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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Lindsay Lohan briefly appeared in court Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year and left with a new attorney, new trial date and new judge.
Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner shook her head when she saw Lohan seated with her attorney, just months after the judge had warned the "Liz and Dick" star to grow up and stay out of trouble.
The actress was required to attend the pretrial hearing involving three misdemeanor counts filed after a car crash last summer. Lohan has pleaded not guilty to lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing officers from performing their duties.
Sautner previously sent her to jail, placed her under house arrest and forced her to perform morgue cleanup duty in another case.
Sautner warned Lohan on Wednesday that she could face jail time for a possible probation violation, even if she is acquitted of the counts filed after her sports car crashed into a dump truck.
Lohan was on probation at the time of the wreck and could be sentenced to 245 days in jail if a judge determines her actions in the crash were a violation of her sentence in a theft case.
Sautner, however, won't be handling Lohan's upcoming case. The judge said she is retiring before the next court hearing on March 1. Lohan will not be required to attend that hearing.
Lohan's new trial date is March 18.
Lohan was accompanied to court by her new attorney, Mark Heller, who said he wanted to get the case resolved as quickly as possible.
The judge quipped that it would only solve her legal trouble "on this coast" ? a reference to her two arrests in New York since being released from supervised probation in Los Angeles in March. No charges have been filed in those cases.
Heller, a New York attorney, was granted permission to handle Lohan's California cases. He said he was meeting with prosecutors to determine how to proceed.
Sautner gave him more time by delaying the trial but said, "This is not the most complex case we've ever seen."
Lohan appeared in court in a black dress. She spoke only briefly to confirm that she was switching attorneys and no longer wanted her longtime lawyer, Shawn Holley, to represent her.
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Is there an imaginary sweet spot where it all makes sense? ?Yes, according to longtime Metallica manager Cliff Burnstein, who recently orchestrated an exclusive deal with Spotify. ?Burnstein postulates that once streaming subscription services hit 20 million subscribers, payouts to artists will suddenly make sense -- even if iTunes downloads get completely wiped out. ?"There is a point at which there could be 100 percent cannibalization, and we would make more money through subscription services," Burnstein told the New York Times. ? ??
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Early stats show a rather immediate cannibalization effect following Metallica's Spotify ingestion late last year. ?But insiders say Metallica, now independent and in control of their masters, definitely isn't getting screwed by its recent Spotify deal. ?In fact, Spotify likely added substantial sweeteners to the deal to secure Metallica's exclusive participation. ?
But what about those that are less fortunate? ?This is the point where Spotify (and Pandora, and other streaming) executives might want to consider things carefully. ?An angry comment section on Digital Music News is one thing, but now, massive outlets like the New York Times are taking notice (yeah, they have internet access, too). ?"But as the companies behind these digital services swell into multibillion-dollar enterprises, the relative trickle of money that has made its way to artists is causing anxiety at every level of the business," Times journalist Ben Sisario wrote.
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Indeed, Sisario was interviewing industry-influential musicians like Zoe Keating, whose paltry payouts have ignited a discussion about what's fair. ?"In certain types of music, like classical or jazz, we are condemning [musicians] to poverty if this is going to be the only way people consume music," Keating starkly warned.
The question is whether this leads to more mainstream awareness of the payout problem, including the inconvenient truth that many artists never get paid - at all. ?Coverage by mega-papers like the New York Times could snowball, and shift the discussion entirely for millions of existing and potential subscribers.
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There's also another inconvenient truth: the industry is closer to 20 million than you might think. ?According to a tally compiled by Digital Music News earlier this month, worldwide streaming subscription numbers are already comfortably over 10 million, and quickly careening towards the 15 million mark. ?Which raises the question of whether 20 million is a happy tipping point, or another dissillusionment waiting to happen. ?
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook delivered fourth-quarter results above Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday and sought to show that it has finally transformed into a "mobile company" after rising to dominance as a Web-based social network.
But its stock dropped in after-hours trading as investors placed more significance on the company's growing expenses rather than on its increasing user base and higher advertising revenue.
"Everything was slightly better than expected," said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. "I don't see anything here that would make me want to sell the stock."
Nonetheless, Facebook's stock fell $1.11, or 3.6 percent, to $30.13 in after-hours trading following the earnings report.
Facebook Inc. grew its revenue and increased the percentage of it that comes from mobile advertising ? a closely watched figure. But expenses also grew sharply. The company also said 2013 will be a year of "significant investments" and hiring as it focuses on long-term growth rather than short-term profits.
The world's largest social media company earned $64 million, or 3 cents per share, in the October-December period. That's down 79 percent from $302 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier when it was still a privately held company.
Revenue rose 40 percent to $1.59 billion from $1.13 billion, surpassing analysts' expectations of $1.51 billion.
Advertising revenue grew 41 percent to $1.33 billion, increasing at a faster clip than in the third quarter, when it climbed 36 percent to $1.09 billion.
Excluding special items, mainly related to stock compensation expenses, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook earned 17 cents per share in the latest quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet expected lower adjusted earnings of 15 cents per share.
"There were no major red flags," said Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler. "I think expectations may have even been just a little bit higher" than analyst estimates indicated, which may be another reason for the stock price drop.
Facebook's biggest challenge lies in mobile devices. Most Facebook users access it using a mobile phone or tablet computer, yet the 9-year-old company only started showing mobile ads about 9 months ago. Investors have been worried that Facebook isn't taking advantage of its growing mobile user base since before the company's initial public offering in May. Analysts said Wednesday's results show that it is on the right track.
Facebook said it generated 23 percent, or $306 million, of advertising revenue from mobile. That's up from 14 percent or $153 million in the third quarter, the first time it disclosed such information.
Facebook views the mobile space as its biggest opportunity, a point CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to drive home during Facebook's conference call with analysts.
"It allows us to reach more people, we have more engagement from the people we reach and I think we will be able to make more money for each minute people spend with us on ... mobile devices," he said.
The inroads Facebook made in mobile advertising in the final half of last year impressed Bruno del Ama, CEO of Global X Funds, which owns about 50,000 shares of the company's stock. "We have been surprised about how aggressive they have been," he said.
Facebook has been trying to squeeze in more mobile adverting without alienating users who are more interested in conversing with their friends than being subjected to a marketing blitz. The company appears to be striking the right balance so far, based on the number of people still regularly using the mobile apps, said Kessler of Raymond James.
