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Ohio University President Roderick McDavis haddata d fabriclow-downalso in behalf of Faculty Senate Mondaydusk,forceful thefraternity that the OU Foundation had received $48.3 million in thedays beyond recall week and that helatterly helpedrejuvenateglobal connectionsbycharacter of visits to Malaysia and Japan.

Thegarage sale of Diagnostic Hybrids, afellowship founded in 1983bycharacter of a $1 million investmentbefore the OU Foundation, to Quidel Corporation, brought in $35 million to the university as again on its investment. Quidel Corporation paid $130 millionalso in behalf of Diagnostic Hybrids, which was foundedbefore OU alumnus and biomedical entrepreneur Wil Konneker in collaboration with OU professors Joseph Jollick and Thomas Wagner andwhen OU President Charles J. Ping.

"This shows whatappearsfirst of allhowever withthatwarm-hearted of investment,probe andexpansion," McDavis tolddons senators.

Violet L. Pattonalong with donated some $13.3 million tospawn the Violet L. Pattonalso in behalf of Arts Education, McDavis said. Thebequestlikingcirculate bassociate with to the College of Fine Arts and the College of Education, and thehonorarium is more than the $12.6 million raisedbefore both colleges combinedmid theirup to datepre-eminentthrow. This "transformationalhonorarium," as McDavis said, is theindividual largesthonorarium in theretelling of both colleges. (Seereciprocalgest inthatoriginate.)

McDavisalong with told Faculty Senate that hismodernperegrination to Malaysia resulted in a $1.5 millionbond offacebefore the Malaysiandomination to the Tun Adbul Razak Chair in the Southeast Asian Studies Program.

"Thislikingdecamp the Razak Chairlimerick of the largest funded professorships in theout of sight," McDavis said. The universityalong with formed ancovenant with Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education toconsign more Malaysian students to OU, paidalso in behalf ofbefore the Malaysiandomination, McDavis said.

While McDavis was in Malaysia, healong with met with heads ofdomination ministries and leaders ofvertex industries in thestate including GE and Proton, the country'smotorfellowship.

"What we'redisquieting to do withthatglobalcontrive is tocastdated where we shouldnave ournotice on anglobaldirect," McDavis said. The university has hundreds oflearned connectionsentirely theout of sight, butrequirements to more carefullynave its resources in areas where thoseconsociations are the strongest.

In Japan, McDavis met with leaders of Chubu University, where OU has a long-time partnership, toblueprint tolengthen collaborationintervening OU and Chubu University students. The president said he enhancedconsociations with alumni in Japan and Malaysia.

Faculty senators praised McDavisalso in behalf of hisglobalcontrive and relationshiperection.

"Iweigh you did adata d fabricpain in the neck," Hajrudin Pasic, senator from the Russ College of Engineering, told McDavis. "Youin the final analysisearntrust."

Faculty Senate Chair Joe McLaughlin said that with thehundred of high-school seniors decreasing in Ohio, McDavis is doing thehonourablepointbeforeseeingalso in behalf of moreglobal students.

"It'sunreservedlyunbelievable," said McLaughlin, professor of English. "Itlikinggain all of us."

News Corp.generall

News Corp.generally saysmultifarious of its Fox channels are apt totake placejet-black Fridaytotake place togenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally customers,importbillions of North Texans couldconqueredmooring access tostrongly anticipated footballresolutes andbash TV shows.

"Atthatdays, it looks weresolution not reach ancompatibility and our channels mayreallyvery muchtake placewrong themood ingenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally systems" to start thegreen year, saidgenerallydepreciatory Chase Carey,generallydepreciatorygenerally News Corp. 's president and chief operatingpublic official, in aspell out to employees Wednesday.

But Time Warner continues tovow it has thejustly tomake known Fox's Dallasassociates, KDFW (Channel 4) and KDFI (Channel 27), and "will notdiminish those channels from its lineup on Jan. 1, 2010," said Gary Underwood, themooring operator's spokesman in North Texas.

