First-time winner fights her way to the stage to claim her award.
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Machida was elusive as usual in the first round, but Henderson was able to sneak in and land a few kicks and punches. At the end of the round, Machida took Henderson down with a leg trip and landed strikes.
The second round showed Machida still being elusive and keeping his distance from Henderson. Machida tried for a front kick several times, but couldn't land it. Meanwhile, Henderson couldn't land much.
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Henderson is known for his big, overhand punches. Most of the time, when he throws it, it can mean the end of a fight. However, he had trouble getting close enough to Machida for the overhand to work.
In the third round, Machida moved in for a takedown but ended up with Henderson on top. Henderson used elbows from the top, but Machida was able to get out with less than two minutes left in the fight.
Before the fight, UFC president Dana White said that the winner of this bout will get the next title shot. UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will put the title up against Chael Sonnen in April, but the next fight will likely go to Machida.
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Machida was once the UFC light heavyweight champion, but lost the title to Rua in 2010. Since then, he has wins over Randy Couture and Ryan Bader, but losses to current champion Jon Jones and Quinton Jackson. It will be his third chance at the light heavyweight title. He won it with a knockout of Rashad Evans in 2009, but lost to Jones in 2011.
Henderson had a long layoff between fights. His last bout was one of the best in MMA history. In November of 2011, Henderson defeated Mauricio Rua in a five-round decision. Since then, Henderson had a fight lined up with Jones in September, but had to pull out at the last minute because of a knee injury. His record falls to 29-9. He's 42 years old, and against Machida, looked slow and old for the first time in his career.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech under portraits of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, left, and Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei in Tehran's Azadi Square on Feb. 10, 2013
Slumped in a Nairobi courtroom, suit coats rumpled and reading glasses dangling from librarian chains, the defendants made a poor showing for the notorious Quds Force of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ahmad Abolafathi Mohammed and Sayed Mansour Mousa had been caught red-handed and middle-aged. And if the latter did them a certain credit ? blandly forgettable always having been a good look for a secret agent ? the prisoners still had to explain why they had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course.
Created to advance Iran?s interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Kenya and most spectacularly in Thailand, where before accidentally blowing up their Bangkok safe house, Iran?s secret agents were photographed in the sex-tourism mecca of Pattaya, one arm around a hookah, the other around a hooker. In its ongoing shadow war with Israel, the Iranian side?s lone ?success? was the July 18 bombing of a Bulgarian bus carrying Israeli tourists ? though European investigators last week officially attributed that attack to Iran?s Lebanese proxy, Hizballah. That leaves the Islamic Republic itself with a failure rate hovering near 100% abroad and an operational tempo ? nine overseas plots uncovered in nine months ? that carries a whiff of desperation. A Tehran government long branded by U.S. officials as the globe?s leading exporter of terrorism may be cornering the market on haplessness.
Within Iran?s own borders, however, the story is different. Twice in the past two years Iranian intelligence has cracked espionage rings working with Israel?s Mossad, Western intelligence officials tell TIME. In both cases, the arrests were the furthest thing from secret: announced at a news conference, each was later followed up by televised confessions broadcast on Iranian state television in prime time. Given Iran?s history of trumped-up confessions, skepticism is more than justified. But the arrests appear to be solid. One intelligence official said the captured Iranians provided ?support and logistics? to the Mossad operatives who carried out the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
At least four scientists were killed on Tehran?s streets from 2010 to 2012, when, as TIME has reported, Israel ratcheted back on covert operations inside Iran.?Officially, Israel has remained silent on the killings, though government officials will coyly say they welcome the deaths. The Jewish state maintains the same ambiguous posture on other ?setbacks? to Iran?s nuclear program widely ? and correctly, Western intelligence officials say ? attributed to Mossad, from the Stuxnet computer virus, to mysterious explosions like?the massive blast at a missile base, which destroyed ballistic missiles that could reach Israel.
The covert onslaught dovetails with Israel?s history of reaching ?over the horizon? to disarm perceived threats at a distance. To keep advanced arms from reaching Hamas and Hizballah, Israel in the past year sent warplanes to bomb convoys and arms depots in Sudan and Syria, respectively, without apparent retribution. In the case of Iran, however, experts say the audacity of Israel?s covert campaign stirred Tehran to revive an espionage effort that lay largely fallow since 9/11. The Spy vs. Spy contest that ensued would prove woefully one-sided, even in the third-world countries where Iran chose to strike, hoping to avoid heightened security awareness in the developed world. In the end, its only success came inside Iran, where the secret police operate without inhibition.
The shadow war may have started on Jan. 15, 2007, the day Ardeshir Hosseinpour passed away. Hosseinpour was a specialist in electromagnetics at the Nuclear Technology Center in the city of Isfahan, Iran, but his death might have escaped notice had Iran?s government not kept it under wraps for almost a week, finally attributing it to fumes from a faulty heater. An online report by the American private intelligence firm Stratfor suggested another cause ? radioactive poisoning ? and hinted that Mossad?s Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beach town that dates back to Roman times, is the operations branch of Israel?s secret service, most notoriously responsible for the assassinations of some two dozen Palestinians (and an innocent waiter) after the 1972 Munich Olympics. Assassinations are carried out by a very small unit dubbed Kidon, the Hebrew word for ?tip of the spear.? Kidon operates at a remove from the legions of Mossad employees working in less lethal fields.
