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The diplomat wears Prada: Wintour on ambassador shortlist?

As part of a second-term shakeup of his diplomatic corps, President Obama is reportedly considering the appointment of Vogue editor-in-chief and major campaign donor Anna Wintour as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain or France.

Sources cited by Bloomberg News' Hans Nichols said Wintour, 63, is among a handful of top Obama financiers interested in the posts, which have become choice presidential rewards for elite political supporters.

Obama is also said to be eyeing campaign finance chairman Matthew Barzun and investment banker Marc Lasry for diplomatic appointments, according to Bloomberg.

All three figures - Wintour, Barzun and Lasry - are Obama bundlers, each raising more than $500,000 for his 2012 re-election bid, according to estimates provided by the Obama campaign.

Vogue spokeswoman Megan Salt would not confirm whether Wintour has been approached about a diplomatic job, or whether she'd consider it, telling ABC News that Wintour is "very happy with her current job."

Neither Lasry nor Barzun, 42, the former U.S. ambassador to Sweden, could be reached for comment. A White House official did not immediately respond to an ABC News request for comment.

Rumors of an official post for Wintour have swirled for months, following her high-profile role in hosting star-studded Obama fundraising events and pushing a grassroots campaign fundraising contest.

Wintour, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and designer Tom Ford hosted a $15,000-per-plate fundraiser for Obama in London Sept. 19, according to an invitation obtained by the Sunlight Foundation.

She also co-hosted a $40,000-per-plate fundraising dinner at the New York City home of actress Sarah Jessica Parker in June and a $35,800-a-head event at the Connecticut home of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in August. Obama attended both events.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama spoke out against the influence of special interests inside the executive branch, criticizing those who had "turned our government into a game only they can afford to play."

Still, as iWatch News reported last year, many of Obama's 2008 campaign bundlers received prestigious appointments and exclusive access.

Telecom executive and Obama financier Donald Gips became the ambassador to South Africa. The current U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis Susman, was a fundraising machine for Obama's 2008 run.

And in April, Obama nominated Timothy Broas, who also raised more than $500,000 for Obama four years ago, to be the next ambassador to the Netherlands.

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"It's my tenth time playing in your neck of the woods. I've got a lot of memories, but I wanna make some new ones." said Eddie Vedder to the sold out crowd inside Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts. And that is just what the 47-year old musician did, breaking down the barriers between himself and the room, sharing stories, laughing with the audience, and of course playing his ukulele.?The feeling of being just one in an a packed theater of 2000-plus attendees quickly disappeared.


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Vedder didn't hesitate to kick things off with electric energy, driving away any preconceived notion that he'd just be strumming away on a uke all night. With his electric Fender guitar, Vedder opened the show with "Throw Your Arms Around Me" by?Hunters and Collectors, before going into a trio of Pearl Jam's earlier tracks, "Sometimes", "Long Road", and "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town." Not a person in the room was silent, marking the first of many sing-alongs that would happen throughout the evening.

"This is the first ever speed thrash metal ukelele song," he said.?

And Eddie wasn't joking. If anyone could enthrall an audience with a tiny guitar, it's him. Starting the "ukelele" portion of the night with "Can't Keep," followed by "Sleeping by Myself" and "Without Out," the grunge-rocker proved he could stand strongly on his own as a solo act.?

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Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) picture of Screen shot 2012 05 04 at 2.26.40 PMBancTec?s Michael Alfonsi and Sean Neal will appear as guest panelists on tomorrow?s PayStream Advisors webinar covering AP automation tools to enhance paper-based invoice processing. The hour-long webinar titled ?Five Ways to Look Like an AP Hero by Year End and the Tools to Do It? will begin at 11 a.m. EST. Register now to attend!

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With the end of the year fast approaching, Alfonsi and Neal will walk webinar participants through the steps that can be taken in a matter of weeks to improve AP invoice processing.

BancTec?s partnership with PayStream Advisors, a leading independent research and consulting firm, paved the way for today?s webinar. BancTec is also an underwriter for PayStream Advisors? latest research report on AP outsourcing. The report, entitled ?Optimizing Accounts Payable: Improving Performance & Creating Added Value Through Outsourcing,? examines the current demand for AP outsourcing solutions and serves as a reference guide for decision makers considering an AP automation solution. Download the full report here.

