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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Lew urges quick increase in US borrowing limit

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, right, follows Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, prior to Lew testifying before the committee. Lew headed to Capitol Hill to both give and get a public scolding. Lew's appearance before the Senate Finance Committee promised to be yet another public restatement of the administration's stance that Congress needs to reopen the government and lift the U.S. borrowing cap before Obama will negotiate over the nation's budget ills. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is surrounded by photographers prior to testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, before Senate Finance Committee. Lew headed to Capitol Hill to both give and get a public scolding. Lew's appearance before the Senate Finance Committee promised to be yet another public restatement of the administration's stance that Congress needs to reopen the government and lift the U.S. borrowing cap before Obama will negotiate over the nation's budget ills. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Thursday urged Congress to raise the government's borrowing limit before Oct. 17, warning that a Republican idea to prioritize payments with cash on hand could cause "irrevocable damage" to the U.S. economy.

In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Lew said that trying to make such perilous choices between paying veterans or Social Security checks is not a good option and risks the first default on U.S. debt in history. He repeated the administration's demand that Congress pass legislation needed to end a partial government shutdown and raise the country's $16.7 trillion borrowing limit.

In what could be a breakthrough, House Speaker John Boehner will ask Republicans to approve a short-term extension of the U.S. government's borrowing authority, Republican aides said Thursday.

President Barack Obama was to meet later Thursday with top House Republicans at the White House to seek a path beyond a confrontation that has left the government shuttered for close to two weeks.

"The president remains willing to negotiate over the future direction of fiscal policy, but he will not negotiate over whether the United States should pay its bills," Lew told the committee.

Lew's testimony came after a day of activity but no real signs of progress.

Obama on Wednesday had House Democrats over to the White House. And Republican conservatives heard a pitch from the House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on his plan to extend the U.S. borrowing cap for four to six weeks while jump-starting talks on a broader budget deal.

The deal Ryan proposed could replace cuts to defense and domestic agency budgets with cuts to benefit programs like Medicare and reforms to the loophole-cluttered tax code. Curbs to "Obamacare" were not mentioned.

At the hearing, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, accused the Obama Administration of intentionally scaring the public and financial markets over the borrowing limit, "in an apparent effort to whip up uncertainty in the markets."

Hatch said the administration was refusing to "even have a conversation" over reducing the soaring cost of the government's big benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

"If the Obama administration won't negotiate on entitlements in the context of the debt limit, when will they negotiate on entitlements," Hatch asked.

Lew said that the government's payment systems were not designed to allow him to pick and choose which bills to pay out of the 80 million payments the government makes each month.

"Prioritization is just default by another name," Lew said.

Lew said default would cause serious damage as outlined in a report Treasury issued last week.

That report, Lew said, "points to the potentially catastrophic impacts of default, including credit market disruptions, a significant loss in the value of the dollar, markedly elevated U.S. interest rates, negative spillover effects to the global economy and real risk of a financial crisis and recession that could echo the events of 2008 or worse."

In 2008, a serious financial crisis pushed the country into the deepest recession since the 1930s.

Republicans on the committee insisted that Obama would have to agree to negotiations as a way to end the current stalemate.

"If you are saying, you give me everything I want and then we can have a conversation on things that are important to you, I find that shocking," Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania told Lew.

Toomey said that if Obama doesn't agree on spending reforms, "There appears to be a real chance that Congress will not pass a debt ceiling increase before Oct. 17."

Toomey pressed Lew to say whether he could provide assurances to the millions of investors who hold Treasury securities that the administration would do everything possible to make sure that payments were made on those obligations.

But Lew refused to provide such an assurance. "The only way to make sure we can pay all of our obligations is to raise the debt ceiling," he said.

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Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.

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Lew urges quick increase in US borrowing limit

In what could be a breakthrough, House Speaker John Boehner will ask Republicans to approve a short-term extension of the U.S. government's borrowing authority, Republican aides said Thursday.

President Barack Obama was to meet later Thursday with top House Republicans at the White House to seek a path beyond a confrontation that has left the government shuttered for close to two weeks.

"The president remains willing to negotiate over the future direction of fiscal policy, but he will not negotiate over whether the United States should pay its bills," Lew told the committee.

Lew's testimony came after a day of activity but no real signs of progress.

Hatch said the administration was refusing to "even have a conversation" over reducing the soaring cost of the government's big benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

"If the Obama administration won't negotiate on entitlements in the context of the debt limit, when will they negotiate on entitlements," Hatch asked.

Lew said that the government's payment systems were not designed to allow him to pick and choose which bills to pay out of the 80 million payments the government makes each month.

"Prioritization is just default by another name," Lew said.

Lew said default would cause serious damage as outlined in a report Treasury issued last week.

In 2008, a serious financial crisis pushed the country into the deepest recession since the 1930s.

Republicans on the committee insisted that Obama would have to agree to negotiations as a way to end the current stalemate.

"If you are saying, you give me everything I want and then we can have a conversation on things that are important to you, I find that shocking," Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania told Lew.

Toomey said that if Obama doesn't agree on spending reforms, "There appears to be a real chance that Congress will not pass a debt ceiling increase before Oct. 17."

But Lew refused to provide such an assurance. "The only way to make sure we can pay all of our obligations is to raise the debt ceiling," he said.

