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Just a quick follow-up on James O’Keefe: It’s easy to describe what O’Keefe allegedly tried to do to CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau as a “stunt” or an attempt to “punk” her. CNN used the word “punk” in its headline and “prank” in a caption, and I used the word “stunt” earlier today. None are sufficient. UK Ugg Boots.

Riding a motorcycle on a wire stretched across the Grand Canyon is a “stunt.” Wearing a chicken suit to mock a political candidate for refusing to debate is a “stunt.” Unscrewing the cap on a salt shaker so your dining companion over-salts his soup is a “prank.” Uggs Cardy.

Lying to a reporter in order to lure her onto a boat under false pretenses, then secretly recording her reaction to being confronted in an enclosed, unfamiliar environment by a strange man with handcuffs and sex toys, all while disparaging her as a “bubble-headed-bleach-blonde,” is not a “stunt.” It is the vicious, misogynist act of a twisted person whose 15 minutes should have expired long ago.

There is a very specific recipe for a happy life, reports Mail Online.

Experts studied 4,000 adults and found that the most self-satisfied people work seven hours a day, have five home cooked meals per week, and take two vacations per year. UK Ugg Boots.

Not surprisingly, hanging out with friends and exercising also helps.

Watching TV gives you a boost too, so help yourself to three of your favorite shows per week. Uggs Cardy.

Yeo Valley commissioned the research; they confirm it’s the simple things in life that bring the most joy. “Uninterrupted sleep, as well as quality time with the kids and partner were all deemed really important,” they say.

“And small treats like takeaways, nights out, or the odd weekend away can keep the spark in a relationship and keep everyday life from becoming too mundane.”

Sarah Palin-backed Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller (R-AK), who defeated incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in the primary in August, skyrocketed to power partially by demanding more transparency and ethics in Washington. In his 12-point campaign promise, Miller says he will “end czar layer of government” that “clouds transparency in government.” Miller’s campaign endorsement page features Alaskans praising him for having higher ethics and a greater commitment to transparency. UK Ugg Boots.

However, ThinkProgress contacted the Senate Ethics Committee and the Senate Office of Public Records yesterday and discovered that Miller has not filed a personal finance disclosure as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, as required by law. According to Title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and Senate Rule 41.1, candidates for U.S. Senate must file a disclosure form within 30 days of raising or spending $5,000. According to the Federal Elections Committee, Miller raised well over $5,000 as early as April of this year. Asked again today by ThinkProgress if Miller has filed his personal finance disclosure, or has contacted the Senate Office of Public Records with any request for an extension to file, a staffer with the Office responded:

“We haven’t received anything from him. He hasn’t sent us anything.” Uggs Cardy.

According to law, “failure to file or report information required to be reported by section 102 of the Act may subject” Miller — a Yale Law School graduate — to a “civil penalty of not more than $50,000 and to disciplinary action by the Select Committee on Ethics and/or any other appropriate authority.” As of today, Miller is at least five months late with his disclosures. Discount Uggs.

It’s not the first time Miller has faced ethical issues. As the Associated Press reported yesterday, Miller received a special low-income hunting and fishing license shortly after joining a law firm making about $70,000 a year. Although he claims he received the license lawfully, his opponent blasted him for “gaming the system.”

ThinkProgress reached out to several members of the Miller campaign team for comment. They have not yet provided a response, but we will post an update if they do.

In Alaska, Republican Lisa Murkowski is giving the GOP nominee for her Senate seat, Joe Miller, a real race to contend with. Independent candidates are polling surprisingly strongly in Illinois’ Senate and gubernatorial races. And in Florida, Republican Marco Rubio is pulling away from independent Charlie Crist. The campaigns of outsider candidates were the primary focus of this week’s CNN-TIME-Opinion Research poll, which also looked at the Senate and gubernatorial races in California, where Democrats Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown appear to be firming up leads against Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman. UK Ugg Boots.

