UFC 157?s Three Stars: Ronda Rousey, Robbie Lawler and Dennis Bermudez shine

UFC 157 completed the rare trick of living up to its intense hype. Who stood out as stars?

No. 1 star ? Ronda Rousey: Is there any better word to describe Rousey than star? After months of Rousey appearing on television, in magazines and on every site on the internet, she showed she's more than a media darling. Rousey not only escaped a submission attempt by Liz Carmouche, but also finished the fight with just 11 seconds to go in the first round. That's a star.

No. 2 star ? Robbie Lawler: Looking at this fight card, would you ever have guessed that Lawler would emerge as a star? Before returning to the UFC on Saturday, he lost three of his last five bouts. He was up against Josh Koscheck, who was eager to get a big win after losing to Johny Hendricks. But the power in Lawler's hands knocked Koscheck out in the first round, and earned Lawler a $50,000 Knockout of the Night bonus.

No. 3 star ? Dennis Bermudez: When the preliminary fights started, the Honda Center wasn't even half full. The UFC's tailgate was still going strong in the parking lot. But as Bermudez's bout with Matt Grice wore on, I noticed the stands filling up. Perhaps they heard about the Fight of the Year candidate happening inside, with Bermudez throwing everything he had at Grice, and Grice not only withstanding the punches but coming back with big punches of his own. They each took home a $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus.

Who were your three stars from the night? Tell in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-157-three-stars-ronda-rousey-robbie-lawler-143258534--mma.html

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Crews search for family who abandoned sinking boat

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) ? Crews searched by sea and air and sought the public's help Monday as they ramped up their efforts to find a husband and wife and two young children who sent a series of distress calls to the Coast Guard the day before, saying their sailboat was sinking far off the Central California coast and they were fashioning a raft from a cooler and a life ring.

The unidentified family had been sailing a small vessel west of Monterey Bay, where strong winds, cold water and big swells made for perilous conditions. Forecasters had issued a weekend advisory warning boaters of rough seas in the area.

The group ? which included two children under 8 ? made its first distress call late Sunday afternoon, Coast Guard Lt. Heather Lampert said. Investigators used the boat's radio signal and radar to determine the call came from an area about 60 miles west of Monterey, she said.

The boaters reported that their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and the electronics were failing.

An hour later, the family members reported they had to abandon the boat and were trying to make a life raft out of a cooler and life-preserver ring, Lampert said. The Coast Guard then lost radio contact.

The agency looked for the family through the night and on Monday, with help from the California Air National Guard.

The Coast Guard on Monday also released one of the family's recorded distress calls (http://bit.ly/W90cyv ), in hopes that it will lead to new information from the public that could help in the search. So far the agency has received no reports of missing persons in the case.

The agency believes the boat may have been called "Charmblow." In the crackling recording, a man's voice is heard saying, "Coast Guard, Coast Guard, we are abandoning ship. This is the (Charmblow), we are abandoning ship."

The agency has not identified the family, although investigators were able to determine from the broken distress calls that they were a husband and wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, Lampert said.

The family's location initially was reported farther north, but Lampert said investigators using the boat's radio signal and radar now believe the call came in west of Monterey Bay, which is about 100 miles south of San Francisco. The boat did not have a working GPS system.

The National Weather Service had issued an advisory throughout the weekend warning boaters of strong winds and rough seas around the San Francisco Bay Area. Water temperatures in the area typically are in the 40s and 50s, making long-term survival difficult.

Mariners "operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these conditions," the advisory said.

Calls to harbors in California have failed to locate the boat, and database searches have come up empty too, Lampert said. The Coast Guard was expanding its search to Hawaii, the Seattle area and north into Canada.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crews-search-family-abandoned-sinking-boat-230734051.html

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HTC targets iPhone users with its new Sync Manager desktop application

HTC announced the HTC One last week which is its latest flagship device running on the Android operating system. It appears that HTC believes it can pull current iPhone users away from iOS and onto android with its latest device and it is going all out to help people do just that by releasing software that can access an iPhone?s backup file. According to CNET Asia , HTC will soon be releasing an update to its desktop Sync Manager software that will have the ability to open up an iPhone?s backup file that has been created through an iTunes backup.

