Pasadena City College's 'Porn Professor' will no longer offer porn class

Jessica Drake, Sex Educator and Adult Film Star, speaks in Professor Hugo Schwyzer's "Navigating Pornography" class at Pasadena City College, in Pasadena, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (Correspondent Photo by James Carbone/SXCITY) (James Carbone)

PASADENA - Pasadena City College's self-titled "Porn Professor" announced this week he will not offer the class again in the near future after pressures from the college and social media sent him to psychological rehab last week.

Professor Hugo Schwyzer has offered his Humanities 3 class, which he titled "Navigating Pornography," twice at PCC, but this spring the class received backlash from the college and the community after media reports of a guest lecture by porn star James Deen that Schwyzer tried to open up to the public.

Schwyzer said the pressure from PCC as well as online hatred he receives daily on social media because of his other writings on gender issues, have led him to the decision to no longer teach the class.

"I'm exhausted by threats and controversy," Schwyzer said via email Wednesday. "I need a break."

Schwyzer has also gained notoriety online and among feminist groups for his past drug addiction and his last act as an addict, when he tried to kill himself and his ex-girlfriend according to Schwyzer's own writings. During his first few years as a professor at PCC, he also admittedly had sexual relationships with a number of his female students, but the college allowed him to remain as a teacher and asked him to author the college's current policy that bans professor-student relationships.

Because of his past, Schwyzer said, he's become quite an unpopular guy.

"I'm a deeply flawed man who has made many mistakes and been as open as possible about them," he said. "Some people can't forgive those mistakes."

Representatives from PCC did not immediately return calls for comment.

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The Guardian: NSA's XKeyscore tool is its 'widest reaching' system for collecting online data

Edward Snowden has said that he still has more information about the NSA than what he's already leaked, and we're now getting a look at another big piece of that. According to a new set of documents provided to The Guardian, the NSA is using a tool called XKeyscore that is said to be its "widest reaching" system for collecting information from the internet -- one that lets it examine "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet," as one presentation slide explains. That apparently includes both metadata and the contents of emails, as well as social media activity, which can reportedly be accessed by NSA analysts without prior authorization; as The Guardian notes, a FISA warrant is required if the target of the surveillance is a US citizen, but not if a foreign target is communicating with an American.

According to The Guardian, the amount of data collected is so large that content is only able to stored in the system for three to five days, or as little as 24 hours in some cases, while metadata is stored for 30 days. That's reportedly led the NSA to develop a multi-tiered system that lets it move what's described as "interesting" content to other databases where it can be stored for as much as five years. In a statement provided to The Guardian, the NSA says that "XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA's lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system," and that "allegations of widespread, unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data are simply not true. Access to XKeyscore, as well as all of NSA's analytic tools, is limited to only those personnel who require access for their assigned tasks." The agency further adds that "every search by an NSA analyst is fully auditable, to ensure that they are proper and within the law."

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Level 1 cricket coaching course | Sports News

The SWD Cricket coaching department will be running a Level 1 coaching course for all coaches who wish to further their coaching development at the Recreation Ground on the 13 August.

Aspirant coaches must meet the following requirements as stipulated by Cricket South Africa:

1. Be 18 years or older.
2. Coaches must be actively coaching a team at present or be a registered member at a club affiliated to the SWD Cricket Board.
3. Coaches must register with the Coaching Forum in their region (details available from the SWD Offices).
4. Coaches must pass the pre-course assignment in order to qualify for the course.

The course details are:
Evening sessions on 13, 14, 20 and 22 August from 17:30-20:30. Afternoon of 16 August from 15:00-18:00.
Tuesday 13 August 18:00 ? Level 1 theory exams.

Practical assessments of coaches ? dates to be arranged with individual coaches after the theory exams has been written.

Coaches must attend ALL sessions in order to sit the exams.

Enquires must be directed to Garry Hampson, SWD Coaching Manager, or Jacques Van Aswegen, Oudtshoorn Coaching Forum Coordinator on 083 350 9308.

