Holiday Inn Mayfair, London (Hotel Reviews ? Hotel ? Standard)

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If you're anything like me, then you've probably shunned Mayfair as an impossible unaffordable place to stay. What's there? Hotels where the afternoon tea service costs as much as a night in an average property, and there are no prices on anything as if you need to ask, then you definitely can't afford it.

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That's what I figured, anyway, until that is I was lucky enough to stay at the Holiday Inn Mayfair. Wait a minute, I hear you ask, what's the catch? Is it in some werdly unfashionable part of the neighbourhood, hidden behind some bins? Well, no it isn't. It's in a prime spot right next to Green Park, the tube station of the same name and all of the blatant swankery of this plum part of town.

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I would go one further, in fact, and say that it's in a near-ideal location within Mayfair, being as it is equidistant from both the West End AND Hyde Park, so whether it's the capital's most famous shopping district or it's best-loved greenery you're after, you don't have far to walk either way.

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Anyway, with much relief on a satisfyingly hot day, I took a minute's stroll from Green Park tube to the bright lobby, where the staff were as welcoming as the weather. Professional and courteous, I heard them speak at least four languages in the short time I was checking in, which verges on showing off, and would be if they weren't all so damn charming.

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The hotel itself is a big city hotel, some 200 or so rooms and as busy as you'd expect for central London. There's a feeling of space, though, and even though it was peak season, I didn't feel at all crowded.

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The rooms are fairly standard, but noticeably bright and clean, colourful and airy. And many of them have stirring views of some of the capital's well-known views, the grand buildings around Green Park, the bustle of tourists and central London life. It's all quite pleasing.

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The pleasantry continues downstairs in the hotel's bar and restaurant, Nightingales. The decor is modern, stylish without being stuffy and it's an affordable option, particularly in these parts.

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I encountered the serving staff under unusual circumstances. I was late down for breakfast, and they delayed clearing the last of the tasty buffet to let me sit down and grab a bite and a coffee. Due to a weird timetable that day, I was also first down to lunch (I'm not usually such a glutton, just it would be a long time before I could eat again) and so there was a slightly awkward (on my part) "here I am again" moment as the same breakfast staff sat me down.

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No matter, the lovely server sat me down and we made a few jokes about my appetite and a potentially eggy situation was made perfectly enjoyable by the personal touch. Oh, and the food - at both breakfast and my lunch two hours later - was light, fresh and delicious.

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I had a few minor business tasks that again, the reception desk were happy to help me with, and with that I was on my way, stepping out into Mayfair, feeling all the while as if I'd found a loophole in the law that says you have to spend a fortune to stay here. The sunshine seemed even brighter that morning.

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Boyd leads No. 17 Clemson past Boston College, 45-31

Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd targets a teammate against Boston College on Saturday in Boston.

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Published: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 7:52 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 7:52 p.m.

BOSTON ? Tajh Boyd threw for 367 yards and three touchdowns and ran in another himself as No. 17 Clemson beat Boston College 45-31 on Saturday.

Boyd completed 28 of 38 passes and ran 11 times for 42 yards and a TD for Clemson (4-1, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). DeAndre Hopkins caught 11 passes for 197 yards for the Tigers, who bounced back after blowing a two-touchdown lead and losing 49-37 to No. 4 Florida State last week.

Andre Ellington ran 25 times for 132 yards and a touchdown for Clemson.

Chase Rettig, who entered the day as the leading passer in the ACC, completed 25 of 43 passes for 341 yards and three touchdowns. Alex Amdion caught eight passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns for the Eagles (1-3, 0-2), who led 21-17 before giving up three unanswered touchdowns.

Clemson was unbeaten and ranked 10th in the nation when it travelled to Tallahassee last week to play ACC Atlantic rival Florida State. The Tigers opened a 28-14 lead in the third quarter before the Seminoles scored 35 of the next 38 points.

This time it was Clemson rallying with an offensive outburst.

BC had come back from a 17-7 deficit to lead 21-17 on Rettig?s 31-yard pass to Amidon with 4:12 left in the first half. But Boyd hit Brandon Ford for a four-yard TD just before the end of the half, then capped Clemson?s first drive of the second half with Roderick McDowell?s 16-yard touchdown run.

After Rashard Hall?s interception set the Tigers up at the BC 33 yard-line, Boyd hit Jaron Brown for 30 yards and Ellington ran it in from the 1 to make it 38-21.

It was 45-28 when BC inched closer with a Nate Freese field goal, and then stopped Clemson on a fourth-and-1 near midfield. Rettig hit Amidon for 17 yards, with another 15 yards tacked on because Garry Peters threw Amidon to the ground after he was already out of bounds.

But on third down, Peters picked off Rettig at the 5 yard-line. BC got the ball back at Clemson?s 33 when Boyd fumbled, but the Eagles weren?t able to get a first down.

Clemson had added its last TD when Boyd hit Hopkins from 35 yards out to make it 45-28 with 1 minute gone in the fourth quarter. The Tigers ended the game by taking a knee on the BC 1 yard-line.

Source: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120929/wire/120929636

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How can President Obama win the first debate?

By Hilary Rosen, Special to CNN

updated 9:16 PM EDT, Sat September 29, 2012

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Hilary Rosen: It seems everyone else is getting credit for Obama being in the lead
• Rosen: In fact, Obama's strategy is to show election as a choice between two directions
• She says in the debate, Obama should frame every answer as a choice, not a defense
• Rosen: Romney will try to annoy Obama, the president should stay nice

Editor's note: Hilary Rosen, a CNN contributor, is a Democratic political strategist and former chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America.

