tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84390837267090817992024-03-21T12:48:09.798-07:00Abah BlogsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-76553370531782533862015-10-07T01:47:00.003-07:002015-10-07T01:48:02.774-07:00Welcome to the dark side: Comet's hidden face emerges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">For a long five and a half years, Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko's southern side has been shrouded by darkness. Now, it's coming into the light, and new microwave images, taken before the big reveal, suggest that the comet's "dark side" may have a very unusual composition.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has been orbiting and investigating <a href="http://www.space.com/28724-comet-67p-target-of-rosetta-mission.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Comet 67P</a> since August 2014 with the help of its Philae comet lander. The probe pulled together the most detailed portrait ever of a comet, but had one particular blind spot: the comet's southern side, which is dark for over 5.5 years before a brief, searing-hot year in the light during the comet's closest approach to the sun. Until that time, only Rosetta's microwave instrument, MIRO, could make any sense of the blackness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"We observed the 'dark side' of the comet with MIRO on many occasions after Rosetta's arrival at 67P/C-G, and these unique data are telling us something very intriguing about the material just below its surface," Mathieu Choukroun, lead author of the new study and researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a statement. [<a href="http://www.space.com/24266-rosetta-comet-mission-photos-esa.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Spectacular Comet Photos from Rosetta</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The group investigated data from that region from August to October 2014, and found evidence suggesting a large amount of ice had built up. MIRO's measurements indicated that material very near the surface is transparent, probably consisting of water ice or carbon-dioxide ice. This is very different from the dusty surface elsewhere on the comet.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-80279217638951052162015-10-06T01:49:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:49:33.095-07:0050 graves uncovered at medieval pilgrimage site in England<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">The skeletal remains of about 50 medieval individuals have been discovered in shallow graves near the pilgrimage site of a famous seventh-century saint in England.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The human remains, which have been exhumed, may help archaeologists learn more about the medieval era, according to Archaeology Warwickshire, an archaeology and excavation firm. The company plans to study each skeleton to determine its sex and approximate age, and to identify evidence of injuries or diseases preserved in the bones, said Stuart Palmer, the business manager of Archaeology Warwickshire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"The teeth will give us a lot of information about diet, as well," Palmer told Live Science. "There's a potential for more in-depth study, but we first have to assess the quality of material to see if it's worth trying to do." [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/52343-photos-medieval-skeletons-lichfield-cathedral.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">See Photos of the Medieval Graves near Lichfield Cathedral</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Archaeologists with the firm discovered the burials in early August. They received a commission to survey the land around an almshouse, located outside the gates of the medieval city of Lichfield, located in the West Midlands. During medieval times, pilgrims traveled to Lichfield to visit its famed three-spired cathedral from the 12th century, which held the tomb of St. Chad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Lichfield <a href="http://www.livescience.com/51737-goliath-city-gates-uncovered-israel.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">closed its city gates</a> every night about 9 p.m., and pilgrims who arrived after that time would have stayed in the almshouse, called the Hospital of St. John Baptist without the Barrs (the barrs referred to the city gates).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Archaeology Warwickshire surveyed the grounds around the almshouse this summer, just before a planned expansion of the compound. The archaeologists expected to find some graves but "we weren't really expecting the volume and quantity that we got," Palmer said.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-40280154256881397672015-10-04T01:50:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:50:27.995-07:00Nazis turned candy bars into a secret weapon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">First, force the British to endure food shortages—then make them eat exploding candy bars. That was at least part of the Nazi plan to destroy Britain during World War II, according to drawings of German weapons recently seen for the first time, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nazis-wanted-beat-brits-exploding-chocolate-bars-180956798/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Smithsonian</a></em> reports.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Among the drawings: a bomb hidden in a motor-oil can and a mess tin of bangers and mash that also held a bomb, per <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34396939" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">the BBC</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Then there's the chocolate bar (viewable <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/649077786741706752" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">in this tweet</a>), which was designed to detonate seven seconds after the chocolate was broken. The Nazis reportedly hoped to assassinate Winston Churchill with such a bar by placing it amid items going into the War Cabinet's dining room, according to a letter discovered in 2009, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9405919/Death-by-chocolate-plot-to-kill-Sir-Winston-Churchill.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Telegraph</a></em> reported three years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That 1943 letter was written by Lord Rothschild to artist Laurence Fish, who also made the drawings of various Nazi booby-traps. Rothschild—"a larger-than-life character, a scientist and self-appointed expert on many things," the BBC says—was also one third of MI5's counter-espionage unit, along with his secretary (and future wife) and police inspector Donald Fish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Rothschild wanted someone to draw the devices he was finding—in order to create a sort of manual for any Brits who might encounter them—and Fish recommended his son, Laurence, a self-taught draughtsman, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Sketches-Nazi-booby-trap-bombs-artist-Laurence/story-27896914-detail/story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Gloucestershire Echo</a></em> reports.