Pistorius' family strongly denies murder charge

Arnold Pistorius, right, uncle of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, comforts his niece after making a statement to selected press in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 16, 2013. Pistorius said that Oscar is ?numb with shock, as well as grief? after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, Thursday, and his family strongly refuted prosecutors? claims that he murdered her. At left is Aimee Pistorius, sister of Oscar Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Arnold Pistorius, right, uncle of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, comforts his niece after making a statement to selected press in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 16, 2013. Pistorius said that Oscar is ?numb with shock, as well as grief? after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, Thursday, and his family strongly refuted prosecutors? claims that he murdered her. At left is Aimee Pistorius, sister of Oscar Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Arnold Pistorius, right, uncle of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, make a statement to selected press in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 16, 2013. Pistorius said that Oscar is ?numb with shock, as well as grief? after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, Thursday, and his family strongly refuted prosecutors? claims that he murdered her. On left is Aimee Pistorius, sister of Oscar Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Arnold Pistorius, right, uncle of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, comforts his niece after making a statement to selected press in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 16, 2013. Pistorius said that Oscar is ?numb with shock, as well as grief? after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, Thursday, and his family strongly refuted prosecutors? claims that he murdered her. At left is Aimee Pistorius, sister of Oscar Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Arnold Pistorius, right, uncle of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, comforts his niece after making a statement to selected press in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 16, 2013. Pistorius said that Oscar is ?numb with shock, as well as grief? after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, Thursday, and his family strongly refuted prosecutors? claims that he murdered her. At left is Aimee Pistorius, sister of Oscar Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius leaves the Boschkop police station, east of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Pistorius was taken into custody after a 30-year-old woman, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead at his home. (AP Photo)

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius is "numb with shock as well as grief" after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, the runner's uncle said Saturday, as his family strongly denied prosecutors' claims that he murdered her.

Arnold Pistorius spoke with The Associated Press and two other South African journalists about his nephew's arrest in the killing of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot four times on the morning of Valentine's Day. Arnold Pistorius spoke to reporters from the garden of his three-story home in the eastern suburbs of South Africa's capital, Pretoria.

The statement, the first on camera and directly made in person by Pistorius' family, also came out strongly against prosecutors seeking to upgrade the charge against Pistorius to one of premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison.

"After consulting with legal representatives, we deeply regret the allegation of premeditated murder," Arnold Pistorius said. "We have no doubt there is no substance to the allegation and that the state's own case, including its own forensic evidence, strongly refutes any possibility of a premeditated murder or murder as such."

He said the family was "battling to come to terms with Oscar being charged with murder."

The track star's arrest in the killing of 29-year-old Steenkamp shocked South Africa, where Pistorius was a national hero and icon dubbed the Blade Runner for his high-tech carbon fiber running blades and revered for overcoming his disability to compete at the London Olympics. She was discovered in a pool of blood before dawn Thursday by police called to Pistorius' upscale home in a gated community. Authorities said she had been shot four times, and a 9 mm pistol was recovered at the home.

Pistorius remains held at a police station pending a bail hearing Tuesday. Police have already said they'll oppose Pistorius being released before trial. A premeditated murder charge also makes it more difficult for his defense team to get bail.

On Saturday afternoon, Pistorius' lawyers visited the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria, where the athlete is being held. His younger sister Aimee, who stood alongside Arnold Pistorius when he made his statement, also was at the police station later.

There will be a variety of hearings before Pistorius, 26, could go on trial. In South Africa, there are no juries, so a judge ultimately would decide Pistorius' guilt or innocence, sometimes with the help of two advisers. At an initial hearing Friday, Pistorius sobbed and held his head in his hands at times. He has yet to enter a plea in the case.

The family denial that Pistorius committed murder doesn't necessarily mean that they say he didn't shoot her, as murder is a legal term. Initial speculation immediately after the shooting Thursday suggested that it could have been accidental, though police say they are not currently considering that.

Arnold Pistorius did not discuss the circumstances of the shooting, but said that his nephew and Steenkamp had become very close since they started dating in November.

"They had plans together and Oscar was happier in his private life than he had been for a long time," the uncle said.

