Stars fire GM Joe Nieuwendyk after 4 seasons

DALLAS (AP) ? The Dallas Stars fired general manager Joe Nieuwendyk on Sunday after four seasons, two coaches and no playoff appearances.

The dismissal came the day after Dallas completed a 22-22-4 season. The Stars missed the playoffs for the fifth season in a row.

Owner Tom Gaglardi said in a statement that Nieuwendyk represented the Stars "extremely well" and "helped put pieces in place that will once again turn this team into a contender." He added, however, the team must go "in a different direction with our intentions set on returning to the elite" of the NHL.

The team is to announce its new GM on Monday. While the Stars have not said who it is, Gaglardi is "confident we have found the right general manager to return us to the pathway of success."

The team has refused to comment on reports that Jim Nill, Detroit's longtime assistant GM, will get the job.

The future of coach Glen Gulutzan wasn't addressed by the team in its statement. Dallas holds an option for a third season for Gulutzan, who is 64-57-9 in his two seasons after ending the lockout-shortened season with a 3-0 home loss to Detroit. The Stars dropped their last five games and won only once in their last seven after a five-game winning streak.

When asked about his job after Saturday night's game, Gulutzan said that wasn't under his control. He did praise Nieuwendyk.

"All I can say is that Joe's been tremendous for me. I think he's done a hell of a job," Gulutzan said. "You can see with our farm team and the young guys that we have here."

As a player in Dallas, Nieuwendyk won the Conn Smythe Award as playoff MVP in 1999 when the Stars won their only Stanley Cup.

When hired by Nieuwendyk two years ago to replace the fired Marc Crawford, the 41-year-old Gulutzan had never coached in the NHL. Gulutzan had been a successful minor league coach.

Crawford was hired following Dave Tippett's firing in 2009, after the Stars missed the playoffs a year after making it to the Western Conference finals. Tippett later that year replaced Wayne Gretzky as coach in Phoenix and led the Coyotes to the playoffs. He was honored as the league's top coach.

The Stars weren't eliminated from the playoff chase until Thursday night. They stayed in postseason contention even after longtime captain Brenden Morrow was traded, a week before 41-year-old points leader Jaromir Jagr and Derek Roy were dealt at the trading deadline.

Dallas got several young players and extra draft picks in those deals. Within days after Jagr and Roy were traded, the young Stars went on a season-best five-game winning streak.

Morrow waived his no-trade clause to go to Pittsburgh, which entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. Morrow's rookie season in Dallas was 1999-2000, when the Stars were the Stanley Cup runner-up a year after their title.

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Defense begins opening remarks in Jackson case

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FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday April 29, 2013, in Jackson?s lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live over her son Michael?s 2009 death. Katherine Jackson claims the company failed to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for the singer?s death, but the company denies all wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday April 29, 2013, in Jackson?s lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live over her son Michael?s 2009 death. Katherine Jackson claims the company failed to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for the singer?s death, but the company denies all wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, Michael Jackson follows his mother, Katherine Jackson, as they arrive for court on the opening day of his child molestation trial at Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, Calif. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday April 29, 2013, in Katherine Jackson?s lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live over Michael?s 2009 death. Katherine Jackson claims the company failed to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for the singer?s death, but the company denies all wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Randy Jackson and Rebbie Jackson, background right, brother and sister of late pop star Michael Jackson, arrive at a courthouse for Katherine Jackson's lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live in Los Angeles, Monday, April 29, 2013. An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother says AEG Live owed it to the pop superstar to properly investigate the doctor held criminally responsible for his death. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Former Michael Jackson's attorney Thomas Mesereau talks to reporters as he arrives at a courthouse for Katherine Jackson's lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live in Los Angeles, Monday, April 29, 2013. Mesereau is expected to testify during the trial. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An attorney for concert giant AEG Live says the company could not have known while promoting comeback concerts that Michael Jackson was using an anesthetic that killed him.

Lawyer Marvin S. Putnam addressed jurors on Monday in opening statements of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against AEG.

He says the company didn't have access to information shared between Jackson and his doctors.

Putnam's remarks came after Katherine Jackson's attorney played a song Jackson recorded for his children and detailed the singer's struggles with addiction throughout his life.

Her lawsuit accuses AEG of failing to properly investigate the doctor who cared for Jackson and was later convicted of causing Jackson's death with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol.

Putnam called Jackson an addict and said the company shouldn't be held responsible for his death.

Associated PressNews Topics: Business, Arts and entertainment, General news, Music, Entertainment, Pop music, Concerts, Celebrity legal affairs, Celebrity, Lawsuits, Legal proceedings, Law and order

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Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti: Women and Salary Negotiations

Pursuing a job can be challenging and exciting at the same time. When and how to negotiate salary is a common concern for many candidates.

The popular book Women Lead notes that while 85 percent of women interviewed thought that women excelled at negotiation many were not comfortable negotiating for themselves especially for salary. Some of the reasons noted are fear of asking for too much, fear of being denied, lack of confidence, low self-worth, the perception that salary negotiations are unfeminine or aggressive. Most women have had limited to no experience negotiating salary and terms.

Tips:

Be prepared

The topic of salary may sometimes be explored in the first interview. You might be asked what you are making and what your expectations are. Use tools like payscale.com, glassdoor.com, salary.com and jobstar.org to better understand what your market value is and what salary range to ask for.

"Candidates can create an environment where salary discussions are smooth and non-confrontational," says Gary Daugenti of Gent & Associates.

For example an individual can set the stage during early interviews by having a solid well researched salary figure in their head of what they feel the position and they are worth so if asked they can provide information with ease. If asked for a range, you should be prepared to accept the low number in your range, for example 80K-100K.

Timing

If salary is not initiated by the employer, then it is best not to bring up the topic. You might be in a series of early stage vetting interviews and you may or may not be considered for employment. There may be numerous other candidates also interviewing for the job and you may have a number of interviews (four to 10 interviews) depending on the firm. "I advise candidates not to assume that they have the job because they are called in for an interview," says Anne Angelopoulos, senior manager at Just Staff. "Rather know your worth, and be prepared if asked but let the process take its course."

