Astex Pharma Announces It Will Halt Development of Lung Cancer Drug

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Laborers 483 backs Jefferson Smith for mayor

Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith, left, at Local 483's January 2012 rally against City budget cuts.

Laborers Local 483 became the latest union to back Jefferson Smith for mayor of Portland Sept. 18, when members approved a motion to endorse the two-term state representative and founder of the Oregon Bus Project. Local 483 represents City workers who maintain streets, parks, and water treatment. Smith is backed by three other City worker unions ? AFSCME Local 189, Portland Firefighters Association, and Portland Police Association ?? as well as the Portland Association of Teachers, Communications Workers of America Local 7901, and the Oregon Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers.

The other candidate in the race, former city commissioner Charlie Hales, has the endorsement of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757, Operating Engineers Local 701, Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, Service Employees International Union locals 49 and 503, Teamsters Joint Council 37, and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555.

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Foxconn's Taiyuan plant on riot, facilities damaged (updated)

Foxconn's Taiyuan plant on riot

News just came in that workers at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant have started a riot in the wee hours in China, and that police forces are on site to control the crowd. While the motive isn't clear, Sina Weibo user Li Tian reports that the riot isn't related to the recent anti-Japan protests, though judging by his photos, much damage has been done in the process. The same site suffered from a strike back in March over salary dispute -- the front-line workers failed to receive the promised pay rise. On a similar note, Foxconn's Chengdu plant also had a riot in June, but that was apparently due to an argument between some workers and a local restaurant owner.

Update: We are seeing unofficial reports claiming that the riot was triggered by security guards hitting a worker at 10pm local time.

This event is still ongoing. We will update with more info when available.

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Manning comes up short, Texans beat Broncos 31-25

DENVER (AP) ? Fall behind by 20. Lose by six. Take away those ugly interceptions and this failed comeback should have felt plenty familiar to Peyton Manning.

For the second straight game, Manning's comeback from way down came up short for the Denver Broncos.

Matt Schaub threw for four touchdowns against a confused Broncos defense Sunday to stake the Houston Texans to a big lead on the way to a 31-25 victory.

Houston reached 3-0 for the first time in the franchise's 11-season history and beat Manning for only the third time in 19 tries ? and for the first time ever in a road game.

Manning finished 25 for 51 for 330 yards with no interceptions and two touchdowns. Both scores and 100 of those yards came after the Broncos (1-2) had fallen behind by 20, the way they did in Atlanta last Monday when their rally came up short in a 27-21 loss.

In that game, the Denver defense couldn't get Manning the ball back at the end. This time, it did, but the drive started at the 14-yard line with 20 seconds left and ended with a lost fumble after Broncos receivers tried lateraling at midfield on the last play.

Manning threw three interceptions in the first quarter of the Atlanta game to match his worst quarter in 15 years in the NFL. This time, it was the Denver defense's mistakes, not his own, that put him in the hole.

Schaub took advantage of blown coverages to connect with Andre Johnson for a 60-yard score and Kevin Walter for a 52-yard touchdown en route to a 21-5 lead in the second quarter.

After the second score, starting cornerback Tracy Porter was not seen on the field again. Porter, who returned an interception for a touchdown in Denver's only win this year ? the season opener against Pittsburgh ? spent the rest of the game guarding the Gatorade table on the sideline.

Schaub's final touchdown was a 14-yard pass to tight end Owen Daniels, who was locked in one-on-one coverage against a slower defender, linebacker Von Miller. It gave the Texans a 31-11 lead ? placing the Houston defense in the prevent and Manning into desperation mode.

His best downfield throw was the 38-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley that pulled the Broncos within 31-18 with 9:49 left in the game. His second score was a 6-yard touchdown that ricocheted into Joel Dreessen's hands with 3 minutes left.

There were no interceptions, but that's not to say Houston didn't have its way with the 36-year-old quarterback, who came into the game with 42 career touchdowns against the team he started beating when it was in its expansion season, back in 2002.

