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August was year???s deadliest month for foreign troops in Afghanistan
Los Angeles Times
Published: August 31, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan ? More NATO troops, and more Americans, were killed in Afghanistan in August than in any other month this year.
Fifty-three Western troops had died in Afghanistan as of Aug. 31, according to the website icasualties.org. Of those, 38 were Americans. U.S. troops make up about two-thirds of the NATO force.
U.S. military fatalities, in particular, were driven by the phenomenon of ?insider? attacks in which members of the Afghan security forces turn their weapons on Western troops. Of the 15 such deaths in August, 12 were of Americans.
Another nine coalition deaths, seven of them Americans, occurred in helicopter crashes.
However, military deaths in August were down significantly from the same month in 2011, when 82 members of the NATO force were killed, 71 of them Americans. That was the most lethal month of that year, too.
Western military officials generally say there is a correlation between the number of coalition troops in Afghanistan and the numbers who are killed and injured. American troop strength peaked last year at just over 100,000; by the end of September it will have dropped to 68,000.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Scientist at Work: Beyond Antarctica's Photo Opportunity
Alexander Kumar, a physician and researcher at Concordia Station, writes from Antarctica, where he conducts scientific experiments for the European Space Agency?s human spaceflight program.
Monday, Aug. 20
On Jan. 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott?s team arrived at the South Pole defeated and exhausted, finding they had been beaten to it by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Scott wrote, ?The Pole. Yes, but under very different circumstances from those expected,? followed by, ?Great God, this is an awful place.?
While Amundsen or one of his sled dogs may have been the first to visit the South Pole, his team left behind only a legacy in exploration. But Scott?s team, with its British scientific leader and expedition doctor, Edward Wilson, also blazed a trail in Antarctic science ? a legacy that still burns bright today.
In fact, besides completing the Worst Journey in the World, Wilson had hauled a multitude of geological samples to what became his final resting place, never giving up to death. The final three members of the expedition team had died of starvation on their return from the South Pole, just 11 miles from the One Ton Camp supply depot and safety.
My friend Dr. Dale Mol? sent me a photo of a portrait of Wilson ? the first doctor to reach the South Pole ? that hangs in ?Club Med,? the infirmary of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, an American outpost. It remains an inspiration to all lone doctors who dare to overwinter there.
It is to me ? so much so that on March 29, to celebrate Scott?s centenary, the date of his last diary entry, I slept in a tent outside, where the temperature was minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit). The tent was basic, with open sides that allowed wind to come in. It was simply the worst night?s camping I had ever done, and a memory I will keep forever. Never again will I moan about camping in the British rain.
Scott?s team had dreamed of the South Pole ? ?the uttermost end of the world,? as Scott described it. Today, 100 years later, I sit in my spacious, comfortable biomedical laboratory conducting research for the European Space Agency with my own century?s dream: to send a manned mission to Mars, and see it return.
At Concordia, one of the world?s most remote and isolated manned outposts, our 13 crew members have been working hard, enduring these long months alone and forgoing our previous lives, rich with family and friends, also in the name of science. We have conducted a variety of experiments, including my human science research, attempting to carry the torch of science through the extreme cold and polar darkness.
Two crew members are continuing glaciology research, following the success of a Concordia project known as EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) that ran from 1996 to 2005. The project charted about 800,000 years of climate history, revealing humankind?s impact on the planet from the more than 3,000 meters (about 10,000 feet) of ice cores that were brought up for analysis. The remaining shards and pieces of broken cores brought up to the surface are kept inside a tunnel.
As a tourist in Antarctica, you could pour yourself a whiskey and have it fizz with 760,000-year-old ice if it weren?t such a scientific atrocity. More interesting to me has been finding samples correlating to the year A.D. 0, ?when Jesus walked the earth.
I spent many long hours outside helping our glaciologist, Sebastien Aubin of France, carefully excavate untouched ice far from the station and bag it for later analysis. It was almost fun working at midday in the winter darkness, sometimes under the moonlight and starry polar night sky; it is the closest you could come to sampling life on another planet. The ?great white silence,? as a British documentary film from the 1920s called it, was so still that you couldn?t even hear the old souls drifting across the plateau.
Buried deep underground, hidden in the ice not far away, is a series of ladders and tunnels that lead to a single box. You cannot touch the box or step near it. It blinks and flashes red lights silently. This box measures the minute and distant torsions in the earth?s crust, watching from afar as the world tries to blow itself up.
Before the onset of winter, I was extremely privileged not only to visit the site and box, but also to witness one of Antarctica?s most unique sights. My French guide, the resident seismologist and station leader, Erick Bondoux, turned off the lights. The ambient temperature was minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit). I couldn?t even see my own breath. I set my camera up and took a photo. After some time, the most incredible sight appeared on my screen: an indigo hue produced by the filtration by the ancient ice of the sunlight from far, far above.
This year we have had the coldest temperature recorded on site in two winters ? minus 80.5 degrees Celsius (about minus 113 degrees Fahrenheit), without considering wind chill ? and the lowest atmospheric pressure ever recorded on site, at 610 hectopascals. The latter left us all feeling severely hung over from the simultaneous hypoxia, as oxygen was stolen from our breath before it reached our lungs.
Imagine the feeling of being half-submerged, half-drowned, continually short of breath, struggling with a hammering headache and wanting to vomit from the associated nausea. Besides the lowest records, we had two unusual days in which the temperature swung wildly from minus 70 degrees Celsius to minus 29 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.
Without the efforts of Igor Petenko, our resident Russian meteorologist, all of these changes and records would have remained unknown. We would not be able to measure the human impact on all of the earth?s surface. After all, who else is going to do it around here? We are the only people living for more than 1,000 kilometers in most directions.
One of the greatest and most challenging journeys we undertook was to climb one of Antarctica?s highest towers in the winter darkness and extreme cold. American Tower, about a kilometer from Concordia Station, stands about 40 meters (130 feet) tall, with 25 levels up to its summit. On many of the levels, there are scientific instruments that require regular maintenance. With open sides and fierce winds, you need to fix yourself with a harness to a central rope to reach them. For me, standing on the top of the bottom of the world was magical, with shooting stars and satellites as our only company.
