Opera for Android drops the beta, available on the Play store now

If your ears perked up when you heard about Opera for Android going WebKit, but were holding out for the final, non-beta version, then that wait is over. More recent features of the browser include the option to toggle the nav-bar location, text-wrapping when zooming and a full screen view of active tabs, but beyond that, the "what's new" section on the download page isn't saying much. So, while it's mostly the Opera we saw back at MWC, tools such as off-road mode (for data compressing) and a discovery mode are finally set for primetime. Ready to let Opera take the stage on your Android? Get your tickets at the source.

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'Star Trek' beams up $70.1M at box office

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? "Star Trek: Into Darkness" didn't warp past its predecessor.

The sci-fi sequel directed by J.J. Abrams earned $70.1 million in its opening weekend. The original "Trek" reboot starring fresh faces as the crew of the Enterprise opened with $75.2 million in 2009.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are:

1. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," Paramount, $70,165,559, 3,868 locations, $18,140 average, $83,701,981, one week.

2. "Iron Man 3," Disney, $35,770,094, 4,237 locations, $8,442 average, $337,661,977, three weeks.

3. "The Great Gatsby," Warner Bros., $23,939,228, 3,550 locations, $6,743 average, $90,682,832, two weeks.

4. "Pain & Gain," Paramount, $3,237,689, 2,429 locations, $1,333 average, $46,712,183, four weeks.

5. "The Croods," Fox, $3,024,602, 2,373 locations, $1,275 average, $177,024,785, nine weeks.

6. "42," Warner Bros., $2,812,115, 2,380 locations, $1,182 average, $88,816,627, six weeks.

7. "Oblivion," Universal, $2,337,050, 2,077 locations, $1,125 average, $85,588,010, five weeks.

8. "Mud," Roadside Attractions, $2,229,546, 960 locations, $2,322 average, $11,656,971, four weeks.

9. "Peeples," Lionsgate, $2,159,980, 2,041 locations, $1,058 average, $7,867,757, two weeks.

10. "The Big Wedding," Lionsgate, $1,210,204, 1,443 locations, $839 average, $20,308,188, four weeks.

11. "Oz the Great and Powerful," Disney, $871,165, 535 locations, $1,628 average, $231,351,161, 11 weeks.

12. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," Paramount, $580,176, 409 locations, $1,419 average, $120,522,043, eight weeks.

13. "The Iceman," Millenium Ent., $464,147, 165 locations, $2,813 average, $762,885, three weeks.

14. "Olympus Has Fallen," FilmDistrict, $429,867, 466 locations, $922 average, $97,332,548, nine weeks.

15. "Scary Movie 5," Weinstein Co., $420,253, 508 locations, $827 average, $31,206,376, six weeks.

16. "Jurassic Park," Universal, $340,260, 428 locations, $795 average, $45,299,680, seven weeks.

17. "The Place Beyond the Pines," Focus, $306,969, 317 locations, $968 average, $20,627,976, eight weeks.

18. "Escape From Planet Earth," Weinstein Co., $244,552, 693 locations, $353 average, $55,612,398, 14 weeks.

19. "Jack the Giant Slayer," Warner Bros., $231,339, 250 locations, $925 average, $64,789,196, 12 weeks.

20. "The Company You Keep," Sony Pictures Classics, $225,469, 223 locations, $1,011 average, $4,510,500, seven weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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SBDC hosting flood insurance workshop | Colorado Springs ...

The Small Business Development Center will host a free workshop about flood and business insurance from?8 to 10 a.m. tomorrow, May 21, at?the Business of Art Center in Manitou Springs.

A lot of business owners have had trouble making sense of the current business insurance environment, especially as it pertains to flood insurance, said Ingrid Wood, disaster recovery specialist for the Small Business Development Center.

?Where people used to have flood insurance for $500 to $1,000 a year, now they?re getting crazy quotes for $5,000 to $25,000 a year,? Wood said. ?And a lot of them can?t afford to pay that.?

There are other issues as well, including gaps in coverage where flood insurance won?t cover loss-of-business income and typical business insurance doesn?t include flooding.

Since the Waldo Canyon fire changed flood plains and increased the risk of flooding in certain areas, flood insurance has been a major concern for a lot of local business owners, Wood said.

The SBDC planned to organize a workshop when iManitou called and asked if it could partner with the SBDC.

The first part of the workshop will be an open forum with a panel of speakers, including a business insurance expert and representatives from the federal flood insurance program and the state. The second part will be one-on-one counseling with insurance experts for area business owners.

In addition to offering programming, Wood said business insurance expert John Putnam will collect business owners? stories about their insurance with plans to develop a white paper to present to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies later this summer.

Wood said she?s hopeful that these grass-roots efforts will help to create some change at the state level that will require a more reasonable and navigable business insurance environment.

?We?re reaching out to educate business about their insurance options as much as possible,? Wood said.

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Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders

CANNES, France (AP) ? The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.

But the world's leading film festival can transform careers ? something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, stars of director Asghar Farhadi's festival entry "The Past."