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-17396521421987192792015-10-03T01:51:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:51:55.336-07:00‘Ant island’ floats on South Carolina floodwaters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">A FOX Carolina reporter witnessed an unusual sight while covering flood conditions in Greenville County, S.C. Sunday – an <a href="http://www.foxcarolina.com/Clip/11896746/fire-ant-island" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">island of ants</a> floating on the surface of the water.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">FOX Carolina’s Adrian Acosta recorded video of what he initially thought was a pile of mud.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Fire ants have the ability to form life rafts out of their own bodies, FOX Carolina reports, citing researchers at Georgia Tech. The ants can reportedly remain in the formation for weeks.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-75615946111016785792015-10-02T01:53:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:53:55.082-07:00Scientists discover 'glowing' sea turtle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">In late July, deep sea divers made a glowing discovery: a sea turtle that reflected light.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Marine biologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer David Gruber of City University of New York, says he discovered the animals while he was filming bioflouresence in small sharks and coral reefs in the Solomon Islands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gruber told <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/150928-biofluorescent-hawksbill-sea-turtle-vin?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20150929video-glowingturtlevod&utm_campaign=Content&sf13589547=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">National Geographic</a> that during a crocodile hunt one night, "there came out of nowhere this fluorescent turtle. It looked like a big spaceship gliding into view, an alien craft with a patchwork of neon green and red all over its head and body.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The turtle, identified as the hawksbill sea turtle, is on the critically endangered list. It is the first reptile to reflect blue light hitting a surface and re-emit it it as a different color, also known as bioflourescence.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-69286697860347079872015-10-02T01:52:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:52:54.111-07:00Rare ‘sofa shark’ stuns scientists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Marine biologists landed an unusual catch off the coast of Scotland recently – a so-called ‘sofa shark’ or false catshark.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Experts were stunned by the rare shark, which was discovered during a recent deep sea survey by scientists from Marine Scotland. “This is not a species that has previously been found in Scottish waters,” explained the Scottish Shark Tagging Programme, in a <a href="http://www.tagsharks.com/new-species-of-shark-discovered-in-scottish-waters" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/29/scientists-discover-glowing-sea-turtle/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Scientists discover 'glowing' sea turtle</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The elusive creatures can grow up to 10 feet long, but this one was around 6 feet, according to <a href="http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/17151/20150930/rare-sofa-shark-caught-coast-scotland.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">media reports</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The strange-looking shark has drawn unfavorable comparisons to the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/13/blobfish-named-world-ugliest-animal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">blobfish</a>, which was dubbed the world’s ugliest animal in 2013.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-48575457526572480622015-10-01T01:54:00.000-07:002015-10-07T01:55:05.503-07:00Wasp DNA produces genetically modified butterflies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">When a wasp injects its eggs into a caterpillar, the results are grisly to say the least. The viral DNA of the wasp alters the caterpillar’s immune response, allowing the host to stay alive as the eggs grow into larvae and begin to eat its body. After about 10 days of feeding, the larvae emerge, killing the caterpillar.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">What’s interesting is this gruesome process has permanently genetically modified several moth and butterfly species, including the monarch. The same virus that allows the wasps to render the caterpillar powerless as its eggs grow into larvae — the bracovirus — is now part of the butterfly’s genes, and has made them less susceptible to pathogens known as baculoviruses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This Horizontal Gene Transfer is detailed in <a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005470" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">a study</a> that appears in the journal PLOS GENETICS. Study co–author Jean–Michel Drezen said he was surprised to find the bracovirus DNA present in the different lepidopteran (moth and butterfly) genomes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/10/review-finds-that-ants-are-safer-more-effective-than-pesticides/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Related: </a></b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/09/10/review-finds-that-ants-are-safer-more-effective-than-pesticides/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Ants are safer, more effective than pesticides, study says</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I did it by looking from curiosity at lepidopteran genomes sequences released on public data banks — in particular when the monarch genome was out in 2011 — and we began to study whether it was real by getting fresh DNA from animals sampled in the field and old DNA from a monarch collection,” Drezen told Foxnews.com. “[Study co-author] Salva Herrero had identified [them] by sequencing a cDNA library of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spodoptera exigua </i>[asparagus fern caterpillar] clones resembling bracovirus genes.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Though the wasp larvae almost always kill the caterpillar, Drezen has a few theories as to how some of them survive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Spacecraft may one day be able to detect alien life by listening to the sounds microbes make.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Scientists are testing a new microphone technology called the remote acoustic sensor (RAS), which is capable of capturing sounds within extreme and often inaccessible aerospace environments. A miniaturized version of the device could theoretically make its way to Mars or to <a href="http://www.space.com/13624-photos-europa-mysterious-moon-jupiter.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon, Europa</a>, to listen for signs of life, researchers said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"If there's life, and if it moves, it may make RAS-detectable sounds," said RAS lead technologist Dan Slater, an independent consultant based in La Habra Heights, California. Slater presented a review of his work on the RAS concept here Sept. 2 at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AIAA) Space 2015 meeting in Pasadena, Calif. [<a href="http://www.space.com/15716-alien-life-search-solar-system.