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I'm Walking For Breast Cancer Research - Waterford, CT Patch
I don't know anyone who has not been touched by breast cancer in some way.
My best friend is a breast cancer survivor. I lost one of my dearest friends to breast cancer. My grandmother was diagnosed and had a mastectomy in her 80s.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there are so many great organizations in Connecticut that are holding great events to both raise awareness and money. I want to tell you about the event in which I am participating, the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation's Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut.
In their own words, here is the background on this group:
In 2005, two friends, Norma Logan (1958-2006) and Sandy Maniscalco started the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation (TBBCF). The desire to establish a non-profit organization was from frustration at seeing successful fundraising efforts being diverted from research to cover organizational overhead. For example, between 2004 and 2005 Norma and Sandy led a small group of individuals in raising $200,000 for an internationally renowned breast cancer foundation's sponsorship of a 3-Day Walk. Upon investigating the financials of the 3-Day event, it was determined that 40% of all money raised went to overhead. Of the $200,000 raised by Norma's and Sandy's group, $80,000 never made it to critical programs or research. Determined to address this issue and ensure money was directed at finding a cure, these women established a unique non-profit organization, which through sponsorship and volunteerism, is able to direct 100 percent of total gross fundraising efforts to breast cancer research.
TBBCF offers three options for walkers:
2012 Walk Across Southeastern CT Options
- A quarter marathon (6.55 miles) with each participant raising a minimum of $200 each.?
- A half marathon (13.1 miles) with each participant raising a minimum of $250 each.?
- A marathon (26.2 miles) with each participant raising a minimum of $500 each.
Also,
- Youth between the ages of 12 and 18 can register with a fundraising commitment of $100.?
- Teams can register and track their individual and team fundraising
This year, a few Patchers have gotten together and are walking as a team. We are walking the quarter-marathon and our goal is to raise $1,000. To support us, go to the main fundraising page and search on one of our names: Elissa Bass, Bree Shirvell, Nicole Ball, Jessie King, Dirk Langeveld.
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Indiana Jones plot comes to life as Nazi Buddha revealed to be carved from meteorite
The Nazi-backed venture which discovered the statue set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race ? a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology.
A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite.
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EnlargeAn ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago.
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What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have actually taken place, according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month.
Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart said Thursday the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race ? a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology.
The existence of the 10.6-kilogram (23.4-pound) statue, known as "iron man," was only revealed in 2007 when its owner died and it came up for auction, Buchner told The Associated Press.
German and Austrian scientists were able to get permission from its new owner, who wasn't disclosed, to conduct a chemical analysis that shows the statue came from the Chinga meteorite, which crashed in the area of what is now the Russian and Mongolian border around 15,000 years ago.
The meteorite was officially discovered in 1913, but Buchner said the statue could be 1,000 years old and represent a Buddhist god called Vaisravana.
The Nazis were probably attracted to it by a left-facing swastika symbol on its front. The swastika has been used by various cultures throughout the ages, but the Nazis tried to appropriate it as the symbol of their ideology, going so far as to put a right-facing version of it on their red and white flag.
Scientists not involved in the study told the AP that the research linking the statue to the meteorite was credible.
"Looks like a solid piece of geochemical 'forensic' work," said Qing-Zhu Yin, a researcher in geology at the University of California, Davis. "No terrestrial artifact would generally contain that much nickel content. Chemical elements don't lie."
Rhian Jones, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico who specializes in meteorites, said the claim appeared conclusive.
"There is a clear and convincing argument that the meteorite the statue is made from is the Chinga iron meteorite," she said.
But Yin cast doubt on the claim that the statue represented a Buddhist deity.
"I am not a historian. But the 'iron man' does not look like a?Buddha?to me from my cultural background," he said. "It looks more like a warrior with a sword ... (a) resemblance of Genghis Khan. ... I have never seen aBuddha?with a sword or knife."
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's Parliament Speaker Boris Sprem died during treatment for blood cancer in the United States, the parliament said on Sunday.
Sprem, 56, became speaker last December. He was first diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago.
Before becoming Speaker, he was president of the city assembly in the capital Zagreb.
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Shortage of Engineers Is Causing 'Crisis' In Tech IndustryA lack of qualified workers in the tech industry is causing a crisis, says Microsoft. The firm has started lobbying in Washington, calling for a new approach to science, technology, engineering and math teaching at schools, and warning that if changes are not made, the U.S. will lose out to other, better-prepared nations.
