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Point Nine Capital has made a seed investment into Cibando, an Italian startup which operates a popular iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy. Fabio Pezzotti, one of Italy's more successful Internet entrepreneurs and angel investors, also participated in the round. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. The deal is significant since it's the first investment by Point Nine in a startup in Italy, a market traditional vastly under-served by risk capital. Outside of traditional e-commerce style businesses, there remains very few Italian startups compared to the rest of Europe's major countries.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TEqIwqMWRFU/
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? A federal judge on Thursday set oral arguments for January 13 on Texas Governor Rick Perry's bid to get on the Virginia's Republican primary election ballot after he failed to qualify by the deadline.
The Republican presidential candidate failed to get the 10,000 verifiable signatures, including at least 400 qualified voters from each congressional district, that are necessary to be included in the March 6 primary.
Perry challenged the state's qualification process on constitutional grounds, arguing that it restricts his free speech and association rights and thus limits the access of Virginia voters to the candidates of their choosing.
He asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction against those requirements and order that he be included on the ballot.
U.S. District Judge John Gibney set a January 13 hearing to hear arguments on the request for a preliminary injunction. He also set a January 6 deadline for other candidates who want to join or oppose the lawsuit to do so.
Perry was not alone in failing to qualify for the Virginia primary contest. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, also came up short but blamed fraud by a hired campaign worker who was accused of turning in fake signatures.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul were the only candidates from the field of top Republican candidates to qualify to be on Virginia's ballot.
Gibney was nominated to the federal bench by Democratic President Barack Obama and confirmed in December 2010.
(Reporting By Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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United University Professions, the union that represents State University of New York faculty members, was among a number of unions that sued the state Wednesday in federal court in hopes of reversing a state-mandated 2-percent increase in health-insurance rates for retirees. The unions said the increase was imposed unilaterally, was arbitrary and capricious, and amounted to a breach of contract. About 4,000 retired faculty members are affected, the union said.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? A Russian fishing boat that was stuck for 12 days while in danger of sinking in the frigid waters off Antarctica began a trek through 100 miles (160 kilometers) of sea ice to open water on Wednesday, New Zealand officials said.
The Sparta hit underwater ice Dec. 16 that tore a 1-foot (30-centimeter) hole in its hull. Heavy ice in the Ross Sea prevented help from reaching the stricken vessel for 10 days, forcing the Sparta's crew to pump out near-frozen sea water to keep the ship afloat while awaiting rescue. At one point, some of the crew boarded life rafts. The crew has 15 Russians, 16 Indonesians and one Ukrainian.
The South Korean icebreaker Araon finally arrived on Monday, and repairs to the hole were completed by Wednesday morning, New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Center said. The Araon then began escorting the Sparta through the ice and toward the open ocean.
Both ships are expected to clear the ice pack within 12 hours of moving, rescue center spokesman Chris Henshaw said.
"The inside (of the hull hole) has been all fixed up ? they used a cement box to fill it in," Henshaw told New Zealand's National Radio. A cement box provides a temporary fix to the torn steel plating to make the vessel seaworthy.
The crew had not been able to weld a steel plate over the hole because of safety concerns, he said.
The Araon, a polar research ship, will guide the Sparta to ice-free open ocean about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away, where it will be joined by its sister ship for the 2,200-mile (3,700 kilometer) journey to the New Zealand port of Lyttelton. It will dry dock there for permanent repairs, Henshaw said.
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Tom Irwin knows a lot about the value of teamwork.
Irwin, who is well known for his many years as head football coach at Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School, will receive the 2012 Respected Citizen Award from the Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission Feb. 25 at the Bavarian Hall.
The award is presented to an individual who motivates and inspires others through their vision, leadership, dedication, community service and work with youth throughout their lives.
Irwin is a worthy recipient, said Michael Hofer, commission executive director.
"When we looked at the applications we received, we looked at his and threw it to the top. The award is not based on all of the good things he did as a coach at Guilfoyle but the things he is still doing today and what he has done working with kids at places like Evergreen Manors," Hofer said. "He is still giving back to the community after all of these years."
Irwin, 69, an Altoona native and 1960 graduate of Altoona Catholic High School, said he is honored to receive the recognition.
"There are so many people behind the scenes working with the kids. I am just part of a team doing a lot of good things," Irwin said. "All I did was say 'yes' when I saw the possibilities. When you say 'yes,' one thing leads to another. It has been very enriching for me and my family."
Irwin said he always wanted to be a teacher. He graduated from Millersville State Teachers College in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education.
He got started in his teaching career while still in college, working at Cathedral Elementary School in 1965. He taught at Keith Junior High School from 1966 to 1967, then moved on to Bishop Guilfoyle from 1967 to 1974. From there, he taught at Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School from 1974 until he retired in 2004.
He served as head football coach at BG from 1967 through 1973, at Hollidaysburg from 1974 through 1977 and then returned to BG as coach until his retirement.
As a coach, he helped many young men, Hofer said.
"He has been able to touch so many lives over the years, molding young boys into young men. That is a very influential time in their lives, and to have someone like Coach to provide himself as a role model and to teach them the right way to go about their business is so important," Hofer said. "With Coach it was not always about winning, it was about sportsmanship, your family and the community you live in."
Over the years, Irwin has been involved with many organizations starting as a director at the 12th Ward Center for the recreation and park commission in 1966.
