What's it like to fly a plane with shuttle on top?

In this image provided by NASA the Space Shuttle Endeavour is ferried by NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2012 as it departs for California. Endeavour and the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft are in Houston after leaving Kennedy Space Center Wednesday. The ferry flight continues at dawn Thursday, heading to NASA Dryden, then on to Los Angeles Friday. This is the last flight for a space shuttle. (AP Photo/Robert Markowitz, NASA)

In this image provided by NASA the Space Shuttle Endeavour is ferried by NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2012 as it departs for California. Endeavour and the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft are in Houston after leaving Kennedy Space Center Wednesday. The ferry flight continues at dawn Thursday, heading to NASA Dryden, then on to Los Angeles Friday. This is the last flight for a space shuttle. (AP Photo/Robert Markowitz, NASA)

Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, passes above the Austin, Texas, skyline Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ralph Barrera) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM

Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, passes above Austin, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ralph Barrera) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM

This undated image provided by NASA shows pilot Jeff Moultrie talking to reporters at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Moultrie is the commander of the modified 747 jet carrying the space shuttle Endeavour from Florida to California. The shuttle-jumbo jet combo will make low?passes over California Friday Sept. 21,2012 before landing at the Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/NASA)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? It's the ultimate piggyback ride: A space shuttle perched atop a Boeing 747 as the pair crisscrosses the country.

For three decades, this was how NASA transported shuttles that landed in the California desert to their Florida home base. But it's coming to an end.

This week, four pilots took turns flying a jumbo jet mounted with space shuttle Endeavour on a multi-leg journey bound for Los Angeles where it will go on display in a museum next month.

With the shuttle fleet retired, it's the final ferry mission for a group of highly specialized aviators. The elite pilots over the years have included former astronauts, including famed pilot Gordon Fullerton.

Scores have asked what it's like to haul a 170,000-pound shuttle.

"That's a tough thing to answer," said pilot Jeff Moultrie, who will be in command when Endeavour performs an aerial tour over several California landmarks Friday. "What do you tell somebody? It's different. It's unique."

That's for sure.

For one thing, there's the noise. It is decibels louder inside the shuttle carrier aircraft compared with a commercial airliner because the interior is hollowed out to keep it as light as possible. Aside from a few seats, there are no galleys, overhead bins or even air conditioning.

In case pilots forget they're carrying precious national cargo, the constant vibrations from above jolt them back to reality.

Pilots have to be more careful when they make turns, but otherwise, the 747 handles like a regular plane. They also have to be hyper-vigilant about the weather because moisture can damage the shuttle's delicate tiles.

Built for American Airlines, NASA acquired the aircraft in 1974 and used it for test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert and ferry flights to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It obtained a second one in 1990, but it was retired earlier this year.

The four current NASA pilots who can operate the modified 747 are ex-military aviators who split their time flying other planes including zero-gravity aircraft and T-38 supersonic jets.

Even when the shuttles flew routinely, a cross-country lift wasn't always needed. To keep their skills polished, they flew practice flights every several weeks and trained in a simulator twice a year.

Moultrie, who served as a commercial pilot for a decade, said he looked forward most to soaring in close to the Hollywood Sign. Even Angelenos have to keep their distance from the famed sign, which is surrounded by a fence.

"It's bittersweet," he said of the final mission. "We definitely feel privileged to be a small part of history. But on the flip side, we're sad."

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Performing a set of songs at a campaign fundraiser for Obama in South Tampa last night, the Pearl Jam frontman bashed Romney's 47 percent comments.

"It's very upsetting to hear a presidential candidate be so easily dismissive of such a ginormous amount of the population," Vedder told the audience.

Vedder helped raise $1.7 million Thursday for Obama's reelection campaign, playing four songs for the president and 85 guests at a $20,000-per-person dinner.

"I can't say I've ever played that many songs in a suit before," he said of "Rise," "Without You," James Taylor's "Millworker" and Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World."

He recalled signing up for a government security guard training program, working the midnight shift and becoming a security supervisor at a petroleum company.

It was this, he said, that made his dreams reality.

"I'm an example of someone who never made it to university," Vedder said. "I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date."

"It was that job which allowed me to keep affording to guitars and microphones ... For me, it all began with that ability to get the proper training for a decent job."

"It's very upsetting to hear a presidential candidate be so easily dismissive of such a ginormous amount of the population."

Vedder introduced Obama, who thanked him for "for that unbelievable performance but more importantly for that story."

"For you to share that story with us, Eddie, speaks volumes not only about you but about this country," Obama said. That story captures better than anything what this campaign is about and what this country is about."