HTC told us that it will be launching a new version of its HTC Sync Manager desktop application for the HTC One with a new feature--it can extract data from iPhone backup files. Data from an iPhone backup (saved through iTunes) that can be transferred include photos, videos, calendar entries and text messages.

The version of the Sync Manager software that is currently available already offers some minor links with iTunes; but only for assistance with managing media on HTC devices. The new version will do so much more and allow iPhone users who are planning on moving to the HTC One an easy way to retain their photos, videos, calendar appointments and text messages; something that would have been difficult at best prior to this and in the case of text messages, virtually impossible.

It is unclear at this stage when the Sync Manager software will be released but we assume that it will coincide with the launch of the HTC One next month. The current version is available for both Mac and PC so we would expect the new version to be the same. What is unclear is how long Apple will let HTC access its iPhone backup data when this software is finally released. Maybe it will become the latest cat and mouse game similar to how Palm tried to get its Pre to sync with iTunes; something that Apple shut down very quickly.

There is no doubt that the HTC One is a top end smartphone with specifications to match. The iPhone 5S or whatever it will be called has got some serious competition on its hands now from this and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4. This year is going to be an exciting time for gadget lovers!

Source: CNET Asia via Apple Insider

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Obama Spreads U.S. Troops To Niger, Africa To ?Support Tax Payer Predator Drone Base? ~ From Libya To Niger The Killing Goes On.

As we speculated?from the very beginning, and as was reaffirmed in ?Is Nigeria, And Its Light Sweet Crude, About To Be Drawn Into The Mali ?Liberation? Campaign??, the ?French? (with complete and fully-comped US support) Mali campaign is slowly but surely migrating to its intended target: Nigeria, and rather its holdings of light sweet crude.

And while the US presence in this latest resource land grab, this time in Africa, was so far rather stealthy, it appears the time for foreplay is over and moments ago Obama told congress he has dispatched 40 more American troops to Niger this week, bringing the total U.S. military presence in the west African country to 100. Let?s hear it for the full retroactive transparency demanded by the War Powers Resolution.

The Hill?reports: ?The troops have been deployed to support the intervention in neighboring Mali, where French troops have been helping local forces rout Islamist militants from the country?s north since last month. The Obama administration is also planning to build a base in Niger for unarmed Predator drones to conduct surveillance on militants in the region, The New York Times reported last month.

On Wednesday, ?the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger,? Obama wrote to the House and Senate leaders.? Next: extensive weapons of mass destruction are discovered in Abuja while Al Qaeda terrorists are seen making threatening gestuers and using harsh language at Nigerian oil rigs which is the international acknowledged symbol that the US has to do its sworn globocop duty and liberate all that oppressed Nigerian crude.

More importantly, China is surely delighted over what as everyone can now understand, is an imminent confrontation over who owns what in Africa.

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Here?s the full letter:

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE

February 22, 2013

Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

On February 20, 2013, the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger. This deployment will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The total number of U.S. military personnel deployed to Niger is approximately 100. The recently deployed forces have deployed with weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security.

I directed this deployment of U.S. forces in furtherance of U.S. national security interests, and pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.

I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in this action.

Sincerely,

BARACK OBAMA

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Crowds celebrate Black History Month parade

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -

Bands, floats, and dancers took over Palm Canyon Drive Saturday afternoon for the 16th Black History Month Parade.

Thousands of people lined the street to continue the Palm Springs celebration of Black History Month. ?

"It brings people together from all cultures, and it brings us together to accept each other for what we are. That's why I'm here," Fern Bennett said.

Black History Month started in 1976 to celebrate the importance of black achievement and contribution in the United States.

"I love it because it represents everything that should be represented with with black community," Matthew Haynes said.

Haynes said that's equality, pride, and love for everyone.

"What they've gone through and how they've come to be where they are," he said.

"It makes it feel like they support who we are nowadays more than they did back then," Carlee Appling said.

The streets were filled with people of all walks of life and all ages.

"I always like diversity, this is great. To see it, we're all getting along, and enjoying ourselves. I'm really glad to be here," Bennett said.

On this beautiful afternoon, there was a lot to see, and a lot to celebrate.