His retirement from teaching and coaching in 2004 at the urging of his wife, Lenora, enabled him to have even more time to devote to young people.
Irwin serves as president of the board of the Gloria Gates Memorial Foundation, an organization founded by Dr. Zane Gates, a childhood friend of Irwin's son Joey, and serves as a daily volunteer working with young children.
"They get so excited about what you are doing [to help them]. I get the same kind of satisfaction from them as I did coaching," Irwin said.
Irwin's volunteer efforts are important to the children, said Toni Bilik, the foundation's executive director.
"The greatest part of having Tom Irwin volunteer is he is so consistent and our children need that. He is always there and they can count on him and he believes in them," Bilik said. "With some of these kids, there is no one else in their lives, and he provides them with so much consistency. He is a person who shows up for them. That shows them they are important."
Irwin also is a member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, a group that visits the Blair County Prison once a month.
"We try to help them with problems and provide counseling. We take care of a lot of logistical problems for inmates," Irwin said. "There are things we can do to prepare them for when they re-enter society. We try to make it an experience they can grow from. They are really appreciative of us coming."
Irwin admits he is busier since he retired.
"The freedom allows you to say yes to a lot of things. When you have a full-time job, you can't do this. I got to do other things you can't do if you coach football and teach full-time," Irwin said. "I am still teaching and still learning, but the playing field has changed."
Irwin doesn't enjoy being in the spotlight.
"I want to do a lot of good things, but the goal is to be insignificant, do what I am supposed to do without getting any notoriety for it," Irwin said. "There are a lot more people doing more than I am doing but they are not getting a reward for it."
Irwin said his wife has played a key role in all he has done.
"Lenora is such a good person. She lives life with a passion. She never does anything halfway; she is very thorough in everything she does. I credit her for a lot of my success," Irwin said.
Tickets for the Community Classic Dinner are $30 each. Former Penn State cornerback Adam Taliaferro will be the guest speaker. For tickets, call the Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission at 949-2231 or visit www.cbrcparks.org.
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Although the bay's herring spawning grounds are now free of toxic oil, studies have found that the moderate-size spill of 54,000 gallons had an unexpectedly large and lethal effect.
The culprit, a common type of ship fuel called "bunker fuel," appears to be especially toxic to fish embryos, particularly when exposed to sunlight, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"That's the big lesson," said John Incardona, a toxicologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. "This bunker oil is literally the dregs of the barrel, and it's much more toxic than crude oil."
The container ship Cosco Busan spilled low-grade bunker fuel after it sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on a foggy November morning four years ago. This type of sludge-like fuel is cheap and thus popular among operators of commercial shipping fleets that transport raw materials and goods around the globe.
Scientists have traditionally focused on larger crude oil spills, such as last year's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico or 1989's Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, in which 11 million gallons of oil were discharged into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The Exxon spill is suspected of wiping out the sound's herring fishery, which has never bounced back.
From studies in Alaska, scientists knew that oil could cause heart deformities to developing herring in their embryonic sacs.
But after examining herring embryos placed in cages in shallow waters near the Cosco Busan spill site, researchers were surprised to find that nearly all had died, and their tissues were deteriorating faster than expected in the bay's chilly water.
"We didn't think there was enough oil spilled to cause this much damage," said Gary Cherr, a study coauthor and director of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. He described the total spill as similar in size to a large backyard swimming pool.
Oil and water don't mix. The fat-filled herring egg sacs can act like little sponges, soaking up the highly toxic compounds from the bunker fuel. Once exposed to sunlight during low tides, the oil compounds became even more lethal to developing fish.
"Bunker fuel is used worldwide and is spilled relatively often," Cherr said. "It is important to look at small spills in sensitive areas," he added, now that science understands the lethal potential of low concentrations.
The owners and operators of the Cosco Busan in September agreed to pay $44.4 million to cover government claims, the cost of the cleanup ? about half of the spilled oil was captured ? and bay restoration programs. Besides tarring about 30% of the bay's herring spawning grounds, the spill killed about 6,800 seabirds and closed beaches for months.
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OMAHA, Neb. -- An Omaha boy, followed by KETV as he bravely battled brain cancer, died last week shortly after turning 11 years old.The first time KETV met Evan Sharp in September of 2010, he smiled at the camera and spoke two simple words: ?I?m amazing.?Evan was 9 at the time, diagnosed months earlier with a brain tumor. A teacher noticed changes in Evan?s handwriting around the same time his parents noticed he was having trouble at baseball, leading to the diagnosis.After spending a summer undergoing surgery and months of chemotherapy and radiation, Evan returned to class. He spent his 4th grade year studying, laughing with friends, and undergoing more treatment.KETV followed up with Evan in May of 2011. It seemed like a miracle had taken place; it appeared Evan?s tumor was gone.Evan returned to the baseball field with his team. Though still unable to play, Evan cheered from the dugout and was proud to say he had rolled in the dirt before the game started. Evan led the team chant during the huddle after the game and laughed as his teammates heckled him during his interview.?If you do get this type of cancer, or any type of cancer, just hope and pray it doesn't come back,? Evan told KETV Newswatch 7?s Brandi Petersen. ?That's what I did and it worked.?Just weeks after that story aired, Evan started showing symptoms again. In August, a scan confirmed a tumor in Evan?s brain stem.Evan faced more treatment and more difficult challenges as his condition worsened, but he still projected a positive attitude.Former Nebraska standout and current New York Yankee Joba Chamberlain visited Evan in the fall. Evan, a huge baseball fan, got to talk to the baseball player and get a jersey signed. Joba told Evan he?d get him tickets for the Yankees opening day game in the spring.Evan died Wednesday night at home, surrounded by his family. He just turned 11 the week before.Monday, the day after Christmas, Evan?s family told him goodbye during a private funeral service. They will hold a public service the night of January 8 at Christ Community Church. His mother, Rhonda Sharp, told KETV Monday that Evan would not want people to be sad at Christmas.One viewer who emailed KETV after Evan?s death wrote ?Evan earned his angel wings.?If there?s baseball in Heaven, no doubt Evan is out on the field, smiling.Watch KETV Newswatch 7 at 10 for a tribute to Evan Sharp.Copyright 2011 by KETV.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Networking equipment manufacturer Ciena Corp. (Nasdaq: CIEN - News) reported a worse-than-expected fiscal-fourth-quarter loss, nevertheless with rising revenues. Let's take a closer, Foolish look at what's up with Ciena.
