Airbus parent EADS sees Q4 earnings fall

BERLIN (AP) ? Airbus parent company EADS NV posted a 47 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit Wednesday after taking costly charges at its helicopter and defense electronics divisions.

The aerospace giant earned ?325 million ($425 million) in the October-December period, down from the previous year's ?612 million.

But full-year earnings were up 19 percent at ?1.23 billion from ?1.03 billion in 2011.

"There's still some way to go to meet our profitability targets," said chief executive Tom Enders.

Revenues rose 17 percent during the fourth quarter to ?19.22 billion, with the core Airbus division posting a 36 percent increase.

But EADS took a ?198 million hit during the quarter at its defense electronics contractor Cassidian, in part reflecting restructuring costs.

Renegotiating contracts with government customers resulted in a ?100 million charge at helicopter maker Eurocopter.

The company's core business, aircraft maker Airbus, posted a 36 percent increase in revenue during the final three months, rising to ?393 million from ?289 million in 2011. Of that, orders for civilian aircraft brought in ?309 million while military planes garnered ?85 million during the quarter.

Spaceflight division Astrium reported revenues of ?121 million, an increase of 19 percent from ?102 million in the same period the previous year.

EADS said it expects to sell more commercial aircraft ? about 700 ? in 2013. Revenues will grow modestly, it said, but results will be affected by problems with its A350 XWB model.

The A350, intended to challenge Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," was delayed because of a problem with the plane's wings.

"The A350 XWB program remains challenging," EADS said in a statement. "Any schedule change could lead to increasingly higher impact on provisions."

The company said it is inviting shareholders to an extraordinary meeting March 27 to approve its new governance structure. EADS last year announced sweeping governance changes that will see influence by state shareholders France and Germany shrink.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/airbus-parent-eads-sees-q4-earnings-fall-075810861--finance.html

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No Wi-Fi, No Problem ? Restaurant Waitlisting App For iPad NoshList Comes To Smartphones

