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YouTube's "London 2012 Olympics Bus" Traveling Across India

Andy Plesser | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: India, Video, YouTube, OLYMPICS NEWS, London Olympics 2012, Live Video

SAN BRUNO, CA - YouTube has an Internet-connect bus in India, streaming the London 2012 Olympics to many small villages who lack television or Internet access. It is rolling through the country until August 13. The bus is equipped with several monitors where visitors can select which of 10 Olympic streams to watch.

It's part of a big marketing effort by the Google to distribute major live events in India which recently have included the French Open and the Indian Premiere League. More on the YouTube bus published in the Indian publication B2C.

YouTube is streaming the London 2012 Olympics to some 64 nations, which we reported Monday.

Last week, we sat down with Lee Hunter, Global Head of Brand Marketing at YouTube about the project in India and other Olympics-related topics.

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Tasting Rihanna's Cake: Sweet Bodies in Popular Culture

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Chris Brown, Popular Culture, Cake, Food, Rihanna, Sexuality

Once again, the unstoppable machine of pop music invites us to a tasting of a sweet and - not incidentally - black body. This time Rihanna entices listeners to join her in a celebration where the main course is herself. As a matter of fact, a popular remix seems to...

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First Goodbye to a Friend

Leigh Flayton | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Audrey Hepburn, Friendlys, Friendship, Junior High School, Long Island, Madonna, Moving, Oakdale, Saying Goodbye, Teenagers

It really did feel like the end of the world when Renee, my best friend in junior high, told me her family was moving away at the end of the school year.

"I have bad news," she said on the phone one afternoon that spring. "We're...

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Can Lessons From the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Help Solve Washington's Deadlock?

Ari Ratner | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Barack Obama, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mitt Romney, World News, Budget, International, Negotiations, Politics, Washington

With Mitt Romney just completing a visit to Israel as part of his foreign tour, and numerous Obama Administration officials including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta also visiting over the past several weeks, the politics of Arab-Israeli peacemaking is returning to the center of...

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A Sacred Duty: Ending the Injustice of Gun Violence

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Aurora Shooting, Assault Weapons Ban, Gun Control, Gun Lobby, Gun Violence, Interfaith, Nonviolence, Peace

In a thoughtful Los Angeles Times op-ed published earlier this month, Michael Kinsley asked readers to consider which of the injustices we accept today will seem utterly and unthinkably outrageous to people living 20 years from now.

We are convinced that today's too-easy access to lethal weapons...

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Packing the Invisible Knapsack

Ernestine Hayes | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Equality, Invisible Knapsack, Peggy-Mcintosh, Privilege, Social Justice, White Privilege, Women

The classic work Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh now holds a place in the modern liberal canon. The essay, published in 1988, likens the founding privileges upon which American institutions are built to an "invisible package of unearned assets" and unpacks those assets in terms of power, identity...

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Previewing the U.S. Olympic Gymnasts Chances in the All-Around Competition

Quinn Cohane | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: 2012 London Olympics, Alexandra Raisman, London Gymnastics, Aliya Mustafina, Gymnastics All-Around, Jordyn Wieber, Kohei Uchimura

It's only Olympic day four, and already the gymnastics world has experienced plenty of shocking moments and proud accomplishments. The U.S. teams are being talked about for both their successes and disappointments. While the favored women's team met expectations and won the team gold -- their first since...

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Super PACs help tea party candidate win Senate runoff in Texas

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Ted Cruz, Texas Senate, Texas Senate Race, David Dewhurst, Super Pac, Tea Party, Ted Cruz 2012, Texas Senate 2012, Texas Senate Runoff

By Alexandra Duszak and Reity O'Brien

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In a Texas-sized spending battle that attracted more than $14 million in outside money, Ted Cruz upset the party...

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The New Trend in Exemplary Sportsmanship

Gary Gero | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: 2012 London Olympics, Green Energy, London Olympics 2012, Green Living, Green Sport, Green Sporting Events, Green Sports Events, Olympics

As athletes go for Olympic gold, the global community wins with Olympic green.

