National Grid, others expect power outages for days to come

National Grid and other utility companies are reporting more than 200,000 customers in New York without power after an October snow storm downed power lines in the northeast.

An early taste of winter weather brought down tree limbs all over New York and turned off power for thousands, as wet snow from an unusual October snowstorm meant putting down the rakes and picking up the shovels.

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Around the state, more than 200,000 customers were without power, most in the hard-hit Hudson Valley region of the state. Consolidated Edison reported almost 69,000 customers were without power in Westchester County, as were about 4,700 customers in New York City.

Orange and Rockland said it had 84,000 customers out in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties. New York State Electric and Gas reported at least 52,000 customers with outages, and National Grid reported at least 9,300 customers out.

"I think wind is the biggest factor. The wind makes the trees wobbly and they tumble onto our lines and transformers and equipment," said ConEd spokesman Allan Drury. He said it would take several days for full restoration.

In the Hudson Valley, state police evacuated motorists from numerous vehicles stuck on Interstate 84 and the Taconic Parkway overnight and took them to hotels. Police said about 50 to 75 vehicles were towed away so the highways could be plowed, and owners were being reunited with them Sunday afternoon.

The National Weather Service says the storm dropped more than 21 inches of snow in Millbrook in the Hudson Valley. Power was knocked out to more than 110,000 homes and businesses in Dutchess and Ulster counties.

The storm was a taste for what's to come for the demonstrators camping out at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Nick Lemmin, 25, of Brooklyn, spent his first night camping out at the plaza. He slept in a sleeping bag, and had on extra layers ? thermals, a sweatshirt, a scarf.

"I slept actually pretty well," he said. "It was pretty quiet."

He said the OWS demonstrators were prepared for the weather, with tents. "Once you're in a tent, it's pretty warm," he said.

Lemmin thought the early snow was actually helpful, that it gave the protesters a chance to see how cold weather would be before it sets in more permanently.

"I think it's a good test," he said.

Around Albany, where most tree leaves are still green, cottony snow coated every twig and power line Sunday morning. But by noon, under a clear blue sky, the few inches of snowfall had vanished from all but the shadiest grass. At the Occupy Albany encampment across from the Capitol, about 40 people spent the night in tarp-draped tents.

"There was a team of people sweeping snow off tents overnight," said Kathy Manley, who was snug and warm overnight in a winter sleeping bag. "It's getting a little rough with the cold nights, but if people have the proper equipment it's no problem."

A couple of dirt- and leaf-caked snowmen stood among the people waving "We are the 99 percent" signs for passing cars. Geordie O'Brien, sitting with Manley at an information table under a canopy, said the protesters plan to remain in place into the winter.

With temperatures in the 30s on Sunday morning, a brilliant sun shone on Central Park, alive with people taking walks and on exercise runs.

They passed thousands of feet of yellow "caution" tape that kept them away from danger ? downed tree limbs strewn all over the park, ripped off Saturday in the winds that accompanied a record snowfall on New York City.

The damage didn't keep Becky McKee, a visitor from Iowa, from enjoying a unique sight ? Sheep Meadow aglow in snow white against the Manhattan skyline.

"It's so pretty!" exclaimed the teacher's aide from Underwood, Iowa.

"I wasn't expecting to be wearing hat and gloves here," she said.

McKeel said she was impressed by how New Yorkers reacted to Saturday's weather.

"I couldn't believe it. Nothing stops New Yorkers! This is not what I expected," she said.

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Top Obama aide vents frustration with Congress (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? A top aide to President Barack Obama expressed frustration on Friday with his fellow Democrats as well as Republican members of Congress for resisting the White House's domestic agenda.

The comments by Obama's chief of staff William Daley, made in an interview with the Politico newspaper, could add to tension that has arisen between Obama and some congressional Democrats.

"On the domestic side, both Democrats and Republicans have really made it very difficult for the president to be anything like a chief executive," Daley told Politico. "This has led to a kind of frustration."

Some Democrats have been unhappy with Obama's handling of this year's budget battles, viewing him as having been too willing to compromise with Republicans on their demands for spending cuts to cherished social programs.

"There's no question that Democrats haven't agreed, or some Democrats haven't agreed, with every position the president has taken on every issue," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

Democrats were upset when word leaked out last summer about the shape of a "grand bargain" on deficit reduction that was discussed between Obama and Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner. Under discussion were changes to the Social Security retirement program that Democrats opposed.

Ultimately, Boehner walked away from the talks because his fellow Republicans balked.

Carney, seeming to play down Daley's comments, said it had been Republicans, not Democrats, who have thwarted the president's agenda.

"The obstacle to getting things done that the American people want done on the economy and jobs has been congressional Republicans," Carney said.

Obama this week took a series of actions on the economy, including steps to help struggling homeowners, college students and small businesses, that do not require congressional action.

Rolling out a new slogan, "We can't wait," Obama has pledged to take further executive actions.

The White House has sought to paint Republicans as obstructionists for impeding his $447 billion jobs package and the new executive actions are aimed at part in putting pressure on them to work with the administration on that legislation.

(Writing by Caren Bohan; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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Two abortion clinic employees plead guilty to murder (Reuters)

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) ? Two employees of a Philadelphia abortion clinic where live, viable babies were allegedly killed and a patient died after being given on overdose of painkillers pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder.

Guilty pleas to third-degree murder were entered by Adrienne Moton, 34, and Sherry West, 52, who both worked for Dr. Kermit Gosnell at what prosecutors have described as a decrepit and unsanitary clinic known as Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia.

Due to a court-issued gag order, attorneys declined to comment on reports that no plea agreement was reached in the case.

Sentencing was set for December 2 by Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner. The maximum penalty for third-degree murder is 40 years in prison.

Seven more defendants face charges in the case, including Gosnell, who a grand jury in January said, "killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors."

The grand jury said that a clinic co-worker of Moton's testified that a woman gave birth to a large baby at the clinic, delivering the child into a toilet. The jurors identified the newborn as "Baby D."

The jurors said the co-worker told them that the baby was moving and looked like it was swimming.

"Moton reached into the toilet, got the baby out and cut its neck," the grand jury said in its report.

