Ukraine opposition hesitant after ruling party win

Chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch) and WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko speaks to the media during his news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Klitschko's party garnered 13 percent of the vote during Sunday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Kosarev)

Chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch) and WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko speaks to the media during his news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Klitschko's party garnered 13 percent of the vote during Sunday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Kosarev)

Chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch) and WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko smiles during his news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Klitschko's party garnered 13 percent of the vote during Sunday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Kosarev)

FILE - In this Monday, April 4, 2011 file photo, former Ukrainian Prime Minister and main opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is pictured in her headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. Tymoshenko's party alleged widespread violations, such as vote-buying and multiple voting and the jailed leader, who is currently undergoing treatment for a back problem in a Ukrainian hospital, launched a hunger strike in protest. (AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky, file)

Members of a local election commission open a ballot box to count votes after a day of election at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a crucial vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and fears of election fraud. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Election commission officials count ballots at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a crucial vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and fears of election fraud. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ? Ukrainian opposition parties are scrambling for position after the ruling party scored a confident victory in parliamentary elections denounced as unfair by international observers.

President Vitkor Yanukovych's Party of Regions was poised to retain its majority of seats in parliament, according to nearly final officials results released Tuesday. But the opposition appeared uncertain about whether to recognize the election and start building a coalition or focus on protesting the results of the vote.

The West has condemned Sunday's election as a step away from democracy with Yanukovych's main opponent jailed and allegations of fraud.

The jailed former premier Yulia Tymoshenko launched a hunger strike to protest the violations. But her most likely partner, the world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko appeared more focused on forging a parliamentary alliance.

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SALT LAKE CITY ? The Highland Rugby Foundation announced Monday that Highland Rugby will return to its home at Highland High School for the 2013 season. Mark Numbers, a class of 1996 Highland High alumnus, has been named as head coach. Kory Olsen, a former Highland Rugby and United States Under-19 National Team player, has been named as an assistant coach. Additional members of the coaching staff will be named prior to the beginning of the 2013 season.

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New York Jets running back Shonn Greene (23) celebrates after scoring a touchdown as he is tackled by Indianapolis Colts' Tom Zbikowski (28) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012 in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ? Shonn Greene hit the ground running ? and just kept going.

Rex Ryan's "Ground-and-Pound" offense returned in a big way Sunday as Greene ran for a career-high 161 yards and three touchdowns on 32 carries to power the New York Jets to a 35-9 rout of Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.

"When you're running the ball that well," quarterback Mark Sanchez said, "you never want to stop."

Just about everything worked for the Jets as they rolled up 252 yards on the ground after struggling in the running game for weeks, Sanchez was solid and Tim Tebow made a few big plays. Even the Jets' maligned defense was able to shut down Luck and the Colts as New York snapped a two-game slide at home that had many wondering if the season was about to spiral out of control.

"We want to be a team no one wants to play," Ryan said. "And, we're on our way."

For a week, at least, Sanchez was in total control and the Jets (3-3) had their best overall performance ? save for a handful of personal foul penalties ? since an opening rout of Buffalo. After four straight games with less than 50 percent completion percentage, Sanchez finished 11 of 18 for just 82 yards, but had touchdown throws to Stephen Hill and Jason Hill.

"Wins come in all shapes and forms," Sanchez said. "I was proud of the way we were able to run the ball."

With the way the Jets, particularly Greene, performed behind an offensive line blasting open holes to run through, Sanchez didn't need to air it out.

"I think we can do it every week against any team," Greene said. "It's just a matter of us executing, not stopping ourselves and working hard during the week."

The frustrating thing for Indianapolis (2-3) was that New York did exactly what it expected. And the Colts still couldn't do anything about the running game.

"We wanted Sanchez to have to beat us with his arm," cornerback Jerraud Powers said. "If we stopped the run, that was what they were going to have to do. Whoever we play next week, that's what they're going to do. They're going to run the ball until we stop it."

Indianapolis trailed 21-6 at halftime and couldn't erase a big deficit for the second straight week after coming back from 18 points and beating Green Bay last Sunday for Bruce Arians' first win while filling in for Chuck Pagano, hospitalized while being treated for leukemia.

Luck finished 22 of 44 for 280 yards, two interceptions and a lost fumble on a day he misfired a handful of times. Luck was driving the Colts a possible touchdown with less than 7 minutes left, but Ellis Lankster ended that when he intercepted the rookie's toss for Donnie Avery in the end zone.

"It's learning how to be consistent, and that's something I've struggled with," Luck said. "I think I played very poorly this week after a decent half of football last weekend. As a team, we have to learn to come out and consistently be good."

The Colts were missing sacks leader Robert Mathis, and lost defensive end Cory Redding to an injured right knee in the first quarter. Indianapolis was also without leading rusher Donald Brown; replacement Vick Ballard had just 25 yards in his first NFL start.

Tebow helped the Jets take a 21-6 lead just before halftime on a drive kept alive by some trickery. On fourth-and-11 from the Colts 40, the do-it-all backup quarterback ? lined up as the punt protector ? took the direct snap, stepped forward and tossed a jump pass to linebacker Nick Bellore, who rumbled 23 yards as the crowd at MetLife Stadium went wild.

