Egypt?s top military commander promises army overhaul

A policeman stands guard in front of a graffiti with Egypt?s former president Hosni Mubarak, former Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, along Mohamed Mahmoud street near Tahrir Square in Cairo, September 26, 2012. ? Reuters pic

CAIRO, Sept 30 ? Egypt?s most senior military commander has promised better training and more modern weaponry for the army in an apparent effort to satisfy officers? demands for change, which have multiplied after an uprising last year.

Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is also the defence minister, was appointed by the country?s first Islamist president Mohamed Mursi only last month and is under pressure to shake up a military which until recently had held the balance of power in Egypt for decades.

Addressing troops last week during the first military drill in a series to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1973 war with Israel, Sisi reassured troops that change was on its way despite the fact that the drill was being conducted using old arms like the Soviet BM-21, a rocket launcher in use for 40 years.

?We will devise a comprehensive programme that develops real training for the forces in all military branches to maximise the performance of individual officers and soldiers during my time here,? he said, according to a live recording of his speech obtained by Reuters.

Addressing troops participating in the drill, which took place along Egypt?s western border with Libya, Sisi, 57, acknowledged that Egypt?s military capabilities trailed those of other armies.

The army would replace some of its arsenal within 3-6 months and was working to extend the range of a missile system known as ?Saqr? to 45-kilometres, he said.

?Regarding the status of our military equipment, we may feel that some of it is modest but we must work with what arsenal we have.

?We will not be able to change all of our hardware completely. What we can do is achieve the highest standards of shooting and efficiency.

?This will compensate for the modest equipment we are gradually trying to replace,? he said.

Egypt receives US$1.3 billion (RM4 billion) in military aid annually from the United States but officials say that is not enough for the country to keep up with rivals such as Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Officers have said the US money benefits American arms manufacturers as it forces Egypt to buy outdated weaponry.

Pressure over Sinai

Sisi?s comments appeared to be aimed at army officers who have said they view Egypt?s revolution ? which toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak last year ? as their own chance to win better salaries and improved conditions and training.

Sisi is also under pressure to tighten up security in the Sinai Peninsula, a desert area which borders Israel, and to crack down hard on Islamist militants operating there.

President Mursi sacked Sisi?s predecessor, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi last month along with other senior military and police officials after an attack blamed on Islamist militants killed 16 Egyptian border guards in the area.

Israel, which has repeatedly urged Egypt?s new rulers to tackle the Sinai problem is looking on nervously and is uneasy that Egypt is now being governed by Islamists.

Israeli troops used to occupy the Sinai Peninsula, the scene of several conflicts between it and Cairo, but withdrew in 1982.

To many officers, Sisi?s words were a break with previous senior commanders who had been criticized for not developing the army?s capacities.

Unlike previous drills, Sisi organised a discussion between lower ranking officers and commanders to try to ensure that lessons were learned and that the concerns of officers were heard.

One commander later remarked that Sisi ?had introduced a new approach? to communications between officers and their superiors.

Officers say Sisi?s elevation to the country?s most senior military role upset many senior commanders who had a longer and richer record of service than him.

Earlier this month, Sisi ? in coordination with Mursi ? issued a list of long-serving generals who he said would retire, opening the door to more promotions, local papers reported. ?? Reuters

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Another UN Push for Global Taxation | Cato @ Liberty

Below is some of what the report has to say about a few of the various tax options. We?ll start with the carbon tax, which I recently explained was a bad idea if it were to be imposed on Americans by politicians in Washington. It?s a horrible idea if imposed globally by the kleptocrats at the UN.

?a tax of $25 per ton of CO2 emitted by developed countries is expected to raise $250 billion per year in global tax revenues. Such a tax would be in addition to taxes already imposed at the national level, as many Governments (of developing as well as developed countries) already tax carbon emissions, in some cases explicitly, and in other cases, indirectly through taxes on specific fuels.

Notice that the tax would apply only to ?developed countries,? so this scheme is best characterized as discriminatory taxation. If Obama is genuinely worried about jobs being ?outsourced? to developing nations like China (as he implies in his recent attack on Romney), then he should announce his strong opposition to this potential tax.

But don?t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

Next, here?s what the UN says about a financial transactions tax:

A small tax of half a ?basis point? (0.005 per cent) on all trading in the four major currencies (the dollar, euro, yen and pound sterling) might yield an estimated $40 billion per year. ?even a low tax rate would limit high-frequency trading to some extent. It would thus result in the earning of a ?double dividend? by helping reduce currency volatility and raising revenue for development. While a higher rate would limit trading to a greater extent, this might be at the expense of revenue.

This is an issue that already has attracted my attention, and I also mentioned that it was a topic in my meeting with the European Union?s tax commissioner.

But rather than reiterate some of my concerns about taxing financial consumers, I want to give a bit of a compliment to the UN: the bureaucrats, by writing that ?a higher rate ? might be at the expense of revenue,? deserve credit for openly acknowledging the Laffer Curve.

By the way, this is an issue where both the United States and Canada have basically been on the right side, though the Obama administration blows hot and cold on the topic.

Now let?s turn to the worst idea in the UN report. Its authors want to steal wealth from rich people. But even more remarkable, they want us to think this won?t have any negative economic impact.

?the least distorting, most fair and most efficient tax is a ?lump sum? payment, such as a levy on the accumulated wealth of the world?s richest individuals (assuming the wealthy could not evade the tax). In particular, it is estimated that in early 2012, there were 1,226 individuals in the world worth $1 billion or more, 425 of whom lived in the United States, 90 in other countries of the Americas, 315 in the Asia-Pacific region, 310 in Europe and 86 in Africa and the Middle East. Together, they owned $4.6 trillion in assets, for an average of $3.75 billion in wealth per person. A 1 percent tax on the wealth of these individuals would raise $46 billion in 2012.

I?ll be the first to admit that you can?t change people?s incentives to produce in the past. So if you steal wealth accumulated as the result of a lifetime of work, that kind of ?lump sum? tax isn?t very ?distorting.?

But here?s some news for the UN: rich people aren?t stupid (or at least their financial advisers aren?t stupid). So you might be able to engage in a one-time act of plunder, but it is naivet? to think that this would be a successful long-term source of revenue.