(CNN) -- Have you noticed lately that everyone else is getting credit for the president being in the lead except President Obama?

It was the cohesive Democratic message at the convention. It was President Clinton bringing it home. It was GOP challenger Mitt Romney being tone deaf about 47% of the American people. In short, according to the pundits, it has been everything but the president himself that's responsible for the momentum that his re-election has now.

In fact, it's been the fundamental strategy of the president and his campaign that has allowed these other issues to resonate so loudly with the American people. When the president successfully shifted this election as a choice between two leaders and two directions rather than a referendum on him and the state of the economy, everything else fell into a complementary narrative.

Hilary Rosen

Yes, there was a good story to tell about the accomplishments of the last four years, but America needed to see the bigger picture.

So now when we learn Romney's tax rate hovers at 14%, or when he picks Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who wanted to kill Medicare as we know it, as his running mate, or when he can't decide if his Massachusetts health care plan is an example of his compassion or a noose around Obamacare, he falls into the trap of comparison every time. He may not have wanted those things to define his candidacy, but Obama is successfully making America realize that if we reject him, we would be choosing Romney.

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So that is my first piece of advice for Obama in the first debate. Frame virtually every answer as a choice, not a defense. Romney is smart and a skilled debater, and he will try to stay vague and put the president on the defensive early. Obama must resist the temptation to lash back only with a spirited defense. Every issue presents a choice for the American people. And on an issue-by-issue basis, the people are mostly with the president.

My second piece of advice is for the president to share his best self as emblematic of what is best in America. Romney says that he only wants everyone to focus on jobs. But life isn't that simple or binary.

If moms are worried about paying for their reproductive health care or whether their rights are respected, it is hard to concentrate only on the economy. If immigrants are worried about being discriminated against or their families deported, it adds to the stress of their economic life. If gays and lesbians can't have their families recognized, it makes their search for meaningful work more complicated as they cobble benefits together. If college students are worrying about the stress of their student loans rather than studying as hard as they can, their chances of pulling themselves up are more limited.

In short, America succeeds when all of its people are valued, and we are all pulling in the same direction rather than refighting old fights or letting social issues divide us. That is not the world that Romney inhabits, but it is the reality for most Americans. Don't be afraid to talk about it.

Romney has everything at stake in this first debate. His campaign team and surrogates can't stop talking about it, in fact. The pressure will be great on him to perform. Therefore he is certain to say things that annoy the president.

Opinion: Why debates don't always make a difference

So my final piece of advice is most simple: Stay nice. No "you're likable enough" comments; no jokes about dogs on top of the car; no snarking about how rich Romney is; no patronizing lecturing when he has his facts wrong. Just stay nice.

One of the greatest gifts America has is a president who is kind and warm with a big smile and compassionate heart. That is the president who will win the first debate.

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Vince Warren says the Supreme Court's ruling on an upcoming case could decide whether the U.S. will continue to be a leader in protecting univeral human rights

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Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada

Saturday, September 29, 2012

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, Canadian defendant Omar Khadr attends a hearing in the courthouse for the US military war crimes commission at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, April 28, 2010.

The youngest prisoner and last Westerner held in the Guantanamo military base, Omar Khadr, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada today, the Canadian government said.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said that Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, had been flown from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a military base in Trenton, Ontario and transferred to the province's Millhaven maximum-security prison.

Khadr's case has been controversial both in Canada and abroad given his age when he was captured, the nature of his detention and hearing, and the reluctance of Canadian officials to accept his return.

"I am satisfied the Correctional Service of Canada 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," Toews said in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

A US war crimes tribunal in 2010 sentenced Khadr, now 26, to 40 years in prison, although he was expected to serve just a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al Qaeda conspirator who murdered a US soldier.

Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included murdering American Army medic Christopher Speer with a grenade in a 2002 firefight, conspiring with al Qaeda to commit terrorist acts, making roadside bombs to target US troops in Afghanistan, spying on American military convoys and providing material support for terrorism.

Khadr was the first person since World War Two to be prosecuted in a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile. He was the youngest prisoner still at Guantanamo, but younger boys were previously held there.

Canadian-born Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, a senior al Qaeda member who apprenticed the boy to a group of bomb makers who opened fire when US troops came to their compound. Khadr was captured in the firefight, during which he was blinded in one eye and shot twice in the back.

Source: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/112861/guantanamos-last-western-detainee-returned-to-canada

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Physicists eager to achieve controlled fusion with a giant laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have to offer Congress some explanations if they are to get more money to keep the project alive.

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Obama, human trafficking and teachable moments on a difficult topic

President Obama's landmark speech on human trafficking ? a major, but misunderstood human rights issue ? is a teachable moment for parents to talk about sexual exploitation to kids who need to understand the issue.

By Stephanie Hanes,?Correspdonent / September 28, 2012

President Obama spoke this week about human trafficking as one of the world's biggest human rights problem that includes such things and the sex trade. Here 16-year-old prostitute Maya applies lipstick in front of a customer inside her small room at Kandapara brothel in Tangail, Bangladesh, March 5, 2012.

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Earlier this week, President Obama gave what advocates are calling a ?landmark? speech about human trafficking, a growing human rights concern in the United States.

The president focused pretty equally on labor and sex trafficking, and announced a number of new US efforts to combat what he called ?the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name ? modern slavery.??

