Sure, there's a cool factor to having a vintage arcade game parked in your rec room. But there's more to it than that -- as we saw for ourselves at Engadget Expand, people are genuinely excited about playing the original cabinet games from their childhoods. Now you can rent titles like Ms. Pac Man, Pole Position 2 and Donkey Kong for $75 per month in California, thanks to a company called All You can Arcade. It started as just a collecting hobby for brothers Timothy and Seth Peterson, but has blossomed into a business that now rents over 100 games and is constantly adding more. The best part is that you won't have to part with any of your allowance to play -- hit the More Coverage link for the copious list of titles.
9:00 PM: Atlanta Falcons running back Steven Jackson tweeted on Monday: "Lions don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep. Thoughts of man have no bearing on our path. Giving honor to the only one who matters #GOD"
8:45 PM:Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, was named an honorary captain of the Florida A&M football team after speaking to the team on Sunday. Tracy is scheduled to do the pre-game coin toss for the Rattlers' Sept. 1 season opener against Mississippi Valley State at the Citrus Bowl.
8:30 PM: Sharon (PA) High School football coach Jim Wildman said he needed 60 stitches in his ear after he was attacked by a former player in his home on Sunday. 38-year-old Joseph Koscinski is being held on aggravated assault charges.
8:15 PM: The city of Montgomery, Alabama has reportedly been in talks about hosting an ESPN-owned bowl game at the city's 25,000-seat Cramton Bowl. The proposed game would feature teams from the Sun Belt & Mid-American Conferences.
8:00 PM: In Monday's 2-1 win over the Houston Astros, the Texas Rangers' Yu Darvish became the fifth pitcher in MLB history to have at least five games with 14 or more strikeouts in a single season.
7:45 PM: The Chicago Bears have announced a deal to continue holding their training camp at Olivet Nazarene University through 2022.
7:30 PM: Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said on Monday that there is "no possibility" Robert Griffin III will play in the preseason: "Our plan is to play him Week 1. I want to play him Week 1. I think we have a good game plan."
7:15 PM: A Plymouth, Indiana man was arrested Thursday night after he headbutted a state trooper during a traffic stop. Meanwhile, a Louisville, Kentucky woman was charged with trying to sneak pills into jail by hiding them in her vagina.
7:00 PM: Missouri State Fair officials say they have banned a rodeo clown who was chased by bulls while wearing a President Obama mask at the fair Saturday night.
6:45 PM: Seven players & spectators were arrested after a brawl broke out at a soccer game in Bridgeton, New Jersey on Sunday. The fight began when one player knocked unconscious an opponent who had just fouled him.
6:30 PM: The Green Bay Press Gazette reports kicker Ryan Longwell wants to retire as a Packer. Longwell is the Packers' all-time leading scorer but had spent the last six seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.
6:15 PM: The San Jose Mercury News reports a Giants fan who supposedly threw a banana at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones said he did it out of anger at his own team instead of at Jones. Alexander Poulides apologized and said his banana toss was not racially motivated.
6:00 PM: A federal judge on Monday upheld the $338,000 verdict made in favor of Sarah Jones, a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who had sued the gossip website TheDirty.com for libel.
5:45 PM: The Philadelphia Phillies have released outfielder Laynce Nix after he refused an assignment to the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
5:30 PM: ESPN announced the lineup for its 24-hour College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon starting on Monday, November 11 at 7 pm ET. This year's 7 a.m. ET game is Hartford at Florida Gulf Coast.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Dozens of illegal immigrants being held in a Greek detention center hurled stones at police guards and set mattresses on fire in protest over the extension of their detention, Greek police said on Sunday.
Greece, struggling to exit its worst financial crisis in decades, has become a frontier for immigrants mainly from Asia and Africa, who seek a better life in Europe but often end up living in cramped detention centers.
More than 50 out of 1,620 migrants held at the detention center of Amygdaleza, near Athens, were arrested over the clashes, which broke out late on Saturday.
The detainees hurled water bottles and stones at guards and set garbage bags and mattresses on fire, injuring 10 police guards. There were no reports of injured migrants, police said.
Riot police fired teargas to disperse the crowds, ending the unrest. Police said 10 migrants had escaped.
Greece has been long criticized by human rights groups over the poor conditions at reception centers and a very low rate of asylum application approvals, which makes its treatment of illegal migrants one of the toughest in the EU.
Since the economic crisis broke out, anti-foreigner sentiment has risen in a country where one worker in four is unemployed, boosting the far-right Golden Dawn party which has been ranking third in polls.
(Reporting by Renee Maltezou; editing by Mike Collett-White)
Windows Phone users no longer left out 'in the cold'
If you use Facebook a lot, you may have seen your friends posting status updates using the popular InstaWeather app that overlays weather details over a photo you have taken. Until now this app was only available to iOS and Android users, with Windows Phone being left out in the cold.
That has all changed with the launch of InstaWeather for Windows Phone, finally bringing the app to the third most used mobile OS as well. In a post on the Facebook page, the company announced on Friday: "Finally, after few months of hard work, InstaWeather for WINDOWS PHONE is here!" and you can pick up this app for $0.99 on the Windows Store right now.
The app adds a smart weather overlay to your photos for sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or sent with email or SMS.?
It's great to see yet another trending app being made available on Windows Phone, if only a few others would follow this example.
VALE, Ore. (AP) ? A 59-year-old man has died while working on a fire line in southeastern Oregon.
Carolyn Chad, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Land Management, says Kevin Hall apparently suffered a medical issue while he was working for a bulldozer contractor on the Grassy Mountain fire, about 60 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho.
