Rays push White Sox to the brink

By RICK GANO

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 6:10 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2012

CHICAGO (AP) - Their clubhouse strewn with boxes, their season on the brink of ending after a 10th loss in 12 games, the Chicago White Sox headed out Sunday on their final trip.

They had hoped the three games in Cleveland would be a time for celebration instead of reflection.

Now they need a lot of help and a three-game winning streak.

"Obviously we're up against it now, but we'll continue to play," Chicago's Paul Konerko said after a 6-2 loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday dropped them three games behind Detroit in the AL Central with three to play.

"That's what we do and what we've done all year. It doesn't look good obviously. ... You never know what can happen," Konerko added. "The main thing is to get us in order and go win a ball game tomorrow."

The White Sox held at least a share of the division lead from July 24 until Wednesday and had not been this far back since late May. Their starting pitching has come up short but mainly their downfall has stemmed from an inability to get the big hit with runners on base. They have hit .153 (13 for 85) with runners in scoring position during the dozen-game slide.

"We didn't play good enough. The effort was there, the work was there, everything was there. We just didn't get it done," White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said of the late-season fade.

Chicago's hope: win three straight in Cleveland and root for the Royals to sweep the Tigers in Kansas City, forcing a one-game tiebreaker on Thursday. Detroit beat Minnesota on Sunday 2-1 to go up three games.

"When we pitch, we haven't hit. When we hit, we haven't pitched," Chicago third baseman Kevin Youkilis said. " It's how baseball works sometimes. We just haven't had it. ... It's an unfortunate situation."

Tampa Bay has won 10 of 11 and was three games behind Oakland entering play Sunday. The Rays go home to play Baltimore, hoping for a repeat of last season, when they earned a playoff berth on the final day of the regular season.

"It's always about maintaining a slight mathematical chance. We were in the same boat last year. It could become a little bit better with some cooperation, but either way we just have to go home and play our game," manager Joe Maddon said.

David Price (20-5) became Tampa Bay's first 20-game winner, allowing two runs and five hits in seven innings. He became the fourth 20-game winner of the season, joining Washington's Gio Gonzalez (21-8), the New York Mets' R.A. Dickey (20-6) and the Los Angeles Angels' Jered Weaver (20-4).

"We still have a chance to get in with a good series against Baltimore. ... We need a little help from Texas, but we have to continue to win and hopefully we get back in like last year," Price said.

B.J. Upton his hit his 27th and 28th homers, and Tampa Bay also got a solo shot from Ryan Roberts.

"You know you pretty much have to win them all," Upton said, sizing up the Rays' chances.

Chicago starter Jose Quintana (6-6) got in trouble before the game was barely three minutes old, giving up a leadoff triple to Desmond Jennings and Upton's two-run homer.

Roberts hit a two-out homer in the fourth made it 3-0. The White Sox rallied in the bottom half when Alex Rios delivered an RBI single and Dayan Viciedo hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly.

"We had our chance obviously with the bases loaded there and one out. Viciedo hit the ball real hard and we were hoping it would get over his head and might score three, but it didn't," Pierzynski said.

"We fell behind early again, it seems to be a common theme here. We tried to fight back, just not enough."

Upton's leadoff double in the fifth finished Quintana, who allowed four runs and six hits in four innings. Evan Longoria hit an RBI double and Ben Francisco added a sacrifice fly off reliever Nate Jones to make it 5-2. Upton homered again in the ninth against Addison Reed.

NOTES:.White Sox Pierzynski had his family at the game. He is eligible for free agency and this might have been his final home game in Chicago. Pierzynski, who came to Chicago in 2005, said he'd love to finish his career with the White Sox but understands that might not happen. He's had a career-best 27 homers. ... Rays C Jose Molina (right quadriceps strain) was out of starting lineup for fifth straight game but caught the bottom of the ninth.

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Iran swipe at Web brings angry reply

FILE- In this Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. Iran?s cyber monitors often tout their efforts to fight the West?s 'soft war' of influence through the web, but trying to ban Google?s popular Gmail may have gone too far with complaints coming even from email-starved parliament members. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

FILE- In this Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. Iran?s cyber monitors often tout their efforts to fight the West?s 'soft war' of influence through the web, but trying to ban Google?s popular Gmail may have gone too far with complaints coming even from email-starved parliament members. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. Iran?s cyber monitors often tout their efforts to fight the West?s 'soft war' of influence through the web, but trying to ban Google?s popular Gmail may have gone too far with complaints coming even from email-starved parliament members. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

TEHRAN (AP) ? Iran's cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West's "soft war" of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google's popular Gmail appeared to be a swipe too far.

Complaints piled up ? even from email-starved parliament members ? and forced authorities Sunday to double down on their promises to create a parallel Web universe with Tehran as its center.

The strong backlash and the unspecific pledges for an Iran-centric Internet alternative to the Silicon Valley powers and others highlight the two sides of the Islamic Republic's ongoing battles with the Web. It's spurred another technological mobilization that fits neatly into Iran's self-crafted image as the Muslim world's showcase for science, including sending satellites into orbit, claiming advances in cloning and stem cell research and facing down the West over its nuclear program.

But there also are the hard realities of trying to reinvent the Web. Iran's highly educated and widely tech-savvy population is unlikely to warm quickly to potential clunky homegrown browsers or email services. And then there's the potential political and economic fallout of trying to close the tap on familiar sites such as Gmail.

