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Yesterday's lab installment gave us an opportunity to pit the Lumia 920 against competing smartphones in a low-light capture scenario, but Nokia's standard battery of tests is used to evaluate and improve far more than stills shooting. Several stops throughout the day brought us to a foam-filled sound chamber tasked with analyzing call quality in a variety of environments, a room with industrial freezers and ovens used to push the limits of operability, and a rig that can shoot with interchangeable sensors and apply image quality algorithms in real-time, without a handset in sight. Unfortunately, due to proprietary technologies and processes, we weren't permitted to photograph these first facilities, though we did manage to snap away at two other stations -- a platform that shifted up and down at adjustable speeds to test the Lumia 920's optical image stabilization, and a machine that drops smartphones against a block of concrete, used to simulate that all-too-frequent occurrence of handsets plunging towards pavement.

We've seen plenty examples of the 920's OIS capabilities this week, so we won't go into much more detail on that front, but specialized (and pricey) equipment enables engineers to introduce consistent processes -- this machine simulated hand shake at different speeds, and even with exaggerated movement, the benefits were clear. A separate building contained the drop test contraption, which releases devices from an adjustable height, letting them land directly on a block of polished concrete. We tested both the 808 PureView and a Samsung Galaxy S III in this manner (with roughly 100 Lumia prototypes currently available, Nokia wasn't quite willing to risk sending one to its death). Both smartphones remained in perfect working order following the drop, so it's likely that they'll be able to handle a similar fall during regular use as well (company reps offered to test our iPhone 5, but we declined handing it over). That wraps up our week at Nokia's facilities in Finland -- there will be plenty more to explore once we have a Lumia sample in hand, but you'll find the OIS test and concrete plunge videos ready right now, posted just after the break.

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Thirteen people are bunched up in the corner of Frank?s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust St., leaning in to hear each other over the background noises of music and clinking glasses. They gather around a table littered with empty beer cans, and almost everyone is thumbing through their copy of ?Winter?s Bone.?

The PBR Book Club met Tuesday night to discuss the book in preparation for Daniel Woodrell?s visit to Lawrence. Woodrell, a University alum and the author of ?Winter?s Bone,? will be at The Commons in Spooner Hall from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today. Film & media studies professor John Tibbetts will interview Woodrell about his writing process, and afterward there will be a question-and-answer session. This event is free and open to the public.

?We decided to make that event specifically about writing, so that will be an opportunity for students who are taking writing classes to come in and learn about his process and adapting books to film,? said Rachel Smalter Hall, adult programs librarian for the Lawrence Public Library.

Woodrell will also be interviewed by Brad Allen, director of the Lawrence Public Library, at Liberty Hall from 7:30 to 9 p.m. today. Raven bookstore will be on site selling copies of ?Winter?s Bone,? which attendees can get signed before or after the event.

Daniel Woodrell has written nine books, most of which are set in the Missouri Ozarks, where he was born. Woodrell dropped out of high school at 17 to join the Marines. Later, he received a BA from the University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers? Workshop.

Two of Woodrell?s books were adapted to films; the movie adaptation of ?Winter?s Bone? was released June 2010, and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

?Winter?s Bone? centers on a teenage girl living in the Ozarks who is trying to take care of her family. When she is faced with the possibility of losing the family?s home, Ree Dolly goes on a search for her absent father, who manufactures methamphetamine and put their home up as collateral for bail.

Tanya Spacek, a junior from Rockford, Ill., is a member of the PBR Book Club. On Tuesday night, she joined in conversations about the book?s genre, attitude and key themes.

?Most people who think of white trash think of Jerry Springer, People of Walmart, that kind of thing,? Spacek said. ?But he was able to capture the mentality of these characters and portray them with strength. Their ability to care for themselves is all they have at this point, and they are getting things done and surviving.?

Rachel Smalter Hall said the themes in ?Winter?s Bone? are different from other books selected for Read Across Lawrence. Smalter Hall, director of Read Across Lawrence, said books are chosen based on their Kansas tie-ins and their ability to inspire conversation about important issues of our time. She said Woodrell?s novel has more provocative themes, and the selection has gotten more people involved with the program.

Smalter Hall also said that students are more inclined to read ?Winter?s Bone? than other books selected in the past, like ?The Wizard of Oz,? ?In Cold Blood? and ?To Kill a Mockingbird.?