Hall, from Ontario, Ore., was found unresponsive in a pickup truck Saturday. Other workers administered CPR but couldn't revive him.
Chad tells KTVZ-TV Hall was supporting a bulldozer crew as it worked to improve an existing fire line.
He is the third person to die in Oregon this month while fighting wildfires.
John Hammack, of Madras, was killed by a falling tree in the remote Mount Washington Wilderness Area in the high Cascades, and 19-year-old Jesse Trader was killed in a water truck crash in southern Oregon.
As companies like Apple and Samsung are heralding the end of the button, LG is taking its design in a different direction. This new "Classic TV" features a wood-panelled front complete with tuning knobs and buttons to create what LG describes as a "classic Scandanavian-style design that emphasizes simplicity, modernity."
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's tax police said on Monday they are seizing houses, hotels and other assets totaling 250 million euros ($336 million) as part of an investigation into alleged false accounting and market manipulation by the former owners of insurer Fondiaria-Sai.
The investigation led last month to the arrest of Fondiaria's former owner Salvatore Ligresti, members of his family and various managers.
The arrests related to a 600 million-euro hole found in the group's claim reserves, which had not been disclosed to the market, police said at the time.
Police said in a statement on Monday the alleged crimes resulted in illicit profits of 251.6 million euros, prompting the confiscation of assets worth an equivalent amount situated across 25 Italian regions.
They said the seizures include the Ligresti family's Milanese estate, along with upscale hotels they own in Turin, Sicily and the mountainous Dolomite region.
Fondiaria's position as Italy's leading motor insurer has been hit by increasing competition and a drop in the number of people buying car insurance in Italy's longest recession since World War Two, leading to a complex takeover deal struck last year with peer Unipol .
The four-way tie-up with Unipol is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The chief executive of Italy's largest bank Unicredit, which is the biggest creditor of Fondiaria and the Ligresti's holding company Premafin , said in July the arrests would not affect the deal.
No one at Fondiaria was immediately available for comment.
($1=0.7490 euros)
(Reporting By Isla Binnie; Editing by Silvia Aloisi and Greg Mahlich)
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????GLEN BURNIE, MD, August 11, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- "It is with sincere appreciation that I wish to thank the Baltimore community for their efforts, support and loyalty to the Baltimore Washington Eye Center, and to me personally as an eye surgeon in allowing us to provide their eye care and eye surgery over the past 25 years," acknowledged Arturo E. Betancourt, M.D., Medical Director. "I am thankful to have had your help in doing this to recognize my 25thanniversary at the Baltimore Washington Eye Center," stated Dr. Betancourt.
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) ? Members of Cuba?s Industriales baseball team are scheduled to arrive in Miami on Sunday evening for a game against some of their former teammates who defected to the U.S.
One problem, though, their scheduled game for August 11th at Florida International University was abruptly cancelled more than a week ago and no replacement field has been found.
The veteran Cuban ball players were granted permission to travel under the so-called ?people-to-people? tours both governments have been approving more in recent years.
Cuba relaxed its restrictions on travel in January, increasing the number of Cubans able to travel legally to the United States and allowing several prominent dissidents to travel abroad freely since then. The change allows Cubans to travel abroad without need of an exit visa for the first time since the government imposed restrictions half a century ago to stanch the flow of people fleeing the country after the 1959 revolution.
The ?Azules? or ?Blues?, as the Industriales are known, are Cuba?s most successful baseball team and are often compared to the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball because of their success on the field and due to the fact that they have fans and enemies throughout their country.
The team won its first championship in the 1962-1963 season and later went on to win 11 more with their latest in 2010.
The team, whose members are all over 40 years old, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has questioned whether the cancellation of the game constitutes a violation of First Amendment rights.
?We have troubling evidence that Florida International University canceled the contract for the event based on expectations about political speech or fears about hostile reaction from some community groups which may or may not occur,? said Maria Kayanan, associate legal director of the ACLU of Florida.
The game was canceled abruptly less than a week after tickets went on sale. A spokeswoman for FIU said at the time the game was being canceled due to a contractual matter and declined to further elaborate.
In Cuba, the cancellation was dismissed as a sign of Miami?s intolerance for athletes and musicians who live and perform on the island.
If a venue can?t be found in time, the ?Blues? will travel to Tampa where they will play at August 23rd and 24th.
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If you think about it, meals are kind of absurd because they have to happen every day. I love eating and I really love cooking, but three or more times a day every day? That just seems like a lot. Yet somehow it happens, because we need to sustain ourselves. Or whatever. Giz posts a lot of awesome and/or hilarious kitchen gadgets to help things along, but I'm wondering which appliances in your kitchen would be more useful if they were "smart." What would you want from a sensor-laden, wifi-enabled stove? Could a fridge with an onboard computer change your life? Or is everything fine the way it is? Dice and chop below.
SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The sign leaves no doubt about the risk in entering the steep seaside hills that North America's rarest bird calls home: "Danger. Boom. Explosives. Unexploded Ordnance and Laser Range in Use. Keep Out."
Despite the weekly explosions that rock this Navy-owned island off the Southern California coast, the San Clemente Island loggerhead shrike has been rebounding from the brink of extinction, even on the military's only ship-to-shore bombardment range.
The black, gray and white songbird - which has gone from a low of 13 in the 1990s to 140 today - is among scores of endangered species thriving on military lands during the past decade.
