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Monday, June 18, 2012
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pokes Fun At Health Care Guessing Game
U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh, a Clinton appointee sitting in the Eastern District of Michigan, released the first major Affordable Care Act decision in October 2010. In Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, Steeh sided with the government to hold the law constitutional. "The decision whether to purchase insurance or to attempt to pay for health care out of pocket is plainly economic," Steeh wrote. "These decisions, viewed in the aggregate, have clear and direct impacts on health care providers, taxpayers and the insured population, who ultimately pay for the care provided to those without insurance."
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Saudi Arabia's next in line to throne dies
Hassan Ammar / AP
Saudi crown prince and interior minister Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud drinks coffee and welcomes Gulf Arab leaders taking part in the Gulf Cooperation Council summit on May 14.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Updated at 8:10 a.m. ET: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -?Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the hardline interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia's fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida's branch in the country after the 9/11 attacks in the United States and then rose to become next in line to the throne, has died. He was in his late 70s.
Nayef, interior minister since 1970, was the heir to Saudi King Abdullah and was appointed crown prince in October after the death of his elder brother and predecessor in the role, Crown Prince Sultan.
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He had been in Switzerland since May for medical tests. ?No details were released about his illness.?
Nayef had a reputation as a steely conservative who opposed King Abdullah's reforms and developed a formidable security infrastructure that crushed al-Qaida but also locked up some political activists.
Jane Kinninmont, London-based?Chatham House's senior research fellow in the Middle East and North Africa program, told msnbc.com that a pillar of the old authoritarian order in the Middle East would had gone with Nayef's death, adding:
"Prince Nayef was the most powerful conservative force in Saudi Arabia, running the interior ministry, the internal security forces and the religious police. He was opposed to women voting or driving. The next in line to the throne, Prince Salman, is seen as a more liberal figure, and is a bit younger, but it's all relative -- he's in his 60s rather than late 70s. Don't expect any radical change coming from the new crown prince -- more a subtle shift of tone."
The big question is who will be the third in line to the throne -- do they keep passing this role around the increasingly elderly sons of the first Saudi king, or choose someone from the younger generation? The family is huge and full of rivalries and they are likely to be increasingly preoccupied with their internal family politics -- which could prove a distraction from the need to reform and adapt to accommodate their own population's needs.
Funeral prayers for the prince would be held after sunset on Sunday, the royal court said in a statement. ?Burial traditionally follows immediately after prayers.?
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Al Arabiya television reported that the prayers would be held in a mosque in the holy city of Mecca.?
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Nayef's death means the 89-year-old King Abdullah must nominate a new heir for the second time in nine months.?Defense?Minister Prince Salman, 76, seen as most likely to continue King Abdullah's cautious reforms, has long been viewed as the next most senior prince in the kingdom's succession.
Nayef, King Abdullah and Salman are among the nearly 40 sons of Saudi Arabia's founder, Abdulaziz bin Saud, who established the kingdom in 1935.
Salman was made defense minister in November and had served as Riyadh governor for five decades.?
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The New York Times called the prince "hard-line but pragmatic" in a profile that ran in October.?
The article went on to quote an October 2009 American diplomatic cable that was obtained via WikiLeaks:
"Nayef is widely seen as a hard-line conservative who at best is lukewarm to King Abdullah?s reform initiatives ... However, it would be more accurate to describe him as a conservative pragmatist convinced that security and stability are imperative to preserve Al Saud rule and ensure prosperity for Saudi citizens."
Msnbc.com's F. Brinley Bruton and Reuters contributed to this report.?
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Leftists poised for victory in French elections
French citizens prepare their vote in a polling station during legislative election in Louveciennes, 12 kms (7,5 mls) west of Paris, Sunday, June 17, 2012. French voters are choosing a new parliament Sunday that will determine how far Socialist President Francois Hollande can go with his push for economic stimulus in France an around a dept-burdened stagnant Europe. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French citizens prepare their vote in a polling station during legislative election in Louveciennes, 12 kms (7,5 mls) west of Paris, Sunday, June 17, 2012. French voters are choosing a new parliament Sunday that will determine how far Socialist President Francois Hollande can go with his push for economic stimulus in France an around a dept-burdened stagnant Europe. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French former Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal casts her vote for the legislative elections, Sunday, June 17, 2012, in La Rochelle, west of France. Royal is facing a Socialist Party opponent in the second round election, and will determine the makeup of the new parliament. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Gilbert Collard, a National Front Party candidate for French legislative elections, casts his vote during the second round of French legislative elections, in Gallician, near Nimes, southern France, Sunday, June 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
French far-right leader and National Front Party candidate for French legislative elections, Marine Le Pen is seen after voting for the second round, Sunday, June 17, 2012 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. French Legislative elections determine the makeup of the new parliament. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
PARIS (AP) ? French voters are choosing a new parliament Sunday that will determine how far Socialist President Francois Hollande can push for economic stimulus in France and around a debt-burdened, stagnant Europe.
The left is in the spotlight and expected to take the driver's seat of the 577-seat National Assembly after Sunday's second round of legislative elections.
