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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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It began as a seemingly awkward Jack Nicholson introduction of the very long list on nominees, but the Best Picture denouement?at a very long Oscars ceremony on Sunday turned into a surprise appearance by Michelle Obama, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C.?where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie?to introduce and announce the winner,?Argo.?
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Spoiler Alert: In Field of Political Films, Hollywood Opts for Happy Ending
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Michelle Obama's surprise appearance via satellite from the White House to give the Oscar for Best Picture was perfectly fitting: Hollywood was choosing among three front-runners that portrayed very different views of U.S. presidents and history - high drama, gritty suspense and a stylish thriller.
Set aside the costumes and the score and the editing and all that - the whole storytelling part of each movie - you can argue that by giving the Oscar to "Argo," Hollywood made a choice about U.S. history, too. And it chose a happy ending regardless of how distant it feels from reality.
Yes, "Argo," Ben Affleck's movie about a daring CIA plan to disguise the evacuation of six embassy workers hiding in Tehran in the wake of the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, is a good yarn. It seems fanciful even though it is based on a true story.
The CIA developed a fake movie as a cover story. It ultimately took an agent's defying orders to get the plan hurtling toward its successful conclusion and the embassy workers holed up in the Canadian ambassador's residence out of Iran.
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"I want to dedicate this to everyone who uses creativity to solve problems non-violently," said "Argo" screenwriter Chris Terrio, accepting the award for adapted screenplay.
But without taking anything away from the efforts of CIA operative Tony Mendez or his band of movie producers, whose efforts led to the rescue of six Americans, the events of the movie are a sidebar to the Iran hostage crisis that so dominated the news for more than 400 days between 1979 and 1981 and unalterably changed U.S.-Iran relations. (For perspective, there would be no ABC News "Nightline" if there had been no hostages.)
And the military's attempt in April of 1980 to rescue the 52 hostages who spent more than a year in Iranian captivity cost the lives of eight U.S. service members. That is barely mentioned in the film. But the failed rescue probably had as much to do with Jimmy Carter's defeat that November as President Obama's gamble to OK a strike on Osama bin Laden's secret hideout in Pakistan had to do with his re-election.
"Zero Dark Thirty" isn't about a desperate and creatively hatched rescue, but instead a dozen years-long manhunt. It has been criticized for featuring scenes involving the torture of captured enemy combatants. Torture, critics say, didn't lead to the capture of bin Laden. But so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were used by Americans in the wake of Sept. 11.
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Instead of the humor and style of "Argo," it has a studied focus. The CIA is still up to creative tricks in "Zero Dark Thirty": There is glancing mention that they created a local vaccine program in a failed attempt to get inside bin Laden's compound before storming it. And it, too, portrays an agent flouting agency convention in her pursuit of bin Laden and her lobbying for political buy-in. The movie ends with the killing of bin Laden, but it is anything but happy.
While "Argo" shows Affleck's character's sighing relief on a plane with his rescued charges out of Tehran, "Zero Dark Thirty" ends with Jessica Chastain's character alone, weeping, and presumably wondering what to do next. That seems a bit like U.S. foreign policy in general in the Middle East.
The death of bin Laden might have been a major victory for the United States, but with one post-Sept. 11, 2001 war in Iraq over and the drawdown of U.S. troops now started in Afghanistan country, bin Laden's death in a third country, nearly two years on, seems to have very little effect on the direction this country was taking toward drone strikes and targeted killing of suspected terrorists.
There's no doubt what Abraham Lincoln accomplished by pushing the 13 th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, through a divided House of Representatives in 1865 that changed the trajectory of the country.
Steven Spielberg's movie "Lincoln" dealt with the at-times underhanded efforts the president and his men undertook to buy off skittish lawmakers and perhaps extend the end of the Civil War. Lincoln is portrayed as a man. He won't let his son join the Army even as tens of thousands of other men's sons are dying on both sides of the war.
Imagine that reality in the age of Twitter. These are the things muted by history, but that seems relevant now as the White House and Congress face off again and again on today's problems.
The end of the Lincoln story is well known. The war ended days before he was shot in April of 1865 and the 13 th Amendment, having passed through the House in January of 1865, was added to the Constitution that December.
But the moral stain of slavery is brought into sharp relief by the movie. It is satisfying to see the bill proposing the amendment pass the House. But it is painful, even at this distance from the actual events, to come to terms with how difficult it was for this country to close that chapter.
"Argo" escapes the moral difficulties of the other two movies about politics and government, in part, by focusing on such a great story. It isn't so much about the Iranian hostage crisis as it is about a caper. The hostage crisis and the politics are just part of the scene.
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5 Ways Your Brain Tricks You Into Bad Investment Decisions ...
You are rational with your money. You spend weeks agonizing over the new microwave oven. You read countless reviews and compare features and prices. You worry about risk and insist on a good warranty. You demand value for every hard earned dollar you spend.
When it comes to buying stocks, however, the story is different. There is something about money and investing that causes temporary lapses in logic and reason. It leads you to sell at the bottom and buy at the top. It warps your perception of risk. You probably think Apple stock at $450/share today is more risky than you thought it was just 5 months ago at $700/share. You are not alone.
?Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.?
- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, Oct. 17, 1929, days before the market crash
When it comes to investing, the so called ?experts? operate with the same handicap as the rest of us.
Successful investing is about how you improve your odds
Your investing process needs to continually evolve on two fronts:
- You need to select investments in a way that removes possibility of losing money as much as possible. You can do this by refusing to overpay for an investment, trading as little as possible, and learning everything about the company that you can before committing your dollars to its stock, and,
- You need to work on your own behavior and emotional response and find ways to remove it from interfering with your investment decisions
Once you learn how to manage and reduce your downside, your average returns are automatically improved. Ultimately, investing in stocks is betting that the future will turn out to be better than it looks today and the future always has a degree of unpredictability in it regardless of how solid your investment analysis is. Just in case things don?t go according to the plan, you will now know the right way to react.
Make a decision and stick to it
Once you make a decision to buy (or sell) a stock, go ahead and buy (or sell) it right away and then stick to your decision unless there is a material change in the business. Time to agonize is before the decision is reached. Any hesitancy afterwards just sub optimizes your performance.
When I buy a stock, I also set a sell price for the stock. Unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so (and these would be very rare), the stock is sold when the price reaches the pre-set sell price, regardless of how popular the stock may have become. In the worst case scenario, I may leave a few points on the table. By doing this it stops me from getting carried away at critical times and forces the right decision at the right time.
