Hong Kong: US Got Edward Snowden's Middle Name Wrong

HONG KONG ? Hong Kong officials say the U.S. government got National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's middle name wrong in documents it submitted seeking his arrest.

Snowden hid in Hong Kong for several weeks after revealing secret U.S. surveillance programs. Hong Kong allowed him to fly to Moscow on Sunday, saying a U.S. request for his arrest did not fully comply with its requirements.

Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen said that discrepancies in the paperwork filed by U.S. authorities were to blame, although the U.S. Justice Department denied that Wednesday.

Yuen said Hong Kong immigration records listed Snowden's middle name as Joseph, but the U.S. government used the name James in some documents and referred to him only as Edward J. Snowden in others.

"These three names are not exactly the same, therefore we believed that there was a need to clarify," he said Tuesday.

Yuen said U.S. authorities also did not provide Snowden's passport number.

The decision to let Snowden leave Hong Kong irked the White House, which said it damaged U.S.-Chinese relations. U.S. officials implied that Beijing had a hand in letting Snowden leave Hong Kong, a former British colony that is now a semiautonomous region with its own legal system.

Hong Kong officials have pushed back, stressing that they followed the city's rule of law in processing the U.S. request.

The U.S. Justice Department rejected the notion Hong Kong had required clarification about Snowden's middle name ? or that it needed his passport number, saying the U.S. had provided to Hong Kong all that was required under the terms of their extradition treaty.

"The fugitive's photos and videos were widely reported through multiple news outlets. That Hong Kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates that it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request," a spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the department.

Yuen said the confusion over Snowden's identification and his passport were among factors that delayed an arrest. He said the government requested clarification from its counterparts in the U.S. on Friday afternoon.

"Up until the moment of Snowden's departure, the very minute, the U.S. Department of Justice did not reply to our request for further information. Therefore, in our legal system, there is no legal basis for the requested provisional arrest warrant," Yuen said. In the absence of such a warrant, the "Hong Kong government has no legal basis for restricting or prohibiting Snowden leaving Hong Kong."

Snowden flew from Hong Kong to Moscow and was expected to seek asylum in Ecuador.

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MGSCOMM restructures company, announces ... - Hispanic PR Blog

MGS Advertising and SWAY Public Relations are core of new structure

MGSCOMM announced today a company-wide restructuring, that diversifies its client offerings and streamlines delivery of its communications solutions.?? As part of the evolved company, MGSCOMM Group of Companies is formed as the holding company of the independent agency and the Board of Directors has named Al Garcia-Serra Chairman. Under the new corporate structure, key associates have beenelevated to manage its core operational business units:? MGS Advertising, Carla Trum-Mercado named President, among other moves; SWAY Public Relations, Yvonne Lorie named President.? Its digital unit, CREAD, folds into the MGS Advertising media and creative areas synchronizing all of today?s options?including digital and mobile?into one central campaign development and media planning process.

The announcement coincides with MGSCOMM?s 10-year anniversary as it marks steady growth as one of the top independent Hispanic-owned agencies. During 2012, MGSCOMM increased its revenue 35% from the previous year.

?At this juncture, our Chairman will guide the vision of MGSCOMM over the next decade, assessing growth opportunities for our client partners, our industry and our agency, while empowering the valuable associates who have helped bring us here today,? states Manuel E. Machado, CEO.? ?By converging our media operations? online, offline and what the future may hold, we can adeptly deliver on our client partners? communications and business goals.?

Adds Garcia-Serra, ?Integration, innovation, and instant activation are keys to responding to today?s marketing turbulence. As an agency we must assist our client partners in reorganizing resources and identifying the precise vehicles and content that drives customer engagement with brands and services. By joining the best talent with our integrated resources we are positioned to offer a communications product that creates a positive customer experiences across all touch points.?

Carla Trum-Mercado has been named President of MGS Advertising reporting directly to Machado.? Already a member of the executive management team and previously serving as Executive Vice President, Trum-Mercado is an industry leader with more than 25 years experience in branding and account management.? Prior to joining MGSCOMM in 2012, she was Executive Vice President of Siboney Advertising, elevating the company?s Fortune 100 client roster.? She will lead MGSCOMM?s long-term strategic planning efforts for all Miami and New York-based client partners, including campaign integration across MGSCOMM?s multiple disciplines. Her unparalleled understanding of the marketplace combined with astute applications of consumer insights, are reflected in the agency?s agility in multicultural and total market communications programs.

