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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
IMF says expects January talks with Egypt (Reuters)
CAIRO (Reuters) ? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it planned to meet with Egyptian authorities to discuss the country's economic problems but added that any funding would have to be based on benchmarks that had broad political support.
Egypt, whose economy has been hammered by the uprising that unseated Hosni Mubarak in February, turned down a $3 billion IMF facility in June, but ministers have indicated the country may now be prepared to return to the negotiating table.
"The IMF team is looking forward to discussions in January with the authorities on their economic program to address Egypt's difficult economic and financial situation," an IMF representative said in an emailed statement. It said it was too early to discuss specific measures.
Economists say Egypt is heading for a currency crisis if it does not swiftly stabilize an economy battered by the political turmoil, which has prompted an exodus of investors and tourists.
Because of worsening economic conditions the country may now need as much as $15 billion to stave off a full-blown financial crisis, some economists say.
Dozens of protesters have died in clashes with the army, the budget deficit has mushroomed, the cost of domestic borrowing has increased, foreign reserves have fallen and demand for Egypt's exports has fallen as the global economy weakened.
The IMF said it had remained "in close contact" with Egyptian authorities since early November on possible funding, but security concerns caused it to postpone a planned visit to Cairo in mid-December.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri said told the nation on television that Egypt had gone to the IMF but the international body had not responded.
"Regarding the IMF, we were told it was necessary for Egypt to deal with the IMF to get loans. Our colleagues made the request, but nothing has come yet ... today we still request but they (the IMF) asked for a short delay."
EXTREME NEED
In its statement, the IMF said benchmarks for any funding package would need to "come from a program that is designed and owned by the Egyptian authorities and enjoys the broad political support necessary for its successful implementation."
On most occasions as government officials seem to edge close to signing up, Egypt's army has indicated its reluctance.
"The easiest thing would have been for the military council to accept the loans from abroad, give it to Egyptians to live a better life and then hand over power and the Egyptian people would have been responsible to repay these debts," General Mokhtar al-Mullah told reporters this month.
"So we have said that these loans are only for extreme need," Mullah told a group of reporters.
Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday that the governor of Egypt's central bank and four ministers had agreed the country had no choice but to borrow money from abroad to plug a $10 billion to $12 billion financing gap.
It quoted the Central Bank Governor Farouk el-Okdah as saying the budget deficit in the year that began on July 1 could rise as high as 182 billion Egyptian pounds ($30.2 billion) instead of the 134 billion forecast last June.
Egypt's foreign currency reserves plunged to about $20 billion in November from $36 billion at the end of 2010, and economists say this could force the country to devalue its currency as soon as the first quarter of 2012.
($1 = 6.0275 Egyptian pounds)
(Writing by Patrick Werr; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Ford offers Santa an EcoBoost powered concept sleigh
Ford says it is ready to help Santa Claus go green, slashing his carbon footprint with a concept sleigh design powered by a new 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine.
Santa's new ride, packed with Ford technology, would allow Rudolph and friends to enjoy a well-deserved retirement, while Santa makes his annual deliveries saving 191,843 tonnes of CO2 and ?110 million on fuel costs.
"They may look cute, but Santa's team of nine reindeer create a staggering 214,670 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions each year, so something had to be done to help him re-discover his greener roots," comments Ford car designer Paul Wraith.
The benefits of switching to the concept sleigh go beyond the environmental, though. Travelling such huge distances ? some 200,237,360km ? means Santa currently spends in excess of ?122 million on carrots alone to fuel his reindeer.
The impressive fuel efficiency of the 1 litre EcoBoost would reduce Santa's fuel costs by 90% to just ?12 million.
While Santa himself is understandably unavailable for comment, Mrs Claus states: "I am not looking forward to telling Donner and Blitzen the news, but the polar bears in the North Pole will certainly welcome the Ford EcoBoost-powered sleigh."
And she adds: "l would, of course, back anything that means my husband can get home that bit quicker. Getting presents in a shorter amount of time to all the good children each year may even give him time to reconsider a few names on the naughty list. But I can't promise."
Innovative engineering means the new EcoBoost engine delivers performance to rival a traditional 1.6-litre engine but with significantly improved fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions of just 114g/km CO2.
The 1.0-litre EcoBoost cylinder block also fits onto a single sheet of A4 paper, but still delivers up to 125PS and 170Nm peak torque, with 200Nm overboost, giving it the highest power density of any Ford production engine to date.
"Our tongue may be firmly in cheek as we launch this sleigh design, but our heart is in the right place," says Wraith. "At Ford, we're dreaming of a green Christmas. We're already thinking of the concept sleigh mark II. With electric vehicle battery technology developing all the time, we are keen to get to work on a zero-carbon version of our sleigh."
Highlights of Ford's technology in the new sleigh include:
Active park assist: technology that first checks if a parking space is big enough, then automatically steers your sleigh into it. Useful for Santa in making those tight reverse rooftop landings.
