Fatal chemical blasts may cut global diaper output

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A cloud of smoke rises from a chemical plant in Himeji city, Hyogo prefecture on Saturday.

By NBC News staff and wire services

OSAKA ? Explosions at a chemical plant in Hyogo Prefecture on Saturday killed a firefighter and injured dozens of people, the Japan Times reported, citing local fire department and police officials said. Global production of diapers could be affected because the plant made a key ingredient in a resin used in them, Japanese media reported.

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A fire broke out about 2 p.m. after an abnormal chemical reaction at?Nippon Shokubai Co.'s plant in Himeji, the Japan Times said.

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The first explosion occurred about 2:40 p.m. as firefighters were spraying an acrylic acid tank with water, and the second followed shortly afterward, the Times said, citing Nippon Shokubai. The blasts set ablaze a fire engine.

A 28-year-old firefighter was killed and at least 30 people were reported injured.

Nippon Shokubai is one of the world's biggest makers of acrylic acid, the main ingredient of a resin called SAP, which is used in diapers.

The plant produces about 20 percent of the world's SAP and 10 percent of global output of acrylic acid.

Operations at the plant are likely to be halted for a long time and other makers of SAP resins are operating on a full-production footing, leaving little room for back-up production, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.

This article includes reporting from NBC News staff and Reuters.

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Black smoke rises Saturday at a Nippon Shokubai Co. chemical plant in the coastal industrial area of Himeji, about 370 miles west of Tokyo.

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PFT: Referees officially ratify new deal with NFL

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Wayne Elliott has had a wild week.

On Monday night, he wore the white hat as the referee of the crew that bungled the Seahawks-Packers game.? On Friday night, Elliott worked a high school football game.

In the interim, Elliott says his phone has been ringing with calls from angry fans, telling him he should ?commit suicide? and that he ?should die.?

But he still believes it was the right call.

?The replay guy just said there is nothing here that we can use to overturn it. It?s going to stand,? Elliott told FOX7 in Austin.? (This confirm that, when it came to replay reviews during the lockout, non-replacement replay officials were actually usurping the authority of the on-field referees.)

As we recently explained, via the NFL?s rulebook and casebook, there was enough evidence to overturn the ruling on the field, because Packers safety M.D. Jennings had ?control? of the ball before Seahawks receiver Golden Tate, which is the key factor regardless of what happens as they land on the ground and wrestle for the ball.? (Sorry, Seahawks truthers, but that?s the truth.)

Elliott also said he has ?no regrets? about accepting the assignment as a replacement, and that it was ?the most fun I?ve ever had.?

It was the most fun he?s had because he has been working as an official at the lower levels of the sport since 1978.? The fact that he hadn?t risen to the NFL or to a high-end college conference in the past 34 years tells us all we need to know about his overall skills.? As we?ve said time and again, if the replacements were among the best of the best, they would have been among those who were locked out.

Elliott declined to apologize to the fans of the Packers, explaining that if the call had gone the other way people would be asking if he should apologize to the Seahawks fans.

Scheduled to work the Vikings-Lions game in Week Four, Elliott said he wanted to ?get the bad taste out of his mouth? from Monday night?s game ? you know, the one for which he has nothing about which to apologize.

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MRSA research identifies new class of anti-bacterial drugs, shows how 'superbug' DNA may help scientists predict transmission routes

ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered a new class of treatment against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as well as evidence of a growing need to quickly genotype individual strains of the organism most commonly referred to as the "superbug."

The two separate studies were funded by the Ohio State Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) with a goal of increasing the MRSA knowledge-base from both a basic science "bench" perspective, as well as using real-time data from infected communities to determine how MRSA spreads.

"The public is most familiar with the dramatic progression of skin infections caused by MRSA, but MRSA is responsible for a range of difficult to treat illnesses," noted Dr. Kurt B. Stevenson, professor of Infectious Diseases at the Ohio State College of Medicine, and primary investigator of the CCTS-funded study following the transmission of MRSA infections in communities. "While we've seen a decrease in the number of MRSA cases, identifying new agents and tracking methods will be critical to stopping these infections before they can start."

