Obama to Boehner: No talks until government opens

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama called the top Republican in the GOP-controlled House Tuesday, telling Speaker John Boehner once again that he won't negotiate over reopening the government or must-pass legislation to prevent a U.S. default on its obligations.

In the second week of the partial government shutdown, Obama's call, revealed by Boehner's office, came as the speaker softened the tone of his rhetoric in remarks to the media. The White House said Obama would hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

The White House also confirmed the call and said Obama repeated to Boehner "what he told him when they met at the White House last week: the president is willing to negotiate with Republicans ? after the threat of government shutdown and default have been removed ? over policies that Republicans think would strengthen the country."

"I want to have a conversation. I'm not drawing lines in the sand. It is time for us to just sit down and resolve our differences," said Boehner, R-Ohio.

He added: "There's no boundaries here. There's nothing on the table, there's nothing off the table."

For his part, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is willing to negotiate over the budget but only after the government is funded and the debt ceiling lifted.

"All we're asking is that government be reopened. Stop threatening a catastrophic default on the nation's bills," the Nevada Democrat said.

At the same time, Democrats controlling the Senate planned to move quickly toward a vote to allow the government to borrow more money by raising the statutory limit on the federal debt.

A spokesman said Reid could unveil the debt limit measure as early as Tuesday, setting the table for a test vote later in the week. The measure is expected to provide enough borrowing room to last beyond next year's election, which means it likely will permit $1 trillion or more in new borrowing above the current $16.7 trillion debt ceiling that the administration says will be hit on Oct. 17. It's not expected to include new spending cuts sought by Republicans.

GOP aides said that the House vote would set up a new bipartisan panel to negotiate reopening the government and avoiding a default, tied to legislation to make sure federal employees who are required to work during the partial shutdown get paid on time.

Those affected include families of service members killed in action. Survivors are typically sent a $100,000 payment within three days to help with costs such as funeral expenses. Because of the shutdown, the Defense Department doesn't have the authority to make the payments, officials said Monday, even though most of the department's civilian workers have been recalled.

Some 350,000 civilian Defense Department workers were summoned back to work Monday as the result of legislation Congress passed and Obama signed after the shutdown began. Many other agencies, such as NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency, remain mostly shuttered.

Even the White House is feeling the effects, with about 3 out of 4 staffers furloughed.

It's not clear whether Reid's gambit will work in the Senate. Republicans are expected to oppose the measure if it doesn't contain budget cuts to make a dent in deficits. The question is whether Republicans will try to hold up the measure with a filibuster. Such a showdown could unnerve the financial markets.

Until recently, debt limit increases have not been the target of filibusters; the first in memory came four years ago, when Democrats controlled the Senate with a filibuster-proof 60 votes.

Many Republicans in the Senate, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Whip John Cornyn of Texas, have voted for so-called clean debt limit increases during Republican administrations.

Some Republicans seemed wary of participating in a filibuster that could rattle the stock and bond markets.

"We shouldn't be dismissing anything out of hand, whether it's the debt ceiling or what we're going to do with this government shutdown," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said. "We've got a situation where you've got a calendar running, you've got people who are frustrated and upset, so let's figure it out."

The impasse over the shutdown ? sparked by House Republicans' insistence that a temporary funding bill contain concessions on Obama's health care law ? shows no signs of breaking, as each side sticks to its guns and repeats its talking points.

Democrats from Obama on down to the most junior lawmakers said again that the House should vote immediately on ending the partial closure of the government. Obama said that Boehner "doesn't apparently want to see the ... shutdown end at the moment, unless he's able to extract concessions that don't have anything to do with the budget."

Boehner, in rebuttal Monday, called on Obama to agree to negotiations on changes in "Obamacare" and steps to curb deficits, the principal GOP demands for ending the shutdown that began with the Oct. 1 beginning of the new fiscal year, and eliminating the threat of default. "Really, Mr. President. It's time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk," Boehner said on the House floor.

The White House has said repeatedly the president will not negotiate with Republicans until the government is fully reopened and the debt limit has been raised. But it hasn't said the debt limit measure has to be completely "clean" of add-ons.

White House aide Jason Furman told reporters the White House could accept some add-ons if Boehner "needs to have some talking point for his caucus that's consistent with us not negotiating ... that's not adding a bunch of extraneous conditions." Another White House official, Gene Sperling, said the administration could be open to an interim, short-term debt limit extension to prevent a catastrophic default.

Republicans were sticking with a strategy of trying to pin the blame for the shutdown on Obama for being unwilling to negotiate. The House also passed legislation Monday to reopen the Food and Drug Administration, the latest in a series of piecemeal funding bills to advance through the GOP-controlled chamber.

It's been commonly assumed that Republicans would suffer politically from the shutdown and the early polling data seems to bear that out.

A survey released Monday by The Washington Post and ABC News said disapproval of Republican handling of the budget showdown was measured at 70 percent, up from 63 percent a week earlier. Disapproval of Obama's role was statistically unchanged at 51 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-boehner-no-talks-until-government-opens-161624563--finance.html

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Dodgers confident after routing Braves 13-6

Los Angeles Dodgers' Hanley Ramirez (13) reacts as third base coach Tim Wallach (29) watches, after Ramirez hit an RBI triple against the Atlanta Braves during the fourth inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Hanley Ramirez (13) reacts as third base coach Tim Wallach (29) watches, after Ramirez hit an RBI triple against the Atlanta Braves during the fourth inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)

Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis, top, falls over Atlanta Braves' Chris Johnson after Johnson was forced at second during the third inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Fans react as Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Carl Crawford falls upside down over the rail after catching a foul ball hit by Atlanta Braves' Justin Upton during the seventh inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Carl Crawford rounds the bases after he hit a three-run home run during the second inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Atlanta Braves, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Hanley Ramirez (13), right, celebrates with teammate Yasiel Puig, left, after Ramirez scored on a single hit by Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez in the third inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Atlanta Braves, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Dodgers clinched the NL West title on the road. They want to advance in the playoffs on their home turf and celebrate with their fans.

Los Angeles put itself in position to do just that on Monday night, taking a 2-1 lead over the Atlanta Braves into Game 4 of the National League division series.

"The good thing is that all of the hitters feel good about themselves and where they're at. That is a carry over," center fielder Skip Schumaker said. "Confidence is huge. Hitting is contagious and it's all about confidence."

Every starting position player except Mark Ellis had a hit in the Dodgers' 13-6 victory on Sunday night, and he scored one of their runs that tied a franchise record for a postseason game. Brooklyn beat the New York Yankees 13-8 in Game 2 of the 1956 World Series.

"We want to win it in front of our fans at home," Ellis said. "We want to end it."

The Dodgers will start Ricky Nolasco against veteran Freddy Garcia.

"I've got to face a powerful team, powerful lineup," Garcia said.

The Dodgers flexed their offensive muscle by pounding out 14 hits, with much of the production coming off the bats of their big-name talent.

Carl Crawford hit a three-run homer, Juan Uribe added a two-run shot, and Hanley Ramirez and Yasiel Puig each had three hits and scored three times.

Ramirez tied a Dodgers record for most extra-base hits in a postseason series with six. He's 7 for 13 with four doubles, a triple, a homer and the six RBIs through his first three playoff games in his ninth major league season.

