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Lily Allen Welcomes A Baby Girl!
Congratulations are in order for Lily Allen and her husband Sam Cooper, as they have a new addition to their family. They’re in the pink! Allen gave birth to a baby girl on Friday. It was just a year ago that Allen miscarried when she was six months pregnant. She had contracted a viral infection in November of 2010, and later miscarried a baby boy. It was so heartbreaking to hear what had happened to her, especially since she had miscarried in 2008 when she was four months pregnant. At the time she was dating Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers. While reps for the British pop star have not confirmed the baby news, the Daily Mail reported that her good friend and former boyfriend, Sam Chew, tweeted ‘?sending out love to lily, sam and mini cooper……YES.? Aww, mini cooper, lol cute! A name has yet to be revealed for Lily Allen and Sam Cooper’s pink bundle of joy. Allen, who now goes by Lily Rose Cooper (@MrsLRCooper) on Twitter, is a regular tweeter, and has spoken throughout her pregnancy on how she has been feeling. Perhaps her tweet on November 24th was a sign that her baby girl was [...]
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NATO attack allegedly kills 24 Pakistani troops (AP)
ISLAMABAD ? Pakistan has blocked vital supply routes for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan and demanded Washington vacate a base used by American drones after coalition aircraft allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops at two posts along a mountainous frontier that serves as a safe haven for militants.
The incident Saturday was a major blow to American efforts to rebuild an already tattered alliance vital to winding down the 10-year-old Afghan war. Islamabad called the bloodshed in one of its tribal areas a "grave infringement" of the country's sovereignty, and it could make it even more difficult for the U.S. to enlist Pakistan's help in pushing Afghan insurgents to engage in peace talks.
A NATO spokesman said it was likely that coalition airstrikes caused Pakistani casualties, but an investigation was being conducted to determine the details. If confirmed, it would be the deadliest friendly fire incident by NATO against Pakistani troops since the Afghan war began a decade ago.
A prolonged closure of Pakistan's two Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies could cause serious problems for the coalition. The U.S., which is the largest member of the NATO force in Afghanistan, ships more than 30 percent of its non-lethal supplies through Pakistan. The coalition has alternative routes through Central Asia into northern Afghanistan, but they are costlier and less efficient.
Pakistan temporarily closed one of its Afghan crossings to NATO supplies last year after U.S. helicopters accidentally killed two Pakistani soldiers. Suspected militants took advantage of the impasse to launch attacks against stranded or rerouted trucks carrying NATO supplies. The government reopened the border after about 10 days when the U.S. apologized. NATO said at the time the relatively short closure did not significantly affect its ability to keep its troops supplied.
But the reported casualties are much greater this time, and the relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. has severely deteriorated over the last year, especially following the covert American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town in May. Islamabad was outraged that it wasn't told about the operation beforehand.
The government announced it closed its border crossings to NATO in a statement issued after an emergency meeting of the Cabinet's defense committee chaired by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
It also said that within 15 days the U.S. must vacate Shamsi Air Base, which is located in southwestern Baluchistan province. The U.S. uses the base to service drones that target al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal region when they cannot return to their bases inside Afghanistan because of weather conditions or mechanical difficulty, said U.S. and Pakistani officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive strategic matters.
The government also plans to review all diplomatic, military and intelligence cooperation with the U.S. and other NATO forces, according to the statement issued after the defense committee meeting.
The White House said that senior U.S. civilian and military officials had expressed their condolences to their Pakistani counterparts.
The White House statement said the officials expressed "our desire to work together to determine what took place, and our commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan partnership which advances our shared interests, including fighting terrorism in the region."
The White House statement did not address Pakistan's decision to block supply routes for the war in Afghanistan or its demand that the U.S. vacate the drone base.
The Pakistani army said Saturday that NATO helicopters and fighter jets carried out an "unprovoked" attack on two of its border posts in the Mohmand tribal area before dawn, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. The troops responded in self-defense "with all available weapons," an army statement said.
Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani condemned the attack, calling it a "blatant and unacceptable act," according to the statement.
A spokesman for NATO forces, Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, said Afghan and coalition troops were operating in the border area of eastern Afghanistan when "a tactical situation" prompted them to call in close air support. It is "highly likely" that the airstrikes caused Pakistani casualties, he told BBC television.
"My most sincere and personal heartfelt condolences go out to the families and loved ones of any members of Pakistan security forces who may have been killed or injured," Gen. John Allen, the top overall commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
The border issue is a major source of tension between Islamabad and Washington, which is committed to withdrawing its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Much of the violence in Afghanistan is carried out by insurgents who are based just across the border in Pakistan. Coalition forces are not allowed to cross the frontier to attack the militants. However, the militants sometimes fire artillery and rockets across the line, reportedly from locations close to Pakistani army posts.
American officials have repeatedly accused Pakistani forces of supporting ? or turning a blind eye ? to militants using its territory for cross-border attacks. But militants based in Afghanistan have also been attacking Pakistan recently, prompting complaints from Islamabad.
The two posts that were attacked Saturday were located about 1,000 feet (300 meters) apart on a mountain top and were set up recently to stop Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan from crossing the border and staging attacks, said local government and security officials.
There was no militant activity in the area when the alleged NATO attack occurred, local officials said. Some of the soldiers were standing guard, while others were asleep, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said map references of all of the force's border posts have been given to NATO several times.
Pakistan's prime minister summoned U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter to protest the alleged NATO strike, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. It said the attack was a "grave infringement of Pakistan's sovereignty" and could have serious repercussions on Pakistan's cooperation with NATO.
Munter said in a statement that he regretted any Pakistani deaths and promised to work closely with Islamabad to investigate the incident.
