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Thursday 27 September 2012
BURD's Comments - Musical Family Tree
Here is my request:If there exists a place where style has a backbone called substance and nerve endings blaze ingenuity and flashes of genuine heart, let that place be called home. Right here, Indiana, and by the people, writers, producers, musicians, lyricists and daily survivors of the often mundane and hurtful grind.?Now let me convince you:At 23, I feel a genuine disconnect from Top 40 hits. Some days, I am a brat and can go on and on about how popular artists are less human with all of?See More
Wednesday 26 September 2012
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Court rejects bid to block Arizona "show your papers" immigration provision
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a coalition of civil and immigrants rights activists to prevent police from enforcing an Arizona provision that is at the heart of the fierce national debate over illegal immigration.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied an emergency motion for an injunction blocking the "show your papers" provision of SB 1070, the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants, pending appeal.
The provision requires police to verify the citizenship or immigration status of people arrested, stopped or detained if there is a reasonable suspicion that they are in the country unlawfully.
It went into effect on September 18 after a U.S. district judge lifted an injunction blocking it.
In June the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that three other key provisions of SB 1070 were unconstitutional, but declined to block the "show me your papers" provision. Several other parts of SB 1070 are blocked by separate injunctions issued by the district court.
Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed the state crackdown on illegal immigrants into law in April 2010, saying that the federal government had failed to secure the state's border with Mexico.
Brewer is an outspoken foe of Democratic President Barack Obama's administration on immigration.
In a statement Tuesday, the governor said she was under "no illusion that opponents of SB 1070 will stop their baseless allegations and call off their teams of lawyers."
"Know this: They will not succeed. The State of Arizona stands firmly in support of the rule of law, in defense of our citizens and together with our brave men and women in uniform," she added.
Karen Tumlin, managing attorney with the National Immigration Law Center which was among a coalition that challenged the law, said the group is exploring its legal options.
"We need to continue the fight because of the unconstitutional harm it will unleash in Arizona" Tumlin said. "First and foremost, we are concerned about unlawful detention and individuals who may be profiled based on their manner of speech or the color of their skin."
Obama challenged Arizona's law in court two years ago, saying the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government sole authority over immigration policy.
(Reporting by Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz; Editing by Stacey Joyce and Xavier Briand)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-rejects-bid-block-arizona-show-papers-immigration-010321440.html
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Imelda Marcos shoe collection now worthless, says Philippines government
Imelda Marcos left behind at least 1,220 pairs of shoes, along with a vast collection of clothes and accessories, when she fled with her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, during a 1986 uprising. ?
Shoes once worn by flamboyant former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos sit in a section of the National Museum in Manila, Philippine. Termites, storms and government neglect have damaged some of Imelda Marcos's legendary stash of shoes, expensive gowns, and other vanity possessions, which were left to oblivion after she and her dictator husband were driven to US exile by a 1986 popular revolt.
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Communications Undersecretary Manolo Quezon issued the statement after National Museum officials acknowledged that the collection of?Marcos' clothes and shoes had been neglected for more than two decades and some had been damaged by a monsoon storm last month.
Museum officials told The Associated Press on Sunday that termites, storms and neglect damaged part of Mrs.?Marcos' collection of at least 1,220 pairs of shoes and other items while they were stored from 1986 to 2010 at the Malacanang presidential palace and later at the National Museum in Manila.
More than 150 cartons of clothes, dress accessories and shoes were transferred to the National Museum for safekeeping two years ago from the riverside palace. They deteriorated further at the museum after the boxes were stored in a padlocked room that was inundated by heavy rains last month because of a leak in the ceiling, museum officials said.
Quezon said the contents of the boxes have "no historical significance except some of the clothes" made by prominent Philippine couturiers. Museum officials said the Philippine-made gowns might be displayed in public, but they were wary because of the "politically sensitive nature of their provenance."
A Philippine historian, Michael Xiao Chua, said the?Marcos?items are important and should have been displayed to remind current and future generations of?Marcos' dictatorial rule and encourage them to safeguard the country's democracy.
The damaged items include native see-through barong shirts, which?Marcos?often wore in public ceremonies during his 20-year rule. AP journalists saw a barong shirt with a presidential seal on top of a box of 100 shirts which had reddish stains and a sleeve that was nearly torn off.
The Marcoses fled the Philippines at the climax of an army-backed "people power" revolt which became a harbinger of change in authoritarian regimes worldwide. Mr.?Marcos?died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 and his widow and children returned home years later.
They left staggering amounts of personal belongings, clothes and art objects at the palace, including?Imelda?Marcos' shoes which have come to symbolize her extravagance amid crushing poverty in the Southeast Asian country.
Ferdinand?Marcos' successor, democracy icon Corazon Aquino, accused him of stealing billions of dollars during his rule and ordered many of his assets seized.
Aquino had?Imelda?Marcos' shoes displayed at the presidential palace. They were removed from public view and stored in the palace basement when Aquino stepped down in 1992. About 800 pairs were loaned in 2001 to a shoe museum which has since become a tourist attraction.
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French vintners want US chateaux kept out of EU
BRUSSELS (AP) ? Drinking a Bordeaux wine from a "chateau" is as French as swigging Kentucky bourbon is American.
But now tempers are flaring across the vineyards of France. The United States wants to sell some of its wines in the European Union with ? sacrilege ? a "chateau" or "clos" label.
Is that cheating? Misappropriation? Whatever it is, the issue has the Bordelais turning claret with anger.
"What is at stake is the respect for tradition and quality," Laurent Gapenne of Chateau de Laville and president of the Federation des Grand Vins de Bordeaux told The Associated Press.
For American vintners, it's a question of selling more wine in their top export market, unshackled by historic language or restrictive terms in the world of 21st century globalization.
