NFL PRESEASON: Rookie?s interception for touchdown lifts Dallas past Miami

by Barry Wilner, AP Pro Football Writer Associated Press

Dallas running back Phillip Tanner (center) runs the ball Sunday for a nine-yard gain against the Miami Dolphins during the Hall of Fame game. (Scott R. Galvin / The Associated Press)

slideshow CANTON, Ohio ? Rookie Devonte Holloman?s 75-yard interception return with a tipped pass keyed the Dallas Cowboys? 24-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins in the Hall of Fame game Sunday night that opened the NFL?s preseason.

The sixth-round pick from South Carolina was perfectly situated when rookie Chad Bumphis had Matt Moore?s pass go off his hands in the second quarter. It was the biggest play for a Dallas defense switching to a 4-3 alignment under new coordinator Monte Kiffin.

But the Cowboys controlled most of the game one night after their former offensive lineman, Larry Allen, and former coach, Bill Parcells, were inducted into the hall.

Quarterback Tony Romo, coming off back surgery to remove a cyst, sat out for Dallas. So the Cowboys turned to their ground game ? and ground down Miami as few regulars got onto the field.

Linebacker Hollomon sped toward the end zone with a group of blockers escorting him, and after he scored he tightly clutched the ball as he headed to the Dallas sideline.

Bumphis otherwise had a strong game with five receptions for 85 yards.

But Miami?s mistakes were decisive. They struggled most of the night against Dallas? new defense masterminded by Kiffin, the man who designed the Tampa 2 scheme so prevalent throughout the NFL.

Although top running back DeMarco Murray was held out, the Cowboys were dominant on the ground. Phillip Tanner did the bulk of the early work and finished with 59 yards and a touchdown. Joseph Randle handled the late duty and had 70 yards as Dallas piled up 170 yards rushing.

Allen, Parcells and the other five inductees ? Cris Carter, Jonathan Ogden, Warren Sapp, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson ? were on hand and were honored again before the game.

Parcells, who coached Dallas and was an executive for the Dolphins in his final two NFL stops, walked through a line of players from both teams, pointing and exchanging barbs and smiles with them.

Soon after, Dallas led 7-0 on Tanner?s 1-yard run. The Cowboys were set up at the Miami 9 when Ryan Tannehill botched a handoff to Lamar Miller on the Dolphins? first offensive play and Nick Hayden recovered.

Tanner soon departed with a left arm injury, but returned and ran over and through Miami?s defense. Dallas moved the ball well in offensive coordinator Bill Callahan?s first outing as its play caller; those duties were taken away from head coach Jason Garrett in the offseason. Of course, few starters ever made it onto the field for either side.

Dan Bailey?s 49-yard field goal made it 10-0, then Holloman made his long sprint to the end zone.

Dan Carpenter kicked a 27-yard field goal for Miami, which used Tannehill for only 10 snaps before Moore came in. Third-string QB Pat Devlin hit rookie Keenan Davis with a 5-yard TD pass on fourth down in the final period, making it 17-10, and Carpenter added a 45-yarder.

But rookie Kendial Lawrence ran in from 7 yards with 1:57 left to clinch it for Dallas, even though Moore returned and added a 5-yard TD pass to Kyle Miller with 16 seconds to go.

Defensive end Dion Jordan, the third overall pick in the draft, had little impact for the Dolphins.

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Whirlwind wedding allows dying tot to be best man for his parents

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Couple weds with their terminally ill son, 2, as best man
• The marriage took place in the back yard of the family's home
• After a grim diagnosis from doctors, the wedding was planned within a week

(CNN) -- Dressed in a tan suit and an orange shirt matching his mom's bouquet, 2-year-old Logan looked on as his parents exchanged vows and rings at a back yard wedding.

Guests who gathered under a white arbor in the Jeanette, Pennsylvania, home applauded -- but many with tears in their eyes.

Because this union of Christine Swidorsky and Sean Stevenson was no ordinary wedding.

The couple had planned it for ages, and had penciled July 2014 as their special day. But that was before they learned that their best man -- 2-year-old Logan -- had just weeks to live.

The boy is suffering from leukemia, brought on by a genetic disorder Fanconi anemia.

"We've been waiting for this day for a long time, but under the circumstances with Logan being sick all the time, we just held off," Stevenson told CNN affiliate KDKA. "We always knew he was going to get better."

"But under the circumstances of what the doctors told us, we just decided to go ahead and do it while he was still with us."

Christine Swidorsky carried Logan down the aisle. His grandmother cradled her in his arms, his favorite brown teddy bear by his side.

"This is our dream come true, all our family together, and we're all together celebrating. The celebration of my son's life and the celebration of our marriage," Swidorsky said, as Etta James' "At Last" played in the background.

Fighting since birth

Born on October 22, 2010, Logan weighed just three pounds. Eating troubles kept Logan in the hospital, but he kept fighting, kept growing, and was soon home with his parents and his two older sisters.

And for his first year, he grew, he was healthy, and he made his family unspeakably happy. Even today, as his life nears an end, Swidorsky struggles to find words to say what an amazing little boy he is.

Just after Logan's first birthday, Swidorsky noticed that he wasn't feeling well again, and his lips and fingernails had turned white. Over the course of a month, she took Logan to the pediatrician four times before the head pediatrician tended to him. When he did, he quickly called 911.

Swidorsky said Logan shocked doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. His leukemia had progressed so far, they were surprised he was still alive. Chemotherapy was started right away, taking an extraordinary toll on his body.

The couple learned more devastating news shortly after: Logan has a genetic disorder called Fanconi anemia, which most frequently results in death, most commonly from cancer, between the ages of 25 and 30.

But Logan fought hard, just like he had done as a newborn. He landed in the ICU but pulled through, and by July 13, 2012, doctors were prepared to give him a blood stem cell transplant.

After his stem cell treatment, he was free of leukemia for nine months, eating and acting like any other child. Life started to feel normal for Logan's family.

But Swidorsky's gut feeling returned when she saw Logan acting strange again.

Cancer again

It was cancer again: a mass the size of an orange on Logan's larger and better-functioning kidney. Doctors had no choice but to remove the kidney, just a week before Easter this year.

Life gained a long-sought-after normalcy for Logan and the family, except for the twice-weekly visits to a clinic for his chemotherapy. The therapy, though not a perfect solution for Logan, would hopefully prevent a recurrence of the cancer, despite being a lower dose than average.

Logan's life continued to improve.

"He was eating bowl after bowl" of spaghetti, Swidorsky said. "It was a wonderful feeling."

