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Rumors have floated for the better part of a year that Google has been prepping a same-day delivery service that would pressure eBay and make even Amazon Prime seem pokey. If we're to believe a pair of New York Times contacts, it's much closer to reality. Google staffers and their close connections are supposedly in the midst of testing the extra-fast shipping option in San Francisco with at "at least one" major clothing chain participating alongside local shops. Most details are still missing, including the price premium for waiting mere hours as well as the implied mobile option; Google certainly isn't talking on the record. We're almost hoping that the story is bogus, as the last thing we need is one less reason to step outside.
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a rebel fighter retreats for cover as enemy fire targets the rebel position during clashes at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood, of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a rebel fighter retreats for cover as enemy fire targets the rebel position during clashes at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood, of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo. An Free Syrian Army fighter shoots his gun towards government troops as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter sights a government position as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter shoots a gun as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Karmal Jabl front line, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army sniper shoots his gun towards government troops as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).
BEIRUT (AP) ? The Syrian army promised to observe a four-day cease-fire for a Muslim holiday starting Friday, while rebels claimed to have taken control of new areas in the key battleground of Aleppo.
In the announcement read Thursday on state TV, the army granted itself significant loopholes, saying it will respond to rebel attacks or efforts to bolster their positions as well as the entry of fighters into Syria from neighboring countries.
The call for a four-day cease-fire for the Eid al-Adha holiday is currently the international community's only idea on how to try to stop 19 months of violence in Syria. International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi proposed the idea, saying he hopes it will lead to a longer term cease-fire and negotiations between the sides. Brahimi represents the U.N. and the Arab League.
Rebels fighting to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad have no unified command, and rebel reaction to the idea ranged from skepticism that the government would keep its promises to outright refusal.
Abdelbaset Sieda, head of the main opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Council, said he had little faith the regime would hold its fire, but that rebels would respond accordingly.
"We are awaiting the regime side. If they accept it, we will accept it also," he said by phone.
Rebel commanders inside Syria have said in recent days that they did not plan to stop fighting.
The cease-fire pledge came amid rebel claims of major advances in Syria's largest city on Thursday, with the rebels claiming to have seized area long controlled by the regime.
The two sides have been stalemated for months in the fight for Aleppo.
Activists in Aleppo reported heavy clashes citywide on Thursday, particularly around a military airport. Bassam al-Dada, a rebel spokesman, said in a phone interview that anti-regime fighters have taken several areas that have seen months of clashes, including the southwestern neighborhoods of Salaheddin and Suleiman a-Halabi.
Rebels also moved into the northern Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh for the first time and were fighting in the areas of Arqoub, Siryan, Zahra and Firqan, al-Dada said.
He said rebels now control more than half of the city and were fighting for control of Aleppo's strategic military base of Nairab.
The Syrian government made no immediate comment on the Aleppo fighting, and rebel forces have often pushed into new areas in the past, only to swiftly withdraw when faced with Assad's air power.
It was unclear if the rebels have the forces to hold the new areas.
An Aleppo activist reached via Skype also said rebels had seized Ashrafiyeh, a Kurdish neighborhood where residents of other city neighborhoods had sought refuge from the fighting.
The activist, who goes by the name of Abu Raed because of security concerns, said the rebels are moving into the neighboring Al-Siryan Al-Jadideh, a Christian area.
"It was a surprise," Abu Raed said on Skype. "It was fast progress and in an unexpected direction."
Abu Raed said he had no information on people killed or wounded in the fighting, but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 9 people were killed and 15 wounded when mortars fell on Ashrafiyeh. It said it was unclear who fired them.
Activist also reported heavy shelling and clashes in various rebel districts outside of Damascus, the capital.
Also on Thursday, the deputy head of the United Nations, Jan Eliasson, warned that there are no guarantees that a proposed Syrian cease-fire would hold but urged Syrian rebels and the regime in Damascus to observe it.
"We all have our eyes on the tragedy in Syria, and we pin our hopes now on the cease-fire that hopefully can take place," he told reporters in Geneva.
Previous cease-fire missions have failed, in part because neither Assad nor rebels trying to topple him had an incentive to end their bloody war of attrition. Both sides believe they can still make gains on the battlefield even as they are locked in a stalemate, and neither has faith in negotiations on a political transition.
Al-Dada said the regime could not be trusted.
"Our people have no truce. They have been subjected to massacres," he said.
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Associated Press writers Barbara Surk, Bassem Mroue and Karin Laub in Beirut and John Heilprin in Geneva contributed to this report.
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Buried among the numbers at yesterday's iPad and Mac event, Tim Cook announced a new version of iBooks with a few new features. From the beginning I'd heard the iPad mini was about removing weight and cost as barriers of entry to iPad sales, and about taking the ebook fight to Amazon and, as Ryan Block of GDGT aptly terms them, their Kindle line of consumer content appliances. Yet the event came and went without Apple matching the Kindle on pricing, or challenging Amazon on ebooks. Why?
Macworld's Serenity Caldwell made an excellent point at the ?ingleton Symposium earlier this month -- Amazon's leadership in ebooks is based on market quantity, not product quality. Apple's original iBooks format was far superior to Amazon's original Kindle format, and while Amazon's new Kindle format allows for a far more iBooks-like experience, Apple isn't slowing down in the rich ebook department by any means. Yet Amazon clearly has the market momentum and mind share.
