"My inclination is to support it, because I think Main Street is now at stake," he told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. He added, though, "I'm not happy about it."

"This [crisis] could affect every sector of the economy. If the credit crisis continues or worsens, then suddenly small business people can't make their payroll. You have large businesses who can't sell corporate debt, which could bring the entire economy to a grinding halt."

Obama was pleased that, at first reports, his basic goals for the package were included: "The issue of making sure that we had strong oversight; the insistence that taxpayers share in the gains (if there are any) when the market recovers; the insistence that homeowners get additional relief so that there's some reciprocity - if in fact we're bailing out or helping banks, they in turn have to help rework mortgages for people who are potentially facing foreclosure; and the final thing, the issue of executive compensation, making sure that taxpayer money is not going to pad bonuses or golden parachutes.

"It appears that those principles have all been incorporated into the core agreement. And I'm going to be reviewing the language over the next day to make sure that those provisions actually stick."

But beyond the bailout (which has reportedly been agreed to by Congressional leaders), Obama focused on how the U.S. economy came to the point of a president sounding the alarm that a catastrophe was in the offing if drastic action wasn't taken immediately. "We have to remember how we got here, not so much to allocate blame as to understand the choices that are going to face the next president. Unless we update our 20th century regulatory framework for a 21st century global financial system, then we're going to continue to be vulnerable to this kind of situation, and I think the next president has to come in with a very strong package of reforms."

Obama said fighting off lobbyists and special interests was key, as is recognizing that the fundamentals of our economy are not strong - which he suggested his opponent, Republican John McCain, has not recognized.

"Some of the root causes of this crisis have to do with the day-to-day struggles that ordinary people are going through," he said, "with flat wages and incomes but constantly increasing costs.

That puts pressure on them to take out more debt, to use home equity loans, to try to refinance. It created an environment in which this kind of crisis potentially could occur.

"We should have never gotten into this place in the first place. And I think this is a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policy."

Obama noted that the dire predictions of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and President Bush set the stage for a week of high drama that, he said, shouldn't have ever happened. "Think about it. I mean, we had the largest bank failure in our history, and it wasn't even the major news that day!"

"You agree with the president's assessment that it's as serious as he said it was?" Schieffer asked.

"I agree that this is probably the most serious financial crisis we've faced since the Great Depression," Obama said. "And what we can't do is do nothing. What I absolutely insist on, though, is that the same sense of urgency that we have about Wall Street, we have about folks on Main Street who have been struggling for a long time."

Obama said more serious regulations are required. "We have to set up some rules of the road, some regulations that work to keep the system solvent, and prevent Wall Street from taking enormous risks with other people's money, figuring that, 'Tails I win, heads you lose,' where they don't have any risk on the downside.

"But the second thing that we have to learn is that, if you think about how this all started, subprime lending, you've got homeowners who ultimately could not make payments on their homes, and that's an indication of the degree to which family budgets have been under huge stress for years now, and we haven't been paying much attention about it because the theory has been, 'Well, as long as those at the top are doing well, prosperity somehow is going to trickle down.'"

In response to Thursday's meeting at the White House, attended by both Obama and McCain, at which the tentative brokered agreement was upset by House Republicans, prompting further tense negotiations, Schieffer asked Obama if McCain should get any credit for helping to get the bailout package settled.

"No," Obama said. "Look, here are the facts: For two weeks, I was on the phone every day with Secretary Paulson and the congressional leaders, making sure that the principles that have ultimately been adopted were incorporated into the bill. None [of the amendments in the package] were in the president's provision. They are identical to the things I called for the day that Secretary Paulson released his package. That, I think, is an indication of the degree to which, when it comes to protecting taxpayers, I was pushing very hard and involved in shaping those provisions.

"But understand this: The important thing here is making sure that we don't have a photo op session, because this is serious. We should not have been here in the first place. And, you know, I think the critical debate that we're going to have to have between myself and Senator McCain moving forward is, how do we prevent this kind of thing from happening again?"

