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Wednesday 31 October 2012
PressNewsRoom ? Blog Archive ? Fitness and Wellness Expert ...
Warren Martin, fitness expert and coach was recently featured as the focus of the TV show, ?Health and Wellness Today?. The show was seen on NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX network affiliates around the country.
Conway, Ark. ? October 30, 2012 ? Best-selling author and fitness expert, Warren Martin, Founder of WM Fitness, was recently featured as an expert guest on the TV show ?Health and Wellness Today.? The show was seen on NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX network affiliates around the country.? The show was filmed in Orlando, FL and was hosted by noted fitness and personal development coach John Spencer Ellis.
?Health and Wellness Today? features segments featuring some of the best health and fitness experts from across the United States. Warren Martin was a recent featured expert, discussing his unique and effective take on motivating people to reach and exceed their fitness and health goals.
Warren Martin has been professionally changing people?s lives since 2000. He has always been active and interested in fitness as far back as he can remember. He played all available sports in school and then two days after he graduated from high school he was shipped to Marine Corp Bootcamp, where he was awarded most physically fit in his platoon upon graduation.
From there Warren went on to get his Bachelors in Wellness and Fitness and is currently pursuing his Master?s degree (and eventually his Doctorate) in Sports Psychology. The? development of his Methods and WM Fitness has grown to be known as one of the most sound and prominent programs in the nation. His programs?are used by the normal everyday person to the Professional Athlete such as an international pro basketball player, top LPGA player, Pro Boxer, and former Mr. Arkansas ? bodybuilder, just to name a few. Warren is also the best-selling co-author of the fitness and wellness book, The Wellness Code: Your Ultimate Guide to Health, Fitness and Nutrition.
?Health and Wellness Today? was produced by Emmy Award winning director and producer, Nick Nanton, Esq. and Emmy Nominated Producer, JW Dicks, Esq., Co-Founders of America?s PremierExperts? and The Dicks and Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency?.
To learn more about Warren Martin, please visit http://www.WM-Fitness.com and http://www.mytrainerwarren.com/
About Warren Martin:
If you are looking to get more out of a program than just the usual short-lived successes or the unsustainable?methods, then?WM Fitness will not disappoint you.? With Warren?s many accomplishments he is able to design programs that will cover every aspect of your fitness and wellness needs.? When you see how many people that?have reached?above amazing results, you will swear that he couldn?t have done it all alone.? This shows you why his methods and programs are modeled by trainers and fitness centers all around.
Warren?s Accomplishments:
- US Marine Corp
- BS Wellness/Fitness Programming Management
- Apex Fitness Group -?CPT,
- NASM-CPT
- Reebok Group Fitness & Freemotion Fitness
- NSCA member
- NASM PES (performance enhancement specialist)
- NASM CES (corrective exercise specialist)
- HFPN (health fitness provider network)
- NESTA-?Mixed Martial Arts?Conditioning Coach (MMACC)
- FNS-Fitness Nutrition Specialist
- GFS-Golf Fitness Specialist
- Specializations:? Youth Fitness, Senior Fitness, Weight Management, Fat Loss, Muscle Development, Lower Back Injury, Neck/Shoulder Injury, Foot/Ankle/Knee Injury, Cardio Specialist, SQA performance, Golf performance, Prenatal/Postnatal, and much more.
Source: http://www.pressnewsroom.com/index.php/2012/10/30/fitness-and-wellness-expert-warren-martin-featured-on-nbc-on-health-and-wellness-today/
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Friday 19 October 2012
Orchestra Surprises Shoppers With Star Wars Flash Mob [VIDEO]
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Armstrong's foe says finding truth the No. 1 goal
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? Even those who don't recognize his name will almost certainly know what Travis Tygart has been up to lately.
To put it simply, he's the man who's been making life difficult for Lance Armstrong.
Part teacher and part preacher for his cause, Tygart's official title is chief executive officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He's a man who doles out lessons about playing fair while also trying to cajole confessions from those who don't.
His mission: Make sports a sanctuary for finding out which athlete is most talented and has worked the hardest, not who's the best cheater.
Most recently, that mission has led Tygart to spearhead the case that's ended Armstrong's cycling and triathlon careers. Only a year ago, that task seemed even more difficult than out-pedaling him in the Tour de France. Now, Armstrong has been cut loose by his major sponsors and is no longer the face of the Livestrong charity he founded.
As it turns out, the man who became Armstrong's greatest adversary is like him in some ways.
Both Armstrong and Tygart are 41. Like Armstrong, Tygart is in great shape and loves to get on the bike every once in a while.
And like Armstrong, Tygart has a stubborn streak in him. A big one.
"I saw at an early age that working hard is how you become successful," says Tygart, who learned his lessons about teamwork and sports growing up in Florida, where he was on state-championship baseball and basketball teams in high school.
"Playing sports as a kid, I learned all the valuable lessons that I think sports should teach. I'm determined to do everything possible to maintain those lessons for kids growing up."
Tygart has parlayed that credo into a career that, because of his role in taking down one of the world's most famous athletes, has made him among both the most trusted and reviled figures in sports ? even if only a small minority of sports fans would recognize him walking down the street.
"I always knew I wanted to do something that made a difference. It was never about anything other than trying to change the world for a better tomorrow," he says, a self-conscious laugh creeping in when he hears how much his words seem like a superhero's catchphrase.