This of course is the key to break the loss aversion behavior. If you have parameters set up in your process that calls for a specific action when a certain condition occurs, TAKE THAT ACTION. If it turns out to be the wrong one, you can come back and modify your parameters. If you need additional motivation, try reframing the question that you ask. You will make mistakes early on, but you will avoid them later in your investment career when they are likely to be more costly.
Get the right time perspective
Investors tend to be short term oriented because the long term seems so far off. With this perspective, they are likely to miss things like debt maturing in next 2 years or a costly drawn out legal case against the company or the results of the new strategic initiative bearing fruit. However these may be the things that are driving some of the business actions and the stock price today.
Despite what is commonly believed, most public companies are managed for the long term. To invest properly, your expectations should be in line with the business. Besides, long term is seldom as long as we fear and it comes soon enough.
Remember, when it comes to investing, you may be your own biggest enemy!
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
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2013 NFL Combine: Chuck Pagano in good health and good humor
Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano addressed the media on Friday at the 2013 NFL Combine, assuring everyone that he was healthy and happy.
INDIANAPOLIS -- When Colts head coach Chuck Pagano addressed the media on Friday, one thing was immediately clear: he's in good spirits. He smiled and laughed often, addressing questions about the cancer that threatened his life during the 2012 season. He talked about how proud he was of his team as well as how grateful he was, and still is, for the help he received while he was focused on a different kind of fight. It was a refreshing 15 minutes that reminded everyone in attendance that there are some things that are a little more important.
Pagano began the press conference, like most other coaches, with an opening statement. His, though, was about his hair growing back.
"Like Ryan Grigson said, the hair's coming back in," Pagano said. "It's a little gnarly. I haven't found a gel yet that will quite calm it down. We're still looking for one. My wife's trying to help me out. I feel great and very fortunate to be back here and doing this combine deal."
Pagano talked some football after that, stating that the surprising success of the 2012 Colts will set the standard for the team in 2013 and beyond and that, while he knows there are several areas the team needs to address, they'll be looking at every player cycling through the Combine. It wasn't long, though, before the conversation switched back to Pagano's fight against leukemia that lasted much of the 2012 season.
Laughing about how ironic it was that one of the restrictions placed on him by the doctors was limited media obligations, Pagano said that he feels good now, though he doesn't know if he will ever feel the same.
"I don't know if that will ever be the same," Pagano said. "I feel pretty normal now, as far as going through the normal stuff a football coach goes through on a day-in, day-out basis. Whether it will ever be exactly the same, I don't think it will ever be that way. I feel good. I feel like most of that is behind me. I feel good where I'm at right now."
Perhaps Pagano drew inspiration from his team in 2012. While he wasn't on the sidelines coaching the team, the Colts, led by rookie quarterback Andrew Luck, were able to make it into the playoffs with an 11-5 record. Players and even cheerleaders shaved their heads in support of their head coach while signs bearing the slogan "Chuck-Strong" littered the stadium.
When asked what impressed him the most about the 2012 Colts, he said it was their resiliency.
"Just how resilient they were, how fast they came together," Pagano said. "From day one, they bought into what our plan and vision was. Just their resiliency. You look at the first game I was away, they cam back from a 21-3 deficit and upset Green Bay here at home. Then, you have a devastating loss and they come back and won two or three ballgames. They never lost two games in a row."
Pagano said they were fun to watch from afar despite the fact that he couldn't be with them. He also discussed how difficult it was to lose the man who led his team to the playoffs in his absence, Bruce Arians.
"It's hard because we have a strong relationship," he said. "He's a great friend and confidant. It's tough. You're expecting him to walk into your suite at night and do interviews with you. He's going to walk down to another suite and handle his own interviews. We're really excited for Bruce, Kris and his entire family for the opportunity he has in front of him."
I feel good where I'm at right now -Chuck Pagano
Pagano seemed happy, but more importantly, he seemed healthy. He said that he still has a process to go through when it comes to the medication he'll be on for a couple of years and the doctors appointments he'll have to sit through, but he didn't seem worried or distracted. When he mixed up Vontae Davis' and Vonta Leach's names, he laughed and said, "blame it on the chemo."
Like any other cancer survivor, Pagano will be scarred and carry the effects of his treatment for a very long time. However, his willingness and capability to move past it, find humor in it and, most importantly, beat it, will serve as a source of inspiration for those who will walk down the same road in the future.
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'Fairy tale': Team slays giants, wins over Dalai Lama
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Gary Jones, left, and James "Big Jim" Hanson of Bradford City FC celebrate following their team's victory over English Premier League club Arsenal on Dec. 11, 2012. Only three years ago, Hanson was stacking shelves at a local supermarket. On Sunday, he'll play in front of 90,000 people at London's iconic Wembley Stadium.
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News
BRADFORD, England --?It is the sort of "fairy tale" story that sounds made for Hollywood.?
Led by the unlikeliest of heroes, a passionate team of underdogs emerges from the shadow of near-bankruptcy to go an improbable winning streak, eliminating a series of big-name (and huge-budgeted) rivals and bringing hope to their poverty-stricken hometown.
But the real-life story of Bradford City Football Club might be too unbelievable for even the most cliche-loving studio exec who's watched "Hoosiers" and ?"The Bad News Bears" one too many times.
Assembled for just $10,000, the team's extraordinary exploits?have spirits soaring in the Yorkshire city and far beyond.
Currently?lying in 79th place out of the 92 top clubs in England, Bradford City?will on Sunday contest a national cup final after a succession of thrilling, giant-killing triumphs over teams including Arsenal, the London-based club?valued at $1.5 billion last year.
One of Bradford's biggest stars was stacking shelves in a local supermarket not long ago. Now James "Big Jim" Hanson will find himself playing in front of 90,000 fans at London's iconic Wembley Stadium and a television audience of millions.
A representative of the Dalai Lama even wrote a letter to say the exiled Tibetan religious leader wished Bradford City's fans "every success in the big match."?
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The Dalai Lama was presented with a Bradford City FC jersey during a recent visit to Yorkshire.
Lying in wait for "The Bantams" will be?Swansea City, currently eighth in the top English league, and its star striker, Miguel Michu.
Michu is third in the Premier League in goals this season and Swansea's manager has warned rivals it would take $47 million in compensation for the club to let him leave. By contrast, Bradford are currently 11th in the fourth level of English professional soccer.
Mark Lawn, Bradford City's co-chairman, can hardly believe the transformation in fortunes that has seen Bradford reach the?Capital One Cup?final -- a competition traditionally known as the League Cup.
The self-made businessman put money into the 110-year-old club to help it survive after debts of about $55 million saw it threatened with bankruptcy at least twice. It has been "a labor of love" that at times prompted him to question his own sanity.
