Starbucks begins selling Square card readers at 7,000 coffee shops

It wasn't too much of a surprise to see Starbucks begin accepting Square payments at many of its coffee shops last year, but the company's latest expansion of that partnership is a bit more unexpected. It's announced today that it has started selling Square card readers at some 7,000 locations across the US, letting customers pick up a means to accept credit card payments along with their beverage of choice. That's only the latest retail deal for Square following partnerships with Apple, Walmart, Best Buy and others, and as with those the readers themselves are essentially free -- you pay $10 up front, but get a $10 credit that you can redeem after you activate your account.

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Iraq PM warns Sunni protesters, makes small concession

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has warned he will not tolerate Sunni anti-government rallies indefinitely, but made a concession to their demands by promising to free some women prisoners.

Thousands of Sunnis have been taking to the streets of Iraq for more than a week in protest against Maliki, whom they accuse of discriminating against their sect and being under the sway of their non-Arab Shi'ite neighbor Iran.

The incident has once more threatened to plunge a delicate power-sharing deal into turmoil, just as President Jalal Talabani, a moderating influence, is in Germany for medical care after suffering a stroke.

The cradle of the protests is Anbar province, a Sunni stronghold in western Iraq, where demonstrators are blocking a key highway to Jordan and Syria.

In a televised interview late on Monday, Maliki said there were foreign agendas behind the protests, which he described as "unconstitutional".

"I say to those who follow these agendas: Don't think it's difficult for the government to take measures against you or to re-open the road and put an end to this matter," Maliki said.

"We have been very patient with you, but don't expect this issue to be open-ended."

The protesters are demanding an end to what they see as the marginalization of the Sunni minority, who dominated Iraq until the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.

They want Maliki to abolish anti-terrorism laws that they say he has used to pursue political rivals such as the Sunni vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi, who fled after being accused of running death squads and was sentenced to death in absentia.

Sunni anger was re-ignited when Maliki evoked memories of that incident by detaining the bodyguards of his Sunni finance minister, Rafaie al-Esawi, hours after Talabani was flown out.

Leading Sunni cleric Khaled al-Mullah, a participant in negotiations between the protesters and the government, said Maliki had acceded to one Sunni demand.

"In our first meeting with Prime Minister Maliki, he promised us that he will write a special pardon for all women who have criminal charges," Mullah said.

He put the number of female prisoners in Iraqi jails at 920, and said around 700 of them would be eligible for release.

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a rival of Maliki's, voiced support for the protesters' demands and said Iraq was not immune to the changes transforming the region.

"I have said before: The Arab Spring is coming and Iraq's spring will come too," Sadr told a news conference in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf.

(Reporting by Raheem Salman and Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-pm-warns-sunni-protesters-makes-small-concession-225215672.html

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A ?Ripping? Fine New Year ? Renee Hobbs at the Media Education ...

I?ll be ripping clips from Gnomeo and Juliet to help K-12 teachers teach media literacy.

My New Year?s Resolution: In 2013, I?ll be ?ripping? DVDs to make clip compilations for media literacy. And I?ll be encouraging K-12 teachers, school librarians, and technology educators to do the same.

Why? Because finally, as of October 26, 2012, the U.S. Copyright Office, as part of the DMCA 1201 rulemaking process, has declared that K-12 teachers can legally bypass copy-protected software on DVDs and online streaming media to make short clips.

How did this happen? As a copyright education activist, I participated in two rounds of rulemaking proceedings in 2009 and 2012 concerning the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is the law that exempts YouTube and other ISPs from liability from copyright claims and criminalizes the circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) software that protects DVDs from being copied. I was in good company among other copyright education activists including Peter DeCherney, Martine Rife, Spiro Bolos, and the ALA?s Jonathan Band. Professors Victoria Phillips and Peter Jaszi supported my work through the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Washington College of Law at American University.

Every three years, citizens can protest if they believe their fair use rights have been compromised by the current law; the Copyright Office pores over the petitions, weighs the pros and cons, and then offers recommendations to the Librarian of Congress, who ultimately grants or denies the exemptions.

In 2009, we were successful in expanding the law so that college professors and film/media students can legally ?rip? DVDs for fair use purposes. In 2012, we were successful in expanding the law to include the right of teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade!

Here?s the fine print: ?The person engaging in the circumvention must believe and have reasonable grounds for believing that the circumvention is necessary to achieve the desired criticism or comment, and where the circumvention is undertaken solely in order to make use of short portions of the motion pictures for the purpose of criticism or comment in the following instances: (i) In noncommercial videos; (ii) in documentary films; (iii) in nonfiction multimedia ebooks offering film analysis; and (iv) for educational purposes by college and university faculty, college and university students, and kindergarten through twelfth grade educators.? You can read the text of the Copyright Office decision here.

