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JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's Justice Ministry filed its indictment of former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in a Jerusalem court on Sunday, charging him with breach of trust and fraud in a case that could hurt his political future.
Lieberman is accused of trying to advance the career of a former diplomat after the envoy relayed information to him about a criminal investigation into the former Cabinet minister's business dealings.
On Dec. 13, the Justice Ministry released a draft indictment to both Lieberman and the press. On Sunday, an amended version of that draft was filed in the Jerusalem Magistrates Court after prosecutors received testimony suggesting he was more deeply involved than previously thought in trying to promote the diplomat.
The actual charges remained unchanged.
Lieberman, who denies any wrongdoing, resigned his Cabinet post earlier this month after he was informed of the pending charges, though he remains a member of parliament. He did not appear in court on Sunday and had no comment on the indictment.
The diplomat he tried to promote, former ambassador to Belarus Zeev Ben-Aryeh, reached a plea bargain with the state in the case earlier this year.
The indictment did not address the main suspicions against Lieberman that had been the focus of a years-long investigation. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ultimately decided that prosecutors did not have a strong enough case to charge Lieberman with illicitly receiving millions of dollars from businessmen and laundering the cash through straw companies in eastern Europe.
While he was charged with lesser offenses, Lieberman's political future could be compromised if the court that hears the case decides to convict him of a crime that carries what is known in Israeli law as "moral turpitude." Lawmakers convicted of such crimes must resign immediately from parliament, then are barred from re-entering politics for seven years.
Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party is running on a joint list with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud in the Jan. 22 election, and he is expected to be re-elected to parliament. Political commentators had viewed the hookup as grooming him to become a future prime minister. Lieberman takes a hard line on concessions to the Palestinians and perceives Israel's large Arab minority as a threat to the Jewish state.
In other political news, Israel's Supreme Court unanimously rejected an election committee's attempt to disqualify an Arab lawmaker from running for parliament again next month because she took part in a flotilla that tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The lawmaker, Hanin Zoabi, enraged many Israelis in 2010 by joining the Turkish-led Mavi Marmara flotilla, which was stormed by Israeli naval commandos who clashed with pro-Palestinian activists, killing nine. The Israeli military says the soldiers acted in self-defense after being attacked on the deck.
Zoabi was nearly assaulted in parliament by another lawmaker and subsequently was stripped of some of her parliamentary privileges.
Earlier this month, an Israeli elections committee voted to disqualify her from running in next month's election. She appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, which overturned it, as it has rejected the committee's attempts in previous years to bar other Arab candidates from running.
"I welcome the ruling," Zoabi said. "I hope this ruling will put an end to the political witchhunt."
Lawmaker Danny Danon, who collected thousands of signatures demanding that Zoabi's candidacy be disqualified, accused the court of "backing the Marmara terrorist rather than naval commando fighters."
The court said in its ruling that it would release its reason for overturning the decision at a later date. Under Israel's election law, the court had to issue its ruling by Sunday.
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One of our favorite Twitter clients for Android, Falcon, updated just in time for 2013 with a bunch of new features. The biggie is that Falcon now uses the fancy YouTube APIs for Android that Google introduced before Christmas, but there are also a few subtle tweaks that have been added, including a spam reporting button, a slider for setting refresh rates, and a logout button. Here's the full changelog for Falcon Pro 1.4.
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A privately owned Chinese company is finalising the acquisition of an Australian mining firm that controls a major iron ore mine in west Africa, China's official Xinhua News Agency reports.
The move would give China a stronger role in setting global iron ore prices.
Xinhua, citing officials from Hanlong Group, based in southwestern China's Sichuan province, said on Saturday Hanlong plans to complete the acquisition of Sundance Resources Ltd for 45 cents (50 US cents) per share by March 1, after submitting paperwork to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Sundance controls the Mbalam iron ore mine, which straddles Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.
Hanlong is seeking a partnership with Chinese state-owned companies and investing $US5 billion ($A4.84 billion) to develop the Mbalam project and to build a 550-kilometre railway and a shipping port, Xinhua said.
Operations are expected to begin in 2014, Xinhua said.
As the world's second-largest economy, China is eager to acquire overseas assets and resources to feed its rapid growth.
The prospect of a takeover appeared remote earlier this month following news that Hanlong wanted to delay the bid because it could not secure funding by December 13, AAP reported.