If it all sounds a bit sanctimonious and too good to be true, well, his critics certainly won't argue. To them, he is a hatchet man who ran a witch hunt to settle an old score against Armstrong ? a foe who eluded sanctions for more than a decade.
"This isn't about Tygart wanting to clean up cycling," Armstrong wrote in a letter to The Associated Press, before USADA ordered his seven Tour de France titles stripped and before a massive report detailing the evidence against him was released. "Rather it's just a plain ol' selective prosecution that reeks of vendetta."
The case Tygart's agency produced included testimony from 11 former teammates of Armstrong's, along with 15 others, who teamed up to paint the picture of Armstrong as a drug-pushing bully. The report exposed what Tygart calls the most extensive doping program sports has ever seen.
On Wednesday, a week after USADA's documents were released, Armstrong left his post as chairman of his Livestrong foundation, the same day Nike announced it would sever ties with its longtime pitchman.
It was the latest in a steady drumbeat of bad news for Armstrong, all delivered ? either directly or indirectly ? courtesy of the agency Tygart has led since 2007 when his predecessor, Terry Madden, stepped down.
USADA was formed in 2000 as a way of taking drug cases that were decided by the U.S. Olympic Committee and placing them in the hands of a group that would be run independently. The agency is partially funded by the USOC and partially by the government. It runs on an annual budget of about $14 million and is tasked with finding and catching the drug cheats, spreading the message of clean sports and staying on top of the science in a business where the bad guys are always a step ahead.
As outside counsel, then general counsel, then CEO for USADA, Tygart has worked on every major doping case of the past decade, including the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, which showed how sophisticated the performance-enhancing drug game had grown and resulted in the prosecution of Barry Bonds.
Among those caught in USADA's net over the years: 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis; Olympic gold medalists Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin; cyclist Tyler Hamilton; all the players listed in the Mitchell Report, which documented doping in baseball and which was put together with Tygart's input. All have had their accomplishments stripped or brought into question.
Through it all, Tygart insists he's treated the so-called celebrity athletes the same way he treats the unknowns ? the 40-something marathon runners and teenage in-line skaters who also fall under USADA's purview.
"He states his mission and his vision and you feel it," says Daniel Eichner, the former science director at USADA. "To him, it's all about protecting clean athletes. There's no other agenda."
Very few of the breakthroughs come easy for Tygart, a married father of three, avid skier, runner and, yes, cyclist, who on Tuesday celebrated his daughter's 11th birthday and also his 10th anniversary as a USADA employee.
He always loved the law but wanted some sort of sports connection and says when he sees injustice anywhere, "it's just infuriating, whether it's in sports or other areas of life."
Those who've known him for years say the message doesn't change once the necktie comes off.
"Travis is passionate about sport," said Rich Young, a partner at Bryan Cave LLP, who represents USADA as outside counsel and hired Tygart for that work in 2000. "He's a baseball and basketball player. He's got kids who are athletes. He really gets the difference between true sport and circus."
A native of Jacksonville, Fla., Tygart comes from a family well-respected in the Florida law community. His brother and sister are lawyers. His father was a trial attorney who now works as a mediator. His uncle is a judge. After graduating with a philosophy degree from North Carolina, Tygart returned to Florida and taught high school government classes for three years, while also coaching baseball and basketball. From there, he went to Southern Methodist to get his law degree and begin the path toward becoming the single most powerful man in the U.S. anti-doping game.
Much has been made of death threats he received during the Armstrong investigation. Why does he keep on going?
"Because I've heard the stories from the athletes," he says. "I've heard them from the clean athletes who left their sport and felt personally robbed."
He thinks of lifelong friends such as T.R. Lewis, who had major league potential but never made it. Lewis came up during the 1990s ? the steroids era ? and got aced out by players he knew were using performance-enhancing drugs. He says looking at the Mitchell Report "is like someone leafing through their high school yearbook. It's all these guys I played with, played against."
"I don't mean to overstate my presence in the game, but I joke with Travis that, in some regard, I'm the poster boy for the players who got left behind," Lewis said.
And Tygart is their faithful servant.
The CEO said he was confused in February, when federal prosecutors abruptly decided not to charge Armstrong and drop a nearly two-year investigation. "You'll have to ask them why they shut down," is all he'll offer when pressed on the subject.
He was irritated when the feds refused to share their evidence with USADA, as had been customary in similar instances in the past.
Instead of quitting, Tygart hit the phones and revved back up on his own investigation. Unlike the feds, he did not need to tie Armstrong to criminal activity, much of which allegedly occurred in Europe. He needed to show that the cyclist broke the rules of sport.
Months later, Armstrong was charged under USADA's rules. The cyclist opted in August not to fight the accusations, still denying he used performance-enhancing drugs but saying the arbitration system was rigged against him.
Tygart went ahead and banned Armstrong from competition and ordered that race results back to 1998 be erased. Then his agency released its report on the case.
"At the end of the day, the truth is too powerful, whether it was this case or any other," Tygart said. "And at the end of the day, the truth was revealed."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/armstrongs-foe-says-finding-truth-no-1-goal-172531255--spt.html
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Thursday 18 October 2012
Analysis: Obama regains his footing in feisty second debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama put his re-election bid back on firm footing on Tuesday night with a strong debate performance that is likely to thrill his Democratic supporters and earn him a second look from the few voters who remain undecided.