As Graham Spencer of MacStories.net recently mapped, while Apple far outpaces Amazon and other competitors in many content areas, when it comes to books, its 31 country footprint is dwarfed by Amazon's 179. According to Apple Insider, Apple is reportedly adding 18 additional (mainly South American) countries shortly as well, if they haven't already, bringing the count to a still far-behind 50.
But there's a lot to unpack there. Apple announced additional language support yesterday, including Asian-languages like Chinese and Japanese (which looked gorgeous), bringing their total supported language count to 40. Amazon still seems stuck at 9, all of which require latin-based alphabets. Asia, and China in particular, are huge markets for Apple. That could make some difference going forward.
At the event, Apple announced 1.5 million items in the iBookstore. That includes picture books and "multitouch" books, and Apple claims customers have downloaded 400,000,000 iBooks since launch. Amazon claims over 1 million items in the Kindle store on their website, but Jeff Bezos said millions (plural) in his recent Kindle keynote. (Amazon's numbers seem to include magazines where Apple doesn't include magazines in iBooks, but has them in the App Store for Newsstand instead.) Among those Amazon titles, however, are 180,000 Amazon claims as exclusives, and with 100,000,000 downloads of these exclusives to date, popular ones. Add to the lending and library features, often cheaper content, and on rock-solid syncing services, and it's a solid advantage.
Textbooks complicate matters slightly. Apple held a special education event earlier in the year to announce text books for the iPad. Apple released iBooks so rich-media text books could be more easily generated. Tim Cook claimed at yesterday's even that 80% of the U.S. school core curriculum was now covered by iBooks textbooks, and that they're deployed at more than 2500 schools in the U.S. Cook also introduced a new version of iBooks Author, which included vertical templates, embedded fonts, rendered mathematical formulae, multitouch widgets, and am easier, better process for updating books. International textbook support, of course, can vary wildly for both Apple and Amazon. Amazon released the Kindle DX in the past to offer a bigger screen better geared towards the education market. Amazon no longer sells the Kindle DX, but they still offer Kindle eTextbooks, both for sale and for rental, that run on the Kindle Fire and in all Kindle apps.
And that, writ large across their catalog, is the biggest advantage Kindle books has. You can read Kindle books on Amazon's Kindle hardware, including many of them on Amazon's ultra-cheap, ultra-legible e-ink line, on Android devices, BlackBerry devices, Windows Phones, iOS devices, Mac and Windows PCs, and even the web. You can only read iBooks on iOS. There's not even a Mac client, much less a browser client. That creates a feeling of control and a sense of assurance. Even if the typography is worse, even if the app experience is worse, the lower pricing, plentiful availability, and the ability to read content on pretty much every smart device on the planet adds up to the killer feature -- ubiquity.
Apple could equal or eclipse the Kindle catalog through sheer force of deal-making, something they traditionally excel at. But platform diversity is something in which Apple has historically shown almost no interest. Apple did make iTunes for Windows, but they haven't made any iTunes apps for any other non-Apple devices. And because, unlike music, commercial ebooks are still bound by DRM (digital rights management), they can't be opened by generic ereaders either. Whether you buy Kindle books or iBooks, you're still locked into that format, though the Kindle cage is much, much bigger. (Video is the same way, but books seem to evoke an even greater demand for cross-platform compatibility.)
More content, in more places, on more devices, among other reasons, simply trumps whatever technical, interactive, and visual advantages iBooks has on iOS.
Ultimately, the ability login, be it on a $69 Kindle or high end smartphone or tablet, have access to your entire ebook library, synced and ready to go, even in base text, is compelling, and is something Apple simply can't and won't match .
Given that, my expectation that Apple would make a direct run at Amazon in the ebook space was unrealistic. Given that, a broader focus on education at yesterday's event, which would have almost certainly required a broader focus on books and textbooks, was also unrealistic. The ongoing lack of iBooks for Mac is disappointing, but a new version of iBooks and a new version of iBooks Author, keeps Apple's foot in the door, provides an amazing experience for those for whom that matters more than anything Amazon's Kindle offers, and the focus on languages maintains Apple's dominance in international markets.
Apple, not surprisingly, was far more realistic when it came to iBooks than any predictions or expectations, and that's not likely to change until the industry does.
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We've all had that moment where we sit in front of the keyboard and have trouble just getting started. It can be an especially dire problem when the 30-day deadline of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) looms overhead, and that was enough for inventor Steve Hoefer to craft his own USB progress meter. The Arduino-based contraption advances a real-world dial or gauge as the word count reaches the NaNoWriMo servers, giving that extra incentive to meet a daily goal or hit the ultimate 50,000-word mark on time. Hoefer characterizes it as a simple project for those who know their way around an Arduino controller; the toughest part for them may just be constructing the box that keeps the meter presentable. Full instructions are available after the break, although we'd hurry to build the meter before November starts. It could all too easily be the source of the very procrastination we're trying to avoid.
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The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch for parts of southeast Florida early Wednesday as Tropical Storm Sandy churned toward Jamaica, gaining speed and strength as it crossed warm Caribbean waters.
The watch, which meant tropical storm-like conditions may bear down on Florida within the next 48 hours, includes the upper Keys from Jupiter Inlet to Craig Key.
Sandy was churning in the Caribbean about 120 miles south of Jamaica as of 5 a.m. Wednesday, moving northward at about 14 mph, with winds about 70 mph, according to the hurricane center. A relatively big storm, winds extended about 140 miles from Sandy's center.
The storm was expected to strengthen and become a Category 1 hurricane as it crossed the island Wednesday and continued over Cuba and the eastern Caribbean into Thursday.
