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'Harry Potter' actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65
LONDON (AP) ? Richard Griffiths, a versatile British actor who won a Tony Award for "The History Boys" and played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was 65.
Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England.
He paid tribute to Griffiths as "a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors."
Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles ? flamboyant Uncle Monty in 1980s cult classic "Withnail and I" and the hero's grudging Muggle guardian in the "Harry Potter" series.
Griffiths once said he liked playing Uncle Vernon "because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids."
But "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to the actor, saying "I was proud to say I knew him."
A large man and a huge stage presence, Griffiths was one of Britain's leading theater actors, creating roles including the charismatic teacher Hector at the emotional heart of Alan Bennett's school drama "The History Boys" ? a part he took to Broadway, winning a Tony, and repeated for the film adaptation.
National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner, who directed "The History Boys," called Griffiths' performance in that play "a masterpiece of wit, delicacy, mischief and desolation, often simultaneously."
Griffiths also played poet W.H. Auden in Bennett's "The Habit of Art," a hugely persuasive performance despite the lack of physical resemblance between the two men.
Griffiths was born in northeast England's Thormaby-on-Tees in 1947 to parents who were deaf and mute ? an experience he felt contributed to his exceptional ability to listen and to communicate physically.
He left school at 15 but later studied drama and spent a decade with the Royal Shakespeare Company, making a specialty of comic parts such as the buffoonish knight Falstaff.
On television, he played a crime-solving chef in 1990s' British TV series "Pie in the Sky," and he had parts in movies ranging from "Chariots of Fire" and "Gandhi" to "The Naked Gun 2 ?."
Known for his sense of humor, large store of rambling theatrical anecdotes and occasional bursts of temper, Griffiths was renowned for shaming audience members whose cell phones rang during plays by stopping the performance and ordering the offender to leave.
Griffiths' last major stage role was in a West End production of Neil Simon's comedy "The Sunshine Boys" last year opposite Danny DeVito. The pair had been due to reprise their roles in Los Angeles later this year.
In 2007 he appeared in a London and Broadway production of "Equus" alongside the then 17-year-old Radcliffe.
"Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," Radcliffe said Friday.
"In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease.
?"Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy.
"In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence."
Griffiths is survived by his wife, Heather Gibson.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/harry-potter-actor-richard-griffiths-dies-65-102210345.html
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Scientists image deep magma beneath Pacific seafloor volcano
Mar. 27, 2013 ? Since the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s, scientists have known that new seafloor is created throughout the major ocean basins at linear chains of volcanoes known as mid-ocean ridges. But where exactly does the erupted magma come from?
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego now have a better idea after capturing a unique image of a site deep in the Earth where magma is generated.
Using electromagnetic technology developed and advanced at Scripps, the researchers mapped a large area beneath the seafloor off Central America at the northern East Pacific Rise, a seafloor volcano located on a section of the global mid-ocean ridges that together form the largest and most active chain of volcanoes in the solar system. By comparison, the researchers say the cross-section area of the melting region they mapped would rival the size of San Diego County.
Details of the image and the methods used to capture it are published in the March 28 issue of the journal Nature.
"Our data show that mantle upwelling beneath the mid-ocean ridge creates a deeper and broader melting region than previously thought," said Kerry Key, lead author of the study and an associate research geophysicist at Scripps. "This was the largest project of its kind, enabling us to image the mantle with a level of detail not possible with previous studies."
The northern East Pacific Rise is an area where two of the planet's tectonic plates are spreading apart from each another. Mantle rising between the plates melts to generate the magma that forms fresh seafloor when it erupts or freezes in the crust.
Data for the study was obtained during a 2004 field study conducted aboard the research vessel Roger Revelle, a ship operated by Scripps and owned by the U.S. Navy.
The marine electromagnetic technology behind the study was originally developed in the 1960s by Charles "Chip" Cox, an emeritus professor of oceanography at Scripps, and his student Jean Filloux. In recent years the technology was further advanced by Steven Constable and Key. Since 1995 Scripps researchers have been working with the energy industry to apply this technology to map offshore geology as an aid to exploring for oil and gas reservoirs.
"We have been working on developing our instruments and interpretation software for decades, and it is really exciting to see it all come together to provide insights into the fundamental processes of plate tectonics," said Constable, a coauthor of the paper and a professor in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps. "It was really a surprise to discover that melting started so deep in the mantle -- much deeper than was expected."
Key believes the insights that electromagnetics provides will continue to grow as the technology matures and data analysis techniques improve (last week Key and his colleagues announced the use of electromagnetics in discovering a magma lubricant for the planet's tectonic plates).
"Electromagnetics is really coming of age as a tool for imaging the earth," said Key. "Much of what we know about the crust and mantle is a result of using seismic techniques. Now electromagnetic technology is offering promise for further discoveries."
Key also has future plans to apply electromagnetic technology to map subglacial lakes and groundwater in the polar regions.
In addition to Key and Constable, coauthors of the paper include Lijun Liu of the University of Illinois and Anne Pommier of Arizona State University.
The study was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Seafloor Electromagnetic Methods Consortium at Scripps.
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The Secret Republican Plan to Repeal 'Obamacare'
A few minutes after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding President Obama?s health care law last summer, a senior adviser to Mitch McConnell walked into the Senate Republican leader?s office to gauge his reaction.
McConnell was clearly disappointed, and for good reason. For many conservatives, the decision was the death knell in a three-year fight to defeat reforms that epitomized everything they thought was wrong with Obama?s governing philosophy. But where some saw finality, McConnell saw opportunity ? and still does.
Sitting at his desk a stone?s throw from the Senate chamber, McConnell turned to the aide and, with characteristic directness, said: ?This decision is too cute. But I think we got something with this tax issue.?
He was referring to the court?s ruling that the heart of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the so-called individual mandate that requires everyone in the country to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, was a tax. And while McConnell thought calling the mandate a tax was ?a rather creative way? to uphold the law, it also opened a new front in his battle to repeal it.
McConnell, a master of byzantine Senate procedure, immediately realized that, as a tax, the individual mandate would be subject to the budget reconciliation process, which exempted it from the filibuster. In other words, McConnell had just struck upon how to repeal Obamacare with a simple majority vote.
The Kentucky Republican called a handful of top aides into his office and told them, ?Figure out how to repeal this through reconciliation. I want to do this.? McConnell ordered a repeal plan ready in the event the GOP took back control of the Senate in November ? ironic considering Democrats used the same process more than two years earlier in a successful, last-shot effort to muscle the reforms into law.
