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Monday, April 22, 2013
Report: The Start Button Is Coming Back to Windows
First performer at Woodstock dies of heart attack
NEW YORK (AP) ? Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday. He was 72.
Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement. He was born in Brooklyn.
Havens was known for his crafty guitar work and cover songs, including his well-received cover of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman."
His performance at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival, where headliners included Jimi Hendrix, was a turning point in his career. He was the first act to hit the stage, performing for nearly three hours. His performance of "Freedom" ? based from the spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" ? became an anthem.
Havens returned to the site during Woodstock's 40th anniversary in 2009.
"Everything in my life, and so many others, is attached to that train," he said in an interview that year with The Associated Press.
Woodstock remains one of the events that continues to define the 1960s in the popular imagination. Performers included The Who, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and dozens of others, and the trippy anarchy of Woodstock has become legendary. There was lots of nudity, casual sex, dirty dancing and open drug use. The stage announcer famously warned people to steer clear of the brown acid.
Havens had originally been scheduled to go on fifth but had been bumped up because of travel delays. Festival producer Michael Lang said in the book "The Road to Woodstock" that he chose Havens "because of his calm but powerful demeanor."
His performance lasted hours because the next act hadn't showed up.
"So I'd go back and sing three more," Havens said in an interview with NPR. "This happened six times. So I sung every song I knew."
Havens' website said he had kidney surgery in 2010 and that he never recovered enough to perform concerts like he used to. He performed at Bill Clinton's presidential Inauguration in 1993.
Havens, who released his debut "Mixed Bag" in 1967, has released more than 25 albums. He sang with doo-wop groups on the street corner in his Brooklyn neighborhood at an early age. At 20, he moved to New York City's Greenwich Village, where he performed poetry, listened to folk music and learned how to play the guitar.
"I saw the Village as a place to escape to in order to express yourself," he said in his biography.
Havens' last album was 2008's "Nobody Left to Crown." He also started his own record label called Stormy Forest in 2000.
"I really sing songs that move me," he said in an interview with The Denver Post. "I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me."
Richie also became an actor in the 1970s and was featured in the original stage presentation of The Who's "Tommy." He appeared in the 1974 film "Catch My Soul" and co-starred with Richard Pryor in "Greased Lightning" in 1977.
Havens was the eldest of nine children. He is survived by his four daughters and many grandchildren.
A public memorial for Havens will be planned for a later date.
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First West Bank marathon highlights barriers to Palestinian movement
Marathoners observed a moment of silence for the victims in the Boston attacks before running a landscape scarred by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.?
Participants arrive at the finish line during a marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem April 21. While half of the participants in Sunday's event, which included a half marathon and a 10-km race on top of the full 42-km distance, were local Palestinians, runners from 11 different countries participated as well.
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EnlargeVisitors come to Bethlehem from all over because of its reputation as the birthplace of Jesus, but, on an unseasonably rain-swept morning, Manger Square became the scene of a different kind pilgrimage as runners in spandex and checkered Palestinian keffiyeh scarves embarked on the West Bank?s first ever marathon.
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Even as last week?s fatal bombing at the Boston Marathon suddenly robbed the popular events of their innocence in the US, the spirit of the newest marathon seemed little dampened as runners warmed up to drum-driven Middle Eastern folk music. But as the worldwide trend of marathoning spreads to the Holy Land, the Bethlehem Marathon has inevitably been routed through the charged terrain of geopolitical and religious conflict.
Dubbed the "Right to Movement Palestine Marathon," event organizers cast the run as a demonstration against the Israeli security policies that limit Palestinian travel between their cities and towns.
From the start line outside of the Church of the Nativity (the site of a weeks-long standoff in 2002 between Palestinian militants and the Israeli military), the race led runners to the controversial concrete separation wall erected in the wake of the Palestinian uprising of the last decade, and then on past crowded neighborhoods populated by Palestinian refugees. ?
"It sends a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people," says Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee and the former head of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. "It sends a message to the Israelis to recharge their mental batteries and reconsider their policies and start recognizing facts on the ground. It shows the Palestinian people that they are not alone."
That said, the message of the Bethlehem marathon went beyond Israeli-Palestinan conflict to touch on the Palestinians? own internal divisions. Several weeks ago, the United Nations organizers of the Gaza Strip marathon called off what would have been the third annual race there because the Hamas government banned women from participating ? giving the Bethlehem event added significance.
Mixed-gender race
While Palestinian officials preferred to focus criticism on Israel and the military?s refusal to allow Gazan runners to travel to the West Bank for the Bethlehem race, female runners and spectators acknowledged the friction between the Western tradition of mass amateur races and the social sensibilities of conservative Islam.
