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Gunmen kill religious leader in Russia's Dagestan
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Muslim religious leader in Russia's Dagestan region on Tuesday in an attack likely to worsen a spiral of militant violence that threatens Moscow's hold on the restive North Caucasus.
Karimulla Ibragimov was at least the fifth Muslim leader killed this year in Dagestan following a rise in tension between moderate and more radical Muslims in the southern Russian republic.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Ibragimov in the town of Derbent at around 6:30 a.m (0230 GMT), Russia's Investigative Committee said. Local officials said he had served as an imam at an unregistered mosque frequented by radical Muslims.
"All three died on the spot from the gunshot wounds," the committee, a government agency that handles criminal investigations, said in a statement.
Russian news agencies said the gunmen escaped in a car.
Dagestan is at the centre of an insurgency for an Islamic state in the North Caucasus, more than a decade after Russian troops ousted a rebel government in neighboring Chechnya and restored Moscow's direct control.
Security analysts said the violence could be aimed at spoiling efforts to reconcile moderate and more extremist Muslims, and provoke a more forceful approach by Moscow which could further radicalize the population.
President Vladimir Putin, who as prime minister in 1999 sent troops to Chechnya, has made clear he favors a tough approach and will not let religious intolerance tear Russia apart.
Russia's most senior Islamic cleric warned in August that there was a danger of civil war in Dagestan, which is only a few hundred kilometers (miles) from the city of Sochi where Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Putin has called for unity and has told security forces to outsmart and outmuscle Islamist militants to ensure the safety of the Winter Games and other events Russia is hosting.
CONCERNS OVER EXTREMISM
In comments published on Tuesday, the head of the Dagestan region, Magomedsalam Magomedov, echoed Putin's remarks and pleaded for an end to violence.
"We should act against extremism and terrorism with one front, work more actively, aggressively and in a more targeted way," he was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as telling a regional anti-terrorism commission.
Efforts to reconcile adherents to the mystical Sufi branch of Islam and Muslims who practice the purist Salafi version of the faith were launched after Putin steered his ally Dmitry Medvedev into the presidency in 2008.
But security analysts say that renewed violence in Dagestan could force a more robust approach toward religious intolerance which could backfire by encouraging retaliation and fuelling bloodshed.
"(Today's attack) could be used as one more argument for the increased use of force," said Grigory Shvedov, editor of web news portal Caucasian Knot www.kavkaz-uzel.ru.
"If this approach is implemented, then the violence will definitely increase a lot," he said.
In August, a woman disguised as a pilgrim detonated a bomb strapped to her body in Dagestan, killing popular spiritual leader Said Atsayev, 74, an opponent of militant Islam.
Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least three other religious leaders in Dagestan this year, including another Salafi leader earlier this month.
In July, the top Muslim official in Tatarstan - about 2,000 km (1,240 miles) from the North Caucasus - was wounded in a car-bomb attack and his deputy was shot dead the same day.
The attacks raised concerns in Moscow that militant violence could spread to Russia's heartland and Putin flew to Tatarstan to appeal for calm.
The attacks have largely been depicted by religious experts as retribution for the authorities' crackdown on Salafism, which along with corruption and clan feuds, has been instrumental in directing young Muslims into the ranks of the insurgency.
Militants led by Russia's most wanted man, the Chechen-born Doku Umarov, wage almost daily violence to try to establish an Islamist state in the patchwork of mostly Muslim regions in the North Caucasus mountains between the Caspian and Black Seas.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Timothy Heritage and Jon Hemming)
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Cell phones spammed with anti-gay, anti-Obama messages | theGrio
UPDATE: The sender of the anti-Obama text messages, which were sent from an anonymous source hit hundreds of voters? phones Tuesday night, has been unmasked.
Politico reports in an updated story today:
The spate of unsolicited anti-Obama text messages that have hit hundreds of cellphones in recent days appears to be the work of conservative activist Jason Flanary and his Virginia-based communications firm, ccAdvertising.
Every domain listed in previous stories about the controversy now displays Flanary as the registrant and lists a Centreville, Va., address and phone number, as well as an indication that the domain had been ?suspended for spam and abuse.? Domain registrar GoDaddy.com unmasks registrants when they violate terms of service.