By the end of the week, Sandy should be moving north along Florida's east coast. Though it's difficult to predict what the storm would look like after crossing Jamaica and Cuba, forecasters said its impact on southeast Florida may include tropical storm-strength winds, rough surf and rain.
As it moves by the state, Sandy may bring stronger winds and lower rain chances to the Tampa Bay area, according to Bay News 9.
Meanwhile, hurricane experts have also been tracking Tropical Storm Tony, a smaller system about 1,400 miles southwest of the Azores.
Tony, moving east-northeast about 16 mph with winds of about 45 mph, was not expected to pose any threat to land.
Marissa Lang can be reached at mlang@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3386 or on Twitter @Marissa_Jae.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has canceled campaign events for the remainder of the week to spend time with her critically ill mother.
McCaskill campaign spokesman Caitlin Legacki said Tuesday that the Democratic senator is with her 84-year-old mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, at an intensive care unit of a St. Louis hospital.
McCaskill canceled campaign stops Tuesday in Mount Vernon, Butler and Clinton. Legacki said she also canceled the rest of her get-out-the-vote tour in rural Missouri and all other campaign events through the end of the week.
Legacki said McCaskill and her siblings plan to be with their mother around-the-clock at the hospital and requested prayers and privacy.
Betty Anne McCaskill has joined her daughter on numerous campaign events over the years, often focusing attention on health care issues.
Associated PressIf you're wondering if you missed the G13 and G14, don't. The Canon PowerShot G15 ($499.99 direct) is actually the successor to the PowerShot G12 , a high-end compact?camera that is now two years old. The G15 offers numerous upgrades?a 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, a faster lens, and a sharper rear display among them. It's a better camera than the G12, but it's not good enough to oust the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 ?as our Editors' Choice for high-end compact cameras.
Design and Features
The G15 is one of the few point-and-shoot cameras on the market with an optical viewfinder. Nikon dropped the finder from its latest Coolpix P7700, which leaves the G15 standing alone with the Canon PowerShot G1 X ?and the Fujifilm X10 . An optical finder makes it appealing to a certain niche of photographers, but not all viewfinders are created equal. The G15 and G1 X both have zooming finders that are rather small and dim compared to the big, bright one packed into the X10. If you're buying on that feature alone, the X10 is the clear winner.
At 3 by 4.2 by 1.6 inches (HWD) and 12.4 ounces, the G15 is larger and heavier than a smaller big-sensor camera like the Canon PowerShot S110, which features the same size 1/1.7-inch CMOS image sensor, but omits the optical finder and hot shoe. The S110 is much easier to slide into your pocket at 2.3 by 3.9 by 1.1 inches (HWD) and only 7 ounces.
The 5x zoom lens covers a 28-140mm equivalent field of view, with a variable aperture that starts at f/1.8 at the wide end and drops to a very reasonable f/2.8 on the telephoto side. It's faster on both ends than the G12, which starts at f/2.8 and dwindles to f/4.5 when zoomed in. The Sony RX100, which features a larger 1-inch image sensor, starts at f/1.8 but drops to f/4.9 when zoomed in?that camera does better at very high ISO settings, however, which nullifies the G15's advantage in lens speed.
The rear LCD is 3 inches in size and, unlike the G12 and G1 X, lacks an articulating arm. Despite being fixed, it is very sharp thanks to a 922k-dot resolution, and bright enough for use on sunny days. Physical controls on the G15 are plentiful, a fact that is sure to please demanding photographers. There's a Mode dial up top, along with a dedicated dial to adjust EV Compensation, the On/Off button, and shutter release. A control wheel is located on the front of the camera, and there's a dial that doubles as a four-way controller on the back. There are buttons to adjust ISO, macro focusing, flash options, the autofocus area, and the metering mode?other settings are adjusted via a software overlay menu. Missing are wireless connectivity options?there's no GPS or Wi-Fi built-in. These extras aren't standard issue on point-and-shoot cameras, but they are becoming more and more common. Canon's own PowerShot S110 integrates Wi-Fi, and its new full-frame EOS 6D D-SLR offers both Wi-Fi and GPS.
Performance and Conclusions
In terms of speed, it can't catch a D-SLR, but the G15 keeps up with others in its class. It starts and shoots in 2.3 seconds, can snap a photo every 0.55 second in continuous drive mode, and notches a relatively short 0.2-second shutter lag. It doesn't have the same slow autofocus that plagued the large-sensor G1 X, which notches a 0.4-second shutter lag, fires off a photo every 0.6 second, and requires 2.5 seconds to start and shoot.
Imatest confirms that the G15 has a sharp lens?it scores 1,918 lines per picture height, better than the 1,800 lines required for a sharp image. Noise is controlled through ISO 1600, and image detail is excellent at this setting even when shooting JPG images?the G15 also supports Raw capture. Images hit 1.8 percent at ISO 3200, just over the 1.5 percent mark?which is what we use to define an image with acceptable noise. Detail isn't as good at this setting as it is at ISO 1600, but it is useable when lighting conditions call for it. The Sony RX100 does better at higher ISO settings?it keeps noise under control through ISO 6400.
The G15 records QuickTime video in 1080p24, 720p30, or 480p30 quality. The quality is excellent, with sharp detail and accurate colors. Like in other recent Canon cameras, 1080p video is limited to 24 frames per second, which is disappointing. Some point-and-shoots, like the Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS ?capture ultra-smooth 1080p60 video. The 24fps look is sometimes desirable, especially when trying to achieve a cinematic look, but the option to roll 1080p30 footage would have been nice. In addition to the standard hot shoe, there are mini HDMI, mini USB, and wired remote control ports. The G15 supports all standard SD, SHDC, and SDXC memory cards.
