Undercover investigation of Irish family planning clinics reveals ...

Pregnancy counselors were banned from discussing abortions but did so

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Published Sunday, October 28, 2012, 8:28 AM

Updated Sunday, October 28, 2012, 8:28 AM

An undercover investigation in Ireland has revealed that staff at some pregnancy counseling services are giving advice that could put women's lives at risk.

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An undercover investigation in Ireland has revealed that staff at some pregnancy counseling services are giving advice that could put women's lives at risk.

According to the Irish Independent, the probe was carried our over several months by a team of women who secretly recorded the counselors at 11 taxpayer-funded locations around the country.

Some of the advice given was both illegal and medically dangerous. In several instances, the counselors told women to hide their abortions from their doctors. Doing this could be deadly if a post-surgery abortion complication, such as perforation of the womb following termination, goes undiagnosed.

Clients at the Dundalk office of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), and at two Dublin branches of the IFPA in Tallaght and Cathal Brugha Street were told they could conceal their abortions from their doctors. An HSE employee at Ballinasloe Crisis Pregnancy Support Service in Galway also gave the same advice.

"It is definitely reckless and probably negligent advice to tell a woman to conceal from doctors something that may be a vital part of her medical history," said Dr. Simon Mills, a barrister and medical doctor.

"This is especially the case if she presented unwell in the immediate aftermath of a termination and felt that she shouldn't tell her doctor about it when it could be the key piece of information to deliver prompt and life-saving treatment.

"If somebody turned around and said the reason I didn't tell my doctor was because a counsellor told me it wasn't necessary, civil liability would almost certainly arise and I think it is possible that criminal liability could too."

The HSE has launched an investigation of the clinics, which are overseen and funded by the HSE's Crisis Pregnancy Programme (CPP), and a spokesperson has stated that any potential breaches of the legislation will be pursued.

Police at Dublin's Store Street station are also looking into the findings of the investigation which was carried out by a group of women posing as? pregnant clients.

The investigative research team was made up of 30 people and included teachers, lawyers and doctors, some of which support the pro-life movement.

Women were also instructed on how to get the abortion pill at the Tallaght and Cork branches of the IFPA, which is illegal in Ireland. The pills which induce abortion by causing a miscarriage, should only be taken under medical supervision because of the the health risks.

A counselor at Tallaght IFPA told one woman how to smuggle in the abortion bill, saying "If you have an address in the North or you can buy a PO box number, and get them to send it . . . You can. . . then go and collect the tablets in the North and take them down here."

The IFPA released a statement saying that "all of its counsellors set out to work in adherence with the law" and that its services operate "under protocols and procedures which take into account all legislative requirements."

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Womack wins Q best album award, Blur, Muse honored

LONDON (Reuters) - American soul veteran Bobby Womack won Q magazine's best album award on Monday for "The Bravest Man in the Universe", beating out younger competition including London indie band The Maccabees and Paul Weller.

Womack's first album of original material since 1994's "Resurrection" was co-produced by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Richard Russell of XL Recordings, the label behind chart queen Adele, and featured Lana Del Rey among the guest artists.

The 68-year-old, who was diagnosed with colon cancer earlier this year, was encouraged to return to music by Albarn in 2010, when he contributed to the Gorillaz album "Plastic Beach".

In its four-star review of The Bravest Man in the Universe, the Observer newspaper said: "Womack ... is upfront and centre, spewing contrition, bewilderment, disdain and yearning in a voice whose authority has only increased with age."

Albarn was honored by monthly music magazine Q when Blur won the best live act award, while Muse, who composed the official song for the London Olympics, were named "best act in the world" ahead of Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Blur and The Stone Roses.

The new act category went to Django Django, Plan B scooped the best track award for "Ill Manors", Keane's "Disconnected" won best video while the best solo artist prize was awarded to Emeli Sande.

Techno duo Underworld, who created the soundtrack to the Olympics opening ceremony, was also honored for its part in the Games.

"It's been the most incredible year for British music. Our bands and our anthems transformed the Olympics," said Q's editor Andrew Harrison.

"A string of great albums announced fantastic new talent on the scene and amazing comeback shows from Blur and the Stone Roses showed the enduring appeal of our best-loved musicians."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Steadfast Lutherans ? A Divine Vocation: Motherhood

I started writing this post about a month ago, and I stopped writing and almost forgot about it. But yesterday I read from the October 8th, 2012 issue of Christian News a response to Christianity Today?s ?50 Women You Should Know.? As a response to CT?s list that included the false prophet Joyce Meyer, CN came out with their list of the Most Influential Women. Among the women mentioned were my mother and my grandmother who both had a significant number of children. I appreciated that article, not so much because it mentioned by mother and grandmother, but rather because it hit on an issue, which we would do well to remember. It hit on the issue that there are concrete vocations that God has created and in which He is well-pleased.

