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Broncos hire Jack Del Rio as defensive coordinator (AP)
DENVER ? John Fox and Jack Del Rio are together again.
The Denver Broncos announced Friday night they had agreed to terms with Del Rio to become the club’s new defensive coordinator.
Del Rio was Fox’s first defensive coordinator in Carolina in 2002 before leaving after one year to coach the Jacksonville Jaguars, who fired him in November.
Del Rio replaces Dennis Allen, who left after one year in Denver to coach the Oakland Raiders.
Del Rio is the Broncos’ seventh defensive coordinator in seven seasons. Other men who have filled the Mile High musical chair in the last six seasons are Larry Coyer (2006), Jim Bates (2007), Bob Slowik (2008), Mike Nolan (2009) and Don Martindale (2010). Allen was the only one who left for a head coaching job.
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US judge denies bid to block NV mustang roundups (AP)
RENO, Nev. ? A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they’ll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhumanely and need more protection.
U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben granted a temporary restraining order on Aug. 30 that cut short by a day a roundup near the Nevada-Utah line after he determined a helicopter flew too close to a horse in violation of the law.
But he said during a hearing in Reno Thursday that he was denying a new injunction request from the Texas-based Free Wild Horse Federation partly because the Bureau of Land Management has made some positive changes since then. He also said he can’t issue injunctions based on speculation about future abuses.
“This court is really not in a position to be the overseer of the BLM,” McKibben said. “This court is not going to police all gathers in the U.S. or even all gathers in the district of northern Nevada.”
“This Court is not Congress, not an administrative agency. We are not the first branch of government. We are not the second branch. We’re here to consider grievances,” he said.
His ruling was a disappointment to horse protection advocates who were buoyed by his court order last fall when he took the BLM to task for its actions at the Triple B complex roundup near the Nevada-Utah line northwest of Ely, Nev.
“Your honor, you are the last vestige of hope here,” said Gordon Cowan, a lawyer for the group. “Basically, there is no other accountability.”
Erik Petersen, a Justice Department lawyer representing BLM, said the agency took McKibben’s earlier order seriously and responded with its own internal review of the Triple B roundup “in great part in response to this court’s ruling on the temporary restraining order.”
The law already dictates the horses be treated humanely but the agency now has “a half dozen specific instructions” or guidelines for roundup contractors to follow, including prohibiting helicopters from flying too close to animals, Petersen said.
The BLM said in a formal review made public in December that some mustangs in the Triple B complex were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane. BLM Director Bob Abbey did, however, determine additional training is needed for the workers and contractors involved.
The government’s wild horse program is intended to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. About 33,000 wild horses live in 10 Western states, of which about half are in Nevada. Under the program, thousands of horses are forced into holding pens, where many are vaccinated or neutered before being placed for adoption or sent to long-term corrals in the Midwest.
Animal rights advocates complain that the roundups are inhumane, but ranchers and other groups say they’re needed to protect fragile grazing lands that are used by cattle, Bighorn sheep and other wildlife.
Petersen said the Triple B roundup ended the day after McKibben’s previous order on Aug. 30. He said BLM has no plans to resume that roundup ? the only one specifically targeted in the group’s original lawsuit filed last year.
But Cowan said he said there’s no question BLM eventually will return to the area for another roundup.
“They finished it to avoid your temporary restraining order,” Cowan said. “They are coming back whether they say it or not. Triple B is not over,” he said.
If that happens, McKibben said the issue will be ripe again for legal challenge. He repeated several times that he couldn’t understand why the critics won’t acknowledge BLM is taking steps to treat the horses more humanely.
“Is your position that absolutely nothing constructive has happened … that everything done so far is basically meaningless?” he asked Cowan, who answered “yes” each time.
“I don’t happen to agree,” the judge said. “I think frankly that hurts your argument.”
Cowan said that’s the group’s position because group Vice President Laura Leigh continues to observe abuse of horses at other gathers.
McKibben said the new BLM guidelines were an improvement.
“While they have not resulted in the embodiment of new rules or regulations, I see some positive things that happened between the time we were in court before and today,” he said.
“I would strongly urge the Bureau of Land Management to proceed in that direction. But that’s a decision that must be made by the first branch (Congress).”
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U.S. and Egypt to develop action plan to boost trade (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The United States and Egypt will develop an action plan to boost trade and assist the Arab world’s most populist country through a difficult transition, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Tuesday.
“In the wake of the extraordinary changes underway … we want to help Egypt empower individuals to make their own economic, as well as political choices,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement.
The announcement came on the first anniversary of the start of a popular uprising centered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that drove former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Kirk met last week with Egyptian Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mahmoud Eisa, who was in Washington to court badly-need foreign investment.
