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Pope Francis Holds First Easter Vigil Service In St. Peter's Basilica
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated a trimmed back Easter Vigil service Saturday after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he began to put his mark on the Catholic Church.
Francis processed into a darkened and silent St. Peter's Basilica at the start of the service, in which the faithful recall the period between Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter Sunday.
One of the most dramatic moments of the Easter Vigil service that usually follows ? when the pope would share the light of his candle with others until the entire basilica twinkled ? was shortened this year as were some of the Old Testament readings.
The Vatican has said these provisions were in keeping with Francis' aim to not have his Masses go on too long. The Easter Vigil service under Benedict XVI would typically run nearly three hours. The new pope has made clear he prefers his Masses short and to the point: he was even caught checking his watch during his March 19 installation ceremony. Saturday was no different: The vigil ended just shy of 2.5 hours.
A trimmed-back vigil ? and one that started earlier than usual ? was just one of the novelties of this Holy Week under an Argentine Jesuit pope who just two weeks ago stunned the world by emerging from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after his election with a simple "Brothers and sisters, good evening."
He riled traditionalists but endeared himself to women and liberals by washing and kissing the feet of two young girls during a Holy Thursday Mass at a juvenile detention center in Rome, when the rite usually calls for only men to participate. A day later, Francis reached out with friendship to "Muslim brothers and sisters" during a Good Friday procession dedicated to the suffering of Christians from terrorism, war and religious fanaticism in the Middle East.
In his homily Saturday, Francis kept his message simple and tied to the liturgical readings, recalling how Jesus' disciples found his tomb empty a day after his death and were surprised and confused.
"Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!"
He later baptized four men, part of the Easter Vigil ritual.
Just a few hours after the vigil ends, Francis on Sunday will celebrate Easter Mass and deliver his "Urbi et Orbi" speech, Latin for "To the city and the world." Usually the pope also issues Easter greetings in dozens of languages.
In his two weeks as pope, Francis' discomfort with speaking in any language other than Italian has become apparent. He has even shied away from speaking Spanish when the occasion would call for it, though the Vatican has said he has done so to avoid discriminating against other languages by favoring his native tongue.
Italian is the lingua franca of the Vatican and Francis has emphasized his role as bishop of Rome over that of pope of the universal church, making his use of Italian logical.
It's not clear how Francis will handle the multilingual greetings Sunday.
Typically, after the busy Easter week ceremonies, the pope would go to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo for a few days of vacation. Francis can't do that since the previous pope, Benedict XVI, is currently living there in retirement.
The Vatican has said Francis would stay put in the Vatican.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Well-traveled actor and family find a nice place to live in Pleasant ...
You might say that Birmingham actor, director, teacher and choreographer Carl Dean has been a traveling man.
"I grew up an army brat and never had a hometown," Dean said.
He lived in five places growing up, including such diverse locales as Alaska, New York City and Ozark, Ala., where he played the lead in the stage musical "Singin' in the Rain" as a senior in high school in the 1990s.
And after earning a degree in theatre from the University of Montevallo, Dean returned to New York, working as an actor for 3 years.
"People ask where I'm from, I would say, 'I'm a mutt. I'm from everywhere,'" Dean said.
Perhaps it's no surprise that Dean ended up making his theatrical home, at least for now, in the Magic City.
Dean, who has made a living in the theater for about 15 years, has worked at almost every venue in Birmingham.
Maybe it's more of a surprise that this young man of the theatre lives not in a downtown loft or groovy Southside apartment but in the calm, family-friendly West Jefferson community of Pleasant Grove.
Dean has lived there for about 7 years with his wife, Rachel, an Oneonta native, and their kids, Caroline, age 10, and son Ryder, age 8.
The Deans have been married 11 years.
"You can go to the store and people know you... people know your name, and I didn't grow up with that moving around from town to town and duty station to duty station," said Dean about Pleasant Grove.
This was not part of the plan for Dean when he came back to Birmingham after working in New York.
"I came to Southside for a pit stop thinking I would save some money and move to the West Coast," said Dean, whose family has roots in California going back several generations.
However, Dean said that he started producing shows in Birmingham and traveling for other gigs from here.
And then he met Rachel.
"That's when I met my wife and decided that Birmingham is OK, that I can make a life here," Dean said.
The Deans found a nice house in Pleasant Grove when Rachel taught English at Pleasant Grove High School for a year.
"When my wife and I moved to Pleasant Grove, it was a nice oasis from the city," according to Dean. "It took me a while to get used to it. It's all so slow. But now I enjoy it. I get to dance and perform and teach kids to do those things, but I can come home and relax in a saner world than if I were in Greenwich Village in New York City hearing taxis and sirens."
There are plenty of advantages to small-town life, Dean said.
His kids are getting a good education at Pleasant Grove Elementary, according to Dean.
Dean has been a Cub Scout den leader for son Ryder the last two years and also rides motorbikes and goes to the shooting range with him.
Rachel, who played basketball in high school and college, coaches Upward Bound basketball for young kids at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
And best of all, Dean is close to Birmingham, where he is still very busy in the theatre, including a teaching position at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Ensley.
"Holy Family is only 15 minutes away and I am still close to downtown, and... I can come home and it's peaceful and quiet," Dean said.
Dean will be taking part in four large theatrical productions between June and December, including a staging of the popular Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun" at Virginia Samford Theatre from June 20-July 7. ?Dean will serve as choreographer.