Somewhat predictably, though, the most vocal response here to the speech has come from those involved in the anti-sex-trafficking movement.? ?Sex trafficking? is a subset of human trafficking, one that has gotten a lot of domestic attention recently, from politicians to nonprofit organizations, celebrities to church groups. The stories that these groups tell of victims are horrific ? of young girls, many of whom are American, being kidnapped or tricked, and the subjected to all varieties of violence and cruelties while pimps sell them for sex.

But ...? it turns out to be a more complicated story. I wrote a cover story about this a few weeks back for the CSMonitor Weekly magazine. What seems at first glance to be a simple good-versus-evil issue is actually filled with all sorts of debates, confusions, and ambiguities.

You can read the full story, but the gist is that critics say that many anti-sex-trafficking advocates conflate trafficking with other forms of prostitution. And they say this domestic focus on sex has shifted attention ? and resources ? away from the other (and arguably far more common, if you?re including all sorts of forced labor) types of trafficking that Mr. Obama noted in his speech.?

Advocates, meanwhile, say that this criticism is absurd. While certainly all human trafficking deserves attention, they say, there?s no reason not to focus on the exploitation of young girls, many of whom are American.

Which brings me to why I?m writing about this in a parenting forum.

Although this was not necessarily clear from the president?s speech this week, when we talk about sex trafficking in the US, we?re primarily talking about girls under 18 involved in prostitution. It doesn?t matter whether these girls are beaten and burned and kidnapped, as many of the stories go, or whether they seek out a pimp because they want extra cash. Under US federal law, there?s an argument that if a girl is under 18 and working with a pimp, she?s a sex-trafficking victim.

Now, the numbers on this are incredibly squishy and hard to pin down. (I?m telling you, I spent months trying to figure out how organizations came up with the numbers they throw around, and most of the time there?s no good answer.) But it?s pretty clear that a good number of young American girls are sold for sex (or sell themselves for sex), and it?s also pretty clear that this is ? in the vast, vast majority of cases ? not healthy or happy for these teens.

And here?s another thing: While most prostituted teenagers started out as vulnerable teenagers ? they were homeless, say, or had drug addictions ? there are a number of cases around the US of more mainstream girls ending up as victims.

In Northern Virginia, for instance, prosecutors earlier this year broke up a gang-related sex trafficking ring in which a number of? high school girls ? at least a few of whom lived at home, with parents ? were recruited by other girls into a prostitution business.? In Georgia, there has reportedly been a prostitution ring (again, managed in large part by other girls), run out of an Atlanta area high school.

Now, is the takeaway from this to lock up your daughter, or start panicking because classmates are just waiting for a chance to lure her into prostitution?

No. Rather, the president?s speech, and the growing movement around sex trafficking, is a chance to talk about sexual exploitation ? whether called trafficking or something else.? (It?s a good moment to think seriously about your own prejudices and perspectives on this, also). It?s a chance to talk about exploitation overall, actually, and about how easy it is for us to look away from those whose suffering is uncomfortable or inconvenient to us; whether that?s the young prostitute you try to ignore as you drive through your city at night, or the impoverished worker a world away who is making your next iPhone.

It?s also a good chance to talk about hype, and about looking for facts underneath rhetoric.

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Liver cells, insulin-producing cells, thymus can be grown in lymph nodes, team finds

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Lymph nodes can provide a suitable home for a variety of cells and tissues from other organs, suggesting that a cell-based alternative to whole organ transplantation might one day be feasible, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and its McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

In a report recently published online in Nature Biotechnology, the research team showed for the first time that liver cells, thymus tissue and insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells, in an animal model, can thrive in lymph nodes despite being displaced from their natural sites.

Hepatitis virus infection, alcoholic cirrhosis and other diseases can cause so much damage that liver transplantation is the only way to save the patient, noted senior investigator Eric Lagasse, Pharm. D., Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Pathology, Pitt School of Medicine. Children with DiGeorge syndrome lack functional thymus glands to produce essential immune cells, and diabetes can be cured with a pancreas transplant.

"However, the scarcity of donor organs means many people will not survive the wait for transplantation," said Dr. Lagasse, whose lab is at the McGowan Institute. "Cell therapies are being explored, but introducing cells into tissue already ravaged by disease decreases the likelihood of successful engraftment and restoration of function."

In the study, his team tested the possibility of using lymph nodes, which are abundant throughout the body and have a rich blood supply, as a new home for cells from other organs in what is called an "ectopic" transplant.

They injected healthy liver cells from a genetically-identical donor animal into lymph nodes of mice at various locations. The result was an enlarged, liver-like node that functioned akin to the liver; in fact, a single hepatized lymph node rescued mice that were in danger of dying from a lethal metabolic liver disease. Likewise, thymus tissue transplanted into the lymph node of mice that lacked the organ generated functional immune systems, and pancreatic islet cell transplants restored normal blood sugar control in diabetic animals.

"Our goal is not necessarily to replace the entire liver, for example, but to provide sufficient cell mass to stabilize liver function and sustain the patient's life," Dr. Lagasse said. "That could buy time until a donor organ can be transplanted. Perhaps, in some cases, ectopic cell transplantation in the lymph node might allow the diseased organ to recover."

Co-authors of the paper include Junji Komori, M.D., Ph.D., Lindsey Boone, Ph.D., and Aaron DeWard, Ph.D., all of Pitt's Department of Pathology and the McGowan Institute, and Toshitaka Hoppo, M.D., Ph.D., of the McGowan Institute.