For more information, I addressed wealth taxes in this post, and the argument I was making applies to a global wealth tax just as much as it applies to a national wealth tax.

Now let?s conclude with a very important warning. Some people doubtlessly will dismiss the UN report as a preposterous wish list. In part, they?re right. There is virtually no likelihood of these bad policies getting implemented any time in the near future.

But UN bureaucrats have been relentless in their push for global taxation, and I?m worried they eventually will find a way to impose the first global tax. And if you?ll forgive me for mixing metaphors, once the camel?s nose is under the tent, it?s just a matter of time before the floodgates open.

The greatest threat is the World Health Organization?s scheme for a global tobacco tax. I wrote about this issue back in May, and it seems my concerns were very warranted. Those global?bureaucrats recently unveiled a proposal?to be discussed at a conference in South Korea in November?that would look at schemes to harmonize tobacco taxes and/or impose global taxes.

Here?s some of what the Washington Free Beacon wrote:

The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a global excise tax of up to 70 percent on cigarettes at an upcoming November conference, raising concerns among free market tax policy analysts about fiscal sovereignty and bureaucratic mission creep. In?draft guidelines?published this September, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control indicated it may put a cigarette tax on the table at its November conference in Seoul, Korea. ?it is considering two proposals on cigarette taxes to present to member countries. The first would be an excise tax of up to 70 percent. ?The second proposal is a tiered earmark on packs of cigarettes: 5 cents for high-income countries, 3 cents for middle-income countries, and 1 cent for low-income countries. WHO has estimated that such a tax in 43 selected high-/middle-/low-income countries would generate $5.46 billion in tax revenue. ?Whichever option the WHO ends up backing, ?they?re both two big, bad ideas,? said Daniel Mitchell, a senior tax policy fellow at the Cato Institute. ?Critics also argue such a tax increase will not generate more revenue, but push more?sales?to the black market and counterfeit cigarette producers. ?It?s already a huge problem,? Mitchell said. ?In many countries, a substantial share of cigarettes are black market or counterfeit. They put it in a Marlboro packet, but it?s not a Marlboro cigarette. Obviously it?s a big thing for organized?crime.? ?The other concern is mission creep. Tobacco, Mitchell says, is easy to vilify, making it an attractive beachhead from which to launch future vice tax initiatives.

It?s my final comment that has me most worried. The politicians and bureaucrats are going after tobacco because it?s low-hanging fruit. They may not even care that their schemes will boost organized crime and may not raise much revenue.

They?re more concerned about establishing a precedent that international bureaucracies can impose global taxes.

I wrote the other day about whether Americans should escape to Canada, Australia, Chile, or some other nation when the entitlement crisis causes a Greek-style fiscal collapse.

But if the statists get the power to impose global taxes, then what choice will we have?

Source: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/another-un-push-for-global-taxation/

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Hard drive shipments recover from floods in Thailand, expected to reach record high

Last year's floods in Thailand caused hard drive shortages after wreaking havoc on a number of electronics manufacturers, but new stats from IHS iSuppli indicate that the HDD market for PCs has fully recovered and is poised to hit an all time high. The firm expects 524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year, besting the previous record by 4.3 percent. What's giving the recovery an added boost? According to the analytics group, the extra demand comes courtesy of Windows 8 and Ultrabooks. Unfortunately for deal hounds, the company noted in a report earlier this year that prices aren't expected to dip below the pre-flood range until 2014. If IHS iSuppli projections hold true, total annual hard drive shipments could reach 575.1 million by 2016.

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Four key trends changing digital journalism and society - O'Reilly ...

It?s not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners. They all are part of a distributed civic media community that works on open source code, collects and improves data, and collaborates across media organizations.

These projects are ?part of an infrastructure that helps journalists better understand and serve their communities through data,? commented Chris Sopher, Knight Foundation Journalism Program Associate, in an interview last week. To apply a coding metaphor, the Knight Foundation is funding the creation of patches for the source code of society. This isn?t a new focus: in 2011, Knight chose to help build the newsroom stack, from editorial search engines to data cleaning tools.

Following are four themes that jumped out when I looked across the winners of the latest Knight News Challenge round.

Networked accountability

An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data? Safecast is in its own category. Adapting the system to focus on air quality in Los Angeles ? a city that?s known for its smog ? will be an excellent stress test for seeing if this distributed approach to networked accountability can scale.

If it does ? and hacked Chumbys, LED signs, Twitter bots, smartphone apps and local media reports start featuring the results ? open data is going to be baked into how residents of Los Angeles understand their own atmosphere. If this project delivers on some of its promise, the value of this approach will be clearer.

If this project delivers on all of its potential, the air itself might improve. For that to happen, the people who are looking at the realities of air pollution will need to advocate for policy makers to improve it. In the future, the success or failure of this project will inform similar efforts that seek to enlist communities in data collection, including whether governments embrace ?citizensourcing? beyond natural disasters and crises. The idea of citizens as sensors continues to have legs.

Peer-to-peer collaboration, across newsrooms

As long as I?ve been reading newspapers, watching television news and following the industry, competition has always been part of the dynamic: be first to the scene, first to get the scoop, first to call the election. As the Internet has taken on a larger role in delivering the news, there have been new opportunities for competition in digital journalism: first to tweet, post or upload video, often followed by rewards from online traffic.

One (welcome) reality that jumps out in this series of Knight grants is that there are journalists from newsrooms that compete for stories who are collaborating on these projects independently. New York Times and Washington Post developers are teaming up to create an open election database. Data journalists from WNYC, the Chicago Tribune and the Spokesman-Review are collaborating on building a better interface for Census data. The same peer networks that helped build the Internet are forming around building out civic infrastructure. It?s an inspiring trend to watch.

The value of an open geo commons

The amount of consternation regarding Apple?s new mapping app for iOS 6 doesn?t seem to be dying down. It shouldn?t: David Pogue called the Apple Map app ?an appalling first release,? and maybe ?the most embarrassing, least usable piece of software Apple has ever unleashed.? It?s going to take a while for Apple Maps to improve ? maybe even years, based upon how long it took for Google to improve maps. In the meantime, iPhone users can go to maps.google.com on Safari, along with the other third-party alternatives that Apple CEO Tim Cook recommended in his letter of apology.