So I was motivated to finish this post about family and motherhood. We can make a giant list of Christian vocations, that is, if we define vocation in a broad enough way. However, the vocation of motherhood is a vocation that we know from God?s Word that He has actually instituted. I hope this post will give encouragement to all Christian women and really to all Christians.

Why is motherhood so important? That?s simple. God ordained it. God gave Eve to Adam, and He told them to be fruitful and multiply. His blessings to women have never stopped since. For the sake of explanation, I would like to share some information about my mother and family.

My mother truly is a gift from God. In fact, her name is Dorothy. If God blesses me with a daughter, I will point her to her grandmother as a great example. She nurtured me with my daily bread and with the Bread of Life; she taught me the gospel. She raised me in the true faith and teaching of Christ. She submitted to my father, because God told her to, yet she did not trust in her submission. She trusted God who justifies her through faith in His Son, and who promised her that He would save her from sin and death as she bore the task He gave her to bare and rear all those children.

From my mother, God gave me ten brothers and one sister. I love all of my brothers. I could not ask for better fraternal companionship and loyalty. I miss each of them every day, and I look forward to the day that I can see at least one of them and enjoy the friendship I too often took for granted when I was young (pardon my personal sentiments and ?shout outs.?). It is so appropriate that my parents decided to call my one sister Mary. Mary is not only the name of my sister. Mary is also the name of another mother, whom I call blessed.

Mary is the name of my God?s mother. If God blesses me with any daughters, I will show them Mary as a great example. She submitted to her husband, because it was God?s will. And all the while, she trusted God who justified her through faith in His Son and her Son who suffered for her sin. She trusted her Son, Brother, and Lord, who put Himself under the same law that justly condemned her. She did not find herself worthy, but She trusted in the same God who promised to save her through childbearing. She did not show Him all her marvelous works as if that would grant her anything. Instead of that, she confessed that God exalts the lowly. St. Cyril of Alexandria confessed that she was the God-bearer. This was not to exalt Mary to some kind of divinity. No, this was to emphasize that the Man Jesus was true God. So because Christ is the Life of all the living, Mary, by the grace of God, received the title given to Eve by her husband Adam after he heard the promise of her seed. The title she received was the mother of all the living.

And the fruit of her womb Jesus is my Brother because He not only claimed my flesh, but He put Himself under the same Law that justly condemns my flesh. Being condemned in my place, He proved Himself righteous for my sake when He was raised and vindicated by the Holy Spirit, who judges the world in righteousness. He called me by my name, just as I learned at such at young age:

I am Jesus? little lamb.
Ever glad at heart I am.
For my shepherd gently guides me,
Knows my needs and well provides me,
Loves me every day the same,
Even calls me by my name.

He united His Name to mine ? and thus the whole Trinity?s Name to mine ? when He baptized me, and through faith in His Name, I share the companionship, the love, the loyalty, and the care of my Brother Jesus Christ. Jesus is my Brother and my Lord, and the Brother born of Mary remains the basis for the love and companionship I share with all my earthly brothers and sister.

And for those who are barren, even for those women who never get married, through faith in their Lord Jesus Christ, they bear much fruit, because that is what God has promised. Listen to the Holy Spirit who speaks through the prophet Isaiah (54:1-8):

?Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than the children of her who is married,? says the LORD.
?Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.
?Fear not, for you will not be ashamed;
be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced;
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
For your Maker is your husband,
the LORD of hosts is his name;
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
the God of the whole earth he is called.
For the LORD has called you
like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
says your God.
For a brief moment I deserted you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.
In overflowing anger for a moment
I hid my face from you,
but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,?
says the LORD, your Redeemer.

The barren and childless should not concern themselves with how much service they might give their God. Their service is made perfect when God?s strength is made perfect. And God?s strength is made perfect through weakness (2 Cor 12:9). It is through suffering that He produces endurance and hope, and hope does not put us to shame (Rom 5:3-5). So for you women who say, ?What about us who don?t have children,? stop kidding yourself! You have God?s promise. He blesses you more than you can imagine. Don?t look at God?s blessings in terms of outward circumstances. Take God?s promises for what they are worth, because Jesus tells you what they are worth. You who trust your Savior Jesus ? even counting the God-given gift of your family as nothing that can save you ? remember Jesus? promise that you will receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life (Mark 10:29-30).

We have the promise of these blessings hidden under persecution. The persecution is not simply outward beatings and ridicule. It is a spiritual attack. But all the while, our faith finds its sustenance not in its own perseverance, but in the death and resurrection of Christ, in His obedience which in and of itself bears abundant fruit. This was the obedience He gave fully to His mother and earthly father, the obedience that He rendered to His eternal Father even unto death. This is the obedience He credits to us by His resurrection, and which He applies to us by His gospel through faith in His Name.

