Octomom's fertility doc moves to keep license (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? The fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments is asking that he be allowed to continue practicing medicine while he appeals his license revocation.

Dr. Michael Kamrava asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday to delay a decision that revokes his license to practice medicine as of July 1.

The Beverly Hills fertility doctor represented himself in the filing, which claims the state's medical licensing agency "exceeded its jurisdiction and violated (his) due process right to earn a living" by revoking his license.

Kamrava declined further comment on the case when reached by phone Tuesday.

"It is what it is," he said.

Jennifer Simoes, spokeswoman for the Medical Board of California, said anyone can sue a state agency for any reason, but petitioning the court is unusual.

Outcomes can vary widely, from the court asking the board to reconsider its decision to refusing to hear the petition, Simoes said. But ultimately, licensing decisions lie with the board.

By law, Kamrava can petition for reinstatement of his license three years after revocation takes effect, though he would have to show considerable rehabilitation to persuade the board to give his license back.

In its decision earlier this month, the board noted that Kamrava was not "a maverick or deviant physician, oblivious to standards of care in IVF practice," but he failed to exercise proper judgment in patient care, including the care of Suleman.

Kamrava has acknowledged implanting 12 embryos into Suleman, then 33, prior to the pregnancy that produced her octuplets. It was six times the norm for a woman her age.

Suleman's octuplets are the world's longest surviving set. When they were born, the unemployed single mother already had six children ? also conceived through Kamrava's treatments.

The state also found that Kamrava was negligent in the care of two other patients. He implanted seven embryos in a 48-year-old patient, resulting in quadruplets, but one fetus died before birth.

In another case, Kamrava went ahead with in vitro fertilization after tests detected atypical cells, which can indicate the presence of a tumor. The patient was later diagnosed with stage-three cancer and had to have her uterus and ovaries removed before undergoing chemotherapy.

No date has been set for the court to hear Kamrava's request.

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Shaya Tayefe Mohajer can be reached at http://twitter.com/APShaya. Associated Press writer Anthony McCartney contributed to this report and can be reached at http://twitter.com/CelebrityDocket.

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Producer wants child witness to fight extradition (AP)

SANTA MONICA, Calif. ? A reality television producer charged with killing his wife in Mexico will ask a U.S. federal judge to allow the couple's 6-year-old daughter to testify at an upcoming extradition proceeding, his attorneys said Tuesday.

They want the young girl to be allowed to testify that she did not see her parents arguing while on a family vacation in April 2010 that ended with the body of Monica Beresford-Redman being found in a sewer at a swank Cancun resort.

Attorneys for ex-"Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman acknowledge that getting the girl on the witness stand is a long-shot. But attorneys Richard Hirsch and Vicki Podberesky said at a news conference Tuesday outside their law offices that a federal judge should allow them to present witnesses and evidence that exonerate the producer in his wife's killing.

The girl, who was 5-years-old at the time of her mother's death, was interviewed by a child therapist who states in court filings that the girl did not witness any violence involving her parents in their hotel room. Prosecutors contend Bruce Beresford-Redman may have killed his wife in the room they shared with their two young children, then dumped her in a sewage cistern.

If their request is rejected, the Emmy-nominated producer's extradition hearing would be a short one, focusing on whether Mexico's request to have him returned to stand trial on an aggravated homicide charge is in proper order.

Hirsch and Podberesky on Tuesday again attacked Mexico's investigation of the case, saying there was no physical evidence that their client killed his wife. They acknowledge he had a motive ? the Mexico trip had been planned to try to save the marriage after Monica Beresford-Redman discovered her husband was having a long-term affair. But the attorneys say nothing in the hotel room or at the cistern supports a case that Bruce Beresford-Redman killed his wife.

Hirsch said Tuesday that he worried about the producer's safety if he is returned to Mexico, saying the jails in Cancun are dangerous and describing the city and surrounding areas as rife with corruption and drug violence.

The extradition hearing is scheduled for July 12, but Beresford-Redman's attorneys are seeking a delay so that his parents can attend the proceedings. They are required to be in a Los Angeles probate court on July 12 for a hearing on the validity of Monica Beresford-Redman's will, which her family has challenged.

Her family has attacked the effort to bring the couple's daughter has been brought into the homicide case.

"We are shocked at his shameless use of our young niece as his alibi when all of the available evidence points toward his guilt," Alison Triessl, an attorney representing Monica Beresford-Redman's sisters and mother, said in a statement last week. "We hope and pray that such abhorrent tactics will not prevent justice from being served in this case."

