Patriots place LB Jerod Mayo on injured reserve

In this Oct. 13, 2013 photo, New England Patriots outside linebacker Jerod Mayo is tended after being injured on a tackle of New Orleans Saints running back Darren Sproles in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass. Mayo suffered a season-ending injury on the play, and the Patriots placed him on the injured reserve list on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

In this Oct. 13, 2013 photo, New England Patriots outside linebacker Jerod Mayo is tended after being injured on a tackle of New Orleans Saints running back Darren Sproles in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass. Mayo suffered a season-ending injury on the play, and the Patriots placed him on the injured reserve list on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England linebacker Jerod Mayo will miss the rest of the season with the latest serious injury to a Patriots defensive star.

The team placed the two-time Pro Bowl player on injured reserve Wednesday, three days after he was hurt in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 30-27 win over the New Orleans Saints.

Mayo joins defensive tackle Vince Wilfork on IR. Wilfork tore his right Achilles tendon Sept. 29 in a 30-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons. He and Mayo are defensive co-captains.

After tackling Darren Sproles on Sunday, Mayo got up and reached for the upper right area of his chest. Mayo's agent, Mitch Frankel, did not respond to a request for comment on a report that Mayo had undergone surgery for a torn chest muscle. Rookie Jamie Collins, the Patriots' first-round draft choice, and Dane Fletcher are expected to fill in for Mayo, who has missed just five regular-season games.

Mayo is the NFL's leading tackler since 2010 with 546 and has led the Patriots in tackles in each of his five seasons.

"I think I've been on record many times talking about Jerod," coach Bill Belichick said. "He does a lot for us on the field, off the field. But we're just going to have to move on."

The Patriots also announced that they re-signed defensive tackle Andre Neblett and signed cornerback Travis Howard to the practice squad.

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Mike Tyson Conspiracy -- The Government's Killing Our Pigeons!

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America's precious pigeon population is in danger -- especially in NYC -- so says famed pigeon lover Mike Tyson, who claims the government has launched an evil campaign to get rid of our gray little friends forever!!!

Tyson was at LAX yesterday when the conversation inevitably turned to his beloved animals -- in the words of Woody Allen, "rats with wings" -- and he explained his conspiracy theory ... that municipalities like NYC have introduced falcons to curb the pigeon population.

He's not far off ... according to a government report from 2007 -- called "Curbing the Pigeon Conundrum" -- NYC officials have used hawks to keep pigeons in check ... but that brief experiment ended in 2003 when one hawk attacked a small dog.

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There is currently a growing hawk population in NYC, but the report says it's "a natural resurgence" ... even though official groups like the NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation are actively conserving the wild hawk/falcon population.

So there you go ... it's pigeon lovers vs. hawk conservationists ... which means, we gotta ask ...

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A Graduate Student's Odyssey From Gaza To Indianapolis

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Fidaa Abuassi has finally made it to the U.S. for graduate school. She should have been here in August, but was stuck at home in the Gaza Strip, the tiny Palestinian enclave bordered by Israel and Egypt. Leaving Gaza is rarely easy. But since the military takeover in Egypt, it's become nearly impossible.

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Watch Daniela. She's Up To Something Big

Somebody should be watching Daniela Rus and her pals at MIT, because what they are doing is so crazy, so potentially important, people need to know about them. Not because they're dangerous, but because what they're doing might be changing the world and nobody should change the world without the world noticing.

In a nutshell, they are letting machines design themselves — guided, at least for now, by humans.

They're not teaching machines to copy themselves. No, it's bigger than that. They are building robots that can rearrange their parts when they need to do something new. Suppose, for example that you see an apple high up on a tree — too high to reach. What if you could grow extra long arms to get what you want? That's the notion here. As your goals change, your body can change too.

Step by step (I've already blogged about their magical bag-o-sand toolkit) they are creating the basic building blocks of what's called "a reconfigurable robot." And to my amazement — robot bits have learned to leap through the air!

The concept of a reconfigurable robot is simple: Make a cube that can move to sit on another cube, then another, so that it can build different shapes. Sometimes like this ...

Sometimes like that ...

And eventually, the bits can turn themselves into a chair, a support beam, a tool, or a Terminator robot that saves little boys from being killed so they can save the future world.

Snap In, Snap Off, Move

The hard part is getting the bits to do this on their own. First off, they have to learn three basics: How to snap into place, unsnap, and move.

John Romanishin, who's been building robots and competing in robot derbies since he was a baby geek, figured out how to slip an itty bitty flywheel into the cube. It looks like a miniature desk fan that rotates up to 20,000 revolutions per minute — it comes with a battery, and when the flywheel is on, the cube has momentum: it can climb, roll across the ground, crawl up another cube, even leap through the air. "Which is pretty exciting," John says, "because it allows robots to jump on top of each other and go places that they couldn't go if they were only moving directly on the structure."

It has no moving parts on its outside. The motion comes from within.

When the fans turn off, a series of magnets on all six cube surfaces allow it to snap into place wherever it is, onto the cube it's next to, which creates an enormous number of possibilities ... Just take a look.

Daniela Rus, who has a knack for finding very whizzy whiz-kids, even for MIT where the whiz population is pretty high, says her grad students John Romanishin and Kyle Gilpin are still telling the cubes what to do, sending instructions via wifi — but one day, they won't have to.

“ [They] decide how, when and where to move.

- Kyle Gilpin

Says Kyle:

In the future, we envision putting the algorithms on the modules themselves so they completely autonomously, in a distributed fashion, decide how, when and where to move, so we want to be able to take a large group of cubes and tell them, "form this shape" and give those instructions at a very high level, and then have the cubes decide on their own how to go about accomplishing that task.

