PFT: GM says Jets focused on getting Revis healthy

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The Chiefs did a lot of business in the hours before the franchise tag deadline, signing wide receiver Dwayne Bowe and punter Dustin Colquitt to long-term deals, and tagging left tackle Branden Albert.

Now they have something even more valuable than good players ? they have options.

While many will immediately assume this takes them out of the market for a left tackle (specifically Luke Joeckel) with the first pick in a quarterback-less draft, that doesn?t seem wise.

First, they should create the full impression that it?s still a possibility, if only to create a trade market that might not otherwise exist.

But the realities of their line wouldn?t preclude drafting him anyway.

Even though they just tagged Albert (keeping him there for a year, at $9.828 million), there?s no reason they can?t draft Joeckel, and have one of them play right tackle. While Eric Winson has been solid, he?s also entering his 30-year-old season, and isn?t so good that you?d bypass a potential left tackle because of him.

And Albert?s back injury, which coach Andy Reid referred to as a ?fairly significant injury? at the Combine, might also give them pause. At the very least, the uncertainty over Albert?s long-term health or contract status would make it wise to keep Joeckel as an option. Many also thought Albert was better suited to play guard when he entered the league, which creates another layer of possibility.

With the chance at a solid offensive line in front of an average quarterback (the recently acquired Alex Smith), along with a good run game, a solid receiving threat in Bowe and a coaching staff that knows how to move the ball, it gives the Chiefs the chance at a new look on offense.

And it gives them more options for the first pick, which makes it more valuable by definition.

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Get your mobile java on with Nomad, The Go Everywhere Espresso Machine

Out camping and need that espresso fix, but can’t find a coffee shop? Nomad, The Go Everywhere Espresso Machine, a Kickstarter project?from UniTerra, can solve that problem. Nomad is a portable hand-pumped espresso machine that is small and sturdy enough to carry almost anywhere. To use the Nomad, you add hot water to the water [...]

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Some people just have to have lyrics in their music. Those people are suckers. Mogwai is for non-suckers, and for post-rock newbies "Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home" is fantastic way to start. And in general it's just a great jam. More »

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US seizes 2,200 pieces of artwork in NJ

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? The massive trove of artwork arrived in New Jersey last year from Texas on an 18-wheeler ? its contents a mystery.

After five days of inventory, the haul proved to be significant: more than 1,100 pieces of art, mostly works by some of the nation's most influential photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston.

The valuable shipment was moved again to New York, but instead of being carefully exhibited in a home in Spain as planned, it ended up in the hands of federal authorities. By the end of an investigation, authorities had seized more than 2,200 works of art appraised at nearly $16 million.

On Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark announced a Feb. 22 court filing that alleges the artwork was purchased with money collected in a scheme that sold fake credits for renewable energy. The complaint seeks to force the owner to forfeit the works.

Authorities said they were seized from a warehouse in New York in July weeks after being moved from Newark and readied for shipment to Spain via Amsterdam. The works include numerous prints by Stieglitz, including one of his famous artist wife, Georgia O'Keefe, that sold for $675,000. An Edward Steichen print titled "Greta Garbo for Vanity Fair Hollywood" was purchased for $75,000.

Authorities allege the artworks' owner, Philip Rivkin, used money fraudulently funneled through his Houston-based company, Green Diesel, to buy the art. Rivkin has not been formally charged with a crime.

Kyle Sampson, a lawyer for Rivkin, said Friday he was aware the forfeiture action was filed.

"We have not received formal notice of the forfeiture action, but I am aware that a complaint has been filed," he told The Associated Press. "We've been working for some time with the EPA in an effort to resolve their concerns and any other outstanding issues there may be."

A lawyer for Green Diesel declined comment in an email message.

Rivkin was owner and CEO of Green Diesel and a company called Fuel Streamers. Authorities allege in the complaint that Rivkin and others claimed the companies produced, purchased and imported renewable fuel. But authorities say the fuel did not exist.

By federal standards, the national stock of gasoline and diesel must contain a certain percentage of renewable fuel. Authorities allege oil companies, including Shell and Exxon, have reported a total of $78 million in losses from buying fake renewables from Green Diesel.

According to the complaint, an unnamed assistant for Rivkin told authorities that Rivkin controlled all financial accounts. "Money would come in and he (Rivkin) would move it out," the assistant told authorities.

Authorities allege Rivkin used Green Diesel's bank account and other accounts to buy at least $18 million in artwork. Rivkin tended to buy his photographs in groups, making it difficult to trace individual purchases, but authorities said they have matched 1,590 pieces of art to one credit card and four bank accounts.

In April 2012, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation to Green Diesel, alleging it improperly generated credits that track and boost renewable fuel production. Authorities claim Rivkin arranged to have the art shipped out the year before, after learning of the investigation.

An EPA spokesman did not return a call for comment.

According to the complaint, Rivkin's assistant said Rivkin started purchasing vintage photographs after receiving the "EPA money." Much of the artwork was shipped from Houston to Newark and eventually bound for Spain, authorities said.

