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And the Spotify announcements just keep coming. The folks behind the popular streaming music service called attention to a new deal with Deutsche Telekom earlier this morning, and now the company has revealed that it's bringing physical gift cards to the United States. The cards come in $10, $30, and $60 denominations, which translates to one, three, and six months of premium streaming music access respectively. They're a Target-exclusive (for the time being, anyway) and the move comes just ahead of the holiday buying rush -- music-lovers shouldn't be surprised to find one of these nestled in their stockings.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wc-sOUi75E8/
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that the indictment of state Sen. Shirley Huntley for her alleged role in an attempt to cover up the theft of almost $30,000 in public funds through a ?sham nonprofit? emerged from his office?s year-old collaboration with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
In a press conference Monday afternoon, Schneiderman displayed a reproduction of a ?template? letter allegedly drawn up by Huntley and others to make it seem as if the nonprofit Parent Workshop Inc., which received $30,000 in member item funds requested by the Queens Democrat, had provided programming to the Southern Queens Park Association when no such services had been provided.
Huntley created Parent Workshop in March 2006, and secured the member item in May 2008.
Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson issued the following statement: ?With the filings of today?s charges, I have removed Senator Huntley from her committee ranking and leadership positions, effective immediately.?
Huntley has, however, already received this year?s $9,000 stipend as the ranking Democrat on the chamber?s Mental Health Committee. (A quarter of these lulus are paid in March; the remainder goes out after the budget is passed ? which this year was also in March.)
Schneiderman said the investigation was ongoing, and suggested similar actions were in the pipeline as a result of his unique arrangement with DiNapoli on public integrity cases. ?There is more firepower being brought to bear on this issue than there has been,? he said, pointing to federal as state prosecutors and watchdog entities.
Huntley, who on Saturday declared her innocence, appeared Monday morning at Nassau County courthouse under a superceding indictment that added to last year?s action against four people, including a Huntley staffer and the senator?s niece. Today?s 20-count indictment charges the senator with conspiracy, a misdemeanor, and two felonies: tampering with physical evidence and falsifying business records.
A felony conviction would result in Huntley?s automatic ejection from the Legislature.
Re-named in the new indictment was Huntley?s niece Lynn Smith, who served as the non-profit?s treasurer; its president Patricia Savage, a Huntley aide; and David Gantt, a New York City Housing Authority official who the indictment says served as a ?consultant? for Parent Workshop.
Conspicuous in his absence from the new superceding indictment is Roger Scotland, who the December press release from the AG?s office identifies thusly:
Defendent Roger N. Scotland, the President of the Southern Queens Park Association, a separate nonprofit corporation located in Queens, also created a false record in an attempt to hide the theft from investigators. Mr. Scotland is charged with Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, Tampering with Physical Evidence, and conspiracy to engage in those crimes.
The new indictment makes no mention of Scotland, though its description of the creation of the letter from the Southern Queens Park Association refers to an unnamed ?witness known to the Grand Jury? who created the bogus missive allegedly at the request of Huntley and Savage.
The AG?s office said the case against Scotland is ?still pending.?
Click here to see the AG?s full release:
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CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on Monday named a team of 21 advisers and aides that includes three women and two Christians and a large number of Islamist-leaning figures, backing off campaign promises to appoint a Christian and a woman as vice presidents.
The move is the latest by Morsi, a longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was inaugurated in late June, to establish his authority and break with the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak by forming his own leadership.
Morsi's office has sought to depict him as independent of the Brotherhood and as a leader who wants to bring a wider political spectrum behind him, including liberals ? but the Brotherhood still holds the preponderance of power in his administration.
In midst of a fierce presidential election campaign earlier this year, Morsi sought to broaden his support and allay fears of Brotherhood dominance by promising to appoint a youth, a woman and a Christian to vice president posts. The promise brought an outcry from ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafis who said they would not accept a Christian or woman vice president, since they say neither is allowed to serve as head of state.
Since Morsi's inauguration, some Brotherhood officials have contended he was forced into the promises, signaling that he would likely back down. Earlier this month, Morsi appointed a senior judge, Mahmoud Mekki, as vice president. When asked, Morsi's spokesman Yasser Ali told reporters that there will be only one vice president for the time being.
