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Engadget Podcast 311 - 09.28.2012
It's been a long time, and we shouldn't have left you without a dope 'cast to Jam to, but we're back, inmates-running-the-asylum style, reporting on the bleeding edge of the future of the #3 mobile phone dominator position. In this rap-rock edition of the Engadget podcast we'll also tackle the age-old question: are magazines dead, or just in sleep mode?
Hosts: Brian Heater
Guest: Terrence O'Brien, Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Orbital - Never
02:08 - Engadget Live: Join us at 4AM ET for an 'ask me anything' Q&A with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop!
02:50 - From the lab: Lumia 920 low-light shootout with Nokia 808, iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III
12:10 - Live from Blackberry Jam Americas 2012!
13:18 - RIM reveals more details about Blackberry 10
13:53 - RIM pledges ongoing support for BlackBerry devs by serenading them (video)
15:00 - RIM puts BlackBerry 10 on display: new alarm, Peek gesture and more
16:00 - BlackBerry's new Dev Alpha B handset runs BB10, we go hands-on
30:45 - RIM shows off native Facebook and Foursquare apps for BlackBerry 10, confirms Twitter and LinkedIn for launch
31:07 - RIM: BlackBerry 10 carrier testing starts in October, OS remains on schedule
31:23 - BlackBerry App World to sell music and movies, open to BB 10 app submissions on October 10th
32:45 - Barnes & Noble launching Nook Video this fall with a little help from HBO, Sony, Disney, Viacom, more
33:07 - Barnes & Noble's Nook HD 7-inch Android tablet, hands-on (video)
34:04 - Barnes & Noble announces Nook HD+ 9-inch tablet, we go hands-on (video)
47:25 - Hands-on with Wikipad, the $500 Android gaming tablet (video)
50:35 - Lytro light-field camera hitting Amazon, Target and Best Buy sites next month
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Schwarzenegger: Shriver changed tune on recall run
FILE - In this Feb 11, 2009 file photo, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bust of Abraham Lincoln are seen in profile during a celebration of Lincoln's 200 birthday held at the California Museum of History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger, who came to office during California's historic 2003 recall election, will soon be releasing his autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
FILE - In this Feb 11, 2009 file photo, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bust of Abraham Lincoln are seen in profile during a celebration of Lincoln's 200 birthday held at the California Museum of History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger, who came to office during California's historic 2003 recall election, will soon be releasing his autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
FILE -- In this April 15, 2004 file photo, Actor Danny DeVito, left, waves as he walks through the Capitol with long-time friend, movie co-star and current Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger, who came to office during California's historic 2003 recall election, will soon be releasing his autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
FILE - In this June 13, 2007, file photo, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, joke around before a legislative group photo is taken at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. In one of his last formal acts as governor, Schwarzenegger used his executive powers to grant clemency to Nunez' son, who was involved in a fatal stabbing and pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger brings the sword he used in the movie "Conan The Barbarian," to the conference table before the start of budget negotiations with legislative leaders at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger, who came to office during California's historic 2003 recall election, will soon be releasing his autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
FILE -- In this file photo taken Oct. 5, 2003, Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, playfully strums a guitar to the Twisted Sister song, "We Ain't Going to Take it Anymore," during a campaign rally held at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger, the former governor, who came to office during California's historic 2003 recall election, will soon be releasing his autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife, Maria Shriver, was told to "snap out of it" by her mother for her attempts to persuade him against running for California governor in 2003, a conversation that ultimately opened the door to his successful candidacy.
Eunice Shriver told her daughter that her husband would be "angry for the rest of his life" if she stopped his ambitions, Schwarzenegger writes in his new autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."
The former governor says in the book that he had decided against running to recall Gov. Gray Davis after his wife implored him not to for the sake of their family. Maria Shriver announced his decision to their four children.
But he writes that when Maria Shriver told her mother about her efforts to thwart Schwarzenegger's political ambitions, Eunice told her daughter that women in their family "always support the men when they want to do something." Schwarzenegger says he didn't know about the conversation at the time, but learned of it later.
Maria Shriver then softened her stance, paving the way for Schwarzenegger to announce his candidacy on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," where he says he felt most comfortable.
