Egypt's Morsi backs off decree, but fails to assuage protesters (+video)

President Mohamed Morsi held firm in rejecting what had been a key demand of the opposition: delaying a referendum scheduled for Saturday on a new constitution.

By Kristen Chick,?Correspondent / December 9, 2012

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is seen during a photo opportunity in his office at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday. Egypt's military said Saturday that serious dialogue is the "best and only" way to overcome the nation's deepening conflict over a disputed draft constitution hurriedly adopted by Islamist allies of President Mohammed Morsi, and recent decrees granting himself near-absolute powers.

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi last night rescinded his recent decision removing checks on his power and making the constitution-writing process immune from judicial review, a move that brought thousands of people into the street against him across Egypt.?

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President Mohamed Morsi refused to delay a referendum on Egypt's constitution.

But he held firm in rejecting what had been a key demand of the opposition: delaying a referendum scheduled for Saturday on a new constitution that was hurriedly completed less than two weeks ago by a committee that most secular and Christian members had resigned from in protest.?

Though the main coalition of opposition groups that united against Morsi's recent actions has yet to announce its response to the decree, which came late last night, some members of the opposition and protesters say the move does not satisfy them.?

"Morsi used the powers of the decree to push his constitution on us, so what does it mean if he cancels it now? It means nothing. He achieved his goal already," says Haitham Mohamed, who has spent much of the last week protesting the president's moves. He noted that if the referendum approves the constitution, Morsi's previous decree, and the powers that came with it, would have been invalidated soon anyway. "We demanded that he delay the referendum, and for a constitution we agree on. He ignored this demand."

The president issued the new constitutional decree after an all-day discussion among various political figures he called a national dialogue, though it was boycotted by the main opposition coalition. The referendum will go on as planned, according to the text of the new constitutional decree. The document also stipulates that if the majority votes against the new constitution, a new constituent assembly will be created through direct elections.

Opposition members had previously criticized the referendum because a "no" vote would leave Morsi with sweeping powers. The new document canceled Morsi's previous decree making his own actions immune from judicial review, granting himself wide powers to "protect the revolution," and protecting the constituent assembly from dissolution by the judiciary. But it does say that constitutional decrees such as this one are immune to judicial challenges.

Fresh protests planned

Protesters prepared to march to the presidential palace today to voice their rejection of the president's new move. The streets around the palace turned into a battle zone this week when the president's supporters attacked the protesters who had gathered there. Seven people were killed in the street clashes.?

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Video: "Fiscal cliff" negotiations going nowhere as clock ticks down (cbsnews)

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US consumer borrowing rises to record $2.75T

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove U.S. consumer debt to an all-time high.

The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumers increased their borrowing by $14.2 billion in October from September. Total borrowing rose to a record $2.75 trillion.

Borrowing in the category that covers autos and student loans increased by $10.8 billion. Borrowing on credit cards rose by $3.4 billion, only the second monthly increase in the past five months.

The strong rise in borrowing came in a month when Americans cut back on consumer spending, reflecting in part disruptions from Superstorm Sandy.

Many consumers may also have scaled back because of fears about the "fiscal cliff." That's the name for automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect in January if Congress and the Obama administration fail to strike a budget deal by then.

Consumer spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity.

Economists think that it could bounce back in November. But the underlying trend remains weak because with unemployment remaining high, households don't have the incomes to spend.

Many consumers have been reluctant to build up credit card debt, which typically carries steeper interest rates than other loans.

Credit card usage has fallen sharply since the 2008 credit crisis. Four years ago, Americans had $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, an all-time high. In October, that figure was 17 percent lower.

During the same period, student loan debt has increased dramatically. The category that includes auto and student loans is 22 percent higher than in July 2008. That reflects in part the fact that many Americans who have lost jobs decided to go back to school to get training for new careers.

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Up next for UCLA basketball: Saturday vs. Texas

The Bruins will face the Longhorns on Saturday afternoon at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

December 7, 2012, 4:06 p.m.

When: 2:15 p.m. PST.

Where: Reliant Stadium, Houston.