Three plays later, Tebow was at quarterback and ran 3 yards for a first down, setting up Sanchez's 5-yard TD toss to Jason Hill with 27 seconds left. Tebow met Sanchez as he ran toward the sideline and the two leaped and bumped hips to celebrate the score.

"We were very efficient, effective," Tebow said. "We had some big runs, threw the ball really well in the red area and converted on third down. It was a pretty good day for us."

Greene made it 28-6 late in the third quarter on a 4-yard spin-and-run on a drive sparked by Joe McKnight's 61-yard run that gave the Jets the ball at Indianapolis 6. McKnight injured his left ankle on the play, three plays after Bilal Powell was lost with a shoulder injury.

Both McKnight and Powell were scheduled to have MRI exams Monday.

Greene got the touchdown hat trick with a 2-yard run with 1:05 left, a few minutes after Muhammad Wilkerson forced a fumble on a sack of Luck and David Harris recovered at the Colts 14.

"If you can't block and you can't tackle, you can't win," Arians said. "It's fundamentals, things we identified going into the game: fake punts, stopping the run, protecting the quarterback. Red zone offense and defense were keys to the game. We didn't win in any of those areas."

NOTES: Jets CB Antonio Cromartie had two interceptions for TDs called back ? one on a personal foul penalty on Aaron Maybin and another on a pass interference call on Cromartie. ... Jets first-rounder Quinton Coples had 1? sacks, his first. ... The Colts were 3 of 11 on third downs, while the Jets were 6 of 12.

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Free portraits of breast cancer survivors

Freelance Spotted photographer Madi Mack is taking free portraits of local breast cancer survivors from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the Record photo studio. To be included in this online slideshow, please show up during those times for your photo, or email renee.unsworth@staugustine.com. Other portraits will be taken from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24.

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Anderson Silva, ?Big Nog? and Glover Teixeira dominate at UFC 153

To the surprise of few, UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva easily disposed of light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar in the first round of the main event at UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night.

After standing at the fence to dodge Bonnar's punches early in the round, Silva pounced. He landed a knee to Bonnar's chest, then followed up with ground and pound until the fight was stopped in the first round.

"I'm not the best. I just do things that people think are impossible," Silva said after the fight. "I'm not going to fight at 205 again. I fought at 205 to save the event."

[Related: Anderson Silva stokes fire for a superfight against Jon Jones]

Silva and Bonnar took this fight on short notice after UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo was injured and had to pull out of UFC 153. Silva moved up in weight, which meant questions about his intentions to fight at a bigger weight class.

Earlier in the night, Dave Herman said in his pre-fight video that jiu-jitsu doesn't work. He may want to rethink that stance after being submitted by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the second round.

In the second round, Nogueira grappled to get Herman close to a submission, but Herman defended each hold. But late in the round, Nogueira used beautiful jiu-jitsu to maneuver Herman into an armbar that he couldn't get out of. Herman tapped at 4:31 of the second round, giving Nogueira the win.

"I feel so happy, because this man said jiu-jitsu doesn't work. But jiu-jitsu does work. Jiu-jitsu is Brazilian. Jiu-jitsu is an art," Nogueira said.

This was Nogueira's first fight since his arm was broken by Frank Mir at UFC 140. He had surgery and intense physical therapy to rehabilitate his arm, giving him a chance to win in front of a home crowd in Rio de Janeiro.

As expected, Glover Teixeira dominated Fabio Maldonado on the way to an early stoppage win. But what wasn't expected was how Maldonado stood in for 10 minutes of straight punishment.

Teixeira knocked Maldonado down early in the first round, and proceeded to ground and pound him in a full mount for most of the round. With his face badly swollen and bruised, Maldonado managed to work his way back to his feet. Though wobbly, he did managed to punch Teixeira with a big enough punch to send him reeling, but it was the last show of offense from Maldonado.

Teixeira dominated the second round in the same way. Maldonado's face was bruised and bleeding. The doctor checked the cut halfway through the round and let the fight continue. He checked again at the end of the second, and mercifully stopped the fight.

"He is not human! I told [trainer] John Hackleman in the locker room that I was going to knock this guy out. This guy got knocked down, and he held on. He is not human," Teixeira said.

Jon Fitch showed he was anything but boring in a decision win that stopped hot prospect Erick Silva. The judges saw it 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 for Fitch.

Fitch used grappling to control Silva in the first round, but things got interesting in the second. Silva took Fitch's back and sunk in a rear--naked choke. It was the kind of choke that would stop most fighters, but Fitch survived. When Fitch maneuvered out of the choke, he took top position, waylaid Silva with strikes, then worked his grappling game.

In the last 30 seconds of the second round, Fitch took Silva's back then transitioned to an armbar. Though Silva got out, the round clearly took its toll on Silva, the much younger fighter. The third round featured Fitch taking advantage of a clearly tired Silva. It was Fitch's ground and pound at its best. He landed 108 ground strikes throughout the bout.

"I didn't have a choice. I would have beaten anyone tonight. Any weight class. I needed a win. My family needed a win," Fitch said after the bout.

