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     Those born on September 14^th are very much concerned with the society in which they live. Both defenders and critics of their county and their times, they may feel it necessary to become involved not only intellectually but also actively in important projects which, as they see it, can better the human condition. Their role is to open people’s eyes to the truth and in this respect to serve them.

     The visually oriented individuals born on this day are able to describe what they see in easily understood terms. When evaluating the work of others, their basic premise is that the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Thus they are not shy about making concrete suggestions as to how certain aspects may be better. At times, however, they can be somewhat closed to viewpoints at odds with their own.

     September 14^th people seem to have opinions on most every subject. Usually, however, in a serious discussion, they are wise enough to restrict their comments to what they know best, in particular their area of expertise. They thus despise superficial types who pretend to know much more than they actually do, and toward such people those born on this day can be quite hostile.

     Those born on the 14rh day of the month are ruled by the number 5 (1+4=5. September 14^th people must be aware especially of being too intellectually demanding and expecting others to be as quick as they are in changing topics and directions. Whatever hard knocks or pitfalls those ruled by the number 5 encounter in life, they usually recover quickly.

Advice: Sometimes keep your opinions to yourself they are not always appreciated. Learn to work behind the senses. Beware of arousing resentment when you push others let things happen in their own good time. No one has a monopoly on intelligence.

Strengths: Observant, effective and efficient

Weaknesses: Critical, difficult and impatient

Born on This Day: Margaret Sanger, Larry Brown, Clayton Moore and Allan Bloom

Famous Inventions: 1993 The Simpsons television show was registered by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

This Day in History Sep 14, 1901: McKinley dies of infection from gunshot wounds                                                                              On this day in 1901; U.S. President William McKinley dies after being shot by a deranged anarchist during the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Jerry Brown apologizes for jab at Bill Clinton's character

The Democrat makes an oblique reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal as he tries to dismiss a new ad by Meg Whitman showing candidate Clinton accusing Brown of raising taxes while governor.

Seema Mehta

Los Angeles Times

September 14, 2010

Jerry Brown has spent much of his race for governor assaulting the character of his Republican rival, Meg Whitman. But with a jaw-dropping bit of rhetoric, he has extended his criticism to a former Democratic president, Bill Clinton. And he has done so in the least delicate of ways, by referring to Clinton's dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

"Meg Whitman. She stops at nothing. She's even got Clinton lying about me. That's right. No, did you see that? Where he said I raised taxes. It's a lie," the Democratic nominee said Sunday, referring to a television ad the GOP candidate is airing that contains video of Clinton criticizing Brown during the 1992 presidential primaries.

"I mean Clinton's a nice guy, but who ever said he always told the truth?" Brown told a crowd at the opening of a Democratic Party office in East Los Angeles. "You remember, right? There's that whole story there about did he or didn't he. OK, I did — I did not have taxes with this state."

The last line was an oblique play on Clinton's defense against the brewing sex scandal in early 1998. At the time, Clinton asserted, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." It was later proven that he did, and he subsequently faced impeachment proceedings.

Brown's comments were captured Sunday at an unannounced visit to the Democratic Party office. Video of his comments surfaced on a political news website on Monday. Several hours later, Brown called a news conference and apologized.

"Bill Clinton was an excellent president," Brown said in Oakland. "It was certainly wrong for me to joke about an incident from many, many years ago, and I'm sorry for that."

Brown apologized to a senior Clinton aide but has not spoken directly with the former president and demurred when asked if he expected Clinton to endorse him. Attempts to reach a Clinton spokesperson were unsuccessful.

Brown and Clinton have a tense history because of the 1992 presidential primaries, during which they tangled as they vied for the nomination. Their contest was at times ugly and personal: Brown called Clinton the "prince of sleaze," and they got into a finger-pointing dispute in a debate when Brown accused Clinton of funneling state money to Hillary Clinton's law practice, and Clinton mocked Brown's expensive suits and family wealth.

After Clinton racked up enough delegates to win the nomination, Brown declined to endorse him at the party's convention. The antipathy continued through Clinton's presidency, with Brown saying in 1998 that Clinton's policy failings were "overwhelming," and that Brown voted for Ralph Nader in 1996.

Last year, Clinton was seen as extending the enmity when he endorsed Gavin Newsom in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Newsom quickly dropped out because he couldn't raise enough money to compete against Brown.

Clinton became an issue in the gubernatorial contest last week, when Whitman began airing a 30-second ad that featured the footage of Clinton trying to refute Brown's claim that he lowered taxes as governor of California from 1975-83.

