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Heat wave scorches Death Valley, America?s hottest of the hot

A dome of extreme hot weather is baking much of the West, but whether or not the moment is historic will be up to the thermometer at Death Valley?s Furnace Creek, where the world?s hottest temperature ? 134 degrees ? was recorded in 1913.

By Patrik Jonsson,?Staff Writer / June 29, 2013

The thermometer at the Furnace Creek resort is already at 120 degrees before noon in Death Valley National Park in Furnace Creek, Calif. Excessive heat warnings will continue for much of the Desert Southwest as building high pressure triggers major warming in eastern California, Nevada, and Arizona.

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Potential record temperatures are inching up across the American West as a high pressure dome slides across gauzy skylines and trembling desert canyons. But only one place can determine whether a new world heat record will be set this weekend: Death Valley, Calif.

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Patrik Jonsson is the Atlanta-based correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. He writes about national affairs from a decidedly Dixie frame of mind.

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Death Valley is a seared moon landscape that periodically blooms with fields of wildflowers. A thermometer near Furnace Creek recorded a 134 degree day in o July 10, 1913, which remains the hottest recorded air temperature on planet earth.

As heat warnings reverberate on Saturday from Phoenix to Las Vegas and hospitals gear up for a spike in heat exhaustion victims and perhaps worse, weather watchers are watching to see whether this heat wave breaks any records.

The heat wave is "a huge one," National Weather Service specialist Stuart Seto said, according to the AP. "We haven't seen one like this for several years, probably the mid- to late 2000s."

Phoenix was forecast to hit nearly 120 on Saturday. The record in that part of the world, Arizona?s Valley of the Sun, is 122.

Energy-sapping heat is expected to spread across Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, potentially to dangerous levels. Las Vegas may see 117 degrees this weekend, which would mark only the third time the Nevada gambling capital got so hot. An average of 658 Americans die from heat-related causes every year, far more than are hurt or killed by tornadoes.

"This is the hottest time of the year, but the temperatures that we'll be looking at for Friday through Sunday, they'll be toward the top," weather service meteorologist Mark O'Malley tells the AP. "It's going to be baking hot across much of the entire West."

Forecasters say the temperature in Death Valley, meanwhile, could inch to 130, at least close to one of the earth?s most extreme weather moments. The world in 1913 was far less polluted and industry, cars, and planes emitted a fraction of modern-day carbon emissions, which many earth scientists today blame for climate change.

At any rate, Death Valley has been pretty hot in recent years. On July 12, 2012, nighttime temperatures dropped to only 107 degrees after a 128 degree day, tying a world record for highest daily low temperature set a few days earlier in Oman. That same day, the 24-hour mean temperature in Death Valley clocked in at 117.5 degrees. That 24-hour period was the hottest in recorded world history.

A federally protected subtropical desert and once a supplier of gold, silver and borax, Death Valley has a unique mix of landscape and weather that create what Chris Carlson, an AP photographer, described as ?unrelenting heat so bad it makes my eyes hurt, as if someone is blowing a hair dryer in my face.?

As air rises from the near plant-less valley floor, it cools as it gains elevation, eventually dropping back to the valley floor again, denser than before. As superheated localized air masses thus circulate, Death Valley becomes a convection oven.

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Neighbor testifies about Martin-Zimmerman fight

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? A neighbor of George Zimmerman who had perhaps the best view of the struggle between the neighborhood watch volunteer and Trayvon Martin testified at Zimmerman's murder trial Friday that he never saw anyone's head being slammed into the concrete sidewalk.

Zimmerman has claimed that he fatally shot 17-year-old Martin last year in self-defense as the Miami-area teen was banging his head into the concrete sidewalk behind the townhomes in a gated community.

But under prosecution questioning, Jonathan Good said he never saw anyone being attacked that way during the fight between Zimmerman and Martin.

Good, the second person to take the witness stand Friday, said he heard a noise behind his townhome in February 2012, and he saw what looked like a tussle when he stepped out onto his patio to see what was happening.

He said he yelled, "What's going on? Stop it."

Good testified he saw a person in black clothing on top of another person with "white or red" clothing. He said he couldn't see faces but it looked like the person on the bottom had lighter skin. Martin was black and was wearing a dark hoodie. Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic and was wearing a red jacket.

"It looked like there were strikes being thrown, punches being thrown," Good said.

Good said he heard a gunshot fired while he was dialing 911 back inside his townhome.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Mark O'Mara got on his knees to recreate the fighting as he asked Good to walk him through it.

Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder. Zimmerman followed Martin in his truck and called a police dispatch number before he and the teen got into a fight.

Zimmerman has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and their supporters have claimed.

Before Good testified, a worker at a video surveillance company that maintains cameras at the townhome community took the witness stand. A prosecutor played two videos from surveillance cameras; one showed what looks like a person walking past a window at the complex's clubhouse, and another showed what looks like someone with a flashlight by the complex's mailboxes.

Greg McKinney said the digital clock on the video is off by 18 minutes, a point O'Mara hammered home by getting McKinney to concede the timing difference was inexact and could be more than 18 minutes.

Jurors already have been shown some of the state's biggest pieces of evidence, including the 911 call featuring cries for help prosecutors believe came from Martin.

On Thursday, a friend of Martin who had been on the phone with him when he was shot testified about what she heard during his confrontation with Zimmerman.

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Launch of "Connecting People to People, Bridging Japan and the World

Today, Japan Airlines (JAL) (Headquarter: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo/President Yoshiharu Ueki) partnered with Kopernik, a US non-profit organization (Headquarter: New York, USA/Co-founder and CEO Toshihiro Nakamura) to launch "Connecting People to People, Bridging Japan and the World", a program addressing environmental and social issues in developing countries.

Building on the new JAL Group Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy from April 2013, JAL strives to meet the expectations of society, address social issues, and pass on a better society to future generations through its core air transport business as the "Wing of Japan". The airline carries out a wide range of CSR activities in various fields, with a focus on four areas: "Bridging Japan and the World", "Safety and Security", "Nurturing the Next Generation", and "The Environment".

Kopernik is a non-profit organization making simple, life-changing technology available to people in the most remote parts of the developing world. Since launching in February 2010, Kopernik has reached more than 100,000 people in 13 countries with solar lights, water filters, clean cookstoves and other innovative technologies.

JAL and Kopernik will conduct joint projects in the areas of "Connecting country to country", "Environmental conservation", "Improving sanitation and health in developing countries" (Safety and Security) and "Improving children's lives and expanding the opportunity to study" (Nurturing the next generation). Through establishing multilateral partnerships and collaborating on joint projects, JAL and Kopernik can expand their impact. JAL will provide ongoing support to Kopernik's activities, including providing air tickets.

Outline of "Connecting People to People, Bridging Japan to the World" Project

1. Encourage Japanese industries and regions - [JAL TECH -CARAVAN]

Visit technology companies and universities in Japan. Introduce existing technologies that have been designed for the developing world, and look for new technologies that meet the needs of people living in developing countries. Through introducing Japanese technologies, we want to encourage Japanese industries and regional economies to address social issues in developing countries.

2. Support Kopernik's projects through mile donations - [JAL CHARITY- MILE]

JAL will encourage members of the JAL Mileage Bank (JMB) to support Kopernik's projects by donating miles. From July 1, 2013 to September 30, 2013 donated miles will support the project "Let's Deliver Water Filters to Schools in Indonesia!".

3. Invite aspiring journalists to visit Kopernik's projects in developing countries - [JAL TECH- REPORTER]

JAL will invite aspiring journalists to visit the communities where Kopernik works and write about how Kopernik's simple technologies are improving lives.

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Foursquare checks into Windows 8 with its first native tablet app

For Windows 8 tablet users, becoming the mayor of your favorite fro-yo place (everybody's gotta have a dream) is about get easier. Just a few weeks after announcing a tablet UI customized for Android, Foursquare took to the stage at Build today to announce its first native tablet app, designed specifically for Windows 8. While an app for Windows Phone 8 already exists, tablet users had been left in the cold without software optimized for their devices. So far, Foursquare hasn't specified an exact release date for the app, but we'll keep you posted as we learn more.

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Engadget Podcast 350 - 06.28.13

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We've made it to the big three-five-oh! Watch out, HD Podcast, we're closing in your 355 episode mark. Although the week in tech news wasn't terribly exciting, Brian was so pumped he ran nine blocks in the blistering heat straight to our studio. As such, this episode is relatively short -- might we suggest you check out Distro on your favorite tablet with all that extra time?

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Japan conversation robot ready for outer space

TOKYO (AP) ? The world's first space conversation experiment between a robot and humans is ready to be launched.

Developers from the Kirobo project, named after "kibo" or hope in Japanese and "robot," gathered in Tokyo Wednesday to demonstrate the humanoid robot's ability to talk.