"Every one of those shows will be an entirely new adventure with entirely new people," Dean said. "It's better than any drug invented. When you finally get to opening night and feel it with the audience. It's also thrilling as an actor, to be on stage and look them in the eyes and make them laugh or cry or feel something. But it's something to be out there with them as a director. You're always one step ahead. "OK, here comes that joke. I hope they like it.'"
Dean has been a popular actor around town but says he's less interested these days in being on stage himself. "I've come to enjoy directing and choreography the last 10 years more than performing," he said.
Dean recognizes the often devilish challenges of directing. "The responsibility as a director is sharpening the entire picture," he said. "It's not being just one piece of the puzzle as when you are an actor. The whole show is on your back sink or swim. You surround yourself with talented people, and then the show opens and it's terrifyingly out of your hands. I've been very lucky to work with some incredible people who have made him look good. It's always an adventure."
Dean is grateful to make a living in a place that isn't known as a theatrical or showbiz Mecca.
"I am blessed to be able to live in Alabama and make a living in theatre," Dean said. "I am so lucky to be able to do that here."
His directing and choreography credits include productions of "Hedwig & the Angry Inch," "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," "Pippin" and "West Side Story."
He is also the owner of Tigerfish Productions, which does acting classes and helps actors get parts.
Dean also recognizes that he makes a living doing something that kids do for free. "I'm almost 40 years old, and people pay me money to do something called a play," he said. "It's fun when your five years and old, and it's fun when you're 40. And I get to get up every day and do that with young people and put on shows for the community and allow other actors to perform."
Dean, who has been dancing and performing since he was in the sixth grade, believes in the power of theatre and enjoys sharing some of its lessons with his students.
"The performing arts are constantly awakening your senses," Dean said. "In the world we live in now, it's great to use your imagination and bring some joy into the world. For generations artists were celebrated for what they bring to the culture. Now people are famous for being famous. That's not what real acting is. It's a true expression from the heart. That's why I enjoy working with young people so much as I get older because I can share that experience with them and see that little spark."
Many of Dean's former students are making their names in the business.
Dominique Johnson -- whom Dean worked with through Magic City Actors Theatre, which Dean co-founded with Leah Faulkner -- has the leading role of a hit musical in Broadway, "Bring It On: The Musical."
Dean was in the audience for the first Broadway preview performance of the show. "When I watched (Johnson) take his curtain call, it was the most electrifying thing. It was like watching my own kid."
Jordan Fisher starred in MCAT's production of "Fame: the Musical," which Dean directed. Now he has a part on the ABC-TV series, "Secret Life of the American Teenager," Dean said.
Dean worked with Morgan Smith as a dancer for Southern Living @ Home national conventions; now she is starring in a Wendy's hamburger commercial.?
And most recently, Sarah Simmons -- whom Dean worked with at Mountain Brook High School -- has appeared on NBC-TV's musical competition, "The Voice."
And another Dean is getting into the act, his daughter, Caroline, who has begun taking dance classes at Birmingham Ballet, where Dean also works. "We've been able to perform in several ballets, most recently Peter Pan," he said. "I was Captain Hook, and she was a little fairy."
Dean seems so ?satisfied with his life and work, a reporter asked him if the Army brat is actually putting down roots in Birmingham and Pleasant Grove.
"Well, I guess that's the other thing about being an Army brat," Dean said. "I love my roots, and I'm really happy in Pleasant Grove, and I love where my kids are right now. But I don't think I'm done at 40 growing or changing or evolving. I'm very settled for now, very happy now, but I can't say it's the end of the journey for me or my family. You don't know where the tides going to take you or what opportunity may present itself. Being Army brat makes it worse. Every 4 to 5 years you think you should be moving somewhere else. It's hard to shake that.
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Researchers show stem cell fate depends on 'grip'
Friday, March 29, 2013
The field of regenerative medicine holds great promise, propelled by greater understanding of how stem cells differentiate themselves into many of the body's different cell types. But clinical applications in the field have been slow to materialize, partially owing to difficulties in replicating the conditions these cells naturally experience.
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has generated new insight on how a stem cell's environment influences what type of cell a stem cell will become. They have shown that whether human mesenchymal stem cells turn into fat or bone cells depends partially on how well they can "grip" the material they are growing in.
The research was conducted by graduate student Sudhir Khetan and associate professor Jason Burdick, along with professor Christopher Chen, all of the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Bioengineering. Others involved in the study include Murat Guvendiren, Wesley Legant and Daniel Cohen.
Their study was published in the journal Nature Materials.
Much research has been done on how stem cells grow on two-dimensional substrates, but comparatively little work has been done in three dimensions. Three-dimensional environments, or matrices, for stems cells have mostly been treated as simple scaffolding, rather than as a signal that influences the cells' development.
Burdick and his colleagues were interested in how these three-dimensional matrices impact mechanotransduction, which is how the cell takes information about its physical environment and translates that to chemical signaling.
"We're trying to understand how material signals can dictate stem cell response," Burdick said. "Rather than considering the material as an inert structure, it's really guiding stem cell fate and differentiation ? what kind of cells they will turn into."
The mesenchymal stem cells the researchers studied are found in bone marrow and can develop into several cell types: osteoblasts, which are found in bone; chondrocytes, which are found in cartilage; and adipocytes, which are found in fat.
