NYPD braces for 'wilding' gang violence in Times Square on Easter

By Ida Siegal, NBCNewYork.com

NEW YORK CITY -- The NYPD is again planning to beef up patrols in Times Square and Midtown the night of Easter Sunday, a day that in recent years has seen violence as part of a yearly gang initiation ritual following the Javits Center car show.

Police say the Easter Day "wilding" started years ago but became especially violent in 2010, when hundreds of gang members attended the annual auto show at the Javits Center, then conducted gang initiations in Times Square.

Two women were shot during the sprawling brawl, two other people were wounded and several police officers injured. More than 50 people were arrested.

Since then, police have beefed up Easter patrols and monitored activity at the car show. The Daily News reports the NYPD is also monitoring social media to look for gang members who may be planning a "mobbing" through Times Square.

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There have not been any gang incidents on Easter since 2010, and the NYPD is looking to keep it that way.

"For me, it's a religious holiday and it should be respected," said Michael Hoard in Times Square Friday night.

The police "are here to protect us, that's the bottom line," said Al Centrella of Hempstead, who was in the area with his wife to see a show.

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Swiss-born WWII spy is honored with Arlington burial

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Savana Joyeuse, granddaughter of Dr. Rene Joyeuse, and other family members attend Joyeuse's burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., March 29.

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The family of Dr. Rene Joyeuse attend his burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., March 29. In the wheelchair is Joyeuse' widow, Suzanne Joyeuse, with their son's Marc Joyeuse, and Remi Joyeuse, right.

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The remains of Dr. Rene Joyeuse, of Saranac Lake, New York, a decorated Swiss-born WWII spy, during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., March 29.

By Chris Carola /?Associated Press?

When Dr. Rene Joyeuse's request for burial at Arlington National Cemetery was rejected, the family of the decorated Swiss-born World War II spy launched a campaign to get the decision reversed. Months later, Joyeuse is getting his wish, thanks in part to the involvement of the nation's top covert operators, including CIA Director David Petraeus.

Before resigning amid a sex scandal last November, Petraeus played a key role in convincing Pentagon officials that Joyeuse, a retired doctor from upstate New York, deserved to lie in rest among some of America's greatest military heroes, people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

"It got attention at the highest levels, very high up. That's how important he (Joyeuse) was," said Charles Pinck, president of the OSS Society, whose membership includes a dwindling number of veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, the nation's World War II intelligence agency and forerunner of the CIA. ?Continue reading.

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Saturn is like an antiques shop, Cassini suggests; Moons and rings date back to solar system's birth

Mar. 27, 2013 ? A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth.

Though they are tinted on the surface from recent "pollution," these bodies date back more than 4 billion years. They are from around the time that the planetary bodies in our neighborhood began to form out of the protoplanetary nebula, the cloud of material still orbiting the sun after its ignition as a star. The paper, led by Gianrico Filacchione, a Cassini participating scientist at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, has just been published online by The Astrophysical Journal.

"Studying the Saturnian system helps us understand the chemical and physical evolution of our entire solar system," said Filacchione. "We know now that understanding this evolution requires not just studying a single moon or ring, but piecing together the relationships intertwining these bodies."

Data from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) have revealed how water ice and also colors -- which are the signs of non-water and organic materials --are distributed throughout the Saturnian system. The spectrometer's data in the visible part of the light spectrum show that coloring on the rings and moons generally is only skin-deep.

Using its infrared range, VIMS also detected abundant water ice -- too much to have been deposited by comets or other recent means. So the authors deduce that the water ices must have formed around the time of the birth of the solar system, because Saturn orbits the sun beyond the so-called "snow line." Out beyond the snow line, in the outer solar system where Saturn resides, the environment is conducive to preserving water ice, like a deep freezer. Inside the solar system's "snow line," the environment is much closer to the sun's warm glow, and ices and other volatiles dissipate more easily.

The colored patina on the ring particles and moons roughly corresponds to their location in the Saturn system. For Saturn's inner ring particles and moons, water-ice spray from the geyser moon Enceladus has a whitewashing effect.

Farther out, the scientists found that the surfaces of Saturn's moons generally were redder the farther they orbited from Saturn. Phoebe, one of Saturn's outer moons and an object thought to originate in the far-off Kuiper Belt, seems to be shedding reddish dust that eventually rouges the surface of nearby moons, such as Hyperion and Iapetus.

A rain of meteoroids from outside the system appears to have turned some parts of the main ring system -- notably the part of the main rings known as the B ring -- a subtle reddish hue. Scientists think the reddish color could be oxidized iron -- rust -- or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which could be progenitors of more complex organic molecules.

One of the big surprises from this research was the similar reddish coloring of the potato-shaped moon Prometheus and nearby ring particles. Other moons in the area were more whitish.

"The similar reddish tint suggests that Prometheus is constructed from material in Saturn's rings," said co-author Bonnie Buratti, a VIMS team member based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Scientists had been wondering whether ring particles could have stuck together to form moons -- since the dominant theory was that the rings basically came from satellites being broken up. The coloring gives us some solid proof that it can work the other way around, too."

