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Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided the newspaper to unprecedented influence and profit during his three-decade tenure, died Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y., at the age of 86.
During his 34-year run as publisher, Sulzberger helped the Times navigate some of the most influential events in 20th-century journalism ? everything from the Vietnam War and the publication of the Pentagon Papers, to key legal victories for freedom of the press.
Sulzberger, who went by the nickname "Punch," helped expand the Times to a national edition as it won 31 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership.
In this 1992 photo, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger poses for a photo in the New York Times boardroom??
"Punch Sulzberger was a giant in the industry, a leader who fought to preserve the vital role of a free press in society and championed journalism executed at the highest level," said Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt.
Sulzberger took over as publisher in 1963, when the Times had a weekday circulation of 714,000 and $100 million in annual revenue. By the time he turned over the publishing reigns in 1992 to his then 40-year-old son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper had turned into a media conglomerate, owning newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations as well as online endeavors. It had revenues of $1.7 billion, and its circulation had expanded to 1.1 million, according to AP.
"Above all, he took the quality of the product up to an entirely new level," the late Katharine Graham, chairwoman of The Washington Post Co., said at the time Sulzberger retired as publisher.
Sulzberger remained chairman of The New York Times Co. after passing the role of publisher on to his son. He retired as chairman and chief executive of the company in 1997, when Sulzberger Jr. was named chairman. Sulzberger stayed on the Times Co. board of directors until 2002.
While Sulzberger might have transformed the New York Times during his tenure as publisher, his death comes at a time when print journalism is in a tailspin, and the industry is trying to navigate a world where people increasingly get their news online.
[Related: Ex-NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies]
At a conference in September of 2010 his son was asked if the New York Times would print its last edition in 2015.
According to the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' Web site, "Sulzberger (Jr.) said he saw no point in making such predictions and said all he could say was that "we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD.""
The Web site clarifies that Sulzberger Jr. "was not making an announcement that the New York Times has definite plans to stop printing in the near future; rather making the point, in a joking fashion, that it is impossible and fruitless to predict exactly when printed newspapers might come to an end."
While the end is debatable, its current state is not good.
According to Paper Cuts, a Web site tracking the newspaper industry, 21 newspapers folded in 2011 and over 1,810 people in the industry have lost their jobs due to buyouts or layoffs in 2012.
[Related: Sulzberger set milestones for NY Times, journalism]
While newspapers have traditionally offered its content for free, that could be changing, with the New York Times playing a major role.
In March 2011, the Times announced that it would "begin charging the most frequent users of its Web site $15 for a four-week subscription in a bet that readers will pay for news they are accustomed to getting free."
Since 2009, 16 newspapers have moved their operations to Web-only versions.
Vanity Fair published an article in 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of what would become the World Wide Web. The article included a discussion of how newspapers viewed the online venture.
"The media people essentially did not think the Internet would be important or disruptive," Vinod Khosla, who helped create Sun Microsystems, said in the magazine. "In 1996, I got together the CEOs of nine of the 10 major newspaper companies in America in a single room to propose something called the New Century Network. It was the CEOs of The Washington Post and The New York Times and Gannett and Times Mirror and Tribune and I forget who else.
"They couldn't convince themselves that a Google, a Yahoo, or an eBay would be important, or that eBay could ever replace classified advertising."
Journalism Web site Poynter.org reports that the decline in print classified advertising went "from $19.6 billion in 2000 to roughly $6 billion in 2009."
According to the Times, Sulzberger "guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851."
It remains to be seen where the company will go now that he's gone.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Hundreds of Libyans handover their weapons
Hundreds of Libyans have converged on a main square in Benghazi in response to a call from the military to hand over their weapons, some driving in with armored personnel carriers, vehicles with mounted anti-aircraft guns and hundreds of rocket launchers.
A similar event was held in Tripoli Saturday. The call by the Libyan chiefs of staff was promoted on a private TV station earlier this month. But the call may have gained traction in the wake of the attack against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which the American ambassador and three staffers were killed. The attack was followed by a popular uproar against armed militias which have increasingly challenged government authorities.
The government had previously estimated that over 200,000 people in Libya are armed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-libyans-handover-weapons-192250403.html
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Liver cells, insulin-producing cells, thymus can be grown in lymph nodes
Friday, September 28, 2012
Lymph nodes can provide a suitable home for a variety of cells and tissues from other organs, suggesting that a cell-based alternative to whole organ transplantation might one day be feasible, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and its McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. In a report recently published online in Nature Biotechnology, the research team showed for the first time that liver cells, thymus tissue and insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells, in an animal model, can thrive in lymph nodes despite being displaced from their natural sites.
Hepatitis virus infection, alcoholic cirrhosis and other diseases can cause so much damage that liver transplantation is the only way to save the patient, noted senior investigator Eric Lagasse, Pharm. D., Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Pathology, Pitt School of Medicine. Children with DiGeorge syndrome lack functional thymus glands to produce essential immune cells, and diabetes can be cured with a pancreas transplant.
"However, the scarcity of donor organs means many people will not survive the wait for transplantation," said Dr. Lagasse, whose lab is at the McGowan Institute. "Cell therapies are being explored, but introducing cells into tissue already ravaged by disease decreases the likelihood of successful engraftment and restoration of function."
In the study, his team tested the possibility of using lymph nodes, which are abundant throughout the body and have a rich blood supply, as a new home for cells from other organs in what is called an "ectopic" transplant.
They injected healthy liver cells from a genetically-identical donor animal into lymph nodes of mice at various locations. The result was an enlarged, liver-like node that functioned akin to the liver; in fact, a single hepatized lymph node rescued mice that were in danger of dying from a lethal metabolic liver disease. Likewise, thymus tissue transplanted into the lymph node of mice that lacked the organ generated functional immune systems, and pancreatic islet cell transplants restored normal blood sugar control in diabetic animals.