Cancer treatment search leads to potential MRSA killer, immune booster

In 2002, Ching Shih Chen, professor of medicinal chemistry at Ohio State College of Pharmacy, and a team of researchers were creating a library of anti-cancer agents built around the scaffold of the molecules of celecoxib, a popular arthritis treatment in a family of drugs known as cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. This effort yielded OSU-03012 (AR12), a compound that is currently in a Phase I clinical trial as anticancer agent at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

After observing how the substance acted within breast cancer cells, Hao-Chieh Chiu, a then postdoctoral researcher in Chen's lab, realized that the derivatives were suppressing a mechanism that bacteria also use to take over their host cells. Chiu decided, with the support of Dr. Chen, to focus his research on testing the COX-2 compound library against a variety of bacteria.

"When the compounds showed anti-bacterial activity against Salmonella and Francisella, we began testing efficacy against a variety of pathogenic bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus, and Streptococcus," said Chiu, who is an assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology at National Taiwan University. "It became clear that these celecoxib analogues had a unique anti-bacterial activity, and they appeared to be most potent against Staph aureus and other MRSA strains."

The researchers narrowed the library down to a single agent (dubbed "compound 46") and moved to testing in MRSA-infected mice. Published in the August issue of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, the authors report that an intraperitoneal administration of compound 46 resulted in increased survival in MRSA-infected mice versus untreated mice. "It was particularly gratifying to see that these compounds, originally designed as anticancer agents, work as a novel class of anti-bacterial agents based on the same principle in bacterial cells," said Chen.

The researchers are hopeful that this early work will ultimately provide insights on the development of a treatment for antibiotic resistant infectious diseases. The team is already working with scientists at the Ohio State Center for Microbial Interface Biology, led by Dr. Larry Schlesinger, to use this technology to develop novel agents against tuberculosis, another public health threat facing similar issues with drug resistance.

MRSA DNA tells scientists where it's been -- and where it might go next

Investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Ohio State College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center have created a statewide "roadmap" of MRSA infections that is helping them better predict how -- and where -- MRSA will spread.

The team, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), used diverse methods from geographic analysis to molecular genotyping to track more than 1,000 MRSA cases from the Wexner Medical Center and community hospitals across Ohio. Experts say using a variety of tracking methods is essential to stopping infections before they start.

"With data from different sources, we've markedly improved our understanding of how MRSA is acquired and then spread among healthcare facilities. For example, we identified a very rare strain in the US, ST-239, which originated in Asia, spread to hospitals in Western Europe, and was introduced to Ohio sometime in the past two decades. It's that level of knowledge that will help us change the course of transmission," said Stevenson, whose research on ST-239 and its presence in healthcare facilities was published online ahead of print in the October issue of Emergent Infectious Diseases.

Using funding from the CCTS, investigators further applied diverse tracking methods to bloodstream isolates from hospitals in Franklin County, Ohio, as well as skin and soft tissue infections among patients receiving primary care in a variety of settings. The results not only demonstrated the value of rapid molecular typing in examining the distribution and transmission of individual MRSA strains, but showed that particular strains tended to cluster in specific places.

"These studies have demonstrated that specific molecular types of MRSA are linked to specific types of infections, or even specific settings. For instance, there are strains that tend to colonize catheters, strains that are more commonly found in nursing homes," said Shu-hua Wang, assistant professor of Infectious Diseases, who worked with Stevenson as part of a mentorship grant from the CCTS. "As we understand why certain MRSA strains behave as they do, more targeted interventions for prevention and treatment can be tested."

Stevenson is hopeful that technology will someday provide a quick and inexpensive on-site genomic analysis of MRSA. In anticipation of that day, the team is using the "roadmap" data to create a MRSA molecular library that provides a detailed background on individual strains, including its drug resistance, weaknesses, and most likely source of transmission. "We're envisioning a future where every patient admitted into a hospital will get a rapid, strain-specific MRSA test and within minutes, a doctor will know exactly what protocol to follow to stop the patient from getting sick, and stop the bacteria from spreading," said Stevenson.

