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Friday, December 30, 2011
Military wives turn to Bible for marriage advice (AP)
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. ? With husbands deployed or off preparing for war, some young wives at this sprawling Army installation have spent much of their marriages so far alone.
Faced with long periods of separation and worry over the next combat tour, a group of wives mostly in their late 20s and early 30s are drawn together weekly to seek spiritual support to bolster the strength of their marriages.
Mya Parker, 27, saw both sides of the average military marriage and the strain that years of combat duty can do to a relationship. She served in the Army for four years on active duty before helping to start the Lantern, a nondenominational faith group for military wives and girlfriends outside Fort Campbell, Ky.
"The military, because of the complexities of the deployment, can have more uncertainties," she said. "The reason God is the answer is because scripture says that He has never changed. From the beginning of time to the end of time, He is unchanging."
While not solely sponsored by any one church, these wives meet weekly in small, informal groups of eight to 12 at their homes to study the Bible's teachings and how to apply them to today's modern military marriage.
Parker and her husband, an Army aviator, both served in Afghanistan with the famed 101st Airborne Division, a unit that has been heavily impacted by the wars there and in Iraq since 2001. During her Army career, Parker saw deployed husbands anxious about their wives back home and wives struggling to communicate with husbands a world away.
In the privacy of these small weekly gatherings, the wives don't hold back their fears about the realities of war.
"We don't sugar-coat it and say, `Oh, it will be great, it will be fine. This deployment is going to fly by.' To be honest, it's hard and you have good days and bad days," said Mandy Costello, 29, who has been married five years through her husband's three deployments.
With less than 1 percent of Americans serving in the military, the lifestyle of a military wife can sometimes feel isolating. But when they get together, these wives speak the same language that is peppered with military acronyms as they share advice for keeping marriages intact, when sometimes months go by without kisses or hugs from their spouses.
"If you don't know what to expect, you feel alone, you feel isolated and you feel like you are the only one going through this, when you know there are thousands of soldiers deployed with your husband at the same time. It still feels like you are the only one," said Holly Klich, 31, who has been married four years to a soldier who has had two combat tours.
Besides the Lantern meetings, many of these wives participate in the military's family readiness groups, which provide information about deployments and organize events and classes for military spouses and families.
Parker said group members come from a variety of faith backgrounds, including Mormon, Catholic, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, but she said the group is open to all faiths. The group also does public service projects that Parker said aren't faith-focused and are open to anyone who wants to join them.
The Army has also been focused on improving military marriages and has invested in a marriage counseling program run by unit chaplains called Strong Bonds, which is popular with soldiers of all faiths.
Parker and others said they need additional strength from their faith to be resilient.
Parker points to the Bible's emphasis on grace, patience, kindness and forgiveness as keys to a healthy marriage, even those tested by war.
"It has made me much more patient with him dealing with what he has been through and honoring that he ultimately doesn't belong to me," Parker said. "He belongs to the Lord."
The weekly prayer meetings have helped many wives reconnect with their husbands, many who have recently returned from the 101st Airborne's yearlong deployment to Afghanistan. Parker said many wives expect a joyous reunion, but many couples have to learn how to live together again.
Vanessa James, a 30-year-old who had twin boys while her husband was deployed, said she prayed that she wouldn't be resentful that her husband missed so much while he was gone.
"He has been home for three months now and I can honestly say that I feel closer to my husband than ever before, and I think it's because I approached this reintegration with a servant's heart," she said.
With the support of other wives, Parker said a deployment can also be a blessing if women take the opportunity to grow in their faith and their marriages.
"My number one piece of advice, even if someone didn't grow up in the church and isn't a believer, is to really take the time. Deployment is an amazing time to pursue a relationship with God for maybe the first time," she said.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Avastin May Help Some With Ovarian Cancer: Studies (HealthDay)
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies suggest that the drug Avastin may lengthen progression-free survival by about four months for women with ovarian cancer.
What isn't clear yet is whether adding Avastin (bevacizumab) will make a difference in overall survival. One study suggested it would, while the other study didn't find a difference in overall survival between two treatment groups.
"The bottom-line results are a 28 percent reduction in disease progression with patients on continued bevacizumab compared to the standard treatment group. There was a 3.8 month median difference in progression-free survival," said Dr. Robert Burger, author of one of the studies and director of the Women's Cancer Center at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
"We still have to fine-tune or optimize this sort of new paradigm of treatment. This regimen [chemotherapy plus continued Avastin] could be considered a frontline option for patients with advanced ovarian cancer. However, there are some risks to the treatment, and we haven't shown an impact on overall survival. But, in the European trial, they saw an overall survival benefit," Burger added.
"I think the difficult reality is that these studies are not clear-cut," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. "The improvements in progression are modest and appear to be greater for women who have worse disease. What this ultimately means is that it's absolutely important for doctors treating women with advanced ovarian cancer to read these studies very carefully so they know who may benefit and the risks of treatment, and to counsel their patients very carefully before moving forward with Avastin treatment," Lichtenfeld explained.
