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Ron Paul Gaining Momentum in New Hampshire

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA— St. Anselm College’s Institute of Politics released a new presidential primary preference poll today that puts Republican Texas congressman, and supposed presidential “long shot”, Ron Paul in fourth place among the 2008 Republican candidates with 7.4 percent. The survey of likely New Hampshire primary voters, finalized by SRBI Research in New York City, ranks Congressman Paul fourth behind Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain, respectively, and also shows that 40 percent of self-identified independents who may vote Republican, and 19 percent who will, are still undecided.

Fred Thompson, who is estimated to be second-place in the national polls, is in sixth place.

The new figure shows that Congressman Paul is gaining momentum in key primary states, up from the 5 percent Gallup Poll estimate on October 17. Recent poll results from public opinion service Rasmussen Reports indicate that number could be much higher nationwide.

“By all accounts, Dr. Paul’s support is rising steadily,” said Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “Americans are ready for a change and his unifying message of freedom, peace and prosperity is bringing more people together every day.”

1,514 likely New Hampshire primary voters were surveyed between October 25 and 21. St. Anselm College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Manchester, New Hampshire. -30-

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Dr. James Peake Secretary of Veterans Affairs VIDEO PODCAST

President Bush Nominates Dr. James Peake as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Roosevelt Room FULL STREAMING VIDEO In Focus: Veterans and Fact Sheet: Lt. Gen. James B. Peake (Ret.), M.D.: The Best Choice for Our Nation's Veterans 1:09 P.M. EDT. PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE Running time is 10:51

THE PRESIDENT: Caring for our military veterans is a solemn responsibility of the federal government. It is our enduring pledge to every man and woman who puts on our nation's uniform. And it is the daily work of the Department of Veterans Affairs. I am pleased to announce my nomination of an Army doctor and combat veteran who will be a strong new leader for this department: Lieutenant General James Peake. (Applause.)

Public service is a family commitment, and I'm especially grateful to Dr. Peake's wife, Janice -- a fellow Texan -- who is with us today. I appreciate you supporting Jim once again as he does the nation's work. I'm also proud to welcome Kimberly and Thomas. Thank you all for coming. We just met in the Oval Office and there's no question in my mind they're certainly proud of their dad.

Dr. Peake grew up in a home where service to country was a way of life. His father started out as an enlisted man in the Army, and became an officer who spent most of his 30-year career in the Medical Service Corps. Doctor Peake's mom was an Army nurse. His brother was a naval aviator. And as a young man of 18, he set upon his own lifetime of service when he arrived at the United States Military Academy.

After graduating from West Point in 1966, Second Lieutenant James Peake was sent to Vietnam with the 101st Airborne. There he served as a platoon leader, he led men in combat, and earned several medals for his courage -- including the Silver Star. One of those who knows him best describes his leadership this way: "End of a chow-line officer -- everyone else first."

In Vietnam, he also earned two Purple Hearts. While in the hospital recovering from his second wound, he learned that he had been accepted to medical school. And after completing his medical studies at Cornell University, he devoted his career as an Army doctor to improving care for our wounded servicemen and women. Long before the global war on terror began, Dr. Peake was changing the way we deliver medical care to our troops. As a result of his reforms, many who once might have died on the battlefield -- now they come home to be productive and having fulfilling lives.

As a medical officer and combat vet who was wounded in action, Dr. Peake understands the view from both sides of the hospital bed -- the doctor's, and the patient's. He brought that understanding to many jobs. These jobs include command surgeon in the Army hospitals, commanding general of the largest medical training facility in the world, and Army Surgeon General -- where he commanded more than 50,000 medical personnel, oversaw 16 hospitals across the world, and managed an operating budget of nearly $5 billion.

Since leaving the Army, he has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Project Hope. There he helped one Navy hospital ship respond to the victims of the Asian tsunami and another that was sent to care for those hit by Hurricane Katrina. Most recently, he has served as Chief Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer with QTC Management, which provides military veterans with timely medical examinations, as well as electronic medical record services.

When confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Peake will bring his unique set of skills and experiences to the Department of Veterans Affairs. He will be the first physician and the first general to serve as Secretary. He will apply his decades of expertise in combat medicine and health care management to improve the veterans' health system. He will insist on the highest level of care for every American veteran.

One of Dr. Peake's first tasks as Secretary will be to continue to implement the recommendations of the Dole-Shalala Commission on Wounded Warriors. And Senator, thank you for joining us. Some of their recommendations are the responsibility of the executive branch, and Dr. Peake will be a leader in carrying them out. Others require the approval of United States Congress, and that's why this month I sent a bill to Capitol Hill that will make those recommendations the law of the land.

As Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doctor Peake will be a powerful advocate for the prompt enactment and implementation of this vital legislation. And he will work tirelessly to eliminate backlogs and ensure that our veterans receive the benefits they need to lead lives of dignity and purpose.

In all these ways, Dr. Peake will build on the fine records of Secretary Jim Nicholson and Secretary Tony Principi. Jim is a West Point man who knows the meaning of duty, honor and country. He's a Vietnam vet and a former ambassador and a good friend. I thank him for his service and I thank his wife, Suzanne, as well, and wish them all the very best.

Principi is with us. It's good to see you, friend; thanks for coming. He's a graduate of one of our military academies -- although it's not West Point, it's the Naval Academy. Like the other two men here today, he is a combat veteran of Vietnam. And like the other two, he has served our veterans with dignity and integrity. And I appreciate your service.

Jim and Tony can be proud of their record at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under their leadership, federal spending for veterans increased by more than two-thirds. We extended treatment to a million additional veterans, including hundreds of thousands returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We expanded grants to help homeless veterans across the country. These men have worked well with the VSOs and I thank the leaders for joining us here today. Dr. Peake is going to work well with you, too.

And speaking of working well, it's time for the Congress to do its job for the veterans. Congress needs to send me a clean VA appropriations bill that I can sign into law by Veterans Day.

I want to thank Acting Secretary Gordon Mansfield for leading the department these last few weeks. (Applause.) He's done a fine job. He's earned the respect of all those who've worked under him. He's earned the gratitude of our nation's vets.

I appreciate Dr. Peake's willingness to step forward at this important time for the department. He' a man who' been tested in battle; he has proved himself as a soldier, as a physician, as a leader and as a good family man. He will be a superb Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the United States Senate should promptly confirm him.

Doctor, I appreciate you stepping up again. On behalf of the United States of America, congratulations. (Applause.)

DR. PEAKE: Mr. President, Secretary Mansfield, Secretary Principi, Senator Dole, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. And sir, thank you for this opportunity to come back in service. Fundamentally, I'm a soldier. I've been taking care of soldiers essentially all of my adult life. And to have that chance again, especially at this time -- at a time when the American people and you, Mr. President, have so clearly committed to the well-being of those who have served -- well, it's a high honor indeed.

I do understand that though it's an honor, this is not an honorary position, and there's a lot of work to be done as we move forward on implementing the Dole-Shalala commission recommendations. The disability system is largely a 1945 product -- 1945 processes around a 1945 family unit. About everybody that has studied it recently said it is time to do some revisions.

I am really proud of the military medics who have done such remarkable things, in terms of bringing wounded soldiers back home -- soldiers that in other conflicts would never have made it off the battlefield. I think each of these men and women deserves the right to lead as full and productive a life as is possible. This great VA system of ours reaches across the nation into every community and touches veterans and their families in so many ways, committed to the principle that I just talked about.

Well, I'm committed to that principle as well, and that's why I'm here. I know personally many of those who lead in the VA. It is a great team. If confirmed, I look forward to working with them. I look forward to working with Congress. I look forward to working with the veterans' service organizations, and particularly with the Department of Defense as we move forward to do the right thing -- not just for the short-term, but for the longer-term -- to set the future so that we can continue to meet our commitment to those who deserve our care.

Janice, thank you so much for allowing me to come on this journey, and coming with me. Mr. President, thank you so much for the confidence and the opportunity, and I'll see you on the high ground. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.

END 1:21 P.M. EDT

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President Bush Urges Congress to Pass Appropriations Bills VIDEO PODCAST

President Bush Urges Congress to Pass Appropriations Bills FULL STREAMING VIDEO North Portico 10:38 A.M. EDT PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. I just had a very constructive and important meeting with the leadership and the Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. And I want to thank you all for coming down, and thank you for your leadership.

Congress is not getting its work done. We're near the end of the year, and there really isn't much to show for it. The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq. And yet there's important work to be done on behalf of the American people.

They have not been able to send a single annual appropriations bill to my desk, and that's the worst record for a Congress in 20 years. One of the important responsibilities of the Congress is to pass appropriations bills. And yet the leadership that's on the Hill now cannot get that job done.

They've also passed an endless series of tax increases. You know, they proposed tax increases in the farm bill, the energy bill, the small business bill, and of course, the SCHIP bill. They haven't seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hike into it. In other words, they believe in raising taxes, and we don't.

Spending is skyrocketing under their leadership -- at least proposed spending is skyrocketing under their leadership. After all, they're trying to spend an additional $205 billion over the next five years. Some have said, well, that doesn't matter much; it's not that much money. Well, $205 billion over the next five years in the real world amounts to this: $4.7 million per hour, every hour, for every day, for the next five years. That's a lot of money.

