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Britain opens inquest into Berezovsky's unexplained death
By Maria Golovnina
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain opens a judicial inquiry into the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Thursday to establish how he died in the locked bathroom of his vast mansion near London.
Berezovsky, who survived years of intrigue, power struggles and assassination attempts in Russia, was found dead on Saturday in his home in Ascot, a town close to Queen Elizabeth's Windsor Castle.
Police said there was no sign of a struggle and the 67-year-old's death was "consistent with hanging", suggesting he might have killed himself.
Berezovsky was the king-maker behind Vladimir Putin's ascent to power in Russia but later became his number-one enemy and fled to Britain in 2000.
Berezovsky's associates have hinted he was depressed after losing a $6 billion court case against another tycoon, Roman Abramovich, last year, when a judge humiliated him publicly by saying he was an unimpressive and unreliable witness.
Other people close to him have said they were not convinced by the official account.
"If he really hanged himself why was that not known from the very beginning?" said Andrei Sidelnikov, an opposition figure who knew Berezovsky. "I don't believe it was a suicide."
In Russia, state media quoted Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Zvyagintsev as saying the government would continue efforts to "bring back assets that Berezovsky and his accomplices acquired criminally and legalized abroad".
Mass-circulation tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, which supports the Kremlin, ran a front page headline on Wednesday that read: "Did Berezovsky hang himself or did he have help?"
The inquest will open in the town of Windsor on Thursday.
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A master of political manipulation, Berezovsky had been known as the "godfather of the Kremlin" and wielded immense influence during a decade that followed the Soviet collapse.
Once a mathematician with Nobel Prize aspirations, he built a massive business empire under former President Boris Yeltsin and was the first of Russia's so-called oligarchs.
He then became one of the first victims of a ruthless political crackdown of the early Putin era after falling out with his prot?g?.
Once in exile, Berezovsky often said he feared for his life, particularly after the fatal poisoning of his friend and former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with a dose of the radioactive isotope polonium-210 in London in 2006.
Another friend and business partner, Badri Patarkatsishvili, also died in unclear circumstances two years later.
For many, Berezovsky personified the decade of wild capitalism, chaos and violence that followed the Soviet fall. He left a trail of enemies in Russia and beyond, and no doubt once featured on many a hit list.
Berezovsky survived an assassination attempt in 1994 when a bomb exploded in his car, decapitating his driver.
In his final months he led a much less extravagant life, apparently bitter and broken and rarely seen in public.
He suffered another blow in 2011 when he was forced to pay one of Britain's biggest divorce settlements to his former wife Galina. Media reported the settlement topped $100 million.
"My father was not the typical parent, nothing about him was ordinary," said his daughter Anastasia in a tribute. "He has colored my life in infinite ways, and I know that what he concerned himself most with was making all his children proud."
(Additional reporting by Steve Gutterman in Moscow; Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-opens-inquest-berezovskys-unexplained-death-231921302.html
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Real Estate Weekly ? Blog Archive ? Architects help Rust Belt city ...
The Rust Belt city of Buffalo, N.Y., is recasting itself as a home for high-tech industry and green infrastructure.
Central to this makeover is a new home for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at University of Buffalo, which is drawing attention from design, industry and government circles alike.
Designed by Perkins+Will New York, the memorable SEAS building ? also known as the Barbara and Jack Davis Hall ? brings world-class technology and a tech-savvy collaboration platform for University of Buffalo (UB) to expand research into nanotechnology, bio-based security systems, and green tech, among other fields.
Tracking LEED Gold, the building helps fulfill UB?s commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality by 2030.
Even more important, the school is drawing together high-tech and sustainability leaders to further Buffalo?s economic development.
Just last week, SEAS and the EPA hosted the ?Western New York Green Infrastructure Forum,? which drew together architects, engineers, government administrators and scientists from around the country.
The $75 million, 130,000 s/f Davis Hall classroom and laboratory building is home to SUNY-Buffalo?s computer science and electrical engineering departments and was built by Turner?s New York City office.
Its hybrid design offers interactive and collaborative learning spaces thanks to a multi-story glass gallery space that integrates pedestrian traffic through the building into campus. It also features a state-of-the-art ?cybertorium,? or ?smart? auditorium.
The hybrid design stresses the value of interactive space for learning and discovery at SEAS. Organized around a glass-enclosed, multi-story gallery that facilitates pedestrian traffic into the existing campus, this colorful and dynamic architecture creates an interactive education/research environment.
