Sunday, September 30, 2012

Design Ideas for Small Bedroom | Home Improvement Resources

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Kobe and LeBron's Olympic Squad Lose to 1992's Dream Team, Says NBA 2K13 [Video]

Kobe and LeBron's Olympic Squad Lose to 1992's Dream Team, Says NBA 2K13Kobe and LeBron's Olympic Squad Lose to 1992's Dream Team, Says NBA 2K13 If you got in on this summer's bar argument over which U.S. Olympic basketball team was better, and were convinced that the Dream Team could beat anything that walked the earth, including a team of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, then NBA 2K13 has good news for you.

The United States' 1992 Olympic basketball team of Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley prevailed over their 2012 counterparts, 133-126, in a simulation run on NBA 2K13, which releases on Tuesday. It was not a runaway victory, but the Dream Team held a lead for all but one brief instance in the second quarter.

This game was set for two computer-controlled teams to play each other, in full 12-minute quarters, on Hall-of-Fame difficulty (which governs computer-controlled players' behavior.)

2K Sports, at the urging of executive producer Jay-Z, reunited the entire 1992 Olympic team in a video game for the first time in 20 years, mostly to settle the argument Bryant started when he ventured that the 2012 Olympians would win.

Matchups, of course, are at the heart of this argument, and a really bad one in favor of the Dream Team made a huge difference. Chris Paul, paired off against Magic Johnson, just had no answer for a guy eight inches taller and a lot heavier. That's probably a big reason why Magic ended up as the player of the game, leading all scorers with 34 points on 15-of-17 shooting, while adding five rebounds and six assists.

I had some difficulty with video capture in the first quarter, which explains the dearth of highlights from it. Team USA 2012 took a 37-36 lead at 10:45 of the second quarter on a jumper by Russell Westbrook, which you can see above. It was the only lead Team USA 2012 had all game. Twice they got it to within 1 point, the latest with about 9 minutes to go in the third quarter, but the Dream Team had very little trouble scoring and forced Team USA 2012 to methodically attack the basket. They only got 14 points on the fast break. A 17-6 run in the fourth quarter still got Team USA 2012 no closer than 5.

Paul still distributed eight assists. Kevin Durant led the 2012 Olympians with 31 points, while James and Bryant each added 22. Carmelo Anthony had a respectable 16 points, six rebounds and two assists in 17 minutes of work, hitting all eight of his shots.

Jordan had 26 points on 12-for-22 shooting, with four assists, a steal and a block. Clyde Drexler picked up 16 points, 14 in the first half, before sitting most of the second. Larry Bird played more than he did when he was on this team in real life, as he suffered from back trouble for most of 1992 and was selected mostly in honor of his overall career. He logged 23 minutes in the game and hit all four of his shots, scoring nine points.

Barkley's 34 minutes were the second most of anyone on the Dream Team, and he came away with just six points and four rebounds, matched up against James for most of the evening. David Robinson had probably the game's best dunk, slipping off a screen through a completely vacated lane to throw down a thundering, two-handed, let-me-clear-my throat jam.

Jordan was right that the Dream Team's defense and shot blocking would likely prove the difference, but it wasn't by a wide margin. The Dream Team picked up five steals and four blocks, but Team USA 2012 still shot 62 percent and did a little bit better in rebounding, although having more misses gooses that stat. The teams attempted only seven three point shots combined.

One note: Neither team's lone collegian?Anthony Davis for 2012, Christian Laettner for the Dream Team?got into the game.

NBA 2K13 arrives in stores on Tuesday.

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Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan fires up crowd in Derry, focuses on ecomony, jobs

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DERRY ?? While focusing on Jobs and the economy, the other theme that emerged from Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan?s campaign rally Saturday morning is the need for Granite Staters to help get the word out to take the White House in November. Prior to the Wisconsin representative taking the stage, New Hampshire politicians addressed the crowd of roughly 725 in the gym of the Pinkerton Academy in Derry. They included State Sen. Jim Rausch, Congressmen Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta. ...

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Syrian refugees in 4 countries talk of pain, fear

A woman loses her children, her husband and both legs. A penniless family is forced to flee from Syria back to Iraq. Camps are overflowing with people and with bitterness, and refugees are living in limbo without passports.

As war rages in Syria, the stream of refugees into other countries shows no sign of stopping. More than 100,000 people fled Syria in August alone ? about 40 percent of all who had left since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began last March. And the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday that the number of people escaping Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year.

Here, AP reporters tell the stories of refugees and their families from four countries.

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon ? Hasna Um Abdou lost her children, her husband and both legs to a mortar.

Now the veiled 38-year-old woman lies in a hospital bed in this northern Lebanese city, with the Quran, the Muslim holy book, on her table. She talks slowly, with pauses, and is visibly trying to hold back the tears. Abdul-Aziz, 3, and Talin, 13 months, were her only children.

"Every time I remember, I feel the pain," she says.

Um Abdou is one of thousands of Syrians who have been wounded in the uprising against Assad and its aftermath. Hundreds of the wounded have been taken for treatment in neighboring countries, mostly to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. More than 74,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Lebanon, itself a small country of just 4 million people that is struggling with instability.

Um Abdou and her family fled their village in Homs province in March amid intense shelling, to a second village and then a third. Two days later, it seemed quiet, and they decided to return home. The family rode back on March 31 on a motorcycle, with Um Abdou's daughter asleep in her arms and her son sitting in front of his father.

Then her world fell apart.

Um Abdou keeps hearing the sound not of the mortar, but of the terror.

"I cannot forget the noise of the hearts beating quickly as people gathered around us," she says.

Her daughter died immediately from a shrapnel wound in the head. Her son bled profusely and died minutes later, even as she looked at him. She did not want her husband to know the children were dead, so she said nothing and started to pray.

But her husband was severely injured too -- the shrapnel had blown out his intestines. And Um Abdou looked down to find her own legs hanging slightly from her body.

"The moment I saw myself, I knew that my legs were going to be amputated," she says.

She and her husband were rushed to makeshift hospitals in the Syrian border towns of Qusair and Jousi. With the help of Syrian rebels, she was carried on a stretcher all the way across the border to Lebanon, amid 12 hours of shelling and shooting. Her husband died en route.

