Rare, deadly October storm hangs on in Northeast (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? One of the darkest Halloweens ever loomed for roughly 2.8 million households left without power on Sunday by a rare October snowstorm in the Northeast that bedeviled transportation and killed at least eight people.

Jack-o'-lanterns peeked through record-breaking snow, the heaviest of which was 31.4 inches measured in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, according to the National Weather Service.

Just 45 minutes northwest of New York City, in West Milford, New Jersey, 19 inches of snow fell.

"It's too scary -- the windows are rattling too loud," a terrified Sophia Band, 6, said, her father recalled, as she jumped into her parents' bed in Conway, Massachusetts overnight during the crushing storm.

The snowy, windy weather that began on Saturday was expected to exit Maine later on Sunday, but not before dumping up to a foot of snow on northern New England, particularly southern Vermont, the National Weather Service said.

Howling winds and heavy, wet snow snapped enormous trees like twigs, downing power lines from West Virginia to Maine.

By Sunday evening, there were about 2.8 million households without electricity across the Mid-Atlantic and New England.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the state experienced the largest number of power outages in its history. Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey all said they did not expect service to return to normal for several days, while in Connecticut and New Hampshire it could be more than a week.

In Hartford, Mayor Pedro Segarra said almost 70 percent of the city was in the dark. Most Connecticut cities opened warming centers late Sunday for chilled residents.

Throughout Connecticut and New Jersey, scores of public schools closings were announced for Monday.

Despite the darkness and cold, trick or treaters stuck with plans to make their annual candy rounds, with last-minute adjustments like tucking thermal underwear beneath a bridal gown or donning a turtleneck under a galactic warrior tunic.

STRANDED FOR 13 HOURS ON TRAIN

Transit nightmares were reported on planes and trains throughout the storm-struck region.

Some 48 passengers on an Amtrak train bound for Boston were stranded for 13 hours overnight when a rockslide blocked the tracks near central Massachusetts, company spokeswoman Vernae Graham said. They were bussed to their final destinations before noon on Sunday.

Other Amtrak service was suspended between Providence and Boston; New Haven, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts; and Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad suspended service on several lines into New York City on Sunday.

Airports slowly returned to normal service on Sunday, although there were some residual delays due to wind at Newark International Airport.

JetBlue Airways was investigating reports 126 passengers were stuck for more than seven hours Saturday on the tarmac at Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Connecticut, without food, water or working lavatories, said spokeswoman Victoria Lucia. They were aboard Flight 504 from Florida, diverted to Bradley from Newark due to the storm.

The company apologized directly to the customers and offered a refund and vouchers for a round trip flight, Lucia said.

AT LEAST EIGHT STORM-RELATED DEATHS

Icy roads throughout the Northeast proved deadly. Early Sunday, Oscar Ramos, 40, was killed in Wayne, New Jersey, when his car smashed into a utility truck parked along Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne Police said.

In White Plains, New York, a 65-year-old driver and two passengers, a 70-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man, were killed when the driver tried to go around a snow barricade erected by police and slammed head-on into another vehicle.

Slippery conditions caused the crash and death of a man driving in Colchester, Connecticut on Saturday, and in Stroud Township, Pennsylvania, a 57-year-old female passenger was killed when her husband lost control of their car on icy Route 611.

In Temple, Pennsylvania, an 84-year-old man was killed as he napped in his recliner when a snow-laden tree fell through his home, and in Springfield, Massachusetts, a 20-year-old man was electrocuted when he stepped out of his vehicle and touched an electrified guard rail.

Weather emergencies because of the storm were declared in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

A breakdown of power outages Sunday evening showed roughly 800,000 households out in Connecticut; over 650,000 in Massachusetts; roughly 540,000 in New Jersey; over 350,000 in Pennsylvania; over 240,000 in New Hampshire; over 40,000 in Maine; around 160,000 in New York; and over 7,000 in Rhode Island.

(Additional reporting by Lauren Keiper in Boston, Tim Sohn in eastern Pennsylvania, Zach Howard in Western Massachusetts, Mary Ellen Godin in Connecticut, and Eric Johnson in Chicago; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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Letters to Occupy protesters span broad spectrum

An Occupy Wall Street protester looks through letters sent to the protesters in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Protesters occupying a park near Wall Street receive about 100 letters a day, many of them messages of solidarity from around the country and also from abroad. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

An Occupy Wall Street protester looks through letters sent to the protesters in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Protesters occupying a park near Wall Street receive about 100 letters a day, many of them messages of solidarity from around the country and also from abroad. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Occupy Wall Street protesters open packages sent to the protesters in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Protesters occupying a park near Wall Street receive about 100 letters a day, many of them messages of solidarity from around the country and also from abroad. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Bette Snyder is nourishing the Wall Street protesters from her kitchen in northwestern Ohio.

For the past three weeks, the 69-year-old woman has sent the occupiers of Zuccotti Park tins of home-baked cookies and messages of support.

"Here are some cookies for the demonstrators," she wrote in a note accompanying one of the tins. "I will keep sending them as long as you keep protesting."

The protests at a park in lower Manhattan that have been raging for about a month are inspiring people across the country and around the world to send letters of support ? even if they are only a few words on a scrap of paper with a tin of cookies.

The letters show how effectively protesters have delivered their scathing critiques that the vast majority of people struggle to make ends meet while a small percentage of people control most of the wealth.

"Please accept these humble donations," wrote one sender who did not disclose a name. "I am poor and am fighting foreclosure, but if you are willing to occupy and keep this message alive, I will support you."

Since the protests began on Sept. 17, protesters at the Zuccotti Park encampment say they've received about 100 letters a day. By last week, according to volunteers sorting them, the letter count was about 2,000; some have since been posted online. They come from the unemployed, college students in debt and grandmothers worried about the financial struggles of younger generations. The letters have arrived from all over the United States and from abroad, addressed from South Korea, Australia, Scotland and Germany. They bear messages of hope, advice on tactics and criticism. Some have now been posted online.

