Seatbelts for pets have a 100 percent failure rate in crash tests

(NaturalNews) It may sound like nonsense to some of you, but there are those who travel with their pets and in doing so would like to keep them safe when they are on the road.

Some innovative companies have honed in on this consumer "need" and have been working on products designed to lower risks to pets when traveling, particularly in automobiles. One such innovation is called a dog harness.

Only, so far anyway, none of the dog harnesses widely used by pet owners can withstand crash testing; all of them have failed miserably, according to recent reports. From CBSMiami:

A first-of-its-kind crash test for dog harnesses widely used by pet owners showed that none offer adequate protection, with not a single harness passing the test. The non-profit Center for Pet Safety (CPS) said during its harness tests, crash-test dog dummies turned into projectiles and were even decapitated.

Not a good start for a product designed to protect your pet.

"We tested them to the child safety restraint standard and we experienced a 100 percent failure rate to protect either the consumer or the dog," CPS founder and CEO Lindsey Wolko told My33, the local CBS affiliate. "That is a very real concern for consumers."

Indeed.

CPS did not disclose which harnesses it tested over fears that even fewer people would secure their pets while riding in automobiles.

But then again, if the harnesses it tested were ineffective, what would be the point of trying to secure them?

Well, Wolko says that, though some harness makers claim to do their own testing, there's no government standard. That, she says, leads to an unregulated industry that can be dangerous for drivers (personally I was shocked that any "industry" in the U.S. remained unregulated, but that's just me).

Some veterinarians are coming down on the side of "a little protection is better than no protection," or, at least, the "appearance" of protection. One of them is Dr. Kim Haddad, who has treated pets that have sustained injuries in motor vehicle accidents.

"Broken legs, broken jaws, soft tissue injury, it can be pretty traumatic," Haddad told My33.

Still, while injuries can be far worse for pets whose owners allow them to roam inside vehicles freely, just using a harness isn't good enough either. And, in some cases, harnesses can prove to be just as lethal as getting thrown around a vehicle during an accident.

"Something is better than nothing, but again, it is only going to be as good as the manufacturer, the fit and the user application of the product," Haddad said.

Not surprisingly, there is an organization - in this case the American Automobile Association (AAA) - that has researched the issue of pets riding free in vehicles. AAA says 20 percent of dog owners have admitted allowing their pets ride unrestrained. No word on whether these same owners had heard of the failure of dog harnesses to protect their pets.

A few states currently require drivers to secure their pets in their vehicles, and others are considering new laws preventing motor vehicle operators from driving distracted (a pet in your lap would qualify). But CPS is concerned that, in light of its tests, such laws might give pet owners a false sense of security; they might assume, for example, that because a law requires harnesses that they, in turn, meet some sort of safety standard.

Now, in light of that possibility, CPS says it wants to see standardized testing that is similar to that conducted for child safety seats. The group also says it would like for legislators to educate themselves on pet harness safety standards before actually passing laws that would require restraints.

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How Obama Could Approve Keystone

Gazing into my columnist's crystal ball on a steamy summer day when many in the Obama administration have climate change on their minds, I see a decision coming on the Keystone XL pipeline on a cold December day when most people have holiday shopping on their minds.

Based on conversations with administration insiders, here's how I envision the final act of the long-running Keystone drama playing out:

Based on conversations with administration insiders, here's how I envision the final act of the long-running Keystone drama playing out:

Secretary of State John Kerry, who counts combatting climate change as one of his lifelong passions, will recommend to President Obama that he should not approve the pipeline, which would send 35 million gallons of oil every day over 1,700 miles from Alberta's carbon-heavy oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. Obama will decide to approve the project, in large part because he will have secured commitments from Canada to do more to reduce its carbon emissions.

Obama will publicly repudiate Kerry, akin to how Obama publicly repudiated Lisa Jackson, his first Environmental Protection Agency administrator, two years ago when she asked the White House to let her move forward on a stronger smog standard. On the Friday before Labor Day 2011, Obama announced that he was delaying the standard because of economic concerns.

At that point in time, Jackson endured as the champion for disenchanted environmentalists.

Sometime this winter?I predict in December?Kerry will play that same role when Obama decides to approve the pipeline.

The response from pipeline proponents, especially Republicans in Congress, will be jubilation. More importantly, approval of the project can only help, not hurt, Democrats up for reelection in 2014, including Sens. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, Mark Pryor in Arkansas, and Mark Begich in Alaska, who all support the pipeline and have more-conservative energy positions than Obama. But because the decision comes nearly a year before Election Day 2014, it will likely be old political news by the time campaigns kick into high gear.

The reaction from the environmental community, especially the grassroots opposition led by the Sierra Club and 350.org, will be loud and fevered. They will probably have lawsuits waiting in the pipeline (pun intended). But many environmentalists realize it's not the only climate game in town now that Obama has committed to clamping down on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, which account for nearly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.

"For us, the primary thing is to get the largest single sources, which is power plants, and control their carbon emissions," Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me last week at Georgetown University while waiting to hear Obama give what was his most substantive speech on climate change as president. "That's the center of the plan. Now the next thing is to get it done."

To the surprise of everyone outside the White House, Obama mentioned the pipeline in his speech. It was a politically savvy move for three reasons: 1) He called out the elephant in the room and thus avoided both criticism from groups like the Sierra Club and the subsequent media coverage of his omission; 2) He took ownership of the issue, showing everyone on every side of the fight he is personally involved; and 3) He shifted the debate over the pipeline from one of economics to one about the effects on climate change.

