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Friday, May 24, 2013
Algae Water, Hey? - Courthouse News Service
?????SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - Shareholders in an algae water company claim in court that they were flim-flammed into coughing up $160,000 by bogus promises the product would be pitched to Dr. Oz, Bill Gates and powerful Walgreens execs.
?????Christopher Maggiore and Robert McLain sued Bradley Robinson and his company, Ceptazyme, in Federal Court.
?????The plaintiffs, representing nonparty Health Enhancement Products, claim Robinson, on behalf of nonparty Zus Health, pitched them on an exclusive, worldwide license agreement for ProAlgaZyme, or PAZ, in 2010.
?????ProAlgaZyme, produced from algae grown in distilled water, is touted as being able to reduce cholesterol.
?????Health Enhancement Products and Zus Health signed a license agreement to sell the "nutritional products" on Sept. 2, 2010, according to the complaint.
?????Still on the Internet this morning was a Dec. 13, 2010 announcement via Marketwire that Health Enhancement Products had received "its first purchase order" for ProAlgaZyme from Zus Health.
?????On Sept. 16, 2010, the plaintiffs claim, Robinson asked them to invest in his new company, Ceptazyme.
?????"Robinson told plaintiffs that he was being forced to assign the license agreement from Zus Health to a newly formed entity called Ceptazyme LLC," the complaint states. "Robinson explained that Zus Health was dissolving and ceasing business operations because of a sexual harassment claim that an employee had made against it. Additionally, defendant Robinson told plaintiffs that he did not want other members of Zus Health involved in the HEPI [Health Enhancement Products] license agreement."
?????Robinson claimed that he'd formed Ceptazyme for the sole purpose of performing the license agreement, and that he was "experiencing difficulty capitalizing the company," the plaintiffs say in the complaint.
?????Maggiore and McLain say they invested $160,000 in Ceptazyme, based on Robinson's claims of relationships with the Gates Foundation, high-level Walgreens executives and a producer of the Dr. Oz television show.
?????Robinson told them that ProAlgaZyme would be distributed to "every nursing home in Utah," thanks to his relationship with a geriatric doctor who "defendants misrepresented as the 'largest nursing home doctor in Utah,'" according to the complaint.
?????To top it off, the plaintiffs say, Robinson said multi-level marketing companies MonaVie and XanGo agreed to distribute the product.
?????Alas! According to the complaint: "Defendants misrepresented that they had an existing relationship with a business partner of William Gates of the Microsoft Corporation, which individual allegedly worked at the Gates Foundation. According to defendant Robinson, his connection at the Gates Foundation owned a film company called RedJet Films. Defendants misrepresented that within a period of six months following the assignment of the license agreement, their connection, through his relationship with the Gates Foundation or RedJet films, would pay for and commence a controlled scientific research study to evaluate the use of the PAZ Product in patients with HIV-positive status. Defendants misrepresented that the funding for research would enable HEPI to vastly expand its production capabilities and scientifically establish the health benefits of the PAZ product. Defendants misrepresented that the scientific research and funding would profoundly increase defendant Ceptazyme's sales and profits, as the sole exclusive licensee of the PAZ product.
?????"Defendants misrepresented that they had existing relationships with high-level executives at Walgreens. Defendants told plaintiffs that within a period of three to six months following the assignment of the license agreement, defendant Ceptazyme would be selling the PAZ product at every Walgreens in the western United States.
?????"Defendants misrepresented that they had existing relationships with the producer of the Dr. Oz television show, and that within a period of six months following the assignment of the license agreement, they would secure a television appearance on the Dr. Oz show to advertise, promote and market the PAZ product."
?????The Gates Foundation, Walgreens and The Dr. Oz Show are not parties to the lawsuit.
?????Robinson promised the investment would be returned within six months, but it didn't happen, the plaintiffs claim.
?????"Defendants never formed any relationships with MonaVie, XanGo, the Gates Foundation, RedJet Films, or Walgreens. The PAZ product was never distributed, marketed, promoted or sold through such entities," the complaint states.
?????"Defendant Ceptazyme never satisfied the minimum purchases under the license agreement.
?????"Defendant Ceptazyme never turned a profit and plaintiffs never realized any return on their $160,000 investment in defendant Ceptazyme."
?????The plaintiffs want their money back and punitive damages for conspiracy, fraudulent inducement, state and federal securities violations, unjust enrichment and negligent misrepresentation.
?????They are represented by Dale Lambert with Christensen & Jensen.?
Source: http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/05/22/57862.htm
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Obama to meet with China's Xi in California June 7-8
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in Rancho Mirage, California, the White House announced on Monday.
The two leaders are likely to discuss ways to apply pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program after a period of bellicose rhetoric and threats from Pyongyang.
The United States also has concerns about cyber attacks it says are emanating from China. Washington would also like China to allow its currency to rise against the dollar to improve U.S. trade.
American concerns about tensions in the South China Sea due to conflicting territorial claims are also a possible topic of discussion.
"President Obama and President Xi will hold in-depth discussions on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues," the White House said in a statement.
"They will review progress and challenges in U.S.-China relations over the past four years and discuss ways to enhance cooperation, while constructively managing our differences, in the years ahead," it said.