'We've created history'
Lawn, 52, recalled vomiting on the team bus on the way back from a defeat at Morecambe amid fears the club was on the verge of financial collapse. After another loss, his car was attacked by angry Bradford City fans.
"It's not really sunk in," Lawn said. "We are the only fourth-tier team to get to Wembley ever. We've created history. The town is buzzing. It's amazing ? it's just lifting the town."
"It's nearly got me believing in God again. I lost faith in God or religion in general when I lost my mother and father," he added. "I thought if we win then there's got to be summat ('something' in the Yorkshire dialect). I've said if we did do it, I will look at finding religion again."
Sitting in the club's 1911 room --?named for the year the club last won a major trophy?-- Lawn played down his team's chances.
"I just hope Swansea are easy with us ? They are a great side," he said. "I think they'll beat us, being realistic. But it's not about that for Bradford fans and Bradford City."
Once a thriving industrial city, Bradford is now?one of the most deprived places in the U.K.?Nearly a?quarter of all households are jobless, long-term?youth unemployment rates are soaring, local government spending?is being cut dramatically.
Lawn grew up in Bradford's rundown Thorpe Edge area, where many houses are owned by the local government and rented out cheaply, and recalled as a child sneaking in to watch the team play without paying.
Thorpe Edge is a place with few reasons to celebrate. Annice Brearley, an outreach worker at?Thorpe Edge Community Project, runs a program for children in which they wash cars and pack bags in local stores to raise money for trips to parts of England they would otherwise be unable to visit.
The neighborhood, she said, was "not a wealthy place ? there's a lot of people who don't have much."
But Brearley, 46, said that the team's soccer success has "nobody thinking about stuff like that."?She spent 11-and-a-half hours in line to buy a ticket for the final.?
"It's something like 102 years since anything good like this [the 1911 cup win] happened in Bradford," she said. "Nobody thinks Bradford City is going to lose. We're all really positive. It will be a brilliant day."
Not far from Thorpe Edge is the small Co-operative supermarket where hometown hero Hanson stacked shelves for two years before joining the club in 2009.?
"He used to work at the Co-op" has become a chant among supporters.
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Staff at the Co-op supermarket in Idle Village, Bradford -- Elisa Taylor, 24, her mother Ruth Taylor, and Jeanette McDonald -- will be cheering for former colleague James Hanson in Sunday's Capital One Cup final.
Former colleague Ruth Taylor said Hanson was "really lovely, a really gentle, nice lad."
"He always talked about his football," she recalled. "He loved it. We knew he were going to make it."
She insisted the 25-year-old striker would not choke after stepping into the national spotlight. "He takes it all in his stride, he's quite a laidback chap is James."
"I think he'll be really excited. It's like a big dream come true for him. He deserves it so much." she added. "They haven't had a lot to celebrate recently have Bradford. This would be a great morale booster, especially for this area. It would just go crazy."
Hannah Postles, 27, a journalist with Bradford's?Telegraph & Argus newspaper, has been covering the growing excitement in the city in articles and?a live blog.
'Big, burly men crying'
She recounted going to a bar to report on people watching the second of two semi-final games against top-tier Aston Villa on television.
"In the last four minutes, I swear I didn't breathe. It was so close, and you could see Villa firing on all cylinders," Postles said. After the final whistle, the emotion came. "Big, burly Bradford men crying is not something you see very often."
"It's hard not to find yourself getting swept up in it," she said. "It's been a massive inspiration to everyone in Bradford."
Her blog for the paper has been filled with reports of fans traveling from all over the world to attend Sunday's game.?
One, Mike Hitch, a ship's captain originally from Bradford, said he was planning to spend more than 21 hours in the air to fly halfway around the world from Tahiti to watch the game.?
"This will never happen again in my lifetime," the 46-year-old said Thursday by phone from the Pacific island. "If anything goes wrong, then I'll be looking for a sports bar in an airport."
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Bradford City supporters take to the stands before their fourth-tier team's win against English giants Arsenal on Dec. 11.
Bradford City beat six teams to get to the final, reaching the quarter-finals by triumphing over Premier League team Wigan on penalties after a 0-0 draw. They then drew 1-1 against Arsenal but were victorious in the penalty shootout.
The semi-final against Aston Villa consisted of two games, ending in a 4-3 aggregate victory for Bradford.
Bradford City FC manager Phil Parkinson said that although his players earned "peanuts" compared to counterparts on the Premier League teams they had knocked out of the competition, they possessed "incredible desire."
"Bradford has had some tough times over the last few years -- and not just the football club but the city," he added. "People are now walking around with a spring in their step."
The unlikely success has left many Bradford fans confident of another victory on Sunday.
"We haven?t come this far not to win it,"??said Mark Neale, a member of fundraising group?Friends of Bradford City?who has supported the team for 50 years.?
But he said that "the mere fact they've got to Wembley means this team of players will always be legends in Bradford."
"There's not a lot of pride in Bradford, but the pride in Bradford City (soccer club) is immense and it's rubbing off on people who are not normally interested in football," said Neale, 59.
Alan Carling, of?Bradford City Supporters' Trust, said they had beaten three Premier League clubs "so we?are not phased by a fourth. Bring it on."
"Everyone has been going round Bradford with a big grin on their face.?City's achievements have caught the imagination of the world, and lifted the image of Bradford, which is often subject to condescension?from southern England," he added.
But people with little connection to the area have also been attracted by success of a true underdog.?
Carling said he was interviewed by a Japanese television crew on Wednesday, while Neale received the letter from the Dalai Lama ahead of the game.?
Neale's supporters' group had previously presented the Buddhist spiritual leader with a Bradford jersey while he was in the area, after noticing the similarity between the team's colors and his robes.
In a telephone interview, Tenzin Taklha, one of the Dalai Lama?s secretaries in Dharamsala, India, said while His Holiness was "not really" a soccer fan, Bradford's success was "a fairy tale."?
"Everyone likes these stories and likes to follow that,? he said. "May the best team win ? we?ll keep our fingers crossed."
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FDA approves Roche drug for late-stage breast cancer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators approved a new drug made by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG for some patients with late-stage metastatic breast cancer who fail to respond to other therapies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved Kadcyla, also known as ado-trastuzumab emtansine, for patients whose cancer cells contain increased amounts of a protein known as HER2.
The drug's label will carry a boxed warning, the most serious possible, of the Kadcyla's potential to cause liver and heart damage or even death. The drug can also cause life-threatening birth defects.
Still, fewer patients in a clinical trial experienced severe side effects than those who received standard therapy.
The approval was based on a study of about 1,000 women who had already been treated with Roche's drug Herceptin and a taxane chemotherapy. Patients who were given Kadcyla survived an average of 30.9 months, compared with 25.1 months for those in the control arm who took Herceptin and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Tykerb.
