'Lorax' film wins Environmental Media award

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) ? The feature film "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," documentary "Chasing Ice" and HBO comedy "Veep" are among the winners of this year's Environmental Media Association Awards.

The organization presented its 22nd annual honors for programs that raise awareness about environmental issues Saturday at a private ceremony on a sound stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif.

Malin Akerman, who hosted the event, performed with her band and announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Roberto Zincone.

Other winners announced Saturday include the Disney Channel show "Handy Manny" and the National Geographic Channel's reality show, "Superfish: Bluefin Tuna." Jessica Alba and Ian Somerhalder were also recognized for their environmental contributions.

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If I had a million dollars, I?d pack a bag and head off to the airport to acquire a ticket to the most remote island off the coast of Greece. I?d ask the travel agent which islands were undergoing civil war, or had State Department advisories. Whichever place she?d mention in hushed tones would be my destination.

I?d take up fishing in a fishing village, gain the natives? trust, drink Ouzo in the scorching summer heat, stalk octopi in the dark sapphire seas, and give charitably to anyone in need,. At night I?d involve myself in whatever conceivable intrigue the Mediterranean offered. I?d want to live dangerously.

When I was sure that the minerals of the jagged coast had penetrated my bloodstream ? I would buy a farm on the rockiest, most ungovernable soil. Then i would stock the farmhouse with books on Greek philosophy and poetry and spend my nights basking in the afterglow of a campfire surrounded by the dying scents of roasted goat and feta cheese ? singing Ionian hymns to pagan gods.

I would guide my sheep across the rugged country, muttering commands in Greek, aided by an old sheepdog. I would find startling mountains to rest by. I would also farm olives, haggle with the village women, and hunt wild boar with the men. At night, when I was alone and all the animals were asleep, I?d sit under the dazzling stars and break out a book on ancient Greek geometry, put a good tape in the stereo next to me, and read. I would marry a young village woman to share this stark and simple beauty. Once my money was exhausted, I would remain a shepherd-farmer-philosopher on my remote island forever.

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US says may squash tomato trade deal with Mexico

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Commerce Department on Thursday indicated it may side with Florida tomato growers and squash a 16-year-old trade agreement with Mexico.

The move would allow U.S. growers to seek anti-dumping duties on imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico. Tomato growers in Florida have sought to have the agreement ended, arguing that it is outdated and that Mexican imports are crippling the domestic industry.

Mexico's government says such a move would damage its trade relations with the United States, its partner in the North American Free Trade Agreement. It said the country's trade in tomatoes with the United States was worth over $1.8 billion in 2011.

The Commerce Department said it will make a final determination on the future of the tomato agreement in no later than 270 days.

Mexican tomato growers had sought a meeting last month to find a "mutually satisfactory" solution to the tomato issue, the country's Economy Department said Thursday.

"The Economy Department expresses its deep concern over the negative impact this preliminary decision could have on our bilateral trade relationship."

It noted that ending the agreement would lead to higher prices for U.S. consumers.

The decision is "inconsistent with the position expressed in the past, that the agreement is in the (U.S.) public interest."

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For Veterans, a Surge of New Treatments for Trauma - NYTimes.com

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Suicide is now the leading cause of death in the army. More soldiers die by suicide than in combat or vehicle accidents, and rates are rising: July, with 38 suicides among active duty and reserve soldiers, was the worst month since the Army began counting. General Lloyd Austin III, the army?s second in command, called suicide ?the worst enemy I have faced in my 37 years in the army.? This Thursday, the Army is calling a ?Suicide Stand-Down.? All units will devote the day to suicide prevention.

There are many reasons a soldier will take his own life, but one major factor is post-traumatic stress.

Anyone who undergoes trauma can experience post-traumatic stress disorder ? victims of rape and other crimes, family violence, a car accident. It is epidemic, however, among soldiers, especially those who see combat. People with PTSD re-experience their trauma over and over, with nightmares or flashbacks. They are hyperaroused: the slam of a car door at home can suddenly send their minds back to Iraq. And they limit their lives by avoiding things that can bring on the anxiety ? driving, for instance, or being in a crowd.

PTSD has affected soldiers since war began, but the Vietnam War was the first in which the American military started to see it as a brain injury rather than a sign of cowardice or shirking. A study of Vietnam vets 20 years after the conflict found that a quarter of vets who served in Vietnam still had full or partial PTSD.

America?s current wars may create even more suffering for those who fought them. In the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts soldiers have been returned to these wars again and again, and they face a deadly new weapon ? improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.?s ? which cause brain injuries that, terrible in themselves, also seem to intensify PTSD. ?We surmise PTSD will be worse,? said Dr. James Kelly, the director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, which studies and treats the intersection of PTSD and traumatic brain injury. ?Some people are on their 10th deployment. Previously, people didn?t have those doses. And there are multiple blast exposures and other blunt blows to the head. This kind of thing is new to us.?

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When we think about treating PTSD, we usually picture a single patient and a psychotherapist. The two treatments in widest use are, in fact, just that: cognitive processing therapy, where patients learn to think about their experiences in a different way, and prolonged exposure, in which the therapist guides the patient through re-experiencing his trauma again and again, to teach the brain to process it differently.