NoshList, the restaurant waitlisting app for iPad launched just over a year ago, is today making its way to smartphones, including both the iPhone and Android devices. Although possibly not the ideal form factor for the job, the mobile app allows restaurants to test the NoshList experience on devices they likely own, before making an investment into a tablet (or multiple tablets) to run the full-screen version. In addition, the new mobile apps can serve as backup if the restaurant's Wi-Fi connection ever goes down, as they'll maintain connectivity, whereas the more affordable, Wi-Fi only iPads would have lost their signal.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/top_news/top_science/ Top science news, featured on ScienceDaily's home page.en-usWed, 27 Feb 2013 08:52:25 ESTWed, 27 Feb 2013 08:52:25 EST60http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/logosmall.gifhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/news/top_news/top_science/ For more science articles, visit ScienceDaily.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226141233.htm An international team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has documented a 78 percent decline in the number of nests of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) at the turtle's last stronghold in the Pacific Ocean.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:12:12 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226141233.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226134259.htm Researchers are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration. Computer-generated holography, they say, could be used in conjunction with a technique called optogenetics, which uses gene therapy to deliver light-sensitive proteins to damaged retinal nerve cells. In conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), these light-sensing cells degenerate and lead to blindness.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:42:42 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226134259.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226120551.htm Plentiful food can accelerate the spread of infections, scientists have shown in a study of water fleas. Scientists studying bacterial infections in tiny water fleas have discovered that increasing their supply of food can speed up the spread of infection.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:05:05 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226120551.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226114023.htm Glass doesn't have to be brittle. Scientists propose a way of predicting whether a given glass will be brittle or ductile -- a property typically associated with metals like steel or aluminum -- and assert that any glass could have either quality.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:40:40 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226114023.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226114021.htm Scientists have developed a new method that better preserves the units necessary to power lightning-fast electronics, known as qubits. Hole spins, rather than electron spins, can keep quantum bits in the same physical state up to 10 times longer than before, the report finds.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:40:40 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226114021.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226113830.htm Fresh insights into the protective seal that surrounds the DNA of our cells could help develop treatments for inherited muscle, brain, bone and skin disorders. Researchers have discovered that the proteins within this coating -- known as the nuclear envelope -- vary greatly between cells in different organs of the body.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:38:38 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226113830.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226113828.htm Researchers have demonstrated a stretchable lithium-ion battery -- a flexible device capable of powering their innovative stretchable electronics. The battery can stretch up to 300 percent of its original size and still function -- even when stretched, folded, twisted and mounted on a human elbow. The battery enables true integration of electronics and power into a small, stretchable package that is wirelessly rechargeable.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:38:38 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226113828.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226101454.htm Firefighters now have a new tool that could help save lives. A team of researchers have developed a new technique using digital holography that can "see" people through intense flames -- the first time a holographic recording of a live person has been achieved while the body is moving. The new technique allows imaging through both.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:14:14 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226101454.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226101400.htm Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far more energy-saving than a computer, it can learn by itself, and it doesn't need any programming. Scientists are experimenting with memristors -- electronic microcomponents that imitate natural nerves.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:14:14 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226101400.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226092142.htm Researchers have successfully generated human kidney cells from human embryonic stem cells in vitro1. Specifically, they produced the renal cells under artificial conditions in the lab without using animals or organs. This has not been possible until now.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:21:21 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226092142.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226092128.htm Researchers have succeeded in showing experimentally that vacuums have properties not previously observed. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, it is a state with abundant potentials. Vacuums contain momentarily appearing and disappearing virtual pairs, which can be converted into detectable light particles.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:21:21 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226092128.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226081155.htm During sleep, our brains store what we have learned during the day a process even more effective in children than in adults, new research shows.Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:11:11 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226081155.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225181536.htm Results of a major study aimed at assessing the efficacy of the Mediterranean diet in the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases show that such a diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or tree nuts reduces by 30 percent the risk of suffering a cardiovascular death, a myocardial infarction or a stroke.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:15:15 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225181536.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225162231.htm Researchers have found significantly higher levels of toxic metals in children with autism, compared to typical children. They hypothesize that reducing early exposure to toxic metals may help lessen symptoms of autism, though they say this hypotheses needs further examination.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:22:22 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225162231.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153130.htm For decades scientists around the world have attempted to regenerate primary liver cells known as hepatocytes because of their numerous biomedical applications, including hepatitis research, drug metabolism and toxicity studies, as well as transplantation for cirrhosis and other chronic liver conditions. But no lab in the world has been successful in identifying and growing liver stem cells in culture -- using any available technique -- until now.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153130.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153128.htm The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose scientists in a new study. It suggests that human-made climate change repeatedly disturbs the patterns of atmospheric flow around the globe's Northern hemisphere through a subtle resonance mechanism.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153128.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153126.htm Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a deep pile of Antarctic snow hold clear chemical traces of global meteorological events, climate scientists from France have found. Anomalies in oxygen found in sulfate particles coincide with several episodes of the world-wide disruption of weather known as El Nino and can be distinguished from similar signals left by the eruption of huge volcanoes, the team reports.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153126.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153124.htm Scientists have concluded that during the Late Archaic, maize (corn) was a primary component in the diet of people living in the Norte Chico region of Peru, an area of remarkable cultural florescence in 3rd millennium B.C. Up until now, the prevailing theory was that marine resources, not agriculture and corn, provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153124.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153122.htm Environmental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a widespread chemical found in plastics and resins, may suppress a gene vital to nerve cell function and to the development of the central nervous system, according to a new study.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225153122.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225131618.htm Even dying stars could host planets with life -- and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:16:16 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225131618.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225131532.htm People become more politically liberal immediately after practising a spiritual exercise such as meditation, researchers have found.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:15:15 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225131532.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225122045.htm New maps by scientists show how rising sea temperatures are likely to affect all coral reefs in the form of annual coral bleaching events under different emission scenarios. If carbon emissions stay on the current path most of the world's coral reefs (74 percent) are projected to experience coral bleaching conditions annually by 2045, results of the study show.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:20:20 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225122045.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225112510.htm Low-birth-weight babies with a particular brain abnormality are at greater risk for autism, according to a new study that could provide doctors a signpost for early detection of the still poorly understood disorder.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:25:25 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225112510.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225112508.htm Researchers developed a model that can help determine the future range of nearly any disease-causing parasite under climate change, even if little is known about the organism. Their method calculates how the projected temperature change for an area would alter the creature's metabolism and life cycle.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:25:25 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225112508.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225102141.htm Researchers have demonstrated the existence of communicative signalling from female mice that induces male parental behavior.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:21:21 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225102141.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225092252.htm Researchers have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements to their device, which uses a Velcro-like nanoscale technology, they can now detect and isolate single cancer cells from patient blood samples for analysis.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:22:22 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225092252.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142917.htm A new method of harvesting the sun's energy is emerging. Though still in its infancy, the research promises to convert sunlight into energy using a process based on metals that are more robust than many of the semiconductors used in conventional methods.Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:29:29 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142917.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142829.htm Scientists have demonstrated a quantum algorithm that performs a true calculation for the first time. Quantum algorithms could one day enable the design of new materials, pharmaceuticals or clean energy devices.Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:28:28 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142829.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142725.htm The islands Reunion and Mauritius, both well-known tourist destinations, are hiding a micro-continent, which has now been discovered. The continent fragment known as Mauritia detached about 60 million years ago while Madagascar and India drifted apart, and had been hidden under huge masses of lava.Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:27:27 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224142725.