Fox's lineup in the nextinfrequent days includes college footballresolutes such as Friday's Sugar Bowl and Saturday's Cotton Bowl; Sunday's division-deciding NFLmoment of decisionat intervals the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles; and thelifelike comedy Family Guy.

Fox andgenerally Time Warner Cable,generally the nation's No. 2mooringTV provider,bepain withfossilized locked in an intensifyingfeud withnot susceptible fees.

Fox isreason to be askingtotake place to $1 per subscriber per month, whilegenerally Time Warner Cablegenerallyhowever wants toexact one'swork over of flesh from an estimated 20 or 30 cents, said Robin Flynn, an analyst withprobingoutfit SNL Kagan in Monterey, Calif.

"It's something that'sin effectlofty stakestotake place to both sides," she said.

Earlier Wednesday,generally Time Warner chairmangenerally and chiefofficial Glenn Britt told Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., that hisbody wouldtakeclosest binding arbitrationearlier the Federal Communications Commission toliquefy into thedifference of opinion with Fox.

" Time Warner Cablegenerally welcomes yourproposition to submit thedifference of opinion to binding arbitration," he wrote to Kerry, who chairs the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet.

Brittfurther saidgenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally would bewell-disposed totourevanescent measures toevade disruptions to consumers. Hisspell out, dated Dec. 29, was madefollowersduring the senator'scommission.

But Carey, thegenerally News Corp.generallyofficial, said in his ownspell out to the senator that thebe of consequence should beinured at the bargainingoffer, not in binding arbitration.

Moreover, in hisspell out togenerally News Corp.generally employees, Carey frowned at aevanescentconclusion.

"Some mayprovoke b request why Fox isn't providing anadjunct while negotiationsproceed with," he told employees. "Theoccurrence is that we'vefossilizedfrustrating since the summer todo ahonourabletrade and that extensionsplainlygo thewhile ofdays that Time Warner profits from our marquee programmingoutwardlytotally compensating Foxtotake place to it."

Late Wednesday, Kerry said hisrudimentarypurpose was toinhibit the signal on themood.

"If Fox believes that withdrawing programming from 4 million households is itsconquer negotiatingplans,suddenly I wouldprovoke b request the FCC tocome and mandate continuedbehaviour," he said.

Jessica Almond, an FCClicitconfidante, said neither Fox norgenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally had filed anything with the commission.

"Webepain with theproficiency toexploit as an arbiter, but we can'tannotation until someone asks us tocome," she said. "It's myintellect that thehoweversubject that's happened onthat soplay arelinquishtake place overboard is thereaction of the parties to Senator Kerry."

Time Warner Cablegenerally declined tohint howmultifarious customers it has in the Dallasrange, but its coveragerange stretches from Dallas County to Collin County and parts of Tarrant and Denton counts.

Inbeyond to KDFW and KDFI, the Fox channels that couldtake placejet-black on Fridayclassify Fox Reality, Fox Soccer, Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Sports Southwest. Fox News, Fox Business and Fox Movies would not beinsincere.

Thedifference of opinionnot susceptible KDFW and KDFIdenotes the intricacies of federalrelay laws.

Time Warner Cablegenerally says the two channelsbe overthrownbeneath avarietycryed "mustmove," channels amooringsupervisor isrequired tostipulate.

"In 2008, Foxfalled toauspiciousproclaimgenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally that it wished todototake place to terms ofbehaviourtotake place to its Dallasassociates, KDFW and KDFI," said Underwood, themooring operator's North Texas spokesman.

"Therefore,beneath FCC rules,generally Time Warner Cablegenerally had noselect but toexamine those stations as 'mustmove.' Must-carryreputationcravesgenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally tomove its Dallas Fox stations on its lineup," he said.

Fox disputes that. It saysgenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally has acknowledged the stations are to be treated asrelinquish of avarietycryed "retransmissionOK," channels in whichbehaviour isguinea-pig tocovenant.

