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chrisevagh · May 19, 2012

By NESHA STARCEVIC

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 7:39 p.m. ET May 19, 2012

MUNICH (AP) -After leading Chelsea to the biggest trophy in club football, Roberto di Matteo's future as manager of the London club is still in doubt.

Di Matteo had a conversation with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich after the team's penalty shootout win over Bayern Munich in the Champions League final Saturday, but he would not disclose what he discussed with the Russian billionaire.

"What was discussed with the boss we don't disclose publicly," Di Matteo said after Chelsea lifted the title for the first time. "He looked very happy.

"The only thing I know is that I am capable of going on holiday, it's been a challenging three months," he added.

"Whatever the future holds for me I'd be happy, whatever the club decides I'll respect it."

Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes knew what he'd do if he were in Abramovich's position.

"If I were the owner, I'd give him a three-year contract," Heynckes said after the match.

Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003, but the London club had been unable to win the Champions League until Di Matteo's brief - and officially temporary - tenure.

The Italian-born, 41-year-old Di Matteo took over when Andre Villas-Boas was fired following a 3-1 loss to Napoli in the round of 16 in March.

"Nobody could have predicted this, the last three months, to finish like this is incredible. Football is like life, unpredictable and crazy," he said. "It's a great achievement."

Chelsea also won the FA Cup, but finished sixth in the Premier League. By winning the Champions League Chelsea has qualified for next season's competition.

"It's a huge difference, we've always said that playing in the Champions League was crucial," Di Matteo said. "I don't know what the future holds, it's the first time we won and it's a very difficult competition to win."

Di Matteo praised the "passion and heart" of his players, especially after Bayern went ahead in the 83rd minute through Thomas Mueller, before Didier Drogba equalized in the 88th.

"Going into extra time, we had a good feeling," Di Matteo said.

With four players suspended and two defenders racing against time to overcome injuries, "it was not ideal preparation for a Champions League final."

Drogba's contract ends next month and he could also be on the way out.

"It's a conversation the club will have with the player. He's been a fantastic server of the club for eight years. But it was a great team effort tonight," Di Matteo said.

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The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by commercial firm SpaceX, is slated to lift off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

By Clara Moskowitz,?SPACE.com / May 18, 2012

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first Dragon spacecraft bound for the International Space Station is seen restingatop SpaceX?s launch site in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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A private spacecraft stands ready to launch on a historic first visit to the International Space Station tomorrow (May 19).

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The unmanned?Dragon space capsule, built by commercial firm SpaceX, is slated to lift off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft has an instantaneous launch window at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT), with a 70 percent chance of good weather predicted (the main risk of a delay is posed by the possibility of cumulus clouds).

If all goes well,?Dragon?will fly by the space station on Monday (May 21) and rendezvous and berth at the outpost the day after, becoming the first non-governmental vehicle to do so. The mission is the final test flight planned for Dragon, which has been developed under NASA's COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program aimed at nurturing?private spacecraft?to supply the International Space Station.

The mission is a critical test for NASA's plan to outsource transportation to low-Earth orbit to the commercial sector, allowing the agency to begin work on a new heavy-lift rocket for deep space. Some in Congress and elsewhere have been critical of the scheme, arguing that private vehicles are untested and less reliable than NASA's in-house built spacecraft. [Photos: SpaceX Poised for Historic Launch]

If Saturday's launch is successful, it could help sway the naysayers, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said.

"I think it will make a tremendous difference," Bolden told SPACE.com in April. "Everybody wants to see performance. You can promise things all you want, but nothing works like actual performance, and so it's a very important mission for SpaceX but an incredibly important mission for us at NASA."

SpaceX (officially Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Hawthorne, Calif.) has designed Dragon to fly robotically at first, though the company has designs to man-rate the capsule. Eventually, Dragon is planned to be able to carry up to seven crewmembers to orbit, and could be used to transport astronauts as well as cargo to the space station.

For this test flight, Dragon is loaded with 1,014 pounds (460 kilograms) of cargo for the orbiting laboratory, including 674 pounds (306 kg) of food, clothing and supplies for the station's six-man crew. It will also?deliver scientific equipment?and electronic hardware, including a laptop.

If the capsule's on-orbit checkouts go smoothly, then on Tuesday (May 22), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency flyer Andre Kuipers use the space station's 57.7-foot (17.6-meter) robotic arm to reach out and grab Dragon and berth it to the station's Harmony node.