Bejo shimmered on-screen in Cannes two years ago in "The Artist," her director husband Michel Hazanavicius' vivacious silent homage to Hollywood's Golden Age. It went on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture.

Rahim was the breakout star of the 2009 festival in Jacques Audiard's poetic and brutal prison drama "A Prophet," as a youth growing to manhood behind bars.

Cannes exposure helped boost both performers onto the international stage. While once most European actors could choose between stay at home and playing Hollywood villains, their paths suggest a more globalized movie world.

"It was quite a miracle for me," Bejo said Saturday, as rain drummed remorselessly on a Cannes rooftop lounge. "Two years ago my life changed a little bit in Cannes.

"I don't think Asghar Farhadi would have cast me in this movie if I hadn't done 'The Artist.'"

It's hard to think of two movie styles further apart than the flamboyant artifice of "The Artist" and the anatomically detailed domestic drama of "The Past"

Bejo plays Marie, a harried Frenchwoman with two children, a new boyfriend with a young son, and an Iranian ex who has returned after four years to finalize their divorce. Rahim is her boyfriend Samir, a man with complex family ties of his own.

All the characters are trying to move on ? but the past keeps dragging them back.

Bejo said she did a screen test for Farhadi, then didn't hear from him for a month, so initially thought she hadn't got the part.

"He said to me, I was looking into your face if I could see the doubt," she said. "I guess because he saw me in movies where I was quite positive, quite sunny, quite glamorous. He needed to see if I could show another part of myself ? and I guess he found it."

For Bejo, as for Rahim, working with the Iran director was a dream come true. "The Past" is the first film Farhadi has shot outside his homeland, and the actors say they loved his working methods ? two months of rehearsal to delve into character, break down barriers and forge bonds, followed by a four-month shoot.

With its Iranian director and largely French cast, it's one of several border-hopping movies at Cannes this year. French director Arnaud Desplechin's made-in-America "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" stars France's Mathieu Amalric and Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro. Another French filmmaker, Guillaume Canet, has a multinational cast including Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and Marion Cotillard in his New York crime drama "Blood Ties."

It's a trend Bejo is happy to embrace.

"In America you have Christoph Waltz, you have Marion Cotillard," she said. "In France we have Italian and Spanish actors. ... I think it's great. We are used to strangers and foreign accents, and it's great that we can see that in our movies now."

Both she and Rahim have been busy since their Cannes breakthroughs. Bejo recently made French heist movie "The Last Diamond" and soon starts filming Hazanavicius' next project, a war movie set in Chechnya.

Rahim's projects include the English-language Roman-era adventure "The Eagle" and another movie appearing at Cannes this year, the nuclear power plant romance "Grand Central."

Coming up, he plays a cop in the French movie "The Informant," and is currently shooting a globe-spanning 1920s-set drama with Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, another pillar of culture-crossing cinema.

Despite the busy international career ? and post-"Prophet" expressions of interest from the United States ? Rahim says Hollywood remains a hard nut to crack for non-Anglophone actors.

"It's not what you expect at first," Rahim said. "You'd like to be with Michael Mann or (directors) like this, but you don't have those parts that easily. Because first you have to speak English, you have to erase your accent."

For now, he's just happy to be back in Cannes, an experience that is easier the second time around.

"The difference is that now I'm not afraid when I come here," he said. "I'm (saying) 'OK I'm going to take every good vibe and keep it.'"

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Big bling free to celebs in Cannes 'gifting suites'

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Gather hundreds of celebrities and film executives on the French Riviera for the Cannes Film Festival and naturally, they need their glitter and glam.

One way the famous end up looking so good and so trendy is that often, they don't have to bring, or buy, their own fabulousness: They get special invitations to luxury "gifting suites" set up in hotel rooms at the film festival and can walk out with thousands of dollars of clothes and jewelry.

These rooms of swag aren't the only places where there's bling-related excitement to be found -- someone stole jewels meant for celebrities to wear on the red carpet straight from a hotel room very early on in the festival.

The Hollywood Reporter took a look inside some of these swag rooms stocked by famous brands including Chanel, Swarovski, Dior, and Jimmy Choo to find out what's up for grabs -- if you've got the right A-list name. Check out the video!

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Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) ? Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.

Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees. Croatian researchers are training them to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans.

When Croatia joins the European Union on July 1, in addition to the beauty of its aquamarine Adriatic sea, deep blue mountain lakes and lush green forests, it will also bring numerous un-cleared minefields to the bloc's territory. About 750 square kilometers (466 square miles) are still suspected to be filled with mines from the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

Nikola Kezic, an expert on the behavior of honeybees, sat quietly together with a group of young researchers on a recent day in a large net tent filled with the buzzing insects on a grass field lined with acacia trees. The professor at Zagreb University outlined the idea for the experiment: Bees have a perfect sense of smell that can quickly detect the scent of the explosives. They are being trained to identify their food with the scent of TNT.

"Our basic conclusion is that the bees can clearly detect this target, and we are very satisfied," said Kezic, who leads a part of a larger multimillion-euro program, called "Tiramisu," sponsored by the EU to detect land mines on the continent.