The meeting will be the first between the two leaders since Xi took over as China's president in March.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said China was willing to work with the United States to strengthen dialogue and cooperation in relations, which he said were "at a new historical period".
"Of course, some differences exist between China and the United States, which require proper and active management by both sides," Hong said. "This year, Sino-U.S. relations have got off to a good start and are facing an important opportunity for development."
Hong said the two leaders would have "comprehensive and in-depth discussions" on a range of issues.
The leaders will meet at Sunnylands, a 200-acre (80-hectare) estate on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage, California. Sunnylands is the former estate of the late philanthropist Walter Annenberg, who frequently hosted President Ronald Reagan there.
The fact that they will devote two days to the talks shows an intent by the two leaders to build a closer relationship. White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon will travel to Beijing to meet Chinese officials May 26-28 to prepare for the Xi visit.
As part of his trip to the Americas, Xi will also make state visits to Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica, China's Foreign Ministry said.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland in Washington; Additional reporting by Adam Jourdan in Shanghai and Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing; Editing by Eric Beech and Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-meet-chinas-xi-california-june-7-8-091808615.html
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Oklahoma tornado's aftermath: How safe were schools in Moore?
Two schools were directly hit by the EF5 tornado in Moore, Okla., on Monday, and seven students at one were killed. Neither school had a safe room, but with storms this powerful, experts say there are no guarantees.?
Teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City yesterday. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire, and landing a direct blow on the elementary school.
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Rescue workers pulled several students alive from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School on Monday, but at least seven of the confirmed 24 dead from the tornado were students at Plaza Towers. It was unclear Tuesday whether there were still more students unaccounted for from the school.
Briarwood Elementary was also severely damaged, though all students seem to have survived. Survivors from both schools have described terrifying scenes as roofs were ripped off and walls collapsed, and in several instances teachers protected students by lying on top of them. Teachers and students also spoke of following well rehearsed drills, hunkering down in bathrooms and closets, and holding backpacks and books over their heads for additional protection.
It?s too soon to know the ultimate cost of Monday?s tornado, in terms of both life and property, and certainly too soon to know whether the emergency procedures that the schools had in place were the best they could have been.
Experts that have helped schools hone tornado-preparedness plans and who have seen the devastation they?ve caused in other communities note that with a tornado as strong as this one (it was confirmed Tuesday as an EF5 on the Fujita scale, the highest ranking, after a preliminary designation as an EF4) there often isn?t a perfect solution, or any way to guarantee complete safety ? though a lot of things can make a difference.
?If we had school in session [when the Joplin tornado struck], we?d have been dealing with a lot of the same issues they?re dealing with in Moore, Okla., now,? says C.J. Huff, superintendent of the schools in Joplin, Mo., where an EF5 tornado decimated the town in 2011, killing 162 people.
The Joplin tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon, when the school buildings were empty. But, says Dr. Huff, 10 school facilities were hit by the tornado, and nine of those were completely destroyed. He was able to watch some video footage of the hallways afterward ? hallways that, in the past, had been designated as shelter areas for kids during a tornado.
?Those hallways become big wind tunnels when you have that much force,? he says, describing debris and projectiles that shot through them. ?We don?t shelter kids in hallways any longer. We move them to interior classrooms and bathrooms and areas away from hallways.? In addition, Joplin has used FEMA and other grant money to add safe rooms within all of the schools it?s rebuilding, ones that can serve not just students and faculty but others from the community as well.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Huge search underway for missing Iowa teen
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A 15-year-old central Iowa girl who was abducted after getting off her school bus was still missing Tuesday, and authorities said a massive search was underway. Meanwhile, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said the man who is suspected of taking her and another girl committed suicide.
Dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officials are searching by air, land and water for Kathlynn Shepard. She and a 12-year-old girl, who are friends, were taken Monday afternoon shortly after stepping off a school bus in Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines. The younger girl, who was later able to escape, told authorities the girls had accepted a ride from a stranger.
DCI Special Agent Bill Kietzman said Tuesday that the body of 42-year-old suspect Michael Klunder was found Monday night with a red Toyota Tundra pickup at a rural property northeast of Dayton.
Kietzman said authorities have begun focusing their search for Kathlynn to locations within 20 miles of Dayton, including Klunder's residence. Previously, the search covered up to 100 square miles of mostly rural areas.
Authorities have also coordinated with the FBI to update electronic billboards around the state with information about the search.
Kietzman would not elaborate on the likelihood of finding Kathlynn alive, though he remained optimistic.
"Time obviously is not your friend in these kinds of situations," he said at a news conference. "Our plan is that we're going to find her alive. That's our hope."
The 12-year-old girl, who has not been identified, told investigators she and Kathlynn were taken to an agricultural facility. But she was able to escape a short time later and ran to a rural residence for help, Kietzman said. She was then taken to a Fort Dodge hospital and released.
The abduction spanned several hours, officials said, with Klunder's body being discovered nearly four hours after the girls were taken.
Kathlynn is described as being 5-feet-6-inches and 160 pounds. She has blond hair, blue eyes and braces. She was last seen wearing jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt and a Minnesota Vikings baseball cap.
"The response by volunteers has been outstanding," said DCI Director Charis Paulson.
Jessica Lown with the Iowa Department of Public Safety said authorities have been in contact with Kathlynn's family and they have declined to comment.
