Israel's comatose Sharon showing brain activity

JERUSALEM (AP) ? A team of Israeli and U.S. scientists say new tests on comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon show significant brain activity.

Ben-Gurion University on Sunday said Sharon responded to external stimuli at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

He was shown pictures of his family and listened to recordings of his son's voice while undergoing a special brain imaging scan. The university said "significant brain activity was observed ... indicating appropriate processing of these stimulations."

However, Sharon remains in a deep coma.

Sharon, 84, led Israel from 2001 until suffering a stroke in 2006. Since then, he has been in a vegetative state, connected to a respirator.

Sharon was a storied military officer who fought in three wars before entering politics. He unilaterally withdrew Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005.

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Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to assign significantly more personnel in coming years to counter increasing threats against U.S. government computer networks and conduct offensive operations against foreign foes, a U.S. defense official said on Sunday.

The plan, which would increase both military and civilian staffing at U.S. Cyber Command, comes as the Pentagon moves toward elevating the new command and putting it on the same level as the major combatant commands.

The official said no formal decisions had been made on the expanding staffing levels or changing Cyber Command into a "unified" command like U.S. Strategic Command, which currently oversees cyber command and the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal.

Any changes to the combatant command structure would be made based on strategic and operational needs, and take into account the need for efficient use of taxpayer dollars, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The Pentagon was working closely with U.S. Cyber Command and the major military commands to develop "the optimum force structure for successfully operating in cyberspace," the official said.

The Washington Post, quoting senior defense officials, reported late Sunday that the Pentagon had decided to expand Cyber Command's current staffing level of 900 to 4,900 in coming years.

The official confirmed that Cyber Command planned to expand its force significantly, but said the specific numbers cited by the Post were "pre-decisional."

The newspaper said senior Pentagon officials had agreed to increase the force late last year amid a string of attacks, including one that wiped out more than 30,000 computers at a Saudi Arabian state oil company. it said

The plan calls for creating three types of force under the Cyber Command, said the defense official.

"National mission forces," would protect computer systems that undergird electrical grids and other kinds of infrastructure. "Combat mission forces," would help commanders abroad execute attacks or other offensive operations, while "cyber protection forces," would focus on protecting the Defense Department's own systems.

Details were still being worked out, the official said.

(Reporting by Sarah Lynch and Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by David Brunnstrom)

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Breast Cancer Surgery: Is Less Better than More?

Women with early stage breast cancer who undergo breast-conserving surgery do just as well, and perhaps better, in terms of survival, than those who have their breasts removed, a new study suggests.

In the study, early stage breast cancer patients who were treated with lumpectomy ? a surgery that removes the tumor and part of the surrounding tissue ? were 19 percent less likely to die from any cause over a nine-year period compared with those who received a mastectomy.

The advantage was seen even after researchers took into account factors that could affect survival, such as age, size of the tumor before surgery, and the aggressiveness of the cancer.

However, experts caution the apparent survival benefit might have been due to differences between the two groups of women that the researchers were not able to take into account, such as access to health care.

Regardless of this issue, the study provides reassurance to breast cancer patients who opt for more conservative surgery. In recent years, mastectomies have risen among certain groups of patients, such as young women, the researchers said.

Many women think "they may do better the more surgery they do," said study researcher Dr. E. Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute. "They need to be aware that lumpectomy gives them excellent long-term outcomes."

The researchers note lumpectomy is not for everyone. It is not recommended for women with large tumors or multiple tumors in the same breast, those who have had previous chest radiation, or those who have certain genetic mutations, such as the BRCA1 mutation. But the majority of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer (over 80 percent) are candidates for lumpectomy, Hwang said.

Breast cancer surgery

Hwang and colleagues analyzed information from 112,154 women in California diagnosed with early stage breast cancer between 1990 and 2004 who received either a lumpectomy followed by radiation, or a mastectomy.

During the study period, there were 31,416 deaths, about 39 percent of which were due to breast cancer.

Women who were 50 years and older and who had tumors that were sensitive to the hormones estrogen and progesterone showed the biggest benefit from lumpectomy. They were 13 percent less likely to die from breast cancer, and 19 percent less likely to die from any cause, compared with those undergoing mastectomy.

For women who were under 50 with hormone-sensitive tumors, survival was about the same whether they received a lumpectomy or mastectomy, the researchers said.

Survival benefit?

"It's good news in that a lot of women sometimes come in and feel that a mastectomy must be better than breast conservation," said Dr. Stephanie Bernik, chief of surgical oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study. But breast surgeons have had confidence based on previous studies that breast conservation surgery is equivalent to mastectomy for early stage cancer, Bernik said.

Bernik cautioned against interpreting the findings to mean that lumpectomy offers a survival benefit.

As a group, those who had mastectomies had some key differences compared with those who had a lumpectomy: They tended to have larger, more aggressive tumors, and they were more likely to have undergone surgery earlier in the study period, when treatment options were different, Bernik said.

Although the researchers tried to account for these differences by using statistics, "that's not perfect," Bernik said.

The researchers also could not directly determine whether participants had other conditions, besides breast cancer, that could have influence their survival.

Women who have lumpectomies need to be monitored in case their cancer reoccurs, an issue that may factor in to a women's decision to undergo the surgery, Hwang said. Because the study only looked at patient survival, it could not determine how likely lumpectomy patients were to have their cancer reoccur.

Pass it on: For women with early stage breast cancer, breast conserving surgery has results equivalent to mastectomy in the long term.

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Daughters demand contact with detained Iran opposition couple

DUBAI (Reuters) - Two leading Iranian opposition figures held under house arrest for almost two years have been denied contact with their children, their daughters said in a statement published on Saturday.

Mirhossein Mousavi stood in presidential elections in 2009 and became one of the figureheads of the huge street protests over allegations of vote rigging that followed. He was detained with his wife Zahra Rahnavardstood in February 2011.

The Islamic Republic is gearing up for another presidential vote in June and hardline clerical figures have accused opposition forces of plotting a second "sedition" - referring to the last protests that were crushed by security forces.

