Injured military dog handler receives Bronze Star

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST ? The applause was deafening, and it grew even louder.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Williams sat quietly in his wheelchair onstage at the Joint Base Theater as about 500 servicemen and women showed their gratitude for the military working-dog handler.

?I wish a lot of other people in my position received the same treatment,? Williams said. ?Not everyone has such a caring unit, and I think that shows a lot of good faith from our group.?

Williams, 30, was honored Friday by the joint base, where he ceremoniously received the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Action Medal. He lost his left leg above the knee, sustained a compound fracture in his arm, and lost most of his teeth from a blast by an improvised explosive device in April during a mission outside the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

Williams, an Arizona native, was deployed from the 87th Security Squadron at the base and was serving his sixth tour. He was three months into a six-month deployment when he suffered his life-threatening injuries. A quick medical response from Army personnel at the scene saved Williams? life.

?If I was leaning a little more to the left or right, things could have been a lot different,? he said.

Williams, who joined the Air Force in 2000, began working as a military working-dog handler in 2009. He logged more than 470 combat mission hours, and participated in numerous dangerous compound-to-compound searches and air-assault missions in the Zharay, Maiwand and Panjwai districts of Afghanistan with his furry male companion Carly.

On April 25, the pair were clearing a suspicious area in a compound near a village in Maiwand. Williams and Carly had cleared the first floor, and the dog went upstairs on command to begin a search.

After Carly didn?t come downstairs, Williams went up to an unsearched area to retrieve his dog. The airman?s movement triggered the explosive. Williams? body was thrown down the steps, and he suffered a major laceration to his leg, among other injuries. Carly was unharmed. Two Army members applied tourniquets to Williams? extremities to stop the bleeding.

His life was saved, but his leg was later amputated.

?You, to us, are an inspiration,? Gen. Raymond Johns, Air Force commander of the Air Mobility Command, told Williams. ?Every day, you share pictures. You share stories of what you face. There are good days and bad days. And we look at you and we say, ?If you can do this, we can do anything.? We are proud of you. You are an inspiration to us, and it?s a great day to be here celebrating and giving you medals.?

In June, Williams was reunited with Carly after military personnel brought the dog to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to visit the airman as he recovered. Williams said he was offered the option to adopt Carly, but he declined, saying the dog is too valuable to the military.

?It wouldn?t be fair,? he said of the canine, whom some airmen call ?Carl.? ?It would be selfish of me to take the dog. He?s got a lot of life left in him, and it would be wasted if I took him away.?

Williams said he also doesn?t plan to retire quietly, despite his severe injuries.

?I don?t plan on being done yet,? he said. ?I?m not letting little Johnny Taliban tell me when I?m done.?

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49218115/ns/local_news-delaware_valley_pa_nj/

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Survey Reveals Professions That Need Coffee The Most ? CBS Detroit

DETROIT (WWJ) - As Michiganders celebrate National Coffee Day on Saturday, a new survey takes a?look at the latest coffee consumption trends brewing in the U.S. workplace.

The?survey, commissioned jointly by Dunkin? Donuts and CareerBuilder, found that food preparation and service workers are the professions that need coffee the most.

According to the results, the professions with the highest proportions of workers stating they are less productive without coffee vary widely. Those who need coffee to get through the workday the most are:

1. Food Preparation/Service Workers
2. Scientists
3. Sales Representatives
4. Marketing/Public Relations Professionals
5. Nurses (Nurse, Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant)
6. Editors/Writers/Media Workers
7. Business Executives
8. Teachers/Instructors (K-12)
9. Engineering Technicians/Support
10. IT Managers/Network Administrators

The survey results show that coffee plays a major role in helping professionals perk up at work, as 43 percent of those who drink coffee claim they are less productive without a cup of Joe.

The survey also shows other ways that coffee fits into people?s ?daily grind? in the workplace. For example: 63 percent of workers who drink coffee actually drink two cups or more each workday, while 28 percent drink three cups or more.

According to the survery, the majority of younger workers need coffee for energy and motivation, as 62 percent of workers aged 18 to 24 say they are less productive without coffee, with 58 percent of workers aged 25 to 34 making the same claim.

Workers in the Northeast are cup champions, with?55 percent?of workers claiming to drink at least one cup of coffee each workday. Geographically, 64 percent of workers in the Northeast drink at least one cup per day, compared to the South at 54 percent and the Midwest and West at 51 percent.

Overall, 43 percent of workers who drink coffee claim they are less productive without their cup of Joe. Forty-seven percent of female workers claim they are less productive without coffee, compared to 40 percent of male workers.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder among 4,152 U.S. workers ages 18 and over between August 13 and September 6, 2012.

Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/09/29/survey-reveals-professions-that-need-coffee-the-most/

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Omar Khadr back in Canada

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After a slew of court challenges demanding his homecoming and a decade in Guantanamo Bay, convicted terrorist Omar Khadr is back in Canada.

Khadr landed at CFB Trenton military base Saturday morning after being transported from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, aboard a U.S. government plane and was then brought to Millhaven maximum-security prison in Bath, Ont.

In a hastily organized news conference in Winnipeg, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Khadr is now in the hands of Canada's correctional services, which he is satisfied it can ?administer Omar Khadr's sentence in a manner which recognizes the serious nature of the crimes that he has committed and ensure the safety of Canadians is protected during incarceration.?