"Observing the rings and moons with Cassini gives us an amazing bird's-eye view of the intricate processes at work in the Saturn system, and perhaps in the evolution of planetary systems as well," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at JPL. "What an object looks like and how it evolves depends a lot on location, location, location."

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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Napolitano rejects ?border trigger? in immigration proposal

Janet Napolitano (Christian Science Monitor)

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday rejected a "border trigger" provision many Republican lawmakers say must be included in immigration reform legislation.

The proposal, which would require that that the U.S. border with Mexico be declared secure before illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. could apply for citizenship, has sparked significant concern among progressives and union leaders. And Napolitano, a Democrat and former Arizona governor, revealed Tuesday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast roundtable in Washington that she also believes it shouldn't be put into practice.

"Once people really look at the whole system and how it works, relying on one thing as a so-called trigger is not the way to go," Napolitano said, adding that there "needs to be certainty" in an immigration reform bill.

A bipartisan group group of senators known as the "Gang of 8" and some House members are currently working on immigration reform legislation in Congress and have been in communication with Napolitano personally and with her department.

But Napolitano on Tuesday refused to offer reporters any additional details on her communications with the Senate group.

She did reveal her belief that times have changed.

Napolitano noted that four years ago when she took the helm of the department, there was little appetite for immigration reform among members of Congress while two wars were being waged.

And last year, the 2012 election helped pushed things forward, she said.

"I think now is the time ... I think the election had consequences in that regard."

When asked to rate the Senate group's odds of success, Napolitano offered a nonspecific answer.

"I'm always optimistic," she said.

Napolitano said that today, 10 years after the creation of Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the U.S./Mexico border is more secure than ever before.

Napolitano mentioned a range of issues that fall under her department in addition to immigration, including the Secret Service, customs and border protection and, largely, terrorism.

Napolitano defended the recent decision by the Transportation Security Administration to permit pocketknives on airplanes, something originally outlawed after the 9/11 attacks. Members of Congress and other critics expressed outrage over the decision to make an exception for pocketknives, a decision set to take effect April 25.

But Napolitano on Tuesday said the move was appropriate.

"I think, frankly, it's the right decision," she said. "From a security standpoint, we're trying to prevent a bomb from getting on a plane, and if you're talking about a small knife, there are already things on a plane that somebody could convert into a small, sharp object."

She mentioned that what keeps her awake at night are unseen threats.

It's "not what I know about, 'cause what I know about, we can do something about," Napolitano said. "It's what's out there that I don't know about."

What she doesn't lie awake at night thinking about is the 2016 election.

?I think my plate is so full right now that I think that contemplation would be the kind of thing that would keep me up at night,? Napolitano said, brushing off a question about her presidential aspirations. ?And I lose enough sleep as it is.?

Combating terrorism and defending against attacks is a daily mission of the department, Napolitano said, adding that her department is aiming to hire "600 hackers for good," who will be focused on cyber threats.

Napolitano said she spends a lot of her time working on relations with the private sector with regard to cyber security.

But oddly enough, that doesn't mean she's personally up on the latest cyber technology.

Napolitano explained Tuesday that she does not use email. At all.

And she hasn't used email since she served as Arizona's attorney general around the year 2000.

"I think email sucks up time," she said, lamenting the hundreds of emails she found herself forced to "scroll through" daily and the way in which people used email as a replacement for making contact.

"I haven't found it to be a problem," she added. Napolitano said people who need to reach her are able to do so through her staff (who she mentioned use email for her) and via phone.

Oh, and she doesn't tweet or text either.

It "allows me to focus" on what's important, she said.

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Prostate cancer risks are reduced almost 50 percent by grapeseed ...

(NaturalNews) Did you know that a little-publicized 2011 study from the journal Nutrition and Cancer showed that taking grapeseed extract could reduce men's risk of prostate cancer by 40-60 percent?

The study was conducted by researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and funded by the National Cancer Institute.

The study actually evaluated nine separate "specialty supplements," defined as supplements that are neither vitamins or minerals. The researchers noted that although such supplements have become increasingly popular with consumers in recent decades, and although many have demonstrated anti-cancer properties in laboratory studies, very few studies have had their effectiveness tested in studies on actual human beings.

In the case of grapeseed extract, those laboratory studies have established it as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, and have also shown it to combat high blood pressure, fight cancer, and be active within prostate cells.

The prostate cancer study was conducted on 35,239 male participants in the Vitamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) study who were between the ages of 50 and 76. All participants were residents of Western Washington State and completed a detailed questionnaire about which of 18 specialty supplements, as well as vitamin and mineral supplements, they were using or had used regularly over the past 10 years. Regular use was defined as taking a supplement at least once per week for at least a year. Nine of the specialty supplements were included in the final analysis: grapeseed extract, chondroitin, co-enzyme Q10, fish oil, garlic pills, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, glucosamine and saw palmetto

Participants also answered questions about their prostate cancer risk factors, including personal medical history, family cancer history, body mass index, and lifestyle factors such as alcohol consumption.

