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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Syria, Iran say US aid to rebels will extend war
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syria and Iran said Saturday that Washington's decision to provide aid to rebels will only prolong the fighting aimed at toppling President Bashar Assad whose troops scored a major strategic victory in the country's heavily contested north.
Syrian troops regained control of several villages along a key highway near the embattled northern city of Aleppo, restoring stability to the city's international airport, the Army's General Command said in a statement. The achievement has the potential to change the outcome of the battle in Syria's largest city where government troops have been locked in a stalemate for months.
In Tehran, Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers accused the U.S. of having a double standard on its policy regarding Syria. They said the U.S. decision to provide rebels with aid will only delay an end to the nearly 2-year-old conflict that has killed at 70,000 people, according to the United Nations.
The remarks by Syria's Walid al-Moallem and his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, were the first official statements from the two nations following U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement this week that the U.S. will provide, for the first time, non-lethal aid directly to Syria's rebels, in addition to $60 million in assistance to Syria's political opposition.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Tehran, the Syrian and Iranian diplomats emphasized that whether Assad stays or goes will be decided in presidential elections scheduled for next year.
"Assad is Syria's legal president until the next elections. Individuals have the freedom to run as candidates. Until that time, Assad is Syria's president," Salehi said.
Iran is a staunch ally of the Syrian regime and has stood by the embattled Assad throughout the conflict.
Kerry announced the aid at an international conference on Syria in Rome on Thursday. In coming days, several European nations are expected to take similar steps to work with the military wing of the opposition to increase pressure on Assad to step down and pave the way for a democratic transition.
Al-Moallem said it was it was inconceivable that Washington would allocate $60 million in assistance to Syrian opposition groups while it continues to "kill the Syrian people" through economic sanctions imposed against the country.
"If they truly wanted a political settlement, they wouldn't punish the Syrian people and finance (opposition) groups with so-called non-lethal aid," he said. "Who are they kidding?"
The Damascus official stressed that Syria's sovereignty is a "red line."
"No one is allowed to infringe on Syrian national sovereignty," he said, adding that that the Syrian people will decide their own leaders through the ballot box. "We refuse to be a chess piece in the hands of the international community."
He directly accused Turkey and Qatar and other countries he did not name of supporting and funding "armed terrorist groups" operating in Syria, using the terminology employed by the Damascus regime to refer to the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
His Iranian host, Salehi, said "double standards were being applied by certain countries that serve to prolong and deepen the Syrian crisis" and lead to more bloodshed.
Syrian rebels control large swathes of land in the country's northeast, including several neighborhoods of Aleppo.
For weeks they have been trying to storm the Aleppo airport, a major prize in the battle for Syria's commercial capital. The rebels ousted troops from several military bases protecting the facility and cut off a major highway the army used to supply its troops inside the airport complex.
Syrian army officials said troops regained control of several villages along a different strategic highway that links the government-controlled central city of Hama with Aleppo's International airport, declaring that the facility was safe.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, director the Britain-based anti-regime activist group the Observatory for Human Rights said the army's victory Saturday was a "significant achievement" because the highway provides a lifeline to the regime.
"Securing these villages, assuming the regime can hang on to them, has the potential to turn around the direction of the conflict in Aleppo," Abdul-Rahman said.
The opposition fighters have repeatedly complained that they are outgunned by the regime. Rebel commanders say they need more sophisticated weapons to topple the Assad regime, whose family has ruled Syria for more than 40 years.
Also on Saturday, sporadic clashes involving light- and mid-sized arms continued near the Rabiya border crossing with Iraq. Syrian fighter jets fired at least two missiles and rebels on the ground fired at the jets, according to an AP journalist on the Iraqi side of the border.
The fighting comes a day after Iraqi officials said a Russian-made rocket fired from Syria slammed into Iraqi territory, intensifying concerns that violence from Syria's civil war could spill across the border. No one was injured in the strike.