Their first fight ended quickly with a no contest after an unintentional eye poke stopped Wagner Prado. This time, it was all Phil Davis, as he outgrappled Prado for two rounds. Davis used his high-level wrestling skills to control Prado and stymie any shot at striking that the young fighter may have. In the second round, Davis was close to getting an arm triangle when he transitioned to an anaconda choke. Prado tapped at 4:29.

"Normally I'm the young lion coming in, but it's a different feeling getting in the gym, knowing someone like Wagner Prado is coming to knock your block off," Davis said after the fight.

Demian Maia started off the pay-per-view with a submission that showed his world-class submission skills. Maia had Rick Story in a a rear-naked choke in the first round, but had trouble getting his elbow underneath Story's chin. He then switch to crank Story's neck. Though Story tried to hold out, blood trickled out of his nose and he tapped at 2:30 in the first round.

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Posted October 12, 2012 by Fresh Air Lodging in Just Sayin'.... Tagged: ancestry, family tree, Genealogy. Leave a Comment

My husband received a call the other day from the secretary at the cemetery where his parents are buried.? There was some confusion as to who was in which space and which empty plots were being held for whom.? Now if this seems odd, I?ll give you a little hint?everyone is named Matthew, John, or Peter!? Okay maybe not everyone, but a large portion of the males in this family have one of those three names.? Back in the late 1800?s and early 1900?s it was very common to give the first born son the name of his grandfather.? When subsequent sons came along, they usually got one of the other two.? This got us talking about family trees.

A few years back my mother gave me a bag of information, some clippings/pictures, and a rough-draft family tree.? Having the best of intentions, I took the bag home and carefully stored it in my office for when I had some time to really dig in.? In the interest of full disclosure, I am a huge procrastinator and that bag is still in there somewhere.? But after the secretary?s call we did go online and look at a few different websites to try to get the information for the cemetery.

I?ve seen the commercials for the popular genealogy website on TV.? This is a membership-type site and you have to purchase your entrance.? Like many others, our public library has a membership; but I just didn?t have the time to go there to dig around.? So we looked up a site I?d heard about before when doing some research, www.familysearch.org.? ?It was awesome!? We found some records we needed to help out the secretary, and put to rest the rumor that the family?s lineage wasn?t really 100% German.? We poked around and looked up a few other old family names.? I even found my grandfather?s entry to America through Ellis Island.? What an amazing site.

I don?t know if everyone is as interested in their family history as we are.? But if you are, I urge you to recycle that family tree!? There are so many websites devoted to genealogy that you are almost sure to find something that will lead you in the right direction.? If you Google genealogy websites there are a bunch that pop up.? Poke around; enter in a name or two.? And by all means, dig that old bag out of the office and check it out!

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Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses.? Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact.? In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change.? Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting.? This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

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Systems Integration Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance.
Technology Architecture professionals use highly prescriptive and structured processes (or architecture) to design and build high-volume, mission-critical solutions.
Infrastructure Architecture professionals design solutions that create a reliable, available, and secure networking and computing environment to support specific business requirements.

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Boy, 2, And Father Found Unresponsive In Backyard Pool ? CBS ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ? A 2-year-old and his father drowned in a backyard swimming pool.

It?s a life-changing tragedy for the boy?s mother, who found her husband and son floating in the pool and screamed for help.

The father and son passed away at the hospital.

Family in mourning gathered at the home in the 600 block of Clipper Way in Sacramento?s pocket area in the wake of what police are calling a tragic accident.

They were a picture of happiness and health, Brian and Fahm, a young, married couple with 2-year-old Rafael.

?I just heard a ?help, help,? so that?s why I want to know where the help comes from,? said neighbor Losa Lini.

Family members say Fahm, who is several months pregnant, came home to find her husband and toddler unresponsive in the pool. Nobody knows exactly how it happened.

?She was crying, ?try to help me. How?s my husband? How?s my son,? ? said Lini.

Two women responded to Fahm?s frantic calls for help. She answered the door with tears streaming down her face, and cradling Rafael in one arm.

?The mother was carrying the baby. Baby was not breathing,? said Lini.

When they saw Brian, one of the women jumped into the pool in a desperate attempt to save him. She says he was motionless in the deep end.

?I?m trying to get him out of the pool, and it was too deep. It was too deep,? said neighbor Mela Vakaloloa.

Paramedics performed CPR, and rushed father and son to the UC Davis Medical Center on life support in critical condition.

Tearful family members waited at the house for word.

?We feel so sorry; we don?t know anything about it,? said Feuy Saechao, Brian?s aunt.

Neighbors say this family of three, with one on the way, moved in just weeks ago. Few even know their names, but all feel for the family.

?It?s so sad. She comes in and sees the husband and baby in the pool,? said Lini.

Source: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/boy-2-and-father-found-unresponsive-in-backyard-pool/

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The Writer, the State and the Nobel - NYTimes.com

BEIJING ? A writer who names himself Don?t Speak, an allusion to the fear of getting into trouble in a one-party state, becomes a top literary official of that state and goes on to win the world?s biggest literary award.

Fiction? A Kafkaesque literary thrust at the bitter, age-old struggle between power and freedom? A story idea of which any author would be proud?

