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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Apple updates iPad 2 Smart Covers, kills off orange, adds dark gray
Apple has updated its iPad 2 line of Smart Covers, killing off the orange polyurethane version and replacing it with a much more tasteful dark gray version. It has also improved the other colors in the polyurethane range, which it claims are now more vibrant — they...
NCAA weighing $2,000 payments to student athletes (AP)
WASHINGTON ? NCAA President Mark Emmert says he supports a proposal to allow conferences to increase grants to student athletes by $2,000, "to more closely approach" the full cost of attending college, beyond the athletic scholarships athletes receive for tuition, fees, room, board and books.
Emmert told the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on Monday that the proposal will be finalized this week and he'll ask the NCAA Division I Board of Directors to support it. He noted that student athletes have limited opportunities to work outside the classroom and playing fields, and that the current model of athletic scholarship hasn't changed for 40 years.
Emmert says he'll also ask the board to allow colleges and universities to provide multiyear grants, instead of year-to-year scholarships.
"This week, I'll be asking the board to support a proposal to allow conferences ? not mandate anyone, but allow conferences, not individual institutions ? to increase the value of an athletic grant in aid to more closely approach the full cost of attendance," Emmert said.
"We are going to create a model that would allow ? probably ... up to $2,000 in addition to" tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Newborn found in bag in church parking lot
Authorities in a Chicago suburb were searching Monday for the mother of a newborn girl found abandoned Sunday inside a recyclable grocery bag in a church parking lot.
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Members of the Gospel Presbyterian Church in Schaumburg, Ill., were heading to their vehicles after services on Sunday afternoon when members of one family discovered a green canvas bag on the hood of their car, the Schaumburg Police Department said.
They looked inside, saw a teddy bear and towel, and turned the bag over to church officials, assuming another member of the congregation had left it behind.
But when other church members heard crying coming from inside the bag, they took another look and found a 7-pound baby girl of Asian ethnicity tucked underneath the teddy bear and towel, Schaumburg police said.
The baby, a few days old and in good health, according to police, was transported to a local hospital for observation. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services will take custody of her once she has been released.
Illinois' so-called "safe haven" law allows parents to give up their newborn infants ? no questions asked ? if they feel they cannot provide for them.
But the law only provides parents with immunity from prosecution if the baby is left at a hospital, fire station or police station.
"We don't know who the mother is and are hoping that the public will help us identify her," said Sgt. John Nebl, public information officer for the Schaumburg Police Department.
"First and foremost we want to make sure that the mother is healthy mentally and physically, and that she voluntarily relinquished child."?
Hospital officials told Schaumburg police the baby likely was not born in a hospital because of the length of the unclamped umbilical cord. She appears to have been carried to full term, according to hospital officials.
Anybody with information about the baby or her mother is requested to call the Schaumburg Police Department Investigations Division at 847-882-3534.
Reuters and NBCChicago.com contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45015781/ns/us_news-life/
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Immigration, energy top Swiss election agenda (AP)
BERN, Switzerland ? Swiss citizens voting in national elections Sunday were poised to hand nationalists an unprecedented 30 percent voice, following voting dominated by concerns about immigration, nuclear power and the economy.
The Swiss People's Party is well ahead of other parties, at 29.3 percent in a recent opinion poll. It has been running campaign ads that stoke fears of immigrants spoiling an Alpine nation that's been an oasis of relative stability within stormy Europe.
The party's striking posters of black boots stomping on the Swiss flag with the message "Stop Mass Immigration" build on earlier graphically successful campaigns featuring white sheep kicking out a black sheep or dark hands grasping for Swiss passports.
"Because the people are the sovereign, because we have this very special (political) system, for us it's not acceptable that we have to open the frontiers and we have no possibility to say who can come, and under which conditions. We want to regulate this," said Oskar Freysinger, a hardline People's Party lawmaker.
But the center-right nationalists are competing with two small green parties and environmental-minded candidates of all stripes making gains amid growing anti-nuclear power sentiment in the wake of the March disaster at Japan's Fukushima reactor.
The parliamentary election largely determines the composition of the Cabinet, where the ministers run federal agencies and take turns as president for a year. The result of this election, which is held once every four years, could lead to a shift in Switzerland's multiparty, consensus-focused Cabinet.
The Swiss People's Party is expected to demand a second seat in the seven-member Cabinet if it gains the most votes, which could force more moderate parties to vacate one of their seats.
Bern architect Timo Odoni pushed a stroller with his twin 1-year-old sons ? half Swiss, half Sri Lankan ? and the family's dog to the polls in Bern on a foggy Sunday morning.
Nearby, a small group of tourists had the central square to themselves gazing at the Swiss parliament building and Swiss National Bank. The young father frowned as he passed one of the Swiss nationalists' posters on the quiet morning streets.