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Federico Mejer has been appointed Managing Director out of MGSCOMM?s New York office.? Already a member of the executive management team since joining MGSCOMM in 2012, Mejer co-founded communications agency REVOLUCION in 2000 which grew to become one of the top 20 independent Hispanic agencies in the U.S.? He manages Hispanic and general market campaigns for MGSCOMM?s client partners and spearheads public relations and social media campaign extensions company wide.? His skill set within all facets of the industry? client, media, agency? coupled with campaign integration expertise and business acumen have helped grow the agency?s overall operation.? Mejer serves as vice-president of the board of the Hispanic Public Relations Association.

Jorge Espinosa has been promoted to Senior Vice-President, Account Services directing MGSCOMM?s Miami based client partners, which includes Hispanic and general market assignments.? Formerly Vice-President, he began his career with MGS as Account Director.? Espinosa holds a robust combination of strategic planning proficiency coupled with applied advertising and media skills within domestic and international markets.? Throughout his 20-year career he has developed strategic communications planning solutions for global brands across many industry sectors.? Espinosa has been instrumental in expanding MGSCOMM?s total market activation and will lead the account services team integrating planning, media and creative.

Andreea Redis-Coste has been promoted to Senior Vice-President, Media Services.? Formerly Vice President, Redis-Coste will direct all online and offline media strategies for MGSCOMM?s client roster ensuring customized media campaigns that maximize marketing investments.? Based out of MGSCOMM?s Miami headquarters, she will converge all media disciplines to ensure integrated communications campaigns for total market and Hispanic market client partners. With nearly 20 years of advertising experience in General, Hispanic, Caribbean and International markets, Redis-Coste is a true analyst layering consumer strata over designated target markets ensuring the most effective and efficient media campaigns.

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?????????????? As part of SWAY Public Relations, Yvonne Lori? assumes role of President and joins the executive management team.? Previously Senior Vice-President, Lori? began her career with MGS as Account Director.? She directs all public relations clients including integrated campaigns with advertising support.? The division offers multilingual public relations services for national and international markets including:? media relations, social media development and management, community relations, event marketing, strategic alignments and promotions.? Lori??s 20-year professional career covers a variety of categories including: food & beverage, automotive, retail, luxury, non-profit, financial, healthcare and tourism.

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Run Wild Productions and Postmaster, MGSCOMM?s broadcast production and post-production units, respectively, maintain as creative extensions to the agency?s cost-efficient resources for its client partners.? ?These portfolio subsidiary companies ensure a unified brand message delivered effectively and efficiently throughout MGSCOMM?s multimedia campaigns.? We believe that our business model continues to build on our client partner needs and our progressive corporate culture,? says Moya.

Source: http://www.hispanicprblog.com/hispanicmulticultural-pr-briefs/mgscomm-restructures-company-announces-new-promotions-and-hires.html

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2014 inflation adjustments for HSAs/HDHPs released ? Business ...

The IRS has announced the 2014 inflation-adjusted figures for health savings accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs).

• Employees with self-only coverage under HDHPs can contribute up to $3,300 into their HSAs. The minimum annual deductible for an HDHP is $1,250. The maximum amount of out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., deductibles, co-payments, etc.) is $6,350.
• Employees with family coverage under HDHPs can contribute up to $6,550 into their HSAs. The minimum annual deductible for an HDHP is $2,500. The maximum amount of out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., deductibles, co-payments, etc.) is $12,700. (Rev. Proc. 2013-25, IRB 2013-21)

COST SHARING LIMITS: For plan years beginning in 2014, limitations on employee cost sharing apply to all non-grandfathered group plans, and can?t exceed the out-of-pocket limits that apply to HDHPs.

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'Bonanza' memorabilia going up for auction in Nev.

RENO, Nev. (AP) ? Several pieces of memorabilia from the long-running hit TV series "Bonanza" are going up for auction in Nevada, including the branding iron used in the iconic Western's opening credits.

The family of "Bonanza" star Lorne Greene is selling a number of the deceased actor's personal items and much of his memorabilia from the show at an auction Saturday in Reno. The sale was arranged by Greene's son, Chuck, who lives at Lake Tahoe.

The actor died in 1987 at age 72. From 1959 to 1973, he played Ben Cartwright, the patriarch of the "Bonanza" family whose sprawling, 1,000-square-mile Ponderosa Ranch was set in the high Sierra between Tahoe and Virginia City.

