Perry wants flat tax with some popular deductions

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, and ISO Poly Films President Jon McClure tour the plant in Gray Court, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

GRAY COURT, S.C. (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry proposed a sweeping economic plan Tuesday that includes a flat tax proposal, private retirement accounts for Social Security, a lower corporate tax rate and reforms aimed at keeping Medicare solvent.

In a pitch to right-wing conservatives, the Texas governor outlined a proposal he calls "Cut, Balance and Grow" that he says is bolder and more aggressive than what his Republican rivals or President Barack Obama would do.

"America is under a crushing burden of debt, and the president simply offers larger deficits and the politics of class division," Perry said. "Others simply offer microwaved plans with warmed-over reforms based on current ingredients."

In his speech, Perry outlined a broad plan that would make fundamental changes to the tax code and to the nation's entitlement programs.

After weeks of calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," he offered five concrete principles for reforming the program. Perry said he wants to keep benefits intact for current retirees, but allow younger workers to choose to put their income into private accounts instead. He wants to allow states and local governments to opt out of the federal program and invest in different funds instead. And he wants to raise the retirement age for younger workers.

Perry also wants to make major changes to Medicare. His plan would allow Americans to receive a payment or a credit for the purchase of health insurance instead of the direct benefits provided through the current program. He would also gradually raise the Medicare eligibility age and pay people benefits based on their income levels.

Perry's plan sets a flat 20 percent income tax rate, but also gives taxpayers the option of sticking with their current rate. He would also maintain popular deductions for families making less than $500,000 a year and end taxes on Social Security benefits. Perry would end corporate loopholes and lower the general corporate tax rate to 20 percent.

Many elements of Perry's plan are controversial ? and others have tried and failed to pass them. President George W. Bush tried to add private accounts to Social Security, but the proposal was widely condemned and did not pass.

"I am not na?ve. I know this idea will be attacked," Perry said of the proposal. "Opposition to this simple measure is based on a simple supposition: that the people are not smart enough to look out for themselves."

President Barack Obama's campaign immediately criticized Perry's plan as hurtful to middle class Americans. Perry's plan, Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said, "would shift a greater share of taxes away from large corporations and the wealthiest onto the backs of the middle class."

The major policy rollout is a critical part of Perry's efforts to right a struggling campaign. It's an opportunity to demonstrate a heft and seriousness that wasn't on display during recent debates.

Distracting from Perry's speech, however, were new comments he made questioning whether Obama was born in the United States, a debunked controversy that centered on Obama's birth certificate.

In an interview with CNBC, Perry said it was "fun to ? to poke" at the president on the birth certificate issue. "I don't have a clue about where the president ? and what this birth certificate says," Perry said. He was defending an interview he did with Parade magazine, when he said he did not have a "definitive answer" about whether Obama was born in the United States.

Republican strategist Karl Rove ripped Rick Perry for casting doubt on Obama's birth. "You associate yourself with a nutty view like that, and you damage yourself," Rove told Fox News.

But the comments do appeal to a segment of the Republican Party's right wing ? a group Perry is clearly trying to court. Perry's policy speech Tuesday sets him distinctly to the right of chief rival Mitt Romney, who wants to make less sweeping changes to the tax code.

The birth certificate comments and policy rollout comes as Perry prepares to air TV ads in Iowa and has hired a roster of experienced national campaign operatives to help him. Perry's chief adviser on the economic plan is former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, who proposed a 17 percent flat tax when he ran for president in 1996.

It's taken Perry about 2 1/2 months to put together an economic policy package, and he's had to attend the series of debates without his detailed proposal. Romney also has attacked him repeatedly for not having a plan. Romney released a 59-point jobs plan in early September, about three months after officially announcing his bid.

Perry's plan would make more dramatic changes than Romney's. While Perry's plan includes the flat tax, Romney would lower rates on corporations and on savings and investment income for middle-class Americans.

Back in 1996, Romney criticized Forbes' flat tax plan as a "tax cut for fat cats." In the CNBC interview, Perry said if Romney renews that criticism, "he ought to look in the mirror, I guess. I consider him to be a fat cat."

Perry chose South Carolina, where he announced he was running for president, to unveil his economic plan. The first-in-the-South primary state is critical to his path to the nomination, though he has fallen in the polls here just as he has dropped nationally.

He also planned a news conference in the state capital, Columbia, and a fundraiser at the home of former South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson, his top South Carolina adviser.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2011-10-25-Perry-Economy/id-7c73feba590142a9bedc04c87cc83c04

netanyahu apple keynote apple keynote seattle news seattle news cheryl burke jenna fischer

Keys to Argentine president's landslide victory

Argentina's vice president-elect Amado Boudou, left, sings at a celebration rally at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez chose Boudou as her running mate not just because of his youthful appeal but also as economy minister he was a key player in nationalizing the pensions and using foreign reserves to pay down debt, both unorthodox decisions, that enabled Fernandez to spread the country's wealth among the poor and working classes. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentina's vice president-elect Amado Boudou, left, sings at a celebration rally at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez chose Boudou as her running mate not just because of his youthful appeal but also as economy minister he was a key player in nationalizing the pensions and using foreign reserves to pay down debt, both unorthodox decisions, that enabled Fernandez to spread the country's wealth among the poor and working classes. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A woman walks by a newspaper stand that displays Argentina's largest circulating daily newspaper the Clarin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday Oct. 24, 2011. The Clarin's front page highlights Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez who was re-elected in a landslide Sunday, winning with the widest victory margin in the country's history as voters were mobilized by popular programs that spread the wealth of a booming economy. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A woman looks at Argentinean newspapers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The frontpages highlight the re-election victory of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez. Fernandez was re-elected on Sunday with one of the widest victory margins in Argentine history by convincing voters that she alone, even without her late powerbroker husband, is best able to keep spreading the wealth of an economic boom. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A woman reads Argentina's daily La Nacion at a coffee shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The frontpage of La Nacion highlights the re-election victory of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez. Fernandez was re-elected on Sunday with one of the widest victory margins in Argentine history by convincing voters that she alone, even without her late powerbroker husband, is best able to keep spreading the wealth of an economic boom. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez holds a photo of her late husband and former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner at the Plaza de Mayo square after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez was re-elected in a landslide Sunday, winning with the widest victory margin in the country's history as voters were mobilized by popular programs that spread the wealth of a booming economy. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? Argentina's vice president-elect is a hoodie-wearing, Harley-riding rock 'n roll guitarist who plays up the pace of the country's prosperity in every financial summit he attends as economy minister.