Several feeding points were set up on the ground around the tent, but only a few have TNT particles in them. The method of training the bees by authenticating the scent of explosives with the food they eat appears to work: bees gather mainly at the pots containing a sugar solution mixed with TNT, and not the ones that have a different smell.

Kezic said the feeding points containing the TNT traces offer "a sugar solution as a reward, so they can find the food in the middle."

"It is not a problem for a bee to learn the smell of an explosive, which it can then search," Kezic said. "You can train a bee, but training their colony of thousands becomes a problem."

Croatian officials estimate that since the beginning of the Balkan wars in 1991, about 2,500 people have died from land mine explosions. During the four-year war, around 90,000 land mines were placed across the entire country, mostly at random and without any plan or existing maps.

Dijana Plestina, the head of the Croatian government's de-mining bureau, said the suspected devices represent a large obstacle for the country's population and industry, including agriculture and tourism. In the nearly two decades since the end of the war, land mines have taken the lives of 316 people, including 66 de-miners, she said.

"While this exists, we are living in a kind of terror, at least for the people who are living in areas suspected to have mines," she said. "And of course, that is unacceptable. We will not be a country in peace until this problem is solved."

In 2004, Filipovic and her boyfriend were on a fishing trip that took them to a river between Croatia and Bosnia.

"As we were returning hand-in-hand, my boyfriend stepped on a mine," the 41-year-old Filipovic said. "It was an awful, deafening explosion ... thousands of shrapnel parts went flying, hundreds ending up in my body. He was found dead several meters away, while I remained in a pool of blood sitting on the ground."

She sued the Croatian government, saying the area wasn't clearly marked as a former minefield.

"At first I thought I was asleep," she recalled. "Then I heard the voice of my father. I opened my eyes, and saw nothing. I thought I lost my eyes."

The government admitted guilt in the case for failing to keep the minefield sign, but the court has yet to determine financial compensation.

It may be a while before the honeybees hit real minefields, Kezic said. First, they will conduct controlled tests, with real mines but which are marked.

Kezic said American researchers have in the past experimented with mine-searching bees, but TNT ? the most common explosive used in the Balkan wars ? wasn't part of their experiment because its smell evaporates quickly, and only small traces remain after time. Rats and dogs are also used to detect explosives worldwide, but unlike bees, they could set off blasts on the minefields because of their weight.

Even after the de-miners have done their job in an area, some land mines are missed and remain in the soil, and they are most often the cause of deadly explosions. Once the experiment with bees proves scientifically reliable, the idea is to use them in the areas that have already been de-mined, where their movement would be followed with heat-seeking cameras, Kezic said.

"We are not saying that we will discover all the mines on a minefield, but the fact is that it should be checked if a minefield is really de-mined," he said. "It has been scientifically proven that there are never zero mines on a de-mined field, and that's where bees could come in."

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Why the GOP dropped its boycott of Obama's Labor and EPA picks

Don't start singing "Kumbaya" just yet

Senate Republicans last week blocked committee votes on President Obama's picks to lead the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency, infuriating Democrats who have long complained about the GOP's obstructionism.

Yet this week, Republicans suddenly dropped their opposition, finally allowing Democrats to send both nominees on to the the full Senate.

On Thursday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the EPA on a party-line vote, 10-8. On the same day, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee voted 12-10, also along party lines, to advance Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez.

The EPA vote came one week after Republicans refused to even show up for a vote on McCarthy, leaving Democrats short of a quorum. GOP committee members had previously demanded that McCarthy answer a staggering 1,100 questions about the EPA ? she currently heads the agency's air pollution office ? and then insisted they still needed more information.

As for Perez, he finally received a vote after Republicans on the HELP committee twice postponed previous votes. Most recently, they used an arcane procedural rule to prevent the committee from voting.

That Republicans finally stopped delaying the committee votes does not mean they've suddenly been placated. Rather, they're gearing up for a battle in the full Senate, where they'll have more power to block the nominations indefinitely via threatened filibusters.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has said he'll force a 60-vote threshold on Perez, and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has already placed a hold on McCarthy's nomination. Given that both nominees garnered zero GOP votes in committee, it's clear they'll face stiff opposition in the full Senate.

Perez's nomination in particular could prove problematic, since leading Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have labeled him a "committed ideologue," and raised questions about his tenure with the Justice Department's civil rights division.

"His willingness, time and again, to bend or ignore the law and to misstate the facts in order to advance his far-left ideology lead me and others to conclude that he'd continue to do so if he were confirmed to another, and much more consequential, position of public trust," McConnell said in a statement last week.

In response, Democrats have mulled a so-called "nuclear option" of simply changing Senate rules to weaken the filibuster and allow them to approve both nominees, even in the face of unified GOP opposition.

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World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

May 16, 2013 ? While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder.

The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly 260 billion metric tons of ice annually during the study period, causing the oceans to rise 0.03 inches, or about 0.7 millimeters per year.

The study compared traditional ground measurements to satellite data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or ICESat, and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, missions to estimate ice loss for glaciers in all regions of the planet.