According a police officer at the Iraqi Rabiya border crossing, five Syrian soldiers and one officer fled the clashes into Iraqi territory. Three of the soldiers were wounded and were evacuated to a hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, he said. A doctor confirmed the figure.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information to the media.
The chief of Syrian rebel forces, Salim Idris, accused Iraqi soldiers of firing at rebel positions inside Syrian territory and claimed Iraq's government was backing the Syrian regime.
But in a statement, the Iraqi Defense Ministry denied reports of Iraqi forces backing the Syrian army in its clashes with the rebels. The statement said Iraqi forces are deployed in the border regions only for routine duties and that one Iraqi soldier was wounded during the exchange of fire inside the Syrian territories.
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Dareini reported from Tehran. Associated Press writers Barbara Surk and Zeina Karam in Beirut and Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-iran-us-aid-rebels-extend-war-155957995.html
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Mutation location is the key to prognosis
Friday, March 1, 2013
The three most important factors in real estate are location, location, location, and the same might be said for mutations in the gene MECP2, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital in a report in the journal Cell.
"Where a mutation occurs can affect the severity of the symptoms of the disease," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM and director of the NRI. Zoghbi, corresponding author of the report, found the MECP2 gene in 1999 and confirmed that deficiency in the protein causes Rett syndrome, a post natal genetic disease that mainly affects girls.
In the study, she and her colleagues relied on data from rare male patients with disruptions in MECP2 that showed that severity of symptoms could be influenced by the location of the gene mutation. The few boys with this disorder fell into two broad categories: Those who suffered severe brain disease and death before age 4 and those who lived for decades with symptoms similar to that of Rett or developmental delay and other disorders similar to those seen in autism.
Looking at the placement of the mutations in the boys, they hypothesized there was a distinct difference in symptoms seen in boys who had mutations at amino acid 270 in the protein and those who had mutations only slightly farther along, at amino acid 273. The protein is truncated or shorter in those with amino acid 270 mutations than those with the mutation at amino acid 273.
After Steven Baker, a graduate student in the Program in Developmental Biology at BCM, generated and characterized mice that had mutations at the two sites of the protein, he found that mice who had mutations at amino acid 273 lived longer and developed symptoms later than those mice who had mutations at amino acid 270 or those who lacked the MeCP2 protein all together (knock-out mice).
One reason for the differences could be that the mutation at amino acid 270 disrupts a key topological feature of the DNA ? an AT-Hook domain that is a DNA binding motif. By disrupting this domain, the mutation could affect the way the protein bind the DNA and make the already truncated protein much less effective.
"The participation of patients and their families with Rett researchers really helped us to key in on regions of MeCP2 that are critical for its function," said Baker, who is also an M.D./Ph.D. student in BCM's Medical Student Training Program.
The researchers propose a model for this DNA binding in which MeCP2 binds to sites across the genome. In some spots where this occurs, the protein manipulates the structure of the nearby chromatin.
"We think that one function of MeCP2 (the protein associated with the gene) is to alter the architecture of chromatin (the mass of proteins and DNA found in the nucleus of the cell)," said Zoghbi, who is also Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Baker said, "The picture of MeCP2 as a chromatin architectural factor is emerging from the combined efforts of many laboratories. Understanding how MeCP2 modifies chromatin structure will ultimately allow us to understand why it is so important for neuronal health."
Others who took part in this work include Lin Chen, Angela Dawn Wilkins, Peng Yu and Olivier Lichtarge, all of BCM.
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Aptina and Sony cross-license their camera patents, Nikon smiles
Sometimes, it's the behind-the-scenes deals that matter the most. See Aptina's newly signed patent cross-licensing agreement with Sony as an example: the pact lets the two imaging veterans use each other's know-how in camera sensors for everything from dedicated cameras through to smartphones and TVs. We know customers of both companies will be glad to see technology spreading beyond corporate borders, but we have a feeling that Nikon will be the happiest. When Nikon is using Aptina sensors in its 1 series mirrorless cameras and Sony sensors in its DSLRs, it's likely to reap the benefits, regardless of which sensor maker got the better deal.
