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Hong Kong named top financial center for second year
LONDON (Reuters) - Hong Kong was named the world's top financial center for the second year running by the World Economic Forum (WEF), thanks to the strength of its business environment, infrastructure and a favorable tax regime.
The WEF's annual Financial Development Report considered a wide range of factors and underscored the rise of Asian trading centers and the influence of China as the world's second-largest economy.
Rival surveys based purely on the total value of transactions typically put New York or London in top place.
However, stalling capital markets, sputtering economic growth and waning trust in financial organizations served to ensure that the top six positions remained unchanged from 2011, the WEF said.
"Macroeconomic uncertainty as well as concerns related to regulation, contributes to inhibiting the financial industry from funding much-needed growth," said Giancarlo Bruno, senior director at the WEF, which hosts an annual meeting of political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
Though the report noted "pockets of improvement" across some banking-related indicators, it said that these signified "only a small step in what will be a long road to recovery".
The United States, Britain, Singapore, Australia and Canada followed Hong Kong in the 2012 rankings.
The report looked at legal and regulatory factors, business environment, financial stability, banking and non-banking services, markets and access to them.
"Despite these strengths, Hong Kong has a relatively underdeveloped bond market and its financial sector has yet to be fully liberalized," the report said.
Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden made up the remainder of the top 10 financial centers.
The report said that policymakers face a "monumental" task to restore confidence in markets as waning trust in the overall system holds back investment.
(Reporting by Huw Jones; Editing by David Goodman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-named-top-financial-center-second-070508510--finance.html
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George Wendt leaves play after chest pains
FILE - This Oct. 20, 2009 file photo shows actor George Wendt posing for a portrait in New York. The Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Ill., announced Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, that Wendt checked into a hospital Sunday and is receiving medical attention. Northlight Theatre executive director Timothy Evans says Wendt "will eventually make a full recovery." The 64-year-old Wendt was to perform in the show from Nov. 2 through Dec. 9 in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. He will be replaced by actor Marc Grapey, who previously performed in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)
FILE - This Oct. 20, 2009 file photo shows actor George Wendt posing for a portrait in New York. The Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Ill., announced Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, that Wendt checked into a hospital Sunday and is receiving medical attention. Northlight Theatre executive director Timothy Evans says Wendt "will eventually make a full recovery." The 64-year-old Wendt was to perform in the show from Nov. 2 through Dec. 9 in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. He will be replaced by actor Marc Grapey, who previously performed in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)
SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) ? Chest pains will keep actor George Wendt from performing as Oscar Madison in a Chicago-area production of "The Odd Couple."
Northlight Theatre announced Tuesday that the actor famous for playing Norm Peterson on the TV show "Cheers" checked into a hospital Sunday and is receiving medical attention. Northlight Theatre executive director Timothy Evans says Wendt "will eventually make a full recovery."
The 64-year-old Wendt was to perform in the show from Nov. 2 through Dec. 9 in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. He will be replaced by actor Marc Grapey, who previously performed in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
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Pennsylvania parents file wrongful death suit after son loses life in ...
October 30th, 2012 by Gabriel Z. Levin 
Sources, such as The Associated Press, reported that the teen's father was aware that his had access to liquor but did not take any steps to ensure that she wasn't serving it to minors.
Three individuals have been named in a wrongful death suit after a teenage boy was killed in a drunk driving automobile accidents. The owner of an upscale Pennsylvania retreat, his daughter and the adolescent driver that crashed were named the defendants. The parents of the victim are the plaintiffs. In court documents, the mom and dad allege that the adolescent daughter, whose father runs Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, served the driver of the vehicle whiskey and rum the night of the incident last September.
Sources, such as The Associated Press, reported that the teen's father was aware that his had access to liquor but did not take any steps to ensure that she wasn't serving it to minors. The victim got in the car with the intoxicated driver, the underage bartender and a few other teens.
The manager of the retreat ?knew in fact that [his daughter] had had such parties before and knew and/or likely knew and/or had every reason to know she had supplied underage teenagers with alcohol readily available in his home to those underage teenagers,? read a written statement from the plaintiffs' attorneys, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
After the collision took place, a senior judge ordered the vehicle owner who crashed to spend almost 50 days in alcohol rehabilitation. He was also forced give public talks about the importance of not drinking and driving.
The suit was recently filed in Uniontown and as of October 30, no trial date has been set.
If one of your loved ones has lost his or her life due to someone else's negligence, you may want to consider scheduling a consultation with a personal injury lawyer in Philadelphia. These experienced and locally based professionals can assess your claim, try your case in court and help you recover damages you may be entitled to.
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Senate: Medtronic shaped articles promoting Infuse
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. helped write and edit medical journal articles attributed to outside physicians, which downplayed the risks of the company's best-selling bone graft, according to a report by Senate investigators.
The Senate Finance Committee says Medtronic did not disclose its role in shaping the articles, which helped turn the Infuse bone graft into an $800 million a year product. Senate investigators also say Medtronic did not disclose $210 million in payments to the authors for unrelated consulting work over 15 years.
The report follows years of scrutiny into Medtronic's promotion of Infuse, which is widely used for procedures not deemed safe or effective.
The Minneapolis company says it disagrees with many of the findings in the report.
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Return of the tabletop adventures - The Rebel Yell
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?Tis the season for some creepy-yet-utterly-enjoyable board games for this upcoming Halloween
With Halloween right around the corner, and a giant blowout sale at Little Shop of Magic, located at 4160 S. Durango Drive, I figured it was a good time to blow some money on some appropriately themed board games.