?A lot of times those classic books are books people read as high school students,? she said. ?For someone who is decades beyond that in their lives, it?s an opportunity to go back and reflect, but for younger readers, they just read that for an English class a handful of years ago. Having an author that isn?t as widely read in the classroom does open that up for students at KU who might be interested but don?t want to feel like they?re doing homework.?

Read Across Lawrence is a collaboration of the Lawrence Public Library, the University libraries and Friends of the Lawrence Public Library. The libraries give away 1,000 free copies of the selected book each year and hold events to launch discussion.

There will be two more events after Woodrell?s visit: an all-ages trivia of ?Winter?s Bone? Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lawrence Public Library, and a showing of the movie at Liberty Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Contact Nikki Wentling at nwentling@kansan.com.

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At a hastily called press conference outside the United Nations, a spokeswoman for? Iranian?President Mahmoud?Ahmadinejad confirmed that Ahmadinejad is an imposter. ?The man the world assumes to be Iran?s president is actually Pedro al Fayez, son of Columbian and Saudi Arabian parents, who run a prominent dry cleaning business on the south coast of England in Brighton.

Shock and relief was felt around the world as details of this international scandal became known. ?Following a diplomatic briefing late Tuesday night, Mr. Al Fayez was spotted by a former girlfriend who just happened upon the phalanx of security. ??Pedro, where the bloody hell have you been?? Where?s your measuring tape and what?s with all the security?,? his former liaison from Brighton called out.

?Mahmoud just lost it right then and there,? a United Nations executive told WWN. ?He went ashen and started to shudder and shake. ?A sort of guttural gasp was heard.? It sounded something like ?oh shit? and then Al Fayez broke into a hysterical sort of ?laugh-crying? that was halted only after a UN EMTs injection.?

Al Fayez was immediately whisked away by UN police to an unknown location for questioning. ? WWN has learned through several sources that Al Fayez has been engaged in a nearly decade long??prank? spawned by a bitter, ego fueled rivalry with?noted comedic actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, while he was attending Cambridge University. Ahmadinejad began to unravel after Cohen?s The Dictator came out.? ?He felt like Cohen got the upper hand and that made him crazy,? a source close to Ahmadinejad said.

In late 2001, Al Fayez was working as a delivery man for a local laundry with a contract to serve several of the Cambridge dorms. ? Upon entering Baron Cohen?s room, Al Fayez was barraged with racial and socio economic epithets. ?The initial exchange brewed a tempest of escalating critiques flying back and forth. ?Baron Cohen had already begun to develop a reputation in the region for manufacturing outrageous, highly offensive characters that he would insert into real life in an effort to hoodwink the audience.

Having brought each other to a high state of anger and frustration, ?Baron Cohen threw down the gauntlet by offering to trade places with Al Fayez for a full semester if Al Fayez cold fool even one half of one percent of the rubes out there. ??Game on matey-mate-chappy-blokeroo,? they were heard to chime in unison, and Al Fayez put in place his plan to trick the entirety of Iran into believing his character was legit ? a role in which he became inextricably linked for over a decade.

For indeed, Pedro had bested Borat in the century.? He became President of Iran?? and a chilling 6 months shy of nukes!?

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Seyed Ali Khamenei, reacted swiftly and immediately swore-in a new ?real? president of Iran. The ceremony took place via Skype and was witnessed by many diplomats at the United Nations. A shaken and increasingly dubious UN press corp was speculating widely ?that Skype Khamenei sure looked a lot like Ben Bernanke.?

Alternative conspiracy theories also emerged, connecting the increasing religious fundamentalism in Iran the past decade, with the prevalence of burqas and other extensive religious garb with Al Fayez?s deep roots in dry cleaning and laundry.

Sacha Baron Cohen was unavailable for comment, his press secretary citing a hastily called conclave in Russia with Putin.

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Networking kingpin Cisco announced on Wednesday that it had acquired ThinkSmart Technologies, a company that analyzes location data by using WiFi technology. ThinkSmart's tech reviews a network's infrastructure by evaluating the movement of its users, traffic patterns and hours of operation. The firm then uses these analytics to help companies optimize network and staffing configurations for business operations -- a long way of saying that it's smart enough to tell a company how to better manage information flows through a network. The terms of this deal have yet to be released, but Cisco seems to think this was a smart pick up.

