Busy women's little technological helpers

By Dana Macario, NBC News contributor

For many women, having it all is less of a choice and more of a necessity. Bills need to get paid, kids need to be mothered and dirty clothes need to be cleaned. In recent months, headlines have declared that women are the primary breadwinners?in this new economy.

While women may be working more and perhaps even earning more than the men in their lives, chances are a lot of the responsibilities of home still fall on their shoulders. Forget balance; many women are simply striving for work-life survival. Luckily, in this technological age, there are many technological solutions available to help a working gal have it all without completely losing it.

Outsource it

From cleaning the house to picking up the dry cleaning, there are a lot of mundane chores that need to get done. While you?d have to be a 1 percenter to outsource all those pesky tasks,?you still may be able to?unload a few time-consuming chores from your plate.

But why not pretend like you?re a 1 percenter and get yourself a personal assistant, if only on an occasional basis? Websites like DoMyStuff.com, GetFriday.com and AskSunday.com might be able to get you the help you need.

DoMyStuff.com allows you to post jobs you need done, whether it?s picking up supplies for your daughter?s birthday party or finishing a project around the house. People bid on the job, you review the applicants, pick a winner and off you go. GetFriday.com and AskSunday.com are truly outsourcing -? to India. GetFriday.com offers you a virtual assistant for $15 an hour plus a $10 per month fee. AskSunday.com?s basic plan gets you 10 hours of assistance per month for $119. People have used these services for everything from planning weddings and vacations to researching work projects.

If a personal assistant from India feels too foreign for you, you can always turn to the web to find help outsourcing other tasks and jobs. Sites like SitterCity.com offer access to babysitters. Find a dog walker or housekeeper on craigslist.org.

Get organized

Those niggling chores swirling in your head often increase your stress. A simple to-do list often helps clarify what needs to get done. There is a slew of apps and websites that can help you organize everything from grocery lists to busy family calendars.

One of the most popular is cozi.com, a free website that allows family members to access and update a shared calendar. Cozi also offers to-do list and shopping list managers, which can all be accessed on your smartphone. Cozi CEO and co-founder Robbie Cape noted that families spend a lot of their time communicating logistics. If you can streamline that, family time is freed up for more meaningful conversations.

Scanning all of your important documents and organizing them on your computer can help cut down on both clutter and search time when you need it. Everything from the preschool phone tree to receipts you need for taxes can be scanned and stored electronically.

Stop wasting time updating your Rolodex and let your contacts do it for you. Victoria Ransom, co-founder and CEO of Wildfire,?a social media marketing company, advises workers to join the professional networking site, LinkedIn. ?Staying connected on a professional level is so important,? Ransom said.

Multi-task

Why flip through an old issue of Good Housekeeping while waiting for the doctor when you could be ordering your groceries or paying bills on your smartphone? Most banks have decent apps for accessing and managing your accounts from your phone. Sites like drugstore.com and Amazon.com allow you to order life?s little necessities and have them delivered to your door. If you take a bus or a train, just imagine all of the tasks you can check off your to-do list during your commute.?

Go virtual

Go virtual or go home. Wait, staying home is the point of going virtual. For those who can swing it, working remotely can have huge benefits. Gone are the commute times and travel costs. Money spent on lunches out and work clothes are significantly reduced, all stress savers. ?Kim Burchett, senior manager of adoption services at Vidyo, has been working remotely for years. ?Working from home has relieved stress. I still have a professional career and I don?t have to miss out on raising my family,? Burchett said via videoconference. As videoconference technology has improved and costs have dropped, more companies are willing to allow employees to work remotely, at least part of the time.

Videoconferencing doesn?t just allow you to stay connected to the office from home; it also allows you to connect to home when you?re away for work. Burchett recounted a time when her husband was in China for business, forcing him to miss their daughter?s swim meet. Burchett set up a videoconference on her iPad, allowing him watch the whole race in real time.

Join an online group, which can easily hook you up with helpful recommendations and resources. Yahoo! Groups have many moms and professionals groups to join, where you can ask online acquaintances for advice on everything from daycares to plumbers, saving you valuable time.

Schedule downtime

Log onto Outlook and schedule yourself a couple of 15-minute breaks every day. You?re more likely to step away and get a short, much-needed break if you get a reminder for it. Take a walk or do something to clear your head. Sometimes, stepping back for just a few minutes can help give you clarity and renewed energy.

Dana Macario is a Seattle-area writer who?s always looking for ways to make the juggle easier.