"At the plate, right now I'm not thinking," Ramirez said. "I'm just looking at the ball and hit it, whatever the pitch is. It's an unbelievable feeling when it's just less thinking, just produce. Go out there and have fun and play hard."

After losing 4-3 in Game 2 to let the Braves even the series, the Dodgers returned to the offensive form they showed during a 6-1 victory in the opener on the road.

"Guys were unhappy with the way they played, so we wanted to get back to playing the way we did the first game," Crawford said. "We knew it was going to be at home in front of our home crowd, and we were going to have some extra energy for that. Hopefully, we can like wrap it up while we're here at home."

Crawford made the play of the game Sunday when he tumbled head over heels to catch an eighth-inning foul ball at the low retaining wall in left field. The speedy leadoff man also scored three times, including once in the eighth when the Dodgers made it 13-4.

"I'm fine. I landed in a way it didn't hurt," he said. "I didn't think the ball was going to go into the stands. It kept floating and I didn't see the wall coming. I felt myself flipping over. Good thing is I held onto the ball, so that's all that matters."

Chris Capuano won in relief of ineffective rookie Hyun-Jin Ryu. He struck out three and walked three in three hitless innings.

"We're trying to keep it loose in here but we're really focused right now," Capuano said.

The 13 runs allowed by the Braves equaled the most in club history for a postseason game.

Atlanta starter Julio Teheran took the loss, giving up six runs and eight hits in 2 2-3 innings.

"He just left some balls out over the plate and made some mistakes," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "With this club, if you do that, you're going to look down at a gas tank with a lighted match."

Los Angeles rallied in the third to regain the lead for good after Atlanta tied it in the top of the inning. After that, the Braves didn't manage much besides Jason Heyward's two-run homer in the ninth.

Teheran and Ryu both made inauspicious postseason debuts in the first matchup of rookie pitchers in the playoffs since 2007.

In addition to being shaky on the mound, Ryu made two major mistakes in the field. He allowed four runs and six hits in three innings, becoming the first South Korean-born pitcher to start a postseason game in the major leagues.

Los Angeles extended its lead to 10-4 with four runs in the fourth. Ramirez had an RBI triple.

"I just kept telling him, 'I want the whole world to see how good you are,'" Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "It's been good so far."

Puig added an RBI single and Uribe followed with a two-run homer on the first pitch he saw from reliever Alex Wood.

"With two outs there, if we get out of that inning, it's a whole different ballgame," Braves catcher Brian McCann said. "But it just didn't turn out the way we wanted. Carl hit a slider that hung up a little bit more than we wanted and he put a good swing on it."

The Dodgers regained the lead 6-4 in the third on RBI singles by Adrian Gonzalez and Schumaker.

Atlanta tied it 4-all with two runs in the third after loading the bases with nobody out.

The Dodgers scored four times in the second to take a 4-2 lead, highlighted by Crawford's three-run homer with two outs.

NOTES: Ryu's sacrifice fly in the second was the first postseason RBI by a Dodgers pitcher since Orel Hershiser on Oct. 16, 1988, in Game 2 of the World Series. ... Dodgers C A.J. Ellis got hit on the left elbow by a pitch from hard-throwing Jordan Walden in the eighth, but stayed in the game. Ellis had X-rays after the game and said he felt fine. ... Capuano's only other major league win in relief came on Aug. 20, 2010, for Milwaukee. ... It was the first time in Teheran and Ryu's careers as starters that their pitching lines had more runs than innings.

Associated Press

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Just try to count the batteries that you use every day ? I bet you use over a dozen battery-operated devices by lunchtime. They have become so ubiquitous that our civilization would grind to a halt if we didn't have these portable forms of power.

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Blaming, shaming ? but still no way out: Nobody?s giving an inch, leading to darkening fears about debt-limit deadline

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama laid the blame for the government?s partial shutdown at the feet of House Speaker John Boehner, escalating a government-shutdown confrontation that was leading headlong into a potentially more damaging clash over the nation?s borrowing?authority.

Speaking at a construction company in Washington?s Maryland suburbs today, Obama cast Boehner as a captive of a small band of conservative Republicans who want to extract concessions in exchange for passing a short term spending bill that would restart the partially shuttered?government.

?The only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic research starting back up and farmers and small business owners getting their loans, the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner won?t even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesn?t want to anger the extremists in his party,? Obama?said.

The dispute over the shutdown deepened worries about a bigger problem rumbling ever closer ? a mid-October deadline for increasing the government?s borrowing limit before it runs out of money to pay creditors. The U.S. Treasury warned today that failure to raise that debt ceiling could spark a new recession even worse than the one Americans are still recovering?from.

?The president remains hopeful that common sense will prevail,? the White House said in a written statement after an unproductive meeting at the White House about the political standoff that has idled 800,000 federal workers and halted an array of services Americans expect from their?government.

Boehner, R-Ohio, complained to reporters that Obama had used the meeting simply to declare anew that he won?t negotiate over his health care?law.

House Republicans, pushed by a core of tea party conservatives, are insisting that Obama accept changes to the health care law he pushed through Congress three years ago as part of the price for reopening all of government. Obama refuses to consider any deal linking the health care law to routine legislation needed to extend government funding or to raise the nation?s debt?limit.

?We?re probably through negotiating with ourselves,? Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said on?MSNBC.

Republicans who initially sought to defund the health care law in exchange for funding the rest of government have gradually scaled back their demands but say they need some sort of offer from?Obama.

Expressing frustration after the White House meeting, Boehner said: ?All we?re asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under?Obamacare.?

The White House said Obama would be happy to talk about health care ? but only after Congress moves to reopen the government ?and stop the harm this shutdown is causing to the economy and families across the?country.?

If the shutdown dispute persists it could become entangled with the even more consequential battle over the debt limit. The Obama administration has said Congress must renew the government?s authority to borrow money by Oct. 17 or risk a first-ever federal default, which many economists say would dangerously jangle the world?economy.

Treasury?s report today said defaulting on the nation?s debts could cause the nation?s credit markets to freeze, the value of the dollar to plummet and U.S. interest rates to?skyrocket.

The shutdown stalemate is already rattling investors. Stock markets in the U.S. and overseas faded Wednesday, and Europe?s top central banker, Mario Draghi, called the shutdown ?a risk if protracted.? Leading financial executives met with Obama, and one, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, said politicians should not use a potential default ?as a?cudgel.?

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said the House could easily defuse the worsening?situation.

?Get us through this six weeks and then let?s sit down and figure out how we pay our debts and bring down federal spending,? McCaskill of Missouri, said on?MSNBC.

Republicans planned to continue pursuing their latest strategy: muscling bills through the House that would restart some popular?programs.

Votes were on tap for restoring funds for veterans and paying members of the National Guard and Reserves. On Wednesday, the chamber voted to finance the national parks and biomedical research and let the District of Columbia?s municipal government spend federally controlled?dollars.

Democrats demanded that the entire government be reopened, and the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made clear that the GOP?s narrower bills have no chance of survival. They said the strategy showed that Republicans were buckling under public pressure, with Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., saying groups like veterans were being ?used as a pawn in this cynical political?game.?

Republicans countered that Democrats were being inflexible and were to blame for the continued closure of programs the GOP was trying to reopen. A favorite target was Reid, who has made clear that the Senate will be a graveyard for the Republican?effort.

?The Senate?s refusal to work with the House is an all-time low,? Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla.,?said.