While Facebook's accelerated revenue growth is a positive sign, there's still a feeling that the company could be doing even more to mine revenue from its mobile audience, Kessler said. He expected Facebook's mobile ad revenue to rise to 25 percent of the company's ad sales or about $350 million in the fourth quarter.
Facebook's monthly user base grew 25 percent from a year earlier to 1.06 billion accounts. About 680 million of them access Facebook using a mobile device each month. The company also said that the number of mobile users who access the site every day surpassed daily users on the Web for the first time in the fourth quarter.
As of the stock market's close on Wednesday, Facebook's stock was up 60 percent since the company's third-quarter earnings report came out in October. But it still hasn't hit its initial public offering price of $38.
The May 18 IPO was by far the biggest one for an Internet company since Google's in 2004, but the excitement quickly deflated. With Wall Street now clamoring for even more mobile ad growth, Facebook's toughest task will be to increase the number of ads on the social network without alienating users.
Pachter suspects that investors may be worried Facebook's expenses are starting to outstrip its revenue growth. That was the case in the fourth quarter when the company's costs, excluding employee stock compensation, soared 67 percent from the previous year to $849 million, mainly due to hiring and infrastructure costs such as data centers and servers. And Facebook promises to keep on spending.
David Ebersman, Facebook's chief financial officer, said Facebook expects total expenses, excluding stock compensation costs, to grow by about 50 percent in 2013. In 2012, these costs amounted to $2.83 billion, an increase of 63 percent from 2011.
The company ended the year with 4,600 employees, a 44 percent increase from the end of 2011.
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AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke contributed to this story from San Francisco.
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Jan. 29, 2013 ? Ridges in impact craters on Mars appear to be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing water. Water flowing beneath the surface suggests life may once have been possible on Mars.
Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers from Brown University.
The study, in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, bolsters the idea that the subsurface environment on Mars once had an active hydrology and could be a good place to search for evidence of past life. The research was conducted by Lee Saper, a recent Brown graduate, with Jack Mustard, professor of geological sciences.
The ridges, many of them hundreds of meters in length and a few meters wide, had been noted in previous research, but how they had formed was not known. Saper and Mustard thought they might once have been faults and fractures that formed underground when impact events rattled the planet's crust. Water, if present in the subsurface, would have circulated through the cracks, slowly filling them in with mineral deposits, which would have been harder than the surrounding rocks. As those surrounding rocks eroded away over millions of years, the seams of mineral-hardened material would remain in place, forming the ridges seen today.
To test their hypothesis, Saper and Mustard mapped over 4,000 ridges in two crater-pocked regions on Mars, Nili Fossae and Nilosyrtis. Using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the researchers noted the orientations of the ridges and composition of the surrounding rocks.
The orientation data is consistent with the idea that the ridges started out as fractures formed by impact events. A competing hypothesis suggests that these structures may have been sheets of volcanic magma intruding into the surrounding rock, but that doesn't appear to be the case. At Nili Fossae, the orientations are similar to the alignments of large faults related to a mega-scale impact. At Nilosyrtis, where the impact events were smaller in scale, the ridge orientations are associated with each of the small craters in which they were found. "This suggests that fracture formation resulted from the energy of localized impact events and are not associated with regional-scale volcanism," Saper said.
Importantly, Saper and Mustard also found that the ridges exist exclusively in areas where the surrounding rock is rich in iron-magnesium clay, a mineral considered to be a telltale sign that water had once been present in the rocks.
"The association with these hydrated materials suggests there was a water source available," Saper said. "That water would have flowed along the path of least resistance, which in this case would have been these fracture conduits."
As that water flowed, dissolved minerals would have been slowly deposited in the conduits, in much the same way mineral deposits can build up and eventually clog drain pipes. That mineralized material would have been more resistant to erosion than the surrounding rock. And indeed, Saper and Mustard found that these ridges were only found in areas that were heavily eroded, consistent with the notion that these are ancient structures revealed as the weaker surrounding rocks were slowly peeled away by wind.
Taken together, the results suggest the ancient Martian subsurface had flowing water and may have been a habitable environment.
"This gives us a point of observation to say there was enough fracturing and fluid flow in the crust to sustain at least a regionally viable subsurface hydrology," Saper said. "The overarching theme of NASA's planetary exploration has been to follow the water. So if in fact these fractures that turned into these ridges were flowing with hydrothermal fluid, they could have been a viable biosphere."
Saper hopes that the Curiosity rover, currently making its way across its Gale Crater landing site, might be able to shed more light on these types of structures.
"In the site at Gale Crater, there are thought to be mineralized fractures that the rover will go up and touch," Saper said. "These are very small and may not be exactly the same kind of feature we studied, but we'll have the opportunity to crush them up and do chemical analysis on them. That could either bolster our hypothesis or tell us we need to explore other possibilities."
The research was supported by a grant from NASA's Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium and through a NASA subcontract with the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it had launched a live monkey into space, seeking to show off missile delivery systems that are alarming the West which fears the technology could be used to deliver a nuclear warhead.
The Defense Ministry announced the launch as world powers sought to agree a date and venue with Iran for resuming talks to resolve a standoff with the West over Tehran's nuclear program before it degenerates into a new Middle East war.
Efforts to nail down a new meeting have failed repeatedly and the powers fear Iran is exploiting the diplomatic vacuum to hone the means to produce nuclear weapons.
The Islamic Republic denies seeking weapons capability and says it seeks only electricity from its uranium enrichment so it can export more of its considerable oil wealth.
The powers have proposed new talks in February, a spokesman for the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Monday, hours after Russia urged all concerned to "stop behaving like children" and commit to a meeting.
Iran earlier in the day denied media reports of a major explosion at one of its most sensitive, underground enrichment plants, describing them as Western propaganda designed to influence the nuclear talks.
The Defense Ministry said the space launch of the monkey coincided "with the days of" the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, which was last week, but gave no date, according to a statement carried by the official news agency IRNA.
The launch was "another giant step" in space technology and biological research "which is the monopoly of a few countries", the statement said.
The small grey monkey was pictured strapped into a padded seat and being loaded into the Kavoshgar rocket dubbed "Pishgam" (Pioneer) which on state media said reached a height of more than 120 km (75 miles), IRNA said.