As Arnold Pistorius read his statement, Pistorius' sister Aimee stood nearby and broke down in tears at one point. Her uncle stopped reading for a moment to put his right arm around her. Pistorius remains very close with his uncle, a man he once lived with as a teenager.

"Words cannot adequately describe our feelings," his uncle said. "The lives of our entire family have been turned upside down forever by this unimaginable human tragedy and Reeva's family have suffered a terrible loss. As a family we are trying to be strong and supportive to Oscar as any close family would be in these dreadful circumstances."

The entire family was "devastated," Pistorius' uncle said, and was "grieving for Reeva, her family and her friends."

Since news of the killing, shock waves have rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world's highest murder rates. U.N. statistics say the nation has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia. Others have focused their attention on Pistorius and his fascination with fast cars, cage fighting and firearms.

Steenkamp, who graduated from law school, is known in South Africa for appearing in commercials and as a bikini-clad model in men's magazines. On Saturday, South Africa's state broadcaster SABC planned to air a reality TV show featuring the model. Another portion of the show released earlier Saturday included a clip of her swimming with two dolphins, which tap her on the cheek with their snouts.

"I think the way that you go out, not just your journey in life, but the way that you go out and the way you make your exit is so important," the blonde-haired Steenkamp says in the video. "You either made an impact in a positive or a negative way, but just maintain integrity and maintain class and just remain true to yourself.

"I'm going to miss you all so much and I love you very, very much."

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Jon Gambrell reported from Johannesburg.

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Gerald Imray can be reached at www.twitter.com/geraldimrayAP . Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .

Associated Press

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Facebook hit by 'sophisticated attack'; Java zero-day exploit to blame

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Facebook was hacked last month, the company said today, but was keen to stress that they have not found any evidence that user data was compromised.

In the note, the one-billion strong social network?the largest in the world?said that while it is "frequently targeted by those who want to disrupt or access our data and infrastructure," company employee laptops became infected after visiting a Web site containing malware.

Facebook said that it suffered at the hands of a Java zero-day exploit that was able to bypass the software's sandbox?a system that keeps whatever applet is running in a safe place away from system files.

This was reported to Oracle and has since been fixed.?It is believed that?Java 7 (Update 13)?fixed the exploit,?which was released on February 1, according to timing, but Facebook did not go into specifics.

In this case, Facebook's Security team noticed a suspicious domain in its corporate domain name (DNS) logs which was traced to an employee laptop, suggesting that hackers may have been able to access the internal Facebook corporate network. A malicious file was identified and the firm "flagged several other compromised employee laptops."

The company also noted that the Web site hosting the exploit which installed malware on the laptops despite being fully patched and running up-to-date anti-virus software.?Once these machines were identified, law enforcement was contacted and "continues" to investigate the hack.

Facebook's Security team is typically "successful in preventing harm before it happens," and investigates often before anything occurs. The team has also been?behind the assisted takedown of an 11 million strong botnet, giving assistance to the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI.

Facebook published the note disclosing the security breach nearly half an hour after the markets closed. $FB?closed down 0.6 percent and fell slightly further after market close.

The "sophisticated attack" that hit the social network's internal network seems to tie in at around the same time that major news and media organizations were hit by cyberattacks, which are understood to have been perpetrated by Chinese hackers or agents working on behalf of the government.

Facebook said that it was "not alone in this attack,"?adding:

It is clear that others were attacked and infiltrated recently as well. As one of the first companies to discover this malware, we immediately took steps to start sharing details about the infiltration with the other companies and entities that were affected. We plan to continue collaborating on this incident through an informal working group and other means.

China is no stranger to hacking. In 2010, Google pulled out of the country altogether after its networks were compromised by the Chinese government.?

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Predicting key property in Andromeda's satellites

Feb. 14, 2013 ? Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.

The predicted property in this study is the velocity dispersion, which is the average velocity of objects within a galaxy relative to each other. Astronomers can use velocity dispersion to determine the accelerations of objects within the galaxy and, roughly, the mass of a galaxy, and vice-versa.

To calculate the velocity dispersion for each dwarf galaxy, the researchers utilized Modified Newtonian Dynamics, MOND for short, which is a hypothesis that attempts to resolve what appears to be an insufficient amount of mass in galaxies needed to support their orbital speeds.

