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Google, Yahoo Object to Proposed Internet Censorship in Australia

Source: Michael Ricci
March 23, 2010

Censorship by China grabbed the headlines for weeks. But what of restrictions on Internet freedom elsewhere in the world?

Case in point: The latest country in the news for attempting to block objectionable content is Australia.The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google, Yahoo and others have criticized government plans to force Internet service providers to make certain content inaccessible. Australia plans legislation this year that will blacklist certain sites. Google has gone on record saying the scope of ...

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Google's Action Angers China, Divides Web Users

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Google Inc.'s partial withdrawal from China brought condemnation and signs of pressure from the government Tuesday.

Meanwhile leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether the company's new offshore search engine site would be blocked by censors. Google's decision to move most of its China-based search functions from the mainland to Hong Kong opened a new phase in a two-month-long fracas pitting the world's most powerful Internet company against a government that tightly restricts the Web in the planet's most populous ...

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Cracks in Great Chinese Firewall, Even Without Google

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are out, but in China's vast and bewildering online universe you can freely read the New York Times or visit a favorite porn site. People outside China who have read about Internet censorship -- thrown into the spotlight by Google's decision on Monday to close its mainland Chinese-language portal -- often imagine online life there is bleak and boring. The reality is very different. China's 384 million Internet users, the world's biggest online population, enjoy everything ...

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Vocalist Barb Jungr Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Singer Barb Jungr is on a roll at present. In March 2009 she and accompanist Simon Wallace played for the first time at Caf Carlyle, in New York City, presenting a show entitled “The Men I Love" which featured songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren and Neil Diamond. The show received rave reviews and was voted one of the year's best by Time Out New York. The songs from the show formed the ...

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A Judge May Google to Confirm Intuition: Court

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Jury members are still barred from trying to research a case in progress.

But lazy or clueless judges in New York get the benefit of the doubt and are legally allowed to whip out their phones to hit a search engine for a common sense question, according to a recent ruling.

Why would they need to Google something if it's common sense? The mind reels. We give props to Reuters for this deck: “It is the case of Curious Judge ...

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Witness: Michael Jackson Doctor Interrupted CPR

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Michael Jackson's doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer's chaotic final moments.

The explosive allegation that Dr. Conrad Murray may have tried to hide evidence is likely to be a focus as prosecutors move ahead with their involuntary manslaughter case against him.

The account was given to investigators by Alberto Alvarez, ...

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Prosecutors Want Michael Jackson's Doctor's License Suspended

Source: Michael Ricci
March 23, 2010

California prosecutors filed court papers seeking to suspend the medical license of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was charged last month in the death of Michael Jackson. When Murray was charged, the judge agreed he should be barred from administering anesthetics like the ones prosecutors said killed the pop star last year when he was in Murray's care. But now, California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown wants Murray to stop practicing medicine as part of the terms of his bail. The move ...

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Heaven on Wheels

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Choosy actors choose designer Jane Hallworth's dapper caravan for on-set repose People with sophisticated tastes generally construe the term luxury trailer as an oxymoron.

There's certainly no shortage of mobile homes tricked out with all manner of modern conveniences, high-tech gimcracks and swiveling bucket seats large enough to swallow a baby elephant. But luxury? The answer is almost invariably no. Jane Hallworth's 1955 Spartan Aircraft Imperial Mansion All-Aluminum Trailercoach dares to defy the stereotype. Completely reconstructed and re-imagined, the caravan ...

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