"Some problems have emerged through the blocking of Gmail," Hussein Garrousi, a member of a parliamentary committee on industry, was quoted Sunday by the independent Aftab-e Yazd daily. What he apparently meant was that many lawmakers were angry and missing their emails.

He said that parliament would summon the minister of telecommunications for questioning if the ministry did not lift the Gmail ban, which was imposed last week in respond to clips on Google-owned YouTube of a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad that set off deadly protests across the Islamic world.

Even many newspapers close to the government complained over the email disruptions. On Saturday, the Asr-e Ertebat weekly reported that Iranians had paid a total of $4.5 million to purchase proxy services to reach blocked sites, including Facebook and YouTube, over the past month.

Iranian authorities ? perhaps recognizing the risks at hand ? decided against taking a symbolic twin shot at Google and cut access to the Web browser in a country with 32 million Internet users among a population of 75 million, according to official statistics.

That would rank online Iran among the world's top 20 in terms of sheer numbers of users, and equivalent to some European countries in per capita Web use at more than 40 percent, according to the private monitoring group Internet World Stats. The World Bank, however, puts Iran's Internet link rate at just 21 percent last year.

The U.S. is among the world's highest at more than 75 percent.

Iran's deputy telecoms minister, Ali Hakim Javadi, told reporters that Iranian authorities were considering lifting the Gmail ban. But he also used the opportunity to again promise development of Iran's domestic alternatives: the Fakhr ("Pride") search engine and the Fajr ("Dawn") email, Aftab-e Yazd reported.

When reporters noted the quality of Gmail services, Javadi quipped: "If there is Mercedes Benz on the street, that doesn't mean everyone drives a Mercedes."

Iran's clerical establishment has long signaled its intent to get citizens off of the international Internet ? which they say promotes Western values ? and onto a "national" and "clean" domestic network. Earlier this year, Iran's police chief, Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, called Google an "instrument of espionage" rather than a search engine.

But it is unclear whether Iran has the technical capacity to follow through on its ambitious plans, or is willing to risk the economic damage and the social shock waves.

The Internet has steadily become part of Iran's fabric since the first Farsi-language sites developed a decade ago by Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakshan, who is considered one of the founders of Iran's social media community. Derakshan, however, was detained in 2008 and sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison two years later as the battles heated up between liberals seeking open access to the Web and authorities trying to erect their own version of China's "Great Firewall," the name given to Beijing's extensive filtering and censorship of the Internet.

Sites such as Twitter and Facebook were pillars of the street revolts after the disputed 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The powerful Revolutionary Guard responded by recruiting and training its own cyber force to patrol the Web and, later, try to defend against virus attacks on nuclear and other sites that Iran has blamed on the West and its allies.

Some Web security experts also have raised the possibility of Iranian hackers being behind some recent high-profile computer attacks, such as disruptions at Saudi Arabia's state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas earlier this month. Iran has denied any links.

In a video message for Iranian new year in March, President Barack Obama denounced what he called the "electronic curtain" that keeps ordinary Iranians from reaching out to Americans and the West.

A few weeks later, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the creation of an Internet oversight agency that included top military, security and political figures in the country's boldest attempt yet to control the Internet. The panel is headed by Ahmadinejad and includes powerful figures in the security establishment such as the intelligence chief and the commander of the Revolutionary Guard.

It's not Iran's first attempt to hold off what hardliners call a Western "cultural invasion." The so-called Barbie wars have gone on for more than a decade with periodic raids to confiscate the iconic American dolls from toy stores. Iran also introduced its own dolls ? twins Dara and Sara ? designed to promote traditional values with modest clothing and pro-family values, but it hasn't significantly dented the demand for Barbie dolls.

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Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Associated Press

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The president's remarks came amid public polls that show him gaining advantages in some key battleground states. It also came months after anxious Democrats worried that Obama would not be able to keep up with Republican rival Mitt Romney's fundraising.

In a day partly devoted to a fundraising blitz for himself and other Democrats, Obama also offered themes of political unity, telling another group of donors that the nation is "not as divided as the pundits make it seem."

"I don't know how many folks will vote for me this time around," Obama told an afternoon audience of donors at a hotel near the White House. "But I say the same thing to them (as in 2008): I will be your president, too."

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The Millions : Post-40 Bloomer: Susan Starr Richards Escapes the ...

Click?here?to read about ?Post-40 Bloomers,? a monthly feature at The Millions.

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I?m not sure why certain regional writers remain regional; why someone along the way ? a publicist, a reviewer, perhaps even the author himself ? imagines that only those familiar with the setting, or particular sorts of characters, will ?connect? with the work.?Someone once said, ?The more particular the detail, the more universally it strikes us? ? it may have been a well-known author, or a student in one of my workshops (or both), I?m not sure. Regardless, I?ve been repeating this idea, to myself and to others, along with its converse ? that generalized descriptions, and familiar or broadly-painted characters, are in fact harder to connect with as a reader.

In a brief blurb about Susan Starr Richards?s story collection The Hanging in the Foaling Barn ? on?a site called KentuckyLiving.com ? the reader is told: ?Those in the racing industry in particular will enjoy her writings on the horse world in Kentucky.? I found this site after reading the collection, while attempting to do research on Richards (and finding very little online); and it may have been that narrow idea of who ?in particular? would enjoy this collection that confirmed my inclination to feature Richards in this column.