Instead, Ali on Monday announced the formation of Morsi's "presidential team," which includes four senior aides and a 17-member council of advisers, which includes seven figures seen as political liberals and 10 who have Islamist leanings of various degrees.
The rolling back of the promises reflects Morsi's growing confidence as a president who holds "super powers" exceeding those of his predecessors, said Nabil Abdel-Fatah, a scholar with Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. Morsi holds both executive power and legislative authority after he sidelined the top military generals who ruled Egypt after Mubarak's ouster on Feb. 11. 2011. The generals had dissolved parliament and taken on legislative powers, so when they were sidelined, Morsi seized the power to make laws ? a power he has used once so far.
"The announcement of the new team has nothing to do with the promises Morsi made before," said Abdel-Fatah. "Those chose will pose no challenge to the president ... this is only for cosmetic purposes."
Abdel-Fatah said the appointments suggested Morsi does not want to share powers with a vice president. "This is just another sign that we are heading to a deadlock with the Brotherhood insisting on monopolizing power," he said.
The four senior aides include Pakinam el-Sharkawi, a female political scientist who will be in charge of "political issues" and Coptic Christian writer Samer Morcus, whose title is "aide for democratic transition." The oterhs are a senior Brotherhood member, Essam Hadad, who will be the aide for foreign relations and international cooperation and a leading Salafi, Emad Abdel-Ghafour, who was named the president's aide for "society outreach."
The 17-member council includes two women and a Christian, Rafiq Habib, who is deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm Freedom and Justice party and one of the few Christian members of the Islamist group.
The council includes six members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau, the group's top executive body, and three other figures seen as Islamist-leaning.
Ali, the spokesman, did not say what the council's role would be but said it will "meet regularly."
Ahmed Maher, a co-founder of the secular April 6 youth group, which engineered last year's anti-Mubarak uprising and which has thrown its backing behind Morsi, said that is group was watching how much the president keeps his promises "and we will hold him accountable later on when the time comes."
Though their role is still vague, but Maher believes the aides and the advisers can help Morsi reform state institutions and break away from old regime policies.
"They will be his eyes to carry reforms and institutional shake-ups," said Maher, who comes under criticism for siding by Morsi.
The list did not include three figures that Morsi sidelined in the past month and named as advisers ? the former military chief and defense minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, his deputy Gen. Sami Anan, and former Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri. That could suggest that their advisory appointments were largely symbolic.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-president-names-mainly-islamist-adviser-team-202426299.html
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Optical drives have been disappearing from computers in ever increasing numbers. Apple is moving away from using them and Ultrabooks turn a blind eye, too. You don?t even need one in a desktop PC anymore due to the option to boot from USB, and we are storing more and more data in the cloud rather than on disc.
So it may come as little surprise that Sony is getting out of the business. However, the reason seems to be one of competition rather than a lack of demand.
Sony Optiarc Inc. has been around since 2006 when it was created as a joint venture with NEC to manufacture optical drives. Then in 2008 Sony bought out NEC making Optiarc a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Japanese company. Today it enjoys a relatively healthy 15% share of the global market for optical drives.
A 15% market share is worth holding on to if you?re making a profit, but that?s no longer the case for Optiarc. Sony has stated that due to increased competition for fewer sales it is now operating the business at a loss, which is clearly unsustainable.
Sony will close Optiarc operations no later than March next year with some 400 staff being offered early retirement or placed elsewhere in the company. It is though Sony wants most of the 400 to retire though, as part of its goal to cut 10,000 people from the company?s work force.
The closure of Optiarc?s production lines is not likely to have much impact on the availability of optical drives. Competitors will happily fill the void in what is a rapidly shrinking market.
Sony will continue to manufacture consumer DVD and Blu-ray players, as well as ensure there?s a supply of Blu-ray drives for the PS3. But by this time next year its unlikely you?ll be able to purchase a Sony manufactured optical drive for your PC.
More at The Asahi Shimbun, via Engadget
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/sony-to-stop-manufacturing-optical-drives-20120827/
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