Protests mark anniversary of Trayvon Martin's shooting death

SANFORD, Fla./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators symbolically wearing hoodies gathered in New York, Florida and California on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, reviving a national discussion on gun laws and racial profiling.

Actor Jamie Foxx joined Martin's parents and several hundred protesters for a candlelight vigil in New York City's Union Square, while a smaller crowd estimated at 110 to 125 met at a park in the Florida town where Martin died, vowing to continue to agitate for an end to racial discrimination.

"We want you (to) know we love you and we won't leave you," Foxx told Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, in New York.

Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot and killed Martin, 17, in the Orlando suburb of Sanford on February 26, 2012, and initially went free based on his claims of self defense. Then a national outcry forced the city's police chief to resign and the governor to appoint a special prosecutor.

Zimmerman now faces second-degree murder charges and a June trial. He has maintained his innocence, and supporters say he has been unfairly tainted as racist, noting the neighborhood had been hit by a wave of break-ins and that Zimmerman is of mixed race - his father is white and his mother Afro-Peruvian.

In Sanford, the case triggered deep emotions, and protesters staged a candlelight vigil and moment of silence at 7:15 p.m., the time Martin was killed, at Fort Mellon Park.

"There are no excuses for violence against our children. Let us take the tragedy of Trayvon's death and use it for good," said organizer Geri Hepburn, a white parent of a teenage son who became politically active as a result of the shooting.

The crowd was small compared to the thousands who filled the same park at the apex of public outrage of the killing last year, when the story dominated national news for weeks.

SYMBOLIC HOODIES

In New York, demonstrators recreated the "Million Hoodie March" of last year, when people wore hooded sweatshirts in the style worn by Martin the night of his death, when Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious looking person in his gated neighborhood and defied a police admonishment not to follow him.

The coast-to-coast series of events also saw a crowd gather in the Leimert Park section of Los Angeles. Participants carried lit candles and many of them also wore hoodies, said organizer Najee Ali, who spoke at the gathering in Los Angeles.

"Trayvon was everyone's son. He belonged to all of us," Ali said in a phone interview.

Martin was on his way home to the house of his father's girlfriend, and the hoodie became a symbol of what critics considered racial profiling.

"We are all Trayvon Martin," demonstrators chanted at Tuesday's vigil.

James Flood, 33, a black bartender and screenwriter, said he was constantly the victim of racial profiling and wanted better for his 11-year-old son.

"My skin color cannot change no matter how much money I make. I still get profiled," Flood said. "It has to stop."

Zimmerman, 29, who was released on bail, remained out of sight on the anniversary.

Thrust into the national spotlight, Martin's grieving parents, Fulton and father Tracy Martin, have become national advocates for stricter gun control laws and critics of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.

The law, passed in 2005, allows people to use lethal force in self defense if they are in fear of serious bodily harm. More than 20 states have since passed similar laws.

Police cited that law in initially declining to arrest Zimmerman, which sparked celebrity protests and popular demonstrations across the country, turning the case into an international story.

Zimmerman's attorney plans to invoke the Stand Your Ground law at an April 29 hearing at which a Florida judge could determine if the law applied to Zimmerman, possibly granting him immunity and averting a criminal trial.

(Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Cynthia Osterman and Lisa Shumaker)

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AP Interview: Iraq premier: Syria war could spread

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Al-Maliki warns that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad would spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon, and create a new haven for extremists that would destabilize the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Al-Maliki warns that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad would spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon, and create a new haven for extremists that would destabilize the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Al-Maliki warns that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad would spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon, and create a new haven for extremists that would destabilize the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Al-Maliki warns that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad would spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon, and create a new haven for extremists that would destabilize the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Al-Maliki warns that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad would spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon, and create a new haven for extremists that would destabilize the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's prime minister cautions that a victory for rebels fighting to overthrow the government in neighboring Syria will spark a sectarian war in his own country and Lebanon That would create a new haven for al-Qaida that would destabilize the whole Middle East.

The candid warning from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press was his strongest statement yet about the instability that could follow the toppling of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

It comes as his government confronts growing tensions of its own between Iraq's Shiite majority and an increasingly restive Sunni minority, nearly a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Fighting in Syria is increasingly taking on sectarian overtones, with predominantly Sunni rebels battling a regime mostly made up of Alawites, an offshoot Shiite group.

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Sitting less and moving about more could be more important than vigorous exercise to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Feb. 27, 2013 ? New research led at the University of Leicester reveals that individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes would benefit from being told to sit less and move around more often- rather than simply exercising regularly. The experts suggest that reducing sitting time by 90 minutes in total per day could lead to important health benefits.

Currently, at risk patients are advised to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for at least 150 mins per week. But the new study published in Diabetologia (The journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) suggests that patents should in fact be advised to reduce their sedentary time (time spent moving very little or not at all, for example sitting or lying down).The research was led by Joseph Henson and colleagues from the Diabetes Research Unit, University of Leicester and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit (BRU), UK.

Henson and colleagues analysed patients from two studies: 153 from project STAND (Sedentary Time and Diabetes study, mean age 33 years, 29% men) and the Walking Away from Diabetes study (mean age 64 years, 65% men). The team examined the extent to which sedentary time, breaks in sedentary time, MVPA and total physical activity were independently associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in a population with known risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Accelerometers were used to assess sedentary time, MVPA, and total physical activity. Breaks in sedentary time were defined as a transition from a sedentary to an active state.

The researchers found that for these patients with known risk factors for type 2 diabetes recruited from primary care, sedentary time was detrimentally associated with 2 h glucose, triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol, independent of measured confounders. These results remained significant after further adjustment for MVPA and adiposity.

Furthermore, the findings were consistent across groups with diverse age ranges, providing evidence that the negative consequences of excess sedentary time exist across young to old adults. Interestingly, sedentary time was shown to have stronger associations with several important cardiometabolic markers (2 h glucose, triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol) compared with total physical activity and MVPA, after adjustment for each other and other important confounders.