"People use words in different ways," WineAmerica chief operation officer Cary Greene told the AP, arguing there should be no ban on U.S. bottles carrying the word "chateau."
But the French argue that hundreds of years of craft are at stake. They're worried that the cachet a mention of "chateau" or "clos" ? which shows the origin of the wine ? carries is diluted if other winemakers started to stick it on their bottles in Europe.
On Tuesday, EU experts from the different member states were supposed to vote on the issue, but that was postponed following talks Monday between the EU and French Farm Minister Stephane Le Foll .
"I asked my services to clarify all of these matters," EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos said late Monday, effectively ruling out an immediate decision.
It's the latest skirmish in a trans-Atlantic wine war that has seen the United States grow from an upstart to an increasingly confident competitor on world markets.
U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson was enamored with French wines and the French held dominance over world wine traffic until well after World War II. Then came the 1976 "Judgment of Paris," when, to French astonishment, California won a major blind taste test over French wines.
To this day, that event is considered the "tasting that changed the wine world." That never sat well with the French, and since then wine relations have often had an edge.
So when the European Commission decided to act on a U.S. request to regain permission to export 'chateau' and 'clos'-labeled wines to Europe ? including France ? the anger was palpable.
"The European Commission is bartering our heritage and our economic clout at the expense of globalization," said Gapenne. "I cannot understand that they would yield on this."
For the U.S., the benefits of tapping the European market are clear. Even though it is declining, the 27-nation European Union still accounts for 57 percent of the global wine consumption.
Last year, 34 percent of U.S. wine exports by value went to the EU, accounting for $478 million. And the industry is counting on removing trade barriers worldwide to push exports even more.
In comparison, the EU said its exports to the United States stood at ?2.2 billion ($2.86 billion) last year, boosted by many of the top-edge chateau and clos vintages that have come to define the continent's best wines. The global turnover of France's Bordeaux wines stood at ?4.2 billion and 55,000 jobs while the Burgundy region added ?1 billion and 20,000 jobs last year.
While the Americans feel they are unfairly locked out of a market, the French feel that centuries of careful cultivation is being thrown up for grabs.
"There would not be a level playing field," Gapenne said.
While French chateau bottles find their origins in wines made at the estate from grapes belonging to the chateau, the U.S. definition for export would use less stringent conditions on provenance. It could include grapes from "vines that have been traditionally used by this wine producer or producer group."
"We think the definition we presented is fair and reasonable," said Greene of the U.S. "The definitions we put forward, we believe accurately reflect what we think the market place can stand and what consumers can understand."
For the French, the very francophone origins of the "chateau" name argue differently.
"The Americans could create 'chateau' wines from grapes from all over and prices would of course be much lower," Gapenne said. "The consumer would be buying a 'chateau' wine with the idea of quality that represents our definition" while in fact it doesn't, he argued.
Several dozen premium wineries in the United States have already used the 'chateau' and 'clos' designation in the past. They were allowed to export wines bearing such labels for three years in the wake of a 2006 trans-Atlantic wine agreement, but that loophole was closed in 2009.
Names and denominations of origins have often created trade friction, affecting everything from Greek feta cheese to Lebanese hummus. In the 2006 agreement, for example, the EU said it was able to contain the use of such terms like Champagne and Port in the United States.
Any dilution of the typical French winery terms would undermine their standing in the world, said Gapenne.
And once the United States breaks the French hold on the term in Europe, it would set a precedent.
"It would become extremely difficult to stop other producing countries" from using the term, Gapenne's FGVB said in a statement. "The notion would be totally discredited and empty of any meaning."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-vintners-want-us-chateaux-kept-eu-142357702--finance.html
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Tuesday 25 September 2012
Monsters Wanted
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Updated Redbox app for Android brings better browsing
While users of the Redbox movie rental service are growing in number, so were frustrations with the Redbox app for Android. An update, now available in the Google Play Store, fixes a number of issues while adding some useful features.
While previous versions of the Redbox app for Android failed to include even basic sorting options, the new update brings the ability to sort by date or alphabetical order. New filtering additions such as the ability to sort Blu-Ray discs by genre should make rentals far easier for users than the previous versions of the app.
The Redbox app now supports push notifications, so users no longer need to opt-in to emails or text messages from Redbox to have access to coupon codes or update news. Users can also now input coupon codes directly into the app when making reservations.
Unfortunately, users who were hoping to see instant streaming added to the app in this update will be disappointed. While Redbox announced earlier this year that it would be teaming up with Verizon to bring instant streaming to customers, no options related to streaming were added in this update.
Even with the lack of streaming features, this update is a step in the right direction, and previously-frustrated users of Redbox?s mobile experience should find it much more useful. Hopefully, the next update will bring streaming, and won?t be too long in coming.
Have you grabbed the updated Redbox app for Android yet? Are you disappointed in the lack of instant streaming, or just happy to have the fixes?
Source: http://www.androidauthority.com/redbox-app-for-android-updated-117221/
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Monday 24 September 2012
How to Find Funding Online | The Official Wix Blog
Need money to get your brilliant idea on its feet? Make your dream come true with these wonderful crowdfunding website
A while ago, saying that all you have to do in order to succeed is just to come up with a good idea would be considered naive, to say the least. That was before crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding is a communal way to gather funds for the realization of an idea, a project, a business or a non-profit cause. How does it work? You pitch your idea online and whoever is interested can finance your idea with any sum of money they would like to offer. It can be an internet startup, an art project or even a new product.
If you?re still a bit skeptic, that?s because you haven?t yet visited crowdfunding platforms and haven?t realized how safe, helpful and inspiring they are. We prepared a list of successful crowdfunding communities, where people?s dreams literally come true every day. If you?re looking for a way to finance your brilliant idea or important cause, you definitely want to check these out.