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The RAS detector assembly is sensitive to small audio-frequency variations in electromagnetic energy, Slater said. The technology becomes even more interesting and useful, he added, when combined with time-synchronized high-resolution imagery of the same scene.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To showcase his idea, Slater has used a ground-based, long-range RAS<a href="http://www.space.com/15693-telescopes-beginners-telescope-reviews-buying-guide.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">telescope</a> to obtain visual and audio recordings of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch that took place in September 2013. He also monitored a test earlier this year of a rocket motor that will be incorporated into NASA's heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">RAS technology has also recorded the sound of a plane landing at Los Angeles International Airport, capturing the audio from the summit of Mount Wilson, some 28 miles away. A spectrogram produced from the recording shows several descending tones that were produced by the landing jet, Slater said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A serendipitous deal between a history museum and a smuggler has provided new insight into one of the most famous stories ever told: "The Epic of Gilgamesh."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The new finding, a clay tablet, reveals a previously unknown "chapter" of the epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. This new section brings both noise and color to a forest for the gods that was thought to be a quiet place in the work of literature. The newfound verse also reveals details about the inner conflict the poem's heroes endured.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In 2011, the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Slemani, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, purchased a set of 80 to 90 clay tablets from a known smuggler. The museum has been engaging in these backroom dealings as a way to regain valuable artifacts that disappeared from Iraqi historical sites and museums since the start of the American-led invasion of that country, according to the online nonprofit publication <a href="http://etc.ancient.eu/2015/09/24/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Ancient History Et Cetera</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Among the various tablets purchased, one stood out to Farouk Al-Rawi, a professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. The large block of clay, etched with cuneiform writing, was still caked in mud when Al-Rawi advised the Sulaymaniyah Museum to purchase artifact for the agreed upon $800.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent incredible images of Pluto’s largest moon Charon back to Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The latest images reveal the moon’s complex and violent history, according to NASA. “Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; instead, they’re finding a landscape covered with mountains, canyons, landslides, surface-color variations and more,” explained the space agency, in a <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-big-moon-charon-reveals-a-colorful-and-violent-history/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related: </b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/slideshow/2015/09/28/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-in-pictures/#/slide/supermoonnorway" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Supermoon lunar eclipse in pictures</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The high-resolution images, which were taken on July 14 and transmitted to Earth on Sept. 21, reveal a belt of fractures and canyons just north of the moon’s equator. Four times as long as the Grand Canyon, and twice as deep in places, the faults and canyons indicate a titanic geological upheaval in Charon’s past, according to NASA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“It looks like the entire crust of Charon has been split open,” said John Spencer, deputy lead for New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in the statement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Last month NASA released dramatic images from New Horizons’ historic flyby of Pluto, which show icy mountains, fog, and the dwarf planet’s landscape dramatically backlit by the sun.</span></div>
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Come 2022, scientists will attempt to save all of humanity from an asteroid. Calm down, it's just a trial run. The joint US-European AIDA—that's Asteroid Deflection and Assessment—mission intends to crash a probe into a 525-foot-wide asteroid known as Didymoon to see if the impact will change its orbital path.</div>
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The egg-shaped asteroid is actually part of a binary system and orbits its larger partner, Didymos, every 12 hours, per <a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-09-aida-mission-didymos-asteroid-didymoon.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Phys.org</a>. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe will crash into Didymoon at a speed of roughly 13,420mph, while ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will study the effects so researchers can determine whether Didymoon's orbit was indeed altered, reports<a href="http://www.itv.com/news/2015-09-30/european-space-agency-plans-asteroid-mission-as-practice-run-for-saving-the-earth/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">ITV News</a>.</div>
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As ESA mission manager Ian Carnelli explains, "We will gain insight into ... how the technique could be applied if a real threat were to occur." "To protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts, we need to understand asteroids much better—what they are made of, their structure, origins, and how they respond to collisions," an ESA lead investigator says of the plan, revealed Wednesday at the European Planetary Science Congress in France.</div>
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As such, before AIM retreats to a safe distance to watch the impact, it will first study Didymoon's mass, density, and internal structure. The mission is set to launch in October 2020 and will meet up with the binary system in May 2022.</div>
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Per the <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_s_planetary_defence_test_set_for_2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">ESA</a>, Didymos will be "comparatively close" to Earth in 2022, at a distance of about 6.8 million miles; the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_s_planetary_defence_test_set_for_2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;">Independent</a></em> reports it came within 4.5 million miles of our planet in 2003.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-36239921380673541052015-09-27T02:02:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:02:57.032-07:00Residents of Pompeii had 'perfect teeth' thanks mainly to diet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">High-tech scans of Pompeii residents killed in the long-ago eruption of Mount Vesuvius have provided two revelations: They had amazing teeth, and many were killed by falling masonry and other objects—as opposed to the widely held theory that they were suffocated by ash.