A Debate About Foreign Policy in an Election About Economy - ABC News [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

A Debate About Foreign Policy in an Election About Economy - ABC News [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

Question by bearfer46: Ubuntu Experts! Can't find "Hardware Information"(DevMgr) in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS? The Help file states that it is under System > Preferences menu selection. There is no "Hardware Information" option listed. I have gone through the "Synaptic Package Manager" and all( I think?)general option menus and can find nothing regarding "Hardware Information"/ Device Manager...Answerer to this problem gets 10 well deserved points! TIA I'm sorry, from your instructions what keystroke creates the character between "lshw" and "less"? Maybe I'm blind but, can't find it on the keyboard... Best answer for Ubuntu Experts! Can't find "Hardware Information"(DevMgr) in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS?:

Answer by Liz
>sudo lshw | less {your password} is the old fashioned way... I haven't put Hardy up yet, but that command (from the terminal) should get you the info you need. also. lspci lsusb can show you what is connected to the USB and the PCI busses. ******* Sorry, that's the "pipe" key. It's SHIFT BACKSLASH. (Above the enter, next to the =, not the one under the ?. On some keyboards it is made up of 2 bars, like an elongated colon, but it's the same key) for the record it means "send the info you get from the previous command to the next command. so in this case it is "list show hardware, and send it to the program 'Less' so I can read it a page at a time..."

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There are 15 days and one presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney and the general election.

While both candidates acknowledge the outcome of the election depends on no more than two dozen swing states, the debate tonight - the third of the campaign season - provides the final opportunity for the candidates to make their case to a national TV audience. Both Obama and Romney spent the weekend behind closed doors preparing.

Two previous debates â€" one which President Obama indisputably lost with an uninspired performance and one where he redeemed himself in the eyes of Democratic stalwarts â€" have equalized into the same dead heat the campaigns and political experts have long expected. An NBC / Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday had the race tied at 47 percent support for each candidate. President Obama has an edge among women, according to a Wall Street Journal / NBC poll released Sunday. Mitt Romney has the edge among men.

Tune in to ABC News.com tonight at 8 p.m. ET for anchored coverage of the final presidential debate, held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.

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On paper, President Obama should hold an edge in a debate focused on foreign policy. He can boast of giving the order for American Special Forces to carry out the operation in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. He brought combat troops out of Iraq, ending the war that had played such a pivotal role in the two previous presidential elections. President Obama surged troops into Afghanistan, where as a candidate in 2008 he said more focus should have been in the first place during the years after 9/11. But he has set a timetable for withdrawing American troops from that country. While Romney has strongly criticized the timetable for being public, he has not made Afghanistan a main topic on the campaign trail and aides have said he would try to stick to a similar schedule for withdrawing American troops.

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Obama outspends Romney; both see surge in donations - Los Angeles Times [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

Obama outspends Romney; both see surge in donations - Los Angeles Times [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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WASHINGTON â€" President Obama burned through nearly $ 116 million in September, close to twice as much as Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to reports filed Saturday, highlighting the divergent strategies of the two candidates as they headed into the final stretch of the White House race.

Obama has kept up a costly but unrelenting press against his competitor through the summer and fall, pumping nearly $ 300 million into television ads in the general election so far, according to a Republican source tracking ad buys. Romney â€" backed by an array of outside groups spending hundreds of millions on his behalf â€" largely stockpiled his resources and then unleashed an major air barrage beginning this month. He has spent almost $ 166 million on ads in the general election.

Both candidates saw a surge in donations in September. Obama, along with the Democratic National Committee and two joint fundraising committees, brought in $ 181 million. Romney and his affiliated committees raised $ 170 million.

But Obama is raising a larger share of his cash in small donations that go directly to his campaign committee, giving him more flexibility in how to spend it. Obama for America got $ 96.3 million in contributions in September, while Romney for President raised $ 41.9 million.

That could explain why the GOP nominee's campaign actually spent slightly less in September than it did in August â€" $ 65 million, down from $ 66 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The bulk went to media ads: $ 37 million, less than half of the $ 88 million Obama's campaign spent on commercials.

Romney's campaign also paid off $ 10 million on a $ 20-million loan it took out in late August. The campaign has a remaining debt of $ 5 million on the loan.

By the end of the month, Obama's campaign had $ 99 million in the bank, while Romney's campaign had $ 63 million. But including their party fundraising committees, Romney entered October with more cash on hand than Obama, $ 191 million to $ 150 million.