President Cristina Fernandez chose Amado Boudou as her running mate not just because of his youthful appeal, a key factor now that she's a 58-year-old widow limited to a second term in office. Boudou also was a key player in several unorthodox decisions, such as nationalizing the pensions and using foreign reserves to pay down debt, that enabled her to spread the country's wealth among the poor and working classes.

And this, in turn, helps explain how Fernandez came to be re-elected Sunday with perhaps the widest victory margin in Argentine history, and 54 percent of the vote.

How did she and Boudou do this, in a world where leading economies are slowing and smaller countries are swallowing unpopular austerity measures in exchange for financial lifelines?

Since Fernandez and her late husband and predecessor Nestor Kirchner moved into the presidential palace in 2003, they presided over one of the longest periods of economic growth in the country's history ? growing twice as fast in real terms as the economic powerhouse of Brazil, and faster than any other nation in the world save China and India, according to the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research.

The Kirchners also cut the wealth gap ? the difference in income between the 95th and 5th percentile ? nearly in half by nearly tripling social spending in real terms, economist Mark Weisbrot said.

They rebuilt Argentina's industrial capacity after the 2001 economic collapse, creating jobs, lowering poverty and putting disposable income into many more pockets. They did it by either trying to mask or ignore the high inflation their spending encouraged, preferring to keep the economy moving. As a result, shops are open, business is thriving, and people are buying new cars and televisions like never before.

How long this kind of spending can be sustained is an open question. La Nacion, Argentina's leading newspaper, warned in a front-page opinion column Monday that the nation's economic engines are running dry. Socialist Hermes Binner, the second-place finisher, said it's not clear whether Argentina can withstand a coming global crisis.

On the other hand, Argentina still has near-record foreign reserves of more than $48 billion, thanks in large part to risky moves by Fernandez and her long-haired, 47-year-old economy minister, a confirmed bachelor with two motorcycles, a growing collection of electric guitars and a live-in TV journalist girlfriend who is almost half his age.

While Boudou pursued the youth vote, the government was able to use funds generated by his decisions for "social inclusion," increasing pensions, child welfare and the minimum wage by about 25 percent last month to keep up with price increases. Fernandez even expanded the $3 billion family support program she created by presidential decree so that poor mothers get cash starting early in their pregnancies.

All this has had a huge social impact: Among other things, public school classrooms are packed with children who would otherwise be working or on the streets.

They were able to do this, fundamentally, by rejecting the kind of orthodox economic advice that has made the "Occupy" marchers so indignant worldwide.

Boudou has insisted to the Club of Paris, a group of lender nations including the U.S. to whom Argentina still owes more than $6.5 billion, that the government would accept no conditions in exchange for a new payment plan, even as the same lenders force austerity measures on Greece and other suffering economies.

"When a society expresses itself and decides in free and democratic elections to adopt a decision, this decision must be respected," Fernandez warned in her victory speech Sunday night, referring to those who would return Argentina to its 1990s model of neoliberal conservatism.

It was Boudou who suggested to the Kirchners before becoming economy minister that they should renationalize the pension funds that had been privatized in the 1990s, a decade when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund had encouraged Argentina to take on impossible debts, leading to its world-record 2001 default. The private funds were forcing Argentine taxpayers to foot 60 percent of miserly minimal pensions, even as the funds took profits out of the country.

Fernandez took Boudou's advice and in 2008, signed a law seizing $23 billion in private pension funds. This infuriated some investors, invited no end of attacks by the news media and made her even more of a pariah among financial analysts. But it also created a vast credit pool from which to invest in projects "made in Argentina," and provided an alternative to foreign debt, which they couldn't assume without conceding to an independent examination of Argentina's official inflation numbers. That, in turn, would have surely increased pressure for budget cuts, leading to a voter backlash.

"This is why I value Amado Boudou so much," Fernandez explained in her authorized biography, published in August. "In two years, we've duplicated the funds that they built up in 12. It was an impressive business deal. Many of the things we've done were already thought of by others, but they didn't have the guts to act."

Boudou also was the point man for Fernandez's ouster of the Central Bank president, which enabled the government to use its reserves to pay off foreign debts. Opponents predicted it would weaken Argentina's ability to support its currency. But reducing the debt load freed up money for more productive uses, in turn building reserves. Argentina now has accumulated much more than it had to cushion against previous global turbulence.

When the new Congress is sworn in on Dec. 10, Fernandez, Boudou and his yet-to-be-named replacement as economy minister will benefit from narrow majorities in both houses for the first time since 2009's midterm elections. The president will be able to get laws passed, rather than having to invoke her emergency decree power to get things done.

This is one advantage Fernandez has over President Barack Obama: Nearly her entire congressional opposition adheres to centrist or leftist parties. The only political bloc promoting ideas remotely similar to U.S. conservatives is the Pro party, led by Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, but it has just 11 seats in the lower house and none in the Senate.

It remains to be seen if Macri can now rally what's left of a divided opposition.

"Clearly the fragmentation has been an enormous error: Half or more of the Argentines were open to hearing a proposal for change, but it had to be articulated," Macri said Monday.

Fernandez's agenda may include changes in banking regulations to more tightly control currency flows, and a union-backed proposal to require corporations to share 10 percent of their profits with their employees, which if passed could force businesses to open their books in a country where tax evasion still runs rampant.

Such moves would surely raise new complaints that Fernandez is failing to ensure stability for investors.

Her likely response: Argentina is open for any investor willing to meet her government's terms.

"I'm not a genius or a fool," Fernandez said Sunday night, speaking of those opposed to her populist approach. "But I know that these people are the minority ? powerful, but a minority. It depends, therefore, on the great majorities, comprising our workers and our middle classes, to not be knocked off track as has happened to us so many times in our history, ruining projects that served the nation. They are still out there, those who knocked us down, many times directed from abroad."

___

Michael Warren can be reached at www.twitter.com/mwarrenap

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2011-10-24-LT-Argentina-Election/id-80bbc46e68164ae39033a54dd7a04b13

stoma money ball bill cunningham vladimir putin vladimir putin rampage jackson alec baldwin

Dr. Drew?s Take On Michael Lohan?s Recent Arrest

Yesterday morning, Michael Lohan from Season 5 of ?Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab? was arrested on domestic violence charges, after an alleged physical altercation with on-and-off girlfriend Kate Major. Dr. Drew comments on Michael’s arrest: “At the time of his discharge, Bob Forrest and I both told him that he would end up in jail again.” [...]