"Our goal is not necessarily to replace the entire liver, for example, but to provide sufficient cell mass to stabilize liver function and sustain the patient's life," Dr. Lagasse said. "That could buy time until a donor organ can be transplanted. Perhaps, in some cases, ectopic cell transplantation in the lymph node might allow the diseased organ to recover."
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Louie, Season 3
Louis C.K. in Louie
Courtesy FX.
Is it just me, or was this a perfect Louie episode: funny and dark, bleak and sweet, sweeping and miniaturist, all at once? We started this TV Club on the subject of Louie?s place in the television canon. I?m ready to up the ante. If you want 2012?s finest, most idiosyncratic auteurist reckoning with damaged psyches, fraught father figures, contemporary isolation, and fumbling dives for enlightenment, on any size screen, Louie?s third season is it. Better luck next time, The Master!
I don?t know how this episode didn?t blow up in C.K.?s face. The New Year?s Eve backdrop could have been a gassy, overfamiliar metaphor for renewal and redemption. Liz?s death could have been a facile, cynical rug-pull. The trip to Beijing risked devolving into a trite parable of (Orientalist) reorientation. But I?ve watched ?New Year?s Eve? twice through now, and C.K.?s deft way of mining these potential pitfalls for dramatic power left me stunned both times.
The opening bit about the doll was virtuosic. A classic snowball-effect gag at heart, in which bad keeps leading to worse, it was also a dazzling comedic tightrope act. Deeply unsettling imagery?an eyeless baby, a power drill boring into that baby?s head, weird shit stuck all over the baby?s face, et cetera?was transformed, somehow, into a string of laugh-out-loud sight-gags. There was a deeper thematic point being made here in the way that a spiral of violence, messiness, and bumbling error?Santa?s workshop refigured as a little shop of horrors?produced such a blissfully untroubled moment: two kids in love with the gifts that have magically, frictionlessly materialized in their living room.
Isn?t this what a parent, on some level, desperately wants to do for his kids? Obscure the friction of the world from them as long as possible? Subdue the nastiness, hide the labor, ward off the darkness? The dream sequence later on, in which twentysomething Lilly and Jane worry about the psychic baggage they?ve inherited from their old man, is the inevitable flipside to this fantasy. I loved the tragicomic sight of crumpled old Louie with his unreal plateful of cookies, which was yet more testament (as if we needed it) to C.K.?s ability to root out jokes, like truffles, in the darkest of places.
For this reason, I wasn?t as shaken by Liz?s death as you, David. It was too unreal, too heightened, and, yes, too funny to have that effect. The sequence?s rhythm was essentially comic, not dramatic. We?re by now accustomed in the comedies we watch to taking some jarringly nightmarish detour, only to revert a beat or two later to reality??it was all a dream,? turned, via editing-room sleight of hand, into a punch line. The scene on the bus adheres to this trope, then flips it.
At the exact moment that Louie embraces Liz, she staggers, then gushes blood, and the soundtrack goes bleak. But before you can say ?What the?? there?s a hard cut that takes us out of the bus and, jarringly, from broad daylight into nighttime. This kind of cut is typically a wormhole: the moment in True Lies where we discover that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not actually break Bill Paxton?s neck in the ?Vette, the trapdoor that whisks us back, comfortingly, to a tidier reality. The punch line here, though, is that there is no such punch line: Paramedics are loading Liz into an ambulance, and next thing you know, she?s flat-lining at the hospital.
It?s appropriate that Liz?s reappearance on the bus begins with her offering her seat to a stranger. This echoes her earlier act of altruism with the snake-hallucinating homeless man; it ties her, thematically, to that Season 2 fantasy of Louie?s in which he mops clean a filthy subway seat with his shirt; and it connects her, back even further, to the stand-up bit Louie tells in Season 1 about (not) helping the homeless man at the ? Port Authority Bus Terminal. C.K. is fascinated with the idea, and the problem, of the polis: For him, sidewalks and subways and buses are, again and again, the staging grounds for bubble-bursting questions of ethical engagement. Liz did the most to tug Louie out of his bubble this season?more than Ramon, more than Jack Dall, certainly more than Amy Poehler?s Debbie and her husband, even more than Lilly and Jane. Wasn?t there something profoundly sweet, amid the grim circumstances, about the fact that Liz dies not alone, but with Louie, this guy she met in a bookstore, whose life she touched almost by chance, standing by her bedside?
When Louie stands in his apartment building hallway watching the elevator door close on a picture-perfect family tableau that does not include him, he?s Ping on the banks of the Yangtze, watching the boat set sail. I like how C.K. extends and literalizes this metaphor by dropping Louie so abruptly onto a Beijing crossroads. That sequence where he?s looking for the river was beautiful, particularly when his semaphore turned, fluidly, into an impromptu tai chi seminar.
Tony Soprano had his geese, Louie?s got his ducks. Here they are, in Beijing, grown past the duckling stage and caged in the back of a pickup truck?not the prettiest sight, but they accompany him, squawkingly, to the river. Louie doesn?t get his feet wet in the Yangtze trickle, but there?s something baptismal about the ending, which I regarded as ultimately more upbeat than you did, David. Here is a comedian, a guy who lives to make people laugh, making people he?s just met explode while speaking a language he doesn?t understand. This was a more ambiguous picture of ?universal connection? than came about in the Afghanistan episode, and it captured something true about travel: the transformative way that being in a different place, stumbling through a different tongue, can take you out of your head and make you feel, exhilaratingly, like a different person. As with the shot outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, the season ends on a moment of potential transformation. Louie isn?t alone, and he?s alone. He doesn?t want to change, and he wants to change.