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Kickstarter
Funding platform for creative projects. Post your unique idea and get sponsored by equally-enthusiastic people.
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Go Big Network
Entrepreneurs can use this network to find funding through investors, venture capitals or angels. Success stories on the site indicate that users were able to raise substantial funds ($1 Million and more!) for their business initiatives.
Go Big Network
Quirky
Quirky helps inventors, engineers, product designers and developers. Their community of experts will support you in evaluating, researching, conceptualizing, producing and marketing your product.
Quirky
Indie GoGo
A great platform to start a campaign and raise funds for different types of ideas and causes ? from independent fashion lines to sponsoring animal shelters.
Indie GoGo
GoFundMe
School tuition, medical bills, business ideas ? GoFundMe is helping people raise money to pay for all of these things and more. This platform lets you create a personalized page for your cause and makes it easy to promote your page online.
GoFundMe
Art House Co-op
For many projects, money isn?t necessarily the most important resource. Art House Co-op is a creative platform that connects people from all over the world in creating joint art works. On this website, you can ask people to share their photography works, their stories, their portraits and so forth, and combine them into a masterwork.
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Upstart
Upstart was created by ex-Google employees who wanted to support gifted young individuals in fulfilling their potential. Upstart backers help these individuals not only by sponsoring grad-school tuition, internships, etc., but also by offering professional guidance on how to make it.
Upstart
Rocket Hub
A funding community devoted to launching great ideas. In addition to the fundraising platform, Rocket Hub also posts opportunities and openings that might be interesting for different kinds of creatives.
Rocket Hub
ArtistShare
ArtistShare connects musicians with fans and supporters who are willing to sponsor new art projects. This platform works closely with the music industry, and several projects that were funded by it actually received Grammy awards afterwards.
ArtistShare
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Tagged with: Business Idea . Crowdfunding . Featured . Find Funding Online . Kickstarter . Online FundraisingSource: http://www.wix.com/blog/2012/09/find-funding-online/
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Wednesday 19 September 2012
ITC Says It Will Formally Investigate Motorola?s Patent Complaint Against Apple
Almost exactly a month ago, Google's Motorola Mobility filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. Today, the ITC announced its decision to institute a formal investigation of Motorola's claims. The suit, which aims to block Apple from importing virtually all of its current hardware to the U.S., alleges that Apple's devices are infringing upon seven Motorola patents. It's worth noting that this lawsuit wouldn't affect the upcoming iPhone 5, the older iPhone 4S, and the new iPad with 4G connectivity, as these devices use different chipsets that fall outside of Motorola's patent claims.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7LDiDl7E-Ws/
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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Cast to TLC: Pay Up!
It's more of a sure thing than Lindsay Lohan's next arrest: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo will return to TLC for a second season.
That's what happens when you rate higher than the Republication National Convention.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, however, the family at the center of this ridiculous smash hit won't come cheap: the Thompsons are negotiating with the network for a sizable raise.
With Honey Boo Boo's 17-year old sister having recently given birth, expanding the show's cast for next year, sources say the Thompsons are seeking $10,000 per episode.
Here Comes Honey Boo - which is a spinoff of Toddlers & Tiaras - will air its Season 1 finale on Wednesday, September 26.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/09/here-comes-honey-boo-boo-cast-to-tlc-pay-up/
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Facing anti-malaria nets, mosquitoes alter habits
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After two African villages started using mosquito nets to fight malaria, the local mosquitoes seemed to change their biting habits to skirt the barriers, a new study finds.
Insecticide-treated bed nets are considered a central weapon in the global fight against malaria - an infectious disease transmitted by parasite-carrying mosquitoes. Malaria kills more than 650,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization - most of them babies and children in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the new study, French researchers zeroed in on mosquito behavior before and after all households in two African villages were given insecticide-treated nets.
They found that mosquitoes seemed to change their hours of "peak aggression" from 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. to around 5 a.m. three years after nets were put up.
And in one village, the proportion of mosquito bites inflicted outdoors rose, the researchers reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Outdoor bites accounted for 45 percent of all bites at the outset but rose to 68 percent one year later and 61 percent after three years.
The finding is "worrying since villagers usually wake up before dawn to work in crops, and as such they are not protected by mosquito nets," senior researcher Vincent Corbel, of the Montpellier, France-based Institute of Research for Development, said in an email.
Still, the results come from just two villages in one country, Benin.
"We cannot extrapolate to a wider geographical area and/or a different entomological context," Corbel said. Entomology is the study of insects.
A malaria researcher not involved in the study said the results should be interpreted with caution.
One reason is the difficulty in getting reliable measures of mosquito "biting behavior" over time, according to Thomas Eisele, from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.
In this study, Corbel's team used the standard way of gauging mosquitoes' activity - the "human landing catch" - which, as the names implies, means that a mosquito collector lets the pest land on his skin, then catches it.
The researchers had mosquito collectors do three different rounds (indoors and outdoors) at each village: once before nets were given to all households, then again one year and three years afterward.
"Obtaining measures such as biting behavior is fraught with error, in that it is difficult to do exactly the same way across replications," Eisele said in an email.
But most importantly, he added, "this study was conducted over only a couple of years, which would likely be insufficient to detect evolutionary changes in biting behaviors within the same species of Anopheles."
The mosquitoes studied were of the Anopheles funestus species, one of the two main malaria vectors in Africa.
Mosquito nets have been credited with spurring big drops in malaria deaths, Corbel noted.
A report for the Cochrane Collaboration, an international group that publishes rigorous reviews, estimated that for every 1,000 children protected by an insecticide-treated net, five to six lives would be saved each year.