For many, it's a surprising contrast, with troops preparing for war, yet taking precautions to not disturb animals such as the red-cockaded woodpecker and thumb-size Pacific pocket mouse. But military officials downplay the relationship, saying they're concerned primarily with national security.
Defense spending on threatened and endangered species jumped nearly 45 percent over the past decade from about $50 million a year in 2003 to about $73 million in 2012. The military protects roughly 420 federally listed species on more than 28 million acres, according to the Pentagon.
The Defense Department is increasingly partnering with environmental groups to buy critical habitats that can act as buffer zones around bases, including a deal announced in June near the Army's Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state that will restore prairie habitat.
"I've seen entire convoys with dozens of soldiers come to a screeching halt because a desert tortoise was crossing the road," Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright said.
Environmentalists say there has been an attitude shift by the Pentagon, which has a history of seeking exemptions from environmental laws in the name of national security.
"They've come a long way and do deserve credit," said Mark Delaplaine, of the California Coastal Commission, which has battled the Navy over sonar testing that it believes harms marine mammals. "They pummel areas but also protect areas."
Generals shudder at being considered tree-huggers. But the military's top brass also realizes protecting wildlife can, in turn, protect training ranges.
The more wildlife thrives, the fewer the restrictions. If endangered species populations decline further, the military could face being told to move trainings out of areas.
"Our conservation efforts are first and foremost focused on protecting readiness and eliminating the need for restrictions on training," said John Conger, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and environment.
Defense Department properties have the highest density of threatened and endangered species of any federal land management agency, according to NatureServe, which tracks wildlife.
On average, military lands boast 15 threatened and endangered species per acre - nearly seven times more per acre than the U.S. Forest Service, according to the Pentagon.
Security keeps huge swaths of terrain off-limits to humans, turning training grounds into de facto wildlife refuges.
Bases have inadvertently preserved wetlands, old-growth forests and tall-grass prairies by halting urban sprawl.
The Marine Corps' 125,000-acre Camp Pendleton is the largest undeveloped coastal stretch between Los Angeles and San Diego with more than 15 federally listed wildlife species.
In some areas, native plants that thrive from a natural cycle of wildfires have benefited from the artillery exercises, according to environmentalists. Troops also often use only a limited area for training, including on San Clemente.
Defense Department biologists have helped military branches boost wildlife numbers, according to environmentalists.
The endangered perch-like fish called the Okaloosa Darter was downgraded in 2011 to threatened after Eglin Air Force base restored its watershed with erosion control projects, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The threatened San Clemente Island lizard, which now numbers more than 20 million, is being considered for removal from federal listing.
"They're doing some good things for endangered species, which is great, but there are activities that are really damaging to the environment at the same time," said Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity.
He pointed to the Navy's sonar testing. Greenwald's organization and other groups last year filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect marine mammals from noise brought by Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington.
San Clemente Island gained its unique status after protests shut down the Navy's only other such bombardment range on Vieques Island off the coast of Puerto Rico, where the Navy trained from 1941 until 2003.The property is now a national wildlife refuge.
Losing Vieques has raised awareness among troops today on San Clemente.
Naval Cmdr. Christopher Kirby, the officer in charge, said his units rally behind protecting the wind-swept island about 65 miles northwest of San Diego.
"If we were to abuse the island, we would lose it," he said.
Sniper fire must be routed to avoid nests of endangered birds. Yellow road signs warn motorists to watch out for the island's native fox, whose population has grown from hundreds in the 1990s to more than 1,000.
Plywood models of tanks and missiles poke through native shrubs with flittering San Clemente Island sage sparrows, found only on the island. Troops zero in on the makeshift targets but cannot fire in sensitive areas. Ramps prevent beach erosion for the threatened western snowy plovers, whose nests are moved to avoid tanks.
Biologists say the biggest impact has been the military's eradication of goats in the 1990s, which were introduced half a century before the Navy purchased San Clemente in 1934.
For biologists, what's been surprising is the resiliency shown by certain species to the thundering drills. The shrike nests even in the center of the bombing range called the "boom box."
"The shrike seems to be unaffected by the loud noises," said Navy biologist Melissa Booker. "We have a role to support the military's mission, and we have a role to protect species. The two things don't have to contradict each other."
A Russian Akula-class sub in Brest harbor, western France, in 2004. The INS Arihant is said to be based on this Cold War design.
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India has activated the reactor aboard the INS Arihant, believed to be the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine designed and built outside the Cold War "nuclear club."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the event a "giant stride in ... our indigenous technological capabilities."
It's the first nuclear-powered submarine built in India and the first such vessel constructed by a country other than the United States, U.K., France, Russia or China.
Reports of the vessel suggest its design is based on Russia's Akula-class submarines, which came into operation toward the end of the Cold War. India has leased one from Moscow and plans to operate others. However, unlike the Akula, which is an attack submarine, Arihant is designed to be the first in a class of Indian boats that carry ballistic missiles.
The BBC says:
"Nuclear [ballistic missile] submarines will add a third dimension to India's defence capability, as it has previously only been able to launch ballistic missiles from the air and from land. ...
"The fact that this submarine, the nuclear reactor that powers it, and the ballistic missiles that it will fire are all manufactured locally in India ? though there may have been some assistance from Russia ? is a significant technological achievement."
Naval-technology.com adds:
"The Indian Navy has a fleet of 16 diesel-electric submarines leased from Russia and Germany. However, the disadvantage with diesel electric submarines is that they cannot stay under water for an extended period.
"Conventional diesel-electric submarines have to ascend to the surface each day to eject carbon dioxide produced by the generator. Nuclear-powered submarines, on the other hand, can stay under water for long durations without being detected."