The Obama administration is “actively working to broaden and deepen commercial links with Egypt – and other countries in transition – because we are convinced trade and investment liberalization will help drive the economic growth that is so critical to Egypt’s and the region’s future,” Kirk said.
USTR said the action plan, which the two governments plan to finalize in coming weeks, will have three main objectives: boosting exports, expanding investment and supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises, with a focus on creating jobs.
One key element could include developing a work plan to expand the use of “Qualifying Industrial Zones” in Egypt, which provide U.S. duty-free treatment for Egyptian goods made with Israeli components, the trade office said.
The two sides will explore other ways to expand trade, including encouraging Egyptian companies to make greater use of the Generalized System of Preferences program, which provides duty-free treatment for many developing country goods.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has pressed the United States and Egypt to consider launching talks on a free trade agreement to stimulate trade and encourage U.S. companies to increase investment in the fragile democracy.
“Today’s announcement is a good first step but trade officials should now think boldly and look longer-term at seriously pursuing free trade negotiations with Egypt,” said Lionel Johnson, vice president of Middle East and North Africa affairs, at the U.S. Chamber.
Two-way trade between the United States and Egypt is relatively small. Last year, the United States imported about $2 billion worth of goods from the Mideast country. It exported about $6 billion worth of goods to Egypt.
(Reporting By Doug Palmer; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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German business confidence up more than expected (AP)
FRANKFURT, Germany ? German business confidence rose for the third month in a row in January, according to the much-watched Ifo index released Wednesday, suggesting a widely-predicted European recession may not be as bad as feared.
The index’s increase to 108.3 points from 107.2 in December exceeded market expectations for a reading of 107.5. Business managers’ assessment of how things are now slipped, but the part of the survey that measures future expectations rose.
That is a sign that Germany, Europe’s largest economy, may show moderate growth this year despite the debt crisis that is pushing some countries back into recession.
The German statistics agency said the economy may have shrunk by about a quarter percentage point in the last three months of 2011, but final figures are not yet out. The government has cut its estimate for 2012 growth from 1.0 percent to 0.7 percent as the debt crisis weighs on Germany and its trade partners in the 17-nation eurozone.
Europe is struggling with a crisis over too much government debt in some countries. Greece, Ireland and Portugal are in deep recessions after being bailed out by other eurozone governments to avoid defaulting on their debts, while the economies of Italy and Spain are troubled as well.
Financial markets turmoil has eased in the first weeks of 2012 after a gloomy end to 2011, with government borrowing costs falling on bond markets and stocks rising. Much of the credit is given to large loans handed out to the banking system by the European Central Bank.
The ECB’s head, Mario Draghi, has said the action prevented a credit cutoff and indicated he saw signs of “stabilization” in economic activity, although still at a low level. The central bank cut interest rates in November and December by a quarter point to try to stimulate the economy.
Andreas Rees at UniCredit said three monthly Ifo rises in a row was historically a dependable indicator that the German business cycle is about to turn upward in coming months. “Signs are mounting that we hit a bottom” in the first quarter of this year “with a pick-up in spring or summer becoming more and more likely.”
The upbeat Ifo numbers follow purchasing managers’ surveys released Thursday that showed German activity in services and manufacturing rose unexpectedly.
Despite Germany’s resilience, many economists think the eurozone will go through at least a mild recession this year. The International Monetary Fund predicts the economy will shrink by 0.5 percent, and the situation remains fraught with uncertainty. Greece is trying to get bondholders to agree to a reduction of 50 percent in the face value of the country’s bonds as part of a second financial rescue package; failure could mean Greece might not be able to pay debts coming due in March and trigger financial turmoil of unknown extent and consequences.
Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics, said the Ifo numbers “suggest that the economy is holding up relatively well, but activity is nowhere near strong enough to provide a meaningful boost to the eurozone’s periphery.”
She said the future expectations, a better indicator of future activity than the overall survey number, suggests annual growth of 1.5 percent. The future indications part of the index rose to 100.9 from 98.6 the month before.
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Upbeat and on a roll, Obama showing some swagger
President Barack Obama jogs toward a group of onlookers to shake hands after arriving at the airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
President Barack Obama jogs toward a group of onlookers to shake hands after arriving at the airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
President Barack Obama speaks about manufacturing jobs at the Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing plant, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
President Barack Obama speaks about manufacturing jobs, at the Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing plant, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
President Barack Obama is greeted after speaking about manufacturing jobs, at the Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing plant, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
President Barack Obama is greeted by operations manager Jeff Baxter before speaking about manufacturing jobs at the Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing plant, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) ? If President Barack Obama is showing some swagger, it shouldn’t be a surprise.