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?Joel came around a curve on Sorter Ridge, hauling a mare to the breeding shed, and found the local murderer trying to choke a pony.? There is pretty much nothing about this opening sentence (to the story entitled, ?The Murderer, The Pony, and Miss Brown to You?) that is personally familiar to me: I?ve never lived on anything like a ridge; I?m not at all sure what happens in a breeding shed, technically speaking; and I?m even less sure what sort of community spawns and maintains a ?local murderer.??I may have seen a pony once, at a grade school jamboree, but who knows if what our suburban town was calling a pony wasn?t in fact a large dog wearing a wig and a party hat. My point being that I found this opening sentence masterful in its humor, particularity, menace, and mystery ? even as (perhaps because) the world she is introducing is quite obviously going to be one with which I ostensibly have very little in common.

About half of the stories in Richards?s collection are immersed in the world of rural Kentucky and horse breeding (the other half might be described as dark romances).?These characters are portrayed in predictable ways on the one hand?as simple, hard-working folk whose lives are closely tied to the land and the animals in their care.?At the same time, it?s the complexity of their moral reasoning that strikes the reader, and reminds us urbane sophisticates that moral hazard ? which is to say blind, unsophisticated non-thinking?occurs more often in complicated systems than in simpler ones.

?In Clarence Cummins and the Semi-Permanent Loan,? James Petrie, a level-headed foreman on a wealthy man?s tobacco farm, is faced with reconciling a conflict between his tenant farmer, the eponymous Clarence Cummins, and his employer, the money-minded Bud Finnell.?Clarence is good-hearted but a simpleton, prone to self-delusion and wobbly judgment; James mostly humors him, seeing no harm in enjoying Clarence?s eccentricities.?But Clarence is also proud, with a fierce sense of his own dignity, so when Bud Finnell accuses him of stealing his wife?s pony cart, all hell breaks loose, and Clarence threatens to shoot Finnell.?The misunderstandings that led to the crisis comprise a jolly comedy of errors; but what interests me about the story is James?s interior considerations of whether he could have prevented the conflict:

Maybe he should have made Clarence sign an affidavit that he would never sell, try to sell, or let anybody else try to sell the pony cart.?Maybe, earlier, he should have made it clear that he was running the farm, and not Clarence. Maybe he should have even pointed out to him that mares always have longer legs than their babies, and that Clarence was the one who thought the fence would hold.

In other words, maybe a man should not be allowed to be self-deluded, no matter how harmless he seems or how happy it makes him to live in his own reality; maybe this man is harming himself, if not others.?Maybe it is one?s job, as friend and neighbor, to speak hard truth, and to encourage conformity of mind, for the other?s sake.?And yet, the story ends on both a lofty and complex note (humorous, too):?Clarence?s defense against Finnell?s accusation was that he loaned the cart to his shopkeeper friend to help draw in more business, which the friend desperately needed.?It was the shopkeeper who then tried to sell the cart, to Finnell?s wife herself.?When James asks Clarence if he made clear to the shopkeeper that he could not sell it, Clarence answers, ??Why no?? I never told him that?? Clarence looked over at James, a mild, amazed glance. ??Don?t you know?? That would have broke his spirit??? It?s an ending reminiscent of Chekhov.

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When Finnell asks James if he thinks Clarence would really shoot him, James answers, ?On the subject of Clarence it doesn?t pay to think.?He?s a loose horse.??Other loose horses ? human and equine?abound in this collection. In the title story ? the O. Henry Prize-winner for 1994 ? the nightman in a foaling barn calls the breeder in the middle of the night to announce that he is planning to hang himself in the barn. After a bit of banter, Luther, the breeder, preoccupied with the horses that are about to foal, says,

?You got to call up and want to kill yourself here in the middle of May.?Couldn?t you wait till June, at least, when foaling season?s over?? He slammed the phone down.?Then sighed.

It?s the sighing ? it?s own full sentence in that passage?that speaks to the dramatic, and literary, gravitas of a story that opens rather wryly. We laugh nervously at Maurice the nightman?s ridiculous threat, and yet at the same time we understand, as Luther does, that the tragic often comes in ridiculous packages. Maurice is dead serious about his despair, just as Clarence was about his rage.?People?s lives are at stake, right alongside their livelihoods: Luther?s preoccupation with the foaling mares in the face of Maurice?s announcement is on the one hand ironic comedy, and on the other straight-faced reality.?Which is to say that Richards is not sentimental about the difficulties of rural life and of human-animal relationships.

But foaling ? that is, the birthing of these creatures who are as engaging and lively as the humans ? is also a deep reality of this world, a kind of cyclical imprint.?It?s the direct experience of a foal?s birth, orchestrated and witnessed by men, in both ?The Hanging in the Foaling Barn? and the aforementioned pony murderer story, that offers powerful narrative and emotional opposition to the sheer physical grit of farm life and the rough-around-the-edges characters it engenders.

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Two of the collection?s romantic stories, ?Man Walking? and ?Gawain and the Horsewoman,? are fantastical tales of not-quite-human passion.?Of the two, the latter for me was more absorbing, fully immersed in the genre of myth (the story is based on Celtic legend), as opposed to the more cerebral, and a bit confusing, mystery-solving drive of the former.?From ?Gawain:?

The most beautiful mare he?d ever seen, he said to himself, and not a sign of a saddle or bridle on her.?Pure white.?A fine head, high withers, a strong shoulder; and she was long and deep, all her lines flowing together smoothly.?A step like a dancer; neck drooping, easy.