Um Abdou's children are now buried in a plot of land in Syria owned by the state. Her husband was buried in the cemetery in Jousi because it was too dangerous to take him back to his hometown.

"Even the dead have no right to be buried," she says.

Um Abdou has undergone four operations in Lebanon, including the two amputations. Her parents and sisters are looking after her, and she displays the green, red, white and black flag of the Syrian revolution in her room.

She knows the pain will be unbearable the day she goes back to Syria and visits the place where her family is buried. In the meantime, she has written a poem in the hospital.

"I lost my children and husband, but my soul is still strong," it reads. "I will keep saying until my last breath, long live freedom."

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BAGHDAD, Iraq ? The gang of masked gunmen broke into the small apartment near Damascus where Waleed Mohammed Abdul-Wahid and his family had lived for nearly three years. "Are you Sunni or Shiite?" they shouted, as his three children began to cry.

"We are Sunnis!" answered his wife, Wasan Malouki Khalaf.

"Do you know any Shiites who are cooperating with the Syrian government?" the gunmen demanded.

"We do not know any such people," she said. "We are from Baghdad."

The gunmen left. The brief but terrifying invasion sealed the decision Abdul-Wahid had been mulling for weeks: to leave behind an increasingly violent life in Syria and return to Iraq.

More than 2,200,000 people fled Iraq during the war and sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and almost half of them ended up in neighboring Syria. Now Syria is plagued with the same sectarian conflict, and many of the same people are on the run a second time. At least 22,000 Iraqi refugees are thought to have left Syria to return to Iraq, despite the dangers they thought they had left behind.

Abdul-Wahid had worked as a deliveryman back in Baghdad, bringing cylinders of cooking gas to both Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods. Militants kidnapped him outside his Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Azimiyah in 2009 and tortured him for four days. His arms still show the burn scars.

The family packed up and fled to Syria, where they built a new life in a mostly Shiite suburb. The children settled down in school, and the United Nations gave them food and an income. Abdul-Wahid, 49, found a job in construction and started taking medication for the severe depression he had suffered after the kidnapping.

Then the uprising against Assad began, and violence returned to Abdul-Wahid's life. Mortars bombarded their neighborhood, and snipers shot at people in the streets. The last straw was the gunmen storming their home in late July, and asking his daughter if she was Sunni or Shiite.

"She did not reply, because she does not know the meaning of such a question," Abdul-Wahid says.

The bus fare from Damascus to Baghdad cost about $110 for each person. Abdul-Wahid had to ask his brother for money, he says, his eyes filling up with tears of sadness and shame. His family is living in a room in his brother's house.

"I have lost everything now," he says. "I am jobless and penniless...I am even afraid of going outside my brother's house. Now, I have to start from zero."

He plans to go back to Syria when ? or if ? the violence ebbs. Wasan, his wife, says the shortages of electricity and water in Iraq are unbearable, as is the lack of good medical care, security and jobs.

But Abdul-Wahid is doubtful the violence will end any time soon, or Assad will be ousted from power.

"I think that the armed struggle in Syria will continue for a long time," he says. "He is clinging to power...I think that he will survive."

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ZAATARI, Jordan ? At this Syrian refugee camp opened in the desert just two months ago, anger sizzles in the scorching sun.

It is anger at being crowded with about 32,000 other people onto a parched, treeless strip of land, where the day is too hot and the night is too cold. But it is also a murderous anger among the Sunni Muslims here against the Shiites back home, whom they blame for the war. Many Sunnis oppose Assad's ruling regime, which is Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

"When I return, I will kill any Shiite I see with my dagger. I will chop him to pieces," shouts Basel Baradan, a bitter 18-year-old farmer who fled the southern town of Daraa with his family in July. He is weeping.

Jordan now hosts an estimated 200,000 Syrians, including those not registered with the U.N. -- the largest number of refugees taken in by any neighboring country. After months of delay, Jordan finally opened its first official refugee camp in July at Zaatari, near the border with Syria.

Already, about 30,000 refugees live at the camp, and they keep coming. This poor desert nation says it can no longer afford to welcome Syrian refugees into its towns and houses.

So they live apart at Zaatari, and they grow angrier. Late Monday, dozens of furious refugees hurled stones and injured about 26 Jordanian policemen, demanding better camp conditions or their return home.

Baradan's father Ghassan, 50, also a farmer, says that with the ubiquitous dust, snakes, scorpions and swings in temperature, living at Zaatari is a "worse struggle than Assad's missiles falling on our heads back home." He too is angry, and blames Shiites under Assad for killing Sunnis.

Baradan lived most of his life exchanging visits and sharing meals with Shiite neighbors. But he grew increasingly resentful in recent years because he thought the Shiites were getting more food and money, and were supported by Iran, a Shiite Muslim nation.

"Sunni Muslims have no respect in Syria and we fled here to find ourselves confined to this dirty prison," he sighs, puffing on his cigarette under a once-white tent, yellowed from the desert sun and heat.

The thirst for revenge that is palpable at the Zaatari camp does not bode well for Syria's future.

Baradan's tent is marked with the Arabic scribbling "Get out, Assad." Outside, a group of young Syrians lines up to fill buckets with drinking water. One of them, Mohammad Sweidan, 17, wears a green T-shirt with an Arabic emblem that reads: "Proud Sunni."

"Shiites and Alawites are not Muslims," he says. "They should be killed because they are infidels, who are killing the Sunnis, the true believers and followers of Islam."

Under Baradan's tent, his 46-year-old wife says she worries about ending up stateless, like Palestinian refugees displaced in wars with Israel. She cries as she cooks lunch on a small gas stove.

"I never thought we would become refugees like them," says the woman, who calls herself Um Basel after her eldest son, in keeping with conservative Muslim tradition. Her husband interrupts. "Even the Israelis do not treat the Palestinians the way Assad is treating Sunnis in Syria."

In a corner, Basel too is crying as he gazes at video on his cellphone of his 9-month-old nephew, Rabee, left behind in Daraa with his family.

