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Monday, October 29, 2012

New Pakistan outreach could aid Afghan peace deal

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, Pakistani Taliban patrol in their stronghold of Shawal in the Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan. Pakistan has stepped up outreach to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the war-torn country.The target of the diplomatic push has mainly been non-Pashtun political leaders who have been at odds with Pakistan for years because of the country's historical support for the Afghan Taliban, a Pashtun movement. (AP Photo/ Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

FILE - In this Monday, May 14, 2012, file photo, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, talks to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan has stepped up outreach to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the war-torn country. The target of the diplomatic push has mainly been non-Pashtun political leaders who have been at odds with Pakistan for years because of the country?s historical support for the Afghan Taliban, a Pashtun movement. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

FILE-In this Nov 4, 2009 file picture Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan Foreign Minister, gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. The influential politician, who was runner-up to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 election, said Pakistani intelligence officials contacted him in previous years, but he refused to speak with them because he did not believe communication should be carried out in secret. Pakistan has stepped up outreach to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Pakistan has increased efforts to reach out to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the neighboring country.

The target of the diplomatic push has mainly been non-Pashtun political leaders who have been at odds with Pakistan for years because of the country's historical support for the Afghan Taliban, a Pashtun movement.

Many of the leaders fought against the Taliban when the fundamentalist Islamic group seized control of Afghanistan in the 1990s with Pakistan's help, and have accused Islamabad of maintaining support for the insurgents following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 ? allegations denied by the government.

Many experts agree that Pakistan continues to see the Taliban as an ally, albeit a shaky one, in countering the influence of archenemy India in Afghanistan. But they also say Islamabad no longer believes the insurgents can take over the country or wants them to, a common misperception in the West.

"A Taliban victory on the other side of the border would give a huge boost to domestic militants fighting the Pakistani state," said Zahid Hussain, a journalist who has written extensively about Islamabad's war against the Pakistani Taliban.

Pakistan is also worried that unrest in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of most foreign troops in 2014 could provide the Pakistani Taliban with greater space to establish sanctuaries across the border.

The Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are allies but have focused on different enemies. The Afghan Taliban have battled local and foreign forces in Afghanistan, while the Pakistani Taliban have mainly waged war against Islamabad.

Pakistan's concerns have led it to conclude that a peace agreement that includes all Afghan groups is in its best interests, and contact with its traditional foes among the non-Pashtuns is necessary to achieve that goal, said Moeed Yusuf, South Asia adviser for the United States Institute of Peace.

"I think the fundamental point here is that there is a serious realization among some people who matter in Pakistan that they can't continue to put all their eggs in the Taliban basket because it is too shaky," said Yusuf. "This is a major shift, and a shift that I think everybody should welcome."

The outreach comes as Pakistan, Afghanistan and the U.S. have stepped up efforts to breathe new life into the Taliban peace process, which has been hamstrung by distrust among all the parties involved.

The U.S. and Pakistan recently set up working groups to identify which Taliban leaders would be open to reconciliation and to ensure those holed up on Pakistani territory would be able to travel to the site of talks. Pakistan and Afghanistan have been in discussions to revive a joint commission set up to discuss the peace process.

Pakistan is seen as key to a peace deal because of its ties with the Taliban, and there is hope that Islamabad's increased engagement with non-Pashtuns in Afghanistan will facilitate the process.

"I think one of Pakistan's realizations is that if you want to play a bigger role to reconcile all these groups, you need to reach out to every group," said Rahimullah Yousufzai, a Pakistani journalist and expert on the Taliban. "They will be pushing the Taliban to share power with all these people, but it won't be easy because the Taliban aren't known to share power and the U.S. doesn't want to give them a major share."

Islamabad's historical support for the Taliban and other Pashtuns in Afghanistan, who make up about 40 percent of the population of 30 million, is partly rooted in the sizable number of Pashtuns who live in Pakistan. The ethnic group has always been seen as the best bet for furthering Pakistan's interests in the country.

Pakistan first advertised its overtures to non-Pashtuns in Afghanistan in February when Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar met with a range of ethnic Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara leaders during a visit to Kabul. Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf followed suit in July when he traveled to Afghanistan and invited the group to the opening of the new Pakistani Embassy in Kabul.

There have also been less publicized contacts by Pakistan's ambassador to Kabul, Mohammad Sadiq, and the country's army and intelligence service, according to Pakistani and Afghan officials.

Khar said the policy shift had been in the works for a while but was like a steering a large ship in a new direction.

"You're not able to do it immediately," said the foreign minister.