"These studies provide preliminary evidence that sedentary behaviour may be a more effective way to target the prevention of type 2 diabetes, rather than just solely focusing on MVPA. Moreover, sedentary time occupies large portions of the day, unlike MVPA," says Henson.

He adds that the new data raise questions regarding the possible prescription of optimal daily movement for health. He concludes: "Diabetes and cardiovascular prevention programmes concentrating solely on MVPA may overlook an area that is of fundamental importance to cardiometabolic health. Along with messages related to accumulating at least 150 min/week of MVPA, which form the cornerstone of diabetes prevention programmes, such interventions may be more effective still if individuals are further encouraged to simply sit less and move more, regardless of the intensity level."

He concludes: "This approach requires a paradigm shift, so that individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes think about the balance of sedentary behaviour and physical activity throughout the day."

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Goldman hires Citigroup lobbyist Amy Overton

(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc lobbyist Amy Overton is leaving the bank for Wall Street rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Overton, 43, will handle a broad range of issues for Goldman, a spokesman for Goldman said.

Overton spent less than two years at Citigroup, and previously worked as counsel to Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat of Delaware, during negotiations for the Dodd-Frank Act.

"Amy's long experience with financial services issues will make her a great addition to our team," said Michael Paese, global co-head of government affairs for Goldman Sachs. Overton will report to Paese, and will have the title of vice president, the same title she had at Citigroup.

A Citigroup spokeswoman declined to comment.

Overton also worked at Fannie Mae for seven years leading into the financial crisis, leaving as chief of staff for its government and industry relations department in 2008.

With Overton's joining, Goldman's D.C. office is now evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with four of each.

Paese had been a top staffer for former Democratic congressman Barney Frank. Goldman's lobbying office has two other Democrats, said a person familiar with the matter who did not have authorization to speak publicly about the matter.

Todd Malin, a senior Republican lobbyist, recently left Goldman for Rio Tinto PLC . But the bank has other Republicans in its lobbying group, including Goldman's other global co-head of government affairs, Faryar Shirzad, who splits his time among London, New York and Washington.

(In 3rd paragraph, corrects title for Paese to global co-head of government affairs, not head of Washington government relations office. In last paragraph, corrects title of Shirzad to show other co-head, not global head of office of government affairs.)

(Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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How Oscar-nominee "War Witch" improvised the gut-wrenching tale of child soldiers

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Amour" was always the clear favorite in the Oscar foreign-language category, and its win on Sunday was one of the least surprising parts of a generally unsurprising ceremony.

But if Michael Haneke's drama hadn't been in the mix, there's a good chance that Kim Nguyen's "War Witch" would have emerged as a serious contender for the prize.

The film is the wrenching story of a teenage girl who becomes a child soldier in an unnamed African country - and then, because she can see the dead, the "witch" of the gang of rebels.

Starring the remarkable Rachel Mwanza, who won the best-actress award at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, it will receive a post-Oscar release from Tribeca Film on Friday in New York and March 8 in Los Angeles.

Born in Montreal to a Vietnamese father and a French-Canadian mother, Nguyen has made four features. He was able to secure a visa for Mwanza and bring her to the Oscars.

How did you hit upon the story?

I was hunting for good stories, and I just found this amazing story about Johnny Htu, who was a Burmese child soldier. Johnny was nine years old, and he woke up one day and said he was the reincarnation of God. He became a kind of half God. He was forbidden to walk on the soil, because they were afraid it would soil his visions, so he was carried around all day. And he would smoke cigars every day.

As a storyteller I thought his story had power and humanity and all the elements that make a good film. And slowly I got pulled into the child-soldier element.

Did you meet with child soldiers while writing the script?

I went to Burundi to meet ex-child soldiers. What I saw in Africa was this complete superimposition of these heavy, intense, war-ridden countries where the love stories are the same as here. You still have boyfriends and girlfriends, and the girlfriends that are jealous because the boyfriend came home late last night. It's very simple. I find that odd and beautiful at the same time, and I wanted to try and convey that.

The story has its supernatural elements - but did you feel pressure to accurately convey a world of child soldiers in which truly horrifying things have happened?

Absolutely. And for me, the way to get it right was not to try to make the characters symbols for any political point of view. In fact, for many drafts we were so worried that we wouldn't give the right message that we weren't telling a good story. In the end, that was the greatest gift that this film has given me: to accept brutal honesty and truth.

In what way?

The best example is the rebels forcing children to kill their own parents. It's not a generalized way of indoctrination, but it's quite frequent. We kept trying to make it so maybe the didn't really kill her parents. Maybe she got slapped and lost consciousness, and the general put his finger on her finger, and we keep thinking that she did kill them but she didn't. And it didn?t work. In the end, we just had to say, "No, this is how it is."

Where did you find your lead actress, Rachel Mwanza?

Well, I was really fearful that we weren't going to find the right actress, because in this case I wouldn't have a movie. One of the reasons we chose to shot in the Congo is because there was great amazing natural talent there. I guess it?s from the heritage of verbal storytelling, you know?

And so we did an open call for actors. We already had the intuition that kids from the street could be pretty amazing, because of their rawness and their fearlessness. And it turned out to be pretty true. In the cases where these people could project their own personal lives onto the screen, it was just amazing. And Rachel was the best of them. She had this nonchalance. I guess when you live in the streets and you sleep on the side of the road, you don't care anymore about what people think. You're just there. And that's an amazing tool for an actor.

Was she living on the streets?

She was living on the streets. But as soon as we cast her we established a reinsertion program. She has a caretaker and she has a place to live, and she's back in school. But at the time she was still living on and off the streets.

Does she want to act more now?

She does. I'll have to be honest, there's a long way before she can work. She doesn't know how to read yet. She's learning, and she's getting better. And she has her Facebook page so we can contact her. But she's still a long way from understanding the subtleties of dialogue. I thinking there's at least five to 10 years of work.

So Uncle Kim, which is what I am, tells her that she should learn another trade. But she hates me for doing that. She's a teenager. We bought Rachel a phone, and she said, "Kim, I can't put music on this." There wasn't an MP3 reader and she couldn't take pictures, so she wanted a better phone.