"There?s no difference between men and women except for the shape of their bodies," says Kharoom Said, a 22-year-old religiously observant runner who insisted that her hijab head covering would not bother her and called Hamas? decision "stupid." "It reflects how conservative and extreme they are. They are trying to suppress women and bring society backward."
Even though they had little praise of Hamas, residents of one refugee camp alongside the race route seemed to concur with the idea that a mixed-gender athletic event and tight-fitted athletic clothes flouted traditional religious mores.????
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News Corp settles shareholder lawsuit
(Reuters) - News Corp
The company said the money would come from insurance policies held by members of the board who were the defendants in the suits.
News Corp also said it would adopt enhanced corporate governance procedures, which would stay in place after the company's pending split later this year.
The agreement said the settlement is not an admission of wrong doing by News Corp.
"We are pleased to have resolved this matter," News Corp said in a statement.
"The agreement reflects the important steps News Corporation has taken over the last year to strengthen our corporate governance and compliance structure and we have committed to building on those efforts going forward."
Plaintiffs, including Amalgamated Bank and the New Orleans Employees' Retirement System, first sued in March 2011 over News Corp's acquisition of Shine Group Ltd, a company owned by Chairman Rupert Murdoch's daughter.
They amended the lawsuit in July 2011 to add claims related to the phone hacking scandal, which led News Corp shut down its British newspaper News of the World.
"We are proud of this historic settlement, which continues the 20 year history of Amalgamated Bank encouraging corporate reform and improved corporate governance." Edward Grebow, president & CEO of Amalgamated Bank, said in a statement.
Central Laborers Pension Fund and the City of New Orleans Employees' Retirement System (NOMERS)Chairman Edgar Chase said in statement, "We are proud of the meaningful role that we and our counsel played in the Company's continuing efforts to strengthen its governance on behalf of our beneficiaries in achieving this recovery and further improving corporate governance practices at News Corporation."
The agreement represents one of the largest derivative settlements in Delaware.
(Reporting by Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Jeffrey Benkoe and Theodore d'Afflisio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news-corp-139-million-shareholder-lawsuit-settlement-123202454--finance.html
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Deadly Afghan attacks kill NATO troops, civilians
Updated at 3:28 p.m. ET
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Six American troops and civilians were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said.
In the south, three U.S. service members and two U.S. civilian government employees were killed when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated when it struck an international military coalition convoy, Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, confirmed to CBS News.
Collins also confirmed that another U.S. government employee was killed in an insurgent attack in the eastern province of Kunar.
In a statement, Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling to the Middle East, identified the civilians killed in the south as a foreign service officer at the State Department and a Defense Department worker.
The attack took place in Qalat, the capital of Zabul province. Zabul is next to Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, and shares a volatile border with Pakistan. Kerry said the Americans were in Qalat to donate books to students at a school.
Kerry didn't release the civilians' names but said he had met the foreign service officer during his visit to Afghanistan last week.
"She was everything a Foreign Service Officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people," Kerry said. "She tragically gave her young life working to give young Afghans the opportunity to have a better future."
Afghan civilians also died in the Qalat attack, Kerry said in the statement, which didn't include an exact number. Four other State Department workers also suffered injuries, one critically, according to Kerry's statement.
The attacks occurred the same day that U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Afghanistan for a visit aimed at assessing the level of training that American troops can provide to Afghan security forces after international combat forces complete their withdrawal at the end of 2014.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul confirmed that Americans were involved in an attack.
"There are American and Afghan casualties. We are still investigating the incident and cannot confirm details at this time," the embassy said in a statement.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks.
The deaths bring the number of foreign military forces killed this year to 30, including 22 Americans.
It was unclear if the car bomber was targeting the coalition convoy or that of Provincial Gov. Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, who was driving to an event at a nearby school in Qalat, officials told The Associated Press. The explosion occurred in front of a hospital.
Nasery, who survived the attack, told The AP the car bomb exploded as his convoy was passing the hospital. He said a doctor was killed, and two of his bodyguards and a student from the school were wounded. The coalition convoy was leaving a base that is home to a provincial reconstruction team, or PRT, officials said.
"The governor's convoy was at the gate of the school," provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Rooghlawanay said. "At the same time the (coalition) convoy came out from the PRT and was passing by that place. The suicide bomber blew himself up between the two convoys."
Nasery said he thought his convoy was the intended target.
"I'm safe and healthy," he told The AP in a telephone call. "The target was my vehicle, but I survived."
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NDIA Presents The Red Ball Express Award To Michael D. Sprang
The Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division of NDIA presented the award, which recognizes significant contributions made to the development and support of light tactical vehicles, on March 20 in Sterling Heights, MI.
