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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Teen arraigned, jailed in Pa. newborn abduction
This undated photo provided by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, shows Breona Moore, of of McKeesport, Pa., who was arraigned Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old infant from Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC. The newborn was found with Moore on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 and was reunited with his parents unharmed. Moore remains jailed unable to post $250,000 bond and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a city court judge. (AP Photo/ Pittsburgh Bureau of Police)
This undated photo provided by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, shows Breona Moore, of of McKeesport, Pa., who was arraigned Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old infant from Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC. The newborn was found with Moore on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 and was reunited with his parents unharmed. Moore remains jailed unable to post $250,000 bond and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a city court judge. (AP Photo/ Pittsburgh Bureau of Police)
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? A 19-year-old woman who falsely claimed to be pregnant was arraigned Friday on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old infant from a hospital after pretending to be a nurse and sneaking the baby boy out inside a zippered handbag, police said.
The newborn was found with the kidnapping suspect, Breona Moore, of McKeesport, at about 6 p.m. Thursday and was reunited with his parents unharmed at Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Moore, who was arraigned on charges she kidnapped Bryce Coleman on Thursday. She remained jailed unable to post $250,000 bond and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation.
Moore quickly became a suspect in the Thursday afternoon kidnapping because her family contacted police after hearing media reports to say Moore had told them and made Facebook posts that she was pregnant, Police Cmdr. Thomas Stangrecki said. Moore's build apparently made her claims at least somewhat credible, as a criminal complaint lists her at 5-foot-4 and 230 pounds, but Stangrecki said her family and friends doubted her enough to call police as soon as they heard of the kidnapping.
Moore told police "she had convinced people that she was pregnant and told people she had just had a baby," according to a criminal complaint. She also had claimed to have a C-section on Monday and that the baby would be released on Thursday because he was sick and needed additional care, police said.
Moore had posted the message, "Ooh My I Just Wanna Give Him So Much Love" on Facebook after previously posting pictures of herself, supposedly pregnant, as well as ultrasound images in recent months.
Asked to comment, Moore told reporters as police led her away in handcuffs Thursday night, "I hurt one person's feelings that I loved" ? an apparent reference to her boyfriend, Saevon Josey, 19.
The Associated Press could not immediately locate Josey, but he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Moore claimed to be pregnant when he tried to break up with her in December.
Josey believed Moore, quit school, got a job, took parenting classes and even shopped for baby clothes. When Josey was told she had given birth, he pressed Moore for details until she met him at the downtown building where she showed him the baby about 30 minutes before her arrest.
"I went through so much stuff because of her lies," Josey told the Post-Gazette.
UPMC officials said in a statement that they're cooperating with police and "will be reviewing this event to see what improvements could be made in our security procedures."
Police gave the following account in the criminal complaint:
Moore, wearing hospital scrubs she bought from a store nearby, entered the hospital Thursday and was seen loitering by one employee. The worker noticed she didn't have an identification badge and asked Moore whether she was coming on duty or just leaving. Moore told that employee she was getting off duty.
When another employee saw Moore near the baby's mother's room, Moore pretended to be the sister of the baby's mother, Rhonda King, and that she was waiting to drive her sister home.
After the other employee left, Moore followed a discharge nurse into King's room and appeared to the baby's family to be a nurse's aide.
The discharge nurse removed the security wristbands from King and the baby, who were preparing to leave the hospital, then left. That's when "Moore approached King and took the baby from King and told her that one more physical test needed to be conducted on the baby and that she would return Bryce right away."
Instead, Moore went to a secluded area, put the baby in a red zippered cloth handbag and left the hospital. She quickly moved away from the hospital when she heard police sirens.
Officers later found Moore hiding in a closet with the baby, and she was arrested.
She was charged with kidnapping, concealing the whereabouts of a child, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, interference with custody of a child, reckless endangerment and falsely impersonating a nurse.
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Hugh Laurie Turns Down 'RoboCop' Villain Role
"RoboCop" has lost one of the biggest names from its roster. News broke back in June that Hugh Laurie was in talks to play the main villain in "RoboCop," but assumptions that he had signed on board were premature. Variety's Jeff Sneider tweeted that Laurie is now officially out of the potential role. "HUGH LAURIE [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/08/24/hugh-laurie-turns-down-robocop/
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Building Your Guru Blueprint In 8 Steps. | Web Design Box
these eight steps are important if you want to begin with the expert plan and become an authority in your niche
The first thing to select should be a category or topic for your product. A general idea of what you want your product to be will help you narrow down the possibilities. It doesn?t have to be very specific right away. Also, you can check out competitors in a single category, instead of viewing the market as a whole.