"This is not a case where treatment can be initiated in every woman. The benefits for many women are modest at best," he added.
Results of both studies are published in the Dec. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The studies were funded by Roche and Genentech (a Roche-owned company). Burger said Genentech played no role in the study design or analysis.
Burger's study included almost 1,900 women with newly diagnosed stage 3 or stage 4 epithelial ovarian cancer. All of the women had undergone surgery to remove as much cancer as possible. They were then randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: standard treatment including paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy; the Avastin-initiation group that included the standard chemotherapy and Avastin for the second through sixth treatment cycle; and the Avastin maintenance group that included chemotherapy plus Avastin for up to the 22nd treatment cycle.
The average progression-free survival was 10.3 months for the standard group, 11.2 months for the Avastin-initiation group and just over 14 months for the Avastin-maintenance group. There was no difference in overall survival for the three groups.
The European study included more than 1,500 women with varying types of ovarian cancer. Most had epithelial ovarian cancer, but the severity ranged from early-stage disease to stage 4. Seventy percent of the women enrolled in this study had stage 3 or stage 4 cancer.
The women were randomly assigned to receive either standard chemotherapy treatment or chemotherapy plus Avastin for up to 12 cycles of chemotherapy. The dose of Avastin used in this trial was half of what was used in Burger's trial.
Progression-free survival was 20.3 months for the standard group and 21.8 months for the standard therapy plus Avastin. In women who were considered at high risk for progression, the progression-free survival was 14.5 months on standard therapy and 18.1 months with the addition of Avastin. Overall survival in high-risk women was 28.8 months for women on standard chemotherapy and 36.6 months for standard therapy plus Avastin.
High blood pressure is a common side effect of Avastin, but Burger said that in most cases, it can be controlled with blood pressure medication. Another serious side effect associated with Avastin is bowel perforation, which means a hole opens in the bowel wall. This side effect occurred in fewer than 3 percent of women treated, but occurred twice as much in women taking Avastin.
Published reports peg the cost of the drug at somewhere between $4,000 and $9,000 a month, depending on co-pay assistance that's available from Genentech, Avastin's manufacturer. In a previous study, another research group looked at the cost effectiveness of treatment with Avastin in Burger's trial and found the standard treatment arm of the trial cost $2.5 million. Treating the Avastin-initiation group cost $21.4 million and the Avastin-maintenance group cost $78.3 million, according to the study, which was published in the March 7 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. And, most of those costs came directly from the cost of the medication. Those researchers concluded that Avastin was not a cost-effective medication.
"We don't want cost to be a deciding factor, but for many women with ovarian cancer, cost may be a significant factor, and it needs to be weighed in the equation," Lichtenfeld said.
Avastin isn't approved in the United States for the treatment of ovarian cancer, so some insurance companies may balk at paying for it. Plus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pulled Avastin's approval for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in November because the FDA found the risks of the drug outweighed its modest benefits. Avastin is still approved for the treatment of some types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer in the United States.
However, the drug was just approved by the European Union for use in ovarian cancer in combination with chemotherapy.
More information
Learn more about ovarian cancer and its treatment from the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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PLO May Pull About Face on Oslo - No Longer Recognizing Israel
Mohammed Shtayyeh, member of the Fatah Central Committee and one of the Palestinian Authority negotiators with Israel, was quoted Sunday
as saying that the Palestinians may cancel the agreements signed between the PLO and Israel.
Meanwhile, some PLO and Fatah leaders have privately criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for agreeing to
incorporate Hamas into the PLO.
At least three senior officials in Ramallah have voiced strong reservations over the decision, a Fatah official told The Jerusalem
Post. He said that those who were opposed to the move were worried that Hamas would replace Fatah as the dominant party in the PLO.
One official was quoted as saying that Abbas was paving the way for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to take control not only over the PLO, but the
entire West Bank as well.
Shtayyeh's comments were published by the London-based Asharq Al Awsat newspaper.
This was not the first time that a senior PA official had talked about
the possibility of abrogating the Oslo Accords.
The comments came less than 48 hours after Hamas and Islamic Jihad
agreed to join a temporary leadership of the PLO that would prepare
for new elections for the organization's two key bodies - the
Palestine National Council and Executive Committee.
In response to a question about Israeli settlements, Shtayyeh said:
"If Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insists that there is no
difference between the settlement of Abu Ghneim [Har Homa] and Tel
Aviv, we won't distinguish between Ramallah and Jaffa."
With regards to the PLO's decision to recognize Israel in 1993,
Shtayyeh explained: "The recognition of Israel was not a balanced
recognition. The PLO recognized Israel in the geographic sense, but
Israel did not recognize Palestine geographically, but as an
institution. Israel only recognized the PLO. Now we are demanding a
mutual recognition. We want Israel to recognize the Palestinian
territories of 1967."
