Saturday, July 20, 2013

Former Google And Twitter Engineering Lead Daniel Loreto Heads To Venrock For EIR Role

Daniel LoretoDaniel Loreto, a former engineering lead for Google and Twitter, is headed to Venrock as an EIR in the VC firm's New York office. Loreto was previously part of the team Julpan, a real-time data analysis and search engine that was acquired by Twitter in 2011 (the startup also became Twitter's first presence in New York and was the foundation for its office in the region). Prior to founding Julpan, Loreto spent four years in Google's New York office, where?he was a technology lead in the Search Quality team and started the Structured Data group.

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Avril Lavigne Declares She's 'Motherfreaking Princess' On 'Rock N Roll'

Lavigne, who recently wed Nickelback's Chad Kroeger, puts her 'middle finger to the sky' on new single.
By Jocelyn Vena

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710867/avril-lavigne-declares-shes-motherfreaking-princess-on-rock-n-roll.jhtml

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Vin Diesel: Dungeons & Dragons fueled creativity

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Dungeons & Dragons inspired Vin Diesel as a child, and having children of his own changed how he sees his killer characters.

The action star appeared at Comic-Con Friday to help unveil footage from the new "Riddick" film.

Diesel says the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons was a "training ground for imagination" and helped him embrace the mythology of Riddick's world. But becoming a father made him see Riddick's dark side in a new way.

"What's inside Riddick is so scary that now that I have kids, when I watch the Riddick character, there' s a part of me that feels guilty for having such a darkness in that character," he said. "I look at what he's doing and I go, 'That isn't cool, you shouldn't have killed that guy.' It's only because I have kids now."

Diesel also hinted at a future in the Marvel universe when responding to a fan question, saying only, "There's some very big news coming at the end of the month."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vin-diesel-dungeons-dragons-fueled-creativity-224617767.html

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Friday, July 19, 2013

India school tragedy raises questions for Gandhi's food plan

By Sruthi Gottipati and Mayank Bhardwaj

RAIPUR/PATNA, India (Reuters) - The deaths of at least 23 Indian children poisoned after eating a free school meal has triggered an outcry over food safety just as the ruling Congress party is set to launch an ambitious plan to feed 800 million poor, with an eye on elections due within a year.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's national subsidized food project includes free school meals and expands existing handouts to make it probably the biggest welfare initiative since India gained independence in 1947.

"It's a political move designed to garner support for Congress among the poor, which has been its traditional constituency," said Zoya Hasan, a professor at the School of Social Sciences in New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The National Food Security Ordinance aims to give five kg (11 lb) of cheap grain every month to 800 million people and more than doubles the reach of the existing subsidized food system, whose failings still mean the country is home to a quarter of the world's hungry.

But the school tragedy in Bihar state, the nation's second poorest, highlights the potential dangers of rolling out a major food distribution scheme without strict monitoring of supplies and quality and having to hand responsibility to local authorities, many of whom have weak administration.

In Bihar, the children's deaths prompted protesters to burn effigies of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, chanting slogans denouncing the state government and setting fire to vehicles.

"This terrible tragedy will hopefully serve as a wake-up call for them," said Reetika Khera, development economist and social activist, adding programs like this need to be administered at the local level.

Currently, nearly half of India's annual rice and wheat supplies are lost to rot or corruption, and while deaths from contaminated food are rare, many of the country's poor are offered substandard food, sometimes containing stones and grit.

"This (tragedy) does throw light on food quality in public programs," said Dipa Sinha, Right to Food researcher and activist. "It is clearly a failure of monitoring and accountability."

Under Gandhi's food welfare plan, grain distribution will be devolved to local communities, but critics say few details have been revealed and question how the scheme will be administered. The Bihar tragedy may raise more questions over Gandhi's plan.

The Congress party, which controls only half of India's 28 states, won the last two elections after introducing populist policies such as a rural jobs plan and a $12.5 billion farmer loan waiver.

The food security bill, Gandhi's pet project, was approved on July 3 using executive orders, usually reserved for urgent policy. Gandhi plans to launch the program on August 20, the birthday of her late husband and former prime minister, Rajiv.

Parliament must decide whether to agree or reject the measures within six weeks of the next session's start on Aug 5. While opposition parties and some government allies complained about the decision to use an executive order to drive the plan through, the bill is expected to be approved.

Under the scheme India, one of the world's largest food producers and consumers, will buy about 30 percent of its 198 million tons of rice and wheat output to sell at subsidized prices. The scheme will cost an estimated $22 billion a year.

ROTTING FOOD

At a warehouse in Naubatpur village, one of the storage hubs for grain in Bihar, pigs grunt and squeal in filthy pools of water that lap at rotting rice spilt from hessian bags.

Farmer Shambu Sharma picks up a handful of the black, stinking grain that has not yet reached the poor and shakes his head as it spatters his white trousers.

