After a school sunscreen ban left two elementary students severely burned, their mother is taking on the school district. And it could happen elsewhere: 49 states have laws on the books barring schools from letting kids use sunscreen without a doctor's note.
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Flipboard, one of the first apps that sold many on the idea of the iPad being more than an oversized iPhone, makes its first jump to the Android platform, as a smartphone app. Compatible with Android 2.2 and higher, the free Flipboard for Android delivers the same excellent social reading experience, albeit in smaller, slightly tweaked form. Flipboard for Android has a few niggles?namely the lack of dedicated offline reading and the lack of a dedicated tablet version?but it's still a slick, highly accessible Android reading app that now features Google+ and YouTube support.
The Flipboard ExperienceYou'll be familiar with Flipboard for Android if you've spent time with Flipboard (for iPad)?(Free, 4.5 stars). It features a large rectangular Cover Stories panel featuring highlighted recent articles, and smaller square panels that showcase the latest articles from the sources to which you've subscribed. If the article has an image, it's displayed as a thumbnail that fronts the panel. Overall, the interface, despite being smaller than the iPad version's, looks great is surprisingly uncramped. News Republic, a rival app, is a bit visually cluttered in comparison?and it features advertising at the bottom of the screen.
There are two differences of note from the iPad version of Flipboard: You navigate the Flipboard for Android interface by swiping up or down, not horizontally as with Flipboard for iPad. The change is a welcome, as it feels more natural to navigate with your thumb when using a phone. In addition, Flipboard only displays one article block per screen?the iPad version shows multiple. Don't consider this a drawback, however. This limitation prevents small, hard-to-read panels.By default, you can't read articles without an internet connection, but you can save individual pages for offline reading if you have an Instapaper, Pocket, or Readability account. Google Currents (Free, 3.5 stars), and Android news aggregator, lets you save articles to your device without third-party apps. Flipboard for Android offers numerous ways to share content: Bump, Facebook, the newly added Google+, Skype, Twitter, email, and many more. I like the variety offered here. You can also leave comments on articles, and view articles in their original forms on their respective Web pages.
Flipboard for Android contains a dedicated YouTube section that lets you view popular videos, or subscribe to a channels simply by tapping the "+" icon located next to a channel's name. A trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter streamed smoothly over a Wi-Fi connection.
Flipping Out for Flipboard
Flipboard for Android, much like Flipboard for iPad, is a superb alternative to standalone RSS feed readers, browsing individual sites, and following Facebook and Twitter feeds. Being smartphone-centric, it's not quite as easy to read as the iPad version, which displays articles on a magazine-size 9.7-inch display. Still, Flipboard is an excellent Android phone app that's worthy of an Editors' Choice award.
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The report was released this week at a news conference in Grand Junction.
Researchers analyzed Colorado's oil and natural gas industry including production volume and value, drilling activity, and the role of energy production in the state's economy.
Headwaters is a nonprofit, independent Montana-based organization that researches issues important to the West, concerning energy, planning, natural resources, tourism, recreation and public lands.
The report found that Colorado's oil and natural gas industry is performing in line with national trends and has recovered a significant share of pre-recession drilling activity, particularly on the Front Range due to the availability of oil and natural gas liquids.
?We looked at six Rocky Mountain states, including Colorado,? research economist Mark Haggerty said. ?The big take-away is all industry activity is driven by price. There's been a big shift between natural gas and oil prices. Oil prices are high so the industry is reducing its investments in natural gas and leaving states for Texas and North Dakota,? where there are proven oil fields.
Researchers looked at both the fossil fuel and renewable energy industries to determine changes that have occurred and how that has affected the economy.
Oil and gas extraction in Colorado accounted for 1 percent of employment in 2010, although the report did not break that statistic down by county. Employment with the industry is more significant in Mesa and Garfield counties.
The report found Colorado has strong competitive advantages in the renewable energy sector, and investment could be important for diversifying the state's economy and energy portfolio. ?Green jobs,? of which renewable energy is a part, accounted for 2 percent of all employment, according to the Brookings Institute.
The report also showed that Colorado's effective tax rate is lower than most energy-producing Western states, meaning Colorado collects less tax revenue than its peers. Colorado will collect $700,000 less from each new well compared to Wyoming, the state with the highest effective tax rate.
Geology, the price of oil and gas, and available technology is what drives industry decisions on where to invest, the report found.
?So we don't see taxes affecting where the industry goes,? Haggerty said.
David Ludlam, executive director of the Western Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association, disagrees.
?The thrust of the report is the time is right to raise taxes on the industry,? Ludlam said. ?We believe the opposite. All of the industry pays their fair share. We do, and more.?
Colorado not only has a lower tax rate than most of the other Western states, it also ?takes the longest time to collect revenue, with the last revenue coming 13 months after the end of the three-year production period. By comparison, North Dakota and Montana collect revenue within one to four months after the production period ends,? the report states.
Colorado's revenue from resource extraction is more volatile than in other states due to its low tax rate and longer collection lag period, Haggerty said.