In addition to the bailout, Obama discussed Friday's debate, where McCain accused Obama of "not understanding" something.

"The interesting thing is, he kept on asserting I didn't understand, but beyond saying the line never indicated what exactly I didn't understand. It's true I don't understand Senator McCain's positions on a whole host of issues, because given how the Bush administration has created an extraordinary crisis in the economy and considering that we remain bogged down in Iraq, al Qaeda is resurgent, Iran is developing nuclear weapons, that our foreign policy is if not in a shambles, then certainly in a place that I think anybody is comfortable with - given those facts, what I don't understand is that Senator McCain continues to promote them."

Input:

• vUser: your username at StatCounter
• vPass: the password for your account
• vProjectId: the project ID of your web statistics project

Output:

An CSV text string, you can use CSV2Array function change it to an array

What is StatCounter

A free and reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyze and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Function Code

Function kDownloadStatCounterLog(vUser, vPass, vProjectId)
	Dim oHttp, vStr, vCookie, vHost, vHost2
	kDownloadStatCounterLog = ""
	If Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-Host")<>"" Then
		vHost = Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-Host")
		vCookie = Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-PHPSESSID")
		vStr = kUrlGet("http://" & vHost & ".statcounter.com/project/standard/csv/download_log_file.php?project_id=" & vProjectId, "http://" & vHost & ".statcounter.com/project/standard/download_log.php?project_id=" & vProjectId, "PHPSESSID=" & vCookie)
		If inStr(LCase(vStr), "you are not logged in.") = 0 Then
			kDownloadStatCounterLog = vStr
			Exit Function
		Else
			Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-Host") = ""
			Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-PHPSESSID") = ""
		End If
	End If
	vStr = kUrlGet("http://www.statcounter.com/", "", "")
	vHost2 = kGetString(vStr, "<form action=""http://", ".statcounter.com/project/")
	'Response.Write "<pre>" & vHost2 & ":"
	If Not kCheckRegExp("^my\d+$", vHost2) Then vHost2 = "my2"
	'Response.Write vHost2 & "</pre>"
	vCookie = ""
	vStr = kUrlGet("http://" & vHost2 & ".statcounter.com/project/", "http://" & vHost2 & ".statcounter.com/project/", vCookie)
	'Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(vCookie) & "</pre>"
	vCookie = LCase(vCookie)
	vCookie = kGetString(vCookie, "set-cookie: phpsessid=", ";")
	If Len(vCookie) = 32 Then
		vStr = "PHPSESSID=" & vCookie & "&form_user=" & vUser & "&form_pass=" & vPass
		Set oHttp = CreateObject("WinHTTP.WinHTTPRequest.5.1")
		oHttp.setTimeouts 10000, 10000, 120000, 30000
		oHttp.open "POST", "http://" & vHost2 & ".statcounter.com/project/"
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", Request.serverVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Accept", "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*"
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Accept-Language", "en-us, en; q=0.8"
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Connection", "Keep-Alive"
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
		oHTTP.setRequestHeader "Referer", "http://" & vHost2 & ".statcounter.com/project/"
		oHTTP.setRequestHeader "Cookie", "PHPSESSID=" & vCookie
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Length", Len(vStr)
		oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
		oHttp.Option(6) = False
		oHttp.send vStr
		If oHttp.Status = 200 Then
			vStr = Byte2Str(oHttp.responseBody, "UTF-8")
			Set oHttp = Nothing
			If inStr(LCase(vStr), "invalid username or password")>0 Then
				Response.Write "<h1 class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog</h1><p class=""red"">Invalid Username or Password (" & vUser & ":" & vProjectId & ")</p>"
				Response.End
			Else
				Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: Unknown</b></li>"
			End If
		ElseIf oHttp.Status = 302 Then
			vStr = LCase(oHttp.GetAllResponseHeaders())
			'Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(vStr) & "</pre>"
			vStr = Replace(vStr, vbLf, vbCr)
			vStr = Trim(kGetString(vStr, "location: http://", vbCr))
			If vStr<>"" Then
				vHost = kGetString(vStr, "", ".")
				vStr = "http://" & vStr
				'Response.Write "<pre>" & vStr & "</pre>"
				vCookie = "login=deleted"
				oHttp.open "GET", vStr, False
				oHttp.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", Request.serverVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
				oHttp.setRequestHeader "Accept", "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*"
				oHttp.setRequestHeader "Accept-Language", "en-us, en; q=0.8"
				oHttp.setRequestHeader "Connection", "Keep-Alive"
				oHttp.setRequestHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
				oHTTP.setRequestHeader "Referer", "http://" & vHost2 & ".statcounter.com/"
				oHttp.Option(6) = False
				oHttp.send
				vCookie = LCase(oHttp.GetAllResponseHeaders())
				'Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(vCookie) & "</pre>"
				vCookie = kGetString(vCookie, "set-cookie: phpsessid=", ";")
				If Len(vCookie) = 32 Then
					vStr = kUrlGet("http://" & vHost & ".statcounter.com/project/standard/csv/download_log_file.php?project_id=" & vProjectId, "http://" & vHost & ".statcounter.com/project/standard/download_log.php?project_id=" & vProjectId, "PHPSESSID=" & vCookie)
					If inStr(LCase(vStr), "you are not logged in.") = 0 Then
						kDownloadStatCounterLog = vStr
						Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-Host") = vHost
						Application("aCookieStatCounter-" & vUser & "-PHPSESSID") = vCookie
					Else
						Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: Cookie Lost (" & vHost & ")</b></li>"
					End If
				Else
					Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: Cannot Get Cookie (" & vHost & ")</b></li>"
				End If
			Else
				Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: Cannot Get Location</b></li>"
			End If
		Else
			Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: " & oHttp.Status & "</b></li>"
		End If
		Set oHttp = Nothing
	Else
		Response.Write "<li><b class=""red"">ERROR:DownloadStatCounterLog: Cannot Get Cookie</b></li>"
	End If
End Function