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Facebook Gifts swaps virtual trinkets for real life goods

Remember the Facebook Gift Shop, that place where you could pick up virtual Troll dolls and send them to your friends? Well, it died. But, a phoenix has arisen from its ashes -- Facebook Gifts -- which will allow you to send real Troll dolls to your friends. You'll be able to order gifts for people directly through the social network and suggestions to pick up a little something will be tied into birthday reminders and life events like weddings. The new initiative is the result of its decision to purchase Karma, a social "gifting" app, in May. Over a 100 retailers have signed up for the launch, including Starbucks, and Facebook obviously will be taking a small cut of each sale, which could be a huge source of monetization for the company, especially on the mobile front. Interestingly, friends can be notified before a gift is delivered and will be given a chance to tweak orders -- just in case you don't know your mom as well as you think you do. Gifts is rolling out slowly in select cities now and will expand in the coming weeks. Though, it also has a viral element since once you've been sent a gift you are also blessed with the ability to send gifts yourself. Check out the source links for more details.

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Michael Savage leaves radio show after legal win

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Michael Savage's talk show left the airwaves Thursday after the conservative host won a legal battle with his longtime employer, although his attorney said discussions with new networks are already under way.

Savage posted a message on his website Thursday evening under the headline "Free at Last!" that said he was free to work with any station or network from now on. He said he "will not be heard on the radio for some time."

His attorney Daniel Horowitz said Savage left Talk Radio Network after obtaining a favorable ruling in arbitration Thursday afternoon.

More than 8 million people listen to Savage's show each week, placing him behind only Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in ratings, according to the magazine Talkers. The immediate effect that his abrupt departure would have on companies that advertise on his show was unclear.

An email sent to Oregon-based Talk Radio Network was not immediately returned. Savage's bio and name already have been removed from the company's website.

Horowitz says Savage has been fighting the network for two years to get out a contract that was 10 years old and prevented the host from switching employers. Horowitz said the agreement lacked protections afforded to artists and entertainers under California law, and tied Savage to Talk Radio Network indefinitely.

Horowitz said Savage spent more than $900,000 fighting his case but was awarded more than $1 million in arbitration. The agreement also calls for Savage to be able to obtain all archived tapes of his show.

Savage, who broadcasts from San Francisco, was heard on nearly 400 stations and has gained notoriety for offending immigrants and minorities, calling the Muslim holy book, the Quran, a "book of hate" and being banned in 2009 from traveling to England for allegedly fostering extremism or hatred. After that decision, the host appealed to one of the targets of his barbs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for help.

A State Department spokesman said at the time that countries have a right to determine who is allowed to enter, but declined to comment further on Savage's request.

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Electrons confined inside nano-pyramids

ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? Quantum dots are nanostructures of semiconducting materials that behave a lot like single atoms and are very easy to produce. Given their special properties, researchers see huge potential for quantum dots in technological applications. Before this can happen, however, we need a better understanding of how the electrons "trapped" inside them behave. Dresden physicists have recently observed how electrons in individual quantum dots absorb energy and emit it again as light.

Their results were recently published in the journal Nano Letters.

Quantum dots look like miniscule pyramids. Inside each of these nano-pyramids are always only one or two electrons that essentially "feel" the constricting walls around them and are therefore tightly constrained in their mobility. Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Dresden. TU Dresden and the Leibniz Institute for solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) have now studied the special energy states of the electrons trapped inside individual quantum dots.