These therapies help a lot of veterans ? about 40 percent of those who go through treatment are cured. But there are many, many more suffering veterans who are not helped. It?s not just that these treatments don?t work for everyone ? no therapy does. More important, they are not broad enough. PTSD is often accompanied by and entwined with other serious problems ? depression, sleep disorders, chronic pain and substance abuse. Sometimes these resolve if the PTSD does, but often they require specific attention ? which the standard PTSD therapies don?t provide.

There is another way these treatments need broadening ? they need to reach more people. The military and Veterans Affairs hospitals do not have enough psychotherapists to offer them on the necessary scale. And many soldiers are wary of psychotherapy and afraid of the stigma it carries.

Today, the military is fighting that stigma. The V.A. is trying to integrate mental health care into primary health care; soldiers are now routinely screened for issues like PTSD, depression or substance abuse. An ad campaign called AboutFace features dozens of vets talking about their PTSD and how they got better ? the point is: they are people just like you. A new program called Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness builds in resilience training for all soldiers at every phase ? pre-deployment, in theater, upon return. It seeks to make regular mental health exercises as routine for soldiers as physical training.

According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences? Institute of Medicine, since 2005, the Pentagon and the V.A. have greatly increased funding for PTSD research. The V.A. has added 7,500 full-time mental health staff members and trained 6,600 clinicians to do cognitive processing and prolonged exposure therapies. Starting in 2008, all large V.A. clinics were required to have mental health providers onsite. The V.A. also added more centers that offer free, confidential counseling. Mobile centers bring counselors (themselves combat vets) to rural areas where other counseling is scarce.

All this effort however, is falling short. Only about 10 percent of those getting mental health care in the V.A. system are veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan ? a vast majority of those treated are still Vietnam veterans. But some 2.4 million soldiers have been through Iraq and Afghanistan. The RAND Corporation?s Center for Military Health Policy Research did a telephone survey of vets from these conflicts and found that one-third were currently affected by PTSD or depression or report exposure to a traumatic brain injury ? and about 5 percent had all three. RAND also found that only half of those who reported symptoms of major depression or PTSD had sought any treatment in the past year.

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Individual therapy is not the only way to treat PTSD. In January, a young man with the nickname of Trin (he asked that his real name not be published) sat down in a small, drab, room at a Veterans Affairs clinic in New Orleans with nine other men. All were veterans ? of Iraq, Afghanistan, Operation Desert Storm or Vietnam; Trin had served in Iraq. All had PTSD. The men took chairs facing each other around tables pushed into a square, along with two women, who were running the group.

The facilitators asked everyone to do three drawings: of how they felt, where they were and where they wanted to be. Trin drew himself with no facial features. The next week, the facilitators put on some music and everyone stood up, faced a wall, and bounced to it. At other sessions they took large sheets of paper and colored in their family trees, with different colors for divorces, early deaths, conflicted relationships. And at almost every meeting over 10 weeks, they practiced conscious breathing and mindfulness.

?When they asked us to draw and color, people were rolling their eyes,? Trin said. ?We had older gentlemen, and some people might have thought this is kind of soft ? not my lane.?

Trin was anxious, cold and short-tempered. He was drinking a lot. Before starting this group, Trin had tried individual therapy, with no success. ?My psychiatrist would ask a question and I would answer it,? he said. ?It was like talking to a wall. He didn?t understand what I had gone through.? He gave Trin a prescription for an anti-anxiety drug, which helped a little.

When Trin heard about the group, he quickly volunteered. By session five ? the midpoint ? he was sure it was helping. His sleep improved. The breathing exercises were things he could use to calm down. And having the group itself helped ? men who had been through what he had gone through. On the last day, the group passed around stones ? one for each participant. When your stone was passed around, each group member had to say something nice about you. ?We put all that energy and kindness into each stone,? said Trin. He carries his in his pocket.

Trin?s program is a 10-week course designed by the Washington-based Center for Mind-Body Medicine. It is one of perhaps half a dozen different kinds of alternative therapies being tried for PTSD in military and V.A. hospitals.

You name it, and it?s being used somewhere in the veterans? health system: The National Intrepid Center in Washington is one of many places using acupuncture to treat stress-related anxiety and sleep disorders; it has been shown to be effective against PTSD. At the New Orleans V.A., the same clinicians who ran Trin?s group also did a small study using yoga. They found vets liked it and attendance was excellent. The yoga reduced the veterans? hyperarousal and helped them sleep. There is even a group in the Puget Sound V.A. Hospital in Seattle that treats PTSD ? including among Navy Seals ? using the Buddhist practice of ?loving kindness meditation.? (?We had a little bit of debate about changing the name,? said Dr. David Kearney, who led the group. ?But we decided to keep it, and it worked out just fine.?)

One of the most promising techniques is mindfulness, inspired by Buddhist teaching, which emphasizes awareness of the present moment in order to choose how to respond to thoughts, feelings and events. Dr. Amishi Jha at the University of Miami is working with the military to develop mindfulness-based training for soldiers before they deploy, and Dr. Kearney has done a very small study of the effect of mindfulness on PTSD.