The researchers cultured them in water-swollen polymer networks known as hydrogels, which share some similarities with the environments stem cells naturally grow in. These materials are generally soft and flexible ? contact lenses, for example, are a type of hydrogel ? but can vary in density and stiffness depending on the type and quantity of the bonds between the polymers. In this case, the researchers used covalently cross-linked gels, which contain irreversible chemical bonds.
When seeded on top of two-dimensional covalently cross-linked gels, mesenchymal stem cells spread and pulled on the material differently depending on how stiff it was. Critically, the mechanics guide cell fate, or the type of cells they differentiate it into. A softer environment would produce more fat-like cells and a stiffer environment, where the cells can pull on the gel harder, would produce more bone-like cells.
However, when the researchers put mesenchymal stem cells inside three-dimensional hydrogels of varying stiffness, they didn't see these kinds of changes.
"In most covalently cross-linked gels, the cells can't spread into the matrix because they can't degrade the bonds ? they all become fat cells," Burdick said. "That tells us that in 3D covalent gels the cells don't translate the mechanical information the same way they do in a 2D system."
To test this, the researchers changed the chemistry of their hydrogels so that the polymer chains were connected by a peptide that the cells could naturally degrade. They hypothesized that, as the cells spread, they would be able to get a better grip on their surrounding environment and thus be more likely to turn into bone-like cells.
In order to determine how well the cells were pulling on their environment, the researchers used a technique developed by Chen's lab called 3D traction force microscopy. This technique involves seeding the gel with microscopic beads, then tracking their location before and after a cell is removed.
"Because the gel is elastic and will relax back into its original position when you remove the cells," Chen said, "you can quantify how much the cells are pulling on the gel based on how much and which way it springs back after the cell is removed."
The results showed that the stem cells' differentiation into bone-like cells was aided by their ability to better anchor themselves into the growth environment.
"With our original experiment, we observed that the cells essentially didn't pull on the gel. They adhered to it and were viable, but we did not see bead displacement. They couldn't get a grip," Burdick said. "When we put the cells into a gel where they could degrade the bonds, we saw them spread into the matrix and deform it, displacing the beads."
As an additional test, the researchers synthesized another hydrogel. This one had the same covalent bonds that the stem cells could naturally degrade and spread through but also another type of bond that could form when exposed to light. They let the stem cells spread as before, but at the point the cells would begin to differentiate ? about a week after they were first encapsulated ? the researchers further "set" the gel by exposing it to light, forming new bonds the cells couldn't degrade.
"When we introduced these cross-links so they could no longer degrade the matrix, we saw an increase toward fat-like cells, even after letting them spread," Burdick said. "This further supports the idea that continuous degradation is needed for the cells to sense the material properties of their environment and transduce that into differentiation signals."
Burdick and his colleagues see these results as helping develop a better fundamental understanding of how to engineer tissues using stem cells.
"This is a model system for showing how the microenvironment can influence the fate of the cells," Burdick said.
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GameStop says demand hit as customers await new consoles
By Neha Alawadhi and Malathi Nayak
(Reuters) - Retailer GameStop Corp warned of weak sales this year as customers delay purchases ahead of the arrival of next-generation videogame consoles, but it reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results.
The world's largest retailer of videogame products said on Thursday that it expected full-year sales to remain flat or fall by as much as 8 percent, implying revenue of between $8.18 billion and $8.89 billion. Analysts on average expect $8.86 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
GameStop's full-year earnings forecast lagged analysts' estimates by a sizable margin. It expects a profit of $2.75 to $3.15 per share, while analysts had estimated $3.40.
The company said same-store sales were likely to fall 5.5 percent to 8 percent this quarter.
"The first half of the year is going to be very challenging because we're continuing the trend that we have seen in the last two or three months on sales of hardware from the current console set and sales of software," Chief Financial Officer Robert Lloyd said in an interview.
The videogame industry is anticipating a strong finish to 2013 with the release of Take-Two Interactive Software's "Grand Theft Auto V," Electronic Arts Inc's "Battlefield 4" and at least one next-generation console by the holidays.
As a result, consumers are postponing purchases until the fourth-quarter console introductions.
"But we expect to return to growth in the back half of the year," Lloyd said.
Sony Corp said last month it would release its next-generation PlayStation this year, its first videogame console in seven years. Microsoft Corp is also expected to announce the successor to its Xbox 360 later this summer.
Global sales of traditional videogame products such as consoles have suffered because of the rising popularity of online games as enthusiasts spend more time on tablets and phones.
U.S. sales of videogame hardware and software fell 25 percent in February, following a month-over-month downward trend that has continued since last year, according to a report by market research firm NPD.
Games software sales were down 27 percent in February, the report said.
GameStop has weathered the trend by focusing on selling new and used games to console owners and expanding its digital and mobile offerings, including the sale of iOS and Android devices in some stores.
The company said revenue fell marginally to $3.56 billion in the fourth quarter ended on February 2. Analysts on average expected $3.45 billion.
Net income attributable to GameStop rose to $261.1 million, or $2.15 per share, from $174.7 million, or $1.27 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items such as the deferral of digital revenue, earnings were $2.16 per share. Analysts had forecast $2.09.
In January, GameStop cut its same-store sales forecast for the fourth quarter after customer traffic shrank over the holiday season.
The company's shares were up 0.5 percent at $26.58 in late-morning New York Stock Exchange trading.
