PFT: Tackle Gaither staying in San Diego for now

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Vikings receiver Percy Harvin reportedly wants out of Minnesota.? He also reportedly wants to be paid like Lions receiver Calvin Johnson.

But Harvin is overlooking one important reality.? He?ll have to find a team that wants him, and a team that will pay him what he wants.

As one NFL front-office source explains it, Harvin and his agent forget that a large portion of the league had him off of their draft boards in 2009, due to his reputation for being a pain in the posterior.

In Minnesota, the Vikings have done a nice job of keeping Harvin from being too much of a problem, at least publicly.? Under former coach Brad Childress, then-defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier often was the peacekeeper.? Now that Harvin and Frazier reportedly had a ?heated exchange? that preceded Harvin?s placement on injured reserve, Harvin may be out of allies in Minnesota.

That doesn?t mean he?ll have friends elsewhere.? Especially if he gets the kind of money he wants.? If/when (if) he cashes in, Harvin will be largely untouchable, free to do what he wants, how he wants, when he wants.

Even though there are plenty of desperate coaches and General Managers in the NFL, there?s a difference between desperation and stupidity.? For Harvin, the key word could be delusion.

If there?s no team who will both trade for him and pay him, he?ll continue to be the property of the Vikings.? And the manner in which he handles himself during the final year of his contract will go a long way toward shaping the extent to which other teams will, or won?t, be interested in him once he hits the open market.

And if he decides to hold out, the Vikings can fine him hundreds of thousands of dollars and, if he doesn?t show up by Week 10, squat on his rights through 2014.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/10/jared-gaither-staying-in-san-diego-for-the-moment/related/

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Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria

A man reads a local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A man reads a local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Muslim men ride on bicycles on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A boy pushes a cart with garbage past Muslim women on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

People read local newspapers with headlines like ' We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali,not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

People read local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

KANO, Nigeria (AP) ? Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla attacks.

Nigeria's police, military, domestic spy service and presidency remained silent over the killings of the construction company workers, kidnapped Feb. 16 from northern Bauchi state. The government's silence only led to more questions about the nation's continued inability to halt attacks that have seen hundreds killed in shootings, church bombings and an attack on the United Nations.

The latest victims were four Lebanese and one citizen apiece from Britain, Greece and Italy.

Britain and Italy said all seven of those taken from the Setraco construction company compound had died at the hands of Ansaru, a previously little-known splinter group of the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Greece also confirmed one of its citizens was killed, while Lebanese authorities didn't immediately comment.

"It's an atrocious act of terrorism, against which the Italian government expresses its firmest condemnation, and which has no explanation," a statement from Italy's foreign ministry read. Italy also denied a claim by Ansaru that the hostages were killed before or during a military operation by Nigerian and British forces, saying there was "no military intervention aimed at freeing the hostages."

Italian Premier Mario Monti identified the slain Italian hostage as Silvano Trevisan and promised Rome would use "every effort" to stop the killers. British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the killings "an act of cold-blooded murder" and identified the U.K. victim as Brendan Vaughan.

A statement from Greece's foreign ministry said authorities had already informed the hostage's family. "We note that the terrorists never communicated or formulated demands to release the hostages," the statement read, which also denied any military raid took place.

Ansaru issued a short statement Saturday saying its fighters kidnapped the foreigners from the construction company's camp at Jama'are, a town 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state. In the attack, gunmen first assaulted a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. Then the attackers blew up a back fence at the construction company's compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

Local officials in Nigeria initially identified one of the hostages as a Filipino, something the Philippines government later denied.

The gunmen appeared to be organized and knew who they wanted to target, leaving the Nigerian household staff at the residence unharmed, while quickly abducting the foreigners, a witness said.

In an online statement Saturday claiming the killings, Ansaru said it killed the hostages in part because of local Nigerian journalists reporting on the arrival of British military aircraft to Bauchi. However, Ansaru's statement cited local news articles that instead said the airplanes were spotted at the international airport in Abuja, the nation's central capital 180 miles (290 kilometers) southwest.