"For the first time, we've been able to very precisely constrain how much these glaciers as a whole are contributing to sea rise," said geography Assistant Professor Alex Gardner of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., lead study author. "These smaller ice bodies are currently losing about as much mass as the ice sheets."

A paper on the subject is being published in the May 17 issue of the journal Science.

"Because the global glacier ice mass is relatively small in comparison with the huge ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, people tend to not worry about it," said CU-Boulder Professor Tad Pfeffer, a study co-author. "But it's like a little bucket with a huge hole in the bottom: it may not last for very long, just a century or two, but while there's ice in those glaciers, it's a major contributor to sea level rise," said Pfeffer, a glaciologist at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

ICESat, which ceased operations in 2009, measured glacier changes using laser altimetry, which bounces laser pulses off the ice surface to determine changes in the height of ice cover. The GRACE satellite system, still operational, detects variations in Earth's gravity field resulting from changes in the planet's mass distribution, including ice displacements.

GRACE does not have a fine enough resolution and ICESat does not have sufficient sampling density to study small glaciers, but mass change estimates by the two satellite systems for large glaciated regions agree well, the scientists concluded.

"Because the two satellite techniques, ICESat and GRACE, are subject to completely different types of errors, the fact that their results are in such good agreement gives us increased confidence in those results," said CU-Boulder physics Professor John Wahr, a study co-author and fellow at the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Ground-based estimates of glacier mass changes include measurements along a line from a glacier's summit to its edge, which are extrapolated over a glacier's entire area. Such measurements, while fairly accurate for individual glaciers, tend to cause scientists to overestimate ice loss when extrapolated over larger regions, including individual mountain ranges, according to the team.

Current estimates predict if all the glaciers in the world were to melt, they would raise sea level by about two feet. In contrast, an entire Greenland ice sheet melt would raise sea levels by about 20 feet, while if Antarctica lost its ice cover, sea levels would rise nearly 200 feet.

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Kai The Homeless Hitchhiker Wanted For Murder!! (VIDEOS)

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An internet celebrity known to most of us as “Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” is wanted for murder in the killing of a New Jersey man. The Union County Prosecutor’s Office says police are searching for “Kai” Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, who they believe is responsible for the death of the 73-year-old lawyer. The 24-year-old Internet ...

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A Wind-Powered Factory That Makes Chairs, Scarves, and Pillows

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Google Glass Apps - Business Insider

Couldn't make it to Google's fireside chat with the Glass team?

The Next Web has a paraphrased transcript of the event, and in it, the Google Glass team talks about the apps they'd most like to see for the device.

Here's what they had to say.

Isabelle Olsson, lead industrial designer: "I?m really in to karaoke. If there was a way to sing and have the lyrics located in Glass, so that you could face your drunk friends as you scream, that would be awesome."

Charles Mendis, Glass engineer:?"I would love to be able to pay with Glass. To just say, ok, pay, and then move on."

Steve Lee, product director: "I am an exercise fanatic, and would love to have a fitness app on Glass, and to have it integrate with my heart rate monitor. With that app, I could have information relevant to my workout fed to me, without breaking my stride. This would also make cycling a much safer activity."

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House chairman sees IRS errors as part of pattern

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Internal Revenue Service's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration, a top House Republican said Friday.

The accusation by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., came as his panel held the first congressional hearing into the tax agency's improper targeting of tea party and other conservative groups. At a session that saw the IRS face harsh criticism from members of both parties, the just-ousted acting chief of the agency, Steven Miller, expressed regret for the heightened reviews.

"I want to apologize on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided," Miller told the committee. "The affected organizations and the American public deserve better. Partisanship and even the perception of partisanship have no place at the Internal Revenue Service."

Miller conceded that "foolish mistakes were made" by IRS officials trying to handle a flood of applications for tax-exempt status. He said the process that resulted in conservatives being targeted, "while intolerable, was a mistake and not an act of partisanship."

Though Miller and another top IRS official are stepping down, Camp said that would not be enough.

"The reality is this is not a personnel problem. This is a problem of the IRS being too large, too powerful, too intrusive and too abusive of honest, hardworking taxpayers," Camp said.

Friday's hearing is the first of what are expected to be many on the subject by congressional panels. Underscoring the seriousness of the episode, Miller was sworn in as a witness, an unusual step for the Ways and Means panel and one that could put Miller in jeopardy if he is later shown to have misled lawmakers with his testimony.

Camp referred to a "culture of cover-ups and intimidation in this administration," but offered no other examples.

The administration has been forced on the defensive about last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and the government's seizure of The Associated Press' telephone records as part of a leaks investigation.

Republicans are hoping to link the issues in an effort to raise questions about President Barack Obama's credibility and make it harder for him to press a second-term agenda.

Camp's remark about cover-ups drew a sharp retort from the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan. Levin said if the hearing became a preview of the 2014 political campaigns, "we'll be making a very, very serious mistake."

Even so, Levin also was harshly critical of the IRS's treatment of conservative groups, saying the agency "completely failed the American people." He said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that makes decisions about tax-exempt groups, should be "relieved of her duties."