Living out of the reach of pollution, on top of a high-altitude ice cube and in the winter darkness, we have one of the clearest night skies available anywhere on earth. Up here, we can look into the Milky Way while being dazzled by the aurora australis, the southern lights.
Astroconcordia, overseen by the station astronomer, Guillaume Bouchez of France, is the headquarters for Concordia?s astronomy research initiatives, including the search for distant exoplanets that are like our own and could potentially support life. Guillaume spends a great deal of time outside, monitoring and cleaning his equipment. I spent a few hours late one night scanning the surface of the moon with him.
Living alone at this extreme, we have to be completely self-sufficient. Our plumber and resident explorer, G?rard Gu?rin of France, is responsible for keeping our water supply running and safe to drink. That may seem like a simple process: Turning ice into water simply requires the addition of heat. But heating in the coldest environment on earth can be terribly inefficient, and in a world full of landfill, it would be truly tragic and unthinkable to edge Antarctica toward the same fate.
Here we recycle our wastewater, using a gray water treatment unit built and managed by a French company, Firmus; it is similar to the system on the International Space Station. We have also a black water treatment unit and a digester, which, using a microbiological process, reduces our organic waste.
And so our team can not only survive in the world?s most extreme environment, but thrive while carrying out important scientific research during the worst winter in the world. I hope the scientific work of international overwintering stations on Antarctica continues to serve as an example to the rest of the world.
This entry is dedicated to those who, in the past century, gave their lives while working on the ice for the purpose of science and discovery. In particular, I dedicate this to the blazing legacy of science left by Dr. Wilson, my hero. It may be unpopular to say, but I believe Scott?s team was the first to reach the South Pole for the ?right? reason ? science ? which should also be the reason that humans, one day, land on Mars.
The only profit made from Antarctica should be in science. We may live in a world where $50,000 will buy a summer tourist a fly-by-night ticket to be photographed at the South Pole. But I am sure in my heart that the only way I would ever arrive at the South Pole is on my own two feet, starved in body but not in mind, dragging a sled of science behind me, repaving the trusted, century-old trail that at the turn of the last century blazed so brightly.
I would do so out of respect for others, like Wilson, who came before me, hauling to his death this same true belief in science and appreciation for the wonderful but dwindling diversity of what in the future may be found only in a textbook or on a Web site: life on Earth.
In 2014, Dr. Alexander Kumar will join the Imperial TransAntarctic Centenary Expedition?as the expedition?s doctor and chief scientist. He will be responsible for conducting a scientific protocol while completing the route originally planned but not undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated Endurance expedition 100 years ago.
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'Jersey Shore' to end after season six
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"Jersey Shore" cast, from left, Sammi, Ronnie, Snooki, JWoww, Deena, The Situation, Pauly D and Vinny.
By Anna Chan, TODAY
Say goodbye to Snooki, The Situation, DJ Pauly D, JWoww and the rest of the "Jersey Shore" gang. MTV announced Thursday morning that the reality show will end after season six.
The network will be bidding its hit show farewell by offering what it calls "celebratory" programming beginning on Thursday, Sept. 6. That will include first looks at the final season, a one-hour retrospective and more.
The program debuted in December 2009 and quickly grew in popularity as cameras captured every headline-making fight, hook up, break up, make up and arrest of the hard-partying 20-somethings who share a house together. The show is MTV's highest rated series in its history. The majority of the seasons were filmed in Seaside Heights, N.J., but season two followed the cast's adventures in Miami Beach and season four in Italy.?
"Jersey Shore" has spawned two spin-offs: "The Pauly D Project" and "Snooki & JWoww."
The final season of "Jersey Shore" premieres on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 10 p.m. on MTV.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Will Hurricane Isaac Be a 'Drought Killer'?
Hurricane Isaac is barreling toward U.S. shores, bringing an onslaught of roaring winds, dangerous storm surges and punishing downpours to the Gulf Coast.
But the storm's effects won't stop there. Hurricane Isaacis projected to bring rain to a huge portion of the United States far from the Gulf Coast. And at a time when the nation's agricultural hub is in the grip of a devastating drought, the sudden rains may not prove to be much of a blessing.
As Isaac's projected path takes it marching ?inland, it will run into a cold front dropping down from Canada, which will set the stage for downpours across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, said Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
All that moisture in Hurricane Isaac "is going to get stretched out along that cold front and will produce very heavy rains from southeastern Missouri into Ohio, and as far east as western Pennsylvania," Pereira told OurAmazingPlanet.
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A swath that cuts across Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana is expected get the most rain ? up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) in some areas. ?
"Hopefully these will be beneficial rains for these folks, because this includes part of the country that's been under very dry conditions for a better part of the year," Pereira said.
Praying for rain
The added moisture could prove a huge help to the region's shriveled pastures.
But for the region's crops? ?"It's too late," said Brad Rippey, an agricultural meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
About two-thirds of the United States is experiencing a drought, and for the nation's crop producers, the parched conditions have been disastrous, Rippey told OurAmazingPlanet.
USDA figures show that, as of Aug. 1, the United States had lost 4 billion bushels of corn, or about one quarter of the year's crop, and just over half a billion bushels of soybeans, or about one sixth of the year's crop.
The coming rains offer no hope for corn and little hope for soybeans, he said, because the growing season is largely over.
"It's kind of a double-edged sword," Rippey explained. "They desperately need the moisture, but at this point in the season, it's not necessarily a good thing to have a lot of rain."
Bob Nielsen, an agronomist at Purdue University and a 30-year veteran of agricultural research, agreed.
"It would be nice to get a couple inches out of it, but if we get a lot of rain, it could lead to flooding of lowlands and further damage crops," Nielsen said.
In addition, a sudden dousing could promote disease and mold in the crops that have survived the drought, Rippey said.
However, both Rippey and Nielsen said Isaac's drenching rains might not be all bad.
Bright spots?
"If it would help recharge the soil moisture levels, you bet it would have a benefit, and we would welcome it," Nielsen said.
Rippey said it's likely the rains would indeed boost soil moisture and also replenish the water table, which could prove a boon to next year's crops.
"There's not an immediate benefit, but we need to get that moisture back in there sometime," Rippey said. [10 Driest Places on Earth]
The prospect of better yields next year does little to ease the heartache this year's drought has brought, Nielsen said.
"Until you actually walk these fields, it just doesn't sink in," he said. "It's not just the way it looks, it's the smell. There is literally a smell of death when you walk these fields, they are so far gone."
