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The Black Keys, Foo Fighters and Neil Young with Crazy Horse will headline one of this year's hottest concerts, but don't bother trying to buy tickets. Fans will have to earn entry to Global Festival 2012 on Sept. 29 in New York

This morning, plans were announced for a one-day concert, The Global Festival, which will feature Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the Foo Fighters, September 29 at the Great Lawn at New York City's Central Park.

Neil Young,Foo Fighters, the Black Keys, Band of Horses and K'naan will share the stage at the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park on September 29th.

By Associated Press, AP. NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? The Black Keys, Foo Fighters and Neil Young with Crazy Horse will headline one of this year's hottest concerts, but don't bother trying to buy tickets. Fans will have to earn entry to Global Festival 2012 on

Foo Fighters frontman sees potential in a new singer-songwriter. When Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl isn't making his own music, he apparently likes to help up-and-coming musicians who he believes have potential. One such artist is budding singer and

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Vogue breaks own record with 916-page September issue

The US edition of fashion magazine Vogue said Thursday its upcoming September issue will be its biggest ever, surpassing the previous record-setter made famous in a documentary film.

With pop diva Lady Gaga on the cover, the 916-page door stopper, scheduled to hit newsstands in the United States on August 21, will mark the influential Conde Nast title's 120th anniversary.

"It is our biggest issue ever," a Vogue spokeswoman told AFP, although the fact is not trumpeted on a cover that promises "916 pages of spectacular fall fashion for all."

The September 2007 issue, with "840 pages of fearless fashion ... Our Biggest Issue Ever," was the focal point of director R.J. Cutler's 2009 fly-on-the-wall film documentary "The September Issue."

It was the biggest magazine ever published, weighing nearly five pounds (2.27 kilograms), and the last Vogue to come out before the collapse of Lehman Brothers prompted the worst US economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Packed with hundreds of pages of advertising, Vogue's September issue is consistently its biggest and most lucrative, coming out in time for the spring-summer pret-a-porter shows in New York, Milan and Paris.

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'Extreme Mechanics' Experts Crumple Materials in Remarkable Ways

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Engineers no longer shun but embrace mechanical instability to create everything from self-assembling shelters to nano-scale drug delivery capsules


Buckliball 'Buckliballs' collapse and re-expand owing to careful placement of mechanical instabilities. Image: JONGMIN SHIM, KATIA BERTOLDI AND PEDRO REIS

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By Kim Krieger of Nature magazine

Katia Bertoldi is talking fast. She has only 12 minutes to present her work in the burgeoning field of 'extreme mechanics'. But first, the Harvard University engineer smiles at the physicists gathered in Boston at the March 2012 meeting of the American Physical Society. She has to show them what she found in a toy shop.

Projected onto the screen, the Hoberman Twist-O looks like a hollow football made of garishly colored plastic links. Twist it just so, however, and hinges between the links allow it to collapse into a ball a fraction of its original size. Twist it the other way, and it springs back open. Bertoldi explains that the Twist-O inspired her group to create a spherical device that collapses and re-expands, not with hinges but through mechanical instabilities: carefully designed weak spots that behave in a predictable way. Applications might include lightweight, self-assembling portable shelters or nanometer-scale drug-delivery capsules that would expand and release their cargo only after they had passed through the bloodstream and reached their target.

The challenge, Bertoldi says, is to figure out the exact instabilities a structure needs to achieve its desired behavior. She quickly describes the necessary geometry and runs down a list of constraints. There are just 25 shapes that satisfy all the requirements, she explains, glossing over the months of computation it took to solve the problem. Then she starts a video to show the assembled throng the design that her team has come up with.

An image of a rubbery chartreuse ball with 24 carefully spaced round dimples (pictured) materializes on the screen. The test begins and the ball slowly collapses, each dimple squeezing shut as the structure twists into a smaller version of itself. There is a moment of silence, then everyone in the room begins to clap.

Student engineers have always been taught that mechanical instabilities are a problem to avoid. Such instabilities can quickly lead to structural failures ? the collapse of a weight-bearing pillar, the crumpling of a flat steel plate or the buckling of a metal shell. From failures come disasters, such as the Second World War Liberty Ships that broke up while at sea. And the devilishly complex mathematical analysis of buckling structures ground to a halt in the late nineteenth century, because it was unworkable with the methods then available.

