'Use my broken heart' to change gun laws: Trayvon Martin's mother

By Dave Warner

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin sharply criticized Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law in a speech on Friday, nearly two weeks after the man who shot her unarmed son was acquitted of murder charges.

"Wrap your mind around no prom for Trayvon," Sybrina Fulton said in the 10-minute address to the annual conference of the National Urban League, a civil rights group.

"No high school graduation for Trayvon, no college for Trayvon, no grandkids coming from Trayvon, all because of a law that has prevented the person who shot and killed my son to be held accountable, and to pay for this awful crime. Trayvon was my son, but he is also your son," she said.

On July 13, a jury in Seminole County, Florida, returned verdicts finding George Zimmerman, 29, not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the February 2012 death of Martin.

Critics contend that Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who is white and Hispanic, racially profiled Martin when he followed the black teenager in a gated community in Sanford, Florida.

That led to a confrontation that resulted in Martin's death.

Zimmerman claimed self-defense, saying he shot Martin as the 17-year-old pummeled him with blows and threatened to kill him.

Under the "Stand Your Ground" law, which was approved in Florida in 2005 and has been copied in some form by about 30 other states, people fearing for their lives can use deadly force without having to retreat from a confrontation, even when it is possible.

On Friday, Fulton urged a gathering of more than 1,000 Urban League members to work with her to change the state laws.

"My message to you is please use my story, please use my tragedy, please use my broken heart to say to yourself we cannot let this happen to anybody else's child," Fulton told the crowd, which gave her a standing ovation.

(Reporting by Dave Warner; Editing by Chris Francescani and Eric Beech)

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July 22 - 2013 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop | Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Date

Today, July 22, 2013

Location

Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St.

Description

The Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) workshop series is designed to bring together the integer programming research community in an annual meeting. The 2013 MIP Workshop will run Monday, July 22 through Thursday, July 25.

Contact

316-4401, hstampfli@wisc.edu

Source: http://www.today.wisc.edu/events/view/62450

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by ClipperGirl on July 20, 2013

Each day, Amazon.com highlights a different app for the Android and offers it up for FREE for 24 hours.

Today?s Android FREEbie is Inverse Universe ? Room Escape

Inverse Universe (FULL version) is the complete (no ads!), beautifully pre-rendered 3D room escape game by FireRabbit.

Escaped rooms before? How about two universes collapsing together? The goal of Inverse Universe Escape is to escape multiple rooms by discovering clues, solving puzzles, and finding and using objects found throughout the two universes. Your motivation is to prevent these two universes from collapsing together completely and destroying everything within them. Though unsolvable in their own universes, many puzzles can be solved by bringing objects in one universe to the other and seeing what the inverse effects are on the other side; for example, closing a door on one side could open it on the other side.

This is a fun, moderately challenging game for new and experienced room escape game players alike. If you get stuck, a step-by-step walk through (with hints) will push you in the right direction. A map is provided with convenient shortcuts that expedite you through the wide and vast play area. Video flythrough will introduce you to new rooms; check out the video for a preview of the world.

This game is available in English and French which will load automatically in the language of your device.

The game will auto-save your every move so you can always undo a step or take a break. Please do not spoil the fun for others by posting puzzle solutions in the comments.

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LIVE: Microsoft Earnings! (MSFT)

Microsoft's numbers are out.

It's a big miss due to the collapse of the PC market.

EPS is $0.59, versus expectations of $0.75.

In the release, Microsoft says it's taking a $900 million charge,?or a $0.07 per share impact,?due to the Surface RT inventory adjustments.?

If don't include the RT charge, then its EPS is $0.66, which is still a very big miss.

Revenue is $19.9 billion versus expectations of $20.72 billion.

The stock is down 4.85% after-market.

CFO Amy Hood said in the release, "While our fourth quarter results were impacted by the decline in the PC market, we continue to see strong demand for our enterprise and cloud offerings ... While we have work ahead of us, we are making the focused investments needed to deliver on long-term growth opportunities like cloud services."

Here is a breakdown of the numbers:

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-q4-2013-earnings-2013-7

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91% Fruitvale Station

All Critics (75) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (7)

Oscar Grant had friends, he had a sister and a mother and a grandmother, a girlfriend, a child. In concise measures, Fruitvale Station shows us these connections, these bonds.

Grant's ordinary life seems eminently dramatic even without its place in history.