Jeff Pilliod, who owns the auction house handling the sale, said he got excited as soon as he heard from Chuck Greene's personal assistant that the actor's son had decided he had too "much stuff."

"When you have a name to match with the auction, it adds a lot more entry to it," said Pilliod, owner and auctioneer of Anchor Auctions and Appraisals.

"And 'Bonanza' was very, very popular," he told the Reno Gazette-Journal (http://tinyurl.com/potobzt).

Chuck Greene's assistant, Sky Richarde, said they picked Pilliod as the auctioneer partly because of the local ties. Chuck Greene lives near the site of a replica ranch that operated as a tourist stop at Incline Village from 1967 to 2004.

Chuck Greene "still has a lot of his father's stuff," Richarde said. "He needed to not have so much stuff, and he wants the public to have access to these things that were his father's."

The family earlier donated some of Lorne Greene's documents to the University of Southern California for research purposes, she said.

One of the auction's highlights is the branding iron that appeared during each episode's opening credits, burning up the Old West-style map of the ranch and surrounding frontier.

Also up for sale are awards, photos of Lorne Greene at the Reno Rodeo and large personalized belt buckles, including one he received in 1962 from the owners of the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City with an inset of an 1884 Liberty silver dollar.

Lorne Greene also starred in the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica" but is best known for his role in "Bonanza." His TV sons were played by Dan Blocker (Hoss), Pernell Roberts (Adam) and Michael Landon (Little Joe) during the first run of the popular series seen by an estimated 400 million people in 80 countries.

The show, which was filmed mostly in Los Angeles and partly around Lake Tahoe, helped put Nevada on the map worldwide, said Guy Rocha, retired Nevada state archivist and historian.

"People throughout the world saw this area depicted on TV and thought of 'Bonanza' and the Cartwright family," Rocha said. "There were generations raised on the show."

Pilliod said he has reached out to fan clubs of both "Bonanza" and "Battlestar Galactica," as well as museums he believes might have interest in displaying some items. He said he has even sought out fans in Europe and Asia, where "Bonanza" remains popular today because of the allure of the Old West there.

"We hope for a busy weekend," Pilliod said. "We have already had quite a bit of interest, so we're looking forward to it."

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Information from: Reno Gazette-Journal, http://www.rgj.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bonanza-memorabilia-going-auction-nev-182527278.html

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When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a Tutor - Teo-Education

Often faculty who teach large classes (and some who don?t) fantasize about sitting down and working individually with students. For many of us that?s the ideal teaching scenario, but for most of us teaching realities are far removed from this ideal. You can?t tutor individual students when faced with 100 of them. Or can you?

Biologists Wood and Tanner undertook an interesting project. They decided to look at the research on tutoring to see if the characteristics of effective tutors had been identified. Then they explored whether any of the techniques used by effective tutors could be used by teachers in large courses. In their paper (reference below), ?we present specific approaches for adapting effective tutoring strategies and applying them to large biology lecture classes.? (p. 3) Using a set of effective tutor characteristics identified by Lepper and Wolverton (a reference to their research is in the article), Wood and Tanner explore how these seven characteristics can be adapted and used in large lecture courses (and what they propose isn?t applicable just in biology courses). Here are some of the suggestions offered for each tutor characteristic.

Applying characteristics of tutors in a large classroom setting
Intelligent?The best tutors know their content. They are experts in the true sense of the word, but they also know a lot about how students learn and the best ways to teach certain kinds of content. Faculty have that same kind of content expertise, but many don?t know a lot about how students learn and how they should teach, given what is known about how students learn. That knowledge can be acquired (whether you teach large or small classes), and it can be used to successfully implement the strategies about to be described.

by Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Read more @ http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/when-teaching-large-classes-think-like-a-tutor/

This entry was posted on Monday, June 24th, 2013 at 8:17 am and is filed under Effective Teaching and Learning. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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Dakar Fashion Week targets city's working class

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? Organizers of Dakar Fashion Week have staged a show in a working-class suburb as part of a bid to democratize high fashion.

The show on Friday night attracted thousands of residents, who offered vocal, real-time assessments of the clothes on display while cheering loudly for the more famous models.

Organizer Adama Ndiaye, who launched Dakar Fashion Week 11 years ago, said she hoped the project would further her dream of making high fashion as accessible to the working-class as it is for the wealthy.

