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(Photo : Reuters) 11-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson said in a Wednesday interview that he laughed when he was told that the L.A. Lakers would hire Mike D'Antoni, not him, as coach of the Lakers.
When 11-time NBA champion coach Phil Jackson was told by the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this season that they would be hiring Mike D'Antoni instead of him, his response was rather blunt.
"I laughed," Jackson told ESPN's "Mike & Mike in the Morning" show Wednesday. "It was humorous to me when Mitch said that we think that Mike is a better coach for this group of guys."
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Of course, Lakers fans may not find the situation funny, at all. The aging Lakers struggled all season, injuries and a lack of chemistry all playing a part in their plight before they were swept 4-0 by the San Antonio Spurs for another first-round exit.
Jackson said that he was fairly convinced that the Lakers made that decision in order to appease Steve Nash, the Lakers' newly-acquired point guard and future Hall of Famer.
"I think it didn't happen because there was some concern, How are we going to move in the right direction for this ballclub?" Jackson said. "When Mitch gave me the call close to midnight on Sunday night right before I was going to give them an answer Monday morning and said, 'We've made a choice. We're going to hire Mike D'Antoni. We think he's the best coach for this group of guys,' My answer was, 'For Steve Nash, yes, I agree, but for?Dwight Howard, I'm not so sure.'"
Jackson believes that the answer to the Lakers' problems would have been an offensive system that would entail pounding the ball inside and having Howard and Pau Gasol prominently featured in an effort to have a superior interior game. That style was contrasting to D'Antoni's fast-paced, up-tempo style that involves having the team run up and down the court-something that, critics say, did not mesh well with an older Lakers squad.
As to whether he is open to coaching again anytime soon--or if he has a place in mind--Jackson didn't seem to give any such indication that he was in a rush to coach again anytime soon.
"I don't see myself coaching again, I really don't," Jackson said. "When I discussed this with Jeanie Buss, she said, 'Make sure you tell them that Jeanie still thinks you can coach even though you might say you're not going to coach again.' Jeanie still thinks I can coach, but I'm not going to go there."
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OTTAWA - Le gouvernement Harper a peut-?tre mis en veilleuse l'achat de chasseurs furtifs F-35, mais le programme de d?veloppement se poursuit. Et le Canada est confront? ? une s?rie de dates butoir qui pourraient le contraindre ? maintenir sa participation au sein de ce programme controvers?.
Huit militaires canadiens continuent ? travailler sur ce programme en sol am?ricain ? au Pentagone et ? la base a?rienne d'Edwards, en Californie, o? ils remplissent une vari?t? de r?les techniques et strat?giques.
Seize autres responsables militaires et civils planchent aussi sur le programme au Canada, selon le Secr?tariat national d'approvisionnement en chasseurs, qui supervise le processus de remplacement des CF-18.
Le gouvernement f?d?ral a r?cemment fait un ch?que de 36 millions $ pour maintenir la participation du Canada dans le processus de d?veloppement des chasseurs furtifs, faisant ainsi passer la contribution financi?re totale d'Ottawa ? 332 millions $.
Des documents internes montrent ? quel point tous les pays impliqu?s dans ce programme, tout particuli?rement le Canada, sont devenus essentiels au d?veloppement de l'appareil et au succ?s de l'entreprise.
En fait, le Canada est si impliqu? que les Canadiens doivent prendre la rel?ve ? la barre d'un important conseil multinational au bureau de projet du Joint Strike Fighter, au Pentagone, au printemps 2014.
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A tent is erected near the scene of an attack in Woolwich southeast London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A tent is erected near the scene of an attack in Woolwich southeast London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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A tent is erected near the scene of an attack in Woolwich southeast London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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LONDON (AP) ? British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are "strong indications" that a brutal attack in London is terror-related.
Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks on Wednesday. One man died and the two others believed to be have weapons were shot by police.
Speaking at a press conference in Paris with French President Francois Hollande, Cameron called the attack "the most appalling crime" and said there are "strong indications" that it is a terrorist incident.
