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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Braddock mayor vows veto of borough's 2012 budget, tax hike
Braddock Mayor John Fetterman has promised to veto the 2012 budget passed by borough council Thursday night, saying that the 3-mill property tax increase is too much for borough residents to bear.
"There's a 100 percent chance this is vetoed, and we hope that taxpayers make their voices heard," he said.
Council earlier this month passed -- by a vote of 3-2 -- a preliminary budget that included a 3-mill tax increase. Thursday night, the council passed the budget with a 5-1 vote, with Councilwoman Tina Doose dissenting.
The tax hike was encouraged by the borough's Act 47 coordinator, Nick Bianchi. He said at the Dec. 13 meeting that the borough will have to rework its finances when it loses a one-time payments from UPMC and other sources and will need to come up with more than $100,000 a year in revenue. The current surplus of about $9,000 will cover some of the gap between revenue and expenses next year, but the borough would be in financial trouble soon after without a tax increase.
Braddock resident Phyllis Brown Thursday night chastised the council for raising taxes.
"Somewhere down the line, you forgot that you're supposed to be servants of the people," she said. "You guys have to stop taxing us and respond to your own household."
Ms. Doose agreed.
"I just think that there are things that could've been done," she said.
Mr. Fetterman will need to sway three members of council to prevent the tax hike; four members voting for it would override his veto. Council President Jesse Brown was voted out in the last election, to be replaced by Rob Parker in the new year.
Mr. Fetterman, who often clashed with Mr. Brown, hasn't attended a council meeting since September 2010, citing an inability to work with council. Mr. Fetterman said he will attend council meetings beginning with an agenda setting meeting on Tuesday.
He said he hopes to sway a few council members to his position in order to prevent the tax increase from going into effect. He also noted that the millage rate will likely have to be adjusted as a result of the ongoing Allegheny County property reassessments.
"It's certainly not over yet," he said
Annie Siebert: asiebert@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1613.
First published on December 30, 2011 at 9:39 am
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Quicksilver, KKR form midstream partnership in Canada
EBR Staff Writer
Published 29 December 2011
Published 29 December 2011
Quicksilver Resources and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) have formed a new midstream partnership to construct and operate natural gas midstream services in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The investment firm KKR has paid $125m to Quicksilver in exchange for a 50% stake in the partnership.
The partnership will be operated by Quicksilver, which is also contributing its existing 20-mile gathering line and compression facilities as well as ten-year contracts for gas deliveries into those facilities to create the partnership.
Under the deal, KKR will carry Quicksilver on its portion of future development costs on the initial treating facility in exchange for preferential distributions.
Gas gathering, transportation and processing infrastructure will jointly be built and operated by the companies to maximize the value of the production stream from Quicksilver's development in the Horn River basin.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests (Reuters)
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? The architect of Vladimir Putin's tightly controlled political system became one of its most senior victims on Tuesday when he was shunted out of the Kremlin in the wake of the biggest opposition protests of Putin's 12-year rule.
The sacrifice of Vladislav Surkov, branded the Kremlin's 'puppet master' by enemies and friends alike, is also a rare admission of failure for Russia's 'alpha dog' leader: Surkov's system was Putin's system.
With irony worthy of Surkov's cynical novels, the Kremlin's 47-year-old political mastermind was shown grinning on state television when told by President Dmitry Medvedev that he would oversee modernization as a deputy prime minister.
When asked why he was leaving the Kremlin, Surkov deliberately misquoted a slogan from the French Revolution, saying: "Stabilization is eating up its children."
Almost in passing, Surkov told Interfax news agency he would not be running domestic politics after nearly 13 years doing exactly that from the corridors of the Kremlin.
Why? "I am too notorious for the brave new world."
His post will be taken by Putin's chief of staff and Surkov's arch enemy, Vyacheslav Volodin, a wealthy former lawyer who hails from Putin's ruling United Russia party. Anton Vaino, a 39-year-old former diplomat, becomes Putin's chief of staff.
By ejecting Surkov from the Kremlin just two months before the presidential election, Putin is betting that he can neutralize some of the anger against his rule by projecting the impression of a brave new world of political reform.
"What happened today is nothing more than shuffling people from one office into another," Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia's third richest man who demanded Surkov be sacked in September, said through a spokesman. "Little will change from these shifts."
Though Surkov's exit may not usher in a vast political change, it is the end of an era for one of Putin's most powerful aides. And at Putin's court, personalities count for everything.
PUTIN'S ARTIST
Described as Russia's answer to France's Cardinal Richelieu or a modern-day Machiavelli, Surkov was one of the creators of the system Putin crafted since he rose to power in 1999.