Six years after the study's start, the researchers found that men who regularly took grapeseed extract were 41 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with prostate cancer than men who did not take grapeseed extract regularly. Men whose average use over the 10 years preceding the study was classified as "high" actually reduced their prostate cancer risk by 62 percent.

None of the other supplements included in the analysis showed any effect on prostate cancer risk.

Other cancer-fighting properties

Grapeseed extract's cancer-fighting properties are an ongoing area of scientific research. In a follow-up to the above study, the researchers used the same data plus information from 30,988 women to analyze specialty extracts' effects on the risk of hematologic cancers, including cancers of the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes. Comparable to the findings from the prostate cancer study, the researchers found that participants who had any history at all of using grapeseed extract were 43 percent less likely to develop hematologic cancer. The only other supplement that offered any protection against these cancers was garlic; participants with "high use" of garlic were 47 percent less likely to develop hematologic cancers than those with no use.

Another human study, also published in 2011, found that grapeseed extract reduced the risk of squamous cell carcinoma by 74 percent.

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A 'worrisome' risk: Most babies are fed solid food too soon, study finds

By Linda Carroll

Most mothers may be starting their infants on solid foods months sooner than specialists recommend, mistakenly believing their children are old enough to graduate from breast milk or formula ? but many say they?re simply following doctors? orders, according to a study published today.

Parents should wait until their little ones are at least 6 months old before offering them solid foods, say many child-nutrition experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.

But researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ? who surveyed 1,334 new moms ? discovered that almost 93 percent of those women had introduced solid foods to their infants before 6 months, that 40 percent did it before the 4-month mark, and that 9 percent had offered?solids to their babies before they were even four weeks old, according to the study, published today in Pediatrics.

?Fifty percent said that their health care provider told them it was time to introduce solid food,? said Kelley Scanlon, a co-author of the study and lead epidemiologist in the nutrition branch in the division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity at the CDC.

?That, for us, indicates that health care providers need to provide clearer guidance and really support women in carrying out the recommendation,? Scanlon said.

Physicians' groups settled on the 6-month cut-off after earlier research determined that children who get solid food at too early might be at a greater risk for developing chronic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, eczema and celiac disease, Scanlon said.

The mothers who volunteered for the CDC study filled out food diaries and questionnaires designed to ferret out their opinions on why and when solid foods should be offered.

Among the moms offering solid foods to infants younger than 4 months, the most commonly cited reasons for doing so included: ?My baby was old enough;? ?My baby seemed hungry;? ?I wanted to feed my baby something in addition to breast milk or formula,? ?My baby wanted the food I ate;? ?A doctor or other health care professional said my baby should begin eating solid food;? and ?It would help my baby sleep longer at night,? researchers reported.

What?s more, moms who fed their babies formula were far more likely to start solids too early versus those who exclusively breast-fed (53 percent versus 24 percent), the study showed.

One food expert unaffiliated with the CDC study suggested that some health-care providers may simply be unfamiliar with current baby-feeding recommendations.

?I think this is worrisome,? said Ann Condon-Meyers, a pediatric dietician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. ?I think it may show that word isn?t getting out that ? it is 6 months before solid foods should be offered.?

Still, the study?s findings didn?t surprise Condon-Meyers, who added: ?I work in pediatrics and we see a lot of early introduction of solid foods when we do patient histories.?

In addition to possibly boosting,?a child?s risk for contracting certain chronic diseases, introducing solid foods too early often means babies don?t drink an adequate amount of breast milk or formula, and that can translate into poorer nutrition, Condon-Meyers said.

Breast milk and formula have all the nutrients and vitamins a baby needs and in the right proportions, Condon-Meyers said.

?If you start giving solid food too early then you are diluting the nutritional intake,? she said. ?You?re getting more calories, but less of the nutrients a baby needs to grow.?

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Obama urges lawmakers' vote on assault weapons ban

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? President Barack Obama says each of his proposed steps to reduce gun violence should get a vote in Congress ? even an assault weapons ban that both parties agree stands little chance of passing.

Senate Democrats dropped the ban from the bill they plan to debate next month out of concern it could sink the whole package. Still, Obama says he's pushing for it.

In his weekly radio and Internet address released Saturday, Obama says the U.S. has changed in the three months since the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn., left 20 first graders and six educators dead. He says Americans support the ban, plus limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines, school security funding and a crackdown on gun trafficking.

"Today there is still genuine disagreement among well-meaning people about what steps we should take to reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country. But you, the American people, have spoken," Obama said.

The White House said Saturday that Obama will make additional trips outside Washington to rally support for the measures, including the assault weapons ban. The White House also said that before Obama left for Israel earlier this week, his push for gun control was among the issues he raised with lawmakers from both parties as he embarked on a concerted effort to reach out to Congress.

