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Submachine gun threat closes high school in Washington state

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A public high school in suburban Seattle was closed on Thursday after someone posted an anonymous online threat to kill students with a submachine gun, authorities said.

King County sheriff's and police officers in Sammamish, east of Seattle in Washington state, were alerted to the threat late on Wednesday, Sammamish police spokeswoman Sergeant Jessica Sullivan said.

The threat said someone would bring a submachine gun to Skyline High School and shoot students in the school's common area, she said.

A regional television network said the message accused people at the school of using their wealth and social status "to act superior to others."

"The biggest offender of that would definitely be the jocks. I am going to start killing them first because they deserve it the most," it said, according to the Northwest Cable News.

The shooter would only stop after being killed by police or running out of loaded magazines, Sullivan said.

Police received nearly 100 emergency calls from people who had seen the threat, which included a photo of a German Erma submachine gun. The threat targeted "snotty classmates" and referred to "pretentious" students, she said.

Issaquah School District officials said they closed the school of 2,000 students "out of an abundance of caution" and warned students and staff not to come to campus.

A school spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The threat came amid heightened sensitivity in the United States over gun violence following a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater in July that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others.

It also comes days after bomb threats were sent to several large U.S. universities, prompting evacuations though no bombs were found.

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Xavier Briand)

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Cartoons in French weekly fuel Mohammad furor

PARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a video depicting him as a lecherous fool.

The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris offices after it hit news stands.

It featured several caricatures of the Prophet showing him naked in what the publishers said was an attempt to poke fun at the furor over the film. One, entitled "Mohammad: a star is born", depicted a bearded figure crouching over to display his buttocks and genitals.

The French government, which had urged the weekly not to print the cartoons, said it was shutting embassies and schools in 20 countries as a precaution on Friday, when protests sometimes break out after Muslim prayers.

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby called the drawings outrageous but said those who were offended by them should "use peaceful means to express their firm rejection".

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, condemned what it called an act of "aggression" against Mohammad but urged Muslims not to fall into a trap intended to "derail the Arab Spring and turn it into a conflict with the West".

In the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, one person was slightly hurt when two masked men threw a small explosive device through the window of a kosher supermarket. Police said it was too early to link the incident to the cartoons. One small local Muslim group filed a legal complaint against the weekly but there were no reports of reaction on the streets of France.

The posting on YouTube last week of a crude video, made in California, that mocked Mohammad as a womanizing buffoon has sparked protests in many countries, some of them deadly.

The U.S. envoy to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi, and U.S. and other foreign embassies were attacked in cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by furious Muslims.

INTERNATIONAL DEBATE

The furor has emerged as an issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign and sparked international debate over free speech, religion and the right to offend. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad blasphemous.

The United States has condemned the content of the video while defending the right to free speech, and took a similar line on the French cartoons.

"We know that these images will be deeply offensive to many and have the potential to be inflammatory. But we've spoken repeatedly about the importance of upholding the freedom of expression that is enshrined in our constitution," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

"In other words, we don't question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it."

In the Lebanese city of Sidon, around 10,000 people joined a march organized by the Shi'ite group Hezbollah to protest against the film and the cartoons, shouting "Enough humiliation!" and "Death to America! Death to Israel!".

In Egypt, Essam Erian, acting head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, told Reuters: "We reject and condemn the French cartoons that dishonor the Prophet and we condemn any action that defames the sacred according to people's beliefs."

At the same time, rights groups demanded the release of a Coptic Christian computer science graduate who they said had been beaten up and arrested in Cairo on suspicion of re-posting the anti-Islam video online.

In France, a joint statement by Catholic bishop Michel Dubost and Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Muslim Council, defended the right to freedom of expression under the cherished French principles of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".

"But freedom endangers itself if it forgets fraternity and respect for everyone's equal right to dignity," they added.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called the publication of the cartoons a provocation.