The vehicle is scheduled to stay at the outpost for about two weeks. Then, it will be unberthed and will head back to Earth where it is planned to re-enter the atmosphere and land in the Pacific Ocean.

In contrast to the other unmanned vehicles that ferry cargo to the space station, Dragon is equipped with a heat shield to survive re-entry and be recovered after landing. Thus, before it departs the station, astronauts plan to load it full of science experiments ready for analysis on the ground, as well as used hardware to be returned to NASA. ?

You can follow SPACE.com assistant managing editor Clara Moskowitz on?Twitter?@ClaraMoskowitz.?Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcomand on?Facebook.

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To all sports, there will always be a favorite. The one that stands out from the rest, the one with better odds and the one that people is cheering on even before the game. And they are not favorites for nothing. There is a reason why people are loving them and sports analyst are choosing them. Kentucky Derby is no different. A few days from now, the ?Most exciting two minutes of sports? will happen and people all over the world have their?Kentucky Derby betting?already. And at these times favorites had already emerged.

I have went through some of the most famous and most reliable sportsbook around the internet and compile these horses that you must bet on Kentucky Derby. Here is a look at the early favorites of the field of 20 according to Sportsbooks and sports forums to help you win.

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Bodemeister (+450):?The early Derby favorite will try to become the first horse in over a century to win the race without having a start as a 2-year-old.

He?s topped 100 in the Beyer speed ratings three times, only three other horses in the race have even done it once. Bob Baffert trainee rolled to a dominant win in the Arkansas Derby last time out.

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Gemologist (+800):?Todd Pletcher trainee will go to the post undefeated in five starts. Gemologist seemed to toy with the field in the Wood, taking the lead and then when it looked like he was about to be passed in the stretch, he dug in again and pulled it out. Will take plenty of money at the windows and perhaps grab the early lead on Saturday.

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Hansen (+1000):?Some say Hansen will be merely a sideshow because of his beauty but this colt beat many of these in the Breeder?s Cup Juvenile on this surface going off at 7-1. The distance could be the problem as Hansen faded to second in his last start, the longest of his career (9 furlongs).

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Union Rags (+500):?Lots of potential in this one and his connections believe he can get any distance. He?s won four of six lifetime starts but was a disappointing third in the Florida Derby as the prohibitive favorite. Certainly merits consideration and could be the most fit horse to win all legs of the Triple Crown.

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Creative Cause (+600): Just missed as the favorite in the Santa Anita Derby last time out but beat Bodemeister the race before by ? of a length at the San Felipe. Has had some troubles drifting in the lane but has hit the board in all eight starts.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican on Saturday denounced as "criminal" a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the thinking of its embattled top banker, and warned that it would take legal action against those responsible.

Pope Benedict XVI has already appointed a commission of cardinals to investigate the "Vatileaks" scandal, which erupted earlier this year with the publication of leaked memos alleging corruption and mismanagement in Holy See affairs and internal squabbles over its efforts to comply with international anti-money laundering norms.

The publication Saturday of "His Holiness," by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, added fuel to the fire, reproducing confidential letters and memos to and from Benedict and his personal secretary which, according to the Vatican, violated the pope's right to privacy.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement Saturday the book was an "objectively defamatory" work that "clearly assumes characters of a criminal act." He said the Holy See would get to the bottom of who "stole" the documents, who received them and who published them. He warned the Holy See would seek international cooperation in its quest for justice, presumably with Italian magistrates.

The Vatican had already warned of legal action against Nuzzi after he broadcast letters in January from the former No. 2 Vatican administrator to the pope in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in higher contract prices. The prelate, Monsignor Carlo Maria Vigano, is now the Vatican's U.S. ambassador.

Nuzzi, author of "Vatican SpA," a 2009 volume laying out shady dealings of the Vatican bank based on leaked documents, said he was approached by sources inside the Vatican with the trove of new documents, most of them of fairly recent vintage and many of them painting the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in a negative light.

Much of the documentation is fairly Italy-centric: about a 2009 scandal over the ex-editor of the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, a never-before-known dinner between Benedict and Italy's president, and even a 2011 letter from Italy's pre-eminent talk show host Bruno Vespa to the pope enclosing a check for ?10,000 for his charity work ? and asking for a private audience in exchange.

