The Freestyle Pro, released in 1998, was a rather novel gamepad, as the up-down-left-right directions in analogue mode were controlled by the movement of the controller, more precisely by the absolute pitch and roll position of the pad. This reaction on movement is quite similar to some of the features of the Sony PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS.
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Edward Snowden's father told NBC his son might return to the US if conditions were met.
A transit passenger takes a photo with a mobile phone in the transit zone at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26. For almost a week now, former NSA contractor turned leaker Edward Snowden has been thought to be stowed away somewhere in Sheremetyevo airport, after having fled Hong Kong last week.
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In an interview with NBC, Lonnie Snowden expressed hopes that his son would return to the US, provided that the Justice Department plays ball. Meanwhile, Ecuador has unilaterally renounced trade agreements with the US in defiance of demands that the small South American country not accept Mr. Snowden, and Russia?s Federation Council has invited him to testify as to the extent of NSA spying on Russian citizens.?
For almost a week now, Snowden has been thought to be stowed away somewhere in Moscow?s Sheremetyevo airport, after having fled Hong Kong last week. Snowden is wanted by the US on charges of espionage and attempts to have him extradited have failed so far.
Snowden?s father appeared in an interview on NBC?s ?Today Show? this morning, claiming that he believes his son would willingly return to the US if certain conditions were met, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Those conditions include allowing Snowden to choose the trial location, not subjecting him to a gag order, and not detaining him pre-trial.
In an effort to have these conditions met, Snowden?s father has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to convey these conditions and his hopes that they would provide incentive for Snowden to return, writes the New York Daily News.
Snowden Sr., who has not spoken to his son since April, also took the opportunity to?defend his son?s honor, reports Reuters:
"I love him. I would like to have the opportunity to communicate with him. I don't want to put him in peril," he said in the interview.
Snowden said he did not think his son had committed treason, even though his son broke US laws in releasing details about the federal monitoring programs.
"He has betrayed his government, but I don't believe that he's betrayed the people of the United States," he said.
In Russia, the Federation Council ? the Duma?s upper house ? has set up a special committee to investigate aspects of the NSA?s spying activities in Russia, and has invited Snowden to testify before them. As The Christian Science Monitor reports, the committee would like Snowden to inform it of the extent to which large Internet companies such as Google and Facebook are involved.
"We don't want to get involved in secret service conspiracies. Whatever the NSA was doing is not particularly our concern," [Sen. Ruslan] Gattarov [head of the committee] says.
At the same time, the Snowden issue has caused US relations with Ecuador to deteriorate. Snowden is currently applying for asylum in Ecuador, a decision that could take up to two months, according to The Christian Science Monitor. In response, there have been calls in the US to cut off aid to Ecuador.
Ecuador, it seems, has not taken those threats lightly, and has unilaterally broken off a preferential trade agreement with the US in order to prevent ?blackmail? over the asylum request, reports CNN:
"In the face of threats, insolence, and arrogance of certain US sectors, which have pressured to remove the preferential tariffs because of the Snowden case, Ecuador tells the world we unilaterally and irrevocably renounce the preferential tariffs," President Rafael Correa said Thursday, reiterating comments other officials from his government made earlier in the day.
But Mr. Correa, who has a history of thumbing his nose at the US, also noted that despite its support for Snowden, Ecuador cannot come to a decision on his asylum request, as he is not on Ecuadorian territory, according to Al Jazeera. "You request asylum when you are on a country's territory. Snowden is not on Ecuadorean territory, so technically we cannot even process the asylum request," Correa said.
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A leading Charles Sturt University (CSU) speech and language acquisition researcher explained her research into children?s multilingual speech when she delivered the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture at the Speech Pathology Australia national conference on the Gold Coast this week.
Professor Sharynne McLeod from the CSU Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE)?in Bathurst, is conducting a landmark study, as part of her Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, to investigate the number of Australian children who speak a language other than English with communication impairment. She will also explore and develop tools to ensure they receive the support they need. ?
Professor McLeod said, ?We know that 12 to 13 per cent of school children have a communication impairment, but there is a large gap in our understanding of how this applies to children who learn languages other than English.
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?Over 15 per cent of Australian four to five year-old children speak a language other than English at home and their needs are just as important as other children.
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?Early intervention is crucial, because if left untreated, communication impairment can lead to literacy and numeracy problems in later school years, and employment and social disadvantage in adult life.
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?So the challenge is to provide speech pathologists with the tools to be able to assess whether a child has difficulty learning all languages, or whether they only have difficulty learning subsequent languages.