Figuring it out
The Maryland-based company reported a 9% rise in fourth-quarter revenue to $455.5 million. However, the company stayed in the red, albeit with a narrower net loss of $22.3 million, as compared to a net loss of $80.3 million in the previous year's quarter. The company managed to trim down net losses primarily because it witnessed a huge jump in revenues in its high-margin division that sells packet-optical switching equipment.
As a welcome change, Ciena also managed to generate $42 million in cash from operations as compared to the previous year's negative operating cash flow of $20 million.
In comparison, rival Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR - News) had an uptick in its latest third-quarter revenue, by 9% to $1.1 billion, but unfortunately saw its profits drop 38% to $83.7 million mainly due to higher operating and interest expenses.
A chance of some green?
Ciena, which has benefited a lot through orders from top customers such as AT&T (NYSE: T - News) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ - News), continues to benefit from carriers' increasing need to expand their network infrastructure in order to keep up with the growing demand for bandwidth. However, the company has also continually incurred net losses for many quarters since October 2008. The company also has a gigantic debt of $1.4 billion to service on its balance sheet.
The Foolish bottom line
Ciena has been struggling to save its bottom line and, going by the trend, it could very well go into the green in the next few quarters. However, the company would have to shore up revenues and keep costs under control. It will be interesting to see how the next few quarters turn out for the networking company. What do you Fools think? Let us know by leaving your comments in the box below. Also, don't forget to stay up to speed with the latest on Ciena by adding it to your watchlist. It's free.
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By BRUCE SCHREINER | APLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? A 9-year-old autistic boy who misbehaved at school was stuffed into a duffel bag and the drawstring pulled tight, according to his mother, who said she found him wiggling inside as a teacher's aide stood by.
The mother of fourth-grader Christopher Baker said her son called out to her when she walked up to him in the bag Dec. 14. The case has spurred an online petition calling for the firing of school employees responsible.
"He was treated like trash and thrown in the hallway," Chris' mother, Sandra Baker, said Thursday. She did not know how exactly how long he had been in the bag, but probably not more than 20 minutes.
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(Reuters) ? Congress, after months of bitter fighting, is poised on Friday to pass a payroll tax cut extension that President Barack Obama argues is vital to the health of the economy.
The legislation would continue for two months a 4.2 percent payroll tax rate that otherwise would expire on December 31 and ratchet up to 6.2 percent for 160 million American workers.
"I congratulate members of Congress for ending the partisan stalemate," said Obama.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner yielded to pressure from Democrats and his party and agreed, with minor changes, to allow a vote on a bill passed by the Senate last week with bipartisan support.
Boehner acknowledged the opposition that he faced in initially opposing the measure.
"It may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world," Boehner told reporters late on Thursday. But he said his fellow House Republicans "waged a good fight."
Obama said: "Because of this agreement, every working American will keep his or her tax cut - about $1,000 for the average family" over the course of a year.
The two-month deal between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and House comes after they were unable to agree on ways to offset the costs of a full-year extension.
If both chambers approve the two-month extension on Friday, a new round of negotiations would begin in January to add 10 more months to the measure.
Some last-minute roadblocks could still occur. If any member of Congress objects to a fast vote on Friday, passage of the two-month extension would be delayed, probably until next week.
It was unclear whether any restive conservative Republicans in the House might object to a voice vote, forcing Boehner to schedule a roll-call vote in coming days.
But either way, the legislation is expected to eventually be approved by Congress and sent to Obama to sign into law before the December 31 deadline.
Last Saturday, the Senate approved the two-month extension in a strong, bipartisan vote. But House conservatives, challenging Boehner, said they would not go along. Instead, they pushed for a year-long extension, despite earlier opposition to any renewal of the payroll tax cut.
Their maneuvers led some Democrats to suspect that Republicans were simply trying to kill the measure.
House Republicans all week insisted on a 12-month payroll tax extension. But Democrats did not budge, arguing that the two-month compromise hammered out in the Senate must first be approved to ensure no lapse in the lower rate. Then, they said, negotiations could continue.
But with opposition to the House Republicans mounting every day - from Senate Republicans lawmakers to conservative commentators and outside political advisors, Boehner saw no alternative but to relent.
Besides extending the payroll tax cut for two months, the legislation also temporarily continues some unemployment benefits that were set to expire in coming weeks and avoids a cut in payments to doctors who treat elderly patients in the government-backed Medicare health insurance program.
