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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
House GOP leader Cantor says deficit deal likely (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher taxes backed by fellow Republicans on Congress' supercommittee, yet expressed confidence the panel would agree on a deficit-reduction plan of at least $1.2 trillion by a Nov. 23 deadline.
A proposal for $300 billion in higher taxes has stirred grumbling within the ranks of congressional Republicans, for whom opposition to such measures has been political bedrock for more than two decades.
One prominent conservative, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, said in a published commentary during the day that "our economy will have an even tougher time catching its balance if Washington" raises taxes.
Separately, officials said that Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who outlined the plan last week in a closed-door meeting of four Republicans and three Democrats, has encountered criticism from fellow conservatives despite strong credentials as an opponent of higher taxes. " There's been a little bit, but it's been pretty muted," his spokeswoman, Nachama Soloveichik, said of the response.
Cantor's spokeswoman turned aside several emailed requests for the majority leader's views on the proposal. She said he hadn't seen the plan, and she referred to his comments at a news conference earlier in the day when he told reporters, "I'm not going to be opining as to any reports, hypotheticals or anything connected with their work."
Despite that pledge, Cantor was bullish in predicting agreement before the deadline and adding that a fallback requirement to cut $1.2 trillion from domestic and defense programs wouldn't be triggered.
The committee has been at work for two months, hoping to succeed at a task that has defied the best efforts of high-ranking political leaders past and present.
Despite intense talks late last week, there has been little indication of progress as age-old political divisions have re-emerged.
The principal stumbling blocks revolve around taxes on the one hand, and the large federal programs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on the other.
Democrats are unwilling to agree to cuts in benefit programs unless Republicans will accept higher taxes, particularly on the highest-income individuals and families.
Republicans counter that out-of-control spending largely accounts for the government's enormous budget deficits, and they say raising taxes will only complicate efforts to help the economy recover from the worst recession in more than seven decades.
At the same time, each side is grappling with the possible political consequences of the committee's work, with an eye on the 2012 campaign for control of the White House and Congress.
Liberal Democrats are highly reluctant to agree to curbs on programs the party has long been identified with, and last week members on the supercommittee jettisoned an earlier proposal to slow the rise in cost-of-living benefits for Social Security recipients.
The same goes for conservatives, many of whom fear the possible political cost of changing their positions in order to pursue a less-than-certain bipartisan compromise on deficit reduction.
Many GOP office holders have signed a pledge circulated by Americans for Tax Reform not to vote for higher taxes. The organization is led by Grover Norquist, a conservative activist, although in comments to reporters Cantor suggested that influence by an outsider isn't the dominant concern.
"It's not about Grover Norquist. It's about commitments that people made to the electorate they represent, the people that sent them here. That's what it's about," he said.
Republicans on the committee hailed Toomey's proposal last week as a breakthrough and a concession that could open the way to a deal.
But Democrats were dismissive, saying it amounted to a tax cut in disguise for the wealthy ? the very taxpayers that they and Obama say should pay more. According to numerous officials, Toomey's proposal envisioned an additional $250 billion in revenue emerging from a sweeping revision of the tax code that would bring the top rate down from 35 percent to 28 percent while reducing or eliminating many commonly used itemized deductions.
In an interview on Sunday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chairman of the supercommittee said that while Republicans believe that higher revenues will hurt the economy, "within the context of the bipartisan negotiation with Democrats, clearly they are a reality."
He said that whatever "damage would be done by $250 billion of new taxes we think would be offset by a system that would help create jobs. And as we're dealing with the debt crisis, we don't want to make the jobs crisis even worse. So that's what has been put on the table."
Jordan, R-Ohio, posted his dissent hours later in USA Today, although he refrained from criticizing any Republican directly.
"Balance doesn't mean `half-right, half-wrong,' he wrote, referring to Obama's calls for a deficit-cutting plan that includes higher taxes and spending cuts. "It means you don't fall over." Jordan is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, an organization of conservative GOP members of the House.
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Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this story.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
At age 102, this therapist is still psyched
Hedda Bolgar?s job just doesn?t get old. Seeing patients four days a week, the 102-year-old psychologist and psychoanalyst also trains new therapists and has scheduled lectures well into next year.
?I love working with patients,? Bolgar told TODAY.com. ?I love to listen to them. I love to understand ? even when they?re not saying it.?
Bolgar is the oldest living member of the American Psychology Association. In September, she flew to Washington D.C. to receive an award for America?s Outstanding Oldest Worker by Experience Works, a non-profit that helps senior workers.
?She doesn?t let grass grow on her feet,? says Peter Wolson, a psychologist and psychoanalyst who practices and trains students at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, an institute Bolgar co-founded in 1970.
In fact, she?s so busy friends have suggested she ?get off the horse?, Wolson says. But the sharp, healthy and happy Bolgar doesn?t see why. She?s eternally fascinated by the unconscious, where she says pesky problems hide.
Lived through war, famine ? and loss of her spouse
?Ultimately what really interests me is to see people change and have better lives ? and feel liberated,? says Bolgar, who says she thinks of her patients even when she?s not with them.
