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Ancient Iraq yields fresh finds for returning archaeologists
British archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown palace or temple near the ancient city of Ur in the first foreign excavation at the site in southern Iraq since the 1930s.
A small team of archaeologists working from satellite images hinting at a buried structure have uncovered the corner of a monumental complex with rows of rooms around a large courtyard, believed to be about 4,000 years old.
?The size is breathtaking,? says Jane Moon, a University of Manchester archaeologist who heads the expedition. Ms. Moon says the walls of the structure are almost nine feet thick, indicating that the building was of great importance or indicated great wealth.
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The discovery is even more significant because of its location more than 10 miles from Ur, on what would then have been the banks of the Euphrates River ? the first major archaeological find that far from the city.
Ur, the last capital of the Sumerian empire, was invaded and collapsed in about 2000 BC before being rebuilt. The city was dedicated to the moon god and is famous for its ziggurat (a stepped temple). Many believe it is the birthplace of the prophet Abraham, known as the father of monotheistic religion.
MODERN METHODS
The last major excavation at Ur was performed by a British-American team led by Sir Charles Leonard Woolley in the 1920s and the 1930s. After the 1950s revolution, which toppled Iraq?s monarchy, a nearby military air base put the area off limits to foreign archaeologists for the next half century.
?What Wooley found were these tremendous monumental buildings, but it?s difficult to tell a coherent story about them because they were restored again and again and again, and what you see is neo-Babylonian, 7th century BC ? very much later,? says Moon. ?He wasn?t able to see what they were really used for and that?s where I?m hoping our modern methods might be able to say something.?
At Ur, Wooley also discovered a spectacular treasure trove that rivals King Tut?s tomb. At least 16 members of royalty were buried at Ur with elaborate gold jewelry, including a queen?s headdress made of gold leaves and studded with lapis lazuli. Other objects included a gold and lapis lyre, one of the first known musical instruments.
In the 1930s, the treasures were split between the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, which funded Wooley?s work, and the newly created Iraq museum.
Moon says it?s impossible to tell whether the new site might contain similar finds.
?Ultimately we?re not looking for objects we?re looking for information.? I guess it?s always a possibility. In archaeology you can always be surprised.?
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She says modern methods, such as examining very thin slices of soil hardened with resin under a microscope, can shed light on details like whether there were carpets on the floor or whether a surface was used for cutting. Putting samples of earth through a wet sieving machine can provide information about climate and agriculture by revealing bone fragments from rodents or lizards.
?You can really look at the ancient economy and that?s the kind of thing they couldn?t do when they last found big buildings like this,? says Moon, who last worked in Iraq in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War, documenting archaeological sites in the north before they were submerged by Saddam Hussein?s dam-building projects.
Her team, which has struggled for both funding and visas, consists of six British archaeologists, an Iraqi archaeologist, and two Iraqi trainees. It is funded mostly by a Swiss benefactor, with participation by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, the successor to an organization founded in 1932 in honor of Gertrude Bell. ?Miss Bell,? as she is still known in Iraq, was the British administrator of Iraq after World War II and the founder of the Iraq Museum.
A law passed in 1932 bars archaeologists from removing antiquities from the country, but Moon believes making the knowledge about the antiquities available is as important as the objects themselves. "There?s always been a sense of taking the intellectual property away,? she says, adding that all the information, including drawings, was being done electronically to make it easier to compile and to share.
?We want to make this as public as possible so we can give this information to anyone who wants it. We have no reason to hang on to it and we have the means to spread it around, so that?s what we?re doing,? she says.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Attempt to end Italy crisis stalls, president mulls next move
By James Mackenzie and Barry Moody
ROME (Reuters) - Center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has failed in his attempt to find a way out of Italy's political deadlock and President Giorgio Napolitano will now seek another solution, the president's palace said on Thursday.
Bersani reported back to Napolitano on Thursday night after being given a mandate almost a week ago to see if he could muster enough support to form a government after the inconclusive election in February.
Napolitano's office said Bersani, who took the largest share of the vote but failed to win a viable majority, had told him his talks with other parties had ended without resolution and the president would now assess other options "without delay".
Bersani said he had told Napolitano of "significant, positive elements of understanding" in the talks with groups including Silvio Berlusconi's center-right bloc and the populist 5-Star Movement led by ex-comic Beppe Grillo.
"I also explained the difficulties deriving from objections or conditions which I did not consider acceptable."
The failure to reach a conclusion leaves Italy still stuck in political limbo more than a month after the election with the bank crisis in Cyprus fuelling fears of financial market turmoil that could threaten the stability of the euro zone.