But there are international leaks as well, including diplomatic cables from Vatican embassies from Jerusalem to Cameroon. Some concern the conclusions of the pope's delegate the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order in a memo to the pope last fall. (He warned that the financial situation of the order, beset by a scandal over its pedophile founder, "while not grave, is serious and pressing.")

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Institute for Religious Works, otherwise known as the Vatican's bank, gets significant ink, with reproduced private memos to the pope with his take on the Vatican's response to the global financial crisis and how to handle the church's tax exempt status amid Italian government efforts to crack down on tax evasion.

The bank has been trying for some two years to remedy its reputation as a shady tax haven beset by scandals, which include the collapse of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano and the death of its head, Roberto Calvi, who also helped manage Vatican investments and was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge in 1982.

In a bid to show it has mended its ways, the Institute for Religious Works this week invited ambassadors from 35 countries in for a tour and a chat with its managing director as part of a new transparency campaign. The tour came on the same day Holy See representatives were in Strasbourg discussing the first draft of a report from a Council of Europe committee on the Vatican's compliance with international norms to fight money laundering and terror financing.

British Ambassador Nigel Baker, who went on the Institute for Religious Works tour, later blogged that the Vatican's reputation depends on showing that its institutions are transparent. "Plenty still needs to be done. But the Holy See needs to stick to its guns. It is in their interest, and ours," he wrote.

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by state law to sentence her to 20 years in prison.

Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of a toddler and 11-year-old twins, knew it was coming. She had claimed self-defense, tried to invoke Florida's "stand your ground" law and rejected plea deals that could have gotten her a much shorter sentence. A jury found her guilty as charged: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Because she fired a gun while committing a felony, Florida's mandatory-minimum gun law dictated the 20-year sentence.

Her case in Jacksonville has drawn a fresh round of criticism aimed at mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. The local NAACP chapter and the district's African-American congresswoman say blacks more often are incarcerated for long periods because of overzealous prosecutors and judges bound by the wrong-headed statute. Alexander is black.

It also has added fuel to the controversy over Florida's "stand your ground" law, which the judge would not allow Alexander to invoke. State Attorney Angela Corey, who also is overseeing the prosecution of shooter George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case, stands by the handling of Alexander's case. Corey says she believes Alexander aimed the gun at the man and his two sons, and the bullet she fired could have ricocheted and hit any of them.

At the May 11 sentencing, Alexander's relatives begged Circuit Judge James Daniel for leniency but he said the decision was "out of my hands."

"The Legislature has not given me the discretion to do what the family and many others have asked me to do," he said.

The state's "10-20-life" law was implemented in 1999 and credited with helping to lower the violent crime rate. Anyone who shows a gun in the commission of certain felonies gets an automatic 10 years in prison. Fire the gun, and it's an automatic 20 years. Shoot and wound someone, and it's 25 years to life.

Critics say Alexander's case underscores the unfair sentences that can result when laws strip judges of discretion. About two-thirds of the states have mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, mostly for drug crimes, according to a website for the Families Against Mandatory Minimums advocacy group.

"We're not saying she's not guilty of a crime, we're not saying that she doesn't deserve some sort of sanction by the court," said Greg Newburn, Florida director for the group. Rather, he said, the judge should have the authority to decide an appropriate sanction after hearing all the unique circumstances of the case.

U.S. Rep. Corinne Brown, D-Jacksonville, has been an advocate for Alexander. Brown was present at the sentencing, where she and Corey had a brief, terse exchange afterward as sign-toting supporters rallied outside the courthouse.

"The Florida criminal justice system has sent two clear messages today," Brown said afterward. "One is that if women who are victims of domestic violence try to protect themselves, the `Stand Your Ground Law' will not apply to them. ... The second message is that if you are black, the system will treat you differently."

Victor Crist was a Republican state legislator who crafted the "10-20-life" bill enacted in 1999 in Gov. Jeb Bush's first term. He said Alexander's sentence ? if she truly did fire a warning shot and wasn't trying to kill her husband ? is not what lawmakers wanted.

"We were trying to get at the thug who was robbing a liquor store who had a gun in his possession or pulled out the gun and threatened someone or shot someone during the commission of the crime," said Crist, who served in the state House and Senate for 18 years before being elected Hillsborough County commissioner.

