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Libyan attacks said to be 2-part militant assault

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) ? The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday.

Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary and that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as cover for their action. Infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off militants to the safe house location, he said.

He said an unspecified number of militants suspected of taking part in the attack have been arrested and that others were being closely monitored by police to see whether they are linked to a group. He refused to elaborate.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and another American were killed in the consulate during the initial violence, as plainclothes Libyan security were evacuating the consulate's staff to the safe house about a mile away, el-Sharef said. The second assault took place several hours later and targeted the safe house ? a villa inside the grounds of the city's equestrian club ? killing two Americans and wounding a number of Libyans and Americans.

El-Sharef, who was running the Interior Ministry's operations room commanding security forces in the city, gave The Associated Press an account of the night's chaotic events.

The crowd built at the consulate ? a one-story villa surrounded by a large garden in an upscale Benghazi neighborhood ? in several stages, he said. First, a small group of gunmen arrived, then a crowd of civilians angry over the film. Later, heavily armed men with armored vehicles, some with rocket-propelled grenades, joined, swelling the numbers to more than 200.

The gunmen fired into the air outside the consulate. Libyan security guarding the site pulled out because they were too few. "We thought there was no way for the protesters to storm the compound, which had fortified walls," he said. El-Sharef said Libyan security advised the Americans to evacuate at that point, but he says the advice was ignored. There was shooting in the air from inside the consulate compound, he said.

At this point, he said, the crowd stormed the compound. The consulate was looted and burned, while plainclothes security men were sent to evacuate the personnel.

Stevens, he said, is likely to have died of asphyxiation following a grenade explosion that started a fire, el-Sharef said. Ziad Abu Zeid, a Libyan doctor to whom Stevens' body was taken, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 52-year-old Stevens died of asphyxiation.

U.S. officials have said attackers broke into the main consulate building at around 10:15 p.m. and set the compound on fire. Amid the evacuation, Stevens became separated from others, and staffers and security that tried to find him were forced to flee by flames, smoke and gunfire. After an hour, according to U.S. officials, U.S. and Libyan officials drove the attackers from the consulate.

The next attack came hours later. Around 30 American staffers along with Libyans had been evacuated to the safe house while a plane arrived from Tripoli with a joint U.S.-Libyan security group that was to fly them back to the capital, el-Sharef said.

El-Sharef said the original plan was for a separate Libyan security unit to escort the evacuees to the airport. Instead, the joint unit went from the airport to the safe house, possibly because they were under the impression they were dealing with a hostage situation, he said. The militant attack coincided with the joint team's arrival at the safe house, he said.

That the attackers knew the safe house's location suggests a "spy" inside the security forces tipped off the militants, he said.

U.S. officials have not confirmed the account. They have spoken of an attack on the consulate's annex that killed two Americans, but said their report on the incident was still preliminary.

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HBT: Pettitte ready to rejoin Yanks' rotation

After throwing 55 pitches in a simulated game Wednesday, Andy Pettitte, who has missed 2 1/2 months with a fractured ankle, said he?s ready to start for the Yankees next week.

?I did everything I needed to do. I felt good. It?s another step,? he said. ?They felt like my stuff was great. I just don?t know what the next step is, hopefully I?ll get back in the rotation. That?s what I want to do.?

If it were June instead of September, the next step would be two or three minor league rehab starts. That?s not a possibility now, though. Odds are that he?ll rejoin the rotation next week and throw 60-70 pitches in his first start, with David Phelps ready to replace him come the fourth or fifth inning.

?He means a lot to this club. We?ve seen that. We saw that a lot the first time,? manager Joe Girardi said. ?We went on quite a roll. If they deem he?s ready to move around like he has to, he?ll be out there.?

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Giants edge Rockies

By PAT GRAHAM

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 12:46 a.m. ET Sept. 12, 2012

DENVER (AP) - Madison Bumgarner had all sorts of trouble throwing his fastball. He had no problems hitting one.

The young lefty hit a three-run homer on a night when he struggled on the mound, and the San Francisco Giants held on for a 9-8 win over the Colorado Rockies in rainy conditions Tuesday.

