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Monday 28 November 2011
Sunday 27 November 2011
Occupy movements nationwide celebrate Thanksgiving
Occupy Wall Street protestors host Thanksgiving dinner in Zuccotti park, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in New York. Protestors used the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments nationwide, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Occupy Wall Street protestors host Thanksgiving dinner in Zuccotti park, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in New York. Protestors used the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments nationwide, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Occupy San Francisco protesters are served a turkey dinner provided by Glide Memorial Church at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Occupy Wall Street protestors dig into their thanksgiving dinner in Zuccotti Park, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in New York. Protestors used the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments nationwide, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Occupy Wall Street protestors show they disapprove of police demanding that drums not be played in Zuccotti park due to a noise complaint from nearby residents on Thanksgiving day, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in New York. Although the crowd insisted they had a right to play, the drummer in question opted to refrain from playing to avoid a confrontation with police. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Occupy San Francisco protesters are served a turkey dinner provided by Glide Memorial Church at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Anti-Wall Street demonstrators in encampments around the country spent Thanksgiving serving turkey, donating time in solidarity with the protest movement and, in some cases, confronting police.
In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving fixings sent by the renowned Glide Memorial Church to volunteers and supporters of the movement fighting social and economic inequality.
"We are thankful that we are, first and foremost, in a country where we can protest," said the Rev. Cecil Williams, the founder of Glide and a fixture in the city's activist community. "And we are thankful that we believe that there are things that could be worked out and that we have a sense of hope. But we know that hope only comes when you make a stand."
While thing were peaceful in San Francisco, the situation became heated in Oakland when police say a truck driver tried to deliver portable rest room to protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza.
When officers ordered the driver to leave because he had no permit, police and about 150 protesters squared off, according to police spokeswoman Johnna Watson.
One person was arrested, Watson said.
In New York, a squabble erupted when police ordered a halt to drumming by protesters at an otherwise traditional holiday meal.
About 500 protesters were digging into donated turkey and trimmings at lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park when police told a drummer to drop playing.
About 200 protesters surrounded a group of about 30 officers and began shouting in the park where the Occupy movement was launched Sept. 17.
"Why don't you arrest the drummers in the Thanksgiving parade?" a protester hollered.
A van rolled up with more officers, but they stayed back as protesters eventually decided to call off the drumming and return to their food. Tensions have run high at the park since campers were evicted Nov. 15.
In San Diego, four Occupy protesters were arrested between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday at an encampment at the City's Civic Center Plaza, said Officer David Stafford. Three were taken into custody for sleeping overnight in public, while the fourth was arrested for spitting on an officer, Stafford said.
Demonstrators nationwide say they are protesting corporate greed and the concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent of the American population.
The movement was triggered by the high rate of unemployment and foreclosures, as well as the growing perception that big banks and corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes, yet are taking in huge bonuses while most Americans have seen their incomes drop.
In upstate New York, Danny Cashman, 25, an Afghanistan war veteran who works for a company that resells cellphones, said he sleeps at least three nights a week at an encampment in Rochester to show his solidarity with the movement.
"For today, this is my family," Cashman said as he dug into a chicken dinner at the 35-tent encampment in tiny Washington Square Park. "We have a great brotherhood, great friends, a great community."
In Los Angeles, where more than 480 tents have been erected on the lawns of City Hall, activist Teri Adaju, 46, said she typically serves dinner to homeless people on Thanksgiving and knows that many at the Los Angeles encampment were just that.
Still, she added, "Everybody's in good cheer."
In Las Vegas, Occupy protesters had a potluck meal at their campsite near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Organizer Sebring Frehner said he was happy to skip his traditional meal at home.
"Instead of hunkering down with five or six close individuals in your home, people you probably see all of the time anyway, you are celebrating Thanksgiving with many different families ? kind of like the original Thanksgiving," Frehner said.
Trisha Carr, 35, spent her holiday at the Occupy encampment at City Hall in Philadelphia. She has been out of work for more than two years and lost her car and home. She's been living in an Occupy tent for two weeks.
"Some days are harder than others," she said.
The sunny, crisp weather Thursday put her in a good mood, and she watched the annual Thanksgiving parade before coming back to the encampment for a plate full of turkey and fixings.
Carr said her job search has been fruitless, and the government needs to do more to help people like her.
"I had the benefits, I had money in my pocket, I had health care ? I had it all," Carr said. "There should be no reason why people aren't working."
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Associated Press writers Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia; Chris Hawley in New York; Ben Dobbin in Rochester, N.Y; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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The NYT on legal education again ? Truth on the Market
Posted by Larry Ribstein on November 26, 2011
Last week the NYT?s David Segal attacked modern legal education in what many bloggers have criticized as an overwrought and inaccurate article. I joined the chorus. Referring to my article Practicing Theory, I noted that Segal had made the often-repeated mistake of blaming legal educators for teaching too much theory and not enough practice when nobody knows what the future of practice will be: ???
Practicing Theory suggests that law schools should teach law students how to be architects and designers rather than mechanics.? The lawyers of the future will focus, more than today?s lawyers, on the building blocks of law. Computers and non-lawyers will handle the mechanical tasks. Training lawyers demands the sort of theoretical perspective that Segal disdains.?* * * The real problem * * * is not that law professors are teaching theory rather than the way to the courthouse, but that their choices of which theories to teach pay insufficient attention to the skills and knowledge today?s and tomorrow?s market demands.
Today?s NYT has an editorial that tracks many of Segal?s criticisms. Leiter has already subjected the editorial to a thorough fisking. I agree with many of Leiter?s criticisms ? and particularly regarding the editorial?s confused attempt to relate the problems of legal education.?
But I note with interest that the editorial seems to pick up on some of the points I made in my blog post and article:
- The editorial notes the need to ?teach to what legal practice now entails.?
- Just as I said future lawyers will be ?architects and designers? the NYT says they will be ?negotiators and deal-shapers, and problem-solvers.?
- Tracking my basic point, the editorial says ?the choice is not between teaching legal theory or practice.??