Door edge protector: a simple, but ingenious addition to Ford doors, helping thwart dents, dings and scratches even in the tightest parking spot. Vital to help Santa stop scratching the door of his sleigh on all those chimneys.
SYNC: in-van, voice-activated technology that will help Santa keep in touch with the elves back at base, stay en route with GPS navigation and enable him to listen to and change his favourite Christmas music.
EcoMode: in-van software that provides useful advice for drivers on achieving better fuel economy tailored to their individual driving styles. A specially modified version of the software will include an electronic Christmas tree image. The better Santa's green driving performance, the more of the trees branch symbols will light-up.
Active City Stop & Blind Spot Information System: two driver assistance technologies, the first detecting if the vehicle in front unexpectedly stops and braking automatically in response; the second helps detecting vehicles in blind spots during normal driving. Both will be useful to Santa, as he tries to avoid planes in our increasingly crowded skies.
MyKey: enabling Santa to encourage his elves to drive more safely and fuel efficiently, with increased safety-belt usage, through a range of driver specific configurable features.
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Penn engineers develop more effective MRI contrast agent for cancer detection
Abstract:
Many imaging technologies and their contrast agents ? chemicals used during scans to help detect tumors and other problems ? involve exposure to radiation or heavy metals, which present potential health risks to patients and limit the ways they can be applied. In an effort to mitigate these drawbacks, new research from University of Pennsylvania engineers shows a way to coat an iron-based contrast agent so that it only interacts with the acidic environment of tumors, making it safer, cheaper and more effective than existing alternatives.
The research was conducted by associate professor Andrew Tsourkas and graduate student Samuel H. Crayton of the department of bioengineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. It was published in the journal ACS Nano.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is an increasingly common feature of medical care. Using a strong magnetic field to detect and influence the alignment of water molecules in the body, MRI can quickly produce pictures of wide range of bodily tissues, though the clarity of these pictures is sometimes insufficient for diagnoses. To improve the differentiation ? or contrast ? between tumors and healthy tissue, doctors can apply a contrast agent, such as nanoparticles containing iron oxide. The iron oxide can improve MRI images due to their ability to distort the magnetic field of the scanner; areas they are concentrated in stand out more clearly.
These nanoparticles, which have recently been approved in the United States for clinical use as contrast agents, are literally sugar-coated; an outer layer of dextran keeps the particles from binding or being absorbed by the body and potentially sickening the patient. This non-reactive coating allows the iron oxide to be flushed out after the imaging is complete, but it also means that the particles can't be targeted to a particular kind of tissue.
If the contrast agent could be engineered so it only sticks to tissue that is already diseased, such as tumors, it would solve both problems at once. Scientists have tried this approach by coating nanoparticles with proteins that bind only to receptors found on the exterior of tumors, but not all tumors are the same in this regard.
"One of the limitations of a receptor-based approach is that you just don't hit everything," Tsourkas said. "It's hard to recommend them as a screening tool when you know that the target receptors are only expressed in 30% of tumors."
"One of the reasons we like our approach is that it hits a lot of tumors; almost all tumors exhibit a change in the acidity of their microenvironment."
The Penn engineers took advantage of something known as the Warburg effect, a quirk of tumor metabolism, to get around the targeting problem. Most of the body's cells are aerobic; they primarily get their energy from oxygen. However, even when oxygen is plentiful, cancerous cells use an anaerobic process for their energy. Like overtaxed muscles, they turn glucose into lactic acid, but unlike normal muscles, tumors disrupt the blood flow around them and have a hard time clearing this acid away. This means that tumors almost always have a lower pH than surrounding healthy tissue.
Some imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance spectroscopy, can also take advantage of tumors' low-pH microenvironments, but they require expensive specialized equipment that is not available in most clinical settings.
By using glycol chitosan ? a sugar-based polymer that reacts to acids ? the engineers allowed the nanocarriers to remain neutral when near healthy tissue, but to become ionized in low pH. The change in charge that occurs in the vicinity of acidic tumors causes the nanocarriers to be attracted to and retained at those sites.
This approach has another benefit: the more malignant a tumor is, the more it disrupts surrounding blood vessels and the more acidic its environment becomes. This means that the glycol chitosan-coated is a good detector of malignancy, opening up treatment options above and beyond diagnosis.
"You can take any nanoparticle and put this coating on it, so it's not limited to imaging by any means," said Tsourkas. "You could also use it to deliver drugs to tumor sites."
The researchers hope that, within seven to 10 years, glycol-chitosan-coated iron oxide nanoparticles could improve the specificity of diagnostic screening. The ability to accurately detect sites of malignancy by MRI would be an immediate improvement to existing contrast agents for certain breast cancer scans.