"I'm all for helping us win. But my job is to go out there and pitch, not to hit," Bumgarner said. "I'd like to go out there and pitch better than that."

Bumgarner was roughed up by the Rockies, allowing five runs and 11 hits in 4 1-3 innings. Still, he gave the Giants a big boost with his bat, sending a 93 mph fastball from Jhoulys Chacin into the left-field seats.

Sitting on that fastball?

"I'm just trying to hit the baseball," he said.

It's definitely a pitch Chacin would love to have back.

"I know he's a good hitter, and in those situations you can't miss your spot," Chacin said. "It was a really bad pitch to him."

Brandon Belt had a big night at the plate as well, breaking a tie in the fifth with a two-run double. He also brought in a run on a fielder's choice and added a solo homer for the NL West leaders, who are 20-7 on the road since the All-Star break.

With Bumgarner's early exit, the Giants' bullpen picked up the slack and allowed just one run heading into the ninth.

But that's when things got interesting. Sergio Romo entered the game and allowed a two-out, two-run homer to pinch-hitter Tyler Colvin. Lefty Javier Lopez was then summoned to face Jason Giambi and got the slugger to pop up to end the game.

Like that, the Giants gained another game on the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost 1-0 to Arizona. San Francisco now has a six-game cushion with 20 to play.

"A lot of baseball still," manager Bruce Bochy cautioned. "We've got to keep focused on what we're doing. We've got our hands full right now."

After a shaky outing from Chacin, Carlos Torres (4-2) took over in the fifth and promptly ran into trouble. Belt gave the Giants the lead for good when he doubled off the glove of Carlos Gonzalez in left. As the ball rolled into the corner, Marco Scutaro and Buster Posey came around to score.

"I thought he was going to come back with a fast ball and that's what he did," Belt explained. "He put it in a place I could handle, I put a good one on it and it fell in for me."

Chris Nelson, Wilin Rosario, Jordan Pacheco, Matt McBride and Gonzalez all had RBI singles for the Rockies.

Down 4-0 in the fourth, the Giants rallied to tie it. The big blow was Bumgarner's three-run shot - a no-doubter, too, as Gonzalez briefly turned to give chase before watching it leave the park.

Bumgarner's only other major league homer came three months ago against Houston.

"It kind of turned the tables a little bit," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "That's not the first time that I've sat there and seen him square up a mislocated fastball. We've seen that before."

While Bumgarner shined at the plate - also lacing a single - he never found a groove on the mound. That's unusual for Bumgarner in this park, where he had allowed just two earned runs in his last three starts at Coors Field.

Giants reliever George Kontos (2-1) picked up the win by bailing the Giants out of a tight spot in the fifth with two strikeouts.

The quirky Colorado weather befuddled the Giants in the third inning. With San Francisco about to bat, the wind and rain moved in, making the conditions almost look like swirling snow. Chacin yielded two singles, but wiggled out of the jam when Pablo Sandoval flew out.

Then, in the bottom half of the inning, the rain all but vanished.

And the Rockies took full advantage of the change in weather. Chacin ignited a three-run inning with a leadoff double. He later scored when Josh Rutledge hit into a double play. Bumgarner then gave up four straight hits, including run-scoring singles to Rosario and Pacheco.

Colorado scored a run in the second on Nelson's RBI single. Bumgarner escaped any further trouble by getting DJ LeMahieu to hit into an inning-ending double play.

NOTES: The Giants reinstated RHP Clay Hensley (groin) from the disabled list. ... RHP Tim Lincecum (8-14) will start Wednesday against LHP Jeff Francis (5-4). ... Dodgers OF Angel Pagan had his 12th triple of the season. It ties Steve Finley (2006) and Willie Mays (1960) for most in the San Francisco-era history for a single season. ... LHP Jorge De La Rosa (elbow) threw 3 2-3 innings and gave up one run Monday for Class-A Modesto. "He feels as normal as anyone would feel (the day after) they've started a game," Tracy said. "I heard nothing about his arm, his elbow. It's all very encouraging."