Pakistan's powerful army is the true arbiter of the country's Afghan policy, but experts expressed doubt that the Foreign Ministry would have pushed ahead without the support of the generals, who have historically had the closest relationship to the Taliban.

One key Afghan leader who has met with the Pakistanis, Abdullah Abdullah, said he appreciated the country's recent attempt to reach out because it was done publicly. The influential politician, who was runner-up to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 election, said Pakistani intelligence officials contacted him in previous years, but he refused to speak with them because he did not believe communication should be carried out in secret.

"I see a lot of good in reaching out, in engagement, in dialogue," said Abdullah, who is half Pashtun but draws much of his support from the Tajik community.

The outreach has rattled the Taliban, who have warned Pakistani officials that they can't trust the non-Pashtuns, Yousufzai said.

Pakistan will have to overcome significant distrust among the non-Pashtuns. The government has old ties to some of the leaders, who worked with Pakistan in the 1980s to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan, but Islamabad's subsequent support for the Taliban created a huge amount of bad blood.

Despite that, the Pakistanis are hopeful.

"The Pakistani side's view of Afghan negotiations is that you kill on one day and kiss on the next, so while this will be very tough, they think that it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that they may actually get somewhere," said Yusuf, the South Asia analyst.

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Vogt reported from Kabul, Afghanistan.

Associated Press

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Website crowdsourcing cure for cancer

Acting on the idea that millions of heads are better than one, a British research firm is crowdsourcing cancer, and has just invited everyone on the Internet who has perhaps five extra minutes to spare to help it cure the potentially deadly disease.

Cancer Research UK has asked web surfers to comb through tens of thousands of pictures of breast cancer cells pulled from studies to help identify tumor cells. When volunteers spot cells that are stained yellow, they send them on to researchers who then use them to analyze trends between the cells and patient treatment.

Anyone who signs on must first complete a short tutorial, and scientists do check the work to minimize mistakes.

This is not a complete first. Citizen scientists have already helped accelerate discoveries in disciplines such as biology, astronomy and archaeology. And business and marketing companies have used Internet crowdsourcing for years to promote products and services. So, too, have a number of other health care websites.

One celebrated instance of medical crowdsourcing was initiated by Patientslikeme.com, a health data-sharing website based in Cambridge, Mass., that aggregates patient information for research. The site has more than 100,000 people representing more than 500 conditions.

Upon the publication of an Italian study in 2008 that found the drug lithium could delay the progression of ALS - also known as Lou Gehrig's disease - about 450 members of Patients Like Me's ALS community decided to test the theory out. Within nine months, they showed the treatment was a bust.

The results were published in Nature Biotechnology in 2011, and may have been the first time a social network was used to monitor patient treatment in real time.

"Medical crowdsourcing can really move along a disease by engaging patients and getting them to share their experience and data," said Ben Heywood, founder and president of Patients Like Me. "In this sense, it's helpful for both the collective and the individual."

But the community approach to medical research is not without potential downsides.

"Crowdsourcing sites provide a novel way for those with less common conditions and researchers to find each other, and that's a great thing" said Kathryn Schmitz, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. "However, a question that must be addressed is the bias of those who sign up to be connected to these websites versus those who don't. We know these groups are different."

But problems of bias are not insurmountable, said Schmitz, noting that bias exists in trials run by scientific experts too.

Self-reported data, she said, has been increasingly embraced by the scientific community as more scientists turn to health social networking sites to further their research. Schmitz said she herself has used Patients Like Me to connect with people who have lymphedema, a condition in which the lymph nodes swell as a result of cancer treatment.

But she urged caution in interpreting crowdsourced results and said she wouldn't trust the job of a trained pathologist to anyone with a laptop.

"That's really specialty training," she said. "I certainly wouldn't want my mother treated based on a crowdsourced diagnosis."

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Human rights lawyer missing in Equatorial Guinea

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Iraq: 9 killed in separate attacks in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AP) ? A series of attacks struck Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad early on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding 26, according to Iraqi officials.

The attacks came as Iraqis prepare to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins later this week.

Although violence has ebbed since the heights of the insurgency, Baghdad's Shiite areas remain favorite targets for Sunni extremists who seek to ignite nationwide sectarian conflict.

The deadliest attack happened when four parked cars packed with explosives detonated simultaneously in the northwestern neighborhood of Shula early on Tuesday, killing seven people and wounding 16, a police officer said.

The twisted and charred remains of vehicles, including what appeared to be a minibus, could be seen near a damaged house in a narrow residential street after the explosions.

Another police officer said two mortar rounds landed in the capital's northern Chikok district, killing two people and wounding 10.

