Police: 2 arrested in al-Qaida linked Canada plot

TORONTO (AP) ? Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered allegations by some governments and experts of a relationship of convenience between Shiite-led Iran and the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.

Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, had "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida members in Iran, though there was no reason to think the planned attacks were state-sponsored, RCMP Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said. Police said the men did not get financial support from al-Qaida, but declined to provide more details.

"This is the first known al-Qaida planned attack that we've experienced in Canada," Superintendent Doug Best told a news conference. Officials in Washington and Toronto said it had no connections to last week's bombings at the marathon in Boston.

The arrests in Montreal and Toronto raised questions about Iran's murky relationship with the terrorist network. Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran who is now a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said al-Qaida has had a clandestine presence in Iran since at least 2001 and that neither the terror group nor Tehran speak openly about it.

"The Iranian regime kept some of these elements under house arrest," he said in an email to The Associated Press. "Some probably operate covertly. AQ members often transit Iran traveling between hideouts in Pakistan and Iraq."

U.S. intelligence officials have long tracked limited al-Qaida activity inside Iran. Remnants of al-Qaida's so-called management council are still there, though they are usually kept under virtual house arrest by an Iranian regime suspicious of the Sunni-/Salafi-based militant movement. There are also a small number of financiers and facilitators who help move money, and sometimes weapons and people throughout the region from their base in Iran.

Last fall, the Obama administration offered up to $12 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of two al-Qaida leaders based in Iran. The U.S. State Department described them as key facilitators in sending extremists to Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Treasury Department also announced financial penalties against one of the men.

Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for the Iranian mission to the United Nations, said the terrorist network was not operating in Iran.

"Iran's position against this group is very clear and well known. (Al-Qaida) has no possibility to do any activity inside Iran or conduct any operation abroad from Iran's territory," Miryousefi said in a statement emailed to the AP late Monday. "We reject strongly and categorically any connection to this story."

The investigation surrounding the planned attack was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The attack "was definitely in the planning stage but not imminent," RCMP chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan said Monday. "We are alleging that these two individuals took steps and conducted activities to initiate a terrorist attack. They watched trains and railways."

Strachan said they were targeting a route, but did not say whether it was a cross border route. Best said the duo had been under investigation since last fall. Their bail hearing was scheduled in Toronto on Tuesday.

Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police said the men are not Canadian citizens, said they had been in Canada a "significant amount of time," and declined to say where they were from or why they were in the country.

Muhammad Robert Heft, who runs an outreach organization for Islamic converts, and Hussein Hamdani, a lawyer and longtime advocate in the Muslim community, said one of the suspects is Tunisian and the other is from the United Arab Emirates. Both were part of a group of Muslim community leaders who were briefed by the RCMP ahead of Monday's announcement.

Authorities were tipped off by members of the community of one of the suspects, Best said, without expanding.

A spokeswoman for the University of Sherbrooke near Montreal said Esseghaier studied there in 2008-2009. More recently, he has been doing doctoral research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, a spokeswoman at the training university confirmed.

A LinkedIn page showing a man with Esseghaier's name and academic background helped author a number of biology research papers, including on HIV and cancer detection. The page carries a photo of a black flag inscribed with the Islamic declaration of faith.

The arrests just a few months after two Canadians were discovered among militants killed in a terrorist siege at a gas plant in Algeria. The siege killed at least 38 hostages and 29 militants, including Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, two high school friends from London, Ontario.

In 2006 Canadian police foiled the so-called Toronto 18 home grown plot to set off bombs outside Toronto's Stock Exchange, a building housing Canada's spy agency and a military base. The goal was to scare Canada into removing its troops from Afghanistan. The arrests made international headlines and heightened fears in a country where many people thought they were relatively immune from terrorist strikes.

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Associated Press writers Rob Gillies in Toronto, Peter James Spielmann and Maria Sanminiatelli in New York, and Pete Yost and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-2-arrested-al-qaida-linked-canada-plot-230552576.html

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Hundreds of tiny untethered surgical tools deployed in first animal biopsies

Apr. 23, 2013 ? By using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, Johns Hopkins engineers and physicians say they have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a more effective way to access narrow conduits in the body as well as find early signs of cancer or other diseases.

In two recent peer-reviewed journal articles, the team reported successful animal testing of the tiny tools, which require no batteries, wires or tethers as they seize internal tissue samples. The devices are called "mu-grippers," incorporating the Greek letter that represents the term for "micro." Instead of relying on electric or pneumatic power, these star-shaped tools are autonomously activated by the body's heat, which causes their tiny "fingers" to close on clusters of cells. Because the tools also contain a magnetic material, they can be retrieved through an existing body opening via a magnetic catheter.

This image depicts an mu-gripper near the opening of an endoscopic catheter. Image credit: Evin Gultepe, Gracias Lab, Johns Hopkins University.

In the April print edition of Gastroenterology, the researchers described their use of the mu-grippers to collect cells from the colon and esophagus of a pig, which was selected because its intestinal tract is similar to that of humans. Earlier this year, the team members reported in the journal Advanced Materials that they had successfully inserted the mu-grippers through the mouth and stomach of a live animal and released them in a hard-to-access place, the bile duct, from which they obtained tissue samples.

"This is the first time that anyone has used a sub-millimeter-sized device -- the size of a dust particle -- to conduct a biopsy in a live animal," said David Gracias, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering whose lab team developed the microgrippers. "That's a significant accomplishment. And because we can send the grippers in through natural orifices, it is an important advance in minimally invasive treatment and a step toward the ultimate goal of making surgical procedures noninvasive."

Another member of the research team, physician Florin M. Selaru of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said the mu-grippers could lead to an entirely new approach to conducting biopsies, which are considered the "gold standard" test for diagnosing cancer and other diseases.

