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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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Future filmmakers feted at Student Academy Awards
The world's future filmmakers got a preview of the kind of Hollywood glamour and glory that could be theirs someday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 40th annual Student Academy Awards.
Sixteen college students from around the globe were honored at the Saturday night ceremony, held at the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and hosted by onetime Student Academy Award winner Bob Saget. Presenters included writer-director Kimberly Peirce and actors Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman and Quvenzhane (kwuh-VEHN'-juh-nay) Wallis.
This year's student honors included two each from the University of Southern California, Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive eight Oscars and 46 Oscar nominations. Could Saturday night's winners be far behind? Remember these names:
GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
? Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin, Narrative category for "Ol' Daddy."
? Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida, Animation category for "Dia de los Muertos."
? David Aristizabal, University of Southern California, Documentary category for "A Second Chance."
? Rafael Cortina, Occidental College, California, Alterative category for "Bottled Up."
? Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom, Foreign Film category for "Miss Todd."
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
? Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California, Narrative category for "Josephine and the Roach."
? Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts, Animation category for "Will."
? Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts, New York, Documentary category for "Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists."
? Perry Janes, University of Michigan, Alternative category for "Zug."
? Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, Foreign Film category for "Parvaneh."
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
? Mauro Mueller, Columbia University, New York, Narrative category for "Un Mundo para Raul (A World for Ra?l)."
? Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida, Animation category for "Peck Pocketed."
? Daniel Koehler, Elon University, North Carolina, Documentary category for "Win or Lose."
? John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts, New York, Alternative category for "The Compositor."
? Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College, Belgium, Foreign Film category for "Tweesprong (Crossroads)."
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Online:
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Keen On? Peter Hirshberg: Why Smart Entrepreneurs Should Care About Smart Cities
Last week, representatives of many of the world's leading cities - including London, Boston, Mexico City, Barcelona and Christchurch - came to San Francisco to learn from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs about how to make their cities smarter. One of the people behind this LLGA Cities Summit was the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg, formerly the chairman of Technorati and now one of the world's leading pioneers of smart cities.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Fo5H2RfjiSI/
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Legally Streaming NFL Games for $100 Is Your Deal of the Day
If you've cut the cable cord, you've probably found that live sports are the hardest type of content to replace. Normally you have to be a DirectTV subscriber to stream NFL games on your laptop or phone, but there's a very interesting Madden 25 bundle currently on Amazon that'll get you access.
Amazon is selling preorders for the special edition of Madden 25?think Madden 2014?for $100, which is $40 more than the standard game. But supposedly the first 50,000 copies of both the Xbox and PS3 game have a unique code that'll get you access to NFL Sunday Ticket streaming?which brings you all 17 weeks of NFL games barring blackouts?on your laptop or mobile device. From EA's FAQ:
Is a DIRECTV subscription necessary in order to view NFL Sunday Ticket via computer, mobile or tablet?
No, it is not necessary to have a DIRECTV subscription. Each Anniversary Edition aspecial code for eligible gamers giving them the opportunity to unlock a special, 2013 regular season (17 weeks) trial of NFL Sunday Ticket on computer, tablet and mobile devices.
There's a ton of fine print, mostly because this promotion is meant to garner more subscribers for DirectTV, which may not be a subscription you want. One detail that should be noted is that this Sunday Ticket "trial" won't work on the PS3. But after parsing through the FAQs, fine print, and tweets, Kotaku's always excellent Owen Good concluded that yes, Virginia, this deal does net you NFL Sunday Ticket streaming for $100
And if you already have DirectTV, you'll get NFL Sunday Ticket Max for free, which usually costs $300 if you didn't get it as part of a promotion.
Sure, your mileage may vary. But I'm in. [Amazon]
? Madden Special Edition Includes 'Sunday Ticket' Even Without DirectTV
? EA's FAQ
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Recent Progress in Data Engineering and Internet Technology ...
