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Add another speaker to the stellar list for the 10th D: All Things Digital conference, which is taking place in a little more than a month: Aaron Sorkin.

For those who have followed the long and award-filled career of the well-known playwright and Hollywood writer, it’s an astonishing litany of success — from “A Few Good Men” to “The West Wing” to “Moneyball” — filled with more unusually clever lines than anyone has ever penned.

But, most famously for tech, Sorkin also wrote the screenplay (and also won an Academy Award) for “The Social Network Office Visio Key,” about the rise of Facebook and its unusual co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The film caused a lot of controversy in Silicon Valley over its depiction of Zuckerberg as an evil genius of sorts, of course, but few can argue that it was not a corker of a movie.

We are excited to talk to Sorkin about that experience, as well as his take on the state of entertainment in the digital age. He’s about to debut a new HBO show in June called “The Newsroom,” set behind the scenes at a cable news show. It deals with the massive changes roiling through the media industry and it begins Cheap windows 7 key, natch, with a viral video.

Sorkin is also set to make his Broadway debut as a librettist for the upcoming musical “Houdini.” And he’s also working on another new movie, based on a book about the downfall of Sen. John Edwards, which he’ll adapt, produce and direct.

Sorkin will be joined at D10 — which will be held in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, at the end of May — by a litany of major players in tech and media, including: Apple CEO Tim Cook Windows 7 Serial, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz and many more.

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Michael Mancuso/The TimesFrancisco Duran met with the public in the auditorium of the School Administration building on N. Clinton Ave on Monday afternoon, May 14th, 2012.

TRENTON — The Trenton school board selected Francisco Duran, an assistant superintendent in Philadelphia, to be the next superintendent of the Trenton School District in a meeting that until midnight.

Duran was one of three finalists interviewed last night and a closed-door session of the school board went on for hours before a vote was finalized.

“There were so many considerations, and the vote was very close replica watches,” Trenton school board president Toby Sanders said this morning. “I think that there was confidence in his preparedness. He showed an extraordinary ability to listen. He has an exceptionally strong experience in education and leadership.”

The decision was made with a 5-3 vote that took place just before midnight. The board selected Duran after interviewing all three candidates that had been up for the job behind closed doors earlier in the day. They also took into account the input of community members, teachers, parents and Mayor Tony Mack in making the decision.

“The board is very proud of the talent and the diversity of the candidates that were finalists,” said Sanders, who abstained from the vote because his wife works in the district. “The decision was actually very difficult because the candidates were so different, but we have high hopes for Mr. Duran’s career and future here, and for our own destiny under his leadership.”

Duran is currently an assistant superintendent in Philadelphia, overseeing 44 schools.

“He seemed to really have his finger on operational issues in his level of responsibility,” Sanders said. “It was a close vote replica watches, but the board is confident that he will be able to lead us to address our most important challenges.”

Sanders listed the average reading level of Trenton’s school children and the culture of expectation in the district as the two major issues he believes Duran will be able to tackle. He said he hoped to see noticeable results in those areas in the next two or three years.

Community members vetted the three candidates. A group that also included Lucy Feria, the multilingual program coordinator and a former regional superintendent in Philadelphia, and Dale Caldwell, a businessman who has been deputy commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs and a member of the state school board — during a public meeting yesterday afternoon. The candidates were chosen from a field of 180 applicants for the job.

At the meeting Mondayafternoon, Duran talked about his experience working with parents, saying he held monthly roundtable discussions and helped implement an online system called FamilyNet, which gave parents access to their children’s records.

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“It’s about empowering parents to be a part of the system,” Duran said.

Staff writer Emily Brill contributed to this report.

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Former Secret Service agent Dan Emmett, a 21-year veteran who served under four presidents, disputes claims by some Republican lawmakers that a security detail’s alleged involvement with prostitutes exposed agents to potential blackmail and thereby endangered President Obama.

U.S. officials are actively investigating allegations that a group of 11 members of the Secret Service — agents and uniformed officers — and five members of the military invited prostitutes to their rooms inside a secure area of a Cartagena, Colombia, hotel just hours before Obama was to arrive.

Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chair investigatory congressional committees, have said the behavior opened the men up to being threatened or blackmailed in the future, possibly to access to secure areas or sensitive information.

Emmett called the suggestion an “incredible reach.”

“I spent six years in the CIA after I left the Secret Service and am well familiar with sexual blackmail espionage. It is a tactic, but I just don’t see that here,” he told ABC News.

“The Secret Service is not an intelligence organization, it’s law enforcement,” he said, noting the men were not part of the agency’s presidential protective division, which is closest to the president.

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“The people who are talking about blackmail — that’s espionage novel stuff,” he said.

Emmett served as part of the elite presidential protective division during the George W. Bush administration. He also helped protect presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.

The Secret Service, Congress and Defense Department are all investigating the Colombia incident for potential violations of the agency’s code of conduct as well as potential risks posed to the president. Those involved could face possible reprimand or firing, if the allegations are true.

