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9/11 Memorial: Bloomberg Rejects Port Authority Control To 'Keep Out Of Political Process'

NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has rejected the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's efforts to have a greater say over the 9/11 memorial.

The mayor said Monday control should remain with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation to keep the site out of "the political process."

The mayor chairs the foundation. The Port Authority, controlled by the two state governors, owns the trade center site. The two sides have been feuding since last year, stalling the 9/11 museum's completion.

A spokesman for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said no one was interested in politicizing anything.

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Charting autism's neural circuitry: Deleting single gene results in autism-like behavior and immunosuppressant drug prevents symptoms

ScienceDaily (July 2, 2012) ? Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They also discovered that rapamycin, a commonly used immunosuppressant drug, prevented these symptoms.

The deleted gene is associated with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), a rare genetic condition. Since nearly 50 percent of all people with TSC develop autism, the researchers believe their findings will help us better understand the condition's development.

"We are trying to find out if there are specific circuits in the brain that lead to autism-spectrum disorders in people with TSC," said Mustafa Sahin, Harvard Medical School associate professor of neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and senior author on the paper. "And knowing that deleting the genes associated with TSC in the cerebellum leads to autistic symptoms is a vital step in figuring out that circuitry."

This is the first time researchers have identified a molecular component for the cerebellum's role in autism. "What is so remarkable is that loss of this gene in a particular cell type in the cerebellum was sufficient to cause the autistic-like behaviors," said Peter Tsai, HMS instructor of neurology and the first author of this particular study.

These findings were published online July 1 in Nature.

TSC is a genetic disease caused by mutations in either one of two genes, TSC1 and TSC2. Patients develop benign tumors in various organs in the body, including the brain, kidneys and heart, and often suffer from seizures, delayed development and behavioral problems.

Researchers have known that there was a link between TSC genes and autism, and have even identified the cerebellum as the key area where autism and related conditions develop.

In both cases, deleting this gene caused the three main signs of autistic-like behaviors:

• Abnormal social interactions. The mice spent less time with each other and more with inanimate objects, compared to controls.
• Repetitive behaviors. The mice spent extended amounts of time pursuing one activity or with one particular object far more than normal.
• Abnormal communication. Ultrasonic vocalizations, the communication technique among rodents, were highly distressed.

The researchers also tested learning. "These mice were able to learn new things normally," said Tsai, "but they had trouble with 'reversal learning,' or re-learning what they had learned when their environment changed."

Tsai and colleagues tested this by training the mice to swim a particular path in which a platform where they could rest was set up on one side of the pool. When the researchers moved the platform to the other side of the pool, the mice had greater difficulty than the control mice re-learning to swim to the other side.

"These changes in behavior indicate that the TSC1 gene in Purkinje cells, and by extension, the cerebellum, are a part of the circuitry for autism disorders," emphasized Sahin.

The researchers also found that the drug rapamycin averted the effects of the deleted gene. Administering the drug to the mice during development prevented the formation of autistic-like behaviors.

Currently, Sahin is the sponsor-principal investigator for an ongoing Phase II clinical trial to test the efficacy of everolimus, a compound in the same family as rapamycin, in improving neurocognition in children with TSC. The trial will be open for enrollment until December 2013.

"Our next step will be to see how the abnormalities in Purkinje cells affect autism-like development. We don't know how generalizable our current findings are, but understanding mechanisms beyond TSC genes might be useful to autism," said Tsai.

This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 NS58956), the John Merck Scholars Fund, Autism Speaks, Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Children's Hospital Boston Translational Research Program, the Children's Hospital Boston Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (P30 HD18655).

Sahin serves as a consultant and site primary investigator for Novartis.

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Factbox: Mexico's presidential candidates on the issues

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico elects a new president on Sunday, with Enrique Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) the clear favorite to win.

Following are some of the policies of the three main candidates.

ENRIQUE PENA NIETO, PRI (CENTRIST)

* Open up state oil giant Pemex to more private investment, looking to Brazil's Petrobras as a model. He says he would consider a constitutional change to help lure more foreign investment into Mexico's energy sector.

* Simplify the tax system to reduce the size of the informal economy. Broaden the tax base to boost government revenues.

* Change Mexico's labor laws to make them more flexible.

* Target annual economic growth of around 6 percent. Maintain similar macroeconomic policies to outgoing President Felipe Calderon.

* Double the number of federal police to tackle violent crime. Promote a unified police force under state command and create a new specialized, military police force.

* Focus on reducing murders, kidnapping, extortions and human trafficking and then on curbing the power of Mexico's drug gangs. Improve security cooperation with the United States and strengthen financial monitoring to combat money laundering.

