Thursday, May 31, 2012

Edwards acquitted on 1 count, mistrial on others

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) ? John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president.

The trial exposed a sordid sex scandal that unfolded while Edwards' wife was dying of cancer, but prosecutors couldn't convince jurors that the ex-U.S. senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate masterminded a $1 million cover-up of his affair.

"While I do not believe I did anything illegal, or ever thought I was doing anything illegal, I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong and there is no one else responsible for my sins," Edwards said on the courthouse steps.

He also said he had hope for his future.

"I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do."

Edwards would have faced up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines if convicted of all charges. He did not testify, along with his mistress Rielle Hunter and the two donors whose money was at issue.

Jurors acquitted him on a charge of accepting illegal campaign contributions, involving $375,000 from elderly heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon in 2008. He had also been charged with illegally accepting $350,000 from Mellon in 2007, other donations from wealthy Texas attorney Fred Baron, filing a false campaign finance report and conspiracy.

The jurors, who deliberated nine days, did not talk to the media as they left the courthouse. Several media organizations, including The Associated Press, have filed a motion asking for the names to be released but the judge has refused to release the information for at least a week.

Federal prosecutors are unlikely to retry the case, a law enforcement official told AP on the condition of anonymity because the decision will undergo review in the coming days.

The case was thrown into confusion earlier Thursday after observers filled the courtroom expecting to hear a verdict on all six counts. Jurors had sent a note to U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles, reading, "we have finished our deliberations and have arrived at our decision on counts one through six."

But when the jury came into court, the foreman said jurors only had a decision on one count. Eagles sent jurors back to deliberate. About an hour later, the jury sent another note saying it had exhausted its discussions.

When the not guilty verdict was read, Edwards choked up, put a single finger to his lip and took a moment to compose himself. He turned to his daughter, Cate, in the first row and smiled.

After Eagles declared a mistrial and discharged the jury, Edwards hugged his daughter, his parents and his attorneys. Later, he thanked the jury and his family, even choking up when talking about the daughter he had with his mistress Rielle Hunter.

He called Frances Quinn Hunter precious "whom I love, more than any of you can ever imagine and I am so close to and so, so grateful for. I am grateful for all of my children."

The 6-week-long trial recounted the most intimate details of Edwards' affair with Hunter, including reference to a sex tape of the two together that was later ordered destroyed and the drama of Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, tearing off her shirt in front of her husband in a rage about a tabloid report of the affair.

It also featured testimony that sometimes read like political thriller, as aide Andrew Young described meeting Edwards on a secluded road, and Edwards warning him, "you can't hurt me."

Prosecutors said Edwards knew of the roughly $1 million being funneled to former aide Andrew Young and Hunter and was well aware of the $2,300 legal limit on campaign donations.

Edwards' attorneys said prosecutors didn't prove that Edwards knew that taking the money violated campaign finance law. They said he shouldn't be convicted for being a liar, and even if he did know about some of the money, it was a gift, not a campaign contribution.

"This is a case that should define the difference between a wrong and a crime ... between a sin and a felony," attorney Abbe Lowell told the jury. "John Edwards has confessed his sins. He will serve a life sentence for those."

They also said the money was used to keep the affair hidden from his wife, not to influence his presidential bid.

Baron died in 2008 and Mellon, who is 101 years old, did not testify.

Edwards met Hunter in a New York hotel bar in 2006 and they spent the night together. She soon joined his campaign, and despite a lack of filmmaking experience, the politician arranged a $250,000 contract for her to make a series of behind-the-scenes documentaries from the campaign trail.

Word of the affair eventually got back to Edwards' wife. On Dec. 30, 2006, the day Edwards officially announced his bid for president at an event in his hometown of Chapel Hill, Elizabeth Edwards bumped into Hunter for the first time and became visibly upset, according to testimony. She told her husband to get rid of her, and while Hunter officially left the campaign, John Edwards continued to meet with her on the road.

Hunter became pregnant in the summer of 2007. As Hunter's belly began to show that September, tabloid reporters began tailing her. Within weeks, the Youngs had set up Hunter in a $2,700-a-month rental home not far from the Edwards estate in Chapel Hill, using the donated money.