The U.S., Pakistan, and Afghan militaries have long wrestled with the technical difficulties of patrolling a border that in many places is disputed or poorly marked. Saturday's incident took place a day after a meeting between NATO's Gen. Allen and Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Islamabad to discuss border operations.
The meeting tackled "coordination, communication and procedures ... aimed at enhancing border control on both sides," according to a statement from the Pakistani side.
The U.S. helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers on Sept. 30 of last year took place south of Mohmand in the Kurram tribal area. A joint U.S.-Pakistan investigation found that Pakistani soldiers fired at the two U.S. helicopters prior to the attack, a move the investigation team said was likely meant to notify the aircraft of their presence after they passed into Pakistani airspace several times.
A U.S. airstrike in June 2008 reportedly killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops during a clash between militants and coalition forces in the tribal region.
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Associated Press writers Anwarullah Khan in Khar, Pakistan, Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, Matiullah Achakzai in Chaman and Deb Riechmann in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.
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Medvedev: Russia may target US missile shield (AP)
MOSCOW ? Russia threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the U.S. missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow's concerns about its plans, a harsh warning that reflected deep cracks in U.S.-Russian ties despite President Barack Obama's efforts to "reset" relations with the Kremlin.
President Dmitry Medvedev said he still hopes for a deal with the U.S. on missile defense, but he strongly accused Washington and its NATO allies of ignoring Russia's worries. He said Russia will have to take military countermeasures if the U.S. continues to build the shield without legal guarantees that it will not be aimed against Russia.
The U.S. has repeatedly assured Russia that its proposed missile defense system wouldn't be directed against Russia's nuclear forces, and it did that again Wednesday.
"I do think it's worth reiterating that the European missile defense system that we've been working very hard on with our allies and with Russia over the last few years is not aimed at Russia," said Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. "It is ... designed to help deter and defeat the ballistic missile threat to Europe and to our allies from Iran."
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States will continue to seek Moscow's cooperation, but it must realize "that the missile defense systems planned for deployment in Europe do not and cannot threaten Russia's strategic deterrent."
But Medvedev said Moscow will not be satisfied by simple declarations and wants a binding agreement. He said, "When we propose to put in on paper in the form of precise and clear legal obligations, we hear a strong refusal."
Medvedev warned that Russia will station missiles in its westernmost Kaliningrad region and other areas, if the U.S. continues its plans without offering firm and specific pledges that the shield isn't directed at its nuclear forces. He didn't say whether the missiles would carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was "very disappointed" with Russia's threat to deploy missiles near alliance nations, adding that "would be reminiscent of the past and ... inconsistent with the strategic relations NATO and Russia have agreed they seek."
"Cooperation, not confrontation, is the way ahead," Rasmussen said in a statement.
The U.S. missile defense dispute has long tarnished ties between Moscow and Washington. The Obama administration has repeatedly said the shield is needed to fend off a potential threat from Iran, but Russia fears that it could erode the deterrent potential of its nuclear forces.
"If our partners tackle the issue of taking our legitimate security interests into account in an honest and responsible way, I'm sure we will be able to come to an agreement," Medvedev said. "But if they propose that we `cooperate,' or, to say it honestly, work against our own interests, we won't be able to reach common ground."
Moscow has agreed to consider a proposal NATO made last fall to cooperate on the missile shield, but the talks have been deadlocked over how the system should be operated. Russia has insisted that it should be run jointly, which NATO has rejected.
Medvedev also warned that Moscow may opt out of the New START arms control deal with the United States and halt other arms control talks, if the U.S. proceeds with the missile shield without meeting Russia's demand. The Americans had hoped that the START treaty would stimulate progress in further ambitious arms control efforts, but such talks have stalled because of tension over the missile plan.
While the New START doesn't prevent the U.S. from building new missile defense systems, Russia has said it could withdraw from the treaty if it feels threatened by such a system in future.
Medvedev reaffirmed that warning Wednesday, saying that Russia may opt out of the treaty because of an "inalienable link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons."
The New START has been a key achievement of Obama's policy of improving relations with Moscow, which had suffered badly under the George W. Bush administration.
"It's impossible to do a reset using old software, it's necessary to develop a new one," Medvedev's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said at a news conference.
The U.S. plan calls for placing land- and sea-based radars and interceptors in European locations, including Romania and Poland, over the next decade and upgrading them over time.
Medvedev said that Russia will carefully watch the development of the U.S. shield and take countermeasures if Washington continues to ignore Russia's concerns. He warned that Moscow would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, a Baltic Sea region bordering Poland, and place weapons in other areas in Russia's west and south to target U.S. missile defense sites. Medvedev said Russia would put a new early warning radar in Kaliningrad.
He said that as part of its response Russia would also equip its intercontinental nuclear missiles with systems that would allow them to penetrate prospective missile defenses and would develop ways to knock down the missile shield's control and information facilities.
Igor Korotchenko, a Moscow-based military expert, was quoted by the state RIA Novosti news agency as saying that the latter would mean targeting missile defense radars and command structures with missiles and bombers. "That will make the entire system useless," he said.
Medvedev and other Russian leaders have made similar threats in the past, and the latest statement appears to be aimed at the domestic audience ahead of Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.
Medvedev, who is set to step down to allow Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to reclaim the presidency in March's election, leads the ruling United Russia party list in the parliamentary vote. A stern warning to the U.S. and NATO issued by Medvedev seems to be directed at rallying nationalist votes in the polls.
Rogozin, Russia's NATO envoy, said the Kremlin won't follow the example of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and take unwritten promises from the West.
"The current political leadership can't act like Gorbachev, and it wants written obligations secured by ratification documents," Rogozin said.