"They're continuing to search for the girl under the assumption that she is still alive because right at this point in time we don't have information indicating otherwise," Lown said. "That's the way these things work for all missing children and missing person cases. We search until we find them."
Klunder is listed on the state's sex offender registry, prison records show. He spent several years in prison after being convicted on kidnapping and assault charges, including the 1991 abduction and assault of a Rudd woman and the kidnapping of two toddlers from an apartment complex in Charles City, according to the Mason City Globe Gazette. The girls, both 3, were found alive inside a dumpster.
He was released from a work release program in February 2011.
The abduction comes less than a year after the high-profile disappearance of two cousins in Evansdale, about 90 miles east of Dayton. Lyric Cook, 10, and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins disappeared while riding their bikes last July. Hunters found their bodies in a remote, wooded area in December.
Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock said investigators were looking into whether Klunder was involved in Lyric and Elizabeth's kidnappings and deaths. DCI and FBI agents who have been involved in the search for the Evansdale girls have been dispatched to help search for Kathlynn.
Smock said investigators were trying to determine whether Klunder had any ties to the area.
"There's a multitude of things we're looking at to determine whether he may be a person of interest or not a person of interest," he said. "It's much too early in their investigation to be able to say with any degree of accuracy one way or another whether it's related to our case at all."
Authorities are asking the public for information about any interactions with Klunder, as well of any sighting of his pickup between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday.
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Associated Press Writer Ryan J. Foley contributed to this report from Iowa City, Iowa.
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Fundao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo
The Brazilian funding agency for scientific and technological research So Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, based in the state of So Paulo, announced an investment estimated in US$ 680 million to support 17 Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) for a period of up to eleven years, subject to continuation reviews on years 2, 4 and 7.
Funding for the 17 RIDCs will come from FAPESP and the host institutions (through funding faculty, technicians, support personnel, and infrastructure). Host institutions will participate in a portion of US$ 310 million of this amount for the payment of salaries and additional funding will be obtained by each center from industry and government organizations.
Each selected RIDC is expected to establish a hub of excellent research in its focus area. In addition, each RIDC must actively seek out and develop opportunities to have its research results contribute to commercially and/or socially relevant high-impact applications, as well as contributing to education and dissemination of knowledge.
The 17 RIDCs bring together 535 scientists from the State of So Paulo and 69 scientists from other countries. The research topics covered by the centers include the following: food and nutrition; glasses and glass-ceramics; functional materials; neuroscience and neurotechnology; inflammatory diseases; biodiversity and drug discovery; toxins, immune-response and cell signaling; neuromathematics; mathematical sciences applied to industry; obesity and associated diseases; cellular therapy; metropolitan studies; human genome and stem-cells; computational engineering; redox processes in biomedicine; violence; and optics, photonics, and atomic and molecular physics.
THE 17 RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DISSEMINATION CENTERS (RIDCs)
- Food Research Center FoRC
- Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass CEPIV
- Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials CDFM
- Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology BRAINN
- Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases CRID
- Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery CIBFar
- Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling CeTICS
- Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics NEUROMAT
- Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry CeMEAI
- Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center OCRC
- Center for Research in Cell Therapy CTC
- Center for Metropolitan Studies CEM
- Human Genome and Stem-Cell Research Center HUG-CELL
- Center for Computational Science and Engineering CECC
- Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine REDOXOME
- Center for the Study of Violence NEV-USP
- Optics and Photonics Research Center CEPOF
###
ABOUT THE RIDC PROGRAM
The RIDC Program, started by FAPESP in 2000, supported 11 research centers from 2001 until 2013. In 2011, a second call for proposals was announced, generating 90 proposals, out of which the 17 awardees were selected. The selection process used 150 Brazilian and international reviewers, an International Committee composed of 11 invited scientists, and FAPESP's internal committees.
The most important feature of the RIDCs is the multiplicity of their missions. In addition to the primary mission of developing fundamental or applied research, focused on specific themes or objectives, the centers must actively seek out opportunities to contribute to innovation by developing effective means of technology transfer. The centers are also responsible for offering extension activities geared towards elementary and high school education and the general public. These include involving high school students and teachers in research activities, teacher training, and science dissemination.
SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES IN SO PAULO, BRAZIL
So Paulo is the most developed and diversified state in the country, contributing 33% of Brazil's GDP. About half of the research articles published yearly by scientists in Brazil have authors working in the State of So Paulo. The state is responsible for 45% of the doctorates awarded yearly in Brazil.
With 41 million people, it hosts six public research universities, the University of So Paulo (USP), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the University of the State of So Paulo (UNESP), the Federal University in So Carlos (UFSCAR), the Federal University in So Paulo (UNIFESP) and the Federal University in ABC (UFABC), and the renowned Aeronautics Technology Institute (ITA).
The state also hosts 19 state funded mission oriented research institutes, such as the Agronomics Institute of Campinas (IAC), the Institute for Technology Research (IPT) and the Butantan Institute, as well as the National Space Research Institute (INPE), the National Center for Airspace Technology (DCTA), and the National Research Center for Energy and Materials (CNPEM), which includes the National Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS).
R&D expenditures in the State of So Paulo reached 1.6% of state GDP in 2011, with 60% of expenditures contributed by the business sector.
