Rielle Hunter, best known for her affair with North Carolina Senator John Edwards that destroyed his marriage and his political career but produced a daughter, is apologizing for her earlier book that revealed intimate details of their relationship.
In Hindsight, What Really Happened: The Revised Edition: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me is an e-book out today that sets the record straight and apologizes for both her behavior and her decision to write about it.
Hunter takes the interesting tack of annotating her previous best-seller, 2012's What Really Happened: John Edward, Our Daughter and Me.
For example the opening sentence of the original book read, "I don't like to think of myself as a stupid person, but I have done a lot of things in my life that were just plain stupid."
In the revised version, Hunters adds this in bold: "<I feel now that one of the stupidest things I have done (lately) is publishing this book when I was still so hurt and publishing it before John Edwards read it.>"
Hunter outlined her reasons for doing the revision and previewed the new book in an essay at the Huffington Post.
Hunter writes: "I behaved badly. That may seem obvious to you but it's taken me a long time to admit that, even to myself. For years I was so viciously attacked by the media and the world that I felt like a victim. I now realize that the attacks are actually beside the point. The point is: I behaved badly. I am very sorry for my wrong, selfish behavior. Back in 2006, I did not think about the scope of my actions, how my falling in love with John Edwards, and acting on that love, could hurt so many people. I hurt Elizabeth and her kids. I hurt her family. I hurt John's family. I hurt people that knew Elizabeth."
She goes on to add, "And then instead of apologizing when I should have, I went on to hurt more people by writing a book. I truly did not realize at that time how damaged I was and because of that, when I wrote my book I made more mistakes, ones I feel horrible about."
Hunter and Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, began an affair in 2006 with videographer Hunter.
Their daughter, Quinn, was born in February 2008. Hunter first claimed the father was Edwards aide Andrew Young, but news of the affair ended Edwards' political career.
Finally in 2010, Edwards admitted he was the father of the child. Elizabeth Edwards announced her intention to divorce him but died in December 2010 of cancer before it could be finalized.
In Hindsight, What Really Happened is available now in e-book format from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other digital booksellers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to reach internal consensus on Tuesday on how to break an impasse on the federal budget that could soon result in an economically damaging default on the country's debt.
House Republican leaders proposed a plan to reopen the government and avoid debt default but it was rejected in a meeting with rank and file lawmakers. The plan differed in a few important details from one in the U.S. Senate.
House Speaker John Boehner said they had not reached any decisions on how to proceed, but were determined not to allow a default.
"There are a lot of opinions about what direction to go. There have been no decisions about exactly what we will do," Boehner told reporters.
Senate leaders said they were close to an agreement on their side that would reopen the government, in partial shutdown for two weeks, and extend the debt ceiling by the deadline on Thursday when the U.S. Treasury says it will reach its borrowing limit.
The confusion complicated 11th-hour talks on the government shutdown and the potential default. Senate Democrats and the White House have rejected the House Republican plan. President Barack Obama will meet with House Democratic leaders at 3:15 p.m. ET to discuss their options.
House Republican aides said the proposal floated on Tuesday would have funded the government through January 15, and raised the debt ceiling by enough to cover the nation's borrowing needs through February 7, similar to the Senate plan.
But unlike the Senate, it would include a two-year suspension of the medical device tax included in Obama's healthcare law, and a requirement that members of Congress and the administration be covered under the law.
The House version also would not allow the Treasury to renew its extraordinary cash management measures to stretch borrowing capacity for months, which had tentatively been allowed under the Senate plan.
The White House said the tentative House plan was not workable and was designed to appease the Tea Party faction in the Republican Party who have demanded that any concessions on the budget be linked to changes in the healthcare law.
"The president has said repeatedly that members of Congress don't get to demand ransom for fulfilling their basic responsibilities to pass a budget and pay the nation's bills," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage.
"Unfortunately, the latest proposal from House Republicans does just that in a partisan attempt to appease a small group of Tea Party Republicans who forced the government shutdown in the first place," she said.
The White House statement praised the "bipartisan, good-faith" Senate effort at compromise between Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
The two Senate leaders negotiated the tentative Senate plan on Monday, and Reid said he was optimistic about reaching a final deal this week.
"There are productive negotiations going on with the Republican leader. I'm confident that we'll be able to reach a comprehensive agreement this week in time to avert a catastrophic default on the nation's bills," Reid said on the Senate floor.
Reid later called the tentative House plan "a blatant attack on bipartisanship."
The plans in both houses of Congress would have resolved the immediate fiscal crisis, and set up a new round of budget talks that would try to strike a bargain by year's end.
The markets weathered the turmoil with only moderate losses. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 28 points, or 0.18 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 1.5 points, or 0.09 percent.
(Additional reporting by David Lawder, Susan Heavey, Amanda Becker; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Grant McCool)
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. (Oct. 9, 2013) -- A furlough can create hardships for families - especially when finances are already stretched.
Here are some tips for surviving furloughs:
1. Cash in vacation time or cancel your vacation. While taking a vacation is recommended to renew the spirit, there are times when refilling the savings account is much more important.