Shtayyeh said the Palestinians' efforts would from now on focus on
internal affairs. "President [Mahmoud] Abbas is now interested in
reuniting the Palestinians," he said. "In the year 2012, their will be
a political vacuum because the US will be preoccupied with
presidential elections, the Europeans with the Euro crisis and the
Arabs with their "Spring."
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Oil from 2007 spill surprisingly toxic to fish, scientists report
Thick, tarry fuel oil disgorged into San Francisco Bay from a damaged cargo ship in 2007 was surprisingly toxic to fish embryos, devastating the herring population that feeds seabirds, whales and the bay's last commercial fishery, scientists reported Monday.
Although the bay's herring spawning grounds are now free of toxic oil, studies have found that the moderate-size spill of 54,000 gallons had an unexpectedly large and lethal effect.
The culprit, a common type of ship fuel called "bunker fuel," appears to be especially toxic to fish embryos, particularly when exposed to sunlight, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"That's the big lesson," said John Incardona, a toxicologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. "This bunker oil is literally the dregs of the barrel, and it's much more toxic than crude oil."
The container ship Cosco Busan spilled low-grade bunker fuel after it sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on a foggy November morning four years ago. This type of sludge-like fuel is cheap and thus popular among operators of commercial shipping fleets that transport raw materials and goods around the globe.
Scientists have traditionally focused on larger crude oil spills, such as last year's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico or 1989's Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, in which 11 million gallons of oil were discharged into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The Exxon spill is suspected of wiping out the sound's herring fishery, which has never bounced back.
From studies in Alaska, scientists knew that oil could cause heart deformities to developing herring in their embryonic sacs.
But after examining herring embryos placed in cages in shallow waters near the Cosco Busan spill site, researchers were surprised to find that nearly all had died, and their tissues were deteriorating faster than expected in the bay's chilly water.
"We didn't think there was enough oil spilled to cause this much damage," said Gary Cherr, a study coauthor and director of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. He described the total spill as similar in size to a large backyard swimming pool.
Oil and water don't mix. The fat-filled herring egg sacs can act like little sponges, soaking up the highly toxic compounds from the bunker fuel. Once exposed to sunlight during low tides, the oil compounds became even more lethal to developing fish.
"Bunker fuel is used worldwide and is spilled relatively often," Cherr said. "It is important to look at small spills in sensitive areas," he added, now that science understands the lethal potential of low concentrations.
The owners and operators of the Cosco Busan in September agreed to pay $44.4 million to cover government claims, the cost of the cleanup ? about half of the spilled oil was captured ? and bay restoration programs. Besides tarring about 30% of the bay's herring spawning grounds, the spill killed about 6,800 seabirds and closed beaches for months.
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Obama spends Christmas with family, military
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha arrive for Christmas service at the Kaneohe bay Chapel on Marine Corps Base Hawaii , Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha arrive for Christmas service at the Kaneohe bay Chapel on Marine Corps Base Hawaii , Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama gets a mouth full of fingers from Cooper Wall Wagner, 8 months, as he poses for a photo with Coopers and his parents Captain Greg and Meredith Wagner, as he visits members of the military during Christmas dinner at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii , Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama laughs after getting a mouth full of fingers from Cooper Wall Wagner, 8 months, as he poses for a photo with Cooper's and his parents Captain Greg and Meredith Wagner, as he visits members of the military during Christmas dinner at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii , Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha arrive to attend Christmas service at the Kaneohe bay Chapel on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama, second from right, first lady Michelle Obama, left, and their daughters Malia, right, and Sasha, not seen, arrive to attend Christmas service at the Kaneohe bay Chapel on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
HONOLULU (AP) ? President Barack Obama blended his roles as a father and commander-in-chief this Christmas, exchanging presents and singing carols with his family, then greeting U.S. service members stationed at a Marine base in Hawaii.
The president and his family woke up early Sunday to open gifts, the White House said, then had breakfast and sang Christmas carols at the multimillion-dollar house they rent in Kailua Beach, near Honolulu.
Obama made two trips on Christmas to nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, first to attend church services at the base chapel. The president dressed casually in dark khaki pants and a short-sleeve blue shirt, and his wife and daughters donned sundresses for Christmas services on a bright, breezy day on the island of Oahu.
After spending a few hours at their rental home, the president and Michelle Obama returned to the base to visit with several hundred service members and their families, as they have done in past years.
The Obamas posed for posed for photos, signed autographs and stopped to chat with the military families gathered in the dining hall, where roast beef, salad and apple pie were on the Christmas Day menu.
Eight-month-old Cooper Wall Wagner, son of Capt. Greg Wagner, got up close and personal with the president, grabbing his face, then sticking his fingers in Obama's mouth.
An amused Obama said he thought the baby just liked his "big nose" ? a comment that drew laughter from several of the Marines.
Many of the service members stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii have deployed to Afghanistan, as well as Iraq, where the last American troops were withdrawn earlier this month.