"This shipment returned safely to Earth with the anticipated speed along with the live organism," Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the semi-official Fars news agency. "The launch of Kavoshgar and its retrieval is the first step towards sending humans into space in the next phase."
There was no independent confirmation of the launch.
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The West worries that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to use delivering nuclear warheads.
Bruno Gruselle of France's Foundation for Strategic Research said that if the monkey launch report were true it would suggest a "quite significant" engineering feat by Iran.
"If you can show that you are able to protect a vehicle of this sort from re-entry, then you can probably protect a military warhead and make it survive the high temperatures and high pressures of re-entering," Gruselle said.
The monkey launch would be similar to sending up a satellite weighing some 2,000 kg (4,400 pounds), he said. Success would suggest a capacity to deploy a surface-to-surface missile with a range of a few thousand kilometers (miles).
But Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank, said Iran had demonstrated "no new military or strategic capability" with the launch.
"Nonetheless, Iran has an ambitious space exploration program that includes the goal of placing a human in space in the next five or so years and a human-inhabited orbital capsule by the end of the decade," Elleman said. "Today's achievement is one step toward the goal, albeit a small one."
The Islamic Republic announced plans in 2011 to send a monkey into space, but that attempt was reported to have failed.
Nuclear-weapons capability requires three components - enough fissile material such as highly enriched uranium, a reliable weapons device miniaturized to fit into a missile cone, and an effective delivery system, such as a ballistic missile that can grow out of a space launch program.
Iran's efforts to develop and test ballistic missiles and build a space launch capability have contributed to Israeli calls for pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and billions of dollars of U.S. ballistic missile defense spending.
MANOEUVRING OVER NEXT TALKS
A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the powers had offered a February meeting to Iran, after a proposal to meet at the end of January was refused.
"Iran did not accept our offer to go to Istanbul on January 28 and 29 and so we have offered new dates in February. We have continued to offer dates since December. We are disappointed the Iranians have not yet agreed," Michael Mann reporters.
He said Iranian negotiators had imposed new conditions for resuming talks and that EU powers were concerned this might be a stalling tactic. The last in a sporadic series of fruitless talks was held last June.
Iranian officials deny blame for the delays and say Western countries squandered opportunities for meetings by waiting until after the U.S. presidential election in November.
"We have always said that we are ready to negotiate until a result is reached and we have never broken off discussions," IRNA quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying.
Salehi has suggested holding the next round in Cairo but said the powers wanted another venue. He also said that Sweden, Kazakhstan and Switzerland had offered to host the talks.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference: "We are ready to meet at any location as soon as possible. We believe the essence of our talks is far more important (than the site), and we hope that common sense will prevail and we will stop behaving like little children."
Ashton is overseeing diplomatic contacts on behalf of the powers hoping to persuade Tehran to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment and accept stricter U.N. inspections in return for civilian nuclear cooperation and relief from U.N. sanctions.
IRAN DENIES FORDOW BLAST
Reuters has been unable to verify reports since Friday of an explosion early last week at the underground Fordow bunker that some Israeli and Western media said wrought heavy damage.
"The false news of an explosion at Fordow is Western propaganda ahead of nuclear negotiations to influence their process and outcome," IRNA quoted deputy Iranian nuclear energy agency chief Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi as saying.
In late 2011 the plant at Fordow began producing uranium enriched to 20 percent fissile purity, well above the 3.5 percent level normally needed for nuclear power stations.
Western governments say the higher-grade enrichment marks a notable step towards weapons-grade uranium, even though it is below the 90 percent level suitable for nuclear bombs.
Iran says its enhanced enrichment is to make fuel for a Tehran research reactor that produces isotopes for medical care.
Diplomats in Vienna, where the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is based, said on Monday they had no knowledge of any incident at Fordow but were looking into the reports. One Western diplomat said he did not believe them to be correct.
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, which regularly inspects Iranian nuclear sites including Fordow, had no immediate comment.
Iran has accused Israel and the United States of trying to sabotage its nuclear program with cyber attacks and assassinations of its nuclear scientists. Washington has denied any role in the killings while Israel has declined to comment.
(Additional reporting by William Maclean and Marcus George in Dubai, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Jon Hemming)
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Jambo, everyone! My name is Anne-Marie Hodge, and for the next four months I will be conducting the inaugural fieldwork session for my doctoral research in the central highlands of Kenya. In this blog series, I will narrate my experiences as I delve into the inner workings of mesopredator populations in that region, and I am honored to have the opportunity to share my fieldwork experiences with you.
First, who am I, and what do I do? I am a PhD student in the University of Wyoming?s interdisciplinary Program in Ecology, and my adviser is Dr. Jacob Goheen. My main research interest is carnivore community ecology. Broadly, this means that I study the mechanisms through which different carnivore species manage to co-exist in the same communities and habitats.
How differentiated are their diets, and do they defend exclusive territories or share hunting grounds? Do they trade off activity times during the twenty-four hour cycle or roam around at similar times, at the risk of encountering one another? Does the abundance of one predator species influence the abundance of other predators in the community, and over what distance? And a further, critical issue: how are these interactions are affected by ecological conditions such as habitat density, resource availability, and seasonal precipitation patterns?
These are the questions that perpetually fascinate me and fuel my work. My master?s thesis focused on the diversity and niche-partitioning strategies of carnivores in the eastern Andean foothills of Ecuador. For my doctoral research in Kenya, I will expand upon this theme by examining the influence of broader environmental factors on carnivore diversity and the structure of niche hierarchies.
I will be working in a fascinating area of central Kenya, the Laikipia Plateau, which acts as a sort of shelf bridging the expanse of savannah between Mount Kenya and the Great Rift Valley. Laikipia is home to vanishingly rare and critical breeding groups of the highly endangered African painted dog (Lycaon pictus), black rhino (Diceros bicornis), and Gr?vy?s zebra (Equus grevyi). The region also houses critical populations of other threatened species, such as the cheetah (Acionyx jubatus) and the reticulated giraffe (also known as the Somali giraffe; Giraffa camelopardus reticulata), which is endemic to northern Kenya and Somalia.
It is very important to me for my work to have practical conservation implications. All of my data will be collected on private land, rather than national parks, giving me the opportunity to address real-world conservation challenges. Cordoning off adequate land to preserve many of Africa?s large and threatened species is not likely to be feasible, given the resource constraints posed by ever-growing human populations in the face of increasingly erratic climatic patterns.