?Perkins+Will is proud to work with the University of Buffalo to help launch a new generation of interdisciplinary, innovative and sustainable buildings on the UB Campus with the design of the Barbara and Jack Davis Hall,? said Robert Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal.
?The hybrid program, sculptural form and interactive spaces of the building make a bold statement about the University?s commitment to explore new directions in research, education and collaboration.?
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Teens' struggles with peers forecast long-term adult relationships
Mar. 28, 2013 ? Teenagers' struggles to connect with their peers in the early adolescent years while not getting swept along by negative peer influences predict their capacity to form strong friendships and avoid serious problems even ten years later. Those are the conclusions of a new longitudinal study by researchers at the University of Virginia that appears in the journal Child Development.
"Overall, we found that teens face a high-wire act with their peers," explains Joseph P. Allen, Hugh P. Kelly Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia, who led the study. "They need to establish strong, positive connections with them while at the same time establishing independence in resisting deviant peer influences. Those who don't manage this have significant problems as much as a decade later."
Researchers followed about 150 teens over a 10-year period (starting at age 13 and continuing to 23) to learn about the long-term effects of their peer struggles early in adolescence. They gathered information from multiple sources -- the teens themselves, their parents and peers, and by observing teens' later interactions with romantic partners. The teens comprised a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse group.
Teens who had trouble connecting well with their peers in early adolescence had difficulty establishing close friendships in young adulthood. Teens who didn't connect well at 13 also had more difficulty managing disagreements in romantic relationships as adults.
Teens who had trouble establishing some autonomy and independence with peers (especially with respect to minor forms of deviance such as shoplifting and vandalism) were found to be at higher risk for problems with alcohol and substance use, and for illegal behavior, almost a decade later.
Conversely, teens who were seen as desirable companions -- those deemed empathetic, able to see things from different perspectives and control their impulses, and having a good sense of humor -- were more likely to have positive relationships in young adulthood.
Teens who were able to establish some autonomy vis a vis peers' influences were more likely to avoid problematic behavior in young adulthood, with teens who showed they were able to think for themselves in the face of negative peer influences using less alcohol as early adults and having fewer problems with alcohol and substance abuse as young adults. But teens who were seen as desirable companions were more likely to have higher levels of alcohol use in early adulthood and future problems associated with alcohol and substance use.
"The findings make it clear that establishing social competence in adolescence and early adulthood is not a straightforward process, but involves negotiating challenging and at times conflicting goals between peer acceptance and autonomy with regard to negative peer influences," Allen notes.
"Teaching teens how to stand up for themselves in ways that preserve and deepen relationships -- to become their own persons while still connecting to others -- is a core task of social development that parents, teachers, and others can all work to promote," adds Allen.
Teens who managed both of these goals simultaneously -- connecting with peers while retaining their autonomy -- were rated by their parents as being most competent overall by age 23. "There is a positive pathway through the peer jungle of early adolescence," says Allen, "but it is a tricky one for many teens to find and traverse."
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- Joseph P. Allen, Joanna Chango, David Szwedo. The Adolescent Relational Dialectic and the Peer Roots of Adult Social Functioning. Child Development, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12106
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Prostate Cancer Linked to Early Balding in African-American Men ...
Going bald early may increase your risk for prostate cancer ? especially if you?re an African- American man. That?s the finding of a new study from the American Association for Cancer Research.
In the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention,?researchers report on more than 300 African-American men with prostate cancer and more than 200 control cases, who participated in the Study of Clinical Outcomes, Risk and Ethnicity between 1998 and 2010. The men had either a full head of hair or frontal or vertex (crown) baldness.
?We focused on African-American men because they are at high risk for developing prostate cancer and are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than other groups in the United States,? said Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, Ph.D., research assistant professor at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, in a press release. ?Although this is a high-risk group for poor prostate cancer outcomes, no published study had focused on evaluating baldness as a potential risk factor in a sample of African-American men.?
Researchers found a 69 percent increased risk of prostate cancer among the men with any form of baldness. Risk for advanced prostate cancer diagnosis more than doubled in men with frontal baldness, an association that was even stronger among African-American men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer before age 60.
?Early-onset baldness may be a risk factor for early-onset prostate cancer in African-American men, particularly younger men,? added Zeigler-Johnson. ?Pending future studies to confirm our results, there is a potential to use early-onset baldness as a clinical indicator of increased risk for prostate cancer in some populations of men.?