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Norway princess secretly travels to India to play nanny

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit secretly traveled to India in order to care for infant twins born to the surrogate mother of a gay palace employee unable to get a travel visa, the palace said on Monday.

Armed with a diplomatic passport that granted her immediate access, the future queen jumped on a plane in late October when the employee, who is also a friend, and his husband were unable to travel to care for their newborns.

"For me, this is about two babies lying alone in a New Delhi hospital," Mette-Marit said in a statement. "I was able to travel and wanted to do what I could."

She did not alert Indian authorities and spent several days with the babies at the Manav Medicare Centre, where staff assumed the wife of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon was a nanny.

While the princess was away, her name continued to appear in the official palace calendar and her absence from a parliamentary dinner was not explained.

A relative of the two fathers eventually took over from Mette-Marit and the fathers received a visa in November, when they brought the babies back to Norway, the palace added.

Surrogacy is a hotly debated issue in Norway and the government discourages Norwegians from paying surrogate parents for children.

Protestant Norway was the second country in the world in 1993 to register same sex partnerships while same sex marriage has been legal since 2009.

The Crown Princess acknowledged the debate and insisted she is not taking a side and only did what a friend had to do.

"Sometimes life presents you with situations with few good solutions. This was one of those," she said. "There is an important debate going on about surrogacy and this was not meant as taking a side."

(Reporting by Balazs Koranyi, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is surrounded by children during celebrations for the successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition for Palestine in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies and earlier said it would start drawing up plans to build thousands of settlement homes. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is surrounded by children during celebrations for the successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition for Palestine in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies and earlier said it would start drawing up plans to build thousands of settlement homes. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Abbas returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians wave flags as they celebrate their successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third right, together with Cabinet Minister Moshe Yaalon, right, and Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser, second right, attend the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's Jerusalem office, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Israel has rejected the borders of a future Palestinian state the U.N. endorsed last week and on Friday, Israel announced it would press ahead plans to build thousands of settler homes.. And it is punishing the Palestinians further by withholding more than $100 million in taxes and other funds collected on their behalf. (AP Photo/Lior Mizrahi, Pool)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Israel has rejected the borders of a future Palestinian state the U.N. endorsed last week. And it is punishing the Palestinians further by withholding more than $100 million in taxes and other funds collected on their behalf. (AP Photo/Lior Mizrahi, Pool)

(AP) ? The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations.

An Israeli decision to cut off a cash transfer to the financially troubled Palestinian Authority, following an earlier decision to build thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements, failed to put a damper on the celebrations.

But Palestinian officials acknowledged they were undecided on what to do with their newfound status, and were waiting for upcoming Israeli elections and new ideas from President Barack Obama before deciding how to proceed.

Outside the headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, some 5,000 people thronged a square, hoisted Palestinian flags and cheered their leader's return from New York. Large posters of the Palestinian leader, whose popularity had plummeted in recent months, adorned nearby buildings.

"We now have a state," Abbas said to wild applause. "The world has said loudly, 'Yes to the state of Palestine.'"

The United Nations General Assembly last week overwhelmingly endorsed an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in the 1967 war.

The move to upgrade the Palestinians to a nonmember observer state does not change much on the ground, but it carries deep potential significance.

The vote amounted to an international endorsement of the Palestinian position on future border arrangements with Israel and an overwhelming condemnation of Israeli settlements in the areas claimed by the Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects a return to Israel's 1967 lines. Israel remains in control in parts of the West Bank and considers east Jerusalem, the Palestinians' hoped-for capital, an integral part of its capital.

Israel also continues to restrict access to Gaza. Israel withdrew seven years ago from the coastal strip, and it is now ruled by Hamas Islamic militants who regularly fire rockets at Israel.

Israel, backed by the U.S., campaigned strongly against the statehood measure, accusing the Palestinians of trying to bypass direct peace negotiations, which it said were the only viable path to a Palestinian state.

The Israeli lobbying efforts failed miserably. Just eight other countries voted with Israel, and even its closest allies in Europe, including Germany, Italy, France and Britain, either abstained or voted with the Palestinians.

Israel responded strongly and swiftly. The following day, it said it would start drawing up plans to build thousands of settlement homes, including the first-ever development on a crucial corridor east of Jerusalem.