The offer

If an employer is serious about hiring a candidate, s/he will explore salary expectations and make a verbal offer. The offer may not be what the candidate expected. If the candidate really wants the position but the salary offered does not align with expectations, it may be worth exploring other ways to reach the expected number. For example, the candidate can ask the employer how s/he plans to reach the number and let them bring up solutions. If you need more time to think about other items that might have a value, such as career allowance, telecommuting, etc., then ask for how long the offer is valid so that you can think about it. Most employers will not expect individuals to respond immediately but will give candidates time to reflect and review the offer. Women, negotiate your way to $1 million, one salary at a time.

Recruiters

If you are working with a recruiter, you have an additional resource to help you with salary negotiations. Recruiters will know the market, the firms and what the current salary offering will probably be. Recruiters may also have the advantage of working with the firm on other placements and they know what is and is not negotiable. "For example," says Daugenti, "a smaller firm might be more flexible than large firms who have to follow corporate protocols and treat each incoming candidate equally."

Work with your recruiter. "I discuss salary and the firm as part of my process with candidates.", says Leslie Lazarus, senior recruiter at Gent & Associates. "My area specialty is finance and tax, and I know these firms very well. I can help bring the two entities together with ease." Angelopoulos says, "Don't go around the recruiter. Candidates should not be stating one salary number to the recruiter and a different number to the employer. Consistency is important."

Salary negotiation can be a comfortable conversation if you prepare in advance.

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In Ala., GOP dictates new landscape for education

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? Self-declared education reformers have had considerable success across the country over the past few decades, from charter school expansion and private school tuition vouchers to new limits on teachers' job protections. But perhaps nowhere have the triumphs marked a bigger political upheaval than in Alabama, where the new Republican supermajority is dominating the state teachers' organization that was long the epicenter of power.

Alabama Education Association chief Henry Mabry accuses Republicans of hurting public schools with changes to teacher tenure, tax breaks for private school tuition, and limits on AEA collecting dues through the state payroll system.

"There seems to be an unspoken agenda to change the public education system to where it's not even recognizable," Mabry said. He called it "right out of the playbook" of a national movement to eviscerate government in favor of private and for-profit enterprises.

GOP leaders frame their efforts as improving a broken system more concerned with public employees than with children. "It's not that we're punitive toward AEA," House Speaker Mike Hubbard said. "We're just doing the right thing by the taxpayers, and they don't like that."

Alabama's statehouse dynamic has turned on its head since Republicans won legislative supermajorities in 2010, giving them legislative control for the first time since Reconstruction. Soon after, longtime AEA leader Paul Hubbert, who spent more than four decades amassing a reputation as the state's most powerful lobbyist, retired and gave way to Mabry.

"For so long, AEA controlled everything, and they don't anymore," Hubbard said. "They're having a really hard time adjusting to that."

Hubbert, who still lives in Montgomery, said AEA was a predictable target for Republicans because it "had primarily supported Democrats."

The Alabama legislative battles haven't produced the kind of protests seen in Wisconsin after Republican Gov. Scott Walker gutted his state's public unions, but they underscore how quickly public policy can turn after watershed elections. They've also had considerable political ripple effects. The state Democratic Party, once dependent on AEA's organizational muscle, is reeling. Republicans must deal with the realities of a supermajority: Old two-party battles are sometimes reprised as internal party struggles. Both sides say those issues will figure prominently in the 2014 elections.

Immediately, the new GOP Legislature tried to block AEA from collecting money from its 100,000 or so members through the automatic deductions in the state payroll system. The law remains tied up in court, but it would change how AEA collects money, potentially cutting into the estimated $7 million to $8 million that Mabry says it spends each election cycle.

Republicans made it easier to fire teachers and blocked them from being paid during appeals. The party also wants the state to provide liability insurance for teachers ? a key benefit teachers get from AEA. The state already provides similar insurance for non-education employees.

The biggest GOP victory came earlier this year when legislators passed the Alabama Accountability Act with provisions championed by school-choice advocates, including a private-school tuition voucher program for students from low-income households and tax breaks for private school tuition paid by families zoned for poorly performing public schools.

Those ideas have been implemented elsewhere. The tuition scholarship-voucher fund is modeled after a program Jeb Bush enacted as governor of Florida. Other provisions closely track model legislation offered by the American Legislative Exchanges Council, a consortium of conservative state legislators backed mostly by corporate contributions.

Mabry calls the tuition grants and tax breaks "once-in-a-lifetime goodies" for private schools and many parents who already send their children to them. Republicans estimate that the tax credits will divert about $50 million from public school appropriations, but AEA says the number will be much higher. Mabry blasts Hubbard's argument that supporting public schools is different from backing public school employees.

Hubbard spent more than a decade in the minority protesting Hubbert's influence. Hubbard and Senate GOP leader Del Marsh both refer to AEA as "the union," though AEA doesn't have collective bargaining rights and cannot strike. Statehouse lore holds that Hubbert could sit in the gallery and determine the outcome of budget amendments by showing lawmakers a thumbs-up or thumbs-down ? though Hubbert disputes the account.

AEA was an unquestioned success in an otherwise unfriendly state for organized labor. National teachers' union officials recognize it as among the most influential state associations without collective bargaining power. Unlike several other Southern states that have multiple groups, AEA is the product of an integration-era merger of a white group and black group. Hubbert ran AEA for decades with Joe Reed, who is black, as his top deputy.

Both men were longtime executive officers of the state Democratic Party. Hubbert won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1990 but lost the general election. AEA usually took the lead on recruiting candidates, often choosing education employees and administrators. Republicans lambasted the "double dipping" because the officeholders got two state paychecks, and some AEA-backed Democrats were convicted of fraud after a federal investigation found they got paychecks and contracts from state two-year colleges without doing the work.

An enduring example of AEA's old power is the fact that Alabama passes two budgets annually: one for education and the General Fund budget for everything else. Earmarks direct the overwhelming majority of state tax revenues to the education budget. In a state where anti-tax sentiment has always been strong, AEA saw to it that public schools ? and their employees ? got most of the pie.

Hubbert and Mabry say that's the way the electorate wants it. They attribute Republicans' 2010 sweep to a national election centered on President Barack Obama and the economy, not on GOP education policy.

AEA has begun recruiting candidates for 2014 on both sides of the aisle, Mabry said. New district lines give Republicans a decided advantage, particularly in the few remaining district represented by white Democrats. Mabry argued that Republican voters are sympathetic to AEA's positions, particularly on vouchers and tax credits. He noted that some Republicans in Indiana and Ohio were ousted in 2012 after a similar approach.