This photo shows dozens of dust-sized surgical grippers in a vial. Image credit: Evin Gultepe, Gracias Lab, Johns Hopkins University

The advantage of the mu-grippers, he said, is that they could collect far more samples from many more locations. He pointed out that the much larger forceps used during a typical colonoscopy may remove 30 to 40 pieces of tissue to be studied for signs of cancer. But despite a doctor's best intentions, the small number of specimens makes it easy to miss diseased lesions.

"What's the likelihood of finding the needle in the haystack?" said Selaru, an assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. "Based on a small sample, you can't always draw accurate inferences. We need to be able to do a larger statistical sampling of the tissue. That's what would give us enough statistical power to draw a conclusion, which, in essence, is what we're trying to do with the microgrippers. We could deploy hundreds or even thousands of these grippers to get more samples and a better idea of what kind of or whether a disease is present."

Although each mu-gripper can grab a much smaller tissue sample than larger biopsy tools, the researchers said each gripper can retrieve enough cells for effective microscopic inspection and genetic analysis. Armed with this information, they said, the patient's physician could be better prepared to diagnose and treat the patient.

This approach would be possible through the latest application of the Gracias lab's self-assembling tiny surgical tools, which can be activated by heat or chemicals, without relying on electrical wires, tubes, batteries or tethers. The low-cost devices are fabricated through photolithography, the same process used to make computer chips. Their fingerlike projections are made of materials that would normally curl inward, but the team adds a polymer resin to give the joints rigidity and to keep the digits from closing.

Prior to a biopsy, the grippers are kept on ice, so that the fingers remain in this extended position. An endoscopy tool then is used to insert hundreds of grippers into the area targeted for a biopsy. Within about five minutes, the warmth of the body causes the polymer coating to soften, and the fingers curl inward to grasp some tissue. A magnetic tool is then inserted to retrieve them.

Although the animal testing results are promising, the researchers said the process will require further refinement before human testing can begin. "The next step is improving how we deploy the grippers," Selaru said. "The concept is sound, but we still need to address some of the details. The other thing we need to do is thorough safety studies."

Further development can be costly, however. The team has applied for grants to fund advances in the project, which is protected by provisional patents obtained through the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office. Biotechnology investors might also help move the project forward. "It is more a question of money than time as to how long it will take before we could use this in human patients," Selaru said

Along with Gracias and Selaru, the Johns Hopkins researchers who contributed significantly to the two journal articles were Evin Gultepe, Sumitaka Yamanaka, Eun Shin and Anthony Kalloo. Additional contributors were Kate E. Laflin, Sachin Kadam, Yoosun Shim, Alexandru V. Olaru, Berkeley Limketkai, Mouen A. Khashab and Jatinder S. Randhawa. The researchers are affiliated with the School of Medicine, the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology.

Funding for this research has come from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute and the Broad Medical Research Institute.

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1. Evin Gultepe, Sumitaka Yamanaka, Kate E. Laflin, Sachin Kadam, YooSun Shim, Alexandru V. Olaru, Berkeley Limketkai, Mouen A. Khashab, Anthony N. Kalloo, David H. Gracias, Florin M. Selaru. Biologic Tissue Sampling With Untethered Microgrippers. Gastroenterology, 2013; 144 (4): 691 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2013.01.066
2. Evin Gultepe, Jatinder S. Randhawa, Sachin Kadam, Sumitaka Yamanaka, Florin M. Selaru, Eun J. Shin, Anthony N. Kalloo, David H. Gracias. Biopsy with Thermally-Responsive Untethered Microtools. Advanced Materials, 2013; 25 (4): 514 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203348

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New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad

By Irene Klotz

Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:21pm EDT

(Reuters) - A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia.

The 13-story Antares rocket, developed and flown by Orbital Sciences Corp, lifted off at 5 p.m. EDT from a Virginia-owned and operated launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

"Beautiful view," said NASA launch commentator Kyle Herring as live video from the rocket, broadcast on NASA TV, showed the booster riding atop a bright plume of fire above the Atlantic Ocean.

Ten minutes later, the rocket deposited its payload - a 8,380-pound (3,800-kg) dummy capsule - into an orbit 158 miles above the planet, fulfilling the primary goal of the test flight.

Orbital Sciences and privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, hold NASA contracts worth a combined $3.5 billion to fly cargo to the space station, a $100 billion research outpost that flies about 250 miles above Earth.

NASA turned to commercial suppliers after retiring the space shuttles in 2011.

Flight controllers radioed news of Antares' successful debut to the station crew shortly after launch.

"Wahoo, that's super," replied station commander Chris Hadfield, with the Canadian Space Agency.

"Congratulations to all concerned. That bodes well for all of our futures," Hadfield said.

On its next flight, scheduled for late June or early July, another Antares rocket will carry a Cygnus cargo ship on a demonstration mission to the station.

California-based SpaceX completed three test flights and last year began delivering cargo to the station under its $1.6 billion contract.

'A LONG SLOG'

The debut of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket was delayed by the construction of its launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located on the southern end of NASA's Wallops Island facility. Two launch attempts last week were canceled due to a last-minute technical problem followed by bad weather at the launch site.

"It's been a long slog," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said after the launch. "It's absolutely incredible what this team has done."

NASA's share of developing the Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule will total about $288 million upon successful completion of the second and final planned test flight.

Combined, NASA and Orbital Sciences spent about $300 million to develop Cygnus and slightly more than that to develop the rocket, Orbital Sciences Executive Vice President Frank Culbertson told reporters after the launch.

"As a company it was a huge risk to invest in this," he said. "But I think it's going to demonstrate a commercial capability that will pay off in the long run."

"With the right people pulling together and with great teammates, we were able to achieve this. We're real happy," Culbertson said.

NASA's contribution to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule development was $396 million.

Standing 130 feet tall and packing 740,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff, Antares was the largest rocket to fly from Wallops Island, which has been operating for 68 years as a launch site for smaller suborbital rockets, high-altitude balloons and research aircraft.

