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Power Balance, which sells silicone and neoprene wristbands adorned with a hologram sticker, was forced to admit that their product does not in fact improve the wearer's balance, strength or flexibility.
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Power Balance Australia was forced to concede that its product was no more effective than wearing a rubber band around one's wrist, and to offer refunds to customers by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
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The 21-year-old McIlroy shot 65 on Thursday to share the first-round lead with Alvaro Quiros. The 23-year-old Day did one better, tying for the lowest round ever shot by a Masters rookie.
McIlroy, Day and fellow playing partner Rickie Fowler are all in the top 10 of the leaderboard (Fower’s tied for seventh at 5 under). They combined to shoot 23 under in the first two days.
Day, who won the HP Byron Nelson Championships last year, said he learned from watching McIlroy on Thursday.
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For the third consecutive day, Day and McIlroy will walk Augusta National’s 18 holes together, this time with considerably more pressure than the first two days.
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What was even nicer is that Day shot himself up the leaderboard and into the final pairing in Saturday’s third round. At 8 under, he finds himself in solo second place, two shots back of leader Rory McIlroy going into the weekend at Augusta National.
The 21-year-old McIlroy shot 65 on Thursday to share the first-round lead with Alvaro Quiros. The 23-year-old Day did one better, tying for the lowest round ever shot by a Masters rookie.
McIlroy, Day and fellow playing partner Rickie Fowler are all in the top 10 of the leaderboard (Fower’s tied for seventh at 5 under). They combined to shoot 23 under in the first two days.
Day, who won the HP Byron Nelson Championships last year, said he learned from watching McIlroy on Thursday.
"He put himself in the right positions on the course," Day said. "He played the course exactly how it’s supposed to play, and I just tried to stick to my game plan.
"I had a game plan at the start of the week and I’m just trying to stick to that. There are certain holes that you want to respect out here, and then there are certain holes that you want to try and jump on and hopefully get a birdie.
"But you know, there’s a few shots out there that I got lucky, and at the end of the day, I shot 8 under and I’m very happy that I played really good today."
For the third consecutive day, Day and McIlroy will walk Augusta National’s 18 holes together, this time with considerably more pressure than the first two days.
Even though a host of veteran contenders — including Tiger Woods, just one shot behind Day — lurk, the Australian will concentrate on his own game.
"I’m just going to go out there and try and stick to my game plan and not worry about the score," Day said. "Like Rory said before, you have to play the course; you’re not playing the leaderboard. You’re not playing anyone else. You’re playing yourself and you’re playing the course. Popular online sale shop is your best choose.
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Of particular concern to Google is the fact that many people now turn to Facebook with search queries, like seeking the best place to go on vacation, because they trust the advice of friends more than that of an anonymous search engine.
With +1, which began rolling out to users Wednesday, Google wants to personalize search results.
In an interview about the new tool, Matt Cutts, a principal search engineer at Google, took great pains to emphasize that the company had learned from the privacy outcry after it introduced Buzz, which let Gmail users share status updates, photos and videos.
The debut of Buzz in February 2010 unleashed a barrage of criticism from users and privacy advocates because it automatically included users' email contacts in their social network.
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Google introduced its latest social tool Wednesday, the same day it settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges of deceptive privacy practices last year for Buzz, the social networking tool in Gmail.
Under the settlement, Google agreed to start a privacy program, permit audits for 20 years and face $16,000 fines for any future privacy misrepresentation.
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The new social-networking tool, called +1, lets people annotate Google search results and ads so they can recommend Web pages to friends and acquaintances. It is the biggest feature yet in Google's long-awaited social-networking tool kit.glitters 2011 fashion accessories make people love
The introduction of +1 and the FTC charges highlight two of Google's biggest challenges: heightened competition from Facebook, and near-constant criticism from privacy advocates and policymakers over its practices.
As it tries to make its services more social, the company has come under intense scrutiny from people concerned about its broad access to personal information. At the same time, it is in the unusual position of racing to catch up with a rival, as Facebook captures more of the time, information and ad views of Internet users.
Of particular concern to Google is the fact that many people now turn to Facebook with search queries, like seeking the best place to go on vacation, because they trust the advice of friends more than that of an anonymous search engine.
With +1, which began rolling out to users Wednesday, Google wants to personalize search results.
In an interview about the new tool, Matt Cutts, a principal search engineer at Google, took great pains to emphasize that the company had learned from the privacy outcry after it introduced Buzz, which let Gmail users share status updates, photos and videos.