Back in the Washington area, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden spent Christmas visiting wounded service members and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Obama also called 10 service members stationed around the world ? two from each branch of the military ? on Christmas Eve. The White House said he thanked them for their service and the sacrifice of being away from their families at the holidays.
The Obamas were wrapping up their Christmas festivities with dinner at the rental home with friends and family. Among those joining the first family in Hawaii are the president's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives on Oahu, and several friends Obama has known since high school.
The president has kept a low profile since arriving in Hawaii on Friday evening to start a vacation delayed by the stalemate in Washington over extending payroll tax cuts. He has no public events planned, and his only outings are expected to be to the golf course or to take his daughters for shave ice, a Hawaiian snow cone.
The Obamas are expected to return to Washington shortly after New Year's Day.
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Associated Press writer Jaymes Song in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, contributed to this report.
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Longtime Langston University president Ernest Holloway dies
Holloway, who was being treated for stomach cancer in Texas, died Saturday afternoon, said Currie Ballard, former university historian in residence. He was 81.
Holloway worked for 40 years of service to Langston, a historically black university, where he rose from assistant registrar to become the 14th president in 1979.
Before becoming president, Holloway had served as the school's registrar, a professor, vice president of administration and dean of student affairs. Holloway also was a student at Langston.
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In Christmas Message, Pope Urges Peace In Africa, Asia
In his traditional Christmas Day message, Pope Benedict XVI has urged the faithful to seek a "spiritual union" with the less fortunate around the world.
Appearing at noon from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, the pope also pronounced Christmas blessings in 65 languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Swahili, and his native German.
The "Urbi et Orbi" (to the people of Rome and to the world) blessing was broadcast on television and radio to more than 60 countries.
The spiritual leader of the world's more than 1.1 billion Roman Catholics mentioned several of the world's trouble spots, expressing the need to "speak out for those who have no voice."
Benedict asked God's help for the peoples of the Horn of Africa," who suffer from hunger and food shortages, aggravated at times by a persistent state of insecurity."
The pontiff also asked God to "encourage the resumption of dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians," and for an end to the violence in Syria.
Benedict prayed for a "full reconciliation and stability" in Iraq and Afghanistan and for dialogue and cooperation in Myanmar.
The Vatican has also denounced the deadly Christmas Day attacks on Nigerian churches as a sign of? "cruelty and absurd, blind hatred" that shows no respect for? human life.?
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Christmas won't be white in much of United States (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Snowstorms snarled "Getaway Friday" plans for some holiday travelers, shutting roads in New Mexico and New Hampshire, and colder temperatures ahead renewed hopes for a white Christmas in parts of the Southwest and Northeast.
Much of the rest of the country was expected to celebrate a sunny but brown Christmas, forecasters said.
In Georgia, where powerful storms ripped across the northern part of the state on Thursday, 4,100 customers -- most of them in Rome, Georgia -- were still without power on Friday, according to Georgia Power.
The utility said it hoped to restore service to affected customers by midnight Friday.
A wintry storm dumped as much as a foot of snow on parts of New Hampshire, forcing scattered road closures during the morning rush hour on Friday, said meteorologist Mark Mancuso on Accuweather.com.
Temperatures were expected to drop after a stretch of unseasonable warm weather, increasing the likelihood that the frosting would last through Christmas Sunday.
"I'm glad we're going to have a white Christmas," said Ray Cloutier, 63, proprietor of the Tannery Marketplace commercial building in Littleton, New Hampshire.
"Yesterday the ground was brown and now it's beautiful with wet snow coating the branches of the trees," Cloutier said.
Heavy snow in New Mexico closed highways south of Albuquerque around Las Cruces, and another three inches was expected to fall before evening, forecasters said.
Snow was headed to El Paso, Texas, where an accumulation of more than one inch would put it ahead of Chicago in terms of snowfall so far this winter, said Accuweather meteorologist Mark Miller.
Ski resorts eager to draw crowds to their slopes over the holidays, typically the most lucrative week of the season, welcomed the long-awaited snow and predicted cold temperatures.
At Attitash Mountain Resort in northern New Hampshire, five inches of fresh snow on the ground spelled relief ahead of Christmas week, said Thomas Prindle, director of marketing at the ski resort.
But snow cover elsewhere around the United States two days ahead of Christmas was well below average.
The culprit has been higher-than-normal temperatures this month from Montana to Virginia and drier-than-normal conditions in northern California and the Pacific Northwest, said Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service.
In a typical December, Chicago gets 8.5 inches of snow. So far this month, the city has only received 1.7 inches of snow, the lowest since 2003.
New York City has seen zero snowfall since the freak fall of late October that dumped nearly 3 inches in the city. Reno, Nevada has had no snowfall since November.
"That's the first time that's happened since 1995," Murphy said.
