Harry Potter actor Tom Felton, 23, has revealed plans to start a rap music career. NewsFeed isn’t sure if he’s kidding. Felton said that he was “looking to get into the grime rap UK scene.” According to an interview with The Sun, the actor known for playing villainous Draco Malfoy has secured a recording deal
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When they’re not busy carving handsets out of teak (or rockin’ out with their pupils ), the folks over at NTT DoCoMo apparently focus their efforts on saving the environment. Next year, the Japanese provider will begin outfitting its expansive cellphone tower network with ten “green transmission stations,” to be powered by an artillery of biofuels, wind and solar energy. This kind of infrastructure would obviously bring a smile to the face of ol’ Mama Nature, but it could also help mitigate the adverse effects of power outages and elfin insurgents . And for that, we should all be grateful. NTT DoCoMo to power cellphone towers with renewable energy, tenderness originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Continue reading …About half a million people have signed an online petition clamoring for “Caylee’s Law,” and legislators in at least five states are working on similarly themed bills. But like much of the legislation that arises after horrible crimes, Caylee’s Law isn’t as good an idea as it seems, writes Maia…
Continue reading …Serving in the latest round of wars in America has not helped our returning troops when it comes to keeping their own homes . And now the news on the job front makes their lives even harder than before: Unemployment among recently returned veterans, already in double digits, is poised to get worse as more soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan . T he jobless rate for veterans who served at any time since September 2001 — called Gulf War-era II veterans — was 13.3% in June, up from 12.1% the month before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In June 2010 it was 11.5% . — “It just so happens that there are a lot of people out there and there aren’t enough jobs,” said Pavel Ksendz, a 25-year-old Culver City resident who joined the Army in 2003, right after graduating from high school. After serving for four years, including 14 months in Iraq, Ksendz recently applied for a job as a janitor in Santa Monica, only to be told there were 59 other applicants. Veterans face a unique set of obstacles when they start to look for work, said Lance Holbrook, a veterans representative at the One-Stop Career Center in Lancaster. Many went into service straight out of high school, and although they may have experience fixing airplanes or leading people, they don’t have the college degrees that employers are seeking, Holbrook said. “Most employers won’t even consider them without a degree,” said Holbrook, who said he’s seen a surge in newly returned veterans looking for jobs in the last two months. Unemployment among veterans could rise even more in upcoming months as more troops return from overseas. President Obama announced plans last month to pull 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year’s end and a total of 33,000 by September 2012. And the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is about 46,000 now, down from the peak of 166,000 in 2007. Most of the remaining troops will leave Iraq by year’s end. The GOP has disappeared when it comes to creating jobs for all Americans since they took back the House, so I wonder how our veterans feel about the party that says they are pro-military? JP Morgan Chase Supports The Troops By Overcharging Them On Mortgages, And By Foreclosure Fraud Do troops without jobs believe reducing the debt is the most important thing in America? Or is having a job?
Continue reading …Fox’s ‘News Watch’ program discusses everything BUT the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal
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Click here to view this media I don’t know how many of you have been watching the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal as it grows and digging up the tidbits, but if you have, you already know that the only place not to bother looking is at any of the Murdoch-owned properties in the USA, including the Wall Street Journal and even more particularly Fox News. This reached hilarious depths this weekend when Fox’s own media-analysis show, wherein they discussed everything even vaguely media-related EXCEPT the Murdoch scandal. The big focus was on the Casey Anthony trial and the coverage around it — and even on that, the discussion was disingenuous and dishonest. Media Matters has more : This weekend, Fox News Watch, Fox News Channel’s media criticism show, covered the following issues: The media’s coverage of the Casey Anthony trial verdict; MSNBC’s suspension of Mark Halperin for making vulgar comments about the president; the media’s role in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case; the cancellation of In the Arena, Eliot Spitzer’s CNN television show; and Vice President Joe Biden’s new Twitter account. The glaring omission from this list is any mention of the shuttering of the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World, billed as the largest English-language newspaper in the world, which published its last edition today. The paper is folding following allegations that it hacked the voicemails of a slain teen girl in the United Kingdom, an action which potentially impeded the police investigation and gave the girl’s family false hope that she was still alive. There are also allegations that family members of soldiers who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and families of victims of the 2005 subway bombings have been