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Swimming-World championship men's 100m freestyle heats overview

July 31 (Infostrada Sports) - Overview from the World championship Men's 100m Freestyle Heats on Wednesday

1. James Magnussen (Australia) 47.71 Q

2. Konrad Czerniak (Poland) 48.50 Q

3. Nikita Lobintsev (Russia) 48.51 Q

4. Shinri Shioura (Japan) 48.52 Q

5. Hanser Garcia (Cuba) 48.54 Q

6. Cameron McEvoy (Australia) 48.59 Q

7. Vladimir Morozov (Russia) 48.67 Q

8. Pieter Timmers (Belgium) 48.76 Q

9. Jimmy Feigen (U.S.) 48.86 Q

10. Sebastiaan Verschuren (Netherlands) 48.88 Q

10=. Luca Dotto (Italy) 48.88 Q

12. Nathan Adrian (U.S.) 48.93 Q

13. Filippo Magnini (Italy) 49.02 Q

14. Fabien Gilot (France) 49.07 Q

15. Marcelo Chierighini (Brazil) 49.08 Q

16. Adam Brown (Britain) 49.39 Q

17. Yauhen Tsurkin (Belarus) 49.41

18. Cristian Quintero (Venezuela) 49.50

19. William Meynard (France) 49.59

20. Norbert Trandafir (Romania) 49.60

21. Martin Verner (Czech Republic) 49.61

21=. Benjamin Hockin (Paraguay) 49.61

23. Kemal Arda Gurdal (Turkey) 49.65

24. Krisztian Takacs (Hungary) 49.70

25. Fernando Santos (Brazil) 49.71

26. Mario Todorovic (Croatia) 49.80

27. Oussama Sahnoun (Algeria) 49.81

28. Aitor Martinez (Spain) 49.83

29. Lu Zhiwu (China) 49.85

30. Federico Grabich (Argentina) 49.87

31. Mindaugas Sadauskas (Lithuania) 49.91

31=. Geoffrey Robin Cheah (Hong Kong, China) 49.91

31=. Kenta Ito (Japan) 49.91

34. Leith Shankland (South Africa) 50.21

35. Pjotr Degtjarjov (Estonia) 50.28

36. Marco Di Carli (Germany) 50.38

37. Uvis Kalnins (Latvia) 50.51

38. Joel Greenshields (Canada) 50.54

39. Roy Burch (Bermuda) 50.66

40. Kai Quan Yeo (Singapore) 50.92

41. Boris Stojanovic (Serbia) 51.11

42. Joshua Mc Leod (Trinidad and Tobago) 51.47

43. Allan Gutierrez (Honduras) 51.69

44. Wang Yu-Lian (Taiwan) 51.70

45. Enzo Martinez (Uruguay) 51.77

46. Davit Sikharulidze (Georgia) 51.81

47. Sean Gunn (Zimbabwe) 51.94

48. Mohamed Madwa (Kuwait) 52.06

49. Jemal Le Grand (Aruba) 52.07

50. Andrew Chetcuti (Malta) 52.08

51. Jessie Lacuna (Philippines) 52.10

52. Triady Fauzi Sidiq (Indonesia) 52.11

53. Sebastian Jahnsen (Peru) 52.20

54. El Hazzaz Mehdi (Morocco) 52.54

55. Kevin Avila (Guatemala) 52.56

56. Bradley Vincent (Mauritius) 52.76

57. Andrew Rutherfurd (Bolivia) 52.79

58. Anthony Clark (Tahiti) 52.87

59. Arsham Mirzaei (Iran) 53.00

60. Vahan Mkhitaryan (Armenia) 53.06

61. Abdou Khadre Niane (Senegal) 53.46

62. Virdhawal Vikram Khade (India) 53.47

63. Jose Montoya (Costa Rica) 53.48

64. Esau Simpson (Grenada) 53.66

65. Joshua Runako Daniel (St. Lucia) 53.69

66. Christopher Duenas (Guam) 53.88

67. Lei Cheok Fong (Macau, China) 54.93

68. Ahmed Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi (Iraq) 55.13

69. Kawale Stanford (Papua New Guinea) 55.29

70. Sergey Krovyakov (Turkmenistan) 55.41

71. Farhan Sultan (Bahrain) 55.49

72. Christian Nikles (Brunei Darussalam) 55.55

73. Noah Mascoll-Gomes (Antigua and Barbuda) 56.36

74. Don Kanitha Jayanga Munasinghe Kalu Achchige (Sri Lanka) 56.53

75. Zandan Gunsennorou (Mongolia) 56.78

76. Syed Hussain Naqvi Mazhar (Pakistan) 58.40

77. Giordan Harris (Marshall Islands) 58.50

78. Ammaar Ghadiyali (Tanzania) 59.96

79. Kwesi Abbiw Jackson (Ghana) 1:01.25

80. Sirish Gurung (Nepal) 1:02.12

81. Billy-Scott Irakoze (Burundi) 1:02.25

82. Shawn Wallace (Palau) 1:02.27

83. Ibrahima Ela Camara (Guinea) 1:02.33

84. Robel Kiros Habte (Ethiopia) 1:02.57

85. Pathana Inthavong (Laos) 1:02.85

86. Godonou Wilfrid Tevoedjre (Benin) 1:07.42

87. Abdulrahman Alishaq (Qatar) DNS

87=. Sylla Alassane (Ivory Coast) DNS

87=. Gailloty Croyeb (Central African Republic) DNS

87=. Samson Opuakpo (Nigeria) DSQ

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Avoid US taxes by forming a foreign merger

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A tactic to avoid corporate taxes has U.S. companies on the move?merging with foreign firms and then setting up residence overseas.

