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KG to get limited stake in Roma
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updated 8:43 a.m. ET Dec. 30, 2011
ROME (AP) -Boston Celtics All-Star forward Kevin Garnett is about to become a small shareholder in the American-owned Roma football club.
Roma has confirmed to The Associated Press that Garnett accepted an offer from James Pallotta, one of the four Boston executives that closed a deal in August to become the first foreign majority owners of a Serie A club.
Pallotta is also a minority owner of the Celtics.
Details of the deal are still being worked out, but Garnett could also be used in the promotion of the Roma brand.
Earlier this year, Garnett's fellow NBA star LeBron James obtained a small stake in English Premier League club Liverpool from the Fenway Sports Group.
New Roma president Thomas DiBenedetto is also a limited partner in the Fenway group, which owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
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Boston Celtics All-Star forward Kevin Garnett is about to become a small shareholder in the American-owned Roma football club.
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Verizon users hit with third data outage in December (Digital Trends)
According to a report out of Reuters, Verizon is investigating yet another outage of the data network. Noted as the third network outage during the month of December, some customers have reported an inability to connect to the?4G LTE network in a smattering of major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and San?Francisco. ?Marquett Smith, vice president of?corporate communications for Verizon Wireless, released a statement that the company is currently working to resolve the new issue with the?4G LTE network. He stated ?The network continues to operate and all customers continue to be able to make calls, send text messages and utilize data services. 3G devices are operating normally.?
With the other problems causing issues for Verizon customers earlier this month, the cellular company has yet to release a statement on the cause of these outages. Verizon has been heavily promoting the?4G LTE network as a benefit over other cellular providers in national advertising campaigns on television, radio and the Web. According to Verizon, the?4G LTE network is supposed to offer speeds approximately ten times faster than the average speed of a 3G connection across various cellular providers. With approximately 3.7 million Android devices activated over the holiday weekend, the amount of new subscribers utilizing Verizon?s?4G LTE network may be too much of a burden on the data network in large?metropolitan?areas.?
While Verizon claims that all 3G devices are operating properly, customers have also been complaining of 3G outages as well. Customers have indicated that the 4G network is completely unavailable and their new device only connects to the 3G network?intermittently. These issues during December have gone against Verizon?s advertising slogan that claims the 4G LTE network is the??nation?s fastest, most?reliable?4G network.?
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Avastin Passes Test in Delaying Ovarian Cancer (LiveScience.com)
For women with advanced cases of ovarian cancer, the drug Avastin adds about four months to the time it takes for the cancer to worsen, according to a new report.
Patients treated with Avastin in addition to chemotherapy had about 14 months before their advanced ovarian cancer progressed, compared to about 10 months for those in the study who were ?treated with chemotherapy and a placebo.
An early analysis of the trial's results was presented in June 2010 at the meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; the complete report from the trial appears today (Dec. 28) in the New England Journal of Medicine.
This was the third clinical trial to show that adding Avastin to standard chemotherapy treatments extends the time before ovarian cancers progress, said Dr. Carol Aghajanian, chief of gynecologic medical oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
"This is good news for women with ovarian cancer," said Aghajanian, who was not involved in the new study.
The European Commission approved Avastin as a treatment for ovarian cancer this month, but it is unclear whether the drug will be approved to treat this cancer in the United States, Aghajanian said. The Food and Drug Administration will be looking at the data.
The drug, made by pharmaceutical company Genentech, is designed to inhibit the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. It is currently approved to treat certain types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancers, while the FDA recently disallowed its use for breast cancer.
Preventing cancer from worsening
The new report is based on 1,873 ovarian cancer patients who had been assigned at random to three groups. One received chemotherapy treatments along with a placebo; one received Avastin (generically known as bevacizumab) along with chemotherapy at the start of their treatment, then received only chemotherapy for the rest of their treatment; the third group received Avastin along with chemotherapy for the entirety of their treatment. The patients did not know which treatment they were receiving; neither did the doctors treating them.
The researchers measured the blood levels of a marker called CA-125 to determine whether the patients' cancers were progressing. CA-125 levels are a very early marker of worsening cancer, Aghajanian said. Levels of CA-125 begin to rise before a growing cancer is visible on a CT scan.
"They used a very conservative method of measuring progression, so we can be certain that it's meaningful," Aghajanian said.