Officials said Napolitano would start a new round of consultations with parties on Friday, beginning with Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party in the morning and ending with Bersani's Democratic Party (PD) in the evening.
A PD spokesman said Bersani had not given up on forming a government but the PDL poured scorn on the center-left leader and said he had wasted a month in a fruitless bid that proved he did not have the numbers to govern.
Napolitano has said he opposes a snap new election to end the impasse but his options are severely limited if he is to avoid a return to the polls within months.
They include naming an outsider to head a technocrat government like that of outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti or a cross-party political coalition but any government must be able to rely on a majority in parliament.
On Thursday, the main indicator of market confidence - the spread between Italian 10-year bonds and their safer German counterparts - widened to 350 basis points, some 30 points higher than the level seen before the February 24-25 election.
WALL
Bersani had expressed hopes up to the last minute that he could overcome the difficulties but appeared to have run into a wall, particularly in his overtures to Grillo, whose movement says it will not support a vote of confidence in a government led by either the center right or center left.
Bersani has in turn rebuffed demands by Berlusconi that he form a broad left-right coalition, saying the scandal-plagued media magnate was too discredited to deal with.
Mindful of the risk of instability, Napolitano had insisted Bersani obtain firm guarantees of support from the other parties for a vote of confidence in parliament before he would agree to give him a firm mandate to form a government.
Bersani had tried to win support for a list of reforms that included measures on issues like political conflict of interests and corruption that were opposed by Berlusconi and he was never able to win enough guaranteed backing.
The scale of the task now facing Napolitano was underlined by Bersani earlier this week when he said that only someone who was "insane" would want to lead a government given the problems facing Italy.
The center-left leader's struggle to reach an agreement showed how hard it will be even for any new technocrat cabinet to win support in the divided parliament, increasing the chances of a snap election.
An election can only be called after parliament elects a successor to Napolitano, whose term ends in mid-May. Constitutional rules prevent a president from dissolving parliament during the final months of his mandate.
Even this task is politically fraught because Berlusconi wants to pick the new head of state, something Bersani rejects.
Underlining the challenges for the next government, a senior Bank of Italy official and the head of Italy's statistics agency ISTAT both said the government's latest economic forecasts may still be too optimistic, even after being sharply cut last week.
Last week the government said the economy, in its longest recession for 20 years, would contract 1.3 percent this year, compared with a previous forecast of a 0.2 percent shrinkage.
However, ISTAT head Enrico Giovannini told a parliamentary committee hearing on Thursday the result may be worse than that with no recovery until the end of the year or early 2014.
(Additional reporting by Naomi O'Leary and Gavin Jones; editing by Barry Moody and Rosalind Russell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italys-bersani-makes-last-ditch-appeal-government-deal-131722198.html
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Optimism in UN over 1st global arms trade treaty
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The first global treaty on regulating the multimillion-dollar international arms trade appeared to be nearing consensus, supporters said, though worries remained that Iran, India or other countries would back off an agreement that requires approval from all 193 U.N. member states.
Thursday is the deadline for reaching a deal and ahead of the vote optimism was growing that the long-debated treaty would become a reality.
"Signals are that the treaty stands a good chance of being adopted today," said Anna Macdonald, head of arms control at Oxfam, one of about 100 organizations worldwide in the Control Arms coalition, which has been campaigning for a strong treaty. "There have been concerns that Iran might block" consensus but an Iranian television station has reported "that Iran is going to support it."
Ahead of the vote, Macdonald said, a number of delegates met with Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, who is chairing the negotiations and presented the final draft of the treaty on Wednesday.
The draft treaty does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from transferring conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
The final draft makes this human rights provision even stronger, adding that the export of conventional arms should be prohibited if they could be used in attacks on civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals.
Hopes of reaching agreement on what would be a landmark treaty were dashed last July when the U.S. said it needed more time to consider the proposed accord ? a move quickly backed by Russia and China. In December, the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold a final conference and set Thursday as the deadline.
U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because negotiations have been private, said Wednesday the United States was virtually certain to go along with the latest text.
"We understand that a handful of skeptical states have not been happy with the final treaty," Whitney Brown, senior director of international law policy at Amnesty International said Thursday.
But she said that with the majority of states very supportive ? including the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France which are all major arms exporters ? "and even former skeptics like Iran we think it will be very difficult for the skeptics to gain much traction this afternoon."
"We need a treaty," China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We hope for consensus."
There has never been an international treaty regulating the estimated $60 billion global arms trade. For more than a decade, activists and some governments have been pushing for international rules to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime.
