Woman who returned adopted Russian boy faces suit (AP)

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. ? A March trial has been scheduled in a child support lawsuit against an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a plane with a note saying she didn't want to be his mother anymore.

The adoptive mother, Torry Hansen, is being sued by her adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents, for child support. Hansen was living in Shelbyville in April 2010 when she sent the boy, then 7, back to Moscow with a note stating he had psychological problems.

Trial is scheduled March 27 in Shelbyville's circuit court, Judge F. Lee Russell's office said.

Hansen has not been criminally charged. The incident drew international attention and prompted new adoption agreements between the U.S. and Russia.

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All-white blackbird photographed

23 January 2012 Last updated at 00:13

This unusual blackbird is attracting bird watchers to a Nottinghamshire country park.

The bird is leucistic, which is a genetic mutation that prevents pigments from being deposited normally in its feathers.

It has been residing for the last four years in the woodland of Rufford Abbey Country Park.

Each year, observers say, it has steadily shed its black feathers for white feathers.

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Ghostly plumage

• Leucism is often confused with the rarer condition albinism, a genetic condition that prevents the production of melanin in the body; in leucism, these colouring chemicals are present in the body, but are not deposited in feathers
• Some colours in birds' plumage come from other pigments such as carotenoids, so birds can be albinistic and still have some colour
• Leucistic birds may be completely white and still have melanin in their bodies; as for this blackbird, such animals will have dark eyes and white feathers
• Albino birds and animals also have pink eyes, as the only colour in the eyes comes from the blood vessels behind the eyes

Park rangers took this picture of the blackbird - which is now completely white with no visible pigmented feathers - in the summer of 2011.

Leucistic birds are often very vulnerable to predators, because of their bright white plumage. So the park's managers are urging birdwatchers to keep an eye out for this unusual blackbird.

Site manager John Clegg said: "This bird has been steadily turning whiter over the years and last summer it was completely white.

"It has become quite a character at the park in recent years.

"It tends to appear in the warmer months and we have not seen it for a few months but hope it will return here soon."

Most leucistic birds have some spots or patches of colouration in their feathers from other pigments, so this is a particularly unusual specimen.

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High court: warrant needed for GPS tracking

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

The decision was a defeat for the government and police agencies, and it raises the possibility of serious complications for law enforcement nationwide, which increasingly relies on high tech surveillance of suspects, including the use of various types of GPS technology.

A GPS device installed by police on Washington, D.C., nightclub owner Antoine Jones' Jeep helped them link him to a suburban house used to stash money and drugs. He was sentenced to life in prison before the appeals court overturned the conviction.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that the government's installation of a GPS device, and its use to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitutes a search, meaning that a warrant is required.

"By attaching the device to the Jeep" that Jones was using, "officers encroached on a protected area," Scalia wrote. He concluded that the installation of the device on the vehicle without a warrant was a trespass and therefore an illegal search.

All nine justices agreed that the GPS monitoring on the Jeep violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, a decision the American Civil Liberties Union said was an "important victory for privacy."

Washington lawyer Andy Pincus called the decision "a landmark ruling in applying the Fourth Amendment's protections to advances in surveillance technology." Pincus has argued 22 cases before the Supreme Court and filed a brief in the current case on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a civil liberties group with expertise in law, technology, and policy.

Scalia wrote the main opinion of three in the case. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor also wrote one of the two concurring opinions that agreed with the outcome in the Jones case for different reasons.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote, in the other concurring opinion, that the trespass was not as important as the suspect's expectation of privacy. Police monitored the Jeep's movements over the course of four weeks after attaching the GPS device.

"The use of longer term GPS monitoring in investigations of most offenses impinges on expectations of privacy," Alito wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Sotomayor in her concurring opinion specifically said she agreed with Alito on this conclusion.

Alito added, "We need not identify with precision the point at which the tracking of this vehicle became a search, for the line was surely crossed before the four-week mark."

Regarding the issue of duration, Scalia wrote that "we may have to grapple" with those issues in the future, "but there is no reason for rushing forward to resolve them here."

Alito also said the court should address how expectations of privacy affect whether warrants are required for remote surveillance using electronic methods that do not require the police to install equipment, such as GPS tracking of mobile telephones. Alito noted, for example, that more than 322 million cellphones have installed equipment that allows wireless carriers to track the phone's location.

"If long-term monitoring can be accomplished without committing a technical trespass ? suppose for example, that the federal government required or persuaded auto manufacturers to include a GPS tracking device in every car ? the court's theory would provide no protection," Alito said.

Sotomayor agreed. "It may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to their parties," she said.

A federal appeals court in Washington had overturned Jones's drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month. The Supreme Court agreed with the appeals court.

The case is U.S. v. Jones, 10-1259.

Associated Press

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State of Union: Obama to take on economic anxiety (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Eager to command center stage in a year dominated by Republican infighting, President Barack Obama is polishing a State of the Union address that will go to the heart of Americans' economic anxiety and try to sway voters to give him four more years. He will speak Tuesday to a nation worried about daily struggles and unhappy with his handling of the economy.