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Karl Grossman: The Affable, Consensus-Seeking Bill Lindsay ...
Bill Lindsay, the affable, consensus-seeking presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature since 2006, is a victim of occupational exposure to asbestos.? It happened not during his government service but in his prior work as an electrician and as an official of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers inspecting job sites at which fellow electricians suspected they were being exposed to asbestos.
At the start of this year, Lindsay was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos. This came shortly after he was unanimously re-elected to a seventh term as the legislature?s presiding officer, after county executive the Number 2 position in Suffolk County government.
Lindsay was an electrician for 15 years and for 23 years business agent and business manager of Local 25 of the IBEW, which covers electricians in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.? In working as an electrician, ?a lot of the time? he recounted last week, he had to ?scrape off the asbestos fireproofing? from beams before attaching electrical conduits to them. ?You ended up breathing in asbestos.?
And although ?asbestos was outlawed in 1972,? he noted, there were still large amounts of it in existing structures. As an IBEW official he would regularly go to where ?my members? were concerned about being exposed to asbestos. ?I implemented a program for my members in which a sample of the fireproofing would be sent to a laboratory for examination.?? This was needed because ?a lot of landlords lied about asbestos??claimed it didn?t exist in their buildings. The tests presented the proof.
But, in going repeatedly to the scenes of likely asbestos contamination, Lindsay was exposed, too, in addition to his exposure when he worked as an electrician. Of mesothelioma, he noted, ?You only get it from asbestos.?
Indeed, the website www.MesotheliomHelp.net opens under the heading ?Mesothelioma?The Cancer Caused by Asbestos,? with information on the connection including a 2010 National Academy of Sciences study. ?Asbestos is a known carcinogen and is proven to cause mesothelioma,? it states. ?Often called ?asbestos cancer,? mesothelioma is highly aggressive and is resistant to many standard cancer treatments.?
?The good news,? said Lindsay last week, ?is that on August 11 the doctor told me I was cancer-free. The bad news is that they took out my lung.?
His remaining lung has ?really picked up functionality and is operating at 94 percent,? he said. He?s generally ?feeling good?It depends on the day.? ?Lindsay will be 66 in November. He plans to continue on the legislature through the end of next year when its term-limit of six two-year terms kicks in for him. He then intends to retire. If there is a medical downturn before that, ?I would retire immediately.?
Lindsay, a Holbrook Democrat, has been popular with his peers as presiding officer. His approach as the legislature?s leader, he explained, has been to ?have a personal relationship with every legislator and work together to make a better government.?
What Lindsay has been hit with is mirrored in the millions of people similarly struck by cancer. The World Health Organization determined in 2010 that cancer had become the world?s leading cause of death, overtaking heart disease. Why the cancer epidemic? Report after report attributes it mainly to the toxic substances in the water we drink, the food we eat, the consumer products we use, the air we breathe. As the President?s Cancer Panel stated in a 2010 report, ?Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,? we are ?bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures.? ?It urged President Obama ?most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nation?s productivity, and devastate American lives.? It emphasized that there are safe ?alternatives? to cancer-causing agents.
The U.S. government has generally failed to act because of the power of those poisoning people. I wrote a book on this in 1982, ?The Poison Conspiracy.? Asbestos, for example, was known as a carcinogen as far back as 1929 and nothing was done?and safe alternatives were always available. As to the corporations responsible, consider Johns Manville, the global giant in manufacturing asbestos products. In 1982, faced with thousands of asbestos injury lawsuits, it declared bankruptcy.
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Karl Grossman has covered Long Island politics for over 50 years.
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Achieving Early Retirement With Melaleuca
The baby boomer generationincludes 79 million people?26 percent of the population?in just the United States alone. In 2011, the first of this generation reached age 65, and for the 19 years after, approximately 10,000 more of them will reach that age every single day.
Needless to say, financing retirement is a hot topic these days. Far too many retirement-age folks are getting caught without enough money to survive after they leave the workforce. And with fewer jobs available for older workers, many baby boomers are learning that they won?t be able to work through their retirement years even if they want to.
Retirement should be on your mind whether you?re 20 or 60, whether you have grandchildren or you?re young and single, and whether you?re wealthy or poor. As Corporate Director Jim McCune is fond of saying, ?Your life today is the result of your attitude and the choices you have made in the past; your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitude and the choices you make today.?