With some of the letters are parcels of ponchos, gloves and camping gear for demonstrators. A good number of the senders apologize for being unable to send more donations because of their own financial problems.

The letters and packages arrive at a UPS branch near Zuccotti Park and are taken over to a storage depot in an office building where donations from around the world are sorted. There are shelves of canned food, bags of dry pasta, piles of hand warmers and half-opened boxes waiting to be sorted. On a recent weekday, there were well over 100 letters waiting to be processed in a mail bin. Some were handwritten, others typed on a computer.

"I can honestly say for the first time in my cynical, contrarian years that I am damn proud to be an American!" said one writer, in pink ink, who described herself as a college student.

"Dear 99ers!" began a handwritten letter sent by someone identifying himself as Henry King, from Glasgow, U.K., who writes of parallels between the Wall Street protests and recent demonstrations in Europe. "It is gratifying to watch you channel your righteous anger into organized and active resistance."

More critical was a letter from someone who signed his name as Al Ross, a senior living in Florida. "The movement is growing, but if leadership doesn't emerge soon, then it will turn into an unruly mob scene. At all costs, this has to be prevented," he wrote on yellow pad paper in pen, referring to the leaderless, consensus approach of the Occupy Wall Street protest.

One of the few outright negative letters came from China. "P.S., occupying Wall Street is not right," wrote a person identified as Yi Hu at the School of Economics at Peking University, after an extended discussion of economic theory. "Financial system which is essential part of our economy system is engine of our economy."

The letters are sorted by volunteers like Steve Iskovitz, a 51-year-old from Pittsburgh, an unemployed mental health worker who was laid off in 2009 when his company lost funding. He said he was encouraged by the letters.

"I feel inspired in a way that I haven't been in years," he said.

But while they are inspiring, some of the letters are painful testimonies of their authors' economic difficulties.

A 50-year-old "self-employed handyman" wrote in a two-page letter that he, "like so many others, watched the American dream turn into an unattainable fantasy." After writing about thousands of dollars owed for medical bills, struggling to find full-time work and being "tossed out and treated like an obsolete piece of furniture after 17 years of loyalty" by a "large firm that transported automobiles," he said that "the future has been absolutely devoid of any significance."

"Then I heard about OWS," he wrote of the Occupy Wall Street movement. "It offers something that has been in very short supply these days ? hope. Hope that maybe we can make a difference."

Snyder, a retired journalist who writes cookbooks with her daughter, said she was compelled to send the cookies to the protesters after reading in The New York Times about how a grandmother had sent them baked goods. She figured that since she is a grandmother, too, and enjoyed baking she should do the same.

So for three weeks, she has filled tins with cookies ? batches of oatmeal raisin, ginger snaps and peanut chocolate ? and sent them off.

"I'm like a rebel at heart," she said in a phone interview from her house in Upper Sandusky, halfway between Columbus and Toledo. "If I was in New York, I would be down there."

She said she believed it was important for her to send the message "that there is some old lady in Ohio that is with (the protesters) in spirit."

But more important, she said, she shares the demonstrators' concerns about economic inequities.

"I think the income disparity has really troubled me for about the past decade. And it just seems to get worse," she said. "I just think that young people are having a hard time. They are doing the right things by getting an education, and borrowing a lot of money to do it, but jobs aren't there... The wealth is too heavily concentrated on the top."

Those concerns were bolstered this week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which said that the richest 1 percent of Americans have gotten richer in the last 30 years, while the poor and middle class have seen tiny gains, by comparison. And the independent Bertelsmann Foundation, based in Gutersloh, Germany, found the distribution of wealth in this country is the most unequal of industrialized nations it studied, with more than 17 percent of Americans living below the poverty line.

Anna Rowinski, 57, is one of those who are struggling to make ends meet. In a message to the protesters, she wrote: "I'm in your shoes and on your side!"

Reached by phone in Holyoke, Maine, where she recently moved in with her aging mother to take care of her, Rowinski said she thinks the Occupy Wall Street movement has captured the "overall feeling that things can't be going on the way they have been."

"It's all the money," she said. "If you don't have money, you're a nobody."

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AUO's flexible e-paper to take on Stretch Armstrong in battle of the bendiest

There's nothing better than unplugging on a Sunday afternoon with a newspaper and a cup of Joe, which is exactly what AU Optronics hopes to facilitate with its 6-inch Rollable Organic TFT E-paper. We've heard rumblings about the foldable photovoltaic device before, but the company has finally delivered a working prototype that is completely solar powered and elastic enough to make even Gumby jealous. Made of organic TFTs, the SVGA e-paper has an amorphous silicon PV battery, which turns natural or indoor light into solar energy without requiring a power plug. The only downside? Unlike the dead tree variety, wrapping presents in this stuff is a no-go. Check out the extended PR after the break.

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Jackson likely took 8 extra sedatives, expert says (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Michael Jackson could have swallowed an additional eight pills of the sedative lorazepam on the morning he died in 2009, an expert defense witness testified on Friday.

Dr. Paul White, expected to be the last defense witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the singer's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, also criticized prosecution theories about what happened in the hours before Jackson was found lifeless in his bed.

Authorities ruled that Jackson died on June 25, 2009, of an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, with lorazepam playing a contributing role.

Murray has admitted to giving Jackson propofol and two shots of two milligrams each of lorazepam to help him sleep. But an autopsy found blood levels of lorazepam in Jackson's system be far higher.

White, using mathematical models on the effects of different doses of drugs, said Jackson could have swallowed another eight lorazepam tablets during a long sleepless night, bringing his blood levels of those found at autopsy.

"The fact that there is even a tiny amount of free lorazepam (in the stomach) is consistent with the theory that he took lorazepam orally," White said.