The debut of Buzz in February 2010 unleashed a barrage of criticism from users and privacy advocates because it automatically included users' email contacts in their social network.
Cutts repeatedly stressed that anything people shared with +1 was public.
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"I think the expectation for her is huge. People really want to hear quality from Britney," says Gillian Sheldon, vice president of programming at Buzzmedia, which owns the celebrity news site Celebuzz.com. Sheldon, who has worked at TMZ.com, has been watching Spears for a decade. "Coming up, she was this fresh-faced, new talent who burst on the scene who had this amazingly bright career, and then she had some troubles. And I think what she did is what some other celebrities really should do: She really stepped back, walked away from the limelight and really focused on herself, and I think people really respond to that."Healthy products power balance bracelet sale
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But the Spears of today is older and appears wiser. She remains under the conservatorship of her dad, Jamie Spears, who retains the power to make life decisions for his oldest daughter. And she has almost entirely retreated from the public eye. (Wendy Washington at Spears' label, Jive, and Spears' manager Larry Rudolph both did not respond to phone calls.)
Spears told V magazine she has become more guarded. "I think it's easier to let people in when you're younger, but when I became a mother I wanted more privacy for myself and my children. A life away from my life," she says.
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Early response to the album has been strong: Hold It Against Me, the first single, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, while the second single, Till the World Ends, hit No. 9.
For 29-year-old Spears, whose last album, 2008's Circus, went platinum, the stakes are high. Interest in her remains strong, partly because Spears — who broke out as a precocious teen with 1999's chart-topping ... Baby One More Time and went on to generate as many hits as headlines — is a survivor.
"I think the expectation for her is huge. People really want to hear quality from Britney," says Gillian Sheldon, vice president of programming at Buzzmedia, which owns the celebrity news site Celebuzz.com. Sheldon, who has worked at TMZ.com, has been watching Spears for a decade. "Coming up, she was this fresh-faced, new talent who burst on the scene who had this amazingly bright career, and then she had some troubles. And I think what she did is what some other celebrities really should do: She really stepped back, walked away from the limelight and really focused on herself, and I think people really respond to that."Healthy products power balance bracelet sale
Those troubles, of course, remain intrinsically a part of Spears' image, which veered from bubbly songbird to wobbly mess with two failed marriages. There's 2007's shaved head. Her 2008 standoff with police in her own home over her sons Sean Preston, now 5, and Jayden James, 4. Her subsequent hospitalizations.
But the Spears of today is older and appears wiser. She remains under the conservatorship of her dad, Jamie Spears, who retains the power to make life decisions for his oldest daughter. And she has almost entirely retreated from the public eye. (Wendy Washington at Spears' label, Jive, and Spears' manager Larry Rudolph both did not respond to phone calls.)
Spears told V magazine she has become more guarded. "I think it's easier to let people in when you're younger, but when I became a mother I wanted more privacy for myself and my children. A life away from my life," she says.
Her peers Lady Gaga and Katy Perry tirelessly hype their new releases. But this time, Spears is mostly letting her music speak for itself. So far, the response has been positive. Rolling Stone awarded her album four out of five stars because, says critic Jody Rosen, "the beats on the record are incredible throughout. All of the songs are very strong. It's one of those rare pop-diva records that consistently, top to bottom, has strong songs."Elegant guess handbags online women's love
Rosen calls Spears' disc "pretty musically adventurous" and describes the singer as "a grown dance diva. What struck me with this record is that they're club songs. They're just good pop songs. I'm an unabashed fan of this album."
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Amy Adams has landed the iconic role of journalist Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. She joins Henry Cavill, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner on the production, which will be directed by Zack Snyder.
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Shashi Seth, senior vice president for Yahoo’s search and marketplaces, said that the new service helped users find what they were seeking much faster because they did not have to click away from the search page. “People are looking for answers, they’re not looking for links,” he said.
“I think it’s very interesting conceptually,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence. “As for the execution let’s call it limited or nascent.”
By entering into a search alliance, Yahoo and Microsoft had hoped to better challenge Google and cuts costs. They succeeded in cutting costs, but Yahoo also found its share of Internet searches eroding. Google still holds a wide lead in search with 65.4 percent of all queries. Yahoo has slipped to 16.1 percent from around 20 percent two years ago, according to comScore.com. Much of that loss was picked up by Microsoft, which now has a 13 percent share.
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Shashi Seth, senior vice president for Yahoo’s search and marketplaces, said that the new service helped users find what they were seeking much faster because they did not have to click away from the search page. “People are looking for answers, they’re not looking for links,” he said.
