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More bloodshed in Syria despite Arab deadline (Reuters)
BEIRUT (Reuters) ? The Syrian government ignored Arab powers' moves to halt its crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising on Friday and more opposition supporters and military personnel were killed in unrelenting violence.
The Syrian military said 10 personnel, including six pilots, were killed in an attack on an air force base and that the incident proved foreign involvement in the eight-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Government forces shot dead at least four demonstrators in the capital Damascus who were appealing for foreign intervention to stop the crackdown, activists said. Two other civilians were killed in raids on their homes, they said.
Earlier on Friday, a deadline set by the Arab League for Syria to sign a deal allowing peace monitors into the country expired without any government response. Turkey meanwhile said it could no longer tolerate any more bloodshed.
More than 3,500 people are estimated by the United Nations to have been killed since March, the majority of them civilians gunned down as they took to the streets of Syrian towns and cities to call for an end to Assad's rule.
Under the Arab League initiative, Syria agreed to withdraw troops from urban centers, release political prisoners, start a dialogue with the opposition and allow in monitors.
The bloodshed did not stop and Arab foreign ministers said in Cairo on Thursday that unless Syria agreed to the monitors, they would consider imposing sanctions including halting flights, curbing trade and stopping deals with the central bank.
The League extended the deadline after it expired on Friday , saying they would wait until the day's end before deciding what to do.
OBLIQUE
The announcement of the air force attack appeared to be an oblique response.
"An armed terrorist group undertook an evil assassination plot that martyred six pilots, a technical officer and three other personnel on an air force base between Homs and Palmyra," a military spokesman said on state television.
"This confirms the involvement of foreign elements and their support of these terrorist operations in an effort to weaken the fighting capabilities of our forces," he said.
The account fits the government narrative that it is facing an armed insurrection by trouble-makers backed by its enemies, rather than a largely peaceful pro-democracy movement inspired by the Arab Spring revolts which toppled the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya this year.
A Syrian opposition member told Reuters the attack was an ambush on a military bus near Furqlous, 35 km (22 miles) southwest of Homs.
"Furqlous is a military region and it is not difficult for an insurgent guerrilla force to chose targets there," he said.
State television also showed pictures of thousands of people demonstrating in central Damascus "expressing their rejection of the Arab League decision against Syria."
In neighboring Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he hoped the Syrian government would give a positive response to the Arab League plan.
"If it doesn't, there are steps we can take in consultation with the Arab League," he said. "I want to say clearly we have no more tolerance for the bloodshed in Syria.."
The stepped-up pressure followed a French proposal for "humanitarian corridors" to be set up through which food and medicine could be shipped to alleviate civilian suffering.
But some a measure of comfort for Assad came from longtime ally Russia, China and other countries, who expressed opposition to sanctions and warned against a foreign military intervention.
"At the current stage, what is needed is not resolutions, not sanctions, not pressure, but internal Syrian dialogue," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in Moscow.
Lukashevich said Russia supported the Arab League's call for a halt to the violence but that "radical opposition" groups with foreign support shared the blame. Outside military intervention was "absolutely unacceptable."
After a meeting in Moscow on Thursday, diplomats from Russia, China and the other three emerging-market BRICS countries -- Brazil, India and South Africa - also warned against foreign intervention without U.N. backing.
AIDING CIVILIANS
A Western diplomatic source said the French plan, with or without approval from Damascus, could link Syrian civilian centers to the frontiers of Turkey and Lebanon, to the Mediterranean coast or to an airport.
Its aim would enable transport of humanitarian supplies or medicines to civilians.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the plan fell short of a military intervention but acknowledged that humanitarian convoys would need armed protection.
"Of course...by international observers, but there is no question of military intervention in Syria," he said.
The Arab League suspended Syria's membership two weeks ago, while this week the prime minister of Turkey - a NATO member with the military wherewithal to mount a cross-border operation - told Assad to quit and said he should be mindful of the fate of other fallen dictators.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition group, said at least 47 people were killed in Syria on Thursday, including 16 soldiers and 17 army deserters, mostly around the city of Homs and Rastan to the north.
Alongside the mainly peaceful protests, armed insurgents have increasingly attacked military targets in recent weeks. Officials say 1,100 members of the security forces have been killed since the outbreak of uprising.
(Reporting by Erika Solomon and Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Writing by Angus MacSwan)
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Egyptian court orders release of 3 US students (AP)
PHILADELPHIA ? A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday.
Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.
Attorney Ted Simon, who represents Porter, a 19-year-old student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said he is still waiting to find out if the students actually have been set free.
Sweeney's mother, Joy Sweeney, said she is "absolutely elated" at the news of her 19-year-old son's release.
"I can't wait to give him a huge hug and tell him how much I love him," she said, adding that the news of the court order was the best Thanksgiving gift.
