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A weak economy and tight congressional elections are amplifying the stakes in a battle that was already contentious – whether to extend Bush tax cuts when they expire at the end of the year.
President Obama wants to keep income tax cuts in place for most Americans, but taxes to rise back to 1990s rates for households making $250,000 or more. He espoused that view even during his campaign for president in 2008.
But now he faces opposition not just from Republicans but also from some in his own party, who say that with economic recovery fragile, it's the wrong time to raise taxes on anyone. At the same time, the public has become more worried about both tax hikes and high federal deficits – a mood that puts power-wielding Democrats in a tight spot for fall elections.
The looming decision that Congress must make on tax rates comes at a sensitive time for the economy. The momentum of recovery has cooled and consumer confidence has receded in the past two months. On top of that, some economists say that fiscal policies of government are starting to exert a drag on the economy, rather than a stimulus. A key reason: State and local governments are cutting spending.
Most forecasters don't see the economy falling back into recession, but they do see a real risk that could occur. Raising taxes on the rich would add a new burden, in part because wealthy Americans make a significant contribution to overall consumer spending.
At the same time, economists say that high federal deficits and a growing national debt represent a critical threat to the nation's economic health in the future. And although spending is vital to any solution, many say a fix also requires more tax revenue.
Tax policy expert Leonard Burman summed up his view of the quandary at a Senate hearing earlier this month.
"It would be a serious mistake to make any of the tax cuts permanent now," said Mr. Burman, of Syracuse University. "However, I also think it would be a mistake to allow all of the tax cuts to expire as scheduled in 2011. The economy is in a very precarious state and a major tax increase would slow the economic recovery."
The American public shows similar concerns. In a new Rasmussen Reports poll, the percentage of voting adults saying taxes are a "very important" priority has jumped recently to 68 percent, putting it near the top of voters' agenda. And 70 percent of the public views reducing the federal deficit as a top priority, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. It's a concern that's almost equally shared by Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
Election-year pressures may cause Congress to delay action until the so-called "lame duck" session, the period after the November election but before newly elected lawmakers replacing the outgoing ones in January. That could be Democrats' best window to take a politically risky vote. But the vote could be difficult whenever it's taken.
Some Senate Democrats, including Kent Conrad of North Dakota, have come out against letting any of the tax cuts expire early in 2011, due to the fragile economy.
The House Republican leader, John Boehner of Ohio, has been tagging Obama's policy as a "job-killing tax hike on families and small businesses." In a statement this week, citing a study by Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, he said that half of US small business income would face higher taxes if the top two tax brackets revert to pre-Bush levels.
Supporters of Obama's plan say that tax cuts for the affluent are a relatively ineffective for of economic stimulus, since those households are less likely to immediately spend the extra dollars they get to keep.
And, although the joint committee found that half of small-business income would be see higher tax rates, that doesn't mean the tax change would affect half of all small businesses. In fact, the report said only about 3 percent of all households that report business income would be affected.
Whatever the merits of both views, the question of tax cuts for the rich is unlikely to be an issue that tips the economy into a new recession. According to an analysis by Goldman Sachs, the income tax and capital-gains tax money at stake is only about $34 billion for 2011.
The debate isn't just about politics, however. How the tax policy debate gets resolved will have an effect on economic growth, and on the ability of the government to get its finances on track.
The Bush tax cuts for top income brackets, if extended for a decade, would total more than half a trillion dollars in lost federal revenue. The Bush cuts for lower income brackets total $1.6 trillion over that same decade, according to Goldman Sachs.


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Cocktails and Spirits with Paul Clarke: Scotch or Bourbon?
I'm on a quick trip to San Francisco to enjoy the bounty of WhiskyFest, which is--well, it's called WhiskyFest, which should give you a pretty good idea of what goes on. Think of a big hotel ballroom filled with tables stacked with bottles of whisky (the pour list topped 250, if you include the handful of rums and gins tossed into the mix), typically served either by guys in kilts, with rich Scottish accents, or by guys in jeans and boots, with thick Southern drawls.
This stylistic dichotomy was not lost on event organizers, who pulled together a recurring seminar-cum-riot called "Scotch...or...Bourbon?" featuring two of the more passionate advocates of each style of the spirit: Fred Noe, great-grandson of Jim Beam and representative of the Jim Beam Small Batch Collection; and Richard Paterson, master blender for The Dalmore.
As one audience-member noted, if you'd asked central casting for a kilted Scotsman and a Kentucky moonshiner, the results couldn't have been more perfect. Noe is fond of chewing his vowels and fleshing out all the good ol' boy aspects of his bourbon heritage--"Drinking whiskey requires a glass, a bottle, and a mouth. You can sometimes do without the glass," he quipped--while Paterson bellowed in an exaggerated brogue, defending the honor of Scotch in an animated, hotel-contract-killing presentation that included flinging barley into the audience, dumping pitchers of water onto the floor, and tossing glasses of whisky over his shoulder.
While comedic flourishes kept the crowd happy, Noe and Paterson made a good argument: which whisky is more enjoyable, Scotch or bourbon (let's forget rye, Irish and Canadian whiskies for the moment)? And regardless of the style, how best to enjoy it? Paterson recommended trying the Dalmore Cigar Malt with a piece of Scharffenberger 70 percent cacao chocolate; it was a great pairing, but my bourbon-loving mouth preferred the fruitiness of the chocolate matched with the Booker's Bourbon instead.
How do you fit into this debate--do you prefer the smoky mystery of Scotch or the woody leather of bourbon?
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CHICAGO — History, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Here's a cheery description of the upcoming PBS documentary, "Latino Americans":
"It is the first major documentary series that highlights the varied history and experiences of Latinos. This series is going to serve as an inspiration for young people and their families to learn more about their unique cultural heritage, history and contributions to this nation."
I screened the film, airing nationally on three consecutive Tuesdays starting Tuesday. I did not come away feeling inspired.
Instead of an evenhanded chronology, I found something resembling the canned rantings of leftist zealots who see America's history and present solely in terms of colonialist oppressors who toil at keeping the United States predominantly white in the face of rising multiculturalism.