The sports world is embracing a new form of exemplary sportsmanship -- environmental stewardship. The same ethos of fairness, respect and fellowship that has long been fundamental in athletics is being extended from treating...

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Soccer Mom Soapbox

Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Healthy Snacks, Child Nutrition, Dietitian, Healthy Diet, Healthy Food, Kids' Sports

As a dietitian, I try very hard to be helpful when asked and not be bossy and preachy and in everyone's business when it comes to food (my husband may disagree with this).

I really didn't want to be That Mom. You know her: The one who rails against toxic...

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WATCH: Exposing Hollow Defenses of Voter ID Laws

Bill Moyers | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Voter Suppression, Brennan Center For Justice, Election, Pennsylvania, Vote, Voter ID, Voter ID Laws, Voter Laws

Are laws aimed at voter fraud really enabling voter suppression? In a preview clip from this weekend's Moyers & Company, Keesha Gaskins and Michael Waldman from the Brennan Center for Justice rebut common defenses of voter ID laws, including "everybody's got a driver's license!", "what about public transportation!"...

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Romney's 5-Point Plan: Very Primitive Economics

Harlan Green | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Affordable Care Act, GW Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Great Depression, Great Recession, Mitt Romney, President Reagan

Romney's "Five Point Plan to Grow the Economy" that he touts on his website, is primitive economics almost beyond belief. It returns us to 19th-century government of the few, by the few, with few regulations or insurance against the kinds of events that brought on the Great Depression...

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Digital Money, Mobile Wallets and Latin America

Anabel Perez | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Latin America, Digital Banking, Mobile Banking, Mobile Wallet

A recent wave of global and regional announcements regarding mobile wallets and payment systems has casual and close followers alike asking some the same questions.

What exactly are they talking about?

Whether the statements are promoting digital money, mobile payments, mobile banking, prepaid or a mobile wallet, one thing is...

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Fracking Truth to Fracking Power

Sandra Steingraber | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Environmental Working Group, Natural Gas, New York State Senate, Deparment Of Environmental Conservation, Fracking, Oil And Gas Industry

Does fracking kill more people than it employs?

"Your silence will not protect you." --Audre Lorde

On July 18, the Democratic Conference of the New York Senate held a forum on allegations of government-industry collusion in the creation and revision of a scientific...

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Culturally Relevant Education Will Enable a Brighter Future for Hispanics

Glenn Llopis | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Latin America, Center-For-Hispanic-Leadership, Cultura, Education, Hispanic-Training-Center, Mitu-Network, Online-Learning, Opportunity-Working, Students-First

At a time when U.S. Latinos are looking to advance personally and professionally in ways that come most naturally to them - universities and corporations must take measures to be more culturally sensitive if they want to leverage how Latinos think, act and innovate. They must become more mindful of...

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Short Hair Changed My Life (PHOTOS)

Christina Anderson | Posted August 1, 2012

When I was a sophomore in college, Charlize Theron cut her hair into a pixie 'do, and I tore the image out of a magazine and stuck it on my wall. I asked my roommates and friends what they thought of her new haircut, and told...

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EDINBURGH FRINGE DIARY #1: Say Hello, Monica

Monica Bauer | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Edinburgh Festival 2012, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2012, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

My name is Monica Bauer, and I'm going to be your guide to the Most Outrageous Arts Festival in the World, otherwise known as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This year is the biggest one ever: 2,695 shows in 279 venues over three weeks in the rain-soaked, castle-bedecked capital of Scotland.

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What Is Khartoum Hiding?

Ashley Benner | Posted August 1, 2012

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, United Nations, Central African Republic, Congo, Lra, Sudan, United Nations General Assembly

A remark made last week by Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations is renewing suspicions that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is hiding in Sudan and receiving support from the Sudanese government again. Highly credible reports received by the Enough Project several days ago indicate that Kony was recently in...

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The Battle Cry of the Romance Authors

Elise Sax | Posted August 1, 2012

Bestselling romance author Stephanie Laurens stood in front of thousands of her peers, breathless, her heaving bosoms pushing against her lace bodice, her long tresses framing her virginal face, and shook her fist at the sky. "As God is my witness," she cried. "I will never be hungry again."

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