(Reporting by Neha Alawadhi in Bangalore and Malathi Nayak in San Francisco; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal and Lisa Von Ahn)
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Gene discovery may yield lettuce that will sprout in hot weather
Mar. 28, 2013 ? A team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather -- a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at high temperatures.
The study also included researchers from Arcadia Biosciences and Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, India.
The finding is particularly important to the nearly $2 billion lettuce industries of California and Arizona, which together produce more than 90 percent of the nation's lettuce. The study results appear online in the journal The Plant Cell.
"Discovery of the genes will enable plant breeders to develop lettuce varieties that can better germinate and grow to maturity under high temperatures," said the study's lead author Kent Bradford, a professor of plant sciences and director of the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center.
"And because this mechanism that inhibits hot-weather germination in lettuce seeds appears to be quite common in many plant species, we suspect that other crops also could be modified to improve their germination," he said. "This could be increasingly important as global temperatures are predicted to rise."
Most lettuce varieties flower in spring or early summer and then drop their seeds -- a trait that is likely linked to their origin in the Mediterranean region, which, like California, characteristically has dry summers. Scientists have observed for years that a built-in dormancy mechanism seems to prevent lettuce seeds from germinating under conditions that would be too hot and dry to sustain growth. While this naturally occurring inhibition works well in the wild, it is an obstacle to commercial lettuce production.
In the California and Arizona lettuce industries, lettuce seeds are planted somewhere every day of the year -- even in September in the Imperial Valley of California and near Yuma, Ariz., where fall temperatures frequently reach 110 degrees.
In order to jump-start seed germination for a winter crop in these hot climates, lettuce growers have turned to cooling the soil with sprinkler irrigation or priming the seeds to germinate by pre-soaking them at cool temperatures and re-drying them before planting -- methods that are expensive and not always successful.
In the new study, researchers turned to lettuce genetics to better understand the temperature-related mechanisms governing seed germination. They identified a region of chromosome six in a wild ancestor of commercial lettuce varieties that enables seeds to germinate in warm temperatures. When that chromosome region was crossed into cultivated lettuce varieties, those varieties gained the ability to germinate in warm temperatures.
Further genetic mapping studies zeroed in on a specific gene that governs production of a plant hormone called abscisic acid -- known to inhibit seed germination. The newly identified gene "turns on" in most lettuce seeds when the seed is exposed to moisture at warm temperatures, increasing production of abscisic acid. In the wild ancestor that the researchers were studying, however, this gene does not turn on at high temperatures. As a result, abscisic acid is not produced and the seeds can still germinate.
The researchers then demonstrated that they could either "silence" or mutate the germination-inhibiting gene in cultivated lettuce varieties, thus enabling those varieties to germinate and grow even in high temperatures.
Other researchers on the study were: Post-doctoral researcher Heqiang Huo and staff researcher Peetambar Dahal, both of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences; Keshavulu Kunusoth of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, India; and Claire McCallum of Arcadia Biosciences, which provided the lettuce lines with variants of the target gene to help confirm the study's findings.
Funding for the study was provided the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.
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Business, labor close on deal for immigration bill
FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Big business and major labor unions appeared ready Friday, March 29, 2013 to end a fight over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to upend negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. Schumer, who's been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that negotiators are "very close, closer than we have ever been, and we are very optimistic." He said there were still a few issues remaining. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Big business and major labor unions appeared ready Friday, March 29, 2013 to end a fight over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to upend negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. Schumer, who's been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that negotiators are "very close, closer than we have ever been, and we are very optimistic." He said there were still a few issues remaining. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Big business and major labor unions appeared ready Friday to end a fight over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to upend negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants already in the U.S.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who's been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that negotiators are "very close, closer than we have ever been, and we are very optimistic." He said there were still a few issues remaining.
The talks stalled late last week amid a dispute over wages for workers in the new program, and senators left town for a two-week recess with the issue in limbo. Finger-pointing erupted between the AFL-CIO and the chamber, with each side accusing the other of trying to sink immigration reform, leaving prospects for a resolution unclear.
But talks resumed this week, and now officials from both sides indicate the wage issue has been largely resolved. An agreement would likely clear the way for a bipartisan group of senators to unveil legislation the week of April 8 to dramatically overhaul the U.S. immigration system, strengthening the border and cracking down on employers as well as remaking the legal immigration system while providing a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
"We're feeling very optimistic on immigration: Aspiring Americans will receive the road map to citizenship they deserve and we can modernize 'future flow' without reducing wages for any local workers, regardless of what papers they carry," AFL-CIO spokesman Jeff Hauser said in a statement. "Future flow" refers to future arrivals of legal immigrants.
Under the emerging agreement, a new "W'' visa program would bring tens of thousands lower-skilled workers a year to the country. The program would be capped at 200,000 a year, but the number of visas would fluctuate, depending on unemployment rates, job openings, employer demand and data collected by a new federal bureau pushed by the labor movement as an objective monitor of the market.
The workers would be able to change jobs and could seek permanent residency. Under current temporary worker programs, workers can't move from employer to employer and have no path to permanent U.S. residence and citizenship.
The new visas would cover dozens of professions such as long-term care workers and hotel and hospitality employees. Currently there's no good way for employers to bring many such workers to the U.S.; an existing visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers is capped at 66,000 per year and is supposed to apply only to seasonal or temporary jobs.