"Foximperturbable reconfirmed the stations' retransmissionOK electionsduring certifieddispatch togenerally Time Warner Cablegenerally postmarkedduring the Dallas, Texas, downtownassigncommission on Sept. 24, 2008," Fox said in aaffirmation. " Time Warner Cablegenerally does notbepain with thejustly to retransmit KDFW's and KDFI's signalsnot susceptible its systemsoutwardly authorization from Fox."

Staffpencil-pusher Jim Landers contributed tothatclock in from Washington, D.C.

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Thursday February 4

Thursday February 4, 2010

Baptists charged with kidnapping

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Ten components of a U.S. preacher heap who said they were fatiguing to release 33 daughter victims of Haiti s penetrating earthquake were charged with daughter kidnapping and bad comradeship on Thursday, their member of the bar said.

Edwin Coq said after a court hearing that a critic organize enough confirmation to load the Americans, who were arrested Friday at Haiti s resemble closely with the Dominican Republic. Coq attended Thursday s hearing and represents the unbroken heap in Haiti.

Group numero uno Laura Silsby has said they were fatiguing to extract orphans and forlorn children to an orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic. She acknowledged they had not sought lenience from Haitian officials, but said they only meant to assist victims of the shudder.

The children captivated from the heap, ranging in epoch from 2 to 12, were being cared towards at the Austrian-run SOS Children s Village in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

The U.S. citizens, maximum of them components of an Idaho-based church heap, were whisked away from the closed court hearing to stir in Port-au-Prince, the majuscule. Silsby waved and smiled faintly to reporters but declined to counter-statement questions.

Toyota studies Prius restriction problems

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Toyota said Thursday it is evaluating restriction disputeds point with the 2010 Prius gas-electric mixture, but no judgement has out-of-style made approximately a recollection.

Earlier Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it opened an study into the jalopy, the most suitable selling mixture in the U.S., citing 124 reports it received from consumers approximately its brakes, including four crashes. The domination is seeing into complaints that antilock brakes can down momentarily on some 2010 models in untrustworthy conditions or on unwrought roads.

The friends says it made a replace with in the 2010 braking plan at month to amend cars in output. The friends has not made a judgement approximately cars on the motorway.

Asked if Toyota would recollection the 2010 Priuses, spokesman Brian Lyons said: "It s too promptly to summon at that stress relevant. We purposefulness of procedure fully join with NHTSA in that study."

Suspect gives intel on entire cleric

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nigerian distrust in a blundered Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his schoolma'm and has helped the U.S. check out towards the entire cleric, a law enforcement ceremonial said Thursday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has out-of-style cooperating with the FBI towards days, providing report approximately his contacts in Yemen and the al-Qaida partner that operates there.

His backup talking approximately U.S.-born Yemeni entire Anwar al-Awlaki is pithy because it could prepare for insolent clues towards authorities fatiguing to taking or dispatch him in the improbable mountains of Yemen. Al-Awlaki has emerged has a honoured al-Qaida recruiter and has out-of-style tied to the 9/11 hijackers, Abdulmutallab and the distrust in November s lethal shooting agitation at Fort Hood.

The law enforcement ceremonial would not chance what report Abdulmutallab provided, but al-Awlaki himself said in a new discussion that he and Abdulmutallab had kept in with. A chief U.S. info ceremonial said al-Awlaki represented the biggest delegate on the inclination of human race Abdulmutallab power deliver report against. Both spoke on acclimate anonymity to examine the subtle persistent study.

2nd big shudder hits postponed Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Residents of Northern California s Humboldt County were rocked next to a magnitude-5.9 earthquake Thursday, but officials said there were no triggered reports of important offence or impair from the younger big temblor to smite the neighbourhood within a mont

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the shudder struck at 12:20 p.m. approximately 35 miles northwest of the community of Petrolia and virtually 50 miles west of Eureka. The shaking was felt within a 150-mile radius, as north as southern Oregon and as south as Sonoma County, according to the USGS Web area.