Hollande says a British soldier was killed in the attack, but Cameron didn't immediately confirm that.
Cameron said he would be cutting his trip short to return to London.
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CAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi announced a new crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula.
Their abduction underlined the threat posed by jihadists who became active in a security vacuum that opened up in the isolated Sinai after the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The state has struggled to restore order there since.
The militants have launched attacks on Israel and targets in North Sinai, where security problems have been exacerbated by a flow of weaponry smuggled from Libya. An Israeli defense official, speaking after the release of the seven, said it was vital that Egypt succeed in crushing terrorism.
"I call on everyone in Sinai who has weapons to turn them in. This nation is bigger than all of us and weapons can only be in the hands of the government," Mursi said after greeting the ex-hostages on their arrival at a military airport in Cairo.
"This is not a short-term operation that ends, and (the release of) our sons without a drop of blood being spilt is the first part of it," added Mursi, an Islamist elected last June who faced intense domestic pressure to resolve the crisis.
Security sources said the men - six police officers and an army border guard - were freed after talks mediated by Bedouin tribal leaders. They were released in an area south of Rafah, a town straddling the border with the Gaza Strip.
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Earlier this week, Mursi said there would be no negotiations with militants he described as "criminals". They are part of Tawhid wal Jihad, which espouses a more radical form of Islamism than Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood. The same group is blamed for bomb attacks on Sinai tourist resorts from 2004 to 2006.
The kidnappers had demanded the release of six Tawhid wal Jihad members sentenced to death last September for attacking police in North Sinai in 2011, killing seven people.
The captives were let go without the kidnappers' demands being met, according to a security official and a Bedouin sheikh involved in the mediation. The militants had decided to release them fearing a confrontation with the armed forces, which deployed reinforcements in North Sinai earlier this week.
An Egyptian presidential spokesman said there had been no bargaining or deal with the militants. It was not clear if any of the militants had been detained.
Sinai's militancy problem has grown partly out of state neglect and heavy-handed security crackdowns in the past, analysts say.
A mostly desert, thinly populated expanse separating Africa from Asia, the Sinai was captured by Israel in a 1967 war but returned to Egyptian control under the terms of a 1979 peace deal that restricts the Egyptian military's presence there.
Concerned about instability on its border, Israel agreed to an Egyptian request to deploy more forces in Sinai in 2011.
"Israel and Egypt coordinate as required in order to realize shared security interests, according to the peace treaty," senior Israeli Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad said on Israeli Army Radio on Wednesday.
"Israel has not prevented any action by Egyptian army."
Last month, militants fired two rockets from Sinai into Israel. They have also attempted cross-border raids. Last August, 16 Egyptian border guards were killed by militants who stole an armored vehicle and rammed it across the border, where they were killed by Israeli security forces.
(Additional reporting by Aly Abdelaty in Cairo and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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More developments in the Sprint acquisition food chain saga. As expected, Sprint is upping its offer for outstanding Clearwire shares to $3.40 per share, working out to an offer of about $2.5 billion. This comes after originally making an offer of $2.2 billion, based on $2.97 per share.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bsosoDWfaYI/
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If your ears perked up when you heard about Opera for Android going WebKit, but were holding out for the final, non-beta version, then that wait is over. More recent features of the browser include the option to toggle the nav-bar location, text-wrapping when zooming and a full screen view of active tabs, but beyond that, the "what's new" section on the download page isn't saying much. So, while it's mostly the Opera we saw back at MWC, tools such as off-road mode (for data compressing) and a discovery mode are finally set for primetime. Ready to let Opera take the stage on your Android? Get your tickets at the source.
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May 20, 2013 ? Little is known about the effect of physical education (PE) on child weight, but a new study from Cornell University finds that increasing the amount of time that elementary schoolchildren spent in gym class reduces the probability of obesity.
The study represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Health Economics.
The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.
Treating variation in the amount of time that states mandate schoolchildren spend in PE as natural experiments, the researchers found that an additional 60 minutes per week of PE time (enough to bring states without an explicit requirement up to the amount of PE recommended by the CDC) reduces the probability that a fifth-grader is obese by 4.8 percentage points.