Reid told reporters that Obama and Democrats are ?locked in tight? on not diluting the health care?law.

Source: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/oct/03/blaming-shaming-but-still-no-way-out-nobodys-giving-an-inch-leading-to-darkening-fears-about-debt-limit-deadline/

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Tom Clancy's Legacy: The Military-Entertainment Complex

Tom Clancy's expertise was contagious. He knew how sonar could be defeated, how rubber bullets could kill, how the Secret Service could respond to a passenger jet nose-diving into the Capitol building, and myriad other ways the United States government could and likely would respond to threats at home and abroad. He knew all of this with a chilling degree of accuracy. And if you read Clancy's novels, you knew it, too.

The best-selling author, who died Tuesday night in a Baltimore hospital, wrote tales of derring-do. But his cinema-ready heroes and villains employed startlingly realistic tools and protocols. Did you know that the U.S. Air Force developed missiles that could be fired from an F-15 to take down a satellite? Or that rounds from a submachine gun could punch through a car frame as easily as fingers through rice paper? I certainly didn't, and neither did millions of other readers in the 1980's, during Clancy's pre-internet heyday. Back then, the mechanics of death and mayhem, on scales both tactical and strategic, weren't at anyone's fingertips. They were locked away in hardcopy textbooks, encyclopedias, and war games. In fact, Clancy famously simulated the naval maneuvers in his first two novels, The Hunt for Red October (1984) and Red Storm Rising (1986) using the paper maps and cardboard counters of the war game Harpoon.

Why does it matter that Clancy workshopped best-selling novels by sitting around a table with friends, pushing fake fleets and squadrons across make-believe warzones in the military dork's equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons? Because Harpoon, which was developed by civilians, is still used to this day by Navy instructors to train officer cadets. Its numerical models of both American and then-Soviet vehicles and weapon systems were so detailed that, as legend has it, the Department of Defense paid a none-too-friendly visit to Harpoon's creator, Larry Bond (who co-wrote Red Storm Rising with Clancy), demanding to see his classified materials, only to find that Bond had culled all the information from non-classified sources. Apocryphal or not, that is Harpoon's legacy?a naval simulation so good, it borders on illegal.

That's where military expertise used to reside: In the military itself, and in brilliant games that no one in the mainstream had ever heard of, much less played. Tom Clancy put an end to that. He sold millions of books, which were adapted into blockbuster movies. And even if Hollywood took some shortcuts, that air of realism and convincing interplay of military and espionage assets often made it to the screen. Clancy's complex depictions of the modern art of war were shocking, especially compared to James Bond's campy super-gadgets, and Stallone and Schwarzenegger's bulging, cartoonish action heroism.

And ultimately, Clancy won. Today's movie heroes, on the whole, don't mow down entire gangs and battalions with hip-fired machine guns or spin-kick their way out of a jam. Actors move from cover to cover, firing smooth and steady, just the way their special forces consultants trained them. They fight quick and dirty up close. They paint targets with lasers for drone-launched Hellfire missiles or request airstrikes from the AC-130 gunship circling overhead. There are exceptions, naturally. But most Hollywood action now has the look and feel of military action.

That's Clancy's legacy, or part of it. While he didn't invent the techno-thriller, he spread its themes and sensibilities throughout our culture. And like the most powerful contagions, the author's contribution mutated. He brought the hard-nosed military content and perspectives of techno-thrillers to video games, with franchises that bore his name such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. Though Clancy's licensed shooters are now eclipsed in sales by the likes of Call of Duty, the military first-person-shooter owes him a great debt. The use of real weapons, and the attempts to model their mechanics?including their range, rate of fire, recoil, and even their ability to penetrate walls, doors, or other features?are Clancy's legacy too. But so are the legions of teens playing soldier on Xbox Live, the online commenters who chillingly respond to stories of America's increasingly common mass shootings with exasperation that the killer used an AR-15 as opposed to a larger-caliber Kalashnikov, or the face-palming disbelief at the shoddy marksmanship of local sheriffs seemingly spraying rounds at a barricaded suspect. Everyone is an expert in military tactics now.

What Clancy curated so expertly, and shared so thrillingly, was privileged information. He showed us weapons as they are, and warriors as they use them, at a time when knowledge of that kind wasn't easily known. That he changed our culture is clear. That it's for the better remains to be seen.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/weapons/tom-clancys-legacy-the-military-entertainment-complex-15995880?src=rss

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iOS 7 Removed iPad Safety Features, Schools Say

By Todd Haselton | October 3, 2013

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The iPad is an obvious education tool around the globe, though to make it useful schools often need to apply software that prevents students from accessing unwanted and unneeded content. Unfortunately, however, a new report from?AllThingsD?suggests that Apple?s latest iOS 7 release for iPads has totally removed the safety software.

?Apple did not realize that installing iOS 7 would remove our safety protection measure, which now makes the iPad devices unfiltered when accessing the Internet away from school,? one school district said in a note sent to?AllThingsD.?As a result, this particular school district has decided to recall all of the iPads issued to students and will now have to manually re-install the software on each iPad. What a headache.

Apple already responded to the issue and said that it?s aware of the security that?s being removed with the iOS 7 update and that it plans to release a fix sometime this month that prevents the occurrence in the future. We wonder if this is partially the reason that the Los Angeles Unified School district stopped rolling out 640,000 iPads to students ? the initiative was halted after students started bypassing security restrictions.

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Video: Republicans cannot sustain this: Former Congressman

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'Ugly football game'

Winona State University senior running back Chichi Ojika took a handoff on the second play from scrimmage Saturday and found space up the sideline for an 82-yard touchdown.

It was a sign of things to come, as the 5-foot-8, 185-pounder and the Winona offense routinely gashed Minot State University for big gains.

Ojika carried the ball 18 times for 242 yards and WSU averaged more than 10 yards per play as the Warriors crushed MSU 49-14 in front of a homecoming crowd of 3,036 at Herb Parker Stadium.

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Winona State defensive end Anthony Frisby,left, forces a fumble by Minot State University tight end Kwajo Bonsu on Saturday at Herb Parker Stadium.

"That kid was a Minnesota (high school) 200-meter champ kid, so he can run," Winona coach Tom Sawyer said of Ojika. "You just need a little bit of space when you're a small kid like that."

The Warriors' big-play ability made the difference in a sloppy game. MSU (1-3) fumbled the ball eight times - losing three - before intermission. The Beavers finished with nine fumbles, with four resulting in turnovers.

Winona quarterback Jack Nelson threw both of his interceptions in the first half and the Warriors (2-2) also lost two fumbles before the break.

"There wasn't much flow to the whole game when it's back and forth like that," MSU coach Paul Rudolph said. "A fumble here and pick there, and a fumble here and a pick there - it was kind of give it away, take it away. There wasn't a real good rhythm. I thought it was kind of an ugly football game all around."

WSU opened the game with 28 straight points. Nelson had a hand in the three scores following Ojika's early TD. The 6-4 freshman scrambled in from 17 yards out to make it 14-0 and then tossed long touchdown passes on the next two scores.

MSU got on the board with 3 minutes, 21 seconds left in the second quarter. MSU sophomore quarterback Zac Cunha tossed a jump ball to wideout Porter Sturm from 17 yards out. The athletic sophomore rose above a Winona defensive back to haul in the reception.