- Both the editorial and my article criticized legal education?s Langdellian heritage. (Leiter correctly observes that the NYT?s criticism is misguided; the point in my article wasn?t so much that Langdell was wrong, but that his influence marked the divide between legal education and the market for lawyers).?
So maybe it?s not too much of a stretch to think the Grey Lady is stooping to the blogs, even if not getting her hands too dirty with them.
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Saturday 26 November 2011
Facebook Wanted To Give The Facebook Phone ... - Business Insider
How much will a Facebook phone cost consumers?
Originally, Facebook wanted the price to be $0.
Two sources close to people who have worked on Facebook's phone told us that executives wanted to design and build the gadget in-house and then give the thing away for free.
Facebook hoped to make the money back through advertising.
These executives also hoped to get the phones into consumers' hands without making them sign contracts.
But then, say these source, Facebook executives realized each phone would cost $700 to make.
Facebook doesn't have enough money to afford to build and then give away lots of $700 phones.
The idea went away. One source called it "pie-in-the-sky." There was also talk of making the phone ad-subsidized, like how Amazon made Kindles with ads cheaper.
As for the no-contract thing, it was laughed off by carriers, including AT&T, which was code-named "Opus" inside Facebook.
Facebook declined to comment on this story.
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Video: With the super committee?s failure, Congress remains broken
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Friday 25 November 2011
Video: Where's President Obama?
Robert Costa, National Review political reporter with the details on President Obama in New Hampshire, and discussing Mitt Romney's tough new campaign strategy, with Mona Charen, National Review; Simon Rosenberg, New Democrat Network; and Ed Rogers, B...
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Daily Crunch: Cold Birds
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Thursday 24 November 2011
10 New Ways to Peer Inside The Human Mind (preview)
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With 100 billion neurons and trillions of synapses, your brain spins neural webs of staggering complexity. It propels you to breathe, twitch, and butter toast, and yet we remain largely ignorant of how the brain does even these simple tasks?let alone how it stirs up consciousness.
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Mixed data sparks doubts on economic momentum (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. consumer spending growth slowed in October and business capital investment plans were weak, raising questions about expectations for solid economic performance in the fourth quarter.
Other data on Wednesday offered a more optimistic outlook, with household income registering the largest rise in seven months and first-time claims for jobless benefits remaining in a range that hinted at improving labor market conditions.
Despite the mixed data, economists said it still appeared the economy was accelerating after growing at a 2 percent annual rate in the third quarter.
"We are still comfortable with our 3 percent (fourth quarter) growth forecast, but our confidence is not as strong as it otherwise would have been," said Millan Mulraine, a senior macro strategist at TD Securities in New York.
The latest signals on the health of the U.S. recovery came shortly after data showed China's once-booming factory sector shrank at its fastest pace in 32 months in November and the euro zone's private sector contracted for a third month.
U.S. stocks ended down for a sixth straight day on the Chinese data and after a weak government bond auction in Germany sparked fears that the European debt crisis was threatening even Germany, the euro zone's strongest economy.
With investors seeking a safe-haven, prices for U.S. Treasury debt rose, pushing the benchmark yield to a seven-week low. The dollar rallied against a basket of currencies.
The U.S. Commerce Department said consumer spending edged up 0.1 percent, a sharp slowdown from a 0.7 percent increase in September as households took advantage of the largest increase in income since March to rebuild their savings.
Inflation-adjusted spending also nudged up 0.1 percent last month, pointing to a loss of momentum after a relatively strong third quarter, when spending grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent.
The department said in another report that non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft -- a closely watched proxy for business spending -- fell 1.8 percent last month. That was the largest decline since January.
Though this category normally declines in the first month of the quarter, a downward revision in the September figure to show only a 0.9 percent rise raised concerns that businesses were cutting back spending.
EUROPE ERODING CONFIDENCE
While noting that capital spending can be volatile month to month, economists said the debt crisis in Europe and a deadlock on deficit-cutting plans in the United States could be casting a cloud of uncertainty over the U.S. economy and discouraging businesses from making more investments.
"We may ... be seeing some caution seeping into business risk-taking on the heels of developments in Europe and Washington," said Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
Feroli added that a business tax break due to expire at year-end may have pulled forward some spending and that impact could be fading.
Spending on capital equipment has been one of the major pillars of the recovery. Feroli estimates it accounted for more than a third of overall economic growth since the end of the 2007-09 recession.
Shipments on non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, which go into the calculation of gross domestic product, fell 1.1 percent last month after declining 1.0 percent in September.
But it was not all doom and gloom.
Although the Labor Department reported initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 2,000 to 393,000 last week, they remained below 400,000 for a third straight week, a level that economists view as a sign of some healing in the jobs market.
In addition, a four-week moving average of claims that is considered a better measure of labor market trends fell to its lowest level since April.
U.S. CONSUMER SPIRITS RISE
The improving labor market tone has helped consumer confidence to perk up slightly.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's gauge of consumer sentiment rose to 64.1 this month from 60.9 in October. It was little changed from a preliminary reading of 64.2 early in the month.
That, combined with October's 0.4 percent increase in income, gave some economists reason to be optimistic that growth would still top a 3 percent annual pace in the current quarter.
"When you want to look at future spending, you look at income," TD Securities' Mulraine said. "From the income side, things are looking up for the households. Of course, they seem to be saving for the rainy day, which is not a bad thing."
Taking inflation into account, after-tax income rose 0.3 percent, the largest increase since October 2010, after a decline of 0.1 percent in September.
After months of dipping into their savings to fund spending, houses took advantage of the rise in income to boost saving.
The saving rate increased to 3.5 percent last month from 3.3 percent in September. Savings rose to annual rate of $400.2 billion from $376.9 billion in September.
(Additional reporting Jason Lange; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Leslie Adler)
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Wednesday 23 November 2011
Kodak HERO 3.1 All-in-One Printer
The Kodak HERO 3.1 All-in-One Printer ($99.99 direct) is the junior member of Kodak?s HERO line of inkjet multifunction printers (MFPs). It provides a low-priced option with solid home credentials, respectable speed and output quality for its price.