On display is every type of discrimination, bigotry and intolerance toward newly arrived immigrants from Latin America with little context about the mistreatments to which the United States has subjected its own born and bred (America is frequently equal-opportunity awful) and with few mentions of commonplace brutalities "back home."
Yes, there are scores of wonderful, fascinating points of rarely discussed history and many uplifting stories of Hispanics who went on to lead accomplished lives. But their victories seem couched almost exclusively in terms of how they overcame white bigotry while guarding their culture against the evil forces of assimilation.
I dreaded that non-Hispanic viewers would either feel guilt-tripped or come to the conclusion that all Hispanics are aggrieved and generally reluctant to melt into the American pot.
The endless wrongs cataloged in this six-hour film make you wonder why anyone would ever want come to such an awful land in the first place.
As a member of the scant one-in-five people of Latin American descent the Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project reports using the term "American" most often to describe their identity — as opposed to "Hispanic," "Latino" or a specific nationality — my negative reaction was probably to be expected.
Sure, I'm the daughter of two low-income immigrants who faced stresses and slights on their way to attaining the American dream. But the country I grew up in did not hate my parents or me, didn't think less of me or deny me anything because of my skin color or last name. And it never made me feel anything but 100 percent American, so I'll grant you that I'm the odd one out here.
I took my concerns to the producers of "Latino Americans."
"We worked very hard to write a straight, factual script with a high level of impartiality and we worked very, very hard for weeks on certain lines to make sure there was a balance there," said Jeff Bieber, vice president of news and public affairs programming at PBS. "History is interpretive, and when somebody watches a film their feelings aren't wrong, but you must give credit to the segments that are triumphant and positive."
Adriana Bosch, the documentary's Cuban-born producer, offered me some very thoughtful, honest reflections of her own internal conflicts about how to portray the Latino experience.
Bosch described the filmmakers' meticulous efforts at balancing complexities and offering accurate historical perspective. She reported that they actually feared their end product could be offensive for sounding too many triumphant notes.
"But I see what you're referring to," Bosch told me. "Maybe the odds are exaggerated. Sometimes when you're making a documentary things get over-dramatized because that's nature of the beast, you maybe overplay the adversary. But it was never intentional." She also pointed out that due to time restraints, the film is light on stories about successful second- and third-generation Latinos, which may have added to the film's nearly singular focus on struggle.
"I can understand the discomfort. It's a hard story," Bosch said. "But our telling of it was designed to stir debate, not to rub anybody's nose in anything. It was always designed to be viewed in the context of an America that is, indeed, welcoming. An America where Latinos have found a land of opportunity and have realized equality, freedom, democracy and the aspiration to the better life."
I'll be tuning in on Tuesday to watch "Latino Americans" again with those intentions in mind — and hoping to have a different experience, within the frame of reference the film's creators say they attempted.
Esther J. Cepeda is a Washington Post columnist.


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2009: Redshirted.
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Apomys sierrae
Heaney, et al. 2011. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2: 34. Type Locality: 3.5 km SW Mt. Cetaceo peak, Cagayan Province, Luzon Island, Philippines, elevation 1400 m (17.69561d N, 122.01683d E)
© The Field Museum. Photograph by L Heaney and A Niedzielski.
Order: RODENTIA
Family: Muridae
English common names: Sierra Madre apomys, Sierra Madre forest mouse
Total length: 262-296 mm; tail: 124-154 mm; hind foot: 34-39 mm; ear: 18-21 mm; weight: 73-110 g. In the Sierra Madre range, Apomys sierrae has dorsal fur that is dark brown with rusty-reddish tints, while on Mt. Palali (Caraballo Mountains), the dorsal fur is medium brown with a yellow tint. Also, the skin of the ears and feet of this latter group is paler than in the individuals from the Sierra Madre. Ventral fur is medium to pale gray at the base and white or white washed with pale ochraceous at the tips. The tail, which is about equal to head and body length, is distinctly bicolored—dark brown dorsally and, usually, white ventrally; only a few individuals have a white tip. The dorsal surface of the hind foot is white with scattered dark hairs.Apomys minganensis has longer, denser and darker dorsal fur and also many dark hairs on the dorsal surface of the hind foot. Apomys sierrae is usually smaller than A. magnus, and the dorsal fur of the former is dark brown with rusty reddish tones or rich rusty orange-brown as opposed to the dark brown with prominent black guard hairs of the latter. Apomys magnus has ventral fur that is paler gray at the base and nearly white at the tip. Apomys sierrae has a reddish tint in its dorsal fur as opposed to the more yellow tint of A. aurorae; otherwise, they are quite similar externally. Also, A. sierrae tends to have a longer hind foot, although other measurements are similar. Apomys sierrae is smaller than A. zambalensis in almost all measurements, and the dorsal pelage of A. zambalensis is a bright rusty umber, rather than dark brown with rusty-red tints. Apomys microdon and A. musculus occur sympatrically in some areas; both are much smaller with proportionately longer tails.
Known from Palaui Island (FMNH), the northern Sierra Madre range in Cagayan Province (USNM); Mt. Lataan and Mungiao Mountains, Quirino Province (FMNH); and Mt. Palali, Caraballo Mountains, Nueva Viscaya (FMNH), Luzon Island (Heaney et al., 2011).
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Currently documented from ca. 475 to 1800 m on Luzon, although it was found at 153 m on Palaui Island, where the maximum elevation is approximately 300 m. On an elevational survey of Mt. Palali, Apomys sierrae was the most frequently captured species of non-volant small mammals in all the collection sites: 780 m, 900 m, 1040 m, 1300 m, 1420 m, and 1707 m. The forest type at these elevations included lowland disturbed agro-forest, regenerated dipterocarp forest, transitional lowland/lower montane forest, mature montane forest, and mossy forest. On an elevational survey of Mt. Cetaceo, A. sierrae was the most abundant non-volant small mammal at all four survey localities: 1300 m, 1400 m, 1500 m and 1550 m. These elevations represent lower montane forest, montane forest, and old-growth mossy forest. Apomys sierrae forages on the ground at night nocturnally, searching for earthworms and seeds. Apomys microdon and A. musculus both occur sympatrically over parts of its range; both are small, primarily arboreal species.