How could she act in your film if she couldn't read?

Because we work in such a different way. The actors never read the script, and we filmed in continuity. Every day it was like directed improvisations. All of the script and the dialogue was written, but the idea was to direct the improvisation in such a way that the dialogue would appear even though they never read it.

And what's strange is that it did. Maybe 85 percent of what is on the page is there on the screen, and the rest is better.

How did you hit upon that process?

I had seen "Fish Tank," and Andrea Arnold's work method was a huge inspiration. It blew me away in regards to performances. For me, that's my mantra: everything for authentic performances. You don't have a film, for me, if you don't have those performances.

I think Andrea Arnold is really influenced by Cassavetes, and their approach really echoes what I want to do from now on: organize everything so the actors are projecting their own selves on the screen. It makes it really real and raw.

It is hard to get financing when the process is that unconventional?

It was for a while. But Canada has a funding system that is quite organized and specific, and we were fortunate that the script had the strength to convince script analysts that it should be done.

The hardest part was convincing people that there shouldn?t be Caucasian actors in the film. I've seen a lot of films where Africa gets saved, symbolically, by North America. And I wanted to give a voice to the real heroes in the stories.

You've made several other films, but "War Witch" was your first to get an Oscar nomination and receive this kind of attention. What was different this time around?

I do feel that "War Witch" was a breakthrough for me, where I was rediscovering my initial impulses to do film. The first three films, they're my babies and I love all of them. But I did feel that when I did the one before this, "City of Shadows," I had reached a kind of wall where the pressures of funding institutions, producers, co-production deals and all of that put a kind of varnish over the film that. It wasn't raw and I didn't feel that my hand was at the heart of the actors, in a way. I let down the actors because I didn't push them to where they should have gone.

But in a way, I guess you have to do these films and scrape your knees and stand up.

So what did you do differently?

The big thing was not overpreparing, oddly enough. You prepare in a different way. You prepare in the way of understanding the characters, understanding the people, getting drunk with people in Kinsasha and understanding their lives. It's not storyboarded anymore. It's more like, we look at what's happening and where the actors want to go and we bend our method to what they're doing on the set. Very different from the previous films.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oscar-nominee-war-witch-improvised-gut-wrenching-tale-224039529.html

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What's with Russia Buying Even More Gold?

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
By Michael Lombardi, MBA for Profit Confidential

Skepticism toward gold bullion prices is increasing. The bears and the mainstream media are focused on the price decline of gold bullion and are clearly not looking at the demand of the metal. The reality: demand for gold bullion is increasing.

As gold bullion prices have declined a little since the beginning of 2013, purchases of gold by central banks have increased. In January, central banks from countries like Russia, Turkey, and Kazakhstan continued to buy more gold bullion.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Russian central bank increased its gold bullion holdings by 12.2 metric tons in January to 970 tons. During 2012, the Russian central bank increased its holdings by 8.5%. (Source: Bloomberg, February 25, 2013.) If Russia keeps its gold-buying pace throughout 2013 at the same level as January, it will increase its holdings of gold bullion by 15% during the year.

Similarly, the central bank of Kazakhstan increased its gold bullion holdings by 1.5 tons in January, bringing its total holdings to 116.8 tons. Over 2012, Kazakhstan?s central bank increased its holdings of gold bullion by 41%.

Turkey?s central bank increased its gold bullion holdings by 84% in 2012. In January, the bank bought another 10.3 tons of the precious metal.

Keep in mind that these are not the only central banks buying gold bullion. As the list of central banks printing more money has increased, the number of gold bullion purchasers has grown.

Demand for gold bullion in India, which is the world?s biggest buyer, remains high. As the World Gold Council cites, gold bullion imports in India increased 62% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 255 tonnes. About 80% of India?s current account deficit (exports minus imports) is due to imports of gold bullion. (Source: The National, February 22, 2013.) To curb the demand, there are fears that the government of India might increase its import taxes on the gold bullion for the second time this year.

With all this demand for gold still present, what still holds true is that the supply for gold bullion hasn?t increased, while central banks around the world and consumers alike are running to buy the precious metal.

According to National Bank Financial, gold production is going to fall off a cliff in 2017. The main reasons: there hasn?t been any major discovery of the precious metal, and miners are delaying or cancelling projects due to increasing costs. (Source: Financial Post, February 5, 2013.)

Gold bullion, as I have repeatedly said in these pages, looks to be in a shiny spot. The current correction in gold prices we are experiencing is very normal in any long-term bull market. I continue to be bullish on gold bullion, because I still see increased demand by central banks and declining long-term supply. Until this imbalance of demand to supply changes, I expect gold bullion prices to outperform. (Also see ?Gold?s Price Correction: Separating the Men from the Boys.?)

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?Negro? will no longer be used on US Census surveys

WASHINGTON (AP) ? After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word ?Negro? to describe black Americans in surveys.

Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels ?black? or ?African-American?.

The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau?s racial statistics branch, said in an interview.

He pointed to months of public feedback and census research that concluded few black Americans still identify with being Negro and many view the term as ?offensive and outdated.?

?This is a reflection of changing times, changing vocabularies and changing understandings of what race means in this country,? said Matthew Snipp, a sociology professor at Stanford University, who writes frequently on race and ethnicity. ?For younger African-Americans, the term ?Negro? harkens back to the era when African-Americans were second-class citizens in this country.?

First used in the census in 1900, ?Negro? became the most common way of referring to black Americans through most of the early 20th century, during a time of racial inequality and segregation. ?Negro? itself had taken the place of ?colored.? Starting with the 1960s civil rights movement, black activists began to reject the ?Negro? label and came to identify themselves as black or African-American.

Still, the term has lingered, having been used by Martin Luther King Jr. in his speeches. It also remains in the names of some black empowerment groups that were established before the 1960s, such as the United Negro College Fund, now often referred to as UNCF.

For the 2010 census, the government briefly considered dropping the word ?Negro? but ultimately decided against it, determining that a small segment, mostly older blacks living in the South, still identified with the term. But once census forms were mailed and some black groups protested, Robert Groves, the Census Bureau?s director at the time, apologized and predicted the term would be dropped in future censuses.

