School debt reduction discussions continue

Bank discussions to reduce Waltham Forest school debts continue

5:37pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 in Your Local Areas By Joe Curtis

Discussions with banks to reduce the debts of schools crippled by hidden costs in equipment hire contracts are still to be completed at least four months since they began.

Last year it emerged that a number of Waltham Forest schools were left with debts totalling more than ?1million after signing contracts with companies for electrical goods, such as printers and laptops.

Some firms then went into liquidation, leaving schools owing large amounts to banks, or large hidden costs emerged.

Waltham Forest Council has reached agreements with some of the banks involved to reduce the amount of money schools owe after approaching them late last year, but a spokesman said several are still dragging on.

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He said: ?Discussions are currently ongoing with the banks, but it is anticipated that satisfactory outcomes can be achieved.?

Thomas Gamuel Primary School in Colchester Road, Walthamstow, was believed to have been left with seven-figure liabilities after signing a number of leases, incuding a deal for CCTV in 2010.

Clydesdale Bank, which was the bank involved in the contract, has since agreed to cancel the lease.

Edinburgh Primary School in Queens Road, Walthamstow, hired equipment worth up to ?60,000, but was left liable for nearly double that amount.

Willow Brook Primary School in Church Road, Leyton, Jenny Hammond Primary School in Worsley Road, Leytonstone, and William Morris School in Folly Lane, Walthamstow, are also believed to have been affected.

The authority and the schools are bound by confidentiality agreements imposed by the banks which prevent the details of the deals being made public.

Source: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/your_local_areas/10240905.School_debt_reduction_discussions_continue/?ref=rss

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Wall Street Beats London's City in Pay for Middle Office Workers

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By Paul Clarke, Feb 19 2013

Middle office professionals should move to Wall Street if they?re chasing money, but stick to the City of London if they want more career opportunities.

Pay for senior risk and compliance professionals working in banking in New York outstrip those for equivalent roles in London, Continental Europe and Asia, according to the 2013 salary survey released today by recruiters Robert Walters. Risk and compliance roles at banks are among the few ?for which the survey compares pay globally.

A senior compliance professional working in an investment bank in New York can expect between $250-525k, suggests the survey, while an equivalent role in London pays a maximum of $232k. In fact, Wall Street compliance pay outstrips every other geography; Singapore is the closest competitor with senior salaries out up to $298k.

Not surprisingly, with the onslaught of regulation, compliance recruitment remained high globally, suggests the survey, with hedge funds, commercial banks and investment banks alike all competing for talent.

It?s more of a mixed job market for risk professionals, however. In London, risk recruitment ?remained high throughout 2012?, particularly in operational risk, and has continued to be active throughout the first few weeks of 2013, says Robert Walters.

In New York, meanwhile, banks are less likely to recruit risk professionals. ?With the potential restrictiveness of Dodd-Rank remaining unclear, many bulge bracket firms were cautious in their risk management hiring approaches,? said the survey. ?Firms also looked to fill many roles with internal candidates whenever possible.?

We?ve outlined compensation for risk and compliance jobs globally below, but the U.S. figures for risk roles include bonus payments so aren?t directly comparable. However, middle office bonuses have traditionally comprised a small proportion of total compensation relative to front office positions. We have requested base salary figures for U.S. risk jobs ?from Robert Walters.

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Scientists discover how chromosomes keep their loose ends loose

Feb. 5, 2013 ? We take it for granted that our chromosomes won't stick together, yet this kind of cellular disaster would happen constantly were it not for a protein called TRF2. Now, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered key details of how TRF2 performs this crucial chromosome-protecting function. The finding represents a significant advance in cell biology and also has implications for our understanding of cancer and the aging process.

"Cells tend to interpret their chromosome ends as sites of DNA damage, and without TRF2, they would attempt to 'repair' these sites by fusing different chromosomes together," said TSRI Assistant Professor Eros Lazzerini Denchi. "The prevailing view has been that TRF2 has a passive role in hiding chromosome ends from the DNA repair machinery, but we found that it also actively suppresses the repair response."

Lazzerini Denchi is the corresponding author of the new study, which is reported in an Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature on February 6, 2013.

A Protective Cap

TRF2 is part of a protective protein cap localized at the ends of chromosomes, the telomeres. Telomeres shorten with every cellular division, and when they become too short -- in aged organisms, for example -- TRF2 is no longer able to localize at chromosome ends. In such cases, chromosome ends become exposed and the DNA repair response is liable to knit uncapped chromosomes to each other. This action results in strings of chromosomes fused together that are unstable and can lead to cell death or, in some cases, to uncontrolled growth leading to cancer.

In 2007, as a postdoctoral researcher at The Rockefeller University, Lazzerini Denchi found that TRF2 works in part by blocking a particular signaling pathway in the DNA damage response. In the new study, he and his laboratory colleagues at TSRI have explored TRF2's functions in more detail.

"We found that TRF2 uses a two-step mechanism to protect chromosome ends," said Keiji Okamoto, a postdoctoral fellow in Lazzerini Denchi's laboratory who was the lead author of the new study.

