Laurel plane crash leaves pilot injured, mobile homes destroyed in Md.

Laurel plane crash:?State police say 70-year-old Ronald Dixon?crashed?his single-engine Beechcraft Musketeer?plane?shortly after taking off from Suburban Airport in?Laurel?on Thursday morning.

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A small plane is seen after it crashed into a mobile home community in Maryland City, Md., Thurs. A 70-year-old man was critically injured and two homes were damaged by the plane crashing into the community.

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State police say 70-year-old Ronald Dixon?crashed?his single-engine Beechcraft Musketeer?plane?shortly after taking off from Suburban Airport in?Laurel?on Thursday morning. Dixon was the only person on board, and no one else was hurt. A spokeswoman says Dixon remains in critical condition at Shock Trauma.

Police say witnesses told them Dixon's?plane?was flying low and hit a tree before?crashing?to the ground, where it damaged two homes.

Police are continuing to investigate the?crash, and the National Transportation Safety Board has also sent investigators to the scene.

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Goodspeed flat-rate hotspot service now supports China Unicom

Uros' Goodspeed hotspot service offers sanely priced international data, but it hasn't been available in China so far -- that's not much help when visiting friends in Fuzhou. Travelers won't have to fret, however, as Uros just unveiled a network agreement with China Unicom. Goodspeed's €5.90 ($8) daily rate now supplies a modest-but-usable 500MB of 3G data throughout large parts of China. Visitors will also need to pay Goodspeed's usual €9.90 ($13) monthly fee and buy the €269 ($353) hotspot, but they're still looking at big savings over conventional data roaming. Those planning Chinese expeditions will likely want to give the service at least a cursory look through the source link.

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The Act of Killing

A still from The Act of Killing

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The Act of Killing is among the most profound, formally complex, and emotionally overpowering documentaries I?ve ever seen. It?s also, by turns and sometimes at once, luridly seductive and darkly comic and physically revolting?a movie that makes you want to laugh and cry and retch and run out of the theater, both to escape the awful things the film is showing you and to tell everyone you know that they need to see it, too.

In the early 2000s, Joshua Oppenheimer, a now 38-year-old documentarian from Texas, was living in Indonesia researching a film about labor unions when he began to hear whispered stories about a massacre that took place between 1965 and ?66. In this under-documented atrocity, the country?s newly installed right-wing dictatorship ordered the slaughter of something like half a million suspected ?Communists? (including intellectuals, union organizers, and ethnic Chinese), making use of local thugs and paramilitary organizations to carry out their death edicts. But Oppenheimer soon found that his subjects were afraid to tell their stories publicly?an understandable fear, given that many of the men who had murdered their family members still hold powerful positions in their community. The killers, though?that was another matter. Oppenheimer began to notice that, far from cloaking their deeds in shame, the perpetrators of the atrocities were eager to brag about their four-decade-old exploits in graphic detail. After his labor documentary, The Globalization Tapes, was done, he decided to make another film?one that would allow the killers not only to tell their own stories, but to re-enact them as grisly pageants complete with costumes, makeup, and props.

The choice to incorporate elements of fiction, fantasy, and Hollywood genre filmmaking into the documentation of a recent historical horror was a wildly risky gambit on the filmmakers? part (the film was co-directed by an Indonesian who, like all the Indonesians on the crew, is credited only as ?Anonymous.? Werner Herzog and Errol Morris?both known for their ambitious experiments with the traditional documentary form?served as executive producers.) But the result is far from disrespectful to the memory of the massacre?s victims. On the contrary, by exploring the fantasy lives of the killers (in which they imagine their murderous past selves as cowboys, film noir gangsters, or the heroes of kitschy musicals staged near waterfalls), the film cruelly exposes the process by which even the most damning truths can be transmuted, with time, into self-mythologizing fictions.

The Act of Killing was filmed in the town of Medan in North Sumatra, where its two chief subjects, Anwar Congo and Herman Koto, were among the most feared executioners during the purge. Nearly 50 years later, they still wield enough local power that when they set out to recruit extras for a house-burning re-enactment, few of the terrified townspeople dare to turn them down. In one early scene, the dapper, charismatic Congo demonstrates his garroting technique on a smiling underling, then dances an impromptu cha-cha on a roof he once used as a killing chamber. From there, things get ever stranger and sicker, as the production value of the assassins? filmed re-creations mounts in tandem with the scale of the violence they recount. Dressed as cowboys, the men ride to the rescue of a woman (an elaborately cross-dressed Herman Koto) who turns out to be a Communist traitor. Later, they coach a group of local children in the art of pretending to beg for their lives?an exercise which, not surprisingly, quickly reduces the frightened kids to real tears. (The killers? offhanded psychological abuse of even beloved children?as when Congo takes his grandsons onto his lap to watch video of gramps being fake-tortured?is one of the hardest-to-watch elements in this never-easy film.)