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The pre-purchase building inspection is done to assure potential home buyers that they will be able to purchase a property that is free from any apparent structural damage or problem. What professional inspectors will be looking for are any major damages to the house.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran is under threat of military action from "uncivilized Zionists," a clear reference to Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, saying that such threats from big powers are designed to force nations into submission.

"Continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality," Ahmadinejad said in a 33-minute speech before the U.N. General Assembly.

Israel and the United States have refused to rule out the possibility of an armed strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West suspects are intended to produce nuclear weapons bombs but which Tehran says are for solely peaceful purposes.

Taking place on the Jewish day of atonement Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, it was the Iranian president's eighth appearance before the 193-nation assembly and his last before his second and final term ends next year.

His speech touched on issues he has raised in previous U.N. appearances, such as suggesting there should be an "independent fact-finding team" established to discover the "truth" behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and complaining about the "hegemonic policies and actions of world Zionism."

Earlier this week, Ahmadinejad said that Israel would eventually be "eliminated." That statement, which he did not repeat on Wednesday, outraged Israel and the United States.

The U.S. mission to the United Nations said its delegation did not attend the Iranian president's speech. Ahmadinejad was speaking a day after U.S. President Barack Obama told the General Assembly that Washington will do what it takes to prevent Tehran from getting nuclear arms.

Ahmadinejad also criticized the "present oppressive world order" in which "poverty is imposed on nations, and powers' ambitions and goals are pursued either through deceits or resort to force."

"The current abysmal situation of the world and the bitter incidents of history are due mainly to the wrong management of the world and the self-proclaimed centers of power who have entrusted themselves to the devil," he said.

In what appeared to be a call for a new world order based on justice and not domination by big powers, he said the world was founded on materialism and lacking in moral values.

"There is no doubt that the world is in need of a new order and a fresh way of thinking," Ahmadinejad said, adding that this should be "a just and fair order in which everybody is equal before the law and in which there is no double standard."

He said authority should be used as a sacred gift "not a chance to amass power and wealth."

(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Innovation Is A State Of Thoughts

You possibly know the myth of innovation as a sudden flash of insight that comes from nowhere. We read about that ?aha? moment, or that light bulb turning on in the Thoughts of some inventor or innovator, and this is accurate to an extent. Einstein actually did get flashes of insight even though shaving in the morning. Even so, he was of course operating on the certain troubles he had insight into, and he did not suddenly have concepts for new kitchen gadgets or film plots.

Einsteins innovations, in other words, no matter how ?sudden? the original concepts had been, came from past and present mental perform. It is like a singer who operates at his craft for ten years and then becomes an ?overnight achievement.? Innovative men and women only have ?sudden? new suggestions due to the fact they have habitually worked and thought in specific approaches for some time. If you want to become an innovative thinker, then, why not start off cultivating these mental habits?

Mental Habits Lead To Innovation

Troubles can be possibilities. ?Dilemma? may possibly have a unfavorable connotations, such as getting a hassle or stressful, but any Dilemma can lead to an innovation that improves our lives. Not figuring out the time lead to clocks smaller adequate to place on our wrists. Nasty illnesses lead to sanitary sewer systems. Start out seeking for chance in just about every Challenge. Even a mundane Difficulty like not having sufficient storage space may possibly lead to a new innovation. You may possibly just create a plywood floor in the attic, but you may possibly invent a new variety of outdoor storage unit.

Innovation begins with figuring out the essential components. Metal, wood or glass are not crucial components of a door to an innovator. A way to get in, a way to preserve other individuals out ? those are essential components. Begin with those, and soon you are imagining new approaches to make a door. You may well style a door that is opened by your voice (good when your hands are complete), or one that shuts and locks itself when anybody else ways. Think of the essential components in issues.

Attitude assists innovation. The inventive Difficulty-solving method of concept-mixture entails combining two tips to see what new concept or item outcomes. The important point is that you Think there will be a helpful new concept. Beginning with that assumption, your Thoughts will function overtime to create one thing. A shoe and a CD have absolutely nothing to do with just about every other, but it took just a minute to envision a CD player with headphones that only plays the music properly if a jogger maintains his perfect pace. When you Consider there is a thing there you will usually locate a thing.

Playfulness assists innovation. A playful Thoughts is a inventive Thoughts, and though high IQ does not correlate with creativity, place it together with playfulness, and you have an Einstein. Bear in mind, he imagined himself riding on a beam of light in order to arrive at his theory of relativity. Why not commence playing with suggestions and factors, in your Thoughts and in your surroundings. Innovation must be fun.