"It's important for each and every country in the world that we have a regulation of the international arms trade," Germany's U.N. Ambassador Peter Wittig told the AP. "There are still some divergences of views, but I trust we can overcome them."
In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, the draft says a country must evaluate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitarian laws or be used by terrorists or organized crime. The final draft would allow countries to determine whether the weapons transfer would contribute to or undermine peace and security.
The draft would also require parties to the treaty to take measures to prevent the diversion of conventional weapons to the illicit market.
Senator Lyndira Oudit of Trinidad and Tobago, a member of Parliamentarians for Global Action for a robust treaty, complained that the initial text was weak and had too many loopholes, but she said the final draft was stronger, had "some teeth," and "would be supported."
Oxfam's Macdonald said the scope of the weapons covered in the latest draft is still too narrow.
It covers battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons. The phrase stating that this list was "at a minimum" was dropped, according to diplomats at the insistence of the United States.
"We need a treaty that covers all conventional weapons, not just some of them," Macdonald said. "We need a treaty that will make a difference to the lives of the people living in Congo, Mali, Syria and elsewhere who suffer each day from the impacts of armed violence."
Ammunition has been a key issue, with some countries pressing for the same controls on ammunition sales as arms, but the U.S. and others opposed such tough restrictions. The draft calls for each country that ratifies the treaty to establish regulations for the export of ammunition "fired, launched or delivered" by the weapons covered by the convention.
The Control Arms coalition and diplomats from countries that support them, said this wouldn't cover hand grenades and mines.
India and other countries had insisted that the treaty have an opt-out for government arms transfers under defense cooperation agreements. The new text appears to keep that loophole, stating that implementation of the treaty "shall not prejudice obligations" under defense cooperation agreements by countries that ratify the treaty.
"Making this treaty was like making a sausage: Everyone has added an ingredient," said Ted Bromund, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
"Unfortunately, that has produced a document that leans much too far towards satisfying the concerns of the Arab Group and Mexico. The former view it as a rebellion prevention plan, while the latter wants a text that edges towards its view that the domestic firearms market in the U.S. should be subject to treaty regulation," he said.
But Daryl Kimball, executive director of the independent Washington-based Arms Control Association, said, "The emerging treaty represents an important first step in dealing with the unregulated and illicit global trade in conventional weapons and ammunition, which fuels wars and human rights abuses worldwide."
He said the text could have been stronger and more comprehensive, but it can still make an important difference.
"The new treaty says to every United Nations member that you cannot simply 'export and forget,'" Kimball said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/optimism-un-over-1st-global-arms-trade-treaty-012555634.html
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ethics panel investigating Rep. Michele Bachmann
The Hindenburg. The Titanic. Michele Bachmann.
Eighteen months ago, the Minnesota House member was considered an unlikely but undeniable Republican rising star, winning the Iowa straw poll that unofficially begins the primary season. Today, she is embroiled in a litany of legal proceedings related to her rolling disaster of a presidential campaign?including a Office of Congressional Ethics investigation into campaign improprieties that has not previously been reported.
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The Daily Beast has learned that federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged intentional campaign-finance violations. The investigators are working on behalf of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which probes reported improprieties by House members and their staffs and then can refer cases to the House Ethics Committee.
?I have been interviewed by investigators,? says Peter Waldron, a former Bachmann staffer who?s embroiled in his own fight with his former boss, involving his allegations of pay-to-play politics and improper payments by the campaign?making him one of several members of Bachmann?s inner circle who?ve fallen out with the woman they once hoped would become commander in chief. While he was careful to avoid specifics in regard to the investigating body, Waldron said that ?investigators came [and] interviewed me and are interviewing other staff members across the country.?
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Two other former staffers confirmed the existence of the investigation this weekend, and on Monday Bachmann?s campaign counsel, William McGinley, of the high-powered firm Patton Boggs, confirmed that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) was looking into the congresswoman?s presidential campaign last year.
?There are no allegations that the Congresswoman engaged in any wrongdoing,? McGinley said. ?We are constructively engaged with the OCE and are confident that at the end of their Review the OCE Board will conclude that Congresswoman Bachmann did not do anything inappropriate.?
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Former staffers tell The Daily Beast that investigators have allegedly asked about allegations of improper transfer of funds and under-the-table payments actions by Bachmann?s presidential campaign, specifically in relation to the campaign?s national political director, Guy Short, and Bachmann?s onetime Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson. Questions directly about Bachmann, they said, have been primarily focused on what she knew about those men?s actions and when she knew it.
Sorenson and Short did not return separate calls for comment.