West was accused of murder in the death of a 41-year-old patient, Karnamaya Mongar.

"The evidence presented to the grand jury established that Karnamaya Mongar died of cardiac arrest because she was overdosed with Demerol," the grand jurors said.

The grand jury said West and another employee administered the drug at Gosnell's direction and that Mongar died as a result of "wanton reckless conduct."

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Greg McCune)

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Can Herman Cain actually win the GOP nomination?

Herman Cain continues to run strong in polls of Republican voters nationwide and in key states. So why do experts still say he's a long shot for the GOP nomination? Organization and experience.

From the start, Herman Cain has confounded the Republican elite. The former pizza magnate, Navy mathematician, and talk radio host with no political experience jumped into the presidential race with both feet way back in January and has never looked back.

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Mr. Cain has enticed GOP voters with his catchy "9-9-9" tax plan and moved them with his up-by-the-bootstraps life story. He has also raised eyebrows with a series of gaffes, strange ads, and reports of "chaos" within his campaign. But he?s a robo-candidate, plowing ahead, ever-smiling. And he?s ahead in the polls among likely GOP primary voters, both nationally and in key early nominating states. His Achilles? heel is fundraising and organization.

Could Cain actually win the Republican nomination? In theory, yes. But political analysts still view Cain as a long shot.

A story in The New York Times posted Wednesday quotes former aides describing a campaign that churns through staff, mishandles potential donors, and makes nonsensical scheduling decisions. All campaigns, especially those new to presidential politics, go through some disorder, but given that Cain?s argument for the presidency is his private-sector management experience, he has a lot to prove in short order.

But at least one experienced Republican strategist now working for Cain speaks optimistically about Cain?s chances. Steve Grubbs, the new chairman of Cain?s campaign in Iowa, describes an effort that is now on track in this critical early nominating state, with fundraising that is ?doing dramatically better? and finally getting volunteers organized. Mr. Grubbs, former chairman of the Iowa GOP who has worked on past presidential campaigns, spoke to the Monitor Wednesday by phone after a meeting with Iowa campaign staff and volunteers.

?The volunteer phone bank was brisk,? said Grubbs. ?That?s what I wanted to see. That?s a bit of a change.?

In July, Cain?s top staffers in Iowa resigned, citing a lack of attention by Cain to the state. Grubbs?s appointment as Iowa chairman, announced last Thursday, signaled a renewed commitment by Cain to Iowa, which holds the first nominating contest on Jan. 3. Grubbs says the campaign?s goal is to appoint precinct captains to 80 percent of the state?s 1,800 precincts by Dec. 1.

?So far, we?re exceeding our goals,? says Grubbs, who is unpaid. Cain has four paid staffers in Iowa, he says.

The name of the game in Iowa is organization. Unlike a primary, which involves only voting, an Iowa GOP caucus entails speeches, casting of ballots, party fundraising, and other party business. To do well, a campaign needs to engage in major voter outreach to get supporters to show up on a cold winter night, and devote a fair amount of time. Voter passion matters, but it will take a candidate only so far.

Iowa?s caucuses are only 10 weeks away, and Cain is getting a late start. Still, he?s strong in the polls. The RealClearPolitics average of recent polls in Iowa shows Cain leading among likely Republican caucus-goers with 28 percent, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent. The latest poll, by CNN, has Cain at 21 and Mr. Romney at 24. If Cain can do well in Iowa, that could open the floodgates of donations and set him up to be a serious contender.

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Justices could talk health care cases on Nov. 10 (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court could decide as early as Nov. 10 whether to hear a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul this term.

Federal appeals court rulings on health care from Atlanta, Cincinnati and Richmond are on the agenda for the justices' private conference on Nov. 10.

If they agree then to hear any or all of those cases, the decision would be announced that day or when the court meets in public session the following Monday. Such a timetable would allow the court to hear arguments over the health care law in late March and would give the justices three months to craft their opinions.

The central issue is whether the requirement for individuals to buy insurance or pay a penalty is constitutional.

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Lady Gaga, Jason Aldean set for Grammy nom concert (AP)

NEW YORK ? Lady Gaga and Jason Aldean ? possible contenders for next year's Grammy Awards ? are set to perform during the annual nominations special next month.

LL Cool J will again host the show, to air live on CBS on Nov. 30. A handful of the 78 categories will be announced at the event, to be held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The Recording Academy earlier this year reduced the number of categories, which had totaled 109.

The Grammys will be held Feb. 12 in Los Angeles and will air live on CBS.

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1/3 of oil removed from stricken New Zealand ship (AP)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? Calm weather has enabled salvage crews to remove more than one-third of the oil from a cargo ship marooned on a New Zealand reef.

Maritime New Zealand reported Tuesday that it has pumped 530 tons of oil from the vessel Rena and hopes to increase its pace of removal by adding more equipment.

Crews are in a race to remove as much oil as they can before the ship sinks or breaks apart. Calm weather over recent days has allowed them to make progress in the stop-start effort. An estimated 350 tons of oil has already spilled into the ocean, killing 1,370 sea birds, while about 960 tons remains on board.

The Liberia-flagged Rena became ensnared Oct. 5 on the reef 14 miles (22 kilometers) from Tauranga Harbour.

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Amnesty: Dominican police torture, kill people (AP)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? Police in the Dominican Republic have been responsible for an alarming number of killings and torture over a five-year period, Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.

The report, titled "Shut up if you don't want to be killed," documents alleged human rights violations and calls for the police department to thoroughly investigate them.

"Authorities must ensure those responsible for the killings and torture face justice," said Javier Zuniga, Amnesty International director for the Dominican Republic.

Police spokesman Maximo Baez said the department does prosecute officers accused of crimes including murder and that 156 officers have been charged since August 2010.

He said police try to minimize side effects while fighting crime, but added that they face "a very aggressive delinquency."

Last week, Police Chief Jose Armando Polanco said he would not meet with Amnesty delegates unless they mentioned in the report that 55 police officers and soldiers were killed while on duty and another 170 injured. He said at the time that he would not comment further on the report.

At least 154 people were reported killed by police from January to July of this year, compared with 125 people in the same period last year, according to the Dominican Republic's Office of the Prosecutor General.