I'm fantasizing now ... but here's how my dreams go. First I'm creating a self-assembling hammer, then a self-assembling car, then a self-assembling hut when I'm off hiking in the mountains, and then ... one day that cannot come too soon ... a self-assembling Robert Krulwich that can "go to work" while I spend the whole day kayaking in Long Island Sound.

As long as these thingies do our bidding, all this is good. At Daniela Rus' lab, they talk of bridges that repair themselves, tools that assemble when you need them, robots that can explore, rescue and adapt to changing conditions. Part of me, of course, doesn't completely trust an increasingly autonomous, increasingly inventive machine, but I think for the moment, the plusses way outweigh the minuses, so I say "Keep goin', Daniela!" On rainy days when I'm am desperate for an umbrella, I'll be thinking of you.

Here's the MIT press release that describes what Rus' guys are doing. Thanks to Erik Olsen for sending this my way.

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Death toll in Philippines quake jumps to 93

CEBU, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93, as rescuers struggled to reach patients in a collapsed hospital. Centuries-old stone churches crumbled and wide areas were without power.

Bohol police chief Dennis Agustin said 77 of the deaths came from the province. At least 15 others died in nearby Cebu province and another on Siquijor Island.

The quake struck at 8:12 a.m. and was centered about 33 kilometers (20 miles) below Carmen city, where many small buildings collapsed.

Many roads and bridges were reported damaged, making rescue operations difficult. But historic churches dating from the Spanish colonial period suffered the most. Among them was the country's oldest, the 16th-century Basilica of the Holy Child in Cebu, which lost its bell tower.

Nearly half of a 17th-century limestone church in Loboc town, southwest of Carmen, was reduced to rubble.

The highest number of dead — 18 — were in the municipality of Loon, 42 kilometers (26 miles) west of Carmen, where an unknown number of patients were trapped inside the Congressman Castillo Memorial Hospital, which partially collapsed. Rescuers were working to reach them, said civil defense spokesman Maj. Reynaldo Balido.

As night fell, the entire province was in the dark after the quake cut power supplies. Windy weather and rain also forced back a military rescue helicopter.

Authorities were setting up tents for those displaced by the quake, while others who lost their homes moved in with their relatives, Bohol Gov. Edgardo Chatto said.

Extensive damage also hit densely populated Cebu city, across a narrow strait from Bohol, causing deaths when a building in the port and the roof of a market area collapsed.

The quake set off two stampedes in nearby cities. When it struck, people gathered in a gym in Cebu rushed outside in a panic, crushing five people to death and injuring eight others, said Neil Sanchez, provincial disaster management officer.

"We ran out of the building, and outside, we hugged trees because the tremors were so strong," said Vilma Yorong, a provincial government employee in Bohol.

"When the shaking stopped, I ran to the street and there I saw several injured people. Some were saying their church has collapsed," she told The Associated Press by phone.

As fear set in, Yorong and the others ran up a mountain, afraid a tsunami would follow the quake. "Minutes after the earthquake, people were pushing each other to go up the hill," she said.

But the quake was centered inland and did not cause a tsunami.

Offices and schools were closed for a national holiday — the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha — which may have saved lives.

The earthquake also was deeper below the surface than a 6.9-magnitude temblor last year in waters near Negros Island, also in the central Philippines, that killed nearly 100 people.

Aledel Cuizon said the quake that caught her in her bedroom sounded like "a huge truck that was approaching and the rumbling sound grew louder as it got closer."

She and her neighbors ran outside, where she saw concrete electric poles "swaying like coconut trees." It lasted 15-20 seconds, she said.

Cebu city's hospitals quickly moved patients into the streets, basketball courts and parks.

Cebu province, about 570 kilometers (350 miles) south of Manila, has a population of more than 2.6 million people. Cebu is the second largest city after Manila. Nearby Bohol has 1.2 million people and is popular among foreigners because of its beach and island resorts and famed Chocolate Hills.

President Benigno Aquino III said he would travel to Bohol and Cebu on Wednesday.

Regional military commander Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said he recalled soldiers from holiday furlough to respond to the quake. He said it damaged the pier in Tagbilaran, Bohol's provincial capital, and caused some cracks at Cebu's international airport but that navy ships and air force planes could use alternative ports to help out.

The Philippine archipelago is located in the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common. A magnitude-7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people on the northern island of Luzon in 1990.

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Associated Press writers Hrvoje Hranjski, Oliver Teves, Teresa Cerojano and Jim Gomez in Manila contributed to this report.

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High court will review EPA global warming rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether to block key aspects of the Obama administration's plan aimed at cutting power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.

The justices said they will review a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulation of carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases.

The question in the case is whether the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate automobile emissions of greenhouses gases as air pollutants, which stemmed from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, also applies to power plants and factories.

The court's decision essentially puts on trial a small but critical piece of President Barack Obama's toolbox to tackle global warming — a requirement that companies expanding existing industrial facilities or building new ones that would increase overall pollution must evaluate ways to reduce the carbon they release, as well. For many industrial facilities, this is the only way heat-trapping gases will be regulated, until the EPA sets national standards.

That's because the administration's plans hinge on the high court's 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA which said the EPA has the authority, under the Clean Air Act, to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from vehicles. Two years later, Obama's EPA concluded that the release of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases endangered human health and welfare, a finding the administration has used to extend its authority beyond automobiles to develop national standards for large stationary sources.

The administration currently is at work setting first-time national standards for new and existing power plants, and will move on to other large stationary sources. But in the meantime, the only way companies are addressing global warming pollution is through a permitting program that requires them to analyze the best available technologies to reduce carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas.

The president gave the EPA until next summer to propose regulations for existing power plants, the largest unregulated source of global warming pollution.

