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NEW YORK (AP) ? Authorities said a suspect implicated himself Tuesday in the death of a New Yorker who was pushed onto the tracks and photographed just before a train hit him ? an image that drew virulent criticism after it appeared on the front page of the New York Post.
Investigators recovered security video showing a man fitting the description of the suspect working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne.
"The individual we talked to made statements implicating himself in the incident," Browne said.
Witnesses told investigators they saw the suspect talking to himself Monday afternoon before he approached Ki-Suck Han at the Times Square station, got into an altercation with him and pushed him into the train's path.
Police took the man into custody Tuesday, but no charges are expected to be announced until Wednesday, Browne said.
Han, 58, of Queens, died shortly after being struck. Police said he tried to climb a few feet to safety but got trapped between the train and the platform's edge.
The Post published a photo on its front page Tuesday of Han with his head turned toward the train, his arms reaching up but unable to climb off the tracks in time. It was shot by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who was waiting to catch a train as the situation unfolded.
Abbasi said in an audio clip on the Post's website that he used the flash on his camera to try to warn the train driver that someone was on the tracks. He said he wasn't strong enough to lift Han.
"I wanted to help the man, but I couldn't figure out how to help," Abbasi said. "It all happened so fast."
Emotional questions arose Tuesday over the published photograph of the helpless man standing before the oncoming train accompanied by the headline that read in part: "This man is about to die."
The moral issue among professional photojournalists in such situations is "to document or to assist," said Kenny Irby, an expert in the ethics of visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit journalism school.
Other media outlets chimed in on the controversy, many questioning why the photograph had been taken and published.
"I'm sorry. Somebody's on the tracks. That's not going to help," said Al Roker on NBC's "Today" show as the photo was displayed.
CNN's Soledad O'Brien tweeted: "I think it's terribly disturbing ? imagine if that were your father or brother." Larry King reached out to followers on Twitter to ask: "Did the (at)nypost go too far?"
The Post declined to share the photo with The Associated Press for distribution.
Subway pushes are feared but fairly unusual. Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of Kendra Webdale, who was shoved to her death by a former mental patient.
After that, the Legislature passed Kendra's Law, which lets mental health authorities supervise patients who live outside institutions to make sure they are taking their medications and aren't a threat to safety.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he believed that "in this case, it appeared to be a psychiatric problem."
The mayor said Han, "if I understand it, tried to break up a fight or something and paid for it with his life."
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Associated Press writers Tom Hays and Tom McElroy contributed to this story.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-deadly-nyc-subway-push-implicates-self-034730415.html
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2012) ? Researchers at St. Michael's hospital have identified 29 proteins that are likely to be involved in the spread of kidney cancer. The discovery will help physicians recognize which tumours are going to behave more aggressively and provide those patients with more intensive treatment and closer followup.
"Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is one of the most treatment-resistant malignancies and patients have dismal prognosis," said Dr. George M Yousef, a laboratory pathologist. "Identification of markers that can predict the potential of metastases will have a great impact on improvement patient outcomes.
Dr. Yousef's research appears online in the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
Kidney cancer in general is very aggressive and has a high chance of metastasis, or spreading to other organs. The five-year survival rate for metastasized kidney cancer is less than 10 per cent. Although imaging technology has led to increased detection of kidney tumours, 25 to 30 per cent have already spread by the time they are found.
Using a mass spectrometer, Dr. Yousef identified 29 proteins that change when cancer cells spread from the original site of the kidney tumour. All 29 proteins have been previously been linked to other malignancies.
Dr. Yousef said if physicians can determine which kidney tumours have those proteins, and are likely to spread, they can monitor and treat those patients more aggressively. Patients who don't have those proteins and biomarkers might not have to undergo costly and intensive treatment or surgery.