In the Republican address, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah says the Senate Democrats' budget raises taxes by $1.5 trillion without doing anything to save entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. He says Republicans want a balanced budget that lives up to the nation's moral obligation to act in the best interest of future generations.

"Republicans recognize that keeping dollars, decisions, priorities and power in the hands of the people is what has made America the greatest civilization the world has ever known," Lee says. "Now is the time to return to that model."

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Reid: Gun bill to include background checks

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will move forward with Senate Democrats' gun control legislation, a move designed to set the Senate up to start working on the controversial legislation when they return from recess on April 8.

The bill will include a proposal for universal background checks, a controversial measure that faces an uphill climb in the Senate.

Democratic leadership aides say Reid is still leaving the door open to replace the language on background checks, as passed this month out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with a compromise package, should one emerge over the next few weeks.

"I hope negotiations will continue over the upcoming break to reach a bipartisan compromise on background checks, and I am hopeful that they will succeed," Reid said in a statement Thursday. "If a compromise is reached, I am open to including it in the base bill. But I want to be clear: in order to be effective, any bill that passes the Senate must include background checks."

Also included in the bill will be straw purchasing and trafficking provisions, aides say.

The base bill will not include the controversial ban on assault weapons, as decided this week by Senate Majoirty Leader Harry Reid.

But the assault weapons ban will get its vote, Reid promises - as President Obama did, as an amendment to the bill. "Once debate begins, I will ensure that a ban on assault weapons, limits to high-capacity magazines, and mental health provisions receive votes, along with other amendments. In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for all of these provisions to receive votes, and I will ensure that they do," Reid said in a statement.

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By George Leong, B.Comm. for Profit Confidential

The airline sector is sizzling, with rising demand from China and other emerging economies, based on my stock analysis. Revenues in the global airline sector are estimated at $671 billion this year, with profits of $10.6 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association. Plus, my stock analysis suggests that there are significant plane orders flowing in, which you can read more about in ?Aerospace: The Only Way Left to Play Global Growth.?

My stock analysis indicates that with the rise in demand, there is also a rise in the need for the materials used to build planes. A key material is carbon fiber?a compound used for applications that demand a high strength-to-weight ratio and rigidity, such as planes.

The global carbon fiber market is estimated to grow annually at 17% over the next five years to around 118,600 tonnes and a market value of about $7.3 billion by 2017, according to The Future of Carbon Fiber to 2017 report produced by Smithers Apex. From 2012 to 2020, the annual growth for carbon fiber-reinforced plastics is estimated at 16%. These metrics make carbon fiber plays an intriguing opportunity, according to my stock analysis.

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Zoltek?s stock chart, featured below, shows a strong breakout from the upward channel with an upside gap, as indicated by the blue circle. The relative strength is strong, as is the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD); but you may want to hold off on considering buying until a possible retrenchment back to around $10.00 if the stock fails to hold, based on my technical analysis.

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Zoltek, around since 1975, is the largest seller of carbon fiber for the low-cost end for commercial use, according to the company. The company?s carbon fiber is sold under the ?Panex? brand. Zoltek also develops a stabilized and oxidized acrylic fiber that?s used in flame- and heat-resistant applications sold under the ?Pyron? brand. In addition, Zoltek Automotive was formed in April 2010 to develop carbon fiber for the automotive sector.

Global markets include China, India, Korea, and South America (focus on Brazil), which makes the stock a global play, based on my stock analysis.

Zoltek reported higher fiscal sales from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2007 and from fiscal 2011 to fiscal 2012. Sales increased from $41.8 million in fiscal 2002 to $186 million in fiscal 2012. The problem is that sales are estimated to fall 16.1% to $156 million in fiscal 2013, prior to a rebound of 17.3% in fiscal 2014, according to data from Thomson Financial.

But there?s also a battle brewing after investment firm Quinpario Partners LLC acquired a 10.3% interest in Zoltek, in an attempt to try to turn the company around. The problem is that Zoltek?scurrent management is resisting any changes. While a formal takeover offer has not surfaced, there is speculation that Quinpario may move in this direction.

While this situation plays itself out, my stock analysis suggests that if the carbon fiber sector grows, as is expected, and if Zoltek can regain its growth, we could see a corresponding rise in the company?s share price.

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Obama urges Palestinians to return to peace talks

By Steve Holland and Ali Sawafta

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Barack Obama voiced opposition on Thursday to Israeli settlement building but pressed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to drop his demand for a freeze before Middle East peace talks can resume.

After an effusive welcome in Israel, Obama travelled to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where disillusioned Palestinians held out little hope that their moment in the spotlight of a U.S. presidential visit would help revive the peace process.

At a joint news conference with Abbas, Obama said he had "been clear" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington did not consider continued settlement activity to be constructive to "the cause of peace".

But Obama stopped short of calling for a halt to settlement expansion - a demand he had made early in his first term - and signaled his frustration over the failure of Israel and the Palestinians to find a way to resume talks stalled since 2010.