"Gadolinium is used as a contrast agent in MRI breast cancer screenings for high-risk patients. These patients are recommended to get an MRI in addition to the usual mammogram, because the sensitivity of mammograms can be poor," said Tsourkas. "The sensitivity of an MRI is much higher, but the specificity is low: the screening detects a lot of tumors, but many of them are benign. Having a tool like ours would allow clinicians to better differentiate the benign and malignant tumors, especially since there has been shown to be a correlation between malignancy and pH."
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Americans frustrated by congressional stalemates
David Kaiser, 46, of Miami, is shown as he speaks to the Associated press about his thoughts on the possible extension of the payroll?tax?cut and jobless benefits, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
David Kaiser, 46, of Miami, is shown as he speaks to the Associated press about his thoughts on the possible extension of the payroll?tax?cut and jobless benefits, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Maria Rosen, 42, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., is shown as she speaks to the Associated press about her thoughts on the possible extension of the payroll?tax?cut and jobless benefits, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Victoria Rico, 30, is shown as she speaks to the Associated press about her thoughts on the possible extension of the payroll?tax?cut and jobless benefits, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Greg Kirksey talks about the payroll tax cut as he fills his pickup truck up with gas on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 in Little Rock, Ark. Kirksey, a pastor in Little Rock, said a payroll tax increase would be little more than an inconvenience for him, but others are ?talking about whether to buy dried beans or ground beef to get their protein.? (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
CHICAGO (AP) ? As Americans watch yet another political drama play out on Capitol Hill ? this time over whether to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits ? they have a question for Congress: Can't you all just get along? For once?
"It's like, 'Kids, kids, kids,'" said Brenda Bissett, a lawyer from Santa Clarita, Calif., as she waited for coffee Wednesday at a Starbuck's in downtown Los Angeles. "It's just frustrating that there's no compromise ... I do it all the time."
Around the country, people of different backgrounds, incomes and political leanings say they're angry and downright disgusted by the posturing in Washington after the House rejected a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut passed by the Senate, then both chambers adjourned for the holidays.
If lawmakers don't act by Jan. 1, payroll taxes will jump almost $20 a week, or $1,000 a year, for a worker earning $50,000, and as much as $82 a week, or $4,272 a year, for a household with two high-paid workers. What's more, about 6 million people could lose unemployment benefits, and Medicare payments to doctors would be slashed.
"It's just another smack in our face for the working public. We just can't get ahead," said Mike Pryor, a construction worker from Aurora, Ill. "It seems like everything that Congress is doing is always against us ... I mean, I'm at a loss for words, and I just can't understand it, why they have to keep arguing."
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama urged congressional leaders to return to Washington to pass a short-term payroll tax cut extension before New Year's Day, then work later on a full-year measure.
Leaders from both chambers say they want the other side to return, too, though they still disagree on whether it should be to negotiate a two-month extension or a one-year deal favored by House Republicans.
Meanwhile, the public can only wait and wonder ? and stew.
At Augie & Ray's, a popular eatery in East Hartford, Conn., the consensus among several diners Wednesday was that the partisan bickering was eroding their already shaky faith in Congress. To some, that was just as frustrating as the idea that their paychecks could shrink.
"It's us, the average Joe, that's getting caught in the middle," said Ray Ramsey, a retired utility meter technician who works part-time for a medical-supply company.
Fellow diner Richard Longo, who owns a building-maintenance business, said he worries about the effect of the taxes on himself and his 30-plus employees. But he thinks there's a lot of blame to go around.
"I truly believe that if the sides were reversed, if we had a Republican president and a Democratic Congress, we'd still be going through the same thing," he said.
A payroll tax increase would come at a vulnerable time for some people who already have been affected by falling property values and, in some cases, state tax increases.
Some expected to spend less on non-essential things, like dining out. And others said they were willing to pay more if it means reducing the deficit. But almost all agreed that the partisan acrimony and 11th-hour crises in Washington are getting old.
"It seems they want to bring down everything to the last minute and then figure it out," said David Kaiser, an institutional researcher at Miami Dade College in Florida, who said a tax increase wouldn't affect him significantly.
Kaiser wanted "some way to send that message to them: That's not what they're hired for."
Mike Raney, a maintenance and repair worker from Chicago, said he blames the stalemate on "misguided ideals" among politicians of both parties.
"I'd like to say they mean well, but we're talking about politicians," Raney said as he ate a hamburger at a McDonald's in Chicago's Loop. "It's very frustrating, especially for people who are just getting by. I mean, it's not like I'm making millions of dollars, but it's affecting other people a lot harder than it's affecting me."
The tax cut lowered the Social Security tax on incomes of up to $106,800 from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. It's meant a maximum savings of $2,136 for an individual.
Without a deal, Americans would begin 2012 facing a tax increase just as an election year begins. And many say the bickering has more to do with elections than economic ideals.