With the November 6 election three weeks away, Obama's second of three debates with Republican rival Mitt Romney represented one of the final chances to make an impression with voters.
Obama made the most of it with a focused, aggressive effort. It was a sharp departure from his listless first debate two weeks ago, when Romney's dominant performance ignited a resurgence by the Republican that left the race virtually even heading into Tuesday's matchup.
"Game on - he's back," Carleton College political science professor Steven Schier said of the president.
Obama made sure to work in all of the attack lines he had neglected in the October 3 debate.
He hammered Romney for the wealthy Republican's low personal income tax rate and Romney's now-infamous dismissal of "47 percent" of the electorate, as seen in a secretly recorded video of the former Massachusetts governor.
Obama also crisply outlined the accomplishments of his first term in office - from saving the auto industry to killing Osama bin Laden - and framed his answer on a question about women's rights in movingly personal terms.
Romney had his moments as well, especially when describing promises Obama had made and not kept.
Romney avoided the type of rout that Obama suffered in the October 3 debate, but the night belonged to the president, analysts said.
"I'd say it's a clear win for Obama," said Boston University communications professor Tobe Berkovitz. "Certainly it would be difficult for anyone to say Romney won this debate."
Flash polls taken after the debate pointed to an Obama win. Meanwhile, Obama's odds for re-election on the Intrade prediction market climbed 1.6 percentage points, to 63.6 percent.
'A BIT OF A BOUNCE'
Debates have rarely affected the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, but this year may prove an exception.
Romney silenced critics in his own party and reversed a month of missteps with a strong performance in the first debate. A week later he had wiped out Obama's lead in opinion polls.
That "bounce" for Romney has slipped in recent days, according to Reuters/Ipsos tracking polls. Obama led Romney by 3 percentage points in the daily Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday.
"This will give the president a bit of a bounce and a little bit of an edge, but it's going to be quite close right down to the wire," said Notre Dame University political science professor Michael Desch.
The final presidential debate, scheduled for Monday in Boca Raton, Florida, probably will matter less.
Some 10 percent of voters have cast their ballots already, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling data, and that figure will climb sharply as both campaigns kick their get-out-the-vote operations into gear and urge supporters to take advantage of state laws that allow early voting.
Foreign policy, the topic of next week's debate, takes a distant back seat to economic concerns for most voters.
It was a foreign policy discussion that led to Romney's most uncomfortable moment on Tuesday night, as he bungled what could have been an opportunity to plant doubts in voters' minds about Obama's handling of the attacks on diplomatic facilities in Libya last month.
Romney had hoped to use the incident to erode Obama's national security credentials. Instead, he battled with the moderator, CNN's Candy Crowley, over whether he was accurately characterizing Obama's remarks about whether the incident was a terror attack.
The exchange left Romney aides fuming at Crowley, while Obama was able to avoid the question of whether his administration had protected the facility adequately.
OBAMA'S DEFT MANEUVERING
Obama also danced around other questions that could have tripped him up.
He turned a question about gun control - an unpopular issue for voters in many battleground states - into an opportunity to point out Romney's shifting positions on the issue.
Obama responded to a question about gas prices by noting that they had been low when he took office only because of the recession that he inherited.
"It's conceivable that Governor Romney could bring down gas prices, because with his policies we'd be back in that same mess," he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.
Aside from his blown opportunity on Libya, Romney did not do poorly. He reminded viewers that Obama had failed to fulfill promises to cut the deficit in half and introduce immigration-reform legislation, and warned that too many people are still out of work.
"If you elect President Obama you know what you're going to get," he said. "You're going to get a repeat of the last four years."
Romney's performance probably did not hurt his chances of winning the White House, analysts said. But Obama probably boosted his odds by turning in the focused, aggressive performance that his supporters had hoped to see in the first debate.
"They're thinking, 'We're back in the ball game,' " said Robert Lehrman, a former speech writer for Democratic vice president Al Gore who now teaches at American University.
"It wasn't that Romney got worse - Obama got a lot better."
(Editing by David Lindsey and Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-obama-regains-footing-feisty-second-debate-070755984.html
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Luke Kandia (Computer Engineering Technology, 1987) | Going ...
Luke Kandia?s work as president and CEO of Seerx Technologies involves a lot of trouble shooting; when you?re building a client?s network infrastructure or recovering data from a fried laptop, it helps to have a mind geared toward problem solving.
So it?s fitting the 51 year old?s own search to find his calling was problematic.
?As a kid, you don?t really know what you want to do,? Kandia says. ?When it came time to leave St. John?s High School, I went to the job fair and a university had a display up about Forestry and I thought, ?Hey, I like the outdoors.??
Kandia registered and headed east, only to find the course work heavy on measuring tree growth and light on communing with nature. After dropping out, he headed to Toronto for testing to enter fighter pilot training ? a challenge that appealed to the adventurous young man.
Unlike the other entrants, he?d never flown a plane.
?All the other guys, they had been cadets, they had their private pilot?s license. When I got into the simulator, I bombed. They offered me a job in the army,? Kandia laughs.
Chastened, Kandia returned to Winnipeg to join a different force: the Winnipeg Police Service. As a cadet, Kandia peered inside the force?s operations, admiring the fast-paced, intense lives led by the officers around him. But the longer he served, the more the glamour wore off. A high-profile corruption case involving prominent officers soured his view of the force?s lifestyle. His plans to start a family faced off against his fears of meeting a known criminal while out shopping with his children.