The project was funded by National Institutes of Health grants P30CA047904 (through the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and R01 DK085711.

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I?ve asked myself the following question literally hundreds of times.? There are stacks of books with entrepreneurial stories, books about the life of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, et al.? We know these guys are driven, talented, obsessed, ruthless, workaholic and a little bit lucky (see, e.g., How to Spot an Entrepreneur).? We envy them and even try to model our lives after them, but why?? What makes them happy?

A passion for the pinnacle of money, power and prestige could be a good answer, but surely these high achievers know that someone always comes along to nudge you off the platform.? Consider Bill Gates; in an astonishing display of fiscal virility, he rented the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai for his wedding to Melinda.? One would assume this was a happy occasion, as they are still husband and wife after 18 years.? Bill set a new standard for opulence, until billionaire Larry Ellison came along and bought Lanai outright.? Larry has not been forthcoming about his intentions for the purchase (to date, he has been married and divorced four times).?

It is worthwhile to remember that ?happiness? is much more than a new-age, feel-good buzzword sparring with ?balanced?, ?centered? and ?good karma? in the titles of bestsellers and self-improvement workshops.? America?s founders trusted Thomas Jefferson with drafting the first version of the Declaration of Independence, and his second sentence is one of the most elegant and profound ever written.? There is more to this journey than just life and liberty from British rule, Jefferson wrote.? It is also about pursuing happiness.?

Although this happiness thing is in our mission statement, it has proven elusive.? In 1988, Bobby McFerrin promoted a two step process, the first of which was ?Don?t worry.?? Whether or not it worked, it made Bobby a lot of money.? History is unclear on how happy he was.

Politicians routinely ask if we are better off now than we were four years ago.? Numbers are tallied and scrutinized.? How much do we earn?? How many new homes are we building?? How many iPhone5?s were sold in the first 24 hours?? It?s been over 200 years since Jefferson suggested happiness as one of the key metrics of the American experiment and the government still hasn?t found a good way to measure it.?

The traditional metric for happiness has been the GDP per capita, a number representing the total value of goods and services produced in the country per unit human.? This presumed surrogate for standard of living only works if making and using stuff leads us to happiness.? According to the CIA (one of several agencies which tabulate GDP data) the top three countries in the world in this category are Monaco, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.? The U.S. is in the 19^th spot.?

?We love to talk about people who are poor but happy and rich people who are probably miserable, but what?s the real story?? The polling gurus at Gallup took it straight to the source, surveying folks directly to ask just how happy they really are.? The results show the top three happiest countries are Denmark, Finland and Norway.? On this list the U.S. ranks 11^th, just ahead of Costa Rica.

The confusing message in this data has not gone unnoticed.? Americans are kicking butt on Life and Liberty, but two out of three is just not good enough.? Inquiring minds need to know; are we happy??

There?s a saying in engineering ? ?You can?t control it if you can?t measure it.?? Vermont, Maryland, Seattle, Somerville, Wisconsin and California?s Nevada City are just a few of the states and cities that are developing measures of happiness. ?The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working on an official index.? This stuff we keep getting more of, is it really the right stuff?? What if economic growth is harming the environment without improving the real quality of life?

For many pragmatists the whole idea of happiness is just too ?fluffy?.? Work hard, stay focused, count your blessings, and be thankful you?re not living in a poor country like the tiny South Asian nation of Bhutan, where the average life expectancy is 67 years and annual income is $2000.?

Back in 1972, the King of Bhutan, sensing that money and happiness were not well correlated, called for a Gross National Happiness index.? National policies based on the GNH limit tourism, ban tobacco, and keep motorists away from town centers every Tuesday.? The 7 million people of Bhutan are warm, friendly, and measurably happier than they were 40 years ago.?

You don?t have to travel to Bhutan to see that GDP per capita is leaving out something important.? At the beginning of his Presidential campaign in 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy said the GDP?

"...does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages ? it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

It is tempting to think of ?The Happy Entrepreneur? as a risk taker who has put up big numbers.? Perhaps the definition should be revised to look more like this;

entrepreneur [ahn-truh-pruh-noor] noun; an enterprising individual who builds happiness through risk and initiative, accepting full responsibility for the outcome.

As citizens of this great country we are entitled, in fact we are expected, to pursue happiness. ?Soon the Federal Government will be telling us exactly how happy we really are.? Once that happens, things are bound to get better.

Don?t worry.

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Author Profile - Paul W. Smith, a Founder and Director of Engineering with INVENTtPM LLc, has more than 35 years of experience in research and advanced product development.?

Prior to founding INVENTtPM, Dr. Smith spent 10 years with Seagate Technology in Longmont, Colorado. At Seagate, he was primarily responsible for evaluating new data storage technologies under development throughout the company, and utilizing six-sigma processes to stage them for implementation in early engineering models. While at Seagate, he was a proud member of the team that brought the world?s first notebook disk drive with perpendicular recording technology to the market.?

Paul holds a doctorate in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology, a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Mercury eye Griner after winning WNBA's No. 1 pick

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) ? Phoenix Mercury president Amber Cox is an avid user of social media.

She had just witnessed one of the greatest moments in team history when Phoenix won the WNBA draft lottery Wednesday night, earning the No. 1 pick and the chance to select Baylor's Brittney Griner.

Cox wanted to share the news with fans and coach Corey Gaines, who was in the television studio waiting for the draft order to be unveiled. Instead, she had to wait two hours until the results were broadcast on TV for the first time in league history. Cox and the other team executives who participated in the lottery were sequestered in a room, unable to access their phones or computers.