" CNN — not me, CNN — says his assertion about his tax record was, quote, just plain wrong," Clinton says in the ad. "He raised taxes as governor of California.... He doesn't tell the people the truth."

As The Times reported Friday, the CNN report was inaccurate. The Brown campaign has called on Whitman to take down the ad; the Whitman campaign has refused.

Democrats were dismayed but unsurprised by Brown's gaffe. The candidate is known for his free-wheeling, anti-talking-point nature, and earlier in the campaign he faced criticism for comparing Whitman's campaign to that of a Nazi propagandist.

"It represents everything that insiders simultaneously love and fear about Brown's campaign instincts. He's clever and witty but not always strategic," said Dan Newman, a Democratic operative.

Garry South, who worked on Newsom's gubernatorial bid and is a harsh Brown critic, said the remarks reflected a "self-indulgent death wish," given Clinton's continued popularity in California.

"He needed Bill Clinton to step up and undermine the validity of this ad," South said. "Instead of that, he trashes the guy. Unbelievable."

Even as Brown apologized, he tried to steer the discussion back to questions about Whitman's honesty.

"As a billionaire, she thinks she can make things up and lie in a political campaign," Brown said. "You know, I've made my mistakes, and the inappropriate joke about President Clinton is one of them. But from me you'll always get it straight. I'll tell you the truth."

Garage Sale Burglaries

Staff Writer 8:32 PM CDT, September 13, 2010

FAST FACTS:

• Two garage sales burglarized Saturday
• Police arrested the same woman for both crimes
• Suspect accused of stealing jewelry and clothes

(Olive Branch, MS) -- An Olive Branch woman was arrested Saturday after police say she burglarized two garage sales. Police say 63-year-old Mary Jane Hall admitted stealing the items, but when WREG News Channel 3 spoke with her Monday, she denied the thefts.

The first burglary happened at a garage sale in the 6000 Block of Chickasaw Street. The victim told police a woman stole jewelry from the garage sale, then left in a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu.
Police say they located Hall in the car, where they discovered the stolen items.

While officers were booking Hall, the Olive Branch Police Department received another call about a garage sale burglary. Police say the second theft happened in the 6700 Block of Indigo Lake Drive. Police say Hall also had the stolen items from that garage sale.

Neighbors we spoke to about the burglaries were surprised someone would target garage sales. Erica Larson held a garage sale the day before the thefts. She said she would go inside from time to time, leaving the items alone in the garage. "I never thought someone would steal something from there," Larson said.

Another neighbor, Willie Hall, told us he's planning a garage sale. He said he never thought he'd have to consider a loss prevention plan. "I'm going to be thinking about it now," he said.

Drew/APFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich is considering a run for president in 2012.

Barack Obama won the Presidency with 53% of the vote in 2008, but Newt Gingrich thinks his victory was just a "wonderful con."

"This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president," Gingrich said in an interview with the National Review Online.

"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich said. "He was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve...He was authentically dishonest."

Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, is openly considering a bid for the White House in 2012.

Since his contentious time as Speaker, during which he famously positioned himself as Bill Clinton's chief political opponent, Gingrich has kept himself in the public eye by weighing in as a political analyst.

He has been a fierce critic of the Obama administration, calling him "the most radical President in American history."

"I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality," Gingrich told the National Review. "If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane."

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich said. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."

Gingrich's comments were made in response to a Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza, called "How Obama Thinks."

D'Souza, the President of King's College New York and a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, says Obama is "trapped in his fathers' time machine."

"Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s," D'Souza wrote, in an essay drawn from his forthcoming book "The Roots of Obama's Rage." "This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son."

Gingrich also touted his "Kenyan worldview" hypothesis on Fox News Sunday, saying "The thing that the president doesn't understand and the thing that Keynesian economics get wrong is real simple. Do you want people to have enough money to invest to create jobs? If they have a surplus of income so they can create jobs, that's somehow bad and the president wants to take away the income. That means he's leaving them with no money to create jobs."

Gingrich, who has visited Iowa four times this year, says he could announce his campaign for President "by March or April."

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   Those born on September 13^th bring their full powers to bear on the job at hand.   Blessed with a remarkable level of concentration and resilient determination, they may face great obstacles to their success, but not for a moment will the outcome be in doubt for them. Indeed some born on this day seem to believe that they have a magical ability to surmount any difficulty. Yet they are not particularly superstitious or disposed physical explanations for what they do. Theirs is a straight ahead, no nonsense approach. The more exceptional of September 13^th people can, however, handle such difficult, complex and manifold tasks, that others marvel at how they are able to accomplish what they do.

