Obama To Boehner: No Deal On Debt Limit

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President Barack Obama called House Speaker John Boehner late Friday and reiterated that he would not negotiate with Congress on raising the debt limit, a Boehner representative told Newsmax.

"The president called the speaker this evening to tell him he wouldn't negotiate with him on the debt limit," the spokesman said in a statement. "Given the long history of using debt limit increases to achieve bipartisan deficit reduction and economic reforms, the speaker was disappointed, but told the president that the two chambers of Congress will chart the path ahead.

"It was a brief call," the Boehner spokesman said.

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Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/09/21/obama-boehner-no-deal-debt-limit

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Scots tourism cash for London a 'bizarre' idea

Professor John Lennon, director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development at Glasgow Caledonian University, dismissed Malthouse's argument as "bizarre," arguing it was not based on any sound evidence.

Malthouse - appointed by mayor Boris Johnson this summer as chairman of London and Partners, the city's official promotional organisation - said Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish tourist chiefs should spend money on promoting London to attract more visitors.

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He argued the countries were in danger of "cutting off their noses to spite their faces" by continuing to compete against London for visitors. Malthouse said more of Scotland's ?44 million tourism budget should be spent on a "London-plus strategy" - a joint marketing campaign.

In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Lennon, who is also vice-dean of Glasgow School for Business and Society, called Malthouse's ideas "flawed" and "weird".

He said: "The reality is, London is the gateway for the UK, the majority of tourists do come in through its three or four main airports. However, to not promote Scotland as a distinct identity and a brand, and to focus on London solely would be flawed to say the least.

"Scotland is full of universal icons that are internationally recognised and to not undertake marketing based on the established and well-known brand icons we have would be foolish in the extreme. The idea that we would take a budget devoted to focusing on national [Scottish] marketing and move it to focusing on the capital of another country in the UK, would be weird."

Figures from VisitScotland revealed that 57% of the 2.2 million overseas visitors who come to Scotland stay only in this country, arrive directly, and do not go to London.

Clare Gemmell, manager of West Dunbartonshire-based tourist attraction Loch Lomond Shores, said: "Clearly a cohesive UK tourism strategy is important but diverting Scotland's marketing budget to London in return for a vague promise that visitors will be sent 'up to Edinburgh' for 'a few days would be unreasonable.

"Loch Lomond Shores has enjoyed a phenomenally successful summer thanks in no small part to the money and effort which goes into promoting both Loch Lomond and Scotland as brands."

A spokesman from London and Partners failed to reply to Sunday Herald requests for comment.

Source: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/scots-tourism-cash-for-london-a-bizarre-idea.22216114

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Making Food From Flies (It's Not That Icky)

Black soldier flies mate and lay eggs inside these cages at EnviroFlight.

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Black soldier flies mate and lay eggs inside these cages at EnviroFlight.

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In the quirky little college town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, home to many unconventional ideas over the years, there's now a small insect factory.

It's an unassuming operation, a generic boxy building in a small industrial park. It took me a while even to find a sign with the company's name: EnviroFlight. But its goal is grand: The people at EnviroFlight are hoping that their insects will help our planet grow more food while conserving land and water.

They don't expect you to eat insects. (Sure, Asians and Africans do it, but Americans are finicky.) The idea is, farmed insects will become food for fish or pigs.

It all starts in a small greenhouse. "This is where we propagate our species," says Glen Courtright, EnviroFlight's founder. "Sometimes we call this the Love Shack."

I see rows of tall, cylinder-shaped cages. Flying around inside them, or sitting on the mesh walls, are some black insects that look a little like wasps.

Actually, they're flies: black soldier flies.

These flies live all over the American South, but they rarely bother people, and they don't spread disease. The adults are shy creatures. They can't bite. They can't eat (they live off the stored energy that they built up as larvae). All they really do is mate and lay eggs. That's what they're doing in these cages.

The eggs turn into hatchlings that are so tiny they look like dust. But in EnviroFlight's nursery, they grow a mass of wriggling larvae. Kimberly Wildman keeps them in stacks of plastic trays or buckets.

"If I were to feed them, it would feel like the bucket was practically melting," she says. "They give off that much heat."

The larvae are insatiable eaters. They can consume twice their weight each day, turning it into protein and fat.

Glen Courtright, EnviroFlight's founder, is pictured with a machine that harvests the larvae, separating them from waste products.

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Glen Courtright, EnviroFlight's founder, is pictured with a machine that harvests the larvae, separating them from waste products.

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They'll eat almost anything, which is the key to Courtright's business plan. These larvae are some of the world's great waste recyclers. "We make stuff go away!" he says.

Right now, most of the larvae here are feeding on waste from an ethanol plant. They're also happy to eat brewer's grain, which is left over from the beer-making process.

Scraps from a chicken nugget plant work even better, Courtright says. Such factories put out millions of pounds of chicken bits, breadcrumbs and oily sludge every year.