Source: http://www.kesq.com/news/Crowds-celebrate-Black-History-Month-parade/-/233092/19056572/-/ap7q5z/-/index.html

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French leader seeks meat labels, urges local beef

PARIS (AP) ? France will press all of Europe to impose strict labeling rules on the meat inside prepared foods to restore confidence that has been shaken by a widening scandal on horse meat that was mislabeled and cooked into frozen dinners, the president said Saturday.

Three major French food companies, including one at the heart of the horse meat furor, agreed over the past two days to use only French beef in the prepared meals they sell in the country. Italy on Saturday registered its first case, with horse DNA discovered in pre-packaged lasagna from a Bologna-based food-maker, Primia. The meat was in the bolognese sauce.

The horse meat scandal began with tons of horse meat from Romanian abattoirs exported to France, where it was processed into ready-made meals. Romanian authorities said the meat was correctly labeled as horse and that the fraud occurred further down the food supply chain.

Since then, horse meat has turned up across Europe in frozen supermarket meals and in restaurants, schools and hospitals.

Under current European rules, companies are supposed to indicate the kind of meat in prepared foods, but not its origins. President Francois Hollande, speaking at the French Agricultural Salon, said he expected it would take several months to persuade other countries to go along with the rule change.

The fraud was possible "because there wasn't labeling," Hollande said. "Consumers should be able to know the provenance of the products they consume, especially for meats."

The French frozen food manufacturer Findus was among the first companies to acknowledge the mislabeled horse meat, which was shipped from country to country before finding its way into prepared foods. Findus and grocery chains Carrefour and Intermarche said they would now use French beef exclusively in prepared foods for consumers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-leader-seeks-meat-labels-urges-local-beef-154506106--finance.html

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A roundup of the top photos of the day

He gained a few unexpected fans in the gay community?today, but notoriously God-fearing quarterback Tim Tebow may have scared off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebrity even as his NFL career has fizzled ? they're calling his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor "disastrous," and declaring "his street cred with the evangelical community" all but gone.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photos-of-the-day-1340925511-slideshow/

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Let's talk about the exodus of 600,000 whites from London

Imagine if Glasgow disappeared. Not overnight and not physically, but imagine if everyone who lived there decided to leave, in the space of 10 years. Argyle Street, in the city centre ? empty. Byres Road, next to the university ? derelict. The Crow Road ? abandoned (except, perhaps ? if this were an exciting new BBC drama ? for an old Iain Banks novel, rain-damaged pages flapping in a gutter, symbol of the great evacuation). All those tenements, riverside apartments, suburban villas, all lying vacant. You?d sort of notice, wouldn?t you? You?d expect people to talk about it, at least.

To read the BBC article, by the home editor Mark Easton, there is nothing to worry about. Indeed, the historic shift of London, from a city of white Britons to a mixture of minorities, is a cause for celebration, and not just because of that oft?lauded ?vibrancy?.

That the proportion of white people in the borough of Barking and Dagenham has dropped from four fifths to less than a half in a decade is nothing more than the natural desire of increasingly prosperous people to retire to the seaside. I?m paraphrasing Mr Easton a little, but that was more or less the suggestion in his commentary. It?s a rising tide of prosperity that first of all flushed the Eastenders from Bethnal Green to Dagenham, and it?s the inexorable rise in property values that leads their descendants to move from metropolitan Essex to that beautiful county?s coastline.

?Leigh[-on-Sea],? said Mr Easton, ?is a particular favourite.? After all: ?Many residents from Barking and Dagenham will have taken the train along the Thames Estuary towards Southend on a work excursion ? the old beano to the seaside.? And so everything is dandy?

Fundamentally, none of this is strictly about ?race?, but rather the cultural constructs we layer on to genetics. There are good and bad neighbours of every hue, of course. But the scale of white flight demands more than issuing congratulations to the second and third generation children of immigrants, who?ve done well in life and moved from Zone 2 to Zone 5 of the Central or Northern Underground lines. It?s also absurd to assume that the grandchildren of cockneys are moving still further out, just because their houses have increased in value.

