ECB chief signals pause in interest rate hikes

European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet speaks during a conference on the debt crisis, Monday Sept. 5, 2011, in Paris. Trichet says Europe's debt crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the eurozone but that it has created a will to keep spending in check. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet speaks during a conference on the debt crisis, Monday Sept. 5, 2011, in Paris. Trichet says Europe's debt crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the eurozone but that it has created a will to keep spending in check. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

(AP) ? The head of the European Central Bank on Thursday signaled to the markets that interest rate increases will likely be paused for the time being due to heightened economic risks, both in the eurozone and globally.

Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet said that inflation risks are "broadly balanced," dropping his earlier stance that the risk was to the upside. At the same time, he said the eurozone economy was expected "to grow moderately subject to particularly high uncertainty and intensified downside risk."

At a news conference, Trichet turned aside questions about whether rates are on hold, saying "we are never pre-committed, and we stand ready to do whatever is necessary."

But economists say the lower inflation estimate and reduced growth expectations are signs that the bank will not raise rates soon after increases of a quarter point in April and July. Those increases were based on expectations for higher growth and inflation.

The bank left its key interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent on Thursday as uncertainty grew over the economic outlook, both due to the debt crisis in the 17-country eurozone and weaker global growth.

With prospects for the economy worsening, some experts even think the bank may have to cut rates if Europe's debt crisis takes a turn for the worse. Economists at the Royal Bank of Scotland see a 40 percent chance that the bank will have to slash rates by a half percent by the end of this year.

The European Central Bank has played a key role in fighting the debt crisis by buying Spanish and Italian bonds on financial markets, driving down the interest yields those countries face.

Rising market interest rates have already forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to turn to other eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund for bailout loans to avoid defaulting.

But Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy after Germany and France, would be too big for the eurozone's euro440 billion ($618 billion) rescue fund to rescue. Trichet has pressed Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi to move quickly and cut the country's deficit to reassure bond markets that the country will be able to managed its debts.

Eurozone officials are also pressing Greece to meet deficit-reduction targets to qualify for another round of bailout financing so it can keep paying its bond creditors. Greece is in the midst of a bond swap with private creditors that will cut some of its crushing debt load by exchanging existing bonds for ones with longer maturities and lower interest rates.

Trichet and other eurozone officials are determined to avoid a government default, which could inflict heavy losses on European banks holding government bonds.

That could cause a recession by choking off bank credit to the economy, as happened after the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Earlier Thursday, the Bank of England also held its monetary policy steady, leaving its key rate unaltered at a record low 0.5 percent as worries about Britain's slack economic performance outweighed concerns about 4.4 percent inflation.

Associated Press

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Some Republicans, Gambling The Globe, Peddle Ignorance On Climate

CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- Just off Exit 14 on the New York State Thruway, in the middle of a tandem truck lot bounded by the box stores of Spring Valley Marketplace -- Bed, Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx, Target -- deep science is being deployed, quite literally, in an effort to combat climate change.

Here, amid the densely packed suburban sprawl of greater New York City, three miles shy of New Jersey's northern border, a towering drill rig is plumbing deep into the bedrock at a rate of about 25 feet per hour. It is now at roughly 3,000 feet, though the goal is to get it more than 1.5 miles down.

Core samples will be taken to determine "the porosity and permeability" of the rock, explained Paul E. Olsen, a geoscientist with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an adviser to the $11 million undertaking -- one of 10 such projects being funded in large part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The goal: determining whether these deep rock formations can be used to permanently store that nettlesome byproduct of energy production and other industrial pursuits -- carbon dioxide -- rather than dumping it into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.

"I look forward to seeing how we can progress with this important issue," said New York State Sen. David Carlucci, a Democrat and one of a smattering of community leaders and project partners huddled under a small white canopy amid festive balloons, a constant drizzle of rain and the roar of the industrial drill.

The project's "open house," hosted by TriCarb, a partnership between Houston-based Sandia Technologies and Conrad Geoscience Corp. of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., took place just a few hours before Wednesday evening's Republican debate, broadcasted clear across the continent from Simi Valley, Calif., and where the topic of global warming -- and by extension, science itself -- received a brief but telling work-out.