It was a pleasure watching this show with you guys. I?m off for some pinwheels.
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Hi-Rez Studios and MANOWAR Announce Collaboration for Online ...
Hi-Rez Studios, independent developer of AAA free-to-play online games and MANOWAR, the band known worldwide for mythology-themed lyrics and an epic heavy metal sound, today confirmed their collaboration around the game SMITE. A new SMITE video was released featuring god vs. god gameplay footage set to the popular MANOWAR song, The Sons of Odin, and can be viewed below.
Hi-Rez Chief Operating Officer Todd Harris said:
?MANOWAR has a rich history in fantasy and mythology. We shared our vision for SMITE and decided to start with The Sons of Odin track with more music to come, including original compositions by Joey DeMaio and MANOWAR.?
The online game SMITE began Closed Beta testing in June and has already surpassed 500,000 player downloads within the first three months.
MANOWAR, the world record holder for both loudest and longest live heavy metal performances, has sold over nine million records to date and boasts a passionate fan-base known as the ?Army of the Immortals? and ?Manowarriors?.
MANOWAR founder and bassist, composer and producer Joey DeMaio added:
?We are very excited about this collaboration. Metal fans and gamers have a lot in common and SMITE in particular totally connects with our music. We are looking forward to uniting SMITE gamers and Manowarriors all over the world.?
The game SMITE is currently in Beta and will release in Q1 2013. Within SMITE, players choose from a selection of gods, join session based 5 versus 5 arena combat, and use custom powers and team tactics against other players and minions. SMITE is free-to-play and is a digital download for the PC. Players interested in joining the SMITE Closed Beta can register for an invitation at its official website.
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Fictitous NYC TV Sitcom Real Estate | The Big Picture
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Claims/Durables goodsPeter Boockvar
Positively, Initial Jobless Claims fell to 359k from 385k last week. It was well below expectations of 375k and the lowest since early July. It brings the 4 week average down to 374k from 379k and while the Labor Dept said the data included "very minor activity" related to the aftermath of hurricane Issac, it had almost no impact on the national figure. Continuing Claims fell by 4k and Extended Benefits were lower by 2k. Bottom line, while one week doesn't make a trend, the pace of firings took somewhat of a break on the week. This says nothing however...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
How Ohio Began To Slip Away From Mitt Romney
With each recent poll, Ohio has begun to look less like a swing state and more like a road map back to the private sector for Mitt Romney.
A series of miscues on important Ohio issues and a successful effort by President Barack Obama's campaign to define the Republican challenger have made Romney's odds look increasingly long in the Rust Belt bellwether. Eight of the 12 public polls conducted after the Democratic National Convention have shown Romney with at least a 4-point deficit and one on Wednesday showed him down by 10. No Republican candidate has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio.
Doug Usher, managing partner of research at the bipartisan polling firm Purple Strategies, said the reasons why Romney has lagged behind start with the automotive industry, which figures so prominently in both the state's economy and the Obama campaign's pitch to Ohio voters.
Democrats there have jumped at the chance to highlight Romney's opposition to the restructuring of the U.S. auto industry, epitomized by his 2008 New York Times op-ed with the now-infamous title, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." But those attacks against Romney are of a piece. The Obama campaign has also hammered the former Massachusetts governor's career at the private equity firm Bain Capital, as well as the murky nature of his tax returns. Meanwhile, Romney's surreptitiously recorded remarks made at a swanky fundraiser earlier this year gave substance to the caricature Obama and Democrats have drawn of the Republican nominee.
For a candidate running in a state like Ohio, that amounts to a potential coup de gr?ce.
"You combine the 'let Detroit go bankrupt' quote with the '47 percent' remark and you create a pretty powerful narrative across the country, but especially in Ohio," Usher told TPM.
The PollTracker Average shows Romney has always had trouble gaining traction there, but his deficit has grown even wider as the attacks have begun to stick.
Plenty of critics ? including some Democrats ? cried foul when the Obama team opened the general election campaign with a flurry of criticism toward Romney's time at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he helped found. But there has long been reason to believe that Ohio provided fertile ground for such a strategy. A survey from Purple Strategies in June showed that Bain-centric attacks carry far more potency in Ohio than other battlegrounds. The state's populist champion, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), urged the Obama campaign to keep bringing the heat to Romney's professional biography, predicting to TPM earlier this summer that drawing attention to layoffs by companies bought out by Bain would strike a chord with Ohio voters.
To gauge the effect of the Obama campaign's focus on Bain, consider Romney's low favorability rating in Ohio. Half of Ohioans currently have an unfavorable view of Romney, according to the PollTracker Average. His favorability rating there has marginally improved since the doldrums of the summer, when Bain scrutiny was arguably at a fever pitch.
Compounding matters for Romney in Ohio, his central campaign message has often been muddled by a prominent in-state surrogate. Republican Gov. John Kasich has frequently touted Ohio's steadily declining unemployment rate, but his rosy outlook undermines the message pushed by Romney, who has tried to parlay economic pessimism into votes. Nationally, Romney has lost his previously consistent edge on the economy over the last month, and Obama has also claimed the upper-hand on the issue in Ohio. Tuesday's poll from the Washington Post showed Ohio voters preferring Obama over Romney to handle the economy, 50 percent to 43 percent.
Matthew Henderson, communications director for the Ohio Republican Party, told TPM that the state's successes underscore the urgency to replace Obama and give Kasich a stronger partnership with the White House.
"Just imagine what we could do with an ally in Washington," Henderson said.
But if Ohio Democrats are brimming with confidence, it may also come from strength in numbers. The Obama campaign boasts 96 offices in the state to the Romney campaign's 36. A low number of undecided voters this year places an even greater emphasis on efforts to get out the vote, which could make a robust field organization an even greater asset. Early voting is slated to begin in Ohio next week.
