Friday, August 31, 2012

Paul Ryan sets tone for GOP ticket with rousing convention speech

TAMPA -- Paul Ryan worked on this speech for weeks.

The Republican vice presidential candidate used his remarks to the 2012 Republican National Convention as an opportunity to introduce his family, promote Mitt Romney's vision for economic recovery, draw contrasts with President Barack Obama and profess the role of faith in his life. He even dropped in a quick line about Led Zeppelin, his favorite band.

Ryan tore into Obama's federal health care law that passed in 2010, the president's most prized legislative accomplishment. Ryan revived an attack from the campaign trail, accusing the president of passing the law "at the expense of the elderly" by trimming the growth in Medicare spending to pay for it. Between the men on the Republican ticket, Ryan is perhaps the better candidate to address health care, given Romney's support for a state-based proposal with similar provisions.

Ryan also made an enthusiastic appeal to young voters, attempting to tie Obama's policies to the unemployment rate among college graduates.

"College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms," Ryan said, "staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life." He went on to paint the future of Americans as an "adventureless journey," that relies on government programs from cradle to grave.

At times, Ryan overstepped, appearing to blame Obama for the closing of a plant in his district that shut down before the president even took office. When he railed against Obama's stimulus program, a massive infusion of government spending that passed in the president's first 100 days in office, Ryan neglected to mention that his own office requested that funds be directed to help businesses in his home state.

As a whole, Ryan portrayed a country that isn't better off than it was four years earlier, one that moves from crisis to crisis without an end in sight.

"It began with a financial crisis; it ends with a job crisis," Ryan said of Obama's first term in office. "It began with a housing crisis they alone didn't cause; it ends with a housing crisis they didn't correct."

The speech, which gave Ryan more exposure to voters than he's ever had in his public career, will likely set the tone for how Romney's campaign will use him for the rest of the fall campaign.

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.

I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity ? and I know we can do this.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old ? and I know that we are ready.

Our nominee is sure ready. His whole life has prepared him for this moment ? to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

I'm the newcomer to the campaign, so let me share a first impression. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

They've run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they've got left.

With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money ? and he's pretty experienced at that. You see, some people can't be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics, because their ability, character, and plain decency are so obvious ? and ladies and gentlemen, that is Mitt Romney.

For my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn. It certainly came as news to my family, and I'd like you to meet them: My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our boys Charlie and Sam.

The kids are happy to see their grandma, who lives in Florida. There she is ? my Mom, Betty.

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again.

When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, "Let's get this done" ? and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.

A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: "I believe that if our government is there to support you ? this plant will be here for another hundred years." That's what he said in 2008.

Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.

Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. Twenty-three million people, unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty. Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

The first troubling sign came with the stimulus. It was President Obama's first and best shot at fixing the economy, at a time when he got everything he wanted under one-party rule. It cost $831 billion ? the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government.

It went to companies like Solyndra, with their gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs, and make-believe markets. The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. You, the working men and women of this country, were cut out of the deal.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted ? it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

Maybe the greatest waste of all was time. Here we were, faced with a massive job crisis ? so deep that if everyone out of work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch the length of the entire American continent. You would think that any president, whatever his party, would make job creation, and nothing else, his first order of economic business.

But this president didn't do that. Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn't have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

In Congress, when they take out the heavy books and wall charts about Medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on Garfield Street in Janesville. My wonderful grandma, Janet, had Alzheimer's and moved in with Mom and me. Though she felt lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel loved.

We had help from Medicare, and it was there, just like it's there for my Mom today. Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it. A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

So our opponents can consider themselves on notice. In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the Left isn't going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Obamacare, as much as anything else, explains why a presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close.

It began with a financial crisis; it ends with a job crisis.

It began with a housing crisis they alone didn't cause; it ends with a housing crisis they didn't correct.

It began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America.

It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, "I haven't communicated enough." He said his job is to "tell a story to the American people" ? as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House. What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago ? isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

In this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time. Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt "unpatriotic" ? serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer.

Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.

Republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. How did the president respond? By doing nothing ? nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue.

So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does nothing. In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious.

They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don't have.

My Dad used to say to me: "Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution." The present administration has made its choices. And Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems.

And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.

After four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get America creating wealth again. With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we'll put government back on the side of the men and women who create jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.

My Mom started a small business, and I've seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. And it transformed my Mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn't just in the past. Her work gave her hope. It made our family proud. And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores ? these didn't come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn't help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms ? the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity. Wherever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the American president is on their side. Instead of managing American decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers ? a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.

Listen to the way we're spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.

It's the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio. When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

By themselves, the failures of one administration are not a mandate for a new administration. A challenger must stand on his own merits. He must be ready and worthy to serve in the office of president.

We're a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, we're a little different. There are the songs on his iPod, which I've heard on the campaign bus and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, I hope it's not a deal-breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC, and ends with Zeppelin.

A generation apart. That makes us different, but not in any of the things that matter. Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good, when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by. And we both know it can be that way again.

We've had very different careers ? mine mainly in public service, his mostly in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones. By the way, being successful in business ? that's a good thing.

Mitt has not only succeeded, but succeeded where others could not. He turned around the Olympics at a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad management, overspending, and corruption ? sounds familiar, doesn't it?

He was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in ten legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded.

Mitt and I also go to different churches. But in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example. And I've been watching that example. The man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine businessman, he's a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country.

Our different faiths come together in the same moral creed. We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life.

We have responsibilities, one to another ? we do not each face the world alone. And the greatest of all responsibilities, is that of the strong to protect the weak. The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.

Each of these great moral ideas is essential to democratic government ? to the rule of law, to life in a humane and decent society. They are the moral creed of our country, as powerful in our time, as on the day of America's founding. They are self-evident and unchanging, and sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government.

The founding generation secured those rights for us, and in every generation since, the best among us have defended our freedoms. They are protecting us right now. We honor them and all our veterans, and we thank them.

The right that makes all the difference now, is the right to choose our own leaders. And you are entitled to the clearest possible choice, because the time for choosing is drawing near. So here is our pledge.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us ? all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this.

We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

Whatever your political party, let's come together for the sake of our country. Join Mitt Romney and me. Let's give this effort everything we have. Let's see this through all the way. Let's get this done.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/full-prepared-remarks-paul-ryan-rnc-speech-023400373.html

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Legacy of the Dragon Soul

When a legend of 11 dragons vanishes from history, the world begins to fall into a state of chaos. Now, the only way to restore order is in the hands of destined individuals chosen to finish what the dragons of old could not.

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Since they'll have the power and souls of the dragons, I assume they should at least know who they are right? Well I'll be placing the information on each dragons appearance, power, etc. here in due time.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Resistance to Backup Tuberculosis Drugs Increases

TB, tuberculosis In countries such as South Africa, drugs commonly used to treat tuberculosis are becoming less effective as strains of the diseases develop resistance. Image: Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News/Corbis

From Nature magazine

More than 40% of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to front-line treatments are also resistant to some common backup drugs, according to research published this week in The Lancet1.

Efforts to control tuberculosis are being hampered by the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of the disease, which resist treatment with two front-line antibiotics, rifampicin and isoniazid. In some parts of the world, as many as 50% of tuberculosis cases are resistant to these drugs2. Alternative treatment options are toxic and expensive, relying on second-line drugs that are not as effective and must be given in lengthy courses. Unfortunately, the majority of MDR?tuberculosis cases occur in developing countries that can?t afford the several billion dollars that the global Stop TB Partnership?estimates3 will be required to combat the disease.

More recently, strains of tuberculosis have emerged that are resistant not only to front-line antibiotics, but also to one or more drugs within each of the two most important classes of second-line drugs ? broad-spectrum antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, and injectable agents (amikacin, capreomycin and kanamycin). This extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis heralds a disturbing trend towards infections that are virtually untreatable.