The next steps would be to find ways to stop the proteins from turning on and triggering the metastasis.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012. NATO foreign ministers were set Wednesday to shift their focus to the way forward in Afghanistan during a second day of talks in Brussels, as the military alliance prepares to withdraw its combat troops in 2014. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012. NATO foreign ministers were set Wednesday to shift their focus to the way forward in Afghanistan during a second day of talks in Brussels, as the military alliance prepares to withdraw its combat troops in 2014. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, third from left, speaks after the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The General Assembly approved a resolution raising the Palestinians' U.N. status from an observer to a nonmember observer by a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions _ a majority of more than two-thirds of the world body's 193 member states. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
President Barack Obama smiles as he is introduced by Jim McNerney, chief executive officer of The Boeing Company, before speaking about the fiscal cliff during an address before the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, Wednesday, Dec. 5,2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Debate over the looming "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts is consuming most of the political oxygen in Washington lately. But President Barack Obama also faces huge second-term foreign policy challenges.
And he does so with an unraveling national-security team.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to move on. But a possible successor, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, faces tough Republican Senate opposition over her factually challenged public comments on the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist raid on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also suggests he's anxious to leave. And the Central Intelligence Agency is being run by an acting director, Michael Morrell, after well-respected chief David Petraeus resigned because of an extramarital affair.
Meanwhile, civil unrest is near the boiling point in Egypt and violence continues unabated in Syria. President Bashar Assad's "fall is inevitable. It's just a question of how many people will die until that date occurs," Clinton said Wednesday in Brussels.
Iran's nuclear ambitions continue to rattle the West and North Korea is readying a new long-range missile test. Mideast tensions simmer.
The United Nations' rebuke to the U.S. and Israel by voting overwhelmingly to upgrade the Palestinian territories to a "nonmember observer state" prompted a retaliatory Israeli wave of new settlement units in occupied areas.
And the Senate rejected a popular U.N. treaty banning discrimination against people with disabilities, ignoring a personal appeal from onetime GOP standard-bearer Bob Dole. "This shouldn't have been a battle," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
On foreign policy, "we look a little bit indecisive, disorderly, leaderless," Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, told MSNBC.
During the campaign, Obama advocated nation-building "right here at home." But foreign-policy challenges could complicate his efforts to secure a domestic legacy.
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Over the past 18 months, there has been a steady increase in the number of Denver commercial investors placing their IRA/SEP/401(k) retirement plans in real property via direct ownership, TIC arrangements, and LLCs. Investments have mainly been in improved property such as retail and multi-family but there have also been deals involving construction lending. Many of these investments benefit from leverage from local lenders.
"Why don't I know about this?" is the reaction of most investors. The IRS has received this question so frequently that their website has posted their affirmation of the legality of the concept. "IRA law does not prohibit investing in real estate but trustees are not required to offer real estate as an option. IRA trustees are permitted to impose additional restrictions on investments. For example, because of administrative burdens, many IRA trustees do not permit IRA owners to invest IRA funds in real estate".
The investor or broker should know that first and foremost, they need a self-directed IRA Administrator to do this type of transaction. Secondly, the sales contract for these purchases needs to be initiated by the IRA at the client's direction, and all funds must flow through the IRA administrator. Third, there can be no personal use of this property either by the IRA holder or close family members such as parents or children. Self-directed administrators are not allowed to be involved in the investment as either a promoter or an advisor but must remain completely neutral in the transaction. Fourth, leverage is permitted with some limitations.
Due diligence and decisions regarding improvements, property management and tenant selection may be performed by the IRA holder. Everything from the sales contract to the closing documents are signed by the Administrator who is responsible for the correct vesting of title and accounting to the IRS on the value of the account as well as any funds traveling into, and out of, the account.
Because it is within a tax-deferred account, the proceeds of the sale of property owned by an IRA/SEP/401(k) go directly back into the IRA trust account and are available for the next investment. Subsequent investments can be real estate, or anything else allowed by law, the only statutorily prohibited investments being life insurance and collectibles. There is no need for a 1031 exchange or any "like kind" investment to replace it.
