Norway mass killer applies for college courses

By KARL RITTER

The Associated Press

Published: August 1, 2013

STOCKHOLM -- Convicted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has applied for admission to the University of Oslo, testing the limits of Norway's commitment to rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them.

The right-wing extremist, who killed 77 people in bomb and gun attacks two years ago, wants to study political science, and prison and university officials say he could do his studies in his cell if accepted by the school.

"In Norway, and I'm proud of this, we have a system where inmates, in general, can apply to study at universities, most of them from their own cell, so it will be distance learning," said Ole Petter Ottersen, the rector of the University of Oslo. "This is a principle that is put in place to help the inmate get back to society."

Ottersen said he couldn't comment on prospective students but added it was "publicly known" that Breivik had applied to the university.

Others, including Education Minister Kristin Halvorsen, have said Breivik is a special case and shouldn't enjoy the same rights as other prisoners.

The self-styled anti-Muslim militant surrendered to police on July 22, 2011, after setting off a bomb outside the government headquarters in Oslo and opening fire at a summer camp for young Labor Party activists on Utoya island. Eight people died in the bombing and 69, mostly teenagers, were killed on the island. Breivik showed no remorse for his actions, calling his victims traitors for supporting a multicultural society.

"This is a special situation because we are facing a mass murderer who will never again be released into Norwegian society," Halvorsen told broadcaster TV2 this week. "So many of the arguments we have for encouraging inmates in Norwegian prisons to get an education don't apply to the same degree."

Breivik's defense lawyers were startled by her comments, saying there is no legal basis to deny him the education rights that other inmates enjoy.

They also criticized her assumption that Breivik, 34, will never be released from prison.

"That is not up to politicians to decide," said Tord Jordet, who is part of Breivik's legal defense team.

Breivik was sentenced to the maximum term of 21 years. After that a court can extend his sentence if it considers him a danger to society.

He is being kept away from other inmates at Ila Prison for security reasons, and has access to newspapers, TV and radio but no Internet connection.

His university application is expected to be processed this month.

Ottersen, the university rector, said prison authorities decide how an inmate should conduct his or her studies. "The role of the university is to provide the learning material and to evaluate the exams," he said.

Per Anders Langeroed, an Oslo city councilman who survived the Utoya massacre by swimming from the island, said it's worth discussing whether helping Breivik get an education was "resources well spent."

Still, Langeroed found "no reason to deny him the right to read some books and take some exams," providing that teachers and other students wouldn't have to interact with him.

"Because what we experienced when we faced terror was that when everything around you fell and you were afraid of everything, the comforting thing was to hold on to some basic principles," Langeroed said.
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Source: http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/norway-mass-killer-applies-for-college-courses-1.233321

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USB Is Getting a 10Gbps Shot in the Arm

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group?honestly, there is such a thing?has finalized the next iteration of Universal Serial Bus, and it's going to run at a lightning fast 10Gbps.

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European shares kept buoyant by data, earnings

* FTSEurofirst 300 up 0.2 percent

* AB Inbev, Bayer (Milan: BAY.MI - news) rise after results

* Investors strongly buy protection ahead of Fed

By Tricia Wright

LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - European equities rose on Wednesday, kept buoyant by robust data out of the United States and Europe as well as strong earnings releases from major companies.

The FTSEurofirst 300 closed up 0.2 percent at 1,208.17 points, with drinks group AB Inbev leading the gainers, up 6.9 percent, after unveiling higher profits.

Equity markets found some support from data indicating U.S. economic growth accelerated unexpectedly in the second quarter and a separate report showing U.S. private employers maintained a higher pace of hiring in July.

This added to a brightening economic picture in the euro zone, where the number of people unemployed fell for the first time in more than two years in June.

"If the economic environment continues to improve ... then it's very difficult to see what's going to derail the equity markets over the short to medium term," Neil Veitch, investment manager at SVM Asset Management, said.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index is on course to record its best monthly gain since June 2012, having bounced nearly 9 percent off a low of 1,111.11 points hit towards the end of last month.

