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Video: Campaigns: Every hour counts

>>> good evening, if the race for president seems to have an urgency not fully supported by the calendar, then think of it this way. there are roughly a thousand hours to go before the election. every day and moment counts for the incumbent president and the man trying to unseat him. while both men have squared off in separate interviews over the last 24 hours , the first debate is still a week away. and coming off a bad week, the romney campaign is anxious for traction. we begin tonight with chuck todd , our white house political correspondent.

>> reporter: undeterred by a recent rocky stretch, mitt romney campaigned in colorado, insisting all is well with his campaign.

>> we'll win, polls go up, some down.

>> reporter: it is an aggressive attack, answering questions about whether or not the recent middle east uprising gave him any doubt about the arab spring.

>> it is the right thing to do to align ourselves with democracy. and i was certain and continue to be certain that there will be bumps in the road.

>> reporter: romney seized on the phrase "bumps in the road".

>> we just had an ambassador killed, egypt, and the race for the president, ran is on the edge of problems. pakistan, i don't consider these bumps in the road.

>> reporter: the white house dismissed the criticism.

>> there is a rather certain desperate attempt to grasp it, words and in that case that is profound.

>> reporter: the campaign unveiled a new attack, the tv ads, releasing mitt romney 's political tax returns with the remark that 47% of middle americans don't pay taxes.

>> he wouldn't release his taxes for 2010 , maybe instead of attacking others for taxes, romney should come clean on his.

>> reporter: the president traveled for meetings at the united nations . but the first effort, a meeting with the first lady. the appearance and the slimmed down schedule included no one-on-one meetings with other world leaders .

>> the fact of the matter is, the president does not wait for an annual meeting to have consultations with the foreign leaders, and it will continue.

>> reporter: you know, brian, by contrast with 2004 , the president had multiple meetings in india, iraq and afghanistan, that election was about national security .

>> seems they should take advantage of the city being shut down for a couple of days, chuck todd with us.

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Google+ Hangouts Now Let You Know Exactly Who Is Coming And Going

Today, the Google+ team shared some insight into a few tweaks that it's made to the Hangouts experience over the last couple of months, as well as some new initiatives. In a post on Google+, Chee Chew of Google discussed these improvements, which include the ability to block people, set a Hangout to 18+, and change a Hangout to public while it's in progress.

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Muslim rage over film echoes back to Islam's internal struggles

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash of civilizations. Just not the kind you think.

This one also is within Islam, and it helps explain the multiple personalities of the fury.

It's political: The uncompromising ethos of extremism clawing for any gains against more moderate voices. It's social: Fed by an explosive blend of economic stagnation, anger over U.S.-led wars and ? in some places since last week ? frustration as the soaring hopes of the Arab Spring hit the grinding realities of rebuilding.

And it cuts deeply into questions that have added resonance in a hyper-connected world that moves at the quicksilver pace of the Web: How to coexist with the free-speech openness of the West and whether violence is ever a valid response.

"Our manner of protesting should reflect sense and reason," urged Egyptian-born cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi in his Friday sermon in Qatar's capital, Doha, where he has found a worldwide audience through the Internet and a show on the pan-Arab network Al-Jazeera.

Yet such appeals ? while frequent from many Islamic leaders and scholars in the past week ? have competed against opposing calls that can tap deeper passions that have been funneled into violence. Political factions and hard-line clerics across the Muslim world have been quick to try to capitalize as after other perceived offences against the faith.

"There's no doubt that every Muslim feels in some ways deeply troubled by any insults to the Prophet Muhammad, but how many have seen the video of this movie to make up their own minds? Very few," said Sami al-Faraj, director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies. "You need someone to organize the protests and, in effect, throw the switch."

It's come in many forms.

Ultraconservative Islamists apparently have taken the lead in protests in Arab Spring countries such as Tunisia and Egypt in a show of force against the new leadership and their Western allies. In a curious battle of perceptions, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-led government called out riot troops to protect the U.S. Embassy against protesters also claiming to "defend" Islam.

In Libya, U.S. investigators are examining whether armed militants used the uproar over the film as cover to launch a pre-planned attack on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing the ambassador and three other Americans. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Sunday the attack was not co-ordinated and premeditated, but others have challenged that view.

Crowds in Yemen condemned the film but also chanted against the continued U.S. military presence such as drone strikes that have targeted suspected al-Qaida leaders.

"Obviously there's a latent anti-Americanism that is coming out," said Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. "But that is only part of this," he said. "This is primarily about a struggle for the soul of these states."

Elsewhere ? from Nigeria to Australia ? hard-line clerics and parties have mobilized demonstrations in both expressions of anger and messages to rivals. In Iran, protesters were given pre-made placards denouncing the U.S. in a clear sign of a state-organized demonstration.