Romney's relatively light presence on the air in September puzzled many of his allies, who had expected the candidate to dramatically step up his advertising after the Republican National Convention, when he was able to access funds raised for the general election.

The pro-Romney "super PAC" Restore Our Future aired just $ 4.1 million in ads in September on his behalf, having run through most of its cash with a nearly $ 20-million ad buy in August. The group spent last month replenishing its coffers, raising $ 14.8 million â€" a sum enabling it to have a strong presence on the air in the final stretch of the race.

The super PAC's September haul was double that of August, thanks to nearly 40 six- and seven-figure donations. The largest: a $ 2-million contribution from Bob Perry, the Houston homebuilder who has given a total of $ 9 million to the group this cycle. Oxbow Carbon LLC, the energy company owned by William Koch, gave $ 1 million, as did Houston Texans owner Bob McNair and Missouri construction executive Stanley Herzog.

Steven Lund, former chief executive of the nutritional supplement company Nu Skin, and his wife, Kalleen, gave a combined $ 1 million to the group. Lund was among the super PAC's earliest benefactors; two companies linked to Lund seeded the group with $ 2 million in March 2011. Lund's ties to Romney date back to 1999, when Nu Skin became one of the first major sponsors of the 2002 Salt Lake City Games after Romney took over its operations.

For a second month in a row, Restore Our Future was edged out in fundraising by its pro-Obama counterpart, Priorities USA Action, which pulled in $ 15.25 million in September, its best month yet. Two other Democratic super PACs that focus on congressional races, House Majority PAC and Majority PAC, also had their strongest fundraising months in September â€" an indication of a growing embrace by the left of the outside spending vehicles.

Obama's campaign has also had stepped-up success among big contributors. In the third quarter of the year, 122 new fundraisers who bundle large checks joined his reelection effort, bringing the campaign's number of bundlers to 758, according to a list released Friday by the campaign.

Together, they raised at least $ 180 million through the end of September, almost one-fifth of the $ 947 million Obama and his fundraising committees have brought in so far, according to a Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau analysis. The campaign reports broad fundraising ranges for the bundlers, not exact totals, so the actual amount could be far higher.

Romney has declined to release the names of fundraisers bundling money for his campaign, other than those who are lobbyists, which he is required to disclose.

Among Obama's new bundlers are former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who raised between $ 200,000 and $ 500,000, and Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida. He announced his support for Obama in August, and has raised between $ 100,000 and $ 200,000.

Some of the newest bundlers debuted in the top rank of those who have raised more than $ 500,000 for the campaign, including singer Gwen Stefani and designer Tom Ford.

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Question by Ms. Lettuce: How can I know if the "new" cell phone I buy from ebay is really new? I bought a new cell phone on ebay once that said it was new. When I received it it looked completely new. I examined the phone all over and noticed that in one of those holes every cell phone has was dirty just like any old one. My cell phone just worked for a year. I need to buy a new one but how can I know it's really new and not refurbished? Best answer for How can I know if the "new" cell phone I buy from ebay is really new?:

Answer by 24 Char Left
There is option to check the total time used to talk. Read user manual to know how to do this for your set.

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I dont know but dont go for online shopping

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VP candidate Paul Ryan attends Pittsburgh airport rally - Pittsburgh Post Gazette [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

VP candidate Paul Ryan attends Pittsburgh airport rally - Pittsburgh Post Gazette [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan made a short speech to a cheering crowd of several hundred people at an airport rally in Moon Township this morning, pounding away at President Barack Obama's record on the economy and energy.

"With the right ideas and the right leadership we can turn this economy around," he said as the crowd cheered. The running mate of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney noted at the outset that U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey was "one of my best friends" in Congress.

He then went on to excoriate Mr. Obama's economic record, claiming that the economy is growing at a slower rate this year than last. "We're going in the wrong direction. We're not going to spend the next four years kicking the can down the road.

"You are going to help us get this country back on the right track because Pennsylvania is going to put Mitt in the White House," he said to the audience, which was gathered in a large hangar at Atlantic Aviation, the local branch of a Texas-based charter airline company.

Mr. Ryan, whose plane landed on a nearby runway, made a dramatic entrance at 11:12 a.m. as the airport hangar's huge gate slowly opened to reveal the candidate in a jacket, to the sounds of the chant, "Here we go Ryan, here we go!"

His speech ended 13 minutes later, and after shaking hands with supporters he hopped on a campaign bus and headed to Belmont, Ohio.