The HERO 3.1, which prints, scans, and copies, is a black machine with silver and red trim, which measures 6.8 by 16.5 by 12.3 inches and weighs 11.9 pounds, closely resembling the Editors? Choice Kodak ESP C310 All In One Printer ($99.99 direct, 4 stars).? To the right of the lid tilt-up 2.4-inch color LCD lies behind a 4-way controller and some basic control buttons: On, Cancel, Home, Back, Zoom in/Zoom Out, and Start. The HERO 3.1 has a media-card reader that can read cards in the SD, Memory Stick, and MultiMedia Card families, though it lacks a port for a USB thumb drive, one of the features that the Kodak HERO 5.1 ($129.99, 4 stars) adds to the mix.
This MFP has a 100-sheet paper capacity, but lacks an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. It also lacks fax capabilities and an automatic document feeder (ADF), clearly making it an MFP focused on home use and setting it apart from the Editors? Choice Brother MFC-J430W ($100 street, 4 stars), a business-oriented budget MFP.
The HERO 3:1 includes built-in support for Google Cloud Print and Kodak Email Print, which is essentially an extension to Google Cloud Print. Once you assign the printer an email address through Kodak Email Print, you can print to it from any computer, smartphone, or other device that can send email. You simply create a message, attach the document you want printed, and send it. You don't even need to turn on your computer, thanks to the printer having its own email address, although the printer has to be connected to your network, with your network connected to the Internet.
The HERO 3.1 can connect to a LAN via WiFi or to a computer via USB cable. I tested it over a USB connection with the drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.
Printing Speed
The printer's speed on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), was tied with the HERO 5.1, at 3.1 pages per minute (ppm), faster than the Editors? Choice Kodak ESP C310?s 2.7 ppm. (Surprisingly, both the HERO 3.1 and HERO 5.1 tested somewhat faster than the higher-end models in the HERO line.) The HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-One ($100 street, 3.5 stars) tested at 3.7 ppm, while the Brother MFC-J430w left them all in the dust by testing at 4.3 ppm.
Output Quality
Overall, the HERO 3:1?s output quality was very similar to the HERO 5:1, with average text, sub-par graphics, and photos of average (if inconsistent) quality.
Text quality was typical of an inkjet MFP, suitable for schoolwork and general business use but not for desktop publishing, marketing materials, or other output
Graphics quality for the HERO 3.1 was sub-par for an inkjet. Banding (a regular pattern of faint lines of discoloration) was prevalent in some illustrations, particularly ones with solid backgrounds. A couple of illustrations showed blotchiness, with slightly faded areas. Another issue was posterization, abrupt shifts in color where they should have been gradual. Also, thin colored lines did not show up at all, defaulting to gray (which made them barely visible against a black background.
Photo quality was inconsistent, with some prints looking better than what you?d expect from a drugstore and others worse. Overall, colors were rich and well saturated. A monochrome image showed a tint, and in several images detail was lost in bright areas.
Other Issues
The HERO 3:1 lets you create and print 3D images. It includes a utility that will create an anaglyphic 3D color image (the kind that needs glasses with one red lens and one blue lens to see the 3D effect). To print a 3D image, you need two photos of the same scene, and you?ll need to move the camera about three inches horizontally between snapping the two pictures. The utility overlays the images and prints them. To let you see the 3D effect, Kodak provides two pairs of glasses with the printer.
Kodak claims ?running costs for the HERO 3:1 of 3.9 cents per monochrome page and 10.7 cents per color page; the cost per color page is particularly low.
The Kodak HERO 3.1 offers decent speed for a $99 printer, and its output quality is average for an inkjet at its price. It?s slightly faster than the Editors? Choice Kodak ESP C310 but it adds little feature-wise, and the C310 edged it in photo quality. The HERO 3.1 is a good choice for a budget inkjet MFP, providing low price and low running costs, but you should also consider the C310, the extra features of the HERO 5:1, or?if you want an MFP for home-office as well as home use?the Brother MFC-J430w.
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The Eight Limbed Aliens: Octopuses Are Out There
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Ok, so this is really entirely for entertainment, and you should check out the excellent all-octopus-all-the-time blog Octopus Chronicles right here at Scientific American for genuine insight, but I couldn?t resist posting this video that seems to be on its way to viral fame. Apparently octopuses can, and do, make quite extended forays into that near vacuum we call dry land. Watching this (and the other one below) I cannot help but think that the same scene could be playing out on a planet around another star somewhere out in the Milky Way galaxy, or even further afield. Opposable thumbs are so last-eon, prehensile tentacles are the way to go.
And this one demonstrating that old hunter-gatherer instinct that results in planetary domination?
About the Author: Caleb Scharf is the director of Columbia University's multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center. He has worked in the fields of observational cosmology, X-ray astronomy, and more recently exoplanetary science. He is working on a new book entitled Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos (forthcoming from Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2012). Follow on Twitter @caleb_scharf.More??
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Tuesday 22 November 2011
Crosby to return on Monday against Islanders (AP)
PITTSBURGH ? Sid the Kid is back.
Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby will make his season debut on Monday against the New York Islanders, his first game in nearly a year since being sidelined with concussion-like symptoms.
Crosby hasn't played since taking head shots in consecutive games in January against Washington and Tampa Bay.
The 2007 NHL MVP spent the last 10 months undergoing a painstakingly thorough rehabilitation that left him wondering when ? or even if ? he'd play again and forced the league to take a harsher stance when it comes to policing head hits.
His return ends weeks of speculation that appeared to put the ever-polite Crosby on edge but hardly bothered his teammates. The 24-year-old declined repeated interview requests in recent weeks as the speculation about a possible return date reached a fever pitch.
The announcement made an immediate splash. Versus quickly said it would televise the Islanders-Penguins game instead of its previously scheduled broadcast of Boston's trip to Montreal.
Crosby missed the remainder of the 2010-11 season after taking a hit from Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman on Jan. 5. The expected brief absence turned into an extended one that rendered him a spectator for Pittsburgh's loss to the Lightning in the opening round of the playoffs.