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The independent, nonpartisan OCE, established in 2008 and chaired by former CIA director Porter Goss, looks into charges of misconduct by House members and their staffs and then decides whether to recommend that the House Ethics Committee investigate the charges?thus relieving the committee members of the political pressure of deciding whether to investigate one of their own. When OCE, which has a limited window of about three months to investigate and decide, does recommend that the committee pursue a case, it publicly releases its report?giving its advice considerable sway. While it lacks enforcement powers, OCE has been widely credited for pressing the committee to probe and then censor New York Democrat Charles Rangel?and forcing the resignation from the House of Georgia Republican Nathan Deal (who left, thus removing himself from the authority of the committee, while he was running, successfully, for governor). OCE does not comment on ongoing investigations, but one source with knowledge of the Bachmann case said it was now in its final, 45-day period before OCE makes its determination about whether to recommend that the Ethics Committee pursue the investigation.
The emergence of still another investigation tied to Bachmann?s presidential misadventure is the latest hit in what?s been a slow-motion crash for an unusually irresponsible politician who?d briefly emerged as a national figure with White House ambitions.
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Narrowly reelected to what had been a safe House seat after abandoning her presidential run, Bachmann returned to Congress diminished. Her bids to join Republican leadership have been rebuffed, and House colleagues co-exist with her uneasily. The Tea Party caucus she helped found to much fanfare in 2011 is now dormant. And even before her year in Iowa, her staff rarely stayed with her for long?she?s seen a 46 percent annual turnover rate during her time on the Hill, according to The Washington Times?not a vote of confidence from those who know her best.
?She?s the Republican Dennis Kucinich,? says one longtime Bachmann senior staffer.? ?Politics is like jumping off a diving board. You rise, you plateau, but at the end of the day everyone comes down. Some people make a splash and some people belly flop. She belly flopped. And you don?t get a second chance at the diving board.?
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Embarrassments have become routine whenever she?s tried to forcibly reinsert herself into the national debate, as the sort of wild claims that helped make her reputation in the first place have increasingly been swatted down, even by fellow Republicans. In the last week alone she has been called out by Fox?s Bill O?Reilly for ?a trivial pursuit? after dedicating much of her CPAC speech to what she called President Obama?s ?lavish? lifestyle (in fact, the costs she cited are primarily related to Secret Service protection, and some of them were simply false). She followed that up with a reality-challenged rant on the House floor, calling for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act ?before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens.?
Bachmann holds the distinction of having a higher percentage of statements analyzed by PolitiFact determined to be outright lies?or ?Pants on Fire??than any other politician, according to a survey by The Daily Beast.
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?She doesn?t use the most credible sources,? explains one former staffer, detailing Bachmann?s reliance on stories from the conspiracy-peddling WorldNetDaily to shape her worldview, ?and she tends to listen to the last person who talks to her.? Bachmann is also a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
But what critics charge is a persistent truth-telling problem is the least of Bachmann?s worries now. Bills are piling up in an Iowa court case, Heki v. Bachmann,?filed by another former Bachmann staffer, Barb Heki. That suit alleges that onetime state campaign chairman and state Senator Sorenson stole from her?and then used with the candidate?s knowledge?an email list of Christian homeschool families in Iowa. Heki?s accusation has been backed by a sworn affidavit by former campaign staffer Eric Woolson, who had also been named in the suit, though charges against him were dropped after he submitted his affidavit.
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Sorenson told Politico that the alleged theft ?absolutely did not happen,? while Jeff Goodman, a lawyer representing the Bachmann campaign, has said his clients "vigorously deny the substantive allegations and claims against them."
Separately, the Urbandale Police Department in Iowa has conducted its own investigation into the theft of that list, and the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee had been probing the actions of Sorenson for allegedly taking ?under-the-table payments? from her campaign, according to Waldron, the former Bachmann staffer who filed the initial complaint. In a written response to the committee, Sorenson has ?vehemently denied any wrongdoing as alleged.? (That investigation has been put on hold until the criminal investigation is complete.) Ironically, when Sorenson defected to Ron Paul?s campaign days before the Iowa caucus, Bachmann herself publically charged that the influential state senator had told her that he?d been ?offered a large amount of money? to shift his allegiance.
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Waldron, a veteran evangelical outreach operative who worked on the Reagan-Bush and Bush-Cheney campaigns, said the campaign?s behavior had crossed a ?bright red line,? adding that ?I'm not sorry that I've had to file complaints at all.?
