Twitter users fearful of threats over social media

Twitter recently announced changes in its safety policies in the United Kingdom following a multitude of violent tweets aimed at a member of the British Parliament. Twitter users in the United States are also not immune to threatening tweets. MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor described her experience with Twitter after she received death threats over the social media site.

First amendment rights, Taylor explains, ?don?t protect violent threats; they don?t give you safe harbor for threatening to kill someone, threatening to rape someone?certainly not on a private company?s platform.?

?Twitter is not a bullhorn on the sidewalk.?

The threats were not from a typical troll that could simply be blocked. In fact, they were particularly ominous. As Taylor explained on Weekends with Alex Witt, one Twitter user posted ?what he believed was my office address. He then posted later that he would send two after me. Two were on the way, which is a double-tap to the forehead.?

As a result of the series of tweets which were ?clearly a violation of their terms of service,? Taylor decided to take a proactive approach and alert Twitter. ?Over the course of the next four to five days absolutely nothing happened.?

The threats did not stop. Taylor said, ?He continued to make threats over the next several days until a critical mass of us began tweeting Twitter directly and tweeting to their head of security. Within the next 24 hours after that the account was suspended.?

One of Taylor?s followers was able to identify the individual who sent the threatening tweets. Immediately after the revelation, Taylor said the Twitter user attempted to wipe out and modify his online identity. Taylor highlights, however, that ?one, digital footprints are forever, and two, we?ve turned this over to the Dallas field office of the FBI because clearly these are very violent threats that we have to take seriously.?

Source: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/10/twitter-users-fearful-of-threats-over-social-media/

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Ackman pushes for new chairman at J.C. Penney

By Martinne Geller

(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc's largest shareholder, Bill Ackman, on Friday urged the company's board to replace its chairman, Thomas Engibous, sharpening a public dispute with fellow directors and drawing a sharp rebuke from the company.

The news came a day after Ackman pushed to more quickly replace Chief Executive Myron Ullman, who was brought back in April to stem sales declines blamed on Ron Johnson, Ackman's pick to turn around the struggling century-old department store chain.

"I have lost confidence in our chairman's ability to oversee this board," Ackman said in an open three-page letter.

Penney shares fell 5 percent to $12.95 on the New York Stock Exchange.

The pressure comes at a bad time for Penney, which is preparing for the year-end holidays, the biggest selling season of the year.

In an earlier letter, made public on Thursday, the billionaire hedge fund manager behind Pershing Square Capital Management expressed frustration at the slow pace of the CEO search and pushed the company to name one in 30 to 45 days.

He also said that Allen Questrom, a former Penney CEO, would return as chairman if a CEO he liked was chosen. In an interview on Thursday on CNBC, Questrom said there were only a few people he thinks would be qualified for the CEO job.

In Friday's letter, Ackman said the board "has ceased to function effectively." It is not getting material information and does not have access to independent advice, he added.

He also said the board was not being consulted on material personnel decisions, noting that he had learned of the hiring of Debra Berman as senior vice president of marketing from a press release.

J.C. Penney fired back, calling Ackman's statements "misleading, inaccurate and counterproductive."

"The board ... is following proper governance procedures, and members of the board have been fully informed and are making decisions as a group. This includes the CEO search process, which is being conducted at an appropriate pace," said Engibous, the current chairman, in a statement.

"The board also continues to actively oversee management as it conducts the important work underway to rebuild the company," he added.

Engibous became chairman in January 2012. He was named to the board in 1999. He is the retired chairman of Texas Instruments and served as its CEO from 1996 through 2004.

Ackman also raised concerns about Penney's marketing, budgeting and disclosure of directors' activities outside the board, which he said might color their thinking.

Later on Friday, Perry Corp, which owns about 7.3 percent of Penney shares, expressed support for Ackman's strategy and urged the company to immediately seek to name Questrom as chairman and Ken Hicks as chief executive.

Hicks has been the chief executive at Foot Locker since 2009. He has served as the president and chief merchandising officer of Penney in the past.