The announcement came after a week of wavering. Schwarzenegger says before he headed to the TV appearance, his wife handed him two pieces of paper with talking points she had written: one in case he decided to run, another in case he decided not to.
He writes that Shriver went on to become a key ally and adviser to his campaign and eventual governorship.
Schwarzenegger has often said that Maria's mother and her father, Sargent Shriver, were essential to his eventual decision to seek public office, and the most "extraordinary human beings I've ever met." But he also writes in the book that he often teased his wife that the close-knit Democratic Kennedy clan was "like a bunch of clones" because there was such conformity among them.
A spokesman for Shriver, Matthew DiGirolamo, declined to comment on the contents of the book.
"Total Recall" will officially be published next week. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.
Schwarzenegger also writes he had a "hot affair" with actress Brigitte Nielsen at a time he and Maria Shriver were dating and already living together.
Schwarzenegger and Nielsen co-starred in the 1985 film "Red Sonja." Nielsen wrote in a memoir published last year that she and Schwarzenegger had an "outrageous affair" while making the movie and that she didn't know until later that he was involved with Shriver.
In "Total Recall," Schwarzenegger writes that he knew the fling with Nielsen wouldn't last and in fact it only made him realize that he wanted to marry Shriver.
The book is part of an effort by the onetime "Mr. Universe" and Hollywood action star to rebrand himself after leaving office with a mixed record and subsequent embarrassing revelations about a fling he had with the family's housekeeper. Schwarzenegger, who fathered a son with the housekeeper, says he also let the boy down.
Schwarzenegger, 65, said he avoided telling his wife for years about the boy, who is now a teenager, even when Shriver asked him, partly because of his longtime penchant for secrecy, and his fear that the news would become public and undermine his political career. He told his wife in January 2011, when she confronted him the day after he left office.
In an interview with "60 Minutes" scheduled to air Sunday, Schwarzenegger said having sex with his housekeeper was "the stupidest thing" he ever did to his now-estranged wife and caused great pain to her and their four children. CBS aired excerpts of the interview Friday.
"I think it was the stupidest thing I've done in the whole relationship. It was terrible. I inflicted tremendous pain on Maria and unbelievable pain on the kids," Schwarzenegger tells "60 Minutes."
Schwarzenegger says he also let down the son he fathered with the housekeeper.
Shriver filed for divorce in July.
In his book, the usually ebullient Schwarzenegger admits to some loneliness, even though he packed his schedule with speeches, projects and movie-making after Shriver and the children moved out of the house. He said his career had been fun for 30 years because he shared it with Maria.
They had done everything together, he writes.
The former GOP governor also writes about a 2003 White House meeting with Karl Rove in which the top GOP strategist told him the recall would not happen and instead introduced the actor to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice as his pick to run for California governor in 2006.
Schwarzenegger felt snubbed.
He asks, "How could Rove have been so wrong?"
Rove's office said he was traveling Friday and could not be reached for comment.
Rice's chief of staff at Stanford University, Georgia Godfrey, said Rice cannot recall "any conversation on this subject."
"She has stated many times in the past that she has no desire to run for public office and those sentiments have still not changed," Godfrey said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.
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'Jurassic Park 4' Is Still Happening, 'Indy 5' Probably Not
Although Steven Spielberg's movie world is currently revolving around everything "Lincoln," the filmmaking legend always has his hands full with a variety of buzz-worthy projects, one of them being the much-discussed/hyped "Jurassic Park 4." Thanks to a recent update from Spielberg's longtime producing partner Kathleen Kennedy, we can tell you that the film IS moving [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/28/jurassic-park-4-indy-5/
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Christmas Comes Early for Boy Battling Brain Cancer
RUSTBURG, Va -- Nathan Norman has battled cancer for most of his life. That fight started in 2009 when he was diagnosed with brain cancer at just a year old.
As he begins a new round of chemotherapy, he has one request. All he wants is Christmas.
Christmas joy is exactly what he is getting thanks to the help from a few good neighbors. First his parents put up a Christmas tree and lights and soon after neighbors put up their own trees and decorations.
Now, the Christmas spirit has spread all over the country. Every day, Nathan gets 20 to 30 Christmas cards from people inspired by his story. The support from family, friends and strangers gives the Norman family the strength to face the future.