During the past half-decade or so, however, a new generation of physicists and engineers has begun to embrace instability. These researchers have been inspired, in part, by advances in geometry and nonlinear mathematics that have allowed them to progress where their forebears could not. They have already, for example, devised a theory for why cabbage leaves and torn plastic rubbish bags ripple; calculated the patterns of wrinkles in fabric and crumples in paper; and accounted for the way coils and loops develop in the guts of vertebrate embryos.

On the practical side, one source of inspiration has been the widespread availability of flexible polymers and silicone materials, as epitomized by the vast selection of soft yet tough covers for smart phones. Such materials make it possible to imagine electronics, robots, tools and vehicles whose structures can radically deform yet still recover their original shapes.

The resulting extreme-mechanics movement has grown rapidly. The first three conference sessions to bear the name, totaling fewer than 40 presentations, were held during the March 2010 meeting of the American Physical Society (APS). Just two years later, Bertoldi's talk on collapsible spheres was one of 111 presentations on extreme mechanics spread across 8 sessions. Hundreds of researchers are now active in the field worldwide. In spring 2011, the US National Science Foundation announced an opportunity for substantial funding in the field: it would allot up to US$2 million over four years to projects in Origami Design for Integration of Self-assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI). The foundation expects to announce the awards this month.

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Senator Markey floats bill to rein in cell phone surveillance ...

WASHINGTON |?Thu Aug 9, 2012 6:04pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Representative Edward Markey unveiled draft legislation on Thursday that would increase oversight of the growing number of requests wireless carriers receive from U.S. law enforcement agencies for their customers? phone records.

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Markey released data last month from nine wireless carriers revealing more than 1.3 million requests for cell phone records last year.

?The startling number of requests made for the personal information of mobile phone users strongly suggests that clear, consistent rules should be established to protect the privacy of innocent people,? said Markey, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Neither law enforcement nor companies are required to report such requests, making Markey?s release of information from the companies the first public accounting of law enforcement?s use of cell phone surveillance.

Markey?s draft bill would make such reporting routine by mandating regular disclosures from law enforcement on the nature and number of wireless surveillance requests made.

The draft would also curtail broad cell tower dumps, where law enforcement requests information on everyone near a specific cell tower at a given time, and hold requests for location tracking up to higher scrutiny, requiring probable cause and a judge?s approval.

?We need to ensure that law enforcement no longer has carte blanche to track innocent Americans,? Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in support of Markey?s proposal.

Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent letters to nine wireless carriers in June asking for information on the volume and scope of the requests after The New York Times reported in April that cell phone tracking had become a common practice for police with little or no oversight.

Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc; AT&T Inc; Sprint Nextel Corp; T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG; MetroPCS Communications Inc; C Spire Wireless; Cricket Communications Inc; TracFone, a unit of Mexico?s American Movil; and U.S. Cellular responded to Markey?s inquiry.

The wireless carriers, in their responses to Markey, said they only release information when ordered by subpoena or if law enforcement officials certify there is an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury.

Under Markey?s draft legislation, law enforcement officials who obtain information during an emergency situation would have to provide a signed, sworn statement after the ordeal justifying the need for the emergency access.

The draft bill also asks the Federal Communications Commission to devise regulations setting a limit on how long wireless carriers can keep customers? personal information.

?With searches and seizures now happening in cyberspace, this legislation will update the 4th amendment for the 21st century,? said Markey, who co-chairs the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus.

The Obama administration is looking for ways to give consumers more control over personal information while surfing the Internet on laptops and mobile phones.

(Editing by Andre Grenon)

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Obama camp picks at possible Romney VP choices

In this June 16, 2012, photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, left, stands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during a campaign stop at campaign stop at Cornwall Iron Furnace in Cornwall, Penn. President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket. The president?s campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates, including Pawlenty, this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In this June 16, 2012, photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, left, stands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during a campaign stop at campaign stop at Cornwall Iron Furnace in Cornwall, Penn. President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket. The president?s campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates, including Pawlenty, this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In this May 11, 2012, photo Sen. Rob Portman speaks to supportersat the Lake Manor Restaurant in Mt. Orab, Ohio. President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Republican Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket. The president?s campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates, including Portman, this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

(AP) ? President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren't waiting for Republican Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They're already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket.

