Man killed in Pa. sports bar, 20 witnesses mum

MCKEESPORT, Pa.?Police say at least 20 people were in a western Pennsylvania sports bar when a customer was fatally shot but, so far, nobody's willing to tell detectives what they saw.

Allegheny County police Lt. Andrew Schurman says investigators are hoping surveillance video at Street Stars bar in McKeesport will yield the kind of information that witnesses have not.

The Allegheny County medical examiner has identified the man as 34-year-old Jayemond Bailey.

Police say he was shot about 1 a.m. Friday, possibly after some kind of altercation.

An autopsy was set later Friday to confirm the cause of Bailey's death, but police say he was shot about a dozen times.

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No movement: Lawmakers dig in heels on debt crisis

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. applauds after handing the gavel to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. applauds after handing the gavel to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive on Air Force One, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as they return from their Hawaii vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Congressional leaders on Sunday showed no signs of emerging from their corners to resolve the next step in the financial crisis, with Democrats still talking about higher taxes on the wealthy and the Senate's top Republican suggesting that a crippling default on U.S. loans was possible unless there were significant cuts in government spending.

"It's a shame we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future, and that's our excessive spending," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Last week's deal to avert the combination of end-of-year tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" held income tax rates steady for 99 percent of Americans but left some other major pieces of business unresolved.

By late February or early March, the Treasury Department will run out of options to cover the nation's debts and could begin defaulting on government loans unless Congress raises the legal borrowing limit, or debt ceiling. Economists warn that a default could trigger a global recession.

Also looming are deep automatic spending cuts expected to take effect at the beginning of March that could further erase fragile gains in the U.S. economy. Then on March 27, the temporary measure that funds government activities expires, and congressional approval will be needed to keep the government running. It's one more chance to fight over spending

Lawmakers said debt talks will consume Congress in the coming weeks, likely delaying any consideration of an expected White House proposal on gun restrictions in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.

Republicans say they are willing to raise the debt ceiling but insist any increase must be paired with significant savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other government benefit programs. President Barack Obama has said he's willing to consider spending cuts separately but won't bargain over the government's borrowing authority.

"One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

Democrats said further tax increases for the wealthiest Americans were still possible as Congress looks to close the gap between revenues and expenditures. Democrats point out that Obama has already agreed to significant spending cuts, and that the latest deal only gets the nation to about half of the revenue it needs to resolve the red ink.

"Trust me, there are plenty of things within that tax code ? these loopholes where people can park their money in some island offshore and not pay taxes. These are things that need to be closed. We can do that and use the money to reduce the deficit," said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she, too, wants to put "everything on the table from the standpoint of closing loopholes."

But McConnell bluntly declared that the "tax issue is over" after last week's agreement.

"We don't have this problem because we tax too little; we have it because we spend too much," McConnell said.

Making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, McConnell was asked repeatedly whether Republicans were prepared to see the nation default on its spending obligations. McConnell said that wouldn't be necessary, so long as Obama agrees to the spending cuts.

But at one point, when asked by NBC's David Gregory whether the GOP strategy will be to hold the debt ceiling "ransom" in exchange for spending cuts, McConnell said it was a "shame we have to use whatever leverage we have" to get the president's attention.

"None of us like using situations like the sequester (automatic across-the-board spending cuts) or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this," McConnell said.

Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., didn't dismiss the idea of allowing a partial shutdown of government until an agreement can be reached. Texas Sen. John Cornyn and other Republicans have floated the idea of a shutdown as a way of winning deeper spending cuts.

"I believe we need to raise the debt ceiling, but if we don't raise it without a plan to get out of debt, all of us should be fired," Graham said.

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the Republican strategy amounted to: "Give us what we want ... or we're going to tank the United States economy."

Pelosi said she believes the president has enough authority under the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling without Congress' blessing. But the White House has said previously that it does not believe that the amendment ? which says the "validity" of public debt shouldn't be questioned ? gives the president that power.

McConnell spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC "This Week" and CBS "Face the Nation." Pelosi was on CBS. Durbin and Graham appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and Van Hollen was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday."

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McChrystal calls for enduring Afghan force

NEW YORK (AP) ? Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said Monday he backs the White House's drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan slated for 2014, but added that the U.S. owes Afghans some sort of enduring security presence to support them.

"We have an emotional responsibility," McChrystal said of Afghanistan in an interview with The Associated Press. He commanded forces there before resigning over a controversial magazine article.

"We created expectations after 2001 in people" that the U.S. would be there to keep the country from sliding back into the chaos of the Taliban years, McChrystal said.