Miller said the IRS struggled to efficiently handle growing numbers of applications for tax-exempt status.

The agency has said between 2008 and 2012, the number of groups applying for tax-exempt status as so-called social welfare groups more than doubled. Along with that was an increase in complaints that such groups were largely engaging in electoral politics, which is not supposed to be their primary activity.

"I do not believe partisanship motivated the people" at the IRS who engaged in the harsher screening for conservative groups, Miller said.

In recent months, Republicans on the Ways and Means panel had repeatedly asked the IRS about complaints from conservative groups that their applications were being treated unfairly.

On Friday, numerous Republicans wanted to know why Miller and others never told them the groups were being targeted, even after May 2012, when the IRS has said Miller was briefed on the practice. Miller was previously a deputy commissioner whose portfolio included the unit that made decisions about tax-exempt status.

"I did not mislead Congress or the American people," Miller told Rep. Charles Boustany Jr., R-La., one of several Republicans who challenged him about why he hadn't mentioned the targeting in the past.

Also testifying Friday was J. Russell George, the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.

In a report he issued this week, George said IRS officials reported they were not politically pressured to target conservative groups. Asked about that conclusion, George said Friday, "We have no evidence at this time to contradict that assertion," but in prepared testimony to the committee he said he is continuing to investigate that question.

George's report concluded that the IRS office in Cincinnati, which screened applications for the tax exemptions, improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for tougher treatment. The report says the practice began in March 2010 and lasted more than 18 months.

The report blamed "ineffective management" for letting IRS officials craft "inappropriate criteria" to review applications from tea party and other conservative groups, based on their names or political views. It found that the IRS took no action on many of the conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status for long periods of time, hindering their fundraising for the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Republicans have spent the past few days trying to link the IRS' improper scrutiny of conservatives to Obama. The president has said he didn't know about the targeting until last Friday, when Lerner acknowledged at a legal conference that conservative groups had been singled out.

Many of the groups were applying for tax-exempt status as social welfare organizations, which are allowed to participate in campaign activity if that is not their primary activity. The IRS judges whether that imprecise standard is met.

Attorney General Eric Holder has said the FBI was investigating whether the IRS may have violated applicants' civil rights.

Obama has rejected the idea of naming a special prosecutor to investigate the episode, saying the investigations by Congress and the Justice Department were sufficient.

Obama has named Daniel Werfel, a top White House budget officer, to replace Miller.

Also Thursday, Joseph Grant, one of Miller's top deputies, announced plans to retire June 3, according to an internal IRS memo. Grant is commissioner of the agency's tax exempt and government entities division, which includes the agents that targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny.

Grant joined the IRS in 2005 and took over as acting commissioner of the tax exempt and government entities division in December 2010. He was just named the permanent commissioner May 8.

When asked whether Grant was pressured to leave, IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge said Grant had more than 31 years of federal service and it was his personal decision to leave.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/house-chairman-sees-irs-errors-part-pattern-133004012.html

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Google Buys a Quantum Computer - NYTimes.com

Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers, is expected to be in active use in the third quarter of this year.

The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, as the entity is called, will focus on machine learning, which is the way computers take note of patterns of information to improve their outputs. Personalized Internet search and predictions of traffic congestion based on GPS data are examples of machine learning. The field is particularly important for things like facial or voice recognition, biological behavior, or the management of very large and complex systems.

?If we want to create effective environmental policies, we need better models of what?s happening to our climate,? Google said in a blog post announcing the partnership. ?Classical computers aren?t well suited to these types of creative problems.?

Google said it had already devised machine-learning algorithms that work inside the quantum computer, which is made by D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia. One could quickly recognize information, saving power on mobile devices, while another was successful at sorting out bad or mislabeled data. The most effective methods for using quantum computation, Google said, involved combining the advanced machines with its clouds of traditional computers.

Google and NASA bought in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association, a nonprofit research corporation that works with NASA and others to advance space science and technology. Outside researchers will be invited to the lab as well.

This year D-Wave sold its first commercial quantum computer to Lockheed Martin. Lockheed officials said the computer would be used for the test and measurement of things like jet aircraft designs, or the reliability of satellite systems.

The D-Wave computer works by framing complex problems in terms of optimal outcomes. The classic example of this type of problem is figuring out the most efficient way a traveling salesman can visit 10 customers, but real-world problems now include hundreds of such variables and contingencies. D-Wave?s machine frames the problem in terms of energy states, and uses quantum physics to rapidly determine an outcome that satisfies the variables with the least use of energy.

In tests last September, an independent researcher found that for some types of problems the quantum computer was 3,600 times faster than traditional supercomputers. According to a D-Wave official, the machine performed even better in Google?s tests, which involved 500 variables with different constraints.

?The tougher, more complex ones had better performance,? said Colin Williams, D-Wave?s director of business development. ?For most problems, it was 11,000 times faster, but in the more difficult 50 percent, it was 33,000 times faster. In the top 25 percent, it was 50,000 times faster.? Google declined to comment, aside from the blog post.