Hollande's Socialists dominated the first round last week and pollsters predict they will win the most seats in the lower house. That would wrench it from the hands of former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives, who have led it for a decade.
The campaign focused on local issues but will determine the country's political direction, which has Europe-wide importance. France is the second-biggest economy in the eurozone and, along with powerhouse Germany, contributes heavily to bailouts to weaker nations and often drives EU-wide policy.
Turnout in the French voting was 21.4 percent at midday, comparable to the 2002 and 2007 legislative elections, with some voters not bothering to cast ballots because so many were predicting a Socialist victory.
The elections come after a hasty new bailout for Spanish banks, and the same day as crucial voting in Greece. The Greek elections may determine whether the country stays in the euro, with repercussions for all the other 16 countries that use the joint currency.
After budget-tightening in France under Sarkozy that leftists warned would send France back into recession, Hollande is pushing for government-sponsored stimulus to encourage growth - and has met opposition from German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two try to stem Europe's crisis.
Hollande's Socialist government has pledged to reduce the deficit, but markets are worried about higher spending when France's debts are so high.
Hollande, a moderate and mainstream leftist who is committed to European unity, is hoping to get an absolute majority of 289 seats for the Socialists to avoid having to make concessions to the Euro-skeptic far left.
Claire Morel said she voted for the Socialist candidate in her well-off Paris district "because I've been waiting for change for a long time. ... Also I wanted to support Francois Hollande, the government and its projects."
Pascal Albe, a voter from the working class Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, said that though he generally votes for the right, Hollande should have a Socialist-led parliament. "Otherwise the country will be paralyzed, and especially now, we don't need that," he said.
Voting stations close in big cities at 8 p.m. (1800GMT). Polling agency projections of the results are expected soon afterward, and official results are expected late Sunday night.
Political and personal intrigue ? and the resurgent far right ? have marked the campaign. The anti-immigrant National Front, which wants to abandon the euro and stop immigration, is wrangling for its first real presence in parliament in more than a quarter century.
Sarkozy's conservative UMP party is struggling to hold onto seats, and many candidates are angling for far-right votes.
National Front leader Marine Le Pen has revamped the party to try to shed its reputation as racist and anti-Semitic inherited under party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. Daughter Marine placed a solid third in spring presidential elections and its candidates ranked third in last Sunday's first round of parliamentary voting.
But the French parliament system is such that the party is not expected to get more than three or four seats.
Any candidate who won support of more than 12.5 percent of registered voters in the first round advanced to Sunday's runoff, and many districts have three-way races. Some 46 million voters are casting ballots for individual candidates at 65,000 voting stations nationwide. Only 36 National Assembly candidates won seats outright in the first round; the remaining 541 seats were up for grabs Sunday.
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Egypt votes for 2nd day to pick Mubarak successor
CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptians voted for a second day Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister against a conservative Islamist, with a sense of gloom hanging over many at the polls over the choice and the prospect that the ruling military will still hold most power even after their nominal handover of authority to civilians by July 1.
In a sign of how much power they wield, the military generals were preparing to define the next president's authorities in an interim constitutional declaration that state media said could come by Monday. Under the declaration, the council of generals would be the nation's legislators and control the budget after the Islamist-dominated parliament was dissolved under a court order last week.
The generals will also likely take on the parliament's task of appointing a 100-member assembly to write the permanent constitution, giving them enormous influence over the document that will shape Egypt's future and allowing the opportunity to enshrine for themselves a political say.
As a result, for some voters even as they stood in sweltering heat at the polls, it seemed that the choice for Mubarak's successor ? between Ahmed Shafiq, a longtime friend and admirer of Mubarak, and Mohammed Morsi, the candidate of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood ? would ultimately make little difference.
"I don't trust the whole thing. I feel everything is planned in advance and what we are doing now is just part of the plan," Asmaa Fadil, a young woman who wears the Muslim veil, said at a polling station in the Cairo district of Sayeda Zeinab. She said she had lost confidence in the political process, particularly after the dissolution of parliament.
After the first day of voting ended Saturday, the Brotherhood sought to rally the public behind it, saying that a Morsi win for the presidency was now the only hope for the revolution after the military's consolidation of power.
In a statement issued late Saturday after a meeting of its top leaders, the Brotherhood denounced Thursday's court ruling dissolving parliament, saying it "amounted to a coup against the entire democratic process parliament and take us back to square one." The fundamentalist group led the now-dissolved parliament with just under half its seats.
It also criticized new powers that were given to military police and intelligence last week to arrest civilians for a host of crimes ? as minor as blocking traffic. The powers will "recreate the climate of terror and oppression and crush the people's hope for change."
Shafiq, who served as Mubarak's last prime minister, is a former air force commander and a veteran of Mubarak's governments, so he is closely tied to both the military and the old regime system. If he wins, that would likely mean a smooth relationship with the generals. His critics fear it will mean more than that ? the outright continuation of the Mubarak-style, military-backed autocracy that last year's revolt sought to uproot.