The U.K. Defense Ministry said Sunday the planes it flew to Abuja ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. Nigerian soldiers have been sent to Mali to help French forces and Malian troops battle Islamic extremists there. The British military said it also transported Ghanaian soldiers to Mali the same way.

The ministry declined to comment further. Ansaru had said it believed the planes were part of a Nigerian and British rescue mission for the abducted hostages.

The U.K. has offered military support in the past in Nigeria to free hostages. In March 2012, its special forces backed a failed Nigerian military raid to free Christopher McManus, who had been abducted months earlier with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state. Both hostages were killed in that rescue attempt.

"I am grateful to the Nigerian government for their unstinting help and cooperation," Hague said in a statement, without addressing the claim that the U.K. had launched a rescue effort.

In its statement Saturday, Ansaru also blamed the killings on a pledge by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to do "everything possible" to free the hostages. Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati didn't respond to requests for comment Sunday.

While Nigerian authorities have yet to comment publicly about Ansaru's claim, it comes as the nation's security forces remain unable to stop the guerrilla campaign of bombings, shootings and kidnappings across the country's north. The majority of those attacks have been blamed on Boko Haram, an amorphous group that grew out of the remains of a sect that sparked a riot and a security crackdown in Nigeria in 2009 in which about 700 people were killed.

Boko Haram has hit international targets before, including an August 2011 car bombing of the U.N. office in Abuja that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100. An online video also purportedly claims that Boko Haram is currently holding hostage a family of seven French tourists who were abducted from neighboring Cameroon in late February. The group is blamed for killing at least 792 people last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Ansaru, which analysts believe split from Boko Haram in January 2012, seems to be focusing much more on Western targets. Analysts say it has closer links to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and cares more about international issues, as opposed to Boko Haram's largely local grievances. But much remains unknown about Ansaru, which has communicated through short, sometimes muddled online statements.

The hostage killings appear to be the worst in decades targeting foreigners working in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation that's a major crude supplier to the U.S. Most kidnappings in the country's southern oil delta see foreigners released after companies pay ransoms. The latest kidnappings in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north, however, have seen the hostages killed either by their captors or in military raids to free them, suggesting a new level of danger for expatriate workers there.

The worst violence targeting foreign workers previously in the country's history came during its 1960s civil war. In May 1969, forces with the breakaway Republic of Biafra raided a Nigerian oil field, killing 10 Italian oil workers and a Jordanian. Eighteen other foreign workers taken by Biafran soldiers faced the death penalty, but later were pardoned and released.

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Associated Press writers Frances D'Emilio in Rome, Demetris Nellas in Athens, Greece, Sylvia Hui in London and Shehu Saulawa in Bauchi, Nigeria, contributed to this report.

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Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.

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HTC Myst specs purportedly leak, hint at a second-gen social phone

We wouldn't exactly call the social networking-focused HTC ChaCha (aka Status) and Salsa resounding successes in the smartphone world when they were quickly overshadowed by... just about everything with a Facebook app, really. Still, there's been murmurs of a comeback, and Unwired View's historically reliable evleaks has obtained specs for what's supposedly the follow-up. The HTC Myst (Myst #UL, to be exact) wouldn't have any special tricks on the surface beyond preloaded Facebook apps, but it could be surprisingly well-equipped for a mid-range Jelly Bean device: a 4.3-inch 720p screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4, LTE and 16GB of non-expandable storage would be nothing to sneeze at. About the only sacrifices would be the 1GB of RAM and a potentially UltraPixel-free 5-megapixel rear camera. While there's no guarantee that these details will reflect a shipping device, there's talk of the Myst reaching the US as early as the spring -- we won't have long to learn the truth. Just don't expect that other Myst in the box.

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US cancels award for Egyptian after incendiary tweets | Morocco ...

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2013 (AFP)

Just hours before a high-profile ceremony, the United States Friday canceled an award to an Egyptian activist after learning she had praised the 9/11 attacks and the killing of Israelis.