A total of 260 people were killed by police last year, compared with 346 killed in 2009. Local human rights groups say police also have injured hundreds of others.

Prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso said that between 2008 and 2011, he filed 176 cases in which police officers and soldiers were accused of murder and other crimes. He did not describe the outcome of those cases.

Human rights activists believe that one of the victims is Juan Almonte Herreras, a 51-year-old father of three who served as secretary-general of the Dominican Commission of Human Rights, said Esteban Reyes, the commission's president in Puerto Rico.

"This is one of the most notorious cases," he said.

Based on its own investigation, the commission concluded that police in September 2009 had kidnapped Almonte, tortured him and later set his body on fire. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights accused the Dominican government of conducting a lax investigation.

In August, the government issued a brief statement saying the investigation was ongoing.

Almonte's wife, who fled to the U.S., said in a phone interview that she will keep pursuing answers despite numerous threats against her family.

"We have been looking for answers for two years," Ana Montilla said. "We know that we are fighting the state. ... I do not believe in Dominican justice."

Police have said the majority of killings occurred during an exchange of gunfire, but forensic tests show otherwise, said Pedro Santiago, Amnesty's director in Puerto Rico.

In its report, Amnesty claims police beat and denied food and water to prisoners, put plastic bags over their heads or hanged them by their handcuffs from bars or nails in the wall. The report also claims police routinely round up hundreds of young men on nights and weekends and shake them down for bribes.

Santiago said the organization spent nearly two years investigating human rights allegations and conducting hundreds of interviews, including with the families of 20 men killed by police and four men who survived a police shooting.

The police department still has not provided information on how many of its 30,000 officers are under investigation or have been charged with human rights violations, Santiago said. He also claimed that the police department has no guidelines for investigating allegations of human rights abuses.

The report notes that the department has fought internal corruption and dismissed roughly 12,000 officers from 2007 to 2010. It also stated that low salaries has led to widespread corruption, with 45 percent of the department earning about $140 a month.

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Associated Press writer Ezequiel Abiu Lopez contributed from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Obama mingles with the stars as he raises cash (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Actor Will Smith and basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson for dinner and Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas for post-meal canapes. President Barack Obama waded into the domain of the stars Monday as he hit the California fundraising circuit in one of his busiest donor outreach trips of the season.

Smith, in an elegant three-piece suit, and Johnson, the standout former point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, were guests at the home of producer James Lassiter and his wife, Mai. About 40 contributors, including actress Hilary Duff, contributed $35,800 each for a cozy dinner and a chance to chat with the president. Obama, eager to reinvigorate his supporters, ticked off his administration's accomplishments.

"Sometimes I think people forget how much has gotten done," the president said as he urged his backers to rally once again, at the same time joking, as he often does, that he is older and grayer now. "This election won't be as sexy as the first one."

The Lassiter dinner, followed by a larger affair at the home of Griffith and Banderas, were part of a three-day, fundraising-rich swing through Nevada, California and Colorado. California, however, is his biggest donor state and he raised about $1 million in the Los Angeles area alone during the past two fundraising quarters, according to an Associated Press review of contributions above $200.

At Banderas' and Griffith's house, its entrance path lined with rose petals and votive candles, Obama told about 120 mostly Latino contributors that he has kept a list of his campaign promises and that, by his count, he has accomplished about 60 percent of them.

"I'm pretty confident we can get the other 40 percent done in the next five years," he said to loud applause.

The Griffith-Banderas event was the first Latino fundraiser for Obama's candidacy, with donors giving at least $5,000 per person to attend. It featured guests such as actress Eva Longoria, comedian George Lopez, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and mayors Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles and Julian Castro of San Antonio.

Obama drew the loudest applause when he vowed to tackle an overhaul of immigration laws, a promise from 2008 that has gone unfulfilled in the face of Republican opposition.

Testing a re-election theme, Obama is also telling donors that the country is suffering from an economic crisis and political crisis. "People are crying out for action," he says.

Pointing to elements of his $447 billion jobs plan that was rejected by Republican lawmakers, Obama said they likely would linger as campaign issues in 2012.

"This is the fight that we're going to have right now, and I suspect this is the fight that we're going to have to have over the next year," Obama told about 240 donors at a fundraising event earlier Monday at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. "The Republicans in Congress and the Republican candidates for president have made their agenda very clear."

The Las Vegas fundraiser attracted about 240 people who paid from $1,000 to $35,800 toward Obama's re-election campaign and to the Democratic National Committee. The bigger donors met the president personally.

Others at Lassiter's Hancock Park home included Troy Carter, the manager of Grammy award winner Lady Gaga. The singer herself was a guest at a fundraiser last month at the Atherton home of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

While in Las Vegas, Obama spelled out a plan to help homeowners refinance their homes even if their home values had dropped dramatically below what they owed on their mortgages. Obama ventured into a working class development in the Las Vegas suburbs that benefitted from a community revitalization program like one he is pushing Congress to approve now.

But the president displayed campaign-style vigor, wading into the neighborhood crowd to shake hands and even lift a baby. His handlers reminded him it was time to leave, but Obama strode to yet another group of residents for one last handshake, autograph and photograph.

Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Obama headed to a diverse neighborhood minutes from Lassiter's home south of Hollywood and stopped at Roscoe's, a popular Los Angeles chicken restaurant chain. Obama roved through the dining booths greeting customers, leaving at least one awestruck young boy holding his hand aloft after shaking the president's hand. One man gave him a hug and a Hispanic man told his daughter that if she studied hard "you'll be like him."

Most of his remaining time during this three-day Western swing is being spent raising money. On Tuesday he will tape an appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," his second as president and fourth appearance overall. He also will attend fundraisers in San Francisco and Denver.

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Associated Press writer Jack Gillum contributed to this article.

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Netflix Shareholder Whopper: Earnings Will Take A Hit Next Quarter And Dip Into The Red In Q1

Netflix third quarter earnings are out, and along with it the quarterly shareholder letter from CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells. ?In the letter (embedded below), Netflix talks about the impact of recent pricing changes and its now-retracted strategy to divide the streaming and DVD services into two businesses. The price changes in particular "hurt our hard?earned reputation, and stalled our domestic growth." Netflix expects the impact to lower both revenues and profits in the fourth quarter. And in the first quarter of next year, the company expects to lose money as it invests heavily to launch in the UK and Ireleand. It expects to continue to be in the red "for a few quarters." Below is an excerpt of the the beginning of the letter, followed by the entire embedded document.