Manning's biggest headache in this one was second-year defensive end J.J. Watt, who finished with 2.5 sacks and forced a holding call in the third quarter that nullified a 36-yard gain.

Arian Foster finished with 105 yards on 25 carries for Houston. The Texans converted on their first four third downs and went ahead 14-5 when Schaub hit Foster, being covered by defensive lineman Kevin Vickerson, for a 3-yard score that Foster celebrated by blowing kisses to the crowd.

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Giant panda cub born Sept. 16 at National Zoo dies

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2011 file photo, Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, eats breakfast. Mei Xiang has given birth to a cub following five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2011 file photo, Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, eats breakfast. Mei Xiang has given birth to a cub following five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The giant panda cub born a week ago at the National Zoo in Washington has died, and it was not immediately known why the animal died, zoo officials said Sunday.

Zoo officials said in a press release that the cub was found dead Sunday morning after panda keepers heard sounds of distress from its mother, Mei Xiang.

Staffers were able to retrieve the cub about an hour later. The cub appeared to be in good condition, and there were no outward signs of trauma or infection.

The cub had been a surprise at the zoo. Fourteen-year-old Mei Xiang had five failed pregnancies before giving birth, and only one panda cub has survived at the zoo in the past.

Panda cubs are born about the size of a stick of butter and are delicate infants. Panda mothers are about 1,000 times heavier than their cubs, which are born with their eyes closed. The delicate cubs have died in the past when accidentally crushed by mom. That happened in two different zoos in China in 2009 and 2010 when mothers killed their young while attempting to nurse.

The zoo's first panda couple, Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing, arrived from China in 1972 and had five cubs during the 1980s, but none lived more than a few days. One of the cubs was stillborn, two others died of pneumonia within a day, another died from lack of oxygen after birth, and the final cub died of an infection after four days.

Panda experts have said the first weeks of life are critical for the panda cubs as mothers have to make sure they stay warm and get enough to eat.

"It's kind of a nerve-racking period for the folks that are monitoring mom and cub," Rebecca Snyder, the curator of mammals at Atlanta's zoo, said last week. Atlanta is one of only two other American zoos to have had cubs.

Atlanta has had three cubs, and the San Diego zoo has had six, including a cub born this year. A panda couple in Memphis has yet to have a cub, despite several tries. No other U.S. zoos have pandas.

The cub had not yet been named in accordance with Chinese tradition ? it was to receive a name after 100 days on Dec. 24. Had the cub survived until then, it would have been roughly the size of a loaf of bread and weighed around 10 pounds.

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Help Someone Else When You're Having Trouble Getting Started [Productivity]

Help Someone Else When You're Having Trouble Getting StartedWhen we're procrastinating, it's hard to get up the momentum to get started on a project we should be working on. Designer D. Keith Robinson's solution is to ask someone else if they need help. Once he's done, he's ready to work on his own projects.

We know that getting started is everything, but sometimes it's hard to get the motivation to force yourself to do something. Robinson's solution is simple:

Often, when I'm not sure where to start, or have a mountain of daunting tasks piling up, I begin by asking someone else if they need help with anything.

To me it's probably the single best motivational/productivity tip I can think of. Sure it's slightly counter intuitive, as you're potentially taking on work, but the rewards are mighty. I find that after I spend some time helping someone else get started (or finished) I'm refreshed and ready to get going on my own stuff.

Yes, it's a little counter intuitive in that you're still distracted from what you should be doing, but it's an easy way to take a small step towards getting yourself motivated to get things done for yourself.

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Is Cosmos a "Piece of Light Verse" Tossed Off by a Bored God?

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Massacre of preachers in Mali sign of broken army

DIABALY, Mali (AP) ? It was dusk when the aging Toyota pickup truck pulled into the first military checkpoint, loaded with at least 17 bearded men fingering prayer beads.

This pinprick of a village in central Mali is not even large enough to appear on most administrative maps. Cars pass through here so rarely that donkeys fall asleep in the center of the highway.