Samira Ibrahim was to have been honored along with nine other women at the International Women of Courage Award hosted by top US diplomat John Kerry and First Lady Michelle Obama.

But in an embarrassing failure for the State Department?s vetting process, it was revealed Ibrahim had sent some anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks on her prolific Twitter account.

?Upon further review, the department has decided not to present her with the award,? State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists.

She refused to comment further on the reasons why, saying only US officials ?didn?t consider some of the public statements that she had made appropriate. They didn?t comport with our values.?

The annual award marking International Women?s Day pays tribute to ?exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women?s rights and empowerment, often at great personal risk,? according to the State Department.

On Thursday, officials had already decided to postpone the award for Ibrahim after she alleged that her account had been hacked when reports of her tweets emerged.

The rightwing Weekly Standard said Ibrahim had written in August: ?An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.?

She also allegedly wrote on September 11 ?Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning,? the Standard said.

?There were obviously some problems in our review process, and we?re going to do some forensics on how that happened,? Nuland admitted on Friday.

Ibrahim had been initially chosen ?because of the incredible bravery and courage she displayed at the time of the Tahrir Square protests,? Nuland had said earlier in the week.

She had been subjected to ?real police violence? which she had spoken out against and ?she became a real leader in her country in trying to address gender-based violence and other human rights abuses,? Nuland added.

Among those being honored are the Indian student who died after being gang-raped in a bus in Delhi in December; Tsering Woeser, a Tibetan poet and blogger; Malalai Bahaduri, a first sergeant and senior instructor with the Afghan National Interdiction Unit, and a Syrian human rights lawyer, Razan Zeitunah.

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/03/81498/us-cancels-award-for-egyptian-after-incendiary-tweets/

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My Path to Motherhood: Should we have kids? ? The Happiest Mom

This guest post is the first in our series, My Path to Motherhood. For more on the series and how to submit your story, read this post.?

The year was 2003. My husband, Andy, and I were living in Guadalajara, M?xico. We were having the time of our lives, soaking in a foreign culture, traveling to the beach every other weekend and entertaining house guests from our home country. One morning, driving in the company-issued Ford Taurus on our way to work, I asked Andy, ?Do you think we should have kids??

?Yes, eventually. But not this year. This is too much fun. I like our lives.?

?Me too.?

The year passed, we moved back to the United States. We discussed having a child again and decided it was a good time. I quickly became pregnant and our lives changed. We immediately shifted our focus from weekend trips and tequila to family cars and cribs.

Before we knew it, we?d had our first ultrasound, which revealed there was no longer a baby. As long as I live, I will never forget the nurse?s tone of voice when she said, ?Oh sweetie, I?m soooo sooooorry.? It took me a second to understand what was going on, but I knew I never wanted anyone to call me sweetie again.

Too impatient to be done with the experience, I had a DNC rather than waiting to miscarry naturally. It was all over. We grieved but then moved on.

I immersed myself into an MBA program. I often asked my husband, ?Do you think we should try again to have a baby??

His response was consistent for the next two and a half years, ?Not until you finish your MBA.?

I knew he was right. With a demanding full time job and an MBA program, there was no time for a pregnancy or a newborn.

Before I finished my MBA, we moved to Shanghai, China on a work assignment. I was able to finish my degree remotely but then my spare time was spent learning Mandarin and spending time with all of the interesting, new people we met on a daily basis.

For my 30th birthday, Andy threw me a big party at a German beer house on the other side of Shanghai. I distinctly remember wondering if the milestone was the beginning of a new phase of my life, a phase with kids.

After that day, my line of questioning shifted, ?Do you still want to have kids??

His response, ?I don?t know. I mean, I think so, but I really like our lives.?

?Me too, but I feel like we need to consciously decide that YES we will have kids or NO we will not, but not just let the time pass because we are having too much fun.?

He agreed with me.

The following year, we traveled to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Dubai and the Maldives. I received a promotion and moved back to the US early to take the job. Andy came home for two weeks in July to visit me. He was scheduled to move back in September, but we were going to meet in Thailand in August and rent a sailboat and leisurely sail between islands in the Andaman Sea.