In the second half, Ojika continued to burst into the MSU secondary for large chunks of yardage. He reeled off a 27-yard run on Winona's first offensive play of the third quarter, then exploded for a 43-yard touchdown two plays later for a 35-7 advantage.

Junior college transfer Kwajo Bonsu scored his first MSU touchdown with 5:12 remaining in the third quarter to make it 35-14. The 6-foot-7, 275-pound tight end snagged the over-the-middle pass in traffic and took a couple of lumbering steps into the end zone.

Nelson threw for another score and found the end zone on a 1-yard sneak to account for the final margin.

The game lasted 3 hours, 20 minutes as both teams racked up more than 140 yards in penalties.

Cunha completed 28 of 52 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns, but said the Beavers made too many mistakes to compete. Cunha was sacked eight times, including seven in the first half.

"We were good through the air today, but we fumbled the ball," he said. "You can't win with that."

Sturm caught five passes for 91 yards and senior Wayne Peters had a game-high nine receptions for 75 yards.

Redshirt freshman Jarvis Mustipher became the first MSU runner this season to break the 100-yard mark, carrying 16 times for 113 yards.

But Mustipher also fumbled the ball twice - including once after a 41-yard gain - and Rudolph wasn't optimistic about his performance.

"It's never positive when you put the ball on the ground," he said. "We don't protect the ball well enough, so it's tough to find too many positives when you don't protect the football."

MSU travels to in-state rival University of Mary (2-2) on Saturday for the teams' first Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference North Division matchup. The Beavers beat the Marauders 32-21 last season.

Daniel Allar covers Minot State University athletics. Follow him on Twitter @DAllar_MDN.

Source: http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/578508.html

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F.A.Q's: Azita Mehran of Turmeric and Saffron | Flavorful World food ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Flavorful World food and drink blog. because eating well is living well. Skip to content. Home · Cooking · Food Essays ... I'm grateful to Azita, not only for talking with me on subjects like seasonal cooking and raising U.S. appreciation for Persian cuisine, but also for introducing me to several recipes that I must soon attempt, and for having given me reason to pick up my poetry-reading again. Flavorful World: You've lived in New York for a number of years. Which New ...

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?We?ll Do Everything We Can to Get Twitter IPO? ? Nasdaq

The man who oversees the listings business at transatlantic stock exchange?Nasdaq OMX?is not giving up on attracting Twitter?s initial public offering.

In an interview with sister title Financial News today, Bruce Aust, the head of the global corporate client group at Nasdaq, said the exchange still wants to add Twitter to its stable of technology companies, which also includes the giant tech stocks of?Google?and?Apple. It did, of course, have a very public glitch this summer, and then of course, there?s that Facebook IPO.

Financial News asked Mr. Aust whether, in the light of reports that the smart money may be betting Twitter would choose to list on NYSE Euronext, would he still be working on attracting the listing?

?We?ll do everything we can to win that listing. We?re the natural home for technology companies and we?ve got the largest tech companies in the world listed on Nasdaq so I think we would be the natural home for them.?

The rest of Mr. Aust?s interview, in which he talks about nine new Nasdaq listings through Thursday this week, the European market and the exchange?s private company trading platform, can be read over at Financial News.

Twitter wasn?t immediately available for comment.

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El papa Francisco saluda a un grupo de j?venes en Cagliari, Italia, el 22 de septiembre del 2013. El 23, Genoa, el club m?s antiguo de Italia, enviar? una delegaci?n para visitar al papa Francisco como parte de sus celebraciones del aniversario (AP Foto/Alessandra Tarantino)

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En esta fotograf?a del mi?rcoles 18 de septiembre de 2013, se ve al papa Francisco sentado durante su audiencia general semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro, en el Vaticano. (Foto AP/Riccardo De Luca)

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El papa Francisco saluda desde el papam?vil mientras cruza la Plaza de San Pedro para encabezar su audiencia general semanal en el Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 18 de septiembre de 2013. A la izquierda, una persona ondea una bandera argentina. (Foto AP/Riccardo De Luca)

El Papa Francisco recibi? en audiencia privada en El Vaticano al presidente de Honduras Porfirio Lobo Sosa, el viernes 20 de septiembre de 2013. (Foto de AP/Claudio Peri, Pool)

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El papa Francisco bendice a los fieles al final de su audiencia general semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano el mi?rcoles, 18 de septiembre del 2013. En un radical cambio en el tono del Vaticano, el papa dijo el jueves que la Iglesia Cat?lica se ha vuelto obsesionada con ?reglas mezquinas? acerca de c?mo ser fiel y que los pastores deber?an en lugar de ello enfatizar compasi?n en lugar de condena cuando discuten temas sociales divisivos como aborto, homosexualidad y anticoncepci?n. (Foto AP/Riccardo De Luca)

El papa Francisco pronuncia un discurso durante una vigilia por la paz para Siria en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el s?bado 7 de septiembre de 2013. (AP Foto/Riccardo De Luca)

El papa Francisco saluda a los feligreses a su llegada a la Plaza de San Pedro para su audiencia general semanal el mi?rcoles 4 de septiembre de 2013. (Foto AP/Riccardo De Luca)

El papa Francisco desciende de su avi?n procedente de R?o de Janeiro en el aeropuerto militar de Ciampino, en las afueras de Roma, el lunes 29 de junio del 2013, tras pasar una semana en Brasil. (Foto AP/Riccardo De Luca)

El papa Francisco se despide al abordar el avi?n que lo lleva de regreso a Roma, en el aeropuerto internacional de R?o de Janeiro el domingo 28 de julio de 2013. (Foto AP/Andre Penner

El papa Francisco (centro) se reuni?, de izquierda a derecha, con la presidenta brasile?a Dilma Rousseff; el vicepresidente de Uruguay, Danilo Astori; el presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, y la presidenta argentina, Cristina Fernandez, en una imagen cedida por la la Oficina de Prensa de la Presidencia de Brasil el domingo 28 de julio de 2013, en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil. (Foto AP/Oficina de Prensa de la Presidencia de Brasil, Roberto Stuckert Filho)

El papa Francisco se acerca a un ni?o para besarlo a su llegada a la Bas?lica de Aparecida en Aparecida, Brasil, el mi?rcoles 24 de julio de 2013. (Foto AP/Domenico Stinellis)

En esta toma de video el papa Francisco porta un tocado ind?gena que le dieron los representantes de una de las tribus aut?ctonas de Brasil, durante un reuni?n en el teatro Municipal en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil, el s?bado 27 de julio de 2013. (Foto AP/TV Pool)

En esta im?gen tomada de un video el papa Francisco usa un sombrero de plumas que representantes de una de las tribus de Brasil le dieron durante una reuni?n frente al Teatro Municipal en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, el s?bado 27 de julio del 2013. El papa Francisco se encuentra en su sexto d?a de un viaje a Brasil para participar en el D?a Mundial de la Juventud. (AP foto/TV Pool)

El papa Francisco es recibido por obispos a su llegada a una misa en la catedral de Rio de Janeiro, el s?bado 27 de julio del 2013. El Papa ret? a los obispos de todo el mundo a que salgan de sus iglesias y prediquen y que tengan el valor de ir a los m?s lejanos m?rgenes de la sociedad para encontrar a los fieles. El papa Francisco se encuentra en el sexto d?a de su viaje a Brasil donde participa en el D?a Mundial de la Juventud en Rio de Janeiro. (AP Foto/Domenico Stinellis)

