Iran denies its drone entered Bahrain’s airspace
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.
The Thursday report by ISNA quotes an unnamed official in Iran‘s Foreign Ministry. The statement did not elaborate, instead urging Bahrain’s rulers to pay attention to their people’s demands.
On Wednesday, Bahrain said an Iranian drone has been found in the tiny island kingdom across the Persian Gulf from Iran.
Bahrain has repeatedly accused Shiite Iran of encouraging the more than two-year-long uprising in Bahrain by its majority Shiites. Iran denies it has any direct role.
Iran has recently claimed advances in its technology in unmanned aircraft.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-denies-drone-entered-bahrains-airspace-130422796.html
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Thousands in Israel protest proposed budget
LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) – Manchester City 0 Wigan Athletic 1 – FA Cup final result at Wembley Stadium Scorer: Ben Watson 90 Red card: Pablo Zabaleta, Manchester City 84th Halftime: 0-0; Att: 86,254 Lineups: Manchester City: 1-Joe Hart; 5-Pablo Zabaleta, 33-Matija Nastasic, 4-Vincent Kompany, 22-Gael Clichy; 21-David Silva, 42-Yaya Toure; 18-Gareth Barry (10-Edin Dzeko 90+1), 32-Carlos Tevez (17-Jack Rodwell 69), 8-Samir Nasri (7-James Milner 54), 16-Sergio Aguero Wigan Athletic: 1-Joel Robles; 17-Emmerson Boyce, 3-Antolin Alcaraz, 33-Paul Scharner, 18-Roger Espinoza; 16-James McArthur, …
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Wrestling wants 2 new women's weight classes ? Artesia News
The acting president of wrestling?s international governing body says the sport is poised to add two weight classes for women in its push to remain in the Olympics.
FILA?S Nenad Lalovic tells The Associated Press that a rules committee will recommend the move during the organization?s congress in Moscow next week. If approved, it would also eliminate one weight class in both men?s freestyle and Greco-Roman.
Wrestling officials would then include the change in its May 29 presentation to the IOC for provisional status in the 2020 Olympic Games.
There were seven weight classes for men?s freestyle and Greco-Roman at the recent London Games and four for freestyle women. Lalovic says the six weight classes for women would fall between 50 and 74 kilograms.
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Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98
FILE – This 1939 file photo supplied by Geller/Goldfine Productions shows Frederic Franklin, top, George Zoritch, center, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in their production of “Rouge et Noir,” which was choreographed by Leonide Massine. Franklin died, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in New York. He was 98. (AP Photo/Geller/Goldfine Productions, File)
FILE – This 1939 file photo supplied by Geller/Goldfine Productions shows Frederic Franklin, top, George Zoritch, center, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in their production of “Rouge et Noir,” which was choreographed by Leonide Massine. Franklin died, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in New York. He was 98. (AP Photo/Geller/Goldfine Productions, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98.
Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner, William Ausman.
Franklin last appeared with the American Ballet Theatre at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts three years ago ? as a friar in “Romeo and Juliet.”
“He gave me my first job, and I gave him his last,” said the company’s artistic director, Kevin McKenzie. “He was a seminal figure in the ballet world.”
McKenzie said the amazingly energetic native of Liverpool, England, remembered the greatest 20th century dance moves, starting with Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo. He toured the United States with them in the 1950s.
“He had a muscle memory,” McKenzie said.
Choreographers including George Balanchine relied on Franklin to keep their tradition alive, Ausman said.
“His death puts a period to an era in the dance world,” McKenzie said. “He epitomized both the old ballets and the modern ones, and he helped establish the importance of classical ballet in the United States.”
Franklin also danced with Britain’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre and as a backup for Josephine Baker in Paris.