GoDaddy suspended the domains and unmasked their origins overnight after POLITICO and others?reported?on the uproar on Facebook and Twitter surrounding the texts.
Politico reported earlier that one message read, ?Voting for Obama means voting for same-sex marriage.? Others include ?Obama stole $716 Billion in Medicare. We cant [sic] trust Obama to protect our seniors,? ?Obama is using your tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood and abortions. Is that right?? and ?VP Biden mocks a fallen Navy Seal during memorial. Our military deserves better.?
Many of the recipients tweeted screenshots of their messages. Jim Spellman, a reporter for CNN, tweeted, ?A new low for these political campaigns: text messages? Please give us a break!?
Not much is known about the source of these messages except that they come from addresses like republicanett.com, votegopett.com, aiccomett.com and informedett.com, which suggest the texts may have been sent from the Internet, not from phones. Searches of the domain names show they were registered in February, but information on the owners is blocked.
Not only is it difficult to determine who is sending the texts, but the legality of the issue isn?t easy to discern either. The Federal Communications Commission prohibits text spams, but it seems whoever is behind this organized campaign is using the loophole of sending e-mails to phone numbers.
Last week, the FCC made the announcement that it would begin taking comments until November 23 on a petition that aims to ban Internet-to-phone messaging as a form of auto-dialing.
The person behind the petition, Scott Goodstein, a former Obama 2008 online external director and founder of Revolution Messaging, a digital campaign consultant firm, criticized the anti-Obama spam as ?modern day push-polling.?
?These abuses threaten what is a very promising technology of text messaging for political engagement,? he told?Politico. ?People did not opt-in to receive these messages and ultimately end up having to pay the cost for this unwanted misinformation that appeared on their mobile phone.?
The messages also don?t seem to be well-targeted. Among the people who reported to have received them are hardcore Democrats, children and residents in non-battleground areas.
New York Times congressional correspondent Jonathan Weisman?s 13-year-old daughter was one of the recipients. She received the message: ?Obama denies protection to babies who survive abortions. Obama is just wrong.?
Weisman replied on Twitter, ?Hey sms@gopmessage.com, not cool texting my daughter your little hit piece. I?d like you to stop it.?
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Android 4.2's Photo Sphere camera takes on iPhone's panorama mode
Android 4.2 is teeming with new features and system improvements, but you can bet that Photo Sphere will be the one that's talked about most amongst consumers. While Android phones on the whole have had panoramic modes for years, Apple's iOS 6 update added even more fuel to that fire. Now, Google's taking things to an entirely new level. With Android 4.2, users can snap pictures in every direction, and the system does the stitching. What you're left with are photos that can be navigated, taking viewers "inside of the scene." Photo Spheres are stored as JPEG files, and all of the information required to view them is embedded as open XML metadata in the image itself. You'll be able to peek 'em on your phone or share them easily through Google+, and perhaps best of all, publish them to Google Maps for the world to see. Head on past the break to see what you've got to look forward to.
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T-Mobile getting its own 16GB Nexus 4 for $199 on contract
For you folks on T-Mobile looking to save a little bit of cash, you'll be able to pick up a 16-gigabyte Nexus 4 for $199 on contract. You'll be signing away two years of your smartphone life, for a phone you can get outright for just $349, but at least it's an option.
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Hurricane Sandy Profiled in New Side-View Image
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Is It Safe to Take a Jordan Holiday? | BeCleanLiveGreen
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Recently Jordan has surfaced in the news with alarmist reports of a new terrorist al-Qaida cell that were planning a bomb and mortar attack on western diplomats. News such as this often puts travellers off Jordan holidays but the arrest of these men is in fact a positive sign. Jordan is the safest country in the Middle East, apart from two or three bombings in recent years and some regular, but usually peaceful protests on Fridays, there is only a minor threat to foreign nationals......Click to read the complete article
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Hulk Hogan settles sex tape lawsuit with DJ
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) ? Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit with a disc jockey over a sex tape involving Hogan and the DJ's wife.