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Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Mavericks Preview: Safari

OS X Mavericks: Safari Preview

OS X Mavericks doesn't just bring core improvements like Finder Tabs, better battery life and more efficient processor use; a new version of Safari is in the works that will make your Web browsing faster and more social.

While it's great to have a boatload of improvements in the operating system, few of us would be able to use OS X Mavericks for too long without having to surf the Web for something. So it's good news that Apple is improving Safari for Mavericks as well. Many of the enhancements are under the hood tweaks aimed at improving performance, but there are some new features to talk about as well.

The pseudo-3D gallery interface for Top Sites is gone in the new Safari, replaced with a flatter look that complements Apple's new flat design philosophy. There are some functional changes, as well - you can add sites from your bookmarks, and you can rearrange top sites by clicking and dragging thumbnails around.

Mavericks Safari Sidebar

A new plus button has been added to Safari's toolbar, which provides one-click bookmarking. And a new Sidebar interface consolidates bookmarks and your reading list, making it easier to locate links you'd like to follow. Web pages you've marked to visit in your reading list will now scroll consecutively, so as you finish one web page, another one will load automatically.

A third tab is added to the new Sidebar called Shared Links, and that provides a social component that's new to Safari: links shared by people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also retweet links you're visiting directly in Safari.

Here's what Apple has to say about Safari's interface improvements in Mavericks:

Safari in OS X Mavericks delivers blazing performance and introduces breakthrough technologies. Innovative features make it simple to return to sites you visit often ? and discover new sites as well. Shared Links in the new Sidebar shows links posted by people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn, so you can keep up with the latest interesting content.

Performance and efficiency improvements are also key to Mavericks' new version of Safari. Apple says that JavaScript execution is 1.44 times faster than Chrome, beating Firefox as well (at least according to the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark), while JSBench suite testing shows Safari as 3.8 times faster than Firefox, handily beating out Chrome as well.

Apple's tests also show that Safari is more memory-efficient than Firefox and Chrome, while - thanks in part to Mavericks' core improvements, as well, CPU efficiency in Safari is almost three times better than Firefox, and leaps better than Chrome too.

Safari App Nap

Have you ever heard your Mac's fans spin up when you load a processor-hungry Web page but send it to the background? That problem should be solved when Safari for Mavericks makes its debut - it takes advantage of Mavericks' new App Nap function, which tells the CPU not to waste cycles on Web pages that aren't front and center. That should improve battery life on laptops.

Safari for Mavericks isn't radically different than Safari under Mountain Lion, but it doesn't have to be - Apple's already got a class-leading Web browser, and it's making some gentle interface tweaks that should improve the experience across the board. But as with a lot of Mavericks' other enhancements, the real improvements to Safari are under the hood, providing better efficiency and improved performance for all.

Are you looking forward most to performance and efficiency improvements in Safari, or are the new features like the Sidebar and one-click bookmarks more important? And do you think that adding a social component via Shared Links is a good idea, or have you had enough of social networking? Let me know what you think in the comments.

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Egypt must engage in 'serious national dialogue', U.N. says

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office called on President Mohamed Mursi on Tuesday to listen to the demands of the Egyptian people and engage in a "serious national dialogue" to defuse the political crisis.

Rupert Colville, spokesman of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, also said the role of the military, which gave Mursi a 48-hour ultimatum on Monday to resolve the impasse after mass anti-government protests, was crucial.

"We call on the president of Egypt to listen to the demands and wishes of the Egyptian people expressed during these huge protests over the past few days, and to address key issues raised by the opposition and by civil society in recent months," he told a news briefing in Geneva.

"We urge all political parties and social groups in Egypt to urgently engage in a serious national dialogue in order to find a solution to the political crisis and prevent an escalation of violence."

Asked about the role of the military, Colville said: "We're talking hopefully about a newly developing democracy in Egypt, so obviously what the military does or doesn't do is crucial. Nothing should be done that would undermine democratic processes in the country."

Mursi has rebuffed the army ultimatum to force a resolution, saying on Tuesday he had not been consulted and would pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.

"Egypt's democracy is obviously very fragile and nobody wants to see it collapse or fall apart in some way," Colville told Reuters Television.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Vincent Fribault; Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-must-engage-serious-national-dialogue-u-n-092550059.html

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Left 4 Dead 2 mutates past Linux beta, adds more mod tools

Left 4 Dead 2 is the latest game in Valve's catalog to clamber out of the Steam for Linux beta. Unlike last week's Half-Life 2 news however, the extra something coming along for the ride isn't VR headset support -- it's a powerful suite of customization tools. The Extended Mutation System (EMS) gives the already robust modding community additional options for crafting one-off episodes and game type variants. For a glimpse of what EMS enables, play a round of "Holdout." This new multi-map mode introduces buildable items and the concept of resources to the co-op zombie-slaying calamity. What's more, Valve said it will add the most popular EMS creations to the official servers. Maybe with this, the world can finally witness our vision of the zombie apocalypse. Yeah, it involves marmosets.

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A tick's spit leads to an entire lesson in blood clotting

July 1, 2013 ? There really is such a thing as tick spit -- that is, the saliva of a tick. And there's something about it that might help fight heart disease and stroke.

The link comes from a protein found in the spit of ixodes (ik-SO-deez) ticks, which are also known as blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks.

These kinds of ticks tear their way into skin and feed on their host's blood for several days. They damage small blood vessels, which would normally trigger the body to start a process called coagulation -- or blood clotting.