   Often September 13^th people strongly support certain ideas and causes, but later realize they have been a bit off track. Because of their sincerity and dedication, however, they gain the respect of others, even those who vehemently oppose them and feel that what they are doing is harmful. At a certain point in their lives those born on this day may change direction dramatically, at one stroke setting out toward new horizons. Once on this path, however, they will continue on it until the bitter or happy end. No one can dissuade them once they have made their mind up about something, although for the time being they may mark time for the sake of diplomacy, not wanting to cause undue upset.

   Those born on the13th of the month are ruled by the number 4(1+3=4). Although the number 13 is considered unlucky by many people it is, rather, a powerful number which does carry the responsibility of using its power wisely or run the risk of self destruction.

Advice: Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Do not neglect your spiritual self or allow your emotional side to be suppressed. Fight your tendency to choose a difficult path. Expect a degree of compromise, but not where ultimate goals are concerned.

Strengths: Intense, devoted and persevering

Weaknesses:  Off track, hardened and unaware.

Born on This Day: Walter Reed, Mel Torme, Jacqueline Bisset and Sherwood Anderson.

Famous Inventions: 1870 Patent #107,304 was granted to Daniel C. Stillson for the improved monkey wrench.

This Day in History: Sep 13, 1814: Key pens Star-Spangled Banner

On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." The poem, originally titled "The Defence of Fort McHenry," was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the sight of a lone U.S. flag still flying over Fort McHenry at daybreak, as reflected in the now-famous words of the "Star-Spangled Banner": "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."

 

 9/10/2010 1:24:56 PM ET

The 54-year-old of African origin, who authorities did not identify, was arrested in his two-room flat in Paris during a police raid which yielded documents showing more than 50 people were registered as living at that address.

Police suspect the man was involved in a social benefits scam which could have been costing the state over 1 million euros ($1.27 million) annually in claims by the mothers.

"At the moment 42 women have been identified and each claim that the man is the biological father of their child," Paris police said in a statement.

Authorities said the man claimed he met the women at bars, night spots and occasionally during visits to their home countries, including Senegal, Cameroon and Mali.

For a fee of 150 to 200 euros, he registered the children and their mothers with French authorities, enabling them to obtain residency permits and claim social benefits.

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Some of the mothers told authorities they had received up to about 7,500 euros on various monthly allowances.

"Investigations are on-going and an investigating magistrate will decide whether DNA tests have to be administered to determine the children's paternity," a police spokesman said.

Teen Banned From US For Barracking Obama

11:50am UK

Monday September 13, 2010

Damien Pearse

Sky News Online

A British teenager has been banned from America for life for sending Barack Obama an abusive email.

Luke Angel insulted Barack Obama after watching a programme on September 11

Luke Angel was reprimanded by police on both sides of the Atlantic after firing off a drunken message to the White House calling the president a "p****".

The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK who went to see the 17-year-old at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

Luke, a college student, is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the States. 

We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and went to see him. He said, 'Oh dear, it was me'.

Bedfordshire Police spokeswoman

The teenager told the Bedfordshire On Sunday newspaper that he had sent the email after watching a TV programme about September 11.

When asked about the ban, Luke said: "I don't really care. My parents aren't very happy about it.

"The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever." 

The FBI were furious at the email and contacted police in the UK 

A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: "The individual sent an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language.

"We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and went to see him. He said, 'Oh dear, it was me'."

Officers will take no criminal action.

Joanne Ferreira, of the US Department of Homeland Security, said there are about 60 reasons a person can be barred.

She added: "We are prohibited from discussing specific cases."

'Oprah' celebrates Oprah on last season premiere

Steve Johnson

Tribune reporter

9:52 a.m. CDT, September 13, 2010

Beginning the final season of her daytime talk show Monday, Oprah Winfrey came out not swinging, but dancing.

She and actor John Travolta, voted the show's all-time favorite guest after 11 appearances, did a modest pas-de-deux to the tune "Love Train," kicking off a show that Winfrey, in a pre-show teaser, promised would bring "two of the most heart-pounding, head-spinning surprises of all time."

Two of those shockers included news that she'll fly the 300-person studio audience to Australia, for an eight-day December trip that will coincide with Winfrey taping at least two episodes there, and Paul Simon playing an updated version of a song he wrote for Winfrey 15 years ago, for her 10th-anniversary show.

Not a surprise: Oprah tears.
 
