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LONDON - Violent extremists seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad may instead have hurt negotiations to replace him, frustrating Western diplomats who continue to push for his ouster as a necessary part of a peace agreement in the Mideast nation's bloody civil war.
Bolstered by infighting among Syrian opposition groups - including some linked to al-Qaida that have jeopardized foreign aid - U.S. officials say Assad has a stronger grasp on power now than he did just months ago, when the U.S. and Russia called for a new round of talks to settle the 2 1/2-year war that has killed more than 100,000 people.
Still, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Assad's recent gains do not assure his future in a new government.
How to persuade Assad to step down will be part of the focus Tuesday at a London meeting of 11 nations from the West and Mideast seeking a negotiated settlement to the war. Kerry met Tuesday morning with the head of the Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmad al-Jarba, during what the top U.S. diplomat called "a very important time."
"We have a lot to discuss," Kerry told al-Jarba as the 45-minute private meeting got underway at the U.S. ambassador's residence in London.
Extremist groups, including the al-Qaida-linked cross-border Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have hurt the credibility of the fractured opposition to Assad and drawn battle lines among once-allied rebel forces.
As a result, that likely has boosted Assad's confidence to resist yielding at the negotiating table, according to a second senior State Department official who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss the delicate discussions more candidly. The official also accused the Islamic State of Iraq of helping Assad - knowingly or not - by hobbling the moderate rebel groups and diverting aid and focus from the battle against his ruling government.
Al-Qaida linked militant groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Jabhat al-Nusra, are now some of the most powerful factions in Syria. Some experts and more moderate rebels blame the growth of al-Qaida linked militants in Syria on meager foreign aid - both money and arms - to moderate rebel groups.
U.S. officials have argued it is difficult to identify moderate rebel groups and ensure that the weapons they are supplied with will not fall into al-Qaida hands.
And moderate groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army, a loose coalition of rebel brigades, are in disarray. Last week, 65 rebel groups, including many linked to the FSA, announced they would not recognize the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the West for failing to send more support.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday said the moderate Syrian groups need to be reassured that they have Western backing and "we will continue to help them in many ways."
"This is the only way in the end to solve this tragic and bloody conflict in Syria," Hague said. He also told the BBC that the longer the conflict drags on, the more sectarian it becomes, noting: "I am in no way glossing over or minimizing the danger of extremism taking hold."
Several Sunni-led Mideast nations, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have filled the void with aid to Syrian's Sunni-dominated rebel groups. But that also has led to questions over whether some of that assistance has fallen into extremist hands - a charge that Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah tersely denied.
"Talking about us supporting radical groups or extremist groups, this cannot be true in any way when we're working with allies closely," al-Attiyah said Monday night at a news conference with Kerry in Paris.
It's also feared that Assad's recent willingness to let United Nations inspectors examine his government's chemical weapons stockpile - a cache that earlier this year he denied even existed - has helped his own credibility and worldwide image. In an interview Monday, Assad questioned the legitimacy of the opposition and said the factors needed for a proposed peace conference to succeed do not yet exist.
"Who are the groups that will participate? What is their relation with the Syrian people? Do they represent the Syrian people or they represent the country that made them?" Assad said during an interview with Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV. "There are many questions about the conference."
He said it's not clear who would represent the opposition, or what credibility they would have inside Syria. Assad also did not rule out the possibility of running for re-election as early as next year.
Kerry, speaking to reporters in Paris, said Assad must step down if a peace settlement is to be reached, noting that opposition officials will not allow the Syrian president to participate in a new government.
"There's a human catastrophe awaiting the world if you can't have a negotiated solution," Kerry told reporters Monday. He said negotiations in Geneva between Assad's government and the Syrian opposition are likely to take place late next month, but would not confirm they have been set for Nov. 23, a date mentioned by other officials.
Associated Press writer Cassandra Vinograd in London and Diaa Hadid in Beirut contributed to this report.


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High Point teen found in lake died of gunshot wound, autopsy determines
No arrests made in homicide investigation
An autopsy report shows that a missing teenager found in a lake in March died from a single gunshot wound to the back of his neck.
The official autopsy from the North Carolina Medical Examiner's office said Dorien Daymon Jackson was shot in the back of the neck. The bullet injured his cervical spine and right vertebral artery before existing through his mouth.
According to the report, his body was badly decomposed and unidentifiable due to being under water. The body still held the Old Navy sweatshirt and Levis blue jeans that he was last wearing. He was identified through his fingerprint records.
Greensboro police are ruling the death a homicide and are still searching for whomever may have killed Jackson.
"We don't have any more updates to share right now," said Greensboro police Capt. R. Sigmon. "It is still an active case and is still actively being investigated. As soon as we have more information to share, we certainly will."
Jackson, 18, of Tangle Lane, was removed from Lake Townsend on March 3 after three fishermen saw his body in the lake off Plainfield Road. Jackson's family and friends organized search parties to find him after he was reported missing by family members on Jan. 13. He was last seen on Jan. 10, after leaving a friend's home on Penny Road. He would have been celebrating his 19th birthday on June 8.
"If there is anyone in the community that has information that they think would be helpful, they can call Crimestoppers or the Greensboro Police Department directly," Sigmon said.
The number for Crimestoppers at (336) 373-1000. Greensboro police can be reached at (336) 373-2222.

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Oprah Winfrey has ruled daytime television for so long now that it's hard to imagine her ever leaving. In fact, it's hard to imagine Oprah ever dying, or aging. I'm all but certain that she's impervious to bullets, insect bites, and bladed objects. Everything but Milk Duds, really.
But all television stalwarts have their expiration date, and Oprah is no different. Despite still raking in zillions of dollars on an annual basis, Deadline's Nikki Finke is reporting that Winfrey will be moving her daily syndicated show to her own cable network (the humbly titled Oprah Winfrey Network) in 2011:
Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether. I've learned that in coming days Winfrey and Discovery will issue a press release announcing OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated Chicago-based daytime talk show when her current deal runs out and moving it to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles probably as soon as mid-2011…
In the U.S., Oprah is viewed by an estimated 7 million people a day (though that audience has fallen by half over the past 10 years) and in 140 countries. It has been estimated that she currently earns about $275 million a year in showbiz income.
So not only will Oprah be changing networks, but she'll also be changing locales, broadcasting from LA to give daytime viewers her patented mix of free cars, Toni Morrison book recommendations, and doting interviews with her celebrity bowling friends.
Now, Oprah is a much smarter human being than you or $2.3 billion smarter, to be precise. Still, this is a baffling move for a couple of reasons. For one thing, why would Winfrey feel the need to set up her own cable network when she's already launched one successfully (She co-founded the Oxygen network, which sold to NBC Universal in November 2007 for a healthy $925 million)? And she was able to do that without having to move her show. Secondly, despite massive gains by cable in recent years, network TV still has the broadest reach of any television medium. A move to OWN would almost certainly cost Oprah viewers. And for what? Extra money? She's already rich beyond the scope of imagination. Winfrey has always struck me as someone who is far more interested in her platform to communicate than her net worth. Why she would willingly shrink her platform like that (as Howard Stern did when he moved to satellite radio, or the NBA did when it moved much of its TV coverage to cable) is difficult to figure out.