"The idea that we would put Americans' economy at jeopardy based on a scientific theory that's not settled yet to me is nonsense," said Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the current Republican frontrunner, when asked which scientists he looked to for guidance on global warming.

"Just because you have a group of scientists that have stood up and said, "Here is the fact" -- Galileo got outvoted for a spell," Perry continued. "But the fact is, to put America's economic future in jeopardy, asking us to cut back in areas that would have monstrous economic impact on this country is not good economics and I will suggest to you is not necessarily good science. Find out what the science truly is before you start putting the American economy in jeopardy."

Of course, as Adam Estes pointed out at The Atlantic Wire blog, Galileo was persecuted by wrongheaded and denialist religious authorities, not the scientific community, as a heretic for suggesting that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Perhaps not the zinger that Perry intended, but his words drew approving applause nonetheless.

When pressed by Politico editor John F. Harris for details on the specific theories from which the Texas governor derived his views on climate, Perry dodged the question, instead citing his state's efforts to reduce other air pollutants. He then stated that "the fact of the matter is the science is not settled on whether or not the climate change is being impacted by man to the point where we're going to put America's economics in jeopardy."

Michelle Bachmann, the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who has famously called for oil drilling in the Everglades, chimed in on the issue herself, issuing a muddled conflation of clean-air regulations pursued by the Environmental Protection Agency -- and recently curtailed by President Obama -- with climate science.

"What we're seeing is that a political agenda is being advanced," Bachmann opined, "instead of a scientific agenda, and this is leading to massive numbers of jobs being lost."

These are not new views. Perry told a gathering of local business owners in New Hampshire last month that scientists have manipulated data in an effort to spur funding, and that overall, they remain divided over the issue of climate change. "I think we're seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change," he said.

On the issue of funding solutions to the problem? "The cost to the country and to the world of implementing these anti-carbon programs is in the billions if not trillions of dollars at the end of the day," Perry said. "And I don't think from my perspective that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question."

These views also extend, to an increasing degree, to the American electorate, which has become woefully polarized on the issue of climate change. Perhaps not surprisingly, according to a survey published Wednesday by the Yale Project on Climate Change, this polarization is being driven in large part by the Tea Party, a constituency that may play a key role in getting any Republican into the White House.

The Yale survey found, for example, that while 62 percent of Democrats believe that global warming is caused mostly by human activities -- that is, by burning fossil fuels and injecting historically unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere -- most self-identified Tea Party members responded that global warming is either naturally caused (50 percent) or is not happening at all (21 percent).

In an uncanny echo of Perry's own words on Wednesday, the Yale study also found that while 55 percent of Democrats said they believed that the majority of climate scientists think global warming is happening, a larger percentage of Republicans (56 percent) and Tea Party members (69 percent) said disagreement prevailed among the scientific community on that point.

Tea Party members, according to the survey, were also far much likely than other respondents to describe themselves as ?very well informed? about climate change, and to say that they "do not need any more information" on the topic.

Whether or not Perry and other Republicans actually believe what they are saying is an open question. Perry himself, who has also recently called into question the theory of evolution, was reportedly a supporter of climate change evangelist Al Gore before switching to the Republican party in 1989.

But the scientific equivocation on climate to which they allude is utter nonsense.

A study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for example, reviewed the publication and citation data of 1,372 of the globe's busiest climate researchers. The findings? Virtually all -- between 97 and 98 percent -- of the scientists "most actively publishing in the ?eld" were found to support the basic notion of anthropogenic climate change -- that is, climate change spurred by humans.

The study also found that "the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of [man-made climate change] are substantially below that of the convinced researchers."

That point was lost on Fox News last month when it attacked the children's show "SpongeBob SquarePants" for having the temerity to suggest that man-made global warming was a problem without noting that this was "actually a disputed fact."