There are moments?especially in the highly stylized dance numbers that begin and end the movie, involving identically dressed showgirls who emerge from an enormous concrete fish?when Oppenheimer could be accused of aestheticizing?and hence distancing himself and us from?the raw suffering his film otherwise fearlessly explores. And while I get that this documentary?s purpose isn?t didactic, I wish I?d left the theater knowing a little more about the cultural and historical context in which these horrors occurred. But the choice to identify the killers? merrily sadistic exploits with the history of Hollywood cinema isn?t some arch postmodern affectation on Oppenheimer?s part. The analogy comes straight from Congo and Koto themselves, who before they were conscripted as government hit men worked as ?movie theater gangsters,? scalping tickets outside the local cinema. Congo cites John Wayne and Al Pacino among his tough-guy influences, and recalls the feeling of walking out of Elvis Presley pictures in a cheerful mood, ready to take on the day?s killing with a smile. As viewers, we?re privy to the grinding gears of the multiple defense mechanisms (denial, repression, delusional grandiosity) through which Congo, Koto, and their former colleagues manage to carry on with, and even enjoy, their lives. ?War crimes are defined by the winners,? a death-squad leader points out. ?I?m a winner, so I can make my own definition.?

It?s the killers? crowing, unrepentant impunity?we witness as their exploits are celebrated by the president and vice president of Indonesia in public ceremonies, and praised by the cooing female host of a stomach-churning TV talk show?that sets The Act of Killing apart from most documentaries about genocide. This isn?t a truth-and-reconciliation scenario in which survivors are brought forth to confront their oppressors (though the director is currently at work on another film that will do just that with one Indonesian family affected by the massacre). With its relentless focus on the pathologies, both personal and sociopolitical, that enable ordinary human beings to commit mass murder, The Act of Killing is resolutely uncathartic. The film ends, harshly and unforgettably, on the repeated, unproductive dry heaves of a once-prolific executioner who, after watching himself play the part of his own victim in a mob movie-style re-enactment, has begun?maybe?to grasp that his actions all those years ago ended dozens of lives just as real and human as his own. He heaves and heaves, but there?s nothing inside to come out.

Read Errol Morris? Slate essay about The Act of Killing.

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House Dem calls for Trayvon Martin hearings | The Daily Caller

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Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez is calling for Judiciary Committee hearings on the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Gutierrez wrote that the committee must hold hearings on the matter ?as soon as possible.?

?When any child is gunned down and no one goes to jail, it is incumbent on lawmakers at the highest level of government to investigate whether justice has been done, whether the underlying law is just, and whether federal legislation could help avoid another tragic death like the death of Trayvon Martin,? Gutierrez wrote. (RELATED:?Four children gunned down in Chicago during Zimmerman trial)

George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday?in the death of Martin, after his attorneys argued self-defense.

According to Gutierrez, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Martin?s shooting death ?undermines the rule of law, erodes community trust in law enforcement, and exemplify just how dangerous the combination of rampant fear and easily available guns can be,? he wrote. ?Even as crime has gone down across the nation, fear of crime, fear of violence, and fear of fellow Americans seems to be ever increasing.?

Gutierrez went on in his letter to address the distrust he says working-class communities have toward law enforcement, pointing out that it took two months for law enforcement to make an arrest in Martin?s death.

He also criticized Goodlatte and the Judiciary Committee for passing the SAFE Act through committee, which would allow states and localities to enforce federal immigration laws as a means to improve interior immigration enforcement.

?There is a widespread feeling in many poor and working-class communities that the police are not there to serve them. The Judiciary Committee recently passed legislation you co-authored to drive an even greater wedge between local police and the communities they serve by turning all police into immigration enforcement officers and criminalizing millions of immigrants and their families,? Gutierrez wrote.

The Illinois Democrat further pointed to guns and the gun industry as another issue the committee should take on but ?scarcely has anything to say about it.?

?I note with great sadness that Mr. Martin was just one of hundreds and hundreds of children we have lost to guns,? Gutierrez wrote. ?There is no reason in a modern society to accept the sale, marketing, and widespread proliferation of guns as a means for killing other human beings and our laws should reflect that fact.?

Gutierrez?s goal, he concluded is to examine ?the panoply of questions left unanswered as George Zimmerman goes free and the Trayvon Martin family mourns.?