FAPESP: MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY SUPPORTING SCIENCE IN SO PAULO
The So Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is one of the major funding agencies for scientific research in Brazil. Its mission is to foster scientific research in all fields of knowledge by awarding scholarships, fellowships and grants to investigators in higher education or research institutions in the State of So Paulo, Brazil. Proposals are selected through a stringent peer-review system.
Since 1962, FAPESP has granted more than 110,000 scholarships and fellowships (from the undergraduate to postdoctoral level), supported nearly 100,000 research projects, and contributed remarkably towards improving the research infrastructure and the social and economic development of the State of So Paulo. In 2012, FAPESP received 21,600 research proposals.
In addition to funding investigator-initiated research in all fields, FAPESP fosters special research programs in strategic areas for Brazil and for the State of So Paulo, such as biodiversity, bioenergy, global climate change and neuroscience.
The Foundation maintains cooperative agreements for co-funding research with national and international research funding bodies, foreign institutions of higher education and research, and private companies.
The State Constitution mandates the appropriation of 1% of the State's tax revenues to FAPESP. FAPESP's bylaws establish that the Foundation cannot spend more than 5% of its budget in administrative costs. FAPESP works in a regime of administrative and financial autonomy, and distributed US$ 525 million to support scientific research in 2012.
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Fundao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo
The Brazilian funding agency for scientific and technological research So Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, based in the state of So Paulo, announced an investment estimated in US$ 680 million to support 17 Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) for a period of up to eleven years, subject to continuation reviews on years 2, 4 and 7.
Funding for the 17 RIDCs will come from FAPESP and the host institutions (through funding faculty, technicians, support personnel, and infrastructure). Host institutions will participate in a portion of US$ 310 million of this amount for the payment of salaries and additional funding will be obtained by each center from industry and government organizations.
Each selected RIDC is expected to establish a hub of excellent research in its focus area. In addition, each RIDC must actively seek out and develop opportunities to have its research results contribute to commercially and/or socially relevant high-impact applications, as well as contributing to education and dissemination of knowledge.
The 17 RIDCs bring together 535 scientists from the State of So Paulo and 69 scientists from other countries. The research topics covered by the centers include the following: food and nutrition; glasses and glass-ceramics; functional materials; neuroscience and neurotechnology; inflammatory diseases; biodiversity and drug discovery; toxins, immune-response and cell signaling; neuromathematics; mathematical sciences applied to industry; obesity and associated diseases; cellular therapy; metropolitan studies; human genome and stem-cells; computational engineering; redox processes in biomedicine; violence; and optics, photonics, and atomic and molecular physics.
THE 17 RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DISSEMINATION CENTERS (RIDCs)
- Food Research Center FoRC
- Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass CEPIV
- Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials CDFM
- Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology BRAINN
- Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases CRID
- Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery CIBFar
- Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling CeTICS
- Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics NEUROMAT
- Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry CeMEAI
- Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center OCRC
- Center for Research in Cell Therapy CTC
- Center for Metropolitan Studies CEM
- Human Genome and Stem-Cell Research Center HUG-CELL
- Center for Computational Science and Engineering CECC
- Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine REDOXOME
- Center for the Study of Violence NEV-USP
- Optics and Photonics Research Center CEPOF
###
ABOUT THE RIDC PROGRAM
The RIDC Program, started by FAPESP in 2000, supported 11 research centers from 2001 until 2013. In 2011, a second call for proposals was announced, generating 90 proposals, out of which the 17 awardees were selected. The selection process used 150 Brazilian and international reviewers, an International Committee composed of 11 invited scientists, and FAPESP's internal committees.
The most important feature of the RIDCs is the multiplicity of their missions. In addition to the primary mission of developing fundamental or applied research, focused on specific themes or objectives, the centers must actively seek out opportunities to contribute to innovation by developing effective means of technology transfer. The centers are also responsible for offering extension activities geared towards elementary and high school education and the general public. These include involving high school students and teachers in research activities, teacher training, and science dissemination.
SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES IN SO PAULO, BRAZIL
So Paulo is the most developed and diversified state in the country, contributing 33% of Brazil's GDP. About half of the research articles published yearly by scientists in Brazil have authors working in the State of So Paulo. The state is responsible for 45% of the doctorates awarded yearly in Brazil.
With 41 million people, it hosts six public research universities, the University of So Paulo (USP), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the University of the State of So Paulo (UNESP), the Federal University in So Carlos (UFSCAR), the Federal University in So Paulo (UNIFESP) and the Federal University in ABC (UFABC), and the renowned Aeronautics Technology Institute (ITA).
The state also hosts 19 state funded mission oriented research institutes, such as the Agronomics Institute of Campinas (IAC), the Institute for Technology Research (IPT) and the Butantan Institute, as well as the National Space Research Institute (INPE), the National Center for Airspace Technology (DCTA), and the National Research Center for Energy and Materials (CNPEM), which includes the National Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS).
R&D expenditures in the State of So Paulo reached 1.6% of state GDP in 2011, with 60% of expenditures contributed by the business sector.
FAPESP: MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY SUPPORTING SCIENCE IN SO PAULO
The So Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is one of the major funding agencies for scientific research in Brazil. Its mission is to foster scientific research in all fields of knowledge by awarding scholarships, fellowships and grants to investigators in higher education or research institutions in the State of So Paulo, Brazil. Proposals are selected through a stringent peer-review system.