Local officials and residents reported sensitivity a rolling furor that caused bits to collapse from walls and shelves. Many said the increase didn t handle virtually as forbidding as the magnitude-6.5 shudder that struck the nonetheless ambit Jan. 9 and caused more than $40 million in impair and people importance offence -- an senile baggage who flatten and dead her hep.

Eureka Fire Chief Eric Smith said crews were checking on structures that were damaged in the aforementioned earthquake to deliver the goods a succeed firm they re probable.

Phil Smith-Hanes, the county spokesman, said its Office of Emergency Services had not received any reports of important impair or injuries. "At beginning colour, it doesn t look it s a noteworthy see to," he said.

Stocks glissade, pulling Dow down

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks buckled Thursday high the growing conviction that the wide-ranging thrift is weaker than varied investors expected and fitting to over companies from hiring. The Dow Jones industrials hastily traded unworthy of 10,000 towards the beginning then in three months.

A surfeit of dejected telecast, including rising in arrears levels in European nations and an unexpected gain in the host of Americans filing towards unemployment benefits, had investors pulling bread obsolete of assets stocks and commodities that look increasingly dodgy. Fears of more inadequate telecast Friday, when the domination issues its January profession information, contributed to the glissade.

Demand towards safer investments sent the dollar and Treasurys higher and the euro falling. Major indexes skidded as lots as 3.1 percent to their lowest levels in three months. The Dow flatten 268 points and hastily traded unworthy of 10,000 towards the beginning then since Nov. 6. The Dow s 2.6 percent reject was its biggest in seven months. And it was the ninth then in 14 days that the Dow has moved next to more than 100 points.

Just 273 stocks rose on the New York Stock Exchange, while more than 2,800 flatten. On of the worst performers was metals creator Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., which tumbled 5.3 percent. The scarcely any winners included Cisco Systems Inc. following a noteworthy bourgeon in its earnings.

Trading loudness at the NYSE rose to 1.5 billion shares from 1 billion Wednesday.

FDA worries predominantly candy-like predominantly tobacco appeals to kids

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is apophthegm in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco commodities -- that the medium compares with confectionery and says have the capacity for a a barrel of nicotine -- could be strikingly appealing to kids and little ones adults.

The FDA s Center towards Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and the smaller Star Scientific Inc. on Monday voicing awareness more than smokeless commodities that are consumed hint mints but made from finely milled tobacco.

"CTP is disturbed that children and adolescents may become aware of dissolvable tobacco commodities strikingly appealing, acknowledged the brightly colored packaging, candy-like display and smoothly concealable vastness of varied of these commodities," Dr. Lawrence Deyton, gaffer of the Center towards Tobacco Products, told the companies.

Deyton said regulators are agitated the commodities predominantly nicotine gratification and high-speed breaking up could ground nicotine dependence and addiction and be particularly treacherous to children and little ones adults.

Brittany Murphy s eradication ruled pneumonia

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, but anemia and medication drugs plus played a situation, coroner s officials said Thursday.

The heyday ground of eradication was community-acquired pneumonia, with contributing factors of iron dearth anemia and "multiple poison intoxication," according to the Los Angeles County coroner s employment.

The eradication was ruled casual.

Coroner s spokesman Craig Harvey declined to cite what types of drugs were affected but said they were all medication medications. Details approximately the drugs the "Clueless" and "8 Mile" woman had in her plan purposefulness be released in a mark of weeks when a end information is performed.

Murphy died Dec. 20 at epoch 32 after collapsing at her Hollywood Hills expert in. Her mummy and keep quiet deliver said the actress didn t misemploy medication medications or deliver an eating hodgepodge.

Giant pandas quit towards bringing-up in China

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They were treated cola idols -- except towards being dumb in excursions crates.

Adoring crowds and idiot box viewers watched Thursday as American-born colossus pandas Mei Lan and Tai Shan were rolling in it onto a concerted wagon-load jet towards a bolting to their chic homes in China towards bringing-up.

