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Monday, October 31, 2011
Justin Timberlake Mistaken For George Michael?s Gay Lover
Two men were attempting to flirt with the ‘Freedom’ singer after his solo gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday but reportedly stormed off in a jealous rage when Justin approached George – who recently revealed his relationship with long-term partner Kenny Goss ended two years ago – for a chat. A source said: [...]
Commonwealth leader summit ends in Australia (AP)
PERTH, Australia ? Commonwealth nation leaders insisted Sunday that they had made sweeping progress at their biennial summit, despite failing to agree on a key human rights reform recommended by a group that questioned the forum's very relevance.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who had pushed for the appointment of a human rights watchdog during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ? or CHOGM ? said the forum had still made progress by strengthening the role the Commonwealth can play when dealing with nations accused of human rights abuses.
"This will provide for an earlier and more constructive engagement by the Commonwealth and the Secretary General where countries are veering from the path of democracy," Gillard told reporters in the Western Australia city of Perth, where the three-day meeting of 53 Commonwealth nation leaders came to a close on Sunday.
A report by the forum's Eminent Persons Group, which was set up during the last summit to help raise the Commonwealth's profile, had recommended the leaders appoint a human rights commissioner. The forum has been hit with repeated questions of its effectiveness in preventing human rights abuses, particularly in Sri Lanka, which is slated to host the next summit.
Sri Lanka been under intense pressure from human rights groups and countries including the U.S. to investigate allegations of possible war crimes during the final months of its 26-year war with Tamil Tiger separatists, which ended in 2009.
Gillard said Australia supported appointing a human rights watchdog, but several other countries had raised concerns. The prime minister said a group of Commonwealth foreign ministers would examine the proposal further and report their findings to the leaders at a later date.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have raised the prospect of some nations boycotting the Sri Lanka summit in 2013.
Harper has said he will not attend because of concerns over Sri Lanka's human rights record, while Cameron acknowledged he had discussed the issue and also has reservations.
"The message I have given is ? the Tamil Tigers have been defeated, you're in government, you have an opportunity to show magnanimity and also to show a process of reconciliation and demonstrate to the rest of the world that you don't have things to hide. It is very important that pressure is applied," Cameron told BBC television on Sunday.
"I think they should be aware of the fact that they are holding this Commonwealth summit in 2013 and it is up to them to show further progress so they can welcome the maximum number of countries."
The forum did give one of its internal groups more power to intervene earlier when Commonwealth nations are accused of human rights abuses or undemocratic behavior. Previously, the forum was restricted to either suspending or expelling such countries from the bloc.
The Eminent Persons Group was also highly critical of the effectiveness of the forum itself, saying it risked sliding into irrelevancy.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma insisted the summit had been productive, citing among the forum's successes the adoption of a measure that will coordinate global emergency relief efforts to deal with food supply crises.
"I had stated that this will be a landmark CHOGM, and it is indeed proven to be one," Sharma said. "This CHOGM will be remembered as a CHOGM of reform, renewal and resilience."
Leaders did make several noteworthy decisions during the summit, including agreeing to lift a ban on monarchs marrying Roman Catholics. The forum also changed royal succession rules to allow the British monarch's first-born child ? whether a girl or a boy ? to ascend the throne, reversing centuries of tradition.
Leaders also agreed to increase efforts to eradicate polio. Leaders of Britain, Canada, Australia and Nigeria, along with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, pledged tens of millions of dollars in extra funding toward the World Health Organization's campaign to wipe out the disabling disease from the four countries where it remains endemic ? India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Alabama A&M wins Magic City Classic football game, but Battle of the Bands winner still unannounced
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Alabama A&M beat Alabama State 20-19 in the 70th annual Magic City Classic at Legion Field today, but game attendees have yet to hear who won what many consider the game's highlight: the Battle of the Bands.
Legion Field's 70,000 seats were nearly filled to capacity at halftime, with a crowd that appeared to be a couple thousand more than the number that viewed the first half of the game. The crowd roared with approval as the Alabama A&M Marching Bulldogs and Alabama State Marching Hornets played and danced their way across the field.
AT&T sponsored a contest in which game attendees could vote to decide who won the Battle of the Bands. The winner will be announced sometime after the game.
Workers are now making preparation for a concert on the field by the soul group Frankie Beverly & Maze. The concert is free to game attendees.
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We'll focus on?efforts to help veterans find?jobs and deal with health and family problems. "One of the great blessings in my life has been the exposure I've received to the military?active duty, in the field and veterans,"?says Brian Williams. "They are America?s genuine heroes, and it's a privilege to use our platforms at NBC News to honor all that they have done."
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Judge approves Philly Orchestra labor agreement
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a new collective bargaining agreement between the financially troubled Philadelphia Orchestra and its musicians union.
The four-year contract, ratified about two weeks ago by players and the Philadelphia Orchestra Association board, takes effect Nov. 1.
At a hearing Wednesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Eric Frank said he would approve the deal. The written order was issued Thursday, said Lawrence G. McMichael, the orchestra's attorney.
"I think the best way to say it is we were thrilled that we were able to hammer out something" after months of intense negotiations, McMichael said.