“I think it’s very interesting conceptually,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence. “As for the execution let’s call it limited or nascent.”
By entering into a search alliance, Yahoo and Microsoft had hoped to better challenge Google and cuts costs. They succeeded in cutting costs, but Yahoo also found its share of Internet searches eroding. Google still holds a wide lead in search with 65.4 percent of all queries. Yahoo has slipped to 16.1 percent from around 20 percent two years ago, according to comScore.com. Much of that loss was picked up by Microsoft, which now has a 13 percent share.
Mr. Seth declined to predict that Search Direct would bring people back to Yahoo’s search page. But he said that it would raise the number of searches by existing users based on their increased satisfaction with the results.
Search Direct is available on Yahoo’s search page, but not from its home page. Yahoo intends to test the performance of the new design before introducing it more broadly in the coming months, Mr. Seth said.
Typing “Kobe,” as in Kobe Bryant, the basketball star, brings up a box with related search terms along with his playing statistics and a photograph. Searching for “Paris, France” automatically shows the local time and a list of the top three things to do in the city.
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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that investors suing a drug company for securities fraud may rely on its failure to disclose scattered reports of adverse affects from an over-the-counter cold remedy that fell short of statistical significance.
The case involved Zicam, a nasal spray and gel made by Matrixx Initiatives and sold as a homeopathic medicine. From 1999 to 2004, the plaintiffs said, the company received reports that the products might have caused some users to lose their sense of smell, a condition called anosmia.
Matrixx did not disclose the reports and in 2003, the company said it was “poised for growth” and had “very strong momentum” though, by the plaintiffs’ calculations, Zicam accounted for about 70 percent of its sales.
After a link between Zicam and anosmia was reported on “Good Morning America” in 2004, the company’s stock price dropped significantly. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers not to use the products, and Matrixx recalled them.
In the case before the justices, Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano, No. 09-1156, lawyers for Matrixx argued that it should not have been required to disclose small numbers of unreliable reports, which were the only ones available in 2004, they said. They added that the company should face liability for securities fraud only if the reports had been collectively statistically significant.
“All drug companies receive on an almost daily basis anecdotal hearsay reports about alleged adverse health events following the use of their products,” Jonathan Hacker, a lawyer for Matrixx, told the justices when the case was argued in January.
The Supreme Court has said that companies may be sued under the securities law for making statements that omit material information, and it has defined material information as the sort of thing that reasonable investors would believe significantly alters the “total mix” of available information.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court on Tuesday, roundly rejected Matrixx’s proposal that information can be material only if it meets standards of statistical significance.
“Given that medical professionals and regulators act on the basis of evidence of causation that is not statistically significant,” she wrote, “it stands to reason that in certain cases reasonable investors would as well.”
On the other hand, she said, “the mere existence of reports of adverse events — which says nothing in and of itself about whether the drug is causing the adverse events — will not satisfy” the requirement of materiality. Instead, she said, companies and courts must consider “the source, content and context of the reports.”Elegant guess handbags women's love
Here, Justice Sotomayor wrote, the plaintiffs had accused Matrixx of having received information from “three medical professionals and researchers about more than 10 patients who had lost their sense of smell after using Zicam.” That was enough to allow the case to go forward in its earliest stages, she wrote.
If the accusations are proved true, she said, “Matrixx received information that plausibly indicated a reliable causal link between Zicam and anosmia.”Fashion hairpieces for sale cheap
Reasonable investors would want to know about the reports, she said, particularly given the importance of the product to the company and the risk-benefit calculation consumers might make after hearing of the possibility that using a cold remedy could result in lasting injuries.
In rejecting the proposed categorical rule in favor of a contextual inquiry, the court provided only limited guidance to companies and lower courts.
“What’s the test?” asked Ronald J. Allen, a law professor at Northwestern, referring to the analysis that companies and courts must make. “The test is what a reasonable person would react to given all the evidence.”
The case involved Zicam, a nasal spray and gel made by Matrixx Initiatives and sold as a homeopathic medicine. From 1999 to 2004, the plaintiffs said, the company received reports that the products might have caused some users to lose their sense of smell, a condition called anosmia.
Matrixx did not disclose the reports and in 2003, the company said it was “poised for growth” and had “very strong momentum” though, by the plaintiffs’ calculations, Zicam accounted for about 70 percent of its sales.