Two health officials in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.

While there was no claim of responsibility, coordinated bombings and related attacks are a favorite tactic of Sunni insurgents, including Iraq's local al-Qaida offshoot, known as the Islamic State of Iraq.

Tuesday's attacks occurred three days after back-to-back bomb blasts in a crowded Baghdad market near a revered Shiite shrine and a string of shootings targeting government officials left 17 people dead in what was Iraq's deadliest day this month.

Militants in the past have targeted civilians before and during public holidays, when many employees are off work and families gather in mosques, parks and restaurants to mark the occasion. Iraqi authorities typically beef up security measures during the holidays to try to thwart the attacks.

In August, a relentless wave of attacks rumbled across Iraq shortly before another Muslim holiday, the Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, killing more than 90 people.

Also in Iraq on Tuesday, the Cabinet approved a draft budget for next year of 138 trillion dinars ($118.5 billion) ? an 18.5 percent increase over this year's budget. The budget must still be approved by parliament.

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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Bushra Juhi contributed reporting.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-9-killed-separate-attacks-baghdad-103748423.html

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Chinese Trade Official: Say Goodbye to the ?Made in China? Era

Could we be witnessing the end of the ?Made in China? era? According to an astute trade official in China?s Ministry of Commerce, the answer may well be yes. In an interview with the China Daily, this official explained that cheap goods are?increasingly?made in Vietnam, Indonesia and?Malaysia?rather than China, which is beginning to transition toward making higher-end products.?China Daily?explores this trend, which the official has nicknamed the ?great industry transfer?:

The official, who declined to be named, said that ?nearly one-third of Chinese manufacturers of textiles, garments, shoes and hats? are now working ?under growing pressure? and have moved all, or part, of their production outside China in what he called the great industry transfer.

This process has happened swiftly. Manufacturing wages in Vietnam are now what they were on China?s coast ten years ago. And while much of this relocation is driven by large multinational companies, Chinese companies are also moving their factories abroad:

According to a survey by the Capital Business Credit, a US-based financial consultancy firm, 40 percent of major companies interviewed said they have plans to move factories from China to other locations, including Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

The movement toward higher-value exports is in line with China?s economic five-year plan, but China?s leaders would prefer to see low-end manufacturing move to China?s poor interior rather than to foreign countries. This hasn?t been happening,?despite incentives for businesses to open factories in the interior. Unfortunately for Beijing, international competition had rendered China?s leadership powerless to redirect trade flows and keep low-end manufacturing within the country.

This is good news for Southeast Asia, and in the long term perhaps for China as well, but it poses a serious short-term problem for Beijing. The wealth gap between China?s coast and interior has long caused serious tension in?Chinese?society. This problem isn?t going to disappear anytime soon.

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EastBayRI.com ? Bottom fishing great for beginning anglers,

East Providence anglers Kevin Bettencourt (left) and his father, Albert, have been catching striped bass this fall in the Warren River drifting eels.

Bottom fishing for fluke (summer flounder), black sea bass, scup and tautog this time of year can be fun for the entire family.

This type of fishing is not stressful, learning how to set the hook can be learned in minutes and it doesn?t take a lot of skill to catch a fish. Bottom fishing is great for beginners, particularly children.

The best part, however, is that the down time between bites serves as a great opportunity for family members and friends to socialize and converse. I once took my friend Tom and his son fishing. ?The best part of the day was that I actually got a chance to talk with my son about his future plans,? said Tom.

Quite often, fishing isn?t all about the fish. It?s about the time we spend together with family and friends that really counts. That is why I love to take families fishing; the bonding and communication that takes place is remarkable.

You can learn how to bottom fish by consulting bait shop owners or you can go out on a charter or party boat. Most all of the charter boats that belong to the Rhode Island Party & Charter Boat Association (www.rifishing.com) are more than willing to take families fishing and teach them how to fish the bottom.

Next week you can take advantage of a bottom fishing seminar being offered by the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA). The seminar will include panel-like presentations from three top local anglers: Larry Norin, Rick Sustello and Tom Wood.

The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29,? at the West Valley Inn, 4 Blossom St., West Warwick. Non-members are requested to make a $10 donation to the RISAA Marine Fisheries College Scholarship Fund. The West Valley Inn offers two different dinner entr?e options from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for $6.95.

Stakeholder workshops on windmills

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a workshop on windmills and their impact on fishing and will seek input for recreational and commercial fishermen from 4-7:45 p.m. Friday Nov. 16. The workshop will take placer in the Coastal Hazard Room in the Coastal Institute Building at the URI Bay Campus, 215 South Ferry Road, Narragansett.