Terms of the new contract call for shrinking the number of players from 105 to 95 through retirements and attrition and for cutting salaries about 15 percent. The minimum salary for Philadelphia Orchestra musicians is currently about $125,000 a year.
The agreement also calls for moving musicians' pensions to a defined contribution plan from the current defined benefit plan. A defined benefit plan provides a guaranteed monthly benefit for workers, while a defined contribution plan shifts responsibility for retirement planning and investing to workers but doesn't guarantee a specific amount of money based on years of service.
The pension change now goes for approval to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., an independent federal agency that insures pensions of more than 44 million Americans.
The orchestra estimates it will save roughly $38 million over the course of the four-year pact.
In April, the renowned 111-year-old symphony became the first major U.S. orchestra to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It has struggled with dwindling attendance and donations, shrinking endowment income, high labor costs, the recession and an aging audience.
The bankruptcy judge last month permitted the orchestra to end its six-year business relationship with Peter Nero and Philly Pops, an arrangement the orchestra claimed was hurting its finances.
A major next step will be addressing the orchestra's rental agreement with the Kimmel Center, McMichael said. The orchestra is seeking to renegotiate its lease; meanwhile the Kimmel has said the orchestra owes it $1.4 million in back rent.
The orchestra will not meet its initial goal to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of the year but should be able to do so in early 2012, McMichael said.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Arrests made at Wall St. protest in Nashville
State Police arrest Occupy Nashville protestors early Friday morning Oct. 28, 2011 at the site where a few dozen Wall Street protesters have been encamped for about three weeks. Authorities began moving in early Friday using a newly enacted state policy that set a curfew for the grounds near the state Capitol, including Legislative Plaza where the protesters had been staying in tents. (AP Photo/JOHN PARTIPILO\ - THE TENNESSEAN)
State Police arrest Occupy Nashville protestors early Friday morning Oct. 28, 2011 at the site where a few dozen Wall Street protesters have been encamped for about three weeks. Authorities began moving in early Friday using a newly enacted state policy that set a curfew for the grounds near the state Capitol, including Legislative Plaza where the protesters had been staying in tents. (AP Photo/JOHN PARTIPILO\ - THE TENNESSEAN)
State Police arrest Occupy Nashville protestors early Friday morning at the site where a few dozen Wall Street protesters have been encamped for about three weeks. Authorities began moving in early Friday using a newly enacted state policy that set a curfew for the grounds near the state Capitol, including Legislative Plaza where the protesters had been staying in tents. (AP Photo/JOHN PARTIPILO\ - THE TENNESSEAN)
State Police arrest Occupy Nashville protestors early Friday morning Oct. 28, 2011 at the site where a few dozen Wall Street protesters have been encamped for about three weeks. Authorities began moving in early Friday using a newly enacted state policy that set a curfew for the grounds near the state Capitol, including Legislative Plaza where the protesters had been staying in tents. (AP Photo/JOHN PARTIPILO\ - THE TENNESSEAN)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Authorities in Tennessee made about 30 arrests early Friday at the site where a few dozen Wall Street protesters have been encamped for about three weeks in Nashville, protesters said.
Authorities began moving in a little after 3 a.m. using a newly enacted state policy that set a curfew for the grounds near the state Capitol, including Legislative Plaza where the protesters had been staying in tents.
The state's new rules specifically ban "overnight occupancy" at the public space and require permits and use fees for rallies.
Katy Savage, one of the protesters, said she peeked out of her tent around 3 a.m. saw that the camp was surrounded by state troopers.
"I was grabbing our stuff to try to get it off the area," she said.
Savage said people who had already decided they would get arrested sat down together and began singing "We Shall Overcome" as troopers dragged some of them to waiting buses.
About 20 protesters, who remained on a sidewalk, were not arrested and were still there later in the morning. Several state troopers stood guard at the steps to the Capitol.
Asked about the arrests, Savage said she was "disgusted and disappointed."
"This was a group of brilliant, wonderful people that I had come to know as family, practicing democratic decision-making on public space. And for that they were dragged away in handcuffs," Savage said.
Occupy Wall Street activists have set up camps in cities around the country to protest economic inequality and what they call corporate greed.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Col. Tracy Trott would not give details about the arrests, saying only that authorities were there "to enforce the general services policy for the plaza and the Capitol area."
State officials planned to hold a news conference later in the morning to discuss the arrests.
Protester Albert Rankin said Thursday that the group intended to face arrests with "no hostility whatsoever" to avoid a repeat of violent shutdowns of protests in other cities this week. In Oakland, Calif., an Iraq war veteran suffered a fractured skull in a scuffle with police, and Atlanta SWAT teams arrested protesters there.
"There were some shouts here and there, but for the most part, it was very peaceful," Rankin said of Friday's arrests in Nashville.
Police last removed protesters from the legislative office complex in March during discussions of anti-union bills. Seven were arrested for disrupting a Senate Commerce Committee meeting and resisting arrest but later acquitted.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Man thought to be Gacy victim found alive in Fla. (AP)
CHICAGO ? Siblings who feared that their brother was one of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's eight unidentified victims were amazed and overjoyed to learn that he's been living in Florida for decades.