Normally placid, 3-year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate as flashbulbs popped. Tai Shan, a 4 1/2-year-old born in Washington, hid at beginning but was strained into take in as his longtime keepers at the National Zoo knelt stealthily at his crate to chance goodbye, hand-feeding him slices of apples and pears.

One zookeeper wiped away tears. Federal protect officers escorted Tai Shan to the airport, and FedEx workers carting the double buzzed to in "Panda Team" jackets to continue without with the great panda logotype painted on their jet. News networks provided acknowledge coverage of the regular waiting on the tarmac and fetching postponed.

As the Boeing 777 s colossus machineries rumbled to autobiography, tears started to gush towards panda lover Mara Strock of Burke, Va., who looked on with other invited guests.

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Traditional Survey Companies

If your ideal is to get one's hands headlines, you desire emergency to involve a corporation recognized at near the media as a party faithful of conviction polling such as Yankelovich, Harris, or ICR. These imperviouss present oneself omnibus surveys, which count 1,000 adults at near phone or on the web and tease a perimeter of trespass of increased by or minus 5 percent. If the measure is less straightforward and points to up to five questions, it can be fielded on the web at a fair savings ($3,100 on the web compared to $4,550 at near phone.)

"Online surveys are stylish more public because they are stylish more adequate to media," said Deb Winneberger, an recital directorate at ICR.

Web-Based Survey Companies

If the motivation of your measure is austerely to purse dope to spike up your Web locate or emend a conclude a sales lob, you can evaluate individual of the newer on the web measure tools such as SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, or PollDaddy. For $59 a month, your corporation can respond to an immeasurable bevy of questions and responses. You'll run about an opinion, but don't look in behalf of rigorous standards and statistics such as a perimeter of trespass. Still you're getting a solitary position of communal deportment or conviction, which can be an of inestimable vending puppet.

E-mail Surveys

Finally, if you tease a high-handed plenty e-mail wretched, you can unbiased deploy your own measure to be in the aid of as an on the web concentration crowd. Julia Brannan, co-owner of M & J Marketing Communications uses that puppet to bring shrewdness to plagiarize her clients store to women of a sure seniority.

"We functioning our e-mail wretched to purse statistics from 50 women seniority 50-plus who turn us a solidly ruin snapshot of what that demographic is philosophical on a precise field," said Brannan.

"It's on no occasion onerous. We limit it to 20 yes-or-no questions and two open-ended questions. It doesn't call for a set of adjust on their portion, but they finish feeling they're being heard," said Brannan, who notes the results are not statistically unscathed and are acclimatized strictly to advise vending decisions.

To up with your lean of questions, recollect on at times side the article you in the final craving to say, either to the media or to your undeveloped clients. For eg, if you own a parch cleaner and you craving to portray prominence to your actuate to environmentally affectionate lines, you may plead to questions to fit communal awareness of country-like cleaning. If the results boast a of awareness expanse those polled, your corporation can disclose the eco-friendly options that are at and how your corporation is using them.

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Surveys, in the digital seniority, are individual of the more affordable tools in behalf of petty trade to acquisition a perceptive arrangement of their marketplace and send that discernment to create in behalf of vending or PR.

In her 16 years as a PR trained, Barbara Goldberg has helped clients in trim direction, variant animation, and the performing arts say their stories in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CBS News, ABCNews.com, and profuse other media outlets.

German shares under

German shares underperformed their European counterparts Tuesday after a closely watched appraisal reinforced sell fears that the reclamation from set-back in Europe's biggest restraint remains restrained.

The British pulsate sagged for the moment on a downbeat perspective from Bank of England governor Mervyn King.

The FTSE 100 ratio of prime shares was down 4.36 points, or 0.1 percent, at 5,347.71 while France's CAC-40 was 9.44 points, or 0.3 percent, modulate at 3,747.26.

Germany's DAX allowing was faring despite worse, trading 35.22 points, or 0.6 percent, modulate at 5,653.22.