El papa Francisco saluda a peregrinos cuando participa en el V?a Crucis en la playa de Copacabana en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, el viernes 26 de julio del 2013. (AP foto/Luca Zennaro, Pool)

El papa Francisco manda un beso desde su papam?vil al llegar a la misa del viacrucis en la playa Copacabana en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil, el viernes 26 de julio de 2013. (Foto AP/Silvia Izquierdo)

Una ni?ita reacciona cuando es tomada por un guardia de seguridad del papa Francisco en el suburbio de Gloria cuando iba en el papa-movil hacia el palacio arzobispal en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, el viernes 26 de julio de 2013. . (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

ARCHIVO - En esta foto de archivo del jueves 25 de julio de 2013 proporcionada por L'Osservatore Romano, el peri?dico del Vaticano, el papa Francisco se re?ne con residentes de la comunidad de Varginha en R?o de Janeiro. El papa Francisco introdujo un tema sorprendente durante un evento dedicado a inspirar a los j?venes en su visita a Brasil: ha elogiado en repetidas ocasiones a las personas mayores como contribuyentes valiosos para el futuro de la iglesia. (AP Foto/L'Osservatore Romano, Archivo)

El papa Francisco bendice a un ni?o mientras recorre con su papa m?vil el barrio Gloria camino al palacio del arzobispado en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil, el viernes 26 de julio de 2013. (AP foto/Felipe Dana)

El papa Francisco con una camiseta ol?mpica con su nombre que le entregaron en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil, el jueves 25 de julio de 2013. El pont?fice bendijo la bandera ol?mpica, visit? una favela y se dirigir? a miles de j?venes cat?licos en la playa de Copacaba el mismo jueves. La camiseta se la entreg? Carlos Arthur Nuzman, presidente del Comit? Ol?mpico de Brasil. (Foto AP/Luca Zennaro, Pool)

El Papa Francisco hace una pausa tras imponer el palio a 35 arzobispos durante una misa en la Bas?lica de San Pedro el s?bado 29 de junio de 2013. (Foto AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Monse?or Mario Aurelio Poli, arzobispo de Buenos Aires, Argentina, saluda al papa Francisco luego de recibir el palio durante una misa celebrada en la Bas?cila de San Pedro, en el Vaticano, el s?bado 29 de junio de 2013. (Foto AP/Gregorio Borgia)

El papa Francisco habla en la Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano en su audiencia general semanal el mi?rcoles, 26 de junio del 2013. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

En esta foto destribuida por el diario vaticano L'Osservatore Romano, el papa Francisco, posa desde la derecha, con el sacerdote de la di?cesis de Formosa, Francisco Nazar; el l?der de la comunidad Qom, F?lix Diaz, su esposa Amanda Asijak, y el premio Nobel de la paz, el argentino Adolfo P?rez Esquivel, durante una audiencia privada en el Vaticano, el lunes 24 de junio de 2013. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

El papa Francisco conversa con el presidente salvadore?o Mauricio Funes frente a un relicario que contiene un fragmento de la sotana que vest?a el arzibispo Oscar Romero cuando fue asesinado. El tema principal de la audiencia privada en el Vaticano el jueves 22 de mayo de 2013 fue la beatificaci?n de Romero. (AP Foto/Alessandro Bianchi, Pool)

El papa Francisco se retira al termino de su audiencia general semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 22 de mayo de 2013. (AP Foto/Alessandra Tarantino)

En esta fotograf?a proporcionada por el peri?dico del Vaticano L'Osservatore Romano, el papa Francisco bendice a una monja de las Misioneras de la Caridad en el Vaticano, el martes 21 de mayo de 2013. El pont?fice expres? el martes su ?cercan?a con las familias de todos los que murieron en el tornado de Oklahoma", con una preocupaci?n especial por ?las que perdieron a ni?os peque?os?. (Foto AP/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

En esta imagen tomada de un video proporcionado por APTN, el papa Francisco coloca sus manos sobre la cabeza de un hombre joven el domingo 19 de mayo de 2013, tras celebrar misa en la Plaza de San Pedro. (Foto AP/APTN)

El papa Francisco recibe a la canciller federal alemana Angela Merkel en audiencia privada en el Vaticano el 18 de mayo del 2013 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

EL papa Francisco bendice a los fieles durante su audiencia general de los mi?rcoles en la plaza de San Pedro, El Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 15 de mayo de 2013. Los interesados en la vida del papa Francisco pueden conocer sus facetas m?s humanas en un circuito tur?stico por el barrio de Buenos Aires, Argentina, donde transcurri? su infancia, incluso la vieja peluquer?a en la cual se cortaba el pelo.

EL papa Francisco seca su frente y cabeza durante su audiencia general de los mi?rcoles en la plaza de San Pedro, El Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 15 de mayo de 2013. Los interesados en la vida del papa Francisco pueden conocer sus facetas m?s humanas en un circuito tur?stico por el barrio de Buenos Aires, Argentina, donde transcurri? su infancia, incluso la vieja peluquer?a en la cual se cortaba el pelo. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

En esta foto difundida por el diario del vaticano L'Osservatore Romano, el papa Francisco libera a una paloma que le fue entregada durante su audiencia general de los mi?rcoles en la plaza de San Pedro, El Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 15 de mayo de 2013. Los interesados en la vida del papa Francisco pueden conocer sus facetas m?s humanas en un circuito tur?stico por el barrio de Buenos Aires, Argentina, donde transcurri? su infancia, incluso la vieja peluquer?a en la cual se cortaba el pelo. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

el papa Francisco deja en libertad a dos palomas durante su audiencia general de los mi?rcoles en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano el 15 de mayo del 2013. Mientras recorr?a la plaza en el papam?vil, alguien entre el p?blico le ofreci?una jaula con las palomas y el pont?fice, sin vacilar, abri? la puertecilla de la jaula y las dej? en libertad (AP Foto/Alessandra Tarantino)

El papa Francisco es saludado por el presidente colombiano Juan Manuel Santos al concluir una ceremonia de canonizaci?n de varios nuevos santos, incluida una de Colombia, en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el domingo 12 de mayo de 2013. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Centenares de personas asisten a la Plaza de San Pedro durante una misa de canonizaci?n oficiada por el papa Francisco, el domingo 12 de mayo de 2013, en el Vaticano. (Foto AP/Gregorio Borgia)

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El papa Francisco besa una cruz que contiene las reliquias de Mar?a Guadalupe Garc?a Zavala, de M?xico, durante una ceremonia de canonizaci?n en la Plaza de San Pedro, el domingo 12 de mayo de 2013, en el Vaticano. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

El papa Francisco, derecha, y el patriarca Teodoro II de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Copta, segundo de izquierda a derecha, intercambian regalos durante su audiencia privada en la biblioteca del pont?fice, en el Vaticano, el viernes 10 de mayo de 2013. (Foto AP/Andreas Solaro, pool)

El papa Francisco intercambia gorros con una joven en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 8 de mayo de 2013. (AP Foto/Alessandra Tarantino)

El papa Francisco se retira en su papam?vil de la Plaza de San Pedro, en el Vaticano, tras celebrar una misa por las confraternidades, el domingo 5 de mayo de 2013. En su pr?xima vista de una semana a Brasil, en julio, Francisco visitar? una favela en R?o de Janeiro, anunci? el Vaticano, el martes 7 de mayo. (AP Foto/Andrew Medichini)

