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Does Medical Cannabis Legalization Impact Police Safety?August 11, 2014
While the US government effectively bans scientific research regarding cannabis and any potential therapeutic uses, you can help University of Texas at Dallas associate professor of Criminology Dr. Robert Morris, II conduct another in a series of cannabis policy research-related questions.
Dr. Morris and associates have already published an interesting research article earlier this year at PLoS One, answering the question: Does Legalizing Medical Cannabis Reduce Violent Crimes?*
This time around Dr. Morris and his colleagues are asking the sensible question public policy question: 'Does Medical Cannabis Legalization Impact Police Officer Safety?'
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Let's help fund the research via crowdsourcing and find out the important answer to the above question after the data is gathered, crunched, analyzed and published.
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*The answer from the paper on medical cannabis' impact on violent crime rates: 'no', violent crime rates do not rise because of the presence of medical cannabis retail stores.
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The Drug Enforcement Agency is permitting Kentucky farmers to go forward with plans to engage in the state-sponsored cultivation of industrial hemp.
According to the Associated Press, representatives from the federal anti-drug agency late Thursday granted Kentucky regulators permission to import an estimated 250 pounds of hemp seeds.
The agency had previously confiscated the seeds, which Kentucky officials had ordered from Italy. In response, Kentucky's Agriculture Department sued the agency last week.
After two federal hearings, as well as a face-to-face meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), DEA officials on agreed to authorize the shipment of hemp seeds to go forward — ending the approximately month-long standoff. Kentucky's first modern hemp planting may occur as soon as this weekend, the Associated Press reports.
In February, members of Congress approved language (Section 7606) in the omnibus federal farm bill authorizing states to sponsor hemp research absent federal reclassification of the plant. Since then, five states — Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Utah — have enacted legislation authorizing state-sponsored hemp cultivation. (Similar legislation is pending in Illinois and South Carolina.)
Kentucky lawmakers initially approve legislation regulating hemp production in 2013.
According to a 2013 white paper authored by the Congressional Research Service, a "commercial hemp industry in the United States could provide opportunities as an economically viable alternative crop for some US growers."
Arizona: Supreme Court Rejects DUI Per Se Standard For THC MetabolitesApril 23, 2014
The Arizona Supreme Court this week rejected a 1990 state law that classified the presence of inert THC metabolites in blood or urine as a per se traffic safety violation.
Carboxy-THC, the primary metabolite (breakdown product) of THC is not psychoactive. Because it is lipid soluble, the metabolite may remain detectable in blood or urine for periods of time that extend well beyond any suspected period of impairment. As a result, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration acknowledges, "It is … currently impossible to predict specific effects based on THC-COOH concentrations."
Nonetheless, under Arizona law, the mere presence of carboxy THC — absent any evidence of behavioral impairment — was considered to be a criminal violation of the state's traffic safety laws. (Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Utah impose similar statutes.) On Wednesday, the Court struck down the provision.
Writing for the majority, Justice Robert Brutinel opined: "The State's interpretation that 'its metabolite' includes any byproduct of a drug listed in § 13-3401 found in a driver's system leads to absurd results. … Most notably, this interpretation would create criminal liability regardless of how long the metabolite remains in the driver's system or whether it has any impairing effect. For example, at oral argument the State acknowledged that, under its reading of the statute, if a metabolite could be detected five years after ingesting a proscribed drug, a driver who tested positive for trace elements of a non-impairing substance could be prosecuted."
He added: "Additionally, this interpretation would criminalize otherwise legal conduct. In 2010, Arizona voters passed the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act ("AMMA"), legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. Despite the legality of such use, and because § 28-1381(A)(3) does not require the State to prove that the marijuana was illegally ingested, prosecutors can charge legal users under the (A)(3) provision. Because carboxy-THC can remain in the body for as many as twenty-eight to thirty days after ingestion, the State's position suggests that a medical-marijuana user could face prosecution for driving any time nearly a month after they had legally ingested marijuana."
The Court concluded: "Because the legislature intended to prevent impaired driving, we hold that the 'metabolite' reference in § 28-1381(A)(3) is limited to any of a proscribed substance's metabolites that are capable of causing impairment. Accordingly, … drivers cannot be convicted of the (A)(3) offense based merely on the presence of a non-impairing metabolite that may reflect the prior usage of marijuana."
The Court did not address provisions in the state's per se DUI law outlawing the operation of a motor vehicle with any presence of THC in one's blood even though, according to NHTSA, "It is difficult to establish a relationship between a person's THC blood or plasma concentration and performance impairing effects."
Minnesota: African Americans Six Times More Likely Than Whites To Be Arrested For Marijuana PossessionApril 21, 2014
African Americans are arrested for marijuana possession offenses in Minnesota at a rate that is more than six-times higher than that of Caucasians, according to an analysis of 2011 FBI arrest data released today by the nonpartisan think-tank Minnesota 2020 and commissioned in part by Minnesota NORML.
Although African Americans comprise less than six percent of the state's population, they represented over 27 percent of those persons arrested for violating marijuana possession laws in 2011. By comparison, whites comprise some 87 percent of the state's population and constituted 69 percent of those arrested for violating marijuana possession laws. "Thus, the black arrest rate for marijuana possession was 687 and the white arrest rate was 107, making blacks 6.4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites," the study found.
In 2010, blacks in Minnesota were arrested for cannabis possession at 7.8 times the rate of whites. Both African Americans and Caucasians consume cannabis at approximately similar rates.
The racial disparity in Minnesota in marijuana possession arrests is significantly higher than the national average. According to a 2013 analysis of marijuana possession arrests by race in 945 counties nationwide, blacks are approximately four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession.