TRF2 is a complex protein with four functional domains (regions). Okamoto probed the specific functions of these four domains by creating artificial TRF2-like proteins -- in which one or more functional domains were replaced with non-functional "dummy" domains. By studying how these artificial TRF2s functioned in cells, he could determine the separate functions of each individual domain.

Uncovering Distinct Roles

Two of these domains turned out to have distinct roles in suppressing the DNA damage response. "One domain, called TRFH, blocks localization of the DNA damage factor ?H2AX, the initial step in the DNA response pathway," said Okamoto. It may do so by inducing a structural change in telomeres that hides it from the DNA damage machinery. A distinct region of TRF2, which Okamoto dubbed iDDR (inhibitor of the DNA damage response pathway), independently and actively suppresses the transduction of the DNA damage signal downstream of ?H2AX.

Okamoto and colleagues found that the iDDR region works in part by recruiting an enzymatic activity associated with the tumor suppressor protein BRCA1. Defects in BRCA1 lead to DNA misrepairs, genomic instability and a sharp rise in cancer risk. (Certain BRCA1 mutations bring a greater than 50-percent lifetime risk of breast or ovarian cancer.) This new finding hints that BRCA1 defects may result in defects in telomere protection, too.

Lazzerini Denchi, Okamoto and their colleagues now plan to explore TRF2's functions and protein partners in further detail, in cell studies and in transgenic mice. "We want to address the BRCA1 connection more thoroughly, too, for example, to determine the importance of its association with telomeres in preventing tumors," Lazzerini Denchi said.

The study was supported in part by a Pew Scholars Award, the Novartis Advanced Discovery Institute, the National Institutes for Health (AG038677), the National Center for Research Resources (5P41RR011823-17) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (8 P41 GM103533-17).

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In the leadership workshops I teach, decision-making always comes up. In the consulting and coaching I do, I see the habits and approaches of leaders around decision-making. While some people are quite proficient at decision-making, more are proficient at not making a decision.

Indecision.

I see it everywhere, and it is hurting our organizations.

There is conflict and no one decides to do anything about it. Do they really think it is going to get better without an intervention?

There are products languishing, using precious resources, yet no one wants to pull the plug. Do they really think things will change automatically?

There are employees whose performance is subpar, yet no coaching takes place. Do leaders really have more important things to do?

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Sprint posts big 4Q loss, revenue rises

FILE - In this Thursday, July 19, 2012 file photo, a UPS truck stops in front of a Sprint store at the Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham, Mass. Sprint Netxel Corp. is reporting their fourth quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

FILE - In this Thursday, July 19, 2012 file photo, a UPS truck stops in front of a Sprint store at the Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham, Mass. Sprint Netxel Corp. is reporting their fourth quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third largest wireless carrier, on Thursday said it lost $1.3 billion in its fourth quarter, about the same as a year ago, as it revamped its network for a comeback versus bigger competitors.

The company's focus, and that of its investors, is on its long-term turnaround efforts rather than on short-term results. Sprint is selling 70 percent of itself to Japanese carrier Softbank Corp. for $20 billion. That deal is expected to close this summer, and provide long-ailing Sprint with a much-needed infusion of capital.

With Softbank's backing, Sprint has struck a deal to buy out the other shareholders of Clearwire Corp., which operates a wireless data network. That should give Sprint more space on the airwaves and allow it to offer high broadband speeds.

The Overland Park, Kan., company lost 44 cents per share in the October to December period versus 43 cents per share in the previous year.

The loss was slightly smaller than analysts had predicted. The average Wall Street forecast as polled by FactSet was 46 cents per share.

Revenue was $9 billion, up 3.2 percent from a year ago as customers converted from regular phones to higher-paying smartphone. It was slightly above analyst expectations at $8.9 billion.

Sprint activated 2.2 million iPhones in the quarter, a record for the company, reached with the help of the new iPhone 5. The figure is far below those posted by bigger competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless, but helps Sprint keep subscribers. It still lost a net 243,000 customers on contract-based plans in the quarter, as subscribers kept streaming off the Nextel network, which Sprint is shutting down.

Sprint shares slipped 2 cents to $5.75 in premarket trading.

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Deborah Hersman for Transportation secretary? She ducks comment.

Deborah Hersman, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, is a top candidate for the cabinet post, reports say. But she wouldn't comment directly at a Monitor breakfast Wednesday.

By David T. Cook,?Staff writer / February 6, 2013

Deborah Hersman, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board speaks at the Monitor Breakfast on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

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Deborah Hersman, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), ducked requests to comment Wednesday on published reports that she is President Obama?s leading candidate to replace Ray LaHood as Transportation secretary.

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Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Ms. Hersman ?is a leading candidate? for the Transportation post. The Transportation Department has roughly 57,000 workers and a fiscal 2012 budget of more than $72 billion. Her current post involves running an influential but much smaller operation. In a speech last fall, Hersman described the NTSB as ?400 people you may never know.? The agency investigates transportation accidents and makes safety recommendations.

Hersman was appointed to the NTSB in 2004 by President Bush. Mr. Obama nominated her as NTSB chairman in 2009 and then nominated her for a second, two-year term as chairman in 2011.

