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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Rangers' bats not enough in defeat
By DAVE SKRETTA
updated 2:14 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2011
ST. LOUIS - The Rangers' big bats finally came alive.
Too bad for Texas: So did the Cardinals'.
Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz hit back-to-back homers Thursday night, and Texas was poised to win its first World Series when Josh Hamilton hit a two-run shot in the 10th inning. But the Cardinals answered the call each time, and David Freese's leadoff homer in the 11th gave St. Louis a stunning 10-9 victory and forced a deciding Game 7 for the first time since 2002.
It'll be played Friday night at Busch Stadium.
"You know, it's not easy to win a world championship, as we found out tonight," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We had the right people in the right spot and they beat us."
Texas had built a 7-4 lead in the seventh when Beltre and Cruz hit consecutive home runs off Lance Lynn, and Ian Kinsler added an RBI single off Octavio Dotel.
Allen Craig's second homer of the World Series cut the gap in the eighth, and the Cardinals tied the game in the ninth when Freese delivered a two-run triple with two outs off Rangers flamethrower Neftali Feliz ? universally regarded as one of the best closers in the game.
Hamilton had been quiet most of the series while struggling with a groin injury, but he got the pitch he wanted from Cardinals closer Jason Motte in the 10th. His first homer of the World Series silenced a record crowd of 47,325 that had been rocking after the Cardinals' rally.
"It's about time, that was my first thought," said Hamilton, who finished 3 for 6 with three RBIs and two runs scored. "But you've got to finish the game off and we didn't do that."
Ryan Theriot drove in a run with a groundout in the 10th, and Lance Berkman's two-out single brought in John Jay with the tying run. That set the stage for Freese, whose homer in the 11th off Rangers reliever Mark Lowe set off a raucous celebration on the field.
"A ridiclous game, weird game. But I bet it was fun for the fans," Kinsler said. "The postseason is never easy. We showed that tonight. Got to get the final out."
The celebration on the field looked a lot like the one the Rangers hoped to be enjoying.
"I understand that it's not over until you get the last out," Washington said, "and I was just sitting there praying that we'd get that last out, and we didn't get it. And you have to tip your hat to the Cardinals, the way they fought tonight and took the game from us."
Texas' power surge was as abrupt as the outage it had experienced most of the series.
The Rangers only managed six hits in losing the opener 3-2, and five hits while evening the series with a 2-1 victory in Game 2. Both teams came alive during a Game 3 shootout, but the bats went quiet again over the next two games in Arlington, which Texas eeked out by scores of 4-0 and 4-2.
The lack of offense was surprising given the way the Rangers were built.
With a power-packed lineup, Texas finished second behind the New York Yankees in homers and third behind the Yankees and Boston Red Sox in runs scored this season. Their .283 batting average as a team was the best in baseball.
The Rangers played to formula in the ALCS against Detroit, when Cruz pounded out six homers and drove in 13 runs ? both totals the most by any player in any postseason series.
St. Louis largely managed to shut the Rangers down, so they resorted to small ball.
Texas stringed a walk and a couple singles together for a run in the first inning, and then coaxed another run across with a single and double in the second. The Rangers took advantage of errors in the fourth and fifth for two more runs, and the game was tied 4-all when the bats finally awoke.
Beltre was the first to come through, and Cruz and Hamilton eventually joined in the fun.
It was the Cardinals, though, who wound up celebrating at the end.
"I'm not going to lose any sleep over it," Hamilton said. "We're just going to do everything we can to prepare. Guys are already talking about it. We're ready for Game 7. Shake it off and come back tomorrow. That's just our mentality. But it goes both ways. Seems like they had that mentality, too."
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HBT: The final three innings of Game 6 were as exciting as can be. The first eight, well, they were rather iffy. But here we are, after a 10-9 Cardinals victory over the Rangers, a Game 7 left to decide who will be crowned champion.
Cards rally past Rangers, force Game 7
David Freese homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals forced the World Series to a Game 7 by rallying from two-run deficits against the Texas Rangers in the 9th and 10th on Thursday night.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Investigation into Auschwitz crimes reopened
WARSAW, Poland?? Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country's isolation behind the Iron Curtain.