"We saw what happened last week in Libya and in other countries such as Afghanistan," he told a regular news conference. "We have to call on all to behave responsibly."

CALL FOR CAUTION

France's ambassador to Iran sent French citizens there a message urging them to exercise great caution, especially on Friday, and around diplomatic missions and places of worship.

But Charlie Hebdo's editor, Stephane Charbonnier, rejected the criticism. "We have the impression that it's officially allowed for Charlie Hebdo to attack the Catholic far-right but we cannot poke fun at fundamental Islamists," he said.

"It shows the climate. Everyone is driven by fear, and that is exactly what this small handful of extremists who do not represent anyone want: to make everyone afraid, to shut us all in a cave," he told Reuters.

One cartoon alluded to the scandal over a French magazine's publication of topless photos of the wife of Britain's Prince William. It showed a bare female torso topped by a beard with the caption "Riots in Arab countries after photos of Mrs Mohammad are published".

Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to controversy. Its Paris offices were firebombed last November after it published a mocking caricature of Mohammad, and Charbonnier has been under police guard ever since.

Speaking outside his offices in an eastern neighborhood with many residents of North African origin, Charbonnier said he had not received any threats over the latest cartoons. In a message on its Twitter account, Charlie Hebdo said its website had been hacked, but referred readers to a blog it also uses.

In 2005, Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 died.

France is already on alert for attacks by al Qaeda on French interests in West Africa.

A diplomatic source said this week that Paris had recently foiled attacks on economic and diplomatic targets and had credible evidence that more were planned.

"Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is a direct and immediate threat," the source said.

(Additional reporting by Sreya Banerjee, Thierry Chiarello, Brian Love and John Irish; Marwa Awad in Cairo and Souhail Karam in Tunis; Margaret Chadbourn in Washington; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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Quenching volcanoes of partisanship

A Christian Science perspective.

By Jack Lindsey / September 19, 2012

With the presidential election ramping up in the United States, and other important elections taking place worldwide, incessant political attack ads abound. These can have a corrosive effect not only on the political process, but on individual lives and society as a whole.

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While it may seem necessary to pick sides, I?ve found what I most need is the desire to express righteousness ? not self-righteousness, but the divine nature, which includes humility, wisdom, judgment, even forgiveness. That makes it easier for me to pick God?s side ? to put aside my personal feelings and seek His guidance.

I?ve also found it helpful to love my neighbors and be sensitive to the feelings of others even if I don?t necessarily embrace their ideas. While we need to make decisions, we don?t need to judge others, to think less of them if they don?t think as we do. I?ve learned the need for mental alertness so that I don?t let others? influence move me to accept ideas that aren?t natural to my own thinking.

?When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path,? writes Mary Baker Eddy in ?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures? (p. 254). It is the one infinite divine Mind, the unrestricted and infinite intelligence, that is the source of all good and healing ideas.

In a practical way, President Abraham Lincoln confirmed this truth when he responded to an associate who said that he prayed that God was on his side. Lincoln said, ?Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God?s side, for God is always right.?

Every individual ? including candidates and voters ? is, in fact, the perfect child of God. This means that no one can be separated from right reasoning and sound judgment, even if things don?t always turn out according to one?s own expectation. I learned this some years ago when I ran for public office.

I was running to fill a mid-term vacancy in a congressional district. Such elections require a highly focused, short, local campaign, and I believed I was the leading candidate since I was well known in the community as a political activist with significant business experience. But I was attacked through newspaper ads, radio talk shows, campaign fliers, verbal lies, and smears. These claims were so different from who I really was that my friends assured me they did not know the man being described in this attack. And neither did I.

During this period I had daily early morning telephone contact with a Christian Science practitioner. We considered the specifics of the daily reports and prayed together for my protection and safety. We also worked with citations from the Bible and Science and Health and other writings by Mrs. Eddy.

One day we prayed together with the fifth verse of the 91st Psalm: ?Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day.? We paid special attention to the spiritual protection that prevails against an arrow ? the arrow of any mental influence that would threaten me. Eddy makes it clear through her writings that these influences are powerless before divine Love?s omnipotence.