Furthermore, ask any big name TV star if moving out of your comfort zone is necessarily a good thing. Jay Leno moved to 10 p.m. and has openly said he'd be willing to take his old job back. Katie Couric would probably auction off a leg to be back on the Today Show. We love TV stars not just for who they are, but because of the role and setting in which we've grown accustomed to viewing them. Once that shifts, the results can be awkward and lacking in spark. Plus, Oprah's moving to LA. Nothing good ever happens when people move to LA. They grow aloof. They stop returning your calls. And they're always bragging about the quality of their orange juice. LA makes you smug, and that's not a good thing for Oprah, given that many viewers have already soured on her political grandstanding and breathtakingly idiotic celebrity medical advice.
Then again, this is Oprah. She is very smart, and very rich. So perhaps she knows something you and I don't. In fact, I'd count on it. I'd count on her eventually ruling us all one day, sooner rather than later.


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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park, 2,219,791 acres (899,015 hectares), the world's first national park (est. 1872), NW Wyo., extending into Montana and Idaho. It lies mainly on a broad plateau in the Rocky Mts., on the Continental Divide, c.8,000 ft (2,440 m) above sea level, surrounded by mountains from 10,000 to 14,000 ft (3,048–4,267 m) high. The area, a huge craterlike volcanic basin (caldera), is a geological hot spot responsible for several massive eruptions, the most recent occurring some 640,000 years ago. The plateau is mostly formed from once-molten lava.
Volcanic activity is evidenced by nearly 10,000 hot springs, 200 geysers, and many vents and mud pots. The more prominent geysers are unequaled in size, power, and variety. Old Faithful, the best known although not the largest, erupts every 40 to 70 min and shoots c.11,000 gal (41,640 liters) of water some 150 ft (46 m) high. Mammoth Hot Springs, a series of five terraces with reflecting pools, continues to grow as residue from the mineral-rich water is deposited.
The park also has petrified forests, lava formations, and the "black glass" Obsidian Cliff. Eagle Peak, 11,370 ft (3,466 m), is the highest point. Yellowstone Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and waterfalls are notable features on the Yellowstone River, which crosses the park. The park has a wide variety of flowers and other plant life. Bears, mountain sheep, elk, bison, moose, many smaller animals, and more than 200 kinds of birds inhabit Yellowstone, which is one of the world's largest wildlife sanctuaries. Fires in 1988 burned about 36% of the park, but animal and plant life rebounded quickly, as the nutrient influx in the ash nourished the soil.
See also National Parks and Monuments, table.
See J. Muir, Yellowstone National Park (1979); B. T. Scott, The Geysers of Yellowstone (rev. ed. 1986); G. Wuerthner, Yellowstone & the Fires of Change (1988).


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My favorite tour!I to "slept" out for these 3 nights. However being second in line the front of New Haven Cutler's record shop, denying Action News to interview me...sorta lied to my job about some toothache(I did have a root canal done the day before ;P). Remember white flags and actual lighters waving all over at the end of the shows!
27 April, 2010
What a blast!I too "slept out" for the first time for tickets to these three shows. I remember clearly that the Grateful Dead were live that night inside the Hartford Civic Center and the line wrapped around the building for a "wristband" style sale the next day at 10:00. Back then, pre-internet, you had to actually go to either the venue or to a Ticketmaster retailer which was usually inside a record store. Anyway, my friends and I drove in from Springfield, Mass and got into line about midnight just in time to see (and smell) the deadheads filing out. Our wristband number was never called in the "lottery" but the dude sitting next to us gave us his. We got lucky with that one and then had to wait in another looong line to pay a whopping $37.50 for our tickets... good times. What a blast.
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Slept Out for TicketsI was in college at the time and this was the first time I ever "slept out" for concert tickets. My friend and I arrived at the ticket office at 4:00 AM on Friday morning for tickets that went on sale on Saturday at 10:00 AM. About a hundred fans lined up through the day and night. I was first in line and I remember listening to Redhill Mining Town just before the box office opened - the lyrics "I'm still waiting, I'm hanging on" will forever take me back to that day. We scored seats on the floor for the show and it was FANTASTIC! The show was a couple months later, and I actually left the "Spring Fling" celebration on campus to go to the U2 show instead! A wise choice indeed!!!


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Gray News) - When Latoya Davis asked Lauren Missell for some heavy-duty duct tape last month, Missell probably didn't think anything of it.
But when Missell saw what Davis reportedly did with it, she told police she was left in shock.
Missell is a special education teacher at Rochester's School 54. She said Davis, a teacher's aide, wrapped the tape around the wrists and forearms of a student towards the end of class on April 10, WHEC reported.
Court documents show Davis went around the child's arms three to five times with the tape. When she was done, she allegedly cut off one more piece of tape to place over the student's mouth.
Authorities said she then ripped it off.
Scissors had to be used to free the child.
Missell reported the incident to administrators the following day.
Davis was terminated, arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful imprisonment.
She pleaded not guilty to both misdemeanor charges last week.
A report by NBC News said a teacher and a teacher's aide witnessed the incident but did not intervene. The report did not identify the teacher and aide in question but noted that they have since resigned.
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Some doubt existed as to whether Peavy would make his set start on Saturday in Phoenix, as Peavy missed important work days in between due to a severe bout with the flu still clearly plaguing him. Guillen voted against Peavy staying on turn, meaning he would also stay on turn to break camp with the team and start for the White Sox on April 6 in Kansas City.
That vote was overruled, or in more accurate terms, the intense competitor that is Peavy convinced Guillen to let him face the A's. That method of convincing also worked last year, when Peavy skipped one start in Pittsburgh and then faced the Nationals after battling shoulder inflammation.
This same convincing won't work again, as far as Guillen is concerned. It's not an expression of anger or disappointment aimed at Peavy, but more a protective measure for Guillen's player and his staff.
"Jake Peavy will pitch the day I tell him to pitch. He's not going to convince me," Guillen said. "I don't care, we went through it. When he tells me 'Skip, I'm ready to pitch,' I give him another couple of more days to recover. That's the way we do stuff.
"When you tell your kid don't do this and the kid is doing it, and you don't do anything about it, you are not doing your job, and that has happened twice. My job is to protect him and the organization, to make sure when he is out there.
"I respect him because he wants to be out there. I love when players want to be on the field. That's the best thing that can happen to any manager," Guillen said. "He's that type of guy who has the passion for the game. He wants to help. Sometimes when you want to help, you don't really help."
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"I'm still thinking about when he didn't feel that well [Saturday] and I let him pitch. I take full responsibility. He left the game fine, except for some tightness. When he comes [back], hopefully he comes [back] for good without another setback. I'd rather he be set back now than in July or August. We have to be aware of how he is all year long. [His injury is] not a common thing.
"Believe me, as long as I am the manager of this ballclub that is the last time he convinces me," he said. "I will make the call. I will have the power to let him go out or not. I know it sounds powerful, but the last two times he didn't convince me, he convinced everybody [else] he could go out there and perform and the next day, and we got bad news. I am the manager of the club and I was the guy who was against [Peavy pitching], but he said he was fine and ready to pitch. I have the full responsibility of my players, and at the end of the day it's on my shoulders if people get hurt or not.
"Jake Peavy will pitch the day I tell him to pitch. He's not going to convince me. When I get the go-ahead from our pitching coach and medical staff [he'll pitch]—I'm not going to get the go-ahead from him. I can't. Sorry. I can't.