The latest inventions in internet technology influence most of business and daily activities. Internet security, internet data management, web search, data grids, cloud computing, and web-based applications play vital roles, especially in business and industry, as more transactions go online and mobile. Issues related to ubiquitous computing are becoming critical. Internet technology and data engineering should reinforce efficiency and effectiveness of business processes. These technologies should help people make better and more accurate decisions by presenting necessary information and possible consequences for the decisions. Intelligent information systems should help us better understand and manage information with ubiquitous data repository and cloud computing. This book is a compilation of some recent research findings in Internet Technology and Data Engineering. This book provides state-of-the-art accounts in computational algorithms/tools, database management and database technologies, intelligent information systems, data engineering applications, internet security, internet data management, web search, data grids, cloud computing, web-based application, and other related topics.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
India, China Could Soon Demand More Oil Than U.S. And Europe
The United States has emerged as the star performer on the global oil scene, according to the latest oil outlook from the International Energy Agency. Oil production from the United States grew at a record pace last year for a non-OPEC nations. Meanwhile, emerging economies have become the big oil buyers.
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=183984444&ft=1&f=1007
IRS kept shifting targets in tax-exempt groups scrutiny: report
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When tax agents started singling out non-profit groups for extra scrutiny in 2010, they looked at first only for key words such as 'Tea Party,' but later they focused on criticisms by groups of "how the country is being run," according to investigative findings reviewed by Reuters on Sunday.
Over two years, IRS field office agents repeatedly changed their criteria while sifting through thousands of applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status to select ones for possible closer examination, the findings showed.
At one point, the agents chose to screen applications from groups focused on making "America a better place to live."
Exactly who at the IRS made the decisions to start applying extra scrutiny was not clear from the findings, which were contained in portions of an investigative report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
Expected to be made public this week, the report was obtained in part by Reuters over the weekend as a full-blown scandal involving the IRS scrutiny widened, embarrassing the agency and distracting the Obama administration.
In one part of the report, TIGTA officials observed that the application screening effort showed "confusion about how to process the applications, delays in the processing of the applications, and a lack of management oversight and guidance."
After brewing for months, the IRS effort exploded into wider view on Friday when Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations for the IRS, apologized for what she called the "inappropriate" targeting of conservative groups for closer scrutiny, something the agency had long denied.
At a legal conference in Washington, while taking questions from the audience, Lerner said the agency was sorry.
She said the screening practice was confined to an IRS office in Cincinnati; that it was "absolutely not" influenced by the Obama administration; and that none of the targeted groups was denied tax-free status.
It is clear from the TIGTA findings that Lerner was informed in June 2011 that the extra scrutiny was occurring. Key words in the names of groups - including 'Tea Party,' "Patriot' and '9/12' - were being used to choose applications, TIGTA found.
"Issues" criteria were also used, TIGTA found. Scrutiny was being given to references to "Government spending, Government debt, or taxes; Education of the public via advocacy/lobbying to 'make America a better place to live;' and Statements in the case file (that) criticize how the country is being run."
Under these early criteria, more than 100 tax-exempt applications had been identified, according to TIGTA.
Briefed on the practice, Lerner ordered changes.
CONSTANTLY SHIFTING CRITERIA
By July 2011, the IRS was no longer targeting just groups with certain key words in their names. Rather, the screening criteria had changed to "organizations involved with political, lobbying, or advocacy."
But then it changed again in January 2012 to cover "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights, social economic reform/movement," according to the findings contained in a Treasury Department watchdog report.
In March 2012, after Tea Party groups complained about delays in processing of their applications, then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman was called to testify by a congressional committee. He denied that the IRS was targeting tax-exempt groups based on their politics.
The IRS said on Saturday that senior IRS executives were not aware of the screening process. The documents reviewed by Reuters do not show that Shulman had any role.
In May 2012, the criteria for scrutiny were revised again to cover a variety of tax-exempt groups "with indicators of significant amounts of political campaign intervention (raising questions as to exempt purpose and/or excess private benefit)," according to a TIGTA timeline included in the findings.
THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS
Each year the IRS reviews as many as 60,000 applications from groups ranging from charities to labor unions that want to be classified as tax-exempt. "Social welfare" groups dedicated to the general good can be tax-exempt under tax law 501(c)4.
These groups do not have to disclose the identities of their donors and they can spend money on advertising for general issues, but they may not endorse specific candidates or parties.
The U.S. Supreme Court's January 2010 "Citizens United" ruling unleashed a torrent of new political spending and 501(c)4 groups became a popular conduit for some of it, on both ends of the political spectrum, but especially for conservatives.
The number of applications sent to the IRS by groups seeking 501(c)4 status rose to 3,400 in 2012 from 1,500 in 2010. As money poured into 501(c)4 groups, campaign finance activists began to raise questions and demanded a crackdown by the IRS.
(Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh, Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-kept-shifting-targets-tax-exempt-groups-scrutiny-041423528.html
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