One aim of the new probe is to track down any living Nazi perpetrators, according to an announcement Thursday by the Institute of National Remembrance, a state body that investigates Nazi and communist-era crimes.
Nazi Germany opened Auschwitz in 1940, months after it invaded and occupied Poland. Over the next five years of war, German and Austrian Nazis murdered up to 1.5 million people there at the expanded Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, most of them Jews from across Europe, but also Poles, Roma, gays and others.
The investigation was opened by a branch of the remembrance institute in Krakow, which is located near Auschwitz. Germany also operated other death camps across Poland ? like Chelmno, Treblinka and Belzec ? and it was not immediately clear if new investigations into them are also planned.
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A leading international Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, praised Poland's reopening of the investigation. He said it "could have tremendous implications" in paving the way for new prosecutions thanks to the precedent set by the conviction of Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk in Germany earlier this year.
Demjanjuk was convicted of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder. It was the first time Germany convicted someone as a Nazi camp guard based on the theory that if he worked there, he was part of the extermination process, even without direct proof of any specific killings.
That has opened the door to many more possible prosecutions, and German authorities have since reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of Nazi death camp guards ? men who are now so old that time is running out for prosecutors.
Track down perpetrators
Zuroff said that should the Polish investigation track down any German perpetrators, he would expect them ? like Demjanjuk ? to be tried in a German court since Berlin requests extradition in such cases.
"I welcome any investigation that could lead to convictions," Zuroff, the main Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Associated Press.
However, he also noted that Poland is the country with the most ongoing investigations into Nazi crimes, but that these almost never result in prosecutions.
Story: After theft, Auschwitz sign won't go back to gatePoland's Institute of National Remembrance "excels in opening up investigations. They don't excel in prosecuting Nazi war criminals," Zuroff said.
Poland originally launched investigations into crimes at Auschwitz in the 1960s and 1970s, but closed them in the 1980s without any indictments being made. Poland had difficulty questioning witnesses and perpetrators living abroad because it was cut off behind the Iron Curtain.
The Institute for National Remembrance said it has already begun questioning witnesses as part of the revived investigation. It said the probe is aimed in part at "finding and, if needed, detaining the perpetrators."
The last time Poland prosecuted anyone for Nazi crimes was in 2001, when a Pole, Henryk Mania, was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking parts in acts of genocide at the death camp of Chelmno.
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Astronauts play zero gravity tricks aboard the ISS (Yahoo! News)
Thanks to years of fascinating videos from NASA, we know quite a bit about life aboard the?International Space Station. We've seen the crew conduct experiments, makes repairs, and?play with robots, but actually?living aboard the massive space barge is clearly a whole other story. In a new video from NASA, three of the space station's inhabitants show what it's like when the craft boosts itself to a new position, and it's giving us vertigo just from watching.
We take gravity for granted here at home, but on the ISS, the crew has a very tenuous relationship with the laws of earth-based physics. When the space station needs to adjust its position, its thrusters push it on its way, leaving anything not strapped down in its dust. This includes random items around the inside of the craft, and even the crew members. The ISS doesn't exactly reach break-neck speeds, but as the video above shows, the?scientists aboard still manage to have some fun with it.
Looking equal parts camera-shy and awkward, the bright minds of the ISS float effortlessly in space as the ship accelerates away from them. So the next time you're bored at work and are considering a pick-up game of trash can basketball, remember that even astronauts like to goof off every once in a while.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Erst Group takes $1.4 billion loss (AP)
VIENNA ? Erste Group Bank AG says it will make a net loss of euro973 million ($1.4 billion)for 2011. It blames the government debt crisis and mortgage troubles in Hungary.
The amount exceeds loss estimates of euro700 million to 800 million announced by the bank earlier this month. It said Friday the write-offs will erase what would have been an euro850 million to euro900 million profit, but would help secure the bank's finances for the future.
Erste Group says it is 9 percent ? or euro59 million ? short of the liquidity threshold set by the European Banking Authority but expects that it will be able to cover most of the shortfall by June.