But in recent years, malaria cases have started to climb again in certain African countries, Corbel pointed out.
Experts have mainly been concerned about mosquitoes' growing resistance to the insecticides used in bed nets and for indoor spraying. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization said resistance had been detected in 64 countries.
The WHO also issued a plan that said each country at risk must analyze the extent of its insecticide resistance and design a preemptive strategy, rather than waiting for resistance to increase.
Corbel said the current findings challenge the "dogma" that malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Africa bite exclusively at night.
"Long-lasting insecticidal nets were developed to protect people at night when they are sleeping," Corbel said.
But if mosquitoes shift to early-morning and outdoor biting, those nets might not be enough to keep malaria under control, according to Corbel.
He said more research should be done into the possible effects of different mosquito-control methods on the insects' behavior.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/NC5OvF Journal of Infectious Diseases, online September 10, 2012.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/facing-anti-malaria-nets-mosquitoes-alter-habits-155325082.html
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Syrian rebels battle Assad forces near Turkish border
AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian rebels battled government forces near a Turkish border crossing on Tuesday and bullets flew into the northern neighbor that has backed the 18-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The revolt, which began as peaceful street protests cracked down on by Assad's military, has escalated into a civil war in which over 27,000 people have died. Daily death tolls now approach 200 and the last month was the bloodiest yet.
In another bid to stem the bloodshed, Iran's foreign minister proposed a new regional monitoring mission ahead of talks with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Wednesday, Iranian state media said. Two previous missions have collapsed.
From the Turkish side of the crossing with Tel Abyad, a Reuters witness heard sporadic, heavy machinegun fire and saw an ambulance nearby. A Turkish official said stray bullets hit some houses in the town of Akcakale, wounding at least one person, a woman.
He said the rebels were trying to gain control of Tel Abyad, which was a major crossing for Turkish-Syrian commerce in peacetime, and which rebels were rumored to have used for weapons smuggling in the past year.
It appeared to be the first attempt by insurgents to assert their grip over a border zone in al-Raqqa province, most of which has remained solidly pro-Assad.
Rebels hold two other crossings on the northern border with Turkey. A third border point would help strengthen their control in the north and put more pressure on the army as they battle for control of Syria's largest city Aleppo not far away.
Residents say only one town near the border has welcomed rebels in al-Raqqa province. The town held an anti-Assad protest on Tuesday, prompting government shelling, wounding several people, and fighting later erupted.
Parts of Syria's frontiers with Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq have become porous as the conflict spread. More than 200,000 refugees have poured into Turkey and Jordan to escape bombardment by pro-Assad forces in pursuit of rebels.
Shell fire has occasionally crashed over the borders, and the fighting has sometimes come so close that the armies of neighboring states have gone on high alert.
Syria's second and third cities, Aleppo and Homs, have been shattered by fighting. With the army relying on fighter jets and helicopter gunships and the rebels on makeshift bombs, neighborhoods in both cities have been leveled.
Damascus, once seen as an impregnable Assad stronghold, has also suffered near daily shelling and clashes on its outskirts.
At least five fighters and four soldiers died in the latest clashes on the capital's southern outskirts, the London-based Syrian Observatory or Human Rights said.
Security forces are trying to stamp out a rebel foothold in Damascus's southern and eastern suburbs.
Heavy army shelling battered rebellious towns in the southern Deraa region, fount of the uprising, and Idlib, in the north near the Turkish border. More than 60 people were killed nationwide before evening on Tuesday, the Observatory said.
IRAN PROPOSES NEW MONITORING MISSION
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi pitched his proposal for an observer force when a regional "contact group" met in Cairo on Monday, Iran's state news agency said. He said observers should come from the group's four member countries - Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Given mutual mistrust within the quartet, it was unclear whether Salehi's proposal had much prospect of success. The new grouping is an awkward combination of supporters and opponents of the uprising. Iran has stuck by Assad while Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey have demanded the president step down.
"Salehi suggested the sending of observers from the four countries to monitor the cessation of violence, the conducting of dialogue, emphasizing the need for a sense of integration and national unity and Syrian territory," IRNA news agency reported.
Two monitoring missions in Syria have already unraveled. The first, a regional Arab League group of observers, left in protest at a continued escalation of violence with little sign of political reform pledged by Assad. A United Nations mission pulled out most of its observers for similar reasons.
Violence has intensified and spread across this large, pivotal Arab country and more than 200,000 refugees have flooded into neighboring states.
Iraq, which in August closed its border crossings, reopened them on Tuesday to allow in 100 Syrian refugees per day. But Iraq will refuse entry to young men, officials said, citing security reasons, as many young men are believed to be rebels.
REGIONAL RIVALRIES POSE OBSTACLE
Western officials and diplomats are skeptical that the new Middle East contact group that convened in Cairo could reach any deal to draw down the spiraling violence in Syria.
The four countries have differences with sectarian and strategic dimensions that seem insurmountable.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are actively supporting Syrian rebels and are believed to be training them as well. Other Sunni Muslim countries in the region are also throwing their weight behind the mostly Sunni-led uprising in Syria.
Shi'ite Muslim power Iran has supported Assad, whose Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, has dominated the country for decades. Tehran has acknowledged having members of its security forces there, but only in an advisory role. Rebels say that Iranian forces are helping Assad militarily.
Underlining the inherent tensions, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister stayed away from the Cairo meeting of the contact group on Monday. Egyptian officials did not say why no one else came in his place.
International powers seem to be equally deadlocked along old Cold War lines, with Western powers backing the Syrian opposition, and Russia and China blocking any U.N.-mandated intervention aimed at dislodging Assad.