Seth Bringman, an Ohio-based Democratic consultant, credits the Obama campaign for remaining engaged in the state since 2008, saying the Romney campaign's ground operation "started light-years behind and they have not caught up."
"I don't know what [the Romney campaign's] strategy is, quite frankly," Bringman told TPM. "They made a run at it, but it just seems like their playbook was to rely on super PAC ads while the Democrats knew we had to outwork them on the ground. And we certainly have done that over the past year."
Henderson dismissed the disparity in organizational size, suggesting that some of the Obama camp's offices are merely for show.
"If you drive past a lot of their headquarters, the lights are off. They're just there to have a presence," Henderson told TPM. "Our folks on the ground are fired up. They're knocking on doors every day. Our state party has made 28 times more phone calls than we had at this point in 2008."
Echoing the line voiced by the Romney campaign on Tuesday, Henderson also pushed back against recent polling data, saying many of the pollsters have been including too many Democrats in their samples.
"They're heavily weighted toward Democrats and it's not really reflective of the way the rest of this state thinks," Henderson said. "Everything on the ground is telling us that this race is still neck-and-neck."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-began-slip-away-mitt-romney-175949509--politics.html
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Arroz con pollo with Mazola? Bouillon Packets
Recently, I switched bouillon products because I no longer wanted to support a certain brand, so when I had the chance to try Mazola? Sobrecitos?, I was excited to see what they have to offer. ?Of course, the first thing that I thought of to cook was pollo arroz. ?My suegra makes a really delicious saffron rice, but I didn?t have any saffron at the moment, so I thought, why not go Puerto Rican style? ?When I was in college, a professor of mine invited me over for a few family parties and her pollo arroz was always my favorite. ?There were so many great dishes that I can?t quite name now, but pollo arroz has always stuck with me. ?Maybe because it?s also something we ate a lot with my hubby?s family?the main difference between Puerto Rican and Mexican pollo arroz being the olives and sometimes legumes or peas.
I even thought about adding garbanzos to the recipe, just to add a little Mexican flare, but I decided to wait and keep it more traditional this time around. ?Next time we?ll have our chickpeas though?lol. ?;)
Pollo arroz is a pretty simple recipe, and I made it even simpler by doing it all in the?crock pot. ?One thing I remembered about Sra. Perez? house?she always had a plethora of?crock pots?and they are a virtual necessity for every working mother. ?Since my wedding day, when we received our first crock pot, I?ve cooked in it more times than I can count and it?s continually been a lifesaver.
Below, you can see the pollo arroz stewing in the crock pot. ?Chicken, rice, tomatoes, onions, olives, seasonings, olive oil, etc.
The nice thing about using Mazola is the fact that their serving packets come in just the right size for a ?one-pot-wonder? kind of meal.
One packet counts as one cube, and like the cubes, salt is already included. ?In the case of Mazola though, they?ve included sea salt, a favorite in our house. ?It?s also nice that you don?t have to constantly stir and check, waiting for cubes to?dissolve. ?Mazola comes in a power form, much like a seasoning salt or other bouillon alternative.
Arroz con pollo recipe
In case you?re wondering, the final recipe came out pretty darn good, although I can?t say I wasn?t still craving a little saffron. ;) ?Gotta remember that next time! Here?s the recipe for our crock pot pollo arroz, altered to include Mazola? Sobrecitos? chicken bouillon packets.
Ingredients
- 3 cups of long grain white rice
- 1 whole chicken or 3-4 chicken breasts, cut into pieces
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 large ripe tomatoes, cut into large pieces
- 1/2 to 1 cup pimiento-stuffed?olives, depending on your preference
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons of garlic powder or 3-4 fresh garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 1/2 cups water
- 2 packets of Mazola? Sobrecitos? Chicken Flavor Bouillon
- 1 packet of?Mazola? Sobrecitos? Tomato Flavor Bouillon
Directions
In a large crock pot, add all of your ingredients, except the rice, incorporating them one by one. ?Bring to a boil, stirring frequently and once boiling, add in the rice. ?Cook on high heat until the liquid is absorbed into the rice, about an hour, depending on temperature. ?After this point, stir the rice gently and turn down the temperature to medium heat. ?Continue cooking about 20 more minutes, until the rice is tender, but firm.
Garnish with fresh cilantro, tomatoes or even pico de gallo. ?Enjoy!
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Returning After Years of Seclusion
Woo! I love when people come back ground. I had a lengthy hiatus, myself, and am glad to be back in action.
Don't forget to check out the RPG Rules, at the top of the page! Things might have changed a bit since you were last here.
In any case, welcome back, and if you have any questions about anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask.
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Venezuela poll: Chavez leading rival by 10 points
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? President Hugo Chavez held a 10-point lead over rival Henrique Capriles in one of the final polls ahead of Venezuela's Oct. 7 election, but the survey released Tuesday showed the challenger narrowing the gap.
The poll by Datanalisis, one of Venezuela's most respected polling firms, found that about 49 percent said they intend to vote for Chavez and about 39 percent said they plan to vote for Capriles.
About 11 percent didn't reveal a preference, said Luis Vicente Leon, who heads the polling firm.
The results showed Capriles narrowing the 46-31 percent lead that Chavez held in June's poll by the same company.
Leon said it was the final poll Datanalisis plans to release publicly before the vote. It's possible the candidates' percentages may already have shifted somewhat since the survey was carried out weeks ago.
The poll questioned 1,600 people between Aug. 25 and Sept. 5, and had a margin of error of about 2 percentage points. It was paid for a group of about 100 clients, including businesses as well as government entities.
