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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Terry Crews, Kevin Nealon join Adam Sandler comedy
By Lucas Shaw
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Terry Crews and Kevin Nealon have joined the cast of "Blended," a romantic comedy that will star Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, several individuals with knowledge of the production told TheWrap.
The film centers on a couple whose disastrous blind date finds them at a family resort with their children from previous marriages. Sandler and Barrymore play the couple, while Joe McHale will play Barrymore's former husband.
Nealon, who was a "Saturday Night Live" regular with Sandler, will play a man staying at the resort with his very attractive younger wife and their son. Crews will play the host of the couple's African vacation who sings and entertains them.
The film begins production later this month, shooting in both South Africa and Atlanta.
Frank Coraci, who previously oversaw Sandler's "Click," will direct the film from a script by Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera. Sandler will produce through his Happy Madison Productions, while Mike Karz will produce under his Gulfstream Pictures banner.
Nealon just wrapped the Steven Brill comedy "Walk of Shame" while Crews, comfortable doing both comedy and action, just appeared in "Scary Movie 5."
Crews has also wrapped a trio of films due out later this year - "Reach Me," "Aztec Warrior" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," to which he lent his voice.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/terry-crews-kevin-nealon-join-adam-sandler-comedy-234703869.html
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Lawyer asks if boy mature enough to aid defense
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) ? Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense.
The remarks came after the boy attended a closed juvenile court proceeding and was told he had been charged with second-degree murder with a special allegation for use of a dangerous weapon in the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister.
Second-degree indicates the killing was not premeditated.
His sister Leila Fowler, was killed in the family's Sierra Nevada foothill home last month while the two children were home alone, authorities said.
"Can a 12-year-old be psychologically, intellectually and emotionally mature enough to aid attorneys in defending himself against the most serious of charges?" asked attorney Steve Plesser, who has been hired by the family to defend the boy.
The boy did not enter a plea at the hearing.
The Associated Press is withholding his name because he is a juvenile. Wednesday's hearing was not open to the public.
Plesser said neither he nor his law partner Mark Reichel had seen the evidence that led the Calaveras County district attorney to charge the boy. Still, they believe he is not guilty of the crime that terrified the rural community of Valley Springs and baffled investigators and the FBI for two weeks.
"We have no reason to have any doubts about our client's innocence," Plesser said.
Investigators went door-to-door in the area and searched barns, stables, outbuildings and ponds for evidence. They also collected DNA at the scene and from family members.
The attorneys declined to discuss specific details of the case during brief statements they made after the hearing, but they did talk in general about the legal issues they are facing.
"We have questions," Plesser said. "Why do the police think the minor did this? Why would a 12-year-old commit an offense like this? And how did it not lead to an immediate arrest and it took 2,000 hours of resources by the sheriff's office and the FBI? We're confident we'll get the answers when we examine and test the evidence."
Ken Rosenfeld, a Sacramento legal analyst and attorney, said that if the boy is convicted he cannot be held past his 25th birthday under California statutes.
Most young people convicted of similar crimes are paroled by age 19 or 20, said Rosenfeld, who is not associated with the case.
"The juvenile court system is designed for rehabilitation," Rosenfeld said. "If his sentence follows precedent and he does well in the system and doesn't get himself in trouble, he'll be out when he's 19 or 20."
The boy was arrested Saturday after a two-week manhunt for a mystery intruder the boy had said he saw in the home before he found his sister bleeding.
On Tuesday, Reichel told the AP the youngster might have lied about seeing a long-haired man fleeing the scene, but that doesn't make the boy the killer.
He said his client might have made up a "macho" story about scaring away the intruder because he was scared.
The children's father and his fiancee were at a Little League game at the time of the stabbing. The boy called them to report that he had seen an intruder in the home, and the couple called 911 and sped home.
After the hearing, which was attended by the boy's father Mark Fowler, his fiancee Krystal Walters, and the boy's biological mother Pricilla Rodriguez, attorney Reichel said the family wants to be left alone.