Associated Press
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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: ‘Ticos,’ songs and cheese
President Barack Obama smiles as he poses for a group photo at a cultural event with youth performers in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama smiles as he poses for a group photo at a cultural event with youth performers in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama and Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla attend a cultural event with youth performing at the Casa Amarilla in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama and Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla visit with a group of students upon his arrival to the foreign ministry, Casa Amarilla, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. Obama’s three-day visit to Mexico and Costa Rica is his first to Latin America since winning re-election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
President Barack Obama, left, greets young performers after attending a cultural event at the Casa Amarrilla with Costa Rica?s President Laura Chinchilla in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama and Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla pose for a group photo with young children who performed at a cultural event at the Casa Amarilla in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) ? It was a party atmosphere along Barack Obama’s motorcade route from the airport after he arrived in this Central American country for his first visit as president.
Thousands of locals, who are known as “Ticos,” lined the road to welcome their fourth visiting American president. The most recent one to visit was Bill Clinton in 1997.
Municipal employees were given the day off to ease traffic.
Some of those who lined the roadway ? two and three people deep ? waved American flags. Others held homemade signs, including one that said “Fired Up!” ? a reference to Obama’s campaign slogan. More crowds gathered along the route between Obama’s hotel and Casa Amarilla, the headquarters for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including hundreds of students in school uniforms.
“We’re very happy to welcome our big brother,” said retiree Ricardo Marin, 62, explaining the jubilant mood. “We hope they don’t neglect us, that this visit will help our country.”
Obama’s reception here was vastly different from Mexico. There was no major crowd presence for Obama’s travels in Mexico City on Thursday and Friday.
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Excitement over Obama’s visit wasn’t shared widely, however.
“I had to walk more than a mile to get to my job,” grumbled Luis Humberto Rodriguez Burgos, 26, who sells cellphones in the city center, which was shuttered and empty. “There are no clients, no tourists and we’re losing money. Clearly if they close the city for a foreign president, that’s not going to improve my working conditions, nor help me feed my children.”
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Obama and Costa Rica’s president, Laura Chincilla, strolled to a courtyard at Casa Amarilla, or Yellow House, after they met and were greeted by about 100 schoolchildren, ranging in age from about 7 to 16. All were in uniform, and the younger ones waved U.S. and Costa Rican flags. Obama wore a broad grin as he stood encircled by the singing students.
They sang “I’m Tico” and “The First Time I Saw Limon,” a reference to a city on the country’s Caribbean coast.
As the children sang, thunder roared in the distance and the wind picked up.
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After the songs, Obama praised the students, calling them “brave” and their performances “very good.” He also asked for their names.
The students gushed as Obama invited them to pose for photos.
“What do we say?” he asked.
The students and Chinchilla said: “Cheese.” Obama responded with, “Queso!” the Spanish word for cheese.
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Obama opened his day by making his second visit to Mexico City’s soaring, modernistic National Museum of Anthropology.
“Each time that I come, I’ve been inspired,” he told a predominantly student audience.
Of course, last time he may have narrowly avoided getting sick.
In April 2009, Obama was he honored guest at a state dinner at the museum ? just as the global swine flu outbreak was first surfacing in Mexico. Ultimately, the H1N1 strain killed thousands of people worldwide.
Obama never came down with the H1N1 flu. However, a security aide of his did ? and passed it on to family members in the U.S.
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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Associated Press writer Mark S. Smith in Washington contributed to this report.
Associated Press
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Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock And Roll Storyline: We Know What Happens Next!
Pete Wentz says FOB’s next videos will feature fire, wild animals … and Daft Punk?
By James Montgomery
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706107/fall-out-boy-young-volacanoes.jhtml
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How Many Ways Can California Be Stupid? (Powerlineblog)
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Vudu offices burglarized and customer info stolen
Usually when customer info is snatched up by a ne’er-do-well, it’s done digitally. Video streaming service Vudu, however, was the victim of an old fashioned burglary on March 24th of this year when someone broke into its offices and stole hard drives with customer data on them. According to an e-mail sent out to users today, those HDDs “contained customer information, including names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth and the last four digits of some credit card numbers.” Thankfully, the full CC numbers aren’t kept by Vudu, but all the same, the service is giving affected accounts AllClear ID protection for free for one year. Vudu’s also requiring users to reset their passwords today — despite the fact that the passwords on the stolen drives are encrypted — to ensure that everything will be safe and sound moving forward.