It would have been a unit called Hatzomet, or ?The Junction,? that recruited Majid Fashi, a handsome young Iranian who dropped out of high school to pursue a career in kickboxing. By the account he gave on Iranian state television early in 2011, Fashi presented himself at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul in 2007 and was vetted for a solid year before being shown any trust. Two years later, on Jan. 12, 2010, he would place a bomb on a motorbike parked on the sidewalk outside the Tehran home of Masoud Alimohammadi; the nuclear physicist was killed when it was detonated by remote control.
In the broadcast, Fashi accurately described the Mossad campus north of Tel Aviv. He said he had been given a laptop equipped with a second operating system and used it to communicate through online drop boxes. He was impressed by his handlers? thoroughness. At one point Fashi described studying a scale model of Alimohammadi?s street. ?It was an exact copy of the real one,? Fashi said. ?The tree next it, the street curb, the bridge.? In a later broadcast, he was seated across from Alimohammadi?s widow, who glared at him as he bowed his head and wept. Mossad officials were ?pissed off and shocked? seeing their agent on television, the intelligence official said.
Fashi was executed in May 2012. About the same time, Iran?s intelligence minister announced the arrest of 14 more Iranians, eight men and six women dubbed members of the ?Terror Club? in the subsequent prime-time broadcast of that name. Filmed in shadow, and rich in atmospherics, the Aug. 5 program recreated Alimohammadi?s death and four subsequent attacks: they started with the Nov. 29, 2010 nearly simultaneous attempts on Majid Shariari and Fereydoun Abbasi, nuclear scientists driving to work when magnetic ?sticky bombs? were attached to the side of their cars from passing motorcycles. Abbasi managed to escape before it detonated, saving his wife as well. Shariari was killed ? a significant setback for the Iranian nuclear program where he was the top scientist, according to a Western intelligence official.
The confessed agents offered absorbing detail ? they were aboard a Bajaj Pulsar, wearing helmets, when the magnet bomb stuck on the right front panel of Shariari?s car exploded. The riders scrambled into the ?trail car? assigned to follow the target and disappeared into the traffic of the Imam Ali Autobahn. Already gone was the car assigned to cut off and slow the car carrying the scientist. They claimed to have rehearsed on a practice track inside Israel. None of the details could be confirmed, but an intelligence official acknowledged: ?Another network was taken.?
The third scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad was shot on July 23, 2011 after picking up his child at a day care; his wife described hearing shots whiz by as she chased the assailants. The most recent assassination was the Jan. 11, 2012 death of Mustafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an expert on uranium enrichment, also by a magnet bomb slapped on his car during his morning commute.
By then, Iran was trying to strike back. The task of avenging the scientists fell to the sprawling Quds Force?s own covert-operations division, known as Unit 400. It took a shotgun approach, targeting Israeli diplomatic missions in a variety of countries, mostly in the developing world where the global antiterrorism mesh is not so fine. Exposed in Baku, Tbilisi, Johannesburg, Mombasa and Bangkok, the failures mounted at a pace that was itself one of the problems. In the world of espionage, a quality covert operation can take years to pull together. Yet in the 15 months from May 2011 to July 2012, the Quds Force and Hizballah attempted 20 attacks, by the count of Matthew Levitt, a former State Department counterterrorism official. ?Hizballah and the Quds Force traded speed for tradecraft and reaped what they sowed,? Levitt writes in a January report for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ?Quds Force planners were stretched thin by the rapid tempo of their new attack plan, and were forced to throw together random teams of operatives who had not trained together.?
The decline in quality was so striking it initially inspired disbelief. Recall the preposterous-sounding plot weaving together a former used-car salesman, Mexico?s Zetas drug gang and a bank transfer from a Revolutionary Guard account to assassinate Saudi Arabia?s ambassador ? by bombing a Washington restaurant? A year on it looks like the new normal. In Bangkok last month, an Iranian agent entered a courtroom in a wheelchair, having accidentally blown his legs off while fleeing police. A January alert issued by Turkish intelligence was light on specifics but quite certain the Quds operatives would be staying in five-star hotels.
?There?s a number of reasons that Iranian intelligence has suffered,? says Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born analyst who lectures at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. ?No. 1,? he says, ?is the 2009 uprisings in Iran.? The street protests over a fraudulent election undermined the perceived legitimacy of the state among people who once would work for it, including in its secret services. ?People less and less see it as a nationalist endeavor and more as a Khamenei-related project to strengthen himself,? Javedanfar says, referring to Iran?s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who by some published accounts personally authorizes all overseas attacks.
Hard-liners further aggravated the situation by purging competent reformists from both the secret services and from Iran?s embassies ? crucial to a force expected to work undetected abroad. ?Basically the Quds Force doesn?t cooperate with the Foreign Ministry, and the Foreign Ministry isn?t what it used to be either,? says Javedanfar. Under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 42% of ministry employees have only high school degrees. ?The regime is a bigger threat to itself than Israel,? he says.
? With reporting by Aaron J. Klein / Tel Aviv
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/topstories/~3/ak9K41FFkfg/
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Good, you made it. I was hoping you wouldn't get lost.
You may be wondering why I called you here, and believe me, we'll get there. But first, I need you to look around you. On your way here, what did you notice? Everything was normal, wasn't it?