When asked to mark their race, Americans are currently given a choice of five government-defined categories in census surveys, including one checkbox selection which is described as ?black, African Am., or Negro.? Beginning with the surveys next year, that selection will simply say ?black? or ?African American.?

In the 2000 census, about 50,000 people specifically wrote in the word Negro when asked how they wished to be identified. By 2010, unpublished census data provided to the AP show that number had declined to roughly 36,000.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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PFT: Pats extend Brady for 3 years, $27 million

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Last year, the NFL stripped $36 million in cap space from the Redskins, who along with the Cowboys apparently took the term ?uncapped year? too literally in 2010.

In response, the Redskins employed half-measures to recover the cap dollars, filing a grievance under the labor deal that did nothing other than stir up a cockeyed collusion claim from the NFLPA.

This year, with half of the penalty due to hit the 2013 salary cap, the Redskins could be opting for a more complete assault on the league?s position.? Or at least threatening it.

According to Mark Maske and Mike Jones of the Washington Post, the Redskins are spreading the word in Indianapolis that they?re considering legal action aimed at delaying the start of free agency while litigation proceeds regarding the question of whether the Redskins? legal rights were violated.? The Redskins are telling agents that any contract talks will be delayed until the situation is resolved.

If the Redskins proceed, it would be a big deal.? And if they delay the start of free agency until their claims are resolved, it would be a huge deal.

We addressed the situation a couple of weeks ago, reporting that the Redskins were still upset about the situation but explaining that their options are limited.? They could bebluffing about going to court in order to get, for example, half of their cap money back (i.e., the $18 million that would apply to this year?s cap).? But the NFL could choose to call their bluff and go to court.

Either way, Daniel Snyder could be inching toward ground previously occupied by the late Al Davis:? Snyder could soon be suing his partners.

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For some Indians, latest bombing brings sense of d?j? vu

Suleman Sultan, a survivor of a blast almost identical to the recent attack in Hyderabad, says the government's response is following the same old script.?

By Raksha Kumar,?Contributor / February 24, 2013

Hindu priests lift up an oil lamp as they perform an evening prayer ceremony for the victims of the explosions which took place in Hyderabad on Thursday, on the banks of the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad February 24.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited today the southern city of Hyderabad, the scene of a double bombing on Thursday.?The deadly attacks echoed another double blast six year ago here, as well as a long string of terrorist incidents around the country, most of which remain unresolved and have upended the lives of ordinary people.?

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Thursday's bombs ripped through the crowded?Dilsukhnagar area in quick succession killing 16 people and injuring more than 120. The city, including the volatile Old City area, has been peaceful since the blasts.

?I am happy that people of Hyderabad have refused to be provoked by this nefarious incident,? said Prime Minister Singh while speaking to the media.?

The plaudits, however, are not flowing as freely in the other direction, with Indian citizens and the media expressing weariness with the repetitive urban bombings over the years and the government's inability to solve and stop them.?

While in Hyderabad, Singh visited a hospital to meet with survivors of the blasts.?He had announced earlier a?compensation of 200,000 rupees ($3,700) to relatives of the deceased and 50,000 rupees?($900) to those severely injured in the attacks from the Prime Minister?s Relief Fund. The chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh, where Hyderabad is located, also announced additional compensation of 600,000 rupees ($11,900) each for the families of those killed in the blast, and assured that the government would bear the expense of the treatment of those who were injured.

This is d?j? vu for Suleman Sultan, a victim of one of the 2007 bombs that went off in a snack bar in Hyderabad.

?They gave me 200,000 rupees [$3,700] and took care of my treatment for five months in a hospital,? says Mr. Sultan. ?I guess, that is all the Indian state can offer its citizen, right?? he smiled a painful smile. Sultan's lower body is paralyzed after shrapnel from the bomb damaged his spinal cord. He had returned from Australia a few days before the 2007 blast and was very happy to have landed a job as a telecom engineer. He could not take that job and the mostly immobilized 28-year-old now must be supported by his father and younger brother.?

Sultan used to be edgy and irritable immediately after his surgery, he snapped at many a reporter, he confesses. He has mellowed down, says his mother. ?So much so, that my talkative child remains silent most of the time,? she adds.

It is customary for Indian authorities to offer compensation to high-profile victims of crime, disasters, or terrorism. But the money often cannot repair the damage done, and attention to victims and their cases wanes quickly.?

Like Thursday's attacks, the two bombs in 2007 ripped through crowded civilian areas?? an amusement park and a snack bar?? within a span of five minutes.?The explosive materials (ammonium nitrate and RDX ) used were the same in 2007 as the recent blasts.

Even though several people were arrested immediately after the blasts in 2007, no one has been convicted yet. The slow pace of investigation has frustrated the victims.

?Now you will hear the police saying similar things they did at that point. The conspiracy theories, the arrests, the acquittals will all take place and there will be more blasts again in a few years,? Sultan says.

Sultan?s prediction saw some truth on Sunday as newspaper reports pointed fingers at several possible suspected terrorist groups, notably the Indian Mujahideen, a banned terrorist organization. According to unnamed investigators in several newspapers, Indian Mujahideen?s co-founder, Yasin Bhaktal, is the main suspect. Mr. Bhaktal has been named almost every year in a terror attack in the country since 2007, but has always managed to escape.

"We have footage from the camera [at the blast site] which we are analyzing," said Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Anurag Sharma while speaking to media on Saturday. "We have not arrested anyone in this case. We are examining all types of evidences," he added.

?We are all Muslims, why don?t they understand that?? asked Sultan, as the group that is suspected of planting the bombs in 2007 was a Bangladesh-based militant group. As for the government, he asks: ?We want to live peacefully, and if we expect that from our elected representatives what is wrong in that??