The Chamber of Commerce said workers would get paid actual wages paid to American workers or the prevailing wages for the industry they're working in, whichever is higher. The Labor Department determines prevailing wage based on rates prevailing in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.
The labor organization had accused the chamber of trying to pay workers in the new program poverty-level wages, something the chamber disputed.
There was also disagreement about how to deal with certain higher-skilled construction jobs, such as electricians and welders, and it appears those will be excluded from the deal, said Geoff Burr, vice president of federal affairs at Associated Builders and Contractors. Burr said his group opposes such an exclusion because, even though unemployment in the construction industry is high right now, at times when it is low there can be labor shortages in high-skilled trades and contractors want to be able to bring in foreign workers. But unions pressed for the exclusion, Burr said.
The low-skilled worker issue had loomed for weeks as perhaps the toughest matter to settle in monthslong closed-door talks on immigration among Schumer and seven other senators, including Republicans John McCain of Arizona and Marco Rubio of Florida. The issue helped sink the last major attempt at immigration reform in 2007, when the legislation foundered on the Senate floor after an amendment was added to end a temporary worker program after five years, threatening a key priority of the business community.
The amendment passed by just one vote, 49-48. President Barack Obama, a senator at the time, joined in the narrow majority voting to end the program after five years.
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Falcons agree to 2-year deal with Osi Umenyiora
ATLANTA (AP) ? The Atlanta Falcons found a replacement for John Abraham on Wednesday by reaching an agreement with free-agent defensive end Osi Umenyiora on a two-year, $8.5 million contract.
The Falcons released the 34-year-old Abraham, the team leader with 10 sacks in 2012, on March 1, the same day they also released running back Michael Turner and cornerback Dunta Robinson.
The team replaced Turner by signing Steven Jackson to a three-year, $12 million deal March 14. Now Umenyiora joins Jackson as Atlanta's second major free-agent addition.
The Falcons scheduled a news conference with Umenyiora for Thursday.
The 31-year-old Umenyiora gives the Falcons a slightly younger replacement at defensive end, but his production has declined in recent years. He had only six sacks for the Giants in 2012, when he started only four of 16 games. He had 55 tackles, five for losses, and one forced fumble.
He had a career-high 14? sacks in 2005, when he was a first-team All-Pro selection. He has reached double figures in sacks only one of the last four years ? 11? in 2010.
Umenyiora, 6-foot 3 and 255 pounds, was a second-round pick from Troy State by New York in 2003. He has 75 sacks, 31 forced fumbles and 13 fumble recoveries in his career and helped the Giants win two Super Bowl championships.
He set an NFL record with 10 forced fumbles in 2010 and a Giants record with six sacks in a 2007 win over Philadelphia.
The presence of defensive ends Jason Pierre-Paul and Justin Tuck made Umenyiora a part-time starter last season, but he'll be expected to replace Abraham as the Falcons' top pass-rusher. Defensive end Kroy Biermann was second on the Falcons with only 4 sacks last season.
Umenyiora's agent, Tom Condon, couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
Umenyiora made a brief reference to his new NFL home on his Twitter feed when he tweeted "(hash)RISE UP" ? the Falcons' slogan.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/falcons-agree-2-deal-osi-umenyiora-015236611--nfl.html
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Asian shares fall, euro shaky as Europe worries mount
By Chikako Mogi
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Thursday as weak euro zone data, a sluggish debt auction in Italy and fears of a potential run on Cyprus's banks stoked investors' concerns about instability in Europe.
European markets were seen subdued, with financial spreadbetters predicting London's FTSE 100 <.ftse>, Paris's CAC-40 <.fchi> and Frankfurt's DAX <.gdaxi> to open down as much as 0.3 percent.
Benchmark indices in Spain <.ibex> and Italy <.ftmib> were likely to open flat and 0.3 percent lower respectively. <.l><.eu/>
A 0.4 percent fall in U.S. stock futures pointed to a weak Wall Street start. <.n/>
Japan's Nikkei stock average <.n225> closed down 1.3 percent, as euro zone worries prompted profit taking in exporters and financials. <.t/>
The negative tone for Asian equities was compounded by the latest restrictive move by China, with its banking watchdog ordering banks to strengthen checks on the underlying assets of a range of wealth management products to ward off potential risks to the financial system.
The MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> fell 0.7 percent, wiping out the previous day's gains, which had taken the index to a one-week high.
Thursday is the last trading day for the first quarter for many Asian markets, which will be closed on Friday for the Good Friday holiday.
The pan-Asian index was set for its smallest quarterly gain since the second quarter last year with a 0.9 percent rise, which would also be its worst first quarter in four years.
"Multiple factors are denting sentiment, with uncertainties over the future of Cyprus despite the bailout, Italian political instability and bad economic indicators from the euro zone," said Hirokazu Yuihama, a senior strategist at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.
Despite their recent retracement, Asian shares outside of Japan have generally stayed in a range for the first three months of 2013, holding near the upper end close to their highest levels since August 2011, as improving U.S. economic growth and hopes China will stay on a recovery track helped boost investors' risk appetite.
"China's move to tighten property regulations has been the biggest drag for Asia. Looking ahead, whether China can keep recovering will be the main issue specific to this region," Yuihama said, adding that Southeast Asian markets may be exposed to the biggest adjustments if negative news spurred broader selling.