Apomys sierrae from Mt. Cetaceo. © The Field Museum. Illustration by V Simeonovski.
Apomys sierrae from Mt. Palali. © The Field Museum. Illustration by V Simeonovski.
Widespread and abundant.
Comments:Surveys in the area of where the Caraballo Mountains and the Central Cordillera come together, a potential overlap in the distribution of Apomys sierrae, A. abrae, and A. datae, could produce interesting data as to the comparative habitat usage and interactions of these species.


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Doctor Who is one of the longest running TV shows on the BBC, and it's got a huge fandom surrounding it. Doctor Who fans, like other passionate fan cultures, create art & fan fiction and engage in a strong remix and cosplay culture. But it's more than that. Doctor Who provides a philosophy; a way of understanding the universe. Fans embrace this in ways that are similar to most world religions: a positive influence that changes their approach to daily life. Also, the Tardis makes a pretty great shrine!
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Officers' families hurt their own cause
The South Sound has showered the families of four slain Lakewood police officers with love, support and money. But the community's generosity is not so spent that it can't afford one more gift: the benefit of the doubt.
Let's accept at face value what the officers' families say their motivation was for threatening $182 million in claims against Pierce County for the officers' deaths.
The families announced the claims on Thursday, apparently unaware they were about to touch off a firestorm. The claims shocked Pierce County residents. For many of those residents, word of the pending claims came with an implied message: You didn't do enough to honor the officers' memories and comfort their families.
Three of the families quickly retreated on Friday after the resulting backlash. The fourth, the family of officer Tina Griswold, is still weighing its options.
The survivors say they weren't after money, and the fact is they don't need it. Each family is entitled to more than $500,000 in death benefits plus lifetime pension and worker compensation payments that equal or nearly equal the officer's annual salary. The community also raised $2.2 million for a trust for the officers' children.
What the families want, they say, is a policy change. They claim their loved ones' deaths could have been prevented if Pierce County had done a better job monitoring calls made by inmates in county lockup.
Cop-killer Maurice Clemmons spoke repeatedly of his plans to kill police in calls to his wife from the Pierce County jail last fall. He made good on those threats just days after bailing out of jail.
But policing jail calls is a tall order. Lots of thugs threaten to "get" cops, and the county can't possibly monitor the thousands of hours of calls logged by 1,400 inmates.
The Lakewood officers' families suggest the answer is for the county to cull the worst of the worst for call-monitoring. They assume such a system would have successfully targeted Clemmons. That's a big assumption, given the kind of criminals in the county jail at any time. Clemmons was not the worst offender in the joint, and he never threatened police directly.
The sad reality is that nothing about Clemmons' calls – he didn't target specific officers or name certain locations or discuss detailed plans – made them extraordinary, except in retrospect. The county prosecutor's office says Clemmons' rantings wouldn't have justified a criminal charge. Even if they had, the threats would have earned him another month in jail at most.
The families had one thing right: The lengths to which law enforcement can and should go to protect public and officer safety is worthy of debate. But they and their lawyers – especially their lawyers – badly misjudged how to jumpstart that discussion.
Instead of approaching county policy makers with a proposal or spearheading a community campaign or even calling a press conference to demand change, the families' lawyer simply told the county's lawyer to brace for a legal battle.
That's not exactly the way to make converts to a cause. Good lawyers advise their clients not just how to win in court but, more importantly, how to get the result they seek.
Unfortunately, the strategy in this case cost the families not just their ability to effect change through legal means. It has also undermined their ability to be effective advocates on this issue outside the courtroom.


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Winner becomes final team to qualify for Classic semifinals
By Jesse Sanchez / MLB.com
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On Wednesday, the two countries will face off again under a completely different set of circumstances. The winner will advance to the tournament semifinals in Los Angeles and the loser will go home. Korea qualified for the next round with a 4-1 victory against Japan on Tuesday.
The United States and Venezuela also have qualified for the semifinals.
The road to L.A. will not be an easy one for Cuba. Japan will send right-handed pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, a 21-game winner in Japan in 2008, to the mound. Cuba will counter with right-hander Yuneski Maya. Maya pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief against Japan in Cuba's Pool 1 opener on Sunday. Overall, Maya is 0-0 with a 2.45 ERA in 3 2/3 innings.
Including Sunday's 6-0 victory over Cuba, the Japanese have defeated the Cubans twice in a row in the Classic at PETCO, including a 10-6 victory in the 2006 finals.
"We will do everything we didn't do [Sunday]," Cuba manager Higinio Velez said. "We will do everything opposite. We are getting ready to beat them. It will be their turn, and we know we will be facing either Korea or Japan, and we are ready for them."
The teams know each other well.
Last year, Cuba defeated Japan, 4-2, in the Olympic opener in Beijing. In the rematch on Sunday, Daisuke Matsuzaka did his part to keep Cuba's offense off the scoreboard, limiting the 2006 World Baseball Classic runner-up to five hits in six scoreless innings in the victory.
Before the Japanese victory against the Cubans in 2006, Cuba defeated Japan in the gold-medal game in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics and again in Olympic action in 2000. The teams didn't face in the medal round in the past two Olympics, but Japan beat Cuba during pool play in Athens in 2004.
Jesse Sanchez is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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One AOL insider's take is that today's voluntary layoff offers are all about pushing out the overpaid old-timers who have gone untouched for years thanks to their loyalty to AOL.
It's also a way of weeding out those who don't believe in that new strategy.
The idea is that AOL already fired A) all the top execs who had seperation agreements B) a bunch of relatively new execs like Greg Coleman, who were not people who have stood by the brand through its ups, downs and more downs.
That leaves SVPs who are people Tim "wanted to get rid of, but couldnt because they are long time loyalists to the brand."
If these people choose to quit now, they'll get nine months severance. If they get laid off in Q1, they get just four months.
Says our insider:
"This could be a nice "get a year off" sort of thing for some who have been with the company a long time and this is a good way for them to save face rather than get fired later."
Of course, taking the voluntary layoff may seem like the safe move, but it's also a gamble. Many SVPs who would take this offer would, if they stayed on, get a lot of stock in a new AOL. If they quit now, they're essentially betting against AOL's chances on the public market.