The researchers also detected a gender difference: additional PE time reduces weight for boys but has a negligible effect for girls. One explanation for this difference, says Cawley, is that PE and other types of physical activity are complements for boys (increased PE leads boys to be more active in structured physical activities like organized sports), but substitutes for girls (increased PE leads girls to spend more time watching television).
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Dijit Media just launched a closed beta of its browser-based service, NextGuide Web, which expands on the features of the NextGuide iPad app. NextGuide's interface will be familiar to Pinterest fans, with a scrolling feed through which you can browse your buddies' favorites and bookmark shows for later viewing. If you have a North American cable or satellite provider, you can sign up to receive e-mail reminders for live TV showings while Comcast and DirectTV subscribers can also use NextGuide to schedule DVR recordings.
If live TV isn't your thing, NextGuide provides a universal search of Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, and iTunes for your online viewing pleasure. The social aspect of the service -- along with its Facebook integration -- is arguably the most interesting as it makes it easier to discover programs based on recommendations pulled from your friends' activity. NextGuide's web service is currently invitation-only, but users of the iPad app and Dijit Remote will be able to log on immediately. Since Dijit acquired Miso back in February, users of Miso's TV app will also be granted access sometime within the next month.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson's public comments about forward Raffi Torres' suspension.
The NHL said the fine was issued for violation of rules prohibiting formal team statements to the media during the 48-hour period following a disciplinary decision. The rule calls for an automatic $25,000 fine, and the Sharks were docked an additional $75,000 under an article in the league's constitution because of the "inappropriate nature of the comments."
Torres was suspended for the rest of San Jose's second-round playoff series against Los Angeles on Thursday for an illegal check to the head of Kings forward Jarret Stoll during Game 1. The Kings took a 2-0 lead into Game 3 on Saturday night in San Jose.
Wilson said Friday that the organization strongly disagreed with the NHL's decision to suspend Torres.
"It is abundantly clear that this was a clean hockey hit," Wilson said in a statement. "As noted by the NHL, Raffi's initial point of contact was a shoulder-to-shoulder hit on an opponent who was playing the puck. He did not leave his feet or elevate, he kept his shoulder tucked and elbow down at his side, and he was gliding ? not skating or charging."
It is the fourth career suspension for Torres, who is considered a repeat offender in dangerous hits under the league's collective bargaining agreement.
Stoll was bent forward while trying to play a bouncing puck when Torres approached him from the side for a violent hit in Game 1 on Tuesday night. Stoll's head snapped back violently before he fell forward onto the ice.
In an explanatory video released by Brendan Shanahan, the NHL's senior vice president of player safety, he said Stoll's head was "the principal point of contact" in the hit, creating grounds for suspension. Although Torres initially made contact with Stoll's right shoulder, Shanahan ruled that the shoulder hit was only a glancing blow, as evidenced by the direction both players traveled after the contact.
Wilson said the head must be targeted to violate Rule 48.1 and there is no evidence that Torres targeted Stoll's head. Wilson also said Stoll put himself in a vulnerable position just before the hit to play a bouncing puck.
"It appears that the NHL has not only made an inappropriate application of this rule but is trying to make an example out of a player who is being judged on past events, one who has changed his game dramatically this season and taken only six minor penalties in 39 games," Wilson said.
While playing for Phoenix last season, Torres received a 21-game suspension ? initially 25 games ? for a high hit on Chicago star Marian Hossa in the first round of the playoffs. Torres was suspended for two games in January 2012 for charging Minnesota defenseman Nate Prosser, and he sat out four games in April 2011 for a hit to the head of Edmonton's Jordan Eberle while playing for Vancouver.
Stoll missed Game 2 and there is no timetable for his return.
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The son of the U.S. national swim team director is reporting that Michael Phelps is planning a comeback for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Peter Busch, whose father Frank oversees the American program, is a news anchor at WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla. A brief story from the younger Busch posted on the station's Web site Friday evening says Phelps is plotting his return to the pool and hopes to compete at the next Olympics.