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UFC 155 was headed towards becoming one of the least memorable UFC pay-per-view cards in recent history until Joe Lauzon and Jim Miller stepped in the cage. The lightweights delivered a late Fight of the Year candidate as Miller won 29-28 on all three judges' cards.
Miller opened up the fight with a bevy of punches, and opened a cut on Lauzon's face early. Lauzon's wooziness allowed Miller to lock a standing arm triangle. Lauzon was able to slip out of the choke, but when he emerged, his face was covered in blood.
[Complete UFC 155 recap: Cain Velasquez mauls Junior dos Santos]
Though Miller managed better attacks and wasn't bleeding as badly as Lauzon, he still found himself in trouble late in the third round. Lauzon dove onto Miller's legs, and attempted a leg lock submission. If there wasn't so much blood covering their bodies and the canvas, Lauzon might have pulled out the win.
Lauzon told Yahoo! Sports after the fight that he required 40 stitches for the cuts sustained during the fight.
Miller was impressed by Lauzon's toughness.
?Joe Lauzon is a tough kid. I knew I was going to have to bring my best effort to put him away and I was never able to," Miller said after the fight. "That?s how good he is on the ground. And even in the last minute, look what he was trying to do to win the fight."
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203K loans are popular as they allow individuals to borrow financial funds for improvement as well as ownership of a house by only taking one loan. 203K loans are issued by the Federal Housing Administration. 203K Loans typically come with a lower interest rate. Moreover, the terms of paying back the loan varies from 15-30 years.
Basics To Know About 203K Loans
203K loans are best suitable for individuals in the United States who are seeking to buy a house or remodel their existing house but need finance to do so. 203K Loans are also referred to as ?fixer? or ?rehab loans?. Through these types of loans, one cannot only fund finance new homes but also acquire them for home improvement projects. The most important thing to know about the 203K Loan is that it is issued in the form of one loan and not separate loans.
With two different loans, there is a lot of hassle involved such as hassle of paper work, cost, payment of interest and more. Two loans come with a greater price as compared to single loans. With single loans, the interest payments that will have to be made back by the loan taker will typically be low as a result of which, the act of paying back the loan and maintaining your credit history will become a relatively easier task.
203K Loans are offered at competitive rates as a result of which, they make a reasonable choice of selection as loans for home improvement or buying homes altogether. The Federal Housing Administration issues the 203K Loans for single to four unit properties but condo owners as well as townhome owners can also use them to enhance the looks of their properties. The 203K Loans offer nearly 110percent in loans of the speculated value of the property in question, after improvement. The minimum value of finance that is offered is $5,000 but the FHA permits users to take up smaller projects that permit facilitation of easy payment processes.
Another thing to note about 203K loans is that it is mandatory to complete the work in 6 months of closing and if the project reaches more than its expected amount, more amounts will be inserted in the total. Experts advise against padding up the total cost of loan, which occurs in the case when total amount of loan exceeds the cost of improvement or the new property itself and therefore, it is always recommended to hire a reputable contractor who can provide you with accurate estimates.
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New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week released its "Subway Time" app for iOS, which gives real-time updates for trains in and and around New York City. Need to know how soon a certain train will be at a certain station? That's the app to have.
Only, we use Android around these here parts. And MTA's not making an app for us. But what it is doing is making the data freely available to anyone -- and we've already seen our first "unofficial" app released in beta. Subway Time for Android, released by The Holodeck, taps into that MTA data and brings a fairly functional app to Android. There are bugs. There are layout issues. But those can be fixed. That we're seeing the app ported over in just a matter of days is proof positive that we're on the right side here, folks. So break out those MTA cards and let's give this guy a go.
More: MTA Developer Resources; Thanks for the tip, @EladKatz!
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The holidays may have come and gone, but now we prepare to step into a new year with some new apps, forever venturing forth. One of those new apps is a Vudu Movies and TV app, letting you stream from the Vudu service. We?ve also got fancy new keyboards and slick alarm clocks, a parking spot finder for The Windy City, and an innovative but somewhat incomplete photo sharing app. Let?s do this.
While it isn?t as popular as Netflix, and probably never will be, Vudu Movies and TV streaming has offered media mavens an alternative place to view, rent, or purchase digital version of all their favorite films. In fact, many studios are supporting Vudu, with blu-ray/DVD copies of movies coming with a Vudu digital copy promo code. Now you can stream those movies to your Android device, and it works well too. It?s great to be able to watch a solid selection of mobile movies on the go, even if this is far from the first app to let you do so. All in all, it?s a pretty cool service.