"As they travel down this incredibly difficult path, they are obviously extremely concerned about their son, who they also dearly love," he said. "I'm sure every family in America can understand they are going through extremely difficult times. This is a good family."
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Cone reported from Sacramento.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-asks-boy-mature-enough-aid-defense-084840128.html
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Can math models of gaming strategies be used to detect terrorism networks?
May 16, 2013 ? The answer is yes, according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche, and Pawel Pralat describe a mathematical model to disrupt flow of information in a complex real-world network, such as a terrorist organization, using minimal resources.
Terror networks are comparable in their structure to hierarchical organization in companies and certain online social networks, where information flows in one direction from a source, which produces the information or data, downwards to sinks, which consume it. Such networks are called hierarchical social networks.
"In such networks, the flow of information is often one way," explains author Pawel Pralat. "For example, a celebrity such as Justin Bieber sends out a tweet, which is sent to millions of his followers. These followers send out their own retweets, and so on. We may therefore view hierarchical social networks as directed networks without cycles, or directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)."
Here, there is no requirement for reciprocity (the celebrity does not necessarily follow his or her followers). Similarly, in a terrorist network, the leaders pass plans down to the foot soldiers, and usually only one messenger needs to receive the message for the plan to be executed.
Disruption of the flow of information would correspond to halting the spread of news in an online social network or intercepting messages in a terror network.
The authors propose a generalized stochastic model for the flow and disruption of information based on a two-player outdoor game called "Seepage," where players who depict agents attempt to block the movement of another player, an intruder, from a source node to a sink. "The game -- motivated by the 1973 eruption of the Eldfell volcano in Iceland -- displays some similarities to an approach used in mathematical counterterrorism, where special kinds of DAGs are used to model the disruption of terrorist cells," says Pralat.
The motivating eruption caused a major crisis at the time, as lava flow threatened to close off the harbor, the island's main source of income. In the game, inhabitants attempt to protect the harbor by pouring water on the volcanic lava to halt its progress. A mathematical model of the game pits two opponents against each other -- the sludge, or intruder, against the greens, or agents -- forming a directed acyclic graph, with one source (the top of the volcano) and many sinks representing the lake. The parameter, "seepage," represents the amount of contamination, and the "green number" corresponds to the number of agents required to halt it.
A previous study modeled terrorist cells as partially ordered sets (a special kind of DAG), which are often used in mathematics to analyze an ordering, sequencing, or arrangement of distinct objects. In such a system, terrorist plans are formulated by nodes at the top of the hierarchy, which represent the leaders or maximal nodes of the set. The plans are transmitted down to the nodes at the bottom: these represent foot soldiers in a terror network or minimal nodes in the set who would be presumed to carry out these plans. The assumption is that one messenger is sufficient for reception and execution of the plan. Thus, if the partially ordered set represents a courier network for a terrorist organization, the intention would be to block all routes from the maximal node to the minimal nodes by capturing or killing a subset of agents.
In this paper, the authors utilize the similarities in the previous terrorist cell model to Seepage, where greens try to prevent the sludge from moving to the sinks by blocking nodes. A number of different winning strategies employed by both players are explored when played on a DAG. The seepage and green number for disrupting a given hierarchical social network are analyzed.
The primary difference from the previous study's model is that the Seepage model is dynamic: greens can move and choose new sets of nodes over time. The authors determine that Seepage is a more realistic model of counterterrorism, as the agents do not necessarily act all at once, but over time.
The analysis is made in two types of terrorist network structures, as Pralat explains, "We consider two extreme profiles: one where the network is regular, where every agent has about the same number of connections. The second profile is power law, where some agents have many connections, but most have very few." This is analyzed by considering the total degree distribution of nodes in the DAG. In regular DAGs, each level of the DAG would have nodes with about the same out-degree (number of outgoing edges emanating from a node), while power law DAGs would have many more low-degree nodes and a few with high degrees.
Mathematical analysis allows the authors to determine what point in a network would be most effective for disrupting messages. "Our mathematical results reinforce the view that intercepting the information or message in a hierarchical social network following a power law is more difficult close to levels near the source. For regular networks, it does not matter as much where the message is disrupted," says Pralat. "Future work could look at more complex profiles of networks, along with developing effective algorithms for disrupting the flow of information in a DAG using our game-theoretic approach."