Whether Avastin could extend patients' lives is a tricky question to try to answer with studies, Aghajanian said. At the end of this trial, for example, the patients and their doctors were told whether they had received Avastin or the placebo treatment, and it was entirely possible that those who had been on the placebo then received Avastin, she explained. Such a crossover in treatments after a study's conclusion would make it difficult to later determine whether patients who received a drug during a trial lived longer.?
Avastin and breast cancer
There are important differences between the studies of Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer and the studies of its use for ovarian cancer, Aghajanian said.
In November the FDA revoked its approval of Avastin to treat breast cancer because studies showed that breast cancer patients treated with it did not live any longer, and faced significant risks of severe side effects such as small holes developing in the intestines. The drug had been cleared by the FDA in February 2008 under an "accelerated approval" process based on promising early studies, allowing Avastin to be used for breast cancer patients while Genentech did further research.
"There was not a consistent benefit seen in the breast cancer studies," Aghajanian said. By contrast, three studies of the drug's use in ovarian cancer showed a consistent benefit.
The safety of the drug as seen in the new study "was reassuring," Aghajanian said, as was the finding that patients taking the drug reported no difference in their quality of life from patients receiving the placebo.
The rate of patients who developed gastrointestinal perforations was twice as high among those who received Avastin as among those who received a placebo, but the rate was still under 3 percent.
Elevated blood pressure was seen in more patients who received Avastin throughout the study than in those who received the drug only at the beginning or not at all.
Pass it on: A third study has found the drug Avastin can delay the worsening of advanced ovarian cancer.
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Congo ex-rebels given perks for backing Kabila: U.N. (Reuters)
KINSHASA (Reuters) ? Former rebels have been promoted to senior posts in Democratic Republic of Congo's military in return for supporting President Joseph Kabila's re-election effort, the United Nations said in a report on Friday.
The finding could deepen divisions within the army and add to doubts over the credibility of the November 28 poll, which was marred by violence and described by Kabila's opponents as fraudulent, although endorsed by the Supreme Court.
The government has been integrating former rebels into the army, the FARDC, in a bid to curb rebellion.
Since February, Congo's senior military have been trying to reduce tensions by cementing the chain of command and eliminating loyalties based on rebel groupings.
But the U.N. report by the Group of Experts, a committee established to monitor the situation in Congo, found that this process had been "hijacked" by former rebels.
Bosco Ntaganda, a former rebel who is currently an FARDC general despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, has managed to secure senior posts for his men in return for backing Kabila's re-election effort, the 127-page report said.
Ntaganda was previously allied to the CNDP, a Rwandan-backed group that fought against Kabila.
"Ntaganda has secured changes to FARDC restructuring in his favour, in return for the CNDP joining President Kabila's electoral alliance," the report said.
That backing may have involved the use of the military to intimidate voters into casting ballots for Kabila, it added.
The local observer group SOPROP said it had seen a "massive (...) presence of heavily armed soldiers" in parts of eastern Congo, where Ntaganda and his allies wield considerable influence, and that people were pressured to vote for Kabila.
Kabila's percentage of the vote was far higher in these areas than elsewhere, a member of the Group of Experts told Reuters, asking not to be named.
"Clearly there was a deal in place ... This shows (electoral support) was part of that deal."
The report also says Ntaganda controls a key minerals smuggling route to Rwanda.
Ntaganda's rise within the army has left other groups marginalized and disgruntled, leading to assassinations, desertions and the re-establishment of links with rebel movements, according to the report.
Government spokesman Lambert Mende denied the report's accusations.
"These are comments, not facts. We are not interested in people's comments. This is the way we are organizing our army, there is no link at all to the election," he said.
More than eight years after the end of a civil war and despite the presence of around 17,000 U.N. peacekeepers, some rebel groups continue to fight the government and target civilians in the mountainous east.
They often use weapons and ammunition bought or captured from the Congolese military, said the report.
Kabila has faced widespread criticism for his failure to bring stability to eastern Congo 10 years after coming to power.
(Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Alessandra Rizzo)
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OT Downtown: Citizens Weigh in On Washington Square Park Performing Regulations
On a bright, albeit cold Sunday afternoon, dozens of people sat at the edges of the fountain or on the stone benches in the center of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village to hear Colin Huggins tickle the ivories of his grand piano. Huggins, while a fixture in the park, is one of many outdoor performers who have been handed down summonses for a rule that took effect last year: performers aren?t allowed to play within 50 feet of a monument, and Huggins is especially found of a spot near the Arch. The City however, reportedly created the rules to control vending?including performing?in their parks and others have reportedly come out in the support of the regulations saying the performers can be annoying at times. Last Sunday, we visited the park and asked a collection of parkgoers how they felt about the regulations.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
U2, Taylor Swift Top List Of 2011's Highest-Grossing Tours
U2's 360 Tour is the year's most profitable in the U.S. and worldwide.
By James Montgomery
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U2 didn't even release an album in 2011, but that didn't stop them from raking in plenty of cash.
The iconic Irish quartet topped Pollstar's list of the year's most profitable tours, as their massive 360 Tour moved an impressive 2.4 million tickets worldwide, grossing more than $230 million globally. Their North American dates — which were postponed (and subsequently rescheduled) last year as Bono recovered from back surgery — made $156 million, good enough to give them the highest-grossing tour on this continent, too.
Taylor Swift had 2011's second most-profitable North American tour, as her expansive Speak Now jaunt racked up $97.7 million at the box office. Swift's country contemporary Kenny Chesney came in at #3, bringing in nearly $85 million in ticket sales, followed by Lady Gaga, who, despite wrapping up the North American leg of her Monster Ball Tour in April, still managed to bring in $63.7 million at the box office. Bon Jovi rounds out Pollstar's top five, grossing more than $57 million.
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Throne tour ($48 million), Lil Wayne's "I Am Still Music" trek ($44 million), Britney Spears ($38 million) and Katy Perry ($28 million) also made the Top 25 in North America.
British boy band Take That's reunion tour came in second to U2's 360 trek based on worldwide receipts, making $224 million. Bon Jovi grossed nearly $150 million worldwide, good enough for third, with tours by Swift ($104 million worldwide) and Roger Waters ($103 million) rounding out the top five.
Also making Pollstar's worldwide list were Rihanna, the Foo Fighters, Justin Bieber, Usher and the Kings of Leon.
Did you attend any of the highest-grossing tours in 2011? Let us know in the comments!
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Darren McFadden, Jacoby Ford Injury Update: Ford Participates in Wednesday Practice, Run DMC Still Out
Well, it's more of the same for the Oakland Raiders as running back Darren McFadden sat out of Wednesday practice in Oakland, which isn't a good start of the week if he hopes to play against the San Diego Chargers this week. But, in a bit of good news, wide receiver/kick returner Jacoby Ford is participating in practice, hopefully a sign he will be suiting up this week for the Silver and Black.
Per Raiders insider Steve Corkran on Twitter:
It would be great if the Raiders had their speedster and electric kick returner back as they need a victory to have any chance at making the second season. As for McFadden, his status is still very iffy for this Sunday:
It should be 'all hands on deck' time for Oakland, but if DMC can't go, he simply can't go. No point in risking any injury. But, if he can contribute at all, he just try to go. Just his presence in practice during the week will force the Chargers to have to prep for him, taking focus off of other offensive weapons for the Raiders.
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New satellites to extend China's military reach (Reuters)
HONG KONG (Reuters) ? China this week reached a milestone in its drive to master the military use of space with the launch of trials for its Beidou satellite global positioning network, a move that will bring it one step closer to matching U.S. space capabilities.
If Beijing can successfully deploy the full 35 satellites planned for the Beidou network on schedule by 2020, its military will be free of its current dependence for navigation on the U.S. global positioning network (GPS) signals and Russia's similar GLONASS system.
And, unlike the less accurate civilian versions of GPS and GLONASS available to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), this network will give China the accuracy to guide missiles, smart munitions and other weapons.
"This will allow a big jump in the precision attack capability of the PLA," said Andrei Chang, a Hong Kong-based analyst of the Chinese military and editor of Kanwa Asian Defense magazine.
China has launched 10 Beidou satellites and plans to launch six more by the end of next year, according to the China Satellite Navigation Management Office.
Chinese and foreign military experts say the PLA's General Staff Department and General Armaments Department closely coordinate and support all of China's space programs within the sprawling science and aerospace bureaucracy.