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224124635.htm Scientists are putting their bananas away, because chimpanzees don't need any persuading when it comes to getting stuck into brain games.Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:46:46 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130224124635.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130223111356.htm For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited success. The "reprogramming" of related alpha cells into beta cells may one day offer a novel and complementary approach for treating type 2 diabetes. Treating human and mouse cells with compounds that modify cell nuclear material called chromatin induced the expression of beta cell genes in alpha cells, according to a new study.Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:13:13 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130223111356.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222143233.htm Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:32:32 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222143233.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222143142.htm Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world. These stem cells can regenerate worn-down organs, which may help explain how they can live for years or even decades inside their host.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:31:31 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222143142.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222120753.htm Humans have at least two functional networks in their cerebral cortex not found in rhesus monkeys. This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor to human.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:07:07 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222120753.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222102958.htm When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The finding adds to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:29:29 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222102958.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222075730.htm Electrodes have been permanently implanted in nerves and muscles of an amputee to directly control an arm prosthesis, for the first time. The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic prosthesis, similarly to the motions of a natural limb.Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:57:57 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222075730.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221194241.htm Virologists have discovered a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus. Working on the premise that too much of a good thing can be a killer, the scientists have advanced previous researchers' methods of manipulating an enzyme that is key to how influenza replicates and spreads. The new compounds will lead to a new generation of anti-influenza drugs that the virus' strains can't adapt to, and resist, as easily as they do Tamiflu.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:42:42 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221194241.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221192736.htm In a breakthrough for the field of particle physics, researchers have established new limits on what scientists call "long-range spin-spin interactions" between atomic particles. These interactions have been proposed by theoretical physicists but have not yet been seen. Their observation would constitute the discovery of a "fifth force of nature" (in addition to the four known fundamental forces: gravity, weak, strong and electromagnetic) and would suggest the existence of new particles, beyond those presently described by the Standard Model of particle physics.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:27:27 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221192736.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143946.htm Scientists have found compelling evidence that older adults can eliminate forgetfulness and perform as well as younger adults on memory tests. The cognitive boost comes from a surprising source -- a distraction learning strategy.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:39:39 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143946.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143942.htm Researchers have developed a robotic bat wing that is providing valuable new information about dynamics of flapping flight in real bats. From an engineering perspective, the researchers hope the data may make for better aircraft, especially micro air vehicles. From a biological and evolutionary perspective, building the robot offered the researchers a new perspective on how bat anatomy is adapted to deal with the forces generated by flapping wings.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:39:39 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143942.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143910.htm Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw over a large area of Siberia, threatening release of carbon from soils, and damage to natural and human environments.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:39:39 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143910.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143900.htm Flowers' methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study. The research shows for the first time that pollinators such as bumblebees are able to find and distinguish electric signals given out by flowers. However, for any advertisement to be successful, it has to reach, and be perceived by, its target audience.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:39:39 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143900.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143858.htm The immune system exists to destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, drug-delivering nanoparticles and implanted devices like pacemakers are just as foreign and subject to the same response. Now, researchers have figured out a way to provide a "passport" for such therapeutic devices, enabling them to bypass the body's security system.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:38:38 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143858.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141608.htm The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language," Charles Darwin wrote in "The Descent of Man" (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in singing, which "might have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions." Linguistics and biology now researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:16:16 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141608.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141606.htm Black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy. In a recent article, researchers predicted the formation of accretion disks and relativistic jets that warp and bend more than previously thought, shaped by the extreme gravity of the black hole and by powerful magnetic forces generated by its spin.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:16:16 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141606.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141259.htm Each fall millions of monarch butterflies migrate south in order to escape frigid temperatures, traveling up to 2,000 miles to an overwintering site in a specific grove of fir trees in central Mexico. A new study suggests that exposure to coldness found in the microenvironment of the monarch's overwintering site triggers their return north every spring. Without this cold exposure, the monarch butterfly would continue flying south.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:12:12 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221141259.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221115808.htm By analyzing Mercury's rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet's history over billions of years.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:58:58 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221115808.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221115217.htm Unlike comets, asteroids are not characterised by exhibiting a trail, but there are now ten exceptions. Researchers have observed one of these rare asteroids from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spain) and have discovered that something happened around the 1st July 2011 causing its trail to appear: maybe internal rupture or collision with another asteroid.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:52:52 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221115217.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104359.htm An international team of scientists has discovered how an important natural antibiotic called dermcidin, produced by our skin when we sweat, is a highly efficient tool to fight tuberculosis germs and other dangerous bugs.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:43:43 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104359.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104357.htm Feeling good about spending money on someone else rather than for personal benefit may be a universal response among people in both impoverished countries and rich nations, according to new research.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:43:43 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104357.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221091829.htm Disruption in the body's circadian rhythm can lead not only to obesity, but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. That is the conclusion of the first study to show definitively that insulin activity is controlled by the body's circadian biological clock. The study, helps explain why not only what you eat, but when you eat, matters.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:18:18 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221091829.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220184728.htm Bioengineers and physicians have created an artificial ear -- using 3-D printing and injectable molds -- that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity called microtia. Scientists have described how 3-D printing and injectable gels made of living cells can fashion ears that are practically identical to a human ear. Over a three-month period, these flexible ears grew cartilage to replace the collagen that was used to mold them.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:47:47 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220184728.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220163631.htm Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments cannot be simply explained by the pull of gravity.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:36:36 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220163631.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220163629.htm Bullied children grow into adults who are at increased risk of developing anxiety disorders, depression and suicidal thoughts, according to a new study.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:36:36 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220163629.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220153705.htm Bioengineers have demonstrated in a study in pigs that a new injectable hydrogel can repair damage from heart attacks, help the heart grow new tissue and blood vessels, and get the heart moving closer to how a healthy heart should.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:37:37 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220153705.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220153703.htm In a method that is more efficient and inexpensive than current models, researchers are using carbon dioxide, copper oxide nanowires and simulated sunlight to create methanol.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:37:37 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220153703.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220133551.htm NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37, about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon, measuring about one-third the size of Earth. It is smaller than Mercury, which made its detection a challenge.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:35:35 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220133551.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220131740.htm Scientists have uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:17:17 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220131740.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220123423.htm The ratio of isotopes in elements like oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen were once thought to be much the same everywhere, determined only by their different masses. Then isotope ratios in meteorites, interplanetary dust and gas, and the sun itself were found to differ from those on Earth. Planetary researchers are now studying these "mass-independent" effects and their origins in the chemical processes of the early solar system.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:34:34 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220123423.htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220123332.htm Researchers are exploring an alternate theory for the origin of RNA: they think the RNA bases may have evolved from a pair of molecules distinct from the bases we have today. This theory looks increasingly attractive, as researchers were able to achieve efficient, highly ordered self-assembly in water with small molecules that are similar to the bases of RNA.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:33:33 ESThttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130220123332.htm