The 21-year-old Gates is a student of Indiana University.
Earlier Thursday, Egypt officials said a court had ordered the students' release. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. They did not say when the students would be released.
Joy Sweeney said she wasn't sure when her son, a student at Georgetown University, would be returning to their home in Jefferson City, Mo.
"If he can find his passport (then he'll leave) tomorrow, if not, it won't be until Monday," she said.
Derrik Sweeney interned for U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., earlier this year. Luetkemeyer's spokesman Paul Sloca, said the congressman is "extremely pleased that he's safe and coming home, especially on Thanksgiving."
Sweeney said she had not prepared for a Thanksgiving celebration, although a friend had taken her some food. She said the idea of a Thanksgiving feast had seemed "absolutely irrelevant" before the news of her son's pending freedom.
Asked what she thought her son would take away from his arrest, Sweeney said she thought he would make something useful of it.
"I'm sure that he'll put a life-lesson learning experience into a positive story," Sweeney said. "He's a writer, he will write about this experience."
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Associated Press reporter Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this report. Maggie Michael reported from Cairo.
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South Africa's Tutu blasts secrets bill (AP)
JOHANNESBURG ? Anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu made a last-minute appeal to lawmakers to reject a bill they are to vote on Tuesday, which he calls an "insulting" attempt to roll back democracy in South Africa.
The African National Congress, which holds a majority of parliament's seats, sponsored the bill defining state secrets and making it illegal to divulge them. Parliament is expected to pass the bill.
Critics donned black and staged protests at the ANC's downtown Johannesburg headquarters during morning rush hour Tuesday, saying the bill is open to abuse because officials can broadly interpret its "national interest" justification for keeping information secret.
Activists fear the adoption of the bill in a country known for one of the continent's freest and most open constitutions could influence other governments in the region. They are preparing to challenge the measure if it becomes law before the Constitutional Court, the country's highest court.
In a statement late Monday, Tutu said it is "insulting to all South Africans to be asked to stomach legislation that could be used to outlaw whistle-blowing and investigative journalism ... and that makes the state answerable only to the state."
Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to white rule. In more recent years, he has been a sharp critic of ANC moves he sees as undermining rule of law and weakening South Africa's fledgling democracy.
The ANC said South Africa needs to update apartheid-era secrets legislation. The party bristles at suggestions from critics that its proposal would take the country back to the days when white racist officials banned newspapers and punished whistle blowers to stifle criticism.
Prominent ANC members also have opposed the bill, among them a former state security minister. The office of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first post-apartheid president, also has expressed reservations about the bill. Newspaper editors, prominent writers led by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, church groups, freedom of expression lobbyists, business leaders and others have lobbied against it.
The ANC bill says "information that is accessible to all is the basis of a transparent, open and democratic society," but says secrecy is sometimes necessary to "save lives, to enhance and to protect the freedom and security of persons, to bring criminals to justice, to protect the national security and to engage in effective government and diplomacy."
While the bill makes it a crime to divulge state secrets, it also makes it a crime for an official to withhold information to conceal wrongdoing or incompetence, or merely to avoid embarrassment.
In June, the ANC backed down on some of its original proposals, removing mandatory prison sentences for possessing and publishing secrets ? though reporters and others could still be jailed for publishing information that officials want kept secret. The ANC also agreed to limit the power to classify secrets to state security agencies, and proposed that an independent official review appeals of state security rulings on classified information.
While those amendments were welcomed, critics want more concessions, including a provision allowing those who break the law to avoid going to jail if they could argue they acted in the public interest.
At times, the rhetoric on both sides of the debate appears to have less to do with the merits of the bill than a distrust of government on one side, and distrust of the media on the other.
In a speech to parliament last week, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele even raised the possibility that demonstrators who have held peaceful marches to rally opposition to the bill were somehow being used by South Africa's enemies.
The secrets bill is separate from another ANC proposal that has raised concerns ? the possible creation of a tribunal that could discipline journalists, with powers to punish that have not yet been spelled out.
Relations between the ANC and the media long have been tense. Last week one of the country's most prominent newspapers, the Mail & Guardian, said it had been unable to publish details about corruption allegations against Mac Maharaj, a longtime ANC leader who recently took on the job of presidential spokesman, because of threats of criminal prosecution. Maharaj later announced he was asking police to investigate whether the paper and its journalists had broken the law in their reporting.
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According to Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times, MLB?s new collective bargaining agreement, which is set to be announced early next week, will include blood testing for human growth hormone (HGH). Here are some of the details: The bargaining agreement, which could be announced early next week, calls for blood testing to begin?