During his address he touched on most of the Romney campaign's key talking points.

"We can't keep spending money we just don't have," he said. "The choice is, do we limit the size of government or do we limit the growth of our economy?"

In a nod to his Western Pennsylvania audience, he declared that the president "will keep his war on coal going," claiming that just a month ago 1,200 coal jobs were lost in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia.

"Gas prices are higher than four years ago" he said. "Who knows what they'll be like in the next four years?"

The vice presidential candidate was joined by Sen. Pat Toomey, Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith, who is challenging incumbent Bob Casey; Keith Rothfus, who is trying to unseat Rep. Mark Critz; and Rep. Tim Murphy.

Mr. Ryan, whose last trip to the Pittsburgh area was in August, flew in from Florida, where he and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent the last two days campaigning. Florida is a state Mr. Romney must win, and polls mostly show him ahead by four points, with Ohio second in importance.

The most recent polls show Mr. Romney behind President Barack Obama by four points in Pennsylvania, which he has visited six times since clinching the nomination in the spring, although his campaign has not invested the kind of money they've targeted at states like Ohio and Virginia.

Mr. Ryan's next stop Saturday is Belmont, Ohio, where the latest Fox News poll shows Mr. Obama with a continued lead of 46 to 43 percent. The president led by seven points a month ago, according to the Fox poll.

Kelly Senkoski, 25, of Sewickley, said she'd just received her master's degree in education, but has yet to find a teaching job, which was why she came out to see Mr. Ryan.

"If Romney and Ryan are in office, I think I have a better chance of getting a job," she said.

Noel Um, 18, a freshman at CMU, came to volunteer at the Ryan rally "because I think it's really important that, as an Asian American woman, I exercise my right to vote. A lot of people in my demographic don't care, and at my school, a lot of my friends just aren't going to bother. But Obama promised change, and it hasn't happened."

During a Friday rally in Daytona Beach, Mr. Romney blasted Mr. Obama's re-election effort as the "incredible shrinking campaign." It was Mr. Romney's last appearance on the campaign trail before Monday's third and final presidential debate.

Each candidate is targeting white, working-class voters, but in heavily unionized Ohio Mr. Romney's lead is narrower -- with a 51 to 44 percent edge among no college, white voters, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.

That demographic went heavily for George W. Bush in 2004 and Sen. John McCain in 2008.

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Question by Joeseph: What exactly is "Information".? Think about it, Information is not matter, It has no physical form, it's just a thought or concept, and yet all Information is governed by the same Laws as physical matter; it must be transferred THROUGH Space-Time to changes it's position within Space-Time (It can not simply appear, there must be a source), It can not be created, only change form, and it is limited in it's storage (Information can be "compressed" but it still takes up "Space). So that go me thinking WHATexactly is "Information" or "Data". @Joe: by Physical form, I mean that Information in it's simplest form is only a concept; yes there are representations on Information (Letters, electrical signals, sounds), but that which these things repent, the "Information", has no substance. Best answer for What exactly is "Information".?:

Answer by tigger
This is a deeply philosophical question which could be answered in many ways, mostly very complicated, as the reference below will show you. As an engineer, I have (of course) a very simple idea of what information is. I agree with the way that the wikki article defines information as a signal which conveys a message. I do not think that it need to be a sequence, but see below. I would define a message as an input to a system which reduces the number of possible outputs of the system. As a simple example of this line of thought, consider an old-fashioned Baudot teleprinter. This is capable of printing 32 possible characters (26 letter plus some punctuation marks). It you control it with a single digital unit of information (a binary bit which can be either on or off, 1 or 0, you can reduce the number of possible outputs to 16 - for example either the 1st half of the set (A to O), or the last half. If you use 2 bits, you can reduce the number of possible outputs to 8 by using the 1st bit to control the selection of the upper or lower half of the set of 32 characters, and the second bit to select one half of either of those. If you increase the information to 3 bits, you get down to only 4 possible outputs, and if you go the whole hog to 5 bits, you have reduced the possibility to only 1 character - in other words the system becomes completely determinate; that is why the Baudot code has 5 bits. The information can be signaled in a vast number of ways - electrical current in a wire (on/off), radio waves (high frequency/low freq), lights flashing on or off, the physical positions of flags (up/down), etc. An important practical consideration is the rate or speed at which information (understood in this way) can be transmitted. In the limit, if the rate is very low, so that a wire, for example, is always carrying current, then the information content becomes zero, because there is never anything novel, unexpected or unknown about the state of the wire. It must be capable of changing its state if any information is to be conveyed at all, and the rate at which information is transmitted is related rigorously to the rate at which the state of the wire can be changed by the transmitter, or its changes noticed by the receiver.