El papa Francisco, a la derecha, recibe al pont?fice em?rito Benedicto XVI que lleg? a lo que ser? su casa de retiro, un monasterio, en el interior del Varicano, el jueves 2 de mayo de 2013. (AP Foto/Osservatore Romano)

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El papa Francisco llega a la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano para celebrar una misa el domingo 28 de abril de 2013. (Foto AP/Andrew Medichini)

En esta foto del 23 de marzo del 2013 sumiistrada por el peri?dico del Vaticano L'Osservatore Romano, el papa Francisco, derecha, y el papa em?rito Benedicto XVI se re?nen en Castelgandolfo (AP Foto/Osservatore Romano, HO)

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Javier Zanetti muestra su camiseta del Inter durante una audiencia privada con el papa Francisco el 26 de abril del 2013. Al d?a siguiente, el argentino se rompi? el tal?n de Aquiles. Zanetti se oper? el martes 30 de abril de 2013 y el cirujano que lo trat? predijo que el capit?n del Inter volver? a jugar f?tbol. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

El papa Francisco sale de la Plaza de San Pedro, en el Vaticano, despu?s de celebrar la santa misa el domingo 28 de abril de 2013. Francisco, un nuevo papa de Am?rica Latina que desea crear "una Iglesia para los pobres", est? alimentando esperanzas entre los defensores de la teolog?a de la liberaci?n, un movimiento de activismo social que alarm? a otros papas al desplazarse a tendencias izquierdistas. (AP foto/Andrew Medichini)

En esta fotograf?a proporcionada por el peri?dico del Vaticano L' Osservatore Romano, el papa Francisco se re?ne con el primer ministro saliente de Italia, Mario Monti, en una audiencia privada en el Vaticano, el viernes 26 de abril de 2013. (Foto AP/Osservatore Romano, HO)

El papa Francisco llega a su audiencia general semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el mi?rcoles 17 de abril de 2013. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

El papa Francisco se acomoda los lentes durante su audiencia semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro, en Roma, el mi?rcoles 17 de abril de 2013. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

En esta foto provista por el diario del Vaticano, L'Osservatore Romano, el jueves 18 de abril del 2013, El monse?or Delgado Galindo le obsequia una camiseta del astro de f?tbol argentino Lionel Messi al papa Francisco en el Vaticano el mi?rcoles 17 de abril del 2013. El Vaticano anunci? el jueves que el papa Francisco, conocido por su estilo frugal, decidi? que el personal del Vaticano no recibir? las bonificaciones que tradicionalmente recibe con la elecci?n de un nuevo papa. (Foto AP/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

El papa Francisco, centro, recibe una camiseta de la selecci?n espa?ola de f?tbol durante una audiencia privada con el presidente del gobierno espa?ol Mariano Rajoy y su esposa Elvira Fern?ndez Balboa, derecha, en el Vaticano el lunes 15 de abril del 2013. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

El papa Francisco celebra una misa en San Pedro, afuera de los muros de la bas?lica, en Roma, el domingo 14 de abril de 2013. (AP foto/Gregorio Borgia)

En esta fotograf?a del mi?rcoles 10 de abril de 2013, el papa Francisco encabeza su audiencia general semanal en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano. (Foto AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

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UN votes to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 1/2-year conflict.

The vote after two weeks of intense negotiations marked a major breakthrough in the paralysis that has gripped the council since the Syrian uprising began. Russia and China previously vetoed three Western-backed resolutions pressuring President Bashar Assad's regime to end the violence.

"Today's historic resolution is the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council immediately after the vote.

Ban stressed, however, that eliminating chemical weapons from the Syrian conflict "is not a license to kill with conventional weapons."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the "strong, enforceable, precedent-setting" resolution shows that diplomacy can be so powerful "that it can peacefully defuse the worst weapons of war." Kerry said the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile will begin in November and be completed by the middle of next year.

For the first time, the council endorsed the roadmap for a political transition in Syria adopted by key nations in June 2012 and called for an international conference to be convened "as soon as possible" to implement it.

Ban said the target date for a new peace conference in Geneva is mid-November.

As a sign of the broad support for the resolution, all 15 council members signed on as co-sponsors.

The resolution calls for consequences if Syria fails to comply, but those will depend on the council passing another resolution in the event of non-compliance. That will give Assad ally Russia the means to stop any punishment from being imposed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that the resolution does not automatically impose sanctions on Syria.

The vote came just hours after the world's chemical weapons watchdog adopted a U.S.-Russian plan that lays out benchmarks and timelines for cataloguing, quarantining and ultimately destroying Syria's chemical weapons, their precursors and delivery systems.

The Security Council resolution enshrines the plan approved by Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, making it legally binding.

The agreement allows the start of a mission to rid Syria's regime of its estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal by mid-2014, significantly accelerating a destruction timetable that often takes years to complete.

"We expect to have an advance team on the ground (in Syria) next week," OPCW spokesman Michael Luhan told reporters at the organization's headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands immediately after its 41-member executive council approved the plan.

The recent flurry of diplomatic activity followed the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb, and by President Barack Obama's threat of U.S. strikes in retaliation.

After Kerry said Assad could avert U.S. military action by turning over "every single bit of his chemical weapons" to international control within a week, Russia quickly agreed. Kerry and Lavrov signed an agreement in Geneva on Sept. 13 to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control for later destruction, and Assad's government accepted.

Tough negotiations, primarily between Russia and the United States, followed on how Syria's stockpile would be destroyed.

The U.N. resolution's adoption was assured when the five veto-wielding permament members of the Security Council ? Russia, China, the United States, France and Britain ? signed off on the text on Thursday.

Lavrov told the council that his country will participate in the destruction.

Russia and the United States had been at odds over the enforcement issue. Russia opposed any reference to Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows for military and nonmilitary actions to promote peace and security.

The final resolution states that the Security Council will impose measures under Chapter 7 if Syria fails to comply, but this would require adoption of a second resolution.

It bans Syria from possessing chemical weapons and condemns "in the strongest terms" the use of chemical weapons in the Aug. 21 attack, and any other use. It also would ban any country from obtaining chemical weapons or the technology or equipment to produce them from Syria.

Kerry stressed that the resolution for the first time makes a determination that "use of chemical weapons anywhere constitutes a threat to international peace and security," which sets a new international norm.

The resolution authorizes the U.N. to send an advance team to assist the OPCW's activities in Syria. It asks Secretary-General Ban to submit recommendations to the Security Council within 10 days of the resolution's adoption on the U.N. role in eliminating Syria's chemical weapons program.

"Syria cannot select or reject the inspectors," Kerry said. "Syria must give those inspectors unfettered access to any and all sites and any and all people."

The resolution requires the council to review compliance with the OPCW's plans within 30 days, and every month after that.

In an indication of the enormity of the task ahead, the OPCW appealed for donations to fund the disarmament, saying it will have to hire new weapons inspectors and chemical experts.

To that end, Britain's foreign minister announced after Friday's vote that the UK would donate $3 million to OPCW Syria Trust fund.

Earlier Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the U.N. General Assembly that China was prepared to help fund the disarmament mission.