?It is critical that we take steps now in diagnosing, treating and preventing MDR tuberculosis so that it doesn?t turn into XDR tuberculosis,? says Peter Cegielski, medical officer?for the division of tuberculosis elimination at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and a co-author of the Lancet study1.

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Cegielski and his colleagues investigated the prevalence of resistance to second-line drugs among 1,278 people diagnosed with MDR tuberculosis in eight countries ? most of which are on the list of nations with a high MDR-tuberculosis burden. They found that 43.7% of the study participants were infected with a tuberculosis strain that was resistant to at least one second-line drug, and 6.7% of the infections proved to be XDR tuberculosis.

The team also identified factors associated with a risk of developing resistance to second-line drugs, and found that the most significant was previous treatment with the same drugs. ?By identifying the risk factors, we can help shape practice to ensure that patients are diagnosed and treated properly,? says Cegielski.

Until now, there has been no clear understanding of acquired resistance to second-line drugs, because countries where MDR tuberculosis is rife have limited laboratory resources and lack consistent testing. Paul van Helden, a tuberculosis researcher at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, says that the Lancet study provides a baseline against which to measure future progress.

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Sven Hoffner, a clinical mycobacteriologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control in Solna, says that drug-resistant tuberculosis is "a manmade problem", often because drugs are not available or of poor quality. The key to controlling it, he says, is to detect and treat cases quickly. However, diagnosis?can take up to three months, during which the disease can still be transmitted.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Home Equity Lines of Credit ...

A home equity line of credit, or HELOC, can be just the thing that saves homeowners from financial hardship or even, complete disaster. But just like anything else, this very specific type of second mortgage has its own advantages, and disadvantages.

The biggest advantage that comes with taking out a HELOC is that you?ll have money available to you whenever you need it. These loans are revolving lines of credit that are secured by your home. As such, you can draw from them whenever you need extra cash, whether it?s to send a child to college or make renovations on your home. Many homeowners take out a HELOC and use it as their emergency fund, never using it but planning for ?just in case.? With a HELOC, lenders aren?t typically concerned with what you?ll be using the money for.

Another advantage that comes with taking out a HELOC on your home is that no portion of the principal amount is due until the loan expires. Once that happens, it will then turn into a more traditional second mortgage, with no draws being allowed and regular payments being made towards the principal. Up until that period however, only the interest on the loan is due and a homeowner is under no obligation to make payments toward the principal amount.

That does lead to some confusion however; and that confusion is one of the biggest disadvantages that will come with a home equity line of credit. When many homeowners first hear that HELOCs are ?no payments necessary? loans, they think that the interest, and only the interest, will be due each month. This however, is not the case. Depending on the lender you choose for your HELOC, you may be required to pay monthly maintenance fees or membership fees that need to be paid ? even if you haven?t taken out a penny from the loan.

Of course, the other big disadvantage that comes with a HELOC is that, because it?s a loan that?s secured by your home, you could lose your home if you default on the loan. This is a huge risk that comes with any mortgage, but it?s one that needs to be carefully considered when taking out a HELOC. Unlike a first mortgage, you?re not investing in anything with a second mortgage or HELOC; you?re simply paying for something that you?ve already paid for. While doing so in order to take care of emergencies at home or expand your investor profile can be good options, homeowners need to seriously consider what they want to use a HELOC for, so that they can avoid the ?HELOC ATM fever? that has so many in Canada concerned at the moment.

For homeowners that want to wisely tap into their existing home equity to get them out of financial hardship or, further the financial road they?re on, HELOCs can have all the advantages they?re looking for. However use a HELOC incorrectly, and the downsides of these loans will come much too quickly.