?When asked about the speculation at a Monitor-hosted breakfast for reporters on Wednesday, Hersman said, ?I feel very privileged to have the job that I have now. And in fact, that is the only job that I have right now. So I am going to be focused on that.?
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Obama has been criticized for naming men to the top posts in his second-term cabinet. Nominees have included Chuck Hagel for Defense secretary, Jacob Lew for Treasury secretary, John Kerry for secretary of State, and Denis McDonough for White House chief of staff. On Wednesday afternoon, the president is expected to name business executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department.

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Secretary of Army promotes life skills - Health & Fitness - The ...

ADAM ASHTON | Staff writer ? Published February 05, 2013 Modified February 04, 2013

Secretary of the Army John McHugh came to the South Sound on Monday to launch an initiative to promote life skills in military families, seeking to streamline and advertise resources so that soldiers know where to turn in times of need.

McHugh signed a memorandum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord steering more resources to ?resiliency? programs, which the Army uses to promote overall health among soldiers and their families.

Resiliency programs are one component of the Army?s push to reverse a disturbing rise in soldier suicides over the past eight years. Last year, 182 active-duty solders killed themselves, up from 165 in 2011.

McHugh?s new guidance calls on the Army to ?embed? resiliency counselors within units, develop programs to encourage healthy lifestyles, and synchronize resources so troubled soldiers can turn to a ?one-stop shop? for help. Those concepts generally are already in place at Lewis-McChord.

?Taking care of soldiers, it?s not just something that we feel is important operationally. It is something that we feel is a moral imperative,? he said.

The Army promoted McHugh?s visit as a bookend to his last trip to Lewis-McChord in April, when he announced the creation of a new division-level headquarters at the base that would focus on training and supervision of its main combat units.

At that time, the base faced national scrutiny because of allegations that one of its soldiers massacred 16 Afghan civilians during his deployment to Kandahar province in March, and because of a sprawling investigation into behavioral health diagnoses at Madigan Army Medical Center.

Now, the 7th Infantry Division is up and running overseeing more than 20,000 soldiers.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of slaughtering the Afghans, is awaiting a death-penalty court-martial.

And the Army resolved the behavioral inquiry at Madigan by ending widespread use of the forensic psychiatry team. The team drew criticism because it adjusted diagnoses late in the medical disability process, sometimes in such a way that patients lost benefits. The Army has since given post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses to 150 patients who moved through Madigan; it also closed the forensic psychiatry program for most patients.

McHugh said the Madigan behavioral health investigations contributed to a broader review of Army PTSD diagnoses and programs. Both the local Madigan report and the nationwide Army Behavioral Health Task Force investigation are complete, but McHugh would not discuss them in detail or release them to reporters Monday.

He said the Army-wide review generated 24 findings and 47 recommendations that he would work to implement. He would not describe them, except for one that called on the Army to put its various behavioral programs under one command.

?Because of the big Army efforts to construct program after program in response to these challenges, the commanders are confused,? he said.

The News Tribune, The Seattle Times and public radio station KUOW have filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the Madigan investigations. The Army has denied them, calling the reports ?predecisional? because of the ongoing work of the behavioral health task McHugh described.

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who carried the complaints about Madigan?s forensic psychiatry program to the highest levels of the Pentagon, on Monday spoke with McHugh about the task force report and urged him to put it into action.

?We cannot ever have a repeat of what happened at JBLM. We cannot allow those who have served or their loved ones to be dragged through a system that leaves them with more questions than answers,? she said in a written news release.

Lewis-McChord in recent years created a suicide prevention task force that seeks to intervene quickly when soldiers shows signs of at-risk behavior. It has held a ?stand-down? event in which units walked throughout the base to become familiar with Lewis-McChord?s behavioral health resources.

It has assigned psychologists and social workers to different combat units so behavioral health experts can break down barriers with soldiers.

Lewis-McChord is also the home of a Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program that provides life-skills guidance to service members and their dependents.

The base in 2011 had its worst year for suicides with 13 reported self-inflicted deaths. It has not released a total for 2012. In September, nine deaths at the base were under investigation as possible suicides.

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Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/02/05/2410891/secretary-of-army-promotes-life.html

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Arizona sues U.S. EPA over coal power plant emissions

(Reuters) - Arizona challenged in federal court U.S. environmental regulators efforts to force Arizona power companies to spend up to $1 billion to install pollution control equipment at three coal plants to reduce haze in the region's national parks.

Arizona's Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement last week the emission control measures proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would not affect health or be reduce emissions visible to the human eye.

"This is an absurd action that would significantly raise utility rates for most Arizonans without providing any benefit to anyone," Horne said in a statement.

Officials at the EPA were not immediately available for comment.

On behalf of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, which filed a plan to reduce emissions in 2011 that was replaced by the EPA's proposal, Horne filed with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the EPA's plan to impose new haze restrictions.

The EPA in December proposed strict controls on nitrogen oxide emissions that could require the installation of selective catalytic reduction technology at the Apache, Cholla and Coronado coal plants to reduce haze in the Grand Canyon and other nearby national parks.