Medvedev's statement was intended to encourage the U.S. and NATO to take Russia seriously at the missile defense talks, Rogozin said. He added that the Russian negotiators were annoyed by the U.S. "openly lying" about its missile defense plans.
"We won't allow them to treat us like fools," he said. "Nuclear deterrent forces aren't a joke."
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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Pauline Jelinek and Julie Pace in Washington and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.
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Coffee Could Decrease Endometrial Cancer Risk, Study Shows
By Amanda Gardner
That morning cup (or cups) of coffee may do more than just kick-start your day. Women who habitually drink several cups of coffee per day over the course of years or decades may be less likely than their peers to develop cancer in the lining of their uterus, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Harvard University analyzed data on 67,470 women between the ages of 34 and 59 who were followed for about 26 years. Compared to women who drank little or no coffee, those who averaged four or more cups per day had a 25 percent lower risk of developing endometrial cancer, and those who drank two or three cups per day had a 7 percent lower risk.
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Although the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, doesn't prove that drinking coffee was directly responsible for reducing cancer risk, the researchers say a cause-and-effect relationship is plausible. Coffee drinking has been shown in previous studies to lower levels of insulin and estrogen, and chronically high levels of both hormones have been linked to endometrial cancer, the study notes.
The researchers urge coffee drinkers to hold the cream and sugar, however. Whatever benefits coffee may have on insulin levels would almost certainly be negated by the added calories and fat, which could contribute to insulin resistance and weight gain, they say.
Edward Giovannucci, MD, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, led the study. The findings, which were published today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, add to a growing body of evidence that indicates coffee may offer more benefits than harm when it comes to health -- and not just cancer health.
In recent years, studies have linked coffee consumption to a lower risk of liver cancer and lethal prostate cancer, as well as a lower risk of depression, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease (mainly in men), and cirrhosis of the liver. Research in mice even suggests that coffee may help protect against the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease.
It's not entirely clear how drinking coffee might improve health, but caffeine seems to be only part of the picture, since studies on decaffeinated coffee have turned up apparent health benefits as well. (In the new study, decaffeinated coffee appeared to lower the risk of endometrial cancer, but the researchers had too little data on decaf-only drinkers to reach any reliable conclusions.)
Compounds with antioxidant properties -- such as chlorogenic acid -- likely play a role as well. "There are estimated to be over a couple thousand different components in coffee, many of which are antioxidants," says Donald Hensrud, M.D., chair of preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn.
Coffee contains even more antioxidants than green tea, says Hensrud, who was not involved in the new research. Giovannucci and his colleagues looked at tea drinkers in their study as well, but they found no relationship between tea consumption and endometrial-cancer risk.
The study has several key shortcomings that mean the findings should be interpreted with caution. The researchers relied on biennial diet questionnaires to assess coffee and tea intake, for instance, and although they controlled for a wide range of health factors and behaviors, they can't rule out the possibility that heavy coffee drinkers are socially or culturally different from their peers in ways that could affect cancer risk.
Leo B. Twiggs, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, says a "whole host of reasons" other than coffee consumption could potentially explain the study findings.
Women concerned about cancer risk shouldn't necessarily increase their coffee intake, in other words. "It's OK to drink coffee as long as you don't drink lots of it," Twiggs says.
Although drinking a lot of caffeinated coffee doesn't appear to have any serious health consequences (such as raising the risk of high blood pressure, or hypertension), Hensrud says, it can carry some potential side effects, including insomnia, worsened heartburn, heart palpitations, anxiety, and irritability.
The "take-home message" of the new study should not be to "go out and drink more than four cups a day," says Steven R. Goldstein, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University Langone Medical Center, in New York City.
The most effective way for women to detect -- if not prevent -- endometrial cancer is to look out for irregular menstrual bleeding and consult a doctor if they notice anything unusual, Goldstein says.
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The caffeine in coffee could actually help you to spot grammar errors, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.Researchers found that caffeine helped students to correct errors in subject-verb agreement and verb tense, MSNBC reported. However, the caffeine still didn't seem to make a difference at identifying misspelled words -- sorry.
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The caffeine in coffee could actually help you to spot grammar errors, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Researchers found that caffeine helped students to correct errors in subject-verb agreement and verb tense, MSNBC reported. However, the caffeine still didn't seem to make a difference at identifying misspelled words -- sorry. '; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/coffee-endometrial-cancer-risk_n_1110195.html
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A year later, Michigan town mourns 3 missing boys
This handout photo provided by the Morenci Police Department shows a flyer that is going to be released Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at the intersection of U.S. 127 and Morenci Road in Lenawee County, near the near the Ohio-Michigan border, on the anniversary of the day brothers Alexander Skelton, 7, Tanner Skelton, 5, and Andrew Skelton, 9 were last seen. The boys last were seen at their father, John Skelton's, home on Thanksgiving 2010, in Morenci, Mich. (AP Photo/Morenci Police Department)
This handout photo provided by the Morenci Police Department shows a flyer that is going to be released Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at the intersection of U.S. 127 and Morenci Road in Lenawee County, near the near the Ohio-Michigan border, on the anniversary of the day brothers Alexander Skelton, 7, Tanner Skelton, 5, and Andrew Skelton, 9 were last seen. The boys last were seen at their father, John Skelton's, home on Thanksgiving 2010, in Morenci, Mich. (AP Photo/Morenci Police Department)
This combination file photo made with undated photos provided by The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shows, from left, Alexander Skelton, 7, Andrew Skelton, 9, and Tanner Skelton. 5. Authorities in a small southern Michigan town have reached the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of three young brothers with some progress in the investigation but no sign of them. (AP Photo/National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, File) NO SALES
DETROIT (AP) ? Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks recently served as a guest spelling-test presenter for a fifth-grade class, and afterward invited the students to ask questions. Amid the usual queries about weapons and uniforms came one from a girl that reminded him how hard the southern Michigan town has been hit by the disappearance of three young boys who would have attended the school.