Tim Lovell and Theresa Hasselberg hadn't seen their brother, Harold Wayne Lovell, since he left their family's Chicago home in May 1977 in search of construction work. At the time, Gacy was trolling for young men and boys in the area. He was a contractor, and he lured many of the 33 young men and boys he killed by offering them work.
Cook County Sheriff's detectives reviewing unidentified remains cases discovered that eight of the 33 people Gacy was convicted of murdering were never identified, and they obtained exhumation orders over the past few months to test the remains for DNA, hoping relatives of young men who went missing in the area in the 1970s might submit to genetic testing.
Lovell's siblings, who now live in Alabama, were planning to do just that when they discovered a recent online police booking photo of their brother taken in Florida. They reached their brother, who goes by his middle name, by phone and bought him a bus ticket, and the family was reunited Tuesday for the first time in 34 years.
Wayne Lovell, now 53, described the reunion as "awesome."
He said he left for Florida all those years ago because he wasn't getting along with his mother and stepfather. Over the years, he's worked various manual labor jobs and has had occasional brushes with the law.
"I've gone from having nothing to having all this," Lovell said. "I'm still pinching myself."
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has said that dozens of families of men who disappeared during the 1970s have come forward for DNA testing.
Investigators searching Gacy's home following his 1978 arrest found most of his victims buried in a basement crawl space, although detectives said Gacy dumped four victims in a nearby river after he ran out of room at his house. Gacy confessed to the slayings after his arrest and was executed in 1994.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Gaddafi still on show, rotting as wrangling goes on (Reuters)
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) ? Libyans filed past Muammar Gaddafi's decomposing body for a fourth day on Monday, to see for themselves that the dictator was dead, while talks dragged on among emerging local factions over disposing of the corpse.
Fighters guarding the darkening body and those of Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim and his former army chief had placed plastic sheeting under them as fluids leaked into the market cold store in Misrata where they had been taken after their capture and killing near Gaddafi's home town of Sirte on Thursday.
With the door constantly opening to allow a procession of onlookers, in a grim parody of the lying in state typically accorded to deceased leaders, the refrigeration unit was failing to prevent a rapid decomposition and guards handed out surgical face masks to visitors to shield them from the stench.
Gaddafi and his son died after being captured, wounded but alive -- some of their final moments captured on video.
But few Libyans are troubled about either how they were killed or why they are being kept exposed to public view for so long. Islamic tradition dictates burial within a day.
"God made the pharaoh as an example to the others," said Salem Shaka, visiting the bodies on Monday. "If he had been a good man, we would have buried him.
"But he chose this destiny for himself."
Another man, who said he had driven 400 km (250 miles) to see the bodies, said: "I came here to make sure with my own eyes ... All Libyans must see him."
The killing of fallen autocrats is far from a novelty -- in Europe in living memory, similar fates befell Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 and Benito Mussolini, who had created modern Libya as an Italian colony a decade before he died in 1945.
However, some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels' foreign allies have expressed disquiet about the treatment of Gaddafi both after his capture and after his death and worry that Libya's new leaders will not uphold their promise to respect human rights.
The burials have been held up by wrangling between the emerging factions within the National Transitional Council over where they should be interred. NTC leaders want Gaddafi buried at a secret location so the place does not become a shrine.
Gaddafi's tribe, centred on the city of Sirte where he made his last stand, has asked for the body so they can bury it there. Gaddafi requested to be buried in Sirte in his will.
"There are different views," said an NTC official in Misrata. "Some people want them buried in the invaders' cemetery in Misrata," he said, referring to a place outside the city near the sea where hundreds of fallen Gaddafi fighters have been buried with some dignity and respect.
"Some people want to hand them over to his tribe, but we have some demands. Many people have been kidnapped and killed by people in Sirte since the 1980s. We asked them to give those bodies back. Since then they have been quiet," said the official who asked not to be named.
NTC head Mustafa Abdel Jalil said the council had formed a committee to decide the fate of Gaddafi's corpse and would follow guidance from Libya's religious authorities.
The official Egyptian news agency said Libya's office for fatwas, or religious decrees, had declared Gaddafi was not a Muslim as he had denied the teachings of Prophet Mohammad and so should not be given an Islamic funeral.
(Additional reporting by Tamim Elyan in Cairo; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Louise Ireland and Alastair Macdonald)
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?Mr. know it all/Well ya think you know it all/But ya don't know a thing at all.?
So go the lyrics to Kelly Clarkson?s recent Top 20 hit, ?Mr. Know It All,? the lead single from her fifth studio album, ?Stronger,? which dropped on Oct. 21. Another song on the album, ?Einstein,? has a chorus that goes ?I may not be Einstein/But I know dumb plus dumb equals you.?
Video: ?Idol? Kelly Clarkson targets ?Mr. Know it All? (on this page)Depending on your point of view ? and perhaps your gender ? these songs are either female empowerment anthems or male-bashing songs. Whatever the case, this mini-genre has become fashionable among female artists, with songs like Pink?s ?U and Ur Hand,? Orianthi?s ?According to You? and Britney Spears? ?Womanizer? all becoming big hits in the past few years. Vibe Magazine?s female arm, Vibe Vixen, even put together a list of ?The 45 Greatest Male-Bashing Anthems? ? and that list didn?t even include any country songs (like Carrie Underwood?s ?Before He Cheats?).