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Economy's slump pushing many down the ladder

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Jim Vavrek's temporary work contract was cut short when his employer switched vendors. He spoke about his career while at home with his dog, Vincent, after his last scheduled day of work.

By Allison Linn, NBC News

Jim Vavrek has experienced a lot of firsts in the last few years, and that has not been a good thing.

There was the first time he had his water shut off because he couldn?t pay the bill, and the first time he looked into applying for food stamps because he didn?t know how he could afford to eat.

And there was the first time he realized that despite insurance coverage, he still owed thousands of dollars from his late wife?s short fight with cancer ? bills he could not afford to pay.

?It?s amazing how fast everything happens,? Vavrek, 50, mused recently, as he drove from his job in New Brunswick, N.J., to his home in Point Pleasant, N.J.

The commute was about to become a memory ? Vavrek had just learned that he was going to lose the $13-an-hour contract job he?d landed about a year and a half ago. It had been a big financial step down from when he made $70,000, plus a bonus, several years ago, but at least it was a paycheck.

The?recession and?weak recovery of the past five years have forced many Americans to take a financial step backward, from the security of a middle class life to the struggles of living paycheck to paycheck or among the working poor. ?For many, a series of economic blows? ? a job loss, pay cut, divorce, health care bill or unexpected emergency ? has played a role in pushing them down the economic ladder.

Just as so many individual Americans have taken a step backward, the nation?s cumulative financial well-being also has taken a hit over the past decade.

?By almost any measure of economic well-being, we haven?t made progress,? said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody?s Analytics.

Real median household income, the midpoint of what American households earn annually, fell 6.4 percent from 2007 to 2010, to $49,445, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data available. The 2011 data will be released this week.

Median household net worth plunged nearly 39 percent over those three years, according to the Federal Reserve?s latest data. A big factor?likely was tumbling home values.

Meanwhile, poverty increased. About 46.2 million Americans, or 15.1 percent of the population, were living in poverty in 2010 as determined by the Census Bureau, an increase of 2.6 percentage points from 2007. That data also will be updated this week.

The changes have meant that more people have had to turn to government aid. About 44.7 million people participated in the SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, last year, up from 26.3 million in 2007.

Not surprisingly, many people feel worse off, and are upset about it. A study from the Pew Research Center found that four in 10 people who identify themselves as middle class say they are in worse shape financially than before the recession began in late 2007. ?Another Pew study released this year found that two-thirds of Americans see strong or very strong conflict between rich and poor Americans, a big increase over just a few years earlier.

The nation?s economy was officially in recession from December 2007 to June 2009, but the recovery since than has been painfully slow.

?Even though we?ve started to dig ourselves out of that economic hole that we got ourselves into, we?re still a long way from getting out of it,? Zandi said.

Many people who are struggling?now?never imagined they?d be in a position where they would need help with something as basic as buying food.

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Michael Scarbrough, 47, made a six-figure salary for years,?selling heavy construction equipment in the Atlanta area. Sales dried up in early 2009 as the housing and commercial construction market plummeted.

That?s when the family?s finances slowly began to slip. He and his wife, who have a 6-year-old son, lost their 3,200-square-foot home, their Hummer, their Corvette and most other vestiges of their more affluent life. They eventually were forced to turn to food stamps and government?subsidized housing.

These days, his wife works full-time for a big retailer. He?s brokered the sale of just one piece of heavy equipment so far this year and expects their annual combined income will be less than $30,000.

?I?ve had to struggle to get by before, but never where I?ve had loss on this scale,? he said. ?It?s been a drastic change.?

A job loss, cut in pay or reduction in hours typically marks the beginning of falling down the economic ladder, but for some the problems have been compounded by big, unexpected expenses or debt.

In general, many Americans got a better handle on their debt after the recession hit. But ?households in the $25,000 to $50,000 income range remain in a much more precarious situation,?Zandi said.

Darrell Glaskin, deputy director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Johns Hopkins University, said medical expenses can be an especially big problem for people who are already making low wages. That?s because even if you have insurance, a 20 percent co-pay for something like a broken arm can still mean you don?t have enough money to make your car payment that month.