"She raised her hand and asked how often I have investigated cases where parents have stolen their children," Weeks said. "I struggled with responding to the question. ... It concerns me how it's changed their outlook. Kids should have the opportunity to be kids. To be thinking of that tells me that they're worried, they're concerned. And that bothers me immensely."
One year later, Weeks can point to successes in the case, such as the conviction of John Skelton, the boys' father and prime suspect, on unlawful imprisonment charges. But Weeks, the boys' family and other residents of the close-knit community remain haunted by one reality: Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton have never been found.
The Skelton brothers were 9, 7, and 5 years old, respectively, when they went to spend last Thanksgiving at their father's home in Morenci, about 70 miles southwest of Detroit near the Ohio state line. The boys' mother, Tanya Zuvers, had exclusive custody of them, but agreed to let them visit their father nearby if he returned them the next day.
When John Skelton didn't return them, Zuvers notified police, who arrested Skelton and launched what became a massive search effort in the following weeks. Cell phone records indicated Skelton left home the day after Thanksgiving and drove at least as far as Holiday City, Ohio, about 20 miles southwest, before returning home.
Despite the help of hundreds of volunteers searching fields and roadways in the often bitter cold, the search produced nothing.
The unlawful imprisonment charge pertains to Skelton's failure to return the boys to Zuvers the day after Thanksgiving. Skelton said he doesn't know what happened to his children after he handed them over to a group he hasn't identified to protect them from their mother.
Skelton pleaded no contest to the charge in July in exchange for prosecutors dropping a charge of parental kidnapping. He was sentenced in September to 10 to 15 years in prison. His lawyer, John Glaser, objected to the severity of the sentence, telling the judge, "My client is not here on a murder charge."
Police don't believe Skelton's story but are nonetheless pleased to have him behind bars.
"It gives us some breathing room to continue our investigation and search for the boys," Weeks said. "The alternative is that he is released and the primary suspect is on the loose."
Authorities plan to conduct what they're calling a "road canvass" from about 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. Friday along U.S. 127. Weeks said it coincides with the time exactly one year earlier that police believe he made the 40-mile roundtrip from Morenci to Holiday City and "disposed of the boys."
And while Friday's search area is not necessarily a hot target, Weeks said it's significant in terms of timeframe and terrain.
"It is one year later, and memories are foggy," he said, adding that it could bring something back for early morning hunters or Black Friday shoppers. "Maybe it sparks a memory for them. ... Maybe it sparks a conversation."
An event to mark the one-year anniversary of the boys' disappearance is scheduled for Sunday in the Morenci High School gym. Weeks will speak about the case and Mayor Keith Pennington is scheduled to provide an update on a reward fund.
The Associated Press left a message for Zuvers, who told The Daily Telegram of Adrian for a story this week that the program will include a slide show of her sons and items such as magnets, window decals and shirts will be sold to raise awareness about the case. Proceeds will be used to cover production costs.
She said it's important to keep "eyes looking" for the boys.
"My family has not given up hope that we are going to bring the boys home and they will come home alive," she said.
As for Weeks, he shares the community's anxiety and desire to solve the case. He said police have received about 1,200 tips and are confident with the pieces they have been able to put together.
"The year has allowed us to review and reflect what we've done," he said. "I think we have a better understanding of what's transpired. We're ready to act on new information as it's developed."
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Bank profits rise as regulators fret about Europe (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. bank earnings reached a more than four-year high in the third quarter, but regulators are warning that the industry faces challenges that include the risk of the European debt crisis washing up on U.S. shores.
Martin Gruenberg, acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, said on Tuesday that U.S. banks have limited direct exposure to Europe, but there is a risk of "contagion" if the situation gets worse.
"Close attention is being paid to what we see as the possible avenues for contagion, particularly in regard to the derivative markets," he said at a news conference.
Gruenberg said U.S. banks had significantly improved their capital and liquidity positions since the 2007-2009 financial crisis and that regulators continue to make sure this foundation is sound.
FDIC staff said that, with regard to derivatives, regulators are working with banks to make sure they understand their counterparty risk.
"I would say this is no surprise to these institutions now. This has been a subject that has been developing over several quarters and they have had plenty of time to adjust their positions, which they have," said John Corston, associate director of the FDIC's Systemic Financial Companies Branch.
On Tuesday, the FDIC released its latest quarterly report, which showed that the industry had earned $35.3 billion in the third quarter, the most since the second quarter of 2007.
Third-quarter earnings rose $11.5 billion from a year earlier and were up $6.7 billion from the second quarter.
The industry continued to boost profits, however, by setting aside less to guard against losses from bad loans.
Banks set aside $18.6 billion in the third quarter for losses, which is 47 percent less than a year ago.
The FDIC again warned that the increase in quarterly earnings would be difficult to maintain because revenue growth remains slow.
Net operating revenue rose $864 million, or less than 1 percent, in the third quarter from a year earlier.
Loan balances grew by $21.8 billion in the third quarter, the second quarterly increase in a row, but that amount will have to increase if bank profits are to continue on the upswing.
"After three years of shrinking loan portfolios, any loan growth is positive news for the industry and the economy," Gruenberg said, "but the lending growth we are seeing remains well below normal levels."
There were slight increases in commercial and residential housing lending.
The report showed that the health of bank balance sheets continued to improve in several areas.
For instance, the amount of delinquent loans on banks' books, those 90 days or more past due, dropped for the sixth consecutive quarter.
In addition, the losses banks are taking on bad loans continued to drop. In the third quarter these charge-offs totaled $26.7 billion, or 39.2 percent less than a year ago.
