Monday, September 24, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Syria Crisis: On The Ground In Bloody Civil War

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Syria Crisis: On The Ground In Bloody Civil War
Sep 24th 2012, 20:31

-- Journalist Paul Schemm was part of a four-member Associated Press team that spent two and a half weeks traveling around Aleppo province in northern Syria, gathering firsthand information on the increasingly bloody rebellion against President Bashar Assad – the longest and deadliest uprising of the Arab Spring.

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: National Conference On Citizenship: Civic Health Predicts Resistance To Unemployment

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National Conference On Citizenship: Civic Health Predicts Resistance To Unemployment
Sep 24th 2012, 20:42

During the day, classrooms at Weller Elementary School in Springfield, Mo., are filled with students, teachers and the usual abundance of youthful energy and enthusiasm. But on Tuesday and Friday nights, a different kind of energy fuels the hopeful ambiance.

On those nights, local pastors, school nurses, small-business owners, PTA volunteers, and retired community members meet to discuss their vision for the Weller neighborhood and solutions to the economic challenges it faces. The group tackles questions like "Why do we have economic challenges in our neighborhood?" and "How do we reduce poverty in order to reach our vision?."

The answer may be "civic health."

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Iran: New Drone Can Cover Much Of Region

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Iran: New Drone Can Cover Much Of Region
Sep 24th 2012, 20:34

TEHRAN, Iran -- A senior Iranian commander says the country's newly-produced missile-carrying drone has a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), which puts much of the Middle East within operating distance of Iranian territory.

The Monday report by the semiofficial Fars agency quoted Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is aerospace chief of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: 655-Pound Sea Turtle Rescued And Released Near Cape Cod (VIDEO)

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655-Pound Sea Turtle Rescued And Released Near Cape Cod (VIDEO)
Sep 24th 2012, 20:20

A 7-foot, 655-pound sea turtle, described like "a swimming dinosaur," was rescued from the waters of Cape Cod and then released after treatment on Saturday.

The 655-pound turtle was rescued on Wednesday evening after he was found stranded on a mud flat in Pamet Harbor in Truro, Mass., according to the New England Aquarium.

The black, male, leatherback turtle came in "near death" on Thursday, and medical professionals treated him with a variety of medications to help stabilize his blood valves and oxygen levels, the New England Aquarium notes. Even at 655 pounds, the turtle is considered underweight; adult turtles can weigh more than 1,000 pounds.

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: John Mitzel, North Dakota Legislative Candidate, Says Misuse Of State Seal Unintended

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John Mitzel, North Dakota Legislative Candidate, Says Misuse Of State Seal Unintended
Sep 24th 2012, 20:56

NEW YORK -- A Republican state legislative candidate in North Dakota, who is also a college fraternity member, blamed a miscommunication with a graphic artist for an illegal campaign flyer.

John Mitzel, a 20-year-old University of North Dakota student, said that use of the state seal in an ad released by him and running mate, fellow UND student Ross Lien, was unintentional and that they plan to correct the ad as soon as possible. Mitzel is seeking a state House seat and Lien a state Senate seat in a Grand Forks district dominated by the UND campus, Greek houses and off-campus student housing.

"That was a miscommunication with our graphic artist," Mitzel told HuffPost. "He was unaware of the details of the design."

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: John Boehner Pressured By Conservatives To End Wind Production Tax Credit

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John Boehner Pressured By Conservatives To End Wind Production Tax Credit
Sep 24th 2012, 20:50

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Forty-seven Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing Speaker John Boehner to eliminate the wind production tax credit, a tax break that has split Republicans and drawn criticism from presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Democratic President Barack Obama has urged Congress to extend the credit, which dates to 1992 and has support from Republicans in states that are home to wind farms and manufacturing plants, such as Iowa and South Dakota.
The credit has other powerful proponents in big companies that buy wind energy. Heavyweights including Microsoft Corp, Sprint and Hewlett-Packard have urged renewal. The industry calls it vital to ensuring jobs, including wind turbine tower manufacturing in a broad swath of U.S. states.
Republican opposition to renewable energy tax breaks has been galvanized by anger over a failed solar project backed by the Obama administration. Republicans referred to that project, a start-up company called Solyndra, several times in the letter.
"The Obama administration has poured billions into subsidizing its favored green energy sources," reads the letter dated Sept. 21 from House Republicans to Boehner, also a Republican. "Twenty years of subsidizing wind is more than enough."
Signers of the letter include Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee, but does not include members of the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, which is led by Representative Dave Camp.
A spokesman for Boehner said the issue will be addressed after the election.
Mitt Romney, Obama's Republican rival for the presidency in elections on Nov. 6, irked some members of his party when he backed ending the subsidy earlier this year.
Prominent Senate Republicans including Charles Grassley of Iowa are big wind credit supporters and extension is included in Senate legislation still pending.
The House and Senate are expected to make a decision on the wind credit, along with a slew of breaks known as "tax extenders" and the larger issue of individual tax rates, after the elections and before the extenders expire at year's end.
The wind industry says 37,000 jobs would be lost if the tax credit expires and some big companies have already attributed layoffs to the uncertainty, including Siemens. The credit costs about $11 billion a year.

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: 2,053 Nuclear Explosions In One Video

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2,053 Nuclear Explosions In One Video
Sep 24th 2012, 20:54

Artist Isao Hashimoto created an animation showing every nuclear test between 1945 (the first Manhattan Project test, called Trinity) and 1998 (a test in Pakistan). The total number? 2,053, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Note that this number doesn't include the rumored North Korean tests in 2006 and 2009. While the video starts slowly, by the late 1950s things are getting intense. Testing peaks in 1962, when over a hundred blasts are shown. You can follow the running tally at the top of the screen to see who's testing, when, and where. After twelve minutes, the video goes silent and runs through the tests by country of origin, so you can see who's blowing up what, where.

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: National Conference On Citizenship: Civic Health Predicts Resistance To Unemployment

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National Conference On Citizenship: Civic Health Predicts Resistance To Unemployment
Sep 24th 2012, 20:42

During the day, classrooms at Weller Elementary School in Springfield, Mo., are filled with students, teachers and the usual abundance of youthful energy and enthusiasm. But on Tuesday and Friday nights, a different kind of energy fuels the hopeful ambiance.

On those nights, local pastors, school nurses, small-business owners, PTA volunteers, and retired community members meet to discuss their vision for the Weller neighborhood and solutions to the economic challenges it faces. The group tackles questions like "Why do we have economic challenges in our neighborhood?" and "How do we reduce poverty in order to reach our vision?."

The answer may be "civic health."

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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Nazi Hunter Efraim Zuroff Continues To Pursue Investigation Of Alleged Auschwitz Guard

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Nazi Hunter Efraim Zuroff Continues To Pursue Investigation Of Alleged Auschwitz Guard
Sep 24th 2012, 20:52

PHILADELPHIA -- The chief Nazi hunter with the Simon Wiesenthal Center says age and the passage of time are no barriers to investigating alleged Nazi activity during World War II.

If a person is charged with war crimes, you don't just ignore the crime because a suspect has reached old age, said Efraim Zuroff, who called the German-led investigation of now 87-year-old Johann "Hans" Breyer of Philadelphia a powerful message that such efforts will continue.

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