We'll call this a two-fer for AOL CEO Tim Armstrong:
- He gets rid of old-timers who don't contribute anymore.
- And he weeds out top execs who don't believe in the company's strategy.
Correction: An earlier version of this post said AOL fired Joanna Shields. That is not correct. She tells us, "I left on my own accord."


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|Dev: Team Ninja
|Pub: Tecmo Koei
|Release: February 22, 2012
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|Screen Resolution: 544p
|Blood and Gore, Suggestive Themes, Violence
by Shelby Reiches
Ninja Gaiden on the original Xbox was a sublime experience. Standing as my personal favorite game of that generation, it melded a fast-paced, intricate combat engine with what were, at the time, some of the best visuals yet to grace a home console. The game was hectic, beautiful, and silky smooth. These attributes were carried through to both of its re-releases—the Xbox's Ninja Gaiden Black and the PlayStation 3's Ninja Gaiden Sigma—which also added new enemies, weapons, and level arrangements to the base game. It's unfortunate, then, that Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus, the first handheld iteration of the game, drops the ball, providing a sub-par experience and a smattering of new features that offer little for series fans.
That isn't to say that the experience is all bad. Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is a gorgeous game; its level, character design, and effects are all based on the PlayStation 3's high-definition update. All of the animations prior players will remember are in there, including Sigma's updated rolling. In the U.S. version, at least, all of its blood and gore are intact, enemy heads flying after a particularly brutal slash. It sounds like Ninja Gaiden too, with satisfying hit effects and the game's familiar soundtrack. It's a shame there's no option for Japanese audio, but that's a minor quibble at worst, as the game's English voice acting isn't that bad.
The only real downside to the presentation, and one of the primary issues with the game, is that it runs at 30 frames per second, whereas its prior incarnations all held a constant 60. The visuals appear sluggish, though still relatively smooth, and it absolutely throws off a seasoned player's timing. While it's great to see Ninja Gaiden at its visual peak, this is a game where individual still shots matter far less than consistently smooth motion.
There are more general control issues as well. Response to the analog stick feels imprecise and slow, which is odd considering how well other games on the Vita use the stick, and may still be tied to the frame rate. This, combined with the apparent "buffering" of one's inputs to compensate for the slower pace of the game, results in combat that feels frustratingly imprecise in a game that has always demanded absolute precision. Along those lines, the game's use of the Vita's unique control features is suspect at best.
Gyroscopic aiming in first-person is not necessary (the sticks can still be used), yet cannot be turned off—entering into first-person mode involves tapping the touch screen anywhere, which is easy to do accidentally just while moving one of the sticks or pressing a button. While one can set the game to fire on a button press in first-person, it defaults to a touch-based mode that requires one to tap the screen where one wishes to shoot, but this method does not provide anywhere near the degree of precision necessary for Ninja Gaiden. These factors combined make the bow a pain to use, especially since one can no longer transition from drawing the string in third-person to aiming in first-person, meaning that one must position oneself manually, first, if one hopes to strike with any degree of speed.
The back touch panel sees some use as well, though it's extremely limited. It's mostly this version's means of powering up ninpo (a concept first introduced in Sigma), with short minigames anytime someone uses the ninja magic. They don't break the flow of the game, or cause any undue frustration, but they don't really add anything to the game, either. That can be said, though, about most of the additions the developers made this time out.
Besides the new controls, Sigma Plus introduces a new accessory slot for Ryu, with stat-boosting items that actually show up on Ryu's character model and a new difficulty level called "Hero Mode." The enhancements one receives from these new accessories aren't anything game-breaking, but they do add a little something both behind the scenes and visually. Hero Mode, however, is one part of Team Ninja's new design philosophy, which seems to center on making games that are more accessible to everyone. The only individuals who will want to play in Hero Mode, which goes so far as to automate defense and provide unlimited ninpo for a short time when one's health gets low, are those who were either frustrated by previous versions of the game or have never played Ninja Gaiden before. Both are relatively small markets, as Ninja Gaiden is old enough, at this point, that its fan base has sort of crystallized. Almost everyone with an interest in the title has already played some version of it, and, if they found it frustrating enough that they'd need Hero Mode, it's likely that they've already lost interest in the game and written it off. It's an addition that doesn't do any real harm, but helps almost no one.


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Databass is a magazine for bass guitar players. It features in-depth information on bass guitar legends as well as cutting edge info on the instrument and industry. It's companion website will feature a complete database of legends with very in-depth info on artist history, discography, gear, etc. (This is where the name came from). We own a registered trademark for the name Databass.
Ideal: A working professional musician in a large city. Young enough that he's up to date with the latest technology. Old enough that he takes his craft seriously. Must appeal to acoustic and electric and upright bass players. Rock, classical and jazz musicians.
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BOSTON — The matchup wasn't a favorable one.
On paper, the Angels' Jered Weaver against Red Sox rookie Allen Webster looked bad for Boston. So did the respective records of the teams, with the Red Sox buried in last place in the AL East and and L.A. atop the AL West.
But the Red Sox' rookies helped them make a game of it.
They had Boston even heading to the ninth, but in a surprising twist the Red Six lost 4-3 when the Angels tagged Koji Uehara for consecutive doubles in the top of the inning to score the winning run.
"It was the movement," Uehara (5-3) said through an interpreter when asked about the pitches that resulted in the decisive doubles. "I didn't have that drop."
Uehara got the first two batters of the ninth, but Brennan Boesch then doubled to deep center field and Chris Ianetta hit a wall-scraper off the Green Monster that just eluded the jump of Daniel Nava, scoring Boesch with the winning run.
The Red Sox put two runners on against Huston Street (10 saves since being traded by the Padres, 34 total) in the bottom of the ninth but Mike Napoli struck out to end the game.
"A couple of splits stayed up in the zone, the first pitch to Boesch and then into the count against Ianetta," said manager John Farrell. "The fly ball off the wall, that's the difference in this one."
It was just under three weeks ago that the Red Sox unloaded a passel of veterans, giving up on contending for a playoff spot, and turned the season over to their prospects to see what they might have for next year.
Though mainstays David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia played their parts, the Red Sox rookies put their stamp all over Tuesday night's game.