The preachers were coming from Mauritania and had paperwork showing they were on their way to a religious conference in Mali's capital, 270 miles (430 kilometers) away. None of them was armed.

Soldiers arrested them and brought them to a military camp. There they opened fire on the stationary truck, spraying it with their machine guns. Then they dragged out the corpses, buried them in a mass grave and launched a manhunt for those who had escaped.

Within 1? hours of the car arriving at the checkpoint, 16 of the 17 men were dead.

The AP has found that rank-and-file soldiers carried out the massacre of their own accord, ignoring not only the normal rules of engagement but also their own command structure. Their actions show just how much the military of this once-stable nation has broken down since a coup six months ago, with officers no longer able to control their troops.

These concerns about Mali's military come at a time when the world is considering sending arms, equipment and troops to help it take back the north, which has fallen to Islamic extremists. Just this week, the United Nations Security Council instructed Mali's neighbors to submit a detailed plan for military intervention, which the U.N. would support.

"It's as if Mali has fallen into a coma," said analyst Gilles Yabi, the West Africa director for the International Crisis Group and author of a recent report on this troubled country. "The reality on the ground is that it's the rank-and-file soldiers that are now in power. ... And it's in this context that you can explain such a grave blunder as what we saw happen in Diabaly."

Mali is a country of 15.8 million people that is turning into an ungoverned vaccuum, a source of increasing worry for the rest of the world. It's been exactly six months since junior officers overthrew the democratically elected government on March 22. In the wake of the coup, rebels allied with al-Qaida seized control of the north, creating a new haven for extreme Islam.

It was into this turmoil that the group of preachers stumbled, at around 7 p.m. on the night of Sept. 8. The AP has pieced their story together through interviews with the one known survivor, two police officers present at the time of the attack and their superior, diplomats, villagers, and family members in Mauritania, who prepared their bullet-riddled bodies for burial.

The Toyota minibus with plate No. 0148AN00 RIM rolled in just as dark was enveloping the bridge at Dogofri, nine miles (15 kilometers) north of Diabaly. Anyone in these parts would have recognized the letters RIM as standing for Republique Islamique de la Mauritanie, or Mauritania, Mali's more religious neighbor to the north.

The preachers included at least nine Mauritanians and seven Malians, ranging in age from 25 to 54. They belonged to the Dawa Tablighi, a fundementalist but non-violent current of Islam.

The Mali military had been instructed to monitor members of the sect, especially those trying to enter from neighboring countries, according to an internal memo dated Sept. 5, seen by Amnesty International.

"In view of the situation in the north of the country," the memo from the Department of Home and Security said, "It seems appropriate to consider steps to better marshal this association, particularly with regard to foreign participants, in order to limit their entry into the national territory."

The preachers met up in Fassala, a town at the Mauritanian border.

Two of them had tried to come to Mali in July but had been turned back. So to make sure they wouldn't have any problems, they hired Moctar Bechir, a Malian truck driver who frequently transports merchandise from Mauritania to Mali.

On Sept. 8, the truck had already been rented by a wholesaler transporting about a ton of beans. The preachers sat squished together in the cab and on top of the sacks of beans, said 51-year-old Maouloud Ould Sidi Mohamed, the sole confirmed survivor of the massacre, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

The preachers were stopped at the entrance to Dogofri, where police checked their identity cards and asked questions. The paramilitary police, or gendarmes, wrote down the list of names in a register, a copy of which the AP saw.

They were stopped again at the bridge, this time by the military. That's when the trouble started.

"There was a young man with us, Amane. He has a really nice beard," said Mohamed. "When they saw him, they got suspicious."

They sent the men inside and searched the car. All they found, Mohamed said, was a couple of pots.

Then they started to interrogate the preachers, one by one. They opened one man's bag, and found clothes and a bar of soap. Then they put the men back in the Toyota and drove them to Diabaly, in a caravan between two pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.