Despite the market remaining buoyant on Wednesday, investors have been strongly buying protection ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy announcement, expected to shed light on the outlook for the central bank's quantitative easing programme.

OUTLOOK BRIGHT

The European second-quarter earnings season has proved mixed so far, with profit warnings last week from engineer Siemens and chemicals group BASF contrasting with better results elsewhere.

Of about 44 percent of STOXX Europe 600 companies to have reported second-quarter results, 52 percent have met or beaten market forecasts, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine.

On Wednesday, Bayer advanced 3.6 percent after posting stronger-than-expected new drug sales, with AB Inbev and Bayer among the biggest points contributors to the FTSEurofirst 300.

"We can see light at the end of the tunnel with the potential for positive surprises next time around," said Ben Kumar, research analyst at Seven Investment Management, which is "overweight" European equities.

"Since February earnings expectations have been revised down and down and down in Europe; the more they are revised downwards the more the chance is of them beating... Fundamentals in Europe are improving and that will eventually start to come through."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/european-shares-kept-buoyant-data-164933804.html

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Google Play Surpasses App Store in Downloads but Still Lags Behind in Revenue

Google Play Surpasses App Store in Downloads but Still Lags Behind in Revenue

Published on 07-31-2013 04:28 PM

According to a recent study, Google Play for Android has finally surpassed its rival app repository but the App Store still maintains a strong edge in terms of revenue generated for developers. The figures come from the App Annie blog, which measured app downloads in the second quarter of 2013 along with other indicators. App Annie found that Google Play downloads exceeded App Store downloads by 10% in the quarter, attributing that growth in no small part to app download growth in developing markets such as Russia, China, Brazil and India.

The fact that Google Play has only now just surpassed the App Store in terms of downloads is likely a testament to the greater engagement of iOS device owners with their devices. Android is estimated to run roughly three out of four mobile devices shipped worldwide but at least one-third of those running a year-old version of the Android OS, meaning that they may not be as well able to access recent apps and their users may not be downloading as many apps.

Google Play has also surpassed the App Store in terms of overall app volume. The Play Store now counts more than one million apps in its library while the App Store, according to the last count, has just over 900,000. Apple?s offering though, beats Google when it comes to tablet-optimized apps, with 375,000 apps built for the iPad while Google struggles to get developers to optimize their apps for the myriad of Android tablets.

The App Store also beats Google in what may be considered the most important category as well: overall revenue generated both for the store and for developers hosted therein. App Annie?s study found that the App Store generated 2.3 times the revenue of the Play Store, despite the Play Store?s 10% advantage in overall downloads. The figure was slightly down from the 2.6 times figure that App Annie found in its previous examination of the market. The revenue gap has resulted in a competitive edge for Apple in terms of app quality and developer loyalty. Developers with App Store offerings have made more than $11 billion in sales since the store?s opening, with half of that coming in the last four quarters.

We?ll have to see how the market evolves with all the changes both tech giants continue to push for with their future plans.

Source: App Annie (blog)

Source: http://modmyi.com/content/11712-google-play-surpasses-app-store-downloads-but-still-lags-behind-revenue.html

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USCIS union president cautions lawmakers on House-fashioned DREAM Act

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The president of the union representing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers and staff voiced concerns to Republican House members about proposals to grant legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

In a letter?sent Tuesday night to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Immigration and Border Security subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy, National USCIS Council president Kenneth Palinkas questioned the wisdom of adopting legislation under the Obama administration to legalize undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally.

The letter is also copied to the GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee.

?As you know the Obama Administration has already bypassed Congress to implement a version of the proposal you are now considering. Of course, to do so, the Administration had to simultaneously suspend laws previously passed by Congress? What is to stop the Administration from simply issuing another round of non-enforcement orders (written or oral) that would eviscerate any attempted limitations in your bill?? Palinkas wrote.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte have reportedly been working on legislation aimed at granting a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

Last week the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security held a hearing on the matter. While Democrats on the panel said that legalization for just the children was not enough, most of the Republicans on the panel signaled they would be open to such a proposal.