In the United States, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with higher rates in African-American men, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it is the second most common cause of death in most American men.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Superstars whose careers ended at WrestleMania
It?s no secret that a WrestleMania match is the goal of every Superstar who steps through the doors of WWE. It?s called The Showcase of the Immortals for a reason ? only the best and brightest are featured, and a bout at the big dance can solidify a performer?s reputation as a star of the future or cement him or her as a main-event icon for WWE. But The Show of Shows can also be a bittersweet event, as it is often the night when legends of the highest caliber bid their farewells to the squared circle with one final, epic bout before hanging up their boots.
WrestleMania 29 might just prove to be one of those instances, as Triple H has put his in-ring career on the line in a No Holds Barred Match against Brock Lesnar, a Superstar who beat him to the point of near-retirement once already at SummerSlam 2012. This particular piece of WrestleMania history has yet to be written, but as The King of Kings prepares to set foot on The Grandest Stage of Them All for potentially the last time, WWE.com looks back at six Superstars who ? voluntarily or otherwise ? ended their careers under the bright lights of WrestleMania.
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20th Annual Boat, Sport & RV Show - UpperMichigansSource.com
MARQUETTE -- Hundreds of people filled the Superior Dome for the Boat, Sport, and RV Show Saturday.
Outdoor enthusiasts got an up close look at ORVs, bikes, and much more. Even kids had fun fishing in the outdoor pond.
Many say it is nice to have everything in one place.
"You got all the people here to explain things to you, show you the newest things out on the market, and just all the people that are here. There are very knowledgeable people and it's a good place to see. You don't have to go drive from store to store. Everything's right here," said Tom Callahan.
The show continues Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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New lung cancer study takes page from Google's playbook
Mar. 25, 2013 ? The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Research.
A team of researchers used an algorithm similar to the Google PageRank and to the Viterbi Algorithm for digital communication to analyze the spread patterns of lung cancer. The team includes experts from the University of Southern California (USC), Scripps Clinic, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York.
"This research demonstrates how similar the Internet is to a living organism," said USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor Paul Newton, Ph.D., the lead and corresponding author of the study. "The same types of tools that help us understand the spread of information through the web can help us understand the spread of cancer through the human body."
Employing a sophisticated system of mathematical equations known as a Markov chain model, the research team -- guided by USC applied mathematicians- found that metastatic lung cancer does not progress in a single direction from primary tumor site to distant locations, which has been the traditional medical view. Instead, they found that cancer cell movement around the body likely occurs in more than one direction at a time.
Researchers also learned that the first site to which the cells spread plays a key role in the progression of the disease. The study showed that some parts of the body serve as "sponges" that are relatively unlikely to further spread lung cancer cells to other areas of the body. The study identified other areas as "spreaders" for lung cancer cells.
The study revealed that for lung cancer, the main spreaders are the adrenal gland and kidney, whereas the main sponges are the regional lymph nodes, liver and bone.
The study applied the advanced math model to data from human autopsy reports of 163 lung cancer patients in the New England area, from 1914 to 1943. This time period was targeted because it predates the use of radiation and chemotherapy, providing researchers a clear view of how cancer progresses if left untreated. Among the 163 patients, researchers charted the advancement patterns of 619 different metastases to 27 distinct body sites.
The study's findings could potentially impact clinical care by helping guide physicians to targeted treatment options, designed to curtail the spread of lung cancer. For example, if the cancer is found to have moved to a known spreader location, imaging tests and interventions can be quickly considered for focused treatment before the cells may be more widely dispersed. Further study is needed in this area.
Keeping tabs on cancer's movement in the body is vital to patient care. While a primary cancer tumor (confined to a single location) is often not fatal, a patient's prognosis can worsen if the cancer metastasizes -- that is, flakes off and travels to other parts of the body to form new tumors.
The study is part of a relatively new movement to involve physical sciences in oncology research. Mathematics probability models that interpret data from specific patient populations offer a new alternative to the established approach of relying on broader clinical trends to predict where, and how fast, cancer will spread.
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Switched On: Higher stakes, higher ground for crowdfunding, part 1
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
The power of crowdfunding is that, by aggregating relatively modest donations from what is often hundreds or even thousands of backers, consumers can help artists and inventors turn ideas or concepts into reality. The Pebble smartwatch that set the record for funds raised on Kickstarter was noteworthy for breaking the $10 million barrier. That money, though, came from nearly 69,000 backers.