"Our national interest will only be served if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution," Obama said forcefully, prompting loud cheers from the audience of several hundred climate-minded people. "The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward."

Environmentalists cheered Obama's new "test" for the pipeline. They maintain that there isn't a way Obama could approve the project since its impact will surely "significantly exacerbate" climate change. People close to the White House read it differently.

"I think it was a clear signal to the Canadians to come to the table and put a good-faith program out there that could provide the kind of net reductions beyond anyone's doubt that would allow Obama to proceed," said a source close to the Obama administration who would speak on the condition of anonymity only.

The basis for Obama to couple his decision to approve the pipeline with additional significant climate commitments from our northern neighbor will not come from nowhere. When the EPA sent a letter in April to the State Department, the federal agency tasked with reviewing the pipeline, and criticized the department's environmental assessment, Cynthia Giles, EPA's assistant administrator for enforcement, also wrote this:

"EPA recommends that the final EIS [environmental impact statement] complement this discussion with an exploration of specific ways that the U.S. might work with Canada to promote further efforts to reduce GHG emissions associated with the production of oil sands crude, including a joint focus on carbon capture and storage projects and research, as well as ways to improve energy efficiency associated with extraction technologies," Giles writes in the seven-page letter.

While approving the Keystone XL pipeline, Obama will say he is leveraging his power over the project to drive an international effort to combat climate change, which is what the debate about the pipeline is all about.

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T.J. Grant says Anthony Pettis? attempt to take the lightweight title shot was ?disrespectful?

No cuts, no butts, no coconuts. It's something we were taught as we lined up for dismissal in grade school. It's a lesson we live with when in line at the grocery store or the ATM. It's an idea heavily enforced as we board planes by specific groups.

With that in mind, you can see why T.J. Grant was miffed when he heard Anthony Pettis trying to take his title shot with Benson Henderson at UFC 164. After an injury to Pettis forced him out of his featherweight title bout with Jose Aldo at UFC 163, Pettis said he wanted to fight later that month.

?I can be 100-percent ready to fight Benson Henderson in [at UFC 164] Milwaukee. With all due respect to TJ Grant, Milwaukee is my town and the fight with Ben is the fight everyone has wanted for years,? read a statement that Pettis released to Fuel TV. ?If it works out, great; if not, I will get my shot very soon. But I think we all know which fight the fans want to see and the entire city of Milwaukee!?

Pettis' pleas to fight at UFC 164 didn't matter as his injury required he sit out for six weeks. Grant was still unhappy that Pettis tried to take the shot.

?I wish it was handled a little differently. Him of all people, I think it was disrespectful, to do that against someone who has earned the right to fight is not right,? Grant said to ESPN. ?Unfortunately he got hurt but it was low class, I thought. I didn?t want to get into the whole talking thing. I got here legitimately and earned it. Ultimately, what he was saying was that he wanted my title-shot which was incredibly disrespectful. It was pretty dirty.?

On two different occasions, Pettis had and then lost title shots. First, the draw between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard put Pettis back in line, and then the injury. You can see why Grant was upset when Pettis tried to do to him what has happened to Pettis before.

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Microsoft pumps up Azure cloud platform at Build developer conference

Microsoft has announced the general availability of several services associated with its Windows Azure cloud computing platform, as well as a preview version of Visual Studio 2013.

Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business, walked attendees at the software giant's Build developer conference through several new developments in Azure, describing how the company has embraced an even faster cadence for releasing new server and cloud technology in recent years.

"There is not a device, a computer, or a sensor that's not connected and supported by the back-end," he said, promising a shift towards enterprise software talk after day one of Build 2013, when consumer platforms were the focus.

Nadella announced the general availability of Windows Azure Websites, a website and web application development platform using free server-side web frameworks like ASP.NET, which Microsoft has consolidated and improved as well. Windows Azure Websites has been in preview for more than a year and is the platform underneath more than 120,000 websites today, according to Microsoft.

The Azure team is also focused keenly on helping developers build more efficiently and dynamically for mobile, Nadella said in announcing the concurrent general availability of Windows Azure Mobile Services. In addition to more refined and improved tools, mobile developers will now have access to a free 20MB SQL database for developing mobile apps on the framework, courtesy of Microsoft.

Also new in Azure was the introduction of a preview version of Windows Azure BizTalk Services, new auto-scaling capability "baked into Windows Azure" which offers a basic set of rules for scaling datacentre compute capacity up and down as needed for cost savings, and the availability of preview versions of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2013 integrated development environment (IDE) and .NET 4.5.1.

Microsoft has been talking up Windows 8.1 at its Build developer conference in the last few days. Here's our closer look at what Windows Blue will offer desktop developers.?

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Deutsche Bank settles L.A. claims on foreclosure blight

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank said it has settled a lawsuit with the U.S. city of Los Angeles that accused the bank of allowing hundreds of foreclosed properties to deteriorate into slum conditions and destabilize communities.

"The settlement will be paid by the (loan) servicers responsible for the Los Angeles properties at issue and by the securitization trusts that hold the properties," the bank said in a statement late on Friday.

"Deutsche Bank is not contributing any funds toward the settlement," it said, without disclosing any financial details.

"Deutsche Bank did not admit any liability or wrongdoing as part of the settlement, and continues to dispute the claims asserted by the City," it added.

A statement from Los Angeles City said it has secured $10 million in civil penalties as part of settlement of the lawsuit it filed in May 2011.

During the housing boom and subsequent bust, Deutsche Bank subsidiaries acquired more than 2,000 properties in Los Angeles, according to the city's 2011 civil enforcement action.