As part of this system, the Beidou, or "Big Dipper," network will have an important military role alongside the country's rapidly expanding network of surveillance, imaging and remote sensing satellites.
China routinely denies having military ambitions in space.
Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun on Wednesday dismissed fears the Beidou network would pose a military threat, noting that all international satellite navigation systems are designed for dual civilian and military use.
CATCHING UP WITH THE U.S.
China accelerated its military satellite research and development after PLA commanders found they were unable to track two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups deployed in 1996 to the Taiwan Strait at a time of high tension between the island and the mainland, analysts say.
The effort received a further boost when it was shown how crucial satellite networks were in the 1991 Gulf War, the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
While China still lags the United States and Russia in overall space technology, over the last decade it has rapidly become a state-of-the-art competitor in space-based surveillance after deploying a range of advanced satellite constellations that serve military and civilian agencies.
With the launch of more than 30 surveillance satellites over the last decade, according to space technology experts, the PLA can monitor an expanding area of the earth's surface with increased frequency, an important element of reliable military reconnaissance.
That coverage gives PLA commanders vastly improved capability to detect and track potential military targets.
Real-time satellite images and data can also be used to coordinate the operations of China's naval, missile and strike aircraft forces in operations far from the mainland.
"What we are seeing is China broadly acquiring the same capabilities in this area as those held by the U.S.," said Ross Babbage, a Defense analyst and founder of the Canberra-based Kokoda Foundation, an independent security policy unit.
"Essentially, they are making most of the Western Pacific far more transparent to their military."
In a recent article for the Journal of Strategic Studies, researchers Eric Hagt and Matthew Durnin attempted to estimate the capability of China's space network using orbital modeling software and available data on satellite performance.
China's most basic satellites carried electro-optical sensors capable of taking high resolution digital images in the visible and non-visible wavelengths, wrote the authors.
More advanced satellites launched in recent years carried powerful synthetic aperture radars that could penetrate cloud and cover much bigger areas in high detail.
Added to that, China was now deploying satellites that could monitor electronic signals and emissions, so-called electronic intelligence or ELINT platforms, the authors said.
"Next to China, only the United States possesses more capable tactical support systems in space for tactical operations," they wrote.
(Editing by Don Durfee and Robert Birsel)
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sears to close 100 to 120 Kmart, Sears stores
This Nov. 9, 2011 photo, shows signs at at Kmart store, in New York. Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, it plans to close 100 to 120 of its Sears and Kmart stores as its holiday sales disappointed and it looks to reduce costs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
This Nov. 9, 2011 photo, shows signs at at Kmart store, in New York. Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, it plans to close 100 to 120 of its Sears and Kmart stores as its holiday sales disappointed and it looks to reduce costs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores will be closed, the retailer said Tuesday, after terrible holiday sales during what is the most crucial time of the year for retailers.
Sears has yet to determine which stores will be closed, but there has been a clear shift in where the retailer will devote its resources.
The company is moving away from its practice of propping up "marginally performing" stores in hopes of improving their performance. Sears said it will now concentrate on cash-generating stores.
"Given our performance and the difficult economic environment, especially for big-ticket items, we intend to implement a series of actions to reduce ongoing expenses, adjust our asset base, and accelerate the transformation of our business model," said CEO Louis D'Ambrosio. "These actions will better enable us to focus our investments on serving our customers."
Sears would not discuss how many, if any, jobs would be cut.
Sears Holdings Corp., based in Hoffman Estates, Ill., said that the store closings will generate $140 to $170 million in cash from inventory sales. The retailer anticipates additional proceeds from the sale or sublease of real estate holdings.
The company, which operates Kmart stores, Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Land's End, has seen rival department stores like Macy's Inc. and discounters like Target Corp. steal customers away. But the economy is put a sustained financial squeeze on its most loyal customers, those in the middle-income bracket.
The retailer had announced numerous closings this year, but this is the largest group of closings to date by far. Hoped for holiday sales to not materialize.
Same-store revenue fell 5.2 percent to date for the quarter at both Sears and Kmart, the company said Tuesday. That includes the critical holiday shopping period, a time that most retailers depend on for a sales surge that will put them in the black.