The drug will be priced at $9,800 a month, higher than Wall Street analysts had expected but likely acceptable to insurers.
"We don't expect to see significant payer pushback on pricing at launch, given the drug's efficacy and safety," said Simos Simeonidis, an analyst at Cowen and Company, in a research note on Friday.
Kadcyla works by attaching Herceptin, also known as trastuzumab, to a drug called DM1, developed by ImmunoGen Inc, which interferes with cancer cell growth.
"Kadcyla delivers the drug to the cancer site to shrink the tumor, slow disease progression and prolong survival," said Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the FDA's office of hematology and oncology products.
Other drugs approved for HER2-positive breast cancer include Herceptin, Tykerb, and Perjeta, or pertuzumab, which is also made by Roche and was approved in 2012.
Kadcyla is a member of a class of drugs known as antibody-drug conjugates, or "armed antibodies." They combine an antibody, Herceptin in the case of Kadcyla, with a killer toxin, in this case DM1, and a link that binds them together to deliver a highly potent bomb within the diseased cells.
The drugs seek out specific cells that express proteins associated with the cancer, while leaving other cells alone.
The first conjugate to be approved was Mylotarg which was pulled from the market in 2010 by Pfizer Inc's after a study showed it did not extend survival for patients with myeloid leukemia, a bone marrow cancer.
In 2011, Seattle Genetics won U.S. approval for Adcentris, a conjugate targeting Hodgkin's lymphoma, several types of T-cell lymphoma and other hematologic malignancies.
Kadcyla is the first armed antibody to be approved to treat a solid tumor.
The approval triggers a $10.5 million payment to ImmunoGen and sets the stage for the company to receive royalties of between 3 and 5 percent, depending on sales. The 5 percent level is triggered when sales top $700 million in the United States. The company also receives 5 percent when sales top $700 million elsewhere in the world.
Analysts estimate the drug could generate annual peak sales of $2 billion to $5 billion, assuming it is used earlier in the disease's progression and for longer periods of time.
John Sonnier, an analyst at William Blair & Co, said he believes the Kadcyla approval validates ImmunoGen's technology and will translate into other partnerships and the development of new wholly-owned compounds.
ImmunoGen's chief executive officer, Daniel Junius, said ImmunoGen has nine other compounds using some version of its TAP technology, which stands for targeted antibody payload. Some are being developed with partners and some are wholly owned by ImmunoGen.
The most advanced is a drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma being developed with Sanofi. The company also is conducting mid-stage trials of a proprietary drug for small-cell lung cancer.
"We believe this can be a very important tool for oncologists across a wide variety of indications," Junius said.
An analyst at J.P. Morgan, Cory Kasimov, said the approval of Kadcyla by itself is not enough to warrant owning ImmunoGen's shares.
"To justify a premium valuation, ImmunoGen needs to generate meaningful data with one of its other antibody assets, preferably one that is fully owned," he said in a research note.
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death among women. An estimated 232,340 women will be diagnosed with the disease in 2013, and 39,620 will die from it, according to the National Cancer Institute. About 20 percent of breast cancer patients have increased amounts of the HER2 protein.
The most common side effects in patients treated with Kadcyla were nausea, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, increased liver enzymes, headache and constipation.
Shares of ImmunoGen closed up 1.9 percent at $14.57 on Nasdaq. Roche's shares closed up 1.5 percent.
(Reporting by Toni Clarke in Washington; editing by Gerald E. McCormick, John Wallace, Matthew Lewis and Carol Bishopric)
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Samsung HomeSync Android TV box packs 1TB HDD, dual-core CPU
A mobile-focused show like MWC 2013 seems like an odd place to show off a TV-connected box, but that's how Samsung has chosen to introduce its new HomeSync device. Powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core CPU and running Android Jelly Bean, it's a media hub that the press release claims will let you view all your videos, photos and apps at full 1080p resolution, with streaming from local Galaxy devices. Additional specs include 1GB of RAM, 8GB Flash memory, a 1TB HDD, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n 2.4 & 5GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, plus optical audio and HDMI 1.4 outputs. It even supports up to eight individual password-protected and encrypted user accounts, with each able to individually sync content from other devices and share it with the other accounts. There's no mention of Google TV, but it has access to the Play store to get apps on its own, while also allowing remote control from a phone. Also unspecified is pricing or any support for specific streaming protocols like Miracast or WiDi, although it's supposed to launch in "select countries" starting in April.
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Nokia reportedly plans wave of cheap phones to combat Chinese upstarts
Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest?perpetrators?of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store. Yes, that's right. The nation's largest provider of single-person electric vehicles and power chairs is the target of a federal investigation, probably because many of the people who ride around their "personal mobility?devices" don't actually need them.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nokia-reportedly-plans-wave-cheap-phones-combat-chinese-143515400.html
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A lot of people want to know what the best self defense martial art is. Whether you wish to join a self-defense training course to improve your fitness level, lose weight, or learn to actually defend your life, you should learn as much as you can before choosing a self-defense program. Here are a number of factors to consider before you make your investment.
Your very first consideration should be whether the class has any ?real world? application. If you are trying to practice to defend your life from an attacker, then you don?t need to master any complicated jumping kicks or choke holds. That eliminates forms of martial arts like Kung Fu and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Neither of these forms of martial arts have any great real life usage.
You must evaluate if the self-defense school you select is family friendly. You absolutely must teach your kids how to protect themselves, and you need to make sure that your trainer approves of children in his or her school. Also, you ought to realize that ladies have different self-defense concerns than men. Be totally sure that your coach is conscious of these differences.
Many gurus consider Krav Maga to be the best ?real world? fighting style for self-defense purposes. Krav Maga can be perfected by anybody. It is taught to men, women, and children with magnificent success. Many armed forces and police forces have adopted this style because it is so fantastic in disaster situations.
Krav Maga is effective for getting in shape, but it really does a great job teaching a person to defend their life against single and multiple attackers. The fighting style is based mostly on offensive tactics, and it is this kind of unchecked aggressiveness that is required to secure your life against a savage enemy. The magnificence of Krav Maga is that it is an incredibly simplified way of self defense. You will likely not need to know how to do the splits, execute a flying jump kick, or perform a triangle leg lock. Everyone knows that fancy moves like that have practically no real world application.
If you aim to learn to protect your life, and to train your family members how to do the same, then you must consider Krav Maga for self defense. A small amount of research on this topic could end of saving your life.
Want to find out more about personal defense, then visit Dustin Aaron?s site on how to choose the best the best self defense method for your needs.