Last Night on Earth
Last Night on Earth, pictured above on left, is a zombie survival game where players play against the board for their lives. In a full six player game, not needed but definitely more fun, two players control the zombies and the other four play as survivors. Survivor turns allow the survivors to roll a D6 (six-sided die) to move, search for provisions, shoot a zombie or just do nothing. Zombie turns work the same with the exception of their movement: Zombies can only move one space, but they are able to move through walls. Ideally, the survivors will have ranged weapons. If not, a zombie or two will more than likely enter the same space as them. At that point, they fight for their lives, trying to either roll doubles to kill the zombie or higher than the zombie roll to knock it back. Last Night on Earth can be played multiple different ways, simply by changing the scenario cards or randomizing the game board itself. The game even comes with a soundtrack to add to the ambiance. All of the art is a perfect blend of real pictures and aftereffects to make all the cards feel an appropriate level of creepy. For a more in-depth look at Last Night on Earth, Wil Wheaton spotlighted the game on ?TableTop.? This game is perfect for any zombie enthusiasts or anybody that loves cooperative gaming.
Resident Evil: Deck Building Game
I?m a huge fan of the Resident Evil series and this deck building game captures all the spirit of the franchise. Players start the game with 10 cards, a couple of ammo cards and a gun in their inventory. Each player plays as a Resident Evil character with their own special abilities. For example, Claire Redfield gains 20 extra damage after she uses a green or red herb. Players always have a hand of 5 cards, so there is a chance that you might not have a weapon. Because of this, players are encouraged to buy items and weapons from the shop using gold, numbers values assigned to certain cards. If a player feels confident in his/her chances they can kick in the door of the mansion. Players flip the top card of the mansion deck and attempt to do more damage to the infected they are fighting than the health they have. If not, they take the appropriate amount of damage and their turn is over. The game ends when a player successfully finds and defeats staple Resident Evil villain Albert Wesker. The game is a fast-paced race that pushes players to plan moves out turns ahead of time. Perfect for any fans of the series or anybody that enjoys strategy or card games.
Trollhalla
Admittedly, this one doesn?t fit the ?horror theme? I?ve been creating, but when a game promises a Troll version of Valhalla, you can?t really say no. In Trollhalla, players play as disgruntled trolls sick of working under bridges for meager tolls and the occasional farmer to snack on. You and your fellow players take to the seas looking for plunder strewn across the various islands on the board. Players can put their trolls in two positions, seafaring or scouting. The seafaring position allows the player to place the troll on the most favorable ship on the board. A scouting troll gives a player a Weather God card which can have adverse effects on enemy ships. Players may board the same ships, so the real strategy of the game is what order you get placed into the boat. The order dictates what plunder you receive and ultimately how many points you receive (Noblemen are worth more points than goats). The game ends when all plunder has been taken and the points are tallied. Players can receive bonuses for any number of things (collecting all of the Billy Goats, for example), so the game is more about chance than anything. This game is perfect as a break between ?serious? games or for anybody looking for a fun, more casual game.
Gloom
I love this game. In Gloom, pictured above on right, players receive one of four different families that all have different quirks. The mechanics are the game is simple. Players take a hand of five cards and attempt to play modifiers that lower their characters self-worth. Once a character has a hefty amount of negative points, players can lay down a card that kills off that character. The game ends when one play successfully kills off all of their family. The other advantage to killing a family member is that it secures the points, as other players can play positive modifiers on your characters. The real draw to the game, and the reason I love it, is that every time a player plays a card, they must create a story behind the move. Say you?re playing ?drowned by drink? on ?Cousin James,? you would need to explain what drove Cousin James to get to the point he was ?drowned by drink.? The game is less about the cards and more about creating rich, depressing stories for your characters. The game gets really fun once other players start playing positive modifiers on your characters and have to play off your previously created back story. On top of that almost all of the cards are hilariously alliterated which makes them brilliant to say aloud. This game is perfect for anybody that loves dark humor, telling stories or is an English major.
Source: http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/2012/10/25/return-of-the-tabletop-adventures/
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Will BBC have to sacrifice its independence over Savile scandal?
Crises are nothing new at the BBC, a 90-year-old institution still regarded by many Britons as a ?national treasure? even after embarking last year on a painful process to reshape itself by shedding jobs and cutting budgets.
The latest one revolves around why and how the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Jimmy Savile ? a ubiquitous and eccentric presence in its light entertainment schedule during the '70s and '80s and a star similar in stature to Johnny Carson ? had been a serial sex offender.
But while broader questions about child protection in British society have been raised by the allegations that Savile was a prolific molester who preyed on both women and girls at locations ranging from hospitals to the BBC's own headquarters, the controversy is also now evolving into a potential catalyst for radical changes to the sacred principles behind how the broadcaster is run.
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As the affair evolved Wednesday into a potential clash between the government and the BBC, experts predicted that the news organization's much-valued ability to act without official interference would come under the spotlight.
?Independence from government is treasured at the BBC,? says Lis Howell, director of broadcasting at the department of journalism in City University, London, who was formerly an experienced journalist and executive at the BBC and other broadcasters. ?But both it and also its management structure are going to be looked at because of what cropped up since the Savile saga.?
Claims that the BBC historically turned a blind eye to accusations about Savile?s behavior are at the core of the controversy, but it has been compounded by the revelation that an investigation into him by the BBC's respected "Newsnight" program was shelved last year, only weeks before the BBC aired a glowing Christmas-time tribute to the entertainer.
George Entwistle, who took over as the BBC?s director general last month but who was the executive in charge of the scheduling that included the Christmas tribute, has denied that the BBC helped cover up any allegations. (Mark Thompson, the BBC's general director at the time and who is slated to become the CEO of The New York Times Corp. in November, has also denied any role in axing the "Newsnight" investigation.)