2. Call your creditors and arrange to defer payments on your accounts or have accounts re-aged. If you explain your situation, your credit card companies, student loans, and other revolving credit accounts may give you a temporary break.
3. Start brown bagging on the days that you are working. You can actually save close to $300 a month by brown bagging it for lunch.
4. Start eating leftovers once a week. Get creative with leftovers, so you can stop wasting food and start saving money on groceries.
5. Go on a spending diet. Try this on your monthly budget. Just how much money do you need to get through a month?
6. Learn to prioritize. Prioritize your bills to make decisions about spending money.
7. Use your days off to start vegetable gardening and other money-saving hobbies. Besides growing your own vegetables, you could also do things like: cut and organize coupons, cook food from scratch more often, spend some time comparison shopping.
8. Cut back on your kids' expensive after school programs and spend more time with them instead. If your kids are in multiple after-school programs, have them choose their favorite ones and eliminate the rest. This will save up to $100 a month per child, per activity. The time that you spend with them is much more valuable anyway.
Don't Do This: Just the same, there are a few things you should not do during a furlough. If you've been furloughed you'll want to be extra cautious during this time.
1. Do not use credit to supplement your income. This will only increase your debt load and make your monthly bills higher, not lower.
2. Do not quit your job. Don't take an all-or-nothing attitude in tough times like this. Instead, you should grin and bear it while keeping an eye open for something better.
3. Do not complain at work. Complaining is akin to quitting your job because a bad attitude can be a reason they could use to terminate you.
4. Do not feel defeated and depressed. Attitude is everything in a tough situation. Keep a positive outlook and you will survive the lay-off with your spirit intact.
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PARIS (AP) — The New York Times Co. has rebranded its Paris-based daily, the International Herald Tribune, as the International New York Times — a bid to lure readers abroad amid the upheaval of the digital era facing traditional newspapers.
Executives say the rechristening Tuesday aims to get the most out of its brand, and complete a gradual fusion of the newspapers' editorial staffs in recent years. The Times took control of the IHT a decade ago by buying the stake of its co-owner, The Washington Post.
Worldwide subscribers to the Herald Tribune — with a print circulation of 224,000 and distribution in about 135 countries — woke up Tuesday to a similar-looking newspaper. Novelties include a new masthead, enhanced Page 2, and opinion pieces by dozens of new international columnists.
Europe editor Richard W. Stevenson said the rebranding is really about going digital and reaching out to readers abroad.
"The real driver of what we're doing is a belief that there is a global, digital audience for the journalism that we do," Stevenson said in a recent interview at the newspaper's offices in the La Defense business district west of Paris. He pointed to the goal of converting visitors who get limited free access into paying customers.
"Right now, about 10 percent of our digital subscribers are outside of the United States — but about 25 or 30 percent of our digital audience comes from outside the United States," he said. "Right there, in the gap between people who are subscribers, and regular visitors to our site, there's an opportunity."
For the launch week, access to the international edition's website, global.nytimes.com, will be free, Stevenson said.
With many print publications facing competition from social media, bloggers, 24-7 international television newscasts and other outlets, the Times Co. has been shucking assets — notably The Boston Globe — to focus on a core business of becoming an online provider of news, comment, video and multimedia.
While the IHT's circulation has held up relatively well in recent years compared with some print publications, Stevenson said, "the reality is that print — across our industry, around the world — is a really tough business now."
The International Herald Tribune was the latest incarnation of a newspaper founded in Paris 126 years ago as the European edition of the New York Herald, which was a rival of the Times in the bruising mid-19th century New York newspaper industry. James Gordon Bennett Jr., son of the founder of the sensationalist and popular Herald, put to use new trans-Atlantic cable just as readers were spreading out by rail and steamship.
Over the years, the Herald Tribune became an ink-and-newsprint staple for U.S. expatriates and foreigners looking for a dose of Americana. For more than a century, it was one of the few distributors of English-language news — plus baseball scores, daily crosswords, and comic strips — to readers in far-flung corners of the globe. Recently, it has gained a strong niche in fashion coverage: Fashion editor Suzy Menkes is a doyenne of the Paris catwalks.
The IHT's last edition Monday included a special insert section — with snapshots of its front pages announcing the death of Britain's Queen Victoria and founder Bennett; a headline on Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939; and photos of Martin Luther King Jr., Andy Warhol and George Clooney reading it.
The special insert in the first new edition Tuesday contained essays looking to the future.
"We all have a touch of nostalgia for the days gone by," Stevenson said. "The best way, though, to preserve those journalistic traditions — the best way for us to ensure that our readers continue to get what they expect from us — is for us to integrate (print and online) operations more fully."
Remember that time you submitted a script to Babylon 5 and it was accepted for a show? Yeah, didn't happen to us either, but apparently Tokyoflash has a much more open mind with its fans. It just launched the Kisai Quasar, a hexagonal-themed watch that was originally submitted by Tokyoflash buff ...