"Russia was the first to go outer space, the U.S. was the first to go to the moon, we want Japan to be the first to send a robot-astronaut to space that can communicate with humans," said Yorichika Nishijima, the Kirobo project manager.

The experiment is a collaboration between advertising and PR company Dentsu Inc., the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Robo Garage and Toyota Motor Corp.

Tomotaka Takahashi, CEO of Robo Garage Co. and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, said he hopes robots like Kirobo that hold conversations will eventually be used to assist astronauts working in space.

"When people think of robots in outer space, they tend to seek ones that do things physically," said Takahashi. "But I think there is something that could come from focusing on humanoid robots that focus on communication."

Because Kirobo does not need to perform physical activities, it is smaller than most robots that go into space. Kirobo is about 34 centimeters tall (13 inches) and weighs about 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds).

Its land-based counterpart Mirata looks almost identical but is not designed to go into outer space. Instead, it has the ability to learn through the conversations it has.

During the demonstration, Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager from Toyota, asked Kirobo what its dream was.

"I want to create a future where humans and robots can live together and get along," it answered.

Kirobo is scheduled to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on August 4, 2013.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-conversation-robot-ready-outer-space-083357199.html

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Solar power heads in a new direction: Thinner

June 26, 2013 ? Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now MIT researchers are opening another avenue for improvement, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible.

Such panels, which have the potential to surpass any substance other than reactor-grade uranium in terms of energy produced per pound of material, could be made from stacked sheets of one-molecule-thick materials such as graphene or molybdenum disulfide.

Jeffrey Grossman, the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, says the new approach "pushes towards the ultimate power conversion possible from a material" for solar power. Grossman is the senior author of a new paper describing this approach, published in the journal Nano Letters.

Although scientists have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the potential of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, Grossman says, there has been little study of their potential for solar applications. It turns out, he says, "they're not only OK, but it's amazing how well they do."

Using two layers of such atom-thick materials, Grossman says, his team has predicted solar cells with 1 to 2 percent efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity, That's low compared to the 15 to 20 percent efficiency of standard silicon solar cells, he says, but it's achieved using material that is thousands of times thinner and lighter than tissue paper. The two-layer solar cell is only 1 nanometer thick, while typical silicon solar cells can be hundreds of thousands of times that. The stacking of several of these two-dimensional layers could boost the efficiency significantly.

"Stacking a few layers could allow for higher efficiency, one that competes with other well-established solar cell technologies," says Marco Bernardi, a postdoc in MIT's Department of Materials Science who was the lead author of the paper. Maurizia Palummo, a senior researcher at the University of Rome visiting MIT through the MISTI Italy program, was also a co-author.

For applications where weight is a crucial factor -- such as in spacecraft, aviation or for use in remote areas of the developing world where transportation costs are significant -- such lightweight cells could already have great potential, Bernardi says.

Pound for pound, he says, the new solar cells produce up to 1,000 times more power than conventional photovoltaics. At about one nanometer (billionth of a meter) in thickness, "It's 20 to 50 times thinner than the thinnest solar cell that can be made today," Grossman adds. "You couldn't make a solar cell any thinner."

This slenderness is not only advantageous in shipping, but also in ease of mounting solar panels. About half the cost of today's panels is in support structures, installation, wiring and control systems, expenses that could be reduced through the use of lighter structures.

In addition, the material itself is much less expensive than the highly purified silicon used for standard solar cells -- and because the sheets are so thin, they require only minuscule amounts of the raw materials.

John Hart, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and art and design at the University of Michigan, says, "This is an exciting new approach to designing solar cells, and moreover an impressive example of how complementary nanostructured materials can be engineered to create new energy devices." Hart, who will be joining the MIT faculty this summer but had no involvement in this research, adds that, "I expect the mechanical flexibility and robustness of these thin layers would also be attractive."

The MIT team's work so far to demonstrate the potential of atom-thick materials for solar generation is "just the start," Grossman says. For one thing, molybdenum disulfide and molybdenum diselenide, the materials used in this work, are just two of many 2-D materials whose potential could be studied, to say nothing of different combinations of materials sandwiched together. "There's a whole zoo of these materials that can be explored," Grossman says. "My hope is that this work sets the stage for people to think about these materials in a new way."

While no large-scale methods of producing molybdenum disulfide and molybdenum diselenide exist at this point, this is an active area of research. Manufacturability is "an essential question," Grossman says, "but I think it's a solvable problem."

