_"This generation is going to give you massacres in the domestic environment and in the work environment," he predicted, with unrestrained outrage, after ticking off a sobering list of mass murders -- particularly those that have occurred on school grounds and university campuses -- which have plagued American society in recent years._

_"There is a generation of vicious, vicious killers out there," he told his audience. "The video games are their trainers. They've been playing Grand Theft Auto every spare moment since they were six years old."_

_His views were no more subtle when he turned his sights to the international scene. A dozen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the energetic and charismatic speaker sees life-threatening threats emanating from Pakistan, Russia, North Korea and Iran. What will the next 9/11 look like, he wondered aloud, before answering his own rhetorical question: "We're going to get nuked."_

Medicine has been so focused on what doctors can do in the hospital that it has barely even begun to figure out what can be done in the home. But the home is where elderly patients spend most of their time. Its where they take their medicine and eat their meals, and its where they fall into funks and trip over the corner of the carpet. Its where a trained medical professional can see a bad turn before it turns into a catastrophe. Medicine, however, has been reluctant to intrude into homes.

The program enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and one hospitalization in the past year. It then sends a trained nurse to see them every week, or every month, whether theyre healthy or sick. It sounds simple and, in a way, it is. But simple things can be revolutionary.

According to an independent analysis by the consulting firm Mathematica, HQP has reduced hospitalizations by 33 percent and cut Medicare costs by 22 percent.

Hospitals make money when they do more to patients. They lose money when their beds are empty. Put simply, Health Quality Partners makes hospitals lose money.

Officially, the Chief Negotiators have backed off the prior commitment to end the TPP negotiation by October, but are still clinging to a goal to end the negotiation by the "end of the year." But privately, none of the negotiators or stakeholders at this round would express any confidence that the intellectual property issues could be resolved by then. The issues still under contention are massive. The intellectual property chapter has grown to over 80 pages of text - including all the bracketed suggestions and alternatives. Some negotiators describe it as the longest text currently under negotiation. Many of the issues are completely blocked. There has not been any new negotiation text offered on the most controversial pharmaceutical provisions since the Melbourne round over a year ago. There is currently no mandate from many countries to negotiate (they only "consult" and "discuss") the pharmaceutical reimbursement chapter. Barbara Weisel described the pharmaceutical issues as being in a "period of reflection," and had no comment on when that period might end.

_ The recent spate of proposals for policy changes for US copyright law have caused a stir. The US is being asked how it can hold on to demands for parallel importation restrictions after the Kirtsaeng ruling, 70 year copyright terms after the Copyright Office proposed shifting them back to 50 years with formalities required for extensions, and strict restrictions on anti-circumvention liability exceptions when the Obama Administration and the Library of Congress have endorsed reforms that would violate the US proposal. Barbara Weisel stated that USTR is "doing what we can to work with Congress" to make sure that the TPP will not restrict policy options. But negotiators have said that there has been no visible movement on the USTR's positions on Copyright issues, which will be negotiated this week. _

_ And there is no plan to release any text to the public. This is stark contrast to the last to plurilateral agreements including countries in the region. The Free Trade Area for the Americas and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement both released full texts of the negotiating document with brackets indicating text under consideration before the finalization of the texts. For ACTA, there were four publicly released texts between April 2010 and May 2011. For the TPP - none yet, despite the Chief Negotiators' pronouncement of end of year finalization plans. _

_They came up on the IRS radar after the couple met an informant at -- no joke -- YOLO Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. Maye told the informant his name was Troy and that he had stolen 700,000 identities, but the IRS could not yet crack the thief of identities identity._

_IRS Agent Louis Babino then headed to Google and located Maye's Instagram page, which contained a profile photo of Maye. When shown the profile photo, the CW confirmed that Maye (seen at right) was the man with whom he dined at Morton's._

_A further review of Maye's Instagram page, Babino noted, revealed "a photo of a steak and macaroni and cheese meal containing the caption 'Morton's.'" The image--uploaded on January 7 at 11:24 PM--"appears to coincide" with the CW's meeting at Morton's, added Babino._