My mother is saved not because of all the children she had. She is saved because of the promise in which she trusted, the promise of God that she will bear fruit, fruit that is pleasing to Him for the sake of Christ?s obedience. And by such promise, she is saved through her childbearing (1 Tim 2:15).

Therefore we don?t despise childbearing for the sake of man-made vocations. Rather, we extol childbearing as a great gift and noble calling. And we take comfort and have confidence in God?s promise that those who are united to Jesus Christ the Vine will bare abundant fruit (John 15:5).

May God bless all Christian mothers and comfort all Christian women who trust in the God who justifies the ungodly and never breaks His promises.

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Police search for missing 12-year-old girl in New Jersey

By Katy Zachry and David Chang, NBCPhiladelphia.com

Two hundred law enforcement officers and hundreds of volunteers continued to search on Monday for a missing girl from Clayton, N.J.

Police say Autumn Pasquale, 12, was last seen leaving her home on Saturday around 12:30 p.m. while riding a white Odyssey BMX bike to a friend's house. The girl?s parents called police after they say she never made it to that friend's house.

"It's not like her," said the girl's father, Tony Pasquale. "She would have been home 11 o'clock this morning if she slept over a friend's house."

Read the original report?on?NBCPhiladelphia.com

Police say Pasquale may have been spotted at an unknown time near Scotland Run Park in Clayton though this has not yet been confirmed.

Hundreds of neighborhood volunteers met at a nearby church and passed around fliers Sunday night. The Clayton?Police Department, Child Abduction Response Team, New Jersey?State Police, the FBI and officers from 40 other police departments are all taking part in the search. Police say a cell phone tower in Williamstown was the last to pick up a signal from Autumn's phone. Investigators believe her phone is now either off or has run out of power.

A family representative told volunteers to stay out of the woods so bloodhounds could try and pick up the girl's scent.

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"People have been out searching all day everywhere," said Michelle Connell of Clayton. "All over town, every little park, railroad parks and school buildings. Every place we can think of."?

The girl is described as?5-foot-2 and weighing 120 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair in either a pony tail or bun. She was last seen wearing navy blue shorts underneath navy blue sweatpants, a yellow t-shirt with the words ?Clayton Soccer? on front, bright blue high-top sneakers and a silver or light Grey Cinch backpack with the word ?Reckless? printed across the back.

"She's a good kid," said Connell, who's daughter is friends with Autumn. "She's a sweet girl. Everyone is upset."

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"Everyone's working together to try and find her," said Tony Pasquale. "We love her and we want her to come home."

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information about Autumn's whereabouts.

Anyone with information is asked to call?the Clayton Police Department at 856-881-2300.?

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Meet Suzanne Hall, chief communications officer for the Virginia ...

Credit: Travis Fullerton

Suzanne Hall is part of the team that helped launch the VMFA's Chihuly exhibit.

Suzanne Hall's early interest in fine arts brought her from North Carolina to Richmond, where she earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a master's in communication at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hall, 59, built a career in cultural communications and marketing. She's been at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for 25 years. Her husband, Joe Willis, is "pure Virginian." They have four grown children.

"Chihuly at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts" opened Saturday. What's it like getting ready to launch such a high-profile exhibit?

It's like drinking through the fire hose! VMFA has been very fortunate to have the dynamic and visionary leadership of Alex Nyerges as the director. The VMFA team has masterfully created a portfolio of exhibitions with broad appeal as well as more academic, to engage the widest possible audiences.

The Chihuly exhibition was carefully organized and beautifully orchestrated by a team of professionals from Seattle and at VMFA. The VMFA team met regularly and had many conference calls with Team Chihuly. Not only did we manage all the details that go with an exhibition of this stature, we are poised to roll out a surprise very soon.

How involved was Dale Chihuly in designing and launching the exhibit? What's the role of the chief communications officer in the process?

Dale Chihuly's operation is made of many impressive, hard-working professionals. The director and deputy director have visited Seattle several times, and Dale and his team visited VMFA in April 2011 to see our facility.

I had the opportunity to take a group of media to Seattle this summer to experience the Chihuly operations firsthand. We spent half a day in his hot shop, which is located in a building called The Boathouse and is, in fact, a building on Lake Union in which racing shells were once made. We also visited his facility where they store, assemble and ship all of his amazing artwork. That facility is also home to all of the other Chihuly operations, including merchandising, graphic design, social media and brand management.

My job is to manage all the communications, working closely with regional and national/international media as well as social media for VMFA. For Chihuly, we have a robust social media plan, which includes Facebook, a blog, and a small army of highly influential and active tweeters.

