California Lawsuit Claims Frozen Pizza Could Cause Cancer | KTLA 5

SAN DIEGO ? A battle over frozen pizza will soon heat up in a San Diego courtroom.

A mother of two says ?Stouffer?s? and ?California Pizza Kitchen? are placing profits above public health.

She says trans fat is a quote a ?toxic carcinogen? and that the frozen pizzas are putting her kids health at risk.

The woman is asking for $5-million in damages.

Nestle, which owns the Stouffer?s and CPK frozen pizzas, says the ingredients are in compliance with FDA and USDA regulations.

Source: http://ktla.com/2013/01/30/california-lawsuit-claims-frozen-pizza-could-cause-cancer/

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Los Angeles mayoral hopefuls debate cutting budget, trimming pensions

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles' five mayoral candidates sparred over its ailing economy Monday night, each claiming to be best qualified to reduce a persistent public deficit, reform the public pension system and attract business to the second-largest U.S. city.

The candidates, vying to succeed Antonio Villaraigosa, skirmished in a televised debate at the city's University of California over how best to close an expected $200 million budget shortfall.

"We're talking about bankruptcy in Los Angeles," said candidate Kevin James, a former assistant U.S. attorney and the lone Republican in the race. "That does not instill confidence ...in businesses that are looking at moving to our great city."

The candidates agreed the city must negotiate with its powerful unions to reduce the cost of pensions for city workers that threaten to further deepen its deficit.

"If we don't have a viable pension system in the city of Los Angeles, they don't have a pension later on," City Controller Wendy Greuel said.

City Council members Eric Garcetti and Jan Perry each argued that their years of leadership and experience dealing with unions made them the best suited to deal with budgetary issues.

Garcetti said he negotiated concessions from current and future union workers that have saved the city millions of dollars. "You need the next mayor to have those qualities," he said. "We can't tax and cut our way out of this."

James touted his independence, saying he wouldn't be beholden to unions during pension talks, he said.

Former technology executive Emanuel Pleitez pointed to his successes in the private sector and his experience as an economic adviser to the Obama Administration.

Garcetti and Greuel have raised the most money thus far - about $3.6 million each, according to campaign filings with the city.

A primary election will be held on March 5, with a runoff on May 21 pitting the top two finishers against one another, unless one candidate receives a majority of votes in the March primary. The new mayor will be sworn in on July 1.

This is the race city's first competitive mayoral election since Villaraigosa took office in 2005. He easily won re-election in 2009 but is now restricted from seeking another term.

(Reporting By Ronald Grover; Editing by John Stonestreet)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-mayoral-hopefuls-debate-cutting-budget-trimming-083534596.html

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Perry: Let South Texas access permanent university fund

by REEVE HAMILTON

The Texas Tribune

Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:23 PM

Updated yesterday at 1:04 PM

In his State of the State address, Gov. Rick Perry called on lawmakers to allow South Texas to tap the Permanent University Fund, a substantial pot of money that only certain universities in the University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System are granted access to by the Texas Constitution.

In the UT System, the institutions that currently do not have PUF access are the University of Texas at Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg. In December, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced an ambitious plan to combine the two institutions, allowing lawmakers to grant the new combined university PUF access.

In addition to boosting educational resources in the underserved region, the new source of revenue would be used to support the system's ongoing efforts to establish a South Texas medical school, which Cigarroa envisions as part of the new university.

But in order to move forward, the proposal needs the support of two-thirds of the Legislature. And that's exactly what Perry wants to see happen.

"This area of the state is critical to our state's future, and our investment in the children of South Texas will be returned a thousand-fold," Perry said. "That's why I'm calling for the Legislature to pass, by a two-thirds vote, a bill necessary to give South Texas access to the Permanent University Fund."

This will be welcome news to two of the most prominent proponents of the plan to get PUF access for the region: Juliet Garcia and Robert Nelsen, the presidents of UT-Brownsville and UT-Pan American respectively.

On Wednesday, the presidents plan to lead a contingent of supporters of the new university proposal to Austin for Rio Grande Valley Higher Education Day at the Texas Capitol. The day will feature speeches, musical performances and visits to legislative offices to push a plan, which might be made a bit easier now that it has the governor's blessing.

?This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune?here.

Source: http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Perry-Let--188870041.html

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Charter schools, fireworks, guns popular subjects for legislation ...

AUGUSTA, Maine ? Bonds, charter schools, fireworks and the state?s weapons laws are likely to be common themes in legislative debate in the coming months as lawmakers wade through more than 1,600 bill submissions.