Since 1962, FAPESP has granted more than 110,000 scholarships and fellowships (from the undergraduate to postdoctoral level), supported nearly 100,000 research projects, and contributed remarkably towards improving the research infrastructure and the social and economic development of the State of So Paulo. In 2012, FAPESP received 21,600 research proposals.
In addition to funding investigator-initiated research in all fields, FAPESP fosters special research programs in strategic areas for Brazil and for the State of So Paulo, such as biodiversity, bioenergy, global climate change and neuroscience.
The Foundation maintains cooperative agreements for co-funding research with national and international research funding bodies, foreign institutions of higher education and research, and private companies.
The State Constitution mandates the appropriation of 1% of the State's tax revenues to FAPESP. FAPESP's bylaws establish that the Foundation cannot spend more than 5% of its budget in administrative costs. FAPESP works in a regime of administrative and financial autonomy, and distributed US$ 525 million to support scientific research in 2012.
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Discovery of alleged Russian plot points to growing jitters
By Timothy Heritage
OREKHOVO-ZUYEVO, Russia (Reuters) - As Russia congratulated its forces for foiling an alleged Islamist plot on Moscow, the discovery of the plan also pointed to the growing security threat before the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Monday's killing of two suspected militants and arrest of a third in a sleepy town near Moscow was quickly followed by the killing of one of the leaders of an Islamist insurgency being waged in Russia's North Caucasus.
For President Vladimir Putin, who built his reputation more than a decade ago in a war against rebels in the mainly Muslim Chechnya region, such successes are an opportunity to promote the image of a strong state and rally personal support.
But there is also concern at the Kremlin over suspicions the alleged militants had trained abroad and had been linked to a group in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan.
With Moscow already trying to quell the insurgency in the North Caucasus, the fear is of a widening threat from better-trained groups before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics next February in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
A pool of blood and broken glass beneath a shattered second-floor window in the flat which the suspected militants had rented in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, about 85 km (55 miles) east of Moscow, were among the few signs of a gun battle there.
Details were sketchy as to exactly what might have been plotted there or who was involved, with only the official version to go on.
State television kept the story at the top of news bulletins in a sign of the weight being put on the events there. Violence occurs almost daily in the North Caucasus, but trouble involving Islamists close to Moscow has been rare.
The National Anti-Terror Committee raised the possibility that not only had the Russian suspects trained in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but that they could have been linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
"If that is confirmed, it's a significant change," said Murad Batal al-Shishani, an independent analyst on Islamist groups in Russia.
"If the IMU is targeting Russia, it would mean the number of groups that have Russia in their sights is expanding and is no longer limited to the North Caucasus.
"It also means we could see more threats to Russian interests in Central Asia and it would force Russia to increase its presence there if it felt it was being threatened."
The Uzbek group - which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization and which supports establishing strict Islamic rule in Uzbekistan - is not known to have attempted any attack in Russia.
It made no immediate comment.
LOW PROFILE
The three suspects had kept a low profile since renting a flat in March on the upper floor of a modest two-storey building in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, neighbors said.
It was not clear why they might have chosen the town of 120,000, but it is beside a good, straight road to the capital.
"I used to say hello to one of them who looked around 25. I'd see him going out to do the shopping but I never saw the other two," said Oleg Smirnov, an unemployed man of 49 who lived in a flat below the suspects.
"If I'd have known what they were doing, I'd have shot them myself," he said.
Zina Simakova, 16, was watching television when the shooting started at about 4:50 p.m. (0850 ET) in the flat next door.
Her mother, 52-year-old pediatrician Irada Simakova, said: "We saw little of them. They were very quiet. But we heard a strange bang 10 days ago which was reported to police."
The Anti-Terror Committee did not say what the suspects' target had been or when they planned the attack. But the report of the strange noise, which neighbors suspected was an explosion, may have provided the security services with a break.
Many details of the suspected plot and raid were impossible to verify and one security analyst, who declined to be identified, said reports should always be taken "with a pinch of salt" as they could be exaggerated.
The last big attack in Moscow was a suicide bombing that killed 37 people at an airport in January 2011, but since then the leader of the North Caucasus rebels who claimed it says he has ordered a halt to attacks on civilians in Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had been kept informed as the security services surrounded the apartment bloc in Orekhovo-Zuyevo.
An Anti-terror Committee spokesman said: "Through their decisive actions the law enforcement services prevented an attempt to carry out a terrorist act in the capital of our homeland."
COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES
It was not immediately clear where the suspects came from.
Russia has voiced concerns Islamist violence could spread northward with the withdrawal of most NATO-led combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Russian media cited a name, provided by a source in the law enforcement agencies, which suggested the man in detention, was from the North Caucasus.
State-run media have been giving increasing prominence to Moscow's fight against insurgents as the Olympics approach.
Russia is also trying to build up cooperation with the United States on security matters following the Boston Marathon bombings, given that the suspects had their roots in the Caucasus.
Making the most of any successes against Islamists could help Putin rebuild support after the biggest demonstration against him in more than a decade of power, although protests have dwindled since they began at the end of 2011.
In another apparent success for security forces, investigators said on Tuesday the right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent had been killed by security forces in Ingushetia in the North Caucasus.
Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev masterminded a bombing that killed 18 people at a market in 2010 and was a close aide of Doku Umarov, leader of the outlawed Caucasus Emirate, the Anti-Terrorism Committee said.
(Additional reporting by Thomas Grove in Moscow; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/discovery-alleged-russian-plot-points-growing-jitters-215835334.html
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
You Can Use Google Maps to Find Faces Hidden in the Earth
It's nearly impossible to gaze up during the day without spotting sort of cloudy, billowing face staring back at us. But rarely do we get the opportunity to see the faces we so casually trample right beneath our feet. Now, a new program by Onformative is giving us a bird's eye's view of every facial landform on Earth.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
"Saturday Night Live" on the IRS scandal -- with a Dana Milbank appearance! (VIDEO) (Washington Post)
North Korea pops off another projectile into the Pacific
It's not clear if North Korea fired a short-range missile or an artillery round. The isolated regime also launched three missiles on Saturday, causing no damage.
A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, (r.), and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday. North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.
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North?Korea?routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily threats by?North?Korea?to attack South?Korea?and the US earlier this year.?North?Korea?protested annual joint military drills by Seoul and Washington and UN sanctions imposed over its February nuclear test.
The fourth launch occurred Sunday afternoon, according to officials at Seoul's Defense Ministry and Joint Chiefs of Staff. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing department rules, refused to say whether it was a missile or artillery round.
On Saturday,?North?Korea?fired two short-range missiles in the morning and another in the afternoon. The US responded by saying threats or provocations would only further deepen?North?Korea's?international isolation, while South?Korea?called the launches a provocation and urged the?North?to take responsible actions.
The?North?has a variety of missiles but Seoul and Washington don't believe the country has mastered the technology needed to manufacture nuclear warheads that are small and light enough to be placed on a missile capable of reaching the US.
US officials said the?North?has recently withdrawn two mid-range "Musudan" missiles believed to be capable of reaching Guam after moving them to its east coast during the recent tensions.
The Korean Peninsula officially remains in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. South?Korea's?Defense Ministry said Sunday it has deployed dozens of Israeli-made precision guided missiles on front-line islands near the disputed western sea boundary as part of an arms buildup begun after a?North?Korean artillery strike on one of the islands in 2010 killed four South Koreans.
* Associated Press writer Sam Kim contributed to this report.
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One of the Basic Math Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong
There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don't even remember, but the "order of operations"?also known as PEMDAS?is likely to be one that stuck with you; you'll mess up even simple equations without it. The catch? Well, it's wrong.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) ? A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
But no one responsible for the lab at the base can recall that the procedure ? mandated by the Navy ? was ever conducted.
The U.S. Marine Corps maintains that the carbon chloroform extract (CCE) test would not have uncovered the carcinogens that fouled the southeastern North Carolina base's water system from at least the mid-1950s until wells were capped in the mid-1980s. But experts say even this "relatively primitive" test ? required by Navy health directives as early as 1963 ? would have told officials that something was terribly wrong beneath Lejeune's sandy soil.
A just-released study from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cited a February 1985 level for trichloroethylene of 18,900 parts per billion in one Lejeune drinking water well ? nearly 4,000 times today's maximum allowed limit of 5 ppb. Given those kinds of numbers, environmental engineer Marco Kaltofen said even a testing method as inadequate as CCE should have raised some red flags with a "careful analyst."
"That's knock-your-socks-off level ? even back then," said Kaltofen, who worked on the infamous Love Canal case in upstate New York, where drums of buried chemical waste leaked toxins into a local water system. "You could have smelled it."
Biochemist Michael Hargett agrees that CCE, while imperfect, would have been enough to prompt more specific testing in what is now recognized as the worst documented case of drinking-water contamination in the nation's history.
"I consider it disingenuous of the Corps to say, 'Well, it wouldn't have meant anything,'" said Hargett, co-owner of the private lab that tried to sound the alarm about the contamination in 1982. "The levels of chlorinated solvent that we discovered ... they would have gotten something that said, 'Whoops. I've got a problem.' They didn't do that."
Trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), benzene and other toxic chemicals leeched into ground water from a poorly maintained fuel depot and indiscriminate dumping on the base, as well as from an off-base dry cleaner.
Nearly three decades after the first drinking-water wells were closed, victims are still awaiting a final federal health assessment ? the original 1997 report having been withdrawn because faulty or incomplete data. Results of a long-delayed study on birth defects and childhood cancers were only submitted for publication in late April.
Many former Lejeune Marines and family members who lived there believe the Corps still has not come clean about the situation, and the question of whether these tests were conducted is emblematic of the depth of that mistrust.
Marine Corps officials have repeatedly said that federal environmental regulations for these cancer-causing chemicals were not finalized under the Safe Drinking Water Act until 1989 ? about four years after the contaminated wells had been identified and taken out of service. But victims who have scoured decades-old documents say the military's own health standards should have raised red flags long before.
In 1963, the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery issued "The Manual of Naval Preventive Medicine." Chapter 5 is titled "Water Supply Ashore."
"The water supply should be obtained from the most desirable sources which is feasible, and effort should be made to prevent or control pollution of the source," it reads.
At the time, the Defense Department adopted water quality standards set by the U.S. Public Health Service. To measure that quality, the Navy manual identified CCE "as a technically practical procedure which will afford a large measure of protection against the presence of undetected toxic materials in finished drinking water."
