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Herman Cain Decides Campaign’s Future
Herman Cain announced that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Saturday. Host Scott Simon has the full story.
Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And we’re going to end with some breaking news today. Moments ago, Herman Cain announced that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Here is what Mr. Cain said moments ago; his wife, Gloria, standing behind him outside of his Georgia campaign headquarters. HERMAN CAIN: Today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign. (SOUNDBITE OF CROWD GROANING) SIMON: Of course, Mr. Cain’s decision comes after allegations this week that he had a 13-year extramarital affair. And this follows earlier allegations that he had sexually harassed several women during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. Mr. Cain has denied those claims, and today, speaking just outside of his campaign headquarters, he asked his supporters – invited them to come to a new website and said that he will continue to speak out about national and foreign policy, but he is no longer running or president and has suspended his presidential campaign. NPR News, of course, will continue to follow this story and stories from all around the world as they break in our daily programs today and our newscasts each and every hour. Thank you very much for joining us, and we have brought you the latest news from campaign headquarters. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I’m Scott Simon. Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. All rights reserved. No quotes from the materials contained herein may be used in any media without attribution to National Public Radio. This transcript is provided for personal, noncommercial use only, pursuant to our Terms of Use. Any other use requires NPR’s prior permission. Visit our permissions page for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by a contractor for NPR, and accuracy and availability may vary. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Please be aware that the authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio.
New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous
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Is a new strain of H3N2 swine flu a danger to public health or just to the reputations of public health experts?
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A new variant of a flu virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Since the virus was first spotted in July, there have been 10 cases, all but one of which were children under the age of 10. (The exception was a 58 year old.) All the cases have been in the United States; there have been no reports of this virus in people or pigs anywhere else
The most recent infections, in three young children in Iowa, almost certainly involved person-to-person spread. The Iowa cluster is likely larger ? no one in the first child?s family had exposure to pigs, suggesting an unidentified person was the source of virus.
The cases leave public health authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere wondering if a new swine-origin influenza virus is circulating at low levels among humans ? and what needs to be done if that is indeed happening. (Read ?Flu Factories? in the February Scientific American (preview) to learn why health authorities fear the next pandemic virus may emerge as a result of industrial farming? practices.)
Given the mercurial nature of influenza viruses?which can easily mutate into lethal pathogens?ignoring the new virus is not an option, even though to date there have been no deaths and most of the infections have produced only mild symptoms. But the widespread perception that the 2009 swine flu pandemic was much ado about nothing means health authorities risk further damage to their already battered credibility if they sound an alarm and this virus turns out to be a dud. And they know it.
The World Health Organization is working to be ready to react if needed, but wants to make sure it neither under-plays or over-plays its response to this potential new threat, which is technically known as a swine origin influenza A virus of the H3N2 subtype. The new virus has acquired the M gene of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus; studies suggest that this gene may enhance transmissibility of the virus.
“We are closely following the information coming out of the U.S. And we just are making sure that if we need to be more active, we will be more active, or if we need to stand down we can do so,? says Keiji Fukuda, the UN health agency?s assistant director-general for health security and environment.
Among the things the WHO is working on is finding a scientifically correct yet politically sensitive name to call this virus. Sales of pork plunged in 2009 when the new H1N1 was identified as swine flu, a reference to the fact it was comprised mainly of genes from influenza viruses that circulate in pigs.
This H3N2 poses similar naming challenges. There is already a human H3N2 ? a distant cousin of this pig virus ? so some way to differentiate the viruses is needed. Pork producers are concerned about how communications about the virus will be handled, admits Paul Sundberg, vice-president for science and technology for the National Pork Board, who says his group has already met with officials at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in Atlanta to discuss the naming challenging.
Fukuda says the WHO is trying to draw on the experience of 2009 as it maps out its response to the new virus. ?It frequently comes up as a question: ?What did we learn from that pandemic that we ought to be thinking about in terms of this situation???
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Daniel Tietz: Aging & HIV: The New Face of HIV
It is estimated that by 2017, and possibly as early as 2015, more than half of all individuals with HIV in the U.S. will be age 50 or older. This wonderful increase in life expectancy is largely due to effective treatment, which has created a rapid rise in the number of people over age 50 with HIV. Thirty years into this epidemic, this good news is tempered by other, more troubling facts. Approximately one out of every six new HIV diagnoses is among adults over age 50. In 2009 there were 34,995 new cases of AIDS in the U.S. with nearly one-quarter of these occurring in those aged 50 or older. So while AIDS diagnoses may be decreasing overall, it is of great concern that AIDS diagnoses among older adults are rising.