However, he offered no new ideas on how to get the two sides negotiating again at a time when prospects for a peace deal are grim in a region roiled by the West's nuclear standoff with Iran and the bloody civil war in Syria.

"What I shared with President Abbas, and I'll share it with the Palestinian people: if the expectation is we can only have direct negotiations when everything is settled ahead of time, then there's no point in the negotiations," he said.

"My argument is even though both sides may have areas of strong disagreement, may be engaging in activities that the other side thinks is a breach of good faith, we have to push through those things to try to get an agreement," Obama said.

Some 150 Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Ramallah to protest against Obama's visit. They were held back by mass ranks of police who prevented them from nearing Abbas's compound.

A smiling Obama, accompanied by Abbas, was met by mostly stern-faced Palestinian officials along a red carpet - a stark contrast to the broad grins and backslapping during an elaborate welcoming ceremony on Wednesday at Israel's Tel Aviv airport.

ARAB RECOGNITION

Obama, embarking on a second and final four-year term in the White House, has made clear he is not bringing any new peace initiatives but instead has come to Israel and the Palestinian Territories on a "listening" tour.

But he said his new secretary of state, John Kerry, would spend a significant amount of time and energy trying to narrow differences between the two sides as the United States seeks to move them back to the negotiating table.

Abbas reaffirmed his demand for a settlement freeze, but held out the prospect of a broader peace between Israel and other Arab nations if a Palestinian state was created.

"If peace came between us and the Israelis, Israel knows well that all the Arab and Islamic countries, 57 states, will recognize the state of Israel immediately," he said.

As a reminder of the ever-present risks in the region, Iranian state television quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying Tehran would raze Tel Aviv and the city of Haifa if Israel carried out veiled threats to attack Iran.

And Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into Sderot, a southern Israeli town that Obama visited when running for president in 2008. Police said no one was hurt.

There was no claim of responsibility, and Obama is not going to visit Gaza, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, a rival to the Western-backed Abbas, who condemned the attack.

Obama held talks with Netanyahu on Wednesday and toured the Israel Museum in Jerusalem with him on Thursday, viewing the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls - artefacts that underscore the Jewish link to the Holy Land - and a high-tech exhibit.

The main focus of his initial discussions with Netanyahu appeared to be pressing regional concerns, primarily Iran's nuclear ambitions and the civil war in neighboring Syria, and winning the hearts of a skeptical Israeli public.

After repeated run-ins with Netanyahu during Obama's first term in office, the mood between the two men appeared to be much warmer, angering Palestinians, who blame the 2010 collapse of U.S.-backed peace negotiations on the Israeli leader's expansion of settlements on land where they want their state.

Obama is also to address the decades-old conflict later on Thursday in a keynote speech to students in Jerusalem.

After the lofty ambitions of Obama's first term, when he appointed a special envoy to the Middle East on his very first day in charge and said peacemaking was a priority, it was clear that the president has now set the bar significantly lower.

"I will consider this a success if, when I go back on Friday, I am able to say to myself I have a better understanding of what the constraints are," he told a joint news conference on Wednesday, standing alongside Netanyahu.

The three-day visit is Obama's first to Israel and the West Bank since entering the White House in 2009, and the inaugural foreign trip of a final four-year term that began in January.

Sporadic protests had flared in the West Bank and Gaza Strip this week, with Palestinians accusing Obama of not doing enough to halt Israeli settlement-building on land seized in 1967.

Posters depicting the U.S. president were defaced in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem earlier this week and anti-U.S. sentiment bubbled up on social media.

(Additional reporting by Noah Browning in Ramallah, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Matt Spetalnick, Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Alastair Macdonald)

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Starbucks seeks to double loyalty card membership

The Associated Press ? ? ? 16 hrs.

Starbucks is planning a big push behind its loyalty program, with plans to double membership by the end of the year.

Starting in May, the world's biggest coffee company says members will be able to earn points when they buy bags of Starbucks coffee at supermarkets. Customers would have to go online and enter a code on the bag to get their point.

Starbucks Corp. had announced the move last year but hadn't said when it would be available. The details on the rollout were to be announced at the company's annual meeting Wednesday.

The Seattle-based company says a number of other marketing campaigns will also help push its membership to 9 million by end of this fiscal year, up from its 4.5 million current members. Starting next month, for example, customers will also be able to earn points at the company's recently acquired Teavana shops.

A Starbucks spokeswoman did not have details on how spending patterns change when people join the loyalty program.

The My Starbucks Rewards program was launched in 2009 and gives people free drinks and food based on the number of points they earn. People earn one point for every purchase, regardless of how much they spend.

Starbucks shares rose 29 cents to $57.12 in midday trading Wednesday.

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Does it matter who runs US drone program? Pentagon could supplant CIA.

A news report suggests that authority for the US drone program could shift from the CIA to the Pentagon. Critics hope that would open it to more oversight from Congress and citizens.