And that doesn't even include spending that would actually pay for 2 million people to move from private health insurance to an inefficient, lower-quality, government-run program. Despite knowing it does not have a chance of becoming law, the Senate will now take up the second SCHIP bill the House passed last week. I believe the Senate is wasting valuable time. This bill, remarkably, manages to spend more money over five years than the first bill did.

After going alone and going nowhere, Congress should instead work with the administration on a bill that puts poor children first; a bill that will take care of the poor children that the initial bill said we got to do; a bill that would stop diverting money to adults. You realize some major states in the United States spend more money on adults than they do on children? We want a bill that enrolls the more than 500,000 poor children currently eligible for the program who are not a part of the program.

We want to sit down in good faith and come up with a bill that is responsible, because Congress has been unable or unwilling to get its basic job done of passing spending bills. There are now reports that congressional leaders may be considering combining the Veterans and Department of Defense appropriations bills, and then add a bloated Labor, Health and Education spending bill to both of them.

It's hard to imagine a more cynical political strategy than trying to hold hostage funding for our troops in combat and our wounded warriors in order to extract $11 billion in additional social spending. I hope media reports about such a strategy are wrong, I really do. If they're not, if the reports of this strategy are true, I will veto such a three-bill pileup. Congress should pass each bill one at a time in a fiscally responsible manner that reflects agreement between the legislative branch and the executive branch.

I again ask Congress to send me a clean Veterans funding bill that we have already agreed to by Veterans Day, so we can keep America's promise to those who have defended our freedom and are recovering from injury. I again urge them to pass a clean Defense appropriations bill, and a war supplemental bill to fund our troops in combat.

I know some on the Democrat side didn't agree with my decision to send troops in, but it seems like we ought to be able to agree that we're going to support our troops who are in harm's way. I know the members feel that way, standing with me. I hope the leadership feels that way, and they ought to give me a bill that funds, among other things, bullets, and body armor, and protection against IEDs, and mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. It would be irresponsible to not give our troops the resources they need to get their job done because Congress was unable to get its job done.

Again, I want to thank the members here. I appreciate us working together for the good of the United States of America. God bless.

END 10:45 A.M. EDT. For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary October 30, 2007

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Tom Tancredo's Retirement from Congress

This from the official campaign blog of Congressman Tancredo's run for the White House.

Tom's Retirement from Congress: As many of you have learned, Tom is retiring from Congress and will not seek another term. Just to be clear, this does not effect his campaign for President. He will continue to campaign hard, GO TOM!

Posted by SecPress 29 October 2007 at 12:47 PM EST

It’s the White House or bust for Rep. Tom Tancredo, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate who has decided to forgo a bid for re-election next year in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. Tancredo’s office confirmed Monday that he will retire from the House, where he made a name for himself as the most outspoken advocate of tough action to curb illegal immigration.

Tancredo Bets on Longshot GOP Presidential Bid - Source: Congressional Quarterly MIDDAY UPDATE Oct. 29, 2007 – 1:25 p.m.

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In human grid, we're the cogs

	Images from a research shopping trip with GroZi a Grocery Shopping Assistant for the Visually Impaired developed by UC San Diego computer science professor Serge Belongie.
On October 15, 2007 Belongie presented a paper at an interactive computer vision conference and described how people posting comments on blogs could provide data critical for this project. Credit: Serge Belongie.

Human computation placed in a grid, for a greater good

Before you can post a comment to most blogs, you have to type in a series of distorted letters and numbers (a CAPTCHA) to prove that you are a person and not a computer attempting to add comment spam to the blog.

What if – instead of wasting your time and energy typing something meaningless like SGO9DXG – you could label an image or perform some other quick task that will help someone who is visually impaired do their grocery shopping?

In a position paper presented at Interactive Computer Vision (ICV) 2007 on October 15 in Rio de Janeiro, computer scientists from UC San Diego led by professor Serge Belongie outline a grid system that would allow CAPTCHAs to be used for this purpose – and an endless number of other good causes.

Structure of the SOYLENT GRID presented by UC San Diego computer scientist Serge Belongie at a computer vision conference on Oct. 15, 2007 called ICV 2007.