A statement by Hogan's publicist Monday says the terms of the settlement are confidential.
Hogan said in a lawsuit earlier this month that he had consensual sex with his best friend's wife, Heather Clem, six years ago in the Clems' home, but he didn't know he was being videotaped.
The disc jockey, Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, apologized to Hogan on Monday. Clem also said that he's convinced Hogan was unaware he was being filmed.
A lawsuit is still pending against the gossip website Gawker, which put excerpts of the video on its site.
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In relation to preserving a healthy diet, it is sometimes extremely hard for you to simply just eat three meals every day and obtain every one of the nutritional supplements that you might want. Not to mention, the person usually does not each day well-balanced meals each day, which makes it even more challenging to have the nutrition that are needed via meals only. Therefore , it is crucial that you begin adding supplements inside your daily diet to ensure that you are usually because healthy and balanced as you possibly can. One of the better products that you can add to your diet regime will be fish oil supplements. This supplement presents several rewards for your entire body due to omega-3 fatty acids that this consists of. Lots of people do not receive enough omega-3 efas frequently; subsequently, heart problems and also other significant health issues become more prevalent.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Modular Homes Down Under | Daily Business News
ABC-AU reports from Queensland, Australia Gateway Constructions has won a $4.5 million contract to build 12 new modular homes for the Cape York Aboriginal community in the far northeastern tip of Australia. According to Queensland Housing Minister Dr. Bruce Flegg, although the housing will be built in a factory in Cairns, Queensland, the project will impact indigenous employment in the Aurukun community and boost the housing stock by 150 units. As MHProNews has been informed, the government also notes the housing will be designed with child protection in mind.
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Wexford Online University Names Tracy Daly Department Chair and ProfessorTracy Daly was recently named department chair and professor of nutrition and exercise for Wexford University. The university offers 100 percent associate through doctoral level online education in a variety of health, exercise, sports and fitness degree programs.
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, 27 October 2012 -- Cementing its dedication to health, fitness and nutrition education, Wexford University recently named Tracy Daly professor and department chair for its Nutrition and Exercise program. A 100 percent online university, Wexford University offers a variety of associates through doctoral degrees in health, fitness, exercise and nutrition.
With a master?s degree in Nutrition Education from Chicago Medical School and a bachelor?s degree in Dietetics from Madonna University in Michigan, Daly has been a registered dietitian since 1999. She has also served as the sports dietitian for the San Diego State University (SDSU) Aztecs and high-risk dietitian for SDSU students for nearly a decade.
?Tracy truly believes in the power of nutrition in health and disease prevention as well as the ability to improve quality of life through eating fun and healthy foods and physical activity, an ideal match for the philosophy of Wexford?s online health, wellness and nutrition programs,? said Jack Bauerle, Chancellor of Wexford University. ?As our online university continues to offer more diverse courses and programs for students interested in nutrition and exercise, we are thrilled to add her expertise and passion to our staff.?
Daly also serves as adjunct professor at San Diego State University, Cal State San Marcos, San Diego Community College District and Trident University, and has provided guest lectures to the University of San Diego and the University of California, San Diego. Further, she has been involved in nutrition research at the University of California, San Diego and previously served as consultant sports dietitian for the University of San Diego Toreros. Daly is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the California Dietetic Association, San Diego Area Dietetic Association, Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group, and the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association.
Wexford University offers the following online degree programs for both U.S. and international students:
Associate of arts degree in Fitness Training
Bachelor of science degree in Health and Fitness
Master of science degree in Nutrition and Exercise
Master of arts degree in Applied Sports Psychology
Doctor of Applied Sports Psychology
About Wexford University
Wexford University is dedicated to providing world-class education through cutting-edge technology, offering direct application degree programs in an accelerated format with 100 percent online learning to save time and money. Programs include an associate of arts degree in Fitness Training, bachelor?s degree in Health and Fitness, master?s degree in Nutrition and Exercise as well as master?s degree and doctorate degree in Applied Sport Psychology. Wexford University is the higher education division of NESTA (National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association). For more information, please visit http://wexford.edu/.