Melaleuca: A plan with a future
A typical day for Terry and Marty Johnson might start with business calls, but the Johnsons will tell you their official employment status is ?retired.? Their lifestyle might not fit the stereotypical concept of retirement?you won?t find any rocking chairs on their front porch and they aren?t counting sunsets yet?but the Johnsons say they?re spending their time exactly how they like to spend it.
?I want to help this little team in the Texas Hill Country get where they want to be,? Marty says about her morning Melaleuca calls. ?We helped one of our customers become a Director this month. We go to bed when we want to, wake up when we want to and have our morning coffee together every day. It?s a huge blessing to have the resources, time and health we have.?
Although the Johnsons enjoy a tremendous amount of flexibility in their schedules today, their lives weren?t always that way.
When they first heard about Melaleuca, the Johnsons never imagined it would help them purchase a home and retire early. Terry already had an established career as the president of Oklahoma Christian University, and Marty served as the university?s first lady. Their schedule was consumed with campus construction and renovations, increasing student enrollments, and hosting university events, as well as spending time with their two recently married daughters.
Then one day, Executive Director II Dr. Michael Feldman, a university donor, paid Marty a visit.
?He and Nancy Mitchell, my sister-in-law, pulled up in a brand-new Mercedes convertible,? Marty remembers. ?They told me about this neat company in Idaho Falls that made some outstanding products. I told them I didn?t have time to build a business?but then I tried the products.?
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Before she knew it, Marty was sharing Melaleuca?s products with others, inadvertently laying the foundation for her Melaleuca business.
Soon after, Marty achieved Senior Director and qualified for the Car Bonus. Terry already drove an elegant, spacious Lincoln Town Car that belonged to the university, but Marty had been good-naturedly driving a beat-up Chevrolet Citation, complete with a difficult-to-maneuver stick shift and broken air conditioner. Then, with her Car Bonus, Marty purchased a sharp-looking green Mercury Grand Marquis?the first of seven cars Marty paid for with Car Bonus checks.
?I loved having a legitimate car,? Marty says. ?That Citation was so hard to drive.?
Only nine months later, Marty became an Executive Director and achieved a larger annual income than she ever imagined.
?Melaleuca helped me realize I had the ability to earn a larger income,? Marty says. ?I took pride in that, and Terry was so appreciative of having another income stream.?
From house to home
The Johnsons knew that some day they?d need to leave their university-owned house in Oklahoma City. When Terry learned of a picturesque home loaded with amenities on a verdant golf resort near their grandchildren in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, his curiosity was piqued. The Johnsons closed on the house just as Terry finished his 21-year tenure as a university president.
?Our Melaleuca income gave us the courage to purchase that home,? Terry says. ?Without Melaleuca, we never would have ventured out and acquired a place like this.?
For five more years, Terry continued working as the university?s chancellor. Marty, however, loved their new home in Texas and started spending more and more time there. Before long, the Johnsons took an early retirement and moved to Texas for good.
?Not only did we purchase that beautiful property, but Terry also retired at 58,? Marty says. ?We couldn?t have done that without our Melaleuca income.?
An early retirement unlocked new opportunities. In just a few years, they traveled to China, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, France, Italy and Spain. Marty particularly loved Paris, and Terry enjoyed seeing the Terra Cotta Soldiers in Xi?an, China, in person.
?We were still in really good health when we retired,? Terry says. ?It was amazing for us to have time freedom to travel before we reached our 60s and to engage with our grandkids while they were still young. We got to see and do things we might not have done if we?d retired later in life.?
Just two years ago, the Johnsons achieved Total Financial Freedom when they paid off their mortgage. Melaleuca CEO Frank L. VanderSloot flew out to help them celebrate by burning their mortgage papers.
?It was emotional for us to pay off our mortgage and burn the papers,? Marty says. ?There?s no greater feeling than not having a house payment. We hosted a big cookout with 75 friends?it was really exciting.?
?Earlier in our lives, we carried too much debt, and the difference is night and day,? Terry adds. ?We really believed in getting ourselves out of debt so we could focus on sharing our resources with others in need.?
Now, 12 years since they retired and 20 since they started building a Melaleuca business, the Johnsons enjoy the peace of mind that comes from true residual income combined with freedom from debt. They know they?ve created a legacy of financial freedom they can pass on to their children and grandchildren.
?We invested in a self-retirement program while I was working,? Terry says. ?But we really haven?t had to draw much from that fund or rely on Social Security because our Melaleuca checks take care of our monthly expenses.?