"It was tough, but it was fun to watch his reaction too, on TV," Cox said. "Corey's usually a cool customer and doesn't show any emotion, but he had a hard time holding that one in."

Cox was cool herself when the winning combination ? 4, 5, 6, 14 ? was drawn. There was no loud cheer or fist pump; she just sat there quietly taking in the moment.

The Mercury (7-27) had the second-worst record in the league this season and were assigned 276 of the 1,000 possible lottery combinations. Fortunately for Cox and the Mercury, one of those combos came up first.

"We're really excited. It means a lot to our fans, it means a lot to our organization," Cox said. "We're just really excited and kind of speechless at the moment. We came into the draft lottery today, Corey and I, with no expectations and, again, like he said, we knew that anyone we would be able to add to the pieces we already have would be good.

"This is obviously icing on the cake."

Chicago will pick second and Tulsa third. Washington, which had the worst record in the league, will pick fourth. The Mystics (5-29) had a 44-percent chance to win the top pick. Only four times in the 11 previous lotteries has the team with the worst record secured the top pick, and that hasn't happened since 2009.

Mystics chief operating officer Greg Bibb had a homemade pouch with him in the lottery room. It didn't help.

Neither Gaines nor Cox would commit to selecting Griner after the lottery results were announced.

"Griner has a unique skill set," Cox said. "We'll look at the class and it's our job over the next few months to figure out what's the best fit for us."

Griner, though, is a once-in-a-lifetime talent. The 6-foot-8 Baylor star is an unbelievable shot blocker and also can play above the rim. She helped guide Baylor to a national championship last year and the first 40-0 season in college basketball history. The reigning Associated Press player of the year will try to lead the Lady Bears to a second straight championship when the season starts next month.

"We like to fast break and you need to rebound and play defense to get out and run," said Gaines, smiling. "Obviously she can block shots and rebound the ball well."

Griner headlines a talented class. Delaware's Elena Delle Donne led the nation in scoring last season and is a versatile 6-foot-5 guard who can score from almost anywhere on the court. Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins has guided the Irish to the past two national championship games and is one of the most followed female athletes on Twitter.

"They all are very different players and can do different things for us," Cox said.

Phoenix was plagued by injuries most of the season. Star Diana Taurasi played in only eight games and Penny Taylor missed the entire year while recovering from an ACL injury. Candice Dupree also missed 21 games because of a knee injury.

"This was a difficult season with all the injuries we had," Gaines said. "The players this year tried so hard and now the texts are coming in from them. They are ready to come back and excited."

The Mercury have had the first pick in the draft two other times, including 2004 when they drafted Taurasi.

This was the first time that the lottery was shown on television. In the past, the lottery had been held later in the calendar year behind closed doors at a league meeting.

"This worked out great," WNBA President Laurel Richie said. "It creates a buzz and gets people talking now for the next few months until the draft in April."

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New innovative businesses alight at Science Park as it celebrates its ...

Open innovation is key to identifying the industries of the future on which UK prosperity will depend, and the Bristol & Bath Science Park offers an exciting place to accelerate this in the South West.

That was the message delivered by writer and economist Will Hutton, who was speaking at the park?s first anniversary event today. Just a year after opening, space at the park has been snapped up twice as fast as anticipated with over three quarters of the first phase already let.

Coinciding with today?s event, three international science and technology-based companies announced they are to move or expand into the park's Grow On Centre, including Japanese power electronics firm TDK-Lambda, Marine Current Turbines, part of Siemens, and advanced numerical simulation research body CFMS.?

Speaking at the today?s event, co-hosted by Science City Bristol, Mr Hutton, chair of the Big Innovation Centre at the Work Foundation said: ?For Britain to compete effectively in a global economy, a strong culture of open innovation is vital to building the high value industries of the future.

?The South West has the ingredients in place to develop a vibrant open innovation ecosystem ? international research-led universities, major blue-chip corporates, a potentially strong SME sector which embraces disruptive technologies and a developing skills base. It still falls short of a proper innovation eco-system. However the Science Park offers the potential to provide a new hub to accelerate open innovation in the region.?

Mr Hutton went on to participate in a panel discussion with business and university leaders about how best to encourage open innovation and collaboration between the South West?s leading academics and key sectors to build the industries of the future. These sectors include creative and digital, wireless, advanced materials and clean technology companies.

?Science Park chief executive Bonnie Dean said: ?We are delighted to welcome Will Hutton to the Bristol & Bath Science Park to champion the role of open innovation in accelerating the transfer of research from universities and research centres into industry.

?The UK invests over ?4bn a year in research and the new ideas generated from this investment represent a significant opportunity to reshape and rebuild our economy. We are grateful to Will for offering inspiration to the region and for encouraging business and academia to embrace the power of open innovation.?

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Science City Bristol director Lorelei Hunt added: ?The Bristol and Bath region is a major centre for research-led industries such as aerospace, electronics, life sciences and green technology. Their future competitiveness depends on working in a broader way ? across organisational boundaries, between large and small businesses and universities in an effective and vibrant ecosystem. We are thrilled to welcome Will Hutton to our inaugural event here today, as a leading advocate of open innovation and its capacity to transform the UK economy.?

Bristol and Bath were made a joint Science City in 2005 in recognition of the region?s strengths in research-led industries such as aerospace, electronics, life sciences and green technology.