The 26-year-old Toronto-native struck a plea deal in 2010 that saw him sentenced to eight years in prison for five war crimes, including killing U.S. special forces medic Christopher Speer 10 years ago in an Afghan firefight.

He was captured in 2002 when he was 15.

Despite green-lighting the repatriation, Toews expressed several concerns about the case to the media Saturday.

These included that Khadr has "had very little contact with Canadian society and therefore will require substantial management in order to ensure safe reintegration" and that he has "participated in terrorist training, military operations, and meetings involving al-Qaida leadership."

Brydie Bethell, one of Khadr's Canadian lawyers, said her client is relieved to be back on Canadian soil, and described him as being ?in a state of disbelief and really pinching himself wondering when he's going to wake up from this dream.?

?This is someone the correctional authorities will think is a miracle. He's the kind of prisoner they hope everyone would be,? she added.

His advocates ? many who maintain he was a child soldier at the time of his capture ? were cheering his return Saturday.

They included Amnesty International Canada and the federal New Democrats and Liberals ? though the Grits didn't push for his repatriation when they were in power before 2006.

Ottawa could be on the hook for multi-million dollar payout after the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 Khadr's charter rights were violated during his time in U.S. custody.

A Canadian citizen and the last Western detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Khadr had been petitioning the Canadian government for his return since as early as 2005.

As per a diplomatic agreement signed between the U.S. and Canada in 2010 regarding Khadr's repatriation, his personal transfer application landed on Toews' desk in March 2011 and the minister received the formal U.S. application in April.

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Source: http://www.intelligencer.ca/2012/09/29/omar-khadr-back-in-canada-reports

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Animals suspected in spread of new virus

LONDON (AP) ? Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

So far, there are no signs the virus will be as deadly as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 global outbreak.

In Geneva, WHO spokesman Glenn Thomas told reporters Friday that so far the signs are that the virus is "not easily transmitted from person to person" ? but analyses are ongoing.

Global health officials suspect two victims from the Middle East may have caught it from animals.

"It's a logical possibility to consider any animals present in the region in large numbers," said Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Biologists now need to go into the area and take samples from any animals they can get their hands on, including camels and goats," he said. Baric said it was crucial to find out how widespread the virus is in animals and what kind of contact might be risky for people.

Baric suggested bats might be spreading the virus directly to humans since the two confirmed infections happened months apart. "If there was an established transmission pattern from other animals, we probably would have seen a lot more cases," he said.

The World Health Organization said it is considering the possibility the new coronavirus sickened humans after direct contact with animals. The agency is now working with experts in the Middle East to figure out how the two confirmed cases got infected but could not share details until the investigation was finished.

One patient was a Saudi Arabian man who died several months ago while the other is a Qatari national who traveled to Saudi Arabia before falling ill and is currently in critical but stable condition in a London hospital.

Earlier this week, WHO issued a global alert asking doctors to be on guard for any potential cases of the new respiratory virus, which also causes kidney failure.

Saudi officials have already warned that next month's annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, which brings millions to Saudi Arabia from all around the world, could allow the virus to spread. As a precautionary measure, they are advising pilgrims to keep their hands clean and wear masks in crowded places.

Experts said knowing where a virus comes from provides clues on how to stop it.

"This means we could prevent the fire before it starts instead of rushing towards it with fire trucks and water hoses afterwards," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota.

Osterholm said it was possible bats had simply passed on the virus from other animals and that there could be a complicated transmission chain that ultimately ended in humans.

Viruses reproduce as they infect animals and people, giving them more chances to evolve into a deadlier version.

"We don't know enough about coronaviruses to predict which mutations might make them more lethal or transmissible," Osterholm said. "But you don't want to tempt genetic fate with microbes because you're bound to lose most times."

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Michael Casey in Dubai and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/animals-suspected-spread-virus-073256244.html

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Facebook Updates Messenger For iOS With New Chat UI, iOS 6 And iPhone 5 Support

Facebook just launched a new version of its Messenger app for iOS. Messenger, the company's stand-alone chat app, got a bit of a user interface refresh with this update, as well as a speed boost and official support for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5's larger display. Today's update comes just a bit more than a week after Facebook also launched an update to its Messenger app for Android?and, for the most part, this update brings the iOS app's design on par with the Android app.

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TIM COOK: 'We're Extremely Sorry' - Business Insider

Tim Cook just released a statement aimed at customers apologizing for the Apple maps mess.

In the letter he says, Apple is "extremely sorry" for releasing a subpar product and "we are doing everything we can to make Maps better."

He even tells customers to try other apps while Apple fixes its maps: "You can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app."

We're floored. This is very unlike Apple. But, it's a new era at Apple with Tim Cook in charge. And really, he didn't have much wiggle room. Apple was and is getting hammered over its faulty maps app.

Here's the letter:

To our customers,

At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better.

We launched Maps initially with the first version of iOS. As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps. In order to do this, we had to create a new version of Maps from the ground up.

There are already more than 100 million iOS devices using the new Apple Maps, with more and more joining us every day. In just over a week, iOS users with the new Maps have already searched for nearly half a billion locations. The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback we have received from you.

While we?re improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app.

Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard.

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apologizes-for-apple-maps-2012-9

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Reese Witherspoon welcomes 3rd baby to the world

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Reese Witherspoon has given birth to her third child, naming him after a place close to her heart.

Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, Witherspoon's publicist, said Thursday that "Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today. Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled."

The 36-year-old "Legally Blonde" and "Walk the Line" star lived in Tennessee when she was young.

Witherspoon is already a mom to Ava, 13, and Deacon, 8, from her prior marriage to Ryan Phillippe. Toth is an agent for Creative Artists Agency.

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LA billionaire covets sports teams to promote health

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bio-tech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest man in Los Angeles, intends to make a bid for sports and real estate firm Anschutz Entertainment Group and wants to bring a National Football League team back to the second most populous U.S. city.

The 60-year-old sports fan, a surgeon who started and sold two pharmaceutical companies for a combined $8.6 billion, told Reuters in an interview this week that he wants to use Anschutz concert tours and sports events, and his NFL team's players, to encourage L.A. school children to adopt healthier lifestyles.

"The NFL can do so much for this city," said Soon-Shiong in an interview at his west Los Angeles office. "Kids really rally around sports and entertainment and it could be a major catalyst to demonstrate what you can do in life by living better."

Soon-Shiong grew up in South Africa, where he became a doctor in his early 20s and treated tuberculosis victims. After moving to the United States and becoming a surgeon at UCLA, he developed innovative methods to treat diabetes and cancer patients.

The sale of his two companies for $8.6 billion made him the wealthiest person in Los Angeles, according to Forbes magazine, although he still is not a household name in the city.

Under his plan, players would serve as mentors, encouraging students to eat better and exercise more. The most sophisticated methods used to deal with sports injuries could be shared with local doctors.

"It's important to motivate students in middle and high school. That's when you can help reduce diabetes and obesity that cause illness," he said. "Maybe we can turn that illness to wellness."

If he's successful in L.A., Soon-Shiong said he intends to make it a national program.

FORMING INVESTMENT TEAM

Sources say the billionaire is assembling a group of other Los Angeles business and civic leaders to buy AEG. Soon-Shiong did not discuss details of his bid.

Sources also said his buyer group includes private equity firm Guggenheim Partners, which this spring led a group that bought the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team for $2 billion.

AEG, which is owned by Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz, said on September 19 it had hired Blackstone Advisory Partners to sell the company. It is expected to fetch $6 billion to $8 billion, according to investment bankers with knowledge of its assets.

Separately, Los Angeles for years has wanted to bring back a professional football team, and Soon-Shiong acknowledged that he has met with the NFL to lay out his plan to buy a team.

AEG owns the Los Angeles Kings pro hockey franchise, the L.A. Galaxy soccer club and a 20 percent stake in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. It owns or operates sports and entertainment arenas worldwide, including the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and promotes concerts and other live action events.

Soon-Shiong's family foundation has committed $1 billion to transform healthcare and intends to create a national health superhighway by which doctors can share biotech information and other data to improve diagnosis and care.

His foundation gave $135 million to the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica and $100 million to reopen Martin Luther King Hospital, which serves lower income patients in south Los Angeles.

A basketball fan who played in pickup games until tearing his Achilles tendon three years ago, Soon-Shiong owns a 5 percent stake in the Lakers, and he said he has become friends with superstar Kobe Bryant and other players, whom he sees as role models for young fans.

In March, he and his actress wife, Michelle Chan, endowed the Chan Soon-Shiong Center for Sports Science at Saint John's, which will focus on sports medicine, physical therapy and stem cell research to help heal injuries.

It works with sports medicine doctors, including the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic that treats the Kings, Lakers and L.A. Dodgers.

Saint John's announced the sports science center at a dinner honoring AEG president Tim Leiweke in March, six months before Soon-Shiong showed his interest in the conglomerate.

(Editing by Peter Henderson and Jim Loney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/la-billionaire-covets-sports-teams-promote-health-110158087--nfl.html

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Honey bees fight back against Varroa

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is a major contributor to the recent mysterious death of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology finds that specific proteins, released by damaged larvae and in the antennae of adult honey bees, can drive hygienic behavior of the adults and promote the removal of infected larvae from the hive.

V. destructor sucks the blood (hemolymph) of larval and adult bees leaving them weakened and reducing the ability of their immune systems to fight off infections. Not that honey bees have strong immune systems in the first place since they have fewer immunity genes than solitary insects such as flies and moths. These tiny mites can also spread viral disease between hosts. This double onslaught is thought to be a significant contributor to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

But all is not lost -- honey bees have evolved a way to fight back: hygienic behavior where diseased or parasitized larvae are removed from their brood cells, and Varroa-sensitive hygienic behavior which they use to reduce the number of reproductive mites on remaining larvae.

To find exactly how bees respond to hive infections, researchers from Canada looked at the natural behavioral of bees in the presence of damaged larvae and compared this to protein differences in the larvae and adults. After scanning 1200 proteins the team found that several proteins, including LOC552009 (of unknown function but similar to ApoO), found in the antennae of adults were associated with both uncapping brood cells and the removal of larvae. Other proteins were involved in olfaction or in signal transduction, probably helping the adults find infected larvae amongst a brood.