But then he started getting fevers and throwing up.

Logan's left side swelled as the mass returned, where the kidney once was.

"I thought he was doing so well. It's like you take two steps forward, 15 back," Swidorsky said.

The doctors told Logan's family that they could only do more harm than good.

In June, as the family's fortunes continued to fail, the Make a Wish Foundation treated them to a trip to Disney World.

But after just four hours there, Logan was back in the hospital.

Eight days of torture ensued, as he had developed an infection and eventually needed to be flown home to Jeannette, about 40 minutes from Pittsburgh.

Finally, on July 26, doctors gave Logan one to two weeks to live.

Not giving up

But that doesn't mean Logan's parents are giving up.

"We're just blessed everyday that he's here with us," Stevenson said Saturday, after the ceremony. "We're not going to stop fighting. We have nothing to lose.

"I'm going to try until God says otherwise."

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Egypt police call on protesters to leave sit-in

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian police official called Saturday on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to abandon their protest sit-ins, saying it would pave the way for his Muslim Brotherhood to return to a normal role in the country's political process.

The nationally televised remarks by Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel-Latif came as authorities announced plans to break up the two main Cairo sit-ins by erecting cordons to prevent people from entering them.

Morsi's backers, including his Muslim Brotherhood group, have vowed to continue protesting until he's reinstated. He was ousted in a military coup July 3 after several days of protests by millions who took to the street to demand his ouster.

Abdel-Latif promised the protesters they would be able to leave without being arrested if they had not committed any crimes. He offered protection and safe passage to those willing to leave the two main camps ? a large one outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque in eastern Cairo and a smaller one near Cairo University's main campus in Giza.

"If you believe you are bringing victory to the Brotherhood, it is your safe and secure departure that will allow the Brotherhood to go back to its role in the political process," Abdel-Latif said.

He said that Islamist leaders at the sit-ins are controlling information and "brainwashing" the protesters into thinking the sit-ins are in defense of Islam.

The Interior Ministry said some of the sit-ins' organizers were involved in "killings, torture and abductions."

Last weekend, the Interior Ministry said 11 bodies were found near both protest sites, with some showing signs of torture.

The London-based rights group Amnesty International also said it had testimony of alleged killings and torture at the hands of Morsi supporters inside the sit-ins, including a witness who said he saw one man stabbed and another have his throat cut.

In a new allegation, Egypt's state news agency reported Saturday that a 25 year-old worker was detained and violently beaten at one of the sit-ins. It quoted a security official as saying that the young man was found late Friday near a military factory south of Cairo with severe bruises and injuries. He told police he was abducted two days ago by pro-Morsi protesters who were participating in a march after he criticized them.

There are fears of more bloodshed if the sit-ins are dispersed by force. Already more than 280 people have been killed in violence since Morsi's ouster. The bloodiest incident took place last week, when more than 80 pro-Morsi supporters were killed in clashes with police near the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque.

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Councilman Hotchkiss Thrown From Horse Before Parade

By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @magnoli | Published on 08.02.2013 2:42 p.m.

Santa Barbara City Councilman Frank Hotchkiss was thrown off his horse in the staging ground for the Old Spanish Days Historical Parade on Friday, and was taken to the hospital for treatment of his injuries, according to the Santa Barbara City Fire Department.

Firefighters and paramedics responded to the call at about 11:45 a.m., and took Hotchkiss to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital as a precaution, since head and neck injuries are a big concern when falling from that height, fire Battalion Chief Robert Mercado said.

?It?s a big distance,? he noted.

Hotchkiss, reached by telephone Friday afternoon, said most of his lower left back was very sore, and hospital staff were checking to make sure nothing was broken, but he hopes to be up and about in a day or two.

?I was at Pershing Park before the parade,? he said. ?It?s a good thing, too; all of a sudden my horse shied and bucked me kind of straight up in the air. I landed flat on my back on the grass.?

He has ridden horses many times before, but had never been on that particular horse, he said.

The animal apparently was spooked when Hotchkiss pulled off his hat to wave to someone.

The Historical Parade is one of the largest equestrian parades in the country, and has hundreds of riders on horseback making their way up State Street every year for Old Spanish Days.

City firefighters also responded to an incident involving a fall from a horse near the end of the parade on Micheltorena Street, Mercado said. A man and woman were riding the same horse and it's unclear whether the horse tripped or was spooked, but both people ended up on the ground, according to City Fire.?

Both people were taken to the hospital on backboards, as a cervical spine precaution. They complained of back and neck pain, responding firefighters said. It's normal for City Fire to respond to a few incidents at the parade every year, though the riders who come out for Fiesta are usually very experienced, they noted.?

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Defending champ Hunter-Reay ready to go for broke ? Artesia News

Ryan Hunter-Reay takes a corner during practice for the IndyCar auto race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) ? Defending IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay knows it?s time to make inroads on points leader Helio Castroneves.

Hunter-Reay put himself in perfect position to do it this weekend at Mid-Ohio. Hunter-Reay captured the pole for Sunday?s Indy 200, turning the second-fastest lap in track history to edge Will Power for the top spot. It will be the third time this season and the fourth time in his career that Hunter-Reay will start from the front.

Scott Dixon, who has won three straight races to move into second in the points race, will start third. Marco Andretti qualified fourth, followed by Charlie Kimball and Dario Franchitti.

Castroneves will start 15th. The Brazilian leads Dixon by 24 points and Hunter-Reay by 69 as he searches for his first series title.

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How Motorola can win over customers by letting them create the ugliest phones ever

In 2004, a high school friend named Benjamin showed up to homeroom wearing a pair of Nike shoes with the words ?DJ Wangsta? embossed on them. The shoes were a horrendous baby blue and sunshine yellow, and Benjamin -- who was not a disc jockey, nor had he ever been called ?Wangsta? or ?DJ Wangsta,? that I knew of-- had ordered the garish shoes online, custom-made to his specifications and tastes.

He wanted his shoes to stand out, to be so can-you-believe-this-jackass stupid that everyone around him would have no choice but to acknowledge them, and him. From my memory, it worked: He strutted down the halls of our high school, with all eyes on his appalling kicks. From that day forward, everyone knew about Benjamin and his hideous DJ Wangsta shoes. It became his thing; he went from being ?that tall kid with the twin? to ?that kid with the dumb shoes.? He became an overnight celebrity, just by opting for footwear that he got to choose the looks of.