By Anna Mulrine,?Staff writer / March 20, 2013

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The growing speculation that the White House is preparing to shift its secretive drone program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Pentagon is raising new questions about just how much more transparency this move would portend.

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The hope among critics is that this change would allow greater oversight by Congress ? and, by extension, the American public ? of America?s targeted killing program.

That could be true, experts say. Congress is generally more successful in bringing the Pentagon to heel through budget threats than is the CIA. Moreover, the Pentagon is subject to citizen Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.?

But elements within the Pentagon are just as secretive ? if not more so ? than the CIA, meaning critics might not get the degree of openness they might want.

?Whether transparency increases really depends on who at the DoD [Department of Defense] the program goes to,? says Jennifer Rowland, program associate with the National Security Studies program at the New America Foundation.

Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, a longtime member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is pushing for the drone program to change addresses.

?Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an Air Force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that?s a job for the Department of Defense,? he said on FOX News recently.

?What we really need to do is take this whole program out of the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency and put it into the Department of Defense, where you have adequate oversight, you have committee oversight, you have all the things that are built in as our oversight of the Department of Defense.?

But some analysts question whether the move to the Pentagon would truly increase oversight.

?That shift in-and-of-itself does not necessarily create more transparency,? says Benjamin Friedman, a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think thank.

In his article for the Daily Beast that broke the news of the reported shift Wednesday, Daniel Klaidman points out that the Pentagon may choose to place responsibility for the drone program with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which is responsible for the Navy?s SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, and other equally secretive US military strike forces.

JSOC may be less willing to share information about these strikes than is the CIA. And while the CIA is obligated to report certain actions it takes ? including targeted killings ? to Congress, JSOC is not.

?JSOC really has different rules than the rest of the Pentagon,? says Ms. Rowland of the New America Foundation.

That said, it is far easier for American citizens to compel the Pentagon to share data through FOIAs, Rowland points out. ?The DoD may not be legally bound to provide certain data to Congress, but they are legally bound to provide it to the American public.?

And should the program shift to the Pentagon, the congressional committees that oversee it could have more points of leverage. In particular, the armed services committee controls the purse strings for the DoD.

This means that the House and Senate Armed Services Committees could strong-arm the Pentagon to share information. The intelligence committees, by contrast, could compel the CIA to do relatively little, Friedman argues.

?In the end, where these formal powers reside may be less important than the fact that the armed services committee authorizers make budget decisions, so they have more pull to get what they want,? says Mr. Friedman of CATO.

Most vital is that this potential move could spark a deeper conversation among lawmakers and the American public about secretive programs that warrant far more oversight than they have been getting, analysts say.

?To me, the main thing is less whether the drone program is run by the CIA or JSOC, but rather whether Congress is asserting its power to contain and check the executive branch when it comes strikes overseas,? Friedman says.

?Rand Paul said it pretty well in his 13-hour filibuster: ?We shouldn?t be asking the president for memos on drone strikes, we should be giving him memos,? ? referring to congressional demands for a legal justification of the Obama administration?s targeted killing program.

The ?murky? process for managing the program, Friedman adds, has proven ?woefully insufficient and has been abused massively by the executive branch to do what they want to as long as they say the magic word ?terrorism.? ?

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Feds: We Don't Want a Warrant to Track Your Car With GPS

The government is claiming that authorities should be allowed to fasten GPS tracking devices to any vehicle—and then monitor its movements—without any form of warrant. More »

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Gone but not forgotten: Yearning for lost loved ones linked to altered thinking about the future

Mar. 18, 2013 ? People suffering from complicated grief may have difficulty recalling specific events from their past or imagining specific events in the future, but not when those events involve the partner they lost, according to a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The death of a loved one is among the most painful and disruptive experiences a person can face. For most, the grief subsides over time. But those who suffer from complicated grief continue to yearn for the lost loved one, experience waves of painful emotion, and feel hopeless about the future.

Research suggests that that people who suffer from complicated grief, similar to those who suffer from post-trauamatic stress disorder or major depression, have difficulty recalling many of the specific memories of their past.

But there's an exception: They often retain their ability to recall specific memories for events that include the lost loved one.

Graduate student Donald Robinaugh and professor of psychology Richard McNally of Harvard University were intrigued by this cognitive paradox, and it raised another question: Do thoughts of lost loved ones also shape how people with complicated grief think about the future?

To find out, the researchers recruited adults who had lost their spouse or life partner in the last one to three years. Some of the participants showed signs of complicated grief, while others showed signs of more typical bereavement.

The participants completed a series of tasks to assess their memory for past events and their ability to imagine future events, both with and without the deceased. They were asked to generate specific events based on positive cue words (e.g., safe, happy, successful, loved) and negative cue words (e.g., hurt, sad, afraid, angry).

Adults suffering from complicated grief showed deficits in their ability to recall specific autobiographical memories and to imagine specific events in the future compared to adults experiencing typical grief, but only for events did not include the deceased. They showed no difficulty generating events that included the partner they had lost.