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Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def heading to South Africa

Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def heading to South Africa

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He may not go by that name anymore, but he?s Mos Def one of the coolest artists around? and he?s coming to South Africa, according to SkyRoomLive.

Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, will be heading to Johannesburg on Saturday, August?10, 2013 at the SkyRoomLive skyscraper.

This intimate, one night only experience will be live streamed to the 4EVR Festival in Los Angeles, USA.

Tickets are available here.

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Microsoft Deserves Credit For Xbox One Policy Changes

After a disastrous Xbox One launch, Microsoft Microsoft has worked hard to recover from the PR nightmare.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) screwed up its Xbox One launch magnificently, and for several weeks the PR disaster played out in all its gory detail, culminating finally at E3, where Sony Sony (NYSE:SNE) rode the waves of consumer discontent to a resounding public relations victory.

The Xbox One has been lambasted for its new policies, including an online requirement and more restrictive sharing and used-games policies. These policies laid the groundwork for a shift toward a digital future and the slow death of both brick-and-mortar retail and second-hand sales.

Of course, it turned out that the policies were just a tiny bit ahead of their time, and forcing all the cons of a new digital system, without any of the supposed benefits, justifiably angered consumers, nudging them gently into the arms of the competition.

Now the next-generation Xbox video game console faces a steep uphill battle, thanks both to the bad PR it?s received and to the $499 price-tag?$100 more than Sony?s PlayStation 4.

To their credit, Microsoft listened to consumer backlash, and criticism from the media and analysts, and a few days later the company reversed those policies, making offline a viable option for the Xbox One, and removing the digital sharing in favor of traditional disc-sharing and a standard used games policy.

They even explained that the family sharing plan they had envisioned might come back if they could find a way to make it work, and admitted that they botched communicating their vision for the Xbox One to consumers.

?One of the things I think we learned was that we didn?t talk enough,? Xbox One chief product officer Marc Whitten told IGN, ?and we were incomplete in a lot of how using the system would work. Because we weren?t participating in the conversation in a deep enough way, it got us sort of off cycle about how we talk about our program. I think we?ve learned a lot of lessons. And I think it?s something that you?re going to see a lot more from us, frankly, is engaging more with the community. I think it?s the number one thing I?d want to do if I went back, was have the conversation more open and more complete.?

Of course, as with all messaging problems, the Xbox One fiasco goes deeper than a failure of communication. Microsoft failed to understand what many of its core customers expected, and went ahead with their plans full steam until it was (almost) too late.

But unlike certain other messaging screw-ups in the video game industry, Microsoft has quickly?in corporate terms?shifted course and gone about trying to repair the damage. This isn?t an easy task at this point, but there?s no question in my mind that they?ve made the right decision both in the policy reversal and in their messaging shift.

And so the PR battle continues. The damage has been done.

Paul Tassi reported earlier?on the crowd at EVO 2013 booing the Killer Instinct announcers when they mentioned the game was an Xbox One exclusive.

Paul points out that the ?outrage won?t last forever, and once both systems are out and people realize that the Xbox One isn?t evil incarnate, it should start to sell well if it lands a price drop and some great exclusive titles.? But a price change may or may not come, and ?great exclusive titles? need to be truly compelling to move a brand-new system..

?If the Xbox sells close to the same number of units as the PlayStation 4, then I don?t think you get a price cut,? video game industry analyst Michael Pachter said in his most recent?Pach-Attack video. ?If it lags behind the PS4 by a lot, then I think you get the price cut in a hurry.?

Pachter notes that Microsoft is banking on understanding its consumers better than consumers themselves.

?Microsoft?s convinced that the camera and the microphone array are worth the extra hundred bucks, and they think they know better than you,? he said. ?They?re going to wait and see if you think it?s worth it, too.?

It?s a gamble for Microsoft, but a better gamble than the original DRM policies Microsoft attempted.

I?m simply pleased to see both the value of market competition play out before our eyes and the value of consumer activism, social media, and a critical press at work. Competition alone may not have changed these policies, but competition fueled by widespread consumer outrage certainly did.

Microsoft has chosen to roll with the punches, adapting to feedback, and I can only give them credit for that. Especially these days when too many game companies appear oblivious or even apathetic to the feedback of their customers.

Both the PS4 and the Xbox One launch this holiday season.

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PS4: 20 things you didn't know about Sony's new console

• Posted July 12th, 2013 at 09:59 EDT by Mike Harradence

Think you know everything about PlayStation 4? Well, think again. As part of its PS4 Week, Sony has released a new video detailing ?20 things you didn?t know? about its forthcoming next-generation games console.

Give it a watch below.