To admirers, "Slava" Surkov is the most flamboyant mind in Putin's court: a writer of fiction who recited poets such as Allen Ginsberg but also strong enough to hold his own against the KGB spies and oligarchs in the infighting of the Kremlin.
To enemies, Surkov is a dangerous artist who used his brains to expand Putin's power and whose intellectual snobbery made Russian citizens beads in a grand political experiment called "Vladimir Putin."
Fond of black ties and sometimes unshaven, Surkov survived many turf wars but he could not survive the biggest protests of Putin's rule or Putin's need to find someone to blame for them.
As the manager of United Russia, the Kremlin's point man on elections and ultimately the day-to-day manager of Putin's political system, Surkov bore direct responsibility for the protests which have pitted Russia's urban youth against Putin.
He did not answer requests for comment.
Brought into the Kremlin under Boris Yeltsin in 1999 to serve as an aide to then chief of staff Alexander Voloshin, Surkov helped ease the handover of power to Putin.
He then worked with Putin and then President Medvedev to consolidate power, repeatedly using the specter of the chaotic 1990s to warn against swift change.
PUTIN'S SYSTEM
In practice, Surkov's rule meant centralizing power in Putin's hands: Surkov moved regional decision-making to the Kremlin, struck down any attempt at autonomy and directed party politics.
Such was his power that Russia's top party officials, journalists and cultural leaders would visit him in the Kremlin for 'direction' on how to present events to the public.
"He is considered one of the architects of the system," Putin's former finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, told Kommersant FM radio.
"Now this system is being revised. New organizers are needed with different views on the political system," said Kudrin, who has offered to lead dialogue between the opposition and the authorities.
Signs of trouble for Surkov appeared in May when Volodin -the man who eventually took his job - helped Putin create a new movement, or popular front, that would compete with the United Russia party for Putin's patronage.
Volodin, a dollar millionaire fond of ducking reporters questions with irony or personal needling, presented thereporters' popular front to Putin as a way to revive the ruling party.
Volodin's stock rose after securing 65 percent of the vote for Putin's party in Saratov, a region where he was born.
Then in September, the main scriptwriter of Russian politics became the focus of an intriguing unscripted conflict with Prokhorov - the whizz kid of Russian finance - over the fate of a minor opposition party which was crippled by the Kremlin.
"There is a puppet master in this country who long ago privatized the political system and has for a long time misinformed the leadership of the country," Prokhorov, whose fortune Forbes put at $18 billion, said at the time.
"His name is Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov," said Prokhorov, who demanded Putin sack Surkov. Putin had to personally calm down the two sides in the row, two sources said.
But after mass protests in major Russian cities against the parliamentary election and against Putin himself, Surkov's analysis differed to that of his boss.
Putin has dismissed the protesters as chattering monkeys or a motley crew of leaderless opponents bent on sowing chaos, but Surkov gave a more refined view: he said they were among the best people in Russian society.
"You cannot simply swipe away their opinions in an arrogant way," said Surkov, who will now have to move his portrait of Argentine-born revolutionary Che Guevara from his Kremlin office.
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More community health centres to support GPs
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| In a blog post published on Monday, Mr Gan said CHCs 'received the strongest and broadest support from the GP community'. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN | Breaking News |
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Video: Dozens killed in Syria attacks
Two car bombings outside the country?s intelligence agency are the first of their kind in Damascus since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began. NBC?s Kate Snow reports.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Fallen Apple CEO Steve Jobs is getting a Grammy. Is there anything he can?t do?
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Ministry provides support for Latino community
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Volunteer teacher Emily Brown writes a few Spanish words and their English equivalents on a blackboard during a recent English as a Second Language class at Vida Eastboro Life Together Ministry Inc. The night's lesson is on the four seasons, and the students try to match the words meaning summer, spring, fall and winter. In another room, volunteer instructor Shawna Foster teaches a computer course, while another volunteer oversees two girls working on Christmas-themed projects in an art class. read more ...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Wiltjer has 24, No. 3 Kentucky tops Loyola (Md.)
Kentucky's Darius Miller, right, shoots next to Loyola's Erik Etherly during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
Kentucky's Darius Miller, right, shoots next to Loyola's Erik Etherly during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
Kentucky's Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, right, dunks next to Loyola's Erik Etherly during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
Kentucky head coach John Calipari pleads with an official during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Loyola in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Kentucky won 87-63. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
Kentucky's Anthony Davis looks for an opening between Loyola's Erik Etherly (24), Justin Drummond (2) and Shane Walker (5) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Kentucky won 87-63. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
Kentucky's Anthony Davis, right, shoots with the hand of Loyola's Jordan Latham in his face during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Kentucky won 87-63. (AP Photo/James Crisp)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) ? Kyle Wiltjer is finally figuring out the tougher play at this level because he's learning all about it in practice.