?There was the glamour and the rush, but you?ve got to live with the rest of the stuff day to day,? Kandia says. ?A lot of people on the station duty gave me the impression I could do better for myself outside.?
Kandia returned to university only to drop out soon after. A scheme to run away to Minneapolis with a friend and join the marines was nixed when his friend?s father interfered. He snagged a job driving a taxi while he considered his options.
?That was probably one of the best jobs I ever had,? Kandia says. ?You got to meet a lot of people from different walks of life and see them on a one-to-one basis. When you?re cooped up with someone else in a three foot by four foot area, you learn how to talk to people, ask them about life, you can tell through the rearview mirror if they?re having a good or bad day.?
A casual conversation with a fellow cabbie suggested Kandia?s next move; his co-worker was registering for Red River College?s Computer Engineering Technology program.
?At the time I was reading any magazine I could get my hands on about computers. Personal computers had just started becoming common. I remember saying, ?No way! There?s a course for that?? We applied for the same program, got in and the rest is history.?
?Red River was over the top. They taught me more than I ever needed to know to do this job, touching on so many different subjects. They try to cater to as many students as they can. And they really inspired a great work ethic: I went from university classes of 300 to classrooms with 25 students, where the instructor would really chew you out if you didn?t do your homework. That was fantastic.?
A lot has changed in computer technology since Kandia graduated in 1987, landing jobs with Atomic Energy of Canada and the Canadian Grain Commission before opening his own business. But he insists formal IT training is never a waste of time, despite the fast pace of the industry.
?You?re showing a prospective employer that you?re trainable. In the real world at a job placement, say, we?ll teach you the current things. But all students need a ground base.?
For a man with a varied background, a problematic career path and his own business built from scratch, any number of achievements could stand out as his proudest accomplishment. But Kandia says he?s most proud of his children.
?We have a couple of kids and they?ve turned out relatively normal ? they?re good kids? Once you sit back and look at what you have accomplished, you realize it isn?t what you?ve accomplished for yourself in terms of net worth that matters?? it?s how many people you?ve been able to help along the way.?
Click here for more information about RRC?s Business Information Technology program.
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'Nashville' Star Hayden Panettiere Tells Fans To Get Ready To See 'Angry Juliette'
Actress sits down with MTV News to preview Wednesday night's episode and explain why she admires her character's spunk.
By Christina Garibaldi
Hayden Panettiere
Photo: MTV News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1695718/nashville-hayden-panettiere-juliette.jhtml
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Yemeni intelligence officer killed in shooting
SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A senior Yemeni intelligence officer was shot dead in the capital, Sanaa, when a speeding gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Tuesday, the latest episode in an assassination campaign aimed at security officials as government forces wage a crackdown on al-Qaida suspects.
Al-Qaida in Yemen has carried out a string of assassinations of top security and military officials and deadly suicide bombings in recent months, raising concerns that al-Qaida militants are bouncing back and getting bolder after suffering defeats this year in a U.S.-Yemeni military offensive.
Security officials said they believe the group has a hit list to kill more from their ranks in an attempt to paralyze Yemen's new leadership and throw the anti-al-Qaida assaults into turmoil.
One official said the attacker on a motorcycle killed Gen. Khaled al-Hashim on the spot and fled the scene. He said Al-Hashim was one of a number of Iraqi military experts hired by Yemen after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The attack follows a similar drive-by shooting last week that killed a top Yemeni security official who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa. Qassem Aqlani was on his way to work when a masked gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on him and fled the scene on Thursday, officials said.
That attack, which carried the hallmarks of an al-Qaida operation, was near Aqlani's home in western Sanaa, while the embassy is located in the eastern part of the capital. Aqlani, who was in his 50s, had been working for the embassy for 11 years, the U.S. State Department said.
Elsewhere, in the country's southern Abyan province, security officials said a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by a pro-government militia outside the town of Mudya, killing six from the group that has participated in the offensive against al-Qaida.
Mudya resident Khaled al-Fayadi said the checkpoint was attacked by armed men, followed by an explosives-laden car that approached five minutes later and blew up.
Security officials say the six killed in the attack are all militiamen, part of so-called Popular Committees that were formed to fight alongside the military to oust al-Qaida from their towns and villages.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-intelligence-officer-killed-shooting-203450242.html
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Wednesday 17 October 2012
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After Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera beat Brendan Schaub at UFC 134, Nogueira's friends and training partners broke out in a jubilant celebration. At UFC 153, he took out Dave Herman, and his friends reacted even more emotionally.
Man, it's getting a little dusty in here. (Wipes tears from eyes.) UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva begins to cry when seeing his friend's triumph. This was Nogueira's first fight since having his arm broken by Frank Mir in December, so you could see why it was so meaningful for Silva and the rest of the group.
After watching Nogueira's win, Silva went on to win easily over Stephan Bonnar. Then, he went to the hospital and took care of Fabio Maldonado, the fighter who somehow survived two rounds with Glover Teixeira.
Is there anything Silva can't do?