Coogler could've settled for an enraging, full-throttle melodrama, designed to boil your blood from beginning to end. But "Fruitvale Station" is better, more heartbreaking, than that.

Fruitvale Station's wrenching power lies in the specificity of its storytelling and the ordinary human warmth of the world it conjures.

From the moment the arrest begins, the film is blunt and stunning, a completely absorbing, protracted nightmare.

Although Coogler surely wants his movie to serve as a weapon against racially charged police brutality, he's smart enough, and sensitive enough, to know that this is above all a human tragedy -- and not a political rallying point.

Even though we know where this dark road travels, the remarkable Fruitvale Station still manages to be both sorrowful and suspenseful while also celebrating a life only half-lived.

Writer/director Ryan Coogler's debut feature, Fruitvale Station, is one of those first films that announces that a major talent has hit the scene.

A gut-wrenching, emotional powerhouse of a film, politically and socially resonant while also standing on its own as a compelling and often-heartbreaking story

A viscerally wrenching experience, filled with foreboding from the first frame but stylistically naturalistic.

Strives only for an emotional response rather than an intellectual one.

Coogler's goal is clear - to put a human face on Grant, to make him recognizable.

Though the film's ending is no mystery, the personal details are what make this story so absorbing and so moving - more so precisely because his fate is already known.

It's a heartbreaking story that is so emotionally powerful that, while I may not want to see again, if it's on I won't be able to help but see it's tragic conclusion again.

"Fruitvale Station" will emotionally move you and simultaneously make you appreciate the filmmaking abilities of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.

There's great soul to the work, which gives a complete picture of a young man's life in microcosmic form.

BART allowed Coogler to shoot on location, and the young filmmaker, working with a score of actors and a crowd of extras, shows more competence in placing the camera coherently than many action directors with access to multimillion-dollar budgets.

Coogler shows the storytelling maturity and restraint to keep the focus squarely on the characters, not so much on the actual act of bloodshed itself but the wounds exacted upon the direct victims, witnesses, and families alike.

'Fruitvale Station,' is one the most endearing and profound films that echoes the essence of humanity. Ryan Coogler's feature debut gives Michael B. Jordan a career making performance.

Many will respond to the film as a gut-level human interest piece, but it's as curtailed and nuance-free a character study as it is a political polemic.

The closeness of family and the feeling of community comes across as genuine in every scene...

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NBA star Amare Stoudemire gets Israel invite

JERUSALEM ? The president of Israel has invited New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire to play for the country's national basketball team because of his ties to Judaism.

Shimon Peres met with Stoudemire on Thursday to discuss the player's charity efforts. Stoudemire, who says he has "Hebrew roots," has traveled to Israel before and Peres urged him to help the national team.

The six-time NBA All-Star already has significant ties to Israeli basketball. Last month, he joined a group looking to buy Hapoel Jerusalem, a team in Israel's top league. Stoudemire is in Israel to coach the Canadian basketball team at the Maccabiah Games, a competition for Jewish athletes.

Stoudemire won a bronze medal with the United States at the 2004 Olympics but has not played for the national team since 2007.

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Birthday Fishing Bonus for Boat Owners ? Outdoor News Daily

Starting this month, Georgia residents who have a boat registered with the state can fish on their birthday and for two days after as part of their boat registration fee.

It?s a three-day bonus for the state?s some 300,000 resident boat owners. This offer from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources also covers use of some DNR shooting ranges, plus some other sporting privileges. To take advantage of it, boat owners just have to get outdoors.

When they do, whether its bream fishing on a family ski trip to Lake Oconee, bass fishing at Paradise Public Fishing Area, birding at Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area or shooting at the Yuchi WMA range, they?ll join more than 2.75 million Georgians who fish, hunt, shoot or take part in other wildlife-related recreation.

Boating is a bridge to fishing (a 2010 survey ranked fishing as the second-most popular boating activity). And with DNR?s Wildlife Resources Division focused on increasing participation among the core groups it serves, division Director Dan Forster suggested that the birthday offer for boat owners is an obvious one.

?Providing outdoor enthusiasts like boaters a convenient opportunity to participate in a closely aligned recreational sport like fishing is one of the best and most effective ways to recruit anglers,? Forster said.