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"The binding link between the three Crime Branch Units and independent stories is a middle aged Blind Man who is their friend, philosopher and guide. He is genius with an IQ of 200 and a vast experience in investigating crimes. He was a senior police officer who is currently under suspension pending the report of a Departmental Enquiry probing a tragic incident that he was responsible for. The Blind Man is restricted to his home space due to his condition..though he is not part of any on field investigation or any official proceedings..the CB units go to him for advice on cases during the course of investigation when they feel they have reached a dead-end or are in a dilemma or are confused about what course of action to follow. He has a sharp mind to picture the crime scene with just information from the team and give them brilliant insights. The blind man helps out the teams 'unofficially' and the teams don't really report to him but hol d him as their idol and guiding light. For rest of the time the CB Units investigate the case entirely on their own, as independent units reporting to their official boss the Chief Investigating Officer who has replaced the Blind Man as the head of Crime Branch, and whom all of them hate from the bottom of their heart. At times they just drop in for a personal visit and in the bargain end up getting an accidental advice"

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Israeli Navy boards Gaza-bound ship 'Estelle' - Jerusalem Post [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

Israeli Navy boards Gaza-bound ship 'Estelle' - Jerusalem Post [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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The Israeli navy boarded the Gaza-bound "Estelle" ship seeking to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, an army spokesperson confirmed at 11:40 am on Saturday.

The army said the soldiers seized control of the ship, which is carrying pro-Palestinian activists, in accordance with the government's decision and international law, diplomatic efforts to prevent the vessel from reaching Gaza's shore had failed.

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"When the passengers made it clear that they would not cooperate or accept the invitation to sail to the Ashdod Port, it was decided to seize the vessel and bring it to the Ashdod Port," the army said in a statement.

"The Navy force operated as planned to guarantee the safety of the soldiers and passengers on the deck. The soldiers did not use force while seizing the ship."

The army added that once the ship reaches Ashdod the passengers will be handed over to police and immigration authorities.

The confirmation follows reports from AFP, who quoted a spokeswoman of the "Estelle" as claiming the ship had "come under attack" from the IDF on Saturday.

"The Estelle is now under attack -- I have just had a message from them by phone," AFP quoted Victoria Strand, a Stockholm-based spokeswoman for the Ship to Gaza Sweden campaign as saying.

Palestinian activists told CNN Israeli ships have surrounded the vessel.

The report follows the failure of diplomatic efforts to stop the ship, after Israel’s United Nations envoy Ron Prosor wrote UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week asking for international intervention to “stop the provocation” of a small ship sailing to Gaza.

According to one official, the letter â€" which said the Vikings had a better moral compass than the passengers of The Estelle, expected to arrive near Gaza in the coming days â€" gave a publicity boost to the ship that is challenging the IDF’s naval blockade of Gaza.

“One ship does not a flotilla make,” said one official of the ship carrying what Prosor called “weekend revolutionaries” with “radical and extremist agendas.”

Israel’s blockade policy remains intact, and the ship will be stopped, one official said.

The ship, sailing under a Finnish flag, set sail in June and has stopped at numerous European ports trying to drum up support and publicity. The vessel, carrying over a dozen passengers, took on additional food and passengers off the coast of Crete earlier this week.

Among the new passengers are five European parliamentarians: Ricardo Sixto Iglesias from Spain, Sven Britton from Sweden, Aksel Hagen from Norway, and Vangelis Diamandopoulos and Dimitris Kodelas from Greece.

The IDF spokesperson added that any organization or country wishing to reach Gaza or move humanitarian aid is able to do so legally and orderly at all times through land passages and in coordination with the Israeli authorities.

Herb Keinon contributed to this report.

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Question by antonanderson2003: How much would a new "free lance writer" charge per an hour? I am being offered a chance to help write a book as a free lance writer but don't know if the offer is fair or not. What is typical for a new writer working on a college success book, with sales maxing around 90000? Best answer for How much would a new "free lance writer" charge per an hour?:

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Depends on what exactly you will be doing. Go to the following website and it will tell you how much to charge based on the type of free lance work you will be doing. Good luck with the book! http://www.writers.ca/whattopay.htm

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Please leave comments for what game you want us to play next! This crappy video makes up the first in a new series of the YOGSCAST! We're basically going to be playing games and talking about them. This week, Simon and Lewis are playing Saints Row 2 that they bought on steam for £3.75.