Hubbard and Marsh said they can win the "school choice" argument on merit. Hubbard's old nemesis, meanwhile, gives him reason not to worry anytime soon. The bottom line, according to Hubbert, is that AEA's philosophy and Republican priorities don't match. "AEA will change with the times, I'm sure," Hubbert said. "But will it be a major player inside the Republican Party? I doubt it."

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Museum find proves exotic ?big cat? prowled British countryside a century ago

Apr. 23, 2013 ? The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum's underground storeroom proves that a non-native 'big cat' prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.

The animal's skeleton and mounted skin was analysed by a multi-disciplinary team of Durham University scientists and fellow researchers at Bristol, Southampton and Aberystwyth universities and found to be a Canadian lynx -- a carnivorous predator more than twice the size of a domestic cat.

The research, published today in the academic journal Historical Biology, establishes the animal as the earliest example of an "alien big cat" at large in the British countryside.

The research team say this provides further evidence for debunking a popular hypothesis that wild cats entered the British countryside following the introduction of the 1976 Wild Animals Act. The Act was introduced to deal with an increasing fashion for exotic -- and potentially dangerous -- pets.

The academics believe such feral "British big cats" as they are known, may have lived in the wild much earlier, through escapes and even deliberate release. There is no evidence that such animals have been able to breed in the wild.

The study of the Canadian lynx, rediscovered by research team member Max Blake among hundreds of thousands of specimens at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, details records unearthed at the museum which showed the animal had originally been mislabelled by Edwardian curators in 1903 as a Eurasian lynx -- a close relative of the Canadian lynx.

The records also showed that the lynx was shot by a landowner in the Devon countryside in the early 1900s, after it killed two dogs.

"This Edwardian feral lynx provides concrete evidence that although rare, exotic felids have occasionally been part of British fauna for more than a century," said lead researcher, Dr Ross Barnett of Durham University's Department of Archaeology.

"The animal remains are significant in representing the first historic big cat from Britain."

Co-author Dr Darren Naish, from the University of Southampton, added: "There have been enough sightings of exotic big cats which substantially pre-date 1976 to cast doubt on the idea that one piece of legislation made in 1976 explains all releases of these animals in the UK.

"It seems more likely that escapes and releases have occurred throughout history, and that this continual presence of aliens explains the 'British big cat' phenomenon."

The researchers point out in their paper that Eurasian lynxes existed in the wild in Britain many hundreds of years ago, but had almost certainly become extinct by the 7th century. Laboratory analysis of the Bristol specimen's bones and teeth established it had been kept in captivity long enough to develop severe tooth loss and plaque before it either escaped or was deliberately released into the wild. Ancient DNA analysis of hair from the lynx proved inconclusive, possibly due to chemicals applied to the pelt during taxidermy.

Julie Finch, head of Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives, said: "Bristol Museum, Galleries and Archives were pleased to be a part of this ground-breaking research, which not only highlights the importance of our science collections, it establishes the pedigree of our 100-year old Lynx and adds to our knowledge and understanding of 'big cats' in the UK.

"Our museum collections are extensive and caring for them requires the considerable skills of our collections officers. We have an amazing collection of taxidermy animals on display and we welcome museum visitors to come along, to take a closer look and discover more about the natural world."

Dr Greger Larson, a member of the research team from Durham University and an expert in the migration of animals, said: "Every few years there is another claim that big cats are living wild in Britain, but none of these claims have been substantiated. It seems that big cats are to England what the Loch Ness Monster is to Scotland.

"By applying a robust scientific methodology, this study conclusively demonstrates that at least one big cat did roam Britain as early as the Edwardian era, and suggests that additional claims need to be subjected to this level of scrutiny."

The lynx is now on public display at Bristol museum.

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Team deploys hundreds of tiny untethered surgical tools in first animal biopsies

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

By using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, Johns Hopkins engineers and physicians say they have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a more effective way to access narrow conduits in the body as well as find early signs of cancer or other diseases.

In two recent peer-reviewed journal articles, the team reported successful animal testing of the tiny tools, which require no batteries, wires or tethers as they seize internal tissue samples. The devices are called "mu-grippers," incorporating the Greek letter that represents the term for "micro." Instead of relying on electric or pneumatic power, these star-shaped tools are autonomously activated by the body's heat, which causes their tiny "fingers" to close on clusters of cells. Because the tools also contain a magnetic material, they can be retrieved through an existing body opening via a magnetic catheter.

In the April print edition of Gastroenterology, the researchers described their use of the mu-grippers to collect cells from the colon and esophagus of a pig, which was selected because its intestinal tract is similar to that of humans. Earlier this year, the team members reported in the journal Advanced Materials that they had successfully inserted the mu-grippers through the mouth and stomach of a live animal and released them in a hard-to-access place, the bile duct, from which they obtained tissue samples.

"This is the first time that anyone has used a sub-millimeter-sized device -- the size of a dust particle -- to conduct a biopsy in a live animal," said David Gracias, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering whose lab team developed the microgrippers. "That's a significant accomplishment. And because we can send the grippers in through natural orifices, it is an important advance in minimally invasive treatment and a step toward the ultimate goal of making surgical procedures noninvasive."

Another member of the research team, physician Florin M. Selaru of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said the mu-grippers could lead to an entirely new approach to conducting biopsies, which are considered the "gold standard" test for diagnosing cancer and other diseases.

The advantage of the mu-grippers, he said, is that they could collect far more samples from many more locations. He pointed out that the much larger forceps used during a typical colonoscopy may remove 30 to 40 pieces of tissue to be studied for signs of cancer. But despite a doctor's best intentions, the small number of specimens makes it easy to miss diseased lesions.

"What's the likelihood of finding the needle in the haystack?" said Selaru, an assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. "Based on a small sample, you can't always draw accurate inferences. We need to be able to do a larger statistical sampling of the tissue. That's what would give us enough statistical power to draw a conclusion, which, in essence, is what we're trying to do with the microgrippers. We could deploy hundreds or even thousands of these grippers to get more samples and a better idea of what kind of or whether a disease is present."

Although each mu-gripper can grab a much smaller tissue sample than larger biopsy tools, the researchers said each gripper can retrieve enough cells for effective microscopic inspection and genetic analysis. Armed with this information, they said, the patient's physician could be better prepared to diagnose and treat the patient.