That day while driving, I was involved in a head-on collision. It was a moment for me to trust God with all my heart. I was immediately knocked out and I felt I was sinking into total darkness. I heard an angel message, or inspired thought from God: ?Do not move until you control your thought.? As I fought to do this, it came to me to recite ?the scientific statement of being? from Science and Health (p. 468). With no small amount of struggle I was able to do that and to feel the power of those words.

I was unhurt, and not long after that, I was able to call the practitioner and my wife from a nearby home. Though both cars were totaled, the other driver also made quick progress and was well enough to be released from the hospital the same day. We came to know each other in the next few weeks, and I was touched when she heartily endorsed me as a candidate.

Years later I?m still deeply grateful for God?s protection and guidance that ?thou shalt not be afraid ... for the arrow that flieth by day.? Though I didn?t win the election, I was at peace because I had won the greatest victory possible: I had not been hurt in the accident. I had overcome the fear of the arrow that flieth by day. I was also learning to subordinate human self to the will of God, to listen and follow God?s guidance.

The Bible advises, ?A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger? (Proverbs 15:1). When we take our stand along spiritual lines, we are helping eliminate willpower, overwhelming zeal, religious judgmentalism, and aggressive animosity toward others. This stand guides us, protects us, and supports good government. It?s a fitting service to our fellow citizens and our nations.

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Champions Group B preview: Giroud at Montpellier

Montpellier vs. Arsenal

La Mosson, Montpellier, 2:45 p.m. Eastern

Four months after leading Montpellier to one of the more improbable European titles in recent memory, Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud returns to La Mosson for a match that?s bound to inspire mixed feelings.

?I spent a beautiful, wonderful season there last year when we were champions and won the title,? Arsenal?s new 25-year-old striker told Arsenal Player. ?It will be difficult for me to play against Montpellier, because there is a lot of emotion ??

It?s unclear how that emotion will manifest in the crowd. Getting $19.5 million for him this summer, Montpellier received a windfall for a player who was in the French second division two years ago. The fans, however, could see the departure as a player quickly abandoning a club that helped him become a star.

?I hope to receive a good reception from the Montpellier fans, because I finished the top goal scorer there last season and worked hard for the title,? Giroud said. ?I think the reaction will be good, but there may be some people who will boo maybe. It is always like this.?

This all assumes Giroud plays. He?s yet to score in a competitive match since moving to Arsenal, something which leaves manager Arsene Wenger uncertain as to whether the former MHSC man will start.

?I felt that he is under much pressure at the moment and sometimes to get a little breather is good,? Wenger said, having left Giroud out of his starting XI this weekend against Southampton, a decision that could portend to Giroud starting on Tuesday.

Wenger is one person who will not be on the field at La Mosson. The Arsenal boss starts serving the first of a three-match touchline ban incurred for confronting officials after the Gunners? elimination to Milan in last year?s knockout stage. Still fuming over the suspension, Wenger labeled UEFA ?clueless.?

What he?ll miss is a battle between two clubs with vastly different Champions League resum?s. Montpellier is making their first appearance in the competition. Arsenal is making their 15th straight, having progressed to the knockout round in 12 consecutive seasons.

Further tilting the scales, Arsenal has never lost at a Ligue 1 club in Champions League. They?ve also yet to lose this season in England, while Montpellier took four rounds to record their first Giroud-less win.

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Like Arsenal and Montpellier, Olympiacos and Schalke have never met, so if we?re looking for insight into how these teams match up, we?ll need coincident results. Last season, German champions Borussia Dortmund were drawn into Olympiacos?s Champions League group and proceded to lose 3-1 on their trip to Piraeus. Arsenal would fall to an identical score, and with Olympiacos 3-0-0 out of the gate in Greece?(with a +6 difference), there?s no reason to think the Greek champions have taken a step back.