Pershing Square owned nearly 18 percent of J.C. Penney as of March 31.

"The board shouldn't feel that they've got to act with a gun to their head in picking the CEO of a big business in a time of crisis. They've got to be able to take the time to make an informed decision," said Michael Peregrine, a partner at law firm McDermott Will & Emery who focuses on corporate governance issues.

Penney's credit default swaps also widened on Friday, in a sign that the market believes the chance of a default has increased.

(Additional reporting by Dhanya Skariachan and Madeline Will in New York and Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Chris Reese)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ackman-pushes-chairman-j-c-penney-145630054.html

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Back to Bedlam: Crossrail digging unearths ancient London burial ground

An archaeologist unearths a human skull at the Crossrail building site at London's Liverpool Street station. Photograph: Martin Godwin

Every day hordes of London commuters have passed unknowingly over the bodies of thousands of their predecessors, buried a few metres under the roaring traffic and rumbling trains at Liverpool Street, and which are now being exposed for the first time by the huge Crossrail construction project.

The bodies include those of mentally ill patients from Bethlem, the ancient and notorious asylum from which the word Bedlam entered the English language. Bodies that were never claimed by their families ? often those of beaten, starved and exploited inmates ? would have ended up in the burial ground alongside rich and poor, old and young, victims of plague and war, from across London.

Jay Carver, lead archaeologist on the Crossrail sites ? the largest archaeology project in the UK on the largest infrastructure project in Europe ? described the site as exceptionally interesting. "Because of its history, we know that this is one of the most diverse burial grounds in London, a real cross section of its people across two centuries. Bone preservation is excellent in the finds we have already made, and we are expecting many important discoveries when we get into the main phase of the excavation."

The trial trenches have already yielded the first treasure from the 40 archaeology sites along the route of Crossrail's tunnelling: a thumbnail-sized golden coin from Venice, pierced so it could be stitched on as expensive decoration on some costly garment ? and likely a bad loss when the thread broke and it fell into the gutter some 400 years ago.

The archaeologists have also found a stretch of a superbly engineered Roman road that probably led to a bridge across the river Walbrook. Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern. Embedded in the road surface was a human bone, possibly washed out of earlier burials nearby, and another loss that must have caused some cursing: a horse shoe. More Roman finds are confidently expected.

The walled, two-acre burial ground was opened in the mid-17th century by order of the mayor of London. It was the first built away from the city's parish churches and their bursting, grossly overfilled graveyards and was usually known as Bedlam because it was on land formerly occupied by the mental hospital, which had recently moved to Moorfields. It would move again to the present site of the Imperial War Museum, and finally to Bromley in Kent, where it survives today as the Bethlem Royal hospital.

From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters ? as Bunhill Fields later became. Carver hopes to find evidence of two particularly interesting characters known to have been buried there: 'Freeborn John' ? John Lilburne ? a radical campaigner and pamphleteer for the rights of the common man who greatly influenced the Levellers, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, exiled twice and eventually died while on parole from his final jail term.

John Lockyer, a soldier in Cromwell's New Model Army who was executed for his involvement in the Bishopsgate Mutiny ? when the army defied orders to leave London ? was also buried there after a funeral that terrified the authorities, attended by thousands of mourners wearing the Levellers' green ribbons.

The victims of several outbreaks of plague were also buried there; as it filled, there were appeals for more top soil to keep the bodies decently covered, and by the time it closed in 1714 it held a 2m layer solid with corpses. Because the bodies came from all over London, those buried there are unusually diverse socially. This poses a problem for Carver; there are no surviving burial records for the cemetery, and instead names are scattered through thousands of records in the parishes where they lived or died. He hopes to ask the public for help in tracking them down.