In October 2007, a day after a tabloid reported the affair, Elizabeth Edwards blew up at her husband, according to testimony from former adviser Christina Reynolds. Edwards' now-deceased wife stormed away from her husband at a private hangar, collapsing into a ball on the pavement. After composing herself in a nearby ladies room, Elizabeth Edwards ripped off her shirt and bra and screamed, "You don't see me anymore!" As staffers scrambled to cover her up and whisk her into a car, her husband boarded a jet and headed to a campaign event in South Carolina.

That December, in an attempt to contain the scandal, Young issued a statement claiming the baby was his. Prosecutors presented phone records showing Edwards and Young ? and Young and Baron ? talked with each other that day and claimed they conspired to come up with the plan.

About a month later, Edwards' presidential campaign began to fold with poor showings in the early presidential primary states. Even before he officially suspended his presidential campaign at the end of January 2008, Edwards had begun wooing the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for a spot in their administration, perhaps as vice president.

Meanwhile, Hunter was on the run with the Youngs. Baron let them stay at his vacation mansion in Aspen, Colo., and paid for them to live in a $20,000-a-month manor in Santa Barbara, Calif. Hunter gave birth to Francis Quinn Hunter in February 2008.

Records at trial showed Baron paid Hunter a $9,000 monthly cash allowance, on top of providing flights on private jets and stays at luxury resorts.

The deposits began in June 2008 ? several months after Edwards ended his White House run ? and continued until December 2008, two months after Baron died.

The timing of the payments may have been important. The defense argued most of the money was spent after Edwards ended his presidential bid. Prosecutors claim Edwards was still seeking the Democratic vice presidential nomination or a future appointment as attorney general.

Although Edwards' attorneys have conceded he had some limited knowledge of Baron's support for Hunter, they deny he knew anything about $725,000 provided to Young by the wealthy heiress Mellon, an ardent supporter of Edwards' campaign.

Edwards admitted to the Hunter affair in August 2008. Days later, he met with Young briefly on a secluded road near the Edwards estate outside Chapel Hill. According to Young's testimony at the trail, the two talked about the secret checks Mellon had provided to the campaign aide.

"I didn't know about these, did you?" Edwards said, according to Young.

Worried he was being taped, Young lied and said no. Young told Edwards he had kept evidence of the cover-up, including voicemails, emails and the tape that purportedly showed Edwards and Hunter having sex. He said he threatened to go public if Edwards' didn't come clean about the baby.

"You can't hurt me, Andrew," Edwards told Young as he opened the door to get out, Young said. "You can't hurt me."

Edwards announced he was the father of Francis Quinn Hunter in January 2010, nearly two years after she was born and his candidacy ended.

Elizabeth Edwards died in late 2010.

The jurors, whose identities were withheld throughout the trial, asked to see dozens of trial exhibits during deliberations, relating to Mellon and Baron's donations. Some jurors raised eyebrows in recent days by wearing matching colored shirts to court, and one alternate juror was said to be flirting with Edwards. Eagles warned the jury on its sixth day of deliberations not to discuss the case in small groups.

As Edwards left the courthouse steps, a tabloid reporter asked whether he loved Hunter and would marry her. Edwards did not answer and turned away.

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Associated Press writer Martha Waggoner in Greensboro and Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

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If your website lacks a little... je ne sais quois, it either needs something special, or that thing was lost in translation. If your managing different languages with Google's Website Translator plugin, however, then a new feature could put a stop to odd or inaccurate interpretations of your text. It's only in beta at the moment, but if you add a customization meta tag to a webpage, readers who know better can click on badly translated text and amend it (pending your approval). Likewise, you can fix up any broken translations yourself, and folk will see that version when using Chrome, or Google Toolbar to switch languages. Likewise, it looks like the official translate app for Android got a little spit and polish too, plus Esperanto support and new text to speech languages, so at least you can look a little more stylish while you order unknown items from the menu. Travel on over to the source links for the Rosetta stone.