Wiltjer scored a personal-best 24 points and a trio of freshmen sparked No. 3 Kentucky's 17-2 second-half run to beat Loyola (Md.) 87-63 on Thursday for the Wildcats' 42nd straight win at home.
"It's a lot more physical in college. It's a lot quicker, a lot quicker guys," Wiltjer said. "Fortunately, we have such a good team to go against such good players every day in practice, once you get to a game, it's not so bad."
It's been a shocking learning experience for Wiltjer and one that Kentucky coach John Calipari said they need to continue to work on with the 6-foot-9 forward.
"I think the kid has a toughness at heart, but we're just going to have to help him," the coach said. "I've got to get him to take more charges, not going to block shots, charge, block out more and then when he's in the post we've got to do some things."
Wiltjer and fellow freshmen Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist all had afternoons to remember as Kentucky (11-1) heads into a break before the schedule begins to ramp up.
Meanwhile, Kidd-Gilchrist's mother, Cindy Richardson, has been hospitalized according to a school spokesman who had no details of her ailment or its severity.
"We were trying to figure out whether we should send him home this morning early," Calipari said. "It wasn't so immediate that there was going to be things done today. It's in the early process, and like I said, I hope that what we find out is all good."
Baltimore-based Loyola (8-3) stayed close throughout the first half and pestered Kentucky, which was missing preseason All-America Terrence Jones for the second straight game after he dislocated the pinky finger on his left, shooting hand on Saturday.
"I wanted to make the most of my minutes with Terrence being out," Wiltjer said. "Cal just wants me to be a more aggressive player."
Erik Etherly scored 14 points, Dylon Cormier 13 and Justin Drummond had 10 points for the Greyhounds.
"It was good for us. It shows we can play with them," Cormier said. "If we can play with them, then at the mid-major level we should be something to be reckoned with."
Davis contributed 15 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks, Kidd-Gilchrist added 15 points and seven rebounds and Darius Miller had 13 points. Kentucky hosts Lamar on Wednesday night after a five-day break ahead of renewing its in-state rivalry with No. 4 Louisville on Dec. 31.
Kentucky needed to work a little harder than expected after Etherly cut the lead to 45-41 with the first basket of the second half before the Wildcats began pulling away.
Wiltjer went 7 of 11 from the field after shooting 33 percent over his previous eight games. His 3 early in the second half extended Kentucky's streak to 799 straight games with at least one from beyond the arc and Kidd-Gilchrist finished a dunk to give Kentucky a 56-46 lead with 16:41 to play.
"(Wiltjer) did a great job of knocking down shots and creating shots," Miller said. "He opened up the floor for us."
After a timeout, Etherly scored to cut it to eight, but Kidd-Gilchrist and Wiltjer sparked the 17-2 run. A basket by Wiltjer and a dunk by Eloy Vargas made it 73-50 as Loyola went 5:17 without a point because of Kentucky's throttling defense.
On one play, Davis crossed the lane and swatted J'hared Hall's layup attempt for his third block of the game. Davis has 52 blocks, on pace to easily break the school's season-single record of 83.
Jones again was not in uniform after his finger bent awkwardly early in Saturday's win over Chattanooga. The 6-9 sophomore forward spent another game sitting sat beside Ryan Harrow and the rest of the injured Wildcats after appearing in the first 48 straight games of his collegiate career.
Loyola's longest winning streak since joining Division I in 1981-82 ended at eight at St. Bonaventure on Sunday, and while the Greyhounds hadn't played an SEC opponent in 28 years, they weren't intimidated by the Rupp Arena crowd.
"You have to be honest, we played as hard as we could," Loyola coach Jimmy Pastos said. "They've got five NBA guys out there. We were right there. Did we try as hard as we could? Absolutely."
The Greyhounds only led once at 2-0, but stayed close and even showed some swagger of their own, with Cormier doing his own "3-goggles" salute after hitting a long-range shot midway through the first half.
After a 6-0 run gave Kentucky its first double-digit lead at 33-23, Loyola answered with an 8-0 run that was capped when the Greyhounds stripped Marquis Teague in a halfcourt trap and Etherly finished an alley-oop pass from Robert Olson on the break.
Etherly went right at Davis, one of the top college prospects in the country, when he beat Wiltjer on the dribble and Davis couldn't rotate over to block Etherly's emphatic dunk in time as the Greyhounds trailed 45-39 at halftime.
"We didn't come into this game thinking we were going to get blown out," Etherly said. "We came in here to win, which showed in the first half. But they kind of ran away in the second half."