Reach Andrea Mustain at amustain@techmedianetwork.com, or follow her on Twitter @AndreaMustain.Follow OurAmazingPlanet on Twitter @OAPlanet. We're also on Facebook& Google+.
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US 'withheld' email evidence in WikiLeaks case
Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military of withholding hundreds of emails over fears of a publicity nightmare.
The defense team for Private Bradley Manning, who could be jailed for life for "aiding the enemy" over the massive security breach, alleged that more than 1,300 messages were ignored by prosecutors for at least six months.
The emails relate to the conditions the 24-year-old trooper was held in during military detention at Quantico, Virginia, where he was sent after a spell in a US Army jail in Kuwait following his arrest while on duty in Iraq in 2010.
Manning's civilian lawyer David Coombs told a pre-trial hearing that 84 emails were released to the defense team on July 25 last year, but he later discovered that 1,290 other such messages had not been passed on to him.
The government "chose to let these emails collect dust somewhere," Coombs said on the first day of the three-day hearing at a military base in Fort Meade, Maryland, 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the US capital.
Military prosecutors then suddenly announced that 600 other messages had been handed to Manning's legal team on Monday, ahead of the hearing, but Coombs persisted with his attack.
"It is the defense position that the government has been playing word games," the lawyer said, implying that the emails were held back because the government had adopted a deliberately narrow definition of their relevance to the case.
The soldier's lawyers argue that he was mistreated at Quantico, and even alleged Tuesday that the former intelligence analyst had been ordered by guards to stand at attention while completely naked.
Coombs then took aim at top Marine officers responsible for running the jail, who he said had put their concerns about bad publicity ahead of their duty to provide fair treatment to detainees.
The emails go as high up the chain as General George Flynn, the then commanding general of the US Marine Corps, who had insisted that Manning be placed on suicide watch, according to Coombs.
Top officers at Quantico regularly sent emails to Flynn informing him of Manning's detention conditions, which the defense says were unnecessarily harsh, and told the Marine commander who the jailed WikiLeaks suspect's visitors were.
The military "kept Manning in maximum POI (prevention of injury)" custody "because they didn't want any negative publicity," Coombs said, reading out an official list that placed media risks at the top of eight noted concerns at Quantico.
After his detention at the Marine Corps Brig from July 2010 to April 2011, Manning was transferred to a prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where he was placed under less restrictive conditions.
If the court finds he was abused, the case could potentially be thrown out, or any eventual sentence reduced.
However, military counsel at Fort Meade denied that the emails had been held back and said they amounted to nothing more than "argument and conjecture" among the various military commanders involved.
"They were concerned about public affairs (media handling) but they were also concerned about Private First Class Manning," said Major Ashden Fein, the lead counsel for the government.
Colonel Denise Lind, the case judge, however said the months-long delay over disclosure of the emails remained unexplained.
"I still wonder why you waited until July," Lind asked Fein, before ruling that she would examine the estimated 700 emails from the original bundle that remain in government hands, before deciding if they too should be handed over.
The publishing by WikiLeaks of official documents, including military logs concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, triggered a diplomatic firestorm that hugely embarrassed American officials and rankled the nation's allies.
Manning, who is attending this week's hearing, has not yet entered a plea in the case and his trial now looks set to start in February -- five months later than originally thought.
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Official: Anarchist GIs plotted government ouster
Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Hurricane makes landfall in southeastern Louisiana
Isaac, now a Category 1 hurricane, has already brought flooding rains to Charleston, S.C. Later Tuesday night the giant storm will move up into much of Louisiana and Mississippi bringing a storm surge threat to coastal cities. New Orleans may see as much as 20 inches of rain. Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore reports from New Orleans.
By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
Updated at 10:08 p.m. ET: Hurricane Isaac made landfall at 8 p.m. Tuesday in southeastern Louisiana as a Category 1 hurricane. The slow-moving storm is expected to dump up to 20 inches of rain in some spots over two days.
Isaac had 80 mph sustained winds -- up from 75 mph when it reached hurricane status earlier in the afternoon.
"It's going to be a long period of really bad weather" for the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts as well as areas inland, National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb said. Even before landfall, some flooded roads and power outages were reported in those states.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said he expects his city "will get the brunt of it." Nola.com reported that the hurricane would arrive in New Orleans around 1 a.m., accompanied by high winds. Utility officials said nearly 150,000 homes and businesses in southeastern Louisiana have been left without power, utility officials said.
"We think that we're well prepared," Landrieu said at a briefing, while emphasizing that much depends on how well residents heed warnings to hunker down.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu?says "we don't expect a Katrina-like event, but remember there are things about a Category 1 storm that can kill you." Watch his news conference on Isaac preparations.
No mandatory evacuations were ordered inside New Orleans, which sits behind levees and pumps reinforced after Hurricane Katrina, which blew ashore seven years ago.
While Isaac is well below the intensity of Katrina, a powerful Category 3 storm on landfall, its vast size and slow track have forecasters predicting widespread flooding.
Hundreds of Army National Guard troops took up positions around New Orleans to ward off any threat of looting.
Their arrival came as bands of driving rain and stiff winds began battering the city and other parts of the coast. Some 10,000 homes and businesses had lost power in southern Louisiana by late afternoon, as did 6,000 customers in Mobile, Ala.
New Orleans' Jefferson Parish has many low-lying areas that are outside the Hurricane Protection Levee System. John Young, Jefferson Parish president, joins NewsNation to talk about the dangerous threats to the areas from the storm.
President Barack Obama added his voice to those of local officials urging residents to hunker down or evacuate if told to do so. "Now's not the time to tempt fate," he said in brief comments Tuesday morning. "Listen to your local officials and follow their directions, including if they tell you to evacuate."
"The inland flooding from the heavy rainfall could extend hundreds of miles from the coast," Knabb said.
The streets of New Orleans were virtually empty Tuesday as most heeded the warning to take shelter at home, confident in the city's ability to handle Isaac. NBC's Lester Holt reports from New Orleans.
Isaac is very wide as storms go, with tropical storm-force winds stretching 185 miles from its center. Hurricane-force winds extend out 60 miles.
Its size and slow motion, Knabb said, will make for a large storm surge, especially in southeast Louisiana, where a surge up to 12 feet is predicted.