In light of this, species conservation efforts must seek ways to sustain wildlife populations outside of delineated parkland without evicting local peoples. Completely sequestering land and resources from human communities who have lived there for countless generations is not a recipe for successful, sustainable wildlife conservation in the long-term.
In light of that, I?ll also touch on the efforts of our research group to cooperate with local communities in order to find solutions that will both allow wildlife populations to persist and thrive while also allowing local pastoralists and ranchers to maintain their livelihoods.
I depart for Kenya this week (bags packed, antsy to go!) and will be settling into the field site the following week. Keep an eye out for further dispatches soon!
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San Francisco goes head-to-head with Baltimore in the NFL championship game Sunday. The 49ers have a proven track record in the Super Bowl, with five wins while the Ravens have one title. Are you a Ravens or 49ers fan? See how far your knowledge of the two teams history will take you with our quiz.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ? A senior Eritrean diplomat denied on Saturday there was an attempted coup early this week in the Horn of Africa nation and said reports to the contrary are a deliberate disinformation campaign.
Girma Asmerom, Eritrea's ambassador to the African Union, said in a statement that coup reports were "wishful thinking" by people he did not name.
"There has never been an 'attempted military coup' and there will never be a coup d'etat in Eritrea," Asmerom said.
Without explaining the incidents on Monday, Asmerom wrote of acts of terror being called something else.
"As is the case all over the world an armed crazy, stupid and terrorist individual or group can take stupid actions such as kidnapping of individuals or taking hostages by raiding government and private institutions and offices," he said. "Such isolated incidents which frequently occur in the West are considered terrorist acts. I don't understand why in Africa they are considered coup d'etats. It is the highest form of double standard and hypocrisy."
But activists and experts said about 100 dissident soldiers stormed the state broadcasting at Ministry of Information in the capital, Asmara, and read a statement vowing to free all political prisoners and implement the country's constitution.
Eritrean President Isaias Afworki took power when the country broke away from Ethiopia in 1991 after a civil war that lasted three decades. His regime is seen by rights groups as repressive.
Ethiopia, which has no diplomatic relations with Eritrea, says the incident is not the first attempt to dislodge Afworki and that the president is likely to respond with brutal force.
"In May 1993, embarrassingly a mere four days before the country's official declaration of independence, soldiers who had received no pay following the country's de facto independence two years earlier, launched a major protest in Asmara, demanding a meeting with the president and to be paid," Ethiopia's foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. "When the president finally agreed to meet them and hear their grievances, he quickly promised to improve conditions and provide pay. The troops returned to the barracks but within a matter of days, with the protests over, hundreds were arrested."
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From the moment the NFL pulled the sheet off the Saints bounty case, the NFL accused Saints coach Sean Payton of telling his staff to ?get your ducks in a row? when the league first investigated the situation in early 2010.
Here?s how we explained it on March 7, quoting from the NFL?s initial report:? ?When NFL Security went to interview Saints employees, coach Sean Payton instructed his staff to ?get your ducks in a row.?? The report doesn?t elaborate on the meaning of Payton?s remark; he quite possibly was telling the assistant coaches to get their stories (or, as the case may be, their categorical denials) straight.?
But the NFL elaborated on?get your ducks in a row? two weeks later, explaining in the statement announcing Payton?s suspension that he ?encourage[d] the false denials by instructing assistants to ?make sure our ducks are in a row.??
On Friday?s PFT Live, I asked Payton whether he said ?get your ducks in a row,? and if so what he meant by that.
?It was really a comment that I had made in preparation for what I knew was going to be an investigation,? Payton said.? ?I had been contacted, our front office had been, . . . and I wanted to make sure, more importantly than anything else that anyone that was going to be investigated or questioned had their facts straight and the specifics of it.?
Asked specifically whether he was suggesting that the coaches should lie, Payton said, ?I think more than anything else it just meant be prepared and, listen, I?ve read and seen a lot of the reports about what that was insinuating and I think, you know, we?re stretching it or really looking for something there.? It really wasn?t what I was insinuating at all.?
To be clear, the NFL never insinuated that.? The NFL flat-out said it, assuming that Payton meant he wanted his assistants to lie based on the perception that they did lie.? But given that Commissioner Paul Tagliabue found that defensive end Anthony Hargrove ? who was suspended eight games by Roger Goodell for allegedly lying at the behest of former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and Saints linebackers coach Joe Vitt ? may not have been lying based on the specific questions he was asked, then the presumption that getting ?our ducks in a row? was an instruction to tell lies may have been erroneous.
As we wrote after Tagliabue scuttled the player suspensions in December, ?In fairness to Payton, ?making sure our ducks are in a row? doesn?t necessarily mean ?making sure our lies are in a row.?? Lawyers routinely prepare witnesses before hearings and trials not with the goal of suborning perjury but of ensuring that an inadvertent misstatement of fact doesn?t provide the opposition with an unintended ?gotcha? moment.?
Though Payton is now back and the process has concluded, the fact remains that the NFL?s presumed smoking gun in the case supporting Payton?s full-season suspension may not have been.
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ANIMAL lover Tracey Heap has been left distraught after her two cats were poisoned with antifreeze within days of each other.
The 46-year-old was devastated when 16-month-old tabby Beauty had to be put to sleep after consuming a lethal dose of the liquid.
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And her other cat Charlie is also being treated by vets after displaying the same symptoms.
Now Staffordshire Police are investigating whether both cats could have been deliberately targeted.
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Tracey, from Smallthorne, said: "Poor Beauty just kept being sick.
"I thought it was just a bug, but then one day I came home and she was making this horrendous noise and she started fitting violently.
"She had lock jaw and it didn't stop, even when we got her to the vets."
Tracey rushed the cat to the PDSA, in Stoke, where staff took the decision to put Beauty down after finding she had dangerous levels of anti-freeze in her system.
Tracey, who lives in William Ruston Road with her six-year-old daughter Grace, added: "She had a vile death. No animal should ever have to go through what she did.
"Grace saw it all and she was so upset which makes it even more distressing.
"She hasn't stopped crying since it happened. We're all devastated." Shortly after Beauty was put to sleep earlier this month, six-month-old Charlie, who is Beauty's kitten, has also had to be treated by vets for permanent kidney damage after they found that he too had been exposed to the poison.
Tracey added: "He is okay at the moment.
