Solution to Santa Monica Citizens affected by Airport problems of pollution, cancer and Noise .

MOVE 

Amanda Knox tonight on Channel 7 and this live Podcast for Santa Monica

April 30, 2013


Two Big Events Tonight ! 



First, Santa Monica California, 

The City council will hear discussion about the Santa Monica Airport. 

Many locals would like it closed. These citizens have decided that the dangers and problems having an airport in their community is no longer desired. 

I disagree. Airports serve the public, and should not be closed at the objection of those under the flight path.  Of course, no one wants the noise, pollution, or potential danger of operating aircraft near their homes. That is only natural. 

We enjoy, however, flying to far away places to visit friends and family, and exotic vacations  that for the invention of the airplane, would be unavailable. 

Those complaining about living close to an airport have a great remedy  They can move. An airport cannot move easily. So if those complaining about local airport irritations, would be willing to never use airports and our United States Air traffic control system would pledge to never use, the services of these airports, their arguments would have greater influence.

Few, if any, would consent to this, and the dispute goes on. 


The Meeting can be seen at  http://www.smgov.net/video/   

The second highlight is the Diane Sawyer interview of Amanda Knox at 10 PM on ABC.

I see Amanda as America's Daughter, and like her interviewer, Diane Sawyer has said earlier, from promo's about the interview ,  "look into her eyes, and make up your own mind"  

Enough said about that. 


Gary Ozenne

4-30-13

Conan O'Brien returns to host 'Nerd Prom'

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By Breeanna Hare, CNN

April 28, 2013 -- Updated 0211 GMT (1011 HKT)

President Barack Obama laughs during the White House Correspondents' Dinner at theWashington Hilton on Saturday, April 27.

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• The 99th annual White House Correspondents' Dinner takes place Saturday
• The annual event brings together newsmakers from across politics and entertainment
• Conan O'Brien is the event's headliner for the second time

(CNN) -- The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner is usually an occasion for glitz and good-natured ribbing, particularly from the president.

But in light of the tragedies in Boston and West, Texas, the invited guests who arrived at Saturday's dinner were curious how somber or light-hearted of an evening they were in for.

With TBS' late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien tasked with leading the night's ceremony, at least a little comedy was a certainty. The "Conan" comedian joked when his role was announced in February that guests could expect "[two] minutes of jokes, then 40 minutes on public employee pension reform." O'Brien first hosted the Correspondents' Dinner in 1995.

President Barack Obama, who is attending the gala for the fifth time Saturday, has also become quite a pro at landing some of the night's biggest punchlines.The president quipped at last year's dinner, which was hosted by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, that his hair had grayed so much since taking office he was just a few years out from looking like Morgan Freeman.

In 2011, at a dinner hosted by Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live," he made light of the controversy surrounding his long-form birth certificate by playing a clip from "The Lion King" as his "birth video."

The Beltway gala, also known as the "nerd prom," sees Washington's newsmakers stroll a red carpet that's also filled with press and stars from across entertainment. Attendees included fashion influencers like Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and sports stars like Olympic champ Gabrielle Douglas and Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware, who suffered a horrific leg break during an NCAA tournament game last month.

There were also enough famous faces to have the night mistaken for an awards ceremony. Kerry Washington, Rebel Wilson, Katy Perry, Sofia Vergara, John Legend, Elizabeth Banks, Psy, Michael J. Fox and Matthew Perry were all in attendance. With the president being a professed fan of Showtime's "Homeland," perhaps it wasn't surprising to see stars Claire Danes and Morena Baccarin there as well.

For Attorney General Eric Holder, the dinner is an opportunity to put away political differences, "put on tuxedos, have fun and make fun of each other." Yet whatever laughs will be had during the evening, he said, will happen with April's heartbreaking events in mind.

The dinner, which raises money for journalism scholarships, was first established in 1920 with the intent to increase communication between the president and the press. It was a men-only event until 1962, when President John F. Kennedy said he wouldn't attend unless women were invited as well.

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Leap Motion delays launch of 3-D gesture controller to July 22

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The release of the Leap Motion sensor, which enables users to interact with their computers using intuitive gestures, has been delayed until July. (Leap Motion)

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By Andrea Chang

April 25, 2013, 3:32 p.m.

Leap Motion is delaying the release of its 3-D gesture-recognition controller to July 22 to give the company more time for testing.