On Aug. 1, 2010, Alexander was working for a payroll software company. She was estranged from her husband, Rico Gray, and had a restraining order against him, even though they'd had a baby together just nine days before. Thinking he was gone, she went to their former home to retrieve the rest of her clothes, family members said.

An argument ensued, and Alexander said she feared for her life when she went out to her vehicle and retrieved the gun she legally owned. She came back inside and ended up firing a shot into the wall, which ricocheted into the ceiling.

Gray testified that he saw Alexander point the gun at him and looked away before she fired the shot. He claims she was the aggressor, and he had begged her to put away the weapon.

A judge threw out Alexander's "stand your ground" self-defense claim, noting that she could have run out of the house to escape her husband but instead got the gun and went back inside. Alexander rejected a plea deal that would have resulted in a three-year prison sentence and chose to go to trial. A jury deliberated 12 minutes before convicting her.

"The irony of the 10-20-life law is the people who actually think they're innocent of the crime, they roll the dice and take their chances, and they get the really harsh prison sentences," Newburn said. "Whereas the people who think they are actually guilty of the crime take the plea deal and get out (of prison) well before. So it certainly isn't working the way it is intended."

Alexander was also charged with domestic battery four months after the shooting in another assault on Gray. She pleaded no contest and was sentenced to time served.

Her family says that doesn't erase the fact that a relatively law-abiding person ? a woman with a master's degree ? who was making positive contributions to society will endure prison for two decades over a single violation in which no one was hurt.

"She had a restraining order against him. Now Marissa is incarcerated and he's not," said her father, Raoul Jenkins. "I'm wrestling with that in my mind and trying to determine how the system worked that detail out. It's really frustrating."

Newburn says Alexander's case is not an isolated incident, and that people ensnared by mandatory-minimum laws cross racial barriers.

In central Florida, a white man named Orville Lee Wollard is nearly two years into a 20-year sentence for firing his gun inside his house to scare his daughter's boyfriend. Prosecutors contended that Wollard was shooting at the young man and missed.

He rejected a plea deal that offered probation but no prison time. Like Alexander, he took his chances at trial and was convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm. Circuit Judge Donald Jacobsen said he was "duty bound" by the 10-20-life law to impose the harsh sentence.

"I would say that, if it wasn't for the minimum mandatory aspect of this, I would use my discretion and impose some separate sentence, having taken into consideration the circumstances of this event," Jacobsen said.

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Read more: "Trials highlight worrying flaws in psychiatry 'bible'"

"LABEL jars, not people" and "stop medicalising the normal symptoms of life" read placards, as hundreds of protesters - including former patients, academics and doctors - gathered to lobby the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting.

The demonstration aimed to highlight the harm the protesters believe psychiatry is perpetrating in the name of healing. One concern is that while psychiatric medications are more widely prescribed than almost any drugs in history, they often don't work well and have debilitating side effects. Psychiatry also professes to respect human rights, while regularly treating people against their will. Finally, psychiatry keeps expanding its list of disorders without solid scientific justification.

At the heart of the issue is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - psychiatry's diagnostic "bible" (see main story). Allen Frances, who headed the last major rewrite of the manual - DSM-IV - fears that the revised version will undermine the profession's credibility. "What concerns me most," he says, "is that its publication will dramatically expand the realm of psychiatry and narrow the realm of normality."

Among the revisions he believes will be most damaging are those to generalised anxiety disorder, which threatens to turn the pains and disappointments of everyday life into mental illness, while "disruptive mood dysregulation disorder" will see children's temper tantrums become symptoms of a disorder.

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One protester, Harvard graduate and writer Laura Delano, started taking psychiatric medication at age 14, after a bipolar diagnosis. She felt this worsened her state until, in 2004, she attempted suicide. It was only once she had rejected her treatment and her identity as a psychiatric patient that things began to get better.

Many of the protesters want reform in the shape of alternatives to drug treatment. As protest organiser Susan Rogers explained: "People here are for choice, for the right to decline as well as choose treatment. We want sufferers to know there are alternatives to hospitals and medication - they can go into peer support run by people like themselves."

"The best success rate for a diagnosis of schizophrenia is in rural Finland, where there is a slogan that problems aren't in our heads, but between our heads," says fellow organiser David Oaks. "They emphasise the importance of peer support in recovery."

Talking to psychiatrists as they filed past the protest, there was quite a lot of sympathy. "These voices have to be heard. We are seeing a manifestation of some legitimate concerns," said one.