Authorities have denied Mousavi and Rahnavard contact with their children for weeks, their three daughters wrote in a statement published on Saturday by Kalame, a website close to Mousavi.

"In the last two months we have had no contact or meeting or even a discussion with them, nor have we even heard their voices except for one limited phone call, which was in the presence and under the pressure of (government) agents," the statement said.

The daughters said their parents had not been in a good physical condition at their last meeting.

"Our demand on the threshold of the start of the third year of their unexplained and illegal house arrest ... is the unconditional and immediate freedom of our father and mother," their statement said.

Mousavi and Rahnavard are being held under house arrest in their home in Tehran. Another prominent opposition figure, Mehdi Karoubi, was detained at the same time as them and is being held in a separate location apart from his home.

Mousavi and Karoubi were detained after they called their supporters onto the streets for a rally in support of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011.

Hardliners have asked the judiciary to execute both men, but authorities have so far chosen to isolate rather than officially arrest them.

Mousavi, 70, Iran's prime minister in the 1980s, was treated for a heart problem in hospital in August, one of his former senior advisors told Reuters.

Karoubi, 75, was taken to hospital in November after feeling dizzy and losing weight, a website close to him reported.

(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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P53 mutation hinders cancer treatment response

Jan. 25, 2013 ? Scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) have discovered the workings of the gene that has been hindering treatment response in cancer patients. This discovery was made after 5 years of studying the mutant form of the p53 gene, the major tumor suppressor in humans, which is generally found mutated in over 50% of all type of human cancers.

The dominant-negative (DN) effect of the mutant p53 gene in cancers was found to affect the outcome of cancer treatment modalities. DN effect is a phenomenon whereby one copy of mutant p53 that exists in cancer cells inhibits the tumor suppressor activity of the other wild-type p53 copy when they co-exist. The result is that a patient may either have poor response or earlier relapse of tumours after their treatment.

The research findings is significant in that it offers hope to improve cancer treatment outcomes by selectively inhibiting mutant p53's DN effect through several methods by generating selective and specific inhibitory molecules specific for some of the common hot-spot p53 point mutations. There are currently no drugs or compounds that can alleviate DN effects of mutant p53.

In order to understand the specific roles of mutant p53 DN properties in regulating acute treatment response and long-term tumourgenesis, a team of five researchers led by NCCS Prof Kanaga Sabapathy, the Principal Investigator in the Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Head of the Division of Cellular & Molecular Research from NCCS, carried out experiments by generating genetically engineered knock-in mouse strains expressing varying levels of mutant p53. The results showed that DN effect is observed after acute p53 activation by a variety of chemotherapeutic drugs and irradiation, thereby affecting anti-cancer treatment. This breakthrough came after five years of intensive research.

It was found that mutant p53 have DN effects in a cell-type and dose-dependent manner, especially during acute p53 activation where p53 levels are elevated. Based on the above observations, efforts to generate specific inhibitors for the common hot spot p53 point mutations are underway. The inhibition of mutant p53 expression in cells carrying a wild-type and mutant p53 alleles can improve response to chemotherapeutic drugs.

In a further study, the researchers also questioned the possibility of the mutant p53 acquiring new functions (or Gain of Function) to drive carcinogenesis, transforming normal cells to cancerous cells. Their investigation comparing cells from genetically engineered mouse strains expressing 2 different types of p53 mutations: the R172H mutation versus the R246S mutation, which showed that Gain of Function (GOF) was found only in the former. This showed that GOF of mutated p53 is specifically dependent on mutation-type but not across all kinds of genetic mutations, highlighting diversity in properties of the different types of p53 mutations, thereby indicating that mutations found in human cancers can behave differently, and thus, need to be carefully assessed prior to treatment.

Thus, the existence of mutant p53 certainly has a negative impact on cancer treatment, whether it is through DN effect or GOF. Prof Sabapathy said that the team is now embarking on more research to determine the possibility of targeting mutant p53 without affecting wild-type p53 in human cells, paving way to clinical trials in the future to test the efficacy on cancer therapeutic response.

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White House, senators launching immigration push

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures speaks during his final news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's fledgling second term agenda so far reads like a progressive wish list. In less than a week, he's vowed to tackle climate change, expand gay rights and protect government entitlements. His administration lifted a ban on women in combat and expanded opportunities for disabled students. Proposals for stricter gun laws have already been unveiled and plans for comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, are coming soon. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures speaks during his final news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's fledgling second term agenda so far reads like a progressive wish list. In less than a week, he's vowed to tackle climate change, expand gay rights and protect government entitlements. His administration lifted a ban on women in combat and expanded opportunities for disabled students. Proposals for stricter gun laws have already been unveiled and plans for comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, are coming soon. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House press secretary Jay Carney gesture as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama will launch a campaign next week aimed at overhauling the nation's flawed immigration system and creating legal status for millions, as a bipartisan Senate group nears agreement on achieving the same goals.

The proposals from Obama and lawmakers will mark the start of what is expected to be a contentious and emotional process with deep political implications. Latino voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in the 2012 election, leaving Republicans grappling for a way to regain their standing with an increasingly powerful pool of voters.

The president will press his case for immigration changes during a trip to Las Vegas Tuesday. The Senate working group is also aiming to outline its proposals next week, according to a Senate aide.

Administration officials say Obama's second-term immigration push will be a continuation of the principles he outlined during his first four years in office but failed to act on. He is expected to revive his little-noticed 2011 immigration "blueprint," which calls for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that includes paying fines and back taxes; increased border security; mandatory penalties for businesses that employ unauthorized immigrants; and improvements to the legal immigration system, including giving green cards to high-skilled workers and lifting caps on legal immigration for the immediate family members of U.S. citizens.

"What has been absent in the time since he put those principles forward has been a willingness by Republicans, generally speaking, to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. "What he hopes is that that dynamic has changed."

