Anti-Muslim film producer arrested in probation case

A judge will decide whether or not Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the producer behind the 'Innocence of Muslims' film, violated the terms of his 2010 conviction on bank fraud charges. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.

By NBC News staff and NBCLosAngeles.com

LOS ANGELES -- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Cerritos man who many believe to be behind an anti-Muslim video that has inflamed the Islamic world, was arrested Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said.

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Nakoula faced a 3 p.m. hearing Thursday on charges that he violated the terms of his parole, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek told NBC4 News. The arrest was sought by officials of the United States Probation Office, he said.

Nakoula was indicted for check fraud in 2009 and then convicted. As a condition of his parole, he was forbidden to post information on the Internet without permission from his parole officer.

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He is believed to be the producer of the film, "Innocence of Muslims," which depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a pedophile.

A self-described Coptic Christian who was born in Egypt, Nakoula is said to go by the pseudonym Sam Bassiel. That moniker that caused widespread confusion when the film was first released earlier this month when someone associated with the film said that the producer was an Israeli Jew with that name.

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Others have disputed that the video was the cause of the violence in Libya. On Wednesday, Libyan President Mohammed Magarief said that the attacks on the U.S. Consulate there were carefully planned terrorist events, not the actions of a mob angry about the video.

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The amateurish film, which was distributed online, prompted riots throughout the Middle East, and was cited as a cause for the violence that led to the deaths of U.S. diplomats and others in Libya. Among those killed were U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others.

In an interview with NBC's Ann Curry, Libya's president Mohammed Magarief said there's 'no doubt' the attack that killed four Americans in Libya was preplanned, and not a result of the controversial anti-Islam movie that sparked violent protests.

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Op-Ed: Want to Improve School Districts? Listen to Teachers

I sat at the offices of Los Angeles Unified School District?s Board of Education waiting for the Board to allow public comments on a resolution that would block the district?s ability to measure my impact as a teacher.

The resolution calls for the elimination of using students? progress on state tests to measure my effectiveness. Granted, state tests aren?t perfect, but they do serve as a profound piece in evaluating a key responsibility I have as a teacher.

I scrambled to gather my thoughts. What could I say in three minutes that would instill a sense of urgency within the Board to put aside politics and come together to stand against this resolution? I was beginning to wonder if my words as a teacher would matter.

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It troubled me to see that teachers? feedback on this resolution was pooled with all the public comments, and that our specific expertise was given no weight or respect. The current reality for teachers within LAUSD is that we are part of a broken system of collaboration.

I am an educator who has accomplished much for my students, both for their social and academic development. But the district continually demonstrates its inability to formally incorporate my voice, along with the countless other dedicated teachers who greatly impact student achievement every day, in developing policies that would effectively elevate the teaching profession.

The system fails to enable its key stakeholders?teachers?to have a voice at the table.

Teachers? voices should not be treated as ?public comments? that the Board of Education occasionally invites to conversations where high stakes policies are implemented?policies that often lack the buy-in of many accomplished teachers. Currently, formal structures to allow teachers to impact policy at the district level are few and far between. The system fails to enable its key stakeholders, teachers, to have a voice at the table.

As teachers, we drive the everyday work the district and Board hope to achieve. We must be offered meaningful opportunities to share our perspectives with district and union officials through formal collaborative structures. In a truly collaborative environment, Board members would examine and vote on policy initiatives that are developed by teacher leaders alongside district and union leaders.?

My work as a Los Angeles Teaching Policy Fellow with Teach Plus this past year has enabled me to define what it means to be a teacher leader who seeks to shape policies while remaining within the classroom. The fellowship experience has offered me opportunities to work with district leaders on initiatives ranging from teacher preparation to performance, as well as pathways to impact education policies at the state and national levels.?

I traveled to New York to participate in the International Summit on the Teaching Profession; earlier this month I served on a panel about the future of the teaching profession at the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality in Washington, D.C. More importantly, the fellowship has enabled me to envision an effective system of collaboration between teachers and district officials that would allow us to develop and sustain a high-quality teaching force that places student achievement at the center.