The president's campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings that ? as emails to donors and supporters put it ? "Americans need to know." The pre-emptive strikes are an effort to define a possible No. 2 in a negative light and reflect a sense that time is precious to sway opinion in a stubbornly close presidential race dashing quickly toward November.

Tim Pawlenty? The former Minnesota governor is a fee-raiser whose record "is painful for the middle-class families who lived under his leadership," the Obama campaign argues.

Rob Portman? The Ohio senator is "one of the architects of the top-down Bush budget" that the Obama team blames for "crashing our economy."

Marco Rubio? The rookie Florida senator has "led the way on almost every extreme position Mitt Romney has embraced," according to the missive that seeks examples of "the good, the bad and ugly" of Rubio.

Chris Christie? There's "no lack of material to work with" about the pugnacious New Jersey governor.

Those views are far from how Republicans regard the foursome. As many in the GOP see it, Pawlenty is extolled for his blue-collar appeal and budget restraints during eight years as governor; Portman is praised for a vast portfolio of experience and as someone who could help deliver a critical swing state; Rubio is a rising star who could help the GOP attract Hispanic voters; and Christie is willing to take on entrenched interests and big problems no matter whom he offends.

Romney's campaign criticized Obama for seeking the critiques. They are little more than "negative smear campaigns against the possible GOP vice presidential nominees," Ohio-based spokesman Chris Maloney said.

It's not just the Obama operation that's trying to tar the Republicans. Local Democratic officials in contested states aren't letting visits by the would-be vice presidents go unchecked. In conference calls, they try to draw attention to what they say are the Republicans' flaws, then quickly deliver biting assessments when one of them campaigns in a battleground state. Independent groups sympathetic to Obama are piling on as well.

American Bridge 21st Century, a Washington-based super PAC, has already dumped a combined 1,651 unflattering pages of so-called opposition research on Pawlenty, Portman and Rubio as well as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. The five electronic briefing books, including two released Wednesday, rake over the Republicans' voting records, proposals, public statements and slipups. The rundowns are so detailed that a politician's taste for expensive wine is even noted in one of the books.

American Bridge President Rodell Mollineau said the group started months ago compiling the information ? much of it's drawn from media reports, public records and speeches ? and decided against waiting until the vice presidential pick becomes known to trickle out the juiciest bits.

"You don't want to start too soon, but you don't want to be in a situation where there's 80 days until the election and everything is being jammed in so much that things are being lost," Mollineau said.

The findings are likely to buttress criticism from top Democrats, feed into TV ads and show up as part of fall campaign mailings. The group also has video trackers in key areas eager to capture possible miscues or shifting positions.

The Obama campaign dispatches haven't gone unnoticed on the right.

Natalie Baur, a confidante of Portman, went so far as to issue a rebuttal to fellow supporters defending Portman as a problem-solver. The message called the Obama push for feedback on him a "desperate" move and a sign that "the president's friends are more interested in playing political games than working together to create jobs, fix the economy and pass a budget."

Romney has said little about whom he favors or when the choice will come, although it's expected well before the Aug. 27 start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

So far, Vice President Joe Biden has had the No. 2 space all to himself, which has given the Obama campaign a second high-level voice to tour the country, raise money and hammer their opposition. Obama's aides deny he has a preference, but admit they're watching closely for Romney's decision.

"Any way you cut it, whomever they pick, we'd much rather have Vice President Biden on our side, campaigning across the country, in the debates, out there standing up for the president, than any of the motley crew that Mitt Romney is choosing between," Obama campaign spokesman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

Ann Romney, the candidate's wife who just returned from watching her horse compete at the Olympic Games in London, added to the suspense Thursday with an email telling backers "I can't wait" to help introduce "the other half of America's Comeback Team."

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Bakst reported from St. Paul, Minn. Associated Press writers Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Fla., and Mark S. Smith in Washington contributed to this report.

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HBT: Would you rather win gold or play baseball?

I asked this on Twitter a few minutes ago and was sort of fascinated by the strong yet far from unanimous opinions, so I?m curious to hear what HBT nation thinks:

Would you rather be the gold medal winner in a relatively obscure Olympic sport or the 200th-best baseball player in MLB?

For me the answer is definitely the 200th-best baseball player?which is basically the seventh-best player on an average team?because that guy is most likely making millions of dollars per year for multiple years and ? well, baseball is pretty great as far as sports go.