In addition to station cargo runs, Orbital Sciences has a separate contract to launch a NASA moon probe aboard a Minotaur 5 rocket from Wallops in August.

(Reporting by Irene Klotz in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Observations on film art : Silent films, old and new - David Bordwell

Blancanieves

Kristin here:

February and March have been good to silent cinema. Time for a round-up of some highlights as we impatiently anticipate Il Cinema Ritrovato, coming up in a little over two months.

Publications on Albert Capellani

In reporting on the 2010 and 2011 programs of Il Cinema Ritrovato, I highlighted one of the festival?s major revelations, that of the silent films of Albert Capellani. These generous doses of Capellani?s splendid films were put together by Mariann Lewinsky, who realized his importance after she included some of his shorts in her annual ?Cento Anni Fa? programs. In my entries I argued that Capellani was revealed as one of the early cinema?s great masters. (The 2010 entry is here, and the 2011 one here.)

Not surprisingly, during the intervening years, scholars have been busy researching Capellani?s films and career. March 6 to 24 saw a major retrospective at the Cin?math?que Fran?aise. (Information on the program is still available online, as is a detailed press release.) Shortly before it began, the first biography appeared: Christine Leteux?s Albert Capellani: Cineaste du Romanesque, with a foreword by Kevin Brownlow.

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Leteux discovered Capellani in May of 2012, thanks to seeing Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Mis?rables at the Forum des Images in Paris. Setting out to learn more about the filmmaker, she realized how thoroughly his memory had nearly vanished from film history. She sought out and received the cooperation of his grandson, Bernard Basset-Capellani, whom she describes as ?intarissable? (inexhaustible) on the subject.

The result is a solid, traditional biography, with chapters mostly organized around the companies for which Capellani worked (Pathe, SCAGL, World, Mutual, and so on) and some of his key films (Les Mis?rables, The Red Lantern). The prose style is easily readable French, at least to someone like me with an average knowledge of the language. For an interview with Leteux concerning the book, see here.

The book is on sale at the Cin?math?que?s shop, which unfortunately does not sell online. It was supposed to be available on Amazon.fr, but so far is not. The easiest way for those outside France to order it is through three third-party book-sellers on amazon.fr, all offering it at the cover price of 14.90 ?. Leteux?s book is a vital source for anyone interested in early cinema.

I was pleased to see that the last chapter ends with some quotations from my second entry on Capellani, ending with ?With the end of the main retrospective, however, it is safe to say that from now on anyone who claims to know early film history will need to be familiar with Capellani?s work.?

The book includes a filmography and list of films available on DVD. These include a new one, a restoration of The Red Lantern by our friends at the Cinematek in Brussels, available on Amazon.fr or directly from the Cinematek?s shop.

The French-language historical journal on cinema, 1895, timed its March, 2013 issue to coincide with the Cin?math?que?s retrospective. It is entirely devoted to Capellani. I have not had a chance to see it yet, but the table of contents is available here. The only online purchasing source for individual issues I have found is here; the page gives a lengthy summary of the contents.

Mariann continues to search for more surviving prints for restoration and eventual inclusion in future editions of Il Cinema Ritrovato. She has sent me some tantalizing news about recent discoveries and restorations. There will be a third Capellani season in 2014. This will probably include some of the director?s American films: Social Hypocrites (now restored), Flash of the Emerald (the one surviving reel), Inside of the Cup (surviving but so far with no projection print), Eye for Eye (two surviving reals), Sisters, and the French film Le Nabab. Other possible restorations include House of Mirth, La belle limonadiere, and Oh Boy!

A description of the 2013 Ritrovato festival is available here.

Nanook and friends

Early this year we posted our annual list of the ten best films of ninety years ago. It featured the classic early documentary, Robert Flaherty?s Nanook of the North. In March our friends at Flicker Alley released a two-disc Blu-ray edition of Nanook paired with the 1934 Danish feature, The Wedding of Palo (Palos Brudef?rd). The latter is one of those titles that one occasionally encounters on the fringes of older historical surveys, but it has been difficult indeed to see. This new print is a 2012 restoration from a George Eastman House original 35mm nitrate copy.

Nanook is familiar enough, but The Wedding of Palo is not. It was made by the Danish explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen, who appears in a brief introductory passage. Clearly he was influenced by Flaherty?s work. He combines a simple fictional narrative with documentary scenes of traditional Inuit life in eastern Greenland. The basic story involves the heroine Navarona, whose brothers are reluctant to lose their housekeeper by allowing her to marry. Two men of the tribe court her and come into violent jealous conflict. Interjected are sequences of a salmon hunt, a festival, a traditional song duel between the two rivals, and a polar-bear hunt. The staged dialogue scenes involve sound recording, with no subtitles but the occasional brief intertitle to translate.

As in Nanook, the non-professional actors are remarkably natural, especially the ?actress? portraying the heroine. There is a cute young boy brought in at intervals for comic appeal, and the members of the village seem always to be laughing and enjoying a suspiciously carefree life. The film has the advantage of more spectacular scenery than that in Flaherty?s film, with huge mountains and glaciers in place of the vast ice-covered vistas (see bottom image).

As usual, the Flicker Alley team has gone beyond the call of duty with this release. It includes not only the two features, but six bonus films, as described in the press release:

Nanook Revisited (Saumialuk) by Claude Massot was made in the same locations used by Flaherty. It shows how Inuit life changed in the intervening decades, how Flaherty consciously depicted a culture which was then already vanishing, and how Nanook is used today to teach the Inuit their heritage. Nanook Revisited was produced in 1988 on standard definition video for French television. Dwellings of the Far North (1928) is the igloo-building sequence of Nanook re-edited and re-titled as an educational film; Arctic Hunt (1913) and extended excerpts from Primitive Love (1927) are by Arctic explorer Frank E. Kleinschmidt; Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska (1949) by Louis deRochemont shows many activities seen in Nanook thirty years after, and Face of the High Arctic (1959) depicts the ecology of the region, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Altogether, the films run an impressive 281 minutes. There?s also a booklet with excerpts from Flaherty?s book, My Eskimo Friends, an essay by Lawrence Millman, ?Knud Rasmussen and The Wedding of Palo,? and notes on the films.

