After 1 key witness in bounty appeal, now Williams

FILE - This Feb. 4, 2012 file photo shows former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue in Indianapolis. Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have arrived in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. (AP Photo/David Stluka, File)

FILE - This Feb. 4, 2012 file photo shows former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue in Indianapolis. Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have arrived in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. (AP Photo/David Stluka, File)

FILE - This Aug. 5, 2009 file photo shows, former New Orleans Saints assistant football coach Mike Cerullo, second from left, meeting with, from left, Saints cornerback Tracy Porter (22), assistant special teams coach Mike Mallory, and assistant secondary coach Tony Oden, in Metairie, La. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have arrived in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. Cerullo is a key witness in the NFl's investigation. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2011 file photo, then-New Orleans Saints football team defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is seen at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have arrived in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. Williams has been suspended from the league. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

FILE - This Oct. 21, 2012 file photo shows New Orleans Saints football linebacker Jonathan Vilma (51) running onto the field in Tampa, Fla., Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have arrived in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. Vilma and fellow player Will Smith, who were suspended said they plan to attend. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

FILE - This Sept. 9, 2012 file photo shows New Orleans Saints football defensive end Will Smith (91) warming up before an NFL football game in New Orleans. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and lawyers for the league and the players' union have in Washington, Thursday for a hearing in the Saints bounties case. Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. Smith and fellow player Jonathan Vilma, who were suspended said they plan to attend. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Lawyers for players appealing NFL suspensions in the New Orleans Saints bounties case cross-examined one key witness Thursday. Now they're supposed to get a chance to confront another central figure: former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.

Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals; former Saints assistant coach Mike Cerullo was scheduled to take questions Thursday. Lawyers for the league and the NFL Players Association spent more than nine hours in a Washington office building.

"I am keeping with the direction of the commissioner to not talk about this," NFL senior vice president Adolpho Birch said on his way out.

Tagliabue has insisted on keeping the contents of the private hearings under wraps. He and various lawyers attending Thursday's session declined to comment afterward.

Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith have said they plan to be present Friday when Williams is slated to be there. New Orleans was playing at the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night.

Vilma and Smith ? along with two former Saints, free-agent defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove and Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita ? were suspended by the NFL for the Saints' cash-for-hits program that the league says Williams ran from 2009 to 2011.

Smith, suspended four games, and Vilma, suspended for the entire current season, have been playing while their appeals are pending.

The NFL has described Vilma and Smith as ringleaders of a performance pool designed to knock targeted opponents out of games. The league has sworn statements from Williams and Cerullo saying Vilma offered $10,000 to anyone who knocked quarterback Brett Favre out of the NFC championship game at the end of the 2009 season.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued the initial suspensions, which also included a full-season ban for Saints head coach Sean Payton.

Lawsuits brought by Vilma and the NFL Players Association to challenge Goodell's handling of the case, including his decision in October to appoint Tagliabue as the arbitrator for the appeals, are pending in federal court in New Orleans.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan gave the parties until Monday to answer questions about whether the NFL's collective bargaining agreement prevents a commissioner from handing out discipline for legal contact, and whether the CBA's passages about detrimental conduct are "ambiguous, hence unenforceable."

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Barnes & Noble reports Q2 2013 earnings: digital content sales up 38%, Nook unit rakes $160 million

Barnes & Noble reports Q2 2013 earnings digital content sales up 38%, Nook unit rakes $160 million

Barnes & Noble's Nook unit didn't have its greatest quarter. The $160 million in revenue the new Microsoft-backed spin off raked in was slightly better than last year's $152 million, but still a significant drop from $220 million. In a sign of the growing ubiquity of e-readers however, digital content sales were up 38 percent while the units overall revenue was up just 6 percent. Of course the Nook is still losing money, having cut $51 million from the company's bottom line. If you step outside of the digital realm things are looking slightly better for the book purveyor, as profits were up to $65 million -- a 15.6 percent increase over the same time period last year. As we enter the holiday season things should start to look up for B&N and there were good signs during the four day shop-stravaganza from Black Friday to Cyber Monday as sales of Nook hardware doubled from last year. For all the fun financial details hit up the source.