About 92 million Americans -- 30 percent of the total U.S. population -- will travel more than 50 miles this holiday season, 91 percent of them by road, said AAA.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg, James Kelleher and Karin Matz; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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Iran's navy begins drill in international waters (AP)
TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's navy began a 10-day drill Saturday in international waters near the strategic oil route that passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
The exercises, dubbed "Velayat 90," could bring Iranian ships into proximity with U.S. Navy vessels in the area.
The war games cover a 1,250-mile (2,000-kilometer) stretch of sea off the Strait of Hormuz, northern parts of the Indian Ocean and into the Gulf of Aden, near the entrance to the Red Sea, state TV reported.
The drill will be Iran's latest show of strength in the face of mounting international criticism over its controversial nuclear program, which the West fears is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Tehran denies those charges, insisting the program is for peaceful purposes only.
Navy chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari said Iran is holding the drill to show off its prowess and defense capabilities.
"To show off its might, the navy needs to be present in international waters. It's necessary to demonstrate the navy's defense capabilities," state TV quoted Sayyari as saying.
The Strait of Hormuz is of strategic significance as the passageway for about a third of the world's oil tanker traffic. Beyond it lie vast bodies of water, including the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet is also active in the area, as are warships of several other countries that patrol for pirates there.
Both the U.S. and Israel have not ruled out a military option against Iran over its nuclear program. Iranian hard-liners have come out with occasional threats that Tehran would seal off the key waterway if the U.S. or Israel moved against the country's nuclear facilities.
Iran regularly holds war games and has also been active in fighting piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Sayyari said submarines, surface-to-sea missile systems, missile-launching vessels, torpedoes and drones will be employed in the maneuvers.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Egypt activists call mass rally against army rule (Reuters)
CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egyptian activists have called a mass rally in Cairo on Friday against the army's handling of protests that killed 17 people and drew international criticism of the ruling generals.
Protesters who fought soldiers and police in the capital for five days until calm was restored this week want the ruling military council to cede power more swiftly than planned.
Some Egyptians, skeptical of the military's avowed commitment to democratic change, want a presidential vote as early as January 25, the first anniversary of the start of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak, or at least much earlier than the mid-2012 handover now scheduled.
Students have called for Egyptians to join Friday's protest with a march from Cairo's Ain Shams university, two of whose students were among the 17 killed.
Those two deaths prompted sit-ins on Ain Shams campus, in front of the Defense Ministry and at other universities.
"The current predicament we have reached is a result of the army council's reluctance to play its role, its intentional foot-dragging, breaking its obligations and failing over the economy and security, putting the whole country on the edge of a huge crisis," said a statement signed by two dozen parties, youth movements and others calling for Friday's protest.
The April 6 movement, which played a lead role in galvanizing Egyptians to rise up against Mubarak, said the army's handling of the latest street protests showed it was seeking to "protect the previous regime."
BROTHERHOOD PARTY STAYS OFF STREETS
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), leading in Egypt's staggered parliamentary election and wary of derailing the vote that will secure its place in mainstream politics, said it would not join in.
The ultraconservative Salafist al-Nour Party said on its Facebook page however that it would take part.
Many activists accuse the Brotherhood and other Islamists of betraying the protest movement in order to secure their own positions in the emerging new power structure.
The FJP said on its Facebook page it would not participate although it said it was "the right of the Egyptian people to protest and demonstrate peacefully."
"The party emphasizes the need for the handover of power to civilians according to the will of the Egyptian people through free and fair elections ... in a stable environment," said Mohamed al-Katatni, a senior member of the FJP.
The comments indicated the Brotherhood was sticking to the army's timetable to hold a presidential vote in June. The Brotherhood has said bringing the vote forward could "create chaos."
The Brotherhood may want to shape the new constitution before a presidential poll, seeking greater powers for parliament and avoiding giving the president too many powers, analysts say.
They add that an earlier presidential election would not necessarily eliminate the military's dominance in a new civilian-governed state.
The military has survived Egypt's political upheaval intact and has vast economic and other interests, so any new president would need its support to maintain order.
"This is a transitional period where one party hands power to another. A deal must be struck. This is politics," a source close to the military said.
(Editing by Andrew Roche)
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Critics Consensus: Tintin, Dragon Tattoo Are Certified Fresh
Plus, We Bought a Zoo and War Horse are sweet and warm, and The Darkest Hour wasn't screened.
Also opening this week in limited release:
- Wim Wenders' Pina, a 3D documentary about the work of modern dance guru Pina Bausch, is at 93 percent.
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, starring Thomas Horn and Tom Hanks in a drama about a boy who goes searching for a hidden message from his recently deceased father, is at 63 percent.
- Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey, a drama about a relationship between two people on different sides of former Yugoslavia's ethnic conflict, is at 50 percent.
- Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close and Mia Wasikowska in a drama about a woman who dresses as a man to stave off unemployment, is at 48 percent.
And don't forget -- the Certified Fresh Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol expands into wide release this weekend.