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The original 'Twitter'? Tiny electronic tags monitor birds' social networks

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? If two birds meet deep in the forest, does anybody hear? Until now, nobody did, unless an intrepid biologist was hiding underneath a bush and watching their behavior, or the birds happened to meet near a research monitoring station. But an electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.

A new study led by a biologist at Scotland's University of St. Andrews used the UW tags to see whether crows might learn to use tools from one another. The findings, published last week in Current Biology, supported the theory by showing an unexpected amount of social mobility, with the crows often spending time near birds outside their immediate family.

The study looked at crows in New Caledonia, an archipelago of islands in the South Pacific. The crows are famous for using different tools to extract prey from deadwood and vegetation. Biologists wondered whether the birds might learn by watching each other.

The results, as reported by St. Andrews, revealed "a surprising number of contacts" between non-related crows. During one week, the technology recorded more than 28,000 interactions among 34 crows. While core family units of New Caledonian crows contain only three members, the study found all the birds were connected to the larger social network.

The new paper is the first published study using the UW tags to record animal social interactions.

"This is a new type of animal-tracking technology," said co-author Brian Otis, a UW associate professor of electrical engineering whose lab developed the tags. "Ecology is just one of the many fields that will be transformed with miniaturized, low-power wireless sensors."

Biologists normally tag animals with radio transmitters that broadcast at a particular frequency, and field researchers use a receiver to listen for that frequency and detect when the animal is present. An encounter between small animals would only be recorded if the researcher was nearby.

The UW system, called Encounternet, uses programmable digital tags that can send and receive pulses.

"Encounternet tags can monitor each other, so you can use them to study interactions among animals," said co-author John Burt, a UW affiliate professor of electrical engineering. "You can't even start to do that with other radio-tracking technology."

Other research groups are using the UW tags around the world. Researchers at the University of Windsor in Canada are using them to study mating behavior in Costa Rican long-tailed manikins; a researcher at Drexel University is using them to study the interaction between birds and army ants in Costa Rica; German researchers are putting the tags on sea lions in the Galapagos Islands to study their behavior as they pull up on beaches; and researchers in the Netherlands are studying the social behavior of great tits, a small woodland bird. "It's a big topic right now, the idea that animals have social networks," Burt said. He has been working with field biologists for the last three years to deploy the tags.

"There are other tags that can do proximity logging, but they're all very big and for larger animals. None is as small as Encounternet -- or even near to it."

The smallest of the UW tags weighs less than 1 gram (0.035 ounces) and can be used on animals as light as 20 grams (less than an ounce), about the weight of a sparrow.

Researchers attach the tags to birds with straps that degrade and harmlessly fall off after the battery dies. The tag records nearby pulses, and the signal strength gives an estimate of the other animal's distance.

A typical study using the system includes a few dozen tags and between 10 and 100 fixed base stations. When tagged animals pass a base station the data is transmitted wirelessly from the tag to the base station, and from there to the Internet. Researchers can also reprogram the tags remotely -- for example, they can look at initial results to see when there are few encounters happening, and turn the battery off during those times to conserve power.

Burt completed his doctorate at the UW in 2000, with a dissertation on birdsong communication and learning. He wished that there was a way to automatically monitor bird interactions in the wild, and in 2005 joined forces with Otis, an expert in small, lightweight, low-power electronics. Burt managed the project to develop the tags, with funding from the National Science Foundation, as a research scientist in Otis' group. This fall they founded Encounternet LLC in Portland, Ore., where Burt now lives. He is working to add a GPS component to record the location of encounters, and to add an accelerometer and other sensors that could detect an animal's behavior.

"People are excited about this because for the first time, it allows them to study smaller animal interactions and social networks on an incredibly fine scale," Burt said. "Social networks are turning out to be key to understanding many animal behaviors. People say Encounternet is the only thing they can find that can collect that information."

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$1M bail for LA-area man over death threat posts

An unidentified woman walks into Arroyo Seco Junior High School in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Eric Yee, accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them, was in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail after he was arrested at his home near the school for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre) MANDATORY CREDIT

An unidentified woman walks into Arroyo Seco Junior High School in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Eric Yee, accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them, was in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail after he was arrested at his home near the school for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre) MANDATORY CREDIT

Campus supervisor Jerome Castaneda monitors the parking lot following dismissal at Arroyo Seco Junior High School in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Eric Yee, accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them, was in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail after he was arrested at his home near the school for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre) MANDATORY CREDIT

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy is stationed at Arroyo Seco Junior High School in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Eric Yee, accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them, was in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail after he was arrested at his home near the school for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre) MANDATORY CREDIT

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A former Yale University student remained jailed on $1 million bail, an amount normally reserved for murder or other crimes that could result in life sentences, after authorities say he made online death threats to children.