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Kat Harting (left), Delmarva Education Foundation board member, presents a check for $18,895.38 to Mike Pennington, president of the Delmarva Education Foundation board of directors, on Nov. 15. The donation represents the final portion of a $175,000 bequest to the Delmarva Education Foundation from the estate of Dr. Donald Harting, the organization's founder. Dr. Harting passed away last year.?The Delmarva Education Foundation promotes college access and success for residents of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties, largely by helping students find money to continue their education.

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Thyroid problems linked to irregular heart rhythm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? People with an overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism) carry a greater risk of developing irregular heart rhythm (known as atrial fibrillation) than those with normal thyroid function, finds a study published on bmj.com today.

As such, the researchers suggest there should be an increased focus on atrial fibrillation in patients with raised thyroid function.

Hyperthyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland makes too much thyroxine (thyroid hormone), causing many of the body's functions to speed up. About 1 in 100 women and 1 in 1,000 men develop hyperthyroidism at some stage of their life and it can happen at any age.

It is well known that overt hyperthyroidism is associated with atrial fibrillation, but it's still not clear whether milder (subclinical) hyperthyroidism has a similar effect. Data on the risk of atrial fibrillation in patients with an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) is also limited.

So a team of researchers in Denmark set out to examine the risk of atrial fibrillation in relation to the whole spectrum of thyroid disease in a large group of patients.

Using nationwide registries, they identified 586,460 patients who had consulted a general practitioner in Copenhagen from 2000 to 2010 and had a thyroid function blood test. This measures the amount of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) circulating in the blood. In people with hyperthyroidism the level of TSH will usually be low, whereas in people with hypothyroidism the level of TSH will usually be high.

During an average five and a half years follow-up, 17,154 (3%) of patients had a diagnosis of a first atrial fibrillation, 53% of whom were women.

Compared to patients with normal thyroid function, the risk of atrial fibrillation increased with decreasing levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone. For example, patients with subclinical hyperthyroidism had a 30% increased risk of atrial fibrillation, while patients with high-normal thyroid function had a 12% increased risk.

In contrast, hypothyroidism was associated with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation.

The authors stress that, although atrial fibrillation was closely associated with thyroid activity, they cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship. However, they say their study is "the first to assess the association between the whole spectrum of thyroid disease and the subsequent risk of atrial fibrillation in a population of primary care patients."

They conclude: "These results support long term screening for atrial fibrillation in patients with thyroid disease."

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YARMOUTH, Maine ? The hug was the last thing to go.

?Even when [my mom] didn?t recognize my face, she?d recognize my hugs,? Theresa Saxton said. ?She taught me how to hug, and I give these really big hugs. She would recognize me through those hugs and she would just cry, because it brought back something familiar.?

Theresa first realized her mother likely had Alzheimer?s disease the day after Thanksgiving 13 years ago, when Linda Sue Saxton was just 54 years old. Theresa Saxton had made roasted garlic as a side dish for the family feast, and her mother raved about how good it was.

The next morning, her mother denied ever having tried the roasted garlic, and became angry when Theresa pushed the issue.

?It was one of those moments when you know something?s not right ? it?s not your mom,? Theresa recalled. ?She got really, really angry. I realized afterward that she was probably scared because she couldn?t remember.?

What has transpired since then, she said, has been a painful process of lost memories and disappearing relationships that many Alzheimer?s sufferers and their families know all too well.

?It?s a wild journey going from limited conversation where she can say, ?I love you and miss you,? and recognize me by my hugs, to a place where she [can only mumble] and lacks mobility,? Theresa said.

Linda Sue Saxton now is in the late stages of the disease and lives with Theresa?s father and sister in upstate New York, just outside of Albany. Theresa visits about once a month.