"While economic difficulties remain, higher capital levels, increased liquidity and lower losses signal a positive trajectory as the banking industry continues to gain strength," Jim Chessen, chief economist at the American Bankers Association, said in a statement.
The FDIC report also showed that skittish investors continue to seek a safe place to park their funds as financial markets remain volatile.
Deposits grew by $234.5 billion in the third quarter, a 2.4 percent increase from the previous quarter.
(Reporting by Dave Clarke; Editing by Dave Zimmerman, Lisa Von Ahn and Steve Orlofsky)
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How It Works: Self-Inflating Tire
November 22, 2011 4:30 PM Text Size: A . A . A Searching for the air hose in the grimiest corner of a neighborhood service station may soon become a thing of the past. With the help of a $1.5 million Department of Energy grant, Goodyear is developing a tire that regulates its own air pressure. Though the company refused to leak details of how the system works, a 2009 patent application shows that the tire employs a pressurized internal tube with inlet and outlet valves. This differs from the automatic inflation system on military vehicles that use onboard compressors. "The Air Maintenance Technology system is powered by the tire itself as it rolls down the road," says Goodyear chief technical officer Jean-Claude Kihn. Underinflation can lead to tire failure and a possible crash, but in most cases it just wastes fuel. According to Goodyear, underinflation cuts a car's efficiency by 2.5 to 3.3 percent, which, at current fuel prices, effectively adds more than 10 cents per gallon.
Air entering the inlet fills a small, high-pressure tube encircling the rim.
Air is forced through the inner tube by ground pressure on a low tire.
Tire pressure returns to normal as air fills it through the outlet valve.
Excess air escapes through the inlet port.
1. Intake
Air entering the inlet fills a small, high-pressure tube encircling the rim.
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Air is forced through the inner tube by ground pressure on a low tire.
3. Inflate
Tire pressure returns to normal as air fills it through the outlet valve.
4. Vent
Excess air escapes through the inlet port.
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Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden (AP)
FUKUSHIMA, Japan ? Even if the worst nuclear accident in 25 years leads to many people developing cancer, we may never find out.
Looking back on those early days of radiation horror, that may sound implausible.
But the ordinary rate of cancer is so high, and our understanding of the effects of radiation exposure so limited, that any increase in cases from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster may be undetectable.
Several experts inside and outside Japan told The Associated Press that cancers caused by the radiation may be too few to show up in large population studies, like the long-term survey just getting under way in Fukushima.
That could mean thousands of cancers under the radar in a study of millions of people, or it could be virtually none. Some of the dozen experts the AP interviewed said they believe radiation doses most Japanese people have gotten fall in a "low-dose" range, where the effect on cancer remains unclear.
The cancer risk may be absent, or just too small to detect, said Dr. Fred Mettler, a radiologist who led an international study of health effects from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
That's partly because cancer is one of the top killers of people in industrialized nations. Odds are high that if you live long enough, you will die of cancer. The average lifetime cancer risk is about 40 percent.
In any case, the 2 million residents of Fukushima Prefecture, targeted in the new, 30-year survey, probably got too little radiation to have a noticeable effect on cancer rates, said Seiji Yasumura of the state-run Fukushima Medical University. Yasumura is helping run the project.
"I think he's right," as long as authorities limit children's future exposure to the radiation, said Richard Wakeford, a visiting epidemiology professor at the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester in England. Wakeford, who's also editor of the Journal of Radiological Protection, said he's assuming that the encouraging data he's seen on the risk for thyroid cancer is correct.
The idea that Fukushima-related cancers may go undetected gives no comfort to Edwin Lyman, a physicist and senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that advocates for nuclear safety. He said that even if cancers don't turn up in population studies, that "doesn't mean the cancers aren't there, and it doesn't mean it doesn't matter."
"I think that a prediction of thousands of cancer deaths as a result of the radiation from Fukushima is not out of line," Lyman said. But he stressed that authorities can do a lot to limit the toll by reducing future exposure to the radiation. That could mean expensive decontamination projects, large areas of condemned land and people never returning home, he said. "There's some difficult choices ahead."
Japan's Cabinet this month endorsed a plan to cut contamination levels in half within the next two years. The government recently announced it plans to study the risk from long-term exposure to the low-dose radiation level used as a trigger for evacuations.
The plant was damaged March 11 by a tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9 earthquake. Japanese authorities estimate it leaked about one-sixth as much radiation as the Chernobyl accident. It spewed radioactive materials like iodine-131, cesium-137 and 29 others contaminating the water, soil, forests and crops for miles around. A recent study suggested that emissions of cesium-137, were in fact twice what the government has estimated.
So far, no radiation-linked death or sickness has been reported in either citizens or workers who are shutting down the plant.
And a preliminary survey of 3,373 evacuees from the 10 towns closest to the plant this summer showed their estimated internal exposure doses over the next several decades would be far below levels officials deem harmful.
But while the Fukushima disaster has faded from world headlines, many Japanese remain concerned about their long-term health. And many don't trust reassurances from government scientists like Yasumura, of the Fukushima survey.
Many consumers worry about the safety of food from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures, although produce and fish found to be above government-set limits for contamination have been barred from the market. For example, mushrooms harvested in and around Fukushima are frequently found to be contaminated and barred from market. Controversy has also erupted around the government's choice of a maximum allowed level for internal radiation exposure from food.
Fukushima has distributed radiation monitors to 280,000 children at its elementary and junior high schools. Many children are allowed to play outside only two or three hours a day. Schools have removed topsoil on the playgrounds to reduce the dose, and the Education Ministry provided radiation handbooks for teachers. Thousands of children have been moved out of Fukushima since the March disasters, mainly due to radiation fears.