"What is keeping me going is this video," he says, tearfully. "I can't wait to see Rabee again. I miss him dearly."

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CAIRO, Egypt ? Syrian refugee Mohammad B.'s passport expired a few weeks ago, making official what he has long known: He no longer has a country.

The 26-year-old had nowhere to renew his passport. The Syrian embassy in Cairo was closed after protests. The embassies in Libya and Tunisia had switched loyalty to the opposition and could no longer issue passports. And the embassy in Algeria simply told him to go back to Syria.

That was not an option.

In Syria, Mohammad had been studying to become an English teacher. He fled in May 2011 after he was shot in Daraa, the birthplace of the uprising. The bullet pierced his upper lip, broke his teeth, ripped through his cheekbone and exited near his temple. The deep, jagged wound identified him as an anti-government protester, which in Syria marked him for death.

At first all the protesters wanted was a new mayor and better amenities. Mohammad was hopeful.

"I didn't want to leave my country, I wanted it to get better," says the soft spoken young man with a ponytail and a right eye that droops slightly from his wound. He uses only his first name because he fears for the safety of his parents, both government employees in Daraa.

On April 25, the military clamped off the main road into Daraa. Then, he says, security forces started firing into the crowd of about 50 people with large machine guns.

A bullet sliced Mohammad's lip. He waved his hands for help, and a car came to his aid. A cellphone video he was shooting at the time, seen by The Associated Press, records the sound of a hail of bullets popping off the metal.

"It was very painful," Mohammad recalls. "I thought: Today is my last day....And the driver thought I was dead."

When he got home, his family fled to hide with relatives in the countryside. He stayed in bed for a week, unable to eat. Then he made the most difficult decision of his life: He had to leave Syria immediately.

He had never left Syria before. He chose Egypt because he would not need a visa, and knew a friend there.

Egypt does not share a border with Syria, and only about 1,700 Syrian refugees have registered there, according to the United Nations' refugee agency. However, the agency estimates the real number is closer to 95,000.

Mohammad's family gave him about $1,000 in cash, all they could spare. He put on dark sunglasses, wrapped a headdress over his face and prayed all the way to the airport. The bus passed a gauntlet of 25 checkpoints.

At the airport, he was detained for questioning but slipped interrogators a $300 bribe. He headed for his plane, sure he would be back.

Instead he is still in Cairo, with no money. He lives in a rundown apartment where eight people share three rooms.

With the help of a German-based aid group, Mohammad has had four operations for his face. His doctor says he will need more.

In February, one of Mohammad's five brothers made his way to Egypt, via Jordan. Bashar, 21, suffers from psychological problems after being shut in the house for a year watching the violence on TV. His presence both helps and hurts Mohammad.

"I feel like I have a family, but on the other hand, it made my life more difficult," Mohammad said. "He doesn't work."

Mohammad cannot legally work or study either. But he is teaching Arabic and translating for journalists. He also is considering starting a Web-based service to collect videos, photos and other documentation of the rebellion from citizens back home.

He talks with his family in Syria most days by phone or Skype. They never discuss politics. Since he left, security forces have gone to his house twice looking for him.

"I am worried all the time about my family and friends," he says. "When I check on them, I just want to know they are still there."

Above all, Mohammad longs to go home, study and have a good career. None of that is possible while he is stranded in Egypt with an expired passport.

"I just want to stop this bloodbath," he says. "I don't know how."

Mroue reported from Tripoli, Lebanon; Yacoub and Jakes from Baghdad, Iraq; Marjorie Olster from Cairo, Egypt; and Jamal Halaby from Zaatari, Jordan.

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Soil samples to be taken in Hoffa body claim

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

(AP) ? State investigators will take soil samples from outside a home in suburban Detroit as police continue looking into a man's claim that a body he says he saw buried in a backyard 35 years ago might have been that of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.

The samples are set to be removed Friday morning from beneath the driveway of a home in Roseville and eventually tested for human decomposition.

Hoffa was last seen July 30, 1975, outside a restaurant in Oakland County, more than 30 miles to the west.

The results could put the rest the latest turn in the search for Hoffa's remains.

Previous tips led police to excavate soil in 2006 at a horse farm more than 100 miles north of Detroit, rip up floorboards at a Detroit home in 2004, and search beneath a backyard pool north of the city in 2003.

There were even rumors that Hoffa's remains were ground up and tossed into a Florida swamp, entombed beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.

One local theory was that the body was beneath the foundation of a downtown Detroit hockey stadium, said 57-year-old Cindi Frank, who snapped photos Thursday of the Roseville driveway.

The daughter of a unionized driver and salesman for a Detroit bakery, Frank remembers conversations about Hoffa while he was alive and rumors about his fate.

"It was a family thing. Every time we'd go somewhere we'd say, 'Hey, I wonder if Jimmy Hoffa is buried there?'" Frank said. "It's just been one of those unsolved mysteries that's gone on for 30-something years. If he show up in Roseville ..."

Results of the soil samples taken Friday are not expected before next week.

News of the search has brought attention to the mostly working- and middle-class suburb from the curious and naysayers. Slowly moving vehicles have clogged the residential street as camera-wielding neighbors snapped photos for keepsakes.

"I believe it's him. My sister said it is, and she's a psychic," said Mike Smith after ambling up to the home Thursday and shying a bit from the yellow police tape stretched across the driveway.

Feisty and iron-willed in contract talks, Hoffa was an acquaintance of mobsters and adversary to federal officials. He spent time in prison for jury tampering.

The day he disappeared, Hoffa was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain. He was declared legally dead in 1982.

At the request of police, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground-penetrating radar last week on the Roseville driveway. An anomaly, or shift, in the soil was detected.

Police Chief James Berlin told The Associated Press on Thursday that his office is "not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa" beneath the slab but that they are "investigating a body that may be at the location."

Roseville was one of several inner-ring communities that grew quickly as unionized auto factory workers left the city in search of nicer homes and bigger yards.

"Maybe the most inconspicuous spot might be the place to stash a body or something," said 52-year-old Andrew Kacir, who lives across from the taped off driveway.