phone hacked. Apparently, there were some brief allusions to it onstage during the commercial breaks : CAL THOMAS: Anybody want to bring up the subject we’re not talking about today for the — for the [online] streamers? JAMES PINKERTON: Sure. Go ahead, Cal! THOMAS: No, go ahead, Jim. [LAUGHTER] THOMAS: I’m not going to touch it. JUDY MILLER (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): With a ten foot [inaudible]. And the scandal news got even bigger today, with the possibility of prosecution for News Corp officials in the United States looming as well: But Murdoch may soon have bigger problems on his hands. Legal experts told the AP today that his company could face criminal prosecution in the U.S. for his U.K. papers’ alleged bribery of British police officers, which would be a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to the the Department of Justice, “The FCPA prohibits payments made in order to assist the firm in obtaining or retaining business.” Thus the papers’ use of bribery to obtain information which helped sell newspapers could fall under the act’s purview. And even though the bribery occurred entirely in Britian, NewsCorp is an American company, incorporated in Delaware, and held accountable for its foreign subsidiary’s actions. Even if the corporation wasn’t directly involved in bribery, it could be found in violation of the law for turning a “blind eye.” The legal experts told the AP they would be surprised if the Securities and Exchange Commission and the DoJ have not already opened investigations into the matter and said the decision to shutter News of the World was potentially an attempt to limit Murdoch and NewsCorp’s legal exposure. As Will Bunch explains , Murdoch’s depredations in the USA have actually been more serious and damaging than what’s been uncovered by the scandal. Ellen at Newshounds has six good reasons to demand an investigation into the company’s activities here. And you can go to Media Matters for a petition demanding such action. Meanwhile, as something of an absurd endnote, did anyone notice that the Fox News crew tut-tutted those generic “media” figures who decided ahead of time that Casey Anthony was guilty and had convicted her in the media, most notably Nancy Grace. But the same was true — in spades — at Fox News, where the running assumption all along was that Anthony would be convicted, deservedly so. Indeed, check out the fifteen minutes of coverage on Fox just prior to the announcement of the verdict on Monday. Click here to view this media Funny that the Fox media-analysis crew didn’t bother to mention that these people were wrong, wrong, wrong. Because at Fox, being wrong isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.
Continue reading …13.7-Foot Crocodile Captured Alive In Philippines, Suspected Of Killing Fisherman
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MANILA, Philippines — A 13.7-foot (4.2 meter) saltwater crododile was captured alive in the Philippines on Monday and will be examined to determine if it killed a fisherman last month. The male crocodile had to be tied, blindfolded and carried by more than 10 men. It was estimated to weigh up to 770 pounds (350 kilos). The giant was captured in a trap set up along the Rio Tuba river to hunt for the crocodile that ate the fisherman’s legs, said Alex Marcaida, a spokesman for an environment council in Palawan province. The crocodile was caught near where the man’s partial remains were found in Bataraza township of western Palawan province. It will be induced to vomit to see if its stomach contains human tissues, though Marcaida said it might be too late to know for sure whether the croc killed the man. An 8-foot (2.4 meter) crocodile captured earlier had no trace of human tissues in its stomach. Crocodylus porosus is the world’s largest living reptile species. They thrive in mangrove areas, and over the last 10 years, have killed at least three people in Palawan, Marcaida said. Wildlife workers only catch “problem crocodiles” but generally leave crocodiles in their natural habitat. Those caught are brought to a crocodile farm and wildlife center in the provincial capital, Puerto Princesa. The killings may have occurred, he said, because the crocodiles’ natural habitat have been disturbed. Some residents near where the crocodile was caught Monday have built closer to the mangrove areas, even putting up backyard piggeries that jut out onto the river, Marcaida added. Crocodiles usually go back to where they had their last meal, he said, making it necessary to remove the crocodile.
Continue reading …Meet Thomas Stuker. The sales consultant from Chicago just hit the magical 10 million mile mark after taking 5,962 flights with United, which, if you hadn’t already figured it out, is the equivalent of 400 trips around the globe. Makes you feel better about your two-hour layover en route to your summer vacation destination, doesn’t
Continue reading …Deep underwater and far below ocean sediment lies what was, millions of years ago, a vast landscape. Complete with furrows and peaks that were once rivers and mountains, the North Atlantic site “looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore,” said one of…
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Our good buddies over at Virgin Mobile have taken their love of music and mobile and smashed them up once again in the 2011 version of the award-winning festival known as FreeFest. This years music event will be sponsored by Kyocera and will feature a slew of amazing musical acts including The Black Keys, Deadmau5, Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Android Community Discovery Date : 11/07/2011 07:00 Number of articles : 3
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