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NASA sets buffers for Apollo moon landing sites

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico?? NASA has begun drafting guidelines to protect the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites, listing them as off-limits, and including ground-travel buffers and no-fly zones to avoid spraying rocket exhaust or dust onto aging, but historic, equipment.

Robert Kelso, NASA?s director of lunar commercial services at Johnson Space Center in Houston, has taken a hard look at future revisits to the Apollo sites and how to protect U.S. government artifacts on the moon.

Kelso has carved out a set of guidelines intended to safeguard the historic and scientific value of more than three dozen "heritage sites" on the lunar surface.?

The report, which was released on July 20, is titled "NASA?s Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts." [ Photos: NASA's Apollo Moon Missions ]

A greater urgency for guidelines has been sparked by the Google Lunar X Prize?s offer of $20 million to any private team that lands a robotic rover on the moon?s surface. An additional $4 million has been offered for any team that snaps pictures of artifacts near or at the Apollo landing sites.

Key question
For Kelso, a key question is: "As the small commercial landers make preparations for possible visits to these historic sites, how do we protect these culturally significant sites from damage so that we can inspect them historically and scientifically?"

The recommendations listed by NASA are intended to apply to U.S. government artifacts on the lunar surface, such as:

• Apollo lunar surface landing and roving hardware;
• Unmanned lunar surface landing sites (e.g., Surveyor robotic landing sites) and impact sites, such as those of NASA's Ranger spacecraft, as well as the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) that slammed into the moon in October 2009;
• U.S. government experiments left on the lunar surface, tools, equipment, miscellaneous moonwalking gear; and
• Specific indicators of U.S. human, human-robotic lunar presence, including footprints and rover tracks.

Archaeological input
A recognized leader in the emerging field of space heritage and archaeology is Beth O?Leary, an anthropology professor here at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

O?Leary has spent more than a decade working with historians and archaeologists researching how to study and curate human artifacts on the moon. [ Photos: Our Changing Moon ]

Given a small grant from NASA and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, O?Leary spearheaded work through a Lunar Legacy Project that investigated protection of the Apollo 11 landing site.

?There is a need for more archaeological input into the process of protecting what is certainly humanity?s most extraordinary series of events that led us off the Earth and onto the Moon,? O?Leary told Space.com.

The recent capacities of NASA?s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ? now circling the moon ? has? demonstrated that the probe could be used by archaeologists as an important remote sensing tool for identifying and mapping historic lunar sites.?

Keep-out zones
O?Leary said that the NASA guidelines create a series of keep-out zones and boundaries around the historic artifacts and features at all Apollo sites. Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 are acknowledged as having special historical and cultural significance, she said.

Those two locales are treated as unique by prohibiting visits to any part of these sites, and all future visiting vehicles would remain beyond the "artifact boundaries" of each entire site.

"This provides a robust zone of protection around these two sites," O?Leary said.

In the NASA study ? for hopper configuration landers that are able to perform "low-altitude"/tangential fly-bys of identified sites ? special guidelines have been written to ensure negligible plume interactions at the surface.

High heritage value
"For me, the NASA document represents a giant leap for lunar historic preservation," O?Leary explained. "NASA references its ownership of its lunar hardware and the need for protecting what it calls 'witness plates' or 'lunar assets' ? those significant artifacts it created in the past that are now on the moon. This is a critical first step and many more have to follow, but for the first time NASA formally recognizes the heritage value of Apollo 11 and other extraordinary lunar sites."

The NASA report also recognizes there have been no human impacts to the sites, which are in pristine, undisturbed condition except for the effects of the space environment.??

"Importantly, it recognizes that future missions can disturb or change the earlier lunar sites in ways that scientific and historic information can be lost," O?Leary said. Also, some of the sites are still active and continue to provide data ? such as Apollo retro-reflectors used to measure the distance between the Earth and moon via laser ranging.

"It was time for a preservation strategy," O?Leary said.

Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is a winner of this year's National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for SPACE.com since 1999.

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Here's Who to Thank for Gadhafi's Downfall (ContributorNetwork)

"You have won your revolution." That's how President Barack Obama summed up the news of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death, in an address to the Libyan people. Gadhafi's regime terrorized Libyan citizens as well as people worldwide, was believed responsible for several bombings of aircraft, and just months ago was about to crush a rebellion against him.

Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham released a joint statement about the event that opened by thanking the Libyan rebels, as well as America's European and Arab allies, for making the downfall of the Gadhafi regime possible. Almost as a footnote, it mentioned the United States' role in defeating Gadhafi, but simultaneously chastised the administration for not doing it fast enough.

Here's a quick rundown of who actually made it possible:

United States

It is true that in some ways the United States' actions have been a hindrance to the cause of Libyan freedom. Just two years ago, McCain and Graham visited Gadhafi -- Graham at the dictator's home, with video captured of the two shaking hands -- discussing ways to improve America's ties with his regime and transfer military equipment to it.

Despite the chastisement the two gave the Obama administration for "waiting to employ the full weight of our airpower," however, American bombers were making strikes on Libyan airfields and ground forces on the same day that French and British forces began their attacks. America later sent millions of dollars' worth of non-weapon supplies to the rebels.

NATO and Arab allies

NATO Operation Unified Protector coordinated French, British, American, Canadian, and other countries' air attacks on Gaddafi's forces and bases. Only a few weeks into the air strikes, NATO officials reported that over a third of Gaddafi's military had been destroyed. Meanwhile, Turkey set aside $100 million to help the rebels rebuild, while Qatar helped to supply the rebels with weaponry.

Libyan rebels

While NATO attacks demolished Gaddafi's forces by air, and imposed a no-fly zone on Libya, no overt ground forces were sent to the country. The rebels had to fight more or less on their own, in battles where the odds would have been substantially against them if not for other countries having destroyed much of Gaddafi's military.

Oil

The Libyan rebels signed an oil export deal with Qatar, and Libya's refineries and oilfields are prizes eyed by many.