Obama's 9 p.m. EST address before a politically divided Congress will be built around ideas meant to appeal to a squeezed middle class. He is expected to urge higher taxes on the wealthy, propose ways to make college more affordable, offer new steps to tackle a debilitating housing crisis and try to help U.S. manufacturers expand hiring.

Designed as a way for a president to update the nation and recommend ideas to Congress, the State of the Union address has become more than that, especially during that one window when the address falls during the re-election year of an incumbent. It is televised theater ? and Obama's biggest, best chance so far to offer a vision for a second term.

He will frame the campaign to come as a fight for fairness for those who are struggling to keep a job, a home or college savings and losing faith in how the county works.

The speech will be principally about the economy, featuring the themes of manufacturing, clean energy, education and American values.

No matter whom Obama faces in November, the election is likely to be driven by the economy, and determined by which candidate wins voters' trust on how to fix it. More people than not disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.

The overarching political goal is to give voters a contrast between his vision of a government that tries to level the playing field and those office-seekers who, in his view, would leave people on their own. Without naming them, Obama has in his sights those after his job, including Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

The presidential campaign sets an unmistakable context for the speech, right down to the nation's income gap between haves and have-nots. Obama will speak on a few hours after Romney, a former governor and businessman whose wealth is the hundreds of millions of dollars, will release tax records for 2010 and 2011.

The lines of argument between Obama and his rivals are already stark, with America's economic insecurity and the role of government at the center.

The president has offered signals about his speech, telling campaign supporters he wants an economy "that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few." Gingrich, on the other hand, calls Obama "the most effective food stamp president in history." Romney says Obama "wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society."

Obama's tone will be highly scrutinized given that his address falls smack in the middle of a fierce and frenzied Republican presidential nomination process. He will make bipartisan overtures to lawmakers but will leave little doubt he will act without opponents when it's necessary and possible, an approach his aides say has let him stay on offense.

The public is more concerned about domestic troubles over foreign policy than at other any time in the past 15 years, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Some 81 percent want Obama to focus his speech on domestic affairs, not foreign ones; just five years ago, the view was evenly split.

On the day before Obama's speech, his campaign released a short Web ad showing monthly job losses during the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration, with positive job growth for nearly two Obama years. Republicans assail him as failing to achieve a lot more.

House Speaker John Boehner, responding to reports of Obama's speech themes, said it was a rehash of unhelpful policies. "It's pathetic," he said.

Obama will offer economic proposals for this year, despite long odds against getting the help he would need from Republicans.

Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that Obama is not conceding the next 10 months to "campaigning alone" when people need economic help. On the goals of helping people get a fair shot, Carney said: "There's ample room within those boundaries for bipartisan cooperation and for getting this done."

For three days following his speech, Obama will promote his ideas in five states key to his re-election bid: Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan. He speaks on Friday about college affordability at the University of Michigan.

Meanwhile, the Republican race is suddenly a race again, given Gingrich's resounding win in the South Carolina primary over the weekend. Romney, who appeared the strong front-runner coming into that primary, is now focusing on Gingrich more than Obama as the GOP contest unfolds in Florida.

Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with radio host Ryan Seacrest, said Monday there is no ideological difference between any of the Republicans seeking to challenge Obama. He said the campaign will offer the clearest choice in which direction to take the country since the era of the Great Depression.

Polling shows Americans are divided about Obama's overall job approval but unsatisfied with his handling of the economy.

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Small Business Lending Rises At Chase, Citi

(Reuters) - Global lending giants Chase (JPM.N) and Citi (C.N) said they substantially increased loans to U.S. small businesses last year, both exceeding previous commitments.

Chase said its small business loans rose to $17 billion in 2011, up 52 percent from 2010.

Citi said it lent $7.9 billion to small companies last year, an increase of more than 30 percent from the prior year and exceeding its previous commitment of $7 billion. Since the start of the economic downturn in late 2008, many small businesses have been struggling to get loans, lines of credit and other financing.

But a monthly poll of small business sentiment released Jan. 10 by the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group, said small businesses' access to credit ranked at the bottom of respondents' concerns, with only 4 percent of owners reporting financing as their primary business problem.

Chase, which says it leads in U.S. Small Business Administration loans by volume, provided nearly 400,000 new loans and lines to small companies last year. For the past three years, the company exceeded annual small business lending commitments.

Last fall it pledged to maintain elevated lending volumes through at least 2013.

"Since 2009, we have provided more than $35 billion in working capital, term loans for expansion, commercial mortgages, lines of credit and business credit cards to small businesses," said Scott Geller, Chase's CEO of business banking, in a statement accompanying the lending figures Jan. 19.

In September 2011, Citi committed to lending $24 billion to small businesses over the course of three years. Its progressive increases call for lending to reach $9 billion annually in 2013.

"We made it easier for customers to apply for credit by offering less paperwork and an improved customer experience," said Raj Seshadri, Citi's head of U.S. Small Business, in the company's prepared statement, also released Jan. 19.

"Over the last year we tripled originations and increased credit application approvals substantially."