Eric Yee, a 21-year-old who recently withdrew from the Ivy League university, posted on ESPN's website that he was watching children and wouldn't mind killing them, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

Yee was taken into custody Monday at his parents' home, which is on a street that overlooks two schools in Santa Clarita, Calif. Several guns were found there.

Sheriff's Lt. Steve Low said Yee was arrested for investigation of making terrorist threats.

Experts said the bail amount was very high for a person suspected of making terrorist threats.

"To put it in perspective, $1 million is the presumptive bail for murder," said Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a former federal public defender who is not involved in the case. In comparison, the presumptive bail for making terrorist threats is $50,000 and it would take many specific circumstances to push it much higher, Fakhoury said.

Sheriff's Deputy Josh Dubin told the Los Angeles Times that the department had requested "a bail enhancement because of the totality of the situation," but would not elaborate.

Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threats were posted in a reader response section to an online story about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the expensive sneakers, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys.

The post that led police to Yee referred to a shooting that would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 others were injured in July, authorities said.

"What he was posting had nothing to do with sports," Soltys said. "We closely monitor the message boards and anytime we get a threat, we're alerting law enforcement officials."

An employee at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., notified local police the same day and they linked the comments to the home of Yee's parents. Sheriff's investigators watched the home until they got a search warrant.

Yee and his family could not be reached for comment. A call to a phone number for him went to voicemail.

Both schools near the home were open Tuesday, although at least three children didn't attend class after they were notified by the school about the arrest, said Dianne Saunders, principal of Santa Clarita Elementary School.

Authorities didn't disclose how serious the threat was, but they were looking to see if the suspect had made similar posts on the Internet. Low also said investigators were trying to determine if anybody else might be involved.

"We take all these kinds of threats serious, especially with the climate of other shootings around the nation over the past year," Low said.

Sheriff's investigators were working with Bristol police and police at Yale University, which said Yee was a student until he withdrew this May for undisclosed reasons. Yale officials said he had been expected to graduate with a bachelor's degree in economics this past spring.

A Yale website listed him as a member of its class of 2012 and a participant in a leadership training program.

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Associated Press writers David Collins and Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

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Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? An international film festival opens Thursday in what may seem the unlikeliest of places: North Korea.

Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival offers North Koreans their only chance to see a wide array of foreign films on the big screen ? from Britain, Germany and elsewhere (but not America). And it's the only time foreigners are allowed into North Korean theaters to watch movies alongside locals.

This year, festivalgoers will get the chance to see two feature films shot in North Korea but edited overseas: the romantic comedy "Comrade Kim Goes Flying," a joint North Korean-European production, and "Meet in Pyongyang," made in conjunction with a Chinese studio.

While it's true that homegrown movies predictably tend toward communist propaganda with a healthy dose of tear-jerker, North Korea is a film-crazy country. Well-to-do residents pay as much as 500 won (about $5 according to official exchange rates) to see new releases from the government-run Korean Film Studio, as well as Russian and Chinese imports.

Those who don't have the means to go to the theater tune into the Mansudae TV channel, which shows mostly Chinese and Eastern European films on weekends. Some recent offerings have included "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and the only western offering shown on state TV in recent memory, the British film "Bend It Like Beckham," which aired in 2010.

This year, a huge screen in front of the Pyongyang train station has become another popular place to watch movies. On Monday, hundreds of locals stood transfixed by a North Korean drama in a plaza in front of the station.

The late leader Kim Jong Il, who died in December, was a notorious film buff.

He was 7 when he saw his first film ? "My Hometown" ? the inaugural film made at by the Korean Film Studio. The film, about a young man who returns to his village after Korea is liberated from Japan, made a lifelong impression on the future leader, according to Choe Hung Ryol, director of the studio's external affairs department.

In 1973 Kim published a treatise called "On the Art of the Cinema," in which he extolled filmmaking as a way to aid the people's "development into true communists."

"Creative work is not a mere job, but an honorable revolutionary task," he wrote.

In 1978, Kim "recruited" a South Korean director, Shin Sang-ok, and his actress ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee. According to the late director's memoirs, he was lured to Pyongyang to make propaganda films, but he and his wife slipped away from their bodyguards during a 1986 trip to Vienna.

Kim's father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, also wrote a film called "The Flower Girl," and current leader Kim Jong Un also has a keen interest in film, according to Korean Film Studio spokesman Choe .