MOND suggests that, under a certain condition, Newton's law of gravity must be altered. That hypothesis is less widely accepted than the hypothesis that all galaxies contain unseen dark matter that provides needed mass.

"MOND comes out surprisingly well in this new test," said Stacy McGaugh, astronomy professor at Case Western Reserve. "If we're right about dark matter, this shouldn't happen."

McGaugh teamed with Mordehai Milgrom, the father of MOND and professor of physics and astrophysics at Weizmann Institute in Israel. Their study, "Andromeda Dwarfs in the Light of MOND" will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers and physicists need some way to explain why galaxies rotate faster than predicted by the law of gravity without flying apart. That spurred researchers to theorize that dark matter, first assumed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1932, is gathered in and around galaxies, adding the mass needed to hold galaxies together.

Dissatisfied with that hypothesis, Milgrom offered MOND, which says that Newton's force law must be tweaked at low acceleration, eleven orders of magnitude lower than what we feel on the surface of Earth. Acceleration above that threshold is linearly proportional to the force of gravity -- as Newton's law states -- but below the threshold, is not, he posits. When the force law is tweaked under that limitation, the modification can resolve the mass discrepancy.

Early in his career, McGaugh believed in dark matter. But, over time, he's found the hypothesis comes up short in a number of aspects while he's found increasing evidence that supports MOND.

In this paper, researchers tested MOND with dwarf spheroidal galaxies. These very low-surface brightness galaxies are satellites of larger galaxies. By the standards of galaxies they are tiny, containing only a few hundred thousand stars.

"These dwarfs are spread exceedingly thin. Their light is spread over hundreds to thousands of light-years. These systems pose a strong test of MOND because their low stellar density predicts low accelerations," McGaugh said.

McGaugh and Milgrom used the luminosity of the galaxies, an indicator of stellar mass, and MOND to make their calculations and predict the velocity dispersions of 17 faint galaxies. In 16 cases, the predictions closely matched the velocity dispersions measured by others. In the last case, the data from independent observers differed from one another.

"Many predictions were bang on," McGaugh said. "Typically, the better the data, the better the agreement."

The scientists also used MOND to predict velocity dispersions for 10 more faint dwarf galaxies in Andromeda. They are awaiting measurements to refute or verify this prediction.

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Though the eventual existence of a convertible version of the Toyota GT86 (and its Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ versions for America) is a no-brainer, we've yet to get a glimpse of the real-deal car until now.

Spotted in Cape Town, South Africa, of all places, this completely undisguised GT86 convertible seems to be in a remarkably advanced state of development. The image seen here was obviously sniped from quite a distance and without the aid of a powerful lens, but we can still make out a production-ready looking piece of rear bodywork for the convertible top to hide away in, as well as a functioning trunk lid. It's hard to make out with any certainty, based on this evidence, but there does seem to be space retained behind the front seats for two, small rear chairs.

With the first car spotted, we'd expect to seem some more and better images of it flow through in the near future, and if not, Toyota has already confirmed a concept version for next month's Geneva Motor Show, dubbed FT-86 Open, so stay tuned. For now, click through to the FT86Club.com forum to have a slightly closer look at the images.

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Inslee aims to grow aerospace jobs with tax incentives, education

Jay Inslee speaks at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance annual meeting Wednesday evening at the Lynnwood Convention Center.

Gov. Jay Inslee offered a number of central elements in his plan to encourage Washington state as an aerospace cluster to several rounds of applause at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance annual meeting Wednesday evening at the Lynnwood Convention Center.

Among the ideas that seemed to be especially well received by the manufacturing executives were a proposal to create tax incentives to encourage Washington?s carbon-fiber industry, and a tax exemption for the storage and repair of large private aircraft, including VIP Boeing jets.

He said there would be no loss from exempting these aircraft, because their owners don?t bring them to Washington anyway, but instead send them to low-tax areas elsewhere in the world.

As for the carbon-fiber tax incentive, he called it ?one of the best opportunities that Washington has,? adding, ?We want to be seen worldwide as the carbon-fiber capital of the world."

Other points included growing a skilled work force with 500 new student slots and creating a national center for aviation biofuels in the state.