The machine Google and NASA will use makes use of the interactions of 512 quantum bits, or qubits, to determine optimization. They plan to upgrade the machine to 2,048 qubits when this becomes available, probably within the next year or two. That machine could be exponentially more powerful.

Google did not say how it might deploy a quantum computer into its existing global network of computer-intensive data centers, which are among the world?s largest. D-Wave, however, intends eventually for its quantum machine to hook into cloud computing systems, doing the exceptionally hard problems that can then be finished off by regular servers.

Potential applications include finance, health care, and national security, said Vern Brownell, D-Wave?s chief executive. ?The long-term vision is the quantum cloud, with a few high-end systems in the back end,? he said. ?You could use it to train an algorithm that goes into a phone, or do lots of simulations for a financial institution.?

Mr. Brownell, who founded a computer server company, was also the chief technical officer at Goldman Sachs. Goldman is an investor in D-Wave, with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. Amazon Web Services is another global cloud, which rents data storage, computing, and applications to thousands of companies.

This month D-Wave established an American company, considered necessary for certain types of sales of national security technology to the United States government.

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/google-buys-a-quantum-computer/

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I Got Monograms on My Shirts. Am I a Jerk?

Troy Patterson.

Photo by Christina Paige

Please send your questions for publication to?gentlemanscholarslate@gmail.com. (Questions may be edited.)

Dear Gentleman Scholar,?

I recently purchased some custom-made shirts from one of those offshore custom tailors Farhad Manjoo recommended. They fit great and look swank, but now I?m questioning the decision to get my initials monogrammed on the cuff. Is a discreet monogram classy? ?Or is it douchey, like, "Look at me, world, I have enough money to custom-make my shirts and I want people to know it"?

Thank you for your question, ABH. Or, as some wags would no doubt woof: Thanks a lot, DB.

Is the monogram the mark of a douchebag? No, let?s not use that word in this instance, lest we leach it of meaning. The shirt detail most identifiable as an element of the douchebag?s workday uniform is the white collar on a blue shirt. Let?s instead declare the monogrammed cuff an unfortunate signifer of social anxiety.

Approaching the matter from a design perspective, we stumble over the cuff monogram as distraction. It draws attention away from the craftsmanship of the shirt itself. If your goal is to impress others with the quality of a made-to-measure garment, then you would do best simply to wear the garment well, and if you believe that the monogram telegraphs your status, then you need to go out and get some more status. As it is, you are inviting people to notice your desire to be noticed.

A conspicuous monogram is classy only in the sense of business-classy, bespeaking time lost loitering at the SkyMall which invites the striver opportunities to attach his initials to golf bags and playing cards and coolers that convert into portable stools. The people most likely to be impressed by the embroidery are by definition allergic to the ideas that elegance is restraint and discretion the better part of not looking goofy. I am baffled to learn that Mad Men intends the RHS on Rogert Sterling?s wrist to be a charming facet rather than a telling flaw. ?All of his barrel-cuff shirts feature a block monogram,? writes costume designer Janie Bryant, ?which is the ultimate nod to sophistication.? On the contrary, it reminds me of a personal ad placed by a fellow touting his ?sofisticated tastes.?

In the beginning, the shirt monogram served much the same purpose as a name Sharpied on the elastic of summer-camp underpants. Its function was to thwart accidental switcheroos at the laundry?and because no one ever took his jacket off, back in the day, a breast monogram was, again, no flashier than an iron-on name label informing a select few persons of the true identity of the rightful owner of a particular set of Batman Underoos. If you cannot resist the temptation to monogram your shirt?if you like the simple innocent ego bounce of personalization?you would do well to remember this history and consider a low-key placement of block letters no more than a quarter-inch tall. It would be Euro to aim for the lower-left rib cage, Astaire-like to go for the forearm, and trad to conceal it inside the yoke or at the bottom of the front shirt tail.

Still, you?ll want to know that some of your superiors believe it correct to monogram only linen and silverware?and that your superiors include people of the servant class. One never tires of quoting the words of Stephen Fry?s Jeeves to Hugh Laurie?s Wooster, on the subject of a monogrammed handkerchief: It was the valet?s understanding that this sort of thing was ?only for those people who were in danger of forgetting their names, sir." Jeeves would say that the monogram is the personal brand of the vulgarian, and seek trauma-counseling if obliged to brush Bernie Madoff?s velveteen slippers.

But Jeeves is British, and we are Americans, an inherently vulgar people. While it is important to recognize that it is, as a rule, less than perfectly tasteful to monogram things, it is also important to understand that each of us Americans is allowed to break this rule, here and there (especially if the monogram serves the functional purpose of deterring thefts and mix-ups).

Looking around the lair in which the Gentleman Scholar dwells, I count a handful of items bearing my monogram. The blue stitching on the blue body of the LL Bean Boat and Tote Bag strikes me as a perfectly defensible preppy affectation, and the stainless-steel hip flask was a gift, as was the baby silver feeding set recently handed down to a person who just last night used it to not eat his pasta. I flatter myself to think that the sentimental value of the silver will continue to appreciate. Which is by way of suggesting that the letter-writer reserve his questionable shirt for a loved one to lounge around the house in. Then procreate. After your offspring has passed through that phase of despising you all the time for no good reason, he or she will fondly figure out some way to use the shirt. A monogram is at its best as a memento. ?WTP IV

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Noble Group shares fall after poor Q1 earnings

SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) - Shares of Singapore-listed

commodities firm Noble Group fell as much as 3.6 percent on

Wednesday as investors reacted to the firm's

weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings.