In the wake of ?#MAppleGate,? there?s suddenly a lot more attention being paid to the importance and value of mapping data, including how difficult it is to do maps right. And that?s where OpenStreetMap comes in. That?s also why the Knight Foundation is putting more than $500,000 behind tools from Development Seed: it will help to sustain and improve an open geo data commons that media organizations large and small can tap into to inform communities using maps.

?There are two ways the geo data space is going to evolve: 1) in closed silos of proprietary owned data or 2) in the open,? said Eric Gundersen, co-founder and CEO of Development Seed in a recent interview. ?Our community does not need a fleet of cars driving millions of miles. We need good infrastructure to make it easy for people to map their surroundings and good community tools to help us garden the data and improve quality. As geo data becomes core to mobile, maps are a canvas to visualizing the ?where?.?

As with Wikipedia, there will be people who doubt whether an open source digital map revolution enabled by MapBox, Development Seed?s open source mapping suite will come to pass. Then again, how many people believed a decade ago that Wikipedia would grow into the knowledge repository it is today?

?We are trying to radically lower the barrier of entry to map making for organizations and activists,? Gundersen told me last April. Given that they?re up against Google in mapmaking, the relatively tiny DC startup is banking on OpenStreetMap looking more like Wikipedia than Google Knol in a few years.

?Open? is in

Open data is a common thread that connects the winners ? but the openness doesn?t stop there. Open maps. Open source. Open government. Open journalism. That this theme has emerged as a strong pulse isn?t a tremendous surprise, given a global movement to apply technology to open government. Moreover, no one should take this to mean that immense amounts of business, society, technology, media and government aren?t still closed. Clearly, that?s not the situation. But there?s a strong case to be made that open is the way of the day.

Data won?t save the world, on its own. However, when data is applied for the public good and put to work, there are a growing number of examples that raise optimism about data?s role in the future of journalism.

Photo Credit: Eric Fisher

Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/09/open-journalism-open-data-news.html

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Islamists smash Sufi saint's tomb in northern Mali

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Heavily armed Islamist fighters in Mali destroyed the tomb of a local Sufi saint near Timbuktu on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest attack on traditional shrines in the rebel-occupied north.

The destruction of the tomb of Almirou Mahamane Assidiki in Goundam came just months after a number of other shrines in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu, 90 km (55 miles) to the south, were reduced to rubble, underscoring the threat to the region's ancient heritage from the rebels' extremist ideology.

"Last night they arrived in several vehicles and told the elders that the tomb of Saint Almirou would be destroyed," Aliou Ahmadou Toure, a resident in Goundam, told Reuters.

Local people tried to protest but were powerless to protect the shrine from men wielding shovels and pick-axes, Toure said.

"Some armed men surrounded the cemetery while a second group, chanting "God is Great", destroyed the tomb inside."

A local politician who was also in the town on Saturday confirmed the incident.

It was not immediately clear which of the Islamist groups controlling Mali's north was involved in the incident but they have previously said they are protecting Islam from idol worship.

Sufi Islam, which reveres saints and sages with shrines, is popular across much of northern Mali.

The rebellion - launched first by Tuareg separatists in January but since hijacked by Islamists - has forced more than 400,000 people from their homes and split the nation in two, with the Bamako government controlling just southern zones and mix of Islamist groups in the north.

Historians say cultural losses are also great, with attacks on tombs and shrines pulverizing part of the history of Islam in Africa, which includes a centuries-old message of tolerance.

(Reporting by Adama Diarra; Writing by David Lewis; editing by Jason Webb)

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Novo Nordisk says diabetes drug approved in Japan

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug for advanced colon cancer developed by Bayer AG, a month ahead of the agency's expected action date for a decision. The drug, to be sold under the brand name Stivarga, was approved to treat colon cancer that has progressed after prior treatment or that has spread to other parts of the body, the agency said. "Someone has clearly lit a fire under the FDA," Sanford Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges said of the speedy approval. ...

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LA backs deal for downtown NFL stadium

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Los Angeles took a major step Friday toward building a downtown stadium to lure an NFL team back to the nation's second most populous city, despite questions about how a 72,000-seat venue in the city's urban core would impact notorious freeway traffic, nearby housing prices and air quality.

The 12-0 vote by City Council came after starkly contrasting predictions about what the $1.5 billion project would mean for an economically troubled city that has fretted over the loss of professional football since the Raiders and Rams fled Southern California in 1994.

Supporters said the deal with developer Anschutz Entertainment Group would create thousands of jobs, a center of civic pride and new tax dollars for cash-starved City Hall, while critics warned that nearby housing prices would soar and traffic would come to a virtual standstill on game days.

"I know the result will be the return of economic vitality," Councilman Paul Koretz predicted.

The vote was overshadowed by the recent announcement that AEG was seeking a new owner, though company officials have assured City Hall the stadium plan will remain the same, even if the company changes hands.

The biggest question about the stadium is the most obvious: There's no one to play in it. But Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other supporters hope the agreement will eventually attract a team to one of the nation's most lucrative media markets.

AEG, also the owner of Los Angeles' Staples Center arena and the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, has deep ties to City Hall. Any deal to buy the company, a subsidiary of Denver-based Anschutz Co., would mean a major shift in sports and entertainment in the region and around the world.

AEG's holdings include pro soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy, part-ownership of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, and major entertainment and real estate holdings in downtown Los Angeles. Outside the city, AEG owns Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo and all or part of several arenas around the U.S. and in Sweden, China and Australia.

The project, which calls for the renovation of an adjacent convention center, is facing a lawsuit filed by anti-poverty and environmental activists that some predict could delay or derail plans for the stadium, known as Farmers Field. The activist group, Play Fair at Farmers Field Coalition, is challenging a state law intended to help swiftly resolve legal challenges to the stadium, and it also wants AEG to pay $60 million toward affordable housing in the long-struggling downtown neighborhood.

A rival group, Majestic Realty, has proposed building a stadium in the City of Industry, outside Los Angeles.