The users benefiting from our grid can be of two kinds: researchers (needing some information analysis) and commercial clients (that simply use the Turing test generation service). These providers impose their constraints to the back end MySQL server by giving their datasets and describing the tasks to be performed by the end users. Next, when a participant requests a CAPTCHA (Turing test), the Java front end interacts with the server to get a Turing test and also tests the validity of the provided answers. Any information input by the participant (like the answer itself or the time taken to answer) is also sent back to the server for statistical purposes. Credit: Serge Belongie

“One of the application areas for my research is assistive technologyfor the blind. For example, there is an enormous amount of data that needs to be labeled for our grocery shopping aid to work. We are developing a wearable computer with a camera that can lead a visually impaired user to a desired product in a grocery store by analyzing the video stream. Our paper describes a way that people who are looking to prove that they are humans and not computers can help label still shots from video streams in real time,” said Belongie.

The researchers call their system a “Soylent grid” which is a reference to the 1973 film Soylent Green (see more on this reference at the end of the article).

“The degree to which human beings could participate in the system (as remote sighted guides) ranges from none at all to virtually unlimited. If no human user is involved in the loop, only computer vision algorithms solve the identification problem. But in principle, if there were an unlimited number of humans in the loop, all the video frames could be submitted to a SOYLENT GRID, be solved immediately and sent back to the device to guide the user,” the authors write in their paper.

From the front end, users who want to post a comment on a blog would be asked to perform a variety of tasks, instead of typing in a string of misshapen letters and numbers.

	Calit2 researcher John Miller (UC San Diego Ph.D. '03, electrical engineering) who is blind, tests a Grozi shopping prototype at a grocery store near the UC San Diego campus.
On Oct. 15, 2007 Belongie presented a paper at an interactive computer vision conference and described how people posting comments on blogs could provide data critical for this project. Credit: John Miller. Usage Restrictions: Mandatory credit: John Miller , UC San Diego.

“You might be asked to click on the peanut butter jar or click the Cheetos bag in an image,” said Belongie. “This would be one of the so called ‘Where’s Waldo’ object detection tasks.”

The task list also includes “Name that Thing” (object recognition), “Trace This” (image segmentation) and “Hot or Not” (choosing visually pleasing images).

“Our research on the personal shopper for the visually impaired – called Grozi – is a big motivation for this project. When we started the Grozi project, one of the students, Michele Merler – who is now working on a Ph.D. at Columbia University – captured 45 minutes of video footage from the campus grocery store and then endured weeks of manually intensive labor, drawing bounding boxes and identifying the 120 products we focused on. This is work the soylent grid could do,” said Belongie.

From the back end, researchers and others who need images labeled would interact with clients (like a blog hosting company) that need to take advantage of the CAPTCHA and spam filtering capabilities of the grid.

“Getting this done is going to take an innovative collaboration between academia and industry. Calit2 could be uniquely instrumental in this project,” said Belongie. “Right now we are working on a proposal that will outline exactly what we need – access to X number of CAPTCHA requests in one week, for example. With this, we’ll do a case study and demonstrate just how much data can be labeled with 99 percent reliability through the soylent grid. I’m hoping for people to say, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that kind of computation was available.’” ###

This work incorporates recent work from a variety of researchers, including computer scientist Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon University. His reCAPTCHA project uses CAPTCHAs to digitize books.

Explanation of the name of the grid and title of the paper:

The researchers call their system a “Soylent grid” and titled their paper “Soylent Grid: it’s Made of People! Both the grid name and paper name are references to the 1973 cult classic film Soylent Green, a dystopian science fiction film set in an overpopulated world in which the masses are reduced to eating different varieties of “soylent” – a synthetic food that suggests both soybeans and lentils.

The line from the movie that inspired the title of this paper comes is delivered when someone discovers that soylent green is actually made of cadavers from a government sponsored euthanasia program – prompting the phrase “Soylent green, it’s made of people!” The computer scientists are playing off this famous phrase with their title: “Soylent Grid: it’s Made of People!” The idea being that people from all over the world need to jump through anti-spam hoops such as CAPTCHAs, and the power of these people can be harnessed through a grid structure to do some good in the world.

Author contact: Serge Belongie. sjb@cs.ucsd.edu

Paper citation: “Soylent Grid: it’s Made of People!” by Stephan Steinbach1, Vincent Rabaud2 and Serge Belongie2 1Calit2 and 2Department of Computer Science and Engineering. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
vision.ucsd.edu and grozi.calit2.net/

Paper presented at ICV 2007 (Interactive Computer Vision) in conjuction with ICCV 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007. Download the paper in PDF format at: cs.ucsd.edu/icv2007.pdf

Contact: Daniel Kane. dbkane@ucsd.edu. 858-534-3262. University of California - San Diego

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Freedom Calendar 10/27/07 - 11/03/07

October 27, 1800 Birth of U.S. Senator Benjamin Wade (R-OH), author of 1862 law banning slavery in all U.S. territories.