Nine years later Motorola is letting phone buyers do with their smartphones what Benjamin had done with his Nikes. With the Moto X, announced Thursday at a press event in New York City, shoppers will be able to log onto a website and customize their smartphones, with different color combinations and embossed messages on the back of the phone. On the Moto Maker website, you will be able to mock up your phone with one of 18 different colors (including hot pink, cherry red, and -- yes -- sunshine yellow); a choice of shades for the accent (which will tinge the volume and power buttons, and the metal rim surrounding the camera lens); and whatever words you choose on the back of the phone (a Motorola exec suggested printing your email address in case you lose the phone, though one imagines you could also opt for ?DJ Wangsta?).

Perhaps my opinion is skewed by memories of Benjamin?s sudden post-Nike boom in popularity, but this, to me, seems like a most appealing differentiator for a smartphone. Don?t tell shoppers what you are doing to be different; let them differentiate it themselves.

In a market where you are essentially trying to separate your product from the iPhone, or stand out from it, what else can you do? Samsung has found monster success with gee-whiz software tricks and an aggressive, on-the-offensive ad campaign; HTC has found critical, if not modest consumer, success with its wondrous hardware architecture; and the Nexus 4 has its own hardcore fans with its unadorned, quick-updating Android software. Nokia, LG, Motorola and Sony are still searching for effective, profitable answers.

If Motorola can effectively get the word out-- and, like other iPhone competitors, this phone will live or die on the effectiveness of the advertising push -- it should at least have a modest hit. Adventurous iPhone owners have long sought to establish their personalities by buying various wild cases to costume their phones, but Motorola takes this to the next level with its Moto X: It is an opportunity to declare your individuality on the phone itself, by inventing your own highly-visible color scheme and catchphrase. If the iPhone really has become boring, as many pundits insist, then a Motorola phone that you can festoon with the hues of your nation?s flag, or the colors your favorite college football team, may really appeal to some jaded shoppers. Perhaps Google could throw in a free ringtone of your choosing to really personalize this thing.

If some of the Moto X?s on display at Thursday?s event are evidence, these user-made cases are going to be nothing if not eye-catching (either pleasingly or, uh, DJ Wangsta-ly). The next step, clearly, will be to allow customers to choose any colors or photographs to print on the backs of their phones, and not just the 18 pre-approved ones that Motorola?s Maker tool allows you to select from. Perhaps that will be an option on the Moto X2 (Moto XI?) in 2014.

For now, though, Motorola is making the most easily customizable, micro-targeted phone on the planet, the only smartphone I know of that is makes it this simple to express yourself at the checkout counter. Whether it works is, again, contingent on the advertising -- let?s hope Motorola takes advantage of Google?s marketing team, and not whoever it was using -- and whether the DJ Wangsta?s of the world are as enthusiastic about decorating their smartphones as they are their shoes.

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Community Foundations: Building Philanthropy and Effecting S

01 Aug, 2013

We close the current theme (fundraising) with a look at community foundations and the value propositions that drive their ability to operate and raise funds. Lori Larson, senior director of GuideStar DonorEdge, a technology and knowledge platform that enables community foundations to encourage increased charitable giving and to promote awareness of local needs and issues to donors and the community.

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Community foundations play a unique, critical role in the progress of social change. They are place-based, public charities and are approaching their 100th sector anniversary in 2014. There are about 700 community foundations in the U.S. and according to the Council on Foundations, the community foundation sector manages almost $50 billion of charitable assets and serves an estimated 86& of the U.S. population.

These organizations are unique in their opportunity to:

• Invest charitable dollars for a return on investment to increase philanthropy and grantmaking in their communities;
• Provide local nonprofit information to enable smarter decisions and more effective philanthropy; and
• Convene diverse groups of people to solve social problems, build infrastructure, and community investment.

Because community foundations are public charities, they must receive most of their support from the general public and must pass the IRS public support test. As such, they are held to strict standards of financial management, stewardship, and practices. No other organizations exist with this unique responsibility and opportunity for social change.

Historically, community foundations focused on managing and investing tax-deductible dollars from individuals. In the early 1990s, commercial financial institutions started offering the same types of charitable giving funds as community foundations. This new competition was only the beginning of market disruptions for these organizations. Many entrepreneurial and visionary community foundation leaders recognized that significant changes to their strategies and business models were needed. GuideStar?s DonorEdge partners, collectively known as the DonorEdge Learning Community (DELC), exemplify this creative leadership in how they have transformed their organizations and embarked on a new goal to become their community?s essential source of philanthropy and nonprofit information. The DELC connects people with charitable causes with which they care about, and organize and present information in a meaningful way for action and impact. This work exemplifies how community foundation are operationalizing new initiatives and research, such as Money For Good, Markets for Good, Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, and The Overhead Myth campaign.

Sustainability, resilience, impact, risk, and uncertainty are not new problems but continue to pose paralyzing challenges, especially to the social sector. As a result, the sector is witnessing a slowly emerging, positive shift in helping to communicate and create knowledge about the good, effective work of nonprofits through information design and education about how nonprofits achieve their mission. At the 2012 COF Fall Conference for Community Foundations, John Kania and Grant Oliphant presented CFInsight?s donor-advised fund study, ?Do More than Grow? and ?Designing What?s Next,? respectively, about reimagining multiple designs of sustainable business models for community foundations. Both presentations emphasized the critical need for community foundations to design their own future and purpose based on the people and communities they serve. The message included bridging the gap between community foundation aspirations and practices, and realizing that sustainable value requires a full spectrum of innovation that goes well beyond ?fixing? traditional revenue models.

In a recent Markets for Good blog post, Bahia Ramos discusses how community foundations can engage new donors via ?giving days.? Along those lines and also aligned with themes from Knight Foundation?s Media Learning Seminar 2013, the community foundations in GuideStar?s DELC have invested further and beyond giving events to:

• Engage their communities and move donors along the continuum of charitable giving and inspiring philanthropy;
• Provide nonprofits an opportunity to showcase their critical contribution to community and society; and
• Empower donors to make informed decisions about their charitable giving.

Similar to Knight Foundation?s community foundations program, the community foundation sector is beginning to recognize that:

• Community foundations are uniquely positioned to become civic leaders and distribute community information, and facilitate and support positive social change.
• Collecting data for clarity of community needs and issues can be transformative for effective decision making and positive social change.
• Social change will not occur without experimentation and managing risk through a non-traditional lens.
• Positive social change cannot be accomplished without relationship building and community engagement of the broader community.
  • Community foundations must overcome traditional barriers and attitudes in strategies, collaborations, and partnerships.
  • Digital media is the entryway for broad distribution and engagement.