Marine Current Turbines, a tidal energy company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens company, has moved from the Science Park?s Innovation Centre into the Grow-On Centre, providing office and research space for up to 72 members of staff. TDK-Lambda has taken space for its advanced power electronics research engineers who will work closely with research laboratories in North Devon, Israel and Japan. Since announcing the move the firm has already seen a five-fold increase in the level of applicants from candidates with traditionally hard-to-find skills. Lastly, CFMS, an independent, not-for-profit engineering design simulation organisation formed as a joint venture between leading engineering firms, will move to the Science Park from Bristol Business Park in January 2013.

Guests at today?s event also witnessed the unveiling of the world?s largest solar chandelier ? a major new work illustrating the link between science and art, creativity and innovation. Created by the internationally acclaimed and Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram (Play Me I?m Yours ? street pianos placed in public spaces around the world, including Bristol) whose three glass sculptures of viruses will be permanently on display at the Science Park, the 5m-high chandelier, pictured, is suspended from the ceiling of the Science Park?s stunning three storey-high, glass-fronted Forum building.? It is made up of 700 glass Crookes radiometers, individual glass bulbs containing metal paddles that spin when powered by sunlight, causing the chandelier to shimmer and flicker.

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Criticism of Romney's campaign grows; Six in 10 rate his efforts negatively

Public criticism of Mitt Romney's race for the White House has risen sharply, with six in 10 Americans expressing a negative opinion of how he's handling his campaign and a majority responding unfavorably to his comments on people who don't pay income taxes.

Sixty-one percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll hold an unfavorable view of how Romney's handling his presidential campaign, up by 12 percentage points since mid-July. Far fewer, 35 percent, rate Romney's performance positively, essentially unchanged.

See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

Barack Obama's ratings for handling his campaign are substantially better, 54-43 percent, favorable-unfavorable. And while ratings of Romney's campaign have grown more negative, favorable ratings of Obama's campaign efforts have gained 8 points since July.

These ratings follow controversy last week about Romney's remark at a Florida fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, see themselves as "victims" and lack personal responsibility. Fifty-four percent in this survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, see his "recent comments about people who don't pay income taxes" negatively; 32 percent respond favorably, with the rest unsure.

There's also an intensity problem for Romney: Americans disproportionately see his handling of his campaign "strongly" unfavorably rather than strongly favorably, 36 percent vs. 10 percent; it's a similar split on his comment on those who don't pay taxes. Strong sentiment on Obama's campaign, by contrast, is evenly balanced.

As damaging as Romney's remark may have been, it appears not to be solely responsible for Romney's weak grade on handling his campaign, since ratings of his campaign performance overall are 7 points more negative than are responses to that comment. Indeed, even among those who see the "47 percent" remark favorably, nearly three in 10 also respond negatively to Romney's handling of his campaign overall.

In a sign of particular trouble for Romney, negative views of his campaign have grown by 18 points since midsummer among independents, who often are swing voters. In July, 46 percent of independents rated Romney's handling of his campaign negatively; it's 64 percent today. Romney's positive score among independents, at 32 percent, far trails Obama's, 50 percent.

Even among Republicans, more than one in four rates Romney's efforts negatively - 27 percent. While essentially unchanged since July, that's substantially more than the share of Democrats who respond negatively to Obama's work on his campaign, 11 percent.

As well as among independents, negative views of Romney's handling of his campaign have grown especially sharply among adults under age 40 - up by 23 points since July, to 69 percent negative - and among women, with negative responses up by 18 points. And there's a large gap among income groups: a 16-point rise in negative ratings of Romney's campaign among people with household incomes less than $100,000 a year, vs. essentially no change among those with incomes of $100,000 or more.

Less than well-off adults also are more critical of Romney's "47 percent" comment, responding negatively rather than positively by 57-28 percent. Those with incomes of $100,000 or more, by contrast, divide evenly - they're 18 points more supportive of the remark.

Obama, for his part, gets especially positive grades for handling his campaign, 60 percent, from people with household incomes of $50,000 or less; that falls to less than half of those who are better off financially. Still his rating is 17 points better than Romney's even in the $50,000-$100,000 range; only among $100,000-plus earners does Romney's campaign rival Obama's.

Among other groups, Obama's campaign efforts are rated positively by majorities of women, adults younger than 40, moderates (as well as liberals) and (especially) nonwhites; those compare with even splits among men and among people 40 and older. Among whites, Obama's 45-51 percent rating, favorable-unfavorable, is not positive - but beats Romney's 39-56 percent.

While these results are among all adults, they're essentially identical among those who report being registered to vote: Negative on Romney's campaign by 61-36 percent; negative on his tax comment by 54-33 percent; and positive on Obama's campaign efforts by 53-45 percent.

METHODOLOGY - This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cell phone Sept. 19-23, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,012 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 4 points, including design effect. The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, N.Y., with sampling, data collection and tabulation by SSRS/Social Science Research Solutions of Media, Pa.

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Store humiliates Ga. woman for using food stamps

Is a $15 gift card enough to compensate for public humiliation at your local grocery store? According to one Georgia woman, the answer is absolutely not.

Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to feed her family, said she was brought to tears after being embarrassed by a manager at a Kroger store in Warner Robbins, Ga.

"He said, 'Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps like you,'" Nerger said the manager told her.

The man's comment came after Nerger and two other store employees disagreed over whether her total purchase was eligible for food stamps - the employees had insisted that roughly $10 of her bill was not covered. She said the manager ultimately told the employees to "just give it to her."

After Nerger then stressed that she had been right all along, the man made his "working for a living" remark, she said.