No matter what the application is or how full featured it may be, developers always find room for improvement. Even something as simple as a keyboard can be vastly tweaked to offer new features and customization options. That?s where Kii Keyboard comes in. It offers some slick new ways to type, such as gesture-based typing and smart word predictions. You can also make use of plenty of different themes and set your own photos as the keyboard background image. Go ahead and give it a try.
This is a very specific app for a certain group of people, and I?m sorry to include something so exclusionary on this list, but it?s been a slow week, and I have a personal bias on this topic. SpotHero is a brilliant app for people who live in the Chicago area, where this lovely website is based and where I grew up. It?s meant to find cheap parking by comparing and contrasting various garages by location. This is an impressive feat, I assure you, especially since the app offers some exclusive discounts just for owning it. You can even reserve parking spots ahead of time. It?s just awesome, and hopefully they branch out to include other major metropolitan areas in the near future.
Some alarm clocks have you solve a sliding tile puzzle and a few calculus problems before shutting off an eardrum destroying wail, which believe me, some people really desperately need. If you?re more of a morning person, and are concerned with style and simplicity with your alarm clock apps, then look no further than Wave Alarm. It?s a slick new alarm clock app that uses your device?s front facing camera as something of a motion tracker, letting you snooze or shut off your alarm with a simple motion. It boasts plenty of other features as well, such as real time weather updates and music library alarm choices.
Flock is an interesting new app that gets an A+ for effort and innovation, but a C- or so in execution. Essentially, it?s a photo sharing app that seeks to separate itself from Facebook and the rest, making it easier for you to find photos based on time and location taken rather than sift through a dozen albums online. Using facial recognition, it auto-tags your friends and creates albums for you with no real input. You don?t even have to open the app to use it. Unfortunately, the software needs some work, with a lot of bugs and wonky features, but definitely keep your eye on this one.
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Tucked away inside a cozy storefront along the quaint corridor of Temescal Alley is north Oakland?s newest coffee shop, The CRO Cafe. Owner Luigi Oldani named his business after his daughter, Camille Rosemary, and officially opened its doors on a First Friday art walk this past November.
Prior to having a permanent brick-and-mortar location, Oldani held pop-ups at the now-defunct Cafe Fanny in Berkeley (currently the home of Bartavelle). While they were remodeling, Oldani rolled in with his coffee cart everyday for three months during the summer.
He?d also host open houses with espresso at his metal fabrication shop, Oldani Art Studio, where he runs his other full-time enterprise creating custom furnishings for local businesses.
?The shop is a spot where we make anything and everything,? he says. ?Mostly the big jobs have been build-outs for cafes and restaurants. We opened up three La Boulange restaurants right before they sold out to Starbucks. We did a whole bunch of tables, counters, bars, handrails, stairways ? lots of architectural details. Our showpiece space is the work that we did at Sightglass, which was collaborative. We didn?t do all of the metalwork over there, but we did some.?
Oldani is a former mechanical engineer, so he enjoys the process of coming up with solutions for spaces ? especially for his own tiny cafe.
?It?s 170-square-feet, so there?s not a lot of electricity or amenities. It was a challenge to figure out how to get in and operate.? He and the group of friends he regularly works with at his studio designed everything for the interior just a few weeks before opening. Oldani says there?s still lots of items on his to-do list, including adding more shelving for retail products, finishing up planter boxes for vines that will snake up towards the counter, an awning, producing a copper-clad storefront using scraps from his dad?s art studio, and most importantly, ?get a sign so that people can see that there?s a little hole-in-the-wall spot to get coffee.?
?I wanted to do a coffee business long before I knew what good coffee was,? Oldani chuckles. Disenchanted with his engineering job, he started to look for a different outlet. Oldani got the idea that, ?running a coffee shop would get me a better work-life balance where I?d get to interact with people on a more personal level and hand my work product directly over to the person who was going to be consuming it. And to really be able to do that in a much shorter cycle than I was able to do as an engineer.?
Oldani?s former job did help inform his next career path. ?With coffee, there?s a bit of an idealization of the machinery. Coffee people tend to take their gear and their preparation really seriously. Coffee in itself is a volatile and tricky product to prepare well. And so the disciplined process and art of production and equipment appealed to me.?