Yet following Mr. Entwistle?s shaky appearance before a committee of MPs Tuesday, the pressure is ratcheting up on Entwistle and Lord Patten, the head of the BBC Trust.
Patten launched a defense Tuesday of the BBC?s independence after Entwistle?s performance was criticized, telling the government?s media minister in a letter, "I know that you will not want to give any impression that you are questioning the independence of the BBC."
His remarks were criticized Wednesday by Roger Gale, a Conservative MP who was a former producer and director of current affairs programs at the BBC, which is funded out of a television license fee paid by the public.
"BBC management, over far too many years, has sought to maintain an imperious disdain for criticism and it has become clear that successive directors general have, while happy to criticize others for not answering difficult questions, either turned a blind eye to criminal activities or have not known what has been going on on their own doorstep, which is also culpable,? stated Mr. Gale in a press release.
Gale suggested that if "Lord Patten is not able to grasp that, then I fear that not only the director general but also the chairman of the BBC Trust are going to have to fall on their swords."
There is disagreement about whether the Savile controversy has yet to reach the scales of previous controversy at the BBC. Arguably more serious fallout emerged in the past from claims made in 1984 by a BBC investigative program that several Conservative MPs had links to far-right organizations. The BBC was sued by two MPs, one of whom was awarded damages after the BBC withdrew from the case.
There was also the fallout from the 2003 report by a BBC defense correspondent who quoted a government official as stating that the British government had "sexed up" a document concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, against the wishes of the intelligence services. A report by a judge later criticized the correspondent and BBC reporting standards.
But at the very least, a shakeup in the BBC?s management structures appears likely.
?They have this very arcane management structure which says that news editorially has to be separate from other issues like entertainment and topical and factual,? says Ms. Howell.
?It?s very departmental, so you don?t manage across and don?t talk to your opposite number in another department. You go up your own department. It?s like chimneys and that is really going to come under scrutiny now, because it?s very expensive to have all this duplicatory management but also because of what happened with the Savile [Newsnight investigation] last year.?
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'Green' excavators dig improved gas mileage
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The construction site is about to get a shade greener thanks to the introduction of a digger with hydraulic hybrid technology that can cut fuel use by up to 25 percent.
The digger is an upgrade to Caterpillar?s workhorse 336E, an excavator found filling dump trucks at construction sites all over the world.
The new 336E H uses a patented hydraulic hybrid system that stores and reuses energy over and over as the arm swings up and down during operation, such as digging a cellar for a new skyscraper and dumping dirt in the back of a truck.
The arm captures and stores swing-brake energy in accumulators and releases the energy during acceleration, Caterpillar explains in a news release.?
The technology makes for about a 25 percent less fuel consumption compared to the non-hybrid model. Payback for the added cost, Caterpillar noted, could come within a year assuming today?s fuel prices and heavy use.
Hybrid technology has been used in diggers since at least 2008, when Komatsu introduced its first hybrid excavator model. The company also has an electric-hybrid forklift.?
The addition of more players to the field is welcome news to both an industry that is heavily impacted by fuel costs and a planet facing continued disruption to its climate from increased greenhouse gas emissions.
The operation of excavators, graders, backhoes and other heavy machinery in the construction industry accounts for about 0.35 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to Komatsu.?
The construction industry emitted 66.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That figure is expected to dip slightly in 2012 and then rebound to 90 million metric tons by the end of this decade at stay in that elevated range through 2035.?
The dip is likely attributed to a slowdown in the global economy. In earnings released on Monday, Caterpillar slashed its 2012 forecast and warned the global economy was slowing faster than it expected.
A slowing economy means fewer construction projects and thus lower greenhouse gas emissions from the industry, regardless of how fuel-efficient their diggers are.
Caterpillar said it expects the global economy to turn around in the second half of 2013, just in time for the first shipments of the 336E H. If the economy grows as anticipated, more fuel efficient diggers can help curb the pace of rising greenhouse gas emissions.
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British badgers granted stay of execution
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has delayed a plan to shoot thousands of badgers to stop the spread of tuberculosis in cattle in the face of overwhelming public opposition to the cull.
Critics of the cull, which was supported by farmers, said it would be ineffective, not least because fleeing badgers would simply spread the disease beyond the pilot areas in southwest England where it had been due to begin shortly.
The debate is a sensitive one in Britain, where the mass slaughter of cattle to control disease in livestock has left deep scars in farming communities following outbreaks of other diseases over the past two decades.
Last year, 26,000 affected cattle were slaughtered and the disease cost taxpayers 90 million pounds ($145 million), including compensation to farmers.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said on Tuesday the delay had been due to surveys showing a higher number of badgers than thought in the afflicted areas. The opposition Labour party branded it a further example of government ineptitude after several blunders this month.
"The farmers delivering this (culling) have concluded that they cannot be confident that it will be possible to remove enough badgers based on these higher numbers," Paterson told parliament.
"It would be wrong to go ahead if those on the ground cannot be confident of removing at least 70 percent of the badger populations."
Public opposition to the cull has been widespread, with more than 150,000 people signing an online protest petition initiated by former Queen guitarist Brian May.
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have fallen further behind Labour in the polls and critics say they are increasingly seen as both incompetent and out of touch with ordinary voters.
One of Cameron's senior ministers resigned after he was accused of calling police "plebs", a condescending insult for working people. A botched attempt to find a private company to run a railway line and a Cameron statement on energy bills that sowed confusion have added to the government's problems.
