Thursday, October 28, 2010

Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout (AP)

Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout (AP)

Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, U.S. investigators with the president's oil spill commission said Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president's oil spill commission said Thursday.

Indonesia tsunami kills 370, toll expected to rise (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

Mourners weep during the funeral of Maridjan,the spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi, during his funeral in Glagaharjo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. For 33 years, Maridjan spoke to Mount Merapi, appeasing its unpredictable spirits by throwing offerings of rice, clothes and chickens into the volcano's gaping crater. As Merapi began spewing 1,800 degree Fahrenheit (1,000 Celsius) gases and thousands of villagers streamed down the mountain's slopes, Maridjan refused to budge. His rigid body was found Wednesday, prostrate on the ground in the typical Islamic prayer position and caked in heavy white soot. (AP Photo/Gembong Nusantara)AP - Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 370 Thursday as more corpses were wrapped in body bags or buried by neighbors. Officials said hundreds of missing people may have been swept out to sea.

Polls gone wild: Political gripes in Internet age (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich talks to supporters at a rally at the Strongsville Community Center, in Strongsville, Ohio. When a widely publicized poll showed Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio's governor's race, Gov. Ted Strickland's aides fought back hard. — Against the poll. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP - When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio's governor's race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. Against the poll.

Notre Dame AD heard wind gust before student fell (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

Notre Dame personnel examine a location where a tower used to video Notre Dame football practice blew over on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in South Bend, Ind. School spokesman John Heisler confirmed a person was on the structure, but their condition was not immediately disclosed. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)AP - A strong gust of wind swept across Notre Dame's practice football field before a tower toppled, killing a student who had been videotaping the team from the tower, the university's athletic director said Thursday.

AP ENTERPRISE: Interest groups target state races (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2010 file photo, Wisconsin Senate candidates, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., left, and his Republican challenger Ron Johnson, right, take part in debate in Milwaukee. Interest groups have spent at least $150 million since just Labor Day to influence voters in close congressional races nationwide, and U.S. House and Senate candidates aren't the only ones targeted in these TV and radio ads. Outside money is pouring at similar rates into state elections for governors and down the ticket to city councils and even local sewage boards. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)AP - House and Senate candidates aren't the only ones targeted by interest groups in this year's campaign. While they have spent at least $185 million just since Labor Day to influence voters in close congressional races, outside money is pouring at similar rates into state elections for governors and down the ticket to city councils and even local sewage boards.

Pa. pair: Baby taken after bagel altered drug test (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

AP - A Pennsylvania couple claims in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that their newborn was taken by county officials when a drug test the mother took came out positive because she had eaten a poppy seed bagel.

Russia's Kamchatka volcanoes spew giant ash clouds (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka Peninsula eastern Russia is this image taken from TV Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. Volcanic eruptions on Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have tossed massive ash clouds into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing a town with ashes. (AP Photo/RTR, via APTN) ** RUSSIA OUT TV OUT **AP - Two volcanoes erupted Thursday on Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, tossing massive ash clouds miles (kilometers) into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing one town with thick, heavy ash.

Actor who played Danno on 'Hawaii Five-0' dies (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2003 file photo, actor James MacArthur holds a photo from the late 1940s, of himself as a child with his mother, actress Helen Hayes and Bob Hope, as he arrives for 'The Bob Hope Memorial Tribute' show at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences headquarter in Los Angeles. MacArthur, who played 'Dano' in the original version of television's 'Hawaii Five-0' and was the son of actress Helen Hayes and playwright Charles MacArthur, died on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. He was 72. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)AP - Stage and screen actor James MacArthur, who played "Danno" in the original version of television's "Hawaii Five-0," died Thursday at age 72. MacArthur's agent, Richard Lewis, said the actor died in Florida of "natural causes," but no direct cause was specified.

Woman, 88, says she hit 'vital spot' on intruder (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:09 PM PDT

AP - A feisty 88-year-old Kentucky woman said she must have had perfect aim when she fought off an intruder by kicking him. Kathryn Byassee said she came upon the intruder, who was wearing a pumpkin mask, at 5 a.m. Tuesday in her kitchen. Byassee told WPSD-TV that she asked him who he was and what he wanted and he never answered her, instead wrestling her into her bedroom and trying to smother her with a pillow.