Nitrogen oxides react with other chemicals in the atmosphere to form ozone, which causes a white or brown haze in the air that has been associated with asthma and other breathing disorders, the EPA said.

"This attempt by the EPA has nothing to do with ensuring clean air and everything to do with trying to eliminate coal as a source of electricity," Horne said.

Since President Barack Obama entered office in 2009, power companies have announced plans to shut more than 40,000 MW of coal-fired capacity due to stricter environmental regulations and weak natural gas prices from record shale production that has depressed power prices.

Those low power prices have made it uneconomic for many generators to invest in emissions control equipment needed to keep their older coal plants compliant with the administration's stricter environmental regulations.

COAL POWERS MOST

Arizona power plants can generate about 26,400 MW of electricity with about 13,000 MW fueled by natural gas, 6,200 MW coal and 3,900 MW nuclear.

But despite the lower capacity, the coal plants produce about 40 percent of the state's electricity because coal plants like the nuclear reactors generally run around the clock. Nuclear produced about 28 percent of the state's power and gas produced about 27 percent, according to federal energy data.

Arizona Electric Power Cooperative operates the 549-MW Apache natural gas, oil and coal-fired power plant, which has two 175-MW coal-fired units, in Cochise.

Arizona Public Service, a unit of Arizona power company Pinnacle West Capital Corp, operates the 1,027-MW Cholla coal plant in Joseph City.

Arizona power and water company Salt River Project operates the 773-MW Coronado coal plant near St. John's.

NAVAJO THREATENED

In addition to the three plants named in the lawsuit last week, Horne said "if the EPA is successful in implementing this plan ... the Navajo plant ... would likely also be threatened in the future."

The EPA recommended the owners of the 2,250-MW Navajo coal plant in Arizona install equipment to reduce haze in national parks that could cost as much as $1.1 billion.

Navajo produces power used to deliver drinking water to consumers for the Central Arizona Project Water in the state's two largest cities, Phoenix and Tucson, among other things.

Horne warned if the EPA forces Navajo to shut, power prices for the Central Arizona Project Water would increase by at least 20 percent.

"The federal government appears bent on causing serious economic damage to the average consumer in the name of environmental protection when the environmental benefits it wishes to confer simply do not exist," Horne said.

The Navajo plant is owned by Salt River Project, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Arizona Public Service, NV Energy Inc's Nevada Power Co and UniSource Energy Corp's Tucson Electric Power.

(Reporting By Scott DiSavino; editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)

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'League of Our Own' inspiration dies at 88

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Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the central character in the movie "A League of Their Own," has died, her son said Sunday.?

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Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis at Yankee Stadium in 2010.

Paire-Davis died of natural causes in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles on Saturday, her son, William Davis, told The Associated Press. She was 88.?

Paire-Davis was a model for the character played by Geena Davis in the 1992 hit "A League of Their Own," which also starred Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna and Tom Hanks as the crusty manager who shouted the famous line, "there's no crying in baseball!"

In 1944, Paire-Davis joined the league, created out of fear that World War II would interrupt Major League Baseball, and played for 10 seasons.

She was a catcher and shortstop, and helped her teams win five championships. She chronicled her baseball adventures in the 2009 book "Dirt in the Skirt."

"I know what it's like for your dream to come true, mine did," Paire-Davis said in an AP story in 1995, when she was 70. "Baseball was the thing I had the most fun doing. It was like breathing."

After graduating from high school, she enrolled at UCLA as an English major, worked as a welder's assistant at the shipyards in Long Beach, and spent every spare moment playing in local softball leagues.?

Her heart, however, belonged to hardball.?

"Don't get me wrong, I was glad to be playing softball," she said in 1995. "But I'd rather have played competitive baseball."?

The All American Girls Baseball League was founded in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley. Most of the league's talent came from greater Chicago, but Paire-Davis was one of a half-dozen players scouted and chosen from California.?

The players wore skirts and the teams often had cutesy names, but the players maintained a genuine big league lifestyle, playing 120 games over four months.?

"We played every night of the week," Paire-Davis said, "doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays."?

She won championships with the Racine Belles, the Grand Rapids Chicks and the Fort Wayne Daisies, but she never actually played for the team featured in the film, the Rockford Peaches.?

"That's Hollywood," she said. "They had to take 10 teams and 12 years and make it into two hours."?

The league was "temporarily suspended" in 1954. Play was never resumed.?

Davis said his mother spent much of the rest of her life as a sports fan -- she rooted for the Dodgers, Angels and Lakers -- and an advocate for her favorite game.?

"She taught me how to switch hit when I was 3 years old," said Davis, one of two sons, a daughter, four grandkids and an older brother who survived Paire-Davis. "She touched a lot of people around the world with her baseball exploits. She was a great ambassador for the game."?

Paire-Davis said, looking back from 1995, that she couldn't "honestly tell you I knew the history we were making back then."?

But, she said, "I can tell you we knew we were doing something special."?

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What the Dalai Lama said about the India rape case at the Jaipur Literature Festival

The Dalai Lama made his first ever appearance at Asia's biggest literary festival and was promptly pressed by reporters about the Delhi rape case.?