October 28, 1842, Birth of Republican suffragist and abolitionist Anna Dickinson, “Joan of Arc of the Union cause,” whose campaign speeches in many states contributed to victories of Republican candidates.

October 29, 1864, African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”.

October 30, 1829, Birth of civil rights champion and U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), instrumental in founding Republican Party in New York.

October 31, 1882, Death of African-American Republican, union organizer, and Texas state legislator George Ruby.

November 1, 1879, Death of U.S. Senator Zachariah Chandler (R-MI), Underground Railroad conductor and co-founder of the Republican Party.

November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan makes Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday.

November 3, 1868, Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation.

"We believe that everyone deserves a chance, that everyone has value, that no insignificant person was ever born. We believe that all are diminished when any are hopeless. We are one people, committed to building a single nation of justice and opportunity.”

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States

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Presidential Podcast 10/27/07

Presidential Podcast 10/27/07 . Subscribe to Our Podcast feed or online podnova Podcast Channel and receive the weekly Presidential Radio Address in English and Spanish with select State Department Briefings. Featuring full audio and text transcripts, More content Sources added often so stay tuned.

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Bush radio address 10/27/07 full audio, text transcript

bush radio address 10/27/07 full audio, text transcript. President's Radio Address .

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. On Thursday, I traveled to California to visit communities ravaged by wildfires. I walked with a married couple through the charred remains of their home. I met with emergency responders. I talked with displaced families at a disaster assistance center. And I made a pledge to the people of California on behalf of all Americans: We will help you put out the fires, get through the crisis, and rebuild your lives.

State and local authorities in California were well prepared for this crisis, and they responded quickly and effectively. Officials warned those in danger, moved residents out of the path of the flames, and set up dozens of shelters for thousands of people.

State officials also reached out to the Federal government for help. And we responded. Shortly after the fires broke out, we started mobilizing and providing assistance, including the deployment of Federal firefighters and aircraft to drop fire retardant on the fires. As high winds spread the fires, Governor Schwarzenegger requested more Federal help. Within one hour of that request, we approved an emergency declaration that authorized Federal agencies across the government to help state and local responders save lives, protect property, and maintain public health and safety.

On Wednesday, I issued a second declaration. This action made additional Federal funding available to the residents of the counties affected by the wildfires, so they can recover and rebuild. This Federal assistance includes grants for temporary housing and home repair, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, loans for small business owners, and funding to help clean up debris.

I was impressed by the performance of the first responders I met in California. Despite the challenges of high winds and dry weather, firefighters are gaining the upper hand and earning the gratitude of their fellow citizens. Many of these brave men and women have battled the blaze in triple-digit heat. Some have worked around the clock. And more than once, firefighting teams were forced to take emergency shelter in their fire tents when threatened by approaching walls of flame. I was grateful for the opportunity to meet them, and I thank them for their courage.

I was also encouraged by the spirit of the families I met. At one recovery center, I met an amazing young girl named Alyssa Lamborn. Alyssa told me, "I lost my house, but I didn't lose my home -- because my family and my pets are safe." I saw this same spirit in many others who are grateful for their safety and determined to rebuild.

People like Alyssa and her family are receiving help from their fellow Americans. Some have opened their homes to strangers who were evacuated and could not find a hotel room. Doctors and nurses have answered the call to help seniors who were forced from their nursing homes. And volunteers from every walk of life have come forward to provide food, clothing, and blankets -- and a shoulder to lean on.

I went to Southern California with a message: We want you to know the country cares for you. We're concerned about you, your neighborhoods, and your homes. Things may look dismal now, but there is a better day ahead. And we will not forget you in Washington, D.C.

Thank you for listening.

END

For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, October 27, 2007

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Discurso Radial del Presidente a la Nación 10/27/07

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Buenos Días. El jueves viajé a California para visitar a comunidades devastadas por incendios fuera de control. Caminé con una pareja casada a través de los restos carbonizados de su hogar. Me reuní con respondedores de emergencia. Hablé con familias desplazadas en un centro de asistencia para desastres. Y me comprometí con el pueblo de California en nombre de todos los estadounidenses: Les ayudaremos a apagar los incendios, a superar la crisis, y a reconstruir sus vidas.

Las autoridades estatales y locales de California estaban bien preparadas para esta crisis – y respondieron rápida y eficazmente. Los oficiales alertaron a los que corrían peligro… movieron a los residentes fuera del camino de las llamas… y montaron docenas de refugios para miles de personas.