"Kenny can easily come to me and say [I knew] Peavy was sore, and I don't have any ammunition to protect myself and my coaching staff. I always blame myself, and when he told me 'Skip, I'm ready to pitch' I [should have given] him another couple of days to [recover]. That's the way we do stuff.
"It's not anything against him, or I'm mad at him, or sad or upset. It's just because it's happened twice. When you tell your kid, 'Don't do this,' the kid keeps doing it, and you don't do anything about it, you are not doing your job. My job is to protect him and the organization, to make sure when he's out there he's good."
"I respect him, because he wants to be out there. I love when players want to be on the field. That's the best thing that can happen for any manager. He's a different dog—he wants to be out there fighting. He doesn't want anything [else]. He's the type of guy who has the temper and passion for the game. He wants to help. Sometimes when you want to help, you['re not] really help[ing].
"I'm fine, we talked. Next time, he has to convince a lot of people, and I don't think it's going to be enough, [just] talking, to convince anyone. We want to protect him, because when we protect him, we protect ourselves. I'm going to protect myself not because of my job but because that's the way it should be. It's not [because of] me, but because [of] the White Sox, the team. No. 1, [we have to] protect him. That's most important: To protect the players.
"Opening Day is too close to be [a possibility] the way he sounds, that's another thing. The way he sounds, we shouldn't be counting on him for Opening Day. Maybe he comes in tomorrow ready to pitch, and then it's, 'What's going on here—do you want some time off?' I know for a fact he wants to be on the team. We have to make sure when he's on the team, he's on the team for good.


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Santa Fe has a special charm to it as a Mexican town located here in the US. It is the oldest state capital in North America. The original colony was established by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta in 1610. The heart of the city is the Central Plaza, around which the town revolves. Santa Fe is a quaint town with a poplulation of 68,000 that is not sure if it is a small town or a larger city. Sixty miles by highway from Albuquerque, it sits in the mountains at an elevation of 7000 feet so it is not as hot as most people think of when they think of summer in New Mexico. Dogs like the cooler temperatures as well. Santa Fe is a dog-friendly town, with unique B&B lodgings, small hotels and specialty lodging and shops.
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Santa Fe New Mexico – Pets Welcome in the MountainsThursday, September 5th, 2013
Santa Fe Pampers Pets with Special Packages For Furry FriendsThursday, December 13th, 2012
For those who think traveling with pets is "ruff," Santa Fe offers special pampering packages and amenities that allow animals to be VIPs while making the city one of America's most pet-friendly destinations. Hotels around Santa Fe offer pet-travelers accommodation packages, special amenities and treats year-round.
Santa Fe's numerous pet bakeries, dog parks and city tours, and at least a dozen restaurants that allow pets on outdoor patios also make it easy for visitors to explore the city with their four-legged companions.
DogFriendly.com's City Guide to Santa Fe is at this link
A sampling of Santa Fe's pet- friendly hotel packages include:
The Pampered Pooch Package at Hotel Santa Fe
With a canine of their own in-house, Herman, the "Director of Pet Relations" guarantees pets of any size can enjoy a stay at Hotel Santa Fe. Located in the heart of the new Guadalupe Railyard District, pets and owners can take a quick walk to explore nearby attractions, shops and restaurants. The hotel's "Pampered Pooch Package" is available for a three-night minimum with rates beginning at $249 per night. Bookings must be made before December 21st, 2013 to receive:
· "Picaris Junior Suite" accommodations with bedroom and living area, including and an oversized dog bed and food and water bowls
· Daily Breakfast
· Dinner for two at the Amaya Restaurant while pets get a room-service dinner
· Welcome basket filled with food and wine for humans, and treats and toys for pets
· A list of pet friendly parks, walks and hikes in the area
For more information on Hotel Santa Fe, visit: http://hotelsantafe.com/ or call (855)825-9876.
The Pet Friendly Package at Hotel Chimayo
Hotel Chimayo offers the Pet Friendly Package for those traveling with pets weighing up to 50 lbs. Located steps from the historic Santa Fe Plaza, Hotel Chimayo de Santa Fe (formerly Hotel Plaza Real) offers an authentic Northern New Mexico escape. With rates starting at $189 per night, the year-round package allows up to two pets per room and includes:
· Deluxe pet friendly accommodations
· Pet Goody Bag filled with toys and treats upon arrival
· Santa Fe Area Resource Guide for Pets
· 10% off at Teca Tu Pet Emporium
For more information on Hotel Chimayo, visit: http://www.hotelchimayo.com/ or call (855)752-9273.
The HosPETality Package at The Lodge at Santa Fe
Perched on a hilltop overlooking downtown Santa Fe and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, The Lodge at Santa Fe allows pets weighing 50 lbs. or less to stay in one of several pet-friendly guestrooms. Rates for the year-round "HosPETality" package start at $109 per night, which includes a standard $25 pet fee as well as the following amenities:
· Luxury accommodations including a dog bed, food and water bowls
· Daily "Yappy Meal" for pets
· Santa Fe Area Resource Guide for Pets
· 10% discount at Teca Tu Pet Emporium
For more information on The Lodge at Santa Fe, visit: http://www.lodgeatsantafe.com/ or call (888)563-4373.
For further information about visiting Santa Fe and for a complimentary Santa Fe Visitors Guide, call the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau at 800-777-2489 or visit www.santafe.org. Media can also visit http://www.facebook.com/SantaFeTourism or follow on Twitter @CityOfSantaFe for the latest news.
Santa Fe was recently awarded Best Food Town during the Rand McNally/USA Today Best of the Road competition. The Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau is a department of the City of Santa Fe and is responsible for marketing the city to leisure and business travelers. In addition, the bureau books and operates the LEED Gold Certified Santa Fe Convention Center. For information on Santa Fe attractions, accommodations, and meeting facilities please visit www.santafe.org or phone 800-777-2489.


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MIDDLETOWN — The Middletown area's municipal public access channel has gone dark.
For about two decades, Channel 20 has been used mainly for school district programming. Tuesday night, the city broadcast Mayor Joe DeStefano's State of the City speech on Channel 20.
Shortly thereafter, the channel went off, and the school district posted a statement on its website Wednesday morning saying that "As expected, Mayor Joe DeStefano and the City of Middletown, in cooperation with Time Warner Cable, have taken over Channel 20 from the Middletown school district." It says the programming that was on there before — which included school concerts and events, lunch menus, and board meetings — will be on MIDDIE-TV on the district's website instead.
The programming on Channel 20 is the latest skirmish in the years-long feud between the administrations of the city and the school. On Wednesday, DeStefano accused school Superintendent Ken Eastwood of lying about the city pulling the plug. He said the city only plans to use the channel a few hours a week, and that the schools could still use it the rest of the time.
"So they're going to take their bat and ball and leave the playground because they can't run the whole playground anymore," DeStefano said. "So now all the people are deprived of all the information, (and) the kids don't see themselves on TV."
Eastwood cast the dispute as another attack by the city, and said the district would move forward with posting its programming online instead.
"Channel 20 is their channel now," Eastwood said. "It is what it is. It's more of the same with the mayor and that same little group of folks he hangs out with that've been banging at this district's door for a long time."
DeStefano said city doesn't plan to broadcast anything until later in April, assuming it upgrades the equipment and the Common Council votes to televise its meetings. He said the city could pull information about school lunches and events off the district's website and put it on the channel.