The website says the cost of building the Arihant is estimated at $2.9 billion.
FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a special screening of "Lee Daniels' The Butler" in New York. Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past, and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems. Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and an article for CNN?s website titled "Why I changed my mind on weed." He will narrate a documentary on the topic that the network is airing on Sunday. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a special screening of "Lee Daniels' The Butler" in New York. Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past, and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems. Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and an article for CNN?s website titled "Why I changed my mind on weed." He will narrate a documentary on the topic that the network is airing on Sunday. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems.
Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and in an article for CNN's website titled, "Why I changed my mind on weed." He will narrate a documentary on the topic that will air on the network Sunday.
He wrote in Time magazine in 2009 about his opposition to laws that would make the drug available for medical purposes. "Smoking the stuff is not going to do your health any good," he wrote then. But Gupta said Friday he too easily associated marijuana with "malingerers that just wanted to get high."
Now he wants to say he's sorry.
Gupta said he didn't look hard enough at research on the topic, and found some new research that had been done since then. He was encouraged to look into the issue further upon meeting a 5-year-old girl in Colorado for whom medical marijuana has sharply cut down on the amount of seizures she had been suffering.
Time spent with her and others made him realize that medical professionals should be responsible for providing the best care possible, and that could include marijuana.
"We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that," he wrote.
The preponderance of the research done in the United States about marijuana is about what harm it could do. He said he's found more research overseas that discusses the medical benefits.
While people die regularly from prescription drug overdoses, Gupta said he's been unable to find a documented case of death from a marijuana overdose.
Gupta said he doesn't want people to apply his change of heart to the issue of recreational marijuana use. As a father, he said he wouldn't allow his children to smoke marijuana until they are adults. If they want to, he'd urge them to wait until their mid-20s when their brains are fully developed, because of studies that show the drug can damage young people.
But he said a prevalent attitude that people who want to use the drug for medicinal purposes are really interested in getting high is one of the things that holds back the widespread use of it for health reasons.
"I do think it's good to separate the two of them," he said.
I have heard it said that some bar owners are quite prepared to walk up to anyone wearing Google Glass and smack them quite hard. This might seem a trifle antisocial. There again, that?s been said of Google Glass. And yet there seems to be a place where a touch of Google Glass violence might actually be legal, and even welcome. It?s?...?[Read More]
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Shelly Palmer Digital Leadership Podcast Episode #43 ? Barbara Barclay, General Manager of Tobii Technology
Tobii is driving the eye-tracking evolution and opening opportunities across industries for seamless integration ? and was one of my favorite companies from this year's CES show. Tobii has already made significant enhancements to research and academic fields and ? no pun intended ? is looking ahead to even more?diverse future applications.?Listen Now or Get it on iTunes
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I get asked these questions everyday.? So, I teamed up with my friend Dan Costa, Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com and we're picking one thing that you should know about every day.? We'll review it and give you a link to the item at a fair price, from a reputable vendor.? Your feedback is important to me, so please let me know what you think.
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Should I get an iPhone 5 or a Samsung Galaxy S4? I get asked this question several times a day. I?ve had my iPhone 5 since it launched on September 21, 2012, and I?ve had my Samsung Galaxy S4 since early June 2013. I?ve read several reviews that describe the technical reasons to own one device over the other; you should not concern yourself with most of these issues. Here?s what you need to know.?[Read More]
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot, a former Microsoft executive who was taking his teenage son on a tour of East Coast colleges.
The pilot, Bill Henningsgaard, was killed along with his son, Maxwell, and two children who were in a house struck by the small propeller-driven plane on Friday. Their bodies were all recovered from the crash scene.
East Haven police on Saturday released the names of the crash victims, including Henningsgaard, 54, of Medina, Wash.; his 17-year-old son; 13-year-old Sade Brantley and 1-year-old Madisyn Mitchell, who lived in the East Haven home hit by the plane.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Patrick Murray said Saturday the plane was upside down when it struck a house at about a 60 degree angle. He said the pilot was making his first approach to the airport and did not declare an emergency before the crash.
After removing the wreckage and before analyzing any data, he said at a news conference in New Haven, "We don't have any indication there was anything wrong with the plane."
A preliminary NTSB report on the crash is expected within 10 business days. A more in-depth report could take up to nine months.
On Saturday night, dozens of people turned out for a vigil at Margaret Tucker Park to honor those who died in the crash. Among those in attendance was the woman who lost two children when the plane struck their house.
Mayor Joseph Maturo told the crowd at the vigil that the show of support was a great tribute.
"I think this is a great tribute to a great town," the mayor said, "a caring town, a loving town. A town that comes out when things are down and people need you."
Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement that the vigil was a "profound statement of the ties that bind East Haven and our entire state together as one community."
"When a family suffers an unimaginable tragedy, we come together and pray that they have the strength they need to carry on," Malloy said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families tonight who are suffering from grief and loss."
Henningsgaard, a highly regarded philanthropist, was flying a small plane to Seattle in 2009 with his mother when the engine quit. He crash-landed on Washington's Columbia River.
"I forced myself to confront that fact that the situation any pilot fears ? a mid-air emergency, was happening right then, with my mother in the plane," he wrote in a blog post days later.
In the Connecticut crash, Henningsgaard was bringing the 10-seater plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, in for a landing at Tweed New Haven Airport in rainy weather just before noon when the plane struck two small homes, engulfing them in flames. The aircraft's left wing lodged in one house and its right wing in the other.