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Elephant Seals Help Find Missing Piece in Global Climate Puzzle

The tagged animals traveled to and took measurements from a fourth known source of bottom water, a crucial oceanic heat-sink

By Richard A. Lovett and Nature magazine

Southern elephant seals fitted with satellite-linked instruments similar to the one above helped oceanographers map deep currents off Antarctica. Image: Flickr/Census of Marine Life E&O

By tracking the voyages of elephant seals off Antarctica, and with the help of satellite imaging and undersea sensors, researchers have discovered a long-elusive source for the deep-ocean streams of cold water that help to regulate the Earth's climate.

Antarctic bottom water (AABW) is cold, highly saline water that forms near the shores of Antarctica. Being denser than typical seawater, it sinks to the depths and then moves north in sluggish currents that spread across the globe.

Three sources of AABW were known until now. The first, in the Weddell Sea, was found in 1940; two others were found in the Ross Sea and along the Ad?lie Coast of East Antarctica in the 1960s and ?70s. But for years, researchers have suggested that these were not the only ones. In particular, water samples from an area called the Weddell Gyre contain atmospheric pollutants known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), indicating that the deep water came into contact with the air far too recently to have been carried there from one of the known AABW sinks.

Now, Kay Ohshima, a physical oceanographer at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and his colleagues have traced that water to a fourth AABW source, in the Cape Darnley polynya. Their results are published today in Nature Geoscience.

Polynyas are regions of open water near sea ice that are kept from freezing by wind and currents that sweep newly formed ice away. Polynyas have relatively high salinity, because most of the salt in sea water is expelled as it freezes.

Armed with the hypothesis that the missing source might be such a polynya, the researchers used satellite sensors to hunt for polynya regions where ice formed particularly rapidly. When satellite data suggested that Cape Darnley might be a candidate, the researchers moored instruments on the seabed, hoping to spot the descending current. In addition, they relied on data from elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) tagged with instruments that monitor ocean conditions.

?The seals went to an area of the coastline that no ship was ever going to get to, particularly in the middle of winter,? says Guy Williams, a physical oceanographer at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center in Hobart, Australia, and a co-author of the study.

The elephant seals confirmed the researchers' hunch. ?Several of the seals foraged on the continental slope as far down as 1,800 meters,? he says, ?punching through into a layer of this dense water cascading down to the abyss. They gave us very rare and valuable wintertime measurements of this process.?

The new finding fills a gap in researchers? understanding of the Southern Ocean?s role in global climate, ?including carbon dioxide, temperature, the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet and changes in sea level", says Richard Alley, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, who was not part of the study.

Still, Williams and Ohshima say that the Cape Darnley polynya represents, at most, about one-eighth of the world?s AABW, and that other, similar sources might remain to be discovered.

Michael Meredith, a polar oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, who wrote an accompanying commentary on the study, says that if the total rate of AABW formation declines, the resulting changes in cold-water circulation could have important effects on global climate, letting the ocean depths warm and thereby changing the rate of heat exchange between Antarctica and the tropics. Moreover, he says, sea levels could rise ? owing to the fact that water expands as it warms ? and temperature changes could affect deep-sea ecosystems.

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News in Brief: Nutrients matter in tropical forests

Soil phosphorus levels drive tree species? different growth patterns

By Meghan Rosen

Web edition: February 25, 2013

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In a Panamanian forest, a patch of phosphorus-rich soil (right) supports trees that lose their leaves, unlike the phosphorus-poor soil (left).

Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Don?t blame a lack of rain: A tropical forest of dry, bare-branched trees might be that way because of soil chock full of phosphorus.

In Panama?s dry season, leafy woodlands stand starkly next to forests of naked trees. Scientists had thought that rainfall caused the contrasting growth patterns because different soils there have different abilities to hold water. Narrow bands of rocky outcrops shoot through Panama?s soil, and rocky soils often hold little water.

But when ecologist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City and his colleagues analyzed samples from 72 forest sites across Panama, they found that soil moisture levels between neighboring leafy and leafless trees didn?t differ as much as they had expected.

Instead, phosphorus levels seemed to drive the growth patterns of leafy versus leafless trees, the researchers report online February 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The leafy trees, Condit says, evolved to live in low-phosphorus soils. Even in dry seasons, these trees hold onto their leaves ? losing water ? because nutrients are scarce, and making new leaves is expensive. Where phosphorus is abundant, however, trees can afford to dump their leaves, and grow new ones when the soil is wet.

The results surprised Condit. ?I didn?t expect nutrients to be so important.?

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SPORTS BRIEFS

SOCCER

Ghana star held by police

Former Fulham, West Ham and Leicester City defender John Paintsil was being held by police in Ghana on Friday after his wife was stabbed. An Accra police spokesman said they were called to a domestic incident in a suburb of the capital and Paintsil was arrested for allegedly chasing his wife into the garden of a neighbor and stabbing her. The spokesman said the woman is receiving hospital treatment for serious eye wounds after collapsing following the assault. Paintsil was part of Ghana?s 2006 and 2010 World Cup squads and the team that finished fourth this month behind Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.

TENNIS

Jankovic breezes through

Top seed Jelena Jankovic breezed through to the semi-finals of the US$235,000 WTA tournament in Bogota on Friday by beating Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-2, 6-1. The Serbian was joined in the last four of the clay court event by Karin Knapp of Italy, Argentina?s Paula Ormaechea and Teliana Pereira of Brazil. Knapp beat Lara Arruabarrena of Spain, 6-3, 6-3 while Ormaechea downed Spaniard Maria Teresa Torro 6-1, 7-5. Pereira cruised past Luxembourg?s Mandy Minella 6-1, 6-2 .

CRICKET

Windies rout Zimbabwe

Johnson Charles blazed a second consecutive century and Darren Bravo made a maiden limited overs ton as the West Indies crushed Zimbabwe by 156 runs to win the first one-day international in Grenada on Friday. Man of the match Charles hammered 130 and Bravo finished on an even, unbeaten 100 to lead the home side to an imposing 337-4 after being put in by Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor. While there was nothing like the capacity crowd that would have been hoped for on a day declared a national holiday by the newly elected government of the island, the fans who turned up stayed in a celebratory mood throughout. The visitors were limited to just 181-9 in reply, home spinner Sunil Narine leading the bowling effort with 3-28. Just the sixth West Indies player to compile consecutive one-day centuries, Charles, who closed off the series in Australia less than two weeks ago with a maiden hundred, picked up where he left off, his innings occupying 113 deliveries and decorated with 12 fours and four sixes.

