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Jesus Malverde's JournalSell your S.F. street parking spot for $20?
An Italy-based startup is rolling out an app that offers San Franciscans the pleasure of being paid to leave.
MonkeyParking allows drivers departing prime street parking spots to auction off the city-owned real estate to other app users, who agree to pay anywhere from $5 to $20 for the ability to stop circling the block.
The app, first reported by Uptown Almanac, is an intuitive idea — though one that city officials aren’t sure is legal.
Read More: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/05/05/sell-your-s-f-street-parking-spot-for-20/
PayPal exec Rakesh 'Rocky' Agrawal FIRED after Twitter rant against colleagues
PayPal has fired an executive after less than two months in the job over an ill-advised Twitter rant in which he cursed out colleagues and called them ‘useless.’
Rakesh ‘Rocky’ Agrawal bashed his new colleagues after the company hired him as director of strategy – and then he blamed it on not knowing how to use an Android phone.
The vitriolic, spelling error-riddled tweeting began around 1.00 a.m Saturday while he was out in New Orleans and ended with him saying he quit the firm.
PayPal, whose company headquarters are in San Jose, California, has sinced confirmed Agrawal's exit by tweeting the company had 'zero tolerance' for his behavior.
Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2620526/No-excuses-zero-tolerance-PayPal-exec-FIRED-bizarre-late-night-Twitter-rant-against-colleagues.html
He deleted the tweets shortly after waking them up and blamed his android phone's interface for them being public
Agrawal claimed he meant them to be private messages to a colleague
Yemen's latest, greatest threat: Twitter?
The local Al Qaeda affiliate saw no need to wait for the Yemen Army to attack before firing off its first tweet about the operation.
In Pictures Yemen in the crosshairs*XXXX*As word spread of the impending offensive in south Yemen, Twitter accounts linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula switched from condemning US drone strikes to lobbing taunts at the Army, referring to troops as "traitorous dogs" and accusing them of teaming up with Shiite rebels – a smirch in the majority Sunni country.
When the Army offensive actually began on April 29, AQAP issued regular updates on the fight while Yemen's government, stayed mostly silent on social media. Instead Yemeni activists who found their voice during the 2011 uprising took up the task of responding to AQAP and supporting the Army offensive.
The result: AQAP and the Yemeni public have left the government far behind in an information war made possible by the spread of the Internet in the Arab world's poorest nation. Authorities can no longer shape the narrative of counterinsurgency, particularly when it comes to controversial drone strikes.
Read More: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0505/Yemen-s-latest-greatest-threat-Twitter
Police raid Brampton, Ont. house party after 1,500 people show up
When you throw a “mansion party,” promote it heavily on social media and 2,000 of your closest friends show up, there’s a good chance it won’t end well.
That’s what happened Friday night when a throng of youth were packed like sardines into a partially-built house on upscale Stanley Carberry Dr. — near Goreway Dr. and Mayfield Rd.
Peel Regional Police quickly shut the house party down before anyone got hurt — but not before some $70,000 damage was done.
“I’m shocked,” Nancy Viveiros said Saturday, as she and her husband stopped by to see the aftermath of the house party their daughter briefly attended.
Gazing at the many broken windows, smashed doors and booze bottles strewn around the property and along the street, the Caledon woman explained her 18-year-old daughter and her friends wisely left the bash soon after arriving.
Read More: http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/03/police-raid-massive-brampton-house-party
Texas Is Permanently Shutting Abortion Clinics and the Supreme Court Can't Do Anything About It
When Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a sweeping anti-abortion law in 2013, he did so knowing the measure faced an uncertain future. Indeed, the law is already winding its way through the legal system, and if its opponents have their way, Texas's reproductive legal code will land in the hands of the Supreme Court.
But such a decision is likely a year or years a way, and back in the Lone Star State, the final judicial score won't much matter.
The law has already had tremendous success in closing abortion clinics and restricting abortion access in Texas. And those successes appear all but certain to stick—with or without the Supreme Court's approval of the law that created them.
There were more than 40 clinics that provided abortions in Texas in 2011. There are now 20 still open, and after the law's last steps of implementation are taken in September, all but six are expected to close. Most of the closed clinics will never reopen, their operators say.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/texas-is-permanently-shutting-abortion-clinics-and-the-supreme-court-can-t-do-anything-about-it-20140505
At least 75 dead in northwest Central African Republic fighting: Military source
Source: AFP
BANGUI(Central African Republic): Almost 75 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in several days of fighting between rival factions in the Central African Republic, an African military source said today.
The clashes erupted on Thursday in the Mala region around 200 kilometres north of the capital Bangui between Seleka rebels and the Christian vigilante groups known as the anti-Balaka, an official from the African peacekeeping force MISCA told AFP.
People fleeing the fighting were forced to find refuge in neighbouring areas, according to the official.
Residents told AFP by phone that Seleka fighters still occupied Mala and were committing various atrocities.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/At-least-75-dead-in-northwest-Central-African-Republic-fighting-Military-source/articleshow/34696400.cms
It looks like Rwanda
http://viiphoto.com/articles/terror-car-bleasdale/
Obama Sets Up Devilish Trap For The GOP On Immigration Reform
Barack Obama wants to be the president who signs comprehensive immigration reform into law. But in the absence of congressional action he has signaled he'll act on his own and slow deportations for people living in the country illegally without criminal records.