The G15 is a very good, but not great, compact camera. Its image quality and physical control layout are excellent?there's nothing bad to say about either. But its other strengths have caveats. There's an optical viewfinder, but it's not nearly as good as the one packed into the Fujifilm X10. Its rear LCD is extremely sharp, but it doesn't rotate like that of the Canon G1 X. The lens has a fast aperture throughout, though the camera doesn't perform as well at higher ISO settings as our Editors' Choice Sony RX100. But that large-sensor compact is priced higher at $650. If you are looking for a digital compact with an optical viewfinder, your choices are limited. Overall, I prefer the experience of shooting with the Fujifilm X10, but Canon D-SLR owners or owners of previous-generation G cameras will want to consider the G15 for its familiarity and compatibility with Speedlite flashes and other Canon accessories.
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A gay man says he was physically and verbally abused by members of his North Carolina church while being detained for several months in a church dormitory.
Michael Lowry, 22, told ABC News that he was approached by a leader from the Word of Faith Fellowship Church, who asked him what his deepest secret was. When Lowry replied, "I'm never telling," he said he was knocked unconscious and then kept in a church dormitory from August to November 2011 with other young men who were having problems at home.
?The doors were locked, it was jail,? he said to the Charlotte Observer. ?You weren?t allowed to speak to your family. Many of the men had wives and children, but they weren?t able to communicate with them.? He eventually told church leaders that he wanted to leave, and they let him go.
Jane Whaley, the church's former pastor, said Lowry's allegations were "lies" and that he was free to leave at any time. She said Lowry was not held or beaten, but then added that she only learned about what happened to Lowry after he spoke to news outlets about the attacks.
Lowry first came out as a teenager to his family and church members, but that led to a steady stream of harassment. Despite this, Lowry wanted to be a minister, and remained active in the church. Still, Lowry said church members had previously tried to exorcise "demons" from him, which they believed caused his homosexuality. During his time in the dormitory, Lowry said church members used the method of "blasting," which requires hands-on, high-pitched, screaming prayer.
The Word of Faith church has previously been investigated for its treatment of children.
After he was able to leave the church dormitory, Lowry fled to Michigan to live with other family members. He then returned to North Carolina to file a complaint against the church in February, and now Rutherford County district attorney Brad Greenway is leading an investigation. He told the Charlotte Observer that it was too soon to tell whether the case could reach a grand jury.
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2. ? Back at the left side click onto the little icon shaped like an?artist?palette. The rainbow color bar appears and you will see a little dropper just above the bar to the right. Click on the rainbow bar anywhere, then on the dropper picture, and your cursor becomes the dropper. Take it to your?inspiration?photo and choose a color from it. I am choosing the palest yellow I can find for mine. Left click when you have your color picked.
3. ? ?Now drag your inspiration photo off the collage. When it is completely off the collage you will see that the entire background is the color you picked. This is your base for your scrapbook papers. Click save at the top and choose a name for your collection. Mine is named 'Debra's Zinnias' :) Close the window by clicking the X in the upper right hand corner.
4. ? ?On the PicMonkey home screen choose 'Edit a Photo', then upload your blank colored scrap book paper your just made. In the left column click 'crop' and choose?'8x10' in the drop down box. Click 'apply'. Your paper is now a standard 8x10. Save this to your pictures as it will become the base for your next papers.?
5. ? Click 'Overlays' in the left column and at the top choose 'Your Own', and then upload your inspiration photo. Expand it, (move your cursor over the outline around the photo. An arrow pointing to each side will appear. Hold down you left mouse button and pull) to cover a good portion of your base paper. A color bar will be to the right.?
7. ? ?Decide what you want to design for your scrapbook papers. I will do stripes today. Again click on 'Overlays' and choose 'Geometric', then choose the rectangle.?
A black rectangle will appear on your paper. Pull it so it goes from top to bottom (or side to side) on your base paper then pull the sides in to make a thin stripe the size you want.?
8. ? ?There will be a color bar available; with the stripe still selected,?click on the rainbow bar and then click on the small bar to the right to get your dropper. Take the dropper to you?inspiration?photo, and choose a color for your?stripe. Click when you have the color you want. I chose to fade mine 25%; the fade?adjuster?is also on the color bar. Now select your?inspiration?photo and move it all the way to the right until it is hidden. It will still be there even though you don't see it when you need it later.
9. ? Once your stripe is like you want it right click your mouse and choose 'Duplicate Overlay' as many times as you would like; you can always delete extra overlays. I choose to have five strips this color and size. I moved them around where I wanted them to be. Make sure these stripes cover top to bottom completely. Then I duplicated one, made it thinner, and duplicated it four more times.?
10. ?Pull your hidden?inspirational?photo back onto you paper and choose another rectangle overlay. Repeat with sizing, color, and when it's the way you want it, move your?inspirational?photo out of the way. Duplicate until you have as many stripes as you want. I choose to make a couple of different sizes in green and faded this one 50%. I wanted one more color so I brought back my inspirational photo and choose a darker yellow and repeated until I had it just as I wanted it. I decided to move some of the stripes around and change the sizes of some of them too.?
Then to finish, I chose 'Merge' on the top bar?to merge all the overlays together. Merging?fuses?your design; you can add more to it but you can't change what you already made. Then, I saved my stripes to my computer using my design name, Debra's Zinnias stripes.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer said on Monday.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in August and sentenced to two years in jail, a punishment that many in the West said was too harsh.