In an interview with The Associated Press, Choe acknowledged that the main purpose of North Korean cinema is propaganda.

"Our films carry a different purpose than movies made in other countries," he said. "We make films for the purpose of ideological education."

And to play with the emotions of the audience, evidently.

"If you watch a lot of North Korean films, you'll find yourself crying a lot," he said. "If you don't cry, you're clearly a person without emotion."

A visit to the film studio is a lot like going back in time, from the thatched cottages of a bygone rural Korea, to the ancient royal palaces of the Choson Dynasty, to a louche depiction of 1950s South Korea compete with brothels, pubs and pharmacies.

"American tourists who come here always tap the walls to see if the buildings are real," Choe said. "They say the sets in Hollywood are just facades."

For British filmmaker Nicholas Bonner and his Belgian co-producer Anja Daelemans, the upcoming North Korean premiere of "Comrade Kim Goes Flying" will be a moment nearly seven years in the making.

The film, a romantic comedy about a coal miner who dreams of becoming an acrobat, was shot in North Korea in 2010 with a local cast, directed by veteran North Korean filmmaker Kim Gwang Hun, and edited in Belgium.

"It's not what you expect from North Korea, and it's not something people have seen before," Bonner said.

Writing the script took three years, as the North Korean and European members of the team worked to come up with a story line that was both entertaining and politically safe for showing in North Korea. Bonner credits his the Koreans with contributing some of the film's funniest moments

"In the end, you're dealing with professionals," Bonner said. "They do their job. You're in the film world, and we're all making a film."

But for sheer scale, "Comrade Kim" can't possibly compete with the heavyweight of North Korean cinema, the 63-part epic "Nation and Destiny," which began in the 1990s. Filming is already under way on part 64.

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One way in which spyware and can infect a system in via e-mail. Most people simply click an add-on which unknowing runs malware onto their own machine. A good way to prevent attachments through causing a problem is to install a virus-scan program which will diagnostic scan almost all email accessories. The ultimate way to prevent malware from getting set up though an email add-on is to not really open up them at all. This is especially true is a consumer does not understand who sent the particular e-mail. Unfortunately, there are many spam messages that are becoming delivered which appear legitimate that the very easily confuse the typical end user. Sometimes these kinds of messages can be avoided simply by using a great junk e-mail filter.

Programs which are attached to a pc may possibly include malware or other forms involving spyware that can damage schooling. Several applications that are freeware or perhaps ad-supported may consist of adware and spyware that can send information to a main server. It is very important provide an aint-virus or perhaps anti-spyware real-time scan allowed whenever installaing software. Most software program that is down loaded through legitimate sites normally does not contain malware. However , software which originates from a site which is not which popular may not check files that are available for download.

The simplest way to eliminate maolware would be to perform or perhaps any complete anti-spyware diagnostic scan about the program. There are many anti-spyware plans available like Spybot : Search as well as Eliminate, Malwarebytes? Anti-virus in addition to SuperAntiSpyware. A end user may also check out their system online like running a PERSONAL COMPUTER Basic safety check out through Microsoft OneCare.

Spyware and can take more than your pc. I had formed this particular happen on Friday. Prior to We understood this, the Malware experienced made it not possible for me to obtain on the internet by means of Ie. I would click on the Ie and also the Spyware and would quit the connection. While i tried to use my pathogen protection, Spyware and adware would wedge it, as well as would send up a bunch of pornography strings onto my computer screen. This particular Spyware and adware creature got quickly bought out the pc and also living.

Lucky for me, I had formed downloaded Opera the full week before. I got having trouble clocking in to Auction web sites to sell products. I had the conversation using the representative for two hours. We all decided it would be advisable for me personally to test out Opera. Ie had been obstructing me from my very own eBay account. Why were each one of these plans attempting to dominate living? We clicked upon Firefox and got on the internet. The actual Adware and spyware pathogen was irritated and kept telling myself the personal computer had been infected. Indeed, it had been contaminated. An individual Mr. Spyware and contaminated this. I have a nephew who will be a hacker. I do not really suggest his line of work as the 15 yr old. However , their experience is great in a crunch. This is what you need to do to get Adware and spyware from your computer when you can not get online. Within my case, you find a different method to obtain on-line, but you nonetheless can not get rid of the Spyware and.

Even for those who have Firefox, the herpes virus illness will certainly eventually dominate more areas of your pc. You need to understand it out. Shut off your pc. Click on the start switch. Since your current computer is switching on, click on the F8 key constantly. You will end up taken to the particular Mode part of your computer. Use the up/down gazelle in order to emphasize safe mode with networking. Whenever your computer allows you to, draperies during Ie. Click on the Equipment and select Internet Choices. Click the contacts tab. Select LAN Settings. Now you might find local area network LAN settings windows. Uncheck the actual checkbox tagged; Make use of a proxy machine for your LAN beneath the proxy server section as well as press OKAY.