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Police question 2 at Pakistani girl's hospital
The plane carrying injured Pakistani teenager Malala Yousufzai, arrives at Birmingham airport, England Monday, Oct.15, 2012. A Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants has arrived in Britain, where she is to get specialized care. The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai a week ago horrified people across Pakistan and abroad. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
The plane carrying injured Pakistani teenager Malala Yousufzai, arrives at Birmingham airport, England Monday, Oct.15, 2012. A Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants has arrived in Britain, where she is to get specialized care. The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai a week ago horrified people across Pakistan and abroad. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Malala Yousufzai, 14, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, is transferred from the plane aboard a stretcher as she arrives at Birmingham Airport, England, Monday Oct. 15, 2012. Malala Yousufzai, will receive medical care by doctors and nurses who are specialists in helping British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, after she was shot on a bus in front of her friends for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants. (AP Photo/David Jones, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES
Malala Yousufzai, 14, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, is transferred from the plane aboard a stretcher as she arrives at Birmingham Airport, England, Monday October 15, 2012. Malala Yousufzai, will receive specialist medical care by doctors and nurses who are specialists in helping British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, after she was shot on a bus in front of her friends for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants. (AP Photo/David Jones, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES
Malala Yousufzai, 14, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, is transferred from the plane aboard a stretcher as she arrives at Birmingham Airport, England, Monday October 15, 2012. Malala Yousufzai, will receive medical care by doctors and nurses who are specialists in helping British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, after she was shot on a bus in front of her friends for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants. (AP Photo/David Jones, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) ? British police have questioned two people at a hospital where a Pakistani teenager is recovering after being shot for promoting girls' education, raising fears about her safety amid pledges by the Taliban to finish the job.
Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by the Taliban last week as she was returning home from school in Pakistan. She was airlifted Monday to Britain to receive specialized medical care and protection from follow-up attacks threatened by the militants.
Medical Director Dave Rosser of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham stressed Tuesday that security was "under control" at the hospital after the overnight incident. He said several people had turned up at the hospital claiming to be the girl's relatives but didn't get very far.
He said the people were arrested, but police said they had only been questioned.
"We don't believe there's any threat to her personal security," Rosser told journalists, explaining the hospital did not believe the suspects were related to Malala. "We think it's probably people being over-curious."
Police would not immediately confirm the details of the incident.
The attack on Malala, who campaigns for girls' right to education, horrified people in Pakistan and across the world.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has announced a $1 million bounty for Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan, saying he was the one who announced that the Taliban carried out the attack on Malala.
Malala was targeted by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing the militant group's behavior when they took over the scenic Swat Valley where she lived. Two of her classmates were also wounded in the attack and are receiving treatment in Pakistan.
The Taliban has threatened to target Malala until she is killed because she promotes "Western thinking."
Rosser said Malala is proving to be strong so far, but did not elaborate about her recovery.
Doctors are optimistic that Malala's age is in her favor. Unlike adults, the brains of teenagers are still growing and better able to adapt to trauma.
Teens also are generally healthier and their bodies have a stronger ability to react to the disruption that the injury causes, said Dr. Jonathan Fellus, chief scientific officer at the New Jersey-based International Brain Research Foundation.
"It helps to be young and resilient to weather that storm," he said. "Because her brain is continuing to develop at that age, she may have more flexibility in the brain."
There's also a psychological aspect to why youngsters have a better shot at recovery. While injured adults often mourn the loss of what they had, teens don't know what they are missing.
"They have an amazing capacity for hope," Fellus said. In Malala's case, her strong personality would also help her recover, he added.
Still, doctors cautioned that it is impossible to say how Malala will do without knowing the path of the bullet and what damages it caused, details that have not been released.
"The brain is like real estate," said Dr. Anders Cohen, chief of neurosurgery at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. "Location is everything.
"Based on the information we have, it appears that Malala was shot from the front down diagonally, but we don't know what part of the brain the bullet went through, whether it crossed the midline and hit any vessels, or whether the bullet passed through the right or left side of the brain."
But both physicians say it is extremely unlikely that a full recovery can be made. They could only hope that the bullet took a "lucky path" ? going through a more "silent", or less active ? part of the brain.
"You don't have a bullet go through your brain and have a full recovery," Fellus said.
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Associated Press Writers Cassandra Vinograd and Jill Lawless in London and Sebastian Abbot in Islamabad, Pakistan contributed to this story
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Russia moves to prosecute anti-Putin protest leader
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators opened criminal proceedings against a prominent leader of protests against President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, saying a documentary on a pro-Kremlin TV channel showed evidence Sergei Udaltsov had plotted mass disorder.
Law enforcement officials raided Udaltsov's Moscow apartment around daybreak and said they were also searching the homes of two associates facing the same charges, which carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
The Kremlin appeared to be probing how far it could go in cracking down on the protest movement, according to opposition parliamentarian Dmitry Gudkov, who has led anti-Putin rallies with Udaltsov since late last year.
"They will be taking the temperature of society. The repressions will continue," Interfax quoted him as saying.
The criminal case focused on allegations aired in a documentary on NTV television that Udaltsov received money and orders from an ally of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to cause unrest in Russia.
"The main department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Sergei Udaltsov ... based on evidence of ... preparing mass disorder," the federal Investigative Committee said in a statement on its website.
Udaltsov said that he was being taken to the committee's headquarters for questioning following the search.
The statement said investigators were also looking at allegations that Udaltsov - a leftist known for his shaved head, leather jacket and frequent short-term jailings for disobeying police - had planned "terrorist acts" in Russia.