White slammed a scenario presented by a prosecution expert last week that Murray could have given Jackson many more injections of the sedative than he admitted to police. White said such high doses would result in a patient quickly losing consciousness.

"I can't imagine anyone sitting at a bedside just repeatedly injecting a large ... dose of lorazepam," White said.

White was expected later on Friday to address the central claim of Murray's attorneys: that Jackson somehow self-administered an extra, fatal dose of propofol without Murray's knowledge.

White told the jury on Thursday that it seemed unusual that Jackson would have died from the relatively small dose of 25 milligrams of propofol that Murray told police he injected into the pop star.

Murray denies involuntary manslaughter but could face up to four years prison if convicted.

The defense is expected to wrap up its case early next week, without Murray taking the witness stand.

(Editing by Jill Serjeant and Doina Chiacu)

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Haunted Attractions: America's Weirdest & Coolest Haunted Houses And Scream Parks (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Fraud continues in small business preference programs -- GovExec ...

Contractor fraud in small business set-aside programs is difficult to detect and prove, but its annual costs to government are significant in dollars and damage to legitimate business that deserve the work, two federal watchdogs told a House panel Thursday.

In fulfilling the Obama administration's goal of giving 23 percent of prime federal contracts to small business, agencies need to do better at making a public example of "bad actors" and at vetting contractors that misrepresent their qualifications for minority advantages through self-certification, according to Peggy Gustafson, inspector general for the Small Business Administration, and Brian Miller, IG for the General Services Administration.

They spoke at a hearing of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations called by Chairman Mike Coffman, R-Colo., who sought to learn why much contractor fraud goes unpunished and unprosecuted.

"Just as we all benefit from small business prime contracting, we all suffer when fraud rears its ugly head," Coffman said. "Legitimate small businesses lose the ability to perform when contracts go to firms that do not qualify for, or who are not following the rules associated with, the small business contracting program. The government suffers from this fraud because bad actors give all small businesses a bad name, so contacting officers are more reluctant to use the small business programs, which in turn results in less competition and a less vibrant industrial base."

The set-aside programs consist chiefly of preferences for section 8(a) business development, Historically Underutilized Business Zones, women-owned businesses and the service-disabled veteran-owned program. Both inspectors general testified that their own agencies had fallen victim to fraud. SBA and the HUBZone certification program played a role in the sensational case exposed with the arrests earlier this month involving $20 million in fraud allegedly committed by contractors and two employees of the Army Corps of Engineers, Gustafson noted.

Miller described a recent $6 million contract awarded to a company that claimed to be run by a disabled veteran whose documents said he served three tours of duty during the Vietnam War and received medals and citations. It turned out, Miller said, he was a mechanical engineer serving stateside in the National Guard.

"It's difficult to prove a monetary loss to the government because it did receive the goods and services," Miller said. "But the real loss is to program integrity, to the legitimate small businesses that didn't get the contract." He added that fraudulent self-certification is difficult to detect and agencies rely on such information in the majority of the preference contract awards because their resources are limited.

"Strong penalties are needed to deter" the fraud, he said. "The tougher it is to detect, the tougher penalties must be," though the rules should avoid punishing innocent companies simply because of a clerical error, he said.

Gustfafson said each type of set-aside has its own level of vetting and the Section 8 program is the hardest for contractors to qualify for. She agreed that agencies could deter more fraud by publicizing their reviews of such programs, which in one instance prompted "contractors to drop out in droves." It is acknowledged by all IGs, she added, "that the federal government doesn't use suspension and debarment enough -- that hits contractors in the pocketbook."

Miller noted that GSA has an interactive map on its website providing other agencies with links to state databases reporting contractors that have been suspended or debarred.

Coffman asked whether agencies should take more responsibility for policing fraud. "It's hard to draw simple rules," Gustafson said. "Overburdened" agencies focused on awarding contracts are "not expected to know all the ins and outs" of the set-aside programs. Also, "the more difficult the rules are to administer, the harder it is to present the case to a jury," she said.

But the issue "needs more discussion in the executive branch and guidance from Congress since it's not always clear who's minding the store," she said. "If the programs don't have integrity, we might as well throw them open to open competition."

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Weather Looks Pristine for NASA Climate Satellite Launch Friday (SPACE.com)

NASA is gearing up for the planned Friday (Oct. 28) launch of its newest Earth-observing satellite, a trailblazing spacecraft that will be the first to make observations for both short-term weather forecasts and long-term climate monitoring.

Appropriately enough, it looks like Mother Nature will cooperate. Current forecasts call for a zero percent chance of launch-violating bad weather.

The National polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system Preparatory Project ? or NPP for short ? is due to blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:48 a.m. EDT (0948 GMT) Friday, aboard a Delta 2 rocket.

Preparations for an on-schedule launch are coming along nicely, with the NPP team completing its launch readiness review today (Oct. 26), NASA officials said. So everything should go off as planned.

"It's looking to be very favorable conditions for launch day," Lisa Cochran, launch weather officer at the 30th Operations Support Squadron at Vandenberg, told reporters during a briefing today.

Monitoring weather and climate

Once aloft, the minivan-size NPP will zip around Earth in a polar orbit, peering down at our planet from an altitude of 512 miles (824 kilometers).

The $1.5 billion satellite will use its suite of five science instruments to make a variety of observations, which should be useful to weather forecasters and climate modelers alike, officials said.

For example, NPP will record sea and land surface temperatures, track atmospheric ozone and dust levels, measure changes in vegetation productivity and monitor sea ice, land ice and glaciers around the world, among other things, researchers said.

The result could be a better understanding of climate change and its impacts.

The satellite will also help monitor natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, wildfires and floods. [Natural Disasters: Top 10 U.S. Threats]

"It's the prototype of the next-generation weather satellite," NPP project scientist Jim Gleason, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a recent NASA video. "It's the nation's first attempt to really combine weather monitoring and climate observing in the same platform."