Following the mare now through twilight meadows.?It was a matter of faith to see her ? the almost-shape, as if the mist thickened a little, there.?If he looked hard at what he saw, he wouldn?t see it any more.

He, Gawain, follows the mare and comes upon its siblings, along with its mysterious, laconic mistress ? ?slim and brown, her dark hair clipped straight across by her ear.??This magical story of a stormy, sea-cliff horse race between Gawain and Dana the Horsewoman unfolds not only into lush, lyrical fantasy (?did you never see the horses? heads, with their manes all silver, rising above the great combers on full-moon nights?? Dana asks) but also creeps up on you deliciously as feminist fiction:

He found himself, sometimes, almost wishing for some threat to the quiet life of the little farmstead, so that he might be of use in defending it ? for a big cat preying on the foals? [?] for an awful giant trying to carry off the younger woman on his horse? but [?] What giant could catch her? [?]

The two women [Dana and her sister Maude] seemed to have no curiosity about him.?It was as if his life had begun, as far as they were concerned, when he appeared at their place [?]

If women were confusing to him before?and they had been ? now he was lost indeed, presented with a woman who apparently wanted nothing in the world from him but that he would ride in a race against her.?Something in him warred with the idea of doing anything against a woman?he?d always been taught to do things for them.?But he meant to oblige her in this way since he couldn?t in any other.

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Richards doesn?t seem to have referred?to herself?publicly?as a feminist per se, but in a 2004? interview with the Journal of Kentucky Studies, she did speak of the ?fairly sexist environment? of writing classes in the late 1950s, ?the ?Southern boy? world ? that?s what I was thrown into, and [?] that?s kind of a brutal world for a woman. Some of your sensibilities are ridiculed; you?re afraid to have them.?

Born and raised in Florida, Richards and her husband moved to Kentucky when she was in her 20s.?She had a job teaching at the University of Kentucky, but they also quickly got into the horse business, starting as market breeders and then both breeding and racing their own horses (from which they?ve since retired).?In an interview with her publisher Sarabande, she said:

I?ve walked the mares? field in the dark, in the fog, checking to see if some mare?s decided to foal on the wrong night [?] I?ve stayed up all night for nights on end with my husband, milking a mare out every two hours and lifting a sick foal up onto its feet, till it could get back to nursing on its own again. I?ve been kicked, I?ve been knocked down and jumped over, I?ve been shoved around innumerable times, I?ve been exhilarated by what just happened, I?ve been terrified by what just happened, I?ve been euphoric about what just happened, I?ve been in desperation about what just happened.

All these things in one way or another have influenced my life. My time was always fairly equally divided between the horses and my writing, the difference being that the horses always came first, and the writing had to be fitted in around their needs and their schedules. But in my imagination, there was always a confluence of visions. You don?t take up the horse business unless horses have already captured your imagination ? it?s an abstraction to you before it becomes a reality.

Richards published a collection of ?Horse Fables? in 1987, when she was 49, and began publishing her stories after that, when she was in her 50s. A poetry collection, The Life Horse, was published in 2005, and The Hanging in the Foaling Barn came out in 2006, when she was 68.?Other than a few classes with Andrew Lytle at the University of Florida, she has not studied fiction writing formally in a workshop or conference setting.?Her husband Dick, who was also in that class with Lytle, has been her primary reader.?She has said that she is more influenced by her life in Kentucky than any particular author, but names?Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, and The Odyssey as influences.

Richards?s first novel, Chapel of Carnal Love, will be available as an e-book later this fall on Amazon.? She is now 74 years old.

Listen to Susan Starr Richards read an excerpt ? recorded in the shed on her farm where she writes ? from the O. Henry Prize-winning story, ?The Hanging in the Foaling Barn.?

Source: http://www.themillions.com/2012/09/post-40-bloomer-susan-starr-richardss-universal-particulars.html

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Announces Third Quarter 2012

STAMFORD, CT (September 28, 2012) ? Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that it will release the company?s third quarter financial results prior to market open on Thursday, October 25, followed by a conference call at 10:30 a.m. ET. The conference call will include a brief discussion of the quarter and a question-and-answer session. It will be moderated by Stephen Pettibone, Vice President of Investor Relations.

Participants may listen to the simultaneous webcast by logging onto Starwood?s corporate website at http://www.starwoodhotels.com/corporate/investor_relations.html. A webcast replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live event. Alternatively, participants may call into (866) 921-0636 with conference ID 28294184; please dial in fifteen minutes early to ensure a timely start. A call replay will be available from Thursday, October 25 to Thursday, November 1, 2012 and can be accessed by dialing (855) 859-2056 with conference ID 28294184.

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4. Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule and Provides 2012 Outlook
5. Hyatt Hotels Corporation Announces Timing of Fourth Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and Investor Conference Call

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Ex-finance minister to challenge Merkel in 2013

FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

FILE - The Jan 12, 2007 file photo show then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck smiling during a press conference in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, Social Democratic politicians, from left, Peer Steinbrueck, Sigmar Gabriel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend a news conference in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/dapd, Michael Gottschalk, File)

FILE - The Sept. 21, 2009 file photo shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and then German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, briefing the media after a meeting with the German Government's task force for finance architecture at the chancellery in Berlin. Germany's main opposition party appears set to choose former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in next year's election. Several German media outlets reported Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 the center-left Social Democrats have decided to nominate the 65-year-old Steinbrueck. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

BERLIN (AP) ? Germany's main opposition party is set to nominate former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who helped pilot the country through the 2008-9 financial crisis, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in elections next year.