"I turned around and realized how many people heard him and how many saw that happened and I was so embarrassed? I started crying," she said.

In a statement to ABCNews.com, a Kroger spokesman said, "We deeply regret our customer's experience. The comments made were not reflective of our company's policy. We value all of our customers. Please know that we have taken immediate steps to make sure something like this never happens again."

WATCH: Customers React When They See a Woman Heckled for Running Out of Food Stamps in a "What Would You Do?" Scenario

The spokesman did not reply to a follow-up message asking for more information, but a local Georgia television station reported that Kroger had transferred the manager at the center of the controversy to another store.

Nerger said the reason she and her family - she is married with a daughter - must rely on food stamps is because her husband's carpentry business isn't profitable enough to support the family.

Meanwhile, Nerger must devote 12 hours every night to a dialysis treatment to combat her kidney disease, which she's struggled with since the age of 11. She's been on a kidney transplant list for five years and hopes that someday, after a successful transplant, she can become a working member of society. She would like to attend college to major in child psychology.

"There's just so much stigmatism put on people on food stamps. They're just some losers who don't want to work. That isn't the case in every situation," she said.

Nerger's account of her run-in with a Kroger manager went viral after she posted it to her Facebook page, prompting friends to encourage her to post a message to a local television station. The station ended up contacting her and doing a story.

Kroger, meanwhile, responded to a complaint Nerger passed on through the store's national customer service line by apologizing and offering her a $15 gift card. Nerger said she rejected the offer because she doesn't plan on shopping at Kroger again.

What she wants, she said, is an apology directly from the manager, whom she also believes should be demoted from his job and trained how to treat customers properly.

She stopped short of saying the man should lose his job.

"I didn't want anybody to be in the food stamp line with me," she said.

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Nexus 7 comes to South Korea, causes price envy across the water

If Google-lovin' Koreans were a little jealous after seeing Eric Schmidt turn up in Japan with a Nexus 7-shaped gift under his arm, they needn't be. It looks like the Executive Chairman brought another one along with him on his Asian travels. It wasn't just the hardware that came along for the ride either, with The Next Web reporting that the firm also made movies available in the countries edition of Google Play. The Korean asking price will be a reported KRW 299,000 (about $267) for the 16GB edition, a smidgen less than its neighbor's (¥19,800 / $312). We suspect, though, not quite enough to warrant a ferry ride.

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Outsourcing, China and the Presidential Campaign | What Am I ...

By Peter Morici

President Obama and Governor Romney each claims they would do better standing up for American workers against unfair trade with China. However, when it comes to outsourcing both have sins to repent.

Just about everyone who has had a choice between buying an American-made product or an import?a car, a dress or bottle of wine?must admit international trade based on national differences in knowhow, labor costs and natural resources can help us live better.

If Americans expect to sell Boeing aircraft and Microsoft Windows abroad, then they must be prepared to outsource some of what they buy directly, or through firms assembling goods here.

The problem is not outsourcing but importing products that could be made as or less expensively in the United States. That happens when: U.S. policy throws up unnecessary barriers to domestic business; foreign governments subsidize inefficient production or simply keep out competitive American products; or U.S. firms have an inappropriate bias toward foreign sourcing.

Those swell the trade deficit, which imposes great costs, and both President Obama and Governor Romney each share some guilt.

President Obama?s tough restrictions on oil and gas development in the Gulf, off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in Alaska do not reduce U.S. petroleum consumption but merely shift exploration and production to costlier and riskier locations abroad. EPA limits on CO2 emissions encourage manufacturers to locate in China, where similar regulations do not apply. Both kill U.S. jobs without an environmental benefit.

China keeps its products artificially cheap, and encourages U.S. manufacturers to locate production in the Middle Kingdom by suppressing the value of its currency, imposing high tariffs and throwing up administrative barriers to U.S. goods and services.

In the wake of the financial crisis, Beijing required that its stimulus money to be spent in China, and yet President Obama permitted billions of U.S. stimulus money to be spent in China and similarly protectionist regimes.

For example, GE, whose CEO heads the President?s Job?s Council, used stimulus grants to purchase components for U.S. wind turbines from the Chengxi Shipyard?a state controlled company that builds vessels for the Chinese Navy?even though an American supplier offered to match its price.

President Obama could have excluded those products?either through the initial legislation or by executive order?without violating WTO rules but chose not to do so.
More broadly, he has not taken aim at China?s undervalued currency, which affords exporters as much as a 40 percent price advantage when selling in the United States.

Bain Capital, the firm founded by Governor Romney, has invested in companies that have relocated jobs to China. More broadly private equity firms have an inherent bias toward outsourcing that is often neither helpful to the businesses they reorganize nor healthy for the U.S. economy.

Essentially, private equity purchases distressed businesses, and looks for quick profits by slashing wasteful employment?unnecessary jobs that would be lost anyway if the firms failed?and replacing ossified management. However, seeking big returns in a brief period, private equity managers are more likely to sell off valuable brands and patents to raise quick cash, and to offshore manufacturing that supports domestic R&D and could contribute greatly to the future value of the firm and broader U.S. competitiveness and employment.

U.S. tax policies offer substantial incentives to private equity reorganization of businesses by taxing their partners? income at about half the rate that many corporations, small businesses and professionals pay. Simply, those tax breaks give the economy more private equity reorganizations than are good for U.S. growth and jobs creation.