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Angry protesters block roads in Lebanon after car bomb - Fox News [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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Question by Caitlin: What is a good "NEW" korean/Japanese/Taiwanese drama to watch? has to be new........ive seen all the other ones...trust meh! has to be romantic and the actors cant be too old im watching "love buffet" at the moment and i love it! Best answer for What is a good "NEW" korean/Japanese/Taiwanese drama to watch?:

Answer by candice
Here are some that I know of: Athena goddess of War Dream High My Princess President It's alright Daddy's Girl Single Princesses and Blind Dates Calling for Love/ Calling Big Star Because of You Summer's Desire IP Man that's all I know of. I am not sure about Japanese though, Detective Conan, perhaps?

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BEIRUT â€"  Protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks around Lebanon on Saturday in a sign of boiling anger over a massive car bomb that killed a top security official and seven other people a day earlier -- a devastating attack that threatened to bring Syria's civil war to Lebanon.

The Lebanese Cabinet was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting Saturday as the country's opposition called for Prime Minister Najib Mikati to resign. The state-run National News Agency said security commanders would attend the meeting to discuss how to keep the peace.

The government declared a national day of mourning for the victims, who included Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, head of the intelligence division of Lebanon's domestic security forces. Dozens were wounded in Friday's blast in Beirut's mainly Christian Achrafieh neighborhood.

Many observers said the attack appeared to have links to the Syrian civil war, which has been raging for 19 months. Al-Hassan, 47, headed an investigation over the summer that led to the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's most loyal allies in Lebanon.

Samaha, who is in custody, is accused of plotting a campaign of bombings and assassinations to spread sectarian violence in Lebanon at Syria's behest. Also indicted in the August sweep was Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, one of Assad's highest aides.

Lebanon's fractious politics are closely entwined with Syria's. The countries share a web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries, often causing events on one side of the border to echo on the other. Lebanon's opposition is an anti-Syrian bloc, while the prime minister and much of the government are pro-Syrian.

The civil war in Syria has laid bare Lebanon's sectarian tensions as well.

Many of Lebanon's Sunnis have backed Syria's mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiites have tended to back Assad. Al-Hassan was a Sunni whose stances were widely seen to oppose Syria and the country's most powerful ally in Lebanon, the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

On Friday, protesters in mostly Sunni areas closed roads with burning tires and rocks in Beirut, the southern city of Sidon, the northern city of Tripoli and several towns in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

The highway linking central Beirut with the city's international airport was closed, as well as the highway that links the capital with Syria, the officials said on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Rafik Khoury, editor of the independent Al-Anwar daily, said the assassination was an attempt to draw Lebanon into the conflict in Syria, which has been the most serious threat to the Assad family's 40-year dynasty.

"The side that carried the assassination knows the reactions and dangerous repercussions and is betting that it will happen. Strife is wanted in Lebanon," Khoury wrote.

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Boy Scout 'Perversion Files': Law Firm Releases Files on 1200 Alleged Sexual ... - TIME [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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The files were ordered released by the Oregon Supreme Court stemming from the judgment in favor of a former Scout who was molested by an associate Scoutmaster.

By Madison Gray | | October 18, 2012 |

AP / Greg Wahl-Stephens)

Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization.

A law firm that represented a former Boy Scout who had been the victim of child sexual abuse on Thursday released a large online volume containing more than 1,200 files on Scoutmasters and other volunteers accused of pedophilia or sexual abuse. The files span some 20 years, from 1965 to 1985, and are part of a record compiled by the Boy Scouts of America with the intention of keeping abusers out of scouting and away from vulnerable youth. The full record is believed to date back as far as the mid-1920s and may involve as many as 100,000 children.

The so-called “Perversion Files” were made public by a Portland, Ore. law firm that represented Kerry Lewis, who was the victim of abuse by an ex-assistant Scoutmaster in 1984. They had been kept secret under a protective order until Lewis’ 2010 lawsuit against the Boy Scouts, in which Multnomah County Judge John Wittmayer ordered the documents released. He restricted access to the files to just the attorneys for both the plaintiff and the defendant, but that order was overturned earlier this year. Also as part of the suit, Lewis was awarded $ 18.5 million in punitive damages, to be paid by the Boy Scouts.