For Georgia, that recruitment can have a far-reaching impact. In 2011, anglers, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts spent nearly $4.6 billion in the state, a 2011 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey found. People involved in the outdoors also are more likely to support land conservation and donate their time to conservation efforts, according to a report by the Recreational Boating & Fishing and the Outdoor foundations.

The birthday bonus is a three-day resident combination license that not only allows Georgians 16 and older who own a vessel and have a valid, current registration to fish in fresh and saltwater for three consecutive days (starting on their birthday), it covers many other recreational opportunities. These include fishing at public fishing areas, accessing state lands where a Georgia Outdoor Recreational Pass is otherwise required, hunting small game and feral hogs on private land, and using shooting ranges where a WMA stamp or GORP is needed.

The license is good for the primary boat owner?s birthday during the three years the boat registration is valid.

Boat owners must carry a Georgia ID, such as a driver?s license, and their plastic vessel registration card to show proof of a valid vessel registration. Activities like trout fishing, big-game hunting and hunting on WMAs require additional paid licenses. Saltwater fishing and migratory bird hunting require additional permits, which are free. Learn more at www.georgiawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes.

Georgia boat owners, celebrate your next birthday by going fishing.

It?s a three-day opportunity from DNR that could hook you for a lifetime.

FISHING BIRTHDAY BONUS FOR BOAT OWNERS/ AT A GLANCE

? What: As part of their boat registration fee, Georgia residents 16 and older who own a vessel with a current, valid registration can fish, use some DNR sites such as shooting ranges where a WMA stamp or GORP would be required and hunt small game for three consecutive days starting on their birthday.

? When: Law change takes effect July 1, 2013.

? How: Boat owners must carry personal ID and their plastic vessel registration card (as proof of a valid vessel registration) when taking advantage of this outdoors birthday bonus. Some activities require additional licenses or permits.

? Boat registration: All mechanically propelled vessels, and sailboats longer than 12 feet, used on waters of the state must be registered. www.georgiawildlife.com/boating/registration.

? License details: www.georgiawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes.

Source: http://outdoornewsdaily.com/birthday-fishing-bonus-for-boat-owners/

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Dropbox used by Chinese hackers to spread malware

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Paul Wagenseil TechNewsDaily

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Dropbox is one of the better-known cloud-based services.

Popular cloud-based file-sharing service Dropbox wants to be all things to all people, with big plans to share application metadata ? game saves, settings preferences and so forth ? as well as raw files across devices and platforms.

But when Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announced last week that Dropbox intends to "replace the hard drive," he probably didn't expect Chinese hackers to take him up on it so quickly.

Comment Crew, the same Chinese cyberespionage team thought to be behind the recent attack on The New York Times, has been using publicly shared Dropbox folders to spread malware, reports Arlington, Va., digital-security firm Cyber Squared.

"The attackers have simply registered for a free Dropbox account, uploaded the malicious content and then publicly shared it with their targeted users," a Cyber Squared blog posting explained last week.

For malicious hackers, Dropbox is an attractive malware distribution platform because it's widely used in the corporate environment and is unlikely to be blocked by IT security teams.

In this way, Cyber Squared wrote, "the attackers could mask themselves behind the trusted Dropbox brand, increasing credibility and the likelihood of victim interaction with the malicious file from either personal or corporate Dropbox users."

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When a Dropbox file is publicly shared, the persons with whom it's shared receive emails from Dropbox informing them of the share, along with a link to the file on the Dropbox website.

In the attack Cyber Squared examined, normal procedure was followed, but the shared file was an infected Word document of interest to China's neighbors, indicating a "spear phishing" attack.

The Word document concerned commercial relations between the United States and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, nine of which ring the South China Sea.

Embedded in the Word document was what seemed to be a PDF file on the same topic, but which was really malware exploiting a hole in Adobe Flash Player.

The malware copied itself to the targeted user's hard drive, then reached out for instructions to a WordPress blog, which itself appeared to be a boring recitation of Asian trade statistics.

But seemingly decorative strings of text nestled among the postings on the WordPress blog were full of meaning.

For example, the strings "@@@@@@207.86.128.60@@@@@@" or "######443######" may not look like much to the untrained eye.

The first string includes an Internet Protocol address, which computers use to find websites; the second string references port 443, which the Internet Protocol sets aside for encrypted Web connections.