Iranian state media said that Salehi, who like Moscow and Beijing has called for an internal resolution without foreign interference, was to meet Assad in Damascus on Wednesday and propose ways to resolve the Syrian crisis.
(Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch in Ankara, Zahra Hosseinian and Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-battle-assad-forces-near-turkish-border-162405487.html
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Sandusky to be sentenced Oct. 9 in sex-abuse case
There's little doubt that Jerry Sandusky faces a long prison sentence. In a few weeks, he'll find out how just how long.
A judge announced Monday he will sentence Sandusky on Oct. 9, nearly four months after the retired assistant football coach was convicted in the child molestation scandal that brought shame to Penn State.
Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts of sex abuse involving 10 boys. Prosecutors said some of the assaults took place on the Penn State campus.
Given his age and the serious nature of the crimes, Sandusky is likely to receive a sentence that will keep the 68-year-old in prison for life. He is jailed pending sentencing and maintains his innocence.
Judge John Cleland scheduled a hearing for 9 a.m. at the courthouse in Bellefonte to determine if Sandusky should be classified as a sexually violent predator, a designation that subjects a convict to intense reporting requirements upon release. An assessment board has recommended Sandusky for the designation, though it's expected to have little practical effect since he stands to die in prison.
Sandusky will be sentenced immediately afterward. Cleland ordered defense attorneys and prosecutors to submit written statements "intended to aid the court in the imposition of sentence" by Oct. 5.
Tom Kline, a lawyer representing a young man who testified during Sandusky's trial that he was fondled in a school shower in 2001, said Monday he expects his client either to testify at the sentencing hearing or supply a statement to the court.
"We expect to provide what is requested by the attorney's general's office to assure justice is achieved in Mr. Sandusky's sentencing," Kline said in an email.
Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman in the attorney general's office, said prosecutors will make a sentencing recommendation to the judge.
Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola, did not immediately return a phone call and email seeking comment.
A long sentence, like a conviction, can help victims feel they were believed, said Kristen Houser of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. But she added that justice achieved through the court system is not a cure-all.
"Having him convicted and having him sentenced does not alter one iota the daily baggage that he inflicted upon them that they have to figure out how to manage every day for the rest of their lives," she said.
The abuse scandal touched off by Sandusky's Nov. 5 arrest rocked Penn State, bringing down famed coach Joe Paterno and the university's president and leading the NCAA to levy unprecedented sanctions against the football program.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, hired by school trustees to conduct an investigation into the university's handling of abuse complaints against Sandusky, concluded that Paterno, ousted President Graham Spanier and two other high-level school officials concealed a 2001 allegation against Sandusky to protect Penn State from bad publicity.
The late coach's family and Spanier hotly disputed Freeh's assertions. So did former athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schulz, who have been charged criminally with failure to report suspected child abuse and perjury. They have pleaded innocent and await trial.
Some alumni groups have also attacked the Freeh report and said Penn State and the NCAA should not have accepted its conclusions.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sandusky-sentenced-oct-9-sex-abuse-case-200830400--spt.html
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Tuesday 18 September 2012
Asphalt And Concrete, Paver Stone, Paver Stone Benefits, Pos ...
Paver Stone Benefits Leave The Competition Behind In More Ways Than One!
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Daytrading, Stock Trading, Investing and Forex Trading ? A Refund ...
During the past, stocks pick programs were reserved for and only utilised by trading pros with large corporations. These are programs which reference past market info when investigating realtime market information, taking the whole reach of the market into account, to efficiently exploit the market?s pattern-esque movements and get a surprisingly good read and prophecy on where the market will go next in order that you can trade correctly without having to spend the effort or time doing so yourself. First, a refund goes a good distance in this niche. Stocks pick software has helped a considerable number of traders make a ton of cash on some hot choices, but because it's been so lucrative for so many traders this has led several publishers to piece together ineffectual pickers of their own and pass them off as money earners with interesting branding and web sites.
Refusing to put up with and correctly handle trades that do not work leads straight to trading screw ups. Learning how to accept and handle trading loss might be of the same importance as making good trades. Survival Tips Here are 7 steps that you can take to survive and even prosper when suffering a loss : Jot down the trade as it happened : Don?t sweep the loss under the rug! You want to gain from the loss ( that's its worth ), so scribble it down. Include how you viewed the market at the time and the way the market action and your signals seemed to meet the standards for a sound trade set-up. Judge the trade : Once the trading day is over, return to what you wrote and see what can be learned. There'll be moments when you believe there is an excellent chance to make a trade only to realise that you are making for a problem. The key here is to think first before leaping right in. You've got to look at the situation punctiliously before deciding for the following step.
Conventional , buy-and-hold speculators like nice smooth, slow, steady ( upward ) movement. The only real way to be successful in the stock exchange as far as daytrading is troubled is, to prophesy the stock patterns and try and make a capital on the short term market upward swing. Nonetheless a day trader LOVES volatility, because they recognise what it represents. If they learn daytrading methods for success. Unsteady ) markets represent?IF they know what they are doing. A good rule is to be aware of momentum. Naturally, an inexpert trader will get eaten alive by volatility ? the market will take them down quicker than they can blink. When it is slowing down and you detect that there are not as many customers, that's when you wish to sell. Stock option day-trading isn?t right for everybody so do not feel pushed into it. There are a good deal of alternative routes to invest if you are not pleased with this one.
Yet if you're impressed by it, then take time to study share trading to see what it can do for you! .
Source: http://traders101.com/2012/09/16/a-refund-goes-a-great-distance-in-this-niche/
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Monday 17 September 2012
Internet Marketing with Affiliate Landmines - Free Articles for ...