"When you ask Nathan, 'Are you scared?' He'll say, 'No, God is with me.' His sister asked him, 'Nathan, are you scared you might get see Jesus soon?' As a mom, I'm saying, 'No. No one is going to see Jesus. Everybody is staying here. We'll see Jesus when we are old,' but Nathan said no he is not scared to see Jesus. He would just miss Mommy and Daddy," said Dawn Norman, Nathan's mom.
Nathan's family says they will leave the tree up all year if they have to. They said everyone should live each day like it is Christmas.
If you want to help Nathan and his family, you can send Christmas cards to:
Nathan Norman
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Tea party hero changes tune to woo Ind. moderates
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Tools to Help Kids Express Emotions | Apartment Therapy
Expressing emotions is already hard as an adult, I can't imagine (or don't remember) how hard it must be as a child. In that spirit, I'm trying to help my kids express and accept whatever emotions come up, especially when it comes to negative emotions such as anger and sadness.
The truth is, it's really hard to explain the notion of emotion to a child. Much less ask them to tell you which one they feel. However hard it is, though, research shows self-compassion is of utmost importance, beyond even self-esteem.
There are a few different options out there that can help, mostly games, but also books, apps, and dolls.
? Robot emotions flashcards at Mr. Printable.
? The emotional animals dice game, an active game for younger ones.
? The chill & spill journal, more of a pre-teen and teen item.
? A coloring/make your own story book.
? The emotion matching game, a how-to make your own photo to word matching game.
? Today, I feel silly, a book by Jamie Lee Curtis.
? Touch and learn emotions, a mobile app.
? Emotions memory, a French and English bilingual game.
? Funny families, another bilingual (French/English) card game based on the seven families game.
? Kimochi dolls.
(images as linked above)
Source: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/teaching-kids-how-to-express-emotions-177495
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Army general hit with sex, adultery charges
By Jim Miklaszewski and Jeff Black, NBC News
Courtesy of U.S. Army
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair is accused of multiple offenses, including forcible sodomy and adultery.
An Army general based in Fort Bragg, N.C., has been charged with forced sex, multiple counts of adultery and inappropriate relationships with female subordinates while serving in Afghanistan.
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair was relieved of his command in Afghanistan last May and returned to Fort Bragg. In addition to the sexual misconduct accusations, Sinclair also faces charges of possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed in Afghanistan.
Sinclair has been in the Army for 27 years, according to The Associated Press, and has been deployed three times to Afghanistan. He also served in Iraq.
Sinclair now faces an Article 32, the Army's equivalent of a grand jury hearing, to determine whether he should face court martial on any or all charges.
The charge of "forced sex" involves allegations he forced a subordinate to perform oral sex and is based on the previous Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Related:?Pentagon calls for steps to prevent sexual assault
Revisions to that code implemented this year now consider all forms of "forced sex" as rape.
Court?martials?of Army Generals are relatively rare.? Only two, a brigadier general and major general, have been court martialed in the past 13 years.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Video: Anti-Islam film producer arrested in LA
>>> and breaking news, tonight about a man who has been identified as the producer of the video and sparked deadly and violent protests throughout the muslim world . he is in a federal courtroom in los angeles today, and a judge will decide if he violated the terms of his probation from a 2010 conviction on bank fraud charges. under the terms of the probation, he agreed not to use the internet or use aliases without permission, federal authority say he did both in distributing the video.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49203393/
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Inner city infants have different patterns of viral respiratory illness than infants in the suburbs
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Differences may play role in the development of asthma in children in different settings
Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available online, researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison investigated viral respiratory illnesses and their possible role in the development of asthma in urban versus suburban babies. The differences in viral illness patterns they found provide insights that could help guide the development of new asthma treatments in children.
Viral respiratory illnesses have been linked previously to the development of asthma in childhood. Early studies investigated the association of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the onset of asthma. More recent studies have shown that children with human rhinovirus (HRV) infections have a greater chance of developing asthma by age 6 than children with RSV infections. Additionally, it has been suggested that particular virus strains may be more likely than others to promote asthma development. Because children living in urban inner cities have different environmental exposures than children in suburban areas, the authors of this latest study hypothesized that the types of viral respiratory infections would also be unique to each environment.