The political dynamic does appear to have shifted following the November election. Despite making little progress on immigration in his first term, Obama won more than 70 percent of the Latino vote, in part because of the conservative positions on immigration that Republican nominee Mitt Romney staked out during the GOP primary. Latino voters accounted for 10 percent of the electorate in November.

The president met privately Friday morning with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss his next steps on immigration. Among those in the meeting was Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., who said Obama told lawmakers "immigration reform is his number one legislative priority."

That could bump back the president's efforts to seek legislation enacting stricter gun laws, another issue he has vowed to make a top second term priority.

The Senate immigration group is also pressing for quick action, aiming to draft a bill by March and pass legislation in their chamber by August, said the aide, who requested anonymity in order to discuss private deliberations. The Republican-controlled House would also need to pass the legislation before it went to the White House for the president's signature.

Senate lawmakers working on the immigration effort include Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida, according to Senate aides.

Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Republicans Jeff Flake of Arizona and Mike Lee of Utah have also been involved. It's not clear whether all those involved will sign on to the principles the group hopes to roll out next week.

Those principles are expected to include a process toward legalizing the status of unauthorized immigrants already in the country; border security; verification measures for employers hiring workers and ways for more temporary workers to be admitted into the country.

It's unclear whether the group will back the pathway to full citizenship that the president is seeking. Schumer and Graham have previously supported requiring illegal immigrants to admit they broke the law, perform community service, pay fines and back taxes, pass background checks and learn English before going to the back of the line of immigrants already in the system in order to legalize their immigration status.

Several of the senators negotiating the immigration principles are veterans of the failed comprehensive immigration reform effort under then-President George W. Bush. That process collapsed in 2007 when it came up well-short of the needed votes in the Senate, a bitter outcome for Bush and the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Democrats' leader on the legislation.

Some Republicans still lament that result as a missed opportunity for the party that could have set the GOP on a different path to reach more Latino voters.

Rubio is a relative newcomer to Senate negotiations on the issue, but he's seen as a rising star in his party and a potential 2016 presidential candidate. As a charismatic young Hispanic leader his proposals on immigration have attracted wide notice in recent weeks. And as a conservative favorite, unlike McCain or Graham, his stamp of approval could be critical to drawing in other conservative lawmakers.

A Republican aide said that Rubio has made clear in his interactions with the Senate group that he couldn't sign on to proposals that deviated from the principles he himself has been laying out in recent media interviews, including border security first, a guest-worker program, more visas for high-tech workers and enforcement in the workplace.

As for the illegal immigrants already in the country, Rubio would have them pay a fine and back taxes, show they have not committed crimes, prove they've been in the country for some time and speak some English and apply for permanent residency. Ultimately citizenship too could be in reach but only after a process that doesn't nudge aside immigrants already in line, and Rubio hasn't provided details on how long it all might take.

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Associated Press writer Luis Alonso Lugo contributed to this report.

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Myanmar rejects US criticism over ethnic conflict

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? Myanmar has rejected the latest U.S. criticism of its conflict with ethnic Kachin rebels, and deplores that Washington still calls the country by its old name, Burma, according to a statement published Saturday.

A Myanmar Foreign Ministry statement published in the state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper "rejected" a news release issued Thursday by the U.S. Embassy that had expressed "deep concern" over the ongoing violence in Kachin state in northern Myanmar.

The U.S. statement also noted that according to media and NGO reports, Myanmar's army "continues a military offensive in the vicinity of the Kachin Independence Army headquarters in Laiza" despite the government's own unilateral cease-fire announcement on Jan. 19.

The exchange is a reminder that the rapprochement between the countries is still far from complete as Myanmar transitions from ostracized military state to a fledging democracy, even though Washington has eased most sanctions it imposed on the previous army regime because of its repressive policies.

The Foreign Ministry said it strongly rejected the U.S. assertions because they "could cause misunderstanding in the international community" and because they failed to mention anything about "terrorist actions and atrocities committed by the KIA" and mentioned only army actions.

The military has been actively engaging the Kachin in combat for 1 1/2 years, but fighting escalated recently when the government began using fighter planes and helicopter gunships in its attacks starting on Christmas Day. It says it was acting in self-defense because Kachin attacks kept it from supplying its forward bases, but the Kachin says they were seeking to stop the army from attacking their headquarters in the town of Laiza, near the border with China.

The Kachin, like Myanmar's other ethnic minorities, have long sought greater autonomy from the central government. They are the only major ethnic rebel group that has not reached a truce with Thein Sein's administration.

The government also upbraided the embassy for the use of the terms "Burma" and "Burmese Government" in its statement and pointed out that even President Obama during his visit here in November and in an address to a Southeast Asian-U.S summit meeting had referred to the country as "Myanmar."

The statement said Myanmar "strongly objects" to the use of "Burma" by the US embassy, saying that it is "unethical" and that government hopes the embassy avoids actions that may affect mutual understanding and cooperation that has recently been restored between the countries.

The then-ruling junta changed the country's name to Myanmar from Burma in 1988, a year after a failed pro-democracy uprising led to the installation of a strict military government. Pro-democracy activists mostly preferred to use the old name Burma to indicate their rejection of the legitimacy of military rule, a stance also taken by the U.S. and British governments.

Washington was the leading state critic of military rule, which ended in 2011 after a pro-military party won a general election and the junta's prime minister, retired Gen. Thein Sein took office as president. he has instituted political and economic reforms, but his critics feel that the civilian government is just a front for continued military domination from behind the scene.

The previous military junta frequently accuses Western powers of interfering in the country's affairs, and Myanmar's pro-democracy movement of collaborating with them.

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Webinar Alert -- An RtI Solution for Schools: How One Arizona ...

January 25, 2013 15:07 | Source: Scientific Learning Corporation

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When Director of Special Services Sandy Brimhall arrived at Show Low Unified School District, she noticed the district had a high percentage of students receiving special education services. Three years later, the rural Arizona school district showed a considerable decrease in special ed referrals and discipline incidents, and increases in test scores and the number of students meeting or exceeding the state standards in reading and writing.

