Watch live: SpaceX's Dragon capsule will rendezvous with the ISS today, coverage begins at 3:30AM ET (update: success!)

We told you about it late yesterday, but now it's about time for the livestream of SpaceX's Dragon capsule reaching the International Space Station. If all's going as planned, the craft would've begun some preliminary maneuvers toward the ISS roughly an hour ago. According to the company, astronauts aboard the ISS will attempt to grapple it with a robotic arm at 6:36AM ET. If that's successful, the actual berthing of the capsule is set to begin at 8AM. Don't take our word for it, catch the NASA TV live feed (coverage starts at 3:30AM) at embedded after the break!

Here's to wishing that all continues to go well overall on this resupply effort!

Update 8:21AM: Dragon was captured at 5:31AM and the berthing process is currently taking place. The capsule should be fully in place by roughly 9:40AM! We've also updated the feed past the break, as it was originally pulling from NASA TV's public feed, rather than the ISS feed -- apologies for any inconvenience.

Update 9:03 AM: Dragon was successfully berthed the space station at 8:56AM, ahead of scheduele like much of the event. And with that, NASA has ended coverage of the event. Now those onboard the station will be focused on unloading the supplies it's carrying. Dragon will return to Earth for a splashdown on March 25th. As always, hit the NASA source link for more detailed info. Catch a picture of the Dragon attached to the ISS's Harmony node just past the break.

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Turkish captives to be released by Kurdish rebels: agency

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels are planning to release a group of captured Turkish officials within the next 10 days as part of a broader peace deal, the state-run Anatolia Agency reported on Saturday.

The PKK has been fighting Turkey's central government since 1984 and is negotiating with the authorities to try to end a conflict that has claimed some 40,000 lives.

Anatolia quoted a Turkish politician, Gultan Kisanak, as telling a news conference in Arbil, northern Iraq: ""I hope these (public) officials will reunite with their families soon."

It said Kisanak, co-chair of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, delivered a letter from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan who has been negotiating the outlines of a peace deal with the Turkish government since last October.

Kisanak handed the letter to Murat Karayilan, the de facto leader of the PKK.

Turkish media reports over the past week have said that the PKK would release some 16 captured officials soon, in a first move towards peace.

Ocalan, imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, is proposing to withdraw his fighters from Turkey by August if Ankara pushes through reforms to end the insurgency, according to Turkish media.

Under his plan, the rebels would begin a formal ceasefire on March 21, the Kurdish New Year, said the Sabah and Star newspapers, which are close to the government.

The PKK is estimated to have around 2,000 fighters in Turkey, with several thousand more in bases in northern Iraq.

The guerrilla group originally took up arms to carve out an independent Kurdish state, but it has since moderated its goal to autonomy. Ethnic Kurds make up about 20 percent of Turkey's population of 76 million and live largely in the southeast of the country.

(Reporting by Seda Sezer; Editing by Stephen Powell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-captives-released-kurdish-rebels-agency-180712530.html

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Repros Therapeutics gets FDA go-ahead on testosterone drug study

(Reuters) - Repros Therapeutics Inc said U.S. health regulators agreed with the company's plan to proceed with analyzing data from a late-stage study of its experimental testosterone drug Androxal, putting the company on track to report trial data in the third quarter.

Repros shares were up 30 percent at $13.22 before the bell on Thursday.

The company last month pushed back the expected date to report data from the first of two late-stage studies after it found that the patient population at a site where the drug was being tested was markedly different from 16 other sites.

Repros proposed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that patients from that site be removed from the study and be replaced by patients at other sites who were enrolled for the second late-stage study.

Repros said on Thursday that the FDA mostly agreed with its plan, but asked the company to evaluate data from the studies with and without patients from the site with the differing characteristics.

Barring this, the special protocol assessment under which Repros is developing Androxal remains intact, allaying concerns that the results from the studies would be delayed further.

The company's shares had fallen 45 percent since it proposed the changes to the study in late January.

Repros said at the time that it expected to report data from the first study in the third quarter and subsequently file for U.S. approval of the drug in mid-2014.

A special protocol assessment provides a company with a written agreement from the FDA that the design of the study and analysis of the data are adequate to support a marketing application.

Androxal is one of two Repros products in development. The other, Proellex, is being tested to treat uterine fibroids - noncancerous tumors that develop in the womb.

Androxal is expected to compete with AbbVie Inc's Androgel, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc's Testim and Eli Lilly and Co's Axiron, all of which are already on the market.

(Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/repros-therapeutics-gets-fda-ahead-testosterone-drug-study-143248401--finance.html

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Government backs Ofgem plans to make energy bills fairer

Ofgem said the reforms would begin to come into force this summer, while the cap on tariff numbers is planned to be in place from next winter.

Alistair Buchanan, Ofgem chief executive, said the proposals would see "the most radical shake-up of the energy retail market since competition began."