Kmart's 6 percent decline in revenue at stores open at least a year was blamed on diminished layaways and a drop in clothing and consumer electronics sales. Sears' cited lackluster consumer electronics and home appliance sales for its 4.4 percent drop off. Sears' clothing sales were flat, while sales of Lands' End products at Sears stores rose mid-single digits.
Sears Holdings said that the declining sales, ongoing margin pressure and rising expenses pulled its adjusted earnings lower. The company predicts fourth-quarter consolidated adjusted earnings will be less than half the prior-year period's $933 million. It also anticipates a non-cash charge of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion in the quarter for a valuation allowance on some deferred tax assets.
This figure is a key gauge of a retailer's health because it excludes results from stores recently opened or closed.
Sears Holdings said it also plans to lower its fixed costs by $100 million to $200 million and trim its 2012 peak domestic inventory by $300 million from 2011's $10.2 billion at the third quarter's end.
Sears Holdings has more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
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To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2011) ? Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing's properties if it's in a certain category. There are reasons to believe that language greatly assists adults in both kinds of tasks. But how do young children use language to make sense of the things around them? It's a longstanding debate among psychologists.
A new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, challenges the predominant answer. "For the last 30 to 40 years it has been believed that even for very young children, labels are category markets, as they are for adults," explains psychologist Vladimir M. Sloutsky, who authored the paper with Ohio State University colleague Wei Deng. According to this theory, if you show anyone an oblong, scaled, limbless swimming thing and say it's a dog (its label), both adults and children will believe it's a dog (in that category of four-legged domesticated mammals) and should behave like a dog -- bark or wag its tail.
The study confirms that many adults do use labels this way. But children do not. "Our research suggests that very early in development labels are no different from other features," says Sloutsky. "And the more salient features may completely overrule the label." You insist the swimming thing is a dog. The child weighs all the evidence -- and "dog" is no more important than scales or swimming -- and concludes it's a fish.
To test their hypothesis, the psychologists showed pictures of two imaginary creatures to preschoolers and college undergraduates. Both animals had a body, hands, feet, antennae, and a head. The "flurp" was distinguished by a pink head that moved up and down; the "jalet" had a blue sideways-moving head. The heads were salient -- the only moving part. During training, the subjects learned what a flurp or a jalet looked like.
Then the experimenters changed some of the features, keeping the head consistent with most of them, and asked participants to supply the missing label. They also showed creatures with characteristics and a name, and the subjects had to predict -- induce -- the missing part. Both adults and children did best when the head was consistent with the name.
The difference arose when the head was a jalet's but label was "flurp," or vice-versa. Then, most of the adults went with the label (we accept that a dolphin is a mammal, even though it looks and swims like a fish). The children relied on the head for identification. Regardless of its name, a thing with a jalet's head is a jalet.
To eliminate the possibility that the participants were flummoxed by the invented names, they researchers called the creatures "carrot-eater" and "meat-eater." The results were the same.
Sloutsky says the findings could inform teaching and communicating with children. "If saying something is a dog does not communicate what it is any more than saying it is brown, then labeling it is necessary but by no means sufficient for a child to understand." Talking with young children, "we need to do more than just label things."
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
POLL: Are the Sounders the local sports story of the year?
What was the biggest local sports story of 2011?
We're asking you to help us figure it out. Here's a poll put together by our staff, and Sounders FC's season -- specifically a U.S. Open Cup threepeat and bidding farewell to the retiring Kasey Keller -- is one of the 11 finalists.
Here are a few other links:
--- According to a report from Tanzania, Azam FC officials are waiting to hear from the Sounders regarding interest in Mrisho Ngassa. The 22-year-old forward/midfielder trained in Seattle for a while last season and played in a summer friendly against Manchester United. Ngassa coming back over for preseason camp in 2012 had been discussed as a possibility.
--- Roger Levesque won Celebration of the Year in MLSsoccer.com's "Best of 2011" series. It should be no surprise that the epic "scuba dive" took top honors (though lest we forget, a pirate face also made an appearance that game). A former Sounder finished runner-up for top celebration with a well-executed flash mob routine.
--- In the same "Best of 2011" series, Portland Timbers play-by-play man John Strong won Call of the Year for his description of Darlington Nagbe's super goal. But a former voice of the Sounders was in the running.