Leon said Capriles' active campaigning in about 260 towns across the country has had an impact.
Chavez, in contrast, has concentrated on a smaller number of campaign rallies, and has been less active after more than a year of cancer treatments including surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy.
Even though Chavez has said he's now cancer-free, Leon said the president's campaign clearly has been affected by his health problems.
He said that after nearly 14 years in office, Chavez for the first time will face a strong rival and that no other opposition candidate has achieved such support in pre-election polls when facing Chavez. The pollster also cautioned that changes in public opinion can still occur in the less than two weeks before the Oct. 7 vote.
Venezuelans have been bombarded with widely varying poll results ahead of the vote, and some pollsters haven't been open about discussing their sources of funding or political leanings.
Some political surveys, including those conducted by the pollster GIS XXI, run by Chavez's former justice minister Jesse Chacon, have repeatedly shown the president with a lead of more than 20 percent, and have been touted on state television.
Other polls, such as those of Consultores 21 and Varianzas, have shown Capriles either roughly even with Chavez or slightly ahead.
A survey released by Varianzas on Tuesday indicated a close race, with about 50 percent saying they plan to vote for Chavez and 48 percent siding with Capriles. The Varianzas poll consulted 2,000 people between Sept. 7 and 20, and had an error margin of about 2 percent, said Rafael Delgado, the company's director. He said the survey was financed by a private group, which he declined to reveal.
Meanwhile, state television broadcast the results of a survey by another company, International Consulting Services, saying Chavez had a lead of nearly 20 percentage points. The source of funding for that poll was unclear.
The wide differences in results have led many Venezuelans to doubt the accuracy of polls.
"The variation between the polls is so big that there are some that say Chavez is winning by 30 points and others that say he's losing by almost 10 points," said Angel Alvarez, a political science professor at Central University of Venezuela. "Most people don't believe in any of the polls anymore because they see so much variability that they say somebody is lying or everybody is lying, and on top of that ... there's been a lot of skepticism about the quality of the polls to predict results."
Many polls in the country are conducted using face-to-face interviews with people at their homes, and firms typically release details of their methodologies, including how interview questions are framed. In some cases, though, pollsters haven't released full details.
Datanalisis is widely considered one of the country's leading polling firms. It has had a record of accuracy in past elections and has earned respect from both political camps with its monthly surveys. The pollster accurately gauged that Chavez was leading ahead of his last re-election victory in 2006, when he won with 63 percent of the vote.
Chavez's approval ratings have slipped since then, and he has been spending heavily on social programs and public housing construction this year seeking to shore up support while facing a vigorous challenge by Capriles.
Adding to the uncertainty ahead of the vote is the large segment of voters, in some polls more than 10 percent, who describe themselves as undecided or who don't reveal which candidate they plan to support.
In Venezuela nowadays, people seem to view it as normal for there to be a "war of the polls" and don't appear to be swayed one way or the other by the surveys, said Ignacio Avalos, director of the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory, a vote monitoring group.
"Part of the election campaign is about making people think you're the one who's going to win and generating a positive effect," Avalos said. Despite the conflicting surveys, he said, "I have the impression that the results are going to be close, that it's going to be an election decided by a narrow margin."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-poll-chavez-leading-rival-10-points-160437300.html
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Ireland faces a choice between following the EU into deeper ...
The past six months have seen Ireland vote yes in a referendum on the fiscal compact and a return to the long term bond markets for the country for the first time in two years. Paul Gillespie writes that the eurozone crisis and its effects on Ireland have led to increased public debates on European integration and Irish nationalism, especially as European integration was originally driven by a desire to escape from Britain?s post-colonial constraints. Ireland must now decide if it is continue in a more integrated eurozone, or if it should begin to gravitate back to an increasingly Eurosceptic Britain.
A game changer. That was how several Irish ministers described the agreement reached early on Friday 29th June to allow the European Stability Mechanism to recapitalise eurozone banks directly, without adding to sovereign debt, once a single European bank supervisory system is put in place. Since then, some ?64 billion has been added to Ireland?s sovereign debt exactly because such direct recapitalisation was not previously permitted. Their reaction is understandable.
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The decision arose from Spain?s dire need of financial help with its banks and the realisation that its state indebtedness could not be increased. At the summit Ireland stitched in a commitment to similarly examine its financial sector, resulting, ministers hope, in an eventual reduction from 120 to 85 per cent of its debt to GDP ratio. They argued plausibly that the move justified their strategy of dealing with the eurozone crisis in multilevel fashion as a fully participating member of the eurozone rather than acting unilaterally in reach of its rules or outside its remit. Their case was made effectively during the Irish referendum campaign on the fiscal compact in May 2012, helping to secure a 60-40 majority in its favour.Since then the Irish minister for finance Michael Noonan has redoubled his efforts to deliver on the commitment. It is a difficult task, since several governments, particularly Germany?s, are not convinced Ireland should secure debt relief ahead of Italy or Spain and still fear setting a precedent that would destabilise the euro or confuse markets.
The threefold crisis assailing Ireland?s economy since 2008 ? a banking collapse, a collapse of state revenues and a rapid fall in competitiveness ? threw out a huge debt burden along with falling living standards, unemployment and returning emigration. The intense and wrenching sense of economic failure among elites and citizens alike was accentuated by a growing realisation that all paths led to Brussels for a solution, when the crisis turned from one of liquidity into one of solvency. Brussels privileged protection of the euro, and the wholesale risk capital that had funded the Irish boom, above debt relief. Not surprisingly these large financial, economic and political imbalances and asymmetries exercised Irish public debates on the causes of and solutions to the crisis. They contributed to the widespread sense of injustice felt by ordinary citizens vis-?-vis the banks, regulatory institutions, business leaders, politicians and EU leaderships seen as responsible. Europeanisation and politicisation thereby went hand in hand as the country?s fate became entangled with that of the larger European project.