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Lumia 710 makes an appearance on Nokia's US site without its Windows Phone counterpart
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
A Local Fight Against Global Coal In A Northwest Town
Plans are afoot to build giant new coal terminals on the West Coast to ship this lucrative commodity to China. But activists want to stop this, in part because coal produces huge amounts of carbon dioxide when it's burned. Federal climate policy is silent on this potentially large source of emissions, so the debate is happening at the local level.
One fight is taking place over a proposed terminal near Bellingham, Wash. And if you want to get a sense of what the proposed coal terminal there would be like, visit the Westshore Terminal just across the border in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Trains a mile-and-a-half long rumble into this port, day and night, snaking through a large building. There, the trains roll onto a device that tips the coal cars over, two at a time, with the ease of a 5-year-old playing with a toy train.
Most of the trains haul Canadian coal, but increasingly the trains are arriving from Wyoming and Montana, loaded with coal that will be burned in Asia to make electricity.
The coal moves from the dumping station up to open conveyor belts. Some of it gets piled up in giant stacks; some gets trundled over to waiting ships. On this day, coal is being poured into a ship bound for Thailand.
It's almost inconceivable that there would be a plan afoot to change this part of the world to a coal export facility. It seems ironic or cruel, or misguided at best.
Denis Horgan, the vice president and general manager of Westshore Terminals, takes us on a driving tour of the huge artificial island, which was built in the 1970s. We dodge and weave around some construction crews who are upgrading the facility. Right now, coal dust can fly off the open conveyor belts and blow into the sea, but that will eventually be put to an end, Horgan says.
"We've embarked upon a very heavy duty solution here," he says. "It's about a $5 million solution to contain any dust that might come off."
Even with decades of open conveyors spreading coal dust, there is surprising marine life just offshore. Diving ducks called scoters congregate just offshore, and Horgan points to red floats nearby ? markers for crab traps, he says. "There's a lot of salmon out here in the water. You see orcas going by."
The dusty coal piles also need to be managed so they don't simply burst into flames ? a phenomenon called spontaneous combustion.
"The best way to deal with spontaneous combustion is to compact the product or turn it over quickly. And that's what we try to do," Horgan says.
At the end of our tour, Horgan asks me to roll up my window so we can drive through the car wash that's right on site. But even after that rinse, coal dust still clings to the van.
Impacts On Bellingham And The World
Coal is a dirty business ?the mining, the handling and ultimately the burning. And that is all very much on the minds of people 35 miles across the border in Bellingham, Wash.
Enlarge Brett Beadle for NPR Steve McMinn and Julie Trimingham, with their son. Trimingham's family has lived in Bellingham for generations, and she now finds herself stepping up as a community activist, opposing the proposed coal-export terminal.
Brett Beadle for NPRSteve McMinn and Julie Trimingham, with their son. Trimingham's family has lived in Bellingham for generations, and she now finds herself stepping up as a community activist, opposing the proposed coal-export terminal.
Steve McMinn and his wife, Julie Trimingham, are at a child-filled park that's sandwiched between the shoreline and the railroad tracks that run right through town. Trimingham's family goes back generations in Bellingham, and now for the first time she finds herself stepping up as a community activist, opposing a proposed coal-export terminal up the coast at the industrial site of Cherry Point.
She's concerned about impacts on the immediate environment of the terminal, as well as the inevitable increase in train traffic through town.
"There would be a train on the tracks at least once every hour, day and night," she says. "So there's the noise and the pollution. The diesel particulate matter." She wonders what it would mean if emergency vehicles had to wait more often at the crossings. "And we're not sure how the intensified rail usage would affect the businesses on the wrong side of the tracks or close to the tracks."
[Bellingham has] built a reputation over the past few decades as a place that values sustainability. And there are few things that are as anti-sustainability as coal is.
It also just seems wrong for this progressive college town on sparkling Puget Sound. "It's almost inconceivable that there would be a plan afoot to change this part of the world to a coal export facility," Trimingham says. "It seems ironic or cruel, or misguided at best."
