t acted sooner.
Critics are taking the sharpest aim at $12.1 billion in the amendment for Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency block grants. Any state struck by a federally declared major disaster in 2011, 2012 or this year would qualify for the grants, and that?s just about all the states, said Stephen Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group. Only South Carolina, Arizona and Michigan would not qualify, he said.
?That?s not a bad chunk of change, particularly if you are trying to get other lawmakers to vote for the bill,? Ellis said.
State and local governments like block grants because they provide more flexibility in how the money is spent. The money can go toward a variety of needs, including hospitals, utilities, roads, small businesses and rent subsidies.
The Northeast lawmakers? $33.7 billion amendment also includes more than $135 million to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration improve weather forecasting.
?A lot of the money goes to government agencies to rebuild rather than helping people actually afflicted by Sandy,? Ellis said.
Before getting to the aid measures, the House on Monday planned to consider legislation intended to streamline Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations that critics blame for slowing down recovery efforts. That bill would let FEMA make limited repairs instead of lease payments to provide housing that might be less expensive than traditional agency trailers.
A $60.4 billion storm aid package passed by the Senate in December included $188 million for an Amtrak expansion project with an indirect link to Sandy: Officials say that new, long-planned tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan would be better protected against future flooding.
The Club for Growth, a conservative group, complained the Senate bill was overpriced, full of pork and would swell the federal deficit because other government programs weren?t being cut to cover the costs of the legislation. That bill expired with the old Congress on Jan. 3. So whatever additional aid package the House passes would have to go back to the Senate for its approval.
Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, two frequent critics of government spending, tried unsuccessfully to strip the Senate version of $125 million for an Agriculture Department program to restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought, $2 million for roof repairs at Smithsonian Institution museums in the Washington area and the $50 million in tree planting subsidies.
McCain also targeted $15 million to repair storm-damaged NASA facilities, saying the agency had called its Sandy damage ?minimal.?
?An emergency funding bill should focus on the emergency needs of the victims, not the needs of politicians,? said Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, the senior Republican on Senate Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security. ?Loading up a massive $60.4 billion package with unrelated projects and earmarks for other states is not the way we should use taxpayer dollars.?
Coats? scaled-back $23.8 billion Sandy aid bill was rejected by the Senate.
Republicans also criticized $13 billion in the Senate bill for projects to protect against future storms, including fortification of mass transit systems in the Northeast and building new jetties in vulnerable seaside areas. While maybe worthwhile, those projects don?t represent emergencies and shouldn?t be exempt from federal spending caps, GOP lawmakers said.
The basic $17 billion before the House on Tuesday is aimed at immediate Sandy recovery needs, including $5.4 billion for New York and New Jersey transit systems and $5.4 billion for FEMA?s disaster aid fund. The $33.7 billion amendment would bring the total up to the more than $60 billion sought by Obama and passed by Senate Democrats.
It includes the block grants for previous disasters, weather forecasting improvements and measures to minimize damage from future storms, but not the $188 million for the Amtrak expansion project.
?We know it?s going to be a heavy lift for the $33 billion, but we?ll find the votes,? said Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., whose Staten Island district was heavily damaged by Sandy.
But conservatives clearly prefer the smaller, $17 billion version. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., a frequent critic of Boehner after losing his seat on the House Budget Committee, said the Sandy aid legislation should be focused on storm-related recovery.
?Conservatives want to see a real plan that addresses real needs for Sandy,? he said.
Obama has signed a $9.7 billion replenishment of the national flood insurance fund to help pay claims from 115,000 homeowners, businesses and renters.
FEMA has spent more than $2 billion in disaster relief money for shelter, restoring power and other immediate needs arising from Sandy. The Oct. 29 storm that pounded the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Maine with hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the hardest hit.
Source: http://thecabin.net/news/2013-01-12/critics-complain-sandy-aid-tied-other-projects
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High pollution sparks China anger
14 January 2013
Last updated at 04:48 ET
Chinese media have reacted strongly to dangerous levels of pollution recorded in many northern cities in recent days.