A legislative office Monday released a list of titles for the numerous pieces of legislation proposed by lawmakers in time for their Jan. 18 bill submission deadline. The specific proposals will emerge in the coming weeks as the Legislature?s Office of the Revisor prepares the official bill text.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have proposed more than 30 separate bond measures that propose to fund job-creation initiatives, research and development projects, road improvements, a commuter rail, and a variety of projects at the state?s universities, community colleges and Maine Maritime Academy.

The bond measures would also fund a handful of local projects, including an initiative to expand the Portland Fish Exchange and another to develop Lewiston?s Riverfront Island area.

The list of bill titles also shows that lawmakers are interested in revisiting a handful of laws that passed during the past two years by a Republican-controlled Legislature.

Legislators submitted more than 15 measures targeting charter schools, which Maine now allows following a 2011 law passed by the last Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage. The law made Maine the 41st state to allow the independently run public schools; similar bills had failed in previous Legislatures controlled by Democrats.

One measure, proposed by Democratic Sen. Linda Valentino of Saco, would prohibit so-called virtual charter schools, which would allow students to complete all or a majority of their coursework remotely. Three separate bills proposed by Democrats Rep. Victoria Kornfield of Bangor, Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland and Rep. Michael Devin of Newcastle establish moratoriums on the approval of virtual schools.

Democrats have raised concerns about the ties between nonprofit groups proposing to start virtual charter schools in Maine and for-profit companies the schools would rely on to provide curriculum, teaching and management services.

LePage has also stoked the controversy by publicly criticizing the Maine Charter School Commission for not approving applications to start virtual charter schools. Earlier this month, he called on the commission?s seven members to resign after they rejected four of five applications for new charter schools, including two proposals for virtual schools. The commission members said they would not resign in response to the governor?s call.

Lawmakers have also proposed measures that would affect the funding stream for charter schools, including a measure by Rep. Bruce MacDonald, D-Boothbay Harbor, that would eliminate the requirement that local public school funding follow each student who attends a charter school. Under Maine law, charter schools receive funding from the home school districts for each student they enroll.

Meanwhile, LePage is preparing legislation that would remove the 10-school cap on the number of state-approved charter schools.

Fireworks are another popular theme on the list of lawmakers? bill proposals. Legislators in 2011 reversed Maine?s 60-year-old ban on the sale and use of the consumer explosives.

This year, lawmakers are proposing at least a half-dozen measures to establish restrictions on their use, protect farm animals from noisy fireworks and require local permits to set off fireworks. One measure, from Democratic Rep. Michael Lajoie of Lewiston, would completely repeal the law allowing the possession and sale of fireworks.

The state?s weapons laws are another frequent subject of legislation following last month?s deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

One bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville, would provide funding to allow Maine to expand its reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. While Maine is required by state and federal law to report the names of people who have been involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals ? and, therefore, unable to legally own a gun ? to the national database, it hasn?t had the funding to do so.

Other weapons measures on the list of bill titles would require additional training before someone can obtain a concealed weapons permit, ensure that the names of concealed weapons permit holders are kept confidential and ban guns with high-capacity magazines. A handful of bills would also prohibit the enforcement in Maine of federal restrictions on gun ownership.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2013/01/28/politics/charter-schools-fireworks-guns-popular-subjects-for-legislation/

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Egypt army chief warns of collapse of state

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's army chief has warned of "the collapse of the state" if the political crisis roiling the nation for nearly a week continues.

The warning by Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, also the defense minister, comes as the country sinks deeper into chaos and lawlessness. Attempts by the Islamist president to stem a wave of political violence appear to have made no headway.

Some 60 people have been killed in the unrest that began last Thursday.

El-Sissi's warning came in an address to military academy cadets on Tuesday. His comments were posted on the armed forces' official Facebook page.

"The continuation of the conflict between the different political forces and their differences over how the country should be run could lead to the collapse of the state and threaten future generations," he said.

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'Pretty Little Liars' star's heart lies in music

FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows actress Lucy Hale posing for a portrait in New York. Hale stars in the ABC Family series, "Pretty Little Liars." (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows actress Lucy Hale posing for a portrait in New York. Hale stars in the ABC Family series, "Pretty Little Liars." (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows actress Lucy Hale posing for a portrait in New York. Hale stars in the ABC Family series, "Pretty Little Liars." (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? On the ABC Family series "Pretty Little Liars," Lucy Hale's character, Aria, has a passion for fashion. She wears lots of layers, textures and patterns.

"All credit goes to our costume designer, Mandi Line, who calls Aria her mini-me," Hale said in a recent interview. "This is how she dresses so it comes easy to her. This character has become her baby. Aria's the one that wears stripes and leopard print and neon all at once. Where one person will wear one trend, she'll wear all of the above but she's just fun."

"Pretty Little Liars," which airs Tuesdays (8 p.m. Eastern), is about a group of teenage girls who are being blackmailed by a mysterious group of people who go by the name A.