No, because that?s what happened on Thursday, when Mo Yan, the vice chairman of the state-run Chinese Writers? Association, won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The People?s Republic of China has long coveted a Nobel Prize but was unable to celebrate until now, because they kept being awarded to the wrong people ? free thinkers such as the exiled Gao Xingjian, who took French citizenship (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000), and the still-jailed Liu Xiaobo (Nobel Peace Prize, 2010). That led to a joke that was circulating here yesterday: ?China has three Nobel Prize winners. The first can?t get in, the second can?t get out, and the third is Mo Yan.? (?Don?t speak? is the meaning of Mr. Mo?s pen name; his given name is Guan Moye.)

Triumphant, still sounding a little angry, the online version of the state-run People?s Daily said on Thursday, according to Reuters: ?This is the first Chinese writer who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chinese writers have waited too long, the Chinese people have waited too long.?

More lightheartedly, The Beijing News dubbed this year?s prize the ?Mobel.?

But if this year is proving a high point for Chinese literature of the Communist era, the Frankfurt Book Fair of October 2009, where China was the guest of honor, was a low point.

Convulsed by public arguments over censorship ? the official delegation, which included Mr. Mo, boycotted events where dissident Chinese writers appeared ? the event raised crucial questions about writing and power, including this almost philosophic one: Can a writer in a one-party state that practices massive censorship ever be truly free to create? Or do censorship and compromise trap the writer?s mind in ways he or she may not be aware of?

Mr. Mo has been praised by many at home and abroad for his wide-ranging, earthy writing, which in recent years has not been afraid to probe even such sensitive matters as forced abortions under China?s one-child policy. But was he, even then, under a kind of spell?

At Frankfurt, where I was present, it fell to Mr. Mo to deliver the opening writer?s speech to an audience that included Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice president who is tapped to become the country?s next top leader, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who publicly called on China to respect freedom of expression.

His performance was curiously dull. True, he said that a writer should transcend politics. But these excerpts from my notes at the time (edited somewhat for clarity and concision) convey the flat mood:

?Mo Yan?s talk ? the first half is dreary and wooden and the Chinese journalists around me whisper that he didn?t write it, it was written by the writers? association. Then suddenly his voice brightens and he looks his audience in the eye, as if he has added his own bit. He talks about misperceptions of Germans in his hometown, and it?s quite funny, though he is careful to cause no waves. Germans in his home province of Shandong had the reputation of having no kneecaps and once they sat down they couldn?t get up. Oh, and they were believed to have forked tongues. It?s important that we talk, in order to remove these kinds of misconceptions.?

But, my notes continue, ?Over all, it was a puzzling speech, a letdown. It?s not Orhan Pamuk?s speech, which was the most talked-about event of last year?s fair.? (In his opening talk the previous year, Mr. Pamuk had blasted the Turkish government for curtailing freedom of expression.)

?It?s a careful speech ? a real disappointment, in terms of what a writer can do here. Lightweight,? my notes run.

Later that year, in an interview with China Newsweek magazine (which can be read here, in Chinese, on the China News site), Mr. Mo responded to critics who said he had toed the state line too closely at Frankfurt, where he walked out of a literary symposium, along with Chinese officials, to protest the presence of two dissident writers, Dai Qing and Bei Ling, creating a storm of controversy that would dog the fair: ?I had no choice,? he said.

?A lot of people are now saying about me, ?Mo Yan is a state writer.? It?s true, insofar as like the authors Yu Hua and Su Tong, I get a salary? from the ?Ministry of Culture, and get my social and health insurance from them too,? he said.

?That?s the reality in China. Overseas, people all have their own insurance, but without a position, I can?t afford to get sick in China,? he said.

After his opening speech at Frankfurt, Mr. Mo seemed to disappear. My notes record: ?Things went downhill from there. Mo skipped his first public reading, where he had been due to inaugurate a new stage. I arrived five minutes early to find long faces at the stand of Horlemann Verlag, German publisher of ?Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out,? ? Mr. Mo?s new book.

?Fifteen minutes ago, according to a tight-lipped man with a company name tag on his lapel, someone rang to cancel. He didn?t identify himself, but said he was with the Chinese delegation. No reason given. A slight? The man shrugged. His face said it all. Later, Mo would skip a major event at the Blue Sofa, hosted by German state television broadcaster ZDF,? my notes continue.

According to literary agents and publishers, Mr. Mo was irritated by the endless political questions and, along with many delegation members, deliberately avoided events. Mr. Don?t Speak became Mr. No Show.

After the fair, still seeking answers, I traveled to Paris to interview Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel laureate.

In an interview in his apartment, Mr. Gao, without referring to Mr. Mo, said he believed writers living under conditions of censorship were inevitably crimped by it. In his view, a writer needed ?total independence? to create literature that would be ?eternal.?

?What is the relation between officials and literature? Nothing,? said Mr. Gao.

?They have nothing to do with literature, especially with literature. And this was an official event,? he said, referring to the fair.

?Where can officials and literature be connected? Nowhere,? continued Mr. Gao.