"From an environmental standpoint, it is bad, but not catastrophic," said Michael Gerrard, a law professor at Columbia University and director of its Center for Climate Change Law. Gerrard said it would have been far worse if the court decided to question the EPA's conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare.

Environmental groups generally breathed a sigh of relief that the court rejected calls to overrule its 2007 decision or review the EPA's conclusion about the health effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

"It's a green light for EPA to go ahead with its carbon pollution standards for power plants because the court has left standing EPA's endangerment finding," said Joanne Spalding, the Sierra Club's senior managing attorney.

But a lawyer for some of the business groups involved in the case said the court issued a more sweeping ruling.

"Read in its broadest sense, it arguably opens the door to whether EPA can regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources at all," said Roger Martella, a partner with the Sidley, Austin law firm in Washington.

The regulations have been in the works since 2011 and stem from the landmark Clean Air Act that was passed by Congress and signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970 to control air pollution.

The administration has come under fierce criticism from Republicans for pushing ahead with the regulations after Congress failed to pass climate legislation, and after the administration of President George W. Bush resisted such steps.

In 2012, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia concluded that the EPA was "unambiguously correct" in using existing federal law to address global warming.

The judges on that panel were: Then-Chief Judge David Sentelle, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, and David Tatel and Judith Rogers, both appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton.

The case will be argued in early 2014.

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10 killed, eight injured in hospital fire in Japan's Fukuoka

OSAKA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- At least ten people were killed and eight others were injured after a hospital fire broke out early Friday morning in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, the national broadcaster NHK reported.

An earlier report from the Kyodo News Agency said the fire, breaking out at around 2:30 a.m., left ten people dead and five others injured.

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Optimism, But Still No Debt Deal, On Capitol Hill

President Obama postponed a meeting with congressional leadership Monday afternoon to give Senate leaders more time to work on a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. It's being taken as a sign that progress is being made, but the president warned that damage from a default on the nation's debts would dwarf the economic impact of the partial government shutdown.

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Lea Michele Sticks Close to Her 'Glee' Family

The actress looks stunning while promoting her show! Check out other cute and candid moments from the stars.

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Satiregram Is the Only Instagram Account You Need to Follow

The best Instagram that everyone should go follow right now, Satiregram, doesn't have any pictures at all. Or well, that's not completely true. It obviously has pictures but all of its Instagram pictures is just text captions describing terribly cliche pictures you always see on Instagram. It's riot-inducing hilarious because it's absolutely true.

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British warship to visit Gibraltar amid border row with Spain

LONDON (Reuters) - A British navy warship will sail to Britain's overseas territory of Gibraltar in the coming weeks, coinciding with a diplomatic row with neighboring Spain, although officials said on Thursday the trip was a routine and long-planned visit.

A centuries-old conflict over the British outpost boiled over in late July when boats from Gibraltar dumped concrete blocks into the sea to make a reef, and Spain created long delays at the border days later, with lengthy car checks.

Three British navy vessels, including the frigate HMS Westminster, will visit the outpost as part of an annual deployment known as "Cougar", Britain's Ministry of Defense (MOD) said.

"The forthcoming visit by ships making up Cougar 13, including HMS Westminster and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships Lyme Bay and Mounts Bay, are business as usual," an MOD statement said.

An MOD spokesman stressed the visit was not related to the border issues and said he was unable to confirm exactly when the ships would arrive at Gibraltar.

Spain's foreign ministry also called the visit "routine" and said the British government had asked for permission to stop over in Rota, southwestern Spain, where the Mediterranean country has a naval station.

"They asked for permission for the operation and in our relationship as allies, we granted it," a Spanish foreign ministry spokesman said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy spoke on Wednesday and agreed to try and calm tempers over the disputed territory, though both sides were reluctant to back down on their positions.

Britain is focusing on the sovereignty of Gibraltar and its surrounding waters while Spain insists on its right to carry out checks to crack down on smuggling and avoid tax fraud.

Illegal trafficking and fishing rows have been among the biggest sources of conflict in the 1.2-km (.75-mile) border between Spain and Gibraltar, home to close to 30,000 people, during Britain's three centuries of sovereignty over the area.

Extensive border controls have been turned on and off under different Spanish governments.

Cameron's office said he had made Rajoy aware of the impending navy visit during their call.

"This is a routine visit that takes place every year and was scheduled well in advance," Gibraltar's defense spokeswoman Julia Wilde said.

A "Cougar" military maneuver also took place in 2012 and involved the same number of vessels visiting Gibraltar. British navy ships will also visit ports in Spain as well as Portugal and Malta, the MOD said.

(Reporting by William James in London and Tracy Rucinski in Madrid; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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Plants vs. Zombies 2 developers accused of discrimination in China

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A Chinese edition of Plants vs. Zombies 2 has been criticised for being too tough, forcing users to buy in-game items to get to the next level.

PopCap Games, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, released a special edition of the iOS game last week that?s specifically targeted for the Chinese market. But days after its release, the game has received overwhelmingly bad reviews on Apple?s iTunes store. As of Wednesday, the game had collected over 35,000 one-star reviews, out of a total of 49,000, awarding it an aggregate of two-stars.

The poor reviews are a departure from the previous Plants vs. Zombie games, which received strong praise in China. The game was so popular that last year PopCap?estimated downloads?of official and pirated versions of it had reached between 120 million and 150 million in China alone.

PopCap?s new Chinese edition of Plants vs. Zombies 2, however, is facing a harsh reception, despite being free-to-play. This is because the game is significantly harder than the English edition, giving users little choice but to resort to buying in-game items in order to advance, said Xue Yongfeng, an analyst with research firm Analysys International.