His job approval ratings point to an uptick. The Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden just pulled off a daring rescue that Obama authorized in Somalia. He’s fresh off a big speech before Congress, and the Republicans who want his job are criticizing each other more than they are Obama.
As he hits the road for three days of travel to important political states, Obama is on a roll.
It could be a fleeting moment, however. While the economy is improving with indicators trending positively, unemployment remains high at 8.5 percent and international debt crises and tensions could unravel the gains.
Arriving in Iowa on Wednesday, he jogged, grinning, to a rope line of a couple of dozen supporters. He later expressed nostalgia for the days in 2007 when he was campaigning in Iowa and struck a defiant tone against congressional Republicans that was even sharper than the repudiation he offered Tuesday night in his State of the Union address.
“Our economy is getting stronger, and we’ve come too far to turn back now,” he told workers and guests at a conveyor manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids.
Speaking of Republicans, he said, “Their philosophy is simple: We’re better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.”
He added: “Well, I am here to say they are wrong.”
Polls show slight improvement in his job approval ratings. A Washington Post/ABC poll last week showed a 48-48 on that question. A Gallup tracking poll has him even in recent surveys; a few months ago, more disapproved than approved.
Obama will be on the road through Friday following his prime-time address and use the power of the presidency to compete for headlines with leading Republican White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as they knock heads ahead of the Jan. 31 Florida primary.
He will try to promote a populist message of income equality that Obama’s team believes can resonate with voters.
Associated Press
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Razzies worst-movie awards shift to April Fool’s (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? Hollywood’s award season is going to linger on through April Fool’s Day this year.
Organizers of the Razzies have changed the schedule for their nominations and prize ceremony. The spoof on the Academy Awards picks the year’s worst films.
The Razzies used to announce contenders the night before the Oscar nominations, which are coming Tuesday.
Razzies founder John Wilson announced Sunday that nominations this season will be released Feb. 25, the eve of the Oscar ceremony. Winners of the Razzies will be announced on April 1.
Wilson says Razzies organizers have long wanted to have their awards coincide with April Fool’s Day.
A news release announcing the change also notes that it will give the 600 Razzies voters “additional time to see the dreck they will eventually nominate.”
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New Genetic Clues to Breast Cancer? (HealthDay)
SUNDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified three new genomic regions they believe are linked with breast cancer that may help explain why some women develop the disease.
All three newly identified areas “contain interesting genes that open up new avenues for biological and clinical research,” said researcher Douglas Easton, a professor of genetic epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in England.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with about 1 million new cases annually worldwide and more than 400,000 deaths a year.
Scientists conducting genome-wide association studies — research that looks at the association between genetic factors and disease to pinpoint possible causes — had already identified 22 breast cancer susceptibility loci. Locus is the physical location of a gene or DNA sequence on a chromosome.
“The three [newly identified] loci take the number of common susceptibility loci from 22 to 25,” said Easton.
However, the three new susceptibility loci might explain only about 0.7 percent of the familial risks of breast cancer, bringing the total contribution to about 9 percent, the researchers said.
Michael Melner, scientific program director for the American Cancer Society, said this current research adds some important new clues to existing evidence, but he agreed that the number of cases likely associated with these three variants is probably low.
“So the total impact in terms of patients would be fairly small,” Melner said.
The study is published online Jan. 22 in Nature Genetics.
To find the new clues, Easton’s team worked with genetic information on about 57,000 breast cancer patients and 58,000 healthy women obtained from two genome-wide association studies.
The investigators zeroed in on 72 different single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A SNP — pronounced “snip” — is a change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base. The human genome has millions of SNPs, some linked with disease, while others are normal variations.
The researchers focused on three SNPs — on chromosomes 12p11, 12q24 and 21q21.
Easton’s team found that the variant on the 12p11 chromosome is linked with both estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (which needs estrogen to grow) and estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer. The other two variants are only linked with ER-positive cancers, they said.
One of the newly identified variants is in an area with a gene that has a role in the development of mammary glands and bones. Easton said it was already known that mammary gland development in puberty is an important period in terms of determining later cancer risk. “But these are the first susceptibility genes to be shown to be involved in this process,” he said.
One of the other SNPs is in an area that can affect estrogen receptor signaling, the researchers found.
Melner, noting some of the research is “fine tuning” of other work, said in his view the new understanding of the signaling pathways and their genetic links is the most important finding.
“When you delineate a pathway, you bring up new potential targets for therapy,” he said. “The more targets you have, you open up the potential for having multiple drugs and attacking a cancer more easily, without it becoming more resistant.”
Overall, Melner added, the results underscore the complexity of the different mechanisms involved in breast cancer development.
More information
For more about the genetics of breast cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.
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