Join Brimhall on Tues., Jan. 29 at 8 a.m. PST for a webinar to learn how Show Low officials researched solutions and implemented the Fast ForWord? software in all schools to build foundational reading and language skills, and address the cognitive skills many students struggle with ? memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing. Show Low reports that having the Fast ForWord program as a mandated part of the RtI process has not only reduced special ed referrals and raised test scores, but it has helped the district save money as well.

Joining Brimhall in the webinar is Cory Armes, a senior manager at Scientific Learning Corp. (OTCQB:SCIL), creators of the Fast ForWord family of products. Armes holds a bachelor's degree in both general and special education and a master's degree in special education.

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Modifications of a nanoparticle can change chemical interactions with cell membranes

Jan. 23, 2013 ? Researchers at Syracuse University's Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are studying the toxicity of commonly used nanoparticles, particles up to one million times smaller than a millimeter that could potentially penetrate and damage cell membranes.

In a recent article published along with cover art in the journal Langmuir, researchers Shikha Nangia, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering (BMCE), and Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Department Chair of BMCE and professor of physics, showed how simple shape and charge modifications of a nanoparticle can cause tremendous changes in the chemical interactions between the nanoparticle and a cell membrane.

Nanomaterials, which are currently being used as drug carriers, also pose a legitimate concern, since no universal standards exist to educate and fully protect those who handle these materials. Nanoparticles are comparable to chemicals in their potential threat because they could easily penetrate the skin or be inhaled.

"Nanotechnology has immense potential that is starting to be being realized; a comprehensive understanding of toxicity of nanoparticles will help develop better safe handling procedures in nanomanufacturing and nano-biotechnology" says Sureshkumar and Nangia, In addition, the toxicity levels of various nanoparticles can be used to our advantage in targeting cancer cells and absorbing radiation during cancer therapy. Nanotoxicity is becoming a major concern as the use of nanoparticles in imaging, therapeutics, diagnostics, catalysis, sensing and energy harvesting continues to grow dramatically.

This research project has taken place over the past year utilizing a state of the art 448 core parallel computer nicknamed "Prophet" housed in Syracuse University's Green Data Center. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Langmuir is a notable, interdisciplinary journal of American Chemical Society publishing articles in: colloids, interfaces, biological interfaces, nano-materials, electrochemistry and devices and applications.

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Remembering Eleanor Pauline Walsh Martinez Birney - Montrose ...

Eleanor Pauline Walsh Martinez Birney passed away peacefully at her home in San Gabriel, California on January 16 at the age of 94, with many of her children at her bedside.?

Eleanor was born on August 24, 1918, in Bakersfield, California to Genevieve Buletti-Walsh and Joseph Walsh. Her mother passed away when Eleanor was only three, so she and her younger brother Joe were raised by her grandmother Paolina Buletti-Rossi and father until her father married Eleanor Grieving. The family soon grew with the birth of Rita Mary Walsh. Eleanor attended Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School, Bakersfield High School, Hollywood High School, finally graduating with honors from Belmont High School in Los Angeles at the young age of 16.

Eleanor would have gone to college, but with the Depression ongoing her father needed her to work in his soda fountain/restaurant business to help make ends meet. She often said that she would have liked to become a nurse or a teacher. Instead, Eleanor?s life took a different path, with her meeting the love of her life, Charles (?Charlie?) Pizarro Martinez III. She was just 15 and he was 20 and lived next door in Hollywood. She used to walk by his house on her way to school and Charlie would whistle at her and she would call him ?fresh? ? and of course a romance bloomed. They eloped on January 24, 1938 to Yuma, Arizona combining their honeymoon with a business trip for Charlie?s recently purchased business, McCabe Silversmiths.

Doctors told Eleanor that she could never have children, she proved them wrong many times ? 10 to be exact, starting with Chuck in 1939, followed by Gini, Cathy, Terry, Melinda, Tom, Patti, Jim, Joe and Bill in 1958. Eleanor was a caring and devoted wife and mother, and an excellent cook, passing on her skills and recipes to her children. Charlie and Eleanor began raising their children in Hollywood, then built their first house on Hesby Street in North Hollywood, and thereafter moving into the former Weddington Family house also in North Hollywood where Charlie planned to move his business. During these years, the family enjoyed many holidays at their mountainside cabin in Crestline.? Sadly, Charlie passed away in 1960 at 46, causing Eleanor to embark upon the next phase of her life, including a new job with the State of California and raising her children on her own until she met and married Elwood Birney in 1964. Elwood had three grown sons so the family grew to 13 children.

In 1968 they moved to La Crescenta and together they ran Elwood?s Floorcovering business until 1992 when they retired. Eleanor and Elwood spent many a summer entertaining at home by the pool, camping with the family throughout California and Baja California, and in later years travelling the country in their RV. Elwood passed away in 1997, and Eleanor once again took up a single life, first living in Montrose and eventually moving in with her daughter Terry and her husband Jon in San Gabriel to spend her final years.

Eleanor enjoyed a longtime membership in the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, holding many offices, ultimately becoming Regent of Court Saint Jude in Montrose and later a State Officer, maintaining longtime friendships through this organization. She always was the life of the party and opened her home to family, friends and her children?s friends who knew there would always be good food and friendship with Eleanor around.

Eleanor was preceded in death by brother Joseph Walsh and her oldest son Charles Martinez IV. She is survived by her nine remaining children, Genevieve Martinez-McLoud, Catherine Martinez-McBroom, Theresa Martinez Birney Tardino, Melinda Martinez-Birney Nielsen, Thomas Martinez-Birney, Patricia Martinez-Birney Christopher, James Martinez-Birney, Joseph Martinez-Birney, William Martinez-Birney; and stepsons Elwood Birney Jr., Robert Birney and Michael Birney, and their spouses, numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, nieces and nephews, her sister Rita Mary Hannah, her cousins Ruth Rossi-Keegan, Bill Rossi and Pauline Rossi-Lewis, and too many good friends and extended family to count. Eleanor will be dearly missed by many and will remain in our hearts forever.