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Teen charged in Ohio school shooting pleads guilty

T. J. Lane listens during court proceedings in Geauga County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder and other charges. Lane, now 18, also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted aggravated murder and a single count of felonious assault. Prosecutors agreed to drop the death-penalty specifications from the aggravated murder counts.(AP (Photo/Marvin Fong, Pool)

T. J. Lane listens during court proceedings in Geauga County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder and other charges. Lane, now 18, also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted aggravated murder and a single count of felonious assault. Prosecutors agreed to drop the death-penalty specifications from the aggravated murder counts.(AP (Photo/Marvin Fong, Pool)

T. J. Lane looks up during court proceedings at the Geauga County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder and other charges. Lane, now 18, also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted aggravated murder and a single count of felonious assault. Prosecutors agreed to drop the death-penalty specifications from the aggravated murder counts. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Marvin Fong, Pool)

T. J. Lane listens during court proceedings at the Geauga County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder and other charges. Lane, now 18, also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted aggravated murder and a single count of felonious assault. Prosecutors agreed to drop the death-penalty specifications from the aggravated murder counts.(AP (Photo/Marvin Fong, Pool)

T.J. Lane is escorted into the Geauga county courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, 18, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school a year ago, will enter a guilty plea during a court hearing later Tuesday morning, said attorney Ian Friedman. Lane's appearance in the courtroom comes one day before the anniversary of the deadly shootings at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

T.J. Lane is escorted into the Geauga county courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, 18, charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school a year ago, will enter a guilty plea during a court hearing later Tuesday morning, said attorney Ian Friedman. Lane's appearance in the courtroom comes one day before the anniversary of the deadly shootings at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) ? A teenager charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school pleaded guilty to all charges Tuesday, the eve of the first anniversary of the shooting rampage.

T.J. Lane, now 18, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and a single count of felonious assault.

The Wednesday anniversary of the attacks at Chardon High School comes after a year of mass shootings, including one that left dead 20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown, Conn., and another that claimed 12 lives at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

The anniversary in Chardon, a tight-knit courthouse community east of Cleveland, will be marked with a memorial walk and service activities at the school.

Lane, dressed in a green open-collar shirt and dark slacks with his once-shaggy hair buzzed short, held his head up without emotion Tuesday as he repeatedly said, "Yes, your honor," to questions posed to him by the judge.

He could face life in prison. Judge David Fuhry scheduled sentencing for March 19.

Lane wasn't subject to the death penalty because he was 17 at the time of the crimes.

Geauga County Prosecutor James Flaiz said the plea provided the same outcome that he wanted from a trial. Families of the victims agreed that Lane should face life in prison, he said.

Flaiz said he was prepared to present a motive at trial but declined to specify it.

Two wounded survivors and parents of most of the victims watched Lane's plea.

Bob Parmertor, father of Danny Parmertor, 16, who was killed, said after the plea that he felt justice would be done if Lane "will never see daylight again" outside prison. "We're just very glad it's not going to trial," he said.

Lane's grandmother, weeping quietly, sat arm's length from Nick Walczak, who was rolled into court in a wheelchair. Walczak, who was crippled in the attack, shifted his eyes to Lane as the attempted aggravated murder charge detailing his case was read by the judge.

Lane was determined to take responsibility, his attorney said after the court session.

"T.J.'s plea of guilty is a complete admission to each and every element of each and every charge, every crime," defense attorney Ian Friedman said.

"It is hoped that the decision will bring closure to what has been a tragic year for the victims, their families and loved ones, T.J.'s family and the entire community both near and far."

Prosecutors say Lane fired 10 shots at students in a cafeteria at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. He was there waiting for a bus to another school.

Lane, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was prosecuted as an adult. Minutes before his guilty plea, the judge accepted a report finding Lane mentally competent to stand trial.

Both the defense and the prosecution had sought court-ordered psychiatric testing for Lane to determine if he would be competent to stand trial.

Before the case went to adult court last year, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent despite evidence he suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies. He withdrew his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday.

Investigators say he admitted shooting at students but said he didn't know why he did it. Prosecutors say Lane took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the school on Feb. 27, 2012, and fired 10 shots at a group of students in the cafeteria.

Lane attended an alternative school for students who haven't done well in traditional schools. He was at Chardon waiting for a bus.

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If you watch offensive lineman Garrett Gilkey working out at the Scouting Combine, you?d never believe he ever got bullied: He?s 6-foot-6 and 318 pounds and bench presses 225 pounds 28 times. But Gilkey says there was a time when he was a scrawny kid who didn?t belong on the football field ? and it was a former NFL player who helped him turn it all around.

Howard Balzer of the Sports Xchange has a good profile of Gilkey, who is starting to draw attention from NFL teams after playing at a small school, Chadron State College. Gilkey got there after having a tough time at his first high school, then blossoming after transferring to a different high school ? which just happened to have a football team coached by former Bills receiver Don Beebe.