His comments come ahead of a visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the White House, as the two nations try to craft a long-term plan for Afghanistan that will include a U.S. military presence whose size and scope have not yet been decided. The Afghan war commander, Gen. John Allen, has offered White House planners a range of troop numbers to choose from, from 6,000 troops, who would be devoted mostly to hunting al-Qaida, to more than 15,000, enough to continue much of the U.S. training mission and also back Afghan troops in the field with intelligence and logistical support.

McChrystal said Afghans don't want an occupying army, but they fear the U.S. will withdraw completely.

"Like a teenager, you really don't want your parents hanging around you, but...you like to know if things go bad, they're going to help," he said. McChrystal added that the Afghans are not children, but they need to know they can trust America.

The general gave interviews upon the release of his memoir, "My Share of the Task," published by Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. The book outlines his time from commanding the top military counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command, to the contentious process of crafting the Afghan war strategy, and ends with his abrupt resignation over an article in The Rolling Stone.

McChrystal took full responsibility for the piece, by embedded reporter Michael Hastings, which anonymously quoted members of McChrystal's staff disparaging the White House over war policy. He would not confirm whether the article's quotes were accurate, saying only that he "cheerfully" offered President Barack Obama his resignation, as the article had created a perception of a rift that would hurt the war mission.

But his eyes watered at the memory of telling his wife, Annie, that his 34-year Army career was at an end.

"Annie said, Good. We've always been happy, we'll always be happy, and we have been, every day since," he said. McChrystal now teaches at Yale University, and runs his own consulting group.

First lady Michelle Obama later asked McChrystal to work on Joining Forces, the White House initiative for military troops and their families. He said he'd spoken to the president at several Joining Forces event, but had never again discussed the resignation with him.

Part of the friction between McChrystal's staff and the White House was over McChrystal's request for an extra 40,000 troops, which Obama chose over a proposal by Vice President Joe Biden to limit the mission to a small number of counterterrorism forces and trainers.

The retired general insisted the strategy known as counterinsurgency worked, saying the Afghans are much better able to stand on their own.

"If you had tried to bring big American forces in and do search and destroy, or do just raids, it would have been pointless. The Afghan people needed to buy into this," he said. "They needed to believe we were there to protect them...and we weren't just using Afghanistan as a place to fight our enemies."

He called the looming drawdown of U.S. forces "inevitable," and said that while Afghan troops still needed to "mature rapidly," being forced to work on their own would help.

"You are never ready to do something by yourself until you actually do it, and then you are surprised you can," he said.

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Tattoo photos lead to arrest in child porn case

By Jonathan Lloyd and Lolita Lopez, NBCLosAngeles.com

Five solid tips from people who told authorities that distinctive tattoos helped them recognize a woman seen in photos released Thursday as part of a child molestation investigation led to an arrest in an 11-year-old case involving "widely circulated" child pornography images.

Letha Mae Montemayor, 52, was taken into custody Thursday night outside an apartment complex in North Hills in the San Fernando Valley.

Authorities said they believe the woman is the individual -- identified as "Jane Doe" in a criminal complaint filed Monday -- who appears with an unidentified male in a series of photographs released Thursday afternoon as investigators hunted for leads in the child pornography case.

"Just after ICE?s nationwide plea for public assistance, five separate community tips led to the arrest of Jane Doe," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. "This arrest would not have happened without the public?s help, and it demonstrates how much individual citizens can do to help law enforcement attack crime."

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An appearance in federal court?for Montemayor, charged with one count of making child pornography, was scheduled for Monday.

A neighbor of Montemayor's who did not want to be identified said the suspect was a "hoarder" who "did not take care of her body well" and was "rude to all the children."

About 10 hours before her arrest, Morton and other law enforcement agents conducted a news conference regarding "Operation Sunflower," a recently concluded child sex crimes investigation that led to more than 240 arrests. During the news conference, authorities released images of a man and tattooed woman wanted in connection with a child molestation case authorities said occurred about 11 years ago, possibly in Los Angeles.

"The (tipsters) said they recognized the face, the tattoos," said Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Claude Arnold.

"They were very confident that it was she. We expect that it would be more difficult because they were older images, but we were optimistic because they were good images."

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These images released by federal authorities as part of a child porn investigation led to the arrest of a woman in Los Angeles.

The woman's tattoos -- a sleeping cat, butterfly and other designs -- are visible in the photographs released Thursday.

123 child victims of Internet sex abuse identified, US officials say

But other clues in the background of the images, discovered by Chicago Homeland Security agents in 2007 and passed along to LA agents, prompted investigators to focus on locations in the San Fernando Valley.?Forensics analysis of the images, conducted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, revealed details in the pictures, such as close-ups of the tattoos, a calendar from a store and a phonebook.