Clotting is important because it stops bleeding. But it also can play a role in heart attacks and strokes.

That leads back to the ticks, and their spitting.

These ticks spit where they bite their host. In doing so, they project a protein that blocks the body's natural clotting process; it happens similar to the way blood thinners -- or "anticoagulants" -- work.

The new thing researchers have learned is that the two clotting factors, called factor X and factor V, that get blocked by the tick spit end up working together and activating a third clotting element, so the clotting eventually happens.

Scientists already knew which coagulation factors are able to activate Factor V but they didn't know that factor X was extremely important in this process.

Thanks to these ticks -- and their spit -- we have a better understanding of the clotting process.

The result is a new model for blood coagulation, which is an important discovery for our understanding of how clots are formed, why certain anti-clotting drugs help and how new drugs could be developed.

Imagine all that information from those little ticks, and their spit.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/heart_disease/~3/7b7ZULuhFvM/130701163845.htm

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Debt crisis shrinks international use of euro

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? International use of the euro slipped last year because of the debt crisis in Europe, while the U.S. dollar held its own as the world's leading currency for reserves held by central banks.

Currencies not traditionally used as reserves, such as the Canadian and Australian dollars, gained in favor as those countries enjoyed steady growth and lower debt than major economies.

The European Central bank said Tuesday that the euro's share among the currency reserves held globally by central banks fell to 23.9 percent in 2012 from 25.1 percent the previous year. The dollar's share was little changed at 61.9 percent.

The ECB said the financial crisis that has afflicted the 17-country eurozone was a factor discouraging use of the euro for reserves, which are often held in the form of government bonds. Lending across borders in the eurozone has dropped, diminishing the liquidity that reserve holders like to see. Lower liquidity means there are fewer buyers and sellers readily found.

The eurozone countries have struggled with heavy levels of public debt ? Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus have needed financial rescue. Even larger economies like Spain and Italy have worryingly high debt. Concern over that debt eased only after the European Central Bank came up with a plan to buy the government bonds issued by countries that promise to reform.

In its annual report on international use of the euro, the ECB also found that there was less borrowing in euros internationally by companies because they could get lower interest rates by selling bonds denominated in U.S. dollars.

Countries hold reserves of foreign currency to help backstop their own currencies' value in case of a financial crisis and for trade purposes. The country issuing the reserve currency can benefit because demand from abroad supports its exchange rate and can mean lower borrowing costs for the government, as has been the case with the U.S. dollar in its role as the leading reserve currency.

Demand for dollars in the form of U.S. Treasury bonds by other countries ? such as China ? helps keep down the interest rate that the U.S. government pays to borrow. Money that is not spent on interest can be spent on other things, or saved.

A key finding of the report was that non-traditional reserve currencies such as the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar are in greater demand because of their growing economies and better public finances. There have been concerns about government debt not only in Europe but also in the countries that issue the world's other traditional reserves: the U.S., Japan and Britain.

The category of "other" currencies saw its share of officially disclosed reserves increase from 5.7 percent to 6.1 percent, ahead of both the yen at 3.9 percent and the pound sterling at 4.0 percent. The ECB said that category's share is the highest since the early 1970s, when the earlier international currency system set up at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 collapsed.

The ECB said, however, that the use of such non-traditional currencies might slow if major economies start reducing debt and deficits. Such currencies are also of limited use, the ECB said, because they are less liquid ? there are fewer debt securities and other ways of holding them available, meaning finding a seller or a buyer can be harder.

The ECB said the Chinese currency, the renminbi, had shown impressive gains in foreign trade, with the share of trade in goods settled in renminbi rising from near zero to almost 10 percent in 2012. The ECB said its widespread use as a reserve currency was hindered by China's lack of fully developed financial markets and by its investment and foreign exchange controls.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/debt-crisis-shrinks-international-euro-143553523.html

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Strong ARM Tactics

The ARM 1 CPU in an Acorn ARM Evaluation System

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Never trust gadget-makers? claims about battery life. They usually employ weasel words (a machine that alleges to last ?up to? six hours between recharges is technically delivering if it runs out of juice in 45 minutes). And they?re racked with fine-print caveats (the battery can last all week if you dim the display to the point of illegibility). That said, you can relax your skepticism just a bit for the new crop of notebook computers coming out this year. Apple?s new 13-inch MacBook Air promises 12 hours between charges?well, ?up to? 12 hours, but based on many reviewers? tests, including my own, it handily manages a full day without a plug. Lots of new Windows-based laptops are offering similarly amazing stats, and I bet many will meet their claims, too. All of a sudden, your days of fighting fellow caf? patrons for the last available outlet are over.

Why are laptops batteries getting so much better? The nominal reason is the new Intel processor Haswell?the dramatic result of Intel?s yearslong effort to alter its core assumptions about the future of technology. For much of its life, Intel optimized its processors for speed?every year, the chip giant released new ones that were the fastest ever, because it guessed that computers could never get too powerful. For three decades, that bet was correct. Every time Intel?s chips got faster, software makers came up with new uses for them: better games, audio and video editing, faster Web servers. It seemed likely that our thirst for computing power would never be quenched.

But over the past few years, Intel?s assumptions began to unravel. As computers got fast enough for most ordinary uses, speed was no longer a draw?if all you wanted to do was check your email and surf the Web, why would you buy a monster PC? Instead of faster computers, the world began fixating on cameras, music players, smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and tiny wearable machines. These devices weren?t computationally powerful, but they were small, light, thin, and offered great battery life. Intel?s fast, battery-hogging chips just couldn?t work in them.