Although the project is likely years away, if it happens at all, the announcement struck a defiant tone.

Building in the area, known as E1, would sever the link between the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the sector of the holy city the Palestinians claim for a future capital, and cut off the northern part of the West Bank form its southern flank. The Palestinians claim such a scenario would essentially kill any hope for the creation of a viable state.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "grave concern" at the Israeli announcements, saying the new building and reported planning in the E1 area "would represent any almost fatal blow to remaining chances for securing a two-state solution," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

"In the interests of peace, any plans for E1 must be rescinded," he said.

"The secretary-general repeats his call on all concerned to resume negotiations and intensify efforts towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peace and urges the parties to refrain from provocative actions," Nesirky said.

The U.S., Britain, France and other European states all denounced the plan.

On Sunday, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed concern that such settlement expansion "may represent a strategic step undermining the prospects of a contiguous and viable Palestine with Jerusalem as the share capital of both it and Israel. She urged Israel to show its commitment to the early renewal of peace talks but not going ahead with the settlement plan.

"The European Union has repeatedly stated that all settlement construction is illegal under international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace," Ashton said in a statement.

On Sunday, the Israeli government delivered another blow, saying it would withhold more than $100 million in funds it transfers to the Palestinians each month.

Instead, it said the money ? taxes and customs duties that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinians ? would be used to pay off its debts to Israeli companies, including $200 million owed to the state-run Israel Electric Corp., government officials said.

The monthly transfers are crucial for the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to its tens of thousands of civil servants and security forces. Israel has taken similar measures in the past before eventually releasing the money.

At the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, Netanyahu said the Palestinian statehood campaign was a "gross violation" of past agreements calling for disputes to be resolved through negotiations.

"Accordingly, the government of Israel rejects the U.N General Assembly decision," he told his Cabinet on Sunday. He also pledged to continue building settlements.

"Today we are building, and we will continue to build in Jerusalem and in all areas that appear on Israel's map of strategic interests."

Half a million settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The ongoing growth of the settlements is at the heart of the current impasse in peace efforts.

The Palestinians view continued settlement expansion as a show of bad faith and refuse to return to negotiations unless construction is frozen.

Netanyahu has claimed a brief settlement slowdown in 2010 failed to jump-start negotiations, and he has refused calls for a new construction freeze.

The Palestinians have signaled that they may use their upgraded status to join the International Criminal Court and pursue war crimes charges against Israel. But officials say any decision to seek membership in the ICC is likely months away.

Palestinian officials said little was expected to change until Israel holds parliamentary elections on Jan. 22. Public opinion polls suggest Netanyahu is likely to win re-election at the head of a hardline coalition.

Palestinian officials said they were hopeful that Obama would present a comprehensive peace plan after the Israeli vote.

"If there is a meaningful peace process, we will join. If not, then we are taking the Palestinian cause to the international community," said Husam Zomlot, a spokesman for Abbas.

The new Israeli settlement construction plans remain far from certain and may have been announced by Netanyahu to impress voters ahead of the election.

New figures from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics show that Netanyahu has actually slowed settlement construction over the past year. The latest figures found that Israel began construction on 653 new settlement homes in the first nine months of 2012, down 26 percent from 886 housing starts during the same period a year earlier.

Israel insists that the Palestinians are responsible for the deadlock, accusing them of refusing to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland and the Palestinian media of glorifying violence and promoting anti-Semitic caricatures.

Netanyahu said Abbas' speech at the U.N., in which he accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and omitted any reference of the Jewish connection to the holy land, was filled with incitement and hate.

"This is additional proof that this is not a dispute over land but a denial of the existence of the State of Israel," he said. "As long as the Palestinian Authority educates the younger generation to hate, how is it at all possible to talk about peace?"

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Heller reported from Jerusalem. Mohammed Daraghmeh contributed to this report from Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

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Colon Cleansing: A Fast Fix for Clogged Bowels! | Gnet Health and ...

Do You Have A Sluggish Digestive System?

A sluggish digestive system and a clogged up colon is incredibly damaging to our health. When waste is unable to be removed from the body, the toxins in them are allowed to accumulate in our intestines and cause a hard ?plaque? layer to form in the colon.