The learning community, DELC,? is transforming philanthropy in their communities through new strategies, nontraditional collaborations, and a culture of willingness to experiment. In many of these efforts, the DELC uses GuideStar DonorEdge nonprofit profile data internally for improved grantmaking and organizational efficiency, shares the data with community funders and stakeholders, and presents the knowledge from DonorEdge data with donors and the community at large to increase community philanthropy and affect positive social change.

The evolution of social change: community foundations play a critical role

Note: GuideStar powers DonorEdge, a technology and knowledge platform for community foundations to encourage increased charitable giving and promote awareness of local needs and issues to donors and the community. Beyond technology, GuideStar is a partner with the DELC, a group of innovative community foundations that use DonorEdge in their work. The vision of our partnership is a long-term commitment to inspire philanthropy, innovation, sustainability, and nonprofit sector building. We are a model of collaborative knowledge exchange at all position levels, from the executive suites to the project teams.

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What do you think? Are community foundations in a good position to drive positive change at the local level? (If you think so, slide the Swipp slider to +5 for a a strong ?Yes,? or to -5 for a strong ?No.?

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Scientists discover a molecular 'switch' in cancers of the testis and ovary

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have identified an 'on/off' switch in a type of cancer which typically occurs in the testes and ovaries called 'malignant germ cell tumors.'

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The when and where of the Y: Research on Y chromosomes uncovers new clues about human ancestry

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Using advanced analysis of DNA from Y chromosomes from men all over the world, scientists have shed new light on the mystery of when and how a few early human ancestors started to give rise to the incredible diversity of today?s population.

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NSA phone spying document declassified

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is declassifying documents about its telephone spying program to try to tamp down congressional opposition to domestic surveillance.

The documents will provide little solace, however, to Americans hoping to understand the legal analysis that underpinned the widespread surveillance.

And the redacted documents show only in broad strokes how National Security Agency officials use the data.

One particular type of analysis, called "hop analysis" is hinted at but never fully discussed. That allows to the government to search the phone records of not only suspected terrorists, but everyone who called them, everyone who called those people, and others who called them, as well.

With that authority, the government can search the records of millions of people in an investigation of one person.

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WWII Exhibit Shows History in Photographs - New York Press

Students learn how to research and depict the story of the last ?good? war

Governors Island only became popular in the last 10 years since it was opened and renovated for public use?or so it seems to us present-day New Yorkers. In actuality, the floating arboretum in the middle of New York Harbor played a seminal role in protecting the everyday lives of New Yorkers back in the 1940s. Thanks to an original exhibition put on by the student historians of the New York Historical Society, visitors to Governors Island can journey back to a time when the verdant parkland was the military base standing between the Germans and the Atlantic seaboard.
When one hears New York and World War II in the same sentence, the landmarks that typically spring to mind are Columbia University, the site of the infamous Manhattan Project; or Times Square, the backdrop for the iconic LIFE photograph of the WWII sailor and nurse kissing; or the hundreds of buildings that were temporarily converted into American Red Cross units, including the New York Historical Society itself, which featured these and many more sites in its past exhibit on the Upper West Side, aptly called WWII & NYC, to present a fuller picture of New York?s role in the war.
Given the limitations of space in the exhibit, one landmark important to the war effort had to be left out and would have probably evaded notice completely if the museum?s education division had not passed on the job to its student historians, an accomplished group of high school students from all five boroughs ?with a passion for making history matter,? said Chelsea Frosini, managing director of the award-winning program. Working for more than six months on exhaustive object-based research and expert interviews with museum curators and other experts, the students were able to piece together Governors Island?s past reputation as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of America?s foremost suppliers of ships, planes, equipment and soldiers to the Allied cause.

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?These kids came in and made their own WWII story. Some of the questions they were asking were ones I hadn?t even considered. It was very refreshing for me,? says Mike Thornton, a curatorial associate at New York Historical Society, who spent four to five hours one afternoon teaching students about the basics of curatorship.
Jonathan Brown, a student historian since 2011 from Frederick Douglass Academy on West 140th Street, picked up quite a lot of US history from his internship but admits, ?I never knew Governors Island was part of the WWII effort before, nor did [the other 12] people in my group, but that?s what motivated us to look into it.?
In the end, they decided to present their research in an offshoot exhibition of the original NYHS WWII installation that ended in May. Theirs would be a very different kind of exhibit.
The WWII & NYC (Part Two): Photographs and Propaganda is comprised exclusively of old black-and-white images from the era that have been blown up and hung, not in a museum, but in a pre-war mansion on Governors Island that was once used to house military soldiers. The exhibition brought the New York Historical Society not only to Governors Island for the first time, but out of its home on 170 Central Park West for the first time.
The relocation was not without its bumps and hurdles. The Trust for the Governors Island was very specific as to which building they could use, although the house they gave them ?was not a safe space but more a military ruin,? recalls Mike Thornton. ?My gut reaction was ?Why would you dare put people in there, let alone an installation.??
Yet, Victoria Greene, 17, an Upper West Side student historian who gives tours of the exhibition, along with fourteen other 17-year-olds, recognized early on that ?there is something special about showing the objects on the site that holds such a large piece of the WWII puzzle.?
Upon visiting House #18 now, you?ll recognize the same mustard color exterior and rusty door, but the inside has been completely transformed into a wall-to-wall gallery. ?It was very hands-on and very demanding work,? recalls Chelsea Frosini, ?but our teams of teens and staff all stepped up to the challenge and produced something unprecedented and very exciting!?
The exhibit was also unprecedented in its visitor count. On opening weekend alone, 792 people on Saturday and 832 people on Sunday dropped by to marvel at the sundry photographs, maps, propaganda posters, and advertisements that illustrate New York?s physical and moral transformation by the War.
?One poster I return to every time reads ?Americans always fight for liberty,? which really gives you a sense that this was the good war worth fighting for. It makes me proud to be an American,? said Brown, who will attend Johns Hopkins University in the fall.
For her part, Greene, a rising senior at Stuyvesant High School, finds herself drawn to the items featuring minority groups, such as a board about a Japanese woman whose nursing application was rejected based on her nationality, or one about an African American man who rose to a high-ranking Army position only to face continued discrimination.
Several of the visitors to the exhibition have been veterans or relatives of veterans with their own stories of the war. As they made their way around the exhibit, they occasionally let out exclamations of glee or sadness upon recognizing one of the photographs.
Thornton points out that, with veterans dying at the rate of 1,000 a day, we are at a ?critical cusp? in passing history from first-hand to second-hand knowledge. For this reason, the Student Historians tried to make the exhibit as ?educative and participatory? as possible, said Brown.
Visitors are welcome to stop by the exhibition every weekend from June 15 to Sept. 2 to observe the finished product.