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From Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama, Technology Has Revamped Presidential Campaigns (ContributorNetwork)
The use of social media -- Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare and other services -- has become a ubiquitous part of political campaigning in recent years, allowing candidates to shape their own messages, speak directly to masses of voters, and quickly respond to crises or criticisms. While there is little doubt that we're currently in the midst of a brave new world of political campaigning, technology has always played a major role in how candidates campaign for office.
Here is a look at some of the innovative technology that has been used during U.S. political campaigns through the years:
Calvin Coolidge -- Radio
While he may have been known as "Silent Cal," it was the new technology of radio that helped this man of few words get re-elected in 1924. With famed advertising executive Bruce Barton helping to hone his image as a steady hand in the White House, Coolidge made extensive use of radio broadcasts to get his message out to a mass audience. In February 1924, Coolidge became the first president to deliver a political speech on the radio.
Coolidge won the election in a landslide and this burgeoning technology quickly became a boon for future presidential candidates.
John F. Kennedy -- Television
The 1960 presidential election was a classic David vs. Goliath situation: a privileged, inexperienced, young senator facing off against a seasoned politician and sitting vice president. But the attractive John Kennedy got a major boost over his older and more haggard opponent, Richard Nixon, thanks to the wonder of television.
The first series of televised debates in American history took place during the fall of 1960, giving millions of potential voters an opportunity to actually see both candidates head to head. Underweight, perspiring, and with a perpetual five o'clock shadow, Nixon was no match visually for the rested, relaxed, and confident-looking Kennedy who went on to win the election.
Six percent of voters claimed that the four televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon were the deciding factor in their decision. (Kennedy topped Nixon by .1 percent of the vote.) Meanwhile, televised political debates were here to stay, playing a major role in every presidential election campaign for the past five decades.
Howard Dean -- Internet
No previous presidential candidate had ever harnessed the power of the Internet quite like Howard Dean during the 2004 election. In the last days before the social-media revolution that would revolutionize the way we use the Internet, Dean tapped into Meetup.com to organize hundreds of thousands of his supporters throughout the country and raise millions of dollars in small donations along the way. This grassroots effort launched his campaign from relative obscurity to the top of the Democratic field during the early part of the campaign season and made him an overnight success.
Unfortunately for Dean, the momentum eventually waned, his campaign lost steam, and he dropped out of the race. But his trailblazing use of the web would set the tone for the next election.
Barack Obama -- Social Media
The 2008 presidential election could be called the "YouTube Election." It was this video-sharing service, introduced in 2005, that allowed candidates to speak directly to the voters in a way that had not been possible in the past. Even more importantly, YouTube allowed a candidate's supporters to share these videos with their friends. Call it "viral campaigning," and nobody was better at it during the 2008 presidential campaign than Barack Obama. With millions of views and scores of different videos, Obama was able to project his famous charisma right to a voter's laptop.
Obama, of course, won the election, and the age of social-media campaigning was born.
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Critical molecules for hearing and balance discovered
Monday, November 21, 2011
Researchers have found long-sought genes in the sensory hair cells of the inner ear that, when mutated, prevent sound waves from being converted to electric signals ? a fundamental first step in hearing. The team, co-led by Jeffrey Holt, PhD, in the department of otolaryngology at Children?s Hospital Boston, and Andrew Griffith, MD, PhD, of the NIH?s National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), then restored these electrical signals in the sensory cells of deaf mice by introducing normal genes.
The study paves the way for a test of gene therapy to reverse a type of deafness, to be conducted by Holt and Swiss collaborators. Findings appear in the November 21 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Sound waves produce the sensation of hearing by jiggling protruding hair-like structures on sensory hair cells in the inner ear. Scientists have long believed that the hair cells carry a protein that converts this mechanical motion into electrical signals. While similar proteins have been identified for other senses ? taste, smell, sight ? researchers had been unable to find the critical protein required for hearing, in part because of the difficulty of getting enough cells from the inner ear to study.
?People have been looking for more than 30 years,? says Holt, also a member of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Children?s Hospital Boston. ?Five or six possibilities have come up, but didn?t pan out.?
Holt, Griffith and colleagues found that two related proteins, TMC1 and TMC2, are essential for hearing. They make up gateways known as ion channels, which sit atop the hair-like projections (called stereocilia) and let electrically charged molecules (ions) move in to the cell, generating an electrical signal that ultimately travels to the brain.
The gene for TMC1 was previously shown by Griffith and NIDCD-funded collaborators to be mutated in both mice and humans with hereditary deafness. TMC2, the new study found, seems to have a redundant function and may compensate if TMC1 is defective.
The study also found that the same defects affect sensory hair cells in the vestibular system, which underlies the sense of balance. Although TMC1 mutations cause only hearing loss, not balance problems, in humans, mice with defects in both TMC1 and TMC2 are deaf and fail balance tests requiring them to navigate a rotating rod.
