SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court has sided with a family that sued the state after a bear killed their 11-year-old son at a campground in 2007.
The court ruled Friday that a lower court erred in deciding the state was not at fault. The justices found that a bear shouldn’t be considered part of the “natural condition on the land” as the lower court ruled.
Colm Doherty, a U.K. dad, just wanted his daughter, Cara, to have a happy 8th birthday. And so, at her party, he sang. Then, the police showed up.
According to the Barnet And Whetstone Press, when Cara’s mom, Maria, called Clown Town Children’s Center to book her daughter’s birthday party, she was told there were no more “birthday packages” available. The family decided to celebrate at the play space, with friends, anyway.
On Friday, the secret court that oversees cases related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act renewed the order that enables the NSA to compel telecom companies to hand over records whenever it wants. Translation: No end in sight to the NSA spying on phone records.
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J.K. Rowling isn’t the only pseudonym in town. Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, wrote his first books while a medical student, under the name John Lange (and in 1968, Jeffery Hudson) so that his professors wouldn’t know that he had such a time-consuming side project.
The books are now being made available as ebooks by Open Road Media as a series called The Med School Years. Check out the video above to see footage of Crichton, who died in 2008, as well as some of the people who knew him during this time.
Kentucky businessman and Tea Party favorite Matthew Bevin has booked ad time in Louisville and Bowling Green, Politico reported on Friday. The move has nearly heightened speculation that the investment executive will soon go public with his plans to oppose Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2014.
Bevin has been regarded as an emerging opponent for several months, as he’s attended meetings with Kentucky tea party activists and discussed his run with Louisville Tea Party president Sarah Duran.
This heats up an already boiling campaign, as McConnell released an antagonistic ad slamming Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) shortly after she announced her intent to run.
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This week, a race track in New York put a time capsule on tour, a town in Michigan used a casket for their time capsule, and Boy Scout badges will spend the next 300 years underground.
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So you’ve seen the announcement on the Moto X being a New York City event taking place on the 1st of August, yes? There’s a bit of information in the invitation that you’ll be interested to see if you’re all about the possibilities in this device’s vast customizability – the customizability that we’ve not yet heard about in detail officially, of course, but it’s all but obvious at this point: a variety of physical colors for the smartphone and engravings to boot.
Motorola is holding a full day’s set of meetings according to the public bits of the invite to this New York City engagement. These sessions are first-come, first-serve, so will have a limited number of slots – a limited number of press representatives that can attend each meeting. There are several meetings coming up, and the media collected in this set of meetings will have an embargo set that’ll only be lifted later in the day, that same day.
Consider this: What if Motorola weren’t just showing the smartphone off on its own, but was taking the time to show the device’s many unique abilities – sensors, updated Android iteration, and all – amid the color choices and abilities in hardcore customizations at the same time?
And what if these meetings also had live customizations done for each group so the press could pick up what Motorola’s putting down in this wholly unique smartphone release?
It’s been suggested that Google is giving some extensive funding love to this particular project in the form of half a billion dollars. No small chunk of change.
You’ll want to have a peek at SlashGear’s exploration of the possibilities in the post titled Moto X and the colorful customization of Motorola, a Google company. Until August 1st, we’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope for that custom-cut Navy Blue Moto X with the SlashGear engraving – it’s gotta happen!
Moto X un-event: here’s why Motorola is holding meetings, not a live stream is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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