On the air: TV: ESPN; Radio: 570.

Records: UCLA 5-3, Texas 5-3.

Update: A matchup of two underachievers, as Texas has embarrassing losses to Chaminade and USC on its resume; UCLA fell at home to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Texas has struggled without point guard Myck Kabongo, who is sitting out while dealing with an NCAA issue. Guard Sheldon McClellan leads Texas in scoring with an average of 16.4 points a game. Texas beat UCLA last season at the Sports Arena.

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The Writing Process: Revising Your Creative Writing ? Find Your ...

December-7-12

Dave Hood

?When you write well, revision becomes not a chore, but the essence of the writing act itself.?(Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller)

Revision is part of the writing process. You revise your work after you have selected an idea to write about, completed necessary research, organized your information, decided on what to write about, and then written a first draft.? The purpose of the first draft is not to write something complete?but to get your ideas on paper. Whether you write poetry, fiction, personal essays, you should revise your work.

Revision can transform an ordinary piece of poetry, short fiction, personal essay, or any form of writing into something memorable. Revision allows you to improve on an initial attempt. It gives you the opportunity to write the best possible poem, fiction, personal essay, and so forth.

Revision is often the most creative aspect of writing, providing you take a break after writing the first draft. ?The first draft is just a blueprint. Taking a break and then returning to revise your work gives your mind time to see and hear the writing from a fresh perspective. ?Brenda Miller, author of ?Tell It Slant,? suggests that your first draft is just a ?discovery draft.? You should write anything you desire. A first draft is never your best work.

The goal of revision is not to make your writing perfect, because you can always revise your work. (Many writers believe that writing is never finished.) The goal is to create something that is your best work. If you write sparse prose, you might have to add content. If you overwrite, you?ll have to delete the excess. Both the sparse writer and verbose writer will have to trim, alter, rearrange their content. They will also have to change language, phrases, sentence structure, paragraphs, and sections. The writer?s goal is always to improve on previous iteration.

When revising a piece of writing, don?t think of making it perfect, revise with the purpose of making it your best work.

In this article, I?ll discuss how to revise your creative writing. The following will be covered:

• Why you should revise your work
• Distancing yourself
• Reading your work aloud and making notes
• Revising your work by doing a macro-edit and micro-edit

Why Revise

The first draft is always a ?shitty first draft.? This is what Anne Lamott tells us in the splendid book on the craft of writing called ?Bird By Bird.? No writer gets it best the first time. Revision allows you the opportunity to improve. By revising your work after writing the initial draft, you can improve your writing, such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Revising your work also gives you the opportunity to improve the structure, plot, characterization, point of view, conflict, climax, resolution, theme and so forth of your story.

Some writers don?t include sufficient detail for a first draft; others include too much detail. Revising your work allows you to add, cut, rearrange, and expand the details of your poem, story, articles, essay.

Revising also enables you to see your writing from a fresh perspective?especially if you take a break from writing A break gives you a chance to add simile, metaphor, fresh language, new details, to tap into your imagination. Writer/instructor Jack Hodgins, author of A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction, writes that: ?The goal in revising is to achieve a more powerful whole.?

Distancing Yourself from Your Writing

What approach should you take to revising your work? Some writers write and edit as they go. But this approach blocks your imagination. It stifles creativity. It prevents the free flow of ideas from your mind to the page. Instead of writing what you are hearing in your mind, you are writing and then correcting.

Some writers reread as they go. But this approach slows down the flow of ideas from your mind to the page. It also interrupts the creative process and prevents the imagination from inventing.

Some writers craft their first draft with pen and a notebook, and then type the draft out on the computer. They write a first draft without revising or editing or rereading. It is a complete first draft. When they type out the draft on their computer, they reread and revise. I use this approach, and find it useful.

Author Susan Bell, in ? The Artful Edit,? suggests you distance yourself before revising. ?Here are a few recommendations she provides in her book:

• Don?t reread as you write. It slows down the writing process and creative thinking.
• Don?t revise as you write your first draft. It slows down the writing process and creative thinking.
• Write your complete first draft of a poem, chapter, section. And then take a break. The break of time allows you to approach your work from a new perspective. How long should you take? It all depends?at least one night. But many writers take a few days off, even a week, or longer, before starting the revision process.
• After the break, reread your work aloud to hear how it sounds.
• Once you have taken a break and reread your work, begin revising your work.