Will you use a paper or electronic plan? It depends on what you prefer as there are various items available. You might want to look at actual book production or creating a PDF online and selling your work in that format?whatever feels more comfortable to you if you decide what you want to deal in literature.Looking up content is important, and you?ll need lots of good ideas for a product if you?re going to start from scratch. Take advantage of the digital resources that are available to you, such as the Internet or online seminars on starting a business. Another great place to find information is a library.
Actual product creation
Once you know what you want and how you?re going to go about it, work on the actual product creation. This calls for a meeting where all of you decide what exactly is going to get done within a certain amount of time. A good outline is imperative during this stage.
Arrive at a price
Pricing is often a sensitive topic of discussion. Get a good basis for your product?s potential price range by looking at the products in your niche that are in the same format as yours. At least put yours into the same price range, even if your price is not similar.
Find out about payment systems online like Paypal because the internet is where everyone is doing business. To ease the process of accessing? the necessary forms and accounts if your clients wish to make a deposit, you should create a Buy Now ? button on your website. With an online payment scheme you also reach a wider customer base as they do not have to physically visit your office.
You should always map out a sales strategy, since succeeding in sales always involves getting your target?s attention. To drumming up interest is one of the essential starting points in order to sell your product Pique people?s interest. Make them think that your product will be useful for them. If they?re really into it, it shouldn?t be hard asking them to check out your product, especially if they?ve seen that it?s worth spending money on.
Naming ? the reputation of a product can be greatly affected by what you decide to call it. Concentrate on the idea of branding and how it works no matter which name you select. Your products and services will drive brand name association among your consumers. The brand name should be seen everywhere that your target market frequents, from simple things like posters to more evident places like online blogs.
Discover how to build real wealth online from one of the top internet experts Eben Pagan with his new Guru Product Blueprints system
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Big Dog makes case for President Obama in new television ad
The Obama campaign's newest ad is a thirty-second spot featuring President Bill Clinton making the case for the president's reelection. The ad, which you can watch above, is set to air in eight swing states. Here's the transcript:
This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment.Mitt Romney is probably a little jealous here. After all, the only living presidents on his side are both named Bush. And one thing you definitely won't see in 2012 is President George W. Bush coming out with an ad endorsing Mitt Romney ... not because Bush doesn't support Romney, but because Romney doesn't want to remind Americans that he'd be just like Bush.This is a clear choice. The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. That's what got us in trouble in the first place.
President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up, investing in innovation, education, and job training. It only works if there is a strong middle class.
That's what happened when I was President. We need to keep going with his plan.
According to the Obama campaign, the ad will run in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, and Nevada.
Originally posted to The Jed Report on Thu Aug 23, 2012 at 06:15 AM PDT.
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The Semi-Creeper's Guide to a Flaw-Free Friend-Lunch | xoJane
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Step 1: Avoid making this face.
A few weeks ago, I went to go see a friend in Chicago. I normally don't talk on planes, because I?m usually busy trying to covertly write erotica without the people next to me seeing the word ?nipple,? but I?d struck up a conversation with the kind-faced boy beside me that had resumed on and off throughout the trip. As we got off the plane, he walked me down to meet my friend, who rolled her eyes good-naturedly as I introduced him.?
?This is Scott!? I chirped. ?He?s in IT. We totally worked in the same Department of Water Resources building in 2008!?
?Co-ool,? Andi said, mouth quirking as she ushered me toward the El. ?I knew that was going to happen,? she murmured to the friend she?d brought along.
?What?? I said, twisting over my shoulder to wave at Scott.
?She said, ?Kate?s going to come off that plane with a friend,?? Andi?s companion chimed in.
?And you did,? Andi finished. ?Surprise!?
I?m always a little taken aback when stuff like this happens because it makes me sound like a mouth-panting hug machine: Someone who names her dog Pynchon and believes in the power of adventure. Which is totally fine; I love hanging around people like that. But it?s not me. When left to my own devices, I tend to make angry faces out of my stomach rolls and read "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." I am a fuckin? curmudgeon.
All the same, though, I really do like making friends. I find lots of people genuinely interesting, and there?s always a journalistic part of my hindbrain screaming, ?Story angle! Story angle!? every time an acquaintance reveals that she sculpts sangria pitchers out of mud made from every season?s first rain or whatever. And in a city like San Francisco, where people drape themselves in their hobbies like bright raincoats, there?s always someone newly fascinating to talk to.