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Texas men trade same Christmas card for decades
WHITEHOUSE, Texas (AP) -- A Christmas card that crisscrossed the country as part of an old joke between two Texas men will rest this holiday for the first time in 61 years.
Acker Hanks mailed the card to his former neighbor Lee Kelley in 1950. Kelley, a prankster, mailed it back a year later.
The two continued sending the card back and forth, and when Kelley died, his widow mailed the tattered message for over a decade. Last year, it returned to Hanks unread. He believes Kelley's widow moved to a nursing home.
A list of dates and places in the worn card documents its journey. Hanks plans to frame it.
"I always looked forward to getting the card," he told the Tyler Morning Telegraph (http://bit.ly/vbaPyB ). "I don't think it'll ever leave me now."
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Foxconn to double size of iPhone factory in China
Foxconn is planning to double the size of their iPhone factory in China at a cost of $1.1 billion dollars, according to Chinese news site China Daily. 
The base will be centered on the Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou, provincial capital of Henan, increasing its current production lines...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Cake Pop Wedding Cake
There are seriously way too many great wedding ideas out there.? I?m thinking of putting the best ideas in a box and drawing blindfolded.? How else to decide!?? Look at this gorgeous Cake Ball Cake at The Wedding Shoebox.? It?s amazing!? It?s the classy version of cake pops, tiered and lovely.? I love the use of color, like a pastel sunrise.
Photo By: Asheigh Jane Photography
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Professor Grayson on Mexico?s Drug War
Dr. George W. Grayson, the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary, and an expert on Mexican affairs, was interviewed by COHA on November 22, 2011 on the drug wars ravaging that country. Among Professor Grayson?s published works are Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? Transaction Press will publish his forthcoming book , co-authored with Sam Logan, entitled The Executioners? Men: Los Zetas, Rogue soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs.
Source: WM
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1.?????In view of the beginning of the ?spill over? effect of the Mexican drug war into the U.S., do grounds exist for a review of NAFTA, including its clauses banning unfettered ground transportation?
That?s been decided?the trucks are now moving. The first truck entered the country about a month ago, and so, after 17 years, that particularly contentious clause in NAFTA has been satisfied. The trade agreement in general has been a boon for the Mexican economy, at least its macroeconomy. It means, however, that there are many more truck, rail, air, and water crossings and, as a result, an increased northward flow of drugs and a southbound stream of arms.
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2.?????Do you favor a debate on the decriminalization of the use of marijuana, and possibly further in the future, the decriminalization of cocaine and heroin?
Yes. There certainly should be a debate. It?s impossible to win a drug war; at best, you can hope to manage such a conflict.? The U.S. must do more in terms of education and the treatment of addicts.? It is counterproductive to throw people in jail for the possession or the sale of a small amount of drugs; all too often, they enter the penal system as amateurs and emerge as professionals.? Prohibition demonstrated that when robust demand exists for a banned product the consumer will pay dearly to acquire, and that the market that develops will be run by violent criminals, not the Little Sisters of Mercy. Although no panacea, decriminalization and state regulation of sales would strike an economic blow to the underworld. ?It should definitely be discussed.
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3.?????Has the time come to demilitarize the drug war, to be replaced by a much more specialized police force that is well paid and effectively trained?
That?s certainly what outgoing Mexico State governor Enrique Pe?a Nieto, the front-runner in his country?s July 1, 2011 presidential contest, said when he was in Washington last month. He advocated developing a specialized anti-drug police force. Regrettably, Mexico never in its history has had an honest, effective, professional law enforcement capability. Dictator Porfirio D?az (1876-2011) deployed a Praetorian Guard, Los Rurales, against his opponents; the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional ? PRI ? 1929-2000) used various police agencies to advance its economic, political, and social interests. It?s a Sisyphean challenge to convince decent citizens to undertake a law enforcement career.? Even if the government offers them thorough training, state of the art armaments, and decent salaries, new recruits will enter a police headquarters where corruption thrives. Efforts to modernize law-enforcement personnel have been notably unsuccessful. Perhaps the FBI, which is opening a new academy in Puebla, will make headway. ?In view of the abominable reputation of Mexico?s law-enforcement agencies, it?s extremely difficult to recruit members? of the middle class into police work.