(Reporting by Deborah L. Cohen; Editing by Carla Tonelli)

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Most Americans Wasting Their Votes in 2012 Election (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | The ability for a Republican candidate to beat President Barack Obama in the 2012 election topped the concerns of voters in the South Carolina primary, according to ABC News. As a political scientist, I have to laugh at the idea of voting for someone because you believe he or she is more likely to win than someone else. There are holes in the logic.

First off, if you are simply voting for someone who you believe could win, are you really living up to your responsibility as a voter? Our true responsibility as voters is to vote for the candidate we believe represents our ideas and ideals the best. We hear the phrase, "wasting a vote" and equate it to voting for someone who we know is going to lose. In actuality, we waste our vote if we do not vote for the person we support for the 2012 election.

If we vote for the "perceived winner" of the 2012 election, we are not sending a message to the candidates. Take Ron Paul, for example. The stronger numbers he is putting up this year is sending a message to Congress and to the future president about how more Americans are interested in having conversations about the scope of our rights and responsibilities under the Constitution. A message is being sent that people want to review what politicians are doing against the Constitution.

Right now, it is impossible to predict a Republican candidate as someone who would beat President Obama. Politics are like football when you consider how any candidate has a chance of beating another candidate on any given day. Torrential rains could happen one day and keep voters away. The ones who are most passionate about their candidate would be more likely to head to the polls. Many of us have had times in which we did not vote because we believed our candidate was the sure winner.

If you vote for someone in the 2012 election because he appears to be the winner, you are wasting your vote and not sending a message up the line. You are not living up to your responsibility as a voter. Vote for the candidate you believe speaks the most to you, and not simply the country at large. You were given a right, so use it to the full potential.

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Alexander Adler: The Weight of Neshat

Shirin Neshat's latest series of photographs presented along with a video installation at Gladstone Gallery perpetuate her study of the underlying conditions of power within socio-cultural structures in the Middle East. Born in Qazvin, Iran before immigrating to the United States in 1974, Neshat's artistic practice has focused on the plight of women in oppressive, Muslim societies. Addressing the Arab Spring and the momentum of these uprisings, Neshat turned to historical and contemporary sources to create technically beautiful and richly provocative photographic portraits.

Shirin Neshat, My House is Burning Down, 2012, Ink on LE silver gelatin print, 47 1/8 x 60 inches (119.7 x 152.4 cm), 47 1/2 x 60 1/4 x 2 inches (120.7 x 153 x 5.1 cm), Edition of 5 + 2 Aps

The exhibition's title, The Book of Kings, stems from the ancient Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), an epic tragedy written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 AD. The Book of Kings recounts the mythical and historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th Century.

Shirin Neshat, "The Book of Kings", January 13 - February 11, 2012 Installation View: Gladstone Gallery, New York, Photo: David Regen, Copyright Shirin Neshat Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Each photograph appears inscribed with Neshat's signature calligraphic texts and drawings over each subject's face and body drawn from Shahnameh as well as from contemporary poetry by Iranian writers and prisoners vying against authoritarian rule.

Shirin Neshat, "The Book of Kings", January 13 - February 11, 2012 Installation View: Gladstone Gallery, New York, Photo: David Regen, Copyright Shirin Neshat Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

While the work conveys little conceptual deviation from previous series, the aesthetic beauty of each silvery print and the raw emotion garnered from each sitter remains resolutely powerful.

The Book of Kings will be on exhibition from January 13-February 11 at Gladstone Gallery (515 West 24th Street).

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Kodak gets 2013 deadline to reorganize

Colorful vintage Kodak film canisters are displayed in Newtown, Pa., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Eastman Kodak Co. has obtained a bankruptcy judge's approval to borrow an initial $650 million from Citigroup Inc. to keep operations running while it peddles a trove of digital-imaging patents. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Colorful vintage Kodak film canisters are displayed in Newtown, Pa., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Eastman Kodak Co. has obtained a bankruptcy judge's approval to borrow an initial $650 million from Citigroup Inc. to keep operations running while it peddles a trove of digital-imaging patents. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) ? Eastman Kodak Co. has a little over a year to reshape its money-losing businesses and deliver a get-out-of-bankruptcy plan.

Girded by a $950 million financing deal with Citigroup Inc., the photography pioneer aims to keep operating normally during bankruptcy while it peddles a trove of digital-imaging patents.

After years of mammoth cost-cutting and turnaround efforts, Kodak ran short of cash and sought protection from its creditors Thursday. It is required under its bankruptcy financing terms to produce a reorganization plan by Feb. 15, 2013.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in New York gave Kodak permission to borrow an initial $650 million from Citigroup.

He also set a June 30 deadline for Kodak to seek his approval of bidding procedures for the sale of 1,100 patents that analysts estimate could fetch at least $2 billion. No buyers have emerged since Kodak started shopping them around in July.

Through negotiations and lawsuits, Kodak has already collected $1.9 billion in patent licensing fees and royalties since 2008. Last week, it intensified efforts to defend its intellectual property by filing patent-infringement lawsuits against Apple Inc., HTC Corp., Samsung Electronics and Fujifilm Corp.

Kodak is also pursuing another high-stakes dispute before the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., against Apple and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. over image-preview technology it patented in 2002.

Kodak has said it hopes to garner $1 billion from the two-year-old claim. But the commission, a U.S. arbiter for trade disputes, recently put off its decision until September.

Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak turned photography into a mass commodity at the dawn of the 20th century and was known all over the world for its Brownie and Instamatic cameras and its yellow-and-red film boxes. It was brought down first by Japanese competition and then an inability to keep pace with the shift from film to digital technology.

"They're a company that knows more about imaging than anyone else in the world," said Robert Burley, a photography professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. "But I think they lost their ability in their corporate structure to turn those innovations into real-world applications and get them on the market fast.

"There were just too many fronts to deal with, too many battles all at the same time."

In its Chapter 11 filing, Kodak said its nearly decade-long overhaul has been undermined since 2008 by a sluggish economy and high restructuring costs. Its payroll has plunged below 19,000 from 70,000 in 2002, and it hasn't had a profitable year since 2007.

"At the same time as we have created our digital business, we have also already effectively exited certain traditional operations, closing 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs, and reducing our workforce by 47,000 since 2003," CEO Antonio Perez said.

"Now we must complete the transformation by further addressing our cost structure and effectively monetizing non-core (intellectual-property) assets," Perez said in a statement.

Kodak's stock edged up to 32 cents in over-the-counter trading Friday afternoon. The bankruptcy filing prompted the New York Stock Exchange to delist the securities.

Associated Press

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One Piece Scenes Series Shell Jacket For iPhone 4/4S

T-shirts and sweatshirts, bumper stickers, laptop computer top case stickers and desktop wallpapers are good ways of expressing your inner geek or nerd or dork. Although originally popularized as a guard against scratches and bumps, iPhone cases have, in recent years, also become a way of displaying your solidarity with a cause, brand, or favorite anime character.

Fans of One Piece: gather 'round! We've got iPhone cases for you! There are five kinds of best scenes from the story, so choose your favorite one! Limited edition. Compatible with iPhone 4 and 4S.

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Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.

The departure, announced Tuesday, punctuates the end of an era at Yahoo, a tarnished Internet icon that has spent much of the last decade scrambling to catch up to Internet search leader Google Inc. ? a company that got early encouragement and advice from Yang. It comes just two weeks after Yahoo Inc. hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as its CEO.

Thompson is the fourth CEO in less than five years to try to turn around Yahoo. It's a daunting assignment that Yang was unable to pull off during his own tumultuous 18-month reign as the company's CEO in 2007 and 2008.

Yang, 43, endorsed Thompson in his resignation from Yahoo's board of directors. He had been on Yahoo's board since the company's 1995 inception.

"My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life," Yang wrote in a letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock. "However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo."

The letter didn't say what Yang plans to do next. He doesn't need to work, thanks to the fortune he has amassed since he began working on Yahoo in a trailer at Stanford University with fellow graduate student David Filo. Yang is worth about $1.1 billion, according to Forbes magazine's latest estimates.

Yang is also stepping down from the boards of China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. Yahoo is negotiating to sell its stakes in both of the Asian companies as part of its efforts to placate investors. The deal could be worth as much as $17 billion, but it still faces a series of potential stumbling blocks.

Besides surrendering the board seats, Yang is giving up his position as "Chief Yahoo," an honorary title he held as he mingled among workers, while keeping tabs on various company projects.

Thompson could have an easier time overhauling Yahoo without Yang looking over his shoulder and possibly second guessing his decisions, said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis.

"This has the fingerprints of frustration on it," Gillis said. "It's one of those situations where it looks like (Yang) is losing the battle to control the company's direction and now he is saying, `That's it, I'm out.'"

Although a popular figure among Yahoo employees, Yang had alienated the company's shareholders by turning down a chance to sell Yahoo in its entirety to Microsoft Corp. for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, in May 2008. Yahoo shares haven't topped $20 for more than three years. The stock gained 44 cents to $15.87 in extended trading after Yang's decision was announced.

The slump in Yahoo's stock has diminished Yang's wealth. He still owns a 3.6 percent stake in the company.

Yang conceivably could leverage those holdings to attempt to buy Yahoo's U.S. business after the Asian investments are sold. That is, if he can line up additional financing, Macquarie Securities analyst Ben Schachter wrote in a research note late Tuesday. Several buyout firms have already expressed interest in buying a substantial stake in Yahoo, spurring speculation that Yang might work with them to acquire a controlling interest in what remains of the company if the Asian assets are sold.

When he announced Thompson's hiring earlier this month, Bostock stressed that Yahoo intended to remain an independent, publicly traded company.

Yang had been someone more interested in preserving the company than he created than dismantling parts of its to boost the stock price, analysts said. "Investors tend to want to keep trying to fix the company than carve it apart," Gillis said.

Now that he is out of the way, investors are likely to conclude the sale of the Asian investments will eventually be completed, Schachter wrote.

Investor anger over Yang's handling of the Microsoft negotiations led to his resignation as CEO in late 2008 and the hiring of Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz to replace him. Bartz and Yang had gotten to know each other as part of Cisco Systems Inc.'s board of directors.

After initially hailing Bartz as the solution to Yahoo's problems, Yang and the rest of Yahoo's board fired her as CEO in September.

