Man accused of stealing church money

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) --?Police say a Louisville man was caught stealing from a house of God.

David Burcham was arrested Thursday afternoon at a First Federal Savings Bank on Taylorsville Road, near Stone Lakes Drive.

They say he cashed two counterfeit payroll checks made out to himself, taking funds from the bank account of Severns Valley Baptist Church, which is based in Elizabethtown.

The checks totaled more than $5500.? Burcham has been charged with theft and forgery.

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Boycott SOPA: The Android app that identifies products sold by SOPA-backing companies

The anti-SOPA movement has been gathering pace, helped by online campaigns to boycott supporting companies by hitting them where it hurts ? their bank accounts.

Go Daddy saw its customers transfer their accounts in their thousands, online campaigners have mobilsed and forced other companies to withdraw their support and Google, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo and several other Internet companies are said to be considering taking their services offline in protest.

Whilst Internet-based companies have incurred the wrath of their anti-SOPA users and customers, hundreds of other supporting companies are not as easy to influence. However, that could be set to change with the launch of ?Boycott SOPA? a new Android application that allows users to scan barcodes of different products to identify if the company that makes or sells it is a supporter of the?Stop Online Piracy Act.

If you?re wondering what SOPA is all about, check out our guide?which explains how it will affect the Internet and you, the user.

Boycott SOPA was created by two college students that were ?unimpressed with the current SOPA bill and want to discourage it from getting passed in any way possible,? allowing its users to take action against SOPA-backing companies by boycotting or completely?avoiding?their products.

At the time of writing, the app can identify products connected to over 800 brands or companies and is?continually?being updated. As its creators note, ?it is intended as an aid to identifying such products but should not be relied upon,? adding that its users ?should carry out [their] own check in case of any product this app indicates is a product of a company supporting?SOPA is not?.

The app itself requires only Internet permissions on an Android device. However, it does require the barcode scanning app made by the ZXing (Google/Open Source) team to process the image and decode the barcode. The Boycott SOPA team says that their app makes one request to its server to find out if the product is made by a SOPA supporter and does not request or send any other data.

Lifehacker has also compiled a few extra tools that can aid you in taking the fight to those backing SOPA.

Boycott SOPA is a simple app with a common goal; with enough users it might be able to help make an impact on SOPA-supporting companies, but it?s a huge ask. It will allow those who are staunchly against the new bill to carry out their own protests against these companies, impacting brands online and?offline.

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Eli Lilly 2012 profit forecast misses expectations

(AP) ? Financial analysts expected Eli Lilly's 2012 earnings to slip after the drugmaker lost patent protection for a key product, but they didn't envision a decline as steep as the one Lilly forecast Thursday.

The Indianapolis company said it will earn between $3.10 and $3.20 per share in its first full year after losing the U.S. patent that protects its antipsychotic Zyprexa from generic competition. Analysts expect, on average, earnings of $3.60 per share, according to FactSet.

Zyprexa rang up more than $5 billion in 2010 sales. Lilly's top-selling drug also brought in $3.87 billion through the first nine months of 2011 before the patent expired in October. But Lilly expects revenue from Zyprexa, which has lost patent protection in most markets outside Japan, to plunge by more than $3 billion in 2012.

Lilly executives said during a Thursday conference call that Wall Street projections came in higher than their forecast because analysts assumed a slower erosion of Zyprexa sales and a lower level of spending in the new year than the company does.

The company's 2012 earnings forecast equates to a drop of about 27 percent from its prediction for 2011 earnings of $4.30 to $4.35 per share.

Morningstar analyst Damien Conover said the forecast was disappointing. He expected that Lilly would cut costs beyond its $1 billion goal by 2011, which Lilly said Thursday that it had met.

Several big drugmakers are dealing with patent expirations on key products, but analysts say Eli Lilly and Co. faces one of the biggest hits. In addition to Zyprexa, the company will lose protection for its second-best seller, the antidepressant Cymbalta, in 2013.

By 2014, the drugmaker will have lost U.S. patents protecting five drugs that generated 64 percent of Lilly's U.S. product sales in 2010.

Lilly has spent years preparing for this. It plans to offset the revenue loss by reducing costs, improving productivity and growing its animal health business as well as sales in Japan and emerging markets like China. The company also is betting on its pipeline of drugs under development.

Lilly said Thursday it now has a dozen potential drugs in late-stage clinical testing, the last phase before a company seeks regulatory approval. That beat its goal of 10 by year-end.

"This is our future, and it is our first priority," Chief Financial Officer Derica Rice told analysts.

Rice said the company expects the completion of several clinical trials this year and U.S. regulatory decisions on new or expanded uses for several products. He also said the company can fund the research it needs to drive future growth while also continuing to pay a quarterly dividend at least at its current level, which is 49 cents per share.

The drugmaker expects annual earnings of at least $3 billion on revenue of at least $20 billion through 2014.