A testbed for future satellites

NPP was originally conceived as a demonstration mission for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), a joint military-civilian project that would monitor both weather and climate.

However, NPOESS was scuttled in 2010, doomed by a series of delays and rising cost estimates. The military-civilian partnership was dissolved, with each branch directed to develop its own line of polar-orbiting Earth-observing satellites.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are working on the civilian program, which is called the Joint Polar Satellite System, or JPSS.

While NPP will gather important data itself, the satellite is also viewed as a key step toward bringing JPSS online. For example, NPP will try out technology that could be incorporated into JPSS, researchers said.

NPP is designed to be operational for at least five years, which should keep the satellite working until JPSS is ready to go. The first JPSS satellite is slated for launch in late 2016, officials said.

NPP is not the only payload aboard the Delta 2. The rocket will also carry six cubesats ? tiny satellites that measure about 4 inches (10 centimeters) across ? into orbit. The cubesats were designed by university students and will ride to space as part of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites program.

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Please learn this to know more about baby automobile seats and preserving your child protected whereas in the car.

Q. What?s the finest child car seat?

The very best automotive seat is the one which matches your baby?s measurement and weight. It also matches correctly in your automobile and is easily installed.

Q. What kinds of child automobile seats can be found?

There are several forms of child car seats akin to infant seats, front going through car seats, and convertible seats. There are also combination seats (can face front or rear), booster seats and built-in automobile seats. With every sort of seat there are variations.

Q. Is a 5-level harness or a protect safest for my baby?

A 5 point harness offers your youngster the greatest safety as a result of it holds your baby tighter within the seat within the event of a crash. A T-Defend or over-the-head restraint permits too much room or can get in the way in which of chubby tummies and legs. The stalk of the T-Defend can cause critical damage to your baby.

Q. How can I find out how to soundly install my child?s automobile seat?

All automotive seats (besides most second hand seats) come with printed directions. If after studying the directions you still aren?t sure how you can properly install it. You possibly can name or email the manufacturer. Some police stations and hospitals have help packages as well.

Q. Is there an accurate way to safe my baby within the baby automotive seat?

Sure, there?s a right method by which to secure your baby in his automotive seat. The way you secure your baby within the car seat will seemingly depend upon the age and measurement of your baby. For youngsters beneath a 12 months of age they should be positioned in rear-dealing with seats in the center of the rear seat. Older kids can sit facing front and their seat are usually positioned behind the driver or passenger with a view to make the most of the shoulder/lap belts.

Q. What?s LATCH?

LATCH refers to Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children. It?s a child automotive seat set up system. The lower hooks are connected between the bottom of the again of the seat and seat itself. The tether piece is a strap made of seat belt material with a clip that secures forward dealing with baby automobile seats and prevents excessive motion of the newborn?s head in crashes.

Q. What?s a Tether?

The tether is a strap fabricated from seat belt material with a clip. It attaches to the clips on the seat and secures entrance going through child automobile seats. In a crash it prevents excessive movement of the seat and the newborn?s head, lowering the severity of injuries.

Q. How can I tell when my youngster is able to use car seat belts with out a booster seat?

Your youngster might be ready for using the automotive safety restraint system when s/he can sit all the best way back within the seat and the knees can bend comfortably over the edge of the seat. The belt crosses the shoulder between the neck and the arm and the lap belt is low and touches the thighs. Your baby should be capable of remain seated the whole trip.

Q. Can a child automotive seat be used safely in an airplane?

Sure it can. Airways require youngsters age 2 and beneath, to be in authorised automotive seats. The seats have to be sixteen inches or much less to fit in the airplane seats. Call ahead and find out in case your seat is an authorized seat. Once on the airplane, the hostess/es, will be able to help you.

Q. Is it safe for me to make use of second-hand child automotive seats?

Yes it is secure to make use of second-hand baby automobile seats supplied you do a safety check. Belts and harnesses should not be frayed or cracked. There should be no cracks or tears within the seat cowl and the seat ought to recline easily and stay upright when the infant is seated. Look into the history of the seat, if it has been in an automobile crash do not purchase it, its skill to safely restrain your baby has been compromised. If the seat does not include a handbook contact the producer to make sure the seat can be correctly installed. If the seat is more than 5 years previous do not use it, it might have been in a crash and older baby automotive seats could not slot in new mannequin cars.

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Most often, the producer will give you instructions of what to do if child automobile seat is recalled. In some circumstances they will change it without spending a dime they may have you carry it somewhere to get alternative components also without charge to you.

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Children with particular needs could require different restraint systems. Talk about your options together with your pediatrician.

Q. What?s the finest type of harness for my baby automotive seat?

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Arctic chill brings Facebook data center to Sweden (AP)

STOCKHOLM ? Facebook is to build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle ? its first outside the United States ? to improve performance for European users, officials of the social networking site said Thursday.

It will also expose them to potential eavesdropping from a Swedish intelligence agency, according to Sweden's Pirate Party, a group opposing government interference with the Internet.

Facebook confirmed Thursday it had reviewed potential locations across Europe and decided on the northern Swedish city of Lulea for the data center partly because of the cold climate ? crucial for keeping the servers cool ? and access to renewable energy from nearby hydropower facilities.

The move reflects the growing international presence of the California-based site, which counts 800 million users worldwide.

"Facebook has more users outside the U.S. than inside," Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong told The Associated Press. "It was time for us to expand in Europe."

He said European users would get better performance from having a node for data traffic closer to them. Facebook currently stores data at sites in California, Virginia and Oregon and is building another facility in North Carolina.

The small Swedish Pirate Party, which is not represented in Parliament, warned that placing the servers in Lulea would also expose European users to eavesdropping from Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment, also known by its Swedish initials FRA.

The agency can conduct surveillance on telephone conversations and data traffic to and from Sweden under legislation designed to fight cross-border terrorism and crime, which raised strong protests from privacy activists when it was passed in 2008. Google's global privacy council Peter Fleischer called it "the most privacy-invasive legislation in Europe."