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Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/celebritydocket

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Oil falls below $94 after mixed US supply report (AP)

Oil prices fell below $94 a barrel Wednesday after a crude supply report reflected mixed signs about U.S. demand and the dollar strengthened against other currencies.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for August delivery was down 82 cents to $93.35 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 54 cents to settle at $94.17 on Tuesday.

In London, Brent crude for August delivery was down 41 cents to $110.54 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories fell 81,000 barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had predicted a drop of 2.0 million barrels.

Inventories of gasoline dropped 1.5 million barrels last week, surprising analysts who had forecast an increase of 1 million barrels. Distillates fell 541,000 barrels, the API said.

The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data ? the market benchmark ? later Wednesday.

"Demand figures have not been strong and we still have more crude oil in storage than in previous years," energy consultant Cameron Hanover said in a report.

A stronger dollar also weighed on prices by making commodities like oil more expensive for investors holding other currencies. A stronger dollar usually pushes down crude prices.

The euro slipped to $1.4366 from $1.4416 in late trading in New York, while the dollar strengthened to 80.23 yen from 80.13 yen.

"Markets are ... slightly weaker as they wait for the vote on the Greek austerity package, but likely ready to rally if and when it passes," said Edward Meir at MF Global in New York. "However, the bounce will be brief, as there are still serious problems remaining in Europe. For one thing, other countries are experiencing severe debt issues."

In other Nymex trading in July contracts, heating oil fell 1.75 cents to $2.8725 a gallon while gasoline lost 0.01 cent to $2.8825 a gallon. Natural gas futures fell 1.6 cents to $4.372 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.

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Club Penguin Blog: You Decide: Animal Costume

Posted by Loki Terry on June 21, 2011 under Other Stuff

Billybob has posted on the computer blog asking what costume you would like for a event in september this is what he said:

While the Music Jam party continues on the island, we thought it was time for something a little different here on the blog.

We wanted to show you a few costume ideas the team?s been working on. We want YOU to decide which items we should make for an event in September!

I like them all and I can?t really decide which one but I like number 4 and 5. How about you? ? Leave a comment and let us know!

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Summer at the Union Square Green Market

Spring has sprung at the Union Square Green Market and everything is in bloom!

Rows and rows of plants taunt us as we all wonder where on earth do New Yorker?s have to garden?

The juxtaposition between the fresh food and flowers and the stark buildings never gets old.

Buckets of fresh blooms spill over and enticingly beckon to be brought home.

Whether small and sweet or lush and loud, these blooms brought endless glee to my weekend.

What brightened up yours?

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In Tech We Trust - Recent Business News

PALO ALTO, Calif. ? What if you threw a $41 million celebration and nobody came? A start-up fraternisation called Color knows how that feels.

In March, Color denounced its photo-sharing cellphone focus ? and suggested that it had lifted $41 million from investors prior to the app had a singular user. Despite the companys riches, the app landed with a thud, attracting couple of users and most complaints from those who did try it.

?It would be purposeless even if I managed to know how it facility,? one reviewer wrote in the Apple App Store.

Since then, Color has be converted into a notice pointer for investors, entrepreneurs and analysts who dread there is a burble in start-up investing. They say it shows that try capitalists, unfortunate to deposit in the subsequent Facebook or LinkedIn, are blindly throwing money at start-ups that have not shown they can set up something useful, most reduction a business that can yield decent earnings on investment.

Color, which says it is overhauling its app, is just one of the start-ups that have set tongues wagging about bubbly one some-more in Silicon Valley. The Melt skeleton to sell grilled-cheese sandwiches and soup that people can sequence from their mobile phones. It lifted about $15 million from Sequoia Capital, which also invested in Color.

Airbnb, which helps people lease bedrooms in their homes, is raising try collateral that would value it at a billion dollars. Scoopon, a kind of Groupon for Australians, lifted $80 million; Juice in the City, a Groupon for mothers, lifted $6 million; and Scvngr, which started a Groupon for gamers, lifted $15 million. These could, of course, spin out to be successful businesses. The worry, investors say, is the prices.

They say they have paid dual to 3 times some-more for their stakes in such start-ups over the past year. According to the National Venture Capital Association, try capitalists invested $5.9 billion in the initial 3 months of the year, up fourteen percent from the duration a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling some-more money into fewer start-ups.

?The huge success tales ? Facebook, Zynga and Twitter ? are heading to investing in thoughts on a napkin, because no one wants to skip out on the subsequent huge thing,? said Eric Lefkofsky, a owner of Groupon who also runs Lightbank, a Chicago-based try account with a $100 million coffer.