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Unemployed? 5 Tips To Deal With Debt ... - Personal Finance

Joblessness is one of the most unwanted situations that you could ever find yourself in.?Nevertheless, you should know that it?s not an uncommon experience.

Understand the fact that simply because you?re jobless?doesn?t?mean that you can?t handle your finances.

It?s a rather different and unique experience when it comes to handling your finances when you?re unemployed.

However, it?s not impossible to deal with your jobless situation if you take effective steps to manage your finances.

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How To Manage Finances When You?re Unemployed

1. Stick to a budget.
   It?s of utmost importance that you religiously follow a budget plan during this period. First of all, make a list of your absolute necessities like say, food, house rent, etc. Next, make a list of the things you could actually avoid ? like replenishing your wardrobe, eating out, going for movies, etc. Cut corners wherever possible.

2. Take advantage of unemployment benefits.
   Don?t forget to contact your state unemployment office as soon as you?ve lost your job. Don?t keep delaying it simply because of all the paperwork involved. Remember, you?ve got to fill out all that if you wish to receive your unemployment compensation. There?s no point not getting what?s yours after all. Moreover, please ensure that your past employer has promptly paid you for all the time that you?ve worked for him.

3. Keep your creditors at bay.
   In case you?ve lost your job while paying off your debt, then there are high chances that you won?t be able to get out of debt as soon as you had imagined. You should immediately contact your creditors and let them know of your unemployed condition. Many won?t be happy listening to your problem, but be persistent. Also, don?t make the mistake of relying on your credit cards during this time. Using your credit cards in this situation might easily lead you into a debt problem that could be worse than you had ever imagined.

4. Make job hunting your priority.
   It?s extremely important that you don?t waste time feeling bad for yourself. Understand that you?re not the only person who has ever become jobless. Instead devote all your time and energy towards finding a new job. Getting back on your feet is the best thing you could do ultimately.

5. Seek help if needed.
   If you?re in a really difficult situation, then please don?t shy away from seeking help. Think of this as a temporary measure and save yourself from getting into a worse situation. Get help from a family member if possible. You?ve got to swallow your pride for a while if necessary.

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Keep in mind the above tips and don?t lose faith in yourself. It?s important that you believe you?ll be out of joblessness soon enough and things will work out accordingly.

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Photos: In Isaac's aftermath, thousands still in the dark, underwater

Melanie Martinez holds the family cat, which they have renamed Isaac, after salvaging items from their flooded home in Plaquemines Parish on September 3, 2012 in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Martinez, along with her husband and her mother, was forced to ride out the storm in the home when their car broke down. The house quickly flooded and they were rescued by a neighbor who was able to break into their attic to save them. They only were able to ... more?Melanie Martinez holds the family cat, which they have renamed Isaac, after salvaging items from their flooded home in Plaquemines Parish on September 3, 2012 in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Martinez, along with her husband and her mother, was forced to ride out the storm in the home when their car broke down. The house quickly flooded and they were rescued by a neighbor who was able to break into their attic to save them. They only were able to rescue Isaac today who survived six days without food at the flooded home. This is the fifth home Martinez has had destroyed due to hurricanes in Louisiana. Damage totals from the hurricane could top $2 billion more than 125,000 customers are still without power six days after the storm made landfall. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) less?

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Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday.

"A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television.

"The response will not be just inside the Israeli entity - American bases in the whole region could be Iranian targets," he said, citing information he said was from Iranian officials. "If Israel targets Iran, America bears responsibility."

Heightened Israeli rhetoric about Tehran's nuclear facilities, which the West says could be part of a weapons program, has stoked speculation that it may attack Iran before U.S. elections in November.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sunday to set a "clear red line" to convince Iran they would prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms.

Israel, thought to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed power, views Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its regional dominance and to its very existence. Tehran says the atomic work is for peaceful purposes only.

But Netanyahu's cabinet is divided over the wisdom of attacking Iran, and Israeli officials have dropped heavy hints of a climbdown strategy, under which Netanyahu would shelve threats of an attack now in return for a stronger public pledge from President Barack Obama on conditions that would provoke U.S. action in future.

Nasrallah said there were divisions in Israel over attacking Iran. "Personally I do not expect the Israeli enemy - at least in the coming months or foreseeable future - (to wage) an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said.