AEG is hoping to have an NFL team on the field by the 2017 season. The company has pledged about $35 million to reduce traffic problems.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/la-backs-deal-downtown-nfl-stadium-205729731.html

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Italian unions to strike against Monti spending cuts

ROME (Reuters) - Two of Italy's biggest unions have called a strike by public sector workers on Friday to protest against spending cuts enacted by Prime Minister Mario Monti in his attempts to pull the country out of crisis

Thousands are expected to march through central Rome to a rally near the Coliseum.

The strike follows clashes between anti-austerity protesters and police in Madrid and Athens this week, and coincides with labor unrest at the ILVA steel plant in southern Italy.

University professors, public administration employees and health workers in the CGIL and UIL unions are expected to stop work on Friday. Garbage collectors are also joining the work stoppage.

The strike is against spending cuts passed by Monti's coalition in August that included a modest downsizing of the public sector, where wages have already been frozen for more than two years, and cuts to state healthcare funding.

"Stop hitting the weakest. We have already given enough," is the strike slogan posted on the union Web sites.

"Starve the beast, weaken it, make it inefficient, undermine its potential, interrupt its mission - these are the principles that are behind the government's public administration policy," CGIL's leaders wrote in a letter explaining the walkout.

The spending cuts followed unpopular austerity reforms, and an overhaul of hiring-and-firing rules that drew stiff opposition and protests from labor unions earlier this year.

To head off a Greek-style debt disaster, Monti had hiked taxes and cut pensions when he took over from Silvio Berlusconi in November.

The austerity has hurt household spending and deepened Italy's recession. Italian unemployment rose to 10.7 percent in July, the highest since 2004.

Since August, there has been a growing number of industrial disputes, including at the ILVA steel mill in Taranto and at an aluminum smelter in Sardinia, amid growing anger over austerity and job losses.

(Reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Finding Your Way Back to You by Lynne Saint - Self Help Daily

One of my favorite e-mails to receive is one containing the words, ?Could we send you a book to review on your self help blog?? Beautiful words to this book lover ? absolutely beautiful.? More times than not, if someone offers you a book to read and review, the book will be great. People with so-so or even bad books don?t seek reviewers. Why would they?!

Finding Your Way Back to You by Lynne Saint is a very special little book.? Very. It takes real talent to pack so much information, motivation, and inspiration into a mere 141 pages. I?ve read books 4 times as long that didn?t leave even half the impact this fun-to-read and even funner to live book does.

From the Back Cover:

Are you at a crossroads in life, lacking in motivation, looking for a new direction, or just plain ?stuck??

Finding your Way back to YOU is a practical resource written specifically for women who have found themselves in any of these positions.

Written by Lynne Saint ? experienced Life Coach, NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist ? this is a hands-on book with an accompanying downloadable journal and weblinked exercises.

Lynne?s straight-talking guidance, drawn from Coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, will help you to change your behaviour, and motivate and support you throughout your personal journey of self-discovery. This book will help you to develop and achieve the goals that you have dreamed of.

This book is written to and for women because we are the ones who are most in danger of ?losing ourselves.?? We wear so many different titles in life?

• wife
• mother
• daughter
• employee
• etc..

We?re supposed to be, literally, ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE. Whether we?re caring for aging parents, raising small children, trying to make ends meet financially, or simply trying to be the best wife and mother we can be ? we very often neglect something that?s just as important: Trying to be the best us we can be!

That?s where this wonderful, upbeat, and inspiring book comes in. The words, quotes, and exercises cause you to think? I mean really think? and that?s the point.? We can?t hope to reunite with our true self if we fail to realize she?s missing.

Here?s a scenario most of us are familiar with:? When we were teenagers, and even into our early 20?s, we wouldn?t be caught dead in public (especially in front of that special someone) without just the right clothes on, our hair done, make-up perfect, perfume in place, and nails looking NICE.? Fast forward a little bit.? Add a child or two or three to the picture.? There?s laundry to do, bathrooms to clean, meals to cook, a family to care for ? often on top of working.

Nail polish? Perfume? Ha!

We tend to lose ourselves in all the chaos and chores.? We become someone?s mother, someone?s wife, someone?s grandmother,? someone?s employee?. I did something alarming one time which, quite frankly, served to wake me up.? As I sat at home on the couch one night, in sweatpants and a huge t-shirt with my hair a hot mess, I wondered, ?What would the 18 year old me think if she?d looked into the future and saw this??

My initial reaction: She?d cry!? To say that I was all about looking my best when I was a teenager would be the biggest understatement in the world.? I was always armed with extra nail polish, perfume, make-up, and even a spritzer bottle I kept filled with scented water to spray on my naturally curly hair.

Scented!? I honestly added a little of my favorite AVON fragrances to this ?miracle water? (Sweet Honesty until I graduated to Soft Musk).

We tend to lose track of the real us ? the one who wants to look, feel, and be her best. Sadly, many women allow their dreams to die because they become so preoccupied with helping others live their dreams.

?You aren?t going to change your unique personality, and neither should you want to, but the new skills you will learn in (Finding Your Way Back to You) will give you the awareness to manage your traits to become your best and most successful self.? - Page 2

How committed are you to your marriage?

How committed are you to your children?

How committed are you to your parents?

How committed are you to your job?

How committed are you to your home?

Now, the tough question. How committed are you to you?

Finding Your Way Back to You isn?t just a book, it?s a journey. That may sound very self-helpish and it may be dripping in ?guru juice,? but it?s true in every sense of the word.? You don?t simply read and discard Finding Your Way Back to You, you WORK and GROW through the book.? You take a journey and the destination is the you that you dreamed of being when you were 18.

• Learn to recognize what or who is holding you back.
• Learn to identify destructive thoughts and reprogram them to help rather than hurt.
• Learn to block limiting beliefs.
• Regain your confidence and even your swagger!
• Find balance in your life that?ll allow everyone around you, including you, to live the life of their dreams.
• Get motivated and find out how to STAY motivated.
• Boost your self-esteem.
• Become the person the little girl version of yourself would be proud of.

As you read the book, you can find free worksheets that?ll help you along your journey.? You can download them on the publisher?s website.