Their stunt - bursting into Moscow's main Russian Orthodox Cathedral to urge the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin - infuriated the church and many Russians. But Kremlin critics said their trial was part of a crackdown on dissent orchestrated by Putin, who began a six-year presidential term in May.
The two women lost their appeals on October 10.
The women's lawyers said they had tried to argue that they should be allowed to remain in jail in Moscow, saying it would have permitted them to be closer to their small children. They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.
"They have been sent away," one of their lawyers, Mark Feigin, told Reuters, saying he did not know where the women had been dispatched. By law, relatives must be informed once a convict arrives at a prison, but the trip can take days.
One women's prison is about 100 km (60 miles) from Moscow, but most are much further away.
Former collaborators in a street-art group said on Twitter that Tolokonnikova had been sent to Mordovia, about 500 km (300 miles) east of Moscow, and Alyokhina to the Perm region, near the Ural Mountains about 1,100 km (700 miles) east of the capital. That was not confirmed.
The duo had been held in a Moscow detention center since their arrests in March. Western governments and musicians like Madonna had said their sentences were disproportionate, but Putin voiced support for the sentences, saying the state must protect the feelings of the faithful.
The dominant Russian Orthodox Church has cast their protest as part of a concerted attack against the church and Russian traditions.
A third convicted member of Pussy Riot, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on appeal when a court suspended her sentence after her lawyer argued that she had been pulled away from the cathedral's altar before the protest song began.
(Reporting by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Andrew Osborn)
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? Clinical evidence of the safety and effectiveness of electrical stimulation of a muscular valve in the esophagus demonstrates promising results in resolving symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) and is being presented at the 77th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Las Vegas, NV on October 22.
Three studies examined small numbers of patients who had a device implanted that uses low energy electrical pulses to strengthen a weak or dysfunctional lower esophageal sphincter (LES) which is the underlying cause of GERD or acid reflux. The LES is the ring shaped muscular valve that keeps the acidic contents of the stomach from the esophagus, or food tube.
Two studies by investigators Michael Crowell, Ph.D., FACG of Mayo Clinic Scottsdale and Edy Soffer, MD, FACG of the University of Southern California looked at various endpoints including esophageal acid exposure, improvement in GERD symptoms, and reduction of use of acid-suppressing medications known as proton pump inhibitors. In a study of 25 patients, the investigators found that 77 percent of patients reported either normalization or at least a 50 percent reduction in PPI use. At 12 months after the implant of the device, there was a statistically significant improvement in patients' scores on a scale measuring health-related quality of life for patients with GERD. The authors conclude, "Electrical stimulation of the lower esophageal sphincter is effective for treating patients with GERD over long-term year duration." The authors reported relationships with the Netherlands-based EndoStim BV which manufactures the device.
In a separate and unrelated study, Arjan Bredenoord, MD and colleagues at the University Medical Center Utrecht in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, presented a study at ACG of eleven patients with refractory GERD symptoms with devices implanted in the LES. They found that ten of the eleven patients (91 percent) were able to discontinue PPI medications. Overall, their research revealed a statistically significant improvement in patients' GERD symptoms, as well as a trend in improvement in their esophageal pH.
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Published Sunday, October 21, 2012, 7:47 AM
Updated Sunday, October 21, 2012, 7:47 AM
Nathan Young, a young Irish atheist, has made an official complaint after his school forced him to attend a multi-denominational prayer service.
A young Irish atheist has made an official complaint after his school forced him to attend a multi-denominational prayer service.
Teenager Nathan Young has complained to the Irish Human Rights Commission that his vocational education committee (VEC) school breached his human rights.
The 16-year-old student at Borrisokane community college in Tipperary has demanded that the school principal apologize and promise not to make religious events mandatory for students in the future.
His father Chris Young has told the Irish edition of the Sunday Times newspaper that he supports his son?s decision.
The paper reports that VEC schools refer to themselves as multi-denominational or non-denominational.
Nathan told the paper that he will continue to attend the school because he thought students were "free from others forcing their ideas upon them."
He said he could not understand how the community college could allow "religion to call a halt to normal school activity, with full support from the staff."
The report says that Young had asked his class tutor on Tuesday if he could opt out of the prayer service in the school?s canteen and the teacher relayed his request to principal Matthew Carr.
The paper says that Young was later informed by his tutor that the principal had said "everyone has to attend."
He was refused permission to leave the service by the acting deputy vice-principal who told him it was a ?multi-denominational event for all religions?.
Young disputes a claim by one of the religion teachers who wrote the service?s programme that it was for ?Christians or atheists or agnostics or whatever?.
He claims God was mentioned 28 times and Jesus six through-out the service, which included three hymns, two Bible
readings and references to baptism and the Eucharistic Congress.
He said: ?A prayer of the faithful described the students as a ?Christian community.
?We shouldn?t have to be told vicarious redemption stories some of us believe to be false.
?Although they are the majority, the Christians have no right to claim the entire school community as theirs or to force people to join their hollering.
?The school?s few agnostic and atheist students should have been given the option of not attending, as should the even fewer Buddhists and assorted spiritualists, and of course Christians themselves.?
Young was born in England and raised in Ireland as an Anglican, but now considers himself an atheist and anti-theist. He said he wanted Borrisokane to become secular but would settle for an apology.
Principal Carr told the Sunday Times he had not yet read Young?s correspondence and declined to comment on whether the school had committed a breach of the student?s human rights.