I asked Calcaterra and he agreed: ?200th-best baseball player. No question.? And yet plenty of replies on Twitter felt strongly about preferring the gold medal.

What say you?

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93% Neil Young Journeys

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"Journeys" is simply a trip most need not take.

I'd say the movie does a fine job of completing the trilogy, but I wouldn't be surprised if Demme and Young have more in them yet.

Like Young, Demme often takes an iconoclastic route. This is in part a concert film, yes, but not a traditional one.

Forget Crosby, Stills and Nash and maybe even Crazy Horse. Jonathan Demme might be Neil Young's ultimate collaborator.

As a songwriter, Young can still deliver: one of the best tunes here is a lovely, piano-propelled number, "Leia," that he hasn't even released yet.

The wartsy antipode of Katy Perry: Part of Me, with an intimacy and intensity bordering on the overwhelming.

Neil Young Journeys does for some of us what a rare film can do - it revives and renews our spirit. Neil Young and Jonathan Demme. Heart and soul. Wisdom and age. Fire and ashes. Lightning and thunder.

For fans, Journeys is like that box set of uneven rarities that they simply must own. For casual friends, it's 90 minutes in good company. For the rest - ho-hum.

An unusually fulsome tribute to the singer-songwriter from the director of The Silence of the Lambs.

On its own terms, "Neil Young Journeys" is an enjoyable concert film of a solo show in Toronto, interspersed with memories of his Canadian boyhood.

The concert camera work is sometimes a little tight for comfort (not really interested in Young's bridge work), though it adds to the intensity.

Movie fans probably don't need to hear him sing "Ohio" again, but "Neil Young Journeys" -- Jonathan Demme's second Young doc, if you're counting -- does have some new wrinkles.

In a sense, this film finishes a cycle that began with the homey and impressive "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" and continued with the raucous "Neil Young Trunk Show" of 2009.

"Look at Mother Nature on the run..."

A portrait of a true musical legend who is equally fascinating both onstage and off.

'Heart of Gold' was a great concert film, and 'Journeys' doesn't match it. BHut on its own it's a highly enjoyable ninety minutes of music and droll talk.

The words 'Neil Young in concert' mean plenty to some people and little to others; if you're in the plenty category, you'll want to see this.

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Tips To Join the Best Career Coaching In Melbourne | Arty Apt

Making a choice to obtain guidance from some other career professional is something that frequently uses some discussions for your carrier. To some people, it?s just a leap of faith to try to get a brand new plan and accept that the solo attempts conclude what you desired. In fact, having a career coach could be the smartest decision a job-seeker tends to make.

Career Coaching in Melbourne assists like a sounding board which could tease your opinion of new directions, providing perspective, expand your thinking by taking on new ideas. The job-seeker remains to be in charge of taking their own individual decisions, but a coach assists during this process and ensures action plans are performed so job opportunity goals are achieved. A profession coach often follows a similar kind of facilitated attitude as used by executive coaches that really help clients in taking care of areas which includes: job search and guidance, life purpose, self-respect and setting job search strategies. Outplacement services in Melbourne is goal and action-oriented. Its focus is about the present and also the future ? not past. Outplacement services in Melbourne include a strong program to create a quality of goals, establishing search techniques, priorities and action offers to keep the movement alive toward the target. Coaches guide clients on job search techniques and actions.

A professional career coach helps clients get out of their ?safety zones? create positive changes. They assist the customer understand their skills, weak points and dealing style providing the advantage of a 3rd party perspective of the way the client is observed by others. The career coaching is to listen carefully, hearing the symptoms underneath to assist the customer identify core issues and make a strategy based on the context unique towards the client?s life, personality, values and skills. Coaches offer knowledge and feedback within the client?s self presentation and image so that they can constructively build self awareness when it comes to fortune. The coach offers motivation, guidance to clients whilst holding them accountable for their progress through the entire process.

Usually, fees are in the affordable range. In discussion with the coach, request a detailed explanation of the coaching process and corresponding expenses. The coach won?t help the client for new job or supply job leads. You should also know that how coaches provide assistance for Outplacement Services in Melbourne. Does the coach use assessment methods that are normally not included in session fees? Does the coach manage per hour basis, per service, or a combination of it? What payment procedure they follow? You can get detailed information through internet by visiting different sites or contacting to coaching websites available for Australia.