_In a letter to the Vice President/General Manager of Comcast Sports Net Chicago, team chairman Rocky Wirtz demanded that reporter Susannah Collins be removed immediately, citing his awareness of comedy videos made years earlier that he found "incredibly offensive to a number of audiences, going well beyond professional athletes."_

_He only learned of them after her innocent, unfortunate slip of the tongue last week brought them back to the fore, but it didn't matter to Wirtz. Although they had been a fully disclosed non-issue upon her hiring, they became instant, retroactive reason for a swift dismissal._

_Hull's second wife, Joanne, whom he wed in 1960 and divorced in 1980, told an ESPN documentary in 2002 that she "took a real beating" at his hands. She described an incident during which Hull "threw me in the room, and just proceeded to knock the heck out of me. He took my shoe - with a steel heel - and proceeded to hit me in the head. I was covered with blood. And I can remember him holding me over the balcony, and I thought this is the end, I'm going." She filed to end the marriage in 1970 after several more incidents, but they reconciled until Hull threatened her with a loaded shotgun in 1978. Their daughter, Michelle, also described his pattern of behavior to "Sports Century," and she now works as an attorney specializing in domestic violence._

_ The need for a substantial bond to secure payment of costs and fees from Prenda is not an idle request. Prenda Law, Inc. and its associated lawyers are an organization that is rapidly falling apart. They have dismissed the vast majority of their pending court cases across the country--cases which are their sole source of revenue. Meanwhile, as the days go by, they are increasingly being hit with new motions and orders to show cause for sanctions in various courts where they have tried, with mixed success, to escape from the consequences of their actions. Further, the lawyers and the entities involved here are likely the subject of potential criminal investigations, including an IRS investigation, flowing from the court's formal referrals in the sanctions order below. In short, there may not be any solvent persons around to collect from for much longer. Further, as will be detailed in briefing on the merits, the lawyers' interests in these cases (as well as their assets, one presumes) are hidden behind a web of Nevis LLC's and mysterious offshore trusts. These are all complicated factual issues, with which the district court is already familiar, which is why the district court should set the amount and terms of the bond _

_ Appellants emergency motion for a stay of the district court's May 6, 2013 sanctions order is denied without prejudice to renewal, if necessary, upon the filing and disposition of such request in the district court. See Fed. R. App. P. 8(a)(1). _

In other words: no, Paul, you cant have admission to the Ninth Circuit until this is cleared up, and we wont let you represent a client before us in the interim. Actions have consequences.

_ The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime. (There is no allegation that Mr. Rosen bribed, threatened or coerced anyone to gain the disclosure of restricted information.) _

Mark Mazzetti, who covers national security for the New York Times -- one of several leading investigative reporters I reached out to today -- says he is experiencing a greater reluctance on the part of sources to talk to him. "Theres no question that this has a chilling effect," Mazzetti said. "People who have talked in the past are less willing to talk now. Everyone is worried about communication and how to communicate, and [asking if there] is there any method of communication that is not being monitored. Its got people on both sides -- the reporter and source side -- pretty concerned."