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Male Spiders Let Mates Eat Them for Kids' Sake (LiveScience.com)
The unkind act of butchering and eating your mate after sex, typified by the female black-widow spider and praying mantis, may make for healthier babies, new research suggests.
The researchers found that a male orb-web spider makes the ultimate evolutionary sacrifice: giving his life for the health of his offspring.
Sexual cannibalism is the act of one partner eating the other after sex. In the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi, the female tries to grab and wrap up the male at the onset of mating so she can snack on him during sex. In the lab, only about 30 percent of the males survive their first mating, but by letting the female gnaw on them, the males prolong the sex act, making it more likely they will inseminate their partner.
Of these survivors, half go on to find a second mate, while the others try again for the same female. Due to the male's anatomy, two copulations is the limit. (When you are facing a life without sex, is it really worth it to go on?)
"Two main hypotheses explain the evolution of sexual cannibalism," study researcher Klaas Welke, of the University of Hamburg in Germany, told LiveScience in an email. The males might be offering themselves up "to gain access to mating opportunities and to prolong their mating duration." Or, Welke said, it could be a "paternal investment into their own offspring, and they provide females with nutrients."
In the case of the orb-web spider, males tend to be much smaller than their mates; in this species, they're only one-tenth as heavy, and researchers weren't sure how much nutritional benefit the females can gain from such pipsqueak partners.
To see if eating their mates gave female spiders a nutritional advantage, the researchers divided the female orb-web spiders of their laboratory collection into three groups, allowing them to mate with one, two or three males. Half of each group of females also was allowed to eat their mates, while in the other instances, the researchers reached in and saved the male from his partner's clutches.
They then analyzed each female's eggs and resulting offspring. They counted and weighed the eggs and monitored how many offspring survived simulated cold-weather scenarios ? about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius) ? and a 20-week stint of starvation.
The researchers thought that perhaps the nutritional bonus from multiple mates and meals would have an impact on females. It didn't. "We were surprised, because we had expected that any effect of male consumption would increase with every additional male consumed," Welke said.
What they did see, however, was that any cannibalism led to healthier offspring that survived better and had bigger eggs.
"Our findings suggest a paternal investment of males into their offspring," Welke said. "Sexual cannibalism may increase male reproductive success and may be very beneficial in a species with a high paternity insurance and a low rate of polyandry as found in Argiope bruennichi."
The study is published in the January 2012 issue of the journal Animal Behaviour.
You can follow LiveScience staff writer Jennifer Welsh on Twitter @microbelover. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.
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Warrant issued for sports agent Leigh Steinberg over debt
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A California court has issued a bench warrant for veteran sports agent Leigh Steinberg in a case involving a $1.4 million judgment owed to a landlord.
Orange County Superior Court spokeswoman Carole Levitzky said Thursday the warrant was issued after Steinberg failed to attend court last week.
Court papers show Steinberg was ordered to pay $1.4 million last year to The Irvine Company for office space he leased in Newport Beach.
In court papers, the company says Steinberg stopped paying under his lease terms in 2009.
Steinberg says he is not hiding and is responsible for his debts.
Irvine Company officials declined comment.
Steinberg has represented NFL stars including Troy Aikman and Ben Roethlisberger and was the inspiration for Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Jerry Maguire."
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Friday, December 23, 2011
A guide to mortgage refinancing as rates hit lows (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Never have average rates on long-term fixed mortgages been as low as they are now: 3.91 percent for a 30-year home loan and 3.21 for a 15-year loan.
The new lows mark the eighth straight week in which the average on the 30-year loan has hovered near 4 percent.
Those rates make now a tantalizing time to refinance. And, with home prices having sunk in most areas of the country, many would-be buyers are tempted, too.
Yet the pace of refinancing and home buying has been mostly unchanged over the past year. That's mainly because so many Americans lack the home equity, credit scores or cash to refinance or buy. Many who do qualify to buy or refinance have already done so.
Here's a look at whether and why it makes sense to refinance or buy.
? Why now is a prime opportunity.
Rates are at record lows. More than 75 percent of homeowners with conventional government-backed mortgages are paying rates above 5 percent. Millions of homeowners, especially those with solid jobs, stable finances and strong credit, have refinanced during 2011. The average rate on the 30-year fixed loan has remained below 4.5 percent since July. (In 2008, it topped 6.5 percent.)
_Why more people aren't refinancing.
In many cases, people whose home values have dropped aren't eligible. Shrunken home values have reduced the total equity Americans have in their homes to under 40 percent ? the lowest since the Great Depression. As a result, many people lack enough equity to qualify for refinancing. Or their credit scores aren't high enough.
Another obstacle: Refinancers typically must pay thousands in closing costs and appraisal fees. Those costs usually add up to 1 percent of the loan's value ? $2,000 in fees on a $200,000 loan, for example. Typically, most experts say, it's worthwhile for homeowners to refinance if they can reduce their rate by a full percentage point.
? Why more people aren't buying homes.