Today, the two biggest crowdfunding destinations, Indiegogo and Kickstarter, offer different approaches to what gets presented on their sites. Indiegogo is a completely open site; there is virtually no screening of projects. Kickstarter, on the other hand, is a curated site. Projects must meet a range of criteria. As co-founder Yancey Strickler recently explained at Engadget Expand, the roots of Kickstarter were in the funding of creative and social pursuits. Kickstarter has been a haven for artists such as photographers looking to create a photo book or musicians seeking to cut a first album or create a music video.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Studies tie stress from storms, war to heart risks
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks struggling through that country's financial turmoil.
Disasters and prolonged stress can raise "fight or flight" hormones that affect blood pressure, blood sugar and other things in ways that make heart trouble more likely, doctors say. They also provoke anger and helplessness and spur heart-harming behaviors like eating or drinking too much.
"We're starting to connect emotions with cardiovascular risk markers" and the new research adds evidence of a link, said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center and an American Heart Association spokeswoman.
She had no role in the studies, which were discussed Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco.
The largest, involving 207,954 veterans in California and Nevada ages 46 to 74, compared those with PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, to those without it. They were free of major heart disease and diabetes when researchers checked their Veterans Administration medical records from 2009 and 2010.
Checked again about two years later, 35 percent of those with PTSD but only 19 percent of those without it had developed insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes and hardening of the arteries.
Doctors also saw higher rates of metabolic syndrome ? a collection of heart disease risk factors that include high body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. About 53 percent of veterans with PTSD but only 37 percent of those without it had several of these symptoms.
The numbers are estimates and are not as important as the trend ? more heart risk with more stress, said one study leader, Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi, a cardiologist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a professor at UCLA. It shows that PTSD can cause physical symptoms, not just the mental ones commonly associated with it.
"Twenty or 30 years ago PTSD was a term reserved for combat veterans. We have come to realize now that PTSD is actually a much more common disorder and it can happen in veterans who did not undergo combat but had a very traumatic experience" such as losing a friend, he said.
That goes for others who suffer trauma such as being raped, robbed at gunpoint or in a serious accident, he said. Nearly 8 million Americans have PTSD, the National Institute of Mental Health estimates.
They include survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Tulane Medical Center doctors led a study of their hospital's patients that suggests heart attack incidence is three times higher in New Orleans than it was in the two years before the 2005 storm.
Heart attacks made up 2.4 percent of admissions in the six years after the storm compared to just .7 percent before it. The post-storm patients were more likely to be unemployed or uninsured, to smoke, and to have depression, anxiety or high cholesterol, resarchers found. A third study found that heart attacks rose sharply in the Messinia area of southwestern Greece since January 2008, the start of that country's financial crisis. Researchers compared medical records of more than 22,000 patients admitted to the General Hospital of Kalamata ? the only hospital with a cardiology department in the region.
There were 1,084 heart attacks in the four years after the crisis began compared to 841 in the four years before it, even though the population and its demographics remained the same.
Heart attack incidence rose 40 percent among women, who have higher unemployment rates than men and tend to be more responsible for child care ? a double burden of stress, said the lead researcher, Dr. Emmanouil Makaris.
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No. 1 Gonzaga beats LMU 66-48 to reach WCC final
Gonzaga's Elias Harris, of Germany, shoots during the second half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game against Loyola Marymount, Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga defeated Loyola Marymount 66-48. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Gonzaga's Elias Harris, of Germany, shoots during the second half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game against Loyola Marymount, Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga defeated Loyola Marymount 66-48. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Gonzaga's Drew Barham passes as Loyola Marymount's Nick Stover defends during the first half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game on Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Loyola Marymount's Alex Osborne and Gonzaga's Mike Hart reach for a rebound during the first half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Gonzaga's Kevin Pangos, of Canada, center, shoots while covered by Loyola Marymount's Nick Stover, left, and Alex Osborne, right, during the second half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game on Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga defeated Loyola Marymount 66-48. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Gonzaga's Kevin Pangos (4), of Canada, defends against Loyola Marymount during the second half of a West Coast Conference tournament NCAA college basketball game on Saturday, March 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga switched to a zone defense during the second half and defeated Loyola Marymount 66-48. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? For the first time in school history, Gonzaga stepped on the floor as the top-ranked team in the country.
Thanks to a second-half surge Saturday night in the semifinals of the West Coast conference tournament, it'll step on the floor Monday night in the championship game of the event as the nation's No. 1 team for a second straight week.
Elias Harris had 21 points and eight rebounds to lead Gonzaga over Loyola Marymount 66-48.
Bidding for a top seed in the NCAA tournament, the Bulldogs (30-2) advanced to play for the league championship against Saint Mary, a 69-66 winner over San Diego in the late semifinal.