"The way I see it is that the Republicans want Obama to be a one-term president," said James Edwards, an Amtrak conductor from Hamden, Conn., who was in Boston on Wednesday. "They are taking their patriotism and throwing it away, and they are hurting the middle class. They want to make sure that America is hurting while this president is sitting so they won't vote for him in 2012."
Anaiah Spencer, a property manager from Los Angeles, said the deadlock is damaging people's faith in lawmakers.
"I have never seen a government this divisive," Spencer said. "In the end, we both end up broke, and we wind up with an entire country of angry citizens who don't know who to turn to."
Greg Kirksey, a pastor in Little Rock, Ark., said a payroll tax increase would be little more than an inconvenience for him, but others are "talking about whether to buy dried beans or ground beef to get their protein."
"But I'm afraid because it's a political year ... I'm not thinking anybody's really got the guts to make the hard decisions," he said. "They just keep putting a Band-Aid on, putting a Band-Aid on, kicking the can down the road a little farther."
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Associated Press writers Christine Armario in Miami, Shannon Dininny in Yakima, Wash., Robert Jablon in Los Angeles, Steve LeBlanc in Boston, Ben Neary in Cheyenne, Wyo., Jeannie Nuss in Little Rock, Ark., Stephanie Reitz in East Hartford, Conn., and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky.; and AP videographer Robert Ray in Aurora, Ill., contributed to this story.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -David Beckham says he's yet to decide where he'll play when his current contract with U.S. Major League Soccer side the LA Galaxy comes to an end.
The 36-year-old's contract finishes after Tuesday's friendly between the Galaxy and Australia's Melbourne Victory and the former England captain says he hasn't started thinking about his future.
Beckham is believed to be weighing a substantial offer to play for the French club Paris St. Germain or to remain in the United States. He told reporters Monday he wants to spend some time with family before making any decision.
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H-JAPAN (French): Japanese Media & Popular Culture
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From: j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU List Editor: j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU Editor's Subject: H-JAPAN (French): Japanese Media & Popular Culture Author's Subject: H-JAPAN (French): Japanese Media & Popular Culture Date Written: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:28:59 -0500 Date Posted: Fri, 01 Dec 2011 15:28:59 -0500 |
On-line editor: Janet R. Goodwin <jan@cs.csustan.edu> H-JAPAN (French) December 1, 2011 Editor's note: The announcement of the Japanese media and popular culture master class in Montreal was circulated in French as well as in English. We posted the English version yesterday, but could not include the French through our standard email software because of all the diacritical marks. Here it is, with diacritics intact. Japanese Media and Popular Culture Master Class - Call for Participants Location: Quebec, Canada Call for Papers Date: 2012-02-06 Date Submitted: 2011-11-29 Announcement ID: 190091 From: H-Announce@h-net.msu.edu APPEL DE CANDIDATURES MASTER CLASS SUR LES M?DIAS ET LA CULTURE POPULAIRE AU JAPON En parall?le avec la conf?rence Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games [concordia.ca/pcs] et la s?rie d?expositions de la Grande Biblioth?que dans le cadre de son ann?e Manga [manga.banq.qc.ca/en.html], l?Universit? Concordia est heureuse d?offrir un master class sur le th?me des m?dias et de la culture populaire au Japon, le lundi 6 f?vrier 2012. Ce master class sera une occasion exceptionnelle pour vingt ?tudiants des cycles sup?rieurs de partout au Canada de rencontrer et d??changer avec des anthropologues, sociologues, et historiens, ainsi qu?avec des sp?cialistes des ?tudes du jeu et des ?tudes des m?dias. L?activit? mettra en vedette les conf?renciers Ian Condry (MIT), Margherita Long (UC Riverside), Tom Looser (NYU) et Thomas Lamarre (McGill), ainsi que Mia Consalvo, Matthew Penney, Bart Simon et Marc Steinberg de l?Universit? Concordia. De br?ves pr?sentations magistrales suivies d?ateliers en petits groupes permettront aux ?tudiants de nouer le dialogue avec ces professeurs-chercheurs de renom dans ce domaine passionnant. De plus, le mangaka et th?oricien japonais Otsuka Eiji, cr?ateur des mangas ? succ?s MPD Psycho, Leviathan et The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service et invit? d?honneur de la conf?rence Experiencing the Media Mix, animera une p?riode de questions d?une heure r?serv?e aux participants au master class. Concordia encourage les ?tudiants int?ress?s ? soumettre leur CV, leur d?claration d?int?r?t et une lettre d?appui de leur directeur de th?se ou de m?moire sur papier ? en-t?te de l?universit?. L?activit? est enti?rement gratuite et un soutien financier de 250 $ est offert aux participants en provenance de l?ext?rieur du Grand Montr?al. La date limite de soumission des candidatures et des lettres d?appui est le 21 d?cembre 2011. Ne tardez pas car le nombre de places est limit?. Tous les documents doivent ?tre envoy?s par voie ?lectronique ? : masterclass@graduatestudies.concordia.ca. Le comit? de s?lection communiquera ses d?cisions aux candidats au plus tard le 10 janvier 2012. Les classes seront donn?es en anglais. DESCRIPTION DE L??V?NEMENT Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games Au Japon, la combinaison des m?dias d?signe une strat?gie favorisant la synergie transm?diatique, c?est-?