Many parents and concerned citizens in and around Fukushima, some even as far as Tokyo, carry Geiger counters for daily measurement of radiation levels in their neighborhoods, especially near schools and kindergartens. The devices are probably one of the most popular electronics gadgets across Japan these days. People can rent them at DVD shops or drug stores in Fukushima, while many Internet rental businesses specializing in Geiger counters also have emerged.
Citizens groups are also setting up radiation measuring centers where people can submit vegetables, milk or other foods for tests. Some people are turning to traditional Japanese diet ? pickled plum, miso soup and brown rice ? based on a belief that it boosts the immune system.
"I try what I believe is the best, because I don't trust the government any more," says Chieko Shiina, who has turned to that diet. The 65-year-old Fukushima farmer had to close a small Japanese-style inn due to the nuclear crisis.
She thinks leaving Fukushima would be safer but says there is nowhere else to go.
"I know we continue to be irradiated, even right at this moment. I know it would be best just to leave Fukushima," she said.
Yuka Saito, a mother of four who lives in a Fukushima neighborhood where the evacuation order was recently lifted, said she and her three youngest children spent the summer in Hokkaido to get away from the radiation. She tells her children, ages 6 to 15, to wear medical masks, long-sleeved shirts and a hat whenever they go out, and not to play outside.
She still avoids drinking tap water and keeps a daily log of her own radiation monitoring around the house, kindergarten and schools her children attend.
"We Fukushima people are exposed to radiation more than anyone else outside the prefecture, but we just have to do our best to cope," she said. "We cannot stay inside the house forever."
Japanese officials say mental health problems caused by excessive fear of radiation are prevalent and posing a bigger problem than actual risk of cancer caused by radiation.
But what kind of cancer risks do the Japanese really face?
Information on actual radiation exposures for individuals is scarce, and some experts say they can't draw any conclusions yet about risk to the population.
But Michiaki Kai, professor of environmental health at Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences, said that based on tests he's seen on people and their exposure levels, nobody in Fukushima except for some plant workers has been exposed to harmful levels of radiation.
Radiation generally raises cancer risk in proportion to its amount. At low-dose exposures, many experts and `regulators embrace the idea that this still holds true. But other experts say direct evidence for that is lacking, and that it's not clear whether such small doses raise cancer risk at all.
"Nobody knows the answer to that question," says Mettler, an emeritus professor of radiology at the University of New Mexico and the U.S. representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, or UNSCEAR. If such low doses do produce cancers, they'd be too few to be detected against the backdrop of normal cancer rates, he said.
To an individual the question may have little meaning, since it deals with the difference between no risk and small risk. For example, the general population was told to evacuate areas that would expose them to more than 20 millisieverts a year. A millisievert measures radiation dose and 20 mSv is about seven times the average dose of background radiation Americans get in a year. A child exposed to 20 mSv for a year would face a calculated risk of about 1 in 400 of getting cancer someday as a result, says David Brenner of Columbia University. So that would add 0.25 percent onto the typical lifetime cancer risk of about 40 percent, he said.
And the average dose among the 14,385 workers who worked on the plant through July was 8 mSv, according to the Japanese government. The average lifetime risk of cancer to an individual from that dose alone would be calculated at about 0.05 percent, or 1 in 2,000, Brenner said.
Brenner stresses that such calculations are uncertain because scientists know so little about the effects of such small doses of radiation.
But in assessing the Fukushima disaster's effect on populations, the low-dose question leads to another: If a lot of people are each exposed to a low dose, can you basically multiply their individual calculated risks to forecast a number of cancers in the population?
Brenner thinks so, which is why he believes some cancers might even appear in Tokyo although each resident's risk is "pretty minuscule."
But Wolfgang Weiss, who chairs the UNSCEAR radiation committee, said the committee considers it inappropriate to predict a certain number of cancer cases from a low-dose exposure, because low-dose risk isn't proven.
Nuclear accidents can cause cancer of the thyroid gland, which can absorb radioactive iodine and become cancerous. That disease is highly treatable and rarely fatal.
After the Chernobyl disaster, some 6,000 children exposed to radioactive fallout later developed thyroid cancer. Experts blame contaminated milk. But the thyroid threat was apparently reduced in Japan, where authorities closely monitored dairy radiation levels, and children are not big milk drinkers anyway.
Still, the new Fukushima survey will check the thyroids of some 360,000 young people under age 18, with follow-ups planned every five years throughout their lifetimes. It will also track women who were pregnant early in the crisis, do checkups focused on mental health and lifestyle-related illnesses for evacuees and others from around the evacuation zone, and ask residents to fill out a 12-page questionnaire to assess their radiation exposure during the first weeks of the crisis.
But the survey organizers are having trouble getting responses, partly because of address changes. As of mid-October, less than half the residents had responded to the health questionnaire.
Some residents are skeptical about the survey's objectivity because of mistrust toward the government, which repeatedly delayed disclosing key data and which revised evacuation zones and safety standards after the accident. Also, the government's nuclear safety commission recommended use of iodine tablets but none of the residents received them just before or during evacuation, when the preventive medicine would have been most effective.
Some wonder if the study is using them as human guinea pigs to examine the impact of radiation on humans.
Eisuke Matsui, a lung cancer specialist and a former associate professor at Gifu University School of Medicine, criticized the project. He said it appears to largely ignore potential radiation-induced health risks like diabetes, cataracts and heart problems that have been hinted at by some studies of Chernobyl.
"If thyroid cancer is virtually the only abnormality on which they are focusing, I must say there is a big question mark over the reliability of this survey," he said.
He also suggested sampling hair, clipped nails and fallen baby teeth to test for radioactive isotopes such as strontium that are undetectable by the survey's current approach.
"We should check as many potential problems as possible," Matsui said.