Snow White and the Seven (?) Bullfighting Dwarves

In 2011, a French film, The Artist, gained huge attention in the infotainment media as a modern version of silent cinema, winning yet another Best Picture Oscar for the Weinstein brothers. It was a reasonably successful imitation of mid- to late 1920s cinema during the transition to sound. Now a much better modern silent film has arrived, Pablo Berger?s Blancanieves, a loose version of the Snow White story transposed to 1920s Spain. A famous bullfighter is paralyzed after being gored in the ring. His wife dies in childbirth and his scheming nurse marries him. She keeps his daughter, Carmen, away from her father by setting her to work as a downtrodden servant in his country estate. Upon her father?s death, the evil wife schemes to have her killed, and she escapes to the protection of a troupe of six bullfighting dwarves who, possessing uncertain arithmetic skills, bill themselves as seven bullfighting dwarves.

While The Artist was a fairly good imitation of 1920s Hollywood filmmaking, Blancanieves is a pastiche of the 1928-29 era of European silent cinema. It draws on what I have termed the International Style of filmmaking, a late 1920s blend of influences from the French Impressionism, German Expressionism, and Soviet Montage movements. One could almost pass it off as a genuine film of the era.

At times there are subjective effects ? la Impressionism. A superimposition conveys Carmen?s memories of her father?s crucial instructions to her, and superimposed images of hands waving handkerchiefs present the enthusiam of the crowd?s plea for the bull to be pardoned.

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This was also the period in which the power of the wide angle lens, particularly in close-ups and in low-angle shots, was exploited, initially in Soviet cinema and then all over Europe. Blancanieves is full of such shots, as in the frame at the top of this entry and in these two shots from the opening scene:

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There are also montage sequences, building up to flurries of very short shots. This accelerated-editing technique is typical of both Soviet and French filmmaking of the era.

The too-frequent use of handheld camera in Blancanieves detracts somewhat from the feeling of authenticity. In the late 1920s, cameras were too heavy to be handheld. They could be strapped to the body of the cinematographer with harnesses, but that creates a subtly different look. And during the late 1920s, shots with the camera holding on a character while the background spins around behind him or her would have been achieved by placing both camera and actor on a large turntable. (This effect apparently was pioneered in Germany in the mid-1920s). But the occasional dramatic lighting effects, particularly in the climactic scene, are distinctly reminiscent of German cinema.

In general, the narrative is charming and amusing. The heroine?s pet rooster provides exactly the sort of comic relief that is common in films of the 1920s, and the story has an effective fairy-tale quality. I found the ending a bit disappointing and certainly not typical of the films of the 1920s. Still, Berger has clearly watched an enormous number of 1920s European films and absorbed their styles. He can imitate the International Style remarkably well, telling a tale that is appropriate to the 1920s and yet has a touch of humor that doesn?t belittle the silent era.

Blancanieves was released in the US on March 29 and is currently making the rounds of art-houses and festivals.

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Other entries discussing the International Style and wide-angle filming at the end of the silent era can be found here and here.

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We are sure it gets old posing on the red carpet the same way all the time. Many Hollywood celebrities love flashing the peace sign and others routinely blow a kiss to their fans. Let’s check out a gallery of the popular “blow a kiss” pose! AnnaLynne McCord, who plays the role of Naomi Clark ...

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Fabolous And Pusha T To Rep For 'The Cool Kids' On Joint Tour

'I don't think there's a better tour that I would rather be on,' Pusha tells MTV News of his The Life Is So Exciting Tour with Fab.
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Facebook Links Up With Attorneys General In 19 U.S. States For Teen Social Networking Safety Program

Facebook is taking a step today in its bid to position itself as the privacy-respecting social network: it is announcing an alliance with the U.S.'s National Association of Attorneys General to provide teens and their parents more information and tools to manage their profiles on Facebook and beyond to counter its less flattering image as a "ever-expanding data collection octopus."

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Welcome to iMore ... Peter Cohen!

Peter Cohen has spent most of his life writing about technology, especially as it pertains to Apple and gaming. He ran MacGaming, which was acquired by MacCentral, which in turn was acquired by Macworld, where Peter worked for many years as a Senior Editor. Since then, Peter has written for Mac|Life, MacUser (UK), Tap! and a variety of other online and print publications. Most recently, Peter began the Angry Mac Bastards podcast, and co-founded The Loop with Jim Dalrymple, where he serves as the executive editor.

Over the course of his career, Peter has accumulated a tremendous amount of experience, insight, and understanding, as well as a unique voice, attitude, and editorial sensibility.

And starting April 22, he's bringing it all to iMore.

Not surprisingly, Peter intends to immediately ramp up Mac and gaming content, and make iMore not only the place you go to for the very best iOS coverage, but for the very best Apple coverage. Period.

What's more, Peter will also be working with everyone here to take our entire community to the next level, helping out with our iMore 3.0 projects (both web and app), some amazing Mobile Nations stuff we'll be announcing soon, and some future stuff we're all really excited about.

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Emma Watson Studied Beyonce's Dance Moves For 'The Bling Ring'

MTV Movie Awards nominee tells MTV News that it's 'obvious' her dance is based on the Queen Bey's.
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Rules officials keeping close eye on 14-year-old

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) ? Guan Tianlang had plenty of adult supervision at the Masters.

Rules officials kept a close eye on the 14-year-old Saturday, a day after a penalty for slow play nearly kept him from playing the weekend.