Today, majority of the websites in the internet are extensions of a company or industry?s operating arms. Internet marketing, web marketing, online marketing and internet advertising are just few of the applications that connects the World Wide Web in optimizing the popularity and advertising effectiveness of certain industries and businesses as in product demands and service necessities. Internet has introduced limitless options on which these products and services can affect or reach a wider range of clients or consumers. One of these options is optimizing profits by using affiliate landmines.
The use of internet in marketing products have combines the creative and technical aspects of business operations. With the use of comprehensive strategies, the internet has managed to synergize majority of the commonly used business models, making them more effective and systematic in achieving business goals. With the use of website functions and appearance, these companies are enabled to reach out to their target market base by presenting an accessible and more appealing media and design of advertisement, which will convince people of their product?s necessity to everyday living. Later on, the popularity gained out of internet-based business operations will be translated into sales and revenues.
Many types on business-client/consumer interactions can be facilitated with the use of internet. With millions of people surfing the net daily, internet-based companies and internet extensions of various businesses can effectively send their message, product and service across millions of internet surfers. The conversion of these surfers or website readers into customers and clients would depend on the impact of the content and the subliminal messages that were presented in the company?s website. The potential of every reader to become future customers is promising, which is why many of the companies are building up their very own empire, this time at the realms of World Wide Web.
In internet marketing there are several business models that are used. E-commerce sells goods directly to the consumers, online publishing for online advertisements, lead-based websites for gaining sales leads through the company?s website visitors and the affiliate marketing. In affiliate marketing, business rewards are gained from one or more affiliates. This means that for each visitor or customer brought by a previous customer, a corresponding reward will be given. It basically works like a referral system, extending the advertising and sales leg of the company to the actually client?s themselves. In return, the people who have referred people to the service or product of the website that he is patronizing are rewarded with purchasing discounts, packages or reward checks. This system of internet marketing is the very core of working with affiliate landmines.?
An affiliate landmine is basically a link that allows you to take part on a website?s marketing campaign. What you do is place an affiliate link and set the timing where you can offer product premiums among the website?s customers. As a consumer, you can easily determine the time when the customer?s buying resistance is low and what kind or product deals are appealing to them. The idea is you being an auxiliary sales person. So even as a consumer, you can benefit from the monetary gains of working with affiliate marketing modes.
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Are you a Dalek? Changing perceptions of the ... - Hypnosis Self Help
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The chains that bind us to the past
In a recent BBC Dr Who programme the Daleks memories of the Doctor or Predator, as they knew him, were wiped clean.? Apart from opening up a whole new relationship for the Doctor and the Daleks, it meant that they had forgotten the Doctor and all the fear and hatred they had for him.
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Imagine what would happen if you could get rid of fears and worries as easily?? If you could change your perception of past hurts and fears so that you could get on with living in the present and the future, who would you be?
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Getting stuck in the past
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I?m not suggesting that we mind-wipe memories from people as they are what help us be ?us?.? We, hopefully, learn from past experiences, the bad and the good, so that we grow and change as a result of what has happened to us.? However, sometimes we can get ?stuck? in a traumatic experience from the past.? The past trauma has not been processed and allowed to sit with other, less remarkable, memories in the past and this is reflected in their present-day attitudes and ways of coping with situations.
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I have been working recently with a lady in her 50?s who, as a child, had been badly abused by a family member (now dead). ?She came to me for help to cope with the after-effects of breast cancer surgery.? During one of the sessions this past abuse was raised as it was creating problems for her and her ability to cope with her current situation. Because of her circumstances she had more time on her hands and these old memories were now playing more and more on her mind.? She wanted some release from them.? Working together using a combination of IEMT and hypnosis we have managed to change the emotional attachment to those memories of abuse.? She can still remember events but they have reduced in their emotional intensity. ?She is now able to think about other things and look forward to living her life with out those specific fears and worries.
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Our minds or neural networks are amazing and we still don?t fully understand how we remember and create experiences.? As more and more research is carried into the mind/body connection and the use of mindfulness, hypnosis, nlp and other techniques, there is increasing evidence showing benefits at the level of our DNA and genes.? I?ve mentioned research before now proving how much impact the power of suggestion has.? There is more research into the use of unconscious stimuli to change perceptions of pain.? The placebo effect is being researched more and more as a way of helping people tap into their natural abilities to help heal themselves.
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Hypnosis and other techniques can help people make great changes to their perception of things whether that is controlling pain as in childbirth or dentistry, overcoming phobias or changing memories either helping lessen ?bad? one?s or improving and using happy one?s.
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Imagine being able to access happy memories or times when you felt confident and resourceful just by putting your finger and thumb together or by saying a word to yourself?? Imagine being helped to change the memory of a specific fearful event and being able to then lead your life more fully as a result?
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Why? Because you?re worth it! (to quote a well known ad)
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Source: http://www.hypnosisselfhelp.co.uk/are-you-a-dalek/
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Wednesday 12 September 2012
Rare cliffhanging plant species uses unique reproductive strategy with ants
ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2012) ? The Borderea chouardii plant, which is critically endangered and is found only on two adjacent cliff sides in the Pyrenees, employs a unique and risky doubly mutualistic reproductive strategy with local ants, according to research published Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
The researchers, led by Maria Garcia of the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), found that two ant species acted as the main pollinators for the plant, while a third species dispersed seeds. About a third of the new seedlings censused over 17 years in vertical cliffs would come from such dispersal, while the remaining two thirds from self-sown seeds by the female plants.
Such a strategy is risky, because if something were to happen to the local ant species the plant may not be able to continue reproducing, but the authors conclude that it can be successful in this particular case because of the plant's unusually long lifespan, in some cases reaching over 300 years, its climatically stable habitat, and its isolation from large herbivores.