This approach would be possible through the latest application of the Gracias lab's self-assembling tiny surgical tools, which can be activated by heat or chemicals, without relying on electrical wires, tubes, batteries or tethers. The low-cost devices are fabricated through photolithography, the same process used to make computer chips. Their fingerlike projections are made of materials that would normally curl inward, but the team adds a polymer resin to give the joints rigidity and to keep the digits from closing.

Prior to a biopsy, the grippers are kept on ice, so that the fingers remain in this extended position. An endoscopy tool then is used to insert hundreds of grippers into the area targeted for a biopsy. Within about five minutes, the warmth of the body causes the polymer coating to soften, and the fingers curl inward to grasp some tissue. A magnetic tool is then inserted to retrieve them.

Although the animal testing results are promising, the researchers said the process will require further refinement before human testing can begin. "The next step is improving how we deploy the grippers," Selaru said. "The concept is sound, but we still need to address some of the details. The other thing we need to do is thorough safety studies."

Further development can be costly, however. The team has applied for grants to fund advances in the project, which is protected by provisional patents obtained through the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office. Biotechnology investors might also help move the project forward.

"It is more a question of money than time as to how long it will take before we could use this in human patients," Selaru said

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Dubai real estate recovery continues with 16 consecutive months of ...

Property prices increased by 1.5% from February to March with price increases recorded across most areas, while prices and rental values remain significantly below their peak of 2008. Apartment prices remain between 43% and 61% below peak with villa prices between 12% and 49% below peak prices. Rental values show similar trends.

The figures take the year-to-date growth in property prices to over 6.2%. Apartment prices were up by 1.5% while villas were up 1.6%.

Despite this recovery, the shares of real estate developers trade at a discount to emerging markets and world developers, according to the report.

The growth in prices and investor confidence continues despite increased supply. Since the second half of 2011, Dubai as witnessed an increase in project launches by master developers such as Emaar, Nakheel and Damac. Nakheel has restarted various projects while Emaar recently pre-sold four projects with over 1,000 units sold overnight with prime units selling at a 40% premium to market prices reflecting trends seen around the world. Emaar has now announced another project in Downtown Dubai which goes on sale on 20 April.

Commenting in the report, research analyst Athmane Benzerroug said, "The price recovery that started in late 2011 in prime properties is now spreading to second tier communities. Despite new supply, investor confidence remains strong, while main master developers are accelerating project launches."

Despite the growing confidence in the market and the 1.9% increase in share prices seen in March, UAE developers continue to trade at a discount to emerging markets and global developers.

Mr Benzerroug said, "On a price to book value and a price to earnings multiple, UAE developers trade at a discount to emerging markets and international developers. UAE developers are trading at a 0.6x 2013 price to book value versus 1.0x for emerging markets and 1.4x for world developers."

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Egyptian judges accuse Mursi backers of attacking their independence

By Paul Taylor and Shaimaa Fayed

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian judges accused President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday of trying to clamp down on judicial independence by conducting a campaign ostensibly aimed at rooting out corruption.

A rift between Egypt's Islamist rulers and the judiciary is steadily widening amid a broader struggle over the future character of the country following the 2011 uprising that overthrew autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.

On Tuesday, Mursi's legal adviser quit in protest at what he said were efforts by the Islamists to force out thousands of judges who they accuse of obstructing laws and elections with a series of rulings that have gone against the government.

About 10,000 judges and other legal figures met in Cairo on Wednesday, the state news agency MENA said, to discuss a proposed law lowering their retirement age.

The bill put forward by the moderate Islamist Wasat Party, an ally of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, would impose mandatory retirement at 60 instead of 70 for all judges, forcing more than 3,000 out at a stroke.

Ahmed El Zend, head of the Judges Club, attacked demands by the Brotherhood for a "purge" of judges who they say are corrupt remnants of the Mubarak era, and dismissed suggestions that the law would combat graft.

"This is not the aim, I swear it is not. The aim is 'Brotherhood-isation'," he told the gathering, using a term that has become popular in Egypt to describe what opposition sees as the Brotherhood's attempts to monopolize power.

The courts have already overturned a number of laws backed by the Brotherhood and earlier this year cancelled Mursi's decree calling parliamentary elections.

El Zend said judges would invite the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers to visit Egypt to inspect "violations that threatened the judiciary's independence".

As the meeting convened, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the High Court in Cairo to denounce the proposed bill. "Judges, judges, you are our hope after God," and "Down, down with the rule of the Brotherhood," the protesters chanted.

PURGING THE JUDICIARY

The Brotherhood staged a demonstration last Friday demanding the judiciary be purged. At least 115 people were injured during the protest in clashes between Islamists and their opponents.

In a highly critical letter of resignation, Mursi's legal adviser Mohamed Fouad Gadalla reinforced opposition charges that the Brotherhood is trying to monopolize power in the country.

The letter, published by the state-owned daily Al-Ahram, went beyond attacking what Gadalla called "the assassination of the judiciary" and leveled a series of damaging accusations against the president and the Brotherhood.

A spokesman for Mursi told a news conference the letter expressed personal opinions and the presidency would not comment on them. Mursi denies the Brotherhood exercises influence over him. He said in an interview with Al Jazeera last week that "there was no room to talk of influence or pressure".

Gadalla, the president's longest serving adviser, listed seven reasons for quitting, including "the lack of a clear vision for managing the country and achieving the goals of the revolution", and "the monopoly of a single current on managing the transition".

He accused the Brotherhood, of which Mursi was a senior member, of shutting all other political groups out of decision-making, refusing to share responsibility or draw on experienced, efficient officials in government.

He faulted the president for refusing to fire Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, a colorless former water engineer, or strengthen a government he said was "failing politically, economically and on security".

Presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmy said Kandil would keep his job in a limited cabinet reshuffle to be announced within days to strengthen ministries' performance.

Gadalla said he had advised Mursi against a divisive decree last year giving himself temporary powers to override the judiciary and push through an Islamist-tinged constitution, which triggered violent protests and polarized Egyptian politics.

Al-Ahram said Gadalla was the 11th out of 17 presidential advisers to quit or be fired since Mursi took office last July.

The secular, liberal and leftist National Salvation Front opposition alliance has accused the Islamists of aiming to seize control of the judiciary and trampling on its independence with a draft law presented to parliament.