Take Bethnal Green. The people leaving Dagenham now are themselves displaced Eastenders. The borough they first left behind would be unrecognisable to their grandparents, with a mayor whose election was supported by an Islamist group with unpleasant (to put matters mildly) views.

Hate crimes disfigure its streets: in an ironic reversal of one reason for the East End?s fame ? that it was where indigenous, working-class Londoners faced down home-grown fascists ? the streets of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel are now scenes of increasingly violent attacks on gay people. The BBC doesn?t talk about this, oddly, or wonder why the Eastenders? movement is always away from their original homes: there are plenty of expensive properties in E2. (In 2001, I moved to Bow, from Harlow: my neighbours in Essex thought I was mad, for reasons unconnected with relative property prices.)

Discernment is required: nobody decent is arguing for a return to the homogeneity of Call the Midwife?s Poplar. Finally, politicians have admitted that to notice the scale of the immigration engineered by the last Labour government doesn?t make one racist. But neither is it wrong to discuss the cultural changes that large-scale immigration can cause. Six hundred thousand Londoners have left. They didn?t all sell ex-council houses in Barking, in order to purchase five-bedroom cliff-top villas in sunny Leigh-on-Sea.

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Cut Commitments, Not Muscle

In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third.

A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean.

The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against the fleet of Adm. Sergei Gorshkov, and provided the congressman a list of U.S. bases that would have to be shut down.

Radio ads were run in the towns closest to the bases on the Pentagon list, declaring they would be closed and all jobs terminated, should McGovern win.

Something akin to this is going on with the impending sequester.

A cut of 7 percent, $46 billion, in Pentagon spending, says Army chief Ray Odierno, will mean a "hollowing" out of his force.

The Navy? The carrier Harry Truman will not be sailing to the Persian Gulf. The Abraham Lincoln will not be overhauled in Newport News. Thousands of jobs will be lost.

Reporter Rowan Scarborough writes that the Air Force has produced "a map of the U.S. that shows state-by-state the millions of dollars lost to local economies," should the guillotine fall.

Military aid to Israel may be cut, says John Kerry.

But if an evisceration of the national defense is imminent, why did Obama not tell us in 2012? Why were the joint chiefs silent, when they are panicked now? Are the generals, admirals and contractors all crying wolf?

Undeniably, spending cuts by sequester slicer, chopping all equally, is mindless. And with the national security, it manifests a failure of both parties to come to terms with the world we are now in.

The Cold War is over. The Soviet Union is gone. Mao's China is gone, though a mightier China has emerged, as America's share of the global economy is shrinking. Moreover, as ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen contends, our greatest strategic threat is not Kim Jong Un or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the soaring national debt.

And if, as Republicans insist, we have a debt crisis because we are "spending too much," spending will have to be cut ? discretionary spending, entitlements and defense. And the only question about the defense cuts is not whether they are coming, but where.

What is needed is what America, since the collapse of the Soviet Empire, has stubbornly resisted doing: a strategic review of all U.S. commitments abroad to determine which remain vital to the national security. Before we decide what our defense forces should be, let us determine what is in the U.S. vital interest to defend at risk of war.

Start with NATO. In 1961, President Eisenhower urged JFK to bring home the U.S. forces and let the Europeans raise the armies to defend themselves, lest they become military dependencies.

Yet, more than 20 years after the Wall fell, the Red Army went home, East Europe broke free and the Soviet Union fell apart, we have scores of thousands of troops in Europe.

Why? The European Union's economy is 10 times that of Russia. Europe's population is twice Russia's.

Why are we still there?

Though we have given NATO war guarantees to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, our McCainiacs want them handed out to the Ukraine and Georgia. Yet no president in his right mind is going to go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia over some Caucasus dustup or Baltic brawl.

If Richard Nixon could achieve a modus vivendi with Chairman Mao, have we no statesman who can patch it up with Vladimir Putin? A first step might be to pull all U.S. missiles out of Eastern Europe and put our democracy-meddlers on the next plane out of Moscow.

Even as Ike was telling JFK to bring the troops home from Europe, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was urging JFK not to put his foot soldiers in Asia ? advice not taken there, either.

On retirement, Robert Gates said any future defense secretary who advises a president to fight another land war in Asia ought to have his head examined. So why do we have 28,000 U.S. troops in Korea and 50,000 in Japan?