This input meeting and others being held on the East Coast will address future potential conflicts between fishing and wind projects within the Ocean Continental Shelf (OCS). BOEM is seeking input from commercial and recreational fishing industries, as well as fisheries management agencies and scientists, relative to proposed offshore wind energy development.

For more information contact Elizabeth Castle at ecastle@ene.com.

DEM stocks ponds, rivers

The Department of Environmental Management?s (DEM) Division of Fish and Wildlife has stocked approximately 6,000 rainbow trout in several locations throughout the state this month for the fall freshwater fishing season.

DEM Fish & Wildlife staff finished stocking the hatchery-raised rainbow trout this week in Stafford Pond in Tiverton; Silver Spring Pond in North Kingstown; Beaver River in Richmond; Wyoming Pond in Richmond and Hopkinton; Wood River in Exeter, Hopkinton and Richmond; Upper Pawtuxet River in Coventry; Blackstone River in Cumberland and Lincoln; and Round Top Ponds in Burrillville. Earlier this month, trout were stocked in Meadowbrook Pond in Richmond, Carbuncle Pond in Coventry, Spring Grove Pond in Gloucester and Olney Pond in Lincoln Woods.

A 2012 freshwater fishing license and trout conservation stamp is required for anglers 15 years of age and older. Visit your town/city hall, authorized agents such as bait/tackle shops and Benny?s to get a license and stamp.

Tautog regulation change

As of Oct. 20, and until Dec. 31, the tautog bag limit has been enhanced for recreational anglers from three fish per day to six fish per day. The minimum size is still 16 inches.

In addition, there is a 10 fish/boat maximum per day. The 10-fish maximum does not apply to charter or party boats.

Where?s the bite?

Tautog ? ?Customers have been doing good at Washington?s Ledge off shore in the Newport-Jamestown areas, weather permitting,? said Craig Castro of Erickson?s Bait & Tackle.

John Littlefield of Archie?s Bait in East Providence said customers are catching tautog at Conimicut Light with a lot of shorts (15 to one ratio). Tautog up to 23 inches have been landed at India Point Park, said Dave Henault of Ocean State Tackle in Providence.

Last week I caught a 23-inch fish at General Rock and two other keepers with a ratio of eight shorts for every one keeper, with about 10 small black sea bass. Tautog are also being caught at Point Judith Light in 25 to 45 feet of water, according to Matt Conti of Snug Harbor Marina in South Kingstown.

Striped bass ???It is either lock and load or no bite at all in the Southwest Ledge area of Block Island,? said Mr. Conti.

According to Mr. Littlefield, ?Customers are taking school bass with plugs in the upper bay at the mouth of the rivers.?

Kevin and Albert Bettencourt caught 11 bass in the 15- to-20-pound range drifting eels in the Warren River down to the Blount Seafood area, said Mr. Littlefield. Dave Henault of Ocean State Tackle said, ?Striped bass and bluefish are being caught on pogies and eels in the Providence and Seekonk rivers and the Cape Cod Canal has been offering up bass as large as 50 pounds. Customers Francesco DiGiovanni and Cecine Curi have taken bass on eels, plugs, top-water poppers, divers and Sebile Swim baits.?

Freshwater fishing this fall has been slow. With improved weather and recent pond and river stocking with rainbow trout by DEM, things are expected to pick up.

Offshore fishing has been slow due to bad weather last week.

Capt. Dave Monti has been fishing and shellfishing on Narragansett Bay for more than 40 years. He holds a captain?s master license and a charter fishing license. Your fishing photos in jpeg form, stories, comments and questions are welcome. Visit Capt. Dave?s No Fluke website at www.noflukefishing.com or e-mail him at dmontifish@verizon.net.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

EU Unveils Online Gambling Mission | Gambling911.com

The European Union on Monday unveiled plans to improve safeguards for money laundering activities via online gambling websites.

The EU mission also looks to prevent match fixing while protecting players against fraud.

From Bloomberg News:

The European Commission will also speed up probes into whether national restrictions on online gambling firms are legal in a bid to clarify market-access rules for the industry, according to an EU official.

The measures will be included in an action plan for the online gaming and betting industry to be published tomorrow by Michel Barnier, the EU?s financial services chief, said the official, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren?t yet public.

The European High Court has reviewed a series of cases brought on behalf of online betting companies to determine whether state monopolies can legally block them from operating freely across the 27-nation region.

Ironically, the Brussels-based Commission is based in a nation, Belgium, that has been among the most aggressive when it comes to blocking foreign wagering firms from operating within its borders.? Belgium has even gone as far as to impose a ?black list? of operators.?