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Vavrek takes his dog Vincent out for his daily walk.

Meanwhile, some programs that help people with medical needs have faced budget cuts.

?Has this current recession made things worse? Yeah, in the sense that there are more people in need, and the resources to provide for them have not increased and, in fact, in some cases they have declined,? he said.

Vavrek, the New Jersey man, found out in late 2007 that his wife of five years was ill with cancer.?By August 2008 she had died.

The couple had insurance, but the co-pays for treatment and medicine still added up to thousands of dollars in debt, some of which he put on credit cards. He still has at least $7,000 left to pay off, and even now he said he occasionally gets new bills addressed to his wife.

About a year after his wife?s death,?he lost his job working in information technology for a large media company. From there, he worked a string of jobs in sales and retail before landing a?contract IT job. He recently lost that too.

In such a weak economy, it?s not uncommon for someone who loses a job to take one that pays less. A government survey of workers who were displaced between January 2009 and December 2011 showed that out of the three million people who lost a full-time job they?d held for more than three years and found a new one, fewer than half were making as much as they once had.

Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said that?s been an especially big problem in the past few years, because jobs have been so scarce.

?If you lost your job in 1999, you were pretty much able to find a job that was similar to the one you lost,? she said. ?But right now, if you lost your job in the Great Recession or its aftermath, you just got slammed in your wages.?

Vavrek has held on to his house but struggled with other bills. A low point came when he arrived home one day and found his toilet wouldn?t flush. It turned out his water had been shut off because he hadn?t paid the bill.

?I?m 50 years old and I?ve never, ever had a utility shut off on me, and that was devastating,? he said.

He had to borrow money from his mother to get it turned back on.

He has sold his SUV and cut out movies, eating out and trips to regular stores. Instead, he relies on a dollar store and discount grocers. He keeps the lights off when he can and even turns the coffee maker off as soon as his coffee is finished brewing to save on his electric bill.

He had already applied for food stamps before he even discovered he was going to lose his job. It?s something he never thought he would do.

The sudden change in financial circumstances has left many people living a kind of economic double life, where they still have the material things they purchased when times were better but struggle to pay other bills.

Lynne Hackaday has the exact same job as a medical transcriptionist that she?s held for years. But while she once brought home more than $70,000 a year, the same work now nets no more than $25,000 a year.

Hackaday?s reimbursement rate has plummeted as her field has become more automated and faced increased competition from workers in other countries. She?s looked at working for other companies but said the lower rate is generally the new norm for the industry now.

Although her situation is extreme, economists say it?s not uncommon to see wages stagnate or decline in such a tough economy.

?Persistent high unemployment hurts wage growth across the board,? Shierholz said. ?Even if you have a job, if your employer knows there?s no outside options for you, they have no incentive to give you wage increases.?

In better times, Hackaday, 60, purchased a $300,000 home in Winston-Salem, N.C., figuring that her salary would more than cover the mortgage. Instead, she and her husband now allocate almost all of his military retirement check just to the monthly mortgage bill.

?The only thing that?s saved us is my husband?s retirement,? she said.

They don?t think they could sell the house because of the weak housing market. But the nice home belies their much more meager existence. They are driving 13-year-old cars they can?t afford to replace and have cut back on everything from eating out to how much they can give at church.

Hackaday had hoped to retire at 66 but now she doubts that will happen. Despite their hardship, she knows they have it better than many people.

?I am grateful that I have a job, even though I make less and less doing the same job,? she said. ?I do try to do my best.?

Although the weak economy has made things particularly tough, for many people the struggles began years before that. Real median household income has fallen 7 percent since 1999, after rising fairly steadily for decades before that. The wealth gap between the richest and poorest Americans also widened during the recession, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

After Roberta Lowther, 56, lost her $50,000-a-year job as an information security analyst in 2003, she moved from Indiana back to her home state of Alabama. She had a long stint of unemployment before she finally found a job working in the state?s children?s rehabilitation program. She likes the work, but it only pays around $22,500.