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Associated Press writers Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Albert Aji in Damascus contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-votes-eliminate-syrias-chemical-weapons-003257576.html

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Spamhaus DDoS Attack: 16-Year-Old London Teenager Arrested In 'World's Biggest Cyber Attack' On Dutch Site

?The suspect was found with his computer systems open and logged on to various virtual systems and forums,? a document on the case seen by the Evening Standard said. ?The subject has a significant amount of money flowing through his bank account. Financial investigators are in the process of restraining monies.?

The boy, who has not been identified, is out on bail until later this year, the Standard reported. The London teenager was arrested by the National Cyber Crime Unit in an investigation codenamed Operation Rashlike.

As Mashable notes, the target of the Distributed Denial of Service attack was the Dutch anti-spam company Spamhaus, which targets email spammers by adding them to a blacklist and selling that information to Internet service providers.

The cyber attack, which happened in March, caused ?worldwide disruption of the functionality? of the Internet, according to the briefing note cited by the Standard.

The only other person arrested, and the accused mastermind of the attack, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, a 35-year-old Dutchman living in Spain, was arrested at the same time as the London teenager.

The New York Times reports that Kamphuis worked for Cyberbunker, a hosting company that says it will host any website ?except child porn and anything related to terrorism.? Cyberbunker was blacklisted by Spamhaus, which brought on the attack.

A DDoS attack takes place when hackers use an army of infected computers to send traffic to a server, causing a shutdown in the process.?According to Mashable, the typical DDoS attack happens at a rate of 50 to 100 gigabits per second. The DDoS attack on Spamhaus had a peak rate of 300 gigabits per second, which is the largest on record.

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Drug subsidy failed to close racial gap in statin use

By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among older Americans with heart disease or diabetes, blacks are still less likely to be on cholesterol medication than whites, despite federal prescription drug subsidies that lowered costs, according to a new study.

Older blacks are also less likely than whites to have their cholesterol under control, researchers found.

Because black patients are more likely to skip doses or to not take expensive medications at all for cost reasons, the Medicare Part D program that started in 2006 was expected to close a racial gap in the number of Americans with heart disease taking statins.

Since the medication gap has not closed after Part D, "It would appear that more than money is involved," said Joseph Hanlon, a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Pittsburgh who led the study.

"Racial differences in medication use are only partially explained by health insurance," he told Reuters Health. "Differences in quality of care, health status, patient preferences and other factors may also play a role."

Hanlon and his coauthors compared the health data of 1,091 adults over age 70 with coronary heart disease or diabetes receiving Medicare benefits from year to year, checking in every six months from 1998 to 2008.

The data they looked at included cholesterol levels, use of cholesterol controlling drugs like the statin Lipitor and whether cholesterol levels were under control - meaning that low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, "bad" cholesterol was under 130 milligrams per deciliter.

Before 2006, 33 percent of black participants and 49 percent of whites were taking cholesterol medication. That rose to 48 percent and 65 percent, respectively, after 2006, so the gap did not change.

Before Medicare Part D, 55 percent of blacks and 62 percent of whites reported having prescription drug coverage, and that rose to 75 percent and 82 percent after Medicare Part D.

Average LDL cholesterol levels did not seem to improve either, increasing from 107 to 109 milligrams per deciliter for blacks and from 95 to 96 milligrams per deciliter for whites, according to the study results published in the American Heart Journal.

Diligent use of statins by people younger than 80 with heart disease can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and death, the authors point out. But there is little evidence for benefits over age 85, and at that age the risks of cognitive damage and death due to the medication increase.

Since Lipitor went generic in 2011, it now costs about 50 cents per pill, and some retailers actually offer it for free with a prescription.

Even though cholesterol control didn't appear to change over time, that doesn't mean Medicare Part D had no effect on that health risk factor in the population, said Dr. Walid Gellad, a staff physician at the Pittsburgh VA Medical Center who was not involved in the study.

Just because people reported that they were taking statin drugs doesn't mean that they were taking them often enough, or correctly, Gellad told Reuters Health by email.

Dr. Jennifer G. Robinson, director of the Prevention Intervention Center at the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, expected Medicare Part D to have had more of an effect.

"More recent studies have found the disparities in prevention and treatments have been narrowing between whites and blacks," she said.

The results may not reflect the effect of Medicare Part D in the nation as a whole, since medication use varies widely by region, Robinson noted. And the apparent overall increase in cholesterol medication use is encouraging, she said.

"It is critically important nationally for more people to achieve lipid control," Gellad said. "However, as the authors explain, it is not so clear how important it is to achieve lipid control for individuals once they reach 80, especially if they have evidence of limited life expectancy."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/18QTulH American Heart Journal, online August 27, 2013.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/drug-subsidy-failed-close-racial-gap-statin-195442099.html

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IHS study puts iPhone 5S production costs at $191

NEW YORK (AP) -- While the iPhone 5S includes a handful of new features that set it apart from Apple's previous model, the actual cost to make the phone hasn't changed very much, according to a new study.

An IHS Inc. teardown of the new smartphone found that the components that make up a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5S cost $190.70. Manufacturing costs add another $8, bringing the total production cost to $198.70.

In comparison, the iPhone 5, which hit the market a year ago, cost $197 to make.

Andrew Rassweiler, IHS' senior director for cost benchmarking services, noted that the 5S includes features new to the smartphone world, such as a 64-bit apps processor and a fingerprint identification sensor, without a significant jump in costs.

The research firm also dissected a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5C, a cheaper version of the 5S, and put its total production cost at $173.45, including $7 in manufacturing costs.

Rassweiler said the 5C is basically an iPhone 5 wrapped in plastic, noting that it has basically the same features, but benefits from typical component price drops, along with its cheaper plastic enclosure.

The 5C has a starting sticker price of $549, but will sell for $99 with a two-year wireless contract. It's Apple's least-expensive iPhone ever and is an effort to boost sales in China and other areas where people don't have as much money to spend on new gadgets as they do in the U.S. and Europe. But critics have said that the phone is still too expensive to sell well in emerging markets.

IHS said that while it costs substantially less to produce an iPhone 5C than it did an iPhone 5, those costs are still on the high side.

It added that in order to merit the low-end smartphone pricing of $400 that many industry observers had expected, while maintaining typical Apple profit margins, the company would need to reduce its 5C production costs to about $130.

Monday Apple reported that it sold 9 million of the two new models since their launch on Friday - its strongest iPhone launch ever - and that demand was exceeding supply.

In midday trading, shares of the Cupertino, Calif., company slipped $5.98 to $483.12.

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The terror group that stormed the Westage Mall killing over 60 civilians and wounding about 200 others have claimed that the about 137 hostages that were still in the Mall have been buried in the rubble of the collapsed building.

The Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said "137 hostages who were being held by the mujahedeen" had died. In another treet, the terror group has accused the Defence Forces of using projectiles containing chemical agents. They then claim that the government forces then demolished the building in a bid to cover up the evidence killing the remaining hostages.

The Government of Kenya has however denied the claims saying that Al-shabaab has been known for making wild allegations.

"Al-Shabaab is known for wild allegations and there is absolutely no truth to what they're saying," said the government spokesman Manoah Esipisu.

Officials however agree that the death toll is likely to rise once the mall is cleaned out.