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine?s program ? the one Trin did ? is the most comprehensive of all of them, giving participants a variety of different strategies to choose from: breathing, meditation, guided visual imagery, bio-feedback, self-awareness, dance, self-expression, drawing. And it is the one with the strongest evidence that it works to cure PTSD. In a trial in a Kosovo high school, students with PTSD who did the 10-week program had significantly greater reductions in PTSD than a control group of students assigned to wait for the course. Other before-and-after studies (with no control group) in Gaza have found an 80 to 90 percent reduction in PTSD with the technique, and those results still held months later. This is significantly better than any currently used individual therapy.

The Mind-Body program is in use at various V.A. hospitals, military bases, and at the National Intrepid Center. In some places it is studied, as well. At the Minneapolis V.A. Health Care System, for example, Beret Skroch and Margaret Gavian found that in a Mind-Body group of patients with numerous problems, about 80 percent showed improvement.

Trin?s group in New Orleans is part of the first randomized controlled trial measuring the program?s effect on PTSD among U.S. veterans. Researchers are still measuring whether the results lasted two months after the last session, but James Gordon, the founder of the Center, said that the patients? improvement at the last session was ?at least as good? as the individual therapies the V.A. uses, with significantly lower dropout rates.

If those results hold up, then mind-body medicine is a potentially valuable addition to the V.A.?s limited menu of widely used therapies. It is built for large scale, with no psychotherapists needed. The vast majority of groups are run by lay people who went through a ten-day training; in Kosovo, high school teachers ran the groups. In Gaza, Center staff have trained 420 group leaders and worked with 50,000 people. Gordon said the Center is currently capable of giving 10-day training and support for 1500 group leaders a year.

Another advantage is that the program is broad-spectrum, showing success not only with PTSD, but depression, pain, sleep disorders and substance abuse. Dr. Barbara Marin, chief of addiction treatment services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, uses it there for patients with substance abuse problems. She calls it a ?very effective? model.

Mind-body medicine and the other alternative therapies, moreover, may be more attractive to soldiers than the individual treatments, which have a 20 percent dropout rate. Both C.P.T. and prolonged exposure ask the patient to relive his trauma ? an upsetting prospect for many soldiers. Some veterans avoid psychotherapy because they do not want to be singled out, judged and labeled deficient.

The alternative medicine groups, by contrast, have a dropout rate of virtually zero. Members can talk about their past trauma if they wish, but there is no pressure to do so. Instead, the groups are centered on the present, helping members to learn practical skills they can employ immediately. The facilitator does not sit in judgment ? she?s a participant in the group, sharing skills she might use herself for better sleep or stress reduction. Everyone, after all, can use help dealing with the stress of re-entry to civilian life. Going to a skills group instead of psychotherapy could remove much of the stigma of treatment.

Despite the vast increase in research money, studies of these skills groups have been small and isolated. Only randomized controlled trials are persuasive enough to get Washington to adopt a therapy on a wider scale, but these are too few and too slow, and starting new ones now would take years. It is time to take the most promising ideas and try them with thousands of people, not just a few dozen ? and if they work, to expand them further. That is not cautious. But to continue with therapy as usual is to condemn hundreds of thousands of soldiers to a tour of duty without end.

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Tina Rosenberg won a Pulitzer Prize for her book ?The Haunted Land: Facing Europe?s Ghosts After Communism.? She is a former editorial writer for The Times and the author of, most recently, ?Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World? and the World War II spy story e-book ?D Is for Deception.?

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France bans protests over Prophet Mohammad cartoons

PARIS (Reuters) - France banned protests on Friday against cartoons published by a satirical weekly denigrating Islam's Prophet Mohammad as part of a security clamp-down while prayers took place across the Muslim world.

The country's Muslim population, drawn largely from ex-colonies in North and West Africa, shrugged off the controversy as imams in mosques denounced the pictures but urged their followers to remain calm.

The drawings have stoked a furor over an anti-Islam film made in California that has provoked sometimes violent protests in several Muslim countries, including attacks on U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. envoy to Libya and a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls said prefects had orders to prohibit any protest and to crack down if the ban was challenged.

"There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up," he told a news conference in the southern port city of Marseille.

The main body representing Muslims in France appealed for calm as the weekly Charlie Hebdo put a new print run of the cartoons featuring a naked Mohammad on the news stands.

Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Muslim Council, described both the film and the cartoons as "acts of aggression" but urged French Muslims not to protest in the streets.

"I repeat the council's call not to protest. Any protest could be hijacked and counterproductive," he told radio RFI.

An estimated 8,000 Muslims gathered peacefully for Friday prayers at a temporary prayer hall in northern Paris set up in a former fire department depot. So many turned out that hundreds had to pray in the rain in the adjacent parking lot.

"This demonstrates that the vast majority of the Muslim community is not made up of extremists," said Abderahmane Dahmane, spokesman for the local association that runs the prayer hall, one of the largest in the Paris region.

"The majority will not play the game of the hotheads."