Many beginner writers believe that after writing their first draft they are finished. Furthermore, they believe the myth that the first draft must be perfect, and so they take forever to finish. Many writers become discouraged and abandon their writing. They find that the act of writing is like walking through the woods in the dark without a flashlight.

Writing is a process. It begins with an idea, followed by research or personal reflection. Next, the writer jots down a few points or makes a more formal plan of what he/she intends to write about. Then the writer crafts the initial draft. Once the draft is complete, the writer takes a break. The break allows the writer time to see his/her work from a fresh perspective. When the writer returns from the sojourn or hiatus, he/she begins revising the draft. The purpose of revision is to improve on the initial attempt, to make it better, to make it the best the writer can, to polish, to convert chaos to order, to make the piece of writing shine.

In ?You Can?t Make this Stuff Up,? writer Lee Gutkind, states the following: ?Writing is Revision. Almost every sentence, every paragraph, every page we write we will revise and rewrite a number of times.?

All great writers revise their work over and over before publishing. Raymond Carver rewrote his short stories many times before publishing. D. H. Lawrence rewrote the novel, Lady Chatterley?s Lover three times before it was published. Ernest Hemingway wrote the ending to Farewell to Arms 39 times.

All writers can learn how to revise their work. The first thing to remember is that the first draft is just an blue print. It is not your finished piece of work. By revising your work, you improve your first attempt. Often you?ll need to complete several revisions before you submit it for publishing.

How to Revise

Many writers revise as they write. They?ll write a sentence or paragraph or section, then reread it, then revise. But this is a slow and tedious process. And it prevents you from getting to the finishing line quickly. Moreover, it interrupts the free flow of ideas from the mind to the page. A better way to revise is to write the entire draft, take a break of a day or longer. Why take a break? It allows you to see your work from a fresh perspective or point of view. It?s like looking taking a photograph of a building from different perspectives. From each viewpoint, you?ll see something different. The goal of writing, like taking photographs, is to capture the best image. When you return to your writing, you?ll read it aloud and make notes of things you don?t like. Then you?ll conduct a macro-edit and micro-edit of the entire draft. Often you?ll need to revise your narrative several times before submitting it for publication.? Your approach to writing and revising should be to get it down, and then work on getting your poem or story or essay or article right?making it the best you can.

Revision is about rereading your entire piece of writing, find errors, omissions, things that requirement improvement or deletion. Revision is about rewriting. You?ll approach the process of revising from a high level, which involves the entire document, poem, story, article. Editors call this a ?macro-edit.? Once you have completed a macro edit of your piece of creative writing, then you?ll complete a line-by-line edit or copy edit. Editors and instructors call this a ?micro-edit.?

What to Revise

After writing your complete draft, take a break for a day or more. The break from writing will enable you to see your work from a new perspective. Once you have taken the break, reread your work aloud, and make notes for improvement as you go. After reading your work aloud to yourself, you?ll complete a macro edit. All types of creative writing requires a macro edit, whether you write a short story, novel, personal essay, or literary journalistic article. Once you?ve finished the macro-edit, you?ll also complete a micro-edit, which is a line-by-line edit or copy edit. Not all of the items on this list will apply to every genre.

Macro-Editing.?What does a macro-edit involve? For a macro-edit of a personal narrative essay or fictional story, you?ll do the following:

• Ensure that the beginning tells the reader what the story is about and ?why they should reader it. And also ensure that the beginning grabs the reader?s attention.
• Ensure that your story has a setting. It is shows the time and place of the story. It can be a backdrop, antagonist, or the mood of a story. Does your story, at the minimum, have take place at a particular time and place?
• Revise to enhance the central character. Does the central character have a motive? Character flaws? Have you develop the character with dialogue, behaviour, appearance?
• Revise to improve the structure. Is there a beginning, middle, and ending? Is there an inciting incident? Problem? Setbacks or obstacles? Climax or turning point? Resolution to the story?
• Revise for dialogue. Does the dialogue reveal character? Move the story forward? Sound like real people talking? Does each character speak differently? Is dialogue included in important events or scenes?
• Revise for style. Do you use a consistent voice? tone? diction? Sentence variety?
• Ensure that the story has a correct and consistent point of view. First person (I)?, Second person (you)? Third person (He/she)?
• Ensure that you have included concrete and specific and significant details and descriptions.
• Ensure that you have used imagery, language that appeals to the reader?s sense of sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch.
• Ensure that you have used figurative language, such as simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism.
• Ensure that you show the reader what happened with dialogue, action, setting, imagery when writing about important events, such as the inciting incident, crisis, climax, resolution.
• Ensue that the story has a theme. What is the implicit meaning of your work?
• Ensure that your story has an ending. And is the ending correct?? Open? Closed?

If you are writing a piece of creative nonfiction, you?ll want to also ensure that you have written into a structure. For instance, if you are writing a theme-based personal essay, you?ll want to make sure that you have a variety of sections, which supports central idea.

If you are writing a collage essay, you?ll want to ensure that your ?found objects,? such as? a quotation, anecdote, vignette, poem, and so forth, support the central idea.

If you are writing a braided essay, you?ll want to be sure that your structure adequately reveals a comparison between two ideas or people or things. For more information, read ?The Writer?s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life? by Priscilla Long.

If you are writing a poem, your macro-edit will consider the following:

• Form?narrative, meditative, surreal, image, prose?.
• Line break?for emphasis, enjambment, rhyme
• Stanza
• Diction or word choice
• Figurative or poetic language such as simile or metaphor or imagery
• Concrete and significant details
• Description
• Grammar and syntax and punctuation
• Right voice and style
• Sound, such as alliteration or assonance or rhyme
• Rhythm and meter
• Point of view-first, second, third person, invented persona
• Theme?meaning of the poem

Micro-editing.?After completing a macro-edit, you?ll complete a micro-edit. Whether you write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, you must complete a micro-edit. It is a line-by-line edit of the following:

• Grammar. Ensure that you are using correct grammar, such as Correct usage, such as subject verb agreement
• Spelling. Ensure that you are using correct spelling.
• Punctuation. Ensure that you are using correct punctuation-period, comma, dash, exclamation point, question mark, quotations
• Scenes. Ensure that you have shown and told your readers. You must write in scenes for all important events. Do you show your readers what happened? For things that are less important, do you tell your readers?
• Diction/word choice. Ensure that you have chosen the best language. What is the connotation and denotation of each word?
• Sentence variety. Ensure that you have used sentence variety, such as long and short sentence, fragments and climactic sentences, simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• Melody. Ensure that your prose have melody. Have you used alliteration? Assonance? Rhyme? Repetition?
• Rhythm. Ensure that your prose have rhythm? It refers to the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. It also refers to the use of repetition? And it refers to the use of parallel structure of your prose?
• Lyricism. Ensure that you your prose are lyrical? Have you used imagery? Metaphor? Simile?
• Usage. Ensure that you have used the active voice, concrete nouns, action verbs. Ensure that you have used ?adjectives and adverbs sparingly.

A few Suggestions about Revision

If you intend to revise and to publish, you must?have a good understanding of grammar, punctuation, spelling, usage, and writing style. If you are not sure about any of these topics, I strongly recommend you read and learn the suggestions, guidelines, and recommendations presented in the following:

• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Woe is I: The Grammarphobe?s Guide to Better English by Patricia T. O?Connor
• The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magical and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark
• Sin And Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale

Revision is part of writing. All great writers revise to improve their work. The best writers conduct a macro-edit and micro-edit (a line-by-line edit) of their work. Revising your work enables you to correct mistakes and oversights, to add, to delete, to alter, to move, ?to improve and polish a first attempt. Revising your work gives you the chance to create your best work, which improves your odds? of publishing it.