His work at Sightglass helped inspire him to transition out of his engineering job and pursue coffee as one of his next ventures. It was through his interactions with its proprietors that Oldani became serious about how he tasted and brewed coffee. He attended their training sessions to supplement his own independent study efforts and practiced brewing coffee at his art studio for two years. Oldani slowly acquired his equipment over time, including a vintage La San Marco espresso coffee machine that was formerly used at Oliveto.
?I have an affinity for the lever mechanism. A lot of the new machines are trying to duplicate what the old machines inherently do with the lever. There?s a quick, ramping up of pressure at the beginning of the shot which tapers off to a lower pressure at the end. And the newer machines try to do it by controlling pumps and a lot of electronics, whereas this machine is almost all mechanism. And it does a really beautiful job of the exact same thing mechanically, which also happens to make it a really great machine for doing portable business as it requires less electricity and is more of a workhorse.?
In addition to its coffee drinks, CRO Cafe also serves up a delicious hot chocolate. Oldani?s fiancee and business partner, Sacha Badme, honed her culinary skills by taking a chocolate class at Tante Marie?s cooking school. She uses unsweetened TCHO chocolate as the base and creates her own custom blend that imparts a rich sweetness to their warm confection.
Looking ahead to the future, Oldani is currently converting an antique milk truck into a mobile espresso truck and hopes to roll it out in the East Bay in the near future. He?s also building food service tricycles for the Exploratorium and hopes the experience will spur his ability to finish the truck soon. While he has no plans to roast his own coffee ? ?although I could totally see a time when that would be really compelling and could see myself becoming obsessed with it? ? Oldani plans to keep a limited menu at CRO Cafe to keep the focus on serving great espresso drinks.
?The thing that is compelling to me is that there?s so much mediocre coffee available and maybe it?s a better business model. But there?s a growing interest in fanatical preparation and sourcing the highest quality ingredients. It feels like we?re serving people who are only interested in that, although that?s a much smaller segment of the market. The larger roasteries and multiple cafe outlets really control the cost of a cup of coffee and have the advantage of bigger vertical integration in that they source, roast and distribute on a larger scale so their margins are better than ours. But if you spend a lot of time and money trying to make the best coffee, people do appreciate it. I?m hoping that this market will increase, and I?m really excited to see that growth and be a part of that.?
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Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 8-5PM. Closed on Mondays.
Twitter: @TheCROCafe
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Dragonflies lack humans' big brains, but they still get the job done, according to new research that suggests that these insects have brain cells capable of feats previously seen only in primates.
Specifically, the dragonflies can screen out useless visual information to focus on a target, a process called selective attention. The new study, published Dec. 20 in the journal Current Biology, is the first to find brain cells devoted to selective attention in an invertebrate animal.
Selective attention is crucial for responding to one stimulus among the dozens of distractions that clamor for notice at any given time, said Steven Wiederman of the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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"Imagine a tennis player having to pick out a small ball from the crowd when it's traveling at almost 200 kilometers an hour," Wiederman said in a statement. "You need selective attention in order to hit that ball back into play."
But little is known about how the brain locks onto its targets and ignores all else. To find out, Wiederman, who is from the university's Center for Neuroscience Research, and his colleague David O'Carroll turned to an unlikely animal. The researchers have long studied insect vision, and the dragonfly turns out to be quite adept in that arena. [ Photos: Dew-Covered Dragonflies & Other Sparkling Insects ]
"The dragonfly hunts for other insects, and these might be part of a swarm ? they're all tiny moving objects," Wiederman said. "Once the dragonfly has selected a target, its neuron activity filters out all other potential prey. The dragonfly then swoops in on its prey ? they get it right 97 percent of the time."
Using a glass probe with a tip 1,500 times smaller than a human hair, the researchers measured the neuronal activity that enables such amazing aerial hunting. A similar process is at work in the primate brain, O'Carroll said in a statement, but researchers weren't expecting to see the same thing in an insect that evolved 325 million years ago.
"We believe our work will appeal to neuroscientists and engineers alike," O'Carroll said. "For example, it could be used as a model system for robotic vision. Because the insect brain is simple and accessible, future work may allow us to fully understand the underlying network of neurons and copy it into intelligent robots."
