At Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington, D.C. this week, the crowd of 5,000 saw something you don’t see every day. And it wasn’t just right-leaning strategist Karl Rove dancing on stage with left-leaning strategist Donna Brazile.
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The man behind the extensive PRISM leaks, which have spiraled in just about every direction they can go at this point, has been hailed as a hero by some and a traitor by others. The government sits on the latter side of the fence, having officially charged the former NSA contractor with espionage and requested
This is gonna be a classy Friday night. You don’t have to groove to Duke Ellington all the time, but when you do you should turn on Jack The Bear. This chart showcases Jimmy Blanton (Jack the bear…get it?), a bassist who at 22 brought the band to a new level in the early 1940s. Even if you hate 32-bar form and blues choruses, or you think pretentious nonsense is happening right now, listen to the end of the track for the bass solo. That’s what it sounds like when someone nails it. [Amazon, iTunes, Spotify]
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President Obama is about to head off to Africa for a weeklong trip with his family, where he will visit South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania — but the White House isn’t sure how much it’s going to cost.
“We don’t have the exact figure on costs — frankly we don’t own or control those numbers,” Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, told Yahoo News.
“The security requirements, which make up the bulk of the cost, are determined by the Secret Service, and they don’t publicly release the breakdown of the costs for these types of trips.”
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There’s long been a theological debate as to whether we sin against one another or sin against God. If we sin against one another, then forgiveness is a matter between the sinner and the person who is sinned against. But, if a person can only sin against God, then only God can forgive, and we humans have nothing to do with forgiving one another. Well, you can see how complicated this can get, and I’m not going there today.
Instead, let’s just focus on how we humans treat one another. If someone mistreats me, how do I deal with it? Do I demand that the other person apologizes? Do I just forget it, so to say, like water running off of a duck’s back? Do I stay mad for a short time–or forever? Much depends upon what the other person does.
In this day and age, we have so many standards that we are expected to follow. But we do not have a written or unwritten standard of behavior for how two people treat one another when one gets out of sorts with the other and says or does something mean-spirited or hurtful to the other one. I am not talking about major crime; I’m referring to the kinds of things that hurt our feelings and we have trouble getting over. So, what do we do?
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The Washington Post reports tonight that, as expected, the US Government has filed criminal charges against Edward Snowden for leaking information about NSA surveillance programs to the Post and Guardian. The charges listed include Theft of Government Property, Unauthorized Communications on National Defense Information and “Willful Communication of Classified Information to an Unauthorized Person.” The charges are filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where the headquarters of Snowden’s employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, are located. So what’s next? According to the paper, the government has asked Hong Kong to detain Snowden on a provisional warrant, however if a fight over extradition or request for asylum could delay the process.
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Source: Washington Post, Official Complaint
YouTube is a platform that has grown far beyond its humble beginnings, now offering certain users the ability to profit from advertisements displayed on their videos. One of the key parts of that system are those advertisers, and amongst them a select few (100, to be exact) will be offered help in creating content via
Let’s face it; Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing probably won’t find the same billion-dollar box office success of The Avengers. But if this contribution of totally real cast interviews from co-stars BriTANick is any indication, it’ll be a whole heck of a lot funnier.
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Here we have another newly released 27-inch LCD monitor from ASUS, the VX279H. Adopting an AH-IPS panel, this new 27-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness, 5ms response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles. In addition, it has two built-in 1.5W stereo speakers and features 1x D-Sub and 2x HDMI/MHL connectors. The VX279H is available now. [ASUS]
I-O Data will release a new Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard, the IS-BTKB1 / K. Powered by a built-in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, this compact and lightweight keyboard features a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), 84 keys and is compatible with Bluetooth 3.0 enabled devices (it is most suitable for the HP ElitePad 900). The IS-BTKB1 / K will go on sale from the end of June for 6,980 Yen (about $72). [I-O Data]
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