In his Guam Doctrine, Nixon declared that in any future Asian war, we should provide the weapons to our Asian allies and they should do the fighting. Does that not still make sense today? Before we can decide the size and shape of our defense budget, we need a consensus on what we must defend.

And if Republicans wish to remain a viable party, they cannot delegate these decisions to the "We-are-all-Georgians-now!" crowd that plunged us into Iraq and is bawling for intervention in Syria and war on Iran.

The GOP desperately needs a credible, countervailing voice to the uber-hawks whose bellicosity all but killed the party in the Bush era.

Obama is president because of them. And his most popular act, according to voter surveys from 2012? Ending the war in Iraq.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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NFL Draft order as it currently stands

?The NFL has released the tentative round-by-round order for the 2013 NFL Draft.?

?Note that the order does not include compensatory selections, which will be awarded at the bottom of Rounds 3-7 and announced next month.

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Round	Pick		Overall
1		1	1	Kansas City
1		2	2	Jacksonville
1		3	3	Oakland
1		4	4	Philadelphia
1		5	5	Detroit
1		6	6	Cleveland
1		7	7	Arizona
1		8	8	Buffalo
1		9	9	New York Jets
1		10	10	Tennessee
1		11	11	San Diego
1		12	12	Miami
1		13	13	Tampa Bay
1		14	14	Carolina
1		15	15	New Orleans
1		16	16	St. Louis
1		17	17	Pittsburgh
1		18	18	Dallas
1		19	19	New York Giants
1		20	20	Chicago
1		21	21	Cincinnati
1		22	22	St. Louis from Washington
1		23	23	Minnesota
1		24	24	Indianapolis
1		25	25	Seattle
1		26	26	Green Bay
1		27	27	Houston
1		28	28	Denver
1		29	29	New England
1		30	30	Atlanta
1		31	31	San Francisco
1		32	32	Baltimore
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Round	Pick	Overall
2	1	33		Jacksonville
2	2	34		Kansas City
2	3	35		Philadelphia
2	4	36		Detroit
2	5	37		Cincinnati from Oakland
2	6	38		Arizona
2	7	?	Cleveland Exercised in Supplemental Draft
2	8	39		New York Jets
2	9	40		Tennessee
2	10	41		Buffalo
2	11	42		Miami
2	12	43		Tampa Bay
2	13	44		Carolina
2	14	?	New Orleans Forfeited
2	15	45		San Diego
2	16	46		St. Louis
2	17	47		Dallas
2	18	48		Pittsburgh
2	19	49		New York Giants
2	20	50		Chicago
2	21	51		Washington
2	22	52		Minnesota
2	23	53		Cincinnati
2	24	54		Miami from Indianapolis
2	25	55		Green Bay
2	26	56		Seattle
2	27	57		Houston
2	28	58		Denver
2	29	59		New England
2	30	60		Atlanta
2	31	61		San Francisco
2	32	62		Baltimore
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Round	Pick	Overall
3	1	63	Kansas City
3	2	64	Jacksonville
3	3	65	Detroit
3	4	66	Oakland
3	5	67	Philadelphia
3	6	68	Cleveland
3	7	69	Arizona
3	8	70	Tennessee
3	9	71	Buffalo
3	10	72	New York Jets
3	11	73	Tampa Bay
3	12	74	San Francisco from Carolina
3	13	75	New Orleans
3	14	76	San Diego
3	15	77	Miami
3	16	78	St. Louis
3	17	79	Pittsburgh
3	18	80	Dallas
3	19	81	New York Giants
3	20	82	Miami from Chicago
3	21	83	Minnesota
3	22	84	Cincinnati
3	23	85	Washington
3	24	86	Indianapolis
3	25	87	Seattle
3	26	88	Green Bay
3	27	89	Houston
3	28	90	Denver
3	29	91	New England
3	30	92	Atlanta
3	31	93	San Francisco
3	32	94	Baltimore