But it's possible to look at these larvae and dream even bigger. Think of slaughterhouses, for instance. Americans only eat 50 percent of a cow or a hog. The rest of the animal goes to industrial rendering plants, which turn that waste into a variety of products, including "processed animal protein" that's fed, in turn, to animals.

But black soldier fly larvae could consume that waste, too, without using nearly as much energy as rendering plants, Courtright says. He shows me a new experiment: He's turning the larvae loose on some leftover bits of chicken. "The bugs consume this material. Probably 90 percent of the material is consumed, and all that's left is a little bit of bone and sinew and fur."

No matter what they eat, the insect larvae in this building grow fat ? and then they go into a commercial oven.

Courtright opens the door of the oven and pulls out a tray. "So what we have here is cooked, dehydrated, insect larvae," he says. "It kind of tastes like a savory cracker without salt. You want to taste them?"

I pass. Courtright pops a handful into his mouth. "Not bad!" he says with a grin.

Honestly, though, Courtright has no ambitions to sell snack food. He wants to turn cooked larvae into animal feed. The protein is just what young pigs need. Ground-up larvae also could replace some of the fish meal that's currently used to feed farmed salmon or trout. Right now, that meal is manufactured from sardines, anchovies and menhaden that are scooped from the ocean in massive quantities. But that source of fish meal is limited.

The way Courtright sees it, black soldier fly larvae could solve two enormous global problems at once: the waste problem and the food supply problem.

Actually, he's not the first to think of this. Craig Sheppard, an insect specialist at the University of Georgia, now retired, has been doing experiments with black soldier flies for a couple of decades now.

He's turned the little larvae loose on animal manure ? they clean it up quite nicely. And over the years, he and his colleagues have talked to some companies about how to turn this into a profitable business.

Cooked, dehydrated larvae of the black soldier fly can be processed into feed for fish or pigs.

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Cooked, dehydrated larvae of the black soldier fly can be processed into feed for fish or pigs.

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There were times, he says, when the idea seemed ready to take off. "The guys [from potential investors] would come down here and get real excited. They'd look at our production, and we'd say how we could ramp it up, and they would be walking away just grinning and high-fiving, like 'We gotta do this!' " And then they'd go home and talk to the higher-ups. And I could just imagine the conversation: 'Maggots? Really?' And they'd back off!"

Sheppard suspects that the idea seemed just a little too weird. You could be laughed at for trying it.

But there now are quite a few projects around the world that have picked up on this idea. People are trying it in South Africa, Canada and Indonesia.

What's changed is the demand for animal feed. Fish meal prices have gone through the roof. Feed for pigs is more expensive, too. Across the world, there's competition for land, crops and food.

Courtright expects that competition to grow. "We have a protein deficit. We have 7 billion people on the planet, heading for 9. We don't know how we'll feed them," he says.

So maybe, someday, black soldier fly factories will dot the landscape.

Courtright is talking to some big companies, working on deals to build the very first one. Maybe this time, the higher-ups won't say: "Maggots? Really?"

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/19/223728061/making-food-from-flies-its-not-that-icky?ft=1&f=1007

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Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home

For the first time ever, customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they’re out of their homes, and disconnected from their home’s Wi-Fi network. Currently, this new capability applies to just nine cable TV channels, including?BBC America, BBC World News, EPIX, NFL Network (iPad-only), HGTV, DIY, the Tennis Channel and Scripps Networks Interactive channels, Food Network and Travel Channel. The support for live TV viewing comes in the form of a newly updated iOS app, FiOS Mobile, which is now available for both iPad and iPhone as well as within newly launched Android and Kindle Fire applications. The app?first launched for iPad last November, offering customers 75 channels of live television. However, although the app didn’t require any additional software running on users computers or hardware beyond a supported HD DVR, the iPad did have to be connected to the home’s Wi-Fi network to work. With the update, for the above select channels, that requirement is no more. In addition, the app now offers 76 total channels while in home, and has added support for local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, plus?Spanish-language channels such as UniMas and Univision, in New York,?New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The app also includes the functionality previously found in the FiOS Mobile Remote and Verizon Media Manager apps, in order to combine all the mobile services offered under one roof. This includes on-demand content, like FiOS’s 45,000 Flex View titles (movies and other programs on demand), as well as free and paid subscription content from?HBO, Cinemax, Starz, Encore, Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel and others. The company says additional content and local channels will be added throughout this year and 2014. And though it could not speak to the size of its mobile install base for competitive reasons, ?Verizon says that it has 5.8 million users with Internet connections, and 18 million households on the FiOS network, which gives you an idea of the potential market for live mobile TV outside the home. Verizon is not the first company to bring live TV to mobile devices outside the home – if anything, it’s lagging a bit – but it is rather representative of a growing industry trend, where cable companies and networks are readjusting themselves in the face of changing consumer behaviors. Subscription services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video,

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iOS 7 Security Flaw Allows Siri to Disable Find My iPhone

In iOS 7, Siri can change a number of settings on the iPhone, including toggling Bluetooth on and off or changing the screen brightness. As one MacRumors reader noticed, Siri can also activate Airplane Mode, even if a passcode lock is set, allowing a thief to effectively disable Find My iPhone on a stolen device.