That's when Wiltjer starting hitting clutch shots and Kentucky tightened its pressure to pull away.
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Apple publica la lista de pa?ses en donde se lanza iTunes Match
Varios d?as despu?s del lanzamiento de iTunes Match, Apple ha publicado en su web de soporte al usuario la lista de pa?ses en donde el servicio se ha lanzado, y al mismo tiempo muestra la lista de contenidos que se pueden descargar de iCloud en cada uno de estos pa?ses; Es bastante extra?o que la publicaci?n oficial de esta lista llegue ahora y que no se hiciera cuando el servicio se lanz?. Tambi?n es raro que en la lista de pa?ses que dan, muchos de los iconos con la bandera de cada naci?n no est?n disponibles.
Esta lista es necesaria porque hay pa?ses en donde, suponemos, Apple no ha llegado a un acuerdo de distribuci?n con las compa??as que proveen el contenido que hay en iTunes, aunque podr?a haber otras razones; En ella, se puede comprobar si en tu pa?s tienes disponible la descarga de video, m?sica, Apps, libros o programas de televisi?n.
Al mismo tiempo, es curioso ver que Brasil, un pa?s en donde iTunes Match parece estar disponible incluso antes que en el resto de pa?ses del primer lanzamiento ?internacional?, no est? en esa lista. Cuando hablamos de pa?ses, en este caso, no nos referimos a si puedes usar iTunes Match o no en donde est?s f?sicamente, sino al pa?s al que pertenece la cuenta que utilizas en iTunes. Esto quieres decir que si usas una cuenta espa?ola, aunque est?s en Argentina, podr?s usar la App Store, bajar libros, comprar m?sica o usar iTunes Match sin problemas.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Libyan leader returns to University of Washington (AP)
SEATTLE ? One morning last February, Ali Tarhouni, a professor at the University of Washington's business school, gave his microeconomics students some startling news: He wouldn't be teaching them anymore. He was off to help with the Libyan revolution.
He returned to the university for a brief visit Tuesday following a 10-month absence that saw him serve as the oil and finance minister in the transitional government, hold the hand of a dying 14-year-old boy, and stand bitterly over the battered corpse of Moammar Gadhafi.
"A year ago at this time, I was thinking about what coffee shop would I go to to have a good cup of coffee," Tarhouni said at a news conference. "I've seen a lot of death this last nine months. ... You see a lot of courage, a lot of pain, a lot of pride."
Tarhouni, 60, was exiled from Libya in the 1970s, after he and other students pressed for greater democracy and reforms, and he told his students that he had been on Gadhafi's hit list for three decades.
He earned a doctorate from Michigan State University in 1983 before coming to the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, where he has taught since 1985. He kept pressing for greater freedoms in Libya, without success, and when the revolution finally came, he said, his wife and children knew he would go.
Tarhouni soon found himself heading the oil and finance ministries in the transitional government, backed by rebels who knew his credentials could bring them added legitimacy in the West. He won credit with journalists by speaking honestly about the difficulties and disorganization the rebels faced in those tumultuous days, and became one of the most visible and internationally respected figures in the transitional government.
He declined to continue serving in the government, though, and criticized the country's new leadership as unrepresentative of the populace ? a government he described as unduly influenced by foreign powers, an apparent reference to meddling by Qatar. But on Tuesday he described it as a good government, and said he would continue working to form a new, broad, democratic political party.
"There's really no manual for building a state from scratch," he said. "What makes it really tough is ? we're hoping, we're dreaming, and I believe strongly we will succeed in building a democratic society ? but there's really no history of democracy in Libya. ... I thought I could serve it better by building this political movement."
It isn't clear whether Tarhouni will return to teaching. His stay in Seattle to see his wife and grown children will last just a week.
Among the most memorable moments of his return to Libya from exile were standing in the capital, Tripoli, and declaring it to be free, as well as holding the hand of a crying, injured 14-year-old supporter of Gadhafi, he said.
"I told him, `You're not my enemy,'" Tarhouni said. "He died three hours later."
He was less saddened by the death of Gadhafi.
"I stood over his corpse the same day he was killed," he said. "I thought of the comrades and friends who died in prison and never saw this day. ... I couldn't believe this ugly corpse did this damage to Libya."
Within 15 seconds of getting back in his car, though, he realized Gadhafi was no longer on his mind. There were other things to think of.
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Review: Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo" tries too hard (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? We all go into sentimental movies with certain pre-set buttons that directors try to hit -- some people lose it when a beloved doggie dies, others shed tears when long-estranged lovers are reunited, and then there are those who reach for their hankies when a gruff dad finally articulates his love for his child.