Phelps has said repeatedly his swimming career is over winning 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall, more than any other Olympian. He retired at the age of 27 immediately after last summer's London Olympics.
Phelps went on Twitter to downplay the report, but he didn't specifically deny it either.
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By Sonia Oxley MANCHESTER, England, May 16 (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur hope to turn the tables on bitter rivals Arsenal on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday by snatching a top-four finish at their expense. With Manchester United crowned champions, Manchester City guaranteed second spot and all three relegation victims already decided, the focus is on the Champions League places with Chelsea on 72 points, Arsenal on 70 and Spurs on 69. ...
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M??t bankruptcies occur f?r reasons beyond ??r control. A? medical bills continue t? soar t? extraordinary heights, those wh? ??n?t afford adequate health insurance h??? n? ?h???? b?t allocate th??r savings t? vital treatments ?n? procedures. Once th??? individuals r?n out ?f cash, th?? m??t resort t? bankruptcy. Here?s a brief look ?t th? correlation between bankruptcy ?n? medical expenses ?n th? U.S.
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Millions ?f Americans ?r? ???t one illness away fr?m financial r??n, despite being ?n general ???? health ?n? obtaining th? best health insurance possible. In case ?f medical emergencies, h?w???r, th? law permits bankruptcy ?? a strong safety net. If ???r medical bills ?r? becoming insurmountable, consider bankruptcy ?? a solution t? ???r financial problems. Y?? ??n contact Gary Brenner Law Offices f?r ?n? further q???t??n?.
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Don't be fooled by its deceptively simple title or the hesitant, unassuming way it begins. Writer-director Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell" ends up an invigorating powerhouse of a personal documentary, adventurous and absolutely fascinating.
A brilliant, thought-provoking documentary.
A fascinating variant on the documentary form that examines what we see, and how we see it.
Even calling ''Stories We Tell'' a documentary seems rather limiting and not entirely accurate; it's also a deadpan comedy, a juicy melodrama and a gripping mystery, all cleverly blended together with great focus.
An exercise in family navel-gazing becomes something more meta - less about the stories themselves than about the often uproarious ways in which people tell stories.
Polley is a good filmmaker but in the end, "Stories We Tell" feels less like a film than a family album - and one best appreciated, not by us, but by the Polleys still to come.
Where Polley's work goes from mere family movie to something much greater is in how she uses her own quest for answers to illuminate why & how we tell stories in the first place, especially in the form of film.
Polley's compassion and curiosity again mark her as both a heartfelt and unforgiving filmmaker.
Suspenseful, unpredictable, mature, tender and funny. A triumph.
The movie is convincingly built around the essential truth that we are ultimately defined by our loved ones' memories and perceptions.
A genre-twisting documentary with a fictional vibe that playfully bares the elusive truths about a family of storytellers.
Sarah Polley has blossomed as an actress and, more recently, as a daring and original filmmaker with an Oscar nomination to her credit.
Sarah Polley has quietly and steadily proved that she is a filmmaker to watch.
I want to start a campaign right now to get Sarah Polley the first screenwriting nomination for a documentary.
[an] engrossing documentary exploration of how the bricks of memory are untidily piled together to create messy and incomplete personal stories, and out of those stories comes a life.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation cleared the House on Friday that would place stricter requirements on the federal agency overseeing Wall Street to assess the costs and benefits of its regulations before they are issued.
The bill passed on a 235-161 vote mostly on party lines. It was the latest salvo against the Securities and Exchange Commission by House Republicans, who opposed the 2010 financial overhaul legislation expanding the SEC's powers and have resisted increasing its budget. Congress enacted the regulatory overhaul in response to the 2008 financial crisis with an eye to preventing another meltdown.
Friday's bill isn't expected to get a vote in the Senate. It would require the SEC to refrain from adopting rules unless it determines that the benefits of the rules outweigh the costs. The agency currently conducts cost-benefit analyses of regulations prior to issuing them. But the bill would make the process more extensive and detailed.