ACRIA has been at the forefront of HIV and aging, conducting groundbreaking research. Our Research on Older Adults with HIV (ROAH), the largest study ever conducted on older adults with HIV, used a nearly 1,000-person cohort in New York City to examine a comprehensive array of issues, including health status, stigma, substance use, depression, social networks, and spirituality. ROAH was unique in the kinds of questions it asked, for the first time probing in-depth the sexual and drug-taking risk behaviors of older people with HIV, as well as gathering data on medical and psychosocial issues. Following ROAH, we’ve conducted more in-depth research on HIV, older adults and depression and partnered with others on related studies across the globe, including the Terrance Higgins Trust and Chelsea Westminster Hospital in the United Kingdom, the Center on Halsted in Chicago, Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City, and Syracuse University, among others.
What we’ve learned may surprise you. Providers often underestimate the desire for and level of sexual activity in older adults, and maybe especially among gay, bisexual and transgender older adults who are at high risk for HIV, thereby neglecting their STI risk. While many older adults are sexually active, they often do not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), if only because HIV disease is largely and wrongly associated with youth. Thus, prevention messages have not targeted this older population and, as a result, they unwittingly engage in high risk behaviors. We also know that many older adults with HIV who know their status continue to engage in high risk conduct at rates comparable to other high risk groups.
Nonetheless, older adults are much less likely to be tested for HIV than younger adults, with many being diagnosed with HIV only when receiving treatment for other medical conditions. Lower rates of testing and delays in detection not only facilitate the spread of HIV, but increase the likelihood of progression to AIDS resulting in increased illness and death rates as well as decreased effectiveness of anti-HIV treatment. Indeed, the likelihood of receiving a concurrent HIV and AIDS diagnosis increases strikingly with age. In light of such data, the need for routine testing to ensure early diagnosis is evident as is the need for a better understanding of HIV transmission among older adults.
Through innovative research, education and advocacy, ACRIA is improving lives by influencing public policy, identifying unmet needs, bringing together HIV, aging and other service providers to improve life-saving services, and identifying research gaps in this understudied population. For example, ACRIA joined an expert panel from across the U.S. to craft the first-ever recommended treatment strategies for older adults with HIV, in collaboration with the American Academy of HIV Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society. This just-released report can be found at www.aahivm.org/hivandagingforum.
In addition, via a partnership with Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), and with support from the MAC AIDS Fund, we initiated a public policy and advocacy effort in early 2009 to highlight the needs and challenges of an aging HIV population. Among other actions, we helped to organize and participated in the first-ever White House meeting on HIV and aging in October 2010. Following this meeting, the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health created a research advisory group on HIV and aging, which includes an ACRIA researcher.
On this year’s World AIDS Day, with more hope than ever that we might in our lifetime bring the AIDS epidemic to an end, much remains to be done. We must maintain (indeed, increase!) our investment in prevention, including routine testing and access to prompt treatment for all with HIV. And we must act now to better understand and address the needs and challenges of what will soon be the majority of Americans with HIV — those over age 50.
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?NCIS? Star Pauley Perrette Engaged To Thomas Arklie
“NCIS” Star Pauley Perrette Engaged To Thomas Arklie
Actress Pauley Perrette is engaged to marry a former British Marine, named Thomas Arklie. The “NCIS” star, 42, became engaged last month after accepting the [...]
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Actress’ lawsuit puts focus on age as job barrier (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? A million-dollar lawsuit by an actress who claims her job prospects were damaged when she was outed online as a 40-year-old has run smack into conventional wisdom: If Sandra Bullock, 47, and Helen Mirren, 66, are getting steady work, bias against older actresses surely must have vanished.
Film stars Meryl Streep, Halle Berry and Glenn Close are also members of the 40-plus and employed club. On TV, the majority of the “Desperate Housewives” female leads are nearing 50, while Emmy Award-winning Julianna Margulies of “The Good Wife” is 44.
But industry insiders and unions say star power obscures the ageism gap between high-profile performers and working stiffs ? a unique aspect of Hollywood’s division of the haves and have-nots.
“There is a tendency for all of us to think of the actors we see all the time and whose names we know,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the Screen Actors Guild’s deputy national executive director and general counsel.
“But the vast majority of characters on TV and film are portrayed by people we don’t know and who are struggling to make a living as an actor,” he said.
Want examples? Think of searching a movie’s closing credits to identify an actor in a minor role, or the somewhat familiar face that pops up as the guest victim or killer on a TV crime drama.
Older actresses face more hiring hurdles than their male counterparts, according to employment statistics from SAG and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, as well as the experience of those on the front lines.
