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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Boehner Signals He'll Cave To Stave Off Debt Default
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Ground employee arrested in LA airport ice blasts
In this framegrabbed image from APTN the entrance to the Tom Bradley International Terminal in Los Angeles can be seen Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013. A baggage handler was arrested Tuesday in connection with dry ice explosions Sunday and Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after police stepped up patrols and increased its checks on employees. Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft. (AP Photo\APTN)
In this framegrabbed image from APTN the entrance to the Tom Bradley International Terminal in Los Angeles can be seen Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013. A baggage handler was arrested Tuesday in connection with dry ice explosions Sunday and Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after police stepped up patrols and increased its checks on employees. Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft. (AP Photo\APTN)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A baggage handler has been arrested following a police investigation into two dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport.
Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked Tuesday for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft. He is being held on $1 million bail.
Police had stepped up patrols and increased its checks on employees after the blasts took place Sunday night and then again Monday night.
Bennett took the dry ice from a plane and placed it in an employee restroom Sunday night and another device that was found on a tarmac outside the international terminal, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation who wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
Police had previously said they didn't believe the explosions were an act of terror because of the locations of the devices and because people weren't targeted.
No one was injured in either incident, although some flights were delayed Sunday.
The incidents could be the work of a disgruntled employee due to an internal labor dispute, said Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Downing, who heads the department's counter-terrorism and special operations bureau.
Swissport recently agreed to acquire Servisair and the transaction is expected to close by the end of the year. An afterhours message seeking comment from Servisair was not immediately returned.
It wasn't immediately known what Bennett's motives were, but he was riding in a van with several others, including a supervisor, when he decided to plant one of the dry ice bombs, the official told The Associated Press. Those in the van were aware of the dry ice, the official said, but no other arrests have been made.
The bombs were made by putting dry ice in 20-ounce plastic bottles and could have caused serious injury to anyone in close proximity, Downing said.
One device exploded in an employee men's room Sunday night in Terminal 2. Remnants of an exploded bottle also were found that night on the tarmac area near the Tom Bradley International Terminal, but an employee threw it away. The same employee found an unexploded bottle Monday evening and then reported what he found the previous day.
While there are cameras in some of these restricted-access areas, Downing said there isn't as much camera coverage as in the public-access areas and investigators had been reviewing available video.
Dry ice is widely used by vendors to keep food fresh.
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Clever iOS Game Helps iPhone 5C Case Fulfill Its Connect Four Destiny
Much has been said about the perforated plastic case Apple designed for the iPhone 5C, and very little of it has been positive. But an iOS developer has found the plastic cheese grater's
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Usher's Bestie Scooter Braun Throws Him A Top Secret Surprise Birthday!
Usher had a very happy birthday indeed!
The ab-tastic singer's music biz bestie Scooter Braun threw Usher a surprise bash on Monday in El Lay to celebrate the big 3-5!
But what made the soiree worth of an A-lister??!
While most of the high-class, jaw dropping festivities remain under wraps, we can say the party DID include a girl dancing in a giant bubble AND hookah pipes.
It's not much to paint a picture for us common folk, but we're sure the Confessions singer is left with plenty of dirt to confess! LOLz!
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Belgians Pretend To Be A Film Crew To Nab Suspected Pirates
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Geography affects what drugs seniors prescribed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Where seniors live makes a difference not only in how much health care they receive but also the medications they're prescribed — as some miss out on key treatments while others get risky ones, new research shows.
More than 1 in 4 patients on Medicare's prescription drug plan filled at least one prescription for medications long deemed high-risk for seniors, according to the study released Tuesday by the Dartmouth Atlas Project.
Seniors who live in Alexandria, La., were more than three times as likely as those in Rochester, Minn., to receive those potentially harmful drugs, which include muscle relaxants and anxiety relievers that can cause excessive sedation, falls and other problems in older adults.
On the flip side, far more seniors who survived a heart attack were filling prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering statin drugs in Ogden, Utah, than in Abilene, Texas — 91 percent compared to just 44 percent, the study found. That's even though statins are proven to reduce those patients' risk of another heart attack.
Even more surprising, the study found just 14 percent of seniors who've broken a bone because of osteoporosis were receiving proven medications to guard against another fracture — ranging from 7 percent of those patients in Newark, N.J., to 28 percent in Honolulu.
"There's no good reason" for that variation, said lead researcher Dr. Jeffrey Munson, an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
Researchers with the Dartmouth Atlas have long shown that the type and amount of health care that people receive varies widely around the country, and that those who live where Medicare spends more don't get better quality care.
The newest report examined 2010 prescription data from the 37 million patients who get drug coverage under Medicare Part D, and found even more of a mixed picture when it comes to seniors' medications. For example, patients in the South were more likely to fill prescriptions for those riskier medications, but less likely than those in other regions to get the long-recommended treatments for heart and bone conditions.