Me, I'm an easy touch for the dead-mom movie, so when one of those fails to move me, it's clear that whoever's jerking the tears isn't doing his or her job. Which brings us to Cameron Crowe's latest, "We Bought a Zoo."
In telling the true story of writer Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon, saddled with a wretched haircut), who raised his kids amongst a menagerie of wild animals following the death of his wife, director and co-writer Cameron Crowe doesn't take things as disastrously off the rails as his previous feature, "Elizabethtown." Still, the results feel artificial and sappy, with only a few too-little-too-late moments where the tragedy of losing a mother or a wife is handled with anything resembling grace.
Part of the problem could stem from Fox's desire to turn this movie into another "Marley and Me," and the resemblances don't end with the posters featuring animals bearing festive gift ribbons. Like that earlier hit, this is a film about a writer and his family moving into an enormous house, dealing with personal loss, and fighting for camera time against a gaggle of photogenic and insanely cute animals.
Or maybe we can pin it on Crowe's collaborator, Aline Brosh McKenna, the first writing partner that the auteur has ever employed -- or had forced upon him, as the case may be. (The first credited one, anyway.) In just over a decade as a working screenwriter, McKenna has been credited with some of the most noxious comedies of the era, including "27 Dresses," "Laws of Attraction," "Three to Tango," and "I Don't Know How She Does It," so perhaps the forced emotional content and paper-thin characterizations are her fault.
In any event, the film follows Benjamin as he moves his cheery daughter Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) and sullen son Dylan (Colin Ford) into a somewhat ramshackle animal park that's in need of both cash and a little TLC if it's ever going to open its doors again. The place comes with a staff that includes overworked animal expert Kelly (Scarlett Johansson, frumping herself up as much as possible), boisterous animal-enclosure designer Peter (Angus MacFayden), and a handful of others.
The only ones in this crew who get anything resembling character development are Rosie and her niece Lily (Elle Fanning), and only because they're there as potential romantic interests for Benjamin and Dylan, respectively. As for Peter, and Patrick Fugit's Robin, they're basically one-quirk characters who just exist in the background.
The big plot dilemma revolves around an obnoxious USDA inspector played by John Michael Higgins, whose say-so dictates whether or not the animal park can be open to the public, and not even as gifted a comic actor as Hitchcock can make this character anything more than a two-dimensional bureaucrat.
"We Bought a Zoo" only rarely addresses the bizarre notion that an average family could, in fact, buy a zoo, and the few moments where the topic comes up allows Thomas Haden Church to mostly steal the movie in his handful of appearances as Benjamin's brother. But the ongoing mope-fest about Benjamin missing his wife and his kids longing for their dead mother are the stuff of basic-cable cheese-fests.
There's a lovely score by Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi, but we're allowed to hear it all too infrequently, because Crowe would rather indulge his penchant for aging-boomer rock favorites at the most thuddingly obvious opportunities. Playing Cat Stevens' "Don't Be Shy" over a scene where characters are meeting for the first time is one thing, but Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" to score a school expulsion? "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" during a rainstorm? Come on!
If anything about "We Bought a Zoo" lingers after the lights come up, it's the performance from Church, and the one from Katie -- she plays the zoo's aging alpha tiger, who just wants to be put out of his misery. After 124 minutes of these shenanigans, you may empathize.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Obama aide: Republicans playing politics on taxes (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The White House accused House of Representatives Republicans on Sunday of playing politics with the fate of the payroll tax cut and warned that Americans could face a "devastating" tax hike if Republicans do not act.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner has distanced himself from a two-month extension to the payroll tax cut passed in the Senate by Democrats and many fellow Republicans.
"If House Republicans refuse to pass this bipartisan bill to extend the payroll tax cut, there will be a significant tax increase on 160 million hardworking Americans in 13 days that would damage the economy and job growth," said Dan Pfeiffer, a senior aide to President Barack Obama.
Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said the House "should pass the two-month extension now to avoid a devastating tax hike from hitting the middle class in just 13 days."
"It's time House Republicans stop playing politics and get the job done for the American people," he said.
Boehner told NBC's "Meet the Press" program he opposed the Senate legislation because it would renew the tax cut for only two months. He said that would amount to "kicking the can down the road."
His comments prompted Democrats to accuse Boehner, who had faced a rebellion among rank-and-file Republican lawmakers to the payroll tax cut extension, of reneging on a deal.
(Reporting By Caren Bohan)
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US troops conduct Christmas drop over remote isles (AP)
TOKYO ? Christmas has come early to some remote islands in the western Pacific.
Care packages full of medicine, food, toys and school supplies have been raining down on dozens of tiny Micronesian islands over the past week, with "Operation Christmas Drop," the oldest ongoing U.S. Department of Defense mission in the world, in full swing.