Free from financial stress, they spend their time with hobbies and family. Terry enjoys writing books, and Marty ?has never met a set of golf clubs she didn?t like.? They?re planning to take their family on a trip to Hawaii to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 2014. In the meantime, they love traveling to support their favorite baseball team: the St. Louis Cardinals.
?We attended the World Series in 2006 and again in 2011, and we were at the all-star game in St. Louis in 2009,? Terry says. ?Just last night I bought baseball tickets for a St. Louis trip with our grandchildren in July and tickets for the opera while we?re there. Those are trips we almost take for granted; they?re just part of the time and financial freedom we enjoy because of Melaleuca.?
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Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security
FILE - This Aug. 18, 2012 file photo shows Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, introducing his mother, Betty Ryan Douglas, to supporters at a campaign rally in The Villages, Fla. Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds. Seniors vote at a higher rate than any other age group, so they'll be a deciding factor in the presidential election. Seniors backed the Republican candidate in the last two presidential elections. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
FILE - This Aug. 18, 2012 file photo shows Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, introducing his mother, Betty Ryan Douglas, to supporters at a campaign rally in The Villages, Fla. Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds. Seniors vote at a higher rate than any other age group, so they'll be a deciding factor in the presidential election. Seniors backed the Republican candidate in the last two presidential elections. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012 file photo shows Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaking at the AARP convention in New Orleans. Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds. Seniors vote at a higher rate than any other age group, so they'll be a deciding factor in the presidential election. Seniors backed the Republican candidate in the last two presidential elections. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds.
Who wins the trust of seniors, a group that votes at a higher rate than any other, will be a deciding factor in the presidential election. That should be good news for Mitt Romney, because those 65 and older have backed the Republican candidate in both of the last two presidential elections.
But President Barack Obama has been pounding Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, on their plan for Medicare. Those attacks are starting to bear fruit for Obama, who is gaining ground among seniors in two key battlegrounds: Florida and Ohio.
Still, Romney has the edge nationally among seniors ? in no small part thanks to seniors' concerns about Obama's handling of the economy.
Nowhere will the senior vote be as powerful or as prominent as in Florida, where Romney and Obama are competing fiercely.
"It's not just the cookie cutter that every senior here is totally dependent on Social Security and Medicare," said Susan MacManus, a political scientist at the University of South Florida. "As the FDR generation has passed and generational replacement has occurred, you get a more divided senior electorate."
More seniors say the economy is extremely important to their vote than Medicare, says a poll released Thursday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. A recent Associated Press-GfK poll shows 7 in 10 seniors say taxes and the federal deficit are important to them.
Even for those well into retirement, a feeble economy affects older Americans in ways you might not realize. Many have had to bail out adult children who have lost their jobs and turned to their aging parents for help. And those who lived through the Great Depression as children relate intimately to the perils of an over-indebted nation.
Just ask Dominic Santoro, an 81-year-old retiree from Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., who said it's different for seniors than it is for younger Americans, who have years to make up what was lost during the recession.
"That's very nice, but what about the poor senior citizen that's no longer working and can't replace that money?" said Santoro, who plans to vote for Romney.
But if seniors' concerns extend beyond entitlements, those seeking the White House don't seem to have caught on.
Obama and Ryan both hewed closely to themes of Medicare and Social Security in their speeches last week to an AARP summit in New Orleans. Ryan, who was loudly booed for vowing to repeal "Obamacare," offered assurances that he and Romney wouldn't alter Medicare for those in or near retirement.
"Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it," Ryan said. "A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare ? for my mom's generation and for my kids and yours."
Not so, said Obama, warning seniors that Ryan and Romney want to replace Medicare with vouchers that wouldn't keep up with health care costs. It's an admonition echoed in a television ad Obama's campaign started airing Friday in Florida, Colorado and Iowa.
Both Ryan and Romney invoked their late grandmothers in working to convince AARP members that they understand what seniors go through.
"She was a great citizen who lived up to her responsibilities," Obama said. "And after a lifetime of hard work, what she hoped for in return was to be able to live out her golden years with dignity and security, and to see her grandchildren and her great grandchildren have a better life."
Although far from a monolithic bloc, seniors by and large have sided with Romney throughout this year's election and favored the former Massachusetts governor 52-41 in a national AP-GfK poll in September. While Romney has lost his edge among overall voters on handling of the economy, seniors are the holdout, preferring Romney by 10 points over Obama on that issue.
But in competitive states that could determine the election's outcome, seniors' attitudes are on the move. Over the past month, Obama has climbed 9 points in Florida and 4 points in Ohio, giving him an edge over Romney in both states, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll. It's the opposite in Pennsylvania, where Obama has lost his edge among seniors and now trails Romney 45-50.