Sony unveiled PS4 to the world during a special event in New York City back in February, where it debuted the DualShock 4. However, the console itself wasn?t shown off until E3 last month, with PS4 taking centre stage at Sony?s press conference.

Here, the electronics giant unveiled some of its launch plans for the new machine, confirming a holiday 2013 release window and a price point of $399/?349. Apart from being significantly cheaper than its predecessor, PS4 also undercuts its leading rival, the Xbox One, by $100/?80.

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From the Bookshelves: Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (Temple University Press, 3d ed., 2013)

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This Week in Time Capsules: Warships, Lawsuits and Century-Old Cigars

This week we have some strange and wonderful time capsule news, including a freshly welded capsule that will travel the world in the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, an 1877 stowaway that spent the last century in the smoking section, and one county in Kansas that (thanks to a time capsule!) discovered Bank of America owes them $60,000.

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Union: Displaced teachers from failed districts should have guaranteed jobs

By Victor Skinner
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LANSING, Mich. ? A Democratic state lawmaker and Michigan?s largest teachers union tried to force several school districts to hire experienced teachers from two districts that dissolved due to financial mismanagement.

Luckily their attempt to push the teachers on those districts, based on nothing but their seniority, was shot down by wary state lawmakers.

The Buena Vista and Inkster school districts were dissolved earlier this year due to persistent financial mismanagement, and school officials in neighboring districts are working to accommodate students affected by the closings.

State Rep. David Rutledge and the Michigan Education Association wanted to accommodate the displaced teachers, as well.

The Michigan House and Senate recently passed House Bill 4813 to establish procedures for dissolving financially failed school districts.? Rutledge attempted to attach amendments to protect teachers with the most seniority from layoffs, Michigan Capitol Confidential reports.

He wanted to require districts receiving students from Buena Vista and Inkster to offer new teaching positions to the most senior teachers from those schools.

?Rutledge said he wanted hiring to be based on seniority so districts wouldn?t hire the least expensive teacher and not factor in quality,? the news site reports.

?Why wouldn?t I hire them?? Rutledge questioned.

We can think of a lot of good reasons why the laid off teachers might be a bad fit for the receiving schools, but the cost of Rutledge?s proposal seems to be the most obvious issue.

Hiring teachers based on seniority, rather than effectiveness, does little but guarantee that the most expensive teachers get the job, wrote Aubrey Spalding, education policy director for the Mackinac Center, which publishes Michigan Capitol Confidential.

?Districts should be able to hire the best teachers first,? she said. ?Requiring districts to have to take in the teachers with the most seniority would force them to hire the most expensive teachers first, without being able to consider a teacher?s performance.?

Rutledge?s proposal is a perfect example of how lawmakers often side with the politically powerful teachers unions over their constituents, including students.

The MEA, of course, threw a massive pity party when more sensible lawmakers roundly rejected Rutledge?s proposed amendments.

?School employees in the dissolved districts would not have rights to jobs in the receiving district ? even though their district dissolved through no fault of their own,? the union said in a prepared statement.

We have to wonder: Do the former teachers in the two dissolved districts really deserve the ?no fault? label?

Parents in the Buena Vista school district have been using school choice laws to move their children out of the local district by the droves, an exodus driven by the district?s dismal academic performance.

This year, ?more students use schools of choice to avoid attending Buena Vista schools than are actually enrolled there,? Mlive.com reports.

It?s easy to see why:

?In October 2012, no students achieved proficiency in eight exams: fourth-grade math, fifth-grade science, sixth-grade social studies, eighth-grade math, eighth-grade science, eighth-grade reading and ninth-grade social studies.

?Buena Vista High School has a 47 percent four-year graduation rate and a 26 percent dropout rate, according to the Michigan Education Dashboard,? Mlive.com reports.

It sounds like the teachers in that district were not getting the job done. But the union still expects other districts to welcome them with open arms?

We concur with Amanda Fisher, assistant state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, who put the situation into context for Michigan Capitol Confidential.

?The students have to be the first priority, making sure that they have a school to attend this fall. I would hope that if there are teachers of excellence, that they would be given every consideration by the (receiving) school districts, but to have that sort of guarantee in statute is ludicrous,? she said.

?If a private company is mismanaged and goes out of business, are those employees guaranteed new jobs? Absolutely not. It?s a shame that the MEA seems to be more focused on clinging to the unsustainable salaries and benefits of the past, than on the future of Michigan?s children.?

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What Is Your Favorite Android Launcher?

The most hardcorest of Android users will root their phones and start from scratch with new ROMs. But, uh, that's more complicated than what the average user wants to go through just to squeeze slightly better performance out of their phone. Luckily, there is an easier way!

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