To document patterns of respiratory viruses in infants living in urban and suburban locations, James E. Gern, MD, and his team of investigators collected nasal secretions from 500 infants from four inner-city areas in the U.S. (Boston, Baltimore, New York City, and St. Louis) and 285 infants from suburban Madison, Wis. Nasal secretions were sampled during periods when the babies had respiratory illnesses and when they were healthy.
The inner-city infants had lower rates of viral detection overall. This may suggest that other factors, such as bacteria or allergic reactions to pollutions or toxic exposures, contribute significantly to respiratory illness. Sick urban infants had lower rates of two kinds of viruses, HRV and RSV, and higher rates of adenovirus infections, compared to suburban infants. In the urban babies, 4.8 percent of nasal washes tested positive for only adenovirus, while just 0.7 percent of samples from suburban babies were positive for only adenovirus. "Adenovirus infections, either as a single pathogen or when detected in concert with other viruses, were significantly more common in the urban population, and this held true for each of the four urban locations where our study was conducted," the authors wrote.
This is of particular interest, the researchers noted, because adenovirus can cause persistent infections. The study authors believe this may suggest that development of the lungs or airways could be altered by adenovirus infections in early life.
In an accompanying editorial, Peter W. Heymann, MD, and Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, noted that the findings are of interest given the pervasiveness and the morbidity and mortality of asthma in poor urban areas. "The results clearly show differences in the detection of viral infections during the first year of life," they wrote, "and this approach is likely to provide novel insights that will serve to guide the development of treatment interventions to decrease the prevalence and severity of asthma during childhood."
In an effort to better understand the origins of non-viral respiratory illnesses, Dr. Gern and colleagues are planning experiments to evaluate other pathogens and microbes in the airways. They also plan to follow the urban children in this study for at least 10 years to "test the hypothesis that infections with adenoviruses might be associated later on in childhood with an increased rate of asthma and perhaps lower levels of lung function."
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Fast Facts:
1) Researchers investigated viral respiratory illnesses and their possible role in the development of asthma in urban versus suburban babies. They found differences in viral illness patterns that may help guide the development of new asthma treatment interventions.
2) Urban infants in the study had lower rates of human rhinovirus (HRV) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections than suburban infants.
3) Among urban babies in the study, 4.8 percent of samples tested positive for only adenovirus, while just 0.7 percent of those from suburban babies tested positive for only adenovirus.
4) The authors plan to follow the urban infants in the study for at least 10 years to determine whether adenovirus infections are associated with an increased rate of asthma and lower levels of lung function.
The study and the accompanying editorial are available online. They are embargoed until 12:01 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012:
Etiology of Viral Respiratory Illnesses in Inner City vs. Suburban Infants
Deciphering the Importance of Host and Environmental Factors that Influence the Genesis of Asthma During Childhood
Published continuously since 1904, The Journal of Infectious Diseases is the premier global journal for original research on infectious diseases. The editors welcome major articles and brief reports describing research results on microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines, on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune responses. The journal is an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Based in Arlington, Va., IDSA is a professional society representing nearly 10,000 physicians and scientists who specialize in infectious diseases. For more information, visit www.idsociety.org.
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Public release date: 26-Sep-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Jerica Pitts
jpitts@pcipr.com
312-558-1770
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Differences may play role in the development of asthma in children in different settings
Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available online, researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison investigated viral respiratory illnesses and their possible role in the development of asthma in urban versus suburban babies. The differences in viral illness patterns they found provide insights that could help guide the development of new asthma treatments in children.
Viral respiratory illnesses have been linked previously to the development of asthma in childhood. Early studies investigated the association of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the onset of asthma. More recent studies have shown that children with human rhinovirus (HRV) infections have a greater chance of developing asthma by age 6 than children with RSV infections. Additionally, it has been suggested that particular virus strains may be more likely than others to promote asthma development. Because children living in urban inner cities have different environmental exposures than children in suburban areas, the authors of this latest study hypothesized that the types of viral respiratory infections would also be unique to each environment.