The criminal complaint alleges that "Jane Doe," now identified as Montemayor, was involved in the production of child pornography images that were "widely circulated" online. The images depict the sexual molestation of a girl, who appears to be about age 13, according to ICE.

Authorities have not identified the victim or male subject.

"We still want the public?s help in identifying John Doe and the victim in the disturbing series of images that continue to be circulated on the Internet," said U.S. Attorney Andr? Birotte.

Call 866-347-2423 or visit this tips form to provide information. Click here to view the ICE wanted poster.

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TV Cooking Shows Increase Food Cravings - Shape Magazine

If you watch more shows like The Rachael Ray Show, Cake Boss, or Iron Chef as opposed to Homeland or Modern Family, chances are you?re eating more too. And if Rach makes a cheesy pasta dish that looks yum-o to you, don?t be surprised if you crave Italian, a new study says.

Researchers at William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, showed adults a 10-minute clip from either Planet Earth or Food Network. After watching the clip, participants had another 10 minutes to sample chocolate covered candies, cheese curls, and carrots.

Turns out those shown the cooking program ate about 40 more calories of candy than the animal watchers ate, while there was no difference between how much cheese curls or carrots the two groups ate. Since the Food Network segment featured sweet tarts, the study authors suggest that food shows prime the brain to desire the types of foods portrayed in the program.

This adds to previous research showing that food and beverage ads increase cravings for those specific products, and it?s also been proven that eating in front of the TV leads to overconsumption due to decreased satiety from mindless munching, plus the foods most often consumed when watching the boob tube are calorie-rich and nutrient poor?the same types of foods portrayed in ads and in most programs.

RELATED: Not all food porn is bad! Learn nine ways Pinterest improves your diet.

Since this new study shows that just 10 minutes of a food show may hijack your brain and lead to cravings, and too much couch time is consistently linked with increased calories consumed and lower activity levels, limit your limit total TV time to no more than two hours a day.

Fast-forward through TV ads if you have a DVR, otherwise exercise with your back toward the TV during commercials (that adds up to about a 22-minute workout per hour of programming). Also consider avoiding food shows that you know feature unhealthy choices if you find that they make your cravings too intense.

Be mindful of Pinterest ?food porn? as well. In a study presented this fall at the Endocrine Society?s 94th Annual Meeting, University of Southern California researchers explained how images of decadent foods act on the brain to increase hunger and cravings for treats.

If you?re Pinning to-die-for goodies from boards with names like ?Mmmmmm,? ?Goodies,? ?Yummy,? or ?Heaven on Earth,? chances are you?ll end up complaining about Pinterest pounds. Use social media to improve your diet instead by searching #healthy or #nutrition, and start creating new boards to help you build the body you want. Be sure to check out SHAPE?s Pinterest boards for lots of healthy inspiration!

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Julie Upton, M.S., R.D., C.S.S.D., is a registered dietitian and coauthor of The Real Skinny: 1001 Fat Habits & Slim Solutions (Penguin 2013) and cofounder of Appetite for Health.

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Self Publishing Is Not A Trouble Free Work ? Writing and Speaking

Being a self publisher is not an effortless listing, it means that you will be in complete control of not only the real creating of the book yet additionally you will certainly be calling the shots on every step in the procedure of your books manufacturing.

This really isn?t meant to scare you away from self publishing your book. Equally you will certainly be able to make the choices on exactly how you desire your book offered you could likewise choose, as a self publisher, how much support you want to obtain.

Aided Self Publishing indicates that you now have the alternatives to choose from when it comes to publishing your book without the necessity of handing over the composition to a large posting stored and trusting in them to inform you exactly what is finest for you and your book.

Without the popularity recently of self publishing comes companies that provide a large assortment of alternatives to decide on, from modifying sites to printing and everything in between. In a sense it resembles selecting which packages to contribute to your satellite TELEVISION carrier?s solution. You may either decide on an all incorporating plan or you could include the items that are necessary to you as you go along.

Anybody could release a book. Essentially, the right to release is assured to you by the Free speech of the Constitution of the United States. You do not need to get a permit or register with anyone to publish a book. Nonetheless it does expense money to release a book.

Book publishing in the past was very costly however without today?s modern technology it is a lot more budget friendly. An author, in meaning, is a person who sets up the money to have something given the public. So as the author, it is going to cost something to obtain your book out to the masses.

It truly falls to you in some cases how much you are willing or able to invest on publishing your book based upon what you are capable of handling your own self and exactly what you may need a little aid with. One thing to remember is, this is your baby and even though you wish to be involved in taking your vision and delivering it to fact, there are some points at the same time that you might want to have another person take care of in order that you may generate the best finished item that you possibly could and provide your book the chance it ought to have.

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