Back in Washington, the Federal Election Commission is investigating a separate complaint, also filed by Waldron this January, alleging that Bachmann?s congressional Political Action Committee, MichelePAC, improperly paid the presidential campaign?s political director, Guy Short, through his fundraising company C&M Strategies. Short received lump sums of $20,000 in December of 2011 and January of 2012, with the second payment deposited on the day of the Iowa caucus. Short, who did not return a call for comment Sunday, told Politico?s Maggie Haberman last year, when she noticed his name on a FEC filing, that he had ?multiple clients and Michele PAC and Mrs. Bachmann's Presidential campaign are only two of them. I don't discuss my client?s relationships with the press. The services I perform for each of my clients are separate and distinct ? the services I provide for one client doesn't effect service for another."
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In a statement when the charges were filed in January, McGinley, Bachmann's campaign counsel, said that "Bachmann for President denies the allegations contained in the complaint filed with the FEC and intends to file an appropriate response. We are confident that this matter will be resolved in the campaign?s favor."
Short helped start and direct MichelePAC, while its Treasurer, Barry Arrington, also filed the incorporation papers for Short?s Company, C&M strategies, with the Colorado Secretary of State. These connections appear to have put Short in a position to pay himself, even as other presidential campaign staffers were told that there was no money for their salaries. Short has yet to publicly comment on the allegations, and did not return a call for comment on Sunday.
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?He?s there telling everyone to suck it up, that we?re not going to get paid ? and he?s paying himself?? said one indignant campaign staffer, who recalls Short telling the team he was working as a volunteer.
This alleged stiffing of the staff has led to an unusually large number of disgruntled former employees who have lodged public complaints against the woman they once wanted to be president. And now some of those former staffers are being interviewed by federal investigators.
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?She?s always been one of the most difficult members to work for ? very high maintenance, almost demeaning to a point,? says another former staffer. ?And that was amplified ten times over due to the presidential campaign. It was like she was a different person. You didn?t recognize her. All I can tell you is that it was the weirdest thing I?ve ever seen. It was by far the most bizarre campaign I?ve ever been a part of.?
But other staffers blamed the once-promising campaign?s derailment on persistent strategic missteps.
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?There was a shift in strategy. She needed to always be the outsider,? says Bob Heckman, a veteran of seven presidential campaigns who worked with the Bachmann campaign until the end and stresses he still believes she is ?a big asset to the conservative movement.?
?I felt that we were going on the wrong track the day after the straw poll, when I started to hear stories about how we didn?t want her to get off the bus when [Rick] Perry was in the room because she was the front runner,? says Heckman.
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There was an abrupt shift in campaign leadership after the straw poll, when legendary Republican campaign manager Ed Rollins was replaced by Bachmann?s one-time advance man, Keith Nahigian, while her debate coach Brett O?Donnell rose to a position of high influence despite having what one operative described as ?the worst political judgment I have ever seen.? Unforced errors piled up, including misplacing the list of Bachmann?s straw poll voters in a Virginia warehouse.
Money was also a persistent problem for the Bachmann campaign. Despite her storied ability to raise millions online by playing the victim, very little of it actually went into the campaign coffers, according to Heckman? a sign of unusually high fundraising overhead. ?It did seem to me that we had a remarkably low net cash available,? he said. ?By the end, we couldn?t do TV, radio or even phones with the big guys.?
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In October of 2011, the troubles in Bachmann-land went public, when her New Hampshire staff quit en masse with a stinging letter that described the campaign?s operation as ?rude, unprofessional, dishonest and at times cruel.? ?Their assessment was concurrent with our own experience in Iowa,? says Waldron, simply.
The final insult was the abrupt departure of Sorenson, who endorsed Ron Paul in the waning days of the campaign ? a decision that Heckman describes as a ?pretty treacherous act,? while acknowledging that ?Kent wasn?t treated with a lot of respect inside the campaign. He?s a volatile guy and I can?t say I was surprised that he got fed up and decided to jump.?
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By the time, the Iowa caucus occurred, Bachmann was an afterthought. Despite bold and baseless claims of a come-from-behind win, she received roughly the same number of votes statewide as she did four months before in the far smaller Ames Straw poll. Even in her home county, she collected less than 10% of the vote.
In the end, it seems the only people who profited from Bachmann?s face-plant of a presidential campaign were the consultants. The only lasting legacy has been the lawsuits. While junior staffers say they still haven?t been paid, Guy Short?s C&M strategies received a total of $157,000 from MichelePAC between January 2011 and July 2012, when Bachmann was primarily pre-occupied with presidential pursuits, according to FEC filings.
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Now, the prospect of a House Ethics Committee investigation into Bachmann?s presidential campaign adds an additional indignity to the self-inflicted disasters of her political career. Demagoguery eventually brings dishonor. And her most passionate supporters ought to consider what it means when the people who know Bachmann best, respect her the least.
There is a cost to playing fast and loose with the truth, former staffers say ? and not just in terms of escalating legal fees and over-lapping investigations. ?A lot of hearts were broken, a lot of lives were hurt by the behavior of the senior staff of the Bachmann campaign,? says Waldron. ?She's entangled in a cyclone. She can't get out.?
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
L.A. mall evacuated: What caused the bomb scare?
An L.A. mall was evacuated after a man raised concerns about a briefcase in his car. More than 1,000 mall employees and 300 shoppers were evacuated during the investigation.
An L.A. mall was evacuated for more than four hours on Sunday. More than 1,000 workers and Los Angelenos were evacuated from the upscale mall for more than four hours over a suspicious briefcase.
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L.A.P.D. Capt. Lillian Carranza says a man returned to his car Sunday on the first floor of the parking structure at the Beverly Center. Carranza says the man called police and told them the car and a briefcase inside it had been moved, and after recent suspicions over his safety he was extremely concerned.
A bomb squad arrived and police cleared out the large?mall, with about 1,300 people in all?evacuating.
The bomb squad used a robot to remove the briefcase from the car, blasted it with water and detonated it. Nothing dangerous was discovered.
The?mall?reopened at about 5 p.m.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
When Family Stories Are Hard to Tell - NYTimes.com
I?ve been thinking hard about family stories.
Family stories are exactly what they sound like. They?re stories of our family history ? how we got here, who came before us and what mattered along the way. They?re stories of our recent family past, little legends that define us and highlight what?s important. And they?re stories about our family present: this is why we do what we do, this is what?s important to us.
In his new book, ?The Secrets of Happy Families,? and in his recent This Life column for the Sunday Styles section, ?The Stories That Bind Us,? my colleague and friend Bruce Feiler described the way telling family stories matters to our children. He brought up a recent study, in which psychologists asked children a battery of questions about their history, ranging from ?Do you know where your grandparents grew up?? to ?Do you know the story of your birth?? The conclusion:
The more children knew about their family?s history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and the more successfully they believed their families functioned. The ?Do You Know?? scale turned out to be the best single predictor of children?s emotional health and happiness.
That?s dramatic. Is it any wonder that I?ve been trying to tell more family stories in the weeks since I read Bruce?s book? Presumably, I?m not the only one ? his article stayed on the ?Most E-Mailed? list for days. Telling family stories seems like both a simple and wonderful way to strengthen children and families, and one without a downside. What harm could there be in telling family stories?
Our problem is that some of our family stories are hard for one of our children to hear.
We adopted my youngest daughter from China when she was nearly 4. Before she lived with us, she lived happily with her foster parents there, and we are fortunate enough to know them and to know the details of her history. We know our experience of the day she joined our family, and we know what she has told us about what she experienced on that same day. Those are our family stories.
But while for three of our children, they?re joyful stories worthy of constant retelling, for our youngest daughter, those are complex stories of loss and eventual gain; of leaving a family she did not want to leave and gaining a family she did not much want at the time. Her love for us now only makes it more complicated.
Other stories are hard for her to hear as well: the stories of our family history after she was born but before she was part of our family. And so many of the phrases that go with these stories ? the things that ?run in our family? or the ways someone is ?just like Grandpa? ? are loaded in adoptive families. We say them just the same, and distribute them equally (nurture counts).
We?re far from the only family, or even the only ?kind? of family, with difficult stories. Death, divorce, illness, remarriage, moving ? as our families evolve, our histories form, and that evolution can mean that even happy stories about something that will never be the same can be hard to share.
I?m thinking about adoption, and so I chose to consult Dr. Jane Aronson, one of the foremost practitioners of adoption medicine, who has advised thousands of adoptive families over the years. Dr. Aronson has been working on her book ?Carried in Our Hearts? (available in April), a tribute to the families she has worked with over the years. Because the book includes dozens of first-person accounts from parents and children, Dr. Aronson has been thinking a lot about family stories of late, too. Here is her advice to me, summed up in a single phrase:
When stories are difficult, tell them anyway.
Tell them with as much humor and openness as you can, she said. ?Children deserve to be playful about who they are,? she said, ?and to be proud, and to interpret their own stories into their own ideas.? And if a story brings up strong emotions for a child, let it. ?Ask yourself if you?re the one who is uncomfortable,? she told me, and if I am, I need to either address it, or hide it, and let the children tell their stories.