Well, I guess a dying world with only a few years left on it's clock is considered normal nowadays. In cities, it not so noticeable. Little to no squirrels or pigeons, maybe some sickly trees, but that's it. It's pretty noticeable, however, in rural areas.
Now, you've heard of the Spireheart, correct? The large, obsidian obelisk with glowing etchings up in the North Pole? And you already know that some people are granted power over the elements because of it. They're all over the news. Anyways, back to the dying world thing, as I can see the confusion on your face.
The Spireheart, also called the Tower of God by some, and the Devil's Thorn by others, is the cause of the dying world thing. You see, it is connected to tubes that spread out from it, and spread throughout the planet's mantle. From there, the pipes and tubes absorb energy from both the core and crust. That means nutrients, thermal energy, anything. Not everyone knows this, but we do. Sadly, we don't know why it's absorbing our planet's energy, but we do know one thing:
The Spireheart, and the powers it grants, are not of human origin.
You may be thinking "Well, if it's so bad, then why do the governments of the world keep it up?" For that question, I have two answers. The first is that this thing is pretty damn sturdy. No attempts have been made to harm it, but we can tell that it's freaking solid. Second, it's under the protection of a company that has more power than any world leader, Signet Inc. These guys have the world leaders by the balls, but just appear to be another power and lights company. Which, seeing as the Spireheart is basically a big energy conduit, is pretty believable. But, through some recon and investigation, it's obvious that they are conducting research on the thing. Bad research. They've taken test subjects, mutilated them, to find out what makes their elemental abilities tick. Most of the test subjects were operatives of our group.
Okay, I can see your impatient. Let me cut to the chase. I am Theodore Morvis. I am an agent of The Vircid, an underground network whose goal is to remove Signet Inc from the equation and deactivate or destroy the Spireheart. Among us are normal humans with amazing skills, people gifted with elemental abilities, and some a mix of the two. You fall into one of those categories, and that means we need you. We have to take out the Spireheart before Earth crumbles away, and time is definitely not on our side.
So, you in?
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Seeing as the main protagonist force in this RP is a network, the more characters the merrier! Any ideas or suggestions would be great as well. This is my first RP here, and I want to know if it's up to par.
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A creative person with a zest for life, Vikram Karve is a retired Naval Officer turned full time writer. Educated at IIT Delhi, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, The Lawrence School Lovedale and Bishops School Pune, Vikram has published two books:?COCKTAIL?a collection of fiction short stories about relationships (2011) and?APPETITE FOR A STROLL?a book of Foodie Adventures (2008) and is currently working on his novel, writing short fiction and compiling his memoirs.?An avid blogger, he has written a number of fiction short stories, creative non-fiction articles on a variety of topics including food, books, travel, philosophy, academics, technology, management, health, pet parenting, teaching stories, self help and art of living essays in magazines and journals and published a number of professional research papers and reviews and edited in-house magazines and journals for many years, before the advent of blogging. Vikram has taught at a University as a Professor for 15 years and now teaches as a visiting faculty and devotes most of his time to creative writing and blogging. Vikram Karve lives in Pune India with his family and muse - his pet dog Sherry with whom he takes long walks thinking creative thoughts.?
?Vikram Karve Academic and Creative Writing Journal:?http://karvediat.
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| Location | 32.219?N, 115.283?W |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) (poorly constrained) |
| Region | BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 31.6 km (19.6 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph= 16, Dmin=22 km, Rmss=0.12 sec, Gp=191?, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=2 |
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| Event ID | ci11244018 |
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Jefferson?s happy settlement lasted for just over a century, until, in the heady progressive climate of 1913, Woodrow Wilson brought the damn thing back. Given Wilson?s attitude toward limited government, toward the Constitution, and toward the American settlement, that it was he who did this should raise alarm bells even in the ears of the speech?s defenders. With the admirable openness that marked his unadmirable hostility to America?s founding ideals, Wilson announced that he would restore the speech because it was fitting for a strong and king-like president with an agenda ? in other words, he directly reversed Jefferson?s logic. A brief respite followed the Wilson administration: After delivering his first in person, Calvin Coolidge agreed with Wilson?s characterization of the event, and, wishing to be anything but a king-like president, re-abolished the practice, delivering the remainder of his reports in writing and setting an example that was followed by his successor, Herbert Hoover. But it wasn?t to last. FDR had higher pretensions and brought the speech back. With a few exceptions (none based on principle), it has stayed with us ever since.
One more reason that Wilson was such an awful president, and Coolidge is overrated. The SOTA is nothing but an opportunity for political grandstanding.
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CARSON CITY - Troubled Assemblyman Steven Brooks has been put on leave with pay and banned from the Legislative Building following the adoption Monday of rules by an Assembly committee reviewing his... 34?comments
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Loren will be available for free 10 minute coaching sessions in the main ballroom on Friday and Saturday.
Loren Weisman is a music consultant, music producer, and coach who helps independent artists, musicians, bands, labels, and managers achieve sustainable success in the music business. He has contributed to over 700 albums as a drummer and producer.
Weisman is the author of the new book, ?The Artist?s Guide to Success in The Music Business: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music, Second Edition? (ISBN: 978-1-60832-578-8; trade paperback; Greenleaf Book Group).