After a link between Zicam and anosmia was reported on “Good Morning America” in 2004, the company’s stock price dropped significantly. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers not to use the products, and Matrixx recalled them.
In the case before the justices, Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano, No. 09-1156, lawyers for Matrixx argued that it should not have been required to disclose small numbers of unreliable reports, which were the only ones available in 2004, they said. They added that the company should face liability for securities fraud only if the reports had been collectively statistically significant.
“All drug companies receive on an almost daily basis anecdotal hearsay reports about alleged adverse health events following the use of their products,” Jonathan Hacker, a lawyer for Matrixx, told the justices when the case was argued in January.
The Supreme Court has said that companies may be sued under the securities law for making statements that omit material information, and it has defined material information as the sort of thing that reasonable investors would believe significantly alters the “total mix” of available information.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court on Tuesday, roundly rejected Matrixx’s proposal that information can be material only if it meets standards of statistical significance.
“Given that medical professionals and regulators act on the basis of evidence of causation that is not statistically significant,” she wrote, “it stands to reason that in certain cases reasonable investors would as well.”
On the other hand, she said, “the mere existence of reports of adverse events — which says nothing in and of itself about whether the drug is causing the adverse events — will not satisfy” the requirement of materiality. Instead, she said, companies and courts must consider “the source, content and context of the reports.”Elegant guess handbags women's love
Here, Justice Sotomayor wrote, the plaintiffs had accused Matrixx of having received information from “three medical professionals and researchers about more than 10 patients who had lost their sense of smell after using Zicam.” That was enough to allow the case to go forward in its earliest stages, she wrote.
If the accusations are proved true, she said, “Matrixx received information that plausibly indicated a reliable causal link between Zicam and anosmia.”Fashion hairpieces for sale cheap
Reasonable investors would want to know about the reports, she said, particularly given the importance of the product to the company and the risk-benefit calculation consumers might make after hearing of the possibility that using a cold remedy could result in lasting injuries.
In rejecting the proposed categorical rule in favor of a contextual inquiry, the court provided only limited guidance to companies and lower courts.
“What’s the test?” asked Ronald J. Allen, a law professor at Northwestern, referring to the analysis that companies and courts must make. “The test is what a reasonable person would react to given all the evidence.”
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whose face was severely burned when his head touched a high-voltage line three years ago.
The operation was funded under a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the military’s efforts to expand research in innovative medical
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In a statement Monday, doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said a team of more than 30 surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked Fashion 70% off for wigs wholesale cheap
for about 15 hours to transplant the forehead, nose, lips, facial skin, underlying muscles “and the nerves that power them and provide sensation” from an
anonymous donor to Dallas Wiens, a day laborer who was on a cherry-picker Nov. 13, 2008, when his head came in contact with a high-voltage line.
Bohdan Pomahac, the lead plastic surgeon, said the team was not able to restore Wiens’s vision. But Wiens, who has a young daughter, should be able regain
up to 90 percent of normal sensation on the right side of his forehead, right cheek, most of his upper lip and his entire lower lip, Pomahac said at a news
conference. Nerve damage was too great for there to be more than minimal sensation in the left check and left forehead, Pomahac said.
Doctors say the goal of the operation was to improve Wiens’s ability to breathe, eat and talk and restore some of his face’s social expression. Wiens has
spoken on the telephone to his parents and siblings since the operation and has asked for — but is not yet allowed to have — his favorite soda, Dr. Pepper.
His grandfather, Del Peterson, said the operation was a miracle.
When Wiens recovers, he will not look like he once did, nor will he look like the donor, but “probably somewhere in the middle,” Pomahac said. The
donor/recipient match was made based on gender, race, approximate age and blood type.
The operation last week was the second face transplant procedure at the hospital.
The Cleveland Clinic performed the nation’s first near-total face transplant in 2008.
In 2009, the Brigham performed a partial face transplant on James Maki, who had suffered severe burns when he fell on the electrified third rail at a subway
station.After that procedure was successfully completed, the Department of Defense awarded a $3.4 million grant to the hospital in December 2009 to fund
five face transplants, including Wiens’s, according to Col. Janet Harris, director of the Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program for the Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command.
“Our interest is in research that is going to further us being able to provide better care for our troops injured in combat,” she said.
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an increasing number of cranial and facial inuries to U.S. soldiers, she said, noting that many injuries
were from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
The Defense Department has talked with military patients who would be interested in being on a waiting list for such transplants at the Brigham, she said.
Two other patients are on already the list, hospital officials said. They identified them as Mitch Hunter of Indianapolis, an Army veteran who was in a car
crash after his Army stint, and Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in 2009 when she was mauled by a chimpanzee.