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Sunday 9 September 2012
Komen Greater NYC Race For The Cure Helps Fight Breast Cancer ...
The Pinola Family from Long Island walks in memory of Carol Pinola. (Credit: Glenn Schuck/1010 WINS)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Thousands participated in the 2012?Komen Greater New York City Race for the Cure, which began at 9 a.m. on Sunday.
The 3.1-mile race is the largest fundraiser of the year for the?Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.
The race made its way through Central Park, and participants started at the?American Museum of Natural History. In addition to those running and walking the entire 5K length, there was a special shortened course for those who are disabled, elderly and currently undergoing cancer treatment.
Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation?s goal is to kill breast cancer before it kills any more women or men. It?s about taking your life back, unashamedly and proudly proclaiming to the world that you?re a breast cancer survivor.
Over 20,000 people took part in last year?s run, raising $6 million in much-needed funding. But beyond the money, the Race For The Cure is meant to celebrate life and honor those who have lost the battle against breast cancer.
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War-weary US is numbed to drumbeat of troop deaths in Afghanistan
Each week at war has a certain sameness for those not fighting in Afghanistan. Yet every week brings sorrow to those who learn that a son or daughter, brother or sister, was killed or wounded.
Army soldiers carry the remains of Pfc. Shane W. Cantu of Corunna, Mich., at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Pfc. Cantu, who deployed to Afghanistan this summer, was among five U.S. deaths announced this past week.
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EnlargeIt was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness.
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After nearly 11 years, many by now have grown numb to the sting of losing soldiers like Pfc. Shane W. Cantu of Corunna, Mich. He died of shrapnel wounds in the remoteness of eastern Afghanistan, not far from the getaway route that Osama bin Laden took when U.S. forces invaded after Sept. 11, 2001, and began America's longest war.
Cantu was 10 back then.
Nearly every day the Pentagon posts another formulaic death notice, each one brief and unadorned, revealing the barest of facts ? name, age and military unit ? but no words that might capture the meaning of the loss.
Cantu, who joined the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade on Sept. 11 last year and went to Afghanistan last month, was among five U.S. deaths announced this past week, as the Democrats and Republicans wrapped up back-to-back presidential nominating conventions.
PHOTOS:?Inside Afghanistan:?Remnants of America's longest war
American troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a pace that doesn't often register beyond their hometowns. So far this year, it's 31 a month on average, or one per day. National attention is drawn, briefly, to grim and arbitrary milestones such as the 1,000th and 2,000th war deaths. But days, weeks and months pass with little focus by the general public or its political leaders on the individuals behind the statistics.
Each week at war has a certain sameness for those not fighting it, yet every week brings distinct pain and sorrow to the families who learn that their son or daughter, brother or sister, father or mother was killed or wounded.
Cantu died Aug. 28, but the Pentagon did not publicly release his name until Wednesday. He was memorialized by his paratrooper "sky soldier" comrades in Italy on Thursday and honored in his hometown of Corunna, where the high school football coach, Mike Sullivan, was quoted in local news reports as saying the energetic and athletic Cantu had been "the toughest kid I've ever coached ? ever known."
He would have turned 21 next month.
His roommate in Afghanistan, Pfc. Cameron Richards, 23, remembers Cantu as a larger-than-life figure, a guy with an infectious smile who took pride in whipping up spaghetti, tacos and other dinners on his portable skillet. It was a knack he attributed to having grown up with five sisters with whom he shared family meal duties.
"He was the type of person you wanted to be around every day," Richards said in a telephone interview Friday from the brigade's headquarters in Italy, where he returned after being wounded by shrapnel from a hand grenade two weeks before Cantu was killed.
"When he was in the room you knew he was in the room. He'd be the loudest one laughing," he added. "He impacted everybody."
As the war drags on, it remains a faraway puzzle for many Americans. Max Boot, a military historian and defense analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, has called Afghanistan the "Who Cares?" war. "Few, it seems, do, except for service personnel and their families," he wrote recently. "It is almost as if the war isn't happening at all."
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Thursday 6 September 2012
Quebec separatists win weak grip on power, will survive for now
MONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Voters have given French-speaking Quebec its first separatist government in nine years, but denied the new government the ability to push through radical policy plans in a legislature where it will need support from other parties to stay in power.
The left-leaning Parti Quebecois (PQ) won 54 of the 125 seats in the provincial legislature in Tuesday's election, only four more than the outgoing Liberal government, and far short of the majority it would need to hold a referendum on independence.
The turnout was almost 75 percent, unusually high for a provincial election and up from 57 percent in 2008.
Analysts said the minority government will have to water down campaign promises that included higher personal taxes and increased royalties on mining firms. The party also wants to make foreign takeovers of Quebec companies more difficult and toughen laws on the use of French.
Previous PQ governments held referendums in 1980 and 1995 on whether to break away from Canada and both failed. The party won just 31.9 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, showing that enthusiasm for the idea of independence is muted at best.
PQ leader Pauline Marois, 63, must now calculate how much of her agenda she can push through. In early comments at a late-night victory celebration that was interrupted by a fatal shooting, she hinted at compromise.
"Quebecers have made their choice and we will respect this choice by governing with all the other parties," she said. "We are all here to serve Quebecers and I am convinced that on this basis we can find the necessary compromises to ensure the state runs properly."
Minority governments tend to have relatively short lifespans in Canada, but Marois seems in no immediate danger of defeat.
Liberal leader and Quebec Premier Jean Charest lost his own seat in the election. If Charest quits as leader, after nine years in power, the party will need a new chief just as a probe into alleged corruption in the construction industry and possible links to political parties looks set to embarrass it.