At prayers in the northeast Paris suburb of La Courneuve, delivery driver Hakim Ardjou, 42, also rejected violence.

"We just want our message to be heard: this sort of insult is a disgrace, but we will keep calm."

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French embassies, schools and cultural centers in some 20 Muslim countries were closed on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, in a precaution ordered by the French government.

French media showed footage of an embassy protected by soldiers and barbed wire in former French colony Tunisia, where the Islamist-led government has also banned protests over the cartoons. About 100 Iranians protested outside the French embassy in Tehran on Thursday.

Police were on alert in the French capital after protests planned by some Muslim groups were banned.

Charlie Hebdo, an anti-establishment weekly whose Paris offices are under police protection, defied critics to rush out another run of the publication that sold out on Wednesday.

It says the cartoons are designed simply to poke fun at the uproar over the film and on Friday hit back at critics accusing it of deliberately stirring controversy to sell newspapers.

"If Charlie Hebdo wanted to make a quick buck, it would not produce Charlie Hebdo," it said on its Twitter feed.

The publication has a print run of around 70,000 but its Mohammad cartoons have made front-page news in a country which has both the largest Muslim and Jewish populations in Europe - an estimated five million Muslims and 600,000 Jews.

President Francois Hollande's government has sought to balance a cherished tradition of freedom of expression with security concerns, denouncing Charlie Hebdo as irresponsible.

"When you are free, in a country like ours, you always have to measure the impact of your words," French European Affairs Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

A survey by TNS Sofres for i-Tele news channel showed 58 percent thought freedom of expression was a fundamental right, and that "freedom to caricature" was part of that.

Yet an even higher 71 percent of the roughly 1,000 people interviewed on Thursday approved of the ban on protests against the cartoons. France has a proud tradition of street protest.

(Additional reporting and writing by Mark John; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway elections

MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia explained its decision to end the U.S. Agency for International Development's two decades of work in Russia by saying Wednesday that the agency was using its money to influence elections ? a claim the U.S. denied.

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that Russia has demanded USAID leave the country, a culmination of years of resentment over what Moscow sees as American interference aimed at undermining President Vladimir Putin's hold on power.

"We are talking about attempts through the issuing of grants to affect the course of political processes, including elections on various levels, and institutions of civil society," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.

Nearly 60 percent of the aid agency's $50 million annual budget this year has been allocated for the promotion of democracy and civil society in Russia. Some of this money has gone to support Russia's only independent election monitoring group, Golos, which fielded thousands of observers in last winter's elections and compiled reports of widespread vote fraud in support of Putin's party.

Putin had accused Western governments of trying to influence the December parliamentary vote through their grant recipients, and a state-owned television channel directly denounced Golos, showing suitcases full of dollars that the group supposedly had received. After those elections set off an unprecedented wave of protests, Putin accused the demonstrators of being in the pay of Washington.

The U.S. State Department denied that it was trying to affect the outcome of elections.

"We completely reject the notion that our support for civil society, democracy, human rights in any way interferes with elections, whether in Russia or anywhere else in the world," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington. "We do these programs all over the world. We are even-handed as to access to the resources for political parties."

Grigory Melkonyants, the deputy director of Golos, said the expulsion of USAID was a logical extension of a Kremlin crackdown on dissent since Putin returned to the presidency in May.

"All of this is part of a series of moves aimed at toughening policy toward protests, the Internet, NGOs and freedom of speech," he said. "The people who make these decisions intend to crack down on dissent and criticism in a way that is as harsh as possible. It is frightening even to think about what may happen tomorrow."

Among the new laws passed this summer is one that requires non-governmental organizations that receive foreign funding and engage in vaguely defined political activity to register as "foreign agents," which is intended to destroy their credibility among Russians.

But few sources of funding are available within Russia for organizations whose work, even if not directly political, can be seen as providing a check on the government. The Moscow office of Transparency International and two of Russia's oldest and most respected human rights organizations, Memorial and the Moscow Helsinki Group, are among those that have come to depend on foreign money. It is unclear how these groups will survive.

Arseny Roginsky, who heads Memorial, said his group will revert to its Soviet practice of relying on volunteers.

More than a third of USAID funding, however, has gone toward programs in health and the environment, which generally had been welcomed by the Russian government.

The Foreign Ministry has imposed an Oct. 1 deadline for the aid agency to end its activities in Russia, but U.S. officials say they will wind down programs in an orderly fashion. They also have made clear they are scrambling to find new ways of getting money to the Russian organizations that have received USAID funds, potentially setting up a further showdown with the Kremlin.

"With regard to our support for civil society, for democracy, for human rights, for rule of law, we will continue to work with those Russians in civil society who want to work with us," Nuland said. "We do that in many parts of the world where we don't have AID missions. And we are looking now at precisely how we'll work this through, but we are committed to stay on the side of those who want to see a more democratic, more just Russia."

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Matthew Lee in Washington contributed reporting.