Viewing will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23 at Crippen Mortuary, Montrose, CA. Rosary Vigil to follow at 7:00 pm.

A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Montrose, followed by a reception in the parish hall. Graveside service at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

The family wishes to thank the wonderful caregivers from Med Care Plus Hospice and Eleanor?s longtime caregiver, Toeti.

In lieu of flowers, you may prefer to make a donation to The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court San Ysidro Number 1507, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Tujunga, California.

- The following obituary information was provided by Eleanor Pauline Walsh Martinez?Birney's?son, Jim Birney.?

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Mrs. Obama has bangs: Let the analyzing begin

NEW YORK (AP) ? Before we start rambling on obsessively about Michelle Obama's bangs, let's be clear: The president started it.

It was he, after all, who called the new hairdo, unveiled just a few days before the historic occasion of his second inauguration, "the most significant event of this weekend."

And he hasn't stopped there. On Tuesday night, he introduced his wife at the White House staff ball: "And the First Lady of the United States ? bangs and all..."

So given the president's evident interest in the subject, perhaps the rest of us shouldn't feel so bad about analyzing ad nauseum the first lady's new look, an activity that has certainly taken over social media for days (and, perhaps, ended discussion of an earlier obsession, Michelle Obama's arms.) Heck, the bangs even have their own (unauthorized) Twitter account, FirstLady'sBangs, which has taken to issuing dispatches like: "Just got a text from Hillary Clinton's side-part" or "BREAKING NEWS: Barack just named me director of Hairline Security."

And how about the headline in New York's Daily News, the day after Obama's private swearing-in? "In With A Bang."

Quips and clever headlines aside, everyone seems to have an opinion about the new style ? not only how it looks, but what it means. And so, just because it's fun, we analyze some of them here:

THE YOUTH FACTOR: It's no secret, say fashion experts, that on the right person, bangs can make you look younger. It's also no secret that Mrs. Obama turned 49 the very day she unveiled the cut last week, in a photo tweeted from her new Twitter account, FLOTUS.

"None of this is accidental," says Linda Wells, Allure magazine's editor-in-chief. "She tried this on her 49th birthday. She wants to spice it up a bit. And it's definitely a more youthful style than what she had before. It just has a flirty, young quality to it."

THE FASHION PLATE: Clearly Mrs. Obama, well known and admired for her fashion sense, is aware that bangs are in these days. Sure, they've been around forever, and your 5-year-old may have them, but recently bangs have become a full-fledged fashion trend, with actress Zooey Deschanel one of the standard-bearers. (Fun fact: Deschanel, 33, and Mrs. Obama happen to share the same birthday ? Jan. 17.)

"Bangs have been really, really big for about a year," says New York hairstylist Robert Stuart, who has a salon on the Upper West Side. He thinks Mrs. Obama has picked the perfect cut for her looks. "It's much softer and younger, and it makes her look more approachable," Stuart says. "It also works well for her sense of fashion. And it brings out her eyes." (There are, he says, people who shouldn't have bangs: those with tiny foreheads or round, short faces.)

THE NAYSAYERS: Just in case one thinks everyone loves the hairdo ? and the reaction does seem extremely positive ? there are naysayers. Count among them Joan Rivers, comedienne and fashion commentator, who tweeted on Inauguration Day: "Today starts President Obama's next four years in the White House. Let's hope the same isn't true about the first lady's new hairdo." Explanation? She didn't provide one, but in her defense, she only had 140 characters.

SHE'S EXPRESSING HER INNER SELF: Here we get a little more philosophical. Some have speculated that, since Mrs. Obama is starting a second term and won't have to endure any more campaigns, she is finally free to express herself exactly as she wants. And as she feels. "Haircuts do express how people are feeling," says Wells. "You get that sense of her feeling liberated ? more comfortable, and less worried about what everyone else is thinking. She's showing her own sense of style and own sense of energy."

Stuart, of the Robert Stuart Salon, agrees. "I think now she's maybe feeling less threatened, and can express herself more. Really she just seems more comfortable."

IT'S SOMETHING TO EVERYONE: If you'd wandered around the National Mall on Inauguration Day, and spoke to women especially, you'd have found a lot of Michelle Obama fans. No surprise there. But many of these women were particularly fond of the bangs, and for various reasons.

Sheila Garrison, an educator from Maryland, called the hairstyle "different," but all the attention paid to it brought home to her and her friend, fellow teacher Patricia Cooper, that Mrs. Obama "represents women in a beautiful way," in Cooper's words. "You look at her and you are proud to be a woman. She commands respect." Garrison, 58, also appreciated how Mrs. Obama, a fellow tall woman, "carries herself really well."

Mattece Mason, 34, of Tulsa, Okla., adores the cut ? when asked about, it she and her family members ? well, the females ? screamed, "Oh my God, we love it!" But the enthusiasm of her daughters was meaningful to Mason for a reason other than fashion. "My daughter Aubrianna, who's 14, said to me today: 'I want bangs now,'" Mason said. "That made me feel great because my girls have such a role model. A first lady they can emulate." (Mason also pointed out that she thought Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looked great in those eyeglasses she's been sporting lately.)

And Roslyn Snow, of Newport Beach, Calif., had another reason for loving the new Obama look. "I think she looks like Jane Fonda back in the old days," said Snow, 76. "Remember?"

A SIGN OF SOMETHING BIGGER? Many have wondered whether Mrs. Obama has plans to forge a new and expanded role in the second term, taking on different issues. Wells, the fashion editor, gets that feeling, though she makes clear it's all speculation. "You sense it with the strong statement she is making with her appearance," Wells says. "Before, her look was sort of retrograde: the hair, the A-line dresses. The emphasis was on 'lady.' Now, it seems, the emphasis is on 'first lady.'"