Yahoo's revenue has been falling in recent years even as advertisers have poured more money into the Internet. Much of the money, though, has been going to Google and Facebook's online social network, as Yahoo has fallen further behind in the race to innovate and develop products that attract Web traffic.

Despite its struggles, Yahoo remains profitable and still boasts a worldwide audience of 700 million people.

But visitors aren't sticking around Yahoo's services as much as they once did, depriving the company of more opportunities to sell ads ? the main source of its revenue.

It has been a jarring comedown for Yahoo, which emerged as one of the Internet's first stars after Yang and Filo expanded the service beyond its roots as a hand-picked directory of websites.

Yahoo's early success turned it into a Wall Street darling and landed Yang on the covers of leading business magazines. At the height of the dot-com bubble 12 years ago, Yahoo's stock was trading above a split-adjusted $100 amid talk that the company might eventually try to buy a long-established media franchise such as the Walt Disney Co.

But now investors widely regard Yahoo as a misguided company that can't come up with a cohesive plan to define itself for Web surfers and advertisers.

Yang and Bostock have been the focal point for much of the criticism, partly because of their key roles in the Microsoft talks in 2008. After buying a 5.2 percent stake in Yahoo last autumn, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb demanded that both Bostock and Yang step down from the company's board. If they refused, Loeb indicated he would finance a shareholder rebellion to oust both men from the board.

Loeb's fund, Third Point LLC, didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment late Tuesday.

Bostock, Yahoo's chairman for the past four years, has given no indication that he plans to step down.

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With a contract that will expire in just a few weeks and with no progress made during the 2011 season toward a new one and with a record-setting season in his pocket and with a late-game performance against the 49ers that should have been enough to deliver the first road playoff win in franchise history, quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints continue to be on a collision course for awkwardness and ugliness in 2012.

In a season-ending press conference held Tuesday, coach Sean Payton said what he?s been saying for months:? Brees will be back.

?I think if that question were asked to Mickey [Loomis] or Drew right now, I don?t think there would be any timetable [regarding a new contract],? Payton said in comments distributed by the team.? ?Certainly the sooner the better, and yet I think this time away here initially after the season ended will be good for everyone to kind of remove yourself from the emotion of the season.? I think it will be something that would certainly be on our priority list.?

The Saints have the ability to prevent Brees from becoming a free agent, via the franchise tag.? The Saints can even use the ?exclusive? version of the tag, which would prevent another team from extending an offer to Brees that, if not matched by the Saints, would secure the single-season passing yardage record-holder?s rights in exchange for two first-round picks.

The real question remains whether the two sides will work something out on their own before Brees misses offseason workouts, training camp, and/or the preseason.? Like all franchise-tagged players, Brees can stay away until only days before the start of the regular season and still earn the full amount of the franchise-player salary.

If it comes to that, how will Brees be ready to play as of Week One?

And so the Saints and Brees could be destined for a game of chicken, with the team believing there?s no way he?ll stay away from his teammates and undermine his own preparation for 2012 and Brees believing there?s no way the team will want him to miss out on preparation that will be vital to winning enough regular-season games in 2012 to force the road to the Superdome through, well, the Superdome.

That?s the overriding factor in all of this:? The Saints host the Super Bowl next year.? Thus, owner Tom Benson and company surely will want the Saints to play in that game.

To make that happen, the Saints need to play their playoff games in the Superdome, too.? To ensure home-field advantage in the postseason, Brees needs to be fully prepared for the start of the regular season.

To make that happen, Benson and the Saints need to pay Brees an amounting reflecting his value to the organization.

At the same time, Brees needs to leave enough cash under the cap to help pump up the defense and replace guys like Marques Colston and Robert Meachem, who surely will be pilfered by teams hoping to weaken the Saints, arguably the best team in the league at the end of the regular season.

To make that happen, they need to make Brees happy.? As Payton says, the sooner the better.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/eli-muses-about-a-manhattan-manning-reunion/related/

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Video: 100 years since Titanic, cruise ships still vulnerable

>> said, this behemothessel with 17 decks, longer than the titanic, has ever modern convenience, every luxury and all the right electronics like most modern cruise ships . but now this. soou can't blame people for asking today if this is a safe way to go. nbc tom costello has been looking into the safety aspect for us tonight. law, cruise ships muste able n to evacuate their passengers within 30 minutes of an abandon ship order. but getting 4,200 people off europe's biggest cruise ship tookar longer.

>> five hours. five hours of struggling while this ship is sinking and trying to go against gravity and ying to pull ourselves up. ying to get away from breaking glass , bodies flying.

>> reporter: a potentially deadly mistake, the crew hadn't yet prided passengers with evacuation training. under maritime law , ships have 24 hou to provide evacuation training on lasting seven days or less. most do so befe ever leaving port. drills like this one that include learning how to put on a life vest and finding the nearest life boat . industry analysts are concerned by reports the crew seemed disoriented.

>> the crew forgot their training. they didn't seem to provide e direction, the support.

>> reporter: in statement, the crse line injury says accidents such as this one are an extremely raroccuence in the cruise industry and it insis uising is safe. roughly 16 million people took cruise vacations in 2011 on the most established lin. up from 15 million in 2010 . and the industry is growing. building 26 new ships in the last two years. whilcruise ships fly many flags, international standards dictate everything from ew competence and safety training to rese ocedures.