Here at Santa Rosa Strength we follow a plant based diet and recommend it to those who are concerned with wellness. We support our clients' efforts with a program called the "The 6 Steps to a Plant Based Diet". This is an excellent program and can be easily integrated into a busy lifestyle. For some people though, a 100% plant based diet is too strict, and for them we suggest a more relaxed approach; Flexitarianism.

Take a look around and you will see many people walking around today that are suffering from obesity. Hidden among those individuals however, are a growing number of people trying to manage a condition, children as well as adults, called Type II Diabetes. We are looking at the tip of the iceberg however. In the U.S. today, we now have over 50% of the population experiencing some type of ill health. This is a potential health disaster unless we correct the course we are on as a culture.

Many of the health issues that people are trying manage today are diet related. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is one of the poorest examples of our contribution to the world, yet the world is following us down this disease ridden path. If you are reading this, take a moment and ask yourself this question.

"What makes me think that my experience with the SAD diet will be any different with those who have developed disease from it?"

If you continue to do the same things, you will experience the same results. This is a fundamental law. Now I know that everyone has a great aunt that has lived to be 97, who has eaten meat and potatoes everyday of her life, smokes like a chimney, and the only veggies she eats are found at the bottom of her Martini glass. "She just knows how to live", you might say. "She laughs and smiles all the time, and has a great outlook on life" You are right of course. Your great aunt has some insight to life that we can learn from, and it plays a big part on how we age, called attitude. But, pay attention here, she is not the rule! She is what we would call an exception! People who live with no regard to their long term health, experience results called disease. This is the rule!

If one wishes to experience the potential of excellent health for the entirety of their life, there are many things to consider and diet is only one part. It is a major part, however, and we should not waste any more of our time eating the junky foods that are being passed off as healthy choices any longer. Stop eating processed foods whenever possible. Stop eating and drinking chemicals whenever possible.