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Although these types of songs had precursors, like Carly Simon?s ?You?re So Vain,? their widespread popularity today can be traced back to the riot grrrl feminist punk movement of the early 1990s, said Marisa Meltzer, author of the book ?Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music.?
?There were a lot of things happening culturally and politically then that bubbled over into music,? said Meltzer. ?What we started to see was underground music slowly becoming more and more part of the mainstream and mainstream music aping underground music. So suddenly angry women were kind of fashionable, and what happens with fashionable music is we tend to see many generations of it.?
Story: Kelly Clarkson says she's never been in loveMeltzer said it was Alanis Morissette?s 1995 album ?Jagged Little Pill,? with its aggressive, in-your-face lyrics, that opened the door for female artists and fans to ?get the message that it?s OK to be angry, that there are people who feel like them.?
Songs like ?Mr. Know It All? are also a way for female artists to attract more listeners, said Leah Greenblatt, senior editor at Entertainment Weekly.
?(Artists) want to reach the widest audience possible and that means reaching girls who are happy, girls who are lonely, and girls who are angry about a bad breakup,? Greenblatt said. ?These kinds of songs lend themselves to being really powerful.?
A TODAY exclusive: Listen to Kelly Clarkson's new songWhy are there so few hit ?angry guy? songs directed at women? Meltzer said that?s the way the pop cycle has turned lately.
?Men seem to be doing well with party music and love songs now,? Meltzer said. ?It seems to be women who are channeling the broad spectrum of emotions.?
But according to Glenn Sacks, a men?s issues expert, the lyrics of songs by Clarkson and others are indicative of anti-male stereotypes found today in sitcoms, movies, and commercials, where men are seen as inept and foolish.
?I think it speaks to something larger in the culture,? Sacks said. ?Where the man?s always wrong the woman?s behavior is never examined. I always found ?Womanizer? to be ironic because Britney had been married and divorced multiple times and is nobody to be pointing fingers about womanizing or being promiscuous or whatever.?
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
'Paranormal 3' sets record with $52.6M debut
"Paranormal Activity 3" had a supernatural hold on moviegoers, luring them in with a record-setting $52.6 million opening.
Monday's final figure was slightly lower than the $54 million Sunday estimate from Paramount Pictures, but it's still the biggest debut for a horror movie and the biggest October opening ever. The third film in the low-budget fright franchise is a prequel featuring found home-movie footage from 1988.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1. "Paranormal Activity 3," Paramount, $52,568,183, 3321 locations, $15,829 average, $52,568,183, one week.
2. "Real Steel," Disney, $10,824,512, 3412 locations, $3,172 average. $66,732,152, three weeks.
3. "Footloose," Paramount, $10,351,207, 3555 locations, $2,912 average, 30,364,238, two weeks.
4. "The Three Musketeers," Summit, $8,674,452, 3017 locations, $2,875 average, $8,674,452, one week.
5. "The Ides of March," Sony, $4,853,051, 2042 locations, $2,377 average, $29,112,377, three weeks.
6. "Dolphin Tale," Warner Bros., $4,217,260, 2828 locations, $1,491 average, $64,407,935, five weeks.
7. "Moneyball," Sony, $3,981,852, 2353 locations, $1,692 average, $63,640,746, five weeks.
8. "Johnny English Reborn," Universal, $3,833,300, 1552 locations, $2,470 average, $3,833,300, one week.
9. "The Thing," Universal, $3,069,875, 2995 locations, $1,025 average, $14,049,220, two weeks.
10. "50/50," Summit, $2,835,208, 1932 locations, $1,467 average, $28,820,748, four weeks.
11. "Courageous," Sony, $2,494,020, 1195 locations, $2,087average, $24,975,186, four weeks.
12. "The Big Year," Fox, $1,681,040,2150 locations, $782 average, $6,000,418, two weeks.
13. "The Lion King in 3-D," Disney, $1,254,237, 1091 locations, $1,150 average, $92,608,537, six weeks.
14. "Dream House," Universal, $1,132,170, 1224 locations, $925 average, $20,179,850, four weeks.
15. "The Mighty Macs," Quaker Media, $963,221, 975 locations, $988 average, $963,221, one week.
16. "Contagion," Warner Bros., $853,062, 901 locations, $947 average, $73,474,354, seven weeks.
17. "The Help," Disney, $713,054, 776 locations, $919 average, $166,190,995, 11 weeks.
18. "Drive," Film District, $608,534, 367 locations, $1,658 average, $33,188,983, six weeks.
19. "Abduction," Lionsgate, $581,021, 753 locations, $772 average, $26,792,620, five weeks.
20. "Margin Call," Roadside Attractions, $561,904, 56 locations, $10,034 average, $561,904, one week.
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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
APNewsBreak: Brewer's case against feds dismissed (AP)
PHOENIX ? A federal judge Friday dismissed Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's lawsuit that accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce immigration laws or maintain control of her state's border with Mexico.
The dismissal by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton comes in a counter-lawsuit filed by Brewer as part of the Justice Department's challenge to Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law.
The Republican governor was seeking a court order that would require the federal government to take extra steps, such as more border fencing, to protect Arizona until the border is controlled.