>> i think it's very safe.

>>reporter: coast guard lieutenant is liaison to the cruise indtry.

>> we evaluate how the ships and the crews respond to emergencies, including instructing passengers where they have to go for safety.

>>eporter: 100 years since "titanic", cruise ships are still vulnerable. in this case, to rocky reefs and bad decisions. tom coello, nbc news, washington.

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Brand says he's 'quite well' since Perry split

Russell Brand is ready to be uplifted.

On Sunday, the British comic was back to work, and back on U.S. soil, to promote "Strangely Uplifting," his new FX series, at a TCA panel in Pasadena, Calif.

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As the Q&A session began, a reporter made a vague reference to Brand's headline-making Dec. 30 split from wife Katy Perry, asking Brand, 36, how he was doing.

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"I'm quite well, thank you. Are you asking because of recent events?" he chuckled. "Well, I suppose what you're doing is you're making the mistake as seeing time as linear."

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His goal for the still-developing series, Brand said, is fairly simple. "All I want is for people to feel better than they do now. That's all I want," he mused. "All I want is to make people laugh and to make people happy. And as long as I stay in alignment with that, then I'm served by great forces."

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Will the series delve into his talked-about personal life? "I think there will be inevitable biographical elements because you can't speak from anyone's perspective but your own," he said. "Unless I was to bizarrely adapt some sort of avatar."

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Brand conceded that he's frequently misunderstood in the press. But, to correct that, he told reporters, "I listen to others. I accept that you must be humble. It's very important to have humility.... I have a tendency to fly off. I'm tangential and also I'm narcissistic. I have to be very careful."

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His estranged wife Perry, meanwhile, wasn't too far away from Pasadena on Sunday night ? but the "Firework" singer, 26, avoided the glitz and celeb crush of Golden Globes parties.

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A source tells Us Weekly that Perry watched the awards show from the comfort of her hotel room in the L.A. area.

"She has been very low key during her stay," a hotel source said, adding that Perry has been ordering room service and takeout food with pals.

Copyright 2012 Us Weekly

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Thousands bid farewell to Turkish football star

updated 6:34 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2012

ANKARA, Turkey - About 10,000 people, including fans from several Turkish clubs, bid farewell on Sunday to Lefter Kucukandonyadis, one of Turkey's top football players, who has died at 86.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egemen Bagis, Turkey's EU minister, atended the funeral ceremony at Fenerbahce's Sukru Saracoglu Stadium. Kucukandonyadis died of pneumonia Friday in Istanbul.

Midfielder Emre Belozoglu and other Fenerbahce players carried his coffin, draped in Turkish and Fenerbahce flags, to the pitch before the crowd observed a minute of silence in his memory.

Kucukandonyadis was the captain of Turkey's national team, making 46 appearances for his country. His club career included Fenerbahce, where he scored 423 goals in 615 games.

Fenerbahce fans who had no doubt that Lefter could turn every opportunity into a goal, often shouted: "give it (the ball) to Lefter, let him write it (the score) down in the book," Fenerbahce said on its website.

Born in 1925 in Istanbul to a fisherman father from Turkey's minority Greek community, Kucukandonyadis was the first player from Turkey to play abroad. He transferred to Italy's Fiorentina in 1951 followed by a spell with Nice in France.

After his retirement in 1966, Kucukandonyadis coached clubs in Greece, South Africa and Turkey.

Kucukandonyadis was buried in the island of Buyukada near Istanbul, where he was born.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Arsenal's slim chance to contend for the Premier League title took a serious blow on Sunday when the Gunners lost 3-2 at newcomer Swansea.