In Alaska, Republicans Miller and Murkowski are locked in a statistical tie. Tea Party favorite Miller has a slight lead with likely voters, 38% to Murkowski’s 36%. Trailing behind them is Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka, with 22%. Murkowski, who lost the GOP primary to Miller, still faces a steep uphill battle as a write-in candidate whose name won’t actually be on the ballot Nov. 2. She polls best among non-whites, 49% to Miller’s 24% and McAdams’ 23%, a reflection of the strength of her support amongst Alaskan natives, though she losing the white vote to Miller 33% to 42%. Murkowski also leads Miller slightly amongst independents, which make up Alaska’s largest voting bloc, 38% to 35%. Murkowski draws significant support from Democrats, 39% to McAdams’ 55%, and she gets 32% of Republicans’ backing, compared with Miller’s 63%. In the Last Frontier’s gubernatorial race, incumbent Republican Sean Parnell, who stepped into the breach when Sarah Palin resigned more than a year ago, leads his Democratic challenger, Ethan Berkowitz, comfortably 57% to 38%. Uggs Cardy.

(See TIME’s special report “Campaign 2010: Races to Watch.”)

In Illinois, Alexis Giannoulias, the Democratic candidate for President Obama’s old Senate seat, just barely leads Republican Mark Kirk, by a margin of 43% to 42% among likely voters, despite the fact that Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones draws a surprisingly strong 8% of the vote. And the gubernatorial race between Democrat Pat Quinn and Republican Bill Brady is tight, with Brady leading 40% to 38%, and two lefty candidates drawing a combined 18% of the vote: Green Party candidate Rich Whitney, 4%; and Scott Lee Cohen, a former Democratic lieutenant governor nominee, 14%. In fact, it’s hard to tell which party these outside candidates are doing more damage to: Jones and Cohen each draw 8% of the Tea Party vote and Whitney has 3%. Discount Uggs.

Florida was the only state in the poll where the independent candidate seems to be fading. GOP nominee for Senate Marco Rubio, a former Speaker of the State House, is ahead with support from 42% of likely voters to Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s 31% and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek’s 23%. Crist decided to run as an Independent after it became clear that conservative darling Rubio would beat him in the primary. In a CNN-TIME-Opinion Research poll earlier this month Crist and Rubio were locked within the margin of error, with Crist winning 34% of likely voters to Rubio’s 36%. Meek garnered 24% in that poll conducted Sept. 2-7. Since then, Crist has lost ground with Republican voters to Rubio and Democratic voters to Meek. In the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial contest Democrat Alex Sink, Florida’s CFO, is in a tighter-than-expected contest with wealthy businessman Rick Scott. Sink, the early favorite, is losing 45% to Scott’s 47%. Scott is pulling 50% of the independent vote compared to Sink’s 37%. Uggs Boots Sale.

(See a poll: “Republicans Close in Three Key Senate Races.”)

The one state in the new poll where third party candidates are playing no role is California, where Democrats Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown have cemented leads over their GOP opponents. Boxer pulled away from Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO, in her bid for a fourth Senate term. Boxer leads Fiorina 52% to 43% among likely voters. That’s a significant improvement from earlier this month when a CNN-TIME-Opinion Research poll found Boxer just edging past Fiorina amongst likely voters 48% to 44%. Likewise in the gubernatorial race, Brown leads former eBay CEO Meg Whitman 52% to 43% among likely voters, a reversal of fortunes for Brown who earlier this month was losing to Whitman 46% to 48% in a poll conducted Sept. 2-7. Brown and Boxer both benefit from moderates breaking for them: 59% for Boxer to Fiorina’s 32% and 59% for Brown to Whitman’s 36%.

All four polls were conducted by telephone Sept. 24-28. In Alaska 927 likely voters were surveyed, yielding a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. In California and Florida, 786 likely voters in each state were polled and in Illinois 828 likely voters responded. All three of those states have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5%.

The House on Wednesday approved legislation to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke at ground zero. UK Ugg Boots.

The vote was 268 to 160, with 17 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the bill. Opposing the measure were 157 Republicans and three Democrats. Republicans raised concerns about the $7.4 billion cost of the program.