The WordPress blog was thus telling the malware where to go for further instructions and which port to connect on. (The URL in the example above is TechNewsDaily's own.)

Cyber Squared didn't wait to see what would happen after the malware received its instructions. Previous Comment Crew attacks have included mass penetration of organizational network, theft of intellectual property and other data and installation of spyware to keep track of a targeted user's online activities and communications.

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Zimmerman juror to write book about trial, may not reveal identity

Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was declared not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin just two days ago, but one of the six female jurors who made the controversial decision to acquit is already shopping a tell-all book.

Literary agent Sharlene Martin said she signed the juror?known only as B-37 to the media and public?and her husband, who is an attorney, and the pair will soon try to sell a book about her experience during the three-week, televised trial.

Martin told Yahoo News that the juror reached out to her on the advice of a producer from a morning show. The media has been prevented by a court order from reporting on the identities of any of the six jurors. The juror may publish the book anonymously, Martin said in a statement, ?given the sensitivity of the verdict and the outpouring of mixed reactions by the American public.?

Juror B37 was described by the Associated Press as ?a white woman who volunteers rescuing animals? who has two grown children. She and her husband both had concealed weapons permits, but let them lapse. ?During the last round of questioning, she said she had an issue with the type of weapons people are allowed to carry,? according to the AP. ?She also thought weapons' training was inadequate for people seeking permits.?

?My hope is that people will read Juror B37?s book, written with her attorney husband, and understand the commitment it takes to serve and be sequestered on a jury in a highly publicized murder trial and how important, despite one?s personal viewpoints, it is to follow the letter of the law,? Martin said in a statement. ?The reader will also learn why the jurors had no option but to find Zimmerman Not Guilty due to the manner in which he was charged and the content of the jury instructions.?

Martin is also representing the soon-to-be released "PICTURE PERFECT:? The Jodi Arias Story" by Shanna Hogan.

The Orlando Sentinel has filed a request with Judge Debra Nelson asking for a hearing about the jurors' anonymity order.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimmerman-juror-to-write-book-about-trial-170510806.html

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What Tech Do You Use to Navigate a New City?

We've all been there: finding yourself in a new place?or even one you've visited but never lived in?there's always bound to be the occasional wrong turn. So what tech do you use to make sure you find your way?

Google Maps, natch. But are there any other apps or pieces of kit that have helped you acclimatize to a new city? Share your best ideas with us right here.

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Video Games as Modern Art: MoMA Acquires Pong, Minecraft & First Console

Do video games like Pong and Space Invaders belong in Museum of Modern Art? Or does putting a game console from 1972 on a pedestal constitute an Emperor's New Video Game-style overreach? A debate is raging, and MoMA is at the center of it.

On Friday, the museum's architecture and design curator, Paola Antonelli, announced that MoMA had acquired six new games, including Pong (1972) Space Invaders (1978) Asteroids (1979) Tempest (1981) Yar?s Revenge (1982), and Minecraft (2011). They museum also obtained a Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial video game console, which was designed in 1972 by Ralph Baer, "father of the video game."

Regardless of how you feel about video games (or about, say, Rothko), these are undoubtably pieces of creative history. So what's the problem? According to The Guardian's Jonathan Jones, games?video games, chess, Apples 2 Apples, whatever?are not art. "A work of art is one person's reaction to life," Jones wrote in reaction to Antonelli's inclusion of several video games in MoMA's Applied Design show last year. "This is the essential difference between games and art, and it precedes the digital age."

Jones' reaction is valid, but then again, who's to say that Minecraft doesn't represent the perspective of its designer, Markus Persson? Antonelli, on the other hand, defends her decision by arguing that games as vital predecessors to contemporary Interaction Design:

The games are selected as outstanding examples of interaction design?a field that MoMA has already explored and collected extensively, and one of the most important and oft-discussed expressions of contemporary design creativity? the programming language takes the place of the wood or plastics, and the quality of the interaction translates in the digital world what the synthesis of form and function represent in the physical one.

So it seems MoMA isn't as interested in the content of early video games?they're interested in how these games paved the way for a whole universe of human/screen interactions, many of which have come to define the contemporary world (think, for example, of your iPhone).

