School suspends players for Tebowing in halls

Sure, the issue of prayer in public school is a touchy subject. But what of Tebowing in public school? Four students at Long Island?s Riverhead High School ? including three varsity football players ? have been suspended for Tebowing in the halls (see photo), which they were apparently doing pretty much nonstop for three straight days.

Photo and video here.

Brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll, and their friends Jordan Fulcoly and Wayne Drexel were all given one day of in-school suspension Wednesday after three days of getting on one knee and bringing their fists to their forehead like Mr. Tebow?s signature move.

?We?ve been doing it all week,? said Tyler Carroll of Calverton. ?We started on Monday. We saw Tebow doing it and thought it would be funny. More people saw and started to join in. It was really catching fire.?

The school is saying they have no problem with the Tebowing, per se, except that it caused a ?dangerous situation? in the hallways, blocking students from getting to class. I suspect a much deeper, philosophical conspiracy, but then I always do. Please ignore my rantings.

Carroll says the suspension was a bit unfair, and despite the school?s claim to the contrary, he and his friends were never told to stop.

?The administration told us that our Tebowing was blocking the halls and could potentially cause a riot, because they were growing in number and if the wrong kid gets pushed a brawl could ensue,? Carroll told Prep Rally. ?We had no idea that we could get suspended for such a thing. It was a joke between a group of friends that took a life of its own. We figured at the most we would just be told to stop.?

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Video: Riverhead students suspended for Tebow impersonation [Riverhead News Review]
New York Teens suspended for Tebowing in school hallway [Prep Rally]

Source: http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/12/15/high-school-football-players-suspended-for-tebowing-in-the-halls-video/related

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Barbara Walters Talks to 'Fascinating' People of 2011

Barbara Walters' ABC television special The Most Fascinating People of 2011 included some predictable newsworthy profiles -- the Kardashians, Simon Cowell, Katy Perry, Derek Jeter -- but the most surprising entry was the most fascinating person of 2011 was not on the show, because he's not alive.

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Indefinite Detention Bill Faces Veto Threat No Longer From White House

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat to veto a defense bill that sets in stone the commander in chief's authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, including Americans, in military custody.

The switch came as the House appeared set to easily pass the National Defense Authorization Act despite impassioned opposition by numerous national security experts and advocates of civil liberties, who argued that the indefinite detention measure enshrines recent, questionable investigative practices that are contrary to fundamental American rights. The Senate was expected to follow suit soon.

The White House had threatened to veto the bill as it stood coming from the Senate, but reversed course shortly before the House vote. The administration cited changes to the legislation made during a conference committee that worked out differences between the House and Senate versions over the weekend.

Civil liberties advocates had already declared that the changes were not nearly good enough and that all they did was make it harder for law enforcers to interpret the legislation. But White House officials, who spent two full days pondering the changes before revoking the veto threat, decided they were enough.

While opponents had looked to President Barack Obama to defend what they see as a fresh attack on American freedom, a statement released by White House press secretary Jay Carney addressed such issues only obliquely.

"After intensive engagement by senior administration officials and the President himself, the administration has succeeded in prompting the authors of the detainee provisions to make several important changes," the statement said.

"While we remain concerned about the uncertainty that this law will create for our counterterrorism professionals, the most recent changes give the President additional discretion in determining how the law will be implemented, consistent with our values and the rule of law, which are at the heart of our country's strength," it said.

"We have concluded that the language does not challenge or constrain the president's ability to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists, and protect the American people," the statement said, although it added that if the uncertainty raised by the legislation does impede investigations, the White House expects lawmakers to write a fix.

One of the major changes was shifting to the White House the responsibility for determining who does not have to be detained forever by the military. In an earlier version of the bill, the Department of Defense made the call. And while the bill makes the military the default investigator for Islamic terrorism cases, new provisions assert that the FBI and other civil law enforcers still have the authority to investigate terrorism and interrogate suspects.

The bill's strongest supporters, including Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), had argued that it was necessary to make plain that the military has the authority to detain Americans. Other less-fervent supporters argued that, although they were not entirely happy with the practice, the fact is that the executive branch already detains Americans -- as it did in the case of convicted terrorism suspect Jose Padilla.

"If you have a problem with indefinite detention, that is a problem with current law," said Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. "The problems that people have, and I share some of them, are with existing law, not with this bill. Defeat this bill, and that will not change a piece of that existing law that we've heard about that we should all be concerned about."

Opponents of the indefinite detention provisions have argued that, although it is true Americans have been held, the Supreme Court has not ruled on the validity of those detentions. Writing those practices into law, they argue, goes further than anything the nation's founders ever would have contemplated.

"We are in danger of losing out most precious heritage not because a band of thugs threatens out freedom, but because we are at risk of forgetting who we are and what makes the United States a truly great nation," said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose district includes Ground Zero. "In the last 10 years, we have begun to let go of our freedoms, bit by bit, with each new executive order, court decision and, yes, act of Congress.