An additional advantage of such materials is their long-term stability, even in open air; other solar-cell materials must be protected under heavy and expensive layers of glass. "It's essentially stable in air, under ultraviolet light, and in moisture," Grossman says. "It's very robust."

The work so far has been based on computer modeling of the materials, Grossman says, adding that his group is now trying to produce such devices. "I think this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of utilizing 2-D materials for clean energy" he says.

This work was supported by the MIT Energy Initiative.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/electricity/~3/8FVH4mhCcNE/130626153926.htm

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For nationwide gay marriage, more battles ahead

NEW YORK (AP) ? Even as they celebrate a momentous legal victory, supporters of gay marriage already are anticipating a return trip to the Supreme Court in a few years, sensing that no other option but a broader court ruling will legalize same-sex unions in all 50 states.

In the meantime, as one gay-rights leader said, there will be "two Americas" ? and a host of legal complications for many gay couples moving between them.

Wednesday's twin rulings from the high court will extend federal recognition to same-sex marriages in the states where they are legal, and will add California ? the most populous state ? to the 12 others in that category. That will mean about 30 percent of Americans live in states recognizing same-sex marriage.

But the court's rulings have no direct effect on the constitutional amendments in 29 states that limit marriage to heterosexual couples. In a handful of politically moderate states such as Oregon, Nevada and Colorado those amendments could be overturned by ballot measures, but that's considered highly unlikely in more conservative states.

"It would be inefficient to try to pick off 30 constitutional amendments one by one," said Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group. "Eventually this will have to be settled by the Supreme Court."

The Human Rights Campaign's president, Chad Griffin, told supporters outside the Supreme Court building that the goal would be to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide within five years.

To sway the justices in such a time frame, activists plan a multipronged strategy. In addition to possible ballot measures in a few states, they hope lawmakers will legalize same-sex marriage in states which now offer civil unions to gay couples, notably New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii.

There also will be advocacy efforts in more conservative states, ranging from expansion of anti-discrimination laws to possible litigation on behalf of sex-couples there who are denied state recognition even though they married legally in some other jurisdiction.

The Supreme Court's decisions "underscore the emergence of two Americas," Griffin said. "In one, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) citizens are nearing full equality. In the other, our community lacks even the most basic protections."

Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, suggested that efforts to end that division would not be easy, given that many states have electorates that seem solidly opposed to gay marriage.

"The fight is far from over," Rauch wrote in a commentary. "By refusing to override those majorities, the court green-lighted the continuation, probably for a decade or more, of state-by-state battles over marriage."

In Florida, where voters approved a ban on gay marriage with 62 percent support in 2008, the gay-rights group Equality Florida called on its supporters to "get engaged and fight" for recognition of same-sex marriage.

The high court rulings "are a major step forward for the country, but for Floridians they fall far short of justice," said the group's executive director, Nadine Smith. "The Supreme Court has said we can go states like Minnesota or Iowa and get married, but we return to Florida legal strangers in our home state."

Florida State Rep. Joe Saunders, a Democrat from Orlando and one of the state's first openly gay lawmakers, said "every strategy is on the table" as activists ponder ways to eliminate the 2008 ban, including warnings of economic consequences.

"If 13 other states provide protections to gay and lesbian families, what does that mean for our ability to keep those families here in Florida?" he said. "Until we can promise them the same basic protections, we're going to be economically disadvantaged."

Increasingly, political swing states like Florida, as well as more solidly Republican states, could become gay-marriage battlegrounds.

One example of the forthcoming strategy: The American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday that it has hired Steve Schmidt, former communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee and adviser to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to build support among GOP state politicians for striking down gay-marriage bans.

"For a full civil liberties victory, we need broad-based support from coast to coast," the ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, said.

On the conservative side, there was deep dismay over the Supreme Court rulings, but little indication of any new strategies or initiatives.

"The debate over marriage has only just begun," said Austin Nimocks, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which staunchly opposes same-sex marriage, called upon Americans "to stand steadfastly together in promoting and defending the unique meaning of marriage: one man, one woman, for life."

Lee Badgett, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, predicted that the ruling on federal recognition would prompt thousands of gay couples to get married, now that there were additional financial incentives to so.

This group could include couples in states which don't recognize same-sex marriage but who are willing to travel to a state that does recognize such unions.

However, Rea Carey of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said many gay couples either would be hard pressed to afford such trips or would forgo them out of principle.