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Icahn interested in Navistar, Oshkosh merger (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants Navistar International Corp (NAV.N) to consider merging with rival Oshkosh Corp (OSK.N), though he has not yet made a formal proposal to either company, several people familiar with the situation said.

Icahn, who has amassed 10 percent stakes in each of the companies, is currently in discussions with Navistar about getting one or more seats on the board of the U.S. truck and engine maker, these people said.

Icahn reported his stake in Navistar last week and said at the time that he had held talks with management to discuss its business strategies and would seek additional conversations.

A deal, however, is far from certain. It's not clear whether either of the companies would be open to the idea and it remains to be seen how effective Icahn would be in getting what he wants at these companies.

Shares of Oshkosh, which have nearly halved this year as the company struggles with a declining defense business and the expensive 2006 acquisition of JLG Industries, jumped 8 percent to $19.87 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, valuing the company around $1.8 billion.

Navistar shares rose 3.5 percent to $41.50, valuing the company at over $3 billion. The stock has fallen some 30 percent this year.

"We like Navistar's prospects with or without a shotgun wedding, but it definitely would benefit from the increased scale and synergies that would materialize if it bought Oshkosh," Gimme Credit analyst Vicki Bryan said in a research note on Friday.

AT OSHKOSH

While Icahn is seeking board representation and discussions on business strategies with Navistar, his plans at Oshkosh have been less clear. He has not sought board representation there so far, and has agreed with Oshkosh management's view about conserving cash amid an uncertain defense outlook, according to people familiar with the situation.

There could be a potential conflict if Icahn attempted to gain board representation also at Oshkosh, since the two companies compete in the same industry, these people said.

A Navistar-Oshkosh combination has long been talked about as a possibility in the industry as the two companies can wring out costs and excess capacity. There are also some complementary units, such as Navistar's finance and engine-making businesses, that could benefit from a merger.

Oshkosh investors have been concerned about the company's exposure to defense contracts due to government-spending cutbacks and increased competition, including the threat posed by Navistar's own plan to grow in the sector.

Tying up with another player in the heavy-vehicle industry could protect Oshkosh from a downturn in the defense sector that many analysts are predicting.

Icahn did not return a request for comment. Oshkosh declined to comment on relationships with Icahn and other shareholders.

Navistar Chief Executive Dan Ustian said in an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday that Icahn "is into (Navistar) to make some money ... We have to deliver to him and all our other investors."

Icahn purchased his Oshkosh stake in June, when shares in the Wisconsin company were trading considerably higher.

Shares in mid-June, prior to Icahn's disclosure, were trading near $25 a share. By the time he started snapping up Navistar, Oshkosh shares were trading in the mid teens.

The corporate raider-turned-activist has had some high-profile disappointments this year in fights at Lions Gate Entertainment Corp (LGF.N), Clorox Co (CLX.N) and Forest Laboratories Inc (FRX.N).

But Icahn was also the biggest individual holder of El Paso Corp (EP.N), which agreed to be bought by Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI.N) earlier this week.

He also saw his years-long investment in Motorola turn around earlier this year when Google Inc (GOOG.O) agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (MMI.N) for $12.5 billion.

(Reporting by Soyoung Kim, John D. Stoll and Paritosh Bansal, editing by Dave Zimmerman and Gerald E. McCormick)

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Gamersnet Reviews Pets | Simprograms

Dunno about everyone else, but I?m ready to start hearing about the next Stuff and Expansion Packs. But until then, here?s a review by Gamersnet.

The main difference with previous animal-related expansions is that this time you will have control over the animals. This opens a whole new world The Sims 3, because now the game also through the eyes of a pet can play. Animals are much freer than normal sims and really behave like animals. This includes course characteristics and needs, which have human Sims.

Besides pets and pet related properties for human sims Beestenbende also brings with it a new town, Appaloosa Plains. This is a quiet village with many farms, the perfect spot for a quiet rural life. Here you can easily build stables for your horses and ?Woo-Hoo ?and? in one of the available hay bales.

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Lindsay Lohan Probation Revoked! (Court Videos)

Lindsay Lohan Probation Revoked! (Court Videos)

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner has determined Lindsay Lohan is in violation of her probation due to problems with her community service. Lindsay [...]

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Gypsies, graveyards and mysterious plants

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the appearance of the potentially invasive plant is linked to the final resting places of several members of a royal Gypsy family.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) botanist Charles Bryson was asked by Mississippi State University graduate student Lucas Majure to help classify a plant Majure had found in Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian, Miss. Bryson works at the ARS Crop Production Systems Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.

After several months of searching, Bryson identified the plant as blue sedge (Carex breviculmis), a native of Asia and Australia and previously unknown in North America. He also found it growing along railroad tracks, campgrounds used by transients, and in or around four cemeteries in Meridian, including Rose Hill Cemetery.

Visitors from all over the world come to Rose Hill Cemetery to pay their respects at the gravesite of Kelly Mitchell, the Queen of the Gypsies, who was buried there in 1915. Her husband and other family members were also laid to rest in the cemetery.

Given the plant's restricted and distinctive distribution in the region, Bryson thinks that global travelers introduced the sedge to Mississippi, possibly via seeds trapped in clothing or by leaving plants or soil at the gravesites of the Gypsy royalty. Then cemetery caretakers may have spread plant material from the first introduction site to the other cemeteries via contaminated clothing and lawn care equipment.

At two sites where it is now established, the plant exhibits weedy characteristics and reproduces and spreads profusely. To Bryson, these traits suggest that the Old World sedge could someday cause problems in U.S. lawn and turf systems, as well as in fruit and nut crop production.

Bryson and Majure published their findings in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

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Read more about this research in the October 2011 issue of Agricultural Research magazine. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct11/plant1011.htm

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the appearance of the potentially invasive plant is linked to the final resting places of several members of a royal Gypsy family.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) botanist Charles Bryson was asked by Mississippi State University graduate student Lucas Majure to help classify a plant Majure had found in Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian, Miss. Bryson works at the ARS Crop Production Systems Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.

After several months of searching, Bryson identified the plant as blue sedge (Carex breviculmis), a native of Asia and Australia and previously unknown in North America. He also found it growing along railroad tracks, campgrounds used by transients, and in or around four cemeteries in Meridian, including Rose Hill Cemetery.