She practices from her home in the tony Brentwood area of Los Angeles, scheduling patients so they never run into each other (people talk). Patients can get cozy in a chair while she sits on a beige couch in her office adorned with flowers and a view of the backyard pool.
Bolgar, born in Switzerland in 1909, usually relates in some way to patients she meets ? having lived through war, famine, leaving her country, parents? divorce and loss of her spouse, friends and pets (she?s kept cats for 40 years and just adopted kittens). The best thing she has done in life, she once said, was marrying her husband, who she calls ?the love of my life."
?When he died, it was really, for many years, the end of the world. My mourning was endless. It seemed endless, until one day I decided I was alive,? Bolgar says in ?The Beauty of Aging?, an upcoming film about vivacious women over 80 (http://www.beautyofaging.com).
While her patients? tussles can link to a difficult childhood, Bolgar, who ultimately grew up in Hungary and Austria, can?t even recall fighting at home. She speaks admiringly of her mother, a journalist, and her father, a political ambassador. Bolgar attributes her longevity, in part, to her genes: Her mom lived to 96. (She?s also been a vegetarian since 14, loves sleep and doesn?t get ?anxious about things that haven?t happened.")
'Marked my life in a way'
Bolgar traces her penchant for protecting others to first grade. Another teacher dragged a second grader to her class and asked a question that stumped the older student. Bolgar later boasted to her mother that she supplied the correct answer.
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?I went home and felt very proud,? Bolgar says. ?She listened. And then asked, ?Did it ever occur how that other child must have felt?? I was 6. I?ve never forgotten it. I always thought I was glad she said it. It marked my life in a way.?
Of course, sometimes it happens that the psychotherapist only shares one commonality with a patient: ?being human?. That includes a police officer who left the force due to his violent tendencies. The patient, to Bolgar?s surprise, kept his appointments ? but to rant, sharing sick hopes of having more altercations.
??You must have had a terrible childhood,?? Bolgar recalls telling the ex-police officer one day, after she?d listened extensively. ?It was awful. Then he started telling me how awful it was. I was grateful I never had any of those experiences. Everything happened that should never have happened. Then he started to change. He found a girl who was lovely.?
'Three weeks to get a dinner date'
Bolgar, who left the day Hitler marched into Austria, says she?s met a plethora of lovely people herself, especially being welcomed into homes when she first came to the U.S. at 28.
Bolgar now generously welcomes people into her home, Wolson says, throwing soirees in her home that has Old European charm with vintage books, paintings and flowers, which she adores, indoors as well as out. She?s always outfitted in high fashion, statement earrings and necklace ? and a smile.
Video: 'I'm trying to sell them on old age' (on this page)?It takes three weeks to get a dinner date with her,? says Allen Yasser, once an intimidated post-doctoral psychology student of Bolgar at Cedar Sinai who has spent 40 Christmases with her.
He?s now the director of the Wright Institute of Los Angeles, which they co-founded in 1974 with two other students of hers.? She also started the Hedda Bolgar Psychotherapy Clinic, which treats those who can?t afford therapy otherwise.
?She has kind of solved the basic problem of getting old, which is isolation. How does she stay tuned in? She has friends in the world,? says 68-year-old Yasser, recalling her recent birthday party with about a 100 people, friends old and new.
Bolgar lives in the present, he says. She e-mails, researches on the Internet and has taught a course via Skype but adores books as well. Bolgar is also tackling current problems in mental health. She launched the Soldiers Project, which offers psychological therapy for soldiers and their families.
?She?s not talking about the past is wonderful and the present stinks ? a place an older person goes. She really lives for the present and the future. And I think that?s somewhat unique for someone her age,? Yasser says.
Story: Accomplishing amazing athletic feats ? in their 80s and 90sWolson, 69, calls Bolgar a ?model for everybody?.
?She keeps her optimism, her love of life, her vitality,? he says. ?She looks at this time as one of the best times in her life ? and that amazes me.?
Bolgar thrives on new experiences and connecting with the world around her.
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?I don?t know why people are so afraid of being old. It seems to me that ?what people see only is the loss or the deterioration or the minus ? and they don?t see that there are tremendous gains,? Bolgar says in the upcoming documentary. ?The ease and the security. The feeling of essentially being able to cope.?
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Control your music with gestures with Play It for iPhone and iPad
Play It is a music player for the iPhone and iPad that is controlled solely with gestures. It also lets you customize the look and syncs with iCloud so that your settings match on all devices. Additionally, Play It supports the new Twitter function in iOS 5, so that...
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The Music Box Business Card
Austrian designer Katharina H?lzl created an ingenious perforated business card for the band Ritornell, that when played through the accompanying music box, produces music. To hear the card, watch this video demo by Richard Eigner of Ritornell.