?And if they are, then it?s merely official literature, and that?s a really laughable thing. So literature shouldn?t be organized by officials. If it is it?ll certainly become ridiculous. What will happen in that situation is that the officials will foist their politics on literature. That?s for certain. And in China, to this day, officials have always meddled in literature. This isn?t a new phenomenon. It?s always been like that. It was like that when I was still in China. That?s why I left,? he said.

Speaking Thursday, Peter Englund of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel for literature, said that Mr. Mo was not a political dissident, adding: ?I would say he is more a critic of the system, sitting within the system.?

The question is, then: Can great, lasting literature come from there? The Nobel committee thinks so. Do you?

Source: http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/the-writer-the-state-and-the-nobel/

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States That Count: Colorado, Nevada poised to ... - Politics - Fox News

Voters across the country are hearing a lot about big swing states like Ohio and Florida -- but when the votes are counted, will it be the smallest numbers that add up to a big win?

The following is the first in a two-part series on swing states with a relatively small number of electoral votes.

NEVADA

Six electoral votes are at stake in Nevada where unemployment is the highest in the nation.

Beyond the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas strip, Nevada's once red-hot real estate market is a tough bet right now.

"In some areas home values came down about 76 percent," said Brandy White Elk, the owner of Innovative Real Estate Strategies, a Las Vegas based agency with an expertise in handling short sales.

"We're about 60 percent of Las Vegas homes still underwater. That being said when you have about 100,000 homeowners that are more than 30 days late ... just looking at those two dynamics alone is devastating," said White Elk.

She's hoping to hear something from the candidates to offer hope. "Because of Mitt Romney knowing how to manage money and Obama being for the people, it's hard to make a decision on what side to swing because there are so many different elements on both sides that are valuable."

The economy is just one piece of the picture here. In a state once dominated by Republicans, population growth and shifting demographics have turned Nevada into a swing state.

"Certainly the demographics help President Obama," said David Damore, a political science Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. "There's no doubt about it he runs very, very high with the Latino voters. We have a fairly big African American and a growing Asian American concentration here and the Democrats have just done much better at the outreach there."

COLORADO

Colorado is the biggest take in the Mountain West with nine electoral votes.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama took the state by a solid margin -- 54 to 45 percent -- over Sen. John McCain in 2008 but the victory marked only the second time in more than 40 years that the state went for a Democrat.

Hispanic and Latino voters are also expected to have an impact here where they make up roughly 20 percent of the population.

Mike Ferrufino, the general manager of KBNO radio, Colorado's oldest Spanish radio station, says Latinos are engaged in this year's election.

"We have about 330,000 Latinos that are registered to vote which is an all time high," said Ferrufino. "Seems like the excitement is back. They're ready to come out and they feel a sense of duty."

"It appears that there is a overwhelming amount of support in the Latino community for President Obama at the moment," Ferrufino said. "The data I've seen shows an historic low for a Republican presidential candidate and perhaps, at some point the Romney team, and it look like they already have decided to basically take a couple of steps forward to address that, but it looks like President Obama has done a better job in terms of making people feel comfortable with his immigration plans, with his support of education and his support of health care."

At the Rooster & Moon Coffee Pub in Denver, the owners "strive to be a public house in the traditional sense, creating a community forum offering coffee, teas, libations and creative foods as an invitation to discussion and revolutionary ideas." Thoughts on this year's election flow with morning coffees and teas.

"I'm voting for Mitt Romney because I think he's probably the best candidate to solve our fiscal problems, which I think are the biggest problems this country faces today," said Jim Lorenzen. "We have today, for every man, woman and child, every child that was born this morning and every person that's going to die in the next 24 hours, there's 55,000 dollars worth of debt and that doesn't take into consideration the unfunded liabilities of Medicare, social security. If you take all of the net worth of every American in this country it doesn't even cover these unfunded liabilities. We have an enormous problem. It needs to be solved."

"I'm voting for Obama and why? Because I like the equality stance he has taken this year. I think he's the right candidate to get the job done. He's protecting women's rights and a multitude of other issues," said Christine Gehman.

Daniel Silbaugh says the Railway Labor Act is his number one concern. He works in the industry and calls the law a highly antiquated act that favors large corporate interests.

"I am not voting for Romney. I don't know if I'm voting for Obama. Possibly Gary Johnson," says Silbaugh.

Kraig Hamady agrees that the candidates and political parties are too beholden, but he says he will likely vote for Obama.

"It's kind of disappointing the state it's gotten to where corporate interests, the amount of money being spent that could be going to a lot of better things and mostly just the fact that it's become mostly an election of hatred than it has about saying anything about what they actually want to do," said Hamady. "It's mostly what the other person can't do or won't do or should be doing, shouldn't do. Nobody is setting a contrast to say what makes me better, it what makes them worse and that just really doesn't bode well for our society."

Fox News' Andrew Fone contributed to this report.

Source: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/10/12/states-count-colorado-nevada-poised-hold-sway-november

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Helen A.S. Popkin , NBC News

Our?pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

Google just?updated?more ?than 250K miles of road in Street View maps.

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Holy Tablet Wars! PCs are??bound for their first annual decline in 11 years, according to a new report.?