The book provides invaluable advice from a music industry insider who demystifies the artist?s journey from passion to profession. Both practical and inspiring, ?The Artist?s Guide to Success in the Music Business? provides comprehensive details on how to launch and sustain your success in today?s music industry. From production and performance tips to marketing and career-building advice, author Weisman serves up lessons culled from his over twenty-five years as a working musician and a music business consultant. Aspiring musicians will relate to Weisman?s struggles that resemble their own, while benefiting from his professional counsel.
?The Artist?s Guide to Success in the Music Business, 2nd Edition? will also be on pre-sale as part of a book and consulting package only being offered at MMC.
For more information about Loren Weisman, hiring him for a speaking engagement, his consulting services or his new book, ?The Artist?s Guide to Success in the Music Business, 2nd Edition,? visit http://lorenweisman.com/ .
For more information about the Millennium Music Conference, visit, http://musicconference.net .
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission called for PSA Peugeot Citroen
The Commission said it was granting temporary approval for 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of guarantees for Banque PSA Finance after France offered to guarantee 7 billion euros of its borrowing.
"We expect France to notify to us of a restructuring plan, not just for the banking arm but for the whole PSA group, because this aid also benefits the whole group," a Commission spokesman said.
France would need to ensure both Banque PSA Finance - which provides credit for buyers of Peugeot and Citroen cars as well as providing broader finance to the group - and PSA as a whole were viable in the long term without state support.
Although it is unclear how deep such restructuring should be, the statement will heighten pressure on France's biggest carmaker, which is already cutting 8,000 jobs and closing a major assembly plant.
Europe's second-biggest automaker unveiled in October a government-backed refinancing deal for its lending arm as the struggling French automaker's financial position deteriorated.
PSA Finance received the assistance after it encountered difficulties in borrowing.
With its costly domestic production and high exposure to southern European markets, Peugeot is bearing the brunt of the region's slump as unemployment and government austerity weigh on consumer spending.
The company has announced measures to stem losses approaching 200 million euros a month, while developing future vehicles with General Motors
(Reporting by John O'Donnell; Editing by Philip Blenkinsop and David Holmes)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-commission-calls-restructuring-over-peugeot-aid-120139853--sector.html
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As the United States pushes for an end to the U.N. arms embargo on Somalia, U.N. monitors are reporting that Islamist militants in the Horn of Africa nation are receiving arms from distribution networks linked to Yemen and Iran, diplomats told Reuters.
The U.N. Security Council's sanctions monitoring team's concerns about Iranian and Yemeni links to arms supplies for al Shabaab militants come as Yemen is asking Tehran to stop backing armed groups on Yemeni soil. Last month Yemeni coast guards and the U.S. Navy seized a consignment of missiles and rockets the Sanaa government says were sent by Iran.
According to the latest findings by the monitoring group, which tracks compliance with U.N. sanctions on Somalia and Eritrea, most weapons deliveries are coming into northern Somalia - that is, the autonomous Puntland and Somaliland regions - after which they are moved farther south into Shabaab strongholds.
The supply chains in Yemen are largely Somali networks in that country, council diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
"In Galguduud (central Somalia), Shabaab received arms, including IED (improvised explosive device) components," a Security Council diplomat said, referring to one of the Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group's most recent confidential reports. Several other council diplomats confirmed his remarks.
Other weapons supplied included PKM machine guns, said the group's monthly report for January.
The monitors were scheduled to informally brief Security Council members on Friday but the meeting was canceled due to a major snowstorm, diplomats said. The U.N. monitors favor a gradual easing of the arms embargo rather lifting it as the Americans and the Somali government advocate, the diplomats said.
Yemen is proving to be of central importance for arming Shabaab, the monitors' reporting shows, both because it is feeding arms into northern Somalia and because it has become a playing field for Iranian interests in Somalia and elsewhere.
The U.N. Security Council's Panel of Experts on Iran, which monitors compliance with the Iran sanctions regime, including the arms embargo on Tehran, is also looking at Yemen and evidence of Iranian arms shipments across Africa, council diplomats told Reuters.
Iran's U.N. mission did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
The monitors found Iranian and North Korean-manufactured weapons that came to Somalia via Libya at a base of the U.N.-backed African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. Diplomats who follow the issue said the arms were apparently recovered by the peacekeepers and raised important questions.
"Why are Iranian and North Korean small arms finding their way into Somalia from Libya? Do they date from before the arms embargoes (against both North Korea and Iran)? How did they get there from Libya?" a council diplomat asked.
"It certainly emphasizes the point that Somalia is a country awash with arms and still very fragile," the diplomat said.
CONCERNS ABOUT LIFTING ARMS EMBARGO
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the 15-nation council should consider lifting the arms embargo to help rebuild Somalia's security forces and consolidate military gains against the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants.
It is a position that has the strong backing of the United States, which is pushing for an end to the 21-year-old U.N. arms embargo. The Security Council imposed it in 1992 to cut the flow of arms to feuding warlords, who a year earlier had ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged Somalia into civil war.
Diplomatic sources said Ban's recommendation to support an end to the embargo did not appear in earlier drafts of his report but was added later on. It has happened before that a secretary-general's reports on various issues have been amended before publication in response to complaints from member states.
Diplomats said Britain, France and Argentina are the council members most reluctant to end the arms embargo, preferring a gradual easing of it instead. The Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group has also opposed the idea of lifting it and see their latest findings as proof of why that would be unwise, diplomats said.