In 2007, she went back to school. But even after earning a college degree, Lowther still hasn?t been able to find a better-paying job.

She cashed out her 401(k) and ended up filing for bankruptcy, and she still struggles to pay her monthly bills. Luckily her husband, who is nearly 70, is getting a pension. That brings their combined income up to around $60,000.

?Had he not been in my life, I don?t know what would have happened,? she said. ?I often wonder about that. Would my faith have been strong enough to get me through this??

Many people who have taken a financial step backward wonder if they will ever work their way back up the financial ladder. Zandi, the Moody?s economist, is optimistic that in the coming decade, jobs will slowly return, wages will once again rise and people will start to make up lost ground.

?It?s been a very wrenching decade, but we?ve been doing a lot of hard lifting and I think the economy?s fundamentals are in much better shape,? Zandi said.

Still, he conceded, ?It?s hard to see it. Most people don?t.?

How do you think the economy will be doing a year from now?

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High-temperature superconductivity induced in a semiconductor with Scotch tape

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2012) ? An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique using Scotch poster tape that has enabled them to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time. The method paves the way for novel new devices that could be used in quantum computing and to improve energy efficiency.

"Who would have thought simply sticking things together can generate entirely new effects?" said team leader and U of T physicist Ken Burch. High-temperature superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without heating up and losing energy at liquid nitrogen temperatures. They are currently in use for transmitting electricity with low loss and as the building blocks of the next generation of devices (quantum computers).

However, only certain compounds of iron, copper and oxygen -- or cuprates -- reveal high-temperature superconducting properties. Cuprates were believed to be impossible to incorporate with semi-conductors, and so their real-world use has been severely limited as has the exploration of new effects they may generate. For example, observing the phenomenon of the proximity effect -- wherein the superconductivity in one material generates superconductivity in an otherwise normal semi-conductor -- has been difficult because the fundamental quantum mechanics require the materials to be in nearly perfect contact.

That's where the poster tape comes in. "Typically, junctions between semi-conductors and superconductors were made by complex material growth procedures and fabricating devices with features smaller than a human hair," explains Burch. "However the cuprates have a completely different structure and complex chemical make-up that simply can't be incorporated with a normal semiconductor."

So instead, the team used Scotch poster tape and glass slides to place high-temperature superconductors in proximity with a special type of semi-conductor known as a topological insulator. Topological insulators have captured world-wide attention from scientists because they behave like semi-conductors in the bulk, but are very metallic at the surface. The result was induced superconductivity in these novel semi-conductors: a physics first.

The U of T team members include Kenneth S. Burch, Alex Hayat, Parisa Zareapour, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Michael Kreshchuk, Achint Jain. All are members of the Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences and Alex Hayat who holds an additional appointment with U of T's Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control. Other scientists collaborating on the project are: Sang-Wook Cheong, Daniel C. Kwok and Nara Lee of Rutgers University, G.D. Gu, Ahijun Xu and Zhijun Xu of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Robert Cava of Princeton.

The work, published in Nature Communications, was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Ministry for Innovation and the National Science Foundation.

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Don't worry! You'll still have YouTube on iOS 6, thanks to a new app

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Apple revealed that iOS 6, the upcoming version of its popular mobile operating system, will not have a YouTube app pre-loaded some time ago. We've anticipated that Google would create a standalone app and the search engine giant didn't disappoint: A new YouTube for iOS app is now available for download.

The availability of the new YouTube app is perfectly timed as Apple is expected to release iOS 6 quite soon.

A post on the official YouTube blog explains that the new app brings a lot more videos (which mostly appear to be VEVO-based offerings), a new guide for channel subscriptions, a revamped (and faster) search tool, and some neater share functionality.

There are some downside to the new app though. It's not optimized for the iPad just yet (though the folks at?Google promise that they're working on that and will have something "in the coming months"). And since it's a standalone app ? rather than something baked directly into iOS?? it's also not necessarily forced to remain ad-free, as Google doesn't have to deal with some of the restrictions imposed by Apple otherwise. ?

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