The channel's use is regulated by the state Public Service Commission, which requires cable companies to designate a channel for local government access, and by the city's franchise agreement with Time Warner. DeStefano said that over the past few months, the city has worked with Time Warner to install equipment to broadcast events live.
Time Warner spokeswoman Jennifer Holick said their role is to transmit the feeds they receive, not to program the channel. Holick said there were technical problems Tuesday night, which have been fixed. Both channels 20 and 23, she said, "are currently back on the air, although we are not receiving programming at this time."
Middletown's Channel 20 goes dark after dispute between school district, mayor
MIDDLETOWN — The Middletown area's municipal public access channel has gone dark.


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A check cashing scheme led detectives to the house of a Jacksonville teenager accused of running over a police officer and crashing into an occupied house in a stolen police car while trying to escape earlier this week, according to court documents.
A check cashing scheme led detectives to the house of a Jacksonville teenager accused of running over a police officer and crashing into an occupied house in a stolen police car while trying to escape earlier this week, according to court documents.
Thomas Robert Gibson, 17, of Welton Court, faces charges of attempted murder, among other counts, for allegedly climbing over the partition of a patrol car from the backseat and trying to drive away, striking the arresting officer and smashing into the front of a house in the Brynn Marr area, seriously injuring a woman inside on Wednesday.
Police on Thursday filed additional charges on Gibson who remains in the Onslow County Jail. He was charged with three counts of financial card fraud, six counts of obtaining property by false pretense, three counts of forging an instrument and three counts of uttering a forged instrument.
He is accused of using checks from several banks � including Wells Fargo, USAA Federal and Wachovia � written out to him for small amounts of money and forging the checks for much more. In one example a check for $10 meant as a gift was changed to $200. The total criminal transactions are estimated to be around $600, according to warrants.
After an investigation into the check cashing cases by police, Jan Friis, Matthew Summerlin and other officers went to Gibson�s residence early Wednesday. Summerlin arrested Gibson and placed him in a patrol car. Gibson is accused of trying to escape which led to him crashing into the front door of 1000 Pine Valley Road.
Summerlin was treated and released at Onslow Memorial Hospital. The woman, 59-year-old Sarah Wilson, suffered damage to her face, which will require reconstructive surgery, hospital officials said.
Police on Thursday added two counts of injury to real property to Gibson�s long list of charges. Gibson is accused of causing damage to the video recording system and a Dell laptop in the patrol car and a Timex wristwatch belonging to Friis.
JPD Deputy Chief Patrick Traitor told reporters Thursday that Gibson was in handcuffs when he tried to drive away in the police car. Traitor said the department is reviewing the incident to determine whether procedures were followed.
Traitor said the Police Department was concerned for Wilson and hopes for her speedy recovery.
Gibson had his first appearance in court Thursday. He was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder; two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer; assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious bodily harm; two counts of hit and run; larceny of a motor vehicle; possession of a stolen vehicle; injury to real property; fleeing to elude arrest; resisting, obstructing and delaying police; larceny; and larceny of a firearm.
An additional $135,000 was added to his bond Thursday, making his total bail $480,000.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Did the internet kill quality? Or just redefine it?
The answer is yes and yes, particularly if you define "quality" by the standards of professionals in content industries that produce the long-form TV, film, journalism and literature once considered the highest forms of information and entertainment — the kind that brands once paid handsomely to associate themselves with through advertising.
The question used to be how to transfer the economics that supported the offline-media definition of "quality" to the web. But after years of failed efforts, the economics for content have gotten worse, not better. Instead, the web is rewiring the entire concept of quality, or at least the perception of it among consumers and the brands that support content.
Publishers from The New York Times to Condé Nast to NBC have been arguing for years that, ultimately, demand for quality would give them advantages over online upstarts: Users would demand it and advertisers would always covet the environment that quality can confer.
But they're facing two trends that appear to be inexorable. Audiences that do not intently seek out quality are increasingly inured to traditional media brands on the web. At the same time, agencies and advertisers are adopting technologies that allow them to target individuals independent of whatever media they may be absorbing, making the media brand itself less important, perhaps even irrelevant.
Increasingly, the content industries are retooling and fashioning their product to meet real-time demand (however it is expressed by the surges and currents of the web) in pursuit of a trickle of ad dollars. Some, like Demand Media and Associated Content, have made a science to responding to that demand with sophisticated technology to predict what a piece of content will be worth over time.
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It's a new frontier for the content industries, which grew up with a much less direct notion of supply and demand. Money-losing TV newscasts were supported by profits made in prime time; Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper coverage was financed by profitable sections such as automotive and real estate.
But now each piece of content — text and video — is judged on its own, separate from the newscast, newspaper or even prime-time schedule. What's more, viewers don't often choose what might have been judged "quality" offline.
Charlie bit my finger — again! Sure, "Charlie bit my finger — again!" is a funny baby video, but would it shock you to know it's YouTube's most-viewed of all time with 160 million views, passing Justin Laipply's "Evolution of Dance" at some point in the last few years? In the publish-first-ask-questions-later blog world, inaccuracy is intrinsic to the product, and many blogs, such as Gawker, rely on a crowd of commenters to call it into account.
"Today there seems to be a bigger premium on popularity — substantiated or not — than there is on authority," said Group M CEO Rob Norman.
Old media faces some confusing competition in this new world. Is an expert essay on breastfeeding on iVillage more valuable to someone seeking out that information than a mum of three writing from Des Moines? Or what about a reader review on Amazon compared to a review in The New York Times?
As consumers become more and more comfortable judging content separate from brands, a new perception of value is emerging. "People have a greater degree of comfort with information from sources they aren't familiar with," said Patrick Keane, CEO of Associated Content, which has published nearly 2 million pieces of content optimised for search. "To me, quality is moving toward a centre of usefulness as opposed to that arbitered by a group of professionals."
Perhaps the ultimate example of this is Twitter. Sure, 99.9% of the bursts of text are of little to no value to anyone but the writer. But that one tweet with a key fact, properly timed and targeted can, at a given moment, be the most-valuable piece of content to a given person at a given time.
Big, established brands are the ones that least need the authority of media, and indeed many are adapting to a diminished world of old media by producing their own content. Where it starts to hurt are smaller brands that don't have those advantages. Mr. Norman said it tends to be smaller brands that rely on the "the conferred quality, authority and scale of more traditional media forms to deliver brand messaging or persuade audiences."
It's no surprise that the most successful media company of this emerging era — Google — doesn't produce media in the strictest sense, but does enable a splintered media economy by directing people to the right information at the right time, and reaping a tithe on the transaction.
Best of both worlds?
Will a publisher be able to produce original content at scale profitably on the web? AOL, repositioned as a content company, is trying to figure that out. "I think we are in the first stages of defining what quality is for the internet," said AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. "Today, on the internet, you make a choice of speed over quality, but in the future you won't have to make that choice — you will get quality at speed."
AOL now has thousands of employees writing, editing and shooting video for myriad sites, some with known brands such as Engadget and Moviefone, as well as lesser-known brands such as PawNation and Patch. Because Mr. Armstrong is an investor in Associated, AOL gets lumped in with content mills. AOL does mine data to decide what content to create and when, and farms some of that out to low-paid freelancers through its content-generation platform SEED.