Doctors said the donor and family for last week’s transplant wished to remain anonymous. Consent for the donation of the tissue graft from the face was
obtained by the New England Organ Bank staff after conversations with the donor’s family.
Pomahac said he was worried the operation would not be successful when he first saw Wiens. His injuries were so extensive that doctors weren’t sure there
were enough residual nerves or structures to connect to a new face.
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That patient had numerous surgeries, with only modest results. When Pomahac asked why the patient sought repeated surgery, he told the doctor: “I just
want a cab to stop when I’m at the curb.”
whose face was severely burned when his head touched a high-voltage line three years ago.
The operation was funded under a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the military’s efforts to expand research in innovative medical
procedures.
In a statement Monday, doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said a team of more than 30 surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked Fashion 70% off for wigs wholesale cheap
for about 15 hours to transplant the forehead, nose, lips, facial skin, underlying muscles “and the nerves that power them and provide sensation” from an
anonymous donor to Dallas Wiens, a day laborer who was on a cherry-picker Nov. 13, 2008, when his head came in contact with a high-voltage line.
Bohdan Pomahac, the lead plastic surgeon, said the team was not able to restore Wiens’s vision. But Wiens, who has a young daughter, should be able regain
up to 90 percent of normal sensation on the right side of his forehead, right cheek, most of his upper lip and his entire lower lip, Pomahac said at a news
conference. Nerve damage was too great for there to be more than minimal sensation in the left check and left forehead, Pomahac said.
Doctors say the goal of the operation was to improve Wiens’s ability to breathe, eat and talk and restore some of his face’s social expression. Wiens has
spoken on the telephone to his parents and siblings since the operation and has asked for — but is not yet allowed to have — his favorite soda, Dr. Pepper.
His grandfather, Del Peterson, said the operation was a miracle.
When Wiens recovers, he will not look like he once did, nor will he look like the donor, but “probably somewhere in the middle,” Pomahac said. The
donor/recipient match was made based on gender, race, approximate age and blood type.
The operation last week was the second face transplant procedure at the hospital.
The Cleveland Clinic performed the nation’s first near-total face transplant in 2008.
In 2009, the Brigham performed a partial face transplant on James Maki, who had suffered severe burns when he fell on the electrified third rail at a subway
station.After that procedure was successfully completed, the Department of Defense awarded a $3.4 million grant to the hospital in December 2009 to fund
five face transplants, including Wiens’s, according to Col. Janet Harris, director of the Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program for the Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command.
“Our interest is in research that is going to further us being able to provide better care for our troops injured in combat,” she said.
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an increasing number of cranial and facial inuries to U.S. soldiers, she said, noting that many injuries
were from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
The Defense Department has talked with military patients who would be interested in being on a waiting list for such transplants at the Brigham, she said.
Two other patients are on already the list, hospital officials said. They identified them as Mitch Hunter of Indianapolis, an Army veteran who was in a car
crash after his Army stint, and Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in 2009 when she was mauled by a chimpanzee.
Doctors said the donor and family for last week’s transplant wished to remain anonymous. Consent for the donation of the tissue graft from the face was
obtained by the New England Organ Bank staff after conversations with the donor’s family.
Pomahac said he was worried the operation would not be successful when he first saw Wiens. His injuries were so extensive that doctors weren’t sure there
were enough residual nerves or structures to connect to a new face.
Pomahac said he was determined to try his best because of what a patient with similar injuries had told him some years ago.Popular online sale2011rus shop is your best choose.
That patient had numerous surgeries, with only modest results. When Pomahac asked why the patient sought repeated surgery, he told the doctor: “I just
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The strike, however, was not carried out by U.S. forces, an official said. Vice Admiral William Gortney said earlier today that the United States was "not targeting Gadhafi."
According to various reports, Gadhafi's compound was badly damaged, but it was not immediately known how many people were injured or killed.
A United Nations-backed no-fly zone enforced by the U.S. British and French aircraft is being enforced from Tripoli to Benghazi and the top third of the country. Spain, Belgium, Denmark, and Qatar have also joined the coalition.
"It's had a pretty significant effect very early on," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said today of Operation Odyssey Dawn on ABC News' "This Week."
"The no-fly zone has essentially started to have its effects. We are flying over Benghazi right now. He hasn't had any planes in the air the last two days," Mullen said of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Gortney said today that the United States will will soon hand over command to a coalition partner, a point reiterated by several U.S. officials.