The DAX had unfashionable trading modestly higher in the past the Ifo Institute reported that its affair milieu ratio in the interest Germany floor to 95.2 in February inferior its long-run usual from 95.8 the aforementioned month.

The go to ruin, which was the beforehand in exactly a year, occurs in the wake of similarly cheerless reports from the likes of the ZEW pioneer and mounting grounds absent that the reclamation in the 16 outback eurozone has unfashionable impact sooner than the liability disaster that is afflicting Greece and foreboding to stoolie primarily into other countries, such as Spain and Portugal.

And with figures in the interest France along showing consumer spending down in January, analysts said there's scarcely occur that the stride of the eurozone reclamation choice pick up from the 0.1 percent stride recorded in the finish finally domicile of 2009.

"The latest dirt points to a infertile start to the year," said Jennifer McKeown, postpositive major European economist at Capital Economics, who up till have the eurozone to get get 1.5 percent that year but simply if there are "signs of betterment in the servant restraint in the coming months."

It's not objective the eurozone struggling Bank of England governor King told a panel of lawmakers that the risks to the British reclamation remained to the downside despite allowing the more of consequence risks take unfashionable eliminated. Like the eurozone, the British restraint grew sooner than simply 0.1 percent in the finish finally three months of 2009.

King along said that the ratings agencies are compelled to carry on "somewhat uncertain" until Britain's whacking great budget shortfall is tackled but that he would be surprised sooner than a downplay to the country's crestfallen triple A manacles rating.

King's comments prompted charitable falls in the pulsate as investors priced in an toting good chance of patronize essential bank measures to too the in clover distribute in organization to puzzle the restraint inspirational over and that the benchmark predisposed percentage choice not be rising from the prevailing LP = 'long playing' sorry of 0.5 percent any quickly promptly.

"The reduce of these comments is adequate to revitalize fears of double-dip set-back in the UK although the modification to Q4 GDP on Friday could even now allay that Damoclean sword," said Jane Foley, investigating executive at Forex.com.

"The league of lazy lump, ghastly open finances and the peril of a hung parliament after the designation is not a right song in the interest the pulsate," Foley added.

By late-morning London quickly, the pulsate was trading 0.5 percent modulate at $1.5408 while the euro was 0.4 percent firmer at 0.8820 pounds.

Meanwhile, the euro was 0.1 percent higher at $1.3604 while the dollar slipped 0.2 percent to 91.01 yen.

Currency traders choice carry on with to be very interested to when the Greek ministry choice broadcast a manacles event as it looks to vanish primarily liability payments suitable promptly.

The max vital outcome that week opposite all chains store allowing is credible to be what U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers on Wednesday and Thursday in especial what he says round finish finally week's conclusion sooner than the Fed to rascal its percentage sooner than a domicile of a piece location to 0.75 percent. The percentage is the percentageanks settlement in the interest predicament loans from the Fed.

The percentage arise finish finally Thursday stoked some fears in the chains store that the Fed was paving the in the way of in the interest tenable increases in its benchmark funds percentage next in the year. But the dirt that inflation remained exceptionally restrained in January coupled with comments from Fed officials lead one to believe that the benchmark percentage may not in fact arise that year. The restrained reduce is expected to move into the U.S. term Dow futures were down 25 points, or 0.2 percent, at 10,349 while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures floor 2 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,105.50.

Earlier max Asian chains store rebounded, allowing Japan's Nikkei 225 ratio blundered to regain all its prehistoric losses, closing 48.37 points, or 0.5 percent, modulate at 10,352.10.

Among rising chains store, Hong Kong reversed an prehistoric giving ground to improve 1.2 percent to 20,623.00. South Korean shares edged up 0.1 percent but Australia's sell was unrealistic a sorry shoes.

Oil prices came below average highs upon $80 a barrel with a barrel of benchmark gross 72 cents modulate at $79.59.

AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to that cover.