"[This] kind of over-representation cannot be accounted for without racial bias," Minnesota 2020 Executive Director Steve Fletcher said today at a press conference. "It means black Minnesotans are bearing a disproportionate share of the personal and collateral costs of our war on drugs."
A variety of factors contribute to the disparity in arrest rates, the study found. These include "over-policing in communities of color, cultural differences in where or how marijuana is used and purchased, and [the prevalence] of grants and seizure policies that incentivize volume over quality in drug arrests," the think-tank acknowledged in a press release.
The report estimated that the collateral costs of a low-level marijuana arrest may total as much as $76,000 over the course of a decade, including attorney fees, fines, costs associated with attending mandatory drug treatment, lost income and job prospects, and barriers to public assistance and federal aid.
"In light of these human and financial costs, Minnesota lawmakers and law enforcement officials have a responsibility to consider whether marijuana possession laws in their current conception are actually contributing to public safety, or if they are instead producing undue hardship for individuals and growing inequities within society," the study concludes.
Full text of the study, entitled "Collateral Costs: Racial Disparities and Injustice in Minnesota's Marijuana Laws," is available online here.
Study: Enactment Of Medical Cannabis Laws Not Associated With Higher Crime RatesApril 8, 2014
The enactment of medicinal cannabis laws is not associated with any rise in statewide criminal activity and may even be related to reductions in incidences of violent crime, according to data published online in the journal PLoS ONE.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas tracked crime rates across all 50 states between the years between 1990 and 2006, a time period during which 11 states legalized marijuana for medical use. Authors reviewed FBI data to determine whether there existed any association between the passage of medicinal cannabis laws and varying rates of statewide criminal activity, specifically reported crimes of homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft.
Investigators reported that the passage of medical marijuana laws was not associated with an increase in any of the seven crime types assessed, but that liberalized laws were associated with decreases in certain types of violent crime.
"The central finding gleaned from the present study was that MML (medical marijuana legalization) is not predictive of higher crime rates and may be related to reductions in rates of homicide and assault," authors reported. "Interestingly, robbery and burglary rates were unaffected by medicinal marijuana legislation, which runs counter to the claim that dispensaries and grow houses lead to an increase in victimization due to the opportunity structures linked to the amount of drugs and cash that are present. Although, this is in line with prior research suggesting that medical marijuana dispensaries may actually reduce crime in the immediate vicinity."
Researchers concluded: "Medical marijuana laws were not found to have a crime exacerbating effect on any of the seven crime types. On the contrary, our findings indicated that MML precedes a reduction in homicide and assault. … In sum, these findings run counter to arguments suggesting the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes poses a danger to public health in terms of exposure to violent crime and property crimes."
Full text of the study, "The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data, 1990-2006," appears online here.


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I didn't really know what topic to put this under. Nice basic history of the K5 and some of the differences in years.
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Vic Hickey is recognized for his achievements as an off-road vehicle designer. He helped design vehicles which are cultural icons today such as the Chevrolet Blazer, the Humvee, the Lunar Rover and the legendary off road race vehicle the Baja Boot.
In 1919 Vic Hickey was born in Akron, Ohio. His family moved to South Gate, California soon after his birth. As a boy Hickey spilt his time between South Gate and his grandfatherâs ranch in Tenachapi, California. As a young man he found flying, sports (including roller derby), hunting and hot rods interesting. By age 12 he had purchased his first car a Model T Ford and by 16 he had soloed his first airplane. In his teens he raced cars across Southern Californiaâs dry lake beds. He earned his pilots license at age 19. He self taught himself to work on sprint cars, dry lake racers, and Novi Indy Cars.
At age 24 in 1943 he attended the Navyâs pre-flight training program at Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo Campus. He served the Navy during World War II. While in the military he invented a device which converted air-to-ground missiles into ship-to-ship missiles. After the War he returned to Southern California and his young wife Leona.
Hickey met his wife Leona at a California roller rink. As a roller derby racer he had been speeding around the rink, when he accidentally knocked her over. He asked her out. The couple were married for 63 years and had two children Jim and Gail. Because of his family Hickey choose to design, build and repair race cars for others rather than take the risks of driving himself. He once stated, I figured anybody can drive a car, not everyone can build one.
Building and designing innovative vehicles, many well before their time, is what Hickey is most recognized for. He worked on numerous projects many providing long lasting contributions that would help from space exploration to traversing earthâs varied terrain. When he returned from WWII he briefly attended Cal Poly again on the GI Bill and studied Physical Education. He then opened his auto shop in Los Angeles where he specialized in Indy Dragsters. During the Korean War he developed flotation devices and extra wheel kits for Military Jeeps to keep them from getting stuck in rice patties. Rolling with the success from these inventions he felt that a better off-road vehicle could be developed the general public too.
Between 1957 and 1959 Hickey developed an off-road vehicle he called the Trailblazer. His father helped to come up with the name. The vehicle had a prototype General Motors engine which his friend Bill Yeager helped him secure. Ed Cole the General Manager of GM came to California to see the capabilities of Hickeyâs new vehicle. Hickey took Cole for a test drive in a dry river bed. Cole ended up driving and pushing the vehicle as hard as he could eventually breaking a tie-rod, suitably impressed with its performance he offered to buy the rights to the vehicle, its name and offered Hickey a job as a research and development engineer. The Trailblazer would not go into GM production as the Blazer until 2001, forty-two years after Hickey conceptualized the vehicle.
While at GM Hickey specialized in designing off-road military vehicles. There he helped develop amphibious vehicles, improved independent suspension which would be used on vehicles designed to explore the lunar landscape. He led the group which built the mobile Geological Trainer for the Apollo Space program as well as the Lunar Rover which went to the moon.
