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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. ? Urban Outfitters has removed the word "Navajo" from product names on its website in the wake of criticism from the Navajo Nation government, bloggers and others, who viewed the usage as disrespectful and a trademark violation.

As recently as last week, the trendy clothing chain used "Navajo" in more than 20 product names online, including jackets, earrings and sneakers. Two items in particular sparked controversy: the "Navajo Hipster Panty" and the "Navajo Print Fabric Wrapped Flask."

The products now appear on the company's website as "printed" instead of "Navajo."

It's unclear whether the change has extended to any of Urban Outfitters' stores across the U.S. and in eight other countries. There was no sign of the word "Navajo" on any products at an Urban Outfitters in downtown Tempe on Wednesday.

The company received a cease-and-desist letter from the Navajo tribe a week ago, demanding the Navajo name be pulled from its products, Urban Outfitters spokesman Ed Looram said Wednesday. He declined to comment further, saying the matter is in the hands of the company's legal department.

Urban Outfitters last week told The Associated Press it had no plans to alter its products. The online name changes were first reported by Indian Country Today.

The Navajo Nation Department of Justice said Wednesday the changes were "positive" and "more consistent with the corporation's responsibilities than previously demonstrated."

"If the company has also ceased using the Navajo name in conjunction with its merchandise in its retail stores and print-media advertising, these are encouraging steps by the company towards amicably resolving this matter," the department said in a release.

The tribe holds at least 10 trademarks on the Navajo name that cover clothing, footwear, online retail sales, household products and textiles, and said it was intent on protecting those trademarks.

It's not the first time the Navajo Nation has taken action to assert its trademarks. The tribe licenses its name to other businesses in exchange for a share of their profits, and has identified about two dozen companies it believes are violating the Navajo trademark.

Earlier this year, the tribe successfully forced the cancellation of a "Navaho" trademark used by a French company doing business in the United States. The tribe argued the name was phonetically identical and infringed on its trademark.

"The corporation acted responsibly and adhered to its commitment to adopt a different trademark," tribal attorney Brian Lewis told the AP. "In doing so the company confirmed its respect for the (Navajo) Nation and its principles. This is the preferred resolution of these kinds of matters."

Urban Outfitters' use of "Navajo" sparked a flurry of criticism online, with tribal members and bloggers calling the product names offensive and telling the company to knock it off.

Shane Hendren, who heads the Albuquerque, N.M.-based Indian Arts and Crafts Association Education Fund, said the company's decision to pull the name from its site appeared to be a direct response to the backlash. If the clothing chain or any other company wants to showcase the Navajo name, they should go directly to the source, he said.

"There's a great many Navajo designers out there who would be more than willing to work for a firm and design garments for them," said Hendren, of Tohatchi, N.M. "And having the cultural background, be able to not only give you an authentic design but stay within their cultural parameters."

Native American fashion blogger Jessica Metcalfe also sees an opportunity for collaboration. The appropriation of Native cultures isn't likely to stop. But large corporations could benefit from working with Native artists who draw from the legacy of their ancestors, she said.

"I'm happy to see that Native people are standing up and saying that this profiting off what is ours is wrong," said Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa.

Jaclyn Roessel, of the Navajo town of Kayenta, said Urban Outfitters' approach to Native-inspired designs was callous and irresponsible.

Alcoholism is one of the reservation's most prevalent social ills, so having a flask branded as Navajo didn't sit well with her or others ? nor did the Navajo-branded underwear in a culture that preaches modesty.

"I think it's up to these mass retailers to start advocating for more responsible production of good when working with sensitive things," said Roessel, who educates others on American Indian culture at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

"I'm curious to see what the ripple effects of this are," she added. "And I hope they're positive."

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Associated Press writer Michelle Price in Phoenix contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111020/ap_on_re_us/us_navajo_fashion_wrangle

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ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) ? Recent breakthroughs have enabled scientists from the Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices to build cameras that can see more than one optical waveband or "color" in the dark. The semiconducting material used in the cameras -- called type-II superlattices -- can be tuned to absorb a wide range of infrared wavelengths, and now, a number of distinct infrared bands at the same time.

The idea of capturing light simultaneously at different wavelengths isn't new. Digital cameras in the visible spectrum are commonly equipped with detectors that sense red, green, and blue light to replicate a vast majority of colors perceived by the human eye. Multi-color detection in the infrared spectrum, however, offers unique functionalities beyond color representation. The resonant frequencies of compounds can often be found in this spectral range, which means that chemical spectroscopy can be relayed in images real-time.

"When coupled with image-processing algorithms performed on multiple wavebands, the amount of information rendered in a particular scene is tremendous," said Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the McCormick School of Engineering and director of the Center for Quantum Devices.