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Round	Pick	Overall
4	1	-	Jacksonville
4	2	-	Kansas City
4	3	-	Oakland
4	4	-	Philadelphia
4	5	-	Minnesota from Detroit
4	6	-	Arizona
4	7	-	Cleveland
4	8	-	Buffalo
4	9	-	New York Jets
4	10	-	Tennessee
4	11	-	Carolina
4	12	-	New Orleans
4	13	-	San Diego
4	14	-	Miami
4	15	-	Tampa Bay
4	16	-	St. Louis
4	17	-	Dallas
4	18	-	Pittsburgh
4	19	-	New York Giants
4	20	-	Chicago
4	21	-	Cincinnati
4	22	-	Washington
4	23	-	Minnesota
4	24	-	Indianapolis
4	25	-	Green Bay
4	26	-	Seattle
4	27	-	Houston
4	28	-	Denver
4	29	-	Tampa Bay from New England
4	30	-	Atlanta
4	31	-	San Francisco
4	32	-	Baltimore

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Round	Pick	Overall
5	1	-	Kansas City
5	2	-	Jacksonville
5	3	-	Philadelphia
5	4	-	Detroit
5	5	-	Seattle from Oakland
5	6	-	Cleveland
5	7	-	Arizona
5	8	-	New York Jets
5	9	-	Tennessee
5	10	-	Buffalo
5	11	-	New Orleans
5	12	-	San Diego
5	13	-	Miami
5	14	-	Tampa Bay
5	15	-	Carolina
5	16	-	St. Louis
5	17	-	Pittsburgh
5	18	-	Dallas
5	19	-	New York Giants
5	20	-	Chicago
5	21	-	Washington
5	22	-	Minnesota
5	23	-	Cincinnati
5	24	-	San Francisco from Indianapolis
5	25	-	Seattle
5	26	-	Green Bay
5	27	-	Houston
5	28	-	Denver
5	29	-	Washington from New England
5	30	-	Atlanta
5	31	-	San Francisco
5	32	-	Baltimore

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Round	Pick	Overall
6	1	-	Jacksonville
6	2	-	Kansas City
6	3	-	Detroit
6	4	-	Oakland
6	5	-	Cleveland from Philadelphia
6	6	-	Arizona
6	7	-	Cleveland
6	8	-	Arizona from Tennessee through Minnesota
6	9	-	Buffalo
6	10	-	New York Jets
6	11	-	San Diego
6	12	-	San Francisco from Miami
6	13	-	Tampa Bay
6	14	-	Carolina
6	15	-	New Orleans
6	16	-	St. Louis
6	17	-	Dallas
6	18	-	Pittsburgh
6	19	-	New York Giants
6	20	-	Chicago
6	21	-	Minnesota
6	22	-	Cincinnati
6	23	-	Washington
6	24	-	Indianapolis
6	25	-	Green Bay
6	26	-	Seattle
6	27	-	Houston
6	28	-	Philadelphia from Denver
6	29	-	Cincinnati from New England
6	30	-	Atlanta
6	31	-	San Francisco
6	32	-	Baltimore

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Round	Pick	Overall
7	1	-	Kansas City
7	2	-	Jacksonville
7	3	-	Oakland
7	4	-	Philadelphia
7	5	-	Detroit
7	6	-	Philadelphia from Cleveland
7	7	-	Minnesota from Arizona
7	8	-	Seattle from Buffalo
7	9	-	New York Jets
7	10	-	Tennessee
7	11	-	Miami
7	12	-	Tampa Bay
7	13	-	Oakland from Carolina
7	14	-	Seattle from New Orleans
7	15	-	San Diego
7	16	-	St. Louis
7	17	-	Pittsburgh
7	18	-	Miami from Dallas
7	19	-	New York Giants
7	20	-	New England from Chicago through Tampa Bay
7	21	-	San Francisco from Cincinnati
7	22	-	Washington
7	23	-	Minnesota
7	24	-	Indianapolis
7	25	-	Seattle
7	26	-	Green Bay
7	27	-	Houston
7	28	-	Denver
7	29	-	New England
7	30	-	Atlanta
7	31	-	San Francisco
7	32	-	Baltimore

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All about medical tests

AP

For media purposes, the NFL Scouting Combine is a whirl of interviews and player availability.

For television watchers, the 40-yard dashes and drills take center stage.