In one victory for Republicans, the legislation has a provision aimed at forcing a quick decision by Obama on the Keystone XL pipeline project that would run from Canada to the Texas coast.
(Editing by Paul Simao)
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ARLINGTON, Va. ? Newt Gingrich is frantically playing catch-up in the Republican presidential race, spending precious time trying to get on Virginia's primary ballot while his rivals campaign in crucial Iowa and New Hampshire.
The former House speaker is paying a price for his late start in organizing. Gingrich had to leave New Hampshire on Wednesday and race to Virginia, where he needs 10,000 valid voters' signatures by Thursday to secure a spot on the March 6 ballot.
Virginia is an afterthought for most campaigns at this early stage. They are intensely focused on the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses and the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary, which will be followed by primaries in South Carolina and Florida.
But Gingrich's early-December rise in several polls gave him renewed hopes of carrying his campaign deep into the primary season. Failure to compete in Virginia, which is among the "Super Tuesday" primaries, would deal a huge blow to any contender who had not locked up the nomination by then.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas, want to knock Gingrich out long before Virginia. Their campaigns and allied groups are saturating the Iowa airwaves with anti-Gingrich ads.
The tone has gotten so nasty that Gingrich is calling on Romney to halt the ads, or at least defend them in a 90-minute Iowa face-off. Gingrich also mounted a separate petition drive, seeking signatures from voters who don't want to see Republican candidates ripping into each other.
"Attacking fellow Republicans only helps one person: Barack Obama," the petition says.
Republican insiders see Romney, in particular, as having the money, experience and organization needed to survive a long campaign. That makes it urgent for Gingrich to get on all the big-state ballots if he hopes to win the party's nod.
Gingrich said Wednesday he had enough ballot signatures, but he wanted to come to Virginia to deliver them personally. Taking no chances, his volunteers asked everyone to sign petitions before entering Gingrich's rally Wednesday night in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from Washington.
Gingrich, who arrived more than an hour late, planned to campaign Thursday in Richmond with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has endorsed none of the nomination-seekers.
Romney, meanwhile, continued his bus tour of New Hampshire, the closest thing to a must-win state for him. For the most part, Romney is letting hard-hitting ads from the Restore Our Future "super PAC" do the ruffian's work against Gingrich. The PAC is made up of former Romney advisers.
On Wednesday, Romney taunted Gingrich, who has objected to the attacks as he falls in several polls.
"I'm sure I could go out and say, `Please, don't do anything negative,'" Romney told Fox News. "But this is politics. And if you can't stand the heat in this little kitchen, wait until Obama's Hell's Kitchen turns up the heat."
Gingrich shot back from Manchester, N.H., "If he wants to test the heat, I'll meet him anywhere in Iowa next week." He said Romney could "bring his ads and he can defend them."
In Arlington, Gingrich mocked Romney for saying he can't tell Restore Our Future to halt its ads because campaign laws require candidates and PACs to operate independently of each other. If Romney publicly announced his desire to see the ads stop, Gingrich said, those airing them probably would hear of it.
Gingrich vowed to stay positive, even as he said Romney had "no willingness to stand up and tell the truth."
Paul is campaigning this week in Iowa, a wide-open state he potentially could win. He drew large crowds at several town hall meetings in eastern Iowa on Wednesday.
But few campaign veterans think Paul, whose strong libertarian views give him an intense but limited following, can draw enough support nationwide to win the nomination.
Gingrich hopes to do well enough in the first two contests to make it to South Carolina and Florida. They border Georgia, which he represented in Congress for 20 years, ending in 1999.
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PARIS?? France took a costly and unprecedented leap Friday in offering to pay for 30,000 women to have their breast implants removed because of mounting fears the products could rupture and leak cheap, industrial-grade silicone into the body.
Tens of thousands of other women elsewhere in Europe and in South America have the same French-made implants, but authorities there have so far refused to follow suit. The silicone-gel implants in question are not sold in the U.S.
Over the past week, the safety fears have created a public furor over something usually kept private, even in France. Women, some whose own families didn't know they had their breasts enlarged, marched on Paris to demand more attention to worries about what might be happening inside them. Images of leaky, blubbery implants and women having mammograms have been splashed on French TV.
More than 1,000 ruptures pushed Health Minister Xavier Bertrand to recommend that the estimated 30,000 women in France with the implants get them removed at the state's expense.
Bertrand insisted the removals would be "preventive" and not urgent, and French health authorities said they had found nothing to link the implants to nine cases of cancer in women. The death last month of a woman who had the implants and developed a rare cancer ? anaplastic large-cell lymphoma ? had catalyzed worries.
The implants, made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, were pulled from the market last year in countries around Europe and South America where they had been sold. The company's website said it exported to more than 60 countries and was one of the world's leading implant makers.
International police agency Interpol put PIP's former director, Jean-Claude Mas, on its most-wanted list, based on a warrant from Costa Rica for crimes involving "life and health." Interpol's website carries a photo of the 72-year-old Mas but no details about his alleged crimes or link to Costa Rica. Mas' lawyer could not be reached for comment Friday.
France's health safety agency says the PIP implants appear to be more rupture-prone than other types. Also, investigators say PIP used industrial silicone instead of the medical variety to save money. However, the medical risks posed by industrial silicone are unclear.