"Many people in this country, straight or gay, want to get married in their own state, their own backyard," she said.

While gay-rights activists pursue their ultimate goal of nationwide recognition of same-sex marriage, the short-term legal situation for many gay couples could be complicated.

Peter Sprigg of the conservative Family Research Council said the court ruling on federal recognition "raises as many questions as it answers."

"Will recognition be based on the law in the state where the marriage was celebrated or the state in which the couple resides?" he said. "The doors may now be wide open for whole new rounds of litigation."

The National Conference of State Legislatures said the situation was clear for married gay couples in the 13 states recognizing same-sex marriage: They will be eligible for all federal marriage benefits.

"Outside of these states, federal marriage benefits become more complicated, as many commonly thought-of federal benefits, such as jointly filing on federal income taxes, are tied to a married couple's place of residence," the conference said.

Gay-rights activists immediately began lobbying the Obama administration and other federal officials to extend as many benefits as possible on the basis of where a gay couple's wedding took place, not on the state where they live.

"The Obama administration can make clear, through regulation, that the federal government will recognize those marriages and not participate in state-sponsored discrimination," said Suzanne Goldberg, a professor at Columbia Law School.

Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry, one of the groups most active in building support for same-sex marriage, urged the administration to adopt a "clear and consistent" standard that would apply equally to all married gay couples, regardless of their state of residence.

"Marriage should not flutter in and out like cellphone service," he said. "When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not."

Wolfson, like many of his allies, was already looking ahead to another rendezvous with the Supreme Court, confident that public support for same-sex marriage would continue to increase.

"We have the winning strategy," he said. "We win more states, we win more hearts and minds, and we go back to the Supreme Court in a matter of years, not decades, to win the freedom to marry nationwide."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nationwide-gay-marriage-more-battles-ahead-220246102.html

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? Far Cry 3 ($20) | Amazon

? The Walking Dead ($20) | Amazon

Xbox

? FREE After Rebate Kane and Lynch 2 | Newegg

? Pre-order Saints Row 4 ($53) | Newegg | Use code EMCXPVR67

? Gears of War: Judgment ($40) | Amazon

? Tomb Raider ($30) | Amazon

? Far Cry 3 ($20) | Amazon

? The Walking Dead ($20) | Amazon

? Kinect Sports ($5) | Newegg

Audio

Nope.

Clothing

? What A Nice Filson Oil Slick Coat ($170) | Filson via Reddit | Originally $290

? 20% off Amazon Clothes | Amazon via Fatwallet | Use coupon code 20APPJUN

? 25% off Levi's Sale | Levi's via Buyvia | Use coupon code EXTRA25

? A Suitable Wardrobe Mid-Season Sale | A Suitable Wardrobe via Put This On

Dumb TV ? Smart TV

Physical Media

? Princess Bride 25th Anniversary [Blu-ray] ($8) | Amazon via Daily DVD Deals

? Lawrence of Arabia Restored [Blu-ray] ($10) | Amazon via Daily DVD Deals

? Pushing Daisies Season 1 or 2 [Blu-ray] (~$15) | Amazon via Daily DVD Deals

? Sherlock Season 1 or 2 [DVD] (~$18) | Amazon via Daily DVD Deals

Digital Media

A Terabyte of Portable Storage for $60 Is Your Deal of the Day

I'm an Amazon Prime subscriber, so sometimes it's easy for me to overlook the fact other Amazon shoppers need to hit minimum orders. Personally, I think Amazon Prime is a great deal. It's my opinion if you plan to spend around $500 on Amazon during a year that you should opt for Prime?the fast free shipping changes the way you shop online, but the streaming service really makes it a great value. For instance, I'll be watching The Avengers tonight... for free.

There's usually a free month trial to Prime. You can find that here: [Amazon]

And if you're a student, you can get 6 months for free, which is great for buying textbooks. (That's how they got me hooked, although it used to be a year.) [Amazon]

Laptops

No?

Desktops

computers.