Webster had the most important role, and did a solid job.
He went six innings, giving up three runs on seven hits while striking out three and walking two. It was the third straight quality start for the right-hander, who held the Astros to three earned runs (though he gave up four) in six innings in his last start and limited the Angels to two runs in 6 2/3 innings before that.
His one bad inning was the third, when he gave up all three runs.
The Red Sox led 1-0 after two innings on an Ortiz home run into the Monster Seats in the first inning, but four straight hits by the Halos put them up 3-1.
Ianetta began the rally with a one-out double and scored on a single by Kole Calhoun. Mike Trout then ripped the ball off the Monster in left-center to drive in Calhoun, and with converted infielder Mookie Betts playing center field for the Red Sox he raced all the way to third for a triple knowing Betts didn't have the arm strength to throw him out.
Albert Pujols followed with an infield single to drive in Trout.
While Betts, one of the four rookies in the Red Sox lineup, was unable to help Webster in the third, he saved Webster an inning earlier.
With Erick Aybar on first and one out, David Freese hit a drive ticketed for the Red Sox' bullpen, but Betts got to the wall before the ball arrived and calmly reached over it to take away what would have been a two-run home run. He then doubled off Aybar to the end the inning.
"I think (these experiences) will be great for the long run," said Betts. "If I'm an outfielder for a long time, I think these things will be good for me. ... There's a lot that I'm learning."
A triple by Freese in the fourth — on a ball Betts couldn't keep in front of him — was the only other time the Angels got a runner in scoring position against Webster.
"I feel pretty confident right now on the mound," said Webster. "I just have to keep telling myself to trust my stuff."
The veterans got the Red Sox within a run in the fifth. Pedroia singled with one out, moved up a base when Ortiz walked, then up another on a wild pitch by Weaver, and scored on a groundout by Napoli.
The next inning, however, it was the rookies who evened the score. Xander Bogaerts led off with a walk, moved around to third on a single high off the Monster — which would have been a home run in any other ballpark — by Christian Vazquez, and scored on a sacrifice fly from Brock Holt.
The Red Sox had plenty of other chances to score, but in addition to the bottom of the ninth when they left two on base they left runners on in six of the eight prior innings, 10 men on base overall, and were 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
"There were a number of opportunities that we did create for ourselves," said Farrell.
Few, however, were cashed in, so there was another loss in a season full of them.
Yet there was still some good that happened for the Red Sox.
The kids were alright.
Eric Avidon can be reached at 508-626-3809 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ericavidon.


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Hotline Miami: Crime and Punishment
I thought I heard the door open but I disregarded it. I was too lost in my task, rationing dirty cash for my crew of big money games, to notice even a breeze of wind. My crew is loyal, experienced, and have a variety of skills, but at the same time they're loud, cocky, and always trying to get the attention of the world at large. Tucked away in my room counting bills that I'd not long hold, I paid no mind to the commotion my games were making outside; that's what these guys did during down time. I should've know something was amiss when the flat fell silent, but I wasn't paying close enough attention. Moments after the unsettling quiet my door violently swung open, and before I had the chance to even question what was happening, Hotline Miami crushed my skull with a baseball bat.


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Next-generation Jewish philanthropists continue to be active donors at the same time they are looking for new ways to maximize the effects of their giving, according to a new study.
They also want to be more formally involved in their family's philanthropy.
The report, released last week by 21/64 and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, looks at the causes next-gen donors care about, how they approach their giving and how their approach differs from earlier generations.
The survey involved 88 respondents, described as "high-capacity donors," who self-identified as Jewish. Half were in their 20s and half in their 30s.
Next-gen donors in the survey continued to fund Jewish organizations despite research indicating that new generations of the Jewish community are less involved in formal religious practice than previous generations.
Sixty-five percent of respondents identified religious and faith-based organizations as the second most common area of their giving (behind education, 73%).
The findings have important implications for the Jewish organizations that seek their support, according to the researchers.
"Many Jewish organizations and Jewish families are re-evaluating how to engage the emerging generation of Jewish donors who will carry the legacy of Jewish family giving into the future," Michael Moody, Frey Foundation chair for family philanthropy at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, said in a statement.
"The new findings from this study help advance our thinking about how these Jewish next-gen donors want to be engaged, either by the organizations they support or within their own families."
The study found that inherited values drove the respondents in their philanthropy. Ninety-two percent said their philanthropy was influenced by their parents, while 66% pointed to their grandparents.
Respondents reported not being as involved in their families' giving as they would like to be, and striving for a more active role. Thirty-nine percent said they were currently minimally or not involved in family philanthropy.
Frustrated by the lack of formal engagement in their own families, these next-gen donors often looked elsewhere for meaningful philanthropic engagement and experience. Forty-eight percent reported that they served on nonprofit boards, 74% encouraged friends to give and 87% gave online. And 84% said they expected to be somewhat or heavily involved in their family's giving in the future.
The study also found that like most next-gen donors, respondents were looking for new, innovative ways to maximize the effect of their giving, by exploring more hands-on experience and shifting to more peer-oriented giving.
"Despite concerns from the community that the next generation of Jewish funders are less involved in Jewish giving, the results from our study provide an optimistic view," Sharna Goldseker, managing director of 21/64, a consulting firm specializing on multigenerational philanthropy, said in the statement.
"As the surveys reveal, not only are Jewish next-gen donors committed to supporting Jewish organizations, they want to be even further involved in substantive and meaningful ways."
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U.S. beekeepers lost an average of 45 percent of their colonies between the end of 2012 and the end of 2013. And due to pesticides called neonicotinoids, hives are producing 85 percent fewer queens.
Neonicotinoids aren't just terrifying for the beekeepers or our agricultural economy - they're terrifying for my family. Nearly one third of the food we eat requires pollination - including almonds, apples, and dozens of other fruits and vegetables!
We need you to solve this problem for our state and for our country. Please support H.R. 2692, the "Save America's Pollinators Act," introduced by Rep. Conyers and Rep. Blumenauer. This bill would protect bees by requiring the EPA to suspend the use of four of the pesticides belonging to the neonicotinoids class until their safety can be determined. It would also charge the EPA with monitoring bee health.