Noble, which focuses on bulk commodities such as coal and

soybeans, reported after the market closed on Tuesday a 62

percent drop in first quarter net profit.

Stockbroker Maybank Kim Eng said Noble's earnings "were

significantly below market expectations as problems in its

agricultural segment persist", and cut its recommendation on the

stock to hold from buy with a reduced target price of S$1.17.

Noble shares were traded at S$1.085 around 0110 GMT, down

2.7 percent.

(Reporting by Kevin Lim; Editing by Paul Tait)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/noble-group-shares-fall-poor-q1-earnings-011502471.html

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Shelby's Top Five Tips for Your First Singles Cruise | Shelby's Spot ...

Shelby is our lead singles cruise director and has been organizing and hosting singles cruises for a very long time!? Here are her top five tips?to make the most of?your first singles cruise adventure:

1. Smile, remember you are on vacation!
2. Go with the intention to make new friends but not necessarily find your soul mate.
3. Introduce yourself to at least three new people each day and tell people where you are from.
4. Come to the SinglesCruise events and cocktail parties ready to meet new friends.
5. Wear your name beads on the ship and in port.?? It?s fun when everyone knows you are part of the group!

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Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen tries out Google Glass for real (video)

There's a good chance that you, like us, enjoyed a certain Saturday Night Live sketch recently in which Weekend Update's newly branded tech correspondent Randall Meeks gave his raw impressions of Google Glass -- using a prop made of plastic and attached to a pair of sunglasses. There was a lot of shouting, twitching and, for us at least, laughing. Meeks is played by the incredibly talented Fred Armisen, also well-known for IFC's surreally hilarious Portlandia. In reality, we learned, Armisen had never used Google Glass. That was a situation we were happy to fix.

Gallery: SNL's Fred Armisen with Google Glass

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Continued world food supply depends on character, virtuous leadership, authors say

Public release date: 15-May-2013
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Contact: Kathleen Phillips
ka-phillips@tamu.edu
979-845-2872
Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

COLLEGE STATION If the world's food supply and natural resources are to be sustained for future generations, visionary leadership is a must. And what better model to look to than the virtues known since antiquity?

That's the gist of a new book, "Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation." Its authors pull upon their own global experience in agriculture and critique the outcomes based on character and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude.

This collaborative work by John Patrick Jordan, Gale Buchanan, Neville Clarke and Kelly Jordan pulls on their various administrative roles in the military, U.S. Department of Agriculture, state land-grant institutions and academia. Case studies look at a wide variety of issues that demanded strong leadership from how a regional agricultural lab survived Hurricane Katrina to how leaders from around the nation were able to develop a shared vision to fund agriculture research.

Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation, by John Patrick Jordan, Gale A. Buchanan, Neville P. Clarke and Kelly C. Jordan (Photo courtesy of Texas A&M University Press)

"In essence, character is the sum total of an individual's personality traits and the link between that person's values and behavior," the authors wrote. "Character helps enhance effectiveness."

Effective leaders, they add, must have the modern counterparts of the ancient virtues: wisdom, justice, moderation and courage.

"The case studies are from our own experience the good, the bad and the ugly," said John Patrick Jordan of New Orleans, formerly USDA's Cooperative State Research Service CEO and Agriculture Research Service Southern Regional Research Center director. "The book is about the act of motivating people to want to follow you in a direction with a specific goal, and that's different than management. Fortitude and temperance, for example, are things that you don't normally see in management books."

Clarke explained that leadership is getting people to do what needs to be done while management is "the doing, the practice." "It's not a textbook on procedures but a philosophical approach with general principles illustrated in case studies. We go past the 'cookbook' to how leadership works in diverse situations," said Clarke of College Station, former Texas Agriculture Experiment Station director and U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Center for Foreign Animal Disease Defense head.

Buchanan said that while working on another book about the importance of agriculture research he saw many instances "where leadership has made the difference in success."

"Likewise, there are many situations where lack of effective leadership has hampered success of agriculture," said Buchanan of Tifton, Ga., who was an administrator in both Alabama and Georgia agriculture and served as USDA chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics. "The success of agriculture made possible our civilization, and the continued success of agriculture will ensure the viability of our civilization. Character and leadership are inseparable. On countless occasions I have seen situations where character made the difference in effective leaders."

John Patrick Jordan, Clarke and Buchanan agreed that a pivotal part of the book is the leadership analysis by Kelly Jordan at the end of each case study.

Kelly Jordan, a retired U.S. Army officer who developed leaders for five years at the Culver Academies in Culver, Ind. before becoming the dean of students at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Ind., gives an outsider's look at the leadership methods described in each case study pointing to the character traits and virtues that made a difference in the outcomes.

