Cops Say NBC Told Not To Use Magazine - Business Insider

NBC asked Washington D.C. police if it could use a 30-bullet magazine on "Meet the Press," but police denied that request, The Washington Post reports.

The network apparently went ahead and obtained the high-capacity magazine, which Meet the Press host David Gregory displayed Sunday while interviewing the head of the National Rifle Association.

Police are now investigating whether the show violated D.C.'s ban on semiautomatic weapons and the high-capacity magazines used in those weapons, on the heels of an outcry from the conservative blogosphere.

Here's an email D.C. police sent to the blog Patriot Perspective, which a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman confirmed to the Post was accurate:

MPD has received numerous emails informing us of the segment. NBC contacted MPD inquiring if they could use a high-capacity magazine for their segment. NBC was informed that possession of a high-capacity magazines is not permissible and their request was denied.

It's not clear how Meet the Press obtained the high-capacity magazine used on Sunday's show.

A representative for NBC did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, nor did a representative for the D.C. police department.

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'Appreciate The Little Things': Coach Who Battled Cancer ? CBS ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ? Todd Oakes is the pitching coach at the University of Minnesota, and he will return to work Wednesday, amazingly.

Oakes is a husband, a father of three pitchers and a man who has been fighting for his life the last six months. That?s what makes this Christmas so special.

A Sports Family

The Oakes boys are bonded by much, starting with baseball. That?s where their father has coached two of them at the University of Minnesota. And it was there he was coaching last year when he felt rundown.

?It came down during our baseball season,? Oakes said. ?I was just really rundown, tired, fatigued more than normal.?

The problem was acute myeloid leukemia, and it meant 80 days in the hospital and a bone marrow transplant.

?It was definitely a shock, obviously didn?t see it coming,? said Oakes? son Tanner, who pitches for Augsburg. ?But we went through it together, handled it pretty well, and it brought the family together.?

Oakes? family and baseball attitude are intertwined ? built to compete, play as a team.

?You know, the three things that got me through this are faith, family and friends,? he said.

The family had supporting phrases and made T-shirts to help Oakes in his struggle.

But it wasn?t just the three boys and dad in the fight, there was the most valuable mother and wife.

?She?s a tough lady,? said Tyler Oakes, one of Oakes? sons and a former Gopher pitcher. ?My dad calls her the MVP of the family.?

Dad was a one-time professional pitcher himself. And Oakes has instilled in his sons the spirit to compete, be supportive teammates, and, in this case, a supportive to their family.

This Christmas, the Oakes family gathered with appreciation for everything.

?I?ve said I?m a changed person,? Oakes said. ?I think the biggest thing you learn?is just appreciate the little things in life.?

Source: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/12/25/appreciate-the-little-things-coach-who-battled-cancer/

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Ho Ho Holy Discount: Vatican tax-free store busy

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Anyone left on your Christmas list just aching for a 65-inch Samsung 3D flat-screen television? Just your luck. The Vatican's duty-free department store has one on sale for ?2,899 ($3,840) ? a nifty savings over the ?3,799 ($5,032) it costs at Italy's main electronics chain Euronics.

Or how about some new luggage for the holidays? The Vatican shop stocks a variety of Samsonite Cordoba Duo carry-ons for ?123, a nice markdown from the ?135 on the Samsonite website. But if a last-minute shopping splurge is in order, the Vatican can also oblige: Take this leather-bound travelling trunk from Florence's "The Bridge" leatherworks, with its five drawers, plaid interior, six wooden hangars and shiny brass buckles.

At ?5,900, it comes with a matching leather golf club bag, just what every monsignor needs under his Christmas tree.

There's a little-known open secret in the Vatican gardens, a few paces behind St. Peter's Basilica and tucked inside the Vatican's old train station: a sprawling, three-story tax-free department store that rivals any airport duty free or military PX, stocking everything from Church's custom grade shoes (?483 a pair) to Baume et Mercier watches (ladies ?1,585, men's Capeland ?5,000).