On Monday, Michigan-based medicine manufacturer Perrigo agreed to buy the Irish drug company Elan for $8.6 billion. In the bargain, the combined company's headquarters will be in Ireland, which has a corporate tax rate of 12.5 percent, versus 35 percent in the U.S.

Just the day before, American advertising giant Omnicom Group announced plans for a $35 billion merger with France's Publicis Groupe, saying that the combined company's tax residence will be in the Netherlands, which has a 25 percent corporate tax rate.

(Read more: 3 mergers Cramer says investors shouldn't miss)

Analysts say such mergers are likely to continue.

"Without tax reform in the U.S., I think you will see more of these types of deals," said Ian Shane, a tax lawyer at Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe.

"You have to start from the premise that most tax laws are a decade behind how business is done," he said. "More companies are global and looking globally, and taxes are part of the bottom line."

Calls to Omnicom from CNBC to discuss the tax issue in detail with were not immediately returned. A spokesman for Perrigo refused to speak on the record for this story.

In a conference call for reporters after Perrigo's announcement, however, Chief Financial Officer Nigel Cherkin acknowledged that being in Ireland would provide the company with more than $2 billion in tax deductions.

And Omnicom's CEO John Wren confirmed in a conference call after his firm's merger announcement that residence in the Netherlands was for tax purposes.

Michael Schwartz, director of accounting and taxes at the advisory firm WeiserMazars, said, "There is a tax on U.S. firms bringing profits from overseas, but if you're incorporated abroad, [the United States] can't tax it if you've merged with another company."

These recent mergers fly in the face of heavy criticism from those who say U.S.corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes in the first place and that loopholes allow most of them to avoid paying the full 35 percent rate.

In a Senate subcommittee hearing this past May, Apple was severely chastised for avoiding tens of billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on its income (all legally) by shifting the funds through a global web of offshore entities, including three that had no tax residency in any nation.

A report from the committee before the hearings said that those three entities were run by some of Apple's top executives but were located, on paper, in Ireland, though they in some cases had no employees.

(Read more:Experts predict long antitrust road for Omnicom, Publicis)

One entity reported $30 billion in net income for 2009-12, yet filed no corporate tax return and paid no income taxes to any government during those years, according to the report.

CEO Tim Cook defended Apple at the time saying, "We pay all the taxes we owe?every single dollar." He also insisted that the company doesn't rely on tax "gimmicks" and doesn't "stash money on some Caribbean island."

But it isn't necessary for U.S. firms to stash away money or rely on gimmicks in today's global economy, according to Shane, the tax lawyer.

"Countries in Europe and elsewhere are competing with each other with lower tax rates to bring in firms and have them headquartered there," Shane said. "They need revenues, but lower tax rates that bring in firms are much better than higher tax rates and not having anyone there," he added.

"Just look at the Netherlands," Shane said. "Firms headquartered there don't have to face rigid tax rules.They can apply for a ruling on the amount they want to pay and get it approved or not, just as long as they pay some taxes."

But a study released in December on U.S. corporate taxes stated that new companies are not avoiding the country in favor of tax havens. Among 918 new companies identified as multinationals with headquarters in the United States, just 27 were legally incorporated in tax havens.