?If you don?t buy them, then it?s very hard to get through the stage,? he said. ?In China, users need to pay more in order to pass. But Chinese users feel this is unfair.?

Others have been even more critical. Zheng Huafeng, who tracks China?s internet and games industry, said PopCap?s latest product for the country was trying to enslave its users.

?Everybody is equal. So why is this game then not equal?? Zheng asked. ?Everyone can see the Chinese edition is a slave treatment system, like a leech sucking hard-earned cash.?

He added that PopCap should have released both the Chinese and English editions in the country, giving users a choice to use which edition they wanted. Currently, only the Chinese edition can be downloaded from the iTunes store in the country.

PopCap declined to comment on the game, and said the company wants to hear users? feedback. ?PopCap is always a humble game company. We would spend more time to make the things right rather than standing out and joining the discussion that has no conclusion,? it said in an email.

Some local reviewers of the game have defended the product, stating that the English edition was too easy for Chinese gamers. Despite poor reviews, the product still ranks as one of the top games on China?s iTunes store.

PopCap set up its office in Shanghai in 2008, which has helped create localised versions of its games that are free, but also?offer virtual goods?as a way to generate revenue in a market known for its piracy.

This so-called ?freemium? business model is commonly used by game developers in China and the US. But PopCap may have taken it too far with its new local Plants vs. Zombie product, said analyst Xue Yongfeng.

?In China, it?s online games that charge fees. That?s how you get these dedicated gamers to pay,? Xue said. But players of casual mobile games are less likely to pay for virtual goods, he added.

?The way PopCap has implemented this game, I don?t think they totally understand the Chinese market that deeply,? he said.

by Michael Kan, IDG News Service

Source: http://www.macworld.com.au/news/plants-vs-zombies-2-developers-accused-of-discrimination-in-china-104309/

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Our LG G2 event liveblog kicks off at 11 a.m. EDT!

Sure, a picture may be worth 1,000 words, but we can do better. LG is unveiling its new G2 Android smartphone on Wednesday in New York City, and we're here in the Big Apple to get up-close and personal with the Korean manufacturer's latest.

Our liveblog kicks off at 11 a.m. EDT (probably a tad early), so ease on past the break and join us. And we've got our usual chatroom set up as well, so you can gab alongside us.

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Meet Windows Server's BYOD features

Computerworld - Microsoft execs are fond of the term "people-centric IT" -- it's their way of saying that workers are using whatever devices they want to, and are using them at home, on the train, in a hotel, on the beach, while skiing.... You get the idea. But IT needs a way to at least make sure this explosion of user choice does not put corporate data at risk.

Four of the features in Windows Server 2012 R2 are meant to bridge the gap between yesterday's world, where users have a corporate-issued laptop and a BlackBerry, and today's new BYOD environment, where users bring their own phones to work, use their personal tablets, work from a variety of locations and generally have a varied approach to how they engage with computer resources.

The new workplace join feature

Up until now, a Microsoft machine -- laptop, desktop, server, tablet or anything else -- was either a member of a domain and therefore able to be managed by the enterprise tools available inside the Windows Server ecosystem, or was a member of a workgroup and thus did not participate in the security profile of another group of computers. Home machines were typically in workgroups and corporate machines were usually members of a domain.

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Computerworld - Microsoft execs are fond of the term "people-centric IT" -- it's their way of saying that workers are using whatever devices they want to, and are using them at home, on the train, in a hotel, on the beach, while skiing.... You get the idea. But IT needs a way to at least make sure this explosion of user choice does not put corporate data at risk.

Four of the features in Windows Server 2012 R2 are meant to bridge the gap between yesterday's world, where users have a corporate-issued laptop and a BlackBerry, and today's new BYOD environment, where users bring their own phones to work, use their personal tablets, work from a variety of locations and generally have a varied approach to how they engage with computer resources.

The new workplace join feature

Up until now, a Microsoft machine -- laptop, desktop, server, tablet or anything else -- was either a member of a domain and therefore able to be managed by the enterprise tools available inside the Windows Server ecosystem, or was a member of a workgroup and thus did not participate in the security profile of another group of computers. Home machines were typically in workgroups and corporate machines were usually members of a domain.

In Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, however, that line is now blurred by the introduction of workplace join.

Workplace join is essentially a subscription that a device makes within a corporate domain. Administrators on the domain side can select a group of resources like applications, file shares and other pages that can be accessible to devices not owned by the company.

When a device enrolls in workplace join, it inherits some ability for corporate IT to govern what happens to the workplace data on the device. For example, your administrators can choose to wipe the corporate data that resides on a personally owned device when your relationship with that user terminates, without messing with personal data like photos and videos.

How does this work behind the scenes? The workplace join feature leverages Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS); see the section later in this piece for more details.

In Windows Server 2012 R2, ADFS integrates an option called the Device Registration Service that is enabled through PowerShell; some DNS and certificate magic happens here as well. The preview release is a little touchy to get working in that there is a lot of manual setup without much documentation available, and in particular some functions seem not to work. (One assumes the bugs will be worked out before the product is finished.)

On a user's RT 8.1 or plain Windows 8.1 device, the user first accesses Start / Settings / Change PC Settings, and then under Network and Workplace, the user enters his corporate credentials. The device looks for a host enabled for enterprise registration and then completes the process.

Work Folders

Think of the Work Folders feature as enabling a Dropbox or SkyDrive type of function in an organization's private cloud or data center solely for its employees and contractors. Consumer services such as Dropbox or SkyDrive offer storage space for files, pictures, programs, documents and basically anything else a user wants to upload, and these files are synced to whatever devices the user owns.