(Additional reporting by Asma Alsharif, Yasmine Saleh and Alexander Diazdosz; Writing by Paul Taylor and David Stamp; Editing by Alison Williams and Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-judges-accuse-mursi-backers-attacking-independence-203355424.html

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Murals and signage give Lake & 5th's automotive zone a unique ...

MinnPost illustration by Andy Sturdevant

The Lake Street automotive world brings with it a visual language all of its own.

Poet and top-fiver on any list of noted Minneapolis literary figures John Berryman once referred to Lake Street as the place ?where the used cars live.? East Lake Street is second only to University as the car-craziest part of the cities. From the river to the lakes, it?s home to dozens of body shops, garages, used car dealers, car washes, auto painting businesses, parking lots, drive-in restaurants and liquor stores, and an absolutely absurd amount of auto-parts places. It seems like every vacant spot on East Lake for the past two years has been filled in with an AutoZone that seemingly sprang up overnight.

As with any heavy concentration of subcultures, the Lake Street automotive world brings with it a visual language all of its own. Neon liquor signage highlighting drive-through windows is important here ? I?ve written elsewhere that Minneapolis? neon liquor store signage is one of the features of the visual landscape that looks better from a car than on foot. Important too are hand-painted signs and murals. In particular, within a few blocks from each other along Fifth?Avenue at Lake, there are a few pieces of transit-themed artwork that show the breadth of Lake Street?s automotive culture ? as well as one notable outlier.?

FNR Auto Customs?is an auto custom garage located at Fifth?Avenue in West Phillips. They install audio systems, tinted windows, upholstery, rims, superchargers, whatever else you might need to customize a car. FNR?s logo is reminiscent of the old ?No Fear? logo, ubiquitous in the 1990s, and now largely forgotten ? FNR outlived its graphic inspiration handily.

Some of the best hand-painted signage is along Lake Street, and FNR, aside from its logo, is a part of that. Most of the small businesses along Lake, whether auto shops, convenient stores, clothing retailers, or anything else, have hand-painted signs in their windows and on the exteriors. If you look at enough of hand-painted signage, you begin to see there are a few different schools: There?s the swooping, italicized, one-stroke fonts you most often see on neon-backed boards, hanging in windows and announcing hours of operation or special sales. There?s the elaborate old-school style, the sort practiced by Forrest Wozniak or Phil Vandervaart. Then there?s a third kind that?s often seen painted in windows of small shops, done with oil-based paints, sometimes with sparkling and iridescent paint mixed in, and usually with sharp serifs on the boldfaced lettering. You?d know it if you saw it.

MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant

The stand-out hand-painted sign at FNR is a ?NO PARKING? mural painted on a garage.

That?s the kind of hand-painted signage FNR has, and the stand-out piece is a ?NO PARKING? mural painted on a garage, and featuring the trunk of an enormous, tank-like Hummer with a custom sound system in the back, daring you to park in front of it. If you do, it looks like the bass alone could blow your crappy little car halfway to Marshall Avenue. FNR is not located in an attractive building ? it?s that sort of weird, pebbled semi-stucco you see covering a lot of commercial buildings in the city, the overall effect being a sort of brutalist sand castle. But this sort of signage, with its idiosyncrasies and visible brushwork, lightens the overall effect of the architecture, making it a little more human. The Hummer has been there for years, and it?s easy to see driving west down Lake Street toward Uptown.

Just across the street from FNR is another auto custom shop, with another automotive mural painted on a garage door, but this one quite different. It?s one of those classic brick auto-body shops, with a ziggurat-like top. The remaining exterior signage says ?Collision Services, Inc.,? but the phone book also lists an Auto Customs and a Wameng Auto Body Repair at the same address. The ?CLOSED? sign taped over the hours seems pretty definitive. Whoever might have been there seem to be gone now ? but before they left, they painted a remarkable muscle car mural on the garage door. One of you, my faithful readers, will surely be able to identify the automobile pictured, so I won?t even try to guess. But it?s cherry red, sitting atop a patch of cracked earth in front of three gas pumps, the Minnesota license plate bearing ??69? tags and reading ?JESSIE.?

MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant

Before whoever was here left, they painted a remarkable muscle car mural on the garage door.

Is Jessie the muralist? The owner of the shop? A patron? Usually a mural of this size and skill is signed somewhere, but I didn?t see anything, so it?s hard to know. It?s a great piece of work, capturing the sort of aggressive, sleek and attractive spirit of automotive culture that Lake Street has been a home to for many decades. This is the sort of car you would want to own, the sort that you?d take to the dozens and dozens of businesses all up and down Lake Street to have washed, customized, detailed, pinstriped, repaired and tuned up, and be proud to show off to the owners and regulars at all of these places. I don?t drive much, but I get it. It?s easy to admire Jessie?s red car there on the door and daydream about cruising from the lakes to the river, windows down. Jessie?s car is the ideal.

Of course, the era of the automobile seems to be ending, however slowly, and Lake Street has also been once and future home to other methods of transit. It was, of course, once one of the major streetcar lines in the city, and be may be again someday ? the Midtown Greenway runs along Lake Street the whole way, taking pedestrians and cyclists across town, and with railroad tracks that once served commercial freight trains and may serve a streetcar line again. In fact, Fifth?Avenue is the one of the few thoroughfares in the city where vehicular traffic stops for bicycle traffic crossing between 29th?and Lake.

MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant

Past Lake and near Fifth, there?s a large residential home with an amazing alley mural on the stand-alone garage out back.

Past Lake and near Fifth, there?s a large residential home with an amazing alley mural on the stand-alone garage out back. Credited to ?Greg Rick ?08,? it depicts a sort of liberation theology / apocalyptic confrontation between a white-robed, black-haired messianic figure and his followers, and a gaping hellmouth filled with demons, skeletons, gun-toting figures, and other satanic types. On the side of the good is a bearded man on a 10-speed bicycle, barreling toward the flames with peace sign alley cat cards in his spokes.

MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant

An extraordinary 10-seat cycle built on an auto chassis, with a steering wheel and banana seat for a pilot up front.

MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant

This steering wheel doesn?t control
anything ? or at least I don?t think it does.

