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Monday, July 9, 2012

Too Early? School?s Already in Session in Denver

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Protesters converge on Romney fundraisers

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Protesters marched down the beach in New York's Hamptons to demonstrate against the power of deep-pocketed donors over the political process.

By NBC's Garrett Haake

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. ? In one of the most sizable shows of force from protestors seen on the campaign trail in weeks, a group of more than 60 demonstrators ? backed by air support in the form of a banner plane ? staged a protest of Mitt Romney's third and final fundraiser here on Sunday.

The fundraiser, at the beachside home of billionaire industrialist David Koch, was to cap a day of fundraising in New York's tony Hamptons communities that could bring in millions of dollars for the campaign's "Victory" fund. It marked Romney's return to the campaign trail after a week of vacation at his summer home in New Hampshire.

Romney and his guests received a loud ? and at times profane ? welcome from dozens of protesters representing organizations from Occupy Long Island to Greenpeace, which largely blocked a section of Meadow Lane to shout, "Shame on You!" (and unprintable variants thereof). The protesters waved signs at those who attended the back-to-back fundraisers hosted by Clifford Sobel, the former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, and later, by Koch.

It was Koch, whose net worth Forbes magazine pegs at $25 billion, who drew most of the protesters? ire. Holding signs that compared the fundraiser's reported ticket price of $50,000 to their annual salaries or even life savings, the protesters decried the power of donors like Koch and his allies over American politics.

When local law enforcement officially cleared the protest, the demonstrators decamped from the street and ? in one of the strangest visual moments of the campaign ? marched nearly a mile down the beach to Koch's house.

Accompanied by a bass drum, horns and even a tenor saxophone, the ragtag band arrived at the stretch of beach behind Koch's house after a 20-minute walk, where roughly a dozen police, Secret Service and Romney staffers stood on the dunes that marked the line of demarcation between the public beach and Koch's private land, and told the protesters they could go no further.

And so they stayed - chanting, singing, and waving signs as a plane buzzed overhead, pulling a banner that read, "Romney has a Koch Problem. MoveOn.Org." While some protestors shouted obscenities as the security watching them from the dunes above (and from a Coast Guard vessel off the coast), this reporter saw no direct confrontations between protestors and authorities.

The climax of the protest event came when the saxophonist, David Intrator, 55, of New York City, led the protesters in a spotty rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which most of the group joined, though some continued to chant slogans as they sang.

Source: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/08/12630094-in-hamptons-protesters-converge-on-romney-fundraisers-by-air-and-land?lite

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Extreme heat persists, but relief arriving Monday

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A blistering heat wave finally showed signs of letting up across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Sunday, bringing relief to millions after days of oppressive temperatures - just as forecasters warned that a new round of record highs could soon bake Western states.

"It's going to start as soon as tomorrow - really everybody in the Rockies is going to see this heat," said Alan Reppert, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.com. He said a high-pressure system developing over the Rockies will cause temperatures of over 100 Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) in Salt Lake City by Wednesday.

A slow-moving front of cool air from Canada started pushing down temperatures Sunday from Minneapolis and Detroit to Pittsburgh. The temperature in Chicago, which saw three consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures in the past week, was a pleasant 82F (25C) Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

New York City and Philadelphia still were hot Sunday, although not as oppressive as in days past, with highs in the lower 90s.

Thunderstorms were expected Sunday afternoon from Maryland on south, with storms in the area for most of the week. The storms also will affect the central and southern Plains states, Reppert said.

The blistering heat wave that scorched much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation with triple-digit temperatures has tied or broken nearly 3,400 maximum and minimum temperature records across the country in July, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dozens of people have died, including a 4-month-old Indiana girl who police say was left in a car outside her home in Greenfield, about 25 miles east of Indianapolis, for an extended period of time when temperatures were above 100F (38C).

Lack of rainfall plus extreme heat is threatening the Midwest's corn crop and leading to wildfires. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report, released Thursday, showed drought encompassing more of the contiguous United States than at any other time since the report began in January 2000.

"The problem for crops - especially the corn crop - has been the heat and lack of rainfall. It is dry across much of the Midwest and Plains and there is no relief in sight," Reppert said.

The decline in temperatures will be slower in the mid-Atlantic because of the slow speed of the Canadian cold front as it moves south, according to AccuWeather.com.

Power outages continue to plague more than 117,000 customers, primarily in West Virginia, some of whom have not had power for more than a week and may not have their service restored for a few more days.

American Electric Power said it had about 59,600 customers out in West Virginia and about 25,600 out in Ohio. FirstEnergy Corp said it had about 32,200 customers out in West Virginia.

(Additional reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York and Kim Palmer in Cleveland; Editing by Bill Trott and Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/extreme-heat-persists-us-relief-arriving-monday-030130870.html

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

NKorea launch an intel oppportunity for US, allies

TOKYO (AP) ? As the U.S. and its allies decry North Korea's planned rocket launch, they're also rushing to capitalize on the rare opportunity it presents to assess the secretive nation's ability to strike beyond its shores.

If North Korea goes ahead with the launch, expected to take place sometime between April 12-16, the United States, Japan and South Korea will have more military assets on hand than ever to track the rocket and ? if necessary ? shoot it out of the sky.

Behind the scenes, they will be analyzing everything from where the rocket's booster stages fall to the shape of its nose cone. The information they gather could deeply impact regional defense planning and future arms talks.

Military planners want to know how much progress North Korea has made since its last attempt to launch a satellite three years ago. Arms negotiators will be looking for signs of how much the rocket, a modified ballistic missile launcher, depends on foreign technology.