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As for the first: Thank a low-sugar, high-fiber Mediterranean diet. "The inhabitants of Pompeii ate a lot of fruit and vegetables but very little sugar," a dental expert tells the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11902097/Ancient-Romans-had-perfect-teeth-thanks-to-healthy-low-sugar-diet.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Telegraph</a></em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"They ate better than we did and have really good teeth." They also benefited from high levels of fluorine in the air and water around Mount Vesuvius.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The upshot was "perfect teeth," in the words of news agency <a href="http://www.agi.it/en/italy/news/cat_scan_reveals_pompeii_victims_had_perfect_teeth-201509292034-cro-inw0010#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Agenzia Giornalistica Italia</a>. The CT scans were conducted on remains that had been previously preserved in plaster casts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The scans revealed that many victims had head injuries, likely from crumbling buildings. It supports an ancient account of the eruption preserved in a letter from a nephew of one of the victims, who wrote that people tied pillows to their heads to protect themselves, reports the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-the-people-of-pompeii-really-died/408454/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Atlantic</a></em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Scientists are continuing to study 3D reconstructions of dental arches and skeletons, including those of a young boy, a dog, and a boar. The archaeological superintendent of Pompeii tells the <a href="http://www.thelocal.it/20150929/scans-of-petrified-victims-show-pompeii-in-gold-health" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Local</a> they will eventually analyze all 86 plaster casts to discover "their age, sex, what they ate, what diseases they had, and what class of society they belonged to." (This "exceptional" discovery in Pompeii <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/213189/exceptional-pompeii-find-predates-citys-destruction.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">predates its destruction</a>.)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-33159227739261054072015-09-26T02:04:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:05:14.269-07:00Duck Dynasty stars on how faith, family helped them face daughter’s medical condition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">When the stars of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty” discovered at 31 weeks gestation that their youngest daughter would be born with a cleft lip and a possible cleft palate, they hardly knew where to turn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Missy Robertson, whose husband Jase stars in the hit show alongside his brothers, father and uncle, was undergoing a 4-D ultrasound to see the features of her unborn daughter in summer 2003, when she noticed something was amiss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I noticed it, and when I asked the technician, I looked at her and realized she had already seen it and she said ‘I need to get the doctor,’” Missy told FoxNews.com. The doctor then confirmed that Missy’s baby had a cleft lip, and possibly a cleft palate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I had heard of it, but I knew nothing of the condition at all,” Missy, who lives in Louisiana, said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2,650 babies are born with a cleft palate in the U.S. each year, and approximately 4,440 babies are born with a cleft lip, with or without a cleft palate. A cleft palate occurs when the tissue that makes up the roof of the mouth does not join together completely during pregnancy, while a cleft lip occurs when the tissue that makes up the lip does not join completely before birth.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-34890963180457972402015-09-25T02:08:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:08:29.261-07:00Upper cervical chiropractors offer new hope to pain sufferers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">After enduring car accidents when she was a young woman— none of which were her fault— Mary Steinhoff was left with chronic, debilitating pain that lasted for 29 years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I was in constant pain, [from] head to toe,” the 56-year-old from Morrisville, North Carolina said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In fact, the pain was so bad that she couldn’t raise her right arm or lie flat. As a result, she battled <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/07/06/awake-again-is-it-insomnia-or-just-segmented-sleep/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">insomnia</a> and fatigue, sleeping just 2 to 3 hours every night for years. It was also challenging to drive and impossible to concentrate or read a book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“It can be an excruciating journey physically, emotionally and spiritually,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It wasn’t until 2002 that she was finally diagnosed with <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/02/21/five-ways-to-manage-fibromyalgia/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">fibromyalgia</a>, but she continued to live in pain as she tried virtually every treatment available: physical therapy, massage, aqua therapy, acupressure, medication, yoga, psychotherapy and prayer. She even bought a new mattress, tried a gluten-free diet and stopped eating sugar— nothing helped.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I was desperate to fix this,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Although chiropractic treatment helped a bit, it wasn’t until she met Dr. Ray Drury, an upper cervical chiropractic doctor in Charlotte, North Carolina last year that she finally found some relief. Upper cervical chiropractors specialize in correcting a small misalignment of the upper neck known as the Atlas Subluxation Complex, according to the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Drury discovered that Steinhoff’s atlas, or C1 vertebra, was tipped 4 degrees forward, which meant that her neck was flat. Since it didn’t have a natural curvature, it was impossible for her to lay flat. He also discovered that her upper cervical spine was not only turned to the right, which caused her spine to turn left, but it was also severely twisted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A breast cancer awareness campaign that is asking women to post Instagram photos with their bra straps exposed is facing criticism from survivors of the disease. The effort uses the hashtag #ShowYourStrap.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Metro.co.uk reported that some breast cancer survivors are firing back at the United Kingdom-based campaign, which has drawn the likes of supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and “Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams, as they believe the effort is exclusionary and sexualizes the disease. The charity<a href="http://breastcancernow.org/news-and-blogs/news/ms-launches-new-partnership" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Breast Cancer Now</a> launched the campaign with department store Marks & Spencer— a retailer that does not offer bras for breast cancer patients who have had reconstructive surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“What about people who’ve had double mastectomies and don’t wear bras? Or men? Breast cancer affects them too, and none of them have bra straps to show,” 31-year-old Kim Feast, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, told Metro.co.uk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Breast cancer bloggers like Loose Debra also argued the #ShowYourStrap selfies sexualize and objectify breast cancer patients.