Those who oppose scrapping the arms embargo say Somalia's security sector still includes elements close to warlords and militants, an allegation the Somali government rejects. They also say the government can still get arms despite the embargo via requests to the U.N. sanctions committee.
"There are no Somali warlords that threaten peace and stability in Somalia," the alternate permanent representative for Somalia, Idd Beddel Mohamed, told Reuters. "They are normal citizens now, members of parliament. The embargo must be lifted."
But diplomats said the monitors have a different view - namely that specific units of the Somali security forces have links to warlords and are putting pressure on the Somali government to push for the arms embargo to be lifted.
Those in favor of lifting the embargo want a monitoring mechanism to ensure that arms purchased by the government do not end up in the hands of insurgents. But they also feel that the government should have the means to continue improving security around the country as it appears to have Shabaab on the run.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations declined to comment on the monitors' reporting because it is confidential.
Last week a U.S. official said Washington was merely backing a request by the Somali government and the African Union to end the arms embargo.
The U.S. government last month recognized the Somali government for the first time in more than two decades.
U.N. discussions on the Somalia arms embargo are expected to continue through March, when the Security Council must pass a resolution to renew the mandate of the AU peacekeeping force.
(Reporting By Louis Charbonneau; editing by Christopher Wilson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-u-n-monitors-see-arms-reaching-somalia-060215103.html
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By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY
Angelina Jolie, what have you wrought? Ever since the actress struck the pose of poses at the 2012 Oscars red carpet, showing off her dress-cut-to-there in an awkward leg bend seen 'round the world, we've been on the lookout for copycat poses.
At the Grammy Awards Sunday night, Jennifer Lopez was the clear winner in the "Best Channels Angelina Jolie" category, striking the gam stance on the red carpet about an hour before the ceremony was set to begin.
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Jennifer Lopez struck a pose at the Grammys on Feb. 10 that was reminiscent of Angelina Jolie's famous gam reveal at the 2012 Oscars.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - The widow of assassinated politician ???????????Chokri Belaid said on Saturday she was asking the Tunisian government to provide her family with official protection.
"After the killing of Chokri I am asking the Ministry of the Interior to provide official protection to me I and my daughters ... If any attack happens to the family, I will accuse the Ministry of Interior officially," Basma Belaid said On television.
Belaid's killing by an unidentified gunman on Wednesday -- Tunisia's first such political assassination in decades -- has shaken a nation still seeking stability after the overthrow of veteran strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
Belaid's family has accused the ruling Islamist party Ennahda of responsibility for his killing. The party denies any hand in it.
''We intend to begin judicial action to sue all those who accuse Mr Rached al-Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party, be they politicians or journalists who are exploiting the blood of the deceased for narrow political ends at the expense of the truth'', Rached Gannouchi, the head of Ennahda, said in a statement on Saturday.
Tunisia's political transition had been more peaceful than those in other Arab nations such as Egypt and Libya, but tensions are running high between Islamists elected to power and liberals who fear the loss of hard-won freedoms.
Nejib Chebbi, leader of the Republican secular party, said that the Tunisian president provided him with official protection after he received death threats a few weeks ago. Secularists fear that the assassination of Belaid could prompt other copycat killings in Tunisia.
Belaid's funeral on Friday drew the biggest crowds seen on Tunisia's streets since the overthrow of veteran strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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The Intellectual Property, Information, and Communications Law Program (IPIC) at the Michigan State University College of Law will host the fifth annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law (CICL) from May 14-17, 2013, in Traverse City, Michigan. The Homestead Resort on Lake Michigan, adjacent to the Sleeping Bear Dune National Lakeshore, will serve as the conference?s location.
The Conference is a cooperative effort of Michigan State University College of Law, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, the University of Turku Faculty of Law (Finland), and Drake University Law School. The conference committee seeks proposals for presentations from members of academia, government, non-profits, and industry.
The theme for this year?s conference is Intellectual Property, the Internet, and Computational Transformation. Focusing on how the ever greater power of computation drives changes in the practice of law and the doctrines of intellectual property rights (IPR), we seek papers and presentations examining how this transformation affects both the doctrines of intellectual property and communications law as well as the practice of law in both domestic and international settings. We hope participants will examine the continued and developing interaction between the internet and the ever expanding power of digital communication and the development of copyright, trademark and patent law. We seek both theoretical papers that examine the reasons and normative bases for these developments?as well as more descriptive and doctrinal papers that gather, collect, and analyze information about these changes both from a domestic and international perspective. Finally, we seek papers examining how technology is changing the way law is practiced, such as developments in predictive algorithms in patent and copyright cases, computer-assisted visualizations of IPR issues, and computer-guided practice of law.
Please send abstracts or proposals, or inquiries, to Adam Candeub, IPIC director, candeub@msu.edu; Katja Lindross, katja.lindroos@abo.fi, Sean Pager, IPIC associate director, spager@law.msu.edu, or Jenny Carter-Johnson, jcj@law.msu.edu. For more information, check out the website: http://www.law.msu.edu/ipic/innovation/
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See Inside A look at the state of flight in 1913 from the archives of Scientific American
The new science and art of flight evolved as inventors created machines to fill specific flying purposes. While the storm clouds of World War I gathered, military aviation became predominant.
The increasing capability of flying machines in 1913 showed that they could be used as a tool of travel and, a year before World War I broke out in Europe, as a weapon of war.
