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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) ? Pakistani officials say six troops have been killed in various operations and a bomb attack.
A military official says two soldiers were killed and three were injured on Sunday during a Pakistani army operation against militants in the lawless Tirah valley area of the Kyber tribal region. Sixteen militants also were killed.
In a second incident, intelligence officials say two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded when their convoy was bombed Sunday in the North Waziristan tribal region.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with policy.
Also, two members of Pakistan's Frontier Corps were killed on Sunday during an operation in Bolan district of Baluchistan. Senior government official Waheed Shah says 13 criminals suspected in kidnappings and robberies also were killed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett said that he would not sell shares of IBM Corp., even as the company missed earnings expectations last month.
"I won't be a seller of IBM," Buffett told cable television network CNBC ahead of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting, which will begin May 4 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Buffett also said he did not buy more shares of IBM following the company's disappointing earnings results, which led to an 8 percent drop in the company's shares a day later.
Buffett added that he may buy more shares in IBM "from time to time," but that he neither bought nor sold shares after the company's quarterly earnings miss. He said that he "may have added a little bit" to Berkshire's stake in the company in the first quarter.
Buffett also told CNBC that he is "100 percent" in favor of JPMorgan Chase chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon maintaining both roles at the bank. Dimon faces a shareholder vote this month at JPMorgan's annual meeting that could push the board to strip him of his chairman's role.
(Reporting by Sam Forgione; Editing by Alden Bentley and Chizu Nomiyama)
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Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands decorated with images of his children during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., smiles during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia. Koger, a husband and father of three who lost his limbs in an accident, can now activate with an iPhone app 24 different grip patterns for his new bionic hands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly hundreds of miles to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands.
Now, he's got an app.
Koger came to Philadelphia this week to demonstrate the i-limb ultra revolution, a prosthetic developed by the British firm Touch Bionics. Using a stylus and an iPhone, Koger can choose any of 24 grip patterns that best suit his needs.
It's the latest evolution in equipment for Koger, a 34-year-old married father of three from Owensboro, Ky., who lost his hands in an all-terrain vehicle accident in 2008.
"Five years ago, I couldn't pull my pants up by myself," said Koger. "Today, I go hunting and do some of the things that I probably never imagined I could have done five years ago."
The technology indicates how rapidly the field of prosthetics is changing, benefiting patients from injured military members to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Practitioners say increased government research in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is driving some of the advances.
In Koger's case, he was shocked by a downed power line. He went into a coma and had no idea until he woke up three days later that doctors had amputated both his limbs at mid-forearm.
His wife spent those three days researching prosthetics, Koger said.
Since then, he's used a variety of prostheses, which he considers like tools ? different extensions for different tasks. Electric hooks have allowed him to pursue his passion for hunting. Myoelectric hands, which react to electrical impulses generated by his remaining arm muscles, offer more precise movements.
The previous version of Koger's myoelectric device required programming by a prosthetist, meaning Koger had to fly to Advanced Arm Dynamics in Dallas. The prosthetist would work with Koger to pick a few grip patterns ? such as pinching, pointing or shaking hands ? to program into the i-limb.
Yet sometimes Koger would get home and realize they weren't the ones he needed. Now, the latest i-limb comes with iPhone or iPad app that allows Koger to reprogram his hand with the touch of a stylus. On Thursday, he demonstrated by gripping an orange, a baseball and a can of soda.
The i-limb allows fingers and thumbs move independently to conform around certain objects, said Ryan Spill, a prosthetist for Advanced Arm Dynamics' new office in Philadelphia, who is working with Koger. The thumb is also motorized, not passive, as in previous prostheses.
The Boston Marathon bombings, which wounded more than 260 people including many with serious leg injuries, have shined a light on the advances in prostheses. But experts note that technology for upper extremity bionics, which involve fine motor skills, is much different from what's needed for lower extremities, which focuses on weight distribution and gait.
There have also been huge advances in computerized knees and feet, said Joe Reda, assistant director of orthotic and prosthetic services at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, N.J.
"The changes are happening rather rapidly now and I think it's because of our wars overseas," said Reda. "The government is trying to put more money into research and development."
The i-limb ultra revolution costs about $100,000, though some insurance might cover it. Koger, who received his free in exchange for testing them and providing feedback, met Friday in Philadelphia with other amputees interested in the new technology.