Why it matters. By asserting that K-12 educators have the right to circumvent encryption to make fair use of copy-protected DVDs and online digital media for teaching and learning, the law begins to move beyond the needs of large-scale content owners to include the rights of educators and students.

But if K-12 educators don?t take advantage of their new legal rights, has the law really changed? This new provision of the law is definitely a ?use it or lose it? situation ? if we can?t demonstrate the need for the special exemption in 2015, we may lose it. So, my friends, get ?ripping.? Unleash your creativity to create new kinds of educational materials with film DVDs. To help you learn how, here?s a ?how to? lesson on using the free software Handbrake to rip on a MAC and here?s how to do it on a PC. And please, inspire your colleagues by posting your own plans for ?ripping? in the comment space below.

First things first. You might wonder why I?ve set my sights on ?ripping? clips from Gnomeo and Juliet (2011, dir: Kelly Asbury). Of course, there?s the wonderful opportunity to hear my favorite classic Elton John songs (like ?Your Song,? for example). But the film has so many possibilities for exploring literary concepts like adaptation and intertextuality and for discussing the concept of nostalgia as it shapes the production of films for child audiences.

Among the gems in this film is the infomercial for the Terrafirminator, the ?un-neccesarily powerful? lawnmower that?s ?a weapon of grass destruction,? so intimidating that ?your lawn will be afraid to grow!?

After viewing the commercial, the gnomes use a laptop to order this high-tech lawnmower.

It?s a classic example of those Saturday-morning high-pressure sales pitches we see on TV.? And even very young children will recognize the now-familiar trope of slow-motion ninja fighting when it occurs in the timeless conflict between the red gnomes and the blue gnomes. I can imagine playing the ?Spot the Reference Humor? game, where students clap their hands when they recognize an example, using this activity to discuss the complex interpretations viewers make as part of the film viewing experience. Of course, older students will enjoy the chance to discuss how and why the Shakespeare tragedy is bizarrely altered to create the happy ending required for a children?s film.

Now that the U.S. Copyright Office has permitted K-12 educators to ?rip? videos for media literacy education, we can celebrate! Happy New Year 2013!

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the New Year right with Excel Templates - Business Management ...

Templates can make your life easier in two ways. First, there are hundreds of templates already in existence just waiting for you to choose them. Second, you can save your own custom templates either from your workbooks or by customizing a commercial template. If you?ve ever accidentally saved over a document you needed by using it to create a new one, or accidentally deleted long and complex formulas, you?ll appreciate these tips.

Finding templates

By clicking on the File tab and selecting New, you?ll notice a variety of template categories to choose from. Click Sample Templates at the top to reveal templates already installed on your computer. The lower portion of the screen reveals the template categories available from Office.com. You can also type in search criteria into the Search Office.com field for templates.

Creating your own templates

1. Create your work sheet or modify a template to suit your purposes.
2. Consider creating borders around or shading cells that require data input.
3. Click File, and then Save as? (or try the shortcut F12).
4. In the Save as type field, select Word Template.
5. Be sure the file saves in your templates directory.
6. Click Save.
7. Close the file. It would be too easy to forget you were in your template, instead of a copy of it.

To use the template, click File, then New. Click My Templates and you?ll find the one you created.

Single work sheet templates

Another way to use templates is to create work sheets inside an existing workbook. For example, let?s say you set up a new ledger for each new customer. The format for the ledger will be the same starting out for every customer. But, if you want to keep all your ledgers in the same workbook, follow these steps:

1. Create your content.
2. Delete any additional work sheets, leaving you with a single work sheet workbook.
3. Save the single work sheet workbook as a template (steps above).
4. When you want to add one of those work sheets to your workbook, right-click a work sheet, and choose Insert.
5. You will see your templates in the Insert dialog box.

With your new templates, you can stop reinventing the wheel. Just do the hard work one time and reap the return year after year.

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UPDATE 1-Singapore economy grew by 1.2 pct in 2012 - PM

(Adds details, economists' comment)

SINGAPORE, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Singapore's economy grew by

1.2 percent in 2012, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on

Monday, indicating the city-state slipped into a recession in

the last three months of the year.

Credit Suisse economist Michael Wan, in a note to clients,

estimated that 1.2 percent growth for the year implies the

economy "contracted sequentially by 2 percent quarter-on-quarter

annualised in the fourth quarter."