Jan Fredriksson, a spokesman for Facebook in Sweden, said the company was confident that restrictions on the agency's surveillance activities would protect the integrity of regular Facebook users.

"This isn't something that will affect users," Frediksson said. "Only people who are strongly suspected of terrorism can become subjected to this."

Facebook is facing its own privacy concerns in Europe over how long it retains users' information and other issues.

"Facebook isn't famous for caring about its users integrity, so they didn't care about it in this case either," Pirate Party leader Anna Troberg said.

FRA spokeswoman Anni Boelenius said the agency only conducts surveillance against specific threats to Sweden, including cyber security, Swedish troops abroad and the military capabilities of foreign powers.

"The surveillance is aimed at these phenomena and not against specific services or means of communication," she said.

The Lulea data center, which will consist of three 300,000-square foot (28,000-square meter) server buildings, is scheduled for completion by 2014. The site will need 120 MW of energy, fully derived from hydropower.

Located 60 miles (100 kilometers), south of the Arctic Cicle, Lulea lies near hydropower stations on a river that generates twice as much electricity as the Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona, Facebook said.

In case of a blackout, construction designs call for each building to have 14 backup diesel generators with a total output of 40 MW.

Facebook didn't give the price of its investment, but Lulea officials have previously projected construction costs of up to 5 billion kronor ($760 million). The Swedish government said it was ready to pitch in with 103 million kronor ($16 million).

"We knocked on doors at Facebook's head office (in Palo Alto, California) and today they're moving in to Lulea ? this is huge, really huge," said Matz Engman, who heads the Lulea Business Agency, a public-private partnership working to attract businesses to the region.

With winter temperatures well below freezing and summertime highs that rarely climb above 80F (25 degrees Celcius), Lulea has used its frigid climate as a selling point in its efforts to establish itself as a hub for server farms. Other Nordic cities have adopted similar strategies.

In 2009 Google purchased a paper mill in Hamina, southern Finland, and turned it into a data center, using seawater from the Baltic Sea for its cooling system.

Servers inside data centers are the backbone of Internet services such as Facebook. The servers store and transmit billions of status updates, links, photos and all the outside apps used by Facebook's members.

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Associated Press writer Malin Rising contributed to this report.

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Obama adviser says president best for middle-class

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A presidential campaign adviser says that Barack Obama can tap into the frustrations typified by the Occupy Wall Street movement better than any Republican rival in 2012.

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells NBC's "Today" show Obama "is out there fighting for the middle class."

Gibbs says "we're seeing now a lot of anxiety and frustration" across the country because of income disparity.

Asked if this economic unrest will mostly likely benefit Obama in next year's election, Gibbs said Obama has a better record than the GOP in defending the middle class. Gibbs also said that "every one" of the Republican presidential candidates want to roll back Wall Street regulation.

He said the lack of sufficient rules to govern Wall Street is what "got us into this mess."

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Some Asthma Drugs Raise Risk of Complications, Especially in Kids: Study (HealthDay)

TUESDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- When used alone, the asthma medications known as long-acting beta-agonists are associated with an increased risk of serious complications, new research indicates.

What's more, the increased risk of complications, including hospitalization, intubation and death (called the asthma composite outcome), associated with the use of these medications was even higher in children than in adults.

However, when long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs) are used in combination with inhaled corticosteroids, the increased risk appears to dissipate.

Products that only contain a LABA are marketed under the brand names Foradil and Serevent in the United States, while they are sold under the brand names Symbicort and Advair when combined with inhaled corticosteroids.

"What we found overall was that there was a greater risk of the asthma composite outcome in the group that took LABAs as opposed to the group that didn't. And, the risk was higher in the younger asthmatic population," said study author Dr. Ann McMahon, associate director of science and director of KidNet in the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

"The other important thing is that in a smaller subgroup that took LABAs and inhaled corticosteroids [ICS], and took those consistently, we did not find that the risk was elevated. But, this subgroup was rather small, so the results regarding ICS are somewhat inconclusive. The agency is now pursuing doing a large randomized clinical trial in the context of LABAs and consistent ICS use," McMahon said.

Results from the current study are published in the November issue of Pediatrics.

The FDA first began looking into the safety of LABAs in 2005 when concerns about a possible increase in serious complications were first raised. In 2008, the first meta-analysis examining the safety of LABAs was conducted. As a result of that analysis, an FDA advisory committee voted to restrict the use of LABAs to be used in combination with inhaled corticosteroids. The current meta-analysis was undertaken to expand the knowledge gained from that initial analysis.

The current meta-analysis included 110 clinical trials with a nearly 61,00 people with asthma. The trials included people aged 4 and up. Some used LABA medications; some did not.

Overall, the researchers found that 6.3 more events per 1,000 patient-years occurred in people taking LABAs compared to those not taking the medication. Events included asthma-related hospitalizations, intubations and deaths.

In children between the ages of 4 and 11, the difference between the two groups was 30.4 events per 1,000 patient years. In children between the ages of 12 and 17, the difference was 11.6 per 1,000 patient years.

McMahon noted that most of the complications in children were hospitalizations related to asthma flares. Asthma-related deaths and intubations were rare complications, according to the study.

She said the study was designed to identify trends, not look at individual cases, so "we don't have a lot of answers about why the asthma composite outcomes were higher in the younger age groups."

"Sometimes we find that products that work well in adults don't work well in kids," said senior study author Dr. Dianne Murphy, director of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics at the FDA. And in the case of LABAs, there could be numerous explanations. It may be that asthma is a different disease in children than in adults, or it may have to do with children's smaller airways. Or, she said, it could be that children might not always let their parents know when their asthma symptoms are getting worse.

Whatever the reason for the higher risk of complications in children, Murphy said, what's important to take away from this study is that "if your child requires a LABA, they ought to be on a steroid with it." And, she added, if your child's symptoms aren't improving on the combination medication, let your child's doctor know.