In the months that followed, top GOP Senate aides held regular strategy meetings to plot a path forward. Using the reconciliation process would be complicated and contentious. Senate rules would require Republicans to demonstrate to the parliamentarian that their repeal provisions would affect spending or revenue and Democrats were sure to challenge them every step of the way. So the meetings were small and secret.
?You?re going in to make an argument. You don?t want to preview your entire argument to the other side ahead of time,? said a McConnell aide who participated in the planning. ?There was concern that all of this would leak out.?
By Election Day, Senate Republicans were ready to, as McConnell put it, ?take this monstrosity down.?
?We were prepared to do that had we had the votes to do it after the election. Well, the election didn?t turn out the way we wanted it to,? McConnell told National Journal in an interview. ?The monstrosity has ... begun to be implemented and we?re not giving up the fight.?
Indeed, when it comes to legislative strategy, McConnell plays long ball. Beginning in 2009, the Republican leader led the push to unify his colleagues against Democrats? health care plans, an effort that almost derailed Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans, helped in part by public opposition to the law, won back the House and picked up seats in the Senate. Last year, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney?s embrace of the individual mandate while Massachusetts governor largely neutralized what had been a potent political issue.
But, in the next two years, Republicans are looking to bring the issue back in a big way. And they?ll start by trying to brand the law as one that costs too much and is not working as promised.
Democrats will be tempted to continue to write off the incoming fire as the empty rhetoric of a party fighting old battles. But that would be a mistake. During the health care debate, the GOP?s coordinated attacks helped turn public opinion against reform. And in the past two years, no more than 45 percent of the public has viewed Obamacare favorably, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation?s tracking polls. Perhaps even more dangerous for Democrats, now-debunked myths spread by Republicans and conservative media remain lodged in the public consciousness. For instance, 40 percent of the public still believes the law includes ?death panels.?
During the legislative debate over the law, Democrats promised Obamacare would create jobs, lower health care costs, and allow people to keep their current plans if they chose to. Those vows, Republicans argue, are already being broken.
The Congressional Budget Office, the Hill?s nonpartisan scorekeeper, estimated that the health care law would reduce employment by about 800,000 workers and result in about 7 million people losing their employer-sponsored health care over a decade. The CBO also estimated that Obamacare during that period would raise health care spending by roughly $580 billion.
McConnell?s office has assembled the law?s 19,842 new regulations into a stack that is 7 feet high and wheeled around on a dolly. The prop even has it?s own Twitter account, @TheRedTapeTower.
?All you got to do is look at that high stack of regulation and you think, ?How in the world is anybody going to be able to comply with all this stuff?? ? GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch, told National Journal. ?And I?m confident that the more the American people know of the costs, the consequences, the problems with this law, then someday there are going to be some Democrats who are going to join us in taking apart some of its most egregious parts.?
In fact, just a few hours after that interview last week, 34 Democrats joined Hatch on the Senate floor to support repealing Obamacare?s medical-device tax. Though the provision passed overwhelmingly, it doesn?t have a shot at becoming law because the budget bill it was attached to is nonbinding. Still, Republicans see it as a harbinger of things to come.
?Constituent pressure is overriding the view that virtually all Democrats have had that Obamacare is sort of like the Ten Commandments, handed down and every piece of it is sacred and you can?t possibly change any of it ever,? McConnell said. ?When you see that begin to crack then you know the facade is breaking up.?
Of course, Republicans are doing their best to highlight and stoke the kind of constituent anger that would force Democrats to tweak the law. In fact, if Democrats come under enough pressure, Republicans believe they might be able to inject Obamacare into the broader entitlement-reform discussion they are planning to tie to the debt-limit debate this summer.
But that is a long shot. If Republicans hope to completely repeal the health care law, they have to start by taking back the Senate in 2014 and would likely need to win the White House two years later. Still, some Republicans think the politics are on their side.
?I?m not one of those folks who ... because I didn?t support something, I want it to be bad. I want good things for Americans. But I do think this is going to create a lot of issues and ? affect things throughout 2014 as it relates to politics,? Republican Sen. Bob Corker said. ?The outcome likely will create a better atmosphere for us.?
Republicans will need to win half a dozen seats to retake the chamber. So, what are the chances??
?There are six really good opportunities in really red states: West Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Dakota, and Alaska,? McConnell said last week. ?And some other places where you have open seats like Michigan and Iowa. And other states that frequently vote Republican, an example of that would be New Hampshire. So, we?re hopeful.?
And earlier this week, Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson put his home state of South Dakota in play when he announced he will not be running for reelection in 2014.
In addition to trying to win back the Senate, McConnell will have to protect his own seat in two years. McConnell has made moves to shore up his right flank to fend off conservative challengers. He?s hired fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul?s campaign manager, who helped Paul defeat the establishment candidate McConnell backed in the primary. ?
In the meantime, Republicans will continue to, as GOP Sen. John Barrasso put it, ?try to tear (Obamacare) apart.? And the GOP suspects it might get some help from moderate Democrats less concerned about protecting Obama?s legacy than winning reelection.
It?s just the latest act in a play that saw McConnell give more than 100 floor speeches critical of Democratic reforms and paper Capitol Hill with more 225 messaging documents in the 10 months before Obamacare?s passage. Away from the public spotlight, McConnell worked his caucus hard to convince them to unite against the law, holding a health care meeting every Wednesday afternoon. GOP aides said they could not remember a time before, or since, when a Republican leader held a weekly meeting with members that focused solely on one subject.
?What I tried to do is just guide the discussion to the point where everybody realized there wasn?t any part of this we wanted to have any ownership of,? McConnell recounted. ?That was a nine-month long discussion that finally culminated with Olympia Snowe?s decision in the fall not to support it. She was the last one they had a shot at.?
Indeed, some Republicans remember opposition forming organically as it became clearer where Democrats were headed, crediting McConnell for crystallizing the issue. Asked who unified Senate Republicans against Obamacare, Corker recalled, ?I think it happened over time.? As time moved on, it just seemed that this train was going to a place that was going to be hard to support.?
McConnell had finally won his long-fought battle to unite the conference against Obamcare. And some Republicans credit McConnell with being first to that fight.
