The Liberals invited people to participate in a rally they are calling One Nation at a mall in Washington, D.C.

The Liberals are inviting their supporters to come to the mall in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, October 2, 2010, for the gathering. The group expects to draw a large crowd to contribute to the group’s initiative. The Liberals also believe that this will serve as their move to gather support before the midterm elections in the U.S.

According to the group, this rally’s primary goal is to restore the massive support and enthusiasm that was taken from the liberal group since the 2008 elections. They believe that the support for the Liberal group has been declining over the past years, which causes them to hold this upcoming rally.

Those who are putting this rally together are coming from a variety of group of people. People will partake on this event are ranging from people against war, environmentalists, gay rights activists, and more. These people consider this event as the “most diverse march in history”. The said event will last for four hours.

As of now, the number of people who will participate is not yet certain. In spite of the fact that the number of people remains uncertain, people behind this rally remains hopeful that the number will be high. In contrast to Glenn Beck’s rally where it focused more on American patriotism, “The progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees at their rally to vote in November’s mid-term elections”, this stated by Arlene Holt Baker, who is executive vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

A $30 billion small business lending bill on Thursday has passed Congress, and will be signed by Obama after his Democrats’ hard-fought triumph weeks ahead of the November elections.

In addition, the House of Representative granted the bill a concluding approval on a typically party-line vote of 237 to 187. The bill will now go to Obama for signing on Monday.

The bill sets hold of a lending support for small businesses and is an essential legislative victory for Obama alongside his fellow Democrats who are struggling to show not-so-happy voters     that they are dedicated in their quest to generate more jobs that will help the sluggish economy.

However, in the November 2 congressional elections, Republicans have the composure that they will make big gains in the House and the Senate equally as voters worries about the sluggish economic recovery and a persistently high 9.6 joblessness rate.

Also, surveys revealed that voters did not think that Obama has done enough to aid the United States in recovery from the worst recession after the Great Depression in the 1930s.

However, Obama said in a statement that the small business lending bill that cleared the Congress today will assist in providing loans and tax cuts for millions of owners of small businesses without adding any money in the nation’s budget deficit.

He also said that the bill is desirable because small businesses experienced a hard time getting loans ever since the financial crises broke out last December 2007. Also, they estimate that the incentives can offer up to $300 billion in latest small business credit with the coming years ahead and generate 500,00 jobs.

Furthermore, House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said that the bill was vital because it will let small businesses to flourish and grow.

Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger reported that the company has signed deals to gather extra profit from TV stations associates after discussing higher payments from cable operators.

Also, Time Warner Cable and Disney had collided on retransmission fees that Time Warner would pay Disney to transmit free-to-air broadcast signals in ABC on their cable systems. Also, Disney is the owner of ABC.

TV station owners have looked to recover more payments as viewers are now resorting to video games, cable and the Internet.

In addition, Disney and other major station owners such as News Corp are also requiring payments from TV stations not held by vast media corporations, but are associated with other major networks.

Under the deal, analysts anticipate that Time Warner can pay as much as $1.28 billion to Disney and its associate stations.

Moreover, Iger told shareholders at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York that they anticipate seeing a part of the retransmission fees from associates.

Also, Iger said that that have signed several deals with associates to get access for payments and are talking with other affiliates. Retransmission fees are genuine and will flourish and there is no additional cost to obtain them.

Furthermore, Disney, which also owns Pixar studio and the ESPN sports cable network said that it did not suffered from any loss of subscribers because of the Internet, or it has overlapped with DVD sales because of affordable prices of DVD renters like Coinstar’s Redbox.

Also, other studios have setback their movies on being accessible to Redbox for 30 days to maintain sales.

Iger also said that the DVD business of Disney is profoundly tilted towards children and that people most of the time purchase, not rent DVDs because families tend to watch those movies over and over again.

Samsung unveiled Fascinate on Verizon this week, making the Galaxy S smartphone now available on the four major wireless providers in the US.

Samsung had already introduced Galaxy S on the other three wireless carriers earlier. The launching of Fascinate on Verizon makes the Android-based Galaxy S smartphone available on each of the four major wireless providers.

This approach is against the trend of having exclusive devise relationships with just a single wireless carrier. This will also allow Samsung to broaden the possibilities of distributing the devices to the consumers, and maximize the sale of its Android smartphones.