"This meta-analysis suggests that we have more to learn. It looks like LABA alone may not be the right treatment for the pediatric population, and we don't use it alone. But, combining the two potentially may not increase the bad outcomes," said Dr. Allyson Larkin, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of pulmonary medicine, allergy and immunology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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More Wall Street protests coming (CNN)

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Taking the pulse of charge-separation processes

Monday, October 24, 2011

The use of organic photovoltaics for the production of electricity from sunlight offers an attractive and promising basis for an innovative and environmentally friendly means of energy supply. They can be manufactured quite economically and, because they are as bendable as plastic wrap, they can be processed flexibly. The problem is that they are yet markedly less efficient than conventional inorganic semiconductor cells. The most crucial process in the conversion of light into electric current is the generation of free charge carriers. In the first step of photoconversion, upon absorption of light one component of the organic solar cell, usually a polymer, releases electrons that are taken up by the second component of the cell - in this case silicon nanoparticles - and can then be transported further.

"The mechanisms and the timescale of charge separation have been the subject of controversial scientific debate for many years," says LMU physics professor Eberhard Riedle. In cooperation with investigators at the Technical University in Munich and at Bayreuth University, Riedle and his group have now been able to dissect the process in detail. To do so, the researchers used a novel hybrid cell type containing both organic and inorganic constituents, in which silicon serves as the electron acceptor. Based on the insights obtained with this system, they developed a processing strategy to improve the structural order of the polymer - and found that this enhances the efficiency of charge separation in organic semiconductors by up to twofold. Their findings provide a new way to optimize the performance of organic solar cells.

The key to this breakthrough lies in a unique, laser-based experimental setup, which combines extremely high temporal resolution of 40 femtoseconds (fs) with a very broadband detection. This allowed the team to follow the ultrafast processes induced by photon absorption in real time as they occur. Instead of the fullerenes used in typical organic cells, the researchers used silicon as the electron acceptor, a choice that has two major advantages.

"First, with these novel hybrid solar cells, we were able to probe the photophysical processes taking place in the polymer with greater precision than ever before, and secondly through the use of silicon, a much larger segment of the solar spectrum can be harnessed for electricity," says Riedle.

It turns out that free charge carriers ? so called polarons ? are not generated immediately upon photoexcitation, but with a delay of about 140 fs. Primary photoexcitation of a polymer molecule first leads to the formation of an excited state, called an exciton. This then dissociates, releasing an electron, which is then transferred to the electron acceptor. The loss of electrons leaves behind positively charged "holes" in the polymer and, as oppositely charged entities are attracted to one another by the Coulomb force, the two have a tendency to recombine.

"In order to obtain free charge carriers, electron and hole must both be sufficiently mobile to overcome the Coulomb force," explains Daniel Herrmann, the first author of the new study. The team was able to show, for the first time, that this is much easier to achieve in polymers with an ordered, regular structure than with polymers that are chaotically arranged. In other words, a high degree of self-organization of the polymer significantly increases the efficiency of charge separation.

"The polymer that we used is one of the few known to have a tendency to self-organize. This tendency can be inhibited, but one can also increase the polymer's intrinsic propensity for self-organization by choosing appropriate processing parameters," Herrmann explains. By cleverly optimizing the processing of the polymer P3HT, the researchers succeeded in doubling the yield of free charge carriers ? and thereby significantly enhancing the efficiency of their experimental solar cells.

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In fire, Winslet saved lives but discarded bra

In a disaster, it's important to make sure your assets are in order.

And that's exactly what Kate Winslet did right before she escaped a fire that ravaged 61-year-old British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's private home on Necker Island in August.

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"We woke up at 4:30 in the morning to yelling that there was a fire," the Oscar winner recapped on "The Graham Norton Show," which airs October 29. "I jumped up and ran immediately towards the fire but then realized we might die ... then thought 'Now what do I do?' so I ran into the bedroom and put on a bra!"

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"In disastrous moments like that, you do the strangest things. I started to put on a bra and thought, 'No, that's going to take me too long,' so off came the bra, on came the T-shirt, then I grabbed the children and I picked up granny," Winslet said, referring to Branson's 90-year-old mother, Eve.

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But even months after the unfortunate event, the actress remains humble about her life-saving actions.

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"No I didn't save her life. I carried her down the stairs is the truth of it," the 35-year-old "Contagion" star told the UK TV host. "I have to say Eve Branson is an extraordinary stoic, powerful lady and she could have totally made it out on her own, I just helped that tiny little bit."

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Winslet was one of 20 people staying at the Virgin Group CEO's home in the British Virgin Islands. She was vacationing with her two kids (Mia, 10, and Joe, 7) and her then boyfriend Louis Dowler. She's now dating Branson's nephew, Ned Rocknroll.

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Disney Reimagines Iconic Princesses for New Doll Collection

Ariel, Jasmine, Cinderella and more get the toddler treatment

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Pentax Q interchangeable lens camera review

Most of the interchangeable lens cameras we've seen to date seem to follow a standard mold: they have similarly sized bodies, comparable designs and either an APS-C or Micro Four Thirds sensor at the core. But recently, some manufacturers -- namely, Nikon and Pentax -- have begun shrinking camera bodies in an attempt to make them even more appealing to point-and-shoot users. The result: a smaller, lighter, more fashionable ILC -- that also happens to have an itsy bitsy image sensor. Sensor size, not megapixel rating, translates directly to image quality, but also lens and body size, so you can either have an incredibly small body with an incredibly small sensor, or a larger body with a larger sensor. Are you willing to pay a premium for the "world's smallest" interchangeable lens camera, even if it has the same size sensor used in many point-and-shoot cams available for a fraction of the cost? Pentax seems to think that you are -- to the tune of $800.