And it's not just about quality of life ? it's about the future of the planet. But the reality is there's no other way to engage in global environmental issues like coal exports without focusing on the local impacts. After all, it's perfectly legal to dig up coal, transport it thousands of miles by rail and ship, and burn it for electricity. But climate change is pretty far down on the list of concerns they bring up in their community.
"Global warming is an issue most people aren't interested in," McMinn says. "People are interested in their own lives.
So McMinn knows this is where "think global, act local" comes into play. "We both think that the rail corridor is the place to stop it."
Community Values Vs. Economic Benefits
At the moment, the train line through town is usually a minor inconvenience ? a throwback to the days when Bellingham was an industrial town. They actually mined coal nearby and shipped it off to power plants.
Mayor Dan Pike meets me at another waterfront park near the tracks. He says he wants his city to move beyond its industrial era and the coal terminal doesn't fit that new image.
"There are some folks advocating for it because, like a lot of communities, we really could use good jobs," Pike says."But we've also built a reputation over the past few decades as a place that values sustainability. And there are few things that are as anti-sustainability as coal is."
These days, the Bellingham waterfront is dotted with sailboat marinas. The city is planning to turn 210 acres of old industrial development into a huge waterfront attraction. Pike says having trains rumbling right past is hardly a draw for tourists.
"Beyond that, because of our reputation as place that values sustainability, we've had a lot of businesses that choose to locate here because of that reputation," Pike says. "And things that damage that reputation damage our economic viability as a community."
The question is: Will Canada reap the benefits of the jobs and the tax revenues? If we built our facility and we can get the coal to export through Cherry Point, then Whatcom County (Wash.) can generate the jobs and the tax revenues.
Pike is pitted against labor unions, which welcome the construction jobs and the few hundred high-paying jobs that would eventually result at the terminal. Proponents also include Peabody Energy, which would mine the coal for export, Warren Buffet, who owns the railway that would carry the coal, and SSA Marine, which runs ports around the world and wants to build this one.
Bob Watters, in the Seattle office of SSA Marine, says the terminal will be much more environmentally sensitive than the one in British Columbia. For one thing, all the conveyor belts will be covered and the coal piles will be fenced off from the wind.
"We're going to have a buffer over a half a mile that our storage is going to be away from the water," he says.
Besides, he says if the locals do block the terminal ? which could also ship bulk commodities other than coal ? that wouldn't necessarily stop the train traffic. The rails through Bellingham continue on to the coal terminal in British Columbia, and Westport is considering expanding its facility.
"The question is: Will Canada reap the benefits of the jobs and the tax revenues?" Watters asks. "If we built our facility and we can get the coal to export through Cherry Point, then Whatcom County [Wash.] can generate the jobs and the tax revenues."
The project is now embarking on a multi-year environmental review, and will ultimately be put to a vote of the Whatcom County commissioners.
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ThunderBolt's Gingerbread update once again pushing out
Finally, the Gingerbread update for the HTC ThunderBolt (that'd be the one we told you about this morning) is once again pushing out. This is the second time Gingerbread's headed to the ThunderBolt; it was pulled earlier because of some bugs, including by not limited to voicemail.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Last Nuclear ?Monster Weapon? Gets Dismantled [War]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Officials say India close to wiping out polio
NEW DELHI (AP) ? Health officials say there has not been a case of polio in India for nine months, the longest the country has ever been polio free.
India's health ministry says the country has never been closer to wiping out the debilitating disease since eradication efforts were launched here nearly two decades ago.
India remains one of only four countries in the world where polio is still endemic.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday the last new case was reported in January in West Bengal state and no cases were reported in the traditional polio reservoirs of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
He said any fresh case of the virus would be declared a public health emergency.
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Apple posts video of Jobs memorial on Apple.com
In this photo provided by Apple Inc., Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to employees at a celebration of Steve Jobs' life Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs died Oct. 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Apple Inc.)
In this photo provided by Apple Inc., Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to employees at a celebration of Steve Jobs' life Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs died Oct. 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Apple Inc.)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Apple is allowing the general public to get a look at a heartfelt and star-studded memorial service it held for employees to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs at its Cupertino headquarters last week.