"This all comes back to the villages for distribution," he said, dismayed the rice he had grown was now virtually inedible.

Bihar's chief minister Kumar, not a Congress party member, has succeeded in reviving the state's economy since coming to power in 2005, but has struggled to feed the millions of poor due to continuing corruption and a lack of storage.

In 2011, only 18 percent of people living below the poverty line in Bihar received their subsidized grain rations, according to a survey by a team led by development economist Jean Dreze.

Under Gandhi's welfare food project, Bihar will have to distribute 7.2 million tons of grain per year, double what it now handles, yet it lacks adequate storage. It is building more warehousing but it will not be completed before the election.

But Kumar is slowly making progress and, in a warning for Gandhi, it is the chief minister and not Congress that is winning praise among farmers and beneficiaries for the efforts.

Bihar has issued colored coupons to the poor, which has started to ensure cheap grain reaches the most needy, and in turn improved the livelihoods of some voters.

"Since the government has issued coupons, it has been easier to buy from ration shops and I end up saving what I used to spend on buying from the open market," said cycle rickshaw driver Daud Hussain.

"With the savings, I can buy a new school uniform for my daughter," added Hussain, who now saves about 50 rupees from earnings of about 250 rupees a day.

INDIA'S "RICE SAINT"

In another state, Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Raman Singh is known as "the rice saint" for his success in tackling corruption and red tape to deliver food to the poor. His efforts have also paid political dividends, helping him get re-elected in 2008.

Singh has dramatically improved the state's grain distribution using technology to track supplies closely and giving local community groups rather than private dealers the responsibility to provide the cheap grains to village residents.

He has also put state finances into the scheme to raise the price paid to farmers for harvests, reduced even further the cost to consumers of the subsidized grains, increased the number of people eligible, and added protein-rich lentils to the menu.

In 2011, 97 percent of Chhattisgarh's poor received their allotted grain, according to Dreze, the economist.

"This is a matter that concerns the whole country," Singh, who is not a Congress party member, told Reuters. "If they replicate our state's model, there won't be a need for a debate. Everyone would agree with this."

In Seoni village on the outskirts of Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur, Dhanush Kumar Sahu sits among sacks of wheat and rice, weighing rations for a stream of women who come clutching tattered ID cards in gnarled hands to his shop.

Sahu is at the retail end of a closely-monitored supply chain that takes grain from farmers' fields, moves it to government-owned warehouses and distributes the sacks in government trucks to his door.

Rice is sold at 1-2 rupees (1.6-3.2 U.S. cents) per kg depending on need - less than the federal government's subsidized level of 3 rupees per kg - and it covers more people than targeted by New Delhi even with the proposed expansion.

"Since the rates have changed, everyone comes to take the rice," Sahu said, while a customer ran rice through her fingers to check its quality.

($1 = 59.78 rupees)

(Additional reporting by Jo Winterbottom; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel and Jo Winterbottom; Editing by Michael Perry and Raju Gopalakrishnan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/india-school-tragedy-raises-questions-gandhis-food-plan-113456292.html

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Fox News parts ways with Liz Cheney after Senate run launched

(Reuters) - Fox News has parted ways with Liz Cheney, the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, after her announcement that she will challenge incumbent U.S. senator and fellow Republican Mike Enzi in Wyoming, a spokeswoman for the network said on Wednesday.

Cheney, 46, launched herself into the race on Tuesday with a nearly six-minute Web video in which she laid out a conservative agenda, saying the federal government was too large and wasted taxpayer dollars, and sharply criticized Democratic President Barack Obama.

Cheney appeared as a political analyst for Fox News, where she was first hired as a contributor in early 2012, a Fox News spokeswoman said. She said Cheney's contract was terminated on Tuesday after the Senate run was announced, but gave no further details.

Cheney, who describes herself in a biography on her official campaign website as a "fourth-generation Wyomingite," is an attorney who served in the U.S. Department of State during the administration of President George W. Bush.

Cheney's announcement comes as Republicans, who control the U.S. House of Representatives, seek to regain a majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections, and political analysts said a bitterly contested primary campaign could be worrisome for the party.

(Reporting by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-parts-ways-liz-cheney-senate-run-220743784.html

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Highest Paid Tight End In NFL (Gronk) Takes Train To New York

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Why should you not worry that Gronk, the NFL?s highest paid tight end, going broke like so many other athletes? This guy has to be the cheapest bastard playing football. Sure, late in 2012 he paid $1,600,000 for a Tampa house, but this guy will then take a train to New York City.

According to @KevDol, that?s Gronk (above) yesterday on his way to NYC from what we assume was the Boston area.

And wearing a Zubaz hat that Zubaz sent to him. And a t-shirt that was also probably given to him.

Could he have helicoptered into the city? Yep. Could he have taken a quick flight? Of course. Could he have car service take him in? Uh huh.

Train.