But where AOL differs is it is trying to build a media brand on the web, and won't just produce content that is profitable. "We build non-commercial and commercial content and we will always do that because there are certain things that may not have economic advantage that serve our community well," Mr. Armstrong said. "If you serve your community best you should be able to run a business that is profitable."
Yet a lot of the content the new AOL plays in is online journalism, in many ways a de-professionalized version of offline with greatly diminished economics and expectations. Veteran media reporter Jeff Bercovici, now a writer for AOL's business-news site Daily Finance, laid it all out in a post called "Why the Web Makes for So Much Bum Reporting," in which he cited recent errors at The Business Insider, Huffington Post and The Daily Beast.
Then later that day, Daily Finance withdrew a story claiming Mexican financier Carlos Slim had increased his stake in The New York Times, itself a pickup from Editor & Publisher and an error that many blogs amplified on the web.
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Whether AOL can build lasting media brands — ones that are trusted and sought-out by consumers — without being tethered to the economics of old media is an open question. The truth is, marketers are learning to live without them. At a summit with executives from Interpublic Group of Cos.' Mediabrands held late last year, one ad executive asked how they should be expected to bring unknown brands such as Lemondrop to marketers. Bant Breen, president of digital for Initiative Worldwide, interjected, saying that agencies are buying audiences now, making the quality of the readers more important than the media brand itself.
As a new generation of media companies starts to take shape, content is looking a lot like the first decade or so of online advertising. That is, lots of investment and energy are being spent figuring out how to monetise the product, and very little is spent on the product itself, which is the passionate creation of media of all types.
"Creating content for the web is an art and a science. There has been a lot of talk now about the science," said Break.com CEO Keith Richman. "Those guys studying the science of it will be forced eventually to focus on the art of it."
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Pindolol belongs to the class of medications called beta-blockers. It is used to treat high blood pressure and to prevent angina (chest pain). For treatment of high blood pressure, pindolol may be used alone or in combination with other medications that reduce high blood pressure, particularly thiazide diuretics (water pills). Pindolol works by decreasing the demands on the heart.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
5 mg
Each round, white tablet with bevelled edges, scored and engraved "APO" over "P5" on one side, contains 5 mg of pindolol. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose hydrous (spray dried), microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, and magnesium stearate.
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Each round, white tablet with bevelled edges, scored and engraved "APO" over "P10", contains 10 mg of pindolol. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose hydrous (spray dried), microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, and magnesium stearate.
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Each round, white tablet with bevelled edges, scored and engraved "APO" over "P15" on one side, contains 15 mg of pindolol. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose hydrous (spray dried), microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, and magnesium stearate.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended dose of pindolol ranges from 10 mg to 45 mg daily, depending on the needs of the person taking the medication. It should be taken with food.
For treatment of high blood pressure, the dose of pindolol is usually started at 5 mg twice daily and increased gradually until the best dose is found. When the dose is less than 30 mg per day, it is taken in 2 divided doses. Doses greater than 30 mg per day are taken in 3 divided doses.
For treatment of angina, the starting dose is 5 mg 3 times a day with food. If the desired response is not reached in 1 to 2 weeks, the dosage may be increased, up to a maximum of 40 mg per day.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to take this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Do not stop taking this medication without first talking with your doctor. Stopping the medication suddenly after you have been taking it for a while may cause unpleasant and potentially harmful effects.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take pindolol if you:
- are allergic to pindolol or to any of the ingredients of the medication
- are receiving or will receive anesthesia (e.g., ether)
- have right ventricular failure caused by pulmonary hypertension (excessive blood pressure in the lungs)
- have a serious heart block
- have an irregular or severely slow heart rate
- have a severe circulatory disturbance
- have asthma or other obstructive respiratory diseases
- have congestive heart failure
- have had cardiogenic shock
- have untreated pheochromocytoma
- have Prinzmetal's angina
- have sick sinus syndrome
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- anxiety or nervousness
- constipation
- decreased sexual ability
- diarrhea
- difficulty sleeping
- dizziness or lightheadedness
- drowsiness (slight)
- dry, sore eyes
- frequent urination
- itching of skin
- muscle cramps
- nausea or vomiting
- nightmares and vivid dreams
- numbness or tingling of fingers or toes
- stomach discomfort
- stuffy nose
- unusual tiredness or weakness
Although most of these side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- back or joint pain
- breathing difficulty or wheezing
- chest pain
- cold hands and feet
- confusion
- depression
- dizziness upon getting up from a sitting or lying down position
- fever and sore throat
- hallucinations
- irregular heartbeat
- red, scaling, or crusted skin
- shortness of breath
- skin rash
- slow heartbeat (especially less than 50 beats per minute)
- swelling of ankles, feet, or lower legs
- tingling or numbness in the arms or legs
- unusual bleeding or bruising
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- signs of heart problems (e.g., abnormally slow heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, sudden chest pain, difficulty breathing, tiredness with activity, swelling of feet, ankles, or lower legs)
- symptoms of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., swelling of the face or throat, hives, or difficulty breathing)
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Breathing problems: People with asthma and certain other breathing problems should not take pindolol.
Congestive heart failure (CHF): Pindolol may make heart failure worse. If you have CHF, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Diabetes: The signs of low blood sugar may not be as noticeable when taking pindolol. If you have diabetes and take insulin or another medication that works by reducing the sugar in the blood, be cautious and monitor your blood sugar carefully while taking this medication.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: Dizziness or fatigue may occur when starting treatment with this medication. This may impair your ability to drive or operate machinery. Exercise caution with these activities until you find out whether the medication affects you in this way.
Hyperthyroidism (high level of thyroid hormones): People with hyperthyroidism should be cautious while taking pindolol, as it may reduce the symptoms of this condition giving a false impression of improvement. Stopping the medication suddenly could worsen this condition.
Kidney disease: People with reduced kidney function should be cautious about using this medication.
Liver disease: People with reduced liver function should be cautious about using this medication.
Psoriasis: Pindolol and other beta-blockers may aggravate or worsen psoriasis. If you have psoriasis, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Severe allergies: People with allergies severe enough to cause anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction where swelling of the face, lips, and throat makes it difficult to breathe) should talk to their doctor about what to do if they have an allergic reaction. Pindolol may make it more difficult to treat their allergic reaction with epinephrine.
Skin conditions: Various skin rashes and dry eyes have been reported with use of this medication.
Stopping usage: Pindolol should not be stopped suddenly by those who are taking it to treat angina. There have been reports of severe worsening of angina, and of heart attack or abnormal heart rhythms occurring in people with angina who have stopped this medication abruptly.
Surgery: If you are scheduled for surgery, inform all doctors involved in your care that you are taking this medication.