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Common-Sense & Self-DefenceCommon-Sense & Self-Defence?Strategies & Techniques that Work!Common-Sense and Self-Defence is an e-book designed to help women avoid the trauma of a sexual assault or rape. Simple, Powerful & Effective!
It is a handbook of Common-Sense and Self-Defence techniques that can be used effectively by females of all ages.
We do not propose to have an answer for every conceivable situation that may occur.
Every would-be assailant, every potential victim, and every environment where an attack takes place contains its own set of unique situational advantages and disadvantages.
However, we suggest that by adapting some Common-Sense Techniques into her life, and by becoming aware of her mental and physical potential, a women can, in many cases, protect herself from sexual assault and rape.
In this book, we have set forth some easy to follow guidelines that when adapted into her individual lifestyle, will help a woman completely avoid the possibility of an assault.
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Google confirms Glass will work with iPhone
Google held an event this week to show off its upcoming "Google Glass" interactive headset/system, and from that meeting came one important note for us iOS fans. Google confirmed that the system will definitely work with Apple's iPhone. The exact details of the relationship aren't clear, but there are of course a number of ways your iPhone could work with Google's glasses, from simply acting as a Bluetooth headset, to a more complex relationship with a Google app, sharing information or even an Internet connection back and forth.
Obviously, Apple and Google aren't on the best terms at the moment, with Apple forcefully uprooting its deal with Google Maps to go with a more native solution. But Apple's also been very open to having Google apps on the App Store, so Google may work out some sort of solution where Glass plugs in through the Bluetooth connection or even right through the Lightning connector.
At any rate, it sounds like your iPhone and Google Glass will play nice. Consumer versions of the Glass units are expected later on this year, though the price will be steep -- somewhere around US$1,500, according to the speculation. The tech will only get cheaper, so it might not be long at all before you're wearing your interactive glasses and connecting to your iPhone.
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Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol for their own good
Feb. 22, 2013 ? The fruit fly study adds to the evidence "that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom," says biologist Todd Schlenke.
When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps.
The discovery by biologists at Emory University is being published in the journal Science on February 22.
"The adult flies actually anticipate an infection risk to their children, and then they medicate them by depositing them in alcohol," says Todd Schlenke, the evolutionary geneticist whose lab did the research. "We found that this medicating behavior was shared by diverse fly species, adding to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom."
Adult fruit flies detect the wasps by sight, and appear to have much better vision than previously realized, he adds. "Our data indicate that the flies can visually distinguish the relatively small morphological differences between male and female wasps, and between different species of wasps."
The experiments were led by Balint Zacsoh, who recently graduated from Emory with a degree in biology and still works in the Schlenke lab. The team also included Emory graduate student Zachary Lynch and postdoc Nathan Mortimer.
The larvae of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, eat the rot, or fungi and bacteria, that grows on overripe, fermenting fruit. They have evolved a certain amount of resistance to the toxic effects of the alcohol levels in their natural habitat, which can range up to 15 percent.
Tiny, endoparasitoid wasps are major killers of fruit flies. The wasps inject their eggs inside the fruit fly larvae, along with venom that aims to suppress their hosts' cellular immune response. If the flies fail to kill the wasp egg, a wasp larva hatches inside the fruit fly larva and begins to eat its host from the inside out.
Last year, the Schlenke lab published a study showing how fruit fly larvae infected with wasps prefer to eat food high in alcohol. This behavior greatly improves the survival rate of the fruit flies because they have evolved high tolerance of the toxic effects of the alcohol, but the wasps have not.
"The fruit fly larvae raise their blood alcohol levels, so that the wasps living in their blood will suffer," Schlenke says. "When you think of an immune system, you usually think of blood cells and immune proteins, but behavior can also be a big part of an organism's immune defense."
For the latest study, the researchers asked whether the fruit fly parents could sense when their children were at risk for infection, and whether they then sought out alcohol to prophylactically medicate them.
Adult female fruit flies were released in one mesh cage with parasitic wasps and another mesh cage with no wasps. Both cages had two petri dishes containing yeast, the nourishment for lab-raised fruit flies and their larvae. The yeast in one of the petri dishes was mixed with 6 percent alcohol, while the yeast in the other dish was alcohol free. After 24 hours, the petri dishes were removed and the researchers counted the eggs that the fruit flies had laid.
The results were dramatic. In the mesh cage with parasitic wasps, 90 percent of the eggs laid were in the dish containing alcohol. In the cage with no wasps, only 40 percent of the eggs were in the alcohol dish.
"The fruit flies clearly change their reproductive behavior when the wasps are present," Schlenke says. "The alcohol is slightly toxic to the fruit flies as well, but the wasps are a bigger danger than the alcohol."
The fly strains used in the experiments have been bred in the lab for decades. "The flies that we work with have not seen wasps in their lives before, and neither have their ancestors going back hundreds of generations," Schlenke says. "And yet, the flies still recognize these wasps as a danger when they are put in a cage with them."
Further experiments showed that the flies are extremely discerning about differences in the wasps. They preferred to lay their eggs in alcohol when female wasps were present, but not if only male wasps were in the cage.
Theorizing that the flies were reacting to pheromones, the researchers conducted experiments using two groups of mutated fruit flies. One group lacked the ability to smell, and another group lacked sight. The flies unable to smell, however, still preferred to lay their eggs in alcohol when female wasps were present. The blind flies did not make the distinction, choosing the non-alcohol food for their offspring, even in the presence of female wasps.
"This result was a surprise to me," Schlenke says. "I thought the flies were probably using olfaction to sense the female wasps. The small, compound eyes of flies are believed to be more geared to detecting motion than high-resolution images."
The only obvious visual differences between the female and male wasps, he adds, is that the males have longer antennae, slightly smaller bodies, and lack an ovipositor.
Further experimentation showed that the fruit flies can distinguish different species of wasps, and will only choose the alcohol food in response to wasp species that infect larvae, not fly pupae. "Fly larvae usually leave the food before they pupate," Schlenke explains, "so there is likely little benefit to laying eggs at alcoholic sites when pupal parasites are present."
The researchers also connected the exposure to female parasitic wasps to changes in a fruit fly neuropeptide.
Stress, and the resulting reduced level of neuropeptide F, or NPF, has previously been associated with alcohol-seeking behavior in fruit flies. Similarly, levels of a homologous neuropeptide in humans, NPY, is associated with alcoholism.
"We found that when a fruit fly is exposed to female parasitic wasps, this exposure reduces the level of NPF in the fly brain, causing the fly to seek out alcoholic sites for oviposition," Schlenke says. "Furthermore, the alcohol-seeking behavior appears to remain for the duration of the fly's life, even when the parasitic wasps are no longer present, an example of long-term memory."