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Yahoo! News is gathering brief first-person accounts, photos and video from the severe winter weather in the northeastern United States. Here's one resident's story.
FIRST PERSON | Not all nor'easters are winter storms, but those that are often leave a lasting set of memories in native New Englanders. The current storm promises to be one, too. Two large storm systems combined to form what newscasters in the area are calling a "superstorm" -- and some are saying that amounts close to three feet of snow are possible, if not probable.
Some take it in stride; they'll ensure they've got necessities enough to ride out a few days of possible immobility and power loss. Others take it in a state of semi-panic; they'll wait until the last minute, then line up for gasoline or raid local supermarkets and convenience stores for anything they think they'll need. Milk, bread and water go first. Simple foodstuffs that don't require cooking generally follow -- breads, in particular.
And anything from rock salt to windshield washer fluid, fire starters to shovels, boots and gloves to flashlights and batteries.
My wife and I are more in the former than the latter category, so only had a few small errands to do. This morning, before the snow began, we re-topped a gas tank and tossed a tow rope, shovel, some cat litter and chemical lightsticks into the Jeep, and went out to get some food at a local pizzeria (Unchained Pizza, on Adams St. in Quincy). There's already more than an inch of wet snow on the ground.
We've walked the dog, and are now hunkering down to watch the storm roll in from our quiet corner of Milton, Mass.
If we need to go out, we know that there's a 7-Eleven up the street (Adams Street in Quincy, run by Dennis Lane) that will probably be open and accessible.
Regardless of the type of storm routine, nearly everyone will be off the roads at 4 p.m. -- governor's orders.
Stay safe, everyone.
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A new video showcasing the future of weapons was released on YouTube today: a enterprising 24-year-old gun enthusiast manufactured his own high-capacity 30-round gun magazine using a 3D printer. Hoping to spread the amateur design of more “Wiki Weapons”, the rebellious 24-year-old designer nicknamed the blueprints of the weapon, the “Cuomo,” named after New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, who signed a recent ban on all gun magazines in excess of 7 rounds. ?He [Cuomo] wants to be associated with these magazines,? designer Cody Wilson told Talking Points Memo. ?Lets make that association permanent.? Wilson’s Defense Distributed wants to catalyze a massive online catalog of weapons, similar to the user-generated encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The online blueprints, which are free and open to tinkering, have already been downloaded over 100,000 times, according to TPM. 3D printed weapons have faced harsh backlash from others in the growing industry of amateur 3D printing, the so-called “maker movement.” Popular 3D printer manufacturer and icon of the movement, Makerbot, has issued a strictly enforced ban on weapons. 3D printer company, Stratasys, attempted to stop Wilson by seizing the very printer he was leasing from them, but Wilson has since purchased another Stratasys printer. Given the decentralized nature of such open-source movements, it’s hard to crack down on those who are willing to organize their own communities. “Our idea is to facilitate a community around what we?re doing,” said Wilson. “Defense Distributed is just about proving concepts and releasing snippets of basic information so others can learn. I think we?re a software organization, primarily.” Wikipedia probably never imagined it would be the inspiration for a global movement of gun makers. But, in this new world of easily accessible technology, every group will be able to re-imagine their ideology for the 21st Century.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-6K2wzD4HcY/
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And so are all other placental mammals, according to a new morphological and genetic analysis that paints a clearer picture of our Cretaceous-period common ancestor.
An artist's rendering of the hypothetical placental ancestor, a small, insect-eating animal with a long, furry tail. The research team reconstructed the anatomy of the animal by mapping traits onto the evolutionary tree most strongly supported by the combined phenomic (physical traits you can see) and genomic data and comparing the features in placental mammals with those seen in their closest relatives.
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EnlargeA tiny, furry-tailed creature is the most complete picture yet as to what the ancestor of mice, elephants, lions, tigers, bears, whales, bats and humans once looked like, researchers say.
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These new findings also suggest this forerunner of most mammals appeared shortly after the catastrophe that?ended the age of dinosaurs, scientists added.
"Species like rodents and primates did not share the Earth with nonavian dinosaurs, but arose from a common ancestor ? a small, insect-eating, scampering animal ? shortly after the dinosaurs' demise," said researcher Maureen O'Leary at Stony Brook University in New York.
The study was so thorough that the team, made up of 23 scientists from around the world, was able tospeculate on the appearance of this hypothetical ancestor inside and out, from its brain and inner ear bones to its ovaries and even what its sperm may have looked like (it sported a head and tail like modern-day sperm cells do).
The largest living branch of the mammalian family tree holds the?placentals?? mammals that keep fetuses alive with placentas, as opposed to?marsupials such as kangaroos, which raise offspring in pouches, or monotremes such as platypuses, which develop fetuses in eggs. [See Images of the Furry Mammal Ancestor and Descendants]
"There are over 5,100 living placental species and they exhibit enormous diversity," said researcher Nancy Simmons at the American Museum of Natural History.
Much remains controversial about the origins of placentals, such as when they arose and how they diversified. Fossil evidence suggests they evolved after the?end-Cretaceous mass extinction?event about 65 million years ago that ended the age of dinosaurs; and the "explosive model" based off this data proposes that placental lineages emerged and diversified to fill niches left vacant after this catastrophe. However, genetics research suggests placental lineages were actually far older, hinting their diversification was linked to the breakup of the continents before the end of the Cretaceous period.
