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Check out our exclusive pictures from UFC on Versus 6 from photographer Tracy Lee. See Cruz's victory celebration, Pat Barry's fruitless slam, Snooki, Paul Wall, and a whole lot of blood.

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Meredith ignored in "media fog" around Amanda Knox (Reuters)

PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) ? Murdered Briton Meredith Kercher has been forgotten in the "fog" of a tireless media and public relations campaign to free the American student convicted of killing her, a lawyer for the victim's family told Reuters.

Seattle student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are appealing an Italian court verdict that found them guilty of murdering 21-year-old Kercher in 2007 during a drug-fueled erotic game that turned violent.

A verdict is due on Monday in a case that has centered largely on Knox, a 24-year-old alternately depicted as a sex-driven vamp who lived life on the edge or a naive American girl framed by prosecutors on a witch-hunt.

In the breathless Knox-obsessed media coverage, "Mez" -- whose half-naked body bearing more than 40 gashes and bruises was found in her Perugia apartment -- has disappeared from view, said Francesco Maresca, a lawyer for the Kercher family.

"The whole world has forgotten about Meredith and her family," Maresca, a Florence-based lawyer, told Reuters.

"One always thinks of the defendants, their families, the suffering of their families and the victim is forgotten."

Knox, in large part, can thank her family for keeping her at the center of global media attention, Maresca said. "They have done a huge public relations campaign to free her that has created a fog around the trial."

His comments come after prosecutors on Friday urged the jury to ignore a pro-Knox publicity campaign they said cost over a $1 million.

Maresca has also highlighted the contrast between reports of a private jet -- denied by the Knox family -- waiting to whisk away the student if she is freed, with the trouble the Kercher family were having in finding tickets to fly to Perugia from Britain.

"They are a modest, middle-class family without huge amounts of money to spend and so can't afford to stay in Perugia for weeks and weeks in a hotel to follow the trial, which is what the families of the accused have done," he said.

The Kerchers, who are expected in Perugia for the verdict, have kept a low profile -- in stark contrast to the Knox family.

The Knoxes, who have hired Seattle public relations firm Gogerty Marriott, regularly appear on U.S. morning talk shows and news programs, backed up by a supporting cast including Knox's friend Madison Paxton and former FBI agent Steve Moore.

Websites like Friends of Amanda and Amanda Knox Defense Fund have also campaigned to free the Seattle student, who is seen by many in the United States as an innocent victim trapped abroad in the clutches of a medieval justice system.

MEDIA UNDER SCRUTINY

The role of the media has been a recurrent theme in a trial where frantic journalists fighting for scraps of information have become so intertwined in the case that both the prosecution and defense have begged the jury to ignore the coverage.

A small army of reporters and camera crews has descended on the hilltop town of Perugia as the appeals trial ends, packing the center with satellite trucks, chasing Knox's parents and sisters around town and tweeting each minute detail.

Prosecutors have urged jurors to ignore an "obsessive" media campaign they said made everyone feel like Knox's parents, while the defense has blamed the media for "crucifying" Knox and creating a false image of her as a vampish man-eater.

"You've got the court of public opinion that has made its way into the court of law," says Barbie Nadeau, Newsweek's bureau chief in Rome and author of "Angel Face," a book on Knox.

"You've heard both sides talk about the media in the trial, which is an anomaly in a murder trial."

So polarizing is the topic that reporters covering the case have been dubbed as either "innocentisti" or "colpevolisti" based on whether they believe Knox is innocent or guilty.

Nadeau, who argues that the Knox media campaign has meant many Americans have only seen their side of the story, says she gets hate mail from Knox supporters, some of whom have written to say they hope she "faces the same fate as Meredith" and telling her to get God in her life.

Amanda's father Curt Knox told Reuters on Monday that he agreed the jury should ignore the media and focus on the facts at hand to throw out Knox's conviction, but argued prosecutors had used the media to their advantage early in the trial.

"During the first trial the prosecution and the police used the media to leak information and to create a person they needed out of Amanda that she really isn't," he said.

"Whereas now, all the media appear to be changing direction and saying, 'Why are these kids still in prison?'"

(Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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NASA Wants You: Space Agency Launches App Competition (SPACE.com)

NASA is launching a competition that encourages scientists, developers and space fans worldwide to build new software and hardware that addresses critical issues about our planet, such as weather impacts on the global economy and depletion of ocean resources.

NASA's International Space Apps Competition comes on the heels of the President Barack Obama's announcement yesterday (Sept. 20) that the country will be participating along with dozens of other nations in the new Open Government Partnership program. The initiative is part of an effort for governments to promote transparency, empower its citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies.