“As a company, in good conscience, we couldn’t sacrifice the testing process," Chief Executive Michael Buckwald said Thursday during a call with reporters. "We have to push back the date.... We really believe in meeting our own expectations and I think a little additional testing is necessary to get there.”

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The device was originally supposed to ship in early 2013 before being pushed back to May 13.

The latest delay, Buckwald said, "really isn't motivated by any major issues." He said the extra two months would be used for a round of beta testing that would focus on the software side, and not on the device's hardware. More than 600,000 Leap Motion devices have already been made.

Still, it's a disappointment for the thousands of people who have pre-ordered the highly anticipated tiny touch-free gesture control sensor, which was the star of last month's SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas.

Leap Motion's technology can track the movement of both hands and all 10 fingers with up to 1/100th-millimeter accuracy and no visible latency. Leap Motion enables anyone to use natural movements to interact with their computer, browse the Web or use motion-control applications.

Unlike other motion-sensing devices that require users to learn special sign-language-like gestures, the Leap Motion device understands movements that come naturally: If you want to zoom in on something on the screen, simply move your hand closer to it; to zoom out, draw your hand back toward your body. Spinning your hand in the air rotates an object on the screen.

Using the device, consumers can play popular smartphone games such as "Fruit Ninja" and "Cut the Rope" and create colorful digital paintings by simply swiping the air in front of their screens. Pieces of digital clay can be molded by making squeezing and poking motions.

Buckwald said pre-orders "will definitely" ship July 22, with retailers to begin selling the device shortly after.

Last week, San Francisco-based Leap Motion said it was partnering with Hewlett-Packard. It said its Leap Motion controller would be bundled with select HP personal computers and that its 3-D motion-sensing technology would be embedded in some of the computer giant's devices.

4/20: Americans Are Ready to Legalize Marijuana, Why Aren't Politicians?

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420 Americans Are Ready to Legalize Marijuana Why Arent Politicians

In 1999, as the Republican Governor of New Mexico, I made some waves by becoming the highest ranking elected official in the nation to call for the legalization of marijuana use and to publicly state the obvious: The War on Drugs is an "expensive bust."

At that time, advocating the legalization of marijuana was considered an outrageous – and ill-advised – position to take. Polls clearly showed the public wasn’t yet ready to accept marijuana legalization, and there was absolutely no conventional political wisdom to support my decision. 

So, why did I jump off that political cliff? The answer is simpler than you might think, and it applies even more today than it did more than 20 years ago. As I tried to do with virtually every policy issue the State of New Mexico faced, I looked at our drug laws through the lens of costs versus benefits. And the picture became very clear very quickly.

From the policeman on the street to the courts, prosecutors, and prisons, our legal system was overwhelmed by the task of enforcing a modern-day Prohibition that frankly made no more sense than the one that was repealed almost 80 years ago. Were we safer? Was drug abuse being reduced? Were we benefiting in any measurable way from laws that criminalize personal choices that are certainly no more harmful to society than alcohol use?  The answer to all those questions was a pretty resounding "NO."

So much for the so-called benefits. What about the costs? Depending on how you do the math, as much as half our law enforcement resources are consumed by the War on Drugs.  Perhaps more importantly, more than 10 million Americans are now "criminals" for purposes of employment, credit histories, voting, gun ownership and many other opportunities – all because they got caught using marijuana, a substance more than 100 million of their fellow citizens have used. 

And border violence? More than 50,000, and maybe as many as 70,000, people have died in Mexico and the U.S. due to drug war violence in the past 10 years. Just as alcohol Prohibition propelled the Mafia to outrageous power and profits in the last century, the War on Drugs has done precisely the same for the Cartels, with tragic results. The idea that marijuana might become legal, regulated and lawfully distributed in the U.S. is the Cartels’ worst nightmare.

The good news: Since I committed what many would call political Hara-kiri in 1999, the American people are increasingly recognizing the failure of the War on Drugs, and in particular, the hypocrisy of marijuana prohibition. Gallup and other polling organizations are finding, for the first time, that a majority of Americans are ready to accept marijuana legalization. In November, voters in two states, Washington and Colorado, approved measures to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana use. 

I personally believe the political system cannot for very long withstand this inexorable shift in public opinion. The tipping point is here as far as the people are concerned; now, the politicians must follow.

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