But as my fellowship experience comes to an end, I am beginning to wonder if now I can only rely on three-minute ?public comments? at Board of Education meetings to voice my experience and ideas as an LAUSD teacher leader.

The district can do better with soliciting and listening to teachers? voices, as it has shown through its work with the Teaching Policy Fellows. But we shouldn?t need to rely on outside organizations to create these pathways: Districts must develop ongoing, established structures for teacher leaders to share the lessons we?ve learned from our practice and from working in successful school cultures.

If districts prioritize placing teachers at the center of the education conversation, they will be able to design policies around effective evaluation, professional development, and more to build, sustain, and celebrate a high-quality teaching force.

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Mohammed has been an English and History teacher for the past five years at the middle school level within urban communities in Los Angeles. He has been an LAUSD Spotlight teacher highlighting his approach to student achievement that is based on providing consistent intervention structures within and beyond the classroom. Mohammed is a graduate of UCLA's Teacher Education Program and holds a master's in education within urban schools.

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Looking Back at IMAX's Precursor

IMAX remains one of the coolest ways to see movies these days ? the resolution and image quality are simply stunning when compared to a traditional presentation. However, long before there was IMAX as we know it, a man named Fred Waller created a precursor to the format ? a system known as Cinerama. David Bordwell has recently written a fantastic article on Cinerama and how it worked. It?s interesting stuff if you?re curious about the history of film presentation.

I?ll leave the finer details to Bordwell?s piece (which I highly recommend reading) because he explains it all far better than I ever could. However, the gist of the Cinerama system was that it used three projectors to show an image on a deeply curved screen in a way that attempted to replicate not only how we see things directly in front of us, but from our peripheral vision as well. On top of that, it also featured an early take on modern-day surround sound ? with everything working together to create the most lifelike moviegoing experience of the era.

Unfortunately, Cinerama never really caught on. The system debuted in 1952, but didn?t last long. The problem was that it was too complicated (check out the schematic below for an idea of just how complicated) and required expensive upgrades to existing theaters. Adding the huge screens (some 100 feet wide and 30 feet high, with a 146 degree curve in them) and multiple projectors just wasn?t cost effective back in those days. This says nothing of the challenges for filmmakers when it came to shooting in the format.

Yet, while the format didn?t exactly set the box office on fire, Mr. Waller?s work did at least help pave the way for IMAX and the modern movie-viewing experience. He (and Cinerama) certainly deserve a tip of the hat for that.?

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Dawn suggests special delivery of hydrated material to Vesta

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? The mechanism by which water is incorporated into the terrestrial planets is a matter of extensive debate for planetary scientists. Now, observations of Vesta by NASA's Dawn mission suggest that hydrous materials were delivered to the giant asteroid mainly through a build-up of small particles during an epoch when the Solar System was rich in dust.

This is a radically different process from the way in which hydrous materials are deposited on the moon and may have implications for the formation of terrestrial planets, including the delivery of the water that forms Earth's oceans. Maria Cristina De Sanctis and the Dawn team will present the scenarios at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid on Sept. 26.

De Sanctis, of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Planetology in Rome, said, "Vesta's surface shows distinct areas enriched with hydrated materials. These regions are not dependent on solar illumination or temperature, as we find in the case of the Moon. The uneven distribution is unexpected and indicates ancient processes that differ from those believed to be responsible for delivering water to other airless bodies, like the Moon."

A team led by De Sanctis studied data from Dawn's visible and infrared (VIR) mapping spectrometer. Analysis showed large regional concentrations of hydroxyl -- a hydrogen and an oxygen atom bound together -- clearly associated with geological features including ancient, highly-cratered terrains and the Oppia crater.