The youngest player to make the cut at the Masters said he was never put on the clock, but he was told at least twice on the back nine at Augusta National to pick up his pace.

"I didn't think he played slow. I think he played pretty quick, actually," said Thorbjorn Olesen, Guan's playing partner. "He's 14, and there's a big crowd following him, so it's pretty difficult for him. I think he's handled it really, really good."

The Chinese eighth-grader was penalized for slow play on the 17th hole Friday. The one-stroke penalty left him at 4 over for the tournament, and he had to wait until the very last group finished to learn that he could stick around for the last two rounds. He wound up making the cut on the number after Jason Day missed birdie putts on the 17th and 18th holes.

"Probably 6:30 I went back home and watched TV and relaxed," he said. "I did watch the tournament finish."

Asked if he was nervous, Guan said, "A little. I am pretty excited after the round is finished and I get to play with all the top players on the weekend."

Guan is at 9 over for the tournament after shooting a 5-over 77 on Saturday.

While slow play is a frequent complaint among golfers, particularly at major events, it's rarely enforced. But rules officials are tailing Guan around Augusta National like overprotective parents.

Conditions at Augusta National are notoriously tricky, even in perfect weather, and it often takes golfers years before they're familiar with the course's quirks. Guan has relied heavily on the advice of his caddie, Brian Tam, who is a regular caddie at Augusta National. And sometimes Guan is overly cautious.

On the 14th hole, for example, he tossed some grass in the air twice to test the wind, grabbed a club and took a few practice swings before changing his mind. He grabbed another club and took a couple more practice swings before finally hitting his shot.

Afterward, a rules official told him he was 6 minutes over on that hole alone, and he needed to speed it up.

Yet Guan and Olesen finished their round in about 4 hours ? just about right. They weren't close to the group in front of them, but there also was a sizeable gap between them and the group behind them. Guan and Olesen had already teed off on 17 before the next group, Peter Hanson and John Huh, reached the 15th green.

"The weather is good today and we played in twosomes," Guan said. "So we played fast."

Guan didn't seem to be bothered that rules officials want to know his whereabouts at all times. .

"It's just a great week for me, and I really enjoy it," he said. "People here are nice, and I learned a lot from the top players. I think I played pretty good rounds these three days."

A good-sized gallery followed him from hole to hole, including little kids who ran ahead of their parents to stake out spots. Fans already feel they're on a first-name basis with him, as they are with Tiger, Rory and Phil, calling him, simply, "The Kid."

"His composure and the poise he's shown, it's amazing," said Bill Armstrong, one of the fans following Guan. "This is huge. It's a global thing right here."

Heady stuff for a kid whose mom still packs him snacks for the course.

"I didn't think of it too much" before, Guan said. "But I'm really happy, and I really appreciate that they're watching me here."

Some closer than others.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rules-officials-keeping-close-eye-14-old-211030169--golf.html

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How High Heels Are Hurting Your Health | Body Health ...

Wh?n th? topic ?f women?s health comes up, one essential ??rt ?f ??r body ?ft?n gets overlooked ? ??r feet. Those troopers! B?t years ?f wearing high heels f?r hours a day ??n wreak havoc ?n ??r feet, ?n? lead t? knee ?n? back pain. Here?s wh?t ??? ??n ?? ?b??t ?t ? without banishing those favorite stilettos fr?m ???r closet.

Women ???? th??r high heels ? th? fashion, th? added inches, elongating th? leg t? look slimmer. B?t th?r??s a downside t? ??? th?t strutting.

?Th? m??t common complaint fr?m women ?? pain ?n th? ball ?f th? foot,? ???? Dr. Geoff Gray, a specialist ?n orthopedic ?n? sports physical therapy, ?n? a consultant f?r Teva ?n? N?w Balance shoe brands.

?In high heels, ??? ?f th? pressure ?f th? body ?? centered ?n th? ball ?f th? foot, r?th?r th?n dispersing th?t force throughout th? entire foot. Wh?n th?? ?? coupled w?th insufficient cushioning ?n? arch support ?n th? shoe, th? tissues th?t naturally cushion th? ball ?f th? foot w??? br??k down ?n? ?t?rt t? swell w?th inflammation.?

Long-term effects ??n b? serious, including knee joint arthritis ?n? painful bunions. ?Walking ?n high heels without supportive inserts increases th? pressure ?n th? knee joint wh?n compared t? walking ?n flats,? Gray ??????n?. T? th?t ?n?, h? ?? th? president ?n? founder ?f Heeluxe, a company th?t manufactures biomechanic foot solutions, such ?? luxury high heel inserts. ?Th? goal ?h???? b? t? modify h?w women wear heels ?n? h?w th?? take care ?f th??r feet afterwards,? h? ????.
Stretch ?r massage ???r feet once a day

Gray recommends stretching ?r massaging feet once a day. Try basic calf stretches ? ?n? keep a tennis ball ?r golf ball under ???r desk ?n? roll th? bottom ?f ???r foot ?n ?t periodically t? massage th? plantar fascia ?n? muscles th?r?. Stretching th? quadriceps ?n? hamstring muscles ?n th? thigh ??n ???? prevent high heel-related knee pain.

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Properly fitting shoes w?th sufficient support ?n? cushioning ?r? key. Don?t assume a shoe w??? ?br??k ?n? ?n? become comfortable. ?Y?? ?h???? b? ?b?? t? wiggle ???r toes a ??tt?? bit wh?n ??? ?r? standing ?n?, f?r strappy shoes, m?k? sure th? straps don?t dig ?nt? ???r pinky toe ?n? push ?t ?nt? th? ?th?r toes,? Gray ????. ?Real leather m?k?? a world ?f ??ff?r?n?? ?n shoe construction ? ?t ?? breathable ?n? w??? mold t? th? foot better.?