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-85519442149204526412015-09-24T02:12:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:12:49.097-07:00More US hospitals are encouraging breast-feeding, report says<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Health officials say more hospitals are encouraging new mothers to breast-feed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A new report found more than two-thirds of hospitals in 2013 helped women start breast-feeding within an hour after birth. That's up from 44 percent six years earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Roughly 90 percent of hospitals teach moms breast-feeding techniques and how to recognize and respond to infant feeding cues.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But only about a quarter refrain from giving infants breast milk alternatives - like formula or water - unless medically necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed about 2,700 hospitals for the report released Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Overall, about 80 percent of U.S. babies breast-feed, at least briefly.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-49138695365231914382015-09-24T02:11:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:11:31.795-07:00The plant that gives you a better night’s rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Drinking chamomile tea can calm you down and get you ready for bed, but there are some other natural ways to help you get some zzz’s.</span></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">I’ve heard that there are plants that will actually help you sleep better— is this true?</i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">Thanks,</i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">Jane</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It’s true, making a few adjustments to your bedroom can make all the difference in your sleep quality.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">First, be sure to create a cool, dark sleeping environment. Get into the habit of going to bed around the same time each night and avoid using your smartphone and computer an hour before bed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">However, there are some plants that you can add to your bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.27272605896px; line-height: 23.1818180084229px; text-align: start;">“There are herbal teas, chamomile, of course; my favorite being passion flower. It’ll knock you out and keep you out—gives you a great night’s sleep. Kava works as well. But there is also a plant that you can put into your bedroom, snake plant. It’s a common ornamental… and it significantly increases the oxygen density in our bedroom and gives you a better night’s sleep,” said Chris Kilham, Fox News' Medicine Hunter.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-86545955673657907972015-09-23T02:15:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:15:33.314-07:00Flu-associated pneumonia tied to skipped flu vaccine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">The <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/09/18/why-this-years-flu-shot-is-different-than-last/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">flu vaccine</a> may help prevent flu-related pneumonia, a study suggests.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When researchers looked at patients with pneumonia, those whose pneumonia was related to the flu were more likely to have skipped the flu vaccine, compared to patients with pneumonia from other causes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Pneumonia can be a serious and common complication of catching the flu, the authors write.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"We knew that influenza vaccines could prevent fever and respiratory symptoms associated with influenza infections, but whether influenza vaccines could prevent pneumonia - a more serious complication of influenza infection - was unclear," said lead author Dr. Carlos G. Grijalva of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As reported in JAMA, the researchers used data on 2,767 children and adults hospitalized for pneumonia between 2010 and 2012 - including 162 who had laboratory-confirmed influenza.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Of the 162 people with influenza-associated pneumonia, only 28, or 17 percent, had been vaccinated. Almost 30 percent of the comparison cases had been vaccinated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For new mothers in the U.S. who receive government-sponsored health insurance, it's becoming easier to get intrauterine devices (IUDs) implanted immediately after giving birth, a study found.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Immediate insertion is associated with more women who want an IUD implant actually getting it, higher use at three months postpartum, and lower rates of unplanned rapid repeat pregnancies within 12 to 24 months of delivery," said lead study author Dr. Michelle Moniz of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in email to Reuters Health. "Furthermore, multiple analyses suggest that this strategy is cost-effective."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Just three years ago, no state Medicaid programs paid for these contraceptive devices to be implanted right after delivery. But over the past three years, Medicaid has added coverage for IUDs inserted right after birth in at least 19 states, the study found.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The shift reflects mounting evidence that providing IUDs during hospitalizations for delivery is a safe and effective way to increase contraceptive use among new mothers and discourage pregnancies in rapid succession that pose health risks to women and their babies, said Moniz.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, pays for roughly half of U.S. births - and an even greater proportion of deliveries at most safety-net hospitals that treat many of the nation's poor and uninsured patients. States jointly finance the program with the federal government and have wide latitude to determine who qualifies for benefits and what services to cover.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For the current study, Moniz and colleagues interviewed Medicaid representatives from 39 states and the District of Columbia in 2014 and 2015. Officials in the remaining eleven states either declined to participate or didn't respond to interview requests.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Food and Drug Administration will try to adapt the sounds, style and attitudes of hip-hop into a multi-million dollar anti-smoking campaign to discourage young African Americans, Hispanics and other groups from using tobacco.