Instead, almost out of the blue, a rival chipmaker came along to fill the void. It wasn?t Apple, Google, Samsung, or any other familiar tech giant. It was ARM, a small British firm that is the most important tech company you?ve probably never heard of. ARM?s chips sit at the heart of almost every tech innovation in the past decade, from the digital camera to the iPod to the iPad to the Kindle to every smartphone worthy of the name. And it?s only due to competition with ARM that Intel created Haswell. When your laptop goes a full day without a charge, you can thank ARM.

If you?ve never heard of ARM, it?s partly because of its stealthiness: None of the products that use ARM?s technology are stamped with its brand. What?s more, compared to the biggest names in tech, ARM is almost comically tiny. In 2012, Intel and Google each made $11 billion in profit. Microsoft made $17 billion, Samsung? made $21 billion, and Apple made $41 billion. ARM? In 2012, it made $400 million?less than 1 percent of Apple?s take. (The name, by the way, is pronounced ?arm,? not ?A-R-M.? The acronym once stood for Advanced RISC Machines?RISC being an acronym for a certain chip-design philosophy?but in 1998, the company decided to drop the double acronym. Now, like KFC, ARM officially stands for nothing.)

Despite its Lilliputian scale, ARM?s processors are in everything. The company claims a 90 percent market share in mobile devices. Ninty percent! You almost certainly own at least one ARM-powered thing, and probably closer to a dozen. There?s an ARM in your phone, your tablet, your car, your camera, your printer, your TV, and your cable box. In 2012, manufacturers shipped 9 billion ARM-powered devices; by 2017, the company predicts that number will rise to 41 billion every year.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/macbook_air_battery_life_more_power_thanks_to_the_most_important_tech_company.html

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Is that bacteria dead yet? Nano and laser technology packed into small device tests antibiotic treatment in minutes

June 30, 2013 ? Researchers at EPFL have built a matchbox-sized device that can test for the presence of bacteria in a couple of minutes, instead of up to several weeks. A nano-lever vibrates in the presence of bacterial activity, while a laser reads the vibration and translates it into an electrical signal that can be easily read -- the absence of a signal signifies the absence of bacteria. Thanks to this method, it is quick and easy to determine if a bacteria has been effectively treated by an antibiotic, a crucial medical tool especially for resistant strains. Easily used in clinics, it could also prove useful for testing chemotherapy treatment.

The research is published in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

"This method is fast and accurate. And it can be a precious tool for both doctors looking for the right dosage of antibiotics and for researchers to determine which treatments are the most effective," explains Giovanni Dietler.

Laser and nanotechnology read the bacteria's metabolic activity

It currently takes a long time to measure a bacterial infection's response to antibiotic treatment. Clinicians must culture the bacteria and then observe its growth, sometimes for almost a month, as is the case with tuberculosis, in order to determine if the treatment has been effective.

Thanks to advances in laser and optical technology, the EPFL team of physicists has reduced this time to a couple of minutes. To do so, Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas and Giovanni Longo have exploited the microscopic movements of a bacterium's metabolism.

These vital signs are almost unperceivable. In order to test for them, the researchers place the bacteria on an extremely sensitive measuring device that vibrates a small lever -- only slightly thicker than a strand of hair -- in the presence of certain activity. The lever then vibrates under the metabolic activity of the germs. These infinitely small oscillations, on the order of one millionth of a millimeter, determine the presence or absence of the bacteria.

To measure these vibrations, the researchers project a laser onto the lever. The light is then reflected back and the signal is converted into an electrical current to be interpreted by the clinician or researcher. When the electrical current is a flat line, one knows that the bacteria are all dead; it is as easy to read as an electrocardiogram.

A promising method for cancer treatment

The researchers have miniaturized the tool -- it is currently the size of a matchbox. "By joining our tool with a piezoelectric device instead of a laser, we could further reduce its size to the size of a microchip," says Giovanni Dietler. They could then be combined together to test a series of antibiotics on one strain in only a couple of minutes.

The researchers are currently evaluating the tool's potential in other fields, notably oncology. They are looking into measuring the metabolism of tumor cells that have been exposed to cancer treatment to evaluate the efficiency of the treatment. "If our method also works in this field, we really have a precious tool on our hands that can allow us to develop new treatments and also test both quickly and simply how the patient is reacting to the cancer treatment," says Sandor Kasas.

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Hit And Run Crash Claims Life Of Breaux Bridge Tow Truck Operator, Texas Suspect Behind Bars

25-year-old Blaze Louviere, who worked for Guy?s Towing, lost his life Sunday morning after La. State Police say he was hit by a vehicle while trying to remove a disabled vehicle on I-10.

Troopers indicated Louviere?s tow truck was equipped with the proper yellow strobe overhead light bar. But, according to police, that didn?t stop 24-year-old Luis Molina of Mission, Texas, from hitting Louviere with his 2000 GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m., then driving away. Trooper Stephen Hammons says witnesses followed Molina into the Breaux Bridge city limits where Breaux Bridge Police Officers took him into custody until Troopers could arrive.

Troopers were notified about 7 hours after the accident that Louviere had died from his injuries. Molina was not injured during the crash. And police say, while it was unknown if Molina was wearing his seat belt, he was under the influence of alcohol. He?s been booked into the St. Martin Parish Jail for vehicular homicide, improper lane use and felony hit-and-run. State Police are still examining toxicology samples and continue to investigate the case.