Shoe modifications, such ?? inserts ?n? orthotics, ?r? worthwhile. Cushioning inserts h??? w?th initial comfort, b?t ?? ??tt?? t? prevent foot pain ?n th? long term, Grey ????. Custom orthotics ??n h??? prevent foot pain ?n? ??n sometimes b? built ?nt? a high-heel shoe. I? th?r? a h???? medium? Gray ?r??t?? th? Talus Heelbed insert f?r high heels t? h??? distribute th? weight throughout th? arch ?n? heel, easing pressure ?n th? ball ?f th? foot.
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If ??? wear high heels ??? day f?r work, wear supportive flat shoes wh?n ??? ??t home, Gray suggests. ?Similarly, ?f ??? ?r? ???nn?n? ?n a long night ?n th? town ?n heels, ??t ???r feet rest during th? day ?n ??m? comfortable flats.? Beware: Flip-flops don?t count! Th?? m?k? ???r feet work much harder th?n wearing shoes ?r going barefoot, h? ????.

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Ex-Marine arrested in alleged hate crime in attack outside California gay bar

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News

A former Marine has been arrested in the beating of two men outside a popular gay bar in Southern California last year and will face hate-crime charges for using anti-gay slurs during the attack, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.

John Kelly O'Leary, 21, was arrested Monday by police in Evergreen Park, Ill., Deputy District Attorney Gretchen Ford of the hate crimes unit said in a statement. O'Leary was discharged from the Marines on Oct. 19, according to the Press-Telegram of Long Beach, which first reported the charges. He will be extradited from Illinois to California to face the charges.

O'Leary and a group of friends, including other Marines, went to the Silver Fox bar in Long Beach, Calif. in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 2012. O'Leary was accused of shouting anti-gay slurs outside the bar at closing time, which triggered the hate crime charge, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

"Following a verbal exchange with one of two alleged victims, O?Leary allegedly turned and began punching the first alleged victim as he continued to shout anti-gay slurs. The victim, who suffered a concussion and a fractured hip during the altercation, was knocked unconscious," the statement said. "As others joined in to break up the fight, O?Leary allegedly began punching and choking a second male victim before police arrived."

O'Leary has been charged with two felonies ? battery with serious bodily injury and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury ? and faces up to eight years in prison, which includes time for the hate crime allegation, Robison said.

Authorities arrested three other Marines after the attack, but they were not charged, the district attorney's office said. Robison said they were attempting to break up the assault.

The Marines, based at Camp Pendleton in southern California, were in their first enlistment. Emails and phone calls placed to Marines' spokesmen were not immediately returned.

Robison said she didn't know if the two victims were gay. Immediately after the attack, CBSLA.com reported that one of the victims had gone to the bar with his boyfriend and that he had blacked out from the assault. He was hospitalized overnight and released with non-life threatening injuries, Long Beach police said at the time.

O'Leary is being held on $105,000 bail. He has waived extradition and will be transported to Los Angeles some time next week, the district attorney's office said. Attempts to reach O'Leary or an attorney representing him were unsuccessful.

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Pistorius becoming more active while on bail

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius has been spending time with people who were close to the girlfriend he shot and killed on Valentine's Day, the Olympian's family said Thursday in an indication that Pistorius is becoming more active while awaiting trial on a murder charge.

The double-amputee athlete has been staying at the Pretoria home of his uncle, Arnold, since he was released on bail in late February, and he has largely remained out of public view amid intense international interest in his case.

The family of Pistorius has stated that the runner was traumatized and in mourning over what he said was the mistaken shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but relatives and associates have increasingly signaled that Pistorius is emerging from what a spokeswoman described as isolation.

"Over the past few weeks, Oscar has found comfort in spending time and sharing memories with many of those whom she loved, in surroundings where shared memories were created," the family said in a statement Thursday.

It did not identify the people with whom 26-year-old Pistorius had met, nor the locations.

Anneliese Burgess, a spokeswoman for the Pistorius family, said the athlete had been "very isolated" but had begun a process of "interacting with people."

Pistorius said the killing of Steenkamp was an accident, and that he thought he was firing at an intruder through a bathroom door at his home. Prosecutors say he shot her after the couple had an argument.

The runner's agent, Peet van Zyl, has said Pistorius was running on his blades again and his return to regular training was imminent. Last week, a grainy cellphone photo of what appears to be Pistorius on the track at the University of Pretoria was published on the front page of the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper in South Africa.

The statement Thursday said the family was "deeply disturbed" by some South African press reports as well as commentary on social media platforms that had shown "disregard" for the pain suffered by the family and friends of Steenkamp.

"There is not a moment in the day that Oscar does not mourn for his girlfriend and Reeva's family, and all those who were close to her are in his thoughts constantly," the statement said.

Pistorius is scheduled to be back in court on June 4. He could face a life sentence if found guilty of murder.

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Virginia board meets on tightening abortion clinics standards

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - The Virginia Board of Health is meeting on Friday on whether to require abortion clinics to meet stricter hospital-style standards, part of a push in a number of states to tighten abortion restrictions.

The proposal before the 15-member panel could force abortion providers to undertake potentially costly renovations, such as widening hallways and installing new ventilation systems and awnings.

Republican Governor Robert McDonnell approved health regulations in December that would impose hospital-style building codes on abortion clinics. Virginia has 20 abortion clinics.

The Board of Health, which has the final word on the changes, is meeting to approve McDonnell's rules.

Cianti Stewart-Reid, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Virginia, said the new requirements were unnecessary and expensive.

"There is the potential that some health providers won't be able to meet those requirements and will have to close as a result," she said.

The board voted last year to exempt existing clinics from the changes. It reversed itself in September after Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a tea party Republican running for governor, warned the board that his office would not defend them against lawsuits arising from such a decision.

Final approval by the Board of Health would be the latest blow to abortion providers around the country. This week the Republican-led Arkansas Senate voted to bar state funds from going to any entity that provides abortions.