GM gave Hickey a semi-blessing to also work on off-road race vehicles in his shop. In 1967 with the help of friends he built the Baja Boot in 30 days. The Boot was a racing version of the Trailblazer and could hit a top speed of 140 miles per hour. Its first drivers Al Knapp and Drino Miller tested it at the 1967 Baja 1000 where its speed capability proved to be a liability and a rear suspension strut broke. Bud Ekins raced the vehicle at the inaugural 1969, Baja 500 to victory. The Boot had two other famous drivers, Steve McQueen and James Garner. The Baja Boot was the first purpose-built racer for the Baja event.
Hickey left GM in 1968 and set up Hickey Enterprises. He continued to work with GM as a main client for another 13 years. Now having his own shop he had the opportunity to experiment more with the types of off-road vehicles he chose to develop. He designed and built the Banshee for James Garner to race. This vehicle had an Olds Cutlass frame, an aluminum 455-inch Oldsmobile engine and toped out at a speed of 150 miles per hour. Garner won the Riverside Grand Prix in it. While Hickey enjoyed fabricating one-off race cars it was not very profitable. Hickey Enterprises grew beyond just developing race vehicles quickly and included the development and fabrication of aftermarket parts for off-road vehicles including the Blazer, Ford piece of shit and Dodge Ram Trucks. By 1979 the company grew to 140 employees and a catalogue which listed over 1,400 items. Hickey chose to sell the company once it became more focused on manufacturing rather than design.
In semi-retirement he continued designing for GM, U-haul and others. In 1979 Hickey took a contract with the Food Machinery Corporation (FCM) to design a High-Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheel Vehicle (HMMWV). The vehicle would become known as the Humvee and eventually the Hummer. This vehicle was basically a very heavy duty version of the Baja Boot. The U.S. Army viewed the vehicles at a demonstration and had ten more built for testing. AM General began building the vehicles for the Army. By 1995 over 150,000 Humvees had been built for the U.S. Military and its allies. In 1999 General Motors purchased the name Hummer from AM General and began producing civilian versions of the vehicle.
Hickey and his wife moved to the ranch of their dreams a 900 acre property near Paso Robles. In 2000 they sold the ranch and moved to Arroyo Grande. Hickey passed away of natural causes on June 13, 2003 at the age of 84.
Rafferty, Tod. The Achievers, Central Californiaâs Engineering Pioneers. Central Coast History Foundation, San Luis Obispo, CA. 2004.
Obituary Victor Francis Hickey, The San Luis Obispo Tribune, 10 July 2003, p.B2.
Auto Maker, Vic Hickey Loves Cars and it Showsâ¦,English, Jennifer. The San Luis Obispo Tribune, 24 March 2000, p.H1.
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The tough-looking dude on the left is Vic Hickey. The equally tough-looking dude on the right, the late Bill Stroppe. Behind them, their respective weapons: the Hickey K/5 Blazer versus the Stroppe Baja piece of shit. And this was long before MT initiated Sport/Utility of the Year. Hickey and Stroppe are each off-roading legends in their own right. The former generally preferred to work his magic on Chevys; the latter was inextricably identified with Ford for nearly 50 years. The friendly bickering between these two competitors, as recounted in our Feb. '72 story, "Friendly Hostility," was laced with barbed wire: Vic accusing Bill of illegally swapping in a 351-cu-in. V-8 in place of the piece of shit's stock 302 and Stroppe chastising Hickey over an abundant use of chrome on the Blazer.
While there are many tunerized sport/utilities out there today carrying $75K pricetags, these rigs could be had for a tenth of that: just $7463 for the piece of shit and only $15 more bought you the Blazer. Associate Editor Chuck Koch declared the Blazer the winner based on roominess, cabin comfort, and stronger brakes-but noted the piece of shit was indeed the better off-roader. Any way you slice it, it's just a different twist on, and another round of, Chevy versus Ford.-Matt Stone
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During the development of the Steve McQueen Ferrari Lusso story featured in the second issue of Motor Trend Classic, two human emotions hit hard and rather unexpectedly as I began to record the events of the car's history and restoration. First, the reality that the larger-than-life personality of Steve McQueen is gone, and has been for 25 years. Secondly, the experience of writing about McQueen awakened long-dormant memories of the man himself.
I was introduced to Steve McQueen by my longtime friend, the late Tony Nancy, back in the 1970s. Steve would appear at Tony's legendary upholstery shop to bench race about cars and motorcycles. As long as the gathering remained private, McQueen was "one of the guys," laughing and telling stories. But if a group of strangers or outsiders discovered that Steve McQueen was around, the scene would quickly dissolve. Steve would do an abrupt change in personality, taking on the arrogance of a movie star. Tony, who was well known for his temper, would start telling those who were uninvited to get out of his shop before he tossed them out.
However, the good times far outweighed the awkward. McQueen enjoyed the idea that he could show up unanticipated at Tony's shop, late at night, and just hang out and be himself. Sometimes he would bring his son Chad, or other racers like Bud Ekins to share in the storytelling. Steve always felt secure within the confines of Tony's shop and the two similar personalities became good friends. Tony actually became General Manager of McQueen's Solar Plastics Engineering Company for a short period and was also responsible for restoring the interiors of several McQueen cars. Tony would always defend McQueen against those who spoke ill of him and proclaimed that when it came to cars and racing, Steve was the real deal.
I was Editor of Off-Road Magazine when racing in Baja became recognized as a real racing event. At the time, Vic Hickey, owner of Hickey Enterprises in Ventura, California, was one of the leading manufacturers of off-road equipment in the country. Hickey had also developed an unreal off-road racing machine called the "Baja Boot" powered by a Chevy V-8 engine. Vic and his wife Lee invited me to tag along with them for the running of the Mexican 1000 Baja Race.