There's a hitch, however. It's not open to the public, only to Vatican citizens, employees and their dependents, diplomats accredited to the Holy See and (unofficially) their lucky friends who, after stocking up on holiday must-haves, proceed to the checkout with their Vatican connection and the ID card that entitles them to shop there.

To be sure, Rome is no stranger to tax-free shopping. Embassies, nearby military bases and the U.N. food agencies all have commissaries for their employees, where imports of everything from American ice cream to French wine can be had minus the 21 percent sales tax included in list prices in Italy.

The Vatican has that and more, given that it's its own sovereign state ? the world's smallest ? operating in central Rome. At 44 hectares (110 acres), the Vatican city state is the physical home of the Holy See: the pope and governing structure and administration of the Catholic Church.

The Vatican Museums, home of Sistine Chapel, are the main profit-making enterprise of the Vatican city state, bringing in ?91.3 million in revenue last year alone. But other smaller entrepreneurial endeavors boost the Vatican's coffers as well, including the department store, the tax-free gas station, the stamp and coin collecting office, the Vatican pharmacy and its supermarket.

And in these days of austerity, their profits and bottom line are ever more important to the Vatican.

The Vatican is entitled to run such tax-free enterprises inside its walls based on the Lateran Treaty, the 1929 pact that regularized and regulates the Vatican's relations with Italy. But those regulations also limit the Vatican's customer base, lest all of Rome descend on the supermarket to stock up on Gordon's Gin (?8.50 a liter compared to the ?15 it can run in nearby liquor stores) or Montecristo No. 3 Cuban cigars (box of 25 ?84 ($110.95) compared to $164.95 on www.bestcigarprices.com).

About 4,700 people are employed by the Holy See and the Vatican city state; the Vatican's diplomatic corps ? the Holy See has relations with some 175 countries ? adds another chunk to the customer base.

Few people outside Rome know the department store exists ? there's no evidence of it on any Vatican website, no photos of its wares, no advertising outside the Vatican walls. Those who do know it exists seem to want to pretend it doesn't since the high-end luxury items on sale aren't necessarily in tune with either the sobriety or the salaries of the Vatican rank-and-file.

In fact, on a recent Thursday morning, nary a collar nor religious habit was in sight as ordinary lay folk milled around the spacious store during December's "extraordinary opening hours" ? extended to accommodate bargain-hunting Christmas shoppers who were rewarded with a wine tasting in the central atrium and piles of Brooks Brothers non-iron shirts and Burberry backpacks to choose from.

"More than the prices, it's the material," said Luciano, a bulky Roman, who refused to give his last name as he shopped for an overcoat with his wife and an obliging Vatican friend waiting at checkout. "This one I don't like ? I look like a priest," he muttered as he put the navy blue trench coat back on a hangar.

Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the American who sought to bring some order into the Vatican's finances as head of the Vatican city state, is credited with having made the department store what it is today, moving it into the Vatican's underused train station, a miniature version of Washington's Union station with a sweeping double staircase and glass-front window that frames the dome of St. Peter's a few meters (yards) away.

Szoka said he moved it from the basement of the Vatican government building to the train station for more space, since the station wasn't used anymore for passengers and provided the perfect, airy open space that a shop of its kind would require.

"Our principal motivation in changing the train station building into a department store was mainly for the convenience of our employees, as well as for those who could come into the Vatican and shop there," he said in an email from his home in Michigan. "Naturally, we expected a profit, but that was not the primary motivation."

Szoka retired in 2006, well before the global economic crisis hit. The current leadership of the "Governorato" as the city state administration is called, recently asked all department heads to come up with cost-saving or profit-making initiatives to help the Vatican get through the tough times.

"Any good administrator wants to save what can be saved," said Monsignor Giuseppe Sciacca, the governorato's No. 2. "It seems obvious, necessary."