Palinkas? letter was full of questions about the likelihood that such legislation could be extended or circumvented by the Obama administration and how members would prevent that from happening.

?If these solutions are not provided, a DREAM Act-style bill could quickly turn into a permanent feature of U.S. immigration policy with huge unintended consequences. In practice, it could establish a precedent that would expand birthright citizenship in the future to apply to any new arrivals (and, by extension, their relatives) who claim they came here at a certain age,? Palinkas wrote. ?Clearly, this would be an extraordinary magnet for unlawful entry and overstays, and create a massive hole in future enforcement.?

Palinkas, whose union was vocally opposed to the Senate immigration bill, added that the needs of USCIS have been overlooked as, he noted, the agency lacks the resources it needs to ?ensure that the millions we admit into the country properly qualify for the immigration benefits they seek.?

?Until our inadequate resources as USCIS employees are upgraded and the culture of the current Administration changes, U.S. citizens will continue to be put at needless risk,? he wrote calling for more full-time permanent staff.

He stressed that USCIS is ?ill-equipped? to process ?the sort of far-reaching plans before Congress right now? and requested that lawmakers work with USCIS adjudicators as they move forward with their immigration proposals.

?The sponsors of the Senate legislation pushed aside the opportunity to work with ICE and USCIS professionals and therefore produced a 1,200-page bill that greatly weakens our national security and produces more illegal immigration. I would therefore urge all House lawmakers not to conference with the dangerous Senate bill that will produce a totally deficient comprehensive proposal,? he wrote.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/uscis-union-president-cautions-lawmakers-on-house-fashioned-dream-act/

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Ted Cruz Wants YOU (To Help Get Rid of Obamacare)

In a talk at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, Ted Cruz argued in favor of his plan?along with fellow Sens. Mike Lee and Marco Rubio and other tea-party members?to use the continuing resolution debate at the end of September to defund Obama's health care law, emphasizing the importance of grassroots efforts to win the fight.?

Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, presented the plan as the last and only chance to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. "If we don't do it now, in all likelihood we never will," Cruz said. "In modern times no major entitlement, once it was implemented, has ever been unwound." Once the exchanges and subsidies are in place next year, Cruz argued, the administration will likely have already succeeded in getting as many Americans as they can "addicted to the subsidies, addicted to the sugar," thereby drastically diminishing prospects for full repeal.

Cruz's plan risks a government shutdown unless Obama agrees to defund his signature legislation, a virtual impossibility. Yet Cruz emphasized the necessity of dramatic action and slammed Republicans in the House for their continued "empty symbolic votes with no chance of passing." The House is scheduled to vote for the 40^th time this week to repeal Obamacare.

In order to convince the necessary 41 Republicans in the Senate or 218 in the House to support his plan, Cruz emphasized the need for "unprecedented levels" of grassroots efforts. He called upon individuals to join the fight and pressure their representatives to join in refusing to fund the law.

Cruz responded to Republicans' concerns that another government shutdown would harm the party and damage 2014 election chances, calling them "haunted by the ghost of shutdowns past." Although conventional wisdom is that Republicans were to blame for the 1995 shutdown, Cruz argued that government shutdowns are far from disastrous. "The world didn't end; planes didn't fall out of the sky, Social Security checks didn't stop, military paychecks didn't stop, we didn't default on our national debt." While saying he certainly didn't want shutdowns to continue indefinitely, Cruz emphasized the temporary nature of shutdowns and argued that it was important for Republicans to stand up for their principles.

Winding down his talk, Cruz's rhetoric became a kind of inspirational battle cry. He quoted Margaret Thatcher ("First you win the argument, then you win the fight"), and asked, "If we're not willing to fight on Obamacare, what are we willing to fight on?" Appealing to his audience of bloggers, he said they would be the ones to win it. "New media is a terrific destabilizing force," and a crucial element of the grassroots battle to defund the health care law, he said. ?