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Microsoft lands an official software outlet in Iraq

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Believe it or not, there hasn't been an official distributor for Microsoft software in Iraq in the near-decade since it's even been an option; if you wanted Windows or Office in the past several years, your choices were limited and seldom legal. Baghdad's Legend Lands is filling those big shoes through a deal with Microsoft that will see it provide both official copies, support, and other help for Iraqis that want to take the honest path. Stores across the country will take care of everything from large-scale government orders down to a Tikrit family's first home PC. The move won't completely quash piracy concerns, but it's a big step towards normalcy in technology for the desert nation.

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Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna has a message for Americans this Memorial Day: Our veterans need jobs.

Mantegna, who will return as co-host of Monday's National Memorial Day Concert on PBS with fellow CBS star Gary Sinise, is also actively working with America Wants You!, a new initiative that encourages corporate America to hire men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Mantegna and Criminal Minds co-star Thomas Gibson have also filmed PSAs to spread the word.

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"When you meet people who've had a lot of military training, they're America's finest," Mantegna tells TVGuide.com. "They're just dedicated, respectful, hard-working. They have all those qualities that you would hope they would have. So, to me, it was a no-brainer."

Mantegna says hiring vets is an easy way to give back to those who have dedicated themselves to protecting our country. "They've fought and served so we can have a free country, so we can have the choices to do the things we want to do, whether its choice of religion or freedom of speech. Or even hiring a person to do a job," Mantegna says. "It's an ironic situation. They're fighting for freedoms that allow you to not hire them too if you want. But I think we can help them along."

America Wants You! estimates that there are 800,000 veterans out of work. Mantegna knows that the PSAs won't solve the problem by themselves, but he remains committed. "At least by increasing the awareness, [we're] letting people know to be sensitive to it," He says. "[Employers] should give them a consideration, knowing that their lives have been disrupted for, sometimes, years. I grew up through Vietnam, and I thought that took a long time. And the Vietnam Era was actually shorter than [Iraq]. So, it's been quite a hardship for many of them. I think they can use a little boost up."

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Mantegna, who says he has lots of military connections in his family, says his support of the troops grew stronger once he became involved with PBS' National Memorial Day Concert 11 years ago. "I was so taken by the whole event," he says. "What I was actually most taken by was by the non-politicalness of it. I've been an independent my whole life, so I distrust organizations to tell you the truth. You get more than three people together and I get nervous. But I came away from that whole experience with the feeling that our military really needs our help [and] our support. When the stuff hits the fan, those are the guys that are called upon to do the dirty work."

Pieces of this issue may even make it onto Criminal Minds. Because of his character Rossi's military background on the show, Mantegna had pitched a story idea even before he became involved with America Wants You! "We already have the bones of the story line, and I am fairly assured it will be happening this coming season," he says. "It will encompass partly just what we're talking about. The character is a vet that falls on hard times."

Mantegna says he hopes the initiative grows and that he can continue to be a part of it. "If it does what it's supposed to do, if it's successful in any way, that'd be great," he says. "And if there's anything that can be done to improve it, I'm certainly game. But there are people who are working 365 days out of the year to make this stuff happen. They deserve the thanks. I mean, I'm just putting a face on it. I don't really need any thanks for that. I hit the jackpot in being able to do what I do."

And Mantegna says it's not just corporate America that owes veterans a debt. "When you see somebody in uniform, it's a great gesture to just kind of give them a smile and reach out your hand and say thanks for your service," Mantegna says. "I think it goes a long way."

Click here for more information on America Wants You! The National Memorial Day Concert airs Monday at 8/7c on PBS (check your local listings). Watch Mantegna's America Wants You! PSA below:

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Oil Boomtown Influx Opens Job Opportunities In Non-Oil Counties

The oil boom has seen hundreds of job aspirants rushing to North Dakota, to take advantage of the good fortune that the boom has brought in its wake.

However, employers are saying that the job seekers will be well-advised to head east as well, instead of all flocking to the western part of the state. The oil companies are hiring, but the huge number of people that it has attracted, has positively impacted other industries as well.

Statistics compiled and revealed by Job Service North Dakota show that a total of 24,059 job openings were posted online in April. This was 16 percent higher than the preceding month and 66 percent higher, than the percentage recorded a year ago. The point to note was that a majority of the job openings, nearly 66 percent, were in counties that do not produce oil.