Yasumura acknowledges the main purpose of his study is "to relieve radiation fears." But Matsui says he has a problem with that.
"A health survey should be a start," Matsui says, "not a goal."
Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo, urged quick action to determine the cancer risks.
He said big population surveys and analysis will take so long that it would make more sense to run a careful simulation of radiation exposures and do anything possible to reduce the risks.
"Our responsibility is to tell the people now what possible risks may be to their health," he said.
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Science Writer Malcolm Ritter reported from New York.
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Column: Blame Blatter? Blame soccer, too
By JOHN LEICESTER
updated 4:13 p.m. ET Nov. 17, 2011
"Resign!" howled Sepp Blatter's critics in England after the FIFA boss spouted ill-timed and offensive views on racism in soccer.
Easy. Too easy.
It's the sort of thing many people would agree with. But simply saying something is unpleasant doesn't make it go away.
That takes action. And, in that regard, soccer has failed. Miserably.
It is soccer's own fault that Blatter is still in charge, still able to dismay and infuriate from FIFA's glass fortress in Switzerland.
Those who run the global game, the soccer federation officials around the world who, ultimately, are Blatter's electorate, have had umpteen reasons to ditch him or call for his head before this latest episode. But they've stuck by him.
So they shoulder responsibility for giving a platform to his views, too. Remember: FIFA member countries awarded Blatter a fourth four-year term just five months ago despite bribery allegations, ugly internal politicking and match-fixing and corruption cases in the sport that have shredded the credibility of soccer's governing body and the men who lead it.
Not only did the fawning FIFA congress allow Blatter to stand unopposed, it gave him 91 percent of the vote. The regime in North Korea couldn't have done much better. There are no courageous rebels leading an Arab Spring uprising in soccer and none on the horizon, either.
Why?
One reason is money.
Under Blatter, FIFA has raked in mounds of the stuff. It has built financial reserves of more than $1 billion. It has the cash-cow World Cup. It sits atop a giant of a sport that is still growing in popularity, especially in promising markets in Asia and the Middle East.
One of Blatter's tricks during his nearly 14 years as FIFA president has been to ensure that gravy is spread around. Tens of millions of dollars in soccer development money doled out here, special $550,000 bonuses for all FIFA member associations in 2010 there. Seats on FIFA committees for the favored.
The former amateur soccer player is also a proven master of keeping friends and enemies close. It is a testimony to Blatter's power, to his people and management skills, and to inertia and acceptance within soccer that even at the end of this year of atrocious headlines for FIFA, there appears to be so little appetite at the top of the sport to question Blatter's leadership or methods.
Clearly, judging from his subsequent efforts to extract both feet from his mouth, Blatter realized that he wasn't clever to say this week in television interviews that racism isn't an issue on soccer fields. Even worse, he suggested that players who are victims of racist slurs should simply shake hands with and forgive their abusers at the end of a match.
That Blatter could blithely voice such absurdities when police and soccer officials in England are investigating two cases of on-field alleged racist abuse between players in the Premier League made the FIFA president look willfully insensitive and hopelessly out of touch.
When Blatter later backtracked with a statement acknowledging that "racism unfortunately continues to exist in football," FIFA's website published it with a 2009 photo of him embracing Tokyo Sexwale, a South African government minister and former Robben Island prisoner. How clumsy. All that was missing was a caption reading, "Look, Blatter likes black people and they like him!"
But where was the subsequent outpouring of shock and anger from the global game? Didn't happen. Soccer federations around the world were hardly lining up to distance themselves from Blatter. Aside from Britain, where Sports Minister Hugh Robertson declared, "For the sake of the game, he should go," the FIFA president's comments didn't seem to cause much of a ripple from soccer authorities. Many said nothing.
Blatter hasn't seen a need to step aside over any of the numerous corruption allegations that have undermined faith in FIFA and his leadership.
He didn't see fit to slink off for calling on female soccer players to wear "tighter shorts" in 2004 or for making light of the strict laws against homosexuality in Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host.
He's not going to resign now.
Of course, the great global game of soccer should have a forward-looking, scrupulously honest, modern, transparent, humble, open and intelligent leader.
It has Blatter. Who's fault is that? The easy route is to say he should go. The more constructive one would be if those with power in soccer actually did something about it.
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John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester(at)ap.org or follow him at twitter.com/johnleicester
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Ms. BONNIE FULLER (Editor-in-chief, Hollywoodlife.com): Good morning.
Ms. ROSANNE COLLETTI (NBC'S "Gossip Gram"): Good morning.
GIFFORD: Went without any sleep at all this weekend.
KOTB: Of course you didn't.
Ms. FULLER: It was a busy weekend.
Ms. COLLETTI: It certainly was.
KOTB: Topping it -- topping it off Lindsay Lohan . We heard she spent four-and-a-half hours in jail, poor thing.
GIFFORD: She must be exhausted and traumatized.
KOTB: Yeah.
Ms. FULLER: Well, yes. All she was -- all she was there for was four hours. She checked in at 9:00 last night. I think she was more exhausted from trying to crash Leo DiCaprio 's party.
KOTB: When was that?
GIFFORD: Was it the night before, or something?
Ms. COLLETTI: Thursday night.
Ms. FULLER: Well, it was, I think, Thursday night. But the information came out about it on the weekend, and apparently she talked her way in. She tried to get to Leo . His bodyguards kept her away.
KOTB: Oh, my gosh.
Ms. FULLER: And she made everybody uncomfortable there.
GIFFORD: I don't think she realizes how much of a fool she is looking to people, so desperate.
KOTB: Yeah.
Ms. FULLER: Yes.
GIFFORD: You know? God, it's such a cry for help .
KOTB: It is.