Los oficiales estatales también solicitaron ayuda del gobierno federal. Y nosotros respondimos. Poco después de que los incendios estallaron, comenzamos a movilizar y proporcionar asistencia – incluyendo el despliegue de bomberos federales y aviones para echar retardador de fuego sobre los incendios. Al propagar las llamas los vientos muy fuertes, el Gobernador Schwarzenegger pidió más ayuda federal. Dentro de una hora de esa solicitud, aprobamos una declaración de emergencia que autorizó a las agencias federales dentro del gobierno a ayudar a los respondedores estatales y locales a salvar vidas, proteger propiedad y mantener la salud pública y la seguridad.

El miércoles emití una segunda declaración. Esta acción puso a disposición más financiamiento federal a los residentes de los condados afectados por los incendios – para que puedan recuperar y reconstruir. Esta asistencia federal cubre subvenciones para vivienda temporal y reparación de casas…préstamos de bajo costo para cubrir pérdidas de propiedad no cubiertas por seguro… préstamos para dueños de pequeños negocios… y financiamiento para ayudar a limpiar los escombros.

Me impresionó el desempeño de los primeros respondedores que conocí en California. A pesar de los retos de los vientos elevados y del clima seco, los bomberos están ganando la batalla – y ganándose la gratitud de sus conciudadanos. Muchos de estos valientes hombres y mujeres han batallado las llamas en temperaturas de tres dígitos. Algunos han trabajado sin parar. Y más de una vez, los equipos de bomberos tuvieron que buscar refugio de emergencia en sus carpas al verse amenazados por muros de llamas que avanzaban sobre ellos. Me siento agradecido de haber tenido la oportunidad de conocerlos - y les agradezco por su coraje.

También me sentí alentado por el espíritu de las familias que conocí. En un centro de recuperación conocí a una joven increíble llamada Alyssa Lamborn. Alyssa me dijo: “Perdí mi casa, pero no perdí mi hogar – porque mi familia y mis mascotas están a salvo”. Yo vi este mismo espíritu en muchos otros que están agradecidos por su seguridad y decididos a reconstruir.

Personas como Alyssa y su familia están recibiendo ayuda de sus conciudadanos estadounidenses. Algunos han abierto sus hogares a personas desconocidas que fueron evacuadas y no pudieron encontrar un cuarto de hotel. Médicos y enfermeras han respondido al llamado para ayudar a personas mayores que fueron forzadas a dejar sus casas de reposo. Y voluntarios de todas las profesiones se han presentado ofreciendo alimentos, ropa y cobijas – así como una mano de apoyo.

Fui a California del Sur con un mensaje: queremos que ustedes sepan que el país siente afecto por ustedes. Nos preocupan ustedes, sus vecindades y sus hogares. Las cosas actualmente podrán parecer desconsoladoras – pero hay mejores días por delante. Y no nos olvidaremos de ustedes en Washington, D.C.

Gracias por escuchar.

Para su publicación inmediata, Oficina del Secretario de Prensa, 27 de octubre de 2007

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President Bush Tours Fire Damaged Southern California, Rancho Bernardo Neighborhood, San Diego, California. FULL STREAMING VIDEO 11:28 A.M. PDT. PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE and GALLERY

THE PRESIDENT: The Senator and the Congressman and the Governor and I have come up here to survey firsthand the terrible devastations done by the fires here in the San Diego area. We've met the Jeffcoats, who came up this hill, and went to what was their home. And we know how tough it is for you; 39 years of marriage -- that's something that you didn't think you'd be dealing with after all this time. So we want to let you know that the American people care for people like you who are suffering. We appreciate your spirit; we really do. I think all of us who met you were very impressed by your determination to deal with this tough moment in your life, and rebuild your lives.

To the extent that people need help from the federal government, we will help. I am here, really, to make sure that the federal effort works hand-in-glove with what the Governor has been doing. The Governor has taken the lead down here, and he's done a fine job. The thing I like about Governor Schwarzenegger, he says, you show me a problem, I'll charge it; if you show me a hill, I'll go up it -- and that's exactly what he's done.

And my job is to make sure that FEMA and the Defense Department and the Interior Department and Ag Department respond in a way that helps people get the job done. And that's what I'm here to listen to.

I want to thank the Senator for joining me. On the flight down we had a good conversation. She's deeply concerned about the citizens of California. She asked the right kind of questions, and, you know, we're going to give her the answers.

And Congressman, thank you for joining us. This is his district. It's got to be tough for you to represent the good people here and know that people are suffering.

But anyway, thanks for being here, and God bless you all. God bless the people of this state. Thank you.

Q Mr. President, a lot has been made about the contrast between this response and the Katrina response. Do you have any thoughts on that, and how you're doing?

THE PRESIDENT: You better ask the Governor how we're doing. I will tell you this: On all these responses, the thing that has amazed me most is the courage of our first responders. The firefighters here in this part of the world are incredibly brave people. The police force has done a fabulous job.