The city accused Deutsche of becoming one of its largest "slumlords," allowing vacant properties to turn into nuisances, neglecting to maintain occupied properties, and illegally evicting low-income tenants to clear the way for a sale.

Los Angeles is one of many cities in the United States grappling with the problem of blighted properties after a wave of foreclosures that followed the housing bust.

It has passed a law requiring banks to fix the blighted homes they own, or pay a fine, but enforcing that has proven difficult.

In April this year a judge denied Deutsche Bank's bid to dismiss the lawsuit, allowing Los Angeles to proceed with its case.

(Reporting By Marilyn Gerlach; Editing by David Cowell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/deutsche-bank-settles-l-claims-foreclosure-blight-112019289.html

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I Don?t Feel Your Pain

George Zimmerman enters court in Sanford, Fla., on June 25, 2013, for his trial in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Was Martin killed because Zimmerman didn't feel empathy for him?

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George Zimmerman followed Trayvon Martin because he perceived him as dangerous. The defense argues he was, the prosecution argues he wasn?t. No one, of course, argues that Zimmerman approached Martin with kindness, or stopped to consider the boy as anything other than suspicious, an outsider. Ultimately Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. A lack of empathy can produce national tragedies. But it also drives quieter, more routine forms of discrimination.

Let?s do a quick experiment. You watch a needle pierce someone?s skin. Do you feel this person?s pain? Does it matter if the person?s skin is white or black?

For many people, race does matter, even if they don?t know it. They feel more empathy when they see white skin pierced than black. This is known as the racial empathy gap. To study it, researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca showed participants (all of whom were white) video clips of a needle or an eraser touching someone?s skin. They measured participants? reactions through skin conductance tests?basically whether their hands got sweaty?which reflect activity in the pain matrix of the brain. If we see someone in pain, it triggers the same network in our brains that?s activated when we are hurt. But people do not respond to the pain of others equally. In this experiment, when viewers saw white people receiving a painful stimulus, they responded more dramatically than they did for black people.

The racial empathy gap helps explain disparities in everything from pain management to the criminal justice system. But the problem isn?t just that people disregard the pain of black people. It?s somehow even worse. The problem is that the pain isn?t even felt.

A recent study shows that people, including medical personnel, assume black people feel less pain than white people. The researchers asked participants to rate how much pain they would feel in 18 common scenarios. The participants rated experiences such as stubbing a toe or getting shampoo in their eyes on a four-point scale (where 1 is ?not painful? and 4 is ?extremely painful?). Then they rated how another person (a randomly assigned photo of an experimental ?target?) would feel in the same situations. Sometimes the target was white, sometimes black. In each experiment, the researchers found that white participants, black participants, and nurses and nursing students assumed that blacks felt less pain than whites.

But the researchers did not believe racial prejudice was entirely to blame. After all, black participants also displayed an empathy gap toward other blacks. What could possibly be the explanation for why black people?s pain is underestimated?

It turns out assumptions about what it means to be black?in terms of social status and hardship?may be behind the bias. In additional experiments, the researchers studied participants? assumptions about adversity and privilege. The more privilege assumed of the target, the more pain the participants perceived. Conversely, the more hardship assumed, the less pain perceived. The researchers concluded that ?the present work finds that people assume that, relative to whites, blacks feel less pain because they have faced more hardship.?

This gives us some insight into how racial disparities are created?and how they are sustained. First, there is an underlying belief that there is a single black experience of the world. Because this belief assumes blacks are already hardened by racism, people believe black people are less sensitive to pain. Because they are believed to be less sensitive to pain, black people are forced to endure more pain.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/racial_empathy_gap_people_don_t_perceive_pain_in_other_races.html

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Mouse cloned from drop of blood

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In a pioneering experiment, scientists in Japan clone a mouse from white blood cells collected from the tail of a living donor.

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Huff Your Medicine With the Inhaler-Shaped PuFFiT Vaporizer

Yeah, no, fumbling with a small wooden box and exposed electrical connections is real subtle. If you really want want to get high on the down low, you need to conceal your vaporizer as something that doesn't look like a vaporizer but also doesn't look like an IED. Something like an asthma inhaler, for instance.

The PuFFiT by Discreet Vape is just that?a vaporizer in an inhaler's footprint. Finely ground herb is loaded into the upper chamber, under the removable aluminum cap, where it's heated to between 250 and 430 degrees F in a gold-plated convection chamber using a seven-step temperature wheel. The device reportedly heats in 20-30 seconds and indicates its state of readiness through an LED (red means stop, green means toke). The system also reportedly lasts about 30 sessions per 3-hour USB charge.

Interestingly, the PuFFiT incorporates an internal stirring tool which allows you to mix the herb mid-session without opening the heating chamber and losing precious hot air. The PuFFiT is available for $140 at VapeWorld and Discreet Vapes.

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House Spent About $2M of Taxpayers' Money on Coffee, Pastries

The Sunlight Foundation found that the House of Representatives spent nearly $2 million on coffee and food in 2012??

Most Americans start their day with at least one cup of coffee, maybe paying $2 to $5, but many might be surprised to know they also treat their members of Congress to some joe and a bagel or two, as well.

The Sunlight Foundation, a watchdog group advocating for government transparency, crunched the numbers for ABC News and found that the House of Representatives spent nearly $2 million on coffee and food in 2012 for events in and around the Capitol.

"Congress is spending an awful lot of money to entertain their members," said Bill Allison, the foundation's editorial director. "[It's] coffee and doughnuts and then some very nice catering places in Washington, D.C., as well."