So what do you think? Are video games worth memorializing in museums, based on the seeds they planted for how we interact with computers today? I say that staring at a TV for ten hours straight qualifies as a mediocre piece of performance art, at the very least. [MoMA via ArtInfo]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/video-games-as-modern-art-moma-acquires-pong-minecraf-638367128

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Governments warn about nuclear terrorism threat

By Fredrik Dahl

VIENNA (Reuters) - More action is needed to prevent militants acquiring plutonium or highly-enriched uranium that could be used in bombs, governments agreed at a meeting on nuclear security in Vienna on Monday, without deciding on any concrete steps.

A declaration adopted by more than 120 states at the meeting said "substantial progress" had been made in recent years to improve nuclear security globally, but it was not enough.

Analysts say radical groups could theoretically build a crude but deadly nuclear bomb if they had the money, technical knowledge and materials needed.

Ministers remained "concerned about the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism ... More needs to be done to further strengthen nuclear security worldwide", the statement said.

The document "encouraged" states to take various measures such as minimizing the use of highly-enriched uranium, but some diplomats said they would have preferred firmer commitments.

Many countries regard nuclear security as a sensitive political issue that should be handled primarily by national authorities. This was reflected in the statement's language.

Still, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which hosted the conference, said the agreement was "very robust" and represented a major step forward.

RADICAL GROUPS' "NUCLEAR AMBITIONS"

Amano earlier warned the IAEA-hosted conference against a "false sense of security" over the danger of nuclear terrorism.

Holding up a small lead container that was used to try to traffic highly enriched uranium in Moldova two years ago, the U.N. nuclear chief said it showed a "worrying level of knowledge on the part of the smugglers".

"This case ended well," he said, referring to the fact that the material was seized and arrests were made. But he added: "We cannot be sure if such cases are just the tip of the iceberg."

Obtaining weapons-grade fissile material - highly enriched uranium or plutonium - poses the biggest challenge for militant groups, so it must be kept secure both at civilian and military facilities, experts say.

An apple-sized amount of plutonium in a nuclear device and detonated in a highly populated area could instantly kill or wound hundreds of thousands of people, according to the Nuclear Security Governance Experts Group (NSGEG) lobby group.

But experts say a so-called "dirty bomb" is a more likely threat than a nuclear bomb. In a dirty bomb, conventional explosives are used to disperse radiation from a radioactive source, which can be found in hospitals or other places that are generally not very well protected.

More than a hundred incidents of thefts and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive material are reported to the IAEA every year, Amano said.

"Some material goes missing and is never found," he said.

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said al Qaeda was still likely to be trying to obtain nuclear material for a weapon.

"Despite the strides we have made in dismantling core al Qaeda we should expect its adherents ... to continue trying to achieve their nuclear ambitions," he said.

(Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/governments-warn-nuclear-terrorism-threat-181357770.html

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?Why Don?t You Ban Divorce If You?re So Concerned?? Sally Kohn Battles GOP Rep Over Gay Marriage Rulings

Last night on Geraldo at Large, Fox contributor Sally Kohn and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) got a bit intense while debating the ramifications of this week?s Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage.

Debating what host Geraldo Rivera described as ?the brave new world of gay marriage,? Rep. Walberg argued that same-sex marriages, including Kohn?s, simply adds ?another impingement upon making marriage the successful foundation point of America.? The procreative nature of marriage, he said, is altered when you ?redefine? who can be married.

Kohn pointed out that in the congressman?s own district, there are gay families, single parent households, and grandparents raising children ? all of which differ from his traditional definition of family. However, she said, ?we protect everyone, we give everyone rights equally.?

Walberg responded that equal protection ?doesn?t include redefining words that are very descriptive of a foundational structure of society that goes back to the beginning of creation.?

?Why is it that you allow elderly couples that don?t have children to marry?? Kohn challenged the congressman. ?And why haven?t you put forward a bill to ban divorce if you?re so concerned with the preservation of marriage??

?We have put many hurdles in the way of good marriage,? he responded. ?One of those is no-fault divorce. But we?re talking about DOMA. The Supreme Court got it wrong when they said the states should be able to make up their own decisions, their own minds, their own laws.?

Kohn then took a personal tone, noting that there are over 1,000 federal benefits the congressman does not want her to have access to, including tax benefits, hospital visitation rights, and social security inheritance. ?You?re saying that we shouldn?t because we?re somehow lesser families??

?Let?s debate those issues but not redefine marriage as a term,? the congressman replied.

Watch the full debate below, via Fox News:

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