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?Speech pathologists can feel under-resourced and under-prepared for working with multilingual children. Yet recent technological advances have enabled reappraisal of best practice through local, national, and international partnerships.?
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Professor McLeod?s study uses data from several longitudinal studies of Australian children, as well as extensive work with speech and language professionals around the world, to develop international speech assessment tools that will support the diagnosis of communication impairment in more than 40 languages. Free resources are available here.?Learn more about Professor McLeod?s research at her blog.?
Ms Gail Mulcair, CEO of Speech Pathology Australia, said Professor McLeod?s invitation to present the prestigious Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture at their 2013 conference was ?overwhelmingly supported by all of Council and is an acknowledgement of [her] extensive knowledge, expertise and contribution to the profession.? She also received the Award for 2013 which was presented at the conference.
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Speech Pathology Australia?is the peak national body for more than 5 000 speech pathologists, and you can find those in your local area via the website, or learn more about the Speech Pathology Australia's 2013 Conference,?SEA change: Synthesize, Evaluate, Act!.ends
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Professor Sharynne McLeod.
Source: http://www.healthcanal.com/child-health/40252-research-into-multilingual-children-s-speech.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? New York City's police commissioner on Thursday called the City Council's move to impose new oversight on the department misguided, and the mayor vowed to fight the measure.
Lawmakers voted earlier Thursday to create an outside watchdog and make it easier to bring racial profiling claims against the nation's largest police force. Both passed with enough votes to override expected vetoes, marking an inflection point in the public debate and power dynamics that have set the balance between prioritizing safety and protecting civil liberties here.
But the mayor, police commissioner and other critics have said measures would impinge on techniques that have wrestled crime down dramatically and would leave the NYPD hampered. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Thursday he "will not give up for one minute" on trying to defeat the measures. He told New Yorkers it's "a fight to defend your life and your kids' lives."
Kelly said he didn't question the motives of the city council members but thought they hadn't thought through the problem.
"I think it's unfortunate," Kelly said. "Certainly has a potential for increasing crime and making police officers' jobs much more difficult."
Proponents see the legislation as a check on a police department that has come under scrutiny for its heavy use of a tactic known as stop and frisk and its extensive surveillance of Muslims, as disclosed in a series of stories by The Associated Press.
"New Yorkers know that we can keep our city safe from crime and terrorism without profiling our neighbors," Councilman Brad Lander, who spearheaded the measures with fellow Democratic Councilman Jumaane Williams, said at a packed and emotional meeting that began shortly before midnight and stretched into the early morning.
Lawmakers delved into their own experiences with the street stops, drew on the city's past in episodes ranging from the high crime of the 1990s to the 1969 Stonewall riots that crystallized the gay rights movement, and traded accusations of paternalism and politicizing. In a sign of the national profile the issue has gained, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous was in the audience, while hip hop impresario Russell Simmons tweeted to urge the measures' passage.
But while it's too soon to settle how the initiatives may play out in practice if they survive the expected veto, they already have shaped politics and perception.
The measures follow decades of efforts to empower outside input on the NYPD. Efforts to establish an independent civilian complaint board in the 1960s spurred a bitter clash with a police union, which mobilized a referendum on it. Voters defeated it.
More than two decades later, private citizens were appointed to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which handles mainly misconduct claims against individual officers. A 1990s police corruption scandal spurred a recommendation for an independent board to investigate corruption; a Commission to Combat Police Corruption was established in 1995, but it lacks subpoena power.
Courts also have exercised some oversight, including through a 1985 federal court settlement that set guidelines for the NYPD's intelligence-gathering. And the City Council has weighed in before, including with a 2004 law that barred racial or religious profiling as "the determinative factor" in police actions, a measure Bloomberg signed.
The new measures are further-reaching than any of that, proponents and critics agree.
One would establish an inspector general with subpoena power to explore and recommend, but not force, changes to the NYPD's policies and practices. Various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department, have inspector generals.
The other would give people more latitude if they believe they were stopped because of bias based on race, sexual orientation or certain other factors.
Plaintiffs wouldn't necessarily have to prove that a police officer intended to discriminate. Instead, they could offer evidence that a practice such as stop and frisk affects some groups disproportionately, though police could counter that the disparity was justified to accomplish a substantial law enforcement end. The suits couldn't seek money, just court orders to change police practices.
The proposals were impelled partly by concern about the roughly 5 million stop and frisks the NYPD has conducted in the last decade, with more than 80 percent of those stopped being black or Hispanic, and arrests resulting less than 15 percent of the time. But proponents also point to the department's spying on Muslims, which has included infiltrating Muslim student groups and putting informants in mosques, as the AP series showed.