Udaltsov, one of the leaders of a series of opposition protests in Moscow over the past year that were the biggest since Putin came to power in 2000, has denied the allegations aired on NTV earlier this month.
Critics accuse the Kremlin of a politically motivated crackdown to stifle any public unrest.
The Investigative Committee, which answers only to the president, also issued a stark warning to protest leaders, who Putin has at times publicly ridiculed and accused of receiving Western support.
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"Those who think they can with impunity organize riots, plan and prepare terrorist attacks and other acts that threaten the lives and health of Russians, you underestimate the Russian special services' professionalism," the statement said.
The Investigative Committee, led by Putin loyalist Alexander Bastrykin, has also pressed charges against opposition leader Alexei Navalny for organizing the theft of timber from a state firm. He denies this. Navalny also faces 10 years in prison.
The Investigative Committee said it had launched the prosecution after studying documentary footage from NTV that showed Udaltsov and others meeting with the former head of the Georgian parliament's defense committee Givi Targamadze in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.
Georgia, under Saakashvili's administration, cut diplomatic relations with Moscow after a five-day war with Russia over two Kremlin-backed breakaway regions in the South Caucasus nation.
"The voice recorded in the footage shot with a hidden camera... belongs to Udaltsov, and the meeting, excerpts of which are shown in the film, took place in the second half of June 2012," the statement said, referring to NTV documentary "Anatomy of a Protest 2".
NTV, owned by the media arm of state-controlled gas export monopoly Gazprom, has been used regularly to criticize those who have fallen foul of the Kremlin.
Almost all protests against Putin have been officially sanctioned by the authorities, although one demonstration on the eve of the president's inauguration led to rare violence between demonstrators and the police.
The protest movement grew out of allegations that widespread fraud enabled Putin's United Russia party to win a parliamentary election last December despite declining popular support.
But the victory of United Russia in local and regional elections on Sunday underscored the opposition's failure so far to parlay street protests into an effective, broad popular challenge to the president.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-authorities-open-criminal-case-against-protest-leader-063612259.html
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A Virtual Peek at the NYC Tech Campus
NYC Tech is expected to be the city's answer to entrepreneurial programs at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CORNELL NYC TECH: NYC Tech's initial building will include six classrooms and plenty of open workspace. It is also expected to earn platinum certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) group and be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the eastern U.S. Image: Courtesy of Cornell NYC Tech
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Cornell University's plan for a new high-tech, applied-science campus on an island in New York City's East River moved to the next phase on Monday when the city kicked off a seven-month review process to determine whether NYC Tech can break ground on its first building in 2014. Pending approval, that building will be a five-story, 14,000-square-meter academic center consistent with the school's hands-on approach to learning.
The energy-efficient building will include just six classrooms, devoting most of its area to open work spaces where lessons can be transformed into entrepreneurial ideas and prototypes. As designed by Morphosis Architects, Inc., NYC Tech's initial building is expected to earn LEED Platinum designation from the leadership in energy and environmental design certification program, its highest rating, and will be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the eastern U.S., producing as much energy as it consumes thanks primarily to solar panels and geothermal wells.
If all goes as planned construction near the southern end of Roosevelt Island?a 52-hectare sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens?would begin by April 2014, pending the outcome of a City Council vote.
Cornell has already put in motion various pieces of its plan. Earlier this month, the enrollment process began for the school's first offering?a one-year master of engineering degree that begins in January in temporary quarters. This program will be housed in a space in Manhattan that Google donated to NYC Tech for use until the Roosevelt Island campus opens in 2017. Initially, the island campus will support several hundred students. By the time its 18.6-hectare complex is fully operational in 2037, the program is expected to be able to accommodate as many as 2,000 students.
There is no specific application deadline for the new program. NYC Tech dean Daniel Huttenlocher says only that the school will be admitting a "handful of students"?in part because there are only four faculty members for what he calls the program's "beta" class. Among the instructors is Deborah Estrin, a computer science professor and founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Former Twitter chief technology officer, Greg Pass, is also on board as NYC Tech's entrepreneurial officer.
Cornell, in partnership with Technion?Israel Institute of Technology, will eventually offer three interdisciplinary two-year master of applied science curricula as part of the NYC Tech program. The "connective media" offering will address the rapid changes in information sharing and its impact on society. Two other curricula are still pending approval by the university. "Healthier life" will focus on developing promising technologies to promote healthier living and improve the quality of health care while addressing issues that are driving up health-care costs. "Built environment" will engage students in the challenges of building environmentally friendly buildings and structures.
NYC Tech will also offer Cornell master and doctoral graduate degrees in fields including computer science, information science, electrical and computer engineering, and operations research and information engineering. Another expected course of study is an accelerated MBA program for students who have an advanced technical degree.
Each of the multidisciplinary degrees will have a similar structure that consists of four days each week devoted to engineering and entrepreneurship studies. Fridays, however, will feature a practicum that encourages students to consider the practical applications of their work and exposes them to other disciplines?such as law and design?that will prove useful as these budding entrepreneurs consider their postgrad careers.
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Nuclear energy ?not yet suitable? in Singapore
SINGAPORE, Oct 16 ? The government of Singapore has decided, after recently concluding a pre-feasibility study, that ?nuclear energy is not yet suitable for deployment in Singapore?, said Second Minister for Trade and Industry S Iswaran in Parliament yesterday.