But as the media watchdog Media Matters quickly pointed out, such willful ignorance continues despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary -- and indeed it flies in the face of some of the nation's most venerable scientific institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Meteorological Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, among others.

The sobering implication in all this, of course, is that the success of Republican candidates like Bachmann or Perry in unseating President Obama -- who, while perhaps not as aggressive on the issue as some would like, has nonetheless asserted that "the science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear" -- could have profound implications not just for the United States, but for the future of the planet.

It would almost certainly spell the end of federal funding for any number of clean energy technologies, as well as efforts to curb our copious CO2 emissions, including the project underway here in Clarkstown.

After all, why spend money exploring the feasibility and safety of carbon storage if the science of global warming is in dispute?

Whether or not such foolishness will ultimately prove a winning strategy for GOP candidates is unclear, but not every Republican believes so.

"When you make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said, when you call into question the science of evolution -- " said Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to China, and the sole Republican on the stage Wednesday night to speak honestly about global warming. "All I'm saying is that in order for the Republican party to win, we can't run from science."

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Military faces info overload from robot swarms

The dramatic growth of the use of robotic warriors on the post-9/11 battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq is leading to weighty problem for the U.S. military: information overload. Drones in the sky already beam thousands of hours of video to intelligence analysts manning multiple screens, and even can send information directly to soldiers in the field. It won't stop there: the military wants individual soldiers not only to drive tanks, watch for enemies and listen for orders, but also someday to command roving bands of robot scouts.

Multitasking could lead to a mental meltdown on future battlefields where ever-fewer humans control a growing swarm of drones and robots.

"Throughout the Department of Defense, there's a trend to invert the existing human-to-robot ratio so that a single operator is managing several vehicles," said Raja Parasuraman, a psychologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. "That adds exponentially to the load on an operator if each platform has multiple sensors and video feeds on it, all beaming information to the operator."

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Military scientists and outside researchers have begun tackling the problem. The military has begun testing the human brain's multitasking limits, so that it can create technological aids or readjust expectations for what its warriors can do.

One answer may come from smarter computer programs. Some could screen drone surveillance footage for human or vehicle targets. Others might help tank gunners scan the horizon for targets or issue navigation commands to future robot swarms.

"Rather than have a human operator look at everything, a system might look at video or images, figure out which are low-priority, and leave high-priority targets for humans to look at," Parasuraman told InnovationNewsDaily. "It's like having a smart junior assistant."

Parasuraman heads a neuroergonomics center funded by the Air Force, where he uses computer simulations to test the limits of human multitasking on the battlefield.

Multitasking's toll on the brain
A few lucky "cognitive superstars" don't suffer from any problem in multitasking, Parasuraman said, but most people don't perform as efficiently when jumping back and forth between different duties.

Soldiers have either a high or low ability to control their attention, according to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Researchers ran simulations where soldiers had to talk with commanding officers or neighboring units, monitor intelligence coming from a military network, and scan their own immediate surroundings for enemies.
If the military can identify people who better handle the frenzied multitasking of modern warfare, it could someday handpick the best performers for certain jobs. For now, better understanding of multitasking can help create systems that work for the average soldier.

"Regardless of individual human factors, you want to make systems usable by any soldier," said Jessie Chen, a research psychologist at U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

Great expectations
The Army lab also developed its own software, called IMPRINT, to model the information overload faced by soldiers in their daily duties. That has helped overhaul Army expectations of how much soldiers can do at any given time.

Even defense contractors have begun to take such human limits into account early on when designing new military vehicles, weapons or other systems ? a step that could save on the costs of having to make fixes later in development.

"What we're really trying to do in our work is to make the soldier ready and reliable in the sense that we're not overloading them," said Diane Mitchell, an engineering psychologist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. "We need to keep them able to do their mission with manageable workloads."

Robotic helpers
Future automated assistants could share the workload and allow human soldiers to focus on their main mission. Chen and her colleagues simulated two such cases: first, a gunner" scenario in which an automated system assisted a human operator in finding targets for a tank's main gun; second, a "RoboLeader" scenario in which a computer program helped a human operator control a swarm of robots.