The poor, mostly Muslim members of a South Asian advocacy group called Desis Rising Up and Moving "feel the impact of both issues ? surveillance, as Muslims ? and stop and frisk," which is prevalent in a Queens neighborhood where many members live, said Fahd Ahmed, the group's legal director.
Stop and frisk is already the subject of a federal lawsuit brought by four men who claim they were stopped solely because of their race, along with hundreds of thousands of others stopped in the last decade. A judge is considering whether to order reforms to the policy and establish the court's own monitoring. City attorneys argued the stops were lawful and not based on race alone.
The NYPD has defended the surveillance and stop and frisks as legal, and critics of the new legislation point to another set of statistics: Killings and other serious offenses have fallen 34 percent since 2001, while the number of city residents in jails and prisons has fallen 31 percent.
Bloomberg has said they could tie the department up in lawsuits and complaints, inject courts and an inspector general into tactical decisions and make "proactive policing by police officers extinct in our city."
And several council members agreed with him
"The unintended consequences, potentially, of these bills is when a human, a man or woman, who has (a) badge will pull their punch and not aggressively pursue a potential perpetrator, and then he or she goes out and commits a crime. That's the fear," Republican Councilman Vincent Ignizio told his colleagues Thursday.
If the measures ultimately survive, Bloomberg won't be in City Hall to see much of the outcome. The term-limited mayor leaves office this year.
Democratic mayoral candidates have generally said the practice needs changing. Some Republicans, meanwhile, have embraced the NYPD's view.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nypd-commissioner-calls-oversight-bills-misguided-162640070.html
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Impertinent. Mumbling. Offended. Teary-eyed. Rachel Jeantel, star witness for the prosecution in George Zimmerman's murder trial, was all of those, and more, as her testimony Wednesday provided new details into Trayvon Martin?s last moments and infused racially loaded commentary into an already-sensitive trial.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/instagram-blackberry-windows-phone-not-coming-anytime-soon-212554517.html
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By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former executive of SanDisk Corp
Donald Barnetson, 39, pleaded guilty in February 2012 to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud as part of a broad U.S. government crackdown on insider trading.
At a hearing in federal court in New York, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood also ordered Barnetson to pay a $4,000 fine.
Barnetson was one of a number of defendants charged as part an insider trading investigation focused on expert networking firms, which connect high-end investors with industry experts.
Prosecutors said that Barnetson, a senior director at SanDisk, a maker of memory chips, had provided confidential information to a consultant who ran a research firm in Portland, Oregon.
The consultant, identified in court papers as John Kinnucan, obtained insider information about companies including SanDisk, F5 Networks Inc
Kinnucan then sold the information to clients of his firm, Broadband Research LLC, including hedge funds and money managers, prosecutors said.
Barnetson provided confidential information about SanDisk and Apple Inc , one of the companies SanDisk supplied with electronic components.
Court documents said Barnetson told Kinnucan about SanDisk's anticipated revenues in July 2010. Barnetson in September 2010 also told Kinnucan about negotiations to settle a legal dispute between SanDisk and Apple, the papers said.
In exchange, Barnetson received the consultant's friendship, meals at high-end restaurants and confidential information about other technology companies, according to the charging documents.
Barnetson went on to cooperate in the investigation of Kinnucan, who garnered attention in 2010 by publicly refusing to cooperate with the federal government's insider trading probe.
Kinnucan ultimately pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced in January to more than four years in prison.
Barnetson becomes the 50th person to be sentenced since federal prosecutors in New York began filing a major wave of insider trading case in October 2009.
To date, 81 people have been charged and 73 have been convicted.
Peter Leeming, a lawyer for Barnetson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The case is U.S. v. Barnetson, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-cr-00157.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-sandisk-executive-sentenced-probation-inside-tips-161947716.html
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By Nancy Yousef, Anchor
WAOW, North Central Wisconsin
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ANTIGO (WAOW) - A bald eagle shot in the wing in Marathon County is now healing in Antigo.
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Wildlife officials say the eagle lost something important but is also gaining something in the process.
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About three weeks ago Marge Gibson of the Raptor Education Group in Antigo got a call about an injured bald eagle.
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"People found her in a field in Stratford and the bird was very quiet and stayed in a certain area," said Marge Gibson, Executive Director of the Raptor Education Group.
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Gibson says the female eagle was shot in the wing while flying. She fell a long way suffering serious injuries.
?"Look at that face isn't that amazing," said Gibson.
?Read the rest of the story and view a video HERE
Source: http://www.hancockwildlife.org/article.php/BaldEagleHealingAfterBeingShot
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