Schalke is off to a hot start of their own, earning seven points from their first three games. Having already posted seven goals, concerns over the loss of Ra?l?s 15 may prove unwarranted (the Spanish icon got hooked up with direct deposit with Al Sadd in Qatar). Lewis Holtby, Julian Draxler and Jermaine Jones, who combined for seven goals last season, have already found net four times. Huub Stevens has scarcely needed new acquisitions Ibrahim Afellay and Tranquillo Barnetta.

The question is whether Schalke can hold up at the back. Having only allowed two goals thus far, the team may be slightly improved on last year (when Christoph Metzelder got half the starts ahead of Christian Fuchs). Olympiacos? Rafik Djebbour may provide their stiffest test to date. The 28-year-old Algerian has started the Greek season with four goals.

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Sesame Street's next chapter: Elmo talks back

NEW YORK (AP) ? Elmo, Big Bird and the rest of the "Sesame Street" crew have always talked to kids. Now, they'll try to have a two-way conversation with their pint-sized audience using Kinect, the motion and voice-sensing controller created by Microsoft.

"Kinect Sesame Street TV," out Tuesday, is not exactly a video game, though it runs on the Xbox 360 video game system. There are no winners and losers, no real rules to follow and no points to score. If you don't want to play, that's fine. Just sit back and watch "Sesame Street," as kids have for the past 43 years. But if you do play, Grover will count coconuts you've thrown, the Count will praise you for standing still and Elmo will catch a talking ball if you throw it to him.

The episodes presage the next step in the evolution of television, adding an interactive element to what's still a passive, lean-back experience. The game is sure to arouse jealous feelings among football fans who yell at their TV sets during Sunday's game. As you watch children playing the "Sesame Street" game, it's easy to imagine a not-so-distant future where viewers become participants, affecting a show's outcome ?much more than they do when they vote for "American Idol" contestants.

"Kinect Sesame Street" ''allows the child to participate in the narrative plot," says Emory Woodard, communications professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. Woodard, who worked at Children's Television Workshop ? what is now Sesame Workshop ? in 1995, notes that a lot of TV programming aimed at preschoolers involves characters talking to the kids. "But in this case," he adds, "The characters can react to the child's response."

It's not entirely clear, though, whether that makes a difference to them.

"That's a research question to explore," Woodard says.

Two-and 3-year-olds, he notes, are at a very "ego-centric" stage of development. They already experience on-screen characters as if they were talking to them, even with traditional television programs. They start growing out of that around 4, but by 5 they'll have more or less grown out of "Sesame Street," too. ("Kinect Sesame" is recommended for children 3 and up).

Microsoft recently gave The Associated Press and several bloggers an early look at "Kinect Sesame." Jack and Zoe Shyba, the 5 and 4-year-old kids of mommy blogger Jessica Shyba, at first just watched the show intently when they saw it at the Sesame Workshop in New York. The letter of the day, as it happens, was "S." But as soon the characters started to ask them to do things, they obliged.

Kinect works by first calibrating to users' bodies so it can track their movements when they throw a virtual ball to an on-screen character or pluck virtual carrots from Elmo's garden. (Kinect is also used to play more traditional video games and control entertainment features on the Xbox). With teenagers and adults, this means moving your body into various poses that are reflected by a bare-bones figure on screen.

With small children as the focus, the creators tried a different approach. Instead of having an on-screen avatar mimic their movements, "Kinect Sesame Street" has them step into an on-screen mirror so they can see themselves on TV.

"We were spending a lot of time talking about how to get a kid calibrated in a way that was fun," said Josh Atkins, Xbox executive producer of Kinect Sesame Street. The best way, it turned out, was to have an on-screen "character" that is essentially a mirror. "When they see themselves on TV they tend to pay attention."

"Sesame Street" first aired on public television in 1969, with the aim of educating preschoolers and helping them transition to school. "Kinect Sesame Street TV" starts off by using content from the show's 42nd season. The game is available in disc form and as a download through via Xbox Live. For $30 users can purchase a package that includes eight 30-minute episodes on two discs. Users can also purchase single episodes for $5.