The financial burden of the French government's decision falls on the state health care system, which estimated the removals could cost ?60 million ($78 million) at a time when the country is teetering on the brink of another recession and struggling with debt.
In recommending removal, the government noted the risks associated with major surgery and general anesthesia.
Because of those risks, many women may decide against removal. The government said those women should be examined every six months.
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After the French decision, Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency announced that it doesn't see enough proof of cancer or an excessive risk of rupture to recommend women in Britain have the implants removed. Up to 40,000 women in Britain may have had the implants, even more than in France.
Britain's chief medical officer, Sally Davies, said women "should not be unduly worried."
"While we respect the French government's decision, no other country is taking similar steps because we currently have no evidence to support it," she said.
The president of Brazil's Plastic Surgeons Association, Jose Horacio Aboudib, said it would be premature to have women remove the implants if they are not having any problems. About 25,000 women in Brazil received PIP implants.
"There is always a risk associated with surgery, and there is a cost. In France, the government is paying for it. Here it's not considered a public health risk, so the patient would have to pay for it," he said.
Medical authorities in Argentina and Venezuela recommended closer monitoring of women who have the implants.
In the U.S., concerns about silicone gel implants in general led to a 14-year ban on their use, in favor of saline-filled implants. Silicone implants were brought back to the market in the U.S. in 2006 after research ruled out links to cancer, lupus and some other concerns.
In France, one reason for the alarm was the uncertainty over the ingredients of the silicone used and the risk to internal organs. Also, while all breast implants can burst, especially as they get older, "these implants have a particular fragility" and appear to pose risks of rupture earlier in their life spans than other implants, said Jean-Claude Ghislain of the French health agency AFSSAPS.
France's state health care system normally pays for implants for medical reasons, such as after a mastectomy, but not for cosmetic implants. About 80 percent of those with the PIP implants had them for aesthetic reasons.
Annie Mesnil, who had a PIP implant to replace a breast removed after cancer in 1999, said she was relieved that the Health Ministry "accepts the idea that there is a potential danger." But she added: "It's not enough. They will pay for the removal of the implants, but they will not pay for the replacements."
After the PIP product was recalled last year, a mammogram and ultrasound did not reveal any problems with Mesnil's implant. But Mesnil, 62, had it removed anyway, at her own expense, out of fear.
When her surgeon took it out and studied it, "he discovered it had already burst," she said. "I don't know what's spilled inside my body."
The state health care system only reimburses about 230 euros for implant removal operations, but public hospitals that provide the service for that low fee are rare and overbooked. Most plastic surgeons in France are private practitioners who can charge five to 10 times more than that for a removal. Some plastic surgeons have agreed to lower their fees under government pressure.
Chantal Guerin, a 46-year-old accountant and mother of three, had her left breast removed after cancer and had PIP implants put in both breasts. In 2010, she developed cancer in her right breast.
"One cannot directly incriminate the implant, since there is no scientific proof," she said in an interview. "But we have the right to ask ourselves a lot of questions, because there is a great amount of physical pain involved."
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Jill Lawless in London, Juliana Barbassa in Rio de Janeiro, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Ian James in Venezuela, Deborah Gouffran and Ingrid Rousseau in Paris contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? When director David Fincher decided to make a film of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Hollywood was abuzz with who might play the starring role of abused, vengeance-seeking computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
Would it be an A-list actress like Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman, or someone completely unknown to audiences?
For Fincher, the Oscar nominated director of "The Social Network," the answer was never clear cut. Little did he know that his eventual choice, Rooney Mara, was under his nose the whole time. Fincher had cast her as the girlfriend of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in "Social Network."
"Dragon Tattoo" opens across the United States on Wednesday. It is based on Swedish author Stieg Larsson's first novel in his mega-popular Millennium Trilogy series, and Fincher's film follows a Swedish movie version of the book.
To some, it may seem that Mara had a Hollywood "in" to play the troubled Salander, who helps a disgraced investigative journalist (Daniel Craig) solve a case. However, the 26-year old actress told Reuters it was quite the opposite.
"I think he was happy with the work I did in 'Social Network,' but because of that work, I think he thought I wasn't quite right for the part" of Salander, she said.
Her role in "Social Network" was that of a polished college girl, and she hadn't tackled any major starring roles in the movies. Moreover, her upbringing in a large and well-to-do family was far removed from Salander's dark and lonely life.
Admittedly, Fincher told Reuters Mara's casting was "a slow realization," but ultimately he found her to be an "emotional hanger" who wore the character like a suit of clothes.
Salander, with her dramatic storyline and elaborate look that includes numerous piercings, tattoos and closely cropped hair, is no doubt a Hollywood breakout role for Mara. Last week, she was nominated for her first Golden Globe Award in the best dramatic actress category.
Yet Mara shies from calling "Dragon Tattoo" her big break.
"I think everything I've ever done has led me to the next thing, so I can't say that I have one thing that I feel is a bigger break than the rest," she said.
CAREER TURNING POINT
Still, the Salander role is the most high-profile part Mara has ever tackled, and it may be the most demanding, too.
It required her to learn to ride a motorcycle and skateboard, and she underwent a physical transformation when she chopped off her long hair, colored it black, bleached her eyebrows and underwent numerous piercings all over her body.
In addition to the physicality of the role, there was just as much -- if not more -- emotional trauma to display including scenes of Salander being assaulted by her legal guardian.