When they saw what the soldiers were doing, the gendarmes radioed their commander. He instructed them to send one police officer to follow the convoy on his scooter. All the gendarmes who spoke to the AP requested anonymity out of fear for their safety.

It takes less than 20 minutes to drive from Dogofri to Diabaly, a nine-mile-long dirt road of red earth beaten down by the tires of lorries. The road is lined by rice paddies on the left and a tributary of the Niger River on the right.

On that evening, like on every other, women bathed in the river topless and laid their laundry to dry out on the rocky ground. Just about the loudest sound on any normal night is the high-pitched braying of a donkey.

When the caravan arrived at the camp, the gendarme and the soldiers in the two accompanying cars went into the commander's office. Just 15 minutes later, the shooting erupted.

The gendarme ran back out and saw bodies lying on the ground. He called his superior to say the soldiers were killing the preachers. The senior officer confirmed to the AP that he received the call between 8 and 9 p.m.

"It's due to the indiscipline inside the army," said the senior officer. "The night that this happened, everyone knows which soldiers were on duty. They decided themselves, without being given an order, and without consulting with their higher-ups to do this."

The survivor, Mohamed, said the men in the truck could hear the soldiers discussing what to do with them.

"I don't think my friends could have imagined what was about to happen," said Mohamed. "But I knew. I know this country. And I understood that it was over for us."

When the shooting suddenly started, Mohamed saw people falling around him. He himself fell and hid between the cadavers in the bed of the truck.

A few moments later, he saw two people try to run. He followed them out of the car, crawling between the wheels of the lorry.

He reached a small wall. While climbing it, he lost his shoe. So he left the other one behind, ran barefoot across the rice paddies and jumped into a canal. His robe hung heavy with water, so he took it off. He swam in his underwear and undershirt.

On the other side, he hid by some trees. He says he saw the light from the torches of the soldiers looking for him.

He hid for five days. On the night of Sept. 13, they found him and took him back to the camp.

Mohamed was held by the military incommunicado for a week. He was transfered from Diabaly to a garrison in the capital, Bamako, where he was kept under constant watch. He was too afraid to even speak with an envoy from the Mauritanian embassy.

He was released this Thursday after immense diplomatic pressure, and spoke to the AP inside the Mauritanian embassy in the minutes before he was whisked off to the airport. Both Malian and Mauritanian officials confirmed his identity. The soles of his feet were pockmarked by gashes after five days of walking without shoes.

If you follow the red dirt highway another 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) south, you reach the village of Kourouma. Souma Diallo, a 40-year-old machine operator, was getting ready to go to sleep at around midnight on Sept. 8 when he heard people shouting.

He stepped out and saw the soldiers had caught an old man with a long beard. His hands were tied with his own turban. The man's whereabouts remain unknown.

Diallo also saw a young man who was bleeding from his head. It was the truck driver, Moctar Bechir ? whom Diallo recognized because both have extended family in nearby Niono. Diallo told the soldiers he knew the young man, handed over his phone and asked the driver to call people who could confirm his identity.

A few days later, on Sept. 12, the soldiers returned to Diallo's home and arrested him, he said. They accused him of complicity "with the rebels."

They brought him to the camp and started screaming at him. The soldiers had blood-shot eyes, like they were drugged, he said. When they briefly left him alone, Diallo bolted, crawled through a hole in a wall and ran for his life.

Behind the kitchen, he came face-to-face with the driver, Bechir. He was tied to a bench with a rope around his waist. They said nothing to each other.

Diallo spoke to the AP from his hiding place in a different part of Mali on the condition that his whereabouts not be disclosed.

In the days after the shooting, nine bodies with multiple bullet wounds were repatriated to Mauritania. Seven were buried in a municipal cemetery in Bamako. Mali issued a government communique expressing deep condolences, but stopping short of taking responsibility for the deaths.

Col. Idrissa Traore, director of public relations for the Malian military, acknowledged that the troops at Diabaly had violated the command structure. But he noted that the preachers came from the former sect of Iyad Ag Ghali, the head of one extremist group now controlling Mali's north.