The money is part of lawmakers' representational allowances, which can be used to pay for everything from sending mail to constituents to entertaining visitors. The foundation did not know who the visitors were.

Although lawmakers were paring back, Allison said, they hadn't changed certain rules when it came to food and drink.

"Catering companies can get as much business from the House as they have in the past," he said.

The Sunlight Foundation found that expensive catering was truly a bipartisan effort, with leaders hosting their own members. Republican House Speaker John Boehner spent $64,000. Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spent $61,000. and No. 2 Democrat Steny Hoyer spent $52,000.

The biggest spender in the House was No. 3 Republican Kevin McCarthy of California. On his Facebook page, pictures of meetings include fruit, bagels, croissants and coffee.

McCarthy's 2012 grand total - $95,000, with an additional $4,000 being spent on bottled water - was enough to pay the salaries of two mid-level staffers on Capitol Hill.

"That's a couple of jobs for the average American," Allison said.

McCarthy declined an ABC News request for an interview.

When ABC News approached him as he walked down a hallway in the Capitol to ask about the nearly $100,000 spent to cater meetings and dinner, he responded: "You noticed. We cut it out."

Actually, what ABC News noticed were the leftovers from a meeting McCarthy had just attended. A staffer even offered a bagel.

While McCarthy said he was making cuts, his office did not provide any numbers.

Allison said Americans should ask their leaders to buy their own coffee and pastries.

"We are in an age of austerity and sequestration and budget cuts," Allison said. "It seems like if you are looking for places to cut, the entertainment budget would be the first one you would go to."

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Google Search Android app updated with location-based offers, voice-activated music playback

Jelly Bean users running Android 4.1 or later can now snag a few more features with Google's Search app. The update (version number varies depending on your device) delivers three notable additions. The first tool pushes saved offers as you approach a redemption location, reminding you of forgotten deals when they're most relevant. Next up is a new voice action, which lets you control music playback -- both on your device and in the Play Store -- by speaking to your handset. (Voice action tips also make a debut with this refresh.) A third addition enables instant access to information about television programming you're currently consuming, assuming your HDTV is connected to the web and on the same WiFi network as your device. Get your download on at the source link below.

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SK Telecom launches the world's first LTE-Advanced network, and the Galaxy S4 LTE-A

Just days after an LTE-Advanced variant of Samsung's Galaxy S 4 leaked, Korean carrier SK Telecom has officially announced it's launching the world's first publicly available LTE-Advanced wireless network. The Galaxy S4 LTE-A is also official (in red or blue) as the first device able to take advantage of the new technology for even faster data transmission speeds. According to the press release, SK Telecom plans to have as many as seven LTE-A devices available by the end of the year, all capable of up to 150Mbps. While SK Telecom is using Carrier Aggregation and Coordinated Multi Point technology to improve speeds right now, it will add Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination in 2014 to go even faster. After that, it suggest carrier aggregation will improve to support higher speeds and faster uploads in subsequent years.

To take advantage of the higher speeds, SK Telecom's Btv IPTV service will begin offering 1080p video streaming in early July. That will be accompanied by enhanced multiview baseball broadcasts, more free videos, an HD video shopping service with six channels on one screen in August and the addition of FLAC audio files via its music package. Right now, the company has Seoul covered in LTE-A, and plans to eventually offer it in 84 cities, all at the same price as existing LTE service. Check after the break for the press release with all the details, plus video of a speed test.

Update: We've just come across another juicy tidbit that makes the Galaxy S4 LTE-A all the more worthwhile -- it'll ship with a Snapdragon 800 SoC that contains a 2.3GHz quad-core CPU, plus 32GB of built-in storage and a 2,600mAh battery. It goes without saying that this phone will be speedy on all angles.

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The Applicability of the Massachusetts Wage Act Swells in June ...

In late June 2013, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") and the Massachusetts Appeals Court (the "Appeals Court") issued two decisions broadly expanding the breadth of the Massachusetts Wage Act (the "Wage Act") by (i) increasing the types of entities and individuals subject to penalties for violations of the Act and (ii) extending the protections of the Act to out-of-state employees of Massachusetts-based employers, even where those employees did not primarily perform their duties within the commonwealth's borders.

Limited Liability Company Managers May Face Individual Liability for Violations of the Massachusetts Wage Act

Since at least the 1930s, Massachusetts law has been well-defined. Under the Massachusetts Wage Act, a corporation's "president and treasurer . . . and any officers or agents having the management of such corporation" ("Managing Agents") have personal liability for wages that a corporation fails to pay to its employees. Beginning in 2008, the corporation's failure to pay wages when they were due exposed the corporation, and its Managing Agents, to the risk of not only having to pay the unpaid wages, but also, as a penalty, treble damages to the unpaid employees.

This risk of personal liability and enhanced damages has long been an important consideration for sophisticated corporations and their professional advisors. Particularly when a corporation has encountered financial difficulties, the statutory obligations to employees under the Massachusetts Wage Act, the potential for personal liability of the Managing Agents and the risk of treble damages have been key factors to consider?not just for the troubled corporation, but for its lenders and creditors, as well.

But what about a limited liability company ("LLC")? Unlike corporations, LLCs do not have shareholders. Instead, owners of an LLC are members, not shareholders, and hold membership interests, and not stock, in the LLC. Unlike a corporation, an LLC is not required to have a president or treasurer. Instead, an LLC is managed by a "managing member" or "manager."