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Unions suffer sharp decline in membership

FILE - This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington. The nation's labor unions suffered sharp declines in membership last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday, led by losses in the public sector as cash-strapped state and local governments laid off workers and _ in some cases _ limited collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - This Nov. 13, 2012 file photo shows AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington. The nation's labor unions suffered sharp declines in membership last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday, led by losses in the public sector as cash-strapped state and local governments laid off workers and _ in some cases _ limited collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The nation's labor unions suffered sharp declines in membership last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday, led by losses in the public sector as cash-strapped state and local governments laid off workers and ? in some cases ? limited collective bargaining rights.

The union membership rate fell from 11.8 percent to 11.3 percent of all workers, the lowest level since the 1930s.

Total membership fell by about 400,000 workers to 14.4 million. More than half the loss ? about 234,000 ? came from government workers including teachers, firefighters and public administrators.

The losses add another blow to a labor movement already stretched thin by fighting efforts in states like Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan to curb bargaining rights and weaken union clout.

But unions also saw losses in the private sector, even as the economy expanded modestly. That rate fell of membership fell from 6.9 percent to 6.6 percent, a troubling sign for the future of organized labor, as job growth has generally taken place at nonunion firms.

"To employers, it's going to look like the labor movement is ready for a knockout punch," said Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "You can't be a movement and get smaller."

Unions have steadily lost members since their peak in the 1950s, when about one of every three workers was in a union. By 1983, roughly 20 percent of American workers were union members.

Losses in the public sector are hitting unions particularly hard since that has been one of the few areas where membership was growing over the past two decades. About 51 percent of union members work in government, where until recently, there had been little resistance to union organizing.

That began to change when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a law in 2011 eliminating most union rights for government workers. The state lost about 46,000 union members last year, mostly in the public sector.

Union officials blame losses on the lingering effects of the recession, as well as GOP governors and state lawmakers who have sought to weaken union rights.

"Our still-struggling economy, weak laws and political as well as ideological assaults have taken a toll on union membership, and in the process have also imperiled economic security and good, middle class jobs," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

In Indiana, where a new right-to-work law took effect last March, the state lost about 56,000 union members. The law prohibits unions from requiring workers to pay union fees, even if they benefit from a collective bargaining agreement. Michigan lawmakers approved a similar measure in December.

Another problem for unions is an aging membership that is not being replaced by younger members. By age, the union membership rate was highest among workers ages 55 to 64 (14.9 percent) and lowest among those ages 16 to 24 (4.2 percent).

In New York, the state with the highest union density, nearly one-quarter of the workforce belonged to a union. North Carolina had the lowest at 2.9 percent.

Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members in 2012 had median weekly earnings of $943, while those who were not union members earned $742.

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Tips On How To Improve Your Memory Today - ProjectPB ? The ...

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Crackle streaming video heads to LG, Samsung, and Vizio Smart TVs, Samsung Blu-ray players

Free video streaming service Crackle is already available on your smart phone, computer, and game console, but today the company announced its expansion to LG, Samsung, and Vizio Smart TVs. The expansion is twofold for Samsung, which is also adding the ad-supported streaming service to its line of Blu-ray players; Crackle characterizes today's news as the conclusion of a strategy to bring the streaming service to, "all leading smart TV manufacturers." Of course, that strategy is only complete in a handful of countries thus far -- today's additions apply to only the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia for LG and Samsung, while Vizio Smart TVs in the US and Canada are the only ones to get Crackle. All new iterations of the Crackle app are available via Samsung, LG, and Vizio's respective app portals.

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LG, Samsung and VIZIO Devices Now Offering Crackle


CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crackle, the multi-platform entertainment network, today announced its application is now available on millions of LG, Samsung and VIZIO Smart TVs, as well as on Samsung Blu-ray players. With an already established and popular presence on Sony Internet TVs and Blu-ray players, Crackle is now available on all leading smart TV manufacturers, bringing on-demand streaming directly to millions of living rooms.
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Crackle hand-picks Hollywood movies, television and original series to the tastes of its digitally connected audience, focusing on genres like action, comedy, crime, horror and sci-fi. The Crackle App and online service is free to download and free to watch, and offers unlimited ad-supported viewing of all content available on Crackle.com, including TV and film hits "Rescue Me," DISTRICT 9, UNDERWORLD, SNATCH and WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY.
"The penetration of IP-connected TVs and Blu-ray players in the living room is rapidly growing and these devices are fast becoming the new standard," said Phil Lynch , Senior Vice President, Digital Networks and Games, Sony Pictures Television. "We are pleased with Crackle's performance on Sony connected devices to date-as well as viewers' overwhelmingly positive reception to the service-and are excited to begin 2013 with a major expansion into these other leading brands of connected TVs."
Providing high-quality video streaming, Crackle is available on LG Smart TVs in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia; Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia; and VIZIO Smart TVs in the U.S. and Canada.
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Jill Kelley speaks out: 'I knew I was being stalked'

T. Ortega Gaines/The Charlotte Observer; Chris O'Meara/AP

File photos show Gen. David Petraeus' biographer and paramour Paula Broadwell, left, and Florida socialite Jill Kelley.

By Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, NBC News

In her first interview since the scandal that led to the resignation of former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, Florida socialite Jill Kelley says that his biographer, Paula Broadwell, tried to blackmail her. ?

"There was blackmail, extortion, threats," Kelley?told The Daily Beast?of the "fewer than 10" anonymous emails sent to Kelley in May, which investigators later determined were sent by Broadwell.

Kelley, 37, said the messages became increasingly more threatening, though they did not explicitly tell her to stay away from Petraeus, as had previously been believed.

Kelley said she had no idea at the time who was behind the messages.

?I never met Paula in my life,? Kelley said, adding that she didn't even know that Broadwell had written a biography about Petraeus.

Kelley and her husband, who is a surgeon, are close friends of the Petraeus family. She was a volunteer social liaison to the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., where she often hosted parties for top brass.?

"I knew I was being stalked," Kelley said. "I did what anybody else would have done when they were feeling threatened, to go seek protection from somebody I could trust."

Kelley's complaint to the FBI led to an investigation, which began in June 2012 and revealed that Broadwell had sent the emails. Investigators also uncovered evidence of Broadwell's affair with Petraeus, which ended in July 2012. Petraeus resigned his post on Nov. 7.