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This is because the current designs of nuclear power plants, while much safer than older designs, still pose more risks than benefits for Singapore, a densely populated city, he said in response to Member of Parliament (Nee Soon GRC) Lee Bee Wah, who asked for an update on the pre-feasibility study.Two years ago, Mr Iswaran announced in Parliament the decision to embark on a pre-feasibility study on nuclear energy, as part of efforts to diversify Singapore?s energy mix and ease energy constraints in the long term.
?As we are planning for the very long term and not for our immediate energy needs, we prefer to wait for technology and safety to improve further before reconsidering our options,? Mr Iswaran told the House yesterday.
But given that two-thirds of nuclear power plants under construction today are in Asia, Singapore has to continue to monitor the progress of nuclear energy technologies and strengthen its capabilities to understand nuclear science and technology, he noted.
The Government will, therefore, support research in relevant areas of nuclear science and engineering, and a pool of scientists and experts will be trained in local and overseas universities.
?This will also strengthen our operational preparedness and our existing capabilities in radiation and incident response,? said Mr Iswaran.
He added that Singapore will be playing an active role in global and regional nuclear safety. As an existing member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Singapore is working closely with other member countries to implement that IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety.
Experts Today spoke to emphasised the need for Singapore to monitor nuclear energy developments.
Said Dr Eulalia Han, a Fellow specialising in energy security at the National University of Singapore?s Energy Studies Institute: ?As a result of Singapore?s high urban density, it will be difficult for Singaporeans to escape the effects of a potential nuclear accident in the region.?
?In order to prevent a potential nuclear fallout, it is important for ASEAN to engage in nuclear energy cooperation prior to countries acquiring nuclear energy,? she added.
Mr Konstantin Foskolos, a consultant in nuclear technology and project advisor for Singapore?s pre-feasibility report, also suggested Singapore establish up-to-date, monitoring and early warning systems ?in case something goes wrong? in one of the neighbouring countries.
To deal with potential radiological threats, Mr Foskolos, who is the former deputy head of the Nuclear Energy and Safety Research department in Switzerland?s Paul Scherrer Institut, suggested complementing the warning systems with Singapore?s existing emergency preparedness system. ? Today
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Tuesday 16 October 2012
Space station and space flight gravity influence immune system development
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers from the University of Lorraine and University of Luxembourg. Astronauts are exposed to stresses, during launch and landing, which disrupts their body's natural defenses against infection. Changes to the immune system need to be investigated before astronauts undergo longer space missions.
Researchers looked at how antibody production is affected when animal development occurs onboard a space station and which part of space travel has the greatest impact on antibodies, which are the proteins that the immune system uses to protect us from diseases. To do this, they sent Iberian ribbed newt, Pleurodeles waltl, embryos to the International Space Station before the newt embryos started to develop IgM antibody, which is also found in humans and is the largest antibody that circulates in blood.
Upon landing, they were compared with embryos grown on Earth. Antibody mRNAs in space and earth newts were different. The IgM antibody was doubled at landing. Findings show that gravity changes during development affect antibodies and the regeneration of white blood cells, which are important in defending the body against infectious diseases. Spaceflight did not affect newt development nor did it cause inflammation.
Scientists believe that these changes could also occur in humans, and require further experimentation to see how gravity can influence the immune system and white blood cell function, which play a role in many human diseases including cancer and diabetes.
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Huin-Schohn C, et al. Gravity changes during animal development affect IgM heavy-chain transcription and probably lymphopoiesis. The FASEB Journal article fj.12-217547. E-publication, September 19, 2012. http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/09/20/fj.12-217547.abstract.
University of Luxembourg: http://www.uni.lu
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Kallisto Energy completes acquisition of Cumberland Oil & Gas
Kallisto Energy Corp. and Cumberland Oil & Gas Ltd. have completed their previously announced arm's length business combination by way of a plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (Alberta). The plan of arrangement was approved by an overwhelming majority of more than 99% of the votes cast by the Cumberland shareholders at the special meeting of Cumberland shareholders held on October 10, 2012. Final approval of the plan of arrangement was granted by the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on October 10, 2012.
Pursuant to the terms of an arrangement agreement between the parties, Kallisto acquired all of the outstanding common shares of Cumberland ("Cumberland Shares") on the basis of 0.9180 of a common share of Kallisto ("Kallisto Share") for each outstanding Cumberland Share (the "Transaction"). After completing the Transaction, Kallisto has 93,601,536 Kallisto Shares outstanding with Kallisto shareholders owning approximately 65% and Cumberland shareholders owning approximately 35% of the combined Company.
Source: http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/kallisto-energy-completes-acquisition-of-cumberlan.shtml
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Jump from 24-miles high provides collective moment
This image provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria as he jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever ? a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos)
This image provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria as he jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever ? a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos)
This image made from video, provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria as he jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever ? a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos)
This photo provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner, of Austria, preparing to jump from the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever ? a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos, Jay Nemeth)
This photo provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria as he jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever ? a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos, Jay Nemeth)
The capsule and attached helium balloon carrying Felix Baumgartner lifts off as he attempts to break the speed of sound with his own body by jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M. Baumgartner plans to jump from an altitude of 120,000 feet, an altitude chosen to enable him to achieve Mach 1 in free fall, which would deliver scientific data to the aerospace community about human survival from high altitudes.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) ? Felix Baumgartner stood poised in the open hatch of a capsule suspended above Earth, wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, millions of people were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at the wonder of the moment.