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News media gather outside the home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in Cerritos, Calif. Thursday , Sept. 13, 2012. Federal authorities had concluded that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was behind ?Innocence of Muslims,? a film that denigrated Islam and the prophet Muhammad and sparked protests earlier this week in Egypt, Libya and most recently in Yemen. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The California man who made "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, is a Coptic Christian. The film has sparked protests in the Middle East and is implicated in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and other Americans. Here's a look at the religion and reaction to the film:

WHO ARE COPTIC CHRISTIANS?

Coptic Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the largest Christian church in Egypt. The church was founded by Saint Mark, who authored one of the gospels. The church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Coptic Christians comprise about 9 percent of Egypt's population. Many Egyptian Christians fled to the U.S. to escape what they say is religious discrimination in the majority Muslim nation. Coptic churches dot the American landscape, with large communities in California, New Jersey, the Midwest and Florida.

WHAT'S THEIR REACTION TO THE FILM?

His Grace Bishop Serapion of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii, said Thursday he doesn't support the views portrayed in the movie and he also condemned the murders of the U.S. ambassador and three others.

Serapion said in a statement that the diocese "strongly rejects dragging the respectable Copts of the Diaspora in the latest production of an inflammatory movie about the prophet of Islam. The producers of this movie should be responsible for their actions. The name of our blessed parishioners should not be associated with the efforts of individuals who have ulterior motives."

Serapion added: "Holistically blaming the Copts for the production of this movie is equivalent to holistically blaming Muslims for the actions of a few fanatics. Even though Christians often face persecution, injustice and calls for open attacks over the airwaves, we reject violence in all its forms."

The Rev. Joseph Boules, a priest at St. Mary and St. Verena Church in Anaheim, Calif., said no one in the Coptic Orthodox community knows the filmmaker and the church had nothing to do with the movie. The filmmaker could be an Egyptian Catholic or Eyptian evangelical, he said, noting that the word "Coptic" is often used in to denote Egyptian Christians from any Christian denomination.

Parishioners are worried about their security and at least one church in the nearby city of Orange on Wednesday received a visit from police officers, who advised them to keep their church locked in case of retaliation, Boules said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Labour unrest sweeping across South Africa's mining sector hit top world platinum producer Anglo American Platinum on Wednesday, with striking miners blockading roads leading to shafts belonging to the mining giant, police said.

The platinum price jumped as much as 1.5 percent to $1,624.74 an ounce, its highest since mid-April amid fears of more disruption to supplies of the precious metal used in jewelery and vehicle catalytic converters.

South Africa is home to 80 percent of known reserves. The platinum price has jumped more than 17 percent since police shot dead 34 protesters at the Marikana mine of world No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin on August 16, the bloodiest security incident since the end of apartheid in 1994.

The "Marikana massacre" has poisoned industrial relations across the mining sector and become a potent symbol of the ruling African National Congress' (ANC) failure to deliver on promises of a "better life for all" in the post-apartheid era.

The bloodshed and the government's inability to ease unrest undermining already shaky growth in Africa's biggest economy is also fuelling a campaign against President Jacob Zuma, who faces an internal ANC leadership battle in December.

"Around 1,000 mineworkers had a confrontation with mine security last night at the Siphumelele shaft and the situation has spread to other mine shafts this morning," regional police spokesman Thulani Ngubane said of the trouble at Amplats.

He declined to give any details of the size of the security operation, the latest police deployment in more than five weeks of union violence in the "platinum belt" around Rustenburg, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.

Amplats' four Rustenburg mines represent almost 17 percent of total production by the company, which accounts for 40 percent of world platinum output. They employ more than 19,000 people.

"WIDESPREAD INTIMIDATION"

The strikes, which stem from a challenge by the small but militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to the dominance of the ANC-affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), are also spreading into the gold sector.

The NUM said workers at the Beatrix mine, run by world No. 4 producer Gold Fields were set to strike this week, compounding wildcat industrial action this week by 15,000 workers at the company's KDC West west of Johannesburg.

ANC renegade Julius Malema - the de facto face of the unofficial 'Anybody But Zuma' rebellion in the ANC - is also fanning the flames, appearing twice at KDC to speak to striking workers. He called on Tuesday for a national mining strike.