?My message to the suppliers is ? don't wait for the legal process to take effect. Most have already embraced the reform agenda and now the way is clear for all of them to work with Ofgem to bring in reforms as soon as possible.?

Angela Knight, chief executive of Energy UK, which represents energy companies, said: "The concerns of customers and politicians have been heard loud and clear by the companies [...] The industry will be working closely with the regulator and with Government on all the next stages of their reform programme.?

Mr Buchanan warned households this week to prepare for a sharp rise in energy bills within two years, as he said that British energy supplies are on a ?roller-coaster? heading ?downhill fast?,

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Buchanan warned: ?We have to face the likelihood that avoiding power shortages will also carry a price.?

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How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? - Romance - Nairaland

How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Morgan1092(m): 7:40am On Feb 19

Considering d rate of break ups in relationships and marriages, i feel most of dis breakups points 2wards unfaithfulness in our affairs. If we understand d good role bin faithful 2 our partner wil play in our affairs, i hope we wud build a better relationship, and also mek better partners dan we use 2 be. So, how faithful are you in your relationship?

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Sniffa(f): 7:56am On Feb 19

De most faithful being on earth

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Kaxmytex(m): 7:59am On Feb 19

i dnt trust masef...
I fit do nd undo in a blink of an eye..

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Flygerian.(m): 8:05am On Feb 19

^^ same here, bro!

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by cindyrella(f): 8:46am On Feb 19

^^
Smh!
The two posters above...

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Rooneyboy(m): 9:05am On Feb 19

I'm a 101% faithful.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Morgan1092(m): 9:08am On Feb 19

Kaxmytex: i dnt trust masef...
I fit do nd undo in a blink of an eye..

And dis is nt affectn ur affairs?Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Flygerian.(m): 9:13am On Feb 19

cindyrella: ^^
Smh!
The two posters above...

At least, I'm being honest. Can u be this honest in an open forum like this? U need not tell us how so called faithful u r cos we already know.

Pretenders!

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by cindyrella(f): 9:38am On Feb 19

Flygerian.:

At least, I'm being honest. Can u be this honest in an open forum like this? U need not tell us how so called faithful u r cos we already know.

Pretenders!

Huh?

Dude, There are a lot of things I do and pretending isn't one of them so just mind it bro!

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Flygerian.(m): 10:17am On Feb 19

cindyrella:
Huh?

Dude, There are a lot of things I do and pretending isn't one of them so just mind it bro!

Yes ma! Ama mind it next time but one last question pls... when u know that u also do 'lot of things', why shaking your head when I said mine (just curious)?

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by cindyrella(f): 10:30am On Feb 19

Flygerian.:

Yes ma! Ama mind it next time but one last question pls... when u know that u also do 'lot of things', why shaking your head when I said mine (just curious)?

Because you two don't trust ur selves.

Ps: why e dey pain only u sef?

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Flygerian.(m): 11:04am On Feb 19

cindyrella:
Because you two don't trust ur selves.

Ps: why e dey pain only u sef?

Yes oo!

I no trust ma sef naim make me say d truth na... abi make I lie?
No oo, my sista. E no pain me at all o! Just wanto know y ur head is being shaked. Good chatting with u tho.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Inosenduatall: 2:45pm On Feb 19

I'm not perfect. I just dey try my best noni!

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Billyonaire: 3:39pm On Feb 19

Morgan1092: Considering d rate of break ups in relationships and marriages, i feel most of dis breakups points 2wards unfaithfulness in our affairs. If we understand d good role bin faithful 2 our partner wil play in our affairs, i hope we wud build a better relationship, and also mek better partners dan we use 2 be. So, how faithful are you in your relationship?

Stop focusing on the divorce and separations which are actually very minute compared to the statistics of the married and coupled. Marriage and relationships are not stable cos of faithfulness, there is more to marriage than sex and faithfulness. There is no normal faithfulness in this world, its either one is too broke to flirt, or too bound to religion or both. It is just natural to flirt, it is nature's command. I am happy to inform you that I can not be faithful, will never be and I am not expecting anyone else to be. This truth, sets me free, cos nothing will ever surprise me.

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Scarpon(m): 3:40pm On Feb 19

nothing feels good than yanshing ur babe sister.

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by smokieN: 3:41pm On Feb 19Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by A-town(m): 3:41pm On Feb 19

For most people, it really depends. Most cheat/are unfaithful because of two things 1.) they have the "balls" to do it . 2.) The opportunity has availed itself.
Most people who are faithful can be grouped into the "other" category i.e they have no choice or the opportunity hasn't availed itself.
The percentage of people who actually "choose" to be faithful, knowing they can get anyone out there is less than 0.00001%

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by tinuolababy(f): 3:43pm On Feb 19

100 percent faithful but not in any relationship for now.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Billyonaire: 3:46pm On Feb 19

Why should anyone be faithful, in this planet with so much pretty ladies.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Morgan1092(m): 3:49pm On Feb 19

smokieN:

HOW FAITHFUL ARE U? are u here to take confessions Fr. Morgan..