?I was undersized and I was actually bullied and ostracized by my entire school,? Gilkey said. ?Going into my freshman year, I had a heart operation ? very simple, but it prevented me from playing in any sports and doing anything. So, I excelled academically. With that, some of the guys ? especially on the football team and the upper cliques ? distanced [themselves] from me because I wasn?t able to do the running in the summer and the workouts. . . . I was constantly bullied, constantly picked on. It was a very hard year. Really, I like to tell people that I was just the little redheaded, gingery, skinny-looking [kid]. I was pear-shaped. I had these wide hips and this skinny-looking upper body. I was just a prime target for many of the cruel kids.?

But transferring and working both with Don Beebe and his brother, Dave Beebe, made Gilkey realize he had a passion for football. It also helped that a growth spurt had him up to 240 pounds. By his senior year he was good enough that small colleges wanted him, and Dave Beebe told him he?d eventually be good enough to play in the NFL.

Now Gilkey is showing that his high school coaches had a reason to believe in him, and he says he wants to use his status as a pro athlete to reach out to bullied kids.

?I?m starting an anti-bullying campaign,? Gilkey said. ?I have such a great opportunity to be proactive and be encouraging and be a strong force within the community of the west suburbs of Chicago. I plan on being proactive with schools and junior highs and YMCAs, and talking about bullying. I think I have a great position, being my size, and standing up and talking about my experience being bullied, being ostracized and being made fun of. People see me now and think, ?How could this person ever be bullied?? I have a great voice and great platform to share those experiences and share my faith, as well.?

Gilkey is viewed as a likely late-round pick. It remains to be seen whether he can make the transition from Chadron State to the NFL, but the team that drafts him will be getting an impressive young man.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/25/raiders-to-try-to-chop-down-carson-palmers-salary/related/

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Bankruptcy Advice Every Consumer Should Know In Advance ...

TIP! You may not want to delay your bankruptcy if you secure a higher-paying job just prior to filing. It is possible that bankruptcy is still your best course of action.

Simply mentioning the word bankruptcy can cause people to become nervous and worried. Increasing debt, coupled with the inability to support their families is a real nightmare for many people. Does the thought of this scare you? Perhaps you are going through it right now, and the advice found here can help your situation.

TIP! Make sure that the lawyer you hire is has many years of experience dealing with bankruptcy. There are numerous attorneys available to assist you with your case.

Filing for bankruptcy is an option that can put an end to harassing creditors calling you at your work and home. Being buried under a mountain of debt is emotionally stressful. Bankruptcy protection may be a good way to keep things under control while you sort out your financial difficulties.

TIP! Prior to going through with a bankruptcy filing, be sure to list out every one of your expenditures and debts. The list will be a fundamental element of your bankruptcy petition, and therefore it is important not to omit anything.

Educate yourself as much as possible before filing for bankruptcy. By analyzing your debt, you?ll be able to determine which of your debts can be discharged via personal bankruptcy filing. There are debts that are not dischargeable. For example, a credit card debt consisting of nonessential purchases incurred within three months of the bankruptcy declaration cannot be discharged. Remember to research the laws that apply to your state.

TIP! If you know people who have filed for bankruptcy, ask them who they would recommend rather than relying on Internet reviews or worse, just randomly picking someone out of the phone book. To handle your bankruptcy, you need a trusted attorney, not a shady one that is out to take your money.

Filing for bankruptcy may damage your credit less than missing debt payments. Your credit report will show your bankruptcy for the next ten years, but it will also allow you to start working towards repairing your credit immediately. Getting a fresh start is one benefit of bankruptcy.

TIP! If you plan to seek bankruptcy soon, prevent using a credit card. Taking on a huge amount of debt will make it look as if you?re just going on a huge spending spree before attempting to have the slate wiped clean.

Consider any other options available before filing for personal bankruptcy. Think about seeing a credit counselor. Many different non-profit entities exist that can assist you without charging you any fees. Their job is to lower your payments and interest through negotiations with your creditors. You pay the organization, and they pay creditors for you.

TIP! Make sure you?ve exhausted all other options prior to declaring bankruptcy. There are other options available, such as credit counseling for consumers.

Filing for bankruptcy doesn?t always discharge 100% of the debts that you have. When a Chapter 13 is filed, you will restructure what you owe and pay, thus allowing your creditors to make some of their money back. Many people are ashamed to file for bankruptcy, as they believe not paying a creditor back is irresponsible behavior. This is a good way to pay parts of your debt while staying in control of your finances.

TIP! Do not forget to be around those you love. The process for bankruptcy can be hard.

Consider Chapter 13 bankruptcy. With a regular income and unsecured debt below $250,000, Chapter 13 is probably best for you. This allows you to keep possession of your real estate and property and repay your debt through a debt plan. The plan is usually for a term of three to five years, and a discharge will be granted at the end of that term. Bear in mind that if you miss a single payment that is due under your plan, the entire case will be dismissed by the Court.

TIP! If your finances are tight and you are considering filing for personal bankruptcy, why not put your plans for getting a divorce on the back burner? It is not uncommon for individuals to seek a divorce only to immediately file for bankruptcy due to unforeseen financial difficulty. It is always wise to think twice about divorcing.

Divorce can unexpectedly leave people in financial ruins. Divorcing will only complicate your financial situation. You may find that both you and your spouse must file for bankruptcy following divorce. It is always wise to think twice about divorcing.

TIP! Do your research ahead of time to find out if you permitted to get a Homestead Exemption with Chapter 7. If you don?t, the possibility may exist for you with Chapter 13.