In damaged larvae, transglutaminase, a protein involved in blood clotting, was upregulated, which appeared to be a key component in regulating the adult's behavior. Other proteins indicated adaptations to help fight infection, including chitin biosynthesis and immune responses.

Dr Leonard Foster from CHIBI at the University of British Columbia, who led this research said, "Bee keepers have previously focused on selecting bees with traits such as enhanced honey production, gentleness and winter survival. We have found a set of proteins which could be used to select colonies on their ability to resist Varroa mite infestation and can be used to find individuals with increased hygienic behavior. Given the increasing resistance of Varroa to available drugs this would provide a natural way of ensuring honey farming and potentially survival of the species."

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Read More - ~ Is That Your Child

Though I've been out of the genealogy research loop for a while, there was a time when I was doing extensive family history research, particularly on my mom's side of the family. My quest took me from Georgia to Washington, D.C. where I combed through piles of archives and census records. Eventually, all the information I collected during that time found their greater purpose as my maternal relatives gathered themselves for another fight to have their ancestral land in Harris Neck, Georgia returned to them. By way of an introduction to Harris Neck and my family tree, I wanted to share a few posts from my old blog Passing Plecker. This is part one of a two part series I wrote in 2009.

Part One: Who You f'uh?

When my grandfather died many years ago, I remember falling into a fitful sleep on the living room floor of my grandparents' house in Savannah. I woke up the next morning with the vague memory of a dream about my Grampa and with an overwhelming need to find out everything I could about my family's history. The grief I felt about his death left me feeling rootless. It was as if someone had taken away vital link to my identity. I'm not exactly sure why that particular feeling informed my grief, but I knew that digging up my family tree would help. My grandfather's own father outlived him by quite a few years, but he never really spoke much about his past and he had been estranged from his children for many years. So when Great Granddaddy passed, all the questions I had were left unanswered once again. Since I didn't have very many links left to track down my Grampa's roots, I began my obsessive search with my Gramma's side of the family.

I spent pretty much all of my childhood summers in Savannah with my grandparents. There, I heard about people in my family who spoke Geechee and heard that same word applied to my inhuman consumption of rice. I could eat it by the bag full. (I still can though age and an expanding behind have considerably curbed my consumption) It was this word, Geechee, that became the central point to my understanding of Gramma's family and my own heritage. One summer, after my Grampa's passing, I took a trip to Harris Neck where my grandmother was born (the country as she called it), armed with a notebook and her ancient tape recorder ready to capture family history straight from the mouths of my relations.

Over a plates of freshly caught whiting covered in hot sauce with a slice of white bread, Wilson Moran and his mother Mary told me the story of Harris Neck. Mr. Moran is a self motivated researcher with an encyclopedic knowledge of Harris Neck's history. He told me that Harris Neck had been a thriving, self sufficient community of fisherman who lived close to the land which had been allotted to their ancestors during Reconstruction. The town was isolated with no bridges or real significant roads connecting it to the wider world. It had its own sheriff (one of my relatives as it happened) and post office.

The only things people had to leave the community for were cloth and flour. Wilson said that if you came to Harris Neck, part of the customary greeting would be the question "Who you f'uh?" which translates roughly to who are your people?/who are you related too? With a single reply of your kinship ties to the community, one could be instantly recognized as family. It strikes me now as I recall this, how that custom trumps all of the superficial racialized methods of marking kinship.

Toward the end of our visit, Mary shared with us a song, "in African" that her mother taught her as a little girl. It was this song that was the subject of a documentary called "The Language You Cry In." Because of the song in African Mary's mother Amelia taught her as as child, scholars were able to trace its back to the specific people in Sierra Leone with whom it began. It turned out to be a burial song of the Mende people. That song tied Harris Neck and its descendants directly to a specific pre-slavery homeland. Harris Neck was a living, breathing tie to America's complex and bloody history.

That's why what ultimately happened to the town is devastating.

(Part two will be posted this Friday)

Source: http://www.isthatyourchild.com/2012/09/though-ive-been-out-of-genealogy.html

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'Moon River' singer Andy Williams dies at 84

By Bob Thomas and Jim Salter, The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS -- Andy Williams, the silky-voiced, clean-cut crooner, whose hit recording "Moon River" and years of popular Christmas TV shows brought him fans the world over has died, his publicist said. He was 84.

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Andy Williams performs during the 40th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony at The New York Marriott Marquis on June 18, 2009.

Williams died Tuesday night at his home in Branson following a yearlong battle with bladder cancer, his Los Angeles-based publicist, Paul Shefrin, said Wednesday.

With an easy style and a mellow voice that President Ronald Reagan once termed "a national treasure," Williams proved ideal for television. "The Andy Williams Show," which lasted in various formats from 1957 to 1971, featured Williams alternately performing his stable of easy-listening ballads and bantering casually with his guest stars. He received 18 gold and three platinum albums over his long career and was nominated for five Grammy awards. He released an autobiography in 2009, "Moon River and Me: A Memoir."

It was on that show that Williams ? who launched his own career as part of an all-brother quartet ? introduced the world to the original four singing Osmond Brothers of Utah. Their younger sibling Donny also made his debut on Williams' show, in 1963 when he was 6 years old.