Finally, Drosophila melanogaster is not unique in using this offspring medication behavior. "We tested a number of fly species," Schlenke says, "and found that each fly species that uses rotting fruit for food mounts this immune behavior against parasitic wasps. Medication may be far more common in nature than we previously thought."
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- B. Z. Kacsoh, Z. R. Lynch, N. T. Mortimer, T. A. Schlenke. Fruit Flies Medicate Offspring After Seeing Parasites. Science, 2013; 339 (6122): 947 DOI: 10.1126/science.1229625
- Neil?F. Milan, Balint?Z. Kacsoh, Todd?A. Schlenke. Alcohol Consumption as Self-Medication against Blood-Borne Parasites in the Fruit Fly. Current Biology, 2012; 22 (6): 488 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.045
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World premiere of muscle and nerve controlled arm prosthesis
Feb. 22, 2013 ? Electrodes have been permanently implanted in nerves and muscles of an amputee to directly control an arm prosthesis, for the first time. The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic prosthesis, similarly to the motions of a natural limb.
A surgical team led by Dr Rickard Br?nemark, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, has carried out the first operation of its kind, where neuromuscular electrodes have been permanently implanted in an amputee. The operation was possible thanks to new advanced technology developed by Max Ortiz Catalan, supervised by Rickard Br?nemark at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Bo H?kansson at Chalmers University of Technology.
"The new technology is a major breakthrough that has many advantages over current technology, which provides very limited functionality to patients with missing limbs," says Rickard Br?nemark.
Big challenges There have been two major issues on the advancement of robotic prostheses:
1) how to firmly attach an artificial limb to the human body;
2) how to intuitively and efficiently control the prosthesis in order to be truly useful and regain lost functionality.
"This technology solves both these problems by combining a bone anchored prosthesis with implanted electrodes," said Rickard Br?nemark, who along with his team has developed a pioneering implant system called Opra, Osseointegrated Prostheses for the Rehabilitation of Amputees.
A titanium screw, so-called osseointegrated implant, is used to anchor the prosthesis directly to the stump, which provides many advantages over a traditionally used socket prosthesis.
"It allows complete degree of motion for the patient, fewer skin related problems and a more natural feeling that the prosthesis is part of the body. Overall, it brings better quality of life to people who are amputees," says Rickard Br?nemark.
How it works Presently, robotic prostheses rely on electrodes over the skin to pick up the muscles electrical activity to drive few actions by the prosthesis. The problem with this approach is that normally only two functions are regained out of the tens of different movements an able-body is capable of. By using implanted electrodes, more signals can be retrieved, and therefore control of more movements is possible. Furthermore, it is also possible to provide the patient with natural perception, or "feeling," through neural stimulation.
"We believe that implanted electrodes, together with a long-term stable human-machine interface provided by the osseointegrated implant, is a breakthrough that will pave the way for a new era in limb replacement," says Rickard Br?nemark.
The patient The first patient has recently been treated with this technology, and the first tests gave excellent results. The patient, a previous user of a robotic hand, reported major difficulties in operating that device in cold and hot environments and interference from shoulder muscles. These issues have now disappeared, thanks to the new system, and the patient has now reported that almost no effort is required to generate control signals. Moreover, tests have shown that more movements may be performed in a coordinated way, and that several movements can be performed simultaneously.
"The next step will be to test electrical stimulation of nerves to see if the patient can sense environmental stimuli, that is, get an artificial sensation. The ultimate goal is to make a more natural way to replace a lost limb, to improve the quality of life for people with amputations," says Rickard Br?nemark.
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Ex-Kent-Meridian teacher, coach receives five-day jail sentence for sex crime
By STEVE HUNTER
Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter
February 22, 2013 ? Updated 5:32 PM?
A former Kent-Meridian High School teacher and track coach received a five-day jail sentence Friday in King County Superior Court for communication with a minor for immoral purposes.
After the sentencing at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, King County corrections officers handcuffed Ernie Ammons, 37, of Black Diamond, and escorted him out of the courtroom and to the county jail. Ammons had been free on bail since his arrest in December 2011.
Judge Lori K. Smith also sentenced Ammons to 40 hours of community service and 24 months of probation as well as ordered that he have no contact with the victim, that he must pay restitution to the victim and that he have no contact with minors except under supervision of an adult with knowledge of his registered sex offender status and with the approval of a sex offender treatment provider.
Ammons pleaded guilty to the charge Feb. 1 in exchange for a lighter sentence. He could have been sentenced up to one year in jail and fined $5,000. He must register as a sex offender.
"It's been a very trying year for me and my family," Ammons said in a brief statement to the judge. "I take responsibility for my actions. I will move forward from this. I apologize to everybody I respect, especially my family and the victim."
Prosecutors said Ammons sent sexually explicit text messages to a 16-year-old Kent-Meridian girl from June 27, 2011 to Nov. 6, 2011. Ammons taught health and physical education at the school. He also coached boys and girls track and cross country for the Royals.
The Kent School District placed Ammons on paid administrative leave in November 2011 when the allegations first came to the district's attention. He resigned from the district in January 2012. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charge in December 2011.
"Mr. Ammons lost a lot here," defense attorney Brad Meryhew said to the judge. "In the process he never made any excuses, never tried to blame anybody else - always taking responsibility."
Ammons met with a psychologist last fall to figure out a treatment plan and will participate in a sex offender treatment program with a mental health counselor in Pierce County.
"I think the next phase for him is to find a way to reach out and get support - and group (meetings) is a great way to do that - you meet a lot of other people to get that kind of support," Meryhew said. "I'm confident that Ernie will recover from this and live a good life."
Smith said she received several letters in support of Ammons.
"The court is going to follow the agreed recommendation, given all of the circumstances it seems appropriate," Smith said. "The court is hopeful that the treatment will continue and recommendations will be followed."
Smith ordered a sentence of 12 months of supervised probation and 12 months unsupervised if Ammons meets the sex offender treatment plan.
Ammons signed the following guilty statement on Feb. 1:
"On or about a time between June 27, 2011 and Nov. 6, 2011 in King County, I did communicate with (the 16-year-old girl), a person I believed to be a minor, for immoral purposes of a sexual nature," Ammons wrote in a court statement.
Ammons led the Kent-Meridian boys track team to its first state track title in spring 2011 when the Royals captured the Class 4A meet. He coached track and field at Kent-Meridian for eight years. He led the boys track team to a second-place trophy at state in 2009.
Ammons taught health and physical education at Kent-Meridian. His classes in 2011 included health and weight training. The district hired Ammons in 2004.
