APNewsBreak: Philly transit talks to continue PHILADELPHIA — A union representing more than 5,000 transit workers is extending the deadline for a strike that could disrupt bus and subway services during the World Series games in Philadelphia. The union had threatened to go on strike as early as 12:01 a.m. Saturday if talks with Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
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Source: Abdullah may pull out of Afghan runoff UNITED NATIONS — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah may pull out of next week’s presidential runoff, according to a person with knowledge of the talks. An announcement could come as early as Saturday or, possibly, Sunday, the person said.
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Western source says Karzai challenger likely to pull out of Afghan presidential runoff
Madoff: SEC never thought it was a Ponzi scheme WASHINGTON — Bernard Madoff was apparently convinced that it never even occurred to Securities and Exchange Commission staff he was running a Ponzi scheme, despite the agency’s numerous probes of his business. A document released Friday details a prison interview conducted in June by the SEC inspector general
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Madoff convinced SEC investigators never thought he was running a Ponzi scheme, document shows
UN security guard from Miami hailed as hero MIAMI — A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff. Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Maxwell was killed during the gunfight Wednesday at the hotel in Kabul filled with U.N.
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UN security guard from Miami who died in Afghanistan attack by Taliban hailed as hero
Slain mosque leader’s followers deny FBI claims DETROIT — A Detroit mosque is dismissing as “utterly preposterous” the government’s allegations that its slain leader was part of a radical Islamic group. The FBI says agents killed Luqman Ameen Abdullah after he fired on them Wednesday as they tried to arrest him on several charges, including conspiracy to
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Slain imam’s Detroit mosque denies he was a radical, calls FBI’s claims ‘preposterous’
more images more images Arts agencies to get highest funding in 16 years WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.
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Bill heading to Obama would boost federal arts, cultural funding to highest level in 16 years
Doc: Cambodia’s ‘jungle woman’ sick, mentally ill PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A woman dubbed the “jungle woman” after emerging naked and unable to speak from the wilds of northeastern Cambodia two years ago is sick and apparently suffering from mental illness, a doctor said Friday. Hing Phan Sokhunthea, chief of Rattanakiri province hospital, said the woman, believed
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Doctor says Cambodia’s ‘jungle woman’ is sick and apparently mentally ill
Canwest’s National Post newspaper to stay alive TORONTO — A judge Friday allowed Canada’s insolvent media giant Canwest Global Communications to transfer the National Post into one of its divisions that is not under bankruptcy protection to stave off folding the unprofitable daily newspaper. Judge Sarah Pepall said the National Post can be moved into the Canwest
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Canada’s insolvent Canwest gets court OK for move it says will save National Post newspaper
Millions spent on small border stations justified WASHINGTON — An internal Obama administration review supports its rationale for upgrading little-used border checkpoints rather than the busiest crossings. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered the review out of concerns that too much economic recovery money was being spent on small northern border crossings, while larger facilities that see
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Internal gov’t review: Millions spent on small border crossings is practical and thoughtful
UK drug adviser fired after marijuana comments LONDON — Britain’s top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. David Nutt’s comments have embarrassed the British government, which moved to toughen the penalties for possessing marijuana earlier this year despite protests from the British scientific community, which said
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UK drug adviser fired after saying marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD less dangerous than alcohol
more images more images Medvedev: Soviet-era terror cannot be justified MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says there can be no justification for the Soviet-era oppression that left millions of people dead at the hands of their own state. Medvedev said in a blog posting Friday that Russians must not forget the crimes of the Soviet era.
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more images more images Iran undermines heart of Western nuclear offer TEHRAN — Iran insists on simultaneously exchanging its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel produced overseas, the state news agency said Friday, calling the demand a “red line” that will not be abandoned. The condition undermines the basis of a U.N.-backed plan demanding Iran ship most of its uranium
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Iranian media says country open to nuclear discussion, but rejects heart of Western offer
FBI reviews security video after LA shooting LOS ANGELES — The FBI is reviewing security camera footage in the hunt for a gunman who wounded two men at a Los Angeles synagogue. Police Detective Rich Wheeler says federal authorities are enhancing and clarifying the grainy footage taken Thursday of the parking garage at the Adat Yeshurun Valley
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FBI reviews security video in search for shooter in LA synagogue parking lot attack
Hydro-Quebec agrees to buy more energy assets TORONTO — Canadian utility company Hydro-Quebec says it will pay 4.7 billion Canadian dollars ($4.4 billion) for the assets of New Brunswick Power, a deal that would help the company secure greater access to electricity markets in the U.S. Hydro-Quebec announced Thursday that it expects to spend up to 25
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Hydro-Quebec agrees to proposed energy deal that will expand its power exports to the US
Cost cuts lead Washington Post to big profit jump NEW YORK — The Washington Post Co. increased its profit 69 percent in the third quarter, as the company cut costs to narrow losses in its newspaper division and kept business steady at its cable TV and education divisions. The company, which owns Newsweek magazine, Kaplan education services
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Washington Post Co. says newspaper cost cuts help it achieve a 69 percent jump in 3Q profit
more images more images Reports: Cyberattacks traced to NKorea SEOUL, South Korea — The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. The IP address — the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number — that triggered the Web
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Reports: Cyberattacks that triggered Web outages in July traced to North Korea
To go along with the shiny new iTunes 9.0.2 and Apple TV 3.0 software released today, Apple has also bumped their Remote app [Free - iTunes link] to version 1.3.2, which: “provides bug fixes and compatibility with iTunes 9 and Apple TV 3″ If you have an Apple TV and haven’t tried the latest version This is a story by the iPhone Blog . This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store . Apple iPhone/iPod touch Remote App Updated to Support iTunes 9.0.2 and Apple TV 3.0
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Apple iPhone/iPod touch Remote App Updated to Support iTunes 9.0.2 and Apple TV 3.0
If you think the Sony Digital Book or Amazon Kindle which cost around 20000Rs is a big investment because at this price you can buy mini laptops which offer you with everything, but iam sure they wont be able to offer you the handy small sized ebook reader functionality because you can travel with these easily and also carry while you moving around easily. In order to overcome this cost issues and still settle for a eBook reader, check out the JetBook Lite reader which costs around 150$ ie one third of the Kindle price and offers almost the same features
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Cheapest eBook Reader JetBook Lite Review
Earlier this year, we first covered the news that Facebook had filed a federal lawsuit against famed “Spam King” Sanford Wallace for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act. Today, Facebook says the company won the case and was awarded… CNET News – Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit VentureBeat – Facebook wins $711 million in damages against “Spam King” Wallace Mashable – Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Anti-Spam Lawsuit All Facebook – Facebook Gets A $711 Million Settlement Against Spammer Sanford Wallce Marketing Pilgrim – Facebook Continues to Can Spam
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Judge Awards Facebook $711 Million in Damages in Spam King Case
more images more images Clinton to meet Abbas in Abu Dhabi ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to the Persian Gulf city of Abu Dhabi to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a weekend effort to push both Palestinian and Israeli leaders to resume peace talks, a U.S. official said Friday.