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New Maps app is rare Apple flub

The new Apple Maps application is demonstrated in New York on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Apple released an update to its iPhone and iPad operating system on Wednesday that replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

The new Apple Maps application is demonstrated in New York on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Apple released an update to its iPhone and iPad operating system on Wednesday that replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

This screenshot made on an iPad shows the new Apple Maps app released Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The app replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. (AP Photo)

This screenshot made on an iPad shows the new Apple Maps application released Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The app replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. (AP Photo)

This screenshot made on an iPad shows the new Apple Maps application released Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The app replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) ? With a touch of geek whimsy, Google Maps warns anyone who seeks walking directions to Mordor ?the land of evil in "The Lord of the Rings"? to use caution. "One does not simply walk into Mordor," it says. Apple is finding this week that creating an alternative to Google Maps isn't a simple walk, either.

Apple released an update to its iPhone and iPad operating system on Wednesday that replaces Google Maps with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple.

"It's a complete failure," said Jeffrey Jorgensen. "It's slower, its directions are poorer and its location data doesn't seem to be accurate. All around, it's not quite there yet."

Jorgensen, a user interface designer for a San Francisco-based startup, began using Apple Maps months ago, because Apple made it available early to people in its software development program. He said he finds himself relying on Google Maps running on his wife's Android phone instead.

The most-hyped feature of the new app is a "Flyby" mode that shows three-dimensional renderings of buildings and other features. It presents a convincing depiction of the canyons of Manhattan, but has a hard time rendering bridges and highway overpasses, which tend to look wobbly or partly collapsed.

The Apple app also has a tendency to judge landscape features by their names. For instance, it marks the hulking Madison Square Garden arena in New York as green park space because of the word "Garden" in its name. The TD Garden football stadium in Boston gets the same treatment.

Conversely, Apple Maps marks "Airfield Gardens," a farm and plant nursery in Dublin, Ireland, as an airfield. This prompted the country's Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, to warn pilots on Thursday not to land there.

"Clearly the designation is not only wrong but is dangerously misleading in that it could result in a pilot, unfamiliar with the area, in an emergency situation and without other available information, attempting a landing," he said.

Marcus Thielking, the co-founder of mapping-app developer Skobbler, said the lapses of the Apple app are surprising, particularly since Apple purchases map data from an established provider, Tele Atlas.

"The combination of Apple and TomTom screwing up something like this is very odd. Apple is not the first and only company using Tele Atlas maps," Thielking said.

Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom, a Dutch maker of navigation devices.

"We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and we are just getting started," said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller. The app will work better the more people use it, she said, alluding to fact that users can report errors and omissions from within the app.

Google has been in the mapping game for much longer, giving it the benefit of years of error reports to help shape its maps.

There's been a Google Maps app on the iPhone since it was launched in 2007, but it's always come with the operating system. Now that it's gone from the list of "core" apps, users are finding that it's not available for download either. Google says its goal is to make Maps available, but hasn't said when that will be.

In the meantime, iPhone and iPad owners can access maps.google.com through their browser, said Google spokesman Nate Tyler. The browser version has fewer features but uses a comprehensive mapping database, he said.

Last year, Apple released another software product that many regard as half-baked: the voice-controlled virtual assistant Siri. But Siri's ability to ?at least sometimes? understand spoken queries was something most users hadn't met before, so they forgave its lapses. With Maps, Apple is replacing an app nearly every smartphone user is already familiar with.

User reaction on social media has been fierce. One Twitter user quipped that the lines of people queuing up to buy the iPhone 5 on Friday will be shorter, because the buyers will be misled by the new Maps.

Associated Press

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The LG Optimus G: Speedy and slick

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On Wednesday, LG held a press event in New York City to show off its new Optimus G smartphone. We had a chance to give the device a quick trial run?? and we were pleasantly surprised.

The Optimus G?uses a quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor. In plain terms, this means that it's zippy, despite running a heavily skinned version of Android. During the time I spent with the device, I noticed no obvious lag or any pesky hiccups.

I certainly did expect quirky or slow behavior from the device as it has a multi-tasking ??or "cross-tasking," as LG calls it?? ?functionality.?

You can run two apps simultaneously, with both shown on the display. This means that you can send a text message or look up something on the Internet while watching a video. You can also?take notes over any screen and fade your scribbles in and out with an opacity slider. (This is actually rather useful if you jot down a phone number and then dial it ??no need to switch between apps.) These cross-tasking features work surprisingly well?? especially when compared to the features we'd seen with the?Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1?? but unfortunately they are still a bit limited. You can use any app together with the video player and you can use any app together with the note-taking functionality. But you can't use any random two apps at the same time.

The Optimus G has a 13MP camera which gets plenty of support from features which adjust for movement, correct shutter speed, take multiple shots or allow voice commands to trigger the shutter (you can?literally just say "cheese" to snap a photo).

The 4.7-inch screen on this smartphone is pleasantly bright and vibrant. Indoors, it looked fantastic. I do wonder how it performs in bright sunlight though.

All in all, the Optimus G seems like a great device. It's speedy, looks good, feels good (and light!), and doesn't have any instantly obvious annoyances. I can't wait to try it out for more than a few minutes and see if those first impressions ? and the device's battery, for that matter???last.