But this is what?s great with this guy and why we can?t get enough of his antics. Man of the people.

And then he was spotted last night bro-ing out on the streets of Manhattan sorta getting his ?Summer of Gronk? on. With training camp so close, Gronk will need to turn in a powerful 10 days or else this summer will be over and he?ll be answering media questions about Aaron Hernandez.

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Looks like it was a one night deal.

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Source: http://bustedcoverage.com/2013/07/18/highest-paid-tight-end-in-nfl-gronk-takes-train-to-new-york/

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Department of Education is ? | What is this ? - Top definitions

The Department of Education is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to, promoting equity in, and improving the quality of basic education. It is the main agency tasked to manage and govern the Philippine system of basic education. It is the chief formulator of Philippine educational policy and is responsible for the Philippine primary and secondary school systems. It has its headquarters at the DepEd Complex in Meralco Avenue, Pasig City.

The department is currently led by the Secretary of Education, nominated by the President of the Philippines and confirmed by the Commission on Appointments. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet. The current Secretary of Education is Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC.

During the early Spanish period, education in the Philippines was religion-oriented and was primarily for the elite, especially in the 1st years of Spanish colonization. Access to education by Filipinos was later liberalized through the enactment of the Educational Decree of 1863, which provided for the establishment of at least one primary school for boys and girls in each town under the responsibility of the municipal government; and the establishment of a normal school for male teachers under the supervision of the Jesuits. Primary instruction was secularized and free, and the teaching of Spanish was compulsory. It was also through this decree that the Superior Commission of Primary Instruction was established, the seminal agency of the Department of Education.

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Secretary of the Interior. A
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to teach using English as
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that trained the people for
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instituted in January 1901 by the
of Act No. 74. This act also
Public Instruction, headed by
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shortage of teachers so much so
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to bring 1,000 teachers
Philippines. These would later be
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established the Department of
a General
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that the Philippine
Superintendent of Public Instruction
from the United States to the
popularly known as the
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creating the University of the
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Philippines.
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Public Instruction,
Secretary. This act also mandated
department secretaries, except
Public Instruction.
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mandating that it be headed by a
the Filpinization of all
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again through the Japanese?s
1942, splitting the
Education and the Ministry of
Instruction. Under the Japanese, the
history, and character
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emphasized.
department was reorganized once
Military Order No. 2 in February
department into the Ministry of
Health, Labor and Public
teaching of Tagalog, Philippine
education was given priority.
of labor were also
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Quezon?s death, the department
Department of Public Instruction
Carlos P. Romulo at the helm.
resumption of the Commonwealth
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after Pres. Manuel L.
was renamed as the
and Information, with
Upon the return and
Government in February 1945, its
Department of Instruction.
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Manuel Roxas., the department
Department of Education. During
and supervision of public
belonged to the Bureau of Public
Executive Order No. 94 by Pres.
was reorganized to the
this period, the regulation
and private schools
and Private Schools.
Upon the start of
it became the Department
and subsequently
Education and Culture in June 1978
Decree No. 1397, due to the
system of government.
created and major
implemented in the educational
Martial Law in September 1972,
of Education and Culture,
reorganized into the Ministry of
by virtue of Presidential
shift to a parliamentary
Thirteen regional offices were
organizational changes were
system.
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Education, Culture and Sports,
Department of Education, Culture
Executive Order No. 117 by
1982 created the Ministry of
which later became the
and Sports in 1987 via
President Corazon C. Aquino.
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practically remained unchanged
Commission on Higher Education was
Technical Education and Skills
established to supervise tertiary
non-degree technical-vocational
trifocal education system
mandate to basic education
secondary and non-formal
sports. CHED is responsible for
now administers the
training and development.
embodied in EO 117 has
until 1994, when the
established, and in 1995, when the
Development Authority (TESDA) was
degree programs and
programs, respectively. The
refocused the department?s
which covers elementary,
education, including culture and
tertiary education, while TESDA
post-secondary, middle-level manpower
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In August 2001, the
was passed, renaming the
Education and redefining the role
include regional offices,
offices, and schools.
Governance of Basic Education Act
DECS to the Department of
of field offices, which
division offices, district
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activities from the department.
Institute, Records Management and
National Library are now
National Commission for Culture
previous functions, programs,
sports competition were all
Sports Commission (PSC). In
Education and School Sports was
administration of cultural and sports
The National Historical
Archives Office, and the
administratively attached to the
and the Arts (NCCA). All
and activities related to
transferred to the Philippine
addition, the Bureau of Physical
abolished.
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culture, and school sports and
the basic education
for school arts and
physical fitness remains part of
curriculum.
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of the Philippines. A
assigned to each of the school
Department.
assigned to each of the 17 regions
division superintendent is
divisions defined by the
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attached to the Office of the
Education and Skills Development
to the Department of Labor
Higher Education is now
President, while the Technical
Authority (TESDA) is now attached
and Employment.

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