Source: http://www.celebritymound.com/dr-drews-take-on-michael-lohans-recent-arrest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-drews-take-on-michael-lohans-recent-arrest

rosh hashanah rosh hashanah michael jackson trial amanda palmer listeria monocytogenes chipper jones chipper jones

Arduino-powered glove brings real sound effects to your make believe gun show (video)

The days of air-punching invisible Daleks and making your own sound effects are over: a team from Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction course have built a glove that does it all for you. The Augmented Hyper-Reality Glove can identify upper-cuts and karate chops using flex and tilt sensors and play the accompanying sound effect using an Arduino-powered Adafruit wave shield. We can see some potential downsides -- flirtatious finger-gun fusillades accompanied by the sound of cannon fire might just ruin your date. If you're undaunted by such social faux pas, see the toy your inner-child always wanted in action after the break.

Continue reading Arduino-powered glove brings real sound effects to your make believe gun show (video)

Arduino-powered glove brings real sound effects to your make believe gun show (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Instructables  | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/24/arduino-powered-glove-brings-real-sound-effects-to-your-make-bel/

ron white ron white widespread panic widespread panic alcs alcs miguel cabrera

PFT: Bradford out, Feeley in for Rams Sunday

AP

For years, Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden was regarded as a guy who was riding his brother?s coattails.? The younger brother of Jon Gruden began his coaching career in the Arena Football League, and even though he won a pair of titles with the Orlando Preadtors, the perception was that the Gruden brothers occupied two different planes in the coaching hierarchy ? especially since Jon Gruden gave Jay Gruden a position on the Buccaneers? staff from 2002 through 2008, and no one else ever offered Jay Gruden an NFL shot, in any capacity.

That changed this year, in large part because Jay Gruden finally was willing to move from the Orlando/Tampa area.? (Most recently, Jay Gruden coached the soon-to-be defunct UFL?s already-defunct Florida Tuskers.)? The Panthers considered him for the job of quarterbacks coach, and then Bengals coach Marvin Lewis pulled off a stunner, hiring Jay Gruden to be the team?s offensive coordinator.

Now, with the Bengals at 4-2 and Jay Gruden presiding over an offense being driven by the rookie quarterback and rookie receiver, the buzz is building for Jay Gruden to become an NFL head coach.

Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel has become the first person to make the case for Jay to be considered for a top job in football?s top league.? ?I have a long way to go before that happens,? Jay Gruden told Bianchi.? ?I?m just trying to figure out a way to beat Seattle in our next game.? I don?t think about what might be four or five years down the road.? I?ve never worried about any job except the one I have.?

But will it be four or five years down the road?? Another guy who worked Jon Gruden?s staff, Mike Tomlin, became a head coach after only one year as a defensive coordinator in Minnesota.? And the success of the Harbaugh brothers and the Ryan brothers will cause more and more people to think that Jay Gruden can thrive in the NFL, too, just like Jon did.

And so, eventually, nearly 20 percent of the league?s 32 teams could be run by a trio of brother acts:? the Harbaughs, the Ryans, and the Grudens.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/22/bradford-out-feeley-in-for-rams/related/

washington monument demarcus ware terra nova miles austin ellen degeneres patti stanger washington redskins

Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]

Oct 23, 2011 2:00 PM 2,335 0

• My college does not allow torrents, but it doesn't care about normal downloads. What would be the easiest way to set up a private VPN so I could torrent legal titles from home computer and than transfer the resulting files to my desktop at college.
• My phone (HTC G2 with CM7.1) has been randomly going into "car mode" lately, and it's really getting on my nerves. Any idea what might be causing this?
• Has anyone used KyPass to integrate KeePass with Dropbox on an iOS device?
• I've finally bit the bullet and Joined Twitter. Still a bit lost in all the intricacies of learning how to be productive without following a 1000 people but I'm getting better. Thought I would get on here and find out how you Lifehackers handle your Twitter consumption. Like are there certain scripts, extensions, add-ons, Android Apps, web apps that you guys can't live without?
• Does anybody know of a good video chat client that will work over the local LAN?
• Does anyone know of any online or OS neutral games for improving long-term memory?
• I need a way to sync my wife's, kids' and my calendars onto one shared calendar that we can all use. The wife and kids use iPhones and I have an Android phone. Any suggestions?
• I don't know what's going on with me, but I've been feeling really tired lately. It could be from lack of sleep, depression, anemia or burned-out on working out. I went to go see the doctor and she was really no help. Any suggestions?
• Can someone give me some simple tips for me (that is very used to working with Windows) on how to install Ubuntu next to Windows 7 (64 bit), because the last time I tried I messed up my MBR beyond repair. (Even the rescue discs couldn't rescue it and I needed to wipe the whole drive and reinstall)
• Can anyone recommend a good pumpkin spiced beer for the season? I don't drink often but when I do I want something flavorful! This time of year I go for all things pumpkin.

Related Stories

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/EISAh4aNyWA/ask-the-commenters-roundup

james arthur ray 20/20 cornel west lsu football lsu football maps directions josephine baker

Cards, Rangers battle in Game 3

Bottom of 2:
Rangers second. Mi.Young grounded out, shortstop Furcal to first baseman Pujols. Beltre singled to right.
Runs:?0,?Hits:?1Top of 2:
Cardinals second. Freese struck out. Y.Molina grounded out, third baseman Beltre to first baseman Napoli. Jay struck out.
Runs:?0,?Hits:?0Bottom of 1:
Rangers first. Kinsler struck out. Andrus struck out. J.Hamilton grounded out to first baseman Pujols unassisted.
Runs:?0,?Hits:?0Top of 1:
Cardinals first. Furcal grounded out to first baseman Napoli unassisted. Craig homered to left on a 0-1 count. Pujols grounded out, third baseman Beltre to first baseman Napoli. Holliday singled to right. Berkman flied out to center fielder J.Hamilton.
Runs:?1,?Hits:?2

Source: http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/mlb/gameview.asp?gamecode=311022113

alex trebek lightsquared jane lynch matt ryan matt ryan ricky gervais golden globes real housewives of new york

Matthews praises G. W. for 2000 debate ???what a d-bag??? look [VIDEO] (Daily Caller)

When former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney supposedly invaded Texas Gov. Rick Perry?s personal space Tuesday night, it conjured up memories of debates past, one in particular for MSNBC ?Hardball? host Chris Matthews.

On his Thursday program, Matthews recollected one of the 2000 debates between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, when Gore, in the middle of one of Bush?s replies, walked over to Bush.

Matthews offered this insightful analysis to his viewers:

?When he came up there, I don?t know if this is ?The Invasion of the Body Snatchers? or what, this guy comes up, all of a sudden he walks right up to Bush, and Bush gives him that ? and maybe it?s the smartest thing Bush ever did besides putting his arm around that firefighter on the Friday after 9/11. What a moment, I mean he looked down at the moment, and says, what I can?t use the word, ?What a d-bag. What kind of a guy are you?? I mean that look he gave the guy ? here it is. It was so good, it was so good.?