"Labour has warned the government for two years that a cull was bad for farmers, bad for taxpayers and bad for wildlife, and it is right that it has been delayed," opposition environment spokeswoman Mary Creagh said.
Paterson said that while the government remained committed to vaccinating cattle against TB, the vaccine was not yet fully developed, and so the shooting would start next summer.
Animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the night-time shooting and police leave had been cancelled until the New Year in one of the areas for fear of violence.
(Reporting by Peter Schwartzstein; Editing by Alison Williams)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-badgers-granted-stay-execution-151541684.html
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UC Berkeley Completes Construction of Alternative Energy Research Building
Energy Biosciences Building, designed by SmithGroupJJR, creates new home for energy research activities
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 18, 2012 ?? Construction of the University of California, Berkeley?s five-story, $133 million biofuels research building, designed by SmithGroupJJR, has reached completion in Berkeley, Calif. The 113,200-square-foot Energy Biosciences Building (EBB) is located at the northwest edge of the UC Berkeley campus, a site formerly occupied by the California Department of Health Services. Completed in conjunction with contractor Rudolph & Sletten, the EBB brings together researchers, academic leaders, and students to foster collaboration and spur innovation.
The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) ? a public-private partnership formed to develop solutions to global energy challenges and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on global warming ? is the main occupant of the new building. Part of UC Berkeley?s Department of Bioengineering is also housed in the facility.
Building plan responds to emerging industry trends
To accommodate the needs of users, SmithGroupJJR?s designers worked with constituents to develop a flexible laboratory and office plan that responds to the varied research and work cultures of those using the facility. Stacked along the building?s north face fronting Hearst Avenue, research spaces are dedicated to a specialized field of advanced energy exploration. Each floor is organized on a standardized plan and provides two open, eight-bay wet laboratories with dedicated support space located across a centrally-located equipment corridor.
The facility also houses laboratories for the study of molecular and microbial biology, fermentation, and chemical separation, as well as greenhouses, warm and cold rooms, and additional shared instrumentation space. Opposite the support labs, researchers? offices are organized along a glass curtain wall fa?ade on the building?s southern perimeter and overlook the newly created Berkeley Way plaza. Adjacent to offices, conferencing areas and kitchenettes provide venues for formal and informal breakout and social activities. A lobby, reception area, 80-seat auditorium, and auxiliary conference and gathering spaces are also provided at ground level.
Design, engineering solutions support UC Berkeley?s sustainable goals
Targeted to attain LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, building and site design addressed a broad range of sustainable strategies. A highly-insulated exterior cladding system, comprised of glass fiber reinforced concrete panels, provides enhanced thermal and moisture conditions for interior spaces. On the south and west, an angular glass curtain wall profile?projected away from this rainscreen-tiled base?creates a crystalline fa?ade and introduces daylight deep into the office spaces.
Inside, special attention was given to managing laboratory and fume hood ventilation to reduce energy use. This design is nearly 40 percent more efficient than current industry standards. Other features include automated roll-down window shades regulated by the building?s management system and an innovative daylighting control system that adjusts output levels from artificial light sources as daylight travels deeper into the facility. High-performance insulated glass units were also incorporated at all exterior openings.
To further reduce heat gain, an exterior solar shading system was integrated into the curtain wall facade. At each floor, two rows of translucent sunshades are installed at alternating depths of two and three feet. "The sunshades guard against direct sunlight and help to lower energy while also reducing glare,? said Suzanne Napier, design principal and leader of the Science, Technology, Learning & Courts Studio at SmithGroupJJR?s San Francisco office.
Community benefits from new plaza
Sustainable strategies were not limited to building design. South of the EBB, a new plaza provides a much-needed green space. The move also aligns with the city of Berkeley?s goals for downtown renewal. Among other improvements, it offers neighbors a public, park-like area, as well as a restored pedestrian connection for Walnut Street.
The building?s opening was celebrated with tours during Cal?s Homecoming Weekend on October 5-6. A formal dedication ceremony is scheduled in December 2012.
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Benghazi killers among terrorists poised to strike US targets, Israel and Egypt
The counterterrorism forces of Israel, the US, Egypt and Jordan have gone on elevated terror alert ahead of the three-day Muslim festival of Eid al Adha starting Thursday night, Oct. 25, debkafile reports.
They are acting on word received in the last ten days of preparations by Salafi and al Qaeda cells in Egyptian Sinai to unleash coordinated terrorist attacks on US and Egyptian targets in Sinai and across the border in Israel. The jihadis are bent on revenge for Israel?s targeted killing on Oct. 13 of Hisham Saidni and Abdullah al-Ashqar, two senior commanders of their Sinai-Gaza network, the Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen
Israel?s IDF Sagi-512 Brigade and Shin Bet units are on guard around the Gaza Strip and Egyptian border; Egypt?s military, Interior Ministry and security forces are on high alert in Sinai; and the Multinational Force of mostly US units are on the ready at both its Sinai bases - ?Al-Gora near El Arish in the north and Sharm el-Sheikh in the south.
The US special forces unit posted last month on Jordan?s Syrian border was hurriedly transferred to the Red Sea port of Aqaba with a fleet of helicopters, in case the MFO comes under attack.
The Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen is a roof organization of some 6,000 Egyptian, local Bedouin, Palestinian, Jordanian, Saudi, Yemeni and Libyan terrorists who subscribe to Al Qaeda?s jihadist philosophy. From their strongholds in central and southern Sinai, they have carried out most of the most recent spate of attacks on Israel and on Egyptian military targets in the peninsula.?