?He had the Obama administration?s number before almost anyone else,? Hatch recalled. ?He began laying the groundwork for this fight very early, in private meetings and so forth, and really was the first one on our side in the ring, throwing punches just about how bad it was for families, businesses, and our economy.?
?There?s been no stronger fighter against this disastrous law than Mitch McConnell,? he added.
And as McConnell?s war continues, Democrats have begun positioning themselves for the next battle. Leading up to last week?s three-year anniversary of the law?s passage, Democrats held press events touting its benefits, claiming more than 100 million people have received free preventive services; 17 million children with preexisting conditions have been protected from being denied coverage; and 6.6 million young adults under 26 have been covered by their parents' plan.
Democrats wisely rolled out many of the easiest, most-popular Obamacare benefits first. The next few years will see the implementation of provisions that are both more complicated and controversial, like creating state-based insurance exchanges where people can buy coverage. Asked about the political ramifications of possible implementation problems, Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, a chief architect of Obamacare, sidestepped the question saying, "My job is to do my best to make sure this statute works to help provide health care for people at the lowest possible cost."
Far from a full-throated assurance that everything will run smoothly, Baucus?s answer hints at the dangers Democrats face as Obamacare comes online.
And with the law moving from the largely theoretical to the demonstrable, the health care debate is poised to return to intensity levels not seen since before the law passed.
For congressional Republicans, it?s probably their last, best chance to turn opposition into political gain.
And much of that job falls to McConnell, a brilliant defensive coordinator who will have to play flawless offense if he hopes to take control of the Senate next year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/secret-republican-plan-repeal-obamacare-200403420--politics.html
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Daily Report: Dispute on Spam Stirs Big Assault on the Internet ...
A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world, John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth write on Wednesday in The New York Times.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a short time. However, for the Internet engineers who run the global network, the problem is more worrisome. The attacks are becoming increasingly powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to escalate, people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like e-mail and online banking.
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus, added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam. Cyberbunker, named for its headquarters, a five-story former NATO bunker, offers hosting services to any Web site ?except child porn and anything related to terrorism,? according to its Web site.
A spokesman for Spamhaus, which is based in Europe, said the attacks began on March 19, but had not stopped the group from distributing its blacklist.
Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a digital content provider, said Spamhaus?s role was to generate a list of Internet spammers. Of Cyberbunker, he added: ?These guys are just mad. To be frank, they got caught. They think they should be allowed to spam.?
Mr. Gilmore said that the attacks, which are generated by swarms of computers called botnets, concentrate data streams that are larger than the Internet connections of entire countries. He likened the technique, which uses a long-known flaw in the Internet?s basic plumbing, to using a machine gun to spray an entire crowd when the intent is to kill one person. The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.
Questioned about the attacks, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, an Internet activist who said he was a spokesman for the attackers, said in an online message that, ?We are aware that this is one of the largest DDoS attacks the world had publicly seen.? Mr. Kamphuis said Cyberbunker was retaliating against Spamhaus for ?abusing their influence.?
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Fewer children mean longer life?
Mar. 27, 2013 ? New research into ageing processes, based on modern genetic techniques, confirms theoretical expectations about the correlation between reproduction and lifespan. Studies of birds reveal that those that have offspring later in life and have fewer broods live longer. And the decisive factor is telomeres, shows research from The University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Telomeres are the protective caps at the end of chromosomes. The length of telomeres influences how long an individual lives. Telomeres start off at a certain length, become shorter each time a cell divides, decline as the years pass by until the telomeres can no longer protect the chromosomes, and the cell dies. But the length of telomeres varies significantly among individuals of the same age. This is partly due to the length of the telomeres that has been inherited from the parents, and partly due to the amount of stress an individual is exposed to.
?This is important, not least for our own species, as we are all having to deal with increased stress,? says Angela Pauliny, Researcher from the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg.
Researchers have studied barnacle geese, which are long-lived birds, the oldest in the study being 22 years old. The results show that geese, compared to short-lived bird species, have a better ability to preserve the length of their telomeres. The explanation is probably that species with a longer lifespan invest more in maintaining bodily functions than, for example, reproduction.
?There is a clear correlation between reproduction and ageing in the animal world. Take elephants, which have a long lifespan but few offspring, while mice, for example, live for a short time but produce a lot of offspring each time they try,? says Angela Pauliny.
The geese studied by researchers varied in age, from very young birds to extremely old ones. Each bird was measured twice, two years apart. One striking result was that the change in telomere length varied according to gender.
?The study revealed that telomeres were best-preserved in males. Among barnacle geese, the telomeres thus shorten more quickly in females, which in birds is the sex with two different gender chromosomes. Interestingly, it is the exactl opposite in humans,? says Angela Pauliny.
The journal BMC Evolutionary Biology has classified the research article ?Telomere dynamics in a long-lived bird, the barnacle goose? as ?Highly Accessed?.
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Petraeus apologizes for affair that led to CIA resignation
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Former CIA director and retired four-star general General David Petraeus makes his first public speech since resigning as CIA director at University of Southern California dinner for students Veterans and ROTC students on March 26.
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News
David Petraeus apologized Tuesday for the extramarital affair that led to his resignation?as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency last November in his first public speech since then.
Petraeus was invited a year ago -- before the scandal broke -- to be the keynote speaker before 600 guests at the University of Southern California annual ROTC dinner.
The retired four-star general has remained out of the public eye since the revelations of the affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, but decided to keep this appointment.
??It truly is a privilege to be here with you this evening -- all the more so given my personal journey over the past five months,? he said. ?I join you keenly aware that I am regarded in a different light now than I was a year ago ? I'm also keenly aware that the reason for my recent journey was my own doing,? he said Tuesday night.
?So please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply I regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the CIA and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters,? he added.
Petraeus then stressed that the evening was ?not about me,? but the cadets, active duty military and veterans from USC and efforts to support them.
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He said that the post 9/11 generation of veterans deserved to be known as America?s greatest generation. More could and should be done to help veterans, particularly those with physical injuries and mental health problems, he argued.
'Instructive' to others who stumble
The general said that hanging up the uniform and leaving comrades behind was difficult, and returned to the reasons for his departure at the end of his speech.
?As I close, I want to take this opportunity to say thank you as well to those who provided words of encouragement to my family and me in recent months. That support meant a great deal as we sought to look forward rather than backward,? Petraeus said.
?This has obviously been a very difficult episode for us. But perhaps my experience can be instructive to others who stumble or indeed fall as far as I did. One learns, after all, that life doesn't stop with such a mistake. It can, and must, go on,? he said.