-dire la prolif?ration d?une ?uvre sur diff?rentes plateformes, des films aux jeux vid?o en passant par les bandes dessin?es, les man?ges, les romans et les bandes sonores. Cette combinaison est non seulement le r?sultat de la production industrielle et des pratiques de marketing, mais elle occupe aussi une place de plus en plus d?terminante dans notre environnement m?diatique collectif. En effet, nous jouons, lisons, regardons, ?crivons, copions et commentons chaque jour gr?ce ? des plateformes m?diatiques. Bref, nous vivons la combinaison des m?dias. L??tude de ce ph?nom?ne exige donc un renouvellement des m?thodes, des approches et des fa?ons d?envisager la sph?re m?diatique japonaise ainsi que notre propre cadre m?diatique.Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games est un ?v?nement de trois jours qui comprendra un symposium, une conf?rence principale, une d?monstration de jeux et des master classes mettant en vedette des experts locaux et mondiaux de renom. Ce milieu dynamique, interdisciplinaire et international offrira l?occasion d??clairer le r?le central de la connectivit? des m?dias ainsi que l?importance de l?exp?rience dans la combinaison des m?dias, d?une part, et les formes ? anime, manga et jeux vid?os ? sur lesquelles elle repose, d?autre part. Lorena Marzitelli School of Graduate Studies Concordia University Email: lorena@alcor.concordia.ca Visit the website at http://concordia.ca/pcs --End H-Japan message-----------------------------
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End of the line for Cain? Announcement Saturday
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to supporters at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill , S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to supporters at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill , S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to supporters at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill , S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to supporters at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill , S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain hugs a supporter at The Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill , S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
ATLANTA (AP) ? Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman's allegation of an extramarital affair.
He said he would make a "major announcement" on whether he would press on ? at an event still being billed as the grand opening of a new headquarters.
It is the latest ? and perhaps final ? twist in a campaign saga that has taken the Georgia businessman from unknown longshot to surprise frontrunner to embattled tabloid subject.
He arrived at his suburban Atlanta home on Friday afternoon to talk with his wife of 42 years, Gloria, about whether to press on after his campaign was rocked by multiple sexual harassment allegations and this week's claim that he had a 13-year affair. He denies wrongdoing. It was their first face-to-face meeting since the allegation was made public.
As night fell, campaign aides who were optimistic earlier Friday that Cain would press on said privately they expected that he would exit the race.
Earlier, in a speech in Rock Hill, S.C., Cain wouldn't disclose whether he would drop out but told supporters to stay tuned. He said he would clarify the next steps of the campaign and assured backers the affair claim was "garbage." But he also said he needed to consider what he would do with campaign donations already banked if he dropped out of the race.
"Nobody's going to make me make that prematurely," Cain told a crowd of about 100 people. "That's all there is to it."
"My wife and family comes first. I've got to take that into consideration," Cain added. "I don't doubt the support that I have. Just look at the people who are here."
Cain had not seen his wife since Ginger White, 46, came forward and said she had a sexual affair with Cain that lasted more than a decade. He has said they were only friends but acknowledged that he helped pay her monthly bills and expenses. His wife, Cain said, did not know of the friendship with White.
The former Godfather's pizza executive said he is reassessing whether his presidential bid is still viable.
But it was difficult to imagine a path forward with just a month until the lead-off Iowa caucuses.
Polls suggest his popularity has taken a deep hit.
A Des Moines Register poll released Friday showed Cain's support plummeting, with backing from 8 percent of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, down from 23 percent a month ago.
Fundraising has also fallen off. He issued an email appeal to supporters on Friday asking for donations, in an attempt to gauge whether his financial support has dried up.
"I need to know that you are behind me 100 percent," Cain told backers. "In today's political environment, the only way we can gauge true support is by the willingness of our supporters to invest in this effort.
A political novice, Cain leveraged strong tea party support to hurtle to the front of the Republican pack in October casting himself as an anti-establishment outsider. His catchy 9-9-9 tax overhaul proposal helped his rise. But his effort soon lost altitude.
He fumbled policy questions, and his campaign has been reeling since it was revealed a little more than a month ago that the National Restaurant Association paid settlements to two women who claimed Cain sexually harassed them while he was president of the organization. A third woman told The Associated Press that Cain made inappropriate sexual advances but that she didn't file a complaint. A fourth woman also stepped forward to accuse Cain of groping her in a car in 1997.