The investigators then engineered an adenovirus to carry normal copies of TMC1 or TMC2 into the inner-ear hair cells of mice that had mutations in both genes. Using special techniques developed in Holt?s lab, they recorded electrical responses to noise in the sensory hair cells when either TMC1 or TMC2 was added back ? where before there had been none. ?This is the first time anything like this has been done,? says Holt.
But does restoring the electrical response translate into restoration of hearing? Holt and collaborators at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland recently received a $600,000 grant for a gene-therapy trial in mice. The researchers will deliver genes to the inner ear and measure whether electrical signals can be detected in the 8th cranial nerve and whether the animals respond to sound. EPFL will supply newer, safer gene-delivery vectors for testing that could potentially be developed for human trials.
According to the NIDCD, about 1 in 300 to 500 newborns are born deaf or hard-of-hearing, and it?s believed that about half of cases have genetic causes. About 60 genes, including TMC1, are known to be associated with human deafness.
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Boston's Leaky Gas Lines May Be Tough On The Trees
Robin Lubbock/WBUR Bob Ackley, left, and Nathan Phillips measure methane levels on a Boston street. They found about 4,000 significant gas leaks after driving 785 miles of Boston and suburban roads.
A scientist in Boston has been driving around the city measuring leaks in the gas mains. He's found a lot, and he wants the public to know where they are.
Gas leaks aren't uncommon, and gas companies spend a lot of time tracking them down and repairing them. But the scientific team says they're surprised at how many they've found, and what those leaks are doing to the health of the city's trees.
The project started after biologist Nathan Phillips at Boston University met a former gas inspector, Bob Ackley, on a stroll through town. Ackley was using a gas sniffer to look for leaks from underground gas mains. He told Phillips that Boston's gas system was leaky.
So Phillips obtained his own methane detector ? a state-of-the-art model called a cavity ringdown spectrometer ? and put it in a car. "We just measure while we drive," he says. "It's a very fast-acting piece of equipment."
Enlarge Robin Lubbock/WBUR Nathan Phillips looks at methane data plotted on a map of Boston streets on Nov. 17. Data from a mobile methane "sniffer" and a GPS show a real-time display of the gas levels in Google Earth. The orange spike in the center of the screen, on St. Paul Street, indicates methane levels about two or three times above normal levels, Phillips says.
Robin Lubbock/WBURNathan Phillips looks at methane data plotted on a map of Boston streets on Nov. 17. Data from a mobile methane "sniffer" and a GPS show a real-time display of the gas levels in Google Earth. The orange spike in the center of the screen, on St. Paul Street, indicates methane levels about two or three times above normal levels, Phillips says.
Together he and Ackley, who runs a company called Gas Safety USA, drove 785 miles of Boston and suburban roads. They found about 4,000 significant leaks.
"Like many people, I really didn't know the scope of the problem, so I was very surprised," says Phillips.
In some cases, the levels were high.
"The record level that we found for a leak ? this is in the atmosphere on the surface in Boston ? was about 30 parts per million of methane," Phillips says, "and that's over 15 times the normal background level."
Phillips notes that he's not a health expert and says he has no reason to believe methane at those levels poses a risk to human health. But he does believe, as a plant physiologist, that the methane is probably harming trees.
"Natural gas is largely methane," Phillips says. "That displaces the oxygen. It's also dry gas, so it desiccates the soils as well. And roots need to have oxygen for the metabolism of the roots, for repair of the root membranes. If they are starved of oxygen, the tree will suffer."
Fixing Up The System
A state advocacy group is suing utilities in the region for damages to trees and it's citing Phillips' research. The plaintiffs are communities that claim millions of dollars of damage has been done to trees in the Boston area.
Tom Kiley, head of the Northeast Gas Association, says it's true that methane can damage vegetation, but it's not common.
"There certainly are a lot of potential causes to the damage to trees and vegetation," says Kiley. "That can include insect infestation, vehicular damage, disease, storm damage, drought, salt, waste oil, gasoline."
Kiley, whose association represents gas companies in the region, disputes the claim that damage is widespread. He says when there's damage, gas companies remove and replace the trees. That's confirmed by David Graves, a spokesman for National Grid, the major supplier of natural gas to the Boston area.
As for the leaks, Kiley says gas companies do report how much they lose statewide to the state Department of Public Utilities. He doesn't know how many leaks there are in Boston but says leaks are a problem that the companies take seriously.
"It's an older system," says Kiley. "It is being replaced. There are some cast-iron facilities and some bare steel ? unprotected steel ? [pipes] that are being replaced, so there are in fact leaks on the joints."
Graves says his company is replacing about 150 miles of old pipeline a year in the state.
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"The buried infrastructure, when it's out of sight, it's out of mind," he says, "and it's easy for us to just forget that it even exists."