Nations like Belgium and Germany tend to justify the curbs on the basis that they are needed to protect citizens from gambling addiction and to prevent crime, according to Bloomberg News.?

- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com

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7 Dangerous acts after a meal | Tasty Exploration

Been pigging out ?guilty of eating in excess until I can?t move and I feel sick that?s why I?m not able to update this space?ALIBI! He..he..he?Though it?s really a temptation to eat a lot (my parents are here and we introduced them to Thai dishes one after the other) but thanks God I was able to discipline myself to eat just the right amount. I watched my weight and do a bit of exercise so I think I did a great job:)

Anyway, this post has been circulating in the blogosphere. What?s your say about this?

1. Don?t smoke ?- Experiments from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher). I?m not guilty of this because I don?t smoke. Hope this may serve as warning to smokers out there.

2. Don?t eat fruits immediately ? Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruits 1 -2 hours after meal or 1 hour before meal. I usually eat fruit first before the main course. Well, this time I need to watch my clock to determine that I?ve reached an hour before eating the main course:)

3. Don?t drink tea?? Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the protein content in the food we consume to be hundred thus difficult to digest. Hmmmm?I love to drink tea right after eating a heavy meal especially when I?m in an eat-all-you-can restaurants to find relief from being FULL.

4. Don?t loosen your belt???- Loosening the belt after meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted and blocked. How about for those who don?t wear belts? I seldom wear belts but I used to UNZIP after eating when I feel so FULL.

5. Don?t bathe???- ??- Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs and body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease, this will weaken the digestive system in our stomach. This reminds me of my grandparents who advised us not to take a bath after a meal especially if we take SOUP or hot chocolate or coffee.

6. Don?t walk about???- ? People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake. Hmmmm?I love walking after a heavy meal or standing for about 5 minutes before sitting down to minimize belly fats.

7. Don?t sleep immediately?- ??? The food we intake will not be to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric and infection in our intestine. I don?t sleep immediately after eating since a young celebrity in Philippines died of cardiac arrest secondary to acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis or in in layman?s terms, ?bangungot?. They said this will trigger when you sleep with a FULL tummy.

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Candidates seek foreign policy edge in 3rd debate

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Still neck-and-neck after all these months, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney head into their third and final debate with each man eager to project an aura of personal strength and leadership while raising doubts about the steadiness and foreign policy credentials of the other guy.

Each is aiming for a commanding performance Monday to settle the seesaw dynamics of the first two debates: Romney gave Obama an old-fashioned shellacking in the first round, and the chastened president rebounded in their second encounter.

The 90-minute faceoff at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., offers the candidates their last opportunity to stand one-on-one before tens of millions of Americans and command their undivided attention before next month's election. Both candidates largely dropped out of sight and devoted their weekends to debate preparations, a sure sign of the high importance they attach to the event.

While the principals warm up for their evening debate in the battleground state of Florida, their running mates will be busy Monday seeking votes in two of the eight other states whose up-for-grabs electoral votes will determine the next president ? Vice President Joe Biden in Ohio and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan in Colorado. Also still hotly contested: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Virginia.

It fell to campaign surrogates on Sunday talk shows to frame the foreign policy matters that moderator Bob Schieffer will put before the candidates in a discussion sure to reflect "how dangerous the world is in which we live," as the CBS newsman put it. Iran's nuclear intentions, the bloody crackdown in Syria, economic angst in Europe, security concerns in Afghanistan, China's growing power ? all that and more are on the agenda.

And all feed into the broader debate over which candidate offers the steady hand and sound judgment for a nation facing myriad challenges at home and abroad.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, arguing for the Republicans, faulted Obama for "his failure to outline broad goals, real goals, a real view of what America's role in the world should be." Romney, by contrast, would "use America's role in the world as a catalyst for peace, prosperity and freedom," he said.

Ryan, campaigning in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday, faulted the president for potential defense cuts and said that when adversaries "see us projecting weakness, when they see us hollowing out our military ... they think we are a superpower in decline." It was a likely preview of one of Romney's arguments in the debate.

Obama adviser David Axelrod said that when the president took office "we were isolated in our position on Iran and in the world. And today, the world is unified against Iran with us, all because of the leadership of this president."

The Obama campaign released a blistering memo from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., accusing Romney of offering nothing but "endless bluster" on international issues.

"He is an extreme and expedient candidate who lacks the judgment and vision so vital for the Oval Office," said Kerry, who is considered a leading candidate to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state if Obama wins a second term.