A second later, he stepped off the capsule and barreled toward the New Mexico desert as a tiny white speck against a darkly-tinted sky. Millions watched him breathlessly as he shattered the sound barrier and then landed safely about nine minutes later, becoming the world's first supersonic skydiver.
"When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data," Baumgartner said after Sunday's jump. "The only thing you want is to come back alive."
The tightly-orchestrated jump meant to break records became much more in the dizzying, breathtaking moment ? a collectively shared cross between Neil Armstrong's moon landing and Evel Knievel's famed motorcycle jumps on ABC's "Wide World of Sports."
It was part scientific wonder, part daredevil reality show, with the live-streamed event instantly capturing the world's attention on a sleepy Sunday at the same time seven NFL football games were being played in the U.S. It proved, once again, the power of the Internet in a world where news travels as fast as Twitter.
The event happened without a network broadcast in the United States, though organizers said more than 40 television stations in 50 countries ? including cable's Discovery Channel in the U.S. ? carried the live feed. Instead, millions flocked online, drawing more than 8 million simultaneous views to a YouTube live stream at its peak, YouTube officials said.
More than 130 digital outlets carried the feed, organizers said.
The privately funded feat came during a lull in human space exploration. As the jump unfolded, the space shuttle Endeavour crept toward a Los Angeles museum, where it will spend its retirement on display.
Baumgartner, a 43-year-old Austrian, hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, according to preliminary data, and became the first person to go faster than the speed of sound without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft. The capsule he jumped from had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above Earth, carried by a 55-story ultra-thin helium balloon.
Landing on his feet in the desert, the man known as "Fearless Felix" lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of jubilant friends and spectators who closely followed at a command center. Among them was his mother, Eva Baumgartner, who was overcome with emotion, crying.
"Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are," an exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after the jump.
About half of Baumgartner's nine-minute descent was a free fall of 119,846 feet, according to Brian Utley, a jump observer from the FAI, an international group that works to determine and maintain the integrity of aviation records.
During the first part of Baumgartner's free fall, anxious onlookers at the command center held their breath as he spun uncontrollably. He said he felt pressure building in his head, but did not feel as though he was close to passing out.
"When I was spinning first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going to lose my life but I was disappointed because I'm going to lose my record. I put seven years of my life into this," he said.
He added: "In that situation, when you spin around, it's like hell and you don't know if you can get out of that spin or not. Of course, it was terrifying. I was fighting all the way down because I knew that there must be a moment where I can handle it."
Baumgartner said traveling faster than sound is "hard to describe because you don't feel it." The pressurized suit prevented him from feeling the rushing air or even the loud noise he made when breaking the sound barrier.
With no reference points, "you don't know how fast you travel," he said.
Coincidentally, Baumgartner's accomplishment came on the 65th anniversary of the day that U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to officially break the sound barrier in a jet. Yeager, in fact, commemorated that feat on Sunday, flying in the back seat of an F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet above California's Mojave Desert.
At Baumgartner's insistence, some 30 cameras recorded his stunt. Shortly after launch early Sunday, screens at mission control showed the capsule, dangling from the massive balloon, as it rose gracefully above the New Mexico desert. Baumgartner could be seen on video, calmly checking instruments inside the capsule.
The dive was more than just a stunt. NASA, an onlooker in this case with no involvement, is eager to improve its spacecraft and spacesuits for emergency escape.
Baumgartner's team included Joe Kittinger, who first tried to break the sound barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speeds of 614 mph. With Kittinger inside mission control, the two men could be heard going over technical details during the ascension.
"Our guardian angel will take care of you," Kittinger radioed to Baumgartner around the 100,000-foot mark.
After Baumgartner landed, his sponsor, Red Bull, posted a picture to Facebook of him kneeling on the ground. It generated nearly 216,000 likes, 10,000 comments and more than 29,000 shares in less than 40 minutes.
On Twitter, half the worldwide trending topics had something to do with the jump, pushing past seven NFL football games.
This attempt marked the end of a long road for Baumgartner, a record-setting high-altitude jumper. He already made two preparation jumps in the area, one from 15 miles high and another from 18 miles high. He has said that this was his final jump.
Red Bull has never said how much the long-running, complex project cost.
Although he broke the sound barrier, the highest manned-balloon flight record and became the man to jump from the highest altitude, he failed to break Kittinger's 4 minutes and 36 second longest free fall record. Baumgartner's was timed at 4 minutes and 20 seconds in free fall.
He said he opened his parachute at 5,000 feet because that was the plan.
"I was putting everything out there, and hope for the best and if we left one record for Joe ? hey it's fine," he said when asked if he intentionally left the record for Kittinger to hold. "We needed Joe Kittinger to help us break his own record, and that tells the story of how difficult it was and how smart they were in the 60's. He is 84 years old, and he is still so bright and intelligent and enthusiastic".
Baumgartner has said he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.
Before that, though, he said, "I'll go back to LA to chill out for a few days."
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Garcia reported from Honolulu. He can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oskargarcia .
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AP Science Writer Alicia Chang and Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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