The Massachusetts Wage Act is silent on whether managing members of an LLC have personal liability akin to the liability of a corporation's Managing Agents. Does the form of the enterprise matter, such that a corporation's Managing Agents have personal liability for unpaid wages, but an LLC's managing member has no such personal liability? Is an LLC sufficiently similar to a corporation that the courts should impose liability on an LLC's managing member? The existing case law on this vital subject has been vague at best and conflicting at worst.

On June 13, 2013, in Cook v. Patient Edu, LLC, the SJC put these questions to rest. The SJC took an expansive reading of (and arguably rewrote) the Massachusetts Wage Act, and held that a manager of an LLC who "controls, directs, and participates to a substantial degree in formulating and determining the financial policy of a business entity" may have personal liability under the Wage Act. This ruling clarifies a previously ambiguous area of Massachusetts law, and likely will inform negotiations among a troubled LLC, its managing members and their creditors. Creditors of financially troubled LLCs will likely come under greater pressure to make concessions necessary to ensure employees are paid timely and in full to avoid the adverse consequences of personal liability of potential treble damages arising from failure or delay in paying employees in full.

The facts of this case are all too familiar to businesses encountering cash-flow problems, such as startups and other emerging businesses. Mr. Cook filed an action for unpaid wages under the Massachusetts Wage Act and sought treble damages against (i) Cook's employer, Patient Edu, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company; and (ii) two managers of the LLC. The LLC managers successfully moved to dismiss the claim in the Superior Court, arguing that managers of an LLC were not individually liable under the Wage Act because the individual liability provision of the statute applied only to those employed by corporations, and not by LLCs. "The president and treasurer of a corporation and any officers or agents having the management of such corporation shall be deemed to be the employers of the employees of the corporation within the meaning of this section." G.L. c. 149, ? 148 (emphasis supplied). (It is important to note that when the provision of G.L. c. 149, ? 148, making corporate officers individually liable for payment of wages, was added in 1932, the LLC did not exist as a form of business association.)

The SJC indicated that it was interpreting the language of the Wage Act "according to the intent of the Legislature," which was to protect wage earners. It opined that "[i]f a liberal, even if not literally exact, interpretation of certain words is necessary to accomplish the purpose indicated by the words as a whole, such interpretation is to be adopted rather than one which will defeat that purpose." To that end, the SJC worked around the literal language of the individual liability section of the Act applying to "corporations," and analyzed the beginning clause of the Act, which states that "[e]very person having employees in his service shall pay" (emphasis supplied) those employees their wages either weekly or biweekly (or on a less frequent basis in certain circumstances). The SJC held that because a manager or other officer or agent of an LLC, limited liability partnership or other limited liability business entity may be a "person having employees in his service," that person may be civilly or criminally liable for Wage Act violations if he "controls, directs, and participates to a substantial degree in formulating and determining policy" of the business entity.

There are at least three key takeaways from the Cook opinion for employers and legal counsel:

1. Those advocating a narrow interpretation of Cook are likely to focus on the actual holding, which narrowly imposes liability only on LLC managers who "control[ ], direct[ ], and participate[ ] to a substantial degree in formulating and determining the financial policy" of the LLC. It may be challenging in larger entities to identify precisely which manager "controls, directs and participates to a substantial degree" both "in formulating and determining" the LLC's financial policies. The restrictive limiters (only managers who control, direct and participate to a substantial degree) may mean, as a practical matter, that very few individuals have meaningful risk of personal liability where an LLC fails to pay employees timely and in full.
2. Those advocating a broad interpretation of Cook are likely to focus on two aspects of the opinion. First, notwithstanding that the Massachusetts Wage Act nowhere mentions LLCs, the SJC nevertheless ignored the plain meaning of the statute and instead relied on the perceived legislative intent (more on this below) to extend the statute's imposition to certain managers of an LLC. Second, the SJC's broad interpretation of the Massachusetts Wage Act appears to suggest that it applies to hold individuals liable where individuals involved in other business entities [such as limited liability partnerships ("LLP"), joint ventures, business trusts and loan participations and syndications, to name a few] also have personal liability for unpaid wages. The SJC's careful wording?that one who "controls, directs, and participates to a substantial degree in formulating and determining the financial policy of a business entity?by its terms is not limited solely to managers of LLCs. Further case law will develop the breadth and limitations of the SJC's words.
3. In rejecting a conclusion based upon the plain meaning of the Massachusetts Wage Act, the SJC pointedly rejected the method of statutory interpretation favored by the current members of the United States Supreme Court. That Court in recent times has emphasized, repeatedly and emphatically, that statutory interpretation that rejects the actual language of a statute in favor of the presumed legislative intent is erroneous. It will be fascinating to observe how the starkly differing approaches of the SJC (which generally has the final say in the interpretation of Massachusetts statutes) and the United States Supreme Court will play out when a Massachusetts statute becomes the subject of a Supreme Court case.

Therefore, like their corporation counterparts, managers and members of limited liability business entities should ensure that all employee wages (to include commissions that are due and payable and vacation pay) are paid according to the time lines set forth in the Wage Act. Failure to do so may result in individual liability for mandatory triple damages under the Wage Act. This cautionary reminder applies equally to managers of limited liability business entities contemplating insolvency issues, including bankruptcy. LLC managers and officers of other limited liability business entities who control, direct and participate to a substantial degree in formulating and determining policy of the business entity will remain liable for Wage Act violations even after the employer files for bankruptcy.