Watch:

Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war (Reuters)

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) ? NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.

In a statement on a Syria-based pro-Gaddafi television station, the ousted dictator's family asked for the bodies of Gaddafi, his son Mo'tassim, and others who were killed on Thursday by fighters who overran his hometown Sirte.

"We call on the UN, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and Amnesty International to force the Transitional Council to hand over the martyrs' bodies to our tribe in Sirte and to allow them to perform their burial ceremony in accordance with Islamic customs and rules," the statement said.

At an understated and sparsely-attended news conference late on Friday, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Western alliance had taken a preliminary decision to call a halt to Operation Unified Protector on October 31.

Like other Western officials, Rasmussen expressed no regrets in public about the gruesome death of the deposed Libyan dictator, who was captured alive by the forces of the National Transitional Council but was brought dead to a hospital.

"We mounted a complex operation with unprecedented speed and conducted it with the greatest of care," Rasmussen said. "I'm very proud of what we have achieved."

The NATO operation, officially intended to protect civilians, effectively ended on Thursday with French warplanes blasting Gaddafi's convoy as he and others tried to escape a final stand in Sirte.

Gaddafi was captured wounded but alive hiding in a drain under a road. The world has since seen grainy film of him being roughed up by his captors while he pleads with them to respect his rights.

NTC officials have said Gaddafi later died of wounds in the ambulance, but the ambulance driver, Ali Jaghdoun, told Reuters that Gaddafi was already dead when he picked up the body.

"I didn't try to revive him because he was already dead," Jaghdoun said, in testimony that adds greater weight to the widespread assumption that Gaddafi was lynched.

The U.N. human rights arm said an investigation was needed to into whether he was summarily executed. The interim leaders have yet to decide what to do with the corpse.

BURIAL DISPUTE

In Misrata, a local commander, Addul-Salam Eleiwa, showed off the body, torso bare, on a mattress inside a metal-lined cold-store by a market on Friday. There was a bullet hole in his head.

"He will get his rights, like any Muslim. His body will be washed and treated with dignity. I expect he will be buried in a Muslim cemetery within 24 hours," he said.

Dozens of people, many with cellphone cameras, filed in to see that he was dead.

"There's something in our hearts we want to get out," said Abdullah al-Suweisi, 30, as he waited. "It is the injustice of 40 years. There is hatred inside. We want to see him."

In Tripoli, Gaddafi's death prompted a carnival-like celebration, with fireworks, a bouncy castle and candy floss for the children. "Muammar, bad," one small girl said to foreign journalists in English. "Boom boom."

"For some people from outside Libya it could look wrong that we are celebrating a death with our children," said one man with a child on his shoulders. "But it was 42 years with the devil."

RISKS OF DIVISION

Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son and heir-apparent remains at large, believed by NTC officials to have escaped from besieged Sirte and headed for a southern border.

Without the glue of hatred for Gaddafi and his tribe to unite the factions, some fear a descent into the kind of strife that bedevils Iraq after Saddam Hussein. Optimists say that so far Libya's new rulers have quarreled but not fought.

"Can an inclusive, effective national government be formed? Yes, if factions can avoid fighting," Jon Marks, chairman of Britain's Cross Border Information consultancy said.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the NTC had promised to explain how Gaddafi was killed.

"They're dealing with the death itself as well as the aftermath in as transparent a way as I think they can," he said. "They've fought bravely to liberate their country from this dictator. And, you know, he met an ignominious end yesterday."

One sign of a move toward normalcy was the United Nations Security Council beginning talks on lifting the no-fly-zone imposed by resolution 1973 of March 17. Envoys expected the flying ban, designed to protect civilians, would be ended after consultations with Libya's new rulers.

(Additional reporting by Taha Zargoun and Tim Gaynor in Sirte, Barry Malone, Yasmine Saleh and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Brian Rohan in Benghazi, Jon Hemming and Andrew Hammond in Tunis, Samia Nakhoul in Amman, Christian Lowe in Algiers, Shaimaa Fayed in Cairo, Sami Aboudi in Dubai, Andrew Quinn in Islamabad, Paul Eckert in Washington and David Brunnstrom in Brussels; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Matthew Jones)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111022/wl_nm/us_libya

jaycee dugard meg whitman f8 f8 catherine the great dark shadows ted haggard

Video: Life after Iraq

Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44992066#44992066

puppies miss universe 2011 contestants hells angels hells angels las vegas weather whole foods whole foods

HP TouchPad gets webOS 3.0.4 update, now able to answer calls from non-webOS phones

It may not have resulted in much of a numerical bump, but the just-released webOS 3.0.4 software update for the HP TouchPad is a fairly significant one. The big new addition is the ability to pair non-webOS phones, which will let you answer calls on your TouchPad (pairing with third-party Bluetooth keyboards is also said to be "streamlined"). It also adds a new Camera app for photos and videos, plus support for Ogg Vorbis music files, and online / offline messaging status support. Perhaps just as notably, HP is also promising "better performance" and "user interface improvements," as well as a number of other enhancements and "more robust Skype video calling." We'll be giving it a go ourselves, but feel free to share your own impressions in the comments below.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: We've since spent a bit of time with a TouchPad running webOS 3.0.4, and it is indeed noticeably snappier and more responsive. Receiving phone calls via a non-webOS phone also works as promised (although you can't make phone calls from the TouchPad), and the new Camera app is simple and gets the job done -- though the TouchPad's camera itself is still decidedly lackluster. Another somewhat minor but important change is the scrolling behavior in the web browser -- it now requires a far more deliberate swipe left or right to move the page horizontally, which results in far less accidental jumping around than before.

HP TouchPad gets webOS 3.0.4 update, now able to answer calls from non-webOS phones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Official HP Palm Blog  | Email this | Comments

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/godztoBDN9E/

seal beach seal beach bhutan zip code finder zip code finder blackhawks daylight savings time 2011

Gadhafi's death resonates with Lockerbie relatives (AP)

CHERRY HILL, N.J. ? For decades, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was seen as an international villain, but for Susan Cohen he was a personal enemy, one she read up on daily for more than 20 years.

Her 20-year-old daughter was one of the 270 people ? many of them New York and New Jersey residents ? killed when Pam Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988, allegedly at Gadhafi's behest.

"This was sort of like Dracula: Is Dracula really dead?" said Cohen, of Cape May Court House, N.J. "It's great now that we know. I didn't want him to go to a trial. When you have a tyrant, a monster like him, we're all better off with him dead. Now there can be no illusion of him ever returning to power."

She said she intended to celebrate his death with an expensive bottle of champagne.