Users love these cloud storage services because, no matter where they are or what device they're using, their files are with them as long as they have an Internet connection -- and in some cases, they do not even need that if synced files are cached on their devices. But since these services are aimed at ordinary users, they do not include support for IT department control over what gets uploaded, how it is secured, what devices can access it, and so on.

Work Folders enable this "cloudy" storage and sync scenario, but in a more secure way.

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First reaction: lab-made burger short on flavor

Mark Post, developer of the stem cell burger, poses before the first public tasting, in London, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you might expect fries and a shake too. But this is no ordinary burger being served to two volunteer taste-testers in London on Monday. This meat was grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle. Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger after five years of research, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help solve the food crisis and fight climate change. (AP Photo/Bogdan Maran)

Mark Post, developer of the stem cell burger, poses before the first public tasting, in London, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you might expect fries and a shake too. But this is no ordinary burger being served to two volunteer taste-testers in London on Monday. This meat was grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle. Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger after five years of research, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help solve the food crisis and fight climate change. (AP Photo/Bogdan Maran)

LONDON (AP) ? They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavor.

Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday that it had the texture of meat but was short of flavor because of the lack of fat.

Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help feed the world and fight climate change. That goal is many years distant, at best.

Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, appeared on a video shown at the event and announced that he funded the 250,000-euro ($330,000) project because of his concern for animal welfare.

"I would say it's close to meat. I miss the salt and pepper," said Austrian nutritionist Hanni Ruetzler, one of the volunteer tasters. Both shunned the bun and sliced tomatoes to concentrate on the meat.

"The absence is the fat, it's a leanness to it, but the bite feels like a conventional hamburger," said U.S. journalist Josh Schonwald. He added that he had rarely tasted a hambuger, as he did on Monday, "without ketchup or onions or jalapenos or bacon."

Monday's taste test, coming after five years of research, is a key step toward making lab meat a culinary phenomenon. Post called it "a good start."

Brin expressed high hopes for the technology.

?"We're trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger. From there I'm optimistic we can really scale by leaps and bounds," he said on the video.

Post said it's crucial that the burger has the "look, feel and taste like the real thing."

Despite the tasters concern about flavor, scientists say that can be tweaked.

"Taste is the least (important) problem since this could be controlled by letting some of the stem cells develop into fat cells," said Stig Omholt, director of biotechnology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Adding fat to the burgers this way would probably be healthier than getting it from naturally chunky cows, Omholt said before Monday's test. He was not involved in the project.

Post and colleagues made the meat from the muscle cells of two organic cows. The cells were put into a nutrient solution to help them develop into muscle tissue, growing into small strands of meat.

It took nearly 20,000 strands to make a single 140-gram (5-ounce) patty, which for Monday's taste test was seasoned with salt, egg powder, breadcrumbs, red beet juice and saffron.

"I'm a vegetarian, but I would be first in line to try this," said Jonathan Garlick, a stem cell researcher at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. He has used similar techniques to make human skin but wasn't involved in the burger research.

Experts say new ways of producing meat are needed to satisfy growing carnivorous appetites without exhausting resources. By 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts global meat consumption will double as more people in developing countries can afford it. Raising animals destined for the dinner table takes up about 70 percent of all agricultural land.

The animal rights group PETA has thrown its support behind the lab-meat initiative.

"As long as there's anybody who's willing to kill a chicken, a cow or a pig to make their meal, we are all for this," said Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's president and co-founder. "Instead of the millions and billions (of animals) being slaughtered now, we could just clone a few cells to make burgers or chops."

Post and his colleagues had tasted the meat in the lab, and he said they cooked a test burger on Sunday.

"The first (lab-made) meat products are going to be very exclusive," said Isha Datar, director of New Harvest, an international nonprofit that promotes meat alternatives. "These burgers won't be in Happy Meals before someone rich and famous is eating them."

Only one patty was used for the taste test, and the testers each took less than half. Post said he would take the leftovers home and let his kids have a taste.

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INOVA Fairfax Children's Hospital | Top Notch Pediatric Care

by Emily Yosmanovich,?contributing blogger

Years ago (in 1981) I was born at INOVA Fairfax Hospital.? At that time it wasn?t nearly as big as it is today.? And as the 54^th baby born that day, I was almost born in the hallway while my mom waited for an open delivery room.

Things have really changed since then.? The Fairfax Hospital campus has grown and yet another new expansion to be completed in 2016 will make it even bigger.? It is now a U.S. News & World Report nationally ranked full-service hospital, providing hundreds of sub-specialty services to patients.

Recently, my one-month-old daughter needed emergency care for an extremely high fever. ?We rushed to the Pediatric E.R. at INOVA Fairfax Children?s Hospital.

At almost midnight, when we arrived and signed in, I figured we?d be waiting forever because that?s kind of what you expect at an E.R., right?? But within ten minutes, they took us to a room and immediately got started treating my daughter.

A lot of scary procedures happened that night, which I will spare you the details of, but what I will share is that at every step of the way the doctors and nurses explained everything thoroughly and calmly.? They helped me feel secure that we were in excellent hands.? I was allowed to hold my baby girl through procedures, and was given the privacy to nurse her and soothe her between each one.

When we were told my baby needed to be admitted for a stay of probably a week, I have to admit that I freaked out a bit (okay, a lot).? The possibility of anything really bad happening to my baby hadn?t ever seemed tangible until that moment.

As circumstances had it, I was alone at the hospital at the time.

I started crying because I was scared and worried and confused (and probably just a wee bit exhausted).? The nurse in the room sat down with me, held my hand, and tried to comfort me.? When she left, she asked the doctor to visit and check on me.? I was shocked, and also comforted by this level of care for not only the patient, but also for the parent of the patient.