Too many would-be buyers can't afford the required down payment, are out of work, lack enough income or are burdened by large debt loads. Home prices have sunk 31 percent since the housing boom four years ago, leaving many Americans fearful that prices have yet to bottom. They don't want to throw good money at a depreciating asset.
Half of would-be buyers also say they don't think they'll ever save enough for the 20 percent down payment now expected by most sellers, according to a survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
For those looking to buy, banks are also insisting on higher credit scores. Roughly 60 percent of U.S. households don't have the required scores above 700 to get a prime mortgage, according to an Associated Press analysis of Fair Isaac Corp., or FICO, and other credit-score data. The average U.S. credit score is 661.
? The consequences of refinancing
When people refinance at lower rates, they pay less interest on their loans. So they end up with more money to spend, save or invest. For those who can qualify, the savings can be significant. If, for example, a homeowner with a $200,000 mortgage at 6 percent can refinance down to 4.5 percent, the savings would be $3,000 a year.
Still, the benefits for the larger economy are limited. Most homeowners who refinance these days tend to sock away their savings or pay down debt rather than spend it.
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Naked Mole-Rats Offer Clues to Living Longer
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These creatures live more than five times longer than would be expected for their size. Research into the biological mechanisms underlying their longevity could suggest ideas for slowing aging in people.
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Editor's note: This article is adapted from the book The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution, by David Stipp. We are presenting it in conjunction with Stipp's article "A New Path to Longevity" in the January 2012 issue of Scientific American. Additional information can be found in "What Unusually Long-Lived Animals Say about Human Aging."
The study of aging tends to raise the kind of deceptively simple questions children ask, such as, ?Why did Spot, who was the same age as me, get old and die before I grew up?? Such queries quickly lead to deep mysteries, none of which are more riveting than those surrounding extraordinarily long-lived species.
One that has come to the fore in recent years is a grotesque, mouse-sized rodent called the naked mole-rat. Resembling saber-toothed sausages, they?re even weirder than they look. For one thing, they live in termite-like, underground colonies populated by workers that serve as a support system for a single breeding queen. But their most mind-bending trait is an incredibly slow rate of aging. In captivity they can reach about 30 years of age, ten times the typical life spans of their mouse cousins. To see how remarkable that is, imagine a species of primates with a life span of a thousand years.
The leading authority on mole-rat longevity is Rochelle Buffenstein, a researcher who maintains a sizable colony of the animals at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. When I visited her one afternoon, she led me to a dimly lit room where I found myself surrounded by scores of chirping mole-rats merrily tending their nests inside clusters of shoebox-sized containers connected by clear plastic tubes. To my surprise there was no airtight barrier protecting them from the outer world's germs. Mole-rats are so hardy, she explained, that there?s no need for that. Underscoring the point, she suddenly picked one up and handed it to me. It was ?the old man of the colony,? she said?her most senior mole-rat.
Up close he turned out to be oddly endearing, possessed of the bald, wrinkled, buck-toothed, querulous, squinty-eyed look of a slightly demented codger born well before the age of orthodontia. His exact age wasn't known?he?d been caught in the wild?but Buffenstein estimated he was pushing 29. It suddenly dawned on me that he might be the oldest rodent on the planet. I gingerly handed him back, feeling as if I?d been momentarily entrusted with a 2,000-year-old Han Dynasty vase.
The life style of the naked mole-rat Natives of East Africa, mole-rats were introduced to science in 1842 by Eduard R?ppell, a German naturalist known for heroically traipsing the biosphere and bringing pieces of it home. Despite their curious appearance, the rodents, officially named Heterocephalus glaber (meaning, roughly, weird-headed baldy), didn?t get much attention until Jennifer Jarvis, a Kenya-reared daughter of English missionaries, discovered in 1981 that they?re an extremely rare, mammalian version of social insects like termites. Each mole-rat colony is dominated by a large-bodied queen that mates with one to three consorts and produces hundreds of babies during her life. Intriguingly, the queens appear to keep workers in line by literally pushing them around, and when a royal mole-rat encounters a groundling in a tunnel she shoves it backward or walks over it. Such aggression appears to help suppress the lower orders? fertility, as well as cue their subservient behavior?rarely-shoved workers in tunnels remote from the queen's chamber reportedly tend to goof off.
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MiLocker gets personal with your Android lock screen (Appolicious)
Let?s admit the truth ? smartphones are all starting to look alike. I?m not talking about just Android-based phones, I mean all of them, across all makes and models. The slide-to-unlock screen, started by the original iPhone, is one of the many similar elements across phones. And it?s this lock screen that MiLocker makes magic with for Android devices. If you want to personalize your phone in a way that makes people say, ?wow? as you set it on a table, this is your app.
MiLocker delivers a huge gallery of unlock screens for you to browse. Designers probably spend crazy amounts of time creating these beautiful and clever screens. You?ll find abstract art, sci-fi metallic looks and cute images like a bear riding a bicycle. There?s an unlock screen to fit every mood, and because they?re all free, you don?t need to limit yourself, and can switch as often as you like.