Bryan J is the author of this article. For more information about Home equity line of credit or Canadian Mortgage Inc

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Belgian who aided child abuse starts convent life

Michelle Martin, partially obscured at center, ex-wife of Belgium's child killer Marc Dutroux leaves prison in Brussels, Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012. Belgium's highest court granted conditional early release Tuesday to one of the nation's most despised criminals, the accomplice and former wife of a pedophile and child killer, even though she let two of his victims starve to death. The Belgium court is allowing Michelle Martin to live in a convent after serving barely half her 30-year sentence for her part in the mid-1990s kidnappings, rapes and killings by her then-husband, Marc Dutroux. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Michelle Martin, partially obscured at center, ex-wife of Belgium's child killer Marc Dutroux leaves prison in Brussels, Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012. Belgium's highest court granted conditional early release Tuesday to one of the nation's most despised criminals, the accomplice and former wife of a pedophile and child killer, even though she let two of his victims starve to death. The Belgium court is allowing Michelle Martin to live in a convent after serving barely half her 30-year sentence for her part in the mid-1990s kidnappings, rapes and killings by her then-husband, Marc Dutroux. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

The Mayor of Namur, Prevot Maxime, center, speaks with journalists outside the Poor Clares Monastery in Malonne, Belgium, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. One of Belgium's most despised criminals, the former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left prison for a convent late Tuesday after serving barely half her 30-year sentence. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

A car carrying Michelle Martin arrives at the Poor Clares Monastery in Malonne, Belgium, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. One of Belgium's most despised criminals, Martin, the former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left prison for a convent late Tuesday after serving barely half her 30-year sentence. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Protestors chant slogans outside the Poor Clares Monastery in Malonne, Belgium, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. One of Belgium's most despised criminals, the former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left prison for a convent late Tuesday after serving barely half her 30-year sentence. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Protestors chant slogans outside the Poor Clares Monastery in Malonne, Belgium, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. One of Belgium's most despised criminals, the former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left prison for a convent late Tuesday after serving barely half her 30-year sentence. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

(AP) ? The screaming, insults and scuffles that accompanied the nighttime arrival of one of Belgium's most despised criminals at a bucolic convent have abated.

A local legislator who suggested in a Tweet that Michelle Martin, the woman who let two 8-year-old girls starve to death in a cellar and helped her pedophile husband carry out horrific abuse 16 years ago, should be "taken down," said on Wednesday that his comment should not be taken seriously.

And political talk is centering on how to toughen the conditions for early release in Belgium to avoid having a criminal like Martin walk free after serving only 16 years of her 30-year sentence.

Meanwhile, Martin started her first day at the Clarisse convent in the village of Malonne on Wednesday. She will have to work for 20 hours a week to compensate for her living costs as she seeks, in the words of her lawyer, atonement for her crimes.

After an eventful arrival Tuesday night, police remained on guard outside the convent on Wednesday. The masses of journalists jockeying for a glimpse of Martin started dwindling.

As the car carrying her sought its way through Malonne late Tuesday, some stones were thrown and the vehicle was kicked.

"To go through this on the very day with such violence, I think it left an impression on her," said Martin's lawyer, Thierry Moreau. He said he hopes a time will come, once the furor has died down, when Martin will be fully reintegrated into society.

"There is the possible question to integrate her into the life of Malonne, and think what she could do to find work," Moreau said. "But it will be very difficult. You need someone to give her employment."

The memory of her crimes is still too vivid for that.

She was first the mistress and later the wife of Marc Dutroux, who horrified the nation with his crimes during the mid-1990s. He was convicted of abducting, imprisoning and raping six girls between the summers of 1995 and 1996. He was also found guilty of murdering two of the six girls, who ranged in age from 8 to 19 years old.

The last two of Dutroux's kidnap victims were found alive in his basement a few days after his arrest.

Martin was convicted of conspiracy in the kidnappings and imprisonment leading to the deaths of the two starved girls, who were held in a secret dungeon specially built in a cellar. Martin said she had been too scared to go into the cellar to feed them while Dutroux was serving a four-month jail term for car theft.