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Hobbies And Crafts: How To Start A Scrapbook | Worlds Hardest ...

What do you do on your spare time? Do you want to learn something you havent done before? I would recommend scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is a fun hobby to do on your spare time. What you need to have before you can start this hobby are Scrapbooking Supplies and scrapbooking ideas. Scrapbooking is one of those hobbies and crafts that you can learn. For sure you have heard of it already but you wont succeed in it only if you are not interested in scrapbooking. But once you have tried it, it could be addictive. Making scrapbook is simply making a file of memories of the special events that happened to your life. It could be about your family, friends, crush, and your other interests.

Now if you want to try making your first scrapbook, first you need to have scrapbooking supplies which you can buy at any book stores and school supplies department. There are so many materials that you can buy for scrapbooking. For you to save money, try to buy in bulk or packs. Also buy those quality items that could last for a long time. There are other supplies that cost less but are also low in quality. Thats why you need to be wise when you buy supplies for your scrapbook. If you are creative, you dont need to have a lot of materials to make your scrapbook look nice and attractive, what you need to think of is the design that you want for your scrapbook.

When you are thinking of the design that you want to put in your scrapbook, why dont you consider researching for scrapbooking ideas online? These ideas could help you come up with your own unique ideas that you might have not thought of. One tip that I could tell you when designing your scrapbook is to take time to look at your scrapbook and imagine the designs that you have in your head. Then, you can draw a sketch using pencil so you will have a guide as you put the materials on it, this will prevent you from committing mistakes. There so many ways to design a scrapbook but of course you also have your own unique design that suits to your personality.

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Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

A short film made with private funds in the United States and posted on the Internet has ignited days of demonstrations in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and in some Western countries.

In a torrent of violence blamed on the film last week, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi and U.S. and other foreign embassies were stormed in cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by furious Muslims. At least nine other people were killed.

On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a minivan near the airport in the Afghan capital and a spokesman for the Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group claimed responsibility.

"A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video," said militant spokesman Zubair Sediqqi.

The claim will raise fears that anger over the film will feed into deteriorating security as the United States and other Western countries try to protect their forces from a rash of so-called insider attacks by Afghan colleagues.

Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Kabul the previous day, burning cars and hurling rocks at security forces in the worst outbreak of violence since February rioting over the inadvertent burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers.

The protesters in Kabul and several other Asian cities have vented their fury over the film at the United States, blaming it for what they see as an attack on Islam.

The outcry saddles U.S. President Barack Obama with an unexpected foreign policy headache as he campaigns for re-election in November, even though his administration has condemned the film as reprehensible and disgusting.

In response to the violence in Benghazi and elsewhere last week, the United States has sent ships, extra troops and special forces to protect U.S. interests and citizens in the Middle East, while a number of its embassies have evacuated staff and are on high alert for trouble.

Despite Obama's efforts early in his tenure to improve relations with the Arab and Muslim world, the violence adds to a host of problems including the continued U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian civil war and the fall-out from the Arab Spring revolts.

PROTESTS, BANS

The renewed protests on Monday dashed any hopes that the furor over the film might fade despite an appeal over the weekend from the senior cleric in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, for calm.

Afghan police said among the 12 dead in the Kabul bomb attack were seven Russians and South Africans working for a foreign company.

It followed a bloody weekend during which six members of Afghanistan's NATO-led alliance, including four Americans, were killed in suspected insider attacks carried out by Afghans turning on their allies.

Protesters also took to the streets in Pakistan and Indonesia on Monday and thousands also marched in Beirut, where a Hezbollah leader accused U.S. spy agencies of being behind events that have unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

Authorities in Bangladesh have blocked the YouTube website indefinitely to stop people seeing the video. Pakistan and Afghanistan have also blocked the site.

Iran has condemned the film as offensive and vowed to pursue those responsible for making it. Iranian officials have demanded the United States apologize to Muslims, saying the film is only the latest in a series of Western insults aimed at Islam's holy figures.

The identity of those directly responsible for the film remains unclear. Clips posted online since July have been attributed to a man named Sam Bacile, which two people connected with the film have said was probably an alias.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian widely linked to the film in media reports, was questioned in California on Saturday by U.S. authorities investigating possible violations of his probation for a bank fraud conviction.

(Reporting by various bureaus; Writing by Robert Birsel, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

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Country newcomer Kip Moore revels in long-sought success

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Kip Moore arrived in Nashville on New Year's Day in 2004, with a guitar and a suitcase. Appropriately enough, he was driving a truck. Eight years later, his first No. 1 hit was called "Somethin' ?Bout a Truck."