Remember that just because you have filed for personal bankruptcy it will not cause you to lose everything you own. Personal property can be kept. Things like jewelry, clothes, and electronics are included in this category. The laws of your state and the kind of bankruptcy for which you are filing, coupled with your financial situation, will determine what personal property you are allowed to retain. Additionally, the retention of large assets, such as your automobile and your home, is determined by these considerations.

TIP! Once you have filed for bankruptcy, scrutinize new credit offers. It is not rare to have offers come pouring in for special loans and other lines of credit that claim they are intended specifically for those just out of bankruptcy.

When you are going through bankruptcy proceedings, it is sure to cause a great deal of stress. To combat these problems, look into securing a good lawyer. Don?t skimp when hiring a good lawyer. Quality is far more important than expense when it comes to a good bankruptcy attorney. Get referrals from those who have used a bankruptcy lawyer, talk to the bureau for better business, and take advantage of free consultations offered by most lawyers. You could also sneak into court to watch a real live bankruptcy proceeding to see how that attorney handles the situation.

TIP! If you meet with an attorney, be sure to disclose to them all significant debts you owe. You should include loans from friends and family as well as money owed for credit cards, medical expenses and any other loan companies.

Write down every one of your debts. Your debts in particular will serve as the basis of your claim. Every single debt you have will need to be listed here. Make sure you go through your records and be sure about the exact amounts. Remember to take your time here. Rushing through will ensure that some numbers somewhere will be mixed up and then the process will blow up in your face.

TIP! The best way to build your credit up after a bankruptcy is making all your payments on time. If you find that to be the situation, consider requesting secured cards.

Certain attorneys offer a phone service that creditors are directed to when they want to speak with you about debts you may owe. Creditors can receive confirmation that you are indeed filing for bankruptcy protection from them if they give that number a call. They will stop calling you at this point, and you will be able to answer your phone without fear.

TIP! Choose your personal bankruptcy lawyer wisely. There are a lot of new, inexperienced bankruptcy attorneys.

Before your first meeting, make a list of questions you have for the bankruptcy lawyer. This way you get straight to business and do not bother the lawyer for long. Write down any concerns and questions before your consultation in order to save yourself money and time. You should walk out of your lawyer?s office with a good understanding of the procedure.

TIP! Hire a lawyer if you plan on filing for bankruptcy. You might not understand all of the various aspects to filing for bankruptcy.

Anyone fearing bankruptcy has a legitimate fear; filing a claim can be scary. Don?t let your fear take over. You now have the knowledge necessary to overcome the fear. Use the personal bankruptcy information here as you work your way through your financial situation and make your life situation better for you and your family.

This article has hopefully provided you with a good deal of knowledge to continue on your journey of success. If you keep this material in mind and apply it wisely, life will be a breeze. This will cause an increase in the quality of your life.

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KFC launches China campaign to rebuild brand

BEIJING (AP) ? KFC launched a campaign Monday to rebuild its battered brand in China, promising tighter quality control after a scandal over misuse of drugs by its poultry suppliers.

The company, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., promised to test meat for banned drugs, strengthen oversight of farmers and encourage them to improve their technology. It said more than 1,000 small producers used by its 25 poultry suppliers have been eliminated from its network.

KFC is China's biggest fast-food chain, with more than 4,000 outlets, but was hit hard when state television reported in December that some suppliers violated rules on the use of drugs to fatten chickens. The company estimates January sales plunged 37 percent.

"Starting now, we will stress strict management and the principle of zero tolerance in food safety," Sam Sun, the chairman of Yum Restaurants China, said at a news conference. "We will immediately drop any supplier that lacks the determination or the ability to manage breeding well."

The complaint against KFC was less serious than other product scandals in China over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed by phony or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods. But KFC's high profile attracted attention, and its status as a foreign company with less political influence meant Chinese media could publicize its troubles more freely.

Yum, based in Louisville, Kentucky, said it expects sales in China to tumble by up to 25 percent in the current quarter. The company also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

CEO David Novak said earlier the company would need the "gift of time" for the controversy to die down. KFC has declined to say when it expects the business to fully recover.

The stakes are high for Yum. Even before the chicken scare, growth in China was slowing and fell into negative territory in October.

Executives blamed slower Chinese economic growth and the comparison with earlier explosive expansion. But KFC and other Western fast food chains also face mounting competition from young but ambitious Chinese rivals.

The locals started out copying global brands but are developing their own identity and the elusive skills to manage chains of hundreds of outlets and networks of far-flung suppliers.

One chain, Yonghe Dawang, copied KFC's Colonel Sanders logo so closely with its image of a smiling, grandfatherly Chinese man that Western tourists did a double-take at its restaurants.

More recently, Yonghe Dawang has developed its own image and switched to a logo of a noodle bowl. Since being acquired by Jollibee Foods Corp., a Philippine fast food upstart that has expanded throughout Southeast Asia, Yonghe Dawang has expanded to 307 restaurants.

Zhen Gong Fu, which sells bowls of rice with beef, pork and other meat, has 479 restaurants nationwide. Other competitors include Master Kong Chef's Table, with 100 outlets in 30 cities.

Executives note that Yum has bounced back from other troubles, such as an avian flu scare in 2005 that dragged down sales by as much as 40 percent.

The company says it plans to maintain its rapid pace of opening new restaurants in China.