Her season-premiere audience was as packed with partisans as one of President George Bush's town-hall meetings: Only "ultimate" Oprah fans were invited, and they yelled, cheered, even shed a few tears of their own to see their heroine beginning the season-long process of saying farewell. Her show airs at 9 a.m. in Chicago, where Winfrey's national career began, giving local fans an earlier look than the rest of the country gets.

Another surprise came when six fans from the Boston area, sent on a road trip to the taping by Winfrey's staff, were tricked into driving right onto the stage, into the middle of the show in progress. And actor Don Johnson did a walk-on, a reference to Winfrey's inability to land the then-"Miami Vice" star as a guest on her first show. Times have changed.

Right away Monday, a retrospective of Travolta's appearances during Winfrey's 24 previous seasons made it clear what kind of year this will be: gushy, sentimental, celebratory of Winfrey's place in her fans' lives and in the culture.

"Oprah, there's only one of you, and there'll never be another one," Travolta told the Chicago-based talk-show host, who will move on next year to host a new, less frequent, evening show on her own cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network.

A rabid fan from Alberta, Canada -- who estimated she has watched 5,500 hours of "Oprah" through the years -- was shown on tape calling Travolta's 50th-birthday toast to Winfrey her favorite on-show moment.

That not exactly understated toast? "You represent the best of our country, and what's possible in our country," Travolta said, "but more importantly you are a citizen of the world, and you are a hero to mankind."

Travolta became a hero to the audience later on, when he stepped out of a mock Qantas Airlines jet in pilot's uniform. The actor is, in fact, a Qantas pilot, and he beamed as Winfrey told her audience about their trip. Confetti, tears and hugs intermingled in the studio, even more when Winfrey, in her role as bestower of gifts, also told the crowd they were each getting a new Motorola Defy mobile phone.

To close the show, Winfrey listened, rapt, eyes moist, as her staff apparently surprised her with the Simon appearance and song.

"Twenty-five years have come and gone," he sang, "and the story's still unfolding."

The plans, producers have said, are for the season to just keep getting bigger. Fasten your seatbelts, viewers

September 12, 2010

In Ad Wars, Democrats Shy From Ties to Own Party

JEFF ZELENY

Sunday, 09.12.10

MIAMI HERALD STAFF

Fee schemes on cell phone bills increase

Carriers urging customers to monitor monthly

Lucy Soto
AJC

Read your phone bill.

Cramming, an old ploy that can net scammers millions of dollars, appears to be making a comeback as more consumers use their wireless phones for services ranging from news and weather reports to daily jokes and psychic connections.

Crammers hide unauthorized charges, often too small to attract notice, in the baffling list of numbers on phone bills.

Consumers’ Union, a nonprofit advocacy group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine, says the practice is evolving from its beginnings a decade ago as a scam adding bogus 800- and 900-number charges to land lines.

“As you see more consumers making the shift from land lines to mobile phones, you see the complaints shift as well,” CU spokesman David Butler said.

“The bills tend to be very complicated,” Butler said. “And we’re living in a world where most people get the information online as well and so it’s even more important for people to read their bills and go through them very carefully.”

The Federal Trade Commission recently called cramming “a significant area of increasing consumer complaint.”

According to an October FTC report, more than 3,000 people complained about cramming in the previous year for land line, mobile wireless and Voice over Internet Protocol [VoIP] telephone services.

So far this year, consumer questions about cramming to the Federal Communications Commission are outpacing last year’s number. In the first three months of 2010, the FCC, which regulates telephone companies, received 2,142 inquiries about cramming. That’s compared with 6,714 in all of 2009.

Telephone companies bill customers for services offered by outside parties, such as souped-up voice mail or music downloads. Those charges often are handled by third-party firms – aggregators — who process billing for companies that provide the add-on services. Major phone carriers, such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T, contract with those companies.

So, as both land lines and cell phone bills have become more complicated, crammers have fertile ground to slide in small charges in the hope consumers won’t catch on.

Earlier this month, a Florida man was sentenced to 21 months in prison for running a cramming scam from a jail cell. His third-party companies charged $35 million in collect calls that typically appeared on the last pages of consumers bills and escaped notice, federal prosecutors said.

In March, the FTC halted a cramming scheme that took in $19 million over five years in charges from $12.95 to $39.95 a month.

The FTC says Inc21 and its companies hired offshore telemarketers to call prospects and offer “free” trials for services such as website hosting, directory listings, search-engine advertising, and Internet-based faxing, without explaining they had to take steps to avoid charges.