Razeghi's group engineered the detection energies on the cameras to be extremely narrow, close to one-tenth of an electron volt, in what is known as the long-wave infrared window. Creating the cameras was difficult, however, because the light-absorbing layers are prone to parasitic effects. Furthermore, the detectors were designed to be stacked one on top of another, which provided spatially coincident pixel registration but added significantly to the growth and fabrication challenges. Nevertheless, a dual-band long-wave infrared 320-by-256 sized type-II superlattice camera was demonstrated for the first time in the world, the results of which were published in the July 2011 issue of Optics Letters.

Such infrared photon cameras based on another material called HgCdTe were used in disaster relief in March 2011 when a catastrophic tsunami damaged Japans' nuclear reactors. These cameras provided accurate temperature information about the reactors from unmanned aerial vehicles, providing officials the information they needed to orchestrate cooling efforts and prevent nuclear meltdown.

HgCdTe, however, is considered to be an expensive technology in the long-wave infrared due to its poor spectral uniformity and therefore yield -- areas in which type-II superlattices may prove more efficient.

"Type-II superlattices can be grown uniformly even at very long-wavelengths because its energy gap is determined by the alternating InAs and GaSb quantum well thicknesses, rather than its composition as is the case with HgCdTe," Razeghi said. The high-resolution multi-band type-II superlattice camera also offered very impressive performances, requiring only 0.5 milliseconds to capture a frame with temperature sensitivities as good as 0.015?C. "The high-performance, multi-functionality, and low cost offered by type-II superlattices truly make it an attractive infrared technology," she added.

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COMMENTARY | Donald Trump is doing everything that he can to insert himself into the political game as possible. As a former political consultant I understand that his money, and the money of his friends, could help the Republicans in many ways in 2012. The problem is that the publicity Trump lives off of could do more harm to the candidates in the long run.

Trump a Target

Cameras have covered "The Donald" meeting with each of the "Republican flavors of the week." Some have made jokes that he has been holding his own primary. The more the cameras turn on Trump, the more the media will have the opportunity to make him into a target. The more time that is spent on him, the less time is spent on the candidates and their ideas and ideals. Less coverage equals less importance.

Potential Position?

One of the major blotches on Trump's recent record is his failed attempt to make a permanent mark on the 2012 election by becoming a viable candidate. The jokes have been flying ever since about his aspirations and I am waiting for the leftist side of the media to start making assumptions that he is looking for a cabinet position. The thought that political favors for a political position is something that everyone knows happens, but it still turns most people off.

Birther

The fact Trump was the strongest proponent for the birther movement, made him the laughing stock of the media and a direct target of the White House. There is a good chance that the accusations of being a "birther" could be stuck on any candidate that New York mogul supports. This could drag down a campaign with explanations and denials.

Overkill

Trump has done a great job when it comes to keeping himself in the spotlight. The thought that "The Apprentice" might turn into an hour-long commercial for whichever candidate Trump supports could turn off many watchers and cause them to tune out. Remember that political commercials and news programs overwhelm us enough. Another outlet for the Republicans could upset many voters.

As long as the most famous real estate genius continues to insert himself into politics, he runs the risk of notching the party that he supports. Would anyone in the party have the intestinal fortitude to tell him to shut up and butt out? Only time will tell.

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VIENNA ? Allegations of systematic rape at a government-run foster home grew Tuesday when a lawyer said that a third woman had come forward to claim she was victimized decades ago.

The woman says two of the children died as a result of abuse, according to the attorney.

Lawyer Thomas Oelboeck represents two sisters claiming they and 18 other girls were raped for years in the early 1970s in the institution run by the city of Vienna. He said the third woman asserts that children at the Schloss Wilhelminenberg home were also regularly raped during her time there in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

"This woman, around 70 years old, reports the same series of abuse and rape as my clients," Oelboeck told reporters. "Furthermore, this woman speaks of (two) deaths that occurred in the years 1948-1953 in great detail because she was present in one of the cases and has indirect knowledge of the other."

Oelboeck spoke of "anatomical changes due to the abuse," adding medical reports he had seen related to the claims show that "these bodies are maltreated." He said he could not divulge further details for now.

The Kurier newspaper said the third woman ? who was not identified ? was now 69 and had lived at the home between 1948 and 1953. She was cited as saying that she saw a female teacher stomp a child to death.

"My God, if someone breathes, you see the chest moving ... there was nothing," she was quoted as saying.

Municipal authorities have expressed shock at newest allegations, which follow reports of individual abuse, and have pledged to set up an independent commission to investigate them. Still ? while acknowledging that some children were seriously mistreated in the now closed Vienna foster homes ? they say it is unlikely that the claims of mass rapes now surfacing could have been kept from the public for decades.

But officials of Weisser Ring, the non-governmental victims' organization tasked since last year with investigating cases of abuse at city foster homes, say its psychologists interviewed the two sisters making the original claims and found their story believable ? even if their recollections had faded over more than three decades. And Oelboeck said he was convinced after talking to the victims that they were telling the truth.