Source: http://nypress.com/wwii-exhibit-shows-history-in-photographs/

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: A Rosie Intervention

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Galaxy S4 takes the crown for fastest phone with best battery life

Samsung Galaxy S4 Speed Battery Life

Complain all you want about the Galaxy S4?s cheap-feeling plastic casing, but the device does have plenty of redeeming features that have nothing to do with its build. Popular United Kingdom-based consumer product testing website Which??over the past week has given the Galaxy S4 awards for being both the fastest smartphone and having the best battery life.

[More from BGR: Apple iOS 7 beta 3 scheduled for release on July 8th]

In terms of speed, Which? says it put all major smartphone vendors? flagship devices through its Geekbench 2 test that measures ?processor and memory performance across smartphone platforms to provide a standard speed rating.? The Galaxy S4 came out well ahead of the competition in this test, as its Geekbench score of 3188 easily bested the second-place HTC One and its score of 2798.

[More from BGR: Android 4.3 leaks for Galaxy S4, rumored to launch in July]

In terms of battery life, the Galaxy S4 scored the highest in both average call time with 1,051 minutes and average Internet use with 405 minutes.?The Galaxy S4?s strong battery life is particularly impressive given how many features Samsung has preloaded onto the device.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

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Singer Jessie J. stops fight during her concert

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Jessie J. performing at the Malta concert where she stopped a fight.

They say music soothes the savage breast, but at British singer Jessie J.'s "Isle of MTV" performance in Malta on Wednesday, music didn't keep two concertgoers from breaking out into a fight.

The singer was in the middle of her song, "Rainbow," which ironically is about how people are all similar and should get along, when she noticed the altercation between two fans near the stage. "Stop the music, stop the music," she shouted to her band in a video captured by a fan and posted to You Tube. (The fighting fans can't clearly be seen in the video.)

"OK, so, you guys in the front, guys ... see I don't perform when people are fighting," the singer announced, as the audience applauded her words.

"OH MY GOD!" another fan could be heard saying.

"OK, so here's the deal right?" Jessie J. continued. "Music is about bringing people together. You don't need that angriness in your lives, OK? So kiss and make up and let's party."

"Jes-sie! Jes-sie!" fans chanted in appreciation.

"Let's go, let's go again," the singer told her band, before delivering one more word to the fighters. "Look at me, come on, look at me. Are we good? Sort it out, bro."

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/singer-jessie-j-stops-fight-during-her-concert-6C10485346

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Sound waves precisely position nanowires

June 19, 2013 ? The smaller components become, the more difficult it is to create patterns in an economical and reproducible way, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers who, using sound waves, can place nanowires in repeatable patterns for potential use in a variety of sensors, optoelectronics and nanoscale circuits.

"There are ways to create these devices with lithography, but it is very hard to create patterns below 50 nanometers using lithography," said Tony Jun Huang, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State. "It is rather simple now to make metal nanomaterials using synthetic chemistry. Our process allows pattern transfer of arrays of these nanomaterials onto substrates that might not be compatible with conventional lithography. For example, we could make networks of wires and then pattern them to arrays of living cells."

The researchers looked at the placement of metallic nanowires in solution on a piezoelectric substrate. Piezoelectric materials move when an electric voltage is applied to them and create an electric voltage when compressed.

In this case, the researchers applied an alternating current to the substrate so that the material's movement creates a standing surface acoustic wave in the solution. A standing wave has node locations that do not move, so the nanowires arrive at these nodes and remain there.

If the researchers apply only one current, then the nanowires form a one-dimensional array with the nanowires lined up head to tail in parallel rows. If perpendicular currents are used, a two-dimensional grid of standing waves forms and the nanowires move to those grid-point nodes and form a three-dimensional spark-like pattern.

"Because the pitch of both the one-dimensional and two-dimensional structures is sensitive to the frequency of the standing surface acoustic wave field, this technique allows for the patterning of nanowires with tunable spacing and density," the researchers report in a recent issue of ACS Nano.

The nanowires in solution will settle inplace onto the substrate when the solution evaporates, preserving the pattern. The researchers note that the patterned nanowires could then be transferred to organic polymer substrates with good accuracy by placing the polymer onto the top of the nanowires and with slight pressure, transferring the nanowires. They suggest that the nanowires could then be transferred to rigid or flexible substrates from the organic polymer using microcontact-printing techniques that are well developed.

"We really think our technique can be extremely powerful," said Huang. "We can tune the pattern to the configuration we want and then transfer the nanowires using a polymer stamp."

The spacing of the nodes where nanowires deposit can be adjusted on the fly by changing the frequency and the interaction between the two electric fields.

"This would save a lot of time compared to lithography or other static fabrication methods," said Huang.

The researchers are currently investigating more complex designs.

The National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science supported this research.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/technology/~3/oAgtAblgyy8/130619102802.htm

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Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer: The Final Countdown

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China's Efforts To Rapidly Build Its 4G Network Is A Boon For Struggling Telecom Gear Makers

The Chinese government will reportedly begin issuing 4G licenses (link via Google Translate) by the end of this year or early 2014 at the latest, following news that China Mobile is set to take construction bids for its 4G network as soon as this month. The country's efforts to build out its TD-LTE network as quickly as possible is a potentially lucrative opportunity for telecom equipment makers, which have been hurt by the sluggish global economy.

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M3X Triton Lightning Review: A Svelt Tactical LED Flashlight

D-batteries haven't been in your stereo since the late 1980s, so why are they still in your flashlight? It's the 21st century, our batteries are smaller and our bulbs are brighter. So stop lugging around that unwieldy hunk of aluminum (no matter how tough it makes you feel) and pick up this 1000-lumen submersible spotlight.

What Is It?

The replacement for your D-cell Maglite from Olight.

Who's It For?

People that don't naturally posses cat-like night vision.

Design

The M3X is shaped like a normal torch light but much skinnier than similar-length Mag Lights, measuring just 2.5 inches in diameter. That's due to the fact that the Triton runs on a trio of R123A batteries (with an optional grip extension to use four). It can also be adapted to run Li-on 18650s. Both ends of the aluminum body have a scalloped rim, allowing it to securely stand on either end. The CREE XM-L2 LED bulb outputs 700 lumens using the standard R123A battery configuration but can be increased to a full 1000 lumens using the added casing adapter.