Finding Your Way Back to You is available on UK?s Amazon in paperback, but on our Amazon (USA) I can only find it as a Kindle Edition. If you have a Kindle, this is awesome news for you because the Kindle edition of Finding Your Way Back to You is only a couple of dollars!

One way or another, just get your hands on Finding Your Way Back to You!? This is the sort of book you?ll pass around to every female you know.? I can?t wait for my daughters to read it ? I think it?ll keep them form ever ?losing? any part of themselves.

What better gift could a mother give her girls?!

?It?s never too late to be what you might have been.? - George Elliott, Author

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Conservatives Fund endorses Akin in Mo. Senate bid

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2012 file photo, Missouri Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference in St. Louis. A conservative fundraising group endorsed embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin on Thursday and said its membership had pledged $290,000 to help replenish the Republican's financially strapped campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2012 file photo, Missouri Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference in St. Louis. A conservative fundraising group endorsed embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin on Thursday and said its membership had pledged $290,000 to help replenish the Republican's financially strapped campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks during the first debate in the Missouri Senate race, in Columbia, Mo. A conservative fundraising group endorsed embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin on Thursday and said its membership had pledged $290,000 to help replenish the Republican's financially strapped campaign against Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? A conservative fundraising group endorsed embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin on Thursday and said its membership had pledged $290,000 to help replenish the Republican's financially strapped campaign against Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill.

The announcement by the Senate Conservatives Fund marks the most high-profile financial commitment Akin has received as he seeks to recover from the loss of millions of dollars of planned advertising by other national groups that aid Republicans. Those groups withdrew their support after Akin remarked last month that women's bodies have ways of averting pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."

Akin has apologized repeatedly since then while rejecting calls from top Republicans ? including presidential nominee Mitt Romney ? to quit the race. He's hoping his campaign can gain momentum after he let pass Tuesday's final deadline to drop out of the race.

Akin, a congressman from suburban St. Louis, said he was thankful and "very enthusiastic" about winning the support of the Senate Conservatives Fund.

"I think it's logical ? I am a conservative, they're conservatives, I think it's a common-sense type of thing," Akin said during a campaign stop Thursday at the Missouri Capitol, where he began his political career as state House member in 1989.

The Senate Conservatives Fund said it endorsed Akin because he is a Republican nominee, the race against McCaskill remains competitive and Missouri is important to Republican efforts to gain the four seats necessary to win control of the Senate. The organization said it hopes to get $100,000 of the pledged money to Akin's campaign by Sunday, which is the cutoff for the quarterly financial reporting period.

The fund has gained prominence in recent years with the aid of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a favorite among tea party activists. Among other things, the Senate Conservatives Fund supports a ban on congressional spending earmarks, which use legislation to direct particular amounts of money to specific entities in a particular state or congressional district.

Akin has used earmarks in the past to direct funding to such things as highway projects and military armor, although he and Matt Hoskins, the executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, both have said Akin supports the group's ban on earmarks.

Akin said Thursday that he's against amendments that are slipped into bills at the last moment that direct money to specific projects, particularly if joint House and Senate conference committees add items that weren't in versions that originally passed the chambers. But he added: "Don't take the definition (of earmark) so broadly that the members of Congress don't have any input into the budget process."

The aid from the Senate Conservatives Fund follows Akin's endorsement Wednesday by DeMint and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, whose Patriot Voices political action committee said it was contributing money to Akin and hiring staff to work in Missouri. The Freedom's Defense Fund, which backs conservative candidates, also said earlier this week that it planned a $250,000 advertising campaign benefiting Akin.

But Akin will need even more outside help to keep pace with Democratic-leaning groups supporting McCaskill.

Emily's List, which backs Democratic women who support abortion rights, and the Service Employees International Union issued a joint statement Thursday saying they had bought $1 million in ads in support of McCaskill to run in the state's largest TV markets of St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which already has spent about $1 million on TV ads in Missouri, has reserved $4.3 million of additional advertising to begin running Oct. 9.

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Kindle Ebook Cover Tips: Avoid Five Common Blunders That Turn Off Buyers

by Marcia Yudkin

In a 2010 survey of avid fiction readers by The Book Smugglers, 79 percent said that cover design plays a decisive role in whether or not they purchase a particular book. I suspect the findings would be similar for nonfiction. The cover of a book can inspire curiosity, confidence and desire - or it can spark the quiet little rejection, "No, not this one." The importance of covers applies even if the book in question is digital and the cover isn't something that can be picked up and contemplated in one's hands.

A great Kindle cover doesn't really cost more than a mediocre or lousy one. As someone who keeps a keen eye on Kindle marketing for a course I teach, I've observed several common mistakes in Kindle covers that you can avoid through the instructions and feedback you provide to your cover designer. Ensure an effective cover for your ebook by heeding the following warnings and guidelines.

1. Include a byline. Covers with no author name violate readers' expectations and create discomfort in their minds. Any book worth reading was written by an individual (or by a group of them under the leadership of an editor). Their name or names belong on the cover.

2. Avoid the simplistic use of stock photos. One cover designer I worked with looked up the main theme of my book on iStockphoto, selected a visually interesting image and combined it with the words for my title, subtitle and byline. That's it. This approach can yield a nice-looking cover, but at the risk that many, many others are using the very same image for the central theme on their web sites, brochures, magazine ads, etc. For me, it's unacceptable to be so unoriginal. Tell your designer you expect something that people interested in your topic haven't seen before.

3. For a book series, create a family of covers. Whether it's nonfiction or fiction, someone shopping for books should be able to spot the resemblance instantly when they see two covers in the same series on the same page. Establish the pattern through color, a distinctive font, type of image, shapes, layout or some combination of these elements.

4. Go flat, not 3-D. Amazon, Nook, the iBookstore and other ebook marketplaces do not want three-dimensional covers that show a spine for the book and the edges of the pages it contains. They want a flat image with no depth and no other parts of the book showing besides the front.

5. Match the cover with the audience. The frou-frou style used on many "chick-lit" novels would be completely wrong for a business book that needs to be taken seriously, just as a dark, menacing look that signals a thriller or science-fiction title won't work for a cookbook. Communication with the designer about the target readers, genre of the book and the desired emotional tone for the cover should avoid this pitfall.