I want my children to know that a story can be happy and sad at the same time, and maybe that?s exactly what the best stories are. We don?t even always have to feel the same way about our stories. One night, my younger daughter might be thrilled to talk about her foster family at dinner, and might even want to describe, again, the moment when she was handed over to strangers. At another time the introduction of the same topic by a sibling telling some other version of that time might bother her (and ?bother? doesn?t fully encompass the available range of emotional reactions).
Dr. Aronson told me, essentially, not to run away from those moments but to run toward them ? not in order to push my daughter to tell her own stories when she doesn?t want to, but to make sure that those stories don?t become too scary to tell.
Sometimes, it takes courage to share stories. I think about widowed parents telling stories about lost partners to their children, or about grandparents telling stories of poverty, or children telling stories of bullying; I think about my younger daughter telling her stories. There may be some stories that are never publicly told, but as families, we are the keepers of one another?s stories, no matter how brutal they are. We have to find our own ways to tell them.
Often, we eventually recast stories in a different light. As Bruce said, ?When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship? (and he is no stranger to difficult stories). But we have to share those stories to see them change. We have to practice. We have to learn how to change our hard stories, in life and in the retelling.
Not every story has to start happy. It?s telling them that helps us find our happy endings.
Source: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/when-family-stories-are-hard-to-tell/
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UCLA: Ben Howland has not been fired
UCLA coach Ben Howland talks to his players during the second half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Minnesota won 83-63. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
UCLA coach Ben Howland talks to his players during the second half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Minnesota won 83-63. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
UCLA coach Ben Howland talks to his players during the first half against Minnesota in a second-round game of the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? UCLA hasn't fired Ben Howland as basketball coach, although his time in Westwood appears to be running out.
A school spokesman said late Saturday night that contrary to multiple media reports UCLA had not fired Howland.
Howland told the Los Angeles Times that he had not yet spoken to athletic director Dan Guerrero, who typically evaluates Howland and the program after every season. Yahoo Sports reported that Howland had already been notified that he was out.
The Bruins' season ended Friday with an 83-63 loss to Minnesota in the NCAA tournament.
Howland has a 233-107 record in 10 seasons at UCLA. He took the Bruins to three Final Fours and won four conference championships, including this season.
He has two years left on his contract that includes a $2.3 million buyout.
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Computer simulations yield clues to how cells interact with surroundings
Mar. 22, 2013 ? Your cells are social butterflies. They constantly interact with their surroundings, taking in cues on when to divide and where to anchor themselves, among other critical tasks.
This networking is driven in part by proteins called integrin, which reside in a cell's outer plasma membrane. Their job is to convert mechanical forces from outside the cell into internal chemical signals that tell the cell what to do. That is, when they work properly. When they misfire, integrins can cause diseases such as atherosclerosis and several types of cancer.
Despite their importance -- good and bad -- scientists don't exactly know how integrins work. That's because it's very difficult to experimentally observe the protein's molecular machinery in action. Scientists have yet to obtain the entire crystal structure of integrin within the plasma membrane, which is a go-to way to study a protein's function. Roadblocks like this have ensured that integrins remain a puzzle despite years of research.
But what if there was another way to study integrin? One that doesn't rely on experimental methods? Now there is, thanks to a computer model of integrin developed by Berkeley Lab researchers. Like its biological counterpart, the virtual integrin snippet is about twenty nanometers long. It also responds to changes in energy and other stimuli just as integrins do in real life. The result is a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell's inner and outer environments.
"We can now run computer simulations that reveal how integrins in the plasma membrane translate external mechanical cues to chemical signals within the cell," says Mohammad Mofrad, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and associate professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He conducted the research with his graduate student Mehrdad Mehrbod.
They report their research in a recent issue of PLoS Computational Biology.
Their "molecular dynamics" model is the latest example of computational biology, in which scientists use computers to analyze biological phenomena for insights that may not be available via experiment. As you'd expect from a model that accounts for the activities of half a million atoms at once, the integrin model takes a lot of computing horsepower to pull off. Some of its simulations require 48 hours of run time on 600 parallel processors at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which is located at Berkeley Lab.
The model is already shedding light on what makes integrin tick, such as how they "know" to respond to more force with greater numbers. When activated by an external force, integrins cluster together on a cell's surface and join other proteins to form structures called focal adhesions. These adhesions recruit more integrins when they're subjected to higher forces. As the model indicates, this ability to pull in more integrins on demand may be due to the fact that a subunit of integrin is connected to actin filaments, which form a cell's skeleton.
"We found that if actin filaments sustain more forces, they automatically bring more integrins together, forming a larger cluster," says Mehrbod.
The model may also help answer a longstanding question: Do integrins interact with each other immediately after they're activated? Or do they not interact with each other at all, even as they cluster together?