Soon after, federal officers began investigating U.S. General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and nominated to be NATO's supreme allied commander, after it was revealed that he had exchanged numerous emails with Kelley, some of which were described as "inappropriate." ?

Kelley told The Daily Beast that she was celebrating her daughter's seventh birthday when the media descended on her, after her identity as the tipster who led to Petraeus' downfall became public.?

?It was devastating,? Kelley said. ?To have your privacy invaded is truly?there are no words to describe it. Instead of enjoying a family birthday party, I had paparazzi storming my front lawn, pushing down the door. There are no words to describe the panic and fear at that moment.?

Kelley declined last month to press charges against Broadwell over the emails and federal prosecutors closed the case.?

But Kelley said her image continued to suffer through half-truths and lies reported in the media.

?As much as I appreciate that they want to be the first one to come out with a headline, regardless of whether they did any fact-checking, they have to consider the impact they have on our life and our children?s lives,? she said. ?Just because it?s repeated?doesn't?make it true. It was living a nightmare.?

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Atari US files for Ch. 11 to separate from parent

NEW YORK (AP) ? Video game maker Atari's U.S. operations have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in an effort to separate from their French parent company, which is filing a similar motion separately in France.

In a statement, Atari says the move is necessary to secure investments it needs to grow in mobile and downloadable video games.

Atari's U.S. operations have shifted to focus on digital games and licensing, including developing mobile games, and have become a growth engine for its owner. France's Infogrames Entertainment first took a stake in Atari in 2000. It acquired the remaining stake in 2008 and changed its name to Atari S.A.

But the U.S. operations have been better performing than the rest of the company. In fiscal 2012 digital and licensing revenue both grew significantly and contributed 70 percent of revenue, while sales in bricks-and-mortar stores declined.

In December, Atari S.A. said a credit agreement it entered into with investor BlueBay ? its main shareholder and only lender ? would lapse at the end of the year and the company was seeking other ways to raise money. It added that it expects to report a "significant loss" for fiscal 2012.

On Monday, Atari S.A. said it and its European operations would file related bankruptcy procedures in France at the same time as the U.S. bankruptcy filing.

CEO Jim Wilson said the moves were the "best decision to protect the company and its shareholders." The auction process in U.S. bankruptcy proceedings will "maximize the proceeds" going to shareholders, he added.

Creditors include accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, and retail stores Kmart and Wal-Mart Stores, although none are owed more than $250,000. Blue Bay is not listed as one of the U.S. operations' creditors.

Atari, which turned 40 last year, was a videogame pioneer with games like "Pong" and "Centipede," but has changed ownership several times amid financial problems. In its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, Atari said it had $1 million to $10 million in assets and $10 million to $50 million in debt. It is seeking approval for $5.25 million in debtor-in-possession financing from investment firm Tenor Capital Management.

Atari said it expects to sell its assets or confirm a restructuring plan within the next three to six months.

Atari S.A., which trades on the Euronext Paris market of NYSE Euronext, has requested trading of its shares be suspended.

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Safety News - Safety In The Workplace

This is the safety news blog for the Safe Workplace web site. We cover workplace safety related news with a focus on how safety, or a lack of safety, impacts employers, employees and their families. We also cover topics such as safety training, safety tools, and legal issues related to safety.For regular safety news and information enter your email address in the box above the Subscribe button to the right (then click on the button).

A regular news feature summarizing workplace safety related news.

We scan newspapers, magazines and the internet for safety news that isn't being reported elsewhere. The following are links to safety related news that came out during the week ending January 5th.

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OSHA Says A Wide Range of Tools Are Needed to Enforce Rules on Worker Safety

As reported in Bloomberg BNA the head of OSHA, David Michaels, last week said that increasing numbers of U.S. employers are embracing the notion that protecting worker safety is good for business.? "It's hard for me to judge overall changes," Michaels told Bloomberg BNA, "but I certainly have seen many employers recognize that managing for safety is useful not only to prevent injuries and fatalities, but in fact leads to a more profitable company."

Mr. Michaels also said, "There are many,many other employers who are unaware of our standards, or have some idea that they might be making a mistake, or that there might be a violation, but for whatever reason don't feel like they need to abate that hazard immediately."

Read about the complete interview in Bloomberg BNA.

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Aaron Trippler, AIHA's Government Affairs Director, Expects an OSHA Reform Bill in New Congress

In addition to Hilda Solis' replacement as secretary of Labor, a number of bills effecting OSHA expected. While over 300 bills have already been filed in the House, the Senate has not yet allowed a bill to be filed. So it's still too soon to know what bills will be filed. But several effecting OSHA appear likely.? This include new laws on "site-controlling employers" and VPP, as well as more than a dozen regulatory reform bills.

Read the article in Occupational Health and Safety magazine.

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OSHA Announces The Return Of Site-Specific Targeting

The National Law Review has an article about OSHA's announcement that Site Specific Targeting will return for 2013.? At least 1,260 randomly selected establishments will be inspected by OSHA as part of its Site-Specific Targeting (SST) Program. The initial focus will be on workplaces with above-average injury and illness rates in high-hazard industries.

Read the complete article here.

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MSHA Announces New Rules For Mines

An article in the Huffington Post states, "New federal rules approved Thursday could help save lives at dangerous mines with a pattern of safety violations and put more responsibility on companies to find and fix hazards, the U.S. Department of Labor said."

But the National Mining Association, which had objected to the rule when it was proposed in February 2011, said its concerns remain. It argues that because unsafe conditions must be fixed under current law, "no miner is put in harm's way if a citation is appealed."? Stripping the appeal from the current system denies operators their due-process rights, the association contends.

Read the story in the Huffington Post

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OSHA finds 58 violations at Nevada's Hoover Dam

The federal agency operating Hoover Dam must correct 58 health and safety violations, including eight repeat violations, that OSHA investigators found in recent inspections at the massive Colorado River water retention and hydroelectric power plant east of Las Vegas.