We depend on bees to pollinate many of our crops, and it's time to stop using chemicals that put them -- and our food -- at risk.
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An image of Bradley Manning arriving for day two of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday prompted Reuters executive editor Jim Roberts to ask this question:
Is Bradley #Manning getting any sunlight? bit.ly/11h1RP0 twitter.com/nycjim/status/…— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) June 4, 2013
The answer: Yes, these days, but more than three years of confinement has clearly taken a toll.
The 25-year-old Army private is charged with the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history and faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted of aiding the enemy.
The former intelligence analyst said he gave a trove of government and military files to WikiLeaks to "spark a domestic debate on the role of our military and foreign policy in general."
Manning was arrested in Kuwait on May 26, 2010.
From July 2010 to April 2011 he was held as a maximum custody detainee* at Quantico marine base in Virginia, where he sat in a fluorescent-lit 6-by-8-foot cell with no window or natural light for 23 hours per day — guards checked on him every five minutes — and was stripped naked at night because authorities deemed the elastic on his underwear could be used to harm himself.
On April 20, 2011, Manning was transferred to the Joint Regional Corrections Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and his conditions improved dramatically.
On Monday defense attorney David Coombs described Manning as a ''young, naive, but good-intentioned'' soldier whose struggle to fit in as a gay man in the military made him feel he ''needed to do something to make a difference in this world.''
Here's another look at Manning, whose trial is expected to run all summer (with some parts being closed to the public):
*In response to Manning's confinement, more than 250 of the most eminent U.S. legal scholars sent a letter to President Obama in protest of Manning's treatment; UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez called it "cruel, inhuman and degrading"; and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chief spokesman, P.J. Crowley, resigned after he publicly denounced the treatment as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid."


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A new version of MSN Messenger is one of the projects currently being worked on by the Windows Live team. The beta version, ostensibly called MSN Messenger 8 but referred to in many places as "Windows Live Messenger," has so far been available for use only by invitation. Beta test users could send e-mail invites to their friends, but there was no way for the general public to test the service.
This changed last Friday, when the MSN Messenger fan site www.mess.be posted an "exclusive" story about Microsoft silently opening up the application to all users, turning the program into a public beta. Other sites on the Internet picked up on the story, but it turned out to be simply a glitch on the MSN servers, and not an actual change in company policy. The guilty server was fixed, and the general public was again locked out from the beta, but a posted direct link to the invitation acceptance page may have let the cat out of the bag again.
So is the new MSN Messenger an improvement on previous versions? I decided to find out, since I already had several invitations sitting in my mailbox.
The first thing I noticed was an improved sign-in feature for multiple accounts. Since my wife and I have separate MSN sign-ins, I appreciated the new ability to keep one account the default but still optionally save the password for another. The application also has a cleaner, less obtrusive appearance, although the ability to add skins and themes will allow users to fix that in no time flat. I was a bit miffed that my old avatar from Messenger 7.5 was not automatically selected, but it was not deleted, and a simple trip to the user preference settings restored it to its full glory.
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Names have been blurred to protect the guilty.
The interface has not changed much from version 7.5. A new feature is the "Find Contacts" search bar at the top of the list of contacts, which instantly finds a name as you type it. This could be handy for people with more friends than they know what to do with. The advertising window at the bottom has been made more annoying, as it refreshes more quickly and offers the user the ability to look at videos of things they probably have no interest in seeing (certainly I had no interest in seeing a half-naked man in the latest teeny-bopper movie). The tabs bar to the left of the contact list can now be easily turned off, but I still miss the ability from MSN Messenger 6 to selectively enable some tabs and not others.
Most of the new features in Messenger Live involve some form of sharing. An icon labeled "See a list of activities" on each chat window offers the user to share files, photos, and music lists. In the never-ending quest to make the MSN division more than just nominally profitable, there are new sets of emoticons and animated greetings that the user can purchase online, and the program keeps track of which ones are "hot."
Some small but useful improvements are also included. The new Messenger has the ability to postpone chat message delivery if the recipient is offline, instead of just shooting them an e-mail. There are also more options for handling your contacts, the most useful of which is the Nicknames feature, which allows you to easily identify people who persist in changing their online name.
On the downside, it seemed to take slightly longer to log in to the service than before, and window scrolling appears to be slightly slower. As expected, the program takes up slightly more memory than its predecessor, sucking up 36MB of RAM on my system.
Overall, this upgrade is a decent improvement for MSN Messenger users, and puts the program on par feature-wise with rivals such as Yahoo Instant Messenger. However, it does not really bring anything spectacularly new to the table to justify its name change.


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By YURI KAGEYAMA | Associated Press – Fri, Aug 3, 2012
TOKYO (AP) — Worn out and resigned to its dwindling status, Japan Inc. is said to be quietly shuffling off the world stage. But don't tell that to Kenji Hasegawa, who is ready to conquer the global auto market with his nifty innovation, a bolt that doesn't need a nut. Or Chiaki Hayashi, who makes millions teaching big-name companies to be creative again.
As different as they seem — Hasegawa runs auto-parts supplier Lock'n Bolt Corp. and Hayashi is a rare woman to help found a Tokyo startup — both highlight the potential of innovation and entrepreneurship in a nation that is often typecast as facing an unrelenting decline.
Of the decline, there is plenty of evidence.
Long in the doldrums after its 1980s bubble economy burst, Japan has been eclipsed by China as the world's second-biggest economy. Many of its consumer technology companies have been overtaken by South Korean competitors and are racking up huge losses. The number of young Japanese choosing to study abroad has dropped. And while Facebook lured hundreds of millions of members worldwide, management at Japanese social network Mixi never looked to grow overseas.
The naysayers claim Japan is stagnating, only looking inward and squandering advantages such as its well-educated workforce, low crime rate and a rich history of technological prowess. But even while acknowledging big challenges that include its swollen national debt and rapidly greying population, Japan Inc.'s boosters say it can still rekindle the sparks of ingenuity that in the past delivered network-connecting mobile phones years before the arrival of smartphones, and made "instant noodles" part of the global diet for the last four decades.
First though, Japan must recognize that what ails it is at least partly in the mind.