Challenged in the first half by a team that went 1-15 in WCC play this season, Gonzaga turned up the defensive intensity and opened the second half on a 19-5 run to seize momentum.
Though it needed a last-second basket by Sam Dower to take a 27-26 lead into halftime, Gonzaga outscored the Lions 39-22 in the second half.
Kevin Pangos added 14 points and Kelly Olynyk had eight points and eight rebounds for the Zags.
Anthony Ireland led Loyola Marymount (11-23) with 19 points.
"LMU is a bunch of fighters," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "They are tough and reflect the personality of their coach. I thought we played excellent defense all night, especially in the second half. We finally got our offense going in the second half."
After shooting 40 percent (8 of 20) from the field in the first half, including 4 of 10 from beyond the arc, the Lions shot a dismal 7 of 29 (24.1 percent) from the field in the second. LMU was an abysmal 1 of 10 from 3-point range.
Conversely, the Zags turned it around after a horrendous first half ? during which they went 9 of 24 from the field and 1 of 7 on 3s ? and was a blistering 11 of 22 from the floor, including 4 of 7 from long range.
"We played with more emotion in the second half," Harris said. "We came out flat in the beginning and knew we that we had to change that."
The Lions forced 45 turnovers ? and committed only 32 ? in their first three games of the tournament, but last night came up against a Gonzaga team much more disciplined than their previous foes, and bit more tenacious on defense. And while LMU committed 16 miscues, compared to Gonzaga's 13, the Bulldogs outscored the Lions 19-6 off turnovers.
Gonzaga also outrebounded the Lions 38-31, while outscoring them in the paint 28-12.
"I have tremendous respect for coach Few and the Gonzaga team," Loyola coach Max Good said. "They are very talented. They are well coached and play with a lot of class. Our lack of size hurt us against a team with the big men of Gonzaga. We had to hustle and scrap, which we did, but in the end it just wasn't enough."
Much of the Zags' domination came in the second half, though, as LMU refused to go away over the first 20 minutes. The Lions held Gonzaga scoreless early on, for a little more than three minutes, while going on a 9-0 run to take a 14-9 lead. The Bulldogs returned the favor by going on a 7-0 run, while holding Loyola scoreless for a bit less than three minutes, to take a 16-14 lead.
From there the two continued to play back and forth while neither built a margin bigger than two points, with the lead changing hands seven times over the final 4:16 of the half.
The ninth-seeded Lions, who posted one win in the first two months of the calendar year, tripled that figure in the WCC tournament with three straight wins to get to the semifinals.
LMU knocked off No. 8 Portland 65-54 on Wednesday to wedge its way into the bracket. The Lions upset No. 5 San Francisco 61-60 in overtime on Thursday then stunned fourth-seeded Santa Clara 60-58 on Friday.
Harris said the WCC tournament was "great preparation" for the NCAA championship games, saying "it's getting us well-prepared for the more competitive challenge."
The Bulldogs, who earned the WCC's top seed for the 13th time, were the first team to go 16-0 in the league in the two years of the 16-game format. It was their fourth undefeated West Coast campaign, also going unbeaten in 2004, 2006 and 2009, when the conference played a 14-game schedule, prior to BYU joining the conference.
"Over this great run with great players (a No. 1 national ranking and a 30-win season) are things that we have not been able to accomplish," Few said. "They are both special because it is a culmination of an entire year of work, not just a week or two of being hot."
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Congress wants role as Obama pushes trade agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration has embarked on an aggressive trade agenda that could lower barriers and increase U.S. exports to many of the economic giants of Asia and Europe. To make that a reality, though, it may first have to negotiate future trade policy a little closer to home ? with Congress.
The administration hopes to complete talks by October on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would reduce duties on a wide range of goods and services in the world's most vibrant trading area. Eleven countries, including Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico and Canada, are participating, and Japan has expressed interest in joining.
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced plans for a second deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which would link the United States and the European Union, the world's two largest economies.
Departing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk added to the agenda in January when he notified Congress of plans to start negotiations for a new trade agreement on international trade in services. The talks will include a group of 20 trading partners representing nearly two-thirds of global trade in services.
Obama has set a goal of doubling exports by the end of next year, after drawing criticism from free-trade advocates during his first term for moving too slowly on trade issues.
"The Obama administration suddenly has this highly ambitious trade agenda that they've laid out," said John Murphy, vice president for international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "Now the challenge is going to be executing."