Plenty of other insects have inspired robot designs. Swiss scientists, for example, have built a hovering drone that mimics insects in its ability to survive collisions with hard objects. Sometimes insects are recruited directly. North Carolina State University researchers reported in September that they'd managed to create cyborg Madagascar hissing cockroaches. The scientists wired a microcontroller to the insects' sensory organs, enabling them to steer the cockroaches' movements.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian strongman ousted last year after 30 years in power, was moved to an army hospital from a prison hospital on Thursday following a fall that raised fresh concerns about his fragile health.
Mubarak, 84, was forced out in a 2011 uprising and sentenced to life in prison in June of this year for his role in killing protesters during the revolt. He was admitted to a prison hospital that month following what security officials called a "health crisis".
Mubarak's health has been the subject of intense speculation in Egypt and he has spent much of the time before and after his trial in the prison hospital.
His lawyer said he was transferred to the military hospital after fracturing a rib in the fall in his prison clinic. He said he also suffered from lung complications and dizziness.
"The health condition is deteriorating to some extent due to the president's fall the week before last," lawyer Mohamed Abdel Razek told Reuters.
Mubarak is to be treated at the military hospital in Cairo's Maadi suburb. "He will stay for awhile," a security source told Reuters.
Mubarak's legal team had been pressing to have him moved from the prison hospital to a better-equipped facility, saying he was not receiving adequate treatment.
There has been no clarity, however, on the exact nature of any of his ailments, with state media reporting a variety of illnesses ranging from shortage of breath to heart attacks and comas.
On July 16 Mubarak was sent back to prison on the orders of the former public prosecutor who said his health had improved and he no longer needed the advanced care of the military hospital where he had been moved in June.
At the time, senior officers and military sources gave various accounts of Mubarak's condition, including that he was in a coma and on life support.
The fate of his family, accused by Egypt's new rulers of accumulating vast wealth illegally during Mubarak's long reign, is also the subject of much speculation.
Public prosecutor Talaat Abdallah has agreed to a request from Egypt's illicit gains authority investigating corruption to confiscate funds from two bank accounts belonging to Mubarak's wife Suzanne and move them to the central bank, the MENA news agency said.
The state newspaper al-Ahram said the amount to be confiscated was 27 million Egyptian pounds ($4.4 million). In May 2011 Suzanne Mubarak was released from detention on graft accusations and relinquished some of her assets to the state.
Mubarak's two sons are also being held in prison, facing trial on graft charges, which they deny.
(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed, Marwa Awad and Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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I had then commented her Pakatan shadow cabinet was a Kafkaesque joke ? and if you don?t know the meaning of this word, ask Mr Manmanlai, wakakaka - with the potential for Pakatan to outdo BN in the numbers department. 15 ministries including shared deputy prime minister-ships were listed, with each having at least 3 if not more names, making a total of no less than 45 and probably exceeding 60. WTF!
Sweetie Selena admitted that her list has been compiled from a combination of:
(a) discussions with a Pakatan MP who wished to remain anonymous ...?
... but who wakakaka, I suspect, was probably from PKR. As usual, by suggesting some key nominees in the secret list, he was pre-empting PKR's supposed allies from choice ministries wakakaka,
(b) observations from the performances and statements of Pakatan MPs .....,
... and undoubtedly, the most mysterious of all, wakakaka ........?
(c) personal conversations with the shadow ministers, their friends or their acquaintances, where in the first place, shadow ministers, other than the PM-designate, don?t exist ........Of course I have my opinion as to why, but the far more important point was my amazement at Sweetie's claim of talking with non-existent shadow ministers ..... unless of course she had the conversation with the self-appointed wet-dreaming shadow Home Minister wakakaka.
I hope she as a DAP member (so she claimed in her recent article) didn't/doesn't take my criticisms too badly as I had also excoriated another DAP sweetie, Hannah Yeoh, for being mathematically challenged in her support for Anwar Ibrahim?s 916 (Hannah took law, not maths so it's okay, wakakaka), as follows:?Those who argue that the political crisis in Perak now is a taste of Pakatan Rakyat?s own medicine ? a reference to Sept 16 ? fail to see the key differences between the two.?
?When Anwar claimed to have the numbers to form the federal government, he wrote to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, requesting him to convene an emergency sitting of Parliament. This was rejected by the prime minister.?
?The next constitutional option was to press for the dissolution of Parliament to make way for fresh elections. This too was not entertained.?