Tablets

The Android-based Nook as we know it is dead. Long live the Nook. $150 for a 9" tablet. [Barnes & Noble]

Screens

? BenQ 24" 1080p Monitor ($120) | Tiger Direct via Hard Forum | Originally $140

? 27" Monoprice Hi-Res Monitor ($350) | Massdrop via Hard Forum | Originally $400

Portables

Camera

? Rebel T3i Refub ($395) | Canon via 9to5Toys | Originally $500

Bare Drives

? 250GB Samsung 840 Pro ($420) | Ebay | Originally $500

Apps

iOS

? Time Trap ($0) | iTunes | Originally $1

? League of Evil 2 ($0) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $2

Android

? Doodle God ($1) | Google Play via App-sales | Originally $3

? Elemental Knights Online RED ($1) | Google Play via App-sales | Originally $7

? R-Type ($2) | Amazon Appstore via Apps-aholic | Originally $3

Windows

? Topaz Lab ($200) | Topaz Labs | Originally $300 | Use coupon code JULY4 | Plugins for Adobe photo programs

Hobomodo

? Free Gevalia Coffee Sample ($0) | Walmart via Reddit

? A Slew of Stuff that's FREE or Crazy Cheap After Rebate | NewEgg via Deals Kinja

You! Yeah You! Wanna Write For Dealzmodo?

Gawker Media is looking for a new commerce editor for Gizmodo. That means we're looking for someone to write and curate Dealzmodo. You should be a strong writer who also is an amazing shopper, and you know what's a solid deal and what's worth passing on. Yes, you have to know a lot about consumer technology. More details here: [Commerce Specialist, Gizmodo]


Keep up with Kif Leswing on Kinja and Twitter. Check out The Moneysaver for more great tech deals, and deals.kinja.com for even more discounts.


A note on Dealzmodo: We're professional shoppers. Yes, we make money if you end up buying. That's capitalism, but we're absolutely looking out for your best interest. Read this if you want to know more.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-terabyte-of-portable-storage-for-60-is-your-deal-of-573833961

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Defiant Texas legislator Davis persists against the odds

By Corrie MacLaggan

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - State Senator Wendy Davis, the woman whose 10-hour speech captured national attention and single-handedly slowed the Texas Republican drive to restrict abortion, has overcome long odds before in her life.

While her defiance of the mostly male Texas Republicans may ultimately fail because Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday called another special session of the legislature to consider abortion curbs, the bid propelled her to stardom in a Texas Democratic party that has not won a statewide office in two decades.

She was already considered a possible future candidate for governor before she stood in the Legislature on Tuesday to begin a talk-a-thon that stalled the abortion plan.

Her filibuster was streamed live on websites across the country, transforming her into an articulate spokeswoman for abortion rights and women's groups fighting to limit restrictions on legal abortion in the United States.

The Texas law would ban abortion after 20 weeks pregnancy, with few exceptions, and impose a host of other restrictions.

"We always knew she's a rock star, it's just now I think the rest of the country knows it, too," said fellow Democratic state Senator Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio.

Part of Davis' appeal is a personal story that took her from an underprivileged background and living in a trailer park with a young daughter, to the Capitol Dome in Austin.

Davis, 50, started working at age 14 to help support her single mother and by 19 was a single mother herself, according to her campaign website. She studied at a community college and went on to graduate from Texas Christian University and Harvard Law School.

During the filibuster, she spoke in personal terms of how the local Planned Parenthood clinic was her health refuge in those early years.

She served for nine years on the Fort Worth City Council and was elected to the state Senate in 2008, upsetting a longtime incumbent. Despite a Republican redrawing of election lines last year, she was narrowly reelected.

Davis has used the filibuster to frustrate majority Republicans before, temporarily blocking approval of cuts in education funding in 2011.

A June poll from the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune showed that 58 percent of registered voters in the state had no opinion about Davis. That has almost certainly changed.

"She's definitely received a lot of attention over the past 24 hours, just really an unimaginable amount," said Austin-based Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak. "That translates into an ability to raise money and an online army that no Democrat in Texas had 24 hours ago."

With a rising Hispanic population, Democrats in the nation's second most populous state hope they can eventually turn Texas a shade of Democratic blue.

But Mackowiak doubts Davis could win a statewide office in Texas in 2014, because he said a successful statewide Democrat would need to be more moderate and business-friendly.

Perry, the longest serving governor in Texas state history, is expected to announce soon whether he will seek reelection.

"In the heat of the moment right now, certainly there are a lot of people that just want her to call a press conference and declare her candidacy for the governorship," said James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. "But I think it will take more careful consideration than that."

(Reporting By Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Greg McCune, Chris Reese and Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/defiant-texas-legislator-davis-persists-against-odds-221917017.html

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A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

The seven-year-old Emma M?rsk can carry more cargo than a 41-mile-long train and has a turning radius of almost a mile. Even compared to oil tankers, she?s more like a city than a boat?albeit a city that few people ever get to explore. But in 2010, a young photographer named Jakob Wagner became one of the rare civilian passengers to board Emma.