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Contact: Kathleen Phillips
ka-phillips@tamu.edu
979-845-2872
Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

COLLEGE STATION If the world's food supply and natural resources are to be sustained for future generations, visionary leadership is a must. And what better model to look to than the virtues known since antiquity?

That's the gist of a new book, "Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation." Its authors pull upon their own global experience in agriculture and critique the outcomes based on character and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude.

This collaborative work by John Patrick Jordan, Gale Buchanan, Neville Clarke and Kelly Jordan pulls on their various administrative roles in the military, U.S. Department of Agriculture, state land-grant institutions and academia. Case studies look at a wide variety of issues that demanded strong leadership from how a regional agricultural lab survived Hurricane Katrina to how leaders from around the nation were able to develop a shared vision to fund agriculture research.

Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation, by John Patrick Jordan, Gale A. Buchanan, Neville P. Clarke and Kelly C. Jordan (Photo courtesy of Texas A&M University Press)

"In essence, character is the sum total of an individual's personality traits and the link between that person's values and behavior," the authors wrote. "Character helps enhance effectiveness."

Effective leaders, they add, must have the modern counterparts of the ancient virtues: wisdom, justice, moderation and courage.

"The case studies are from our own experience the good, the bad and the ugly," said John Patrick Jordan of New Orleans, formerly USDA's Cooperative State Research Service CEO and Agriculture Research Service Southern Regional Research Center director. "The book is about the act of motivating people to want to follow you in a direction with a specific goal, and that's different than management. Fortitude and temperance, for example, are things that you don't normally see in management books."

Clarke explained that leadership is getting people to do what needs to be done while management is "the doing, the practice." "It's not a textbook on procedures but a philosophical approach with general principles illustrated in case studies. We go past the 'cookbook' to how leadership works in diverse situations," said Clarke of College Station, former Texas Agriculture Experiment Station director and U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Center for Foreign Animal Disease Defense head.

Buchanan said that while working on another book about the importance of agriculture research he saw many instances "where leadership has made the difference in success."

"Likewise, there are many situations where lack of effective leadership has hampered success of agriculture," said Buchanan of Tifton, Ga., who was an administrator in both Alabama and Georgia agriculture and served as USDA chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics. "The success of agriculture made possible our civilization, and the continued success of agriculture will ensure the viability of our civilization. Character and leadership are inseparable. On countless occasions I have seen situations where character made the difference in effective leaders."

John Patrick Jordan, Clarke and Buchanan agreed that a pivotal part of the book is the leadership analysis by Kelly Jordan at the end of each case study.

Kelly Jordan, a retired U.S. Army officer who developed leaders for five years at the Culver Academies in Culver, Ind. before becoming the dean of students at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Ind., gives an outsider's look at the leadership methods described in each case study pointing to the character traits and virtues that made a difference in the outcomes.

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"Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation" is available at most online book suppliers or at Texas A&M University Press Consortium, http://www.tamupress.com/.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/taac-cwf051513.php

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3 SEO Tricks to Build Your Online Business Brand for ... - Excira Media

You?ve heard of Google, haven?t you? It?s that huge search engine that directs traffic to your business website or online brand. To keep ranks of its search engine results page in check, Google creates frequent algorithm changes that have the best brands online scratching their digital heads. Did you know though that there are basic search engine optimization (SEO) tricks that are still highly effective ? that help increase your page results regardless of the search engine changes? Well, I?m here to give you 3 of those SEO tactics that you can count on to better optimize your business website or blog for the search engines.

1) Always Know Your Keywords ? Using every keyword you?d like to on your website is impossible and your customers may not even speak the same language as your team. Choosing your keyword carefully will give you the most return on your time. Using a tool such as Google?s AdWords Keyword Tools will help highlight competitive keywords to use in your blog posts, main website page, meta tags, and key landing pages. When using keywords though, remember to write first for your target market and then go back to edit for keywords. The humans are the ones buying your products and services ? not the search engines.

2) Create Compelling Content ? There are many different types of digital content; from blog posts to eBooks and white papers to videos. Make sure to give your visitors an easy way to share that content. Social sharing buttons are crucial to your business? online success. If a visitor cannot share your content through social media networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, then you?ve lost the opportunity to turn a visitor into a champion. You?re business or brand doesn?t have to be on every social media network but it does need to allow others an easy way to share your content.

3) Link Within Your Brand?s Website ? Once you get people to your website, you need to have ways to keep them there and wanting more. Your content should not only be compelling but you need to be linking within your own website to other appropriate sections or content. Put links to other related content and calls to action.

If you want a brand advocate, then your business needs to create content and make it easy to share. When you turn people into champions, they help build the brand for you. Give them a method to share and watch the search engines happily index all your brand has to offer.

Question: Does your brand have a digital footprint? If so, what do you see as the foundation to its success?

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Shannon Steffen is a business inbound marketing consultant who helps Fortune 500s and small businesses around the world to Stand Out and Get Results by creating solid online strategies. She speaks widely on the science and art of online long-term success through strategic and creative thinking known as Human SEO^?.

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