The single has sold more than 1 million copies. Moore's first album, "Up All Night," debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard country album charts in April. It has since sold almost 200,000 copies.

It's all pretty heady stuff for someone who has quickly become one of the biggest up-and-coming country music acts.

"Every time I step on that stage, I'm loving it. Now that I've had some success, I'm even more fearful of losing it," Moore told Reuters.

The newly minted Nashville star has just joined country music sensation Eric Church on Church's "The Blood, Sweat and Beers Tour."

"I'm depressed when I don't get to do music," Moore said in an interview. "Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing."

Though he appears to have hit it big quickly, the 32-year-old Moore built his career steadily. He started in small clubs near his hometown of Tifton, Georgia, and then moved on to Hawaii, where he started to hone his craft before he realized he had to go to the heart of country music to learn the business.

Once settled in Nashville, Moore immersed himself in the songwriting community, but it took two years to work up enough nerve to share his songs with other songwriters.

Once he did, observers began to see a range of influences in his music. Moore, however, can remember the song that made him want to be a songwriter.

"I could name so many, but I have to say it was ?All Good Things' by Jackson Browne. So many of those songs I was listening to when I was five, six, seven years old was because my dad was listening to them, and I listened because I thought he was cool," he said.

"I loved Bob Dylan, who today would be a country songwriter and singer. Songs like ?Against the Wind' by Bob Seger. I can specifically remember riding on a fishing trip with my dad and listening to that song."

The youngster listening to his father's music wasn't old enough to understand what the lyrics were about, yet he was drawn to the stories in the songs, whether they were country, rock or pop.

Church, 35, who received five Country Music Association award nominations this month, gave Moore high marks for his authenticity as well as his vocal style.

"I like the grit in his music," Church told Reuters. "There's a lot of integrity in the kind of songs that he writes and the way he sings them and the way they're recorded, so I'm looking forward to get on the road with him."

MAKE WAY FOR THE CAP ACTS

Moore is being hailed by critics as a country act who could broaden the genre's fan base. Some critics are even dubbing this new baseball-cap-wearing group of young country musicians, which includes Church, the "Cap Acts" vs. the "Hat Acts."

Moore shakes his head at such labels.

"People will try to give this new generation a hard time, but music is always evolving," Moore said. "When Webb Pierce was out, that was what was going on then, but then Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash came, and they were doing music that was so different from Webb. Then Garth (Brooks) came around after Cash and those guys, and it was like ?Wait a minute. This isn't country.' You are always fighting that battle in music, no matter what genre you are in."

The songs on Moore's album have garnered comparisons to artists as wide ranging as Bruce Springsteen and Kris Kristofferson.

Moore's voice lends itself to the sexiness of "Somethin' ?Bout A Truck" or "Up All Night," but has no trouble going straight into "Reckless," a rocking tune that begs the listener to be patient with the singer and the mistakes he makes through the process of growing up.

"I've been playing the many styles of music I do for a long time," Moore said. "I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest."

(Editing by Nichola Groom, Jill Serjeant and Jan Paschal)

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Experimental 'net-zero' home makes as much energy as it uses

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Deborah Zabarenko

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Perched on a hilltop outside Washington, the U.S. government's net-zero energy laboratory looks a lot like the luxury houses nearby, with two significant differences: it will make as much energy as it uses, and only sensors, not people, live in it.

Designed to fit in a typical residential neighborhood, the 4,000 square foot (372 square meter) net-zero lab on the suburban campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is so energy-efficient that over the course of a year it is expected to produce as much energy as it needs.

Its total energy consumption should be "net zero."

To measure energy use, researchers at NIST have created a virtual family of four ? two imaginary working parents, a 14-year-old and an 8-year-old ? and scripted their every meal, move and shower. The energy use of this typical family will be monitored.

Sensors and computer programs will simulate virtual people entering the living area or moving from room to room, taking a bath, cooking a meal, turning on a computer, a television or a toaster. The appliances and plumbing do exist and are controlled from a command center of sorts, located in the detached garage.

Small devices will simulate the heat and humidity that actual humans produce in the two-story, four-bedroom structure.

"This family is very cooperative, they do exactly what we want them to do, every minute of the day," Hunter Fanney, chief of NIST's Building Environment Lab, said at the project's official launch last week.