* Reform the prison system to rehabilitate inmates, raise the salaries of prison workers and ensure better conditions and reduce corruption inside jails. Build more federal maximum security prisons with the help of private capital.

* Set up special tribunals to address competition disputes.

* Boost investment in infrastructure and spur bank lending while giving more supports to small- and medium-size businesses.

* Increase agricultural productivity to cut food costs and poverty rates.

* Provide universal social security coverage and pensions for the elderly above 65 years old.

* Deepen ties with the United States and the European Union and seek stronger trade ties with China, Japan and India.

* Improve protection for Mexican migrants living abroad, especially in the United States.

* Cut 100 deputies from the 500-member lower house of Congress, of which 40 percent are appointed by their party rather than directly elected. Also cut the number of senators.

ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR, (LEFTIST COALITION)

* Create 7 million new jobs through 2018. Target economic growth of 6 percent a year.

* Withdraw army units deployed in the drug war from the streets over a six-month period.

* Promises no new taxes and to eliminate Mexico's alternative minimum tax, known as the IETU, approved under Calderon's government.

* Promote government austerity to give priority to public works and social spending. Reduce the salaries of high-ranking public sector officials.

* Reduce government corruption.

* To modernize Pemex, follow the model of state-controlled company Statoil in Norway. Change the constitution to give Pemex and the Federal Electricity Commission more autonomy, but leave untouched the article that says only the government can exploit Mexico's oil resources.

* Ensure national oil demand is covered by, for example, limiting oil exports when the reserve replacement rate falls below 100 percent. Increase the power of the national oil regulator.

* Increase refining capacity by building up to five new refineries to cut Mexico's gasoline imports.

* Ensure the minimum wage rises more than inflation.

* Break up Mexico's monopolies by enforcing competitive pricing and increasing penalties for uncompetitive practices.

* Seek to lower telephone and Internet rates and give more space to independent and public broadcasters.

* Press foreign mining firms for higher taxes and better wages.

* Spur financing for small- and mid-sized companies.

JOSEFINA VAZQUEZ MOTA, NATIONAL ACTION PARTY (CONSERVATIVE)

* Maintain Calderon's drug war strategy of deploying thousands of soldiers and federal police on the streets.

* Eliminate immunity from prosecution for all politicians to combat official corruption.

* Modernize the police and security forces. Grow federal police force to 150,000 members

* Speed up judicial reform implemented under Calderon.

* Look to Brazil's Petrobras as a model for Pemex, including a possible listing of shares or the issuance of "citizen bonds" that pay returns based on the company's performance.

* Possible constitutional reform to allow for more outside investment in Pemex.

* Exploit shale gas resources and promote more investment in renewable energy. Create strategic alliances with private companies to improve Pemex's technology and competitiveness.

* Fiscal reform that would increase the tax base, simplify the tax system and reduce tax loopholes.

* Maintain Calderon's macro-economic policies.

* Comprehensive labor reform to raise productivity and take on Mexico's powerful public sector unions.

* Give loans to small and medium-sized business.

* Promote more competition in the telecommunications industry by strengthening regulators.

* Lengthen school days, improve teacher evaluations and meet a goal of universal primary school education coverage by 2015.

* Universal basic health insurance and social security.

* Create a national pension program for retirees above 70.

* Promote gender equality and give support to single mothers.

* Seek leading role in global climate change initiatives and the creation of a carbon bond trading system.

* Strengthen ties with Washington to increase bilateral cooperation on intelligence sharing, security and trade.

(Reporting by Mica Rosenberg; Editing by Kieran Murray and Sandra Maler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-mexicos-presidential-candidates-issues-151148331--business.html

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2nd round of storms cuts power for more Ohioans

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? When the lights began flickering during another bout of thunderstorms, Leo Welsh braced himself for his second power outage in three days and decided there was no point in getting upset.

The first outage at his Columbus home followed winds of up to 80 mph on Friday. While other Ohio residents were told they might be in the dark for days, Welsh's outage lasted about 20 hours.

The second round of storms Sunday knocked out the lights throughout his neighborhood, including the ones that had remained on at the house next door, and Welsh figured it must be his turn to wait. So he packed the food from his refrigerator ? plus the food his mother-in-law had brought over when her power went out ? carted it to his brother's place in Grandview and patiently addressed his 3-year-old son's questions about when someone might be coming by to fix the TV.

"Getting worked up about it is not going to make the power come on any sooner," said Welsh, 33, a nursing home administrator. Still, he was repeatedly dialing home on Monday, hoping to hear the sweet sound of the answering machine indicating his electricity was back. By lunchtime, there was still no answer.