Morsi ? and the Muslim Brotherhood ? would likely have far rockier relationship with the generals and a Morsi win could bring a tussle over spheres of power. However, the Brotherhood has reached accommodations with the generals previously since Mubarak's fall on Feb. 11, 2011, just as it struck deals in the past with Mubarak's regime itself.
The winner in the race will be officially announced Thursday. But the result could be known by as early as Monday morning, based on results from individual counting stations that Egyptian media and each campaign usually compile and make public.
Turnout from the two-day balloting, which ends Sunday evening, could be a significant measure. If significantly lower than the 46 percent in last month's first round of the presidential election, it would be a sign of widespread discontent with the choice and doubts over the vote's legitimacy. There were no figures yet from the current voting.
The race between Shafiq and Morsi has deeply polarized the country. Each has a core of diehard supporters. Each won about a quarter of the vote in the presidential election's first round last month in which 13 candidates were running.
But among their critics, each ? or both ? inspire a powerful enmity. The anti-Shafiq camp sees his very candidacy as an insult to the 18-day wave of unprecedented protests last year that ousted Mubarak. The anti-Morsi camp is convinced he will hand the country over to the Brotherhood to turn it into an Islamic state or that the group is just as authoritarian as Mubarak was.
"I am bitter and I am filled with regret that I have to choose between two people I hate. I have to pick a bad candidate only to avoid the worse of the two," lamented a silver-haired pensioner in Cairo's crowded Bab el-Shariyah district. He refused to give his name, fearing retribution for speaking so openly.
"Nothing is going to be resolved and Egypt will not see stability," he added.
A similarly pessimistic note was echoed by another voter, accountant Yasser Gad, 45. "The country is heading to a disaster. It will keep boiling until it explodes. No one in the country wants the former regime to rule us again."
Few voters displayed an air of celebration visible in previous post-Mubarak elections. The prevailing mood was one of deep anxiety over the future ? tinged with bitterness that their "revolution" had stalled, fears that no matter who wins, street protests will erupt again, or deep suspicion that the political system was being manipulated. Moreover, there was a sense of voting fatigue.
Egyptians have gone to the polls multiple times since Mubarak's fall on Feb. 11, 2011 ? a referendum early last year, then three months of multi-round parliamentary elections that began in November, and the first round of presidential elections last month.
"It's a farce. I crossed out the names of the two candidates on my ballot paper and wrote 'the revolution continues'," said architect Ahmed Saad el-Deen, in Cairo's Sayedah Zeinab district, a middle-class area that is home to the shrine of a revered Muslim saint.
"I can't vote for the one who killed my brother or the second one who danced on his dead body," he said, alluding to Shafiq's alleged role in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising and claims by revolutionaries that Morsi's Brotherhood rode the uprising to realize its own political goals.
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Police say murder suspect arrested at US border
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ? The man wanted in a deadly armored car heist at a university in western Canada that left three armed guards dead has been arrested by U.S. border officials in Washington state, police said Saturday.
Edmonton police Supt. Bob Hassel said in a news release that Travis Baumgartner was stopped near a border crossing in Lynden, Washington, southwest of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Officials said Baumgartner was in his pickup truck and was alone.
Police said a sum of money was found in the truck when Baumgartner was arrested. Police had earlier called it a "significant" sum.
Baumgartner, 21, had been on the run since Friday when four armed guards were gunned down, three of them fatally. He faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Baumgartner was the fifth member of a G4S Cash Solutions crew that was re-loading bank machines at a University of Alberta mall and residence where the shooting happened, police said. The armored truck was found abandoned but running not far from the security company's offices. Dead at the scene were Michelle Shegelski , 26; Eddie Rejano, 39; and Brian Ilesic, 35.
"We're grateful to the border officials at Lynden, Washington, for their excellent work in arresting a man we believe was armed and extremely dangerous," Hassel said in a statement. Canadian police officials were on their way to the U.S. to bring Baumgartner back to Edmonton.
Police had launched an international manhunt to find Baumgartner.
G4S Cash Solutions spokeswoman Robin Steinberg said the company would conduct its own investigation into the shooting. The company said Baumgartner had only been on the job for three months.
"We applaud the dedication of the Edmonton Police Service, and other law enforcement agencies in apprehending Travis Baumgartner today," Steinberg said in a statement. "Our thoughts remain with the families and friends of the victims and also with the Baumgartner family."
Baumgartner's mother issued a statement Friday pleading for her son to surrender and apologizing for an argument they had.
Such shootings are rare in Canada, where residents are nervous about anything that might indicate they are moving closer to U.S. levels of gun violence. The oil boom town of Fort McMurray, Alberta, however, often has drug-related shootings, and Vancouver often has gang shootings. Gunfire at Toronto's most prominent mall this month left two dead and several injured and a shooting at an Edmonton club in 2006 left three dead.
Police said Baumgartner was driving his Ford F-150 truck with an Alberta license plate when he was arrested.
Steven Munz, a close friend of Baumgartner, had said that Baumgartner had been on the job for only three months and wanted to eventually become a police officer, but said Baumgartner didn't believe he had what it took. Munz said he had noticed a change in his personality in the last year, and that he had been irrational at times.