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Clinton to meet Palestinian leader in Abu Dhabi, then hold session elsewhere with Israelis
Ethics committee internal report gets out WASHINGTON — A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of “cyber-hacking,” the committee’s chairwoman said Thursday. The report from last July contains a summary of the committee’s work at the time, but Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., the panel’s chairwoman,
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Confidential House ethics committee weekly report from July inadvertently reaches the Net
Report: Cyberattacks traced to NKorea SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has been identified as the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, a news report said Friday. South Korea’s main spy agency told lawmakers that the North’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications uses the IP address
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Report: Cyberattacks that triggered Web outages in July traced to North Korea
A couple of winters ago, when some friends and I were slogging up the roughly 2,000 vertical feet of Waterhouse Peak in the South Lake Tahoe area, snowshoes on our feet and snowboards strapped to our packs, we were repeatedly passed up by smiling telemark skiers, smoothly gliding uphill with skins on their skis. The snowboarding answer to this ease and simplicity is known as a splitboard, a snowboard that comes apart into two planks, which you cover with skins for the uphill, and then put back together into snowboard mode for the downhill.
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MAKE 20: Snowboard conversion to DIY splitboard
Bay Bridge won’t open for Friday morning commute OAKLAND, Calif. — State transportation officials say the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge won’t be open in time for the Friday morning commute. Dale Bonner, secretary of the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, said Thursday evening he expected repair work to be completed sometime Friday.
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Officials say Bay Bridge won’t be open in time for the Friday morning commute
With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use, according to an editorial in The Financial Times today. Demand and use of the Internet has risen faster than capacity can keep up, which means that the all-you-can-eat model of unlimited… DSLReports.com – Zeugma CEO Repeats Metered Billing Myths – Again, with feeling: metered billing is neither necessary nor inevitable DSLReports.com – Some Metered Broadband Myths That Need Clearing Up – Zeugma systems CEO latest to repeat annoying broadband falsehoods…
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Yeah, I’d Like Metered Broadband, Too — If It Were Actually Metered
iPhones may be all the rage in tech-crazy Silicon Valley, but if a new political app is any indication, RIM’s BlackBerry is at the heart of government. This time the RIM love comes not from President Obama, who made headlines for trying to hold onto his BlackBerry after being sworn into office, but from across the aisle. From the office of Republican Whip Eric Cantor comes WhipCast for BlackBerry , a free GOP-focused aggregator for text, pictures, and videos from the House floor
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WhipCast app hints at GOP smartphone of choice?
White House garden has 2nd major harvest WASHINGTON — Cupboards at a soup kitchen near the White House will be spilling over for several days after a donation of fresh produce harvested Thursday from first lady Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden. Mrs. Obama invited about 30 fifth-graders from two District of Columbia public elementary schools to help with
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Michelle Obama, DC schoolchildren help with 2nd major harvest of White House garden
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives The need to address the climate crisis provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild our energy system with vast economic, security, and environmental benefits. By putting significant limits on carbon emissions –- and adopting strong complementary energy policies — we can create millions of new U.S. jobs, reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign energy, and protect ourselves from a global climate crisis
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A price on carbon — necessary but not sufficient
As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets. The spread of malware is aided by the popular use of shortened URLs on Twitter, which generally hide the real website address from users before they click on a link, preventing them from self-filtering links that appear to be dodgy. Kaspersky, an anti-virus and computer-security firm based in Moscow, created a tool called Krab Krawler, which extracts URLs from millions of tweets a day
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Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
Bank customers are increasingly being duped into acting as “money mules” for hackers, unwittingly laundering cash stolen from business bank accounts, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation warned the nation’s financial institutions on Thursday. Using specialized Trojan horse malware , cybercrooks have been intercepting web-banking credentials from the computers of small and midsize businesses, and then initiating wire transfers to mules around the country. The mules are consumers who’ve been lured into fake work-at-home scams, in which their employment involves receiving money transfers and then forwarding the funds to Eastern Europe, either directly or through other mules.
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FDIC Warns Banks to Watch for ‘Money Mules’ Duped by Hackers