But there is a payoff. The actress now finds herself in the enviable position of being on numerous filmmaker lists for major studio projects. She's already committed to star opposite Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale in filmmaker Terrence Malick's "Lawless" that will shoot next year.
Her Hollywood career is a far cry from the sports world in which her family is steeped. Her great-grandfathers Art Rooney and Tim Mara founded professional football's Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, respectively. Both her uncle and father work for the Giants.
Mara says her family's sports background does not inform who she is today, even though she dropped her first name Patricia in favor of her middle name Rooney. But she recognizes that her family and its history in football is unique.
"I certainly appreciate it very much. I grew up surrounded by people who knew what they loved to do and worked very hard at that, so that was definitely instilled in me," she said.
Mara recalled a childhood of going to the theater and watching old movies, more than football. She moved to Los Angeles after her big sister, actress Kate Mara ("127 Hours"), was already living and working there.
Small parts came her way in guest-starring roles on TV's "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit" and "E.R." Film roles included "Youth In Revolt" with Michael Cera, "Tanner Hall," and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with Jackie Earle Haley."
Twenty-five days after Fincher turned in the finished version of "Social Network," he and Mara flew to Sweden to start shooting "Dragon Tattoo."
"This movie, especially, I feel like I learned so much from it," Mara said. "First of all, it shot for so much longer than anything I've ever worked on. And in between all the actors and the things I learned from David, I've grown so much."
Though it's too early to tell if the movie's producers plan on shooting the next two installments of the film, the actress already is mentally on board.
"I look very much forward to it," she said with certainty.
(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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OTTUMWA, Iowa ? Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lashed out at Mitt Romney on Tuesday, accusing his chief rival of a "negative smear campaign" fueled by a political action committee with close ties to the former Massachusetts governor.
"Understand, these are his people running his ads, doing his dirty work while he pretends to be above it," Gingrich told reporters after a campaign appearance at a heavy machinery plant in Ottumwa, Iowa. "I don't object to being outspent. I object to lies. I object to negative smear campaigns."
Gingrich has pledged to remain "relentlessly positive" as he campaigns for the GOP nod for the White House. He said on Tuesday that he wasn't violating that promise but simply correcting the record.
On Tuesday, Romney said in an appearance on MSNBC that super PACs have been "a disaster." But he refused to urge the group Restore Our Future to halt the attacks on Gingrich, saying that the law prohibits his campaign and such groups to coordinate.
"I'm not allowed to communicate with a super PAC in any way, shape or form," Romney said. "If we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house."
A fired-up Gingrich read Romney's remarks to reporters and then promptly labeled them "baloney." He again urged Romney to demand that the negative spots be taken down.
Gingrich said Restore Our Future was created by Romney's former staff and funded by "his personal friends."
Gingrich's own former top aide, Rick Tyler, has joined a pro-Gingrich PAC called Winning Our Future. The former House speaker said he would expect the PAC to adhere to his positive strategy.
"If Rick Tyler runs a single negative ad, I will disown the PAC and discourage anyone from giving them a penny," he said.
"Now the governor had a very easy way to do the same thing and for him to say he couldn't find the people who gave that money and he couldn't get them to put pressure on the PAC to be reasonable is just purely dishonest," Gingrich said.
Gingrich has seen his candidacy slide in polls as a barrage of ads attacking him blanket the Iowa airwaves in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses Jan. 3. He has been trying to counter the assault while still maintaining a positive campaign.
Even so, questions over the sharp tone of the race have grabbed the spotlight, even among voters who decry heavy-handed tactics.
During Gingrich's remarks to about 100 people at the Al-Jon Manufacturing plant in eastern Iowa, one voter asked Gingrich about a political mailing he had received describing the former congressman as a globalist.
"I think these guys hire consultants who get drunk, sit around and write stupid ads," Gingrich replied. "Every one of these candidates should take responsibility for the lies they are putting up".
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Republican presidential candidate andformer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a town hall meeting at Memminger Auditorium, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Republican presidential candidate andformer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a town hall meeting at Memminger Auditorium, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Republican presidential candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, arrive for a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, answers questions during a campaign stop at the Dutch Bakery, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Orange City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, speaks during a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)
Republican presidential candidate former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks during a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Newt Gingrich acknowledged Saturday that his rivals' attacks have taken their toll on his presidential campaign as he's zoomed to be Mitt Romney's chief challenger. Romney predicted that conservative voters will reject Gingrich as they learn more about the former House speaker's lengthy Washington record.
Gingrich cited "the extraordinary negativity of the campaign" in explaining why he was inclined to hold teleconferences with supporters every few days so people can discuss ideas and his campaign can "encourage them to raise any of these things that you get in the mail that are junk and dishonest."
"I'll be glad to personally answer, so you're hearing it from my very own lips," he said Saturday from Washington in such a forum with Iowa backers. "We don't have our advertising versus their advertising, but you get to ask me directly."
Romney campaigned in early voting South Carolina, where tea party activists have given Gingrich a strong lead in polls. Romney told reporters that many voters now are just beginning to pay attention to the race and will turn on Gingrich after they learn about his time in Washington and his role with mortgage company Freddie Mac, a quasi-government agency.
Gingrich's consulting firm collected $1.6 million from the company.