In addition, the SEC would be required to review all its existing rules to determine if they impose excessive costs or administrative burdens on the companies regulated by the agency.
Democratic lawmakers said that would force the agency to review every rule put into effect since its creation during the Great Depression, with no additional funding for SEC staff.
The bill seeks to hinder the SEC's ability to write new rules under the 2010 financial overhaul and to shield Wall Street from regulation, the Democrats charged.
The legislation "is aimed squarely at undermining Wall Street's cop on the block," Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said on the House floor before the vote. "This is dangerous; it is irresponsible. This is about protecting Wall Street."
In addition to tying up SEC staff resources, the requirement for more extensive and detailed cost-benefit analyses would put the agency at greater risk of being sued over each rule it adopts, the Democrats said. They said that while they support cost-benefit analyses by federal agencies, they object to imposing excessive requirements on the SEC.
The White House registered its opposition to the bill on Wednesday, saying it would add "burdensome and disruptive new procedures (that) would impede the ability of the SEC to protect investors, maintain orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation."
SEC Chairman Mary Jo White told the financial services panel in a hearing Thursday that she is "a firm supporter of rigorous economic analysis," which the agency has been conducting. "I do have concerns about this bill in terms of our being able to carry out our rulemaking function expeditiously, and to provide market participants with certainty," she testified.
But Republicans insisted the change was needed to help curb runaway regulations written in Washington that hurt ordinary Americans by raising costs for businesses.
"What it is really about is kitchen-table economics," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee.
The Republicans have long targeted the SEC by proposing legislation to weaken various provisions of the financial overhaul law. Their opposition has been galvanized in recent days with the revelations that the Internal Revenue Service gave tougher treatment to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
At Thursday's hearing, committee Republicans seized on the episode to tell White that if the SEC adopted a rule requiring public companies to disclose political donations, as consumer and liberal groups have urged, it would be engaging in a similar abuse of power as the IRS.
The SEC is an independent regulatory agency. The IRS is a division of the Treasury Department, which is part of the Obama administration.
Among other things, the bill would require the SEC to adopt rules only after a "reasoned determination" that their benefits would outweigh their costs, to identify and assess possible alternatives to proposed rules, to gauge the potential impact of rules on investors and small business, and to periodically review existing rules to determine if they are overly burdensome, outdated or weak.
A large coalition of consumer, union and liberal groups said in a letter to House lawmakers that the bill "is transparently intended to create roadblocks in the way of passing any investor protection rule."
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Season-four judges will return in season six with Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, reports say.
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May 15, 2013 ? Clam fossils from the middle Devonian era -- some 380 million years ago -- now yield a better paleontological picture of the capacity of ecosystems to remain stable in the face of environmental change, according to research published today (May 15) in the online journal PLOS ONE.
Trained to examine species abundance -- the head counts of specimens -- paleontologists test the stability of Earth's past ecosystems. The research shows that factors such as predation and organism body size from epochs-gone-by can now be considered in such detective work.
Back 380 million years ago, New York was under the Devonian sea. Today, the fossils found in the rocks of this region have become well known for documenting long-term stability in species composition -- that is, the same species have been found to persist with little change over a 5 million year period. But research has found that species abundance in this ancient ecosystem went up and down, generating debate among paleontologists whether the fauna, as a whole, was also stable in terms of its ecology.
A team of Cornell, Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) -- an affiliate of Cornell -- and University of Cincinnati researchers revisited this debate by examining the ecological stability of the Devonian clam fauna.
"To understand how these species fared in the Devonian, you have to look at how they interacted with other species. There is more to ecology than just the abundance and distribution of species," said Gregory Dietl, Cornell adjunct professor, earth and atmospheric sciences, and a paleontologist at PRI.
The research, "Abundance Is Not Enough: The Need for Multiple Lines of Evidence in Testing for Ecological Stability in the Fossil Record," was written by Judith Nagel-Myers, paleontologist, PRI; John Handley, PRI; Carlton Brett, University of Cincinnati professor of geology; and Dietl.