Unnecessary outsourcing is responsible for at least half the $600 billion U.S. trade deficit. Slashing that deficit in half would boost domestic demand and GDP by about $500 billion and add 5 million jobs.

Export and import-competing industries spend at least four times as much on R&D as the private business sector as a whole. Reducing outsourcing, by increasing R&D, could boost U.S. GDP by one or two percentage points. A U.S. economy growing at 3 or 4 percent a year, instead of its current 2 percent, would have far fewer budget problems at the federal and state levels, and far more resources to address issues like health care, the solvency of social security and finance an adequate national defense and space exploration.??? (my emphasis)

Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and widely published columnist.

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SECOND CHANCE: OTIS & CROSBY | Telluride Inside? and Out

Editor?s note: It?s no secret. The Telluride region is dog heaven. Unless you are one of our furry friends who gets caught in the maw of neglect and abuse. Then heaven is on hold until Second Chance Humane Society comes to the rescue. Second Chance is the region?s nonprofit dedicated to saving animals? lives and promoting responsible pet parenting and human-animal bond. Every week, executive director Kelly Goodin will choose to profile two of the many animals from the no-kill shelter, Angel Ridge Shelter, a dog and a cat, hoping to find them loving homes. The column will be sponsored by Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel, who from time to time exercises his skills as a dog whisperer and partners with Kelly and her staff to help train a particularly challenging animal. Below is Kelly?s third blog.

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Second Chance Humane Society has been providing animal welfare services and programs to the San Miguel and Ouray County region for almost 19 years. But the nonprofit has undergone significant development along the way.

As Second Chance begins its new relationship with TIO readers, I offer a quick overview of all that Second Chance makes available to the region. Let me first emphasize that the constant throughout the history of our organization has been the critical role? community support plays in saving animal?s lives today and tomorrow.

Second Chance was founded in 1994. The organization has grown and transformed from all-volunteer to strictly used foster homes for rescues (until they could be adopted) to professionally run with a broader reach and greater capacity to save lives. The Animal Resource Center, located at Angel Ridge Ranch in Ridgway, not only receives homeless pets from throughout its service region ?San Miguel, Ouray, and Montrose Counties ? but also offers a host of animal welfare services and programs.

The mission of Second Chance is Saving Animals? Lives and Promoting Responsible Pet Parenting & the Human-Animal Bond.? By operating dynamic programming and services, Second Chance works to impact the regional and nation-wide pet overpopulation problem while promoting the undeniable human-animal connection and resulting benefits and liabilities.

Our programs and services grow and transform in alignment with the need in our service region.Currently we offer the following:

??? ?Shelter/Foster Program ? provides abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless dogs and cats a second chance (Second Chance is committed to maintaining its shelter policy that adoptable pets are not euthanized to create space for others).
??? ?Wags & Menace Medical Fund ? funding for special medical needs of shelter pets to increase their adoptability and quality of life.
??? ? Spay/Neuter Programs ? provides financial assistance and low cost spay/neuter clinics to low-income pet owners.
??? ?Animal Control Assistance ? support services for regional government animal control.
??? ?Placement Program ? assists families in finding homes for pets they must surrender.
??? ?Pet Counseling ? provides assistance to pet owners in correcting behavioral problems so that pet can remain in the home (rather than be placed in the shelter program).
??? ?Feral Cat Program ? trapping, testing for disease, spaying/neutering, vaccinating, and returning feral cats into their original habitat (to humanely control these populations).

In addition to the above programs, Second Chance operates a broad Community Outreach Program, to be discussed more in depth next week. Now I would like to introduce Otis and Crosby, two adoptable pets available today at Angel Ridge Ranch.

Otis

OTIS:

My name is Otis and I am an adorable four- month-old tabby hoping that ?A Change is Gonna Come,? as Otis Redding sings and I am adopted soon. With less than 16 weeks of life in me, I was found outside, alone, wandering, helpless, scared, sad and vulnerable. But being rescued by Second Chance and then named after Otis Redding is a cool thing as I really relate to my namesake. I would love to be ?Sitting on the Dock of a Bay? right now and I am always ready to ?Try a Little Tenderness, ?but most of all I would find great ?Satisfaction? from someone willing ?Stand by Me? and take me home.

Just saying?

CROSBY:

My name is Crosby and I am one lucky boy. My diminutive size and lack of fondness for adventure left me unprepared for life as a street dog. (I kept thinking to myself: Me? A street dog??? Come On!!!)? But thank goodness my survival instincts led me to Second Chance, where I arrived in pretty bad shape with rotting teeth and a lump on my belly. But the caring folks at my first real home, however temporary (I hope), had my teeth cleaned and my belly assessed ? and fortunately the vet believes the bump is just an old trauma that has healed over time ? and I have been neutered and vaccinated. Now I am ready to bring my coolness to your casa, where I will remind you over and over I am not a street dog. I am a lap dog. Laps are my friends!!!

Note: Call the SCHS Helpline at 626-2273 to report a lost pet, learn about adopting a homeless pet, or about the SCHS Spay/Neuter, Volunteer, Feral Cat, or other Programs.

View our shelter pets and services online: www.adoptmountainpets.org.

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Related posts:

1. SECOND CHANCE?S ARFFF
2. SECOND CHANCE: ETHEL & DOLLY
3. SECOND CHANCE: ARFF+ YOGI & GUS
4. Dog?s Best Friend: Helping Second Chance
5. Second Chance in Telluride celebrating 15 years

Source: http://www.tellurideinside.com/2012/09/second-chance-otis-crosby.html

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