Hickey had persuaded Steve McQueen to drive the "Baja Boot" under one condition -- that he acted like a race driver and not a movie actor. Without showing the slightest fear, McQueen slid behind the wheel of the powerful machine and took to the dirt with a vengeance. It was not McQueen's driving that impressed me, but the fact that whenever he screwed-up or abused the race car, Hickey would jump in his face and chew his tail up one side and down the other. McQueen did not react like a prima donna movie star, but would stand quiet like a child getting instructions from a parent.
About a year before his passing, I met with Steve at his airplane hanger at the Santa Paula Airport near Ventura, California. Several weeks earlier I had shot photos of Steve flying a Stearman bi-plane he had bought from a friend of mine. On this day I returned to Santa Paula to deliver a half dozen 11x16 prints of that flying adventure. Steve gushed over the images -- especially when he discovered that I wasn't going to send any of them to the National Enquirer.
I noticed that Steve looked tired, he was sporting a scruffy beard, his eyes were dull, and his voice seemed raspy. He claimed to be getting over a bad cold. After some small talk, Steve invited my wife Darlene and me into his hanger for a tour and a detailed account of the hundreds of antique toys and auto memorabilia that filled the hanger. Then a most unusual situation took place.
Possibly feeling protected from the outside world by the closed doors of the hanger, Steve dropped into an old wooden swivel chair and started talking about motorcycle riding, running the Baja, and other random bench racing. He talked about how much he loved flying his airplanes. There was no conversation about his movie roles, just plain racer talk. After a couple of hours, he said he had to close up and head home. We all stepped out of the hanger into a cool breeze blowing in from the nearby ocean. Steve thanked me again for the photos. He promised to sign a poster from his movie Le Mans that I had forgotten to bring to this meeting. We shook hands and he disappeared into the hanger. I never saw Steve McQueen again, but that day provided an insight to the fact that beneath the movie star facade there was the heart of a real racer.
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That Hickey dude was alright in my book, he was from California(well spend most of his life here anyhow).
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In the first quarter of this year alone, a total of 1.5 gigawatts worth of solar power systems were newly installed in Japan, up from 0.4 gigawatt during the same period last year, while installations in Europe including Germany declined by 34 percent due partly to falling prices at which power firms can sell electricity generated by solar power, IHS said.
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Pharmaceutical Medicine in Switzerland
- Martin TraberAffiliated withWyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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This article presents a global view on the Pharmaceutical Medicine specialty and, in particular, the role of pharmaceutical physicians working in Switzerland. These days, the professional environment for pharmaceutical physicians is changing significantly. Political debates on regulating human research and financing the healthcare system currently dominate the reality of pharmaceutical physicians. This changing environment contrasts with the high regulation of the medical profession, including Pharmaceutical Medicine, in Switzerland.
From post-graduate training to continued medical education, the Pharmaceutical Medicine specialty is governed by Swiss law and a number of respective ordinances, and is overseen by the Swiss Institute of Post-Graduate Training and Continued Medical Education. The post-graduate training programme lasts 5 years and is divided into 2 years of clinical work in any specialty, and 3 years of specific post-graduate training. The practical part of the post-graduate training is performed at training centres that can be located in Clinical Trial Units of university hospitals, affiliates of global pharmaceutical companies or other institutions working in the field of Pharmaceutical Medicine. The theoretical part of the post-graduate training has to cover a total of at least 360 hours, and is based on parallel vocational courses. For example, this training can be obtained at the European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine in Basel, Switzerland, which offers a comprehensive course programme covering all relevant topics of Pharmaceutical Medicine.
The development of pharmaceuticals, and clinical research as the core area, is the predominant training topic and working field for pharmaceutical physicians. The Swiss Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine is the professional body representing pharmaceutical physicians within the umbrella organization, the Swiss Medical Association. There are a number of societies, associations and other organizations supporting clinical research in Switzerland. There are links to the Swiss Association of Pharmaceutical Professionals representing nonmedical specialists, and there is a clear intention to intensify the collaboration with the Swiss Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. The Swiss Clinical Trial Organization has been established to foster the quality of clinical research in all medical disciplines and to support the newly created Clinical Trial Units, which are located in six university and cantonal hospitals. Since the international competitiveness of Switzerland as a research location is essential for the country, collaborative efforts by all stakeholders, including specialists in Pharmaceutical Medicine, are necessary to address the numerous challenges related to clinical research.
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Pharmaceutical Medicine
Volume 24, Issue 2 , pp 75-81
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- 2010-04
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I am a new to objective C, I am developing a app to determine the date of birth when user gives the year and the number of days. For example if user give 1985 as his/her year of birth and the number of days as 311. his/here date of birth is 1985 November 6. So how to get the November 6 from 311 in 1985 ? Please help
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You should never have to calculate whether the current year is a leap year or not. Never ever ever. Let the frameworks do that for you. People much more intelligent than you or I have done this for us already, so why on earth would we go about re-inventing this wheel with sub-optimal algorithms that would never account for all of the intricate calendar variations?
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First off, why are you getting the number of days from someone instead of getting the month and day. Users will not know what day of the year they are born and will be frustrated to try and figure it out.
To answer your question, you could have an array that stores the number of days at the end of each month {31, 28, 31, 30, ...} and use that as a reference (subtracting the total in a loop). You'll also have to check if the year was a leap year and subtract one from the total if its over 59.
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He produced a Grammy-winning album for Ernie Watts, the superb saxophonist, and made a series of solo albums in New York, and in Japan through the 1980s and 1990s. Grusins playing, recording and producing has taken him to some of the greatest places on the planet, including Brazil, Japan, Sweden, Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa and Boulder.
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Pepsi still contains caramel coloring that has been shown to cause cancer in rats, more than a year after it promised a national phaseout.
El Niño events appear to have become more commonplace as the globe has warmed, a new study finds. Meanwhile, another study could make El Niños easier to predict.