"I think we can fine-tune our laws, but I don't see them as all that complicated," said Schwartz at WeiserMazars.

"Businesses don't all think alike when it comes to what they want when it comes to taxes. I actually think other countries will start to lean toward our model going forward," he said.

U.S. firms first pay income taxes to the countries in which profits were earned; the then pay additional U.S. taxes on any profits they bring home.

But since companies receive a tax credit for paying a foreign tax, the amount of tax they pay on foreign profits in the U.S. is equal to the difference between the U.S. rate and the foreign one. (For instance, a $100 profit in England at that country's 23 percent tax rate would come to $23 in those taxes. The amount paid to the U.S. on that $100 would total $12?the difference between 35 and 23.)

In a speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he wants to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent to 28 percent and give manufacturers a preferred rate of 25 percent. He also wants a minimum tax on foreign earnings as a tool against corporate tax avoidance and increased use of tax havens.

(Read more: Obama proposes 'grand bargain' on corporate tax rate, infrastructure)

But he tied the reform and the money generated by the tax overhaul to a mix of proposals such as funding for infrastructure projects and improving education at community colleges.

Congressional Republicans immediately condemned the plan, saying it further backs Obama's policies on taxes and spending "while leaving small businesses and American families behind." The GOP prefers a flat tax on corporate profits.

"They talk tax reform, but it's not going to happen," Shane said. "There's too much gridlock."

"In the meantime, U.S. firms will continue to explore other countries for what they think are better tax laws," he said.

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Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP obstructionism, the Pope's comments, and more

On healthcare, Jules Witcover says that the Republican Obamacare obsession is "stating to look like political suicide":

Although the president's own favorable rating with the American public remains below a majority at 47.8 percent in the latest Gallup Poll, he remains much stronger than Congress, whose latest standing in the same poll has plunged to a deplorable 15 percent. Mr. Obama's overwhelming support from Hispanic and Asian voters in the last election, as well as fellow African-Americans, already weighs heavily on the minds of Republican political strategists.

But unpopularity of his health-care law also clings, endlessly fanned by the drumbeat of conservative rhetoric in and out of Congress, inspiring opponents of Obamacare to keep up the pressure for repeal, or at least defunding.

Surprisingly, President Obama himself on occasion has taken to use the label himself as measure of pride or at least hopefulness. In any event, "Obamacare" will continue to be a flashpoint as he and his most virulent critics approach this fall's latest budgetary combat. And the White House obviously hopes that if there is a next showdown over closing government services and facilities, this lame duck president will nevertheless prevail.

Michael McGough at The Los Angeles Times dissects the Pope's comments on gays and provides an overview of what pundits are saying on the matter:

[W]hereas one got the sense that Pope Benedict XVI would construe that prohibition in a restrictive way, erring on the side of excluding candidates for the priesthood who might be ?too gay,? Francis? language ?suggests a looser dispensation.

That?s the view of Damian Thompson, a conservative Catholic blogger and columnist for the Daily Telegraph in London. He said the pope?s words ?don?t change Catholic teaching, but they do alter the atmosphere very much. It seems that there will be no longer a witch-hunt to stop celibate gay men from entering seminaries, which had been the situation.?

That -- not the question of the church's condemnation of homosexual acts -- was the context of Francis' question ?Who am I to judge them?? ?Even so, the ?spirit? of the pope's remarks was new, and newsworthy.

Over at The Erasamus blog at The Economist, it's pointed out that in such a conservative institution, style matters:

So far people have generally taken at face value the image of Francis as a "barefoot pope" who is personally modest, feels compassion for the disadvantaged and is endowed with a basic human warmth that his predecessor seemed at times to lack. He is simply likeable, and that ensures that he commands some respectful attention (even from those who disagree with him) when he seems to be speaking from the heart.

In the leader of a religious organisation whose core beliefs are not open to negotiations, style matters a lot. People can sense hypocrisy and pomposity, and they can also sense the opposite.

Much more on the top stories of the day below the fold...

Speaking of style, it's not just Larry Summers' style that has people lobbying against his nomination as Chairmain of the Fed. It's his record. The New York Times editorial board pushes back--hard--against attempts to deny Janet Yellen the appointment:

In the wake of the financial crisis and the Dodd-Frank reform law, the Fed chairmanship has only become more central to the fate of the banks and economy; as a result, they want someone who shares their background and can be counted on to further their views.