In his remarks before the roughly 400 delegates to the aerospace meeting, Inslee emphasized his roots in aerospace, remembering when he got to climb aboard a Boeing 707 when he was 10 years old.

?I thought I?d died and gone to heaven,? he said, calling himself ?an unabashed addict of the aerospace industry.?

He said he wants any company thinking of investing in Washington to contact him before it does, adding that he also wants to talk to any executive who might take a company out of the state.

?I think we are an extremely attractive place for international investors in aerospace,? he said, adding that after a conversation with an Airbus executive, he?s hoping that Airbus will source more of its parts from Washington.

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New York University's Labs Rebuild After Sandy

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It?s been three months since Hurricane Sandy barreled along the East Coast, plunging the majority of Manhattan and surrounding boroughs into darkness, and displacing hundreds of people from their homes. As neighborhoods continue to rebuild, and in honor of the three-month anniversary, President Obama recently signed the much-anticipated Sandy Relief Bill for $50.5 billion.

One group awaiting some of that recovery funding are scientists and researchers from New York University (NYU), who lost years of research in cancer and neuroscience when the storm knocked out the power supporting their freezers, and water flooded their animal facilities, drowning their mice.

On the night the storm surge hit the city, the power outage at the NYU Langone Medical Center became a closely followed emergency. A?fuel oil storage caused the hospital?s ?back-up generators to?malfunction,?and about 300 patients were evacuated to neighboring hospitals in the city. In the same outage, NYU?s scientific animal research centers, including the Smilow Research Center, one of the largest animal research facilities housing lab mice and specimens critical to heart disease, cancer and brain research, were severely damaged.

?It is not very different from someone losing their entire home. For scientists, their research is their lifeline,? says Dr. Dafni Bar-Sagi, senior vice president and vice dean for science and chief scientific officer for NYU. ?For someone who started three to four years ago, and just got to a point to launch their research program, it?s time to rewind and start from fresh.?

(MORE: Storm Destroys Valuable Medical Research)

In the 36 hours leading up to the storm, a team of NYU Langone staff members led by Jennifer Pullium, director of the division of laboratory animal resources at the NYU Langone Medical Center, prepared the lab animals for the incoming storm by stockpiling food and bedding and moving cages to higher shelves. It should?ve been enough to keep the valuable lab mice alive for up to 10 days if the scientists couldn?t reach them before then.

The animals were kept in the basement, a decision that?s been questioned, but the university insists it is a standard industry practice. Study animals must be kept in controlled cycles of light and dark?something that?s easiest in the absence of natural light. Most of the equipment used to maintain the animals is typically too heavy for upper floors and the animals are also kept in near-sterile ?super clean? conditions, meaning moving them without an urgent need would compromise their health.

Should they have been moved? Perhaps. But the researchers insist the storm was an unprecedented event for NYU, and equally unexpected.

The medical center?s emergency power system was supposed to withstand a flood surge of approximately 12 feet, but with estimates of the actual surge at two feet higher, the hospital quickly plunged into darkness and staff members securing the animals scattered. ?It was a matter of minutes until we had to get our staff out for their own safety,? says Pullium. It happened so fast.?

Bar-Sagi says she realized the worst was possible when the power in her own apartment quickly sputtered out. After a sleepless night, she walked to the hospital at 4 a.m. to assess the damage. Communication lines were down, but NYU researchers throughout the city hurried to the scene to save whatever biological specimens they could from their failing fridges. For the following four days, Bar-Sagi orchestrated research evacuation efforts and held meetings in stairwells and empty offices to calm concerns of desperate researchers unable to get to their animals.

(MORE:?Lessons from Storm Sandy: When Hospital Generators Fail)

After the storm

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NYU researchers working to save lab materials.

A week after the storm, when the flooding had subsided, workers used crowbars to break into the basement at Smilow, and discovered 600 cages on the upper shelves still housed living lab mice. They cut holes through the ceiling and lifted the cages through, four at a time. The discovery was a silver lining, but considering a total of 7,660 cages of mice and 22 cages of rats were trapped in total, the loss was still overwhelming for many.