After their combined assault of July 18 on Egyptian and Israeli military targets, in the course of which they massacred 18 Egyptian troops, Cairo announced the launch of a major offensive to root the terrorists out of their Sinai lairs. But four months on, the jihadis remain in control of large tracts of the rugged Sinai desert. And last week, they received a large increment from Libya. The Libyan reinforcements were discovered?on their arrival?in Sinai Oct. 15 with a large quantity of weapons including missiles, ready for the forthcoming Eid offensive.
Among them were some of the perpetrators of the murderous attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11which killed four Americans at the US consulate.
On the day they arrived, Al Qaeda?s Shumoukh Al-Islam website ran a eulogy for Hisham Saidni with a warning: ?The blood of the Muslim heroes is not cheap, nor is it shed in vain. The Jews will pay dearly for every drop they spill and Israel should expect a devastating response.?
At the beginning of the week, intelligence watchers picked up the sudden disappearance of thousands of jihadis from their Sinai posts as though the earth had swallowed them up. It is suspected they have regrouped in locations close their targets ready to move.
This incoming intelligence prompted the US Statement Department?s travel advisory of Tuesday, Oct. 23, for US citizens visiting Sinai and Israel?s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz?s warning that?coordinated terrorist attacks may be in store from Sinai and its northern borders with Lebanon and Syria.
Source: http://www.debka.com/article/22465/
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Unseasonably hot in Palestine, Texas for Hot Pepper Festival
The City of Palestine is hosting the Hot Pepper Festival on Saturday, October 27 from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm in the Historic Downtown District for the first time in over five years. Admission to the festival is free and feature the Texas Country Music sensation, the Casey Donahew Band, and three stages of live music.
Palestine has held a festival every fall for over twenty years, but it has had an identity crisis along the way. It has been the Bat Festival, a ghost festival, the Hot Pepper Festival, most recently WonderFall Oktoberfest and possibly a few others. The exact history of the festival is unclear and is slightly hazy among residents.
The festival was most popular during its days as the Hot Pepper Festival, which residents stilled called it even during its days as the WonderFall Oktoberfest. The City of Palestine decided to take on the coordination and operations of the festival for 2012 and make it free to all those who wish to attend. This includes: the parade, three stages of music and live performances, the Macho Hot Pepper Eating Contest and a concert by the Casey Donahew Band.
Check out all that is going on in the attached brochure. You can also visit www.cityofpalestinetx.com/hotpepper.php or www.facebook.com/hotpepperfestival for more information.
You can also call me at my office, listed below, or on my cell phone at any time, 512-667-4501. We would love to come on and tell your viewers about the new and improved festival.
Source: http://athens.kltv.com/news/business/92449-unseasonably-hot-palestine-texas-hot-pepper-festival
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Alexis Sclamberg: The Only Difference Between You and the ...
This past weekend, I told a friend of mine that I want to live in New York City part-time. I'm based in San Francisco. While I recognize these two cities aren't that close, they aren't that far, either.
"I will live in New York City part-time," I told my friend. Because I really, really want to. And career-wise, it happens to make sense, too.
"I dream of being bi-coastal!" my friend replied, a recent NYC transplant already missing that New York buzz. "My ideal life is half of my time in New York, half of my time in San Francisco."
"Then do it!" I said.
"Oh, I couldn't" she told me, with her signature hint of sheepishness. "That's something you could make happen, not me."
Before I had a chance to convince her that she was wrong, we were interrupted. So we quickly agreed that she could stay in my (future) NYC apartment whenever she wanted to get her fill of the Big Apple.
Later that night, I couldn't kick the very disappointed feeling I had that my friend held such strong limiting beliefs about what she could do with herself and her life that she stopped herself from actualizing her desire.
My friend is obviously not alone in this. So many of us are guilty of compromising our dreams before we even give them a chance. Is this you?
The next day, I hung out with another friend, who couldn't wait to share with me an invention he had recently dreamed up. He excitedly yammered on about the incredible way his invention could change an entire industry. He was probably right, it was a brilliant idea.
"Wouldn't it be great if I really developed it?" he asked. I replied that yes, of course, it would be wonderful. Then I prompted him, "So do it!"
You can see where this is going, right?
My friend had his lists of reasons and excuses, so thick they fogged over his enthusiasm altogether. Despite the fact that this friend of mine has the brains, time and connections to make this idea a reality sooner than most, he had convinced himself that it's just a pipe dream and the idea lives only in his head.
But here's the thing: The only one stopping you from doing exactly what you want is you. Not time or money or the laundry list of reasons your rational brain has drummed up. The biggest difference between you and the person that has made it is action. That's it! Just action.
You're probably thinking that I'm making this out to be easier than it really is. But I understand (all too well) that feeling you can get when you stare your dream in its face: total overwhelm. Your goal seems too big and scary and hard -- an insurmountable mountain when you can barely climb the stairs to your third floor apartment without huffing and puffing.
I know.
That's why I'm armed with a suggestion.
Brian Tracy, a business coach and self-help all star, offers one of the best goal-actualizing exercises I've found. It makes a massive dream seem possible -- and more importantly, actionable.
Here's how it works:
Write down your big dream. Then, break it into its various components -- all of the things required to make it happen. Break each of those into even smaller components, until you have a long list of discrete, bite-size tasks.
Then, do one thing on that list every single day. Just one thing. It can be as easy as writing a new list or as scary as making that important phone call to a potential investor. Imagine what would happen if you did just one thing every day for the next month towards your big dream. You'd be a lot closer to it than you are now, right?