Bolton said Brewer's claim that Washington has failed to protect Arizona from an "invasion" of illegal immigrants was a political question that isn't appropriate for the court to decide.
The judge also barred some of Brewer's claims because the issues were dealt with in a 1994 case by Arizona and can't be litigated again. Court precedent also requires the dismissal of some claims, Bolton wrote.
"While Arizona may disagree with the established enforcement priorities, Arizona's allegations do not give rise to a claim that the counter-defendants (the federal government) have abdicated their statutory responsibilities," Bolton wrote.
Brewer said in a written statement that she wasn't surprised by Bolton's ruling.
"It is but the latest chapter in a story that Arizonans know all too well: The federal government ignores its constitutional and statutory duty to secure the border. Federal courts avert their eyes. American citizens pay the price," Brewer said.
The Department of Justice issued a one-sentence statement saying it was pleased by Bolton's decision.
The DOJ sued the state of Arizona last year in a bid to invalidate Arizona's immigration enforcement law. Bolton put key parts of the law on hold, such as a provision requiring police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if officers had "reasonable suspicion" the person was in the country illegally.
Brewer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her appeal of Bolton's ruling.
Brewer's attorneys had argued that her lawsuit was necessary to help bring relief to Arizona from the burdens of being a busy illegal entry point into the country.
The governor's lawsuit didn't seek a lump-sum award, but rather asked for policy changes in the way the federal government reimburses states for the costs of jailing illegal immigrants who are convicted of state crimes. Such changes would have given the state more money.
Justice Department lawyers, who asked the judge to throw out the lawsuit, argued successfully that federal court isn't the right place to consider the political questions raised by Brewer.
The judge also agreed with their contention that several claims by the governor should be thrown out because a court rejected similar legal claims in a 1994 case brought by Arizona, and an appeals court decision prohibits Brewer from moving forward with her case.
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St. Paul's Cathedral Closed By Occupy London Protests
LONDON -- Protesters who have camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral in central London for six days have forced the venerable cathedral to close to visitors for the first time since World War II, church officials said Friday.
The Dean of St. Paul's, Rev. Graeme Knowles, said the decision to shut the doors of the iconic London church to visitors and tourists following the afternoon service was made with "a heavy heart" because of health and safety concerns.
He urged the protesters ? numbering roughly 500, according to organizers, allied with the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations ? to leave now that they have made their point.
"I'm asking the protesters to recognize the huge issues facing us at this time, and asking them to leave the vicinity of the building so that the cathedral can reopen as soon as possible," he told reporters.
Knowles stressed that he recognizes the group's right to protest but wants them to recognize that the church also has "a right to open for our visitors."
There was no set date for the reopening of the cathedral, which was designed by Christopher Wren and has hosted numerous royal ceremonies. The cathedral is where Prince Charles married his first wife, the late Princess Diana, in a ceremony televised worldwide in 1981.
The protesters, who have set up about 100 tents around the church, arrived last Saturday as part of a series of protests in many cities across the world in solidarity with the "Occupy Wall Street" activists in New York. The group decamped to the cathedral's grounds after police blocked them from entering the London Stock Exchange building near it.
Protesters said they had done all they could to address the cathedral's concerns, and showed no intention to leave.
"It's about deciding when it's no longer effective to be here," said Ian Chamberlain, 27, a self-employed researcher. "Many of us are determined to stay here as long as possible."
Protester Diane Richards, 36, said the cathedral closure was unnecessary because the impromptu camp has been safe and well organized.
"I'm really disappointed, because there has been no violence here," she said of the decision, which church officials had hinted at in recent days.
Knowles said potential health and fire problems ? notably smoking in tented areas and the presence of flammable liquids and stoves set up by protesters ? were at the heart of the issue because the church has an obligation to keep visitors safe.
Earlier this week, the church said the "increased scale and nature" of the temporary camp could make it more difficult for the cathedral to stay open for worshippers and tourists.
The protesters have drawn a mixed response from Londoners, especially the many well-heeled bankers who work in the nearby financial district known as the City.
The movement has received many donated food items and blankets from the public and some City workers were seen deep in discussion with the activists, but others were more skeptical of their cause.
"I have a sneaking suspicion they don't know what their message is," lawyer Tom Day said after reading some of the protesters' messages posted at the tent city.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Think Finance Debuts Consumer Electronics Retail Site For The Unbanked
Think Finance, a company that helps serve the banking needs of the "unbanked", is unveiling Presta, a new consumer electronics retail site that gives customers the option to lease-purchase electronics. Think Finance caters to the 60 million "unbanked," individuals in the U.S., which designate consumers who don't have traditional bank accounts or cannot qualify for credit cards. The company says that 25% of Americans have FICO scores less than 600 and are facing dramatically reduced access to credit and banking services. Think Finance provides this population with pre-paid debit cards, online installment loans, financial literacy tools, and more. The company has served more than 1 million customers through its existing products.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/m4uXmuz2OxA/
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
European crisis summit faces high expectations
Outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet, left, talks to IMF President Christine Lagarde, center, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second right, and President of the EU Commision Jose-Manuel Barroso prior to a farewell ceremony for Trichet at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach, Pool)
Outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet, left, talks to IMF President Christine Lagarde, center, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second right, and President of the EU Commision Jose-Manuel Barroso prior to a farewell ceremony for Trichet at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach, Pool)
Outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet , right, talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel prior to a farewell ceremony for Trichet at the old opera house in Frankfurt, Wednesday Oct. 19, 2011. The final year of Trichet's presidency of the ECB has been marked by controversy over a decision to buy the bonds of troubled euro zone countries, which critics say oversteps the mandate of the central bank and has led to the resignation of two of its most experienced German policymakers. (AP Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach,Pool)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles during the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the old opera house in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/dapd, Thomas Lohnes)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? Europe's leaders face huge expectations to come up with nothing less than a grand plan to save the euro ? and protect the global economy from another recession ? when they meet for three days of emergency talks this weekend.