As the Republican-led House stonewalls legislative action, insisting the president can't be trusted to enforce the law, Obama's pivot to executive action sets a dangerous political trap for the GOP. They'll feel compelled to oppose his steps to make life easier for undocumented immigrants -- they're already begun to do just that. But that will further alienate their party with Hispanics, the country's fastest-growing demographic, for whom immigration reform is a high priority.
Even worse, if Obama acts on his own Republicans won't share in any of the credit. Democrats will reap political gains with the Latinos -- whom GOP strategists insist the party must win over to stay competitive on the presidential stage -- in 2016 and beyond while Republicans take the side of those calling for deporting unauthorized immigrants.
"When Republicans say the President must do more to enforce the law, we hear it as a lame excuse for their own inaction and a call for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants," said Frank Sharry, who runs the pro-reform group America's Voice. "Needless to say, the hole the GOP has dug itself with Latino, Asian American, and immigrant voters gets deeper every time they say it."]
Read More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obama-trap-gop-immigration
Bryan Singer hit with SECOND sexual abuse lawsuit
Besieged X-Men director Bryan Singer has been hit with a second sexual assault lawsuit, with fresh allegations the Hollywood heavyweight arranged to 'meet with a minor to engage in lewd and lascivious behavior'.
Already accused of sexually assaulting and physically abusing former child model Michael Egan, 31, Singer is now at the center of a new suit, which will officially be announced in LA on Monday.
According to The Daily Beast, Singer, along with Broadway musical producer Gary Goddard, allegedly engaged in inappropriate acts with a British teenager in the bedroom of a London suite around the time of the release of Superman Returns - which Singer directed - in 2006.
The suit has been filed by Egan's attorney, Jeff Herman, on behalf of plaintiff 'John Doe No. 117'.
It claims Goddard contacted the teen when he was 14 via social media, commenting John Doe was attractive and that he knew people who could help kickstart his acting career.
\One of those people, Goddard said, was Singer.
Thereafter, Goddard told the boy he was in love with him, and 'convinced' the boy to send him nude photographs and a video masturbating.
Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2620273/Bryan-Singer-hit-SECOND-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-claiming-removed-boxer-shorts-asked-British-boy-sit-lap-film-party.html
Terror in CAR - EU "Peacekeeping" operation at it's finest.
An escalating cycle of bloodshed has left tens of thousands dead and entire communities displaced in the Central African Republic. Peacekeeping forces have so far failed to stop the terror
The death records of the Bangui morgue in the Central African Republic read like a chapter out of Dante’s Inferno: page after page of people killed by machetes, torture, lynchings, shootings, explosions and burning. The overwhelming stench makes it impossible to stay there for long. On really bad days only the number of dead is recorded – not their names nor the causes of death – before the bodies are buried in mass graves.
The morgue is a terrible symbol of the toll of communal violence in the Central African Republic which has raged for months and claimed tens of thousands of lives, displacing even more. Recently, the Séléka, a predominantly Muslim group of fighters that seized Bangui, the capital, and toppled the CAR’s government in early 2013, have lost some ground – although they continue to terrorise wherever possible. In response Christian forces known as anti-balaka (balaka means ‘machete’ in Sango, the local language) have stepped up attacks against Muslim civilians in places where the Séléka no longer holds the sway it did a few months ago.
In hopes of quelling the situation, international peacekeeping forces are now in the country, and a new president, Catherine Samba-Panza – a former mayor of Bangui nicknamed Madame Courage –was installed in mid-January. She has promised that the country’s security forces will be reorganised to protect Muslims as well as Christians. But so far the violence has continued unabated. On January 29 two Muslim men were hacked to death and their bodies mutilated near Bangui’s international airport as onlookers cheered and filmed the scene.
Read More: http://viiphoto.com/articles/terror-car-bleasdale/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/us-centralafrica-eu-idUSBREA3T12620140430
Podcasting in peril? Trial showdown in September
James Logan freely admits that he's never made a podcast.
But he also insists he helped create the medium of podcasting. Logan says that it happened in 1996 — and that he has the patents to prove it.
In a controversial legal battle, PersonalAudio, the company founded by Logan, is suing comedian Adam Carolla's ACE Broadcasting, two other podcasters and networks Fox, CBS and NBC, saying they are infringing on his copyright and owe him money.
The trial begins in September. Carolla has taken to the Web to raise money for legal fees against what he called "patent trolls."
Carolla says he needs $1.5 million to face PersonalAudio in an East Texas courtroom that historically has been favored by patent litigants. So far, Carolla has pulled in just over $370,000 on the Fundanything.com crowdfunding website, including a $20,000 donation from e-commerce giant Amazon.
"The first thing they (PersonalAudio) said was 'Give us $3 million,'" says Carolla, whose show is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most downloaded podcast ever. When faced with the suit, Carolla said he chose to fight.
Read More: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2014/05/04/podcast-trial-personalaudio-carolla/8057329/
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