Ms. Yellen is not that person, not only, or even mainly, because of policy differences but because she is not part of the fraternity. Indeed, she is reminiscent of other accomplished women with whom Mr. Summers, or his supporters, or both have tangled in the past. [...]

In the end, the choice rests with Mr. Obama. The facts are entirely on Ms. Yellen?s side. Is the president?

Alexandra Petri at The Washington Post writes up some mock interviews for FOX "News" interviewer Lauren Green following her disastrous interview of Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth":

-You?re a human being, Rachel Carson, but I can?t help noticing that you wrote about birds. What could possibly interest you in birds if you are not a bird yourself ? or even a tree? Do you worship birds?
-Jane Goodall, I can?t help noticing that you are not a chimpanzee. Why this book?

From Aslan's Reddit interview:

Despite the backlash against Green, Aslan says he never heard from her after the interview. "I've never spoken to her before or since," he said. "Frankly, I feel kind of bad for her."

His book has soared to #1 on Amazon.

Christopher Flavelle at Bloomberg looks at why more journalists don't run for (and win) public office:

Given the importance of name recognition in politics, and presumably the importance of knowing about the issues, why aren?t more former journalists better at the game? The obvious answer is that professional politics, like any other pursuit, is harder than it looks, and somebody coming from a successful career covering government may mistakenly believe they know what they?re doing.

This leads to the risk that big-name recruits will be used to burnish a party?s credentials, or underline its commitment to a certain message, in a way that may not necessarily advance their own careers. [...]

So why do they do it? For the same reasons as anyone else -- both good (altruism) and less good (vanity, boredom). But there may be something about politics that?s particularly appealing for journalists, especially those who write about the failure of policy makers to fix chronic problems. You can only cover something for so long before you start to wonder if you couldn?t do a better job.

Turning to conservation and consumption, William deBuys at The Los Angeles Times explains why the drying of the West should be of grave concern to all:

One recent study forecasts that, under a changing climate, the yield of the Colorado will decline 10% by about 2030, and it will keep falling after that. Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects the river's 40 million water users to grow to between 49.3 million and 76.5 million by 2060.

None of the available remedies inspires much confidence. "Augmentation" ? diverting water from another basin into the Colorado system ? is politically, if not economically, infeasible. Desalination, which can be effective in specific, local situations, is too expensive and energy-consuming to slake much of the Southwest's thirst. And weather modification, a.k.a. rainmaking, isn't much more effective today than it was in its infancy during the last century.

Undoubtedly, there will be small successes squeezing water from unlikely sources. But the surest prospect for the West? That a bumper harvest of lawsuits is approaching. Water lawyers can expect decades of full employment in the region. Their clients will include irrigation farmers, thirsty cities and power companies that need water to cool their thermal generators and for hydroelectric production. Recreation interests and environmentalists trying to save endangered species will join them in the legal equivalent of a long-running, circular firing squad.

On the critically important topic of poverty and food stamps, Jordan Weismann and Kyle Thetford crunch the numbers and explain that the GOP's policies will hurt many of their constituents:

When most House Republicans talk about cutting food stamps, they're saying that they're ok with the idea that at least one out of every ten households in their district will have a tougher time putting food on the table, and will have less money to spend on local businesses. Now, politicians like Louie Gohmert might think that's ok because poor families eat too much anyway and are just using their benefits to buy expensive king crab legs (13 percent of his constituents use food stamps by the way). But for those of us a bit more strongly tethered to reality, it ought to cause a bit of concern.

Finally, Olga Khazan at The Atlantic highlights a fascinating study on "the stupidity of the crowd":

The theory of the "wisdom of the crowd" has been used to explain everything from the overall accuracy of Wikipedia to the logic of democracy. And in general, that principle is true: Choices made by many are usually better than those made by a few or one.

But new research from Arizona State University and Uppsala University in Sweden adds a caveat to that notion, showing that while crowds might indeed be wise when it comes to making tough, close calls, they are actually worse than individuals at choosing between two options, one of which is vastly superior to the other. When the choice is easy, in other words, the crowd can actually be pretty dumb.

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