By Fahad Shah,?Contributor / January 25, 2013

The Dalai Lama speaks on the opening day of India's Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, India, Thursday.

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Crowds lined his path and leaned off arched terraces to catch a glimpse of the Dalai Lama at his first ever appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.?The annual gathering, Asia's largest, of literati in this city of desert palaces has begun to attract global celebrities in recent years,?with even Oprah Winfrey holding court here last year.

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The Tibetan spiritual leader addressed a crowd of about 4,000 in a conversation with his biographer Pico Iyer.?

Calling the 20th century a century of bloodshed and violence, the Dalai Lama urged that the ?21st century be a century of dialogue.? The title of his talk, "Kinships of Faiths: Finding the Middle Way," headlined his hopes for comity even in the potential divisive realm of religion.?

In his words, secularism is mostly misunderstood as being against religion. He said in India every religion is respected and our fore fathers framed the constitution of India by keeping space for every religion. "There are so many religions in India but the country is stable," he said.

The Delhi rape case came up, when a reporter asked his view on the Indians demanding capital punishment for the rapists.

"I have been noticing crimes in big cities like Bombay and Delhi? when these kinds of things happen people take it for granted. Now the time has come that we must make efforts for special protection to women, physically and men?s protection is education," said the Dalai Lama.?
The rape case trial opened yesterday. Before the trial opened Indians were debating whether the accused should be chemically castrated or even put to death if found guilty. The Dalai Lama expressed his dislike of capital punishment. ?Since many decades Amnesty International started a movement banning death sentence. I signed it. I do not like death penalty but it is up to the country's law to decide,? he told the reporters after his session.
He also asserted that the independent Tibet should be a secular and democratic country. The Dalai Lama spoke about the China-Tibet dispute, although conceding that he has now retired from his political role. He urged good relations between India and China are must as they are the ?most populous nations in the world? and put forth India as an example for China to learn to be democratic.
This year 285 speakers will be speaking during the five day schedule. Last year, around 120,000 people had attended the five day festival.?

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Path settles with the FTC over contact privacy violations

Path was quick to mend its ways after a dust-up over collecting contact information from iOS users without their consent, but it wasn't quick enough to avoid FTC claims of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. All that is just water under the bridge in the wake of a new settlement. As compensation for collecting contact information from 3,000 children without their parents' permission, Path has agreed to both pay a $800,000 fee and implement a privacy plan that will require audits from an outside party every other year. Consider it a lesson learned for Path and other mobile app firms, which now know that scraping personal data may have unintended consequences.

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Inside a solar eruption: NASA's SDO provides first sightings of how a coronal mass ejection forms

Feb. 1, 2013 ? On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME -- but this one did not. Something interesting did happen, however. Magnetic field lines in this area of the sun's atmosphere, the corona, began to twist and kink, generating the hottest solar material -- a charged gas called plasma -- to trace out the newly-formed slinky shape. The plasma glowed brightly in extreme ultraviolet images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and scientists were able to watch for the first time the very formation of something they had long theorized was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope.

Eight hours later, on July 19, the same region flared again. This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride -- a classic CME.

"Seeing this structure was amazing," says Angelos Vourlidas, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. "It looks exactly like the cartoon sketches theorists have been drawing of flux ropes since the 1970s. It was a series of figure eights lined up to look like a giant slinky on the sun."

More than just gorgeous to see, such direct observation offers one case study on how this crucial kernel at the heart of a CME forms. Such flux ropes have been seen in images of CMEs as they fly away from the sun, but it's never been known -- indeed, has been strongly debated -- whether the flux rope formed before or in conjunction with a CME's launch. This case shows a clear-cut example of the flux rope forming ahead of time. Vourlidas is a co-author, along with Spiro Patsourakos and Guillermo Stenborg, of a paper on these results published in the Astrophysical Journal on Jan. 31, 2013.

Spotting such a foreshadowing of a CME could help scientists develop ways to predict them, says Dean Pesnell, the project scientist for SDO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "By telling us when and where flux ropes will erupt," Pesnell says. "SDO helps us predict a major source of space weather."

Scientific research is always a dance between hypothesis and experimental confirmation, and the history of the flux rope is no exception. Plasma physicists suggested that such coils of magnetic field lines were at the heart of flares in the 1970s and spacecraft near Earth provided in-situ measurements that occasionally traced out helical structures inside CMEs. Later, the flux ropes were spotted in images of CMEs captured by the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) -- which launched in 1995 -- using the mission's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), a telescope that blocks out the bright light of the solar disk in order to better see the tenuous corona around it. They are now a regular appearance on coronagraph and heliospheric imaging observations.

When it came to watching them form in a CME, however, the task was much harder. Since CMEs can form quite suddenly -- known as impulsive CMEs -- the associated flux ropes are smaller and closer to the surface, making it difficult to spot them amongst the many structures in the corona.