Lilly will report fourth-quarter and full-year 2011 results on Jan. 31. It expects to meet or beat its 2011 forecast for earnings of $4.30 to $4.35 per share. Analysts expect earnings of $4.34 per share.

Company shares fell 65 cents to $40.06 in afternoon trading while broader indexes also were down slightly.

Lilly shares spent most of 2011 trading below $40 before a rally that started in late November carried the stock to a closing price of $41.56 on Dec. 30, the last 2011 trading day. That represents a gain of more than 18 percent for the year.

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Tax case against China's Ai Weiwei to get review (AP)

BEIJING ? Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says Beijing tax authorities have agreed to review their ruling that he pay a multimillion dollar fine for alleged tax evasion.

The internationally acclaimed conceptual artist said Friday that tax officials informed him of the decision Wednesday by telephone and said the review would be completed within two months. Ai said he was hopeful that the case would be handled earnestly and transparently.

Ai was detained for three months last year during an overall crackdown on dissent. Following his release, authorities demanded his design company pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines, a penalty interpreted by activists as punishment for his criticism of the authoritarian government.

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Scientists create 'time cloak' to mask entire event

It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.

Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible ? his whole activity is.

What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature.

We see events happening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it's a continuous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to interrupt that flow for just an instant.

Other newly created invisibility cloaks fashioned by scientists move the light beams away in the traditional three dimensions. The Cornell team alters not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space.

They tinkered with the speed of beams of light in a way that would make it appear to surveillance cameras or laser security beams that an event, such as an art heist, isn't happening.

Another way to think of it is as if scientists edited or erased a split second of history. It's as if you are watching a movie with a scene inserted that you don't see or notice. It's there in the movie, but it's not something you saw, said study co-author Moti Fridman, a physics researcher at Cornell.

The scientists created a lens of not just light, but time. Their method splits light, speeding up one part of light and slowing down another. It creates a gap and that gap is where an event is masked.

"You kind of create a hole in time where an event takes place," said study co-author Alexander Gaeta, director of Cornell's School of Applied and Engineering Physics. "You just don't know that anything ever happened."

This is all happening in beams of light that move too fast for the human eye to see. Using fiber optics, the hole in time is created as light moves along inside a fiber much thinner than a human hair. The scientists shoot the beam of light out, and then with other beams, they create a time lens that splits the light into two different speed beams that create the effect of invisibility by being too fast or too slow. The whole work is a mess of fibers on a long table and almost looks like a pile of spaghetti, Fridman said.

It is the first time that scientists have been able to mask an event in time, a concept only first theorized by Martin McCall, a professor of theoretical optics at Imperial College in London. Gaeta, Fridman and others at Cornell, who had already been working on time lenses, decided to see if they could do what McCall envisioned.

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It only took a few months, a blink of an eye in scientific research time.

"It is significant because it opens up a whole new realm to ideas involving invisibility," McCall said.

Researchers at Duke University and in Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have made progress on making an object appear invisible spatially. The earlier invisibility cloak work bent light around an object in three dimensions.

Between those two approaches, the idea of invisibility will work its way into useful technology, predicts McCall, who wasn't part of either team.

The science is legitimate, but it's still only a fraction of a second, added City College of New York physicist Michio Kaku, who specializes in the physics of science fiction.

"That's not enough time to wander around Hogwarts," Kaku wrote in an email. "The next step therefore will be to increase this time interval, perhaps to a millionth of a second. So we see that there's a long way to go before we have true invisibility as seen in science fiction."

Gaeta said he thinks he can get make the cloak last a millionth of a second or maybe even a thousandth of a second. But McCall said the mathematics dictate that it would take too big a machine ? about 18,600 miles long ? to make the cloak last a full second.

"You have to start somewhere and this is a proof of concept," Gaeta said.

Still, there are practical applications, Gaeta and Fridman said. This is a way of adding a packet of information to high-speed data unseen without interrupting the flow of information. But that may not be a good thing if used for computer viruses, Fridman conceded.

There may be good uses of this technology, Gaeta said, but "for some reason people are more interested in the more illicit applications."

Online: Nature

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Man who escaped California prison in fire truck caught

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Authorities say a man who escaped a state prison in San Diego in a fire truck on New Year's Day has been captured.

The Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility said 51-year-old Thomas Kelley was taken into custody Tuesday at a trolley station in suburban Lemon Grove.

Authorities say Kelley was assigned to the prison fire crew. They say he fled in the prison fire truck and abandoned the vehicle in suburban Spring Valley.

Kelley was assigned to a minimum-security part of the prison. He had violated parole for vehicle theft.

Prison spokesman Lt. Patrick Logan says the San Diego County district attorney's office may decide to charge Kelley with the escape.

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Nielsen's top prime-time shows for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 (AP)

NEW YORK ? Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 26-Jan. 1. Listings include week's ranking and viewership.

1. NFL Football: Dallas at New York Giants, NBC, 27.62 million.

2. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 21.23 million.

3. "60 Minutes, CBS, 14.45 million.

4. "Football Night in America," NBC, 14.44 million.