Ministers and NUM leaders have dismissed him as an irresponsible opportunist but the expelled Youth League leader is achieving rock star status among the legions of poor whose lives have changed little in the 18 years since apartheid ended.

Amplats said miners at its Rustenburg operations were "not on strike", but said it was aware of "widespread cases of intimidation".

"We confirm that yesterday, some of our employees were unable to clock in for night shift due to fear of intimidation and threats by unidentified individuals in and around our Rustenburg operations," it said in a statement.

Siphumelele is one of four mines near Rustenburg that analysts expect to be targeted as "restructuring candidates" by Amplats parent company Anglo American.

Shares in Amplats, which has largely avoided the labour unrest this year that has hit rivals Impala Platinum and Lonmin, fell 3.75 percent. Anglo American, which owns 80 percent of Amplats, shed 3 percent.

(Reporting by Ed Cropley and Ed Stoddard; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)

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Chris Stevens speaks to local media in Benghazi, Libya. (Ben Curtis/AP file)
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Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed along with three others in a rocket attack outside the American Consulate in Benghazi was "a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States," President Barack Obama said in his initial statement Wednesday condemning the attack.

Initial reports said the slain embassy staffers?who also include foreign service information management officer Sean Smith?were trying to flee the consulate building when they were fired upon by protesters apparently angry over a film they say insults Prophet Muhammad.

However, U.S. officials told The New York Times and CNN on Wednesday that the attack may have been planned by a group that "had either been waiting for an opportunity to exploit like the protests over the video or perhaps even generated the protests as a cover for their attack."

[Also read: President Obama's statement on attack in Benghazi]

According to the Associated Press, a Libyan doctor who treated Stevens said the diplomat died of severe asphyxiation from smoke inhalation and that he tried for 90 minutes to revive him.

Stevens, 52, was the first U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, when Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was gunned down in a kidnapping attempt.

"Throughout the Libyan revolution, [Stevens] selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi," Obama said. "As ambassador in Tripoli, he has supported Libya's transition to democracy. His legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice. I am profoundly grateful for his service to my administration, and deeply saddened by this loss."

Stevens, a California native and U.C.-Berkeley grad, was a 21-year veteran of foreign service, the White House said.

"I had the privilege of swearing in Chris for his post in Libya only a few months ago," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a separate statement. "He spoke eloquently about his passion for service, for diplomacy and for the Libyan people. This assignment was only the latest in his more than two decades of dedication to advancing closer ties with the people of the Middle East and North Africa.

[Related: 'Innocence of Muslims': The film that sparked deadly U.S. Embassy attacks]

"As the conflict in Libya unfolded, Chris was one of the first Americans on the ground in Benghazi," Clinton continued. "He risked his own life to lend the Libyan people a helping hand to build the foundation for a new, free nation. He spent every day since helping to finish the work that he started. Chris was committed to advancing America's values and interests, even when that meant putting himself in danger."

In response to the attack, the United States is "deploying elite Marine counterterrorism teams to Libya," Foreign Policy reports. The Pentagon is sending Fleet Anti-Terrorism Teams, or FAST teams, a U.S. defense official told the magazine.

"It's especially tragic because Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city he fought to save," Obama said later Wednesday morning in hastily arranged public remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Speaking at an impromptu press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday, Mitt Romney condemned Tuesday's attacks as "disgusting" and "outrageous," but he also attacked the Obama administration for standing by a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that he claimed was an "apology" for American values.

[Related: Romney attacks Obama for sending 'mixed signals' on Middle East violence]

Late Tuesday, Romney issued a statement saying it was "disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." On Wednesday, he stood by his criticism of the White House.

Here's Stevens' bio from the U.S. Embassy website:

Ambassador Chris Stevens considers himself fortunate to participate in this incredible period of change and hope for Libya. As the President's representative, his job is to develop a strong, mutually beneficial relationship between the United States and Libya. Ambassador Stevens was the American representative to the Transitional National Council in Benghazi during the revolution.

When he's not meeting with government officials or foreign diplomats, you can find Ambassador Stevens meeting with Libyan academics, business people, and civil society activists, exploring Libya's rich archaeological sites, and enjoying Libya's varied cuisine.

After several diplomatic assignments in the Middle East and North Africa, Ambassador Stevens understands and speaks Arabic and French. He likes the Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli and hopes you will, too.