Part of the cemetery was excavated in the 1980s by the Museum of London, when the Broadgate Centre was built But while towering office blocks gradually replaced the Victorian townhouses, factories and warehouses ? which in turn displaced the warren of poor Georgian buildings ? an extensive stretch of the burial ground survived under Liverpool Street itself. The busy road, following the route taken by the Romans almost 2,000 years earlier, kept the site as open ground and preserved the remains from being destroyed by pile driving and foundations.

The remains of several hundred individuals have already been found in the trial pits and the trenches dug to relocate utilities. Carver believes he will find up to 4,000 more when the main excavation starts next year.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/08/crossrail-tunnelling-unearths-burial-ground-bedlam

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House Panel Tours Texas-Mexico Border

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August 7, 2013

The chairman of the House Homeland Security committee said Tuesday in South Texas that the U.S. Border Patrol?s resources in the area are ?woefully inadequate.?

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, made the comments after cruising the Rio Grande with Border Patrol and Texas Department of Public Safety officials in Mission.

McCaul?s House bill calling for a plan to secure the border is expected to be the first of several immigration-related bills taken up after the chamber?s August recess. McCaul is also leading a group of congressman along the border, stopping this weekend in California and Arizona. Accompanying McCaul on Tuesday were U.S. Reps. Kevin Yoder, R-Kansas, and Leonard Lance, R-New Jersey.

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Number of state? s coal jobs lowest since 1927

The Middlesboro Daily News

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ? The state says Kentucky?s coal jobs have dropped to the lowest level in the more than 85 years that the state has kept records of the number.

The Energy and Environment Cabinet says eastern Kentucky mines cut 916 jobs from April through June, while western Kentucky mines added 65 jobs, an increase of 1.5 percent. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported the jobs lost in eastern Kentucky followed steep declines in 2012.

The cabinet said the number of people working at coal mines and facilities statewide dropped to 12,342 as of July, the lowest number since 1927.

The report also said eastern Kentucky coal production has dropped more than 41 percent in two years.

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New US penalties will greet Iran's new leader

WASHINGTON (AP) ? As Iran's new president takes over, new U.S. penalties against the country appear a done deal.

In a letter to President Barack Obama, 76 senators are demanding tougher punishment on Iran's economy until the Islamic republic scales back its nuclear program. It also urges Obama to consider military options while keeping the door open to diplomacy.

The Senate letter, a copy of which was obtained Saturday by The Associated Press, comes just days after the House overwhelmingly passed new restrictions on Iran's oil sector and its mining and construction industries. Senators are expected to take up the same package in September.

"Until we see a significant slowdown of Iran's nuclear activities, we believe our nation must toughen sanctions and reinforce the credibility of our option to use military force at the same time as we fully explore a diplomatic solution to our dispute with Iran," says the letter, which will be delivered Monday.

The Obama administration is concerned Congress' effort could undercut Iran's relatively moderate President-elect Hasan Rouhani, who was formally endorsed by Iran's ayatollah on Saturday and takes the oath of office Sunday. Rouhani has pledged to follow a "path of moderation" and promised greater openness over Iran's nuclear program.

Obama wants to give Rouhani a chance to prove his seriousness.

The U.S. believes Iran has been working for years to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its program is for peaceful energy and research purposes.

Rouhani's victory signaled Iran's clear dissatisfaction, the senators said. But they noted that all final decisions on nuclear matters rest with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and said Iran must not be allowed to use any new nuclear negotiations with world powers to stall for time.

"Iran today continues its large-scale installation of advanced centrifuges," their letter said. "This will soon put it in the position to be able to rapidly produce weapons-grade uranium, bringing Tehran to the brink of a nuclear weapons capability."

"We need to understand quickly whether Tehran is at last ready to negotiate seriously," it added. "Iran needs to understand that the time for diplomacy is nearing its end."

Obama prefers diplomacy. He has given Iran until sometime next spring to prove to the world that its program is peaceful.

If Iran fails to do so, the stage may be set for military intervention from the U.S. or Israel, which sees Iranian nuclear weapons capacity as an existential threat and has warned of taking action according to its own timeline.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-penalties-greet-irans-leader-145539945.html

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