In a profile on the dating website Plenty of Fish, Baumgartner bills himself as an armored car guard interested in video gaming. A photo shows him shirtless holding a cellphone. He says he has a laid back personality and a "10" physique.
"I'm a great guy. We don't come around often," he writes.
Baumgartner lived with his mother and step-sister in Sherwood Park, a bedroom community just east of Edmonton.
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Associated Press Writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.
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Hidden vitamin in milk yields remarkable health benefits
Friday, June 15, 2012
A novel form of vitamin B3 found in milk in small quantities produces remarkable health benefits in mice when high doses are administered, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Polytechnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The findings, recently reported in the June 2012 issue of the journal, Cell Metabolism, reveal that high doses of the vitamin precursor, nicotinamide riboside (NR) ? a cousin of niacin ? prevent obesity in mice that are fed a fatty diet, and also increase muscle performance, improve energy expenditure and prevent diabetes development, all without side effects.
The Swiss researchers, led by Dr. Johan Auwerx, performed the mouse experiments, while the ability to give the animals sufficient doses of NR was made possible by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, who played key roles in uncovering the biological story of NR.
"This study is very important. It shows that in animals, the use of NR offers the health benefits of a low-calorie diet and exercise ? without doing either one," says Dr. Anthony Sauve, associate professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Sauve is the pharmacologist and organic chemist who has invented a simple method for efficiently synthesizing NR in large scale. He was first to show that NR increases nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) levels in mammalian cells. NAD is a central player in energy metabolism. He has pioneered research into the compound, and he is a leader in investigating how NAD can signal adaptation in cells and in physiology.
"The research also suggests that the effects of NR could be even broader," Dr. Sauve says. "The bottom line is that NR improves the function of mitochondria, the cell's energy factories. Mitochondrial decline is the hallmark of many diseases associated with aging, such as cancer and neurodegeneration, and NR supplementation boosts mitochondrial functioning."
The Swiss researchers call NR a "hidden vitamin" that is believed to also be present in many other foods, although levels are low and difficult to measure. Nevertheless, the effects of NR on metabolism "are nothing short of astonishing."
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The study depended on a series of crucial discoveries by Dr. Sauve and his laboratory colleagues.
NR, related to niacin and other common forms of vitamin B3, was first investigated more than 60 years ago by a Stanford researcher and 1959 Nobel Laureate, Arthur Kornberg. But little more was known about its effects in mammals until Dr. Sauve discovered the effect NR had in stimulating levels of NAD in mammalian cells ? work he published in 2007.
NAD allows sugars, fats, and proteins to be converted into energy. Dr. Sauve's research provided the first evidence that NR enhances NAD levels in the mitochondria in mammalian cells in culture. These findings are published in the current study. These cell-based observations were key to the demonstration that NR could stimulate tissue NAD levels in animals, and that it could stimulate NAD-dependent sirtuins, which adapt physiology to the low calorie diets that are known to extend the lifespan of many organisms.
Dr. Sauve invented a relatively simple method for efficiently synthesizing NR in large scale so that its health benefits can be studied. This methodology, which makes it possible to make NR commercially available, was patented by Cornell's Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization and subsequently licensed to ChromaDex Corporation.
The development of a means to synthesize NR in adequate quantities was crucial to the current research, and the Sauve lab provided methods and NR to make the study possible. In addition, the biological observations on the effects of NR on NAD levels in cells and on mitochondria were key to the study. Finally, the Sauve laboratory has developed state of the art analytical methods to determine NAD levels in cells, tissues and organelles, and the laboratory provided several key metabolic measurements highlighted in the study.
"Our published scientific work has verified that NR is perhaps the most potent NAD enhancing agent ever identified," he says. His laboratory is also widely recognized for developing an expertise in the measurement of NAD metabolism in cell tissues.
With this compound, the Swiss researchers found that mice on a high-fat diet supplemented with NR gained significantly less weight (60 percent) than mice fed the same diet without NR, even though the mice supplemented with NR ate the same amount of food as mice on the high fat diet not treated with NR. They had improved energy. They were in better shape than the untreated mice, with significantly better endurance and stronger muscles. Additionally, none of the treated mice developed diabetes, as seen in the untreated mice on the high fat diet. And when fed a normal diet, NR treated mice had improved sensitivity to insulin. The NR treated mice also showed lower cholesterol levels. All of these benefits came without toxicity.
While the new study demonstrates that high doses of NR can largely prevent the negative health consequences of a poor diet in mice, Dr. Sauve stresses that the effects of high doses of the vitamin in humans have not been evaluated. "It is important to keep in mind that the amount of NR in milk and other foods appears to be small. We don't know what effects NR would have in humans at relatively high doses," he says.
"Still, we have very encouraging evidence of benefits of NR and NAD augmentation in general from this animal study ? and much more work to do," he says.
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Plant's Chemistry Gets Mice to Spit Seeds
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Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle. They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna. But they also need to make sure that their animal assistants don?t digest the very seeds they?re meant to spread.