"Most striking to us was the ease with which individuals with complicated grief were able to imagine the future with the deceased relative to their difficulty imagining the future without the deceased," say Robinaugh and McNally. "They frequently imagined landmark life events -- such as the birth of their first child or a 50th wedding anniversary -- that had long since become impossible. Yet, this impossible future was more readily imagined than one that could, at that point, realistically occur."

These findings point to a cognitive mechanism underlying the distressed yearning that is characteristic of complicated grief.

The research also underscores the importance of generating goals and aspirations for the future after the loss of a loved one. According to the researchers, "setting goals and working toward them may be an important component of natural recovery from the disruptive and painful experience of loss."

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The IPKat: Unitary patents in Europe: which law of infringement ...

Unitary patents in Europe: which law of infringement applies?

The expression "flogging a dead horse" refers to the irritating habit of going back to the same subject again and again, even though every aspect of it has been thoroughly explored and there is nothing left to discuss. ?Some readers might feel that any further discussion of the European Union's new patent regime smacks of flogging a dead horse: the ?relevant laws have now been passed and consensus among those who really matter in Europe -- that is to say, every significant soul who has nothing to do with the functioning of the patent system or the exploitation of patents -- has been achieved. ?In Papal terms, one might say that a plume of white smoke has billowed forth from the Commission and the European Parliament though, as Merpel observes, it takes a lot less time to choose a Pope than to pick a new patent system and, in the normal course of things, opportunities for picking a new one come more frequently to the Vatican conclave than they do to Europe's legislators.

Readers might by now be aware that the mere fact that agreement has been reached on the new European patent package does not mean that debate and discussion has ceased. This is not a case of flogging a dead horse.?Far from it, the horse resolutely refuses to die, and indeed appears to be quite resistant to even the most vigorous of floggings. ?And that is what leads on to this post.

With agreement now achieved, the keen minds of patent litigators from all over Europe are now looking increasingly closely at the new system and are doing what lawyers do best: rubbing the various new legal provisions up against one another, to see what they are really made of. ?Among them is Nick Cunningham (an IP partner in the UK law firm Wragge & Co LLP), who writes as follows:

"There is concern about the potential effect of Article 5(3) of the Unitary Patent Regulation (1257/2012), which determines the law of infringement that is to apply in respect of any particular unitary patent. You may remember that it emerged late from the political wrangling over Articles 6 to 8 and possible references to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Article 5(3) says that the scope of the rights

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"and the applicable limitations shall be those defined by the law applied to European patents with unitary effect"?

in the Member State whose law of property applies per Article 7 -- which will be the participating Member State where the application for the patent originated, alternatively Germany. In other words the rights exercisable under a unitary patent would vary according to the state of origin of that patent.

This may seem crazy -- aside from the complexity, the concern is that this will import the variation to be found between member states, particularly with regard to exceptions for experimental use and clinical trials. The German default matters because Germany has wider exceptions than many other Member States, and lots of applications originate outside the EU.

However I think the concern may be misplaced. The relevant law is that which is applied in the state in question "to European patents with unitary effect". This is circular in a helpful way. At present there is no such law in the UK, but when the unitary scheme comes into effect the law to be applied in the UK in a local division of the Unified Patent Court (or in the central division) to a European patent with unitary effect (over which the UPC has exclusive competence) will be determined by the Agreement on the UnifiedPatent Court.

The rights and limitations to be applied by the Unified Patent Court are set out in detail at Articles 25 to 28 inclusive of the Agreement, and so should be the same in all the participating Member States.

However the unitary patent rights and limitations may differ from those of national patents, and of European patents which have been opted out of the UPC's competence. Although the Article 27 limitations reflect the current UK position, it appears likely that the UK limitations will be broadened following the recent UKIPO consultation, so we may yet see significant differences here (as elsewhere) between unitary patents and the rest".

Do you agree with Nick's analysis? It seems pretty plausible to this Kat, but Merpel bets there will be plenty of different perspectives from our readers.

Source: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2013/03/unitary-patents-in-europe-which-law-of.html

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A long road to victory in PGA for Streelman

Kevin Streelman hits his tee shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. Streelman won the tournament. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Kevin Streelman hits his tee shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. Streelman won the tournament. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Kevin Streelman, right, hugs his wife Courtney after winning the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Kevin Streelman holds up his trophy after winning the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Kevin Streelman hits his tee shot on the 17th hole during the final round of the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. Streelman won the tournament. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Kevin Streelman waves his cap to the gallery after winning the Tampa Bay Championship golf tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) ? Kevin Streelman was ready to abandon his hopes of playing on the PGA Tour, and even that didn't go right.

After two years of plodding through the mini-tours, he noticed a job opening as the assistant golf coach at Duke, his alma mater. Streelman was one of two finalists for the position, and he even went to North Carolina to interview.

It went to the other guy.

And that's when his fortunes started to change, thanks to a chance meeting 10 years ago with a Masters champion.