"He hasn't had such extreme symptoms as Beauty had, but he could take a turn for the worse at any time. That's our fear.
"He is on prescription food now and I am petrified of letting him out in case it happens again.
"But cats need to be outdoors and it is unfair on him. I don't know how long I can keep it up.
"I know there's more anti-freeze about at the moment because of the cold weather but we think they have both been deliberately targeted.
"I just want other people to be aware that this is happening."
The RSPCA is now warning pet owners to be vigilant following the poisonings.
A spokesman for the animal charity said: "Most people are unaware of the hidden dangers to pets from antifreeze poisoning. Unfortunately, many animals find the taste of antifreeze very attractive, and ingesting even the smallest amount can lead to kidney failure and death, especially in cats.
"We are deeply concerned and extremely saddened by the recent spates of antifreeze poisonings in cats across the country.
"We would like to take this opportunity to remind the public that antifreeze poisoning can cause animals pain, suffering and distress, ultimately resulting in their death."
The spokesman added: "The poisoning of a cat can constitute a criminal offence.
"Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, the maximum penalty for anyone found guilty of this offence is up to six months imprisonment and/or a fine of around ?20,000."
Staffordshire Police confirmed officers were investigating the poisonings.
A spokesman said: "We are aware of the matter and are liaising with the RSPCA."
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Picked up a magazine today with a cover story entitled, "So and So---Rock Climber, Meditator, Musician, Eccentric and New Age Billionaire." There's a full-color cover photograph of this so and so, and yes, he's dark, handsome and "imperially slim."
I haven't read the article yet, and I'm not sure I will. Actually, I'm not sure I should. Panegyric profiles of these sorts of people make me feel so downright mediocre. I mean, why couldn't he be just a good rock climber? That wouldn't bother me at all.
The air has got to be a little thin in a guy's cabeza if scaling rocks is his idea of killing time. That this glossy cover boy is a meditator doesn't particularly excite my envy either. The absence of thought comes naturally to some people.
As for being eccentric . . . well, by gosh, by golly, by gum, by Jove, and buy me a home where the buffalo roam---there's nothing more commonplace than eccentric people nowadays.
I would very much like to have learned how to play the piano, but my parents, damn them, neglected to spoil my childhood by drilling me in that discipline.
Last but not least, the billionaire bit---New Age or otherwise---is appealing. A mere measly one billion would be precisely the tonic for invigorating my self-esteem.
Why the need to reinvigorate my self-esteem, you may wonder?
It's due to exhaustion from over-exposure to media promoted exposs on people who are made to seem so superior to my petty and pitiful self. I'm a Lilliputian in Brobdingnag.
How is it possible that so many men are so wealthy and witty, so handsome and talented, so fashionable and revered, and yet I'm not one of them?
Never mind if there were only a few hundred of these eminently ennobled chevaliers, one could simply shrug and say, "Oh well . . . every generation spawns a few hundred Caesars, Beethovens, and Einsteins."
But there are hundreds of thousands of them, and they're all geniuses.
Surely no period in history has produced such a bumper crop of extraordinary masters of renown. In Hollywood alone there are more than half a million certified geniuses. In New York City or Washington DC, you can't get served in a decent restaurant unless you've been on television within the past day or so. It doesn't even matter why you were on television. All you need to declare is, "I was on television, ergo, sum," and the maitr d' will say, "Right this way sir, your table is waiting."
Athletes, movie stars, real estate tycoons, politicians, doctors, lawyers, scientists, astronauts, writers, painters, singers, social activists, alcoholics, drug addicts, hair coiffures or whatever they're called, fashion models, dress designers, and on and on and on. Moreover, most of these people are devotees of several vocations at the same time. The athlete movie star who drinks a lot and occasionally models men's underwear at charity shows, for example.
But where am I on that list? Who am I as far as the contemporary stylists in vogue are concerned?
Well, let me tell you. I am nowhere and I am nobody. I am just one of a few billion homage makers in this world. Without us there would be no heroes, no celebrities, and no idols of admiration.
But I'll tell you something else: if the media saturation continues to escalate, the day will arrive when all people, no matter how common and frivolous, will be accorded notoriety for something or other. Then, nobody will be famous other than in their own minds. As more and more people receive recognition for diminishing distinction there will be fewer and fewer left to pay homage to greatness.
Recognition for achievement is not the issue. It's the achievement of recognition that matters. Today, whatever is given notice by the public media is considered significant. Whatever and whoever. And the media is so massive, so pervasive, and so intrusive; their standards of excellence so abysmal, that virtually any boneheaded jackass can find himself the toast of the town if he has an able public relations pimp working the street corner for him. Or, if you can't afford an emissary, just squat in your hovel, rouse your desire for attention into a rage, and explode upon the scene in a frenzy of violence. At worst, you'll get front page, prime-time recognition, as well as free room and board for the rest of your life. Better yet, they'll write a book and/or make a movie about you. I mean, "Ain't life grand."
But, woe is the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, or lowest of low, the housewife or mother who live their lives without regard for, or regard from the newsmongers of this information battered age. How worthless and obscure they must feel. To live anonymously and then to die, as if at sea, "without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."
Can you imagine how dreadful it would be to live your whole life doing the best you can with what fortune endowed you, and yet to die without the benediction of a New York Times obituary? What a terrifying thought.
My plan is a simple one. I'm going to move to Mississippi, dwell in some ramshackle cabin, farm a small plot of land, and hole up and lay low for the next twenty-five years. By that time, I'm sure to be the last anonymous man in America, and then I'll be famous too. And it will be a lot safer than climbing rocks.
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PHOENIX ? Early Saturday morning, Bo Dallas was just another hardworking WWE NXT competitor, fighting for a spot on WWE?s main roster. By late afternoon, he was preparing himself for the 2013 Royal Rumble Match, where he would be tangling with 29 WWE Superstars for an opportunity to challenge for a World Title on The Grandest Stage of Them All at WrestleMania 29.
How did Dallas? fortunes change so dramatically in just a few short hours? Give credit to perseverance and good fortune. The resilient kid from Brooksville, Fla., won an eight-man tournament held during the Royal Rumble Fan Fest to earn a coveted spot in WWE?s classic over-the-top-rope melee. (PHOTOS)
?This doesn?t even feel like real life,? Dallas told WWE.com only moments after his victory. ?I?m hovering above myself and watching this happen. An unreal experience, man.?