"I think as tea partyers concentrate on that, for instance, they'll say, 'Wow, this really isn't the guy that would represent our views,'" Romney said after a town hall meeting with South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott. "Many tea party folks, I believe, are going to find me to be the ideal candidate."
Gingrich said the attacks on his record have been brutal, but he insisted they are exaggerated.
"I just want to set the record straight," Gingrich told Iowa supporters. "We were paid annually for six years, so the numbers you see are six years of work. Most of that money went to pay overhead ? for staff, for other things. It didn't go directly to me. It went to the company that provided consulting advice."
Romney also went after Gingrich's repeated insistence that he never lobbied Congress after he stepped down as speaker.
"I'm going to let the lawyers decide what is and what is not lobbying, but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, typically it's a duck," Romney said.
Other candidates focused their campaigns on Iowa, which holds its leadoff caucuses Jan. 3.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were on bus tours through rural Iowa. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum stuck to a plan that has won him the honor of spending the most time in the state, yet has not yet translated into support in polls.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has a loyal following among his party's libertarian wing, worked to build momentum and organization in Iowa, although he did not have public events scheduled until midweek.
With Iowans incredibly undecided, most candidates are redoubling efforts before voters largely tune out the race for the week between Christmas and New Year.
Gingrich, who faces the toughest criticism on the airwaves, had a conference call with reporters and planned to appear on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
As the Iowa vote neared, his decision to take the weekend off from campaigning raised eyebrows given his rivals' busy schedules.
Gingrich has prided himself on a nontraditional campaign, but his advantages in the polls could shift if the only exposure to Gingrich comes through rivals' negative ads.
Paul last week released an ad accusing Gingrich of "serial hypocrisy" and Bachmann opened her bus tour on Friday suggesting that he was arrogant during this past week's final debate before the caucuses.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who has kept Iowa at arm's length after investing heavily here four years ago only to come up short, planned town hall-style meetings in Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Even so, his advisers note they have kept in touch with supporters of his 2008 campaign that came in second place in Iowa.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who early on decided against competing in Iowa, planned a town hall-style meeting in New Hampshire. Huntsman, who also served as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China, has kept his focus on New Hampshire, where independent voters are the largest bloc and can vote in either party's primary.
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Elliott reported from Des Moines, Iowa.
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WASHINGTON ? The Senate passed legislation Saturday extending a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months, handing President Barack Obama a partial victory while setting the stage for another fight in February.
It also brought a peaceful end to a year-long battle over spending by passing a $1 trillion-plus catchall budget bill that wraps together the day-to-day budgets for 10 Cabinet departments and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House passed the measure Friday, and the White House has signaled that Obama will sign it.
The renewal of the 2-percentage-point cut in the Social Security payroll tax for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits averaging about $300 a week for the additional millions of people who have been out of work for six months or more is a modest step forward for Obama's year-end jobs agenda.
As a condition for GOP support of the payroll tax measure, Obama has to accept a provision that forces him to decide within 60 days whether to approve or reject a proposed a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs.
Obama didn't reference the pipeline issue in a brief appearance at the White House after the vote. He welcomed the Senate's passage of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension and said it would be "inexcusable" for Congress not to extend them for the rest of 2012 when lawmakers return from their holiday break.
The budget bill, passed 67-32, heads to the White House for Obama's signature; the payroll tax measure won a 89-10 tally that send it back to the House ? where many Republicans only reluctantly support it ? for a vote early next week.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, would not predict whether the House would accept the Senate payroll tax measure, saying GOP leaders would have to discuss it with the rank and file. But Democrats assume Senate Republicans would not have allowed the short-term measure to advance without a signal from Boehner that the House would go along.
Democratic and GOP leaders opted for the short-term extension of the payroll tax and jobless benefits measure after failing to agree on big enough spending cuts to pay for a full-year renewal. The measure also provides a 60-day reprieve from a scheduled 27 percent cut in the fees paid to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
The $33 billion cost of the measure would be covered by raising fees on new mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The fees, drawn from a Treasury Department housing finance market reform plan, would effectively raise the interest rate on home loans guaranteed by the mortgage giants and the Federal Housing Administration by one-tenth of a percentage point.
The idea is to open up the market to private companies currently priced out by the implicit subsidies of Fannie and Freddie.
The White House says the fee would increase the monthly cost of a typical $220,000 mortgage by almost $15 a month. Over 30 years, the fees would increase the total cost of such a mortgage by more than $5,000.
In contrast, a worker making a $100,000 salary would reap a tax cut of about $330 through the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. A worker with a typical $50,000 salary would get just a $165 tax cut.
Officials said that in private talks, the two sides had hoped to reach agreement on the full one-year extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits that Obama had made the centerpiece of the jobs program he submitted to Congress last fall.
Those efforts failed when the two sides could not agree on enough offsetting cuts to blunt the measure's impact on the debt.
The failure tees up the issue again for early next year, but it won't get any easier to agree on spending cuts.
Neither House Speaker Boehner nor his aides participated in the negotiations, although McConnell said he was optimistic about the measure's chances for final approval. The payroll tax cut is unpopular in GOP ranks and another vote in two months could present a headache for GOP leaders.
On the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, the legislation requires the president to grant a permit unless he makes a determination that it is "not in the national interest." One senior administration official said the president would almost certainly refuse to grant a permit. The official was not authorized to speak publicly.