The average Part D patient filled 49 monthlong prescriptions — either new ones or refills — in 2010.
But the study suggests doctors in some areas prescribe more readily. The highest number of prescriptions filled was in Miami — 63 — and the lowest in Grand Junction, Colo., 39.
Overall, patients in regions where Medicare Part D spent more on medications weren't more likely to receive the most effective medications, the study found.
Yes, seniors who are sicker will use more medications, but the general health of a region's Medicare population explains less than a third of the variation, the researchers concluded.
Patients don't always fill their prescriptions, because of cost or fear of side effects or myriad other reasons — something this study couldn't measure. It also didn't examine differences in benefits between cheaper and more expensive Part D plans.
But if doctors were following guidelines on best medication practices, there would be far less variation around the country, Munson said.
Doctors "really need to ask themselves, 'Is there a good reason why my patients are getting less effective care than patients in the other regions,'" he said.
He urged patients to ask more questions, too: Why is this medicine being prescribed? What are the pros and cons? Is there something else I should consider taking?
The Dartmouth Atlas, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, studies health trends using Medicare data; similar figures aren't readily available for the general population.
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Shutdown Diary: Hope Turns Into Wall Street Warning
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, walks to a GOP meeting Tuesday.
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Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, walks to a GOP meeting Tuesday.
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Day 15 of the government shutdown started with as much promise as any recently: There was a bipartisan proposal by Senate leaders to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
But any hopes were quickly dashed when leaders of the Republican-controlled House said they would offer a competing proposal because of their dissatisfaction with the Senate effort.
The Senate's Bipartisan Proposal
The Senate agreement between Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., came after weekend negotiations.
It would reopen the government until Jan. 15, 2014, and extend the debt ceiling until February. Among its provisions, it would require income verification for individuals and families seeking subsidies in health care exchanges through the Affordable Care Act.
The House Responds
That Senate agreement was viewed as weak tea by House Republicans, however, particularly those affiliated with the Tea Party: They wanted more to show for the political hits they've taken in the fiscal fights. Yet it was clear early Tuesday they weren't sure what they wanted.
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters: "Our leadership team met with our members today trying to find a way forward in a bipartisan way that would continue to provide fairness to the American people under Obamacare. There are a lot of opinions about what direction to go. There have been no decisions about what exactly we will do."
Eventually, House Republicans coalesced around a proposal to reopen the government and raise the debt limit with some Obamacare-related features to which Democrats hotly objected.
For instance, it would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from receiving the same employer-paid tax subsidies for health insurance received by other U.S. employees. And it would stop a fix in the Senate proposal meant to placate unions whose members must pay a fee under the new health care law.
Perhaps most objectionable to many, and not just Democrats, was a provision in the proposal that would limit the power President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew would have to take extraordinary measures to prevent a future default. In recent months, the Treasury has taken such financial steps to remain under the debt ceiling.
"Extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo the Senate's bipartisan progress with a bill that can't pass the Senate ... and won't pass the Senate," said Reid.
It wasn't just Democrats who opposed the House proposal. The conservative advocacy organization, the Heritage Action for America, said it would score the proposal as a "key vote," thus dinging the conservative credentials of any Republican who didn't vote "no."
House leadership had scheduled a Tuesday evening vote on its proposal, despite the fact that it had no chance of passing in the Senate. After it became clear it also had no chance of passing in the House following Heritage's grenade, it appeared to be another instance of sound and fury in the House, signifying nothing.
Obama Meets Democratic Leadership
President Obama met with House Democratic leaders at the White House Tuesday afternoon. Following the meeting, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House minority leader, struck an optimistic tone. Vaguely echoing something Winston Churchill once said of Americans, she said: "I have confidence, and I'm optimistic, because I believe that at the end of the day, they will do the right thing even if they have to have a — do contortions to get to that place. That's unfortunate, because it doesn't inspire confidence, but if that's how they have to get there, that's a path."
Wall Street Sounds An Alarm
Pelosi's optimism wasn't universally shared. The Wall Street credit rating service, Fitch Ratings, placed the U.S.'s AAA rating on a negative watch because of the debt ceiling uncertainty.
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Ke$ha Appears On Jimmy Kimmel & Discusses Ghost In Her Lady Part (VIDEO)
Quirky singer Ke$ha made an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and talked about her past lives and having a ghost exorcised from her va-jay-jay. The singer showed off her newly-trim body and killer legs, rocking newly multi-color locks! Last night Ke$ha told Jimmy Kimmel about the treacherous conditions she endured on her way to his ...
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Guess what... it's that time of year again!
It's NaNo! Or National Novel Writing Month!
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30 days.
50,000 words.