If you ask friends and colleagues for feedback on cover designs, don't ask which ones they like. Ask, "Does this make you think of a ___ [the type of book it is]?" "Which cover makes you want to know more about the book?" Simulate a shopping situation by placing your top cover candidate alongside the covers of published books it will be competing with. If it can hold its own in that situation, you may have a winner.

The author of 16 books and nine multimedia home study courses, Marcia Yudkin has also been selling ebooks on Kindle since the summer of 2011. Her Kindle ebooks include Kindle originals like Marketing for Introverts, Bullets With Bite and No-Hype Copywriting as well as digital versions of her paperback books. Check out her course for first-time Kindle authors of quality ebooks at http://www.yudkin.com/kindle.htm .

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Need More Website Traffic? Try These SEO Tips

With the proper tools and the right information, you will easily be able to successfully incorporate search engine optimization techniques into your website, and boost your traffic. Stay tuned for some high-quality search engine optimization tips.

Two great back links you can get for your website are from a non-profit organization or an educational website. Having a link on a site with reputable source status gives a search engine more reason to view your site as having valuable and relevant information. By providing high-quality content on your site, you can entice websites with solid reputations to feature you. Provide the kind of articles and information that reputable organizations find trustworthy.

If you are making an effort in search engine optimization, each page on your site should incorporate meta-description tags. Description tags have great value and they will be utilized in SEO. The meta tag should be clear and informative. The better the quality and effectiveness of your description tags, the more likely people are to actually visit your site, even when your competition ranks higher than you on your keyword?s search engine results page.

Make sure keyword phrases are in your incoming and internal links. ?as anchor text. This is just one more way to convince search engines that your site content is relevant to your targeted keywords. Periodically go through your site and make sure that internal links use keyword links as well.

Link directories will link you back to yourself, so they should be real. Some directories are full of sites that are outdated or poorly designed. Screen any potential web directories carefully before submitting your site.

Use social media for SEO. You can demonstrate your products in living, moving color with YouTube, while Twitter and Facebook are great ways to make a direct connection to your potential customers.

There are many different ways to optimize a search engine. Once you view areas for improvement for your website, you can choose to allocate your budget dollars to make specific improvements to maintain or improve your website?s usability by users. In addition to increasing site traffic, this approach also makes your site appear more user-friendly.

The amount of time visitors spend on your page factors into the page rank your site receives. Longer visits benefit your site by bumping up the ranking. Therefore, you obviously want viewers to spend time and return frequently to your site, so give them great content that will encourage this.

Understand that videos submitted as content will be difficult to take into consideration with regards to SEO because search engines cannot index them. In order to achieve better search engine optimization, make a site map that lists all the videos that you have on your website. This makes sure the crawler can grab the text/keyword and trace it to your site and your videos.

Using ?alt? tags on your images will help ensure high search engine results. Use these tags to replace pictures if a site visitor disables his or her image display. Search engines read these tags and index them, so you can boost your page rankings by having keywords in them.

Pay-per-click affiliate marketing programs can be very good in increasing business. This is the simplest service that can be provided to affiliates, that is why the pay associated to it is modest, but it could eventually build up in time.

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a way to market online. Keywords and phrases are used strategically in your content to bring about a higher rank in search results. This is the best way to bring people to your site.

You entire website such be easy to navigate and read. If you want a higher rank you need to make your content easy to use and understandable. Include user functions such as the ability to make the text bigger. When you work on search engine optimization, you must also consider optimizing for the reader?s experience, as well.

A site map which has your keywords included should be created. A site map shows you all of the available areas of your website to your viewers. In addition, it gives a simple access point so that these people will be able to locate what they are searching for. This will increase your search engine rankings, because this sort of tool that supports easy access is highly regarded by the search engine algorithms.

After reading this information, you should be aware of items to adjust on your site. Follow the tips that have been laid in this article to make your website more

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Internet Marketing Can Boost the Income of Any Business

September 25, 2012.?Paul Hixon

The internet is now bigger than ever, with more and more people from around the world getting online every day. It is home to millions of websites of many different varieties, giving people the chance to learn, play and communicate.

However, many businesses haven?t been quick enough to take advantage of the internet to further their interests. Internet marketing allows companies to reach more customers than ever before in an efficient and cost-effective way.

Web-based marketing covers a broad range of internet based business activity. Generally speaking, it refers to the use of the internet to advertise services and products for sale. It involves communication with existing customers and potential customers. There has never been a quicker and more effective way to communicate with millions of people in such a short space of time.

Perhaps the most basic form of marketing is direct advertising. This involves companies paying for advertising space on third party websites. Banner ads are placed strategically on a web page and the advertiser can either pay a fixed charge, a charge for every time the page is viewed or a charge for every time the banner ad is clicked. There are several services that make this process easy by offering automated services to companies.

Many companies are now taking advantage of the relatively recent boom in social media. People keep in touch with friends and loved ones through the use of such software. However, business is now using the same software to keep in touch with its customers. Latest products, services and special offers can be relayed to millions of customers with one single message.

Social media also grows the customer base of a company naturally. When people interact with a company, friends of that person can see this interaction and may be persuaded to find out more. This is often referred to as viral marketing and is a very efficient way of getting a message across.

Email marketing has been popular for some time now and is a very quick and cost-effective way of sending customers details of new products and services. Email addresses are collected by a business, then used to communicate news. One message is usually written, then can be sent to an infinite number of addresses with the single click of a mouse. Many companies specialize in such services and can also provide email addresses of people that fall within the customer profile of a company.

A large part of selling a business on the world wide web is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. This allows the text of a website to speak for itself. Internet search engines often collate search results by looking for keywords or phrases stored within sites. If a company can successfully integrate these phrases in its web text, they are more likely to be shown within the first two pages of search engine results pages.

Internet marketing is considered to be a specialized service and many companies opt for help from specialists. SEO in particular can be a very complex issue. Key words and phrases need to be analyzed and finding the right ones for a particular business can be tricky. Integrating key phrases without jeopardizing the quality of the text can also be a little tricky, so businesses often contract this work out to professionals.