When it comes to their foreign policy credentials, both candidates have reasons for optimism and concern: While foreign policy has been a strength of Obama throughout the campaign, some recent polls show his advantage narrowing. The Pew Research Center's October poll, for example, found that 47 percent of Americans favored Obama to make "wise decisions about foreign policy," while 43 percent preferred Romney.

American University professor Jordan Tama said the difficult trick for Romney in the debate will be to challenge Obama on foreign policy without looking like he's criticizing the commander in chief, which can be off-putting to voters. Obama, for his part, must make the case that his policies are sound and his leadership strong despite ongoing challenges around the world, including unrest in the Middle East and the chaotic situation in Libya that left four Americans dead.

While foreign policy has been overshadowed during this campaign by concerns about the domestic economy and jobs at home, everything matters in a race this tight. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Sunday showed each candidate favored by 47 percent of likely voters, reflecting a boost of support for Romney following his strong performance in the first debate in early October.

With early voting under way in many states, there is precious little time for the candidates to break loose. More than 4 million Americans already have voted.

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Associated Press writer Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Brees fires 4 TD passes, Saints rally past Bucs

By FRED GOODALL

AP Sports Writer

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updated 4:06 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Once Drew Brees got the New Orleans offense on track, it hardly mattered that Jonathan Vilma wasn't the solution for the Saints' leaky defense.

Vilma played for the first time while appealing a season-long suspension for his role in the Saints' bounty program and Brees shrugged off an early interception to throw for 377 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-28 come-from-behind victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

While it's debatable how much Vilma's return affected the defense, the unit turned back two threats near the end zone in the second half, including the drive of the game to preserve New Orleans' second straight win.

Brees extended his NFL record for consecutive games with at least one TD pass to 49, while leading long scoring drives on four straight possessions to turn a 14-point deficit into a 28-21 halftime lead.

The Saints (2-4) barely had the ball in the third quarter, but took advantage of Tampa Bay's inability to get into the end zone when Brees put together a 12-play, 95-yard march that Pierre Thomas finished with a 5-yard TD run that made it 35-21 with just over 13 minutes remaining in the game.

Brees threw TD passes of 17 yards to Marques Colston, 9 yards to Darren Sproles, 48 yards to Joseph Morgan and 20 yards to David Thomas to overcome the New Orleans defense yielding 513 yards. He has thrown for three or more touchdowns in five of six games this season.

Josh Freeman threw for 420 yards and three touchdowns for the Bucs (2-4), who scored on their first three possessions of the game to build a 21-7 lead. Dallas Clark's 3-yard scoring reception trimmed Tampa Bay's deficit to 35-28 with four minutes left, and Freeman completed two passes to Vincent Jackson to help the Bucs get into position to possibly force overtime.

Jackson had seven receptions for 216 yards, but failed to score on a 95-yard play in which safety Malcolm Jenkins ran him down to make the tackle at the Tampa Bay 1. LeGarrette Blount was stopped for no gain on three straight runs, then Freeman lost 4 yards on a quarterback keeper on fourth down.

Brees launched the Saints' final scoring drive from there. He also led TD drives of 80, 80, 79 and 72 on consecutive possessions in the opening half.

Vilma practiced on his surgically repaired left knee for the first time last Wednesday and was moved from the physically unable to perform list to the 53-man roster Saturday.

The ninth-year pro's return could wind up being relatively brief. The hearing on the appeal of his season-long suspension is scheduled for Oct. 30.

Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has been appointed as arbitrator for Vilma's appeal, as well as the hearings for three other players facing suspensions of various lengths.

Vilma didn't start Sunday, but he did get on the field mostly in passing situations throughout the game.

He pressured Freeman on an incompletion that was nearly intercepted by Roman Harper, and got his hands on another pass that he tipped first with his right hand and then his left before it fell incomplete.

Down a touchdown and out of timeouts, Freeman marched the Bucs from his own 19 to the New Orleans 9 in the final two minutes. He threw incomplete for Jackson, who came down with the ball out of the end zone on third down. On the game's final play, Freeman rolled to his left to find Mike Williams open in the corner of the end zone.

But the receiver had been pushed out of the back of the end zone before coming back into the field of play. So, what appeared to be a possible tying catch was nullified for illegal touching.

Freeman threw TD passes of 13 yards to Tiquan Underwood and 17 yards to Jackson in the first half. Doug Martin scored on a 36-yard run for Tampa Bay.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Regional votes to test support for Spain's Rajoy

MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will struggle on Sunday to retain support for his policies in two elections in his home region of Galicia and the Basque Country.