That level of concern for all members of a child patient?s family radiated through our experience over that week.? A particular example that stands out is our second night?s stay.? My daughter was still fighting a high fever and was fussy enough to need constant comforting.

I had been awake for over 48 hours without rest and was at the end of my rope with exhaustion and stress.

When the nurse came in to administer my daughter?s IV medication, she found me trying to bounce and sing to my baby as tears poured off my face.

That night my daughter slept in her car seat at the nurse?s station, with the nurses taking turns holding her and soothing her.? I got my first good night?s rest, and woke up ready to deal with everything again.? I was beyond thankful for such a kind staff of nurses.

When it was decided that my daughter?s case required a specialist, we were pleased to discover that the infectious disease doctor who came is nationally recognized in his field (as are many of the pediatric specialists at INOVA).? Dr. Keim or one of his associates visited us every day over our stay.? Each time we were well informed of developments in the lab tests and given thorough explanations about decisions for her care.

Again, I felt super secure.

When my two-year-old son was allowed to visit, I was worried about him wreaking havoc upon the room.? Instead, he got to visit his baby sister for the short time his attention span allowed and then a Child Life Specialist helped us find the playroom.

Andy?s Helicopter Landing is a fun walkway to the play area, featuring views of the medivac landing pad!

The walk (actually, he rode in a fun red wagon) to the playroom featured Andy?s Helicopter Landing, a windowed walkway with views of the medivac helicopter landing pad.? My son was in heaven.? Next, the hallway floors were tiled to look like railway tracks? my son was in a higher level of heaven.? And then we reached the playroom and I think he was higher than heaven.

He exclaimed, ?Mommy!? Much TOYS!?

The Child Life Playroom contains TONS of toys!

Of course the first thing that entered my mind was germs, right?? It?s a hospital.? Sick kids playing together seemed a little bit crazy!? As I watched, though, the level of hygiene impressed me greatly.? The toys were all stored in drawers that covered the walls almost up to the ceiling.? Volunteers helped the children find what they wanted to play with.? When the child was finished playing, they loaded the toys in a tub, and the toys were sanitized before returning to their drawers.

I watched as older children made crafts with the volunteers, even while hooked up to IVs and other equipment.? My son made his way to an enclosed outdoor courtyard.? There was a basketball court, a gazebo, and a lot of ride-on toys and balls.? I was most awed by the toy car that had a special pole to hook the IV bag to.? I thought to myself how lucky children in our area are to have such a caring, child-friendly hospital nearby.

The Child Life Courtyard features a basketball court, outdoor toys, ?and ride-on toys (even ones that hold IV bags on attached poles!).

The Child Life program is really quite amazing.? Specialists schedule entertainers like storytellers and magicians who perform in the playroom and also visit children?s rooms.? If a child cannot visit the playroom, toys and activities are brought to them.? When a child needs a medical procedure, specialists use props and tours to prepare and explain the procedure to the child beforehand.? During procedures, specialists help distract children with appropriate activities.

Of course, my one-month-old daughter didn?t need most of this, but I was still impressed?

Hopefully, God willing, we will never have to return to INOVA Children?s Hospital, at least not for any extended stay.? But if we do, I will feel confident in the medical care and blessed by the abundance of love and child-centric activity.

The current expansion for the hospital includes a new Children?s Hospital facility.? I was already impressed by the current private rooms, cheerful colors and paintings, and elaborate play area? so I am pretty sure when the new one opens up, it will be something marvelous!

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Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women

By Estelle Shirbon

LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Twitter apologized on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users to report abusive tweets.

Twitter had come under increasing pressure to react after a feminist campaigner, several women members of parliament and female journalists were targeted by users who hurled misogynistic abuse at them and in some cases made violent threats.

"I personally apologize to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through," Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter UK, said on his own Twitter feed.

"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable. It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter," he said.

Twitter UK said it was adding staff to help handle abuse reports. It also said an in-tweet "report abuse" button currently available on the Twitter app for iPhones would be added to the Twitter website and to platforms used on other mobile devices.

The problem of abuse by so-called internet "trolls" has been front-page news in Britain since activist Caroline Criado-Perez was hit by a barrage of vitriolic tweets after successfully campaigning for a woman's face to appear on bank notes.

In recognition of her role, Criado-Perez appeared alongside Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on July 24, when he announced 19th century novelist Jane Austen would become the face of the new 10-pound note.

Police arrested two men over rape threats against Criado-Perez. One of them was also suspected of making rape threats against opposition Labour legislator Stella Creasy, who backed the bank note campaign and also appeared with Carney on July 24.

In separate incidents days later, several high-profile female journalists received tweets from someone threatening to bomb their homes and "destroy everything" there.

London's Metropolitan Police Service said on Friday it was investigating allegations made by eight people who have been subjected to harassment, malicious communication or bomb threats.

While the trolls themselves have been denounced across British media, Twitter had also come under heavy criticism for its failure to respond forcefully enough.

In a statement issued after Wang's apology, Criado-Perez welcomed the new measures announced by Twitter UK but said a more profound overhaul of the social network's system for handling abuse was needed.

"The current process is lengthy, complicated and impossible to use if you're under sustained attack like I have been," she said.

"Right now, all the emphasis is on the victim, often under intense pressure, to report rather than for Twitter to track down the perpetrator and stop them."

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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auto insurance: Obtaining Car Loans With Bad Credit Does Not Rely ...

The challenge when buying a new car with low credit score ratings is made a little easier when a down transaction is provided as part of the purchase cope - or at least that is what is often stated. A down transaction when looking for car loans with poor credit score would reduce the loan size. But it is not real.

The truth is there is no problem with obtaining loan acceptance with no down transaction. Actually, there is no situation where a one time is required, and most traders have hidden purposes when telling clients that a down transaction is needed. This is the trick that so many people are taken in by, and one that can see them 100's of dollars more than they have to.