The following is a list of things a person can do to follow in the footsteps of those individuals around the world who have lived healthy beyond 100 years of age.

• Eat a Plant Based Diet - Studies on centenarians have shown that consuming a plant based diet will contribute to a long healthy lifestyle. There are cultures of people in the world who do not experience heart disease, cancer, diabetes, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, macular degeneration, or any of the age related loss of function that plagues our culture.
• Strength Train - Do some form of Progressive Resistance Exercise, regularly, for the entirety of your life.
• Recreate - Take the time to enjoy the things that you love.
• Change your attitude - In some of the centenarian cultures that have been studied, the elderly are revered, and they often compliment each other on how old they look. When is the last time you thanked the person who told you, "You are looking very old today Mr. or Mrs. So and So. Are you 100 yet?"
• Love Your Family and Your Community - Strong family and community ties have been shown to be a major contributor to longevity.
• Manage Stress - Many of the oldest cultures of the world are focused on a lifestyle, free from the things that normally cause us stress. Get a massage, play music, or engage in amorous behavior with a loved one.
• Find Yourself - A strong, deeply rooted, sense of ones inner strengths (and weaknesses) will contribute towards ones self confidence and healthy lifestyle. In our culture there are many, many avenues for inner exploration.

It is our wish, here at Santa Rosa Strength, that our community can come together, work together, and help our loved ones learn the principles of living healthy to 100.

   So the program's called "the National High School Game Academy," and I believe it was just recently opened. It's a 6-week course stretching all of July and some of August, and covering broad topics like art, design and programming and their implementation into game development. The course also holds lectures every weekday for about an hour and a half on the game development process in general, often having guest-speakers come in and tell their stories. The lectures along with the broad coursework convinced me this is the most serious, albeit the only, gaming camp on the East Coast.

   If any of you are looking for a way to get into - or even just learn more about - the gaming industry, then I highly suggest you check this out. It's got a price tag of almost $6,000, but it'd be worth it.

Here's a little clip of us driving to pre-drink before the San Jose Earthquakes game!

Nikes Pre Nationals XC Country Race...

This was one of my best races and best days of my life... I broke my personal record by a little over a minute, and the 5km (3.1 miles) race consisted of a course that had sands and hills. The tough part was keeping my pace, and keeping up with the other runners. After the race I warmed down and ate... I felt very good after the race and played hackysack with my friends, and the day was very nice because the sun was up... This is one of my best races in the season I won't forget that day. Sept. 27, 2008 Saturday Portland Meadows. Thank you coach and the XC team!

"I like to say there are really only two reasons why older people end up in a nursing home. One is that their brains stop working, and the other is that their muscles stop working. Especially their leg muscles. While the loss of skeletal muscle inevitably comes with aging, no one should just sit still and take it. In fact, sitting still would be the worst thing. People in their 40's and 50's need to take prompt action to preserve what strength they still have."

For years experts in the exercise field have been telling people that they need to exercise, but their has never been a clear message as to what to focus on. Should one walk, swim, bike, or do yoga? The message is becoming more clear, however, as the medical journals begin to provide enough information to physicians, so they may be encouraged to play a greater role in persuading their patients to strength train.

"Just being in the hospital for a few days can dramatically affect muscle mass, " Dr. Williamson said. "So physicians, in addition to thinking 'I've successfully treated this persons heart failure or pneumonia' need to be thinking, 'How can I help restore their muscle mass and function?' "

In the past much of the challenge has been in determining when a person was actually experiencing this muscle loss, called sarcopenia, but W. Jack Rejeski, PhD, a behavioral scientist at Wake Forest, is quoted in the article as saying,

"Difficulty climbing stairs can be the first sign of functional decline. We've shown in our research that such problems are one of the first signs of early disability."