Starting out on an unseasonably rainy day in Phoenix, Dallas tested his resolve in three grueling matches over the course of four hours. In the third-generation competitor's way stood big Luke Harper, the unpredictable Conor O?Brian and the devious Leo Kruger ? three of WWE NXT?s most highly touted prospects. (MORE ON NXT?S TOP TALENT) By the time he scored the final pinfall on Kruger, it was clear that the battered Dallas had given everything he had in him to become the first WWE NXT Superstar to qualify for the Royal Rumble Match.
?To be in the history books for anything is amazing,? the dynamo admitted. ?But being the first NXT Superstar to be in the Royal Rumble Match? I don?t know if I?m allowed to say this, but that?s badass!?
Now headed into one of the most pivotal bouts of the year, Dallas no doubt realizes that this rare opportunity could turn him into a sports-entertainment phenomenon overnight. While the Royal Rumble Match has traditionally been won by established Superstars like ?Stone Cold? Steve Austin, John Cena and Shawn Michaels, the chaotic, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants atmosphere of the brawl presents the perfect opportunity for a competitor like the 225-pound youngster to shock the world.
?I?m always the underdog,? he said. ?I never let that get me down. I take the punches, but if there?s one thing I believe, it?s??always get up.? And that?s how I live life.?
Dallas has already made history by becoming the first WWE NXT Superstar to grab a spot in the Royal Rumble Match, but can he do it again by becoming the first WWE NXT Superstar to headline WrestleMania? The WWE Universe will find out Sunday night when 30 Superstars battle for an opportunity at sports-entertainment's richest prize at Royal Rumble.
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This Dec. 24, 2012 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility. This and other recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The images of the Punggye-ri site where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009 reveal that over the past month roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may be sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated. But it remains difficult to discern North Korea's true intentions as a test would be conducted underground. The analysis was provided to The Associated Press by 38 North, the website of U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. (AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image)
This Dec. 24, 2012 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility. This and other recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The images of the Punggye-ri site where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009 reveal that over the past month roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may be sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated. But it remains difficult to discern North Korea's true intentions as a test would be conducted underground. The analysis was provided to The Associated Press by 38 North, the website of U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. (AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image)
This Dec. 24, 2012 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility. This and other recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The images of the Punggye-ri site where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009 reveal that over the past month roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may be sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated. But it remains difficult to discern North Korea's true intentions as a test would be conducted underground. The analysis was provided to The Associated Press by 38 North, the website of U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. (AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Friday.
The images of the Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, reveal that over the past month, roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated.
But it remains difficult to discern North Korea's true intentions, as a test would be conducted underground.
The analysis was provided to The Associated Press by 38 North, the website of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The latest image was taken Wednesday.
North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission declared its plans Thursday after the U.N. Security Council tightened sanctions in response to a December long-range rocket launch. It described the plans as part of a "new phase" of combat with the United States, which retains 28,000 troops in South Korea and which it blames for leading the U.N. bid to punish Pyongyang.
The North said a nuclear test was part of "upcoming" action but did not say exactly when or where it would take place.
38 North concludes that the Punggye-ri site, in the country's northeast, "appears to continue to be at a state of readiness that would allow the North to move forward with a test in a few weeks or less once the leadership in Pyongyang gives the order."
South Korean media have cited intelligence officials as saying technical preparations appear complete, and the North could be ready to test within days of making a decision to do so.
U.S. officials confirmed Friday that some trucks have been seen moving around the site. One official said the U.S. is not ruling out that the test could happen in the near future.
But the officials cautioned that, as in previous tests, because it would be done underground, the U.S. may not know much before it actually happens. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss intelligence matters publicly.
In 2006, North Korea detonated a nuclear device just six days after it announced its plans to do so, and in 2009, 26 days after the announcement. Both tests came weeks after the U.N. Security Council had condemned it for long-range rocket launches.
"While the test site appears to continue to be at a high state of readiness, it's anyone's guess when a detonation might occur. The North Koreans may do it tomorrow, some other day or they may decide to wait until a meaningful date like Kim Jong Il's birthday on Feb. 16," said Joel Wit, a former U.S. State Department official and the editor of 38 North.
Anniversaries related to members of North Korea's ruling dynasty, such as former leader Kim Jong Il, who died in December 2011, are marked with great fanfare in the authoritarian nation.
In its assessment of the preparations at Punggye-ri, 38 North noted that there was considerable snowfall there in November 2012. It said subsequent clearing operations as well as tracks in the snow in the remote area reveal activity at buildings and on roads near the possible test tunnel.
A satellite image taken Jan. 4 shows 30 or more personnel, possibly soldiers or security guards, in formation in the yard of the main administrative buildings at the site.
A Dec. 24 image shows a pile of material in the same yard. Its purpose is uncertain, but it could be intended for sealing the tunnel. By the time of Wednesday's photo, the pile had shrunk, which could indicate operations have begun to seal the tunnel, according to the analysis.
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Associated Press writer Lolita Baldor contributed to this report.
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Online: http://38north.org/
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Toni Yates, a reporter with WABC, tweeted at Booker late Thursday afternoon after she noticed two dogs left out in the frigid cold of Newark.?Booker saw the tweets and showed up to the scene later in the evening ? in suit and tie, and wearing a headband to cover his ears. This was all neatly packaged into a 110-second news story.
When Booker got there, he saw the dog shaking outside in brutal weather.?"You just can't leave your dogs out here on a day like this and go away and expect them to be ok," he told ABC.
Booker petted the dog, picked it up, and helped load it into a police car. Its owner later said it was a misunderstanding, and he doesn't know how "Cha Cha" got outside.
This isn't the first rescue for Booker. As he returned home one evening in April of last year, he found flames shooting out of a neighbor's home. The mayor and two members of his security detail ran inside to the rescue, carrying a trapped woman out over his shoulder. Later in the summer, he took to Twitter to announce that he had helped save a man accidentally hit by a car.