China shares, by far the worst regional performer on Thursday, were headed for their worst loss in nearly a month, hurting Hong Kong markets, with banks taking a hit after they were ordered to tighten control over wealth management products (WMP) and improve transparency.
Hong Kong shares <.hsi> slid 1.3 percent and Shanghai shares <.ssec> slumped 2.7 percent.
"The timing of the announcement caught the market by surprise, although people were already expecting the regulators to act," said Hong Hao, chief strategist at Bank of Communication International Securities.
Trading slowed generally as market players closed positions ahead of the Easter holidays.
"Whatever is happening in Europe in terms of Cyprus and the ramifications of that, maybe a lot of traders just don't want to be long or don't want to have positions over this long weekend," said Winston Sammut, investment director at Maxim Asset Management.
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Cypriots are expected to besiege lenders in the morning as banks reopen for the first time in almost two weeks.
Authorities imposed restrictions on cash withdrawals and may curb the use of credit cards abroad to keep a rein on money flows after the country agreed to a bailout deal that will wipe out some senior bank bondholders and impose losses on large depositors.
In Italy, the government's cost of borrowing over five years rose to its highest since October at an auction on Wednesday, reflecting investor wariness over a lack of progress in forming a new government and worries about Cyprus's bailout.
Meanwhile, data on Wednesday showed confidence in the euro zone economy fell more than expected in March after four straight months of gains.
"Headline risks for the euro should persist, although a positive turn of events in either country would probably come as a greater surprise given the market's subdued expectations," said Vassili Serebriakov, strategist at BNP Paribas.
The euro was at $1.2789, hovering near a four-month low of $1.2750 touched on Wednesday.
The dollar was down 0.1 percent but still near Wednesday's 7-1/2-month peak of 83.302 against a basket of key currencies <.dxy>.
Fears about the euro zone underpinned safe-haven U.S. Treasuries and gold, while 10-year Japanese government bond yields fell to 0.510 percent, the lowest level since June 2003, on expectations strong stimulus measures will be announced by the Bank of Japan next week at its first policy meeting under new leadership.
Such anticipations drove the BOJ's benchmark interest rate down on Wednesday to 0.059 percent, the lowest since July 13, 2006, which was one day before the central bank ended its policy to keep the overnight call rate effectively at zero percent.
U.S. crude futures rose 0.2 percent to $96.77 a barrel while Brent added 0.3 percent to $110.
London copper eased 0.2 percent to $7,590.50 per 1.1 tons, with prices set to end the month and quarter down due to a lack of robust Chinese demand.
(Additional reporting by Clement Tan in Hong Kong, Ian Chua and Maggie Lu Yueyang; in Sydney; Editing by Eric Meijer & Kim Coghill)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-shares-fall-euro-faint-euro-zone-worries-050535658--finance.html
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Targeting Game Developers, Mobile Gift Card Platform Gyft Launches APIs
Gyft, the?TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012?finalist working to bring the plastic gift card industry to mobile, is today announcing the general availability of its APIs, which allow developers to integrate Gyft into websites, apps, or other services. However, as Gyft co-founder and CEO Vinny Lingham explains, the primary focus?is on mobile app developers - a group that's interested in offering gift cards as rewards within their mobile games.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tWnjIKPrieo/
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The Problem with Silicon Valley CEO Excess, in 15 Sentences
It's almost too perfect: The CEO of a quintessential Silicon Valley SoMoLo app ? that's social/mobile/local for the rest?of you ? presents the perfect picture of Silicon Valley startup richesse in a bite-size, 11-question long new Q&A over at Vanity Fair. Indeed, it takes Dave Morin of Path just the 15 sentences printed in his responses for the personal "My Phone" interview series to encapsulate all the money that young tech execs throw around, with or without a business model. It's enough to make you want to throw your phone at the wall, that Yahoo kid be damned. "I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry," Morin says. The co-founder of the circle-of-friends social networking app also commutes to work using the expensive car service app Uber, at least on?occasion: "It got me to work this morning." And presumably that goes for other mornings, too, all of which is a little exorbitant. (There's more in the mini-interview, which we should repeat is about?the apps on his iPhone, if you can stomach it.)
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Sure, this thirtysomething is the head honcho of a startup that maybe you've heard of by now. But Path isn't exactly the Facebook of Facebook clones. It has a measly 6 million users. (For comparison,?Instagram has 100 million monthly active users.) Path does have some "revenue streams," selling photo filters (found for free on a bajillion other similar apps), but they are "relatively limited," as Wired's Mike Issac. Path has hinted at a subscription service, but as Wired's Mat Honan notes: "it's unclear how that would work or who would subscribe." In other words, just like so many other Social Mobile Local app copycats, Path isn't rolling in the dough. But because of the multi-millions in venture capital funding his startup has received, Dave Morin can still act like he is.?