What are your artistic interests and hobbies?

I majored in textiles in art school but also painted a lot. When I graduated, I was hired as the resident weaver at the Valentine Museum, later promoted to the director of the National Textile Resource and Research Center. I wanted to be a conservator until I realized it was not a profession that suited my personality.

My most passionate interest is mission work. I have been to Rwanda, southern Sudan and Honduras, and this summer led a group to Richmond Hill to assist in staffing a summer camp for Richmond's inner-city children. I serve on the World Mission Board for the Diocese of Virginia.

And I love to read and garden.

What's something that people don't know about you?

I'm an advocate for farmers marketing and local, sustainable food. I belong to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture group) and have a herd share for fresh, unpasteurized milk.

What role should an art museum play in a vibrant metropolitan area?

An art museum is the hub of a creative city. It's where you come to see more clearly, to understand how to communicate, to quietly witness the visual language of artists throughout history. At a museum you can see what is important to a culture and should be treasured and protected for posterity.

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Black Monday: The 1987 Market Crash Revisited ... - Yahoo! Finance

Exactly 25 years ago today the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%. What came to be known as Black Monday was actually the culmination of a four-day slide of over 30%. In historical terms the one-day loss was the largest in history, far exceeding the 12.8% loss in The Great Crash of 1929.

Mass panics aren't triggered by single events. It takes a confluence of outside shocks and man-made idiocy to shave one-fifth off the market in a single day. The crash in 1987 wasn't something the market did to investors; traders and the government did it to themselves. In the attached clip I discuss what really drove Black Monday, with Eric Singer, author of the book Trade the Congressional Effect and Manager of Congressional Effect Funds.

The Three-Prong Attack on Market Bulls

1. Unintended Consequences of Populist Legislation

The 1980s were an era of the leveraged buyout. Corporate raiders would use relatively cheap junk bonds (now called "High Yield" bonds, to make them seem classy) to fund hostile takeovers. The additional leverage would inevitably lead to layoffs or flat-out liquidations of targeted companies ? think Gordon Gekko's effort to chop up Blue Star Airlines.

In response, Singer says the House Ways and Means Committee "floated a trial balloon on making interest on junk bonds non-deductable to protect the management of large companies." In today's terms, DC tried to protect the 1% from the .01% by hiking taxes.

The instant the proposal hit the newswires, stocks thought to be takeover candidates collapsed.

2. James Baker Picks a Fight with Germany

The announcement of a larger-than-expected trade deficit came on October 14, 1987. In response, Treasury Secretary James Baker got tough with U.S. trading partners, specifically Germany. Baker's message, according to Singer, was "if you don't lower rates, we're going to lower the dollar and you're going to have export problems."

Getting tough with trading partners makes for a great soundbite in presidential debates. As the reaction in 1987 shows, actually threatening to start trade wars is less crowd-pleasing.

3. Portfolio Insurance

With the laws that were in place at the time, traders couldn't short individual securities without waiting for an uptick. Traders, being the same then as they are now, worked around the law with elaborate derivatives called portfolio insurance. The promise of these magical instruments was that they could perfectly hedge against losses by buying or selling options against real stock.

When things got ugly, stock sellers had to sell and options holders wouldn't. The disconnect between the two led to panic ? which is complicated. Singer makes it simple. Portfolio insurance was simply "a precursor of what we're doing today with high-frequency trading."

Setting the Table for Another Black Monday

Today's version of taxing junk bonds is the proposed tax hike on dividends and capital gains. Hiking dividend taxes means every high yield stock on earth, all the "safety plays" that "pay you to wait," are significantly overvalued. At a 15% rate, a dividend of $4 is worth $3.40 after taxes. Hike that to 35% and a $4 dividend gets you $2.60.

Hike the dividend tax, and with a stroke of the pen every stock with a dividend would be worth less. Just like takeover plays in 1987.

In place of James Baker, we have both presidential candidates fighting over who can be "tougher on China." China is one of the few nations on earth willing to buy our wildly overvalued debt. Right now the Street thinks DC is bluffing on picking a fight with China, but they've got a hand on the equity eject button, just in case.

Finally, there's high-frequency trading. In the promise of risk-free, fast-moving immunity from normal market gyrations, HFT couldn't possibly be more like Portfolio Insurance. HFT magnifies moves in either direction. As evidenced by the 9% "Flash Crash" of 2010, when the HFTs start leaning the same way, things get very ugly, very fast.

We can't change the populist idiocy of DC, and staying tough with trading partners is always a careful dance. It's HFT where Singer says market cops can do the most to prevent another 1987. These "automatic pilot systems that can run away on us," if mixed with fundamental catalysts created by unwitting politicians and trigger-happy traders, can and inevitably will result in another 1987.