“This is not a criminal conduct type of situation, it’s strictly personal conduct How To Tattoo Gun,” Emmett said, noting that prostitution is legal in designated parts of Colombia’s capital.  “Secret Service agents and officers are law enforcement. These guys are badges and guns and so they’re held to a higher standard than the average American would be that’s down in Colombia on vacation.”

Emmett, who is also a former Marine Tattoo Kits Cheap,  said that in his experience on dozens of foreign advance trips to establish security ahead of the president ”things do occur on the road.”

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Treasurer Wayne Swan is predicting a modest surplus for 2012/13 when he hands down his fifth budget on Tuesday, but one that will contain measures to support small business.

Last November Mr Swan forecast a $1.5 billion surplus in the next final year compared to a $37.1 billion deficit in 2011/12.

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“The aftershocks of the global financial crisis have hit our revenues.”

Mr Swan said the government has had to make very significant savings because revenues had been down around $150 billion over five years since the GFC.

The government is also going ahead with a recommendation from its Business Tax Working Group to introduce in the budget from July 1 “loss carry-backs” for business – where a company applies operating losses to a preceding year’s income to reduce tax liabilities.

“At the moment small businesses can only carry their losses forward to be offset against future income and future profits,” he said.

“They can’t carry their loss back and offset it against past profits.”

It will be capped at $1 million of losses with a maximum benefit to any firm of $300,000.

While he would not put an exact figure on the cost to introduce the measure, he said it would be in the “hundreds of millions” over the forward estimates.

The budget will brought down in the midst of renewed speculation that there are concerns in the Labor Party about the leadership of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her deputy Mr Swan, talk that the treasurer was quick to dismiss.

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News Desk: Amidst the crisis in Air India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) warned all other airlines not to hike airfares, which would put an extra pressure on the passengers.

Meanwhile Buy Missoni Dresses, the Air India pilots strike has led to cancellation of 12 more international flights on Friday. Even Kingfisher airline pilots also threatened to go on strike on pending payments.

The aviation regulator tried to calm down the passengers by issuing an order against airfare hike by 20% warning all the airlines. The fare hike is not justified as the cost of operation of the airlines is not changed in the past two months.

The DGCA warned if any violation of the notice will be found, action will be taken under Rule 135 of Aircraft Rules 1937.

The aviation watchdog also said that the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) on the pilots would not be slapped for now after Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday over the crisis.

Meanwhile Buy Karen Millen Dresses, the Air India crisis is deepening as the strike entered the fourth day on Friday. The Supreme Court also refused to hear the Air India management’s plea against the agitating pilots.

The court asked the management to sit with the pilots and end the differences.

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Bloggers are all over the new Atlas of Creation, Islam’s contribution to the anti-evolution cause. Also, how will Hillary Clinton’s cleavage affect her campaign, and why do President Bush’s weekend plans terrify liberals?

Allah’s Atlas: Turkish Islamist Adnan Oktar, going by the name Harun Yahya Discount Chloe Dresses, is peddling what is, by all accounts, a gorgeous book of antiscientific bunkum. Atlas of Creation is his 12-pound Buy Christian Audigier Clothing, 800-page reply to Darwinism that suggests evolution is a sham since, well, species alive today are very much like those alive millions of years ago. No one’s quite sure where Yahya gets the money for these free textbooks, though at least one blogger has a theory.

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Muslim Humanist Ali Eteraz writes of Harun Yahya that he “has been stalking Muslim circles in the West for quite some time. I saw his books at every major Muslim bookstore I have ever been to, along with every single Muslim convention.” Eteraz also did some digging into Yahya’s backers and comes up with the following conclusions: “Harun Yahya is most likely a front [update: or ally] for Christian right-wing’s version of Creationism. Funny thing is that Harun Yahya seems to be using the Christianists the same way they are using him.” “American heathen” Hrafnkell at A Heathen’s Day writes: “It’s a shame really, when Islam led the way in science during the early Middle Ages, that they have turned their back on it and embraced unthinking religious fundamentalism instead.”

It’s all “creationism on crack,” writes Bonzai, a commenter at celebrated atheist Richard Dawkins’ Web site. “But it is not the only pseudo science in the Islamic world. Another, even more ludicrous and more influential movement is so called ‘Quranic science’. The proponents claim that the Quran contains all of modern science from general relativity to embryology by torturing meanings into vague Quranic verses. … Unlike creationism and ID, which are basically education lobbies with no influence in research institutions, many otherwise respectible universities in the Arab world have departments on ‘Quranic science’.”

At Evolution Minute, the blog of a radio show by the same name, biologist Shelley Greene and evangelical youth minister Peter share their separate letters addressed to Yahya. Here’s Greene: “If I were you, I wouldn’t expect a high return rate on your promotional effort. Look at France’s weak response. We are just as stubborn and intractable as they are. And honestly, America does not need another variety of religious fundamentalism.” Here’s Williamson: “The Atlas of Creation is an inspiring work, and like the beauty of a cathedral Buy Herve Leger v neck, will lift the spirit of those who enter. Even those who aided and abetted the faithless in the Dover case grudgingly admitted The Atlas of Creation is truly a beautiful book. God works in mysterious ways!”