"In the field of mammal research, there had been a big divide between people working with DNA and others working on morphology," said researcher John Wible at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
To uncover the roots of the placental family tree and help resolve the decades-old debate as to when placentals evolved, an international team of researchers took part in a six-year research collaboration called Assembling the Tree of Life. The project adopted two distinct approaches to evolutionary studies ? molecular data, which examines DNA, and morphological data, which looks at anatomical features such as bone length, types of teeth and the presence of stripes in the fur. [Animal Codes: 10 Coolest Genome Sequences]
The molecular team gathered DNA sequences of living animals while the morphology team analyzed the anatomy of both living and extinct mammals. The molecular team was limited largely to living mammals, because researchers currently cannot extract genetic material from fossils more than 30,000 years old, so morphological data was key when it came to exploring more ancient branches of the mammal family tree.
"Discovering the tree of life is like piecing together a crime scene ? it is a story that happened in the past that you can't repeat," O'Leary said. "Just like with a crime scene, the new tools of DNA add important information, but so do other physical clues like a body or, in the scientific realm, fossils and anatomy. Combining all the evidence produces the most informed reconstruction of a past event."
When it comes to studying morphology, a dataset of 500 anatomical characteristics, or "characters," is often considered large. However, for this new project, the researchers generated a groundbreaking 4,500 characters using a cloud-based and publicly accessible database called MorphoBank.
"We couldn't have accomplished this without MorphoBank," said researcher Michelle Spaulding at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. "This website allowed members of the team, spread all over the globe, to work simultaneously."
Combining both DNA and morphological datasets led to an unprecedented amount of information for each of the 83 mammals they investigated.
"It's not that we hadn't combined morphology with DNA before," Spaulding said. "This time, we ratcheted up the amount of morphological detail phenomenally, providing a larger anatomical base for the study as compared with DNA than is typical."
From all this data from living and extinct mammals, the scientists extrapolated the appearance of the most recent common ancestor of all placental mammals.
"We have all these placentals alive today, from?elephants to shrews, from things that fly to things that swim," Spaulding said. "What could?the common ancestor of these things?that are so different possibly look like?"
The scientists then worked with an artist to illustrate this ancestor. In addition to a furry tail, the researchers suggest the four-legged creature likely ate insects, weighed from 6 grams (about the weight of some shrews) up to 245 grams ? less than half a pound ? and was more adapted for general scampering than built for more specialized forms of movement, such as swinging from trees. Also, its cerebral cortex ? the part of the brain linked to higher mental processes ? was probably convoluted, folds linked with greater brain activity, the researchers found.
"That's the power of 4,500 characters," Wible said. "We looked at all aspects of mammalian anatomy, from the skull and skeleton, to the teeth, to internal organs, to muscles, and even fur patterns. Using the?new family tree of mammals?in tandem with this anatomical data, we were able to reconstruct what this common placental ancestor may have looked like." [Meet the Mammal Ancestor (Infographic)]
Their research also suggested placental mammals appeared after the end of the age of dinosaurs, with the original ancestor developing about 200,000 to 400,000 years after the event.
"This is about 36 million years later than the prediction based on purely genetic data," said researcher Marcelo Weksler at Brazil's National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
This supports the notion that the mass extinction was a critical event in mammalian evolutionary history. "The diversification of placental mammals was not tied to the breakup of continents from a supercontinent, Gondwana," O'Leary told LiveScience.
The discrepancy between these findings and past research that looked only at genes is the result of the way genetic studies "assign a rate of change to genes through time," O'Leary explained. "A weakness of that approach is that it involves many assumptions about rates of gene change through time."
In the future, "I will continue looking for key fossils from the Late Mesozoic and Early Paleogene that help us contribute even more to this family tree," O'Leary said. "I have been working in Africa to make such discoveries with projects in Mali and Senegal. I plan to continue trying to make fossil discoveries that expand the placental mammal family tree."
The scientists detailed their findings in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Where did all the turkeys go?
That's the question attorneys for the buyer of bankrupt Zacky Farms LLC is asking, amid claims that one of the nation's largest turkey and chicken processors has been rushing to dump the bulk of its inventory of frozen turkeys - and speed up getting paid for it - prior to a rival completing its purchase of the nearly 100-year-old California family business.
Zacky Farms filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last October, blaming its economic woes in part on high feed costs following the worst drought in half a century.
Attorneys for Pitman Family Farms filed papers on Tuesday with the U.S. District Bankruptcy Court in Sacramento in which they claimed Zacky Farms has sped up the sale and delivery of more than $1 million worth of whole turkey inventory to Stater Bros. Markets, a private grocery retailer based in Southern California.
The sale of the inventory had been originally scheduled from January 30 through March 8. Instead, according to Pitman's attorneys, "Zacky revised the delivery schedules to deliver five or six loads a day" so all of the meat would be delivered to the retailer weeks before the bankruptcy court's expected approval of the sale of Zacky Farms.
The agreement to buy Zacky Farms out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy was based on Pitman having access to that inventory of frozen birds "to help offset losses that will be incurred after the approved sale," according to the court papers.
Zacky Farms now is losing approximately $3 million to $5 million each month.
An attorney for Zacky Farms told Pitman and its lawyers that such sales were typical of a poultry company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a copy of an email filed with the court.