Another was nearly as militant as the protesters: "Psychiatrists usually take 15 minutes to give a diagnosis, so we shouldn't be surprised if we are getting it wrong. These 15-minute sessions are a form of malpractice."

The APA's response was to say: "Many of the proposed changes help to better characterise people currently seeking treatment but who are not well defined by DSM-IV. It is unfortunate there are instances in which people do not feel they have benefited, but these circumstances cannot discredit the clinical practice of psychiatry, or those helped by mental healthcare."

It is significant that the protests exposed once again the lines of division not just between protesters and the establishment, but within the establishment too. Meanwhile, patients are still caught in the middle, sometimes to their detriment.

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Cable and Internet service provider Comcast on Thursday announced plans to replace its broadband usage cap with what it calls an ?improved data usage management approach.? The bottom line: If you?re a heavy user of Comcast?s broadband Internet services, you may be paying more for the privilege. The news comes from a post to Comcast?s blog attributed to executive VP and general manager of communications and data services, Cathy Avgiris.

Comcast has been under fire in recent weeks after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and others suggested that Comcast?s ?Xfinity for Xbox? app violated the spirit, if not the letter, of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy on ?net neutrality? ? the principle that Internet service providers such as Comcast should not restrict communication from some services over others. Comcast doesn?t count data transmitted through the Xfinity app against the user?s bandwidth cap, unlike similar software from other companies, including HBO and Netflix.

Comcast, for its part, denies that this is the case, and has said in statements that Xfinity for Xbox is run on its own private IP network, and is therefore not subject to net neutrality rules. This point is underscored by Avgiris, who wrote, ??for the last six months we have been analyzing the market and our process and think that now is the time to begin to move to a new plan. This conclusion was only reinforced when, in recent weeks, some of the conversation around our new product introductions focused on our data usage threshold, rather than on the exciting opportunities we are offering our customers.?

Avgiris tacitly admittedly that Comcast?s bandwidth usage cap hasn?t kept up with technology. ?Four years ago, when we first instituted a broadband Internet data usage threshold, the iPhone had just been introduced?the iPad didn?t exist?and the experience of watching streaming video on your home PC or through a Roku box or direct to an Internet-capable TV was much different than it is now.?

Avgiris said that over the next few months, Comcast will trial its new data usage management policy, starting with new tiered ?usage allotments.? The good news is that everyone will get more bandwidth to play with: 300 GB per month, up from 250 GB. Users who opt for Comcast?s Blast and Extreme services will have higher allotments, and users who require additional bandwidth will be charged $10 per 50 GB.

?In markets where we are not trialing a new data usage management approach, we will suspend enforcement of our current usage cap as we transition to a new data usage management approach, although we will continue to contact the very small number of excessive users about their usage,? wrote Avgiris.

(Thanks to Dwight Silverman at the Houston Chronicle for first alerting us of this change via Twitter.)

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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says U.S. Census figures and HUD statistics report April registered a 2.3 percent gain in housing starts, marking a 717,000 seasonally-adjusted annual rate (SAAR). Single-family home construction was up 2.3 percent while multi-family gained 3.2 percentage. MHProNews.com has learned from various sources while sales of single-family homes have flip-flopped, the demand for rentals has risen, resulting in increased multi-family construction and a rise in rental costs. Regionally, the Midwest gained 6.7 percent, and the South was up 11.6 percent. The Northeast fell 20.7 percent, and the West declined 8.1 percent. While noting ongoing tight credit, NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe says, ?While still less than half the pace of what we would expect in a fully healthy market, the rate of housing production in April was very solid for this point of the recovery.?

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease ? by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.

The most ambitious attempt: An international study announced Tuesday will track whether an experimental drug can stall the disease in people who appear healthy but are genetically destined to get a type of Alzheimer's that runs in the family. If so, it would be exciting evidence that maybe regular Alzheimer's is preventable too.

A second study will test whether a nasal spray that sends insulin to the brain helps people with very early memory problems, based on separate research linking diabetes to an increased risk of Alzheimer's.

The new focus emerges as the Obama administration adopts the first national strategy to fight the worsening Alzheimer's epidemic ? a plan that sets the clock ticking toward finally having effective treatments by 2025.

"We are at an exceptional moment," with more important discoveries about Alzheimer's in the last few months than in recent years, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, declared Tuesday.