Visitors from all over the world come to Rose Hill Cemetery to pay their respects at the gravesite of Kelly Mitchell, the Queen of the Gypsies, who was buried there in 1915. Her husband and other family members were also laid to rest in the cemetery.

Given the plant's restricted and distinctive distribution in the region, Bryson thinks that global travelers introduced the sedge to Mississippi, possibly via seeds trapped in clothing or by leaving plants or soil at the gravesites of the Gypsy royalty. Then cemetery caretakers may have spread plant material from the first introduction site to the other cemeteries via contaminated clothing and lawn care equipment.

At two sites where it is now established, the plant exhibits weedy characteristics and reproduces and spreads profusely. To Bryson, these traits suggest that the Old World sedge could someday cause problems in U.S. lawn and turf systems, as well as in fruit and nut crop production.

Bryson and Majure published their findings in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

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Read more about this research in the October 2011 issue of Agricultural Research magazine. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct11/plant1011.htm

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).

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Malaria scientist celebrates success after 24 years

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent

SEATTLE | Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:45pm EDT

SEATTLE (Reuters) - For Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline research scientist who has spent 24 years trying to create the world's first malaria vaccine, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 goes down as a fabulous day.

"There were many ups and downs, and moments over the years when we thought 'Can we do it? Should we continue? Or is it really just too tough?," he told Reuters, as data showing the success of his RTS,S vaccine were unveiled at an international conference on malaria.

"But today I feel fabulous. This is a dream of any scientist -- to see your life's work actually translated into a medicine ... that can have this great impact on peoples' lives. How lucky am I?"

Final stage clinical trial data on RTS,S, also known as Mosquirix, showed it halved the risk of African children getting malaria, making it likely to become the world's first successful vaccine against the deadly disease.

While scientists say it is no "silver bullet" and will not end the mosquito-borne infection on its own, it is being hailed as a crucial weapon in the fight against malaria and one that could speed the path to eventual worldwide eradication.

Malaria is caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of mosquitoes. It kills more than 780,000 people per year, most of them babies or very young children in Africa.

Cohen's vaccine goes to work at the point when the parasite enters the human bloodstream after a mosquito bite. By stimulating an immune response, it can prevent the parasite from maturing and multiplying in the liver.

Without that immune response, the parasite re-enters the bloodstream and infects red blood cells, leading to fever, body aches and, in some cases, death.

Although Cohen's scientific work has been largely in Belgium, where he runs a GSK laboratory, the final-stage trials of RTS,S were conducted in Africa, where malaria hits hardest.

With GSK working in partnership with the non-profit PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), the trials became Africa's largest-ever medical experiment as the vaccine was tested in around 16,000 children across seven countries.

Cohen said that if all goes to plan, RTS,S could be licensed and rolled out by 2015.

SOUL SEARCHING

As he looks back at the vaccine's long, slow development, the bearded 68-year-old molecular biologist laughs at how naive he was when he first agreed to take on the task.

It was April 1, 1987 when his boss at the drug company, then called Smith, Kline & French, asked him to be head of the malaria vaccine research program, just after an early-stage experimental vaccine and failed a test.

"Unfortunately, it was not a great success. Only one volunteer out of the several that were vaccinated was actually protected. So, after quite a bit of optimism, there was then quite a bit of soul searching," Cohen said.

"I did not actually know much about malaria, apart from about the enormous medical burden it represented. But I felt I was taking on an enormous scientific challenge, and that was exciting for a relatively young scientist."

Having come from academia and post-doctorate studies into what he said were "sometimes esoteric questions" of molecular biology, he was also attracted by the prospect of doing something "very meaningful" in terms of global health.

Getting on for a quarter of a century later, Cohen said he had "never dreamed it would take this long."

He was also careful to underline that this was a first step, as well as a world first. GSK, MVI and several other research groups and drug firms are already working on next generation vaccines and on other ways of making malaria shots they hope will better the roughly 50 percent success rate of RTS,S.

"The work is not over, that is for sure," Cohen said.

(Editing by Dan Lalor)

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49ers might just be for real

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Every week, the NFL gives us something rare or unprecedented.? On Sunday, the post-game altercation between 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Lions coach Jim Schwartz was unprecedented.

But now that something like that has happened, will it happen again?? The league?s reaction could go a long way toward deciding that.

Before going much farther with this, let?s shift from introduction to topic No. 1 in our 10-item look at the Sunday that was.

1.? Where have you gone, Tom Landry?

Not that long ago, all coaches exuded a sense of dignity toward the game and respect toward each other.? From Tom Landry to Chuck Noll to Bud Grant to John Madden to Don Shula, coaches didn?t treat each other like opponents in the main event of the next pro wrestling pay-per-view.? Even when Buddy Ryan was coaching, he was the lone exception ? perhaps along with Jimmy Johnson, the man who succeeded Landry in Dallas.

One G.M. who requested anonymity blamed Sunday?s scrum between Harbaugh and Schwartz on Buddy?s son, Rex Ryan, who has introduced a new era of big talking NFL coaches.? From Rex to Josh McDaniels to Todd Haley to Jim Harbaugh to Jim Schwartz, more and more coaches are displaying confidence ? and emotion ? both in their words and in their actions.

It never became truly physical until Sunday, with Harbaugh exuberantly shoving Schwartz in the back and then Schwartz bumping Harbaugh.? Given that the NFL liberally metes out discipline against players who misbehave, the league shouldn?t hesitate to make an example out of Harbaugh, who unwittingly started the problem by not dialing down the celebration when shaking Schwartz?s hand, and Schwartz, who deliberately finished it by chasing Harbaugh down and bumping him.? Given that the example set by the NFL trickles down to all other levels of the sport, the league needs to make a strong statement that coaches who act like overgrown kindergartners will be dealt with swiftly and severely.

We personally like Harbaugh and Schwartz.? But we don?t like what they did today.? And we think that the league needs to quit talking about holding coaches to a higher standard and start actually holding them to a higher standard.? If the league doesn?t, the bar will keep sinking lower and lower.

2.? Niners could be in line for 12 or 13 wins.