Hackers stole 300,00 student and?employee IDs, as well as?Social Security numbers, from this college in Florida.?

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Apple's iPhone 5 has drawn a lot of attention is the so-called "purple haze" seen in photos -- but is it really just the iPhone 5 that has this issue? Tests suggest otherwise.

A teenage hacker, known only as Pinkie Pie (Like the My Little Pony!) won a cool $60,000 from Google for his full exploit of Chrome browser -- for the second time!?

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World News Brief, Friday October 12 | Pundit

Turkey forces Syrian passenger plane to land; IMF chief calls on China and Japan to end ther row over East China Sea islands; Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize in literature; Spain's credit rating falls to one level above junk; Venezuela's Chavez chooses new vice president; and more

Top of the Agenda: Turkey Grounds Syrian Jet

Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus to land in Ankara on suspicion of carrying military cargo (NYT), warning of increasingly forceful responses if Syrian artillery gunners continued shelling across the border. While the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded explanation and sharply denied the presence of weapons on the plane (Hurriyet), Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said that "materials that infringed international regulations" had been confiscated. The United States recently sent military advisers to Jordan and offered assistance (Bloomberg) to Turkey to prepare for humanitarian and possible military spillover from the war in neighboring Syria.

Analysis

"The emerging conflict between Turkey and Syria must therefore be seen as a reflection of the international system's failure. The West's reluctance to act on the responsibility to protect in Syria--an allegedly cherished concept--put Turkey in the vanguard of the reaction to the Assad regime. The international community must now face the consequences of its inaction," writes Sinan Ulgen for the Financial Times.

"Turkey, with or without Western support, could probably defeat what remains of the Syrian military. Its own army is well-equipped and the second largest in NATO. Such an effort would establish Ankara's credentials as the new power of the Middle East - leapfrogging the claims of wealthy but ultimately eccentric Gulf states like Qatar and Saudi Arabia - and allow it to reshape to its satisfaction a neighbor whose rebellious Kurds are a source of constant concern to its own security. But it would be a huge gamble, certainly if it did not have the overt backing, at least diplomatic and preferably military, of its NATO allies," writes Richard Spencer for The Telegraph.

"[A]lthough NATO and the United States have expressed solidarity with Turkey, a NATO member, they are urging restraint. Western powers, particularly the United States, do not have the desire or political will to intervene militarily in Syria. Without the full backing of NATO and the US, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan would be reluctant to embark on any large-scale military venture against Syria," writes Fawaz Gerges for CNN.

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Christine Lagarde Calls on China at IMF Meeting

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Thursday that China will "lose out" by not sending its top two finance officials to crucial IMF meetings in Japan this week, and called on Beijing and Tokyo (AP) to settle their row over the East China Sea islands quickly.

CHINA: Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday (LAT), the second Chinese author to win after Gao Xingjian took the prize in 2000.

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This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.

Source: http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/world-news-brief-friday-october-12

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Tom Hanks to make Broadway debut in new Nora Ephron play

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut playing a tabloid journalist in "Lucky Guy", a new drama by the late Nora Ephron, producers said in a statement on Thursday.

The Hollywood star will continue his long collaboration with Ephron that has included "Sleepless in Seattle" in 1993 and "You've Got Mail" in 1998. Ephron died in June at the age of 71 of complications from leukemia.

Based on a true story, "Lucky Guy" opens in April next year, the statement said, and dramatizes the rise and fall of former tabloid columnist Mike McAlary as he covers the police scandals of a polarized, crime-ridden 1980s New York. McAlary died aged 41 in 1998.

Hanks, 56, has won two best actor Oscars for his performances in "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump" and is known for other popular films, but his stage acting has been limited to small Shakespeare productions in the 1970s.

Ephron started as a tabloid reporter before becoming known as a writer of essays, books and screenplays. She penned romantic comedies such as 1989's "When Harry Met Sally", and wrote and directed 2009's "Julie & Julia".

"Lucky Guy" is billed as a drama with touches of her famed acerbic tone.

Her first Broadway play, "Imaginary Friends", was produced in 2002 and starred Cherry Jones and Swoosie Kurtz. The play was largely panned by critics.

She also co-authored "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" with her sister Delia, which was performed Off-Broadway to positive reviews in 2009 and enjoyed a long run followed by a national tour.

(Reporting by Andrea Burzynski; Editing by Christine Kearney and Dale Hudson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tom-hanks-broadway-debut-nora-ephron-play-200730534.html

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Bieber is distant cousin of Gosling, Lavigne

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Call it the Canadian dynasty of teenybopper pop and movie stardom.

Genealogists at Ancestry.com say they've discovered teen idol Justin Bieber is a distant cousin of movie star Ryan Gosling and singer Avril Lavigne. Their family link dates back to some of Quebec's earliest settlers 400 years ago, the Utah-based company said Thursday.

As if Bieber didn't have enough superstar genes, Ancestry.com also said he's a distant relative of singer Celine Dion.

"The great thing about family history is that you never know what you're going to find," said Michelle Ercanback, a researcher with Ancentry.com. "It was a very pleasant surprise."

Ercanback said researchers begun tracing Bieber's family lineage about a year ago by paging through teen-idol magazines to find biographical tidbits from the pop star.