The local, municipal police forces are the most tarnished. They are paid at best USD 400 a month and, by cooperating with cartels, they can triple or quadruple their income by not patrolling a certain street or not entering a certain house. They do not necessarily have to be proactively corrupt, but they can just close their eyes to illegal transactions going on at specific locations. Unfortunately, the same thing is now going on with the army, especially when it comes to enlisted personnel and officers who staff roadblocks.
In the absence of a professional, reliable police force, President Felipe Calder?n began to rely on the armed forces.? The army has been trained to pursue, capture, and kill, and the pattern has produced hundreds of accusations of human rights violations. The navy, which encompasses the marines, has a much better record. Pe?a Nieto has indicated his intention to reduce the armed forces? role in combating the cartels; however, given the problems with the police, it is difficult to see how he can send the military back to their barracks and hope to have any chance to neutralize or even to limit the activities of the cartels. You cannot recruit middle class people today into the police. Law enforcement has acquired an unqualified disreputable reputation.
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4.?????Would enhancing the security of the Mexican-U.S. border be advanced by stepped-up patrols or by easing regulations affecting migration?
There?s a chasm between the attitudes of the elite and that of the man in the street toward immigration in the United States. Surveys indicate that the average citizen?be that person African-American, Anglo-American, or Hispanic-American?not only wants current laws enforced but would like to see them strengthened.? For various reasons, though elites in Washington are for a more flexible immigration policy, including variants of amnesty, this is far from true of the outline immigrants module. The current makeup of Congress obviates opening the door and wider to immigrants.? In the future, we may see the increased deployment of the US Border Patrol, National Guard units, and regular troops on the border. As for the latter category, it is estimated that 900 of the 1200 U.S. National Guard troops stationed on the border will be withdrawn and replaced by surveillance helicopters.
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5.????? Can the U.S. effectively limit the illicit flow of arms from the U.S. into Mexico without risking antagonizing the NRA?s predominance on the gun issue in this country? Is it possible to halt such shipments?
I served in the Virginia state legislature for 27 years. The National Rifle Association and its allies have a hammer-lock on lawmakers.? The upshot is there will be no tough gun laws passed in this country, especially in the Southwest. It?s one of our inflexible dogmas. Mexico has its own dogmas: For example, it forbids Pemex, the state oil monopoly, from entering into risk contracts, even though the nation?s reserves are rapidly declining. Truth be told, while it would be inconvenient if we stanched the flow of guns going south, Mexican criminal organizations would simply buy more weapons on the international arms market. The Chinese make quite good knock-offs of AK-47s or AR-15s; and Central America is virtually sinking from all of the arms leftover from the guerrilla wars of the 1980s. I think it would be much wiser for our leaders to speak frankly to their Mexican counterparts, and tell them that political constraints prevent curbing weapons purchases on the U.S. side of the border. The gun lobby is a business, a big one. Two-thirds of Americans want to have greater control over handguns. But the one third and its allies have a markedly much more intense voice in the debate remaining, and they will give much more money to elect the like-minded friends and defeat their foes. ?The Supreme Court?s decision in the Citizens? United case has opened the sluice gates to campaign contributions, and the National Rifle Association and its entourage will be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to advance their cause.
What we forget is that the United States exudes hubris. I talk to a lot of military groups, and they always seem to say that if there is a war, we?re going to win it. That?s the American way. Truth be told, there is little we can do in foreign countries apart from sending in the 82nd Airborne or a couple of Marine detachments. Mexico has every natural resource imaginable?gold, silver, oil, gas, beaches, resorts, archeological sites, specialty fruits and vegetables, fisheries, and it possesses the thirteenth largest industrial sector in the world. If Singapore could lease Mexico for twenty years, we would be talking about the ?Colossus of the South.? But the elites who live outside of Monterrey, which has been afflicted by Los Zetas and their foes, are largely cocooned from the violence. They have state-of-the-art home security, trained drivers, and private guards.? Many affluent families send their children abroad and may even operate their businesses from Texas. They don?t give a tired rat?s derriere about the 40 percent of the Mexican population that ekes out a living in urban slums or rural plots of land. The well-to-do live like princes, pay little taxes, and preside over an economic system riddled with monopolies and oligopolies.