Wagner was working as a photo assistant at the time, and an assignment brought him aboard the ship, which operates on a regular route from Denmark to Asia, travelling through the the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal along the way. ?Through my work, sometimes I get the chance to visit places that are refused to outsiders,? he explains, describing the trip as ?a really impressive journey.?

Wagner only experienced a small piece of Emma?s cross-global route, but the photos he captured along the way are no less remarkable: They show the process of loading Emma in Rotterdam, leaving port, and making the journey to Felixstowe, about 100 miles across the English Channel. Wagner seems to have had right of passage around the ship, and ended capturing amazing details, including the lights of commercial airplanes overhead and the captain, lounging in a sandals-and-socks combo atop Emma?s massive navigation deck.

It might just be the long-exposures, but there?s a definite sense that time moves more slowly aboard a vessel this large. Check out more of Wagner?s work on his website.

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

A Photographer's Rare Trip Aboard One of the World's Largest Ships

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-photographers-rare-trip-aboard-one-of-the-worlds-la-571482399

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In Texas affirmative-action ruling, Supreme Court seeks race-blind admissions

In a ruling Monday, the US Supreme Court gave its sternest warning yet that the use of racial discrimination in admissions should be the last choice for public schools in achieving a racially diverse learning environment for students.

In a rare 7-to-1 decision, the justices told a lower court to make sure the University of Texas proves that ?no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity? that would justify race-based policies. The justices admonished a lower court for taking it merely on ?good faith? that the university had tried hard enough to avoid discrimination.

So now many schools may need to rethink the ways they can achieve both the benefits of campus diversity and ? without saying as much ? a legal way to admit underqualified minorities. Many higher-ed institutions, for example, are working with high schools to better prepare minorities for college.

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Texas had already gone far in developing a race-neutral method. It guarantees admission to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of each state high school ? many of which are dominated by blacks or Hispanics. But that was not enough for the state. It also uses race as a factor in admitting minorities who don?t meet educational standards.

When a white student, Abigail Fisher, was denied admission to the University of Texas, she went to court. With this ruling, her case now goes back to an appeals court which, in the eyes of the justices, failed to apply ?strict scrutiny? in evaluating the school?s affirmative-action plan compared with nonracial approaches.

?Strict scrutiny imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice,? the high court?s opinion stated. In other words, the Constitution?s provision against discrimination cannot be violated with ease. A compelling case must first be made.

The decision reflects not only a stiffening of the high court?s stance against the use of race in public decisionmaking but also in society as well. Public support for affirmative action has dropped from 61 percent in 1991 to 45 percent today, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. And in a speech last month to an all-black college, President Obama told graduates that they have ?no time for excuses? in achieving success.

?In today?s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with millions of young people from China and India and Brazil ? many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did ? all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned,? Mr. Obama said at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

The message in the court?s ruling is that Americans need to move faster to find new or better ways to help the disadvantaged that don?t step on legal rights. In a 2003 ruling, the court said it ?expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary....?

In that time frame, whites will be heading toward minority status in the United States. Among students entering college in 2001, nonwhites were 47 percent, up from one-third just 15 years earlier.

RELATED: Don't be fooled by one theory against affirmative action

The struggle over affirmative action in colleges is only a minor part of a larger effort to reduce an inequality in opportunities for low-income Americans. The roots of poverty are deep and complex, with college admissions being a small contributor to closing the gap between races. Even on campuses with high diversity, self-segregation by students remains prevalent despite the obvious merits of diversity in exposing students to different perspectives.

The best leg-up for disadvantaged youth lies in early childhood education and in supporting parents in such activities as reading to their children. As courts turn down solutions that compromise basic rights, Americans must step up in support of solutions that are both effective and constitutional.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-affirmative-action-ruling-supreme-court-seeks-race-182426996.html

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The Xperia Z Ultra, Sony's Mini-Tablet Sized Phone, Wants You To Talk Less & Watch More

xperia-z-ultra-vs-xperia-zSony is steering its mobile ship into deeper waters with the Xperia Z Ultra. The 6.4-inch device slots in the size gap between its former flagship handset, the 5-inch Xperia Z, and its 10.1-inch Android slate, the Xperia Z Tablet. The Xperia Z Ultra might have more sensibly been named the Xperia Z Tablet Mini. Instead, Sony has hedged its bets with a name that doesn't exclude either possibility.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AfBfFZLBdLs/