In Israel?s Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette came up with a distasteful strategy. Critters called spiny mice feed on mignonette. They love the fruit. But they hate the seeds. And so they spit them out all over the place. Just as the plant planned. That?s according to a study in the journal Current Biology. [Michal Samuni-Blank et al.,"Intraspecific Directed Deterrence by the Mustard Oil Bomb in a Desert Plant"]
Sweet mignonette produces little black berries that house about 20 seeds apiece. Inside those seeds is an enzyme. When a berry-chomping mouse crushes a seed, the enzyme is freed up to produce compounds that taste like hot mustard. Hence, ptooey, better leaving through chemistry.
Researchers armed with video cameras observed the mice spitting the pits like kids eating watermelon on a summer day. Nearly three-quarters of the spit-soaked seeds landed intact?and they actually germinated twice as fast as seeds taken directly from the fruit itself. It?s like a Dickens book: Great Expectorations.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Jersey Shore Fight Leaves J-WOWW in Crutches?
Jersey Shore cast mates have a way of finding trouble. This summer is no exception. The cast was apparently involved in another epic throw down, which actually left J-WOWW in crutches. Reports of a fight began to surface today along with photos of Jenni limping around with an ace bandage around her right ankle. Now we can confirm that the cast (sans Snooki) got into a major fight at bar that turned into a knock-down, drag out. It’s a good thing Snooki wasn’t there, because you would have to wonder what a pregnant chick was doing at a bar in the first place–but I wouldn’t put it past her. So the story goes that just a few different people started to fight with the cast, which included Jenni’s boyfriend Roger. He has been known for not backing down. I can remember last season he punched someone after they went after Jenni. Apparently he was a major player in this fight too. Us Weekly quoted a witness, who said: “It started as a small fight, then turned into a massive brawl…Jenni’s boyfriendbeat up a few guys, Pauly knocked some guy out, [and] Ronnie [and] Sitch were all there as well, fighting [...]
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2 men sentenced in Palin lawyer harassment case
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? Two Pennsylvania men convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers were sentenced Friday to time served and five years' probation, with the proceedings briefly halted after a short outburst in court by one of the defendants.
During his sentencing in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, 20-year-old Shawn Christy said the judge's order that he live up to six months in a Pennsylvania community re-entry program was "ridiculous."
His father, Craig Christy, 48, was ordered to perform community service.
The Christys, of McAdoo, Pa., pleaded guilty in January to making harassing phone calls to Palin's attorneys. Attorney John Tiemessen testified that the men's calls threatened Palin and attorneys. Both Christys apologized Friday for their actions.
Shawn Christy was released and sent back to Pennsylvania last month after an evaluation report said he wasn't a danger to the public.
Before that, he and his father had been held since their arrests in Pennsylvania last August. Prosecutors say the men were upset about state restraining orders issued on behalf of Palin, a former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate. The restraining orders covered Palin, her family and friends.
In Friday's sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess ordered Shawn Christy to spend up to six months at the Scranton residential facility, where a bed will become available in mid-July. Christy wanted to return to his parent's home, where he had been living until his arrest last year.
"Why can't I go home now?" he said.
"Because I'm not letting you go home," Burgess said, prompting Christy to ask what was the judge's reason for imposing the order.
"It has to do with consequences," Burgess said. "It's part of the consequences for your behavior."
"I understand my behavior, and I understand this is ridiculous," Christy said. A short time letter, Burgess called for a short recess after blurts from Christy.
Burgess ultimately said Christy could stay with his parents at their McAdoo home until a bed at the residential facility becomes available.
After the sentencing was completed, Tiemessen said Christy's behavior in court was consistent with what he and others had witnessed in the past two years, including hundreds of calls from the Christys to his law firm's offices in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
"I've seen dozens and dozens of such little outbursts and worst," Tiemessen. "It just the first one Judge Burgess has seen."
Burgess rejected binding plea deals in December that would have allowed the men to avoid jail time.
Both men faced up to two years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. Tiemessen's law firm also is seeking about $15,000 in restitution for the billable hours it says were tied up in dealing with the huge number of calls to its offices in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Defense attorneys have said the Christys don't have the financial means to pay restitution, and Burgess did not rule on that issue Friday, saying a final decision can be made up to 90 days after sentencing.
Tiemessen testified earlier this year that many of the calls from the Christys began last June, escalating in July and August. Besides being threatening, many were filled with profanity, he said.
"There were hundreds of calls a day," he said at the time. "The only thing that ever stopped it, frankly, was when they were taken into custody."
According to an affidavit by the FBI, Craig Christy threatened to kill Tiemessen in one obscenity-filled message, and in another, Shawn Christy said he might have sex with Palin. The younger Christy also threatened to come to Alaska and rape one of the attorneys, according to the document.
The restraining orders were issued after Palin left office.
The order against Shawn Christy was issued in 2010 after he was accused of stalking Palin. It was renewed last year after Palin testified that Christy appeared to be sending a clear signal when he made a one-day visit to Alaska on her February birthday.
Palin also said she feared Christy's parents because of their claim that she had a sexting relationship with their son in 2009, when he was a teen.