By Tuesday afternoon, some beach areas were seeing water lapping onto streets.
NBC's Lester Holt takes a look at how the legacy of Katrina has residents fleeing for higher ground as Tropical Storm Isaac heads for New Orleans, La. Meanwhile, officials say stronger and higher defenses built since Katrina will hold.
Rainfall of 7-14 inches across the coast as well as inland is likely, and a few places could even see 20 inches, Knabb said.
Residents should expect "a lot of hazards to contend with, even isolated tornadoes" into Wednesday, Knabb said.
Related:?Follow Isaac's path with our storm tracker
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Isaac was moving to the northwest at 8 mph and will arrive in New Orleans seven years to the day Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, killing more than 1,800 people and causing billions of dollars of damage.?
Levees built or repaired after Katrina are designed to withstand far more than that 12-foot surge, in some cases storm surges as high as 26 feet.
Mandatory evacuations were issued Monday for unprotected, low-lying areas outside New Orleans, as well as low-lying areas in Mississippi.
The Dunbar Pier on the bay side of the Bay St. Louis peninsula was rebuilt in 2007 after Katrina completely destroyed the original. The sign notifying the public of the pier's expansion was swamped Tuesday.
Residents in coastal communities from Louisiana to Mississippi stocked up on food and water and tried to secure their homes, cars and boats.?
"Right now we?re starting to experience some flooding of low-lying areas along the beachfront," Brian Adam, emergency management director in Mississippi's?Hancock County, told NBC News. "We?ve opened two shelters and have about 185 people there."
In Bay St. Louis, Miss., residents in low-lying areas evacuated while those on high ground were keeping an eye on Isaac, resident Ellis Anderson told NBC News.
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"It's not expected to be another Katrina," she said. "But everybody is watching it very seriously" because of the potential path that could push water into the area hard hit by Katrina and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
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Tropical Storm Isaac drenches multiple countries as it moves toward Louisiana.
Gustav "went to the west of New Orleans," she recalled, pushing "all that water into that cup that is the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. ...?We were getting beaten up and we had a lot of homes that were flooded."
In New Orleans, a bumper-to-bumper stream of vehicles left the city Monday on a highway toward Baton Rouge in search of higher ground. Others prepared or were forced to ride the storm out.
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Along Canal Street in New Orleans' historic French Quarter, crews boarded up the windows of some stores and businesses.?
Offshore in the Gulf, regulators said that 93 percent of daily oil and 67 percent of daily natural gas production in U.S.-regulated areas have been shut down by the hurricane.
Isaac has killed at least 22 people and caused significant flooding and damage in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before skirting the southern tip of Florida on Sunday.?
Isaac will put New Orleans' new $15 billion levee system to test for the first time since its post-Katrina upgrade. However, there's one major problem – the levee is only eight feet, well below the expected 12-foot storm surge.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
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Monday, August 27, 2012
GOP Convention Lineup Will Stay Mostly the Same, Tuesday-Thursday
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Republican officials unveiled their revised schedule on Sunday evening, revealing an unchanged prime-time lineup for Tuesday through Thursday night and the seemingly seamless addition of Monday?s speakers to the rest of the schedule. But even as they appeared to finally cement a convention schedule in flux since Tropical Storm Isaac forced the cancellation of Monday?s programming, the event?s organizers acknowledged the storm?s continued and possibly devastating march could force further changes.
?We are continuing to plan for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but at the same time we?re obviously monitoring what?s going on with the weather,? said Russ Schriefer, an adviser to Mitt Romney?s campaign, in a conference call with reporters. ?But our concern has to be with people in the path? of the storm.
Schriefer did not explicitly knock down speculation the convention could be extended one day, to Friday, although he emphasized he can?t predict the storm?s path and didn?t want to answer any ?hypotheticals.?
So, in a way, the Romney campaign finds itself in the same situation it was in last week, when it was dogged by speculation Isaac would delay or even cancel the event. The difference now is instead of concern over the storm hitting Tampa, Republicans must worry about it striking New Orleans. The city was put under a hurricane warning on Sunday.
The sensitivity is obvious: Republicans don?t want to be seen as partying while a storm hits a city that only seven years ago was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The perceived lackluster response from the Bush administration to that natural disaster helped sink the Republican president?s political standing ? memories the Romney campaign does want to conjure up.
The former Bay State governor?s most sensitive schedule change was to that of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who was set to speak on Monday night. The Romney campaign moved Huckabee to Wednesday night.
The 2008 presidential contender, a pastor with his own TV and radio shows, is one of the popular political figures among evangelicals, the group of voters most resistant to Romney?s candidacy during the primaries. They have rallied around Romney since the start of the general election race, but any perceived slight to Huckabee could have re-opened the old wound.
Other luminaries who had their Monday speaking slots moved include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, now speaking on Thursday night, and libertarian favorite Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., now speaking on Wednesday.
The schedule also included one other surprise addition: former House Speaker and Romney presidential primary rival Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, who are now slated to speak Thursday evening.
Despite the last-minute pressure to make changes,? buyer?s remorse for the selection of the convention city -- or public pining for runners-up Salt Lake City and Phoenix -- appears scarce.?
Conventioneers say a major storm would have pushed back the start of a national convention whether the host city was going to be affected or not, as Hurricane Gustav did in 2008 in St. Paul.
?If the convention were in San Diego or New York City or Atlanta or any other city, there would likely be a suspension of convention activities due to the impending landfall of the storm,? Justin Sayfie, a former top aide to Jeb Bush and publisher of a prominent Florida political site, told National Journal on Sunday.
?It?s really necessary to suspend the convention because a natural disaster supersedes pure politics, and it would not send the right message or be perceived well by anyone of some of the most powerful people in the country were focused on politics and not on preparation and response to the potential natural disaster,? Sayfie said.
The Republican National Committee awarded Tampa the convention in May 2010, after the city had been shut out of two previous convention bids. On Sunday, then-party chairman Michael Steele waved off suggestions that the party had erred under his leadership in selecting Tampa two years ago.
?I get blamed for everything apparently these days,? Steele said on MSNBC?s Up with Chris Hayes. ?I?m convenient. ? We set this in motion two years ago. Like we could forecast the weather??
Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, has voted for every successful presidential candidate since 1960 save one. In 1992, the county opted for a second term for President George H.W. Bush over Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. With a population of 1.2 million, the county at the intersection of I-4 and I-75 voted twice for President George W. Bush. Four years ago it gave Barack Obama a 7-point margin.
The removal of one of the four convention days could limit the political impact of an event Republicans believe should lift Romney in the polls. Some in the party dismissed those concerns Sunday.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appearing on NBC's Meet The Press, discounted the importance of the convention?s opening night, which the three broadcast networks had already decided not to air. But any further cancellations would be ?unfortunate,? he said. ?It?s Wednesday and Thursday night that are the big moments,? McCain said. ?I don?t think it?ll be damaging if we lose that first night. But it could be harmful if we lose more than that.?
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-convention-lineup-stay-mostly-same-tuesday-thursday-191755164.html
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Improving Your Life, One Home Improvement At A Time | Marijuana ...
Your mood is influenced by your surroundings, and this is especially true within your own home. Some people spend even more time at home if they work there. If this is your situation, it makes it even more important that you are happy with your home. When your home is nice, it is easier to do everything. Here are some tips to assist you in creating a home that you can truly enjoy and love to live in.
Being comfortable in your home is paramount to your well-being. True, no home is perfect, but if your home?s shortcomings cause everyday irritation, this will affect your outlook on life. To live a happy life, you should make your home as comfortable as possible. Your home?s comfort level is a key feature of your home that needs appropriate attention paid to it. A good example of increasing your comfort level at home is to make sure your furniture is suited to your needs. If you can?t reach that high shelf, lower it, or get yourself a step stool. If your shins are constantly bruised from bumping the coffee table?s corners, get a round one. Even a small change can lead to vast improvements in your life.
Expand your space. No matter how much organizing and reorganizing you do, there?s only so much space in your home, and you can run out of room. When the walls are creeping in on you, an expansion is a good option. Even a very small expansion can do a lot to remove the stress associated with junk and clutter.
Make your home more pleasant and valuable by adding recreational features to your property. You can increase the value of your home by adding something simple like a basketball hoop or something large like a pool. These types of amenities can add to the enjoyment of your home.
Consider the lighting in your home. Just by altering it a little bit can bring a drab, dark spot to life and it can make an area seem more appealing. A quick and very easy way to improve your home?s lighting is to check for old bulbs. These bulbs create a dimmer ambient light, so when you replace them, it can prove enlightening by brightening your spaces. If you know how, you can even change the fixtures.
Make the most of your outdoor space by planting a garden; this turns any yard into a lush and inviting space. You can use the services of a gardener and still see the benefits that a garden provides. Some of these benefits include relief of stress and better air, and if you pick the right things to plant, you can also enjoy flowers, herbs and veggies.
It is also wise to think about doing things to improve the exterior of your home. You can add value and beauty to your house by brightening up the appearance with fresh paint, new windows, or updating the roof. Plus, your refreshed home will be a much more inviting experience for your guests!
Projects to improve your home are investments in both your emotional well-being and financial future. Life is so much more enjoyable when you can spend time in a home that you really love.
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything ...
Whoever might be employing me in the spring of 2013, know this: The moment Netflix debuts the return of Arrested Development, I?m calling in sick. Because on that glorious day, me and the hundreds and thousands of other devotees will be in our pajamas, in front of our laptops and iPads and Xboxes and Rokus, once again enjoying the antics of the Bluth family.
Arrested?s rebirth, over four years in the works, has the potential to completely change the game in terms of the way we regard web content in the future. I mean, cult network sitcom gets a literal second life through the largess of a company that began life as a mail-order DVD service? If you time-traveled to 2006 (the year Fox originally canceled the show), and told this story, no one would believe you.
And yet, it?s happening: scripts have been written, producer/narrator Ron Howard?s Tweeting from the set, and David Cross, on a recent press blitz, said no shortage of interesting things about the series? return, including this to Rolling Stone:
I think it?s going to be 13 episodes, not 10. There?s too much story. Some characters will have two-parters. Everybody sort of participates, sometimes in a bigger way and sometimes in a tiny little thread that goes through everybody else?s stories.
This is the sort of statement that would make a network executive?s head explode, due to the way traditional TV is budgeted and structured on a per-episode basis. But we?re on Netflix?s turf now. Unexplored territory.
Beyond Lilyhammer, which has been renewed for a second season, the industry hasn?t gotten much sense yet of how Netflix?s many high-profile in-the-works projects, such as Arrested, the Eli Roth series Hemlock Grove or the Kevin Spacey-starring House of Cards, will really work out ? especially because the question of how to promote a VOD project is still a bit up in the air.
With theatrical releases, you get premiere dates, big galas. But Netflix is so stealthy about announcing what?s available and what isn?t that websites and email services have been created to update people.
Without doubt, I?ll know what day I?m calling in with the Arrested flu next spring ? it?s impossible to imagine that not being heavily promoted by both the production and Netflix ? but the Netflix experience in general has always boiled down to ?Wait, THAT?S available now? Okay, cool.? Seeing how Netflix adapts to accommodate the original programming they?re launching, while still enabling the casual browsing of the user experience, is a fascinating challenge.
The other element is the fact that like Lilyhammer, all 10-13 episodes of the series will be released at once, setting fans up for epic marathon sessions. The term ?binge viewing? has been coined to describe how many TV fans now consume shows, gulping up entire seasons on DVD or streaming services. It?s a wonderful way to fall in love with a show ? just sinking into it the way you might sink into an epic novel. And Arrested?s new season, according to Cross, sounds designed with just that experience in mind:
I?m not gonna divulge anything, but I know what the stories are and what Mitch [Hurwitz] is doing, and it?s so layered. It?s really audacious and amazing. I think a lot of people will miss the work that is involved, the story, the Venn diagrams that are being created, the domino effect that characters have with each other in their various episodes. I know what he?s doing, and this has never been done on a TV show like this. This makes Lost look like a Spalding Grey monologue. You?ll have to watch each episode more than once.
Given the show?s pre-established track record for hidden jokes and gags, this sounds more than promising.
