Judge orders 1 Fla. county to extend early voting

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ? A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county on Sunday after the state Democratic Party sued in an effort to give people more time at the polls.

Some voters had faced waits several hours long on Saturday, the last scheduled day of early voting. The judge ruled on a lawsuit filed late Saturday in Orange County after an early voting site was shut down for several hours. The Winter Park library was evacuated when a suspicious package ? a cooler ? was found outside. It was later detonated by a local bomb squad.

Bill Cowles, the Orange County elections supervisor, said that voters who show up on Sunday will be asked to use a provisional ballot. The extra hours will be offered at only the Winter Park library.

A Republican Party spokesman said the party was not challenging the decision. Brian Burgess said state law requires provisional ballots to be used whenever a court orders an extension of voting hours.

The Democratic state party also filed a federal lawsuit Sunday morning seeking more voting time in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Voting in Miami-Dade County and Palm Beach County didn't wrap up until early Sunday morning because voters standing in line when the polls closed were allowed to vote.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and other Democrats asked Gov. Rick Scott this past week to use his emergency powers to extend early voting. The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature last year cut the number of days available for early voting from a maximum of 14 days to eight days.

Scott and state election officials, however, turned down the extension requests. Secretary of State Ken Detzner maintained that there was not a true emergency that justified the extension. Chris Cate, a spokesman for Detzner, said that the state did not plan to appeal the decision to reopen the Winter Park location.

The federal lawsuit says counties should offer absentee ballot voting at local election offices if early voting cannot be extended. Both Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties said they planned to do that.

"I decided to open because we are allowed to do so," said Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher.

Bucher noted that voting in her county did not wrap up until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Her office started accepting absentee ballots at 9 a.m.

Christina White, deputy supervisor with Miami-Dade County, said the county also decided to accept absentee ballots for four hours on Sunday at its main office.

"We are hoping that (the Democratic Party) is happy with that," White said.

Broward County is also allowing voters to pick up absentee ballots on Sunday, but only if they made an appointment in advance.

Absentee ballot voting differs from early voting in that voters must fill out their ballot, place it an envelope and then sign it. The ballot envelopes are opened later and then fed into voting machines.

During early voting, voters place their ballots directly into the voting machines.

The Orange County lawsuit asked that early voting be extended at Winter Park and that the court ask local television and radio stations to let voters know about it.

The lawsuit included sworn statements from several voters who said they waited in line for hours and were turned away because voting was suspended at the site. A volunteer with the campaign of President Barack Obama said that the crowd of voters dwindled from 300 to just 40 after voting was halted.

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Nutrient consumption: How much is too much - Healthyvives Health ...

A lot has been guessed, studied and stated about the importance of a healthy diet which has rightfully made us diet conscious. Resultantly, we avoid fried items and include nutritious foods in our diet but a question here arises, are we consuming the right nutrients? The major nutrients that a human body require comprises of proteins, vitamins and fats which gives it the essential energy for various functions such as heart beating, breathing etc. In addition, it requires minerals and vitamins to work optimally. But what is exactly a right diet routine that covers all these essential nutrients?

Apparently, a best diet chart has foods from all food families consisting of pulses, cereals, milk products, fruits, vegetables etc. Thus, their proportional inclusion can create wonders for your body and can even slow down the process of aging. But at the same time over inclusion of one nutrient and a complete avoidance of another can prove to be counterproductive gradually leading to chronic illness. Thus, read ahead to know more about the essential nutrients with their right consumption quantity:
? Micronutrients: Nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates and fats come under this category. Optimally, our body should get 50 percent of total calorie requirements from carbohydrates, 15 percent from proteins and 10 percent from fats. And if your body endures a lot of physical work, the nutrient requirement increases. Thus, regular intake of these nutrients is essential. At the same time, their over consumption has its own share of disadvantages, obesity being one of the finest examples. So, regulate their inclusion in your diet accordingly.

? Sodium: This mineral is essential to regulate the fluid flow, blood pressure and electrical activity of the body. Thus, failure in the rightful consumption of this nutrient can lead to high blood pressures. Where at the same time it?s over consumption can lead to chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart diseases and certain type of cancer. Thus, Sodium?s intake in appropriate amount is essential. It is basically found in the food items like salts, cereals, cakes, biscuits etc.

? Hydration: It might not look obvious but our body needs water for multiple operations like fluid flow, temperature control, excretion of toxins etc. Thus, if you consume inadequate amount of water, your body may not get properly hydrated which can prove to be harmful. Thus, you should consume at least 2-3 ml of water per day. At the same time, over consumption can also prove to be harmful as it might lead to premature skin sagging and flushing off of the essential minerals from the body.