Phillips notes methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas that warms the planet. And in fact, scientists at Picarro, the California company that makes the methane sniffer, have begun mapping leaks in San Francisco. Ackley has mapped parts of Washington, D.C., as well.
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Deficit gridlock looms, supercommittee deadlocked (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Deadline nearing, the deficit-reduction talks in Congress sank toward gridlock Friday after supercommittee Democrats rejected a late Republican offer that included next-to-nothing in new tax revenue. Each side maneuvered to blame the other for a looming stalemate.
The panel faces a deadline of next Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and lawmakers on both sides stressed they were ready to meet through the weekend in a last-ditch search for compromise.
But there was little indication after a day of closed-door meetings that a breakthrough was likely, both Democrats and Republicans emphasizing long-held political positions.
"Where the divide is right now is over taxes, and whether the wealthiest Americans should share in the sacrifices," said Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Democratic co-chair of the panel.
But Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, said Republicans had offered "a balanced, bipartisan plan - the fact that it was rejected makes it clear that Washington Democrats won't cut a dime in government spending without job-killing tax hikes."
While prospects for a deal faded, House Democrats checked a Republican attempt to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The vote was 261-165, or 23 shy of the two-thirds majority required. GOP lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor, while Democrats generally opposed it, sealing its doom.
The vote on a noisy House floor contrasted to the secretive proceedings inside the supercommittee, a panel that projected optimism when it began its quest for a deficit deal late last summer but has yet to come to any significant compromise.
Republicans disclosed during the day they had outlined an offer on Thursday for about $543 billion in spending cuts ? leaving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security untouched ? and $3 billion in higher tax revenue.
Most if not all of the recommended savings were items that Democrats have agreed to in earlier talks, but only, party officials said, on condition they part of a larger deal in which Republicans agreed to additional tax increases.
Democrats have long demanded that Republicans agree to significant amounts of higher taxes on the wealthy as part of any deal, and they quickly rejected the offer, according to officials in both parties.
It was unclear where the talks would turn next, but the GOP proposal suggested the discussions had effectively moved into a range of savings far below the $1.2 trillion the committee has been seeking.
It also appeared Republicans were jettisoning a plan for $300 billion in higher tax revenue, an offer that had exposed internal GOP divisions when it was presented two weeks ago. It also has failed to generate momentum for a compromise among Democrats.
If the panel fails to reach agreement, $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts are to take effect beginning in 2013, a prospect that lawmakers in both parties say they want to avoid.
That is particularly true among defense hawks, who argue that the Pentagon cannot sustain the estimated $500 billion in cuts that would be required on top of the $450 billion already in the works.
In a letter to Murray and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, the GOP chairman of the supercommittee, the head of the House Armed Services Committee warned of "immediate, dire and in some cases irrevocable" damage to the nation's military. "Our ability to respond to national security crises or humanitarian disasters would be disrupted," added Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, R-Calif.
Republicans familiar with the GOP plan said it included $543 billion in spending cuts, fees and other non-tax revenue, as well as the $3 billion corporate jet provision. There also would be $98 billion in reduced interest costs.
Officials familiar with the offer said it would save the government $121 billion by requiring federal civilian workers to contribute more to their pension plans, shave $23 billion from farm and nutrition programs and generate $15 billion from new auctions of broadcast spectrum to wireless companies.
It also would claim about $100 billion in savings from Pentagon civilian personnel costs and another $35 billion by increasing the fee that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge lenders to guarantee repayment of new loans. The fee increase would add $15 a month to the monthly cost of an average new mortgage.
The per-ticket security fee to pay for Transportation Security Administration operations at the nation's airports would increase, and $18 billion would come from savings within Postal Service accounts.
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Associated Press writer Donna Cassata contributed to this report.
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Debt deal prospects sour amid partisan wrangling
Supercommittee Co-Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas talks to reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Supercommittee Co-Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas talks to reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Co-Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl, R- Ariz., member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The U.S. Capitol building is seen Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Washington. The six Democrats and six Republicans on the Supercommittee, as it's familiarly called, have until next Wednesday, Nov. 23, to come together on a deficit reduction plan. Otherwise Congress faces a stark alternative: allow payroll tax cuts and jobless aid for millions to expire or extend them and increase the nation's $15 trillion debt by at least $160 billion. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? On the brink of failure, members of a special deficit-cutting committee blamed each other Sunday for the intransigence that has gridlocked the panel in its quest to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.
"If you look at the Democrats' position it was 'We have to raise taxes. We have to pass this jobs bill, which is another almost half-trillion dollars. And we're not excited about entitlement reform,' " Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona said in a combative interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Fanning out to the sets of the Sunday morning talk shows, Democrats and Republicans blamed each other for a deepening impasse that has all but doomed chances for an accord. In a series of interviews, not a single panelist seemed optimistic about any last-minute breakthrough. Under the committee's rules, any plan would have to be unveiled Monday.