It is surprisingly difficult, however, to make the leap between ?Dude With A Pet Rat on the MUNI? to ?Dude With A Pet Rat Lounging at the Informal Neighborhood Soiree.? In our busy, busy world, lots of people just don?t have time to take the friendship plunge. I hate to say it, but a first friend-date can make or break a future-fantasy of you and a potential friend holding hands and solving crime together.
A few weeks ago, some of you asked?for a how-to guide on the navigation of the First-Time Friend-Lunch. Caveat: I am a huge, awkward creeper whose first impulse, upon meeting people I like, is to earnestly but forcefully ask, ?Do you want to be my friend?? (I wish this came from an automatic consent-seeking place, but it ? doesn?t.) So perhaps I am not the expert.?
Here, though, are five tips that have helped me take the shaky first steps toward drunkenly calling someone at 3 AM to declare them your Bro For Life:
1. Know Thy Purpose
This is absolutely key. Just last week, I went on what I thought was maybe a date-date and what turned out to be a networking endeavor. I?d met this person very briefly at a party, where I?d clearly done more earnest discussion of my writing-related career plans than I remembered. I?d hardly sat down and leaned forward ever-so-slightly before she was shoving her business card between us.?
Luckily, I don?t think she realized that for me, waterproof mascara basically means I?m preparing to possibly go to some pretty sweaty lengths later in the evening. A little well-placed fake partner mentions here and there smoothed the remaining tension out of her shoulders, and we ended up having a lovely chat. No harm done -- but it could have been mighty awkward.
In that light, try your best to determine beforehand whether this date is of a professional, platonic or romantic nature. Not only will this determine your outfit -- I?d worn a pencil skirt on this particular occasion, for godssakes -- but it can help to take the pressure off the whole affair. This purpose can be flexible, but I find it?s most helpful to set an intention (as the yoga-types say it) at the beginning of the affair. When in doubt, aim for fewer possible orgasm scenarios: if you're unsure if it's a romantic date, treat it like a friendly one until you're proven otherwise.
That way, you can set the tone for the entire affair without making anyone feel threatened or uncomfortable.
2. Pick an Activity (and a Conversation Topic)
Oh God. Maybe you?re capable of letting silence hang in a conversation, but I am absolutely not. To avoid a Kate Conway-style panic monologue (?Do you like guinea pigs, I like guinea pigs, did you know they run in herds in the wild? I also have some facts about crows I?d like to share!?), pick a structured activity that doesn?t require too much fast moving around or stress. I like things like gallery exhibits or aquariums because I am a big nerd who loves both lionfish and Cindy Sherman, and because they allow the two of you to have some quiet time if things are getting a little too intense.
Failing that, I always come to friend-dates with a few nuggets of information to share with the person in question. This can be as simple as scanning the news a few minutes before leaving the house (?Yo, did you hear about Ryan Lochte ?and Prince Harry?s naked billiards competition??) or as complicated as reading the Wikipedia page for the cashew nut. I think of these as my trivia security blankets, but they?ve helped spark many a memorable conversation.
3. Let Them Do Most of the Talking
This goes right along with #2. This is a clich?, but it?s also incredibly true, at least among most self-absorbed twentysomethings I know: People like to talk about themselves. You don?t have to pepper them with questions, but now?s the time to practice those active listening skills you honed in the 4th grade and then never used again. Pick out key words or people they mention and ask them for clarification.?
If you?re at a structured activity, ask them what they think of the composition of the blue-ringed octopus, or whether they?ve ever seen a Hopper in the wild. If you?ve found yourself on a boring friend-date (and they happen), you can pretend you?re Anderson Cooper?s assistant interviewing people for his talk show. If it?s going well, you?re accomplishing what you wanted in the first place: learning more about fascinating people.?
4. Make ?Em Run the Weird Gauntlet
Most people I know have a Freakout Button. They?ll be totally normal, cool and collected, fluttering coy glances at their dinner partners from under their eyelashes, and then -- BAM. One person mentions "The Secret Garden,"?and they?re suddenly under the table keening with emotion and mumbling, ?Dickon,? over and over through choked, snotty tears.
I call this reaction ?Making People Run the Weird Gauntlet,? and it?s my very favorite activity. I have about a zillion Freakout Buttons thrumming right below the vaguely charming surface, and all it takes is for someone to, say, even mention Neal Stephenson before I?m clutching at my own shirt in dystopic novel-related ecstasy. This has pushed away the faint of heart (I?m looking at you, boy from voice acting class), but I think it gives people a good idea of what they?re getting into. Because you have absolutely nothing to lose in this relationship, now is the perfect time to abandon all pretense of normality if that?s just not natural for you. If you?re secretly a giant weirdo, might as well let your freak flag fly now rather than later.?