Check out a sampling of Williams' music in this Spotify playlist:

Four decades later, the Osmonds and Williams would find themselves in close proximity again, sharing Williams' theater in Branson, Mo., during the 2003 season.

The singer's unflappable manner on television and in concert mirrored his offstage demeanor.

"I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be," he once said. "My trouble is, I'm not constructed temperamentally along those lines."

Williams' clean-cut persona, which made him a popular act in conservative Branson, also carried over into his personal life. He was connected with scandal only once ? indirectly ? when his ex-wife, former Las Vegas showgirl Claudine Longet, shot her lover, skiing champion Spider Sabich, to death in 1976. The Rolling Stones mocked the tragedy in the song "Claudine."

Longet, who said it was an accident, spent only a week in jail, and Williams provided support for her and their children, Noelle, Christian and Robert.

Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, on Dec. 3, 1927, Howard Andrew Williams began performing with his older brothers Dick, Bob and Don in the local Presbyterian church choir when he was 8. Their father, a postal worker, was the choirmaster.

Soon after, the Williams Brothers Quartet landed a regular spot on Des Moines radio station WHO's Iowa Barn Dance. The show quickly brought attention from Chicago, Cincinnati and Hollywood.

They joined Bing Crosby in recording the hit "Swinging on a Star" in 1944 for Crosby's film "Going My Way," and Andy, barely a teenager, was picked to dub Lauren Bacall's voice on a song for the film "To Have and Have Not." His voice stayed in the film until the preview, when it was cut because it didn't sound like Bacall's.

Later the brothers worked with Kay Thompson, a singer who had taken a position as vocal coach at MGM studios, working with Judy Garland, June Allyson and others.

After three months of training, Thompson and the Williams Brothers broke in their show at the El Rancho Room in Las Vegas to a huge ovation. They drew rave reviews in New York, Los Angeles and across the nation, earning a peak of $25,000 a week.

Williams, analyzing their success, once said: "Somehow we managed to work up and sustain an almost unbearable pitch of speed and rhythm."

After five years, the three older brothers, who were starting their own families, had tired of the constant travel and left to pursue other careers.

Williams initially struggled as a solo act and was so broke at one point that he resorted to eating food intended for his two dogs.

"I had no money for food, so I ate it," he recalled in 2001, "and it actually was damned good."

A two-year TV stint on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" and a contract with Cadence Records turned things around.

"The Andy Williams Show" followed, along with a host of gold albums and records. Among his hit records: "Canadian Sunset," "The Hawaiian Wedding Song," "Dear Heart," "Days of Wine and Roses," the theme from the movie "Love Story" and "Charade."

After leaving TV, Williams headed back on the road, where his many Christmas shows and albums made him a huge draw during the holidays. One year in Des Moines, however, a snowstorm kept the customers away, and the band's equipment failed to reach Chicago in time for the next night's show, forcing the musicians to borrow instruments from a high school band.

"No more tours," Williams decreed.

He decided to settle in Branson, the self-proclaimed "live entertainment capital of the country," with its dozens of theaters featuring live music, comedy and magic acts.

When he arrived in 1992, the town was dominated by country music performers, but Williams changed that, building the classy, $13 million Andy Williams Moon River Theater in the heart of the city's entertainment district and performing two shows a night, six days a week, nine months of the year. Only in recent years did he begin to cut back to one show a night.

Not surprisingly, his most popular time of the year was Christmas, although he acknowledged that not everyone in Hollywood accepted his move to the Midwest.

"The fact is most of my friends in L.A. still think I'm nuts for coming here," he told The Associated Press in 1998.

He and his second wife, the former Debbie Haas, divided their time between homes in Branson and Palm Springs, where he spent his leisure hours on the golf course when Branson's theaters were dark during the winter months following Christmas.

Retirement was not on his schedule. As he told the AP in 2001: "I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage."

He continued to perform even after announcing his bladder cancer diagnosis in 2011.

Williams is survived by his wife, Debbie, and his three children, Robert, Noelle and Christian.

Source: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2012/09/26/14111130-singer-andy-williams-dies-at-84-after-battle-with-cancer?lite

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NYPD Launches ?Anti-Apple Picking Campaign? To Protect iPhone Owners From Thefts

As the iPhone 5 went on sale last Friday, the impressive number of stolen Apple products in New York City should continue to grow. So far this year, the NYPD statistics state that 11,447 devices were reported as stolen to the police department ? an increase of 40 percent year over year, representing 3,280 additional thefts. It has launched an initiative called the "Anti-Apple Picking Campaign" in order to turn the tide.

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Dow drops 100 after Fed official's warning

NEW YORK (AP) ? A quiet day on Wall Street turned into the worst sell-off in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the bank's effort to boost economic growth would work.

Charles Plosser, president of the Fed's Philadelphia branch, told an audience Tuesday that the Fed's effort to support the economy would likely fall short of its goals.

The speech probably startled some investors who had faith in the Fed's latest plan, said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer Harris Private Bank. The plan includes buying $40 billion in mortgage bonds each month until the economy improves.

"So many investors have bought into the illusion," he said. "And it was like Plosser pulled up the curtain on the Wizard of Oz."