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The federal agency said Tuesday it will spend $128 million on advertising, events and local outreach as part of the "Fresh Empire" campaign, which aims to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/03/04/smoking-may-change-structure-teens-brains/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">curb the use of cigarettes</a> and other tobacco products among minority teenagers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">FDA officials say research shows young people who identify with hip-hop are more likely to smoke than their peers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To be sure, hip-hop's origins as an anti-establishment urban movement would seem to conflict with the federal government's buttoned-down image. But FDA officials say they can convincingly pitch their message to hip-hop fans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"We know from our research that remaining in control is an important pillar of hip-hop culture. But smoking represents a loss of control, so tobacco use is actually in conflict with that priority," said Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday will announce his entry into the Republican presidential primary race -- a move that will finally answer the question whether he can turn high expectations into top-tier status in the crowded field.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walker’s expected entrance would make him the 15th GOP candidate, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore to follow in coming weeks, bringing the total by summer's end to at least 17.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The two-term Wisconsin governor waited until after concluding state budget negotiations to enter the race, but he has been near the top of polls since the start of the election cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walker has nearly 11 percent of the vote, trailing front-running Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who has roughly 16 percent, in the most recent averaging of polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics.com. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His position would likely put him among the top-10 candidates, allowing him to participate in the first Republican debate, on Aug. 6 and hosted by the Fox News Channel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“What Scott Walker needs to do is to try to reclaim some of the mojo he had in the beginning of the year, when he kind of exceeded expectations,” Washington Examiner political editor Jim Antle told FoxNews.com on Friday.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-38092250575698197572015-07-26T21:51:00.000-07:002015-07-27T21:51:42.111-07:00Capitol Hill leaders, presidential candidates raise bipartisan<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday led a chorus of bipartisan concern from congressional leaders and 2016 presidential candidates about an Iran nuclear deal, amid reports that negotiators are expected to reach a provisional agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"This is going to be a very hard sell for the administration," the Kentucky Republican said on "Fox News Sunday," when asked about the likelihood of Congress signing off on a deal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He spoke minutes after diplomats said that negotiators could possbily announce a deal as early as Monday to curb Iran’s atomic program in return for tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">McConnell suggested that President Obama will ultimately win final approval for the deal, considering he would need only 34 Senate votes to veto the likely passage of “resolution of disapproval” by the GOP-led chamber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member, also continued to raise skepticism about any deal, which suggests that getting 34 Democratic Senate votes might be a challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"We have gone from preventing Iran having a nuclear ability to managing it," he told ABC’s “This Week.” "And what we are doing is basically rolling back sanctions ... not rolling back Iran's elicit nuclear infrastructure."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Menendez, long outspoken about a deal that would ease too many sanctions on the rogue nation, also said news of a provisional agreement made him “anxious” but that he will wait to see the details before making a final judgment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“What type of sanctions relief are we giving?” he asked, "because in 12 to 13 years we will be exactly back to where we are today except that Iran will have $100 [billion] to $150 billion more in its pocket and promoting terrorism throughout the Middle East."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Obama has come under criticism from members of Congress and some U.S. allies in the Middle East who say the administration has conceded too much in the Iran talks. Iran has denied any nuclear weapon ambitions and said its program is meant to supply domestic energy and other peaceful purposes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Secretary of State John Kerry has been leading the U.S. delegation in the talks in Vienna, which aim to impose long-term, verifiable limits on Tehran's nuclear programs. The other countries involved in the negotiations and that must also agree to a deal are Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Among the final sticking points in the roughly 2-year-long negotiations is whether U.N. inspectors will have full access to Iran’s nuclear-related facilities and the extent to which sanctions, including an arms embargo, will be lifted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The current negotiations have run more than two weeks and blown through three deadlines. Because the talks are in overtime, Congress gets 60 days to assess the deal and take the votes, requiring Obama to await that process before trying to ease the sanctions agreed to in the deal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday also raised concerns but said lawmakers would review any agreement carefully to ensure the Iranians are held accountable and that any violations can be enforced</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"I think we’ve been in a downward trend for some time,” the Tennessee Republican told NBC's "Meet the Press" about the state of negotiations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, he suggested members of Congress are willing to approve a deal that makes the United States and its allies “better off.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He said inspectors would need “anytime, anywhere” access and pushed for access to military/scientific sites.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We knew they were making a bomb,” Corker said. “We just want to know how far they got.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Obama downplayed chances for a deal during a closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats last week, telling participants that an agreement was at best a 50-50 proposition.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb told “Fox News Sunday” that he would be “very hesitant” about approving an Iran nuclear deal based upon what he knows so far about the details and argued the United States has other ways to improve relations with the rogue nation.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-44074710043536567782015-07-25T21:52:00.000-07:002015-07-27T21:52:33.678-07:00Webb joins debate over candidates’ rhetoric, tells Trump to ‘stop throwing bombs’<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Democratic presidential hopeful Jim Webb offered his opinion Sunday about GOP candidate Donald Trump’s comments on illegal Mexican immigrants, telling him to “stop throwing bombs.