The third-placed party, the newly created right-leaning Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ), won 19 seats in the election, fewer than it had predicted.
Antonia Maioni, director of the Institute for the Study of Canada at Montreal's McGill University, said the first real test for the PQ government will be its first budget. Budgets are traditionally delivered in March.
"The budget is going to be interesting because that's where the dividing line is between Marois and the two opposition parties on a lot of those economic issues," she said, adding that she did not expect rivals to force an election before then.
As well as raising taxes on mining companies, Marois wants to scrap Liberal plans for tuition hikes that sparked big student protests this year. A former finance minister in a previous PQ government, she also wants to rework an C$80 billion Liberal plan to open up the resource-rich north.
Guy Laforest, a political scientist at Laval University in Quebec City, said he expects Marois - who became a PQ legislator in 1981 and took part in three leadership races - to be cautious.
"She will be reasonably prudent managing the Quebec state and Quebec society, and I think it very unlikely that she will dare (to introduce) bold legislative measures either this fall or next spring," he said.
"This is a calm collected person. She will like to govern. She will like the job, and she will not do foolish things to risk everything upon first notice."
Investors welcomed the weak minority government and the implication that Marois would have to tread carefully.
The gap between Canadian and Quebec government bond yields narrowed slightly, an indication that investors were demanding less of a risk premium.
Canadian stocks were mostly higher, but shares in home improvement store Rona Inc fell as the PQ victory appeared to lower the chance of a possible takeover by U.S. rival Lowe's Cos.
The PQ victory was marred by a fatal shooting in the Montreal theater where Marois gave her victory speech. The gunman appeared to make comments suggesting he was defending the rights of the province's minority English-speaking community.
Marois's promise to further strengthen the use of French increased tensions between French and English speakers, and she went out of her way on Tuesday to stress that she wanted both communities to work together.
"It's probably the most important kind of societal problem that she has to face, because if she can't keep social peace, she won't succeed as a premier," Maioni said.
French speakers make up about 80 percent of Quebec's 7.8 million population.
(Additional reporting by Randall Palmer; Editing by Janet Guttsman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/quebec-separatists-win-minority-government-tv-networks-022440848.html
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Sunday 2 September 2012
Tigers beat White Sox,?1?back in?AL Central
By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 10:34 p.m. ET Sept. 1, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - Max Scherzer has done more than just salvage his season.
He's helped the Detroit Tigers stay right behind the Chicago White Sox atop the AL Central.
Scherzer allowed four hits in eight scoreless innings, and the Tigers pulled within a game of first place with a 5-1 victory over the White Sox on Saturday night. After an awful start to 2012 - his ERA was 6.26 on May 15 - Scherzer has bounced back impressively. He's now won five straight starts, providing a dependable complement to ace Justin Verlander.
"I knew coming in tonight this was a huge start for us," Scherzer said. "We needed to win this game to get us back in the thick of things."
Detroit has taken the first two games of this series from the AL Central-leading White Sox and will send Verlander to the mound Sunday night to try for a sweep. Scherzer (15-6) struck out nine with one walk.
Delmon Young homered and tripled for the Tigers.
Francisco Liriano (5-11) allowed three runs, four hits and seven walks in four-plus innings. Chicago was swept in a three-game set in Detroit in July, momentarily ceding first place to the Tigers. Now the White Sox are in danger of being caught atop the division.
"There's a long way to go. You're still where you want to be," Chicago manager Robin Ventura said. "No use hanging your head. Still a lot worse places you could be."
Scherzer increased his strikeout total to 204, becoming the first pitcher to reach 200 this year. He and Liriano are two of the three pitchers who have struck out at least 15 in a game this season. The other is Chris Sale, Chicago's starter Sunday.
Scherzer has struck out at least eight in nine straight starts.
"He threw as good a performance as we've had thrown against us, just stuff-wise," Ventura said. "Looked like he was in and out and spotting his pitches."
Detroit opened the scoring with two runs in the third. Brennan Boesch, who has struggled this year but entered the game 5 for 11 lifetime against Liriano, hit an RBI triple and came home on Miguel Cabrera's single.
Young led off the Detroit fifth with a drive that hit the top of the wall in left-center and came back in play for a triple. He eventually scored on a two-out single by Avisail Garcia, the first big league hit for the right fielder.
Young's next hit - in the seventh - had enough distance to clear the fence for his 16th homer of the year. Cabrera added another RBI single in the eighth.
The Tigers have won 24 of their last 30 home games.
"We know we need to win games," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "I usually don't emphasize series. I did say this is a bigger series."
The White Sox were without slugger Adam Dunn, who was sitting out with a strained oblique.
Scherzer struck out Kevin Youkilis in the eighth for his final out, then took off his hat to acknowledge the crowd before getting a handshake from manager Jim Leyland.
"When our offense is scoring runs, they're making their starter work, we're getting hits - big hits - it makes it fun to go out there and pitch well," Scherzer said. "Any time the team wins, in this situation, with where we're at with the season, it just puts a smile on my face."
Orlando Hudson hit an RBI triple off Detroit's Jose Valverde in the ninth.
NOTES: Chicago used eight pitchers. ... Scherzer lowered his ERA to 3.93. ... The White Sox entered September with a division lead for the fifth time since 1993. They ended up finishing first the other four times - in 1993, 2000, 2005 and 2008. ... Chicago RHP Deunte Heath made his major league debut in the eighth, getting Prince Fielder to hit into a double play. ... Ventura said LHP Hector Santiago will start Monday night against Minnesota.
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J.J. Hardy's bases-loaded error let New York complete a seventh-inning comeback and the Yankees stung the Orioles 4-3 Saturday to restore their AL East lead to three games.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/48875419/ns/sports-baseball/
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