SOCCER

Spurs, Hammers warn fans

Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United warned fans on Friday their behavior would be under scrutiny at tomorrow?s Premier League match at Upton Park in an effort to avoid a repeat of the anti-Semitic chanting that marred their last meeting. West Ham banned a season-ticket holder and promised action against other offenders after chanting in November?s match at White Hart Lane which Spurs won 3-1. ?We have made it very clear that we will not tolerate any form of discriminatory behaviour and one by one we will root out those fans that do not deserve to represent this great club of ours,? West Ham joint chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold said on the club?s Web site. During the November match there were reports of West Ham fans chanting ?Adolf Hitler, he?s coming for you,? and hissing, mimicking the gassing of Jews during the Holocaust. Tottenham have strong Jewish ties. Spurs said in a statement on their Web site that police had asked them to remind supporters that the behavior of both sets of fans would be under scrutiny.

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New Jersey, its "comeback" derailed, sets another budget

(Reuters) - A year ago, New Jersey's firebrand Republican Governor Chris Christie called on lawmakers to cut the state's income tax rate as part of the "New Jersey Comeback," a campaign aimed at boosting economic growth.

But the Democrat-led legislature effectively killed his tax cut when revenues lagged forecasts. Then Superstorm Sandy slammed the state, its full fiscal impact still uncertain.

As Christie gets ready to propose another budget on Tuesday, New Jersey, the 11th most populous state, is still in need of a comeback. It has the fourth highest unemployment rate of any U.S. state, at 9.6 percent, nearly 2 percentage points above the national rate. It was one of three states to report late in 2012 that revenues were lagging expectations.

New Jersey also faces a host of fiscal unknowns. State lawmakers, pundits, investors and Wall Street credit rating agencies will be watching Christie's presentation for answers.

"We've really got to see some concrete progress being made on the books," said Richard Ciccarone, chief research officer at McDonnell Investment Management in Illinois. "There were a lot of promises made? that they are going in the right direction."

REVENUES AND OTHER UNCERTANTIES

Christie had predicted revenue growth of more than 7 percent for fiscal year 2013, which ends on June 30. But so far this fiscal year, revenue is up only 3.9 percent through January to just under $13.1 billion.

That's $350 million, or 2.6 percent, under what's been budgeted for this year. However, the state is expecting its usual uptick in personal income tax collections in the month of April.

"While revenues on a year-over-year basis are better than they were in 2012, they're still falling below budget," said Marcy Block, a senior director at Fitch Ratings.

Fitch rates New Jersey's general obligation debt AA-minus with a stable outlook. Moody's Investors Service rates New Jersey Aa3 with a stable outlook.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service has an AA-minus rating and a negative outlook on the state, because of concerns over structural budgetary imbalances, growing fiscal pressures what it says are optimistic revenue assumptions.

"When they budget for revenues, they've got to be more conservative," Ciccarone said. "This is a consistent story, a pattern, no matter which way you dice the numbers." Christie is expected to present updated revenue forecasts on Tuesday.

He's also expected to reveal whether New Jersey will expand its Medicaid program under President Barack Obama's federal health care reform.

(For a graphic on Medicare expansion, click on http://link.reuters.com/teh26t)

Republican governors, including Christie, have criticized the law. But several have opted to expand anyway, including Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott, who reversed course on Wednesday and said the state would expand Medicaid.

Not expanding Medicaid could cost New Jersey $4.2 billion over the next nine years, according to a report published on Thursday by the left-leaning think-tank New Jersey Policy Perspective.

If it opted to expand, however, New Jersey could save $2.5 billion, the group said.

SANDY AND THE SHORE

New Jersey's short-term fiscal picture is also clouded by efforts to recover and rebuild after Sandy, which ravaged the region as it made landfall on October 29.

It's still not clear whether Sandy-related expenditures exceed funds the state has received. Fitch analysts have asked the state to walk them through the numbers, but that has not yet happened yet, according to Block.

New Jersey Assembly Budget Chair Vincent Prieto, a Democrat, said legislators don't know exactly what portion of the $50.5 aid package is headed for New Jersey.

The assembly's budget committee voted on Wednesday to give itself subpoena power over Christie administration officials, including State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, after he repeatedly declined to testify before the committee.

Christie said the subpoena vote was politically motivated.

Another question mark facing the state is whether the New Jersey shore, a major economic driver that was ravaged by Sandy, will be ready for tourists this summer season - and whether they'll come.

A Rutgers-Eagleton poll this month found that 63 percent of regular visitors to the shore planned to spend the same amount of time there this summer, with 13 percent saying their stays would be even longer than usual.

State Senate Republican Leader Thomas Kean Jr. said that the state is living within its means. Kean said he wouldn't be surprised if Christie again proposed a tax cut, but it wasn't certain, given the impact of Sandy.

"The New Jersey comeback is going to happen," Kean said.

(Reporting by Hilary Russ; Editing by Tiziana Barghini and David Gregorio)

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[NFL News] Manti Te'o Says There's No Indication Lennay Kekua Hoax Will Hurt His Draft Stock

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Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o told reporters Saturday that he has been given no indication that the Lennay Kekua hoax will hurt his stock in April's draft.

"No, not really," Te'o said during his media session at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. "They've told me that they've all just wanted to hear from me what the truth was. They haven't really said anything about it affecting me. ... (One team and I) briefly described it for 30 seconds and the next 14 minutes was about plays and getting down to business."

Te'o said that every team he has interviewed with so far has asked him about the scandal surrounding how he fell in love with a nonexistent woman invented by another man.

"They want to hear it from me," Te'o said. "They want to know what happened."

Te'o didn't get into too many details about the Internet scam, telling reporters that he is "focusing on football and the combine."

Te'o said that he already has met with the Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers and has interviews scheduled with 18 other teams.

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Surprise: Cockroaches are Fastidious Groomers!