There was a crisis at work and I had to cancel my trip to Thailand. It was too late for a refund on the boat so Andy took the trip without me and spent a week on a boat with a Thai skipper who spoke no English. The day Andy boarded the boat, I took a pregnancy test and it was positive.

I had no way of getting a hold of him and had to keep the most exciting news of our lives from him for nearly an entire week. When we were able to talk on the phone five days later,?I immediately shared the good news. His response was classic, ?That is so exciting, but I was kind of hoping to try a little longer.?

Even before we laid eyes on our daughter nine months later, we knew we had made the right decision. We loved our lives before having kids, but having a child and becoming parents was going to take us on a whole new set of adventures.

I often hear couples wondering if having kids is right for them because they like their lives as they are sans kids. Sometimes I bite my tongue, knowing that each couple, each person, needs to figure out their path to or away from parenting. Still other times, I pipe up and share that we liked our lives before kids, A LOT. But from our vantage point right now, as parents of a two- and four-year-old, having kids is, by far, the coolest thing we have ever done and that we would make the decision to become parents again, a hundred times over. Our girls make us better people and we cannot wait to show them the world.

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Alecia Hoobing is a project manager at a high-tech company, a freelance writer and is the mother of two charming young girls. She enjoys traveling, running, yoga, cycling, reading and spending time with her friends and family. She blogs at Hoobing Family Adventures, Runner Mama and Traveling Mom.

Photo credit: original image by Bill Young on Flickr via Creative Commons license

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Kroger's profit beats Wall Street expectations

NEW YORK (AP) ? Kroger's fourth-quarter profit handily beat Wall Street expectations as the country's largest traditional supermarket operator saw sales climb.

The Cincinnati-based company, which also owns Ralphs, Fry's and Food 4 Less, said revenue at stores open at least a year rose 3 percent for the quarter, excluding fuel. The metric is a key gauge of health because it strips out revenue from newly opened and closed locations.

The better-than-expected results come as Kroger works to fend off growing competition from big-box retailers, drug stores and dollar stores that are expanding their grocery sections. To build customer loyalty, Kroger has focused on improving the in-store experience, offering discount programs and upgrading and expanding its stable of private-label products.

Looking ahead, the company said net earnings in 2013 are expected to range from $2.71 to $2.79 per share, in line with its long-term growth projection of 8 percent to 11 percent. Sales at established supermarkets are expected to rise between 2.5 percent and 3.5 percent.

Kroger isn't alone in its strategies to attract and hold onto shoppers, however. On Wednesday, Safeway Inc. said it expects sales at established stores to climb between 2 percent and 3 percent, helped by a new customer loyalty program that offers personalized discounts based on past purchases.

For the period ending Feb. 2, The Kroger Co. earned $461.5 million, or 88 cents per share. A year ago, the company reported a loss of $306.9 million, or 54 cents per share, as pension costs dragged down results.

Not including one-time items, such as the benefit of an extra week in the quarter, adjusted earnings for the latest period were 77 cents per share.

Revenue rose 13 percent to $24.2 billion.

Analysts on average expected an adjusted profit of 70 cents per share on revenue of $24 billion.

Kroger's stock rose 89 cents, or 3 percent, to close at $30.25 Thursday after trading at a 52-week high of $30.62 earlier in the session. FactSet said that it was its highest level since August 2008.

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SXSW: MCDM Student Talks Crisis Communications | Flip the Media

Ana Visneski is a MCDM graduate student and also an active duty U.S. Coast Guard officer who has specialized in public affairs and crisis communications for most of her career.

On Friday, she?ll present a panel at South by Southwest Interactive called?Disaster: The Future of Crisis Communication, along with her brother, John Visneski, a?Cyberspace Control Officer in the U.S. Air Force. The panel will be moderated by MCDM director Hanson Hosein.

Just before Ana left for Austin this week, she talked with Flip the Media about the panel and what?s she?s looking forward to during SXSW.