Like the relatives of many of those killed on Flight 103, Cohen was an ordinary citizen who became an activist on Libya, terrorism, international law and diplomacy after the attack.

Some, like Cohen, even attended the trial in the Netherlands of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted as the mastermind of the attack. They were outraged in 2009 when he was released to Libya from British captivity in 2009 on humanitarian grounds as he was supposedly close to death ? and have remained angry that he's still alive two years later.

To some of them, his return implied that Britain was siding more with Gadhafi than with the victims of the bombing. In London on Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged assistance to Libya's leaders as they work to form a new government.

"Today is a day to remember all of Gadhafi's victims," he said. "We should also remember the many, many people who died at the hands of this brutal dictator and his regime."

Ali Aujali, the Libyan National Transitional Council's ambassador to the U.S., told CNN that he didn't think transitional leaders would want al-Megrahi returned to Scotland. "I saw the last photo of him. He is a very sick man," Aujali said.

Many families of the attack victims had longed for the dictator's downfall ? or death, which at times seemed imminent during the uprising in Libya but took until Thursday to happen.

"I never thought I would see the day this man, this coward, would no longer be part of the world population," said Bert Ammerman, of River Vale, N.J., whose brother Tom died in the bombing. "I can say today with a great deal of satisfaction that my brother and the other 269 people that were massacred on Dec. 21, 1988, did not die in vain."

But the dictator's death does not close the book on the bombing for Kara Weipz, whose 20-year-old brother, Syracuse University student Richard Monetti, was one of its victims.

"Ultimately, the one thing I hope is he had evidence on him," said Weipz, who lives in Mount Laurel, N.J. "All the families really want to know the truth of how this happened. That has been our motto since 1988, and it remains our motto in 2011."

Two weeks ago, Weipz and her father, Bob Monetti, of Cherry Hill, opened a nursery school using funds he received in Gadhafi's monetary settlement with the victims' families, a deal reached years after the bombing.

Monetti said Gadhafi's death doesn't bring justice. "There are a number of people who were involved in the bombing who have not been arrested or captured," he said.

Lisa Gibson, of Colorado Springs, Colo., lost her 20-year-old brother, Ken, in the bombing. She noted that Gadhafi could have stepped down when the Libyan unrest began.

"I think that it's kind of a bittersweet day to see him die in this way," she said. "I think it's unfortunate, but I do believe that at least now, the person that we believe is responsible for Lockerbie is dead and that person who's responsible for all the atrocities in Libya is dead."

Word of Gadhafi's demise was met joyously by members of Southern California's small and scattered Libyan-American community. Most have lives in the U.S. and will not return to Libya, but all have friends or relatives there.

"Every family that I know is happy. We were calling each other at 4:30 this morning ... congratulating each other," Idris Traina, 62, of Torrance, president of the Libyan-American Association of Southern California.

___

Parry reported from Point Pleasant, N.J. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shawn Marsh and Larry Rosenthal in Trenton, N.J., Robert Jablon in Los Angeles, P. Solomon Banda in Colorado Springs, and David Stringer in London.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/terrorism/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111020/ap_on_re_us/libya_lockerbie_families

maker faire the hub the hub penn state pat robertson martha marcy may marlene hpv vaccine

Actress Sues IMDb for Posting Her Age

An unnamed actress is suing Amazon.com's IMDb for revealing her age, the New York Post reports.

?In the entertainment industry, youth is king,? reads the suit, which was filed in Seattle federal court under "Jane Doe." IMDb is based in Seattle.

PHOTOS: Hollywood's New Leading Ladies

"If one is perceived to be ?over-the-hill,? i.e. approaching 40, it is nearly impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the plaintiff, to get work." adds the suit.

The woman does not list her age, but does reveal she's living in Texas.

PHOTOS: Hollywood's 10 Highest-Paid Actresses

She claims that IMDb obtained her private information in 2008 when she subscribed to the site's pay service, IMDbPro.

?Shortly after subscribing to IMDbPro, plaintiff noticed that her legal date of birth had been added to her public profile ... revealing to the public that the plaintiff is many years older than she looks,? the suit says.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1923774/news/1923774/

new era new era alexander hangover hangover pixie lott tbs

Occupy Wall Street shows muscle, raises $300K (AP)

NEW YORK ? The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan. It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle Saturday with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the country and around the world.

Could this be the peak for loosely organized protesters, united less by a common cause than by revulsion to what they consider unbridled corporate greed? Or are they just getting started?

There are signs of confidence, but also signs of tension among the demonstrators at Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the movement that began a month ago Monday. They have trouble agreeing on things like whether someone can bring in a sleeping bag, and show little sign of uniting on any policy issues. Some protesters eventually want the movement to rally around a goal, while others insist that isn't the point.

"We're moving fast, without a hierarchical structure and lots of gears turning," said Justin Strekal, a college student and political organizer who traveled from Cleveland to New York to help. "... Egos are clashing, but this is participatory democracy in a little park."

Even if the protesters were barred from camping in Zuccotti Park, as the property owner and the city briefly threatened to do last week, the movement would continue, Strekal said. He said activists were working with legal experts to identify alternate sites where the risk of getting kicked out would be relatively low.

Wall Street protesters are intent on hanging on to the momentum they gained from Saturday's worldwide demonstrations, which drew hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in the U.S. and Europe. They're filling a cavernous space on Broadway a block from Wall Street with donated goods to help sustain their nearly month-long occupation of the private park nearby.

They've amassed mounds of blankets, pillows, sleeping bags, cans of food, medical and hygienic supplies ? even oddities like a box of knitting wool and 20 pairs of swimming goggles (to shield protesters from pepper-spray attacks). Supporters are shipping about 300 boxes a day, Strekal said.

The space was donated by the United Federation of Teachers, which has offices in the building.

Close to $300,000 in cash also has been donated, through the movement's website and by people who give money in person at the park, said Bill Dobbs, a press liaison for Occupy Wall Street. The movement has an account at Amalgamated Bank, which bills itself as "the only 100 percent union-owned bank in the United States."

Strekal said the donated goods are being stored "for a long-term occupation."

"We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!" Kara Segal and other volunteers chanted in the building lobby as they arrived to help unpack and sort items, preparing them to be rolled out to the park.

While on the streets, moments of madness occasionally erupt in the protest crowd ? accompanied by whiffs of marijuana, grungy clothing and disarray ? order prevails at the storage site.

It doubles as a sort of Occupy Wall Street central command post, with strategic meetings that are separate from the "general assembly" free-for-alls in the park. One subject Sunday was data entry: protesters are working to get the names and addresses of donors into a databank, to thank them for their gifts.