Using It

It's a flashlight people, seriously. Click the power button located on the back end of the torch to turn it on, twist the front bezel for a lower output mode, twist it right to engage high output. Twist it left, then quickly right to start the emergency hazard strobe.

The Best Part

This light has a big, beautiful beam bright enough to illuminate a wall 50 feet away in broad daylight and a maximum range of about 1,700 feet at night. You normally won't have much call for seeing that far, but it's nice to know you can when investigating whether its racoons or a mountain lion that's prowling out on the edge of your property.

Tragic Flaw

The integrated belt clip is perpetually digging into my palm and seems rather redundant since the product comes with a belt-mountable carrying pouch.

This Is Weird...

From the right angle, this thing almost looks like a lightsaber.

Test Notes

• Impact resistant to 2 meters (about 6.5 feet)
• Waterproof rating of IPX-8! That means it's fully waterproof and can be operated continually after being submerged.
• Can get finicky when using the battery case extender. Random jiggles and bumps will break the circuit, requiring you to whack it again to reesetablish it. This did not happen when using the standard three-battery set.

Should I Buy It?

Ok, look, I know $80 sounds like a lot of money for a flashlight. It is. But look at it this way. A standard 4 D-cell Maglite will set you back about $20 at Cheaper than Dirt, a quarter of the price of the M3X, while Duracell alkaline Ds retail for $12 / 8-pack over at Walmart. And if you don't already have a set of R123A's, a starter pack runs $30 at Amazon. At those rates, you'd have to run through just 10 sets of batteries?5 pack's worth?to recoup the initial higher outlay (15 sets or 8 packs if you needed the battery set too). And plus, for that extra up-front cost, you're getting a torch with ten times the Maglite's output (122 lumens) at a quarter of the weight (9 oz vs 36 oz) that can go underwater.

M3X Triton Specs

• Bulb:CREE XM-L2 LED
• Output:700-1000 lumen
• Power Source:(3) CR123A or (2) 18500, case extension carries extra CR123A or (1) 18560
• Runtime: 30 minutes to 5 hours depending on brightness and battery type
• Dimensions: 8.3 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches
• Weight: 9.3 oz
• Price: $80 from Amazon

Source: http://gizmodo.com/m3x-triton-lightning-review-a-svelt-tactical-led-flas-487617076

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Celluloid meltdown inspired painter Nicole Mauser's works ...

New abstractions by Nicole Mauser at the Beggars Table Church and Gallery top the list of May?s First Friday attractions.

Mauser has been an active presence in the KC art world since she moved here in 2006, teaching in the Kansas City Art Institute?s continuing education program, co-founding Plug Projects and participating in the KC PAC plein air painting group?s weekly sessions.

Locally, Mauser has shown work at multiple venues, including Dolphin, Paragraph and the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Her new exhibit at Beggars Table coincides with a recently opened solo show at the Gladstone Community Center and follows two one-person shows in Chicago in 2010 and 2011.

Titled ?Lacuna,? Mauser?s Crossroads exhibit includes a series of collages inspired by a film meltdown. According to the artist, a projector malfunctioned during a screening of a Joseph Cornell film, causing the film to ignite and melting the celluloid as the audience, including Mauser, watched.

The visual spectacle fired her imagination. ?These works are an elegy for the frames lost, or lacuna, from the Cornell film,? she writes.

The colors in the collages, applied with a squeegee, allude to the colored gels sometimes used in the projection of Cornell?s films. The contrasting black-and-white passages come from snapshots she took in Berlin, which she photocopied and enlarged and extracted details. They also incorporate scans of the sheets of paper Mauser uses as palettes.

She wants that ?blurring,? she says, ?between painting and collage? and ?object and reproduction.? She also likes the way that collage enables her to ?flatten dimensionality.?

Mauser?s exhibit will feature roughly a dozen works. In small paintings developed from the collages, she builds up color fields by putting down long swipes of acrylic and then applying oil paint. ?I think of them as having different speeds,? she said. ?I want to play each material off the other.?

The most recent pieces are paintings on paper. Evidencing a greater sense of motion and compositional risk than the previous works, they also fully realize her drive to activate blank space as positive space.

Abstraction often critiques or converses with its antecedents. Mauser is aware of her artistic precedents, but she?s more interested in abstraction as a record of her own experiences and creative life. A recurrent touchstone of her works is that residue of strokes and forms left on the sheets of paper she uses as a palette.

Joe Bussell and Calder Kamin exhibits

It?s a big weekend for Joe Bussell and Calder Kamin. Both artists will show new Artboards at the Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch. Bussell?s west-facing boards feature whimsical abstract forms based on microscopic images of pollen, Hubble Telescope images from space and colorful beadwork presented on stark white backdrops.

Titled ?Invaders,? Kamin?s east-facing boards feature images of starlings ? one shows a few birds; the other depicts a swarm ? and refer to the astronomical growth of the species following their introduction to the United States in 1890 and 1891.

Bussell also has an opening at City Ice Arts Friday night. His exhibit, ?Spit,? includes new acrylic and tempera paintings on paper and canvas with colorful biomorpic forms.

On Saturday at the Lakeside Nature Center, 4701 E. Gregory Blvd., Kamin presents her ?Impact Proof? project of vinyl decals, which are designed to prevent birds from crashing into windows. As part of the center?s Urban Bird Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Kamin will hold a workshop to make preventative decals from paper. She will also introduce her line of greeting cards of birds, which help raise money for the center?s hospital.

Kemper at the Crossroads

It?s Jim Sajovic?s turn to speak in the ?Be Inspired? series at Kemper at the Crossroads, where the Kansas City artist and long-time Kansas City Art Institute professor has a large painting of local philanthropist Scott Francis on view.

The image is a composite of multiple photographs Sajovic took of Francis and is overlaid with words from a T.S. Eliot poem, ?Little Gidding.?

The poem is important to Francis, Sajovic said, and is ?about the passing of time, the shifting nature of reality and the temporary nature of life.? It is also the source of the painting?s title, ?The Fire and the Rose? (2011).

Sajovic?s talk will contextualize the painting within the evolution of his work. The museum?s purchase of the 49 1/2 by 45-inch canvas, created with pigmented inks and acrylic, was made possible by a gift from J. Scott Francis, Francis Family Foundation Discretionary Fund.

Richard Berkley photos

Berkley buffs, as in former Kansas City mayor Richard Berkley, know he?s a shutterbug, and now they can take in his portraits of politicians and celebrities at the Buttonwood Art Center.