On Sunday, Iranian newspapers reported that a religious foundation has increased the reward for killing British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million from $2.8 million in response to alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses." Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a death fatwa against Rushdie in 1989, but Iran officials later distanced themselves from the edict.

Bahrain protest groups, meanwhile, have used Twitter to organize demonstrations that included burning American flags in the nation that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Pakistan's conservative Islamist parties sent out text messages, mosque announcements and made phone calls to bring out protest crowds, including about 1,000 people in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday and hundreds who rushed the U.S. consulate in Karachi, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed.

"What kind of freedom of expression is that which hurts the religious sentiments of others?" said Haider Gul, a grocery store owner who joined the anti-American rally in Peshawar.

This question is not new ? tumbling back over centuries and different faiths. It flared anew in 2005 when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were deemed offensive by many Muslims. And it was a centerpiece of the debates after the 2004 slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, whose film "Submission" criticized the treatment of Muslim women.

But the current film, "Innocence of Muslims," brings a new element: What if the sole intent was to provoke backlash and violence? It's unlikely to bring any clear-cut answers in the short term. America's free speech protections give a wide berth for filmmakers.

There are cases, however, where boundaries have been set. Last year, two Florida pastors were blocked from demonstrating outside a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, after a jury ruled it would have breached the peace. One of the pastors, Terry Jones, touched off a series of violent protests in Afghanistan that killed more than a dozen people after he burned a Qur?an in March 2011.

If anything, the cultural gaps may have been pried farther apart by the scope of the latest violence and bloodshed.

Google has refused a White House request to take down the video clip from its YouTube site, but is restricting access in certain countries including Egypt, Libya and Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. A YouTube statement said the video was within its content guidelines. "This can be a challenge because what's OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere," it said.

At the same time, it's also opened fault lines within the Muslim world over what's an acceptable response. In many ways, it's simply an extension of the same internal struggles over Islam's moral compass that has gripped the faith for decades.

An Indonesian Muslim scholar, Komaruddin Hidayat, said Muslims have the duty to oppose to anything they deem offensive to their faith, but must "avoid using violence in expressing their objections." At the other end of the Muslim world in Nigeria, a top Islamic leader, Sheik Sani Yahaya Jingir, said violence never brings "any benefit to Islam."

For Jumaa al-Qurishi, a 38-year-old Iraq librarian: "This is not freedom. This is an act of aggression."

"Yes, we understand the First Amendment and all of this stuff," wrote Khalid Amayreh, a prominent Islamist commentator and blogger in Hebron on the West Bank. "But you must also understand that the Prophet (for us) is a million times more sacred than the American Constitution."

He adds: "As Americans have their own idiots and fanatics, we, too, have our idiots and fanatics. And as Americans are utterly unable ? probably unwilling as well ? to stop their idiots, we, too, are less able to rein in ours."

There's no wonder why the loudest voices still tend to rule the day, said Issandr El Amrani, a Moroccan-born journalist and visiting fellow at the European Center for Foreign Relations, a pan-European think-tank .

"The resulting cascade of outrage is now predictable," he wrote in Abu Dhabi's The National newspaper. "Islamophobes in the West will say, 'We told you they're fanatics,' and the crowd-riling demagogues here will say, 'We told you they disrespect us.' And politicians everywhere will use the language of outrage in their petty calculations."

In Gaza, 23-year-old Rawhi Alwan described a cycle of mutual blame: "Some crazy Muslims will commit devilish acts to respond to the devilish sin."

Before he left for a peaceful Friday demonstration against the film, he changed his Facebook profile picture. It became an image pledging loyalty to Prophet Muhammad.

___

Associated Press writers Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Adam Schreck in Dubai, Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan and Lara Jakes in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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This Week In The Business: 'Wii U Feedback From Retailers Is ...

What?s happened in the business of video games this past week ?

QUOTE | ?Wii U feedback from retailers is extremely strong.? ? Reggie Fils-Aime, President of Nintendo of America, talking about pricing the Wii U at $US299 and $US349, higher than some analysts expected.

QUOTE | ?It?s about gameplay, stupid.? ? Seamus Blackley, co-creator of the Xbox and founder of Innovative Leisure, talking about what makes a game great and why a small team can do things a big team can?t.

QUOTE | ?Once we get past March, I think that the price point will appear high to many.? ? Michael Pachter, Wedbush Securities analyst, commenting with other analysts about what they think of the Wii U price and launch details.

STAT | 2 million ? Number of copies of Guild Wars 2 sold in two weeks, according to NCsoft; the number of concurrent players regularly peaks at over 400,000.

QUOTE | ?This is still ultimately a business that?s about selling games. Nintendo still does that better than almost anyone else.? ? Rob Fahey, former editor of GamesIndustry.biz, talking about the lineup of games at launch for the Wii U.