The Army researchers added a twist by having the automated assistants make different mistakes. They found that soldiers less skilled at multitasking doggedly relied upon the error-prone automated systems, even when it hurt their performance.

The best multitasking soldiers made a different mistake. Once they realized the automated system made mistakes, they tended to ignore it entirely during the "gunner" scenario ? even in cases where they might have done better with the error-prone system's help.

Still, soldiers more willingly used automated help in the "RoboLeader" scenario, because the user interface let them quickly double-check whether "RoboLeader" was right or wrong. That provided a valuable lesson on how to design future automated systems.

Controlling the swarm
Military analysts who sift through video and images collected by drones may soon get automated help. A system funded by the Office of Naval Research can automatically detect and track moving targets such as enemy vehicles as well as individual soldiers or insurgents.

The automated technology can use sensor data from either manned or unmanned aircraft, said Dale Linne von Berg, head of the applied optics branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. His lab has successfully tested the system and is looking to deploy it.

"The anticipated scenarios using this technology really boil down to reducing operators' workloads, reducing the time it takes for them to exploit targets, and allowing our forces to find and track targets that they may not have previously been able to prosecute," Linne von Berg said in an e-mail.

Automated helpers will need to get better even as drones and robots do more by themselves. George Mason's Parasuraman has already put Air Force pilots through simulations where they manage five or six drones while getting information from 30 or 40 different sources in chat windows.

"The Air Force is interested in scaling up that problem in the simulations," Parasuraman said. "If we have 100 operators and thousands of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] and a network of many hundreds of computer systems and people sending info, what's the breaking point?"

You can follow InnovationNewsDaily senior writer Jeremy Hsu on Twitter @ScienceHsu. Follow InnovationNewsDaily on Twitter @News_Innovation, or on Facebook.

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Egyptian protesters return to Cairo's Tahrir Square (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Hundreds of Egyptian activists gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to launch a day of demonstrations demanding a clear road map to democracy and an end to military trials for civilians.

People who spearheaded an uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February gave a "Correcting the Path" billing to the latest protests. The demonstrations could give a sign of popular sentiment toward the ruling military council since Mubarak went on trial last month.

Islamists, including the political party set up by the Muslim Brotherhood -- Egypt's best organized political force after the dissolution of Mubarak's National Democratic Party -- distanced themselves from the planned protests.

Hundreds of people started filing into Tahrir Square on Friday morning, some holding anti-corruption banners, one of which read, "The people want to purify the state."

Police and military personnel were nowhere to be seen in Tahrir Square on in the streets around it.

The Interior Ministry said it had cleared police from the square for 24 hours from midnight to let Friday's protests proceed peacefully.

Many Egyptians complain that they have yet to see real fruits of the uprising, in which some 850 died. Some say they fear the new military rulers are secretly plotting to stay in control behind the scenes after parliamentary and presidential elections the army has promised to hold by the end of 2011.

Thousands of Egyptians camped in Tahrir Square for weeks in July to push for faster political reforms and to speed up trials of Mubarak and aides for killing demonstrators. Security forces moved in to end the protests and stationed policemen in the square, epicenter of the unrest that toppled Mubarak.

The military council said in a recent statement on its Facebook page that it would allow peaceful demonstrations, but would not tolerate any attacks on public facilities.

Activists said more than 30 groups and political parties would be represented at the protest.

The Democratic Front party said it would demand that military rulers prepare a "comprehensive timetable that will spell out the steps for the interim period, starting with the presidential elections."

Presidential hopeful Mohammed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Egyptians were entitled to demonstrate peacefully, especially since many of their demands had yet to be realized.

But Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, secretary-general of the Freedom and Justice Party set up by the Muslim Brotherhood to contest parliamentary elections scheduled for November, suggested it was not yet time for more demonstrations because previous protests had already brought some results. "In case they are not achieved, then we return to the square," he said.