The scientists took a new approach to testing ecological stability: In addition to counting numbers of clams, they examined repair scars on fossil clams that were left by the unsuccessful attacks from shell-crushing predators, and the body size of the clam assemblage as it yields biological information on the structure of food webs.
"Surprisingly, predation pressure and the body size structure of the clams remained stable, even as abundance varied," said Nagel-Myers. Possible mechanisms that explain the clam assemblage's stability are related to the dynamics of food webs -- the same mechanisms operating in food webs today. In one mechanism, predators switched between feeding on different clam species as their abundance varied.
The ancient Devonian ecosystem was more complex than previously thought, as it cautions scientists against basing conclusions on a single factor. Said Dietl: "Our results thus raise serious doubt as to whether ecological stability can be tested meaningfully, solely based upon the abundance of taxa, which has been the standard metric used to test for ecological stability in paleoecology."
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A new species of green palm-pitviper of the genus Bothriechis is described from a seriously threatened cloud forest reserve in northern Honduras. Because of similarity in color pattern and scalation, the new species (Bothriechis guifarroi) was previously confused with other Honduran palm pitvipers. Genetic analysis revealed that the closest relatives of the new species are actually found over 600 km to the south, in the mountains of Costa Rica. The study was published in the open access journal Zookeys.
The gorgeous new species was discovered by scientists during two expeditions in 2010 aimed at studying the fauna of Texiguat Wildlife Refuge, one of the most endemism-rich and diverse highland forests in Mesoamerica. This beautiful, but highly toxic, snake represents the 15th endemic species occurring in the region. Texiguat Wildlife Refuge was created in 1987 to protect populations of wildlife such as the famous but elusive jaguar and Central America tapir, as well as howler and white-faced monkeys, sloths, and a variety of endemic amphibians, reptiles, and plants.
To draw attention to the dedication and sacrifice of many grassroots conservationists in Honduras and Central America, the new species was named in honor of Mario Guifarro of Olancho. Guifarro was a former hunter and gold miner who became an outspoken conservationist when he saw the vast rainforests of eastern Honduras being destroyed and converted to cattle ranches. After years of threats and multiple attempts on his life, Guifarro was ambushed and murdered on 15 September 2007 while on a mission to delimit a biosphere reserve for the indigenous Tawahka.
The lead author of the study Dr Josiah Townsend, Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, comments on the importance of the discovery and conservation status of the new species: "The description of Bothriechis guifarroi has important implications for Central American biogeography as well as conservation. We recommend that B. guifarroi be immediately classified as Critically Endangered due to its limited known area of occurrence and the potential for anthropogenic damage to its habitat. We also consider that this species warrants immediate consideration for protection under CITES, given its striking appearance and high potential for exploitation in the pet trade."
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Townsend JH, Medina-Flores M, Wilson LD, Jadin RC, Austin JD (2013) A relict lineage and new species of green palm-pitviper (Squamata, Viperidae, Bothriechis) from the Chort?s Highlands of Mesoamerica. ZooKeys 298: 77, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.298.4834
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May 14, 2013 ? The newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is coming from a previously unknown source: the banded mongoose.
Leptospirosis, the disease is called. And the banded mongoose carries it.
Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, pulmonary hemorrhage, renal failure and death.
"The problem in Botswana and much of Africa is that leptospirosis may remain unidentified in animal populations but contribute to human disease, possibly misdiagnosed as other diseases such as malaria," said disease ecologist Kathleen Alexander of Virginia Tech.
With a grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program, Alexander and colleagues found that the banded mongoose in Botswana is infected with Leptospira interrogans, the pathogen that causes leptospirosis.
Coupled Natural and Human Systems is part of NSF's Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability investment and is supported by NSF's Directorates for Biological Sciences; Geosciences; and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
"The transmission of infectious diseases from wildlife to humans represents a serious and growing public health risk due to increasing contact between humans and animals," said Alan Tessier, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology. "This study identified an important new avenue for the spread of leptospirosis."