"There are a number of things they will be watching for," said Narushige Michishita, a North Korea expert with Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. "If North Korea does get a satellite into orbit, that means it could deliver an object anywhere on the globe, and that has intercontinental implications."

One thing analysts could quickly put to the test is North Korea's insistence that the satellite launch is a peaceful mission. Experts can easily estimate from photographs the rocket stages' mass ratio ? a measure of their efficiency ? and that will give a quick indication of whether the rocket is designed primarily to be a space vehicle launcher or long-range missile.

They also will be watching where the rocket goes.

North Korea says it will fire the satellite into a polar orbit. The "splash zones" for the booster stages suggest it will travel south over the East China Sea and the Pacific, rather than the easterly path it chose for a launch in 2009 that sent the rocket directly over Japan's main island.

That could indicate North Korea is being more cautious about its neighbors' reactions ? though it has alarmed others such as the Philippines which could be in the rocket's path. But the launch could also have military implications.

In North Korea were to attack the United States, Michishita said, it would likely launch to the north. It can't feasibly conduct such a test, because that would anger Russia and China, which would be under the flight path. Launching to the south can provide similar data.

Actually reaching the splash zones is another hurdle. In its 2009 launch, the stages barely made their zones, suggesting they had lower thrust than expected.

Analysts stress that success by no means suggests North Korea could pull off an attack on the U.S.

North Korea has a long way to go in testing the technologies required for re-entry ? a key to missile delivery that is not tested in satellites. And while it is believed to be capable of producing nuclear weapons ? and almost certainly wants to put them on a military-use missile ? it is not yet able to make them small enough to load into a warhead. Doing so will likely require another nuclear test, which North Korea hasn't done since 2009.

The launcher itself is another issue ? and it has a history of failure.

The Unha-3 rocket that will be used in the launch is believed to be a modified version of North Korea's long-range Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, which mixes domestic, Soviet-era and possibly Iranian designs.

North Korea launched its first Taepodong-2 in 2006 and it exploded just 40 seconds after liftoff. A followup attempt in 2009 got off the launch pad and successfully completed a tricky pitching maneuver, but analysts believe its third stage failed to separate properly, sending it and the satellite it carried into the Pacific.

Even so, physicists David Wright and Theodore Postol of the Union of Concerned Scientists say the 2009 launch displayed major strides over the Taepodong-1. If modified as a ballistic missile, they say, it would potentially give the North the capability to reach the continental United States with a payload of one ton.

In an analysis of the 2009 launch, Wright and Postol suggested North Korea relies heavily on a stockpile of foreign components, likely from Russia. If data from the upcoming launch confirms that, it may mean Pyongyang's missile program is severely limited by the isolated country's ability to procure new parts from abroad.

That could figure into future arms talks. If North Korea is running out of the parts it needs, it isn't likely to conduct frequent missile tests, and may be more willing to agree to test moratoriums. More emphasis on blocking its imports would also make sense if the North cannot manufacture what it needs.

What analysts find out will figure into regional security planning for years to come ? as North Korea's first attempted satellite launch did in 1998.

Japan and the United States responded to that launch by pouring billions of dollars into the world's most advanced ballistic missile shield. That shield includes a network of sea-based SM-3 interceptor missiles and land-based PAC-3 Patriot missiles.

Japan is now mobilizing PAC-3 units in Okinawa, which is near the path of the upcoming launch and where more than half of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are deployed. It's also mobilizing PAC-3 units in Tokyo, which is much farther from the rocket's expected path. South Korea is taking similar steps ? which it didn't do in 2009.

The U.S. will be watching with equipment that was unavailable in 2009: a Sea-Based X-Band radar system, aboard a Navy ship that left Pearl Harbor late last month.

U.S. officials claim the SBX system is so powerful it can track a baseball-sized object flying through space 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away. Further, if U.S. military satellites detect a flash of heat from a missile launch in North Korea, within a minute computers can plot a rough trajectory and share that information with Japan.

Tokyo and Seoul warn they will use their interceptors on anything that threatens their territory, though that is highly unlikely. No country has ever shot at another country's satellite launch, and, barring any major surprises, the North Korean rocket will be traveling mostly over water, not populated areas.

"Whether it comes close to our southwestern islands or not, this will have significant implications for our missile defenses, and how they should be adjusted in the future," said Hiroyasu Akutsu, a senior fellow and Korea expert with the National Institute for Defense Studies, a think tank run by Japan's Defense Ministry.

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Monday, April 2, 2012

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The Hobson and Holtz Report ? Podcast #644: April 2, 2012 | Linked ...

Content summary: Neville and Shel are both traveling, but Shel?s solo this week with a contribution from Neville; two new interviews are up, one with Dachis Group CTO Erik Huddleston and the other with PulsePoint Group?s Michael Gale and Jacklyn Allgayer about the new study, ?The Socially Engaged Enterprise;? another interview is coming later this week with Sara Folkerts of Sprint on the mobile company?s program to train employees to represent the organization in social channels; a new blog worth looking at is PR Examples; Shel?s meeting with PRSA?s Keith Trivitt in New York; News That Fits: as access to information increases, trust is declining, yet CEOs who tweet are trusted more; Ragan promo; Michael Netzley?s Asia Report, including a look at the Melbourne Mandate from the Institute for Public Relations; are communicators ready to begin producing mobile content?; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Facebook is reportedly preparing a major upgrade of its search utility to produce robust social search; Dan York?s report; TemboSocial promo; games and gamification make inroads as the U.S. State Department sponsors a crowdsourcing game to identify five (fake) criminals around the world; music from The Fire Apes; and more.

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