Resources.?For a more detailed explanation on revising a poem, short story, personal essay, and more, read the following:

• The Artful Edit: On the Practise of Editing Yourself by Susan Bell
• The Story Within: New Insights and Inspirations for Writers by Laura Oliver
• Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola
• Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York?s Acclaimed Creative Writing School
• Writing Your Way: Creating A Writing Process that Works for You by Don Fry
• The Writer?s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life by Priscilla Long.

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Stocks inch lower as investors wait on budget

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Uncertainty over whether U.S. leaders can resolve a critical budget deadlock and figures showing the eurozone's unemployment rate at a record high capped any gains to be made in the markets Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Uncertainty over whether U.S. leaders can resolve a critical budget deadlock and figures showing the eurozone's unemployment rate at a record high capped any gains to be made in the markets Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks ended the week more or less where they started it. Investors were watching closely while lawmakers in Washington worked at thrashing out a budget agreement.

After inching 3.76 points higher on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 13,025.58. That's a gain of just 16 points for the week, one of the Dow's smallest moves this year.

Along the way, the market had several sharp turns both up and down after key figures in the talks, such as House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama, offered contrasting views about how well the talks were going.

The Standard and Poor's index edged up 0.23 point to 1,416.25. The index is up 0.5 percent for the week. The Nasdaq composite was down 1.79 points to 3,010.24. It gained 1.46 percent for the week.

The main driver for markets this week has been the talks between the White House and Congress over the "fiscal cliff," a series of sharp government spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to start Jan. 1 unless an agreement is reached to cut the budget deficit. Economists say that those measures, if implemented, could push the U.S. economy back into a recession.

Optimism that a deal will be done was greeted with rallies, while pessimistic comments from lawmakers were followed by sell-offs.

"Right now the market is just going to be held hostage as to what happens in the next five hours, versus what's going to happen in the next five years," said Dan Veru, chief investment officer at Palisade Capital Management, in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

President Obama argued Friday that allowing taxes to rise for the middle class would amount to a "lump of coal" for Christmas, while Boehner declared that negotiations to surmount a looming fiscal cliff are going "almost nowhere."

Speaking at a toy factory, the president said Republicans should extend existing Bush-era tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less, while allowing increases to kick in for the wealthy. On Capitol Hill, Boehner argued that Obama's latest offer ? to raise revenue by $1.6 trillion over the next decade ? would be a "crippling blow" to an economy that is still struggling to find its footing.

"My sense is that investors are going to be busy reading headlines every day for the next three weeks," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Group in Chicago.

Ablin says that he expects policy makers to reach a temporary agreement on the budget before year-end, before coming to a "Grand Bargain" next year. He believes improving consumer confidence and rising house prices will underpin the economy and support demand for stocks.

Stocks are higher for the year. The Dow is up 6.5 percent, the S&P 500 index 12 percent. The indexes are on track to end the month little changed.

Americans cut back on spending last month and saw no growth in their income, reflecting disruption from Superstorm Sandy that could hold back economic growth in the final months of the year.

The Commerce Department reported that consumer spending dropped 0.2 percent in October. That's down from an increase of 0.8 percent in September and the weakest showing since May.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was little changed at 1.62 percent.

Among stocks making big moves:

?Yum Brands, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, fell $7.39 to $67.08. The fast-food operator reported disappointing sales and earnings forecasts. An analyst recommended that investors sell the stock.

?Zynga, the maker of computer games including "Farmville" and "Cityville," fell 16 cents to $2.46 after the company said late Thursday that it was loosening its relationship with Facebook. While the deal frees Zynga from having to use Facebook as the exclusive social site for its games, the company relies on Facebook for most of the revenue it generates even as it works to establish its independence.

?VeriSign plunged $5.19 to $34.15 after the company announced the terms of its new contract to run the key directories that keep track of ".com" domain names. The company won't be allowed to raise prices on the registration of such names without government approval.

?Duke Energy rose $1.43 to $63.82 after the company said its CEO will step down as part of a settlement with the North Carolina utilities regulator that ends an investigation into the company's takeover of in-state rival Progress Energy.

Associated Press

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