He vowed to be ready for training camp but spent much of the summer in seclusion in his native Canada, his silence fueling speculation his career may be in jeopardy.
Crosby came forward in September and ? flanked by the two doctors who have overseen his recovery ? said it was "likely" he would be back this season.
He began training camp wearing a white helmet to signify he wasn't to be hit, working feverishly for a month before switching to a black helmet after being cleared for contact on Oct. 13.
Coach Dan Bylsma preached caution, though his teammates did their best to accommodate their captain, jostling with him in practice when given the opportunity.
Crosby has traveled with the team throughout the season. He's missed one skate since camp began in September, skipping a practice in Los Angeles on Nov. 5 so he could travel back east to visit with his medical advisers.
His teammates stressed there was no need for Crosby to rush, and the Penguins have been one of the league's top teams through the season's first six weeks behind the crisp goaltending of Marc-Andre Fleury and a dynamic offense led by Evgeni Malkin and James Neal.
Despite a miserable road trip to Florida ended with losses to Tampa Bay and the Panthers, Pittsburgh enters Monday with an 11-6-3 record and is tied for the Atlantic Division lead with 25 points.
Crosby was cleared on Sunday after meeting with his medical team, and Bylsma could feel Crosby's excitement when he was finally given the OK.
"He's excited and anxious," Bylsma said.
So are the Penguins, who have been good without Crosby. His job is to make them great.
Bylsma said Sunday he will pair Crosby with Pascal Dupuis and Chris Kunitz. How many shifts Crosby will see is unclear, though Byslma said it's highly unlikely he'd throw Crosby out there for 20-plus minutes.
Not that it matters. Not this week anyway. His return will start with a three-game homestand that will generate the kind of buzz normally reserved for late spring.
"We know what he means to this team, this city," defenseman Kris Letang said. "He's a special player."
One that spent months dealing with "fogginess" that at times made it difficult for him to drive or watch television. He also endured painful migraines and likened the recovery process to a roller coaster.
The ride appears to be finally pulling into the station, sending Crosby out into the great unknown.
For all the steps he's taken during his recovery, the real test will come when he gets hit for the first time at full speed. Though the nature of the game may be changing thanks in part to Crosby's ordeal.
New discipline czar Brendan Shanahan, only three years removed from his playing days, has been suspending players for taking unnecessary head shots at opponents. It's a movement Crosby embraces.
"A guy's got to be responsible with his stick, why shouldn't he be responsible with the rest of his body when he's going to hit someone?" Crosby said. "Whether it's accidental or not accidental, you've got to be responsible out there."
He hasn't backed down during practice, often being one of the last to leave the ice before heading to the dressing room.
The Penguins have raved about Crosby's intensity during even the more informal skates. While he's looked perfectly fine to the naked eye, Crosby wouldn't allow himself to come back until he was at full strength.
"Maybe I can get by with 90 percent, maybe I couldn't but I'm not going to roll the dice with that," Crosby said in September.
When he finally glides onto the ice in his No. 87 jersey, Crosby will put to rest speculation his career was over. His teammates, who did their best to give Crosby distance over the summer, never doubted he would return.
"I figured he was getting enough of it from everywhere else," teammate Jordan Staal said. "All that matters to us really is that he's healthy. All that stuff you thought you heard, I didn't pay any attention to it."
How quickly it takes Crosby to get back to his pre-injury level is uncertain.
He was playing arguably the best hockey of his brilliant career before getting hurt, leading the league in goals and points as the Penguins steamrolled through the first three months of the season.
The team soldiered to a fourth-place finish in the Eastern Conference despite missing Crosby, Malkin and Staal. The magic disappeared in the playoffs as the Penguins lost in seven games.
Crosby's comeback pushes a team considered a Stanley Cup contender into a Stanley Cup favorite. But after months and months of rumors and worry, Crosby's return is cause enough for celebration.
"We know how badly he wants to play," teammate Matt Cooke said. "We want it too, because it means that he's healthy, and that's all you ever really want for him."
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Greek party chief resists EU/IMF pressure on pledge (Reuters)
ATHENS (Reuters) ? Greece's creditors failed on Saturday to persuade the leader of the main conservative party to drop his refusal to sign a pledge that he will back austerity measures under a bailout deal aimed at saving the country from financial ruin.
Antonis Samaras, leader of New Democracy, one of three parties in a new national unity coalition struggling to avert a disastrous default, says there is no need to provide a written guarantee because his word can be trusted.
But international lenders, weary of Greece's failure to deliver on fiscal targets during two years of financial crisis, insist on the written statement, fearing its politicians may otherwise try to wriggle out of their commitments, especially with an election likely in February.
Representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- the "troika" which monitors Greek compliance with its rescue deals -- discussed the issue with Samaras in Athens on Saturday.
"Regarding the discussion we had with the troika and specifically on the written reassurances, I repeated to them my position on the issue," Samaras told reporters after the talks.
Samaras, a Harvard-educated economist known for his fiery rhetoric, said New Democracy had proven its commitment to the terms of the bailout by backing the coalition led by technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and its new budget.
Papademos's coalition, which comprises New Democracy, the Socialists of fallen premier George Papandreou and the small far-right LAOS party, won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday and submitted a draft budget to parliament on Friday.
Samaras's stance potentially puts at risk the next aid tranche for Greece worth 8 billion euros (about $11 billion) that it needs by mid-December to meet debt repayments. Failure would mean default.
The new bailout negotiated last month envisages a further 130 billion euros meant to keep the Mediterranean country of 11 million people financed until 2014.
Political analysts said they expected some face-saving compromise would be found to end the standoff.
"One way or another, there will be a way to bypass this problem. I believe there will be a solution that will not force Samaras to give a written commitment, and it will come soon," Costas Panadopoulos, head of pollster ALCO, told Reuters.
ELECTION EYED
The 'troika' also met Papandreou on Saturday but he and his party made no immediate comment after the talks. The leader of LAOS was due to meet the EU and IMF officials on Sunday.