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Which is not to pick on this guy and his iPhone, necessarily: Morin, of course, is just symbolic of a larger class shift still unfolding as a result of the latest tech bubble. It's a new nouveau riche that pretends to eschew extreme wealth, while still managing to spend in excess. That's great for a very certain type of economy?? namely, the insular tech bubble economy.?The gap between the rich and poor minorities is increasing, for example. In fact, it's having a lot of deep effects on the Bay Area,?as Ellen Cushing explains in this feature for the?East Bay Express. "The very rich have always, to a greater or lesser degree, been guilty of excess, but what's changed is that the Bay Area's new wealth doesn't necessarily have the perspective, the experience, or the commitments of the group it's replacing," she writes. "And that brings with it a whole host of disparate side effects."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/problem-silicon-valley-ceo-excess-15-sentences-210253223.html
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The Daily Roundup for 03.27.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Korg's touchpad synthesizer family gets slightly more Kaotic
Korg's got the info on two new additions to its Kaoss line of X-Y interface touchpad controllers. First up is the KP3+ Dynamic Effect / Sampler, which adds 22 new effects to its predecessor's offerings, bringing that number up to 150. Also on-board are sample bank buttons for quick recording and playback, as well as features borrowed from other Korg offerings, including a ducking compressor and vinyl break, that'll simulate the sound of a record player slowing down. The $350 pad can also be used as a MIDI controller. For $50 more, you can pick up the Kaossilator Pro+ Dynamic Phase Synthesizer / Loop Recorder, which has 250 sounds, including synth leads, drums and a number of sound effects. The loop recorder banks, meanwhile, let you layer sounds one by one. Both pads are out next month. More info after the break.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/korg-kaoss/
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Watch out, Harry Potter: New invisibility cloak (mostly) works
Jealous of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Yours could be coming soon. A new cloaking device doesn't work on visible light yet, but it makes objects invisible to microwave light.
Physicists have created a real-life prototype of an invisibility cloak like the one featured in the "Harry Potter" books and films.
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Still, it's a nifty trick, and the physicists who've created the new cloak say it's a step closer to realizing the kind of invisibility cloak that could hide a person in broad daylight.
The invention is made of a new kind of material called a metascreen, created from strips of copper tape attached to a flexible polycarbonate film. The copper strips are only 66 micrometers (66 millionths of a meter) thick, while the polycarbonate film is 100 micrometers thick, and the two are combined in a diagonal fishnet pattern.
The creation is a departure from previous attempts to create invisibility cloaks, which have aimed to bend light rays around an object so that they don't scatter, or reflect off it, a technique that relies on so-called bulk metamaterials. Instead, the new cloak uses a technique called mantle cloaking to cancel out light waves that bounce off the shielded object so that none survive to reach an observer's eye.?
"When the scattered fields from the cloak and the object interfere, they cancel each other out and the overall effect is transparency and invisibility at all angles of observation," study co-author Andrea Alu, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement.
In lab tests, Alu and his colleagues successfully hid a 7-inch-long (18 centimeters) cylindrical rod from view in microwave light. They said the same technology should be able to cloak oddly shaped and asymmetrical objects, too.
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?"The advantages of the mantle cloaking over existing techniques are its conformability, ease of manufacturing and improved bandwidth," Alu said. "We have shown that you don't need a bulk metamaterial to cancel the scattering from an object ? a simple patterned surface that is conformal to the object may be sufficient and, in many regards, even better than a bulk metamaterial."
In principle, the same kind of cloak could be used to hide objects in the visible range of light, as well, though it may work only for teensy-tiny objects, at least at first.
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?"In fact, metascreens are easier to realize at visible frequencies than bulk metamaterials and this concept could put us closer to a practical realization," Alu said. "However, the size of the objects that can be efficiently cloaked with this method scales with the wavelength of operation, so when applied to optical frequencies we may be able to efficiently stop the scattering of micrometer-sized objects."
The invention isn't just a novelty to thrill Harry Potter fans and aspiring spies. The researchers say it could have practical applications down the line, such as in noninvasive sensing devices or in biomedical instruments. They described their device in a paper published in the March 26 issue of the New Journal of Physics.
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CA-BUSINESS Summary
Banks, energy shares lift TSX on U.S. data optimism
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index advanced on Tuesday, led by the energy and financial sectors, as positive economic data from the United States buoyed investor sentiment. Gains were kept in check as gold shares weakened as an easing of worries over Cyprus lessened the appeal of gold as a safe haven and weighed on bullion prices.
Bank of Canada says to oversee SwapClear due to systemic risk
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada said on Tuesday it would formally regulate SwapClear, the dominant global system for centrally clearing over-the-counter interest rate swaps, because it has the potential to pose systemic risk to the Canadian financial system. The announcement came the same day Canada's banking watchdog designated the country's top six banks as being of systemic importance.
Canada ups financial oversight, tags "too big to fail" banks
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian authorities on Tuesday designated the country's top six banks as "systemically important" to the domestic economy and increased oversight of a widely used global derivatives clearing system in an effort to reduce banking system risk. The so-called too big to fail designation was widely expected by the market and means the six banks will have to keep more capital on hand than required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision after the 2008 financial crisis.
EADS vote signals resurrection as "normal company"
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Air Canada pension deficit estimate falls on higher plan returns
TORONTO (Reuters) - Air Canada said a preliminary estimate of its pension solvency deficit has dropped to C$3.7 billion ($3.6 billion) from C$4.2 billion a year ago, reflecting a better-than-expected 14 percent return on plan assets. Canada's largest carrier said in a recently filed annual information form that the estimate, as of January 1, 2013, was hurt by a decrease in the solvency discount rate to 3 percent from 3.3 percent. Valuations to determine the actual deficit will be completed in the first half of 2013.