While Aria loves to express herself through clothes, Hale channels her emotions through music.

The 23-year-old was among the winners in 2003 of "American Juniors," a spinoff of "American Idol," where the final five formed a vocal quintet. They recorded an album but broke up in 2005.

Hale laughs that she was "just convinced I was the second coming to Kelly Clarkson."

She went into acting, landing roles on the short-lived TV show "Privileged," movies like "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and "Scream 4."

Now she's decided to give music another go.

Hale signed with Hollywood Records and is recording a country album, produced by Mark Bright who's worked with Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood and Sara Evans. She's expected to release a single, followed by an album later this year.

"(The album) is something I wanted to do way before 'Pretty Little Liars' or anything. I grew up singing, and acting sort of came up along the way. ... (Recording) is a lot of weekends, it's a lot of long nights but I'm so passionate about it ... I'm just really excited," she said.

Hale, who was "born and bred in Tennessee," says she listened to country music as she was growing up.

"Country music to me is the best music in the world. It's storytelling and it means something and it can make you feel any emotion in the world and it's just where my heart is," she said.

Kristian Bush of the country duo Sugarland is writing songs with Hale for her album. In a recent phone interview, Bush said he tried to discourage Hale because of all the hard work involved.

"I've had multiple record deals. ... Even when you're great it doesn't guarantee success," he said.

But Hale showed she was fearless, committed and has an impressive knowledge of country music.

"I would drive around in the car with her ... and she always flips the station to the country station and always sings along louder than the radio. I'm like, 'How do you know that song? I don't even know that song. I've just heard of (the band) Florida Georgia Line. How did you get that? Did you get an advance copy?' She just obsessively listens. Nothing creates a better writer or an artist than a great listener," Bush said.

Hale hopes country fans will accept her.

"Once you get in the circle of country music, you're in and they will stay with you for life," said Hale. "It's just going over the hurdle of getting in there because they don't just let anyone in. Look at the careers. You don't make one album. You make 25 albums. They're just behind your back always."

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Online:

http://beta.abcfamily.go.com/shows/pretty-little-liars

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Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar

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Report: There Were 94 Tech M&A Deals in 2012 Above $100M, Average Deal Value Was $717M

Towers Watson?s M&A practice recently published the results of Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QPDM) which is conducted in partnership with Cass Business School, and has examined all the data on all deals over $100 million completed in 2012. The results are really interesting, especially when you take look at what was happening in the public markets. In 2012, there were 94 deals in the tech sector with an average value of $717 million. In 2012, there were 768 M&A deals across all sectors above $100 million.

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Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant

FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., wearing a prosthetic arm, poses for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., wearing a prosthetic arm, poses for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., left, Marine Cpl. Todd Love of Atlanta, Ga., center, and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez of Deming, N.M., pose for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded."

Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he's received a double-arm transplant.

Those new arms "already move a little," he tweeted a month after the operation.

Marrocco, a 26-year-old New Yorker, was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He had the transplant Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his father said Monday.

Alex Marrocco said his son does not want to talk with reporters until a news conference Tuesday at the hospital, but the younger Marrocco has repeatedly mentioned the transplant on Twitter and posted photos.

"Ohh yeah today has been one month since my surgery and they already move a little," Brendan Marrocco tweeted Jan. 18.

Responding to a tweet from NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski, he wrote: "dude I can't tell you how exciting this is for me. I feel like I finally get to start over."

The infantryman also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.

The military sponsors operations like these to help wounded troops. About 300 have lost arms or hands in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Unlike a life-saving heart or liver transplant, limb transplants are aimed at improving quality of life, not extending it. Quality of life is a key concern for people missing arms and hands ? prosthetics for those limbs are not as advanced as those for feet and legs.

"He was the first quad amputee to survive," and there have been four others since then, Alex Marrocco said.

The Marroccos want to thank the donor's family for "making a selfless decision ... making a difference in Brendan's life," the father said.

Brendan Marrocco has been in public many times. During a July 4 visit last year to the Sept. 11 Memorial with other disabled soldiers, he said he had no regrets about his military service.

"I wouldn't change it in any way. ... I feel great. I'm still the same person," he said.

The 13-hour operation was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Johns Hopkins. It was the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States.

Lee led three of those earlier operations when he worked at the University of Pittsburgh, including the only above-elbow transplant that had been done at the time, in 2010.

Marrocco's "was the most complicated one" so far, Lee said in an interview Monday. It will take more than a year to know how fully Marrocco will be able to use the new arms.

"The maximum speed is an inch a month for nerve regeneration," he explained. "We're easily looking at a couple years" until the full extent of recovery is known.