In his defense, Defendant relies upon the testimony of an expert witness, Professor Gary Richardson, in order to show the Court that his work has serious literary, political, and artistic value.*fn8 (Docs. 165-4 at 67-90, 165-5.) Professor Richardson is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of English at Mercer University. Professor Richardson previously received a Fulbright Scholarship and is a decorated academic in the field of English and literature. Professor Richardson concluded, in his expert opinion, that Defendants body of work had literary, political, and artistic value. (Doc. 165-5 at 34-36.) Professor Richardson describes Defendants stories as love stories, "basic romance plots," and "science fiction." (Doc. 165-4 at 80-81.) While Professor Richardson acknowledges that the predominant themes in Defendants work involve "social mores" and "may be considered taboo," he testified that these are incidental to Defendants greater efforts to "undertake an artistic rendering." (Id. at 84.) These themes, including graphic and explicit incestuous sexual abuse, rape, torture, and murder of prepubescent children and young girls, are according to Professor Richardson, a form of "reader entrapment" which reflects his intent to generate political interest. (Id. at 85.) During his testimony, Professor Richardson also described Defendants use of complex literary techniques within his body of work that develop the characters and further the plot line;*fn9 including, interpolated tale (the use of competing narratives) and complex resonances. (Id. at 87.) Professor Richardson, as an expert in literature, urges the Court to consider a deeper level and "close reading" of Defendants work and examine the pornographic "visual gaze" and "central consciousness" are complex "variations on narrative point of view." (Id. at 88.) According to Professor Richardson, Defendants work "reflects serious thought and serious artistry." (Doc. 165-5 at 4.) Among his reasons in support of his conclusion that Defendants body of work contains literary value are, for example, Defendants use of inversion of a biological reality in the story entitled "Rapesuzy." There, Professor Richardson points toward Defendants use of science fiction-including the use of nanobots-as he explores the complex and timeless themes of the nature of love, the difference and relationship between love and sexuality, and how society is disposed to interact sexually with the rest of the world. (Id. at 6-7.) For these reasons, Professor Richardson concluded that "under a narrow definition" Defendants work does have serious literary value and further that "from the standards of people who study literature, [Defendants] stories would manifest serious literary value."*fn10 (Id. at 19, 22.)

_ Stated in other words, Defendants short stories are not entitled to a heightened evidentiary standard, as a matter of federal constitutional law, because he believes them to be intrinsically literary, capable of joining the ranks of great classical erotic literature such as Ulysses, Tropic of Cancer,and Lolita.*fn5 See Bench Opinion at 9-12 (Discussion of why the Court concludes that Defendants short stories, when taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value). Accordingly, though the Eleventh Circuit was not convinced that the musical composition Nasty could speak for itself, this Court has far less trouble declaring that Defendants sexually explicit narratives, with their only tangentially related plots, can speak for themselves. _

_ This story contains very graphic violence against a very young child. If such things bother you (and they do me) I advise against reading this. The story is based upon a line that ran through my head one night, and I couldnt get it out [...basic description of the very taboo subjects included in the story... ] FINAL WARNING !!!! If you think the previous description is based; the actual story is much worse! I strongly advise you to skip this one. _

"The legal system has not been able to shut down the service after the previous guilty verdict against TPB," IIS Chief of Communications Maria Ekelund told TorrentFreak. "Therefore the prosecutor has opened a new case against both the domain holders and .SE. The prosecutor is accusing .SE of assisting TPB who are assisting others to commit copyright infringement." [....] "In the eyes of the prosecutor, .SE's catalogue function has become some form of accomplice to criminal activity, a perspective that is unique in Europe as far as I know," says IIS CEO Danny Aerts.

_FBI agents always interview in pairs. One agent asks the questions, while the other writes up what is called a "form 302 report" based on his notes. The 302 report, which the interviewee does not normally see, becomes the official record of the exchange; any interviewee who contests its accuracy risks prosecution for lying to a federal official, a felony. And here is the key problem that throws the accuracy of all such statements and reports into doubt: FBI agents almost never electronically record their interrogations; to do so would be against written policy._

_Phillipos is a 19-year-old Cambridge resident, former UMass Dartmouth student, and friend of alleged Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He faces charges of making materially false statements during a series of interviews with FBI agents. If convicted, he could get up to eight years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine._

_Q: We found files on your computer showing that you went to a website with instructions on how to make a bomb, so we know you did it. When did you first go to the bomb website?_ _A: I surf the web constantly and go through, like, a million pages. I have no idea what pages I searched or when. How could I possibly know?_ _Notated in 302: D cannot recall when he first went to bomb website. Went "constantly."_

_The more honest -- and more terrifying -- justification for non-recording given in the memo reads as follows: ". . . perfectly lawful and acceptable interviewing techniques do not always come across in recorded fashion to lay persons as proper means of obtaining information from defendants. Initial resistance may be interpreted as involuntariness and misleading a defendant as to the quality of the evidence against him may appear to be unfair deceit." Translated from bureaucratese: When viewed in the light of day, recorded witness statements could appear to a reasonable jury of laypersons to have been coercively or misleadingly obtained._