The AMC series Breaking Bad is a key example of a show that?s grown its audience thanks to binge viewing, indicated by how its ratings have increased with each season, as new viewers discover the show through Netflix. But Vince Gilligan, in a recent interview with KCRW?s The Business, had this to say about the phenomenon:
It?s wonderful, but I do see the worry ? this is a business, it?s show business and if there?s no money to be made, then this wonderful job I have and other jobs like it are going to dry up. So we should all be interested in how they monetize this stuff. It?s wonderful when people binge-watch the show ? I say have at it ? but I do see the companies, not just ours, the various companies concerned that if you?re binge-watching on a DVR, you?re skipping all the commercials. And if the guys who buy the commercials realize that all their commercials are being skipped, they?re going to stop buying commercials.
It?s an attitude you?ll hear elsewhere in the industry ? which may be why Netflix is doubling down on its subscription model. I couldn?t track down the budget for Arrested Development?s new season, but House of Cards?s price tag was reported by some as $100 million, and Hemlock Grove, it?s said, is budgeted at $40 million for 13 episodes ? otherwise known as about $3 million an episode. That?s real TV money ? in fact, it?s the same budget as Breaking Bad.
It?s a long time until the spring of 2013, but looking forward it?s hard to imagine a more important signpost for the convergence of television and the web than Arrested Development. If it succeeds, it?ll legitimize a whole new distribution platform and business model. And if it fails, well, we?ll at least get to see Tobias in his cutoffs again.
The TV singularity approaching us consumers of media is at times a scary one: We?re used to shows that cost millions an episode, but we?re also now used to consuming whatever we want, wherever and whenever we want. Some people think that going forward, these two mindsets won?t be able to co-exist. But Netflix seems to disagree, and the Bluths may be the ones to prove it.
Source: http://gigaom.com/video/why-arrested-development-on-netflix-could-change-everything/
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Standing up to cancer: Don't let the beat go on
A SYTYCB entry
I sat down in an examining room with shaking knees, a sober-faced doctor and biopsy results. The news was not good.
There are moments that change your life forever. This was one of them. I was diagnosed with cervical cancer, a mother of two in my 30s. I?ll never feel invulnerable again.
I?d missed a yearly Pap smear, but I was young and, I thought, healthy. I made the mistake of putting myself last, as women too often do; taking care of everyone else?s needs but neglecting to tend my own.
Regret is wasteful and useless and empty; it deters action and voids hope. But that was all I could feel at first, knowing a simple screening could have changed my life.
If only, if only, if only.?.?. the chorus drummed in my head over and over again, an anchoring beat for the chirping fears and incessant what-ifs that flew through my head like scattered birdsong. I wondered if I would get to see my babies grow up, reach for unfulfilled dreams, or live to see 40.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. It?s also incredibly preventable: Ninety-two percent of women diagnosed with cervical cancer will survive if it?s found early. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend an annual Pap smear once women turn 21, or within three years of becoming sexually active.
Yet, cervical cancer screenings across the United States are declining more than any other preventive health measure for women: All but three states reported a drop in the number of women receiving Pap smears in 2010, according to the National Women?s Law Center.
And, despite its preventability, one-third of the 12,000 U.S. women diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008 died from this disease, says the CDC. Had I waited even one more year for a screening, I would have been one of them.
Too many women are still skipping screenings, often because they?re financially strapped. It?s no coincidence that cervical cancer occurs more frequently in women who are poor or without health insurance.
That?s a sobering thought when we think of Mitt Romney?s intent to cut federal funding for both Planned Parenthood and Title X reproductive health services if he?s elected president this fall.
There?s a four-letter word nicely suited to that problem: v-o-t-e. We have an opportunity in November to vote against any state or national politician who would deliberately put women in harm?s way for the sake of ideology.
Because while the cost of healthcare is often high, the cost of neglecting a Pap test is higher. Even for those who survive, there?s still an awful lot to lose.
Irregular pre-cancerous cells are easily removed. Once cancer develops, however, a common treatment is to cut off part of the cervix, putting future pregnancies at risk. I traded a piece of my cervix for a chance at survival. It was painful and I was scared, but they cut out all the cancer.
It was then that I met cancer?s sinister shadow. You can get cancer ? and it can come back. I was paroled, but not free: Without a hysterectomy, there was a 20 percent chance the cancer would return. I hadn?t yet closed the door on more children, but cancer slammed it shut.
I had to choose between having more children and living to see the children I have grow up. Put that way, it?s an easy decision. But the truth is there?s nothing easy about cancer. No woman should have to lose her life, or her fertility, to such a preventable disease.
We can help all women by fighting to retain funding for screenings, and exercising our right to vote. We can help ourselves by honoring that fight, getting checked regularly, and encouraging our loved ones to do the same.
If only, if only, if only.?.?. don?t let the beat go on.
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* This story is revised and updated from a 2011 essay.
Source: http://community.feministing.com/2012/08/26/standing-up-to-cancer-dont-let-the-beat-go-on/
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Falling into high interest debt is a very common phenomenon among the Americans nowadays but when you leave your credit card debts unattended, this can leave a mark against you in your credit report. There are many debt relief options through which you can get out of this situation but how many of us take help of such options? The attorneys in the US believe that the excessive use of credit cards is leading to the rise in the number of bankruptcies. Most people shop with their plastics and don?t even have the ability to repay their monthly credit card balance. If you?re one such consumer, you should get help from credit card debt consolidation. Aren?t you aware of the ways in which you can consolidate your credit card debts? If answered no, read on.
You can take out a consolidation loan: After shopping around and comparing and contrasting the various rates that are being offered in the market, you may take out a master loan that carries lower rates than that you?re paying now on your credit cards. Utilize the proceeds of the loan to repay your multiple creditors and then you may start repaying your loan in easy and convenient monthly payments.
Transfer your entire balance: You can even transfer the entire balance into a low rate credit card so that you may be able to reap the benefits of nominal interest rate throughout a fixed period of time. You just have to ensure that you read the fine print of the card so that you don?t miss any information that may boomerang you in the long run.
Tap the equity in your home: Only when you don?t get a consolidation loan, you may tap the equity in your home. This will be a secured loan that can help you get the benefit of lower rates, revised monthly payments and an extended repayment term. However, you just have to make sure that you pay them on time so that you don?t lose your home to a forced foreclosure.
So, when you?re overburdened with revolving credit card debt, you should make sure that you get credit card debt consolidation help so that you can easily delete your financial worries. Before choosing the option, you should measure the pros and cons of each option.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
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Bless Their Hearts Mom: Product Review and Giveaway: Combat ...