The assistant traveled to Geneva and Barcelona with Rivkin, the assistant told authorities. Rivkin stayed in Spain and when the assistant returned to the U.S. noticed that Rivkin's office was cleaned out and numerous documents were shredded, authorities said.

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Associated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill in Trenton contributed to this story.

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Important control mechanism behind autoimmune diseases discovered

May 4, 2010 ? Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new control mechanism in our immune system. The discovery is of potential significance to the treatment of serious diseases such as MS (multiple sclerosis), rheumatoid arthritis, and SLE (Systemic lupus erythematosus).

"Now that we've started to understand the regulatory mechanisms involved in these autoimmune diseases, we are hopeful that new treatments can be found," says Mikael Karlsson, associate professor at the Department of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, and one of the team behind the study now published in the highly reputed periodical, The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

An important component of our immune defence is a type of cell called a B cell. Normally, the job of these cells is to produce antibodies, which in turn bind to and neutralise invasive microorganisms, such as bacteria and viruses. In people with an autoimmune disease, explains Dr Karlsson, these B cells actually have an injurious effect and instead of serving the body, are activated against its own tissues, which they start to break down.

Patients with SLE and other autoimmune diseases have lower levels of so-called NKT cells. Previously, it was not known what part these cells play in the origin and development of the disease; now, however, the research group at KI has shown that this deficiency is a contributory pathogenic factor.

"We've demonstrated that NKT cells can regulate how B cells become activated against healthy tissue, and that a lack of NKT cells results in greater misguided B cell activation," says Dr Karlsson. "So now we can mechanically link the NKT cell defect in patients to the disease."

The study also shows that the NKT cells directly impede faulty B cell activation, and that they do so early in the misdirected process. The team managed to inhibit the activity of pathogenic B cells by adding NKT cells -- a result that may one day lead to new types of treatment.

"This means that new treatments specifically targeting the protective NKT cells can help this patient group," concludes Dr Karlsson.

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Kinetica comes into its own with illusory adventures

Kat Austen, CultureLab editor

One, two, three by Trope Scope

It?s that time of year again. This year?s Kinetica Artfair has opened in London to the delight of many science-minded art explorers.

The theme of illusion and reality runs strongly through many of the exhibits and performances this year, and this thread helps transform what has in the past seemed like a playground for grown-ups into something more enriching.

Angel In My Peripheral Vision by Chris Levine (see video above) plays on a quirk of our vision to produce an image just on the edge of perception. Turn your head, and you catch a glimpse of a figure, but look straight at the artwork and all you see is a human-height column of flickering green LEDs.

Playing with the phenomenon of persistence of vision is a theme in other works such as Tim Lewis?s Transformer, which uses a strobe light to animate a small man running inside a hamster wheel, and Mechanical Flipbook?s Horse in Motion, which recalls Eadweard Muybridge?s pioneering work in the field.

Taking things a step further, Trope Scope present One, two, three, a sculpture-cum-experiment that comes out of the multidisciplinary Diasynchronoscope Project at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Designed by artists Carol MacGillivray and Bruno Mathez as part of the project, the piece is used to investigate how our brains construct a continuous visual stream from discrete objects. ?Most perception experiments use screens,? says Mathez, ?but a screen is not reality. We can represent reality in a much better way by positioning the viewer within a room and playing with space and depth. We can control the experiments very precisely.?

They will be investigating apparent movement - the way that we perceive frames of a film to be a continual flow of information. Everyone consumes movies all the time, MacGillivray says, but most of us don?t really know why we see them move, or what the thresholds are to seeing movement.

One, two, three is a stunning piece of art in its own right. It combines audio-visual elements that nod to MacGillivray?s experience in animation with a sculptural element that brings the projections into the realm of the real.

Other works play with our instinctive reactions to visual stimuli. Madi Boyd has worked with psychologists and neuroscientists who look at how we first respond to visual stimuli and then try to interpret what we?re looking at.

In Fragment Cinema, she draws us in with a completely abstract light projection emerging from a prism-shaped box, but also presents us with an almost-interpretable film element projected onto the outside of the box to engage us at the second, interpretation, stage.

The video hints at a narrative that the viewer can almost, but not quite, unravel. We linger as the images flicker by looking for the next clue, the next pattern that might explain the whole.

In its fifth year, Kinetica Artfair is coming into its own. With a series of performances over the weekend and a host of other fun and interactive exhibits, it?s certainly worth a visit.

If you?re in London and in the mood for more art this weekend, Art13, an art fair for international up-and-coming artists, has some science-related treats too, including taxidermy artist Polly Morgan?s Foundations/Rename - a tower made of casts of a crow?s femur - and Catharina Van Eetvelde?s Subject of the Sun, prints that call to mind Galileo?s struggle with the Catholic church.

Kinetica Artfair runs until Sunday at Ambika P3 (opposite the London Planetarium), University of Westminster, London

Art13 runs until Sunday at Kensington Olympia, London

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