The Philatelic and Numismatic Office, for example, recently started selling a special limited-edition stamp to help pay for the ?14 million restoration of the Bernini colonnade in St. Peter's Square after corporate sponsorship dried up amid the recession.

Vatican Radio announced in July it would be saving "hundreds of thousands of euros" in energy costs by stopping short -and -medium-wave broadcasts to Europe and the Americas, using other technologies instead.

Perhaps even more than the department store, the Vatican supermarket is a much-sought after perk for Vatican employees, and a boost to the Vatican's bottom line. And at Christmastime, it is as jammed as the department store, with lines snaking through the store and cars taking up valuable parking spaces inside Vatican City as shoppers pile their carts high with panettone, the traditional Italian Christmas cake which is the de rigueur gift for Italian holiday parties. Panettone can run ?25 a pop at Roman bakeries; in the Vatican supermarket, a high-end brand runs almost half that.

"The Nutella is just better here," said Maria Grazia Mancini, a Rome municipal worker who was doing a major pre-Christmas shop with her father, a Vatican employee. "The products here are for export ? the same brands but for export, so it's better quality."

While Sciacca is only too pleased to see the Vatican saving money where it can be saved and making it where it can be made, he was adamant that there are no plans to expand the customer base of the Vatican's little-known discount stores. Accords with Italy don't allow it.

"We shouldn't. And we can't," he said.

He spoke on the sidelines of the presentation of the Vatican's 2012 nativity scene, being unveiled Monday night and donated for the first time. The Vatican happily accepted the donated creche from the Italian region of Basilicata after its ?550,000 Christmas setup in 2009 was exposed earlier this year during the scandal over leaked Vatican documents.

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Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook

Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures and patent risk advisory firm RPX Corporation. Kodak said a portion of the money will be paid by the 12 licensees, giving each licensee rights to the digital imaging patent portfolio and "certain other Kodak patents".

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A Beautiful Find | Redfin Blog

December 19, 2012

Redfin today launched Redfin Collections, a gorgeous new Redfin.com feature for you to share sets of listing photos with your friends, your real estate agent and the vast Redfin community of real estate aficionados:

Already the thousands of Redfin fans invited to a September trial of Collections have created a catalog of desire, collecting photos of?modern architecture?and?celebrity mansions.

You can also draw on an inexhaustible supply of design ideas, from?luscious gardens, to?breathtaking kitchens,?giant windows, and?overstuffed libraries.

And of course there are a few?wacky Collections, too:?pretty pretty ponies,?Panda Pandemonium,?extreme taxidermy, and?palatial tree-houses.

A Big Change for Redfin
The whole idea of Collections is a big change for Redfin. It wasn?t easy for the world?s nerdiest real estate website, with numbers everywhere about people, properties and prices, to get gushy about pretty pictures. But some of our most artistic engineers and agents fought for this change, on the website and in our culture.

Just look at how a Collection opens, with the photos taking their places on the screen like little kids in a school-play. We rarely go out of our way for touches like that, but at last we wanted to do justice to the sense of discovery and desire that are the best parts about a home search.

When I was reviewing the final Collections ? and here you have to imagine the pursed lips of the food critic in ?Ratatouille,? expecting not to be impressed ? I was surprised by the intensity of my emotions over a perfect little bookshelf or a sudden vast expanse of green. It gave me a sense of what could be and a touch of what might have been.

It sounds silly but it really made me think of a poem someone made me read in high school, where ?footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.? There are a lot of rose gardens in Redfin Collections, a lot of emotion.

A Big Change for the Industry
Collections are also a big change for the real estate industry, which has had a fitful relationship with social networks. Home-buying after all is often competitive rather than social. And home-sellers are rightly sensitive about the things people say about their place.

This is probably why no broker has developed online social tools for website users to share real estate information with others. And it?s also why Redfin had to build our own social tools, because the privacy in real estate is tricky, and we had to get it just right.