A decade ago, in the initial swell of Internet investing, it was not surprising for tech start-ups to lift tens of millions of dollars prior to they had revenue, a product or users. But try capitalists became some-more discreet after the burble detonate and the 2008 retrogression inept Silicon Valley.

Meanwhile, it now costs reduction than ever to set up a Web site or mobile app. So this time around the ubiquitous approach of hold up has been to start small.

?By early out lean, you have the possibility to know if youre on to something,? said Mark Suster, a handling trainer at GRP Partners. ?If you start stout and the product judgment doesnt work, innately the fraternisation will remove a lot of money.?

Two of Colors photo-sharing competitors, Instagram and PicPlz, reflect the gaunt start-up ethos. They started with $500,000 and $350,000, respectively, and teams of just a couple of people. As they have introduced successful products and captivated users, they have solemnly lifted some-more money and hired engineers.

Color, meanwhile, outlayed $350,000 to buy the Web residence color.com, and an one some-more $75,000 to buy colour.com. It rents a cavernous bureau in city core Palo Alto, everywhere 38 employees work in a space with room for 160, among beanbag chairs, tents for asleep and a hand-built half-pipe skateboard ramp.

Bill Nguyen, Colors always-smiling founder, has hired a organisation of costly engineers, like D. J. Patil, a former arch scientist at LinkedIn.

?If I knew a improved approach of you do it, I would, but thats what my price make up is,? Mr. Nguyen said in an talk last week.

Michael Krupka, a handling trainer at Bain Capital Ventures and one of Colors investors, said Color indispensable to lift a lot of money because it plotted to do most some-more than photo-sharing.

?When we get to the end product that we envision, people will comprehend how technically worldly it is, so we couldnt do it with 4 people,? he said. ?Thats costly to do, so hence I reckon the valuations a honest one.?

A sequence entrepreneur, Mr. Nguyen, 40, said he had regularly lifted some-more money than he indispensable so that if his products faltered, he had sufficient to keep starting longer than his competitors. But it also equates to he has to sell the fraternisation to a larger fraternisation or to shareholders for a lot some-more money than if he had lifted less.

He said the play was value it, and it had paid off for him twice. He started a use for removing faxes, e-mail and voicemail called Onebox.com, which Phone.com bought for $850 million, and Lala, a digital song use that Apple bought for $80 million last year. He also started a mobile messaging fraternisation called Seven, which has not yet sold.

Mr. Nguyen end around the Color bureau in unclothed feet and talks with substantial call for help points at the end of any phrase, fueled by what he calls an obsession to Coke Zero. Despite his sprightliness, he says he has been chastened in the last 3 months.

?Your ego gets painful a tiny bit,? he said. ?Theres no doubt I instruct we would have launched and millions of people would have used it, but that didnt happen. The being is were starting to block divided at it and take a most some-more normal track to go from A to B.?

But he makes no apologies for the volume of money he raised.

?We live in a unequivocally auspicious sourroundings for start-ups aptly now, so if the series we lifted was significantly larger than it would be at any other time, Im not starting to swallow ones pride for that,? he said.

At its start, Color said it would chaperon in a new epoch of location-based amicable networking, vouchsafing people share cellphone snapshots with other Color users close. But yet it had some success at huge events like song festivals, those who attempted it elsewhere found that there was frequency anything to see.

Mr. Nguyen said the fraternisation had taken the critique to heart and charted a new course. He dismissed Colors president, Peter Pham, and its engineers are structure a new chronicle of the app to be released later this summer.

Mr. Nguyen summarized an desirous plot to contest with Apple, Google and Facebook by restraining together organisation messaging, recommendations and internal search, all even as making money by advertising. He skeleton to set up applications that will use interpretation from Facebook to make proxy amicable networks, say at a discussion or sporting event, to help users encounter people who grew up in the same locale or like the same band.

?Its literally starting to spin your Facebook network from 500 people to 750 million people,? Mr. Nguyen said.

Photos might not even be a part of Color in the future, he said, yet an operative hired divided from the computer-in-a-pen fraternisation Livescribe is operative on ways for people to loll on photos. Analysts are extraordinary about either Color can lift off a do-over ? and either it and other cost start-ups can kick the prolonged contingency that all fledgling companies face.

?In every bust, there are ones that mount out and be converted into Google, but thats the difference rather than the rule,? Mr. Suster of GRP Partners said. ?For every success there will be 250 unequivocally reticent valuations.?

Jenna Wortham contributed reporting.

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