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quite a buzz: email privacy news

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Huffington Post - Lavabit Founder Ladar Levison On The Shutdown Of Email Service (LIVE VIDEO)

Washington Post - Lavabit, Silent Circle shut down e-mail: What alternatives are left?

PC Magazine - Google is making headlines this week for a court filing that some have interpreted as an admission that Gmail users should have no expectation of privacy while using the service.

Fox News - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called the latest reports "extremely disturbing."

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UK: Diana in'82 presented Prince William, now Will the newborn Prince George; Jane Austen on £10 note face; put human on Mars

Prince William cradling his new-born son; the Queen was said to be ‘thrilled’ at the arrival of her first great-grandson

*Update Oct 23 2013 (above)*: Kate Middleton and Prince William arriving with baby Prince George at St. James's Palace in London for the 3-month-old's christening.

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The Queen, pictured at a Buckingham Palace reception, was said to be "thrilled" at the arrival of her first great-grandson.

According to the statement, the baby will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.Prince Charles and Princess Diana took a week to announce William's name, Will and Kate took just two days. Prince George was born Monday at St. Mary's hospital in London at 4:24 p.m. local time, 11:24 a.m. ET. And his name is George Alexander Louis!

Author Jane Austen to be face of the Bank of England £10 note

Denmark: drive with a clean conscience. 12,000 electric cars on the roads by 2015: Copenhagen to become CO2-neutral by 2025

*update* 8 Aug 2014
In Copenhagen, where bicycles outnumber people and nearly 40% of residents cycle to work, bike-friendly infrastructure is key

the electric car makes it easy to get around with a clean conscience

electric car charging station - Copenhagen

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[July 8, 2013] 12,000 electric cars are to move on the roads in Greater Copenhagen by 2015. 12,000 electric cars are to move on the roads in Greater Copenhagen by 2015. This is the target set by The Capital Region of Denmark and their new project Copenhagen Electric. Today there are not even 1 500 electric cars in the whole of Denmark. Copenhagen Electric is to encourage municipalities, hospitals and enterprises to purchase more electric cars for their car pools. - We’re starting with the municipalities, says Kåre Albrechtsen, head of Copenhagen Electric that is run by the Capital Region of Denmark. The region is investing 12 million Danish kroner in the consulting project Copenhagen Electrics over a 3-year period. The municipalities in Greater Copenhagen now have 274 electric cars, which is eight percent of the entire municipal car pool. The aim is to increase this share to 25 percent in only two years’ time. (News Øresund) read more »

Giant Rubber Duck: 54foot world traveler tours Osaka, Sydney, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam..bids adieu to Hong Kong, heads to Pittsburgh

*update* August 21, 2014
an unusual visitor: giant rubber duck sailed into LA port Wednesday
giant Rubber Duck created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in Hong Kong's Victoria Habour

giant Rubber Duck enters Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney, Australia

giant duck humor

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[HuffPost] Giant Rubber Duck Heads To Pittsburgh, Bids Adieu To Hong Kong (PHOTOS) read more »

"Do well by doing good." Benjamin Franklin featured on Canada Post's 250th anniversary stamp

Stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the first formalized postal service in Canada, initiated in June 1763 by Benjamin Franklin, then the Philadelphia-based postmaster for Britain’s colonies in North America. The stamp features a portrait of Franklin and a vintage scene of Quebec City.

Benjamin Franklin - the man who was called ‘the harmonious human multitude’

by turns pamphleteer, apprentice, printer, balladeer, inventor, philosopher, politician, soldier, firefighter, ambassador, family man, sage, delegate, signer, shopkeeper, bookseller, cartoonist, grandfather, anti-slavery agitator, Mason, and deist - Benjamin Franklin was all of the above and none of the above

"Do well by doing good." - Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin

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A landmark stamp to be issued Monday by Canada Post to commemorate the 250th anniversary of formalized mail delivery in this country will feature a portrait of - huh? - American history icon Benjamin Franklin, the famed inventor, diplomat, philosopher and Founding Father of the United States.

But the Canadian postal tribute to Franklin - plotter of the would-be conquest of Quebec during the Revolutionary War - is not some colossal printing error. read more »

Fr wwii...: Germany, nuclear phase-out; Japan, radioactive water out of control, nuclear plan unsettles US, $22bn deal w/Turkey

solar energy infographic: Germany April 15

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*update*
Sat May 25, 2013 - At least 4 people, and possibly up to 55, were exposed to radiation when radioactive material leaked during a laboratory experiment in Japan

24 May 2013 - Japan must continue efforts to deactivate Fukushima nuclear plant – UN agency read more »

Shocking or not. 17trillion debt & votes on 2nd Amendment may spring US Founding Fathers out of grave: tradition out of fashion?

US Outstanding Public Debt is over $16.8 trillion as of April 14, 2013

Signing of the Constitution of the United States

To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America

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As of April 14, 2013 at 02:52:27 AM GMT, the Outstanding Public Debt is over $16.8 trillion

On December 15 in 1791 the Founding Fathers who gave birth to the United States created the 2nd Amendment. On Friday, April 12, 2013,
“uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty”? see the 53-46 vote

The Statement of Purpose from the bill read:
“To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.” read more »

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Self-evident: privacy matters? "buzz" headlines: Lavabit, Silent Circle shut down; Gmail under fire; Dem leader: "disturbing"

UK: Diana in'82 presented Prince William, now Will the newborn Prince George; Jane Austen on £10 note face; put human on Mars

Denmark: drive with a clean conscience. 12,000 electric cars on the roads by 2015: Copenhagen to become CO2-neutral by 2025

Giant Rubber Duck: 54foot world traveler tours Osaka, Sydney, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam..bids adieu to Hong Kong, heads to Pittsburgh

"Do well by doing good." Benjamin Franklin featured on Canada Post's 250th anniversary stamp

Fr wwii...: Germany, nuclear phase-out; Japan, radioactive water out of control, nuclear plan unsettles US, $22bn deal w/Turkey

Shocking or not. 17trillion debt & votes on 2nd Amendment may spring US Founding Fathers out of grave: tradition out of fashion?

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