The results are published today in a paper in the journal Zoonoses and Public Health. The paper was co-authored by Alexander, Sarah Jobbins and Claire Sanderson of Virginia Tech.
The banded mongoose, although wild, lives in close proximity to humans, sharing scarce water resources and scavenging in human waste.
The disease-causing pathogen it carries can pass to humans through soil or water contaminated with infected urine.
Mongoose and other species are consumed as bushmeat, which may also contribute to leptospirosis exposure and infection in humans.
"I was convinced that we were going to find Leptospira interrogans in some species in the ecosystem," said Alexander.
"The pathogen had not been reported previously in Botswana, with the exception of one cow more than a quarter of a century ago.
"We looked at public health records dating back to 1974 and there were no records of any human cases of leptospirosis. Doctors said they were not expecting to see the disease in patients. They were not aware that the pathogen occurred in the country."
Alexander conducted a long-term study of human, wildlife and environmental health in the Chobe District of Northern Botswana, an area that includes the Chobe National Park, forest reserves and surrounding villages.
"This pathogen can infect many animals, both wild and domestic, including dogs," said Jobbins. "Banded mongoose is likely not the only species infected."
The researchers worked to understand how people, animals and the environment are connected, including the potential for diseases to move between humans and wildlife.
"Diseases such as leptospirosis that have been around for a very long time are often overlooked amid the hunt for the next newly emerging disease," Alexander said.
Leptospirosis was first described in 1886, said Jobbins, "but we still know little about its occurrence in Africa."
With the new identification of leptospirosis in Botswana, Alexander is concerned about the public health threat it may pose to the immunocompromised population there. Some 25 percent of 15- to 49-year-olds are HIV positive.
"In much of Africa, people die without a cause being determined," she said.
"Leptospirosis is likely affecting human populations in this region. But without knowledge that the organism is present in the environment, overburdened public health officials are unlikely to identify clinical cases in humans, particularly if the supporting diagnostics are not easily accessible."
The researchers looked for Leptospira interrogans in archived kidneys collected from banded mongoose that had been found dead from a variety of causes. Of the sampled mongoose, 43 percent tested positive for the pathogen.
"Given this high prevalence in the mongoose, we believe that Botswana possesses an as-yet-unidentified burden of human leptospirosis," said Jobbins.
"There is an urgent need to look for this disease in people who have clinical signs consistent with infection."
Because banded mongoose have an extended range across sub-Saharan Africa, the results have important implications for public health beyond Botswana.
"Investigating exposure in other wildlife, and assessing what species act as carriers, is essential for improving our understanding of human, wildlife, and domestic animal risk ofleptospirosisin this ecosystem," the scientists write in their paper.
The paper also cites predictions that the region will become more arid, concentrating humans and animals around limited water supplies and increasing the potential for disease transmission.
"Infectious diseases, particularly those that can be transmitted from animals, often occur where people are more vulnerable to environmental change and have less access to public health services," said Alexander.
"That's particularly true in Africa. While we're concerned about emerging diseases that might threaten public health--the next new pandemic--we need to be careful that we don't drop the ball and stop pursuing important diseases like leptospirosis."
Alexander is working to identify immediate research and management actions--in particular, alerting frontline medical practitioners and public health officials to the potential for leptospirosis in humans.
The research was also funded by the WildiZe Foundation. Jobbins and Sanderson were supported in part by Virginia Tech's Fralin Life Science Institute.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/2ttrkO4e9ww/130514122756.htm
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Coauthored with Roshanna Lawrence
It is often said that the great questions of our time will not be settled by speeches and votes, but by iron and blood. It is a maxim that certainly rings true for the question of Libya's democratic future. With the world's attention fixated across the Mediterranean on the spiraling Syrian conflict, the efforts of Libya's elected leaders to rehabilitate their nation have been stung by the poisonous barb of militia power-politics.
On May 5, the popularly-elected General National Congress (GNC) passed the Political Isolation Law, prohibiting former Gaddafi regime members from holding political office for the next 10 years. The law reportedly passed with a majority of 164 votes out of a total 200, with only four members rejecting the legislation outright.