Consumers also can unwittingly give permission to charge for unwanted services when they fill out sweepstakes entry forms or use a toll-free service like a date line or psychic line.

Such charges can be difficult to pin down, appearing just once or as a monthly subscription charge, with innocuous descriptions like “service fee,” “calling plan” or “minimum monthly usage fee”.

With so many separate companies involved in billing, consumers can have difficulty getting someone to take responsibility for unauthorized charges.

When the Georgia Public Service Commission receives cramming complaints, it first sends them to the telephone company, said Consumer Affairs Director Mike Nantz. Usually, he said, that fixes the problem.

Last year, the Georgia Legislature adopted a bill requiring carriers to provide a way for consumers to block third party charges from their bills.

In addition, wireless carriers ask vendors to abide by the Mobile Marketing Association’s standards, said Amy Storey, a spokeswoman for CTIA-The Wireless Association, a nonprofit industry group.

The MMA’s guidelines say third-party vendor companies always should ask consumers twice before they can begin charging for any add-on service. Consumers also should be given a simple way to stop the service, such as sending or texting a “stop message,” Storey said.

Enforcement of those standards is left to individual carriers.

“Carrier members are constantly monitoring, ensuring our vendors are acting responsibly,” Storey said.

Verizon Wireless is working to educate the public about their telephone bills, spokeswoman Sheryl Sellaway wrote in an e-mail. Now that consumers can sign up for weather alerts, music subscriptions and other “premium” services through cell phones and websites, Sellaway said, it’s much easier to get confused.

“Frankly, the diverse wireless market place, which now consists of children, teens, young adults and others, has led to a heightened conversation about premium messaging and how to best manage and understand cost of premium services,” she wrote. “That’s why education has been the key for us. And, beyond premium messaging, we provide services to help customers manage content, block numbers, activate time restrictions, usage allowances, overage alerts and more.”

She suggests Verizon customers go to the safeguards section of their “My Verizon” page for information.

The best defense, said Shawn Conroy of the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, is vigilance.

“We encourage consumers to do three things,” Conroy said. “Read your bill read your bill, read your bill. Look at it thoroughly. If you have a land line and a cell phone, sometimes it can be a few pages, but take the time to look for it.”

How to dodge cramming

Examine your telephone bills closely. Make sure you got the service you pay for, even for small charges. Crammers often try to go undetected by submitting $2 or $3 charges to thousands of consumers. Check past bills for unnoticed fees.

Be wary of contests, clubs and “free” calls. Read the fine print because crammers sometimes use entry forms as “permission” to enroll you in a service you only discover you signed up for when you get the bill. And calling to claim your “free” prize might entail calling a 900 number that costs you.

Block your account. Ask your phone company to put a cramming block on your account to stop third-party charges. Make sure you check on any costs involved.

Call the company that charged you for calls or services you didn’t make or authorize. Ask for a detailed explanation and request an adjustment to your bill.

Call your telephone company. The Federal Communications Commission requires companies to place toll-free numbers on their bills for customers with billing inquiries. Ask about their procedure for removing incorrect charges.

Where to get information

Visit these links for further information and suggestions:

/cell_phones/ild.html

Georgia law allowing consumers to block third-party billing: bit.ly/a8smgQ

Florida attorney general settlement with Verizon and Alltel over ring tone cramming: bit.ly/aRp3ca

Federal Communication Commission advice: www.fcc.gov/cib/consumerfacts/cramming.html

Federal Trade Commission tips: bit.ly/dmSdZ5

Verizon’s information on cramming and bill blocking: bit.ly/btvvmA

Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs tip sheet: bit.ly/b9LYG8

Consumers’ complaint site that features cell phone cramming: www.consumeraffairs.com?/cell_phones/ild.html

FTC actions related to cramming, including cracking one scam that raked in $19 million in five years:

www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/inc21.shtm

www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/03/phone.shtm

www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/800connect.shtm

Sample phone bills, for land lines and wireless, with charges explained:

www.fcc.gov/cgb/phonebills/samplePhonebill.html

www.fcc.gov/cgb/phonebills/WirelessPhonebill.html

Filing a complaint

For non-telephone services, for example “content” services such as web hosting, online games or psychic hot lines, call the Federal Trade Commission 1-877-382-4357 , or use their complaint form: www.ftc?complaintassistant.gov

For telephone charges related to service between states or internationally, contact the Federal Communications Commission, 1-888-225-5322, or e-mail: fccinfo@fcc.gov. Or use their online complaint form: esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm