Purchase your tickets TODAY to the big UCF vs. NC State football game this Saturday night, Sept. 11 at Bright House Networks Stadium and get a chance to meet American Idol finalist Michael Lynche during his pre-game autograph session prior to singing the national anthem.
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Football. American Idol Star and Former Knight Michael Lynche Returns To Sing National Anthem
People’s emotional well-being increases along with their income up to about $75,000 but then levels out after their primary needs are met, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Money can buy happiness, but only up to $75,000
Remember back when Google’s Buzz social networking app shared user’s private information without their consent? Heck, do you remember Buzz at all? Suffice it to say that some unhappy folks sued, and it looks like they’re about to accept a hefty settlement in place of their day in court. Though no money’s exchanged hands quite yet and a judge has yet to approve, Google’s agreed to drop $8.5 million and “disseminate wider public education about the privacy aspects of Google Buzz” as part of a class-action settlement, according to court documents. While there’s certainly a chunk of dough potentially being doled out here, we have to imagine individual Gmail users won’t be seeing much — most will go to “organizations focused on Internet privacy policy or privacy education” — which makes us wonder if $8.5 million isn’t a small price to pay to get Buzz back into the national news feeds. In related (or possibly completely coincidental) news, Google took the opportunity today to revamp its master Privacy Policy. Read all about it at our more coverage link, if you’re into that kind of stuff . Google agrees to pay $8.5 million to make Buzz privacy lawsuits go away originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
AP – A five-day search for the missing son of top boxing promoter Bob Arum ended when a helicopter located John Arum’s body on a rugged Washington state mountain in North Cascades National Park, authorities say.
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Body of boxing promoter’s son found on Wash. peak
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The National Weather Service is predicting Hurricane Earl will close in on Long island Friday. The storm is expected to make initial landfall at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina; Outer Banks residents were evacuated on Wednesday morning.
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BREAKING NEWS: Shelter Island on alert as Earl makes his way north
AP – Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.
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Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict
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The ancient scourge smallpox was relegated to biowaste bin of history more than 30 years ago, the result of the world’s first and only successful disease eradication programs. Since then, however, cases of monkeypox–a serious, although less severe smallpoxlike illness–have substantially increased in central Africa, according to a study published August 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors stress that better surveillance and a thorough assessment of the public health threat posed by this once-rare viral infection are needed. “I’m concerned about monkeypox,” says Don Burke director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh, who wasn’t involved in the study. “It isn’t going to emerge as pandemic tomorrow, but could at any time start to increase its transmission. It’s worrisome. This is the type of warning siren we need to take very seriously.” [More] Africa – University of Pittsburgh – Smallpox – Central Africa – Public health
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Pox Swap: 30 Years After the End of Smallpox, Monkeypox Cases Are on the Rise
AP – A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants. For a little under $6 a ticket, donors get the chance to win the pricey operation free of charge.
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Venezuela pol raffles breast implants for campaign
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AP – The prison escape spurred a three-week manhunt stretching from Arizona to Montana to Arkansas. But it ended not far from where it began.
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3 weeks on run, fugitives arrested without fight
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AP – An Iraq war veteran who police say shot and killed his pregnant wife and young daughter before turning the gun on himself left behind no clues to explain what might have prompted the bloodshed, investigators say.
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Police look for why vet killed family, self
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AP – April Oles-Magdzas was due to give birth to her second daughter Wednesday, a little more than a year after she and her Iraq War veteran husband became new parents.
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Iraq War vet kills pregnant wife, daughter, self
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AP – Republican candidates around the country seized on President Barack Obama’s support for the right of Muslims to build a mosque near ground zero, assailing him as an elitist who is insensitive to the families of the Sept. 11 victims.
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GOP calls Obama insensitive over stand on mosque
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The feature film Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle), directed by Florin Serban, is Romanias proposal for the 2010 Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category, representatives of the National Cinematography Centre (CNC) announced.
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AP – A pilot flying in the area of this week’s Alaska plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others has estimated that clouds were as low as 600 feet at the time of the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board’s chairwoman said Saturday.
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Pilot near Alaska crash site says clouds were low
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AP – Myanmar’s ruling junta said the country’s first election in two decades will be held Nov. 7, finally announcing a date Friday for long-awaited polls that critics have dismissed as a sham designed to cement military rule.
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Myanmar junta sets election date of Nov. 7
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In case anyone questioned the permanence of Fidel Castro’s recent return to the national stage, this should answer doubts: The former Cuban leader has called the National Assembly into special session Saturday.
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Fidel Castro calls assembly session
Over 45 million Americans experience chronic, recurring headaches, according to the National Headache Foundation, and 29.5 million suffer from migraines. If you’re one of them, you may be tempted to pop a pill for quick relief. But if you have a sneaking suspicion that over-the-counter remedies address the symptoms, not the underlying cause, of your …
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Reuters – U.S. Representative Charles Rangel is near a deal on ethics charges that would let him avoid a trial that fellow Democrats fear could hurt them in the November election, an aide for the New York lawmaker said on Thursday.
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Rep. Rangel nears deal on ethics charges, aide says
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AP – Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
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Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war
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The Pakistani government has extended by three years the tenure of the national army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who has overseen anti-terrorism efforts against the Taliban.
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Pakistan extends tenure of army chief