"I had the honor to serve as the U.S. envoy to the Libyan opposition during the revolution," Stevens said in May in a video introducing himself to the Libyan people as the new U.S. ambassador there. "And I was thrilled to watch the Libyan people stand up and demand their rights.

[Slideshow: Gunmen storm U.S. consulate in Libya]

"Growing up in California I didn't know much about the Arab world," Stevens continued. "I traveled to North Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, worked as an English teacher in a town in the high Atlas mountains in Morocco for two years and quickly grew to love this part of the world.

"We know Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict," he added. "There are many courageous Libyans who wear the scars of that battle."

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Oil traded above $97 a barrel Thursday after attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya sparked new worries about unrest in the Middle East.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude was up 25 cents at $97.26 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 16 cents Wednesday to end at $97.01 per barrel in New York.

In London, Brent crude was down 8 cents at $115.25 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died after an attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi on Tuesday. The attack in Libya came hours after a mob stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down the U.S. flag. On Thursday, protesters stormed the American embassy in Yemen.

Analysts said the while impact of the attacks on oil prices had been subdued thus far, risks were on the rise.

"The fact that all of this is occurring without a price impact on oil shows that a geopolitical premium is already priced in," said Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland. "We need however to keep in mind that due to the sanctions on Iran there is absolutely no room for another disruption in any oil producing country."

Oil analyst Stephen Schork said in an email commentary that he expects "the fundamental picture to be overtaken by the powder keg that was ignited yesterday in Libya ... we will be keeping a close eye on tension in the region."

Traders were also awaiting the end of a two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting at which central bankers were widely expected to announce new steps to help the flagging U.S. economy.

Should the Fed fail to announce the awaited measures, "we may see crude prices unwind some of their recent gains as the dollar corrects higher," said a report from Sucden Financial Research in London. A stronger dollar makes crude more expensive and a less attractive investment for traders using other currencies. Early Thursday, the euro was up to $1.2911 from $1.2900 late Wednesday in New York.

In other trading on the Nymex, heating oil fell 0.65 cents to $3.2217 per gallon. Wholesale gasoline dropped 0.76 cent to $2.994 per gallon. Natural gas lost 2 cents to $3.043 per 1,000 cubic feet.

___

Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

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Our ongoing series heads to Mexico for a look at credit card use and credit card statistics in the United States' neighbor to the south.

Credit card circulation booming
According to Mexico's central bank, there were about 22 million credit cards in circulation in Mexico as of mid-2007. That's more than triple the number from 2002.

The big players
Banamex is Mexico's largest credit card issuer at US$10 billion in purchase volume, followed by BBVA Bancomer (US$6.8 billion) and Banco Santander (US$4.2 billion). BBVA Bancomer (US$5.2 billion) and Banamex (US$4 billion) rule the debit card market (Nilson Report, April 2008).

Debt, delinquencies soaring
The Bank of Mexico said total consumer debt hit a record $39.1 billion in June 2007, double the total from two years before. Delinquencies hit 18.8 billion pesos in June 2008, up 28 percent from March, according to the country's central bank.

Interest rates hit ridiculous levels
The Bank of Mexico listed the average annual interest rate on Mexican credit cards in June 2007 as 31.72 percent.

Skimming -- a major problem
This form of credit card crime is reportedly a major issue in Mexico -- even at fine restaurants. It is enough of a concern for the U.S. State Department to address it on its Web site regarding travel in Mexico and advise tourists to "exercise caution."

Scope of fraud problem unclear
Recent numbers weren't readily available, and earlier data is inconsistent, but fraud is clearly a problem in Mexico. Some estimates say fraud losses hit a record $62 million in 2003, while others say it hit $85 million way back in 2001. Still, the consensus is that the problem's growing and will continue to do so as Mexico's card penetration grows.

Official tourism site
- VisitMexico.com

Financial news sites
- El Financiero
- El Economista
- Business News Americas

Indonesian personal financial blog
- Mexico Insight

President:Felipe Calder?n

Location: North America, bordered on the north by the United States and on the west by the Pacific Ocean (map)

Population: 109 million (July 2008)

Area: 761,606 sq mi or 1.97 million sq km (roughly 3 times the size of Texas)

GDP: $1.346 trillion (2007 estimate)

Currency: Indonesian rupiah (IDR)

Key exports: manufactured goods, oil, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton

Famous Mexicans: Former president Benito Pablo Ju?rez Garc?a, actress Salma Hayek, artist Frida Kahlo and musician Carlos Santana

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention

Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Read the rest of Slate?s coverage of the Democratic National Convention.