The real surprise is that it hasn't happened already.

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Iconic 52-foot state fair mascot Big Tex burns up

DALLAS (Reuters) - Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall cowboy mascot for the State Fair of Texas, went up in flames on Friday due to a suspected electrical malfunction, reducing the animated structure to little more than a charred skeletal frame.

But the man who gives voice to the mascot said Big Tex, which had been welcoming visitors to the state fair for 60 years often with a wave and a booming "howdy," would be back and all fixed up next year.

Smoke was seen billowing from Big Tex's head on Friday morning, two days before the close of this year's fair. Flames quickly engulfed its body and torched its cowboy hat, face, torso and legs.

"People are walking around the fairgrounds crying," fair spokeswoman Debbie Flatt said. "Big Tex is like family."

The fire is believed to have been caused by an electrical malfunction that started in the figure's boot, fair officials said in a statement.

State Fair crews were able to salvage the mascot's fiberglass hands and belt buckle as well as its 3-ton frame, which is made of 4,200 feet of steel rods, Flatt said.

Bill Bragg, who sits in a room near Big Tex and gives voice to the mascot, told reporters that Big Tex will be back next year.

State Fair workers planted flowers on the mound where Big Tex stood to brighten the entrance of the fairgrounds through Sunday's closing day.

Big Tex debuted at the fair in 1952 after being purchased for $750 from the town of Kerens, where he had a different get-up and a different role as Santa Claus.

(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Bill Trott)

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An Etext Bonanza: Free Art Books and American Short ... - Education

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Trying to slow down the book buying, I was delighted to sign on to Twitter this morning and see Jessa Crispin's (The Bookslut) link to free etexts available from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. You can download or read online 368 books, and my first one will be American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915, edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt (2009). Not sure how my plain vanilla Kindle will handle the paintings, but they look good online.

In addition to this treasure trove, check out the The Library of America's free?Story of the Week. Via a button in the upper right corner of the linked page, you can sign up for a weekly e-mail alert announcing each new story. I have been doing some catch-up on Americans such as Djuna Barnes, who lived in Paris in the 'Twenties and also made a name for herself as a journalist and character-about-town in New York. Her 1914 story "Come Into the Roof Garden, Maud" shows the leisure class at play, dancing on the rooftop of a local night spot.

The Louisa May Alcott story is so-so, dripping with sentimentality, but also illustrating her abolitionist sympathies. I look forward to sampling some stories by authors not read in a while: Paul Bowles, Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Bret Harte and Artemus Ward. So far 146 stories have been posted. It is a varied collection and a?nice resource when you only have time for a short fiction break.

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Romney: Obama campaign has become 'incredible shrinking campaign'

Romney greets Ryan in Daytona Beach (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.?Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of running a campaign based on "petty attacks" and "silly word games" and accused his rival of having "no agenda" for the future.

"The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign," Romney said at an oceanside rally here with his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. "This is a big country with big opportunities and big challenges. And they keep talking about smaller and smaller things."

Romney's remarks appeared to be a response to Obama's charge Friday that the Republican nominee is suffering from "Romnesia" in distancing himself from his past policy positions.

Speaking to a crowd of several thousand people here, Romney turned the tables on his Democratic opponent, repeating his claim that Obama has laid out no specifics about what he would do if elected for a second term in the White House.

"Have you been watching the Obama campaign lately? It's absolutely remarkable. They have no agenda for the future. No agenda for America. No agenda for a second term," Romney said. "It's a good thing. They won't have a second term."

Romney insisted his campaign has "big ideas and bold ideas" and a "strong agenda."

Even as Romney and his running mate attracted a large crowd, Obama supporters could be heard in the distance chanting louder and louder?aiming to disrupt the GOP event. At one point, a man emerged on a hotel balcony overlooking the Romney-Ryan rally site and shouted, "OBAMA!!!"

This is Romney's last public event before Monday's final presidential debate in Boca Raton?about 200 miles south of here. The GOP nominee will spend Saturday and Sunday doing debate prep in Delray Beach, which is near the debate site.

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Bigamy charges against polygamist leader dropped (Providence Journal)

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NASA Exploring $1.5 Million Unmanned Aircraft Competition

Actually I expect you to be fooled again. Its probably a recurring thing in your life.

Clue: NASA doesn't do the war fighting stuff. They do the civilian aviation stuff. Aviation and safety research, keeping track of accidents and incidents, etc. See: http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov]

Clue: That in no way means any tech innovations won't be immediately adapted/adopted by the military for their use. Or by DHS for domestic civilian population monitoring/control and suppression of dissenters, for that matter. New tech/discoveries/etc have always been shared both ways between NASA and the military throughout NASA's history.

