She survived four days in wilderness eating bugs, slugs

Employing shrewd survival skills after badly breaking her leg while hiking famed Mt. Hood, a plucky Portland, Ore., preschool teacher survived three cold nights in the wild, using moss for a blanket and making a meal out of bugs and slugs until searchers finally found her.

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      Pamela Salant, a 28-year-old teacher, was hiking with her boyfriend in the Oregon wilderness when she fell from a cliff and broke her leg. She ate bugs and berries over four days in the wild: ?I didn?t realize I had it in me ? I definitely surprised myself,? she said.

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"I didn?t realize I had it in me ? I definitely surprised myself," 28-year-old Pamela Salant told NBC News in a TODAY report Tuesday by Miguel Almaguer. "I just really felt like I wasn?t done yet."

Salant was planning an idyllic weekend with her boyfriend Aric Essig when the pair headed out for an overnight hike at Mt. Hood?s Bear Lake July 30. The couple dumped their gear at a campsite, but decided to split up and look around for an even better locale to spend the night.

But things went decidedly downhill from there for Salant. While hiking solo, she slipped and fell nearly 50 feet off a cliff. She fractured her left tibia and her leg was split open.

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Salant settled in where she fell, initially not realizing just how badly she was hurt. "I didn?t feel the initial pain, so I woke up the next morning and [was] like ?Whoa, where am I, how did this happen?? " she told NBC. "I had fallen asleep right where I had fallen."

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Boyfriend Aric reported his girlfriend missing, but rescue workers were stymied in their search. Authorities initially found Salant?s shoe prints from where she fell, but no Salant.

The reason? The gutsy schoolteacher was scooting on her backside alongside Lindsey Creek trying to reach the Columbia River, where she figured she had a better chance of being spotted and rescued. Meanwhile, Salant battled for survival, clad only in a tank top and shorts and woefully short of any supplies.

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To keep water at hand, she stayed near the creek. For sustenance, she found salmon berries and raspberries. But as one day turned into another, her improvised menu became a bit wilder.

"I was trying caterpillars, and I tried a bite of a slug," Salant told NBC. "I didn?t know, I was just like, it was plump and juicy. It looked tasty. But it was not tasty!"

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Tiring and barely able to scoot any further, Salant said she passed the time mentally replaying her life, wondering if the thoughts might be her last. "I just had a lot of people that I loved, like faces in my head, and just kind of [put] my life on rewind."

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Salant tried to keep her hopes up through four days and three nights in the wilderness. She managed to scoot a mile and a half, but unfortunately, a nearby waterfall muffled the sounds of rescue helicopters when they began to zero in on her, leaving Salant oblivious to their effort.

Then, on Aug. 2, she got a big break. A helicopter crew spotted a woman wading in Lindsey Creek, waving her arms. A National Guard helicopter arrived on the scene and lowered a guardsman to Salant.

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Salant admitted she wasn?t sure whether she was actually being rescued, or just dreaming. "I was like hyperventilating, like I can?t believe it?s real."

But it was real: Salant's nearly 96-hour ordeal was over. She was transported to Legacy Emanuel Hospital, where doctors operated on her broken leg and treated her for multiple back injuries and severe cuts, NBC affiliate KGW-TV reported. A day after being rescued, her condition was upgraded from critical to fair.

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And though Salant is expected to be out of commission for two months while she nurses her injuries, her concerned friends and family are thankful Salant returned to them in one piece, and in awe of her determination.

"So that was Saturday, Sunday, Monday night ? three nights," her friend and co-worker Desirae Marks told KGW. "She?s strong enough, she?s got it. Oh my gosh!"

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Pay TV industry loses record number of subscribers (AP)

NEW YORK ? The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set.

They're canceling or forgoing cable and satellite TV subscriptions in record numbers, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of the companies' quarterly earnings reports.

The U.S. subscription-TV industry first showed a small net loss of subscribers a year ago. This year, that trickle has turned into a stream. The chief cause appears to be persistently high unemployment and a housing market that has many people living with their parents, reducing the need for a separate cable bill.

But it's also possible that people are canceling cable, or never signing up in the first place, because they're watching cheap Internet video. Such a threat has been hanging over the industry. If that's the case, viewers can expect more restrictions on online video, as TV companies and Hollywood studios try to make sure that they get paid for what they produce.

In a tally by the AP, eight of the nine largest subscription-TV providers in the U.S. lost 195,700 subscribers in the April-to-June quarter.

That's the first quarterly loss for the group, which serves about 70 percent of households. The loss amounts to 0.2 percent of their 83.2 million video subscribers.

The group includes four of the five biggest cable companies, which have been losing subscribers for years. It also includes phone companies Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. and satellite broadcasters DirecTV Group Inc. and Dish Network Corp. These four have been poaching customers from cable, making up for cable-company losses ? until now.