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Internet Archive at 10 petabytes of saved culture
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There are plenty of things on the Internet today that won't matter tomorrow, but this online world of ours is also a powerful way to store and browse all kinds of data from the past. The non-profit?Internet Archive, which is dedicated to preserving all kinds of?culture digitally, has recently hit an amazing milestone: 10?petabytes of stored data.
The collection comprises everything from World War II newsreels to classic literature to public domain music, and of course, the famous "Wayback Machine," with which you can visit many popular websites through the years.
This week saw the addition of the?10,000,000,000,000,000th byte to the pile ? that's 10 petabytes, 10,000 terabytes, or 10 million gigabytes. That particular byte was likely mixed in with the recent and enormous 80-terabyte crawl of the Web's most popular sites. You could just visit the sites themselves, of course, but researchers looking to systematically analyze the content of millions of webpages can't be sitting around waiting for them to load. Huge downloadable archives like this are invaluable for their purposes.
Archive.org's blog post also notes that they have put up what they describe as "the first complete literature of a people," specifically that of the Balinese. It's an impressive feat and guarantees the survival of these vital historical documents. The effort is reminiscent of another, which is attempting to fully document endangered languages. Such culturally important projects are a good reminder of the Internet's value apart from news and entertainment.
The Archive is free to browse, of course, and recently added the option to download files via BitTorrent, which should help keep costs down and accessibility up.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Iron Nazi space Buddha may be fake, definitely from space
In a report released online, a Buddhism expert writes that the features of the statue are 'pseudo-Tibetan' and are more likely to be a European reproduction
A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite.
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EnlargeResearchers who reported that a potentially ancient Buddha statue is carved from a meteorite said they are not surprised that an expert in Buddhist history believes the statue to be a fake.
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"Honestly, that is what we expected," said Elmar Buchner, who along with his colleague?reported on the statue in September?in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. "We heard so many opinions from so many experts in art history and experts for Buddhism on the origins and the age of the statue prior to and after the publication."
The most public of these consultations is a new report from Achim Bayer, a Buddhism expert at Dongguk University in South Korea. In a report released online, Bayer writes that the features of the statue are "pseudo-Tibetan" and are?more likely to be a European reproduction?dating from 1910 to 1970 than a true ancient carving dating back 1,000 years, as Buchner and his colleagues had estimated.
Bayer did not contest that the statue is a made of meteorite
"The non-Asian features of the 'lama wearing trousers' should be immediately obvious to any scholar in the field," Bayer wrote, referring to the statue as a "lama" or guru. The shoes, pants and sleeves of the man's garments are all wrong for ancient Tibet, he wrote. The statue's hands, eyes and ears are also shaped unusually for Tibetan art, he said.
The statue was said to have come to Germany in the possession of a pre-World War II scientific expedition commissioned by the?Nazi party. Bayer called that into question, too, saying there is no documentation of the statue's transfer and arguing that it is more likely a fake created in the 20th century for the antique or Nazi-memorabilia market.
"For us, Bayer's hypothesis is just one opinion," Buchner wrote in an email to LiveScience. "However, we cannot decide whether this hypothesis is valid or not because we are not the experts in art history, and we told the press that our assumptions are speculative, accordingly," wrote Buchner, who is a geologist.
The geochemical analysis of the meteorite is still sound, Buchner said. The team found that the material used to make the statue is a rare type of iron- and nickel-rich meteorite from a meteorite fall along the Siberian-Tibetan border. [Top 5 Weirdest Meteorites]
That cosmic origin brings up one more mystery in the tale of the controversial space Buddha.
"I think it is not convincing that anybody took a very precious meteorite to produce a reproduction for the local antique market!?" Buchner wrote.
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Guns, climate, gays missing in presidential race
A young supporter holds up a U.S. flag during a campaign event for President Barack Obama at Doolittle Park, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A young supporter holds up a U.S. flag during a campaign event for President Barack Obama at Doolittle Park, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Of the roughly 50,000 words spoken in this month's three presidential debates, none were "climate change," ''global warming" or "greenhouse gas."
Housing was discussed in the first debate, but the word "foreclosure" was mentioned in none. Nor was gay marriage.