The 12.4 megapixel Pentax Q is tiny -- it's so small, in fact, that you wouldn't be alone in mistaking it for a toy. There is a fully functional camera inside that petite magnesium alloy housing, though it's admittedly not as powerful as you'd expect an $800 camera to be. The pricey kit ships with an 8.5mm f/1.9 lens, and you can grow your collection from Pentax's modest selection of Q-mount lenses, which also happen to have laughably small focal lengths (a 3.2mm fish eye, anyone?), due to the 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS sensor's massive 5.5x multiplication factor. So how does the Q fare when it comes to performance and image quality? Jump past the break to find out.

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What Is It?

Researchers are using recent advances in imaging to reexamine lunar samples from Apollo 11. Gary Greenberg, a research affiliate at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, took this 3-D stereo image (cross your eyes slightly until there are three images, then focus on the center) of a single grain of moon sand (magnified here about 300 times). It reveals a ring created by a micrometeorite that struck it. The impact resulted in melting, and as the particle quickly cooled, it created a glassy structure. Greenberg and his colleagues hope viewing these grains in greater detail may help scientists learn more about the moon?s evolution.

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Rope Rescue HD by Chillingo

Rope Rescue HD is a new puzzle game by Chillingo. The goal is to drag your rope through gears and to the bird cage to release the birds from captivity. The ideal route may be blocked by enemies and fire, however. I love puzzles, and Rope Rescue...

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Libya After Gaddafi: Leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil Declares Liberation

BENGHAZI, Libya -- Libya's transitional leader has declared liberation of the country, three days after the death of its leader of four decades, Moammar Gadhafi.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil also told thousands of supporters at a ceremony on Sunday that Islamic Sharia law would be the "basic source" of legislation in the country and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In an address that set an Islamist tone for post-Gadhafi Libya, he said new banks would be set up to follow the Islamic banking system, which bans charging interest.

"This revolution was looked after by God to achieve victory," he told the crowd.

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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Mounting calls for an investigation into whether Moammar Gadhafi was executed in custody overshadowed plans by Libya's new rulers Sunday to declare liberation and a formal end to the eight-month civil war that toppled the longtime dictator.

An autopsy confirmed that Gadhafi died from a gunshot to the head, Libya's chief pathologist, Dr. Othman al-Zintani, said hours before the liberation declaration was to start the clock on a transition to democracy.

However, the pathologist said he would not disclose further details or elaborate on Gadhafi's final moments, saying he would first deliver a full report to the attorney general. Libya's acting prime minister said he would not oppose an investigation, but cited an official reporting saying a wounded Gadhafi was killed in cross-fire following his capture.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Britain's new defense secretary, Philip Hammond, said a full investigation is necessary.

The Libyan revolutionaries' image had been "a little bit stained" by Gadhafi's death, Hammond said Sunday, adding that the new government "will want to get to the bottom of it in a way that rebuilds and cleanses that reputation."

"It's certainly not the way we do things," Hammond told BBC television. "We would have liked to see Col. Gadhafi going on trial to answer for his misdeeds."

Clinton told NBC's "Meet the Press" that she backs a proposal that the United Nations investigate Gadhafi's death and that Libya's National Transitional Council look into the circumstances, too.

The 69-year-old Gadhafi was captured wounded, but alive Thursday in his hometown of Sirte, the last city to fall to revolutionary forces. Bloody images of Gadhafi being taunted and beaten by his captors have raised questions about whether he was killed in crossfire as suggested by government officials or deliberately executed.

Gadhafi's body has been on public display in a commercial freezer in a shopping center in the port city of Misrata, which suffered from a bloody siege by regime forces that instilled a virulent hatred for the dictator in Misrata's residents. People have lined up for days to view the body, which was laid out on a mattress on the freezer floor. The bodies of Gadhafi's son Muatassim and his ex-defense minister Abu Bakr Younis also were put on display, and people wearing surgical masks have filed past, snapping photos of the bodies.

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch, which viewed the bodies, said video footage, photos and other information it obtained "indicate that they might have been executed after being detained."

"Finding out how they died matters," said Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch. "It will set the tone for whether the new Libya will be ruled by law or by summary violence."

The Syrian-based Al-Rai TV station, which has served as a mouthpiece for the Gadhafi clan, said the dictator's wife, Safiya, also demanded an investigation.

"I am proud of the bravery of my husband, Moammar Gadhafi, the holy warrior, and my sons who confronted the aggression of 40 countries over the past six months," the station quoted the widow as saying in a statement.

Jibril, the acting Libyan prime minister, said he would not oppose an inquiry into Gadhafi's death, but that there is "no reason" to doubt the credibility of an official report that the ousted leader died in cross-fire.

"Have you seen a video of somebody killing him? I haven't seen any video tape or mobile film that shows somebody is killing Gadhafi," Jibril told reporters in Jordan where he was attending an international economic conference.

"What I told the press several times ... (is) that coroner says in the medical report that he (Gadhafi) was already wounded, taken out, put in that truck and on the way to the field hospital there was cross-fire from both sides," Jibril said. Jibril said it's unclear whether the fatal bullet was fired by loyalists or revolutionary forces.

The vast majority of Libyans seemed unconcerned about the circumstances of the hated leader's death, but rather was relieved the country's ruler of 42 years was gone, clearing the way for a new beginning.

"If he (Gadhafi) was taken to court, this would create more chaos, and would encourage his supporters," said Salah Zlitni, 31, who owns a pizza parlor in downtown Tripoli. "Now it's over."

Libya's interim leaders are to formally declare later Sunday that the country has been liberated. The ceremony is to take place in the eastern city of Benghazi, the revolution's birthplace.

The long-awaited declaration starts the clock on Libya's transition to democracy. The transitional leadership has said it would declare a new interim government within a month of liberation and elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months, to be followed by votes for a parliament and president within a year.