Rosemarie Truglio, senior vice president of education and research at Sesame Workshop, said children can learn both through linear content ? such as watching an episode ? and through interactive content.

"We have never tried this," she said. "We've never taken a 'Sesame Street' episode and turned it into an interactive experience."

Truglio points to a math example. There's a scene in the show where Grover slips on a banana peel and drops a box of coconuts. Kids who don't want to interact with Grover can continue watching the show. Or, they can stand up and throw virtual coconuts back to Grover, who will count out the pitches until he gets six. At the Sesame Workshop, Jack and Zoe mimicked throwing the coconuts and counted with Grover until they got all of them.

"We want to get children to understand what '5' is, or the meaning of what '6' is," Truglio said. "They have to throw 6 times (so) you have an action that is linked to a number."

This kind of "transfer" ? learning something in one context and translating it to another context, is a "holy grail" for Sesame Street, said Fran Blumberg, professor at Fordham University's graduate school of education who focuses on educational psychology.

"Sesame has been wildly successful," she says, "The question is whether it will be enhanced with this new game."

Jessica Shyba (who blogs about parenting in Manhattan at MommasGoneCity.com), said she prefers to see her kids play the game rather than watching regular TV.

"If they watch TV I can't even ask them what they want for lunch," she says, noting that passive television viewing turns them into "little zombies." But with the interactive game, Shyba says, "I can hear them talking, yelling, waving their arms. That, to me, is really cool."

Atkins said the making of "Kinect Sesame Street" involved a lot of real-world testing with children. It was through trial and error that the designers learned that it didn't work well when characters gave children very direct orders like "throw the ball" or "throw the ball now." The children in early tests became resistant and didn't feel involved in the story. So they changed the timing. In the game, Elmo waits for kids to throw and says "please." He's also careful not to ask too many times, because kids can get overwhelmed and lose interest.

Unlike a video game, in "Kinect Sesame Street" kids never need to do anything unless they want to. But if they do, the designers' rule was that "there needs to be an immediate response," Atkins said.

It was also crucial to only ask kids to do simple actions that are part of their everyday vocabulary. In Sesame, this includes jumping, throwing, waving, pointing, clapping, standing and perhaps the most challenging task for some of them, standing still.

"We came up with those things because we knew they were things we would never have to explain to a child," he said.

Sesame also doesn't tell kids they are wrong, or that they have to do something over. If that happened, Atkins said, "It would stop being a TV show and revert back to being a game."

Shyba's only concern is "Kinect Sesame Street" relatively short shelf life.

Navigating Kinect requires some basic skills that might be difficult for young children. Zoe, who turns 4 on Wednesday, hasn't quite mastered the setup but even she "kind of feels like 'Sesame Street' is babyish," Shyba said. "Granted, she has an older brother."

At 5, Jack is all but over "Sesame," and much more interested in another interactive TV-game, based on nature shows from National Geographic. "Kinect Nat Geo TV," another Xbox offering out this week, lets kids take the shape of on-screen animals, look for their tracks in the snow or take photos of them by saying the word "snap" when they appear.

"This kind of interactive programming is going to really be a significant part of the entertainment experience of children, teens and adults," Woodard said. "We are just at the beginning."

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Strasburg's replacement shines for Nats

By RONALD BLUM

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 11:09 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) - John Lannan knows he can't pitch like Stephen Strasburg. What he can do is compete like the Washington Nationals' ace.

Lannan pitched five-hit ball over 5 2-3 innings in his first start since replacing Strasburg in Washington's starting rotation, and the Nationals lowered their magic number for clinching a playoff berth to five with a 2-0 win over the punchless New York Mets on Wednesday night.

"It's definitely strange. There's a lot of strange things going on," Lannan said. "What's going on with Stras, it just hasn't happened before."