Recently retired Detroit FBI chief Andrew Arena is among the doubters.

"You've got to check it out, but this doesn't sound right," he told the AP. "The working theories that have developed over the years, this really doesn't fit any of those. If this was the mob and they killed somebody, I just don't see them burying the body basically at the intersection of a residential neighborhood with this guy standing there."

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Giant crocodiles ripped prey to death

A crocodile more than 22 feet long that ripped prey to death and another huge croc that sucked prey to its doom were at the top of the European marine food chain 150 million years ago, a new study finds.

The enormous prehistoric crocodiles, Plesiosuchus and Dakosaurus, were such ravenous carnivores that their methods have been compared to today's killer whales and a famous, iconic, meat-loving dinosaur.

"The skulls of these two sea croc species have some similarities to T. rex," lead author Mark Young of the University of Edinburgh told Discovery News. "The largest known skull of Plesiosuchus manselii was approximately four feet, three inches long, putting it in the size range of adult T. rex skulls."

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For the study, published in PLoS ONE, Young and his colleagues analyzed fossils for the two crocodiles, which were unearthed in sites from England to Germany. In their U.K. home, the crocs once dwelled in the shallow seas that covered England. At the same time, Archaeopteryx was flying over Europe and giant dinosaurs, such as Diplodocus and Allosaurus, were stomping around North America.

The researchers determined that Plesiosuchus was the largest known species of metriorhynchid, meaning sea crocodile.

"It was bigger than living salt water crocodiles and great white sharks," Young said.

Its teeth functioned like those of today's killer whales, based on shape and wear. This ripper crocodile probably bit into both large and small prey, which it would grab, kill and gulp.

Perhaps even more unusual was the sucker croc, Dakosaurus. The skull and jaw characteristics of this nearly 15-foot-long ancient crocodile suggest that it was a suction feeder, making it the first known suction-feeding crocodilian.

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This way of eating "involves being able to rapidly open the mouth wide, and generating negative pressure," Young said. "This sucks a prey item into the mouth."

"We think that Plesiosuchus specialized in eating other marine reptiles, and Dakosaurus was a generalist," co-author Lorna Steel of the Natural History Museum in London said, "probably eating fish and whatever else it could get hold of, perhaps including the small metriorhynchid Geosaurus." The latter looked like a barracuda.

It's suspected that modern killer whales can also suck in victims. Young explained that juvenile killer whales in captivity are known to generate negative pressures with their mouths.

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Both prehistoric crocodiles, therefore, fed very similar to modern killer whales. These animals are not related, since killer whales are mammals. The researchers instead believe that the similarities exemplify what's known as convergent evolution.

"Convergence is the evolution of a similar body plan, feeding mechanism (or other characteristic or behavior) in two different and not closely related groups, in this case crocodiles and mammals," Young said.

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"The continual evolution of these morphologies in distantly related groups could be telling us something about the limits and optimal method of underwater feeding in vertebrates," he added. "For example, the shearing, tooth-to-tooth occlusion of Dakosaurus is today found in false killer whales. But over the past 10 million years, numerous species of fossil sperm whales also evolved this feeding mechanism."

As for how the two different, yet equally formidable, crocodiles got along, there is no evidence that either species attacked the other. The scientists believe the Dinosaur-Era English seas had niche partitioning, whereby various predators fed on different animals, so the hunters never had to compete with one another for food. Today's ocean ecosystems are organized in much the same way, with animals such as whales, sharks and dolphins living in the same overall area.

Young and his colleagues would next like to delve deeper into understanding the feeding mechanics of the two crocs and other marine predators.

? 2012 Discovery Channel

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Neighbor Responds to Copley Twp. Fatal Fire | FOX8.com ...

Posted on: 9:35 pm, September 27, 2012, by Emily Valdez, updated on: 11:20pm, September 27, 2012

COPLEY TWP., Ohio ? A man was killed and three firefighters injured during a Thursday afternoon house fire on Earhart Ave.

?He was a good person. We are going to miss him. I know his wife is going to miss him,? family friend Russell Stott said of the unidentified victim.????????

Stott said he has worked for the man and his wife for 20 years.

?Loved animals.? They got 13 or so alpacas. He was a good man, he was a good husband,? Stott said.

Firefighters said they got a call about 11:30 a.m. Thursday that the home was on fire and a person was trapped inside.

?There was a fatality in the home and this is being considered a fatal fire and it?s treated as a crime scene,? said Chief Michael Benson of the Copley Fire Department.

Three firefighters were also hurt trying to fight this fire. Two were injured when the floor caved and the third was hurt trying to rescue the victims.

The fire chief said the firefighters? injuries are minor.

?But they were rescued by our personnel. We had two May Day calls. Our personnel rescued them and took them to the hospital,? Benson said.

A sign at the front of the home reads ?Serene Acres Alpacas.?

The fire department said the fire did not go near the alpaca?s enclosure and they were not hurt.

?Not as far as we can tell.? We did call the Humane Society to check on the animals just to make sure they?re okay,? Benson said.

He said the fire was in the front part of the home.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused it.

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Body of missing Northwestern student found in harbor

By BJ Lutz, NBCChicago.com

The body of a Northwestern University student missing since early Saturday morning was recovered Thursday evening from Lake Michigan's Wilmette Harbor.

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The body of Northwestern University student Harsha Maddula, who was missing since early Saturday morning, was recovered Thursday evening from Wilmette Harbor.

Harsha Maddula, 18,?vanished after leaving a party near his campus residence hall?early Saturday morning.

While there's been no official confirmation of identity, university spokesman Alan Cubbage said Maddula's identification and cell phone were found on the body that was pulled from the water near the bridge on Sheridan Road shortly before 7 p.m.

Cubbage said there does not appear to be any foul play involved.

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"On behalf of Northwestern University, I extend our deepest sympathies to Harsha's family and to his many friends at Northwestern. Our hearts and thoughts are with them," said University President Morton Schapiro. "The loss of one member of the Northwestern community deeply affects us all."

The discovery ends days of searching by hundreds of volunteers, including family, friends, students and community members.