The unlock maneuver varies as much as the wallpaper background. You can choose a screen that uses the traditional horizontal slide, or pick a vertical slide or animated touch maneuver. My favorites are the zipper images that you pull down with your finger to reveal an image underneath. My only complaint is that you almost need instructions to figure out how to unlock some of the designs.
Don?t hesitate to give this great customization tool a try.
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Stocks end mixed; Oracle miss drags down tech (AP)
Technology stocks fell Wednesday, dragged down by a weak earnings report from the business software maker Oracle Corp.
Broad market indexes were flat. The Dow Jones industrial average eked out a gain of 4 points after having been down 104 points at midday.
Technology stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2 percent. Oracle plunged 12 percent after the business software company said it was struggling to close deals.
The rare earnings miss by Oracle seemed to reinforce worries that businesses and the government may cut back on technology spending. Especially worrying was a weak 2 percent gain in new software licenses, a key sign of demand from other businesses. Oracle had predicted gains of as much as 16 percent.
Those worries hurt other big technology companies. IBM Corp. was by far the biggest loser in the Dow, falling 3.1 percent to $181.47. A bright spot was the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., which jumped 10 percent to $13.78 on rumors that it might be a takeover target.
Investors also had more to worry about from Europe. New data showed extensive lending from the European Central Bank to European banks. The initial reaction to the $639 billion in lending by the ECB was positive, but then worry set in that Europe's banks needed so much help in the first place.
"Long-term, people were a little bit concerned that banks needed more money than we thought they did," said Joe Bell, a senior equity analyst with Schaeffer's Investment Research.
The Dow edged up 4.16 points, less than 0.1 percent, to close at 12,107.74. On Tuesday the Dow jumped 337 ? its biggest gain this month ? on a strong bond sale in Spain and a surge in new home construction in the U.S.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 2.42 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,243.72. Outside of the 2 percent decline for technology companies, prices rose or were flat in the rest of the S&P 500's 10 sectors.
The Nasdaq composite fell 25.76 points, or 1 percent, to 2,577.97.
Consumer staples rose with help from a 1.7 percent increase by Coca-Cola Co. and a gain of 1.2 percent at Kraft.
Nike Inc. rose 2.9 percent after reporting strong demand and higher prices for its shoes and clothing.
Volume was much lower than usual at 3.5 billion shares, which can make prices more volatile.
Many investors are on the sidelines because they're worried that a recession in Europe would hurt U.S. companies, said Bernie Kavanagh, vice president for portfolio management at Stifel Nicolaus.
"Any hint of positive data, we think you have the potential for a pretty nice rally," either before the end of this year or early in 2012, Kavanagh said.
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Microsoft Live 365 Deal With MasterCard Shows Cloud is Mainstream
December 22, 2011
Microsoft recently inked a deal with MasterCard which entails the company joining Microsoft's Office 365 program. This means MasterCard will provide a 10 percent savings to eligible small business cardholders when they purchase Office 365 through the MasterCard Easy Savings Program.What caused great interest to me however was the list of other companies participating in the program such as Avis, Budget, Bing, Firestone, DHL, Continental Airlines, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, the US Postal Service and Harry & David. So Microsoft Office 365 has joined the ranks of consumer companies such as Firestone and Harry & David - yes, the gift basket company.
If this doesn't mean that the cloud is mainstream, I am not sure what does.
Another thought is that the main competitor here is Google, a company with virtually limitless remnant advertising space via its market-leading search engine.
It is worth pointing out that Microsoft is a marketing machine and when they devote themselves to taking over a market they are generally relentless.
We'll see if this move does much to move the needle in the direction of Redmond in the cloud wars. Personally I see it as a small part of a grand strategy to overwhelm customers with Microsoft's cloud-based office, UC and other solutions. After all, Office is a cash cow - Microsoft can't afford to cede it to Google. Stay up to date on the latest cloud-computing solutions with TMC's Cloud Computing Magazine.
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Vin Diesel Confirms Back-To-Back 'Fast Six' And 'Fast Seven'
Plenty of movies are split into two in order to give the story more room to breathe. "The Hobbit." "Twilight: Breaking Dawn." "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows." Why can't the "Fast and Furious" franchise join all the fun?
Vin Diesel, star of the franchise and one of its producers, announced that upon planning the [...]
Vin Diesel, star of the franchise and one of its producers, announced that upon planning the [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/12/21/vin-diesel-confirms-back-to-back-fast-six-and-fast-seven/
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
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Britney Spears Engaged To Jason Trawick! (VIDEO)
Britney Spears Engaged To Jason Trawick! (VIDEO)
Britney Spears is getting hitched ya’ll! Britney’s longtime boyfriend and former agent Jason Trawick proposed to her on Thursday night while they were celebrating his [...]
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