Despite inhabiting sewers and cesspools, cockroaches are quite clean ? or at least their exteriors are, according to entomologist Coby Schal of North Carolina State University. That's because cockroaches are constantly grooming themselves, particularly their antennae. Publishing in PNAS, Schal and colleagues investigate why they groom.

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Time now for our Video Pick of the Week. Flora Lichtman is here. Welcome to the program. Flora's our correspondent and managing editor for video.

FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Ira.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: This one, this week...

LICHTMAN: I don't even know what to say.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Have you - make sure you've eaten your lunch or your breakfast.

LICHTMAN: It might be - it's going to be grossest video you've probably seen all week. But you should still watch it because it's fascinating.

FLATOW: You know how to sell it.

LICHTMAN: Yeah, I'm sorry. OK. Is it...

FLATOW: (Unintelligible) yeah.

LICHTMAN: The video is about the bathing habits of cockroaches. It's something you maybe didn't know you were interested in. But believe me, it really is amazing. So here's the first aha of this video and there are so many, thanks to entomologist Coby Schal, who studies them. So first of all, he told me that cockroaches are actually, in one way, at least, really clean. They're fastidious groomers. They spend a lot of time during the day grooming themselves. And they usually do it in this stereotyped manner where they start with their antennae and they take one opposing hand, pull down the antennae on the other side and then run it through their mandibles like dental floss.

FLATOW: Just picture that. Well, you don't have to picture it. It's up on website.

LICHTMAN: If you don't - you can see it...

FLATOW: You can see it up on our website...

LICHTMAN: ...in HD glory.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: ...up there at sciencefriday.com on our webpage. You can also take it along with you on your iPad or iPhone or Android. But they run - this is an amazing photo. It's - because this thing is huge. It's very long. The antennae is very, very long.

LICHTMAN: It is very long. And they run it from base to tip through their mouth. And they do this all the time. And Coby Schal wondered why are they spending all this time grooming? What are they actually grooming off? And he said there have been a lot of hypotheses about this, but no one had actually tested it. So they did a couple of things that are - it's so funny. So first of all, to test why a cockroach grooms, you have to prevent the cockroach from grooming, which presents an interesting challenge: How do you get the cockroach to cooperate with you?

And they came up with something sort of like one of those dog cones that prevents dogs from scratching. But it's a teeny, tiny antenna cone made from the tip of pipette that they put on the base of the antenna. So the cockroach can't actually pull it down. So on a cockroach now, they have one antenna that's being groomed and they have this other antenna that the cockroach can't groom anymore. So they can see what happens to the dirty antenna, and they find that all of this gunk starts to accumulate on the antenna.

And the gunk is actually these cuticular hydrocarbons. And they're sort of like a wax that the cockroach secretes to prevent itself from drying out. So that's good. But too much of it and it clogs the pores that are on the hairs that are on the antenna. And this actually is bad because they use these pores to smell.

FLATOW: They have to smell.

LICHTMAN: So complicated but amazing.

FLATOW: Yeah. Well, you don't want to get cockroach acne if you clog the pores. But that's something else.

LICHTMAN: And this is not just a hygiene thing.

FLATOW: This is not. So - that - and you can see this on our website at sciencefriday.com.

LICHTMAN: You can see this in glorious detail - glorious gross detail.

FLATOW: But there is one ending of this story.

LICHTMAN: Right. So this is amazing. Cockroaches have been unfairly maligned for all this time. But Coby Schal assured me that there's more to this story.

DR. COBY SCHAL: The other thing that comes into play here is that everything that a cockroach grooms off of its body, it ingests. So if the cockroach is in a sewer system and it's bathing in this cesspool of microbes that are pathogenic to humans, the cockroach then grooms itself, ingests these pathogenic microbes. And then as it makes its way into the kitchen, it can defecate those microbes onto our steak or spaghetti.

FLATOW: I told you eat to lunch first.

LICHTMAN: There you have it.

(LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: So there you have it. It's not exactly, you know, it maybe - keep itself tidy. But there...

FLATOW: The truth sometimes is hard to digest.

LICHTMAN: Ooh. Good one.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Well - and there - if you want to see the whole - it's a great video. If you want to see cockroaches grooming and what happens after they finish they're grooming, it's up there on our website at sciencefriday.com. It'll be up there on YouTube also. And how they figured - it's a great video, Flora.

LICHTMAN: And, you know, you could probably observe this if you live in New York in your own home.

FLATOW: Too many times.

(LAUGHTER)

LICHTMAN: Yeah.

FLATOW: Thanks a lot, Flora.

LICHTMAN: Bye.

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Supposedly haunted house up and moves

Here?s a new twist on an old ghost story: A house with a reputation for being haunted was filmed moving, literally, across town.

This time, however, ghosts were not to blame: Its original lot had been sold to one person, the house to another. As a result, the new owner of the 1865 Iowa home, Sherri Meeker, had the 100-ton structure moved five miles down the road.

Naturally, it caught the interest of the Web. The old house, supposedly haunted by evil spirits, bears a resemblance to the one on ?Nightmare on Elm Street? and is known around town as the "Haunted Mansion of Jasper County."

Some locals swear it has a spooky past. The three-story, wood-frame house sure looks haunted. Local news station KCCI even spent the night there in 1994 after hearing lots of stories about Regina Long, thought to be the original owner, who was said to float around it. Mike Salier, the homeowner at the time, said in the KCCI story: ?It's real. People think it's a lot of poppycock, but it's enough to make your skin crawl.?

The stories certainly were enough to get the Web buzzing over footage of the 150-year-old house slowly making its way down the road.

Of course, believers of the spooky tales are wondering if the spirits will pick up and move, or haunt the next structure that goes up in its place.

At the very least, it would make a good movie. And speaking of good horror movies, check out this Yahoo behind-the-scenes look at the making of a haunted house, with Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum.

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Increasing evidence links high glycemic index foods and dairy products to acne

Thursday, February 21, 2013

A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has determined that there is increasing evidence of a connection between diet and acne, particularly from high glycemic load diets and dairy products, and that medical nutrition therapy (MNT) can play an important role in acne treatment.