Democrats said that Republicans on the supercommittee were simply unwilling to move on tax increases that Democrats insist should be part of any package that emerges from the negotiations. And Republicans said Democrats' demands on taxes were too great, even in response to a scaled-back GOP offer made late last week.
"There is one sticking divide. And that's the issue of what I call shared sacrifice," said panel co-chair Sen. Patty Murray. "The wealthiest Americans who earn over a million a year have to share too. And that line in the sand, we haven't seen Republicans willing to cross yet," the Washington Democrat said on CNN's "State of the Union."
The Republican co-chair of Congress' debt supercommittee offered a glum assessment of prospects for an agreement.
Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling said "nobody wants to give up," but he also told "Fox News Sunday" that "the reality is to some extent starting to overtake hope." He said the panel's deadlock "was a failure in not seizing an opportunity."
The committee faces a Wednesday deadline. But members would have to agree on the outlines of a package by Monday to allow time for drafting and assessing by the Congressional Budget Office.
Panel members say they will be available for further talks Sunday in hopes of a final breakthrough and some last-minute offers on smaller deficit-cutting packages were possible. Also on the agenda is stage managing the group's disbandment.
Republicans are demanding changes in so-called entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid while Democrats are insisting on tax increases on the wealthy.
Over the past couple of weeks, the two sides have made a variety of offers and counter-offers, starting with a more than $3 trillion plan from Democrats that would have increased tax revenues by $1.3 trillion in exchange for further cuts in agency budgets, a change in the measure used to calculate cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries, and curbs on the growth of Medicare and Medicaid.
Republicans countered with a $1.5 trillion plan that included a potential breakthrough ? $250 billion in higher taxes gleaned as Congress passes a future tax reform measure. The plan was trashed by Democrats, however, who said it would have lowered tax rates for the wealthy too far while eliminating tax breaks that chiefly benefit the middle class.
Most recently, Republicans forwarded a smaller, face-saving $644 billion offer comprised of $543 billion in spending cuts, fees and other non-tax revenue, as well as $3 billion in revenue from closing a special tax break for corporate purchases of private jets. It also assumed $98 billion in reduced interest costs.
On Saturday, Republicans floated an even smaller, unspecified offer, said a lawmaker directly familiar with the panel's work. It too was rejected. The lawmaker required anonymity because of the secrecy of the talks.
Officials familiar with the offer said it would save the government $121 billion by requiring federal civilian workers to contribute more to their pension plans, shave $23 billion from farm and nutrition programs and generate $15 billion from new auctions of broadcast spectrum to wireless companies.
Democrats said the plan was unbalanced because it included barely any tax revenue.
"Our Democratic friends are unable to cut even a dollar in spending without saying it has to be accompanied by tax increases," Kyl said.
Failure to reach agreement would trigger automatic across-the-board spending cuts to a wide variety of domestic programs and the Pentagon budget, starting in January of 2013. But both Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and many lawmakers say this automatic sequester would impose devastating cuts at the Pentagon.
"I hope it will be changed," Hensarling said. "Panetta said that cuts of that magnitude would hollow out our national defense."
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Kodak Seeks to Sell Online Photo-Sharing Business Kodak Gallery ...
In a bid to raise money to fund its turnaround, Eastman Kodak Co. is trying to sell its online photo-sharing business, Kodak Gallery, people familiar with the matter said.
The people said the onetime film giant has approached photo-sharing websites, competitors, private-equity firms and retailers about buying the unit, which enables users to store their digital photos and print them out into scrapbooks, cards and calendars for a fee.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based company is seeking ?hundreds of millions of dollars? for Kodak Gallery, according to a person who has been approached to buy the business. But the site has been losing users in recent years, and the drop in traffic is a big deterrent to potential buyers, people who were approached say.
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Just Show Me: How to run a virus scan in Windows 7 (Yahoo! News)
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Milk does a body good ? even when worn (AP)
HANNOVER, Germany ? Wear Milk? Anke Domaske says why not.
The 28-year-old German is the designer of an award-winning new textile made entirely from milk that's environmentally friendly as well as soothing to people with skin allergies. Called "Qmilch," it drapes and folds like silk, but can be washed and dried like cotton.
The biochemist and fashion designer has so far only used the fabric to make dresses for her own MCC fashion line. But next year Domaske has plans to begin mass producing ? and several companies have already expressed interest in using the fabric.
Qmilch ? a combination of quality and the German word for milk ? won the innovation award of Germany's Textile Research Association, which recognized it as a new, sustainable fiber that could revolutionize the clothing industry.