Women over 40 make up 24.3 percent of the U.S. population, the 2010 census found. In comparison, union casting analysis show actresses over 40 years old get 12.5 percent of roles for television and film. Men of that age are also about a quarter of the population but nearly equal their ranks in casting.
(Television doesn’t do well by women overall, who are 50.8 percent of the U.S. population but are seen in only a quarter of roles, according to union statistics.)
The picture is no prettier when it comes to earnings in the youth-obsessed industry. In 2010, for example, actresses ages 41 to 50 working in SAG-covered film and TV projects earned a total $58 million ? compared to the $160 million paid to actors in that age group.
The guild is heartened by the high-profile older actresses who are finding work, especially on TV, and Crabtree-Ireland said, “We hope that this will be the beginning of a trend for all of our members, but our data doesn’t show that.”
Among the groundbreakers are Close, 64, of “Damages” and the upcoming theatrical release “Albert Nobbs”; Kyra Sedgwick, 46, of “The Closer”; and Marg Helgenberger, 52, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
That’s progress, given that superstar Bette Davis was 42 when she played an aging actress on the brink of irrelevance in “All About Eve” (1950) and was 56 when she starred as an elderly “spinster” descending into madness in “Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte” (1964).
Compare that to Dana Delaney and her role as a smart, sexy medical examiner in “Body of Proof.” Delaney turns 56 next March.
“It’s a miracle I’m still working,” said Salma Hayek, 45, whose credits include the newly released “Puss in Boots” and “Frida” (2002), for which she received an Oscar nomination. “They told me you’ll never work because I have the accent. … They told me you’re not going to work after 35 or 30, and I’ve never been busier in my life.”
But non-marquee performers see a different script. The lawsuit filed in October by an actress identified only as “Jane Doe” contends that “lesser-known forty-year-old actresses are not in demand in the entertainment business.”
How her age became public is at the heart of the suit. She says it was through the Internet Movie Database Pro website IMDbPro, the subscription-based counterpart to the popular and free IMDb, which are subsidiaries of Amazon.com. IMDbPro’s home page boasts that “Industry Insiders Use Pro,” which offers 80,000 representation listings for actors, directors, and producers. Those listings generally include, among credits and contacts, birth dates.
“It’s become a really big tool in our business. But it’s become a detriment to the working actor,” said agent Marilyn Szatmary, a partner in SMS Talent in Los Angeles. There’s a growing reliance on using an actor’s chronological age to judge them for a role, instead of assessing the age they can “play” on screen, she said.
“You get on the phone with a casting director and you try to pitch someone for a role, say a 30-year-old character, and the actor legitimately can play 30,” Szatmary said. “But the casting director goes on IMDBPro and says, `No, this says they’re 35.’ And they won’t call them.”
What Crabtree-Ireland calls “the IMDb issue” has provoked a flood of complaints from guild members in the last five to six years. Young actors can be affected as well, he said, recalling a 22-year-old who, when her age was revealed online, abruptly stopped getting juvenile roles she’d routinely played.
Industry changes, including the rise of reality TV series and diminished film production, have reduced the available work for actors and made hiring more competitive. In this crowded field, even a guest role on a TV series such as “Grey’s Anatomy” can draw 2,000 submissions, Szatmary said.
That’s why those responsible for filling roles need to use all tools at their disposal, casting directors say. Actors may claim to be younger and may post misleading photos online, said casting veteran Sheila Manning. (“The photos they are using are, shall we say, Photoshopped,” she said.)
If they look right for the part they’ll be considered regardless of their age, Manning said.
“It’s better now. There’s more work for them (veteran performers), probably because the people hiring them are also getting older,” Manning said. “I don’t think we cast by age, I think we cast by looks. Look at Susan Sarandon, who’s 65. She looks spectacular.”
Isabella Hoffman, 52, whose credits include “Princess Diaries 2″ and TV’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Criminal Minds,” tries to avoid being typecast by age and, like many working actresses in Hollywood, looks younger than her years. But she sees the problem in a larger, more intractable context.
“Our belief system in America is `youth rules.’ That’s what people want to see. We’ve based a lot of our decisions about what we sell, what we wear … on a much more youthful group.”
Asked if that makes it especially tough for performers, she replies. “I don’t know. You could also look at the flip side.” She paused, and then added with a rueful laugh, “I can’t look at the flip side.”
SAG and IMDb representatives have been meeting over a nearly two-year period to discuss dropping ages from the site, Crabtree-Ireland said, with the guild providing a proposal that he declined to detail. AFTRA and other guilds are involved in the effort that so far has been fruitless.