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D.C. blogger NewsCat is shocked, shocked: “It’s almost like Hillary is some kind of…woman? What is she doing with those breasts of hers! (I don’t know…talking about education or something…I wasn’t paying attention).”

At lefty Firedoglake, Christy Hardin Smith offers Givhan a few fashionista tips: “A v-neck shell or blouse is slenderizing, as any reader of In Style magazine or browser of People at the hairstylists could tell Ms. Givhan…Women have boobs, which result in cleavage, and sometimes we wear v-neck shirts because we like them, they are comfy on hot days and, frankly, they look nice.  Millions of women wear them.  Including me…right now.”

Inquiring minds want to know: When is it Obama’s turn? Geekesque at DailyKos describes the front-page décolletage treatment as “[f]urther proof that even as Hillary Clinton makes a strong bid to be the most powerful human being on the planet, there will be those who see her as nothing but a pair of jugs. I look forward to the Post’s next article in the series:  ‘Did you see Obama’s bulge?’ And fromGawker: meme: “Thanks, Robin! Now if we can just get a little ass-crackery from Obama, we’ll be able to make our decision on who to support DKNY Dresses sale!”

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Medical examiners do more than draw blood from an executed prisoner. They also examine the site where the intravenous needles were inserted to confirm that they were placed appropriately. Most examiners also check for internal injuries—a sign that someone beat up the prisoner before the execution.

The validity of the drug-dose testing isn’t the only source of controversy. Some states have tried to autopsy executed prisoners over the objections of family members. In December 2009, Tennessee executed Cecil Johnson, then tried to conduct an autopsy even though he had signed an affidavit arguing that it would violate his Baptist faith. Johnson’s body remained in limbo for more than a month Buy Emilio Pucci Dresses, until the state courts prohibited the autopsy.

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Battle lines are drawn for another intense, potentially bloody day in Tehran, Iran, where protests against alleged government vote-rigging have raged all week. All of the U.S. newspapers lead with yesterday’s “final word” from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, * Iran’s supreme leader, who told a throng at Friday prayer that the election result is final and that the opposition will be held “directly responsible” for the violence the regime will unleash on any further demonstrations. Khamenei condemned killings by pro-government loyalists this week but made it clear that he supports the re-election of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The crowd “burst into laughter,” the New York Timesreports, when the Ayatollah insisted in his “hard-line” speech that the huge margin between President Ahmadinejad and opposition candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi was too large for foul play. “Perhaps 100,000 votes, or 500,000, but how can anyone tamper with 11 million votes?” The Washington Postcalls Khamenei’s sermon “dramatic,” and the story’s lede focuses on his declaration that the protests are the work of Western nations, including the United States and Britain. The Los Angeles Timesfills in the strange happenings at the end of the speech, when the Ayatollah “began lamenting his physical condition and weeping,” apparently a sort of signal to loyalists to crack down on demonstrators. The Basij, the government’s plainclothes volunteer militia, has “already been deployed to the streets,” the Wall Street Journaladds.

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Plans for a Saturday protest seem to be going forward, though the WP notes many opposition Web sites weren’t updated yesterday afternoon, and no one knows whether Mousavi will attend. The WSJ calls the situation a “test of the opposition’s resolve”; whether to continue calling for demonstrations is a difficult decision for Mousavi since the regime has promised violence to any of his supporters it catches in the streets. But whether or not their candidate shows up, many of the “green army” will be there. One 29-year-old woman, who the LAT sawsobbing through Khamenei’s speech, said she would be marching no matter the cost: “This is how countries that have freedom and democracy get it. They have to fight and die for it.”

The Ayatollah’s speech had reverberations in Washington, where both houses of Congress “overwhelmingly” passed resolutions condemning the Iranian government’s violence toward the demonstrators. Republicans used the votes to “press the White House to take sides”—Sen. John McCain said the demonstrators are waiting for a show of U.S. support—but President Obama had no official comment on the speech. “We’re not going to be used as political foils and political footballs in a debate that’s happening by Iranians in Iran,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said. But administration officials said events this weekend—namely whether or not Iran carries out its violent threats—would determine whether the president joins European leaders in a harsher condemnation.

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Republican Sen. John Ensign is accusing his former mistress’s husband of making “exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits,” a story you’ll find only in today’s WP. Ensign’s office said the senator’s revelation of his affair with Cynthia Hampton had nothing to do with her husband’s cash demands but came after Doug Hampton detailed his wife’s affair with Ensign in a letter to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

We finally know what was wrong with Apple CEO Steve Jobs: He got a liver transplant in Tennessee a couple of months ago, is recovering well, and is expected to return to work at the end of June, a WSJ front-pager reveals. Jobs, 54, will likely work part-time for a period before resuming his full duties.

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