Here
I entered in 2009, 2010, and 2011. In 2009 and 2010 I wrote 50,000 words within the month, in 2011 I got to 450 words. I wasn't prepared then and I just didn't have the time. And then in 2012 I didn't have the motivation or the preparation really. But this year I am back for the challenge and starting to prepare. I know I can do it when I'm up to it because in 2009 I was at 50,000 in 15 days and kept my own stats. I even wrote 11,000 words in one day! Once again I am up for the challenge!
Can we do it?
Who's also preparing to do NaNo this year?
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Senate leaders appear close to US debt ceiling deal
Washington (AFP) - With a potential debt default looming, Senate leaders appear close to a deal to avoid a self-inflicted political calamity that would shred US credibility and rock the global economy.
Senate Republicans are scheduled to convene Tuesday at noon to review a plan being hammered out between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that would raise the US government's borrowing limit and end a partial federal government shutdown.
"I'm very optimistic we will reach an agreement that's reasonable in nature this week to reopen the government, pay the nation's bills and begin long-term negotiations to put our country on sound fiscal footing," Reid said at the conclusion of Monday's Senate session.
"We are not there yet, but tremendous progress" has been made, he said.
If Congress does not raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling by Thursday, the US government will begin to run out of money and could start defaulting on its obligations for the first time in history.
Reid's statement eased tension on the markets.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Monday 0.42 percent higher at 15,301.26, while the broader S&P 500 rose 0.41 percent to 1,710.14.
Asian markets broadly rose Tuesday, with Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong and Seoul all closing up. Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore were closed for public holidays.
"It's not like the US can't afford to pay its bills; it's more like its wife has just hidden its checkbook," said CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets equity strategist Nicholas Smith.
"Most fund managers appear to be more frightened of being left behind if the market rips than of the apocalyptic scenario of failing to fix the debt ceiling on time," he told Dow Jones Newswires.
But the dollar slipped against the yen: the greenback bought 98.40 yen in Tokyo trade against 98.67 yen in New York on Monday.
China and Japan -- which between them hold more than $2.4 trillion of US debt -- have urged Washington to get its house in order.
Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday that many US politicians "don't seem to understand well the magnitude of the international impact this problem could have" if the deadline is not met.
"We demand," said China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao in Beijing, "that the US side, as the issuing country of the major reserve currency and the largest economy in the world . . . should undertake its due responsibility. That is to uphold and develop the stability of international financial markets."
The United States "must address the fiscal stalemate, must raise the cap of the debt limit so as to keep the promise of no default of its Treasury bonds and keep the sound momentum of the US economy and avoid dragging (down) the world economy," he said.
Visiting British Finance Minister George Osborne was more optimistic. "I've got confidence in US policy makers that they're going to avoid this," he said.
Oil prices also slipped in Asia trading, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in November down 27 cents to $102.14 a barrel, and Brent North Sea crude for November down 27 cents to $110.77 a barrel.
Ken Hasegawa, energy desk manager at Newedge Brokerage in Japan, said that traders worry about the US economy even if a deal is struck.
With the partial government closure, economic data, including on jobs, has not been collected, making it "difficult to make bets either way."
Patience, patience please
"Everyone just needs to be patient," Reid said after the Senate session, adding that he hoped Tuesday "will be a bright day."
McConnell added: "I share his optimism that we are going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides."
Their comments were the strongest sign yet that Republicans and Democrats -- in the Senate at least -- want to end the crisis that has dented the country's international standing.
There is no guarantee however that the Reid-McConnell effort will succeed.
Should the Democratic-led Senate coalesce on an agreement, Republican Speaker John Boehner would still have to secure enough support from his conservative coalition in the House of Representatives to approve the measure and send it to President Barack Obama.
Boehner faces Tea Party-backed conservatives who oppose almost any deal that does not include provisions against the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), or fails to rein in federal spending.
Number two House Republican Eric Cantor said leadership has "not made any decision" yet on selling the potential deal to the rank-and-file.
"We will meet with our members in the morning and determine the best path forward," he said.
Yet with progress apparent, Obama on Monday canceled a meeting he had called with Reid, McConnell, Boehner and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
An official said the talks were put off to "allow leaders in the Senate time to continue making important progress towards a solution that raises the debt limit and reopens the government."
The Politico news organization reported that the putative deal would fund government through January 15 and raise the debt ceiling until February 7.
It would also launch long-term budget talks between Democrats and Republicans that would need to conclude by December 13, and it could delay a health care-related tax known as the reinsurance tax.
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Aaron Paul and Zen Freeman Explain the Origins of 'Dance Bitch' (Audio)
Before literally riding off into the desert, Jesse Pinkman (via actor Aaron Paul) uttered his signature one-liner a final time, this time on a dance track. “Dance Bitch,” a track produced by Tom Neville and Zen Freeman, featuring the voice of Paul, has become an unlikely underground sensation since its release on Rising Music following the end of Breaking Bad.