?The hardest part is that she doesn?t look like my mom anymore,? said Theresa, who for the last nine years has lived in Yarmouth. ?It?s a very slow loss.?

But for many of her earliest years with the disease, her mother ?owned it? and kept a positive attitude, Theresa said.

?She immediately kind of accepted it,? she recalled. ?She would introduce herself and say, ?Hi, my name is Linda and I have Alzheimer?s, so I apologize if I forget some things.??

The experience has motivated Theresa ? who owns Fitness Success Personal Training at 94 Main St. ? to develop a new, upbeat fundraiser for Alzheimer?s research and care.

Theresa, a personal trainer, is letting her clients ? and anyone else who wants to get some light-hearted revenge on personal trainers ? make her sweat. Donors can buy sets of exercises, or minutes on a workout machine of one kind or another, which Theresa will have to perform at her fitness studio starting the morning of Dec. 1.

Donors can come by and sip mimosas or nibble on bagels and revel in seeing Theresa, who admitted to sometimes turning up the resistance on her clients? exercise bikes to push them just a little harder, working her tail off.

Theresa said she set a goal of $1,550, with sets of 12 reps going for between $15 and $25, and she?s already surpassed it. The money will benefit the Maine chapter of the Alzheimer?s Association.

?I think I was probably aiming a little low, because of all the trouble I?ve had over the years doing fundraisers,? she said.

Or because she underestimated the what-goes-around-comes-around factor.

?Everybody?s definitely having fun with it,? said Theresa, who wants to make her ?Train the Trainer? benefit an annual event. ?[I might be working out] a really long time.?

To donate, visit Theresa Saxton?s website fitness-success.biz/trainthetrainer or mail a check, made out to the Maine Chapter of the Alzheimer?s Association, to 94 Main St., Yarmouth 04096.

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Bangladesh factory fires highlight working conditions

Just after a fire killed at least 112 workers at a garment factory in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, another 10-story factory caught fire Monday morning, and thousands took to the streets to protest the factories? poor safety standards.

Though no one was killed in the second fire, during both fires the main doors to the factories were reported to be padlocked, blocking easy escape.

The protests put a spotlight on the poor working conditions, lack of fire escapes, and garment owner negligence that has wracked the world's second-largest garment-exporting country, where firms produce clothing for high-profile brands including Gap, H&M, and Wal-Mart.

?Every time these incidents occur, the owners get away without making any change to their working conditions inside the factories,? says Sultan Uddin Ahmmed, assistant executive director of Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies (BILS). ?These incidents will have to be treated as an offense in order to stop such occurrences.?

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Bangladesh's garment industry employs 4 million people, 3 million of them women, at some 4,500 factories, says Siddiqur Rahman, acting president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). And between 1990 and 2012, there have been at least major 33 fires in garment factories, claiming some 500 lives, according to BILS.

The 2006 Bangladesh Labor Law and the Factories Rules of 1979 would be strong laws if they were applied effectively, says Babul Akhter, president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers? Federation, a national trade union federation. Both legal frameworks stress the welfare of workers and settlement of disputes between workers and employers. To date, however, none of the factory fires have had a conclusive investigation, nor has anyone been found responsible.

The Factories Rules require specific provisions for escape in the event of an emergency for factory buildings housing explosive or highly flammable materials: "The means of escape shall include at least two separate and substantial stairways permanently constructed either inside or outside the building and which afford direct and unimpeded access to ground level."

Garment factories have had problems since the early 1990s, when the industry was developing. ?Unfortunately, the owners pay no heed to ensure the minimum safety standards inside the buildings,? says Mr. Selim.

That's because the rules are easy to get around, say observers.

Though international buyers often require factories meet the safety and requirements, often the auditors representing them are not well trained, says Selim, enticing owners to save money by only appearing to adhere to standards.

When the industry was just starting, there was a government push to expand, says an insider within the fire service. That push encouraged looking the other way when it came to safety inspections, at least temporarily. ?In the initial stage, for the expansion of industry, the fire service issued warehouse or workshop license to buildings, overlooking many compliance issues,? says the insider.

