WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray (D) hasn’t been cooperating with federal prosecutors investigating his 2010 campaign efforts, according to recent reports.As WRC-TV/NBC4′s Tom Sherwood reports:In the past, Gray repeatedly said he’s cooperating with authorities in an investigation that’s more than a year old and has seen some felony convictions, but he would not repeat that pledge Monday.”I was the one who called for an investigation of my own campaign, and we will continue to work with this investigation,” Gray had said in July.Read More…
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Rose Pak Is The Most Powerful And Polarizing Woman In San Francisco
This article comes to us courtesy of San Francisco Magazine.IT’S 3 P.M. ON A FALL afternoon, and San Francisco’s political class has descended on an ornate Chinatown banquet hall to toast the impending nuptials of District 4 supervisor Carmen Chu. The 34-year-old politico navigates the crowd, making small talk and blushing a little from all the attention. But, apologies to the bride-to-be–most of the action centers on the event’s host, Rose Pak, a rotund 64-year-old with a smoker’s cough and a grasp of city politics four decades deep. The Chinatown grande dame is seated at the head table receiving a steady stream of well-wishers: city department heads, business magnates, politicians. Some are allies, some enemies. Some love her, some fear her. But they all come.Mayor Ed Lee is here, of course. He and Pak have been best friends since the 1970s. There’s Jane Kim, the District 6 supervisor Pak helped elect in 2010, and George Gascón, the district attorney whose office recently dropped its investigation into Mayor Lee’s campaign operation, with which Pak was closely involved. Pak’s old buddy Willie Brown is here, too. A fastidious man in a bespoke suit, the former mayor glides through the crowd, his wingtips not quite touching the ground.Read More…
Yes, Network Effects Are a Problem for Open Formats
As we know, lock-in is one of the biggest obstacles to moving from
closed, proprietary formats, to open ones. But so far as I know, no one
has tried to quantify the extent to which people cling to old formats.
That makes the following piece of research useful, at least as a first stab at finding out what is really going on:
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The Philippines’ Awful New ‘Cybercrime’ Law Put On Hold — For Now
Last week Tim Cushing wrote
about the hugely-worrying new “cybercrime” law passed in the
Philippines that seemed likely to criminalize all kinds of everyday
online activities. As an article on Radio Australia’s site reports, the Philippines’ highest court has now stepped in after being petitioned to block the legislation:
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Emerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma’s Losing Patent Battles In India
Techdirt has been following the important story of the kidney and liver cancer drug marketed under the name Nexavar since March,
when India granted a compulsory license for the first time since
re-instating patents on pharmaceuticals. Naturally, the patent holder,
Bayer, fought back, and appealed against that decision. Now we learn from Intellectual Property Watch that Bayer has lost:
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EU Copyright Holders Cling To Old Levies, As New Ones Start To Appear On Cloud Storage
Levies on blank storage media are a relic of older times when copying
was a new possibility for copyright works. You no longer needed an LP
pressing plant, say, you could copy music in the comfort of your own
home, first on analog cassette tapes, then later on digital media like
CDs and MP3 players. At that time, it was easy to see each of those
copies as somehow replacing purchases, and so the argument for levies
was born: people should pay indirectly for the “lost” sales their
copying caused.
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UN to vote on Mali military intervention
http://www.youtube.com/v/vbVgoHfMPt4?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Visit site: UN to vote on Mali military intervention