Redfin?s Collections don?t feature pictures of pretty dresses or pieces of chicken; we feature people?s homes. The owners may want the photos removed from the web once the house is no longer for sale. The listing agent is entitled to attribution for the photos.

Redfin Collections includes not only these safeguards, but also the real-estate context that a general photo-sharing site can?t: for example, the price and location of each home featured in a Collection; access to full, accurate details on the property; and a way to actually see the home in person.

How to Create a Collection
To access Collections, just click the new ?More? menu that appears in the header of every page on Redfin?s site:

To start your own Collection, just click the plus sign in the pop-up button that appears at the top right of a listing photo whenever your mouse hovers above it:

Then give the collection a name, and add a caption to the first photo:

Once you click Add Photo, you?ve created a Collection! When you add subsequent photos to a Collection, we?ll ask whether you want to contribute to an existing Collection or to start a new one.

Everyone can see any Collection, but once a home sells, individual home photos within the Collection may be limited to registered users, depending on what?s allowed in local listing agreements.

We also offer comments on photos, but with similar limits, based on whether the seller permits comments in the listing agreement:

If the seller doesn?t agree to comments, we don?t even allow a caption on the photo.

Of course, we make it easy to share Collections on Facebook, Twitter or via email.?And we let you subscribe to a Collection, notifying you whenever a new photo of a gorgeous kitchen or a quirky bathroom is added.

Our hope is that we?ve found a way to let people share what they love about real estate while still respecting the rights of sellers and their agents.

The conversation about the homes we dream about ? and laugh about, and can?t stop thinking about ? has always been happening, and real estate agents have always been a part of it, even now as it moves online with Redfin Collections.

Many thanks to the whole Collections team, which rallied to get Collections out the door by year-end, and to the thousands of early users who helped us get it done right.

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Source: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2012/12/a_beautiful_find.html

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FTC introduces changes to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ...

FTC Strengthens Kids' Privacy, Gives Parents Greater Control Over Their Information By Amending Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
Rule Being Modified to Keep Up with Changing Technology
The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids' privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13.

The FTC initiated a review in 2010 to ensure that the COPPA Rule keeps up with evolving technology and changes in the way children use and access the Internet, including the increased use of mobile devices and social networking. The updates to the COPPA Rule reflect careful consideration of the entire record of the rulemaking, which included a public roundtable and several rounds of public comments sought by the agency.

"The Commission takes seriously its mandate to protect children's online privacy in this ever-changing technological landscape," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. "I am confident that the amendments to the COPPA Rule strike the right balance between protecting innovation that will provide rich and engaging content for children, and ensuring that parents are informed and involved in their children's online activities."

The final amendments:

modify the list of "personal information" that cannot be collected without parental notice and consent, clarifying that this category includes geolocation information, photographs, and videos;
offer companies a streamlined, voluntary and transparent approval process for new ways of getting parental consent;
close a loophole that allowed kid-directed apps and websites to permit third parties to collect personal information from children through plug-ins without parental notice and consent;
extend coverage in some of those cases so that the third parties doing the additional collection also have to comply with COPPA;
extend the COPPA Rule to cover persistent identifiers that can recognize users over time and across different websites or online services, such as IP addresses and mobile device IDs;
strengthen data security protections by requiring that covered website operators and online service providers take reasonable steps to release children's personal information only to companies that are capable of keeping it secure and confidential;
require that covered website operators adopt reasonable procedures for data retention and deletion; and
strengthen the FTC's oversight of self-regulatory safe harbor programs.
The COPPA Rule was mandated when Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. It requires that operators of websites or online services that are either directed to children under 13 or have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information from children under 13 give notice to parents and get their verifiable consent before collecting, using, or disclosing such personal information, and keep secure the information they collect from children. It also prohibits them from conditioning children's participation in activities on the collection of more personal information than is reasonably necessary for them to participate. The Rule contains a "safe harbor" provision that allows industry groups or others to seek FTC approval of self-regulatory guidelines.