Currently, apparel depends heavily on byproducts from oil, or natural resources such as water ? used in the thousands of liters (gallons) to produce just a bolt of cotton.
"We know that everything that is based on oil has a limit, that materials like cotton that take up a lot of land, water and chemicals are limited, so we need to think about how we in produce fabrics and textiles in the future," said Klaus Jansen, who heads the Textile Research Association.
"She has showed us how this can work."
Tatjana Berthold, a seamstress for Domaske's MCC fashion line has been cutting and sewing the fabric into dresses for the past year.
"At first I did not believe that it was made from milk, but when you work with it, you notice that it feels different from normal fabrics," said Berthold. She cast Domaske a sly sideways glance, then confessed to have privately made a pair of pajamas from a scrap she had been given.
"When you look it, you can't see such a big difference, but when you wear it, you feel the difference," Berthold said.
Domaske laughed, confessing that she, too, had sewn herself sleepwear from a sample of jersey fabric spun over the past year.
The quest for a natural, non-irritating fabric began after watching her stepfather suffer through terrible skin irritations while being treated for cancer. "There are so many people who really suffer just by wearing normal clothing. I wanted to find a way to help them."
She focused her research on milk protein, or casein. Although textiles made with milk fibers have been around since the 1930s, she said most of them relied heavily on acrylics.
"I thought it must be possible to make a fabric that is completely organic," said Domaske.
After two years of trial and error, working with a research lab, Domaske and her team of six finally landed on a process of reducing milk to a protein powder that is then boiled and pressed into strands that can be woven into a fabric.
The strands, she says, can be spun rougher for a heavier texture, or shiny smooth, to create a soft jersey that drapes and feels like silk.
She uses only organic milk that cannot be consumed because it has failed Germany's strict quality standards.
Domaske concedes that at euro20 ($28) per kilogram (1/2 pound), her fabric costs more to produce than even organic cotton, which goes for about 40 percent less. But she hopes local production will keep down transport costs and reduce the overall price.
She also notes that only 2 liters (a half gallon) of water is needed to produce 1 kilogram (2 pounds) of fabric, or enough to make several standard dresses. By comparison, the same amount of cotton requires more than 10,000 liters of water.
Lynda Grose, a consultant and associate professor at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, who specializes in ecologically responsible design, notes that the fashion industry is dependent on the idea of disposal, of people always wanting new designs.
"There is a tremendous amount of waste in the fashion world," Grose said in a telephone interview. She noted that by rethinking how such waste can be used will help make the fashion and textile industry more ecologically friendly.
German industry has been impressed by Domaske's innovation.
The designer, who works from a loft beside the railway in the central German city of Hannover, has already received queries from automobile makers that see a potential for seat covers, and members of the medical and hospitality industries interested in a hypoallergenic material for hospitals and hotel beds.
"The German textile industry can only survive against the competition if it comes up with innovative, new products," Jansen said. "Ms. Domaske has done this in taking a raw material and processing it to create a new thread that can be sold to other companies to create other products. That is very unique."
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On the Web: http://www.qmilk.eu/
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Suzanne Braun Levine: We Still Undress In The Dark, But The Sex Is Great!
Whether we like it or not, being 50 or 60 means that we aren't in Kansas any more -- body wise. There is no way that the belt we wore in our thirties will fit, even if the hip-huggers we also wore at the time still do.
Many of us have had body image problems all our lives. Most of us have body image problems now that our bodies are changing. Some of it is due to growing up in a culture where our only role models were thin and doll-like fashion models and celebrities. There is some consolation in the certitude that those same models and celebrities are sagging now too. And it should be instructive to purveyors of that air-brushed image (in women's magazines, no less!), that when the subject of aging celebrities comes up, countless women still express gratitude to Jamie Lee Curtis for baring the truth about her midlife midriff in More magazine - almost ten years ago!
The old saw about changing what you can and accepting what you can't certainly applies here. Personal reinvention is an important theme of what I call Second Adulthood. As we reconsider our expectations in every aspect of our lives - from relationships to life goals - we need to revisit the standards we set for our bodies. My trainer tells me that she has noticed that when her clients turn fifty or when they go through menopause, or become grandparents, they get serious about being healthy. "I'm into 'fit' now as opposed to fat,'" one woman told me. "I may not look as glamorous, but I can put my suitcase up on the rack on the airplane." Her body image is beginning to conform to her own internal ideal rather than someone else's. I often laugh at myself because even when I was thin on the outside, I was nothing but flab on the inside; now it's the reverse.