No word on shipping or pricing details just yet, though word is that the LG Optimus G will hit shelves before the end of this year.

Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

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Volunteers Needed for HFHC's Jr. High School Tournament ...

Halton Field Hockey Club is looking for volunteers for our Junior High School Tournament on Saturday, Sept 29th!

It?s a great way to give back to the community we play in as a recreation league and offers additional playing time for new players to the sport at the junior high school level.

AND if you?re a high school student, your time will count towards your 40 hours of community service as part of the requirements for an Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Knowledge of field hockey is not necessary for all positions.

Volunteer Positions available:

Schedule Runners/ Field Marshals ? Manage field schedule and answer questions from the players as required.

Scorekeepers and Timekeepers

Hospitality Tent ? Organize food and drink and answer questions from the volunteers as required regarding the facility. Overall, keeping the volunteer staff fed and happy.

Ball Runners ? similar to a ?ball boy? in tennis. Chasing balls that go out of play to keep games running and on schedule.

Location:?
4275 Dundas Street (between Appleby Line and Walkers Line) Alton Sports?field/ Norton Community Park is at the northeast corner of Tim Dobbie Drive?and Dundas Street in the Alton Community.

Time: Please be prepared to arrive at the field for 8:30am and stay until 3:00pm

Interested volunteers, please contact development@haltonfieldhockey.com

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Obama allies continue to push secret Romney video

President Barack Obama talks with David Letterman on the set of the "Late Show With David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan Theater, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama talks with David Letterman on the set of the "Late Show With David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan Theater, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Ann Romney speak at a campaign fundraising event in Dallas, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's campaign allies continued to push out an unauthorized video of rival Mitt Romney dismissing the half of Americans who don't pay income taxes, while the Republican nominee tried to turn the campaign disruption into a debate over the role of government in family finances.

"My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom," Romney wrote in an op-ed essay in Wednesday's USA Today. "Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty."

It remains to be seen whether Romney's remarks at a private fundraiser, captured on hidden camera, would shake loose a dead heat that's persisted in the presidential campaign for months. An Associated Press-GfK poll out Wednesday shows an improvement in Obama's job approval rating and confidence in the country's direction, but the race is a dead heat among those most likely to vote.

Romney's USA Today essay avoided mention of the claim he makes on the video that nearly half of Americans believe they are victims and entitled to a range of government support and that as a candidate, he doesn't feel a need to worry about them. His running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, told KRNV-TV in Reno, Nev., that Romney "was obviously inarticulate in making this point" that government dependency and economic stagnation have risen under Obama.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Wednesday to question whether Romney himself could be one of the Americans who pay no federal income tax. Reid has charged before that Romney hasn't paid taxes some years, but the senator hasn't backed up the claim with evidence, and Romney has insisted that's not true. "We'll never know, since he refuses to release tax returns from the years before he was running for president," Reid said.

"So who are those Americans Mitt Romney disdains as 'victims' and 'those people?'" said Reid, D-Nev., in a prepared speech. "They're not avoiding their tax bills using Cayman Island tax shelters or Swiss bank accounts like Mitt Romney."

Obama, appearing Tuesday on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," rejected the notion that many Americans feel they are victims. "One thing I've learned as president is that you represent the entire country," he said.

A super political action committee supporting Obama was more pointed in the first television advertisement using Romney's words, released Wednesday morning and scheduled to run in battlegrounds Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The ad includes video of Romney saying, "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility." An announcer interjects, "And Mitt Romney will never convince us he's on our side."

With early and absentee voting beginning in a number of states, both sides hoped to lock in votes long before Election Day. The first of three presidential debates is scheduled for Oct. 3, and the two camps were looking to secure any edge as Obama's post-convention polling advantage seemed to be ebbing. Obama planned a rare full day at the White House Wednesday, including a private meeting with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi; Romney scheduled a fundraiser in Atlanta and two appearances in Miami, including a candidate forum with the Spanish-language TV network Univision.

The Romney campaign continued to respond to the criticism of his fundraiser remarks Wednesday by pointing out videotaped comments Obama made in 1998 as evidence he favored government redistribution of wealth. An Illinois state senator at the time, Obama said he believes in redistribution "at least to a certain level to make sure everybody's got a shot."

"I know some believe that government should take from some to give to the others," Romney said in an interview Tuesday on Fox News Channel. "I think the president makes it clear in the tape that was released today that that's what he believes. I think that's an entirely foreign concept. I believe America was built on the principle of government caring for those in need, but getting out of the way and allowing free people to pursue their dreams."

But in his Fox interview, Romney continued to cast a segment of the country as unable to rally around his tax-cutting message.

"I recognize that those people who are not paying income tax are going to say, 'Gosh, this provision that Mitt keeps talking about lowering income taxes, that's not going to be real attractive to them,'" Romney said. "And those that are dependent upon government and those that think government's job is to redistribute, I'm not going to get them."

Some Republicans distanced themselves from their party's nominee.

"I disagree with Governor Romney's insinuation that 47 percent of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care," Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Connecticut, said in a statement posted to her website.