To find out, the scientists ran simulations that explored whether it's physically possible for integrins to interact when they're embedded in the plasma membrane. They found that interactions are likely to occur only between one compartment of integrin called the ?-subunit.
They also discovered an interesting pattern in which integrins fluctuate. Two integrin sections, one that spans the cell membrane and one that protrudes from the cell, are connected by a hinge-like region. This hinge swings about when the protein is forced to vibrate as a result of frequent kicks from other molecules around it, such as water molecules, lipids, and ions.
These computationally obtained insights could guide new experiments designed to uncover how integrins do their job.
"Our research sets up an avenue for future studies by offering a hypothesis that relates integrin activation and clustering," says Mofrad.
The research was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER award to Mofrad. NERSC is supported by DOE's Office of Science.
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Senate nears pre-dawn OK of Democratic budget
WASHINGTON (AP) ? An exhausted Senate neared approval early Saturday of a $3.7 trillion budget for next year that will let majority Democrats highlight their fiscal priorities, but won't resolve the deep differences the two parties have over deficits and the size of government.
Senators sorted through a final batch of amendments and were on course to approve the measure in the pre-dawn hours and leave town for a two-week spring recess. The non-binding plan would shrink annual federal shortfalls over the next decade to nearly $400 billion, raise taxes by nearly $1 trillion and cull modest savings from domestic programs.
In contrast, a rival budget approved by the GOP-run House balances the budget within 10 years without boosting taxes.
That plan ? by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., his party's vice presidential candidate last year ? claims $4 trillion more in savings over the period than Senate Democrats by imposing major cuts in Medicaid, food stamps and other safety net programs for the needy. It would also transform the Medicare health care program for seniors into a voucher-like system for future recipients.
"We have presented very different visions for how our country should work and who it should work for," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who chairs the Senate Budget Committee. "But I am hopeful that we can bridge this divide."
Congressional budgets are planning documents that leave actual changes in revenues and spending for later legislation, and this was the first the Democratic-run Senate has approved in four years. That is testament to the political and mathematical contortions needed to write fiscal plans in an era of record-breaking deficits that until this year exceeded an eye-popping $1 trillion annually, and to the parties' profoundly conflicting views.
"I believe we're in denial about the financial condition of our country," Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, top Republican on the Budget panel, said of Democratic efforts to boost spending on some programs. "Trust me, we've got to have some spending reductions."
Though the shortfalls have shown signs of easing slightly and temporarily, there is no easy path to the two parties finding compromise ? which the first months of 2013 have amply illustrated.
Already this year, Congress has raised taxes on the rich after narrowly averting tax boosts on virtually everyone else, tolerated $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, temporarily sidestepped a federal default and prevented a potential government shutdown.
By sometime this summer, the government's borrowing limit will have to be extended again ? or a default will be at risk ? and it is unclear what Republicans may demand for providing needed votes. It is also uncertain how the two parties will resolve the differences between their two budgets, something many believe simply won't happen.
Both sides have expressed a desire to reduce federal deficits. But President Barack Obama is demanding a combination of tax increases and spending cuts to do so, while GOP leaders say they won't consider higher revenues but want serious reductions in Medicare and other benefit programs that have rocketed deficits skyward.
Obama plans to release his own 2014 budget next month, an unveiling that will be studied for whether it signals a willingness to engage Republicans in negotiations or play political hardball.
In a long day that began Friday morning, senators plodded through scores of amendments ? all of them non-binding but some delivering potent political messages.
They voted in favor of giving states more powers to collect sales taxes on online purchases their citizens make from out-of-state Internet companies, and to endorse the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that is to pump oil from Canada to Texas refineries.
They also approved amendments voicing support for eliminating the $2,500 annual cap on flexible spending account contributions imposed by Obama's health care overhaul, and for charging regular postal rates for mailings by political parties, which currently qualify for the lower prices paid by non-profits.
In a rebuke to one of the Senate's most conservative members, they overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to cut even deeper than the House GOP budget and eliminate deficits in just five years.
The Democratic budget envisions $975 billion in unspecified new taxes over the coming 10 years. There would be an equal amount of spending reductions coming chiefly from health programs, defense and reduced interest payments as deficits get smaller than previously anticipated.
This year's projected deficit of nearly $900 billion would fall to around $700 billion next year and bottom out near $400 billion in 2016 before trending upward again.
Shoehorned into the package is $100 billion for public works projects and other programs aimed at creating jobs.
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Associated Press reporter Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-nears-pre-dawn-ok-democratic-budget-073539397.html
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