Such were her crimes, that regional legislator Jurgen Verstrepen called in a Tweet message late Tuesday for her to be "taken down ... candidates?" On Wednesday he said the Tweet lacked a smiley face at the end, and "for some this is necessary to show irony."

The prospect of her release had spawned demonstrations in the past few weeks, with demands to keep her in jail. On Wednesday, under sunny skies, there still were police around the convent but all appeared calm.

Associated Press

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An intriguing site near an Egyptian town called Dimai consists of a large, square formation and smaller features.

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Remember that researcher who thought she spotted previously undiscovered Egyptian pyramids in Google Earth imagery? It turns out that there really are some ruins in the picture, but they?re not pyramids.

That's the verdict of an Italian archaeologist who has been surveying the area around the present-day town of Dimai in Egypt's Fayoum Desert.

"The features in Google images are well-known since 1925, when they were surveyed by G. Caton-Thompson and E.W. Gardner," Paola Davoli, an Egyptologist at Italy's University of Salento and co-director of the Soknopaiou Nesos Project, told me in an email. "They are natural mounds surmounted by a building (the biggest one) and by dug wells (in the other cases). For sure they are not pyramids, but their date and use are still not known."

The Dimai formations have been a subject of interest for many years. "We [have] still not dug them, but they will be the objects of future study by the Soknopaiou Nesos Project," Davoli said.

For more than a decade, the project has been doing a territorial survey of the area around Dimai, which was known as Soknopaiou Nesos during the Greco-Roman period in Egypt. The city is thought to have been founded by Ptolemy II in the third century B.C., on a site that shows evidence of habitation going back to the Neolithic period. During its heyday, it was situated on the shore of a large freshwater lake, but the lake has shrunk and gone salty since ancient times.

Davoli said the prevailing view is that the structures might have been watchtowers, designed to look over "an agricultural area or a paleo-lake just in front of them to the east," or perhaps tombs.

Dan Billin, a former newspaper reporter in New Hampshire who turned us on to the Soknopaiou Nesos Project, cites multiple reports about the Dimai site. "Micol was correct to think that at least one of the anomalies she saw on Google Earth was a man-made feature," Billin wrote in an email. "What she didn't manage to discover, however, was that archaeologists already knew about it, and that it's surrounded by numerous other archaeological sites."

Bob Brier, an Egyptologist based at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, said in an email that Billin's evaluation of the site "sounds like a reasonable scenario."

Google Earth via Angela Micol

Several eroded features can be seen in this image of terrain about 12 miles from Abu Sidhum, a city on the Nile.

"Note, there is no mention of pyramids," Brier wrote.

Micol had pointed to another intriguing area of the Egyptian desert with four mounds and a large, triangular-shaped plateau, alongside the Nile in Upper Egypt, 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Abu Sidhum. The prevailing view is that those formations are not mounds or pyramids built by human hands, but are buttes carved by natural erosion.

Such formations are commonly seen in that part of the desert, James Harrell, professor emeritus of archaeological geology at the University of Toledo, told Life's Little Mysteries.

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Hollande popularity slides as French economy wanes

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Socialist President Francois Hollande raised expectations he would revive the economy and stem soaring unemployment during his election campaign, but tumbling opinion poll scores show the public is losing patience.

Hollande's approval rating has slid to 44 percent in one poll from above 60 percent in May when he took over from the unpopular Nicolas Sarkozy. A second survey shows 72 percent of voters feel he is acting too slowly to resolve their problems.

The drop in popularity, as the French return from summer holidays, leaves Hollande vulnerable to public anger as he prepares a 2013 budget that must save 30 billion euros ($37.70 billion) to meet deficit goals and asks parliament to ratify a European fiscal pact which eurosceptics fear will expose France to more Brussels-imposed austerity.

"Hollande set the bar high by saying he would have original ideas. People are disappointed. They feel he doesn't have the solutions he made out he had," said Jerome Sainte-Marie at pollster CSA, whose latest survey found just 49 percent of French have faith in Hollande, down 5 points from late July.