QUOTE | ?The performance of the A6 looks on par with Xbox 360.? ? William Volk, CCO of PlayScreen, talking along with other developers about the new A6 CPU in Apple?s iPhone 5 and what it means to games.

QUOTE | ?This places tremendous pressure both on game makers and hardware manufacturers to raise the bar.? ? Scott Steinberg, analyst with TechSavvy Global, talking along with other analysts about the impact Apple?s iPhone 5 will have on game publishers.

QUOTE | ?This might be a case of different vibes for different tribes.? ? Meelad Sadat, PR director for [a]list games, talking about whether Nintendo holding their press event the day after Apple will reduce its media coverage.

QUOTE | ?Games were centre stage for Apple?s announcement.? ? Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, talking about why Apple?s iPhone 5 is important to game developers and gamers.

QUOTE | ?If players pay something you can provide ad-free gaming, and if they don?t pay why should you care if they stick around?? ? Michael Pachter, Wedbush Securities analyst, talking about why he thinks the free-to-play business model for games is ultimately doomed.

STAT | 172,000 ? Number of copies of Square Enix?s Sleeping Dogs that sold at retail in the US last month; the PC version was a download only, so its sales are not included in that total.

STAT | 11,074 ? Number of Guild Wars 2 accounts that have been hacked or blocked; hackers are using stolen email addresses and passwords from other sites to try and access accounts.

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West Nile cases climb 25 percent in a week

West Nile cases in the U.S. continue to climb, jumping 25 percent in a week, with 1,993 cases nationwide and 87 deaths in the country?s worst outbreak for this time of year since the virus was detected here in 1999, government health officials said Wednesday.

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Decision not to charge Ariz. sheriff isn't the end

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, talks with Media members Friday night Aug. 31, 2012 at his offices in downtown Phoenix. Federal authorities said Friday that they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him. (AP Photo/Dave Seibert, The Arizona Republic)

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, talks with Media members Friday night Aug. 31, 2012 at his offices in downtown Phoenix. Federal authorities said Friday that they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him. (AP Photo/Dave Seibert, The Arizona Republic)

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, talks with Media members Friday night Aug. 31, 2012 at his offices in downtown Phoenix. Federal authorities said Friday that they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him. (AP Photo/Dave Seibert, The Arizona Republic)

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, talks with Media members Friday night Aug. 31, 2012 at his offices in downtown Phoenix. Federal authorities said Friday that they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him. (AP Photo/Dave Seibert, The Arizona Republic)

PHOENIX (AP) ? The federal abuse-of-power investigation into America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff may have been closed without criminal charges but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's legal troubles are far from over.

A civil case brought by a small group of Latinos who accuse Arpaio's office of systematically racially profiling is awaiting a verdict from an Arizona-based federal judge.

The U.S. Department of Justice has also sued the sheriff for alleged constitutional violations including racial profiling, retaliating against Arpaio critics, punishing Latino jail inmates with limited English skills for speaking Spanish and failing to adequately investigate a large number of sex-crimes cases. No trial date in that case has been set.

The Justice Department announced late Friday that it would not pursue criminal charges against the sheriff or his office, or against former Maricopa County top prosecutor Andrew Thomas and a top Thomas aide, Lisa Aubuchon, for abuse of power.

Thomas and Aubuchon were disbarred by the state Supreme Court earlier this year after an ethics panel decided they brought criminal charges against two county officials and a judge in December 2009 with the purpose of embarrassing them. The cases were investigated by Arpaio's now-closed anti-public corruption squad.

Thomas was a longtime Arpaio ally.

Authorities were investigating Arpaio for his part in failed public corruption cases against officials who were odds with him. The sheriff brought cases against a judge and two county officials in 2009 and Thomas prosecuted them.

Federal authorities also said Friday that they have decided to not prosecute matters tied to alleged misuse of county credit cards by sheriff's officials, alleged misspending of jail-enhancement funds and other matters.

The yearslong probe by the FBI and federal prosecutors into Arpaio, Thomas and their offices began during the tenure of President George W. Bush, although Arpaio, a fellow Republican, has since called it politically motivated since.

"If I did something wrong there would be indictments floating all over the place," Arpaio said at a news conference called late Friday night. "I'm not going to get into all the details whether it's political, a witchhunt or whatever you have. The bottom line is we were cleared and we should stay with that and not get into all the politics involved."

Arpaio critics reacted with dismay to the decision not to seek criminal charges, saying they had hoped the Justice Department would finally act against what they call an out-of-control sheriff's office.

"It's an understandable reaction," said Paul Charlton, a former U.S. attorney in Arizona who has worked for one of the county supervisors who was charged. "I can see how after so many years and so much misconduct by Joe Arpaio you would have that feeling.

Charlton said prosecutors had to measure the likelihood of proving any criminal case beyond a reasonable doubt.