Definitions

The Final Rule includes these modified definitions:

The definition of an operator has been updated to make clear that the Rule covers a child-directed site or service that integrates outside services, such as plug-ins or advertising networks, that collect personal information from its visitors. This definition does not extend liability to platforms, such as Google Play or the App Store, when such platforms merely offer the public access to child-directed apps.
The definition of a website or online service directed to children is expanded to include plug-ins or ad networks that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information through a child-directed website or online service. In addition, in contrast to sites and services whose primary target audience is children, and who must presume all users are children, sites and services that target children only as a secondary audience or to a lesser degree may differentiate among users, and will be required to provide notice and obtain parental consent only for those users who identify themselves as being younger than 13.
The definition of personal information now also includes geolocation information, as well as photos, videos, and audio files that contain a child's image or voice.
The definition of personal information requiring parental notice and consent before collection now includes "persistent identifiers" that can be used to recognize users over time and across different websites or online services. However, no parental notice and consent is required when an operator collects a persistent identifier for the sole purpose of supporting the website or online service's internal operations, such as contextual advertising, frequency capping, legal compliance, site analysis, and network communications. Without parental consent, such information may never be used or disclosed to contact a specific individual, including through behavioral advertising, to amass a profile on a specific individual, or for any other purpose. The final amended Rule also adds a process allowing industry to seek formal approval to add permitted activities to the definition of support for internal operations.
The definition of collection of personal information has been changed so that operators may allow children to participate in interactive communities without parental consent, so long as the operators take reasonable measures to delete all or virtually all children's personal information before it is made public.
Parental Notice
The amended Final Rule revises the parental notice provisions to help ensure that operators' privacy policies, and the direct notices they must give parents before collecting children's personal information, are concise and timely.

Parental Consent Mechanisms
The amendments add several new methods that operators can use to obtain verifiable parental consent: electronic scans of signed parental consent forms; video-conferencing; use of government-issued identification; and alternative payment systems, such as debit cards and electronic payment systems, provided they meet certain criteria.

The FTC considered numerous comments on the "sliding-scale mechanism of parental consent," otherwise known as "email plus." Under this method, operators that collect children's personal information for internal use only may obtain verifiable parental consent with an e-mail from the parent, as long as the operator confirms consent by sending a delayed e-mail confirmation to the parent, or calling or sending a letter to the parent. After considering the comments on "email plus," the FTC concluded that it remains a valued and cost-effective consent mechanism for certain operators. The Final Rule retains email plus as an acceptable consent method for operators that collect personal information only for internal use.

To encourage the development of new consent methods, the Commission establishes a voluntary 120-day notice and comment process so parties can seek approval of a particular consent method. Operators participating in a Commission-approved safe-harbor program may use any consent method approved by the program.

Confidentiality and Security Requirements

The amended Final Rule requires operators to take reasonable steps to make sure that children's personal information is released only to service providers and third parties that are capable of maintaining the confidentiality, security, and integrity of such information, and who assure that they will do so. The Rule also requires operators to retain children's personal information for only as long as is reasonably necessary, and to protect against unauthorized access or use while the information is being disposed of.

Safe Harbors

The FTC seeks to strengthen its oversight of the approved self-regulatory "safe harbor programs" by requiring them to audit their members and report annually to the Commission the aggregated results of those audits.

The Commission vote to issue the amended Final Rule was 3-1-1, with Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch abstaining. Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen voted no and issued a dissenting statement on the ground that she believes a core provision of the amendments exceeds the scope of the authority granted by Congress in COPPA. She stated that, regardless of policy justifications, she cannot support extending COPPA's statutory definition of "operator" to impose obligations on websites or online services that do not collect personal information from children or have access to or control of such information collected by a third-party.

The final amended Rule will be published in a notice in the Federal Register. The amendments to the Final Rule will go into effect on July 1, 2013.

The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC's online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC's website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics. Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/19/ftc-coppa-changes/

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