However, Apple has added some extensive security features to deter phone theft in iOS 7, most notably the Activation Lock feature that prevents a lost or stolen iPhone from being activated without the Apple ID password used to erase the phone.

Activation Lock makes it so that even if a phone is stolen, Find My iPhone disabled, and then erased, the phone is still unable to be activated and used without the proper Apple ID.

San Francisco District Attorney came out in support of Activation Lock, saying that "clear improvements" had been made to deter criminals.

Update: Commenters have noted that users can also turn Airplane Mode on from the Control Center by swiping up from the lock screen. Lock screen Control Center access can be disabled from the Settings/Control Center panel. Find My iPhone can also be effectively disabled by turning the phone off.

Thanks Greg!

Article Link: iOS 7 Security Flaw Allows Siri to Disable Find My iPhone

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Russia 'ignoring facts' over Syria attack: US

The United States accused Russia of ignoring the facts surrounding a poison gas attack in Syria, highlighting tensions between the West and Moscow over how to eliminate the country's chemical weapons.

Despite a weekend agreement between the Cold War rivals aimed at dismantling Syria's chemical arsenal by mid-2014, the two sides remain poles apart in their assessment of the August 21 gas attack which left hundreds dead.

Russia insists the attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was a "provocation" by opponents fighting Syria President Bashar al-Assad's regime designed to trigger military strikes by the United States.

The United States and France maintain the attack was carried out by Syrian government forces, and believe an assessment by UN experts released on Monday backed their view.

On Tuesday, after meeting French counterpart Laurent Fabius in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov repeated Moscow's allegation that the August 21 attack was carried out by Syrian rebels.

Lavrov said the UN report "proves that chemical weapons were used" but not that the Assad regime was behind it.

Russia still has "most serious basis to believe that this was a provocation," Lavrov said of the attack.

He called on world powers not to "play up emotions" when making decisions, but rather "rely on professionals."

The United States dismissed Lavrov's comments emphatically, however, exposing the entrenched differences between the West and Moscow.

"When you look at the details of the evidence they present -- it is inconceivable that anybody other than the regime used" the chemical weapons, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday of the UN report.

The report helped "change the international dynamic" on the issue, he claimed in the interview on the Spanish language Telemundo network.

Earlier, Fabius said a "difference in approach" existed between France and Russia on the methods required to reach peace but the two sides were "perfectly agreed" on the need for a political solution.

The Moscow talks came a day after France, the United States and Britain said they will push for a strong resolution at the UN.

Diplomats said France and Britain are preparing a draft that will demand a threat of sanctions if Assad does not comply with the chemical disarmament plan.

However, Lavrov stressed that the agreement he reached with American counterpart John Kerry Saturday meant that the resolution will not be under the chapter of the UN charter that allows the use of force.

"The resolution... will not invoke Chapter VII," he said, in comments that were echoed later Tuesday by Russia's deputy foreign minister after a meeting with Syria's foreign minister in Damascus, according to the official SANA news agency.

Yet, this position is a direct a reversal of Lavrov's remarks Sunday, in which he specifically suggested any breach of chemical weapons agreements by Syria could prompt "measures according to Chapter VII of the United Nations charter."

Chapter VII can also impose mandatory economic sanctions against a target government.

Washington insisted Tuesday a Chapter VII resolution remained an option under the terms of the weekend agreement.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the foreign ministers of the five key nations in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, and three days later, with the top diplomats of the US and Russia, to help resolve the Syria crisis, he said Tuesday.

Ban said the attacks with banned chemical weapons were only the "tip of the iceberg," and urged the major powers to take a "broader" look to tackle the fighting as well as the humanitarian strife.

The United Nations permanent Security Council members held new negotiations on Tuesday on the wording of a resolution to back the Russia-US accord.

Diplomats said ambassadors discussed a French text which included a demand for action under Chapter VII if Assad does not stick to the plan.

France also wants chemical weapons attacks in Syria referred to the International Criminal Court. The meeting broke up however with no agreement.

The United States had moved to the brink of a military strike on Syria after blaming Assad's regime for the attack which it said left 1,400 people dead.

The strike however was put on hold last week as Syria agreed to a fast-track accession to the international convention banning chemical weapons, formally agreed by the US and Russia in Geneva.

The 30-month long conflict in Syria has killed more than 110,000 people, according to rights groups, and refugees have flooded countries in the region and beyond, with Bulgaria on Tuesday appealing for EU help in accommodating the influx.

Seven million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aide, and $4.4 billion are needed to help those displaced by the violence, the UN Emergency Relief coordinator Valerie Amos said Tuesday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/western-powers-press-syria-resolution-un-070119482.html

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