FtM: How did the idea for this panel start?

I?ve been working in Coast Guard public affairs since I was an ensign. My first deployment was to Hurricane Katrina, and I hadn?t even been in the Coast Guard a full year. So my expertise and the meat of what I?ve done in my career is crisis communication.

One thing that I noticed that changed since I was at Katrina is how we?re doing crisis communication. Between 2005 and 2009 there was a really big change in how communications were going on, specifically in dealing with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and all that ? it was right about then all those really took off. And all of a sudden, people in public affairs are going, ?Wait a minute. People are watching their videos on YouTube, or getting their information on Twitter feeds, or ?? et cetera. So for years, I?ve been thinking about it and when I came to UW, I said, ?This is the perfect time to do the panel.? Really design it, really think about it, and put a panel together.

FtM: How well do you think the Coast Guard experience translates to a non-military audience?

During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and in other responses I?ve worked along side ?other agencies and companies, and it?s amazing how the Joint Center model would be useful to any agency, any company. It?s very flexible and it?s built for when the s? really hits the fan. I?ve come to realize a lot of companies don?t know about it, that this first responder communications system could apply to their company. It was just one of those things, especially when I started in classes this past summer, I was going, ?Wait a minute ? the things we do in public affairs when we?re dealing with a hurricane could work for a company that?s dealing with a scandal or a problem.

It?s fascinating how many of these things cross over, and are applicable no matter who you work for. The same stuff we have to deal with on poise, and how we speak to a disaster isn?t too dissimilar to how a company has to speak to, ?We just had a major security breach on our data.?

FtM: Have you been to SXSW before?

I have not. This is a first. I have some friends that have been very involved, but unfortunately a lot of my time in the Coast Guard I couldn?t take leave, or I was deployed or whatever. So this will be a first, for me and my brother.

FtM: Anything other than the panel you?re looking forward to?

I?m totally stoked for the gaming expo. A lot of it is I?m looking forward to the networking and getting to meet other people in my field and people who are enthusiastic about the same thing. And my brother and I are pretty stoked to see Big Ass Spider.

FtM: When did you decide to include your brother as a panelist?

The original panel was submitted with a guy from NASA and a guy from another agency, but they were unable to attend. So I needed more experts on the panel, and that?s when I said, ?What a minute, my brother ? who was deployed to Afghanistan when I came up with this idea ? is a combat communications officer so he does the hardware side of what I do. So I shot him an email in Afghanistan, ?Hey dude, do you want to be on a panel at SXSW?? And I got a one-word reply, ?Duh.?

So I asked SXSW, can I replace this person with my brother, here?s his background, and they said yeah. My mom is more excited than I?ve seen her in a very long time; she thinks it?s cool her kids get along. And then I brought Hanson on board when we needed a new moderator because the other agency guy had to drop out as well.

Hurricane Katrina rescue. Photo by US Coast Guard

FtM: So you get to combine two aspects of your life with this panel in the Coast Guard and MCDM.

Yeah. It?s really important on the panel for the people in the audience to see it?s not just military types. Hanson has worked with the military as a journalist, but he?s a journalist. I wanted to have him there to help us move things along, but also to give the journalist?s perspective. He?s dealt with this from the other side. We?re the first responders inside the box. He?s the journalist who?s dealt with the people in the box. So yeah, it?s both sides of my world, but it?s also both sides of the crisis repines world.

FtM: If someone?s undecided on Friday afternoon in Austin, what?s your quick pitch to get them to your panel?

Whether you?re a communications professional, or just someone in the public who might be in a crisis, understanding how information flows during a major disaster is so critical. We?ll be able to tell you how the information flows, where to get your information, how to ask for information, and where to send information. It?s important whether you?re going to be doing the communications or receiving communications. When you look at something like Hurricane Sandy, it?s important for the public to be able to parse the information, to look at Twitter and say, ?That?s probably not real, but that?s real.? There?s so much misinformation, and we?re going to talk about how to sort through that information, and that?s handy for anybody.

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