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Kansas City LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Follow the latest in Kansas City LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.

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Criminal Justice Leaders In Colorado Recommend Lighter Penalties For Drug Possession

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

A commission of Colorado criminal justice leaders voted Friday to recommend reduced penalties for possessing marijuana and other illegal drugs. If Colorado legislators adopt the recommendations, possessing up to 4 ounces of marijuana would become a petty offense instead of a criminal misdemeanor, and possessing 8 to 16 ounces would become a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

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Finding great stuff to read with Google Reader

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I only followed a handful of blogs when I first started using Google Reader , but was always on the lookout for more great stuff to read. Over time, I discovered that my friends followed lots of interesting sites, and my reading list grew from 4 to 34 sites and blogs as I incorporated their recommendations

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In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog ) We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we’ve focused on accepting prolific users who regularly produce videos that reach a wide audience — like Fred and ValsArtDiary — we’ve occasionally extended the program to include some of the site’s more unforgettable videos, such as the Battle of Kruger , David after dentist and Otters holding hands . These individual video partnerships recognize the role popular “one-off” videos play on YouTube, and have helped many people earn thousands of dollars a month as their videos went viral and endured over time.

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The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. – Ed. What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work

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Oscar Arias, Costa Rica’s President, Has Swine Flu

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Nobel Peace laureate and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Tuesday that he has swine flu, showing that not even a head of state is safe from the virus that has caused worldwide concern but relatively few deaths. The 69-year-old president and Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a statement that he was quarantined at home and is being treated with the anti-flu medicine oseltamivir. “The pandemic makes no distinctions,” Arias said.

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FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

ADELPHI, Md. — Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways to reduce deadly overdoses with acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S

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US Airstrikes In Afghanistan Likely Killed 26 Civilians: Military

Friday, June 19th, 2009

WASHINGTON — A U.S. warplane failed to follow all operational rules in a complex battle in Afghanistan last month that killed an estimated 26 civilians and 78 Taliban fighters, the U.S

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Geithner, Bernanke Work On Overhaul Of $700B Bailout

Friday, January 30th, 2009

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with top government officials Friday to refine the administration’s plan for overhauling the $700 billion bailout program and improve regulation of the financial system. The administration is working on proposals for how it will use the last $350 billion from the rescue program. But the measures being considered could end up costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars beyond the original $700 billion. Geithner previously said the administration is weighing the possibility of using a bad bank to buy up toxic assets that are weighing on the books of financial institutions. However, some suggested Friday that the administration may be re-examining that idea because of the costs of such an approach. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the issue of how much more money to ask Congress to commit beyond the current $700 billion is a key item the administration is debating. “Do you guarantee the bad assets or do you buy them? Do you guarantee all the bad assets or just the housing assets? There are a lot of unanswered questions,” Schumer said. Geithner met throughout the day with senior Treasury Department officials and had a meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair and John Dugan, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The OCC regulates the country’s biggest banks. Meanwhile, congressional auditors released a new report saying it may never be known whether the initial $700 billion plan accomplished its objectives because it will be difficult to separate the impact of the rescue program from the effects of other economic forces. The Government Accountability Office said the Treasury Department had made progress in implementing about half of the nine reforms it suggested in an earlier report, including improving communication about the bailout and hiring more staff to run it. But the department had not fully addressed eight of the recommendations, according to the GAO. “The lack of a clearly articulated vision has complicated Treasury’s ability to effectively communicate to Congress, the financial markets, and the public on the benefits of TARP,” the report said. Treasury spokesman Isaac Baker said President Barack Obama and Geithner both agree that “much more needs to be done to better stabilize our financial system and get credit flowing again to families and businesses.” In an e-mail responding to the GAO report, Baker wrote the administration would soon announce an overhaul of the bailout program “that will increase lending and impose new measures to strengthen oversight, transparency and accountability so that taxpayers know where and how their money is being spent and whether it’s achieving real results.” Geithner said earlier this week that the administration would announce its new proposals “relatively soon.” Many expect decisions as early as next week. The administration is trying boost confidence that it can get control of the worst financial crisis to hit the country since the 1930s. However, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson quickly committed the first $350 billion from the bailout program in an effort that so far has not yielded the expected results of stabilizing the situation and getting banks to resume more normal lending to consumers and businesses. The bailout program has generated a huge amount of controversy. Critics charge that the Bush administration failed to impose enough restrictions on banks to make sure the billions they were receiving went to boost lending. Obama on Thursday called it “shameful” and the “height of irresponsibility” that Wall Street had paid out $18.4 billion in bonuses last year. The Treasury statement on Friday said that Geithner, who was sworn into office Monday night after being confirmed by the Senate, had spent part of this week in telephone conversations with the finance ministers of France, Germany and Australia on the joint efforts that will be needed to stabilize the global economy and restore growth. Treasury said the discussions with French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde involved a review of France’s proposals to overhaul the global financial architecture and the progress being made by the Group of 20 major industrial and developing countries. Those talks are in preparation for a G-20 leaders’ meeting in April that will be a follow-up to an initial summit chaired by former President George W. Bush in November.