There are some simple points that should be known before accepting a car loan. This way, the individual is in a stronger position to settle the best possible conditions. Here are just 3 pointers.

Car Funding Is For Mark-Up

Car traders are symbolic of double dealing, and cheap shots, and their reputation is well earned. When clients are looking for car loans with poor credit score, the supplier will contact the fund organization on their behalf and apply for the fund cope. And, they will secure the lowest possible interest amount.

That seems fine but if the fund organization offers fund at a amount of 9.5%, then the traders will increase that to 11.5%, pocketing the difference with each transaction.

What is more, traders tell their clients that acceptance with no down transaction is difficult because of their poor credit score status. Usually, they explain that the down transaction reduces the car loan sum and, therefore, the repayments. This is not real at all, with down expenses usually placed in the banking account of the supplier, and the financing cope set at 9.5% to make it seem as though a discount is properly secured.

Down Payment is Not Obligatory

A typical declare is that down expenses are essential, in the same way that mortgage provider usually only allow a maximum 90% financing cope. This is basically not real for car financing, and a 100% car loan with poor credit score is perfectly acceptable.

In reality, it is not even necessary to get financing through the car traders, and instead a loan can be properly secured from a financial institution or other loan organization.
So, instead of the 11.5% the traders declare must be paid, a more competitive 10% might be charged, even with poor credit score. Getting the car loan is essential for many of us looking for a new car, but the right conditions are important too.

Pre-Approved Loans

The best strategy to obtaining a car loan with poor credit score is to be pre-approved by a financial institution or online lender before going to the car supplier. This then gives the customer the power in discussions. They do not need to work out financing conditions with the traders but can basically tell the supplier what car they want and at what price.

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Barack Obama overrules Apple import ban

Barack Obama's trade representative has vetoed an import ban on some Apple iPads and older iPhones, in a setback to rival South Korean electronics company Samsung.

US Trade Representative Michael Froman overruled a June decision by the US International Trade Commission, which had banned imports of the iPhone 4 and some variations of the iPad 2.

The commission ruled that the Chinese-made Apple devices violated a patent held by Samsung and could not be imported. But the ban never went into effect, because the Obama administration had 60 days to decide if it would uphold the commission.

President Obama is against import bans on the basis of the type of patent at issue in the Samsung case. The White House has recommended that Congress limit the ITC's ability to impose import bans in these cases.

Samsung and Apple are in a global legal battle over smartphones. Apple argues Samsung's Android phones copy vital iPhone features and Samsung is fighting back with its own complaints.

Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said the company applauded the administration "for standing up for innovation". A message seeking comment from Samsung was not returned.

In a letter to the commission Mr Froman said he had concerns about patent holders having too much leverage over competitors that use their technology under licences.

Companies license patented technology to competitors so the devices can communicate as part of an industry standard for mobile phones. Under the "standards-essential patent" legal theory prevailing in US courts, holders of such patents are obligated to license them to all-comers on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms.

US courts have ruled that such patents cannot be the basis for import bans. The International Trade Commission follows a different standard than the courts, but the Obama administration wants it to follow the same principles.

Mr Froman wrote that he shared the Obama administration's concerns that the holders of standards-essential patents could get "undue leverage" over their competitors.

Last year, a federal court ruled that Samsung owed Apple one billion dollars in damages for infringing on non-essential Apple patents. But the judge refused to impose an import ban on Samsung phones and later struck 450 million dollars from the verdict, saying the jurors miscalculated. The case is set for a rematch in the appeal court.

Samsung is the world's largest maker of smartphones. Analysts estimate it outsold Apple nearly two to one in the first three months of the year. However, Apple's smartphone business is more profitable.

The iPhone 4 was launched in 2010 and is the oldest iPhone still sold by Apple. The ITC ruling applied only to the AT&T version of the phone. Apple is likely to retire the model.

Apple launched the iPad 2 in 2011. The ruling applies only to the version equipped with a mobile modem for AT&T's network.

The ruling also applies to older iPhones, though these are no longer sold by Apple.

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The World's First Google Glass Porn Movie

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Verge just discovered that the famous porn star James Deen has already shot a movie with Google Glass. Yes, you knew this was going to happen. You just didn?t know how quickly.

In a thoroughly NSFW trailer, the pair use Glass cameras to capture video and see through each others' eyes in a reception room tryst ? but it's not just recording. The trailer is a parody of everything you can imagine doing with a pair of futuristic glasses: turning on X-ray vision, accidentally making explicit Google searches, using a facial recognition database to look up... relevant anatomical details about a passing stranger. Did you know that "Glass" also rhymes with the name of a body part? James Deen does.

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The Union Food Incubator in West Harlem

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By Lil Nickelson The Union Food Incubator is located on Columbia University?s campus within the Union Theological Seminary buildings at 3041 Broadway and 121st Street. On the evening of Wednesday July 24th I attended an open house and toured the ? Continue reading ? ...

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Postal Service could start shipping alcohol under Senate proposal

By Elvina Nawaguna

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cash-strapped Postal Service could tap a rich new revenue stream if Congress adopts the idea of two senators who want to allow it to ship alcohol, a business reserved for more than a century for its private competitors.

The two Republican and Democratic senators late on Thursday introduced legislation to change a 1909 law that prohibits the Postal Service from shipping alcoholic beverages. The ban started a decade before prohibition-era laws made producing, selling and transporting alcohol illegal across the country.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, and the panel's senior Republican, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, jointly sponsored the legislation, whose main purpose is to help the Postal Service tame its runaway finances.

"If it were to shut down, the impact on our economy would be devastating," Carper said. "With the right tools and quick action from Congress, the Postal Service can reform, right-size and modernize."