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Aerialist Wallenda to cross gorge near G. Canyon

A unidentified tourist looks from a view point along the Little Colorado River Gorge Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, Ariz., outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, near where Nik Wallenda, the Florida-based daredevil, will bid to walk on a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge. The event, which will be broadcast on live television at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday with a 10 second delay. Wallenda will walk a third of a mile across a wire suspended 1,500 feet above the river. (In comparison, the Empire State Building in New York City is 1,454 feet high). (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

A unidentified tourist looks from a view point along the Little Colorado River Gorge Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, Ariz., outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, near where Nik Wallenda, the Florida-based daredevil, will bid to walk on a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge. The event, which will be broadcast on live television at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday with a 10 second delay. Wallenda will walk a third of a mile across a wire suspended 1,500 feet above the river. (In comparison, the Empire State Building in New York City is 1,454 feet high). (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The Little Colorado River Gorge is shown Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, Ariz., outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, near where Nik Wallenda, the Florida-based daredevil, will bid to walk on a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge. The event, which will be broadcast on live television at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday with a 10 second delay. Wallenda will walk a third of a mile across a wire suspended 1,500 feet above the river. (In comparison, the Empire State Building in New York City is 1,454 feet high). (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

(AP) ? Daredevil Nik Wallenda is using the Navajo Nation as a backdrop to one of his most ambitious feats yet ? crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon.

The 34-year-old Sarasota, Fla., resident will set out Sunday on a quarter-mile cable stretched over the gorge that was eyed by another high-wire performer decades ago. The stunt comes a year after he traversed Niagara Falls earning a seventh Guinness world record. He'll be using the same 2-inch-thick cable he used to cross the falls, only this time he won't be wearing a safety harness.

After saying a prayer, "I give my wife and kids a hug and a kiss and tell them I'll see them in a bit," he told reporters Friday in Flagstaff.

Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous "Flying Wallendas" circus family ? a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats and great tragedy.

His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell during a performance in Puerto Rico and died at the age of 73. Several other family members, including a cousin and an uncle, have perished while performing wire walking stunts.

Nik Wallenda, who was born a year after his great-grandfather died, began wire walking at the age of 2, on a 2-foot high stretched rope. He grew up performing with his family and has dreamed of crossing the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.

French high-wire walker Philippe Petit had that same desire and set up a cable above the Little Colorado River, but Navajo officials said he never went through with the stunt and left his equipment there only to be taken down recently by Wallenda's crew.

"I don't understand why he didn't," Wallenda said. "It's a site that works, makes sense. He clearly failed at it, so I want to do it successfully."

Petit didn't return messages left by The Associated Press.

The Discovery Channel will broadcast Wallenda's walk live on live television at 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday with a 10-second delay. Wallenda will be wearing two cameras, one looking down the mostly dry Little Colorado River bed and one facing straight ahead. His leather shoes with an elk-skin sole will help him keep a grip on the steel cable as he moves across.

Should wind gusts that are expected to be around 30 mph threaten to throw him off, Wallenda said he'll grab hold of the wire and wait it out if possible. A paramedic will be looking up at him from the river, he said.

Wallenda is highly confident in his ability to reach the other side, having walked in 52 mph wind gusts during Tropical Storm Andrea with a torrential downpour and training with wind machines that simulated 45-55 mph gusts. The only thing that would stop him entirely is lightning within a 15-mile radius, he said.

The more than 2-hour broadcast also will showcase the Navajo landscape that includes Monument Valley, Four Corners, Canyon de Chelly and the tribal capital of Window Rock.

"When people watch this, our main thing is we want the world to know who Navajo people are, our culture, traditions and language are still very much alive," said Geri Hongeva, spokeswoman for the tribe's Division of Natural Resources.

The stunt is touted as a walk across the Grand Canyon, an area held sacred by many American Indian tribes, and the fulfillment of a dream. Some local residents believe Wallenda hasn't accurately pinpointed the location and also say that the Navajo Nation shouldn't be promoting the gambling of one man's life for the benefit of tourism.

"Mr. Wallenda needs to buy a GPS or somebody give this guy a map," said Milton Tso, president of the Cameron community on the Navajo Nation. "He's not walking across the Grand Canyon, he's walking across the Little Colorado River Gorge on the Navajo Nation. It's misleading and false advertising."

Associated Press

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