Cain has denied wrongdoing in all cases. And his campaign was taking some steps to blunt the drumbeat of allegations.
It unveiled a "Women for Herman Cain" webpage with testimonials from female backers, some urging him to stay in the race. It was led by Gloria Cain.
The candidate's wife ? who's not been on the campaign trail ? has drawn her own support as the allegations against her husband have piled up.
A Facebook page "I Stand With Gloria Cain" had attracted more than 400 supporters by Friday afternoon.
On Friday, Cain urged backers in South Carolina to look past the allegations.
"There's a lot of garbage on the Internet. There's a lot of garbage out there on the TV. There's a lot of garbage out there about me, don't you know? There's a lot of misinformation out there. You have to stay informed and check out the facts for yourself," Cain said.
He added: "I'm on this journey for a reason. I don't look back."
Word of a pending announcement took some aides by surprise.
"I am learning this as you're learning it," said Cain's Iowa campaign chairman, Steve Grubbs, who met Thursday with campaign manager Mark Block.
The two outlined a December travel schedule for Cain, who began advertising on television again in Iowa on Friday.
As of Friday afternoon, Cain was scheduled to participate in the two Iowa debates this month, hold a media announcement in Iowa on Dec. 12 and tour the state at the end of the month.
"That's sort of the plan, very tentatively," Grubbs said. "All that could change."
Georgia supporters set to attend the Saturday event in Atlanta ? billed as a headquarters celebration ? were taken aback by the news that an announcement was coming.
"I have heard nothing," said state Sen. Josh McKoon, a prominent Cain backer who will stand with him Saturday.
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Philip Elliott reported from Rock Hill, S.C. Associated Press writers Ray Henry in Atlanta, Thomas Beaumont in Iowa and Steve Peoples in New Hampshire contributed to this report.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Iraq PM: Green Zone bomb was assassination attempt
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad's Green Zone was an assassination attempt against him, but he defended the nation's armed forces and said the breach did not signal a deterioration in security.
During an interview with The Associated Press, Nouri al-Maliki said the building housing the legislature or the parliament speaker also could have been targets but that preliminary information suggested the bombers were trying to get him.
"The preliminary intelligence information says that the car was due to enter parliament and stay there and not to explode. It was supposed to explode on the day I entered parliament," said al-Maliki, who was not in or near the parliament building when the bomb actually went off.
Monday's blast inside the central Baghdad zone, which is supposed to be one of Iraq's most secure areas, has raised new concerns about whether Iraqi forces are able to protect the country when the U.S. military leaves by the end of the year.
At the time of the explosion, officials said they did not know if it was the result of rocket or mortar fire into the Green Zone or a bomb, and it was unclear if anyone was being targeted specifically.
The Baghdad military spokesman, Qassim al-Moussawi, said late Friday that al-Maliki was the target. He said the driver of the vehicle tried to join a convoy of other vehicles going into the parliament grounds but was turned back by officials at the checkpoint because he didn't have proper identification. The driver then drove to the parking lot just opposite the parliament entrance, and the vehicle exploded seconds later.
Al-Maliki said the bomb had likely been assembled inside the Green Zone and was not very powerful.
A body was found near the wrecked car, but authorities were still trying to determine the person's identity and whether he was the bomber or a bystander, officials have said. Two other people were wounded.
Al-Maliki played down any suggestion that the attack, in an area that is also home to the U.S. Embassy as well as many Iraqi government institutions, demonstrated any weakness in security ahead of the U.S. military withdrawal. All American forces are to be out of the country by the end of this month.
"I don't think that this says something about the security situation in the country. Such breaches can happen in any country or anywhere," the prime minister said.
"It was a very simple operation," he said. "I cannot see in this operation any indication of a security deterioration in Iraq."
He blamed al-Qaida in Iraq and Saddam Hussein's Baath Party for the violence.
"They are opposing me, the parliament speaker and the parliament and the whole political process, so whomever the victim of their operation will be, it is a victory for them," he said.
The prime minister said he had previously shared information with the parliament speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi, that there might be an attempt to kill one of them at the parliament and that he advised the parliament speaker to exercise caution.
Al-Maliki said Iraqi security forces were still looking for at least four people believed to have played a role in the plot.
Meanwhile, rioters attacked dozens of liquor stores, a massage parlor and hotels after being stirred up by fiery sermons in a predominantly Kurdish city in north Iraq, police officials said Saturday.
The Kurdish-ruled north was spared much of the violence that engulfed the rest of the country from 2003 to 2008, but there have been several outbreaks of unrest against the rule of the two main secular-leaning parties.
The region also is home to a range of Islamist groups, including organizations involved in mainstream politics as well as smaller, more radical networks.
Friday's rampage began after midday prayers in the town of Zakho, some 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. Thirty people were injured, according to hospital official Imad Barwari.
The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
In retaliation for the initial rioting, angry crowds then attacked offices belonging to a Kurdistan-based Islamist party, officials said.