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The San Francisco Bourbon Kings perform on the red carpet before the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
The San Francisco Bourbon Kings perform on the red carpet before the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Bill Cosby, right, jokes with Regina Carter about her violin during the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Mary Stallings sings "I Love Being Here With You," during the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Chick Corea, left, greets guitarist Bill Frisell before they performed together during the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Saxophonists Joshua Redman, left, and Joe Lovano, right, perform during the opening night concert of the SFJAZZ Center Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in San Francisco. The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby. Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Full of shimmer and swing, San Francisco's sleek new jazz concert hall opened Wednesday night with an opening night gala featuring McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea and Esperanza Spalding aimed at cementing respect for and expanding the reach of the jazz idiom on the West Coast.
The 700-seat, specially designed concert hall nestled in the heart of the city's arts district was brightly lit amid a light rain and attracted a crowd of hundreds with a high-energy, inaugural celebration emceed by Bill Cosby.
Cosby played percussion during the night's first number, along with several others including Oakland percussionist John Santos.
"This is just fabulous, it's a tremendous opportunity for everyone here," Santos said.
Billed as the first freestanding building in the West built for jazz performance and education, the center opened Wednesday after raising more than $60 million over more than a decade to build a home for SFJAZZ, the nonprofit that puts on the city's jazz festival.
A building that stood opposite the hall was decked out with giant black-and-white photographs of jazz greats.
"This is the revival of the jazz scene in San Francisco," said attorney and attendee Kirk Boyd.
After three decades of renting trucks to drop off pianos and drums for gigs at outside venues, spokesman Marshall Lamm said the organization was delighted to open a permanent home, which soon will boast a New Orleans-style cafe and cocktail lounge led by The Slanted Door's Charles Phan.
"It's just not like someone inherited some money and they built a building," said San Francisco bassist, jazz composer and bandleader Marcus Shelby. "This a concept and idea and practice that has been developed for decades and this building is the result of all of that hard work to give the West Coast a venue that has to be respected."
Wednesday, the show drew celebrities including Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Amy Tan, former Secretary of State George Shultz and hundreds of other jazz aficionados.
The venue will need to play multiple, distinct roles: attract exclusive, high-level performers, support local musicians and school groups such as the SFJazz High School All-Stars and celebrate the legacy of the city's Fillmore District.
A half-century ago, hundreds of black-owned businesses including jazz and blues nightclubs thrived in the Fillmore, then nicknamed "Harlem of the West." After the government decreed the area blighted, wrecking balls erased many such hotspots and forced thousands of people from the neighborhood through eminent domain. After a decades-long urban renewal project by the federal and local governments, the Fillmore was reshaped ? and gradually jazz clubs have started coming back.
None, organizers say, will have the weight and promise of SFJAZZ Center, whose acoustics are custom designed to showcase the sound coming off the stage and enhance the listener's experience.
"For the musicians to flow, it requires a stage where you can hear very clearly, " said Sam Berkow, who designed the acoustics and sound system for SFJAZZ Center as well as Jazz at Lincoln Center. "For the audience watching the band, with seating around the stage you'll get that collective sense of the listening experience, which is important when musicians are not just playing a chart but offering a solo in response to the crowd's energy."
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Based on conversations after the fact, many of our clients revealed that they had been reading Investing Architect for months (and in one case, over a year) before they decided to contact us to craft and execute their real estate investing Blueprint. This surprised me a little at first.
But after giving it some thought it all started to make a lot of sense. Before you take the step to contact someone like me, you have to come to two important conclusions. First, you have to decide that investing in real estate offers the most efficient path between where you are right now and where you aim to be at retirement compared to any other asset class. Then, after considering the plethora of options in the real estate investing spectrum, you have to decide that the Blueprint method we advocate is the one that? best aligns with your goals, risk profile and personality. As tall an order as that might be, the ?glue? that brings it all together is?trust.?After you decide that you will start investing in real estate and our strategy?speaks?to you unlike any other, you must be able to trust that with our help you will be able to execute a plan and bring the strategy to life.
So, just in case there are some of you who might be wondering what happens after you decide to move forward with our Blueprint real estate investing strategy, I thought I?d just tell you.
Everyone?s combination of financial goals, capital, income and time is unique so the very first thing we do is craft your Blueprint. For this you will need to provide some answers to our questions and then we can answer your most important questions in return. Namely, we need to know:
If you don?t quite know the answers to those questions,? let this be an invitation to start thinking about them. Once we have those answers, here are the major questions we can answer for you:
Now that we have our ?roadmap?, we have to get ready for the trip. Before we go about the business of acquiring investment properties we connect you with our investment property specialist Lender. You aren?t obligated to use them after the pre-approval is done but after you speak with this pro you will understand why nearly 100% of our clients opt to finance their investment properties with this Lender. Once the preapproval letter has been issued, we are almost ready to start looking. Also at this stage,? paperwork is drafted, reviewed and signed that establishes the client-agent relationship. We commit to help you achieve your goals and you commit to working exclusively with us.
Now the fun part begins. We research hundreds of potential investment properties daily then distill that list down to about thirty contenders. At this point we run a market analysis on each property to find out what the incoming rent would be if we were to acquire it and what is the current market value for sale. What follows is an in depth cash flow analysis that projects the positive cashflow, capitalization rate and cash on cash return at Year 1. Then, it tells us how the property will perform throughout the investment timeframe and what your internal rate of return is during that time. When a property satisfies our high minimum standards and it?s a good fit for your portfolio, we will forward our research to you along with general property information and lots of photographs. After this, if you are a local investor, we would schedule a time to tour the property. Photoshop is a hell of a software so boots on the ground on every property our clients buy are mandatory. If instead you?re one of our out of state investors, we could shoot a video walkthrough of the property and send it to you. This process may take some time and will require some patience because Houston is the hottest real estate market for investors after all. But when that right property comes along, we pull the trigger and start negotiations right away. We go into those negotiations a strong pre-approved Buyer and that enhances our chances of success.
Hope that gives you an idea of what?s around the bend when you decide to move forward with your Blueprint real estate investing strategy. If there?s other questions or concerns you might have, ask away in the comments below, email me or call my cell at 713.922.2702.
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Estrogen levels drop dramatically in menopause, a time when the risk of urinary tract infections increases significantly.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found new evidence in mice that the two phenomena are connected by more than just timing. If further research confirms these links, boosting estrogen levels may get a second look as an approach for reducing urinary infections in menopausal women.
"Scientists tested estrogen as a treatment for post-menopausal women with urinary tract infections in the 1990s, but the results were either ambiguous or negative," says senior author Indira Mysorekar, PhD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of pathology and immunology. "With the mouse model of menopause that we've created, we can more completely understand how estrogen levels affect infection susceptibility, bladder health and the inflammatory response to infection. That should point the way to better treatment strategies."