Months after the storm, NYU researchers are still working in makeshift labs throughout New York City. Some have set up shop in their colleagues? labs on the NYU campus, and others are working at neighboring research institutions like Rockefeller University, an unconventional collaboration given the competitive nature of science community, similar to two rival sports teams sharing training time.

The researchers hardest hit are those who rely on animals for the better part of their experiments, such as Dr. Gordon Fishell, the associate director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute, whose work focuses on connecting brain function to disease. Fishell?s lab chemicals survived for the most part, but he lost most of his mouse population that was critical to his investigation of diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and epilepsy. ?[The mice] are our partners in discovery. We care a lot about them,? says Fishell.

Mice make ideal models for scientific research of human diseases, since they are easy to manipulate genetically. But when scientists modify the mice with specific genetic tweaks, they are difficult to replace. Fortunately, Fishell, like many other researchers, shared some of his strains with other research institutions that are willing to provide him with mice for breeding, making the task slightly less daunting.

Still, before Sandy hit, Fishell had approximately 800 different strains of mice, of which about 20 were uniquely bred by his team, each with several layers of modifications that he was tracking over several generations. ?These mice cost quite a bit. Anywhere from on the low-end of $20,000 [to] the high end [of] well over $100,000 to make,? says Fishell.

And that?s not accounting for the time that he and his lab members devoted to breeding the animals. It takes eight weeks for male mice to mature sufficiently to reproduce, six weeks for female mice, and gestation lasts about 19 days. It takes even longer depending on how many generations are needed to pass along the modifications. ?It takes about a year to produce them if everything is ideal and perfect, and usually everything isn?t,? says Fishell.

?We are in an incredibly vigorous and exciting time for brain research. A year of lost time is a year of lost time,? says Fishell. ?Maybe you?re ahead of people, and suddenly you?ve lost that year and nothing stays still.?

(MORE:?How Disasters Bring Out Our Kindness)

Similarly, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, a professor of radiation oncology and cell biology at NYU and her team lost mouse populations involved in studies of how radiation exposure increases cancer risk as well as how radiation can be targeted to treat tumors. Her group lost their mice as well as their radiation equipment, including a brand new, half million-dollar machine that took two years to obtain.

When the power went out, Barcellos-Hoff?s researchers spent hours climbing up and down eight flights of stairs, trying to save specimens stored in thawing freezers. ?They trudged in the dark, carrying our precious samples that we stored from experiments we have already completed,? says Barcellos-Hoff. ?We work on those for years, and those are the most precious things in our laboratory. We can always replace equipment, we can always replace reagents, we can even replace mice, but replacing an experiment that took you two years to complete is really tedious.?

Acting quickly, Barcellos-Hoff?s team was able to rev up some of their ongoing studies to meet deadlines, but were forced to terminate others. Even though some of their mice survived the storm, Barcellos-Hoff says they could never account for the effect that the week and a half the animals spent in the dark might have had on the results.

Awaiting Funding

Despite the challenges, the researchers are optimistic that they will be able to resume most of their work. Their slow-moving recovery is frustrating, but support from the academic community has provided hope. Within four days, Fishell received 100 emails from competing scientists offering their services and even volunteering to breed mice for him.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Sally Rockey also visited NYU to survey the wreckage and show solidarity. ?I can tell you the damage is truly appalling,? Collins wrote on his blog. ?Some of the labs are unusable because the infrastructure has been essentially obliterated.? The NIH promised to help ease the transition by altering submission deadlines for grants, negotiating new goals for ongoing projects and extending training hours for new researchers.

The greatest relief will likely come from the funding the NIH allocates toward NYU. ?Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sorting out how much of the $195 million Emergency Fund from the Sandy Relief Bill will go to HHS agencies, like the NIH. After that, NYU will await guidance on how much funding they can apply for and hopefully receive.

In the meantime, all they can do is work with what they have and wait. But the researchers remain patient, because they don?t have another choice. ?It takes a certain level of courage to do science,? says Fishell. ?These people are betting their entire careers that they can do something no one has done before, get a result they can interpret, and discover something. I?d say [my researchers] gave themselves about 24 hours to sit there and think, ?Oh my God. How can I get by this?? and then they got back on, and have not looked back.?

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