"Following the minus 5.9 percent quarter-on-quarter

seasonally adjusted and annualised rate in the previous quarter,

we think that the economy has likely entered a technical

recession," Wan added. His estimates assumed no revisions to

data for the first three quarters.

Singapore, whose trade is around three times GDP, has been

badly hit by the weakness in Western economies that has crimped

demand for many of its exports. The city-state's electronic

manufacturers have also failed to tap surging demand for smart

phones, unlike rivals in South Korea and Taiwan.

For the first 11 months of 2012, electronics production fell

11.1 percent compared with the same period last year,

underscoring the weakness in the export markets, according to

industrial production data released last week.

Lee, in his New Year message, said "Growth was slower this

year, at 1.2 percent. The weak U.S., European and Japanese

economies dampened our growth, but some industries have also had

difficulty hiring the workers they need to grow."

Looking ahead, the Singapore prime minister said the economy

will likely expand by 1-3 percent in 2013, reiterating an

earlier government forecast.

"In our new phase, we must expect slower growth than we have

become accustomed to," Lee added, referring to government

efforts to raise productivity rather than rely on low-cost

foreign workers to boost economic activity.

Singapore's economy grew by 4.9 percent in 2011 and the

government's latest forecast for 2012, just made in November,

had been for expansion of around 1.5 percent. The 1.2 percent

growth cited by Lee was, however, slightly higher than the 1.1

percent estimate of most economists in a Reuters poll.

Credit Suisse's Wan said the government measures to make it

harder for firms to hire cheap labour from abroad will crimp

Singapore's economic performance in the near term.

"We expect less productive companies to start to get weeded

out in 2013 as restructuring bites... Businesses that have not

made the necessary adjustments to survive in the island-state's

high-cost environment will choose to relocate, or throw in the

towel completely," he said.

The Straits Times newspaper reported earlier on Monday that

some retailers in the city-state have complained of poor

December sales, with revenue rising by just 5 percent despite

deep discounts and a boom in visitor arrivals.

Rising rents and the strong Singapore dollar have made the

city-state more expensive, and people are doing more of their

shopping when they are in other countries or buying off the

internet, the retailers said.

The government will release advance estimates for the fourth

quarter on Jan 2.

(Reporting by Kevin Lim; Editing by Richard Borsuk)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1-singapore-economy-grew-1-2-pct-2012-094224793--business.html

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Federal appeals court says Ilinois employer doesn't have to cover ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has temporarily barred the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois company to obtain insurance coverage for contraceptives, as required under the 2010 healthcare overhaul, after the owners objected on religious grounds.

More than 40 lawsuits are challenging a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires most for-profit companies to offer workers insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices and other birth control methods.

Friday's 2-1 order by a panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in favor of Cyril and Jane Korte was the first by a federal appeals court to temporarily halt enforcement against people who said it violated their faith, said Edward White, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic couple.

It came two days after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to block the provision's enforcement against companies controlled by the family of Oklahoma City billionaire David Green.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which had defended the contraceptives provision, did not immediately respond on Saturday to a request for comment.

The Kortes, who own the construction firm Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, had sought to drop a health insurance plan for 20 non-unionized workers that included coverage for contraception, and substitute a different plan consistent with their faith.

But the Obama administration's healthcare law did not allow the change, and the Kortes said that violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA.

In issuing an injunction, the 7th Circuit majority said the Kortes had established a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of their RFRA claim, and that the government had not yet justified the apparent "substantial burden" on their religious exercise.

The court also said the couple had established irreparable harm, because absent an injunction they would have to choose between maintaining insurance coverage they considered inappropriate or facing substantial financial penalties.

"Business owners who are objecting to the mandate are not objecting to people using contraceptives, but that they have to arrange for and pay for it," White, a lawyer with the American Center for Law and Justice, said in a phone interview. "The federal government shouldn't tell business owners they have to contract to buy what they see as immoral services and goods."

Judges Joel Flaum and Diane Sykes comprised the 7th Circuit majority.

Judge Ilana Rovner dissented. She said the Kortes were "multiple steps" removed from the contraceptives services because it was their company paying for the coverage, and because it would be a worker, her doctor and the insurer involved in the decisions about the services and their funding.

The Kortes' case is expected to continue in the 7th Circuit.

Neither the 7th Circuit nor Sotomayor ruled on the merits of their respective cases. The legal standard for obtaining an injunction from the Supreme Court is much higher.

The case is Korte et al v. Sebelius, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-3841.

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