Execs Should Forego Bonuses: Obama

US corporate executives should forgo big bonuses since the economy is faltering and hundreds of thousand of workers face job cuts, President-elect Barack Obama said in an 'ABC News' interview airing on Wednesday."I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are having to lay off workers, the least you can do is say, I'm willing to make some sacrifice as well," Obama said.

Executive bonuses have been strongly criticized as US taxpayers, suffering the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, question the US Treasury Department's $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, which played a large role in creating the crisis.In the wide-ranging interview, Obama was asked what he thought about the heads of the Big Three US automakers taking private planes to Washington last week to ask Congress for a bailout.

Their actions show that the CEOs were "a little tone deaf" to what is happening in America, Obama said, adding that it was a chronic problem, and not just for the auto industry."I think it's been a problem for the captains of industry generally," Obama said.

"When people are pulling down hundred-million-dollar bonuses on Wall Street, and taking enormous risks with other people's money, that indicates a sense that you don't have any perspective on what's happening to ordinary Americans."

Indian Creek/Toms Branch Falls

An easy 1.6 mile roundtrip hike will allow you to enjoy two beautiful waterfalls in the Deep Creek area. Walk Deep Creek Trail 0.7 mile to the junction with Indian Creek Trail. On your way you can view elegant Tom Branch Falls located on the far side of Deep Creek. Turn right at the junction with Indian Creek Trail and proceed approximately 200' to Indian Creek Falls. The falls are 25 feet in height.

Access trail: Deep Creek/Indian Creek (North Carolina)Trailhead: Follow the signs through downtown Bryson City to Deep Creek Campground. Continue past the campground to the trailhead at the end of Deep Creek Road.

Deep Vein Thrombosis

Also called: DVT, Phlebitis, Thrombophlebitis, Venous thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, is a blood clot that forms in a vein deep in the body. Most deep vein clots occur in the lower leg or thigh. If the vein swells, the condition is called thrombophlebitis. A deep vein thrombosis can break loose and cause a serious problem in the lung, called a pulmonary embolism, or a heart attack or stroke.

Sitting still for a long time can make you more likely to get a DVT. Some medicines and disorders that increase your risk for blood clots can also lead to DVTs. Common symptoms are
* Warmth and tenderness over the vein
* Pain or swelling in the part of the body affected
* Skin redness

Treatment includes medicines to ease pain and inflammation, break up clots and keep new clots from forming. Keeping the affected area raised and applying moist heat can also help. If you are taking a long car or plane trip, take a break, walk or stretch your legs and drink plenty of liquids.

Achene

An achene (also sometimes referred to as "akene" and occasionally "achenium" or "achenocarp") is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are "monocarpellate" (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not open at maturity). Achenes contain a single seed that nearly fills the pericarp, but does not adhere to it. In many species, what we think of as the "seed" is actually an achene, a fruit containing the seed.

Examples

Typical achenes are the fruits of buttercup, buckwheat, and dandelion.

The most familiar achenes are those of the strawberry, where the "seeds" are the achenes (technically the 'botanical' fruits), while what is eaten as the ('culinary') fruit is a so-called accessory fruit.

Fruits of sedges are sometimes considered achenes because they have a one-locule compound ovary. By the same definition, the common fruit type in the Family Asteraceae is also usually considered achene (some term the asteraceous achene cypsela, however). A sunflower "seed" in the husk is not really a seed, but an achene. The white-gray husks are the walls of the fruit.

Bin Laden Son Asylum Did Rejected

Spain has rejected a political asylum bid by one of Osama Bin Laden's sons, months after he was refused a UK visa.

Omar Osama Bin Laden, 27, made his claim at a Madrid airport during a stopover on a flight from Egypt to Morocco with his British wife, 52.Mr Bin Laden, one of the al-Qaeda leader's 19 sons, said the petition was rejected due to "insufficient evidence of danger or threat to [his] life".

The Saudi citizen, who currently lives in Egypt, said he would appeal. He and his wife remain in a transit area at Madrid's Barajas airport, where they arrived on Monday, a Spanish government official said.

"The Interior Ministry has not accepted the request for asylum because this does not meet the conditions necessary for entering Spain," the Associated Press news agency quoted the unnamed official as saying.A metals trader who has urged his father to give up violence, Omar Bin Laden argues that his pacifist beliefs put his life in the Middle East at risk.

'Not his father'

Omar Bin Laden currently lives in Cairo, with Zaina Alsabah Bin Laden, formerly named Jane Felix-Browne, whom he married in 2006.The couple said they were finding it difficult finding a country who would accept Mr Bin Laden, "only because of his family name".

"This is unfair. Omar is not his father," they said.

The couple had hoped to move to Mrs Bin Laden's home in Cheshire, north-west England.But they said in April the British government had judged Mr Bin Laden's presence in the country would not be "conducive to the public good".It is thought the authorities were referring to comments made by Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove his father was responsible for the 2001 attacks on the US or the London bombings in 2005.

Omar Bin Laden says he has not seen since his father since 2000.

Mrs Bin Laden, who is severely visually impaired, had said she needed access to medical treatment in the UK but refused to be apart from her husband.

Journalism

Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating, formally employed by publications and broadcasters, for the benefit of a particular community of people. The writer or journalist is expected to use facts to describe events, ideas, or issues that are relevant to the public.

Journalists (also known as news analysts, reporters, and correspondents) gather information, and broadcast it so we remain informed about local, state, national, and international events. They can also present their points of view on current issues and report on the actions of the government, public officials, corporate executives, interest groups, media houses, and those who hold social power or authority. Journalism is described as The Fourth Estate.

In journalism, a story refers to a single article, news item or feature. A story is usually relevant to a single event, issue, theme, or profile of a person. Stories are usually inspired through news pegs (the central premise of the story). Correspondents report on news occurring in the main, locally, from their own country, or from foreign cities where they are stationed.

Today, most reporters file information or write their stories electronically from remote locations. In many cases, breaking storie