LG has admitted that "bendable and unbreakable" smartphone displays are already in production, and we've heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech. Engadget has come across a trio of renders of the upcoming device, and we have learned from our sources that it will be coming out sometime next month -- pricing and availability (as well as hard specs) are as of yet unknown, however. As you can see in the images (above and below), the G Flex offers a curved display, but the direction of its curve is orthogonal to the Galaxy Round that was announced last week: instead of it curving from left to right, the G Flex goes from top to bottom. We'll update you with more information and images as we get closer to the device's launch.
Update: Our sources have confirmed to us that the G Flex will indeed have a 6-inch display, as rumored previously.
New technology can prevent cellular overload, dropped calls
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When a natural disaster strikes and too many people take to their mobile phones at once, cellular networks easily overload. But a University of British Columbia graduate student has developed a solution to ensure that calls don't get dropped and texts make it to their destination.
In a study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Mai Hassan, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, found a way to opportunistically use television and radio channels to transmit cellular signals when systems are pushed beyond capacity.
"I proposed a more effective way to use any channel in the neighborhood, even if those channels are being used by radio or television stations," said Hassan. "The challenge was finding a way to make sure the cellular signals didn't interfere with the people using those channels in the first place."
Hassan's solution involved changing the shape of the wireless signal so she could transmit on channels that use radio or television frequencies. She then had to change the direction of transmission away from the original channel. Instead of using traditional antennas, which transmit signals in all directions, she used smart antennas in mobile phones. Smart antennas transmit signals in a single direction and can steer the beam to any direction. By manipulating the direction of the cellular signals, Hassan was able to transmit calls and texts to a receiver while avoiding any interference with the original radio and televisions signals.
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Professors Jahangir Hossain, in the School of Engineering at UBC's Okanagan campus, and Vijay Bhargava, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC's Vancouver campus, supervised this research.
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A problem into an opportunity
Hassan's study first used mobile phones with multiple smart antennas. With more than one smart antenna in the phone, signals overlap and interfere with one another. Sometimes overlapping signals will cancel one another and block transmission, which is known as destructive interference. Other times the interference enhances the signal, known as constructive interference. Hassan aligned the constructive interference to help get the cellular signal to its receiver and aligned the destructive interference to cancel in regions where the original radio or television signals were being transmitted.
As a next step, Hassan considered a more cost effective system. She exploited the crowd of mobile phones found in the network, with each phone having only one smart antenna, to cooperatively achieve the same constructive/destructive interference pattern. The phone users were located in different geographical locations but Hassan was able to overcome any asynchronism in their transmissions. She was able to turn the problem of crowded phone users into an opportunity.
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Contact: Heather Amos heather.amos@ubc.ca 604-822-3213 University of British Columbia
When a natural disaster strikes and too many people take to their mobile phones at once, cellular networks easily overload. But a University of British Columbia graduate student has developed a solution to ensure that calls don't get dropped and texts make it to their destination.
In a study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Mai Hassan, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, found a way to opportunistically use television and radio channels to transmit cellular signals when systems are pushed beyond capacity.
"I proposed a more effective way to use any channel in the neighborhood, even if those channels are being used by radio or television stations," said Hassan. "The challenge was finding a way to make sure the cellular signals didn't interfere with the people using those channels in the first place."
Hassan's solution involved changing the shape of the wireless signal so she could transmit on channels that use radio or television frequencies. She then had to change the direction of transmission away from the original channel. Instead of using traditional antennas, which transmit signals in all directions, she used smart antennas in mobile phones. Smart antennas transmit signals in a single direction and can steer the beam to any direction. By manipulating the direction of the cellular signals, Hassan was able to transmit calls and texts to a receiver while avoiding any interference with the original radio and televisions signals.
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Professors Jahangir Hossain, in the School of Engineering at UBC's Okanagan campus, and Vijay Bhargava, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC's Vancouver campus, supervised this research.
BACKGROUND
A problem into an opportunity
Hassan's study first used mobile phones with multiple smart antennas. With more than one smart antenna in the phone, signals overlap and interfere with one another. Sometimes overlapping signals will cancel one another and block transmission, which is known as destructive interference. Other times the interference enhances the signal, known as constructive interference. Hassan aligned the constructive interference to help get the cellular signal to its receiver and aligned the destructive interference to cancel in regions where the original radio or television signals were being transmitted.
As a next step, Hassan considered a more cost effective system. She exploited the crowd of mobile phones found in the network, with each phone having only one smart antenna, to cooperatively achieve the same constructive/destructive interference pattern. The phone users were located in different geographical locations but Hassan was able to overcome any asynchronism in their transmissions. She was able to turn the problem of crowded phone users into an opportunity.
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Remember that time you submitted a script to Babylon 5 and it was accepted for a show? Yeah, didn't happen to us either, but apparently Tokyoflash has a much more open mind with its fans. It just launched the Kisai Quasar, a hexagonal-themed watch that was originally submitted by Tokyoflash buff ...
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