?And the effort to move forward over the rocky path of one's making is vital, inescapable, and ultimately worth it,? he added. ?I know that I can never fully assuage the pain that I inflicted on those closest to me and a number of others. I can, however, try to move forward in a manner that is consistent with the values to which I subscribed before slipping my moorings, and as best possible to make amends to those I have hurt and let down, and that is what I will strive to do.?
The discovery of Petraeus? affair came after another woman, Florida socialite Jill Kelley, complained to the FBI that she was receiving harassing emails from Broadwell.
The ensuing bureau investigation revealed a string of emails indicating an affair between Petraeus and Broadwell.
In a letter to the CIA workforce announcing his decision to step down last fall, Petraeus acknowledged "extremely poor judgment" and said, "such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
Days after the high-profile resignation, President Barack Obama announced there was no reason to believe the ex-CIA director compromised national security or divulged classified information to Broadwell, who had unprecedented access to the general while writing his biography.
And supporters like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., maintained that the personal transgression should not have led to Petraeus' departure.
With the former high-profile military leader's resignation came the end of a nearly four-decade career in the military and intelligence.
As a commander in the U.S. Army, Petraeus was largely credited with salvaging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and helping develop U.S. counterinsurgency strategy.
He was one of the most popular military commanders in modern history, and was talk about as a future presidential candidate.
Tuesday's speech may mark the beginning of attempts by the 60-year-old Petraeus to rebuild his image. His appearance in front of former and future members of the armed services made for a friendly audience.
USC president C. L. Max Nikias praised Petraeus ahead of his appearance at the university.?
?In our post 9/11 world, Gen. Petraeus? influence on our military is unmatched, and his contributions to the CIA are far-reaching,? Nikias said.
?Gen. Petraeus is arguably the most effective military commander since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,? he added.
NBC News' Denise Ono and Ian Johnston contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Fruit flies fed organic diets are healthier than flies fed nonorganic diets, study finds
Mar. 26, 2013 ? A new study looking at the potential health benefits of organic versus non-organic food found that fruit flies fed an organic diet recorded better health outcomes than flies fed a nonorganic diet.
The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.
"While these findings are certainly intriguing, what we now need to determine is why the flies on the organic diets did better, especially since not all the organic diets we tested provided the same positive health outcomes," said Bauer, principal investigator for the study.
Fruit flies on organic diets showed improvements on the most significant measures of health, namely fertility and longevity, said high school student researcher Ria Chhabra.
"We don't know why the flies on the organic diet did better. That will require further research. But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits," said Chhabra, a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, who led the experiment.
Chhabra sought to conduct the experiments after hearing her parents discuss whether it's worth it to buy organic foods to achieve possible health benefits.
Bauer, an assistant professor in SMU's Department of Biological Sciences, mentored Chhabra by helping guide and design her research experiments. The research focus of Bauer's fruit fly lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity, health and diabetes.
"It's rare for a high school student to have such a prominent position in the lab. But Ria has tremendous energy and curiosity, and that convinced me to give this research project a try," Bauer said.
The findings, "Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster," have been published in the open access journal PLOS One. Buaer and Chhabra co-authored the paper with Santharam Kolli, a research associate at SMU.
Flies on organic food performed better on some health tests
"The data demonstrated that flies raised on organic food extracts by-and-large performed better on the majority of health tests," reported the researchers.
It remains unclear why organic diets delivered better health, the researchers said.
The Bauer lab results come at a time when the health effects of organic food are widely debated.
Prior studies by other researchers have found conflicting results when reviewing the scientific literature for data. While several studies have shown elevated nutrient content and lower pesticide contamination levels in organic food, a recent publication reporting a large-scale analysis of all available studies concluded no clear trend was apparent.
Fruit flies were fed extracts from produce purchased at a grocery store
In order to investigate whether organic foods are healthier for consumers, the lab utilized one of the most widely used model systems, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Because of the low costs associated with fly research and the fly's short life cycle, researchers use fruit flies to study human diseases, from diabetes to heart function to Alzheimer's disease.
The Bauer lab fruit flies were fed organic and nonorganic produce purchased from a leading national grocery retailer of organic and conventional foods. The flies were fed extracts made from organic and conventional potatoes, soybeans, raisins and bananas. They were not fed any additional nutritional supplements. The researchers tested the effects of each food type independently and avoided any confounding effects of a mixed diet.
The health tests measured longevity, fertility, stress and starvation resistance.
Findings suggest beneficial health effects dependent on specific foods
Some negative or neutral results were obtained using diets prepared from organic raisins, which suggests the beneficial health effects of organic diets are dependent on the specific food item, Bauer said. That might explain some of the inconsistent results in the published studies in the scientific literature, he said, noting some studies suggest there is a nutritional benefit from organic food, while others suggest there is not.
"To our surprise, in the majority of our tests of flies on organic foods, the flies fed organic diets did much better on our health tests than the flies fed conventional food," Bauer said. "Longevity and fertility are the two most important aspects of fly life. On both of these tests, flies fed organic diets performed much better than flies fed conventional diets. They lived longer, had higher fertility, and had a much higher lifetime reproductive output."
Factors such as soil condition and latitude where the produce was grown weren't considered, mimicking a typical grocery store shopping experience.?
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Who's Afraid Of the Reaper? Death on American TV | GlobalComment
Posted on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 at 10:11 am
Author: s.e. smith
One of the most critically acclaimed episodes of Joss Whedon?s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was season five?s ?The Body,? about the death of Buffy and Dawn?s mother Joyce. In a television show where death, mysterious happenings, and horror were weekly events, the characters were incapacitated by the very prosaic, natural, and commonplace death of Joyce; it was jarring, startling, and unlike seemingly everything else in the series, totally natural and utterly irreversible.
The episode was shot in a very distinctive style that marked a radical departure from most Buffy episodes; lots of long single takes, no incidental music, and the use of disorienting, awkward framing, dialogue, and effects to remind viewers of the profound sense of displacement and peculiarity that can accompany death. Even as someone lies dead, life is going on around the body, and beyond the bubble of acute grief lie the lives of those who are totally unaffected by it.
In a scene with Anya, a vengeance demon with hundreds of years of experience to rely upon, the character expresses angry confusion at not knowing what to do in the face of a death involving a woman she liked, whom she was close to. Anya grieves for Joyce and for Buffy, knowing that the loss of Joyce marks a profound change in Buffy?s life and wondering how Buffy will cope with it.