To gauge water use, the master bedroom's shower is fitted with a scale. Step into the shower stall and onto the scale, and a weight read-out appears outside. When the lab is in use, the system will figure out by weight whether the virtual parents or children are taking a shower, and how much hot water they use.

The simulations assume that the 14-year-old will take the longest showers, Fanney said.

Testing energy-sipping technology
Solar panels on the roof generate electricity and heat water. There are no roof gutters, partly as an aesthetic statement, but also because the lab-house is surrounded by a deep layer of gravel through which rainwater can percolate.

The garage is built across a breezeway from the main house so all the heat from the monitoring equipment doesn't add to the lab's energy load. There's an electrical outlet for an electric car and a wheelchair lift that allows no-stair access to the main floor of the building.

This is not the only net-zero house in the United States, but it is the first created to look and feel like an amenity-filled suburban home, according to NIST. Most net-zero homes make it to net-zero by cutting down on size and amenities.

A house similar to the lab was built in Concord, Massachusetts, for about $600,000, exclusive of the cost of the land, said Betsy Pettit of Building Science Corporation.

A lower-cost not-quite-net-zero home was built for Habitat for Humanity for about $150,000, Pettit said, but that one was about 1,200 square feet (111 square meters), less than one-third the size of the NIST lab.

NIST's lab cost $2.5 million, because it will do more than monitor energy use, and the monitoring equipment is costly; after the first year, it will be a test bed for new technology.

Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which made environmentally friendly construction a priority, almost every component of the structure was made in the United States.

The one exception was an air exchanger made in Canada. The project got a waiver to buy it when this item could not be found in the United States, a NIST spokeswoman said.

More information and images can be found online on the NIST website.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/experimental-net-zero-home-makes-much-energy-it-uses-1B5919524

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How Will Social Media Marketing Improve Marketing? | THMG.com

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Social media is the latest internet trend and has grown exponentially. Facebook alone has over a billion users. Add twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Pinterest, YouTube, etc., and that number increases dramatically. These sites are easily accessible to anyone and are a platform where millions of people interact with each other. You can see how, if used effectively, this platform can be a boon for entrepreneurs.

In it?s simplest form social media marketing is the process of advertising your business, increasing website traffic and fostering communication with consumers. Businesses post attractive content and encourage readers to share it. When the message is received from a friend it is more likely to be viewed favorably. There is opportunity for your message to be forwarded many times. Where else can you get so much audience? Creating a presence on social media sites can be very profitable and your business can thrive.

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Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters, not shown, during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Nasrallah who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination called for Monday's protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America. Arabic reads, "the messenger of God." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters, not shown, during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Nasrallah who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination called for Monday's protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America. Arabic reads, "the messenger of God." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah supporters raise their hands in support of their leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who speaks to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters from a podium during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Nasrallah, who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination, called for Monday's protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Nasrallah who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination called for Monday's protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Afghan police stand by burning tires during a protest , Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad turned violent in the Afghan capital early Monday. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Muslim protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest against American-made film "Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam and depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

BEIRUT (AP) ? In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign against an anti-Islam video that has unleashed deadly violence and anger at the United States across the Muslim world.

Although the massive, well-organized rally in Beirut was peaceful, protesters in Afghanistan set fires near a U.S. military base, clashed with police in Pakistan, where one demonstrator was killed, and battled with officers outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.

The turmoil surrounding the low-budget video that mocks the Prophet Muhammad showed no sign of ebbing in the week after protesters first swarmed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, died amid a demonstration in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

At least 10 protesters have died in the riots, and the targeting of Western diplomatic sites has forced Washington to increase security in several countries. Diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut destroyed classified material as a security precaution, according to a State Department status report.

The appeal for sustained protests by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group, could stoke more fury over the video, "Innocence of Muslims." Nasrallah has rarely been seen in public since his group battled Israel in a month-long war in 2006, fearing Israeli assassination. Since then, he has communicated with his followers and gives news conference mostly via satellite link.

He spoke for about 15 minutes before a rapturous crowd estimated by police at about 500,000, many with headbands of green and yellow ? the colors of Hezbollah ? and the words "at your service God's prophet" written on them.

Nasrallah, who last appeared in public in December 2011 to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, warned of serious repercussions if the U.S. does not ban the film and have it removed from the Internet.

"The world should know that our anger is not a passing thing. ... This is the start of a serious campaign that must continue all over the Muslim world in defense of the prophet of God," he said to roars of support.

"As long as there's blood in us, we will not remain silent over insults against our prophet," Nasrallah said, calling for a series of demonstrations this week to denounce the video.