Apple Inc. posted a link on its website late Sunday to a video of the service, which was held on Wednesday morning in an outdoor amphitheater in the center of the company's campus. The ceremony was intensely private. It was closed to the public and media handlers shooed reporters away from Apple's buildings at the time.
Apple Inc. has not held any public services for Jobs, the company's visionary co-founder who died at age 56 on Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
In a way, the video may serve that purpose. It runs 81 minutes and gives a rare glimpse of a company in mourning, showing several executives and board members reminiscing about their time with Jobs and speaking about the indelible mark he left on the technology world.
Jobs was a tech visionary who started Apple in his parents' Silicon Valley garage with friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Both men left the company in 1985, Jobs after a clash with then-CEO John Sculley.
Jobs returned as interim CEO in 1997 after Apple, then in financial dire straits, purchased a computer company he created called Next. He led the company through a remarkable upswing that included the launch of such popular products as the iPhone, iPad and iPod.
He battled pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January ? his third since his health problems began ? and resigned in August, handing the CEO job over to his hand-picked successor, Cook. His death came a day after Apple Inc. announced its latest iPhone, the 4S.
In the service honoring his life, CEO Tim Cook kicks things off, addressing an overflowing crowd of hundreds of Apple employees both on the ground and peering off balconies of surrounding buildings. Also in the audience was Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, wearing a black shirt and dark sunglasses.
Apple closed all of its retail stores for the service so its many employees at those locations could view the memorial live via a webcast as well.
Banners flanking buildings surrounding the amphitheater show images of Jobs, including one with a famous shot of the then young tech executive cradling the first Macintosh computer.
In his remarks, Cook said the past two weeks had been the saddest of his life.
"But I know Steve. Steve would have wanted this cloud to lift for Apple and our focus to return to the work that he loved so much," he said.
Cook also divulged some of the last advice Jobs gave him, which he said was "to never ask what he would do, just do what's right."
Jobs saw how The Walt Disney Co. became "paralyzed" after founder Walt Disney's death, with so many people spending time thinking about what Disney would want. "And he did not want this to occur at Apple," Cook said.
Following Cook was former Apple executive and current board member Bill Campbell.
"He loved Apple so much, probably only a shade less than he loved his family," he said.
Former Vice President and current Apple board member Al Gore took the stage as well. And Apple's senior vice president of design, Jonathan Ive, who worked closely with Jobs on products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, spoke too.
Ive, who called Jobs his closest and most loyal friend, talked about Jobs' habit of bouncing ideas off him ? some of which were "really dopey," but others which "took the air from the room and left us both completely silent."
Ive remembered Jobs as an intense listener who revered the creative process.
"You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished," he said.
He also related a tale of how Jobs' desire for excellence went far beyond designing Apple's products, saying that when the two of them would travel Ive would go up to his room leave his bags packed by the door, and sit on his bed.
"I would wait for the inevitable phone call, 'Hey Jony, this hotel sucks, let's go,'" he said.
The service also included performances by singer Norah Jones and the British band Coldplay.
The service followed a memorial at Stanford University on Oct. 16 for Jobs' friends and family. That service at Memorial Church reportedly brought out tech titans including Oracle chief Larry Ellison and Microsoft's Bill Gates, as well as politicians including Bill Clinton. U2 frontman Bono and Joan Baez reportedly performed.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Nevada Republicans to vote on caucus date change
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011,New Hampshire's Secretary of State Bill Gardner is seen in his office in Concord, N.H. Gardner doesn't just play chicken with other states over the presidential nominating calendar: He spent years raising roosters and hens at home. A look at the prime defender of New Hampshire's first in the nation primaries. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011,New Hampshire's Secretary of State Bill Gardner is seen in his office in Concord, N.H. Gardner doesn't just play chicken with other states over the presidential nominating calendar: He spent years raising roosters and hens at home. A look at the prime defender of New Hampshire's first in the nation primaries. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011,New Hampshire's Secretary of State Bill Gardner walks by the historic desk where presidential candidates file their paperwork to be on the nations first presidential primary ballot, in Concord, N.H. Gardner doesn't just play chicken with other states over the presidential nominating calendar: He spent years raising roosters and hens at home. A look at the prime defender of New Hampshire's first in the nation primaries. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011,New Hampshire's Secretary of State Bill Gardner is seen in his office in Concord, N.H. Gardner doesn't just play chicken with other states over the presidential nominating calendar: He spent years raising roosters and hens at home. A look at the prime defender of New Hampshire's first in the nation primaries. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Nevada Republicans are debating whether to bow to national pressure and delay the state's presidential nomination contest.