Published September 25, 2012.?Paul Hixon

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Supermassive Black Hole Destroying Proto Star System

If the orbit comes close enough to the black hole, and if the protoplanetary disc is large enough, tidal effects will destroy the protoplanetary disc.

Question is: why hasn't this destruction happened at the previous closest pass of the black hole?

From TFA:

"The star was likely formed in the stellar ring and later thrown into its highly eccentric orbit though a close encounter with one or more stars in the ring. The stars exchanged momentum and the red dwarf was tossed onto a new, deadly trajectory. "

So, even though they're calling it an "orbit," it was likely not on this trajectory before and this is the first time it's getting close enough to the black hole for the disc to be affected. Also, the disc is already being destroyed: "But the dama

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Baby toddler musical development ? a great educational start in life ...

All children love to play and making music is a fun and educational way for them to develop new skills. So if you are looking for a fun way to give your little one a great educational start in life, then early childhood music classes could be the answer.?Many classes start from three months old and research has show that early interaction with music can help develop the music ability all babies are born with.

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Man Leaves Toddler Home Alone While on Drug Fueled Cycle Ride ...

On September 22 at 4:47 p.m. Dep. J. Brown and DFC P. Aurich responded to the area of Crown Drive and King Drive in Dunkirk for the report of a motorcycle collision with a pedestrian.

Upon arrival they made contact with the driver, identified as William Morris King, Jr., 36 of Dunkirk. ?The victim, a 65-year-old woman, also of Dunkirk, was transported to CMH with minor injuries. ?King was also transported to CMH suffering from a broken clavicle.

King was arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine after he was found to have it in his possession. ?It was also discovered that King had left his 2-year-old daughter home alone in a playpen. ?King was charged with allowing a child to be locked in a dwelling out of his sight and neglect of a minor. ?He was also charged with DWI by drugs and or drugs and alcohol, DWI by a controlled dangerous substance, driving while suspended and driving while revoked.

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Shawn Johnson 'didn't dance once' after 'DWTS'

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"Dancing" pro Derek Hough and Olympian Shawn Johnson rehearse in preparation for the big "All-Stars" premiere.

By Anna Chan, TODAY

"Dancing With the Stars" kicks off its much anticipated all-stars season Monday night. Season eight champ and returning contestant Shawn Johnson, who is paired with pro Derek Hough, took a few minutes to chat with us about preparations ahead of the big premiere, what fans should expect from her and more.

The Clicker: What have you done to keep up your ballroom skills since your first time on "DWTS"?
Shawn: I haven?t done anything! I think everybody else can say the same. It?s not our natural sport or our natural career. When I finished season eight, I was done with dancing. I went back to gymnastics and I honestly didn?t dance once. So it is like starting over, especially with a new partner. We?re kind of starting from zero.

For the most part, I think the feeling is still there. I understand the vocabulary and what (Derek's) saying and where he?s coming from. Whereas the first time, it was like Mark (Ballas) was speaking Chinese. Now I understand it so I can correct things easier and ... getting into the movement and the habit and the feeling is definitely foreign. I have to work to get that back.

The Clicker: How have you been preparing?
Shawn: ?In the past few weeks, we?ve really just been getting our first dance ready. (The producers) assigned us our first dance and our first music three days into training. I think the past few weeks have just been getting used to this process again and (I've) kind of been gearing up for it.

My first dance is a fox-trot and that?s about all I can tell you! It?s been going really well. Our fox-trot isn?t by any means traditional, definitely different and doesn?t really adhere to the normal rules. We have unique music and it kind of suits us and our personality, which I think is important for the first dance. I want to show everybody who I am and not come out as a character yet. You have to (do characters) later. That?s part of it. There are dances where you have to take on a role: tango you have to be serious and dark, rumba you have to be romantic and sexy. It?s part of (dancing). It?s the acting side. But thankfully with our fox-trot and our music, I?m just being me. We get to be goofy and fun and playful and energetic. I?m enjoying that. I love it. I hope everybody else likes it as well.?

The Clicker: Which role are you most looking forward to playing?
Shawn: I feel like the first time, I was so uncomfortable and so out of my comfort zone that I didn?t push myself enough to try to step into the character of any of the dances. ... I don?t think it?s going to be easy, but I think it?ll be neat to push myself into those characters this time, trying to be sexy and romantic and trying to be all mysterious and kill someone in the paso. I feel like I?m a little more comfortable this time to try to take them on.?

(My first time on the show,) I had just turned 17. You have to look like you?re in love with someone. It was definitely difficult. I was like, ?Again, you?re speaking Mandarin.? ... I?m more the awkward person and the person that just giggles and smiles at everything, so it?s going to be hard.

But I think I?m a little more ready this time to at least try. I?m just trying to put myself in the mindset that it?s OK to step into the characters. You know you?re not necessarily portraying who you are. You?re acting. I will never be an actress, I?m me. It?s really hard for me to act something different. I want things to be appropriate. I want things to represent who I am. Then again, it is the show. It is the job. You have to find a happy balance to suit the dance and suit the style. ... I hope I don?t just bust out laughing or something halfway through it!?

The Clicker: Are you afraid the judges might criticize you for not getting into the character of the dances?
Shawn: I think that?s THE place I have to work on. I have to push myself. They?ll be able to see the difference between (my) first season to this. I definitely don?t think right off the bat I?ll be able to act like some of the professionals on the show, some of the actors who are dancing on the show. Then again, we all have our strengths and we all have our weaknesses.

The Clicker: What's it been like training with Derek versus Mark?
Shawn: I love Derek! There?s definitely a lot of differences, (but) they?re pretty much like brothers. They grew up together and grew up around each other, so there?s a lot of similarities. They choreograph different, they think different, they have different creative standpoints and angles that they come from. ... Derek is a phenomenal choreographer and a dancer and he?s a great teacher, and I think we?re partnered perfectly together.?

"Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars" premieres Monday night at 8 p.m. on ABC. Follow Shawn Johnson as she tweets throughout the season.

Which dance are you most excited to see from Shawn this season? Tell us on our Facebook page.

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Indian developers can now sell paid apps on Google Play Store

Google has now added India to the list of countries from where developers are allowed to sell paid apps on the Google Play Store. This move will allow individual app developers and development companies from India to sell their apps on Android devices and also enable in-app purchases.