Nasrallah pointed to the fragile global economy, which would be weakened further by any sharp rise in crude oil prices stemming from conflict in the Gulf, and to likely Israeli casualties in any war with Iran.

"Netanyahu and (Defence Minister Ehud) Barak inflate the benefit and play down the cost," he said, referring to Barak's estimates that Israel could suffer up to 500 fatalities in any conflict aimed at wiping out Iran's nuclear facilities.

Hezbollah guerrillas fought a 34-day war with Israel six years ago in which 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 people in Israel, mostly soldiers, were killed.

War with Iran would be more deadly, Nasrallah said. "We don't know what will happen in the region."

NO CHEMICAL WEAPONS

He repeated a warning he made last month that Hezbollah could cause widespread destruction if it came into conflict with Israel again, but denied that the Shi'ite Islamist guerrilla and political movement would ever use chemical weapons.

"We do not have chemical weapons and we will not use chemical weapons," Nasrallah said. "The use of chemical weapons is forbidden - for us that is absolute.

Unrest in neighboring Syria, which acknowledged for the first time in July that it possessed chemical or biological weapons, has led to Western fears that those weapons might fall into the hands of Islamist groups including Hezbollah.

"I do not need chemical weapons - regardless of the religious or practical position," Nasrallah said, addressing Israel. "You have factories, and you have bases, and compounds, and I have rockets."

Israel had several "weak points" which could be targeted, including "economic, industrial, electrical, chemical and nuclear" sites, the Hezbollah leader said.

Even if Israel launched a first strike attack on Lebanon, destroying a large part of Hezbollah's missile arsenal, the militant group would retain the capacity to hit back with deadly force, he added.

Two weeks ago Nasrallah said Hezbollah could kill tens of thousands of Israelis by hitting targets with what he described as precision-guided missiles.

"Hitting these targets with a small number of rockets will turn ... the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists to real hell," he said at the time.

(Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-could-strike-u-bases-israel-attacks-hezbollah-193805679.html

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Spain fears illegal migrants may flood to islands

MADRID (AP) ? Authorities said 160 would-be migrants tried to break into a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the north African coast Monday, and Spain's foreign minister worried more may head to Spanish islands near Morocco.

Officials said the migrants tried to breach two sections of the fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla early in the morning, with about 10 succeeding in entering Spanish territory.

A similar storming was thwarted Sunday, but 70 other illegal migrants, swimming or wading, managed to reach the uninhabited Spanish island of Isla de Tierra off Morocco.

Many migrants from Africa try dangerous crossings to reach Spanish territory illegally in hopes of gaining work and a better life ? often turning to people-smuggling rings along the way.

But migration is a sensitive issue for Spain, especially now as it grapples with a double-dip recession and near 25 percent unemployment after the collapse of a real estate bubble.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo said he had spoken with his Moroccan counterpart, Saadeddine El Othmani, to seek ways to avert a greater influx of migrants.

"We must avoid creating a clarion call effect which would attract immigrants, filling our islands," Margallo said. "Only regular, legal immigration can incorporate migrants into a new country with dignity."

Spain has three enclaves on Africa's northern Mediterranean coast and several tiny islands off it.

Isla de Tierra ? part of the Alhucemas Islands archipelago ? measures 1.7 hectares (4.2 acre) and is just 30 meters (100 feet) off Morocco at low tide.

Illegal immigrants can be sent back only to their countries of origin, but Margallo said those who reached Isla de Tierra lacked passports or other identification, so they could not be deported immediately.

As a result, they are restricted to the rocky island, and the Spanish army is supplying them with a bare minimum of items to survive until a decision is made about their future, Margallo said.

The foreign minister alleged that the attempts at rushing the Melilla fences and the landings on Isla de Tierra were "coordinated efforts by people-smuggling mafias."

He said concerted attempts to breach Spain's borders were a concern for the European Union and required a united response.

"This is not the first time Europe has faced this kind of situation," Margallo said, highlighting Italy's experience with migrants fleeing Libya during the revolution that overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

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Gingrich Appears to Support Akin

Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich appeared on Sunday to defend Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin, who has been pressured by Republicans to bow out of the race after saying that women don?t get pregnant from ?legitimate rape.?

?I think Todd Akin is the choice of the people of Missouri. And Todd Aiken has publicly apologized,? Gingrich said on NBC?s Meet the Press. ?People make mistakes.?

Gingrich said he is ?fed up with the one-sided bias? that has Akin under fire for his comments but gives a pass to Vice President Joe Biden, who told an audience that included many black supporters that if Republicans win they will put them economically ?back in chains.?

?Where?s the outrage over overt, deliberate racism?? Gingrich asked. ?How come Biden shouldn't get off the ticket??