The findings appear online in Infection and Immunity.
Urinary infections are a significant cause of illness in many women throughout their lives and are particularly prevalent after menopause. The bacteria that cause these infections can spread to the kidney and bloodstream, with the potential for serious complications.
To simulate menopause in mice, scientists surgically remove their ovaries. Like menopausal women, the mice no longer make estrogen.
To rule out the possibility that the stress of surgery affects the risk of urinary tract infections, the researchers conducted the same surgery in other mice but put the ovaries back in, maintaining their ability to make estrogen.
When researchers gave both groups of mice urinary tract infections, the menopausal mice had higher levels of infectious bacteria in their urine. Most of the bacteria came from barrier cells, which line the interior of the bladder. These cells are the first to be infected by the bacteria.
"When the barrier cells are lost, they need to be replaced immediately," Mysorekar says. "In the menopausal mice, we found that this replacement process was stopping short of completion. That left cells under barrier cells exposed, and they are much more vulnerable to infection."
The menopausal mice had more bacterial reservoirs, which are pockets of infection that may provide a place for the bacteria to hide during antibiotic treatment. After treatment stops, the reservoirs can reseed the infection.
In earlier research, Mysorekar had identified an important regulator of the barrier cell repair process. In the new study, she showed that low estrogen levels disable this regulator. The bladders of the menopausal mice also had higher levels of immune inflammatory compounds known as cytokines.
"The cytokines caused inflammation that left the bladder in bad shape," Mysorekar says. "It's possible that damage caused by inflammation increases the bacteria's ability to break into bladder tissue and create reservoirs of infection."
In the control mice, which had normal estrogen levels, cytokine levels and inflammatory damage were both significantly lower. When researchers gave the menopausal mice estrogen, their cytokine levels and inflammatory damage also decreased significantly, as did reservoirs of infectious bacteria.
Mysorekar notes that earlier clinical trials of estrogen's usefulness against urinary infection evaluated the treatment's success by tracking levels of bacteria in the urine. The researchers say their new results suggest that bacteria levels alone may not provide a complete picture of estrogen's effectiveness against the infections.
"If we can find ways to look at other aspects of the infectious process in humans, we may find that estrogen is more helpful than we previously realized," Mysorekar says. "We need to look for other indicators, such as cytokines in the urine, to more fully assess estrogen's potential role in treatment."
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Wang C, Symington JW, Ma E, Cao B, Mysorekar IU. Estrogenic modulation of uropathogenic Escherichia coli pathogenesis in a murine menopause model. Infection and Immunity, March 2013.
Funding from the Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research at Washington University (IUM) and the Multiplex Gene Analysis Core of the Siteman Cancer Center (supported in part by National Cancer Institute grant P30 CA91842) supported this research.
Washington University School of Medicine's 2,100 employed and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked sixth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
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Washington University School of Medicine
Estrogen levels drop dramatically in menopause, a time when the risk of urinary tract infections increases significantly.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found new evidence in mice that the two phenomena are connected by more than just timing. If further research confirms these links, boosting estrogen levels may get a second look as an approach for reducing urinary infections in menopausal women.
"Scientists tested estrogen as a treatment for post-menopausal women with urinary tract infections in the 1990s, but the results were either ambiguous or negative," says senior author Indira Mysorekar, PhD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of pathology and immunology. "With the mouse model of menopause that we've created, we can more completely understand how estrogen levels affect infection susceptibility, bladder health and the inflammatory response to infection. That should point the way to better treatment strategies."
The findings appear online in Infection and Immunity.
Urinary infections are a significant cause of illness in many women throughout their lives and are particularly prevalent after menopause. The bacteria that cause these infections can spread to the kidney and bloodstream, with the potential for serious complications.
To simulate menopause in mice, scientists surgically remove their ovaries. Like menopausal women, the mice no longer make estrogen.
To rule out the possibility that the stress of surgery affects the risk of urinary tract infections, the researchers conducted the same surgery in other mice but put the ovaries back in, maintaining their ability to make estrogen.
When researchers gave both groups of mice urinary tract infections, the menopausal mice had higher levels of infectious bacteria in their urine. Most of the bacteria came from barrier cells, which line the interior of the bladder. These cells are the first to be infected by the bacteria.
"When the barrier cells are lost, they need to be replaced immediately," Mysorekar says. "In the menopausal mice, we found that this replacement process was stopping short of completion. That left cells under barrier cells exposed, and they are much more vulnerable to infection."
The menopausal mice had more bacterial reservoirs, which are pockets of infection that may provide a place for the bacteria to hide during antibiotic treatment. After treatment stops, the reservoirs can reseed the infection.
In earlier research, Mysorekar had identified an important regulator of the barrier cell repair process. In the new study, she showed that low estrogen levels disable this regulator. The bladders of the menopausal mice also had higher levels of immune inflammatory compounds known as cytokines.
"The cytokines caused inflammation that left the bladder in bad shape," Mysorekar says. "It's possible that damage caused by inflammation increases the bacteria's ability to break into bladder tissue and create reservoirs of infection."
In the control mice, which had normal estrogen levels, cytokine levels and inflammatory damage were both significantly lower. When researchers gave the menopausal mice estrogen, their cytokine levels and inflammatory damage also decreased significantly, as did reservoirs of infectious bacteria.
Mysorekar notes that earlier clinical trials of estrogen's usefulness against urinary infection evaluated the treatment's success by tracking levels of bacteria in the urine. The researchers say their new results suggest that bacteria levels alone may not provide a complete picture of estrogen's effectiveness against the infections.
"If we can find ways to look at other aspects of the infectious process in humans, we may find that estrogen is more helpful than we previously realized," Mysorekar says. "We need to look for other indicators, such as cytokines in the urine, to more fully assess estrogen's potential role in treatment."
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Wang C, Symington JW, Ma E, Cao B, Mysorekar IU. Estrogenic modulation of uropathogenic Escherichia coli pathogenesis in a murine menopause model. Infection and Immunity, March 2013.
Funding from the Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research at Washington University (IUM) and the Multiplex Gene Analysis Core of the Siteman Cancer Center (supported in part by National Cancer Institute grant P30 CA91842) supported this research.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/wuso-efu012313.php
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