As the children's mother yelled for help from the front lawn, several people in the working-class neighborhood raced to rescue the children, but they were forced to turn back by the fire.
A neighbor, David Esposito, was among those who raced to help the children's mother. He said he ran into the upstairs of the house, where the woman believed her children were, but he couldn't find them after frantically searching a crib and closets. He returned downstairs to search some more, but he dragged the woman out when the flames became too strong.
The pilot's family had learned it was Bill Henningsgaard's plane through the tail number, said his brother, Blair Henninsgaard, the city attorney in Astoria, Ore.
In 2009, Bill Henningsgaard was flying from Astoria, Ore. with his 84-year-old mother to watch his daughter in a high school play when he crashed into the river as he tried to glide back to the airport. He and his mother, a former Astoria mayor, climbed out on a wing and were rescued.
Henningsgaard was a member of Seattle-based Social Venture Partners, a foundation that helps build up communities. The foundation extended its condolences to his wife and two daughters.
"There are hundreds of people that have a story about Bill ? when he went the extra mile, when he knew just the right thing to say, how he would never give up. He was truly all-in for this community, heart, mind and soul," the foundation wrote Friday in a post on its website.
Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners told The Seattle Times that Henningsgaard was "an incredibly good, real, honest man, for the community, for his family, for this world."
"The guy has already done so much for the world. And he was going to do so much more," he said.
Henningsgaard spent 14 years at Microsoft in various marketing and sales positions, according to his biography on Social Venture Partners website. He was a longtime board member at Youth Eastside Services, a Bellevue, Wash.-based agency that provides counseling and substance-abuse treatment, and led the organization's $10.7 million fundraising campaign for its new headquarters, which opened in 2008.
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Associated Press writers Steven DuBois in Portland, Ore., Gene Johnson in Seattle and John Christoffersen in East Haven, Conn., contributed to this report.
There are some people whose work you?re instantly drawn to. You?re curious about everything from their take on the world to their tips on improving your craft.
And when you read them, you?re itching to create. You want to pick up a pen, a paintbrush, a camera or whatever your tool of choice, and make something. They inspire you to raise your hand, and speak up, to contribute your voice to the conversation. And they remind you just how important expressing yourself really is.
For me, Justine Musk is one of those people.
Musk is the author of three traditionally published novels and the blog justinemusk.com. She writes about the relationship between creativity, ambition, personal power and sexuality. And as she says, she ?believes that being uncooperative with BS is to be cooperative with your own audacious truth.?
Below, in our monthly series, Musk reveals her creative process and shares her wise insight into how we, too, can create.
1. Do you incorporate creativity-boosting activities into your daily routine? If so, what activities do you do?
I read deeply and obsessively. I go to art shows. I listen. I watch. I visit new places. I follow up on whatever catches my interest. I pursue my obsessions. You need to build in a lot of wandering-around time, to get open to the cool, interesting stuff that?s happening all around you.
You are what you eat: the quality of your output depends partly on the quality of your input, since creativity is about combining and recombining and synthesizing the different elements of these influences, these ideas.
I also build in periods of quiet time. You get ideas out in the world, but the actual act of creation happens inside your own world. I use yoga and meditation to calm and focus my mind, which tends to be racing all over the place, and I do three pages of freewriting, stream of consciousness writing, every morning.
When I do these things every day it?s easier for me to get into those deep, relaxed, creative brain waves.? When I don?t do these things, I get anxious and blocked.
2. What are your inspirations for your work?
Music inspires me.? People with bold, unconventional viewpoints, who come at the world in a unique, authentic way, inspire me, especially when they?ve mastered the tools and techniques that allow them to give those viewpoints full expression.? That combination of authenticity and mastery can take my breath away.
Lately I find myself inspired by mythology, depth psychology, ideas about the divine feminine and the sacred masculine, storytelling as a spiritual practice.
3. There are many culprits that can crush creativity, such as distractions, self-doubt and fear of failure. What tends to stand in the way of your creativity?
Self-doubt, fear and distraction are big goblins for me. The novel I?m working on now is a metaphysical thriller that deals with, among other things, sexual abuse, and sometimes the material kind of intimidates me. So I shy away from it, I procrastinate, and then I berate myself for not getting any work done (which, by the way, doesn?t help much).
4. How do you overcome these obstacles?
I?ve learned the importance of chunking things down into smaller and smaller pieces.? When the mind sees the Big Picture of things, it tends to freak out, and then suddenly you?re on Twitter or Facebook again. And again.
But when you divide a big task into little tasks, and then divide one of those little tasks into even littler tasks, you switch to a different part of the brain, and you can function much better.
Also, I have a kind of rebel personality that wants to do what it wants to do when it wants to do it. The best way to get me to do something I don?t want to do is to tell me you don?t think I can do it, or to turn it into some kind of competition (especially against someone I dislike or who makes me feel like I have to prove something).
So I?ve learned to create situations in my mind that invoke that same kind of ?I?ll show you!? response, which helps me focus and get moving.
5. What are some of your favorite resources on creativity?
Todd Henry has a great book coming out called Die Empty; I just read the ARC and I highly recommend it? (he?s got another book out called The Accidental Creative, which is also good).
I read a lot of business books on creativity and innovation; I like how they take apart the process.? I read the blogs of artist-entrepreneurs; Susannah Conway and Natasha Wescoat are two of my favorites.
6. What is your favorite way to get your creative juices flowing?
I use ritual to shortcut my mind into a more creative state. I do a bit of yoga, I play certain songs, I light a candle, and then I write.