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His abuser, Temur Dykes, had admitted to a Mormon church leader in 1983, months before he abused Lewis, that he had molested 17 Scouts in his church-sponsored troop during the early 1980s. But he continued to interact with Scouts. He admitted in a deposition that he had abused Lewis in 1984. On three different occasions he was convicted on child sexual abuse charges: in 1983 and 1985 of sodomy, and in 1994 of sex abuse. On the last conviction he was sentenced to 18 years in prison but was released in 2005. He is now registered as a sex offender in Oregon and remains in post-incarceration supervision until 2013.

In June, the Oregon Supreme Court ordered that the 14,500-page set of files be disclosed; the law firm of O’Donnell, Clark & Crew posted the documents on their website on Thursday. The documents name and describe the alleged perpetrators of the abuse, as well as the supposed acts and behavior which the BSA troop leaders deemed eligible for ejection from their ranks. Each file contains a gamut of newspaper articles and correspondence between the alleged abusers and the Scoutmasters related to the particular case, though the names and contact information of the victims have been redacted.

Attorney Kelly Clark, the lead counsel in the Lewis suit, said that in virtually all the states in which the incidents took place, the criminal statute of limitations on the alleged crimes has long expired and most states’ statutes that would apply to lawsuits have expired as well. “Most of the people in these files will never see legal justice,” he told TIME.

Clark has blasted the Scouts, accusing the organization of trying to keep the files secret in an attempt to hide crimes committed by their Scoutmasters and volunteers from law enforcement, abuse victims and parents. “To the extent that the file system was intended to keep the bad guys out it often worked as it should,” Clark said. “But there’s a problem: if you keep this system for decades and decades and the number of abuse cases are the same or worse, you’d have to say ‘Our program is attracting pedophiles; how can we make this better?’”

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The Scouts, for their part, acknowledge that they have failed at times to protect young boys from pedophiles, but they argue that there are systems in place to keep youths from harm in the future. The organization says they have kept the records released today â€" what they call “Ineligible Volunteer” files â€" for more than 80 years as a way to make sure potential undesirables do not get into Scouting. “Essentially, the files are a list of people who do not meet the BSA’s membership standards because of known or suspected abuse or other inappropriate conduct either inside or outside of Scouting,” according to a statement.

They cite a study they commissioned on the Ineligible Volunteer files to be completed by University of Virginia psychiatry professor Janet Warren, which found that there were failures on the part of the Scouts to protect boys from sexual predators, but that the methods they have implemented have worked overall. They say that law enforcement had been informed about the majority of the information in the files and have pledged to do the same for information in files dated from 1985 to the present.

“There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong,” Wayne Perry, the Boy Scouts’ national president said in a statement provided to TIME. “We have continuously enhanced our multi-tiered policies and procedures to ensure we are in line with and, where possible, ahead of society’s knowledge of abuse and best practices for prevention.”

BSA officials insist that the perversion files have always been public and have been reported by the media going as far back as 1935, have been the subject of books and are known to millions of volunteers in Scouting because of a requirement that they be cross-checked against the lengthy list of alleged perpetrators. They did, however, issue an apology to the victims of abuse.

“Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families,” the statement said.

But Clark says the Scouts have continually fought to keep the files secret and his firm is litigating dozens of cases around the country relating to sexual abuse of Boy Scouts. He said small troops did not know what BSA executives and local Boy Scout councils knew. “Local council executives knew about the secret files and how to open them, but that knowledge never went to the local community troops,” Clark says. “Den moms and den dads were completely blind and kept in the the dark.”

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Question by mek: real estate term "buyer's request for information"? what does "buyer's request for information" form mean? Best answer for real estate term "buyer's request for information"?:

Answer by shivayanama
Means the specific need of the buyer in terms of area,taste,specifications and budget

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Family shocked at Bangladesh man's arrest in NY terror bomb plot Family ... - New York Daily News [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

Family shocked at Bangladesh man's arrest in NY terror bomb plot Family ... - New York Daily News [dayinformations.blogspot.com]

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BY BARRY PADDOCK, ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, MATTHEW LYSIAK and LARRY McSHANE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The Al Qaeda wanna-be accused of plotting to bomb the Manhattan Federal Reserve building came from a middle-class Bangladeshi family that spent its last dime sending him to the U.S.

Suspect Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was taking English classes at a Manhattan school in the days before his Wednesday arrest as a would-be terrorist.

He stopped showing up for classes at the ASA Institute of Business and Computer Technology on Tuesday â€" the day before he was busted. Nafis was pursuing a computer programming major.