Myopic focus on job openings in the oil boomtowns, have made the people lose sight of job openings, other than in the oil fields. Commenting on the job openings available in non-oil producing counties, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said, ?That?s a very, very lost fact.?

The April job posting listed 5,569 openings in Cass County and 2,204 jobs in Williams County. Carey Fry , spokeswoman, for the Job Service North Dakota office in Fargo, the largest city of Cass County said, ??The economy in the eastern half of the state is really very healthy. So it?s not like all the jobs are in the western part of the state at all.?

North Dakota has the distinction of having the lowest unemployment rate in the US, at 3 percent. Places were the oil industries are concentrated; actually sees supply exceeding demand, with more jobs than job applicants. The ration of job applicants to job vacancies in William County is 10 jobs for every unemployed person. Streets are lined with posters, asking for workers.

An energy conference in Bismarck this week is expected to attract more than 4000 people, include the likes of LaRussa, a friend of billionaire oil baron Harold Hamm. The conference is to discuss an industry that is projected to add 65,000 new jobs by 2020. Whilst that number is huge, given the current job figures across the country, Carey Fry says that she does not believe it will dramatically impact the labor pool in eastern North Dakota.

?There may be some workers moving to the oilfields, but for the most part the jobs being filled in the oilfield aren?t the same jobs being filled in the east,? she said.

Professions offering the utmost opportunity in the Fargo region in April were office and administrative support (610), production (558), and sales (554). The most opportune employment areas in the Williston region were construction (391) and transportation (375).

Quite a few of the jobs available in and around Fargo required specialized expertise and advanced education. There were 637 openings for business, finance, computers, math, architecture and engineering fields, as compared with 117 for those occupations in the Williston region.

Those jobs are inclined to be more permanent and constant, Governor Dalrymple said, adding, ?Some developers talk about job permanence, the ones that are most likely to last for an extended period of time. A lot of those folks would say they like what they see in the (Fargo) region.?

A company BreadVault, recently established in Fargo, by Ross Almlie, makes online money management tools designed for families with children. Almlie, the company?s founder, says that he hopes to have 20 full-time employees within 3 years, which is proof of the potency of the area?s economy.

BreadVault was a finalist in a state completion that gave cash prizes for the best new business ideas.

?To me, that?s the exciting part, to see these companies pop up that people have been waiting to see for the last 10 years. Now that the opportunity is here, there?s no longer that argument that we don?t have the highly-skilled jobs to attract and keep people.?

Small startup tech companies are the best job creators, Dalrymple said, ?Once they set out to commercialize a breakthrough product, the pace at which they create jobs is faster than anything else and the potential for higher paying jobs is much better than anything else,? the governor said.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

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It was a gift many moons ago [at least 30 years]. I just found it while going through some stuff that's been packed away for a bunch of years.

I thought it was quite unique when we got it and I still think it's a pretty good conversation piece.

Anyone interested in making one, let me know and I'll send the dimensions. I think it would look really nice in cherry or birds eye maple.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Toronto?s Ford to skip Saskatoon conference

Canada?s civic leaders will meet next week in Saskatoon, but the mayor of the country?s largest city won?t be joining them.

Toronto?s Rob Ford is passing on the annual get-together of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), a chance for roughly 1,600 local politicians to compare notes and rub shoulders with federal ministers and the leaders of opposition parties. There will also be a number of tours highlighting civic projects such as the new police headquarters and River Landing.

It is the first time the conference has been held in Saskatoon.

Ford has skipped the conference every year and as a councillor characterized attending as a waste of taxpayer money.

?I don?t go to FCM,? Ford told reporters Friday in Toronto. ?Since when do I go to FCM??

Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison challenged Ford earlier this year to attend the conference and join him for a jog along the city riverbank to help the Toronto mayor?s much-publicized weight loss challenge.

Atchison said he had not yet heard officially that Ford would not be in attendance.

?I would hope he would want to see Canada?s fastest-growing city,? Atchison said, noting he has followed the ongoing fight in Toronto over rapid transit pitting proponents of light rail against supporters of a subway expansion. Saskatoon is planning a revamped bus rapid transit system.

?(Mayor Ford) could give us some advice on transit,? Atchison said.