The humanitarian airlift mission, in its 60th year, is conducted by Air Force personnel out of Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, and includes several aircraft deployed from Yokota Air Base in Japan and a detachment from Hawaii.
On Thursday, 25 boxes of IV fluids were airlifted to the Micronesian island of Fais, which is suffering an outbreak of dengue fever, according to a statement issued by the mission's command.
The operation started Dec. 12 and ends Monday.
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US Moves Toward Banning Photoshop In ... - Business Insider
Procter & Gamble has agreed to never again run an ad for its CoverGirl mascara because it used "enhanced post-production" and "photoshopping" to make eyelashes look thicker than they were in real life. P&G agreed to the ban even though it disclosed in the ad that the image was enhanced.
The move is the latest in a series of baby steps that U.S. and international advertising regulators have taken to ban the use of Photoshop in advertising when it is misleading to consumers.
The company's decision was described in a ruling by the National Advertising Division, the U.S. industry watchdog that imposes self-regulation on the advertising business. NAD is part of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Its rulings are respected and followed by most advertisers because it enjoys a close relationship with the FTC, from which it has historically drawn some of its senior staff. Recalcitrant advertisers who refuse to withdraw or amend misleading ads are referred by the NAD to the FTC, which has the power to fine, sue or bring injunctions against companies.
When asked whether this was a de facto ban on Photoshop, NAD director Andrea Levine told us:
"You can?t use a photograph to demonstrate how a cosmetic will look after it is applied to a woman?s face and then ? in the mice type ? have a disclosure that says ?okay, not really.??
The ad in question was for CoverGirl NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara, which promised ?2X more volume? on women's lashes. After reviewing the ad, P&G agreed to yank it. (A different CoverGirl ad is shown here.) The NAD ruling said:
"? [P&G] advised NAD it has permanently discontinued all of the challenged claims and the photograph in its advertisement. NAD was particularly troubled by the photograph of the model ? which serves clearly to demonstrate (i.e., let consumers see for themselves) the length and volume they can achieve when they apply the advertised mascara to their eyelashes. This picture is accompanied by a disclosure that the model?s eyelashes had been enhanced post production."
In a footnote, the NAD said it was following the lead of its sister body in the U.K., the Advertising Standards Authority, which in July banned cosmetics ads featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington because they used Photoshop. The NAD said:
"Advertising self-regulatory authorities recognize the need to avoid photoshopping in cosmetics advertisements where there is a clear exaggeration of potential product benefits."
"... the picture of Ms. Roberts had been altered using post production techniques (in addition to professional styling, make-up, photography and the product?s inherent covering and smoothing nature which are to be expected), exaggerating what consumers could expect to achieve through product use."
The U.K. ruling found the use of photo retouching misleading per se.
In the U.S., the FTC has has also tightened rules to hold celebrities accountable if they make claims in ads they know cannot be true.
And in France, in 2009, 50 politicians asked for health warnings to be imposed on fashion ads if they showed retouched models' bodies.
SEE ALSO: Ryanair: 'We Will Continue To Support The Right Of Our Crew To Take Their Clothes Off'
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-moves-toward-banning-use-of-photoshop-in-cosmetics-ads-2011-12
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Research on the Industry of Automotive Rescue Based on Mobile ...
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?Abstract? According to the Ministry of Public Security?s statistics, there are about 165.71 millions Motor Vehicles including 61.22 millions automotive all over the country by the end of June 2008. Compared with that of 2007, the amount increase with 4 2 5 million by 7.47 percent. The Driver?s license holders increase by 7.05% up to 114.64 millions in 2008. There were 327 thousands road traffic accidents last year, which took up 75% of the death toll. There are more and more automotive entering market, the needs of traffic-aid will increase rapid. Automotive rescue industry will become the important part of after-sales service.Up to now, the automobile industry of China develops slowly, and has not formed the industry concept. There are also some problems restricting the development of the industry such as small scale, poor profitability, low levels of information technology, Privacy Protection and so on.First, this paper makes the concept of the Chinese automotive rescue industry clear, and gives the conclusion on basis of comparison of the application of positioning technology, the economy, as well as the terminal. Second, this paper also summarizes those problems on the automobile rescue industry. And on this basis, a set of technologies is relatively well-MPS solutions are put forward, and gives some suggestion on applications and risks.On basis of the study results, this thesis raises some positive reference value on improving the entire information industry, upgrading the level of service, promoting the development of the industry, and reducing road traffic mortality.
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Mexico apologizes to woman raped by soldiers (AP)
MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's government has publicly apologized for failing to protect the rights of an indigenous woman raped by soldiers in 2002.
Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire offered what he called "the most sincere of apologies" to Valentina Rosendo on Thursday.