Officials with the center-left Social Democrats wouldn't immediately confirm reports Friday in several German media outlets that the leadership had decided on Steinbrueck, 65. But the party scheduled an afternoon news conference and former Cabinet colleague Brigitte Zypries wrote on Facebook: "it's true, it's going to be him."

The choice of Steinbrueck ? one of three candidates who has been discussed for months as criticism mounted of the party's failure to settle on a challenger ? kicks off in earnest the race for the chancellery in parliamentary elections expected this time next year.

Steinbrueck earlier this week presented a plan for "taming financial markets," flagging that as a prominent issue in the party's campaign.

But polls suggest that, while Steinbrueck is relatively well-placed to attract swing voters, the Social Democrats face an uphill struggle to unseat the popular Merkel, 58, Germany's leader since 2005.

The party consistently trails her conservative Christian Democrats, and surveys show no majority for their hoped-for coalition with the Green party.

They're keen to avoid ending up as Merkel's junior partner in another "grand coalition" of right and left, the combination in which Steinbrueck served as finance minister from 2005 to 2009.

A significant source of Merkel's popularity is her handling of the eurozone debt crisis, and that's been making it hard for the Social Democrats to land blows on her. They and the Greens have criticized Merkel for what they decry as a too-little, too-late response ? before invariably supporting her plans in Parliament.

Steinbrueck has a reputation for plain speaking, which hasn't always made him popular with fellow Social Democrats. As a minister, he once remarked of his party that "we're coming over to people as crybabies" in the face of Merkel's popularity.

In 2009, he called for governments to use "the whip" against neighboring Switzerland in the fight against tax evasion and said the Alpine nation faced the threat of the "cavalry."

His successor, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has taken a more diplomatic approach, negotiating a deal with Switzerland. But with the election in sight, the Social Democrats have vowed not to let it through Parliament's upper house, where Merkel's coalition lacks a majority.

Associated Press

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How quickly can this happen.... - Adoption.com Forums

How quickly can this happen....

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Hey all! My DH and I have our first placement- almost a month on Friday! Two little girls (7mo and 21 mo) DSS just determined paternity on the oldest last week. It is confirmed that they have different dads. At the last court hearing the girls were in two separate foster homes since no one was available to take a sib group. Bio mom had vanished for 6 months as did the father of the youngest. DSS asked for TPR since she had no contact since the kids came in to care but the judge changed the plan to concurrent instead and ordered that the girls be moved together. The oldest ones dad said that he wanted to start visits and move towards his daughter living with him. He came to his first visit today. CW said everything went pretty well, and he was going out to the home where the dad is staying to learn more about him and do a home visit. CW also said that he was going to write up a case plan for dad and he didnt know if there was any other family interested in fostering at this point. I'm pretty sure dad does not have a job and is living between two homes of other family members right now but how quickly could they RU if he is found suitable? Or if they find kin to foster, how long does that typically take? Do they do visits with kin prior to moving the child.

Also, we have court next tue but since the judge ordered the girls be together how will that change since bio mom and the youngest ones dad aren't working their plan at all?

Thanks for any response, we are new to this whole process and have LOTS of questions!!

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May 11, 2011~ Called and requested foster care information
May 14, 2011~ Received welcome letter and brief application
June 2, 2011~ Orientation
September 8, 2011~ Received letter, MAAP classes start on September 27th!
October 27, 2011~ Finished MAPP classes!
November 12, 2011~ CPR/ First Aid training
November 14, 2011~ First Meeting with our social worker!
November 29,2011~ First Home Visit
November 30,2011~ Second Home Visit
December 19, 2011~ Third Home Visit
April 3, 2012~ Fire Inspection
June 19, 2012~ Final Home Visit/ Sign off on License
June 21, 2012~ License mailed to the state...
August 30, 2012~ We are licensed!!
August 31, 2012~ The girls arrive for respite
September 4, 2012~ We got a call asking us to keep the girls as a long term placement!!

Current Placements:

The girls (7 mo. and 20 mo.)

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Fox Broadcast app now available to Xbox Live customers with Dish and FiOS subscriptions

Xbox Live frontman Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) took to his blog on Tuesday to announce that Dish and Verizon FiOS customers can now download the Fox Broadcast app for Xbox 360 to stream next-day Fox programming. In order to use this free app, you'll need a paid Xbox Live Gold subscription. In addition to keeping you up to date with recent episodes of Fringe and Family Guy, this new app also includes access to legacy series such as House and 24. Like most things Xbox, the Fox Broadcasting app features Kinect integration, because everything is "better with Kinect," right?

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Mr. Sexy Back tries to bring Myspace back

FILE -- In a May 7, 2012 file photo Justin Timberlake arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, in New York. Myspace is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of investor Justin Timberlake. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

FILE -- In a May 7, 2012 file photo Justin Timberlake arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, in New York. Myspace is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of investor Justin Timberlake. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

NEW YORK (AP) ? "Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away."

Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a "New Myspace" promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an entertainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in.

But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time?

"If you break my heart a second time, I might never be the same," continues the song, "Heartbeat," by the group JJAMZ.