Maddula's family members on Wednesday?put up a $25,000 reward for information?as the search expanded to the waters of Lake Michigan near his residence hall. Authorities said the last "ping" from his cell phone hit a tower near the water.

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Students at Northwestern University hold a candelight vigil for fellow student Harsha Maddula who went missing early Saturday morning and was found dead Thursday night.

"It is believed that the cell phone that was found on the body, that the amount of time it took for the various signals to go on northward, that is consistent with someone walking," said Cubbage.

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Dive teams searching the water on Wednesday turned up nothing, but Maddula's family said earlier in the day that their spirits were lifted by word from relatives in India who'd contacted psychics.

"All my family and friends from India, from everywhere, they see me on TV and they say, 'He's still alive. Don't worry,'" his father, Prasad Maddula, told reporters.

"Why the body was found today and not yesterday during the extensive search that occurred, I don't know the answer," said Cubbage.

A Facebook page dedicated to updates on the search?for Maddula was apparently taken offline Thursday evening.

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The Real Housewives of Miami: A Mynt Meltdown

Bravo?s producers of ?The Real Housewives of Miami? promised a blockbuster season. Alex McCord told us on rumorfix that this production staff created Season Three of ?The Real Housewives of New York City.?? Last night, the producers broke the golden rule.? The viewers have to have connected with the reality star before they were thrown into conflict.? If we don?t know the housewife or their best friend, the viewers are not invested and just want the combatants to vanish?in a puff of smoke.? Miami is a city of beautiful people who seem selfish and superficial.? This was the problem in Season One of ?The Real Housewives of Miami? and ?Miami Social.?? The audience did not connect and the ratings were dismal.

Adrianna is the star of this reality show.? She knows that she is being filmed.? When the new housewives are discussing Elsa?s face with Lenny, Lisa?s husband, Adrianna knows that the comments about Elsa being scary will not be popular with grandmothers on the prairie.? We can all see that Elsa suffered at the hands of a bad doctor.? Elsa is not a healthy person.? That conversation by beautiful young women was not fair.

Adrianna toured an exhibit in her large art gallery with her partner.? The gallery has her partner?s name on the window.? Adrianna must have a smaller percentage of ownership.? She has worked in the art world for 7 years.? Adrianna studied art in the University of Paris/ Sorbonne. Adrianna knows the business. In the past, crowds came to art opening for a glass of free champagne and to be seen.? Now, she wants to create an event for the art collectors. She wants to sell art, not throw a party for friends.? Her partner is happy to have his gallery on a national television show.

There are interesting relationships with employees of the housewives, who have become ?friends.?? Like Jeff Lewis and Zoila, there is a friendship, but the home owners are not equals in the friendship. The employee?s financial survival depends on the homeowner and their benevolence.? The employee entertains the homeowner.? It is what it is.? The homeowner feels they have the right to describe the employee and their relationship. This unequal relationship is common in domestic situations, but watching it play out on reality television is different because the employee cannot give their side.? Bravo let Zoila share her thoughts with us.? In ?The Real Housewives of Miami? that did not happen.

There are business relationships that cause problems in the personal lives of the Miami housewives.? Romaine, Joanna? boyfriend, is a successful club owner.? He came to America with $1,000 and he spent that money in two months.? He became a waiter, a bartender and club owner.? Mynt, Romaine?s club, had its 10th Anniversary.? It is unusual for a club to last that long in Miami where new is the place to be.? Romaine has an excellent DJ and the music in a club has to be trendy.? The DJ dated Joanna?s sister, Marta, for four years.? He cheated on her and continued the relationship with the woman that he left Marta for a while ago.? This is the basic problem between Marta and Romaine. Romaine?s success is based on the music of his club.? Marta would like the DJ to be fired.? Romaine is a smart businessman and he is sick of the constant fight over a man who helps him make a lot of money.

Joanna is temperamental when not drunk, but when she is intoxicated she can see the DJ working and goes insane. She screams at the table and confronts Romaine, who thinks she is crazy.? He reminds her that her sister went insane and threw things like tampons in a confrontation over the DJ and his?infidelity.? The two Polish sisters from Chicago have issues. They may be beautiful, but no one will have peace with them in his life.? Romaine lives with Joanna, but he does not want Marta sharing his apartment.? In essence, Romaine does not want a packaged deal. This conflict will never end.

Lisa and Lenny are endearing. He is a genius, who always wanted to be a surgeon. They tease each other, but seem in love.? Lenny is friendly and hard-working.? He is generous to his wife.? Lisa does take care of him and the relationship is fun to watch.? They both love to party and are moving to Star Island and away from an area where homeowners prefer quiet.? ??Lisa is honest about her reactions to people, so she will soon be a part of the drama.? Lisa is young and she comments about being over 40 at a club.? This is going to get her in trouble.? The neighbors of Star Island may not like loud parties.

Anna is crying when she is alone in her home. She is covering up her red eyes with makeup while her grown daughter watches.? Anna?s prosecutor boyfriend wants her to divorce Robert, the father of her children.? Robert wants the divorce.? He wanted the divorce two years ago.? Anna stated in the first episode that she doesn?t care what we think, but she knows she is in Limbo.? Robert is not going to change.? Anna?s daughters know this.? Anna wants to have her family as it was in the beginning.? This is sad to watch, but this happens to women.? Men move on even though you did everything correctly.? There is nothing Anna can do to fix this.

Karent?is in love with a player/Latino soap star.? Her mother hates seeing her suffer. Karent?has discovered that her boyfriend is selective when he shares what is going on with Anna and text messaging.? The player leaves messages on an open Facebook page to Anna.? Anna is a lawyer so she took screen shots and kept a file.? Anna had the evidence that Karent?does not want to see. Adrianna wants Karent to understand what is happening, but like Anna, she prefers to live in her own dream world. ?Karent?s mother will save her daughter, but not there will be heartbreak before this is over.