Guy?s Towing statement, obtained from our news partners at KATC: ?Guy?s Towing Service, Inc. has for decades served the communities of south Louisiana and aided in protecting the motoring public in its untiring effort to eliminate drunk driving and the tragedies that follow. Today Guy?s lost one of its own family members to a drunk driver. Today is a day we will never forget as we mourn the loss of Blaze Louviere, a young man who?s life was needlessly taken by a drunk driver while assisting one of his own on I-10 early this morning.?

Louisiana Law requires drivers operating a vehicle upon an interstate or multi-lane highway to yield the right of way to a parked vehicle on the shoulder of the road.? If a lane change is not possible, the law requires drivers to reduce their speed.? On two lane roads, drivers are required to maintain a safe speed for roadway conditions.

Last year, 62% of the fatal crashes investigated by Troop I involved some form of impairment.? Troopers remind drivers about the dangers of impaired driving.? Even after having just one drink, decision making abilities are hindered.? Make the responsible decision every time, don?t drink and drive.

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Robert Swift: Capitol Matters: State looks to police local debt

HARRISBURG - Two bills to provide more state oversight to guard against risky municipal debt deals were approved by a Senate committee last week.

The measures would give state officials greater review power over municipal debt borrowings and give the state Ethics Committee authority to investigate alleged ethical violations by individuals involved in municipal financial transactions.

The bills' approval by the Local Government Committee marks the start of consideration for a legislative remedy to prevent a future repeat of the Harrisburg debt crisis. A massive debt tied to the city's incinerator has pushed the city into Act 47 distressed status

Sen. John Blake, D-22, Archbald, sponsored the ethics investigation bill and Sen. John Eichelberger, R-30, Hollidaysburg, sponsored the bill to give the state Department of Community and Economic Development power to put conditions on municipal debt borrowings and limit the ability of a municipality to provide guarantees on municipal authority debt borrowings.

"These bills need to be signed into law to correct flaws or omissions in previous laws and ensure Pennsylvania's local government officials are properly accountable to the taxpayers and ratepayers they serve," said Mr. Eichelberger who chairs the committee.

Still awaiting committee action is a bill to ban use by municipalities of complex financial interest rate transactions known as "swaps".

Pocono septic systems

State lawmakers gave final approval last week to a bill aimed at heading off a controversial proposed state watershed rule involving septic systems.

The measure which Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to sign would sanction on-lot sewage systems approved by the state Department of Environmental Protection as meeting the requirement of not degrading the water quality of a protected stream.

The bill will provide certainty to local governments and developers seeking sewage planning approval for projects near special protection watersheds, said Mr. Corbett.

"The House and Senate found a solution that allows the Department of Environmental Protection to rely upon the existing standards of Act 537," added Mr. Corbett.

The bill was pushed to passage by five Northeast Pennsylvania lawmakers, including Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20, Lehman Twp.; and Reps. Sandra Major, R-111, Montrose; Mike Peifer, R-139, Honesdale; Mario Scavello, R-176, Mount Pocono, and Rosemary Brown, R-189, Middle Smithfield Twp.

The lawmakers said a DEP rule proposed earlier this year could have led to costly requirements that septic systems for homes and businesses be located on larger tracts of property or have a greater buffer zone.

Source: http://thedailyreview.com/opinion/robert-swift-capitol-matters-state-looks-to-police-local-debt-1.1513129

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Why We Aren't Developing For OUYA

Editor's note:?Tolga Ozuygur is the co-founder of Overdose Caffeine, an indie game-development company from Turkey that develops cross-platform, real-time multiplayer games.?Follow him on Twitter @tolgaozuygur. We at Overdose Caffeine had previously announced that Pocket Fleet, a?real-time multiplayer space dogfight game developed for mobile devices,?would be available soon on OUYA. Our players were looking forward to it. Even we were excited about the prospect of bringing the game to the?platform, as we loved the device and thought TV was a great medium for fast-paced multiplayer gaming.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

George W. Bush library opens to public

DALLAS (AP) ? The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened to the public Wednesday, with the 43rd president greeting 43 area schoolchildren who were its first visitors.

"It was amazing seeing one of our nation's leaders who left an eight year legacy behind him," said Eduardo Borrego, a 6th grader Mark Twain Elementary in Richardson. He added, "I was like, 'I can't believe he's here.'"

The library and museum, along with Bush's policy institute, are housed in the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The center was dedicated last week during a ceremony that featured Bush, President Barack Obama, and former Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, who is Bush's father.

The 43 Dallas-Fort Worth area students were chosen by their superintendents to be the first visitors to the museum Wednesday, said library and museum spokesman John Orrell. He said about 300,000 visitors a year are expected.

The museum includes exhibits on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the Florida recount and other historical events. There is also a replica of the Oval Office, where the Bush met with the students.

Jean Lundin, 65, and her sister, Joyce Richards, 62, emerged in tears from the part of the museum dedicated to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"It was like it brought it back like it was yesterday, happening all over again," said Richards of Garland.

Lundin, clutching Bush's autobiography as she went through the museum, had traveled to Dallas from her home in Marquette, Mich., so the two could be there on the opening day.

"I just think politically he's exactly consistent with my values," said Lundin, a retired professor who said she used to tell her students that she was Bush's second biggest fan, only behind former first lady Laura Bush.