Affluent Colombians also could escape much of the cartel violence besetting their country. ?Yet once Pablo Escobar moved from criminal ventures to killing politicians, bombing shopping centers, and burning movie houses, the power structure realized that it, too, had a stake in fighting organized crime.
Most of the Mexican elites have not had such an epiphany. Uncle Sam can do a little bit at the margins; he can provide technical assistance; furnish equipment; and engage in training.? But the local drug and crime Mafias will continue their notorious initiatives until Mexico?s elite commits itself to battling them. ?I once suggested to a group of prosperous businesspeople that they encourage at least one of their children to enter law enforcement. Of course that was not politically correct; no wonder that they laughed me out of the room.
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6.?????Do you think the Mexican presidential campaign will affect policies toward Mexico and the drug war to any degree?
Enrique Pe?a Nieto wants continuity and cooperation with the U.S. He?s also concerned about the Guatemalan situation because there is really no effective border between Mexico and its southern neighbor; rather, it?s a surveyor?s line with at least 200 illegal crossing places between the two countries. ?The Mexican drug cartels, especially Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, brazenly operate in Guatemala, which is a failed state. The incoming Mexican president will be concerned about Central America and the impact that the existing violence against a backdrop of poverty will have on driving people from the area northward. ?I think we will see continuity in bilateral collaboration should Pe?a Nieto win the July 1, 2012 election.
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7.?????Do you think the elections in the U.S. will have any impact on its Mexican policies?
Should a Republican defeat President Obama, there will be a greater effort to control illegal migration. Obama has tried through executive acts to ?regularize? migrants who have entered the country unlawfully. I do not think that a Republican president will exhibit the same flexibility with respect to lawbreakers that this White House has exhibited since 2009.
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8.?????What strategies would you recommend to both Obama and Calder?n to limit the influence of the Mexican cartels as well as to combat the spread of drugs and weapons over the respective borders of both countries?
I would urge President Obama to stop patronizing the Mexicans and practice tough love. The future of U.S.-Mexican relations largely depends on the actions of this generation of Mexican leaders and the direction in which they take their country. They should make a full-faith offer to increase tax collections and focus on education, health care, job-training, and regional development. To Calder?n, I would say if he wants to leave a positive legacy, he should reform public education, beginning by taking legal action against the National Education Workers Union?(Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci?n ? SNTE) and its leader Elba Esther ?La Maestra? Gordillo. She is an absolute scourge on the country in terms of nepotism, the sale of teaching jobs, her obdurate opposition to teacher evaluations, and the mishandling of public funds. The result is that Mexico finishes last in the triennial assessment of public school systems conducted by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Unless young people can obtain a decent education, the number of ?Ni-Nis??the hundreds of thousands of teenagers who neither study nor work?will grow. They will also respond to the siren call of criminal syndicates. ?If he were to act to revamp public education during the eleven months remaining in office, he would give historians something positive to write about his sexenio.
Source: The Guardian
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Interview conducted by Zac Deibel, Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
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97% The Muppets
i have to start by saying that i grew up on the muppets, that im a huge fan, that i loved watching this film, and that i thought it was very solid, thus the solid score. i had some big issues, but lets start with the good. well, really the only good we need is the muppets. theyre just amazing. i dont own a kermit watch, but i understand walter's fandom. we should really be getting a new muppets film every few years. however, i had some issues here as well. my kids laughed at the fart jokes, but they are really sub standard for muppets material, and felt out of place. the big show that the film led to was very underwhelming. i hoped for something involved. the celebrity appearances were also underwhelming, and a bit disappointing in terms of purpose. the end was rushed and very anti climactic, and was weakened by an obvious plot hole in the development of the major conflict in the film. and my biggest issue was that the entire plot device of "we dont talk and need to get the band back together" undermines the frequency of their activity over the past few years, such as their network Christmas special just a couple of years ago, and the establishment of their lore and material of previous muppets films and tv shows. i know it sounds like im being overly critical of a movie with a bunch of puppets, but they are more than puppets to me. it didnt have to be perfect, but i did want the film to respect previous continuity of the characters, and this is one of the main things i felt that it was weak in. i was also disappointed that we didnt get any rizzo. apparently he was in a scene, but he didnt speak, and i missed him altogether. overall, i actually did really enjoy it, im glad it got made, and i hope that we dont have to wait too long to see these characters again.
November 24, 2011Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_muppets/
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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