Another Recent Appeals Court Ruling

Although the Wage Act is silent on the issue of whether it applies to out-of-state employees, the Appeals Court holds that the Act applies to out-of-state employees of Massachusetts employers where Massachusetts had the most significant relationship to the employee's employment.

On June 19, 2013, the Appeals Court added another layer of complication for Massachusetts employers striving to be compliant with the Wage Act. In Dow v. Casale, the Appeals Court, using a multifactorial choice-of-law analysis, held that a mobile salesperson who resided in Florida was entitled to the protections of the Wage Act.

The Appeals Court's choice-of-law analysis was quite fact-specific and relied on the following factors:

• The employer was a corporation with a sole place of business in Massachusetts.
• The chief executive officer, also named individually in the claim, was a Massachusetts resident.
• The customers which the sales employee acquired entered into business with the employer/corporation in Massachusetts.
• The employee's business cards identified the employer/corporation's Massachusetts contact information as that of the employee.
• Paychecks were issued from Massachusetts.
• The employee came to Massachusetts on business multiple times each year.
• The employer communicated with the employee from Massachusetts via email and telephone.
• The employment agreement between the employee and employer provided that it was governed by and interpreted under the law of Massachusetts.

Accordingly, Massachusetts employers should be aware that the protections of the Wage Act may, depending on the circumstances, protect employees working outside of Massachusetts. As such, employment practices related to such employees should be reviewed prudently to ensure compliance with Massachusetts law.

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Foursquare for Android and iOS now lets you check friends in, with permission

If you regularly hang out with Foursquare aficionados, you've likely seen conversations grind to a halt as everyone dutifully checks in at the same restaurant. A fresh update to Foursquare's Android and iOS apps could get those friends talking again by letting one of them check in the rest. Whoever arrives first just has to tag their contacts, who'll be counted as if they'd gone through the check-in themselves. Thankfully, Foursquare tries to eliminate the privacy disasters that could stem from its new feature -- the app won't check anyone in without permission, and users can delete unwanted check-ins on the spot. Those comfortable with Foursquare's safeguards can grab the new app through the source links.

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Giving children non-verbal clues about words boosts vocabularies

June 24, 2013 ? The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows.

By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research. It also explores the difficult-to-measure quality of non-verbal clues to word meaning during interactions between parents and children learning to speak. For example, saying, "There goes the zebra" while visiting the zoo helps a child learn the word "zebra" faster than saying, "Let's go to see the zebra."

Differences in the quality of parents' non-verbal clues to toddlers (what children can see when their parents are talking) explain about a quarter (22 percent) of the differences in those same children's vocabularies when they enter kindergarten, researchers found. The results are reported in the paper, "Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary three years later," published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Children's vocabularies vary greatly in size by the time they enter school," said lead author Erica Cartmill, a postdoctoral scholar at UChicago. "Because preschool vocabulary is a major predictor of subsequent school success, this variability must be taken seriously and its sources understood."

Scholars have found that the number of words youngsters hear greatly influences their vocabularies. Parents with higher socioeconomic status -- those with higher income and more education -- typically talk more to their children and accordingly boost their vocabularies, research has shown.

That advantage for higher-income families doesn't show up in the quality research, however.

"What was surprising in this study was that social economic status did not have an impact on quality. Parents of lower social economic status were just as likely to provide high-quality experiences for their children as were parents of higher status," said co-author Susan Goldin-Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology at UChicago.

Although scholars have amassed impressive evidence that the number of words children hear -- the quantity of their linguistic input -- has an impact on vocabulary development, measuring the quality of the verbal environment -- including non-verbal clues to word meaning -- has proved much more difficult.

To measure quality, the research team reviewed videotapes of everyday interactions between 50 primary caregivers, almost all mothers, and their children (14 to 18 months old). The mothers and children, from a range of social and economic backgrounds, were taped for 90-minute periods as they went about their days, playing and engaging in other activities.

The team then showed 40-second vignettes from these videotapes to 218 adults with the sound track muted. Based on the interaction between the child and parent, the adults were asked to guess what word the parent in each vignette used when a beep was sounded on the tape.

A beep might occur, for instance, in a parent's silenced speech for the word "book" as a child approaches a bookshelf or brings a book to the mother to start storytime. In this scenario, the word was easy to guess because the mother labeled objects as the child saw and experienced them. In other tapes, viewers were unable to guess the word that was beeped during the conversation, as there were few immediate clues to the meaning of the parent's words. Vignettes containing words that were easy to guess provided high-quality clues to word meaning.

Although there were no differences in the quality of the interactions based on parents' backgrounds, the team did find significant individual differences among the parents studied. Some parents provided non-verbal clues about words only 5 percent of the time, while others provided clues 38 percent of the time, the study found.

The study also found that the number of words parents used was not related to the quality of the verbal exchanges. "Early quantity and quality accounted for different aspects of the variance found in the later vocabulary outcome measure," the authors wrote. In other words, how much parents talk to their children (quantity), and how parents use words in relation to the non-verbal environment (quality) provided different kinds of input into early language development.

"However, parents who talk more are, by definition, offering their children more words, and the more words a child hears, the more likely it will be for that child to hear a particular word in a high-quality learning situation," they added. This suggests that higher-income families' vocabulary advantage comes from a greater quantity of input, which leads to a greater number of high-quality word-learning opportunities. DMaking effective use of non-verbal cues may be a good way for parents to get their children started on the road to language.

Joining Cartmill and Goldin-Meadow as authors were University of Pennsylvania scholars Lila Gleitman, professor emerita of psychology; John Trueswell, professor of psychology; Benjamin Armstrong, a research assistant; and Tamara Medina, assistant professor of psychology at Drexel University.