More than 200 of the party's top volunteers and leaders are scheduled to meet Saturday in Las Vegas to decide when Nevada's caucuses should be held.
New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner has threatened to hold that state's primary in early December to avoid wedging it between the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses and Nevada's Jan. 14 date. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, businessman Herman Cain and several other Republican presidential candidates have pledged their support to New Hampshire and vowed to boycott Nevada's contest if it isn't pushed back, prompting the Republican National Committee to suggest that Nevada move to Feb. 4.
Nevada GOP leaders have signaled that they support the change, but it's unclear whether rank-and-file members will agree. The Nevada Republican Party's central committee is comprised of a diverse swath of supporters from across the expansive Western state, making for an unpredictable voting body that has refused to heed the GOP's mainstream leadership time and again.
Nevada Republican Executive Director David Gallagher told The Associated Press on Friday that GOP leaders will commit to whatever decision the rank-and-file makes, even if they choose to keep the Jan. 14 date. They could also vote to return Nevada's contest to Feb. 18.
Nevada, Iowa and South Carolina moved their contests from February to January earlier this month after Florida announced it would violate national Republican rules and hold its primary on Jan. 31. Only Nevada was subject to boycott threats.
Nevada Republicans initially laughed off the attacks, but they reconsidered after RNC Chairman Reince Priebus began calling for a compromise this week.
If Nevada moves to Feb. 4, it would no longer be third in the presidential nomination calendar lineup and could be dwarfed by Florida's vote. But the move would allow the state to keep all of its delegates when national Republicans convene in Tampa next year to name their presidential nominee.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Clinton warns Central Asian leaders on radical Islam (Reuters)
TASHKENT (Reuters) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday that efforts to crack down on religious freedom might backfire.
She said this could lead to increased sympathy for radical views in Central Asia, a region the United States sees as key to the future stability of Afghanistan.
Clinton met Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon and Uzbek President Islam Karimov to thank the two Central Asian states for their cooperation in the U.S.-led war in neighboring Afghanistan.
She stressed to both that freedom of religious expression was tied to the region's future security, U.S. officials said.
"I disagree with restrictions on religious freedom and shared those concerns," Clinton told a news conference after meeting Rakhmon in Dushanbe on the last full day of her latest overseas trip.
She said efforts to regulate religion "could push legitimate religious expression underground, and that could build up a lot of unrest and discontent."
Clinton's visit to the two former Soviet republics came after a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan that was focused on U.S. efforts to find a political solution to the decade-long Afghan conflict.
She also promoted greater regional economic integration under a plan U.S. officials have dubbed "the New Silk Road."
Karimov and Rakhmon have moved to limit religious freedom in their countries which remain under authoritarian rule two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim country of 7.5 million people, introduced laws in August to ban youths from praying in mosques, churches and other religious sites, a move that was criticized by religious leaders.
Rakhmon, in power since 1992, has said tough measures are needed to stop the spread of religious fundamentalism in an impoverished country that shares a porous 1,340-km (840-mile) border with Afghanistan.
"You have to look at the consequences," Clinton said in Tajikistan.
"We would hope there would be a rethinking of any restrictions going forward, because we think it will increase sympathy for extremist views which would in turn threaten the stability and security of the country."
Rakhmon's Moscow-backed secular government clashed with the Islamist opposition during a 1992-97 civil war, in which tens of thousands were killed.