The phone companies kept adding subscribers in the second quarter, but Dish lost 135,000. DirecTV gained a small number, so combined, the U.S. satellite broadcasters lost subscribers in the quarter ? a first for the industry.

The AP's tally excludes Cox Communications, the third-largest cable company, and a bevy of smaller cable companies. Cox is privately held and does not disclose subscriber numbers.

Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett estimates that the subscription-TV industry, including the untallied cable companies, lost 380,000 subscribers in the quarter. That's about one out of every 300 U.S. households, and more than twice the losses in the second quarter of last year. Ian Olgeirson at SNL Kagan puts the number even higher, at 425,000 to 450,000 lost subscribers.

The second quarter is always the year's worst for cable and satellite companies, as students cancel service at the end of the spring semester. Last year, growth came back in the fourth quarter. But looking back over the past 12 months, the industry is still down, by Moffett's estimate. That's also a first.

The subscription-TV industry is no longer buoyed by its first flush of growth, so the people who cancel because they're unemployed are outweighing the very small number of newcomers who've never had cable or satellite before. Dish CEO Joe Clayton told analysts on a conference call Tuesday that the industry is "increasingly saturated."

But like other industry executives, Clayton sees renewed growth around the corner. Though his company saw the biggest increase in subscriber flight compared with a year ago, he blamed much of that on a strategic pullback in advertising, which will be reversed before the end of the year.

Other executives gave few indications that the industry has hit a wall. For most of the big companies, the slowdown is slight, hardly noticeable except when looking across all of them. Nor do they believe Internet video is what's causing people to leave.

Glenn Britt, the CEO of Time Warner Cable Inc. said the effect of Internet video on the number of cable subscribers is "very, very modest;" in fact, so small that it's hard to measure.

SNL Kagan's Olgeirson said the people canceling subscriptions behind, or never signing up, are an elusive group, difficult to count. Yet he believes the trend is real, and he calls it the "elephant in the room" for the industry.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that young, educated people who aren't interested in live programs such as sports are finding it easier to go without cable. Video-streaming sites like Netflix.com and Hulu.com are helping, as they run many popular TV shows for free, sometimes the day after they air on television.

In June, The Nielsen Co. said it found that Americans who watch the most video online tend to watch less TV. The ratings agency said it started noticing last fall that a segment of consumers were starting to make a trade-off between online video and regular TV. The activity was more pronounced among people ages 18-34.

Olgeirson expects programmers to keep tightening access to shows and movies online. A few years ago, Olgeirson said, "they threw open the doors," figuring they'd make money from ads accompanying online video besides traditional sources such as the fees they charge cable companies to carry their channels. But if it looks as if online video might endanger revenue from cable, which is still far larger, they'll pull back.

"Are they really going to jeopardize that? The answer is no," Olgeirson said.

Already, News Corp.'s Fox broadcasting company is delaying reruns on Hulu by a week unless the viewer pays a $8-a-month subscription for Hulu Plus or subscribes to Dish's satellite TV service. Other subscription-TV providers may join in the future. TV producers and distributors want to discourage people from dropping their subscriptions.

Moffett believes it's hard to separate the effect of the economy from that of Internet video. Subscription-TV providers keep raising rates because content providers such as Hollywood studios and sports leagues demand ever higher prices. That's causing a collision with the economic realities of American households.

"Rising prices for pay TV, coupled with growing availability of lower cost alternatives, add to a toxic mix at a time when disposable income isn't growing," Moffett said.

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US drone strike kills 20, Pakistani intelligence says

Pakistani intelligence officials say 20 Islamist militants were killed in an American missile attack close to the Afghan border.

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The officials said 16 of the dead were Afghan militants belonging to the Haqqani network, an insurgent faction fighting the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.

The attack took place early Tuesday on a house in the North Waziristan tribal region.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The United States relies heavily on the covert, CIA-run missile program in its efforts to kill Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Washington does not publicly acknowledge the program, which is a source of tension between the U.S. and Pakistan. Islamabad has protested the strikes, saying they fuel militancy in the region.

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A nearly perfect 3-D model of your face

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Microsoft's system picks up the complex nuances of an actor's facial expressions.

By Todd Bishop, GeekWire

You know you?re on to something in computer graphics when you get to explain in your research paper?how you?ve advanced the state of the art beyond?"The Matrix: Reloaded"?and the?"Beowulf"?remake.

In a paper to be presented at the?SIGGRAPH?computer graphics conference in Vancouver, B.C., this week, Microsoft researchers tip their hats to the technologies used in those movies for accurate 3-D computer modeling of the human face.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

But the researchers, from Microsoft?s Beijing lab, say they?ve figured out how to do it even better. The technique they?ve come up with can automatically model faces with a new level of accuracy ? down to the last wrinkle.