And u are?Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by adaybayor(m): 3:50pm On Feb 19

Not a bit, stopped after a series of disappointment.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by yuzedo: 3:51pm On Feb 19Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Morgan1092(m): 3:52pm On Feb 19

tinuolababy: 100 percent faithful but not in any relationship for now.

Wowww! Den lets do it 2geda na. #winks#Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by mkpologwu(m): 3:53pm On Feb 19Some said it's natural to cheat but I disagree! Most times when ur partner is getting u angry, u might be forced to remember one ex that treated u better. Hence road to unfaithfulness opens.

Being selfless in relationship helps a lot!

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by yuzedo: 3:55pm On Feb 19

tinuolababy: 100 percent faithful but not in any relationship for now.

Send two 6 x 12 photos, one cover letter, and bank teller of N5,000 for application fee to my e-mail address for my speedy consideration.

Hope you have big brezz, big nyash, slim waist and ice-cream thighs. Cheers.

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Leemak: 3:55pm On Feb 19

faithful really? when anything can happen @ any time......

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by yuzedo: 3:57pm On Feb 19Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by M M M(m): 3:57pm On Feb 19Why will I be faithful 2 my partner's, when d ratio of ladies re more than men.

I need 2 pity some lady nyash & date dem out of sympathy.

And d money 4 womanizer is also dere

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by kunletiwoo(m): 3:58pm On Feb 19Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Imanuelle: 3:59pm On Feb 19Being faithful alone is not what saves a relationship from hitting the rocks.

Those small unexplainable things.....

That's why even when some cheat, they still tag along

In todays relationships.... Love is not enough... Compatibility and tolerance leads the way.

And by the way... I'm clean.

There's other people i admire, and others i push to the friends zone..

But finally, I'm a one-woman man.

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Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Okiki_Oluwa(m): 4:01pm On Feb 19

Unfaithful, but caring...

Re: How Faithful Are You In Your Relationship? by Yomieluv(m): 4:04pm On Feb 19

Very faithful like MKO Abiola.

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The Lesser Evil

An MQ-9 Reaper drone at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev.

Ethan Miller

Here?s a fact that you didn?t hear at the confirmation hearings for John Brennan, Obama?s pick for next CIA chief, or from the administration?s white paper on drone killings: The international rules of warfare require nations to capture instead of kill enemy fighters, especially when lethal force is not the only way to take them off the battlefield.

The administration claims, in the white paper, to have conducted an exhaustive review of the laws of war, and to honor those standards. Its portrayal of the rules, however, is incomplete to the point of being wrong. The crucial assumption, which in all the analyses I?ve read hasn?t yet been challenged, is that in wartime a state can choose to kill rather than capture enemy fighters at its discretion. This is sheer fallacy, as a matter of current law and legal history. Correctly understanding?and respecting?the law in this area matters deeply for the choices U.S. Special Forces are told they can make when they hunt down a suspected terrorist. And it matters for what rules the United States sets in cooperation with its NATO allies.

If you listen to the administration?s version of the rulebook on drones, you might be led to believe that once someone is designated an enemy fighter, he can be killed anytime, anywhere?unless and until he surrenders. But the more you dig for a well-sustained defense of this idea by any expert on the law of war, the more you realize how weak it is.

Let?s look at the history. In 1625, the father of international law, Hugo Grotius, wrote that ?in general, killing is called a right of war? and that ?according to the law of nations, anyone who is an enemy may be attacked anywhere.? Grotius? approach remained operable through the American Revolution, Civil War, and the world wars in the first part of the 20^th century

But the modern laws of war have come a long way since then. In 1967, one of the architects of the modern laws of war, the Swiss jurist Jean Pictet, stated that parties to a conflict should apply only so much force as necessary. He would later elaborate this principle in a simple maxim: ?If we can put a soldier out of action by capturing him we should not wound him, if we can obtain the same result by wounding him, we must not kill him, if there are two means to achieve the same military advantage we must choose the one which causes the lesser evil.? Make no mistake: That maxim does not require U.S. troops to endanger themselves to try to capture al-Qaida terrorists. The Pictet principle simply holds that if it is unnecessary to kill an individual to take them off the battlefield, capture must be the preferred option.

Pictet?s views repudiated the vision of the law that had dated back to Grotius. And they won the day: In 1973, a group that included leading intellectual figures of the time, such as Sweden?s Hans Blix and the Netherland?s Frits Kalshoven, adopted Pictet?s language essentially word-for-word as a fair reflection of existing law. Around the same time, the International Committee of the Red Cross examined the state of the law in an important report to world governments and stated concretely: ?The principle of humanity enjoins that capture is to be preferred to wounding, and wounding to killing.?