Last week, Gingrich?s former presidential campaign aide, Rick Tyler, joined the Akin campaign.

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How the AP-GfK poll was conducted

The Associated Press-GfK Poll on prospects for the next generation was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Aug. 16-20. It is based on landline and cellphone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 604 respondents on landline telephones and 402 on cellular phones.

Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cellphone numbers.

Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.

As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use ? landline only, cell only and both types ? by region.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3.9 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all adults in the U.S. were polled.

There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions.

The questions and results are available at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com .

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That Mama Gretchen: Abbie from Roppo Farm: An Adoption Story

Abbie is one of those mamas that makes your heart swell. She loves with everything she is and you know her children are blessed to call her mama. I am equally as blessed to call her a friend and I'm so happy she is here today sharing her story of motherhood.

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When my husband and I got pregnant in April 2010, we assumed, like most women do, that pregnancy would be easy and we would end up with a beautiful baby to take home from the hospital in 9 short months. That July, at 15 weeks pregnant, we found that our little miracle had stopped growing and there was no heartbeat. We were devastated. No one is prepared for the loss of a child. But, we pulled ourselves together bit by bit and thanked God that he had given us the blessing of being pregnant, however short it was. We knew that God would bless us with a family when the timing was right. We named our little blessing Matthew, which means "gift from God."

In January 2011, after much convincing, my husband and I started the process of being licensed to be foster parents, which is something I have wanted to do? since high school, but we had originally decided we would do "after we had gotten started on our own family." In early March 2011 we found out that we were pregnant again. We were very excited about having our own child, but decided that we would move forward with the licensing anyways. We knew that we might be getting in over our heads, but we knew that God was calling us to care for children that, for whatever reason, weren't able to be cared for by their parents.

In May 2011, at 10 weeks pregnant, our little Elizabeth went to Heaven to be with her brother. Our foster parent license came in the mail the same day. We were heartbroken, but reassured that maybe God's plan for our family was not the same as the plans we had.

On May 18th we received our first long-term placement call. The Coordinator on the phone told me about the children, and then said, "Oh, I am so sorry, are you pregnant?" (She must have been looking at our file.) "Because this will be a long-term placement, and they would need to be the only children under 2 in your household." At that moment, I knew something special was happening, and told the woman, no, we were no longer pregnant. I signed the placement paperwork that afternoon to take custody of premature boy-girl twins, born May 5th three months early. M and E were born at 2.5 and 3.5 lbs, and no one was quite sure what medical issues they were going to have moving forward. They spent 6 weeks in the NICU, learning to breath on their own, regulate their own heartbeats, and drink from a bottle, and then came home to live with us. Everyday with newborn, medically-fragile twins at home was a challenge, but I wouldn't have traded it for anything in the whole world. I was finally a Mommy!

It has been just over a year since M and E came home from the hospital and became a part of our family, and they are growing more fun and challenging by the day as they head into toddler-hood. I still look back at that day I received that call, and know that God was at work. We have been blessed beyond words to have them in our lives, and we are hoping to complete their adoption this coming fall and make them officially part of our family (although they have been my children, in my heart, since the first day I held them in the NICU.)

This April, early in our third pregnancy, we lost another angel, Owen. This loss felt different from the first two, because this time I came home from that appointment to hugs and smiles and kisses from my sweet babies. I knew then more than ever that these children were God's Gift to us, and that despite going through terrible, depressing times, wondering if we would ever have a family, I now had the beautiful family I always dreamed.? Someday we might have children that our biologically ours, or maybe not, but I am continually blessed by God's grace and mercy in our lives. I remember every day what a miracle my children are, and how it is only by God's grace that they came to be ours.

I hope my story can give other women who have gone through devastating losses, but are coming out the other side of their grief, a reassurance that God loves you and although it seems hard now, He says "For I know the plans I have for you,? declares the LORD, ?plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11)

If you have any questions about foster care, adoption, or about our story, please feel free to e-mail me at abbieroppo@gmail.com. Or follow my blog about life on our urban farm, raising chickens, toddlers and whatever else comes our way, at Roppo Farm.

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Bloomsburg University spoils Stonehill College's football opener

Aug 31, 2012 @ 10:38 PM

The Skyhawks turn the ball over seven times and allow 566 yards of total offense in a 44-28 season-opening loss to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Friday night at W.B. Mason Stadium.