A poll by Ipsos, released on Monday, put Hollande's approval rating at 44 percent, down from 55 percent in July, and found 47 percent of those surveyed gave him a thumbs down.

Hollande's honeymoon has ended much faster than that of his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, whose ratings only dipped below the 50 percent mark eight months into his 2007-12 term as his personality grated.

The rapid fall from grace is prompting political opponents to attack Hollande's low-key leadership style, which contrasts with the frenetic and all-controlling Sarkozy, and ask whether he has it in him to whip the economy back into shape.

Conservative lawmaker and mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi sniffed recently that even if Sarkozy was mocked for being a "hyper-president", having a "hypo-president" who suffered from inertia was hardly better.

SWEETENERS

Hollande's sinking popularity has more to do with the stark economic outlook and a sense he will stick with the previous government's centrist policies than criticism of his style.

Yet his reluctance to shake things up is weighing too, and hard-left voters resent that protectionist rhetoric during Hollande's campaign is not being translated into action.

"The main cause is the rise in unemployment and the talk of more layoffs to come. People hoped for a change, maybe a kind of protectionism but they see classic economic policies and a worsening in the economy and employment," Sainte-Marie said.

Hollande has taken power as economic growth has slowed to a near standstill and jobless claims have surged for 15 straight months to hit a more than 13-year high in July above 10 percent.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault admitted on Monday the government will likely have to cut its 2013 growth target of 1.2 percent, which economists feel should be halved. Labor Minister Michel Sapin said on Tuesday that unemployment is set to get worse.

Anxious to keep the nation behind him as he readies a slimline budget for late September, Hollande has set Ayrault into action announcing sweeteners like fuel price cuts and higher ceilings on tax-free saving accounts.

The fuel price change will shave up to 6 euro cents off the price of a liter over three months, the government said as it detailed the measure on Tuesday.

Last week Ayrault, whose ratings also have dropped below 50 percent, said a law was being readied to double the amount of money people can squirrel away in tax-free, state-guaranteed savings accounts.

So far, the measures have not dampened critical mutterings about Hollande's debut, even on the left, the strongest being radical leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon's claim that the president's first 100 days in office had been a waste of time.

"As France flirts with recession and we approach the dangerous level of 3 million out of work, Hollande and the Socialists seem incapable of taking bold decisions," Conservative lawmaker Franck Riester said on Monday.

The daily Le Monde's front page cartoon meanwhile depicted a perspiring Hollande by a flip-chart graph showing economic growth tanking. "Facts are stubborn things, as Lenin said," he remarks to Ayrault, as his predecessor jogs by in the background, and adds: "Sarkozy used to say that too!" ($1 = 0.7958 euros)

(Reporting By Catherine Bremer; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hollande-popularity-slides-french-economy-wanes-162526929.html

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Pussy Riot team appeals 'punk prayer' jailing

Pussy Riot lawyers on Monday appealed the jailing of three of the Russian band members for their "punk prayer" call for Vladimir Putin's ouster ahead of his election to a new presidential term.

The decision to contest this month's controversial ruling came as news emerged that two other singers in the revolving-member group had fled Russia out of fear of being arrested by the police.

Defence attorney Violetta Volkova said that Pussy Riot's appeal against the two-year imprisonment was filed with the Moscow City Court.

"All the papers are in order. The only question is whether we will need to file any additional material later," Volkova told AFP.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina -- 22 and 24 respectively and both mothers of young children -- and 30-year-old Yekaterina Samutsevich burst into Russia's main cathedral wearing their trademark balaclavas and shouted out a few lines of their protest song on February 21.

A Moscow judge ruled that the performance displayed "clear disrespect toward society" and convicted them of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".

The ruling was instantly condemned by the United States and major European powers as another example of freedoms coming under pressure with Putin in power.