"In order to have innovation, you must accept a certain amount of failure. To the Japanese, this has become taboo," said William Saito, a prolific technology inventor who now runs a company that identifies up-and-coming innovators and tries to match them with investors.
Saito says conformist Japan frowns upon failures, and doesn't allow for second chances. Worse, Japan appears to be wallowing, when what it needs is action, Saito and others say. Even the rising yen, long cited as the death knell for an exporting economy such as Japan, should be reframed as an advantage, delivering bigger purchasing power for Japanese companies abroad.
For some, Japan's revival can come from re-inventing what it has long known best — manufacturing, but with innovative ideas.
As tiny as a nut-less bolt is, it has the potential to make Hasegawa, the supplier, rich. Much of machinery, including cars, ships and factory equipment, use bolts — untold numbers of them. And so a bolt that doesn't require a nut is a big timesaver.
A nut-less bolt, based on the idea of a smaller bolt within a bolt, a patented secret, is also significantly lighter than a regular bolt, delivering cost-savings in fuel and raw materials and other perks like better mileage in a car.
Hasegawa is talking with a long list of interested companies, including Panasonic Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. He is looking into production outside Japan, perhaps Vietnam, he said.
Hasegawa says the key to Japan's revival lies in breakthroughs such as his that developed because of a legacy in "monozukuri," which translates as "making things," but is more akin to craftsmanship.
Hayashi's young business, Loftwork Inc., earned 900 million yen ($11 million) in annual sales taking a different but equally Japanese route as Hasegawa's.
She offers a service that stems from her diagnosis of the sickness at major companies — the loss of the innovative spirit. She hopes to start a kernel of creativity going at companies that "starts small but snowballs."
Top Japanese companies have a load of talented hardworking people, but they have become so obsessed with rigidity like quality control in mass production that their thinking has grown static, and they can't figure out where to start or how to change, she said.
"The companies need our help because they've grown to be a giant Gundam robot that isn't able to handle delicate innovations, which are like ants at its feet, and may instead squash them," Hayashi said, referring to a Transformer-like robot.
Saito, a son of Japanese immigrants to California, believes Japan Inc. has simply lost its entrepreneurial spirit. His assessment underlines a growing view among experts here.
Saito's own career took off when he was just a teenager, partly because management of major Japanese companies like Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. weren't afraid to take risks in the past, even on a child prodigy like Saito, when he came up with fingerprint-recognition encryption for security.
Microsoft Corp. licensed Saito's core technology in 2000, and bought his company nine years ago, allowing him to technically retire.
"But I've never been busier, doing a ton of different things, to really give back to society, and to reinvigorate the creative spirit and become a more entrepreneurial society again because it used to be here," said Saito. "It's just bringing it back. All the parts exist. It's just a matter of how to execute that."
Saito, the computer whiz, has opened "Creative Lounge Mov," in a fashionable shopping mall in Tokyo's Shibuya, known as this nation's Silicon Valley, complete with locker rooms, offices and sofas, to provide a place where venture types can exchange ideas and hook up with investors.
He and others believe such ventures will nurture entrepreneurs, and in the longer term get Japan back in front.
Despite being ahead in key technologies like the mobile Internet and electronic money, Japan saw its lead eroded by latecomers with more imagination, according to Gerhard Fasol, a consultant who works with Japanese companies.
"Japan hasn't woken up," said Fasol.


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Gtk warning when opening Gedit in terminal
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on two different machines, both using x64 installs. Only one machine returns these Gtk warnings after using
sudo gedit. I get these warnings when opening or saving a file.
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(gedit:2456): Gtk-WARNING **; Attempting to store changes into '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.KBGV9V': No such file or directory
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@blueangel06661 I just thought you should know that what she found was a love letter that I gave my gf on our 6 month anniversary. It was supposed to be something special between me and my gf, not something special between me her and her mom, which is exactly what my gf pointed out when yelling at hermom about what she did. Her mom still welcomes me in there house, but after a betrayal like that, I no longer feel comfortable in there.
I have never been anything less than kind to her mom. I listen when she speaks to me and help her whenever she asks. It was not until she broke my trust that I started to dislike her. And I will stop referring to it as hatred because it really is just a dislike.
Also, my gf's parents were divorced when she was young, and she was raised more by her father than her mother. Her father was, from what I know, a kind wonderful man who I would have loved to meet.
I'm not sure why you think I'm such a bad kid around her parents. Whenever I have nothing nice to say, I say nothing at all. I try to always put a smile on my face and I avoid them if I can so I won't feel uncomfortable.
Finally, the reason her mom likes me so much is because I have been the best friend her daughter has ever had. I have stayed by her through her losing her pets, I have taken care of her when she was ill with bronchitis, I have helped her study for all of her classes, I have been there when she needed to talk, I have never shown any sign of wavering in my feelings for her. Her mother was estatic when she found out we were dating. It is unfortunate that her mother betrayed my trust, because no matter what she does to try to make it up to her, my forgiveness cannot be bought and I doubt I will ever feel comfortable in that house again, and it'll be at least a year until I can ever give my gf love letters or poetry again.


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The most important lesson learned spending 48 hours in Chicago?
48 hours are not nearly enough to taste all of the fantastic baked goods the city has to offer. Nonetheless, we were armed with suggestions from friends Natalie (of Bake and Destroy), Sandy (the Milwaukee Cupcake Queen) and Claudia Saraniecki--and so we tried our damndest to try all we could in our short time in this gorgeous city. No, we didn't try every bakery--but we certainly did try some good ones:
Bittersweet Pastry Shop: This pastry shop feels a bit like a Parisian pâtisserie has gotten an American makeover: gorgeous cases full of French treats (sables, tarts, croissants) existing peacefully side by side with American standards (cupcakes, cobblers, muffins). The sables, which were made in a slightly more rustic way than we've seen, were perfect--that is to say, full of butter and completely delicious. Hours: Tues-Fri, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 1114 W Belmont Ave., (773) 929-1100; online at bittersweetpastry.com.