Pregnancy: The safety of this medication for use by pregnant women has not been established. It should not be taken by pregnant women unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: Pindolol passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking this medication, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between pindolol and any of the following:
- alpha agonists (e.g., clonidine, methyldopa)
- alpha blockers (e.g., alfuzosin, doxazosin, silodosin, tamsulosin)
- aldesleukin
- amiodarone
- amphetamines (e.g., dextroamphetamine, lisdexamphetamine)
- antipsychotics (e.g., chlorpromazine, clozapine, haloperidol, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone)
- barbiturates (e.g., butalbital, phenobarbital)
- beta-2 agonists (e.g., formoterol, salmeterol, salbutamol)
- bethanechol
- bortezomib
- brimonidine
- bromocriptine
- buproprion
- calcium channel blocking agents (e.g., diltiazem, verapamil)
- doxazosin
- diabetes medications (e.g., insulin, metformin, glyburide)
- digoxin
- disopyramide
- donepezil
- epinephrine
- ergot products (e.g., ergotamine, ergonovine)
- fingolimod
- galantamine
- grass pollen extract
- guanfacine
- methylphenidate
- monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (e.g., tranylcypromine, phenelzine) taken within the past 2 weeks
- nitrates (e.g., nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate)
- nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs; e.g., naproxen, ibuprofen)
- other beta-blockers (e.g., propanolol, metoprolol)
- octreotide
- phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors (e.g., sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil)
- procainamide
- propafenone
- quinidine
- quinine
- reserpine
- riociguat
- rivastigmine
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI; e.g., fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline)
- theophyllines (e.g., theophylline, aminophylline)
- tizanidine
- tolcapone
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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Despite the rise in the number of patent trolls launching lawsuits affecting open source software, there are some glimmers of hope. The America Invents Act that was signed into law in September 2011 has provided new ways to prevent the issuance of over-broad software patents that could fuel future lawsuits.
In a session at LinuxCon today, Linux Defenders director Andrea Casillas explained how the group is using rights granted by the new law to fight patent applications. A project of the Open Invention Network, Software Freedom Law Center, and Linux Foundation, Linux Defenders examines the 6,000 new patent applications published each week, attempting to identify those that are potentially threatening to Linux and open source. Then, the group looks for prior art that would invalidate at least some of the claims in the patents.
The next step is working with Linux technologists to file defensive publications, which are not patents themselves but describe an invention and place it in the public record, preventing new patents from being granted that cover the same technology. These are typically two- to three-page descriptions of the technology, which the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examiners can read when conducting their review of prior art that might invalidate or limit the scope of a new patent application. Linux Defenders has filed about 200 of these defensive publications.
"We'll work with authors or inventors or developers to take submissions, edit them, and work hand in hand with them to make these publications more effective," Casillas said, urging the Linux community to help the group identify dangerous patents and find prior art.
Defensive publications are an old strategy, but it's become more accessible to the public because of the America Invents Act, Casillas explained. "This is the first time examiners have welcomed the public interaction," she said. "Any individual can electronically submit up to three pieces of prior art at no cost per application."
Linux Defenders has filed defensive publications related to patent applications from Microsoft, Apple, and others. Generally, Casillas said defensive publications aren't going to force a company to abandon a patent application. Rather, they might force the company to limit the scope of the patent application's claims.
When asked if Linux Defenders could name examples of patent applications that were limited because of this process, Casillas and her colleagues said they're still working on a method of measuring its effectiveness. Within 6 to 9 months, they expect to implement a tool that lets them track when patent examiners use the defensive publications in the patent review process.
Linux Defenders also targets patents that have already been issued, but Casillas noted that the legal standard for invalidating patents after they're awarded is very high.
One patent lawsuit "could make Red Hat go away"
In a separate session at LinuxCon yesterday, Red Hat's Fedora engineering manager Tom Callaway discussed legal threats to open source.
Red Hat has criticized patent trolls and taken many steps to protect itself and its customers from them. Callaway said the threat can't be understated. "I do not overestimate this. Red Hat is not a small company in our industry, in open source. We're possibly the biggest. One good loss at trial on a serious set of patents could make Red Hat go away. It would be gone. That's the seriousness of patents and that's how chilling they are on our industry," he said.
In all likelihood, Red Hat isn't going anywhere. The company has a good track record defending itself and its customers in court against patent trolls. It indemnifies customers against lawsuits as part of its software subscription program, and it has built up a portfolio of defensive patents.
While paid subscriptions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux entitle customers to extra protection, Red Hat is also working on making sure Fedora—which costs users nothing—is protected from legal trouble. The company does that by analyzing all the code and making sure every piece is licensed properly, sometimes removing and replacing problematic code. This has negative consequences for the software. "We have this problem a lot in Fedora. Patents keep us from doing the things that we want to do," Callaway said.
In a recent case involving Rackspace and Red Hat, a company called Uniloc tried to get money from Rackspace for using Red Hat's Linux-based servers. Uniloc's case was thrown out, with the judge saying its patent claim is invalid because it describes a relatively simple math operation.
But defending those cases costs money, and even Red Hat has occasionally paid money to patent trolls to settle cases without going to trial.
Callaway expressed frustration about over-broad patents. Some patents are "so vague they could mean anything," he said. "They could be applied to almost anything, and the patent trolls are betting on that, that you won't fight it."
Helping patent examiners identify bad patents
Those over-broad patents, again, are what Linux Defenders is trying to stop. Vague patents often get approved in part because patent examiners spend no more than 20 hours on each application, Casillas said.
The amount of time is "pretty staggering considering how long the process takes and how important the issuance of a patent can be," she said. The 20 hours "includes going through the application, making sure it complies with formatting, your basic legal requirements, but also determining the scope of the invention."
The examiner spends about seven to eight hours searching for prior art, whether in the form of patents or other publicly available descriptions of technology, she said.
By submitting defensive publications, complete with tags making them more easily discoverable by patent examiners, Linux Defenders hopes to make the USPTO more effective.
"We're not adding to their increasing workload," Casillas said. "We're helping them with these relevant publications."


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Our regular Saturday slot of the last five days' worth of action in the gold bullion ETF (GLD), the silver bullion ETF (SLV), the miner ETF (GDX), the junior miner ETF (GDXJ) and the copper ETF (COPX).
The miners beat the metals, with wooden spoon for silverand big gold star for COPX. Gold dropped a point, juniors edged their larger cousins, Wednesday was better than Thursday. That's the Fed for you.


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Lipscomb Bisons senior Ryan Chastain finished third in the Drake Relays 10,000m run Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.
His time of 30:50.17 broke Max Russell's Lipscomb school record of 31:00.00 set in 1982. It is Ryan's 10th different school record.
Coach Bill Taylor said that Jeff Musick had a tough day. Musick finished 17th in the 10,000m run in a time of 33:35.37. That was almost two minutes slower than his qualifying time set earlier this season.


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Is a new economic crisis that makes 2008 look mild in the offing?
Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer argue in a lengthy survey of world gloom that the possibility of such a crisis is ever present unless world leaders find a way to restore order to a world that is teeming with political and economic risk.
Bremmer (left), the principal of the Eurasia Group of political risk consultants, and Roubini, an NYU professor and economist whose "Dr. Doom" appellation was freshly earned in this eight-page article in Institutional Investor, warn against a growing complacency that might mislead investors into thinking the "New Normal" economy is fading away.
Rather they argue that what they term "The New Abnormal" is ongoing, and may produce in the years ahead extreme levels of upheaval that we've seen in the past five years: instability that has brought about the worst economy since the Great Depression, challenges to viability of the Eurozone, the Arab Spring and the attendant Syrian civil war.
What makes our times abnormal is the lack of world order, which Bremmer and Roubini term the G-Zero—a period during which there is no big power with the ability or desire to impose geopolitical order amid crises or write the big checks that underwrite stability.
"The uncertainty and volatility of the past half-decade is far from finished—and is almost sure to trigger new crises," the high-profile consultants write.