Surplus power from wind turbines could be stored in underground porous rocks produced by volcanic eruptions, say scientists in the Northwest.
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The lyrical story of a young woman's journey from the totalitarianism of Eastern Europe to the freedom of America, told by an author who knows first-hand about living in a cruel and absurd dictatorship.
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DOMNICA RADULESCU was born in Romania and came to the United States in 1983. She holds a PhD in French and Italian Literature from the University of Chicago, and is currently a Professor of Romance Languages and Chair of the Women s Studies program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She has written and edited books and scholarly articles on European and Eastern European literature, and has also worked in theater for two decades, directing plays by Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Arrabal, and Jean Tardieu. She is a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities andFulbright grants. "Train to Trieste "is her first novel.
Yelena Shmulenson emigrated to the United States with her family in 1993 from Ukraine. Her theater credits include five seasons with the Folksbiene, two seasons at the Ellis Island Theatre, "Enemies: A Love Story in Russian", and "The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum". On film, she can be seen in "The Good Shepherd", "Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish", "Fire at the Triangle", and "A Serious Man". She has recorded several audio books, winning an Earphones Award for "Train to Trieste", Cynthia Ozick s "The Shawl", and "Rosa".


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New mobile payments service for 30 million people
A new payment service has been launched that could eventually link every current account with a phone number.
Paym - pronounced 'pay em' - will be available for 30 million bank customers who will be able to transfer money using their mobile number.
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A gang of four who hijacked mobile phones to defraud Vodafone customers of £2.8 million by making calls to premium rate numbers have been jailed.
The men obtained customer details from data management firms and linked mobile numbers to SIM cards by posing as legitimate account holders.
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Kaleem Hussain, 30, was jailed for 38 months, Nadeem Ali, 26, got 21 months, Waseem Rashid, 26, got 30 months. All were from Rotherham.
Imran Rasab, 35, from Mexborough in south Yorkshire, received a four year sentence.
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Mobile network EE has apologised after some customers were left with 'no service' and unable to make calls.
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Using a mobile phone in another European country could soon be cheaper than using it at home says the European parliament's Industry Committee, who are voting to pass the legislation today.
Roaming is a method of wirelessly connecting to a network without breaking your connection when abroad. A phone user can connect to at least 15 operators and virtual networks when abroad including Three, Virgin Media, France's Free and Italy's FastWeb.
According to the EU bill, this will give them "the confidence to stay connected when they travel in the Union without being subject to additional charges over and above the tariffs."
Mobile phone industry must 'banish bad behaviour'
The mobile phone industry needs to "banish bad behaviour" by communicating more with their customers about upcoming bills and their current usage, the Citizen's Advice Bureau has said.
Chief executive Gillian Guy wants to see phone providers help their customers by texting them with reminders about costs and limits:
It's time the industry looked at how it could banish bad behaviour and help customers avoid large bills.
Phone providers could help people by sending them text messages with reminders about the costs and any limits they have. There is also an opportunity for firms to be innovative by creating tools for people to keep day-to-day track of their charges, calls and data use.
Consumers can also take steps to steer clear of running up a large bill abroad including checking costs with their network before they travel or getting a local sim card if you visit a place regularly.
Mobile customers face 'shockingly high' bills
Mobile phone companies are not doing enough to prevent the "shockingly high" bills some customers face after making calls abroad, using the internet or having their phone stolen, an advisory service has warned.
The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has called on mobile phone companies, like Vodafone and O2, to do more to protect customers from huge bills.
The advisory service said 28,000 issues relating to mobile phones and contracts were reported last year and a further 102,000 people sought help online, with complaints including shock bills, phantom charges and billing errors.
One woman who contacted the CAB has been slapped with a £2,000 bill after using wi-fi in a hotel lobby in the USA.
Other customers were forced to take out loans to pay bills - one complainant had to borrow £408 for his bank after a billing error meant he was overcharged for his mobile phone service.
New plans to tackle 'confusion' over service numbers
Ofcom has announced measures to make the cost of calling businesses and services more transparent for consumers from June 2015.
They include:
- Clearer pricing for all numbers starting 08, 09 and 118.
- Cost of service numbers will be broken down into an 'access charge' to phone company, plus a 'service charge' to the company or organisation.
- The service charge for premium rate (09) numbers will be capped.
- Consumer calls to Freephone (0800, 0808 and 116) numbers which are generally free from landlines, will become free from mobile phones too.
- Confusion around 0845 numbers - which are sometimes tied to the cost of a geographic call - will be addressed.
Telephone call charges 'to be made simpler' from 2015
Charges for telephone calls to business and services will be made simpler from 2015 with clearer pricing for all numbers starting 08, 09 and 118, Ofcom has announced.
Under new plans, 080 freephone numbers will be free from mobiles as well as landlines.
Ofcom said the measures are designed to tackle "consumer confusion" over non-geographic' service numbers that have a range of uses, from finding out information to banking, directory enquiry and entertainment services.
Its aim is to make prices more transparent, improve competition, restore consumer confidence in non-geographic service numbers and increase their usage.
Labour: Phone bills cap should not be voluntary
Labour criticised the Government's new measures to cap mobile phone bills for victims of handset theft as "not strong enough protection" for consumers, because it relies on voluntary participation from phone companies.
By relying on a voluntary approach they are not giving strong enough protection to consumers, who too often face phone rip-offs.
Labour has clear plans that the Government should implement now.
Caps on charges run up on stolen phones should be fixed at £50.The companies should also be required to give people warnings when reaching limits on texts and phone call and concrete steps should be taken on the recycling of handsets.
The measures, set to be introduced next spring, include a break-off clause if call prices rise mid-contract, but Ms Goodman said this will "fail" most people with phone contracts.
"Existing fixed contracts should be fixed – introducing 'fixed means fixed' from January will fail most mobile users."