The White House on Friday backed away from Obama's earlier threat to veto any bill that linked the payroll tax cut extension with a Republican demand for a speedy decision on the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline. Obama said on Dec. 7 that "any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll tax cut I will reject. So everybody should be on notice."
The president recently announced he was postponing a decision on the much-studied pipeline until after the 2012 election. Environmentalists oppose the project, but several unions support it. The legislation puts the president in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between customary political allies.
The State Department, in an analysis released this summer, said the pipeline project would create up to 6,000 jobs during construction, while developer TransCanada put the total at 20,000 in direct employment.
The pipeline would carry oil from western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
The spending bill locks in spending cuts that conservative Republicans won from the White House and Democrats earlier in the year.
Republicans also won their fight to block new federal regulations for light bulb energy efficiency, coal dust in mines and clean water permits for construction of timber roads.
The White House turned back GOP attempts to block limits on greenhouse gases, mountaintop removal mining and hazardous emissions from utility plants, industrial boilers and cement kilns.
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Associated Press writers David Espo, Alan Fram, Donna Cassata and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
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The island?s fruit bounty fluctuates, creating dips in orangutans? food supply
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The near-vegan lifestyle of wild orangutans in Borneo?s forests means the apes face recurring protein droughts severe enough that their body tissues start to waste away.
?They?re living on the margin,? says biological anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College.
Borneo, one of only two natural habitats for wild orangutans, is predominantly forested with trees that produce abundant fruit only about every five years. In bad years, the animals make do with a smaller volume of leaves and bark. During tough times, the apes average only about 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram of body mass per day, a tenth of what mountain gorillas consume, Dominy and his colleagues report online December 14 in Biology Letters. Such drastic protein shortage ?emphasizes the critical need for forest preservation, including areas not usually considered prime orangutan habitat,? says evolutionary biologist Rob Shumaker of the Indianapolis Zoo.
Dominy and his colleagues pieced together the rare picture of protein budgets of wild orangutans by applying modern analytic techniques to urine samples collected from Borneo apes between 1994 and 1999.
Seeing these protein budgets is important for understanding how orangutans have adapted to survive in places with resources that fluctuate so extremely, says Mark E. Harrison of the University of Leicester in England, who also has studied orangutan feeding ecology.
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BANGKOK?? Thai transsexual ladyboys are taking to the air as flight attendants for a new airline, a move that some said could be a key step towards still broader acceptance in a nation where they are already unusually visible.
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Known as "katoeys" or "ladyboys," transgenders and transsexuals hold mainstream jobs in a variety of fields in Thailand. They are especially common in cosmetics shops or health stores, which almost always have a ladyboy shop assistant.
Working for new charter airline PC Air, transsexual flight attendants including 22-year-old Tanyarat Jirapatpakorn made their debut on a flight from Bangkok to the southern city of Surat Thani on Thursday, serving drinks and snacks and carrying out safety demonstrations.
"This is the beginning of the acceptance of transsexuals in Thailand, giving the opportunity for us to work in various fields," said Tanyarat.
"Maybe in the future we can get any job that transsexuals never did before, such as police, soldiers or even pilots."
PC Air, whose name comes from the initials of president Peter Chan, originally planned only to hire male and female flight attendants, but changed its mind after more than 100 transsexuals and transvestites applied as well.
Four were chosen, along with 19 female and 7 male flight attendants. The airline said qualifications for the ladyboy flight attendants were the same as for female flight attendants, with the additional provisos that they be like women in how they walked and talked, and have a feminine voice.
Chan, the airline president, said the ladyboy flight attendants actually might have a special advantage.
"They might provide better services because they understand both males and females. And they're well trained according to the aviation standard," he added.
The new recruits were chosen in February and have been training since in security measures, in-flight services, and make-up application.
PC Air flies domestically as well as to several Asian destinations, including Japan and South Korea.
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David Cross wants to see "Alvin and the Chipmunks" buried six feet underground.
The actor/comedian recently ended his contract with the film franchise. Now he's put out a contract on the latest installment, "Chipwrecked," in an interview with The Playlist.
"This last film was literally, without question, the most unpleasant experience I've ever had in my professional life," Cross squawked about the follow-up to 2009's "The Squeakquel."
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"It's safe to say I won't be working with some of those people ever again. Not the actors," continued Cross, who was contracted to do three "Alvin" movies. "It was just a really awful, unpleasant experience."
Playing record executive Ian Hawke, Cross has been one of the top-billed actors in the three installments of 20th Century Fox's mostly-animated franchise.
Jason Lee plays the other central human character in "Chipwrecked," which opens Friday. Lending their voices to the film are Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Matthew Gray Gubler and Anna Faris.
The movie was directed by Mike Mitchell, for whom Cross saved some less-biting words.
"(He) was great," he said. "We got along. There were a couple of people, though it was just a really awful, unpleasant experience."
While Cross is trying to deep-six "Chip
wrecked," this isn't the first time he's blasted the "Alvin" series.
Slideshow: December movies (on this page)Following the 2007 release of the first Alvin movie, he feuded with fellow indie comedian Patton Oswalt, who said: "Brian Posehn and I were offered the part of Ian, the agent. We both threw the script across the room in disgust. David Cross caught it."
In defending himself, Cross said the movie had earned him more money than "all my other projects combined," including TV shows like "Mr. Show" and "Arrested Development."
Cross will be reprising his "Arrested Development" role as "never-nude" Tobias Funke when the show makes its expected return in early 2013.
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