The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 15.30 points, its fourth straight decline, to close at 1,441.59. The 1.05 percent drop was the worst for the S&P since June 25.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 101.37 points to close at 13,457.55. Caterpillar tugged the Dow down, losing 4 percent. The world's largest maker of bulldozers and other heavy equipment said late Monday that slower economic growth around the world dampened its earnings forecast. Its stock sank $3.86 to $87.01.

Stocks enjoyed one of their biggest rallies of the year Sept. 6 after Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, laid out a plan to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to lower borrowing costs for Europe's debt-burdened countries.

A week later, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced the central bank's open-ended mortgage bond-buying program and pledged to hold interest rates at super-low levels into 2015.

The S&P soared to a nearly five-year closing high of 1,465 the next day, Sept. 14, but has drifted lower since and fallen back almost to where it was before Bernanke's announcement.

On Tuesday, three economic reports gave the stock market a nudge in morning trading. House prices rose in major cities for a third straight month, and a gauge of consumer confidence came in surprisingly high.

More surprising than those two economic reports was the Richmond Federal Reserve's strong reading on regional manufacturing, a recent trouble spot, said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors.

"Look at that. There were three data points on the economy and we crushed them," said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors.

But sagging profits could drag on the stock market in the coming weeks, Orlando said. Caterpillar joined a growing collection of companies that have lowered their earnings forecasts. FedEx, a bellwether of world trade, said Sept. 18 that shipping has sunk to recession-like levels. Railroad giant Norfolk Southern has also warned that falling shipments and sinking coal prices will likely drag down its earnings.

Wall Street analysts now estimate that corporate profits will be lower this quarter than a year earlier. That would be the first such drop in three years.

The Nasdaq composite index dropped 43.05 points to 3,117.73. Google's stock touched an all-time high in early trading, clearing $764, but closed the trading day at $749.16.

Apple, the largest public company in the world, lost $17.25, or 2.5 percent, to close at $673.54. It has lost more than $26 in two days. Apple is the biggest component in the S&P but is not included in the Dow, helping explain why the S&P suffered a greater percentage decline than the Dow's 0.8 percent.

The closely watched Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index of national house prices increased 1.2 percent in July compared with the same month in 2011. Prices rose from the previous month in all 20 major cities tracked by the report for the third month in a row.

The Conference Board said its gauge of consumer confidence shot to a seven-month high of 70.3 in September, up from 61.3 in August and far higher than the 63 analysts were expecting. People surveyed said they were more optimistic about the job market.

The Federal Reserve's manufacturing index, which surveys companies in the central Atlantic region, increased after shrinking for three months as businesses turned more optimistic. Companies said they anticipate more orders and shipments even as employment dips. The index turned positive in September after a negative reading in August.

Treasury prices rose as traders shifted money into safe assets. The 10-year Treasury yield, the benchmark for mortgages and other loans, dipped to 1.67 percent from 1.71 percent late Monday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dow-drops-100-fed-officials-warning-204425180--finance.html

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Home prices rise for sixth month, a sign of recovery

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home prices rose for a sixth straight month in July in the latest sign of a sustainable housing market recovery, while a jump in consumer confidence this month offered a harbinger that Americans are ready to loosen their spending.

Six years after its collapse, economists believe the housing market has turned a corner.

Two separate reports on Tuesday showed that home prices rose in July, though the gains were not as strong as the previous month. That follows recent data that home resales and groundbreaking on new properties rose in August, while business sentiment among homebuilders hit a more than six-year high this month.

The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas rose 0.4 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis. Economists had expected a gain of 0.9 percent, which would have matched June's advance. Case Shiller is one of the most closely watched barometers of the U.S. housing market.

On a non-adjusted basis, prices were up 1.6 percent.

The gain in house prices supports the view that "even with the broader economic recovery struggling to gain traction, the housing recovery is sustainable," wrote Paul Diggle, property economist at Capital Economics.

Housing has regained its footing at the same time as the broader economic recovery has lost traction. The economy grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate in the second quarter, and economists say it is not likely to fare much better in the current quarter.

Larry Kantor, head of research at Barclays Capital, said housing has the potential to give a stronger boost to the U.S. economy in 2013 as steadily rising prices reassure Americans that the housing crash is past.

"We'd not previously had a decline in house prices since the 1940s so we don't know for sure, but six months of price rises may deter people from renting," he said.

Earlier this month the Federal Reserve unleashed an aggressive stimulus program in which it will buy $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities a month until the job market sees sustained improvement.

The Fed's announcement pushed mortgage interest rates to new record lows last week, according to data from mortgage finance provider Freddie Mac.

Still, housing faces a number of hurdles, including tight lending standards for mortgages, a large number of underwater homeowners, and a large number of foreclosures still in the pipeline.

OUT OF THE WOODS

U.S. stocks were modestly higher in the early afternoon, with housing shares up 0.4 percent. The housing index is up more than 14 percent for September so far.

The day's data helped drive down prices of Treasuries, a traditional haven from risk, as it reduced worries about slowing global growth.

Also on Tuesday, consumer confidence climbed in September to the highest level in seven months as Americans were more optimistic about the job market and income prospects.

The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes rose to a reading of 70.3 from an upwardly revised 61.3 in August. It was the highest level since February and topped economists' expectations for a reading of 63, according to a Reuters poll.

With consumer spending accounting for two-thirds of economic activity, analysts are keen to see the upbeat attitudes translate into more buying.