The 2012 presidential campaign, not just the debates, has focused heavily from the start on jobs, pushing other once high-profile issues to the sidelines. It dismays activists who have spent decades promoting environmental issues, gay rights, gun control and other topics, sometimes managing to lift them to the top tiers of national attention and debate.
With fewer than half of Americans believing that human activity contributes to global warming, according to Pew Research, President Barack Obama talks far less about climate change than he did four years ago. When he locked up the Democratic nomination in June 2008, he said future generations would recall "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
Obama hasn't come close to making such claims in recent months.
Last June, 3,100 U.S. temperature records were broken and much of the nation was in drought, said Daniel Kessler, spokesman for 350 Action Fund, which tries to raise awareness of global warming. And yet the three presidential debates, and the sole vice presidential forum, produced "absolute silence on climate science," Kessler said.
He said he believes voters would respond favorably "if candidates put out a bold vision" on climate change. Instead, the topic generates far less discussion than it did four years ago. Other topics suffering downgrades in presidential campaign attention include:
GUNS
Gun rights sometimes have played big roles in U.S. elections. In 1993, for instance, the recently elected President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill, which required background checks on many gun buyers. A new ban on assault weapons soon followed. But it contributed to heavy Democratic congressional losses in 1994, and the law expired 10 years later.
Despite high-profile mass shootings ? including those involving Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in early 2011, and dozens of Colorado movie theater patrons in July ? questions about gun rights and gun control have generated scant discussion this year.
They weren't mentioned in the first debate between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, which focused on domestic issues. A voter asked about assault weapons in the second, town-hall-style debate, on Oct. 16.
Obama cautiously spoke of "seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced." Romney said he favors no new gun laws.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence criticized the lack of discussion in the first debate. After the second, it chiefly praised the woman who asked about the assault weapons ban.
IMMIGRATION
In recent years, immigration has been a big issue in national elections. Then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush backed a pathway to legal status for many illegal immigrants when he ran for president in 2000. But Republican activists and members of Congress increasingly took hard stands against illegal immigrants.
In this year's Republican primaries, Romney positioned himself to the right of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Speaker Newt Gingrich and others when it came to being tough on illegal immigration. He said illegal immigrants should be encouraged to "self-deport."
Romney has softened his rhetoric somewhat since then.
He told Hispanic leaders in June he would replace Obama's executive order allowing 800,000 young illegal immigrants to remain in the country with a long-term solution. But Romney didn't detail his plans, and immigration has played a smaller role in the general election than it did in the primary.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign recently noted on its website that questions of same-sex marriage and other gay rights issues were not mentioned in the first two presidential debates and the vice presidential debate. The final Obama-Romney faceoff was likely to be "the last window for the candidates to share their vastly different views" on the topic, the group said.
But that debate, on Oct. 22, also came and went with no mention of "gay" or "same-sex" ? or any type of marriage, for that matter.
That's not to say the nominees haven't taken stands. Early in his term, Obama helped clear the way for gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. Last May he embraced same-sex marriage, which Romney opposes.
The gay-oriented group Log Cabin Republicans gave Romney a somewhat tepid endorsement. "If LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues are a voter's highest or only priority, then Governor Romney may not be that voter's choice," the Log Cabin Republicans endorsement said. The group said it believed Romney would do a better job of cutting spending and creating jobs.
Those are precisely the issues that have dominated the campaign, often in basic discussions that don't go far beyond platitudes. Both campaigns have warned of the looming "fiscal cliff" ? the package of huge tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to hit Jan. 1 ? but no one has come close to offering a viable solution.
Meanwhile, advocates for improving schools, fighting poverty, fighting crime and other issues ? which have played big roles in past elections ? have struggled to get a word in edgewise this year.
When U.S. unemployment exceeded 10 percent in October 2009, politicians said the 2012 election would be about jobs, jobs, jobs. Three years later, that hasn't changed.
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Daily Kos: #Fail! Americans for Prosperity bus tour (Funny Update!)
The "rally" started at noon. This was the scene when I arrived at 12:05.
And this was the scene when I left 20 minutes later.