Hydroxyl on the surface of the Moon is thought to be created continuously by the interaction of protons from the solar wind with the lunar regolith. Highest concentrations are found in areas near the lunar poles and in permanently shadowed crater where it is very cold. By contrast, the distribution of hydroxyl on Vesta is not dependent on significant shadowing or unusual cold temperatures. It is also stable over time, so its origin does not appear to be due to short-term processes.

The hydroxyl-rich regions on Vesta broadly correspond to its oldest surfaces. Around relatively large and young impact craters, hydroxyl detections are weak or absent, suggesting that the delivery of hydroxyl is not an ongoing process.

The evidence from VIR suggests that much of Vesta's hydroxyl was delivered by small particles of primitive material, less than a few centimeters in diameter, over a time-limited period. This period may have occurred during the primordial solar system, around the time it is believed water was accreted on Earth, or during the Late Heavy Bombardment, when collisions would have produced a significant amount of primitive material dust.

However, this is not the whole story of hydrous materials on Vesta. The Oppia Crater is hydroxyl-rich, but not covered with the primitive material. This suggests that there is more than one mechanism at work for depositing hydroxyl on Vesta's surface.

De Sanctis said, "The origin of Vesta's hydroxyl is certainly complex and possibly not unique: there could be various sources, like formation of hydroxyl actually on Vesta, in addition to the primordial impactors. Vesta is providing new insights into the delivery of hydrous materials in the main asteroid belt, and may offer new scenarios on the delivery of hydrous minerals in the inner Solar System, suggesting processes that may have played a role in the formation of terrestrial planets."

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Lil Wayne Says He Talks To God In Legal Deposition

'I tell him everything,' Weezy says in a video from a June deposition in connection with his lawsuit against director Quincy Jones III.
By Rob Markman

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Daily Tips for Business: Architecture-and-Interior-Design - sacovokina

All structures requiring lighting for safety, as an architectural feature or task level lighting should use a sustainable approach achieving the required effect or satisfying the need with the least amount of energy. Modular lighting controls as discussed in this article can achieve the right combination of security, user experience and significant energy savings.

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Primate study adds to evidence of BPA harming human reproduction

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A Washington State University researcher has found new evidence that the plastic additive BPA can disrupt women's reproductive systems, causing chromosome damage, miscarriages and birth defects.

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, WSU geneticist Patricia Hunt and colleagues at WSU and the University of California, Davis, report seeing reproductive abnormalities in rhesus monkeys with BPA levels similar to those of humans. By using an animal with the most human-like reproductive system, the research bolsters earlier work by Hunt and others documenting widespread reproductive effects in rodents.

"The concern is exposure to this chemical that we're all exposed to could increase the risk of miscarriages and the risk of babies born with birth defects like Down Syndrome," says Hunt. "The really stunning thing about the effect is we're dosing grandma, it's crossing the placenta and hitting her developing fetus, and if that fetus is a female, it's changing the likelihood that that female is going to ovulate normal eggs. It's a three-for-one hit."

The research also adds to the number of organs affected by BPA, or bisphenol A, which is found in plastic bottles, the linings of aluminum cans and heat-activated cash register receipts. This May, Hunt was part of another paper in PNASreporting that the additive altered mammary development in the primate, increasing the risk of cancer.

Hunt's colleagues at UC, Davis exposed different groups of gestating monkeys to single daily doses of BPA and low-level continuous doses and looked at how they affected the reproductive systems of female fetuses. She saw that in the earliest stage of the adult's egg development, the egg cell failed to divide properly. Earlier mouse studies showed similar disturbances translated into genetic defects in the mature egg.

A fertilized egg with the wrong number of chromosomes will almost always fail to come to term, leading to a spontaneous abortion or progeny with birth defects.

In monkeys exposed continuously, Hunt saw further complications in the third trimester as fetal eggs were not packaged appropriately in follicles, structures in which they develop. Eggs need to be packaged properly to grow, develop and mature.

"That's not good," says Hunt, "because it looks to us like you're just throwing away a huge number of the eggs that a female would have. It raises concerns about whether or not she's going to have a really short reproductive lifespan."

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