From the sound if it, Myspace wants to win the hearts and minds of tech-savvy hipsters. Founded in 2003 and initially a fast-rising star, Myspace attracted mostly teenagers and twentysomethings, offering them a place to express themselves online. It peaked in 2008 with some 76 million U.S. visitors in October. The site lost its footing as the fun of customizing profile pages began to bore its users and the site's heavy use of banner advertisements slowed the speed at which pages loaded. At the same time, people were already migrating to Facebook, which counted users 35 and older among its fastest-growing demographic.

The company's new promotional video offers a 2-minute and 18-second peek into a slick, image-heavy site. The site's much cleaner look is a stark contrast to the old Myspace, which users often derided as messy and cluttered. Posted this week, the video promises that Myspace will start "totally from scratch," as if trying to shed its former self. It doesn't say when the new site will launch, only that it's "not ready quite yet."

The new Myspace will let users connect to the site with their Twitter or Facebook accounts, a sign that it won't be competing with those sites as a social networking service. Rather, Myspace will continue with its entertainment focus, as a place to play and discover music, add photos, videos and playlists and connect with artists.

Timberlake, who's featured prominently in the video, will likely play a big part of the MySpace revamp. The former 'N Sync pop star, with a group of other investors, bought MySpace last summer from News Corp. for $35 million, mostly in stock. That was quite a difference from the $580 million that News Corp. paid for the company in 2005, when it was still an Internet darling.

MySpace, of course, isn't Timberlake's first foray into social networking. He played Napster co-founder Sean Parker, a party animal and early Facebook adviser, in Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Network" in 2010.

In August this year, research firm comScore put Myspace's monthly unique visitors at 28 million, making it the 43rd most visited Web property in the U.S. It's behind the likes of not just Google, Facebook and Twitter but startups such as Tumblr, along with the reviews site Yelp and WebMD.

"The new design certainly looks beautiful and it could certainly spur a lot of initial interest," said Clark Fredericksen, spokesman for research firm eMarketer, which used to put out ad revenue estimates for MySpace but no longer does. "But there are going to be significant challenges for any company looking to enter the digital music space. You have a lot of entrenched players who are really successful."

Those players include Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, not to mention Apple Inc.'s iTunes.

There's also the mobile question. It's unclear from the video what plans the new MySpace has for mobile devices such as Android smartphones, iPhones and tablet computers. Fredricksen points out that cloud-based music ? streamed over an Internet connection ? is shifting toward the mobile platform primarily. We are all on the go with our music. MySpace is entering a crowded market here, too.

Representatives for Specific Media, which owns Myspace, did not return messages for comment Wednesday. Timberlake's publicist also did not return an email for comment. With only the slick demo and the poppy, bittersweet lyrics of the JJAMZ song to offer details about the "New Myspace", these lines stand out:

"Maybe I'm ashamed to want you back. Maybe I'm afraid, you'll never stay."

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Online: https://new.myspace.com/play

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Diatomacious Earth (often referred to as "DE") is an off white talc-like powder that is the fossilized remains of marine phytoplankton. When sprinkled on a bug that has an exoskeleton (such as bed bugs, ants or fleas) it gets caught between their little exoskeleton joints. As they move, the diatomaceous earth acts like razor blades and cuts them up. But it doesn't hurt mammals. We can eat it. We do eat it! It's in lots of grain based foods because lots of grains are stored with diatomaceous earth to keep the bugs from eating

Diatomacious Earth (often referred to as "DE") is an off white talc-like powder that is the fossilized remains of marine phytoplankton. When sprinkled on a bug that has an exoskeleton (such as bed bugs, ants or fleas) it gets caught between their little exoskeleton joints. As they move, the diatomaceous earth acts like razor blades and cuts them up. But it doesn't hurt mammals. We can eat it. We do eat it! It's in lots of grain based foods because lots of grains are stored with diatomaceous earth to keep the bugs from eating the grain!

Die bugs! Die! Die! Die!

I have heard two explanations of how diatomaceous earth works.

One is that on a microscopic level, the diatomaceous earth particles are very sharp looking. These particles stick to an insect and get stuck between its exoskeleton joints. As the insect moves, it gets physically cut up.

The other explanation is that diatomaceous earth sticks to the insect and somehow causes them to dry out. I think this approach involves scratching the insects waxy layer which then allows precious moisture within the insect to get out. So their teeny tiny bug-innards turn into teeny tiny bug-innards-jerky.

A reader, Sue, in Washington state writes:

Both are true and connected. DE is almost pure silica (with some beneficial trace minerals); under a microscope, it looks like shards of glass (glass is made from silica). On any beetle-type insect that has a carapace, like fleas and cockroaches, the DE works under the shell and punctures the body, which then dehydrates and the insect dies. DE is totally nontoxic. There is no buildup of tolerance like there is to poisons because the method of killing is PHYSICAL, not chemical.

The important thing to us is that if an insect with an exoskeleton gets diatomaceous earth on them, they die. At the same time, we can rub it all over our skin, rub it in our hair, eat it .... whatever ... and we are unharmed.

Diatomaceous earth kills all bugs. It has been reported to be the most effective solution when fighting pests like fleas, ants and bed bugs.

Farmers dump food grade diatomaceous earth by big scoops in with grains when the grains are stored. It kills the insects that want to feast on the grain. This is a great improvement over the stuff they used to put in with the grain.

Farmers feed gobs of diatomaceous earth (food grade) to animals in the hopes that it will cure whatever ails them. Many farmers swear that the stuff kills all sorts of worms in their critters.