While at Pittsburgh, Lee pioneered the immune-suppression approach used for Marrocco. The surgeon led hand-transplant operations on five patients, giving them marrow from their donors in addition to the new limbs. All five recipients have done well, and four have been able to take just one anti-rejection drug instead of combination treatments most transplant patients receive.

Minimizing anti-rejection drugs is important because they have side effects and raise the risk of cancer over the long term. Those risks have limited the willingness of surgeons and patients to do more hand, arm and even face transplants.

Lee has received funding for his work from AFIRM, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a cooperative research network of top hospitals and universities around the country that the government formed about five years ago. With government money, he and several other plastic surgeons around the country are preparing to do more face transplants, possibly using the new immune-suppression approach.

Marrocco expects to spend three to four months at Hopkins, then return to a military hospital to continue physical therapy, his father said. Before the operation, he had been fitted with prosthetic legs and had learned to walk on his own.

He had been living with his older brother in a specially equipped home on New York's Staten Island that had been built with the help of several charities. Shortly after moving in, he said it was "a relief to not have to rely on other people so much."

The home was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy last fall.

Despite being in a lot of pain for some time after the operation, Marrocco showed a sense of humor, his father said. He had a hoarse voice from the tube that was in his throat during the long surgery and decided he sounded like Al Pacino. He soon started doing movie lines.

"He was making the nurses laugh," Alex Marrocco said.

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Associated Press Writer Stephanie Nano in New York contributed to this report.

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Online:

Army regenerative medicine:

http://www.afirm.mil/index.cfm?pageid=home

and http://www.afirm.mil/assets/documents/annual_report_2011.pdf

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Iran: Monkey successfully sent into space

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iranian state TV says the country has successfully sent a monkey into space in what's described as another step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight.

Monday's report said the monkey was sent up in a Pishtam, or Explorer, rocket to a height of 120 kilometers (72 miles). It gave no other details on the timing or location of the launch, but said the monkey returned safely.

Iran has said it seeks to send an astronaut into space as part of its ambitious aerospace program. In 2010, Iran said it launched a rocket into space carrying a mouse, turtle and worms.

The U.S. and its allies worry that technology from the space program could also be used to develop long-range missiles that could potentially be armed with nuclear warheads.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-monkey-successfully-sent-space-114959524.html

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Obama: Gun-control advocates have to listen more

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about proposals to reduce gun violence at the White House in Washington. Obama has called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and is pushing other policies in the wake of the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In response, gun-rights advocates have accused Obama and others of ignoring the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about proposals to reduce gun violence at the White House in Washington. Obama has called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and is pushing other policies in the wake of the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In response, gun-rights advocates have accused Obama and others of ignoring the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

People walk from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, during a march on Washington for gun control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

People walk from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, during a march on Washington for gun control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

People walk from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, during a march on Washington for gun control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says gun-control advocates should be better listeners in the debate over firearms in America.

In an interview with The New Republic, Obama says he has "a profound respect" for the tradition of hunting that dates back for generations.

"And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake. Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," he says.

Obama has called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and is pushing other policies following the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In response, gun-rights advocates have accused Obama and others of ignoring the Second Amendment rights of Americans.

The president says it's understandable that people are protective of their family traditions when it comes to hunting.

"So it's trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months. And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes," he says.

Has Obama himself ever fired a gun?

"Yes," the president says, "in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time."

His daughters don't shoot skeet at the presidential retreat in Maryland, he adds, "but oftentimes guests of mine go up there."

The interview appears in the Feb. 11 issue of The New Republic.

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'Self-financing' and managing housing debt ? the interests of tenants ...

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As a result of Swindon?s Housing ballot result, when 72% of tenants voted against selling off our homes, the Council maintained ownership of its housing stock and was thus one of the local authorities included in the new Housing Finance system ? ?self-financing?. The government closed down the national Housing Revenue Account and shared out the national ?housing debt? amongst all the local authorities that still own their housing. Swindon?s share of that ?debt? was deemed to be ?138.6 million. The Council had to pay it off in one lump sum on March 28th of this year. In order for it to be able to so, the government?s Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) lent the Council that sum so it could pay the government. Having handed over this money to the government the Council is in debt to the PWLB. However, the money it borrowed from the PWLB was not one loan. It borrowed 22 of them, of varying sizes, for varying periods (see attached document). The debt structure determines what interest you pay and when the loans themselves fall due for payment. This has an impact on what money is available and when, for maintaining and improving tenants? homes. Yet despite the importance of this decision the Council did not consult tenants at all on the structuring of the debt.

Then they decided on the amount of debt to ?pay? at the end of the first year of the new system. Once again there was no discussion with tenants. As we shall see the amount of debt they decided to ?pay? means that tenants will suffer an insufficient level of renewals of some of the key components of their homes. The Council has been making decisions which impact upon us, behind our backs and without our involvement.