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Keith Urban had a very special surprise in store for his recent Ripcord tour stop in Albuquerque, N.M. During his performance on Saturday (July 23), Urban was joined by actor Miles Teller for a spirited singalong of The Temptations' 1965 hit "My Girl."
Chewbacca Mom showed up at the Grand Ole Opry on Friday night (July 22) and left with a legit country music touring gig.
Over the past few years we've seen Kyle Busch become one of NASCAR's great all-time racers and by the time he calls it quits he may be up in the class of Richard Petty, David Pearson, Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.
Over the weekend he became the first driver in NASCAR history to sweep both the pole and the race in Xfinity and Sprint Cup races on the same weekend. And Sunday's win at the Brickyard was a statement victory.
It's an annual event at the Canal Fest of the Tonawandas,and it's all for a good cause. The Community Missions tent has been busy all week selling small plastic ducks, each of them numbered, and at 3 pm on Saturday they'll all be dropped from the Delaware Street bridge into the Erie Canal in a race to win prizes.
Rory Feek of Joey + Rory has announced plans for a book titled This Life I Live.
A shopping center in Munich, Germany, was the site of a shooting spree Friday. Details at this time are scarce, but it appears that one person has been killed and several others injured.
Here's more proof that Pokemon Go is taking over the world.
It's almost Erie County Fair time! One of my favorite parts of the fair is the food! The Buffalo News did an incredibly comprehensive list of some of the new foods that you'll be able to try. What ones will you give a shot to?
It's time once again for our Hometown Hero, brought to you by Batavia Downs Gaming with help from our friends at WNY Heroes who help us with our nominations every week. This Week's Hometown Hero is from North Tonawanda, NY. From our United States Marine Corps, it's Christopher Perna!
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Zappos.com says it will celebrate Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend by donating 10 meals per order placed on Zappos.com in partnership with Feeding America, the leading domestic hunger-relief charity.
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Food Lion has launched its "Hunger Has a Cure" campaign to support Feeding America and its network of local food banks.
Walmart and leading grocery suppliers, including Campbell's Soup, ConAgra Foods, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, General Mills, Kraft Foods Group, Kellogg Company, Mondelez International, Nestle USA, PepsiCo and Unilever, have joined forces to engage millions of customers and Walmart associates this spring and bring much needed food and funding to nonprofit organizations that work to fight hunger.
Unilever has donated nearly $850,000 and three million pounds of Unilever brand products to Feeding America, the nation's leading hunger-relief organization, in 2012.


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Atwater announces he will seek FAU presidency
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The first Democrat to challenge incumbent Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater was a disaster, but this new guy has his own set of troubles.
William Rankin, a Fort Lauderdale businessman, faces questions about his resume and recently missed a financial reporting deadline. Now that his November fundraising totals have been posted online, we see there isn't much there.
$151. That's what Rankin raised in cash in November. Of course, that's a six-fold increase from his October haul of $25. He keeps his fledgling campaign afloat using $10,600 he loaned to himself.
Meanwhile, Republican Atwater has $814,756 on hand after raising $235,825 in November.
Rankin filed his paperwork at the beginning of October and announced his candidacy on Oct. 22. He says he is focused on traveling the state and getting to know Democrats around Florida, not raising money.
"There's a lot of time out there," he told the Times/Herald today.
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Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is asking for state insurance regulators to explain why property insurance companies don't seem to be passing along their cost savings to consumers.
At the heart of the issue is the drop in the cost of re-insurance, which has dropped in price after a series of legislative reforms. Atwater asked the same question to Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty in an August letter. McCarty responded in a letter, and at a recent Cabinet meeting, and said that rather than reduce the cost of premiums for consumers, insurers were purchasing more re-insurance.
Now, Atwater wants better answers and he is asking McCarty to prepare a report by Dec. 18.
"My question to you is simple: 'Why have rates not come down?'," Atwater writes. Here's his letter: Download 10.29.2013 Letter to McCarty Regarding Property Insurance Costs (1)
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It's 10:13 p.m., do you know who your Democratic CFO candidate is? Well, just wait 60 seconds, then.
At 10:14 p.m., the oddest of all times for a political announcement, businessman William Rankin announced he'd challenge state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.
A retired vet, businessman and former Ohio state treasury official, Rankin has a good bio on paper. So maybe the dark-of-night-campaign announcement forshadows a dark-horse campaign.
But already you have to wonder about the success of a campaign against a seasoned and well-funded pol like Atwater. Still, compared to the last Democrat running for the office, Allie Braswell, Rankin doesn't look as if he'll embarrass the party.
Here's the press release:
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Gov. Rick Scott doesn't sound ready to ask U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to change his position and back a U.S. House flood-insurance measure to temporarily halt hefty rate increases starting Oct. 1
Scott referenced the House measure in a letter last week to Rubio and Sen. Bill Nelson, who then proposed legislation to delay rate increases for a year. But Rubio didn't go that far in a Thursday response, where he expressed his concerns, but faulted the House proposal.
When asked Friday about Rubio's response, Scott said "my concern is for our economy, our families and our state." He mentioned the issue was discussed this week at the Florida Cabinet meeting with St Petersburg's mayor, Bill Foster.
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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says he's committed to helping small business owners and other Floridians learn about the provisions of the health care law. But he also wants people to watch out for scammers who are using the law to trying to swindle personal information from people eager to sign up for coverage.
The bulletin Atwater put out today does not criticize the law and is free from the combative tone other Republican lawmakers have used when discussing the Affordable Care Act. Also, it comes at a time when Gov. Rick Scott is receiving growing pressure from Democrats to denounce a Department of Health policy keep enrollment advisors from helping patients at local health departments sign up for coverage. Scott continues to avoid the issue.