The overwhelming support for the law in the GNC is as much as an illusion as a desert mirage. Ten days prior to the vote on April 28, hundreds of staunchly "revolutionary" militiamen from Misrata and Tripoli's outskirts entered the capital and laid siege to top government ministries, demanding they be purged of all "Gaddafi loyalists" and refusing to depart until a vote on the Political Isolation Law was held. For days, the Zeidan administration stood firm against their demands, while a number of GNC members insisted on holding the vote in eastern Libya, away from the militias' gun barrels and armored vehicles.
In an apparent sudden change of heart, the vote was eventually held at the GNC headquarters minutes from Gaddafi's famed Bab Al-Azizyah compound, with congressional spokesmen asserting that despite the revolutionary sieges, no member was pressured to vote in favor of the law. In a public relations move that fooled few, the militias retreated several hundred meters from their positions around the GNC and other ministries in an attempt to limit outcry of intimidation and legitimize the vote.
For newly revolutionized nations across North Africa, the passage of legislation aimed at limiting previous dictatorial influences is part of a natural process that is often met with broad popular support. Given the dastardly nature of the Gaddafi regime, Libya is no exception. But while news of the law's passing was met with the familiar sound of celebratory gunfire in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square, many Libyans remain fully aware of the dangerously anti-democratic path down which this particular bill could lead.
Indeed, the idea of preventing heinous Gaddafi officials from returning to power has gained broad support from nearly all of the country's tribes and societal factions. That said, the newly approved isolation bill forced upon the GNC serves to benefit those factions who lost out in Libya's 2012 general elections. Included in these factions is the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, whose Justice and Construction Party (JCP) boasts immense popularity in the city of Misrata -- and among its powerful militia.
Indeed, in contrast to its Egyptian and Tunisian neighbors, Libya gained notoriety during the Arab Spring after the Brotherhood-sponsored JCP failed to outmaneuver a secular rival in popular elections, in this case the National Forces Alliance (NFA) led by Mahmoud Jibril. While only 80 of 200 seats in the GNC are allocated to organized political parties, the NFA eventually succeeded in rallying enough of the 120 independent members to approve the independent Ali Zeidan and his largely secular administration.
The passage of the JCP's political isolation law without amendments places Zeidan, GNC president Mohamed Magarief and dozens of NFA parliamentarians in the crosshairs of an overzealous Misrata-led (and now legal) crusade to purge the Libyan government of anyone even remotely connected to Gaddafi's rule between 1969 and 2011. On the streets of Tripoli, this campaign has already begun. Misrata's militias have reneged on their promise to leave the capital, renewing demands of nothing less than the Zeidan government's ouster.
As an oil-rich nation reeling from the effects of region-wide jihadist militancy, the stakes could not be higher. Since assuming power in October 2012, Zeidan has proven himself a staunch Western ally in the war on terror, as well as someone willing to take immense domestic political risks to rid Libya of tribal instability. At a time of mounting anti-Western sentiment across the region, Zeidan has openly called for improving ties with the United States while actively pursuing security cooperation with France and Britain. Zeidan has stood up to heavily armed revolutionaries-turned-criminals still holed up in Tripoli, using the fledgling Libyan army to sweep the capital of hundreds of renegade militias in recent months. As a former diplomat under the Gaddafi regime, Zeidan's efforts to achieve stability and prosperity are now in danger under the new law, despite his defection in 1980 and subsequent three decades in exile.
Until this point, the Libyan revolution has served to exemplify the positive potential of Western involvement in the Arab Spring, particularly when examining wanton destruction and rising radicalism in Syria. Despite the risks to their own safety, Libya's anti-militia and pro-democracy voices have already taken to the streets to confront heavily armed militias to demonstrate to the world their thirst for freedom. Much like the Gaddafi regime itself, the militia's response has already been one of violence, with numerous injuries resulting from crackdowns over the weekend. With Libya's stable and prosperous future hanging in the balance, the West can ill afford to turn a blind eye.
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