Marysol?Patton claims to have the largest PR Firm in America.? She has owned it for 10 years.? I don?t know who this is possible when there are PR firms in LA and NYC that are huge.? Marysol?wanted to please her client who had issues with Elaine walking at his event.? Marysol?s?firm?did not let Elaine Lancaster/James walk in that?Miami event.? There seems to be confusion over what happened next.? Marysol?was in charge of a red-carpet at a Miami fundraiser for the children of incarcerated adults.? Elaine claims that small-minded?employees of Marysol?did not let Elaine walk at this event last year.? Marysol?denies that this happened and claims that Elaine is confusing the events.?? As viewers, we have no way of knowing who is correct in this argument, but I bet both Marysol?and Elaine are jumping to conclusions and protecting their own names from damage.? This is often the case when there has been a previous confrontation as there was when Marysol?did what her client asked.? Elaine was hurt at the first event, and she perceived that the people who hurt her were doing the same at the second event.? Those people were also reacting to Elaine and were hurt by her comments and accusations.? There are small-minded?people, but I think the real culprit was the man who hired Marysol?for the first event. Perhaps, Marysol?should have stood up to him, but that would have caused her problems too.? I?m sure that man would have hurt her business reputation also.? It?s a Catch 22.? Is a friend, Elaine, more important than a client to Marysol? Marysol chose the client.? This is one hot Miami mess.

Bravo made a mistake in this storyline. We have to know people before they walk in with guns blasting.? Bravo took us into a yearlong battle between Elaine and Marysol without a shield.? We needed to know more about Elaine as a person, so we could see that Elaine was honest.? Having two housewives give conflicting statements is confusing.? If we knew Elaine better, we could make better judgments to?help us decide ?if? Elaine was overreacting or was a victim.

The ratings of this series are over 1 million a week.? This is the lowest of all of the Bravo Real Housewives? Series.? New Jersey is close to 2 million.? If this was the first season, those numbers would be fine.? Bravo would give them a chance to get their sea legs.? I don?t understand why this show isn?t better.? Adrianna is wonderful.? The stories of Anna and Lisa are interesting.? I don?t know why America is not connecting with Miami.? I love the Latin culture and music.? The women are trying to make it in a difficult economy, and they are successful.

In Season One, two of the reality stars acted like high school girls, I don?t see that dynamic this year.? There are only 8 episodes, so Bravo had trouble creating an interesting story line with their hours of film.? I suspect the show is missing a villain.? Every housewife show has someone who takes the hits and fights back.?? None of the women in Miami wants to damage their reputations.? They want to survive after the cameras pack up and leave for NYC.??? I don?t think the conflict from a runway last year will be enough to save ?The Real Housewives of Miami.?

There are scenes where someone familiar to me is screaming at Elsa at a party. He is Kim Zolciak?s friend, Thomas Kramer, who had the strange home filled with stuffed animals. Kim brought the Atlanta housewives to his home for a vacation. That man was unsavory and had a history that made me uncomfortable.? I hope he does not cause Elsa pain.

Thomas Kramer, Kim?s friend, throws infamous parties at his mansion on Star Island:

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I think Star Island is Miami?s Scary Island, but without a storyline of conflict for the real housewives, where can Bravo go next season?

Here is a mystery:? The Real Housewives of Miami are holding glasses with something green.? Is it possible mint leaves?? Is mint the symbol of the city of Miami?

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Justice yanks plan to collect indecency fine - Biederman Blog

There were bachelor and bachelor-ette parties, strippers and whipped cream. And while the portrayals, many pixilated, proved sufficiently graphic to have aroused blue-penciled government censors, in the end, it wasn?t just clothes on-screen that got dropped. The Justice Department has yanked its suit against Fox Broadcasting for failing to pay a Federal Communications Commission ?(FCC) indecency fine stemming from a 2003 Fox show ?Married with America.? The FCC slapped Fox with more than $1 million in fines after its stations aired a racy episode showcasing exotic dancers. Fox and the feds, ultimately, were disputing a few thousand dollars in fines over the terpsichorean entertainment. But that was before the Supremes stepped in over the summer on indecent broadcasting. Let?s strip to the facts in this case:

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court?held that the FCC could not?enforce current policies against past transgressions and must give ?fair notice? before taking action against ?fleeting expletives??and nudity on live or scripted television programs.?The court noted the FCC had offered rules against fleeting expletives in 2004, one year later than when?the indecent actions?charged against Fox and ABC occurred.? Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote ?A fundamental principle in our legal system is that laws which regulate persons or entities must give fair notice of conduct that is forbidden or required.?? The broadcasters lacked notice in 2003 that brief nudity or fleeting expletives could be actionable, so the FCC violated their rights to due process under the Fifth Amendment.

?Fleeting expletives? are nonscripted verbal or visual indecencies expressed during a live broadcast. The high court, in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, the 1978?landmark case involving?the ?Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,? defined?indecency as ?language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.?

The problem is that the justices, overturning? a federal appeals court finding in favor of the networks in 2009, ruled that the FCC is allowed to regulate the use of fleeting expletives on television. The Court did not settle the First Amendment question regarding censorship of broadcasts by a federal agency?but rather?suggested this should be?dealt with?by a Federal Appeals Court.? In 2010, the Second Circuit called the FCC ?fleeting expletive? policy unconstitutionally vague.? This past?July, the Supreme Court again dodged the issue when it held that the FCC could not charge the networks because of fair notice?and due process concerns.

With Justice bowing out of the Fox fine, it remains for yet another day for the First Amendment question to be settled and there have been no new indecency cases put up since Julius ?Genachowski, the current FCC chair, was appointed by President Obama in 2009. The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.??This independent agency, overseen by Congress,?has five commissioners, each appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, each with five-year terms, and only three? of whom?can be affiliated with any?particular political party at the same time.? Chief among the FCC?s missions?are the promotion of ?competition, innovation, and investment in broadband services and facilities? and the support of ?the nation?s economy by ensuring an appropriate competitive framework for the unfolding of the communications revolution.?

Genachowski, who has talked about broadband internet facilitation and preserving Internet free speech and free enterprise, said of the most recent Justice decision: ?In the wake of the Supreme Court?s decision in Fox v. FCC, the commission is reviewing its indecency enforcement policy to ensure the agency carries out Congress?s directive in a manner consistent with vital First Amendment principles.?