Foundational, strategic and tactical questions should be distinguished in examining Ireland?s public debates on European integration. The foundational level relates to long-standing and abiding approaches towards Europe, which historically provided the setting for the development of Irish nationalism and the principal context in which it sought allies against Ireland?s conquest by Britain from the sixteenth century onwards. Ireland applied to join the EEC in 1962 when the UK did; but increasingly through the following decades political elites aimed to develop and modernise in a larger European context.
Ireland?s policy towards European integration has been driven since the 1960s by a prolonged effort to escape from continuing over-dependence and over-reliance on Britain. Accession to the European community in the 1970s was experienced as liberation from postcolonial constraints by policy-makers and as a broadening horizon by the mass public, underlying the generally positive attitudes which find Irish people among the most convinced they are beneficiaries of EEC/EU membership and that it is a good thing.
Much of Ireland?s debate on European integration is between those who argue that pooling sovereignty enhances real independence of action and sovereigntists who deny this and argue that the state cannot develop without the ability to determine much more of national policy than Brussels allows. Explicitly or implicitly this debate concerns relations with the UK ? would an Ireland positioned less within the EU?s inner core not then gravitate back towards an increasingly Eurosceptic Britain, thereby undermining the basic thrust of policy since the 1960s? Or maybe this is the better way now that Ireland and Britain share a lot more policy on open markets, liberal economics and legal culture on top of the undoubted transformation of their relationship following the power-sharing Northern Ireland settlement?
Tossed into the maelstrom of financial and debt crises over the last four years these foundational values have taken a battering from a more affected, attentive and informed public and been reconfigured in response. They have been recast into three major axes of strategic and tactical argument on the role Ireland should play and the optimal direction of policy.
In the general election of February 2011 Europe?s role loomed large following the ?85 billion rescue package mounted by the Troika (the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) the previous November. The main opposition parties demanded that its terms on debt repayments and write downs be renegotiated and pledged to do so if victorious, the first axis of argument. After they won the election decisively and formed a coalition between the centre right Fine Gael party and the Labour Party the new government faced into the second axis of argument on whether to adopt multilateral or unilateral strategies in pursuing that renegotiation. The third axis of debate concerns whether and when Ireland can expect to return to the markets for its state funding requirements, and not continue to rely on the Troika programme. Each of these three arguments also figured prominently in the public debates during the referendum campaign on the fiscal compact treaty in May this year.
The government?s parliamentary and political critics say the willingness of Greece, Spain and Italy to bargain robustly with the EU/IMF is the better way, showing greater courage and leadership. Repaying loans in full is unfair and unethical because they were originally lent as a risk and have since been profited on in secondary trading.
Ireland?s experience as a referendum state adds another distinctive dimension to its EU profile. The electorate clearly feels that in troubled times it is safer to be an integral part of the European Union than not, as shown in the decisive swing towards the ?Yes? side in the second Lisbon referendum of October 2009 and then in the 60/40 passage of the fiscal compact treaty in May 2012 on a 50.6 per cent turnout. Surveys show Irish voters are comparatively well engaged with European issues and have a relatively good knowledge of them, based on the direct experience of the last four years of crisis in which they are intimately entangled through political argument, daily media exposure and periodic elections and referendums.
A more integrated eurozone would pose a particularly difficult choice for Ireland given the closer relationship politically with the UK following the Belfast Agreement. So the strategic impulse that originally attracted Ireland towards EEC/EU membership in the 1960s and 1970s as a means of reducing dependence on the UK resurfaces now that the euro is facing an existential crisis requiring deeper integration to save the euro. Ireland will find it more difficult to marry its EU and UK policies in this setting.
It is important to distinguish sovereignty from nationalism in understanding Ireland?s approach. Pooling legal sovereignty is required for integration, whether inter-governmentally, confederally or federally, a point that is well understood by the Irish political parties which support the project ? as by those which oppose it. Abandoning nationalism is a much more demanding condition ? indeed an unacceptable one ? for a country which sees it as a liberating force from imperialism and therefore as a means of realising the international. Imperial and anti-imperial nationalism are quite distinct forces in European history. It therefore makes much more sense to talk of a post-sovereign than of a post-national Europe in the Irish imaginary of a refounded project.
Official and popular Ireland is more at home with a confederal inter-governmentalism than with a fully fledged federalism substituting European for national identifications and political structures. This, it suspects, would be tantamount to another empire. The raw power politics that emerged in the last two years of scrambling to save the euro created that impression ? and not only through media simplifications, although visions of a lurid German neo-imperialism resonate there too, echoing British Euro-scepticism, but actually coming from a different experience.
Most Irish voters do not want to revert to a separatist sovereignty and see the need for transnational politics and governance to manage and regulate capitalist globalisation. But, as in other EU Member States, it is a selective commitment. Ireland?s choice would be for a third way between inter-governmentalism and federalism. Its natural preference is for a ?demoi-cracy?, or entangled post-sovereign Europe, which properly understands the distinction between using federal methods and creating a federal super state.
Europe needs to make that jump and Ireland is so far willing to go with it, as is clear from its political discourse and public opinion. They recognise the need for smart politics and bargaining to achieve central influence as a small prosperous state no longer reconciled to peripherality. There too is the necessary fear of failure, which could well reverse the modernisation and European interdependence so important for Ireland?s development over the last two generations. That would be a much bigger game changer.
This piece is a shortened version of the article, Ireland and the Big Game Changer published by the Heinrich Boll Stiftung in Brussels.
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Dr Paul Gillespie is a columnist and writer on international affairs for The Irish Times, from which he retired as foreign policy editor in 2009. He lectures in European politics and comparative regionalism at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. His current research is on political identities in Europe, Irish foreign policy and regions in a multi-polar world.