“We are very surprised and kind of at a loss of what to say,” said George Trahanis, the school’s international student advisor. “We’ve never had this situation happen before.”

Nafis, 21, had all his paperwork in order â€" including his dad’s bank statement â€" for entrance to the school on Broadway in Midtown.

During an interview with an admissions rep, Nafis “seemed very nice and very polite,” said Trahanis. His first day of classes was Oct. 9 â€" long after Nafis began planning his twisted plot.

The suspect’s stunned relatives insisted on his innocence Thursday as the terror suspect sat behind bars without bail.

“My son can't do it," Nafis’ weeping father, banker Quazi Ahsanullah, told The Associated Press in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. “He is very gentle and devoted to his studies.”

Ahsanullah and his wife spoke with Nafis via Skype from New York just hours before his arrest â€" with their son detailing his plans to transfer to a college in the city, The Associated Press reported.

Nafis insisted that his grades were good while offering no clue of his alleged plot to “cause a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children,” as charged in a federal complaint.

Nafis arrived in the U.S. in January on a student visa after convincing his dad that a degree from an American college would help lead to success in their homeland.

“I spent all my savings to send him to America,” Ahsanullah said. “I can’t believe he could be part of it.”

But once here, authorities said, the bloodthirsty young man began plotting to “destroy America” while pledging his allegiance to “our beloved Sheikh Osama Bin Laden.”

Mayor Bloomberg noted that this was the 15th foiled plot targeting New York City since the terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center.

“The great danger is that we are going to forget the lesson we should have learned on 9/11,” the mayor said Thursday. “We have to make sure we stay safe and don’t let our guard down.

“Freedom is fragile, and we have to work hard to keep ourselves safe.”

In addition to his plans to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty St. in lower Manhattan, Nafis also considered assassinating President Obama and blowing up the New York Stock Exchange, according to a criminal complaint.

Nafis attended Southeast Missouri State University in the spring â€" although his academic record in Bangladesh was hardly stellar.

The would-be bomber was a terrible student at the private North South University in Dhaka and was nearly expelled because of bad grades. He eventually dropped out, a school spokesman said.

The father said the suspect, who vowed in a videotaped statement that “we will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom,” was a shy and quiet boy.

The timid Nafis was even afraid to climb on the roof of their home without a friend.

The family, including a sister who’s a doctor, described Nafis as a devout Muslim with no terrorist leanings.

“Nafis is not a radical type,” his dad told Agence France-Presse. “He says prayers five times a day and read the holy Koran every day. I have never seen him reading any books on jihad.”

Authorities said he was unafraid of constructing the huge car bomb from 50 20-pound bags of ammonium nitrate. He was working with an accomplice who was really an undercover FBI agent.

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the suspected terrorist came here with “the avowed purpose of committing some sort of jihad in the United States.”

Nafis was intent on assembling an Al Qaeda cell here to assist him in reaching his psychopathic goal, federal official revealed.

The bearded suspect was busted Wednesday morning after he repeatedly tried to detonate the phony bomb with a cell phone from the Millenium Hilton Hotel â€" just opposite Ground Zero.

He faces life in prison on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material aid to Al Qaeda.

A source described the intended bomb as similar to the one used in the first World Trade Center attack in 1993.

Nafis allegedly assembled the device early Wednesday at a Long Island warehouse, pouring what he thought were real explosives into bags and trash bins, then packing them in a Chevy Astro van, the complaint shows.

While en route to his target, Nafis bragged to his accomplice that he had devised a “Plan B” to conduct a suicide bombing operation if cops thwarted his diabolical Federal Reserve attack.

“Before entering Manhattan, Nafis armed the purported explosive device for detonation by turning on the cellular phone to be used in the detonator, installing the battery in the detonator and connecting the wires linking the detonator to the purported explosive materials,” the criminal complaint details.

On the ride in, Nafis also revealed his jihadist views were shaped, in part, by the videotaped sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemeni imam and top Al Qaeda recruiter killed by a U.S. drone attack.

“What we know is that Awlaki was a motivator for this person,” Kelly said.

On Tuesday night, he told the FBI informant he wanted the bombing “to happen, no matter what.”