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Police chief resigns, NM force has gone to the dog

(AP) ? The police chief of the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn resigned Wednesday, leaving the town with just one certified member on its police force ? a drug-sniffing dog named Nikka.

Dave Romero, attorney for the town, said Wednesday that police Chief Ernest "Chris" Armijo decided to step down after news stories reported that he wasn't allowed to carry a gun because of his criminal background.

"He decided the attention was distracting," Romero said.

State officials said Armijo couldn't carry a gun since acknowledging that he owed tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent child support payments in Texas. Armijo also faces new felony charges after being accused of selling a town-owned rifle and pocketing the cash.

Romero said Armijo is working to clear up the latest case. He said Armijo has not ruled out seeking the police chief's position again if his case is resolved and the position is open.

According to records, the only qualified member of the Vaughn Police Department is Nikka, a drug-sniffing dog. Vaughn's other officer isn't certified and pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery last year. Noncertified officers can't make arrests and can't carry firearms.

But Romero said not having an officer qualified to carry a gun didn't put Vaughn at risk. "England doesn't allow police officers to carry guns," he said. "Sometime the strongest weapon in law enforcement is communication."

Vaughn, a town of about 450 located 104 miles east of Albuquerque, is a quiet town that is an overnight stop for railroad workers. And while residents say there is no crime problem, the town is set deep in what U.S. Homeland Security Investigations officials say is an isolated region of the state popular with drug traffickers. Officials say the desolate roads in Guadalupe County make it hard for authorities to catch smugglers moving drugs from Mexico.

Guadalupe County Sheriff Michael Lucero said since news about the police chief's record became public his department has helped patrol Vaughn. But he said those efforts have put a slight strain on his already short-staffed department.

"I visit the town at least once a month," said Lucero. "The important thing is to keep a presence so residents know we're there to help if we're needed."

Romero said town officials are considering whether to hire another police chief or keep the department staffed with just one officer. He said it's unclear whether the town will keep the police dog, which had been in Armijo's care.

When approached by a reporter from The Associated Press at his Vaughn home, Armijo said he had no comment, and he declined to grant access to the canine for photographs or video.

The dog's kennel could be seen in Armijo's backyard, and a police truck marked "K-9" was parked in his driveway.

At Penny's Diner, residents said they were embarrassed by the attention the episode has put on the small town.

"There's just a whole lot of nothing going on here," said cook Joyce Tabor. "We have very little crime. It's quiet. So this really doesn't matter."

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Pew research report on how people get local news and information in

From Pew Internet

In January, 2011 the Pew Research Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project, in partnership with the Knight Foundation, conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of U.S. adults exploring local news consumption habits.? Overall, the survey indicated that most adults follow what is happening in their local communities and that the local news ecosystem is complex.? Rather than relying on one or two main sources of local news, most adults use a wide variety of both traditional and online sources depending on which local topic they are seeking information about.1

This report reexamines those data with an eye toward how local news consumption practices vary by community type.? Specifically, it focuses on the ways residents in large cities, suburbs, small towns and rural areas compare in their levels of interest in local news, the topics they are most interested in, and the sources they rely on to learn about those topics.

The results indicate that from large urban areas to rural communities, Americans often report similarly high levels of interest in news in general, in local news and information, and in national and international news.? Moreover, similar percentages of adults report following the specific local topics asked about, regardless of the type of community in which they live.

Still, community differences do emerge in the number and variety of local news sources used, as well as the degree of ?local news participation? and mobile news consumption.? Many of the differences in local news consumption emerging from these data reflect the varying demographic composition of different community types in the U.S.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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Feds, the time is quickly approaching when you?ll have to choose a health insurance plan for next year. Fed Times would like to talk to you about what is most important to you in choosing a plan. Do you look for a plan with a low premium or a low deductible? Does coverage for a particular medical condition or physician or prescription influence your choice?

If you are willing to discuss your decision with us, please contact Markie Harwood. Thanks.

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Dusty Baker will resume managing Reds next week

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker watches during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. The game is Baker's 3,000th as a manager in the majors. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker watches during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. The game is Baker's 3,000th as a manager in the majors. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Cincinnati Reds acting manager Chris Speier, left, questions a call with home plate umpire Mike Muchlinski during a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Cincinnati. Reds manager Dusty Baker remained in a Chicago hospital after experiencing an irregular heartbeat. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

(AP) ? Dusty Baker won't manage the Cincinnati Reds until the final series in St. Louis, giving him time to recover from an irregular heartbeat that left him hospitalized last week.

Baker met with owner Bob Castellini and his team on Tuesday before a game against the Brewers. Bench coach Chris Speier said he'll manage the final three home games against Milwaukee and three in Pittsburgh over the weekend, with Baker taking over for the last three games next week.

The 63-year-old manager was hospitalized in Chicago last Wednesday for an irregular heartbeat, a problem he's had for a while. He was in the hospital for four days, missing the Reds' 6-0 win over the Dodgers on Saturday night that clinched the NL Central title.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

'Martian pink' Samsung Galaxy S3 is official

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New color launches in South Korea, as sales figures suggest six percent of the country's population now own a Galaxy S3

It was leaked last week, but now it's official -- the Samsung Galaxy S3 will be launching in South Korea in a new "Martian pink" color. Currently, Samsung plans to make available just 100,000 of the pink S3s across South Korea's three main mobile operators.

On its official Korean blog, the company quoted an official as saying (roughly translated) --

"The Martian pink Galaxy S III is refined and sensuous. With its distinctive style, we expect a great response from the younger generation and women."

Samsung also notes that it's surpassed 3 million Galaxy S3 sales in its home territory, which is all the more impressive considering the country's population of just under 50 million. By our calculations, that makes for approximately six percent of the country's population that owns a Galaxy S3. Internationally, sales of the phone stand at 20 million, and that's expected to rise to 30 million before the end of the year.

Samsung's accustomed to strong sales of its handsets in Korea. Back in January it emerged that some 5 million Galaxy S2 phones had been sold in the country, amounting to 10 percent of the population.