The show was part of a six-day event featuring 18 designers, seven from Senegal and others from as far away as Germany and Brazil. Shows were scheduled to be held in three different locations throughout Dakar.

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'Mad Men's' Don Draper: Sexy, but so sad

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Don Draper found himself surrounded by people, yet all alone and sad, in the ninth episode of the season, titled "Better Half."

It's been a long, sad season for Don Draper on "Mad Men." It seemed almost every episode featured at least one shot of the handsome ad man brooding -- and in some cases, even shedding a tear or two.

What's he got to cry about, you say? We hear you: He's a rich, very successful, good-looking guy with a gorgeous wife. As far as viewers can see, he's still got his health too. (At least, we think so. His liver hasn't started failing from all that drinking yet, right?) So why the long face, Don?

Turns out maybe we should cut the guy a little slack. Money and good looks can't buy happiness, after all. (Just a lot of other stuff that makes life a bit easier.)

Dumped
Nobody tells Don Draper what's what! Unless you're his neighbor/mistress, apparently. In the episode titled "Man With a Plan," the ad man does his own version of "50 Shades of Grey" and orders lover Sylvia to stay in her hotel room all day (although it felt more like days), even taking away her book at one point. By the end of that ordeal, she'd had an epiphany and dumped him. His response? Disbelief. Sad face. Begging. And later, more begging on the phone.

Who are you?
Daughter Sally delivered a knife to Don's -- and viewers' -- hearts this year. After the Draper residence is burgled while the adults are away and Sally was left behind to watch her little brothers, she explained to Don why she was duped into believing the thief -- a black woman -- was her grandma. "She said she knew you," Sally told her dad on the phone later. "I asked her everything I know and she had an answer for everything. Then I realized I don't know anything about you." Sad, ponderous face.

All by himself
Don's often surrounded by people, whether he's at the office, having a meal with clients or enjoying a little tryst with someone. When he hooked up with ex-wife Betty while visiting son Bobby at camp, he admitted that he'd missed her, hinting at how unhappy he is in his current marriage. "Why is sex the definition of being close to someone?" he asked. Her reply? "I don't know. But it is for me, it is for most people." Cue the sad face. And by the next morning, they were miles apart again. As Don headed into the diner for breakfast, he saw Betty sitting with her husband, Henry ... and Don shuffled off to sit alone.

Drowning
After smoking some hashish at a Hollywood party, Don started to hallucinate first the happy, then the sad. The vision of a pregnant Megan came to him first, then Dinkins, the soldier he met in the season premiere. Except now, the young man is missing an arm -- and is dead. "Dying doesn't make you whole," Dinkins told Don when asked why the deceased vet was still missing his appendage in the afterlife. "You should see what you look like." And what does the ad man look like? Depressed. And dead. Floating in a pool face-down dead. But fortunately for him, the dead part was a hallucination, but he really was drowning in the pool until Roger dove in and saved him.

Busted
When Don finally got caught cheating with Sylvia, it wasn't by who viewers -- or Don himself -- were probably expecting. It was Sally who walked in on the two lovebirds. This sent Don first into panic mode, which eventually morphed into depression. It became obvious two episodes later, when Don started out the penultimate episode of the season curled up in a fetal position on Sally's bed, and ended the hour the same way, realizing that his actions have cost him a relationship with his little girl.

What Sunday's finale holds for Don's happiness, you'll have to tune in and see at 10 p.m. on AMC.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/mad-mens-don-draper-sexy-successful-so-sad-6C10367555

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Keep Your Pets Safe with a DIY Paracord Harness

A normal collar is fine for taking your dog on a short walk, but for serious hiking, he'll be safer and more comfortable in a full body harness. Before you run out and buy one though, try to make your own with paracord.

Instructables user mymyjames2000 shows you how easy it can be. You'll just need some paracord, plastic buckles, and a candle. He shows you how to properly tie the paracord into a harness, attach the buckles securely, and fuse the loose ends of the cord with a candle to prevent them from fraying. It doesn't look too difficult, but it does require lots of fairly complicated knot tying, so be sure to set aside some time before taking this on. Once you're finished, the harness will fit snugly around your pet's midsection and neck to distribute the tension of your leash more evenly.

Paracord Pet Harness | Instructables

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Obama Defends Surveillance (WSJ)

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