Samaras agreed to back Papademos's coalition in return for early elections that opinion polls suggest he would win, albeit without a majority. In recent days, he has stressed that his support for the cabinet is temporary, pending a February poll.
Support for both Papandreou's PASOK and Samaras's New Democracy, which have dominated Greek politics for decades, has eroded over the past week, opinion polls show.
However, more than two thirds of voters back Papademos, a former central banker who is the sole technocrat in a coalition otherwise made up of party politicians.
Greece's debt troubles over the past two years have turned into a major European crisis that threatens the survival of the euro and the stability of the global economy.
As Greek politicians bickered this week, borrowing costs for much larger euro zone countries such as Italy and Spain were in the danger zone and even France's rose.
The new cabinet's draft budget, expected to be approved in the next few weeks, predicts a fifth year of recession but says a plan to convince Greece's private creditors to take a 50 percent loss on bond holdings could cut the budget deficit by more than a third.
A New Democracy official said the troika also discussed the debt swap plan with Samaras on Saturday.
"We discussed the private sector involvement (PSI) with the troika. They told us they are watching the PSI negotiations very closely and they told us we all want this deal to succeed," the party official said.
Papademos is scheduled to fly to Brussels on Monday to brief senior EU officials on the latest developments in Greece.
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(Writing by Gareth Jones; Editing by David Stamp and Elizabeth Piper)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111119/bs_nm/us_greece
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Monday 21 November 2011
Uncoiling the Anaconda Vise with CM Punk
As many Superstars can attest, the Anaconda Vise is the most excruciating maneuver in CM Punk?s arsenal. This Sunday at Survivor Series, three weeks after using the submission hold to force Alberto Del Rio to grant him a WWE Championship opportunity at the 25th annual event, The Voice of the Voiceless could very well utilize it to wrench the prestigious prize from The Mexican Aristocrat?s grasp.
Although Punk has scored numerous victories with his signature Go to Sleep (GTS) over the years, The Straight Edge Superstar explained to WWE.com that making opponents tap out to the Anaconda Vise was a key component of his success when he first emerged in WWE.
?The Anaconda Vise was my bread and butter when I came to WWE in 2006,? Punk said. ?I had it in my pocket for a while and I?m glad that I?ve dusted it off.?
Punk gravitated toward the hold, an arm triangle used in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo, while studying martial arts as a teenager.
?If you had to ask me what my favorite submission hold was, it was an arm triangle,? the four-time World Champion affirmed, reflecting on the beginning of his journey to become a WWE Superstar. ?It?s multifaceted and can be applied in different ways. Because I have control of my opponent?s head, I can beat up a guy?s neck, his shoulder or his arm. That?s why I like it.?
Punk most recently used the Anaconda Vise to put the squeeze on Michael Cole on RAW GETS ROCKED, the same night The Second City Savior experienced the brutality of Del Rio?s own submission hold, the cross armbreaker. Despite the threat of the WWE Champion?s sinister maneuver ? which has, in the past, decommissioned the likes of Rey Mysterio ? Punk remains confident that his own hold will give him an edge on Sunday.
?It?s almost like fighting fire with fire,? Punk said. ?Alberto has his arm hold, I have my arm hold. But anything he can do, I can do better.?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Does the Anaconda Vise really give CM Punk an advantage at Survivor Series? Or has The Voice of the Voiceless spoken too soon? Share your thoughts with the rest of the WWE Universe on Facebook and Twitter, and watch Punk challenge Alberto Del Rio for the WWE Championship by tuning in to Survivor Series, this Sunday, only on pay-per-view. (FULL COVERAGE)
Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/survivorseries/2011/punk-anaconda-vise-survivor-series
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Sunday 20 November 2011
HBT: Minimum player salary to rise to $480K
The Associated Press reports that MLB?s minimum salary will increase from $414,000 to $480,000 under the league?s new CBA set to go into effect next week.
It is expected to continue to increase over the duration of the deal and could soon top $500,000.
A couple of other new reveals:
- Super-two arbitration will not only stick around but will include a few new members each year. From now on, the top 22 percent of players with two-plus years service time will be eligible from arbitration, up from the current 17 percent.
- The luxury-tax threshold will remain at $178 million next year.
- There will be two separate tax systems in place for the signing of draft picks and international free agents. A tax of 75 percent to 100 percent of the?amount exceeded?will be imposed on teams that go over the threshold and there will also be some threshold that causes the loss of draft picks.
- Contradicting what was reported yesterday, there will not be a tax on low-payroll teams. The subject was debated, but it appears that no system could be agreed to.
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Video: Crude Clipping AMR's Wings?
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Saturday 19 November 2011
Isabelle Pierre: More Dating Advice for the Young, Single, Black and Female
Hey Girl,
In case you were just minding your own business acting like a lady and thinking like a man, Tyrese has some new advice for all the independent single (black) ladies.
Excerpt via New Black Woman:
I want to say to all the women out there, especially black women in particular, y'all are on this independent kick. "I don't need no man, I'm independent." I want y'all to know the difference. There is a very big difference. Independence in the eyes of a man is when we say we want an independent woman; we don't want a woman that's [depending on] her sexy and nice body to help her get through life. You don't wanna work, you don't want to go to college or school, you're not inspired to do anything on any level to try and help further yourself on any level. You just want to be sexy and free-load....nobody wants that as a man.Then some women are so on this independent kick they end up alone. You're going to independent your way into loneliness. You go off and buy all the little poodles you want. "At least my dog is happy to see me when I get home everyday." That dog or "rabbit" will never be able to replace what a real man can do for you. So stay independent, get your own, but nobody wants to be alone period. I know it's a lot of men out here that are playing on both sides of the fence, it's confusing, and it's a lot of homosexuality going on out here. I get it, it's a lot of frustration that women have. [But] there's a lot of man's man still left; We're out here, we're waiting, we're wanting, we desire you just like you desire us. Just don't give up on us..."Stay." That's my 'Open Invitation'. Give [us] a shot at your heart.
Please don't independent your way into loneliness.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/isabelle-pierre/tyrese-dating-advice_b_1097852.html
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Friday 18 November 2011
'Twilight' fever hits London for UK premiere (AP)
LONDON ? London fans are in the grip of "Twilight" fever ahead of the U.K. premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1."