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Just one question that is definitely daunting a lot of people connected to protection is; how prolonged do you need to have the daily life insurance protection? The majority of people imagine that they are going to need to have the cover not less than by means of retirement age. Should you are purchasing a at age 35, a thirty year phrase will be a minimal quantity that almost all people want to get. There are several people who have different impression to this calculation.IWhile purchasing a coverage the queries that occur are that in the duration and also the price tag of your policy. Very well, there may be very little to ponder. Decide the number of a long time left for the retirement and that must be the least duration covered by your policy. Should you are obtaining at age 35, a 30 year phrase will be a minimum amount of decades for that policy coverage.IThink of buying a policy and you have to make your mind up the number of many years it ought to be for. Ideally persons consider the coverage phrase at the very least as a result of retirement age. One other alternative is usually to consider the coverage till the insured die. A term of 30 to 35 ages is pertinent to folks who?re center aged. You may also purchase the policy for various rewards according to your requirements.
It really is constantly encouraged to go extended along with the term of the term, because you could constantly stroll absent or drop the protection. More time sort expression, usually, a 20 or 30 yr expression is most suitable. Expression is additionally a greater wager because it is definitely an very affordable everyday living insurance and almost all can find the money for it. Inexpensive might not be cost-effective in case you are usually not from the excellent health, so continue to keep on your own in good wellbeing all the time.ITerm is actually a superior possibility for people today who need to obtain cost-effective and for the for a longer time time period say twenty to thirty several years. Right here the fee from the policy is a lot less and it really is a reasonable which suits everyone?d funds. However the similar coverage can cost you extra for those who are certainly not bodily and mentally balanced and are struggling from any continual ailment.Iif you will be in the late twenties or early thirties then it really is advisable to consider a policy for a for a longer time time period say thirty to 35 a long time. On this situation the fee on the coverage results in being a lot less plus the reward attached are also extra. Cost-effective policies are good alternatives and come with lots of rewards.
With all the volatility from the financial marketplace, a person concern that is certainly creeping up is; how can just one be self-assured in regards to the company. This can be an exceptionally exciting question and provides a lot to try and do along with the current market downs. From the past, for example, inside eighties, there were quite a few failures within the sector. Many organizations plummeted and folks just missing their faith in. The specific situation was even worse and people today have been hunting for inexpensive with economically strong corporations.IWith the current predicament on the money market place and its sluggish recovery from recession folks are being a lot more skeptic to invest in. eighties also marked a slowdown inside the monetary problem of your current market and there were quite a few failures inside sector. Individuals no longer make investments with no study and evaluation of what is going to happen to their invested cash. This is the explanation why you ought to locate out almost everything regarding the economic strength with the business you happen to be investing with.IThe money industry becoming hit by recession as well as subsequent failures in investment have had an alarming impression on people. Everybody would like to invest only in protected programs and with reputed providers to ensure that their tricky earned cash does not go waste. Scenario as todays is just like that with the 1980s when the monetary meltdown had discouraged people today to make investments and particularly in Now a lot of the firms have again up strategies to ensure that they are able to compensate their traders with equal rewards in activities of economic marketplace f crisis. This is the as well as level of investing judiciously with monetarily sturdy and reputed companies.
Since the marketplace is reviving, the majority of people need to know if the business, from whom they may be acquiring the daily life insurance, will probably maintain on for your many years to come. You have to be sure that the company is of excellent track record and can provide you with the very good rates with whole assurance about their really existence. firms which are A rated or better are always a superb wager if you want to become thoroughly convinced of the company?s fiscal place. Excellent firms are:
o AIG?o Prudential
IThe monetary market is reviving but still individuals need to know which the enterprise they are investing with will maintain on for your coming many years. Additionally you must know that the business contains a sturdy financial presence from the area, is reputed and can supply you with great premiums with complete confidence about their incredibly existence. ?A? rated providers are much better possibilities to invest with for better fiscal placement.IIn the encounter of reviving economical industry people want to know which the enterprise they?re planning to make investments in is going to be stable for a long time to come. Select a business which has a powerful monetary base and it is effectively reputed. providers that provide beneficial costs are good options to make investments with immediately after that you are self-confident about their fiscal position. There are ?A? rated organizations that are normally very good wager and gives you great investment solutions.
You can encounter a lot of phrases whenever you are researching or buying a coverage. These terms usually type the fundamentals on the acquiring practice. The terms which include costs, riders, and others might be pretty baffling for those who never know the basics of. Think about a agent ways you and begins describing the charges as well as other phrases associated with. Should you are not knowledgeable of your phrases, you will end up totally misplaced.IWhen you will be acquiring lifestyle insurance coverage you ought to have an idea regarding the simple phrases relevant to. Phrases such as rates, riders are significant and perform a vital part in deciding the main advantages of your policy. Asking your insurance plan agent or searching the web will provide you with arms on information about these terms.Should you make an effort to find out about terms browsing the net or referring in your agent are very good options. The policies that you wish to obtain have numerous this kind of phrases in them like insurance policy prices, riders and so forth. Without knowing the that means of those phrases you won?t have the opportunity to be aware of the fundamental points regarding the policies. You may also shed on some benefit facet if you do not need in depth awareness as to the place you have manufactured the investment and just how the returns are going to be.
A few of the most important phrases inside the domain are protection, experience amount, or dying reward. Each one of these 3 phrases often imply precisely the same and therefore are practically synonymous to each other. Coverage, deal with sum, or passing away benefit could be the volume of a test that will be payable for your beneficiaries after you pass absent or any time you die. One of the most critical facet in the will be to obtain the suitable face amount, which can be the quantity of coverage that you simply are going to be purchasing.A few most important terms in domain are coverage, experience quantity and dying gain. They?re suitable to each other and form integral elements of your coverage. Coverage, confront sum, or dying reward could be the sum that may be payable to your beneficiaries following the policyholder passes away. Acquiring the ideal sum or confront value is vital as this capital really should be adequate into the needs of your beneficiaries immediately after the policy holder?s demise.Protection, deal with total, or death benefit will be the 3 essential terms in daily life insurance coverage sector. The that means of these phrases are comparable and refer to your declare sum or the confront benefit of the coverage which has to be paid for the beneficiaries with the demise on the insured individual or even the policy holder. The confront appeal on the insurance policy policy will need to be decided quite thoroughly as this funds will be really important to meet the requires of your respective relatives soon after you die.
Often the words ?in force? are very generally used in the sector. You may ponder what does ?in force? suggest. Properly, it just means the policy you have taken is energetic and is also able to spend. Also, it suggests that the coverage is in beneficial standing along with the is able to pay out the declare inside the occasion of one?s loss of life. In the event you have paid an yearly top quality, the everyday living insurance policy coverage are going to be in power for one particular calendar year. In addition, you may also have a thirty day grace interval.Phrases like ?in force? is extremely typically used in the sector. This means the everyday life insurance plan coverage that you?ve taken is lively and it is wanting to shell out. This also signifies which the coverage is in very good standing as well as the insurance plan business will pay the experience appeal within the occasion of your loss of life. In case your premium mode is yearly then for that yr your coverage is lively with thirty day grace time period.You will need to also be aware that as you spend the top quality it?s best to make note that your coverage is activated that is definitely when you are have compensated an yearly top quality then be certain that your policy is active for that 12 months that has a thirty day grace period of time. This also indicates that the policy is in excellent standing and inside the function of one?s death can pay the dying claim.
Numerous men and women get puzzled concerning the three terms ? Insured, coverage proprietor, and beneficiary. The insured will be the person?s everyday living on which the policy is centered. In the event the insured is living then the coverage is just not compensated; nonetheless, if the insured is dead, and when the coverage was in force around the date of death, then the coverage sum is paid for the beneficiaries. The coverage owner is mostly the insured, but not always. Often, a diverse party can be the operator from the coverage. Be sure you know these terms effectively in advance of buying a life insurance coverage coverage. Concerning coverage the terms insured stands for your particular person whose daily life has long been insured; coverage operator stands for the one that has acquired the coverage (the coverage owner can be the insured person himself); and the beneficiary who will get the declare volume or even the encounter appeal on the policy right after the dying on the insured. Examples on the policy owner being distinctive in the insured will be the husband insuring his spouse during which circumstance the husband would be the coverage proprietor but the spouse will be the insured. Do not be confused with phrases like Insured, Coverage proprietor and Beneficiary. Insured refers on the man or woman whose life is covered. Coverage proprietor is definitely the one that pays the rates and has bought the policy. The coverage operator is usually the particular person insured or he may possibly have purchased the coverage for somebody else. Beneficiary will be the person who will get the death declare after the death from the insured.