A Despite the new system being introduced in April of this year there has been no serious discussion about it, what it means on a practical level and how the interests of tenants can be best served in the new circumstances. Tenants have been kept in the dark. It?s time to try and throw some light on the situation.

The debt structure which the Council decided on, without consulting us, appears to have been determined not by the interests of tenants but according to the interests of the Council and its General Fund. For instance, none of the 22 loans borrowed from the PWLB is payable until Year 11 (2023). The reason they decided that there would be no debt payable to the PWLB for the first 10 years was so that the Council could ?take advantage? of the cheaper loans the PWLB gave them for the ?one-off (housing) debt settlement?. The advantage for the Council is that instead of borrowing new money direct from the government they are proposing to transfer money from the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) to the General Fund (GF). Can they do that when the HRA is ?ring-fenced?, supposedly to stop our rents being used for non-housing purposes? Good question.

In order to ?take advantage? of our rent they decided (no discussion with us) that despite the fact that no debt repayment has to take place until 2023, the HRA would make a ?debt repayment? by way of an internal transfer between the HRA and the GF. By the use of an accountancy procedure the money would be shifted into the GF and deemed to be a ?debt repayment?. A ?minimum revenue payment? is registered, which would mark it down as a debt payment which would actually be paid at some unspecified date in the future. A Finance Manager described it as ?a set aside of cash to repay debt at some point?. The GF would take on responsibility for the debt and would pay the interest rate on the part of the debt which was transferred over from the HRA.

So, in the first year they decided (no discussion with us) that an ?8 million ?debt payment? would be transferred into the GF. This would save the HRA interest payments of ?250,000 a year. So the tenants? benefit out of this accountancy procedure then? Yes and no. Yes, insofar as the HRA has to pay ?250,000 interest a year less than it would otherwise do. However, the high level of ?debt repayment? means that tenants lose out big style.

To understand why we have to look at how the new system operates. When it is called ?self-financing? it means it literally. The end of the national Housing Finance system meant that all the Councils have been set adrift on their own. There are no more grants like the Major Repairs Allowance. We have only the money which is collected in from tenants? rents, service charges and one or two minor items.

Having been given the ?138.6 million debt we have to pay the interest on these loans and the loans themselves from the surplus which the Housing Revenue Account makes each year ? the income from rents etc, minus the expenditure on repairs and maintenance, management costs and so on. The surplus this year is expected to be ?19.1 million.

The interest we pay on the ?138.6 million is just over ?4.5 million a year. Housing debt which predated this has an interest payment of ?477,900. Added together this is as near as matters ?5 million a year. How much debt you pay off and when, is a question for discussion (or it should be). The Council decided that ?8 million ?debt repayment? would be made in the first year, leave aside the fact that this isn?t a real debt repayment for the moment, so that has to come out of the surplus as well as the interest payment.

The amount of debt ?paid? will determine how much money you have for the upkeep of the housing stock. This is graphically shown when we look at the amount of work projected for next year. Take the example of bathroom and kitchen renewals. The Council is proposing a miserable 150 renewals of each in 2013/14. You may recall that at the time of the ballot tenants were told that so dire was the situation because of the debt which the Council was going to be given by the government that they could ?only afford? to do 150 bathroom and kitchen renewals a year, for the first ten years. Swindon Tenants Campaign Group never believed this to be true. But we were never given the 30 year ?business plan? which was the Council?s projections for continued ownership if the tenants voted against transfer, so we had no idea about the ?debt payments?.

Now we discover that the reason why they can only ?afford? to do 150 bathrooms and 150 kitchens is precisely because they are proposing to ?pay? ?8 million debt (in reality an internal transfer). If, on the other hand ?5 million was ?paid?, that would mean there would be ?3 million extra for our homes. So for 2013/14 the budget for Kitchen modernisation is ?672,000 and for Bathroom modernisation is ?465,000. If you scaled those up to 450 of each the budgets would be ?2,016,000 and ?1,395,000. The increase in spending for the kitchens would be ?1,344,000 and ?930,000 for bathrooms, or ?2,274,000 and you would still have ?726,000 to spend on other things from the extra ?3 million. It would also be possible to pay no debt and this would mean an extra ?8 million was available for work on our homes. There is in fact no need to pay the loans in the early years though whether or not you do is a matter of judgement which requires a discussion on the various elements of the finances.

So the Council is proposing a ?debt repayment? which is counter to the interests of tenants and would inevitably lead to a deterioration in the stock , building up a backlog of work. A lower level of renewals will mean a higher number of repairs, wasting money. So the ?debt management strategy? which they have decided on without any discussion whatsoever with tenants means that the interests of tenants are being sacrificed in the interests of the Council?s administration for the benefit of the General Fund.