Police on Saturday also arrested a leader of Kurdistan's largest Islamist opposition party, which has denied any connection to the attacks.
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Associated Press writers Bushra Juhi in Baghdad and Yahya Barzanji in Sulaimaniyah contributed to this report.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Mayans never predicted world to end in 2012: experts
PALENQUE, Mexico |
PALENQUE, Mexico (Reuters) - If you are worried the world will end next year based on the Mayan calendar, relax: the end of time is still far off.
So say Mayan experts who want to dispel any belief that the ancient Mayans predicted a world apocalypse next year.
The Mayan calendar marks the end of a 5,126 year old cycle around December 12, 2012 which should bring the return of Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with war and creation.
Author Jose Arguelles called the date "the ending of time as we know it" in a 1987 book that spawned an army of Mayan theorists, whose speculations on a cataclysmic end abound online. But specialists meeting at this ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico say it merely marks the termination of one period of creation and the beginning of another.
"We have to be clear about this. There is no prophecy for 2012," said Erik Velasquez, an etchings specialist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). "It's a marketing fallacy."
The National Institute of Anthropological History in Mexico has been trying to quell the barrage of forecasters predicting the apocalypse. "The West's messianic thinking has distorted the world view of ancient civilizations like the Mayans," the institute said in a statement.
In the Mayan calendar, the long calendar count begins in 3,114 BC and is divided into roughly 394-year periods called Baktuns. Mayans held the number 13 sacred and the 13th Baktun ends next year.
Sven Gronemeyer, a researcher of Mayan codes from La Trobe University in Australia, who has been trying to decode the calendar, said the so-called end day reflects a transition from one era to the next in which Bolon Yokte returns.
"Because Bolon Yokte was already present at the day of creation ... it just seemed natural for the Mayan that Bolon Yokte will again be present," he said.
Of the approximately 15,000 registered glyphic texts found in different parts of what was then the Mayan empire, only two mention 2012, the Institute said.
"The Maya did not think about humanity, global warming or predict the poles would fuse together," said Alfonso Ladena, a professor from the Complutense University of Madrid. "We project our worries on them."
(Reporting by Pepe Cortes; editing by Anthony Boadle)
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Michael Buble steals Rihanna thunder on U.S. album chart (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Michael Buble's album "Christmas" topped the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, against stiff competition from new releases by Nickelback, Rihanna, Daughtry and Mary J. Blige.
Buble's "Christmas" was released in late October ahead of the holiday season. But it saw a rise in sales over the Thanksgiving weekend, outselling "Here And Now," the seventh studio album by fellow Canadians Nickelback, by a mere 419 units to reach No. 1, with Nickelback at No. 2.
Buble's resurgence to the top spot from last week's No. 2 position may be replicated by other releases from earlier this year, ahead of Wednesday's Grammy nominations concert.
"With the Grammy nominations concert airing live tonight, there should be renewed interest in some of the top releases from earlier this year, as well as current and upcoming new recordings, taking us through December," said Jim Donio, president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
Despite Rihanna's album topping the iTunes chart even before its release last week, "Talk That Talk" debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the album's first single, "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris, dropped to No. 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Last week's chart topper Drake fell to No. 4 with "Take Care," while Mary J. Blige's "My Life II: The Journey Continues, Act I" entered at No. 5, while Justin Bieber's "Under The Mistletoe" fell to No. 6 despite a gain in sales from last week.
Adele's "21" dropped to No. 7, the first the time album has dropped out of the top 5 since it entered 40 weeks ago. The rest of the top 10 are rounded out by Daughtry's new release, "Break the Spell," at No. 8, Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" at No. 9 and Coldplay's "Mylo Xyloto" at No. 10.
LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" edged out Rihanna for the top spot on the Hot 100 singles chart, while Bruno Mars's "It Will Rain" from the "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" soundtrack held steady at No. 3 as the film broke the $500 million worldwide box office benchmark earlier this week.
(Editing by Jill Serjeant)
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Friday, December 2, 2011
PFT: Marshall detained over $142 cab fare
APHours after being released by the Vikings, quarterback Donovan McNabb appeared on ESPN?s SportsCenter to discuss the situation with Jay Harris.
?I thought it was best suited for Christian [Ponder] as well as Joe [Webb] to get an opportunity to develop and mature in the offense which they?ve had and I just wanted to be the guy to try to add that confidence and sort of that spiritual advice to provide for those guys to better them,? McNabb said.? ?But I just thought the best move for me at this particular point was to move on and clear my thoughts and clear my head and see what?s next.?
So what?s next?? Asked to explain what a new team would be getting, McNabb rattled off his attributes.? ?You?re bringing a veteran who can bring experience to your ball club, athletic ability, a guy who is not a locker room cancer, he works hard ? great work ethic and only wants to win,? McNabb said.? ?And you know I?m a winner and I?ve proven that, and a guy who will make the players around him better.?