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GOP Cites Romneys' Charity
BY JOHN D. MCKINNON
Republicans Sunday highlighted the significant charitable giving disclosed in Mitt Romney's 2011 tax return, seeking to change the focus of a debate that has centered on the candidate's wealth and relatively low tax rate.
The 2011 federal tax return released by the Romneys on Friday showed they donated about $4 million to charity, nearly 30% of their $13.7 million in income. The Romneys also produced a letter from accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers stating they gave away an average of more than 13% of their income each year between 1990 and 2009.
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Venezuelan challenger edges closer to Chavez, but close enough?
With elections only days away in Venezuela, opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, has gained ground in an opinion poll, though he still lags behind President Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles (l.) greets supporters during a campaign rally in La Guaira outside Caracas September 24.
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EnlargeVenezuelan opposition candidate?Henrique Capriles?edged closer to President?Hugo Chavez?in an opinion poll but remained 10 percentage points behind the socialist leader in the run-up to the Oct. 7 election, according to two sources who have seen the poll.
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Recent Datanalisis' polls show support for Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, growing in the waning days of the campaign as he continues campaigning across the country.
Capriles' has vowed to create a Brazilian-style "modern left" that balances free enterprise with social welfare programs. Investors expect him to end a five-year nationalization crusade and reduce state intervention in the economy.
Chavez, who has been in office for 14 years, says he will deepen his oil-financed socialism if he wins another six-year term. That would likely feature continued confrontation with the private sector and efforts to support leftist allies in the region.
Capriles on Monday led a massive caravan in the sweltering state of?Vargas, alongside the Caribbean Sea, waving to supporters from atop a truck. He at times narrowly averted being dragged to the ground by female fans trying to hug him.
"Let me tell you, someone who hasn't done what they were supposed to do in 14 years is not going to do it in the next six years," Capriles told supporters, who sang and danced to salsa in the spirit of?Venezuela's political rallies, which often look more like street parties.
A group of about 100 Chavez supporters waited at the end of the caravan carrying signs that said "Get out, thief" and throwing water bottles at Capriles. The confrontation fizzled without incident, in contrast to recent skirmishes at rallies that have left several people wounded.
The Datanalisis' survey showed Capriles with 37.2 percent of the vote compared with 47.3 percent for Chavez, closer than the 12.5 percentage point difference registered in the last Datanalisis survey.
The poll, which had a margin of error of 2.4 percent, was conducted between Aug. 25 and Sept. 5, the sources said. Datanalisis did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation of the details.
Chavez, 58, leads the majority of the country's best-known polls but they are notoriously controversial and divergent in?Venezuela. Capriles' numbers have been creeping up and another well-known pollster, Consultores 21, has the candidates neck-and-neck.
A close result could spark protests and possibly accusations of fraud. Chavez has repeatedly said the opposition will refuse to accept the results should it lose while the opposition says Chavez will try to avoid handing over power.
Investors broadly believe?Capriles' government?would usher in greater economic stability and gradual dismantling of Chavez's system of currency and price controls.
Capriles also hopes to tap into growing discontent with crime, unemployment and product shortages.
Though Chavez's sweeping crusade of nationalizations and fiery rhetoric have scared off conservative investors, the country's bonds are among the most actively traded emerging market securities thanks to their high yields.
Venezuela's black market for dollars, the result of a increasingly strict controls on foreign exchange, has shot up in recent weeks to more than double the official exchange rate of 4.3 bolivars.
Chavez on Monday led a massive rally in the plains state of?Portuguesa, singing to the crowd, grilling campaign volunteers on their get-out-the-vote efforts and leading supporters in chanting "Chavez will win on October 7."
"What we have done, and it's a lot, is nothing compared with what we will do in the next years of socialist government," said Chavez, wearing a pale blue and white striped jacket and black pants. "I am no longer Chavez at this point, Chavez has become the people, we are all Chavez."
He has appealed to working-class Venezuelans by playing up his humble roots in a small plains village of where he once sold papaya candies and played baseball in dusty fields.
The government recently announced a book of stories about Chavez's youth, compiled by two Cuban reporters who searched YouTube for stories that the garrulous socialist has told during close to 14 years of Sunday talk-shows.
His government pumped up state spending to give out apartments, home appliances and pensions to poor Venezuelans, and has highlighted his social "missions" that provide low-cost health care, job training and university education.
Opposition leaders accuse him of tilting the election in his favor by using state resources for his campaign and dominating television networks with "chain" broadcasts that force private networks to carry his speeches.
He appears to have largely recovered from a cancer diagnosed last year that for weeks left him almost completely out of the public spotlight. Doctors say it can take several years before remission can be totally ruled out.
Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Enrique Andres Pretel, Bill Trott and Cynthia Ostermanecvnh
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Monday, September 24, 2012
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Man who jumped into NY zoo tigers' den faces charge
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Before his now-infamous tangle with a Bronx Zoo tiger, David Villalobos adorned his Facebook page with New Age odes to Mother Earth and affirmations like, "Be love and fearless."
Police said Saturday that Villalobos had told detectives that it was without fear that he leaped from an elevated train into the animal's den. His reason, they said, was that "he wanted to be one with the tiger."
Villalobos also recounted how, after he landed on all fours, the 400-pound beast attacked him and dragged around by his foot, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. Despite serious injuries, he claimed he was able to get his wish and pet the tiger ? a male Siberian named Bashuta ? before his rescue, the spokesman added.
Based on those admissions and a complaint from the zoo, police charged the hospitalized Villalobos with misdemeanour trespassing on Saturday. It was unclear if the 25-year-old real estate agent had an attorney, and attempts to reach relatives were unsuccessful.