You can rest assured anything NASA and/or groups working with NASA develop that the military/DHS/TLAs think might be useful they'll use.

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Microsoft profit falls ahead of Windows 8 launch

NEW YORK (AP) ? Microsoft Corp.'s net income fell 22 percent in the latest quarter as it deferred revenue from the sale of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system to PC makers ? and as PC sales in general took a dive.

The economic troubles in Europe also weighed on results, which missed Wall Street expectations.

The software company said Thursday that net income was $4.47 billion, or 53 cents per share, in the fiscal first quarter, which ended Sept. 30. That was down from $5.7 billion, or 68 cents per share, a year ago.

Analysts were on average expecting 56 cents per share, according to FactSet.

Revenue fell 8 percent to $16 billion, missing the average analyst estimate of $16.5 billion.

Microsoft's stock initially fell more than 3 percent in extended trading after the release of the results but recovered to $29.04, which was 46 cents, or 1.5 percent, below its price at the close of regular trading.

Analyst Collin Gillis at BGC Financial said executives reassured investors on a conference call, noting that trends in Microsoft's Server and Tools business, which has been the fastest-growing division, were better than they appeared at first glance.

That division makes software for servers and software developers, and is moving from licensing it out program by program to striking multi-year licensing deals. That's curbing the growth rate for now but sets the company up for better performance in the future, Gillis said.

Analysis of the Windows results were complicated by the deferral of $783 million in license fees for PCs pre-loaded with Windows 8. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., can't recognize the revenue until the units go on sale on Oct. 26.

It also deferred $384 million in license fees from PCs that shipped with Windows 7 but are eligible for a $15 upgrade to Windows 8, and $189 million for the PCs that shipped with the new version of Office or are eligible for an upgrade.

Excluding those deferrals and other adjustments, net income was $6.66 billion, or 65 cents per share, down 7 percent from last year. Revenue was flat with last year's figure at $17.3 billion.

Excluding the deferrals, revenue for the Windows division fell 9 percent from a year ago, roughly in line with the decline in global PC shipments in the third quarter reported by research firms Gartner and IDC. Consumers held off buying PCs ahead of Windows 8 and probably steered some of their electronics dollars toward tablets and smartphones.

Windows 8 is the most significant revamp since Windows 95 and sports a completely new look that's intended to be consistent across PCs, tablets and smartphones. It's designed from the ground up for touch-sensitive screens, and Microsoft has high hopes that it will keep Windows relevant in a world where tablets are starting to eat into PC sales. It's also making its own tablets for the first time, and is set to launch them along with Windows 8.

In the Business Division, Microsoft's largest, posted a 1 percent increase in revenue, excluding the deferrals for Office.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-profit-falls-ahead-windows-8-launch-203254854--finance.html

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Video: Due Diligence: Did Obama deem Libya attacks a terrorist act? (cbsnews)

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'Paranormal Activity 4': Behind The High-Tech Scares

With the addition of webcams and an Xbox Kinect, the directors of the latest entry make technology terrifying.
By Kevin P. Sullivan

Kathryn Newton in "Paranormal Activity 4"
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Conflicting images emerge of NY terror suspect

Bangladeshi Quazi Ahsanullah displays a photograph of his son Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis as he weeps in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Bangladeshi Quazi Ahsanullah displays a photograph of his son Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis as he weeps in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

This image taken from the social networking site Google Plus shows an undated photo of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis - the same man, who according to witnesses, appeared in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 to face charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida. The Bangladeshi man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb outside the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. (AP Photo) Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul

Bangladeshi Quazi Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, sits in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Grandmother, left, and aunt of Bangladeshi Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis weep in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Bangladeshi Quazi Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, weeps in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

NEW YORK (AP) ? At the Missouri College where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis enrolled, a classmate said he often remarked that true Muslims don't believe in violence.

That image seemed startlingly at odds with the Bangladesh native's arrest in an FBI sting this week on charges of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York with what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb.

"I can't imagine being more shocked about somebody doing something like this," said Jim Dow, a 54-year-old Army veteran who rode home from class with Nafis twice a week. "I didn't just meet this kid a couple of times. We talked quite a bit. ... And this doesn't seem to be in character."

Nafis' family in Dhaka, Bangladesh, denied he could have been involved in the plot. His parents said he was incapable of such actions and came to America only to study.

Federal investigators, often accused by defense attorneys of entrapping and leading would-be terrorists along, said the 21-year-old Nafis made the first move over the summer, reaching out for accomplices and eventually contacting a government informant, who then went to federal authorities.

They said he also selected his target, drove the van loaded with dummy explosives up to the door of the bank, and tried to set off the bomb from a hotel room using a cellphone he thought had been rigged as a detonator.