Some 22 months after the crisis first exploded in Greece, investors are still criticizing European leaders for acting only when markets demand it. With markets volatile, economic growth ebbing, and social unrest rising, the heads of government and finance ministers meeting in Brussels from Friday need to show they can finally get ahead of events.
They will have to manage expectations on the one hand but also convince volatile bond and currency markets that the euro will survive the crisis.
A new plan is expected to cover three main points ? debt reduction for Greece, new capital for ailing banks that might take losses from Greek bonds, and enhanced financial firepower for the bailout fund to stabilize markets.
Heading into the talks, however, there was still disagreement over each of the measures.
After a week of cautious optimism, "the market is right to be more nervous," said analyst Jane Foley at Rabobank. "There is a huge amount of ground to be covered by euro politicians."
The meetings kick off on Friday, when eurozone finance ministers gather, with the finance ministers of the full European Union in talks on Saturday, and the heads of state and government on Sunday.
The bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, needs more lending capacity to backstop big countries such as Spain and Italy by buying their bonds and holding down interest costs that threaten to their finances.
The fund was just expanded to euro440 billion ($608 billion) in lending power. But with some euro287 billion of that already committed to bailout out Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the fund is considered too small and economists say it may need effective lending power of up to $2 trillion.
Proposals to stretch its lending power ? without asking governments for more money ? include various kinds of leverage, such as having it guarantee part of the value of Italian and Spanish debt.
The eurozone crisis was caused by governments piling up too much debt, raising fears they might not pay it back. Default concerns have driven borrowing costs beyond what some countries can afford. Greece, Portugal and Ireland have been cut off from bond lending and needed bailouts from the eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund.
The European Central Bank has been propping up Italian and Spanish bonds by buying them in the secondary market, driving down interest rates. It's a risky task it wants to hand off to the EFSF. It's not clear when that might happen, though.
ECB officials have balked at allowing the EFSF to use the bank's money to magnify its lending power. Some eurozone officials, meanwhile, want to use the EFSF to help backstop continued ECB bond purchases. The ECB's power to create new money means it in theory has almost unlimited financial firepower ? but that is a step it has so far refused to take.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that the "outlines" of how to step up the bailout had been agreed with France but fell short of a comprehensive deal to the crisis that financial markets appear to have come to expect.
"We are cautious, but think that we will be able to agree on these," he said at a news conference in Berlin. "Germany and France are in complete agreement on this question, but we know that is not the same as a European solution."
A hastily called meeting Thursday night in Frankfurt, Germany among Schaeuble, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank ended without any statement.
Other complex and related questions include the extent of the losses bondholders should face to cut Greece's debt to level where it can be repaid. Since that would inflict losses on banks, officials are trying to come up with a mechanism to get banks Europe-wide to add to their financial cushions.
That's difficult because banks are mostly regulated at the national level, and because raising capital cushions is a painful process that can divert money from bonuses and dividends or mean selling riskier but more profitable assets.
A deal agreed in July would cut the value of bondholders investments by 21 percent, but economists and eurozone leaders now say that won't be enough, even with a second, euro109 billion bailout.
Managing expectations has been a key aspect of the meeting. Stocks and the euro have rising since a Group of 20 finance ministers' meeting last weekend urged eurozone leaders to quickly address its debt crisis before it derails the global economy. But the optimism from that may set up a sudden market downfall if the results of the summit disappoint.
The euro has rallied from euro1.3145 on Oct. 4 to $1.3731 on Thursday, boosted by expectations that politicians are finally ready for decisive action.
German officials tried earlier this week to dampen expectations, and on Thursday, Merkel tried to balance between reassuring markets that something will be done and not overpromising.
She said the leaders' summit on Sunday "will not be the end point of regaining trust. It will be a point at which we act, but much more will follow."
European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet, who was getting a ceremonial farewell at the Frankfurt event that later turned into a platform for the meeting, was blunter. Europe needs "immediate action," he said.
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Melissa Eddy in Berlin contributed to this report.
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CHEO scientist advances biotherapeutics as published in Cancer Cell
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First to discover probe human genome to augment oncolytic therapy
Ottawa, Ontario October 18, 2011 Oncolytic virology uses live viruses to sense the genetic difference between a tumor and normal cell. Once the virus finds a tumor cell, it replicates inside that cell, kills it and then spreads to adjacent tumor cells to seed a therapeutic "chain reaction". As reported in today's issue of Cancer Cell, Dr. David Stojdl, a scientist from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute at the University of Ottawa has found a way to trick resistant cancer cells into committing suicide following oncolytic virus therapy.