The unusual case sparked a worldwide celebrity and pop star campaign for Pussy Riot's freedom that has enlisted the likes of Bjork and Madonna as well as Paul McCartney and Sting.

But Moscow investigators responded to the global pressure by launching a hunt for two other members of the group who took part in the protest stunt but managed to avoid police detention in the subsequent months.

The group's on-stage masks hide their identity and Pussy Riot's lawyers said that the Moscow police admit they only know the wanted women's identities by the nicknames they use in the band.

Tolokonnikova's husband Pyotr Verzilov told AFP on Monday that two group members had now managed to leave Russia in order to avoid arrest.

But he refused to confirm that it was the two women wanted by the police or reveal any other details about where they had gone or when they might have left.

"The band has decided to keep this information to themselves as a security precaution," Verzilov said.

An unofficial Twitter account used by Pussy Riot supporters claimed on Sunday that that the two members who left Russia were the ones wanted by the police.

Meanwhile, a publication run by France's renowned writer Bernard-Henri Levy invited the two bandmates to come to Paris where "everything will be done to welcome them in the homeland of human rights".

"If you are looking for a place where you will be sheltered, where you can reflect on your strategy as well as the defence of your imprisoned comrades, we will do everything in our power to make you feel welcome in Paris," said the Regle du Jeu publication.

It also offered to help the duo obtain legal means to secure the release of their imprisoned bandmates.

"We can help you for example by filing an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights. And we can organise a collection in order to ... meet your needs and ensure your security and your anonymity."

It also suggested holding a Pussy Riot concert in Paris. "Come! We will take care of the rest," said the magazine.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pussy-riot-team-appeals-punk-prayer-jailing-184306906.html

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WSU researcher documents links between nutrients, genes and cancer spread

WSU researcher documents links between nutrients, genes and cancer spread [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Aug-2012
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Contact: Gary Meadows
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More than 40 compounds turn on genes slowing metastasis

PULLMAN, Wash.More than 40 plant-based compounds can turn on genes that slow the spread of cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Washington State University researcher.

Gary Meadows, WSU professor and associate dean for graduate education and scholarship in the College of Pharmacy, says he is encouraged by his findings because the spread of cancer is most often what makes the disease fatal. Moreover, says Meadows, diet, nutrients and plant-based chemicals appear to be opening many avenues of attack.

"We're always looking for a magic bullet," he says. "Well, there are lots of magic bullets out there in what we eat and associated with our lifestyle. We just need to take advantage of those. And they can work together."

Meadows started the study, recently published online in the journal Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, with some simple logic: Most research focuses on the prevention of cancer or the treatment of the original cancer tumor, but it's usually the cancer's spread to nearby organs that kills you. So rather than attack the tumor, said Meadows, let's control its spread, or metastasis.

He focused in particular on genes that suppress metastasis. As search engine terms go, it took him down many a wormhole in the PubMed research database, as the concept of nutrients and metastasis suppressor genes is rarely identified by journals. It's even an afterthought of some of the researchers who find the genes.

"People for the most part did not set out in their research goals to study metastasis suppressor genes," says Meadows. "It was just a gene that was among many other genes that they had looked at in their study."

But Meadows took the studies and looked to see when metastasis suppressor genes were on or off, even if original authors didn't make the connection. In the end, he documented dozens of substances affecting the metastasis suppressor genes of numerous cancers.

He saw substances like amino acids, vitamin D, ethanol, ginseng extract, the tomato carotenoid lycopene, the turmeric component curcumin, pomegranate juice, fish oil and others affecting gene expression in breast, colorectal, prostate, skin, lung and other cancers.

Typically, the substances acted epigenetically, which is to say they turned metastasis suppressor genes on or off.

"So these epigenetic mechanisms are influenced by what you eat," he says. "That may also be related to how the metastasis suppressor genes are being regulated. That's a very new area of research that has largely not been very well explored in terms of diet and nutrition." Meadows says his study reinforces two concepts.