The rest of the house is a sort of DIY bicycle-based transit museum. Bicycle frames, mounted to the siding, decorate the back of the house. Sitting in the driveway the day I walked by was the famed Pedal Cloud, an extraordinary 10-seat cycle built on an auto chassis created by artists Hans Early-Nelson and Matt Carlyle, with a steering wheel and banana seat for a pilot up front. On the front of the vehicle is the taxidermied head of an eight-point buck, the top of whose head is capped again with an animal skull. With its bones-and-metal d?cor, the Cloud has a great Mad Max vibe, well suited for post-peak oil apocalyptic fantasies, or maybe just rides around the neighborhood. The Cloud has been seen out at public events, parades and protests around the city since 2008.

My favorite part of the house is a favorite of neighborhood kids, as well ? on the fence facing 31st?Street, the house?s owners have mounted a steering wheel, or some kind of wheel, as a public service. As you walk by, you can spin it. It doesn?t control anything ? or at least I don?t think it does ? but it?s fun to give it a spin. People always like spinning a wheel.?

Andy Sturdevant will be on vacation next week. The Stroll will return May 8.

Source: http://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2013/04/murals-and-signage-give-lake-5ths-automotive-zone-unique-vibe

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North Korea has New Missiles - Night Watch - Townhall Finance ...

North Korea: More Missiles. The North's military moved two launchers believed to be for Scud short range ballistic missiles to the east coast last week, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which cited a senior Seoul official.

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"We have discovered the North has moved two additional TELs (transporter-erector-launchers) to the east coast ... after 16 April," the official was quoted as saying.

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Comment: The report did not specify the location of the newly detected missiles, but the context suggests it is near the two intermediate range missiles between the cities of Wonsan and Hamhung on the east coast.

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Media. On 20 April, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published a summary of a party daily "special article entitled, "There Will Be No DPRK-US Talks on Denuclearization."

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"The U.S. is now talking about "dialogue" with the DPRK, putting up the latter's step for denuclearization as a precondition for dialogue."

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"High-ranking U.S. officials let loose a spate of rhetoric that President Obama ordered to cancel some military drills, contributing to detente, the DPRK should be sincere in the efforts for realizing denuclearization and dialogue is possible only when it opts for denuclearization."

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"Rodong Sinmun Saturday observed in a bylined article in this regard: This is nothing but rhetoric prompted by the U.S. crafty ploy to shift the blame for the tension on the Korean Peninsula on to the DPRK and put international pressure on it?."

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"The U.S. should not think about the denuclearization on the peninsula before the world is denuclearized?"

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"The DPRK's stand is clear."

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"The U.S. should not think about the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula before the world is denuclearized. There may be talks between the DPRK and the U.S. for disarmament but no talks on denuclearization."

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Comment: The position the Pyongyang government announced in March has not changed. The changed perspective continues in which the US is threatening a nuclear attack against North Korea. Presumably, that sets the groundwork for declaring victory when no attack occurs by the end of the month.?

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No 1 Combat Duty. The text of the Rodong Sinmun article is much longer than the KCNA summary and was intended for the internal audience. It mentioned in passing that the US nuclear threat was the reason that the armed forces were placed at the highest alert condition. NightWatch added the emphasis.

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"?.As long as the United States threatens us with nuclear weapons, our position is to repulse that with nuclear weapons. The fact that our army has entered a No 1 combat duty posture to strike the bases of the US imperialist forces of aggression in the Pacific operational theater, including the US mainland, with our style of powerful, precision nuclear strike means is a reflection of our intent not to tolerate any longer the nuclear threat the United States has made against us for the past several decades. The United States should understand that the era of threatening us with nuclear weapons is finished forever?."

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Comment: This is the first reference to the No 1 combat duty posture since the order was announced on 26 March. The language of the text indicates that the order has not been rescinded. However, normality has crept all across the civilian sector.

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The North's public statements beginning 18 April appear disjointed and confused. Clarifications required clarification and a one day standdown to clear the airwaves. Everything published has approval by one of the department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Thus, a signed article has some warrant of authority, but it is low in the propaganda hierarchy.

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What makes this article noteworthy is KCNA republished its main points. The leadership liked it but wanted it crisper for the US audience.

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Pakistan: Update. Former president Musharraf was remanded to house arrest at his villa near Islamabad on 20 April for two weeks until his next hearing. Musharraf is fighting prosecutions in the Islamabad High Court, the Anti-Terrorism Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan. On 22 April he faces a hearing on treason charges before the Supreme Court.

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AbbVie hepatitis C drugs knock out virus at eight weeks

By Ransdell Pierson and Bill Berkrot

(Reuters) - A combination of five oral drugs being tested by AbbVie Inc cured at least 88 percent of new patients with hepatitis C after only eight weeks of treatment, without raising significant safety issues, researchers said on Tuesday.

The latest findings from an ongoing trial sponsored by AbbVie, called Aviator, also showed that 96 percent of patients taking the five medicines for 12 weeks eliminated the virus, as assessed by blood tests 24 weeks after they stopped treatment.

If the virus is undetectable 24 weeks after completing treatment, known as SVR 24, a patient is considered cured.

The latest results were deemed little different than the 99 percent sustained virologic response (SVR) rate reported in October, for patients evaluated 12 weeks after completing 12 weeks of the five-drug treatment regimen.

"We are pleased that the data remain consistent and robust," said Dr. Kris Kowdley, who is presenting the data this week at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in Amsterdam.

"The data confirm that the 12-week treatment appears to be optimal, but certainly we are still very pleased with ... data for the eight-week treatment," Kowdley said in an interview.

AbbVie is deemed to be in a horse race with Gilead Sciences Inc to be first to market with an all-oral treatment for the serious liver disease, as companies work to eliminate difficult-to-tolerate intravenous interferon from the regimen, while raising cure rates and shortening treatment duration.

Current hepatitis C treatments take either 24 or 48 weeks.

Hepatitis C affects an estimated 170 million people worldwide, and if left untreated can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer or the need for a new liver.

Gilead has been given an edge by many analysts because its experimental regimen involves fewer drugs. But Abbvie said it is also testing regimens with fewer drugs and ones that do not include the older oral drug ribavirin, which can also be difficult for some patients to tolerate.

Any oral regimen to treat hepatitis C is expected to garner billions of dollars in annual sales.