The exhibit also includes images from his travels to more than 70 countries, as well as shots by other photographers of some of the celebrities that Berkley and his wife, Sandy, met over the years.

Beggars Table Church and Gallery

?Nicole Mauser: Lacuna?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open by appointment through June 29.

Where: 2010 W. Baltimore Ave., second floor

Info: 816-807-6455

Blue Djinn Gallery

?David Olson?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday through May 25.

Where: 1400 Union Ave.

Info: 816-518-4649

Buttonwood Art Space

?The Photograph Collection of Mayor Richard Berkley?

When: Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 4 and by appointment through May 27.

Where: 3013 Main St.

Info: 816-285-9040

Centric Projects

Works by Kansas City Art Institute printmaking students

When: Reception and live printmaking event from 5-8 p.m. Friday. Open one night only.

Where: 2024 Main St., Suite One West.

Info: 816-802-3426

City Ice Arts

?Spit: New Paintings by Joe Bussell?

When: Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open noon-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and by appointment through June 15.

Where: 2015 Campbell St.

Info: 816-820-4105

The Guild Event Space

Inaugural One Night Art Exhibition, a group show curated by Skyler Bieberly

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday with live music from the Conquerors, Your Reflection and Danny ?Dan Matic? Staton. Open one night only.

Where: 1621 Locust St.

Info:816-471-8550

Hilliard Gallery

?Guinette Wise: Cold Beer and Steel?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday through May 27

Where: 1820 McGee St.

Info: 816-561-2956

Kansas City Artists Coalition

Nelson Smith, Eileen Thomas, Cathy Deuschle, John Hare and Todd Peterson

When: Artist talks at 6 p.m. and reception 7-8:30 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday through May 31.

Where: 201 Wyandotte St.

Info: 816-421-5222

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

?Be Inspired!?

When: Conversation with Jim Sajovic at 6 p.m. Friday. Open noon-10 p.m. Friday through June 7.

Where: 33 W. 19th St.

Info: 816-753-5784

The Late Show

?Darwin Arevalo: New Work?

?Doug Schwietert: Assemblage?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment through May 25.

Where: 1600 Cherry St.

Info: 816-474-1300

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

?Jared Flaming: Parergon?

?Jared Green : A Coherent Story to Tell?

?Spring Group Show Highlighting: Angela Burson?

?Keith Young : Assemblage?

Continuing exhibits

?Ada Koch: La Piazza: Praising Architecture and a Balanced Life?

?Michael Stack: Eagleman & 9/11 Series?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday through May 25. Flaming exhibit through June 29.

Where: 2012 Baltimore Ave.

Info: 816-474-1919

Locust Factory

First Friday Art Fair

When: 6-9 p.m. Friday and noon-4 p.m. May 5

Where: 504 E. 18th St. (west end of the building)

Info: 816-716-5940

Main Street Gallery

?Hookin? Is Hard Work: Hooked Yarn Portraits by Omaha artist Wanda Ewing?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday through Sunday through May 31.

Where: 1610 Main St. (upstairs at Anton?s Tap Room & Restaurant)

Info: 816-210-6534

Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery

?Children?s Art Exhibition?

When: Reception 5-8 p.m. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday through May 23.

Where: 919 W. 17th St.

Info: 816-221-2349

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

?Tanya Hartman: We Write Ourselves Anew?

?Tracy Krumm: In the Making?

When: Reception 7-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment through June 29.

Where: 2004 Baltimore Ave.

Info: 816-221-2626

Slap-n-Tickle Gallery

?Ceramics by Paul Mallory and Jewelry by Melissa Moore & Julia Pitt?

When: Reception 6-11 p.m. Friday. Open noon-4 p.m. May 4 and by appointment through May 19.

Where: 504 E. 18th St.

Info: 816-716-5940

Todd Weiner Gallery

?Michael Young: This Is My World?

When: Reception 5-10 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday through June 1

Where: 115 W. 18th St.

Info: 816-984-8538

Red Star Studios

?Jessica Brandl?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturdays through June 29.

Where: 2100 Walnut St.

Info:816-474-7316

Red Star Studios in Belger Crane Yard Studios

?Akio Takamori: Lust?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open by appointment through Aug. 24.

Where: 2011 Tracy Ave.

Info: 816-474-7316

Spray Booth Gallery

?Lovely/Lonely: Molly Kaderka?

When: Reception 6-11 p.m. Friday. Open noon-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-3 p.m. Saturday through June 1.

Where: 130 W. 18th St., inside Volker Bicycles

Info: 816-471-5555

Vine Street Studio

?Cultures Without Borders?

When: Reception 5-8 p.m. Friday with music by Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle Jazz Group 8-9:30 p.m. ($5 requested donation). Open 3-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 4-6 p.m. Friday and by appointment through May 31.

Where: 2033 Vine St.

Info: 816-645-1052

1714 Holmes St.

?From Castles to Sand : Claire Bryant Senior Thesis Exhibition?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open noon-4 p.m. May 4 and 5 and by appointment through May 10.

Where: 1714 Holmes St.

Info:512-636-3410

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/01/4210613/may-first-friday-guide.html

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Jennifer Lopez to Perform on American Idol Season Finale

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Qualcomm steps up chip branding campaign, plans TV ad

By Noel Randewich

SANTA CLARA, California (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc is stepping up its Snapdragon chip branding campaign, including a commercial for movie theaters and television, in a bid to build customer loyalty in an increasingly competitive smartphone industry.

Chief Marketing Officer Anand Chandrasekher showed analysts a commercial playing in US theaters and said it would also be rolled out in other countries, including China. Qualcomm plans to air it on national TV within the next couple of months.

"We're trying to build an emotional bond with our customers," Chandrasekher said.

San Diego-based Qualcomm is benefiting from strong demand for mobile devices and a shift by network operators worldwide to a high-speed wireless technology known as long-term evolution (LTE), where the chipmaker is ahead of rivals. Its Snapdragon processors are widely used as the brain in tablets and smartphones.

But last week Qualcomm forecast earnings below expectations as competition in smartphones intensifies and shifts toward Asia.

Since the 1990s, Qualcomm has been a major player in the mobile chip industry but like most electronics component makers, branding has been a low priority during most of that time.

As a rule, it's seen as a good idea to add extra branding to products like smartphones only when the additional brand strongly conveys a quality that the handset maker's own brand lacks, industry experts say.

Intel's "Intel Inside" ad campaign has been a notable exception and the top chipmaker has extended it from personal computers to the handful of smartphones in Europe, Asia and Africa made with its processors.