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RolePlayGateway?
This is an idea I had tried to make, but fizzled out before it could go anywhere :<
Basically, the idea is that all the worlds and universes are connected to each other via portals. Every single world you can think of: Marvel, Harry Potter, Twilight, Prototype, Final Fantasy, every AU possible, is connected in some way.
You'd think we could just go to each world, right? Wrong! The portals are invisible and difficult to find. Things fall through, sometimes people (Amelia Earhart, anyone? How about those lost artifacts, or those really expensive sunglasses you could have sworn you left on your desk drawer?), so some of the worlds are conscious of the others. But chances are, you probably won't stumble across one. At least not on purpose.
Of course, there is one type of people who can see them. They don't live on this earth, or in this world. No, they have their own world. They're known as the portal-hikers. They can see and find portals, and after a certain age, can even see the other side. They are the only type of species, besides maybe dragons, that can do this. Sure, there's technology, but nothing is ever as good as the real deal.
I'll be playing a portal-hiker going on her rite-of-passage journey, which involves travelling to as many worlds as possible for two years, and returning back to your home world alive and with tons of souvenirs. They tend to travel in groups of 2 or 3 for safety. Anyone who wants to join can either be a fellow portal-hiker, or a resident of a world that they travel to. For simplicity's sake, we'll go with whoever posts first, and travel in that order. If you've got an awesome rp in the works with an awesome universe, we can go there too. Whatever works :)
Character Profile: Whatever you think is necessary, though if you're from another world, please include its name and a brief description. Also include a goal of the character, along with their current life situation.
Let's start this baby! :D
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Facebook to show off 'new look for News Feed' on March 7
Members of the press have been invited to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. to "come see a new look for News Feed" on March 7. Yes, folks ? it sounds like it's time for another redesign.
The March 7 event will kick off at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT and is on the heels of the social network's Graph Search announcement from about a month-and-a-half ago.
Leading up to this invite, there have been plenty of rumors of a Facebook redesign? albeit the focus has been on mobile and onthe Timeline.In early January, TechCrunch's Josh Constine reported that he'd seen an "employee-only iOS app build of an evolved form of Facebook's mobile news feed, which ditches the empty blue and white chrome for full-screen photo tiles and overlaid text."
Constantine described the layout as being so "fresh" that it could "make Facebook's feed exciting again."
More recently, the Next Web's Nick Summers caught sight of a single-column Timeline layout, which Facebook appears to be testing with users in New Zealand. But since Facebook's known for testing changes on a small percentage of its users before rolling them out to everyone, we wouldn't bet on the New Zealand experiment accompanying News Feed changes revealed on March 7.
Want more tech news or interesting links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on Twitter, subscribing to her Facebook posts, or circling her on Google+.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-show-new-look-news-feed-march-7-1C8640291
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Vote now! The Northern Ireland Food and Drink Awards 2013 ...
Posted: 01 March '13 by Niall and Kelly
The Northern Ireland Food and Drink Awards 2013
It?s your chance to vote for your favourite local restaurants and products in the Northern Ireland Food & Drink Awards 2013.
Now in their 12th year, the awards aim to celebrate the strength of and growth in the food sector in Northern Ireland ? and you can decide who?ll win the accolades and recognition at the awards ceremony in The Ramada Hotel in Belfast on 15th of March.
There are two categories for you to deliberate over: The People?s Choice Award (the shortlist for which includes household names like Fairtrade Breakfast Suki Tea, Maddens Mellow Armagh Cider and Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil) and the Food NI Taste of Ulster Restaurant of the Year Award (where you can choose from over 20 restaurants including The Yellow Door Deli in Portadown and The Brewer?s House in Donaghmore).
Visit www.nigoodfood.com to have your voice heard ? voting ends at 5pm on Friday 8 March.
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Source: http://www.chilliandchocolate.com/news/vote-in-the-northern-ireland-food-and-drink-awards-2013/
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