To document patterns of respiratory viruses in infants living in urban and suburban locations, James E. Gern, MD, and his team of investigators collected nasal secretions from 500 infants from four inner-city areas in the U.S. (Boston, Baltimore, New York City, and St. Louis) and 285 infants from suburban Madison, Wis. Nasal secretions were sampled during periods when the babies had respiratory illnesses and when they were healthy.
The inner-city infants had lower rates of viral detection overall. This may suggest that other factors, such as bacteria or allergic reactions to pollutions or toxic exposures, contribute significantly to respiratory illness. Sick urban infants had lower rates of two kinds of viruses, HRV and RSV, and higher rates of adenovirus infections, compared to suburban infants. In the urban babies, 4.8 percent of nasal washes tested positive for only adenovirus, while just 0.7 percent of samples from suburban babies were positive for only adenovirus. "Adenovirus infections, either as a single pathogen or when detected in concert with other viruses, were significantly more common in the urban population, and this held true for each of the four urban locations where our study was conducted," the authors wrote.
This is of particular interest, the researchers noted, because adenovirus can cause persistent infections. The study authors believe this may suggest that development of the lungs or airways could be altered by adenovirus infections in early life.
In an accompanying editorial, Peter W. Heymann, MD, and Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, noted that the findings are of interest given the pervasiveness and the morbidity and mortality of asthma in poor urban areas. "The results clearly show differences in the detection of viral infections during the first year of life," they wrote, "and this approach is likely to provide novel insights that will serve to guide the development of treatment interventions to decrease the prevalence and severity of asthma during childhood."
In an effort to better understand the origins of non-viral respiratory illnesses, Dr. Gern and colleagues are planning experiments to evaluate other pathogens and microbes in the airways. They also plan to follow the urban children in this study for at least 10 years to "test the hypothesis that infections with adenoviruses might be associated later on in childhood with an increased rate of asthma and perhaps lower levels of lung function."
###
Fast Facts:
1) Researchers investigated viral respiratory illnesses and their possible role in the development of asthma in urban versus suburban babies. They found differences in viral illness patterns that may help guide the development of new asthma treatment interventions.
2) Urban infants in the study had lower rates of human rhinovirus (HRV) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections than suburban infants.
3) Among urban babies in the study, 4.8 percent of samples tested positive for only adenovirus, while just 0.7 percent of those from suburban babies tested positive for only adenovirus.
4) The authors plan to follow the urban infants in the study for at least 10 years to determine whether adenovirus infections are associated with an increased rate of asthma and lower levels of lung function.
The study and the accompanying editorial are available online. They are embargoed until 12:01 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012:
Etiology of Viral Respiratory Illnesses in Inner City vs. Suburban Infants
Deciphering the Importance of Host and Environmental Factors that Influence the Genesis of Asthma During Childhood
Published continuously since 1904, The Journal of Infectious Diseases is the premier global journal for original research on infectious diseases. The editors welcome major articles and brief reports describing research results on microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines, on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune responses. The journal is an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Based in Arlington, Va., IDSA is a professional society representing nearly 10,000 physicians and scientists who specialize in infectious diseases. For more information, visit www.idsociety.org.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Paul Ryan Goes Local: Vice Presidential Nominee's Marathon Pace On Local Interview Circuit [[DO NOT PUB]]
ABC News' Michael Falcone and Shushannah Walshe report:
Over the last few days Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has found his way into the living rooms of voters in Cincinnati, Lima and Dayton, Ohio as well as Miami, Orlando and West Palm Beach, Florida.
He wasn't actually sitting on those voters' couches - although his campaign schedule has taken him to Virginia, Ohio, Florida in recent days - but rather on their television screens.
In fact, since Mitt Romney tapped the Wisconsin congressman to be his running mate on August 11, Ryan has sat for more than 150 television, radio and newspaper interviews with the vast majority of those taking place at the local and regional level.
By the campaign's count and an ABC News tally Ryan passed the 100 local interview mark last weekend, and so far, has chalked up something on the order of 108 since early August.
A typical day for Ryan can include five or more interviews. Take last Saturday, for example. Ryan sat for interviews with the ABC and Fox affiliates in Miami, the NBC station in West Palm Beach and the CBS, Fox and NBC affiliates in Orlando as well one central Florida cable channel. On Monday local stations in Dayton and Lima, Ohio as well as one in Fort Wayne, Indiana got time with the vice presidential hopeful. And on Tuesday, Ryan taped interviews with three affiliates in Cincinnati.