The work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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What the New 'Star Wars' Movies Need: Zuckuss

By Ryan Rigley Now that production on "Star Wars VII' is starting to heat up, the flood gates have been opened for rumors a plenty regarding the film. Last Wednesday, Bleeding Cool intercepted a casting breakdown for the movie revealing seven brand new characters; late-teen female, young twenty-something male, late twenty-something male, seventy-something male, second [...]

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LeapFrog shows off $150 LeapPad Ultra tablet, arriving July 17th (hands-on)

LeapFrog's latest tablet just couldn't wait to show off for the camera, making its on-screen debut over at the FCC's site a few weeks back. The kid-friendly tech company was finally ready to show the thing off for real this week, almost exactly a year after letting us take a look at the previous-generation device. The slate, naturally, maintains the kid-friendly software and rugged design that have become customary across LeapFrog's hardware offerings, while adding enough new features to let the company confidently refer to the LeapPad Ultra as "the ultimate kids learning tablet." Though they might be just a tad biased when it comes to such overarching statements.

The Ultra's got a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 touchscreen display that works with an stylus to help kids learn to write with something other than their fingers (making it not too unlike the LeapReader in that respect). There are front- and rear-facing cameras for its built-in imaging programs and 8GB of storage for downloading some of the 800-plus LeapFrog-approved apps downloadable from the company's App Center (which wasn't ready to demo when we looked at the hardware). The choices include proprietary apps and selections from partners like Pixar and Sesame Street. The tablet's got all kinds of parental protection, including secure WiFi and a four-digit code for updating. And while there's an included chat app (Pet Chat), communication is limited to other LeapPads, using a limited number of canned responses.

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Five years of stereo imaging for NASA's TWINS

June 24, 2013 ? Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and processes unlike what is normally experienced in Earth-bound physics. Nestled inside this constantly changing magnetic bubble lies a donut of charged particles generally aligned with Earth's equator. Known as the ring current, its waxing and waning is a crucial part of the space weather surrounding our planet, able to induce magnetic fluctuations on the ground as well as to transmit disruptive surface charges onto spacecraft.

On June 15, 2008, a new set of instruments began stereoscopic imaging of this mysterious region. Called Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers or TWINS, these satellites orbit in widely separated planes to provide the first and only stereo view of the ring current. TWINS maps the energetic neutral atoms that shoot away from the ring current when created by ion collisions.

In five years of operation, the TWINS maps have provided three-dimensional images and global characterization of this region. The observatories track how the magnetosphere responds to space weather storms, characterize global information such as temperature and shape of various structures within the magnetosphere, and improve models of the magnetosphere that can be used to simulate a vast array of events.

"With two satellites, with two sets of simultaneous images we can see things that are entirely new," said Mei-Ching Fok, the project scientist for TWINS at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "This is the first ever stereoscopic energetic neutral atom mission, and it's changed the way we understand the ring current."

Each spacecraft is in a highly elliptical orbit called a Molniya orbit, during which the spacecraft spend most of their time around 20,000 miles above Earth, where they get a great view of the magnetosphere. Initially launched for a two-year mission, TWINS was formally extended in 2010 for three more years, with another multi-year extension pending. Over that time, TWINS has worked hand in hand with other NASA missions that provide information about Earth's magnetosphere.

"We've done some fantastic new research in the last five years," said David McComas, the principal investigator for TWINS at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "As a mission of opportunity, it is a very inexpensive mission and it continues to return incredible science."

TWINS science is based on two instruments that can track neutral atoms. The first is a neutral atom imager that records the atoms that naturally stream away when a neutral atom collides with an ion. This allows the instrument to map the original ions from far away -- as if it could see atoms the way we see light -- instead of only collecting data from the areas of space it passes through.

"Over the course of the last 20 years a completely new technique evolved so we can observe charged particles, such as those in the ring current, remotely," said McComas. "The charged particles sometimes collide with a slow-moving neutral particle, in this case from a population of neutrals from Earth's highly extended atmosphere, the geocorona."

When this happens, an electron hops from the slow neutral atom to the fast ion, so now the former becomes charged, and the latter neutral. That new neutral speeds off in a straight direction, unfazed by the magnetic field lines around Earth that guide and control the motion of charged particles. TWINS collects such fast neutral particles and from that data scientists can work backward to map out the location and movement of the original ions.

The other instrument on TWINS is a Lyman alpha detector, which can measure the density of hydrogen from afar, and in this case observes the hydrogen cloud around Earth, the geocorona.

Most importantly, these instruments exist on both of the TWINS spacecraft. Much of the successful research in the last five years relies on the ability to watch these neutrals from two viewpoints, allowing scientists to analyze not only speed and number of particles, but also to determine the angles at which the particles left their original collisions. The stereo vision contributed to the detailed perspectives on how the magnetosphere reacts to space weather storms: both those due to the impact of a coronal mass ejection that traveled from the sun toward Earth and due to an incoming twist in the solar wind known as a co-rotating interaction region. TWINS has also revealed that the pitch angle at which the ions travel around Earth is different on each side of the planet. Such information helps scientists determine whether the ions are more likely to escape from the ring current out into space or to ultimately funnel down toward Earth.

"TWINS is a stereo mission, providing the first observations of the neutral atoms from two vantage points, but two spacecraft give us another advantage," said Natalia Buzulukova, a magnetospheric scientist at Goddard who works with TWINS data. "Two spacecraft provide continuous coverage of the ring current, as one set of instruments always has a view."