The order against Craig Christy was issued last year after he was accused of barraging Palin's parents with telephone messages.
Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, attended the hearing Friday. They declined to comment.
Tiemessen said time will tell if the sentencing was adequate.
"The only adequate remedy is a remedy that results in our firm, our families, our clients being left alone," he said. "We're interested in the result, not necessarily the mechanism, that achieves it."
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Obama prods Europe to fix economies _ for US' sake
President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama leaves after speaking about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Europe's economic crisis could send shock waves roaring across the Atlantic that would drag down the fragile U.S. economy and threaten President Barack Obama's hopes for a second term. The president demonstrated Friday just how deeply he's worried about that ? and how little he can do to prevent it.
Obama used an impromptu news conference to prod European leaders to quickly and vigorously deal with their crisis. Along with that rare cross-Atlantic jawboning, he accused congressional Republicans at home of holding back a U.S. rebound.
The president held forth, unprompted, on what European leaders could and should do to fix their economic woes, though he insisted he was not "scolding them or telling them what to do."
He never mentioned his election opponent, Republican Mitt Romney. But the campaign seemed to be an important factor in the day's events.
Powerless to take on the economic mess overseas by himself, Obama tried to show Americans he was nonetheless engaged in trying to help by offering ideas and advice. At the same time, he was sending a message to his European peers to be resolute and move firmly.
"Now, the good news is there is a path out of this challenge," Obama said. "These decisions are fundamentally in the hands of Europe's leaders, and, fortunately, they understand the seriousness of the situation and the urgent need to act."
Demonstrating his limited direct influence in Europe at the same time he's being thwarted at home by Republicans on his domestic agenda could reinforce a sense of presidential powerlessness ? not an image an incumbent seeking re-election wants to project.
But Obama tried to tie the two issues together to his advantage.
Along with a specific recommendation that Europe inject much-needed money into its banking system, he said European leaders must focus on economic growth and job creation, not just "cutting and cutting and cutting" spending to deal with debt problems. That's the same point he's trying to make to Congress ? and to voters ? back home.
Obama did not go as far as to say Republican lawmakers were rooting for economic failure to undermine him, as his aides have suggested. But he did suggest they may be stalling on his jobs proposals simply because it's an election year.
American voters will decide whether Obama or Romney will be the next president for the next four years. But they're not the only ones.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leads Europe's strongest economy and needs to be part of any major rescue effort; will be a factor, too. And, here at home, so will Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.
Boehner has presided over a GOP majority which time after time has torpedoed Obama's economic and jobs legislation, even bills that have garnered some bipartisan support in the Senate. Obama says one reason more jobs haven't been produced in this country is because of this GOP roadblock.
Boehner sees it differently. He says, "What's going on in Greece, and the effect it's having in Spain ... it's quite likely that this contagion is going to continue." He contends those problems overseas are because European countries "waited too long to deal with their debt problem and their spending problem," a notion that Romney embraces on the campaign trail.
That runs directly counter to arguments by Obama and many European leaders that the austerity programs forced in place in countries like Greece only made matters worse, adding to joblessness, further suppressing growth and arousing voter anger.
It all mirrors the split in the United States between Republicans who want deep spending cuts and Democrats including Obama who want to promote more growth ? even if it temporarily means more government spending ? until the economy recovers enough to move to serious deficit-reduction.
"Europe has clearly proven that austerity was the wrong policy to pursue during a recession," says Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey, D-N.Y., a member of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. "I'm surprised that with such strikingly different recoveries occurring between the United States and Europe that so many United States lawmakers will continue to support the same types of policies that are utilized by Europe."
Many European countries have already slipped back into recession.
Greece's June 17 election could result in the country quitting the euro. International economists are not sure what would happen next.
The economy of Greece is tiny, and its withdrawal alone would not have much impact on the global economy. On the other hand, it could trigger investor panic into pulling money out of bonds of other weak European countries such as Spain, Portugal, even Italy.
"Europe is on the precipice. And the odds are uncomfortably high they go over the ledge," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. He's hopeful European countries will bury their differences and work together to keep the eurozone from shattering. "But if they don't, then the European economy will sink deep in recession and take the rest of the global economy with it, including our own."
The European Union, composed of the 17 countries that use the euro and 10 others, is the world's biggest trading entity, bigger than either the United States or China, the world's two biggest single economies.
And that could have dire consequences for Obama and other incumbents running for re-election.
Michael Froman, Obama's adviser for international economic affairs, said he's optimistic some consensus can be reached that doesn't emphasize austerity as much as measures to "spur on further demand to help make sure that the recovery is secured."
He said the eurozone crisis is sure to be a top topic at a summit of the world's 20 leading economies in Mexico later this month. He said he expects to see there "an overwhelming consensus that the focus is on growth."
Obama said Friday he has been in constant contact over the past two years with Merkel and other European leaders about the crisis. But there are no immediate plans for any influx of American cash.
Romney and his campaign aides agree that Europe is in bad shape, but they say it's due to excessive spending on social programs and not enough fiscal discipline. Obama's policies on spending and taxes will "take America on the path to Europe," Romney tells campaign audiences.