Affordable Care Act scams are a legitimate concern, as Atwater points out. Companies not affiliated with the federal health exchange that people will use to shop for insurance coverage are running ads on TV and radio and setting up websites that could confuse people, officials say.
The people actually being paid by the federal government to help Floridians sign up for coverage are being trained not to ask for personal information. They don't begin working until Oct. 1 and will be housed at government and non-profit agencies.
Here is the full statement from Atwater:
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Allie Braswell, head of the Central Florida Urban League and former Disney official, is running to be the Democratic challenger to Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.
"I'm not a politician. But what we're getting out of politician Jeff Atwater is a go-along to get-along style that is hurting Floridians. Under his watch, billions in no-bid contracts have been given away and people with insider connections are getting rich off taxpayer money," said Braswell, a Sanford native and son of a citrus truck driver and Marine Corps. veteran.
"We need a leader who will help protect taxpayers by cracking down on huge contracts that politicians are handing over to their supporters and political allies,'' he said. "I'll be a fiscal watchdog who will hold our government and politicians accountable and fight to shift the focus of our leaders away from helping their friends and back to attracting good jobs to Florida."
As a first time candidate little known outside the Orlando area, Braswell is the clear underdog against Atwater, a formidable money-raiser who previously served as Florida Senate president and as a banking executive.
Braswell, after 13 years in the Marines, worked a senior technology officer and diversity manager at Walt Disney World, before taking the helm of the Metropolitcan Orlando Urban League in 2010 at the time the non-profit was struggling.
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New chairman for Citizens Board of Governors
Chris Gardner, a veteran of the retail insurance brokerage business, has been named chairman of the Board of Governors for Citizens Property Insurance Corp.by Florida CFO Jeff Atwater.
Gardner, a resident of Winter Park, has 20 years of experience in the retail insurance brokerage business with a specific focus in commercial property and casualty insurance. He has served as a member of the Citizens board since his appointment in July 2011.
"In his 20 years in the insurance industry, Chris has proved himself to be a person of high character and sound judgment who shares my high expectations for how a corporation such as Citizens should be managed," Atwater said in a news release.
Gardner is the managing shareholder of Kuykendall Gardner, LLC, a Florida-based insurance broker doing business since 1953. Neither the firm collectively nor Gardner personally has any current business interests in Citizens, according to the release. He has been a past chairman of the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce and is a past vice chairman of the City of Orlando Municipal Planning Board.
Gardner succeeds Carlos Lacasa as chairman of the Citizen's board.
Another change: Sen. President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, has appointed Freddie Schinz to the Citizens Board of Governors.
Schinz has more than 40 years of experience as a statewide commercial builder. He replaces Carol Everhart.
Gaetz picks
Gaetz has appointed Sen. Anitere Flores (R-Miami) to the Southern States Energy Board, Sen. John Legg (R-Lutz) to the Education Commission of the States, Sen. Bill Montford (D-Tallahassee) to the Workforce Florida, Inc., Board of Directors, and Sen. Kelli Stargel (R-Lakeland) to the Florida High School Athletic Association Public Liaison Advisory Committee.
Flores, 36, is an attorney and CEO of Doral College. Legg, 38, is a long-time Pasco County educator and the Senate Education Committee Chair. Montford, 65, is the CEO of the Florida Association of District School Superintendents. Stargel, 47, is an investment property manager in Lakeland.
In a letter to Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater asks why it is that as re-insurance costs for property insurers are dropping, they are not lowering premiums for Florida customers.
He doesn't ask McCarty to do anything about it. He doesn't suggest he is going to do anything about it, but he is raising the point. Here's his letter: Download 8.7.2013 Letter to Commissioner McCarty
An excerpt from a story in Wednesday's paper:
Gov. Rick Scott and the three-member Florida Cabinet have signed off on a controversial new disclosure form that critics say is intended to poison Floridians against the health care law.
The Florida Legislature passed a law requiring the form after Republicans argued that policyholders need to know how federal reforms will affect their premiums. Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater — all Republicans — on Tuesday approved the disclosure forms unanimously and with no debate.
In recent weeks, critics have said the forms are useless and any efforts to compare policies that comply with the health care law to those that don't is "fuzzy math."
"It's totally about politics, and, probably more importantly, it's an incredible waste of money," said Bill Newton, executive director of Florida Consumer Action Network, which supports the federal health care law.
Prior to a vote, Putnam referred to the Office of Insurance Regulation's report that said individual plans would have an average increase of 30 to 40 percent under the federal law. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has questioned those estimates.
"Across the country we have seen press announcements by state insurance commissioners that consistently indicate substantial increases in premiums to the consumer, especially in that individual market," Putnam said after the meeting.


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I'm sorry to say that if Villa would be the PERFECT partner to Kuyt, then we're in deep shit as Kuyt can't control, can't shoot, can't score and nevermind the 2 goals against Wigan. His workrate is Ok but apart from that he's not a Liverpool class player. Maybe next year he might improve a tad but I wouldn't expect much from him. I like the guy cause he's very down to earth but he'll probably be like all other strikers we recently had like Diouf, cisse, Baros. If I had to get a 20+ striker, I would go for Obafemi Martins at Newcastle. Anyways, Torres is one class act and with Stevie and Xabi delivering, we might be a side to reckon with..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I still say that we should test the water with a bid for Henry.I know the chances are slim but with the problems at Arsenal at the moment it may be worth a punt,and Arsenal fans seem to be continually debating his worth to the team-madness- so the time may be right.
I agree with patrick.I like Kuyt's workrate he is a genuine 100%er but his first touch does need to be improved but time will tell.
Whoever we go for they have to be able to have the physicality to survive in the Premiership but the skill to score goals..Morientes had the skill but couldn't cope physically..i have a concern that Villa will be the same.