First, Obama must nominate a successor to Kirk, who in January announced plans to step down. Then, he has to work with lawmakers to restore a procedure called trade promotion authority that is regarded as key to getting trade treaties finalized and approved by Congress.
TPA, also known as "fast track," has a history going back to the 1930s and was formalized in a 1974 trade law. Under TPA, Congress and the White House agree on the objectives of trade negotiations, and Congress affirms that it will vote on any trade treaty without offering amendments that would force the administration to go back to the negotiating table.
The last TPA law expired in 2007, and up to now, the Obama White House hasn't pushed for its renewal. Without TPA on the books, trade partners are reluctant to sign off on deals that could later be amended.
That could be fatal to some complex trade deals, such as the future talks with the EU where success hinges on reaching delicate compromises on such issues as European agriculture subsidies and Europe's restrictions on genetically engineered crops.
A strong trade agenda, said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, requires close cooperation and consultation with Congress, and "trade promotion authority is the linchpin that brings these elements together."
Members of Obama's Democratic Party tend to oppose TPA, arguing that trade pacts negotiated by past administrations have resulted in job losses in America and given short shrift to environmental and labor and human rights issues. The last TPA law was passed in 2002 by the slimmest of margins, with House votes of 215-214 and 215-212.
More than 300 labor and environmental groups, in a letter last week opposing the Trans-Pacific talks, said no TPA legislation should be considered without a thorough assessment of how a trade deal will affect job creation, environmental and labor rights, food sovereignty, access to medicine and other issues.
The administration is coming off a good two years on trade. In 2011, it succeeded in getting Congress to approve three bilateral free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama and extend a law that helps workers hurt by foreign competition. Last December, Congress sent the president legislation that removed Cold War restrictions standing in the way of permanent normal trade relations with Russia.
The three free trade bills, negotiated by the George W. Bush administration and reworked after Obama took office, were all covered by the TPA law in effect before 2007.
The administration, in its trade policy agenda report released last week, pledged to work with Congress on TPA "to facilitate the conclusion, approval and implementation of market-opening negotiating efforts."
Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., who oversees trade policy as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he was disappointed the administration has not engaged with Congress on TPA and urged Obama to both nominate a qualified trade representative and immediately begin discussions on renewing the fast track law.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., joined Hatch in a letter to Kirk that welcomed the US-EU talks and said they "intend to intensify efforts to ensure prompt consideration and renewal of trade promotion authority."
"It is our hope and expectation that the administration will join us in these efforts," they wrote.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congress-wants-role-obama-pushes-trade-agenda-163941793--politics.html
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Jones, Hosmer lead US past Canada, move up in WBC
United States' Adam Jones (10) celebrates his run scored against Canada with teammate Jimmy Rollins (11) in the eighth inning during a World Baseball Classic baseball game on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
United States' Adam Jones (10) celebrates his run scored against Canada with teammate Jimmy Rollins (11) in the eighth inning during a World Baseball Classic baseball game on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
United States' Craig Kimbrel shouts and pumps his fist as Canada coach Tim Leiper puts his hands on his hips after the final out is recorded in the ninth inning for a United States win during a World Baseball Classic baseball game on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
United States' Adam Jones connects with the ball in the ninth inning during a World Baseball Classic baseball game against Canada on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
United States' Shane Victorino, left, Ben Zobrist (12) and Adam Jones (10) celebrate a win over Canada after the ninth inning in a World Baseball Classic baseball game on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Canada's Taylor Green (5) flips his bat in the air after striking out in the seventh inning during a World Baseball Classic baseball game against the United States on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Phoenix. The United States defeated Canada 9-4. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
PHOENIX (AP) ? Running out of outs, Adam Jones and the United States suddenly broke loose and saved themselves from a humbling loss.
Now, thanks to a fast finish, they're heading to Miami for the next round of the World Baseball Classic.
Jones doubled in the tying and go-ahead runs in the eighth inning, Eric Hosmer hit a three-run double in the ninth and the U.S. scored seven times in the last two innings to beat Canada 9-4 on Sunday.
"Words can't describe it," Hosmer said, recalling how he felt standing on second base after his big hit. "It is hard to hold your emotions right there. It is just an unbelievable feeling and when you hear the crowd chant 'USA' and the other crowd chanting 'Canada,' it is an unbelievable experience."
The winner of the game moved on, the loser went home. And for a long while, it didn't look good for manager Joe Torre's team.
"It would have been embarrassing," second baseman Brandon Phillips said. "I would have been embarrassed. USA, this is where baseball started and we represent our country. I just feel that if we had lost, we didn't do our job. We have to go out there and try to be the first American team to win the WBC. That is our goal."