But so-called Twihards hoping for a glimpse of Kristen Stewart, who plays the love-besotted teen Bella Swan, will be disappointed.
Instead they will get to see Robert Pattinson, the British actor who stars as her vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen, Taylor Lautner, who as werewolf Jacob Black is her best friend and director Bill Condon before the screening at the Westfield shopping center in Stratford City.
The first "Twilight" movie was released in 2008. This fourth film finally sees Bella marry her vampire boyfriend.
The film opens in the U.K. on Friday.
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Chromosome glitch tied to separation anxiety
Finding joins other links between extra or missing genes and mental conditions
Web edition : 8:05 am
WASHINGTON ? Separation anxiety in some children may be due to extra doses of a particular gene.
The gene, GTF2I, is located on human chromosome 7. People missing part of the chromosome that contains GTF2I have a condition called Williams syndrome and are generally extra social. On the other hand, people who have extra copies of that part of chromosome 7 may have social and other types of anxiety: About 26 percent of children with an extra copy the region containing GTF2I have been diagnosed by a doctor as having separation anxiety, human geneticist Lucy Osborne of the University of Toronto said November 15 at a press conference at the Society for Neuroscience?s annual meeting.
Osborne and colleagues genetically engineered mice to have a duplicate copy or two of GTF2I, or to be missing one copy of the gene, then tested the effect of the gene dosage on separation anxiety with a squeak test. Week-old baby mice separated from their mothers send out ultrasonic distress calls. ?It?s a ?come get me? signal,? Osborne said.
Baby mice with a normal two copies of GTF2I squeaked an average of 192 times over four minutes when removed briefly from their nests. Mice with three or four copies squeaked nearly twice as much, indicating greater anxiety at being separated from their mothers. Mice missing one copy of the gene were a little bit less vocal.
Previous studies have linked missing or duplicated genes to schizophrenia (SN: 4/25/09, p. 16), autism (SN: 7/3/10, p. 12) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (SN: 9/10/11, p. 12), but this is the first study to show that some forms of anxiety may be linked to added or subtracted genes. The researchers don?t yet know how the gene leads to anxiety, but GTF2I regulates the activity of other genes and helps control levels of calcium, which brain cells use to communicate with each other.
The mouse experiments make the observation of greater separation anxiety of children with extra copies of GTF2I much more believable than a mere association of a genetic change with a certain human disease, says Klaus Miczek of Tufts University in Boston, who was not involved in the work.
Even though the researchers have shown that duplications of the gene may be involved in some cases of separation anxiety, the gene is probably not involved in all types of anxiety, Osborne said. And not every child with separation anxiety will have extra copies of GTF2I.
Found in: Genes & Cells
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336222/title/Chromosome_glitch_tied_to_separation_anxiety
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Thursday 17 November 2011
Last of 91 whales stranded in Australia, NZ dies (AP)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend.
Though whale strandings are relatively common in both countries, the past few days have been particularly tough for conservation authorities.
In all, 24 sperm whales and two minke whales died in a stranding on and around remote Ocean Beach in Tasmania. In an equally remote New Zealand location, the tip of Farewell Spit in the South Island, 65 pilot whales died.
Australian authorities were trying to guide the last surviving sperm whale to open water from Macquarie Harbour when the whale died late Wednesday. They had earlier managed to free two sperm whales from the harbor, which is located near Ocean Beach.
"We did everything possible to save this whale," said Liz Wren, a spokeswoman for the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. She said the whale appeared to be swimming strongly before it died at about 7 p.m.
Paradoxically, mass-strandings in most cases appear to be triggered by the survival strategy of a single whale, said Anton van Helden, a marine mammal expert at New Zealand's Te Papa museum. When a whale is sick or injured, it will often seek shallower water to recover, he said, so it doesn't have to swim so far to reach the surface and breathe.
Unfortunately, he said, a sick whale will often become beached as it tries to recover. It will then send a distress signal to other whales in its pod and they will join it as part of the group's strong social cohesion.
"The key thing about life in the ocean is that whales are highly dependent on one another to deal with any ailment," van Helden said.
He said Farewell Spit provides a "classic whale trap" because it has long, shallow beaches that can confuse whales into thinking they are in open ocean, as well as large tidal variations which can strand whales. The peak time for strandings in the South Pacific is between October and February, van Helden said, as conditions change and whales move closer inshore.
He said that one of the worst mass-strandings in New Zealand occurred in 1918 when about 1,000 pilot whales were beached on the Chatham Islands.
In general, worldwide whale populations have been slowly recovering since major nations agreed to a ban on commercial whaling in 1986. However, some species of whale remain endangered and Japan's practice of hunting whales for what it says are scientific purposes continues to cause controversy.
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Wednesday 16 November 2011
Advertisers bail on Penn State college football TV ads
Penn State scandal: At least six TV advertisers, including Cars.com, pulled their ads from Penn State football games.
Beyond the profound embarrassment and ethical questions surrounding the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, the controversy is also hurting the University's bottom line.
Skip to next paragraphThe Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that no less than six advertisers have pulled their commercials from upcoming Penn State football broadcasts on ESPN.
"I have multiple advertisers pulling ads from the ESPN broadcast," one media buyer told the Journal. "I am advising my clients to move out of games for the short term," another buyer added.
IN PICTURES: Fallout from Penn State scandal
The Journal's report followed an announcement on Friday that Cars.com would pull its commercials from the school's upcoming games.
Penn State operated the third most profitable football program in the U.S. last season, pulling in income of $50 million off revenue of $70 million.
That's all in peril because of a long-brewing sex scandal in which Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at the school, is accused of molesting eight boys.
The school's legendary head coach, Joe Paterno, was fired last week after a 46-year-career in which he amassed the most wins in college football history. Paterno passed along a reported incident of Sandusky's misconduct to the school's athletic director nine years ago, but is under fire for not reporting the crime to the authorities and for not taking more decisive action to stop the abuse.