It is a quietly stunning, stark, profound episode that critics often agree was one of the best in the series, and one of the best television episodes ever broadcast. While Buffy was often dismissed because of its fantasy bent, ?The Body? demonstrated that the show had the capacity to touch upon very real-world issues, and to do so very well.
And this was not an issue that went away. Joyce?s death had profound repercussions for all the characters on Buffy as they tried to cope with her loss in different ways, from Dawn trying to resurrect her mother to Buffy struggling as the head of the household and suddenly understanding how much Joyce had done for her. Joyce, in her absence, became an important theme, rather than an issue dealt with once and then discarded, never to be addressed again. Revisiting Joyce and acknowledging the hole she left in the lives of the characters became a hallmark of the series, just as the equally ordinary, if shocking, death of Tara became an important catalyst for Willow.
Death on television is not usually dealt with in this manner. For the scores of procedural dramas that revolve around death, where one might imagine that death and an exploration of its aftermath would be an important part of the plot, death is merely another interesting body on the slab, a case for people to solve and move on from. Characters are rarely haunted by deaths, and old cases don?t come up again; the ?murder of the week? model actively shies away from the human side of death, focusing on death-as-entertainment and dehumanising the deceased.
On other shows, death rarely appears at all, and when it does, it typically experiences a short shelf life in terms of being dealt with and discussed on any given episode. A character is briefly remembered and noted, and then other characters move on, and the issue doesn?t come up again. Shows like Grey?s Anatomy, which revel in soapy drama and manage to rack up a body count, still manage to put death firmly in the past: how often do characters think of George, who died in season five, for example?
One of the few programmes to face down the Reaper and talk about it in an unflinching manner was, of course, Six Feet Under, which aired to critical acclaim on HBO. While each episode featured a death of the week and the stories of the dead were typically incidental to the larger story of the series, which was about the human drama of the Fisher family and the people who interacted with them, death was an ever-present ghost in the series right from the first episode, when Nathaniel Fisher died in a traffic accident.
Nathaniel appeared again and again over the course of the series, haunting the characters and living alongside them, marking one of the few cases in which a dead person becomes a character in his own right. Meanwhile, his son Nate fought his own battles with death in the form of the ticking timebomb in his head and the mysterious disappearance and death of his wife Lisa. Death was not an abstract notion in the world of Six Feet Under, and the show?s probing of death dealt not just with the mechanics of death, but with the human aftermath.
This made it, like ?The Body,? rather a standout in the world of US television, where death is very much a taboo topic. While dead bodies are par for the course, death as a more complex emotional and philosophical concept is not something often depicted, and when it is, television often seems to hide from its complexity and reality. Characters tiptoe around the subject, and there?s an intense sense of pressure to wrap it up as quickly as possible rather than allowing the natural progression of grief and the experience of death and dying to occur.
The idea of devoting an entire episode to the death of a character and ripple effect of the death on the characters around that person is almost unknown, and it seems to make viewers deeply unsettled and uncomfortable. Whether they don?t like being reminded of the reality of death, or don?t want to be told that death is a subject that does not lend itself to neat boxes, they attempt to distance themselves from the depiction of death on television, and creators take note of this when developing storylines.
On Dead Like Me, another programme that integrated deaths of the week and a long-term exploration of death, George Lass? struggle with her own death was a constant theme in the series, and one that undoubtedly made viewers uncomfortable. As a dark comedy, Dead Like Me was brilliantly successful, but it also cut close to the bone sometimes as George watched her family move on without her. Pushing Daisies, meanwhile, got around this problem by allowing Charlotte to interact with her aunts again, and both shows were deliberately bright, oversaturated, and funny: when they started to get too scary or sad, they shifted gears and moved away from death as a serious subject.
This short shrift for death reflects a rather dysfunctional attitude towards the topic in the US; death is something that happens to other people, and when it does occur, it?s quickly dealt with and swept up. Few deaths are ambiguous, cause of death is always found, murderers are always tracked down, and people recover quickly from the death of loved ones and family members; on procedural dramas, people never really have a chance to see the long-term effects of death, and on other shows, death is such a fleeting event that the drama creates an unrealistic version of what death, dying, and mourning are like.
Why are creators in the United States so terrified of the reaper? Death, crafted and done well, can be a very powerful and compelling part of a narrative; look at the recurring presence of Lily on Veronica Mars as an example of how death can be artfully woven throughout a series as an everpresent subject that haunts the characters, drives them, and plays a key role in their lives. All of us are going to deal with death at some point in our lives; why the reticence when it comes to admitting that?
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Iranian bank challenges sanctions in Britain's Supreme Court
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian bank appealed to Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday against sanctions imposed on it by the British government in 2009 over alleged links to Iran's nuclear programme.
Bank Mellat, Iran's biggest private sector lender, wants the sanctions lifted on the basis that the government has failed to provide evidence of a connection between itself and Tehran's nuclear activities.
Bank Mellat won a similar legal battle against European Union sanctions in January, raising concerns among diplomats that court rulings could erode the sanctions regime against Iran.
Tehran says its nuclear work has only peaceful purposes but the U.N. Security Council has ordered it to suspend uranium enrichment, concerned that its ultimate goal is to develop the means to build nuclear weapons.
"Sanctions are an important way to enforce international law in a peaceful manner, but they must be subject to the rule of law and require evidence," said Sarosh Zaiwalla, a London-based lawyer representing Bank Mellat.
The sanctions against Bank Mellat, which came into force in October 2009, prevent anyone in the British financial sector from having any business relationship or conducting any transactions with the bank.
Bank Mellat says it has been unable to defend itself against the government's allegation that it indirectly facilitated the nuclear programme because some of the evidence, obtained from intelligence sources, was heard in secret in a lower court.
The government wants the Supreme Court to consider the secret material as part of its deliberations on Bank Mellat's appeal. But the bank says that would be unfair as it has not been shown the evidence against it in order to rebut it.
The debate highlights the challenge for Western governments seeking to impose sanctions on Iranian companies, caught between the need to provide sufficient evidence to stand up in court while not compromising intelligence sources.
Civil rights group Liberty has intervened in the case, arguing that it would go against open justice for the Supreme Court to consider secret material, and it would breach Bank Mellat's right to a fair trial.
But a lawyer acting for the government, Jonathan Swift, told the court it would be "disabled" from understanding the rulings made by the lower courts if it did not see the whole picture.