Ryan Zimmerman homered in the fourth off rookie Matt Harvey (3-5) and Ian Desmond connected off Jon Rauch in the eighth, helping the NL East leaders complete a three-game sweep and open an 8 1/2-game lead over the second-place Braves heading into a three-game series at Atlanta starting Friday. The Nationals are closing in on the capital's first postseason baseball berth since the original Washington Senators in 1933.

"This was a big series," manager Davey Johnson said. "We need to kind of drive the nail in their coffin over here and come into Atlanta in a good frame of mind."

A native of nearby Long Beach, Lannan (3-0) struck out two and walked one in an 81-pitch outing. Lannan, Washington's opening-day starter in 2009 and 2010, was 9-11 with a 4.30 ERA at Triple-A Syracuse and asked the Nationals to trade him when he was demoted at the end of spring training.

"It all happened for a reason, I guess," he said. "I just don't look back on it with anger or anything. It just is what it is. It happened, and we've just got to move on."

Pitching before about 20 family members and friends, he made his first appearance since a minor league outing on Aug. 30 and improved to 4-1 with a 1.69 ERA in his last six starts against the Mets. Without Strasburg's dominant fastball, the left-handed Lannan relies on changing speeds and control.

"He earned a lot of respect in this clubhouse," said reliever Sean Burnett, who gave up two hits and got two outs in the ninth - his first appearance since Sept. 2 following a layoff caused by an irritated nerve in his pitching elbow.

Drew Storen came in and retired pinch-hitter Daniel Murphy on a game-ending flyout with runners at the corners for his second save. The surging Nationals have won nine of 11 and 12 of 15.

Harvey struck out 10 in five-plus innings, his latest impressive performance. New York, however, finished an 0-6 homestand and dropped to 65-78, falling 13 games under .500 for the first time since finishing 2009 at 70-92. The Mets have lost eight of nine overall.

They also extended their club-record streak of scoring three runs or fewer to 13 straight home games. They have lost 22 of their last 26 in Queens and have just four wins at Citi Field since the All-Star break - two fewer than the Nationals.

"It's frustrating for all 35 guys in that clubhouse, besides the players, and the coaches and the front office," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "We set the bar pretty high in April and May. Our club wasn't picked to be very good and we set the bar up there.

"Right now, we just cannot seem to recreate what happened in April."

Washington cut short Strasburg's season last weekend, wanting to protect the 24-year-old right-hander's arm following ligament-replacement surgery on Sept. 3, 2010.

While the Nationals initially intended to make Wednesday's game his final start of the year, they moved up their timetable because they said the limit was weighing on his mind. Strasburg finished 15-6 with a 3.16 ERA in 28 starts with 197 strikeouts in 159 1-3 innings.

Johnson said he might use Strasburg as a pinch-hitter down the stretch. Strasburg is hitting .277 with one homer, four doubles and seven RBIs.

"If I can't use your arm, I'll use your bat," Johnson said. "He's pretty bad now but he's going to get worse because he's going to be chomping."

Johnson said Strasburg keeps asking pitching coach Steve McCatty about what his routine should be.

"Of course, he's been pestering Cat about what he can do," Johnson added. "Can I keep throwing off the mound? No. Can I play catch in the outfield? Yes."

NOTES: Washington has won eight in a row in Queens and 12 of 13. ... Nationals LF Michael Morse missed the game after he was diagnosed with a torn cuff and a bone bruise in his left wrist. ... Players' association head Michael Weiner, undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, was in the Mets' clubhouse speaking with players before the game. ... Zimmerman extended his hitting streak to 16 games and set a franchise record by driving in a run for the ninth straight game, one more than Larry Walker (1993), Moises Alou ('93 and `94) and Vladimir Guerrero ('98). Zimmerman also made several sparkling plays with his glove at third.