Ritornell?s business cards are inspired by the project?s live show. The improvised concerts evoke a lively atmosphere by the combination of filigree electronics with playful timbres of diverse acoustic instruments and utensils such as egg whisks, toilet brushes, chopsticks or sewing needles. As an integral part of their set list, Ritornell invites the audience to bring along their private musicboxes. Arranged in a big circle, the players? speed of turning levers is conducted: the results are as shimmering as you would expect.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
For Obama, an Asian agenda with an eye on home (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Determined to deepen relations with Asia, President Barack Obama is pouring nine days of valued time into a diplomatic mission away from Washington while Congress struggles toward a crucial budget deadline and a doubtful outcome.
Obama departs Friday for far-reaching summits in Hawaii and Indonesia, with a visit to Australia in between.
The travels will take the president more than 10,000 miles and across many time zones from home at a moment when domestic concerns matter most to the electorate.
His challenge will be to explain to voters how the U.S. role in the Asia-Pacific region is essential to American jobs and security ? and then emerge with results to show for his travels.
For a leader who was born in Hawaii, spent boyhood years in Indonesia and hails himself as America's first Pacific president, Obama's worldview is shaped deeply by Asia. His administration is showering attention on the Asia-Pacific region as a driver of global politics, prized buyer of American products and central player in protecting world peace.
"If you want America to be a world leader in this century, that leadership is going to have to include the Asia-Pacific," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser for Obama.
Such a focus is essential to American interests, analysts say, but still a test for a president who is seeking to govern and run for re-election at once.
The White House hopes the world will see Obama's trip as a pivot point in American policy, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton put it. The war in Iraq will be over by year's end, the war in Afghanistan is winding down and Obama is trying to expand trade, security alliances and cultural ties with traditional allies and emerging powers across Asia.
The subtext of the agenda is Obama's intention to keep the United States as a viable counterweight to a rising China, particularly in the eyes of other leaders in the region.
The element Obama aides don't mention is the potential political cost of having the president out of the country, half a world away, as other debates rage back home.
The economy is king, from the campaign to Obama's jobs fights to a legislative supercommittee charged with finding more than $1 trillion in cuts by a Nov. 23 deadline. Republicans and Democrats seem far apart and there is growing pessimism they will succeed.
"I can see the domestic political advisers saying, `Ten days in the Pacific while people are out of work in the U.S. ? Mister President, you ought to cut this one short," said Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former national security aide to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
White House officials say there are no plans to do that. A suddenly shortened trip would be seen as a slap to Asian allies, and the Australian leg has already been postponed twice because of higher-ranking domestic concerns for Obama.
En route to Hawaii, Obama begins his journey by attending an unusual sporting event in San Diego: a high-profile Veterans Day college basketball game between Michigan State and No. 1 North Carolina on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson. That's the aircraft carrier that took Osama bin Laden's body to a burial at sea after American commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in Pakistan.
Over the weekend, the president will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, forum in Honolulu, to promote trade and jobs.
The key push for Obama will be establishing a Pacific-wide free trade zone that is now being negotiated by the United States and eight smaller economies.
The lofty goal is for the trade zone to eventually cover a region accounting more than half of global output, with hopes that Japan and ultimately other giants like China would join. The expectations at the Obama-hosted summit, though, are not for a deal, but perhaps the announcement of a broad framework and more discussions.
As usual, the more intense diplomatic action will happen on the sidelines. Obama will hold private meetings with the leaders of Japan, Russia and China.
Altogether, Obama will spend four nights in Hawaii and is expected to have a light schedule on Monday ? only a fundraiser, a reminder of the domestic politics that follow him.
In Australia, Obama will deliver the key speech of his trip to the Australian parliament in Canberra.
He is also expected to announce a deeper U.S. military footprint in the country during a stop in Darwin, in the northern reaches of Australia. The defense agreement is likely to include positioning of U.S. equipment in Australia, increasing access to bases and conducting more joint exercises and training.
More broadly, Obama will use the trip to try to reassure allies that the United States will not slash its security presence across the Asia-Pacific despite austerity measures at home.
Yet the threat of such defense cuts is rattling Obama's own administration. If the Congress' deficit-cutting supercommittee cannot agree on a plan that wins approval from Congress, a new law calls for deep cuts across the government to kick in automatically starting in 2013, including more than $500 billion for the military.
The president caps his trip in Indonesia, where Obama spent four years as a boy.
Obama delivered a speech in the capital, Jakarta, last year in which he declared that "Indonesia is a part of me." This time he will be the first U.S. president to take part in the East Asia Summit, in Bali, known as a tropical paradise for tourism. The U.S. has put its stamp on the summit agenda in the area of security, including halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The trip amounts to Obama's most extensive travel of the year.
He leaves as his approval ratings have been mired in the mid- to low-40 percent range in many recent polls, including a 46 percent approval number in the latest AP-GfK poll from mid-October. His overall rating outpaces his performance on the economy. On matters of foreign affairs, Obama fares far better, garnering the approval of about 6 in 10 adults.
Obama is expected to underscore the relevance of the trip to Americans by the day. He will be back in Washington on Nov. 20.
"This isn't a trip to the far-flung corners of Asia," said Daniel Russel, Obama's senior director for Asian affairs. "This is a trip to the Asia-Pacific. The U.S. is very much an Asia-Pacific nation. We're a resident power."
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