Hezbollah's rallies seem aimed at keeping the issue alive by bringing out large crowds. But the group, whose reputation across the Arab world has suffered over its support of the Syrian regime, also appeared to be trying to ensure it did not spiral into violence.

Notably, Hezbollah held Monday's protest in its own mainly Shiite stronghold of Dahieh in south Beirut, far from the U.S. Embassy in the mountains north of the capital or other international diplomatic missions. Protesters demonstrated their fury by punching their fists in the air as they shouted anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans, but remained peaceful.

One politician, former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, sharply criticized Hezbollah's call for protests, saying there were no guarantees they would remain peaceful.

"We understand how the Muslims feel because of this insult against the prophet and the Quran ... but is this the way to defend them?" he asked at a news conference.

The movie portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester. Protesters have directed their anger at the U.S. government, insisting it should do something to stop it, although the film was privately produced. American officials have criticized it for intentionally offending Muslims.

Protests turned violent for the first time in Afghanistan as hundreds of people burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base in the capital, Kabul. Many in the crowd shouted "Death to America!" and "Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our prophet."

Afghan religious leaders urged calm after protests broke out in Kabul.

"Our responsibility is to show a peaceful reaction, to hold peaceful protests. Do not harm people, their property or public property," said cleric Karimullah Saqib.

On the main thoroughfare through the city, demonstrators burned tires, shipping containers and at least one police vehicle before they were dispersed. Police shot in the air to prevent about 800 protesters from pushing toward government buildings downtown, said Azizullah, a police officer at the site who, like many Afghans, only goes by one name.

More than 20 police officers were slightly injured, most by rocks, said Gen. Fahim Qaim, the commander of a city quick-reaction police force.

The rallies will continue "until the people who made the film go to trial," said Kabul protester, Wahidullah Hotak, among several dozen people demonstrating in front of a mosque, demanding President Barack Obama bring the makers of the video to justice.

Several hundred demonstrators in northwestern Pakistan clashed with police after setting fire to a press club and a government building, said police official Mukhtar Ahmed. The protesters apparently attacked the press club in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Upper Dir district because they were angry their rally wasn't getting more coverage, he said.

Police charged the crowd in the town of Wari, beating protesters back with batons, Ahmad said. The demonstrators then attacked the office of a senior government official and surrounded a local police station, said Ahmad, who locked himself inside with several other officers.

One protester died when police and demonstrators exchanged fire, and several others were wounded, police official Akhtar Hayat said.

Several hundred people chanted slogans and burned an American flag outside the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Lahore. Some who tried to reach the wall of the consulate scuffled with baton-wielding police.

Hundreds battled police for a second day in the southern city of Karachi as they tried to reach the U.S. Consulate. Police lobbed tear gas and fired in the air to disperse the protesters, who were from the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party. Police arrested 40 students, but no injuries were reported, said senior police officer Asif Ejaz Shaikh.

Pakistanis have also held many peaceful protests against the film, including one in the southwest town of Chaman on Monday attended by around 3,000 students and teachers.

The chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the government's telecommunications authority to block access to the film. Government officials have said they are trying to block the video, as well as other content considered blasphemous, but it was still viewable Monday on YouTube.

Hundreds of Indonesians clashed with police outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, hurling rocks and firebombs and setting tires on fire.

At least 10 police were taken to the hospital after being hit with rocks and attacked with bamboo sticks, said Police Chief Maj. Gen. Untung Rajad. He said four protesters were arrested and one was hospitalized.

Demonstrators burned a picture of Obama and also tried to ignite a fire truck parked outside the embassy after ripping a water hose off the vehicle and torching it. Police used a bullhorn to appeal for calm and deployed water cannons and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd.

"We will destroy America like this flag!" a protester screamed while burning a U.S. flag. "We will chase away the American ambassador from the country!"

Demonstrations were also held Monday in the Indonesian cities of Medan and Bandung.

German authorities are considering whether to ban the public screening of the film because it could endanger public security, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. A fringe far-right political party says it plans to show the film in Berlin in November.

Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on Western countries to block the film to prove they are not "accomplices" in a "big crime," according to Iranian state TV.

U.S. officials say they cannot limit free speech and Google Inc. refuses to do a blanket ban on the YouTube video clip. This leaves individual countries putting up their own blocks.

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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt in Kabul, Abdullah Khan in Timergarah, Pakistan, Adil Jawad in Karachi, Pakistan, Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

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