Officials said they have recorded phone conversations of Nafis plotting the attack and had installed video surveillance cameras at the warehouse where he stored his explosives.

lmcshane@nydailynews.com

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Question by Gun: "Reciting information" is more important than "acquiring knowledge" in modern politically correct society? Do you believe that "reciting information" has become more important than "acquiring knowledge" in modern feminized politically correct society? @Fereshte: Calm down.. What I meant was how the entire education system in modren feminized society is base on how well you "recited information", instead of teaching other to think for themselves and challenging to the greatest among us. Thinking for oneself is not rewarded in our society - unless it is in business. In other words, our society's education system prepares students for life as a politically correct system, rather than life as it really is - and the skills required to make one successful. And plus, those were "philosophical amateurs" like you said. Best answer for "Reciting information" is more important than "acquiring knowledge" in modern politically correct society?:

Answer by afraidofamericans
I would say that acquiring knowledge is not as important as it once was, unless it is the kind of information we can get on the TV, while sitting on our fat a*ses.

Answer by drjj1967
Yes, I would agree. But I would hardly glorify feminism by calling its axioms "information." How about "reciting propaganda?"

Answer by Tracey Troll-Bane
I'd pit my education against yours any day of the week.

Answer by Top-Secret Feminist Conspiracy
Isnt that all our schools teach now a days?..... Dont believe it has anything to do with PC or feminist. To recite info only takes a few sparking brain cells....but to acquire, use and implement new knowledge is a whole other level of thinking.

Answer by Libertad V
Well...the construction of scientific knowledge requires of both.

Answer by Blue B
I think most of us are educated and like to acquire knowledge so that we can recite information. Merely rattling off facts and figures does not mean you are educated on that subject.

Answer by Fereshte
"Reciting information" has been a problem for thousands of years. Think back to the Greeks and their views on writing. Some felt that writing was a way to stunt the mind (instead of actually knowing the information). Plenty of Greek philosophers complained that too many philosophical amateurs would "recite" information as apposed to actually knowing/understanding it. And seeing as how the Greeks were NOT feminized, I think I just debunked your theory. Recitation verse acquired knowledge will ALWAY be an issue as long as there a individuals who seek to sound smart instead of actually being it. This is not a new problem. EDIT- I'm sorry if I came across as riled up. That wasn't my intention. I think you have a point but I disagree with you. Well, at least from the stand point of American schools (I'm not sure if you're American or not). When I was in high school, I lived in Japan for a year and went to school there. The basis of their education is "recitation." They study to be able to "recall" information--both written and verbally in class. However, they do not practice open ended questions--which is one of the foundations of American education. In comparison, American education values and presses this "individual thinking" and wants us to be able to come up with our own choices/answers. Since in Japan individualism isn't as highly valued as in America, its not the same type of teaching. I can understand where your view would come from, though, if you hadn't gone to a school that relied heavily on memory recall and recitation.

Answer by Lyn7721
You should acquire knowledge so that can recite accurate information. What is the main difference to you? Unless you did research yourself, acquiring knowledge and then reciting it IS almost always reciting information. Why you're associating this with feminization and political correctness is beyond me. Just incase you wanted to pretend that you're so ignorant you didn't know this-simply reciting information can happen in any situation from any point of view.

Answer by Douchey
I would say yes, however it's not so much that they neglect to acquire knowledge as it is that they refuse to back their "information" with any substantiated evidence. Furthermore I agree with the early poster, you'd have to have a very loose definition of what constitutes as "information" .. Self-righteous rhetoric and propaganda hardly contribute to any sort of worthwhile knowledge as far as i'm concerned

Answer by ProfessorC
Sorry but most education systems operate on Bloom's Taxonomy. I find its the students who resent having to apply knowledge to actual situations.

Answer by Alvin Stardust
Isn't most discourse (apart from the much smaller circle of original research) simply regurgitating, reciting and recycling other people's knowledge? Repeating that Wellington's army won at Waterloo, or 2+2=4, or that salicylic acid is synthesised from phenol, or even that Rosa Parks was a catalyst for changes in racial laws, does not make people either stupid or politically correct. Someone else either researched or discovered these ideas, but I feel justified in using them. The failure only comes when people refuse to question them if necessary. I think your question is only tenuously linked to what you really want to state: that you think feminism rules the whole of society. This is more paranoia than absolute fact, and if it bothers you so much, you need to devise better arguments than this to challenge it.

Answer by wendy g
No, you're wrong. I think critical thinking skills are becoming an important facet of education, more and more. Recitation and rote learning was much more important decades ago...now critical thinking is MUCH more important. I know, I've studied it. Feminism is one of the social movements that taught everybody to questions perceptions and norms, not accept them. It's anti-feminists that want to go back to acceptance of stereotypes and unquestioning submission...for women, anyway.

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