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) April 03, 2013
NDIA has announced that its Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division presented The Red Ball Express Award to Mr. Michael D. Sprang, JPO JLTV, on March 20, 2013, at the 5th Annual Membership Social in Sterling Heights, MI.The Red Ball Express is awarded for outstanding contribution to the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle (TWV) community. Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions that have led to the strengthening of our national security by developing, procuring, or supporting Tactical Wheeled Vehicles or critical technologies that contribute to the same.
Mr. Sprang has made many significant contributions to the development and support of light tactical vehicles, especially the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), over the last eight years during a critical period of military combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In particular, Mr. Sprang managed the production and fielding of thousands of armor kits for HMMWV?s in Iraq and Afghanistan, at a value of over six billion dollars. His relentless drive to field these kits as rapidly as possible, while adhering to exacting standards, saved countless American and allied lives.
About NDIA: The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is America?s leading Defense Industry association promoting national security. NDIA provides a legal and ethical forum for the exchange of information between Industry and Government on National Security issues. NDIA members foster the development of the most innovative and superior equipment, training and support for warfighters and first responders through our divisions, local chapters, affiliated associations and events.
Learn more about NDIA's Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division at: http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/TacticalWheeledVehicles/Pages/default.aspx or on twitter: @NDIA_TWV & #ndiatwv
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Suspects booked on murder in Nev. official's death
RENO, Nev. (AP) ? Investigators believe four suspects stole property in the apartment of Nevada's chief insurance examiner before killing him and dumping his body in a river, authorities said Sunday.
Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said all four suspects have been booked on murder charges in the death of William McCune, 62, whose blanket-wrapped, duct-tape-bound body was found Saturday.
Initially, Michael Evans, 23, and Anthony Elliot, 20, were booked on murder charges, while Raul Garcia, 22, and Makyla Blackmore, 20, were arrested on burglary charges. But Furlong said Sunday that Garcia and Blackmore were later booked on murder charges.
The suspects are from the Carson City area, he said, and the case isn't related to McCune's work for the state.
Investigators found evidence of a bloody, violent struggle in McCune's apartment on Thursday, the same day he was reported missing after he failed to catch a business flight with a co-worker.
Detectives believe McCune knew two of the suspects socially, Furlong said, and the motive was the theft of property or money from him. They're still processing evidence at McCune's apartment and trying to compile an accurate list of stolen items, he said.
"We think stealing was quite apparently the motive because they took so much from him," Furlong told The Associated Press. "The mystery is if you intended on robbing and killing him, why did you have to take the body out? That doesn't make sense to me."
Three suspects were arrested Saturday on the Las Vegas Strip after allegedly trying to sell a "computer item," the sheriff said. Investigators were trying to determine whether it belonged to McCune.
Evans was taken into custody in Carson City, while authorities believe the other three suspects fled Carson City for Las Vegas after news broke of McCune's disappearance.
All four suspects were spotted near McCune's apartment around the time of his disappearance, and businesses frequented by the suspects provided important tips that led to their arrests, Furlong said. He declined to elaborate.
Authorities were unsure how long two of the suspects and McCune knew each other or how they met.
It wasn't clear Sunday whether any of the four had an attorney, and the Las Vegas and Carson City jails don't make new inmates available to the media for comment. The three suspects in Las Vegas are expected to be returned to Carson City within a week.
McCune had held his position since December 2009 and worked similar jobs for two decades before that. As head of the division's corporate and financial affairs section, McCune worked to ensure the solvency of insurance companies in the state. He was charged with ensuring each company had sufficient money in their reserves to cover all claims and obligations.
McCune was single and without any known children, Furlong said, and there was no forced entry at his home.
Investigators believe the body found in the Carson River Saturday was that of McCune, even though a positive identification and cause of death are not expected to be officially established by the Washoe County medical examiner's office until later this week, he said.
There was no indication yet of the weapon or weapons involved in the death, he added, but investigators would have a better idea after autopsy results are released.
While authorities have not found McCune's pickup truck, they located its license plates Friday night at a Carson City residence that Evans was known to have frequented, the sheriff said.
Investigators do not expect any additional arrests in the case. "We believe all the people involved have been taken into custody," Furlong said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suspects-booked-murder-nev-officials-death-202830623.html
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ?Back To Our Roots'
SAY Media just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at Business Insider, has joined ReadWrite (a tech blog that Say acquired in 2011) as editor-in-chief. I reported on Friday that Thomas (who's an old boss of mine ? he was executive editor at VentureBeat back when I was the assistant editor) was in talks for the position, though all SAY representatives would tell me at the time was that they were talking to a number of candidates.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TMerzCi_JdA/
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