And same in the Katrina area. I mean, I know there was a lot of criticism of effort, but remember, there was 33,000 people pulled off roofs by brave Coast Guard men and women flying those choppers. A lot of people's lives were saved.

CONGRESSMAN BILBRAY: San Diego County has a centralized disaster response team made up of the County Chairman as the Chairman of the Disaster Council, and every police chief and fire chief and mayor, so there's a network here that those of us in the federal and the state level are able to come supplement. But the backbone of this response was the local providers, because they were organized. So the real heroes here are the providers, are the men and women working for the counties and the cities and the fire districts that really were here first and foremost, and we're just supplementing.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, see, that's an interesting question. I appreciate you asking it. My hearts are with the Jeffcoats right now, that's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about people whose lives turned upside-down. The experts can try to figure out whether the response was perfect or not. All I can tell you is when the Governor calls, I answer his phone. When the Governor says we need this help, think about sending these troops here, I got on the phone, I called the appropriate people. I'm interested in helping him solve problems and helping the folks here at the county level. There's all kinds of time for historians to compare this response or that response, but those of us who are here from government, our hearts are right here with the Jeffcoats, that's where we are.

And I'm looking forward, and I know the Senator and Governor and Congressman is, to eating lunch with the firefighters. We can't thank people enough for putting their lives at risk to help a neighbor, and that's exactly what's taking place. If there needs to be more firefighters, we'll send more firefighters. Those are the kind of questions that we're asking; what does it take to get the job done?

Q Mr. President, Congressman Hunter tried to get some of the C-130s here, and they are here, but they are still on the ground and the National Guard won't let them fly. What seems to be the problem? We really need those because the flames continue to fan.

THE PRESIDENT: I'll find out. I'll find out.*

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER: I just want to add to this because I want to thank the President for coming out here today. I can tell you that when we saw on Monday the flames going out of control and it becoming really a major disaster, I told my assistant that we got to call the President and ask for help, and before I ever had a chance to make that phone call -- I remember I was in the middle of a briefing -- the President -- I was in -- I got the phone, they said, it's the President on the phone. And he called me, and he told me that he's really concerned about the fires here in California and if anything he can do, anything that we need, we should let him know; that all his entire Cabinet and his whole staff, his team, everyone is available.

So I call this quick action, I mean, quicker than I expected, I can tell you that. And since then we've been talking every day on the phone and we asked him for an emergency declaration; they got it within 24 hours. We asked for a disaster declaration; we got that within 24 hours. And then he called me back and says, I'm going to come out because I'm really concerned about the people in California and what they are going through; we want to make sure that we help them get back on their feet -- and here he is.

So I call this very unbelievable response from the federal government and the Bush administration, from everyone and from Senator Feinstein; I want to thank you also for the great response, and she was calling us every hour and being concerned. So I would say this is really great response, and you cannot do this without everyone working together. And what we have seen here, unlike other disasters, I mean, how quickly the locals, the state and the federal government came together and everyone working together was really extraordinary to watch, so I want to thank everyone, I want to thank you again, President, for coming out here today and helping us.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you all.

END 11:35 A.M. PDT

* "Three fire suppression missions were flown yesterday. All six fire suppression equipped C-130s, four from the National Guard and two from the Air Force Reserve, are operational today and are dropping on the Poomacha fire in southern California this afternoon. For more information, contact Dan Stoneking at 703-607-2554."

For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, October 25, 2007

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Claire Shipman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for the ABC American television show, "Good Morning America". She joined ABC News in May 2001. She also frequently contributes to other ABC News programs such as "World News Tonight," "Nightline," and has appeared as a panelist on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Before joining ABC News, she was a White House correspondent for NBC News.

She has been a substitute anchor on "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight."

Claire attended Worthington High School in Worthington, Ohio, and graduated in 1980. In 2006, she was recognized by Worthington Schools as a Distinguished Alumni during Convocation.

She is a 1986 graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and also holds a master's degree from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Divorced from former CNN Moscow bureau chief Steve Hurst, she is now married to Time Magazine White House correspondent Jay Carney. They have a son, Hugo, and a daughter.

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Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arnold Schwarzenegger was first elected as Governor of California in the 2003 recall elections and won re-election in 2006. It is the first elected office he has held, but was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, in which he served from 1990 to 1993 and was Chairman of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor Pete Wilson.