Of course, McNabb apparently was able to make the players around him only so much better.? ?I think we began to lose focus of this being a team game,? McNabb said.? ?The teams in which I?ve played with, you know, a lot of great athletes, a lot of positive things, but nothing to really show for it.? Obviously, the quarterback is the one who receives a lot of the credit, and as well as too much criticism.? Being the leader of the team, you just want to prepare your team each and every weekend, while you?re being prepared as well.? The teams with which I?ve played with, unfortunately we weren?t able to accomplish the things that we wanted to in the winning department, but? still individually each and every person can move on, including myself, and possibly have a better life somewhere else.?
So what will that better life entail for McNabb?? ?Being surrounded by a great supporting cast,? McNabb said.? ?When you?re surrounded by experienced players and veteran players who know how to win, then that?s something that?s contagious.? And I think there are a lot of teams who are in desperate need of a quarterback at this particular point who are surrounded by veteran players, and teams that play well together.? So for myself it?s really an opportunity for me to at this particular point clear my head, concentrate on the goal and the task at hand and get back to thinking and getting out on the field and playing the way that I know I?m capable of playing.?
There actually aren?t ?a lot? of teams who are in ?desperate need? of a quarterback and ?who are surrounded by veteran players.?? There are, as playoff contenders go, two.? The Bears and the Texans.? And the Texans reportedly aren?t interested.
So that leaves the Bears.
Regardless of the destination, McNabb sounds ready to play.? ?Taking time is very important, although I?ve spent enough time resting so to speak in this last couple weeks, so I am pretty fresh,? McNabb said.? ?But you know what the thing about it [is] you have to refocus your mind on being the guy back out there again, and I look forward to that.?
McNabb, who described his last two seasons as ?exciting? (which is sort of like calling a visit to a funeral home ?scintillating?), seems to acknowledge the possibility that no one will want him.
?There?s always Plan B, but one that I?m not focused on at this particular point,? McNabb said.? ?Clearing the mind and getting the body back where it needs to be is the most important thing.? But if anything was to happen, I have a career that I can look back on and be very excited about.?
Exciting, but ultimately unfulfilling.? But not just because of McNabb?s ability.? Because of his supporting cast.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Patent Docs: Legal Roundtable on Strategic Implications of AIA
The American Bar Association Section of Litigation and Navigant will be holding a IP legal roundtable on the "Strategic Implications of the Patent Reform Act of 2011" on December 1, 2011 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at Navigant's offices in Chicago, IL.? The roundtable will be moderated by Benjamin Bradford of Jenner & Block LLP.? There is no registration fee for the roundtable, but those interested in registering for the roundtable can do so here.? A program discussion outline for the roundtable can be downloaded here.? Roundtables will also be held in Atlanta (on December 1), Dallas (12/8), Las Vegas (12/7), Memphis (12/7), Minneapolis (12/7), Nashville (12/7), Philadelphia (12/8), and Washington, DC (11/29).? Additional information regarding other roundtable locations can be found here.
Source: http://www.patentdocs.org/2011/11/legal-roundtable-on-strategic-implications-of-aia.html
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Video: Online education redefining schools
>>> back now with our education nation report on the growing number of schools across the country that are offering, some even requiring, online classes for middle and high school students. in fact, some of these public schools exist completely online. we get our report tonight from our chief education correspondent rehema ellis.
>> reporter: it is time for school for allison shanaki.
>> i wake up at 8:00. i eat breakfast. i go to my school.
>> reporter: for allison, class is right at home.
>> in the kitchen, on the table, in my room.
>> reporter: she and her brother noah are enrolled full time in the florida virtual school , an internet-based public school . virtual schools aren't fading quickly, from students from kindergarter to 12th grade , allowing them to take all or some of their classes from home. they can answer questions by e-mail, phone, even video conference .
>> it is providing them fields they're going to need time management , and consistency in your work. communication with instructors.
>> reporter: and just like a student, some teachers do it right from home. nationwide, 250,000 students are enrolled in full time virtual schools, up 40% in the last three years. 30 states offer a full-time online education to at least some students. advocates say this technology is one way cash-strapped districts can save money. variety and flexibility are major draws.
>> we don't believe that virtual schools are going to replace public schools . we believe they're going to change them.
>> reporter: still, some question the effectiveness of online learning , saying more research needs to be done. programs do include teacher and student interaction, critics argue school is about more than just completing a lesson.
>> schools historically in this country existed not simply to teach people to read or count, but also to teach them how to be citizens.
>> reporter: for the shanakis, the ability to juggle school work around busy schedules is part of the allure and challenge.
>> you have to push yourself harder. no one is here saying you got to do it and jam it down your throat.
>> reporter: a new way of teaching and learning, redefining just what it means to go to school. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45454710/
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