"It does bode well for spending down the road," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.

Cheerier consumers, combined with the recent rise in equities markets, could help President Barack Obama's reelection chances, with campaigning on both sides focusing on the health of the economy.

The housing market is considered a key sector of the economy.

"Housing is out of the woods and it should be making a contribution to the overall economy going forward," David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor's, told Reuters Insider.

Compared with a year ago, prices in the 20 cities were up 1.2 percent, the biggest gain since August 2010, according to the S&P/Case Shiller index.

Prices were lower than a year ago in only four cities, with Atlanta faring the worst, down nearly 10 percent. Hard-hit Phoenix continued to rebound, with a gain of 16.6 percent.

Separately, the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency home price index showed prices rose 0.2 percent in July compared with a 0.6 percent rise in June.

Analysts cautioned that home prices could decelerate somewhat through the rest of the year as the traditional summertime buying boost wears off.

Economists expect prices will rise 1 percent this year and 2.5 percent next year, according to a Reuters poll done at the beginning of September before the Fed announced its latest quantitative easing program.

In the consumer confidence data, the Conference Board's expectations index climbed to 83.7 from 71.1, while the present situation index gained to 50.2 from 46.5.

Consumers were more optimistic on both the current and short-term outlook for the labor market and had a more favorable view on their income prospects in the next six months.

Consumers also felt better about price increases with expectations for inflation in the coming 12 months down to 5.8 percent from 6 percent.

(Additional reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Atossa Abrahamian; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-prices-consumer-confidence-gain-145737113--business.html

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Japan protests as Chinese ships enter disputed waters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Four Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, prompting an official protest from Tokyo and renewed diplomatic efforts to cool tensions between the rivals.

In a move that could further complicate the territorial row that is threatening relations between Asia's biggest economies, a group of fishermen from Taiwan -- which also claims the rocky isles -- said as many as 100 boats escorted by 10 Taiwan Coast Guard vessels were headed for the area.

China's Xinhua news agency said in the morning that two civilian surveillance ships were undertaking a "rights defense" patrol near the islands, citing the State Oceanic Administration, which controls the ships. Two fishery patrol vessels were also detected inside waters claimed by Japan.

Japan lodged an official protest.

By afternoon, all four Chinese vessels had moved further away, the Japanese Coast Guard said.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply after Japan bought the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, earlier this month, sparking anti-Japan protests across China.

"In recent days, Japan has constantly provoked incidents concerning the Diaoyu islands issue, gravely violating China's territorial sovereignty," Xinhua reported.

The ship patrols were intended to exercise China's "administrative jurisdiction" over the islands, it said.

"Following the relevant laws of the People's Republic of China, (the ships) again carried out a regular rights defense patrol in our territorial waters around the Diaoyu islands."

Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by China's memories of Japan's military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s and present rivalry over regional influence and resources.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai will visit China on Monday to discuss Sino-Japanese relations with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, the Foreign Ministry said.

TAIWAN COMPLICATION

The arrival of Taiwan vessels in the area could complicate the potentially fraught game of cat-and-mouse being played near the islands, where mainland China has launched an effort to assert sovereignty by sending government ships into the disputed waters.

Taiwan television showed boats bound for the islands leaving Suao port in heavy rain, sporting banners and large Taiwan flags. News reports said bad weather could delay their arrival, expected overnight on Monday.

The Taiwan fishing group said their boats would sail around the islands to reassert their right to fish there and did not rule out trying to land on the rocky isles.

Taiwan Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu told parliament that the military was ready for any contingency, but did not elaborate.

Taiwan has traditionally had friendly ties with Japan, but the two countries have long squabbled over fishing rights in the area. Beijing deems Taiwan to be an illegitimate breakaway province, and the two sides both argue they have inherited China's historic sovereignty over the islands, which are near rich fishing grounds and potentially huge oil and gas reserves.

The latest flare-up in tensions over the islands comes at a time when both China and Japan confront domestic political pressures. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government faces an election in months, adding pressure on him not to look weak on China.

China's Communist Party is preoccupied with a leadership turnover, with President Hu Jintao due to step down as party leader at a congress that could open as soon as next month.

On Monday, Noda told reporters before leaving for New York to address the U.N. General Assembly that he would stress the importance of solving problems between nations by the rule of law, but that he had no plan now to mention specific issues in his speech to the world body.

Some 40 Japanese troops and 2,200 U.S. Marines, meanwhile, are conducting a joint drill on and around the U.S. territory of Guam aimed at improving their ability to defend remote islands, Japan's defense ministry said. The exercise runs from August 21 through September 26.

Worries are simmering that the row could hurt the economic ties that closely bind China and Japan. China is Japan's largest trading partner. In 2011, their bilateral trade grew 14.3 percent in value to a record $345 billion.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka, Antoni Slodkowski and Dominic Lau, Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo, Chris Buckley in Beijing and Pichi Chuang in Suao, Taiwan; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-surveillance-ships-enter-waters-near-disputed-islands-020225596.html

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IOA polls on Nov 25, Randhir and Chautala vie for top post

New Delhi, Sep 24

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will hold its elections Nov 25 with secretary general Randhir Singh most likely taking on newly elected chairman of India Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) Abhay Chautala for the post of president.