Cruz ended with a message to Republicans who do not like his approach: "What is your alternative?" It's a question that, ironically, many have posed to the GOP with regard to Obamacare.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ted-cruz-wants-help-rid-obamacare-161725526.html

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MSI Powers 3D Animation | Pure Overclock

MSI mobile workstations launched for few months already, now actively looking for partnership in M&E (Multimedia & Entertainment) industry. ?MIDA? starts the page! MIDA*, is an animation, which created by Win-Land Multimedia* & Kent ADIP with mixed styles of 2D & 3D images. On 27 July, a 3D holographic projection live show will be held during Fancy Frontier Animation in Taipei. MSI Workstation provides product mobility and optimized 2K (2048 x 1536 pixels) images and contents during the show. It will be one of the few 3D holographic projection performed by virtual and cosplay singers.

? We spent years of investment in creating original digital content. This year, we expect MIDA and her virtual band- The Evolutionary Voice, can lead Taiwan animation artworks into one of the top animation countries. We believe with the help of MSI Workstation continuous compute power, we can shorten the time of success and bring amazing films to asian animation markets.? said Kent Chang, Director of Kent ADIP*.

Behind the scenes, MSI workstation & Taiwan National Center of High-Speed Performance render farms delivered hardware and cloud computing infrastructure. For Taiwan, it?s the very first time to present a full-length animation feature combine with 2D, 3D, motion capture characters which requires rendering over tens of millions of polygons.

? In order to make this stand out from many other animation in Asian market, we introduced the world?s advanced motion capture technology, which can process and record multiple characters, objects & large movements. We?ve been worked closely with MSI Workstation team, which capable of providing real-time editing environment that allows us work much more efficiently? said Michael Lin, CEO of Mirax Technology*. 3D animated parts in the film has been done primarily by using MSI GT70 workstation, which featuring NVIDIA Quadro K3000M graphics, Intel Core i7 Processor, 32GB Memory, and 2x 128GB SSD plus 750GB HDD; software tools are Autodesk 3DS MAX, Maya & Motion Builder, Adobe Photoshop & After Effects, The Foundry Nuke. In fact, through more and more industrial case studies and user experiences feedbacks, MSI has more and more confidence in enhancing workstation features.

MIDA , about friendship, love, reality and dreams! Five physically or mentally disabled teenagers, through dreams they are capable of connecting to each other?s dreams. Different people exist in the same dream, in that dream they can easily become whoever they dream to be. Their common interest, this motivate them group up a band in dreams. Some dreams can be so true that even more real than reality. WinLand Multimedia specialized in designing multimedia products that combining living arts and digital- learning materials. Its brand ?Funidea? provides creative contents and total solutions to brands, publication and education customers. Service includes content development, management, licensing and marketing. Presently, we involved in two primary projects, which are series ? POPA Family ? and 3D animation ? MIDA ?.

2011 In order to meet tremendous rendering computation needs for large animated films, Kent ADIP cooperated with National Center of High-Speed Performance Computing to establish the first high performance cloud computing farm in Taiwan. 2012 Commercial ?Ripple of Desire? consolidated and finished the visual effects project with over 400 cuts in visual effects and with 3D stereo technology. 2012 TVCF ?Dan In The Rain? for Pepsi Taiwan. 2013 3D Animation ? MIDA?, co-producing with ? Win-Land Multimedia Co., Ltd.? will release in November, 2013. MIRAX Technology Corp., MIRAX, a Animation production tools provider, provide services, like engine and motion capture technology for animation studios companies. MIRAX built up a Motion Capture Studio, which equips with 20 high-end motion capture cameras support up to 3 actors motion recording at the same time. MIRAX is also the authorized partner of Autodesk and Unity3D, which specialized in developing AAA games & Apps

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Source: http://www.pureoverclock.com/2013/07/msi-powers-3d-animation/

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