"I just can't stand how they do their posters, because it reminds me of 60 years before, in Germany, a little bit. And we have to do something about it," Odoni said.
"I certainly will vote the green and left parties," he said. "We have no problem with immigration, really. We have other problems, but not this problem."
Gains on the left and right would be nothing new amid the contradictions of Swiss politics.
It's a nation of increasing xenophobia and yet there are thousands of foreign workers and its residents have four official languages ? and often switch readily between German and French, or English, as they welcome millions of tourists each year.
Switzerland also provides a home to refugees and is committed to humanitarian work like that of the Red Cross, and allows European Union nationals to enter without a passport as part of the border-free Schengen Zone.
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Wilderness Communications | WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the ...
When an emergency situation arises in a remote location, the ability to communicate with outside sources of assistance can prove very valuable. ?Wilderness Medical Society published an excellent review of communication options for emergency use in remote locations.? The article reviews the different types of communications technologies available to individuals in remote locations, including satellite telephones, personal locator beacons, satellite messengers, cellular telephones, and the different licensed and non-licensed 2-way radio services available for personal use. It also discusses basic radio communications techniques, emergency communication, requesting ground or air casualty evacuation, and selecting communications devices for different applications.
Source: http://www.wintercampers.com/2011/10/21/wilderness-communications/
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'Stimulus 2.0'? Senate rejects bid to revive parts of Obama jobs bill.
Senate Republicans and moderate Democrats blocked the first attempt by to pass a scaled-down version of the $447 billion Obama jobs bill, calling it a 'bailout.'
In a rebuff to President Obama?s jobs strategy, Senate Republicans late Thursday blocked a $35 billion bill to avoid or reverse layoffs of teachers, firefighters, and police ? setting up an ongoing dispute for the 2012 election cycle.
Skip to next paragraphThe vote marked the first attempt by Senate Democrats to pass a scaled-down version of the president?s $447 billion jobs plan, which the Senate rejected on Oct. 12.
The measure failed 50 to 50 ? 10 short of the 60 votes needed to allow debate on the measure ? with Sens. Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska, Mark Pryor (D) of Arkansas, and Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut, voting with all Republicans to oppose the measure.
Majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada is planning three stand-alone votes on other aspects of the Obama jobs bill, including extending cuts in Social Security payroll taxes.
But all will have to pass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. With Republicans unanimously opposed ? and a few moderate Democrats willing to break ranks ? it?s a formidable hurdle.
?Our fight isn?t over,? said President Obama in a statement after the vote. ?We will keep working with Congress to bring up the American Jobs Act piece by piece, and give Republicans another chance to put country before party and help us put the American people back to work.?
Senate Republicans dubbed the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work bill a ?bailout? for states and public service workers, at the expense of creating jobs in the private sector. The 0.5 percent tax hike for incomes greater than $1 million that Democrats proposed to pay for the measure would hit small business owners, discouraging investment and hiring, they said.
?Four out of every five Americans who would pay higher taxes are small business owners,? said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, in a statement after the vote. ?That doesn?t sound like a jobs bill to me.?
Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida, a tea party favorite, said that the federal government can?t afford ?another bailout of local governments,? while running its own massive debt. ?We can?t afford stimulus 2.0,? he said, in a video statement.
It?s an ideological divide that both parties seem eager to carry into the 2012 elections.
Mr. Obama took his case for a jobs bill to key swing states North Carolina and Virginia on a bus tour in the runup to the Senate vote. Vice President Joe Biden led a rally of firefighters and teachers at the Capitol.
?Republicans unanimously blocked a bill that would have kept 400,000 teachers in the classroom and first responders on the job because they refuse to ask millionaires to pay their fair share,? said Senator Reid, in a statement after the vote.
The Senate also blocked a proposal by Senate Republicans to repeal a 3 percent tax to government contractors, set to take effect in 2013. Republicans propose offsetting costs of the repeal by $30 billion in unspecified spending cuts.
A similar measure in Obama?s jobs plan would have delayed implementation of the tax, but not repealed it. Ironically, the tax was first passed by a GOP-controlled Congress in 2006 as a bid to ensure tax compliance, but never implemented by majorities in either party. The White House plan proposed offsetting costs of the delay with permanent tax hikes.
The GOP measure failed to meet the 60-vote target, 57 to 43. Ten Democrats ? all but three of whom are up for reelection in 2012 ? voted with all Republicans in favor of repeal.
The GOP-controlled House proposes taking up a similar measure to repeal this tax hike when the House returns to Washington next week. The Senate is effectively on a recess until Oct. 31.
?House Republicans are serious about making sure America is a place for opportunity, and that is why we are focused on ideas supported by the president and Democrats in Congress that will create jobs and return economic growth," said House majority leader Eric Cantor (R) of Virginia, in a statement on Friday. "Next week, the House will vote to repeal the 3 percent withholding rule to remove unnecessary costs on businesses already facing uncertainty."
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