?We have a prayer service to mark the beginning of the school year and students are expected to attend,? said Carr. ?We are a multi-denominational school but the majority of students would be Catholic or Protestant.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972, died before dawn Sunday. He was 90.
A spokesman for McGovern's family, Steve Hildebrand, told The Associated Press by telephone that McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and lifelong friends.
"We are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life advocating for the hungry, being a progressive voice for millions and fighting for peace. He continued giving speeches, writing and advising all the way up to and past his 90th birthday, which he celebrated this summer," a family statement released by Hildebrand said.
A decorated World War II bomber pilot, McGovern said he learned to hate war by waging it. In his disastrous race against Nixon, he promised to end the conflict in Vietnam and cut defense spending by billions of dollars. He helped create the Food for Peace program and spent much of his career believing the United States should be more accommodating to the former Soviet Union.
Never a showman, he made his case with a style as plain as the prairies where he grew up, often sounding more like the Methodist minister he'd once studied to be than a longtime U.S. senator and three-time candidate for president.
And McGovern never shied from the word "liberal," even as other Democrats blanched at the label and Republicans used it as an epithet.
"I am a liberal and always have been," McGovern said in 2001. "Just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be."
Americans voting for president in 1972 were aware of the Watergate break-in, but the most damaging details of Nixon's involvement wouldn't emerge until after Election Day. McGovern tried to make a campaign issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, and he called Nixon the most corrupt president in history, but the issue could not eclipse the embarrassing missteps of his own campaign.
McGovern was tortured by the selection of Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton as the vice presidential nominee, and 18 days later, following the disclosure that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression, the decision to drop him from the ticket despite having pledged to back him "1,000 percent."
It was at once the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and called "possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate" by the late political writer Theodore H. White.
After a hard day's campaigning ? Nixon did virtually none ? McGovern would complain to those around him that nobody was paying attention. With R. Sargent Shriver as his running mate, he went on to carry only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, winning just 38 percent of the popular vote.
"Tom and I ran into a little snag back in 1972 that in the light of my much advanced wisdom today, I think was vastly exaggerated," McGovern said at an event with Eagleton in 2005. Noting that Nixon and his running mate, Spiro Agnew, would both ultimately resign, he joked, "If we had run in '74 instead of '72, it would have been a piece of cake."
McGovern's campaign, nevertheless, left a lasting imprint on American politics. Determined not to make the same mistake, presidential nominees have since interviewed and intensely investigated their choices for vice president. Former President Bill Clinton got his start in politics when he signed on as a campaign worker for McGovern and is among the legion of Democrats who credit him with inspiring them to public service.
"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat," Clinton said in 2006 at the dedication of McGovern's library in Mitchell, S.D. "Senator, the fires you lit then still burn in countless hearts."
George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in the small farm town of Avon, S.D, the son of a Methodist pastor. He was raised in Mitchell, shy and quiet until he was recruited for the high school debate team and found his niche. He enrolled at Dakota Wesleyan University in his hometown and, already a private pilot, volunteered for the Army Air Force soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Army didn't have enough airfields or training planes to take him until 1943. He married his wife, Eleanor Stegeberg, and arrived in Italy the next year. That would be his base for the 35 missions he flew in the B-24 Liberator christened the "Dakota Queen" after his new bride.
In a December 1944 bombing raid on the Cezch city of Pilsen, McGovern's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire that disabled one engine and set fire to another. He nursed the B-24 back to a British airfield on an island in the Adriatic Sea, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. On his final mission, his plane was hit several times, but he managed to get it back safety ? one of the actions for which he received the Air Medal.
McGovern returned to Mitchell and graduated from Dakota Wesleyan after the war's end, and after a year of divinity school, switched to the study of history and political science at Northwestern University. He earned his masters and doctoral degrees, returned to Dakota Wesleyan to teach history and government, and switched from his family's Republican roots to the Democratic Party.
"I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American," he said.
In the early 1950s, Democrats held no major offices in South Dakota and only a handful of legislative seats. McGovern, who had gotten into Democratic politics as a campaign volunteer, left teaching in 1953 to become executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Three years later, he won an upset election to the House; he served two terms and left to run for Senate.
Challenging conservative Republican Sen. Karl Mundt in 1960, he lost what he called his "worst campaign." He said later that he'd hated Mundt so much that he'd lost his sense of balance.
President John F. Kennedy named McGovern head of the Food for Peace program, which sends U.S. commodities to deprived areas around the world. He made a second Senate bid in 1962, unseating Sen. Joe Bottum by just 597 votes. He was the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from South Dakota since 1930.
In his first year in office, McGovern took to the Senate floor to say that the Vietnam War was a trap that would haunt the United States ? a speech that drew little notice. He voted the following August in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution under which President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the U.S. war in the southeast Asian nation.
While McGovern continued to vote to pay for the war, he did so while speaking against it. As the war escalated, so did his opposition. Late in 1969, McGovern called for a cease-fire in Vietnam and the withdrawal of all U.S. troops within a year. He later co-sponsored a Senate amendment to cut off appropriations for the war by the end of 1971. It failed, but not before McGovern had taken the floor to declare "this chamber reeks of blood" and to demand an end to "this damnable war."
McGovern first sought the Democratic presidential nomination late in the 1968 campaign, saying he would take up the cause of the assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He finished far behind Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who won the nomination, and Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who had led the anti-war challenge to Johnson in the primaries earlier in the year. McGovern later called his bid an "anti-organization" effort against the Humphrey steamroller.
"At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early," McGovern quipped at the time.