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How the track came to be is a tale almost as storied as how Heisenberg’s journey began -- early this past summer soon after Paul’s wedding, at which Freeman was the DJ.
“Zen’s been a friend of mine for years,” Paul says of Freeman. “Being that he’s a DJ and around so much dance music, we talked about the idea of doing something fun together.”
Inspired by Duck Sauce’s track “Barbra Streisand,” Freeman suggested Paul utter his signature phrase sporadically over a dance beat, as almost a proto-lyric. DJ, producer and occasional songwriter for Ke$ha, Neville was brought on to work with Freeman on the production.
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“We recorded it on an iPhone,” Freeman says of Paul’s vocal. “Then I processed it and bang! The first person we played it for was Aaron.”
“When I heard the end result I was floored,” says Paul “I love how it turned out.”
While Freeman says Ultra Records initially had expressed some interest in releasing the track, “Dance Bitch” is now out through Chris Lake’s Rising Music in a deal brokered by Freeman’s and Neville’s common management team at Three Six Zero Group.
Freeman, meanwhile, continues DJing in and around Hollywood and as a resident at Wet Republic at MGM Las Vegas. Paul has gone to London to star in a film with Christian Bale, directed by Ridley Scott.
“He does not want to be a pop star, he just loves music.” Freeman says of his friend and collaborator Paul. “And he’s quite possibly one of the nicest people I know.”
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Adobe Revel (for Windows 8)
For a long time I had my reservations about Adobe's photo syncing service, Revel, which previously went by the name Carousel. A roadblock to its success as I saw it was that, early on, the only mobile OS it supported was iOS, for which it duplicated the functionality of Apple's iCloud Photo Stream—which didn't carry Revel's $5.99-a-month fee. What iCloud didn't—and still doesn't—offer is Web-based galleries and video uploads. Not only does Revel have both those capabilities (though, unfortunately, the video bit isn't supported by the Windows 8 app), but there's also a free option. And Revel no longer locks you into Apple's ecosystem, with mobile clients for Android, the Web, and now Windows 8.
Install and Setup
As with any new-style Windows 8 apps, you get Revel from the Windows Store. Unfortunately, it only works on x86- and x64-based CPUs, not on the ARM-based RT tablets; it requires 2GB minimum RAM. I installed the app on a Surface Pro tablet with a dual-core 1.7GHz Core i5 processor and 4GB RAM, and it ran just as speedily as I could have wanted.
To use Revel, you need to create or sign in to an Adobe account, as the appealing welcome page notes. You can also sign in via Facebook. I mentioned the free account, but with that you're limited to just 50 photo uploads per month. The $5.99-a-month paid account allows unlimited uploads, and enables auto upload from the Windows 8 app.
Uploading
I was surprised to find that the Windows 8 Revel app can do an important thing that the iPhone app cannot: auto-import. For paid accounts only, however, this uploads photos as soon as they appear in a specified folder, the most likely candidate for which is the Pictures folder, where photos you shoot with the Windows 8 device are saved. So for Windows 8, Revel can act like iCloud Photo Stream. Of course, you could also set up a Windows 8 device to upload to SkyDrive. There's no camera mode to the Revel app, though, so you can't add photos from within the app.
Another big thing that the iPhone version of Revel can do that the Windows 8 version can't: Upload videos. Any video entries in your Windows 8 Revel app appear as still photos, and no editing or playing is possible. Adobe may take note that SkyDrive options in Windows 8.1 let users have their photos and videos automatically uploaded to a folder on SkyDrive, which, by the way, offers very respectable online galleries itself.
Viewing
Revel's very simple initial interface just shows two options, Library and Albums. The first lets you select among any Revel, Photoshop.com or remaining Carousel libraries attributed to your Adobe account login. Creating new libraries requires a paid account. Calling up the app bar presents options for adding photos to an Album, sharing to Facebook (more on that in the Sharing section below), deleting, viewing in "Card view" which presents a pleasing, swipeable post-card style view of your photos. You can also add media or change the sort order.
I could swipe a finger or thumb to quickly move through gallery photos, but I couldn't pinch to switch back to album view, as I could in the default Windows Pictures app. For high-res photos, the final sharp image took a couple seconds to crystallize, but the app doesn't show you that it's sill loading, so you might think you had a not perfectly focused shot. I also missed the ability to see any photo metadata—even the filename!
Far from offering a full social photo community and tagging like Flickr does, the Revel for Windows 8 app doesn't even let you add the comments and favorites as the service's iPhone and Web apps do.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
International Doppelgangers
Did you know that in Buenos Aires, there's a very funny actress and writer who had a hit TV show called Treinta Rock? Her name is Argen-TINA Fey. This game, led by host Ophira Eisenberg, contains before-and-after word puzzles that combine the name of a country with the name of a celebrity.
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