What they say they found was that Bieber and Gosling are 11th cousins once removed, and Bieber and Lavigne are 12th cousins. They share common relatives Mathurin Roy and Marguerite Bire, the researchers said. Both were born in France in the early 1600s, married in 1637, and moved to Quebec, where Roy worked as a master mason.

The genealogists also said Bieber and Dion are 10th cousins three times removed because they're linked to French couple Jacques Vezina and Marie Boisdon, who were born in the early 1600s. They moved to Quebec, where they died in 1687.

Ercanback said she didn't know if these celebrity links are "sufficient to point to the existence of a superstar gene."

In July, Ancestry.com announced they had found that President Barack Obama could be the descendent of an African slave, after an examination of his white mother's family history.

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Find Ivan Moreno at http://twitter.com/IvanJourno .

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bieber-distant-cousin-gosling-lavigne-050424696.html

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National Grid ramps up search for UK CO2 storage site

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's National Grid Plc is to drill off the coast of Yorkshire in northern England in an attempt to find a suitable site to store carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, giving a boost to a technology tipped to help the UK meet its climate targets.

"This drilling operation is a major step forward in the development of a long-term, large-scale CCS (carbon capture and storage) cluster of transportation networks and storage facilities in the UK," Jim Ward, National Grid's head of CCS, said on Wednesday.

The UK has a target to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and the government sees CCS, which collects carbon emissions from power generators and stores them underground, as a key component to achieving this goal.

National Grid and its partner, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a joint industry and government body, said the drilling would help assess the viability of storing carbon dioxide in a porous rock formation, rather than in a depleted oil or gas reserve, under the sea.

The project would be complementary to other efforts to find a solution to carbon emissions.

Britain has a 1 billion pound competition to help fund demonstration projects for CCS technologies, which it said has attracted the interest of 16 companies, including National Grid, as well as Centrica Plc and SSE Plc.

The government has not specified which projects have been entered for the competition, but National Grid is working as part of the consortiums for five CCS projects proposed in the UK, according to its website.

Three of these projects, two of which aim to capture emissions at gas-fired power plants and one at a coal power station, are based in Yorkshire.

The winner or winners of the government scheme are expected to be announced by the end of the year.

(Reporting by Susanna Twidale; Editing by David Holmes)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/national-grid-ramps-search-uk-co2-storage-140638319--finance.html

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Twitter: Changing life for writers 140 characters at a time | New York ...

BY CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

Creation through limitation is a concept that has long been familiar to writers.
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We see it through the persistent use of ancient poetic forms such as haiku, as well as the experiments of the Oulipo???a French-speaking writers? circle that can count Italo Calvino as an alumnus???in the 1960s. We still see it in many novels? exploitation of genre conventions, and, according to Robert McCrum?s latest article in The Guardian, we also see it in the brevity enforced by microfiction and flashfiction competitions.

However, one increasingly pressing question is being asked by today?s twitterati: is this brevity, which has long been practiced???and which Shakespeare famously argues is the soul of wit???now being imposed upon writers by Twitter?

McCrum?s argument is that Twitter is changing literature. He writes of self imposed concision: ?In the age of Twitter, such an innovative approach to narrative is peculiarly suggestive and potentially addictive.? Its hard to disagree.

We all know Hemingway?s six word story????For sale: baby?s shoes, never worn????and we?ve even had short stories that, aside from their titles, contain no words at all. Dave Eggers? "There Are Some Things He Should Keep To Himself," take a bow. What, then, is to stop a 140 character tweet from being the latest narrative medium for writers everywhere?

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New York based tweeter Teju Cole???photographer, flaneur and author of the brilliant ?Open City????is just one established writer who uses his Twitter account creatively, tweeting snippets of prose that often deal with the state of life in his native Nigeria. For example: ?Lagos police arrested 33 people for using the wrong preposition: apparently, riding in a train is fine, but riding on a train isn?t.? He has also tweeted his own views on the site?s literary advantages: ?Twitter is unbeatable for aphorism, great for anecdote, decent for poetry, useless for analysis, and the eye of the newt for surrealism.?

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Of course, the idea of Twitter?s use as a medium for literature has its critics, and high profile ones at that. Jonathan Franzen has called the site ?unspeakably irritating? and in one attack described tweeting as ?like writing a novel without using the letter P.? What Franzen makes of Georges Perec?s novel ?La Disparition,? which is over a hundred 300 pages long and is written without once using the letter E, has not been documented.

There are some, however, who would argue that while it will limit fiction, Twitter is a more natural fit for poetry. It is easy to see why poets might be drawn to the medium: It affords the same sense of distillation that is the essence of much poetry; publication, and sometimes appreciation, is only a click away.

Some poets see Twitter as more than a simple form???it can even serve as a source for inspiration. The recently established blog Bad Robot Poetry?publishes poetry influenced by Twitter, as well as by Facebook and the cult of the "meme."?

Whether as a facilitator or an inspiration, it seems that Twitter is insinuating itself into the world of literary creation. The format may be new but the principle is as old as writing itself ???that creativity is often borne of constraint. It?s early days, but the time may come when the mentioning of 140 characters will remind bookworms of more than just the cast list of a Tolstoy novel.