My mind has learned to associate those activities with calm, with writing, so even now, just thinking about that ritual ? just writing it out ? I can already feel myself entering this really calm, dreamy state.
I learned to do this from Josh Waitzkin?s book The Art of Learning. Really good book, worth reading.
Reading also helps; reading great fiction makes me want to write fiction. Reading nonfiction gets me jazzed about writing nonfiction. So I calibrate my reading according to what I want or need to write that day.
7. What?s your advice for readers on cultivating creativity?
You are inherently creative. It is part of your life force. We all learn to create ourselves as kids, growing up, and a lot of us recreate ourselves as adults. A lot of creativity is learning how to listen to your inner voice, to recognize these gleamings of interest, and learning to follow them, to connect them.
The mind has a need to connect things, to find relationships between things, so whatever dots you collect over time, the mind will find some way to weave them together. But you have to collect them.
Creativity happens inside you, but it also happens between you and other people, between you and a certain kind of medium (painting, drawing, computers, entrepreneurialism, finger puppetry, whatever), between you and ideas.
So if you don?t feel inspired or creative, maybe you haven?t found the right people/medium/ideas yet. It?s important to keep searching and to stay open.
8. Anything else you?d like readers to know about creativity?
I think it was Sir Ken Robinson who said, ?You don?t know who you are until you know what you can make.?? Which means nobody else knows who you are, either.
Since we?re always evolving, shifting, changing, we should be very careful about getting locked into these fixed ideas of what we can and cannot do, especially if we?re listening to other people and looking for external validation.
It?s important to seek out feedback and constructive criticism ? these things connect you to the reality outside your own head ? but nobody has the right to tell you who you are.
Learn more about Justine Musk at her website www.justinemusk.com. Follow her on Twitter at?https://twitter.com/justinemusk.
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Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor at Psych Central and blogs regularly about eating and self-image issues on her own blog, Weightless.
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An increasing number of South Africans are in the race to financial freedom, and some are swifter than others, grabbing opportunities and multiplying them while others struggle to make ends meet sometimes. That happens, even the world?s wealthiest, such as Trump, was deeply in debt at some point, but is now extremely successful in terms of financial freedom.
As you ponder on avenues to deal with your financial woes, it may be a worthwhile option to access some cash which you can pump into your business or sustain your family. It?s not surprising that once in a while, we undergo tough economic times, living from paycheck to paycheck, yet unable to meet our needs. Sometimes, a small quick loan is what you need to fix the situation. A number of times, I have had to seek financial support from friends and family. I am grateful I did because it propelled me to a whole new level. Small loans can help you out too.
Bad Credit is defined as the situation in which you, the borrower, are unable to clear the financial credit owed to financial institutions. This may be as a result of purchasing goods on a credit card and being unable to clear off the accumulated credit perhaps because of an accident resulting in loss of wealth, losing a job or loss of business revenue and so on. Once you are unable to clear off your debt many times, you are considered as having bad credit and you are handed over to a credit collection agency, which is responsible for debt collection. If things are worse, you may be considered as bankrupt too.
Supposing you have bad credit, what is the way forward? There are several options, but the one that I think is feasible and comes right on top of my mind is a payday loan. These are small, quick and helpful loan that can be obtained with the help of lenders. You simply approach them, sometimes physically or usually online through their website and read about what they would require in order to serve you with a loan.
Payday loans are more like a boost to bolster you out of bad credit into a positive credit rating. Though you are still required to pay these loans, you end up having a great burden taken off your shoulders, you clear your bad credit within a short time and still have some cash to start with.
It is good to also familiarize yourself with the benefits offered by the National Credit Regulator, which is concerned with consumer protection. It is keen on ensuring that you are not under any financial woes due to bad credits. It is therefore important that you approach financial institutions which are NCR compliant, and are more focused on promoting consumer welfare than the other lenders who can harass you.
There are very few lenders that are focused on helping you during those stressful financial times, offering you cash within a short time and the process is legitimately clean and stress free. In fact, one of them a leading South African Payday Loan company goes a notch higher to provide the services right from your browser. You are not required to submit a long list of documents and stuff, you simply fill in a few things, sign an agreement whereby you set the repayment debt and there you go! No credit checks, just awesomeness! You obtain your loan within 24 hours! These are among the few sites I would personally recommend, based on the incentives, the application process is simple and rates are subsidized compared to many other lenders.
Be sure to plan well so that you can get yourself out of bad credit and embark on a journey not burdened by bad credit, but loaded with tremendous financial freedom beyond what you thought possible. Yes, it?s possible. Keep that positive mindset!
Every day hordes of commuters have unknowingly passed into the City of London over the bodies of thousands of their predecessors, buried a few meters under the roaring traffic and rumbling trains of Liverpool Street and which are now being exposed for the first time by the Crossrail construction project.
The bodies include those of patients from Bethlem, the mental health hospital from which the word ?bedlam? entered the English language. Bodies that were never claimed ? often those of beaten, starved and exploited inmates ? would have ended up in the burial ground alongside rich and poor, old and young, victims of plague and war, from across London.
Jay Carver, lead archeologist on the Crossrail sites ? the largest archeology project in the UK on the largest infrastructure project in Europe ? said the site was exceptionally interesting.
?Because of its history, we know that this is one of the most diverse burial grounds in London, a real cross-section of its people across two centuries. Bone preservation is excellent in the finds we have already made and we are expecting many important discoveries when we get into the main phase of the excavation,? he said.