Sen. Scott Brown, facing a tough re-election race in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, said of Romney's comments, "That's not the way I view the world."

And New Mexico's Republican governor, Susana Martinez, noted in reaction to Romney's remarks that many in New Mexico live at or below the poverty level, and "that safety net is a good thing."

On Wednesday, the Romney campaign released two television ads accusing the Obama administration of conducting a "war on coal." The ads come one day after Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources disclosed that it is closing mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and eliminating 1,200 jobs. Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield blamed the shutdowns, in part, on "a regulatory environment that's aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal."

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Byron Allen Sued for $35M Over Sammy Davis Biopic

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Byron Allen's plan to make a biographical movie out of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s life has hit a bum note with a man claiming to already own the rights to the story, and now Allen is being sued to the tune of $35 million.

In a complaint filed at Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Rick Appling claims that he had acquired the rights to make a movie out of "The Candy Man" singer Davis' life from his daughter, Tracey Davis, in Feb 2011.

According to Appling, he paid to maintain the rights to the story for three years, and teamed with Invasion TV and Ampersand Media to develop the project, even attracting the interest of Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way.

However, in December of that year, Appling read that Allen's Entertainment Studios had acquired the rights to the story from Davis in order to make a movie as well, and since then Appling's partners have cooled on the project, saying that two different companies claiming ownership of the rights to Davis' life would be a deal-breaker.

Appling claims that, during a phone call, Byron acknowledged to Appling that Davis told him that she had already sold the rights to Appling when she and Allen executed their own agreement.

Allen's company, Entertainment Studios -- which is also named as a defendant in the suit - has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment.

Claiming tortious interference with contract; tortious interference with prospective contractual relations; and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, Appling is asking for $35 million. Plus court costs.

He also wants a declaratory judgment that he is the current owner of the rights to Davis' life story for the purpose of a feature film or documentary.

Davis died in 1990 at the age of 64.

(Pamela Chelin contributed to this report)

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U.S. Comes to Blows with China Over Autos Manufacturing

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The 2012 Presidential campaign continues to heat up, and today President Obama used the auto business to take a direct strike against China by accusing them of using at least $1 billion worth of unfair subsidies between 2009 and 2011. The actions, according to Obama, "...?directly harm working men and women on the assembly lines in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest." The complaint, the third Obama has filed against China this year and the eighth overall, aims to protect the US auto industry's sales in regions like Africa and Asia where Chrysler, Ford, and GM already sells cars but Chinese vehicles are emerging.

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While cars are clearly the pawns in this political power play, the motivation here appears to stem from the heightening drama over crucial Midwestern voting states like Ohio, where Obama's announcement was made. Republican candidate Mitt Romney has accused Obama of being weak on China in regards to trade issues, and the statement certainly sounds well-timed given how crucial it will be for Romney to attract voters in Ohio.?

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We rarely talk politics on PopularMechanics.com, but when cars take center stage in the national political discourse we can't help but point out how the domestic auto business fits not only into global economics, but also how politicians propose their cases for a stronger, more manufacturing-oriented America.

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Anti-US protests in Kabul; missions tighten security

Unrest continued across the Islamic world as demonstrators in Pakistan broke through a barrier near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and protesters in Turkey burned a U.S. flag. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

By NBC News staff and wire reports

Updated at 7:20 a.m. ET: Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday, setting cars ablaze and shouting "death to America," the latest demonstrations over an anti-Islam movie that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad.

In neighboring Pakistan, where two protesters were reportedly killed Sunday, police fired in the air to disperse a crowd headed toward the U.S. Consulate in Karachi.

Western embassies across the Muslim world are on high alert and the United States has urged vigilance after days of anti-American violence provoked by the film.

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Protesters?along the main road to the Afghan capital set fire to two police vehicles and hurled stones at local police officers trying to calm the situation outside Camp Phoenix, a U.S. military base that lies along the road, police officials told NBC News on Monday.

"There were between 3,000 and 4,000 demonstrators (in Kabul). They burned some police cars, but we could split them up and prevent the insecurity widening," Lt. Gen. Fahem Qayem, police quick reaction force commander, told Reuters.

Embassies in Kabul's heavily guarded central zone were placed on lockdown, including the U.S. and British missions, after violence flared near fortified housing compounds for foreign workers in the city's volatile eastern suburbs.

Afghan security forces turned their guns on U.S. and NATO troops, killing four American soldiers and two British troops. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

"We will defend our prophet until we have blood across our bodies. We will not let anyone insult him," protester Jan Agha Pashtun, giving what was apparently a false name to avoid police retaliation, said in Kabul. "Americans will pay for their dishonor."

Evacuating staff
The California-made movie, which mocks the Prophet Muhammad and portrays him as a womanizer and a fool, has triggered violent protests in Muslim countries for nearly a week, including one in Libya in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

The U.S. has responded by bolstering security around diplomatic missions and evacuating staff and nonessential personnel in certain hotspots.

Ambassador Rice: Benghazi attack began spontaneously

The violence is the most serious wave of anti-American protests in the Muslim world since the start of the Arab Spring revolts last year. At least nine people were killed in protests in several countries on Friday.