Also referred to as the "oil and grease test," CCE was intended to protect against an "unwarranted dosage of the water consumer with ill-defined chemicals," according to the Navy manual. The CCE standard set in 1963 was 200 ppb. In 1972, the Navy further tightened it to no more than 150 ppb.
In response to a request from The Associated Press, Capt. Kendra Motz said the Marines could produce no copies of CCE test results for Lejeune, despite searching for "many hours."
"Some documents that might be relevant to your question may no longer be maintained by the Marine Corps or the Department of the Navy in accordance with records management policies," she wrote in an email. "The absence of records 50 years later does not necessarily mean action was not taken."
But the two men who oversaw the base lab told the AP they were not even familiar with the procedure.
"A what?" asked Julian Wooten, who was head of the Lejeune environmental section during the 1970s, when asked if his staff had ever performed the CCE test. "I never saw anything, unless the (Navy's) preventive medicine people were doing some. I don't have any knowledge of that kind of operation or that kind of testing being done. Not back then."
"I have no knowledge of it," said Danny Sharpe, who succeeded Wooten as section chief and was in charge when the first drinking water wells were shut down in the mid-1980s. "I don't remember that at all."
Wooten was an ecologist, and Sharpe's background is in forestry and soil conservation. But Elizabeth Betz, the supervisory chemist at Lejeune from 1979 to 1995, was also at a loss when asked about the CCE testing.
"I do not remember any such test being requested nor do I remember seeing any such test results," Betz, who later worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's national exposure branch at Research Triangle Park outside Raleigh, wrote in a recent email.
Hargett, the former co-owner of Grainger Laboratories in Raleigh, said he never saw any evidence that the base was testing and treating for anything beyond e coli and other bacteria.
"That was a state regulation ... that they had to maintain a sanitary water supply," he said. "And they did a good job at that."
Motz, the Marine spokeswoman, told the AP that the method called for in the manual would not have detected the toxins at issue in the Camp Lejeune case.
"The CCE method includes a drying step and a distillation (evaporation) step where chloroform is completely evaporated," she wrote in an email. These volatile organic compounds, "by their chemical nature, would evaporate readily as well," she wrote.
ATSDR contacted the EPA about the "utility" of such testing and concluded it would be of no value in detecting TCE, PCE, or benzene, Deputy Director Tom Sinks wrote in an email to members of a community assistance panel on Lejeune.
"It is doubtful that the weight of their residue would be detectable when subjected to this method," Sinks wrote.
Kaltofen, a doctoral candidate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, acknowledged that CCE is "a relatively primitive test." But in addition to the water's odor, Kaltofen said, "there are some things that a careful analyst would easily have noticed."
Hargett agreed.
"It would have prompted you to simply say, 'Wow. There is something here. Let's do some additional work,'" he told the AP. Any "reputable chemist ... would have raised their hands to the person responsible and said, 'Guys. You ought to look at this. There's more here.'"
The Marines have said such high readings were merely spikes. But Kaltofen countered that, "You can't get that level even once without having a very serious problem ... It's the worst case."
In a recent interview, Wooten told the AP that he knew something was wrong with the water as early as the 1960s, when he worked in the maintenance department.
"I was usually the first person in in the big building that we worked in," he said. "And I'd cut the water on and let it run, just go and flush the commodes and cut the water on and let it run for several minutes before I'd attempt to make coffee."
Wooten said he made repeated budget requests for additional equipment and lab workers. But as Betz told a federal fact-finding group, "the lab was very low on the priority list at the base."
She said her group ? the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Department ? was "like the 'red headed stepchild.'"
Even a series of increasingly urgent reports from an Army lab at Fort McPherson, Ga., beginning in late 1980, failed to prompt any real action.
"WATER HIGHLY CONTAMINATED WITH OTHER CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS (SOLVENTS!)" cautioned one memo from the Army lab in early 1981.
Because the base water system drew on a rotating basis from a number of different wells, subsequent tests showed no problems, and officials chalked these "interferences" up to flukes. One base employee told the fact-finding group that in 1980, "they simply did not have the money nor capacity" to test every drinking-water well on the base.
"This type of money would have cost well over $100,000, and their entire operating budget was $100,000," the employee said, according to a heavily redacted summary obtained by the AP from the Department of Justice through the Freedom of Information Act. "However, they did not do the well testing because they did not think they needed to."
So, from late 1980 through the summer of 1982, the former employee told investigators, "this issue simply laid there. No attempts were made to identify ground contamination" at Hadnot Point or Tarawa Terrace, where most of the enlisted men and their families lived.
It wasn't until a letter from Grainger in August 1982 reported TCE levels of 1,400 ppb that any kind of widespread testing began. Though the EPA did not yet enforce a limit for TCE at the time, the chemical had long been known to cause serious health problems.
"That is when the light bulb went off," Sharpe told federal investigators in a 2004 interview, obtained by the AP. "That is when we connected the tests of the 1980, 1981, and 1982 time period where traces of solvents were detected to this finding."
Still, it was not until the final weeks of 1984 that the first wells were closed down. Between the receipt of that 1982 letter and the well closures, the employee told the fact-finding group, "they simply dropped the ball."