More than a million Galaxy S units has been sold, even before Samsung made the smartphone available from Sprint, or even from Verizon, the largest of the four wireless providers.

Samsung Galaxy S smartphones share the same core. However, slight differences are present between the AT&T Captivate, T-Mobile Vibrant, Sprint Epic, and the Verizon Fascinate. That means that the devices are unique and are still exclusive to their wireless carriers.

Samsung’s move may give a hint to other manufacturers. Experts said that Apple might double iPhone’s sales if it is to end its exclusivity with AT&T, offering the most wanted device nowadays, to other wireless providers. In support to the analysts’ theory, a recent survey stated that many consumers are willing to move to Verizon if it as to offer iPhone with their service. The survey also illustrates that many Verizon Android users would switch to iPhone if offered.

Iphone has dominated the smartphone market, although it is only available with AT&T, experts said that they could not imagine its sales if it would be available on the three wireless providers as well. Motorola was also successful with its Droid series with Verizon. That fact made experts wonder why it is not offering the same with T-mobile, Sprint, and AT&T to achieve what the iPhone is getting today.

Apple has launched a mini, affordable Apple TV version that links to high-definition (HD) TV on Wednesday.

The newest Apple’s creation can display movie rentals as well as television programs from the company’s private service including pictures on Flickr, Netflix content, clipping from YouTube, etc.

This new device worth around $99 and displays some development in comparison to the first TV that Apple created, which is the set-top box two three years ago. The set-top box has to correspond with a personal computer that surprised many clients about these ideas, according to Apple Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Jobs during a meeting with the media on Wednesday.

The chief executive who is attended a media event in San Francisco wears a black crew neck rather of his traditional outfit, which is the mock turtleneck, and revealed the iTunes software social media features that include the new gadget of iPods like the Nano touch-screen and newly designed software for the iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone gadgets.

The size of this new TV box is 4-iche square yet does not record television; however, it appears at times when several individuals are already used on watching online shows. In addition, is allows individuals not to purchase contents but rent only. A $4.99 payment will be asked to rent new release HD movies the day they appear on DVDs. The rental of HD television show is around ninety cents.

The new Apple TV will be ready within the next thirty days and will likewise features movies, shows, pictures as well as music coursed through Wi-Fi from other gadgets like iPhones, iPads, as well as iPod Touch. This simple allows iPad users to watch movies on the tablet while walking inside the house or living room using this innovative TV.

There are countless of clients that are already knowledgeable regarding watching TV online since the first endeavor of Apple, yet today the firm faces intensified contention for their consideration.

Apple share increased about $7.23 or 3% closing to $250.33 on Wednesday.

Sony Ericsson introduces the latest addition to the Walkman legacy that features supreme audio quality.

Zylo Walkman, the latest masterpiece from Sony Ericsson is the first to let mobile phone users experience what might be the best quality of sound from a walkman.

The new mobile phone from Sony Ericsson is well equipped to play Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). FLAC is an open source format of a compressed music file with high audio quality. Although a bit larger in size than MP3, FLAC, as “lossless” implies never lose its superior sound quality during compression.

High quality bass and crisp stereo sound, bringing the quality almost the same as it was recorded, further enhance the advanced music encounter promised by Zylo.

Zylo comes with SenseMe, a feature allows users to create playlists according to tempo and genre. The Walkman phone also features Shake control, a feature that enables the user to play the music next in his playlist by just shaking the phone. The phone is also equipped with TrackID. An innovative function that allows the user to name songs on his phone by recording a small portion of the track, afterwards, the recording will be checked over an online, global music database then return it with informations about that track like the title of the song, album title, and the name of the artist.

Aside from FLAC, Zylo also supports other music formats like AAC, and MP3. Being equipped with Bluetooth, users can share music files to other phones or other devices like Bluetooth enabled speakers.

Another great feature of Zylo is Music Call. This feature allows the user to take a call and still keep the track on his playlist playing in the background. It also has applications that quickly connect the user to Facebook, Twitter, Google, Google Maps, and YouTube. It supports Netfront web browser that can pan and zoom web pages.

Another useful and handy feature of the Walkman phone that also support FM radio is the Walkmate. Trough Walkmate, a built-in step counter, users can still watch their healt while enjoying superior quality music.