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Triple Analysis: Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer and Apoptosis

This triple analysis focuses on cancer drug development strategies in both Pancreatic Cancer and Prostate Cancer and by the mechanism/target/effect of Apoptosis. Each of these three individual parts is evaluated according to standardized criteria in a five pillar pipeline drug assessment methodology to compare drug development strategies in oncology. This makes it easy to find and compare analysis not only within one single cancer focus area but also between different areas.

Below is a short synopsis of each part included in this report:

Part I: Pancreatic Cancer

The pancreatic cancer report part comprises defined and up to date development strategies for 213 pancreatic cancer drugs within the portfolio of 137 investigators, from Ceased to Marketed. This report part extensively analyses 171 identified targets of pancreatic cancer drugs, organized into 142 drug target profiles, and assesses them in pancreatic cancer.

This part is based on the following publication:

Portfolio Analytics in the Pancreatic Cancer Pipeline and Portfolio Planning - High Unmet Medical Need but Where to Target?

Part II: Prostate Cancer

The prostate cancer report part comprises defined and up to date development strategies for 346 prostate cancer drugs within the portfolio of 198 investigators, from Ceased to Marketed. This report part extensively analyses 202 identified targets of prostate cancer drugs, organized into 187 drug target strategies, and assesses them in prostate cancer.

This part is based on the following publication:

A Decision Support Tool for Optimizing the Prostate Cancer Pipeline: From Research and Development to Market

Part III: Apoptosis

The apoptotic cancer drug report part comprises defined and up to date development strategies for 234 drugs in oncology within the portfolio of 158 companies world-wide, from Ceased to Marketed. The report extensively analyses their 181 identified drug targets, organized into 157 drug target strategies, and assesses them in 69 cancer indications.

This part is based on the following publication:

Commercializing Apoptotic Drugs in Cancer: The Faster Route to Consider Your Options and Position of Others

The report is written for you to understand and assess the impact of competitor entry and corresponding changes to development strategies for your own portfolio products. It helps teams to maximize molecule value by selecting optimal development plans and manage risk and uncertainty. The report serves as an external commercial advocate for pharmaceutical companies? pipeline and portfolio planning (PPP) in cancer by:

• Providing you with competitive input to the R&D organization to guide development of early product ideas and ensure efforts are aligned with business objectives
• Assisting you to make informed decisions in selecting cancer indications that are known to be appropriate for your drug?s properties
• Analyzing, correlating and integrating valuable data sources in order to provide accurate data for valuation of pipeline, in-licensing and new business opportunities
• Providing you with commercial analytic support for due diligence on in-licensing and acquisition opportunities
• Supporting development of integrative molecule, pathway and disease area strategies
• Integrating knowledge for you to consider the therapeutic target for the highest therapeutic outcome and return on investment

This report provides systems, analytical and strategic support both internally to PPP and to stakeholders across your own organization. The report will also be an important part of creating and implementing a market development plan for cancer drugs to insure that the optimal market conditions exist by the time the products are commercialized.

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