Sharp energy levels

The behaviour of electrons in a material essentially determines its properties. Being spatially constrained in all three spatial dimensions, electrons inside a nano-pyramid can only occupy very specific energy levels -- which is why quantum dots are also called "artificial atoms." Where these energy levels lie depends on the chemical composition of the semiconductor material as well as the size of the nano-pyramid. "These sharply defined energy levels are exploited, for example, in highly energy-efficient lasers based on quantum dots. The light is produced when an electron drops from a higher energy level into a lower one. The energy difference between the two levels determines the colour of the light," Dr. Stephan Winnerl of HZDR explains.

Seeing electrons inside individual quantum dots

The researchers in Dresden working with Dr. Winnerl were recently the first to succeed in scanning transitions between energy levels in single quantum dots using infrared light. Although, they could only do this after overcoming a certain hurdle: While the pyramids of indium arsenide or indium gallium arsenide form spontaneously during a specific mode of crystal growth, their size varies within a certain range. Studying them with infrared light, for example, one obtains blurred signals because electrons in different sized pyramids respond to different infrared energies. This is why it is so important to obtain a detailed view of the electrons trapped inside a single quantum dot.

The scientists approached this task with the special method of scanning near-field microscopy. Laser light is shone onto a metallic tip less than 100 nanometers thick, which strongly collimates the light to a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of light, which is the spatial resolution limit for "conventional" optics using lenses and mirrors. By focusing this collimated light precisely onto one pyramid, energy is donated to the electrons, thereby exciting them to a higher energy level. This energy transfer can be measured by watching the infrared light scattered from the tip in this process. While near-field microscopy involves major signal losses, the light beam is still strong enough to excite the electrons inside a nano-pyramid. The method is also so sensitive that it can create a nanoscale image in which the one or two electrons inside a quantum dot stand out in clear contrast. In this fashion, Stephan Winnerl and his colleagues from HZDR, plus physicists from TU and IFW Dresden, studied the behaviour of electrons inside a quantum dot in great detail, thereby contributing towards our understanding of them.

Infrared light from the free electron laser

The infrared light used in the experiments came from the free electron laser at HZDR. This special laser is an ideal infrared radiation source for such experiments because the energy of its light can be adjusted to precisely match the energy level inside the quantum dots. The laser also delivers such intense radiation that it more than makes up for the unavoidable losses inherent to the method.

"Next, we intend to reveal the behaviour of electrons inside quantum dots at lower temperatures," Dr. Winnerl says. "From these experiments, we hope to gain even more precise insights into the confined behavior of these electrons. In particular, we want to gain a much better understanding of how the electrons interact with one another as well as with the vibrations of the crystal lattice." Thanks to its intense laser flashes in a broad, freely selectable spectral range, the free electron laser offers ideal conditions for the method of near-field microscopy in Dresden, which benefits particularly from the close collaboration with Prof. Lukas Eng of TU Dresden in the scope of DRESDEN-concept.

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Rowling not ruling out another Harry Potter book

LONDON (AP) ? J.K. Rowling plans to return to writing for young people ? and the author says she doesn't rule out another book set in Harry Potter's magical world.

Rowling became the world's most successful living writer with her seven novels about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and is pitched into battle against the forces of evil.

Rowling's first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," is being published Thursday, five years after the release of the last volume in the Potter saga.

The 47-year-old author told the BBC that her next book would be "for slightly younger children than the Potter books."

And she said that while "where Harry's story is concerned, I'm done," she was considering a new story set in the same universe.

"I don't want to go mechanically back into that world and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say, 'Here we go, we can sell this,'" Rowling said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. "It would make a mockery of what those books were to me.

"But ... if I did have a great idea for something else, I probably would do it. I am very averse to the prequel-sequel idea. A sidestep could maybe ... well, we'll see."

Rowling also acknowledged that she wished she had had more time to work on a couple of the Potter novels ? she did not name them ? which had been written "on the run."

"And I read them, and I think 'Oh God, maybe I'll go back and do a director's cut,'" Rowling said. "I don't know."

"The Casual Vacancy" is the story of a local election that exposes deep rivalries and dark secrets in a seemingly picture-perfect English village. It's decidedly grown-up in theme and subject, touching on issues including drug addiction, poverty and self-harm.