Google had added a few more countries including Czech Republic, Israel, Poland and Mexico back in April, now it has enabled the same in India. While Google Play already allows users to purchase apps in INR, developers from India can now make some profit via the Play Store.

If you are a developer who is interested to start selling paid apps, it will cost you $25 USD to sign-up for the new developer account. This will allow developers to launch paid apps, include in-app purchases and launch a paid ad-free version for their ad-supported apps.

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Lewis beats out Thompson in Navistar LPGA Classic

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) ? Stacy Lewis won the Navistar LPGA Classic on Sunday for her third LPGA Tour victory in five months, closing with a 3-under 69 to beat defending champion Lexi Thompson by two strokes.

Lewis parred the final two holes after a 12-foot birdie putt on No. 16 gave her the final cushion, and Thompson shot a 66 on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex.

"Lexi was within one when we got to the 16th green and that's the only time all day I knew what was going on," Lewis said. "Making birdie on that hole was huge. It gave me that cushion."

Lewis also won in Mobile in late April, edging Thompson by a stroke in that tournament. The former Arkansas also won the Shoprite LPGA Classic in June.

The 17-year-old Thompson rebounded from a third-round 74. She won the event last year at 16 to become the youngest champion in LPGA Tour history, a mark broken last month by 15-year-old amateur Lydia Ko in the Canadian Women's Open.

Lewis finished at 18 under, one shot shy of the tournament record set by Australia's Katherine Hull in 2010. Lewis reclaimed the No. 2 spot in the world rankings and earned $195,000 ? but still stayed at a budget, $75-a-night hotel in Prattville like usual.

Now, she and Yani Tseng are tied for the lead in victories this year.

"It's unbelievable," Lewis said. "Winning never gets easier. It might have looked easy out there but it was hard. Every shot was stressful and every hole on this course with one stroke you can make a double easily. "

Her previous best at the Navistar was a tie for sixth last year, but she still likes competing in this state.

"I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the Bermuda grass," Lewis said. "It's kind of what I grew up with in Texas. I love playing these kind of courses where you have to hit good shots. If you don't hit good shots you're not rewarded. I like that."

Lewis had a three-putt for bogey on No. 2, but birdied No. 5 and made a 15-footer for another on the ninth hole.

"That was kind of the key putt for me," she said.

Thompson made quite a run with birdies on holes 10-12. She set up fairly short putts on all three, making a 6-footer, a 1-footer and a 10-footer.

Thompson missed birdie putts on three of the final four holes, making one on No. 17 to close to within a stroke. Then she saw Lewis move to two strokes ahead when Thompson was on the final hole before enduring another near-miss with a chance to turn up the pressure on the leader.

"I just got some weird putts that broke differently than I thought," Thompson said. "Just total misreads. That happens. You get a few goofy putts but I was happy with the shots I hit into those holes."

Both players are starting to feel Alabama is sweet home these days. Thompson kept up her daily ritual with breakfast at the Waffle House ? skipping the high-carbohydrate specialty ? and handled the coin toss at a high school football game.

She high-fived two youth after her birdie on No. 17 gave her new life but once again couldn't overtake Lewis in Alabama.

"She's played amazing this year," Thompson said. "Everybody knows how great a player she is. Once I saw her go into the lead into today, I knew I would have to put up a good round."

Thompson opened with a career-best 63, tying the tournament record. She came out with a mind-set to erase thoughts of the rough Saturday.

"Pretty much just forget totally about (Saturday) and come into today blank-minded and just free swing," she said of her approach. "I have nothing to lose, just go for birdies. I bogeyed the first hole and I just went for it from there."

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Education strike first of many challenges for Chicago mayor

CHICAGO ? The grueling teachers strike is over. Now comes the hard part for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

As he pushes ahead on his promise to reform the city's underperforming classrooms, he faces several daunting tasks: slashing an estimated $1 billion budget deficit, confronting a woefully underfunded employee pension system and finding money for the pay raises that settled the first teacher walkout in a generation. He hasn't ruled out school closings and tax increases, both of which would be hugely unpopular.

Waiting in the wings are other unions, including police and firefighters, whose labor contracts have expired and who no doubt took notes as the teachers stood up to the former White House chief of staff with the fearsome reputation.

The strike, which idled more than 350,000 children for more than a week, was the first time Emanuel was forced to make serious concessions since leaving Washington last year. But the challenges he faces aren't unlike those confronting mayors in New York, Baltimore and elsewhere as they grapple with financial fallout from the Great Recession and urgent demands to improve public education.

"Union concessions won't get him there," said Ralph Martire, executive director of the Chicago-based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. "And they can't cut their way to a better education system."

As he welcomed children back to school, Emanuel nodded at the difficulties ahead: "We have other tough things to do."

The mayor said he's made a good start by cutting $500 million from the district's central office and crafting a three-year teacher contract that will cost $75 million a year compared with $130 million a year for the last contract. But he would not elaborate on reports that the city may be pressured to raise taxes on cigarettes and amusements, and close dozens of schools and move more rapidly toward cheaper charter schools.

The day after schools reopened, he appeared in a privately funded TV ad emphasizing the achievements in the deal with the union: a longer school day and year, the ability for principals to hire their own teachers and a new teacher-evaluation system based in part on student test scores.

But Martire said the financial troubles are more deeply rooted. Many were inherited from former Mayor Richard M. Daley, who avoided a strike in his more than two decades in office but at a price. When City Hall took control over Chicago's schools in 1995, the pension system was almost fully funded.

"This is a crisis of their own doing," Martire said.

In arguing for better job security provisions, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis warned that the city would close more than 100 of its 600 schools "as soon as the ink is dry" on the new contract. City Hall dismissed the number as a rumor but acknowledged that closing schools will be under consideration.

As he looks forward, Emanuel also faces questions about his aggressive style, which seemed to galvanize the teachers.

Early in his term, he rescinded a 4 percent teacher raise and said students were being shorted. Then he tried to bypass the union to negotiate directly with individual schools over a longer day ? an approach that may have ultimately fired up unions throughout Chicago.

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765606179/Education-strike-first-of-many-challenges-for-Chicago-mayor.html

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