By placing their own content on a ‘cloud’ server, Occupy Wall Street encampments can create a universal video, audio, and image database that all can use to create individual messages. Amid the rumbling backdrop of incessant drumming in the 450-tent strong encampment here, Lisa Clapier is demonstrating the newest, high-tech tool that some in the?Occupy [...]

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(Following is a post from Spark New Thinking by Mark Henson. Check him out. I know all the girls in college did. He was a cool guy then and is a cool guy now – and his thoughts on Doing What You Hate are terrific.) I’m about to contradict everything you’ve heard in the past [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? A court has ordered a Brazilian man to pay $6,500 for saying “I don’t” to his former fiancee. Rio de Janeiro state Judge Benedicto Abicair said that Marcelo de Azevedo Fernandes must pay for “moral and material” damages to Cristiane Costa de Andrade. The ruling was posted Friday on the [...]

Anthony Shadid won Pulitzer Prizes in 2004 and 2010 for his reporting in Iraq. Anthony Shadid died while walking out of Syria Thursday. New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under “shock and awe” bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died Thursday of [...]