More than 17 million Americans suffer from acne, mostly during their adolescent and young adult years. Acne influences quality of life, including social withdrawal, anxiety, and depression, making treatment essential. Since the late 1800s, research has linked diet to this common disease, identifying chocolate, sugar, and fat as particular culprits, but beginning in the 1960s, studies disassociated diet from the development of acne.

"This change occurred largely because of the results of two important research studies that are repeatedly cited in the literature and popular culture as evidence to refute the association between diet and acne," says Jennifer Burris, MS, RD, of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. "More recently, dermatologists and registered dietitians have revisited the diet-acne relationship and become increasingly interested in the role of medical nutritional therapy in acne treatment."

Burris and colleagues, William Rietkerk, Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College, and Kathleen Woolf, of New York University's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, conducted a literature review to evaluate evidence for the diet-acne connection during three distinctive time periods: early history, the rise of the diet-acne myth, and recent research.

Culling information from studies between 1960 and 2012 that investigated diet and acne, investigators compiled data for a number of study characteristics, including reference, design, participants, intervention method, primary outcome, results and conclusions, covariate considerations, and limitations.

They concluded that a high glycemic index/glycemic load diet and frequent dairy consumption are the leading factors in establishing the link between diet and acne. They also note that although research results from studies conducted over the last 10 years do not demonstrate that diet causes acne, it may influence or aggravate it.

The study team recommends that dermatologists and registered dietitians work collaboratively to design and conduct quality research. "This research is necessary to fully elucidate preliminary results, determine the proposed underlying mechanisms linking diet and acne, and develop potential dietary interventions for acne treatment," says Burris. "The medical community should not dismiss the possibility of diet therapy as an adjunct treatment for acne. At this time, the best approach is to address each acne patient individually, carefully considering the possibility of dietary counseling."

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Mira Sorvino cast in Jim Gaffigan's CBS pilot

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mira Sorvino and Jim Gaffigan are getting hitched. At least on the small screen.

"The Replacement Killers" star Sorvino has signed on for Gaffigan's CBS comedy pilot. as the comedian's wife.

The as-yet-untitled, single-camera pilot stars comedian Gaffigan as a happily married and harried New York City father of five (as, perhaps not coincidentally, he is in real life). Sorvino will play Jeannie, a super-wife and super-mom of five who has a sixth child in the form of her husband, Jim.

Gaffigan and "Rescue Me" creator Peter Tolan are writing and executive producing the pilot, which comes from Sony Television in association with Fedora Entertainment. Michael Wimer and Alex Murray are also executive producing.

Sorvino had previously been cast in the TNT pilot "Trooper" from Jerry Bruckheimer, a procedural drama about a recently divorced mother of three and state trooper who takes an unconventional approach to her work.

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Israel's Oscar bid discomforts Netanyahu government

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Oscar-nominated Israeli documentary has brought little joy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, the focus of the film's criticism of Israel's policy toward the Palestinians.

Featuring searingly confessional interviews with six former chiefs of the shadowy security service Shin Bet, "The Gatekeepers" portrays the 46-year-old West Bank occupation and Jewish ultranationalism as threats to Israel's survival.

Its run for Sunday's Academy Awards comes at an awkward time for the conservative Netanyahu. He narrowly won an election last month that favored centrist rivals who, echoing world powers, demand he revive long-stalled Palestinian statehood talks.

Usually quick to congratulate Israelis who succeed abroad, Netanyahu has kept mum on "The Gatekeepers", which an aide said he had not seen. Reaction from other officials has been frosty.

Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said the Shin Bet veterans' interviews, in which they discuss episodes such as the agency-ordered killing of two captured Gazan bus hijackers and a plot by Jewish extremists to blow up a major Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, had been edited "to serve the Palestinian narrative".

"What was presented there was presented in a really one-sided manner, and therefore the film is slanted," Yaalon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party and a former military chief, told Israel's Army Radio.

Asked about the film during last month's World Economic Forum in Davos, Defence Minister Ehud Barak, the lone centrist in Netanyahu's outgoing coalition, offered tepid praise for its "testament to the fact that in Israel you can talk more freely, perhaps, than in any other place".

SPANNING DIVIDES

Also among the five contenders for the best documentary Oscar is "Five Broken Cameras", a sympathetic account of the Palestinian struggle against land seizures involved in the erection of Israel's West Bank barrier.

"Five Broken Cameras" was partly funded by an Israeli government-run cultural trust and involved an Israeli filmmaker, but its Palestinian director, Emad Burnat, has shunned suggestions that it augurs reconciliation between the sides.

While mostly well-received by Israeli audiences and film critics, "The Gatekeepers" broke little new ground politically. Four of the ex-Shin Bet chiefs had jointly aired similar public criticism against former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2003.

But interest has been piqued by the film's slick archive footage and digital reenactments, its international accolades and the fact its interviewees span current ideological divides.

One of them, Avi Dichter, is Israel's civil defence minister and a member of Likud and Netanyahu's inner security cabinet. Another, Yaakov Peri, is a lawmaker in Yesh Atid, the centrist party that was runner-up to Likud in the January 22 ballot.

"When you leave the service (Shin Bet), you become a bit of a leftist," Peri says in the film.

A third interviewee, Ami Ayalon, who once ran for the leadership of the centre-left Labour party, tells director Dror Moreh that Israelis suffer a strategic shortsightedness that could imperil their survival as a democracy.

"We win every battle, but lose the war," Ayalon says.

Moreh told Reuters this month that U.S. President Barack Obama should intervene in the conflict in his second term, comparing Palestinians and Israelis to kindergarten children.

"They need a grown-up to tell them, 'Enough! Israel, Palestine, this is what you need to do, do it.

Dichter, who said this week he had not yet seen the film, said it was "skewed, improper and tendentious" to criticise a serving prime minister, telling Israel's Channel Two television:

"The prime minister sets policy that is good for the State of Israel, not policy that is good for the Oscars."

(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israels-oscar-bid-discomforts-netanyahu-government-120830262.html

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