The Sunday storms expanded the outage lists by the thousands, including some Ohio homes and businesses where power already had been lost and restored. About 445,000 Ohio customers ? mostly of American Electric Power Co.? were without power at midday Monday, and residents were scrambling to stay cool as temperatures climbed into the 90s.

Dayton Power and Light planned free ice giveaways to help some of its 17,000 affected customers. Duke Energy Corp. had more than 8,000 customers out.

Federal and state officials and relief workers were trying to determine the biggest and most urgent needs. The Ohio Emergency Management Agency said it was fielding dozens of calls from people who mistakenly thought state and federal officials were offering access to generators for personal use. The agency was redirecting those callers to local 211 hotlines and the American Red Cross for information about cooling shelters.

Gov. John Kasich declared a state emergency during the weekend, called out the National Guard and sought help from President Barack Obama, who declared a federal emergency in Ohio. Federal aid trucks carrying water were sent to six distribution points in southern and eastern Ohio.

About 200 National Guard members were going door-to-door in the Columbus and Dayton areas Monday to check on residents who might need help. Columbus planned to open fire hydrants at four spots Monday afternoon to help residents cool off.

AEP said Friday's storm was Ohio's worst since the state was battered in 2008 by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. Out-of-state reinforcements were limited by big needs in the Washington, D.C., area and neighboring states that were also hit by storms.

In the meantime, many people visited friends and family to enjoy some air conditioning and to charge their cellphones and laptops.

The flashlights that Natalie Driscoll's family bought after the first outage proved useful Sunday when storms cut the electricity again at her home near Springfield.

"My 2-year-old thought it was kind of fun at first," Driscoll said. "She got to play with the new flashlights."

With their power not expected to return before Tuesday evening, Driscoll packed two coolers with food from her refrigerator and freezer and took her two young daughters to stay with her parents in Upper Sandusky, a two-hour drive away. Her husband stayed at home, where Friday's storm had torn the top off their tall pine tree and left it in their yard.

"It looked like somebody pulled a Christmas tree down and laid it in our yard, instead of putting it by the curb," said Driscoll, 28.

In southeast Ohio, more than half of Wayne National Forest was closed to the public and some visitors were asked to leave recreation areas as a precaution while park workers inspected trails for fallen trees and other damage.

Ohio officials confirmed one storm death. A 70-year-old woman died Friday evening in Muskingum County when a barn collapsed after she had gone to check on animals during the storm.

State Treasurer Josh Mandel said small business owners, farmers and other Ohioans might be eligible for interest rate reductions on loans to recover or rebuild from the storm damage. He said he's made $25 million available through the state's Renew Ohio & Rebuild Ohio emergency financing programs.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-round-storms-cuts-power-more-ohioans-184555947--finance.html

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Column: Balotelli challenging minds with his feet

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ? The ignoramus who scrawled "non sei un vero italiano, sei un africano nero" ? "You are not a true Italian, you are a black African" ? on a wall near the San Siro stadium in Milan. Did he, despite himself, leap off his sofa in delight when Mario Balotelli thumped home his goal for Italy with a powerful nod of his shaven black head and put their country into the final of Europe's top soccer tournament?

One hopes so.

And the hooligans in Rome who hurled a bunch of bananas into a bar where Balotelli and other young Italy players were relaxing a few summers back, prompting the owner to call the police. Did they, despite themselves, yell with joy as Balotelli celebrated his second goal against Germany in the semifinal, tearing off his blue Italy jersey to proudly show off his black torso of muscles and sinews ridged like thick rope?

Again, one hopes so.

And the idiots ? here at the Euros and back in Italy ? who have booed and howled like apes at Balotelli because he is black. Did they, despite themselves, feel twinges of shame, and were they moved when his adoptive mother cradled her boy in a long, tight hug after the game of his life, her white hand lovingly stroking the back of his neck and his Mohican-style strip of dyed-blonde hair?

Please, yes, one truly hopes so.

One of the great virtues of sport has always been that it creates heroes who change the way people think or expose those who refuse to. With their exploits, their activism or both, Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, Aborigine Olympic champion Cathy Freeman and other sports pioneers too numerous to name have rubbed the noses of bigots, sexists, homophobes and the otherwise small-minded in the dirt of their own ugliness, silencing some of them and enlightening others.

Balotelli, with his brilliance on the field and his dignity and good humor off it, is now doing that, too, by shining like no one else at the European Championship that has focused attention on the racism that still blights the continent's favorite sport, and which climaxes Sunday with the final between Italy and Spain.