The movement has become an issue in the Republican presidential primary race and beyond, with politicians from both parties under pressure to weigh in.

President Barack Obama referred to the protests at Sunday's dedication of a monument for Martin Luther King Jr., saying the civil rights leader "would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there."

Many of the largest of Saturday's protests were in Europe, where those involved in long-running demonstrations against austerity measures declared common cause with the Occupy Wall Street movement. In Rome, hundreds of rioters infiltrated a march by tens of thousands of demonstrators, causing what the mayor estimated was at least euro1 million ($1.4 million) in damage to city property.

U.S. cities large and small were "occupied" over the weekend: Washington, D.C., Fairbanks, Alaska, Burlington, Vt., Rapid City, S.D., and Cheyenne, Wyo. were just a few. In Cincinnati, protesters were invited to take pictures with a couple getting married; the bride and groom are Occupied Cincinnati supporters.

More than 70 New York protesters were arrested Saturday, more than 40 of them in Times Square. About 175 people were arrested in Chicago after they refused to leave a park where they were camped late Saturday, and there were about 100 arrests in Arizona ? 53 in Tucson and 46 in Phoenix ? after protesters refused police orders to disperse. About two dozen people were arrested in Denver, and in Sacramento, Calif., anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was among about 20 people arrested after failing to follow police orders to disperse.

Activists around the country said they felt that Saturday's protests energized their movement.

"It's an upward trajectory," said John St. Lawrence, a Florida real estate lawyer who took part in Saturday's Occupy Orlando protest, which drew more than 1,500 people. "It's catching people's imagination and also, knock on wood, nothing sort of negative or discrediting has happened."

St. Lawrence is among those unconcerned that the movement has not rallied around any particular proposal, saying "policy is for leaders to come up with."

"I don't think the underlying theme is a mystery," he said. "We saw what the banks and financial institutions did to the economy. We bailed them out. And then they went about evicting people from their homes," he said. He added that although he is not in debt and owns his own home, other people in his neighborhood are suffering and "everyone's interests are interconnected."

In Richmond, Va., about 75 people gathered Sunday for one of the "general assembly" meetings that are a key part of the movement's consensus-building process. Protester Whitney Whiting, a video editor, said the process has helped "gather voices" about Americans discontent, and that she expects it will eventually take the movement a step further.

"In regards to a singular issue or a singular focus, I think that will come eventually. But right now we have to set up a space for that to happen," Whiting said.

Some U.S. protesters, like those in Europe, have their own causes. Unions that have joined forces with the movement have demands of their own, and on Sunday members of the newly formed Occupy Pittsburgh group demanded that Bank of New York Mellon Corp. pay back money they allege it overcharged public pension funds around the country.

New York's attorney general and New York City sued BNY Mellon this month, accusing it of defrauding clients in foreign currency exchange transactions that generated nearly $2 billion over 10 years. The company has vowed to fight the lawsuit and had no comment about the protesters' allegation about pensions.

Lisa Deaton, a tea party leader from southern Indiana, said she sees some similarities between how the tea party movement and the Wall Street protests began: "We got up and we wanted to vent."

But the critical step, she said, was taking that emotion and focusing it toward changing government.

The first rally she organized drew more than 2,500 people, but afterward, "it was like, `What do we do?'" she said. "You can't have a concert every weekend."

The Wall Street protesters' lack of leadership and focus on consensus-building has help bring together people with different perspectives, but it's also created some tension.

"Issues are arising ? like who is bringing in sleeping bags without permission," said Laurie Dobson, who's been helping a self-governed "working group" called "SIS" ? for Shipping, Inventory and Supplies.

Sleeping bags were among items cited by Zuccotti Park's owner, Brookfield Properties, as not allowed on the premises ? along with tents, tarps and other essentials for the encampment. By Sunday, all those items were back.

Strekal didn't see that as a problem. Protesters could do it, he said, "because we're winning the PR war."

Around his neck hangs a tiny silver Liberty Bell ? a symbol of American independence given to him by a fellow activist.

____

Associated Press writers Suzette Laboy in Miami, Steve Szkotak in Richmond, Va., Kevin Begos in Pittsburgh, Laurie Kellman and Stacy A. Anderson in Washington, Tom LoBianco in Indianapolis, Sophia Tareen and Carla K. Johnson in Chicago contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111017/ap_on_re_us/us_wall_street_protest

droid bionic nia nia pineapple diablo 3 beta soa hydrangea

Ruling 'threatens stem cell work'

18 October 2011 Last updated at 08:23 ET By Helen Briggs Health editor, BBC News website

Europe's highest court has ruled that stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented, in a case that could have major implications for medicine.

Scientists say the Court of Justice decision may impede European research into the use of stem cell therapies, or drive research abroad.

The ruling follows a challenge by Greenpeace over a patent for nerve cells from embryonic stem cells.

Embryonic stem cells have the ability to turn into any tissue in the body.

They offer the hope of one day being able to treat diseases such as Parkinson's, stroke, heart disease and diabetes, if technical hurdles can be overcome.

The ruling concerned a method invented by a German professor, Oliver Bruestle, for converting human embryonic stem cells into nerve cells.

The court's decision had been seen as critical for research into the use of stem cells as treatments for a range of diseases.

The European Court of Justice said in a statement: "The use of human embryos for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is patentable.

"But their use for purposes of scientific research is not patentable."

It added: "A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst [early embryo] stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented."

Continue reading the main story

Analysis

To date there have been just two human clinical trials involving embryonic stem cells - the first in Europe was announced a few weeks ago. There are, by contrast, many successful therapies using adult stem cells derived from the patient themselves. But stem cell researchers fear the ruling could damage this whole field of research and drive much of it abroad - to America and Asia. Patents are important if pharmaceutical companies are to recoup their investment in clinical trials and turn a profit. Lawyers are already suggesting there may be a way round the ruling, by patenting the therapeutic process rather than the stem cells themselves.

Prof Pete Coffey of the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, who is researching the use of stem cell treatments for blindness, said the decision was "devastating".

He told the BBC: "This could really halt the progress of stem cell therapies for as yet untreatable diseases."

Prof Coffey is among several leading UK scientists who wrote a letter expressing "profound concern" over an earlier recommendation by the advocate-general of the court.

Scientists were concerned that the ruling would threaten the future of medical research, saying companies in Europe would be less likely to invest in research to develop therapies using embryonic stem cells.

But Greenpeace in Germany, which triggered the case, argued it was unethical to issue a patent based on cells from a human embryo, which was then destroyed.

The court ruled in the group's favour.

'Ridiculous'

Commenting on the decision, Prof Austin Smith of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge, said: "This unfortunate decision by the court leaves scientists in a ridiculous position.