(Photo: Alexander Nazaryan)

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/10/twitter-changing-life-for-writers-140-characters-at-a-time

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Online Reputation Management, The Airtel Way

K Srinivas, President of Consumer Business from Bharti Airtel shares about the online reputation management system at the ?telecom giant and the challenges ahead.

Are you concerned for your brand?s offline image only? Then think again!

It?doesn?t?matter whether your business is present or not on social media. People are anyways talking about you and the onus lies on you to track them and address rational queries regarding your business. And if you think that by turning a deaf ear to complaints then you could be the next case study for a ORM disaster and join the party with Volkswagen India.

Or better be like Bharti Airtel and treat ORM like an insurance policy.?Bharti Airtel Limited, world?s third-largest mobile telecommunications company has been setting new benchmarks in the social world. Along with designing exciting social media campaigns for its fans on various social networks, the brand has made a serious investment in efforts and money in understanding and managing online reputation.

K Srinivas, President, Airtel

?We acknowledge a post/tweet almost instantly. Our acknowledgement time is 10 minutes?, shared K Srinivas, President, Consumer Business, Bharti Airtel.

The claim stood true by the brand when some time back I was running from pillar to post to set up an internet connection at my new flat. The power of tweets work faster than calling up the customer care these days and a study done also highlighted that @Airtel_Presence has been the most responsive telecom brand on Twitter.

Airtel has been one of the earliest pioneers in utilizing social media as a form of creating greater connect between brand and customer. Over time the brand has made a presence at arm?s length and has online presence across popular social networking sites ? Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,? Google+ and 114 online consumer forums such as Grahak Sewa, National consumer helpline , CORE, Consumer Court and some privately managed 3rd party consumer forums like consumer complaints.in, Indiaconsumerforum.org etc. Additionally, the brand also has a ?need help? form on the website, which also allows customers to submit queries/concerns/requests.

?We initiated our presence on prevalent social networking sites and online consumer forums in 2009.? We created a universal ID named ?Airtel Presence? and embarked on a journey to manage online customer sentiment?, added Srinivas.

The?back end?process of ORM

Today ORM and CRM go hand in hand and the objective is beyond the regular thank you or sorry for a response.

Any mention of the Airtel brand, positive or otherwise is the first step for work to begin. The immediate step that follows is to acknowledge it instantly and then try to resolve the grievance of the customer as soon as possible. ?This is not all. Srinivas also shared the extensive process which goes behind the scenes over an email conversation with me:

?Once the contact is established with the customer, the back-end team calls the customer to address his query/request. For tweets/posts which are complaints, the team calls the customer, understands the issue in detail, and resolves the complaint to customer?s satisfaction. 85% of our queries/complaints online are resolved the same day, and cases which require more back-end processing time, the team ensures that the customer is kept updated and ensures end-to-end resolution and close-looping with the customer.?

ORM tools, negative content and trolls

This extensive process looks simple on papers but when you have 122 million subscribers then you need specialized tools to monitor such a mammoth data and channel it to the right department. At Airtel there is a specialized team that handles ORM. Srinivas?highlights a very crucial fact here that,

?We work with domain experts on our ORM effort and use proprietary tools in addition to analytics data. Such data is used to pick up trends and issues, and monitor sentiment towards the brand and implement course correction where required. The tools help us keep track of the pulse of our customers and prospects. ?

And what happens when there is a negative buzz going on about the brand? ORM is challenged when the times are bad and when you are in a client serving business you are always in a pressure cooker situation.

Srinivas?shared that as a policy, ?We don?t delete negative posts or try to get such content removed. Airtel believes that removing such content does not resolve the problem/issue. If indeed, there is an error on our part, we apologize to the concerned/affected customers and quickly work towards resolving the issue.?

A great message for brands who are wondering how to tackle ? apologize and move ahead. Alas! we have stories with unreasonable excuses that have turned into a butt of jokes. Along with this we all know Internet is the residing place for trolls and no matter what you do, they would be waiting to strike. But Airtel believes in doing its work genuinely and not bother?much about trolls.

?We have sufficient brand loyalty and online presence to not let these trolls affect our brand image.?

Challenges ahead

However, I?m assured by Srinivas that despite making every one happy being a challenge, they are striving to do so with every passing day.

?There are obvious challenges that exist in cyber space ? for example mass impact of a single tweet, one post on Facebook, customer expectation of instant acknowledgement/resolution of the concern etc.. However, we keep a constant track of ?mentions? about the brand online, and the social media team instantly gets in touch with the customer and ensures resolution and close-looping.?

Having being fortunate enough to wear two hats ? one of a user and the other as a business on social media, I believe that addressing customer?queries?is a must and then the intent to show that a resolution is on it?s way will give customers a bit of respite. Airtel, as a brand is not only doing well on ORM but also bringing an entire change in the process so that customer service could be taken to the next level.

We continually examine trends in negative mentions and ensure that the customer feedback is incorporated in our products/services/policies/procedures?

Prasant Naidu

Founder and Blogger at Lighthouse Insights. Loves to experiment in social media and believes social media is a game changer for SME's.

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