The bill’s fate is unclear in the Senate. Republicans have enough votes to filibuster the measure, and Senate Democrats have not shown great interest in bringing the measure to the floor. Uggs Cardy.

The bill aroused impassioned debate, as 9/11 responders and their relatives watched from the House gallery.

The vote occurred as Congress moved to finish its legislative business quickly and adjourn this week to allow lawmakers to head back home to campaign before the Nov. 2 elections.

The bill calls for providing $3.2 billion over the next eight years to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at ground zero. New York City would pay 10 percent of those health costs. The bill seeks to set aside $4.2 billion to reopen the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to provide compensation for any job and economic losses. Discount Uggs.

In addition, the bill includes a provision that would have allowed money from the Victim Compensation Fund to be paid out to anyone who receives payment under the pending settlement stemming from lawsuits that 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers filed against the city. At the moment, anyone who receives a settlement from the city is limited in how much compensation they can receive from the fund, according to the bill’s sponsors.

Until now, Congress has appropriated money on an annual basis to monitor the health of people injured at ground zero and to provide them with medical treatment.

There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in a variety of health monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attacks, according to the sponsors of the bill. The federal government provides the bulk of the money for those health programs.

The bill’s supporters have been demanding that the government institute a more permanent health program for 9/11 responders, fearful that annual appropriations are subject to the political whims of Congress and the White House.

But such a program has been opposed by many Republicans, who raised concerns about creating a new federal entitlement to provide health benefits at a time when the federal government is running a huge budget deficit

On the floor, Representative Joe L. Barton, a Republican from Texas, who opposed the bill, argued that it was unnecessary given the fact that Congress had created programs like the Victim Compensation Fund.

After noting that the compensation fund had made billions of dollars in payouts, Mr. Barton said the bill would add the burden of a new entitlement program on taxpayers. “We want to help the victims,” he said. Uggs Boots Sale.

But the bill’s supporters argued that the nation had a moral obligation to help workers who risked their lives to respond to the crisis at ground zero.

“The 9/11 responders have received a lot of awards and praise, but they tell me that what they really need is health care,” said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat from New York who was one of the bill’s chief sponsors.

Known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, the bill bears the name of a New York City detective who participated in the rescue and recovery efforts at ground zero for about three weeks after the Sept. 11 attack.

He in died in January 2006 after he developed symptoms common to first responders, including difficulty breathing and flulike symptoms. But the cause of his death became the source of debate after the city’s medical examiner concluded that his death was not directly related to the 9/11 attacks.

Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, who described the bill as an ”irresponsible overreach,” seized on the controversy surrounding Mr. Zadroga’s death, saying: “This bill is deceptive, starting with its title.”

The vote on Wednesday was the second time this year that the House took up the 9/11 health bill.

In July, Democratic leaders brought the bill to the floor under special rules requiring a two-thirds majority to pass it. A majority of the lawmakers in the chamber supported the bill, but the vote in July fell short of the two-thirds margin needed.

At the time, Democrats were concerned that a vote under normal rules requiring a simple majority would have allowed Republicans to propose a controversial amendment that sought to deny 9/11 health benefits to illegal immigrants.

The amendment would probably have divided Democratic support for the original health bill into two camps: moderates who might feel political pressure to deprive illegal immigrants of such benefits and liberals who flatly oppose the Republican amendment.

A Rutgers University freshman killed himself after two classmates used a hidden dorm room camera to splash his sex life across the internet, sources told the Daily News.

A distraught Tyler Clementi, 18, left his wallet on the George Washington Bridge before plunging to his death in the Hudson River last Wednesday, sources said. UK Ugg Boots.

A Twitter post from one of the students accused of streaming the sexual encounter live on the internet indicated Clementi, a renowned high school violinist, was with another man.

“Roommate asked for the room till midnight,” read the post from Dharun Ravi, 18. “I went into Molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”

The Twitter post went up Sept. 19 – three days before Clementi’s suicide. Uggs Cardy.