Rowling ? who has spoken of her own financial struggles, anxiety and depression ? said she anticipated that some of her fans would not like the new book. But she is not worried.

"Harry Potter truly liberated me in the sense that there's only one reason to write, for me ? if I genuinely have something I want to say," she said.

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Communication Items You'll Want Before TSHTF ? Part 1

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September 27th, 2012
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Having good radio equipment is important for many reasons. What will you do when there is no Internet? What will you do when there is no cellphone service? How will you know what?s going on in other parts of the country, let alone the world? Radio signals don?t need an intermediary, they just bounce all over the earth and are received by radios.

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It?s not even necessary that you transmit (speak) on the radio, but the information you can garner from just listening to others from far away is worth the time it takes to understand how to use a radio.

There are many ways to go in purchasing a communications radio, depending on your budget. You can buy yourself a brand new, state-of-the-art Kenwood or I-com for example, both of which are great radios. But the expense can be quite high, typically in the many hundreds of dollars.

A less expensive but just as viable way to go is a ?free band radio?. This is a 10 meter ham radio that has had additional freeband frequencies installed. This will expand coverage to include the 12, 11 (the CB frequency band) and sometimes 9 meter bands. In a converted CB radio, this is called a radio with extra channels.

A 10 meter radio is very common and inexpensive, as well as their low-rent cousins, CB radios. Many can be found on ebay for under $200 and may already have the additional frequencies installed. Also any good SSB (single side band) CB radio can have what they call ?Extra Channels Added? by any good tech. (Lots of mods here?http://www.dxzone.com/tag-cb-mods/.) CB shops at truck stops often times have used free band radios for sale at good prices, but check Ebay for prices on used radios before going.

Any frequency on the radio can be used in various modes, the most common being AM, Single Side Band (SSB), Upper Side Band (USB) and CW. CW means constant wave mode, which is the mode used for Morse Code and RTTY. It is possible to send several and receive multiple pages of text files via RTTY. The software needed can be found here (http://gmfsk.sourceforge.net/?). Radios with a CW mode like the RCI 2950 (et al) and the Uniden HR2510 have the CW mode installed. There are other models that also have CW mode, however no CB radios have CW mode. You can send pictures and text files to others, similar to a fax. This will be an excellent way for the people to maintain contact with others during times of crisis or total collapse.

The legal frequency range of a Citizens Band radio is 26905 megahertz through 27405 megahertz (mostly in 10 kilocycle steps per channel), covering the 40 channels of CB radio. Freebanding is when an unlicensed radio operator uses the non-allocated frequencies in the 11 meter band (CB radio and beyond). When society has collapsed, who care who has a license?

Most freebanders use the Single Side Band (SSB) mode of these channels as opposed to the AM mode. The chatter you may have heard on channel 19 (the truckers channel) is in the AM mode. AM mode of operation is limited in range, however using the SSB mode affords greater range and more output power. A legal CB radio has 4 watts output on the AM band and 12 watts on the SSB band.

This means that when conditions are right (sunspots, etc.) SSB signals can travel greater distances than those in the AM mode. One early morning, while driving west on I-90 in Idaho, I made a contact with Tokyo, Japan using SSB and a HR 2510 Uniden radio. That was a contact of over 7000 miles with less than 20 watts of power.

Once the world goes in to collapse there will still be thousands of people using the freebands. This can be used to create a radio round-robin or?relay?to share information and help others.

The international call frequencies are:

27555 USB The US and the world except for Europe

26285 USB Europe

First a little bit about how to use a call frequency. A call frequency is a frequency on which we make contact with someone who would like to have a conversation with us. The parties then go to another frequency of their choice to continue the conversation. It is unlike the chatter you may have heard on the AM side ? CB Channel 19 and all that noise. The conversation is called a QSO.