Although the decision on the ?8 million ?debt repayment? was made earlier in the year, in fact it does not fall due until the end of this financial year. Since it has not yet been made then there is time for the decision to be reversed or amended. The Council has an obligation to consult with tenants and it did not. This unilateral decision was out of order, completely unacceptable.

Another curious thing about the debt structure is that at the time of the ballot we were told that the debt had to be paid off over 30 years. In fact there is no obligation to pay off the debt at all. As a Finance Manager said to me, you could decide not to pay it off so long as you were happy to carry on paying the interest. Whether that would be wise is another matter. As it happens the Council has actually borrowed money for 40 years (no discussion with us). Some ?29 million falls due after 30 years. We don?t know why they decided to borrow it for that long. Whatever the reason their decision means that tenants will have to pay more money through their rent than they would have if the loans were over 30 years because the longer the borrowing is for then the higher the rate of interest.

How you manage this debt is infinitely variable. You might decide to pay it off in 30 years or 40 years. If you were to pay it off in equal instalments it would require ?5 million a year over 30 years (the overall debt is ?150 million since there was nearly ?12 million ?outstanding debt?), or it could be paid off over ?40 years which would be an equal payment of ?3.75 million a year, which would leave even more money for work on the stock. As you can see there are any number of variants of how you deal with this debt. The key question for us is what is in the best interests of existing and future tenants. However, this is a question which the Council has ignored because it has made a decision on the basis of its interests and not ours.

Whatever the technicalities involved in this discussion there is a very simple principle on which it must be based. It is the responsibility of the Council to maintain and improve the housing stock . It should not be determining ?debt management strategy? such that the stock deteriorates.

Certainly the Council should be neither deciding on debt structure nor debt repayment without the involvement of tenants in meaningful discussion. What this sorry situation underlines is the need for a Housing Finance Committee to? set up to discuss debt management strategy and to have an oversight of the finances as they develop through the course of each year, so that, for instance, any money programmed but not spent is utilised elsewhere. For instance, because of the welfare ?reforms? an extra 120 voids have been added into the programme, in the expectation of more people asking for moves. However, evidence is that barely any of those facing the ?bedroom tax? are requesting to move. If this remains the case throughout the year then this money can be used for other things.

We also need to discuss the relationship between the ?ring-fenced? HRA and the GF. One of the intentions of the ?self-financing? system was to move to a situation where all housing debt was kept in the? HRA so that there was transparency and it was clear that no rent money was used for non-housing purposes and visa versa. Whilst there is no illegality in relation to the transfer of money from the HRA for the purposes of ?debt payment?, it is highly dubious because as currently proposed the action is directed at benefiting the GF to the detriment of the tenants and the housing stock. The GF is saving money at our expense.

One final thing which needs emphasising is this. The housing debt will be paid for by the tenants, not by the GF or the Council Tax. It was the price we paid for being able to keep all the rent which our tenants pay when the old Housing Revenue system was ended. Whatever ?debt repayments? are made, be they to the PWLB, or internal transfers to the GF, they only have any legitimacy if the strategy serves the interests of tenants and helps to improve our housing stock. Our rent is for the benefit of tenants it is not for the convenience of the Council or the GF. Moreover the Council should not be deciding how to use it without discussing with tenants. It is after all our living conditions that are positively or adversely affected by ?debt management strategy?.

Martin Wicks

Secretary, Swindon Tenants Campaign Group

January 20th 2013

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Neuroscientists create fiber-optic method of arresting epileptic seizures

Friday, January 25, 2013

UC Irvine neuroscientists have developed a way to stop epileptic seizures with fiber-optic light signals, heralding a novel opportunity to treat the most severe manifestations of the brain disorder.

Using a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, Ivan Soltesz, Chancellor's Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology, and colleagues created an EEG-based computer system that activates hair-thin optical strands implanted in the brain when it detects a real-time seizure.

These fibers subsequently "turn on" specially expressed, light-sensitive proteins called opsins, which can either stimulate or inhibit specific neurons in select brain regions during seizures, depending on the type of opsin.

The researchers found that this process was able to arrest ongoing electrical seizure activity and reduce the incidence of severe "tonic-clonic" events.

"This approach is useful for understanding how seizures occur and how they can be stopped experimentally," Soltesz said. "In addition, clinical efforts that affect a minimum number of cells and only at the time of a seizure may someday overcome many of the side effects and limitations of currently available treatment options."

Study results appear online in Nature Communications.

More than 3 million Americans suffer from epilepsy, a condition of recurrent spontaneous seizures that occur unpredictably, often cause changes in consciousness, and can preclude normal activities such as driving and working. In at least 40 percent of patients, seizures cannot be controlled with existing drugs, and even in those whose seizures are well controlled, the treatments can have major cognitive side effects.