Contrary to popular belief, an annual appraisal is not required by the IRS on real estate within an IRA. Although it is true that the account value is reported annually to the IRS, there are no specific requirements for an appraisal. Appraisals are only required for a taxable event, such as when a property is taken out of the IRA. All rules about investing IRA funds revolve around the issue of self-dealing, which is defined as benefiting now from your IRA, and having transactions with your IRA. The code section dealing with "prohibited transactions," as they are called, address these main areas of concern.
As securities become less the investment of choice, and real estate remains a solid investment, it is expected that retirement plan investment in real estate and notes will continue to grow over the next few years. Real estate brokers and developers can capitalize on this trend by marketing properties to retirement plans and seeking IRA investors in large projects.
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(Reuters) - The murder/suicide committed on Saturday by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher left the National Football League, its fans and health professionals struggling to understand what drove him to do it.
Belcher, 25, shot and killed his 22-year-old girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, the mother of his three-month-old daughter, in front of his own mother at home before driving to Arrowhead Stadium where he shot himself dead in the parking lot after thanking team officials for all they had done for him.
For the NFL, arguably the most popular U.S. professional sport, the tragic shootings cast the league in a frightfully brutal light as Belcher became the fourth player this year to die of a self-inflicted gunshot.
Former players Junior Seau in May, Ray Easterling in April and Michael Current in January all committed suicide.
A fifth suicide victim, former Chicago Bears player Dave Duerson killed himself by gunshot less than two years ago, leaving a note requesting that his brain be examined for a post-concussive disease that might have led to his severe depression.
An brain analysis showed that Duerson had a degenerative brain disease, as he had believed.
Details on Belcher's health have been slow to emerge.
Dr. Alan Hilfer, Director of Psychology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, said just why Belcher suddenly snapped could remain a mystery.
"We may never know the reasons," Hilfer told Reuters in a telephone interview on Monday. "Something was terribly wrong."
The league has come under fire from former players who have joined to sue the NFL, claiming league officials looked the other way while the players were absorbing concussions that have led to long-term disabilities.
LOOKING FOR AN EDGE
Others suspect that the high-speed, muscular contact game leads players to look for a doping edge despite drug testing, and that can lead to psychological instability.
Chiefs Chairman Clark Hunt said Sunday that doctors and coaches told him they knew of no physical or emotional issues bothering Belcher, who reached the NFL as a free agent after going to the University of Maine.
"What do you look for? It's a very hard question to answer," Hilfer said. "Certainly you look for mood changes. Certainly you look for increased levels of impulsively and anger.
"These things sometimes occur so suddenly. Sometimes there is just no way you could possibly know that someone is going to perpetrate an act of violence of this magnitude."
Don Hooton, who founded the Taylor Hooton Foundation to promote steroids education in 2004, seven months after his son, Taylor, committed suicide following his use of anabolic steroids, suspects doping.
"Every time I hear a story like this, my mind runs immediately to anabolic steroids," Hooton said. "Not necessarily to the exclusion of anything else, but because anabolic steroids can affect the mind in these crazy ways.
"I hope when they do the autopsy on this young man, that they look for these substances because it's possible that what we saw was 'Roid Rage'" - a label given to the exhibition of anger among steroid users.
Hooton said that despite efforts in professional leagues to stem the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED), recent studies showed that steroids use was on the rise among U.S. school children.
"It's not getting better - it's getting worse," said Hooton. "We better wake up, America."
LARGER SOCIETAL PROBLEMS
Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, said he saw the Belcher tragedy as something that speaks to societal problems transcending sports.
"This is an issue of men's violence against women, not just football players being too violent," Lebowitz said.
"When I look at it, I try to take it out of the realm of sport. I just think about the way we acculturate young boys in this country and our whole view of manhood."
Lebowitz's group has worked for the NFL on a 2010 training program aimed at gender equality and respect in the workplace, and ran a training project at the soccer World Cup in South Africa on preventing gender violence.
"If you look at how many NFL players commit gender violence in proportion to the overall population, the percentage falls in line with the general population, three to five percent.
"From what I hear she came home from a concert late and he reacted horrifically. We don't have a healthy concept of what manhood is and how certain things that we see as an affront to manhood probably aren't that at all."