When it comes to using oncolytic viruses to fight cancer, the outcome is a consequence of a battle between the genes that the virus has and the genes that the human host has. Using a technology called RNA Interference (RNAi) Dr. Stojdl's research team was able to systematically search through the entire human genome to find genes [that when inhibited] would make the viruses up to 10,000 times more potent at killing tumor cells without harming healthy cells. "Until now, scientists in our field have been focused on engineering the genes in the oncolytic virus itself to make them work better, and that has worked well to a point. This is the first study to look at all of the genes in the human genome to determine which ones we should manipulate to help the oncolytic therapy work better," said Dr. Stojdl.
Dr. Stojdl's research team has identified a series of genes that magnify the impact of oncolytic viruses. These genes normally control the endoplasmic reticulum stress response, or unfolded protein response. In essence, when the cell environment is toxic the cells have a tough time folding proteins. "A properly folded protein doesn't expose many sticky parts on its surface. Cells don't like mangled proteins because they get sticky. If you have sticky parts they combine with other proteins to make large, toxic 'balls' of protein - and this can kill the cell," explained Dr. Stojdl in layman terms.
"To deal with this 'sticky situation', the cell turns on a few pre-programmed rescue systems that either turbocharge the folding process or slow down the production of new proteins until the cell can catch up. If this doesn't work, the cell commits suicide to stop the damage from spreading," explained Dr. Douglas Mahoney lead author of the study and member of the Stojdl lab.
Dr. Stojdl's team has identified a way to short-circuit these rescue systems so that tumor cells go straight to suicide and healthy cells stay intact. The strategy works by applying a mild stress to the cells to force them to turn on these rescue systems. But when these cells encounter an oncolytic virus, instead of trying to fix the unfolded proteins, the cell is triggered to commit suicide.
This triggering effect also works with some common chemotherapeutics that are used in cancer clinics around the world today.
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The funding partners for this research include: Terry Fox Foundation; Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation; Angels of Hope; CHEO Foundation and Canada Foundation for Innovation.
About Dr. David Stojdl
Dr. David Stojdl is a scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa Canada), Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and cross-appointed to the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa. He earned his bachelors (1992) and masters (1994) degrees in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Western Ontario. In 1999 David obtained his PhD in the lab of John Bell (University of Ottawa) were he identified VSV as an oncolytic virus and defined the central role of interferon signaling in tumor specific targeting. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre (2000), Dr. Stojdl developed novel oncolytic viruses based on the VSV platform that have been adopted in labs worldwide. In 2004, Dr, Stojdl moved to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario were his lab focuses on cell signaling and host/virus interactions with a special interest in continuing to develop oncolytic virus therapies for brain and pediatric cancer. Dr. Stojdl is co-director and developer of the high content cell-based screening facility at the CHEO RI and is a scientific cofounder of Jennerex Biotherapeutics (San Francisco, USA)About the CHEO Research Institute:
Established in 1984, the CHEO Research Institute coordinates the research activities of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and is one of the institutes associated with the University of Ottawa Teaching Hospitals. The Research Institute brings together health professionals from within CHEO to share their efforts in solving paediatric health problems. It also promotes collaborative research outside the hospital with partners from the immediate community, industry and the international scientific world. For more information, visit www.cheori.org [ | E-mail | Share ] ?
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First to discover probe human genome to augment oncolytic therapy
Ottawa, Ontario October 18, 2011 Oncolytic virology uses live viruses to sense the genetic difference between a tumor and normal cell. Once the virus finds a tumor cell, it replicates inside that cell, kills it and then spreads to adjacent tumor cells to seed a therapeutic "chain reaction". As reported in today's issue of Cancer Cell, Dr. David Stojdl, a scientist from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute at the University of Ottawa has found a way to trick resistant cancer cells into committing suicide following oncolytic virus therapy.
When it comes to using oncolytic viruses to fight cancer, the outcome is a consequence of a battle between the genes that the virus has and the genes that the human host has. Using a technology called RNA Interference (RNAi) Dr. Stojdl's research team was able to systematically search through the entire human genome to find genes [that when inhibited] would make the viruses up to 10,000 times more potent at killing tumor cells without harming healthy cells. "Until now, scientists in our field have been focused on engineering the genes in the oncolytic virus itself to make them work better, and that has worked well to a point. This is the first study to look at all of the genes in the human genome to determine which ones we should manipulate to help the oncolytic therapy work better," said Dr. Stojdl.
Dr. Stojdl's research team has identified a series of genes that magnify the impact of oncolytic viruses. These genes normally control the endoplasmic reticulum stress response, or unfolded protein response. In essence, when the cell environment is toxic the cells have a tough time folding proteins. "A properly folded protein doesn't expose many sticky parts on its surface. Cells don't like mangled proteins because they get sticky. If you have sticky parts they combine with other proteins to make large, toxic 'balls' of protein - and this can kill the cell," explained Dr. Stojdl in layman terms.
"To deal with this 'sticky situation', the cell turns on a few pre-programmed rescue systems that either turbocharge the folding process or slow down the production of new proteins until the cell can catch up. If this doesn't work, the cell commits suicide to stop the damage from spreading," explained Dr. Douglas Mahoney lead author of the study and member of the Stojdl lab.