?We think that has consequences for communities that need to have [money] to mitigate impacts, and benefit from the resources,? Haggerty said.
Headwaters Economics does not lobby or support legislation.
?Our goal is to promote information and discussion on these important issues,? Haggerty said.
The full report can be viewed at http://headwaterseconomics.org/energy/western/colorado-oil-and-gas/.
ssullivan@gjfreepress.com
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Tiffany LaBanca, right, and new friend, Laura Berg, whom she met on Twitter after she learned to see it as a place to make friends, not just promote her career.
By Lisa L. Kirchner
TechNewsDaily
Tiffany LaBanca, a senior vice president at News Corp., once used social media strictly for professional transactions until she realized there were "real people behind the avatars."
"It sounds simplistic," LaBanca told a gathering of? Twitter ?believers at The State of Now #140conf in New York City this week. "It was nothing short of a revelation."
Taking the stage, LaBanca recalled the tumultuous state of her life a year ago when a number of personal challenges coalesced around the tragic death of her neighbor?s 7-year-old son. ?"He was like my third child," she said.
Meanwhile, she was tweeting about social media strategy, sharing articles and engaging in polite business conversations. Then Vonage founder and tech startup investor Jeff Pulver spotted her.
It was about a year ago when, out of his half million or so followers, Pulver replied to her, finally writing, "We need to meet in real life." She thought he had an agenda.
"We were crying over pasta, sharing our life stories," she said. "We never talked about work at all."
It was the beginning of a major change for LaBanca, who had never considered how people online might become part of her life. She began to change her online persona, sharing what was happening with her neighbors, with her life. [ Twitter 'Stories' Site Shows the Impact of a Single Tweet ]
Simply finding one user who posts daily photos of the sunrise over Lake Michigan showed her "that life goes on and no matter how painful, that sun is going to continue to rise for us." She has made? Twitter friends ?with people from all over the world, whom she is now eager to meet. At the conference, she connected with two women she now calls "BFFs."
"This is about people. This is about humanity," she said. "The more connections that happen, the more beautiful life can be." While her life might look the same from the outside, she said the experience has been a personal revolution. "There?s a part of me that always doubted I could just step out and be who I am 100 percent. I always held [part of myself] back because of the vulnerability."
Translating interactions on Twitter into real-life taught LaBanca to be courageous. "The course of your life changes through the people you have the opportunity to meet," she said. And she credits Pulver for noticing her when she thought she was hiding online, and encouraging her to put herself forward more. "Believing in someone is the greatest gift you can give," LaBanca says.
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There's a famous Shakespearean stage direction -- "Exit, pursued by a bear." Scottish princess Merida is the star of the new Pixar movie "Brave," but a bear plays an important role too.
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
REVIEW: As a mother of a young daughter, I've been eagerly awaiting Pixar's "Brave" for months. Who can resist those breathtaking trailers, as Scottish princess Merida's flaming curls?whirl around her head?like butterflies while she takes aim with her bow and arrow?
"Brave" has a promising start. Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) is obviously beloved by her parents -- goofy giant dad (Billy Connolly),?who loses a leg to a legendary giant bear, and queenly mum (Emma Thompson). They give her a bow and encourage her to learn archery and lose herself in wild afternoons riding her giant Clydesdale, Angus.
But she's still a princess, and when?Merida gets older, she's expected to marry one of the three heirs to the other Scottish kingdoms. Man, are they losers. As you've probably seen in the trailer, Merida bests them all in the archery contest, even splitting the arrow of the one hapless prince who accidentally managed to hit the bullseye. But when even that won't convince her parents she's not ready to wed, Merida turns to witchcraft.
And then things start to get kind of dull.?A curse is put on the queen, and daughter and queen drag each other around the castle and the woods trying to hide things from Dad and the visiting heirs and their entourages. This part of the film kind of goes on. And on. And on. There are some touching bits, as Merida and Mom realize they really need each other, but there are?none of the?tender Woody-and-Andy moments that make "Toy Story" so wonderful.
You feel like the film wants to deliver a touching message about how moms and daughters need each other, or perhaps about how girls aren't possessions to be married off without their consent. But when the second half of the film is mostly clowny slapstick, it feels like the script pages with those messages got left behind in the editing room.
The rest of the film has all the Pixar outward charm with little of its heart. Merida's redheaded triplet brothers are barely in it, but they?deliver a few fun scenes. ("Don't just play with your haggis!" scolds the queen at a meal.) And there are some great lines. ("We'll expect your declarations of war in the morning,"?chirps Merida as she muses on how her parents could get her out of the bethrothal nonsense.)
Sadly, "Brave" doesn't land on the top shelf of Pixar films next to "Toy Story" and "Cars." But?as they say about pizza, even a not-so-great Pixar film is still pretty good. Young children will enjoy it, and they'll also like the sweet little short film "La Luna" that airs before it. Kudos, as always, to Pixar for making these little extras.
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