But a meeting of the world's top Alzheimer's scientists this week made clear that meeting the 2025 deadline will require developing a mix of treatments to attack the different ways that Alzheimer's damages the brain ? much like it can take a cocktail of drugs to treat high blood pressure or the AIDS virus.

Perhaps more importantly, it will require testing possible drugs before full-blown Alzheimer's sets in, when it may be too late to do much good. After all, Alzheimer's starts ravaging the brain at least a decade before memory problems appear. And doctors don't wait until the worst symptoms appear before treating heart disease, cancer or diabetes, noted Dr. Reisa Sperling of Harvard Medical School.

"Once the train leaves the station of degeneration, it might be too late to stop it," Sperling said. "We need to define the critical window for intervention."

Future therapy is far from the only goal of the first National Alzheimer's Plan. It's a two-pronged approach, promising to provide better and support for overwhelmed families along the way.

"A lot more needs to be done and it needs to be done right now, because people with Alzheimer's disease and their loved ones and caregivers need help right now," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in announcing the plan.

Among the first steps: A new website ? www.alzheimers.gov ? that Sebelius called a one-stop shop for families offers easy-to-understand information about dementia and links to resources in their own communities. The government will offer free training to doctors and other health providers on how to spot the early signs of Alzheimer's and care for those patients. This summer, a campaign will begin to improve public awareness of Alzheimer's, important in reducing the stigma that helps fuel late diagnosis and the isolation that so many affected families feel.

Patient advocates applauded the move, and country music legend Glen Campbell, who has Alzheimer's, appeared on Capitol Hill to urge more research.

Alzheimer's "has been in the shadows for far too long," said Eric J. Hall of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America. The plan "provides solid stepping stones toward substantial change."

Already, 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer's or related dementias. Barring a research breakthrough, those numbers will jump by 2050, when up to 16 million Americans are projected to have Alzheimer's.

There is no cure, and the five medications available today only temporarily ease some symptoms. Finding better ones has been a disappointing slog: Over the last decade, 10 drugs that initially seemed promising failed in late-stage testing, Sperling said.

Moreover, scientists still don't know exactly what causes Alzheimer's. The chief suspects are a sticky gunk called beta-amyloid, which makes up the disease's hallmark brain plaques, and tangles of a protein named tau that clogs dying brain cells. One theory: Amyloid may kick off the disease while tau speeds up the brain destruction.

Previous studies of anti-amyloid drugs have failed, but that new international study will test a different one, in a different way: About 300 people from a huge extended family in Colombia who share a gene mutation that triggers Alzheimer's in their 40s will test an experimental drug, Genentech's crenezumab, to see if it delays onset of symptoms. The study also will include some Americans who inherit Alzheimer's causing gene mutations.

Meanwhile, there are brain-protective steps that anyone can take that just might help, Dr. Carl Cotman of the University of California, Irvine, told Tuesday's NIH meeting.

"It's just a well-kept secret," he said.

The advice:

--Your brain is like a muscle so exercise it. Intellectual and social stimulation help build what's called "cognitive reserve," the ability to withstand declines from aging and dementia.

?Getting physical is crucial also. Clogged arteries slow blood flow to the brain, and people who are less active in middle age are at increased risk of Alzheimer's when they're older. "Any time your heart is healthier, your brain is healthier," said Dr. Elizabeth Head of the University of Kentucky.

--Don't forget diet, she added. The same foods that are heart-healthy are brain-healthy, such as the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish.

___

Lauran Neergaard covers health and medicine for The Associated Press in Washington.

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Authors suggest it could help in preoperative diagnosis along with other methods

DENVER The most recent research released in June's Journal of Thoracic Oncology says molecular biomarkers in the tissue and fluid lining the lungs might be an additional predictive technique for lung cancer screening.

Since the National Lung Screening Trial found that 96.4 percent of the positive CT screening results were false positive, scientists have been looking for ways to more accurately diagnose patients. This research focused on a way to determine if the nodules detected by the CT screening, are in fact malignant or benign.

The study presented in the June 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology collected endobronchial epithelial-lining fluid (ELF) near a lung nodule using bronchoscopic microsampling, which is a less invasive procedure compared to surgery.