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This kind of rhetoric from people who want to be commander in chief is not helpful,” Webb told “Fox News Sunday.” “You need to be inclusive, recognize people. Don't be throwing bombs to these cultural groups.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The former Virginia senator and Bush administration Navy secretary joins essentially every Democratic and Republican presidential candidate in commenting on Trump saying last month that Mexico is sending a lot of problematic people to the United States, including drug dealers and rapists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump and his remarks have essentially dominated the 2016 White House news coverage and come amid the cultural debate about removing the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina capitol grounds and other government buildings and sites across the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webb suggested Democrats and Republicans alike are culpable in perpetuating the new culture wars and that the national debate needs to return to discussions about education and job creation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Unfortunately I think you’re seeing it from both sides, which is why I mentioned the situation with Donald Trump with respect to Mexican Americans,” Webb said. “Flying the Confederate battle flag in public places morph(ed) into something much different. …When are we going to talk about jobs? When are we going to talk about education?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webb has 2.3 percent of the primary vote and trails front-runner Hillary Clinton (62 percent), then Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (14 percent) and Vice President Biden (13 percent), according to an averaging of polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPoltics.com</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webb argued that the Democratic Party has moved “too far to the left,” a growing argument since Sanders, a self-described socialist, entered the race. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webb also said he hopes his candidacy brings “a different tone” to his party.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It’s not my party,” he told Fox News. “We need to bring different people back in.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He also said that he would be “very hesitant” about approving an Iran nuclear deal based upon what he knows so far about the details and argued the United States has other ways to improve relations with the rogue nation.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439083726709081799.post-60813745459250491232015-07-24T21:53:00.000-07:002015-07-27T21:53:16.847-07:00Iran nuclear deal expected Sunday, diplomats say<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Negotiators at Iran’s nuclear talks are expected to reach a provisional agreement Sunday that would curb the country’s atomic program in return for sanctions relief, diplomats told The Associated Press, a day after Iran slammed the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The two diplomats – who are at the talks and demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations publicly -- cautioned that final details of the pact were still being worked out Sunday afternoon and a formal agreement still awaits a review from the capitals of the seven nations at the talks. They said a possible announcement could come as early as Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The agreement would cap nearly a decade of diplomacy, including the current round in Vienna that has run more than two weeks and blown through three deadlines.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dropped warnings Sunday that the talks could go either way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">En route to Mass at Vienna's gothic St. Stephens Cathedral, Kerry said twice he was "hopeful" after a "very good meeting" Saturday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had Muslim services Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kerry noted that "a few tough things" remain in the way of agreement but added: "We're getting to some real decisions."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A senior State Department official also said Sunday that the department will not speculate about the timing of anything during the talks and that key issues remain unresolved.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iran and the U.S. have both threatened to walk away from the table unless the other side made concessions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iran’s state-run Press TV cited Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday as calling the U.S. an “excellent example of arrogance.” It reported that Khamenei told university students in Tehran to be “prepared to continue the struggle against arrogant powers.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His comments suggest Tehran’s distrust of Washington will persist whether a deal gets done or not, and are likely to add skepticism over the outcome of the long negotiations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Khamenei’s comments also have appeared to be a blow to U.S. hopes than agreement will lead to improved relations with the country and possible cooperation against Islamic rebels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, like Kerry, indicated talks could go either way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"We behaved so skillfully that if talks won't succeed, the world would accept that Iran is for logic and dialogue and never left the negotiating table ... and if we succeed by the grace of God, the world will know that the Iranian nation can resolve its problems through logic," his website quoted him as saying.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The supreme leader’s comments also come after it was learned Saturday that the Islamic Republic’s spies have been <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/11/double-dealing-iran-violating-nuclear-sanctions-even-as-talks-drag-on/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">seeking atomic and missile technology</a> in neighboring Germany as recently as last month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iran’s illegal activities have continued since talks between Iran and the P5+1 - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as rotating member Germany - began with a Joint Plan of Action in 2013, according to German intelligence sources. The JPOA was intended to stop Iran’s work on a nuclear weapon until a comprehensive agreement is reached.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"You would think that with the negotiations, [Iranian] activities would drop," a German intelligence source said. "Despite the talks to end Iran’s program, Iran did not make an about-turn."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With a final agreement to restrict Iran’s nuclear program set for Monday, the intelligence data from Germany raises disturbing questions about the success of the deal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tehran has sought industry computers, high-speed cameras, cable fiber, and pumps for its nuclear and missile program over the last two years, according to German intelligence sources. Germany is required to report Iran’s illegal procurement activities to the UN.