"You have to have a reasonable likelihood of success and I trust they made this decision based upon the facts and the law."

But the sheriff will have a different challenge in the civil cases he now faces.

"As a practical and a legal matter it means nothing," Charlton said of the decision not to pursue criminal cases. "This is a different venue and a different standard of proof. It is one that many of Joe Arpaio's critics, including myself, would have liked to have seen come out differently.

"But the end of Joe Arpaio's legal troubles is a long, long way away. He already has lost many legal fights. He has been found to have committed significant misconduct, not the least of which was the finding in the state bar proceeding regarding Andrew Thomas. And I think we will see more of those findings in the future."

Arpaio, 80, is seeking re-election to a sixth term in November. He has a multi-million dollar campaign account on hand to repel two challengers seeking his seat.

Associated Press

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Maria Sharapova Calls Of Engagement

Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova has called off her engagement to Sasha Vujacic. She revealed the news on Friday at the US Open and that isn?t even the most surprising part. Maria shared the news that she had her basketball player beau have decided to go their separate ways. Not only that but the two of them apparently called it quits back in the spring and she has just been waiting for someone to ask her what was going on. I can?t believe she was able to keep it a secret for so many months. Here is what the blonde beauty had to say about the break up, which according to the Russian beauty was not an easy decision for either one of them. ?It?s been since the end of spring. I was waiting for someone to actually ask me that question. It was a really nice period of time for both of us, but our career schedules just made it extremely difficult to see each other with the traveling. We have a tremendous amount of respect for each other. I still would love to call him a friend. We spent really great years together.? At least it seems like it [...]

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Stealth Survival: DIY Survival Gear - How to Make a Portable SODIS ...

When it comes down to your survival, sometimes you not only have to think outside the box but you may need to use the box itself. There are many critical situations you may find yourself in during a crisis or an emergency. There is one that ranks higher up the list than others. This is the need for safe drinking water. No matter where you are or what your circumstances you will always need a safe and clean source of water for drinking. Unfortunately, you may not always have the ability or means to purify a source of water for drinking. Here is a simple gear set-up that gives you an alternate means to purify your water that doesn?t involve chemicals or fire. SODIS?is the purification of water by Pasteurization using the power of the sun. There is a simple SODIS device that can be easily made, carried in your backpack, requires a minimum of space and weighs next to nothing. Here?s what you will need to make a simple SODIS device for purifying water in an emergency. First we need to think ?flat?. This usually amounts to less room and less weight when it comes to gear. The traditional SODIS method usually involves a round plastic bottle. So to save space because round takes up more room we will use a bag instead. A large bag can be folded and stored flat and will take up a lot less room. For this project and for the sake of simplicity, we will use a plastic freezer bag. This is an everyday item that everyone generally keeps handy in the kitchen. While still thinking ?flat?, the next item you will need is a dark-colored bandanna or a piece of black cloth or material. This dark cloth needs to be at least as large as the plastic bag you will be using. The third item you will need is a piece of cardboard from a box that is just slightly smaller than your bag. This will make storing the pieces of your SODIS device easier. This cardboard will be used to help us make a solar reflector. The last item you will need is a sheet of heavy duty tin foil. This needs to be large enough to cover the entire piece of cardboard. This will be our solar reflector.
To use the device simply put your filtered water in the bag (you can also use the bandanna to filter your water). Fill the bag approximately half full of water and then work to eliminate as much air as possible out of the bag. When laid flat, the bag with the water should be about the thickness of your hand. By doing this there will be better penetration of the sun?s UV rays. Make sure to lay your bag in a bright sun-lit area for at least six hours. It also helps to place your bag of water on a dark surface such as a bandanna or piece of cloth. This will aid in heating the water in your bag and help to protect it from punctures. The cardboard can be covered with tin foil and positioned to reflect additional sunlight on the bag of water to help further increase the water temperature.

SODIS Device Folded
(pocket folder shown for size comparison)

When not needed, this SODIS device can be folded and kept inside the bag. It can then be easily stored in the bottom of your pack, under the seat of your vehicle or you could even make a smaller version that could fit in your pocket. If you don?t have plenty of sunlight, it may require an additional day to treat the water. If?it looks like it might rain, you may want to keep a bucket handy to catch some rainwater.?

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You might also want to include an extra bag as a container to retrieve water in or if your original bag develops a hole. Otherwise, you're going to need some duct tape to patch the hole.

Special Notes:


1. SODIS is not as reliable as distillation, boiling or chlorination for treating drinking water. 2. Using the SODIS method is better than drinking untreated water. 3. The SODIS method can be relied on to inactivate bacteria only on sunny days. 4. The water being treated must be adequately filtered before treatment to reduce turbidity. One of the best parts of this DIY survival gear is that it can be readily made from simple household items that can be found in almost everyone?s home. Staying above the water line!

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