?Anwar exhausted every constitutional means available to him. If Pakatan were to act unconstitutionally and lure defections, then we will be having a new government today. So, you can?t say that Najib?s coup in Perak and the Pakatan plan ? Sept 16 ? were one and the same.?
Leaving aside the different issue of Najib?s coup d??tat in Perak which involved someone high up who should have stayed out of direct politics, Hannah Yeoh was stupid (and I hope the sweetie?isn't?now) to claim that Anwar had the right to demand AAB convene an emergency sitting of Parliament or to press for the dissolution of Parliament to make way for fresh elections.
WTF for, just after an election where AAB?s BN trounced Pakatan by 140 seats to 82? Was she mathematically challenged?
Now, would you believe it, the mystery of the phantom (wakakaka) shadow ministers has just become even more mysterious because on re-checking her shadow cabinet article I found the words ?shadow ministers? mysteriously missing like Jim Thompson, wakakaka. Oh, the mystery of it!Surely this calls for the use of that wonderful?Indonesian?word an?h?as in?an?h bin ajaib?(extremely strange, wonder of wonders) wakakaka. ?
Hey, maybe sweetie didn't write it and I was, no not psychic, but psychedelically hallucinating, wakakaka. Hmmm, I wonder whether she read my post, wakakaka.Three days ago, a reporter friend (sweetie Selena has always been very discreet, never mentioning her sources, wakakaka) forwarded a text message to this columnist which says that the doctor has taken over Umno and right now the grassroots reports are being forwarded to him.
But the big news is that the doctor is planning to have the polls held in September. This is because it seems that the doctor has got tired of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak?s feet-dragging and lack of confidence ? [?]
Wakakkaa, I had then posted my take on her headline-grabbing coup d??tat by Dr M as:
We may yet again take it that Sweetie?s latest article of Dr Mahathir mounting a silent?coup d??tat?to launch a September poll was sourced from PKR, especially in the light of UMNO information that Dr Mahathir has affirmed Najib should be complimented for not calling for early election (or if you like, ordering Najib to hang on for as late/long as possible).
Wakakaka again.
Anyway, back to her latest article DAP leadership must share power in FMT. Just a few extracts I wish to comment on as follows:
In addition to the above, it is good if one Malay and one Indian is given a prestigious parliament seat to contest. DAP cannot continue to talk about a ?Malaysian Malaysia? if the Malays and Indians feel left out.
Everyone including the Orang Asal must have a sense of belonging in the party. The Orang Asal too must be given a popular parliament or state seat to contest*. DAP leaders must break the race barrier and the best time to do this is none other than at the coming 13th general election.
* Note she mentioned Orang Asal and not Asli, and why has sweetie suggested this?
Wakakaka, I suspect that if we need to unravel this particular mystery (out of the many mysteries) of her writing, we might have to re-read my posts on the last Sarawak state elections - see below.Isn?t she as a voting member of DAP aware of the current number of DAP MPs and indeed ADUNs who are Indians?
Please take a look at the 7 DAP Indian MPs (not just one proposed by her for GE-13) and 11 DAP Indian ADUNs (the 12th in Malim Nawar having hopped away), and dear MIC and PKR wakakaka eat your hearts out.MPs
Karpal Singh ? Gelugor
Dr P Ramasamy ? Batu Kawan
M Kulasegaran ? Ipoh Barat
M Manogaran ? Teluk Intan
Charles Santiago - Klang
Gobind Singh Deo ? Puchong
John Fernandez ? Seremban
ADUNs
S Veerapan ? Repah
K Arumugam ? Rahang
P Gunasekaren ? Senawang
Dr P Ramasamy ? Perai (also MP for Batu Kawan)
Jagdeet Singh - Datok Keramat
A Tanasekharan ? Bagan Dalam
R. Sanisvara Nethaji Rayer - Seri Delima
A. Sivanesan - Sungkai
V. Sivakumar - Tronoh
Sivasubramanian - Buntong
M. Manoharan - Kota Alam Shah
(one bloke was given the chance to stand in and had become the ADUN in Malim Nawar but ...)I suppose we could all venture a guess who that marvellous?'neutral Chinese political analyst' would be but then again, it won't be much of a guess?... wakakaka, and was it necessary to assert the Chinese political analst is 'neutral'? wakakaka.