Although the study was carried out in mice, not humans, Soltesz said the work could lead to a better alternative to the currently available electrical stimulation devices.

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Nokia 808 PureView: officially the last Symbian phone

So long, Symbian. Nestled away in the company's financial announcement this morning, Nokia confirmed that its pixel-punching 808 PureView phone will be the last release powered by the increasingly creaky Symbian OS. In no uncertain terms:

"The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia."

The company still managed to sell a total of 2.2 million Symbian devices during the last quarter, half the number of Windows Phone 8 devices shifted in the same period -- presumably thanks, in some way, to that as-yet unparalleled PureView camera sensor. We'll be pouring one out (and capturing it in 38 megapixels) if you need us.

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Video: John Kerry grilled on Benghazi

>> back on capitol hill today, though this time to introduce the man nominated to replace her. massachusetts senator john kerry testifying before the very same committee he chairs, receiving quite a different welcome than the one she received 24 hours earlier. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell , in our d.c. newsroom tonight with more. andrea, good evening.

>> reporter: good evening, brian. the son of a diplomat, raised partly at u.s. embassies abroad, even republicans said john kerry has lived his whole life preparing to be secretary of state. what a difference a day makes. a day after hillary clinton was grilled about benghazi, she was back to join the same senators in lavishing praise on her presumed successor.

>> john is the right choice to carry forward the obama administration's foreign policy . and i urge his speedy confirmation.

>> if you confirm me, i would take office as secretary, proud that the senate is in my blood. but equally proud that so too is the foreign service .

>> reporter: john mccain and kerry forged close bonds over vietnam . both naval officers , mccain was imprisoned. kerry returned to testify against the war in 1971 . his first appearance before this committee.

>> how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in vietnam ?

>> reporter: decades later, they united as senators to resolve p.o.w. issues and normalize relations with vietnam .

>> working toward that end with john and witnessing almost daily his exemplary statesmanship is one of the highest privileges i've had here.

>> reporter: today, they do have differences. mccain is more willing to arm the rebels in syria.

>> i think we ought to tell the syrian people that we're either going to help them or we're not.

>> if you have a complete implosion of the state, nobody has clearer definition of how you put those pieces back together.

>> reporter: he and others also pressed kerry on benghazi.

>> are you willing to work with me or do you basically kind of agree hillary clinton that that's kind of yesterday's news and let's move on?

>> well, senator, if you're trying to get some daylight between me and secretary clinton, that's not going to happen here today.

>> reporter: kerry promised to stress economic issues, climate change and stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon .

>> we will do what we must do to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon . and i repeat here today, our policy is not containment. it is prevention. and the clock is ticking on our efforts to secure responsible compliance.

>> reporter: and there's this. if sworn in next week as expected, kerry would be the first man to be secretary of state in eight years. brian?

>> andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom tonight with that footnote, thanks.

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Google Shopping And Product Listing Ads Vs. Amazon - Business ...

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Google's new "product listing ads" -- seen by most as Google Shopping -- appear to be a hit according to numbers generated in Q4 2012.

The ads may explain in part why Google pulled off yet another blockbuster Q4 increase in ad sales; the search giant added $1.3 billion in ad revenues alone in the quarter.

Last September, Google began making retailers pay to list products for sale in its shopping section. Previously those listings had been free. The move bumped a bunch of spammy, misleading ads from the section and replaced them with products that top retailers wielding big budgets want to promote.

It also hurt Amazon -- the new ads appear above organic, non-sponsored search results. Amazon has not participated in product listing ads and thus its results only show up in organic search. In other words, Google Shopping has bumped Amazon's results down the page.

That seems like a technicality, but in the pixel-by-pixel war for search results, it's a huge challenge to Amazon.

Google CEO Larry Page didn't give any specific details of the results of that shift on his recent earnings call, other than to say "we?ve seen tremendous uptake from merchants and from users." But observers believe the move was a huge success. Up to 28 percent of certain search clicks were on product listing ads in Q4, according to research firm RKG.

The highlights, first from MediaPost:

Retail marketers spent 16% more on paid-search campaigns in in 2012, compared with the prior year. Google took about 86.5% market share in Q4 2012, up from 85.9% in the prior quarter. Sid Shah, director of business analytics at Adobe, attributes the growth to strong mobile traffic and the transition of Google Shopping from a free to a paid model supported by product listing ads.

And now RKG:

Product listing ads drove 28% of Google?s non-brand paid search clicks in Q4 according to a new report from RKG.

Here's what Google's management said about product listing ads on their call. Clearly, they're very happy with it:

Nikesh Arora - Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer: I don't know if you've had a chance to look at it, but there are some interesting things like 360 degree toy imagery and integrating retailers' promotions and discounts into our shopping product.