The trial trenches have already yielded the first treasure from the 40 archeology sites on the route of Crossrail?s tunneling: a thumbnail-sized golden coin from Venice, pierced so it could be stitched onto garment about 400 years ago.
Archeologists have also found a stretch of a superbly engineered Roman road that probably led to a bridge across the Walbrook, one of London?s lost rivers.
Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern. Embedded in the road surface was a human bone and a horse shoe. More Roman finds are expected.
The walled, 0.8-hectare burial ground was opened in the mid-17th century by order of the mayor of London. It was the first built away from the city?s parish churches and their bursting, overfilled graveyards and was known as Bedlam because it was on land formerly occupied by the mental hospital. The hospital survives today as the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Kent.
From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit, but no church, the burial ground was associated with dissenters. Carver hopes to find evidence of two particularly interesting characters known to have been buried there: ?Freeborn John? ? John Lilburne ? and John Lockyer.
The first was a radical campaigner and pamphleteer for the rights of the common man who greatly influenced the Levellers, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, exiled twice and died while on parole from his final jail term.
John Lockyer was a soldier in Oliver Cromwell?s New Model Army who was executed for his involvement in the Bishopsgate mutiny, when the British army defied orders to leave London. His funeral terrified the authorities because it was attended by thousands wearing the Levellers? green ribbons.
The victims of several outbreaks of plague were also buried there and as the cemetery filled, there were appeals for more top soil to keep the bodies decently covered. By the time it closed in 1714 it held a 2m-deep layer of corpses.
Because the bodies came from all over London, those buried there are unusually diverse socially. This poses a problem for Carver as it means there are no surviving burial records for the cemetery, instead names are scattered through thousands of records.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Hagel warned that the Pentagon may have to mothball up to three Navy aircraft carriers and order more sharp reductions in the size of the Army and Marine Corps if Congress does not act to avoid massive budget cuts beginning in 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Hagel warned that the Pentagon may have to mothball up to three Navy aircraft carriers and order more sharp reductions in the size of the Army and Marine Corps if Congress does not act to avoid massive budget cuts beginning in 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Same-sex spouses of military members could get health care, housing and other benefits by the end of August under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon. But earlier plans to provide benefits to gay partners who are not married may be reversed.
A draft Defense Department memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press says the department instead may provide up to 10 days of leave to military personnel in same-sex relationships so they can travel to states where they can marry legally.
The memo from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to top defense leaders, if implemented, would reverse an earlier plan that would have allowed the same-sex partners of military members to sign a declaration form in order to receive limited benefits, such as access to military stores and some health and welfare programs.
The recent Supreme Court decision extending federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples eliminates the need for such a plan, Hagel said in the draft.
"As the Supreme Court's ruling has made it possible for same-sex couples to marry and be afforded all benefits available to any military spouse and family, I have determined, consistent with the unanimous advice of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the spousal and family benefits far outweigh the benefits that could be extended under a declaration system," Hagel wrote.
According to a U.S. official, the memo is under legal review by the Justice Department, and the Pentagon will not be able to take any action until that review is finished.
"Although we have bases and installations in all 50 states, not all state laws are equal when it comes to same-sex marriage," a defense official said. "That is why we are looking at providing extra leave for same-sex couples who want to get married to travel to a state where same-sex marriages are legal." The officials were not authorized to discuss the memo publicly, so spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pentagon officials would not comment on the specifics of the memo. A Defense Department spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, said only that the Pentagon "is working alongside the Department of Justice to implement the court's decision as quickly as possible."
In February, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that by no later than Oct. 1 the Pentagon would extend some limited benefits to same-sex partners of service members. Housing benefits were not included, but the plans called for same-sex partners to get special identification cards granting them access to commissaries and other services.
The benefits would be contingent on the service member and his or her same-sex partner signing a declaration that they were in a committed relationship.
At the time, officials said that if the Supreme Court ruled on the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the issue would be revisited. The act prohibited the federal government from recognizing any marriage other than that between a man and a woman.
In late June, the court cleared the way for legally married gay couples to be recognized under federal law and also allowed same-sex marriages in California to resume. It did not issue any sweeping declarations that would allow same-sex couples to marry anywhere in the country.
When the ruling was announced, Hagel said the Pentagon would reassess the department's decisions on benefits for same-sex couples and also begin the process of extending benefits to same-sex spouses of military members.
In the new draft memo, Hagel says the department intends to treat all married military personnel the same and "make the same benefits available to all military spouses, regardless of sexual orientation."
But, recognizing that same-sex couples are only allowed to marry in a limited number of states, Hagel said the provision allowing service members to travel to states where the unions are legal is a way to help overcome those challenges.
Defense officials estimate there are 18,000 same-sex couples in the active-duty military, National Guard and Reserves. It's unclear how many of those are married.
The repeal of the ban on openly gay military service took effect in September 2011.
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Fern Bechtel, left, works with personal moving consultant Beth Brandenburg of Wind Crest in Littleton, Colo. Bechtel is downsizing from her home of eight years to a smaller one-bedroom home. (Photos by Erin Hull, The Denver Post)
Aging ? Worry less about piling up possessions, focus on the stories behind them.
If the 1980s were about greed and accumulating possessions, the current era is about downsizing and letting go of those possessions, says gerontologist Karen Owen-Lee, author of "The Caring Code: What Baby Boomers Need to Learn About Seniors."
"The Baby Boomers already started turning 65, and their parents are in their 80s, and they need to assist their parents from moving to their house of 40 years to independent living or assisted living," the Denver author said.