Patients in the Aviator study had the most common, but hardest to treat, genotype 1 variation of the infectious virus. The AbbVie drugs were the protease inhibitor ABT-450, whose effect was boosted by a widely used antiviral called ritonavir; the polymerase inhibitor ABT-333 and ABT-267 from a class known as NS5A inhibitors. Those were given along with the generic antiviral medicine, ribavirin.

Kowdley, director of the Liver Center of Excellence at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, said the trial also showed impressive results among patients who had failed to benefit from earlier therapy.

The cure rate after 12 weeks of treatment was 93 percent for those patients, called null responders, assessed both 12 weeks and 24 weeks after completion of their drug regimens. That compared with a cure rate of 95 percent for patients treated for 24 weeks, and then assessed 24 weeks after treatment stopped.

AbbVie said the safety of the tested drugs was similar to that seen in results presented last year. Of the 247 patients evaluated, serious side effects were seen in four patients (1.6 percent), while seven patients had elevated levels of liver enzymes that can be considered a potential sign of toxicity.

Less serious side effects seen in more than 10 percent of patients included headache, fatigue, nausea, insomnia and diarrhea.

(Editing by Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/abbvie-hepatitis-c-drugs-knock-virus-eight-weeks-100555214--finance.html

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Brain Cancer (GMB) and Tumor Treating Fields (TTS). - InvestorsHub

Brain Cancer (GMB) and Tumor Treating Fields (TTS).

PPHM's Cotara is drug injected true an opening in the skull with a dual catheter, into the solid tumor that GMB patients have.

In 2007 TTS was a research domain for GMB too

In Sept 2011, on a San Diego TEDMed conference this presentation was given about it.

At first I took this serious but know I have put some question marks out. I found this web-site where this video is linked and where you also find AF's famous article about Cotara being removed from under the dust. That immediately raised a RED FLAG! No serious web-site in his right mind, and I checked the national brain tumor site, would ever put this on their web-site.

Then I actually saw that the web-site was about Novocure, a kind of apparatus for TTF and they let no stone un-turned to promote the stuff.

Then I wondered why Cotara got an Orphan status from the FDA and a Fast Track if there was a cure for GMB (which is what is claimed, also in the video). Even more, this device seems to works for just the same solid cancers as does Bavi (Breast, Lung and Pancreatic being mentioned explicitly).

So I quickly found out that the video had nothing to do with the web-site (it is a YouTube) and that the FDA mentioning in the video are very probably not even related to the Novocure product.

At min 1:50 of the video, about misconceptions of electric fields, I started to be even more suspicious. The guy says things like:

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Electric Fields are not electric current
Electric Fields are not ionizing radiation like X-Rays
Electric Fields are not magnetism

Electric Fields are fields of forces that act on, attract, bodies that have an electrical charge.

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People, certainly since the experiments in Psychiatry past century, are not very happy with the idea of electric current passing through there body, let alone their brain. Unfortunately, if there is an electric field, a Faraday representation of the forces between two electric potentials, then there is inequality of charge. Charge always wants to even out, get in a state of equipotential, and if it has at least one path of sufficiently low resistance it will do that. Moving charge, normally the negatively charged electrons in traditional electrical application, but actually any charged entity in physics, is called an electric current (the positive ions don't move in copper only because they are tied into their lattice structure while the electrons are free to move).

So if they put an electric field over your head and it is sufficiently strong to act on charged particles as the video claims, then an electric current will come into existence.

That electric fields are not to be compared to X-rays that is correct. X-Rays are electromagnetic waves and are therefore energy carried by a non-mechanical wave in terms of physics (a wave no being carried by an elastic medium).

That electric fields are not magnetism (themselves) is correct too but when your electric fields creates an electric current, as explained above, then we do not find ourselves in Electro Statics but in Electro Dynamics. Every amount of moving charge generates a related magnetic field.

So while electric fields are not themselves the described phenomena, they are at the basis of them coming into existence!

What troubles me more is what comes next. The cell body is VERY charged the man says and the electric field can therefore act upon it. When it does so when a cancer cell is about to split the cell has difficulty to do so and finally can't in most cases and then dies and enters the apoptic process.

Yes BUT, and lets assume everything he says is correct, then this technique affects ALL cells in the field, not only the tumor cells. As you will find on the referenced site one of the findings was that patients didn't get cured because they removed the device after two years. They were blamed and should have kept it on!

You know what, this makes sense! If you keep cells on and around the tumor from spitting (assuming this works), cancer and healthy cells, then after a while all cancer cells must be gone because no new ones come into existence. You loose a lot of healthy cells, and your body must replace them, and you have a lot of debris because cell are destroyed much faster then they would in a normal life cycle. I would have expected a systemic reaction and some form of constant fever but because he claims the cells are treated as in the apoptic cycle they probably get clean-up while we sleep together with other death cells. In other words the immune system hasn't been activated because there is nothing to activate it because they don't inject you with something.

Just like with chemo and radio this is poor cell targeting compared to Cotara. Then again Cotara needs some surgery, but at least in two days it is behind you and you don't carry a that device for years.

However, all that is only true if there are no short/long term side effects of the healthy cells being affected too and if all this really works. Personally I don't see low AC currents, that due to their AC nature can hardly make the charged entities vibrate back and forth between the alternating potentials of the device, disrupt cancer cell proliferation and I certainly would not be able to explain why healthy cells are not affected in exactly the same way and disappear at a same rate as the cancer cells shown on the radio's in the movie. Maybe just because they didn't mark the healthy cells and we don't see it, but still it doesn't make sense. The volume of healthy cells should diminished equally as under equal electric field.

So electric currents (of type AC - remember Edison's campaigns against Tesla's AC current that was KILLING current :) and related magnetic fields around our brain doesn't sound really good. For all we know it results in memory loss and disrupts function, possibly only in the long term, because neural cells and neurons will be affected too. All electric currents in our body (and many arrive at our brain through nerves such as the optic nerve from our eyes for instance) are by definition using charge, hence referred to as electric signals. Therefor they are affected by every eclectic potential difference that stands over them.

I didn't investigate this sufficiently but for now I am under the impression that this has a high hoax smell! One would think that if putting this cap, or the chest-back equivalent that they refer to in the movie, on (the guy claims FDA PIII approval if I understood that right) and it gets rid of solid tumors that we would have heard of it and have plenty of people being treated with a device that can hardly cost more then 1000$.

We'll see!

Source: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87105625

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Interrogators wait to query injured bomb suspect

BOSTON (AP) ? As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.