Older voters will make up a dramatically larger part of the population in the coming decades, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences. Americans are living longer, working longer and waiting until later in life to have children.
In the near term, that shift may work in Republicans' favor, offsetting some of the boost that Democrats are expected to enjoy from the growing minority population.
Those who witnessed a post-Depression resurgence tend to fondly recall FDR's New Deal and may be more likely to vote Democratic, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But as time marches on, they'll be replaced by their younger counterparts.
"The ones who came up since then, the so-called 'Silent Generation, has moved more conservative on fiscal issues," said Frey. They came into their own in the 1950s and 1960s, saved their money and want to know those savings will still be there when it's time to draw them out.
Their children, the baby boomers, are more fragmented when it comes to their financial situations and living arrangements. Many had fewer children than their parents' generation and now, facing retirement, have less support from their sons and daughters. Some have solid pensions and are in good shape. Still others are female heads of household with little savings.
And for many of those who grew up in an America marked by the turbulence of World War II, global unrest and anti-American rage may be all the more disconcerting.
"I used to be proud to be an American," said Diane Fritz, a 69-year-old Romney supporter from Port Charlotte, Fla. "We don't even look like we're a strong country anymore."
Barbara Kelleher, 66, an Obama supporter, put it another way:
"Suddenly you think, 'What's going to happen and how is this going to affect my grandchildren's future?'" said Kelleher, of Loveland, Colo. "You want the world to be a safe place."
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Obama takes world stage to fend off Romney attacks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Taking a detour from the campaign trail to the world stage, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to counter attacks on his foreign policy record from Republican rival Mitt Romney on everything from the Iranian nuclear standoff to U.S.-Israeli relations to the Arab Spring.
At the podium of the cavernous U.N. General Assembly hall six weeks before the U.S. election, Obama addressed both American voters and world leaders, as he defended his approach to global challenges that have started piling up in the final stretch of a close presidential race.
Obama's stern warning to Iran over its nuclear program was meant not only for the mullahs in Tehran and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has pressed Washington to take a tougher tack, but also for pro-Israel voters who could help sway the election in battleground states like Florida and Ohio.
His challenge to the fast-changing Arab world to embrace democratic values of free speech and tolerance and reject the kind of anti-U.S. violence that has swept the region in recent weeks was a clear rebuttal to Republican accusations that he has apologized for America and weakened its global standing.
"I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day," Obama said, in a comment that could be read as referring to both flag-burning protesters in Islamabad and political opponents at home. "And I will defend their right to do so."
The line drew laughter from an audience that otherwise sat in mostly polite but stoic silence.
With Obama headed to battleground Ohio on Wednesday, and Romney arriving there on Tuesday for a bus tour with vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan, both presidential campaigns are likely to return to bread-and-butter economic messages.
But foreign policy and America's world standing have become more of a factor in the campaign during the last two weeks, as the Muslim world has been roiled by protests over a film mocking the Prophet Mohammed. The issues dominated the day.
Sensing an opening, Romney and Ryan have escalated their attacks on the president's handling of world events.
And after Obama's U.N. address, the Republican camp made clear they weren't letting up.
Eric Cantor, Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, said Obama's foreign policy is "rudderless."
Paula Dobriansky, a Romney foreign policy adviser, was more specific.
"President Obama listed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Syria, and Iran as major challenges facing the international community," she said. "But those are three vital issues on which President Obama has unfortunately made no progress. The rhetoric doesn't match the policy."
SHORT CEASEFIRE
Before returning to the campaign trail, Romney and Obama observed a brief ceasefire in New York, with both men delivering statesmanlike speeches to Bill Clinton's global charity.
Romney told the Clinton Global Initiative, a foundation set up by the former Democratic president, that the United States should do more to encourage free enterprise as a way of creating jobs in the developing world.
The Republican largely avoided criticizing Obama in front of an audience that included many prominent Democrats. But his message that U.S. foreign aid frequently supplants private enterprise reflected one of his central complaints against the Obama administration.
"A temporary aid package can jolt an economy. It can fund some projects. It can pay some bills. It can employ some people some of the time," Romney said. "But it can't sustain an economy ? not for long."
Speaking at the same venue a few hours later, Obama outlined new steps to fight human trafficking.
Neither Romney nor Obama are likely to talk about foreign aid or human trafficking when they return to Ohio, a politically divided state that will be crucial in determining who wins the November 6 election.