First we must wait for a moment of silence to break in and make our call. The protocol for asking for a QSO is like this:

?C-Q, C-Q, NEW MEXICO CALLING AND LISTING ON 27560? is a typical call or CQ (?seek-you?). This tells listeners on the call frequency where to find you to have a conversation. Then we move our frequency dial to that frequency. Once there we make another call like this:

?CQ CQ New Mexico calling for any and all stations.? Or if your are looking to make a contact in a specific place:

?CQ CQ New Mexico Calling for all stations in _____? (the place of your choosing) ?and standing by for contact.?

Antennas

There are many different kinds of viable antennas to use with your radio, some very cheap some very expensive.

Some of you may choose to make a wire antenna. One of the simplest wire antennas is the ?Inverted V? ? very good for long distance communications (what the radio community calls ?skip?). The inverted V can be made for the cost of some wire and a pole.

Others may prefer to purchase something ready made, in a box. For those of you who do, we can strongly suggest the ?V Quad?. This is a directional aluminum antenna that sends a strong signal in only one direction. Like the directional TV antennas of past times, this antenna needs a rotor (this is a motor to turn the antenna from the radio shack or you can use the ?armstrong? method). It is the best non-homebrew antenna that I have ever used.?http://www.livecbradio.com/11-meter-loop-antenna.htm

Either way, when the conditions are right you?ll be talking to the world.

When radio operators say, ?conditions are right? they mean that the skip conditions are good, allowing the radio signals to be received over longer distances than normal. Skip is when the signal travels along a mostly horizontal plane before it eventually hits the ionosphere. Like a flat rock across a lake, the signal will skip along rather than pierce the ionosphere and go out into space. This skip can cause your signal to be received with nearly as much strength as it had when it left your antenna. The contact I had with Tokyo gave me an S10 signal strength, and that is as high as it gets. Sunspots are generally the cause for good skip conditions.

Coming up in Part 2 ? Family Radio Service, Business Radio Service and Scanners.

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Todd Akin Gets Support; Claire McCaskill Attacks

The Missouri Senate race officially kicks into high gear with less than six weeks until the general election. GOP candidate Rep. Todd Akin began a four-day bus tour Tuesday that will criss-cross the state. Meanwhile, incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill released a new push for advertising in Missouri. Despite calls for Akin to resign after controversial remarks Aug. 19, the deadline for him to drop out of the race passed by quietly at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Where did Akin start his statewide tour?

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Akin started in his home territory of St. Louis. Upon launching the Common Sense Bus Tour , Akin told the media outlet in front of 200 cheering supporters, "I have a purpose going into November and that's to replace Claire McCaskill."

Later in the day as the official deadline to drop out passed, Akin was in Cape Girardeau. The Southeast Missourian reveals the conservative candidate spoke for close to 30 minutes in the Bootheel where he reiterated, "And when all is said and done, the people of Missouri chose me to do a job -- and that is to replace Claire McCaskill."

What is McCaskill doing to counter Akin's tour?

A new 30-second advertisement was released called "Todd Akin In His Own Words ." The image of a one-a-day calendar shows Akin's attacks on Social Security in March 2011, Medicare in September 2011, the minimum wage in March, student loans in April and abortion rights with "legitimate rape" in August. The ad concludes, "What will he say next?"

McCaskill also unveiled a new fundraising campaign called "He's In, Let's Win. " The incumbent has a $600,000 fundraising goal between now and Sunday. McCaskill's campaign says, "It's only a matter of time before the Koch brothers and Karl Rove find a way back into Missouri. ? Republicans in Washington are coming back to Missouri... ."

How is Akin's fundraising going?

Reuters reports the Senate Conservatives Fund sent an email to around 100,000 members Tuesday asking if the PAC should send financial resources to the GOP Senate campaign in the Show-Me State. The Missouri Republican Party also voiced its support for Akin. Chairman David Cole told Reuters, "The Missouri Republican Party will do everything we can to assist in [Akin's] efforts."

What groups are backing the conservative candidate?