The uprising against the Gadhafi regime erupted in February, as part of anti-government revolts spreading across the Middle East. Neighboring Tunisia, which put the so-called Arab Spring in motion with mass protests nearly a year ago, has taken the biggest step on the path to democracy, voting for a new assembly Sunday in its first truly free elections. Egypt, which has struggled with continued unrest, is next with parliamentary elections slated for November.

Libya's struggle has been the bloodiest so far in the region. Mass protests quickly turned into a civil war that killed thousands and paralyzed the country for the past eight months. Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte was the last loyalist stronghold to fall last week, but Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, apparently escaped with some of his supporters.

Jibril said Libya's National Transitional Council must move quickly to disarm former Libyan rebels and make sure huge weapons caches are turned over in coming days. The interim government has not explained in detail how it would tackle the task.

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Associated Press writers Jamal Halaby in Southern Shuneh, Jordan and Raphael G. Satter in London contributed to this report.

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Lindsay Lohan Was Late To The Morgue Today And Sent Home

Lindsay Lohan arrived late to her first day of community service at the county morgue Thursday and was turned away, another hiccup in the actress’ effort to prove to a judge that she is complying with terms of her probation. Lohan had been told to arrive at 8 a.m. for an orientation session but arrived [...]

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Some stores freezing out Ben & Jerry's new flavor

FILE - This file product image released Sept. 8, 2011 courtesy of Ben & Jerry's shows their ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls." Some supermarket chains are not stocking the new flavor, inspired by a "Saturday Night Live" skit featuring Alec Baldwin as bakery owner Pete Schweddy. They chains haven't said whether they're cool to the idea specifically because of the conservative One Million Moms' boycott movement, which says the Vermont company's name choice is repulsive. (AP Photo/Ben & Jerry's, File)

FILE - This file product image released Sept. 8, 2011 courtesy of Ben & Jerry's shows their ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls." Some supermarket chains are not stocking the new flavor, inspired by a "Saturday Night Live" skit featuring Alec Baldwin as bakery owner Pete Schweddy. They chains haven't said whether they're cool to the idea specifically because of the conservative One Million Moms' boycott movement, which says the Vermont company's name choice is repulsive. (AP Photo/Ben & Jerry's, File)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream is too hot to handle for some supermarket chains. While the new limited-edition flavor has brought chuckles from fans of the "Saturday Night Live" skit on which it's based, some supermarket chains aren't laughing and have been giving it a cold shoulder.

The flavor featuring fudge-covered rum balls has been absent from some grocery freezers since it was unveiled. The title was inspired by an innuendo-laced 1998 skit featuring Alec Baldwin as baker Pete Schweddy, who promises, "No one can resist my Schweddy balls."

But apparently some grocery store chains can, and so can supporters and members of the One Million Moms group.

That Mississippi-based moms organization has been putting the heat on retailers to keep Schweddy Balls out of their freezers and encouraging parents to ask the Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's to stop production of the item, saying the name is nothing but locker room humor that's not appropriate for young children.

Store chains that have decided not to carry the flavor are not saying whether their decisions were influenced by the One Million Moms group, their own reservations about the name or other factors.

Suzi Robinson, a spokeswoman for the Quincy, Mass.-based Stop & Shop chain, said that for proprietary reasons, the company does not disclose the reasons behind decisions about what the stores do and don't carry. She said they have a very strong relationship with Ben & Jerry's, though, and its products are generally strong sellers.

"We haven't received any complaints that we're not carrying that flavor. However, if we do get feedback from customers that they want it, we'll certainly revisit the decision," she said.

Messages were left Thursday for spokespeople from the Roche Bros. and Big Y grocery chains, both based in Massachusetts; and Publix, which has scores of locations in the southeastern U.S., about whether they had decided to stock the flavor.

Even with limited availability, though, Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood said Thursday that Schweddy Balls has quickly become the most popular limited-edition flavor the company has produced.

Greenwood said about one-third of the retailers that carry its other products are offering Schweddy Balls, about the same as any other specialty flavor it has produced ? though this one has outpaced those in sales at the stores and the company's "Scoop Shops."

"We've heard from lots of folks who are fans of the flavor," he said. "Yes, some supermarket chains decided not to carry Schweddy Balls. That is true, possibly because they found the name too irreverent. We respect their decision."

Ben & Jerry's, a division of consumer products giant Unilever, has toyed with language in some other products, too, such as its widely stocked Karamel Sutra ice cream and the peanut butter-laden What a Cluster, formerly known as Clusterfluff.

But it was Schweddy Balls that raised the ire of the conservative One Million Moms group.

Monica Cole, director of the Tupelo, Miss.-based organization, said Thursday they hesitated to call out Ben & Jerry's publicly about the name because they did not want to give it publicity.

She said they felt obligated, though, especially given that they did not step forward with their concerns about its "Hubby Hubby" flavor, a play on its "Chubby Hubby" flavor and created to recognize same-sex marriages.

"We don't want the envelope to continue to be pushed," Cole said of the Schweddy Balls name. "I realize it could be a lot worse, but are they going to progressively get worse if we don't say something? Maybe they'll think twice before they come up with another inappropriate name for ice cream."

The company's website encourages members and supporters to warn the company they will stop buying its products if more Schweddy Balls or other products with offense names are produced.

"The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive. Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket," the organization's website says.

But some are ? including Gina Ragusa's 14-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter, whose mother said Thursday they all eagerly await the day when they can find Schweddy Balls in a supermarket near their home in Davie, Fla.

Ragusa, 44, said they find the name and the skit itself to be just harmless humor, and she checks for the item almost every time she stops at her nearby Publix store.

"I get it, I know 'Saturday Night Live' isn't geared toward a 10-year-old, but they know when Justin Timberlake is on," said Ragusa, whose family has the "Schweddy balls" skit on a DVD of Baldwin's greatest SNL appearances.

"We just think it's funny, that's all," she said of the ice cream name, "and honestly we all really want to try it."

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