During the investigation, he and the informant corresponded via Facebook and other social media, talked on the phone and met in hotel rooms, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Nafis spoke of his admiration for Osama bin Laden, talked of writing an article about his plot for an al-Qaida-affiliated magazine, and said he would be willing to be a martyr but preferred to go home to his family after carrying out the attack, authorities said. And he also talked about wanting to kill President Barack Obama and bomb the New York Stock Exchange, a law enforcement official said.

Investigators said in court papers that he came to the U.S. bent on jihad and worked out the specifics of a plot when he arrived. While Nafis believed he had the blessing of al-Qaida and was acting on behalf of the terrorist group, he has no known ties, according to federal officials.

Nafis, who at the time of his arrest Wednesday was working as a busboy at a restaurant in Manhattan, was jailed without bail. His attorney has not commented on the case, but in other instances where undercover agents and sting operations were used, lawyers have argued entrapment.

Investigators would not say exactly how he initially contacted the government informant.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, whose department had a role in the arrest as a member of a joint federal-state terrorism task force, said the entrapment argument rarely prevails.

"You have to be otherwise not disposed to do a crime," Kelly said. "And if it's your intent to do a crime, and somehow there are means made available, then generally speaking, the entrapment defense does not succeed."

Nafis was a terrible student in his native Bangladesh, and his middle-class parents said he persuaded them to send him to study in the U.S. as a way of improving his job prospects. They don't believe he was planning an attack.

His father, a banker, said Nafis was so timid he couldn't venture out onto the roof alone.

"My son couldn't have done it," Quazi Ahsanullah said, weeping.

"He is very gentle and devoted to his studies," he said, pointing to Nafis' time studying at the private North South University in Dhaka.

Belal Ahmed, a spokesman for the university, said Nafis was put on probation and threatened with expulsion if he didn't bring his grades up. Nafis eventually stopped coming to school, Ahmed said.

Ahsanullah said his son had argued that a U.S. degree would give him a better chance at success in Bangladesh. "I spent all my savings to send him to America," the father said.

Nafis moved to Missouri, where he studied cybersecurity at Southeast Missouri State University. He also became vice president of the school's Muslim Student Association and began attending a mosque.

But he withdrew after one semester and requested over the summer that his records be transferred to a school in Brooklyn. The university declined to identify which school.

Dow, his former classmate at Southeast Missouri State, said Nafis spoke admiringly of bin Laden. At the same time, "he told me he didn't really believe bin Laden was involved in the twin towers because he said bin Laden was a religious man, and a religious man wouldn't have done something like that," Dow said.

He said Nafis gave Dow a copy of the Quran and asked him to read it. But he "didn't rant or rave or say crazy stuff," Dow said.

"What really shocked me the most was he had specifically spoken to me about true Muslims not believing in violence," Dow said.

Dion Duncan of St. Louis, a fellow student and member of the Muslim organization, said: "Nafis was a good kid. He showed no traces of anti-Americanism, or death to America, or anything like that. He was a trustworthy, honest kid."

"He was polite and courteous. He was helpful. All the things you would expect from a good Muslim kid. He prayed five times a day," Duncan said.

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Associated Press Writers David B. Caruso in New York, Jim Suhr in St. Louis, and Farid Hossain in Dhaka, Bangladesh, contributed to this report.

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Grandson of N. Korea's late leader in TV debut

By Kari Huus, NBC News

The 17-year-old grandson of?late North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il granted a TV interview providing a rare look at a member of the secretive Kim family dynasty.

"I've always dreamed that one day I would go back and make things better and make it easier for the people there,"?Kim Han Sol said?in the interview posted on YouTube.

Kim Han Sol grew up with one foot in a privileged international community on Macau and the other in North Korea, a country known for persistent hunger and political repression under the rule of his grandfather and great grandfather.

The teen appeared articulate and impeccably dressed in a 20 minute English-language interview with reporter Elisabeth Rehn,a former United Nations official and Finnish defense minister.?It originally aired on Finnish television and was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, according a report by Radio Free Europe.

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Kim Han Sol,?a student at the UN-sponsored World College in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is the son of Kim Jong Nam ? the eldest?of Kim Jong Il?s sons and once viewed as the favorite to inherit power in the authoritarian North of the Korean peninsula. But the aging dictator instead handed the reins to Kim Jong Un, his youngest son, who is believed to be about 28.

According to the interview, Kim Han Sol?s family moved to Macau a few years after he was born, but he visited North Korea in the summers, spending time with his mother's relatives, whom he described as "ordinary" citizens. But he said he was isolated from other Korean kids and was never told that his grandfather was the country's ruler.