The conference begins Thursday when the big city mayors group ? led by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson ? will hold a meeting focused on a federal infrastructure program and funding for affordable housing. Calgary?s Naheed Nenshi, Ottawa?s Jim Watson, and 91-year-old Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion will be in Saskatoon for the event.

The conference features keynote addresses by NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, and sessions on the growing cost of policing, using social media, and the pros and cons of cities selling naming and sponsorship rights.

A number of Toronto?s civic politicians are expected, including a councillor to take Ford?s place at the table.

Saskatoon?s council on Monday will be asked to contribute an extra $47,000 to the conference because sponsorship funds fell short. City taxpayers have already contributed $290,000 for the FCM conference and $10,000 for the Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators (CAMA) meeting, which begins Monday.

The FCM conference has a total budget of $612,000 with registration covering $203,000 and sponsorship $73,000. Calgary?s council recently set aside $1.4 million to potentially host the conference in 2018.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Zoologger: Infrared-sensing beetles born in fire

Species: Melanophila consputa
Habitat: coniferous forests of western North America, hoping for an arsonist to come calling

On the morning of 10 August 1925, a bolt of lightning struck a large oil storage tank in a remote area of California. The oil immediately caught fire and burned fiercely. By the evening it was so hot that it suddenly boiled over, sending flames shooting over 100 metres into the air, and spilling boiling oil onto the ground. The resulting lake of fire burned for another two days.

Before the fire could be extinguished, something strange happened ? untold numbers of charcoal beetles descended, swarming near the blazing oil.

We know what they were doing there: charcoal beetles are drawn to heat, and only breed in the smouldering remains of forest fires. But their nearest habitat was dozens of kilometres away. How did they know where to come?

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Charcoal beetles belong to a genus called Melanophila, commonly known as fire-chasers or fire beetles. They are part of a larger family called the jewel beetles, most of which have bright iridescent colours. Fire beetles, however, are as black as coal.

They flock to forest fires, where the mated females lay eggs in the charred wood. The larvae burrow into the wood and feast, safe from the defences that a healthy tree might employ to get rid of them.

To help it find a suitable conflagration, each beetle has a special set of sensors mounted just behind the "hips" of its second pair of legs. These can detect infrared radiation, the invisible rays of heat given off by fires. Similar heat sensors have been found in the wings of some butterflies.

Each sensor array contains around 70 individual organs called sensillas, which contain a small pocket of water. This expands when heated, pushing against a receptor at the base of the pocket.

But the question remains: how good are these heat sensors? The closest large population of charcoal beetles was probably in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, around 130 kilometres away. Did they really feel the heat of the fire?

Into the fire

Infrared radiation is probably the most reliable way to spot a fire from a distance, says Helmut Schmitz of the University of Bonn in Germany. The beetles are active during the day, when the flames would be hard to see from a distance. The beetles can also sense smoke, but smoke plumes can be disrupted by crosswinds, so are rather unreliable.

With Herbert Bousack of the Peter Gr?nberg Institute in J?lich, Germany, Schmitz calculated how much heat the oil fire must have emitted, and thus how sensitive the beetles' sensors needed to be.

Based on the size of the oil tank, it must have been putting out around 20 kilowatts of heat per square metre. That means the beetles needed to sense an extraordinarily faint signal of 0.13-0.41 milliwatts per square metre.

Lab tests suggest that each sensilla can only sense signals of 0.6 watts per square metre ? which is a problem as the real signal was a thousand times weaker. But Schmitz says those lab tests were crude, and probably didn't tap the beetles' true abilities.

It may be that the beetles can combine signals from multiple sensillas, which would allow them to spot much weaker signals. The sensors may also make use of a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, in which random noise (in this case, heat from other sources) actually improves the sensitivity of the system.

Maybe we should start making insect-based fire alarms.

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Get rid of your cell phone if you want to save some cash. While this is not the most popular way to save money, cell phones are not a necessity. Cell phones should be considered a convenience not a necessity. If you cannot get rid of your phone altogether, at least check your usage to find out if you can get away with a less expensive plan.

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You can feel as if you have nowhere to turn if your personal finances are in trouble. But, with some determination and advice, it is possible to gain control over them. Use the advice from this article to help guide you when making financial decisions. Before long, the problems associated with finances will be in your past.

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