After studying 142 ELF samples from 71 patients with pulmonary nodules, some cancerous, others non cancerous, the authors conclude that, "TNC (tenasin-C) gene expression and the nodule size are two independent factors that improved the prediction of lung cancer. However this finding has to be verified in larger cohorts."

The authors point out that in previous research, "tumor markers like CEA and CYFRA were found to be in higher abundance in ELF close to the small peripheral lung carcinoma when compared to the contralateral site or benign cases."

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The lead authors of this work include: Dr. Nicolas Kahn, Thoraxklinik University of Heidelberg; Philipp Schnabel, Institute of Pathology in Heidelberg; and Prof. Ruprecht Kuner, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg. Other IASLC member co-authors include: Michael Meister, Thomas Muley and Dr. Felix Herth.

About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit www.iaslc.org.

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Authors suggest it could help in preoperative diagnosis along with other methods

DENVER The most recent research released in June's Journal of Thoracic Oncology says molecular biomarkers in the tissue and fluid lining the lungs might be an additional predictive technique for lung cancer screening.

Since the National Lung Screening Trial found that 96.4 percent of the positive CT screening results were false positive, scientists have been looking for ways to more accurately diagnose patients. This research focused on a way to determine if the nodules detected by the CT screening, are in fact malignant or benign.

The study presented in the June 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology collected endobronchial epithelial-lining fluid (ELF) near a lung nodule using bronchoscopic microsampling, which is a less invasive procedure compared to surgery.

After studying 142 ELF samples from 71 patients with pulmonary nodules, some cancerous, others non cancerous, the authors conclude that, "TNC (tenasin-C) gene expression and the nodule size are two independent factors that improved the prediction of lung cancer. However this finding has to be verified in larger cohorts."

The authors point out that in previous research, "tumor markers like CEA and CYFRA were found to be in higher abundance in ELF close to the small peripheral lung carcinoma when compared to the contralateral site or benign cases."

###

The lead authors of this work include: Dr. Nicolas Kahn, Thoraxklinik University of Heidelberg; Philipp Schnabel, Institute of Pathology in Heidelberg; and Prof. Ruprecht Kuner, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg. Other IASLC member co-authors include: Michael Meister, Thomas Muley and Dr. Felix Herth.
About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit www.iaslc.org.

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New hire led Kennedy to state in 2008

Matt Vollum, who was head boys basketball coach at Bloomington Kennedy High School from 2002 to 2009, has been appointed to the same position at Eagan.

Vollum coached Kennedy to the 2008 state Class 4A tournament, where the Eagles lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Minnetonka.

He taught physical education in Bloomington Public Schools from 1997 to 2009 and was Kennedy High School?s boys athletic coordinator for six years. He also was an assistant football coach at Kennedy and an assistant in basketball, golf and football at Bloomington Jefferson.

In 2010, he joined the University of Minnesota?s kinesiology department as coordinator of its teacher licensure program. He is working toward a doctorate in sport sociology at Minnesota.

Vollum replaces Mike Sullivan, who led Eagan to a 15-13 record in one season as interim head coach. Sullivan became head coach in November 2011 when Kurt Virgin was placed on paid administrative leave while School District 196 reviewed the finances of sports camps and fundraisers that he ran.

The district accepted Virgin?s retirement from his coaching and teaching positions Jan. 9; the next day, Eagan police announced that the department would investigate his handling of the camp and fundraiser finances. Last week the Dakota County Attorney?s Office charged Virgin with six counts of theft by swindle, accusing him of stealing more than $29,000 from the accounts of several sports camps and teams.

Virgin had been Eagan High School?s boys basketball and boys soccer coach since 1990, when the school started sponsoring varsity sports. His basketball teams reached the state tournament in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005. Eagan finished second in the 1998 state Class 4A tournament.

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A very small greater than 50 years earlier dad involved to view my primary certified sports (basketball) recreation, not Manchester United, not Gatwick or Collection, Rotherham Combined. That happen to be, or have been, Rotherham Combined you could ask. Nicely, they continue to occur, at the same time inside lower echelons from the English Football Category, and I?m even now a supporter. So nothing?s changed? To the contrary, the full textile of English football changed and transformed very a great deal for the most detrimental as far as reduced little league groups are worried. Where by when most of us ran with a levels playing field an exceptional try to portion is produced that continues to expand.