"The women are totally believable and authentic," he told reporters. "A story of this kind cannot be made up."

Weisser Ring manager Marianne Gammer said that ? based on what the women told the therapists ? her organization would have recommended pressing criminal or civil charges ? "were it not for the statute of limitations on such crimes."

She said Weisser Ring, which is authorized by the city to pay out compensation for foster home victims, granted the two women 35,000 euros ? nearly $50,000 each ? based on their testimonies. That is 10,000 euros more than the formal limit of 25,000 euros (nearly $35,000), but in their case the apparent degree of their suffering was so great "that our panel decided to give them more," she said.

Oelboeck, who says he is not being paid to represent the alleged victims, said the third woman also was awarded 35,000 euros, and the size of the payouts suggests that the women are telling the truth.

The allegations first surfaced this weekend, when two sisters identified only by first-name pseudonyms, said they and the other 18 girls in their dormitory were regularly raped by six or seven men. The sisters, now 47 and 49, said the abuse began when they were 6 and 8 and ended in their early teens, when the institution was shut in 1977.

"All of us had our turn" with the men, who would sometimes rape the girls over several nights in a row and then stay away for weeks before returning, the older woman told the Kurier, which first published their story. "We never talked about it at the home because our shame was so great, along with the pain, the insufferable pain."

Asked if money changed hands between foster home personnel and the men who allegedly victimized the girls, she said that was possible "because they always dolled us up. We had to wear garter belts and were not allowed to cut our hair."

In a follow-up on Monday, Kurier cited the women as describing individual cases of abuse at the foster homes, which were replaced by the 1980s with smaller and more individual child care centers, and Oelboeck spoke of claims by victims of "being forced to eat their own vomit, being locked up, being starved, being beaten with all kinds of objects."

He said that 343 former foster children who were wards of the city have turned to Weisser Ring with reports of being abused at the Schloss Wilhelminenberg alone since investigations began last year, but added the real number of such cases in all of the former homes was probably in the thousands.

Authorities say that ? even if crimes can be proven and perpetrators tracked down ? the statute of limitations mean the cases cannot be pursued, an argument disputed by Oelboeck.

He said the fault lies with officials who "took too much time to process what happened."

"I challenge the government," he said. "This is where laws are made, and not on the street."

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Associated Press writer Margaret Childs contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_on_re_eu/eu_austria_child_abuse

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BRUSSELS ? The European Union agreed Tuesday to more strictly regulate the short selling of shares and bonds and to ban so-called "naked" credit default swaps on government bonds, moves officials said will contribute to financial stability.

After long discussions, representatives of the European Parliament and EU member states reached a compromise on the new rules, which restrict practices critics say have exacerbated financial crises and market selloffs.

The regulation seeks to differentiate between investors who use short-sales as a legitimate tool to hedge, or insure, potential losses on other assets like shares or bonds, and speculators, who may be trying to make a profit by influencing market moves.

The rules, which are expected to get final approval from the full European Parliament and EU finance ministers over the coming weeks, will come into force on Nov. 1, 2012.

Today's agreement by the European Parliament and member states "represents a significant step towards greater transparency, stability and responsibility in short selling transactions," said EU Internal Markets Commissioner Michel Barnier.

In a traditional short-sale, an investor hopes to profit by borrowing a share or bond, selling it and then buying it back at a lower price.

In a "naked" short sale, an investor bets on a drop in the price without actually borrowing the underlying asset or having a legitimate exposure to the asset that he needs to hedge.

"Naked" short sales of shares and bonds will no longer be allowed under the new rules, unless the investor has a "reasonable expectation" that he will be able to borrow the shares or bonds in time.

Most analysts agree that in most cases, regular short-sales allow investors to hedge risk and improve liquidity in markets. However, investors will have to inform regulators of large short positions, so they can more easily spot potential risks, such as downward price spirals.

The parliament reached a significant victory in posing a ban on buying credit default swaps on government bonds if the investor doesn't actually own bonds from that country or assets whose value could be hurt by a default. A credit default swap, or CDS, is a kind of insurance that protects investors against a default on a bond.

During the eurozone debt crisis, several politicians blamed speculation in CDS on sovereign debt for driving down bond prices and pushing up interest rates.

National regulators have the right to opt out of the ban, if they believe that it restricts liquidity in their bond markets.

But representatives of the hedge fund industry immediately came out against the new rules.

"We have previously expressed our concerns about the impact of a ban on uncovered sovereign CDS", said Andrew Baker, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association. "It could not only reduce liquidity and increase volatility in debt markets, but also increase government borrowing costs and reduce real economy investments in EU member states."

The newly created European Securities Markets Authority will also have more powers in coordinating short-selling bans and flagging risks. At the high of the financial crisis of 2008, several national regulators announced bans on short-selling without informing their counterparts in other member states.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_eu_short_selling

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