The “Jane Doe” lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where Amazon is based, alleges that IMDB used the actress’ credit card and other personal information to determine and post her birth date in violation of privacy and consumer rights. The actress, whose suit doesn’t describe her career and notes only that she’s from Texas and of Asian ethnicity, said she was keeping her identity unknown to avoid “even further damage and economic injury.”
(Her attorney, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, claimed in a filing that his client has been subjected to ridicule and retaliation. Several actors approached to discuss the issue on the record declined, citing its sensitivity, and a declaration filed this week by Crabtree-Ireland argued that if Jane Doe’s name becomes known she could face industry blacklisting as a complainer.)
Amazon has a “long-standing practice of not commenting on litigation matters,” company spokeswoman Mary Osako said in an e-mail that included a November motion for dismissal of the suit. There has been no ruling yet on the motion, which is based in part on the actress’ anonymity. The motion also alleges that she is attempting to deceive the public and potential employers by hiding her age and tried to make IMDb “perpetuate” a falsehood about it.
SAG intends to keep pressing the company on posting ages and has not ruled out any options, Crabtree-Ireland said, including “litigation or legislative efforts. However, we continue to hope that IMDb will acknowledge the harm and take voluntary action.”
“They have a moral obligation to consider the impact,” he said. “IMDb covers a whole lot of people who are not and never will be newsworthy, the journeymen who keep the industry running. There will never be a profile on them in a major newspaper or magazine. But data is being published in a way that really undermines their career.”
Despite the specter of age bias, Salma Hayek insists that “you cannot lie about your age.”
But, she added, “I do think people should stop being obsessed about the age of the actors because it takes away some of the magic. You should be able to transform into anything.”
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AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.
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Online:
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EDITOR’S NOTE ? Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org.
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Iran threatens to hit Turkey if US, Israel attack
Members of the Iranian paramilitary Basij force, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, attend a rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Militant Iranian students seized the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, believing the embassy to be a center of plots against Iran, and then held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. The men’s headbands bear the names of Shiite saints, including Hussein.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Members of the Iranian paramilitary Basij force, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, attend a rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Militant Iranian students seized the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, believing the embassy to be a center of plots against Iran, and then held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. The men’s headbands bear the names of Shiite saints, including Hussein.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? A senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says the country will target NATO’s missile defense shield in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards’ aerospace division, is quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what it sees as an increase in threats from the U.S. and Israel.
He says Iran will now respond to threats with threats rather than a defensive position.
Tehran says NATO’s early warning radar station in Turkey is meant to protect Israel against Iranian missile attacks if a war breaks out with Israel.
Turkey agreed to host the radar in September as part of NATO’s missile defense system.
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eBay: PayPal Mobile Payment Volume Up Over 500 Percent On Thanksgiving Day And Black Friday
As we heard earlier today, Thanksgiving proved to be a lucrative day for online retailers. IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010, with mobile shopping on the rise. eBay and PayPal are seeing similar trends. PayPal Mobile just announced a 511 percent increase in global mobile payment volume when compared to Thanksgiving 2010. On Thanksgiving in the U.S., consumers shopped on mobile most frequently between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. PST. Around the world, consumers shopped on mobile most frequently between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. PST.
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Thousands line up to buy new Blackberry product (AP)
JAKARTA, Indonesia ? Thousands of Indonesians jammed into a glitzy shopping mall Friday to get hold of the first BlackBerry Bold 9790s being sold worldwide.
Fearing a riot, hundreds of police were deployed outside, tying up traffic in the heart of the capital for hours.
With a 50 percent discount on the $540 phone for the first 1,000 buyers, lines started forming in front of Pacific Place mall on Thursday night. By daybreak, impatient shoppers started rattling the gates.
And when rumors spread that the new smartphones ? commonly known as Bellagio ? had already sold out, the crowd of 3,000 went crazy. Several people fainted in the crush.
Indonesia, a nation of 240 million people, has experienced a come-from-nowhere tech frenzy in recent years.
With 6 million users, BlackBerry dominates the smartphone market.
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Brother ordered held for 2 weeks in Halman slaying (AP)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? Prosecutors say an investigating judge has ordered the brother of slain Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman to be detained for a further two weeks on suspicion of murder or manslaughter.
Halman was stabbed to death early Monday morning at an apartment in the port city of Rotterdam. Police said his stabbing may have followed an argument about loud music.
Prosecution spokeswoman Jeichien de Graaff declined Friday to give further details of the investigation. She said an investigating judge ordered the extension of detention for Halman’s 22-year-old brother on Thursday.
Halman hit .230 in 35 games and made starts at all three outfield positions for the Mariners in 2011 before being optioned to Triple-A Tacoma.
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