Dear dear oh dearie me, dearest sweetie Selena, since you are so keen on DAP setting up Malay and Indian Bureaus to look after Malay and Indian interests, why don?t you write something to clear up those nasty rumours surrounding the alleged ouster of Nallakaruppan from PKR and?how he was allegedly ?promised? he would contest ?n the Ijok by-election in 2007 only to find Khalid Ibrahim nominated instead, and yes, how he was allegedly ?instructed? not to compete against Azmin Ali in the party?s VP position in an earlier PKR party election.Why don?t you write too on the last PKR party elections and the allegations surrounding the party polling process made or alluded to by Haris Ibrahim, Jonson Chong, Zaid Ibrahim and a host of other erstwhile PKR members as well as those still in that party like Badrul Hisham (Chegubard) and Mustaffa Kamil?
If you need to refresh yourself, you may wish to refer to my posts:
Source: http://ktemoc.blogspot.com/2012/12/psychedelic-psychic-power.html
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Politico:
President Barack Obama has ?not been negotiating? in fiscal cliff talks, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist charged on Monday.
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You are showering and you feel an inconsistency in one of your breasts. ?Given all the pink hoopla about the breast cancer epidemic, you worry yourself sick that you may have breast cancer. ?You rush off to your doctor who orders a mamogram. ?The mamogram results show what may be a tiny lump. ?You are referred to a breast expert. ?You are on the conveyor belt. ?Once on, it may be next to impossible to get off. ?You are in the "System".
Here's the problem: The latest research concludes that over 90% of early detection cases for breast cancer are false positives. ?In other words, if left alone, this 90%+ would never have come to anything! ?The problem for ?your doctor is this:"If over 90% of positive mamograms are actually false positives, how do we detect and then treat the few remaining percent that may go on to be invasive cancer?"
The answer currently being employed is to treat just about every case that may actually be false positive as being positive. ?In other words - treat these as one would invasive cancer. ?This is very bad news for women. ?
Millions of women, worldwide, who may not have had breast cancer have had their breasts removed and/or undergone debilitating chemotherapy, radiation therapy and hormone therapy.
The problem with breast cancer is it may be next to impossible to know which of these many false positives will go on to be invasive cancer.
If there is an aggressive cancer present, then the sooner it is treated - aggressively - the better the chances of survival. ?
If your doctor decides to take a "wait and see" approach and it consequently develops into an aggressive cancer, he/she has got a serious problem - a very unhappy patient who may complain to the authorities and even sue for negligence. ?Better to play it safe, professionally, and order the full works for the patient. ?No doctor ever got sued for over-treating a breast lump (as far as I know anyway). ?And no doctor ever wants to lose a patient through "under treatment".
Here is what I would do:
It is detection of cancer after the horse has bolted. It is not prevention. ?There is a lot that can be done to prevent the development of cancer. ?Measures that put the odds more favourably in your camp. ?Read on.
A cancer does not develop overnight out of thin air. ?In most cases there must be conditions that stress the cells for years, if not decades, like a lifetime of smoking, or a bra strap that has been rubbing a mole for years, or repeated CT scan and x-rays that have zapped you many times with radiation. ?There must almost always be chronic oxidative stress within the cellular environment, often due to the deficiency of a nutrient such as selenium, and/or the presence of a toxin such as lead or mercury. ?
Oxidative stress is most commonly experienced as inflammation, such as with a swollen prostate gland. ?In the case of the breast tissue, inflammation may develop into?fibrocystic breast disease. ?There are practical interventions that are known to quell inflammation and return unhealthy tissue to a state of normality. ?These involve personalised nutrition and effleurage massage guided by a suitably trained health professional.The report that breast screening has done so much harm was published in not just any old journal, but in the?New England Journal of Medicine. ?This news is sensational! ?I can only speculate why this report has not received the attention it so deserves:
I have reproduced the?New England Journal of Medicine study below with links to its source, so that you can judge for yourself whether or not I am over-reacting. ?I have also reproduced part of an article by Ji Sayer which I urge you to read in full by following the hyperlink below. ?I have also taken some quotes from the website of the caped internet crusader, Mike Adams. ?On this issue, I agree with you, Mike (But I think your ideas on gun control are completely nuts).
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Friday, November 23rd 2012 at 5:00 am"A disturbing new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is bringing mainstream attention to the possibility that mammography has caused far more harm than good in the millions of women who have employed it over the past 30 years as their primary strategy in the fight against breast cancer"
"Breast cancer was overdiagnosed (i.e., tumors were detected on screening that would never have led to clinical symptoms) in 1.3 million U.S. women in the past 30 years."