"We have begun giving away our rights to privacy, our right to our day in court when the government harms us, and, with this legislation, we are continuing down the path of destroying the right to be free from imprisonment without due process of law," Nadler added.

He also took issue with Smith's assertion that the bill just spells out what is already law.

"It doesn't codify existing law. It codifies claims of power by the last two administrations that have not been confirmed by [the Supreme Court] -- rather terrifying claims of power, claims of the right to put Americans in jail indefinitely without a trial, even in the United States," Nadler said.

Smith and others have pointed to a provision in the legislation that they say exempts U.S. citizens. The measure reads, "The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."

But numerous legal authorities have pointed out to The Huffington Post that, even though that provision does not require the detention of Americans, it also does not say they cannot be detained, and the legislation's definition of terrorism suspects does not exclude Americans. An amendment that would have barred detentions of U.S. citizens failed in the Senate. The decision on whether an American goes to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility -- which must remain open to accommodate new suspects -- will lie with the White House.

The final bill is also likely to pass the Senate on Wednesday or Thursday.

Opponents called on President Obama to ignore his advisers and veto the bill anyway.

"As people of faith, we know that the right cause is also sometimes a lonely cause," said the Rev. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

"The president's advisers have abandoned their opposition to the bill," Killmer said. "But, as president, President Obama is still in a position to stand up for American values and stop this legislation. The decision is his, not his advisers. He can and should veto this bill. If he does, he will find that Americans of all faiths will stand with him."

"If President Obama signs this bill, it will damage both his legacy and Americans' reputation for upholding the rule of law," warned Laura Murphy, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The last time Congress passed indefinite detention legislation was during the McCarthy era, and President Truman had the courage to veto that bill."

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/indefinite-detention-veto-threat-white-house_n_1149576.html

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UNICEF's Future Relief Parcels Will Provide Food, Water and Shelter in One, Lego-Shaped, Brick [Genius]

You'd think there isn't much room for innovation when it comes to delivering emergency rations to refugees and disaster victims, but that's not quite the case. UNICEF has tapped design firm Psychic Factory to develop an aid package that not only carries food and water, but also helps build a shelter. More »


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Obama slaps new sanctions on Iran energy sector (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama on Monday ordered new U.S. sanctions on Iran's energy and petrochemical sectors that would punish anyone who helped Iran develop and expand its petroleum resources, the White House said.

The latest U.S. move seeks to step up pressure on Tehran after the U.N. nuclear watchdog highlighted fresh concerns about the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program.

The U.S. Treasury Department also planned to designate Iran as an area of "primary money laundering concern" on Monday, a U.S. official said.

(Reporting Matt Spetalnick, Alister Bull and by Jeff Mason)

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Khmer Rouge ex-leader denies key role in atrocity (AP)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? A senior Khmer Rouge leader accused a war crimes tribunal Wednesday of wanting his "head on the block," and insisted he had no real authority during the regime's brutal rule of Cambodia in the 1970s.

Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, said he was a figurehead leader who never joined key policy meetings in the radical communist government, which is accused of orchestrating the country's "killing fields" and causing the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians.

In his rebuttal of prosecutors' opening remarks, Khieu Samphan accused the U.N.-backed tribunal of exaggerating the Khmer Rouge's wrongdoing with "fairy tales."

However, he also sought to justify the regime's rule in a historical context ? as the highest surviving leader Nuon Chea did during comments to the panel on Tuesday ? saying the movement sought to protect the country from French colonialists, the U.S. and neighboring enemy Vietnam.

"Today you may see it as a joke. However, I shall remind you that at that time, communism was the one movement that gave hope to millions of youth around the world. What I really wanted at that time, was the best possible experience for my country, for Cambodia," Khieu Samphan said.

The tribunal is seeking justice on behalf of the quarter of Cambodia's population estimated to have died from executions, starvation, disease and overwork when the Khmer Rouge held power from 1975-79.

The defendants ? Khieu Samphan, 80; Nuon Chea, 85, the group's No. 2 and chief ideologist; and former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, 86 ? are the most senior surviving members of the regime. They are charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture, but have long denied wrongdoing.

The Khmer Rouge's supreme leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998 in Cambodia's jungles while a prisoner of his own comrades.

Prosecutors on Monday and Tuesday described a litany of horrors imposed by the Khmer Rouge as it tried to build an agrarian utopia.

Khieu Samphan said Wednesday that the prosecutors accounts were based mainly on unreliable old news reports and books, calling them "fairy tales," and said his position as head of state had no real power.

"You really want my head on the block," Khieu Samphan said Wednesday.

Khieu Samphan also reminded the court that U.S. bombing of his country during the Vietnam War contributed to its misery.

"Can you imagine what my country faced after such bloody killing and war?" he declared.

While decrying the case against him, he added that he welcomed the opportunity to explain his role to the Cambodian public.

"I clearly know that I contributed to national reconciliation in order to defend my country, for it to be to be a sovereign, independent nation."