Gortney did not rule out that the United States will continue to fly patrols as part of the no-fly zone after this initial phase, but for now the United States will provide tanker refuelers, ISR and electronic jammers to the coalition no-fly zone.
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American F-16s and AV-8 Harrier jets patrolled overhead, dropping bombs on pro-Gadhafi forces who were still continuing their offensive on rebel strongholds in eastern Libya, a Pentagon official said. About 10 miles south of Benghazi, 15 U.S. aircraft along with French and British fighters struck at Libyan mechanized forces advancing on Benghazi. Gortney said the strikes had killed dozens of Libyan troops.
Meanwhile, in Tripoli, anti-aircraft fire could be seen lighting up the night sky.
"Today there is hope, there is light at the end of the tunnel," opposition spokesman Jalal ElGallal told ABC News in Tobruk. "[With this intervention the fight is] evening up a little bit, so obviously the morale must be sky-high."
A spokesman for Gadhafi's government said all Libyan armed forces units have been told to follow a ceasefire. The ceasefire was being ordered after taking into account the civilian deaths, and the destruction of civilian and military buildings, the Libyan government spokesman told reporters. And all Libyans have been urged to participate in a peaceful march from Tripoli to Benghazi.
But U.S. officials are skeptical of the government's claims.
"We will watch his actions, not his words," a senior White House official said.
The opening salvo of the international operation, which military officials have described as a "multi-phase" operation to protect Libyan civilians, drew cheers from rebels across eastern Libya and a defiant warning from Gadhafi, who said he is prepared for a "long war."
"There is a big misunderstanding," Gadhafi's son, Saif, said on "This Week." "The whole country is united against the armed militia and the terrorists. Simply, the Americans and the other Western countries, you are supporting the terrorists and the armed militia. That's it."
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The strike, however, was not carried out by U.S. forces, an official said. Vice Admiral William Gortney said earlier today that the United States was "not targeting Gadhafi."
According to various reports, Gadhafi's compound was badly damaged, but it was not immediately known how many people were injured or killed.
A United Nations-backed no-fly zone enforced by the U.S. British and French aircraft is being enforced from Tripoli to Benghazi and the top third of the country. Spain, Belgium, Denmark, and Qatar have also joined the coalition.
"It's had a pretty significant effect very early on," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said today of Operation Odyssey Dawn on ABC News' "This Week."
"The no-fly zone has essentially started to have its effects. We are flying over Benghazi right now. He hasn't had any planes in the air the last two days," Mullen said of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Gortney said today that the United States will will soon hand over command to a coalition partner, a point reiterated by several U.S. officials.
Gortney did not rule out that the United States will continue to fly patrols as part of the no-fly zone after this initial phase, but for now the United States will provide tanker refuelers, ISR and electronic jammers to the coalition no-fly zone.
"We judge these strikes to have been very effective in significantly degrading the regime's air defense capability," Gortney said of the 124 Tomahawks that hairpieces for sale have been dropped. "There has been no new air activity by the regime and we have detected no radar emissions from the air defense sites targeted and there has been a significant decrease in the air use of all Libyan air surveillance radars which is most of those limited to areas around Tripoli and Sirte."
American F-16s and AV-8 Harrier jets patrolled overhead, dropping bombs on pro-Gadhafi forces who were still continuing their offensive on rebel strongholds in eastern Libya, a Pentagon official said. About 10 miles south of Benghazi, 15 U.S. aircraft along with French and British fighters struck at Libyan mechanized forces advancing on Benghazi. Gortney said the strikes had killed dozens of Libyan troops.
Meanwhile, in Tripoli, anti-aircraft fire could be seen lighting up the night sky.
"Today there is hope, there is light at the end of the tunnel," opposition spokesman Jalal ElGallal told ABC News in Tobruk. "[With this intervention the fight is] evening up a little bit, so obviously the morale must be sky-high."
A spokesman for Gadhafi's government said all Libyan armed forces units have been told to follow a ceasefire. The ceasefire was being ordered after taking into account the civilian deaths, and the destruction of civilian and military buildings, the Libyan government spokesman told reporters. And all Libyans have been urged to participate in a peaceful march from Tripoli to Benghazi.
But U.S. officials are skeptical of the government's claims.
"We will watch his actions, not his words," a senior White House official said.
The opening salvo of the international operation, which military officials have described as a "multi-phase" operation to protect Libyan civilians, drew cheers from rebels across eastern Libya and a defiant warning from Gadhafi, who said he is prepared for a "long war."