But for the teams that come to Indianapolis to scout, the priority isn?t anything that happens on the field, but rather behind the scenes at the hospital.

The medical checks shared by 32 teams are the primary benefit for most teams.

National Football Scouting president Jeff Foster asked teams years ago to list their priorities, and the results were loud and clear.

?All 32 teams, medicals were No. 1,? Foster told Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. ?All 32 teams, interviews were No. 2. Then there was a mix between the on-field stuff and the psychological testing.?

So for the seven-day duration, players are poked and prodded and tested and quizzed on their medical histories, with no detail to minute.

?This will be the most comprehensive exam they can ever hope to get,? said Dr. Arthur Rettig, one of the Colts team doctors. ?If possible, you want to save [a team] from investing a few million dollars in someone who may play one year and then he?s done.

?It?s our job to try and predict that.?

Retting said he expected to order up 350 MRI scans, using 17 machines they have on hand, including three mobile ones at Lucas Oil Stadium. In the past, they?ve found tumors in players while looking at other injuries.

Colts tackle Anthony Castonzo said he was amazed by the thoroughness of the process, going through six orthopedic stations, X-rays, MRIs, along with heart tests, baseline concussion tests and drug scans.

?You basically lay on a table in the middle of the room and you?ve got people coming over and poking and prodding on you, fiddling with your ankle or your knee or whatever it is you possibly had wrong,? Castonzo said. ?You kind of feel like a corpse at the morgue. Everyone is trying to figure out what?s wrong.?

For NFL teams trying to avoid investing millions in a bunch of stiffs, the process is worth it.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/21/for-nfl-teams-combine-is-all-about-the-medical-tests/related/

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New study shows how seals sleep with only half their brain at a time

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A new study led by an international team of biologists has identified some of the brain chemicals that allow seals to sleep with half of their brain at a time.

The study was published this month in the Journal of Neuroscience and was headed by scientists at UCLA and the University of Toronto. It identified the chemical cues that allow the seal brain to remain half awake and asleep. Findings from this study may explain the biological mechanisms that enable the brain to remain alert during waking hours and go off-line during sleep.

"Seals do something biologically amazing ? they sleep with half their brain at a time. The left side of their brain can sleep while the right side stays awake. Seals sleep this way while they're in water, but they sleep like humans while on land. Our research may explain how this unique biological phenomenon happens" said Professor John Peever of the University of Toronto.

The study's first author, University of Toronto PhD student Jennifer Lapierre, made this discovery by measuring how different chemicals change in the sleeping and waking sides of the brain. She found that acetylcholine ? an important brain chemical ? was at low levels on the sleeping side of the brain but at high levels on the waking side. This finding suggests that acetylcholine may drive brain alertness on the side that is awake.

But, the study also showed that another important brain chemical ? serotonin - was present at the equal levels on both sides of the brain whether the seals were awake or asleep. This was a surprising finding because scientist long thought that serotonin was a chemical that causes brain arousal.

These findings have possible human health implications because "about 40% of North Americans suffer from sleep problems and understanding which brain chemicals function to keep us awake or asleep is a major scientific advance. It could help solve the mystery of how and why we sleep" says the study's senior author Jerome Siegel of UCLA's Brain Research Institute.

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Signaling pathway linked to fetal alcohol risk: Molecular switch promises new targets for diagnosis and therapy

Feb. 20, 2013 ? Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading preventable cause of developmental disorders in developed countries. And fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a range of alcohol-related birth defects that includes fetal alcohol syndrome, is thought to affect as many as 1 in 100 children born in the United States.

Any amount of alcohol consumed by the mother during pregnancy poses a risk of FASD, a condition that can include the distinct pattern of facial features and growth retardation associated with fetal alcohol syndrome as well as intellectual disabilities, speech and language delays, and poor social skills. But drinking can have radically different outcomes for different women and their babies. While twin studies have suggested a genetic component to susceptibility to FASD, researchers have had little success identifying who is at greatest risk or what genes are at play.