Rosendo is a Me'phaa Indian who took her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights after failing to get justice in Mexico.
She was washing clothes in a river in southern Guerrero state when eight soldiers approached her and asked her about a suspect. When she said she didn't know anything, two soldiers beat and raped her.
The Costa Rica-based court last year ordered Mexico to apologize and have civilian authorities investigate. Federal prosecutors are now in charge of the probe.
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Intel enters licensing deal with Inside Secure for NFC tech
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Crew stabilizes leaky Russian ship near Antarctica (AP)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? The 32 crew members aboard a leaking Russian fishing ship near Antarctica have made progress stabilizing the vessel, and a plane was scheduled to drop them supplies Saturday. Rescue ships, hampered by heavy sea ice, were still several days away.
The vessel Sparta hit underwater ice Friday, tearing a 1-foot (30-centimeter) hole in the hull and causing it to list at 13 degrees. Maritime New Zealand, which is coordinating rescue attempts, said Saturday that the crew had pumped water from the vessel overnight and moved cargo around, making the boat safer and more stable.
Crew members who had donned emergency suits and boarded life rafts were now back aboard the Sparta, the agency said.
A New Zealand Defence Force C-130 plane was scheduled to drop fuel and equipment, including another water pump, to the vessel later in the day.
The crew members were making patches that they would attach to the hole in the hull if they can get the ship upright, said Chris Wilson, who was coordinating the rescue mission for Maritime New Zealand on Saturday.
"It's a very remote, unforgiving environment," said Andrew Wright, executive secretary of the Australian-based Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which has licensed the Sparta to catch toothfish in the Southern Ocean.
Wright said he didn't know what caused the hole, although he added that an iceberg "would be a good candidate."
The Sparta, which is 157 feet (48 meters) long, sent a distress call early Friday. Maritime New Zealand said heavy ice in the Southern Ocean would make it difficult for other ships to reach the vessel.
The Sparta's sister ship Chiyo Maru No. 3 was heading toward the stricken vessel but had no capacity to cut through sea ice, the agency said. A New Zealand vessel, the San Aspiring, had some ice-cutting ability and was also en route, but was still three to four days away on Saturday. A third vessel was much closer, but was hemmed in by heavy ice and unable to move toward the Sparta.
The crew's emergency immersion suits can keep them alive for a time in freezing water, Maritime New Zealand said.
The crew is made up of 15 Russians, 16 Indonesians and one Ukrainian, the agency said.
The weather in the area was calm Saturday, with temperatures a relatively mild 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius).
Commission records list the captain of the Sparta, which was built in 1988, as Oleg Pavlovich Starolat, who is Russian.
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Video: CDC: 1 in 4 women violently attacked
One in four women say they were violently attacked by their intimate partners, according to a government survey released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in five women said they had been sexually assaulted. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.
>>> we got startling new numbers from the cdc today based on a new survey of domestic violence. one in four women in this country reported being violently attacked by a husband or boyfriend. a number researchers even called astounding. one in five women said they have been sexually assaulted. some experts were skeptical of the 1.3 million sexual assaults reported in this study saying the number is far higher than the department of justice 's own estimate just under 190,000 rapes last year.
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Samsung Releases Extended Battery Bundle (With Cover) For Your New Galaxy Nexus
The Galaxy Nexus is a beautiful phone, no doubt about it. That gorgeous 4.65-inch Super AMOLED Plus display paired with LTE support and a fresh build of ICS thrown in there for good measure is about as good as it gets. But the same things that make this phone great — its massive screen and LTE radio — are also the things that will leave you screaming at it at 4p.m. on a Thursday, when it's completely dead. But Samsung has prepared for this, launching an extended battery pack/cover bundle specifically for the Galaxy Nexus.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qmwvb166CkA/
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Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga Top Google Zeitgeist Year-End Lists
Bieber named Google's Most Popular Person of 2011, while 'Born This Way' tops Fastest Rising Songs chart.
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Let this serve as undeniable proof that, regardless of search engine, Justin Bieber truly dominates the Interwebs.
Having already been named Bing's most-searched person of 2011, on Thursday (December 15) Bieber picked up another e-honor, as Google unveiled its annual Zeitgeist site and, in the process, declared him its Most Popular Person of the year, besting Kim Kardashian and Lady Gaga to take home the title. Nicki Minaj and, uh, Casey Anthony rounded out the top 5.
It's a fitting way to cap off a year that saw Bieber beat Gaga in the race to 2 billion YouTube views, though perhaps the Mother Monster can take solace in the fact that "Born This Way" topped Google's Fastest-Rising Song search list, ahead of "Watch the Throne" (which, you know, isn't actually a song) and Blake Shelton's "Honey Bee."