The following year, McGovern led a Democratic Party reform commission that shifted to voters' power that had been wielded by party leaders and bosses at the national conventions. The result was the system of presidential primary elections and caucuses that now selects the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
In 1972, McGovern ran under the rules he had helped write. Initially considered a longshot against Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, McGovern built a bottom-up campaign organization and went to the Democratic national convention in command. He was the first candidate to gain a nominating majority in the primaries before the convention.
It was a meeting filled with intramural wrangling and speeches that verged on filibusters. By the time McGovern delivered his climactic speech accepting the nomination, it was 2:48 a.m., and with most of America asleep, he lost his last and best chance to make his case to a nationwide audience.
McGovern did not know before selecting Eagleton of his running mate's mental health woes, and after dropping him from the ticket, struggled to find a replacement. Several Democrats said no, and a joke made the rounds that there was a signup sheet in the Senate cloakroom. Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, finally agreed.
The campaign limped into the fall on a platform advocating withdrawal from Vietnam in exchange for the release of POWs, cutting defense spending by a third and establishing an income floor for all Americans. McGovern had dropped an early proposal to give every American $1,000 a year, but the Republicans continued to ridicule it as "the demogrant." They painted McGovern as an extreme leftist and Democrats as the party of "amnesty, abortion and acid."
While McGovern said little about his decorated service in World War II, Republicans depicted him as a weak peace activist. At one point, McGovern was forced to defend himself against assertions he had shirked combat.
He'd had enough when a young man at the airport fence in Battle Creek, Mich., taunted that Nixon would clobber him. McGovern leaned in and said quietly: "I've got a secret for you. Kiss my ass." A conservative Senate colleague later told McGovern it was his best line of the campaign.
Defeated by Nixon, McGovern returned to the Senate and pressed there to end the Vietnam war while championing agriculture, anti-hunger and food stamp programs in the United States and food programs abroad. He won re-election to the Senate in 1974, by which point he could make wry jokes about his presidential defeat.
"For many years, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way ? and last year, I sure did," he told a formal press dinner in Washington.
Defeated in his bid for a fourth Senate term in the 1980 Republican landslide that made Ronald Reagan president, McGovern went on to teach and lecture at universities, and found a liberal political action committee. He made a longshot bid in the 1984 presidential race with a call to end U.S. military involvement in Lebanon and Central America and open arms talks with the Soviets. Former Vice President Walter Mondale won the Democratic nomination and went on to lose to President Ronald Reagan by an even bigger margin in electoral votes than had McGovern to Nixon.
He talked of running a final time for president in 1992, but decided it was time for somebody younger and with fewer political scars.
After his career in office ended, McGovern served as U.S. ambassador to the Rome-based United Nation's food agencies from 1998 to 2001 and spent his later years working to feed needy children around the world. He and former Republican Sen. Bob Dole collaborated to create an international food for education and child nutrition program, for which they shared the 2008 World Food Prize.
"I want to live long enough to see all of the 300 million school-age kids around the world who are not being fed be given a good nutritional lunch every day," McGovern said in 2006.
His opposition to armed conflict remained a constant long after he retired. Shortly before Iowa's caucuses in 2004, McGovern endorsed retired Gen. Wesley Clark, and compared his own opposition to the Vietnam War to Clark's criticism of President George W. Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq. One of the 10 books McGovern wrote was 2006's "Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now," written with William R. Polk.
In early 2002, George and Eleanor McGovern returned to Mitchell, where they helped raise money for a library bearing their names. Eleanor McGovern died there in 2007 at age 85; they had been married 64 years, and had four daughters and a son.
"I don't know what kind of president I would have been, but Eleanor would have been a great first lady," he said after his wife's death in 2007.
One of their daughters, Teresa, was found dead in a Madison, Wis., snowdrift in 1994 after battling alcoholism for years. He recounted her struggle in his 1996 book "Terry," and described the writing of it as "the most painful undertaking in my life." It was briefly a best seller and he used the proceeds to help set up a treatment center for victims of alcoholism and mental illness in Madison.
Before the 2008 presidential campaign, McGovern endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination but switched to Barack Obama that May. He called the future president "a moderate," cautious in his ways, who wouldn't waste money or do "anything reckless."
"I think Barack will emerge as one of our great ones," he said in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press. "It will be a victory for moderate liberalism."
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McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service: http://www.mcgoverncenter.com
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.
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There have been recent reports that running frequently, which entails at least once a week, may also be beneficial to participants' mental health as well as their physical health. Many people in the United Kingdom suffer from depression or anxiety, with cases worsening as winter sets in, and previous to recent findings there had not been any evidence that running was a good way to combat these issues. Exercise obviously raises the heart rate, pumps more blood around the body and oxygen to the brain, but more than that, the psychological side of things - it gets those that are depressed out of the house. Simple things like fresh air and just being out in the open, are great elements to tackle those suffering from anxiety or other facets of mental illness.
A few years ago In Kent a group of women started Up and Running, an exercise group aimed to provide support for those with mental health problems. Since its inception Up and Running has grown in size and proved very popular with local women keen to improve their health both physically and mentally. However they are keen to make it clear that they are not there to provide therapy, there's no pressure to talk about depression or anxiety, simply get some exercise with some like minded ladies.
In order to aid this easy going approach there's no set goals for the running group, this isn't like boot camp. Distance is gradually increased week on week however the heads of the group don't want the other members to think of it as another obstacle, another thing they have to deal with, another thing they might fail at. So to avoid being daunted by it, the fitness goals are set out and fairly optional, it's all very laid back. The main thing is to participate and enjoy yourself, get some exercise and be around other people who may sometimes feel down too.