There were four staffers and one "attendee" there when I arrived. I parked by the bus and then took my dog for a walk down the river. As I came back towards the bus, the man who I thought was an attendee pulled his minivan up along the curb. ?I thought, "Oh boy, what does this guy want?" Then I noticed he and I were wearing the same t-shirt: Hoosiers for Obama! ?
He said, "You should have come over. We could have gotten our picture taken together."
He said he just wanted to hear what they had to say. ?
He said they claimed to be non-partisan. ?
He replied, "Yeah but you're anti-Obama!'
"No," they claimed. "We're not anti-Obama. We're just opposed to his policies."
He and I shared a laugh about the Koch Brothers-funded bus tour pretending to be non-partisan.
Ironically, the location they chose had a terrific view of the new bridge being built over the Ohio River. ?So as I walked back to my car, I stopped to make a few smartass comments to the guy who appeared to be in charge. First I "congratulated" him on the turnout. Then I pointed out the bridge to him ("stimulus in action" as I described it). ?I explained to him how we had needed a new bridge for a very long time. It was very narrow and scary to drive across and was recently limited to 3 tons which is a real pain for trucks trying to get to and from the factories in Madison and I-71 in Kentucky. Anyway, I told him the bridge never got approval until federal stimulus funds helped fund it. I asked him to be sure and point that out if anybody showed up to their rally.
If they had gone a few miles down the road, they could've seen the recently completed work done at the coal plant that has been fouling our air quality for longer than I have been alive. Not only did EPA regulations force them to improve air quality, it also put hundreds of construction workers back to work. ?
In the second photo, on the right, there's a girl with her back turned. She was wearing a Purdue University sweatshirt. ?I wish I had thought to ask her if she had actually attended that public university, and if so, had she used any Pell Grants to help pay for it and/or was she benefitting from the lower interest rates on any student loans she might have taken out?
Look, I'm not under any illusions about my hometown supporting President Obama. Even when Obama carried Indiana in 2008, my hometown still went to John McCain. I do have some hope that people here will have enough sense to reject Richard "God's intention" Mourdock. Joe Donnelly is going to be more conservative than I would like, somewhere between Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson. But he is certainly a better option than Richard "Washington needs more partisanship" Mourdock. All that said, I was glad to see the American's for Prosperity bus tour was an epic fail in my hometown and hopefully in other towns around the country too. ?
Funny update: Apparently they took out a 3/4 page in the local newspaper to advertise the event. Unfortunately they ran it in today's paper. Not sure how long the bus stayed around but it might have been gone by the time most people even got their paper, which gets delivered in mid to late afternoon. Hmmm, might have been a good idea to run the ad in yesterday's paper?
Since this diary is getting some attention, I think it's only fair that Liberty gets some public acknowledgement for her role. Here's Liberty! ?
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/25/1150067/--Fail-American-s-for-Prosperity-bus-tour
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Japan approves new stimulus for ailing economy
TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's Cabinet approved a 423 billion yen ($5.3 billion) economic stimulus package on Friday, moving to fend off recession as the recovery in the world's third biggest economy falters.
The emergency spending package, which is double the size originally expected, is also meant to help make up for lost momentum from reconstruction in the region devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's leeway to boost spending is limited by a legislative standoff preventing issuance of deficit-covering bonds. Noda has ordered the government to draft further measures to boost growth by next month.
Friday's decision coincided with news of a 0.1 percent fall in the consumer price index in September, adding to pressure on the central bank to ease policies to help fight deflation, or falling prices, which can hinder economic growth.
National policy minister Seiji Maehara has been among the most vocal officials pushing the Bank of Japan to do more to boost growth, sitting on central bank board meetings to emphasize the government's desire for more action.
Japan's economy has remained in the doldrums for over 20 years and a hoped-for export-led recovery has been stymied by the European crisis and slowing growth in China and elsewhere.
Many economists believe there is a growing risk of a recession contrary to the central bank's expectations of a pickup in growth later in the year.
Although interest rates remain near zero, the bank could further expand its asset-buying program to convince markets it is determined to break out of Japan's deflationary slump, said Matthew Circosta, an economist with Moody's Analytics in Sydney, Australia.