Far more amazing than the 49ers? 5-1 record is the fact that they?ve compiled that mark against a schedule that has included only one NFC West foe ? and three games in the Eastern part of the country.

When the Niners emerge from their bye, they?ll face a slate of game that includes two against the 0-5 Rams, two against the 1-4 Cardinals, one against the 2-3 Seahawks, and contests against the Browns, Redskins, Giants, Ravens, and Steelers.

A 7-3 record in those 10 games translates to a 12-4 finish.? Based on how the 49ers have played so far, they could win eight or even nine of their next 10 games.? Which would virtually guarantee the No. 2 seed, at a minimum, in the NFC playoff field.

3.? League needs to investigate Vick?s ?injury?.

In the third quarter of Sunday?s win over the Redskins, Eagles quarterback Mike Vick took off running with the ball.? He absorbed a helmet-to-helmet hit, before his head hit the ground.

Vick was motionless for a few seconds.? When he got to his feet, with clumps of sod in the top of his face mask, a la Kevin Kolb in Week One of the 2010 season, Vick seemed a little groggy and disoriented.? He eventually left the playing field, and Vince Young entered the game.

After Young threw an ugly interception on his first attempt, Vick suddenly was healed.

FOX?s Laura Okmin reported the team?s official position ? Vick had the dreaded football condition known as dirt on his face (even though Vick uses a visor).? Eagles spokesman Derek Boyko separately told PFT via e-mail that Vick also had the wind knocked out of him.

Sorry, but we think someone is throwing something other than dirt in our faces on this one.? Given that Vick would have been prevented from returning to a game that the Eagles desperately needed to win at a time when the game was still in the balance, it?s hard not to be suspicious.

The league should be suspicious, too.? And the league needs to institute procedures to ensure that, whenever a player leaves a game with ?dirt on his face? or the wind knocked out of him or whatever cockamamie excuse a team may offer when the video suggests a possible concussion, there will be no doubt or suspicion about the player?s condition if/when he re-enters the game.

4.? League finally gets it right with Burleson call.

Too many times over the past few years, catches in the end zone that appeared to be touchdowns ultimately were ruled not to be catches due to application of a rule that initially was intended to include within the definition of a catch those situations in which the ball touches the ground.? Setting aside for now the wisdom of ever treating a catch as a catch when the ball makes contact with anything other than the player, the officials and the league office have had a hard time with this rule when the catch is made ? or not made ? in the end zone.

From plays involving Louis Murphy to Dante Rosario to Mike Sims-Walker to Lance Moore in Super Bowl XLV to Calvin Johnson to various other examples, the application of the rule has at times defied common sense and/or the language of the rulebook.? The problem arises when the receiver is going to the ground.? In such situations, the receiver must maintain possession through the act of falling.? But when the act of falling includes breaking the plane of the goal line, the NFL has ruled at times (mistakenly, in our view) that the play ended as soon as the ball passed into the front of the end zone.

This year, the league has emphasized the element of time, treating such plays as valid receptions if the receiver who, while going to the ground, had enough time to make a football move, regardless of whether a football move is actually made.? Fittingly, the NFL got it right not once but twice for the Lions on Sunday, via touchdown receptions made by tight end Brandon Pettigrew, who lost the ball only after clearly being on the ground, and by receiver Nate Burleson, who caught the ball and stumbled toward the turf and, in eerie similarity to the Calvin Johnson play from a year ago, lost possession of the ball when the ball struck the ground while in his hand.

During Football Night in America, the Johnson play from 2010 and the Burleson play from 2011 were shown side by side.? Both looked like touchdowns.? The fact that the more recent one was correctly ruled to be a touchdown shows that there?s hope that the league has finally figured out how to make the ruling mesh with the expectations of the average fan watching a game.

5.? It?s Beck time in D.C.

The Shanahans supposedly love John Beck.? Now that the guy who beat out Beck has landed on the bench during Sunday?s loss to the Eagles, it?s time to see what Beck can do.

Coach Mike Shanahan said he?ll make a decision on Wednesday.? It would be shocking if the decision is anything other than Beck starting.

Grossman has had his chance.? He played better than anyone thought he would play.? But as we said back in early September, the guy who wins that job merely wins the right to lose it first.? Grossman has lost it, and now we?ll see whether Beck can keep it.

If he?s as good as the Shanahans say he is, he will.

6.? The trade deadline comes too early.

The NFL?s trade deadline falls roughly one third of the way into the regular season, far earlier than the corresponding date for the other major league sports.? As a result, not many trades happen.

They don?t happen because teams aren?t ready to fold their tents after only six weeks, which for a dozen teams this year means only five games.? There?s simply too much time left in the season to justify a fire sale, if the team hopes to keep its fan base engaged (i.e., paying for tickets and/or watching on TV).

And that?s precisely why the trade deadline comes when it does.? If it landed a month from now, some teams would dump salaries and/or unload looming free agents they have no hope of keeping, sending a clear message to the fan base not to bother with rooting ? and giving contending teams a chance to fatten up their rosters in the hopes of partially mortgaging their futures for a Super Bowl run.

7.? It?s the Packers, a gap, and everyone else.

One thing we know through six weeks of the season is that the Packers are, without question, the best team in the league.? They continue to look like the team that found its groove in the 2010 postseason, and it now seems highly likely that, barring an injury to Aaron Rodgers, they?ll be the top seed in the NFC.

Which mean that the road to Indy will wind through Lambeau Field.

Which means that the Packers could end up doing what no Packers team has done since the first two Super Bowls ? winning back-to-back titles.

Given the way this team is playing, it?s not too early to start wondering whether the Packers could be the first team to win three straight Super Bowls.

8.? Unlucky Texans still have a lucky draw in their division.

In coach Gary Kubiak?s make-or-break season, the Texans can?t catch a break.? Linebacker Mario Williams is gone for the year.? Receiver Andre Johnson is gone until further notice.? They drew the Saints on the fifth anniversary of the reopening of the Superdome, the Raiders the day after Al Davis died.

On Sunday, Houston had to go to Baltimore to face a rested Ravens teams.