KOLR states Freedom's Defense Fund will spend around $250,000 buying television and radio advertising to counter McCaskill. Mark Centanni told KOLR the ad buy will be the largest investment in a single election anywhere in the country this fall. He also said one main reason the fund is backing Akin is due to the "establishment making [the comment] into a bigger deal that I think it otherwise would have been."

The New York Times interviewed families of homeschooled children who back Akin. John Thrower told the Times he supports Akin because the candidate homeschooled his own children, just like Thrower does. KTTS reports Sen. Roy Blunt admitted he will work for Akin's election even though the two politicians disagree on many issues.

William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/todd-akin-gets-support-claire-mccaskill-attacks-172900743.html

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For Obama, reality meets idealism in ties with Muslim world

Shades of Cairo were visible in New York this week, as President Obama spoke to the UN General Assembly about America?s relations with the changing Muslim world.

Just as he did in his groundbreaking speech in Egypt early in his presidency, Mr. Obama on Tuesday articulated the need for ?mutual interest and mutual respect? between Muslims and Americans. In New York and Cairo he held out a new idealism toward the Middle East ? one that aligns US security and economic interests with the welfare of the Arab street rather than the longevity of regimes that have failed and abused their peoples.

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But a sea change has occurred in the region since Obama spoke in Cairo in June 2009, and reality has come face to face with idealism. Any American shift in tone or approach is coming against a current of long-defined alliances and deep historic antipathies. The Obama administration?s mixed record underscores the challenges of redefining interests as well as the president?s own diplomatic miscalculations.

As promised, Obama withdrew American forces from Iraq. And he is leading international efforts to penalize Iran with stiff economic sanctions for pursuing a suspected nuclear weapons program. But he has also quietly pushed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to the back burner.

Yes, he joined an international coalition to support the rebellion against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. But he has so far been reluctant to intervene more directly in Syria, where the government is estimated to have killed more than 30,000 civilians in its brutal crackdown against the proponents of democracy.

The president called publicly on Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak to step down, breaking ranks with a stalwart US ally. However, he only tepidly objected when the oil-rich powers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into Bahrain to crush democratic protests there.

Obama?s biggest gamble, perhaps, was to strike a harder open line against Israel in an attempt to strengthen US credibility with Arab leaders. But the end result was that it contributed to the stall in talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and the lack of a Palestinian state continues to work against the US on the Arab street.

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If the president is to bring US policy into closer alignment with a new relationship with the Muslim world, he will have to pay closer attention to four core principles characterizing diplomacy in the Middle East: personal relationships matter, as the late US Amb. Chris Stevens so effectively demonstrated; whatever happens in one part of the region reverberates across the region; consistency is crucial to credibility; and peace in the region depends on finding a lasting solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

These suggest some obvious immediate policy changes.

In Syria, absent consent from the UN Security Council, Obama should construct an international coalition to impose a no-fly zone over the country. This would help cut critical weapons supply-lines from Iran and ground Syria's air power, providing a significant advantage to the Syrian rebellion.

In the nascent democracies of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, security is prerequisite to addressing the pressing concerns of burgeoning and restive youth populations desperate for opportunity. Without strong militaries disciplined under civilian command, these fledgling governments cannot buffer their people against the agitating influences of Islamist and other anti-democracy elements.

And without security, the development central to Obama?s idealism ? equal education opportunities for boys and girls, jobs, trade, growth of sciences and technology ? is unattainable. Offering military and security training assistance, particularly in Libya and Yemen, is vital to professionalizing those forces under civilian control and insulating these new governments and their societies from destabilizing extremist movements.

Finally, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process must be prioritized again. No issue is more emotive in the Muslim world. The perennial lament heard from both sides ? that there is no one to talk to on the other side ? cannot be allowed to abide. And it follows that as long as the heart of the region festers unresolved, the region will not progress.

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The historical transition under way in the Middle East rightly calls for redefined interests and priorities. Obama?s new idealism requires consistent resolve for it to take root and effect lasting change.

Kurt Shillinger is a former political reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. He also covered sub-Saharan Africa for The Boston Globe.