The role is not one Balotelli has lobbied for, wholeheartedly embraced or even is naturally suited for. For starters, he's young, just 21. Before this tournament, where he has impressed with his cool and earnestness, he often made news more for his immaturity than with his play. Notable examples were when he tossed a dart in the direction of another player at Manchester City, his club in England, or when two fire trucks were called last October to his home south of Manchester to douse a blaze he said was caused by friends setting off fireworks in his bathroom.

Before these Euros, France Football magazine asked Balotelli about the thrown bananas in Rome in 2009. His response showed how deeply he's been hurt by the abuse he's endured since he first made his mark on soccer at Inter Milan but also perhaps suggested he remains vulnerable to hot-tempered excesses and still has some growing up to do.

"I hope it doesn't happen again," he said. "If someone throws bananas at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill them."

Balotelli's life story is complicated, through no fault of his own. He was born in Sicily, to parents who emigrated there from Ghana. He was gravely ill as a baby, with a malformation of the intestine that required repeated surgeries, and spent months in the hospital.

"I've had a lot of luck," he told France Football of that period of his life. "We are all destructible. But me, I'm difficult to destroy."

When he was 2? years old, a court ? acting upon a petition from social services ? assigned Mario to a foster family. Silvia and Franco Balotelli and their children ? Corrado, Giovanni and sister Cristina, all much older than him ? "looked after little Mario with all the love of a parent, brother or sister," his website says. When he turned 18, Mario formally applied to become the Balotellis' adopted son, according to his sister.

He told France Football he does sometimes speak to his birth parents. Tournament organizers UEFA said before Euro 2012 he would have their name, Barwuah, on his Italy shirt, along with Balotelli. But, for reasons unclear, that hasn't happened.

Immigration is a relatively new phenomenon in Italy, which has struggled to accept and adapt to some of the changes brought by people from Africa, South America, Asia and Eastern Europe who came to do jobs that affluent Italians now reject ? like picking crops, laying bricks or caring for the elderly. Tens of thousands of kids, like Balotelli, who were born there of non-Italian parents must wait until they are 18 before they can claim citizenship. That, essentially, gives the impression they are second-class Italians, and it riled Balotelli.

"I'm very attached to my Italian passport. I should have gotten it straight away and not waited for my 18th birthday," he told France Football.

But Balotelli's exploits in soccer, a sport that ignites passions and admiration like no other in Italy, have fueled appeals for change, including from Giorgio Napolitano, the country's president. Receiving the Italy squad last November, he called immigrants "the lifeblood for our country" and said their Italy-born children "feel completely Italian and they should be given citizenship as soon as possible."

That moved Balotelli to tears. "It touched me. That's my story," he said.

Again on Saturday, the eve of the final, the speaker of Parliament's lower Chamber of Deputies, center-right leader Gianfranco Fini, appealed for reform, invoking Balotelli's example in calling the children of immigrants "not a problem but a resource."

But Premier Mario Monti is entirely focused on salvaging Italy's stricken economy and says the citizenship question is a political issue that is not in the remit of his government to solve. Previous calls also got nowhere, hitting a wall of opposition from the anti-immigrant Northern League party that helped keep Monti's predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, in power.

Still, Balotelli's performances are focusing minds against racial intolerance. UEFA has fined Spain and Croatia a total of $125,000 after their fans chanted abuse and monkey noises at him at these Euros.

Italy's leading sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, also apologized after some readers protested about a cartoon that depicted Balotelli as King Kong. Even a Northern League lawmaker, Mario Borghezio, on Saturday hailed Balotelli as a northern Italian "with dark skin. And that's absolutely fine with me."

"Whether the racists like it or not, the joy that exploded the other night in the piazzas for the fantastic goals of our black son swept away, for a magic moment, decades of stereotypes," Gian Antonio Stella, who chronicles Italian society, wrote in the daily Corriere della Sera, under the front-page headline, "Mario and the pride of the new Italians."

Balotelli has not spoken at these Euros about the racism he has faced. But the image of him clenching his muscles like a bodybuilder, black and beautiful for all to see, after his second goal sank Germany seemed to speak volumes. The referee, as soccer's rules demand, showed Balotelli a yellow card for going shirtless, but he was unapologetic.

"If anyone is angry for my celebration, it's because they saw my physique and they're jealous," he said.

With another goal Sunday, Balotelli would become the top scorer of Euro 2012. His sister is flying to Kiev to join the rest of the Balotelli family. The eyes of the world will be on him ? challenging and hopefully sweeping away ignorance with his feats and feet.

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AP Sports Writer Andrew Dampf at Euro 2012 and Frances D'Emilio in Rome contributed.

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John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester(at)ap.org or follow him at http://twitter.com/johnleicester

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/column-balotelli-challenging-minds-feet-204147438--sow.html

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