[Thanks, @steveymacjr and everyone who sent this in]
Source: Vudu forum, Vudu
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Gene variations predict chemotherapy side effects
Apr. 9, 2013 ? Seemingly benign differences in genetic code from one person to the next could influence who develops side effects to chemotherapy, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The study identified gene variations that can predispose people to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, a condition that is hard to predict and often debilitating enough to cause cancer patients to stop their treatment early.
Results of the research were presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2013 in Washington, D.C.
The study, which implicates the genes EPHA5, ARHGEF10, and PRX, is the first to mine large swaths of the human genome for predictors of chemotherapy side effects. Further research into these genes and others may enable clinicians to use genomic information to more safely deliver these potentially toxic treatments.
“Our study creates a path for how to approach the whole genome in order to tailor cancer treatments,” says Andreas Beutler, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and senior author of the study. “That is important because we would not only like to cure people’s cancer or help them live longer, but we also wish to provide them with the best quality of life.”
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy affects an estimated 20 to 30 percent of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy agents. The symptoms can be as mild as a light tingling or numbness, but can progress to a loss of feeling in the hands and feet, or to the point where patients can no longer walk normally and are left with a permanent feeling of numbness or pain. Currently, there is no way to predict which patients undergoing chemotherapy will develop this side effect or to what degree.
There are approximately 50 genes linked to a hereditary form of peripheral neuropathy. However, many of the people who have a mutation in one of these genes experience no symptoms until they are exposed to chemotherapy. Dr. Beutler decided to first consider those 50 genes as the most likely suspects, and then expand his search to the wider human genome for other predictors of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Dr. Beutler’s approach relied on exome sequencing, a type of DNA sequencing that focuses on the exonic regions of the genome that code for functional proteins. These protein-coding regions are believed to harbor about 85 percent of all disease-causing mutations.
Dr. Beutler and his colleagues performed exome sequencing on 20,794 genes from 119 cancer patients, over half of whom had developed chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy during the course of a chemotherapy clinical trial.
First, they looked at the 50 hereditary neuropathy genes and found one — EPHA5 — that appeared to predispose the patients to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. Next, researchers analyzed the remaining 20,000 genes and discovered two new genes — ARHGEF10 and PRX — that are also associated with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. They validated those findings in another group of 75 cancer patients.
The results suggest that the two conditions, hereditary neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, may share genetic roots in some patients. They also point to ways that clinicians can improve cancer treatment. For instance, if clinicians know which patients are at risk for a particular chemotherapy side effect, they can use the information to individualize treatment.
Dr. Beutler and his team plan to expand their study to look at the entire genome, not just the protein-coding regions, in as many as 1,000 cancer patients. Dr. Beutler says any additional genes they find will add to the larger picture of symptom control in cancer treatment.
“What we are doing at Mayo is much larger than just uncovering a handful of genes,” says Dr. Beutler. “We are using cutting-edge genomics research to enhance our strengths in clinical trials and develop new methods to individualize medicine.”
Co-authors include, Amit Kulkarni, M.B.B.S.; Rahul Kanwar; Rui Qin, Ph.D.; Zhifu Sun, M.D.; Anh Le-Lindqwister, Terry Therneau, Ph.D.; and Charles Loprinzi, M.D., all of Mayo Clinic.
Funding for the study was provided by the American Cancer Society, the National Institutes of Health grants CA124477 and CA37404, the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation.
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California Court Bans Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving
In California, drivers can now be pulled over for using their GPS while driving. Extending the state’s current ban on texting while driving, an appellate court in California v. Spriggs argued that the “distraction would be present whether the wireless telephone was being used as a telephone, a GPS navigator, a clock or a device for sending and receiving text messages and emails.”
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