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Czech hops harvest to be down by 26 pct

In this picture taken Aug. 30, 2012 a worker teps on hops, during a harvest, near a village of Rocov, Czech Republic. Beer drinkers will have plenty to worry about this year after Czech authorities warned that bad weather has led to the country's hop harvest plummeting by around a quarter. As well as being home to more beer drinkers per capita than anywhere else in the world, Czechoslovakia is also one of the top producers of hops ? the dried seed cones that give beer its bitter taste and aroma. Their hops are highly sought after and exported to about 80 countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

In this picture taken Aug. 30, 2012 a worker teps on hops, during a harvest, near a village of Rocov, Czech Republic. Beer drinkers will have plenty to worry about this year after Czech authorities warned that bad weather has led to the country's hop harvest plummeting by around a quarter. As well as being home to more beer drinkers per capita than anywhere else in the world, Czechoslovakia is also one of the top producers of hops ? the dried seed cones that give beer its bitter taste and aroma. Their hops are highly sought after and exported to about 80 countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

In this picture taken Aug. 30, 2012 a worker harvest hops, during a harvest, near a village of Rocov, Czech Republic. Beer drinkers will have plenty to worry about this year after Czech authorities warned that bad weather has led to the country's hop harvest plummeting by around a quarter. As well as being home to more beer drinkers per capita than anywhere else in the world, Czechoslovakia is also one of the top producers of hops ? the dried seed cones that give beer its bitter taste and aroma. Their hops are highly sought after and exported to about 80 countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

PRAGUE (AP) ? Fear not, beer lovers! The Czech hops harvest is expected to plummet by around a quarter this year due to bad weather ? but there's plenty of stock to quench the huge thirst both at home and abroad.

As well as being home to more beer drinkers per capita than anywhere else in the world, the Czech Republic is also one of the top producers of hops ? the dried seed cones that give beer its bitter taste and aroma. Their hops are highly sought after and exported to about 80 countries, including Japan, China, Germany and Russia.

The Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic said Friday preliminary figures show a yield of about 0.95 - 1.00 metric tons per hectare compared with the average of 1.11 metric tons per hectare. They cited freezing temperatures in February and a drought in spring.

The country's overall production is expected to fall by 26 percent to 4,500 metric tons from 6,088 metric tons in 2011.

Authorities say there are enough supplies following the exceptionally high harvests of the previous two years ? and that prices are unlikely to rise.

"This year's harvest won't have any significant impact on the price of hops," said Bohumil Pazler, the chairman of the union.

Hops, soaring seven 7 meters (23 feet) into the air and supported by wire, have been cultivated on Czech territory for over 1,000 years. The heartland near the western towns of Zatec and Rakovnik provides an ideal climate for the local dominant brand known as Saaz, a fine aroma hop with a low concentration of alpha acids which give beer its bitter flavor.

Almost 80 percent of hops production is exported ? and more than two thirds of that is Saaz, which the Czechs call the "Roll Royce" among hops.

"The Czech Saaz is the best in the world," Jiri Vesely, the Czech Beer and Malt Association executive director said.

In 2007, Saaz was granted the EU's Protected Designation of Origin label as the top hops brand. It is used by brewers for premium products.

Exports to the United States crashed to virtually zero in the 1990s after the beer giant Anheuser Busch stopped using Czech hops as a response to the ongoing trademark dispute with the Czech state-run brewer Budejovicky Budvar and a refusal of the Czech government to sell Budvar to its U.S. rival.

Associated Press

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Top 5: Central Florida?s largest catering companies

This year's list of top Central Florida catering companies catered more than 25,456 luncheons, banquets, weddings and events in 2011, serving up a variety of cuisines from gourmet continental and Caribbean to healthy and whole food dishes.

Employing 2,373 in local personnel, the largest local catering companies' revenues totaled more than $30 million in Central Florida, with more than $61.4 million companywide.

The top five companies employ 2,013 local workers and generated $21.4 million of the catering revenue from 14,282 events.

See the slideshow to the right to see who made Orlando Business Journal?s list of Central Florida?s top five largest catering companies ranked 2011 local catering revenue.

For the complete list, see our August 31, 2012, print edition.

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NCAA Football!

Our season opener tomorrow, versus Miami of Ohio, is expected to occur under Isaac remnant T-storms.

I can't wait! I so want see some football!

Last year, I missed the season opener. While the Buckeyes were trouncing Akron, I was in Custer State Park, SD, LMAO watching a wild burro drool all over my sister's car as it munched on an apple. I finally found an AM station covering some small, western college game, with national sports updates during the station breaks.

It was a new car for us. My wife had just bought it a week before we left on the trip. We didn't even know yet that the XM radio was active for a free trial. As we drove home a week later, I was able to listen to one Big Ten game, PSU v. Alabama, thanks to XM.

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