Liberty Safe Announces Safe Give-Away for Craziest "Extreme Measures"

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PAYSON, Utah, Sept. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To help introduce SafElert, the world's first internal safe security system, Liberty Safe today announced a contest to find the most extreme, funny or ridiculous measures people take to protect their valuables.

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SafElert is a wireless device placed inside a safe that stays in constant communication with a home's Wi-Fi system. If a safe is tampered with, the door opened, the handle jiggled, or if the temperature changes, SafElert sends a text and email to warn the owner that there might be trouble at home. You can even access your safe's status with a mobile app, such as view the humidity level inside the safe!

The EXTREME MEASURES contest is open to eligible participants in the 48 contiguous states, and runs from August 27 to September 20. The grand prize is Liberty's premium FAT BOY safe, along with the SafElert system and a free 1-year's subscription to the SafElert monitoring service.

Contestants may also win one of the weekly drawings for a SafElert System and six months of SafElert monitoring.

To participate, Liberty Safe Facebook fans will submit a photo with a caption or explanation of the most extreme, funny or ridiculous measures they take to protect something important to them, and include their contact information (name, email, age).

"People can be very creative in their methods to keep things tamper-proof," said Jamey Skousen, Marketing Director at Liberty Safe. "Maybe they have a unique way for keeping sweets away from their kids, or a secret stash of gold coins, or a special way of locking down the fireworks or ammo."

All fans of the Liberty Safe Facebook page are invited to vote for their favorite entry. The Grand Prize winner will be picked at random from the ten most popular photos from the entire contest.

Prizes:

GRAND PRIZE: 1 Fat Boy safe, a SafElert system, one year of SafElert monitoring.

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North Liberty Chief Pool Down to Four

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NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa - One of the candidates to become North Liberty's police chief has dropped out of the running.

Cliff Sessoms, the deputy police chief of the Marion, Ind. Police Department has withdrawn his name from consideration, according to a press release from the City of North Liberty.

The four remaining finalists are:

Diana Venega, who has served as North Liberty's interim police chief since February.

Lt. Mike Brotherton of the Iowa City Police Department.

Carlisle, Iowa Police Chief Jason Doll.

Commander Brad Nelson of the Columbia, Mo. Police Department.

The public will have a chance to meet the four finalists next Wednesday, 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the North Liberty Community Library. The event was moved from the City Council Chambers because of a scheduling conflict.

North Liberty city staff, councilors and area law enforcement will also interview the candidates with the hope of selecting a chief shortly after the interviews.

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Liberty Interactive Corporation to Present at Goldman Sachs Twentieth Annual Retailing Conference

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LVNTA, LVNTB) announced that Mike George, President and CEO of QVC, Inc., will be presenting at the Goldman Sachs Twentieth Annual Global Retailing Conference, on September 10th at 8:50 a.m., Eastern Time at the Plaza Hotel, NY. During his presentation, Mr. George may make observations regarding the company's financial performance and outlook.

The presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet. All interested persons should visit the Liberty Interactive Corporation website at http://www.libertyinteractive.com/events to register for the webcast. An archive of the webcast will also be available on this website for 30 days.

About Liberty Interactive Corporation

Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those interests are currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: Liberty Interactive Group and Liberty Ventures Group. The Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB) is primarily focused on digital commerce and consists of Liberty Interactive Corporation's subsidiaries QVC, Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com, Celebrate Interactive, CommerceHub and its interest in HSN. The businesses and assets attributed to the Liberty Ventures Group (Nasdaq: LVNTA, LVNTB) consists of all of Liberty Interactive Corporation's businesses and assets other than those attributed to the Liberty Interactive Group and include its subsidiary TripAdvisor, its interest in Expedia, and minority interests in Time Warner and Time Warner Cable.

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Inside the Beltway: The Libertarian awakening

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We support the maintenance of a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression. The United States should both avoid entangling alliances and abandon its attempts to act as policeman for the world, states the Libertarian Party in its bedrock platform statement. Syria is not threatening our country. We have no national interest in intervening there. There are no reasons for the U.S. to support either the Assad dictatorship or the opposition warlords, declares Chairman Geoffrey Neale.

Such thinking has begun to resonate with voters and elected officials who are skeptical of President Obamas proposal for a military strike. The party has been presented with an opportunity to clearly define itself on the political landscape, particularly as libertarian leaning conservatives, such as Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, take center stage in the noisy debate.

The Libertarians are ready to rumble.