In the absence of direct observational evidence, theorists have produced two theories based on general physics of plasmas and magnetic fields of how and when the flux rope might form. In one, the magnetic structure of the rope exists before the CME, and as it evolves over time it twists and kinks becoming increasingly unstable. Eventually it erupts from the sun, releasing enormous amounts of energy and solar plasma. In the second version, the CME erupts when looping magnetic field lines are severed from the sun's surface. While the great blob of solar material streams off the sun, the fields reconnect with each other to form a classic flux rope shape.

"In this case, we saw this big eruption on July 19," says Vourlidas. "We wanted to analyze the eruption and we started going back in time -- a few minutes, then an hour, then eight hours. And then we saw it. A flux rope that looked just like the cartoons scientists have been drawing for decades."

Vourlidas credits this first sighting to three things. First, the team looked far enough back in time, when previous searches have often only looked a few minutes back. Second, the sun obliged its viewers with the perfect angle at which to see the tell-tale loops of the flux rope. SDO's cameras could look right down the center of the rope, like looking down the tunneled center of a slinky. Third, AIA's cameras capture imagery that no other cameras do: light at the 131 Angstrom wavelength, which shows solar material heated to temperatures of 10,000,000 K (18,000,000 F / 10,000,000 C). In images of the same region at the same time showing cooler material, the flux rope doesn't show up at all. AIA scientists chose to include a filter to view this unprecedentedly high temperature because they posited that flares could heat the corona to those temperatures. Apparently the same incredibly hot plasma helped highlight the flux rope that would later give rise to a CME.

Over the course of the next eight hours after the July 18 flux rope formed, the rope did show up faintly in images of cooler material, suggesting that the hot material from the flare cooled down over time as the flux rope also rose in space. Then eight hours later, on July 19, the material got hot again, the region flared, and the flux rope escaped into space.

"We could verify that the flux rope was there in the coronagraph from SOHO. We could see the typical slinky structure with multiple round loops inside it," says Vourlidas. "We looked at it with other NASA telescopes, too. We looked at it with everything we've got. It's a wonderful time to be a solar physicist, because thanks to the large number of telescopes we have in space at the moment, we can see things like this from every angle."

Vourlidas says that images from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) also helped with analysis. Since the two STEREO spacecraft observe the sun from a different perspective than does SDO, the team got a top-down view of the flux rope with STEREO-A's EUV Imager, which helped unravel the 3-D structure of the flux rope. The foot points of the rope touched in widely separated areas of the solar surface -- an interesting structural development in of itself that is worth further study.

The team will certainly look for other examples in the images of the hottest plasma, searching for evidence of pre-formed flux ropes further back in time. But even one such example of direct evidence adds an important step to the constant scientific cycle of theory and observation, helping refine and improve the theories of what causes these giant explosions on the sun.

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Texas prosecutor's slaying rattles colleagues

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) ? Mark Hasse was a top-notch prosecutor in northeast Texas with a "passion for putting away bad guys" and never shied from taking on cases involving dangerous people or organizations, his former colleagues say.

Now investigators are sifting through Hasse's case files seeking clues to why he might have been targeted, after a masked gunman fatally shot the assistant district attorney Thursday morning in a brazen attack outside his office in the Kaufman County Courthouse.

The slaying rattled fellow prosecutors across the state and angered those who worked with him in Kaufman, located about 33 miles southeast of Dallas.

"I hope the people that did this are watching, because we're very confident that we're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in," Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland said Thursday during a news conference. "We're going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."

McLelland said Hasse, 57, understood and accepted the dangers of his job.

"You know there is the potential for somebody bad to do something to you, because they've done something bad to somebody else," McLelland said.

But, he added, Hasse "had an absolute passion for putting away bad guys. He enjoyed nothing better."

Just before 9 a.m. Thursday, a masked gunman shot Hasse multiple times in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex, county authorities said. Hasse was taken away in an ambulance, but it's unclear whether he died at a hospital or en route.

Police did not immediately indicate a motive in the slaying, an no arrests had been made as of early Friday morning. A $20,000 reward was being offered in the case.

Doug Lowe, longtime district attorney in nearby Anderson County, said Hasse's death is disturbing for all who prosecute crimes in Texas.

"We are a tight group of people, and my heart bleeds for his family and his office," Lowe said. "This reminds us all that we deal with some very, very bad people."

Lowe said he keeps a pistol in his office but plans to start taking it with him.

"This is pretty scary," he said. "I may be packing heat for a while."

Wayne Gent said he had a security system installed at the courthouse when he served as Kaufman County judge, but that no system could prevent an outdoor shooting.

"It's going to take a long time to get over this," said Gent, an attorney whose law office is on the courthouse square. "And the thing is ? everybody's vulnerable."

The Kaufman County DA's office was to remain closed Friday.

McLelland said his office, the county and state had suffered a "devastating loss" and called Hasse a spectacular prosecutor.

Hasse, who had been chief of the organized crime unit when he was assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, had worked in Kaufman County for three years. McLelland said Hasse worked hard and was the office "storyteller."

Hasse also was a pilot, but he suffered life-threatening injuries in a 1995 crash when he was flying a World War II-vintage plane, McLelland said.