The vote in Galicia, where austerity steps were taken by the People's Party even before Rajoy took office one year ago, has become a referendum on his handling of the euro zone crisis.

European officials and analysts said Rajoy wanted to wait until after the election to request European aid to handle the country's soaring debts as he feared tough conditions, such as a reform of the pension system, could anger voters.

Senior euro zone officials told Reuters they expected an aid request to be made next month. Rajoy said on Friday he had not yet taken a decision on if and when to do so.

His party risks losing its absolute majority, and power altogether, in Galicia's legislature. This would be a major psychological blow to Rajoy, whose conservative PP party has ruled his homeland for 24 of the past 31 years.

A win would give him much-needed political breathing space nationally as polls have shown him losing support amid massive demonstrations against spending cuts in public services and successive tax hikes.

The results are especially difficult to predict with almost 40 percent of Galicians saying in a recent survey in newspaper La Voz de Galicia they were still undecided how to vote.

"We need to change," said Goretti Gonzalez, a 32-year-old town hall civil servant who will lose a further month's salary this year after having her wages cut by 5 percent two years ago.

The newspaper poll however suggested the PP was in a position to retain the region thanks to a strong traditional backing for its policies.

"Today I voted for the same people I voted for the last time round. I don't think they ran things completely badly," said one elderly voter who didn't want to be named.

In the Basque Country, as in another regional vote in Catalonia on November 25, the outcome of the vote will not depend on tax hikes or spending cuts but rather on recent tensions between central government and the regions on whether devolved powers to provinces should be reduced.

Parties which back increased autonomy or even full independence for the region are set to win the elections and challenge Rajoy's drive for increased centralization.

Opposition parties have accused the government of using the crisis to claw back the extensive powers of its 17 autonomous regions, whose overspending was partly to blame for the failure of the country to meet its deficit targets last year.

(Additional reporting by Catherine MacDonald in Vigo; editing by Ron Askew)

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1 dead, 4 seriously injured in Arizona bus crash

WILLOW BEACH, Ariz. (AP) ? A tour bus careened off the road and crashed in northwest Arizona late Friday, killing the driver and leaving at least four passengers with serious injuries, authorities said.

About 45 other passengers were less seriously hurt and not all of them required hospital treatment, the Arizona Highway Patrol said.

The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. PDT on Highway 93 near Willow Beach, about 20 miles from the Nevada state line and 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas.

The bus was northbound when it went off the road and into a ravine. No other vehicles were involved.

"We believed the driver experienced some sort of the medical condition and he just went off the road," the patrol said.

The most seriously hurt were flown by helicopter to hospitals, while other passengers were taken by ground ambulance.

Six were flown to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where they were being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, hospital spokeswoman Danita Cohen said.

She described them as being mostly over 50 years old and suffering from broken bones and lacerations.

The patrol statement said officers were trying to determine what happened to the bus after it went off the roadway. The front end was heavily damaged.

Four hours after the crash, the bus was sitting upright about 30 feet off the shoulder of the road.

It appeared to have at first gone down a ravine before traveling up an embankment.

The highway near the crash site was reduced to one lane of traffic.

A bus crash nearby nearly four years ago killed four people.

Authorities said a charter bus carrying a group of Chinese tourists on a return trip to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon on Jan. 30, 2009, crashed on U.S. 93 near Hoover Dam. Ten others were injured, including the driver.

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Voice software helps study of rare Yosemite owls

In this July 2012 photo released by the National Park Service, two juvenile Great Gray Owls are shown on a tree branch in Yosemite National Park. The unique Great Gray Owls of Yosemite National Park, left to evolve after glacial ice separated them from their plentiful Canadian brethren 30 millennia ago, are both a mystery and concern to the scientists charged with protecting them. (AP Photo/National Park Service)

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) ? In the bird world, they make endangered condors seem almost commonplace.

The unique Great Gray Owls of Yosemite, left to evolve after glacial ice separated them from their plentiful Canadian brethren 30 millennia ago, are both a mystery and concern to the scientists charged with protecting them.

With fewer than 200 in existence in this small pocket of the Sierra Nevada, the slightest disturbances by humans can drive the extremely shy birds from their nests, disrupting sporadic mating cycles that ebb and flow annually depending upon food availability.

So this summer, researchers found a way to abandon their traditional heavy-handed trapping, banding and the blasting of owl calls in favor of the kind of discrete, sophisticated technology used by spies and forensic scientists.

They hope to lessen human influence on this subspecies of owls prized for the potential insights their survival offers into habitat-specific evolution.