Co-defendant Nuon Chea, who spoke Tuesday, stressed his role in protecting Cambodia's sovereignty. It was a touchstone of Khmer Rouge beliefs that neighboring Vietnam sought to annex the country and was behind most of its troubles.

The tribunal, which was established in 2006, has tried just one case, convicting former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other offenses. His sentence was reduced to 19 years due to time served and other technicalities.

A fourth defendant in the current case, the Khmer Rouge's social affairs minister, was ruled unfit to stand trial because of Alzheimer's disease.

Political and financial pressure on the U.N.-backed tribunal has raised doubt if another case will ever exist.

Opening statements in the current case are scheduled to continue Thursday, and actual testimony is set to begin Dec. 5.

The tribunal grouped similar charges together to move the case faster. Crimes against humanity and forced movement of people are being handled first, while genocide, torture and other allegations will be considered later.

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The Return of Silent Cinema

For The Lonedale Operator, D. W. Griffith mounted?his camera on the front of a speeding train in order to better capture the rush; for A Girl and Her Trust, he placed?it onboard a car that was racing alongside a racing train, with another car in hot pursuit. His mastery of intercutting between parallel action reached its apogee in the chase sequence of The Birth of a Nation. When that film was released, in 1916, the film?s cinematographer, Karl Brown, noted ?bigger and better, bigger and better became the constantly chanted watchwords of the year. Soon the two words became one. Bigger meant better, and a sort of giganticism overwhelmed the world, especially the world of motion pictures.??In many ways, this whiz-bang landscape of thrill rides, cheap scares, and teen kicks feels closer to us than the Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s or even the 1960s and 1970s, when Hollywood, high on a mixture of the French new wave, auteurism, and pot, enjoyed an unparalleled creative growth spurt, one cut cruelly short by the kerr-ching of the cash registers for Jaws, and the boom of the laser cannons in Star Wars. As we all know by heart now, those two blockbusters flushed delicate arthouse sensitivities down the garbage chute and ?pioneered the cinema of moments, of images, of sensory stimuli increasingly divorced from story? in Peter Biskind?s formulation.

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will.i.am And Jennifer Lopez Glow In The Dark At AMAs

Mick Jagger also appeared via video screen for debut performance of 'T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever.)'
By James Dinh


will.i.am performs at the 2011 AMAs
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Sunday night's (November 20) 2011 American Music Awards were full of onstage collaborations, and one of the most entertaining was will.i.am, Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger's debut performance of "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)."

In between two life-size stereos, Jenny from the Block kicked off the bass-heavy number with the song's chorus line: "You can go hard or you can go home." Shortly into the performance, you could tell this hitmaking crew clearly went hard. Utilizing the pitch-black Nokia Theatre and dancers' lit-up ensembles, will.i.am delivered a complete glow-in-the-dark performance that included floating dancers, a headless will and even a blink-and-you'll-miss-it disappearing act.

Lopez played up her part as featured guest, and even though Jagger was missing from the action, the Rolling Stones frontman did appear via video for his portion of the dance tune. To conclude the number, glowing confetti filled the air.

"T.H.E (The Hardest Ever)" is the lead single from will's forthcoming solo album, #willpower, which is expected to drop next year. Produced by Audiobot, Dallas Austin and will himself, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" was released on iTunes immediately after the AMA performance. Rich Lee directed the video for the song, which was shot in Los Angeles and London; it is expected to premiere later this month.

What did you think of will.i.am's glow-in-the-dark performance? Share your thoughts below!

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1674729/will-i-am-jennifer-lopez-amas.jhtml

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Chevron to blame for Brazil spill

US oil company Chevron says it accepts full responsibility for an oil spill off the coast of Brazil.

Chevron said it had underestimated the pressure of underwater oil deposits while drilling, causing oil to rush up the bore hole and seep into the surrounding seabed.

Brazilian regulators said 416,400 litres had leaked since the accident happened almost two weeks ago.

Chevron said the leak had now been plugged.

But the head of Chevron's Brazil operation, George Buck, said there continued to be a residual oil flow from undersea rock near the well in the Frade oil project, 370km (230 miles) off the Brazilian coast.

Brazil's Energy Minister Edison Lobao had earlier said the company would be "severely punished" if it was found to have failed in its environmental responsibilities.

'Questionable methods'

Chevron initially estimated that 400-650 barrels of oil had formed a sheen on the water after seeping from the seabed near the well.

But the international environmental group Skytruth said satellite images suggested the spill was many times bigger.

Police environment experts have been trying to assess the scale of the spill.

Head of the Federal Police Environmental Division Fabio Scliar also questioned the methods Chevron was using to clean up the spill.

Mr Scliar said the company was "pushing" the oil to the bottom of the sea, rather than gathering it, putting corals in the area at risk of pollution.

In recent years Brazil has discovered billions of barrels of oil in deep water that could make it one of the world's top five producers.

So far there has been little public debate about the environmental dangers of offshore drilling.

Political discussion has instead focused on how future oil revenues should be divided between different states.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-latin-america-15813671

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