(Reporting by Yasmin Saleh, Dina Zayed, Shaimaa Fayed, Omar Fahmy and Seham eloraby; Writing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Feds execute search warrants at Calif. solar firm

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, President Obama, center, is given a tour of Solyndra by Executive Vice President Ben Bierman, right, as Chief Executive Officer Chris Gronet, left, walks along at Solyndra Inc. in Fremont, Calif. FBI spokesman Peter Lee says agents executed multiple search warrants on Thursday morning Sept. 8, 2011 at the company's headquarters in Fremont as part of an investigation with the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Paul Chinn, Pool, File)

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, President Obama, center, is given a tour of Solyndra by Executive Vice President Ben Bierman, right, as Chief Executive Officer Chris Gronet, left, walks along at Solyndra Inc. in Fremont, Calif. FBI spokesman Peter Lee says agents executed multiple search warrants on Thursday morning Sept. 8, 2011 at the company's headquarters in Fremont as part of an investigation with the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Paul Chinn, Pool, File)

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, with Solyndra Chief Executive Officer Chris Gronet, looks at a solar panel, during a tour of Solyndra, Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility, in Fremont, Calif. FBI spokesman Peter Lee says agents executed multiple search warrants on Thursday morning Sept. 8, 2011 at the company's headquarters in Fremont as part of an investigation with the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

(AP) ? FBI agents executed search warrants on Thursday at the headquarters of California solar firm Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan from the federal government before filing for bankruptcy last week.

Agents executed multiple search warrants at the company's headquarters in Fremont as part of an investigation with the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General, according to FBI spokesman Peter Lee. Lee said he could not provide details about the investigation.

Solyndra LLC is a solar-panel manufacturer once touted by President Barack Obama as a beneficiary of his administration's economic policies. It announced last week that it was laying off 1,100 workers and filing for bankruptcy.

The company was held up as the model for government investment in green technology. In addition to the $535 million loan guarantee, it received visits from the president and other state and federal officials.

It filed bankruptcy amid hard times in the nation's solar industry. The price for solar panels has tanked, in part because of heavy competition from Chinese companies, dropping by about 42 percent this year.

In a blog posting, Energy Department spokesman Dan Leistikow said Solyndra was a once promising company that had increased sales revenue by 2,000 percent in the past three years. The $535 million loan guarantee was sought by both the Bush and Obama administrations, he said, and private investors also put more than $1 billion into Solyndra.

Republicans have been looking into the Solyndra loan for months. The House Energy and Commerce Committee subpoenaed documents relating to the loan from the White House Office of Management and Budget.

The company is also being sued by workers who were abruptly laid off after last week's announcement.

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

Associated Press

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KVH completes its original global network expansion plan ? mini-VSAT Broadband service is now available in South America for all subscribers

MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Sept. 6, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ? KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI) today announced that mini-VSAT BroadbandSM service is now available to mariners in South American waters, officially completing the original global coverage plan for the maritime satellite communications network. This milestone is the latest in a string of network expansions and improvements from KVH and its partner, ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT), that have made the next-generation, spread spectrum mini-VSAT Broadband network the world?s most popular and fastest-growing maritime VSAT service.

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Wooden floors are prone to wear and tear over the years. Heavy shoes, high heels, moving around heavy furniture etc, can all damage wooden floors. Hence using floor sand to preserve wooden floors is a must every few years. Flooring sanding can make a big difference in the aesthetic appeal of your living or office space. Restoring the old If you have an old damaged wooden floor rather than just trying to cover it up with carpeting, it would be better to restore it by flooring sanding. Carpeting actually requires more cleaning and maintenance than wooden flooring. Also, you cannot compare the look of a wooden floor to that of carpet flooring. A wooden floor has unique charm and is better to match and coordinate with other interior fittings. If you have purchased an old house in Buckinghamshire, restoring the wooden floors using floor sand is a must. The entire ambience in such a home could be lost without maintaining that old England feel. Even though there are many websites that claim to guide you on how to restore wooden floors using floor sand, it is best left to the floor sanding experts. Floor sanding experts in Buckinghamshire are easily available. All their services are clearly listed and described online on their websites, including step by step explanations of how floor sanding is done with pictures. Flooring sanding is best left to the experts We may not blame you if you are tempted to cut down on cost and do flooring sanding for your home by yourself. But hiring experts in floor sanding in Buckinghamshire can be more cost effective in the long run. Firstly, you have to ensure to take the proper safety precautions as floor sanding can raise a lot of saw dust which can cause breathing problems. Also, repairing and reversing a floor sanding job that has been done badly can be more difficult and expensive. Experts will use the best quality material, thus ensuring a long lasting effect. The lesser the frequency of repairing, polishing and waxing for your wooden floors the better.