During a series of text messages with the girl, Ammons asked the girl to meet him for sex in the school's weight room before school.
The case came to the attention of school officials in early November 2011 when a student at another school who knew the 16-year-old girl contacted Kent-Meridian Principal Wade Barringer about inappropriate conversations between a health teacher at the school and a student. The teacher was later identified as Ammons.
Barringer talked to Ammons about the allegations, according to court documents. Ammons told Barringer the phone contacts with the student started on Facebook and the contact continued via text messaging.
Ammons told Barringer that he had exchanged text messages with the girl and they talked about exchanging money for sex. Ammons said he never intended to act on the suggestion, but he was afraid to stop texting the girl out of fear that she would expose him.
School officials contacted Kent Police Nov. 8, 2011 about the allegations and the police investigation started. Detectives gathered cellphone records and emails that showed Ammons had contacted the girl. Detectives found as many as 46 calls between the girl's phone and Ammons' phone from June 27 to Oct. 24. Several more text exchanges occurred after Oct. 24.
Ammons has volunteered as an assistant Green River Community College men's and women's cross country and track coach in Auburn since 2009.
Ammons was the second South Puget Sound League coach charged with a sex crime by county prosecutors in November 2011.
A jury found Daniel Gregory Lum-Lung, who coached girls volleyball at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, guilty of third-degree attempted rape of a child and communication with a minor for immoral purposes in connection with a 15-year-old girl he met in October 2011 at Kent's Lake Meridian Park. He is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, March 1 before King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas.
Contact Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter Steve Hunter at shunter@kentreporter.com or 253-872-6600, ext. 5052.Source: http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~r/cmvnews/~3/tcv-rZuTlgw/192609981.html
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Grief besets family of Pistorius' slain girlfriend
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Far from the courtroom drama that has gripped South Africa, the family of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend has struggled with its own private deluge of grief, frustration and bewilderment.
The victim's relatives also harbor misgivings about efforts by the Olympian's family to reach out to them with condolences.
Pistorius, meanwhile, spent Saturday at his uncle's home in an affluent suburb of Pretoria, the South African capital, after a judge released him on bail following days of testimony that transfixed South Africa and much of the world. He was charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day, but the athlete says he killed her accidentally, opening fire after mistaking her for an intruder in his home.
"We are extremely thankful that Oscar is now home," his uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said in a statement that also acknowledged the law must run its course. "What happened has changed our lives irrevocably."
The Pistorius family took steps to lower its profile on social media after someone hacked into the Twitter account of his older brother, Carl, family spokesman Janine Hills said.
"Carl did not tweet this afternoon, out of respect to Oscar and Reeva," Hills said in a statement. "We are busy cancelling all the social media sites for both Oscar's brother and his sister."
Mike Steenkamp, Reeva's uncle, told The Associated Press that the family of the double-amputee athlete initially did not send condolences or try to contact the bereaved parents, but had since sought to reach out in what he described as a poorly timed way. After Pistorius was released on bail in what amounted to a victory for the defense, Arnold Pistorius said the athlete's family was relieved but also in mourning "with the family" of Reeva Steenkamp.
"Everybody wants to jump up with joy," Mike Steenkamp said, speculating on the mood of Pistorius' family after the judge's decision. "I think it was just done in the wrong context, completely."
A South African newspaper, the Afrikaans-language Beeld, quoted the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model, law school graduate and participant in a television reality show, as saying the family had received a bouquet of flowers and a card from the Pistorius family.
"Yes, but what does it mean? Nothing," June Steenkamp said, according to the Saturday edition of Beeld. She also said Pistorius' family, including sister Aimee, a somber presence on the bench behind the Olympian during his court hearings in the past week, must be "devastated" and had done nothing wrong.
"They are not to blame," June Steenkamp said. According to Beeld, she said she had hoped to plan a wedding for her daughter one day.
In an affidavit, 26-year-old Oscar Pistorius said he was "absolutely mortified" by the death of "my beloved Reeva," and he frequently sobbed in court during the several days during which his bail application was considered. However, prosecutor Gerrie Nel, suggested in a scathing criticism that Pistorius was actually distraught because his vaunted career was now in peril and he was in grave trouble with the law.
"It doesn't matter how much money he has and how good his legal team is, he will have to live with his conscience if he allows his legal team to lie for him," Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, told Beeld.
"But if he is telling the truth, then perhaps I can forgive him one day," the father said. "If it didn't happen the way he said it did, he must suffer, and he will suffer ... only he knows."
Barry Steenkamp suffered "heavy trauma" at the loss of his daughter and his remarks to the newspaper partly reflect how he is working through it, said his brother, Mike Steenkamp.
Steenkamp was cremated in a funeral ceremony on Feb. 19 in her family's hometown of Port Elizabeth on South Africa's southern coast. Mike Steenkamp delivered a statement about the family's grief to television cameras, at one point breaking down in tears.
The three-story house where Pistorius is staying with his aunt and uncle lies on a hill with a view of Pretoria. It has a large swimming pool and an immaculate garden.
Pistorius was born without fibula bones due to a congenital defect and had his legs amputated at 11 months. He has run on carbon-fiber blades and was originally banned from competing against able-bodied peers because many argued that his blades gave him an unfair advantage. He was later cleared to compete. He is a multiple Paralympic medalist, but he failed to win a medal at the London Olympics, where he ran in the 400 meter race and on South Africa's 4x400 relay team.
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U.S. troops to set up drone base in Niger
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.
Obama announced the deployment in a letter to Congress, saying that the forces "will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region."
The move marks a deepening of U.S. efforts to stem the spread of al-Qaida and its affiliates in the volatile region. It also underscores Obama's desire to fight extremism without involving large numbers of U.S. ground forces.
The drone base will allow the U.S. to give France more intelligence on the militants its forces have been fighting in Mali, which neighbors Niger. Over time, it could extend the reach not only of American intelligence-gathering but also U.S. special operations missions to strengthen Niger's own security forces.
One of the two U.S. defense officials who discussed the development confirmed the American troops would fly drones and other surveillance platforms from Niger military airstrips, tracking militant and refugee movement inside Mali and around the border. The U.S. will share that intelligence with Niger's military, the official said.
Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the project.
The drones at the Niger base will be unarmed and used for surveillance, not airstrikes. Still, the development of a base in Niger raises the possibility that it could eventually be used for launching strikes.
Obama said in his letter to Congress that the U.S. forces have been deployed with the consent of Niger's government. The forces were also deployed with weapons "for their own force protection and security," the president said.
Last month, the U.S. and Niger signed a status-of-forces-agreement spelling out legal protections and obligations of American forces that might operate in Niger in the future.