So, before you let the doubter and realist in your brain take hold, get out a paper and a pen and do it. Write down your dream and break it up into its smaller action-steps. A word of warning: Breaking down some goals into their various components is a pretty big task, so be patient with yourself. Keep in mind that this list doesn't have to be comprehensive right now. We all learn as we go. Most of the time we don't even know what we're getting ourselves into. But that's okay! Just start with what you know.
Here's to taking action!
For more from Alexis, check out her website.
And if you're feeling stuck--like you're not even sure what your dream is in the first place, be sure to sign up for Alexis's newsletter, you'll get her Secrets to Getting Unstuck worksheet, free!
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Blue Origin space capsule aces rocket test
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Blue Origin's pusher escape system rockets the company's prototype crew capsule away from the launch pad, demonstrating a key safety system for both suborbital and orbital flights. Click on the picture to go to the Blue Origin website for a video of the test flight.
By Alan Boyle
Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture notched a blazing success last week when it tested a NASA-backed launch pad escape system for its crew capsule.
The Oct. 19 demonstration flight at Blue Origin's West Texas spaceport marked the final milestone for NASA's $22 million agreement with Blue Origin, which was aimed at promoting the development of next-generation spaceships capable of resupplying the International Space Station. Blue Origin, which is based in Kent, Wash., decided not to compete for the next phase of NASA's orbital program ??but in a news release?issued today, Bezos said his company would make use of the "pusher" pad escape system in its suborbital spaceship.
"The first test of our suborbital Crew Capsule is a big step on the way to safe, affordable space travel," he said. "This wouldn?t have been possible without NASA?s help, and the Blue Origin team worked hard and smart to design this system, build it, and pull off this test. Lots of smiles around here today. Gradatim Ferociter!"
That last phrase is Blue Origin's motto, which is Latin for "Step by Step, Courageously."
The latest step
The pad-escape test was the latest step in Bezos' decade-long effort to create a launch system suitable for space tourists as well as researchers and, eventually, orbit-bound astronauts. The 48-year-old Amazon.com founder, whose net worth is estimated at more than $23 billion, created Blue Origin in 2000 to follow through on his childhood dream of space travel.?
"Blue Origin's goal is to work steadily toward developing human spaceflight capabilities," Brett Alexander, the company's director of business development and strategy, told me today. "Our goal is to lower the cost and increase the safety of human spaceflight to enable more people to fly."
Blue Origin
Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule rose to a height of 2,307 feet before deploying its parachutes for a safe descent.
Blue Origin
The gumdrop-shaped crew capsule set down 1,630 feet from the launch pad. This closeup view focuses on Blue Origin's logo and motto: "Gradatim Ferociter."
Blue Origin video shows a test of the pad-escape system for the crew capsule module.
Alexander said last week's pad-escape test in Texas and this month's successful test firing of Blue Origin's BE-3 liquid-hydrogen rocket engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ranked among the biggest steps taken to date toward the company's goal.?"This is a very big deal. ... Propulsion and crew escape are two of the fundamental building blocks of our system," Alexander said. "Those are the cornerstones, if you will."
Blue Origin is working toward the development of a New Shepard suborbital launch system with a propulsion module that can launch the crew capsule to an altitude beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space. From that height, passengers can get a few minutes of weightlessness amid a view of the black sky above a curving Earth, while researchers can conduct useful experiments on the effects of the space environment.
Blue Origin hasn't laid out a specific schedule for commercial operations ? nor has?the company said anything about its pricing plan for spaceflights. But in order to be financially viable, the venture would probably have to be competitive with other suborbital spaceship companies, such as Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. Those companies are offering flights in the range of $95,000 to $200,000 per seat.
Alexander said "the key to both safety and affordability is reusability of the launch vehicle and a lot of practice?? a high flight rate."
End-to-end tryout
The pad-escape test served as an end-to-end tryout for Blue Origin's crew capsule: A center-mounted solid-rocket engine from Aerojet lofted the capsule to a height of 2,307 feet (703 meters) under active thrust vector control. Then the capsule descended by parachute to a soft landing 1,630 feet (496 meters) downrange, at the company's test facility on ranchland owned by Bezos, near Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin showed the blastoff and landing in a video lasting a minute and 45 seconds.
Ed Mango, the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said in a space agency statement that "it was awesome to see a spacecraft NASA played a role in developing take flight."
"The progress Blue Origin has made on its suborbital and orbital capabilities really is encouraging for the overall future of human spaceflight," Mango said.?
In an actual flight scenario, the escape system would be lit up only if Blue Origin's propulsion module experienced a problem serious enough to abort the flight. The passengers inside the crew capsule would be rocketed away to safety. If the flight proceeded normally, the crew capsule would separate from the propulsion module, coast to the edge of space, re-enter the atmosphere and descend to a parachute landing. The propulsion module, meanwhile, would autonomously perform its own rocket-powered vertical landing.
In August 2011, a prototype propulsion module went supersonic and rose to an altitude of 45,000 feet during a test flight?? but when the vehicle became unstable, the flight had to be aborted and the rocket ship crashed to its doom. That's the kind of scenario that would bring the pad-escape system into play.
Alexander said Blue Origin was still working on the next version of the propulsion module. The old version used five kerosene-fueled engines, but the next-generation propulsion module will use a single hydrogen-fueled engine, he said. "It'll look a little different, but it's essentially the same size," he said.
In the past, Blue Origin has been somewhat reticent to talk about its activities ?but in light of the past month's successes, Alexander seemed to emphasize the sentiment behind the company's motto: step by step, courageously.
"Our overall development path certainly doesn't stop with suborbital," he said.