After the most traumatic week in the school's history, the Nittany Lions returned to their home field on Saturday, where they lost to Nebraska, 17-12.
IN PICTURES: Fallout from Penn State scandal
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As Glaciers Melt, Bhutan Faces Risk of 'Mountain Tsunamis' (Time.com)
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.
(THIMPU) ? The Kingdom of Bhutan, tucked between India and China in the foothills of the Himalaya mountain range, is paying the price for global industrialization. To the north of the country, a chain of Himalayan glaciers is rapidly retreating ? by between 20 m and 30 m per year. Experts blame climate change and predict that by 2035, the glaciers could be gone altogether.
Water flows from these melting glaciers until it breaks the natural ice dams that hold it in place. That, in turn, can result in devastating floods like the one that occurred in 1994, when a torrent of mud killed dozens of people in Bhutan and wiped out entire villages. Western scientists call this phenomenon a glacial-lake-outburst flood, or GLOF. With 24 of its 2,674 glacial lakes considered unstable, Bhutan is preparing in the coming years for even deadlier "mountain tsunamis," as the phenomenon is sometimes referred to.
Bhutan is one of the first countries in the world to make GLOF prevention a national priority. In 2005, the government received environmental-protection funds financed in part by the U.N. Development Programme. The money was earmarked in part to help Bhutan drain water from Thorthormi Glacial Lake and reinforce its natural dams. But at that high altitude, the work is difficult, dangerous and ultimately costly. (See photos of Bhutan's new king.)
The air is too thin for helicopters to be of much use. Instead, a group of some 350 residents had to hike 10 days in order to set up a base camp at 5,000-m elevation. From there, volunteer students, retired soldiers and traditionally clothed villagers work knee-deep in glacial water, using the few tools they have to try to open a drain canal and build stone walls to reinforce the lake. Every year their efforts are interrupted by the arrival of winter.
"Thanks to satellite imagery, it's possible to identify the most dangerous glaciers. But it's impossible to say when or where a catastrophe will happen," says Pradeep Mool, an engineer with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Researchers take various factors into account when assessing GLOF risk: topography, the likelihood of avalanches that could cause a lake to overflow, how solid a glacial lake's natural dikes are and the volume of water the lake contains.
The causes of glacial floods are various and difficult to evaluate. And at high altitude, in extreme-climate conditions, collecting such information can be extremely dangerous. Dowchu Dukpa, an engineer with Bhutan's Ministry of the Environment, recalls how scientists struggled to measure water levels on Thorthormi Lake. "The winds were extremely strong and almost capsized [the researchers'] boat," he says. (Read about Bhutan's royal wedding.)
Authorities have identified certain high-risk zones and, in an effort to save lives, prohibited construction in those areas. They now plan to set up an electronic alert system. Sensors placed in the glacial lakes will keep track of water levels. If the level quickly drops, a message will be relayed by SMS so that residents ? alerted via cell phones ? will know to seek shelter.
Water Woes for 750 Million?
Although these "tsunamis from above" may be the most immediate danger, they are not the only threat facing the people of Bhutan. As the Himalayan glaciers disappear, so too will the rivers on which the kingdom depends. Water, after all, is the country's most precious resource. Bhutan depends on it to irrigate its fields, which support thousands of farmers, and to feed its hydroelectric plants, which generate about 40% of the country's wealth each year. Water is to Bhutan what oil is to Kuwait.
Decreasing water levels in the rivers will also have an impact on countries farther downstream, potentially affecting the entire region. Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calculate that the melting of the Himalayan glaciers will cause water supply problems for some 750 million people.
Even though Bhutan is hardly responsible for climate change, it nevertheless wants to be a world leader in sustainable development. Thanks to the forests that cover 82% of its territory, it is one of the few countries on the planet to absorb more greenhouse gasses that it emits. Written into the constitution, in fact, is a commitment to keep at least 60% of its territory forested.
Says Ugyen Tshewang, who directs Bhutan's national environmental commission: "We're threatened by the melting glaciers, yet we cannot exert any pressure on the industrialized countries."
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Tuesday 15 November 2011
Israel Matzav: Faster, faster: Israeli company develops cancer vaccine
Faster, faster: Israeli company develops cancer vaccine
Those smart Jews have done it again. An Israeli company has invented a vaccine, which is currently in clinical trials, which may prevent as much as 90% of all cancers from recurring (Hat Tip: Shosh). In a breakthrough development, the Israeli company Vaxil BioTherapeutics has formulated a therapeutic cancer vaccine, now in clinical trials at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem. If all goes well, the vaccine could be available about six years down the road, to administer on a regular basis not only to help treat cancer but in order to keep the disease from recurring.At this rate, maybe an Israeli will cure the common cold too. Man those Jews are smart.The vaccine is being tested against a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma. If the substance works as hoped ? and it looks like all arrows are pointing that way ? its platform technology VaxHit could be applied to 90 percent of all known cancers, including prostate and breast cancer, solid and non-solid tumors.
?In cancer, the body knows something is not quite right but the immune system doesn?t know how to protect itself against the tumor like it does against an infection or virus. This is because cancer cells are the body?s own cells gone wrong,? says Julian Levy, the company?s CFO. ?Coupled with that, a cancer patient has a depressed immune system, caused both by the illness and by the treatment.?
The trick is to activate a compromised immune system to mobilize against the threat.
A traditional vaccine helps the body?s immune system fend off foreign invaders such as bacteria or viruses, and is administered to people who have not yet had the ailment. Therapeutic vaccines, like the one Vaxil has developed, are given to sick people, and work more like a drug.
Vaxil?s lead product, ImMucin, activates the immune system by ?training? T-cells ?? the immune cells that protect the body by searching out and destroying cells that display a specific molecule (or marker) called MUC1. MUC1 is typically found only on cancer cells and not on healthy cells. The T-cells don?t attack any cells without MUC1, meaning there are no side effects unlike traditional cancer treatments. More than 90% of different cancers have MUC1 on their cells, which indicates the potential for this vaccine.