He also had been president of the Dallas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Suzette Pylant, a victim advocate for MADD North Texas, was working with Hasse on a drunken driving case at the time of his death, The Dallas Morning News reported. She last met with him on Dec. 21.

"He was one of those guys who was always going to wear the white hat," she told the newspaper.

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Associated Press writer Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth contributed to this report.

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Liability insurance for gun owners? - CT Politics - Connecticut News

You can?t legally drive a car if you don?t have insurance, but should gun owners be held to the same standard? NPR?s Plant Money brings up an interesting idea that has been floating around the gun-control debate lately and asked economists to weigh in. A radio piece was?aired?today on Morning Edition.

Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan tells them:

?Another even more powerful approach is to recognize that the problem isn?t guns per se, but gun violence. Thus, instead of taxing guns, we should tax gun violence. Basically, this is the same as saying that we should make gun owners liable for any damage their guns do. Not only would this discourage some people from buying guns, it would lead those who do keep guns to be more careful with how they?re stored. Indeed, greater care would surely have kept Adam Lanza out of his mother?s cache. The problem, though, is that Nancy Lanza is neither with us to pay the damages her gun caused, nor could she afford to pay for the enormous damage her gun wrought in Newtown. And so the only way this solution works is if guns required mandatory liability insurance, much as we force car owners to buy insurance for the damage their machines wreak.?

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Video: Rep. McCarthy: NRA, gun advocates are pushing paranoia, fear

>>> feels like we report news like this far too often, but today a student was shot in the head at an atlanta middle school and remains hospitalized. the suspect, a fellow student, has been apprehended. keep that in mind as you listen to the right wing voices resisting even common sense gun restrictio restrictions. they emptied their entire bag of tricks, everything from why have laws to citizens need military caliber guns because police budgets have been slashed but one argument made by gayle trotter was slippery and misleading. one democratic senator called her bluff. here is the sequence at a hearing designed to consider whether assault weapons should be banned. trotter told the story of a single mother who used a gun to protect herself and her baby. jild like to begin with the compelling story of sarah mckinley , home alone with her baby, she called 911 when two violent intruders began to break down her front door. as the intruders forced their way into her home, miss mckinley fired her weapon fatally wounding one of the violent attackers. the other fled.

>> no mention of the type of weapon the woman used. in fact, the woman defended herself with a shotgun. and a pistol. neither of which would be affected at all by the assault weapons ban . later she gave a historical example of a woman using an assault ripele for protection.

>> an assault weapon in the hands of a new woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon and the peace of mind that a woman has as she's facing three, four, five violent attackers, intruders in her home with her children screaming in the background, the peace of mind that she has knowing that she has a scary looking gun gives her more courage when she's fighting hardened violent criminals.

>> so all mothers should have assault weapons . it's like happiness is a warm gun here. but rhode island senator sheldon white house, one of the coming as far as of the u.s. senate , didn't want there to be any confusion or conflation here.

>> miss trotter, quick question. sarah mckinley in defending her home used a remington 870 express 12 gauge sht gun that would not be banned under the statute, correct.

>> i don't remember what type of weapon she used.

>> well, trust me, that's what it was. and it would not be banned under the statute.

>> i think you can understand that as a woman i think it's very important not to place undue burdens on our second amendment right to choose to defend ourselves.

>> absolute propaganda with that final line trotter gave it away. she appropriated phrases from the pro choice reproductive rights movement about undue burden and about choice. every trick in the book we're seeing here. joining me is u.s. congresswoman carolyn maloney who has had real life experience and msnbc contributor ron reagan . what do you think of that performance where she's using the language we're familiar with on abortion rights , undue burden , choice, as a woman. the language appealing to gender. you're a woman. what do you make of it?

>> well, to be honest with you, i was shocked because obviously she doesn't know what we're trying to do. number one. that woman will have the right to defend herself, and she will have the gun of her choice even if she wants to use a large magazine, she will because it will have ten bullets and one in the chamber. that's 11 bullets. i would tend to think that this is not an issue between men and women and the right to be able to own a gun. we're not even going there. excuse me. so what you've seen in that hearing yesterday, not just with her, but really on the whole side, lapierre was way out of line as far as he was saying on something that he said a couple weeks ago. we'll think about, you know, background checks . they're backing away right now, and in my opinion they're running scared.

>> you know, in catholic school when everybody did something wrong in the old days, they would say what if everybody did that. can you imagine a country, congresswoman, where everybody had not not a sawed-off shotgun, but everybody and every mer, had to have a semiautomatic rifle at hand at all times. everybody had to live like that because if it wasn't the bad guys coming in, like five of them according to her in this situation, the government mightimight be coming in and you have to protect your babies.

>> paranoia and fear is definitely what the nra has been doing and i wish they had listen to the majority of their members that are saying we should have universal background checks . an awful lot of them are saying i don't need a large magazine. that's not what i hunt for. i have a gun home to protect my family. we're not taking any of that away. but there's still -- if you read the blogs and everything, i mean, what's being put out there is so far from the truth. but when you think about it, you know, what we're trying to do is holistically, we're trying to look at the guns that cause the most damage, the large magazines which obviously once you go over that 15, 20, 30, 40, up to 100, they say, well, that's taking away our right, but why did we ban machine guns ? that's legal by the supreme court . i still go back to the supreme court which they seem to be ignoring right now, the nr a. they don't even want to listen to their own people in the supreme court saying that the municipalities and the sats have the right to make laws to protect their citizens.