Each year of delay meant an additional 10,000 people may have been exposed, according to Marine estimates.
Municipal utilities around the country were using far more sophisticated tests to detect much lower contaminate levels, said Kaltofen, while the people at Camp Lejeune were doing "the bare minimum. And it wasn't enough."
Last year, President Obama signed the Camp Lejeune Veterans and Family Act to provide medical care and screening for Marines and their families, but not civilians, exposed between 1957 and 1987 ? although preliminary results from water modeling suggest that date be pushed back at least another four years. The law covers 15 diseases or conditions, including female infertility, miscarriage, leukemia, multiple myeloma, as well as bladder, breast, esophageal, kidney and lung cancer.
Jerry Ensminger, a former drill sergeant, blames the water for the leukemia that killed his 9-year-old daughter, Janey, in 1985. He and Michael Partain ? a Marine's son who is one of at least seven dozen men with Lejeune ties diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer ? have scoured the records, and he thinks the Corps has yet to accept responsibility for its role in this tragedy.
"If I hadn't dug in my heels," Ensminger said, "this damned issue would have been dead and buried along with my child and everybody else's."
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Online:
ATSDR's Camp Lejeune page http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/
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Breed, a national writer, reported from Camp Lejeune. Biesecker and Waggoner reported from Raleigh, N.C.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/victims-marines-failed-safeguard-water-supply-135139535.html
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Cowboys, Jets Among Teams Feeling The Pressure Heading Into 2013 Season (PHOTOS)
This Dec. 30, 2012 file photo shows Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) throwing a pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
By Joe Fortenbaugh, National Football Post
Pressure is felt is just about every walk of life. That?s not to say it?s always present, but at some point pressure will find you and it will weigh on you. Jobs, families, sweating out the final two minutes of Thursday night?s Kings-Sharks thriller?pressure is completely and utterly inescapable over the long haul.
The members of the NFL family know this fact all too well. Front office personnel, coaches, players, hell even the fans feel the pressure that accompanies the win-at-all-costs mentality of professional football.
But depending upon the situation, some in the NFL will feel the pressure more than others. As we continue our approach towards the 2013 season, here are the 12 teams we believe will be feeling the most heat in the coming months.
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23 dead in adulthood initiation rites in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.
Police have opened 22 murder cases in the deaths in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, according to spokesman Lt. Col. Leonard Hlathi. He said an inquest is being held into the 23rd death, of a youth who complained of stomach pains and vomited.
Initiation ceremonies are common in South Africa, where youths partake in various activities as a rite of passage into adulthood, usually over the course of three weeks. Some 30,000 youths signed up for initiation this year.
In addition to being circumcised, the boys and young men are put through a series of survival tests which sometimes include exposure to South Africa's chilly winter conditions with skimpy clothing. Their faces are painted with red clay and they also are given herbal concoctions to drink.
Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, described the experience in his autobiography as "a kind of spiritual preparation for the trials of manhood."
Hlathi said that all the deaths occurred at government-registered initiation sites where medical practitioners usually are present. The government became involved to prevent such unnecessary deaths.
Mathibela Mokoena, chairman of the House of Traditional Leaders in Mpumalanga, says the Department of Health was alerted before the initiation ceremonies began, but only showed up after the first few deaths were reported. He said the department has now agreed to have officials present for the remainder of the ceremony.
It was not immediately possible to get a response from the department. The department spokesman was on a plane, an assistant said. The minister's spokesman did not answer his phone or respond to a telephone message.
The deaths are the highest recorded in Mpumalanga, surpassing the previous highest toll of eight some years ago, Mokoena said. He said early investigation by the House of Traditional Leaders showed some schools were negligent, leaving the youths in the care of young men instead of experienced adults.
Mokoena said some of the initiates were not in ideal health when they enrolled. He said new legislation is being introduced outlining procedures to be followed, and including a punishment of a life ban for those found negligent.
The suspected causes of the deaths were not released pending the results of post-mortems. Most deaths in the past have been caused by infection and loss of blood after circumcision.
Government spokeswoman Phumla Williams said the government is sending condolences to the families and urged creation of "better and safe initiation schools that will ensure the safe passage of young initiates to manhood and prevent the unfortunate loss of lives."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/23-dead-initiation-rites-south-africa-131938573.html
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Outgoing IRS chief admits scandal-exposing question was planted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged on Friday that the tax agency planned its initial disclosure about having targeted conservative groups through a planted question at a lawyers' conference.
Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told lawmakers during a Capitol Hill hearing that the question-and-answer session that exposed the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny had been carefully planned.
"It was a prepared Q and A," Miller said when asked about IRS official Lois Lerner's response to a question from a lobbyist at an American Bar Association conference last week.
When pressed whether the question was planted in advance, Miller said, "I believe that we talked about that, yes."
Miller did not elaborate on why the IRS chose such a strategy to reveal what has become a scandal over whether the tax agency treated some conservative groups fairly.
Miller was fired on Wednesday as the White House sought to stem criticism over the IRS matter. On Thursday, Obama chose White House budget official Daniel Werfel to replace Miller as acting commissioner.
(Reporting By Susan Heavey and Laura MacInnis; Editing by David Lindsey and Jackie Frank)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/outgoing-irs-chief-admits-scandal-exposing-planted-145830989.html
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