Many people eat a quarter cup of food grade diatomaceous earth every day. They mix it into juice. I have visited with several people that are keen on living past 100 years that believe that eating lots diatomaceous earth every day will help them with that goal. I have found references where it is cited for colon cleansing, parasite control and detox.

One strange thing about diatomaceous earth is that for it to work on killing bugs, you have to keep it dry. Even morning dew can make diatomaceous earth ineffective.

I have encountered over a dozen ignorant boobs that have proclaimed "Diatomaceous Earth does NOT work!" I have read this statement in all caps. In extra big fonts. With italics. And I've even had it screamed at me. I'm gonna stick with "ignorant boobs". On closer inspection of each case there is always a flaw. Usually the problem is that it was not used correctly. Diatomaceous earth is not a bait. If you put a little bit in a pile somewhere, the bugs are not drawn to it and invite all their friends. I kinda wonder if the pesticide companies pay people to go to internet forums and say this sort of thing. Diatomaceous earth is super cheap, non toxic, and generally more effective than anything the pesticide companies have to offer - so it kinda cuts into their profit margins a bit. I've been meaning to create an experiment to set the record straight on this topic, but a participant in the diatomaceous earth discussion, Stephanie, beat me to it:

I tried my own experiment with the diatomaceous earth to see how quickly it kills the fleas; I caught a few fleas and put them in a jar with a pinch of diatomaceous earth - all were dead within just a couple of hours.

It just doesn't get any more clear than that.

How safe is diatomaceous earth?

The only known problem for people, mammals and birds that I have ever been able to find any reference to is breathing it in. For food grade diatomaceous earth, there is only the bother of breathing in any dust. There exists another variety of diatomaceous earth that has been fiddled with so it can be used for pool filters. The pool grade stuff would be bad for you because it contains up to 70% "crystalline silica". My understanding is that if you work with the pool grade stuff all day, every day, for years, you could get cancer. Don't mess with the pool grade stuff. Food grade diatomaceous earth will contain less than 1% crystalline silica.

This article is really about the pure, food grade diatomaceous earth. I have to say "food grade" over and over or some nitwit will quote a small slice and then bring up the pool grade issues.

I have heard from two people that said that they won't use diatomaceous earth anymore because "the tiny particles cut my lungs!" --- (deep sigh goes here) All I can say is "Did you actually examine your lung with a microscope and watch the diatomaceous earth cut into it?" - of course, they did not. I think the truth behind these reports is that these folks heard how diatomaceous earth works, and when they would breathe in the dust, it would make them cough - just as breathing in flour or corn starch would make you cough. And then they thought of the sharpness at a microscopic level. My understanding is that when diatomaceous earth becomes moist, the sharp thing is no longer happening. That's why you have to keep it dry when you use it.

I have heard that people working in the diatomaceous earth (food grade) mines have no greater health problems than the people working in any other mines. (I would like to get some sources for this info - if anybody has a link, please email me)

As long as you are using food grade diatomaceous earth, you are perfectly safe. Even if you breathe in gobs of it. Of course, if you are asthmatic or have lung problems of any kind, I would think breathing in big gobs of any kind of dust would be a bad idea.

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There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!

Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. There are claims at parasite control, longevity and all sorts of perks. I know that food grade diatomaceous earth is used heavily in storing grains - so you are probably already eating lots of diatomaceous earth every time you eat any bread, pasta or other grain based food.

Farmers feed food grade diatomaceous earth to their animals to reduce parasites and provide other benefits.

Some places sell the diatomaceous earth (food grade) mixed with other stuff. And that is something I do not recommend. When I see a label that says "97% diatomaceous earth" I have to wonder what the other 3% is. If the packaging is about killing bugs, is it some sort of toxin? Did they add something like borates or pyrethrin for a little extra kick? I don't want that!

Some places sell diatomaceous earth that is for swimming pool filters - that is definitely what you do NOT want.

Some places sell an 8 ounce shaker. I think it is wise to get at least a few pounds of the stuff. It keeps well (it's already millions of years old) and is useful for so many things. And if you get too little, you are likely to not use enough.

So I've done a lot of research on this .... and I've used diatomaceous earth from about eight different sources ... and here is what I'm recommending: This is food grade diatomateous earth guaranteed to be "less than 0.5% crystaline silica". After a long talk with the guy that runs this outfit, I found out that most of this diatomaceous earth runs about 0.1% to 0.2% crystaline silica. By far the best I've ever heard of.

This next one is food grade diatomaceous earth where all they would tell me is that it has less than 0.5% crystalline silica. Not as good as the stuff above, but still way better than the others I could find:

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Search Resumes Tomorrow For Missing Northwestern Student ...

Northwestern University student Harsha Maddula, 19, has been missing since early Saturday morning. (Credit: Maddula family)

UPDATED 09/25/12 ? 8:27 p.m.

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) ? The search will resume Wednesday morning for a missing Northwestern University student.

The decision to halt the search early disappointed Harsha Maddula?s aunt, Surekah, who is one of a host of family members flying in from New York.

She said family members all believe that the 18-year-old Northwestern sophomore?s disappearance is linked to his recently-diagnosed Diabetes, which forced him to return to New York earlier this year.

?All of us cousins actually had to beg his parents to let him go back to college, to be honest, because they were concerned that he had this new illness,? she said.

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Surekah said her nephew had been on campus for only two days when he went missing.

?This is completely out of character for him,? she said. ?His parents are actually quite careful with him. He?s also a very responsible kid. He doesn?t go out. He doesn?t party. He doesn?t drink.?