Americans are discovering the truth: there is no real difference between big government Democratic and big government Republican politicians. They both send our servicemen and women off to war for dubious causes, in spite of the abysmal results that our countrys foreign meddling has produced, Carla Howell, the partys political director, tells Inside the Beltway.

Both support mass surveillance of Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Both are wreaking havoc on the economy, and especially on the working poor, by overspending, overtaxing and overregulating, she adds. The most effective means to change the course were on is to vote Libertarian putting America on a course for peace, freedom, individual rights and abundance for all.

CONSERVATIVE + LIBERTARIAN = ?

Yes, but will everybody play nice? The question will occupy the American Conservative Union when it meets for a regional political action conference Sept. 28 in Missouri. Yes, theres an entire panel discussion devoted to the issue, aptly titled Can Social Conservatives and Libertarians Ever Get Along? for the many who wonder.

At a time when President Obama is leading the country off the economic, social and foreign policy cliff, I am confident that libertarians and social conservatives can find enough common ground to save the United States of America, says the unions ever-ebullient Chairman Al Cardenas. This no-doubt lively panel at CPAC St. Louis will explore similarities and differences between conservatives and libertarians and the future of both movements.

On the stage: Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding, the aforementioned Libertarian Party Chairman Geoffrey Neale and Cato Institute senior fellow Douglas Bandow.

THE YEAS AND NAYS

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Pacific Islands Forum ends with climate change plea

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The Pacific Islands Forum has ended with a plea for more to be done about climate change or else low lying nations will soon disappear.

The Marshall Islands, where the forum is being held, is so desperate for space it's using rubbish to create new land.

The highest point on the islands is known by locals as Rubbish Mountain but rubbish is not just a dominant feature there, it is prevalent everywhere on the atoll.

"Being a small island far away in the middle of the Pacific, it's a challenge to deal with the rubbish," says general manager of Majuro Waste Joerlik Tibon, "You're looking at the future land of the atoll."

"We extend the land, put in a sea wall, then fill up the space with rubbish."

But that's got its own environmental problems and it's a very temporary measure in a long-uncertain crisis.

Pacific leaders using the forum to draw attention to rising sea levels are urging for more to be done.

"We still consider Australia and New Zealand to be our big brothers in the south - two that must take more positive and open leadership," says Marshall Islands' Minister in Assistance Tony DeBrum.

But John Key isn't warming to that.

"We're doing a number of different things and think we're heading in the right direction - but I wouldn't expect a change," says Mr Key.

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Close Campbell Islands fishery, Greens say

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The Green Party wants the Campbell Islands squid fishery closed and says there's no guarantee devices designed to protect sea lions are going to work.

Forest and Bird says any fishing methods known to kill sea lions shouldn't be used in waters where they hunt.

The government on Thursday announced 16 New Zealand sea lion deaths in the first three weeks of the Campbell Islands squid season.

The species is endangered and ministers said boats trawling in the fishery had agreed to use sea lion protection devices.

The sea lions drown when they dive down to feed on squid caught in nets, and are trapped.

The sea lion protection devices (SLEDs) act like trap doors and are designed to flick them out the nets before they drown.

The Green Party's conservation spokeswoman, Eugenie Sage, says the devices haven't been proven.

"The government is being reckless relying on them to save sea lions," she said.

"The best and surest way to protect the endangered sea lions is to stop lethal fishing methods in their habitat."

Forest and Bird's marine advocate Katrina Subedar says New Zealand sea lions are critically endangered, SLEDs aren't enough and trawling should be banned.

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Pacific Islands Leaders Welcome Release Of Fiji's New Constitution

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KENEKO ISLAND, Marshall Islands, Sept 5 (Bernama) -- Leaders from the Pacific Islands Forum member countries have welcomed the release of Fiji's new Constitution on Aug 22, saying it was a vital step toward free and fair elections.

The 44th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting ended Thursday at Keneko Island, Marshall Islands by adopting the Majuro Declaration, Xinhua news agency reported.

On the latest developments in Fiji, the Pacific leaders noted the Forum's ongoing efforts to support Fiji's return to parliamentary democracy and reiterated its intention to remain engaged with Fiji.

Fiji was suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum in May 2009 after failing to meet a deadline to announce a general election date.

Pacific leaders also welcomed the report by the Forum Ministerial Contact Group (MCG) on Fiji, which noted the country has continued to make progress towards holding national elections by September 2014.

The leaders also expressed their commitment to lift Fiji's suspension from the Forum after free and fair elections in accordance with guidance from the Special Leaders' Retreat in 2009 and expectations set by the MCG, and looked forward to inviting Fiji back to the Leaders' Meetings.

-- BERNAMA

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