The crisis presents President Barack Obama with a foreign policy crisis as November elections approach.

Germany followed the U.S. lead and withdrew some staff from its embassy in Sudan, which was stormed on Friday.

Washington ordered non-essential staff and family members to leave its embassy on Saturday after the Khartoum government turned down a U.S. request to send Marines to bolster security.

Non-essential U.S. personnel have also been withdrawn from Tunisia, and Washington urged U.S. citizens to leave the capital Tunis after the embassy there was targeted on Friday.

Youssef Boudlal / Reuters

Protests ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad spread throughout Muslim world.

Hezbollah chief calls for more protests
In Pakistan, a senior police official said 30 students were arrested at the demonstration in Karachi, which was organized by a religious party, according to Reuters.

One person was killed in a protest in the southern city of?Hyderabad on Sunday.?According to one report, a second protester died in a separate demonstration over the film in Lahore after?complaining that he felt ill from inhaling smoke from American flags set fire at an anti-U.S. rally.

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In Indonesia, the world?s most populous Muslim country, police used tear gas and water cannons on Monday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who massed outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

One police officer was injured by stones thrown by protesters and a handful of demonstrators were detained, television pictures broadcast live from the scene showed. Protesters burned a U.S. flag, according to Reuters.

In Iraq, a suicide car bomber killed seven Iraqis and wounded 11 others, including a member of parliament, close to an entrance to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Monday, where several Western embassies are located, police sources told Reuters.

However, it was unclear whether the attack was linked to the anti-film protests. Last week, the?Asaib al-Haq?militia group warned that it would launch attacks on Western targets in anger over the film.

In Iran, a senior official said the government would "track down" those responsible for making the film, state media reported Monday.

"The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns ... this inappropriate and offensive action,'' First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said, according to the Mehr news agency.

"Certainly it will search for, track, and pursue this guilty person who ... has insulted 1.5 billion Muslims in the world,"?Mehr quoted Rahimi as saying.

The Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, condemned to death the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989 for his novel The Satanic Verses,'' saying its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad was blasphemous.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice recaps the causes and effects of recent violence against Americans in the Middle East.

But the protests, which peaked on Friday, abated over the weekend. Around 350 people chanted slogans at a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Sunday. A small group of protesters burned a U.S. flag outside the embassy in the Turkish capital.

On Sunday, the head of Shiite militant group Hezbollah called for protests in Beirut and nationwide later in the week.

"Those responsible for the film, starting with the U.S., must be held accountable," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said.

"All these developments are being orchestrated by U.S. intelligence," he said.

Panetta warns of continuing violence
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said over the weekend he hoped the worst of the violence was over but U.S. missions must remain on guard.

"It would appear that there is some leveling off on the violence that we thought might take place," he told reporters on his plane en route to Asia on Saturday.

"Having said that, these demonstrations are likely to continue over the next few days, if not longer," he said.

The United States has deployed a significant force in the Middle East to deal with any contingencies and rapid deployment teams were ready to respond to incidents, he said.

A Meet the Press roundtable discusses recent upheaval in the Middle East and how the United States intends to respond.

The foreign minister of Egypt, where hundreds of people were arrested in four days of clashes, assured Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that U.S. diplomatic grounds would be protected.

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Mohamed Kamel Amr told Clinton in a telephone call that the film was designed to incite racial hatred and was therefore "contradictory with laws aimed at developing relationships of peace and mutual understanding between nations and states.?

Rice: Benghazi attack occurred spontaneously
Some U.S. officials have suggested the Benghazi attack was planned by Islamist militants using the video as a pretext, a hypothesis endorsed by interim Libyan President Mohammed al-Megarif.

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"Call it whatever you want, al-Qaida or not, what happened was an act by a group with an agenda for revenge. They chose a specific time, technique and certain victims. This is what it was all about," said al-Megarif.

Al-Megarif told CBS News that dozens of people had been arrested in connection with the attack. Some were from abroad.

But Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told NBC?s "Meet the Press"?that evidence gathered so far shows no indication of a premeditated or coordinated strike in Benghazi.

She said the attack, powered by mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, appeared to be a copycat of demonstrations that had erupted hours earlier outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Libyan officials are holding 30 to 40 suspecting in the deadly attack of a the US embassy in Libya. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

"It seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons," Rice said, adding that such weaponry is easy to come by in post-revolutionary Libya.

Whether those extremists had ties to al-Qaida or other terrorist groups has yet to be determined, Rice said, noting that the FBI has yet to complete its investigation.

NYT: Months of turmoil ahead in Arab world, White House fears

The uncertainty of an anxious nation questioning what was gained by U.S. support for democratic, pro-Islamic uprisings in Muslim countries has created a sense of urgency that has been difficult for the Obama administration to ignore.

With eight weeks to the November election, anti-American violence across the Islamic world has shifted the focus of the race from the economy to foreign policy. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.

The turbulence has also become a major issue in Obama's re-election campaign, with the Republican rival for the White House, Mitt Romney, laying blame on the president and accusing him of "apologizing" for U.S. values.

NBC News staff, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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