That period culminated in an international conference in Geneva in 1977, which famously established new treaties reflecting and updating the rules of warfare. The end result was a pact agreeing to a worldwide prohibition on ?superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering,? words that again mirrored Pictet?s maxim. And words that are now included in war manuals of the U.S. military.

The foundation of the White House?s position is, in the end, based on a historical relic. Nonetheless, this view has been accepted as mainstream in the United States: Even strong critics of the drone program have begun to mouth it. For example, a?recent critique of the Justice Department?s legal analysis accepts as a truism that ?unless he surrenders, a combatant can be killed regardless of activity.?

The disjuncture between the American conversation and the modern laws of wars even shows up in a recent discussion with the American political philosopher Michael Walzer. He indicated his strong support for the White House position, and stated that in ?asymmetric warfare, without a front, without soldiers in uniforms, targeted killing seems a necessary form of warfare?and justified if we get the targets right. Why does risk [to U.S. forces] make a difference?? Compare this, however to the High Court of Israel?s landmark judgment in 2005 on targeted killings. In a ruling that captures modern developments of international law, the Israeli judges stated that lethal forced must be abandoned when ?a less harmful means can be employed.? They explained that a key factor is whether such restraint involves ?a risk so great to the lives of the [Israeli] soldiers.?

A careful reading of law and modern history shows how wrong the White House position is. In law school, we teach that getting the law wrong can be as bad as ignoring it altogether. In this case, at least we still have a chance to get the law right.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=7eb503415e9bd691b40ca5335ec6ea28

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A solution to sinusitis from the sea

Feb. 18, 2013 ? A team of scientists and surgeons from Newcastle are developing a new nasal spray from a marine microbe to help clear chronic sinusitis.

They are using an enzyme isolated from a marine bacterium Bacillus licheniformis found on the surface of seaweed which the scientists at Newcastle University were originally researching for the purpose of cleaning the hulls of ships.

Publishing? recently in PLOS ONE, they describe how in many cases of chronic sinusitis the bacteria form a biofilm, a slimy protective barrier which can protect them from sprays or antibiotics. In vitro experiments showed that the enzyme, called NucB dispersed 58% of biofilms.

Dr Nicholas Jakubovics of Newcastle University said: "In effect, the enzyme breaks down the extracellular DNA, which is acting like a glue to hold the cells to the surface of the sinuses. In the lab, NucB cleared over half of the organisms we tested."

Sinusitis with or without polyps is one of the most common reasons people go to their GP and affects more than 10% of adults in the UK and Europe. Mr Mohamed Reda Elbadawey, Consultant of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Freeman Hospital -- part of the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust -- was prompted to contact the Newcastle University researchers after a student patient mentioned a lecture on the discovery of NucB and they are now working together to explore its medical potential.

Mr Elbadawey said: "Sinusitis is all too common and a huge burden on the NHS. For many people, symptoms include a blocked nose, nasal discharge or congestion, recurrent headaches, loss of the sense of smell and facial pain. While steroid nasal sprays and antibiotics can help some people, for the patients I see, they have not been effective and these patients have to undergo the stress of surgery. If we can develop an alternative we could benefit thousands of patients a year."

In the research, the team collected mucous and sinus biopsy samples from 20 different patients and isolated between two and six different species of bacteria from each individual. 24 different strains were investigated in the laboratory and all produced biofilms containing significant amounts of extracellular DNA. Biofilms formed by 14 strains were disrupted by treatment with the novel bacterial deoxyribonuclease, NucB.

When under threat, bacteria shield themselves in a slimy protective barrier. This slimy layer, known as a biofilm, is made up of bacteria held together by a web of extracellular DNA which adheres the bacteria to each other and to a solid surface -- in this case in the lining of the sinuses. The biofilm protects the bacteria from attack by antibiotics and makes it very difficult to clear them from the sinuses.

In previous studies of the marine bacterium Bacillus licheniformis, Newcastle University scientists led by marine microbiologist Professor Grant Burgess found that when the bacteria want to move on, they release an enzyme which breaks down the external DNA, breaking up the biofilm and releasing the bacteria from the web. When the enzyme NucB was purified and added to other biofilms it quickly dissolved the slime exposing the bacterial cells, leaving them vulnerable.

The team's next step is to further test and develop the product and they are looking to set up collaboration with industry.

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1. Robert C. Shields, Norehan Mokhtar, Michael Ford, Michael J. Hall, J. Grant Burgess, Mohamed Reda ElBadawey, Nicholas S. Jakubovics. Efficacy of a Marine Bacterial Nuclease against Biofilm Forming Microorganisms Isolated from Chronic Rhinosinusitis. PLOS ONE, 18 Feb 2013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055339

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