Fifty serious safety and health violations include fall and electrical hazards, a lack of required guards on machinery, inadequate personal protective equipment, lead contamination, and the potential for overexposure to hexavalent chromium. OSHA also identified violations for failing to properly maintain and inspect firefighting equipment, provide unobstructed access to emergency exits, and insufficient lockout/tagout procedures for energy sources that could lead to amputations.

As required by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, federal agencies must comply with the same safety standards as private sector employers. However, no fines were proposed as OSHA may not fine other Federal Agencies.

Read more: on the Fox News web site\

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Let's say you have a basic lifting task - moving boxes off a conveyer, for example - that you have to repeat frequently for an hour. You know where the lift begins and where it ends. What's the maximum safe weight that you can lift?

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Analysis: Israeli vote is least of neighbors' worries

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A hardline Israeli government or a very hardline one.

With those widely viewed as the likeliest outcomes Of Tuesday's election in Israel, the ballot has aroused minimal interest from Middle Eastern states who once scrutinized such votes for clues about the fate of the so-called peace process.

Whether they endorsed U.S.-backed negotiations with the Palestinians or were out to sabotage them, regional powers would see Israeli polls at least as significant straws in the wind.

Not this time, when the only questions appear to be the size of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election victory and whether he will rely for coalition partners on sworn foes of any territorial compromise with the Palestinians, or seek to include "centrist" parties still formally committed to the quest for an increasingly implausible two-state solution.

Mustapha Kamal Al-Sayyid, a professor of political science at Cairo University, said Arabs were paying little attention to an election destined only to shift Israel further to the right.

"The chances of a peaceful settlement are already thin under Netanyahu, but they would be even more remote under a new Israeli government dominated by rightist parties," he said.

In the United States, Israel's indispensable ally, President Barack Obama may be reluctant to embark on a new drive to break the Middle East deadlock in his second term after U.S.-brokered talks in the first term collapsed almost immediately.

Netanyahu has shifted the whole political terrain to the right, imposing "the language of security, violence and control rather than a language of peace, reconciliation or compromise", argued senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi.

"Unfortunately that has dominated the whole election campaign," she told Reuters.

REGIONAL FLUX

The region also has more compelling worries than a seemingly predictable parliamentary poll, Israel's first since Arab uprisings erupted two years ago, reshaping the Middle East.

The upheaval's biggest scalp so far is Hosni Mubarak, who preserved Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel for 30 years.

An Islamist leader, Mohamed Mursi, is now in power, saying he will not scrap the pact. But videotapes that surfaced this month of speeches he made in 2010 as a Muslim Brotherhood leader have alarmed Israelis and others with their crude anti-Semitic remarks and calls for children to be taught to hate Israel.

Yet Israel's election is hardly uppermost in the minds of Egyptians, who Al-Sayyid said were preoccupied with this week's anniversary of the anti-Mubarak revolt, their own next election and economic difficulties exacerbated by political turmoil.

Syria's devastating civil war and the ousting of leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have largely overshadowed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite Israel's brief war in November with Hamas Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which rejects Israel's right to exist, and its more moderate Palestinian rivals led by President Mahmoud Abbas have renewed attempts to heal their feud since the Gaza conflict. Neither faction has high expectations from the Israeli election.

"Palestinians have no option except to unite against the Zionist enemy (Israel), whose extremism increases every day," Osama Hamdan, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon, told reporters in Gaza on Sunday in a terse comment on the Israeli vote.

Netanyahu, playing on his security credentials, has tried to keep the focus on perceived external threats, especially Iran's nuclear program, while vowing to promote Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, both captured, along with the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 war.

"The problem in the Middle East is Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons, the chemical weapons in Syria and the Islamist radicalism spreading in Africa, threatening to sweep the entire region," the prime minister told his cabinet on Sunday.

A day earlier, he said Iran, the Lebanese Shi'ite Islamist group Hezbollah and Hamas were keenly following the Israeli election to gauge whether his ruling party had grown or shrunk.

"They want a weak Israel, a divided one, and the most challenged country in the world must not be divided," he said, after opinion polls showed his sizeable lead was declining.

KHAMENEI'S CONCERNS

Hardline media in Iran have indeed forecast that Netanyahu's Likud party, running jointly with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu faction, will fare worse than expected in the polls.

"Contrary to Netanyahu's predictions, the Likud party and its main ally Yisrael Beitenu will be in a weaker position," wrote Sadollah Zarei in Kayhan newspaper, whose editor is considered close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But Meir Javedanfar, lecturer in Iranian politics at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya, Israel, said the election rated relatively low on the scale of challenges faced by Iran.

"What Iran's supreme leader probably cares most about is: will the next Israeli government isolate Israel's position in the international community and damage its relations with the EU and U.S. through more settlement building?

"If the answer is yes, then Khamenei will probably sleep easier at night, because he most probably knows that an isolated Israel will find it difficult to justify a unilateral military attack against Iran's nuclear sites," Javedanfar said.

Iran denies seeking atom bombs, but has been markedly secretive about some of its nuclear activity. It points to Israel, widely believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, as the main threat to regional peace and security.

Iran's ally Hezbollah is always an avid monitor of its arch-enemy, but the Israeli election can hardly rank with the group's anxiety about the possible fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the loss of its overland arms lifeline from Tehran.

As for the Palestinians, they can only watch in dismay as their cause is eclipsed as a concern for Israeli voters fed up with failed peacemaking and as Netanyahu elevates Iran's nuclear ambitions to the pinnacle of his national agenda.

"He presents Iran as a strategic threat to Israel, and he attempts to present the Palestinian question as a domestic issue under Israeli control," the PLO's Ashrawi said.

"People who know better understand that the Palestinian question is the real existential issue when it comes to Israel - it's the key to peace, legitimacy and stability throughout the region, whereas Iran can be dealt with politically."

(Additional reporting by Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai, Noah Browning in Ramallah, Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-israeli-vote-least-neighbors-worries-121829055.html

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