?It?s a really big thing,? says Levy, a biotechnology entrepreneur who was formerly CEO for Biokine Therapeutics. ?If you give chemo, apart from the really nasty side effects, what often happens is that cancer becomes immune [to it]. The tumor likes to mutate and develops an ability to hide from the treatment. Our vaccines are also designed to overcome that problem.?
For cancers in an advanced stage, treatments like chemo or surgery to remove a large tumor will still be needed, but if the cancer can be brought down to scale, the body is then able to deal with it, Levy explains. ImMucin is foreseen as a long-term strategy ? a shot every few months, with no side effects ? to stop the cancer from reoccurring after initial treatments, by ensuring that the patient?s own immune system keeps it under control.
In parallel, the company is also working on a vaccine that treats tuberculosis, a disease that?s increasing worldwide, including in the developed world, and for which the current vaccine is often ineffective and treatment is problematic.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: cancer victims, vaccine
Source: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/11/faster-faster-israeli-company-develops.html
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Cardinals choose Matheny as La Russa's successor
This is a 2011 photo of Mike Matheny of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. The Cardinals have called a news conference Sunday Nov. 13, 2011 to announce the hiring of Matheny as manager. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
This is a 2011 photo of Mike Matheny of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. The Cardinals have called a news conference Sunday Nov. 13, 2011 to announce the hiring of Matheny as manager. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
ST. LOUIS (AP) ? The St. Louis Cardinals are replacing a manager who's third on the career victory list with a man who'll be writing his first lineup card on opening day.
Mike Matheny, a former catcher with the Cardinals who had been a minor league instructor, will be introduced as Tony La Russa's successor at a news conference Monday.
"I think he's going to be a great leader," Jim Edmonds, a teammate of Matheny's with the Cardinals, said Sunday night in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "If he goes out there and does what he's capable of doing and they put the players around him, he could be the manager for the next 20 years."
The 40-year-old Matheny played for St. Louis from 2000-04 and won three of his four Gold Gloves. He became a team leader playing for La Russa, who retired after leading the team to his second World Series title in 16 seasons.
Matheny's playing career blossomed after he signed a one-year free-agent deal to be the backup catcher in St. Louis. Though a career .239 hitter, Matheny did enough defensively to earn a starting job.
Matheny was one of six men the Cardinals interviewed to replace La Russa.
They also talked to Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg, longtime Cardinals third-base coach Jose Oquendo, former Boston manager Terry Francona, Triple-A manager Chris Maloney, and Chicago White Sox coach Joe McEwing.
General manager John Mozeliak declined to comment on the hire aside from a one-word text to The Associated Press: "Tomorrow."
Francona was the only candidate who had major league managing experience. He left the Red Sox after the team collapsed in September.
Oquendo coached for La Russa the last dozen years after playing the final decade of his career with the Cardinals and has had a handful of interviews for managing openings.
The Cardinals received permission to interview Sandberg, manager of the Phillies' Triple-A team.
Former Cardinals outfielder Chris Duncan, who played for La Russa and is on local sports talk radio, thought the Cardinals would go with Francona because it gave them the best chance to retain momentum from their unlikely World Series run. The Cardinals won the NL wild card on the final day of the season and were underdogs against the Phillies, Brewers and Rangers, but have a solid returning cast with or without free agent Albert Pujols in the fold.
"I think Matheny will be a great manager, given time," Duncan said. "He lacks managing experience, but it shows a lot about his character that the Cardinals hired him."
Matheny was with the Giants when his career was ended by concussions in 2006.
"He's a great leader, and an even better person," Edmonds said. "I think this is great. There's nobody that's going to work any harder than Mike."
Matheny's coaching staff could include some familiar names.
Pitching coach Dave Duncan, who was La Russa's right hand all 33 seasons, has one year remaining on his contract. The Cardinals have considered promoting Maloney in recent years, and Oquendo also could stay.
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Pug smarter than tech blogger, spots spoof
By Helen A.S. Popkin
"Pugs are the adorable little?walleyed goblins of dogs, but through years of selective breeding in the shallower end of the canine gene pool, they aren?t exactly the brightest pups out there," writes Cult of Mac, of whose work we are generally a fan.
We are forced however to call "Shenanigans!" on the Apple blog's latest industry breakdown, "Watch This Cute Pug Totally Flip Out Over The iPhone 4S," and urge Cult of Mac to stick to its area of expertise ? timely news, insightful analysis, helpful how-tos and honest reviews on? Apple products ? and leave the pug reactions?to those in the know.?As Coco points out in the video above, that's no iPhone 4S commercial ? it's a spoof!
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As a six-time pug parent (courtesy PetFinder.com and other rescue facilities ? always go rescue!), I can confirm the common knowledge that while fawn pugs (the tan kind) are generally not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, black pugs (such as Coco) are imbued with both a preternatural intelligence and an inborn talent for TV criticism. My own black pug, Mu Tan, is known to lock her so-called "walleyed" gaze on the TV , unleashing a bone-chilling growl should arch nemesis Cesar Millan darken the screen (including his dog-free cameo on "Bones"). For what it's worth, Mu Tan?also hates horses, effectively putting an end to "Tudors" viewing in her our home.
In the video, we see Coco is a fan of critically-acclaimed shows such as "The Office," "Modern Family," "True Blood," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "Lost,"?? least when Sawyer isn't wearing a shirt. What Coco has an issue with is, in fact, not the iPhone 4S as?Cult of Mac?contends, but in fact, New York artist Adam Sacks' 2009 iPhone commercial spoof, highlighting apps that enable stalking one's ex-girlfriend. (We've posted the pug-offending video below.)
To be fair, it's unclear whether Coco calling "Shenanigans!" on a fake commercial, or that she takes offense at humor based on a serious subject such as stalking.?What's more, it's not entirely clear why Coco doesn't have a problem with, like, that ginormous TV screen so redonkulously close to the bed. (Even if it is?a front-end projector, dang!) Well, at least she's paying attention.??
Hat tip ? and you know we're just funnin' ya ? to Cult of Mac
More on the annoying way we live now:
Helen A.S. Popkin?goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook.?Also, Google+.
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