Another 700 new sites are planned for this year, with Yum focusing more on cities outside Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen where it sees greater potential for growth.

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AP Business Writer Candice Choi in New York City and AP researchers Flora Ji in Beijing and Fu Ting in Shanghai contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kfc-launches-china-campaign-rebuild-brand-030723773--finance.html

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Shuffling the deck: Ontario hopes to generate $100 million in profit ...

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Ontarians are spending $400 million every year on off-shore gaming sites and the government wants a piece of the action.

This fall, in a bid to attract the under-45 crowd, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is launching its own Internet gaming site ? playolg.ca.

Online gaming isn?t the only wildcard as OLG shuffles its deck in a bid to modernize the province?s gambling empire and generate more money to help pay down Ontario?s massive $12- billion deficit, but it?s the biggest roll of the dice.

The site will allow Ontarians to play interactive casino-style games against the house or each other and buy lottery tickets using their computers or smart phones. The plan will generate about $100 million in net profit to the province every year.

The move has drawn criticism from politicians such as Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who said Ontarians already have enough gaming opportunities.

?Now we have ?click your mouse, lose your house? kind of gaming and I don?t know if that?s necessary,? she said.

And what will sanctioned online gaming mean for convenience store owners, whose businesses sell 70% of all lottery tickets in this province?

?The jury is out on what the future looks like,? said Dave Bryans, chief executive of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association.

The association is watching how iGaming unfolds in provinces such as British Columbia, where so far it?s only made up about 2% of the lottery pie.

Lottery ticket sales are important for variety store owners who count on the foot traffic to boost their bottom line, said Bryans. In the convenience sector there are only three types of foot traffic generators ? tobacco, lottery and gas ? and they?re all under threat, he added.

?I?m not saying it?s all doom and gloom ? we have to reinvent ourselves and that is working with your partners like lottery,? he said.

It?s why the association has its own committee on modernizing gaming to work with the OLG on changes and negotiate a future for variety store owners, even though Bryans said the stores sell more lottery tickets than anyone and that won?t change.

?The future is sort of mysterious but we have to understand that we are the biggest deliverer of lottery sales to this government and we?ll continue to be and let?s see where we go with all of them together,? he said.

Other wildcards:

B Still up in the air is how many racetracks will close, what the new funding model for harness racing will look like and where exactly casinos in each of the new 29 gaming zones will go.

?There?s so many wildcards,? said Stan Sadinsky, a retired Queens University law professor and former chair of the OLG and Ontario Racing Commission.

Racetrack operators such as the Western Fair in London expect some of those answers as soon as next week.

?The government realizes there?s tremendous urgency,? said Hugh Mitchell, chief executive of Western Fair, one of the places waiting to hear which tracks the government will support and how much money there will be for purses and operating expenses.

B Up in the air still are what kind of deals the government is inking with private operators.

It?s those private deals that are angering politicians such as MPP Monte McNaughton, the Tory critic for economic development.

?There?s deals happening across Ontario under a veil of secrecy,? said the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP. ?The Legislature?s been shut down and we haven?t been able to ask questions. We know deals are happening but we don?t know what the details are."

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QMI spoke with Rod Phillips, president and chief executive of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)

Q. Why a casino in Toronto now when the OLG has resisted that for so long?

A. This goes back to work the provincial government asked the OLG to do in 2011, which was to look critically at what OLG was doing in lottery and in gaming and come back with recommendations around how the agency should operate in the future. On the gaming side, we had a business model that was focused along the borders. Ten years ago, OLG would?ve earned $800 million of profit from those border facilities. This year that number will be less than $100 million. One of the areas that?s clearly underserved is the GTA. If you go to our Woodbine facility on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night, you would see people lined up two or three deep to get access to one of our slot machines. It is all in that context that a GTA facility makes sense.

Q. What will a Toronto casino mean for the OLG?s bottom line?

A. At the end of our modernization . . . the gaming component is in the neighbourhood of $700 million . The Toronto casino is certainly a really important part of that ? not half of it, but the single biggest portion of that.

Q. One criticism is that the government shouldn?t be in the gaming business and it should be privatized. What?s your response?

A. (Under the) Criminal Code of Canada, only provincial governments can conduct and manage lottery and gaming in this country. Were that law to change, then I think you would have a whole different set of options. But we?ve taken a step in a direction that I think many people think OLG should have, which is the people who are directly involved in the delivery of gaming . . . can work effectively in the private sector so they?re going to be transferred over to private operators. OLG will go from 8,000 employees to fewer than 1,000. Really what we?ll be responsible for is that oversight.

Q. Will commercial leases and deals made with places such as Western Fair, Woodbine and Mohawk be made public?

A. Typically, commercial agreements that the government does are things that are not made public. There are certainly circumstances where they are, but at this stage we still have the leases to finalize.

Q. Some critics say the OLG has bullied municipalities into accepting a casino ? that if they oppose it, you?d widen the gaming zone to include neighbouring municipalities. How do you respond?

A. There?s 37 communities that have indicated they want to host a facility. Some of these are locations that have historically shown a different preference, places like North Bay, Peterborough, Kingston, that 10 or 12 years ago voted against a facility. I think the proof is otherwise. I think municipalities are interested. We have other municipalities (that) are not identified in gaming zones (that) said they would be interested in being included, so that sounds to me like people wanting to have a relationship.