Traore said the military had kept Mohamed for a week because he was "in a bad psychological state," and they wanted to question him.

"An investigation is in process to determine all of this. And once we are done, we will make a declaration," he said.

Representatives of the families of the dead have met with the minister of defense. He denied knowing anything about the driver.

Hassane Bechir, the 44-year-old brother of the driver, now spends his days waiting inside a room in Bamako. He smokes cigarettes, his dull eyes watching the passing images on a television a few feet away.

"So long as I don't have proof that he is dead, then to me, he is alive," said the missing man's older brother. "They haven't given me a body. At the very least, give me his body."

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Associated Press writer Baba Ahmed contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/massacre-preachers-mali-sign-broken-army-132444282.html

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PFT: Kolb to skip game if wife goes into labor

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When the Buccaneers hired Greg Schiano from Rutgers earlier this year, few league insiders had much to say.? Now that Schiano has ruffled the feathers of two-time Super Bowl winning coach Tom Coughlin by telling Schiano?s guys to play football during, you know, a football game, those who had previously been silent are teeing off.

Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports writes, relying on multiple unnamed sources, that Schiano was considered to be a bully during his time at Rutgers.? Silver reports that Schiano was ?universally viewed as unaccommodating, intimidating and downright disrespectful by NFL representatives who paid visits to Rutgers.?

?It?s his way or [expletive] you,? an unnamed veteran coach told Silver.? ?He needs to back up a little bit, or he?s going to have a very hard time in this league over the long haul.?

We?ve got no reason to doubt Silver?s reporting, although we wonder whether the opinions expressed would be quite as strong if not anonymous.

That said, coaches are often jerks.

It?s a point we made last month, when ESPN devoted a segment of Outside The Lines to the scintillating question of whether suspended Saints coach Sean Payton is a nice guy.? Plenty of football coaches aren?t nice guys (cough . . . Parcells . . . cough . . . Belichick), for a variety of reasons both strategic and psychological.

Though Schiano has yet to establish much of a track record at the NFL level, his 11 years at Rutgers rubbed scouts the wrong way.

?Penn State was off limits for all but two days a year, but they didn?t make you feel as unwelcome,? another unnamed source told Silver.? ?At Rutgers, it was a really unpleasant day.? You were made to feel like an outsider, like you weren?t welcome. And everyone was scared to talk to you.

?[Schiano] tried so hard to be a hard ass and went out of his way to be rude.? When you?d pass him in the hallway, you might say, ?Good morning,? and he?d look at you like you?re a [expletive] idiot.? A guy like him doesn?t realize that probably half of us played the game at a really high level ? it?s completely condescending.? He would go out of his way to make you feel as uncomfortable as he could.?

The disrespect, per the report, went farther than interactions.? Scouts were given strangely limited access to Rutgers practices.

?There?s a box, a little bitty box, way away from the field,? one of the sources told Silver.? ?All the scouts had to stand in that box like a bunch of little kids.? You couldn?t step out; you literally had to stand in it.? My feeling is that given who was chosen to coach the Bucs, all Tampa scouts should have to stand in a box at every college in America.?

Of course, none of that stopped Buccaneers G.M. Mark Dominik from hiring Schiano.? And if Schiano is successful at the NFL level, he?ll be no different than any of the other coaches who were primarily known for being big jerks until they put pelts on the wall ? and even after.

Let?s face it, while the resentment of Schiano has caused many to embrace Coughlin, he was regarded as a big jerk, too, until those Super Bowl trophies started to pile up.

Bottom line?? Plenty of football coaches are big jerks.? (Not all, but plenty.)? Some are worse than others.? And winning is the best way to get people not to notice, or to care, about any antisocial tendencies that so many football coaches seem to have.

For Schiano, that puts even more pressure on him to win at this level, or he?ll soon be back at a college program, possibly making NFL scouts feel even less welcome.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/22/kevin-kolb-plans-to-skip-game-if-wife-goes-into-labor/related/

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