The issue of how the Supreme Court handles the secret material is considered so important that the case is being heard by nine judges instead of the usual five.
The hearings are scheduled to last three days, with the whole of Tuesday devoted to legal arguments about whether the court should or should not look at the secret material.
Once it has decided what to do about that issue, the Supreme Court will go on to consider the question of whether the sanctions against Bank Mellat were lawful or not. It will give its judgment on that at a later date.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Jon Hemming)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iranian-bank-challenges-sanctions-britains-supreme-court-142819496.html
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Severe storms, large hail pummel parts of South
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? Severe thunderstorms Monday raked across a wide area of the South, packing strong winds, rain and some baseball-size hail.
In Mississippi, authorities reported two people were hit on the head by large hail as the enormous storm front crossed the region. Fire official Tim Shanks said baseball-sized hail smashed windows in several vehicles in Clinton, where the two people were hit. He had no immediate word on their condition.
National Weather Service meteorologist Anna Weber said there were reports of hail the size of softballs in some areas around Jackson. Baseball-sized hail was reported in Jackson and its suburbs, including the cities of Jackson, Clinton, Madison, Pearl and Brandon.
"This is the time of year that we get hail storms, but hail this size is pretty rare," Weber said.
Emergency officials said there were reports of homes damaged in at least five Mississippi counties.
Meteorologists issued tornado warnings for parts of northwest Georgia and severe thunderstorm warnings around the state.
Flights were delayed by more than an hour Monday afternoon at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after officials there ordered a ground stop, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Elsewhere, Alabama Power officials said 198,000 customers were without power as of 5 p.m.
In Tennessee, heavy rain helped firefighters contain a wildfire that burned nearly 60 rental cabins in a resort area outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The fire forced up to 200 people who had been staying in cabins in the area to evacuate.
Fire officials had worried earlier that wind-whipped flames might jump a ridgeline and threaten Pigeon Forge, a popular tourism destination that's home to country star Dolly Parton's amusement park, Dollywood.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/severe-storms-large-hail-pummel-parts-south-222205554.html
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I received an admittance e-mail from San Diego State University last week! I'm very excited about it because I will be moving out and living on my own. I've been independent since I was 17 but I'm finally getting a chance to move out and experience living the on-campus student life. I've applied for financial aid and some scholarships. Would it be a good idea to apply for the Federal Stafford Loan and not use it unless I need? The interest rate for these loans are significantly lower than private loans.
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GOP: Re-Boot, Re-Brand, Re-Think (The Note)
By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone )
NOTABLES
REPUBLICANS RELEASE 2012 AUTOPSY: This morning the Republican National Committee unveiled its 2012 election "autopsy," which also charts a path forward for a party set back on its heels by Mitt Romney's defeat and other GOP losses last year. ABC's Shushannah Walshe notes that the 100-page "Growth and Opportunity Project" report focuses on an abbreviated presidential primary process with fewer debates; extensive outreach to minorities, including hiring paid outreach staffers in the states in a $10 million push that begins right away; and a better digital effort to try and catch up with Democrats. "When Republicans lost in November, it was a wakeup call. And in response I initiated the most public and most comprehensive post-election review in the history of any national party," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will say at a morning press conference in Washington, DC. "Last week, I received the Growth and Opportunity Project's report. As it makes clear, there's no one reason we lost. Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren't inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement ? So, there's no one solution: There's a long list of them." Read the report: http://bit.ly/WmFmWu
GOP CHAIR - 'NO MORE AUGUST CONVENTIONS': Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus yesterday previewed some of the tactical changes he feels the party must make, including holding the Party's convention earlier in the summer, notes ABC's Arlette Saenz. "I'm calling for a convention in June or July," Priebus said during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation," arguing that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a "sitting duck" in the months leading up to the Republican National Convention in August. "We're going to set up a commission that's going to make that decision," he said. "I'm going to be a part of that, I'm going to chair that commission, but no more August conventions." Priebus also said he hopes to reduce the number of primary debates to a more reasonable number like "seven or eight" per election cycle. http://abcn.ws/WPVRQI
MITT ROMNEY'S MISTAKES: The GOP report makes a direct criticism of how the party's own presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, addressed Hispanics during the last election, notes Fusion's Jordan Fabian. "If Hispanic Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e. self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence," it reads. "It does not matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies." The report echoes what many Hispanic leaders have said for years, that the GOP's "position on immigration has become a litmus test," one which they have failed in past elections. As a result, the RNC report endorsed comprehensive immigration reform, saying that it is in line with "Republican economic principles." http://abcn.ws/ZDqx4s
CABINET SHUFFLE: President Obama will announce that he is nominating Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez to be his next Secretary of Labor, ABC's Mary Bruce reports. According to a White House official: "Known throughout his career as a pragmatic leader and a consensus builder, Tom has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, since October 8, 2009. In that time, he has fought to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans. ? Tom's commitment to preserving the American dream is rooted in his own life experience. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, his father passed away when Tom was just 12 years old. Tom's parents taught him and his 4 siblings to work hard, aim high, and always give back to the community. "
THE ROUNDTABLE
ABC's MICHAEL FALCONE: No doubt about it, Rand Paul was CPAC's rock star. Although Paul, the GOP senator from Kentucky, might have won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend without his filibuster the previous week as a backdrop, it was certainly that 13-hour display on the Senate floor that won him not only the support but also the hearts of conservatives. During Paul's speech to the gathering on Thursday, the standing-room-only-crowd waved a sea of "I Stand with Rand" signs as he told them: "The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names here, do we?" Paul won one-quarter of the votes in the completely unscientific survey of nearly 3,000 conference-goers (Marco Rubio finished a close second), but it must have been a nice reward for the Kentucky Republican after fellow senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, dismissed his filibuster as "stunt." The other lesson of the straw poll: Conservatives are conflicted. The number three finisher was "Other/Write In," meaning that 14 percent of straw poll voters were all over the board when it came to who they see as their favorite 2016 GOP contender. Finally, don't forget, one big name wasn't even on the ballot: Jeb Bush.