Schwarzenegger is a registered Republican, unusual among the often heavily liberal Democratic Hollywood community. He describes himself as fiscally conservative and socially moderate (i.e., he is pro-choice and supports taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research). Schwarzenegger backed Republican President Ronald Reagan (another movie star turned politician) while Reagan was in office, and campaigned for George H.W. Bush in 1988. However, he chastised fellow Republicans during the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998. Sensing an opportunity to affect the outcome of the 2004 Presidential race, Schwarzenegger campaigned in Ohio for Republican George W. Bush in the closing days of the campaign.

In an interview on October 29, 2002, with MSNBC's Chris Matthews at Chapman University, Schwarzenegger explained why he is a Republican:

"Well, I think because a lot of people don't know why I'm a Republican, I came first of all from a socialistic country which is Austria and when I came over here in 1968 with the presidential elections coming up in November, I came over in October, I heard a lot of the press conferences from both of the candidates Humphrey and Nixon, and Humphrey was talking about more government is the solution, protectionism, and everything he said about government involvement sounded to me more like Social Democratic Party of Austrian socialism.

Then when I heard Nixon talk about it, he said open up the borders, the consumers should be represented there ultimately and strengthen the military and get the government off our backs. I said to myself, what is this guy's party affiliation? I didn't know anything at that point. So I asked my friend, what is Nixon? He's a Republican. And I said, I am a Republican. That's how I became a Republican."

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b-roll of Task Force 1-26 engaged in Operation Baton Rouge, the battle to free Samarra from anti-Iraqi forces. Soldiers make barriers with razor wire and position themselves on street with large mosque in the background. Smoke plumes from hit structure as troops hold their positions. Unit(s) Involved: • 1/26th infantry, 2nd brigade Combat team, 1st infantry division. Submitting Unit: 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs

Humvees drive forward and more Soldiers move up the street. A Soldier shouts and a machine gun on a humvee fires. Small explosion and more troops fire the rifles. Much more firing and a humvee drives backward into the picture. A Soldier on the humvee looks through binoculars.

View of mosque and gunfire is heard. Soldiers reassure a man who sits in between them. Video from 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. See related Samarra video in this section, Major Church explaining operations in the "Interviews" section, and Major General Batiste at a press conference in the "Briefings" section. dvids: Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System

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About the Audio: The song tells of an electrician whose identity gets confused with that of a dangerous criminal, and is then found and chased through a forest by mercenaries. While in the forest, the electrician flashes back to his high school biology class and remembers that blood conducts electricity because of the hemoglobin (an iron containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells) it contains.

He then comes up with a plan to kill the mercenaries, he leads them to an electrical generator and cuts his arms to pool blood on the floor and on the electrical power lines. When the mercenaries arrive, they are electrocuted ("bloodrocuted") and die on the spot. However, the electrician is unable to stop his arms from bleeding and dies of blood loss. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article, Bloodrocuted

About the Band: Dethklok is a virtual death metal band that stars in the television show Metalocalypse. Their debut album, released September 25, 2007, was entitled The Dethalbum. Creator Brendon Small wrote the lyrics and music and also performed the guitar, bass, and vocals; ex-Death/ex -Dark Angel/ex-Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad drummer Gene Hoglan performed drums on the album. According to Billboard their album is the highest charting Death Metal album ever.

Very little is currently known about the virtual band's history. At the beginning of the series, they were already extremely popular and considered "The world's greatest cultural force," so the band's actual rise to fame has yet to be explored. There has been little back-story on about how they met or when the band formed. In the series the numeric value of the band's wealth is never actually stated, but the fact that they are referred to as the 12th largest economy in the world, just above Belgium, indicates that they must make somewhere on the order of several hundred billion dollars a year. Their influence is so great that the United Nations even allows them to act as their own police force, used to punish those foolish enough to pirate their songs. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article, Dethklok

About the Show Metalocalypse follows the exploits of the part-American/part-Scandinavian death metal band Dethklok. Although the name is usually spelled "Dethklok," almost all of the band logos have it spelled as "Dëthkløk." Dethklok follows true-to-life metal styling, one example being their death metal-oriented song, "Murmaider," about "mermaid murder." They enjoy a popularity level unheard of in reality, being "the twelfth largest economy on Earth." They are so popular that their fans will do anything their songs tell them, even if it means death.

If Dethklok endorses a company, it instantly becomes the only source for the product it happens to sell, as every competitor is quickly driven out of business. The band's unnatural popularity has attracted the attention of an Illuminati-style group, known as the Tribunal. Each episode sees this group attempt to covertly thwart the band by calling in various "specialists", such as "military pharmaceutical psychotropic drug manufacturers", "celebrity depression specialists" or various psychopaths that attempt to infiltrate the group. It is alluded to on the show that several Washington think tanks specifically related to the band exist. GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article, Metalocalypse

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