And though Ryan drew flak for low-balling his fastest marathon time, he has far outdistanced his Democratic counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden - at least on the local interview circuit.
To be sure, Biden has kept up a busy pace on the campaign trail, traveling to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa and New Hampshire in recent weeks. In just a few days, he heads to Florida, another crucial battleground state. And at almost every official campaign stop, the vice president manages to squeeze in some time talking to locals at unannounced visits to venues like restaurants and high school football fields.
"In more than 100 events this year, the Vice President has been campaigning in states across the country directly connecting with voters in their communities," a Biden campaign official said.
The local television strategy seems straightforward: It's viewers in these key swing-state markets they need to reach heading into Election Day much more than those watching on a national level. The data-driven Romney campaign can pinpoint the exact markets where they need to deploy Ryan and, for that matter, Romney and his wife, Ann, who also have busy local interview schedules. The subsequent coverage bolsters the paid advertising dollars they are pumping into those areas.
Though the campaign frequently makes Ryan available for the local broadcaster, the candidate has yet to hold a formal press conference with his traveling press corps. Although he has held informal question-and-answer sessions on his campaign plane and did so while buying oranges in Florida last week.
The goal is also to bring the Romney-Ryan ticket's message directly to voters without straying too far off talking points. But many of the local interviewers have other ideas. Over the weekend, a reporter for the local NBC News Miami affiliate, WPTV, asked Ryan whether "Don't Ask Don't Tell" shouldn't be reinstated.
"Now that it's done, we should not reverse it," Ryan said. "I think that would be a step in the wrong direction because people have already disclosed themselves."
Ryan added: "I think this issue is past us. It's done. And, I think we need to move on."
Local affiliates also provided the venue for Ryan's first response to his running mate's hidden-camera comments about the "47 percent."
"He said it was an inelegant way of describing the point we're trying to make which is we need economic growth, job creation, we need upward mobility and the Obama economy is not producing that," Ryan said to ABC News' New Hampshire affiliate, WMUR on Sept. 18.
And of course, it's hard to forget Ryan's unusual interview with Roanoke, Virginia CBS affiliate WDBJ-TV, when he played word association with a reporter and the world learned his food preferences.
"Having a piece of cake is just like having asparagus, as far as I'm concerned," Ryan told reporter Orlando Salinas.
Romney-Ryan campaign aides say they plan to keep Ryan on a steady diet of local interviews heading into Nov. 6
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Analysis: As worst euro fears fade, U.S. fiscal cliff looms
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro zone has stepped back from the brink of disaster for now, but the global economy could soon be staring into another abyss if U.S. politicians fail to head off $600 billion in automatic austerity that all but guarantees a new recession.
The long-term fate of the single currency remains unclear, but nerves have calmed since the European Central Bank promised on September 6 to act as the buyer of last resort for Spanish and Italian bonds.
Now, exactly six weeks before the U.S. general election, fiscal gridlock in Washington is coming back on the global economy's risk radar.
If opinion polls hold steady and prove accurate, President Barack Obama, a Democrat, will defeat Republican Mitt Romney on November 6. The House of Representatives is likely to stay in the hands of the Republicans, who have a chance of seizing control of the Senate.
On the surface, with power split, that could make it harder to avert $600 billion in spending reductions and expiring tax cuts, equal to 4 percent of gross domestic product, that will kick in at the start of 2013 unless a deal is struck to shrink the U.S. budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
"The level of political partisanship in Washington is higher than it's ever been, and that it is making it much harder to deal sensibly with some of the economic and other problems America is facing," said Xenia Dormandy, a senior fellow at Chatham House, a think tank in London.
"The American system is designed to have checks and balances and that's what's happening. But it does mean that in times like this, when strong responses are needed, they're not forthcoming," she added.
The consensus among U.S. and other politicians, policymakers and businessmen at a recent conference organized by Oxford Analytica, another research group, was that Washington would avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff - or at least falling all the way down.
But some were downright pessimistic that the political gulf could be bridged any time soon, with potentially ominous consequences for America's growth and credit rating.