Surekah said she fears that he is comatose on a floor somewhere. He left a party in the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue, west of the main campus, and less than a mile from his dorm at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

He sent a text message a short time later indicating that he was returning to his room, but University spokesman Alan Cubbage said that there is no sign of the student on the dorm?s security cameras or keycard logs.

Sources who saw Maddula at the party told the Daily Northwestern that he was coherent, and was not obviously intoxicated or stumbling.

No one has seen him since.

The Daily Northwestern reports Meddula was contacted, but not seen, at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, and by Sunday afternoon, he officially became a missing person.

Maddula?s family flew in from the Long Island town of New Hyde Park, N.Y. His mother, Dhanalakshmi Maddula, was sobbing as she spoke.

?If any information ? anything, if you can find anything ? please let us know, we?d really appreciate it,? she said. ?He?s a diabetic, and I don?t know what condition he?s in right now.?

Harsha Maddula?s father, Prasad Maddula, said the family is frustrated by what they say is a lack of help from authorities.

?We need help. We have no response from the dean. We have no response from the school. Nobody is approaching us. Nobody is taking our phone calls. We went to the police. We approached the FBI. The FBI is refusing to join in the investigating,? Prasad Maddula said.

He implored fellow students to do their part in helping find his son.

?It has been three days that the kid is missing. Please, the case has to be escalated,? he said. ?We want all the students to come out of their dorms and search for this kid. He?s your brother. He?s missing in the campus.?

The family has also set up a Facebook group seeking information about Maddula?s whereabouts.

Cubbage said University and Evanston Police have not yet been able to scan other security videos from other locations on campus at the time he disappeared, but he said it would be unlikely that anyone on campus would not know of his disappearance. He said that the university has sent e-mails to students, posted messages on its home page.

Cubbage indicated that Northwestern and the family had contacted the FBI, which has also joined the investigation.

Although early reports indicated that Maddula is 5? 3? tall and weighs 135 lb., the flyer distributed by the family indicates that he is 5? 8? in height and weighs 149 lb. He has black hair and dark brown eyes, and wears black-frame glasses.

He was last seen wearing a grey long-sleeved sweater with black and white stitching, dark grey pants and brown shoes.

He is a sophomore at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern, and lives in the Public Affairs Residential College ? commonly known as PARC ? at 1838 Chicago Ave. in Evanston.

Anyone with information that could help lead police to the missing student is urged to call Northwestern Police at (847) 491-3456.

Source: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/09/25/desperate-search-underway-for-missing-northwestern-student/

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Romney: Obama is 'trying to fool' voters with inaccurate attacks

DENVER - Mitt Romney today accused President Obama of "trying to fool" voters into thinking Romney believes in things he does not, telling reporters aboard his campaign plane that Obama is running on talking points he knows are "wrong."

"The president will not be able to continue to mischaracterize my pathway," said Romney, in answering a question about the importance of the upcoming debates. "I'll continue to describe mine, he will describe his, and people will make a choice. That's the great thing about democracy.

"I'm not going to try to fool people into thinking he believes things he doesn't," Romney said. "He's trying to fool people into thinking that I think things that I don't. And that ends at the debates."

Romney's press conference came after a rough week for the candidate, and is the first sign of an attempt by the candidate to turn around the campaign, which is set to make stops in the battleground states of Colorado, Ohio and Virginia before the week's end.

Asked by ABC News which issues he specifically thinks the President is trying to "fool" voters about or which particularly get to him, Romney rattled off a list: the auto maker bailout, taxes and social issues.

"They're not that they particularly get to me, but I think that they're inaccurate," said Romney.

Romney said "nothing could be further from the truth" when Obama says he supported liquidating the auto industry.

"My plan was to rebuild the auto industry and take it through bankruptcy so that could happen, and by the way he doesn't mention he took them through bankruptcy," Romney said.

Romney said Obama accuses him of being in favor of lowering taxes on wealthy people.

"No I'm not," Romney said. "I'm not going to reduce the taxes on the wealthy at all, in fact I want to lower taxes on middle income people. He says I want to raise them on middle income people - that's completely inaccurate."

And on abortion, Obama's wrong on that, too, Romney said.

"He says I'm opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest," Romney said. "That's wrong.

"One ad after another of his ad statements has been determined to be factually inaccurate," Romney said. "And you know I understand that politics is politics but in the past, when you've had an ad which has been roundly pointed out to be wrong you take it out and you correct it and put something back on. He keeps running these things even though he knows they're wrong and saying them in rallies, even though he knows they're wrong."

When asked if he doesn't think it's vital for him to "win" the first debate, which is just over a week away, Romney declined to get into the stakes of the debates.

"I don't expect this to be a contest of who can say the cutest phrase, I think it's a contest of very different directions for the country," he answered.

The Obama campaign in a statement following Romney's remarks said that it's "odd" Romney "won't take personal responsibility for his campaign's troubles," adding that it takes "a lot of chutzpah" to "shed crocodile tears over a legitimate discussion of his record and policies."

"Here are the facts: if Mitt Romney had had his way and we'd let Detroit go bankrupt, GM and Chrysler would no longer be in business today. He would raise taxes on middle class families to pay for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "And he endorsed the Republican Party platform that would ban abortion even in the cases of rape and incest. If he's so offended by his own positions, maybe he shouldn't have taken them in the first place."

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