? Vitamins: These are essential for healthy metabolism and proper tissue building in body. The energy provided by micronutrients is consumed by body with the help of these vitamins. While water soluble vitamins like C and B gets flushed out of the body and thus can be consumed freely, the consumption of fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E and K should be regulated as it might lead to obesity.
Thus, the regulated consumption of all the essential nutrients is more important as it has been rightly stated that excess of everything is bad. In addition, you can also opt for herbal diet remedies over the processed ones as they contain right amount of these nutrients which can indeed be very beneficial.

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Syrian rebels attack air base to secure north-south corridor

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country's north on Saturday in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces appear over-stretched with fewer fighters on the ground and have sought to limit rebel advances with far superior firepower, increasingly from the air and especially in the Aleppo and Damascus areas.

But despite ragged command-and-control and few heavy weapons, the rebels have gained control over the rural north and border crossings to Turkey after 19 months of conflict and now seek to isolate Aleppo from Assad's power fulcrum in Damascus.

Abroad, fragmented anti-Assad opposition groups will try again at a meeting in Qatar starting on Sunday to form a united front in pursuit of international respect and, most important, better weapons to turn the battlefield tables and oust Assad.

Fighters from the Islamist Front to Liberate Syria said they launched the attack on the Taftanaz military airport in the northern province of Idlib in the early hours on Saturday, using rocket launchers and at least three tanks.

The government has used Taftanaz to fuel helicopter gunships and fighter jets that have bombarded nearby villages.

"All planes that bomb Idlib take off from that airport, and also, if we liberate it, the road between Aleppo and Idlib will be open and safe," a rebel from the Sukour al-Sham brigade said.

"We have managed to destroy one helicopter and several anti-aircraft batteries, and we are using tanks to shell the base," he told Reuters by phone from the scene.

Rebels said they pulled back after six hours of fighting and destroying two helicopters. "We are finished for the day but we will be back," said another rebel.

A video posted on the internet showed rebels firing rockets at the base.

Syrian warplanes attacked the nearby village of Bennish in retaliation, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Further fighting was reported in the eastern, oil-producing province of Deir al-Zor and on the outskirts of Damascus.

Activists said government forces also clashed with rebels near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and killed at least nine fighters.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria on Saturday and Israeli media said the tanks were involved in the fighting with rebels.

The revolt against Assad began as peaceful rallies calling for more freedoms and democracy but turned to armed struggle against the military machine that he unleashed on protesters.

Diplomatic intervention has been fruitless because major world and regional powers are at loggerheads over how to end the conflict. It has killed about 32,000 people, making it the bloodiest of Arab uprisings that have ousted entrenched leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen since early last year.

MILITARY BASE ABANDONED

On Friday government troops vacated their last base near Saraqeb, leaving Idlib town and its surroundings "completely outside the control of regime forces", the Observatory said.

The pullout followed coordinated rebel attacks on Thursday on three military posts around Saraqeb, 50 km (30 miles) southwest of Aleppo, in which 28 soldiers were killed.

Saraqeb lies at the confluence of Syria's main north-south highway, linking Aleppo with Damascus, and another road connecting Aleppo to the Mediterranean port of Latakia, a stronghold of Assad's minority Alawite community.

The mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are supported by Sunni states including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and neighboring Turkey. Shi'ite Iran remains the staunchest regional supporter of Assad, whose Alawite faith derives from Shi'ite Islam.

The conflict has been seared by sectarian bloodshed which U.N. rights officials say may amount to war crimes.

The rebels suffered a setback in image this week when the United Nations said a video released on Wednesday appeared to show them executing soldiers who had surrendered after the insurgents occupied the base near Saraqeb.

A video posted on Saturday on YouTube by anti-Assad activists appeared to show government forces mutilating bodies of rebels in one area of Idlib. In two sequences, soldiers cut off ears of dead rebels while cursing them. "This is the ear of a dog," a voice behind the camera says with a laugh.

In response to rebel territorial gains, Assad has cranked up air strikes on opposition strongholds, including working class suburbs east of Damascus over the last week.

PRESSURE TO UNITE ANTI-ASSAD GROUPS

Political divisions within the opposition, a lack of cohesion between their leaders abroad and fighters in Syria, as well as the rising profile of Islamist militants in rebel ranks, have put off Western states otherwise keen to see Assad fall.

Veteran opposition leader Riad Seif has proposed a structure melding the rebel Free Syrian Army, regional military councils and other insurgent units alongside local civilian bodies and prominent opposition figures.

Called the Syrian National Initiative, his plan envisages the creation of an Initiative Body, including political groups, local councils, national figures and rebel forces; a Supreme Military Council; a Judicial Committee and a transitional government-in-waiting composed of technocrats.