Some doctors and general practitioners are still undecided about the medical and scientific impact exercise can have on mental illness. But this doesn't dissuade the Up and Running team who believe that the combination of exercising outdoors and the social aspect involving a mutually supportive group of other people who have experienced similar problems is very positive and provides a very real improvement on the degrees of depression and anxiety experienced by other group members. Participants also agree, saying that the freedom to talk with others about your problems is very helpful, but you don't need to discuss mental health, you can talk about weather, family and friends or the price of peas, all while quickening your heart rate and improving your physical fitness.
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Being the subject of a documentary movie several years ago inspired Joshua Short to enroll in film production classes at Delgado Community College, according to his twin brother, Jonathan. Jonathan?said Joshua?dreamed about capturing and telling stories the way his and his brother's story was depicted by filmmakers Vince Morelli and Jason Berry in "Left Behind: The Story of the New Orleans Public Schools."
Late Tuesday, someone shot Joshua Short in the face in the 2600 block of Dumaine Street, where he grew up and had just attended a Night Out Against Crime party. He died the following day at a hospital, becoming?at least the sixth person to be slain on that stretch of Dumaine since Hurricane Katrina. He was 25.
Jonathan Short on Friday fought back tears as he noted the depressing irony of?the night on which his twin was killed. "It's ridiculous it was Night Out Against Crime," Jonathan said. "It's just horrible."
Jonathan?said his brother had lingered on Dumaine Street following the Night Out Against Crime event to visit a teen he tutored and practiced basketball with. "My brother had a heart of gold," Jonathan?said. "He didn't really believe too much in adults. But he knew kids were the future."
In "Left Behind," viewers were introduced to Jonathan and Joshua Short when they were seniors at Walter L. Cohen High School during the 2004-05 academic year. The brothers had shared an apartment and managed to support themselves for three years while their parents were missing from their lives. "Left Behind" explored the challenges local public school students like the Short twins face.
Jonathan?said he graduated from Cohen, and his twin obtained a GED. Joshua pursued his film studies at Delgado and had been selected to attend a competitive boot camp for production assistants this weekend.
Meanwhile, Joshua forwarded his resume to a wide range of employers, from those seeking dishwashers to those needing general laborers. "Whatever he could apply for, that's what my brother applied for," said Jonathan, who examined his brother's e-mail account after the homicide. "He must have two sent two resumes daily this summer."
Joshua?struggled to find employment, his brother said, but he tried to make the most of his spare time, such as?by?helping the Dumaine Street teen do his homework and improve his basketball skills.?"Joshua had a rough upbringing," his brother said. "He knew that kid shouldn't have to go through that. They would do things so that young guy wouldn't be sitting on Dumaine Street with nothing to do."
On top of that, Joshua?took film jobs from Berry whenever they were available. During the NCAA Men's Final Four?basketball championship in New Orleans this spring, for example, he helped Berry record a Jimmy Buffett concert at Woldenberg Park.
Berry recalls how he and Joshua?rode in an elevator at a nearby hotel with legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight.?Joshua "freaked out," Berry said. "It was a huge experience for him to meet Coach Knight."
Authorities haven't publicly discussed exactly what unfolded when Short was shot about 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Jonathan?said his brother had gone to the Night Out Against Crime gathering to greet friends and visit the youth he was mentoring. Jonathan doesn't believe the deadly gunfire was meant for either his twin or his friend.
Berry lamented that Joshua Short became the second student profiled in "Left Behind" to fall victim to shooting violence in New Orleans. The first, Mario Pleasant, survived when he was attacked in the middle of filming the documentary.
"For an act of violence like this to take Joshua's life, it makes me very angry," Berry said. "I'm fed up with it. The entire point of the documentary, for me, was (to show) the way we are treating our children is leading to this epidemic of violence. I don't see it getting any better. I don't see any changes being made."
Anyone with information?about Joshua Short's killing is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111 or toll-free at 877.903.7867. People can also text tips to C-R-I-M-E-S (274637); text TELLCS and then the crime information. Callers or texters do not have to give their names or testify and can earn a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an indictment.
Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/10/deadly_dumaine_street_shooting.html
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PARIS (AP) ? Pilgrims trek by the millions each year to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes, many looking to drink its spring waters reputed for their healing powers. This time, visitors were fleeing a different kind of water ? floodwaters ? in the southwestern French town.
Rescue teams helped hundreds of pilgrims escape waterlogged hotels on Saturday after heavy rains led the Gave River to overrun its banks ? and even wash up into the town's famed grotto, where many Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.
The regional government issued a statement late Saturday saying 427 people had been evacuated from their hotels. The Red Cross and regional authorities provided food and shelter to the escapees, as authorities warned of forecasts for more rain in the region.
In one televised image, a rescuer waded waist-deep into a hotel lobby with a red boat in tow and teams helped elderly visitors inside for a trip to higher ground. Others showed a fast-flowing, white-water river rumbling through the town, and the grotto ? or cave ? was filled with about 1.5 meters of water, under a niche statute of the Virgin Mary.
Visits to the grotto were temporarily suspended. Officials say the town draws about 6 million visitors a year ? mainly looking to see the grotto. The shrine has special meaning for the suffering, many of whom believe its spring water can heal and even work miracles.
Thierry Castillo, director of the nearby Lourdes sanctuary, said visitors had shown "understanding" and predicted that the grotto would remain closed at least through Monday.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/floods-france-prompt-evacuations-shrine-town-201259854.html
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