Q. OLG is launching a new gaming site this fall. What will entice people to gamble there instead of offshore sites?

A. We had eight million people play the lottery last year ? 2.7 million people come to our facilities, our slots and casino facilities. People like the fact that they have confidence in the OLG brand, that they?re going to get paid. It?s also because they know that the money from that all goes to good causes, principally health care and community infrastructure. Clearly there?s a demand and people want the chance to be able to play and game online. If anything, OLG has lagged on that regard. Those who don?t play should like the fact that we?re going to make sure it?s done in a responsible way, in an age-controlled environment where there?s a clear concern for the small portion of people who do have a problem with gambling.

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Source: http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/02/23/the-wildcards-ontario-hopes-to-generate-100-million-in-profit-every-year-from-online-gambling

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Ex-Kent-Meridian teacher, coach receives five-day jail sentence for sex crime

By STEVE HUNTER
Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter
February 22, 2013 ? 5:32 PM

A former Kent-Meridian High School teacher and track coach received a five-day jail sentence Friday in King County Superior Court for communication with a minor for immoral purposes.

After the sentencing at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, King County corrections officers handcuffed Ernie Ammons, 37, of Black Diamond, and escorted him out of the courtroom and to the county jail. Ammons had been free on bail since his arrest in December 2011.

Judge Lori K. Smith also sentenced Ammons to 40 hours of community service and 24 months of probation as well as ordered that he have no contact with the victim, that he must pay restitution to the victim and that he have no contact with minors except under supervision of an adult with knowledge of his registered sex offender status and with the approval of a sex offender treatment provider.

Ammons pleaded guilty to the charge Feb. 1 in exchange for a lighter sentence. He could have been sentenced up to one year in jail and fined $5,000. He must register as a sex offender.

"It's been a very trying year for me and my family," Ammons said in a brief statement to the judge. "I take responsibility for my actions. I will move forward from this. I apologize to everybody I respect, especially my family and the victim."

Prosecutors said Ammons sent sexually explicit text messages to a 16-year-old Kent-Meridian girl from June 27, 2011 to Nov. 6, 2011. Ammons taught health and physical education at the school. He also coached boys and girls track and cross country for the Royals.

The Kent School District placed Ammons on paid administrative leave in November 2011 when the allegations first came to the district's attention. He resigned from the district in January 2012. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charge in December 2011.

"Mr. Ammons lost a lot here," defense attorney Brad Meryhew said to the judge. "In the process he never made any excuses, never tried to blame anybody else - always taking responsibility."

Ammons met with a psychologist last fall to figure out a treatment plan and will participate in a sex offender treatment program with a mental health counselor in Pierce County.

"I think the next phase for him is to find a way to reach out and get support - and group (meetings) is a great way to do that - you meet a lot of other people to get that kind of support," Meryhew said. "I'm confident that Ernie will recover from this and live a good life."

Smith said she received several letters in support of Ammons.

"The court is going to follow the agreed recommendation, given all of the circumstances it seems appropriate," Smith said. "The court is hopeful that the treatment will continue and recommendations will be followed."

Smith ordered a sentence of 12 months of supervised probation and 12 months unsupervised if Ammons meets the sex offender treatment plan.

Ammons signed the following guilty statement on Feb. 1:

"On or about a time between June 27, 2011 and Nov. 6, 2011 in King County, I did communicate with (the 16-year-old girl), a person I believed to be a minor, for immoral purposes of a sexual nature," Ammons wrote in a court statement.

Ammons led the Kent-Meridian boys track team to its first state track title in spring 2011 when the Royals captured the Class 4A meet. He coached track and field at Kent-Meridian for eight years. He led the boys track team to a second-place trophy at state in 2009.

Ammons taught health and physical education at Kent-Meridian. His classes in 2011 included health and weight training. The district hired Ammons in 2004.

During a series of text messages with the girl, Ammons asked the girl to meet him for sex in the school's weight room before school.

The case came to the attention of school officials in early November 2011 when a student at another school who knew the 16-year-old girl contacted Kent-Meridian Principal Wade Barringer about inappropriate conversations between a health teacher at the school and a student. The teacher was later identified as Ammons.

Barringer talked to Ammons about the allegations, according to court documents. Ammons told Barringer the phone contacts with the student started on Facebook and the contact continued via text messaging.

Ammons told Barringer that he had exchanged text messages with the girl and they talked about exchanging money for sex. Ammons said he never intended to act on the suggestion, but he was afraid to stop texting the girl out of fear that she would expose him.

School officials contacted Kent Police Nov. 8, 2011 about the allegations and the police investigation started. Detectives gathered cellphone records and emails that showed Ammons had contacted the girl. Detectives found as many as 46 calls between the girl's phone and Ammons' phone from June 27 to Oct. 24. Several more text exchanges occurred after Oct. 24.

Ammons has volunteered as an assistant Green River Community College men's and women's cross country and track coach in Auburn since 2009.

Ammons was the second South Puget Sound League coach charged with a sex crime by county prosecutors in November 2011.

A jury found Daniel Gregory Lum-Lung, who coached girls volleyball at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, guilty of third-degree attempted rape of a child and communication with a minor for immoral purposes in connection with a 15-year-old girl he met in October 2011 at Kent's Lake Meridian Park. He is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, March 1 before King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas.

Contact Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter Steve Hunter at shunter@kentreporter.com or 253-872-6600, ext. 5052.

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