Continue reading the main story

Stem cells

• Stem cells are found in the embryo, the foetus, placenta, umbilical cord, and in many different tissues of the body
• There are three types: tissue (adult) stem cells, embryonic stem cells and engineered pluripotent stem cells
• Stem cells can be used to study development and disease, and have a host of potential medical applications, although there are many technical hurdles

"We are funded to do research for the public good, yet prevented from taking our discoveries to the marketplace where they could be developed into new medicines.

"One consequence is that the benefits of our research will be reaped in America and Asia."

Prof Bruestle, of Bonn University, who was initially awarded the patent, said: "With this unfortunate decision, the fruits of years of translational research by European scientists will be wiped away and left to the non-European countries.

"European researchers may conduct basic research, which is then implemented elsewhere in medical procedures, which will eventually be reimported to Europe. How do I explain this to my students?"

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/health-15350723

amy smart michael jackson dead michael jackson dead prickly pear prickly pear jcole jcole

Paul: Cut $1 trillion, eliminate 5 Cabinet depts (The Arizona Republic)

Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/149529109?client_source=feed&format=rss

hangover pixie lott tbs sylvester stallone doris day ice age edward scissorhands

Ugandans welcome troop plan to fight rebels (Reuters)

KAMPALA (Reuters) ? Residents and rights groups said U.S. troops being sent to Uganda would give a fresh impetus to the fight against Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of murder and kidnapping children and capturing their leader.

The rebel group, which has waged a brutal insurgency for nearly 20 years, was ejected from northern Uganda in 2005 and has since roamed remote jungle straddling the borders of Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic.

Friday, President Barack Obama said he was sending about 100 troops to help and advise government forces fighting the LRA across Central Africa.

Obama -- who has denounced the LRA as an "affront to human dignity" -- said the troops would serve as trainers and advisers in the efforts to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony and would not be involved in combat except in self-defense.

"I think it is a good move because ... this will be a supplement to enforce the Ugandan UPDF (Uganda People Defense Forces) to make sure that Kony is put totally down and he faces justice for the crimes he has committed," Medie Sebuliba, a Kampala resident, said.

The LRA is known for chilling violence including hacking body parts off victims, the abduction of young boys to fight and young girls to be used as sex slaves.

Attempts to negotiate peace failed in 2008 after Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, refused to sign a deal to bring an end to the killing.

Congo's minister for communications said U.S. troops had already been helping Congolese forces, but it had probably not been enough so additional assistance with logistics and training would be a bonus.

"Most of these (regional) armies are used to classical fighting, (but) the LRA is of a different nature," Lambert Mende told Reuters by telephone.

"No one can say that (will happen for sure), but I think it will be more and more difficult for them to operate as they were doing before."

This optimism was shared by Friar Benoit Kinalegu, a civil society worker who follows LRA activity in Congo's northern province of Orientale.

"The biggest problem is not the number of troops on the ground, the biggest problem is the co-ordination of military intelligence," he told Reuters by telephone.

The LRA are still launching sporadic attacks in Congo's semi-arid north, but with Kony rumored to be in CAR and the Congolese troops receiving training from the U.S. military, the situation is improving, he said.

Although the group is thought to number just a few hundred, its mobility and the difficulties of the terrain have made them difficult to tackle.

Kinalegu says he is hopeful that more engagement from the United States and better planning could bring an end to the LRA threat.

"It's been a wish of mine for a long time," he added.

Kony is from the Acholi ethnic group, which has borne the brunt of the LRA insurgency and welcomed the U.S. move.

"We the people of Acholi who have been the victims of this war, we have clearly stated that we don't condone impunity, we don't support activities of rebellion by Kony," chairwoman of the Acholi Parliamentary Group Beatrice Atim, told Reuters.

(Additional reporting by Jonny Hogg in Kinshasa; Writing by David Lewis and George Obulutsa)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111015/wl_nm/us_uganda_rebels_usa

mitch daniels tyler clementi beebe michelle malkin goodrich death penalty gary busey

New iPhone launch turns into remembrance for Jobs (AP)

NEW YORK ? It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday.

Many consumers waited in lines for hours ? sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms ? to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week.

The company's first iPhone release since Jobs' death turned into another tribute. Some customers even joked that the new model 4S stood "for Steve."

Tony Medina, a student from Manhattan, stood outside Apple's flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue for nine hours, waiting through rain. He had originally planned to order the phone online but decided to join a crowd of about 200 people to honor Jobs.

"For loyalty, I felt I had to do the line," he said. "I had to say thank you."

The new phone, which went on sale Friday in seven countries, is faster than the previous model and comes with better software and an improved camera. Yet the unveiling comes at a time when Apple is finding it difficult to maintain the excitement of previous iPhone introductions.

For starters, the phone is more widely available than in the past. In addition to Apple stores, it's also sold by three wireless carriers: AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless. Some Best Buy, Target and Walmart stores also carry the phones, as do authorized resellers.

Buyers were also able to preorder the phone on Apple's website and have it shipped to their homes or offices.

Many die-hard Apple fans and investors were disappointed that Apple did not launch a more radically redesigned new model ? an iPhone 5. It's been more than a year since Apple's previous model was released.

That also may have contributed to smaller gatherings at some Apple locations.

"People are not as excited about this version as they might have been" if an iPhone 5 came out," said Charles Prosser, a retired teacher and computer technician from Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Even so, hundreds of buyers camped out in front of stores for hours to be among the first to get an iPhone 4S.

Steve Wozniak, who created Apple with Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was first in line at a store in Los Gatos, Calif., having arrived on his Segway the afternoon before.

Wozniak, who typically waits in line for new Apple products, said he barely slept Thursday night as he was busy chatting with Apple fans, taking photos and giving autographs. Wozniak pre-ordered two new iPhones. He bought two more Friday.

"I just want to be part of an important event, so I feel it more deeply," he said.

Many said the event resembled a remembrance to Jobs, who died a day after Apple Inc. announced the new phone.

Emily Smith, a Web designer, checked in to the line in New York on the location-centric social network Foursquare. She got a virtual Steve Jobs badge that read: "Here's to the crazy ones. ThankYouSteve."

In Chicago, Nicole Pacheco dragged her brother and a friend out to buy Apple's latest gadget.

"I wanted to see how it was, to come out here for once," she said as she looked at the line that stretched past her. "We're kind of a memory for Steve Jobs. It's one of his last inventions. It kind of motivated me to get the next one."

Apple and phone companies started taking orders for the iPhone 4S last Friday. Apple said Monday that more than 1 million orders came in, breaking the record set by last year's model, which was available in fewer countries and on fewer carriers.