More about commercial spaceflight:
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Getty ImagesSaints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has borrowed, sort of, the punch line to the old joke about a busload of lawyers at the bottom of the ocean when commenting on the decision of Commissioner Roger Goodell to hand the bounty appeal baton to former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
?It?s a good first step,? Vilma told Jeff Darlington of NFL Network, ?for Paul to be the neutral arbitrator.?
The key word is neutral.? If Vilma?s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, and/or the NFLPA believe that Tagliabue won?t be neutral, then it will be a problem.
?We expect that [Tagliabue will] do things in a neutral capacity that will allow us to cross examine some of the witnesses,? Vilma said.? ?See some evidence.?
The reality is that Ginsberg and Jeffrey Kessler, the primary NFLPA outside counsel, will refrain from taking any position on Tagliabue until having a chance to hear from Tagliabue regarding his plan for the October 30 appeal hearing.? If they get the sense that Tagliabue won?t be neutral, objective, and/or impartial, they?ll likely fight the appointment.? If they like what they hear, they possibly will accept Tagliabue as the arbitrator.
It?s smart lawyering.? Why complain without getting a chance to take Tagliabue?s temperature?? If, for example, he says that key witnesses like former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and former Saints assistant Mike Cerullo won?t be required to testify, then they?ll know to fight the appointment.? If, alternatively, they get the impression based on Tagliabue?s comments that he plans to require the league to prove its case, they may overlook factors that otherwise would cause them concern.
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Steve King: Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was 'A Compliment'
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Sunday stood by eyebrow-raising comments he made in May, insisting that he was praising immigrants when he compared selecting visa recipients to choosing a "good bird dog."
"It was a compliment ... They knew it was a compliment, they turned it into an insult because they're professional hyperventilators," the immigration hardliner said in an interview on Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV, posted by a site run by the campaign of his Democratic opponent, Christie Vilsack.
King said at a town hall earlier this year that when picking a good bird dog, it is important to avoid choosing "the one that's sleeping in the corner." He then added that immigrants to the United States should be looked at in the same way.
"You get the pick of the litter and you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. Well, we?ve got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet," King said at the time. "We?ve got the vigor from the planet to come to America."
The WHO-TV anchor also asked about other controversial comments King has made, such as saying in July that President Barack Obama's mother "might've announced [his birth] by telegram from Kenya" to Hawaii, where Obama was born and a birth announcement appeared -- essentially an endorsement of the idea that the president might not have born in the United States.
King said Sunday he never claimed Obama wasn't born in the United States, and that he was simply repeating the concerns of others. Still, he didn't fully disavow birtherism.
"I don't know where he was born, but I don't see the indication that he was born anywhere else," he said.
King also stood behind claims that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"If you look at her family connections and the family orientation, I think it's very clear," he said. "I don't have all her family committed to memory and the family tree, but there's a strong connection that's there, it does exist. ... It appears to be the objective truth."
The WHO-TV anchors went on to ask King about his views on contraception and abortion. He said he has no opinion on whether states should be able to ban contraception -- although he has spoken before about why they may be constitutionally allowed to ban it. He said that he was simply relaying one side's argument, but he also did not say he disagrees with it. King said he has "not taken a position on the sale of contraceptives at all."
On abortion, he said he would consider supporting exceptions for incest and statutory rape. He previously said he hasn't heard of anyone getting pregnant from such situations, and currently supports federal funding for abortion only after "forcible" rape.
"I would be open to discussion, I have not considered it," he said of allowing abortion funding in cases of incest and statutory rape. "The subject had never been brought up to me in all my public life before that interview. And when I say that I'm open to discussion, I'm open to discussion, but I'm not coming to a conclusion."
King currently leads Vilsack by four points, according to an estimate from HuffPost Pollster.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Medicare is coming under scrutiny in the meningitis outbreak that has rekindled doubts about the safety of the nation's drug supply.
The giant health insurance program for seniors long ago flagged compounded drugs produced for the mass market without oversight from the Food and Drug Administration as safety risks. In 2007, Medicare revoked coverage of compounded inhaler drugs for lung disease.
But Medicare doesn't seem to have consistently used its own legal power to deny payment, and critics say that has enabled the compounding business to flourish.
Now program officials are scrambling to find out how many Medicare beneficiaries are among the more than 270 people sickened in 16 states in a still-growing outbreak that has claimed 21 lives.
The illnesses have been linked to an injectable steroid used to treat back pain, made by the New England Compounding Center, a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. The medication was contaminated with a fungus.
A senior lawmaker and consumer advocates are raising questions about Medicare's role, including an apparent lack of coordination between Medicare and the FDA, the two most powerful agencies within the federal Health and Human Services Department.
In response, a department spokesman says Congress needs to provide the FDA with stronger powers.
The meningitis outbreak has called attention to the role of compounding pharmacies in supplying medications routinely used by hospitals and doctors to treat patients. Regulated primarily by states, the pharmacies specialize in customizing doses for individual patients who have allergies to ingredients in an FDA-approved drug, or who might need a smaller dosage than what's available commercially. But some pharmacies have pushed into full-scale manufacturing.
Medicare has long been aware of the risks.
"By compounding drugs on a large scale, a company may be operating as a drug manufacturer within the meaning of (federal law), without complying with requirements of that law," Medicare's coverage manual, a reference for contractors that handle payments, says in a section dealing with compounded drugs.
That situation, adds the manual, fails Medicare's basic standard, that treatments must be "reasonable and necessary" in order to be covered. "This means, in the case of drugs, the FDA must approve them for marketing," says the manual.
It goes on to say that billing contractors should wait for instructions from Medicare before cutting off payment in specific cases where the FDA has determined that a company is producing compounded drugs in violation of the law.