Kylie Franklin, 12, a 6th grader at Reagan Middle School in Grand Prairie, along with her sister, Makaylin Franklin, a 5th grader at Dickinson Elementary Academy in Grand Prairie, were among the students who met the president.

"That was an amazing experience," Kylie Franklin said.

She said that among questions the students asked Bush was whether he would run again for president if he could. "He said 'no,'" said Franklin, who along with her sister has visited all 13 presidential libraries run by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Larry Touchon, 85, and Yolanda Touchon, 72, of Amarillo, made the visit their honeymoon trip after getting married April 21 in Las Vegas.

"We just wanted to tie this in with our marriage. He's such a great guy," Larry Touchon said as his voice broke, adding, "He saved this country in 9-11, there's no question about it."

Mike Palmer, 45, came from Los Angeles to be in Dallas for the opening. "He's my favorite president, so why not?" he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/george-w-bush-library-opens-public-144353602.html

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Why the alleged Boston bombers' mom probably won't be extradited (+video)

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva may stay out of American custody because the US and Russia do not have a bilateral extradition treaty, despite efforts by Moscow to negotiate one.

By Fred Weir,?Correspondent / April 28, 2013

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva at a news conference in Dagestan, Russia, on Thursday. Her sister Maryam, right, is with her.

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The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, has become a focus of interest after it emerged that her name had been added to a key terrorist watchlist in 2011 and fresh materials, including wiretaps, handed over to the US by the Russians showed her "vaguely discussing" jihad with her elder son two years ago.?

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Vince Vaughn & wife Kyla Weber Vince Vaughn has announced that he and his wife Kyla Weber are expecting their second child in August. The actor, whose comedy “The Internship” will debut in June, broke the baby news when he sat down for a chat with Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show. Vince Vaughn, 43, is shown in a preview clip ...

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Mississippi man linked to ricin letters charged with biological weapons use

By Robbie Ward

TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi martial arts instructor was charged on Saturday with attempting to use a biological weapon after a ricin-laced letter was sent to President Barack Obama earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested at his Tupelo home shortly after midnight by FBI agents following searches of the residence and a former business as part of the ricin letter investigation.

He was later charged with "developing ... and possessing" ricin and "attempting" to use it "as a weapon," according to a joint statement by the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Mississippi and the head of the FBI's Mississippi office.

Ricin is a highly lethal poison made from castor beans.

If convicted, Dutschke faces maximum possible penalties of life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

His arrest came several days after U.S. prosecutors dropped charges in the case on Tuesday against another Mississippi man, Kevin Curtis, who was released from jail after a search of his home revealed no incriminating evidence.

Dutschke's name first surfaced when Curtis' attorney suggested in a court hearing that her client had been framed by someone, and mentioned a running feud between Dutschke and Curtis.

Saturday's announcement did not specify if Dutschke was being charged in relation to the ricin letters, but it noted that the investigation had been conducted by several federal agencies including the U. S. Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Capitol Police.

Dutschke's attorney, Lori Basham, did not return calls seeking comment, but she told Reuters earlier in the week that her client denied having anything to do with the ricin letters.

Dutschke is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, on Monday.

Federal agents initially targeted Curtis, an Elvis impersonator, in their efforts to find who sent the letters laced with ricin.

Letters addressed to Obama and Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, were retrieved last week at off-site mail facilities before reaching their intended victims. A Mississippi state judge also received a ricin-laced letter.

Discovery of the letters fueled more national anxiety in the days after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

The case also brought extra scrutiny for the FBI almost 12 years after a 2001 letter-borne anthrax attack that killed five people and puzzled investigators for years. The anthrax investigation came in the wake of the September 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the United States.

Federal agents in unmarked vehicles were stationed in streets surrounding Dutschke's home on Friday afternoon and all evening.

Agents from the FBI and members of an anti-terrorist response team from the Mississippi National Guard, some wearing hazardous material suits, had searched the home on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as the premises of a former martial arts studio Dutschke ran in the city.

Dutschke was cooperating with federal officials during the searches this week, his attorney said.

'MISSING PIECES'

Suspicion had originally fallen on Curtis because of wording contained in all three ricin letters, which included his initials "KC."

Dutschke has told local media that he knew Curtis but had only had contact with him three times, and not since 2010.

Curtis, 45, told the Northeastern Mississippi Daily Journal that he believed Dutschke deliberately sabotaged his career as a performer by calling sponsors and telling them about Curtis' numerous prior arrests. "I lost 12 really big shows in 2011 and eight in 2012 directly linked to him," Curtis told the newspaper.

Dutschke, who fronted a two-man blues band in Tupelo called RoboDrum, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate in 2007 against Stephen Holland, a Democratic state representative from the Tupelo area. Holland's mother, Sadie, is the judge to whom one of the ricin-tainted letters was mailed this month.

Curtis's brother and fellow Elvis impersonator, insurance agent Jack Curtis, worked for a time with Dutschke and said he believed the feud with Dutschke was related to his brother's efforts to publicize allegations about a black market for body parts at a local Mississippi hospital.

Kevin Curtis was fired as a janitor from North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after raising questions about body parts he said he observed there. The hospital strongly denied the allegations.

Dutschke faces other charges related to an April 1 indictment for fondling three children between ages 7 and 16, from 2007 to 2013, according to court records.