And if their Freakout Button just happens to be one of your own, well, your friend-date just turned into a Life Partner date. Congratulations!
5. Have An Out
But what if the unthinkable happens? What if, 20 minutes into the whole affair, you suddenly realize that the dude keeps trying to plant kisses on your jaw line? What if she turns out to be a Todd Akin supporter? What if the magic just isn?t happening?
Just like on a romantic date, it?s vital to have an out. That aforementioned fake partner mention, previously employed to reassure others of your platonic intentions, can also be used to derail an oncoming flirtation-train. Well-placed political hints are great, too, though tread cautiously to avoid sparking a political debate. If you?re at all in doubt, I suggest preemptively scheduling another activity roughly an hour after this first one begins. That way, if things start to go south, you won?t even be lying when you tell her you?re late for your book-binding class.?
Have faith, though! At the end of the day, it?s just coffee with a stranger. What have you got to lose?
If you have any other tips for friend-dates, share them in the comments! Soon, we?ll all be indulging in shopping montages and building forts made out of John Keats first editions with our new best buds. Mazel tov!
Kate is giving you the Eager Friendship Eye over at @katchatters.?
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Source: http://www.xojane.com/relationships/the-semi-creepers-guide-to-a-flaw-free-friend-lunch
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How a short-term mortgage can save you long-term cash
When it comes to mortgages, the wide range of available options can be overwhelming. Here are a few basic tips to narrow down your search.
This 2011 file photo, shows a for sale sign in front of a home in Newton, Mass. A shorter-term mortgage may have a higher monthly payment, Trent says, but it's a better long-term option than a longer mortgage with a lower payment. What's more, the longer mortgages tend to have higher interest rates.
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Different lenders are advertising different rates. There are lots of different mortgage terms out there floating around, from a 5/1 ARM to a twenty year fixed rate. The options can seem almost overwhelming.
Fortunately, there are a few basic rules you can stick to. Avoid adjustable rate mortgages if you can, because you can be sure they?ll adjust when you least want them to. A lower rate is not the ultimate answer, as they?re often tied to much higher up-front fees.
Another useful rule of thumb? Don?t go for the lowest monthly payment. That?s rarely the best deal for you.
Generally, lenders offer a number of fixed rate mortgages. Most lenders offer a 15 year and a 30 year mortgage. Some lenders add to that with a 10 year, a 20 year, and/or a 40 year mortgage.
Each of those mortgage terms comes with a particular interest rate, and usually the lower interest rate comes with the shorter term. A 15 year mortgage might only have a 3.5% interest rate, while a 30 year mortgage might have a 4.25% interest rate.
Even with those differences in interest rate that seem to favor the shorter term, lenders will muddy the water by showing you your monthly payment. Almost always, the monthly payment for the longer-term mortgage is going to be lower than the monthly payment for the shorter-term mortgage.
That lower monthly payment is going to look mighty tempting.
Stop for a second, though, and look at the big picture.
First, multiply that monthly payment by the number of payments you?re going to make. For example, if you?re looking at a monthly payment for a thirty year mortgage, you?re looking at 360 payments. If you?re looking at a fifteen year mortgage, you?re looking at 180 payments. When you do the multiplication, the number you reveal is the total amount you?ll be paying the bank for the same house. Which one is the better bargain?
Second, if you can only swing a house by getting a longer term mortgage, you?re putting yourself in a dangerous situation. If you?re trying to buy a home that?s so expensive that there?s no way you can make the payments on a fifteen year loan work, then you shouldn?t take out the loan at all, no matter the length of it. You?re simply buying more than you can afford, and if anything unexpected happens in your life, you are going to be in a world of hurt.
Finally, you?re going to build equity faster in the shorter term mortgage. During the first five years of a typical thirty year mortgage, you build approximately 7% equity in the house. In other words, you?ll still owe 93% of the face value of the mortgage. At the five year mark on a fifteen year mortgage, you will have built about 20% equity in the house. In other words, you?ll only owe 80% of the face value of the mortgage. Which is the better situation to be in if you suddenly have to sell your house at the five year mark? Imagine if your local housing market drops even 5% or so.
If you can, get yourself into a shorter term mortgage. You?ll save a ton of money in the long run.
This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.
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