"Even if it takes only 15 minutes to trap a bird, it's traumatic for them in the long term," said Joe Medley, a PhD candidate in ecology at UC Davis who perfected computer voice recognition software to track the largest of North America's owls. "With a population this small, we want to err on the side of caution in terms of the methods we use to get data."

Medley placed 40 data-compression digital audio recorders around the mid-elevation meadows typically favored by the owl known as Strix nebulosa Yosemitensis, hoping to identify them by their mating, feeding and territorial calls.

He ended up with 50 terabytes of owl calls mixed with airplanes flying overhead, frogs croaking, coyotes yipping, bears growling and even the occasional crunch of fangs on pricy microphones ? so much data it would have taken seven years to play back.

He then designed algorithms for an existing computer program that would search for the specific frequency and time intervals of the Great Gray Owls' low-pitched hoot "whooo-ooo-ooo-ooo." The program could discern males and females from juveniles, and even identify nesting females calling for food to help determine reproduction success. The results are still being analyzed.

"It's capable of searching a week's worth of data in an hour. What I was left with was owls and a host of other things that fell in the same bandwidth," Medley said.

Most of the world's Great Gray Owls make their homes in northern hemisphere boreal forests, though a few live as far south as Oregon and Idaho. The giants with piercing yellow eyes and 5-foot wingspans have adapted so well to snow that they can dive face-first through up to a foot of it to catch the voles they hear creeping underneath. Their dish-shaped faces work to amplify sound.

During the last ice age 30,000 years ago, a small population in and around what would become the glacially carved landscape of Yosemite was cut off from the others to evolve on their own in a warmer, less snowy climate.

Those owls, now numbering just a couple of hundred, are on California's endangered species list. The giant condors, once nearly extinct, number around 400 in California and the Southwest, and are on the federal endangered list.

"These (owls) exist nowhere else in the world, and where they do occur is a pretty amazing location," said Joshua Hull, a researcher with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis. "These are going in a different evolutionary direction than the others, and we don't know where that is right now."

Scientists from Yosemite, the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife, with funding from the Yosemite Conservancy, are working to gain a greater understanding of what those differences mean. So far, DNA studies have noted distinct genetic variations between the separated groups in addition to the different food sources and nesting patterns the southern birds have adapted. The birds have very subtle differences in color.

"That's important to know because if it's genetically different, we should try to keep it that way," Hull said. "You wouldn't want to bring in individuals from Oregon to supplement a unique population."

The major threats to their continued survival are the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus ? and humans. A female believed to be the cohort's most reliable breeder was struck and killed by a car in the park in August, prompting slower speed limit warnings to protect the low-flying raptors that rarely lift more than 20 feet above ground.

Because of their rarity, they are highly sought out by birdwatchers whose presence in meadows can deter mating and food foraging, the researchers say. That's why no one will reveal exactly where in the park they are.

"They will abandon their nests if disturbed," said Steve Thompson, Yosemite's branch chief of wildlife management. "It's an extremely low population very vulnerable to natural- and human-caused events. They don't have the ability to rebound the way more abundant species do. We're very protective of them."

So protective that the owls will no longer be trapped to draw blood for studies. Instead researchers are collecting molted feathers to extract and amplify DNA to track lineage, mating patterns, population size, survival rates and even genetic mutations that might occur as the climate changes yet again.

"Genetic mutations occur randomly. It's just chance whether those mutations are advantageous or deleterious to the population," Thompson said. "And all of this is happening over tens of thousands of years, so to me as a biologist it's really exciting to have this demonstration of how evolution occurs."

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Languages: Id-Heren and Spelheim have distinct languages. Most Id-Herans speak Citian, however. Socharev usually speak both languages. Algam has its own tongue, but mysteriously, it shares a large part of its grammar with Citian. Citians pick up the Algam language fairly easily, and the reverse is also true.

Mingling: some mingling and migration does occur between the two human countries. You will see some Citian red hair in Id-Heren, and some Id-Heran blond in the City. Socharev can be just about anywhere, but it is unlikely for them to hold positions of power. These people are a target for discrimination, but with the recent emergence of humanity's common enemy in the beasts, this has decreased somewhat.

Money: Coins are primarily used in the two human capitals, though the larger Towns in Spelheim may also use them. Id-Heren has its own currency, but Citian coins are accepted everywhere. The two countries' coins are roughly equivalent in weight - in daily life, a copper piece from one country is worth the same as the other. Some may insist on Citian coinage though, as it is the more powerful.
Coppers, bronze and brass make up the lowest currency, and are used for daily necessities. A silver piece would already be more than a commoner's weekly pay, and gold is reserved for the nobility.
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