With only six weeks until the vote, Romney is running out of time to gain ground on the incumbent president.
Obama widened his lead in the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll to 7 percentage points over Romney, up 1 point from Monday. Obama now leads among likely voters 49 to 42 percent.
'DO WHAT WE MUST'
At the United Nations, Obama made his case in a statesmanlike way that struck a sharp contrast with the festive back-and-forth of campaign rallies that have come to occupy much of his time. But his message was still deeply infused with election-year politics.
Obama's annual visit followed protests over the anti-Islam video made in California that posed a huge dilemma for a U.S. leader who took office promising a "new beginning" with the Muslim world. He has also had to grapple with an escalating crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations over Iran's nuclear program and bloodshed in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad remains in power despite Obama's demand that he step down.
Honing in on Iran, Obama warned that United States will "do what we must" to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon and said time was running short for diplomacy.
That pledge fell far short of Netanyahu's demand that Obama set a "red line" that Tehran must not cross if it is to avoid military action, and it was unclear whether it would be enough to placate Netanyahu.
There was no immediate reaction to Obama's comments from Israeli leaders, with the country closed down for the holiest Jewish day of the year, Yom Kippur.
Obama also sought to reassure U.S. voters that he is doing everything he can to head off more violence like the recent September 11 attack in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three of his colleagues.
Americans were stunned by recent images of U.S. flags again burning in the Muslim world, the focus of intense personal diplomacy by the president at the start of his term.
In his speech, he faced the delicate task of articulating U.S. distaste for insults to any religion while at the same time insisting there is no excuse for a violent reaction - a distinction rejected by many Muslims.
Obama defended his approach to the Arab Spring but offered no detailed solutions to an array of crises that threaten to chip away at a foreign policy record that his aides hoped would be immune from Republican attack during the run-up to Election Day.
Despite Obama's international woes, administration officials are heartened by Romney's own recent foreign policy stumbles and doubt that the president's critics will gain traction in a campaign that remains focused mainly on the U.S. economy.
With pressures building in the presidential race, Obama's brief final turn on the world stage left little doubt about his immediate priorities.
He skipped the customary one-on-one meetings with foreign counterparts but went ahead with the taping of a campaign-style appearance on ABC's popular television talk-show "The View."
However, after coming under Republican criticism for the tradeoff, the White House said Obama did meet briefly with Yemen's new president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Obama dropped in on talks he was having with a senior U.S. aide and thanked him for helping protect U.S. diplomats during recent unrest in the country.
(Writing by Matt Spetalnick, Additional reporting by Steve Holland and Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem. Editing by Warren Strobel, Will Dunham and Christopher Wilson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-detours-campaign-trail-world-stage-050526567.html
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China hits back at Japan PM's statement on islands
BEIJING (AP) ? China on Thursday attacked Japan's prime minister as obstinate and wrong for saying his nation won't compromise in their dispute over who owns tiny islands in the East China Sea.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said in New York a day earlier that the islands are clearly an "inherent part of our territory, in light of history and international law." He said that issues over the islands should be resolved peacefully and by the rule of law.
"China is strongly disappointed and sternly opposes the Japanese leader's obstinacy regarding his wrong position" on the matter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that repeated China's stance that Japan was ignoring historical facts and international laws.
"The country seriously challenges the post-war international order, but tries to take the rules of international law as a cover. This is self-deceiving," Qin said in a separate statement.
Senior diplomats from both countries have met this week in New York and Beijing in an attempt to mend ties frayed by the spat over the island group in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
The islands, held by Japan, are uninhabited but sit astride rich fishing waters and potentially large reserves of natural gas. They are also claimed by Taiwan.
Japan's purchase of some of the islands from their private Japanese owners two weeks ago sparked sometimes violent protests in China that targeted Japanese-owned stores and factories.
Noda defended the purchase as an attempt to ensure their "stable management," but conceded "it seems that China has yet to understand that."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-hits-back-japan-pms-statement-islands-061155557.html
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Carnage in 1L Enrollments. The question is, will we see this spread to undergraduate enrollment, too?
I think so.
Meanwhile, I was talking to someone at a small, posh private law school recently who said their entering class turned out to be 30 fewer than expected. That?s probably about a million-dollar budget hit, give or take. And remember that law school budgets are typically 80-90 percent salary, making it hard to cut spending quickly. I expect there?s a lot of that going around.
Source: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/151244/
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