"There is a big misunderstanding," Gadhafi's son, Saif, said on "This Week." "The whole country is united against the armed militia and the terrorists. Simply, the Americans and the other Western countries, you are supporting the terrorists and the armed militia. That's it."
The U.N. Security Council authorized an international coalition of 22 countries, including several Arab states, to use "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians from attacks by Gadhafi and prevent a humanitarian crisis inside the country.
President Obama who president designer jewerly online to his wife has stressed that military action in Libya will be "limited" to protecting the Libyan people, and administration officials say U.S. forces will only play an active, leading role in operations for "days, not weeks."
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That, essentially, was the NFL Players Association's stance on two vital issues Wednesday as the deadline for a new labor deal approaches. The owners' willingness to reduce the amount of extra money they want up front—from $1 billion to $800 million—isn't a sufficient drop. And the financial data the league is willing to reveal isn't what the union seeks.
Both sides spoke much more openly about money matters Wednesday than they have since they entered mediation Feb. 18. The twice-extended deadline for expiration of the collective bargaining agreement is at the end of Friday.
Under the old CBA, owners received an immediate $1 billion for operating expenses before splitting remaining revenues with players. Owners initially sought to double that, and while they have lowered the up-front figure they want, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith tied that to the full financial transparency he's sought for nearly two years in what is a $9 billion business.
"Just to be absolutely clear, the information that was offered wasn't what we asked for," Smith who wear power balance bracelet said, "and, according to our investment bankers and advisers, they told us that information would be utterly meaningless in determining whether to write an $800 million check to the National Football League" in each year of a new CBA.
"We have requested access to fully audited financial statements since May 2009," Smith said. "We believe that is the
appropriate information to analyze the league's request to write a multibillion check to the owners."
NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash said the union has received unprecedented financial data, including some information the league doesn't give to its clubs.
"No one is asking anyone to write any checks, I think we've been quite clear on that," Pash said. "It is a fact that the players association in the course of these negotiations has received more and more detailed financial information than it has ever had before. Has it gotten everything it wants? Evidently not. Have we offered to provide more? Absolutely.
"And is it a subject that we're prepared to discuss? Absolutely."
In a letter dated May 18, 2009—a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press—Smith asked Goodell to "provide audited financial statements concerning the operations of the 32 clubs and the league."
Smith attached a list of 10 categories of information he sought, including:
— total operating income;
— total operating expenses, such as player costs, team expenses, sales and marketing expenses, game expenses, salaries/payments to owners;
— profit from operations;
— net income;
— cash and investment assets.
In the letter, Smith noted the owners' push to expand the regular season from 16 games to 18 as one reason "this information is critical in understanding the fair 'cost/compensation' model for players and teams."
Pash didn't reveal any specifics of the league's offer of financial information. But a person familiar with the negotiations told the AP that the NFL offered to turn over five years of league-wide profitability data to the union.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because mediator George Cohen told participants not to publicly discuss details.
According to the person who spoke to the AP, the NFL's proposal to the union included:
—audited league-wide profitability data with dollar figures from 2005-09 that wouldn't show information on a club-by-club basis;
—the number of teams that have seen a shift in profitability in that span;
—an independent auditor to examine the data.
As far back as 2009, Smith told Goodell: "As you know, the NFLPA does not have access to a wide range of information that is directly relevant to the contention that the current CBA fails to address the owners' concerns."
"For example," the letter said, "the NFL and the teams do not provide the NFLPA with their audited financial statements detailing the profit (loss) information for the teams. We also lack the information to discern the profits (losses) per regular season games, the profit per team per playoff game and other fixed financial non-player costs."
The CBA dates to 2006, but owners exercised an opt-out clause in 2008. The deal was set to expire last week, before two extensions pushed the cutoff to the end of Friday.
Goodell was joined by three members of the owners' 10-person labor committee: Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers, John Mara of the New York Giants, and Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs. More owners are expected to attend on Thursday.
If a deal isn't reached by Friday, the sides could agree to another extension. Or talks could break off, leading to, possibly, a lockout by owners or antitrust lawsuits by players.
In Minneapolis, meanwhile, the NFLPA asked the federal judge, who ruled in its favor in a case involving TV contracts, to release information that the NFL wants kept confidential. U.S. District Court judge David Doty sided with the players last week, saying the league illegally set up $4 billion in payments from networks—money the union argued was collected to fund a lockout.power balance bracelet wholesale
Wednesday's move seemed to be reminder to the league of two important points—the possibility of legal action if no new CBA is reached, and the union's insistence on transparency.