Of course, not even Bieber could best Rebecca Black on Google's Fastest Rising Searches, as the "Friday" sensation topped the list — which tallied worldwide searches — ahead of Google Plus, Ryan Dunn, Casey Anthony and "Battlefield 3." Breakout star Adele also made huge headways this year, landing at #7 on the list and beating out Steve Jobs and the iPad 2.
Not surprisingly, Black also came in atop the Fastest-Rising People list, besting "American Idol" champ Scotty McCreery and teenage bride/ pumpkin-patch enthusiast Courtney Stodden.
But when it came to the year's most-searched images, well, neither Bieber nor Black made the cut. Instead, folks were seeking pics of Charlie Sheen above all else, followed by "Planking," "Kim Kardashian wedding" and a trio of hair-raising (or perhaps razing) queries: "Tom Brady Haircut," "Selena Gomez Haircut" and "Emma Watson Haircut."
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Officials cite drop in homelessness among veterans (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Homelessness among the nation's veterans declined by about 12 percent during a one-year period ending January 2011, the Obama administration says.
Officials said the drop is a sign of progress and that the administration is on track for reaching President Barack Obama's goal of eliminating homelessness among veterans by 2015.
In all, there are nearly 67,500 homeless veterans, according to a survey that thousands of communities around the country help to administer each January. More than 76,000 homeless vets were counted in the prior year's survey.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan attributed much of the drop to getting more veterans to participate in a voucher program that greatly subsidizes their housing costs. While Congress has regularly increased funding for the voucher program, thousands of veterans were not taking advantage of the help.
"At the time we came into office in 2009, even though we had about 20,000 of those vouchers available; fewer than 5,000 veterans were actually using them and had successfully moved from the streets or shelters into permanent housing," Donovan said.
Officials said they were particularly encouraged with the results given that the drop occurred during a sluggish economy still shaking off the effects of a deep recession.
Officials also said that there has been more emphasis on reaching out to veterans and families at risk of becoming homeless. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said that $100 million in grants will be made available over the coming year to help prevent veterans from becoming homeless or to quickly return them to stable housing.
"The problems that lead to homelessness begin long before veterans and their families are on the streets," Shinseki said.
Veterans are about 50 percent more likely to be homeless than the average American.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Flying robots build a 20-foot-tall tower
The first installation to be built by flying machines opened its doors to the public Dec. 4. The installation, called "Flight Assembled Architecture", was conceived and built by teams led by Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler as well as Raffaello D'Andrea at ETH Zurich.
By John Roach
Robotic quadrocopters ? that is flying machines with four rotors ? have built a 20-foot-tall tower of polystyrene blocks at a museum in France.
This may come as bad news for unemployed construction workers hoping for a bright future building next-generation skyscrapers, but it's yet another way robots are aiming to re-shape the global workforce.
In this case, an architect still draws up a blueprint for the building, but computers and robots do the rest ? interpreting the blueprint and controlling the crew of robotic copters, for example.?
The first public job for this system was the "Flight Assembled Architecture" exhibit at the FRAC Center Orleans,?billed as the "first installation to be built by flying machines."
The exhibit is the work of ETH Zurich roboticist Rafaello D'Andrea and architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler.
Like any construction site, a safe operating environment is essential. To avoid collisions, the robots reserve air space on one of two "freeways" before they fly.?
"The system ensures that while a space is reserved, only the reserved flying vehicle has access ? all other vehicles must wait before flying through the space," the team explains in a media release.
This system also prevents collisions with the tower, since the tower itself is considered reserved airspace.
Each robot has a specially designed gripper to hold and place the bricks. The researchers also figured that quick flights are essential to prevent factors such as air turbulence resulting in a misplaced brick.
Perhaps the speed will also cut down on construction delays, giving the robotic workforce another edge over their human counterparts.
The tower on exhibit is 20 feet tall and made of 1,500 blocks. It's a model of a futuristic 2,000-foot tall "vertical village" that could house 30,000 people ? assuming 30,000 people want to live in a building assembled by robots.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Sony Ericsson to become Sony in mid-2012
Sony and Ericsson's decade-long partnership may have humbled Kim Kardashian, but dwindling market share and an over-reliance on feature phones signaled the end of the affair. Ericsson will have until "mid 2012" to clear its things from the spare room before the electronics giant begins a new solo venture. The revitalized enterprise will leverage its parent company's brand strength, R&D and content (since it owns a massive chunk of the entertainment industry) and in comments made to Times of India, company Vice President Kristian Tear said there would be a "fierce" advertising push to restore the company's reputation as a major player worldwide -- before taking a Pilates class to try and fit back into its bachelor pad.
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