The conventions these past two weeks?and particularly the final speeches Thursday night?have cemented the fact that the Democratic party is now the party of national-security policy; not just a wise or thoughtful foreign and military policy, but any kind of thinking whatsoever about matters beyond the water?s edge.

For anyone who?s followed American politics the past 40 years, since the election between George McGovern and Richard Nixon, this is a staggering shift.

It was the Democrats who talked Thursday night of their president?s ?backbone? and ?courage,? of the clear message he sent?as Vice President Joe Biden put it when talking about the raid on Osama bin Laden?s compound?that ?if you attack innocent Americans, we will follow you to the ends of the world.? By contrast, Biden recalled, Republican challenger Mitt Romney once said that it wasn?t worth ?moving heaven and earth, and spending billions of dollars, just to catch one person.?

More extraordinary still, it was the Democrats who saluted, mourned, and celebrated the ?fallen angels? and ?wounded warriors? of the U.S. military. Romney observed no such ritual, leaving Sen. John Kerry to note, in his speech Thursday night, never before had a wartime nominee for president, of either party, ?failed to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech.?

Not even the Republican convention?s foreign-policy surrogate, Condoleezza Rice, said much about the veterans?or anything at all about the Iraq or Afghanistan war, even though she had been George W. Bush?s most trusted foreign policy adviser for all eight years of his presidency and had thus played a big role in starting those wars.

The clearest sign of the change in party dynamics was this: The Democrats feel so assured in their new role as guardians of national defense that they also talked openly about seeking peace, negotiating arms-reduction treaties with the Russians (which Romney opposes on the flimsiest of grounds), withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, and shifting money that was once spent on fighting wars to revitalizing our own cities?as Obama put it, ?to do some nation-building right here at home.?

Contrast this with the 2004 Democratic Convention, where Sen. Kerry, as the nominee, felt so desperate to prove his bona fides as a tough warrior?despite his very real record as a decorated Swift Boat officer in the Vietnam War?that he did not even mention (he felt it would be imprudent) his outspoken protest of the war as leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned from fighting.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 7:00 pm

Farmington Library, 6 Monteith Dr, Farmington, CT | Get?Directions??
FREE

Director?s College Event: Baseball and the College Classroom

On Wednesday, September 26, Dr. Steven Wisensale, Professor of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, will speak at the Farmington Libraries on how he uses the game of baseball as the primary teaching tool in his new and popular course, ?Baseball and Society, Politics, Economics, Race, and Gender.?

Baseball serves as a mirror of American culture over time, reflecting the nation?s strengths and weaknesses, its accomplishments and failures.? Or, in the words of Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell, ?Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and a bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It is a sport, a business and sometimes a religion.?? In this lecture, Professor Wisensale will share how he uses the game of baseball to teach his students wide-ranging and challenging lessons on the sport?s history, cultural implications, and influence in areas ranging from race relations to public finance.

?Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.? This quote from Jacques Barzun hits at the heart of this fall season, where America?s attention will be fixed on the annual baseball play-offs as well as the emotionally-charged national Presidential election. This timely discussion is free and open to the public.?

More information on Steven Wisensale can be obtained at his website: http://www.familystudies.uconn.edu/contact/faculty/storrs_faculty_wisensale.html.

Advance registration is required for this program. Please call 860-673-6791 for details or register through the library?s web site at http://www.farmingtonlibraries.org. The event will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room of the main library at 6 Monteith Drive.

The Farmington Library is part of the Farmington Village Green and Library Association.? If you have special needs to attend library programs, contact the library in advance.

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Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the US Senate from Massachusetts, got the Democratic convention crowd excited Wednesday. But fact checkers found some points to dispute.?

By Peter Grier,?Staff writer / September 6, 2012

Elizabeth Warren, US Senate candidate from Massachusetts, waves to delegates after her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday.

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Elizabeth Warren gave a stirring populist speech to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. Currently much pundit discussion is focused on Bill Clinton?s defense of President Obama, and rightly so, but Ms. Warren ? the warmup act ? got some of the biggest cheers of the evening by attacking Wall Street and positioning herself as a champion of a beleaguered middle class.

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Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

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