>> let's go to ron reagan on these thoughts. i want you to watch something by lindsey graham here. lindsey graham has been all over the place doing bad work i think the last couple days. here he is warning that cuts to police budgets, talk about republicans going crazy, are one reason citizens need guns with high capacity magazines. in other words, you got to reproduce the local police department. let's listen here.

>> right.

>> because of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less police officers , not more, over the next decade. response times are going to be less, not more. there can be a situation where a mother runs out of bullets because of something we do here.

>> now we have a new pearl harbor slogan, cut the police , pass the ammunition. i mean, it's unbelievable, ron.

>> well, it's ironic, too because republicans have been promoting these slashing of local budgets that results in fewer police on the streets here, and there's an unstated irony in this as well. that lindsey graham knows full well, wayne lapierre knows full well, gayle troder knows full well and shelden whitehouse asked a question which lapierre ducked. if you talk to hard core members of the nra , they will admit as senator whitehouse said, they will admit you don't need an ar-15 to defend your home or go hunting or go target shooting or anything else. they want those guns because the police have those guns. and they believe that they will have to fight the police , and they want to be as heavily armed as the police when that happens. that is the underlying philosophy.

>> so they think in terms of a barricade situation where it's them against the law.

>> absolutely.

>> congresswoman, that is new. it used to be they would say we're sportsmen, we're hunters, and then they would say whatever, self protection if you live in a tough neighborhood or whatever. now they openly say we have to fight the government. that's pretty close to insurrection time, isn't it? we have to be ready to fight the government?

>> this is what we've been hearing for a couple months to be very honest with you. we heard these arguments going all the way back to aurora and going back to gabby giffords . this is the fear and the mongering they put out there. remember, lapierre said when they came out and spoke for the first time, oh, we should be having more police officers on the street. well -- and in schools. i agree with that. i would love to have more police officers in all of our communities. that alone will not solve the problem. it's got to be everything together holistically. more police , better education, certainly mental health , those are the things that we need to do. so those that want to work with us, that's great. but the nra , which they kind of gave us hints that they were willing to work with us but now they have totally flipped and they want nothing to do with us.

>> it's nothing from then ra. the nra 's wayne lapiera pfepierre -- we're out of time. we're going to keep this conversation up for months. you have had the experience of knowing how important it is. gabby giffords , husband mark kelly .

>> and that's the difference other victims are now speaking up, and to see gaggy yesterday and her husband by her side talking about this, these were strong nra supporters and yet they see what can be done.

>> i think --

>> 20 dead first graders --

>> go ahead, ron. jifs going to say in closing, 20 dead first graders has a way of concentrating the mind.

>> right.

>> it's a serious conversation. it's an american conversation. thank you, congresswoman carolyn mccarthy of new york and ron reagan .

>>> we have one more note about the epidemic of gun violence in this country. yesterday we told you about 15-year-oldh adia pendleton of chicago who was fate ideally shot in what may have been a gang turf war . after having performed in washington with her high school band for the inaugural music festival , it all happened since then, we learned in 2008 she was featured in a video speaking out against gun violence . here is part of that video.

>> so many children are fearing gangs and it's your job as students to say no

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Golly! 'Gomer Pyle' Jim Nabors marries partner

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By Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter

Shazam! Jim Nabors, best known for playing Gomer Pyle in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle, USMC," is a newlywed at age 82.

The actor married his longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, 64, earlier this month, he told Hawaii News Now?on Tuesday. The Honolulu-based couple, who have been together for 38 years, traveled to Washington -- where gay marriage became legal in December -- and were married at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle.

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"We've been together for 38 years, and I'm not ashamed of people knowing, it's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't tell anybody," Nabors told the paper. "I'm very happy that I've had a partner of 38 years, and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy."

Nabors had never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality in the media but said he never really tried to keep it secret.

"I haven't ever made a public spectacle of it," he said. "Well, I've known since I was a child, so, come on. It's not that kind of a thing. I've never made a huge secret of it at all."

The couple met in 1975 when Cadwallader was a firefighter; he later worked for Nabors, and then they started dating.

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Nabors originated the role of Gomer Pyle -- known for such catchphrases as "shazam," "surprise, surprise, surprise" and "golly" -- in the early '60s on "The Andy Griffith Show." After two seasons, the popular character was spun off into "Gomer Pyle, USMC," which lasted five seasons. He reprised the role for the 1986 TV movie "Return to Mayberry" and for the early-90s series "Hi Honey, I'm Home."

Nabors also made frequent appearances on such shows as "The Carol Burnett Show," "The Sonny and Cher Show" and "The Love Boat" and hosted his own series, "The Jim Nabors Hour," from 1969-71.

Nabors, who also is a singer known for his baritone voice, has recorded more than 25 albums and has performed in numerous musical theater productions.

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