Next Sunday, the Texans go to Tennessee, to play a Titans team that is also coming off a bye week.? Still, the Texans have to contend only with the Titans in the AFC South; the Jaguars and the Colts have a combined record of 1-11.

Though it would be ironic if the team that used to be in Houston keeps the team currently in Houston out of the postseason, the 3-3 Texans remain in great shape to win their first division title.

If they can take care of the Titans.

9.? We?ll learn a lot about the Bengals soon.

Through six games, the Bengals have beaten the 2-3 Browns, the 4-2 Bills, the 1-5 Jaguars, and the 0-6 Colts.? Cincinnati has lost to the 5-1 49ers and the 1-4 Broncos.

It?s still too early to tell whether the Bengals are for real.? After their bye, we?ll get an idea.

The Bengals go to Seattle and Tennessee before facing in consecutive weeks the Steelers and Ravens.? Then, the Bengals play the Browns, the Steelers again, and the Texans.

Those seven games will let us all know whether the first six games were a fluke.

10.? Pryor suspension hurts the Raiders.

With starting quarterback Jason Campbell gone, perhaps for the rest of the season, with a broken collarbone, the Raiders need help.? They reportedly want Carson Palmer.

They possibly wouldn?t need Palmer, or any other veteran quarterback, if the league hadn?t suspended rookie Terrelle Pryor five games to start the season.

If Pryor, who arrived late in the preseason after the league dragged its feet on the scheduling of the supplemental draft, had been able to practice for the first five weeks of the season, Pryor could be ready to play.? Given what Cam Newton and Andy Dalton have been able to accomplish as rookies, there?s no reason to think Pryor isn?t the real thing ? or that he wouldn?t be ready if he had been able to prepare during weeks that he otherwise was frozen out.

If the Raiders can?t get Palmer or sign another veteran, they should try to get Pryor ready sooner.? If, as Jon Gruden supposedly believes, Pryor has a higher upside than Cam Newton, it makes sense to start finding out what that upside is.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/17/week-six-monday-10-pack-2/related/

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PR campaign pushed to bring Israeli soldier home (AP)

JERUSALEM ? Gilad Schalit's expected release after five years in Hamas captivity owes much to a public relations campaign that turned the Israeli soldier into an icon, portraying him as the nation's son with bumper stickers, billboards and TV ads.

PR firms and communications experts working for Schalit's parents drove a sophisticated campaign that also enlisted celebrities, musicians and an army of thousands of volunteers. It was aimed at pressuring two Israeli prime ministers to negotiate the release of Schalit, captured in a daring cross-border raid by Gaza militants in 2006.

In the end, it was a mix of the publicity efforts and a new flexibility by both Israel and Hamas that sealed the deal, which involves swapping the soldier for 1,027 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The exchange was expected to take place Tuesday.

When he was captured, Schalit was an unknown 19-year-old serving in a tank unit on the Gaza border. The PR campaign made his face one of the most recognizable in the country.

Organizers say that the PR efforts succeeded by fashioning him into the boy next door ? a soldier who, in a country with mandatory military service, could be anyone's child.

"What we did was to strategically identify the main message that was needed to guide the campaign. That message was that Gilad is everyone's son," said Benny Cohen, a partner in Rimon Cohen Sheinkman PR, the Tel Aviv-based public relations firm approached by Schalit's parents in 2007.

The lopsided agreement has sparked a fierce debate among Israelis over the high price, but a poll Monday showed Israelis support the deal overwhelmingly.

The well-oiled campaign helped build that support.

Images of Schalit have hung on billboards, flags and bumper stickers around the country and even, for a time, in New York's Times Square. His family erected a protest tent outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, posting a tally of the days the soldier had been held. The tent became a pilgrimage site for activists and onlookers from around the country.

TV ads plucked at heartstrings, tying Schalit's fate to that of Ron Arad, an Israeli air force navigator who was captured in 1986 after his aircraft was brought down over Lebanon. Arad was seen being taken alive by Lebanese guerrillas but his traces vanished shortly thereafter, fueling a sense among Israelis that a chance to free him was squandered.

Arad's wife, Tami, and other relatives of captured soldiers became well-known public figures as they lobbied the government to take action, but none managed to rouse the intensity seen in the Schalit campaign.

The same fate could await Schalit, the campaign had suggested, if Israel's government did not make a deal for his release.

A national ethos of solidarity in Israel, an "all for one and one for all" mentality necessary in a country with compulsory military service for Jewish citizens, helped the campaign encourage activism on such a large scale.

Cohen, the PR man, said one reason the Schalit campaign drew higher levels of engagement than those for other captive soldiers was the changed media age ? online social networks, for example, played a central role in helping to organize and spread messages.

A number of Facebook pages were created, the largest with over 200,000 members. The campaign was kept afloat by donations, he said, but would not say how much money was spent over the years.

Cohen's PR firm and several others worked pro bono with the family, its campaign headquarters and a legion of volunteers to keep Schalit in the headlines.

In one event, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra played a free concert to thousands of attendees in a town on the border with Gaza. In another, local celebrities marked Schalit's fifth year in captivity by spending an hour in simulated solitary confinement in a TV studio and having it broadcast live online. One of the country's biggest pop stars, Aviv Geffen, penned a song for Schalit. Last year, thousands turned out for a march across the country dedicated to the soldier.

The campaign was not without its scandals. One fundraiser was indicted for fraud and money laundering for having pocketed money he raised for the cause. Schalit's brother and his girlfriend sabotaged an official Independence Day ceremony ? an Israeli sacred cow ? disrupting the celebrations by brandishing signs and yelling "Gilad is still alive," a campaign mantra.

After seeing the rigidity of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who failed to secure an agreement, "the Schalits turned to the only venue open to them and that was to pressure the government through the media," said political scientist Shlomo Aronson. "They didn't have another way."

It was the tireless efforts of the campaign and the Schalit family ? especially his parents, Noam and Aviva ? that helped force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand, wrote columnist Nehemia Shtrasler in the daily Haaretz this week.

"Without the tent that gave (Netanyahu) no rest, without the elegant harassment of Noam and Aviva Schalit, who spent the holidays on the sidewalk near his home, and without the demonstrations of tens of thousands of Israelis, Gilad Schalit would still be in a Gaza basement," he wrote.

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