Similar measures have passed in other states, including Indiana, New Jersey and Texas. In the most restrictive anti-abortion action to date, North Dakota last month banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Legal experts have questioned whether that measure or a post-12-week ban would survive court challenges.

Seven states, including Mississippi and Alabama, require hospital admitting privileges for abortion providers. Critics say the laws restrict a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

Virginia's General Assembly last week approved McDonnell's plan that blocks private insurance plans being sold through the new health benefits exchange from including abortion coverage. The exchanges are set up under the federal Affordable Care Act.

Virginia's legislature drew national attention last year with a bill signed by McDonnell that required an ultrasound procedure before an abortion.

A requirement for an invasive vaginal probe in some cases was removed from the measure after it drew national debate and was lampooned by late-night television comics.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; editing by Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-board-meets-tightening-abortion-clinics-standards-153302426.html

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How Facebook Uses Your Data to Target Ads, Even Offline

If you feel like Facebook has more ads than usual, you aren't imagining it: Facebook's been inundating us with more and more ads lately, and using your information?both online and offline?to do it. Here's how it works, and how you can opt out.

For most people, Facebook's advertising system is insider-baseball that doesn't really affect how we use the service. But as the targeted ads?the advertisements that take the data you provide to offer ads specific to you?get more accurate and start pulling in information from other sources (including the stuff you do offline), it's more important than ever to understand their system. To figure out how this all works, I spoke with Elisabeth Diana, manager of corporate communication at Facebook. Let's kick it off with the basics of how the targeted ads work online before moving on to some of the changes we'll see with the recent inclusion of offline shopping data.

How Facebook Uses Your Profile to Target Ads

We've talked before about how Facebook uses you to annoy your friends by turning your likes into subtle ads. This method of sponsored posts is deceptively simple.

The most obvious example of a targeted ad uses something you like?say Target?and then shows an ad on the right side or in the newsfeed that simply says, "[Name] likes Target." What you and your friends like helps determine what everyone on your friends list sees for ads. Any ad you click on then increases the likelihood of another similar ad.

It's not just what you and your friends are doing that generates ads though; it's also basic demographic information. Diana notes that this might be more information than you think, such as "major life events like getting engaged or married." So, if you're recently engaged and note that on Facebook, you'll see ads about things like wedding planning.

When an advertiser creates an ad on Facebook, they can select all sorts of parameters so they reach the right people. A simple example of a parameter would be: "Someone engaged to be married, who lives in New York, between the ages of 20-30." That's simple, but advertisers can actually narrow that down to insane specifics, like "Someone engaged to be married, who lives in New York, between the ages of 20-30, who likes swimming, and who drives a BMW." If your profile fits those parameters, you'll likely see the ad. If you want to see how it works, you can even try your hand at creating an ad.

It boils down to this: the more information you put about yourself on Facebook?where you live, your age, where (and if) you graduated college, the companies, brands, and activities you like, and even where you work?determines what kind of ads you'll see. In theory, it makes it so targeted ads are more relevant to you.

What Happens When You Don't Like or Share Anything

The way Facebook targets ads is based a lot around the information you provide. Using your likes, location, or age, Facebook puts you in a demographic and advertises to you. But what happens when you don't include any of that information on your profile? It turns out that your friends are used to fill in the gaps.

Chances are, even a barebones profile has a few bits of information about you. You probably at least have where you live and your age. That combined with the information your friends provide creates a reasonable demographic that advertisers can still reach you at. The ads won't be as spookily accurate to you as if you provide a lot of data, but they'll at least be about as accurate as a television ad on your favorite show.

How to Keep Facebook from Targeting Ads Online

We know Facebook has an idea of what you're doing online. That can be unsettling if you're concerned about your privacy and you don't want your online habits contributing to advertisements, or if you don't like the idea of Facebook collecting data about you that you're not willfully providing. You'll "miss out" on targeted ads, but here here are a few tools to keep that from happening online:

• Facebook Disconnect for Chrome and Firefox: Facebook gets notified when you visit a page that uses Facebook Connect (the little "Like" button you find on most web sites, including ours), and that data can be used to target ads. Facebook Disconnect stops that flow of data.
• Facebook Privacy List for Adblock Plus: This subscription for Adblock Plus blocks Facebook plugins and scripts from running all over the web so your browsing data doesn't get tied to your Facebook account.
• DoNotTrackMe: DoNotTrackMe is another extension that blocks trackers and anyone who wants to collect your browsing data to create targeted ads.

Finally, you want to opt out of the Facebook Ads that use your actions (liking a page, sharing pages, etc) to promote ads to your friends:

1. Click the lock icon when you're logged into Facebook and select "see more settings".
2. Click the "Ads" tab on the sidebar.
3. Click "Edit" under "Third Party Sites" and change the setting to "No one."
4. Click "Edit" under "Ads & Friends" and select "No One." This disables Social Ads.

So, that takes care of the online advertising. Be sure to check out our guide to Facebook privacy for more information about all that. You can also hide your likes from your profile so they're not as prominant. If you don't actually mind the advertising, but want to improve the ads shown to you, you can always click the "X" next to any ad to get rid of it.

How Facebook Uses Your Real World Shopping to Target Ads

Of course, you probably knew about a lot of that already. Using information in Facebook profile to target ads is old news, but with a few recent partnerships, Facebook is also going to use what you buy in real life stores to influence and track the ads you see. It sounds spooky, but it's also older than you may realize.

To do this, Facebook is combining the information they have with information from data collection companies like Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, and BlueKai. These companies already collect information about you through things like store loyalty cards, mailing lists, public records information (including home or car ownership), browser cookies, and more. For example, if you buy a bunch of detergent at Safeway, and use your Safeway card to get a discount, that information is cataloged and saved by a company like Datalogix.