They use a combination of 3-D scanning technology and a motion-capture system (which explains the markers on the actor?s face above), plus a technique they developed to determine the minimal number of face scans needed to create an accurate model, which makes the system faster and more efficient.

Research projects don?t necessarily translate into shipping products, but it?s easy to imagine aspects of the approach being incorporated somehow into future versions of Microsoft?s Kinect sensor, either for the Xbox 360 or Windows PCs.

Microsoft?s recently released?Avatar Kinect?virtual conferencing service lets people control some of the facial expressions on their on-screen avatars ? by lifting an eyebrow, for example.?But a more accurate model of the face could open up more possibilities.

Who knows, maybe future Windows users will be able to launch Outlook with a particular type of smirk.

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Jones attends symposium | WCMessenger.com

By Messenger Staff | Published Thursday, August 11, 2011

Kerry Jones of Decatur attended the Honors Symposium at Harding University in Searcy, Ark.

The event allows 200 high school juniors to share ideas and discuss relevant topics with university faculty and students.

Students are chosen based on grade-point average, national standardized test scores and a reference letter.

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Immigration Law Reform

It is possible to pass comprehensive immigration reform within Obama?s first or second year Congress needs to realize that our economic woes are directly linked with our workforce, and our workforce is made up of immigrants (both legal and illegal).

Obama has stated that America has nothing to fear from today?s immigrants. Immigrants hope that in America, they will build better lives for their families. Like the many immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will enrich America.

The president also said that getting new immigration laws passed will be difficult. Because the U.S. economy is in worse shape than two and three years ago, when immigration bills failed in Congress, he said it would be even more difficult to pass immigration reform now.

However, Obama suggested that pro-immigrant organizations to propose ideas on how to pass the reform through Congress. Also, before concentrating on immigration reform, he will focus on improving the system for legal immigration.

Since Obama took office, and in the middle of the economic crisis, pro-immigrant advocates have been waiting to hear concrete news from the White House on when the administration will begin to move forward on immigration reform. During his presidential campaign, Obama had said he would address the issue during his first year in office.

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RIM's QNX-Based Phone May Skip BlackBerry Server (NewsFactor)

Research In Motion is getting closer to rolling out its first QNX-powered BlackBerry smartphone. Code-named Colt, news reports reveal RIM is on target for a first quarter 2012 launch. That's nothing especially new, since that RIM has previously offered that timeline.

Rumors have it the QNX-powered BlackBerry won't offer support for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Instead, it will reportedly tap into Microsoft ActiveSync e-mail software. But will QNX help RIM turn around its fortunes in North America? Or will news of an impending new mobile operating system stall sales of the new BlackBerry devices launched last week?

"This is actually problematic. People who have brand affinity and want to stay on with BlackBerry may very well decide to wait longer with this news," said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. "Instead of buying one of the new BlackBerry OS 7 phones, they may wait for a QNX phone."

Short-Term Slide?

That is problematic, at least for the short term. Although RIM sales are reasonably strong outside the U.S., Greengart noted that North America BlackBerry sales have fallen off a cliff, particularly at the high end.

That, he said, is because consumers are looking for devices built from the ground up for finger-based navigation and that offer rich mobile-app platforms. As Greengart sees it, QNX has the opportunity to offer RIM those options, but whether the Canadian handset maker can capture and maximize that opportunity remains, for now, an open question.

"QNX will have a user interface presumably similar to the PlayBook. That was designed for finger-based navigation with gestures. It looks and feels somewhat similar to webOS," Greengart said. "Whether RIM can build a rich library of applications around it is not clear, especially given that even for the PlayBook, RIM is still lacking a native SDK. But it certainly gives RIM the chance to compete with a modern smartphone operating system as opposed to one designed 10 years ago that's been updated."

Good Enough?

For now, it's all speculation. No one can guess how competitive QNX will be against other operating systems. QNX-powered phones will compete against smartphones that have successfully built out ecosystems not just for apps but also for content. Some, like Google's Android, already offer rich cloud services.

"It's early because RIM hasn't announced the products specifically or reasons to purchase them. But RIM is going to have to come up with very specific reasons for consumers to purchase these products over and above something from Apple, something running Android, or something running a Microsoft operating system," Greengart said. "There is no way to beat (Apple's) iOS on number of apps. It's not possible."

RIM, then, will work to hit what Greengart calls the "good enough" mark and come up with some other reasons to buy. RIM's responses based on its existing operating system often focus on security or physical QWERTY keyboards.

"RIM definitely has its work cut out for it with QNX, but it's quite clear that, at least in North America, the existing operating system is not competitive for people looking for something that looks like an iPhone," Greengart said. "By RIM's own admission, that's an awful lot of people and they themselves are working on something along those lines for the next year."

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