RICIN POTENCY

The FBI said on Thursday that more tests may be necessary to determine the potency of a granular material identified as ricin contained in the letters.

An FBI agent testified in court in Mississippi that the ricin found in the letters was in a crude form and looked like castor beans ground up in a blender, according to media accounts. Experts have said ricin in that form would have a low potency.

Castor bean plants are grown as ornamental shrubs in the Southern United States, but there is no domestic castor oil production and it is mostly imported from India and China.

Milton Leitenberg, senior research scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at the University of Maryland, said the vast majority of ricin cases since the 1960s had involved crude ricin preparations made from recipes published in manuals and on the Internet.

"You could ingest this crude stuff, swallow a couple of tablespoons and you'd probably vomit, but not much more," Leitenberg said in a telephone interview.

A material like that described in the ricin court hearing would pose little danger, Leitenberg said.

(Additional reporting by Emily Lane in Jackson, Mississippi, Marilyn W. Thompson and Susan Cornwell in Washingon; Writing by David Adams; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-man-targeted-ricin-letters-investigation-arrested-145219248.html

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

New conservative lobbying push for gay marriage

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? A national group of prominent GOP donors that supports gay marriage is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to make it legal.

American Unity PAC was formed last year to lend financial support to Republicans who bucked the party's longstanding opposition to gay marriage. Its founders are launching a new lobbying organization, American Unity Fund, and already have spent more than $250,000 in Minnesota, where the Legislature could vote on the issue as early as next week.

The group has spent $500,000 on lobbying since last month, including efforts in Rhode Island, Delaware, Indiana, West Virginia and Utah.

Billionaire hedge fund manager and Republican donor Paul Singer launched American Unity PAC. The lobbying effort is the next phase as the push for gay marriage spreads to more states, spokesman Jeff Cook-McCormac told The Associated Press.

"What you have is this network of influential Republicans who really want to see the party embrace the freedom to marry, and believe it's not only the right thing for the country but also good politics," Cook-McCormac said.

In Minnesota, the money has gone to state groups that are lobbying Republican lawmakers and for polling on gay marriage in a handful of suburban districts held by Republicans. So far, only one Minnesota Republican lawmaker has committed to voting to legalize gay marriage: Sen. Branden Petersen, of Andover.

"I think there will be some more. There are legislators out there that are struggling with this," said Carl Kuhl, a former political aide to former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. Kuhl's public affairs firm is contracted by Minnesotans United, the lead lobby group for gay marriage in Minnesota and main recipient of American Unity's Minnesota spending.

Gay marriage's fate in Minnesota may rest with the House, where support is seen as shakier than in the Senate. A handful of votes from Republicans could put it over the top. Nearly two dozen House Republicans represent more socially moderate suburbs and might be candidates to vote yes.

House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, said he has encouraged advocates of the marriage bill to round up Republican votes, if nothing else than to send a message to Minnesota residents that it's not a partisan proposition. But that will be politically risky; the main opposition group to same-sex marriage, Minnesota for Marriage, has said it will seek consequences for Republicans who stray on gay marriage.

Part of American Unity PAC's original mission was to spend money on behalf of Republican gay marriage supporters. Many GOP lawmakers have faced primary challenges funded in part by anti-gay marriage groups such as the National Organization for Marriage, which argue that the lawmakers had betrayed the party's core principles.

Since forming the lobby group last month, American Unity also spent money to win over Republican lawmakers in Rhode Island, where last week all five Republicans in the state Senate jumped on the gay marriage bandwagon. Rhode Island is on track to legalize gay marriage by next week, which would make it the 11th U.S. state where gay marriage is legal.

There are also plans to lobby federal lawmakers on gay rights issues.

"We intend to work on this effort until every American citizen is treated equally under the law," Cook-McCormac said. Other wealthy, traditionally Republican donors giving money to the group include Seth Klarman, David Herro and Cliff Asness.

Though only one current GOP officeholder in Minnesota is on record supporting gay marriage, a handful of prominent Republicans have spoken out in favor of it. They include former state auditor Pat Anderson and Brian McClung, who was spokesman for former Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Prominent Republican donors including former politician Wheelock Whitney and businesswoman Marilyn Carlson Nelson have also lent support and donated money.

Since it first formed to campaign against last fall's gay marriage ban and then shifted to pushing for its legalization at the Capitol, Minnesotans United has been building Republican alliances, hiring multiple lobbyists with Republican ties.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-lobbying-push-gay-marriage-050802280.html

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Bangladesh building collapse death toll nears 350

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) ? Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days of being pinned under the increasingly unstable rubble.

Still, in a boost for the rescuers, 29 survivors were pulled out Saturday, said army spokesman Shahinul Islam.

Most of the victims were crushed by massive blocks of concrete and mortar falling on them when the 8-story structure came down on Wednesday morning -- a time many of the garment factories in the building were packed with workers. It was the worst tragedy to hit Bangladesh's massive garment industry, and focused attention on the poor working conditions of the employees who toil for $38 a month to produce clothing for top international brands.

Among those arrested Saturday were two owners of a garment factory, who a Dhaka court ruled can be questioned by police for 12 days without charges being filed. Also detained are two government engineers and the wife of the building owner, who is on the run, in an attempt to force him to surrender. Late Saturday, police arrested another factory owner. Violent public protests continued sporadically in Dhaka and spread to the southeastern city of Chittagong where several vehicles were set on fire.