Bombon Americano: This was an extra-special spot because it's here that Head Spy Jessie met Natalie of Bake & Destroy fame! This place is a treasure in a neighborhood full of chain restaurants, with a well-stocked bakery case full of tarts, cupcakes and other assorted treats. We enjoyed a black and white (vanilla-chocolate) and red velvet cupcake respectively--the cake was moist and flavorful, but even more impressive was the silky buttercream, which seemed somehow light and decadent all at once. Hours: Mon-Sat, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; closed Sunday. 1000 N. Clark St., (312) 787-7717; online at bombonamericano.com.
Chaos Theory: Approaching from the opposite side of the street, the first thing you'll see is a huge, light-up, hot pink sign that says "CAKE". If that doesn't bode well, what does? Chaos Theory is the newest retail spot opened by Michelle Garcia of Bleeding Heart Bakery fame, and walking into the shop is like walking into an alternate universe--neon-toned chairs at funky, mismatched tables, cool graffiti and artwork on the walls, and cake--and cookies, and truffles with Jesus motifs. If this is another planet, we want to stay here: take us to your leader. PS-Desiree, who was working during the Cakespy visit, was awesome! 2961 N. Lincoln Ave., (773) 281-2353; online at chaostheorycakes.com.
Letizia's Natural Bakery: Heavy, rich, decadent, and huge--that pretty much sums up Letizia's. But most importantly, delicious. Sure, it's all natural and organic--but does that make up for the fact that the average pastry here weighs about a pound? Probably not, but with rows of slablike brownies, cookie sandwiches with enough ganache to feed a village, and tiramisu that might make your head spin, you might just stop caring. In fact, our only complaint here was that when we asked the employee what his favorite treat was, he said "I don't care for sweets". Sacrilege! Luckily he came around and described some of the most popular treats for us. Good boy. Hours: Weekdays, 6 a.m.-11 p.m.; Weekends, 6:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. 2122 W Division St., (773) 342-1011; online at superyummy.com.
More Cupcakes: This spot opened the day after our departure, but it intrigues us--read more here. Any reader input? Online at morecupcakes.com.
Swirlz: The cupcakes here are a little spendy ($3.50 each), but they're impeccably decorated and a bit larger than the average cupcake, so consider it a wash. If we were to make one complaint, and really, it's not so much a complaint as the ramblings of starry eyed dreamer, it would be that though these are good cupcakes--the cake was moist, the frosting was buttery--it somehow felt strange eating such pretty cakes that tasted so relatively normal. Don't let that stop you from going though--all things considered, they're a good normal, and the staff was all super-friendly. Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; closed Sunday. 705 W. Belden, (773) 404-CAKE; online at swirlzcupcakes.com.
Twisted Sister: Oh, thumbprint cookie from Twisted Sister. How delicious you were. If only we had you again, we'd take you to the park, we'd whisper sweet nothings in your buttery, nutty little ear...compliment your delicate dollop of sweet jam...and then eat you! Again! ...This is to say...we love the cookies at Twisted Sister. The cakes didn't look so bad either, though we didn't get a chance to try anything else. Hours: Mon-Fri, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. 1543 N. Wells St., (312) 932-1128; online at twistedsisterbakery.com.


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38 dead in Moscow hospital fire
Thirty-eight people were killed, most of them in their beds, in a fire that raged through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow on Friday, raising questions about the care of mentally ill patients in Russia.world Updated: Apr 27, 2013 01:13 IST
Thirty-eight people were killed, most of them in their beds, in a fire that raged through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow on Friday, raising questions about the care of mentally ill patients in Russia.
The fire, which broke out at around 2 a.m. (2200 GMT on Thursday), swept through a single-storey building at the hospital, a collection of wood and brick huts with bars on some windows that was home to people sent there on grounds of mental illness by Russian courts.
By mid morning, a few blackened walls were left standing.
The roof had caved in on top of the twisted metal frames of what were once beds. Bodies lay on nearby grass, covered with blankets.
Only three people escaped from the fire in the village of Ramensky, 120 km (70 miles) north of Moscow, prompting speculation the patients were heavily sedated or strapped down.
Irina Gumennaya, aide to the head of the chief investigative department of the Moscow region, dismissed suggestions they had been restrained as "rubbish" but promised blood tests to check whether there were high levels of sedatives.
"The wards ... did not have doors, the patients could have escaped from the building by themselves," she said, adding that she believed the most likely cause of the blaze was patients smoking, or perhaps a short circuit.
Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said none of the patients were strapped down or subjected to "any such measures that would not have allowed them to react quickly," the state-run RIA news agency reported.
President Vladimir Putin called for an investigation of the "tragedy", the latest in a long line of disasters at state institutions that are often ill-funded. Russia's safety record is dismal, accounting for a high death toll on roads, railways and in the air as well as at the workplace.
Psychiatrists said the fire was not the first and would not be the last of its kind.
"(This happened) because of dilapidated buildings in psychiatric hospitals - a third of the buildings since 2000 have been declared unfit, according to health standards," Yuri Savenko, president of the independent psychiatric association of Russia, told Reuters.
Furthermore, junior and middle-ranking staff had miserable salaries and "because of that the staff were asleep", he said.
Legal standards governing Russian psychiatric patients "are on the whole satisfactory and on par with European standards, but compliance with them is very weak," lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky said.
Putin's critics blamed the state for neglecting its most vulnerable people.
"Terrible news ... Those patients who burned were there because they were forced to have treatment," said Dmitry Olshansky, former editor of Russian Life, an online journal.
"I read all this and I wonder - what does this remind us of?
And then I remember - this is our motherland, the madhouse.
Flood, fire, bars on windows ... and we cannot deal with it," he said on his Facebook site.
Officials said the blaze consumed the building quickly and firefighters had no chance to save any more people - an account that locals disputed, saying fire engines took more than an hour to reach the scene.
"Don't trust anyone who says they (firemen) arrived quickly... My wife woke me up, we went out on the street with our daughter. Flames were rising high," said a man, who was drinking an early-morning beer at a friend's garage nearby.
Asked why the building caught fire, Alexander Yefimovich, an elderly man said: "Why? It's just the usual nonsense."
More than 12,000 people were killed in fires in 2011 and more than 7,700 in the first nine months of 2012 in Russia, where the per capita death rate from fires is much higher than in Western nations including the United States.
First Published: Apr 26, 2013 20:59 IST


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