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Abercrombie & Fitch Agrees To Bangladesh Safety Accord
Apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch announced Wednesday that it would agree to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a spokeswoman said.
The pact began circulating last year and aims to improve worker safety and labor rights. It has gained momentum since the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers.
According to MarketWatch, Abercrombie is the first major U.S. retailer to agree to the accord after more than two dozen mostly European companies signed in the wake of the Bangladesh collapse. PVH Corp., maker of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, was the first American company to commit, in March 2012.
In an email to The Huffington Post Wednesday night, Abercrombie confirmed it has verbally agreed to the accord.
"We are committed to Bangladesh and support industry-wide efforts to improve safety standards," Kim Harr, Abercrombie's director of sustainability, wrote in a statement. "We believe this is the right thing to do to bring about sustainable, effective change."
In the wake of the Bangladesh collapse, a number of large global retailers, including H&M and Zara parent Inditex, have agreed to the accord. But some large U.S. retailers, including Gap and Walmart, have failed to sign the legally binding agreement.
On Tuesday, Walmart announced it plans to develop its own safety program aimed at improving conditions in Bangladesh. But the retail giant's announcement was met with much skepticism.
HuffPost reported:
What Walmart announced on Tuesday is a voluntary program that amounts to no more than an aspirational statement, labor advocates said. They portrayed the announcement as a crafty public relations device: Noting that the deadline to sign the stricter industry-wide accord lands on Wednesday, they took Walmart?s statement as a sign the company will not go along with that agreement, while still finding a way to take credit for bold action.
Here are the retailers who have so far committed to the pact:
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/abercrombie-bangladesh-safety_n_3282613.html
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Home sales, prices in Canada signal 'fabled soft landing ...
Canadian home prices remain incredibly calm, cool, and collected
While it?s too early for victory laps, evidence is building that the Canadian housing market has pulled off the ?fabled soft landing?, says Douglas Porter, chief economist for BMO Capital Markets.
But not everybody thinks so
Here?s why Steve Eisman, who rose to fame betting against subprime mortgages in the U.S., says he is pessimistic about the Canadian housing market. Read on
Sales of existing homes climbed 0.6% in April from March, which trimmed the year-over-year decline to 3.1%, the Canadian Real Estate Association said on Wednesday.
Porter points out that recent surprises in home sale data have consistently been on the high, rather than low, side.
Sales have risen in three of the four past months and are pretty much unchanged since last August when tighter mortgage rules first began to bite. Porter said other key metrics support the view of a ?well-tamed? market. Sales and listings are balanced and the backlog of unsold homes is at a slightly high, but ?unremarkable? 6.6 months.
Adrienne Warren of Scotiabank says even with tougher lending rules, low interest rates continue to encourage sales. After a sharp dip in the first few months after the new rules were introduced, sales have steadied in 2013.
However, it?s home prices where the stability of the market shows most, said Porter.
?Despite the very loud gnashing of teeth and excessive wringing of hands for well over a year on the topic, Canadian home prices remain incredibly calm, cool, and collected,? he said.
CREA?s home price index rose 2.2% in April from a year earlier, echoing similar increases in every major index for Canadian housing prices. Porter noted that 20 of the 26 cities are still reporting price increases over the past year, ?a far cry from a hard landing.?
?While some are highlighting the fact that prices are now rising at ?their slowest pace since the 2009 recession? the plain facts are that: a) they are still rising, and b) faster than inflation, and c) prices are at all-time highs. Some meltdown,? said Porter.
It was a view echoed by several other economists.
Sonya Gulati, senior economist at TD economics, also hailed the ?spring thaw? in Canada?s housing market. But while there are signs of promise, she does not expect a robust revival.
?There simply is no economic impetus for a full-fledged comeback in the cards. In turn, the 2013 spring home-buying season should be mediocre at best,? she wrote.
Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/05/15/canadas-housing-meltdown-must-of-missed-that/
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