And a representative for AT&T said Friday that as of 4:30 EDT, it had activated a record number of iPhones and was on track to double its previous single-day record for activations.

Jobs' death could be helping sales. Marketing experts say products designed by widely admired figures such as Jobs usually see an upsurge in sales after their death.

The base model of the iPhone 4S costs $199 in the U.S. with a two-year contract. It comes with 16 gigabytes of storage. Customers can get 32 gigabytes for $299 and 64 gigabytes for $399. The phones come in white or black.

The phones also debuted Friday in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain. They are coming to 22 more countries by the end of the month.

Besides a better processor and camera, the new phone has a new operating system that allows users to sync content without needing a computer. It also includes a futuristic, voice-activated service that responds to spoken commands and questions such as "Do I need an umbrella today?"

The new features appealed to Dina Nguyen, who came to the Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., the same location where Jobs was known to show up on sale days. She and her brother, Kennedy, picked up four iPhones for their family.

The siblings said it was a bit sentimental to get the phones now, right after Jobs' death.

"He left a good legacy. He had a good life. He wanted to make people happy," Kennedy Nguyen said. "It's good to support that."

___

Associated Press writers Barbara Rodriguez in Chicago, Brooke Donald in Palo Alto, Calif., and Rachel Metz in San Francisco contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/applecomputer/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111014/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_new_iphone

david nelson pat boone psn down rem playstation network down typhoon dwts elimination

My Favorite Features of Apple???s iOS 5 (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Apple is set to release the latest version of its operating system for its iPad, iPod Touch and iPhones -- iOS 5. With more than 200 new features, Apple's iOS 5 offers users a multitude of new and updated applications for organizing, playing and messaging. Even with all the new and updated features, it was easy to pick my favorite apps from the iOS 5 release because these features will make my life more manageable.

Multitasking Gestures

As someone who cannot survive unless she is multitasking, this feature excites me more than any of the other features of iOS 5. I love being able to swipe up to get the multitasking bar or pinching with my hand to return home. However, the shortcut to switch between apps on my iPad is the best part of this feature. Use four or five fingers and swipe left or right to switch between apps quicker and easier than before.

Reminders

A better way to handle your to-do lists and reminders on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Reminders lets you organize your life in to-do lists, complete with due dates and location-based reminders (reminders that pop up when you get to a certain location). The reminders feature will work with iCal, Outlook, and iCloud, and changes update automatically on your calendars and electronic devices.

Notification Center

I hate pop-up notifications that interrupt what I am doing and then disappear faster than I can read them. Now you can get all of your alerts and notifications in one convenient place, and they will even appear on your lock screen (if you want them to). Emails, texts, friend requests and alerts from other apps that use notifications are now located in the Notification Center. To access the center, swipe down from the top of any screen, chose the notifications you want to deal with right now and you are immediately taken to the application.

PC Free

PC Free gives your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone independence. Even though most owners of an iPad or iPhone also have a computer, iOS 5 makes it easier to activate and set up your device wirelessly the moment you remove it from the box. Instead of connecting to your computer to download free iOS software updates, you can now do this directly on your device. Manage photos, download software and do more with applications without connecting to a Mac or PC. For users who hate taking time to back up their files, iOS 5 uses iCloud to back up and restore files easily without connecting to your home computer.

Split Keyboard

You may not think the new split keyboard is anything to text home about, but for those of us who text with our thumbs, this is a great addition to the iPad with iOS 5. The split keyboard allows users who type faster in text than they type on a keyboard to keep flying down the electronic highway.

Apple's iOS 5 is a free download and available from the iTunes store.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/personaltech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20111012/us_ac/10187733_my_favorite_features_of_apples_ios5

penn state football leona lewis weather chicago napa heather morris high school football scores shockwave

[Unsubsidized Loan] Subsidized And Unsubsidized Loans ...

Write-up by michael younger

Subsidized loans are these loans for which the government pays the every day curiosity your financial loan builds even though you are enrolled on a 50 percent-time or greater foundation and for the duration of any accepted intervals of deferment or forbearance. Subsidized Loans are granted to the pupils with a larger monetary require for the loan. Subsidized federal university student loans are presented to pupils with a demonstrated economic require: typically requiring a decrease household revenue. Subsidized and unsubsidized loans might be held the exact same time. Subsidized loans are awarded based mostly on financial need.

Subsidized

Subsidized loans are granted centered on fiscal want and might not be utilised to finance the household contribution. Subsidized loans have a restricted cap on how a lot you can borrow per year and are dependent upon your distinct circumstance and fiscal standing. Subsidized means it is need-primarily based and consequently the authorities pays the interest while you are in college. Subsidized loans are primarily based on financial want and the federal government pays (subsidizes) the curiosity on the loan until six months soon after the borrower leaves school.

Period

Subsidized loans are people loans for which the authorities pays the daily interest your loan builds although you are enrolled on a fifty percent-time or greater foundation and in the course of any accepted periods of deferment or forbearance. Equally types provide a grace period of time of 6 months, which implies that no repayments are because of until 6 months right after graduation or 3 months following the borrower becomes a less-than-full-time university student with out graduating. At the conclude of the 6-month period of time, the borrower gets to be responsible for the loan curiosity and repayment. If loan dollars remains, you?ll acquire the money by examine or in hard cash, except if you give the college written authorization to maintain the funds till later on in the enrollment period.

unsubsidized loans are not based mostly on fiscal require and might be employed to finance the loved ones contribution. unsubsidized loans and choice loans, which are not based on want, are available for pupils who will not qualify for want-based financial support. Unsubsidized loans demand quarterly interest payments (not principle) whilst the student is in attendance. Unsubsidized Loans are not awarded on the foundation of need to have, but they do get into consideration your cost of attendance and any other support you receive. Unsubsidized loans are available to these with or with out documented fiscal need.

Unsubsidized loans are for qualified pupils, irregardless of cash flow and assets. Unsubsidized loans are charged interest from the day the financial loan is disbursed until finally it is compensated in total, which includes in-college, grace, and deferment intervals. Unsubsidized loans are people loans for which you, the borrower, have to shell out all accrued curiosity. Unsubsidized loans present support to college students who might not show want in accordance to the require system reviewed earlier but who would benefit from getting accessibility to a very low-interest federal university student financial loan plan. Unsubsidized loans are not primarily based on monetary want and could be utilised to finance the family members contribution. Unsubsidized loans are open up to any individual, regardless of need to have, but subsidized loans are only offered to pupils who show monetary need.

Source: http://freedom-debtrelief.org/unsubsidized-loan-subsidized-and-unsubsidized-loans/

edward scissorhands billie joe armstrong wilco wilco daredevil daredevil sneakers