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Wonderful Career Advice from Tina ... - Business Tutorials and News

7 Career Lessons from Tina Fey?s ??Bossypants?

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By?Anthony Balderrama ?July 28, 2011 Copyright 2011 CareerBuilder, LLC ? Reprinted with permission.?

Celebrities don?t always make the best role models. for every Bono and Oprah Winfrey there is a real housewife of [choose your city] screaming at her supposed friend in a busy restaurant. Celebrities don?t always make the best authors either. Just because someone can sing or act doesn?t mean they?re capable of writing a stellar autobiography either. it doesn?t even mean they have an interesting story to tell.


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Wonderful Career Advice from Tina Fey (aka ?Bossypants?)

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Eminem Tops Britney Spears In Nail-Biting Song Of Summer Race

Bad Meets Evil's 'Lighters,' featuring Bruno Mars, ekes past 'I Wanna Go' in MTV News poll.
By John Mitchell


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It was a contentious showdown, but after many lead changes, Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters," featuring Bruno Mars, bested Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" to take MTV News' Song of Summer crown.

Nearly a half-million votes were cast, though a vast majority (327,679) of those were split almost evenly between Royce Da 5'9" and Eminem's joint project and Spears. Fan groups rallied behind their respective favorites, leading to a lot of back-and-forth over the past few days, but "Lighters" ultimately came out ahead when polls closed earlier Wednesday (September 7), taking 38.2 percent of the tally with 167,202 votes. The track has turned into a summer sleeper hit for Em, Royce and Mars. It is currently holding strong at #4, its peak position so far, on the Billboard Hot 100, 11 weeks after debuting on the chart.

Spears' "I Wanna Go" — the third Billboard top 10 hit from Femme Fatale — trailed with just over 36.6 percent. If Spears is less than pleased with coming in second, she can take comfort in knowing that her 160,477 votes put her way ahead of her nearest competitor, Lady Gaga, by well over 100,000 votes.

Taking 11.91 percent of the poll, Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" came in third with 52,126 votes. The only other song to pull down a sizable number of votes was Rihanna's "S&M," a track released in late spring that topped the charts early this summer, which garnered 34,681 votes for 7.92 percent of the tally.

Interestingly, many of the summer's biggest chart hits found themselves without much love in our Newsroom poll. Among the songs that reached #1 on the Billboard singles chart but found themselves with fractional percentages of the vote here were Katy Perry's history-making "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with just 1.26 percent, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (0.33 percent), LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" (0.71 percent) and this week's Hot 100 #1, Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's "Moves Like Jagger" (0.98 percent).

Radio hits from Pitbull and Nicki Minaj also missed the boat with 3,090 votes (0.71 percent) and 1,655 votes (0.38 percent), respectively, for "Give Me Everything" and "Super Bass," while "Dirty Dancer" by Enrique Iglesias featuring Usher and Lil Wayne took 0.28 percent and "Otis" from Throne duo Jay-Z and Kanye West scored just 0.12 percent (or 524 votes).

The numbers for mainstream artists like Perry, Minaj and West were fairly similar to those accrued by lower-profile acts Foster the People, Cobra Starship and David Guetta. Foster's "Pumped Up Kicks" earned the band 0.14 percent of our poll, with slightly bigger numbers falling to Cobra's "You Make Me Feel" (0.25) and Guetta's "Where Them Girls At" (0.16).

How did your favorite song rate? Let us know in the comments!

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