Africa is increasingly a focus of U.S. counterterrorism efforts, even as al-Qaida remains a threat in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Last month's terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in Algeria, in which at least 37 hostages and 29 militants were killed, illustrated the threat posed by extremists who have asserted power propelled by long-simmering ethnic tensions in Mali and the revolution in Libya.
A number of al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist groups operate in Mali and elsewhere in the Sahara, including a group known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, which originated in Algeria and is active in northern Mali. Earlier this month, French forces intervened to stop the extremists' move toward Mali's capital, and Washington has grown more involved by providing a variety of military support to French troops.
France has said it will eventually pull out of its Mali operation so that African forces can help stabilize the West African country.
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AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-troops-niger-set-drone-011915164--politics.html
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New Charges In Florida-To-Ohio Pain Pill Scheme
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says an alleged drug ring obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.(Photo: Be.Futureproof)
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says an alleged drug ring obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.(Photo: Be.Futureproof)
Dozens of defendants have been added to an indictment alleging they helped obtain thousands of prescription painkillers from Florida for illegal sale in Ohio.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O?Brien says the organization obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.
Authorities also seized 48 firearms during the investigation that alleges the pill pipeline dates to 2010.
Investigators in Ohio and several states have battled so-called prescription tourists for years as they try to stem the flow of drugs from Florida, with its proliferation of pill mills, to other states.
O?Brien said Friday a grand jury has added 38 defendants to the 14 individuals indicted last year.
The prosecutor says two ring leaders sent dozens of people to Florida pain clinics to obtain the pills.
Source: http://wosu.org/2012/news/2013/02/22/new-charges-in-florida-to-ohio-pain-pill-scheme/
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Custom Monsters University Letterman Sweatshirt & T-Shirt
As soon as the first images of Monsters University?were released, Julie was in love with the letterman jacket that Mike and Sulley were wearing. Of course, with her history of her custom?PartySaurus Rex toy and additional fun creations, she knew she was going to make a version of the jacket in her own style. She deconstructed two different hooded sweatshirts (one white, one blue) and intricately sewed them together to form the custom letterman sweatshirt shown below.
The logo patch was a labor of love and involved four layers of fabric and a fair amount of detailed sewing. Before starting the sweatshirt, she also created a custom Oozma Kappa shirt to show her support for her favorite Monsters University?fraternity. She wanted more of a vintage patch-work look for the lettering, so she left the corners slightly frayed and distressed. After a few tests between the sweatshirt and the T-shirt, she couldn't be happier with the end results.
The logo patch was a labor of love and involved four layers of fabric and a fair amount of detailed sewing. Before starting the sweatshirt, she also created a custom Oozma Kappa shirt to show her support for her favorite Monsters University?fraternity. She wanted more of a vintage patch-work look for the lettering, so she left the corners slightly frayed and distressed. After a few tests between the sweatshirt and the T-shirt, she couldn't be happier with the end results.
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Ride along as deep-sea diving crew uncovers 48 tons of silver
The Odyssey heads out on one of its voyages. (Discovery Channel)In July 2012, the crew of the deep-sea recovery team Odyssey Marine Expedition (OME) unearthed a record-setting 48 tons of silver from a sunken World War II-era British naval vessel, the SS Gairsoppa.
A camera crew was along for the ride, documenting the trip three miles below the surface. This Sunday, Discovery Channel viewers will have the chance to ride along with the crew of the OME to see firsthand what a deep-sea treasure hunt looks like during the broadcast of ?Silver Rush.?
OME?s Senior Project Manager Andrew Craig and CEO Mark Gordon spoke with Yahoo News about the voyage and what viewers can expect.
?The big thing with this expedition is we went looking for a wreck in such deep water. The Gairsoppa was sunk in water nearly a mile deeper than the Titanic,? Craig said. ?We knew the silver payload was on the manifest, but as far as where we could find it when we got there, we really didn?t know when we started this sort of adventure.?
?The challenge we had was how to surgically open up a shipwreck in 15,000 feet in water,? added Gordon. ?It was a little like looking for a needle in a haystack.?
In fact, when the OME recovered the 48 tons of precious metal, the discovery temporarily sent the world silver market prices reeling.
?I don?t think anything will ever again carry that huge amount of silver,? Craig said. ?These were just such uncommon times during World War II. The British government had to get this back to the U.K. for the war effort."
The story of the Gairsoppa is fascinating. It was a tram steamer enlisted to aid the war effort, along with many other nonmilitary vessels. During the trip from India back to the U.K., the ship ran low on fuel and became separated from its convoy of 26 vessels.
As it drifted astray, the Gairsoppa was tracked down and torpedoed by a German U-boat. Thirty-six members of the 86-man crew made it into lifeboats, about 400 miles from the shore.
?These merchant seaman, it was almost another army of people that nobody really knows about,? Craig said. ?They were on boats that just didn?t have any protection. They were at the luck of the gods as to whether they even made it back or not.?
After weeks adrift at sea, only three men made it to shore alive. And by the time British medical personnel made it to the lifeboat, only one man, Richard Ayres, remained alive.
?Richard Ayers was in the water for 17 days before he eventually ended up on the south coast of England,? Craig said. ?Despite going through that tragedy, he went on to have a fulfilling life, went back to work on the sea and lived to be 90 years old before passing away in 1990.?
Hosted by Mike Rowe, the "Silver Rush" series will also follow the OME crew as they explore two other vessels with cargoes worth a collective $1 billion or more: The SS Mantola, an ocean liner that sank in 1917 off the Irish coast, and HMS Victory, the former flagship of the Royal British Navy which was lost in 1744 while housing what may now be worth upward of $1 billion in gold.
Gordon says the OME uncovered far more than the record-setting 1,023 bars of silver from the Gairsoppa, including 1,700 tons of tea, burlap bags ?full of God knows what,? the captain?s personal silver service set and other ?really interesting artifacts.?
?We?re not done. We?re going back this summer,? Gordon said. ?We?ve only recovered 42 percent of the registered, insured cargo.?
Some of the record-breaking 1,023 bars of silver discovered by the Odyssey (Discovery Channel)
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Obama: Parks statue dedication a 'powerful moment'
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says the dedication in the Capitol of a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be a "powerful moment."
Obama is to speak at next Wednesday's ceremony.
Parks' refusal in December 1955 to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger led to a citywide bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., and encouraged nationwide efforts to end segregation. Parks died in October 2005.
Obama said Thursday in a radio interview with Al Sharpton that the statue will put a seamstress who helped bring about a "more just America" in her rightful place among some of the titans of U.S. government.
Officials say the statue will be the first full-length one of an African-American woman in the Capitol.
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