Working round-the-clock since Wednesday through heat and a thunderstorm, rescuers on Saturday finally reached the ground floor from the top of the mountainous rubble through 25 narrow holes they have drilled, said Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed Khan, the head of the fire services.

"We are still getting response from survivors though they are becoming weaker slowly," he said, adding that rescue workers were now able to see cars that were parked at the ground level.

"The building is very vulnerable. Any time the floors could collapse. We are performing an impossible task, but we are glad that we are able to rescue so many survivors." He said the operations will continue overnight as chances fade of people surviving for a fifth day with possibly grievous injuries and the heat.

The building site was a hive of frenzied activity all day with soldiers, police and medical workers in lab coats working non-stop. Rescuers passed bottles of water and small cylinders of oxygen up a ladder leaning against the side of the building to be given to possible survivors inside.

They used bare hands and shovels, passing chunks of brick and concrete down a human chain away from the collapsed structure. On the ground, mixed in the debris were several pairs of pink cotton pants, a mud-covered navy blue sock and a pile of green uncut fabric.

Nearby, Abul Basar wept as he awaited news of his wife, who worked in one of the garment factories. "My son says that his mother will come back some day. She must return! " he cried.

Every once in a while a badly decomposed body would be brought out, covered in cloth and plastic, to a spot where ambulances were parked. Workers furiously sprayed air-fresheners on the bodies to cover the stench, leaving the air thick with the smell of death and cheap perfume.

The bodies were kept at a makeshift morgue at the nearby Adharchandra High School before being handed over to families. Many people milled around at the school, waving photos of their missing loved ones.

Junior local government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak put the death toll at 348. Military spokesman Shahinul Islam said 2,429 survivors were accounted for, including 29 who were pulled out Saturday.

Junior Home Minister Shamsul Haque Tuku said police had arrested Bazlus Samad, managing director of New Wave Apparels Ltd., and Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, the company chairman. He told reporters that police had also detained the wife of Mohammed Sohel Rana, the owner of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, for questioning. The top three floors of the eight-story building were illegally constructed. Military spokesman Shahinul Islam said officials arrested Aminul Islam, chairman of Phantom Apparels Ltd., late Saturday in Dhaka.

Authorities are still searching for Rana, a local politician, who hasn't been seen publicly since the building collapsed. Negligence cases have been filed against him. Police in Bangladesh often detain relatives of missing suspects as a way to pressure them to surrender.

Dhaka police superintendent Habibur Rahman said Rana was a local leader of ruling Awami League's youth front. His arrest, and that of the factory owners, was ordered by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the Awami League leader.

Police said they detained for questioning two engineers working for the Savar municipality, Imtemam Hossain and Alam Ali. They did not say what role they played in approving the design of the building but it was clear that the arrests amounted to a widening crackdown. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

A garment manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed.

Police say they ordered an evacuation of the building on Tuesday after cracks in Rana Plaza were found, but the factories ignored the order and were operating when it collapsed the next day. Video before the collapse shows cracks in walls, with apparent attempts at repair. It also shows columns missing chunks of concrete and police talking to building operators.

Officials said soon after the collapse that numerous construction regulations had been violated.

The disaster is the worst ever for the country's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve worker-safety standards. Since then, very little has changed in Bangladesh, where low wages have made it a magnet for numerous global brands.

Bangladesh's garment industry was the third largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy, having grown rapidly in the past decade. The country's minimum wage is the equivalent of about $38 a month.

Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms. Altogether, they produced several million shirts, pants and other garments a year.

The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for several major North American and European retailers.

Britain's Primark acknowledged it was using a factory in Rana Plaza, but many other retailers distanced themselves from the disaster, saying they were not involved with the factories at the time of the collapse or had not recently ordered garments from them.

Wal-Mart said none of its clothing had been authorized to be made in the facility, but it is investigating whether there was any unauthorized production.

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AP writers Chris Blake and Gillian Wong in Dhaka, Stephen Wright in Bangkok, Kay Johnson in Mumbai, Matthew Pennington in Washington and AP Retail Writer Anne D'Innocenzio in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-building-collapse-death-toll-nears-350-134516592.html

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Uber's back in Gotham: NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission approves cab-hailing app

Car service Uber and New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have had a rocky relationship, as the Commission banned Uber from Gotham's taxicabs last year. Susequently, the TLC greenlit a trial to test cab hailing apps and after a brief legal delay, the pilot program is back in action, and Valleywag reports that Uber is the first app approved to participate in it. Uber's co-founder Travis Kalanick is, quite naturally, excited to be back in NYC taxis with the commission's ~~tacit~~ explicit approval, and stated that the app will be ready for use across the city "monetarily." So, it's official, good people of Gotham, you can now legally go forth and get your Uber on.

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First Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera footage flaunted (video)

Noted Blackmagic Design shooter John Brawley has released the first footage from the company's upcoming $995 Pocket Cinema Camera that might leave your DSLR green with envy. Though it's always tough to judge compressed web footage, to our eyes it looks completely untouched by the moire, aliasing and compression artifacts that tends to plague other digital cameras. While not specifying whether he used the compressed RAW setting or not, Brawley said he shot it using a Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 Micro Four Thirds lens with image stabilization turned on, meaning that feature's likely to be enabled on the camera when it arrives in late July. He also said he was "literally grabbing shots whilst I was shopping," which bodes well for serious filmmakers with a bit more time to spare. Head past the break to admire the video.

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