_ ... it is strongly supported by the same group of NGOs and advanced emerging economy countries that pursue a general IPR-weakening agenda at WIPO and other international forums. _

_"Since it was induced in November, we've added more than 1.7 million new players on the free model to the service," said Electronic Arts president of labels Frank Gibeau. "And the number of subscriptions has stabilized at just under half a million."_

_"The really interesting thing that's happening inside the service right now is monthly average revenue for the game has more than doubled since we introduced the free-to-play option. And as we look forward, we're going to continually invest in new content for the service and for players every six weeks or so."_

how can documents that the Commission has already shared with the business community at large suddenly become confidential and a threat to the EUs international relations when a public interest group asks for their disclosure? This is the core question raised by the lawsuit.

What is at stake in the lawsuit is whether the Commission can continue its habit of granting big business privileged access to its trade policy-making process by sharing information that is withheld from the public. This practice not only hampers well-informed and meaningful public participation in EU trade policy-making, it also leads to a trade policy that, while catering for big business needs, is harmful to people and the environment in the EU and the world.

_Difficult for MPAA to differentiate between infringing and non-infringing material, but everyone else should still easily be able to know immediately whats infringing._

_Interesting. If its ISPs magically waving away infringement, its really easy to figure out infringement from non-infringement. If they have to do it, its too hard._

_No they dont. Theres a myriad of other tactics they can use. There is no requirement that they absolutely, positively have to send DMCA notices._

So if I understand this correctly: 1) Infringement is all over the place, thus making it difficult to monetize content, which leads to the need for these laws 2) Terrorist are able to fund themselves via monetizing this infringing 3) Which leads to the final logic that terrorist are able to monetize content that is available everywhere better than the producers of the content???

_Duffys next comment: "Im not sure who that woman is. She may or may not be my wife, but I have no direct knowledge of any relationship."_

_You know, Ive always wanted to dig to China. I think Ill hire these guys._

"Where can I sign back up for my monthly $50-80 cable bill so I have access to these wonderful services" -No one. Ever.

_I generally do. I just dont have the coordination to flap my arms and mess with my smartphone at the same time._

Pictured: A Rice University professor in the near future Image source: CC BY 2.0

_In recent writings, Vardi traces the evolution of the idea that artificial intelligence may one day surpass human intelligence, from Turing to Kurzweil, and considers the recent rate of progress. Although early predictions proved too aggressive, in the space of 15 years we've gone from Deep Blue beating Kasparov at chess to self-driving cars and Watson beating Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Extrapolating into the future, Vardi thinks it's reasonable to believe intelligent machines may one day replace human workers almost entirely and in the process put millions out of work permanently._

_Perhaps in the future, while some of us work hard to build and program super-intelligent machines, others will work hard to entertain, theorize, philosophize, and make uniquely human creative works, maybe even pair with machines to accomplish these things. These may seem like niche careers for the few and talented. But at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, jobs of the mind in general were niche careers._

_Toeppen relaunched his online attacks against Leval, posting a page to Suburban Express website that recounted the March 31 incident from Toeppens point of view and calling Leval "nothing but a bullying, self-important brat." The page reiterated Toeppens claim that Leval was trying to smear Suburban Express to help his own since-aborted plans for a student ride-sharing site, saying, "A blogger suggested that Leval may have been motivated to harass Suburban Express as a means of furthering his business interests."_ _Toeppens post didnt end there. He also recounted a conversation that Leval and his girlfriend allegedly had with a driver from another transportation service. "On May 12, 2013, Jeremy Leval and his girlfriend interacted with an EAC driver at Armory around 2:50pm. Jeremy approached the driver and asked if he had heard of Suburban Express. Jeremy went on to boast that he is the guy who is causing Suburban Express lots of trouble. This makes [me] question Jeremy Levals motivations. Is he a selfless individual fighting for the rights of the oppressed, or is he a self-promoting, troublemaking, attention-seeker?"_

_ "It's a single point in the system through which all of the content can be collected if they can manage to activate it," said Edward W. Felten, a computer science professor at Princeton and one of the authors of the report... "That's a security vulnerability waiting to happen, as if we needed more," he said. _