All i do know is that 25/30m bricks is a lot of money we'd better get it right!
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Your right pet 30 mil is a lot. In fact it's 3 quarters of the budget! If i've heard right......!


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Obama climbs in polls amid market upheaval
Published: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4:39 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) Five days from their first presidential debate, Democrat Barack Obama has climbed in the polls as Republican John McCain fumbled his response to a looming U.S. economic cataclysm one that threatened to match the financial catastrophe of the 1930s Great Depression.
The U.S. Congress and the administration of President George W. Bush were grappling with a proposed $700 billion bailout plan to save the U.S. economy from full collapse, feeding anxiety among voters who already were far more concerned about their financial futures than any other issue in the 2008 presidential campaign including the intractable U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After withholding his response while the Bush administration put together its program, Obama on Sunday placed seven conditions on the rescue proposal which he said came with a "staggering price tag" but no plan to guarantee the "basic principles of transparency, fairness, and reform" to taxpayers who will pay for the huge bailout.
The Bush administration is pressing Congress to pass the bailout measure by the end of this week, even as Obama joined others in Congress in suggesting the proposal faced obstacles to quick enactment.
"This plan can't just be a plan for Wall Street, it has to be a plan for Main Street. We have to come together, as Democrats and Republicans, to pass a stimulus plan that will put money in the pockets of working families, save jobs, and prevent painful budget cuts and tax hikes in our states," Obama said during a campaign stop in North Carolina.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds accused Obama of "offering absolutely no new ideas, policies or concrete solutions."
"We cannot afford a direction-less drive like Barack Obama," said Bounds.
Aides said Obama had spoken with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, congressional leaders and Bill and Hillary Clinton in fleshing out his approach to the bailout.
Obama was speaking in North Carolina, a Republican-leaning state he hopes to win in November. After the rally he was returning to Chicago for fundraising and a campaign swing through Wisconsin, a Democratic-leaning state he needs to win.
Separately, Obama is pulling his campaign staffers out of North Dakota, where he had been making an effort to become the first Democrat to carry the state in 44 years. Obama spokeswoman Amy Brundage said the campaign will send workers from his 11 offices in North Dakota to other battleground states.
Paulson, meanwhile, resisted the Democratic push to add additional help for households, saying financial markets remain under severe stress with an urgent need for Congress to act quickly without adding other measures that could slow passage.
"We need this to be clean and to be quick," Paulson said in an interview with ABC television. He told Fox television that America had been "humbled, humbled" by allowing its economy to slide into chaos.
On Saturday, as the depth of the U.S. financial crisis was settling in on the country, Obama declared McCain was in a panic, realizing that he and his Republican party were philosophically responsible for the near meltdown of the U.S. financial system. The Arizona senator, a 26-year veteran of Congress, shot back that his first-term Illinois Senate colleague was resorting to scare tactics.
But McCain faces the daunting task of trying to square his long history of advocating corporate and financial deregulation the sort of loose controls many blame for the turmoil on Wall Street.
Obama seized on that during a campaign appearance at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida.
"There's only one candidate who's called himself 'fundamentally a deregulator' when deregulation is part of the problem," Obama said.
McCain now says more controls are needed to prevent a repeat of the turmoil that sent the stock market plunging, as he tries to recover from a series of gaffes this week, starting with his Monday assessment that U.S. economic fundamentals were strong.
National polls indicate that McCain's edge in the U.S. presidential race has slipped since the market upheaval. The latest Gallup Poll daily tracking survey also showed Obama ahead, with 50 percent to McCain's 44 percent. Last Sunday, a day before stocks took a dive on Wall Street, McCain and Obama were in a statistical dead heat with McCain's 47 percent against Obama's 45 percent.
Both candidates are busy preparing for their first nationally televised debate on Friday at the University of Mississippi, which offers McCain a chance to reverse his recent slide in the polls.
Obama has put McCain on the defensive by targeting some states that have been easy wins for Republicans in recent presidential elections. McCain's political director said Saturday the Republican nominee is increasing staff levels in North Carolina to defend a state that has not gone Democratic for more than three decades.
Obama's rise coincided not only with the financial meltdown but with his own more aggressive campaign stance.
"His solution was to blame me for it," Obama said Saturday, referring to the economic crisis. "I would say Sen. McCain is a little panicked."
The Democrat also criticized McCain's ties to lobbyists and his support for partial privatization of the Social Security pension system, and noted that McCain wrote in a trade publication that opening the health insurance market to more vigorous competition nationwide, as was done with the banking industry, would provide more choices.
"So let me get this straight," Obama said. "He wants to run health care like they've been running Wall Street. Well, Senator, I know some folks on Main Street who aren't going to think that's a good idea."
But Obama's characterization was a politically charged oversimplification of McCain's article for the American Academy of Actuaries. In the article, McCain wrote that people should be allowed to buy health insurance across state lines.
Obama's comments came as Bush defended a proposed multibillion dollar financial bailout designed to rescue struggling markets. The bailout will allow the government to buy $700 billion in toxic mortgages now held by financial institutions and would be the biggest government bailout since the Great Depression.
The White House had hoped for a deal with Congress by the time markets opened Monday, but Paulson's remarks suggested it could take more time.
The market fell steeply last Monday in response to the bankruptcy of storied Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers, the decision of a second powerful investment house Merrill Lynch to sell itself at a fire-sale price, and the Federal Reserve's intervention in insurance company American International Group Inc.
But Wall Street enjoyed a huge rally Friday after the government said it was creating a plan to rescue troubled U.S. banks from their souring debts. If such a plan is put in place, it could help alleviate the uncertainty that has been sending the markets into tumult over the past week.
McCain had a campaign stop slated in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, while Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, his vice presidential running mate, was to hold a rally in Florida.
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