"It's not that we don't think that this president is trying. I think he is. It's just that his policies are not working," said Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom.
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New Mexico man charged with woman's murder
A New Mexico man is charged with murder after police say he shot a Clovis resident in the head. Jimmy J. Reagan, 31, is being held in the Curry County Jail.
Clovis Police report they found Shondell Lofton, 35, dead inside a home at about 7 p.m. Wednesday. Witnessed told police the suspect had forced two women into a van at gunpoint then drove away.
Acting on a tip New Mexico State Police located the women. Officers report they apprehended Reagan as he was attempting to break into another home.
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Friday, June 8, 2012
Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: LAMB TO ...
MY FAVOURITE ROALD DAHL STORY
LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
A Black Comedy Par Excellence
At the end of World War II, a number of military men, from the army, navy and air force, who were demobilised and released from active military service, turned to creative writing and many achieved great success and fame as writers and novelists ? Alistair MacLean, Nicholas Monsarrat, Herman Wouk, James A. Michener, Frederick Forsyth, to name a few, and, not to forget, the inimitable Roald Dahl, the master storyteller, who not only wrote a large number of unforgettable short stories but achieved tremendous success as a children?s writer too, especially with his classic book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Roald Dahl was best at suspense, mystery and horror.?
I love many of his stories, but the one I like the most is his classic story LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.?
This is a perfect suspense story told in simple linear style slowly building up the suspense which climaxes with a brilliant ending. This classic story is a perfect example of a black comedy par excellence.I don?t want to spoil your fun by telling you about the plot, so just go ahead and enjoy LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.?
This story is freely available on the internet (just google it or try any search engine or literary site).?
I am giving a link to the story and, for your convenience, I? also pasting the story below (from the url link mentioned): The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey.? Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come him from work. Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come.? There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did.? The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil.? Her skin -for this was her sixth month with child-had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than before. When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the tires on the gravel outside, and the car door slamming, the footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the lock.? She laid aside her sewing, stood up, and went forward to kiss him as he came in. ?Hullo darling,? she said. ?Hullo darling,? he answered. She took his coat and hung it in the closer.? Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side. For her, this was always a blissful time of day.? She knew he didn?t want to speak much until the first drink was finished, and she, on her side, was content to sit quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house.? She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel-almost as a sunbather feels the sun-that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together.? She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in a door, or moved slowly across the room with long strides.? She loved intent, far look in his eyes when they rested in her, the funny shape of the mouth, and especially the way he remained silent about his tiredness, sitting still with himself until the whiskey had taken some of it away. ?Yes,? he said.? ?I?m tired,?? And as he spoke, he did an unusual thing.? He lifted his glass and drained it in one swallow although there was still half of it, at least half of it left.. She wasn?t really watching him, but she knew what he had done because she heard the ice cubes falling back against the bottom of the empty glass when he lowered his arm.? He paused a moment, leaning forward in the chair, then he got up and went slowly over to fetch himself another. ?I?ll get it!? she cried, jumping up. When he came back, she noticed that the new drink was dark amber with the quantity of whiskey in it. ?Darling, shall I get your slippers?? She watched him as he began to sip the dark yellow drink, and she could see little oily swirls in the liquid because it was so strong. ?I think it?s a shame,? she said, ?that when a policeman gets to be as senior as you, they keep him walking about on his feet all day long.? He didn?t answer, so she bent her head again and went on with her sewing; bet each time he lifted the drink to his lips, she heard the ice cubes clinking against the side of the glass. ?Darling,? she said.? ?Would you like me to get you some cheese?? I haven?t made any supper because it?s Thursday.? ?If you?re too tired to eat out,? she went on, ?it?s still not too late.? There?s plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer, and you can have it right here and not even move out of the chair.? Her eyes waited on him for an answer, a smile, a little nod, but he made no sign. ?Anyway,? she went on, ?I?ll get you some cheese and crackers first.? ?I don?t want it,? he said. She moved uneasily in her chair, the large eyes still watching his face.? ?But you must eat!? I?ll fix it anyway, and then you can have it or not, as you like.? She stood up and placed her sewing on the table by the lamp. ?Sit down,? he said.? ?Just for a minute, sit down.? It wasn?t till then that she began to get frightened. ?Go on,? he said.? ?Sit down.? She lowered herself back slowly into the chair, watching him all the time with those large, bewildered eyes.? He had finished the second drink and was staring down into the glass, frowning. ?Listen,? he said.? ?I?ve got something to tell you.? ?What is it, darling?? What?s the matter?? He had now become absolutely motionless, and he kept his head down so that the light from the lamp beside him fell across the upper part of his face, leaving the chin and mouth in shadow.? She noticed