It's still Summer down here in hot and humid South, which means one thing: BUGS.
From wasps to mosquitos to love bugs to ants. They are abounding. So I was happy to get the chance to review the latest answers to removing ants from your home from Combat Source!
Combat Source has been a leader in pest control for the home for years and years, so you know it is a name you can trust!?
We have an inside cat and an outside dog, not to mentioned a kid who is ALWAYS on the floor with the cat, or playing, so spraying is not something we like to do! This is why gel and baits are better- they are safer for you, your kids and pets!?
So when the ants come a crawlin, the Combat Source Max Ant Gel should be your first line of defense for keeping ants out of your home. You can apply it in cracks, crevices and other hard-to-reach places. It is?formulated to attract ants quickly, while its fast-acting insecticide, Fipronil, starts killing in hours. Worker ants return to the colony and feed the bait to the larvae and to the queen, eliminating the entire ant colony. WIthin a matter of days, the ants are GONE. I used it outside our porch and back door areas, as that was where we saw they ants coming in at.
If you don't like applying gel, then there is the Combat Source Max Ant Bait. They also contain?Fipronil. The ants take it back to the colony, just like the gel.. They are easy-to-use, no-mess, child-resistant and need no activation. You just place them where you have seen ants, and they will work day and night to control the problem killing ants at the source. We placed these inside in the path areas.
The combo definitely worked- NO more ants! Woo hoo!?
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From wasps to mosquitos to love bugs to ants. They are abounding. So I was happy to get the chance to review the latest answers to removing ants from your home from Combat Source!
Combat Source has been a leader in pest control for the home for years and years, so you know it is a name you can trust!?
We have an inside cat and an outside dog, not to mentioned a kid who is ALWAYS on the floor with the cat, or playing, so spraying is not something we like to do! This is why gel and baits are better- they are safer for you, your kids and pets!?
So when the ants come a crawlin, the Combat Source Max Ant Gel should be your first line of defense for keeping ants out of your home. You can apply it in cracks, crevices and other hard-to-reach places. It is?formulated to attract ants quickly, while its fast-acting insecticide, Fipronil, starts killing in hours. Worker ants return to the colony and feed the bait to the larvae and to the queen, eliminating the entire ant colony. WIthin a matter of days, the ants are GONE. I used it outside our porch and back door areas, as that was where we saw they ants coming in at.
If you don't like applying gel, then there is the Combat Source Max Ant Bait. They also contain?Fipronil. The ants take it back to the colony, just like the gel.. They are easy-to-use, no-mess, child-resistant and need no activation. You just place them where you have seen ants, and they will work day and night to control the problem killing ants at the source. We placed these inside in the path areas.
The combo definitely worked- NO more ants! Woo hoo!?
You can get $1 off by visiting Combat's website!?
And be sure to enter the?Bug- Free Backyard Bash Sweepstakes?for your chance to win $1000 to throw your very own Bug-Free Backyard Bash!
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Group Gardening In San Antonio, Texas
My significant other, Angela Hartsell, is the Community Gardens Program Manager of Green Spaces Alliance Of South Texas. She builds public and private coalitions to help communities and their gardens in San Antonio. So far her efforts have helped create 33 gardens.
Angela encourages community members to stay involved through hands-on education and garden events, while also looking for seed money and materials donations. She has shown that through sharing our skills and time we share the bounty of community; and in this way we care for ourselves, each other and the planet.
Jason Winn works for an engineering firm and listens to KSTX.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
ICE Agents?With Anti-Immigrant Group's Help?Sue DHS - Colorlines
Ten officers and agents for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including ICE Agents Union President Chris Crane, today filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton challenging the Obama Administration?s deferred action Directive. The lawsuit alleges the deferred action program will prevent ICE officers, employees, and agents from ?fulfilling their sworn oath to uphold the law and defend the US Constitution.?
?Both the Directive and memorandum command our agents to violate federal law and our oaths to uphold federal law. We are federal law enforcement officers who are being ordered to break the law. This directive puts ICE agents and officers in a horrible position,? Chris Crane, veteran ICE agent and President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, said in a press release sent by anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA.
?The Directive is an extension of the DREAM Act, which was rejected by Congress, and aims to grant an amnesty to 1.7 million illegal aliens. It violates federal immigration laws that require certain aliens to be placed in removal proceedings, it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, and it encroaches upon the legislative powers of Congress as defined in Article I of the United States Constitution,? said Kris Kobach, the attorney representing the plaintiffs.
Kobach is the Secretary of State of Kansas and currently of counsel with the Immigration Law Reform Institute, the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR.)
?FAIR is committed to ending immigration outright and creating conditions so unlivable that immigrants self deport,? Seth Wessler, Colorlines.com?s investigative reporter wrote in 2010.
FAIR is also largely responsible for anti-immigrant laws in a majority of the states where legislation similar to SB1070 has been proposed or discussed. The leading lawmakers behind the bills are associated with FAIR?s legislative arm, a group called State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) that operates in at least 35 states.
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Great catch helps spark Tigers
By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 4:02 p.m. ET Aug. 23, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - Alex Avila's RBI single with two outs in the 11th gave the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday, one inning after center fielder Austin Jackson kept the game tied with a spectacular catch.
The Blue Jays had a runner on second in the 10th when Anthony Gose lifted what looked like a sure hit to the gap in right-center. But Jackson raced over and made a diving catch.
With runners on first and second in the 11th, Avila singled to right off Chad Jenkins (0-1). Gose played the ball on a hop and couldn't throw out pinch-runner Quintin Berry at home.
Joaquin Benoit (3-3) got the win. Justin Verlander struck out 12 in nine innings for the Tigers.
Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera left in the second inning because of right ankle soreness and is day to day. The Tigers pulled within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Chicago White Sox in the AL Central.
J.A. Happ took a shutout into the eighth inning for Toronto, but the bullpen couldn't hold the 2-0 lead. Happ left the game after walking Avila with one out, and Jackson singled off reliever Brandon Lyon. After Omar Infante flied out, Darren Oliver came on to face pinch-hitter Brennan Boesch and allowed an RBI single.
With Prince Fielder batting, Oliver threw a wild pitch that allowed Jackson to score from third and tie the game at 2.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer off Verlander in the fourth.