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Court says iPhone 4 owners can't sue Apple over broken glass

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A California federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit against Apple over glass cracking on the iPhone 4.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ruled this week that Betsalel Williamson's suit against Apple will not proceed. The ruling from the judge (via CNet) states that it is a "well-known fact of life" that glass, even when reinforced, will crack and shatter under impact.

"The shattered window of a storefront, the cracked windshield of a car, and the chipped smartphone screen are routine encounters of modern existence," Williamson said.

The class-action suit was first filed in January of 2011. It unsuccessfully attempted to argue that Apple's iPhone 4 design, which features both a glass front and back, is defective.

The original complaint cited Apple's promotional materials, which touted the strength of the glass used on the iPhone 4. The lawsuit featured a quote from Apple's chief designer, Jony Ive, who said the iPhone 4 glass was "comparable in strength to sapphire crystal."

The complaint also cited a third-party insurer who found that the iPhone 4 glass housing allegedly broke at an 82 percent higher rate than prior versions of the iPhone.

But the judge determined that Apple never stated that the iPhone 4 was "resistant to normal wear and tear, that the glass housing would never break or crack under normal use, or that the phone might not be damaged if it was dropped."

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A few weeks ago I was in a meeting with a prospective client. At the end of the conversation, the chief marketing officer said, ?I see you don?t refer to yourselves as PR pros? and your proposal doesn?t have any mention of it. Why is that??

I explained that when people say they need a PR firm, they really mean they want someone to get them stories, which is an?ego-driven metric, and only one tactic of a larger marketing and communications program.

Even though we were ending the meeting when she asked, we ended up talking for another 45 minutes about this new world we live in and what public relations really does for an organization. Which is much more than getting someone on the front page of?The New York Times.

What is PR Anyway?

The PR industry has, for a very long time, used?media relations?as the example when describing what we do because it?s tangible. Just like you can hold or view an ad, you can hold or view a story a reporter has written or produced.

But while media relations is fantastic for brand awareness and credibility, it doesn?t drive business results unless it?s integrated with other tactics.

And using media relations as ?the thing? the industry does is doing us a huge disservice.

There are many other tactics we use: Crisis planning, monitoring and listening, issues management, messaging, creating and telling stories, speaking engagements, content development, events, guerilla marketing, internal communication, social media, lobbying, audits, market research, community development, influencer relations, blogger relations, word of mouth, contests, trends development, and more.

Some of us even integrate what might be considered more traditional marketing: Database development, email, search engine optimization, trade shows, search engine marketing, inbound marketing, gamification, and mobile technology.

When you combine tactics such as these, you have an integrated marketing and communications program that drives results ? real results such as improved margins, shortened sales cycles, and increased revenues.

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But even the?new definition of PR?that the Public Relations Society of America announced earlier this year doesn?t help the industry:

Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.

It continues to refer to media relations as the only tactic in a communicator?s toolbox. It?s like saying you have to build a house with only one hammer.

So the industry has begun to see a move toward other descriptors of what we do (social media, marketing, integrated marketing communications). Meanwhile, many of us have stopped saying we do PR.

I grew up in a traditional PR firm but I?ve been smart enough to realize organizations will pay for your relationships with journalists only for so long. They soon want to know what?s next and how those relationships will help them grow a business.

That?s something most PR pros don?t know because it requires an understanding of how an organization makes money, the difference between a balance sheet and a P&L, and how margins affect profitability.

Those are things we?re not taught in school. And, unless you run the PR firm or start your own, the closest you?ll get in your career is managing a budget.

Let?s All Go to Business School

The fact of the matter is, PR pros need a business education. The major needs to move from the liberal arts college to the business school or at least require some business classes before graduation.

Sure, most PR pros are?right brained. It?s essential to be creative enough to tell stories in compelling ways, to provide valuable information that helps others do their jobs, and to build relationships on behalf of organizations.

But the PR pro of tomorrow has to fight the black eye and learn everything they can about the business side of things. Otherwise they?ll always be known as media relations specialists. And that?s just not enough anymore.

A version of this first appeared on Sparksheet.

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