there was a little muscle moving near the corner of his left eye. ?This is going to be a bit of a shock to you, I?m afraid,? he said.? ?But I?ve thought about it a good deal and I?ve decided the only thing to do is tell you right away.? I hope you won?t blame me too much.? And he told her.? It didn?t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word. ?So there it is,? he added.? ?And I know it?s kind of a bad time to be telling you, bet there simply wasn?t any other way.? Of course I?ll give you money and see you?re looked after.? But there needn?t really be any fuss.? I hope not anyway.? It wouldn?t be very good for my job.? Her first instinct was not to believe any of it, to reject it all.? It occurred to her that perhaps he hadn?t even spoken, that she herself had imagined the whole thing.? Maybe, if she went about her business and acted as though she hadn?t been listening, then later, when she sort of woke up again, she might find none of it had ever happened. ?I?ll get the supper,? she managed to whisper, and this time he didn?t stop her. When she walked across the room she couldn?t feel her feet touching the floor.? She couldn?t feel anything at all- except a slight nausea and a desire to vomit.? Everything was automatic now-down the steps to the cellar, the light switch, the deep freeze, the hand inside the cabinet taking hold of the first object it met.? She lifted it out, and looked at it.? It was wrapped in paper, so she took off the paper and looked at it again. All right then, they would have lamb for supper.? She carried it upstairs, holding the thin bone-end of it with both her hands, and as she went through the living-room, she saw him standing over by the window with his back to her, and she stopped. ?For God?s sake,? he said, hearing her, but not turning round.? ?Don?t make supper for me.? I?m going out.? At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head. She might just as well have hit him with a steel club. She stepped back a pace, waiting, and the funny thing was that he remained standing there for at least four or five seconds, gently swaying.? Then he crashed to the carpet. The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of he shock.? She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight with both hands. All right, she told herself.? So I?ve killed him. It was extraordinary, now, how clear her mind became all of a sudden.? She began thinking very fast.? As the wife of a detective, she knew quite well what the penalty would be.? That was fine.? It made no difference to her.? In fact, it would be a relief.? On the other hand, what about the child?? What were the laws about murderers with unborn children?? Did they kill then both-mother and child?? Or did they wait until the tenth month?? What did they do? Mary Maloney didn?t know.? And she certainly wasn?t prepared to take a chance. She carried the meat into the kitchen, placed it in a pan, turned the oven on high, and shoved t inside.? Then she washed her hands and ran upstairs to the bedroom.? She sat down before the mirror, tidied her hair, touched up her lops and face.? She tried a smile.? It came out rather peculiar.? She tried again. ?Hullo Sam,? she said brightly, aloud. The voice sounded peculiar too. ?I want some potatoes please, Sam.? Yes, and I think a can of peas.? That was better.? Both the smile and the voice were coming out better now.? She rehearsed it several times more.? Then she ran downstairs, took her coat, went out the back door, down the garden, into the street. It wasn?t six o?clock yet and the lights were still on in the grocery shop. ?Hullo Sam,? she said brightly, smiling at the man behind the counter. ?Why, good evening, Mrs. Maloney.? How?re you?? ?I want some potatoes please, Sam.? Yes, and I think a can of peas.? The man turned and reached up behind him on the shelf for the peas. ?Patrick?s decided he?s tired and doesn?t want to eat out tonight,? she told him.? ?We usually go out Thursdays, you know, and now he?s caught me without any vegetables in the house.? ?Then how about meat, Mrs. Maloney?? ?No, I?ve got meat, thanks.? I got a nice leg of lamb from the freezer.? ?I don?t know much like cooking it frozen, Sam, but I?m taking a chance on it this time.? You think it?ll be all right?? ?Personally,? the grocer said, ?I don?t believe it makes any difference.? You want these
Terrific ? isn?t it??
Till now I wrote short fiction.?
Now I am trying to write a novel.?
The other day I got stuck ? too many characters, too many things happening, too much confusion, I was trying to say too much.?
I stopped writing and switched on my TV.?
A movie began.?
It was the evergreen romantic comedy ROMAN HOLIDAY starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.?
I watched spellbound ? a simple story with just two characters told in a down-to-earth uncomplicated fashion.?
It is the same with Roald Dahl?s LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER ? the way the story is narrated ? breathtaking in its simplicity.?
I have got the hint ? that is how I am going to write my novel. I am going to keep it simple. So I am redoing my first draft ? and whenever I am confused, I will pick up one of my favourite short stories for a clue.Do comment and let me know if you liked LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER.
VIKRAM KARVE
Copyright ? Vikram Karve 2012Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
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COCKTAIL ebook
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About Vikram Karve
A creative person with a zest for life, Vikram Karve is a retired Naval Officer turned full time writer. Educated at IIT Delhi, ITBHU Varanasi, The Lawrence School Lovedale and Bishops School Pune, Vikram has published two books: COCKTAIL a collection of fiction short stories about relationships (2011) and APPETITE FOR A STROLL a book of Foodie Adventures (2008) and he is currently working on his novel. An avid blogger, he has written a number of fiction short stories and creative non-fiction articles in magazines and journals for many years before the advent of blogging. Vikram has taught at a University as a Professor for almost 15 years and now teaches as a visiting faculty and devotes most of his time to creative writing. Vikram lives in Pune India with his family and muse - his pet dog Sherry with whom he takes long walks thinking creative thoughts.?
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