Ben Schachter - Macquarie: ... Google Shopping, the PLAs and the interface changes, I think significantly improve the user experience, but the consumer still needs to leave the site to transact. Do you anticipate a mechanism whereas users can actually transact on Google Shopping without having to leave? You know, as you said sort of no extra work needed? Thanks.

Larry Page - Chief Executive Officer, Director: Google Shopping, I guess you are asking about Product Listing Ads I think that we are also in the early stages of that. We just rolled out Google Shopping. We?ve seen tremendous uptake from merchants and from users and I expect that quality of the site, the ease of buying things will improve over time and I am really excited about that. I am not going to comment on details about that, but we?re always focused on making our user experience better. So, can we have our next question please?

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Police: Cowboys player didn't seem drunk at first

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DALLAS (AP) - Police say Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jay Ratliff didn't seem drunk at first when they pulled him over this week.

The 31-year-old Ratliff was arrested shortly after midnight Tuesday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Ratliff was arrested after his pickup truck sideswiped a semitrailer truck in Grapevine, 20 miles northwest of Dallas.

A search warrant affidavit released Wednesday says Ratliff did not appear to show any signs of intoxication at first. Grapevine police Officer Eric Barch says he investigated further because nighttime wrecks often involve drunken drivers and people in good physical shape can hide signs of intoxication.

Last month, Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent was indicted on an intoxicated manslaughter count in the Dec. 8 crash that killed his friend and Cowboys practice squad member Jerry Brown.

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Family of late Seau sues NFL

PFT: On the heels of the disclosure that linebacker Junior Seau suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy when he committed suicide in May 2012, Seau?s estate is now suing the NFL for wrongful death.

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Waiting in the driveway on MLK Day: Ads for KKK

More than 30 flyers like this one were left in driveways at a Georgia subdivision on Martin Luther King Day.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

Dozens of people in a Georgia subdivision had something unusual in the driveway where the daily paper might be -- invitations to join the Ku Klux Klan.

Sheriff?s officials in Newton County, outside Atlanta, picked up more than 30 KKK recruitment fliers on Monday, said Jeff Alexander, a sheriff?s investigator and spokesman. Monday was the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Authorities collected four versions of the flier, all of them depicting a Klansman in a hooded robe. ?Help Save Our Race,? one reads.

A local newspaper, The Rockdale Citizen, reported that the fliers were left in plastic sandwich bags and weighed down by rocks.

Alexander told NBC News that the fliers appeared to be from a group in North Carolina, and that there was no known active KKK division in Newton County.

A call to the phone number on the flier from NBC News was not immediately returned.

Alexander described the subdivision as racially diverse and similar to others in the county.

He said sheriff?s officials had determined that there was no threat in the fliers and that no laws had been broken.

?We collected the fliers,? he said. ?That doesn?t mean they won?t be distributed again.?

Local news reports in recent months have said that similar fliers turned up in neighborhoods in Virginia and Tennessee, and Alexander said there were reports of other fliers being left in neighborhoods along the East Coast on Monday.

Similar flyers have turned up in other states in recent months as well, local reports said.

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Mozilla reveals Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone

Mozilla said it won't be launching its own hardware to run the in-development Firefox OS when it's finished, but the company has just announced a "Developer Preview Phone" for putting the OS through its paces. It's not quite the same as the mystery device we saw sporting Firefox OS at CES, but its specs seem almost as basic. The handset will feature a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen and 3-megapixel camera on the outside, with a 1GHz Snapdragon S1 CPU, half a gig of RAM, 4GB of microSD-expandable storage and WiFi, 2G and 3G antennae inside. Sure, that processor isn't a beast, but an 800MHz S1 does just fine in the Lumia 610. A 1580mAh battery will keep the carrier-unlocked phone running, and Mozilla is promising OTA updates to Firefox OS to keep devs, well, up to date. At the moment, we have no idea how much the phone will cost, but the first units are expected to be available next month.

The developer handset is called the Keon, according to creator Geekphone's website, and while not mentioned in the Mozilla Hacks blog post, it appears to have a more powerful cousin called the Peak. It's got a 4.3-inch qHD screen, 8-megapixel back-facing camera (with flash) and 2-megapixel shooter round the front. A 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU and larger 1800mAh battery are within, but storage, RAM and connectivity specs are the same as the smaller Keon. Mozilla may not be formally promoting this as its own dev handset, but it was still included in the picture which accompanied the announcement (see above: the Keon is in orange, the Peak in white). We're getting in contact with Mozilla to clarify, and will update you when we hear back.

Update: Mozilla has confirmed that both the Keon and Peak are official developer devices.

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