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From fatigue, depression and bad breath, to poor skin condition and headaches, the list goes on and on! In addition to this, bacteria in the waste are able to breed, which disturbs the incredibly fine balance of the ?good? bacteria in your guts, and leads to intestinal discomfort, bloating and trapped wind.

Depending on how fibrous your diet is, you may have more compacted fecal matter trapped in your colon than you think- did you know that the average American has 5 lbs of trapped waste! By getting rid of that, that?s a substantial weight-loss straight away!

Short-term problems aside, a sluggish and clogged up colon can lead to longer-term, incredibly serious health problems, like ulcerative colitis, and colon cancer. Ensuring that your bowels keep moving and constipation is resolved quickly, will help to keep your bowel health at its peak.

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The toxins in our waste come from many different sources- some of them are just a result of the digestive process, and the body eliminating by-products from a variety of chemical reactions that take place in the body. But in an age where we are exposed to huge volumes of chemicals- from pesticides on our foods, to medications, to cleaning products and cosmetics- some of these toxins will be incredibly harmful at any substantial level. So when waste sits in our intestines and is unable to be removed from the body, the levels of these toxins will build, causing illness and sometimes allergies. These may be allergies that you would never connect to what?s happening in your bowels, such as skin complaints, but remove the compacted fecal matter, and you may find that these problems vanish as quickly as they arrived.

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Colon cleansing is an easy and safe way to ensure that your bowels stay healthy and clean, and that your body is able to remove waste regularly and efficiently. The term itself may sound fairly terrifying: Are you picturing clinics and lengths of hosing as the main feature of colon cleansing?? Well, you can relax- although colonic irrigation and hydrotherapy is one method of thoroughly removing waste and cleaning the colon, it certainly isn?t the only method.

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Has Asperger's Gone Away? | World of Psychology

Has Asperger's Gone Away? NoWith anything that changes, especially an important reference manual, people are going to be confused about what those changes actually mean. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).

As we noted yesterday, the final revision was approved for publication. The DSM-5 is how clinicians and researchers diagnose mental disorders in the United States. A common language is especially important when conducting research, to ensure treatments are actually working for the symptoms people have.

One of the changes getting a lot of attention is the ?doing away? of Asperger?s Syndrome. But to be clear ? Asperger?s isn?t being dropped from the DSM-5. It?s simply being merged and renamed, to better reflect a consensus of our scientific knowledge on the disorder as one form of the new ?autism spectrum disorder? diagnosis.

So while the term, ?Asperger?s? is going away, the actual diagnosis ? you know, the thing that actually matters ? is not.

But you wouldn?t know it reading some of the mainstream media?s reporting on this concern.

The board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association, who released the approved changes on Saturday, said the reason they were renaming Asperger?s was ?to help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism.? Which I agree with, because it?s important for clinicians and researchers to have a common, logical language.

I wish the media could differentiate between a label or word, and the actual diagnosis though. Because from the news coverage on this change, you?d believe the actual diagnosis was going away unless you read more carefully.

CBS News screams, Asperger?s syndrome dropped from American Psychiatric Association manual:

Asperger?s syndrome will be dropped from the latest edition of the psychiatrist?s ?bible,? the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5.

It?s not until the third paragraph of this article do you realize the American Psychiatric Association, the publisher of the DSM-5, just decided to rename Asperger?s. (And why do so many media keep referring to a psychiatric diagnostic manual ? a scientific instrument ? as a ?bible?? That is the strangest disconnect I keep reading time and time again. I?m not even sure any reporter who writes those words could tell you the reasoning behind calling it that.)

Fox News announced that ?Asperger?s dropped from revised diagnosis manual,? but then quickly notes that it?s just the term that?s being dropped ? not the actual diagnosis.

The UK?s Guardian does a little better, mentioning the renaming in its subtitle, ?DSM-5, latest revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, merges Asperger?s with autism and widens dyslexia category.?

So yes, the label of ?Asperger?s syndrome? is leaving the diagnostic nomenclature, as our understanding of this disorder has increased substantially in the nearly 20 years since the DSM-IV was published. But the diagnosis itself remains, with a new label ? as a mild form of autism spectrum disorder.

People who are currently receiving treatment and care for this disorder will continue to do so, and insurance companies, Medicaid and others will continue to cover the costs of treating it.

Footnotes: John Grohol, PsyDDr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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