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Obama urges unity on embassy attacks, no details on Syria

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday appealed to world leaders to reject attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world sparked by an anti-Islam video and called anew for the ouster of Syria's president without saying how to make it happen.

Obama also told the U.N. General Assembly the United States "will do what we must" to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons - a veiled threat of military force - one day after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel would be "eliminated."

The U.S. president reiterated his preference for a diplomatic solution but told Iran that "time is not unlimited."

Both appeared to brush aside a warning against "inflammatory" rhetoric from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who on Tuesday said nations must not threaten military action and that the consequences of using force would be devastating. Ban also warned the 193-nation assembly that the door to Israeli-Palestinian peace may be closing "for good."

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, reflecting growing frustration with the U.N. Security Council's deadlock on Syria's 18-month civil war, told the assembly that it is time for Arab nations to take matters into their own hands and "interfere" in Syria. He did not offer details.

Obama's speech followed two weeks in which the United States suffered attacks on its diplomatic missions in Muslim nations in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. It was his final U.N. appearance before the November 6 U.S. presidential election.

Beginning and ending his speech by evoking Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya who died with three other Americans in a September 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Obama made a plea for nations to unite against such attacks.

"It is the obligation of all leaders in all countries to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism," Obama said. "There is no speech that justifies mindless violence."

The violence in Libya, as well as attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt, Tunisia, Indonesia and other Muslim nations, was sparked by a video made in California that depicts the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, fool and child abuser.

'CALL ME AWFUL THINGS'

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, Indonesia, called for a binding international treaty to "prevent incitement to hostility or violence based on religions or beliefs."

Obama, while repeating his condemnations of the video as "crude and disgusting" and stressing the U.S. government had nothing to do with its production, defended freedom of speech.

"As president of our country, and commander-in-chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so," Obama said, drawing applause and some laughter.

"It is time to marginalize those who, even when not directly resorting to violence, use hatred of America or the West or Israel as the central organizing principle of politics, for that only gives cover, and sometimes makes an excuse for, those who do resort to violence," he added.

Obama is likely to have disappointed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his comments on Iran because he did not lay down any "red lines" that the Israeli leader has demanded to trigger military action if Iran crosses them.

Iran says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful uses such as generating electricity or producing medical isotopes.

"Let me be clear: America wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so. But that time is not unlimited," Obama said.

"The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," he added.

'THE BLOODSHED IN SYRIA'

While some nations, notably in the Arab World, have called for more robust international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, the U.N. Security Council has been deadlocked, and Russia and China have vetoed three resolutions condemning Damascus. Qatar said it was time for action outside the United Nations.

"I think that it is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria," Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said.

Syria has accused Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of supplying arms to the Syrian rebels.

U.S. officials have privately made clear that they have no appetite for a military intervention without U.N. sanction in another Muslim country just as they have wound down the U.S. war in Iraq and are largely pulling out of Afghanistan by 2014.

"The international community should not look the other way as violence spirals out of control," Ban said.

Obama provided no clear direction forward.

"As we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin," he said, calling for harmony among Sunnis, Alawites, Christians and Kurds in Syria.

"That is the outcome that we will work for, with sanctions and consequences for those who persecute and assistance and support for those who work for this common good," he said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sounded a note of caution. "There is no military solution to the Syrian crisis," she told the General Assembly. "Diplomacy and dialogue are not just our best option, they are the only option."

A year after the Palestinians mounted an ultimately failed effort for U.N. membership, Obama passed quickly over the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"The road is hard, but the destination is clear - a secure Jewish state of Israel and an independent, prosperous Palestine," Obama said. "America will walk alongside all who are prepared to make that journey."

Ban offered a pessimistic assessment, suggesting that time had nearly run out for such a negotiated solution. "The two-state solution is the only sustainable option. Yet the door may be closing, for good," Ban said.

(Writing by Arshad Mohammed; Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Brian Winter, David Brunnstrom, Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols; Editing by Will Dunham)

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