How much do these data collecting companies know? According to The New York Times: way more than you'd think, including race, gender, economic status, buying habits, and more. Typically, they then sell this data to advertisers or corporations, but when it's combined with your information from Facebook, they get an even better idea of what you like, where you shop, and what you buy. As Diana describes it, Facebook is "trying to give advertisers a chance to reach people both on and off Facebook," and make advertisements more relevant to you. Photo by Joe Loong.

How Real-Life Ad Targetting Works

The most shocking thing you're going to find on Facebook is when something you do in the real world?say, buy a car, go shopping with a loyalty card at a grocery store, or sign up for an email list?actually impacts the ads you see. This is no different than any other direct marketing campaign like junk mail, but seeing it on Facebook might be a little unsettling at first. There are a couple reasons this might happen: custom audiences, and the recent partnerships with data collection companies we talked about earlier.

Custom audiences are very simple and it basically allows an advertiser to upload an email list and compare that data (privately) with who's on Facebook. Diana offered the simple example of buying a car. Let's say you purchase a car from a dealership, and when you do so, you give them your email address. That dealership wants to advertise on Facebook, so they upload a list of all the email addresses they have. That data is then made private, and Facebook pairs the email address with the one you registered on Facebook. If they match, you might see an ad from that dealership on Facebook for a discounted tune-up or something similar. Additionally, Lookalike audiences might be used to advertise to people similar to you because you purchased a car there. That might mean your friends (assuming you're all similar) will see the same ad from the dealership.

The custom audiences can be used by any company advertising on Facebook. So, if you're on your dentist's email list, or that small bakery around the corner snagged your email for a free slice of pie, they can potentially reach you through this system.

The partnership with other data collection agencies like Acxiom and Datalogix is going to look a little different. This means that when you use something like a customer loyalty card at a grocery store, you might see a targeted ad that reflects that. The New York Times offers this example:

At the very least, said Ms. Williamson, an analyst with the research firm eMarketer, consumers will be "forced to become more aware of the data trail they leave behind them and how companies are putting all that data together in new ways to reach them." She knows, for instance, that if she uses her supermarket loyalty card to buy cornflakes, she can expect to see a cornflakes advertisement when she logs in to Facebook.

A new targeting feature, Partner categories, takes the data collected by these third-party data brokers and puts you into a group. So, if you're in a group of people who buys a lot of frozen pizza at Safeway, you'll see ads for frozen pizza, and maybe other frozen foods.

It sounds a little weird at a glance, but it's important to remember that this is all information that you're already providing. Facebook is using data collected by outside companies to create a more accurate portrayal of you so marketers can advertise to you directly.

How Your Data Is Kept Private

All of this information being exchanged should make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up a little. If anything goes wrong, it could leak a bunch of your private information all over the place. Or, at the very least, marketers would get a lot more information about you then you want like your username, email, and location data. To keep your information private, Facebook uses a system called hashing.

First, your personal information like email and name is encrypted. So, your name, login info, and anything else that would identify you as a person goes away. Then, Facebook turns the rest of the information into a series of numbers and letters using hashing. For example, Age: 31, Likes: Lifehacker, Swimming, BMW's, Location: New York, turns into something like, "342asafk43255adjk." Finally, this information is combined with what the data collection companies have on you to create a better picture of your shopping habits so they can target ads. Slate describes the system like so:

What they came up with was a Rube Goldbergian system that strips out personally identifiable information from the databases at Facebook, Datalogix, and the major retailers while still matching people and their purchases. The system works by creating three separate data sets. First, Datalogix "hashes" its database?that is, it turns the names, addresses and other personally identifiable data for each person in its logs into long strings of numbers. Facebook and retailers do the same thing to their data. Then, Datalogix compares its hashed data with Facebook's to find matches. Each match indicates a potential test subject-someone on Facebook who is also part of Datalogix's database. Datalogix runs a similar process with retailers' transaction data. At the end of it all, Datalogix can compare the Facebook data and the retail data, but, importantly, none of the databases will include any personally identifiable data?so Facebook will never find out whether and when you, personally, purchased Tide, and Procter & Gamble and Kroger will never find out your Facebook profile.

From the actual advertisers point of view, the flow of information doesn't reveal personal details. It just tells them how many potential customers might see an ad. "An advertiser would learn something like, 'about 50% of your customers are on Facebook,'" says Diana, "But they don't know who you are." Image by Jorge Stolfi.

How to Opt Out of Offline Targetting

Unlike the internal advertising system that uses the information you already provide to Facebook to give you ads, these new partnerships with real world data collection agencies go way beyond that. Now, they're able to see what you're buying at stores offline, and that's disconcerting for a lot of people. The goal, of course, is more relevant ads, but that comes at the price of privacy and security. With all this data out there, it would be easy to get a very clear image of who you are, where you live, what you like, and even if you're pregnant. Thankfully, opting out of the data collection companies also gets you out of the integration with Facebook (and everywhere else).

This process is a lot more complicated than it should be, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a step-by-step guide for each of the data brokers. Basically, you'll need to opt out in three different places: Acxiom, Datalogix, and Epsilon in order to ensure your shopping data in the real world isn't used on Facebook (and beyond). BlueKai, unfortunately, has no direct way to opt out so you'll need to use the browser extensions listed in the first section.

If you really want to keep those loyalty cards from tracking you, just use Jenny's number (867-5309) at the checkout lane instead of setting up an account.

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Those are the basics of how Facebook's various targeted advertising systems work. Of course, a lot of complex math and algorithms are in place to actually generate this data, but it really boils down to how much information you're making public?whether you're aware of it or not?that makes the system tick. If you like the targeted ads, they should improve even more as the years go on. If you don't, opting out is always an option.

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Online ESOL Teacher Job Code: 42127 POSTED: Apr 10 Hourly Rate: Open Location: Online, United States Employer: eTeacher Group Type: Part Time - Experienced Category: Adult Education Preferred Education: 2 Year Degree

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