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Rivers' Mix of Old, New & Handmade My Room | Apartment Therapy

Name: Rivers (1 month)
Location: Goshen, Indiana

We chose to not find out what our baby was going to be, so from the beginning I knew I would be designing a gender neutral nursery. I wanted to incorporate a lot of color and mix new and vintage pieces to match the rest of our 1890s home. I wanted to create a fun and playful nursery that would work for either gender and now that we have a son I think the nursery is perfect for him!

Many elements are handmade by my husband and myself as well as family and friends. Each of the guests at my baby shower brought a letter to complete Rivers's alphabet wall. The dresser is an Ikea dresser that my husband and I painted. I made the bird mobile that hangs above the crib. A family friend made the rocker and child's rocker. I love that there is so much love included in so many of the objects in Rivers's nursery.

Source List:
? Paint Color: Valspar Window Screen
? Crib: Davinici Jenny Lind in black
? Letters: Handmade & purchased by family & friends
? Rug: Urban Outfitters
? Curtains, bookshelf & dresser: Ikea
? Adult & Child's Rocking Chair: Handmade by a family friend
? Elephant Chairs: Vintage
? Mobile: Handmade
? Big Bird lamp: Made by my grandfather for me when I was 3
? Knit Blankets: Handmade by friends
? Elephant Pillow: The Pillow People
? Good Morning Sunshine Print: A Vintage Poster
? Animal Prints: Berkley Illustration
? Changing Pad Cover: Babies R Us
? Books: All were gifts and most are Caldecott Winners

Thanks Nicole! Readers, visit Nicole at Adventures in Love & Happiness.

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American imprisoned in Nicaragua gets long-awaited appeal hearing

(Reuters) - A U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering who a United Nations group has said was wrongly convicted has been granted an appeals hearing, his supporters announced on Wednesday.

Jason Puracal, 35, was detained by Nicaraguan authorities in November 2010 and later found guilty by a trial judge along with 10 Nicaraguan co-defendants despite their testimony that they had never met or worked with Puracal, his legal team said. It added that the prosecution's own witnesses said he was innocent.

Puracal has become a cause c?l?bre for human rights activists in the United States and around the world, with U.S. lawmakers appealing to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and a former high-ranking U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official launching a massive petition drive on Puracal's behalf.

"The 11-month wait for Jason's hearing is over. The one-year anniversary of his conviction will be August 29, and we really hope to have him home by then. We're optimistic, and we just ask that people continue to stay engaged," said Eric Volz, founder of an international crisis resource group called the David House Agency that has been helping push for Puracal's release.

Puracal's appeal will come before a three-judge panel on August 16 in a hearing that is expected to last five days, supporters said. A decision could come anywhere from five days to months after the hearing concludes.

Neither prosecutors nor the Nicaraguan government immediately responded to requests for comment.

Supporters have been pushing for the appeal to be heard for nearly a year, and heightened those efforts in the past week after finding out that Puracal, who has been in solitary confinement, was put on suicide watch by Nicaraguan authorities.

Puracal's sisters Janis and Jaime flew to Nicaragua this week and started knocking on the doors of government officials and visited the appeals court in person, supporters said.

"Within four hours, Jason's attorney got a phone call being notified of the date that was being set for the hearing. That's the main reason we believe this is finally moving," Volz told Reuters.

Volz was himself convicted of murder in the same Nicaraguan courtroom in 2006, eventually serving 14 months of a 30-year sentence in the same La Modelo prison in Tipitapa, just east of the capital Managua. A Nicaraguan appeals court overturned his conviction last year.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in May that Puracal was arbitrarily imprisoned and recommended that he be immediately freed.

A U.S. citizen born in Washington state, Puracal became a resident of Nicaragua after serving there as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2002, and he has married a Nicaraguan woman.

Before his arrest, he was working at a real estate office in the Nicaraguan city of San Juan del Sur, a surfing destination on the Pacific Coast.

Puracal's supporters said he came under suspicion due to his job as a real estate agent, which gave him control over large sums of money held in escrow for property transactions and drew the attention of Nicaraguan law enforcement authorities.

(Reporting by Mary Slosson in Sacramento, California; Additional reporting by Ivan Castro in Managua, Nicaragua; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Lisa Shumaker)

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