The U.S. trailed 3-2 after seven innings before rallying. Team USA and Italy each went 2-1 and advanced in Group D while Canada and Mexico went 1-2 and were eliminated.
"We believed in ourselves and turned it around," Phillips said, "and that is a beautiful thing."
Jones and Hosmer both had a rough week at the plate but came through with the United States on the brink of defeat. Jones' hit was his second in nine at-bats. Hosmer, a late replacement on the U.S. roster for injured Matt Teixeira, was 3 for 13.
Torre said the U.S. lineup had too much talent not to finally come through.
"Those two balls that were hit, both Jones and Hosmer, were about as hard as you'll ever see," Torre said, "because I think both times the center fielder thought he had a shot at it, and he just had no chance. That ball just took off over their heads. They creamed those."
Phillips, a three-time Gold Glove winner, also contributed. He made a diving stop to prevent Canada from tying it in the eighth, then doubled and scored in the ninth.
Heath Bell pitched a scoreless seventh for the win. Jimmy Henderson took the loss.
Canada's Michael Saunders, of the Seattle Mariners, hit a two-run homer off starter Derek Holland and was chosen the Group D MVP, going 8 for 11 in the tournament with seven RBIs.
"It's an honor," Saunders said, "but it's really kind of a sour taste in my mouth right now."
Canada manager Ernie Whitt called Saunders "an up-and-coming outfielder that's going to be a superstar."
The United States won Group D, taking the tiebreaker thanks to its 6-2 victory over the Italian squad. The U.S. plays Group C runner-up Puerto Rico on Tuesday night in Miami. Italy faces the Dominican Republic, which went 3-0 to win Group C.
David Wright, whose grand slam lifted the U.S. past Italy on Saturday night, doubled and walked three times. Ben Zobrist had three hits, none of which left the infield.
Canada, coming off a 10-3 win over Mexico that featured a bruising ninth-inning brawl, finished 1-2. The Canadians have not made it out of the first round in any of the three WBCs.
They looked in great shape much of the afternoon against the United States, which was looking to avoid its worst showing ever in the tournament. The Americans made it to the second round in 2006 and the semifinals in 2009.
For the third straight game, the U.S. fell behind early.
Justin Morneau, 8 for 12 in the tournament for Canada, doubled to start the second, then Saunders hit Holland's 1-0 pitch into the bullpen down the right-field line to make it 2-0.
The U.S. tied it with two runs in the fourth, one unearned.
Joe Mauer led off with a single and Wright walked. Zobrist put down a near-perfect bunt for a base hit, with third baseman Taylor Green throwing wildly to first and allowing a run to score. Jones' sacrifice fly to center brought in the tying run.
Green, playing third for Canada because Brett Lawrie was hurt just before the WBC began, also had an error in the second when he dropped Zobrist's high pop fly in the bright sunlight.
Canada regained the lead at 3-2 in the sixth. Joey Votto drew a leadoff walk from reliever Glen Perkins and went to second on Morneau's single. Saunders struck out looking and Chris Robinson flied out, advancing the runner to third. Adam Loewen's first-pitch single brought Votto home.
Mauer opened the eighth with a single, then Wright walked. Torre made an aggressive move when, with Willie Bloomquist pinch running for Mauer, he sent both runners on Henderson's 1-2 pitch to Jones. Jones connected, bringing both runners home and the United States had the lead for good. Shane Victorino singled Jones home to make it 5-3.
Canada made it a one-run game in its half of the eighth but would have tied it had it not been for a spectacular defensive play by Phillips. His diving stop of Loewen's bases-loaded grounder allowed one run to score, but kept the U.S. in the lead.
The U.S. broke it open against Scott Mathieson and closer John Axford in the ninth.
Phillips started it with a double. Jonathan Lucroy had an RBI single, then Wright walked once again. Axford came on and allowed an infield single to Zobrist. Jones struck out, but Hosmer cleared the bases with a shot to deep center.
Torre benched Miami's dynamic young slugger Giancarlo Stanton in favor of Victorino in left field. He also moved Ryan Braun to designated hitter and put Zobrist in right. Mauer, the DH in the first two games, was the starting catcher. Stanton was hitless in the first two games, although he did have a pair of deep fly balls in the opening loss to Mexico.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Google Avoids Link Tax But Ambiguous New - DeonDesigns.ca
In August of last year, a number of German lawmakers were pressing proposed??ancillary copyright? legislation that would have required Google and others that indexed or aggregated news to pay for links or excerpts from those news items.