In the capital, Beijing, at the weekend, air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization.
The official People's Daily said the smog was a "suffocating siege" which had to be urgently addressed.
The state-run China Daily said the country had to learn to balance development with quality of life.
Meanwhile, the tabloid Global Times said China was risking serious long-term environmental damage. Smog also dominated social media sites.
Over the week, a dense smog had been gathering over Beijing and some 30 other cities in northern and eastern China, with visibility down to 100m in some places.
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China's seven o'clock national news bulletin usually begins with reports of the country's leaders, shown attending meetings at long conference tables or inspecting successful government projects. In a departure from the norm, most of the broadcasts this weekend were devoted to the heavy blanket of smog covering Beijing and its surrounding provinces.
China's state media has been unusually eager to discuss the city's hazardous levels of pollution. Much of the coverage is devoted to health advisories for those affected by the smog. City newspapers have printed diagrams illustrating the correct way to position a face mask.
Many of the city's vocal internet users and state-run media outlets have issued calls for Beijing to reduce the number of vehicles on the city's roads and to limit the capital's reliance on coal-fired power plants.
Experts predict that it could take years to engineer a co-ordinated response to the smog, since much of the pollution in Beijing has blown in from heavy industry in provinces surrounding the capital.
Official Beijing city readings on Saturday suggested pollution levels of over 400. An unofficial reading from a monitor at the US embassy recorded levels of over 800.
WHO guidelines say average concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles - called PM2.5 - should be no more than 25 microgrammes per cubic metre. Air is unhealthy above 100 microgrammes and at 300, all children and elderly people should remain indoors.
Once inhaled, the tiny particles can make people more vulnerable to respiratory infections, as well as leading to increased mortality from lung cancer and heart disease.
The Xinhua state news agency said there had been a sharp rise in people seeking treatment at the hospitals in the capital for respiratory problems.
'Poor planning'On Monday, Beijing authorities said levels had dropped to around 350, but school children were being kept indoors and media reports were warning the public to do the same and to avoid strenuous activity.
The build up of pollution has been put down to a lack of wind and a cold spell, rather than a surge in production of pollutants. But an editorial in the China Daily said there was no reason "for us to not reflect on what we've contributed to the smoggy days".
It blamed the pollution on poor urban planning and a rapid increase in car ownership, saying residents had to cut down their use of private cars.
"In the middle of a rapid urbanisation process, it is urgent for China to think about how such a process can press forward without compromising the quality of urban life with an increasingly worse living environment," said the editorial.
"The air quality in big cities could have been better had more attention been paid to the density of the high rises, had more trees been planted in proportion to the number of residential areas, and had the number of cars been strictly controlled. These are the lessons China should learn for its further urbanization."
The People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, ran a front page editorial demanding: "Let us clearly view managing environmental pollution with a sense of urgency."
The tabloid Global Times said measures taken so far to address pollution in China, which it called the "biggest construction site in the world", had failed to alleviate the problem.
It accused the government of dealing with environmental problems in too low-key a way, and called on it to "publish truthful environmental data to the public" to allowed them to help solve the problem.
"The public should understand the importance of development as well as the critical need to safeguard the bottom line of the environmental pollution," it said.
Social media was also dominated by comments on the pollution, with users of the Twitter-like Weibo site saying the government should do more to prevent pollution affecting their lives.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21007893#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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What's so great about backpacking in Sydney- Everything!
When you talk about good places for backpacking, Sydney is always part of the discussion. Sydney hostels are great, and there?s so much to see and do.
The other part of the discussion is backpacker-friendliness, and that?s where Sydney has absolutely no competition. Backpackers are an institution in Sydney, and have been for generations. The city is well-geared for backpackers, and it?s also a very useful travel hub for getting around Australia, the islands and Asia.
Sydney is both a practical, as well as a friendly, backpacker place. You can organise your entire trip from a base in Sydney with ease online. You can access all your essential moves and stay well organised before you even arrive!
Other places may be fun, but there?s nowhere like Sydney!
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