Villalobos' big-cat exploits Friday afternoon were an instant tabloid sensation: A front page New York Post story on Saturday was headlined "MAULED!" The Daily News countered with "ZOO-ICIDE," speculating a death wish.
Police had said earlier that Villalobos admitted to a police officer at the scene that he made a conscious decision to jump ? "Everyone has a reason for what they do in life," he was quoted as saying ? but that his motives were murky and an arrest uncertain.
That changed when, during a follow-up interview Saturday, Villalobos told detectives that "his leap was definitely not a suicide attempt, but a desire to be one with the tiger," Browne said.
Browne said Villalobos was charged because he had gone "beyond a perimeter security fence and an electrified wire designed to keep the public out and the tiger in."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly described Villalobos' actions as "foolish," in part because they put zoo personnel "in harm's way."
Villalobos remained hospitalized with bites and punctures on his arms, legs, shoulders and back, as well as a broken right shoulder, right rib, right ankle and pelvis and a collapsed lung. Police said there was no indication he was intoxicated.
The Wild Asia exhibit that's home to the tiger was operating as usual on Saturday, zoo officials said, declining to comment further.
Villalobos' Facebook page makes clear his infatuation with wildlife. One of several postings from Thursday was a photo of a tiger licking a cub, and the comment, "Nice." Another was of a black jaguar.
An earlier post displayed a promo for a movie called "Facing Animals," a Dutch documentary about "the complex and often bizarre relationship between man and animal."
His comment: "This looks fascinating."
Villalobos' own bizarre encounter began with a ride on the elevated train that takes unrestrained visitors over the Bronx River and through a forest, where they glide along the top edge of a fence past elephants, deer and a tiger enclosure. He and a date had taken in the same sights from the monorail during a visit to the zoo about two weeks ago, police said Saturday.
This time without warning, Villalobos apparently jumped out of his train car and cleared the 16-foot-high perimeter fence. He was alone with Bashuta for about 10 minutes before he was rescued by zoo officials, who used a fire extinguisher to chase the animal away.
The zookeepers instructed him to roll under an electrified wire to get to safety, zoo director Jim Breheny said. They then called the tiger into a holding area.
The Bronx Zoo, one of the nation's largest zoos, sprawls over 265 acres and contains hundreds of animals, many in habitats meant to resemble natural settings. Its exhibits include Tiger Mountain, Congo Gorilla Forest and World of Reptiles.
There are 10 tigers at the Wild Asia exhibit, but the 11-year-old Bashuta was the only one on display at the time. Zoo officials said he would remain in the rotation.
"When someone is determined to do something harmful to themselves, it's very hard to stop that," said Breheny. "The tiger did nothing wrong."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-jumped-ny-zoo-tigers-den-faces-charge-195746327.html
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Hostage taker kept updating Facebook
A 22-year-old man in Pittsburgh took another man hostage at the Gateway Center Building No. 3. building, Friday.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Police say hostage-taker was paying more attention to Facebook than them
- After several hours they had page shut down
- Man surrendered peacefully, let hostage go
- Suspect identified as young former Army vet who never deployed
(CNN) -- The police involved in a hostage situation were faced with an interesting decision.
It wasn't whether to send in a robot or storm into a building, it was whether to have the hostage taker's Facebook page shut down.
Here's what they knew: A 22-year-old man in Pittsburgh had taken another man hostage and was holed up in a suite on the 16th floor of a high-rise office building.
And the suspect, Klein Michael Thaxton, had been on Facebook for hours.
"People were sending Facebook messages. We could see that he was paying more attention to Facebook than to the negotiating team, which was hampering our abilities to resolve the situation," Diane Richard, a spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Police Department, said about Friday's incident.
Richard said SWAT officers kept an eye on the Facebook page for at least two hours before making a joint decision with the district attorney to ask for the page to be shut down.
Facebook, through a spokesman, declined to comment.
Richard said not every message asked Thaxton to give up, that some encouraged him to keep going.
Detective Robert Shaw of the Pittsburgh homicide division said Thaxton was arraigned on Saturday and charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping and terrorist threats. Thaxton is being held on $1 million bail.
"Mr. Thaxton has expressed remorse for what has happened. However, at this time we do not wish to speculate as to why this alleged incident occurred.," his attorneys said in a statement. "Moreover, we are unable to discuss his mental health history or the role that a mental health disorder may have played in this matter."
Thaxton surrendered peacefully, and his hostage was not harmed, Pittsburgh Police Chief Nathan Harper said Friday.
Police said Thaxton, a former Army private, had a criminal record. He pleaded guilty in January to robbery and related charges, and, after serving several months in jail, was allowed to transfer his sentence under veterans court to an inpatient treatment program, his attorneys said.
Thaxton was in the Army from December 2008 through June 2010, but was never deployed, according to a release the Army sent CNN.
On Friday, police received calls shortly after 8:15 a.m., reporting a man with a gun on the 16th floor of Gateway Center Building No. 3. Some witnesses reported he was carrying two duffel bags. Harper said the suspect initially claimed to have a bomb, but later admitted he had no explosives.
The suspect walked into CW Breitsman Associates and asked for a Charles Breitsman, so police believe he was targeted, Harper said.
CW Breitsman handles money for pension funds. The chief said the suspect never worked there, and it's unclear how he was related to the company.
In addition to police negotiators, some of Thaxton's family members, including his mother, who was at the scene, spoke to Thaxton during the ordeal, Harper said.
Harper said since the incident was contained to one room of a suite on the 16th floor, evacuations were minimal, and people still occupied other parts of the skyscraper.
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CNN's Chuck Johnston and Chris Kokenes contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/23/justice/pennsylvania-hostage-situation/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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