Sarcopenia has been written about and studied for years but the action needed to do something about it has been lagging behind the volumes of information. It is estimated that only 21% of all men and 17.5% of all women in the United States engage in some type of strength training today. Something needs to be done to change this, and physicians are the ones who can have the greatest effect on their patients exercise habits.

"Assessing a patients physical functioning should be part of an office visit," Rejeski said in the article. "One way to conduct an assessment of lower extremity function is by the Short Physical Performance Battery. It's a very simple test, but it has been shown in large studies to be predictive of decline in function."

It's not only the decline in physical ability that becomes evident with sarcopenia, however, and their have been 100's of studies to determine the role of muscle loss with diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, as well as complications from stroke, and chronic neck and back pain. A recent search for sarcopenia on PubMed.gov revealed 675 articles on many different subjects. A visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website will reveal the question, posed on the site, why strength train?

The answers to this question are numerous:

• A group of older men and women completed a 16 week strength training program focused on reducing arthritis pain. Their pain was reduced by 43% and demonstrated that resistance exercise was just as effective, if not more so, than medications, based on CDC findings.
• The CDC reports that lean body mass decreases 15% between the ages of 30 to 60
• In a 16 week study of Hispanic men and women with type II diabetes, improved glucose control was demonstrated, which was comparable the results produced by medication.
• The CDC reports that resistance exercise improves balance and flexibility, as well as improves bone density.

The advise of the of the AMA and the CDC is based on information that has become abundantly clear. Everyone, including those who have elite level athletic prowess, will lose muscle as they age. If one wishes to avoid the severe maladies and loss of function associated with sarcopenia, one must strength train. It is now imperative for physicians to monitor functional strength loss, and prescribe resistance exercise.

At Santa Rosa Strength, we specialize in the clinical application of progressive resistance exercise (PRE), and for years have helped our clients manage: sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, complications from stroke, chronic low back pain, Parkinson's, obesity, and forms of arthritis. With 1 weekly PRE session, proper nutritional guidance, recreational activities, stress management, and organic, whole food supplementation, individuals have been guided to success time and time again. If you are reading this, and need to make a change in your life, please call, e-mail, or just drop by. We will provide whatever is necessary for you to take control of your health!

Whats the verdict HotRod?

Yours
Andreas

The main reason of this is probably because the phone will come without an AT&T contract, and can also be easily unlocked to be used on another carrier.

[Via: Uberphones]

Artist: Metallica
Album: Death Magnetic
Year: 2008
Genre: Rock / Metal
Label: Vertigo

Quality: VBR V2 / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
Encoder: Lame 3.97
Size: 137.00 MB
Playtime: 01:14:42

1. Track List :
2. 1.  That Was Just Your Life                       {7:08}
3. 2.  The End Of The Line                           {7:52}
4. 3.  Broken, Beat & Scarred                        {6:25}
5. 4.  The Day That Never Comes                      {7:56}
6. 5.  All Nightmare Long                            {7:58}
7. 6.  Cyanide                                       {6:39}
8. 7.  The Unforgiven III                            {7:46}
9. 8.  The Judas Kiss                                {8:00}
10. 9.  Suicide & Redemption                          {9:57}
11. 10. My Apocalypse                                 {5:01}

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Golf Monthly magazine's Top 25 UK coach, Gary Alliss explains how to hit a long, straight tee shot under pressure

Kings of leon, one of my favourite bands and who i am going to see next month (giggles), are releasing a new album in 19 days- UK.  (20 days in american - hahah) Anyway, you can pre-order the album which i presume yet again will be bottle loaded squezzed southern jive. YAHA. £9.99, (with bonus track and video) to pre-order

What are you waiting for

For the mini-guide, hit up Amazon.com

For the Little Big Pouch, head to Game Crazy

For the Kratos Sack Boy, head to Gamestop / EBgames

For Nariko Sack Boy, head to Best Buy

For the sticker book, head to Circuit City