Ms. COLLETTI: It really...
KOTB: Did she ever shoot that Playboy spread?
Ms. COLLETTI: She did. And she did that right before going to the Leonardo DiCaprio party, and was still dressed in the...
KOTB: Oh, in that outfit.
Ms. COLLETTI: In that out -- well, in her hair and makeup.
KOTB: Hair.
Ms. FULLER: Didn't want to waste the hair and makeup.
Ms. COLLETTI: She still had that. What's very sad for Lindsay is the judge has said that she cannot leave the country, and that's going to be cutting into her income.
KOTB: What income?
Ms. COLLETTI: Because she has -- well, she has a modeling shoot, a half a million dollar modeling shoot in Germany . She has to be there by the middle of November. She can't go.
KOTB: But it's not sad because she's not, I mean, she shouldn't be able to go anywhere, right?
GIFFORD: That's right . Exactly.
Ms. FULLER: I mean, and she's not going to be able -- who knows if she can even do that Gotti movie because she's got to put in about 58 days working for the coroner in the morgue.
GIFFORD: Well maybe that's finally going to be the very thing that registers with her.
KOTB: Yeah.
GIFFORD: Like, 'I can no longer live my life this way.'
KOTB: You have to give something up.
GIFFORD: 'If I want to have the benefits of my life, I -- you know, the perks.'
KOTB: Yeah. All right. Let's move on to the Kardashians for a minute, because we saw Kim Kardashian in Minnesota . She did go.
Ms. FULLER: Yes.
KOTB: And they say she's trying to make amends. What do you guys think the story is there?
Ms. FULLER: Well, she flew in at 5:30 in the morning. Apparently she couldn't sleep. I mean, really, thank goodness she went. I mean, apparently Kris Humphries found out about his own divorce on the Internet .
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Ms. FULLER: When he saw his divorce papers online.
Ms. COLLETTI: I don't...
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GIFFORD: That say that's not true, that he knew it was coming. But so there's a little area there.
KOTB: We're not a 100, yeah.
GIFFORD: We're not a 100 percent sure about.
Ms. COLLETTI: I don't think she expected the heat from this that she is getting.
Ms. FULLER: Yeah, probably not.
Ms. COLLETTI: Some of the tweets out there have been rather just dead-on and cruel. They have said that her sex tape was longer than her marriage and that she should have married the lockout because it would be over in 72 days as opposed to no NBA season.
KOTB: So is this just a PR thing to go meet the family or do you think this is a real shot at reconciliation?
Ms. FULLER: Let's hope it's not PR . Now when she got married, the pastor was very -- Joel Johnson , he was serious. We talked to him and he said that he had -- that they discussed marriage, how it was a sacred commitment. Now she met with the pastor and Kris for four hours yesterday, so let's hope that this was a real effort to try and sort things out.
KOTB: ...kind of had their way with the Kardashian crowd, too.
Ms. FULLER: Yeah.
KOTB: I guess that's it -- that's it. I mean, if you're going to be in that sort of spotlight.
GIFFORD: That comes with the territory, unfortunately.
KOTB: Yeah, they...
Ms. COLLETTI: That could even increase viewership, though, for the program. Because people tend to like train wrecks, and this sort of has all the appearance of a train wreck and it might even be beneficial.
GIFFORD: You know, it's very difficult for people who have been absolutely worshipped and adored and put on a pedestal. Look what happened with Tiger Woods .
KOTB: Right. You have a scandal, right.
GIFFORD: You know, when you've been nothing but adored your whole life and all of a sudden there's a whole different feeling coming at you.
KOTB: Yeah.
GIFFORD: Many people just don't have the skills to deal with something like.
KOTB: Yeah.
Ms. FULLER: And I agree. I don't think she expected that backlash.
KOTB: The weekend box office, interesting. " Puss in Boots " out for it's second week is still number one.
Ms. COLLETTI: Can't beat the donkey.
KOTB: Yeah.
GIFFORD: I actually adored that movie. I thought it was so sweet.
KOTB: And then Eddie Murphy 's -- yeah. Eddie Murphy 's movie was in second, "Tower Heist." Surprised or not?
Ms. COLLETTI: Mm-hmm.
Ms. FULLER: Not really surprised. Actually, I saw both movies.
Ms. COLLETTI: Yeah.
Ms. FULLER: I mean "Tower Heist" it was fine, but it wasn't fabulous.
KOTB: Yeah.
Ms. FULLER: And you really wanted fabulous for an Eddie Murphy comeback. And, you know, I'm sure he's concerned because he was named by Forbes as the -- one of -- this -- the number two most overpaid actors in Hollywood .
KOTB: And they did some math on that, didn't they?
Ms. COLLETTI: Right, yes. They did, they said...
GIFFORD: And Drew Barrymore was the first.
Ms. COLLETTI: That's right .
GIFFORD: Drew Barrymore movies did quite well.
KOTB: Apparently.
Ms. COLLETTI: Well, " Puss in Boots " had sort of a soft opening the weekend before.
GIFFORD: Because of the weather.
Ms. COLLETTI: Because of the weather.
KOTB: Oh, I forgot. You're right.
GIFFORD: The weather was awful.
Ms. COLLETTI: So then everyone who didn't go went this weekend.
GIFFORD: This week. Got it, yeah.
KOTB: OK. All right, ladies. You're busy, busy, busy. We're exhausted.
GIFFORD: I can't keep up with it all. Thanks so much, ladies.
Ms. FULLER: Thank you.
GIFFORD: I'm very aware that I have fairies on my legs. Anyway, how short is your skirt? We've got the latest looks for the fall right after this.
KOTB: Uh-huh , what about your look? Is that for the fall?
GIFFORD: It's for the -- apparently. Who's cooler than I am?
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