While Randhir has already made his intentions clear, Chautala told IANS Monday that he would indeed contest for the post of president.

"I will contest the elections. If I am given a responsibility, I would certainly carry it out," said Chautala on the sidelines of the IOA executive board meeting.

After the meeting, IOA's acting president Vijay Kumar Malhotra referred to the correspondence between the national Olympic committee and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and said he believed in perfect relations with the international body, which wanted to know election date by Sep 25.

The term of the IOA ends Oct 10 and to set in motion the poll process a General Body Meeting (GBM) has been called for Oct 18.

To ensure that the electoral college consists of a majority of the national sports federations, as directed by the IOC, the IOA will form a standing committee.

"The IOC had sought information on two issues, one the date of election and the other to ensure National Sports Federations (NSF), whose disciplines are included in Olympic Games, got the majority in the electoral college," Malhotra told reporters at the olympic Bhawan after the meeting.

"The Executive Board today unanimously decided to hold the election on Nov 25. And on the issue of electoral college, a standing committee will be formed to ensure that the NSFs whose disciplines are part of the Olympic Games enjoy majority voting rights," he said.

"The General Body Meeting will decide on the poll procedure. We will appoint a returning officer, who will be a retired judge of a high court or the Supreme Court. We will hold the elections in a transparent way under the IOA constitution and IOC rules and guidelines," he added.

An official each from IOC and Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) will be appointed as observers for the elections.

Malhotra said the General Body Meeting was called on Oct 18 because the next hearing of the case in Delhi High Court on the election procedure is slated for Oct 15.

"The next hearing of the case is Oct 15. We have asked the court that the National Sports Development Code is not a law. We are waiting for the court's reply and will then take a call on the election process," he said.

Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a329795.html

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Consistency During Singing Requires Proper Training

The trick to being considered a proficient singer is to attain consistency. In performance after performance you should be able to have consistent, sweet tone quality throughout your whole range. When you take singing classes, check out some things before signing up. Ask what kinds of vocal exercises you will be given -- and more importantly whether there will be practical demonstration or just instructions. The response you get will be a giveaway as to the reliability of the music school. The most reliable will have teachers who will actually sing out the required exercises or notes to help you understand how to go about it.

Hitting high notes is a matter of forming a new vocal chord coordination which will make high notes effortless. The key here is to develop technique to make the high notes easy for you. This is very possible with the right training. You'll be able to sing quietly with a sweet angelic tone and a more aggressive edge when you become familiar with the way your resonance shifts as you sing up your vocal range. Add to that you'll be able to sing powerfully by mixing more of your chest and mouth resonance into the tone. Top of the line vocal music lessons will ensure that you learn how to be flexible with your tone.

Practice with the right exercises and all the pieces of the singing puzzle will come together and you will find yourself singing with an incredibly consistent tone. It takes a highly experienced teacher to understand whether you need vocal strength exercises that will allow you to re-program your voice to produce tremendous power on demand, that too with ease. Expanding your vocal range may take time and practice to achieve but it is an invaluable vocal skill that will radically affect the potential of your singing voice. Expanding your vocal range could be the difference between mediocre vocal quality and outstanding power and projection. Whether you sing in a group or solo, your voice should sound its best when you perform. Savvy training ensures that.

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China delays diplomatic reception with Japan

BEIJING | Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:54am EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic ties with Japan as a result of a territorial row between the two countries, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

A dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, known as the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan, erupted into a full-scale diplomatic row this month after the Tokyo government bought the islands from private Japanese landowners.

China's foreign ministry had hinted on Friday that events marking the 1972 switch in diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China would be affected, when it said "many plans had been ruined" by the Tokyo government's actions.

Japanese media had said China was likely to go ahead with the large-scale ceremony on Thursday in Beijing.

On Sunday, Xinhua quoted an official of the China People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) that there "would be a change", when asked by a reporter when the ceremony would take place.

"The Japanese government.... insisted on 'buying' the Diaoyu Islands, which was illegal and severely damaged China-Japan relations and ruined the atmosphere of the 40th anniversary," Xinhua said.

The row sparked four days of sometimes violent protests in Chinese cities last week, with Japanese businesses shutting hundreds of stores and factories.

Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by China's bitter memories of Japan's military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s and present rivalry over resources. The seabed around the islands is believed to be energy-rich.

(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Ron Popeski)

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Enjoy Most Memorable Elephant Safari In Corbett!

The Corbett National Park is one of the most beautiful wildlife sanctuaries of India. It is home to the reclusive tiger besides a large variety of other carnivores such as the leopard and several other types of cats that include the jungle cat and fishing cat. Here, youll find the sloth and the Himalayan black bear, jackals, Himalayan civet cats, mongoose, otters, porcupines, different species of deer and elephants, as well. The park is home to different species of reptiles.

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A safari in Corbett brings you closer to the towering and ancient trees. You can listen to the chirping of birds in the quiet o jungle. You can hear gurgling rivers and see herds of chital deer prancing away. You can go on a jeep safari in the morning or the afternoon from one of the wildlife properties. These are The Corbett Hideaway, The River View Retreat and The Hideaway River Lodge. These properties are all geared for your experience of a safari in Corbett and youll be given full assistance so that you can enjoy the experience.

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