Pitman's attorneys are asking the court that it escrow the proceeds from the "objectionable sale of these assets" for the time being, according to the court filings.
Attorneys for Zacky Farms could not be reached for comment. Jan T. Perkins, an attorney for Pitman Farms, declined to comment on the court filing. A spokesman for Stater Bros. could not be reached for comment.
Zacky Farms also recently sold 21 loads of "odd-sized" turkey breast meat to another company, Bird-in-Hand Farms Inc, at deeply discounted rates, according to the court filings.
The sales began a day after Pitman signed papers in late January to buy Zacky Farms out of bankruptcy, according to court papers. The sales allegedly ranged from $1.11 to $1.30 per pound of turkey breast meat. Current market prices for such meat range from $1.65 to $1.68 per pound, court papers state.
Bird-in-Hand Farms could not be reached for comment.
The legal debate marks the latest twist in the bankruptcy case. Last month, a Zacky Family trust pulled its bid to buy the operation out of bankruptcy. The struggling Fresno-based processor then accepted a $32.1 million back-up bid from Pitman Family Farms.
Pitman is a family-owned poultry farm operation in California, and is known for its free-range line of turkeys and chickens.
Zacky Farms has said in court filings that, as of last fall, it employed about 1,500 people in Fresno, Los Angeles, Tulare, Kings and San Joaquin counties. It had listed between $50 million to $100 million in assets, with debts in the same range, according to court filings at the time.
Company officials said in a statement last fall that the entire poultry industry has been strained by historically high feed prices which led Zacky Farms to incur "significant operating losses that have depleted its liquidity and working capital position" in its chicken and turkey businesses.
At the time of its bankruptcy filing, Zacky Farms was the eighth poultry firm to either be sold, enter into Chapter 11 bankruptcy or shut down altogether since 2011, according to data from the trade group National Chicken Council.
The case is Zacky Farms, LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California, 12-37961.
(Reporting by P.J. Huffstutter; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
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Feb. 5, 2013 ? We take it for granted that our chromosomes won't stick together, yet this kind of cellular disaster would happen constantly were it not for a protein called TRF2. Now, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered key details of how TRF2 performs this crucial chromosome-protecting function. The finding represents a significant advance in cell biology and also has implications for our understanding of cancer and the aging process.
"Cells tend to interpret their chromosome ends as sites of DNA damage, and without TRF2, they would attempt to 'repair' these sites by fusing different chromosomes together," said TSRI Assistant Professor Eros Lazzerini Denchi. "The prevailing view has been that TRF2 has a passive role in hiding chromosome ends from the DNA repair machinery, but we found that it also actively suppresses the repair response."
Lazzerini Denchi is the corresponding author of the new study, which is reported in an Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature on February 6, 2013.
A Protective Cap
TRF2 is part of a protective protein cap localized at the ends of chromosomes, the telomeres. Telomeres shorten with every cellular division, and when they become too short -- in aged organisms, for example -- TRF2 is no longer able to localize at chromosome ends. In such cases, chromosome ends become exposed and the DNA repair response is liable to knit uncapped chromosomes to each other. This action results in strings of chromosomes fused together that are unstable and can lead to cell death or, in some cases, to uncontrolled growth leading to cancer.
In 2007, as a postdoctoral researcher at The Rockefeller University, Lazzerini Denchi found that TRF2 works in part by blocking a particular signaling pathway in the DNA damage response. In the new study, he and his laboratory colleagues at TSRI have explored TRF2's functions in more detail.
"We found that TRF2 uses a two-step mechanism to protect chromosome ends," said Keiji Okamoto, a postdoctoral fellow in Lazzerini Denchi's laboratory who was the lead author of the new study.
TRF2 is a complex protein with four functional domains (regions). Okamoto probed the specific functions of these four domains by creating artificial TRF2-like proteins -- in which one or more functional domains were replaced with non-functional "dummy" domains. By studying how these artificial TRF2s functioned in cells, he could determine the separate functions of each individual domain.
Uncovering Distinct Roles
Two of these domains turned out to have distinct roles in suppressing the DNA damage response. "One domain, called TRFH, blocks localization of the DNA damage factor ?H2AX, the initial step in the DNA response pathway," said Okamoto. It may do so by inducing a structural change in telomeres that hides it from the DNA damage machinery. A distinct region of TRF2, which Okamoto dubbed iDDR (inhibitor of the DNA damage response pathway), independently and actively suppresses the transduction of the DNA damage signal downstream of ?H2AX.
Okamoto and colleagues found that the iDDR region works in part by recruiting an enzymatic activity associated with the tumor suppressor protein BRCA1. Defects in BRCA1 lead to DNA misrepairs, genomic instability and a sharp rise in cancer risk. (Certain BRCA1 mutations bring a greater than 50-percent lifetime risk of breast or ovarian cancer.) This new finding hints that BRCA1 defects may result in defects in telomere protection, too.
Lazzerini Denchi, Okamoto and their colleagues now plan to explore TRF2's functions and protein partners in further detail, in cell studies and in transgenic mice. "We want to address the BRCA1 connection more thoroughly, too, for example, to determine the importance of its association with telomeres in preventing tumors," Lazzerini Denchi said.
The study was supported in part by a Pew Scholars Award, the Novartis Advanced Discovery Institute, the National Institutes for Health (AG038677), the National Center for Research Resources (5P41RR011823-17) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (8 P41 GM103533-17).
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