Dr. Stojdl's team has identified a way to short-circuit these rescue systems so that tumor cells go straight to suicide and healthy cells stay intact. The strategy works by applying a mild stress to the cells to force them to turn on these rescue systems. But when these cells encounter an oncolytic virus, instead of trying to fix the unfolded proteins, the cell is triggered to commit suicide.
This triggering effect also works with some common chemotherapeutics that are used in cancer clinics around the world today.
###
The funding partners for this research include: Terry Fox Foundation; Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation; Angels of Hope; CHEO Foundation and Canada Foundation for Innovation.
About Dr. David Stojdl
Dr. David Stojdl is a scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa Canada), Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and cross-appointed to the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa. He earned his bachelors (1992) and masters (1994) degrees in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Western Ontario. In 1999 David obtained his PhD in the lab of John Bell (University of Ottawa) were he identified VSV as an oncolytic virus and defined the central role of interferon signaling in tumor specific targeting. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre (2000), Dr. Stojdl developed novel oncolytic viruses based on the VSV platform that have been adopted in labs worldwide. In 2004, Dr, Stojdl moved to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario were his lab focuses on cell signaling and host/virus interactions with a special interest in continuing to develop oncolytic virus therapies for brain and pediatric cancer. Dr. Stojdl is co-director and developer of the high content cell-based screening facility at the CHEO RI and is a scientific cofounder of Jennerex Biotherapeutics (San Francisco, USA)About the CHEO Research Institute:
Established in 1984, the CHEO Research Institute coordinates the research activities of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and is one of the institutes associated with the University of Ottawa Teaching Hospitals. The Research Institute brings together health professionals from within CHEO to share their efforts in solving paediatric health problems. It also promotes collaborative research outside the hospital with partners from the immediate community, industry and the international scientific world. For more information, visit www.cheori.org [ | E-mail | Share ] ?
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/choe-csa101711.php
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
US rivers and streams saturated with carbon
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New Haven, Conn. Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings could change the way scientists model the movement of carbon between land, water and the atmosphere.
"These rivers breathe a lot of carbon," said David Butman, a doctoral student and co-author of a study with Pete Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology, both at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. "They are a source of CO2, just like we breathe CO2 and like smokestacks emit CO2, and this has never been systematically estimated from a region as large as the United States."
The researchers assert that a significant amount of carbon contained in land, which first is absorbed by plants and forests through the air, is leaking into streams and rivers and then released into the atmosphere before reaching coastal waterways.
"What we are able to show is that there is a source of atmospheric CO2 from streams and rivers, and that it is significant enough for terrestrial modelers to take note of it," said Butman.
They analyzed samples taken by the United States Geological Survey from over 4,000 rivers and streams throughout the United States, and incorporated highly detailed geospatial data to model the flux of carbon dioxide from water. This release of carbon, said Butman, is the same as a car burning 40 billion gallons of gasoline.
The paper, titled "Significant Efflux of Carbon Dioxide from Streams and Rivers in the United States," also indicates that as the climate heats up there will be more rain and snow, and that an increase in precipitation will result in even more terrestrial carbon flowing into rivers and streams and being released into the atmosphere.
"This would mean that any estimate between carbon uptake in the biosphere and carbon being released through respiration in the biosphere will be even less likely to balance and must include the carbon in streams and rivers," he said.
The researchers note in the paper that currently it is impossible to determine exactly how to include this flux in regional carbon budgets, because the influence of human activity on the release of CO2 into streams and rivers is still unknown.
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The research was funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
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New Haven, Conn. Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings could change the way scientists model the movement of carbon between land, water and the atmosphere.
"These rivers breathe a lot of carbon," said David Butman, a doctoral student and co-author of a study with Pete Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology, both at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. "They are a source of CO2, just like we breathe CO2 and like smokestacks emit CO2, and this has never been systematically estimated from a region as large as the United States."
The researchers assert that a significant amount of carbon contained in land, which first is absorbed by plants and forests through the air, is leaking into streams and rivers and then released into the atmosphere before reaching coastal waterways.
"What we are able to show is that there is a source of atmospheric CO2 from streams and rivers, and that it is significant enough for terrestrial modelers to take note of it," said Butman.
They analyzed samples taken by the United States Geological Survey from over 4,000 rivers and streams throughout the United States, and incorporated highly detailed geospatial data to model the flux of carbon dioxide from water. This release of carbon, said Butman, is the same as a car burning 40 billion gallons of gasoline.
The paper, titled "Significant Efflux of Carbon Dioxide from Streams and Rivers in the United States," also indicates that as the climate heats up there will be more rain and snow, and that an increase in precipitation will result in even more terrestrial carbon flowing into rivers and streams and being released into the atmosphere.
"This would mean that any estimate between carbon uptake in the biosphere and carbon being released through respiration in the biosphere will be even less likely to balance and must include the carbon in streams and rivers," he said.
The researchers note in the paper that currently it is impossible to determine exactly how to include this flux in regional carbon budgets, because the influence of human activity on the release of CO2 into streams and rivers is still unknown.
###
The research was funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/yu-ura101711.php
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