At least two people spotted Clementi standing on the south walk of the bridge near the New York side at 8:50 p.m. The Ridgewood, N.J., teen left no note before jumping, the sources said.

His body remained missing, although the NYPD Harbor Unit discovered a corpse floating Wednesday in Spuyten Duyvil near W. 218th St., north of the bridge. The body had not yet been identified. Discount Uggs.

The teen’s car was parked on the New Jersey side of the bridge.

“We are not talking right now,” said the victim’s father, Joseph Clementi, 54. “We are still in mourning. It’s been a lot to deal with.”

The stunning details emerged one day after authorities announced the arrests of Ravi and Molly Wei for cyber-voyeurism.

The pair used the hidden dorm room camera to stream their fellow student’s sex session, officials said.

Clementi graduated in June from Ridgewood High School, where he was well-known for his musical prowess. His former classmates became aware of his disappearance late last week, said schools Superintendent Daniel Fishbein.

“We’ve had counselors available for students and staff for some time,” said Fishbein.

Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, was free Wednesday on $25,000 bail. Co-defendant Wei, 18, of Princeton, was released on her own recognizance after the suspects surrendered to campus police.

The pair, who were high school classmates, were charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for the Sept. 19 broadcast, said Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan.

Kaplan had no immediate comment about additional charges in the wake of Clementi’s death.

Ravi was additionally charged with two more invasion of privacy counts for trying to arrange the airing of a second session on Sept. 21, Kaplan said.

Ravi’s lawyer was not available Wednesday for comment.

The top count against each suspect carries a five-year jail term. The two students were on the Piscataway campus less than a month before their arrests. Uggs Boots Sale.

Ravi pulled down his Twitter account, where he also made a cryptic Sept. 21 reference to his roommate asking to have their room to himself.

“Yes, it’s happening again,” he wrote.

Rutgers students who knew the duo were shocked by the arrests.

Ravi was a ping-pong player and Frisbee enthusiast, while Wei was described by one friend as a dedicated student from a strict household.

“She studies a lot,” said the 17-year-old, who attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School with the pair. “She gets good grades. She never did anything bad.”

Rutgers issued a statement saying it would not comment on any details of the case.

“The university takes these matters seriously and has policies to deal with student behavior,” said spokeswoman Sandra Lanman. “Under federal law, the university cannot comment on specifics.”

For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – that is, a reply or a retweet. According to Sysomos, just 6% of all tweets are retweeted and these retweets have a very short lifespan. Virtually all retweets happen within the first hour after the original tweet. UK Ugg Boots.

If you are looking to get retweeted and nobody picks your tweet up within the first hour, chances are that nobody ever will. Only 1.63% of all retweets happen in the second hour and a minuscule 0.94% in the third hour. The same is true for @replies, too; 97% of all replies happen within the first hour.
Sysomos also looked at how these @reply threads play out on Twitter. A typical Twitter conversation is very short-lived. About 85% of those tweets that actually generate a reply only have one reply. Only 11% of these conversations have a second reply and very few Twitter conversation go deeper than that. Uggs Cardy.

As this video shows, though, this doesn’t negate the fact that some messages obviously go viral and see far more retweets and @replies than the average tweet. In general, though, Sysomos’ data shows that tweets do tend to be rather short-lived.

This is possibly one of the most horrific things we’ve heard in quite some time.

Tyler Clementi, a gay freshman at Rutgers University, has taken his life by jumping off of the George Washington Bridge last week after two classmates secretly filmed him having sex and then broadcast it over the internet. UK Ugg Boots.

Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei have each been charged with two counts of invasion of privacy, and could face up to five years in prison if convicted on a third degree offense.

Worse yet, Ravi is being charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy, because he apparently attempted to film AGAIN two days later! Uggs Cardy.

Check out (above) a news report on the incident before the student’s death.

Absolutely vile. We can’t even begin to imagine how this poor teen must have felt.

Why anyone would do that to someone else is beyond us.

Our hearts go out to his family, friends, and loved ones. We can’t even begin to express how grief-stricken we are from hearing about this awful, unnecessary tragedy.