Mark Dowling, 50, of Newark, Del., lost his arm to cancer several months ago. He said he cried while watching Koger demonstrate how the hand worked.
"I'm very touched with his story," Dowling said.
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Online:
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http://www.touchbionics.com
http://www.armdynamics.com
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he?s gotten a court order to shut down the operators of what was a phony breast cancer charity, the Coalition Against Breast Cancer.
Here are the details:
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office obtained a landmark decision shutting down Campaign Center, Inc., one of New York?s largest professional fundraising firms, for defrauding the public out of millions of dollars in the name of fighting breast cancer. The decision requires Campaign Center and owner Garrett Morgan to pay restitution for the fraud, the full amount of which will be determined at an upcoming hearing. It also bars Morgan and Campaign Center from any further charitable fundraising in New York State.
The directors of the now-shuttered sham charity, Coalition Against Breast Cancer (CABC), separately reached an agreement with Attorney General Schneiderman?s office last month requiring them to pay $1.55 million in restitution and prohibiting them from ever again running a New York charity.
?Sham charities and professional fundraisers who line their pockets by tricking New Yorkers into thinking they are donating their hard earned money to fund breast cancer research and other charitable causes have no business operating in our state, and we will take action to shut them down,? Attorney General Schneiderman said. ?This important decision reaffirms my office?s determination to use the powers available under New York law to ensure honesty and integrity in the field of charitable fundraising, and to protect New Yorkers.?
The decision, issued yesterday by New York Supreme Court Justice Emily Pines in Suffolk County, found that Campaign Center and Morgan deceived thousands of donors into making charitable contributions to CABC based on false representations that CABC helped women fight and survive breast cancer through research, education and early detection. In reality, despite raising nearly $10 million from the public from 2005-2011, CABC did not engage in any research, it did not carry out any public education and it supported mammograms for only 40 women over this 7-year period. The decision held that Campaign Center and Morgan?s deceptive fundraising constituted repeated violations of New York law.
The decision permanently barred both Campaign Center and Morgan from any further charitable fundraising in New York State and ordered that Campaign Center be dissolved. The court set a May 20 hearing date for the limited purpose of determining how much in restitution Campaign Center and Morgan will be required to pay. Prior to the court?s decision, the Attorney General entered into a settlement agreement with CABC and its directors, Andrew Smith, Debra Koppelman and Patricia Smith. Under the settlement, CABC will be dissolved and its directors permanently barred from serving as officers or directors of a New York charity and from engaging in charitable fundraising in the State. In addition, the directors have been ordered to pay a money judgment totaling $1,555,000 in restitution.
Attorney General Schneiderman sued Campaign Center, Morgan and CABC and its directors in June 2011, charging them with violations of New York State not-for-profit and charitable fundraising laws. The Attorney General?s investigation revealed that CABC and Campaign Center exploited breast cancer as a national charitable cause and made false claims about the activities and services it provided. CABC?s website featured stock photos of children and mothers, played emotional music and asked donors to help achieve the ?dream? of ?eradicating breast cancer,? though the organization itself directed virtually none of the funds it raised to that cause. Donors were misled into believing that their money would be used to fund breast cancer research, mammogram screenings through a mobile van, and seminars and forums for survivors and their families.
Morgan is a longtime associate of CABC?s founding director, Andrew Smith, and controlled CABC?s fundraising operation. His company, Campaign Center, was CABC?s principal outside fundraiser and, under a deal with CABC, kept up to 85 percent of the money it raised for CABC.
The Attorney General?s investigation determined that CABC was not affiliated with any cancer institution, and spent virtually nothing on breast cancer programs. According to the lawsuit, CABC spent less than one-half of 1 percent of donations raised for mammograms or any other purpose related to breast cancer prevention or detection. In 2010, a year in which CABC raised more than $1.1 million from the public, it spent a mere $632 on mammograms. In total, CABC spent only 4 percent of all donations on any of its alleged charitable programs.
This case has been handled by Charities Bureau Enforcement Section Chief David E. Nachman, Scott R. Wilson, Special Counsel to the Attorney General, and Assistant Attorneys General Rose Firestein and Kerin E. Coughlin, under the supervision of Charities Bureau Chief Jason Lilien and First Deputy of Affirmative Litigation Janet Sabel.
A copy of the decision can be found here: www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/judge_pines_order.pdf
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