Research from Harvard Medical School and Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System sheds new light on this question, identifying for the first time a signaling pathway that might determine genetic susceptibility for the development of FASD. The study was published online Feb. 19 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Our work points to candidate genes for FASD susceptibility and identifies a path for the rational development of drugs that prevent ethanol neurotoxicity," said Michael Charness, chief of staff at VA Boston Healthcare System and HMS professor of neurology. "And importantly, identifying those mothers whose fetuses are most at risk could help providers better target intensive efforts at reducing drinking during pregnancy."

The discovery also solves a riddle that had intrigued Charness and other researchers for nearly two decades. In 1996, Charness and colleagues discovered that alcohol disrupted the work of a human protein critical to fetal neural development -- a major clue to the biological processes of FASD. The protein, L1, projects through the surface of a cell to help it adhere to its neighbors. When Charness and his team introduced the protein to a culture of mouse fibroblasts cells, L1 increased cell adhesion. Tellingly, the effect was erased in the presence of ethanol (beverage alcohol).

Charness and his team went on to develop multiple cell lines from that first culture, and that's where they encountered the riddle: In some of those lines, alcohol disrupted L1's adhesive effect, while in others it did not.

"How could it be possible that a cell that expresses L1 is completely sensitive to alcohol, and others that express it are completely insensitive?" asked Charness, who is also faculty associate dean for veterans hospital programs at HMS and assistant dean at Boston University School of Medicine.

Clearly, something else was affecting the protein's sensitivity to alcohol -- but what? Studies of twins provided one clue: Identical twins are more likely than fraternal twins to have the same diagnosis, positive or negative, for FASD. "That concordance suggests that there are modifying genes, susceptibility genes, that predispose to this condition," Charness said.

In the current study, Charness' team and collaborators at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill conducted cell culture experiments to identify specific molecular events that contribute to the alcohol sensitivity of L1 adhesion molecules. They focused on what was happening to the L1 molecule inside a cell that could affect an event outside the cell such as disruption by alcohol.

"We found that phosphorylation events that begin inside the cell can render the external portion of the L1 adhesion molecule more vulnerable to inhibition by alcohol," said Xiaowei Dou, HMS instructor in neurology in the Charness Lab and first author on the new study. "Phosphorylation was controlled by the enzyme ERK2, and occurred at a specific location on the internal portion of the L1molecule."

Phosphorylation plays a significant role in a wide range of cellular processes. By adding a phosphate group to a protein or other molecule, phosphorylation turns many protein enzymes on and off, and thereby alters their function and activity.

The researchers also found that variations in ERK2 activity correlated with differences in L1 sensitivity to alcohol that they observed across cell lines and among different strains of mice. "Dou showed that he could take these cells that had been insensitive to alcohol for 13-14 years, and make them sensitive by ramping up the activity of this kinase" Charness said.

These variations suggest that genes for ERK2 and the signaling molecules that regulate ERK2 activity might influence genetic susceptibility to FASD. Moreover, their identification of a specific locus that regulates the alcohol sensitivity of L1 might facilitate the rational design of drugs that block alcohol neurotoxicity.

"The only thing this modification blocked was alcohol's ability to inhibit L1," Charness said. "If you're looking for a drug, ideally you're looking for it to block the effects of the toxin without interfering with the target molecule of the toxin."

The findings will also help guide an international consortium in its search for genes linked to families with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

"Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disorders in the United States," said Kenneth Warren, acting director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),which supported the study. "These new findings are yet another important contribution from researchers who have been at the forefront of scientific discovery in FASD."

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'Harlem Shake' craze hits Eastern Michigan women's basketball team...and coach

Everyone seems to be getting in on the "Harlem Shake" craze. Include the Eastern Michigan women's basketball team among them.

The school uploaded a video of its players dancing to the popular song on Friday. Perhaps it was to stave off boredom during the team's bye week.

As is standard with the popular new dance craze, one individual is dancing all along while the entire Eagles team seems to be unaware or uninterested in what he is doing. But at the 15 second point of the video the entire team joins in.

With a football helmet and sunglasses on, the dance leader is unrecognizable, but a university spokesperson confirmed that it is first-year coach Tory Verdi leading the group.

Source: http://www.annarbor.com/sports/harlem-shake-craze-hits-eastern-michigan-womens-basketball-teamand-coach/?cmpid=RSS_link_sports

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