Canada's top six banks to get capital surcharge as of 2016
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's banking watchdog said on Tuesday it sees the country's six largest banks as being of systemic importance to the domestic economy and that it will make them keep 1 percent more capital on hand starting January 2016 to protect them from financial disruption. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) said the six banks are so big and complex that their failure would damage the Canadian economy. The banks are: Bank of Montreal
Cyprus readies capital controls to avert bank run
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus is expected to complete capital control measures on Wednesday to prevent a run on the banks by depositors anxious about their savings after the country agreed a painful rescue package with international lenders. Cypriots have taken to the streets of Nicosia in their thousands to protest at a bailout deal that they fear will push their country into an economic slump and cost many their jobs. European leaders said the deal averted a chaotic national bankruptcy that might have forced Cyprus out of the euro.
Monsanto, DuPont strike $1.75 billion licensing deal, end lawsuits
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Bank of Canada officials urges more central clearing of repos
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Agathe Cote made no mention of monetary policy in a speech on Tuesday that focused on ways Canadian authorities are strengthening financial markets infrastructure to lessen the risk of future crises. Cote said Canada needed to make more progress in clearing repos, or repurchase transactions, centrally through the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCS).
Exclusive: Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish association representing open-source software users has filed a complaint against Microsoft Corp
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22-Year-Old Suffers Fatal Accident at Popular Landmark | Video ...
Last year, we reported on the stunning ?world?s largest rope swing? video that went viral, showing daredevils launching themselves from a 110-foot-tall sandstone arch in Utah. As with any such stunts, there are risks, and now a 22-year-old from Utah was killed trying to perform the same swing through the arch?s opening.
Arch in Utah where it had become popular to pendulum rope swing. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
Kyle Lee Stocking, of West Jordan, left too much slack in the rope he was using, and it sent him crashing into the sandstone base of Corona Arch near Moab, Grand County sheriff?s officials said. He died Sunday afternoon.
Viral videos have bolstered the activity, which involves swinging wildly from ropes through arch and canyon openings. The ?World?s Largest Rope Swing? video by filmmaker Devin Graham, who runs the YouTube channel devinsupertramp with many other stunt-filled videos, ?has racked up more than 18 million views since it was posted in February 2012.
Someone swings through the arch in last year?s viral video. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
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Graham also more recently filmed a video?based on a similar idea, involving a pendulum rope swing between a slot canyon.
?Pendulum? swinging is a relatively new form of recreation in Utah?s canyon lands, which see plenty of injuries and deaths from rock climbing and BASE jumping, which involves leaping from a fixed object with a parachute. On March 13, another man, Zachery Taylor, was killed rappelling at Tear Drop Arch in Utah?s Monument Valley.
Some like John Weisheit with the environmental group Living Rivers consider these activities recreational ?craziness? sweeping the Moab area, where the annual Jeep Safari week got started Saturday, another potentially dangerous activity that involves rock crawling in modified vehicles.
?People aren?t accepting nature for what it is. They have to put an element of excitement into it,? said Weisheit, a longtime rafting guide. ?People see it on YouTube and then say, `That looks like fun.??
Stocking was with a group of five friends authorities didn?t identify. His family in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan couldn?t be reached Monday.
It wasn?t immediately clear how Stocking or his friends miscalculated the distance for a wild swing through Corona Arch. Sheriff?s Lt. Kim Neal said Stocking left too much rope loose when he clipped into his waist harness.
?A lot of people are doing it around here,? said Sean Hazell at Moab outfitter Western Spirit Cycling, who was planning to make his own jump from the top of Corona Arch. ?I?m definitely going to think twice about it now.?
Corona Arch is on Utah state trust lands but is set to be turned over to a federal land-management agency as part of a larger trade of state and federal lands. Because of the accident, the Bureau of Land Management is ?taking a closer look at appropriate ways to balance and manage these activities on public lands,? BLM spokeswoman Megan Crandall said Monday.
The Utah Trust Lands Administration tried to curb Corona Arch?s growing appeal by banning commercial jumping effective Jan. 1. But the agency said it can?t prevent private parties from using its lands. The agency posted a trailhead warning about the potential for ?severe injury or death even if your equipment works.?
Stocking?s rope and harness didn?t fail. His mistake was miscalculating the length of slack rope for the swing, Neal said.
?These people involved in extreme outdoor sports, I admire their courage, but I?m not going to do it,? Neal said.
Those participating in such activities are often very aware of the risks. Dallin Smith in a previous interview with TheBlaze about a ?human slingshot? video that launched participants 40 miles per hour off of a ramp into a lake said he was rendered unconscious for a moment while riding. He wasn?t the only one who got hurt during the event either. Another was knocked out and others broke bones.
So why do it?
?It?s part of the thrill to conquer those risks,? Smith told us at the time.
Still, in an email to TheBlaze Tuesday Smith stressed that the makers of such videos don?t want people to follow their example. Those involved in such stunts have years of climbing, canyoneering, anchoring and rigging experience and understand the limitations of gear and perform countless tests and calculations before anyone tries it.
?When you?re standing on the edge of a cliff hundreds of feet up, you know you?re staring death in the face,? Smith wrote. ?We cannot stress enough that our stunts are high risk and we are professionals. People should never try and reenact and recreate our stunts unless they are professionals who have built up years and years of experience as well.?
This story has been updated to include further comment from Smith.?
The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/26/22-year-old-suffers-fatal-accident-at-popular-landmark/
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