Happ allowed a run and four hits in 7 1-3 innings. He walked three and struck out seven.
Verlander allowed four hits and two walks in his first start against the Blue Jays since he threw a no-hitter at Toronto last year. With Jose Bautista, Brett Lawrie and J.P. Arencibia still recovering from injuries, the Blue Jays looked overmatched at times against last year's American League MVP and Cy Young Award winner. Verlander struck out Rajai Davis on three pitches to start the game and caught Adeiny Hechavarria looking with a sweeping breaking ball in the third.
Colby Rasmus was in an 0-for-26 slump when he hit a single to right to start the fourth. Encarnacion followed with his 33rd homer of the season.
Toronto has scored fewer than four runs for seven straight games. Jackson's terrific catch in the 10th - he secured the ball in the palm of his glove - gave the Tigers a little more time to score their third run.
Jhonny Peralta led off the bottom of the 11th with a single, and Delmon Young hustled down the line on a grounder to third, beating the relay to first to prevent a double play. Berry ran for Young and stole second before Jeff Baker walked. Andy Dirks struck out, bringing Avila to the plate.
Happ, acquired by the Blue Jays from Houston last month, was the third straight left-hander to start for Toronto this series.
Verlander struck out the last two hitters in the sixth and then struck out the side in the seventh. His final strikeout was against Kelly Johnson in the ninth, giving Verlander 1,407 and moving him ahead of Jim Bunning for fifth place on Detroit's career list.
NOTES: Detroit reinstated RHP Al Alburquerque from the 60-day disabled list and optioned him to Triple-A Toledo. The reliever hasn't pitched this season after having right elbow surgery. ... The Tigers host the Los Angeles Angels on Friday. Detroit RHP Rick Porcello (9-8) takes the mound against Angels RHP Zack Greinke (1-2). The Blue Jays are at Baltimore. Toronto RHP Carlos Villanueva (6-3) takes on Orioles LHP Zach Britton (2-1).
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Alex Avila's RBI single with two outs in the 11th gave the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday, one inning after center fielder Austin Jackson kept the game tied with a spectacular catch.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Obama shifts to Ryan education plan
President Barack Obama, right, sits with Rose Oakleaf, left, at Mintwood Place restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, during dinner with winners of a campaign contest, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama, right, sits with Rose Oakleaf, left, at Mintwood Place restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, during dinner with winners of a campaign contest, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. applauds at right as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, in Manchester N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? It's not just Medicare. President Barack Obama plans to start picking apart other sections of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's sweeping budget proposals as he tries to paint the GOP ticket as too extreme for the nation.
Next up: education.
On Tuesday, Obama planned to tell voters in sharply contested Ohio that Ryan's budget proposal would cut $115 billion from the Education Department, remove 2 million children from Head Start programs and cost 1 million college students their Pell Grants over the next decade. The line of criticism will be coupled with television ads.
Obama's latest line of criticism was described by Democratic officials involved in the plan. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the strategy before the president began executing it, which he planned to do at Capital University in Columbus and continue later in the day during a stop at a community college in Reno, Nev.
For his part, Ryan was set to make two stops in Pennsylvania: a morning rally at a steel company in Carnegie and an afternoon visit to the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center in West Chester. He then was set to fly to Virginia, a state Obama won in 2008 but which is looking more difficult this time around.
The campaign said Ryan would focus Tuesday on the Republican ticket's plans for boosting small businesses. He also plans to address looming defense cuts, which are part of a deal brokered by Obama and congressional leaders of both parties. It was designed to force a deficit agreement, but Congress was unable to come up with a compromise.
Ryan will tell voters that the Republican ticket plans to reverse the defense cuts and replace them with "common sense reforms", though the campaign provided no details on what those would entail.
Obama said Monday he doesn't believe Congress can reach a deal before the November elections that avoids the cuts in military spending, but is he is optimistic that the reductions won't occur.
Romney, meanwhile, was set to raise campaign cash ahead of next week's GOP convention, which will officially nominate him for the presidency.
Since Romney tapped Ryan as his running mate, Democrats have aggressively highlighted what Ryan's budget would mean to Medicare. Ryan's plan would allow those 55 and older to stay in the health care program for seniors as it is currently set up, but would also offer private alternatives for younger workers. That has left some voters skittish.
Students and their parents are the next group Obama hopes to put on notice. The president started radio ads in New Hampshire that claim 21,000 college students in that state would have their Pell Grants cut by $800 each. Another ad tells Ohio voters that 356,000 students would have their Pell Grants cut.
Those estimates assume the cuts in Ryan's budget are applied evenly across all programs starting in 2014 ? something Ryan aides say would not happen. His budget does not directly address Pell Grant funding, and his aides say the cuts would not take a one-size-fits-all approach.
The Democratic National Committee also planned to join the criticism. Officials released a Web video that mocked Romney's suggestion that college students would do better to "shop around" for tuition rates and college loans. The ad suggested that Romney doesn't understand students' struggles to pay for college.
"Students can't afford Mitt Romney," the ad says.
The Ryan budget, which failed to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, would cut annual nondefense spending by 5 percent in 2013. The next year, it would be a 19 percent cut.
Ryan, who prefers that students take loans instead of receiving grants, would keep the top Pell Grant award in the coming school year at $5,500 but in future years reduce the number of students eligible, not the award sums. In other words, fewer students would receive them but the neediest would not see their awards changed.
More than 9.7 million students are expected to get grants for the academic year that is about to begin.
Ryan's spokesman dismissed the criticism as a distraction from Obama's record. "Under President Obama, the costs of college have skyrocketed ? making it more difficult for students to attend college ? and his economic policies have made it harder for graduates to get jobs," Brendan Buck said. "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a plan for a stronger middle class to get our economy back on track and ensure that young Americans ? and all Americans ? have the brighter future they deserve."
Young voters overwhelmingly favored Obama in 2008, and he continues to enjoy a sizable lead in polls ? although not as wide as four years ago. Their parents are less convinced, and they are as much Obama's audience as their children.
"I think I remember reading something about Ryan trying to cut money for college. Andrew goes back to school pretty soon. We sure need that Pell Grant," a voter says in one ad.
Another announcer continues, "The Romney-Ryan budget plan would cut $14 million in federal education funding for New Hampshire."
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