Recessions may have been the reason why US birth rate decline to an estimated 2.6% according to CDC.

A report made by the CDC’s National Center for Health statistics revealed an estimated drop on the number of women giving birth.  The data showed that an estimated 4,136,000 were born 2009 compared to 4,247,000 in 2008.

Previous reports revealed that birth rate on the year 2008 also slumped with 4,251,095 of 2007.

The reduced number of women giving birth may be a result of stern US economic downturn, which happened late 2007.

A significant drop in birth rates illustrated an estimated 13.5 births for every 1000 people last year.

Birth rate has been associated with the country’s socio economic development and status.

Recessions had haul stocks, work and birth.  It had left many people to ponder if they still want to have kids and mouth to feed.

According to Andrew Cherlin, sociology professor from John Hopkins University, economic downfall makes people feel unsecured financially so they tend to delay having children.

The “Great Recession” according to Dr. Michael Cabbad, chief of maternal health at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, restraints people to have more children.

A survey made by Guttmacher Institute demonstrated that women tend to setback pregnancy and limit their number of children due to financial reasons.  Half of these women used contraceptives.  Guttmacher surveys on reproductive health concerns.

Experts suggested that fall on immigration numbers may also be pulling down birth rates in the US.

Reports may have showed a significant decrease in birth rates but an increase number of pregnancies of women over 40, who may want not to postpone pregnancy  regardless of an unstable economy.  These women may feel that they are running out of time to have kids.

Smokers who quit smoking after having a serious heart attack have a lower chance of recurrent heart attacks and can live longer than those people who continued to smoke following an attack.

However, there are only a few known benefits of quitting among patients undergone heart attack left with a complication called left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. LV dysfunction is damage to the heart wherein there is a significantly reduced rate of blood-pumping efficiency in the heart’s main pumping chamber.

Moreover, Dr. Amil M. Shah, the lead researcher on the new study and a staff cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston said that it has been not clear whether the dysfunction could aggregate the heart benefits of quitting smoking.

Nonetheless in their analysis, Shah and his associates revealed that survivors of heart attack having LV dysfunction may help to benefit as much from quitting smoking as other patients suffering from heart attack do.

Among 2,231 patients with LV dysfunction, the researchers discovered that patients who quit smoking in the period of six months of their heart attack were less probable to die within the span of five years or undergo a recurrent heart attack than smokers who persisted to do the habit.

Meanwhile, of all the patients, 463 were already smokers at the time they suffered from heart attack yet quit six months later, and 268 continues to smoke within six months. Among people who have quit smoking, 15 percent of them died or undergone another heart attack by the conclusion of the study, which trailed the patients for up to five years.

In comparison among patients who were still smoking even after their primary onset of heart attack, the rate is 23 percent.

Furthermore, people who stopped smoking were about 30 percent less possibly to die, experience a heart attack or be brought to the hospital because of heart failure throughout the study period.

Sea World Orlando was fined by the Federal job safety agency because of the three violations that are uncovered during the investigation of a trainer who was grabbed by a killer whale and dragged under the water last February.

Sea World Orlando was fined by $75,000 on Monday because of the violations that are uncovered during the investigation. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), they categorized the incident as the most serious violation. They said that it is willful, showing indifference or intentional disregard to the safety of the workers inside the workplace.

Based on the citation, the $70,000 penalty is due to the exposure of the trainers to drowning hazards when they make interaction with the killer whales. The Federal job safety agency proposed that the trainers and workers must not be allowed to have physical contact with Tilikum, the whale that is involved in the death of Dawn Brancheau, trainer. They said that they will be allowed to make contact with the whale if the workers are protected by a barrier.

OSHA reported that Tilikum, the killer whale, has aggressive tendencies. After the death of the trainer, other trainers of Sea World are prohibited to go in the water with Tilikum. According to reports, the killer whale grabbed the long hair of Brancheau as she lay on her stomach in a concrete stab. The cause of death is traumatic injuries and drowning.

The second citation carried a $5,000 fine because of failing to place a stairway railing system close to the stage in the Shamu Stadium. The third citation did not have any fine. It was for not placing a weather protected electrical receptacles at the Shamu Stadium.

According to Fred Jacobs, spokesman of Sea World, the company did not agree to the allegations made by OSHA.