Because the spacecraft orbits are not in sync they provide stereoscopic imaging for a few hours each day, but there is always at least one spacecraft keeping tabs on how events are unfolding. Prior to TWINS, a spacecraft might see a tantalizing process taking place in the ring current for only a short while before its orbit took it out of view. The event might well have finished before the spacecraft came back around for its second look.

Such continuity has proved useful to determine what governs whether particles in the ring current will precipitate downward toward Earth as well as to provide a global temperature map of the magnetic tail trailing behind Earth, the magnetotail. Such a map had only ever previously been inferred from models and statistical analysis, never from a comprehensive data set of what was actually observed.

The Lyman-alpha instrument has been used in two ways. For one thing, it quantifies the geocorona in order to better understand how it affects the collisions in the ring current. It also has taught us more about the geocorona itself. Previously, researchers believed it to be a fairly simple sphere around Earth. The two TWINS instruments have shown how asymmetric it is, changing with the solar cycle, seasons, and even the hours of the day.

A final important feature of this fire hose of TWINS data is how much it helps improve computer simulations of the ring current and the rest of the magnetosphere. With accurate computer models, scientists can better predict how the magnetosphere will react to any given space weather event.

"We get two really unique things with two spacecraft: stereo imaging and continuous coverage. Together the observations we get are fantastic," said McComas. "It's an incredibly powerful combination of tools."

TWINS is an Explorer Mission of Opportunity. Southwest Research Institute leads TWINS with teams of national and international partners. Goddard manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.

For more information about TWINS science and mission, visit: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/twins/

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Israeli aircraft strike targets in Gaza Strip

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israeli aircraft pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday after rockets were fired at Israel from the territory, the military said, unsettling a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

The military said its aircraft struck two weapons storage facilities and a rocket launch site. No injuries were reported.

Rocket fire from Gaza has declined since Israel carried out an eight-day military campaign last November in response to frequent attacks. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire has largely held, but sporadic fire still persists.

No militant group claimed responsibility for the rocket launch, but Israel said it holds Hamas, which rules the coastal territory, accountable.

"Last night's rocket attack is an intolerable act of aggression against Israel and its civilians. Hamas is held accountable for all acts of terrorism deriving from the Gaza Strip," said military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a total of six rockets were fired at Israel overnight, causing no damage or injuries. The military said two rockets were intercepted by the "Iron Dome" missile defense system. The other four landed in open areas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the rocket fire, saying "my policy is to harm whoever tries to harm us ... That is how we will work and will continue to act against threats that are close and threats that are far."

In Gaza, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said he would not be intimidated by Israel's strikes. "Any Israeli aggression does not scare the Palestinian people," he said.

Israel last struck in Gaza in April, when its aircraft hit and killed a top militant in a shadowy al-Qaida-influenced group who had been involved in a rocket attack. The rocket was launched from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, where Gaza militants are believed to operate. A rocket last landed in Israel in May.

Meanwhile, Israeli police said that vandals slashed the tires of 21 cars in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem. The vandals also scribbled slogans on nearby walls.

It was the latest in a wave of crimes linked to Jewish extremists that has targeted mosques, churches, monasteries, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases to protest what they perceive as the Israeli government's pro-Palestinian policies in the West Bank. Vandals call the attacks the "price tag" for the policies they oppose. Last week vandals struck an Arab village outside of Jerusalem that has been a model of coexistence in Israel.

Rosenfeld said police were investigating. He said no arrests have been made in the recent string of similar crimes.

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Associated Press writer Ibrahim Barzak contributed reporting from Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

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Ashton Graham allegedly used an inhaler to steal two cases of beer before slamming his head through a police cruiser windshield.

Juan Aguirre

Even if Juan Aguirre got away, he would have ended up empty handed. Police said the 21-year-old Kansas stole six empty DVD boxes from a local adult entertainment shop.

Alicia Ducharme

Police arrested Alicia Ducharme after she allegedly poured cucumber salad over an elderly man's head.

Shania Sutherland

Sutherland was arrested when her drug deal got interrupted by her three-year-old who fired a 12-gauge shotgun through the roof of a car in Marietta, Ga. on Sept. 6.

Terry Kimball

Police arrested Kimball for misuse of 911 after the 50-year-old Florida man called the cops in hopes of forcing a Taco Bell to serve him a midnight snack.

Daphne Melin

Daphne Melin A 32-year-old Long Island woman was busted after egging on two 12-year-old girls to fight outside an elementary school and then beating up a child who was watching nearby. Daphne Melin, of Shirley, encouraged the juvenile dust-up outside William Floyd Elementary School on Sunday afternoon, Suffolk County cops said.

Francisco Rojas

Police were called to Francisco Rojas' home by his wife who complained that her husband was drunkenly trying to pull out his own tooth. In the end, Port St. Lucie cops arrested Rojas for breaching the peace because he repeatedly cursed at them despite warnings to calm down.

Kandice J. Child

Kandice J. Child is seen in this booking photo from the Oxford County Jail. Child and her 15-year-old son were involved in an altercation when her son bit his high-school principal, drawing blood.

'Vampire' Josephine Smith

Josephine Smith is seen in this booking photo from the Pinellas County Jail. Smith was arrested after allegedly attacking and biting a piece of skin off a homeless man in St. Petersburg after proclaiming "I am a vampire, I am going to eat you".

Julio Socarras Mompeller

Julio Socarras Mompeller allegedly exposed his genitals through a sunroof in the Florida Keys.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/police-plan-to-boost-patr_n_3483057.html

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