"Medicare indicates in its own policy documents that it can cut off payments for compounded drugs produced under manufacturing-like conditions," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who over the years has pushed for stronger government oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.
"Medicare should explain whether it uses this step, and if not, why not. Every avenue for explaining how this health crisis occurred and preventing others like it needs exploration," he added.
Joyce Lovelace of Albany, Ky., says she doesn't understand how the outbreak could have happened. Eddie Lovelace, her husband of 55 years, died of a stroke after receiving injections of the steroid implicated in the outbreak as a treatment for pain from an auto accident.
"I'm 100 percent behind not paying ... whether it's Medicare, Blue Cross, or whatever," she said. "Somebody dropped the ball and as a result my husband is gone." Eddie Lovelace, 78, a long-serving judge, was still working at the time of his death and Medicare was not his primary insurance.
Medicare officials are looking into whether the program paid for drugs that have sickened patients.
"If the FDA determines a company is producing compounded drugs in violation of (federal law), Medicare will not reimburse for drugs produced in that facility," said HHS spokesman Tait Sye. "The FDA's regulatory authority over compounding pharmacies is more limited by statute than it is for typical drug manufacturers. We urge Congress to strengthen the FDA's authority."
FDA records show that in 2006 the agency issued a warning letter to the New England Compounding Center for producing anesthetic creams, but officials were unable to say if Medicare was alerted.
In a separate case, Medicare seems to have taken sweeping action on its own without much prodding from the FDA. In 2007, Medicare stopped coverage for compounded inhalation drugs used to treat lung disease.
"Compounded drugs are not considered interchangeable with FDA-approved products," said an information bulletin at the time from Noridian, a major Medicare payment contractor. "The absence of testing for safety and effectiveness has the potential of putting a patient at increased risk of injury, illness or death."
Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen's health research group, says Medicare's policy on compounded drugs seems "internally contradictory."
"They do appear to have a policy for which the default setting is that Medicare does not cover drugs that have not been approved by the FDA," said Carome. "That essentially applies to many, if not all, drugs made by compounding pharmacies."
Medicare's defenders say the agency may be reluctant to act for a number of reasons. Cutting off compounding pharmacies could aggravate drug shortages. Also it could open Medicare to a political counterattack from industry, even charges of rationing.
But Carome, a physician who once served in an HHS regulatory office, says the alternative is that compounding will continue with little federal oversight and recurring outbreaks.
If Medicare had expanded its compounding crackdown beyond just lung disease medications, "that might have prevented the widespread use of these drugs," Carome said. "Without coverage, things don't get used."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/questions-medicare-meningitis-outbreak-080233292.html
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Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion
Locals in eastern Turkey, bearing the brunt of the fallout from Turkey's involvement in Syria, believe Ankara is merely a pawn in US plans to foment conflict in the region.
In an empty coffee house in Antakya, local tradesman Ahmet Sari's face?crumples in anger as he speaks about Syria.
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?What's happening in Syria is all part of America's great project to?reshape the borders of the Middle East.? America and its allies don't?care about bringing democracy to the Syrian people.? Look at what?happened to Iraq!? he fumes. ?The imperialist countries are only after oil and mineral resources.?
Nineteen months into Syria's conflict, resentment of Ankara and anti-US sentiment simmer in Antakya, which lies just over the border with Syria. The province is grappling with an?ailing trade and tourism sector and an influx of refugees and rebel fighters. Locals blame the Turkish government for dragging them into the conflict by backing the Syrian opposition and aligning Turkey with the opposition's Western allies.?
The current administration's "zero problems?with neighbors" foreign policy, which stood strong for several years, now rings hollow as Turkey's diplomatic ties with Syria and its ally Iran sour due to Ankara's support for the rebels.?And many say that all of these problems can be traced back to the US, who they are convinced got involved with, and perhaps even fomented, the Syrian unrest to loosen up regional powers' grip on oil, enlisting Turkey as a pawn in the process.?It had little to do with support for democracy, they believe.
Stirring up the 'beehive'
The beliefs stem in part from a bold Bush administration political proposal that has faded into obscurity in the West, but remains lodged in the minds of many here. Known as the Greater Middle East Initiative, it was formally introduced by then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza?Rice in 2006 at a conference in Tel Aviv. Her references to?"the birth pangs of a New Middle East" and the unveiling there of a new map of the region featuring a "Free Kurdistan" are still remembered with resentment.?
Even with a new administration in the White House that has sought to distance itself from the previous administration's Middle East policies, many in the region are suspicious of US motives and don't believe that the various uprisings began as indigenous, people-driven movements, independent of any US involvement.??
Refik?Eryilmaz, a Turkish parliamentarian from Antakya with the opposition Republican People's Party, says that Western superpowers are trying to incite a sectarian conflict between?Sunnis and Shiites so that countries in the region fragment along?ethno-religious lines, becoming weaker in the process.
Syria is predominantly Sunni, but President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite, a Shiite offshoot, as is most of his government.
"The access to oil will be made easier when people in?these regions are divided and fighting amongst themselves. Both the?US and Israel want to weaken Iran and strengthen their own position in?the Middle East.? But to do this, first they must weaken Syria and?replace the current government with someone who supports them instead?of Iran," says?Mr. Eryilmaz.
This suspicion ? that outside intervention is stirring up sectarian strife in Syria ? is a view shared by many in Antakya, Turkey's most ethno-religiously diverse province.?
Although Nihat Yenmis,?president of the Alevi Cultural Foundation (AKAD) in Iskenderun, is convinced that sectarian violence will not seep into Turkey, he laments the plight of Syrian civilians, caught up in the cross-fire of a conflict that he interprets as planned and stoked by outside intervention.
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