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Thursday, December 27, 2012
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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Monday, December 24, 2012
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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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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".Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qDWpKM8YGyw/
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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.
Source: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2012/12/a_beautiful_find.html
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