ABC's Z. BYRON WOLF: Rand Paul won the CPAC straw poll. So what? His father won the CPAC straw poll in 2010 and 2011. That didn't help him win any presidential primaries or caucuses. That's not to say that one Paul equals the other. But their politics align in a lot of ways and while Rand Paul's filibuster won him acolytes on the right, his position on the issue of drones doesn't feel exactly mainstream. You could feel that tension when Marco Rubio, the runner up in the straw poll, gave a speech that was full of nationalist symbolism. It would be hard to imagine Rand Paul joining onto that platform. But it is still a lot easier to imagine a Rubio platform as one that makes it to a November election.
ABC's SHUSHANNAH WALSHE: Sarah Palin lit up the room Saturday at CPAC getting the crowd off their feet several times in a way the other speakers - even the big names - just did not. She may have compared the president to Bernie Madoff, but she also went after Washington, DC Republicans telling them to "get over" themselves. Her barnburner of a speech wasn't just to remind her supporters, haters, and the media that she is still around, it was also meant to entertain the crowd rather than simply recite dull policy positions. Who but Sarah Palin could really say this about her husband, Todd, and his gun - "He's got the rifle, I got the rack" - and not only get away with it, but have everyone talking about it? Does this mean she will enter elected politics again? Probably not. But it's clear she wants to be part of the conversation as 2014 nears. Look for her to back like-minded conservatives, get on the campaign trail for them, and annoy Karl Rove and other establishment Republicans along the way. Of course, Democrats will say this only helps them. We'll see if they are right.
BUZZ
BUDGET BATTLE AHEAD. The Senate will attempt this coming week to stave off a government shutdown by working to pass a continuing resolution in order to keep the government funded, ABC's Sunlen Miller reports. The continuing resolution, known in Washington shorthand as the CR, is a stopgap appropriations measure. Congress is up against a March 27 deadline this time around to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year through September. The CR passed in the House of Representatives last week but hit roadblocks this week in the Senate, stalled by amendments, battles over amendments and some senators objecting to not even having time to read the actual text. "To not allow us the time to assess what you have produced by being able to read and study the bill goes against the best traditions of the Senate," Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said on the floor of the Senate this week. "Are we just to blindly say that we approve this bill because we have a deadline at the end of the month?" The Senate bill keeps the same spending levels as the House bill, setting the top-line overall rate of spending at $982 billion, down from $1.043 trillion the previous fiscal year, but adds three appropriations measures - for homeland security and the commerce; agriculture; and justice and science funds. http://abcn.ws/ZK7ZOz
CPAC WRAP
-RAND PAUL PREVAILS. Rand Paul 2016? The Kentucky senator emerged as the potential 2016 presidential candidate preferred by the largest share of those who participated in a straw poll at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference. Paul commanded 25 percent of straw poll voters, but another possible GOP contender, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, was close on his heels with 23 percent, according to the results of the survey announced this weekend. None of the other Republicans whose names appeared on the straw poll ballot managed to break double digits. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who tried but failed to win the Republican nomination in 2012, finished third with 8 percent of the vote. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was right behind Santorum with 7 percent, followed by last year's vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, at 6 percent. Paul's win comes a little over a week since his attention-getting, 13-hour filibuster of CIA director nominee John Brennan. And it was clear at the gathering this week that Paul was a crowd favorite. Here's a rundown of the top 2013 CPAC straw poll finishers: http://abcn.ws/WqSeQd
-MATTHEW DOWD ON CPAC: 'A BUNCH OF DINOSAURS.' "To me imagery and who is there and what you say is important. And I don't think divisions are a bad thing," ABC News Political Analyst Matthew Dowd said Sunday on "This Week." "I actually think that a conservative message that is built for the 21st century would be a good thing. CPAC to me reminds me of going to the 'Land Before Time.' And it's like going to a 'Flintstones' episode in my view. It's like a bunch of dinosaurs, most of them are like throwbacks in times. It's like who's running for Grand Poobah of the "Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes" is what it looks like to me. ? I think CPAC's time has come and gone. And it's time for somebody to put together a 21st century conservative agenda." http://abcn.ws/1450qJf
-SARAH PALIN'S GREATEST HITS. Sarah Palin served up a generous helping of conservative red meat on Saturday, comparing President Obama to white-collar criminal Bernie Madoff, mocking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his support of a jumbo soda ban and criticizing the GOP's post-election attempt at "putting a fresh coat of rhetorical paint on our party" rather than focusing on "restoring the trust of the American people." Palin delivered one of the most well-received speeches of a weekend that has featured such Republican luminaries as Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. Pausing numerous times for standing ovations, she reserved particular vitriol for President Obama. "He is considered a good politician," the former vice presidential nominee said, referring to Obama, "which is like saying Bernie Madoff was a good salesmen. The difference being, the president is using our money." Palin also delivered a series of memorable one-liners:
On gun ownership: "You should have seen what Todd got me for Christmas. Well, It wasn't that exciting. It was a metal rack, case for hunting rifles to put on the back of a four-wheeler. Then though, I had to get something for him to put in the gun case, right. So, this go-around, he's got the rifle, I got the rack."
On Mayor Michael Bloomberg's large soda ban: Palin held up a Big Gulp, sipped from a straw and said, "Bloomberg is not around, our big gulps are safe. We're cool. Shoot, it's just pop with low-cal ice-cubes in it."
On the current state of politics in Washington: "We don't have leadership coming out of Washington, we have reality television."
On young conservatives: "My only piece of advice to our young college Republicans is you've got to be thinking Sam Adams, not drinking Sam Adams."
-TED CRUZ, PROUD TO BE A 'WACKO BIRD'. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he's willing to embrace the "wacko bird" label given to him by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., if it means he is defending the Constitution, reports ABC's Arlette Saenz. "If standing for liberty and standing for the Constitution makes you a wacko bird, then count me a proud wacko bird," Cruz said as he delivered the keynote address Saturday at CPAC. (In an interview with the Huffington Post earlier this month, McCain singled out Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., as "wacko birds" when asked whether he felt they are a "positive force" within the Republican Party). As he closed out the three-day conservative convention, Cruz took pride in joining Paul's 13-hour filibuster over the nomination of John Brennan to be director of the CIA, and without naming names, he criticized the senators who refrained from participating in the filibuster. "There were more than a few senators who were not there with us that have had their manhood cheapened as a result," Cruz said. http://abcn.ws/1304ZVR
-LOVE IN THE TIME OF CPAC. CPAC has launched hook-ups, dates and even marriages, but for some, the annual conference of like-minded conservatives - many of whom are college students and twenty-somethings - romance can be about as hard to find here as a copy of "The Audacity of Hope," notes ABC's Chris Good. "I came here to meet a nice conservative girl, but I think I'm only gonna meet crazy conservative girls," one lovelorn young man, wearing a red tie, remarked to his friend on the opening day of CPAC. The annual gathering is part serious stage for GOP stars who deliver big-time speeches, part expo for activist groups, and part networking confab for consultants and behind-the-scenes GOP power players, but it's also part party and flirtfest, well attended by young, college-aged conservatives from across America, who gather at happy hours every evening, decked out in suits and dresses, all staying in the same hotel. "There's a lot of hooking up that goes on," said one Republican strategist who met his future wife organizing a CPAC trip in his youth. Asked for the worst pickup lines they'd heard at the conference, several young CPAC women revealed exceptionally bad ones: http://abcn.ws/1324niv
-FIVE QUESTIONS FOR FOSTER FRIESS. ABC's Shushannah Walshe asked the same five questions to several conservatives conference-goers at CPAC. Here's Republican donor and philanthropist Foster Friess, the man who helped bankroll Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential bid:
ABC: Should Republicans Back Immigration Reform?