What Tsarnaev will say and when are unclear ? he remained in serious condition and apparently in no shape for interrogation after being pulled bloody and wounded from a tarp-covered boat in a Watertown backyard. The capture came at the end of a tense Friday that began with his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, dying in a gunbattle with police.

U.S. officials said an elite interrogation team would question the Massachusetts college student without reading him his Miranda rights, something that is allowed on a limited basis when the public may be in immediate danger, such as instances in which bombs are planted and ready to go off.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said the legal exception applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is "not an open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

The federal public defender's office in Massachusetts said it has agreed to represent Tsarnaev once he is charged. Miriam Conrad, public defender for Massachusetts, said he should have a lawyer appointed as soon as possible because there are "serious issues regarding possible interrogation."

There was no immediate word on when Tsarnaev might be charged and what those charges would be. The twin bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180.

The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.

President Barack Obama said there are many unanswered questions about the bombing, including whether the Tsarnaev brothers ? ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived in the Boston area ? had help from others. The president urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.

Gov. Deval Patrick said Saturday afternoon that Tsarnaev was in serious but stable condition and was probably unable to communicate. Tsarnaev was at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where 11 victims of the bombing were still being treated.

"I, and I think all of the law enforcement officials, are hoping for a host of reasons the suspect survives," the governor said after a ceremony at Fenway Park to honor the victims and survivors of the attack. "We have a million questions, and those questions need to be answered."

The all-day manhunt Friday brought the Boston area to a near standstill and put people on edge across the metropolitan area.

The break came around nightfall when a homeowner in Watertown saw blood on his boat, pulled back the tarp and saw a bloody Tsarnaev hiding inside, police said. After an exchange of gunfire, he was seized and taken away in an ambulance.

Raucous celebrations erupted in and around Boston, with chants of "USA! USA!" Residents flooded the streets in relief four days after the two pressure-cooker bombs packed with nails and other shrapnel went off.

Michael Spellman said he bought tickets to Saturday's Red Sox game at Fenway Park to help send a message to the bombers.

"They're not going to stop us from doing things we love to do," he said, sitting a few rows behind home plate. "We're not going to live in fear."

During the long night of violence leading up to the capture, the Tsarnaev brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and took part in a furious shootout and car chase in which they hurled explosives at police from a large homemade arsenal, authorities said.

Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said one of the explosives was the same type used during the Boston Marathon attack, and authorities later recovered a pressure cooker lid that had embedded in a car down the street. He said the suspects also tossed two grenades before Tamerlan ran out of ammunition and police tackled him.

But while handcuffing him, officers had to dive out of the way as Dzhokhar drove the carjacked Mercedes at them, Deveau said. The SUV dragged Tamerlan's body down the block, he said. Police initially tracked the escaped suspect by a blood trail he left behind a house after abandoning the Mercedes, negotiating his surrender hours later in the boat.

Chechnya, where the Tsarnaev family has roots, has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.

Investigators have not offered a motive for the Boston attack. But in interviews with officials and those who knew the Tsarnaevs, a picture has emerged of the older one as someone embittered toward the U.S., increasingly vehement in his Muslim faith and influential over his younger brother.

The Russian FSB intelligence service told the FBI in 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials said Saturday.

According to an FBI news release, a foreign government said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev appeared to be strong believer and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the U.S. for travel to the Russian region to join unspecified underground groups.

The FBI did not name the foreign government, but the two officials said it was Russia. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the matter publicly.

The FBI said that in response, it interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and relatives, and did not find any domestic or foreign terrorism activity. The bureau said it looked into such things as his telephone and online activity, his travels and his associations with others.

An uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers said he had a falling-out with Tamerlan over the man's increased commitment to Islam.

Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., said Tamerlan told him in a 2009 phone conversation that he had chosen "God's business" over work or school. Tsarni said he then contacted a family friend who told him Tsarnaev had been influenced by a recent convert to Islam.

Tsarni said his relationship with his nephew basically ended after that call.

As for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "he's been absolutely wasted by his older brother. I mean, he used him. He used him for whatever he's done," Tsarni said.

Albrecht Ammon, a downstairs-apartment neighbor of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Cambridge, said in an interview that the older brother had strong political views about the U.S. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."

Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said. He was married with a young daughter. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

As of Saturday, more than 50 victims of the bombing remained hospitalized, three in critical condition.

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Associated Press writers Denise Lavoie and Steve Peoples in Boston; Michael Hill in Watertown, Mass.; Colleen Long in New York; Pete Yost in Washington; Eric Tucker in Montgomery Village, Md.; and AP Sports Writer Jimmy Golen in Boston contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/interrogators-wait-query-wounded-bomb-suspect-112840023.html

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Cased jump today, lower back pain - Health & Fitness - ThumperTalk

LEllis7motox, on 20 April 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

Cased a nice 75 foot step up about an hour ago or so pulled off the track and layed on the ground for a few minutes from back pain, got up rode back to my camper and the pain is still all there. Sitting, standing, laying. Laying down feels the best. My back was straight and I believe I just smacked the seat real hard and "jammed" my back, is this such a thing? I??have racing tomorrow and I'm here camping out and not sure what to think... I have no numbness, it doesn't hurt when I push down on my lower back or anything, it's just a constant pain right where the lower back bends, bad enough to where I don't want to stand up for more than a minute or two. Thoughts?

LEllis7motox, on 20 April 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

Cased a nice 75 foot step up about an hour ago or so pulled off the track and layed on the ground for a few minutes from back pain, got up rode back to my camper and the pain is still all there. Sitting, standing, laying. Laying down feels the best. My back was straight and I believe I just smacked the seat real hard and "jammed" my back, is this such a thing? I??have racing tomorrow and I'm here camping out and not sure what to think... I have no numbness, it doesn't hurt when I push down on my lower back or anything, it's just a constant pain right where the lower back bends, bad enough to where I don't want to stand up for more than a minute or two. Thoughts?

??Get it checked for what it is worth. I made the mistake of not going to hospital twice last year. Once in April only went to the hospital a week later to find our I had chipped my collar bone. Then in September some one t boned me??and I come off bad hurt my ribs and hand??it was a week and a half before I went to the hospital again to find I had broke 3 ribs and my hand which has now set at little bit funny. so its proberly worth a trip to A&E.
Hope your ok

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