(Writing by Mariam Karouny and Mark Heinrich; Editing by Stephen Powell)

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Dealing with a flooded car after Sandy

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NEW YORK - Without power in Manhattan since the storm Sandy hit, Doug Block is in denial about his car. The 2003 Pontiac Vibe is in a garage on East 20th Street - a good two blocks from the East River - and flooded, probably over the top of its hood. Block, 59, has not seen the car yet, does not really know what condition it is in, and he does not quite know what to do about it.?

"My wife filed a claim with State Farm, and we're waiting to hear back from them," says Block via email. "We haven't even been able to get in far enough to assess the damage. But we talked to others parked near where we are, and their cars were ruined, so we're assuming the worst."?

Block, a documentary filmmaker, and his wife, a law professor who teaches on Long Island, are now trying to rent a car so she can get to work, but available vehicles and gas are sparse in Manhattan.?

So, for now, they wait.?

While the attention after the storm has been on those with working cars who cannot get gas, there are potentially hundreds of thousands of flooded cars across the region. An iconic picture of storm damage shows a whole taxi fleet in Hoboken under water.?

State Farm's car claims were up to 8,000 on Thursday afternoon - almost as many claims as the company got for Hurricane Irene last year, and double what the claims were the day before. USAA, another insurer, says 4,000 auto claims have been reported through Thursday afternoon.?

By comparison, after hurricane Katrina, there were 325,000 known vehicles that were flooded, says Frank Scafidi, public affairs director of the National Insurance Crime Bureau.?

This storm could yield a similar number, but not everyone with a flooded car due to Sandy has filed a claim yet.?

Captain Paul F. Beglane of the U.S. Marines is marooned on an oil barge in a hurricane berth in Newark, New Jersey. His truck, however, is in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and it's likely flooded. "The waterways are closed to all but emergency traffic and Port Newark's port security won't let any mariners on or off our vessels while we're moored to their dock," Beglane said via email.?

Time to file
There's no particular rush for Beglane, says State Farm spokesperson Holly Anderson, since most cars that are flooded past the dashboard are totaled by the insurance company. The electronics inside are just too sensitive to water, and most of them are so expensive to fix that an older car is more economical to just scrap.?

The good news is that car owners with comprehensive coverage are covered for water events, and likely won't face the same sort of hurdles with insurers as homeowners who may have various parts of coverage denied or haggled over.?

Cars with minimal damage can be fixed, if they are dried out properly. Insurers suggest having a wet car examined by a mechanic before starting the engine. "Flooded cars are not always totaled," according to Nicole Alley, a USAA spokeswoman. "It depends on the water level and type of water - salt, brackish or clean water."?

The downside is that the dollar value of a totaled car may not match up with its functional worth to a family. Block, for instance, has a $500 deductible, and isn't expecting much cash in return for his 10-year-old set of wheels. "It's too bad since we loved the car and it was running fine - mostly because we put a good amount into repairs in the past year," he says.?

If you don't know what condition your car is in, like Beglane, however, you can file a claim and get an insurance adjustor to take a look.?

And what if you can't locate your car because it floated away? The insurance company can deal with that, too. "We won't go look in the bottom of the ocean, but if your car floated away, it's something that's going to be totaled out anyway," State Farm's Anderson says.?

Trouble down the road
The real trouble comes later, if cars that have been totaled or have been refurbished after flooding go back on the market without the proper disclosure.?

"People who are savvy enough can pick up a salvage vehicle and have a decent vehicle to sell, but they know it's been flooded," says Scafidi of the National Insurance Crime Bureau.?

What is supposed to happen when an insurance company totals a car is that the title gets branded as having been flooded and totaled. That record should be available to the public, via a database maintained by The National Insurance Crime Bureau, or a service like CarFax. Also, if a car has been flooded, but not totaled, that is supposed to be noted on its records. But that doesn't always happen.?

"A seller can get a clean title from state x and sell in state y, and that buyer is none the wiser," says Scafidi. That is, until the car starts falling apart or growing mold.?

Block says he will miss his Pontiac, but realizes how blessed he is in the scheme of things. "Things could be better, for sure, but they sure could be a whole lot worse," Block says.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/waters-recede-dealing-flooded-car-after-storm-1C6827586

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Simple.TV review: a set-top box that streams broadcast TV to mobile devices

Anyone who follows the home entertainment space closely probably agrees that TV is broken: archaic user interfaces, pricey bundles, six remotes that each do one thing, all limited to the confines of your home. Of course, realizing it's broken and knowing how to fix it are two different things. One attempt at a fix is Simple.TV. This $149 box (plus $59 a year for service) bridges the gap between the various devices you already own and the world of broadcast television. It allows you to access the plethora of content available via unencrypted digital cable, or for free via an antenna, on just about any device you own -- tablet, smartphone, PC or even a TV. Sounds pretty great, huh? But does it deliver? And can it replace your cable box and the high-priced service that goes with it? Just click on through, and you'll find out.

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