The proposed law was?championed?by German magazine and newspaper publishers who, like their counterparts in the US, are seeing declining readership and ad sales.
The law did pass in the German?parliament, but Bloomberg reports that a compromise reached earlier this week stayed in. That compromise will allow Google (and others) ?to display ?single words or very small text excerpts? referring to publishers? websites at no cost. For content exceeding these limits, publishers retain the ?exclusive right of use,? according to the bill.
However, there also apparently remains ambiguity?about exactly how much can be excerpted without a content license (see the postscript below). In the US, the ?fair use? doctrine under the First Amendment would prohibit any similar proposal from becoming law.
In France, Google also recently?avoided a ?link tax? by agreeing to create a ?60 million ?Digital Publishing Innovation Fund? to ?help stimulate innovation and increase revenues for French publishers.?
For a great deal more background, see our previous stories below:
Postscript: The following statement was released earlier today by?the?European Publishers Council:
EUROPE?S PUBLISHERS WELCOME NEW GERMAN LAW TO FORCE CONTENT?AGGREGATORS AND SEARCH ENGINES TO RECOGNISE COPYRIGHT
The European Publishers Council (EPC) welcomes today?s decision by the German Bundestag to approve an ancillary copyright for news publishers in law that means that search engines and other aggregators who commercialise publishers? content will no longer be able to do so without permission. The ?Leistungsschutzrecht,? as it is know in German, will pave the way for commercial negotiations between the parties on the price for the commercial use of publishers? content.
EPC Chairman and CEO of Impresa in Portugal, Francisco Pinto Balsem?o, said: ?The EPC welcomes this important vote in the German Bundestag today which recognises clearly in copyright law both the value and the cost of investment in professional journalistic content.?
The new law will only apply to those companies who exploit commercially third party content such as content aggregators and search engines. The proposed provision signifies no change at all to possible uses by other users, or for consumers, bloggers or companies and associations who may use links or cite passages of published content.
News publishers can now demand that search engines and other providers of such services that aggregate their content, refrain from unauthorised forms of usage. These companies will need licences for such usage in the future.
The EPC believes that this law will help establish a market for aggregator content. New innovative business models can now be built based on legally licensed content.
Meanwhile the EPC is actively working on creating the technical infrastructure that will facilitate the communication of online digital rights. Its project, the Linked Content Coalition, has devised a new Rights Reference Model (RRM), due to be published for comment over the next few weeks. The RRM brings together for the first time all the different licensing models and languages for all kinds of content: text, images, video, music, for example. This project seeks to solve the problem and address the criticism that it is often difficult to work out how to use online content legally ? for individuals, businesses and for automated tools.
EPC?s Executive Director, Angela Mills Wade said: ?With the right legal conditions and the technical tools provided by the Linked Content Coalition, it will be easy to access and use content legally. This will mean that publishers will have the incentive to continue to populate the internet with high-quality, authoritative, diverse content and to support new, innovative business models for online content.?
Commentary from Greg: It?s clear that the publishers are putting their ?spin? on the legislation that was passed and that they will push for content licenses for other than ?de minimis? usage of newspaper and magazine content by Google and others.
If concrete rules around how much content can be show for free cannot be negotiated between the parties, it?s a safe bet that Google and others will be sued by German publishers under the new law.?Then the battle will shift to the courts, which will be forced to interpret the precise scope of the ?very small text?excerpts? that are exempt from the new law.
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It?s The End Of The News As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Their downside to pet projects is that they invariably teach you something you didn't really want to know. This time, it was that most of the people who do what I do are doomed. Let me explain. Mostly for fun, I've recently built1 a news aggregator I call Scanvine, which ranks stories and authors and publications by how often they're shared on social media. (TechCrunch does quite well, thanks for asking.) So I've been paying attention to a much broader spectrum of news during this last week...which was also the week that Marissa Mayer announced that Yahoo! would no longer condone working at home. Oh, the hysteria that ensued.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TmFQkW9FlzU/
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Riding On The Wings Of Angels, VCs Avoid The So-Called Series A Crunch
Editor's note: Erik Rannala is?co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Much has been written about the Series A crunch that is facing entrepreneurs and their investors. Those who believe the crunch is upon us contend that a significant number of seed-funded startups will not be able to raise follow-on financing. A cursory review of the?data reported recently?by CB Insights would seem to support the fact that the Series A crunch is a market reality.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/H92EUc2xj_4/
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