The NFLPA said in its filing that the NFL hasn't explained why material should be sealed and that the league hasn't cooperated with the union's attempt to propose limited redactions to protect third-party information only.
"The NFL cannot be permitted to comment publicly about these proceedings and then turn around to embrace a cloak of confidentiality that thwarts the public's right to know," union lawyers wrote.
The league said it would respond to the filing.
Both sides spoke much more openly about money matters Wednesday than they have since they entered mediation Feb. 18. The twice-extended deadline for expiration of the collective bargaining agreement is at the end of Friday.
Under the old CBA, owners received an immediate $1 billion for operating expenses before splitting remaining revenues with players. Owners initially sought to double that, and while they have lowered the up-front figure they want, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith tied that to the full financial transparency he's sought for nearly two years in what is a $9 billion business.
"Just to be absolutely clear, the information that was offered wasn't what we asked for," Smith who wear power balance bracelet said, "and, according to our investment bankers and advisers, they told us that information would be utterly meaningless in determining whether to write an $800 million check to the National Football League" in each year of a new CBA.
"We have requested access to fully audited financial statements since May 2009," Smith said. "We believe that is the
appropriate information to analyze the league's request to write a multibillion check to the owners."
NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash said the union has received unprecedented financial data, including some information the league doesn't give to its clubs.
"No one is asking anyone to write any checks, I think we've been quite clear on that," Pash said. "It is a fact that the players association in the course of these negotiations has received more and more detailed financial information than it has ever had before. Has it gotten everything it wants? Evidently not. Have we offered to provide more? Absolutely.
"And is it a subject that we're prepared to discuss? Absolutely."
In a letter dated May 18, 2009—a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press—Smith asked Goodell to "provide audited financial statements concerning the operations of the 32 clubs and the league."
Smith attached a list of 10 categories of information he sought, including:
— total operating income;
— total operating expenses, such as player costs, team expenses, sales and marketing expenses, game expenses, salaries/payments to owners;
— profit from operations;
— net income;
— cash and investment assets.
In the letter, Smith noted the owners' push to expand the regular season from 16 games to 18 as one reason "this information is critical in understanding the fair 'cost/compensation' model for players and teams."
Pash didn't reveal any specifics of the league's offer of financial information. But a person familiar with the negotiations told the AP that the NFL offered to turn over five years of league-wide profitability data to the union.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because mediator George Cohen told participants not to publicly discuss details.
According to the person who spoke to the AP, the NFL's proposal to the union included:
—audited league-wide profitability data with dollar figures from 2005-09 that wouldn't show information on a club-by-club basis;
—the number of teams that have seen a shift in profitability in that span;
—an independent auditor to examine the data.
As far back as 2009, Smith told Goodell: "As you know, the NFLPA does not have access to a wide range of information that is directly relevant to the contention that the current CBA fails to address the owners' concerns."
"For example," the letter said, "the NFL and the teams do not provide the NFLPA with their audited financial statements detailing the profit (loss) information for the teams. We also lack the information to discern the profits (losses) per regular season games, the profit per team per playoff game and other fixed financial non-player costs."
The CBA dates to 2006, but owners exercised an opt-out clause in 2008. The deal was set to expire last week, before two extensions pushed the cutoff to the end of Friday.
Goodell was joined by three members of the owners' 10-person labor committee: Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers, John Mara of the New York Giants, and Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs. More owners are expected to attend on Thursday.
If a deal isn't reached by Friday, the sides could agree to another extension. Or talks could break off, leading to, possibly, a lockout by owners or antitrust lawsuits by players.
In Minneapolis, meanwhile, the NFLPA asked the federal judge, who ruled in its favor in a case involving TV contracts, to release information that the NFL wants kept confidential. U.S. District Court judge David Doty sided with the players last week, saying the league illegally set up $4 billion in payments from networks—money the union argued was collected to fund a lockout.power balance bracelet wholesale
Wednesday's move seemed to be reminder to the league of two important points—the possibility of legal action if no new CBA is reached, and the union's insistence on transparency.
The NFLPA said in its filing that the NFL hasn't explained why material should be sealed and that the league hasn't cooperated with the union's attempt to propose limited redactions to protect third-party information only.
"The NFL cannot be permitted to comment publicly about these proceedings and then turn around to embrace a cloak of confidentiality that thwarts the public's right to know," union lawyers wrote.
The league said it would respond to the filing.
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