But the practice has continued even as Bangladesh's garment industry, which currently makes up some 80 percent of its export revenue, has boomed. The sector earned $19 billion in the financial year that ended in June 2012.

Many activists and workers blame the factory owners.

The gates are padlocked primarily for two reasons, says Mr. Akhter, ?so that workers do not leave the workplace or raw materials and goods do not get stolen.?

But he says that if cameras were installed and security guards present, they wouldn?t have to lock the doors.

?It comes as a moral responsibility for the owners to ensure the fire safety standards," he says. "Locking the exits at the stairways means that the owners prioritize their goods and raw materials over the lives of the workers,? he says.

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Bioengineered marine algae expands environments where biofuels can be produced

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2012) ? Biologists at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that marine algae can be just as capable as fresh water algae in producing biofuels.

The scientists genetically engineered marine algae to produce five different kinds of industrially important enzymes and say the same process they used could be employed to enhance the yield of petroleum-like compounds from these salt water algae. Their achievement is detailed in a paper published online in the current issue of the scientific journal Algal Research.

The ability to genetically transform marine algae into a biofuel crop is important because it expands the kinds of environments in which algae can be conceivably grown for biofuels. Corn, for example, which is used to produce ethanol biofuel, requires prime farmland and lots of fresh water. But the UC San Diego study suggests that algal biofuels can be produced in the ocean or in the brackish water of tidelands or even on agricultural land on which crops can no longer be grown because of high salt content in the soil.

"What our research shows is that we can achieve in marine species exactly what we've already done in fresh water species," said Stephen Mayfield, a professor of biology at UC San Diego, who headed the research project. "There are about 10 million acres of land across the United States where crops can no longer be grown that could be used to produce algae for biofuels. Marine species of algae tend to tolerate a range of salt environments, but many fresh water species don't do the reverse. They don't tolerate any salt in the environment."

"The algal community has worked on fresh water species of algae for 40 years," added Mayfield, who also directs the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, or SD-CAB, a consortium of research institutions in the region working to make algal biofuels a viable transportation fuel in the future. "We know how to grow them, manipulate them genetically, express recombinant proteins -- all of the things required to make biofuels viable. It was always assumed that we could do the same thing in marine species, but there was always some debate in the community as to whether that could really be done."

That debate came to a head last month when a National Academy of Sciences committee examining the future potential of algal biofuels for the U.S. Department of Energy published a report pointing out that the production of algal biofuels might be limited by fresh water because no published research study had demonstrated the feasibility of using engineered marine species of algae.

"But now we've done it," said Mayfield. "What this means is that you can use ocean water to grow the algae that will be used to produce biofuels. And once you can use ocean water, you are no longer limited by the constraints associated with fresh water. Ocean water is simply not a limited resource on this planet."

The UC San Diego biologists focused their study on a marine species of alga, Dunaliella tertiolecta, which had been earlier targeted by scientists for potential biofuels production because of its high oil content and ability to grow rapidly under a wide range of salinity and acidic conditions. To demonstrate that it could be used in commercial biofuel production, they introduced five genes into the alga that produced five different kinds of enzymes that could be used in an industrial setting to not only convert biomass to fuel, but also increase nutrient availability in animal feed. Some of these enzymes, for example, came from a fungus that degrades plant material into simple sugars.

The scientists said in their paper that "we hope to eventually determine whether whole algae, post-oil extraction, may be used as a feed additive to improve animal feeds. Animal feed is a relatively high volume market that may be able to benefit from algae-produced proteins as a feed additive."

The UC San Diego biologists -- who included D. Ryan Georgianna, Michael Hannon, Marina Marcuschi, Alex Lewis, James Hyun -- collaborated on their project with three scientists from Sapphire Energy, Inc., a San Diego algal biotechnology company -- Shuiqin Wu, Kyle Botsch and Michael Mendez. Their research effort was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the State of California Energy Commission.

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