NASA will work with space agencies around the world to coordinate the challenge, which will culminate with a two-day event in 2012 that will provide an opportunity for governments to use the tech software and hardware to help address global challenges. [Top 7 Space Apps to Grab Today]

"The unique challenges posed by spaceflight often result in solutions to issues we see every day here on Earth, and development of these solutions can be expedited when leveraging the expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions," NASA said in a statement.

In addition, Obama's 2012 budget request focuses NASA's efforts on a vigorous path of innovation and technological development.

"Our investments in space exploration have generated incredible amounts of data and resulted in the development of new technology that continues to improve life on Earth," NASA added. "The challenge before us is to leverage data and new technology to create practical applications that benefit humanity."

Although NASA is working to define the content and timing of the competition, software submissions are not being accepted yet. However, NASA is encouraging people to enter "problem statement ideas" about key topics that should be addressed and can be collaborated on.

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Fed Launches $400 Billion Stimulus To Boost Labor Market, Confidence

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday dialed up its aid to the beleaguered U.S. economy, launching an effort to put more downward pressure on long-term interest rates over time and help the battered housing sector.

The Fed said it would launch a new $400 billion program that will tilt its $2.85 trillion balance sheet more heavily to longer-term securities by selling shorter-term notes and using those funds to purchase longer-dated Treasuries.

It will now also reinvest proceeds from maturing mortgage and agency bonds back into the mortgage market, an acknowledgement of just how weak conditions in the sector have remained.

"Recent indicators point to continuing weakness in overall labor market conditions, and the unemployment rate remains elevated," Fed said in its statement.

Faced with a lofty 9.1 percent jobless rate, consumer and business confidence sapped by a troubling U.S. credit downgrade, and an escalating sovereign debt crisis in Europe, Fed officials have signaled they would seek to prevent already sluggish U.S. growth from weakening further.

But even as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has indicated the central bank's reluctance to stay on the sidelines, Fed activism has become a punching bag for politicians as an election year nears. Top Republican congressional leaders wrote to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke this week urging the central bank to desist from further economic interventions, echoing criticism voiced by Republican presidential candidates in recent weeks.

Fed officials, however, believe that by shifting their bond holdings they could encourage mortgage refinancing and push investors into riskier assets, such as corporate bonds and stocks, without stoking a run-up in consumer prices.

The U.S. central bank is not alone in its concerns. The Bank of England on Wednesday signaled it was ready to pump more money into the weakening British economy, potentially as soon as October.

Similarly, the Norwegian central bank held its main interest rate unchanged and signaled it might refrain from rate increases for longer than previously expected due to a weaker global economy and the euro zone debt crisis.

The U.S. economy grew at less than a 1 percent annual rate over the first half of the year and analysts have warned of a heightened risk of recession. A report showing U.S. employers added no new jobs on net in August provoked widespread fear growth could stall.

The Fed has already embarked far down one of the most aggressive monetary easing paths on record. It cut overnight interest rates to near zero in December 2008 and then moved to more than triple its balance sheet to $2.8 trillion through a series of bond purchases.

After its last meeting on August 9, the Fed said it expected to hold rates at rock-bottom levels at least through the middle of 2013, a decision that drew three dissenting votes.

BROOKING DISSENT

The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that the United States could fall back into recession if the government tightened its budget too quickly. It recommended the Fed consider a further easing of monetary policy as long as there was no sign an inflationary psychology taking root.

The Fed has already embarked far down one of the most aggressive monetary easing paths on record. It cut overnight interest rates to near zero in December 2008 and then moved to more than triple its balance sheet to $2.8 trillion through a series of bond purchases.

After its last meeting on August 9, the Fed said it expected to hold rates at rock-bottom levels at least through the middle of 2013, a decision that drew three dissenting votes.

Critics claim the easing campaign has failed to produce results and warn it could actually cause damage.

"We have serious concerns that further intervention by the Federal Reserve could exacerbate current problems or further harm the U.S. economy," Republican congressional leaders wrote in the letter to Bernanke, which they released on Tuesday.

The central bank's policies have become a topic on the presidential campaign trail as well.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, a leading Republican candidate, said any further Fed money printing would be "almost treacherous, treasonous."

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Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley: It's Over!


Stop us if you've heard this before, but Teen Mom's Gary Shirley and Amber Portwood are over. Done. Broken up. Splitsville. Not getting back together.

While we believe that almost as much as when Jersey Shore's Sammi Giancola (we refuse to call her Sweetheart) says "I AM DONE" to Ronnie, Gary says he'ss positive that he's over his baby mama Amber for good this time.