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"We found that there were only around 0.1 million fewer women with a diagnosis of late-stage breast cancer. This discrepancy means there was a lot of overdiagnosis: more than a million women who were told they had early stage cancer -- most of whom underwent surgery, chemotherapy or radiation -- for a "cancer" that was never going to make them sick. Although it's impossible to know which?women these are, that's some pretty serious harm."
Mike Adams: "In fact, if you do the math and calculate 0.1 million fewer women with advanced-stage cancer out of 1.5 million who were diagnosed,?93% of the "early detection" cancer cases studied were?false positives, meaning that they would never have gone on to cause advanced-stage cancer anyway.
Archie Bleyer, M.D., and H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H.
To reduce mortality, screening must detect life-threatening disease at an earlier, more curable stage. Effective cancer-screening programs therefore both increase the incidence of cancer detected at an early stage and decrease the incidence of cancer presenting at a late stage.
We used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data to examine trends from 1976 through 2008 in the incidence of early-stage breast cancer (ductal carcinoma in situ and localized disease) and late-stage breast cancer (regional and distant disease) among women 40 years of age or older.
The introduction of screening mammography in the United States has been associated with a doubling in the number of cases of early-stage breast cancer that are detected each year, from 112 to 234 cases per 100,000 women ? an absolute increase of 122 cases per 100,000 women. Concomitantly, the rate at which women present with late-stage cancer has decreased by 8%, from 102 to 94 cases per 100,000 women ? an absolute decrease of 8 cases per 100,000 women. With the assumption of a constant underlying disease burden, only 8 of the 122 additional early-stage cancers diagnosed were expected to progress to advanced disease. After excluding the transient excess incidence associated with hormone-replacement therapy and adjusting for trends in the incidence of breast cancer among women younger than 40 years of age, we estimated that breast cancer was overdiagnosed (i.e., tumors were detected on screening that would never have led to clinical symptoms) in 1.3 million U.S. women in the past 30 years. We estimated that in 2008, breast cancer was overdiagnosed in more than 70,000 women; this accounted for 31% of all breast cancers diagnosed.
Despite substantial increases in the number of cases of early-stage breast cancer detected, screening mammography has only marginally reduced the rate at which women present with advanced cancer. Although it is not certain which women have been affected, the imbalance suggests that there is substantial overdiagnosis, accounting for nearly a third of all newly diagnosed breast cancers, and that screening is having, at best, only a small effect on the rate of death from breast cancer.
Source: http://blog.garymoller.com/2012/12/30-years-of-breast-screening-13-million.html
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Dec. 24, 2012 ? New York University biologists have identified how a vital protein is loaded by others into the centromere, the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome replication and may offer insights into the factors behind the production of abnormal numbers of chromosomes.
Their findings appear in the latest issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers focused on the organization and functioning of the centromere, which is responsible for chromosome segregation -- a process that ensures that replicating cells receive a complete copy of the genome. Disruption of this process can lead to the production of an abnormal number of chromosomes -- a condition evident in 90 percent of cancer cases.
To explore the mechanics of the centromere, the researchers examined fission yeast. This species of yeast is a model organism in cell biology because its chromosome replication and the regulation of its centromere are similar to that of humans.
In the PNAS study, the researchers focused on a protein, CENP-A, present in both humans and fission yeast. They specifically examined how it is incorporated into the centromere during cell division in order to better understand its role in this process.
Their results identified that a trio of proteins -- Dos1, Dos2, and Cdc20 -- work together to assemble CENP-A at centromeres as they duplicate. They further observed that any disruption of this process subsequently places this vital protein outside of the centromere -- thereby preventing it from performing its role of ensuring proper chromosome segregation.
"CENP-A is the engineer of the centromere," explained Fei Li, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Biology and the study's senior author. "Without this protein, the centromere simply can't function."
Li noted that many forms of cancer have been linked to malfunctioning CENP-A.
"Hopefully, these findings can contribute toward the development of improved strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer," he added.
The study's other co-authors were: post-doctoral fellows Marlyn Gonz?lez and Haijin He, Siyu Sun, an NYU graduate student, and Chen Li, who obtained her masters degree from NYU in 2012.
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