Supporters of Postal Service reform argue that the 238-year-old mail carrier is stuck in an outdated business model, whose problems include private competitors United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp. The mail-carrier lost nearly $16 billion last year and without action, some expect it to run out of money by October.

The Postal Service estimates alcohol shipments could bring in up to $50 million annually, a spokesman said.

Coburn called the proposal "a rough draft" and hoped it would be part of a solution that "will protect taxpayers and ensure the Postal Service can remain economically viable while providing vital services for the American people."

The senators hope to hold hearings on the Postal bill after Congress returns in September from a month-long recess, but with intense budget and debt ceiling discussions expected in the fall, it is unclear what attention the Postal Service will get.

Much of the Postal Service's financial troubles stem from a 2006 congressional mandate to prefund up to 75 years of its future retirees' healthcare over 10 years. Mail revenues have also dwindled as more Americans prefer to use Internet and email communications.

Carper and Coburn's bill includes other provisions such as replacing the current prefunding requirement with a new plan spread over 40 years.

The agency already has defaulted on two payments to that health fund and expects to default on its next payment of $5.6 billion due at the end of September.

The House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican who has pushed for Postal Reform, said he will work with the two senators. He introduced a bill last month that would ease the healthcare prefund payments, cut Saturday delivery of first class mail and completely eliminate door-to-door delivery.

The Postal Service said it is evaluating whether both the Senate and House bills would enable it to save the $20 billion by 2017 it needs to prevent a taxpayer bailout.

(Reporting by Elvina Nawaguna; editing by Jackie Frank)

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Facebook reveals Bug Bounty numbers, has awarded over $1 million in reward

Facebook wants you to know it's taking security seriously -- enough for Zuckerberg and Co. to pay out over $1 million in reward within two years for its Bug Bounty program. According to a recent blog post, it's awarded a total of 329 digital bounty hunters at least $500 for discovering and reporting security issues to the social network. The participants came from all walks of life across the globe (the youngest being a 13-year-old), and the most resourceful ones have already made more than a hundred grand each. Facebook isn't alone in exchanging big money for bug reports -- Microsoft, for one, is offering up to $100,000 to anyone who discovers security exploits on the preview version of Windows 8.1. Despite Facebook's success, however, over 6 million accounts were still exposed in June... proving that when it comes to security, tech companies can never sit on their hands.

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'Whitey' Bulger won't testify, calls trial a sham

BOSTON (AP) ? James "Whitey" Bulger revealed Friday that he wouldn't be testifying in his own defense, but he said the decision was involuntary and that his racketeering trial was a "sham."

Defense attorney J.W. Carney Jr. met with Bulger on Friday morning and returned to the courtroom to tell Judge Denise Casper that he had finished presenting witnesses.

Bulger then told the judge, without the jury present, that he had "involuntarily" decided not to testify.

"I feel that I've been choked off from having an opportunity to give an adequate defense," he said. "My thing is, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't get a fair trial, and this is a sham, and do what youse want with me. That's it. That's my final word."

Bulger railed against the judge's decision prohibiting his lawyers from using an immunity defense. Bulger has claimed he received immunity from a now-deceased federal prosecutor, Jeremiah O'Sullivan.

"For my protection of his life, in return, he promised to give me immunity," Bulger told the judge.

Casper ruled before trial that the supposed immunity was not a legal defense to crimes including murder.

"I understand, sir, if you disagree with it, OK," Casper replied.

Family members of Bulger's alleged murder victims looked dejected over his decision not to take the stand. Patricia Donahue, the widow of one alleged victim, yelled "you're a coward!" while Bulger was speaking.

"If you think you had an unfair trial, then get up there and tell all," she said outside the courtroom afterward. "I am so disappointed in this whole trial. I thought that at least he would be man enough to get up there."

Bulger, 83, is on trial in a broad racketeering indictment that accuses him of participating in 19 murders in the 1970s and '80s as leader of the Winter Hill Gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

He fled Boston in 1994 and was one of the nation's most wanted fugitives until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.

O'Sullivan, who died in 2009, headed the New England Organized Crime Strike Force and was known for his aggressive pursuit of cases against local Mafia leaders, Bulger's rivals.

Outside the courthouse, Carney said Bulger was describing an agreement he claims he had with O'Sullivan under which "in return for assuring that Jeremiah O'Sullivan would not be killed, O'Sullivan promised him that he would not be prosecuted for as long as O'Sullivan was head of the strike force."

Carney did not elaborate, but Bulger seemed to be implying that O'Sullivan's life was in danger because of his pursuit of the Mafia.

Earlier Friday, Carney said Bulger wants the $822,000 in cash seized from his Santa Monica apartment to go to relatives of victims who won monetary judgments in lawsuits but then saw those awards overturned by a federal appeals court because the statute of limitations had expired.

It appears that two families fall into that category: Relatives of Michael Donahue and Edward "Brian" Halloran. In 2011, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision that ruled the two families didn't file their lawsuits against the FBI in time.

Other victims' families have had their lawsuits tossed before trial and some have won judgments against the government, but Carney specifically cited those whose judgments were thrown out by the 1st Circuit.

Bulger is accused of fatally shooting Halloran, a Bulger associate, and Donahue, an innocent bystander who had offered Halloran a ride home in May 1982.

Prosecutor Brian Kelly said it has always been the government's intention to give Bulger's seized assets to victims' families, but he said he isn't sure Bulger "can dictate which ones get" money.

If he's convicted, Bulger would have to give up his assets anyway. It is routine for the government to seek forfeiture of assets acquired through illegal activities.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/whitey-bulger-wont-testify-calls-trial-sham-153242308.html

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