Foster Friess: I think the number one thing Republicans can get behind is one thing- guest worker permits. Forget about all the other issues, what you do with the people here and when you send them back. Everyone pretty well agrees if you catch someone at 6AM in the morning, you send them back at 9AM. Then the question becomes what if you catch them a year later or two years later so there's all kinds of dates as to where he would get sent back. So I think if you minimize those issues and talk on one single issue, like Clinton said 'it's the economy, stupid', if we get guest worker permits as the number one key issue that will drive the inclination of people to embrace our point of view, where the Democrats will oppose that very, very viciously.
ABC: Who will be the next president?
Foster Friess: Well that will be Rick Santorum for sure.
ABC: Why did Mitt Romney lose?
Foster Friess: I don't think he lost. He just didn't win.
ABC: The Tea Party Dead or Alive?
Foster Friess: The Tea Party is going to be very, very critical to our future as a country. It is going to be rejuvenated with a new surge of energy. I think the left's attempt to demonize the party has fallen away a bit, I like to tell a story, 'we're too old to be violent' and I believe the tea party will morph into Freedom Dinners where people will go to a country club or a high end restaurant and have a speaker come in and talk about the issues about how we get the state budgets squared away in terms of shifting from defined benefit to defined contribution plans, so it's not a big problem that builds up.
ABC: Who's the Democrat you would least like to go up against in 2016?
Foster Friess: I think Hillary Clinton is going to be pretty tough. But Michelle Obama wouldn't that be tough? I think the Democrats are so clever. And they know how to communicate, they communicate to the emotions and the heart. Republicans tend to the brain and intellect until we learn their skill set we are going to be at a disadvantage.
More "Five Questions" with Gregg Keller. Executive Director of the American Conservative Union; Steve Bannon, Executive chairman of Breitbart News Network; Alfonso Aguilar, Executive Director, Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles; Tom Intorocio, Former Santorum aide, author of blog "Who Said? You Said.com"; and John Horvat, Author of "Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society - Where We've Been, How We Got There and Where We Need To Go." http://abcn.ws/13XKQPf
BOEHNER: THE 'TALK ABOUT RAISING REVENUE IS OVER' House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told ABC News' Martha Raddatz during an exclusive interview for "This Week" that talk of including revenue as part of an effort to strike a so-called "grand bargain" to address the $16 trillion debt of the United States was "over," leaving Democrats and Republicans where they have been for months - at loggerheads. "The president believes that we have to have more taxes from the American people. We're not going to get very far," Boehner said. "The president got his tax hikes on January 1. The talk about raising revenue is over. It's time to deal with the spending problem." Boehner said the United States does not face an immediate debt problem, agreeing with recent comments by President Obama - but he added debt is an issue that will have to be addressed. "We do not have an immediate debt crisis - but we all know that we have one looming," he said. "And we have one looming because we have entitlement programs that are not sustainable in their current form. They're going to go bankrupt." http://abcn.ws/ZKde0H
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: FOREIGN POLICY HAS BECOME 'MUCH HARDER' After a roundtable appearance on "This Week," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright joined Martha Raddatz for an ABC News web exclusive. Albright discussed her career, gave advice for the current Secretary of State John Kerry, and talked about how U.S. foreign policy has changed since she served in the Clinton administration. "I think that in many ways it's gotten much harder because we have this evolution of what we call 'non-state actors.' Various, obviously, terrorist groups that roam around. It's very hard to figure out what tools to use against them. And lack of faith, frankly, in the various international institutions that exist. It's uncharted waters in many ways." WATCH are more of Albright's responses to viewer questions from Facebook and Twitter: http://abcn.ws/115Umzn
POLL: IRAQ RE-EXAMINED. Ten years after U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad punctuated the start of the Iraq war, nearly six in 10 Americans say the war was not worth fighting - a judgment shared by majorities steadily since initial success gave way to years of continued conflict, notes ABC News Pollster Gary Langer. Nearly as many in the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll say the same about the war in Afghanistan. And while criticisms of both wars are down from their peaks, the intensity of sentiment remains high, with strong critics far outweighing strong supporters. A key reason: A substantial sense that neither war did much to achieve their goals of enhancing U.S. security. Only about half of Americans say either war contributed to the long-term security of the United States, and just two in 10 say either contributed "a great deal" to U.S. security - clearly insufficient, in the minds of most, to justify their costs in lives and lucre. More poll results: http://abcn.ws/15TUrVH
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JOE BIDEN? Vice President Joe Biden has a busy day in Rome, notes ABC's Mary Bruce. This morning, he met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and the Prime Minister. Later he meets separately with the president of Poland and Serbia.
WHO'S TWEETING?
@shushwalshe: . @Reince Priebus on 2012 loss: Our msg was weak, ground game was insufficient, we weren't inclusive, we were behind in both data + digital
@NKingofDC: RNC chairman says the GOP autopsy is the most comprehensive of any party in history.
@PhilipRucker: Smart @PostScottWilson preview of Obama's Israel trip. http://wapo.st/XTGozO Follow Scott, fmr Jerusalem buro chief, for insights this wk.
@TheFix: Can Reince Priebus save the Republican party? http://ow.ly/j9fls
@SalenaZitoTrib: Also today is RNC chair @Reince birthday.
Also ReadSource: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-boot-brand-think-note-125605195--abc-news-politics.html
Monday, March 18, 2013
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