"If they have an inflation goal of 2 percent or 3 percent they should pull out all stops to achieve it," he said. "They've just got to be more aggressive than they are now," he said.
The stimulus package includes more than 264 billion yen ($3.3 billion) on disaster prevention and spending on projects and subsidies to help along the lagging recovery along the northeastern coast, where the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011 and ensuing tsunami left more than 19,000 people dead or missing.
A big chunk of that is to go to support for small- and medium-size businesses. It also earmarks some 41 billion yen ($514 million) for renewable energy projects.
The government is also pledging 3.8 billion yen ($47.5 million) for support of research related to work by Shinya Yamanaka, winner of a 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, on reprogramming mature human cells into stem cells ? a discovery that could lead to new treatments for various diseases.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-approves-stimulus-ailing-economy-025127264--finance.html
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Powell standing by Obama in 2012 presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election.
He tells "CBS This Morning" he respects Mitt Romney but thinks he's been vague on many issues.
Speaking of Obama, Powell said the president got the United States out of Iraq and has laid out a plan for leaving Afghanistan "and didn't get us into any new wars."
He praises Obama's economic performance, saying that while difficult choices are ahead on taxes, spending and budgetary policies, "steadily, I think we've begun to come out of the dive and we're gaining attitude." Powell, a retired general, also formerly was a White House chief of staff and chairman of the military's Joint Chief of Staffs.
Powell says that he's still a Republican.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/powell-standing-obama-2012-presidential-race-114641048--election.html
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'Gravity' Still Exists, Will Be Rated PG-13
Remember "Gravity"? That ambitious Alfonso Cuaron movie set in outer space that took years to make? We barely did either, but now we have news that the movie has received an MPAA rating, which means it's likely near completion. "Gravity" lost its November release date back in May and was then moved back to 2013. [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/10/25/gravity-pg13/
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Gambling: Galaxy Entertainment Group Selected Unaudited Q3 ...
HONG KONG, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ? Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited (?GEG? or ?the Group?) (HKEx stock code: 27) today reported selected unaudited 2012 third quarter financial data for the three months ended September 30, 2012. em>GEG: em> pre> ? EBITDA of HK$2.6 billion, up 46% year-on-year ? 16th consecutive quarter of Group EBITDA growth ? Latest 12 months Group EBITDA to September 30, 2012 increased by 123% to HK$9.5 billion
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Interesting gambling information:
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
Source: http://www.gambling-news-source.com/2012/10/25/galaxy-entertainment-group-selected-unaudited-78727/
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
When Obama Loved Private Equity
President Obama has spent much of the past six months hammering away at Mitt Romney's career in the private equity business, but for a time, as a state senator in Illinois, Obama sang the praises of the private equity sector, saying it offered "the best opportunity for economic vitality" in Illinois.
"As many of you know venture capital and private equity is one of the key mechanisms by which we finance new businesses in the state of Illinois," state Sen. Obama said in a speech before the Illinois Senate on May 30, 2003. "For a variety of reasons, Illinois has been lagging behind some of our competitor states in the formation of venture capital and its deployment in terms of seeding and funding new companies."
To help make Illinois more competitive in attracting venture capital, Obama proposed the formation of a special task force on private equity - and made it clear he was doing it at the request of those in the business.
"This is an issue that has piqued the interest of various persons in the industry, and so they have asked that we form this Private Equity Task Force to examine these issues," Obama said, according to an Illinois Senate transcript from May 2003.
Here's a link to the transcript (Senator Obama's speech begins on page 161)
The task force was created with Senate Resolution 89, a bill offered by then Sen. Obama that described private equity as the key driver of the state's economy.
"The development of the private equity sector of the Illinois economy," the resolution said, "offers the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality, for the expansion of jobs, for the improvement of productivity and a quality standard of living, and for providing the greatest number of citizens with genuine opportunity."
There was no mention of Bain Capital, but it sounds like something a former chairman of Bain Capital would embrace without hesitation.
The resolution passed by a vote of 56-0.
Also ReadSource: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-loved-private-equity-230855398--abc-news-politics.html
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