Samsung hasn't announced any plans to launch the new Martian pink S3 outside of South Korea, but given its track record with the pink Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note, we wouldn't be surprised to see this a Martian pink invasion of Europe taking place in a few months' time.

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Free speech 'red lines' feed Muslim film rage

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 file photo, Pakistani protesters burn a representation of a U.S. flag and an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama in the Pakistani border town of Chaman along the Afghanistan border. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 file photo, Pakistani protesters burn a representation of a U.S. flag and an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama in the Pakistani border town of Chaman along the Afghanistan border. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, Egyptian protesters carry their national flag and a flag with Arabic that reads "No God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet," and chant anti U.S. slogans during a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, Yemeni protesters break a window of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, FIle)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, a Libyan man explains that the bloodstains on the column are from one the American staff members who grabbed the edge of the column while he was evacuated, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, masked Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces, not pictured, during clashes that erupted after a demonstration against an anti-Islam film called "Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem. U.S.-funded ads on Pakistani television include President Barack Obama extolling America?s religious tolerance. To many in the Muslim world, this misses the mark in efforts to calm the outrage over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? In U.S.-funded ads running on Pakistani TV, subtitled clips show President Barack Obama extolling America's traditions of religious freedom. For many watching, though, the message misses the mark in efforts to calm the Islamic outrage over a film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.

America's free speech laws and values of openness are not in question, but rather there is confusion and anger over how they are applied.

A powerful theme binding the protests from Indonesia to Africa is the perception that the U.S. codes of free speech are somehow weighted against Islam ? permitting the Internet video that insults the faith but placing clear limits on hot button issues such as hate speech, workplace discrimination and even what is acceptable on prime-time network TV.

Beyond the rage, bloodshed and death threats ? churning now for two weeks ? is a quandary for American policymakers that will linger long after the latest mayhem fades: How to explain the U.S. embrace of free expression to an Islamic world that increasingly sees only double standards?

Although there are many nuances ? including strict U.S. laws when hate speech crossed the line into threats or intimidation ? they are mostly lost in the current outrage that included a peaceful march in Nigeria on Monday and Iran threatening to boycott the 2013 Academy Awards after the country's first Oscar-winning film this year.

With each protest, many clerics and Islamic hard-liners hammer home the narrow view that America is more concerned with political correctness or safeguarding children from sexual content than the religious sensibilities of Muslims.

In Gaza, preacher Sheik Hisham Akram said tolerance is the goal, but the "red line" is crossed with "anyone who insults our religion." Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ? now in New York for the U.N.'s annual General Assembly ? denounced last week the "deception" of U.S. laws protecting rights while allowing the clip from the film "Innocence of Muslims," which portrays Muhammad as a womanizer, religious fraud and child molester.

"In some extent, it's not an issue of condemning America's freedom of speech. It's become an issue, in the eyes of many Muslims, over where the lines are and why they are not protecting the feelings of Muslims," said John Voll, associate director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington.

It also turns the $70,000 U.S. ad initiative in Pakistan ? one of the hotbeds of the protests ? into a major challenge to gain any ground. Besides Obama, the spots include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeating that U.S. authorities had no connection to the video.

It's part of wider U.S. strategies to use social media and other forums to reach out to moderates in the Islamic world ? including what the State Department has described as a "virtual embassy" for Iranian web surfers. But the fallout from the film has so far drowned out appeals for calmer dialogue in places such as Pakistan, where at least 23 people have died in unrest linked to the film.

"The fact that (the Obama administration) is trying to step up to the plate and trying to engage where the debate is really happening should be commended," said Daniel Markey, a senior fellow in South Asian affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations. "But what credibility do they have to deliver this message? That's a different story. ... It's unlikely to make the sale on the Pakistani street."

At the U.N., a separate effort is being spearheaded by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He said the film will be at the top of the agenda of a meeting of the 57-member group on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

Among the proposals is a call to impose an international law against promoting religious hatred. Such appeals could get widespread support, but are nearly certain to collide with Western free speech codes and be rendered difficult to enforce in the borderless world of the web.

Already, many moderate Muslim scholars and leaders have urged the U.N. or other international bodies to step in to help define possible global standards on religious expression.

Paul Bhatti, an adviser to the Pakistani prime minister, told a multifaith crowd of Muslims, Christians and others outside the country's parliament Sunday that international laws should be imposed to limit the most hateful fringes of Western free speech.

But just a day earlier, a Pakistan government minister offered a $100,000 bounty for the death of the filmmaker.

The two responses ? one appealing for a higher law and the other taking justice into his own hands ? frame another divide pried wider by the latest chaos: How much leeway can Muslim countries allow for expressions of anger against their faith?

While many Muslims believe American protections for open expression were abused by the film, there are also moderate voices in the Islamic world questioning whether the defense of their religion is warped by death threats and violence that has left dozens dead, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

"This is the flip side to the criticism against American free speech," Voll said. "This is another major learning opportunity inside Muslim societies to look at themselves and interactions with the world. We have been here before."

But the latest upheavals appear to resonate even deeper because of the widening reach of the web and social media, which also have played a central role in the Arab Spring uprisings that have opened new political space for hard-line Islamists.

"Sadly, the voices of reason and logic in this part of the world are few," said Ebtehal al-Khateeb, a Kuwait University professor and human rights activist. "Even those who strongly oppose the violence prefer not to speak."

Kuwait is a particularly instructive proving ground in the struggle to clarify an Islamic version of free speech.

After Islamist-led opposition groups gained control of parliament in February, they tried to push through measures that included the death penalty for blasphemy against Islam. Kuwait's Western-leaning rulers signaled they would reject the move and later suspended the parliament over election law technicalities.

"The truth is that as amateurish movie production is, it still falls in the category of freedom of speech," al-Khateeb said. "If you say that to people here, they will read your response as: 'You accept this. You are a blasphemer.' They still don't understand that they don't have to accept it. They can oppose it, but in a civil manner that is more constructive."

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Associated Press writers Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Asif Shahzad and Zarrar Khan in Islamabad, Adam Geller in New York, and Hussain al-Qatari in Kuwait City contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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