AP source: Girardi, Yanks agree to outline of deal (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT

New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi answers questions during a news conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. A six-game loss to Texas in the AL championship series was mostly a wipeout, and New York heads into the offseason with gaps in its starting rotation, holes in its bullpen and an offense that never did recover from the loss of Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Joe Girardi and the New York Yankees have agreed on the outline of a $9 million, three-year contract for the manager, according to a baseball official familiar with the negotiations. Although the agreement is not complete, the sides "are dotting the 'i's and crossing the t's,' the person said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.

BP and Halliburton ignored Macondo cement flaws: panel (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:12 PM PDT

Reuters - BP Plc and Halliburton Co, the contractor who cemented the blown-out Macondo well, ignored cement design flaws weeks before the disaster that sparked the worst U.S. offshore oil spill, a White House panel said on Thursday.

Indonesia disaster toll hits 377 as volcano erupts again (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:07 AM PDT

Mount Merapi is seen emitting smoke from Sidorejo village, in Klaten, Central Java October 28, 2010, two days after its eruption. REUTERS/Andry PrasetyoReuters - Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted on Thursday for the second time in a week, blasting vast plumes of ash into the sky, as the death toll from the initial eruption and a tsunami that hit remote western islands reached 377.

Jobless claims fall to three-month low (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:29 AM PDT

A Reuters - New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week to a three-month low but the underlying trend still points to labor market stagnation.

Man arrested in DC plot trained for Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:34 AM PDT

Reuters - A Pakistani-born man, who believed he was part of an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Washington subway system, was also training to fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to an FBI affidavit released on Thursday.

Special report: Tech money flows to Whitman, bypasses Fiorina (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:09 AM PDT

Republican California governor candidate Meg Whitman makes a point during her appearance at the Women's Conference 2010 in Long Beach, California, October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniReuters - The Valentine's Ball thrown by venture capitalist Alan Salzman and his wife Jillian Manus every year is one of Silicon Valley's hottest tickets. People are still talking about the Bailey's Irish Cream flowing from the nipples of ice sculptures at the soiree last year.

Argentina enters new political era as Kirchner dies (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Then Argentine first lady and presidential candidate senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (R) embraces then President Nestor Kirchner during the closing campaign rally in La Matanza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires October 25, 2007. REUTERS/Marcos BrindicciReuters - Tens of thousands of Argentines paid tribute on Thursday to former President Nestor Kirchner, whose death rallied markets but robbed his wife and successor President Cristina Fernandez of her closest adviser.

U.S.: North Korean leadership transition in early stages (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:36 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C), his son Kim Jong-un (2nd L), secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and members of the Party Central Military Commission visit the cemetery for Chinese soldiers who died during the 1950-53 Korean War to lay wreaths before the grave of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, to mark the 60th anniversary of the entry of Chinese troops into the war, in Hoechang County in this October 26, 2010 picture released by North Korea's KCNA news agency on October 27, 2010. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - The White House said on Thursday that North Korea's leadership transition appeared to be in the early stages and it would take some time to discern the final outcome.

U.S. announces $2.4 billion for high-speed rail (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:48 AM PDT

Reuters - The federal government will send $2.4 billion to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states, the Transportation Department said on Thursday, following up on announcements made by members of Congress and governors earlier in the week.

Indonesia tsunami death toll likely to pass 500 (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT

A villager searches for missing relatives around collapsed houses at Beleraksok village in the Mentawai islands, West Sumatra. The death toll from a tsunami that pummelled remote Indonesian islands is expected to pass 500, an official said Thursday as questions mounted over whether a warning system had failed.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - The death toll from a tsunami that pummelled remote Indonesian islands is expected to pass 500, an official said Thursday as questions mounted over whether a warning system had failed.

EU moves towards compromise on treaty change (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:51 PM PDT

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a family photo of a European Union summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. European leaders Thursday agreed the biggest reforms since the creation of the euro while reaching out for a compromise on a German demand for treaty change that aims to avoid new Greek-style crises.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)AFP - European leaders Thursday agreed the biggest reforms since the creation of the euro while reaching out for a compromise on a German demand for treaty change that aims to avoid new Greek-style crises.
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