The reality star bombed out a series of Tweets to that effect:

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  • I’m completely through w amber No more back n fourth sh*t. I got my precious baby u got your precious anderson men hope your sins r worth it
  • Hard to turn u away today, heading u cry was hard but your actions were terrible and this time there was no reason for what u did. No love.
  • Moving on I’m bout to kick it with honors with my last night til I get Leah back from grandmas. Thank u mom for everything.

Read into that what you will. It seems like he's implying that Amber Portwood is sleeping around with the men of Anderson, Indiana. Just a theory.

Later, he Tweeted, "I got a date tonight. With a girl in Indy… Where to take her? Just dinner lol a date plus I’ve been over this crap way to long."

So ... there you go. Gary Shirley has no love for Amber, tons of love for Leah and went out with some new girl. Who hopefully loves Aeropostale.

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Play Wii games on your Android tablet via network streaming (video)

In case you haven't met him already, Obiwan222222 represents the minimalist alternative to hardcore modding. He's already shown us Wii games running on the PSP and iPod Touch, and now he's pulled off the same trick on his Asus Transformer. It's all done with network streaming: he loads up Super Mario Galaxy 2 on his PC using the open-source Dolphin emulator and then transmits it to his tablet via the Splashtop HD remote desktop app for Android. He also throws in an Xbox 360 controller to make things look more confusing than they really are. We'd obviously worry about lag with this type of setup, but the video after the break makes it look just about playable.

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Beginner's Guide to Pay Per Click Advertising

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Hi now for all of us in the Internet marketing or information publishing arena we will undoubtedly use pay per click advertising at some stage. Now for those just starting out, it can all be a bit confusing so here's a real beginner's guide to the main ones - who they are, what they are and what you can expect. But as I've identified many times before you really need once you've been through this brief outline to go off and have a go, there's nothing like DIY, you need to see and understand the nuts and bolts of how PPC advertising works.

What Is Pay Per Click?

Pay per click advertising, or PPC for short, is online advertising that works for any organisation whether offline or online and is certainly a method for helping advertisers drive highly targeted traffic to your site or offline business as well. .

Here's the History Bit

It started in 1997 with Yahoo's Search Marketing and since then has grown into a variety of different programs. There are a number of different options you can try. The top 3 pay per click search engine advertising programs are Google AdWords, Yahoo's Search Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter.

Google AdWords

This is probably the top pay per click network and the one you'll have heard most about. It has an interface that is friendly, clean and easy to use. It takes just a few minutes from the time you create your account until your ads are live and ready to go. It offers lots of different options for your marketing campaign. It costs $5 to get started, and you can bid for as low as $0.01 per keyword, so it's really flexible.

Free to Use Keyword Research Tool

It also has its own free keyword research tool to help you choose keywords and phrases to target. No for me I reckon its one of the best and real easy to use so even if you don't use AdWords the keyword tool I would sincerely recommend you check out and use.


Yahoo's Search Marketing

This is the search engine that started it all. It has gone through several name changes from Yahoo to GoTo, and then Overture, and finally it's back as Yahoo Search Marketing. Like Google, this search engine enables you to reach a massive number of users with its ppc advertising, and also offers sponsored ads on all of its searches. It is also a comparatively cheap service and they offer special deals from time to time, just go & check it out.

Microsoft AdCenter

Microsoft's PPC offering is top notch. Like the others, it has campaigns to help you customize your ad campaign. It also has its own free keyword research tool that lets you really target your customers, you can narrow it down to gender, age, time of day, geographical location, and just about anything else you can imagine. This feature makes it a wonderful all-in-one package.

The Disadvantages Of Pay Per Click

Whilst pay per click sounds very appealing, you should be aware that there are some areas you need to watch out for. You may have trouble winning your keyword bids at a competitive price and within you advertising budget, there's lots of competition for most keyword phrases, so it can take quite a budget to get ones that you may want if they carry very high traffic levels.

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Chromeo: Night By Night [Video]

Saturday night is about stripping down to the rougher, roguish, and restless in you and dressing it back up in a fine suit. Well, for me anyway. Sometimes. Maybe you, too? It's about getting weird and dancing. So this is Chromeo's Night by Night. More »


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Police: Israeli, Palestinian wounded in West Bank (AP)

JERUSALEM ? Israeli police say an Israeli and a Palestinian have been wounded in a confrontation in the West Bank amid rising tensions ahead of a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli settler near the Palestinian village of Qusra and another settler opened fire, shooting the Palestinian in the leg.

Rosenfeld says both wounded were taken to hospital. Neither has life-threatening injuries.

Village mayor Hani Abu Reideh says the Palestinians threw stones after settlers entered one of their orchards. He denied anyone was stabbed.

On September 5, vandals set fire to a mosque in the same village and scrawled graffiti in Hebrew. Settlers are suspected.

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