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The negotiations entered their 16th day Sunday. In a sign that a deal could soon be sealed, Russian news agencies reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov planned to arrive in Vienna on Sunday evening. Most other foreign ministers of the six nations negotiating with Iran already are in the Austrian capital and in position to join Kerry and Zarif for any announcement of an agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Diplomats familiar with the talks say most of the nuts and bolts of implementing the deal have been agreed upon. But over the past week issues that were previously on the back burner have led to new disputes. Among them is Iran's demand for a lifting of a U.N. arms embargo as part of sanctions relief -- a stance supported by Russia and China but opposed by the U.S. and some Europeans -- and its insistence that any U.N. Security Council resolution approving the deal be written in a way that effectively frames previous resolutions criticizing its nuclear activities as illegal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Saturday, Zarif and Kerry met again this time with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini present. Of the chief diplomats of the six countries negotiating with Iran, British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and Laurent Fabius of France also are already in Vienna. Kerry spoke by telephone to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The scope of access to U.N. inspectors monitoring Iran's nuclear program remains a sticking point. The Americans want no restrictions. Iranian officials say unrestricted monitoring could be a cover for Western spying. Diplomats say Iran's negotiators have signaled a willingness to compromise, but hardliners in Iran remain opposed to broad U.N. inspections.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The current round was supposed to conclude on June 30, but was extended until July 7, then July 10 and now July 13. The sides had hoped to seal a deal before the end of Thursday in Washington to avoid delays in implementing their promises.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By missing that target, the U.S. and Iran now have to wait for a 60-day congressional review period during which President Barack Obama can't waive sanctions on Iran. Had they reached a deal by Thursday, the review would have been only 30 days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iran is unlikely to begin a substantial rollback of its nuclear program until it gets sanctions relief in return.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is set to give a major economic speech Monday, after weeks of deferring about her plans to improve the U.S economy including whether she’ll raise taxes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The focus of her economic agenda will be to increase middle class income and wages. And she will argue that stagnant paychecks is the biggest challenge facing the U.S. economy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton's campaign on Saturday provided a preview of her speech, which will also include the argument that the real income of everyday Americans must rise steadily alongside corporate profits and executive compensation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton declined in a CNN interview earlier this week to say whether she would raise taxes on big corporations or the country’s highest wage-earners, as primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I think we have to grow the economy faster and fairer,” she said. “So we have to do what will actually work in the short term, the medium term and the long term. … then, I’ll look forward to the debate.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While top-tier Republican candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has called for an annual growth rate of 4 percent, Clinton will assert that the nation's economy should not be judged by a specific growth figure but rather by how much income increases for middle-class households.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"For a typical working American, their income has not been rising anywhere near as fast as it should be rising, and that is the challenge we face," said David Kamin, a New York University law professor who has advised Clinton's campaign. "It's not a new problem, and it's going to take a holistic vision."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Clinton campaign said the former first lady and New York senator in her speech at The New School, a university in New York City, will point to economic progress during her husband's two terms in the 1990s and more recently under President Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But she will aim to identify ways of improving upon the uneven nature of the nation's recovery since the Great Recession, bolstering wages even as the unemployment rate has fallen to a seven-year low of 5.3 percent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton is also expected to begin outlining a series of specific economic proposals this summer on issues like wage growth, college affordability, corporate accountability and paid leave.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In Clinton's approach to the economy, more Americans would share in the prosperity and avoid the boom-and-bust cycles of Wall Street that have led to economic turbulence of the past decade.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton, who is seeking to become the nation's first female president, is also expected to address ways of making it easier for women to join the workforce.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton will attempt to meet the demands of liberals within her own party who are wary of her willingness to regulate Wall Street while inspiring confidence among a larger electorate who will judge her policies if she wins the Democratic nomination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Progressives encouraged Elizabeth Warren to seek the presidency, but the Massachusetts senator, who has railed against Wall Street and corporate excesses, declined to run. Many of those same liberals are now packing large gatherings held by Sanders, who has made economic inequality the chief plank of his campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist and former economic adviser to Clinton’s husband, President Bill Clinton, said she has expressed interest in policies to curb excessive risk on Wall Street, such as a financial transactions tax on high-frequency trading, taxes on large Wall Street banks based on their risk profile and eliminating the so-called carried interest loophole that allows managers of hedge funds and private equity firms to pay a lower tax rate than most individuals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clinton has said she will take nothing for granted in the primary contest, but the economic message will allow her to begin contrasting herself with Republicans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In recent speeches, she has portrayed the Republican presidential field, including Bush as supportive of "top-down" economic policies and large tax breaks for the wealthy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"They're back to the trickle down, cut taxes on the wealthy and everything will be fine," Clinton said last week in Iowa. "This will be the biggest economic debate, because they know the only way they can win the White House back is to somehow convince voters that what we have done didn't work."</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Associated Press contributed to this report.</i></div>
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