"It's not our intention to compete with our customers' or partners' brands. ... Our brand should be accretive to big brands, not dilutive," Chandrasekher said.

Last year, Qualcomm began to step up its branding efforts, targeting its ads at technology enthusiasts through social media and other online efforts.

(Reporting By Noel Randewich; editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/qualcomm-steps-chip-branding-campaign-plans-tv-ad-190540971.html

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After Dhaka garment factory collapse, chances for supply chain changes low

A factory collapse in Bangladesh left some 300 dead, and prompted calls for improved regulations of the country's sweatshops. But veteran campaigners to improve factory conditions say pushing for change is harder than ever.?

By Ryan Lenora Brown,?Correspondent / April 26, 2013

A Bangladeshi woman weeps as she holds a picture of her and her missing husband as she waits at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday.

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As Bangladeshi rescue workers continue to pull survivors and bodies from the ruins of a Dhaka, Bangladesh factory where some 300 were killed in a building collapse Wednesday, thousands of protesters took to the streets across the city to express their outrage at?negligence that has racked the world's second-largest garment-exporting country for years.

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Blocking traffic and vandalizing garment factories that stayed open during today?s official day of mourning, protestors smashed cars and clashed violently with police, demanding accountability for what The New York Times is calling ?one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history.?

Among those at the receiving end of the rage are not only unscrupulous local factory owners and lax regulators, but also the Western corporations whose demands for cheaply-made garments have fueled the precarious working conditions in Bangladesh?s 5,000 clothing factories.

Plucked from the rubble of the eight-story factory were labels from several Western brands, including some sold in major chains such as Wal-Mart, JC Penney, and Spanish retailer El Corte Ingles, who immediately began to issue a flurry of sympathetic press releases. British retailer Primark said it was ?shocked and deeply saddened by this appalling incident? and the Canadian retailer Loblaw said it was ?extremely saddened? by the tragedy, the Times reports.

None, however, went so far as to implicate themselves in the disaster.

?These companies have come up with some very effective approaches to distance themselves from responsibility in tragedies like this,? says Heather White, founder of Verite, an independent auditing group.?Indeed, she says, Western companies often bring their garments from factory to store through a tangled and globally sprawled cluster of middlemen ? subcontractors, auditors, consultants ? who not only drive down their prices but also help ensure that responsibility for corporate stumbles are spread thinly.

That leaves many Western consumers, even the most conscientious, flummoxed by how to react to tragedies like the factory collapse, Ms. White says. Short of switching to niche-marketed fair trade brands?think American Apparel or TOMS Shoes ? there?s ?no real way for your average consumer to use their buying power to mobilize around these issues,? she says.

But it wasn?t always that way.

In the late 1990s, a widespread campaign against labor conditions in Nike factories helped shame the company into adopting a code of conduct in its factories for the first time. Responding to massive protests, sit-ins, and hunger strikes, a large number of universities forced the suppliers of their branded athletic apparel to institute labor code reforms in return for their business.

?It was amazing to see how people bought in [to the campaign],? remembers Kirsten Moller, organizing director for the human rights group Global Exchange, which helped lead the Nike campaign. ?They really had no idea what was happening, no idea under what conditions these products they loved were being made.?

So what changed?

As the issue slid from the front page, "people got tired of protesting,? Ms. Moller says.

Many of the activists from the 1990s ? immortalized by their chaotic protests at the 1999 summit of the World Trade Organization ? moved on to new causes, White says, with many becoming deeply involved in anti-war efforts in the early 2000s.?

And perhaps more importantly, the corporations simply caught up. ?They co-opted the language of human rights and social responsibility,? she says, ?because they realized their consumers now cared about that.?

As a result of the Nike movement, she says, most corporations now at least pay lip service to the idea that transnational companies have a responsibility to the people who work for them and the land they work on.

?But we?re nowhere near where we should be,? she says.

In the streets of Dhaka today, it seems there are many who would agree with that.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/WJTSJ0l83no/After-Dhaka-garment-factory-collapse-chances-for-supply-chain-changes-low

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Celts top Knicks 97-90 in OT, avoid playoff sweep

BOSTON (AP) ? Jason Terry scored Boston's last nine points and the Celtics weathered a strong comeback by the New York Knicks, avoiding a sweep with a 97-90 overtime win on Sunday.

Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 29 points as they forced a fifth game in the series, but it was Terry who provided the finishing touches.

In Game 3, he had been elbowed by J.R. Smith, and the NBA suspended the Knicks guard for Sunday's game.

New York had tied the game 84-84 after trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter. It was 88-all before the Celtics regained control and took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Terry. Carmelo Anthony, who led the Knicks with 36 points, hit a short jumper, but Terry connected on a 15-footer with 50 seconds remaining for a 93-90 lead.

After Anthony missed a 3-pointer with 21 seconds to go, Terry was fouled and sank both free throws. He added a layup to close out the game.

But the Celtics still have a huge deficit in trying to become the first team to win after trailing a series 3-0.

Game 5 is Wednesday night in New York, where the Knicks can win their first playoff series in 13 years.

Jeff Green scored 26 points for the Celtics and Terry finished with 18.

The Celtics showed renewed energy early after being held below 80 points in each of the first three games. They led 54-35 at halftime and 59-39 three minutes into the third quarter before their recent second-half woes returned. In previous first halves, they scored just 25 points in Game 1 and 23 in Game 2. On Sunday, they were outscored 30-14 in the third quarter and led just 68-65 heading into the fourth.

Boston held a 65-51 lead when Anthony went to the bench with 3:35 remaining. The Knicks outscored the Celtics 14-3 the rest of the way behind 11 points from Felton and a 3-pointer from Iman Shumpert. Felton finished with 16 points in the quarter and 27 in the game.

The Knicks played the first half as if they had taken shooting lessons from the Celtics. New York hit just 28.9 percent of its shots (11 for 38) after Boston made only 39.5 percent of its attempts in the first three games.

The Celtics found their range from the start and connected on 51.3 percent (20 for 39).

Notes: The Knicks were 19-2 in their previous 21 games. The Celtics were 5-14 in their previous 19. ... For the Celtics, Garnett, Green and Brandon Bass each had four fouls five minutes into the third quarter. Bass committed his fifth with 5:10 left in the period and fouled out with 4:27 to go in the games. ... Anthony committed his fourth with 4:08 remaining in the third.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/celts-top-knicks-97-90-ot-avoid-playoff-202225961.html

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