One European economist said he feared America as a whole was becoming like California - a dynamic economy suffering from political sclerosis.
"The dysfunctionality of democracy in the United States is the most important problem America faces in coming years," he said. To encourage a frank exchange of views, reporters were not allowed to identify the speakers at most of the conference sessions.
BRINKMANSHIP, AGAIN
A North American former politician said the U.S. political system had astonishing powers of renewal. Deadlock would not last forever.
But he said there was global disquiet that the logjam was preventing America from capitalizing on its strengths in high-technology, science and advanced manufacturing.
"Brinkmanship is no way to run public policy," he said.
Tightening on the scale envisaged is unprecedented in recent U.S. fiscal history, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the shock would imperil an already fragile economy. The Congressional Budget Office has warned of recession.
Indeed, slowly and quietly, Congress is groping for ways to dodge the cliff plunge by putting off its own deadline for most of the major year-end budget and tax decisions.
Compromise is also the scenario seen by a number of banks - though they do not rule out an initial, limited cliff dive to concentrate politicians' minds.
Economists at Citi led by Nathan Sheets expect lawmakers to delay tax increases and to recast spending cuts, resulting in fiscal drag of about one percentage point and a relatively benign near-term growth outlook.
"Nevertheless, with general government debt already topping 100 percent, this leaves the U.S. dangerously exposed to an abrupt loss of market confidence and a fiscal crisis as near-term debt continues to outrun GDP," they said in a study.
HSBC reaches a similar conclusion. On a muddling through scenario of some austerity and debt reduction, fiscal tightening would amount to 1.1 percent of GDP in 2013.
But that would still leave the budget deficit in fiscal year 2013 at 6 percent of GDP, one of the highest on record, Kevin Logan, the bank's chief U.S. economist, said in a report.
TRADE POLICY, CHINA
The prospect of continued political polarization would seem to bode ill for the two candidates' promise to promote trade.
But a former State Department official noted that Obama managed last October to push through a trio of free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea that had been bogged down for four years.
"If we're on stronger domestic ground we might see a flowering of free trade with bipartisan approval," she told the Oxford Analytica conference.
On China, there was widespread skepticism that a President Mitt Romney would make good on his promise to punish China by declaring it a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
Doing so would antagonize a country that is the biggest holder of U.S. Treasuries and is now America's third-largest export market, after Canada and Mexico.
Between 2000 and 2011, U.S. shipments to China rose 542 percent, while exports to the rest of the world rose 81 percent, according to Andy Rothman, an economist at CLSA in Shanghai.
Like Romney, Obama has been tough on China during the campaign, launching a World Trade Organisation challenge against Beijing's subsidies on autos and car parts [ID:nL1E8KH0Z0].
The two candidates are attuned to public opinion: the Pew Center found 59 percent of Americans regard China as an economic threat compared with 45 percent of Europeans.
While 67 percent of Americans say that international business ties are good for the U.S. economy, this was the lowest level of backing for trade among 21 countries surveyed by the Center in 2011. The figure in France, a sometimes ambivalent supporter of free trade, was 83 percent.
"None of this will necessarily translate into protectionist actions by the next administration that could inhibit world growth," the Pew Center's Bruce Stokes said in an analysis.
"But it does suggest that Washington's offensive efforts to promote trade my be met with public skepticism, while defensive actions may find public support."
(Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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American Expressionist Painter, Joan Snyder | Gay Richmond News ...
Born in Highland Park, New Jersey, in 1940, Joan Snyder became a pioneering feminist artist and, just as significantly, established exhibition opportunities for other women artists.
Born in Highland Park, New Jersey, in 1940, Joan Snyder became a pioneering feminist artist and, just as significantly, established exhibition opportunities for other women artists. It was an undergraduate course that cultivated her love for painting.
Snyder gained attention in the 1970s with her abstract ?stroke paintings,? which were the basis of her first solo shows in New York and San Francisco.
In the 1980s, she began producing issue-oriented and autobiographical pieces with themes including nature, death, love, sex, politics and recovery from illness. Typically, her paintings incorporated the use of color and text, using a variety of materials.
One autobiographical work is titled, ?My Maggie.?
More about that tomorrow.
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