A key reason is that the world has failed to address structural issues that continue to fester and indeed ensure the resources to solve future problems may be absent when needed. Bremmer and Roubini (right) take readers on a world gloom and doom tour:
The United States, they say, has been lulled into complacency by greater volatility elsewhere, which has had the effect of making the U.S. and its dollar seem the "safest port in the storm." As such, Democrats and Republicans have not felt the pressure to produce a grand bargain on spending, entitlement and taxes.
Similarly in Europe, the European Central Bank has used its monetary tools to take pressure off currencies in the periphery where there is austerity fatigue even as bailout fatigue takes root in Europe's core.
On the BRICS front, China and India are avoiding crucial reforms to avoid short-term pain, and Brazil is not making the most of its current advantages, while authoritarianism runs rampant in Russia, and social cleavages threaten South Africa.
Compounding this increased level of volatility, the authors warn of a general disengagement in foreign policy: a post-Libya retreat by European powers, a Chinese politiburo with little interest in foreign affairs and a G-20 that only coordinates meaningful action under shared sense of severe threat, as last occurred in 2008 and 2009.
On the economic front, Bremmer and Roubini argue there has been no serious attempt to respond to the challenges of how to deleverage from high debt, deal with aging populations, impose structural reforms and step back from bloated welfare states.
"Advanced economies continue to face complicated challenges, but the policy responses that political officials have used so far—monetary and quantitative easing and fiscal stimulus that is now constrained by high debt levels—are Band-Aids applied to avert a near-term slide back into recession rather than a genuine effort to resolve long-term structural questions."
Fiscally, the world is moving in the wrong direction, they warn, in not reducing liabilities and back-ending austerity. In monetary policy, central bank strategies are nationally oriented with a focus on depreciating currencies to boost exports—a trend that could make full-blown currency wars more likely.
"Advanced economies are now running out of policy bullets," while at the same time setting the stage for new crises by creating asset inflation rather than real growth (through quantitative easing) amidst high debt that will leave no room for stimulus as a viable future policy.
Bremmer and Roubini regard emerging economies as prime potential trigger of future problems.
China is a case in point, they say. When it overtakes the U.S. in GDP, it will still be a developing country whose many problems—a shrinking labor force, aging population and degraded environment—will make its economic course volatile and thus roil the world economy.
Given the investor audience, the consultant duo launch into a macro view of winners and losers in the new abnormal.
Outperformers are countries that can make politically unpopular decisions and those with diversified economic partners. They rate Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey as having the best prospects, and India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand as having the worst.
They cite Canada favorably for its success at lessening its dependence on the U.S.
In the corporate sphere, the authors warn today's environment is tougher for banks and investment banks: "Higher capital and liquidity ratios will reduce returns but will also slow credit creation and hamper growth," adding that if economic tail risks materialize, there no longer exists the political capital for bailouts nor fiscal resources to rescue banks.
Ironically, the world's best chance of coping with the New Abnormal would be an emergency that can induce world powers to cooperate on global problems.
While Bremmer and Roubini call out the usual suspects as crisis trigger—a new European financial meltdown or Mideast instability—they also speculate that the current credit and equity bubbles now in the making in the U.S. could be its source.
How the U.S. transitions from its current loose monetary policy will be key:
"Exiting too fast will crash the real economy, while exiting too slowly will first create a huge bubble and then crash the financial system," they warn.
Bremmer and Roubini conlude that U.S.-China cooperation will be of paramount importance in coordinating a soft landing from the New Abnormal to the emerging world order.
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#include <sys/time.h> int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp, void *); int settimeofday(struct timeval *tp, void *);
The gettimeofday() function gets and the settimeofday() function sets the system's notion of the current time. The current time is expressed in elapsed seconds and microseconds since 00:00 Universal Coordinated Time, January 1, 1970. The resolution of the system clock is hardware dependent; the time may be updated continuously or in clock ticks. The tp argument points to a timeval structure, which includes the following members: long tv_sec; /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */ long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */ If tp is a null pointer, the current time information is not returned or set. The TZ environment variable holds time zone information. See TIMEZONE(4). The second argument to gettimeofday() and settimeofday() is ignored. Only the super-user may set the time of day.
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
The gettimeofday() function will fail if: EINVAL The structure pointed to by tp specifies an invalid time. EPERM A user other than the privileged user attempted to set the time or time zone. Additionally, the gettimeofday() function will fail for 32- bit interfaces if: EOVERFLOW The system time has progressed beyond 2038, thus the size of the tv_sec member of the timeval structure pointed to by tp is insufficient to hold the current time in seconds.
If the tv_usec member of tp is > 500000, settimeofday() rounds the seconds upward. If the time needs to be set with better than one second accuracy, call settimeofday() for the seconds and then adjtime(2) for finer accuracy.
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- serrano peppers
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Fragrant, tangy, savory, interesting, filling, a complete meal, yet light-tasting... this goes in the soup hall of fame.
It's also a very flexible recipe. You make the broth, adjust it to your taste, then strain it and add whatever you want. This time, I omitted the lemongrass and the corn, reduced the chilies, subbed onion for shallot and mixed greens for spinach. Then I added squash, heart of palm, and cooked soba noodles. You know... you're not going to mess it up.
I also made some changes in the method: I toasted and ground the spices before adding them to the cooking oil, and I sauteed the tofu, squash, and heart of palm separately before adding them to the soup.
Green Curry Noodle Soup
(adapted from 101 cookbooks)
1 TB coriander seeds
1 1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds
2 TB olive oil
1/2 onion, chopped
4 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped
2+ small serrano chile peppers, thinly sliced
a 1 1/2-inch piece of ginger, peeled then grated
8 green onions, trimmed, thinly sliced
1/8 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 c lime juice and a bit of zest
6-7 c vegetable broth
1 block tofu, cut into tiny cubes
3-4 long pieces heart of palm, cut into little bits
squash (I used 3 small Mexican squash but you could also use 1-2 zucchini), cut into half-moon slices
4 handfuls of chopped greens (I used the Trader Joe's bagged variety of mustard greens, collards, etc)
1-2 servings soba noodles, cooked
a small handful of each of the following: fresh mint, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, chopped
lime juice, salt, and cayenne to taste
optional diced avocado as a garnish
optional diced avocado as a garnish
Instructions1. Lightly toast cumin and coriander. Grind.
2. In a large pot, heat olive oil, then add toasted spices. Cook 30 seconds, then add onion, garlic, chilies, ginger, scallions, and turmeric. Cook over medium high heat 5+ minutes.
3. Add lime juice, zest, and broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 5+ minutes.
4. In a frying pan, lightly saute tofu, heart of palm, and squash. I first browned the tofu on its own before adding the other veggies, which I left still crisp.
5. Strain broth and discard onion etc. Return broth to pot and bring back to a simmer. Add saute mixture and chopped greens. Simmer about 5 minutes (til squash is tender but not mush), then add cooked noodles and herbs. Adjust flavors to taste and serve. Perhaps garnish with avocado. Serves about 6.


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I like grilling with wood chips. It adds an extra flavor layer to everything. It's easy with charcoal, but gas grills require an accessory. You don't want to burn wood chips on your burners. Enter the smoker box.
I like grilling with wood chips. It adds an extra flavor layer to everything. It's easy with charcoal, but gas grills require an accessory. You don't want to burn wood chips on your burners. Enter the smoker box.