Interview with Kim Hon Sol, segment one

Interview with Kim Hon Sol, segment two

"Little by little, through conversations that my parents had, I started to put the puzzle pieces together," he said, and a little wistfully, described how he wished to meet his grandfather.

"I was actually waiting for him before he passed away, hoping that he would come find me because I really didn?t know if he knew that I existed," Kim told the interviewer.

Kim's father Kim Jong Nam has occasionally surfaced to speak to the international press in Macau,?sharing his view that his home country needs economic reforms and cannot survive under a dynastic succession. In the past year, the South Korean press reported, Kim Jong Nam has dropped out of sight again.

Kim Han Sol avoided media coverage when he first started at school last fall and was mobbed by cameras and reporters.

In the Finnish television interview, he said he has come to feel at home in the multicultural setting of his school and spends "hours and hours" in the evenings chatting with friends from around the world about how to resolve their respective conflicts back home.

It had been "quite an interesting experience" having a roommate from Libya, he said, "especially when the (2011) revolution happened, he was really enthusiastic about it," Kim Han Sol said. "He told me many stories about how he went home? and saw a different Libya."

The uprising against long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi finally forced the dictator from power in August 2011. Gadhafi, who fled Tripoli, was later found hiding in southern Libya, and killed shortly after at the hands of revolutionary forces.

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Video: Target to Match Online Pricing

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Beware the Rings of Pluto

You don't really get much improvement in per-unit cost by building 10 of something vs 2. The biggest factor in the cost even with just the first couple isn't the engineering but the testing and qualification. Most of that has to be repeated for every unit you build until you are creating enough to have confidence in the past performance and to fall back to statistical testing, or at least are building enough for automating that work to be economical. But you would need to be creating several dozen of them for that to kick in. Furthermore, construction is more expensive that you are allowing for at those low quantities since it's all is done by hand, by highly skilled labor. That won't drop by much until you get into mass-manufacturing quantities, hundreds at least.

So you would get minor savings, and at the loss of a huge amount of science. There is a reason that each of these probes is wildly different, and that is because the have wildly varying requirements. There is no one-size fits all suite of sensors. They will want different spectral ranges, different optics setups (detailed, narrow FOV vs wide coverage), different transmitter requirements (Horizon has much farther to transmit than MRO), all of which drives different battery requirements.

Finally, the point of science is to keep learning; to keep pushing things forward. You do that by sending probes with improved and/or different capabilities, not just more of the same. Sure we could have sent 3 more MERs (Spirit/Opportunity) for the cost of Curiosity, but we wouldn't have learned as much as Curiosity will be able to tell us.

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With Jon Jones-Chael Sonnen fight on the horizon, fighters wonder if smack tack prowess is more important

Chael Sonnen is a good fighter, but he's a masterful smack talker. There is no one in the UFC, including president Dana White, who can sell a fighter better than middleweight-challenger-turned-light-heavyweight-challenger Chael Sonnen. He proved that as he goaded UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones into a season coaching "The Ultimate Fighter" and a title fight.

It didn't matter that Jones had a more qualified contender waiting in Dan Henderson, or that Forrest Griffin was already preparing for his December bout with Sonnen. The fight went to Sonnen, the man who could pull in the biggest ratings on a stale show and the biggest dollars on a pay-per-view.

This has fighters wondering if they should be in the gym training or at an improv class, working on their smack talking skills. Henderson tweeted:

I guess I should just quit training to win fights and to be exciting for the fans and just go to [expletive] talking school.?@danawhite

Griffin wondered the same when talking to "UFC Tonight."

"I'm not mad at him," Griffin said, referencing Sonnen. "Why fight your way to the top when you can talk your way to the top?"

Who can blame them? They've worked for years in the gym and in fights to get the fights they wanted, but a middleweight stepped in front of him because of his mouth. On a press Wednesday, White said it made sense.

"Basically Jon Jones is out until April. He's going to be sitting around for months anyway unable to fight. So it made sense for him to do The Ultimate Fighter. And everyone has been talking about this fight with Chael so it made sense for them to do TUF and then fight," White said.

Hear that? White said the fight was made because people were talking about it, not because Sonnen earned it. Every fighter on the UFC's payroll should take notice. Talking will earn you a fight when your skills cannot.

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Prostate Cancer Support Group - DukeHealth.org

Date

Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
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Time

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Organization

Duke Cancer Patient Support Program

Description

This support group is for prostate cancer patients and their family members. Meetings are held on the fourth Monday of every month.

Parking vouchers will be available to group participants.

Contact

For more information, please call 919-684-4497 or e-mail cancersupport@duke.edu

Registration status

No registration required

Location

Duke Cancer Center

Location Specifics

Room 0N01,
0-Level Conference Room by Cancer Center Cafe

Address

20 Duke Medicine Circle
Durham, NC 27710

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