For one, he has a greater appreciation of the role of natural compounds in helping our bodies slow or stop the spread of cancer. The number of studies connecting nutrients and metastasis suppressor genes by accident suggests a need for more deliberate research into the genes.

"And many of these effects have not been followed up on," he says. "There's likely to be more compounds out there, more constituents, that people haven't even evaluated yet."

Meadows also sees these studies playing an important role in the shift from preventing cancer to living with it and keeping it from spreading.

"We've kind of focused on the cancer for a long time," he says. "More recently we've started to focus on the cancer in its environment. And the environment, your whole body as an environment, is really important in whether or not that cancer will spread."

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WSU researcher documents links between nutrients, genes and cancer spread [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Aug-2012
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Contact: Gary Meadows
meadows@wsu.edu
509-335-4753
Washington State University

More than 40 compounds turn on genes slowing metastasis

PULLMAN, Wash.More than 40 plant-based compounds can turn on genes that slow the spread of cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Washington State University researcher.

Gary Meadows, WSU professor and associate dean for graduate education and scholarship in the College of Pharmacy, says he is encouraged by his findings because the spread of cancer is most often what makes the disease fatal. Moreover, says Meadows, diet, nutrients and plant-based chemicals appear to be opening many avenues of attack.

"We're always looking for a magic bullet," he says. "Well, there are lots of magic bullets out there in what we eat and associated with our lifestyle. We just need to take advantage of those. And they can work together."

Meadows started the study, recently published online in the journal Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, with some simple logic: Most research focuses on the prevention of cancer or the treatment of the original cancer tumor, but it's usually the cancer's spread to nearby organs that kills you. So rather than attack the tumor, said Meadows, let's control its spread, or metastasis.

He focused in particular on genes that suppress metastasis. As search engine terms go, it took him down many a wormhole in the PubMed research database, as the concept of nutrients and metastasis suppressor genes is rarely identified by journals. It's even an afterthought of some of the researchers who find the genes.

"People for the most part did not set out in their research goals to study metastasis suppressor genes," says Meadows. "It was just a gene that was among many other genes that they had looked at in their study."

But Meadows took the studies and looked to see when metastasis suppressor genes were on or off, even if original authors didn't make the connection. In the end, he documented dozens of substances affecting the metastasis suppressor genes of numerous cancers.

He saw substances like amino acids, vitamin D, ethanol, ginseng extract, the tomato carotenoid lycopene, the turmeric component curcumin, pomegranate juice, fish oil and others affecting gene expression in breast, colorectal, prostate, skin, lung and other cancers.

Typically, the substances acted epigenetically, which is to say they turned metastasis suppressor genes on or off.

"So these epigenetic mechanisms are influenced by what you eat," he says. "That may also be related to how the metastasis suppressor genes are being regulated. That's a very new area of research that has largely not been very well explored in terms of diet and nutrition." Meadows says his study reinforces two concepts.

For one, he has a greater appreciation of the role of natural compounds in helping our bodies slow or stop the spread of cancer. The number of studies connecting nutrients and metastasis suppressor genes by accident suggests a need for more deliberate research into the genes.

"And many of these effects have not been followed up on," he says. "There's likely to be more compounds out there, more constituents, that people haven't even evaluated yet."

Meadows also sees these studies playing an important role in the shift from preventing cancer to living with it and keeping it from spreading.

"We've kind of focused on the cancer for a long time," he says. "More recently we've started to focus on the cancer in its environment. And the environment, your whole body as an environment, is really important in whether or not that cancer will spread."

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

RNC chairman: Convention will convene Monday, then recess until Tuesday afternoon due to Isaac

TAMPA, Fla. - The Republican Party will delay the bulk of its convention until Tuesday afternoon because of the severe weather forecast from Isaac.

That's according to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

Priebus says the convention will convene briefly Monday and then immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, once the storm is expected to have passed.

He says in a statement that the party made the decision after consulting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott and federal and local emergency officials.

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