Lebowitz said the awful incident could spawn an opportunity to educate others.
"Nothing happens in a bubble. This is the fifth NFL player to commit suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot ... this one was (preceded) by a murder. Right now there is an absolute heightened spotlight on all the issues around sports in general.
"How do we make a healthier sport, and how do we make a healthier man? How do we engage in a real conversation about respect for women's rights and freedoms?"
Dr. Hilfer said athletes were often reluctant to seek help.
"They can benefit from additional help, especially considering the rash of suicides from concussive syndromes," he said. "I would have loved to get this guy into some form of counseling therapy.
"It would have been wonderful if they could ask for help but athletes are often reluctant because their image is that of a tough guy who can handle things. They are as a rule some of the people who are least likely to access mental health services."
Mike Paul, who runs a New York public relations business specializing in reputation management, said the incident would challenge NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
"This is a big one for him," Paul told Reuters. "The helmet (safety) issue and the steroids and PED issue, continue. Now it is right back in his face again and he has two choices.
"He can confront it head on and say it is time for further examination as we go into 2013 ... or he can try to slide it under the rug by saying it's a one-off.
"I think it would be a big mistake to say it was a one-off."
(Editing by Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-city-chiefs-murder-suicide-key-may-never-041941612--nfl.html
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Sales figures from NPD Group for the week of Black Friday suggest that consumers snapped up cheap TVs and Android tablets faster than ever, but laptop and point-and-shoot cameras were?falling off shopping lists.
The price of TVs continues to drop,?with the average selling price hitting just $333 this year. Forty percent of TVs bought had 32-inch screens, suggesting buyers took the sales?opportunities?to pick up a second or even third TV. Large TVs, too, were popular, with 60-inch units and above selling 10 times faster than they did two years ago.
Why? Cheap cameras and all those other devices have one thing in common: Their functions are replicated by smartphones and tablets.
Sales in several other categories weren't so robust. MP3 players, point-and-shoot cameras, camcorders, and GPS devices were all unpopular.
Point-and-shoots were practically being given away, averaging just over $100 in price ? but few customers were buying. Even laptops, which were?cheaper than ever, sold fewer than last year.
Why? Cheap cameras and all those other devices have one thing in common: Their functions are replicated by smartphones and tablets.
No surprise, then, that sales of Android tablets jumped 177 percent over last year's Black Friday. The success is no doubt in part due to the availability?of devices like the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, starting at $199, compared to the iPad's starting price of $499 and the iPad Mini at $329.?(If you're wondering about iPads and smartphones, they weren't included in NPD's study.)
Stephen Baker, NPD's vice president of industry analysis, agreed that shoppers were opting for a more integrated approach in their tech.
"It has to do with the cloud, smartphones and tablets. Some of those categories (such as?GPS and?MP3 players) are down 50 to 75 percent from where they were three, four years ago," he told NBC News.
But despite sales nearly tripling in volume, the money generated by tablets?only increased by 91 percent. That's because the average selling price of tablets dropped from $219 last year to $151 this year. That average was brought down not by rock-bottom, sale-priced Nooks and Nexuses, but by off-brand tablets that could cost under $100.
"These weren't first-tier manufacturers," Baker points out. A $79 tablet isn't such a bad idea for some shoppers anymore ? no matter what, they are?much better than they were last year or the year?before.
Items?that tend to go along with tablets and smartphones also saw a boost in sales. Audio accessories like headphones and wireless speakers saw significant increases as consumers?looked to make their new streaming devices sound decent.
Interchangeable-lens cameras too, be they DSLRs or mirrorless, got a healthy bump (despite the Black Friday deals being mostly junk). An iPhone camera may be a good replacement for a $150 point-and-shoot, but not for a high-quality kit.
Whenever general-purpose devices like phones get better at something new, as we've seen with photography over the last couple years, sales of?competing single-purpose devices go into?a nosedive. Expect this trend to continue as long as there are still ways for smartphones to get smarter.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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