"I remember I got told Friday I didn't get the job," Streelman said. "My dad gave me $400 to play the qualifier for the Western Open, I made a long putt on the last hole to get in and on the next day I'm in the locker room. And Mike Weir's locker is next to mine."

He nervously asked Weir if they could play a practice round together. Weir showed him how to use the yardage book and all the other nuances of playing on the PGA Tour. Streelman missed the cut, but saw enough out of Weir to figure out where he needed to get better, and to realize his game really wasn't as far off as he imagined.

"It really gave me that kick in the butt to say, 'If you're going to do this, you need to get serious about it,'" Streelman said.

That was but one stop on his long, arduous and amazing journey that culminated Sunday afternoon in the Tampa Bay Championship.

In his sixth year on the PGA Tour, and his 153rd tournament, Streelman broke through with a performance that made it look as though he had done this many times before.

On the tough Copperhead course at Innisbrook, he didn't make a bogey over the final 37 holes. With the tournament up for grabs ? Boo Weekley had a tournament-best 63 and was in the clubhouse at 8-under par ? Streelman didn't miss a shot over the last 11 holes.

The defining moment came at the par-3 13th, which played as the toughest hole in the final round, yielding only three birdies to the previous 75 players. It's the kind of shot Streelman had practiced for so many hours on the range, and the numbers were right.

He had 187 yards to clear the bunker and 194 yards to the pin. His 5-iron goes 200 yards, and there was a slight breeze in his face. A cut 5-iron would be ideal, assuming he could hit it properly.

"We worked really hard on that shot, with the idea and vision of being able to pull it off on Sunday," Streelman said. "I can sit there all day and do it on Tuesday and Wednesday, but that doesn't mean much if you can't do it on Sunday. So that's where I was aiming."

The ball settled 6 feet away, the closest of anyone in the final round.

Justin Leonard, who battled for so much of Sunday with Streelman, made a bogey and never caught back up.

Weekley, who teed off three hours before the leaders, finally headed back to the range when Streelman played his final few holes, but that's as far as he got. Streelman followed with three more pars, and then made a 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th that allowed him a stress-free walk up the 18th hole.

He closed with a 4-under 67 for a two-shot win.

Cameron Tringale had a 66 to finish alone in third when Leonard three-putted the last hole and had to settle for a 71, putting him in a tie for fourth with defending champion Luke Donald and Greg Chalmers.

Streelman finished on 10-under 274, and the win sends him to the Masters for the second time.

This one is different.

The only other time he played at Augusta National was through the back door. He tied for third in a FedEx Cup playoff event, which assured him a spot in the Tour Championship, and everyone who reaches the final playoff event gets in the Masters.

"Everyone knows when you win a PGA Tour event, you get to go to the Masters," Streelman said. "So to do that on my own is very special."

There was a lot to be thankful for when Streelman finally took a breath and looked back at how far he had come to reach this moment. There was the year on a mini-tour in Arizona in which he doesn't recall making a cut and wound up losing all his money. He had sponsors from Chicago who abandoned him in 2004, leaving Streelman with $400 in his pocket. He had just qualified for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and that wouldn't have come close to covering expenses.

Streelman got more help from a sponsor in southern California to keep the dream alive, but don't get the idea he was looking for handouts. He cleaned clubs during the week at Phoenix-area golf courses, and worked as a caddie on the weekend at Whisper Rock. Success finally came his way on the mini-tours, and he made it through Q-school in 2007.

A year later, Whisper Rock owner Greg Tryhus invited the former caddie to join as a member, and Streelman won the club championship the next year.

"Went from caddie to club champion at Whisper Rock, which is a pretty cool story," he said.

That was the last tournament he had won ? until Sunday.

The other big winner was Jordan Spieth, the 19-year-old from Texas who holed a 50-foot chip for birdie on the 17th hole and made a 7-foot par putt on the final hole for a 70 to tie for seventh.

That gave him enough money to earn special temporary membership on the PGA Tour for the rest of the year, meaning he can take unlimited sponsor exemptions.

Until making that chip, Spieth was projected to be $195 short of the temporary membership, which is based on earning the equivalent of 150th on the money list last year.

"That would have been brutal," he said with a grin. "But it's nice to get the crowd excited on 17. That was one of the coolest shots I've ever hit. That was as loud as it gets. Hair on the back of your neck stands up. But yeah, if I was $200, short, I would have just asked if I could pay them $200."

He now has earned $521,893 in three starts, the bulk of that coming from a runner-up finish in the Puerto Rico Open last week.

Weir, meanwhile, missed the cut at Innisbrook. It's too bad he couldn't have been around for the last day, even if he might not be aware what kind of impact he made on the fledgling career of a 24-year-old kid who wasn't sure he had the game.

"I played with him at the Canadian Open a few years ago and told him that story," Streelman said. "I go, 'I know you don't remember this, but it meant a lot to me the way you treated me.'"

It went a long way.

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