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Downsizing: Where to start
Reducing your stuff to life?s essentials is key for aging adults moving from longtime homes to smaller, more efficient residences, and it?s not a bad idea for younger adults who want to avoid being overwhelmed by possessions.
Many retirement communities and real-estate companies can point prospective and new residents toward downsizing and organizing specialists. Younger people who want to scale back to save money can count on real estate businesses to help. Do you prefer to sort out your own belongings, do some research first. Some blogs and websites offer valuable advice on editing your belongings, and how to budget for the things that you?ll find you need after you move.When interviewing moving or downsizing specialists, ask these questions:
How are your employees screened?
What is your pick-up and delivery timetable? (Specific times are preferable to a window spanning hours or days.)
Who will be the contact staffer tasked with monitoring the move from start to finish?
Some helpful tips from the pros:
Begin in the room you use least. School yourself to stay with that room, instead of allowing yourself to be distracted by sorting out another room.
Tell your adult children and friends that you?re downsizing. Someone moving into student housing or their first home might be interested in your discards.
If certain items have special meaning in your family but you can?t bring them to your new home, photograph each one, and e-mail or give a copy of the photographs to your children, with three check boxes: Must Have! Would Like. Pass. Tell the children to fill out the boxes judiciously, because they?ll be the new owners.
If a room is too overwhelming, assign yourself to sort through one chest of drawers, or one closet, and then quit for the day.
Keep a camera or smartphone handy as you sort. Take photographs of clothing or objects that evoke fond memories. Then put the objects in the discard pile. It also helps to have a friend or relative willing to help with the sorting process. Telling the story of the memory associated with the object can be help you let it go.
Remind yourself of moving costs. You?ll save money by moving less, and your new residence will look spacious and inviting, not like a crowded secondhand store.
As you sort through your closet, reverse the hangers of the clothing you?re ready to discard, or which you haven?t worn in more than a year. After a week, collect the reversed hangers and discard that clothing.
Measure your new closets. Compare that measurement to your current closet. Try to eliminate enough clothing to leave some breathing room in the new closet.
Edit your linens: In your new, compact residence, you don?t need as many towels and sheets.
Easy tosses and donations: Old magazines, books, lawn and gardening supplies, canned goods, spices, clippings, cleaning supplies, old bills and receipts.
Shred all papers except your most essential documents (including financial plan, estate plan, medical and insurance records, personal information).
"That can be psychologically hard. Last week, a woman called me and said that her mother is paralyzed by the task of cleaning out the basement. So we talked about some options. We came up with having a therapist talk to the mother, not more than for 15 minutes initially, to help understand that paralysis. And gradually increase that time, as the mother can handle it, until she?s ready to tackle the basement."
Brace for the emotional, physical and, if you?re not careful, monetary tolls of downsizing.
Does the new home mean moving from a longtime neighborhood full of friends, shifting to an unfamiliar church or other house of worship? How will you forge relationships in the new community?
Reluctance to give up possessions tempts some people to rent storage units that cost $40 to $230 per month.
A new home can seduce you into spending beyond your budget for upgrades to counters, window treatments and light fixtures. Or the profit from selling a longtime home can lure people into buying, along with their new, smaller primary home, a time share or vacation home that escalates monthly expenses ? and becomes a burden when an accident or illness keeps them homebound.
"Downsizing is scary, and it?s a major event in life, like having an empty nest after the children leave," Owen-Lee said.
"One way to deal with that is by preserving the stories of the things you value. My parents owned an antique store in Pennsylvania, so my house is stocked with them. What I recommend, and what I do, is write the story of each piece, and put it on the back. I have a 91-year-old chest that an artist in my hometown painted with a tole pattern taken from the curtains in the room where it was kept. So we taped that story to the back of that furniture, so people will know where it came from."
Currently, Owen-Lee is collecting elders? stories for another book she?s writing. The goal: Preserve important stories, and provide conversation prompts during family visits.
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"So often what happens is that families go to visit a senior, but have nothing to talk about," she said.
"Gathering stories is fun. And often a senior who doesn?t have a long attention span can remember and help tell stories about their lives," with a nudge from the note taped to a chair or chest.
For Mary Johnson, 77, a retired teacher now living at the Colorado retirement community of Clermont Park, downsizing was a combination of habit and the lessons learned at her mother?s side.
"I lived in 30 houses over 45 years, and the longest we ever lived in one place was four years," she said.
For Johnson, now 77, and her late husband, buying and selling houses was something of a part-time job. As teachers, they got a significant tax break when they bought a house as a primary residence and sold it within a certain time frame.
"It was kind of a hobby. We?d buy a house and sell it after two years, and pay no taxes. The next house would cost a little more than you made on the last one. We were good at moving. I really learned about downsizing when my mother and dad moved into a retirement place 20 years ago. They had a lot of things."
Helping her parents with that transition was radically different from the Johnsons? efficient pack-and-go routine.
She sat down with her mother. They spent days going through every box and each drawer, talking about the memories associated with each souvenir and scarf, and debating over what to keep, entrust to her children and grandchildren, or donate.
"That way, you get to share the memories, and always have those in your heart, and the gift there was in spending that time with my mom," Johnson explained.
"Before I moved to Clermont Park, I used painter?s tape to mark everything I wasn?t taking here. Then I called the kids, and said to take whatever they wanted," she said. "And I gave them a deadline. You have to do that. Otherwise, kids procrastinate."
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There are some people whose work you?re instantly drawn to. You?re curious about everything from their take on the world to their tips on improving your craft.
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor at Psych Central and blogs regularly about eating and self-image issues on her own blog, Weightless.