The president has ignored previous requests from the West to respect freedom of conscience. He has ordered students home from religious schools abroad and clamped down on a growing trend for Islamic dress.
U.S. officials said Clinton also raised the issue with Uzbekistan's Karimov -- widely seen as one of the most repressive leaders in the region -- as one of a number of human rights concerns that also include press freedom, human trafficking and political reforms.
Karimov, who has said he intends to make reforms, repeated these pledges to Clinton, one U.S. official said.
"He said that he wants to leave a legacy for both his kids and his grandchildren," the official said. "The secretary welcomed that, and said that would help to build a long-term foundation for Uzbekistan but also for our cooperation."
AFGHAN SUPPLIES
U.S. officials said Clinton's Central Asian trip, her second to the region in less than 12 months, was aimed in a large part at thanking Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for their assistance with the Afghan conflict.
They said she also wanted to broaden a relationship giving the United States a important "back door" into Afghanistan and an alternative supply route that could prove vital if U.S. ties with its main ally in the region, Pakistan, unravel.
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are part of what Washington calls the Northern Distribution Network (NDN), a supply line for U.S.-led forces fighting the Taliban that also stretches through Russia, Latvia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
The NDN is increasingly important as U.S. ties with Pakistan come under strain over Washington's charges that elements of the Pakistani government have links to Islamist militants blamed for attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The United States is aiming to reduce the proportion of its surface cargo that it brings through Pakistan to only a quarter by increasing its supplies through the northern route; in July it was still well over half.
(Writing by Andrew Quinn and Robin Paxton; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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Bulgarians to elect new president, mayors (AP)
SOFIA, Bulgaria ? Bulgarians voted Sunday in presidential and municipal elections that test the ruling center-right party's popularity and the EU nation's ability to overcome concerns about vote-buying and corruption.
Voting started in over 11,000 polling stations country-wide where some 6.9 million of Bulgaria's 7.4 million citizens can cast their ballots.
Bulgaria's economic woes have been the key campaign issue, with the opposition accusing incumbents of stalling key reforms. The country will get a new president and heated mayoral battles are expected in many of the 264 municipalities.
International observers have already voiced concerns, however, about the fairness of Sunday's elections, and any fraudulent voting could deal a blow to Bulgaria's hopes of getting into Europe's passport-free Schengen travel zone. The EU so far has refused to include Bulgaria due to what it called widespread graft.
"There are fears about large-scale vote buying and manipulations in the counting of the ballots," the OSCE monitoring team said.
Graft watchdog Transparency International predicted that as many as 20 percent of the voters in the EU's poorest country could be persuaded to sell their ballots.
Most power in Bulgaria rests with the prime minister and Parliament, but the president leads the armed forces and can veto legislation and sign international treaties.
Bulgaria's current socialist president, Georgi Parvanov, has served two five-year terms and was barred from seeking re-election.
He is expected to be replaced by ex-Construction Minister Rosen Plevneliev, who is tipped by all polls as the front-runner with about 30 percent of the vote.
The 47-year-old technocrat is supported by the governing GERB party of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov. An entrepreneur before entering politics in 2009, Plevneliev has pledged to reduce the country's budget deficit and pursue business-friendly policies.
A victory by Plevneliev could increase the chances that Borisov's minority center-right government pushes ahead with painful economic reforms in a country with an average monthly salary of euro350 ($485) and 11.7 percent unemployment. One labor union estimates that 20 percent of Bulgarian families are impoverished.
Plevneliev's closest rivals ? Ivailo Kalfin, 47, of the opposition Socialist Party, and independent Meglena Kuneva, 54, a former European Union commissioner ? are expected to finish second and third.
But opinion polls have indicated that none of the 18 presidential candidates is likely to win outright, requiring a runoff on Oct. 30.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Myleene Klass Weds Graham Quinn After 10 Years Together
Myleene Klass Weds Graham Quinn After 10 Years Together
Television presenter Myleene Klass and Graham Quinn tied the knot in a private ceremony in Norwich with close friends and family in attendance. Klass, 33, [...]
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Hidden screenshots, Ice Cream Sandwich [From the Forums]
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