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Spinning CDs to clean sewage water

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Scientists find a potential new use for old music CDs: Coating disks in photocatalytic compounds and spinning them to clean water

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2013 Audio CDs, all the rage in the '90s, seem increasingly obsolete in a world of MP3 files and iPods, leaving many music lovers with the question of what to do with their extensive compact disk collections. While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan have come up with a more practical application: breaking down sewage. The team will present its new wastewater treatment device at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013, being held Oct. 6-10 in Orlando, Fla.

"Optical disks are cheap, readily available, and very commonly used," says Din Ping Tsai, a physicist at National Taiwan University. Close to 20 billion disks are already manufactured annually, the researchers note, so using old disks for water treatment might even be a way to cut down on waste.

Tsai and his colleagues from National Taiwan University, National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, and the Research Center for Applied Sciences in Taiwan used the large surface area of optical disks as a platform to grow tiny, upright zinc oxide nanorods about a thousandth the width of a human hair. Zinc oxide is an inexpensive semiconductor that can function as a photocatalyst, breaking apart organic molecules like the pollutants in sewage when illuminated with UV light.

While other researchers have experimented with using zinc oxide to degrade organic pollutants, Tsai's team is the first to grow the photocatalyst on an optical disk.

Because the disks are durable and able to spin quickly, contaminated water that drips onto the device spreads out in a thin film that light can easily pass through, speeding up the degradation process.

The Taiwanese team's complete wastewater treatment device is approximately one cubic foot in volume. In addition to the zinc oxide-coated optical disk, the device consists of a UV light source and a system that recirculates the water to further break down the pollutants.

The research team tested the reactor with a solution of methyl orange dye, a model organic compound often used to evaluate the speed of photocatalytic reactions. After treating a half-liter solution of dye for 60 minutes, they found that over 95 percent of the contaminants had been broken down. The device can treat 150 mL of waste water per minute, the researchers say.

The spinning disk reactor is small, consumes little power, and processes contaminated water more efficiently than other photocatalytic wastewater treatment methods, Tsai says. The device could be used on a small scale to clean water contaminated with domestic sewage, urban run-off, industrial effluents, and farm waste.

Going forward, the team is also working on ways to increase the efficiency of the reactor, and Tsai estimates that the system could soon be improved to work even faster, perhaps by creating layers of stacked disks.

Presentation FW1A, "Zinc Oxide Nanorod Optical Disk Photocatalytic Reactor for Photodegradation," takes place Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 8:15 a.m. EDT at the Bonnet Creek Ballroom, Salon IV at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Fla.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Images and a video demonstration of the system are available to members of the media upon request. Contact Lyndsay Meyer, lmeyer@osa.org.

PRESS REGISTRATION: A press room for credentialed press and analysts will be located in the Hilton Bonnet Creek, Sunday through Thursday, Oct. 6-10. Those interested in obtaining a press badge for FiO should contact OSA's Lyndsay Meyer at 202.416.1435 or lmeyer@osa.org.

About the Meeting

Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013 is the Optical Society's (OSA) 97th Annual Meeting and is being held together with Laser Science XXIX, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science (DLS). The two meetings unite the OSA and APS communities for five days of quality, cutting-edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events spanning a broad range of topics in optics and photonicsthe science of lightacross the disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry. An exhibit floor featuring leading optics companies will further enhance the meeting. More information at http://www.FrontiersinOptics.org.

About OSA

Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional society for scientists, engineers, students and business leaders who fuel discoveries, shape real-world applications and accelerate achievements in the science of light. Through world-renowned publications, meetings and membership programs, OSA provides quality research, inspired interactions and dedicated resources for its extensive global network of professionals in the optics and photonics field. For more information, visit http://www.osa.org.

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Public release date: 23-Sep-2013
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Contact: Lyndsay Meyer
lmeyer@osa.org
202-416-1435
The Optical Society

Scientists find a potential new use for old music CDs: Coating disks in photocatalytic compounds and spinning them to clean water

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2013 Audio CDs, all the rage in the '90s, seem increasingly obsolete in a world of MP3 files and iPods, leaving many music lovers with the question of what to do with their extensive compact disk collections. While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan have come up with a more practical application: breaking down sewage. The team will present its new wastewater treatment device at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013, being held Oct. 6-10 in Orlando, Fla.

"Optical disks are cheap, readily available, and very commonly used," says Din Ping Tsai, a physicist at National Taiwan University. Close to 20 billion disks are already manufactured annually, the researchers note, so using old disks for water treatment might even be a way to cut down on waste.

Tsai and his colleagues from National Taiwan University, National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, and the Research Center for Applied Sciences in Taiwan used the large surface area of optical disks as a platform to grow tiny, upright zinc oxide nanorods about a thousandth the width of a human hair. Zinc oxide is an inexpensive semiconductor that can function as a photocatalyst, breaking apart organic molecules like the pollutants in sewage when illuminated with UV light.

While other researchers have experimented with using zinc oxide to degrade organic pollutants, Tsai's team is the first to grow the photocatalyst on an optical disk.

Because the disks are durable and able to spin quickly, contaminated water that drips onto the device spreads out in a thin film that light can easily pass through, speeding up the degradation process.

The Taiwanese team's complete wastewater treatment device is approximately one cubic foot in volume. In addition to the zinc oxide-coated optical disk, the device consists of a UV light source and a system that recirculates the water to further break down the pollutants.

The research team tested the reactor with a solution of methyl orange dye, a model organic compound often used to evaluate the speed of photocatalytic reactions. After treating a half-liter solution of dye for 60 minutes, they found that over 95 percent of the contaminants had been broken down. The device can treat 150 mL of waste water per minute, the researchers say.

The spinning disk reactor is small, consumes little power, and processes contaminated water more efficiently than other photocatalytic wastewater treatment methods, Tsai says. The device could be used on a small scale to clean water contaminated with domestic sewage, urban run-off, industrial effluents, and farm waste.

Going forward, the team is also working on ways to increase the efficiency of the reactor, and Tsai estimates that the system could soon be improved to work even faster, perhaps by creating layers of stacked disks.

Presentation FW1A, "Zinc Oxide Nanorod Optical Disk Photocatalytic Reactor for Photodegradation," takes place Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 8:15 a.m. EDT at the Bonnet Creek Ballroom, Salon IV at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Fla.

###

EDITOR'S NOTE: Images and a video demonstration of the system are available to members of the media upon request. Contact Lyndsay Meyer, lmeyer@osa.org.

PRESS REGISTRATION: A press room for credentialed press and analysts will be located in the Hilton Bonnet Creek, Sunday through Thursday, Oct. 6-10. Those interested in obtaining a press badge for FiO should contact OSA's Lyndsay Meyer at 202.416.1435 or lmeyer@osa.org.

About the Meeting

Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2013 is the Optical Society's (OSA) 97th Annual Meeting and is being held together with Laser Science XXIX, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science (DLS). The two meetings unite the OSA and APS communities for five days of quality, cutting-edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events spanning a broad range of topics in optics and photonicsthe science of lightacross the disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry. An exhibit floor featuring leading optics companies will further enhance the meeting. More information at http://www.FrontiersinOptics.org.

About OSA

Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional society for scientists, engineers, students and business leaders who fuel discoveries, shape real-world applications and accelerate achievements in the science of light. Through world-renowned publications, meetings and membership programs, OSA provides quality research, inspired interactions and dedicated resources for its extensive global network of professionals in the optics and photonics field. For more information, visit http://www.osa.org.

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