These are porcelain, stainless steel or cast-iron containers that hold your chips above your burners. Many have covers with holes; some are uncovered plates.
The drill is soak your chips for at least two hours in water. Or, try this: Wine, whisky, lemon juice, etc. Then dry them on a paper towel. You don't want them dripping on your coals.
Some folks use the boxes on charcoal grills. It goes on the ash-gray coals. On gas grills, place the box on the heating element. With either grill, it will take a few minutes to get the smoke rolling, so do this ahead.
Smoker boxes in various metals cost less than $20 at stores offering barbecue apparatus.
Lacking a box, you can make a substitute by wrapping your wood chips in tin foil and punching holes in the top. A short burst of smoke usually is all it takes. Reloading the smoker box when it is spent will be too much for most foods.
The deal with smoking wood is less resin is better. If you use pine, be prepared for a turpentine taste. This makes hard woods primary smoke fodder.
I like apple the best. It has a mellow smoke flavor that does not overpower. The classic Southern barbecue smoker, hickory, is stronger. A lot of people buy Texas mesquite chips, the strongest smoke of all. Mesquite is a junk tree, but the cowboys are perfectly willing to sell it to us Yankees for $10 a pound. Or more.
I've noticed a problem with mesquite: The first blast of smoke is OK, but it can get bitter fast, especially with soft foods such as shrimp and fish.
Anyway, the rule on smoking is less is more. You're not really "smoking" in the food-preservation sense. That takes a special machine and an even more special cook.
ALDERWOOD: Mild and woodsy, good for seafood and chicken.
FRUIT WOODS (cherry, apple): Good on foods that turn golden on the grill, excellent with lobster and scallops and veggies.
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MESQUITE: Best on highly flavored meats including duck and lamb, thick steaks, swordfish. Go light with the chips in all cases.
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This Thursday, April 22, organizations around the world will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. At the National Aquarium, this event marks the global recognition of the need for environmental change.
Let's make a difference! To show how simple actions can impact change, we invite you to take part in our Earth Day 40th Anniversary "I Like This" Challenge…and Contest.
Visit our Facebook page and pledge to "attend" our Earth Day 40th Anniversary "I Like This" Challenge and Contest event. Make it known to family, friends and the social community that you want to make a difference. Now through Earth Day, April 22, replace your Facebook profile picture with one of the two graphics in the event. By showing your support, you'll be entered into a special contest!
And then spread the word! Encourage others to "attend" our Earth Day 40th Anniversary "I Like This" Challenge and change their picture too. Let's see how many we can inspire to make a difference. Can we reach 10,000?
Throughout the week we will be sharing simple actions that you can make to celebrate Earth Day and help impact change.
Simple action #1: Visit local nature centers, museums and aquariums, for fun, family-friendly activities. Often these places will offer free tours or talks about the flora and fauna of the area, as well as some of the history of the place you're visiting.
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New, bigger Boeing Dreamliner completes maiden flight
By Frances Cha and Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 19th September 2013
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The latest incarnation of Boeing's Dreamliner finished its maiden flight Tuesday afternoon, completing a test run of more than five hours.
A larger version of the 787-8, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is 206 feet long -- 20 feet longer than its predecessor -- and holds 40 more passengers. (The 787-8 can hold 210-250 passengers.)
Its range is also greater, at 8,000-8,500 nautical miles, versus the 787-8's range of 7,650-8,200 nautical miles. Like the 787-8, the new plane uses 20% less fuel and has 20% fewer emissions than other planes its size.
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prior to the aircraft's 11:02 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) takeoff from Paine Field Airport in Everett, Washington. After a five-hour, 16-minute flight, it landed at Seattle's Boeing Field at 4:18 p.m. PT (7:18 p.m. ET).
In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney says the company's newest jet will put it back on top.
Boeing restarts 787 Dreamliner commercial flights, as CNN's Leone Lakhani reports.
An F-18 pilot shows off the acrobatic capabilities of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the Farnborough International Air Show.
The two pilots, Capt. Mike Bryan and Capt. Randy Neville, were expected to speak afterward at a news conference, also to be carried on the webcast.
"This is a beautiful machine," said Ray Conner, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, speaking on the webcast shortly after takeoff. "It's going to be the backbone of the 787 fleet."
The latest Dreamliner rolled out of the factory in Everett, Washington, in late August, and it is scheduled to be delivered to its first customer, Air New Zealand, in mid-2014.
World's largest airliner: Is bigger better?
This year, Boeing has had more than 82 orders to date for the 787, with the largest order of 42 planes coming from American Airlines. Singapore Airlines has the second largest order for 787s with 30 planes ordered.
Approximately 40% of all 787 orders to date (not just this year) are for the 787-9.
The announcement is one of the few celebratory moments for the company in recent months.
The four-month global grounding of the entire Dreamliner fleet, after an ANA flight was diverted following a battery fire in January, was the first such global grounding in 30 years.
To get the plane back in the sky, a team made up of experts from Boeing and from outside the company redesigned the system so battery cells would be separated and insulated. The new system also was designed to ventilate outside the plane any smoke that would come from overheating batteries.
The grounding was lifted at the end of April.
Since the dramatic ANA incident, Dreamliner's list of problems has gone on to include a United Airlines
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As well as being lighter and more fuel efficient than similar aircraft, the Dreamliner's in-cabin experience is also different.
It has bigger windows that can be dimmed (out go the pull-down shutters), LED mood lighting and is pressurized at 6,000 feet rather than 8,000 feet, making air sickness less likely.
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The 787-9 won't be the final iteration of the 787 aircraft. In June, Boeing announced the launch of the 787-10 Dreamliner. Final assembly and flight tests are scheduled to begin in 2017, with first delivery tentatively scheduled in 2018. The company said the 787-10 will fly up to 7,000 nautical miles and have seating for 300-330 passengers.
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They're calling her "Crouching Wendi, Hidden Dragon" and comparing her to Chuck Norris and the Tiger Mom -- and Wendi Deng's new Facebook fan page has 1,382 members.
"KA-POW! A page to express your admiration of Mrs Murdoch's right hook," the page says, filled with overwhelmingly positive comments such as "good job!" and "Super wife!"
Deng appeared to have lightning reflexes (apparently faster than security) as a man with a paper plate of shaving cream approached media mogul Rupert Murdoch in front of a British Parliament hearing on the News of the World phone hacking scandal Tuesday, the Guardian (U.K.) reported.
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The shaving-cream assailant, Jonathan May-Bowles, walked up to Rupert Murdoch, took aim and struck. . . . Deng lunged while startled police officers were barely off the back foot. While a roomful of male advisers also appeared stunned, she scooped up the paper plate fired at her husband and launched it like a grenade back at May-Bowles, a comedian, with an amazing right hook.
The 42-year-old Deng finished up by carefully wiping Murdoch's face free of shaving cream and saying, "I got him!" (The video of the incident can be seen below.)
Not all of the comments were positive. Some Facebookers called Deng a "gold digger" and "fortune cookie," alluding to her marriage to Murdoch only days after his divorce from his second wife was final. The couple has been married for 12 years and has two children.
So far Deng, who is also a Yale MBA, in only a few moments has been more effective in positive public relations for News Corp. than any of the expensive firms Murdoch has been paying for past few weeks. She definitely deserves a raise, Rupert.