I recently came upon a photograph of myself back then in my first "two-piece" bathing suit. Hey, I thought, she looks pretty good. That thought lasted about two seconds, until I remembered that when that picture was taken, I saw myself as fat and bulky. Then I realized that I feel the same way today. Fat and bulky. Plus wrinkled and saggy. What a waste, I thought, not feeling good about my body back then. And just as much of a waste feeling ashamed of it now. As one woman said to me after having the same then-and-now photo revelation, "We'd better start appreciating ourselves now or we will look back in a few years and wish we looked as good then as we do now."
There is a delicious and unanticipated consequence of this new self-confidence. In the course of researching my forthcoming book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood, I heard story after story of Great Sex! Women I interviewed were astonished at the freedom that came from listening to their bodies as opposed to scrutinizing them in the mirror. Throwing caution to the wind, they find new realms of pleasure and new sources of self discovery in those gravity-challenged bodies. It's amazing, they report, how uninhibited they can be, even when a new relationship progresses to the sex part. "All the things you worry about when you haven't dated as long as I hadn't dated--about sexual intimacy, about being attractive--none of that happened," one woman told me. "Your body just kind of takes over."
Which is not to say that women like me will become confident enough to flaunt our corporeal selves. Most of us still prefer to undress in the dark. There is a scene in the movie It's Complicated
that takes place the morning after the Meryl Streep character has just slept with her ex, played by Alec Baldwin. He waddles off into the bathroom looking...his age, while she gets up smiling and starts wrapping herself in the sheet. He is confused. "But we were naked last night, what are you doing this for?" And she replies, "We were lying down then" That line embodies (get it?) the kind of good-natured acceptance of how her body looks with gratitude for how it works that I, for one, aspire to.
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Government closes mortgage scams tied to Google (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO ? Federal government regulators have shut down dozens of Internet scams that had been paying Google to run deceptive ads promising to help desperate homeowners avoid foreclosure.
The crackdown announced Wednesday targeted 85 businesses accused of duping homeowners hoping to lower their home loan payments. The U.S. Treasury Department division overseeing the criminal investigation into the alleged misconduct didn't identify the operations that have been shut down.
Google's name popped up because the Internet search leader had been running the ads that the alleged scam artists used to bait their victims.
In an effort to prevent the abuse, the government said Google has suspended its business ties with more than 500 advertisers and agencies connected to the alleged swindlers.
A Google Inc. spokeswoman declined to comment.
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Photo: Junior dos Santos? convincing KO of Cain Velasquez
Junior dos Santos won the UFC heavyweight belt with a quick knockout of Cain Velasquez on the UFC's network debut on Saturday night. If you had any doubt that referee John McCarthy made the right call in stopping the fight, this picture from Tracy Lee should erase it.
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Video: King: Eagles' 'dream team' a nightmare
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Turkish PM visits quake zone in eastern Turkey
People console one another as they wait for news as Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. At least 17 people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed and dozens of others trapped. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.(AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk )
People console one another as they wait for news as Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. At least 17 people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed and dozens of others trapped. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.(AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk )
Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. At least 17 people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed and dozens of others trapped. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.(AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk )
Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. At least 17 people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed and dozens of others trapped. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.(AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk )
Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Van, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. At least 17 people, including a Japanese aid worker, were killed and dozens of others trapped. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.(AP Photo/Bertan Ayduk )
VAN, Turkey (AP) ? Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited thousands of quake victims in eastern Turkey on Saturday, where two deadly quakes over the last two weeks have killed at least 640 people and left many homeless.
Erdogan's first stop was the town of Ercis, where thousands of survivors of the from the October 7.2-magnitude quake that still live in tents, even as the snow has blanketed much of the region. Some 604 people were killed.
The Oct. 23 temblor killed 604 people destroyed at least 2,000 buildings in Ercis and in the city of Van, which was hit again by a magnitude-5.7 quake on Wednesday. About 1,400 aftershocks have rocked the region since the initial quake in October.
At least 36 other people were killed when two hotels tumbled in Van on Wednesday. Among the victims were a Japanese aid worker and two Turkish journalists, who had gone to the area after the initial temblor in October.
Rescue workers discovered the bodies of the reporters, Sebahattin Yilmaz and Cem Emir, from the Dogan news agency early Saturday in the rubble of the Bayram Hotel. The Japanese aid worker Atsushi Miyazaki was rescued alive from the wreckage of that hotel but died in a hospital Thursday.
Turkey's disaster management authority said Saturday that 30 people were pulled out alive from the rubble of the collapsed hotels in Van.
On Friday, Turkey notified countries offering help to deal with the new quake that it would accept tents and prefabricated homes to house survivors through the winter.
With even more people refusing to return to homes after the second quake, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said authorities were setting up thousands of more tents for the homeless. He said some of the quake survivors would be housed at state-run hotels around the country until the spring.
He urged citizens, meanwhile, to send heaters, blankets and food packages for the people of Van.
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Selcan Hacaoglu and Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.
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