Go ahead and take presence figures, for example. Throngs of people at Rotherham ended up in no way large in contrast to Premier League criteria but generally they has been in the region of 10,000 ? 12,000 with perhaps around 16,000 or 17,000 with an FA (Baseball Connection) Tumbler online game from larger stage level of resistance or even for an activity against an individual your community competition, Sheffield Wednesday or Sheffield Combined. Added than ample to support the pub specifically when some players ended up being made to nutritional supplement their miniscule income by performing at the community colliery, some thing incomprehensible nowadays of really blown up installments. Right now the average attendance is straight down by two-thirds to around 3,500. So exactly where have the men and women long gone?

Proficiently, to fill out for you to initial should seem at world for a finish. Rotherham, inside the late 40s and fifties, would be a doing the job class city painting its aid primarily from steelworkers, colliery staff and labourers. At the moment these businesses necessary but faded away absolutely. The household tradition of following a daddy with his fantastic pops into your foundry or on the acquire have extensive removed and the sight of 3 decades going to a game on the Sat daytime is already a scarcity as an alternative to very common.

There have been couple of solution types of entertainment in these days, the town nightclub, the movie theater and football ? cricket inside Summer time many weeks ? has been the only real options offered. Number of homes got telly, if they that got 1 direct, in non colored documents, that demonstrated shows only for a handful of hours each day. Some has a gramophone player and a collection of ?78? data, mostly huge rings or conventional tenors. Presently, the alternatives are unlimited. 30 4 an hour color telly with a hundred or so and 40 programs in Harley-davidson, Dvd videos, Compact discs, Have fun with Gas stops, Game Consoles, House Movie theatre Solutions with surround, ipods on the market? and that may be prior to you phase through top entry.

Men and women demand from customers a lot more currently with regards to ease, company and business presentation. With the end of your 20th century a number of hockey arenas was turned into superb, system edifices with steeply relied seating giving uninterrupted opinions on the try to sell, sheltered from the components by huge cantilevered ceiling buildings. Not at Rotherham featuring a leaking top, failing bare concrete and early wood. Not for people like us a 4 system selection in one particular of a selection of premium quality carpeted, chandeliered eateries with intelligently clad servers and waitresses in presence. Queuing while it?s raining for a glass of Bovril and a beef and spud pies at a hut behind the ter was our connoisseur stand up.

Was we green with envy? No chance. That it was house, our property, our surface. It was in which we achieved our good friends, wherever we sold chit chat with compete with enthusiasts, in front of segregation created a longer term split. That it was exactly where we backed our team. Win or eliminate, water or glow.

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In the mid-90s, author Toni Morrison famously referred to Bill Clinton as "the first black President" based on his empathy, efforts to foster broad socioeconomic equality and commitment to issues important to African-American community at large.

Newsweek plays off this quote in its new cover story on President Barack Obama.

Following Obama's public support of same-sex marriage, he has been dubbed The First Gay President ... in a manner of speaking of course:

While Obama's statement was groundbreaking and bold, will his "coming out" on behalf of gay marriage even make a different in November’s election?

"If you were going to cast your vote based on a candidate's position regarding same-sex marriage, you were already going to vote for Obama [or] Romney based on that," Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank said on ABC's This Week.

"I literally don't think anybody's vote was changed one way or the other."

In any case, Obama’s end to “evolving” on gay marriage will continue to generate critical comment, and not all of it positive, even from the left.

“His embrace of gay marriage was not a profile in courage,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, taking issue with adulation shown toward the President (such as on the cover above) more than anything.

“Even when he does the right thing, by the time he does it and in the way he does it, he drains away excitement and robs himself of the admiration he would otherwise be due ... Why doesn’t he just do the exhilarating thing immediately?"

"Why does he have to be dragged kicking and screaming to principle?”

With Obama's face pictured looking skyward and a rainbow-colored halo above his head, the controversial cover leads to a story written by openly gay writer Andrew Sullivan, a self-described political conservative.

The boundary-pushing May 21 Newsweek issue featuring Obama, available Monday, comes after Time magazine's breastfeeding cover last week, which featured an attractive 26-year-old mother nursing her toddler son.

The cover sparked strong reactions across the world last week and led a Newsweek spokesperson to tell the New York Post that the magazine's editor Tina Brown had viewed the cover as a challenge.

"When Tina saw the Time cover, she laughed and said, 'Let the games begin,'" the spokesperson told the Post.

Game on.

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