5. "Dick Clark's Prime-time New Year's Rockin' Eve," ABC, 12.92 million.

6. "NCIS," CBS, 12.58 million.

7. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.60 million.

8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.16 million.

9. "CSI," CBS, 9.74 million.

10. "NCIS: Los Angeles" (Wednesday), CBS, 9.17 million.

11. "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.90 million.

12. "Person of Interest," CBS, 8.51 million.

13. "Kennedy Center Honors," CBS, 8.40 million.

14. "New Year's Rockin' Eve," ABC, 8.36 million.

15. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 8.15 million.

16. "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 7.59 million.

17. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 7.38 million.

18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 7.29 million.

19. Football Night in America (Part 2)," 7.25 million.

20. "Unforgettable," 7.12 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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Study shows updated rotavirus vaccine not linked to increase in bowel obstruction

Study shows updated rotavirus vaccine not linked to increase in bowel obstruction

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The rotovirus vaccine was pulled from the marketplace in 1999 after being associated with painful gastrointestinal complications, however, the updated rotavirus vaccines do not appear to increase the occurrence of these potentially fatal side effects, according to a new study by child health experts at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

The two updated versions of the vaccine,re-introduced in 2006 and 2008, prevent infection by rotavirus, which causes vomiting, abdominal pain, severe diarrhea and frequently requires hospitalization for young infants and children. Rotavirus was once the leading cause of gastrointestinal illness among children in the U.S.

The new study, published in this week's Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, shows the re-introduction of the vaccine has not caused an increase in a severe bowel obstruction called intussusception, the side effect that led to the original vaccine's withdrawal.

"We always need to carefully weigh the risks and benefits of childhood vaccines. Fortunately, our results suggest that rotavirus vaccines have not increased the rate of intussusception in the U.S.," says pediatrician Joe Zickafoose, M.D., M.S., a research fellow with the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit.

Recent international studies have shown that, among vaccinated infants, the two latest rotavirus vaccines may be associated with a small increase in cases of intussusception.

However, the re-introduction of rotavirus vaccines in the United States did not appear to increase the rate of hospitalizations for intussusception.

More than 70 percent of infants in the U.S. have been vaccinated against rotavirus. The re-introduction of rotavirus vaccines is credited with reducing the number of diarrhea-related outpatient visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among children.

Data used in the study came from the Healthcare Cost and Utlization Project's Kids' Inpatient Database, which is a sample of 80 percent of national pediatric discharges. The study focused on children younger than 1-year-old based on previous data which showed the most cases on intussusception occur within weeks of the vaccine being administered at ages 2-months, 4-months and 6-months old.

The investigators examined data trends from the decade prior to vaccine re-introduction, 1997-2006, and then made comparisons to data after vaccine re-introduction.

When comparing data, investigators expected to see 36 intussusception-related hospitalizations per 100,000 children under 1-year-old by 2009.

Despite the re-introduction of the vaccines, there were only 33.3 hospitalizations per 100,000 children in 2009, making it very unlikely that the vaccines led to additional cases.

The latest versions of the rotavirus vaccine were licensed following studies in over 70,000 children, which showed no increased risk for intussusception among those vaccinated. However, there has been lingering concern that a small amount of risk may have been missed in these studies.

"We hope that our study provides information that will continue to reassure parents that the benefits of rotavirus vaccine outweigh the risks," says Zickafoose, lead author of the study.

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Zickafoose JS, Benneyworth BD, Riebschleger MP, Espinosa CM, Davis MM. Intussusception hospitalizations before and after the reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine in the United States. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. Epub Jan. 2, 2012.

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Obama signs defense bill despite 'serious reservations'

President Obama signed the $662 billion National Defense Authorization Act even though he said he has 'serious reservations' about provisions dealing with the treatment of suspected terrorists.

President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

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The bill also applies penalties against Iran's central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability.

"Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded," Obama said in the signing statement.

Signing statements allow presidents to raise constitutional objections to circumvent Congress' intent. During his campaign for the White House, Obama criticized President George W. Bush's use of signing statements and promised to make his application of the tool more transparent.

Obama's signature caps months of wrangling over how to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans' constitutional rights. The White House initially threatened to veto the legislation but dropped the warning after Congress made last-minute changes.

Among the changes the administration secured was striking a provision that would have eliminated executive branch authority to use civilian courts for trying terrorism cases against foreign nationals.

The new law now requires military custody for any suspect who is a member of al-Qaida or "associated forces" and involved in planning or attempting to carry out an attack on the United States or its coalition partners. The president or a designated subordinate may waive the military custody requirement by certifying to Congress that such a move is in the interest of national security.

The administration also pushed Congress to change a provision that would have denied U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism the right to trial and could have subjected them to indefinite detention. Lawmakers eventually dropped the military custody requirement for U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents.

"My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama said in the signing statement. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."

Despite the changes, officials cited serious concerns that the law will complicate and could harm the investigation of terrorism cases.

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